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Chapter 153 The Unrespected Eldest Son

He was sullen and silent.

Zhao Chengze didn't notice it at all, and just continued to babble, expressing his thoughts.If Zhao Jinyi didn't enter the palace, it would be a waste of money.

When Zhao Chengde came back from duty, he went to see his old father without even drooling, but Zhao Chengze spit on his face.

Zhao Chengze finally finished speaking, picked up his teacup and took a sip of tea: "Second brother, go back quickly and withdraw from that inexplicable marriage. A small official with a craftsman background is extremely vulgar, how can he be worthy of a girl who is like a pearl in our family. "

Zhao Chengde looked at his elder brother, saw his indifferent face, and snorted: "I have no objection to elder brother sending his daughter to the palace. But if elder brother wants to harm my daughter, don't blame me for not recognizing you as an elder brother." .”

It was all in vain to co-author his impassioned and high-spirited speech just now?
Zhao Chengze was so angry that he wanted to throw a cup, and after thinking that this was the Zhao family in Kyoto, not the Zhao family in Jiangzhou, he withdrew his hands again, and said in a calm tone: "Brother finished talking, second brother, let's go back and think about it."

Zhao Chengde was categorical: "There is nothing to think about, my daughter will never enter the palace." After finishing speaking, he said to Manager Hu, "I will come back after dinner."

Zhao Chengze jumped from behind: "Ignorant people!"

Manager Hu persuaded Zhao Chengze: "Master, why don't you go back to have dinner first, and then come to see Master tomorrow."

Zhao Chengze originally wanted to eat at Tai'an Courtyard to show his filial piety, but when Guan Shi brought over a bowl of rice porridge, he hurried away.What a joke, he came back from a long distance, and he didn't want to eat mush for the first meal.

When we got back to the main courtyard, we found it noisy.The five concubines he brought back from Jiangzhou were crowded in the flower hall, with their hips akimbo, arguing with each other.His first wife, Mrs. Huang, sat quietly aside.

Seeing him coming back, several concubines ran towards him wiping away tears: "Master, you have to make decisions for us."

"What's going on?" Zhao Chengze couldn't bear to scold the flower-like concubine, so he had to ask Huang.

Mrs. Huang calmly said: "Master brought back five flowers, but he forgot that our old house can't accommodate so many people. The vacant houses are all lived in by Mrs. Lang and the girls. They can still live here now." Yes, only the side room and the back room, the concubine of the third room can live in the side room and the back room, but the concubine of the big room can't live in it?"

Mrs. Huang was right. The status of the concubine's room was low, and the girl who gave birth to a gentleman could have a separate courtyard, but the concubine's room could only live in the back room.

Zhao Chengze was stunned, and Wu Duo Hua'er began to cry and cry: "The master promised to return to the capital, and he will live in the big courtyard. I have servants. Look at the old house in the capital, it is not as good as the house in Jiangzhou!" The five of them are equal in Jiangzhou's house, but when they return to Kyoto, they have to listen to the arrangement of this bad old woman. They are not convinced!

Zhao Chengze's head was buzzing from crying, and he glanced at Huang, seeing that she was hanging up high as nothing to do with him, he immediately said angrily: "Jealous woman! Can't you live in your main courtyard?"

"Okay!" Huang sneered and stood up, "The concubine is just waiting for the master's words. The master just returned to the capital, and he wants to learn how others dote on his concubine and destroy his wife. I think the master wants to end his own life." Career!"

After all, she has been the mistress for many years, and when Huang's anger became frightening, she frightened the five aunts.

Huang continued: "Master, don't forget, my concubine has been married to my master for many years, and my master has taken away countless private houses from my concubine. If my master wants to reconcile, I have to settle this account with my master! "

When it comes to money, Zhao Chengze's mind clears up.Seeing his wife with upturned eyebrows and a hideous face, she didn't seem to talk about the relationship between husband and wife at all, so she smiled embarrassingly: "My wife is serious, my wife is magnanimous, it's my fault. The back room that my wife arranged for them is reasonable."

Huang sneered: "Since you brought them back, I won't say much. From now on, I will make up my mind, and I will spare you. But if you are dissatisfied with my arrangement and make noise, don't blame me for being rude." .”

After saying that, he sat down and said, "It's getting late, everyone, pack up quickly and stay here."

