No one can disturb my retirement life in the Red Mansion

Chapter 1035 What do you want?

After the festival, Xu's situation became even worse, and everyone agreed to prepare for her death. Xu's father and brothers were both generals in Sun Quan's army, and they also rushed back.

Ou Mengmeng had no choice but to pretend to be a mother-in-law and accompany the women of the Xu family. She thought about it and realized that she was still a little socially anxious. When she was pretending to be Jia's mother, she didn't like socializing. In the next few worlds, she used her professionalism to the extreme.

But forget it, she has been here for more than a year, and only comes out as a mascot during the New Year and other festivals. Now that her daughter-in-law is dying and the in-laws are coming, she seems unable to be too casual, as if she doesn't care.

She seemed to have read in a book that the real ceiling of palace fighting was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and other times were child's play. Because in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, women's status was not high, and fighting and fighting were really pitiful. But in the Eastern Han Dynasty, no, it should be said that women in the two Han Dynasties, in the end, wanted the world.

Like Sun Quan's Queen Pan, when Sun Quan was about to die, he asked the ministers how Empress Lü did it. Then because Pan had a bad temper, she was strangled to death by the palace maids. Ou Mengmeng doubts the authenticity of this, because it feels a bit like killing someone with a borrowed knife. Is this a bit like Emperor Wu of Han killing Lady Gou Dai? It's just that Emperor Wu of Han didn't have those dark thoughts. He was not afraid of people writing about it, and he would kill directly. But Sun Quan didn't seem to be like that, he seemed to be more cautious.

Now, can we see that these women are all people with a broad mind? None of them are simple.

So when the Xu family came, Ou Mengmeng really had to give face to the Xu family. The Xu family was originally a noble family in Wu County. Xu Kun, the father of the Xu family, followed Sun Jian in his conquests. In the era of Sun Ce, he was also a firm Sun Ce party. After Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan came to power. Even with the support of Zhang Zhao, Zhou Yu, and Mrs. Wu, his road to power was not smooth. Like the Xu family, in addition to representing a group of old ministers, they also represented the local nobles.

When Madam Wu was seriously ill, Sun Quan had an affair with Xu Kun. Otherwise, Xu would have remarried Sun Quan after her ex-husband Lu Shang died. Legend has it that if Madam Xie had not been angered to death, Sun Quan would have demoted Xie to a concubine to make way for Xu.

The historical record of Xu is very simple, that is, the daughter of Xu Kun; ex-husband Lu Shang; no favor; in the 212th year of Jian'an ( AD), she was deposed due to jealousy and sent back to Wujun; the adopted mother of the crown prince Sun Deng. The year of birth and death is unknown!

From these records, we can actually see a lot of things. It shows that at that time, Sun Quan was in urgent need of the support of the Xu family. What better guarantee could there be than marrying the daughter of the Xu family? In fact, the Xu family did not need Sun Quan to be good to the Xu family. Giving her a son was a guarantee to the Xu family. It happened that Sun Deng was born that year, so he was given to the Xu family to raise.

Although only a few years had passed, the relationship between Sun Quan and the Xu family had become delicate again. Xu Kun was shot and killed during the war, not long after Mrs. Wu died in the 207th year of Jian'an ( AD). His eldest son Xu Jiao inherited the title.

Sun Quan is now confident enough. He is not even afraid of Zhang Zhao and Zhou Yu, so why would he care about Xu Kun and others? I am afraid that he even has some resentment in his heart!

You know, Sun Quan and his first wife, Xie, had always had a good relationship. Although Sun Quan eventually gave up his first wife for power, the white rose has now become the white moonlight. Then someone is not even a red rose, but mosquito blood, which is naturally more hateful and abominable. If the Xu family was not still useful and he did not want to disappoint his meritorious officials, Sun Quan would not want to bother with them.

What should Ou Mengmeng do? She has to play a role as she eats the food of the old Sun family and has children around. All she can do is to receive the Xu family well and then discuss the subsequent conditions.

