Madam Hou

Chapter 109

After November, it entered the twelfth lunar month.There is Laba Festival in the twelfth lunar month, and the end of the twelfth lunar month is New Year’s Eve.

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the Empress issued rewards to the various houses, and the Hou House also received the rewards from the palace.Because Lin Fengqi was away on an expedition, and at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, General Su and Lin Fengqi fought with the Fusang people in Fujian, and they won a small victory over the Fusang people.Although it was a small victory, but because of the ugly defeat of General Song before, it made Emperor Jinghui very happy in comparison.Therefore, the rewards in the palace this year are thicker than in previous years.

The Laba Festival and New Year's Eve in Hou's Mansion are simple.During the New Year's Eve dinner, the family faced a table of sumptuous vegetarian dishes, but put down their chopsticks after a few mouthfuls.

Yin Niang can't help it, the cook at home has changed several times, and the dishes are cooked differently, but anyone who has eaten vegetarian dishes for more than half a year, without any meat, is facing a table with delicious food Vegetarian dishes are almost uninteresting.

The New Year's Eve dinner was received early, and although she was still keeping her filial piety, Mrs. Lin still gave everyone a red envelope. Like last year, Yin Niang received gold ingots.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the wives who were ordered to enter the palace to congratulate the empress, but Yinniang and Mrs. Lin Tai did not need to go because of their filial piety.

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Mrs. Chen came to see her daughter in the Hou Mansion.Mrs. Chen looked at her daughter's face that had lost weight again, and felt distressed for a while.

Mrs. Chen was sitting by the stove, and while warming up the fire, she talked to Yin Niang about entering the palace on the first day of the new year: "On the first day of the lunar new year, the Empress Empress was promoted to the throne, and the third prince sat next to her, looking like a tiger. Yes, the group of foreign wives below, he is not even stage fright at such a young age, not only that, he also imitates his mother's speech, and he speaks a long sentence smoothly and dignifiedly, I don't know how rare it is, many His wives praised him for being smart..."

Mrs. Chen spoke very proudly.

After Yan Niang was promoted to Concubine Concubine, the Queen saw a concubine respecting her concubine, who gave birth to a pair of princes and daughters for the royal family, but both parents were white.The queen was happy to give Concubine Jing a favor, so after reporting to the emperor, she granted Mrs. Chen a third-rank imperial order.Therefore, Mrs. Chen participated in the morning celebration on the first day of the new year.

Mrs. Chen became Dayan's first woman whose husband was white, but herself with a third-rank imperial order.It would be a lie to say that this is not enviable, but more, Mrs. Chen has become an object of worship and inspiration for some women, especially those whose husbands are ineffective.Look, it doesn't matter if a man is worthless, as long as the children are raised well, Feng Guanxiapei, let my children help me earn.

Mrs. Chen told a lot of interesting stories about the third prince, and she said with a sigh: "The third prince looks a lot like Yan Niang, not only in appearance, but also in smart temperament." It is a pity to have a son by his side no matter what.

The third prince was born on the [-]th day of the winter month of the previous year, and it has been thirteen months to nearly fourteen months.He is smart and bold. When he was eight or nine months old, he had to go to school without being supported by anyone. He didn't cry when he fell down. Instead, he sat on the ground with a confused face, as if he didn't know why he fell. On the contrary, it often made the maids in Fengyi Palace laugh out loud.The maid wanted to help, but he didn't want it. Instead, he got up and continued walking.When he was ten months old, he was already able to speak two words. Now, he can basically speak some relatively short sentences.The third prince loves to learn the tongue, he can remember some words spoken by the court lady after listening to them once, and then repeat them to the queen over and over again.

Yinniang didn't go to catch Zhou years ago, but she heard from Mrs. Chen that she caught a book of historical records and a seal.

I heard that there was an interesting incident when the third prince caught Zhou.The third prince first grabbed a rouge box. It is not a good omen for a boy to grab a rouge box.Zhazhou is also called Shier, and people believe that what Zhazhou catches will herald the future of the child, and if the rouge box is caught, it means that the child will like pink beauty when he grows up.When the maids prepared to seize Zhou's belongings, they didn't put anything like a rouge box, but this was put there by Concubine Xue Gui before the Zhou was seized.The queen didn't believe what Shier said, and she didn't want to spoil the Zhou banquet, so she didn't care about Concubine Xue for the time being.

It turned out that the third prince just grabbed this rouge box.The people watching the ceremony around were stunned for a moment, but Xue Guifei reacted before others, and said with a chuckle: "It seems that I, the concubine, will help our Third Highness prepare beauties from now on."

The eunuch in charge of ceremonies was searching for some better compliments, but the third prince frowned, threw the rouge box directly on Concubine Xue, grabbed a book of historical records and a seal next to him, and stamped it. He ran to the queen, handed the book and the seal to the queen and asked her to hide it for him, and then looked around vigilantly, for fear that someone would snatch it away, making everyone laugh, and it was just right to enter the door Seeing this scene, Emperor Jinghui couldn't help laughing, praising him for being smart, but Xue Guifei was half dead with anger.

