Tianhuang nobleman

Chapter 114

"Mother Concubine is here, and my heart is completely at ease." Rou Jia gently lay in Lingnan Dowager's arms, choking in a low voice, "I never thought that our family of three could be reunited... "

The autumn wind is cool, Lingnan Concubine finally went to Beijing, Bai Ren went out of the city to meet her, Wei Shi had just arrived at the palace, before Shen Shi Roujia rushed over with her children.

"It's all about your younger brother's success..." Lingnan Taifei's eyes were also red, she couldn't stop rubbing Roujia's face, and kept asking, "How is the old lady? How is the uncle? How is the child?"

Roujia couldn't help nodding: "It's all good, your uncle is talking to Bai Ren outside, let him come in to kowtow to mother and concubine later, mother quickly bring brother over..."

The nanny brought the child over to the Lingnan Concubine, and the Lingnan Concubine smiled from ear to ear: "Let me hug... ouch, it's so big..."

The child was sleeping soundly, let Lingnan Dowager hold her but didn't wake up, neither crying nor fussing, very pitiful and cute, Lingnan Dowager laughed softly: "Or say my nephew looks like an uncle, this little nose and small eyes, It is really carved out of the same mold as the prince..."

Rou Jia smiled and nodded: "That's not it, I took my brother to the palace banquet during the Qiqiao Festival last month, the emperor saw it and said that this child is just like Bai Ren, the emperor is as majestic as usual, My brother also laughed when he saw him, hugged him if he liked it, and rewarded him with a lot of things..."

The smile on Lingnan Concubine's face faltered, she nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, such a good child, who wouldn't like it..."

Rou Jia has been dealing with noble ladies in Beijing and China for the past few years, and she is no longer the ignorant boudoir daughter she used to be. Seeing this, she immediately understood the mind of Lingnan Dowager, she regretted her talkativeness, and forced a smile: "Hmm... I was too frivolous, just because the eldest princess Dunsu said that the emperor likes this child, let me carry it, think about it carefully, it is really against the rules."

Concubine Lingnan shook her head and smiled: "I'm not talking about you, you go down first, I have something to say to the princess..."

Everyone knew that Fu Fu stepped back, Lingnan Dowager carefully placed the child in the couch, gently patted his belly with one hand, and said in a low voice: "The matter of the prince and the emperor... I probably noticed something when I was in the south, tell me the truth, what is the situation now?"

Roujia didn't dare to hide it, she told all she knew in a low voice, and said anxiously: "Sometimes I don't feel good when I think about it, several times I tried to talk sideways and wanted to tell Bairen, but... the concubine mother knows, this How can you open your mouth about such a thing?"

Concubine Lingnan sighed: "I know your difficulties, and I don't blame you. That child has his own ideas, and you can't persuade him. Even I... can't say much."

"I'm still in filial piety, and I can't talk about relatives. I have talked to my brother about other people's marriages several times, but he is always indifferent. For a while, I couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't help telling your uncle. Let him help me think of a way, who knows..." Roujia's eyes were both gratified and worried, "Your son-in-law is not surprised at all after hearing this, just let me pay attention to the jade pendant worn by the emperor when I enter the palace next time .”

Concubine Lingnan's eyes flashed, and Rou Jia continued: "I don't understand what he means, but it just so happened that the emperor gave me another gift in a few days. What I'm wearing is actually a life talisman, that piece of jade is very familiar to me, isn't it what my concubine gave to my younger brother before!"

Lingnan Concubine smiled wryly: "I mean... After your brother returned to Lingnan, I realized that his life talisman was half. , it was..."

Rou Jia frowned: "What is it?"

Concubine Lingnan shook her head and did not answer. Rou Jia sighed and said, "I came back to tell your uncle and asked him what to do, but he laughed and asked me, what can I do if we are both like this? It's so leisurely, so angry, I beat him up, and then he dragged me and talked all night, all the nonsense was full of truth, I didn't understand much else, I only understood one sentence..."

Rou Jia looked at Concubine Lingnan: "If my younger brother was persecuted by that person, then it would be worthwhile for us to risk our lives and not fight for an explanation, but why..."

Concubine Lingnan answered with a wry smile: "But your younger brother is very willing."

"You didn't see it during the half a year in Lingnan. I really frightened him." The Lingnan concubine couldn't help but sigh when she brought up the past, "As soon as I opened my eyes, I went to the front. He has to do everything in the fief personally. When I came back at night, I couldn't eat a few bites and went into the study again. When I read the documents, I saw that it was midnight. No matter how much I tried to persuade him, he didn't listen. I just said that he had just succeeded to the throne and couldn't make a mistake. How could I not see that he had something on his mind? Thinking about the matter of the emperor disobeying his order and letting him go in southern Xinjiang, I almost understand everything, oh..."

