Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 45

Concubine Rou's sudden fall set off a big wave in the originally restless harem, but this wave didn't last long.

Because just after Concubine Rou was demoted to the cold palace, the queen mother felt that the talents in the harem were really withered, so she took the initiative to draw up a decree, asking the emperor to put aside state affairs for the time being, and to expand the harem as the top priority.

As soon as the Empress Dowager's decree came out, she immediately received the unanimous support of all the ministers in the court, and they all appealed to the emperor to give priority to the heirs and expand the harem to protect the inheritance of the dragon.

After several days of stalemate between the emperor and the empress dowager, the emperor finally couldn't bear the pressure and agreed to select a beautiful woman to enter the palace.Originally, it was planned to be held in March next year, but the Queen Mother felt that next year would be too long, so she discussed with the Ministry of Rites, and it will start in the first ten days of next month. The first round will be selected, and the officials in Beijing will recommend girls of the right age to enter the palace.

As soon as this news came out, the entire capital was undoubtedly boiling. Some people were happy, while others were worried.But no matter good or bad, this matter is settled.

In the Yonghe Palace, Tong Wanrou and Nanny Gui waited on her carefully, for fear that the virtuous person would feel uncomfortable, so cautious that even the virtuous person felt that it was a bit too much.

"What are you guys doing? It's just the draft, so I can't think about it."

The virtuous man put down the teacup in his hand, and said to Nanny Gui who didn't even dare to breathe.

Nanny Gui immediately breathed a sigh of relief, feeling uncomfortable all morning. Seeing her like this, Tong Wanrou couldn't help pursing her lips and said with a smile:
"Mommy is also worried about the nobleman, and is afraid that you will react too much to this news."

The virtuous man sighed helplessly, and said, "What's the backlash? Since ancient times, some emperors would not draft, but our emperor is two years late. I don't have that unrealistic dream."

Tong Wanrou didn't speak, and seeing her like this, the virtuous man couldn't help asking:

"Do you regret it? If you hadn't married Fu Heng, you might have been able to enter the palace."

Tong Wanrou looked straight at the virtuous man, shook her head resolutely, and said, "I don't want to enter the palace, I don't regret marrying Fu Heng at all, and now I feel even more fortunate."

The virtuous man patted the back of her hand and said, "You have a brain. A truly happy woman never comes from a harem."

After hearing such negative words from the virtuous man, Nanny Gui couldn't help but leaned forward and said, "Don't be discouraged, your lord. There are many women in this world who envy the women in the palace. Besides, you are pregnant now, and the emperor loves you very much. As long as you can give birth to an elder brother, then concubine Feng is just around the corner."

The virtuous man lowered his head and patted his stomach, and said bluntly, "I hope she's a princess."

"Oh." Nanny Gui immediately retorted in a low voice: "How can you think so, nobleman? It would be nice to be a little elder brother. We only have Gege in the palace now, but elder brother still doesn't have one. It is the most honorable to be favored by the Long Live God, and the future is also limitless."

The virtuous man looked at Nanny Gui's seriousness, as if he had already determined that the child in her womb was an elder brother, and he had already thought about the funeral for him, so he couldn't help but look at Tong Wanrou, shook his head helplessly, and stopped arguing with her about being boring topic of.

Jin Rong walked in from the outside, and after meeting the virtuous man, she took out the jade pendant in her hand and said to the virtuous man:
"The owner of the jade pendant has been found. It belongs to an eunuch in the Jianing Palace. He is from Sanquanzi's hometown. Before Sanquanzi's accident, many people saw them walking together and talking."

As soon as Jin Rong finished speaking, Nanny Gui bluffed loudly:

"I knew it was Concubine Qi's instigation. Otherwise, Tie Yulan of Shen Xingsi wouldn't be so anxious to force the third son to confess to death."

Tong Wanrou was not as fussy as Nanny Gui, and calmly asked Jin Rong:
"Are you sure it's that person?"

Jin Rong nodded after thinking about it, and said: "It should be sure, because I accidentally dropped the jade pendant in front of the eunuch, and he was extremely flustered when he saw the jade pendant, and then I took the jade pendant to ask someone who knew him, how many times did he have?" They all said that the jade pendant had seen him wearing it for a few days, but he stopped wearing it after that, so the slaves deduced that the jade pendant belonged to the eunuch. He used the third son who was familiar with water to make trouble. Concubine Qi secretly tricked Tie Yulan to attack Sanquanzi."

Jin Rong's analysis made several people in the hall shudder, and the virtuous man sighed and said:

"Forget it, don't make wild guesses. Since San Quanzi is dead, there is no proof of his death. Even if it is really Concubine Qi who is behind the scenes, we have no evidence."

