Do you know: I am Xu Jiazi

Chapter 425: Yuyang's Changes [Thank you! Thank you again! I owe you yuan]

As the sun sets,

Xu Zaijing brought Qingyun and rode on horseback behind Zaiduan on Quyuan Street.
The crowd was heading west.

The dazzling oncoming sunlight made Xu Zaijing put up his hands from time to time to block it, and it was not until everyone turned into the gate of the marquis' mansion that things felt better.

When we reached the second gate,
Xu Zaijing and others got off their horses, and their mounts were led to the stables by servants, while the three brothers went directly into Sun's courtyard.

When I entered the yard, I saw a maid taking out some fabrics and jewelry from the house.

Zaiduan, who was walking in front of him, lowered his head and walked through the curtain into the hall, and said, "Mother, are there guests?"

As he spoke, Jaedun nodded to Hwa-ran, who stood up and saluted him, and sat down in the front chair.

Xu Zaijing sat below his elder brother.
Zai Zhang sat opposite Zaiduan, very close to Hua Lan who was standing beside him.

Sun smiled and said, "Yes, your cousin aunt from the Sheng family just left!"

Zai Zhang walked over to Hua Lan and whispered, "Has your mother-in-law been here?"

Hualan nodded with some embarrassment on her face.

Zaiduan nodded: "Mother, is there something wrong? Otherwise, my cousin aunt wouldn't come to visit our family at this time."

Sun, who was at the head of the group, nodded and said, "Yes, there was something wrong with the maid of our relative Kang family. Your cousin used the name of the Marquis' Mansion to persuade the victim and settled the matter. He paid a lot of money as compensation."

Xu Zaijing, who was sitting at the back, looked at Sun in surprise when he heard this: "Mother, if our family name is used, it must be a big deal. It's probably a murder case! Were those materials and jewelry given by the Sheng family? We don't..."

Xu Zaijing behind said it.

Sun shook her head: "You are the only one who knows so much! I, your mother, am just an idiot!"

Looking at his mother's expression, Xu Zaijing was embarrassed and said nothing. According to Sun's personality, she would not want such things.

Zaiduan glanced at his younger brother and said, "Mother, those things just now are from our family. Did you ask my cousin's aunt to pick them out?"

Sun smiled and nodded: "Yes, I asked your cousin to send it to your great aunt."

Zai Zhang patted Hua Lan's hand in a soothing manner, and said to Sun: "Mother, why don't we give some money to the poor family?"

Zaiduan, who was sitting opposite Zaizhan, shook his head.

Sun picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. While drinking the tea, she used the teacup to block her view and rolled her eyes at her son.

Xu Zaijing looked at Zai Zhang and said, "Third brother, this is not right! Putting aside other things, our family did nothing wrong, why should we give money to the victim?"

Zai Zhang: "You are the victim, so you must have suffered some injustice. We are just expressing our gratitude."

Xu Zaijing shook his head: "Third brother, you are kind-hearted to think so, but the victim who received the money may not think so."

Zai Zhang was stunned, and after thinking for a moment, he slapped his forehead and said in annoyance: "Yes, yes, yes! Don't even mention giving money. Just telling the victim that our family doesn't care about this matter will be a protest to the victim."

Sun, who was sitting on the Arhat chair, glanced at Hualan and said, "Alright! Stop talking, both of you! The victim will not stop until he finds out about our family!"

The Kang family, the Wang family, the Li family, and the Sheng family still have their roles to play.

"Hualan, don't feel uncomfortable! This matter has passed. The title has been used and it won't happen again." Sun said to Hualan.

Hua Lan nodded quickly.

"I just told my mother-in-law that it's not that we don't want to help our relatives! We will never stand idly by when our relatives are wronged! But, the Kang family, it's fine to help once, but if we help again, it will be a loss of virtue."

After Sun finished speaking, she sighed and said, "How about staying at your aunt's house today?"

Zaiduan, who was sitting in the front, said, "Mother, except that more people have left, everything else is fine! By the way, my wife!"

Zaiduan looked at Xie and said, "Today I want to write a letter to the Yi family."

Mrs. Xie nodded and said, "Don't worry, sir. I will call the servant who often goes to Zhending later. Once you finish writing, I will send it over today!"

"Duan'er, why did you write a letter to your brother-in-law for no reason?" asked Sun.

Zaiduan talked about the story of Huang's brother and the reason for their friendship. Sun smiled and nodded after listening: "This is a very good thing!"

Jaedun smiled.

Moriya
Shouantang

In the hall, Mother Fang and Mother Cui were sorting out the materials that Wang Ruofu brought back.

On the Luohan bed in the middle,
The old lady was leaning on a big pillow, looking at the two mothers, Fang and Cui.

On the chair below,

Sheng Hong sat at the front, and below him was Wang Ruofu.

The old lady turned her eyes away from the two mothers and looked at Sheng Hong and his wife and said, "Hong'er, did you hear clearly what the lady said when she went to the Xu family?"

