Capital Datang

In the inner house of Song Guogong’s mansion in Chang’an City, in the main hall of a small side courtyard, a young woman in her 30s was picking and choosing with joy. All kinds of exquisite jewelry were placed on the table. There are many large and small boxes on the bed, the lids have been opened, and the inside is either gold, silver or silk, and these things are worth at least tens of thousands of guan.

"Ma'am, that nephew of yours is really generous. He offered tens of thousands of gifts as soon as he made a move, and it was just for you. I heard that he also gave a big gift from the Duke, but it was a pity that he was rejected by the country. Your Excellency has returned." The maid next to the young woman also said excitedly, Madam has received such a great gift, and they servants have also received a lot of rewards, and they are all grateful to the prince.

"Of course, my natal family is the majestic Taiyuan Wang family. The Wang Kuang who came here today was hugged by me when I was a child. He came to see my aunt, so he should give this little thing." The eldest lady also had a happy expression on her face. , not only because of receiving such a heavy gift, but also because of the generosity of her natal family, she also has face as a married daughter.

"By the way, Wenxin sent someone to call, why not come now?" The lady suddenly remembered something, and asked the maid beside her.

"I have already sent someone to call for it. It is estimated that Miss Wenxin has gone to Aunt Zhou's place on the side of the third young master, so the journey is a bit farther." The maid replied.Capital Datang 49

"Hey~, this girl Wenxin is really lucky to have married His Royal Highness Liang Wang. Now no one in Chang'an City knows Li Liuying's name, which is really enviable. Why don't you think that girl Wenqing is not so good? How about luck?" The lady suddenly let out a long sigh and said with regret.

"Look at what you said, no matter how well Miss Wenxin marries, isn't she still your daughter in name?"

Although the maid next to Da Furen is not very old, she is very good at talking. One sentence made Da Furen's complexion look better, but soon Da Furen's complexion darkened again, and she said to herself: "Although the words are so Said, Wenxin is my daughter in name, but her mother is still Aunt Zhou after all, and she is closer to her mother from the bottom of her heart."

This eldest lady is the wife of Xiao Yu's eldest son, who was born in the Wang family in Taiyuan. Unfortunately, Xiao Yu's eldest son died of illness a few years ago, leaving only this lady Wang and one daughter, Wen Qing, to inherit the family business. None of his descendants remained, so now the second-ranked Xiao Rui became the eldest son of the Xiao family, that is, the one who married Li Yin's sister, Princess Xiangcheng.Last time Li Shimin ordered Xiao Yu to adopt Xiao Wenxin to his eldest son, who is now Mrs. Wang's house. Now she is Xiao Wenxin's nominal mother.

While Mrs. Wang was thinking about something, she saw the bead curtain outside raised, and two girls of similar age came in one after the other with their maids.

"Huh? Mother, who sent so many gifts?" The round-faced girl in front of her just came in, and immediately found all kinds of gifts around Mrs. Wang. She rushed up with a cheer, and threw herself on the table to pick and choose. Looking for the jewelry she likes, of course she is Mrs. Wang's biological daughter Xiao Wenqing.

The girl in the back was extremely beautiful, she just glanced at the presents lightly, bowed calmly to Madam Wang and said, "Wen Xin pays homage to mother!" This girl is Li Yin's fiancée Xiao Wenxin.

"Wen Xin, please get up!" Mrs. Wang ignored her own daughter, but stepped forward to pull Xiao Wen Xin up very affectionately, "Didn't I say it last time, there is no need to be so polite between mother and daughter, You don't need to salute every time you see me, look at your sister Wen Qing, she never knows what is polite." Mrs. Wang smiled and pulled Xiao Wenxin to sit down and said.

"My mother's lesson is that Wen Xin will pay attention to it in the future." Although Xiao Wenxin agreed with her lips, her manner of speaking was still very polite.

"Oh, you girl~" Mrs. Wang also had no choice but to point to the jewelry on the table and said, "Wen Xin, my natal nephew brought a lot of presents today, and these jewelry are exquisitely crafted. Pick a few and bring them back!"

"Thank you mother!" The mother gave her daughter something, and Xiao Wenxin couldn't refuse, but she didn't pounce on the table to pick and choose like her sister Wen Qing, but just took a jasper hairpin, and said: "Wen Xin Picked."

