16, dumb bitter
After Mrs. Lu left sweating, in the small garden where no one talked, only Ji Zishan's giggling chuckled was clear and clear.
Madam Biyun, who was standing beside her, held a cup of fragrant flower tea and handed it to Empress Dowager Hui'an, who was sitting in the ring chair of the rosewood wood-carved Fushou pattern, and said softly: "Mrs. Empress Dowager, you said a lot just now, drink a little tea to moisten your throat."
Empress Dowager Hui'an took the tea cup and sipped the flower tea quietly.
Concubine De, who was sitting in the lower chair, stood up with the embroidered chew in her hand and forced a gratitude smile: "Thank you, the Queen Mother, for making decisions on my family."
"After all, the Wu family is the uncle of the late emperor. The Lu family dares to be so arrogant, so naturally the Ai family cannot ignore it." Empress Dowager Hui'an pinched the tea cover and slowly plucked the petals in the tea bowl, with a gentle attitude, "You heard it just now. Mrs. Lu has made it clear that she will give her a betrothal gift this year and hold a wedding next year. I think she will not disobey her anymore. Just rest as you rest assured and stop being angry about this matter. When the eldest girl gets married next year, the Ai family will also add a dowry to her."
As she said this, Empress Dowager Hui'an turned her eyes slightly and ordered Madam Biyun beside her: "You remember this for the Ai family."
Madam Biyun naturally responded respectfully.
Concubine De bit her lip and said, "Empress, I am grateful to you for your elder sister."
"When your mother's family enters the palace to visit again, remember to say hello days and tell the Ai family back." With a ding, Empress Dowager Hui'an put the tea cup in her hand back on the rosewood sticks at her hand, and said warmly, "I'm tired from the Ai family, so I won't leave you to sit for too long. You have always been sick, so it's better to go back and raise it."
After Concubine De gave the ceremony, she left with a handkerchief.
"When Concubine De turns around, I don't know how angry she is." After seeing Concubine De's figure disappear from afar, Madam Biyun looked at Empress Dowager Hui'an who was playing with the ring and laughed softly, "If she really thinks about the reputation of the Wu family, she should have prompted the two families to get married this year, and this will be delayed for another year. What half of the capital knew about it is probably going to make a fuss all over the world."
Empress Dowager Hui'an touched the red gold ruby ring on her finger and said lightly: "The Ai family said before that if she mentioned the Lu family, the Ai family would 'make the decision' with the Wu family, but what decision would be, she and the Wu family could not help but wait, the lively thing is still behind." Before her emperor's son could take action, he would be the real blowout.
Looking at the sun in the sky, Empress Dowager Hui'an waved to the little girl not far away, and smiled and shouted, "Fan, come back, the sun is getting bigger, go back to the hall with your mother and have fun."
The girl was slapped by Mama Su Rong, and she had to walk on her two little fat legs, one foot deep and the other shallow.
When he walked to Empress Dowager Hui'an, Ji Zishan thrust his little arm and squeezed into his mother's arms who was half squatting on the ground. Her lips were filled with moisturizing and watery voices, "Mom..."
Empress Dowager Hui'an hugged the little girl who was covered in milk, and her gentle smile covered her eyes: "Oh, little beloved, mom hug..."
This is her last child, lively and healthy. Compared to taking care of her young son when she was young, she is much more worry-free and down-to-earth. After kissing her daughter's tender face, Empress Dowager Hui'an picked up her fat daughter from the ground and coaxed her with a smile: "Little fan, will you take you to play with Brother Yuanbao?"
"Brother Bao..." Ji Zishan slapped her little mouth with her starry eyes and called Brother Xiao Yuanbao.
Not to mention that Empress Dowager Hui'an was leisurely and leisurely teasing her little daughter to play in the palace, let alone Mrs. Lu, as soon as she left the palace, she ordered her servants to go to the yamen to invite Mr. Lu back to the mansion.
After the couple met at home, Mrs. Lu held a sweat towel and pressed the fine sweat on her forehead while telling Mr. Lu about the situation in the palace. Finally, Mrs. Lu complained: "Master, you think it's a bad idea. The Empress Dowager is really making the decision for the Wu family. She has not done anything perfunctory at all, and she is acting like a gesture..."
Mr. Lu grabbed his sparse beard and was also very worried: "This Empress Dowager is also..." The Virgin is so soft-hearted that he sent you a chance to ridicule your enemy. Did you let it go in vain?
Mrs. Lu is not like her master, she likes to figure out the thoughts of her boss. She only cares about it now: "Master, what should I do now? When I was in the palace, I was banished by the Queen Mother's question, and I had already agreed to the marriage with the Wu family..."
Mr. Lu's plan to please his superiors may be disappointed. He was in a very bad mood. When he heard Mrs. Lu's question again, he couldn't help but scolded: "Ignorance woman! What else can I do! Of course, I am preparing a betrothal gift and having a big gift with the Wu family! The Queen Mother has already asked about it. If our family rebels again, wouldn't it be a death?"
Mrs. Lu was scolded on the face, and she felt extremely angry, and then complained angrily: "It's all you, can't you find a daughter from a colleague's family? She insisted on marrying a Wu family, which made the whole family feel uneasy..."
Mr. Lu also glared at his eyes and shook his beard and said, "What do you know, ignorant woman! I'm not for..."
