She is different from the empress in the history books

Chapter 127 Complaint
Zhou Xu and his group of children are a few years younger than Xu Shu, and they all live in an unsafe city like Chengyang County. Among them are a small number of children from generals' families. I also know that they are very interested in riding horses, drawing bows, and so on. Xu Shu on the battlefield, the overall impression is still very good.

Therefore, when someone asked about Xu Shu, they only thought that these outsiders were gossiping, which is normal. A few months ago, Pei Peng and his party just entered Chengyang County, and the biggest topic in the city that month It is also the people in the princess mansion, the princess's clothes, the princess's car frame, whether the princess has a male favourite, the appearance of the concubine, the princess's marriage... and Pei Peng never asked people to stop the discussion in the city, no doubt it was for everyone in the city to eat. With the confidence of melons, there are foreign guests who want to eat melons at this time, and the small yamen in Chengyang County are not shy, and chatted with them.

Meng Rongzhi excitedly mentioned to them the situation of Xu Shu's training in her father's barracks. When it came to the excitement, she gestured gesticulatingly. She made a gesture of drawing a bow, half-closed her eyes, and said Make a "嗖" sound in coordination, which symbolizes the shooting of the arrow.

"The princess was like this at the time. She shot a bird in the sky like this. When the bird was about to fall, she took a few steps on the horse and caught it in her hand. It was very accurate!"

After Meng Rongzhi finished his performance, he turned around to look at a group of friends, and raised his chin proudly.

Zhou Xu clapped the seals, not knowing whether he was applauding for Meng Rongzhi's performance or for Xu Shu's strength.It was not the first time for the others to hear Meng Rongzhi brag about it, but they still applauded cooperatively.

There were some local people sitting in the teahouse, and some of them received Xu Shu's kindness during the siege, such as food, salt, medicine, clean water, and a relatively safe and stable environment. Even if they hadn't received it, their relatives and friends had too. , At this time, they all applauded.

Others joined the discussion sporadically:
"My sister-in-law's mother-in-law's brother's son-in-law, hey, he is working as a cook in our Meng Xiaowei army. He said that His Highness the princess is very kind. The army originally said to cook her some better meals, but she She said she wanted to eat with ordinary soldiers, and said that since she came to the barracks for training, her outside status doesn't count, and she trained herself as a soldier."

Others echoed:
"It's friendly. The princess once went to my noodle stall to eat noodles. The little old man originally thought about not charging the princess any money, but why not treat her to a bowl of noodles? It should be, but the princess didn't agree and insisted on giving it. "

The more people in Chengyang County talked, the happier they were, but the outsiders who started the conversation became more and more unhappy as they listened.

Hanging out with a group of soldiers in the barracks, and fighting each other closely. This, this, this is just nonsense.

This kind of person, she has the status of a princess, and she can bring a thousand dollars' worth of wine to the door, and she is not worthy of being the mistress of the family.
She is still so vulgar. At this age, she still doesn’t want to embroider wedding clothes, cook and learn how to cook. She doesn’t prepare for marriage. Instead, she likes to do things that men do. How can she take good care of our husband?
She even ate some vulgar food with those country folks, listen, noodle stalls, our lord passed by this kind of place in a carriage, and he felt dirty when he heard the sound of those vulgar people eating noodles in a daze.

Everyone else was talking excitedly, even Meng Rongzhi forgot that she was answering other people's questions, and twisted her body to chat with the people at the other table.

Zhou Xu, on the other hand, noticed that the expressions of those people were not good-looking, and felt strange for a moment.

Those people sat for a while, but the more they listened, the less they could stand. They threw down a bunch of copper coins and stood up to leave. Zhou Xu was more thoughtful and pretended to go to the shopkeeper to add food. After walking for a while, he listened to these people talking. He muttered something like "it's unbearable to be a good match" and "even if you have a million dollars, you're not good enough for Dalang".

If Zhou Xu didn't react at first, as soon as the words "not worthy" came out, he understood what the other party meant. Did he want to marry the princess?
However, they want to get married, but after hearing what people like them say, they feel that they shouldn’t get married?

Zhou Xu recalled what he, his friends, and the guests had said, as if... nothing wrong, right?

Of course Zhou Xu knew that everyone in the world said that a woman should be demure and elegant when marrying.

