Ninefold Purple

In the imperial examination, whether the article can be favored by the chief examiner and whether the handwriting is good or not are the main reasons, but if you want to write well, you have good ink and inkstone after all.

Dou Shiheng looked at the dragon and phoenix ink ingots in the sandalwood box, and was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at his eyes: "Well, you are ten thousand yuan, and such a good ink is hidden without revealing it. Are you afraid that I will ask you for it?"

He has two sons to die.

Dou Shiying chuckled, and said, "Isn't that unexpected? I'll find a way to find a few ingots of good ink for you then."

Dou Shiheng's expression turned pale. [

Dou Dechang whispered to Song Mo: "What happened to that?"

"It's Chinese New Year, haven't you met Wang Ge?" Song Mo said, "After the Lantern Festival, I will go to the palace to look for Wang Ge. Anyway, during this time of seal, Fan Shichou can't do anything."

Dou Dechang nodded.

Dou Shiheng yelled over: "A man, what can't you say? If you want to whisper like this, you don't look like a scholar!"

Dou Dechang is the youngest son, with a lively nature. He has never been afraid of Dou Shiheng, and relying on being a guest in the alley of Jing'an Temple, Dou Shiying has always indulged his children and joked: "I want to go to the alley of Qianfo Temple with my fourth brother-in-law. This can also be said. Say it out loud?"

"Things with no threshold!" Dou Shiheng stared like copper bells, "Do you want to be grounded!"

Both Dou Shiying and Song Mo couldn't help laughing.

However, the atmosphere in the study room was relaxed by Dou Dechang's disturbance.

Men sit together, either talking about women, or talking about government affairs.

There are two juniors present, so naturally we can't talk about women, so we can only talk about government affairs.

Song Mo's heart moved, and he asked Dai Jian first: "... I heard that he came from a humble background, so he especially valued yellow and white things. Is there such a thing?"

The son-in-law is not a scholar, so naturally he knows little about this circle.It was rare for him to be curious and sit idle, just to remind the juniors.

Dou Shiying didn't know what to say, but he couldn't say enough: "Who said that Dai Jian paid special attention to yellow and white things? The one who really valued money was Yao Xiang, who came from a family. Even the emperor quietly borrowed money from the Ministry of Household Affairs. It is said that even the maid who sweeps the floor in their family can do arithmetic, and all the daily expenses of the family are recorded in the account. After reading the account books of Yao Xiang's family, you will know what the prices were at that time!"

He said, laughing loudly.

Afraid that they might misunderstand, Dou Shiheng hurriedly said: "Don't listen to his nonsense. Prime Minister Yao should use it if he deserves it. All he saves is money from the state treasury. He is very generous to his relatives, friends, colleagues and old friends. Keeping accounts. It’s just his habit. As for his background, Dai Xiang’s family has at least a few acres of fertile land, so it’s no problem for him to study and become an official. On the contrary, Liang Ge’s father died early, and he relied on his widowed mother to help others with laundry Only by saving a few dollars can he pay the full text of Shuxiu's Great Breach. So although he is talented and intelligent, his career has not been smooth and intermittent. After finally entering the cabinet, he was suppressed first by Zeng Yifen and then by Ye Shipei, silent like a puppet. After taking power, the favors owed in the past have to be repaid, and relatives and friends have to be raised. After a hundred years, the future of children and grandchildren will be Shop, he can't help but not pay attention to gold and silver things."

There are many scholars like Liang Jifen.

Dou Shiheng said, quite a bit sad.

Dou Shiying didn't think so, and said: "It's human nature for him to love gold and silver things. But I just can't understand how he wants silver and pretends to be aloof. Every time I see Yao Xiang, he looks like Yao Xiang who is a few hundred taels behind him." It's like silver, and even seeing those newly promoted scholars with superior family backgrounds, they feel that they are either spelled out with silver, or rely on the shadow of their ancestors, and few of them have real talents and real learning, so it's a bit too much."

Obviously, Dou Shiheng has no way to deny this point. [

He was silent.

Song Mo shook his head in his heart.

This topic is biased, and I can hardly find the north.

"It seems that this cabinet minister is just an ordinary person." He had to smile and brought the topic back again, "Among the several cabinet ministers, Mu Xiang's family background is relatively wealthy, right?"

"En!" Dou Shiheng nodded, "Not only Mu Xiang, but He Xiang also came from famous families. Although Dai Jian is not close, he is not short of money..."

Dou Shiying interjected: "So every time the cabinet ministers gather, our Chief Assistant Liang will feel very uncomfortable!"

Dou Dechang laughed with a "puchi", in exchange for Dou Shiheng's reprimand.

Song Mo pondered in his heart.

From this point of view, it is impossible for Dai Jian and Mu Chuan to have trouble with the Kuang family for money.

He stroked his chin with his hand.

Things get more complicated and interesting!

Who is that hand behind the scenes?

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Wei Tingyu didn't show up in Jing'an Temple Hutong until lunch time.

Because Dou Ming was still in confinement, he was filthy and couldn't leave the house, but he had an excuse that Dou Ming needed someone to take care of him, so he drank a cup of tea in the hall and left.

Dou Shiying was also very indifferent to Wei Tingyu, ordered Happy to see off the guests, and went back to the study by herself.

Thinking of the bad things going on in the Wei family, Dou Shiheng's expression turned a little ugly, and the atmosphere in the study also became depressed.

Dou Dechang yelled that he was hungry: "Uncle Seven, when shall we have lunch? I only drank half a bowl of porridge in the morning." He copied the atmosphere again.

