Second-hand lady

Chapter 45

After lunch, Princess Su asked the mother to take the yawning young son to a lunch break, and then took the two children and Miss Rucui to the yard for a walk on the pretext of taking a walk after dinner to digest.King Su and Wen Liang went to the study to engage in conspiracy.

The first snow of this winter has not yet fallen, so the weather is not so cold that the children cannot go out, and Princess Su is unwilling to restrain the children. When her daughter wants to play in the yard, she asks the mother to keep an eye on her.

The two children walked in front one after the other—it could be seen that the older boy deliberately followed the pace of the three-year-old Baozi, while Concubine Su and Miss Rucui followed slowly behind, with each other We chatted together.

"Miss, Imperial Physician Hu knows about my injury in Tongcheng." Miss Rucui sighed and said, "I guess we can't hide this matter."

Princess Su was taken aback, and finally understood the purpose of Wen Liang's visit today.At the beginning, King Su said that if he gave birth to a boy, he would let his son recognize Wen Liang as his righteous father.But it is limited to Wen Liang, King Su’s obsession with cleanliness, being able to tolerate a Wen Liang is because of the original agreement, even if Wen Liang marries a noble daughter from a famous family in the future, if that woman wants to be the foster mother of King Su’s son, King Su will never will agree.But this time, King Su let go and let Rucui recognize King Su's son as his adopted son, which can be regarded as an invisible increase in Rucui's worth. mouth.

"You can ignore the gossip of the world, but there will be some troubles with the Duke of the old town." Concubine Su analyzed: "Although you don't live together, the Duke of the old town is the father of Mr. Wen, and also your father-in-law. Children and daughter-in-laws can’t be filial. At that time, the elderly will be the most difficult to deal with.” He looked at his girl sympathetically, feeling that her future road will be several times more difficult than his own.

Miss Rucui shrugged her shoulders, "I can't do anything about it. Even if I want to pretend to be generous and let Mr. Wen out, it depends on whether Mrs. Wen will let me go." She said in a low voice, "Miss, I just know now, Mr. Wen is not as easy-talking as he usually seems, and he has many bad habits."

Concubine Su became interested, "Aside from drinking and eating, what bad habits does he have?"

There are many bad habits, such as being lazy, cheating, bullying, calculating, always fighting with her at night, making troubles when you are unhappy...

"He is very stubborn, and even the prince can't make him change his mind about the things he has decided." That's why he has lost his family all these years, and he is not like father and son.

Concubine Su was surprised, and after thinking about the things over the years, she could find some clues.Concubine Su said thoughtfully: "That's true. At the beginning I didn't approve of you marrying him. Who knew that he would persist, forcefully pry you away, and persuade the prince."

Miss Rucui grinned.

At this time, Xiao Chuchu ran into the yard, surrounded by tall begonias, looked up at the few withered flowers left on the branches, the boy Zhen followed her, saw her sight, and jumped up Body, there was a story about destroying flowers with tough hands. After the leaves were knocked off, there was only one remnant flower on the bare branch, and then the boy handed the branch that was not even a flower to Xiao Baozi.

The little bun took it in a daze, and the boy grinned at her, showing a grin that wasn't a smile—the boy still couldn't learn how to smile, so sometimes his smile was really ferocious and distorted.

The little bun puffed up his bun face, then turned around and handed the branch to Princess Su who was embarrassed, and said seriously: "Mother, here~"

"What are you doing for me?" Princess Su teased her.

The little bun thought for a while, pointed to the boy who was squatting beside her like a loyal dog, and said, "Zhenzhai, filial mother."

After hearing this, Concubine Su was deeply moved, she opened her arms and hugged the little bun and the boy into her arms.

It turned out that the little bun was walking around the begonia just now because he wanted to pick the flowers from the branches and give it to her. The daughter is so considerate, even if she looks as serious as her husband and makes people feel pain, she still loves her daughter the most.

"What about me, little Princess, do I have any flowers?" Miss Rucui came over and asked with a smile on her face.

So the little bun turned to look at the boy, who gritted his teeth at Miss Rucui, then turned his face away as if he didn't see it.

Rucui was not annoyed, she stretched out her hand and poked the little boy. This time she was prepared, but the boy was not knocked over by her, and she moved back a few steps nimbly, which made Miss Rucui marvel at the boy's explosive power.

"Miss, Zhen is so powerful at such a young age, she will definitely be a qualified shadow guard in the future." Miss Rucui praised.