"You girl..." Mrs. Wang was also a little angry, but thinking of Xiao Wenxin's indifferent temper, the anger in her heart disappeared, and she sighed and said, "Oh~, with your temperament, I knew you would be like this !"

After Madam Wang finished speaking, she reached out for a box and picked out a dozen of the most exquisite jewelry, some of which were snatched from her daughter Wenqing, which caused Xiao Wenqing to yell loudly in dissatisfaction.

Mrs. Wang put the box into Xiao Wenxin's hand and said: "Wen Xin, since we are destined to be mother and daughter, I sincerely treat you as my own daughter. In the future, if Wen Qing has anything, you will be indispensable."

Xiao Wenxin just wanted to decline, but Mrs. Wang rushed to say: "I know you don't like these jewelry, but as the daughter of the Xiao family, you can't go out without something to take advantage of your status. You must collect these things. Down."

"This..." Xiao Wenxin hesitated for a moment. As the daughter of the Xiao family, she really couldn't lose the face of her family. It's because my daughter is self-willed, so Wen Xin accepts these things."

"That's right, this is the daughter of the Xiao family who understands general principles and etiquette!" Seeing Xiao Wenxin accepting it, Mrs. Wang laughed and said, and then helped Xiao Wenxin pick out a few pieces of plain and elegant silk and satin, and asked her to go back and make a few more. Xiao Wenxin also accepted the new clothes one by one.Then Mrs. Wang pulled Xiao Wenxin to speak her mind, and then let her go back.

After Xiao Wenxin left, Mrs. Wang picked two more boxes of gifts and sent them to Xiao Wenxin's biological mother, Aunt Zhou.Xiao Wenqing saw that the gifts sent by her cousin suddenly decreased by nearly half, and her mother even picked out the most expensive things to give, and Xiao Wenxin even let Xiao Wenxin take away the jewelry she liked. Mrs. Wang said coquettishly with her hand: "Mother, you let Wen Xin take all those fine jewelry, who is your real daughter?"

"Go, go, what do you girl know? Wen Xin is His Majesty's imperial concubine Liang, and now that King Liang is getting more and more favored, this girl Wen Xin has a bright future. I, my mother in name, can't treat her badly." I'm married to someone." Mrs. Wang slapped her daughter on the head affectionately, and then said with some envy and regret, "If you can marry someone like Liang Wang in the future, you will feel at ease as a mother." Capital Datang 49

"Mother, I don't have the good fortune of Wenxin, or I'll go out in a fancy dress one day, and then seduce a prince to make fun of it?" Xiao Wenqing said with a heartless laugh.

"You girl, why don't you speak seriously?" Mrs. Wang straightened her face and taught, "Although Wen Xin has an indifferent temperament, don't say these words in front of her. If she remembers them in her heart, you There will be no good fruit to eat in the future.”

"Understood, you really are!" Xiao Wenqing was dissatisfied with her mother's lesson, and muttered in a low voice, then she turned her eyes and asked Mrs. Wang: "Mother, it's fine if you give Wenxin jewelry, but why did you put the watch on?" Auntie Zhou will share the presents from my brother? The expenses from my family are not much. I used to save money for several months to sell a piece of jewelry. The things my cousin sent us can make us rich for a long time. What about time?"

After hearing her daughter's complaint, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but smile wryly. Her father-in-law Xiao Yu came from a prominent family. Although the Lanling Xiao family is not as good as the five surnames and Qiwang, it is also the most powerful family in the Tang Dynasty, and the former Sui Empress Xiao Yu was also Xiao Yu. The two have a very good relationship, and the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty also treated Xiao Yu very kindly and rewarded him with a lot of land, so the Xiao family's expenses should be very generous.However, since Xiao Yu joined the Tang Dynasty and became the Duke of Song, he distributed the land returned by Gao Zu to his clansmen. He only left an ancestral temple, and he was always an upright and honest official. He never accepted gifts, and his family only relied on the Duke's salary. With the support of Hezhitian's production, a dignified state mansion has a tight life, even worse than some ordinary wealthy households in Chang'an. My daughter usually thinks twice about buying jewelry. No wonder she saw so many jewelry just now. So excited about a gift?

Although the life was hard, Mrs. Wang had her own plan. After waving her hand to get everyone to retreat, she said to Xiao Wenqing: "Oh, my mother knows that I have wronged you on weekdays, but Aunt Zhou's place is It must be sent!"