Sheng Hong sat forward and said, "Mother, I heard it clearly. I will never do it again!"

The old lady nodded: "Don't be jealous of the Xu family. The Xu family is now in the limelight and has won the emperor's favor! Whether it's the jealous ones or the censors of the Censorate, they are all trying to find faults with the Xu family."

"Let's forget about this matter. I'm asking you to talk to the Xu family so that you can understand the Xu family's attitude."

After the old lady finished speaking, she glanced at Wang Ruofu, who had a somewhat angry look on her face.

Wang Ruofu glanced at the old lady and said, "Mother, isn't it the case that relatives help relatives in Bianjing? If the Kang family has any problems, we will help them, and when our family has some problems, we will help them."

"cough!"

Sheng Hong glared at Wang Ruofu.

"Madam, when relatives are in trouble, we should help them! But the Kang family's disregard for human life should not happen to such a noble family!"

"Do you know how much favor your husband has done for this matter? If the Liu family asks us for help in the future, will your husband have the nerve to not help?"

Wang Ruofu still said stubbornly: "Is there anything we can't help with?"

The old lady exhaled: "What if the Liu family asks for Rulan to marry their son or nephew?"

Wang Ruofu stood up immediately after hearing this: "How can that be possible! Rulan is still young and her elder sister is married to a marquis!"

He slowly sat back down halfway through his speech.

"Master and Madam, you must think more carefully before you act in the future. Otherwise, it will affect Hualan's reputation! It will also determine how Hualan will live in the Xu family!"

"I am an old woman, I am tired, my lord and mistress, please go on your own!"

"Yes, mother!"

Sheng Hong bowed and took Wang Ruofu out of the hall.

Turn around,

The sky brightens,

宥阳
Sheng Family Ancestral Home
in the bedroom,
"Madam! Madam, wake up!"

The eldest lady of the Sheng family's main house felt her arm shaking and woke up from her dream.

The head room nanny who was serving beside her wiped the tears from the eyes of the eldest lady and whispered, "Madam, what happened to you? Are you haunted by a dream?"

The old lady shook her head with reluctance in her eyes and said, "No, I just don't want to wake up."

The nanny looked at the old lady and asked with a tone full of pity: "You don't even want to wake up? Did you dream about the eldest lady?"

The eldest lady glanced at the old servant who had been with her for many years and nodded: "Yes, it was Shu'er who came to me in my dream again, saying that she was feeling uncomfortable."

As the old lady spoke, she thought of the unforgettable sad events and her eyes were filled with tears again.

The maid hurriedly helped the old lady wipe her tears and said, "Old lady, it's all over, and we have avenged ourselves!"

Hearing the word revenge, the old lady nodded with hatred and joy in her eyes. "Grandma!"

"grandmother!"

Two shouts from outside reached the bedroom.
Soon, two girls, one big and one small, came into the bedroom with cold air.

"Shulan, Pinlan, why are you here?" The old lady immediately calmed herself down and said to her two granddaughters with a smile.

Shulan, who was older and taller, said anxiously, "Grandma, we heard that you couldn't wake up, so we rushed to see you!"

Seeing the two granddaughters' anxious expressions, the eldest lady smiled and waved her hands, saying, "Grandma is fine! Where is your brother Changwu?"

Before the two Lans could answer, another shout came from outside: "Mother!"

Sheng Wei's wife, Mrs. Li, hurried in holding a handkerchief. Seeing the old lady sitting safely on the bed, Mrs. Li breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the bed.

"Mother, you scared your daughter-in-law!" Li said while standing beside the bed.

The eldest lady smiled and said, "I'm sorry to have worried you! Where's Changwu?"

"Changwu is practicing martial arts outside the house!" Li replied.

The eldest lady nodded and said, "Ask him in. I have something to tell him."

Li glanced at the old lady and said yes.

After a while, a young man who was older than Xu Zaijing walked in quickly.

Sheng Changwu, dressed in tight clothes, walked into the bedroom and bowed to the old lady and Li.

"Grandma! Mother!"

Li looked at the eldest old lady and said, "Mother, you talk to Changwu, and I will leave first! Shu and Pin, go ahead."

"No need, you all stay here! It has something to do with you as well." said the eldest lady.

Li and the two Lans stopped.

The eldest lady looked at the family members in the room and said, "Two years ago, I was unable to attend the second wife's elder sister's birthday celebration due to poor health."

Mrs. Li shook her head and said, "Mother, Aunt has written to you and told you not to worry about it. Aunt didn't hold birthday celebrations in previous years, but that year's celebration was urgent, so it's not good for you to go and make trouble!"

The eldest lady looked at Li and said, "I know that my sister has no grudges in her heart."

"But you've looked at Changwu's marriage again and again, and he's still not settled even though he's almost twenty years old!"

Li looked at Sheng Changwu with some embarrassment and said, "Mother, there are not many good families in this poor and remote place like Youyang!"

