Prosperous Glory

Chapter 69

This newly met woman, A Yuan saw that she was wearing a red dress with a hundred butterflies and flowers, a phoenix bead on her head inlaid with red precious gold Buyao, and a red gold eight-treasure gold collar hanging on her chest. They are beautiful and beautiful, and seem to be a few years older than Zheng Shi. Seeing Yin A Yuan coming, there is a mighty team, and seeing Zheng Shi at this time, he is smiling, Qi Jian, who looks handsome, is supporting him, and he is still walking A beautiful and wealthy little girl couldn't help showing a mocking smile, stroked the golden step on her head, and the girl came over, raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "Isn't this the fifth younger sister?"

"Third Sister." Zheng Shi paused, but still showed a smile.

Qi Jian narrowed his eyes, looked at his wife, and then at the beautiful woman, and said to Zheng in a gentle voice, "It's time to greet grandpa."

Seeing the way Qi Jian was talking to Zheng Shi, the woman didn't seem to dare to scare her loudly, and seeing that Zheng Shi still looked limp and unintentional, she showed a jealous expression, and only smiled, "What's the matter, Are you afraid that I won’t be able to eat Fifth Sister?” Looking at Qi Jian’s face, the woman rubbed the handkerchief in her hand fiercely, and said with a smile, “Grandpa is such a busy person, how can I have time to see you?” What about you? Let me go to pay my respects to grandma."

"Let's go," Qi Jian ignored the woman, and just dragged Zheng Shi and A Yuan away.

"Don't go!" The woman was about to step forward to pull someone, but the maid brought by A Yuan stopped her, she stomped her feet angrily, she still didn't dare to go to Mr. Zheng Ge's study, so she had to go to the backyard .

At this time, Mrs. Zheng asked Qi Jian to pull her, and she looked sideways at her husband as she walked. The more she looked at the smile on her face, the happier she became. She couldn't bear to look at A Yuan, who was making soy sauce, and was powerlessly bathing with Zheng. Under the eyes of the daughter-in-law looking up at the gods, the sixth uncle covered his face with joy and said, "Restrain yourself, there is a good child with a pure heart."

"The little bastard who came out of the palace can still be pure?" Qi Jian lowered his head, with a smile of "don't be funny".

A Yuan really had nothing to say to such a bad uncle who only knew how to fight against him, so he asked curiously, "Who was it just now?"

"Your aunt's cousin," Qi Jian said with a sneer, "I really think I'm a fairy, and I don't know what to do with being gorgeous all day long." The appearance makes Qi Jian disgusting, it's not that he is a relative of the Zheng family, and he is light on his chest and feet.

"My natal family is the third room, and this is the cousin of the eldest family." Zheng explained in a low voice, "Because it is the eldest son, the cousin has a stronger temper." Housing is more valued.

A Yuan nodded, thought for a while, and asked curiously, "The Zheng family, there is a boy who is older than me. He is very good at talking and understanding. I don't know which one it is." Shi thought about it, but shook his head, and also felt that it was not easy to find such a person in the Zheng family, so he put it aside and went to Zheng Ge's old place.When he arrived at the study, he saw Mr. Zheng Ge sitting on top of it, looking over with a serious face. Qi Jian always respected the grandfather of this daughter-in-law, so he hurriedly bowed down with Mrs. Zheng, and said in his mouth, "greetings to my grandfather."

As soon as he turned his head, he saw A Yuan, a brat, had already run in front of Mr. Zheng Ge. He pulled out the scroll in his arms, and with a face full of offering treasures, he stuffed it into Mr. Zheng's hand with his toes in mind, and called out Said, "Teacher, show A Yuan this painting."

He wasn't drawn!
Qi Jian could not help being stunned by the charm of his niece when he saw Zheng Ge's face was dark, but he still gently unfolded the scroll.

It is simply the rhythm of killing.

Mr. Zheng Ge was carefully looking at the ancient painting in his hand at this time. After a long time, he nodded and said, "That's right, it's very romantic and strong in the Wei and Jin Dynasties." Put it in the painting jar, and said, "I accept this bunch of repairs."

"The sword is given to the hero, and the famous painting is to the famous teacher." A Yuan shook his head and tugged at his poor ink, then looked at Zheng Gelao eagerly.

"Don't flatter!" Zheng Ge's old face sank, and he snorted.

A Yuan smiled and pretended not to hear.

