Daughter of aristocratic family

Chapter 2 Family
  When Zhao Wangshu returned home, he saw his father with a sad face, his mother in tears, and his brother with an angry face, "Brother, what happened? Where is my grandmother?"

"Little sister, don't worry. Big brother won't sell his sister for glory. I won't go to that academy. I can study in the clan school and I can still go to high school." Zhao Yin said seriously.

Zhao Wangshu was confused, what did this mean?
  Her mother Zhao Li came over and hugged her into her arms, "Xiao Yue'er, my mother's Xiao Yue'er, my mother will not let them take you away."

Zhao Wangshu was even more confused. Who are they?

Why take her away?
  "Auntie, don't cry first. Can you tell me what happened?" Zhao Wangshu asked with a frown.

Before Mrs. Li could stop crying and answer the question, Zhao Wangshu's grandmother, Mrs. Zhao Cui, came back.

She also had a gloomy look on her face, which made Zhao Wangshu murmur in his heart, has something big happened that is going to cause the sky to fall?
  "Grandma, have a sip of tea." Zhao Wangshu poured a cup of warm tea and handed it to Mrs. Zhao Cui.

"Good boy." Mrs. Zhao Cui took the cup and smiled at her.

"Grandma, what happened?" Zhao Wangshu asked directly.

Mrs. Zhao Cui drank the tea and then said slowly: "Someone is coming to the big house in the city."

The thing is actually very simple. The birth of a queen made some people think they had found a shortcut to the rise of the family.

Therefore, ten young girls with good qualifications were selected from the clan and sent to the mansion to be trained intensively so that they would be of great use in the future.

As for its great use, everyone in the clan knows it well.

Zhao Wangshu's elders did not want Zhao Wangshu to become a pawn in the family marriage. Just now, Zhao Cui went to the village owner just to get rid of the matter, but it was a pity.
  Potian's wealth and power have confused the minds of many people in the clan.

"There are so many orphans in the clan. If the mansion wants to raise girls, it can take them in and raise them. Why are you trying to steal my daughter?" Mrs. Li became more and more sad the more she thought about it.

There are no girls in the first two bedrooms of the big house. The eldest family has two sons, one legitimate son and one concubine, and the second bedroom has three sons, one legitimate son and two concubines.

"The mansion wants to raise a girl. It's clear that they have bad intentions. Brother Kuang did this in a confused way." Father Zhao said bitterly.

It is simply unreasonable to tie the rise of the Zhao family to a woman.

You must know that families that rely on women cannot last long. The Fan family is the best example.

"Grandma, if I don't go to Zhizhai Academy, can my little sister not go to the mansion?" Zhao Yin asked tentatively.

"Brother, Grandma just said that even if you don't go to Zhizhai Academy, I have to go to the mansion." Zhao Wangshu accepted this matter faster than his family, "Grandma, when should I go?"

"In five days, the mansion will send a carriage to pick you up." Mrs. Zhao Cui sighed.

"Grandma, besides me, who else is there?" Zhao Wangshu asked next.

"There are also the twelfth mother from the fifth sister-in-law's family in Yanhe Street, Chun Niang from Pi Ge'er's family in Mulberry Garden, the third mother from Wan Ge'er's family in Jichang, Shuhui, the youngest daughter of the Liu family on the street above the ancestral hall, and Brother Lin on the street below the ancestral hall. My son’s Xiu Niang, Mr. Shen’s Shu Qing from Xuetang, and Ying Niang from Doufu Fang.”

Passed down from generation to generation and with too many people, Zhaojiazhuang has developed into a small town. The owner of the village is the mayor, and the clan leader is still the head of the mansion.

"Grandma, didn't you say there were ten people?" Zhao Wangshu calculated, including her, there were only eight.

"There is also the Jiahua in the third room on the porch of the mansion and the double branches in the sixth room in the back room."

Zhao Wangshu raised his eyebrows and said, "Why don't you choose two more? Let's make twelve." She had already thought of the names, the twelve golden hairpins of the Zhao family.