The eldest lady looked at Li and said, "The Youyang Zhang family is also a respectable family. I heard that they have some relationship with the Duke of Ying's Mansion in Beijing! Moreover, the second daughter of the Zhang family is not very old, and she owns a polo field. But you rejected her when she came to you."

Li held her handkerchief and glanced at the old lady: "I have inquired about the relationship between him and Duke Yingguo, and it is far away! Changwu is wronged to marry a girl from such a family!"

Listening to the conversation between their grandmother and mother, neither Lan nor Changwu dared to interrupt.

The eldest lady was silent for a while and then said, "Yes, based on the wealth of our first wife and the official position of our second wife, Hualan is the eldest lady of the Marquis's Mansion, and Changwu should look up to her."

"So I, an old woman, thought of going to Bianjing to lie down!"

Upon hearing this,
Everyone in the room looked surprised.

Chang Wu looked at the old lady anxiously and said:
"Grandma! It's a long way from Youyang to Bianjing, and you are old."

The eldest lady waved her hand and said, "I had my elder sister introduce me to Old Madam He and she diagnosed my pulse and prescribed medicine for me. I feel much better now!"

"I know my own health, and going to Bianjing is just a slow boat ride, so it won't be tiring. It's nothing!"

"Besides, I went to Bianjing to visit my old sister and to find a good marriage for Changwu."

As she spoke, the old lady looked at Shulan and Pinlan who were standing beside the bed with eyes full of thoughts.

Shulan was happy, and Pinlan was a little excited.

When Li heard about finding a marriage for Changwu, she looked at Changwu with some longing.

But thinking about going to Bianjing and having to face Wang Ruofu, her sister-in-law, Li hesitated and said, "Then I will write a letter to the master and ask him to prepare a house in the capital."

The eldest lady thought about it and nodded: "Alright, this way, when Yu Ge'er and Du Ge'er go to Bianjing to take the exam, they will have a place to stay! I also need to send a letter to my older sister."

Hearing this, Li responded with joy in her eyes.

Li's maiden family also came from a business background like the eldest branch of the Sheng family, and they have also been supporting the scholars in the family over the years.

Li Yu and Li Du are the most outstanding young people of this generation!
The relationship with the Li family is very close.

Time flies
It is the fourteenth day of the first lunar month.

There is only one day left until the Lantern Festival.

There are still two days before the Sheng Family Academy opens.

this morning,

sunny,

The Sheng family's doorman also moved a bench and sat in a sheltered place under the sun to bask in the sun.

Although he was enjoying the sun, the doorman still glanced at the various people near the Sheng family's gate.

When the doorman saw a man dressed in military uniform walking hurriedly towards the Sheng family, he stood up and asked a few questions as usual.

After learning that it was a letter from the Sheng family, the doorman hurried back to the main gate and sent the servant to the inner courtyard to report, almost forgetting to move the bench back.

The soldiers who received the reward have already left.

The letter had already arrived outside Shou'an Hall.

in the hall,
"Grandma, there's a letter from Youyang!" Fang Mama said while holding the letter at the door.

The old lady who was making incense on the Arhat chair had a tremble in her hand, and the charcoal in the copper tweezers fell into the incense burner.

"Suqin, is there any bad news?"

The old lady asked with a slight frown.

Mother Fang smiled and shook her head: "Old lady, if there is any bad news, then Vigo will come. It's just a letter!"

The old lady smiled self-deprecatingly, shook her head slightly, and stretched out her hand to Fang Mama.

Mother Fang walked over, helped the old lady open the mailbox, took out the rolled-up letter paper and handed it to her.

The old lady took a deep breath and then unfolded the letter and began to read.

After a moment, the old lady said with a smile on her face: "Suqin, Ru'an, the elder sister of the eldest house of Youyang is coming to Bianjing!"

Hearing the old lady's words, Mother Fang and Mother Cui looked at each other and smiled.

The old lady and her sister-in-law, the eldest old lady, both suffered from their husbands' favoritism of concubines over wives. The deaths of Sheng Shu and Sheng Zhen made both sisters-in-law suffer heart-wrenching pain.

The two sisters-in-law supported each other and helped each other through that extremely difficult time.
The feelings are naturally extraordinary and extremely close.

Sheng Hong is on duty at the Ministry of Personnel today.

When he returned to the Sheng family and went to Shou'an Hall to pay his respects to the old lady, he also saw the letter.

Seeing that the date on the letter was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Sheng Hong put the letter away and said to the old lady, "Mother, when my aunt comes to Bianjing, I will definitely entertain her well! Also, when did our Great Zhou's delivery shop become so fast in delivering letters?"

The housekeeper at the side glanced at the old lady, and after getting a nod of approval, she said, "My Lord, the postman at the post office said that the Yangzhou Tongpan heard that it was our family that sent the letter, so he sent the letter along with the official documents."

Hearing this, Sheng Hong nodded. He had done this kind of thing before.

(End of this chapter)