"You're here too." Mr. Zheng Ge has always liked Qi Jian, his grandson-in-law, with gentle eyes, but he still said seriously, "Now you are in the Imperial Academy, you must keep your duty, be a scholar, and don't be called a foreign object. Influence, and you can't stand in line at will."

"Grandson understands." Qi Jian bowed and said.

This is the grandson-in-law chosen by Mr. Zheng Ge himself. He couldn't be more satisfied. He nodded, and then he nodded and said, "Go and greet your grandmother later, princess, I still have something to say. Turn around, come here again, Seeing that Qi Jian nodded and led the worried Zheng away, Mr. Zheng Ge said, "Your Highness is young now, and you should know the truth of plucking seedlings to encourage growth. Don't rush for success, just stabilize your homework. I don't know what's wrong." You can come and ask the old minister at any time." He paused, with a strange expression on his face, but he still said, "Or, the second old man of your mansion is also fine."

"Thank you, teacher." A Yuan's handwriting is still messy now, but it's just to occupy a hole first, and now he agrees.

"You should also keep up with calligraphy. Handwriting is like a person. From the writing, you can see a person's temperament." Mr. Zheng Ge brought out a stack of copybooks from the side, and the corners of A Yuan's eyes twitched just looking at it, and said slowly, "His Royal Highness writes a few big characters every day, every day, and after a few years, it should be successful."

"Continuously for several years." It turns out that in ancient times, learning was very difficult.

A Yuan smiled with tears in his eyes, and thanked Mr. Zheng Ge for his kindness.

Seeing that she is not coquettish at all, Zheng Ge is satisfied.But all literati will always say a few more words to those who love to listen to him. Mr. Zheng Ge felt that A Yuan did not have the habits of a princess. , also asked His Highness to have a few classmates study together, and the old minister asked them to come here. In the future, we can compare the homework with each other, so we don’t want to slack off.” After speaking, he ordered the servants outside to invite people to come over, and after a while, A Yuan heard the voice of someone speaking, vaguely familiar.

The door of the study room opened, and a few teenagers came over with respectful faces. They were startled when they saw a beautiful little girl sitting in the great-grandfather's study room, but the expressions of two of them changed slightly.

"Do you know?" Zheng Ge's eyes were sharp, and he could see the discomfort of his great-grandson at a glance.

A Yuan saw that it was Mr. Zheng Ge who asked these children to hide it, and he didn't want to say that he was a villain and upset Mr. Zheng Ge, so he just smiled and kept silent.The boy at the bottom closed his eyes at this moment, and said in a low voice, "I met him once outside." He also knew that the matter of his cousin could not be kept secret, so A Yuan didn't say anything at this time. But looking at Mr. Zheng Ge, if he didn't say anything, the princess would be able to complain when she turned around. At this time, she knelt on the ground, lowered her head, and told the truth about what happened outside, with a bit of a smile on her face ashamed.

Zheng Ge's old face turned green with anger.

He has offended many people, but all of them are well-founded, Guang Fengjiyue, who did not have such inexplicable hatred, suddenly hated him so much, he just grabbed the inkstone on the table and turned towards the elder who knelt down together The young man threw it at him and cursed, "Is this how your father taught you?!"

"Great-grandfather calm down." The boy hastily kowtowed.

A Yuan also got up, and only came to comfort him, "It's not a big deal, it's just that this time it's me and Brother Four, that's all. Next time, I don't know who I will offend."

Seeing her so calm and breezy, Mr. Zheng Ge fell on his back in anger.As a guy who hangs around in the court and even sneaked into the cabinet, no matter how upright Mr. Zheng Ge is, he is not a fool.Even though A Yuan spoke very kindly, seeing her only smiling and looking at his grandson made him feel pain in his heart.

Putting on a face of being kind to others, waiting for revenge, and making people unable to tell the truth.Children at this age are so clever, how can the grandsons of Mr. Ge, who are so stupid, go out and start a grudge against others with a few words?

Thinking of this, Mr. Zheng Ge became more and more unwilling to give up, and wanted to teach these boys a lesson.

"Your Highness said so." Zheng Ge is old, and his energy is very good. At this time, he regained his breath, and he was full of energy. He didn't feel dizzy or dizzy at all. The two teenagers pushed down, and the board went up.

Ah Yuan only sighed worriedly, while stretching out his little neck to count to the older boy who was beaten so much that he was crying for his father and mother, his heart felt so relieved. Pretentiously sighed, "Too much, too much!" She said kindly, "The teacher is so angry, A Yuan is very disturbed, that's all, girl from the Zheng family, please forgive me, otherwise you will be beaten. If this is the case, how can a girl's family behave?"