Those concubines looked at Zhao Chengze eagerly, hoping that he would fight for it again.The back room is where the servants live, they are his concubines, can they live in such a place? !I thought that following Zhao Chengze back to Beijing, he must be a popular drinker, but how could he have expected to be so downcast.

Zhao Chengze still had something to say to Mrs. Huang, pretending not to see the pitiful expressions of the concubines.

The accompanying mother was full of anger: "Go or not, if you don't go, I will sleep outside tonight!"

The concubines finally left in a dragging manner, and the hall returned to silence.

Poor Mrs. Huang has been alone in her vacant house for more than ten years, raising her children, and presiding over Zhao's family gift, but today she saw her husband bring a group of young women back with her own eyes.Despite her preparations, she was still very angry.Such a husband might as well spend his whole life outside, out of sight.When he died, he sent his son to take care of the funeral.Those chirping, vixen-like concubines, she would sell them if she wanted to, and keep them cleaned if she wanted to.

Zhao Chengze was finally able to take a good look at his wife.When I came back today, I felt that my wife was much older and fatter, she was a different person from when he left.

Looking at it carefully now, I feel that Fa's wife is getting older and cannot be compared with those young and beautiful concubines.Look at her, even with the chignon on her hair, it's still visibly thinning.The almond eyes that had been beautiful before also drooped and turned into sharp triangular eyes.

Oops, I can't see it.She has so much money in her hands, why doesn't she take good care of it?It's no wonder that he always only likes the little girl in [-] years.

Zhao Chengze thought so in his heart, so naturally he didn't dare to reveal half of it.

He got closer to Mrs. Huang, and offered her tea flatteringly: "Madam, don't be angry, they are all women from the countryside, and they are not sensible. In the future, I will have to teach my wife too much."

Huang took the tea and snorted.

Zhao Chengze and Huang's still have something in common. For example, they both agreed that, as the eldest son and daughter-in-law of the eldest son, they should stand taller and see farther.The marriage of the Zhao girls is not just their marriage.

Zhao Chengze breathed a sigh of relief when his wife took the tea, and said, "I asked my second brother just now, and he didn't agree to divorce, what should I do?" The second brother doesn't hate him.

Huang's face softened: "When I mentioned it to them earlier, the second brother and the second younger siblings were going to split up. And your useless third brother was also going to split up. If Manager Hu hadn't brought out the old man Come on, say you can't separate the family without you, I'm afraid the Zhao family has already been torn apart."

Speaking of the third brother Zhao Chenghuan, Zhao Chengze remembered that he had been back for more than half a day, but he hadn't seen the third brother show up yet.

Zhao Chengze was a little displeased immediately: "Third brother is so busy with business?" He is the eldest brother, and he has not seen him for more than ten years. No matter how busy the third brother is, he still has to come to see him.By the way, the two brothers compared each other, whoever took the concubine was younger and more beautiful.

"How can there be any official duties? A while ago, he was locked up at home by the old man, and he really didn't go out without letting him go out. Anyway, his official position has always been an idle position, and no one cares about him." Huang said Here, lower your voice, "A few days ago, the concubine in his house was in labor, and she didn't give birth. One dead body and three lives are already a terrible thing. Later, it became even more evil. The aunt was actually cut off, and the fetus in the womb was cut. Take it out and take it away. The third brother has always loved Aunt Miao, so I am heartbroken."

Zhao Chengze was stunned when he heard this: "There is such a strange thing in the family?" He had never seen Aunt Miao, nor heard of it, but after hearing what his wife said, he guessed that Aunt Miao must have been born with an extraordinary face. .It was a terrible death, otherwise he could secretly visit the body.

"There are a lot of strange things. The cat you gave me was all white, but the one with the ink spot on its forehead was pregnant with a kitten, and was cut open, and the cat was taken away."

When Huang said this, she actually felt that the surroundings began to become gloomy.

Zhao Chengze didn't take it seriously when the cat was disemboweled: "Probably the people outside saw our Zhao family's prosperity and bright future, so they were jealous, and they vented their hatred when they caught the cat."

Huang's face was serious: "But my maid Qiuling died in the same way. Master won't think it's a coincidence."

She lowered her voice: "Could it be that the bad things the master did [-] years ago showed his flaws, and he was found for revenge."

(End of this chapter)