After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 354 Mother and daughter secret conversation

Wu Qiong sat by the kang in her room, listening worriedly to the conversation between her mother, Mrs. Gui, and her cousin Wu Ke.

Mrs. Gui became excited as she spoke and cursed fiercely.

This made Wu Qiong very uneasy. She was afraid that people in the Zhenguo Palace would hear the news, and she blamed her mother for being too harsh on her cousin. She had advised her mother several times not to insult her cousin in front of others. My mother promised well, but then she always fell back into her old ways and didn't take her words to heart at all. She was worried, but she couldn't convince her mother, so she could only worry on her own.

Finally, Mrs. Gui got tired of scolding and drove Wu Ke out: "I have the final say on your sister's marriage. It's not your turn to interfere! Do you think that because you are a male, you can be our home? It's your time. Go ahead and dream! If it weren’t for me, you would have been a pile of bones! Are you ungrateful and want to teach me a lesson? What a heartless thing! How could the Wu family have descendants like you?!"

Wu Ke left the room in embarrassment. Before leaving, he looked at the cousin in the room, his lips moved, but without saying anything, he lowered his head and left.

Wu Qiong looked ashamed and watched her cousin leave. After a while, she plucked up the courage to go outside, poured her mother a cup of tea, and then took the initiative to slap her mother on the shoulder.

Their mother-daughter relationship is still very close. Mrs. Gui's face softened after enjoying her daughter's filial service, and half of her anger disappeared: "Okay, you have been tired for a day, so stop working. Does the injury you fell today still hurt? Is your skin bruised?"

Wu Qiong carefully walked to the chair opposite her, sat down, and answered obediently: "My daughter is not tired, and she is not in pain. She just has a small bruise on her leg. It's nothing serious."

"I'll ask someone to get a bottle of good medicinal wine later. The bruises on my legs are blood stasis. If I don't rub it away, it will only get worse tomorrow." Speaking of this, Mrs. Gui said to the girl from the Zhou family The children were filled with resentment, "The Zhou family doesn't know how to teach their daughter. A child who is only a few years old actually knows how to bully others!"

Wu Qiong said hurriedly: "Mom, what happened today really has nothing to do with Mr. Xue and Mr. Hua. It was my fault. They didn't bully me."

"Even if they didn't push you or hit you, it doesn't mean they didn't bully you!" Mrs. Gui sneered, "Don't think I can't see it. They deliberately said that Zhou Yijun was going to Ningxia to practice to scare you! The four of them The people in the house don’t want Zhou Yijun to marry you, so they come up with all kinds of ridiculous ideas to make us give up our thoughts. Let them dream! How can I scare them?!"

After saying this, Mrs. Gui comforted her daughter: "You look guilty today and don't dare to look at me, but you are afraid that I will blame you for not keeping calm in front of the Zhou family. You fell down in fright when you just heard some news? Silly boy, You are my biological daughter, and I only love you. How can I blame you for a trivial matter? Besides, the Zhou family is so unreasonable. In order to refuse the marriage, they even sent a half-grown child of Zhou Yijun's age to the border gate. How can enduring hardship be something ordinary people do? If it were me, I would be shocked to hear such news."

Wu Qiong breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this: "Mom, just don't blame me. Today I have been afraid that you will scold me..." As she said this, she couldn't help showing a look of frustration: "Xue Jun said, she Mother has already begun to prepare bags for Zhou Yijun. If Zhou Yijun is willing to go to a place as far away as Ningxia to get rid of me, why should I force it? Mother, forceful melons are not sweet. "

Mrs. Gui sneered: "I don't believe that Mrs. Zhou is really willing to send her son so far away! A young man as old as Zhou Yijun, and a son of a prominent family like Zhenguo Gongfu, even if he has to go to the army Even if Zhou Yijun is not the grandson of Zhen Guo Gong, Zhen Guo Gong does not take his life seriously. Zhou Yijun and his wife are always Zhou Yijun's biological parents. How could they be willing to let their son risk his life? I think those words were probably just to scare people. As long as we no longer seek this marriage, they will naturally give up sending Zhou Yijun away. idea."

