The Road to Doting Wife

Chapter 182 Disciples of the Ning family, follow this instruction

When the Ning family returned to Beijing, Zhao Chen had already sent someone to take care of them on the way, so he knew the itinerary of the group well.

One day before Ning's family arrived in Beijing, Zhao Chen invited Mrs. Guo to have dinner at home, and Guo Yi and his son even came here directly after leaving the palace.

After the meal, Ning asked Ah Ju to lead Lin Zhu to put the child to bed first.

Ah Ju knew that they were going to discuss about picking up someone tomorrow, and Zhao Chen would tell her what the outcome would be, so now he went to coax the children first.Lin Zhu was pregnant and it was not suitable for her to work hard, so she led her niece and followed her elder sister.

The maids in the hall all backed out, Zhao Yunting looked at his wife, and said to Guo Yi: "Tomorrow, I will pick up someone with Cheng Yuan, how about you?"

Although Guo Yi has always deliberately confronted Zhao Yunting, he still admires this brother-in-law in his heart. At this time, he is not in the mood to mock Zhao Yunting. Home, without the guilt of the Zhao family, but after all, they are father-in-law and mother-in-law, and they haven't seen each other for many years. As a half-son, he should accompany his wife to pick him up.

Ning shi lowered her head and remained silent.

Mrs. Guo led her younger sister to the side room, and persuaded her in a low voice: "Only grandfather, our father, mother, and Jin Shu know about you. Now that there are so many people in the Ning family, you go and pick them up. If someone with a heart guesses it and spreads it, it will be fine." It’s not good. Find a chance to visit your parents after a while, they all know your suffering, so don’t blame yourself.”

For what happened back then, the Qin family should be blamed, or the Zhao family could be blamed for causing trouble, but her younger sister should not be blamed.

"I miss them." Ning cried silently, leaning in her sister's arms, "My grandmother loved me the most, but I didn't even know about her passing away. My grandfather is almost eighty, and he still has to suffer from the exhaustion of cars and horses." My father and mother are almost sixty years old, I don’t know if their hair is gray... and the third brother and the third sister-in-law..."

Ning Jinshu is the third line in the Jin family of the entire Ning family, and in the second room, he was born among Mrs. Guo's sisters.

Mrs. Guo straightened her younger sister, and said with red eyes: "Father and mother don't blame you. If Jin Shu takes his anger out on you, I will treat him as if I never had that younger brother, and you don't have to recognize him as your elder brother." She doesn't care, although they are all surnamed Ning, they are separated by one floor after all, but the younger brother is born of the same mother, if he blames the younger sister unreasonably like an outsider, she will definitely stand by the younger sister.

The next morning, the two families went to wait outside the city early.

Not long after, Princess An came with the lame Tang Ju, and the carriage stopped opposite, which was clearly separated from the Zhao and Guo families.

At three poles in the sun, more than a dozen carriages came slowly.

In fact, the border is bitterly cold, and now the emperor has returned the Ning family's house, which has all the utensils in it, and the Ning family basically has nothing to bring except clothes, but there are so many of them.

The old man has three sons.

The two uncles and three cousins ​​of the old man's family are all married and have children.

The second master’s family has only one uncle, Ning Jinshu, who has two sons and two daughters. The eldest daughter is already married. The son Ning De is the youngest of his generation. He is 25 years old. .

The third master’s family has the simplest population, and the husband and wife have a hard time with offspring. They only had one daughter in the capital, but they added another son after they arrived at the border, that is, the fourth uncle Ning Jintang.

More than a dozen carriages approached in a mighty manner and slowly stopped.

There were many people, but it was extremely quiet. Only a few children shouted a few words of Jingcheng excitedly, but they were soon suppressed by their parents in the same car.

No one got out of the car, only the old man raised the curtain of the car.

The three families hurriedly greeted each other, Princess Li'an looked back quietly, and Mrs. Guo looked at her grandfather with tears in her eyelashes.

The old lady's hair and beard were all white, and her complexion was yellow. After all, she had traveled for more than a month, and it was too much for a young man, let alone an old man.But his eyes were hale and hearty, he scanned the crowd slowly, looked at Guo Zijing and Zhao Chen twice more, and then said to Guo Yi and Zhao Yunting: "Today we are moving, so we don't have time to entertain you, come and have a look some other day, let's eat together Let's have a meal and talk about the family."

The voice was a little tired, but calm as water.