Dou Shiying laughed and ordered the servants to prepare meals.

Halfway through the meal, Dou Bochang and Dou Jichang from Huaishu Hutong came over with their children.

Dou Shiying was naturally overjoyed and said, "Why are you here?"

Dou Bochang and Dou Jichang's father-in-law and mother-in-law are both in Kyoto. [

Dou Bochang smiled and said: "We went to pay New Year's greetings to our father-in-law and mother-in-law yesterday, thinking that this is the first time for my fourth brother-in-law and fourth sister to come back to their natal home to pay New Year's greetings, so we came here to join in the fun, so that my fourth brother-in-law doesn't even want to play a horse hanging horn."

Dou Shiying laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, and hurriedly ordered the maids to make a new banquet.

However, Dou Bochang and Dou Jichang said that they had already had lunch at home: "...If I had known this, I should have come to Uncle Seven's house to have lunch."

But how could Dou Shiying let them sit on the sidelines? It was necessary for you and me to give way and rearrange the table of wine and food.

In the inner house, there are a few children laughing and making noise, which adds a little festiveness and excitement unique to the New Year's Eve.

The Sixth Aunt and Aunt sat around the kang and talked about their family's troubles, but Mrs. Cai pulled Dou Zhao aside and whispered, "It's a good thing you didn't go that day. I've seen shameless people, but I haven't seen anyone worse than the Wei family. A shameless person wants to take his wife's dowry, but he speaks so confidently. Wei Tingzhen is also a daughter of a meritorious family, and she speaks and does things so unreasonably. No wonder her mother-in-law looked down on her and kept praising Shi and Feng. A daughter-in-law."

The reason why Dou's family did not tell Dou Zhao about Dou Ming's miscarriage was because Dou Zhao was pregnant, and the relationship between the two sisters was very tense. Since Dou Ming was stimulated, they were afraid that Dou Zhao would worry.But when Mrs. Guo and Mrs. Cai visited Dou Ming on behalf of the women of the Dou family, the sixth aunt asked them to give Dou Ming a medicine in the name of Dou Zhao. Dou Zhao only knew it when he met the sixth aunt just now. She didn't know what happened when Guo Shi and Cai Shi went to Wei's house.

In her previous life, her dowry was not good, but the Wei family never had any idea about her dowry. No matter how she was reborn, the Tian family and the Wei family became a little unfamiliar to her.

Dou Zhao couldn't help frowning, and said, "What's going on here?"

Mrs. Cai talked about why Mrs. Tian was dissatisfied with Dou Ming, how Wei Tingyu and Wei Tingzhen agreed to ask Dou Ming to hand over the dowry, and how the Wang family ignored Dou Ming... like a storyteller, telling the story Say it again.

Dou Zhao was very surprised, and said, "Why did the Wang family ignore Dou Ming's affairs?"

Seeing that Aunt Six and others were talking happily, Mrs. Cai whispered: "I heard that the second wife of the Wang family is very dissatisfied with the seventh aunt who lives in the Wang family all the year round, and encouraged the second master of the Wang family to quarrel with the old lady." After a few episodes, the eldest wife of the Wang family didn't make a sound. In a fit of anger, the old lady of the Wang family took the seventh aunt to live in the other courtyard of the Wang family in the suburbs of Beijing. Many people in the capital don't know about this. The fifth aunt sent someone to Liu Ye The letter from the alley fell into the hands of the second wife of the Wang family, and the second wife of the Wang family suppressed the letter. When the old lady of the Wang family took her aunt back to the capital for the New Year, she sent someone to visit Grandma Wugu, and this matter was exposed. However, it was already too late. The Wei family saw that there was no movement in Liu Ye'er Hutong. Wei Tingzhen humiliated Grandma Wugu severely, and sold the two most caring first-class maids around Grandma Wugu. Grandma Wugu's people I asked Wang's family to search for it for more than half a month, and there is no trace. Everyone in the Wei Mansion now knows that their wives are fighting with the eldest aunt, and they dare not go to the fifth aunt's house to serve!"

"Then what's going on now?" Dou Ming's dowry is even bigger than Dou Zhao's back then. If it fell into the hands of the Wei family, Dou Zhao would feel disgusted as if he had swallowed a fly. "The fifth aunt did not argue with the Wei family. A few words."

"Who said you didn't go!" Cai was afraid that Dou Zhao would misunderstand Huaishu Hutong, and hurriedly said, "Then Wei Tingyu invited Uncle Qi to the Jining Hou Mansion under the pretext of Dou Ming's miscarriage, but who knew that he asked Uncle Qi to discuss five things?" My aunt's dowry. Uncle Seven was so angry that he gritted his teeth. If my mother-in-law hadn't arrived in time, the two families would have quarreled and their faces would be torn apart... Now this matter is put on hold, and we can talk about it after the Spring Festival. But According to the tone of the Wei family, either Grandma Wugu should hand over the dowry to the Dou family, or she should divorce her. Uncle Qi was so angry that he didn't go to the government office for a few days..."

Hearing that her father was ill with anger, Dou Zhao thought she would be calm, but in fact, it felt like a knife had been stabbed in her heart, and the pain was so painful that she could hardly speak.

"You too," she couldn't help but angrily said, "How can you not tell me about such an important matter? There is no one to serve my father, if we don't come back to serve the sick, we will be alone!"

"Grandma Sigu, please don't get angry," Cai explained in a panic, "Uncle Seven specially ordered us not to tell you, lest you find out that you will be angry and move your fetus..."

Sisters and brothers, here is the second update.

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