Biography of Concubine Shujia

Chapter 75

Jia County, Weifu.

"See Empress Shunhua." Jiu Niang knelt in the courtyard with her dowry maid, and saluted her sister respectfully.

"What are you doing, get up quickly." Shi Niang looked at her sister who was kneeling at her feet, and persuaded her.After that, she didn't stop her movement.

Back then, Liu Niang once said that her status meant that all the sisters had to bow their heads and bow down, and they couldn't make a wrong step.Otherwise, if the big hat of disrespecting the imperial concubine is taken down, it will be themselves who will suffer.

After she knelt down to salute, Fang said to the maid beside her, "Help your young lady up."

The servant girl obediently stepped forward to help Jiuniang, and said crisply, "Miss Ten, no, it's Empress Shunhua who is here. My lady has been looking forward to your coming for some time."

"Shaoyao!" Jiu Niang glared at the servant girl, then smiled apologetically at Shi Niang, "This girl has been spoiled by women, please forgive me."

"Ninth sister, my sisters, there is no need to be polite."

"Thank you, Ma'am, for your understanding. Then let me be presumptuous. My sister please." Jiu Niang led the way and led Shi Niang into her room.

The two sisters went in and sat down together.When the two of them sat down, a clever little maid came to serve refreshments. Jiuniang's dowry maid took away the maids in the house, closed the door and went out, and guarded the door herself.

Only now did Shi Niang in the room have the opportunity to look carefully at Jiu Niang, seeing the exhaustion in her expression, she couldn't help asking with concern.

"How is Ninth Sister?" Ten Niang took her hand and felt her pulse, "Is the family treating you well?"

"I'm fine, sister don't worry. I'm well dressed, my mother-in-law is generous and charitable to me, and my husband is gentle and considerate to me. How can it be bad?"

"Ninth Sister, tell the truth." Ten Niang held her hand trembling slightly, "How long are you going to delay your own body?"

"My own body is my own decision, so I don't need your mother to worry about it." Jiu Niang stroked Shi Niang's hand away.

"Ninth Sister, I call you Ninth Sister, you are my relatives, shouldn't I care?" Ten Niang took her hand, pressed her struggling wrist, pulled her sleeve and said, "If you have any difficulties, don't tell San Uncle, can’t even I say it?”

The arms under the sleeves were flushed with an unhealthy color, "How dare the Wei family?"

"Why not? My father married me in exchange for controlling the power of the Wei family. No one in the whole family knows that I am an eyeliner sent by my father. Heh, it is not easy to live in this Wei family. How?" Jiu Niang sneered, "I am not as good as my sister, this is my fate. Who made me the daughter of the Du family, who made me the daughter of Du Xianyu."

Ten Niang looked at the tired Jiu Niang, thinking of the Jiu Jie in her memory who loved to laugh and act like a baby beside her grandmother, she didn't know what to say for a while.

"Sister, do you know?" Jiu Niang murmured, "When I was young, I didn't want to see you. You always look gentle and generous, and you have a good life. In fact, I envy you."

"What do I have to envy? My mother died early, my father didn't care about world affairs, I was forced to leave the house to avoid disaster, and the shop was taken away by my grandmother. Is Ninth Sister joking?" Ten Niang couldn't help laughing, How much she envied the other sisters for living freely.

"I am loved by my grandmother, father, and mother. My aunt and I earned it through hard work. What about you? Your mother died young, but your father loves you, your parents cherish you, and your stepmother is willing to teach you. Grandma I'm partial to you too. You don't have to worry about anything, and you can live a better life than us. Even Liu Niang and Ba Niang are willing to befriend you, and even gave up entering the palace to protect you."

"Ninth Sister, your heart has been deceived. Why bother to draw yourself into prison?" Ten Niang said softly.

"Yeah, what my father said too." Jiu Niang laughed, "A person who bought me into a pit of fire actually said that my heart was deceived."

"Third uncle also has a reason for doing this." Shi Niang thought of the look in his third uncle's eyes when he mentioned Jiu Niang, the kind of eyes that contained guilt but did not want to regret, "The most dangerous place is the safest place. The place."

"Seventh sister was married back to Yujing to marry the Chen family, sixth brother was arranged to leave Nanluo, and you were married into Weifu. Everything that third uncle does is for your own good."

Ten Niang said softly, "Perhaps compared to Seventh Sister and Sixth Brother, Third Uncle really has a heart to plot against your marriage. But the premise is that sister, you are alive and well. Think about the situation in Nanluo back then, and think about it." Think about those big salt cooks, except for the Wei family, which is still considered polite, what happened to the other big families."

"The Jiang family is in decline, the head of the Xu family passed away unexpectedly, the young master of the Lang family is a playboy, and the family of the head of the Zhang family is chaotic with wives and concubines..."

"Didn't daddy plan to attack Wei's family and marry me if he can't find a breakthrough?"

"Then did he attack the Wei family? It's been almost three years since you married. With your father's swift and resolute temperament, would you really have to wait so long if you want to attack?"

"Then my father?"

"He married you here just to stabilize the Wei family and Nanluo Yanzhu's heart. Did the accidents happen to those people you mentioned before or after you married?"

"Of course it was before." Jiu Niang was taken aback, "It turns out that he really did it for my own good, although it wasn't so pure."

"For so many years, I have been cautious in Wei's house, caught between my husband's house and my father's. Why?"

"Jiu Niang, here, wipe, it's all over." Shi Niang handed a handkerchief to Jiu Niang to wipe away her tears.

"In a few days, Ninth Sister will go back to the yamen to see Third Uncle. He misses you very much."

"Thank you, sister, for unraveling the confusion in my heart."

"Sister, brother-in-law of the Wei family treats you?" Ten Niang asked after thinking about the result of her pulse feeling, "Are you two planning to have children?"