Guo Yi and Zhao Yunting are all familiar with the old man, so they should be respectful.Mrs. Guo begged with trembling voice: "Grandfather, let me go back with you, granddaughter will beat your legs to relieve your fatigue."

The old man smiled, and beckoned the eldest granddaughter to come up: "Okay, grandfather is thinking of you, your mother's car can't fit, Lianrong sits with grandfather."

Mrs. Guo immediately beamed with joy, and got into the car with the support of her son.

Princess An also wanted to say something, but the old man had already put down the car curtain.

Princess An bit her lip, led her son towards the carriage of the palace, decided to follow behind the motorcade, it was rare to see her, she must see her parents today.Tang Ju didn't want to go at all, got into the car and said, "Mother, let's go back, come back tomorrow."

He didn't think the Ning family was worthy of his relatives.

The old grandpa turned out to be just a Hanlin. Not to mention him this time, even the three Ning family masters were getting old and resigned. Only three uncles returned to their posts, but they were only in their 20s when they left Beijing. Although they are all Jinshi, they are still struggling in the ranks of six or seven ranks. Now that they are over forty this year, they will definitely not achieve anything in the future.As for the four cousins, except for the eldest cousin who was older and passed the scholar examination before leaving Beijing, the others are all children. They have not been able to take the imperial examination these years, and they are all white, including the little uncle.

"That's your maternal grandfather and uncle!" Princess An held her son's hand and persuaded him patiently.

In the carriage where the second-bedroom female family members were at the back, Ning Yifang opened a gap in the curtain and peeked out.

The second wife of Ning's biological mother saw her, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Sit down, this place is no better than that one, what did I teach you before you came here?"

"Anyway, I haven't entered the city yet, and there are no outsiders here, so please leave me alone, grandma." Ning Yifang acted coquettishly, and when she saw a few people stopping by the roadside to see them off, Ning Yifang called her mother excitedly, "Mom, hurry up!" Show me, which one is the eldest uncle? Well, I heard that the second uncle gave birth well, so that must be the second uncle, the second cousin really looks like him."

The third uncle's wife, Qiao Shi, glanced at her mother-in-law, and pulled her daughter back with all her strength, "Listen to grandma, you are now a lady of the official family, learn the rules we taught you well, and mother will find you a good husband this year." Then she apologized to her mother-in-law in a low voice, "Yifang doesn't know the rules, mother calmed down, alas, if she had grown up in the capital and had two aunts as role models, her knowledge of etiquette would definitely be the same."

The second wife took a deep breath, looked at her and said, "I know you are dissatisfied, but you don't have to talk to me again and again. Yes, because of Lan Rong's incident, you mothers have suffered, But as a human being, we have to look forward. Now that the Zhao family has managed to save us, so that Wulang and the others will not continue to suffer there for the rest of their lives, no matter how big your resentment is, you should let go. Otherwise, the Zhao family will not care about us. What can you do? ?”

Mrs. Qiao looked at the three-year-old granddaughter in the arms of her daughter-in-law Zhang next to her, and then at her grandson Wulang sitting between her and her mother-in-law, nodded and said: "Yes, the fate of Wulang brothers and sisters is good. Yifang should also be lucky to be able to marry a good family, only Yiqing has a hard life, and I'm afraid she won't be able to return to the capital in her lifetime."

Her eldest daughter, who looks like a flower, can only marry a hundred families. No matter how good her son-in-law is, her daughter deserves better.

The second wife was so angry that her chest heaved.

The eldest granddaughter's marriage was chosen by her thousands of times. The man's family has no worries about food and clothing, and there are maids and servants to serve him. It can't be compared with the capital, but in that kind of place, with their conditions at that time, such a marriage is already rare. .If she had known today, she should have raised her second granddaughter by her side, so she wouldn't be taught to be like this by her daughter-in-law.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were sullen, Ning Yifang looked down at the newly made satin clothes.

Her sister-in-law Zhang hugged her daughter to comfort her, as if she didn't hear the bickering just now.Her family is also a military household, being able to marry Ningde and bring her children to Beijing to live a good life, she only has satisfaction in her heart and no resentment from her mother-in-law.

When we arrived at Ningfu, the old grandpa still lived in the main courtyard, and the three rooms were cleaned up separately.

Mrs. Guo led Guo Zijing to the second bedroom after serving his grandfather, and when she came, Guo Zijing also followed on the grounds of being filial to his mother.

On the Erfang side, except for Ningde's wife, Mrs. Zhang, who stayed in the house to coax a pair of children, everyone else went to the hall.