The words of the virtuous man made everyone irrefutable, so they stopped.

Tong Wanrou and Fu Heng met outside Zhengyang Gate as usual, and then went home together.

After returning home, Mrs. Li made wine for them. After the two went home and drank some, they were about to go out when Tong Wanrou and Mrs. Li were passed on to the main courtyard by their aunt Guerjia.

The Guerjia family has kept a low profile recently, because Li Rongbao also disliked her very much because of her natal family being demoted.

Mrs. Li has been very prosperous in the mansion recently. After all, in a mansion, she has the favor of her husband, a son who works in front of the imperial court, and a pregnant noble daughter. These capitals make her very popular in the mansion. As her status rises, everyone will look up at her when they see her.

Therefore, it was quite surprising to Li Shi that Guarjia sent them to the main courtyard this time.

After going there, Li Shi and Tong Wanrou found out that Guerjia Shi really invited them to the Nahongmen banquet.Sitting in the living room were all the ladies and wives of the clan, all of them staring intently at their every movement after entering the door.

Tong Wanrou only felt her scalp tense, she understood the meaning of Guerjia's family in her heart, she immediately pressed the button and did not move, seeing the trick.

After Mrs. Li was seated, Mrs. Guarjia slowly said:

"The emperor wants to open the draft, you must know about this."

Li Shi nodded as usual: "Yes."

Mrs. Guerjia pointed to the wives and ladies who were in the first place, and said: "These are the beautiful women in the clan who are going to enter the palace. Regardless of whether the emperor keeps the card or not, I think I should let you see them. "

Tong Wanrou glanced back secretly, and made a rough estimate. There are more than 20 ladies here, and they are all beautiful girls who are going to be sent to the palace by the Fucha family. They are not sending beautiful girls here, they are simply giving clothes what.

Li's face remained unchanged, and he still said calmly:
"What are these future empresses doing in my concubine? It's up to the eldest lady to decide."

Guarjia snorted coldly:
"Of course it's up to me. I just want you to come and have a look. Our Fucha will not only have one noble person in the future. Some people in the clan did not agree to send people into the palace before, but now she can't let her go." Guerjia said It was the last time when Tong Wanrou entered the palace, the clan picked five beautiful women, but they were all sent back by virtuous people, and finally asked Tong Wanrou to enter the palace.

"..."

Li Shi and Tong Wanrou were sent back like this, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law felt very baffled as they walked on the garden path.

Back in the yard, Fu Heng was fixing his clock. Tong Wanrou was shocked to see that he had removed the clock inside and out. She rushed over and said distressedly:
"Sanggong, this is a treasure, how can you just tear it down?"

Fu Heng glanced at her and said with a smile: "The emperor has been tinkering with this Western clock recently. I went to the Old Summer Palace and found a foreign priest to teach me. If I don't come back, I will dismantle it and have a look."

Although Tong Wanrou felt distressed, she also understood that Xianggong was doing serious business, and he had to keep pace with his boss anytime, anywhere.

Fu Heng took it apart for a while, and saw her sitting on the side boredly, looking at him with her chin propped up, her eyes wide open, her pouty lips rosy and shiny, no matter how attractive she looked.

Immediately, he packed up the things in front of him, washed his hands in the basin brought by the servants, and then took Tong Wanrou to the street to play.

After being married for such a long time, he has figured out the temperament of his little wife. She looks like a lady of every family, but in fact she is very wild in her bones, and she doesn't want to be restrained at all. She rarely comes out of the palace, and he can't bear to keep her Trapped in the mansion, he asked Fulu to prepare the horse, and he wanted to take her out for a walk.

"Little darling, I'm taking you out for a walk now, you have to serve me well at night, you know?"

Regardless of the fact that there were servants waiting in the hall, Fu Heng said this to Tong Wanrou blatantly.

Tong Wanrou's face was flushed with fright, she looked around twice, and then tapped Fu Heng's shoulder heavily a few times, she really had no choice but to deal with this husband who was always outspoken.

Two small fists were held in Fu Heng's hands, rubbing them again and again, eating up all the tofu, Tong Wanrou felt ashamed and hopped anxiously, but her hands were firmly held by Fu Heng, and she couldn't get rid of them. body, was teased dumbfounding, and finally had to beg for mercy:
"Sir, don't bully me. Get out quickly."

Fu Heng leaned close to her ear to play a rogue and said, "Hi brother, I'll take you out."

"..." Tong Wanrou bit her lower lip, looked at his handsome face so close at hand, turned her head away deliberately as if she was going against the grain, and pretended to be unyielding, but she heard Fu Heng say again:
"If you don't call, then... let's go back to the room and play, good brother, I can't wait..."