After talking about the third prince, Mrs. Chen talked about the second princess again, and said: "The little princess and the third prince have completely opposite temperaments. The third prince is very active, and he needs several maids and servants around him to be able to watch him, but the little princess is not gentle. Quiet and quiet. She likes to have people read to her. That day when I entered the palace, I happened to meet a little palace maid who read the Book of Poetry to her. "

Yin Niang laughed and said: "This is not right, if the little princess and the little prince have opposite temperaments, the little prince is quiet and quiet, but the little princess is lively and active, then it will give my sister a headache!"

Mrs. Chen said: "It's true, it's better for a girl to be well-behaved and likable."

Yinniang asked another question: "By the way, is the marriage letter between Pingniang and the eighth young master of the Ying family married?"

Years ago, the empress acted as a matchmaker and begged Pingniang for her cousin who was renting out.As a queen, she only said that she was begging to marry Pingniang for her cousin, instead of directly giving the marriage by Yizhi, which had already given the Chen family enough face.

The Eighth Young Master of the Ying Family is the legitimate son of the Third Household of the Ying Family.The Ying family has a total of four rooms, and the family has not been separated yet.The second and third houses of the big house are both from the concubine, and the fourth house is from the concubine.Young Master Ying Ba is the third son of Sanfang, two years older than Pingniang, fifteen years old this year.

Although it was a marriage proposal, since the queen was a matchmaker, the Chen family would not dare to show face to the queen, this marriage had no choice but to agree.But relying on Ying's family status to ask for Pingniang's marriage, it can be regarded as Pingniang's high ranking.But precisely because of Gao Pan, Mrs. Chen somewhat maliciously speculated about the intentions of the queen and the Ying family. A young master from the Ying family wanted to marry a noble daughter, so why would she like Ping Niang.Although Mrs. Chen agreed to the marriage on the surface, she was somewhat uneasy in her heart.

Later, Mrs. Chen asked someone to inquire about the eighth young master. She knew that he had no missing arms or legs, nor was he ugly, nor did he have any bad habits of doting on the servant girls, so she was relieved.But there is also one bad thing, this eighth young master doesn't like reading, he doesn't like riding and archery, but he likes calligraphy and painting. He is afraid that he will have no hope in the imperial examination.

However, Mrs. Chen felt that this was basically not a shortcoming. Even if she couldn't take the imperial examination to become an official, with the power of the Ying family, wouldn't she be able to help her family find a job.Even if Young Master Ying Ba doesn't like being an official, his daughter can live a life of wealth and honor.

The eldest daughter has become the imperial concubine, the second daughter is now Mrs. Hou, and the third daughter is married to the Ying family. Mrs. Chen feels that her life is basically complete.

Mrs. Chen replied to her daughter: "It's over. The people of Qin Tianjian said that Young Master Ying Ba lacks gold in the five elements, but Ping Niang is Wang Jin's fate. Their marriage couldn't be more suitable."

Yinniang heard Lin Fengqi say about those people in Qin Tianjian, what they said about yin and yang fate, it is really mysterious and mysterious, outsiders can't understand it at all, how these characters fit together is not up to them.As long as the empress hints that they want to synthesize auspicious ones, they will definitely be able to synthesize auspicious ones.Influenced by Lin Fengqi, Yinniang is also skeptical about the yin and yang fate.

Yin Niang asked again: "Has it been decided? When is the wedding date?"

"It's already been decided. I calculated the dowry list given by the Ying family. There are more than 2 dowry gifts. According to the Ying family's intention, the wedding date is set after Pingniang and Ji. I think that's fine. The Ying family has a large population." , in case she is too young to marry in and not know what a daughter-in-law will do."

Yinniang also agrees to keep Pingniang for a few more years, she and Yanniang have already married off, and there is only one Pingniang left beside Mrs. Chen, if Pingniang gets married early, she is afraid that Mrs. Chen will be lonely.

The mother and daughter talked for a while, and Yinniang asked about Master Chen again.

Speaking of Mr. Chen, Mrs. Chen only felt pain in the forehead, and complained to her daughter: "Since your father broke his leg, his temper has become more and more irritable. If you like to throw dishes, you must ask Aunt Dou and Aunt Qiu to come and serve him. You don’t know what kind of temperament Aunt Dou and Aunt Qiu are. Be patient with him, and all of them have found a reason to hide."

Master Chen basically did not fulfill his father's responsibilities to Yinniang and his sisters, and Yinniang was sometimes very annoyed with him, but Master Chen was paralyzed, and Yinniang was somewhat sad, but there was nothing she could do about Master Chen's current situation.

When Mrs. Chen went back, Yinniang asked someone to pack medicinal materials, and asked Mrs. Chen to bring back two hundred-year-old wild ginseng in her warehouse, saying that they were for Mr. Chen's health.

(End of this chapter)