The reunion of relatives brought a lot of emotion and tears, kneeling in front of the elders and crying enough, Mrs. Guo asked her son to come and see her.

The second master used to be the Minister of Rites of the third grade. Although he is old, he still has a bookish look, and looks more like an old scholar who has been reclusive for many years.The second wife was kind and kind, she held her grandson's hand and praised her non-stop, and asked him to bring his daughter-in-law to have a look.

Guo Zijing responded with a smile, and turned to meet Ning Jinshu and his wife.

Ning Jinshu was in his early forties, gentle and refined, he patted Guo Zijing on the shoulder with a smile: "Zijing is only one year older than your cousin, that's quite a difference." He admired this nephew very much.

Mrs. Qiao was also very enthusiastic and praised Guo Zijing several times in a row.

Next came the peers. Ningde had a fair complexion and a dignified appearance. He called his cousin affectionately and naturally.Guo Zijing knew that the life of Ning's family in the border was not very hard. They didn't have to work, and they had money secretly given by Zhao Yunting. Several cousins ​​studied with their grandfather and father, and their knowledge had not fallen behind. Therefore, he was not surprised by Ningde's gentlemanly demeanor. Ning Yifang's frivolous eyes made him frown.

In the evening of the next day, Zhao Yunting and Zhao Chen came to apologize.

The father and son only saw the old grandpa. After a long talk, the old grandpa sent someone to send them out, and then called all the three householders to the ancestral hall.

"Back then, the Ning family was implicated by the Zhao family and dispatched to border customs. Now the Zhao family has tried a way to rescue us and come back. The so-called enemies should be settled rather than tied. The grievances between the two families should also be resolved. Just now Zhao Yunting and his son came over and gave me 3 taels of silver. Tickets, now you share 1 taels per room, which can be regarded as compensation for the hardships you have suffered for so many years."

The old man took out three envelopes and motioned for his three sons to pick them up.

The old man didn't move, and said shamelessly: "Father, we can't take this money. In the past ten years or so, our whole family has been protected by the Zhao family. We don't have to worry about food and clothing, and enjoy leisure. Besides, the Zhao family is also the one who suffers. The son just sighs with emotion. Fate is changeable, and I have never complained in my heart."

Behind him, a large family of men and women had different expressions on their faces.

The second master and the second wife didn't move either, only Mrs. Qiao tugged on her husband's cuff anxiously, and Ning Jinshu frowned and stared at her.

The third master, his wife and their 14-year-old son all looked indifferent.

The old man smiled, "Take it, let's take it, and the Zhao family can feel at ease. Besides, when we first return to the capital, there are places to spend money for food and clothing, and we need this money. I'm getting old, and the three of you stare at me. Point, the money should be used where it should be used, I collect this money so that the juniors of the Ning family can study at ease and not be burdened by life, not for anyone to go out and compare."

The Eldest Master looked at the two brothers, and his respectful voice should be: "Father, don't worry, the sons will definitely remember their father's teachings."

The three of them stepped forward to receive the silver ticket.

The old man said again: "The three of you are old, and you don't need to go to the officialdom anymore like me. Jinwen, Jinli and Jinshu are over 40, and this is almost the same in this life. But Jintang and Ning Qin, you two, If you want to study and take the Jinshi exam, you have to work hard for three years. You are young and you still have time to plan your future. If you don’t want to bury your head in studying hard, Zhao Yunting and his son can arrange errands for you, what do you think?"

The 14-year-old Ning Jintang was the first to speak: "Grandson will join Chunwei in three years."

The old man nodded. Whether the Ning family can rise up, he is now counting on his little grandson.

For the great-grandchildren's generation, Ning Qin and Ning Jian from the first room expressed their willingness to work directly as errands. Ning Zheng and Ning De from the second room were both younger and wanted to rely on themselves.

Everyone has their own ambitions, and the old grandpa did not interfere with the choices of his great-grandsons. He is old and can't control it.Seeing that everything had been discussed, he walked up to everyone, pointed to the ancestral tablet and said, "Okay, now that you have received money from the Zhao family and received favors from the Zhao family, then from today onwards, Zhao and Ning The family is just in-laws, and there is no grievance anymore. In the future, someone will blame the Zhao family for what happened in the past, and instigate the Ning family's children to seek revenge.

He stood in a dignified manner, without anger and prestige, the Eldest Master led the crowd to kneel down, "Son of the Ning family, please follow this instruction."

(End of this chapter)