"Maybe there will be more people in the future, but now there are ten of you." After all, among the ten people now, one is fourteen years old, and two are thirteen years old.

If you can't raise them for two years, you should find a suitable person to marry. "Mom, when Xiao Yue'er goes to the mansion, can Hong Chang follow her to take care of her?" asked Li, wiping her tears.

"In addition to Hong Chang, I plan to go to the city to the slave market tomorrow to buy three more maids for Xiao Yue'er. Xiao Yue'er has people arranged by the family to take care of her, so we can rest assured." Mrs. Zhao Cui didn't say it right. , lest the person who arranged it at the mansion would be uneasy and teach her good granddaughter a bad lesson.

"There's no need to buy people, we have so much money at home." Zhao Wangshu knew that although his family's life was better than that of most families on the farm, it only depended on the harvest from the fields.

Zhao's father and Zhao Yin both had to study and take the imperial examinations, and there were quite a lot of them handed over to the academies.

There are less than ten helpers and servants in the house.

The only person serving Zhao Wangshu was Hong Chang.

"After Changming went to Zhizhai Academy to study, he left the mansion and saved a lot of money. I can buy you seven or eight servants." Mrs. Zhao Cui said with a smile.

Zhao Yin's eyes widened, "It turns out that studying is such a waste of money!"

"You just know that!" Father Zhao snorted coldly, "If you don't become a family member, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are."

"Say it as if you know." Mrs. Zhao Cui stabbed her son angrily to prevent him from talking about her good grandson.

Father Zhao touched his nose awkwardly, and Mrs. Zhao Li and Zhao Wangshu looked at each other and smiled.

"Okay, don't hang around here. Mrs. Li, you go to the kitchen and see how the Chinese food is being prepared? You and your son go to the study to read. If you are an official, Xiaoyue'er will have nothing to rely on in the future, and there will be no big house. There is no way to control Xiao Yue'er's marriage."

After sending the people away, Mrs. Zhao Cui took Zhao Wangshu and asked, "You went to see off the Fan family. Did they say anything?"

"Old Mrs. Fan asked me to thank you, Miss Fan." Zhao Wangshu hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth, "She wanted to ask Big Brother, but I didn't let her ask."

"It's done right." Mrs. Zhao Cui agreed with Zhao Wangshu's approach.

"Grandma, when big brother comes to his senses, he will definitely ask, how should I answer?" Zhao Wangshu asked slightly uneasily.

Mrs. Zhao Cui slapped her on the head with her finger, "Bad girl, if you coax your brother, you will be right. You don't know how to answer?"

Zhao Wangshu giggled, stretched out his hand to hug her arm, and said coquettishly: "Grandma."

"Xiao Yue'er, you are a smart child. If you go to the big house, Grandma believes that you will not suffer any loss. But it is not my home after all, so you will inevitably be wronged. Grandma is very reluctant to let go when she thinks of this." Mrs. Zhao Cui touched her. s face.

Zhao Wangshu's great-grandfather's family had few heirs, and he was an only son for two consecutive generations. When it came to Zhao Yin's generation, Zhao Cui thought that her daughter-in-law would only give her a grandson, but she did not expect that there would be an unexpected surprise. granddaughter.

Although the family is not as wealthy as the mansion, Zhao Wangshu was also raised pampered. If this incident had not occurred in the family, Zhao Cui would never have sent her granddaughter to the mansion.

She had already thought about it. When her granddaughter was old enough, she would get engaged to the scholar from the next village whom she had long admired.

Her granddaughter is close, so she can help her.

But this situation is really annoying!

"Grandma, I went to the mansion, can't I go home?" Zhao Wangshu frowned. Is the mansion holding them as prisoners?

"You can come back for three days during the season, and you can come back for two days during the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. During the New Year, you will stay at home from New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and you have to return to the big house on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year." Mrs. Zhao Cui had already asked.

When Zhao Wangshu heard this arrangement, he didn't know what to say and could only laugh twice.

(End of this chapter)