Concubine Su smiled and said, "My lord said that if he can pass the test, he will be given the surname Chu in the future, and will be called Chu Zhen in the future."

Ru Cui was also happy for the little boy after hearing this, and ignored his ferocious expression like a little wolf cub, pulling him over and rubbing him for a while.

It wasn't until the children were tired from playing that they were going to take a nap that Wen Liang came out of the study of King Su's mansion. After bidding farewell to King Su and his wife, he returned to Taishi's mansion.

The next day, it was widely spread in the capital that the young son of King Su's mansion recognized Mrs. Wen of Taishi's mansion as his adoptive mother, and there was a wave of rumors about it. Everyone envied Miss Rucui's good luck, Pan some sour words to belittle.

Miss Rucui, who became famous again, naturally ignored the rumors outside, and lived as usual.

When the queen mother in the palace heard this, she almost couldn't breathe, and she was surprisingly angry, thinking that a woman who was born as a maid could make her precious grandson call her a foster mother, isn't this a joke?
The first thing the angry Empress Dowager wanted to yell at was the cheap girl Rucui, but that day Rucui didn't receive the order to enter the palace, so she escaped, and just happened to bring her daughter into the palace to give to the Queen Mother. Concubine Su, who asked for peace, was the first to be blamed.The empress dowager was so angry that she spat all over her face.

Concubine Su waited peacefully for the queen mother to finish breathing out fire, and then told her innocently that it was not her decision to let her son recognize Mrs. Wen as his adoptive mother, but the prince's decision.At the end, she asked very considerately; "Queen Mother, the prince is also in the palace now, do you want my daughter-in-law to invite the prince over?"

The queen mother was so choked that she clutched her chest and cried out in pain.

Who knows that although the Queen Mother loves her youngest son Su Wang the most, she has nothing to do with him. Whenever Su Wang comes into the palace with that serious face to greet her, it makes her a little weaker.To let her confront such a serious and powerful son, the empress dowager felt that she might as well bully Princess Su directly. At least although the daughter-in-law was very aggrieved, she did not put her under the same pressure as her son.

It is estimated that the empress dowager's anger was too great, which made the little princess of Su Wang's mansion, who was also present at the time, feel a little uneasy, so in the afternoon, Su Wang went to Chonghua Palace to greet the queen mother with a little bun that looked exactly like him and was equally serious. As for what the mother and son said, no one except the person involved knew. After King Su left, the fan in the Empress Dowager's hand disappeared again—it was pried off by the Empress Dowager in a rage.

Two days later, Miss Rucui also received the Queen Mother's order to call her into the palace.

Since the Empress Dowager's birthday passed, in the eyes of the world, Mrs. Wen Rucui has received the favor of the Empress Dowager, and from time to time she has been invited by the Empress Dowager to accompany her in the palace. Hate, even if the queen mother's purpose is not pure, but in the eyes of the world, this is a great honor.

It may be that after two days, the empress dowager was almost angry no matter how angry she was, so besides her cold face, Miss Rucui was not spit on by the angry empress dowager, much better than Princess Su .

When Miss Rucui came out of the Chonghua Palace in the afternoon as if nothing had happened, those who were observing in the dark were immediately disappointed, and knew that the Queen Mother probably recognized the status of the adoptive mother of the young son of Su Wangfu.

This girl is so lucky, so lucky that people want to stick her name on the puppet every day.

When rumors were raging in the capital, Wei Chaohui and others came to the door again, and brought some people along with them.

Because Wei Chaohui and others often disappeared at noon, they naturally aroused the attention of interested people, and soon their whereabouts were known to the people in the academy, so some teenagers who also admired Wen Liang's reputation also came forward shamelessly.

He received them with a gentle smile and treated all the teenagers equally.

And Wen Liang soon knew that because the little fat man Mo Qian had slipped his mouth, many teenagers in the academy thought he had accepted Wei Chaoxuan, Zhou Zhengxu and others as students, and the teenagers came to visit him one after another, hoping that he would accept him. For a while, the Taishi Mansion was full of people, and it was deserted before.

Next door to Wen's residence is General Yu's residence. When Wen Liang and Ru Cui moved here on the third day of their wedding, they visited General Yu's residence. Miss Rucui also had a good relationship with General Yu's wife, and the neighbors of the two residences are very friendly. .These teenagers who are still in the second year of middle school also admire General Yu, who led the army to defeat the enemy of the Great Chu for hundreds of years. Wei Guo's bloody killing of the enemy made them yearn even more, so when they knew that the next door was General Yu's mansion, the teenagers were also excited.