Wu Qiong asked in a low voice: "Then if...we refuse to give up, will they still let Zhou Yijun go to Ningxia?"

Mrs. Gui choked for a moment and said quickly: "At most, we did the whole trick and sent him to a safer border town for a year and a half, and then he came back. They said they sent him to Ningxia, but we still Can you go and check it yourself?!" Wu Qiong was dubious: "Is it true?"

"Of course it's true!" Mrs. Gui said categorically, "Mother has seen and heard many tricks like this since she was a child. Almost all noble military generals are like this, and the Zhou family is no exception. Mother still Can I lie to you?!"

Wu Qiong seemed to believe her mother's words, but she still lowered her head: "Mom, their family has made it clear that they are not happy, so we... should forget it?"

"Of course we can't forget it!" Mrs. Gui said coldly, "In the past, I thought Zhou Yijun was not the son of Duke Zhenguo, and worried that Zhou Yijun was not important enough. But now that Zhou Yijun has been transferred to the capital, he is still the commander of the Forbidden Army. In the future, Zhou Yijun will definitely go to Beijing. If you marry him, you can follow him back to the capital. If we miss this candidate, will we have to stay in Chang'an for the rest of our lives? I will never give in, and neither will you. ,Yes or no?"

In fact, Wu Qiong feels that there is not much difference between living in the capital and Chang'an. Anyway, they are both living in the backyard of Shenzhai. But in Chang'an, she seems to have more freedom and can visit other people's homes. Unlike in the capital, she can only stay in one courtyard forever and cannot see outsiders. If she marries Zhou Yijun and follows him back to Chang'an, will she be trapped in the small courtyard like before? Days like that are not interesting.

But she didn't dare to tell her mother the truth, so she could only respond vaguely.

Mrs. Gui just thought her daughter was echoing her and continued: "So, we have to find a way to return to the capital! We also have to find a way to get the Zhou family to agree to help and get your uncles back to the capital. If they are not in the capital, even if If there is an opportunity in the future to serve the dragon, they will not have a share. Without the support of your uncles, even if we are the only relatives of the new monarch's family, your brother will at most be granted a title such as the Marquis of Cheng'en, but It's just an air of pretension, without any real power. We still have to look at other people's faces. If one day the powerful officials don't like us, they will kill them if they want, burn them if they want, and we won't even be able to escape..."

When Mrs. Gui said this, she couldn't help but shuddered: "I don't want our mother and daughter to go through the tragic things your father and your brother have experienced..."

Wu Qiong was a little confused: "Mom, what are you talking about? The new king...is the eighth prince, right? His maternal family is Concubine Xu Xian's natal family, so what does it have to do with us?"

Mrs. Gui, however, kept the secret: "As long as you remember this matter, there is no need to ask further questions. You will know it naturally in a few years. It's not that my mother can't believe you, but that my mother is afraid that the walls have ears, so she makes the Zhou family listen. Such a rare thing Conglong's meritorious service allowed the Zhou family to be established in vain. Their family is ignorant and cannot retain wealth, so why let them take advantage of it? The Queen Mother Zhou's kindness in protecting and raising the new monarch is enough for the Zhou family to take advantage of. Let's The Wu family almost lost their entire family for the new king, so we should get the biggest credit!"

Wu Qiong became even more confused: "Mother..."

Mrs. Gui ignored her daughter's confusion and was still thinking to herself: "As for Zhou Yijun, we have to find an opportunity to force him again in private. The young man has a tender face. As long as he agrees to marry you, the rest of the Zhou family will object. It’s useless. Mother has her own way to force them to nod! Even if there is a moment of stalemate, you can slowly coax Zhou Yijun back later. But this matter must be avoided by other people in the Zhou family to prevent them from doing bad things..."

(End of this chapter)