"Why is that?" Xiao Wenqing was not stupid, she looked at her mother's face, it seemed that there was something hidden in it that she didn't know.

"Hmph, do you think that cousin of yours is so kind, that he gave me these heavy gifts because it was not a year or a festival?" Mrs. Wang said with a gloomy face, "Although my mother was born in the Wang family of Taiyuan, But it's not Wang's eldest family, and he has no contact with Wang Kuang on weekdays, so he suddenly sent so many gifts today, isn't it aimed at your brother-in-law, Liang Wang?"

Thinking of this, Mrs. Wang felt angry. She was born in the Wang family, and she could not see the human affairs in the family very clearly. When her husband was still there, she was the wife of the eldest son, and she would become the Duke of the state in the future. Ma'am, the Wang clan has very close contacts with her. There are always gifts during festivals, and from time to time, younger generations come to pay their respects.But since her husband passed away, she has no son, and the Duke of Song's title can only be inherited by her second brother Xiao Rui. Although Mrs. Wang is still in charge of the internal affairs of Xiao's mansion, her status in the mansion has not changed much, but in the eyes of her natal family In the past few years, I even sent people to visit me occasionally and gave me some small gifts, but in the past few years, no one even came, and there was no greeting during the New Year and holidays, as if The Wang family has never had a daughter like her.

Ever since Xiao Wenxin, the quasi-princess, was adopted as her daughter, the members of the Wang family suddenly became concerned about Mrs. Wang again. Some time ago, no less than ten groups of descendants of the Wang family came to visit him. What's more, with such a heavy gift, Mrs. Wang didn't know the intention of the other party, but she just wanted to use her nominal mother to please Xiao Wenxin, the prospective princess, and then gain Li Yin's favor.Want to know who doesn't know Li Liulang's name now?Not only is his literary talent outstanding, but also the shochu and cement produced are all of great profit, which has attracted great enthusiasm from all over the Tang Dynasty to rush to buy and invest.And now Li Yin has won His Majesty's favor again. With such a potential prince, why would the people of the Wang family not try their best to get on this line?

After listening to her mother's narration, Xiao Wenqing was also very angry. She raised the jewelry she chose and wanted to throw it on the ground. After all, although she is a little girl, she is also a person with backbone. A gift from such a snobbish person She, Xiao Wenqing, was really not uncommon, but she didn't expect to be tightly held by Mrs. Wang, who had been prepared for a long time.

I saw Mrs. Wang said with a smile on her face: "You girl is really hot-tempered. Although these things were not specially given to me by them, it is not so easy to walk the road of being a mother. These are The reward they gave us is what we deserve, you girl is really good at wasting things!"

"Huh~, that's right! These are originally for mother's hard work, mother, you should understand!" Xiao Wenqing is also an open-minded person. When she heard what her mother said was reasonable, she immediately became happy again, and carefully held the jewelry in her hand. Hidden in his arms, and then pounced on the gift to pick something for himself.

Looking at this heartless daughter, Mrs. Wang was angry and laughed. With her temperament, she should not suffer a loss when she gets married in the future, but she thought that Lanling Xiao's daughter was like an uneducated wild girl. , she couldn't help but feel a little headache again, it seemed that she had to spend more time to calm down her temper.

In the side hall of Prince Liang's mansion, Li Min's face was gloomy and tense.Wearing a blue robe, Wang Zihao stood below with his head bowed, his lips tightly shut and he said nothing. Wen'er and Hua'er who were standing beside him were also affected by the heavy atmosphere in the hall, and stood there without daring to move.

Li Yin walked back and forth a few times, suddenly took a long breath, fixed his eyes on Wang Zihao, and slowly uttered three words: "Why?"

Apart from the people around him, only Wang Zihao knew about his going to the fairy tower, and only he, the master of the fairy tower, could arrange a "coincidence" in the fairy tower.

The three words Li Yin asked seemed to be so important that Wang Zihao's waist was bent even more. It took him a while to reply: "Your Highness, this matter is all my fault. As for the reason , the villain only has one thing to say."

When he said this, Wang Zihao suddenly raised his head, stepped forward with pain on his face and said in a deep voice, "The Wang family of the world is from Taiyuan!"