"It's not like that. My husband doesn't treat me too much, but he has never treated me badly. In order to have a son-in-law, the concubines of the Wei family were drugged by the mother-in-law. I made my own decision. I was afraid that my father would attack the Wei family. It’s better to have children who are dragging you down than not to come.”

"Jiujie, I just said that I took too much of that stuff. It's not good. You'd better stop using it as soon as possible and have a baby after you take care of it." Shi Niang revealed a small bottle from her sleeve and handed it to Jiu Niang, "This is the medicine at home. Drag me to Ninth Sister's ginseng nourishing pills, Ninth Sister put it away."

"Well, the family has been delivering it all the time. I didn't see the medicine this time, so I guessed that it was my sister who brought it."

"Sister, if you have any difficulties, remember to tell the family. You are the daughter of the Du family, a small Weifu, I believe you can still handle it." Shi Niang blinked, "Remember to ask the third uncle to help you in the future." support."

"It's getting late, Jiujie, I should leave too." Shi Niang looked at the Western clock pendulum in the room, and said to Jiu Niang.

Jiuniang begged to stay again and again, but she still didn't turn around, so she had to send Shiniang out in person. The carriage parked not far from Wei's mansion saw Shiniang leaving, and hurried over.

After Shi Niang said goodbye to Jiu Niang, she pedaled away.

"Miss, let's go back too, my uncle should be in a hurry." Shao Yao reminded, "It won't be long before you come out to see Miss Ten."

"Shaoyao, did you see the people in that car?" Jiu Niang's eyes were sharp, just as Shi Niang was pedaling, she saw a man in black from a gap in the car curtain.

"Miss, your eyes are dazzled, I didn't see anything." Shao Yao asked puzzled, "Is there anyone in the car?"

"It's okay, let's go back." Jiuniang took Shaoyao back home.

As soon as he entered the yard, approached the house, and before he opened the door, he was pulled into the house by a pair of hands that suddenly stretched out from the door.

"How? Jia Shunhua, did you find any useful information?" The man asked eagerly, "Is your father going to do something?"

"Husband, don't worry, my sister said, my father didn't intend to move our family. He married me back then to ease the relationship between Yanzhu and the government. He shouldn't easily break the stable situation that took so long."

"That's good, the family can't afford another toss." Young Master Wei, who is the son of the current head of the family, felt relieved at the moment.

"No!" Thinking of the woman he saw from afar today, he trembled, and reached out to untie a small piece of jade token, "For safety's sake, you should find a chance to give this thing to your father."

"This is?" Jiu Niang touched the jade card in her hand, she was stunned, and said in surprise, "You don't really intend to give the caravan in Nanluo Neihai to my father?"

"Don't say anything, my father doesn't know yet." Young Master Wei leaned over and whispered into Jiuniang's ear, "I'm afraid your sister is just like you. She didn't tell the whole truth. She pretended to numb us. The emperor's car It won't be long until Nanluo arrives, and your sister has already arrived and met your father, what do you think they plan to do?"

"The reason for the emperor's private visit is for the salt. Then, is he going to touch our house? Start with the big salt?! My father and my sister were sent by the emperor to lull us. If this is the case, it's too..." Jiu Mother said in horror.

"Ma'am, don't panic. Your sister's presence means that the emperor and your father still miss our family. Our family has always been peaceful. As long as we are obedient, we shouldn't be too hard on us."

"The husband still?"

"We have to show our sincerity. Your sister actually came to remind us. We have to appreciate it. Besides, our main business has never been salt cooking. This time you give your father the caravan from our inner sea. He naturally What to do when you know."

"But this caravan was developed with great difficulty by you, my husband. It makes me feel uncomfortable to just hand it over to others." Jiu Niang said unfairly.

"Ma'am, you can make more money if you run out of money, and you'll have nothing if you're gone. Don't forget, he is the emperor, and your father is an official. We are just merchants, and our arms can't twist our thighs. Follow the trend for the long run.”

"understood."

Jiuniang and his wife were discussing the intentions of Shiniang and the emperor, and Shiniang and the emperor were also talking softly in the carriage.Let's talk about Jiu Niang and the Wei family.

"You mean, your ninth sister lied to you and acted from beginning to end?" the emperor asked, "How can it be? She didn't even return to your third uncle? Lie for the sake of the Wei family?"

"Your Majesty, you don't understand, you don't understand our girls, all of them are as tortuous as the mountain road with nine twists and eighteen turns. My ninth sister seems to be complaining to me, but in fact she has been inquiring about my third uncle. The intention behind the move. She or the Wei family behind her must have sensed danger and are looking for news through me."

"Why don't you trust her? That's your ninth sister. Weren't you very happy when you talked about her before?"

"I didn't know that my third uncle married her in that way before. If I had known, I wouldn't be bothering to go to Weifu to see how she is doing."

"As for trust, her pulse wants to be stable, not her weakness. Xin Yin can feel the pulse and taught me simply. People will change. She was married by the third uncle like that. No matter how good or bad her life is, she will complain. My third uncle. The third uncle did this for the sake of the empire and for you, the emperor. I am your woman, so it is not surprising that she would blame me and bully me. "

"I hinted at her, boil it with a lot of salt." Shi Niang said, "As for whether she can realize it or not, it depends on her family's fortune. This can be considered to be considerate of my third uncle's love for daughters."

"You are smart, and you have done all the good things." The emperor sighed, "Your third uncle has really worked hard for so many years. Since he is the one who begged us, we must give him face. Take care of his daughter, as for In the end, it's not up to us to decide. Let's see the performance of the Wei family."

"I hope that the ninth sister-in-law's family will not be too stupid, wasting all the painstaking efforts of the emperor's third uncle and me."

(End of this chapter)