What favor are you fighting for?The empress's harem has won a lot of business

Chapter 289
There are several villages in the mountains twenty miles away from the capital.

These villages are different from other places, which are made up of farmers and face the loess all year round.

And in these villages, almost all the people living in them are farm owners.

The houses here are also different from other places. For example, other villages are full of thatched houses with broken walls.

Pavilions and other courtyards have been built here, with blue bricks and green tiles.

The name of this village is Xinghuaxie, because apricot trees are planted on the hills in front of and behind the village. In spring, apricot blossoms are full of Yingyingyanyan, which are fragrant and lively.

At that time, literati and scholars from all over the world, including the capital, will come here to recite poems, compose Fu, and paint realistically.

At the easternmost end of Xinghua Pavilion, stands the largest and most luxurious courtyard here.

The large courtyards with three entrances are all uniform blue bricks and green tiles, clear housekeepers, clean oiled carriages, and old cattle on plowed land.

To be precise, this family does not seem to be farming, and it is a bit out of place with this village. It is like a driving agent in the countryside. There are all kinds of cars, even the old man who plows the land. Cattle all look almost identical.

Either they were born by one mother, or they were selected one by one according to a certain appearance. Ordinary people are happy to beat the gongs and drums if they can have a scalper to work.

During the slack season, the common people commented on this big family.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this family is really rich, and I don't know where it comes from."

"That's right. When I came here, I spent a lot of money to hire people to build other courtyards, maids and maids, and servants to protect the courtyard. Whether it's cattle, horses or people, they are all carefully selected."

Most people guess.

Some people said that the concubine's room of some high-ranking official lived in it. I heard that they brought two daughters with them. It seemed that they were either concubines or an outer room not accepted by the main wife.

But no matter what, if someone has a lot of money, there will be a lot of people following him to flatter him.

Others got some gossip from nowhere.

"Do you know? This woman is neither someone's concubine, nor anyone's concubine. Do you know who she is? She is the former concubine of the abolished prince, and the two daughters beside her are left behind by the abolished prince. The Princess of the Princess"

"Hey, what is the princess, where is the princess now, the emperor doesn't even have a child"

"That's right, since the crown prince is abolished, it's really worthless. It's good that the emperor didn't take their lives."

"Yes, yes, but..."

Someone looked at the other courtyard with disdain and fear in their eyes.

"These two young ladies are both in their teens, so they should be kissing each other, and this woman moved here suddenly in the past two years, it is considered well-intentioned."

Everyone immediately understood what he meant.

It means that for the marriage of the two girls, the wife must be in this village, even if she is not in this village, it is nearby.

"That's it, I knew it was nothing good"

"This ex-princess concubine is also very good at calculating. Her children can't meet any sons of high-ranking officials and rich families, so they come to find these sons with great careers."

"Isn't it? Our children also want to talk about a good marriage and a good girl. They will never marry such a person."

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Words from the village quickly reached Yu's ears.

At that time, the two girls were writing and drawing one after the other.

The writing is the lower case with hairpin flowers specially used by the girls, and the painting is also the landscape, flowers and birds, pavilions and pavilions that the girls are best at.

Yu waved the children to go down, and called a few women to come in and ask about the situation.

Sure enough, just like Mammy's news, they only moved here for two years, and the villagers became hostile.

"Just pretend not to know, so what to do"

"Those who can make a family can do whatever they want, and those who can't make it can't be forced"

Mrs. Yu waved her hand to let Mammy go down, and leaned on the rocking chair to look at the list of big families in the capital in a thick stack in her hand.

"How many of these people are not worthy of my children"

"Among these people, how many people are sitting in high positions and generous salaries, but they are not even willing to learn how to embroider their legs?"

Yu shi snorted softly, and the air was all in his nose.

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She spent half a year looking for a home for the children, but after searching and seeing each other, it became more and more outrageous.

In the end, a man in his 30s who had lost his wife also came to ask her eldest daughter to marry her. Yu was completely furious, and he brought his servant Nuyuan to the door alone, and beat and kicked the matchmaker to vent his anger.

Although this matter was complicated, I was angry.

After so many years, the two daughters are better than real if they are not real. Even in order to get rid of the surname Xie, she risked the world's shame to abandon her husband's surname for her two daughters and change her own surname.

The eldest daughter is Yu Ya, and the youngest daughter is Yu Yuan.

The emperor took his wife to live in seclusion. The new crown prince is the son of the Ninth Prince, so the emperor is risking the disgrace of the world.

In these years, she, the widow of the former prince, has been looked after by the emperor and rewarded her with a large amount of gold and silver every year.

He saved up a lot of family property in bits and pieces, and he was really embarrassed to continue to accept it with shame, so he sued for illness and took the two girls away.

The Ninth Prince tried every means to keep them, saying that no matter what, he would not treat the two children of the third brother badly.

Yu still refused, and resolutely left with the two children.

This Zhuangzi is from his family's ancestral home. Ruyang County, which is several hundred miles south of the capital, has not yet reached the south of the Yangtze River. Most of the nearby fields are the Zhuangzi of the Xinguo Mansion, and many of the stewards have built houses here for a long time. live.

But... more are the masters of other Zhuangzi.

These people are all rich peasants, farming and studying families, and some larger families have private schools, which specially invite the masters to teach the children in the families to study.

Smaller families can send their children to the academy at worst. In short, these families are not ordinary civilians.

After choosing for a long time, Mrs. Yu finally decided to settle down here.

And these villagers guessed it right, she came here because of the scholarly atmosphere of the surrounding people.

She abandoned the aristocratic families in the capital, so she couldn't really marry her daughter to traffickers, pawns, or other craftsmen.

At the very least, they have to find such a dignified farming and studying family. Some families have no worries about food and clothing, so that they can live up to the royal blood flowing in them.

Besides, they have changed their surnames, and she, Yu Shi, is even more responsible.

It's a pity that she underestimated people's hearts.

The two girls who were obviously good were rejected by the people here, saying that they were the children of rebels, and that they could not reach the noble families in the capital, so they came to these people to find out.

When he couldn't find anyone, he became frustrated, and in the end he had to beat him up.

Yu was so angry that he cried and laughed, but it was true when he thought about it, and he had to think of other ideas for a while.

The two daughters, Yu Ya and Yu Yuan, were not in a hurry, and they all lay in their mother's arms and acted like a baby.

(End of this chapter)