But that being said, who really lives like this?Like them in Chengyang County, oh yes, Zhou’s family is not from Chengyang County, but Zhou Xu has lived here since he was four or five years old, and all he met were the women here, and many of them wanted to come out to work , I have to set up a stall to earn money, and I have to support the whole family when my husband goes to serve in the military and go to the business. If I dare not meet other men and don’t do rough work, how can I live in that day?
Zhou Xu's cook, who is usually gentle and gentle, was once entangled by idlers on the street. She was so angry that she chased him for several blocks with a radish, and broke the radish into several pieces. penalty.

Therefore, what Zhou Xu learned from books about the requirements for women's chastity and tranquility was not exactly the same as what he saw in reality, so he naturally did not think there was anything wrong with Xu Shu.

What's more, she is a princess. She is of royal blood, and there is a difference between monarch and minister. Who married the princess and wanted her to work in the back house?Zhou Xu thought back to the two or three opportunities to meet Pei Peng. He seemed to be a concubine in the back house who never saw outsiders and didn't care about foreign affairs.

Zhou Xu shook his head, shook his head again, couldn't figure it out, turned around and went back.

Meng Rongzhi noticed that Zhou Xu went and came back, but he didn't do anything properly, and there was no staff behind him, so he hummed:

"I thought you were going to ask for refreshments, but you just went out for a walk?"

Zhou Xu glanced at her busy way of eating and talking. After thinking about it, he leaned over and said to her:
"There was something wrong with the group of people just now. I followed them for a while and heard their purpose."

Meng Rongzhi's eyes widened:
"Purpose? What purpose? Tell me quickly."

How about it, our princess is very powerful, my father said that she is a good seedling who learns martial arts, and she can learn faster than my second brother. "

Zhou Xu was only going to tell Meng Rongzhi alone, after all, it was related to the marriage of the princess, and it was not easy for too many people to discuss it in the discussion area. In Chengyang County, his father was the county magistrate, and Meng Rongzhi His father is a school lieutenant, one civil and one military, and he has a good relationship with the Princess Mansion, and it is quite good to communicate with each other.

Therefore, Zhou Xu pulled Meng Rongzhi to a quiet place and whispered his guess.

"what!"

Meng Rongzhi was so angry that he slapped the table, but still lowered his voice.

"Their lord wants to marry the princess? He still says that the princess is not worthy? What a bold, thick-skinned, and worthless mouth."

Zhou Xumu kept a face, and slowly raised his left hand to wipe his left cheek.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so excited. They deserve to be scolded. Are they the sons of the King of Heaven? They say that our princess is not worthy."

Meng Rongzhi took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and handed it to Zhou Xu, with apologetic eyes.

"Okay, it's okay, anyway, I told you about it, you go back and tell your father, and others don't mention it."

"Should I just tell my father? Don't tell the princess? She should know about this."

Zhou Xu disagrees:
"Marriage is the order of the parents. If the other person is the one your Highness the Princess has found for the Princess, what's the use of telling the Princess? Let her be dissatisfied with her husband's family before she gets married? Anyway, Your Highness the Princess is here, Princess It’s not like I’m in a bad mood, it’ll be fine.”

Meng Rongzhi was persuaded for a moment, but quickly disagreed:
"No, I still have to say, don't let her marry in a daze."

Zhou Xu grabbed Meng Rongzhi's sleeve and advised:
"Don't be stupid. If this marriage is decided, there is no way to back out easily. When the princess is his family, he will naturally turn to his family. So what do you say now? Are you provoking?"

Meng Rongzhi couldn't help but said:
"Zhou Xu, I really don't know why you think so much and so far? The princess is very good to me. I like her. If someone scolds her behind her back, then I will tell her. If she believes me, I will be happy, and she will If you don't believe me, even if she alienates me because of her husband's family, then I have a clear conscience. Her temperament will never deal with our Meng family because of this estrangement. What's more, it is not certain whether it is the marriage contract made by the princess. If it is true, why don't you dare to come to Chengyang County openly?"

Zhou Xu was touched by Meng Rongzhi's words, indeed, who knows what will happen in the future, is he going to ignore the possible harm to the princess for the sake of this illusory future?
Not only him, but also his aunt and younger brother were under the care of the Princess Mansion during that time. His father was able to suppress the affairs of the city so smoothly, and he had to rely on the help of the princess.

Zhou Xu's mind tilted toward Meng Rongzhi's proposal.Then he should also remind the princess?
Before he could make a decision, Meng Rongzhi quickly took his sleeves out of his hands and said, "Forget it, I won't surrender you. I'll go talk to her." Without stopping, he quickly ran out of the teahouse, got the horse rein from the waiter, got on his horse and ran towards the princess mansion.