Roujia nodded: "I don't know... the emperor has always been kind to me and your uncle in recent years. I know in my heart that the emperor is actually taking care of my younger brother. It seems that the emperor really has nothing to say to my younger brother. Mother and concubine Why don't you be the same as me, if you should relax, just relax..."

Concubine Lingnan sighed: "So what if you don't relax? Seeing that the prince looks so good now, if I have to use the elder's money to hinder him, am I not intentionally hurting him? Forget it, I just pretend I don't know." That's all."

This time Concubine Lingnan came to Jingroujia, she was very happy, but she was worried that Concubine Lingnan would interfere with Bairen and Qi Xiao, now that her mother wanted to leave Roujia, she felt a lot more open, she smiled and said: "As for Don't worry about the other mothers and concubines, that one is very scary because of all the previous things, and now the younger brother lives in the palace every day, except for a few speechless officials who didn't have long eyes at first. Talking about this, I heard that there was a palace man who was dishonest before. After drinking yellow soup, he talked to the little palace maid, Hu Yu, who talked badly about his younger brother. Let that one know all of a sudden, that one..."

Rou Jia subconsciously looked at the child, and saw that the little guy was sleeping soundly, so she got closer and whispered in Lingnan Taifei's ear how Qi Xiao dealt with the palace man. I heard that today's wrist is stiff, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it... Oh, don't tell me about this in the future, I don't want to hear this..."

"Blame me, blame me, I won't talk about it in the future." Roujia comforted softly, "Mother, don't think about it, it's just from this that you can see that that one is more protective of your brother. With this example, who dares to say more ?”

Concubine Lingnan was shocked, she shook her head and said: "Who is stupid? You dare to talk nonsense, alas... Actually it's not good, people say that the superiors are too cruel, and the subordinates tend to be resentful."

Seeing Lingnan Concubine's compassion, Rou Jia laughed and said: "Mother Concubine's words are wrong, the one who sits in that seat is as kind as mother, so accidents are easy to happen, and that one can do everything she should do. , and did much better than the previous one. I occasionally heard your uncle talk about it. That one is very powerful in the government and society. It has only been a few months since he took the throne, and he has taken care of everything. As long as the Everything has been done well, Guotai Minan, who has any complaints?"

Concubine Lingnan shook her head and said softly: "I don't understand these things...Rou'er, the emperor has a bad temper, and it's not easy for your brother to think about it. You and my son-in-law must be careful in everything, and don't cause any trouble to embarrass your brother."

Rou Jia repeatedly agreed: "Mother and concubine don't worry, Xianggong is now the emperor's secretary, and he just drafts edicts every day. The emperor trusts him very much. He also knows how to make progress and never pays attention to any crooked things. I..."

Rou Jia smiled: "My mother knows better what kind of temperament I am. She only wants to guard my three-acre land and live a good life with my husband and children. They pretended to be confused, but luckily they didn’t dare to offend me, and it’s fine to say that they didn’t talk to me a few times.”

Concubine Lingnan felt relieved, lightly patted Roujia's hand and said comfortingly: "You are a peace of mind, I also heard that the emperor was going to give you a big mansion before, so I asked you to say goodbye. "

Rou Jia lowered her eyes and smiled: "I don't know why the emperor praised me, but that's fine, one is afraid that your son-in-law's face will not look good, and the other is that I don't want people to point out my younger brother, saying that he is the only one who is good, and our family Son ascended to heaven."

Concubine Lingnan couldn't help laughing: "Silly boy, how could anyone talk like that..."

Seeing her daughter being so sensible, the concubine felt a lot of irony in her heart, and talked to Rou Jia in a soft voice for a long time. Rou Jia remembered that the concubine Lingnan was hesitant to speak just now and couldn't help asking: "Mother concubine just said that at first I thought Which family's girl does the younger brother have his eyes on, who knows... What does the concubine mother mean by this?"

Concubine Lingnan paused and sighed: "Forget it, I'm not afraid to tell you now, do you still remember Wen Xiang's son, your cousin Cen Chaoge?"

"Of course I remember." Rou Jia nodded and said, "He and his younger brother were the best friends in the past, they were inseparable all day long, what's wrong?"

Concubine Lingnan smiled bitterly: "What else can I do, it's the same kind of thing."

Roujia was shocked, and lost her voice: "Why didn't you see it before, then... how did you break it? My brother is not a person who looks at the height of the mountain from one mountain to another."