But the result is naturally white excitement.No one in the capital knows the reputation of General Yu's doting on his wife. At this time, General Yu's wife is pregnant. Never entered the door.

This really frustrates them, so some disappointed teenagers don't come to the door anymore, leaving behind all Wen Liang's die-hard fans, young people who want him to accept themselves as students.Among them, even Xiang Qingchun, who is close to the eldest prince's faction, also joined the routine of visiting.

Every noon or afternoon when school is over, several teenagers would come to the door, even when there was no class. They seemed to have spent the whole day in Wenfu.

Although Wen Liang didn't agree to accept them as students, he gave them a lot of advice and guidance. For some reason, he has been tossing them hard lately.

There is very little sun in the sky above the capital in winter, and the sky is gray and gloomy. It was already dark in the evening.

In the flower hall of Wen Mansion, it seemed that only the sound of breathing was left.

And on the steps outside the flower hall, the passers-by could see four teenagers bowing their legs and striding horses in the cold wind. In such a cold weather, they were not shivering from the cold, but their faces were covered with sweat, which can be seen The time squatting here is not short.Seeing the appearance of these teenagers, the servants in Wen's mansion did not laugh face to face. These are all noble young masters from various powerful families in Beijing, and only their adults have the courage to punish them like this. them.

At this time, after a long period of contemplation, the young man sitting in front of the chessboard in the flower hall finally had to lower his proud head and said in a low voice, "Mr. Wen, I lost."

Wen Liang was holding a folding fan in his hand, leaning halfway on the back of the chair, with a just right smile on his face, which made the young man who was peeping at him blushed accidentally, and hurriedly looked away.

The folding fan lit the outside of the flower hall, and the man's soft and pleasant voice sounded: "Very well, go outside and squat on horseback. Mr. Xiang, go and call Mr. Wei back, this time it's his turn."

Xiang Qingchun gloated for a while, but when he thought that he was also killed to death and had to squat on horseback, he felt that there was nothing to be happy about, and everyone was indifferent.

The four teenagers who were squatting outside the flower hall saw Xiang Qingchun come out, each of them had a mocking expression on their faces, and they were not surprised by his fate.

"Wei Chaozhen, Mr. Wen told you to go in." Xiang Qingchun slowly settled into a squatting posture, with a sarcasm in his voice: "I hope you can last a little longer this time, and don't come out so soon to be our company."

Hearing what he said earlier, Wei Chaoxi felt relieved, and stood up straight with trembling calves.But when he heard his last words, Wei Chaoxi gave him a cold look, and said contemptuously: "Xiang Qingchun, don't act like everyone is as stupid as you, I will definitely persist longer than you." So you Slowly squat down until your stomach and legs swing.

Before Xiang Qingchun retorted, the little fat man over there had already said tremblingly: "Young Master Wei, you must hurry up, it will be my turn next~"

"..."

Seeing Master Wei's blue and white face, at this moment Zhou Zhengxu suddenly understood deeply the essence of "Don't be afraid of opponents like wolves, but teammates like pigs".

When Wei Chaoxi entered the flower hall and began to be tortured by someone on the chessboard, not far away, two women hugged two little foxes came to do things to them, and several maids and mothers carrying food boxes followed them.

Seeing them, the little fat man shouted from a distance: "Pretty girl, you, you are here...."

The girl behind Miss Rucui hugged the cat-like white fox, pursed her lips, and asked, "Little Fatty, how long have you been squatting this time?"

The little fat man knew that he had lost face in front of his sweetheart, so he glared at Xiang Qingchun resentfully, and said aggrievedly: "It's been an hour..." If it wasn't for Xiang Qingchun who refused to admit defeat, they would have had their turn a long time ago. .

Wen Liang taught them how to play chess, and you can also see a person's thinking and character from the chessboard, so recently he has been teaching several young people how to play chess when he has time.But it's not just playing chess, Wen Liang is very good at torturing people, he and five teenagers play chess separately, taking turns, the loser has to squat, there is no time limit, until the round is over, the first loser The person released from the squat stance, challenge him again, and so on.

Xiang Qingchun didn't seem to see Xiaopang's resentment, and he and his companions greeted Mrs. Wen and the little cousin who came, their mouths were very sweet, and they were polite, and then they looked at the food box in the maid's hand, not surprised There was a gurgling sound.

(End of this chapter)