Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 74
After being yelled at by Mrs. Huo, Huo Zhengde was a little puzzled: "Mother, you... what's wrong with you? You suddenly brought up these old things?"

Mrs. Huo also noticed that she was a little excited. She had endured it for more than ten years, and never thought of pursuing it. But today, Yu Tong's words pierced her heart one by one——

"...my predestined person is not a mediocre person, the family is rich and powerful, Gaotang is long-lived and kind, if I marry him, I will have a precious son within a year, and the house will be full of happiness."

Regardless of whether Yu Tong was talking nonsense or not, this was explained by the signed document, and every sentence was a good word.At first, Mrs. Huo thought that the signature was referring to someone else's family, so she didn't take it seriously, but now she realized that it was referring to the Huo family, and suddenly felt that everything could be matched. It means "I will have a precious son within a year, and the house will be full of happiness."

Once Mrs. Huo got into a dead end, she felt that life was hopeless. The only son of her Huo family had no heirs, and her niece was unmarried. These two could clearly make a good couple, but now they had to endure the pain, How can she live?
"Zhengde, mother is getting older, and these years have become more and more unbearable. I thought that I might go to see your father soon, but what about you, you didn't leave anything behind, how can I go away with peace of mind? I will die without regret. !" Mrs. Huo felt sad and patted the table vigorously, almost crying.

"Mother, mother, don't be like this..." Huo Zhengde is a dutiful son. Seeing his mother's agitation, he could only stand helplessly, and comforted him anxiously: "Mother, I promise you that I will give birth to a grandson for you this year. He Ruyi..."

"What Ruyi! The daughters of the Lin family obviously can't give birth to sons! Lin Rujin is like this, Lin Ruyi is also like this, each of them can only give birth to girls, and in the end they are still poured out like water! Wherever they are splashed Which one? You want to have a son with her, why didn't you have a son a few years ago?" Mrs. Huo was touched by the most unmanageable pain, and became more and more reluctant, "Zhengde, do you know that your marriage with your cousin is It's destined, it's clearly written in the signature, she is lucky for Wangfu, if she enters our Huo family, you will have a lot of children and grandchildren!"

"Mother, the more you say, the more outrageous you are. I promised my uncle when I married Ru Yi. If I don't take a concubine, if I violate the oath, how will I face the Pingyang Marquis? No, no, what is destined Marriage is all a lie." Huo Zhengde turned his face away and shook his head.

"You are afraid of the Pingyang Hou Mansion, but I am not! I would like to talk to the old lady of the Lin family, why her son gave birth to a son, but my son can't? If she says she can tolerate the Lin family's cutting off children and grandchildren, I will not care about her! There's no reason for that!" The more Mrs. Huo saw Huo Zhengde's weakness, the more angry she became.The first person she dissatisfied with in her life was the old lady Pingyanghou. Relying on the power of the founding hero Wanhuhou Pingyanghou's mansion, she has always talked high and high. She has seen enough of her long ago!
"My old woman is already old anyway, and she is not afraid of anything. I will go to your wife and talk about it, what's wrong with taking a concubine, but it's just adding a table and chopsticks to the house. Even your father had a concubine before he was alive. I can't bear it." Come down, can't the lady of Pingyang Houfu think about her husband's family?" Mrs. Huo was about to get up as she said.

Huo Zhengde hurriedly held her down, knowing that she was serious, and hurriedly said: "Mother, don't be impulsive, although I don't know how you suddenly got it, but you have to let your son take it easy! My relationship with Ruyi these years is very good , Why did you ask me to suddenly say that you want to take a concubine at the beginning? Besides, Cousin Lian Tong'er hasn't made a decision yet, how could you suddenly and recklessly decide on the marriage? If the quarrel continues and it spreads outside, what will others think of the General's Mansion? What do you think of me, Huo Zhengde?"

"What you said...is not unreasonable." Mrs. Huo finally calmed down under her son's persuasion, and she was still sitting at a distance, but her attitude was still tenacious: "But this time, my old woman is serious, and I didn't I am going to ask you to use some tactics to slow down the army, you have dealt with the Tartar bandits, you can't use the same method to deal with your mother!"

"My son doesn't dare!" Huo Zhengde sighed helplessly.

"Hmph, then I'll give you some time. You and Lin Ruyi have a good discussion. If she agrees, then it's fine. If she doesn't, then don't blame me for making trouble with the Queen Mother. Human ethics are common, and the Queen Mother will always understand! Let's see who doesn't make sense!" Mrs. Huo said confidently.

"Okay, son understands." Huo Zhengde had a headache.He just came to visit his mother while he was in court, who would have thought that such trouble would be caused.Although it is indeed unbearable for him to have only one woman in his life, what he values ​​more is a high position. As long as he can climb higher and go further, he doesn't mind not having three wives and four concubines.Three wives and four concubines, it's not too late if the time is ripe... If he had known that he would encounter today's situation, Huo Zhengde would rather not have stepped into Xiaocixuan.

……

"Cousin, wait for me!"

Huo Mingzhu chased Xiao Cixuan out, but she didn't try her best to catch up with Yu Tong. She knew that Yu Tong needed some time to be quiet, so she looked around in three steps forward and two steps back.

Su Hui has been following Huo Mingzhu all along, and everything in Xiaocixuan just now scared her into a fool, and now she hesitates and asks: "Miss..., what's the matter? I didn't understand it! How dare you?" The signature that Ms. Yu asked for in the Huguo Temple was fulfilled by the general? Is the general the one that Ms. Yu destined? Oh my god, this is so unexpected!"

Sulu said, holding her head in her arms and scurrying around, unable to figure it out: "How could this happen?!"

Huo Mingzhu was never as manic as Su Yu, she was terribly calm, the lottery that Yu Tong asked for today, from the signing document to the husband who released the lottery, were all bribed by her, in order to connect Huo Zhengde's character with Yu Tong stand up.

If it weren't for the design, she, Huo Mingzhu, would really not be willing to accompany Huo Huaiyu and Yu Tong to the Huguo Temple, the gods and Buddhas in the sky would not come down to help her avenge her, only she would go in when she sees the time.

She wasn't sure how Mrs. Huo would think about Yu Tong, but the most important thing for an old man was his children and grandchildren. In the past, Mrs. Huo didn't care about it because she didn't dare to care about it and no one provoked her.

Now, Huo Mingzhu has disturbed her deep-rooted children and grandchildren's heart with Yu Tong's incident. As long as the old lady Huo is stimulated by someone and uses her children and grandchildren to talk about things, the old lady Huo who has no grandchildren may go crazy, right?When the time comes...it will look really good.

"Miss, tell me something, what should I do if my wife finds out about this?" Su Yu was in a panic.

Huo Mingzhu laughed mockingly to herself, what she was worried about was how Lin Ruyi would find out about this sooner, and how powerful those girls and old mothers' thoughts were, it would be clear soon!
(End of this chapter)