Concubine Lingnan shook her head: "I don't know exactly what happened, I only know that the prince and the young master of the Cen family were close at that time, but now looking at the situation between him and that person, the previous incidents are nothing. gone."

Roujia secretly thought that if the mother concubine could put up with the matter of Bairen and the emperor so easily, it happened before... Roujia thought for a while and said: "How is Chaoge now? We used to play together when we were young. I haven't seen him since."

Concubine Lingnan sighed softly: "It's not very good... It's not yet the filial piety period, and he has something to do with a young lady from our family, but there are rumors that the young lady's family is so angry that she fell on her back and beat her." When you came to ask for an explanation, your aunt was terrified, she would marry or not, so she begged me here, where did I have any ideas, and thanks to Nurse Yan, she went to Cen's mansion to yell at them, The two agreed to hire after the filial piety period, and agreed that the dowry should be generous, and half of the dowry must be paid first, so your aunt has no choice but to accept it.”

Rou Jia frowned: "But...Mother Concubine didn't say that Chaoge is the same as my younger brother...then how can you get married?"

Concubine Lingnan smiled tolerantly: "You silly boy, do you think everyone is as obsessed with your brother?"

Rou Jia laughed at herself: "That's all, although it's a little ugly, but it's settled."

"It's not so simple." Thinking of the lawsuit that came to Lingnan Taifei's head, "I thought it would be fine, but a few days later, Chaoge came to pay my respects, and after a long time of coddling, he actually asked about my marriage. Can you go back?"

Rou Jia was dumbfounded, Lingnan Concubine continued: "I was also angry at the time, so I asked him, the reputation of a good girl has been ruined by you, you are fine with retiring now, what will happen to that girl in the future A foothold? This is where we are. If it were in the imperial city, in that aristocratic family with a strict family tradition, they would sink such a daughter into the pond. They only said that the girl was sick, so that the family's reputation could be preserved. Now you are going to resign at the touch of a lip, let’s not say that you are sorry for your widowed mother who takes care of the housework for you, first you are sorry for the girl.”

Rou Jia was amazed: "I remember Chaoge was very sensible when I was a child. Among us children, he was the only one with a good temper and a gentle temper. How come now..."

"You didn't miss it. He has a good temper and a very gentle temper now, but if he did this when he was a child, if the man grows up and is just blindly meek, he won't be a man. How can he support his family, your brother With him..." Dowager Lingnan couldn't continue talking, she pursed her lower lip and said in a low voice, "Probably because he has no responsibility."

Roujia was soft-hearted, thinking that the girl was too pitiful, and asked repeatedly: "And then? What happened in the end?"

The concubine said softly: "I scolded him and pulled him to coax him. He promised not to make trouble anymore, but he was still very reluctant. I asked him why he suddenly changed his mind. Wasn't it before?" Do you like that girl very much, guess what he said?"

Roujia held the veil tightly and asked in a low voice, "What did you say?"

Concubine Lingnan couldn't laugh or cry: "He complained to me...that girl wrote to him frequently after returning home, telling him how to clean up their house after the big wedding, asking him to curse and swear that she was the only one, and asking him to give it to her. He paints and writes poems by himself, at first he felt that the girl was quite talented, but now he doesn't think so at all, he just finds it troublesome, hey... It's true that the girl doesn't respect something, but living life, isn't it just like that Well, I persuaded him a few more words, and agreed that if the girl is still not at ease after passing the door, I will speak for him. He agreed with drooping eyebrows, but after a long while, he suddenly asked about Bai Ren. .”

Rou Jia opened her eyes wide: "He hasn't forgotten his brother, has he?"

Concubine Lingnan nodded wearily: "It looks like...he regrets it now, and thinks it's better for your brother, so you don't need to trouble yourself like this. To put it bluntly, Chaoge is just a son of mine who is used to it, so he can't bear a little bit of hardship."

Rou Jia laughed: "Who doesn't want to be a girl for a lifetime, who doesn't want to be a son for a lifetime, it's fine to talk about it when you are young, but now you are so old and you don't have any responsibility at all, that's really..."

Concubine Lingnan nodded: "Your aunt is also worried, but it's not necessarily... Maybe it will be better when we get married."

"I hope." Rou Jia was quite satisfied, "So, I'd rather my younger brother get along with that one, than this one who can't support the family."

The Lingnan Concubine took pleasure in her bitterness: "That's what I said."

While talking, it was rumored that Qi Xiao and uncle were coming, Lingnan Concubine quickly stopped talking, smiled and let people in...