Zhou Xu patted his head in frustration, he was too impatient, girl, I didn't say no.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Zhou Xu has no choice but to talk to other friends and go home to report the matter to Dad.

Magistrate Zhou is enjoying a rare leisure with his wife.

This winter is pretty good, there is no heavy snowfall in the city, and the taxes in the city are a bit higher than in previous years because Pei Peng paid a large amount of taxes on wine sales. After all, the tax on wine is very high.

Therefore, Zhou county magistrate took this surplus financial funds.Reinforced the Taoist temple outside the city - this is not the feudal superstition of the Zhou county magistrate's private use of public equipment, it is actually the Taoist temple outside the city, where the poor and homeless people are usually collected in winter for the winter, and some are also provided. Thin porridge.

Although the old Taoist priest usually deceived the big households in the city and collected a lot of money for incense, he still couldn't make ends meet every winter. Now that County Magistrate Zhou had money on hand, he was willing to help so that the Taoist priests could better help the people.

In the relief hall in the city, County Magistrate Zhou also bought some rice noodles and put them in, and opened a separate room to burn charcoal, which was only used by orphans under five years old or orphans over 60 years old.

After taking care of the most miserable people in Chengyang County, Magistrate Zhou only needs to do some daily work every day, and then go back to the back house to rest.

At such a moment, his eldest son who had gone out to prodigal family ran back in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the door, he flicked his hat and cape, and went to the Magistrate Zhou and Mrs. Zhou to warm up beside the fire.

"Mom and Dad, do you know that I discovered something big and it has something to do with the princess!"

Mrs. Zhou was sewing with her head down, and asked casually:

"Oh? What's the matter? It can't be something big like she shot a bird, right?"

Zhou Xu chuckled, this was something he showed off to his parents when he went home after being shown off by Meng Rongzhi some time ago.

"No, we were at the tea house today and met a group of people asking about the princess. At first, we thought they were ordinary businessmen who wanted to hear about the royal family, so we talked casually. But they suddenly left halfway, saying something They say that the princess is not worthy of their husband. I wonder if Her Highness the Princess has arranged a marriage for the princess, but judging from the other party’s attitude, it seems that she is not satisfied. The little girl from the Meng family went to complain to the princess. , I will come back and talk to you."

Magistrate Zhou did not comment on the authenticity of the matter, but instead asked his son:

"The girl from the Meng family complained, why didn't you go?"

Zhou Xu touched his nose and explained:

"I don't think... I think it's useless to say it."

Magistrate Zhou sighed, but did not rush to speak. He took an iron tong and rummaged through the brazier, found two taro roots, handed the big one to his wife, and took a small one for himself. Think about it, Another half of the piece was given to his son.

Mrs. Zhou glared at him, broke her piece into two pieces and gave it to her son.

Magistrate Zhou educated his son:
"Oh, you kid, you are smart, but sometimes you think too much. How old are you? You haven't even grown your hair yet. It's the time when you should do whatever you want to do and enjoy your grudges. Why? You don't even dare to take this risk?
Not to mention that you can win the princess's gratitude by doing this, but you, you and the princess have a friendship in adversity, if you learn that someone treats her badly, then you should tell her.Afraid of offending others?What are you afraid of? Your parents are here. "

Mrs. Zhou added:

"That's right, Xiao Rongzhi of the Meng family, how smart, do whatever you want, and live up to the princess's kindness to her, a good girl, that's how it should be."

When the Zhou couple were teaching their daughter, Meng Rongzhi was already sitting in Xu Shu's room.

Xu Shu asked the maids to serve her warm and sweet milk tea, and ordered them to prepare exquisite snacks, as well as fresh fruits preserved in the cellar in a special way. There was a tea table full of them, and then she asked:

"You haven't come to play with me for a long time. Why did you come here in such a cold weather?"

Meng Rongzhi hurriedly told what happened today, and then asked tentatively:
"Is the marriage arranged for you by Her Royal Highness? I think this family is not good. They scold you behind their backs. Can you cancel it?"

Xu Shu's family knew about her family affairs, and her mother was still thinking about finding a husband for her, so how could she marry her at this time.

She thought, this is probably one of the group of people that A Niang told her about her marriage some time ago, they were positive, they ran over to inquire about her on such a cold day, and they still hated it after inquiring. She is so rude.

　Thanks for the reward from Xiao Xiao
　　
　
(End of this chapter)