Madam Xu Kun was still there, with the wives of Xu Jiao, Xu's elder brother, and Xu Zuo, Xu's younger brother. Ou Mengmeng rarely wore the gorgeous clothes that Wu Guotai wore before, and asked Madam Xu, the first and second wives to sit down. Xu Kun was Sun Jian's nephew, and Madam Xu Kun had to call Wu Guotai "aunt" before, but in the past few years, everyone lived together, and now, face to face, Madam Xu Kun could only call her "Guotai" vaguely!
The two young ladies below also squatted and saluted obediently. After all, they were grandchildren.

"Okay, okay, come and sit down!" Ou Mengmeng gave him a light support and asked someone to serve tea.

Looking at Mrs. Xu Kun's expression, he also sighed softly. No matter what, a woman who was about to lose her daughter had to be given some sympathy.

"How is Xu?" Ou Mengmeng hesitated for a moment before asking softly. She really had never been there, but she asked someone to go and see her every day. However, as long as Sun Quan did not ask her to, she would not go. These days, she would listen to the maid talk about Xu's situation every day. Now, what should she ask? It seemed that nothing she asked was right.

"I feel dizzy and I'm afraid I'm useless." Mrs. Xu Kun covered her mouth with her hands, tears rolling down her cheeks.

Ou Mengmeng looked up at the sky. She knew it was useless. Otherwise, why was she here? She should have gone to the workshops at this time. But looking at Mrs. Xu Kun's expression, she knew that nothing she said would be right at this time. She tried to empathize with her and sighed softly.

"At our age, we would rather die early than have to send others off one by one. You, why don't you stay in the mansion for a few days and at least spend some time with the children."

"Thank you, Madam Guo, for your consideration." Madam Xu Kun was really grateful. It was also a gesture of her husband's family to let her stay here. Looking at Madam Wu, she burst into tears again. "My son is unlucky. He can't be in Madam Guo's arms and be remembered by her. It's my son's unfilial behavior."

"Why are you saying this? I like to play around most of the time, and Xu takes care of all the big and small matters in the mansion. I am grateful to her, so how can I blame her? Let's not talk about this anymore. Now you should just spend some time with Xu." Ou Mengmeng waved her hand.

She had to make it clear to them that there was no conflict between me and your daughter. I was out playing every day, and the head of the household was Xu. Even Sun Shangxiang only presided over the Lantern Festival and a night banquet in the mansion, and did not get the power of the housekeeper of the inner house. So don't think too much, we have nothing to do with your daughter.

Madam Xu Kun pressed her eyes, she didn't know what to say. They all knew about this Queen Mother in the mansion before their daughter married into the family. She didn't care about anything and only had some exquisite toys on weekdays. When she was young, she helped Madam Wu take care of the children. After Madam Wu left, this Queen Mother enjoyed her wealth and luxury. Anyway, no matter who was short of money in the mansion, she would not be short of money.

Especially after the rumor of being critically ill, the daughter heard that this fake mother-in-law let herself go, making paper and printing books, and the world was really full of it. Every day, she took the princess and her beloved daughter-in-law out to work hard to make money, and she didn't give a penny of the money she earned to the mansion. It was all the private property of the fifth brother and the princess. Every time the daughter sent someone back to tell her, she was very angry. She also asked Wu Jun's hometown to send someone to ask for the papermaking recipe, so that the princess could not take it all.

Now, the Queen Mother looked much more capable, and the Princess, who was quietly brewing tea, also looked calm and gentle. Compared with the female general before, she was more gentle and intellectual. And the daughter was lying down now, breathing less and exhaling more.

The palace fighting in the Han Dynasty was a fight between women and men for the world, including the Empress Wu Lie (Mrs. Wu) mentioned earlier. Ou Mengmeng herself had no feelings for the world. She was an outsider, and for her, it was just a chance to gain experience. But to be honest, she was not good at palace fighting, not because it was boring, but because she had no ability.