Even if the couple quarrels, their lives have to continue.
After the two of them had arguing, Mrs. Lu began to prepare the betrothal gift and ordered people to go to Fujinhou Mansion to tell the Wu family when they would go to the job. As for pleasing Mr. Lu, who was probably wrong, she continued to go back to Taipu Temple to serve as a job.
After receiving the news that the Lu family would come to take the job, the whole family of Fu Jinhou's mansion breathed a sigh of relief. If the palace really did not make the decision for their own family, the reputation of the Wu family would have been trampled on the ground. Although they despised the Lu family's bullying of the weak and fearing the strong, the storm was finally pacified.
Unexpectedly, just when the Wu family thought the matter had been settled, His Majesty the Emperor made a surprise move, which made both the Wu family and the Lu family confused at the same time.
——After learning about the grievances of the Wu family, His Majesty the Emperor demoted Mr. Lu, who was wronged to the seventh-rank chief clerk!
When he learned this important news, Mr. Fu Jin slapped the table and cursed with great relief: "I deserve it! If I want to say, I should just dismiss the Lu official and get rid of his post and get sent to prison! Is he still dared to go back on his word!" When he learned that the Lu family was intending to regret the marriage, if I hadn't stopped him, he would have taken people to smash Lu's nest.
Mrs. Wu's forehead twitched and almost got angry with her son's reaction: "It's broad daylight, why are you hysterical? The Lu family was demoted. Do you think our family is not embarrassed?"
"...What does it have to do with our family?" Fu Jinhou was scolded by my mother. Although his excitement calmed down, his mind had not turned around yet.
Mrs. Wu closed her eyes very tired and said in a weak way: "Do you still remember what our family has to do with the Lu family?" In the future, will the Wu family not be embarrassed?
After his mother mentioned it, Fu Jinhou scratched his little bald head and recalled: "Yes, the one with the surname Lu is just a seventh-rank official..." Fu Jinhou's voice slightly raised, and his thinking became clearer and clearer, "If the one with the surname Lu is just a seventh-rank official, why should he be married to his family!"
When we first discussed marriage for Miss Wu, it was because the noble family looked down on the Wu family and the Wu family looked down on the sesame officials, so we chose the Lu family, which was neither above nor below. Now the Lu family has fallen into the circle of the sesame officials. Fu Jinhou shouted very unhappily: "Get out of bride, withdraw from bride! I won't marry his family!"
Mrs. Wu held her forehead with a headache: "...The Lu family suddenly surrendered to our family, which means that the palace has taken care of this matter. If this relative is not allowed to retreat, it will not be possible!" The one who asked the palace to be the Wu family. The palace just presided over justice for the Wu family, and the Wu family made another move to withdraw. Didn't they treat the nobles in the palace like monkeys?
"He is a seventh-rank official, and he is married to our Marquis's Mansion. If the family is not a good match, why can't he retire?" Fu Jinhou looked indifferent and said arrogantly, "Mom, you just came to the palace to find your sister yesterday, but today the Lu family was embarrassed and punished. It can be seen that the Queen Mother and Your Majesty still value our family. You might as well go to the palace and ask the elder sister to give her a marriage."
Mrs. Wu was almost angry with her 'pure' son and vomited blood: "You...you..."
If they did not go to the palace to make a decision, in order not to delay their granddaughter, the Wu family would have to mention the matter of resigning from their marriage first. In this way, the Wu family's face and reputation would have to decline again and again. If they found the palace to make a decision, the consequences... were even more difficult to deal with. The Empress Dowager was fair and asked the Lu family to fulfill the engagement again. In order to support the Wu family, the emperor severely punished the Lu family. On the surface, they all looked towards the Wu family, but the actual situation was that the Wu family was mute and had no choice but to say anything.
Mr. Lu, who was hit hard on the head, felt even more painful than the martial artist - he just wanted to slap the dragon's fart, but didn't want to slap the dragon's head.
In short, because of the decree of Emperor Jianping Ji Ziqing, there was another joke about the after-dinner in the capital.
Mr. Lu, Taipu Temple, originally wanted to regret the marriage of the Wu family, but unexpectedly, the Wu family was angry and went to the palace to complain. As soon as the Empress Dowager came forward, the Lu family quickly pinched their noses and went to the Wu family to hire him. Unexpectedly, His Majesty the Emperor felt that the Lu family was too bullying and thought that the Wu family had suffered a great grievance. In anger, he demoted Mr. Lu, who was watching the dish, to level six, and vented his anger to the Wu family. In the end, the Fujin Hou Mansion was going to marry the seventh-ranked Taipu Temple master's family. The wedding date... It was set for three years in Jianping. Why can the eldest and the big Wu girl be married next year? Why? Because Mr. Lu was destined to be Taisui this year?
...Well, the facts have proved that not only Mr. Lu's fate was against Tai Sui, but his father also said that he was afraid of Tai Sui.
When the arguments outside reached Concubine De, she gritted her teeth and smashed many porcelain tea sets. She knew that the woman Ning was not so kind!
The night lights are arriving, Ji Zishan is lying on the bed, sleeping like a little fat pig. Empress Dowager Hui'an gently strokes the young girl's chubby pink cheeks, and said softly: "Since that cruelly poisons me and has been holding Yuanbao a weak body all his life, don't blame me for being rude to the people and things she cares about the most, one day..."
Chapter completed!