It turned out that there was another fish that slipped through the net, Mr. Zheng Ge suddenly regained his energy, rolled his eyes, and a servant went straight to the backyard.

A Yuan sighed heavily again, and his eyes fell on the young boy, thinking that in this matter, this one really hurt Chi Yu and was relatively innocent.

Seeing that the boy gritted his teeth in pain, but refused to yell out, Ah Yuan was also a little impressed, and turned his head to Mr. Zheng Ge and pleaded, "This senior brother didn't say anything rude."

"Brother speaks outrageously, but he can't stop it. It's his fault." Mr. Zheng Ge only watched the board finish, with some pain in his eyes, but he still said sharply, "Let me know that you are talking nonsense outside. Obstacles, it’s not these tricks!” After speaking, seeing A Yuan’s cleverness and eccentricity, he was still grateful to her, otherwise, if he offended the clan, how could a trick be ignored?A Yuan did this, and he did it for King Cheng. He naturally understood, and sighed, "The princess is bothering you." Ning, such an idiot has come out, I can't help but feel sad.

The pale boy turned his head to see if his elder brother was okay, then he struggled to get up and saluted Elder Zheng Ge.

"Tell senior brother to apply the medicine." A Yuan laughed hastily.

The boy glanced at A Yuan gratefully, and felt a little fond of the princess who was willing to intercede for him.

"Your Highness said so, why don't you go down?" Mr. Zheng Ge snorted coldly, said a few words to A Yuan, and then sent her out. As soon as the two went out, A Yuan saw the boy standing there Not far from the corridor, leaning on the gold-painted pillars to look over, saw two people, and came slowly.

"This is?" A Yuan asked curiously.

"That day, my brother and I ran into the princess, so we came here to make amends."

Mr. Zheng Ge was very satisfied, nodded and said, "If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. It's very good." Seeing this great-grandson smiled, he pointed to him and said to A Yuan, "This is Zheng Lin, the great-grandson of the old minister. , but you can get closer to the princess."

I can hear "Shang Ke" from such a strict person, but I think Zheng Lin's book reading should be very good. A Yuan saw that Zheng Ge's old eyes were a little proud, so he was not arrogant even if he heard the praise in front of him. The irritable young man looked at him with admiration, and said with a smile, "In that case, I will discuss homework with my senior brother in the future. Senior brother, don't think that A Yuan is dull."

"No." Hearing A Yuan's seemingly carefree laughter, Zheng Lin felt that even the injuries on her body didn't hurt so much, and she grinned too. , said with a bit of embarrassment on his face, "There is a specialization in surgery, and I hope His Highness can also explain to me in the future."

Looking at the two children, Mr. Zheng Ge felt that he was in a good mood, nodded slightly, and asked Zheng Lin to take A Yuan around the house, and went back to the study to study the newly acquired ancient paintings by himself.

A Yuan and Zheng Lin walked around Zheng's house, looked around, and found that this is really a big family.

Zheng Ge is old and clean, and Kuang didn't make any money in the past, so he didn't have much money. This house is a gift from the emperor, otherwise he might not even be able to afford such a house that his descendants can live in.However, seeing that Zheng Lin was wearing plain clothes, but she had a calm expression on her face, she felt that this friend was very good, and seeing Zheng Lin grinning from time to time, she frowned and said, "Otherwise, I'll send you back to your room to lie down and recuperate. "

"Not good," Zheng Lin smiled, scratched her head and whispered, "Mother knows, I'm afraid I'm going to cry again, and my brain hurts after hearing this." He glanced at A Yuan sideways, and blushed Face said, "The situation makes the elders worry, but it still makes me feel uneasy."

"So, just ask me to find my uncle and aunt." A Yuan knew that Zheng Lin was worried about her presence, so she couldn't leave her and go back to recover from her injuries, so she just smiled, "We will come and go often in the future, and we will continue to play after you recover from your injuries." Son."

Zheng Lin was actually in pain too. Seeing what A Yuan said, she thought about it, then nodded and smiled, "That's fine." Leading A Yuan on a cobbled path, he turned around and said with a smile, "Your aunt, It is my cousin. I am the second grandson, and my cousin is the third." Seeing that A Yuan nodded slightly after being startled, he said apologetically, "Just now my cousins ​​and sisters were all from the big family, and now they have learned a lesson. , I dare not do it again in the future." After finishing speaking, he whispered, "I was going to tell my grandfather about this, but my cousin came back seriously ill, I, I just wanted to delay it for a few days and wait for the hall to wait. My sister is well."