"You!" Tong Wanrou was forced to be helpless by him, she blushed and pointed at him, and it took a long time to hold back two words:
"Rogue!"

Fu Heng took good advantage of his wife's accusations, so he simply put on an appearance of a real scoundrel, pretending to do something to Tong Wanrou.

Tong Wanrou's legs were so frightened that she quickly slipped out of Fu Heng's armpit, walked outside, made a face at Fu Heng, and without waiting for Fu Heng, she was like a child who didn't grow up. Run away.

Fu Heng came to his senses and hurriedly chased after him, shouting while running:

"Little boy, don't run away! You haven't called yet!"

"..."

The two chased all the way to the door, and Fu Lu had already pulled the horse out of the stable and was waiting for them to go out.

Tong Wanrou ran and laughed coquettishly all the way, turning her head and beckoning to Fu Heng from time to time:

"Come on, come on, come and chase me! Why are you so stupid, you can't even catch me."

Fu Heng stood still with his hands on his hips, looking at his rarely happy little wife's smile in the sun, he felt that there was no better day in the world than this.

Seeing that he was not moving, Tong Wanrou knew that he was letting her in on purpose, so she turned around immediately, but after turning around, she froze on the spot, not daring to move.

Wu Shi was standing by the door with a livid face and looked at her, as if he was very dissatisfied with her previous behavior, and asked coldly:

"Look at you, do you still look like a lady? How is your behavior different from that of ordinary prostitutes?"

Tong Wanrou was humbled by what Wu Shi said, Fu Heng hurried over when he saw this, protected Tong Wanrou behind him, and said to Wu Zhi:

"My son-in-law sees his mother-in-law..."

Wu Shi didn't wait for Fu Heng to finish speaking, and rushed him all the way: "Who is your mother-in-law? I, Tong Jia, don't have a son-in-law from a bastard like you."

Tong Wanrou walked out from behind Fu Heng and said to Wu Shi: "Emiang, how can you speak to my husband like this, he is my husband, if he is not your son-in-law, then do you want to sever the mother-daughter relationship with me? "

"..."

Fu Heng turned his head to look at Tong Wanrou, and was moved by her words of protection. Seeing her chest rising and falling, he was really angry, so he couldn't help reaching out and patting her on the back to comfort her.

Wu Shi was choked up by Tong Wanrou's words, and could not speak for a long time before he coldly snorted to Tong Wanrou:

"Even if you want to sever the relationship between mother and daughter, you have to do it for me before you sever it! Get in the car with me!"

"..."

Fu Heng was completely speechless towards Wu Zhi. He had never seen such a willful woman like Wu Zhi, who treated his daughter like an irrelevant machine, and his words were full of arrogant disdain. It couldn't compare to her sense of superiority, she seemed to feel that she was their queen, and they had to obey that if they said anything casually.

Tong Wanrou took a deep breath and said to Wu Shi:

"Emiang, I'm afraid I can't help you. I can't stop the Tong family from sending their daughter to the palace, but at the same time, I won't help. My master is a noble person, and I will never help other beautiful women. Even if they are my natal sisters, I will never help them."

After Wu Shi choked on Tong Wanrou's tough attitude, he became angry again:

"Stinky girl, this is the second time you've said such stupid things to me. Did someone instigate you? You never dared to talk to me like this before!"

As Wushi spoke, he turned his eyes to Fu Heng, who was equally astonished, but Tong Wanrou stopped in front of Fu Heng, blocked Wushi's hatred towards Fu Heng, and said calmly:
"In the past, I didn't dare, but I didn't want to. Although you were strict with me in the past, it was always for my own good, but now? Not to mention what you said to me last time, just this time you don't This is how I should speak to my husband-in-law.”

Wushi took a deep breath, pointed at Tong Wanrou and said angrily:

"The stinky girl has turned the world upside down! I want to see what this bastard can give you in the end! It's just that he went to the palace to be a servant of a little nobleman, so he forgot about you proudly. Let me tell you, before Tong My family has no chance to enter the palace, so I will ask you. Now the emperor has opened the draft. My Tong family has many daughters entering the palace. I came to you just to give you a chance to rein in the precipice. Don’t be stepped on by someone. You crawled in the mud and begged me to give you a hand."

"..."

Tong Wanrou sighed in despair, secretly lamenting Eniang's innocence and obsession.Turning around and not looking at her anymore, Fu Heng held her in his arms, and raised his hand coldly to Wu Shi, the meaning of chasing her away was very clear.

Wushi raised her proud head, lifted the hem of her clothes and walked down the stone steps, got into Tong's emerald carriage, and left in the dust.

(End of this chapter)