Heir and wife

Chapter 9

The servants of Luo's mansion who came with the boat held lamps in the thick fog, and dozens of porters carried boxes and cages. The team stretched for several miles, and walked towards Wenxiangbo's mansion in a mighty manner.

The wharf is located in the southwest of the city, just in the diagonal direction of Bofu.The road in the city is in the shape of a straight nine-square grid, all the way to Bofu, almost going around most of Jinling City.

Luo Weitong sat in the sedan chair, staggering, and inevitably fell asleep after a long time.I yawned and opened a corner of the curtain. It was already bright outside, and the thick fog had completely dispersed.The street was bustling with people, and seeing such a long line at first glance, they all took a look here.There are even naughty children, with hair combed, holding candied haws aloft, and bouncing around on both sides while shouting jingles.

"Jinling is more prosperous than Huizhou."

Lift the car curtain to a higher point, and you can see that the houses on both sides are built with green bricks, and the gate gods of various colors cast on the tall wooden doors show the style of the imperial capital.From the majestic buildings alone, she can already perceive the huge difference between the two places.So she was a little worried about her family's ostentation.

"Mother, let's hire someone directly from the pier to go to the uncle's mansion. People in the city will naturally know that we have been neglected when they see it. But if we bring it up later, it will make people feel too ostentatious. When my mother taught her daughter on weekdays, she once said that family ugliness should not be publicized. If it spreads to everyone, most of them will end up hurting the enemy one thousand and self-damaging eight hundred. Now it is like this, do you have other plans."

In the same sedan chair, Mrs. Xu nodded with satisfaction.The daughter seemed to escape, but fortunately her mind was quite clear.Although he is a little impatient in his usual actions, he has not experienced practice, and he will naturally be safe when he has more experience in the future.

"Jiaojiao was right."

Luo Weitong was surprised: "Then why?"

Mrs. Xu took her daughter's hand, and after a long sigh, she slowly said, "Family ugliness should not be publicized. This truth is true, but there is a saying in ancient times that serious illness requires strong medicine. When we lived in Huizhou, Jiaojiao also saw Xia In the heat of the day, the cook cut out the carrion meat one by one. You asked curiously that day why you didn’t put it there and cut it off together when you use it.”

Putting down the sedan chair curtain, Luo Weitong hesitated for a while: "My mother said that the uncle's house is like that piece of rotten meat, and it has been completely ineffective from the root. If it continues, even dad will be dragged down."

Mrs. Xu nodded. Before entering Beijing, she still had the last hope for the uncle's house, hoping that they could consciously maintain a calm face for the sake of their husband's future.But the incident at the dock made her see it clearly, and everyone in the Bo manor was still immersed in the glory that was only empty.

While treating her husband harshly, at the same time wanting her husband to be a cow and a horse for them, how can there be such a good thing in the world.Thinking back to the eldest son who is studying in the Imperial College at the moment, looking at the lovely daughter beside him, and thinking back to the grandmother who has been treated harshly in the uncle's house for most of her life, Xu's heart that broke the husband and the uncle's house can no longer be firm.

There were lanterns and festoons in Wenxiangbo Mansion on Zhuque Street, and a stage was set up in the open space in front of the main courtyard. Amidst the sound of gongs and drums, martial arts students appeared on stage.

Facing the center of the stage, Mrs. Chang's wrinkled old face was now glowing red.Today is the Lord's day, the full moon's Ninth Young Lady of Bofu is tightly wrapped in swaddling clothes, hugged by the third wife, and sits on the right side of the Tai wife.

"Mother, look quickly, our Xiaojiu smiles so happily, she must know that her great-grandmother is happy at the moment, so she is also happy."

Madam Chang, who is most proud of Mrs. Tai, also came up together: "The old slave has seen that Miss Jiu has grown a lot in the past month, and her eyebrows and eyes are actually more and more like Mrs. Tai."

Mrs. Chang's eyes finally moved away from Wu Sheng's fancy kung fu, and she listened to the third wife and Chang's mother laughing and joking. After a while, she felt that her great-granddaughter and herself were carved out of the same mold, and she immediately opened her golden mouth: Miss Jiu raised her in her room.

The play came to an abrupt end, and the uncle and eldest daughter-in-law on the left could hardly conceal their astonishment.Especially the current Mrs. Qin, she married into the uncle's house for many years and only had two sons, not counting the uncle's other concubine children, these two sons are her heart and soul.Helplessly, the mother-in-law was overbearing and insisted on giving her natal niece and grandniece to the youngest son.A daughter-in-law was caught in the middle blowing pillow wind, and she and her youngest son were separated step by step during the years of marriage.

In the previous Huaihe River flood, the father of Xiao Chang's family was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry due to his meritorious service in water control.When the news came, she was delicate and fleshy, and because of her pregnancy, she was spared even the morning and evening.When the child fell to the ground, Mrs. Tai's baby would also turn into golden bumps, and she would propose to raise it herself. There are so many young ladies in the family, and Mrs. Tai has never raised others. Is this Xiao Chang's going to heaven?

Mrs. Xiao Qin, the wife of the eldest son, offered her mother-in-law a cup of hot tea, and persuaded her in a soft voice: "Mother, as long as grandma is happy with you, uncle and daughter-in-law will be happy."

When Mrs. Chang heard this, she turned her head to praise the eldest grandson's daughter-in-law, and beat her daughter-in-law by the way.Qin held her breath in her throat, knowing that the eldest son's daughter-in-law was the niece of her mother's family that she was in love with, and also knowing that her mother-in-law intended to divorce, but she still couldn't help but feel emotional.

Xiao Qin's family thanked him, and changed the topic: "I don't know if the people sent out by the mansion will settle down the second brother's family."

(End of this chapter)