"Your heart is good." A Yuan looked at the surrounding scenery and thought it was very good, but said lightly in his mouth, "It's just, the same sentence, this time you bumped into me and Brother Four. , if it were someone else, this dragged on for a few days, and it might have cheated your whole family." Seeing that Zheng Lin's face suddenly turned pale, she just smiled and said softly, "I'm not bluffing you. If you are not careful, you will be in danger, if the teacher does not take precautions and makes people suddenly attack you, are you a sinner of the Zheng family?" Zheng Lin is still inexperienced, and A Yuan wants him to understand what is the real priority.

"I didn't expect that." Zheng Lin's face turned pale all of a sudden.

"Next time, don't say such things." A Yuan warned.

"Thank you." Zheng Lin thanked A Yuan once again, then stopped saying anything and just led the way.A Yuan followed him for a long distance, and saw several courtyards in front of him scattered in an orderly manner. He asked Zheng Lin to lead them in, and he saw a large courtyard with simple furnishings and few strange stones and landscapes. It is very clean, and there are several pots of flowers and plants under the corridor, which are full of vitality, which makes people feel bright when they look at it.There was a little girl outside, and when she saw Zheng Lin, she hurriedly called out, "The young master is here!" and hurriedly picked up the curtain for Zheng Lin and A Yuan.

As soon as A Yuan entered, he saw a room with a faint fragrance. There were several women sitting in the room at the moment, but Qi Jian was not there. He thought the man from Zheng's family had been called away. Seeing that Mrs. Zheng had got up, he went Greeted with a smile.

Zheng Lin sent her there, and seeing these female relatives came to greet A Yuan, she withdrew and went back to recuperate.

A Yuan just waited for everyone to be seated, then sat next to Mrs. Zheng, and saw that the female family members of the Zheng family had gentle and polite eyes, so she nodded in her heart, thinking that it is no wonder Mrs. Zheng is gentle, and this is a family heirloom. , Seeing that he was there again, it made the female family members feel uncomfortable and unable to speak properly, so they fell into Zheng's arms and yawned a little.

"Are you tired?" Mrs. Zheng lowered her head and asked in a low voice, "Otherwise, shall we go home?"

"Aunt came back so easily, how could she just leave because A Yuan was sleepy." A Yuan shook his head, leaning on Zheng's shoulder and said, "It's all right."

Seeing that A Yuan was close to the Zheng family and was willing to think about her, the eyes of the female family members of the Zheng family flashed excited smiles, obviously they were very happy with Zheng's life today.

"If Your Highness is tired, can you take a rest in the room?" An older woman asked with a smile.Seeing that A Yuan nodded, he hurriedly asked the girl to tidy up the inside, and led A Yuan in. Seeing that she didn't dislike the simplicity of the bed, she nodded to herself and turned over to sleep. Zheng Shi, who peeled the melon seeds and put the melon seeds together into a small pile, said, "I didn't expect that you are also a fool and have such a blessing?"

"Ah?" Mrs. Zheng raised her head in a daze, and seeing her sister and sister-in-law looking at her with a smile, she remembered what she had just heard, and said in a low voice with a blushing face, "Grandfather cherished it and told me to marry a good man."

"Your third sister, I can't envy you." Then a woman showed a sarcasm on the side, and sneered, "At the beginning, when I heard that she was going to marry a bastard, she cried and said she didn't want to, but she said that this marriage is not good. If it falls on your head, who would have known that it would be better for you to get over it, she is just a showman now, and I don't know what kind of regrets she has in her heart." He also told the women around him that the third aunt of the big house got married After the unsatisfactory days, now there are only seven or eight concubines under his command, so Zheng Shi smiled awkwardly, thinking of the sister's unkind eyes just now, she still didn't follow suit.

Back then, she also knew how some marriages were obtained.

The Duke of England personally led his concubine brother to propose marriage. Grandfather originally wanted to pick out her third sister to marry in the most respected big house. Who knew that the third sister heard that Qi Jian was a concubine, and that she was born by a girl, so she decided to marry her. Crying and shouting that she didn't want to, it only annoyed her grandfather, and she didn't want to be a relative but a feud, so she chose the honest woman from the third room to marry.She was going to be an honest daughter-in-law of a concubine. When the family is separated in the future, her husband will continue the imperial examination, and she will use the dowry to buy a few more acres of land to live steadily. Daughter-in-law, she lived like a life in the fairy palace.

Just got engaged, and the betrothal gift alone is 1 taels of silver bills at the bottom of the box, and there are countless jewelry, cloth, medicinal materials and ingredients, which makes people dazzled.None of these grandfathers were kept, and they were taken away in her dowry, so that she could gain a firm foothold in the Duke's mansion.

Married, the husband is handsome and kind, there is no concubine room in the house, the mother-in-law is kind, the uncle and sister-in-law are kind, the poor little son and the concubine are more favored by the mother-in-law than the son-in-law, and the mother-in-law secretly stuffed her with ten thousand taels of silver notes and one hundred Da Zhuangzi's land deeds, only said to give them pocket money for husband and wife, don't be tight.In fact, it’s just stuffing money for them in a different way. After being married for a few years, they have been eating from their father-in-law, and they still have monthly silver. They are all amiable and respectable, now that Qi Jian has entered the official career again, and a bright future is in front of her eyes, it seems that her life is going well.

She also did well.

"After all, the girl in our family is blessed." Above, Zheng's mother said beamingly.

Zheng Shi pursed her lips and smiled, deciding not to remind her mother of cursing the big house when she knew she was going to marry a bastard who was said to have no future.

"However, I heard that Princess Rongshou is very favored in the palace, and the queen mother can't leave it for a while. I didn't expect that she has no airs." Then Zheng's sister-in-law said in a low voice, "I'm so good with my sister. It's very close." If he wasn't close to Mrs. Zheng, A Yuan wouldn't be so polite.

"A Yuan is a good boy." Mrs. Zheng carefully put the melon seeds at hand in her purse, and prepared to give half to Yuan and half to her husband. At this moment, she raised her head and said seriously, "He is filial and polite, how can he not be accepted by others?" Do you like it?" Although Qi Jian and A Yuan often fought and fought wildly in the Duke's mansion, driving the British Duke into a panic and even chasing and beating the two brats himself with a bamboo board, Zheng still I could feel the closeness between A Yuan and the two uncles, and when I finished speaking, I whispered, "However, the empress dowager really loves A Yuan very much, even when A Yuan leaves the palace, she often bestows things from the palace. her."

The eyes of the female relatives fell on her head, and they saw that the bottom of Zheng's simple ponytail was inserted with several hairpins of magnolia flowers of the same jade color. These flowers were obviously cut from the same piece of top-quality jade. , it is rare that the jade color is warm and translucent, obviously very precious, it seems to be jewelry from Jinshang, thinking of Zheng's close relationship with A Yuan, it is hard to guarantee that the jewelry that has only been seen in the palace is not a gift from A Yuan, so there are a few more Very envious.He also thought of Qi Jian's entry into the Imperial Academy now, with the support of the British government behind him, the family has a good relationship, but now they are even closer.

"It's just that it's time to have a child, regardless of gender." It's not too long before Mrs. Zheng entered the house, and a woman worriedly said, "The British government is not small, so I'm afraid that his family will be in a hurry, and then..."

"Men in the Qi family don't take concubines," Zheng's heart disease is also the same, but she is worried that there will be no children to reassure the elders, but she doesn't really care about whether he will take concubines. After all, she has seen Qi Jian's heart all these years. After understanding, he said confidently, "Even if a woman comes to the door, my husband will not take a second look." After finishing speaking, he had a look of "my husband is right, I must believe it".

This silly look made everyone worry. After a moment of silence, a female family member forced a smile and said, "Why are you so confident?" If a man doesn't want to take a concubine, even a pig will climb a tree, right?
"Husband said he already has me." Zheng said confidently.Before she got married, her grandfather told her that the British government is different from everyone else and has a responsibility.A man who is married to the Qi family must treat each other sincerely, never trust him, and believe every word of his husband, so that he can get his sincerity.She listened, and thus she had the happiness of being a happy couple today.

The female relatives were silent for a while again, and they all felt that it was strange that this woman was so stupid and naive after being married for several years.

Naturally, strange things exist everywhere, at least there is such a thing in front of Qi Jian.At this time, the handsome young man had a smile on his face, looked at a certain uncle of the Zheng family in front of him, and said sarcastically, "Cousin mean, you want to give me a concubine?! "

(End of this chapter)