Putao groaned and moved all Miss Begonia's boxes and cages into the house. The two buns on her head that were well combed when she left home were about to fall apart, so she quickly tied her hair up again.
Looking at the neatly stacked boxes and cages in the corner of the room, she felt quite accomplished.
There are notes on the boxes and cages indicating what is inside. The Haijia looks ordinary from the outside, but the ladies of the Haijia have six boxes and boxes for clothes, and four or five boxes and boxes for books and pens. The former can only be said to be the normal behavior of a wealthy daughter, but the latter is a bit scary. How old is Miss Hai that she has so many books? The books of the Master and Young Master of the Hai family are all calculated separately! The ladies of the Zhou family don’t have four large boxes to hold books and pens! Is the Hai family a famous scholarly family? It seems that what grandma secretly told her family is right. The Hai family is rich even though it is not obvious, but it is no worse than other families.
Her mother also told her in private that there was only one young lady in the Hai family, and the girl beside her stayed in Suzhou to get married, so there was currently no one to serve her. As long as she was diligent enough and pleased the young lady, she could stay safely. . If she can be a big girl by the young lady's side, she won't have to worry about anything in her life. Even if the Hai family is not as prominent and wealthy as the Zhou family, they still live a prosperous life. As a little girl, she does not have to worry about food and clothing. It is a hundred times better than farming in the countryside!
The third room of the Zhou family is headed by the old lady. The old lady does not want to see their wife, so the Ma family can only be driven to live in Zhuangzi. Even if the old lady dies, they may not be able to go back. If the aunt hadn't kindly taken them in and given their family a new job, they would still be digging in the soil for food! She will be thirteen years old in spring. According to the rules of the village, she is almost old enough to propose marriage. But who can she marry? Aren’t you from a nearby farmer’s family?
Thinking about the maids and sisters she had met in the third room of the Zhou family before, and then thinking about the daughters of nearby farmers she saw in the villa, they were of the same age. The former wore silks and flowers, ate well and drank spicy food, and went to and from wealthy families. I respect everyone who meets me, and I can be a respectable housekeeper and wife even if I get married; the latter will get married when she is fourteen or fifteen, and she will work in the fields and have a lot of children, and she will be as old as five before she is thirty. Normally ten years old.
Putao couldn't help but shudder, telling himself that he would never end up like the latter.
She learned needlework, cooking, accounting, and rules from her grandmother and mother since she was a child...not to live a hard life in the village!
Putao suddenly felt that he had strength again, no longer felt tired, and could carry ten more boxes!
She turned around and left the house. She was about to go to the front courtyard to ask her grandmother what else she wanted to do, when she saw the young lady and the young master standing at the foot of the west courtyard wall. Both of them had serious faces, as if they had encountered something difficult. .
Putao hesitated for a moment, standing in the yard and wondering whether he should take the initiative to approach. She felt that if she wanted to please the young lady, she should take the initiative to share her worries, but the eldest young master was also there. If she got close, would she make the old lady suspicious? She is a serious person and only wants to serve the young lady. She has absolutely no thoughts about the young master! Both grandma and mother have taught her that girls who serve young ladies in the inner house must know the rules.
Haitang saw Putao standing hesitantly in the yard and looking towards her, so she spoke first: "What's the matter?"
Putao hurriedly smiled and said: "I see that the young lady seems to be worried, and I would like to ask you what your orders are..."
"I don't have anything for you to do, so go ahead and do your work first. Just move your luggage into the house and put it away, and then you can slowly pack it up later. Don't tire yourself too much, rest when you need to, and you should have dinner soon." It's gone." Haitang sent the person away in a soft voice, then turned back to her brother and said, "Brother, it's useless for us to just worry about this kind of thing. It's not something we can change."
Haijiao sighed, with a wry smile on his face.
After listening to the information his sister got from her grandmother, he was numb.
In his previous life, he had never heard of the fact that the Zhou family and the Zeng family of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion were related by marriage, so the person who married into the Zeng family was still such a thing!
More than ten or twenty years ago, before Mr. Sun Ge blatantly attacked the Zhou family and deducted the Zhou family's food, grass and military resources, the relationship between the Queen Mother Zhou and Emperor Deguang was pretty good. At that time, the daughter of the Zhou family had no worries about finding a suitable husband in the capital. Who would have thought that Zhou Shuyi, a daughter-in-law who had been pampered since childhood, would have to settle for the Marquis of Yingchuan. If she couldn't marry the Marquis of Yingchuan, she would marry his younger brother? Marquis Yingchuan is a young talent, but his younger brother is notoriously mediocre. With Zhou Shuyi's family background, talent and appearance, which noble son could not have been married to in the capital back then? If she is after a title, then there are also other princes and princes to choose from!
What's so great about Yingchuan Hou Mansion? How did she identify this family? ! Just because Marquis Yingchuan was the most outstanding among the nobles, but he didn't like her, so she was resentful and had to get his title? How big is this anger? Even if it costs you your whole life? !
Haitang didn't talk about Mrs. Ma's past entanglement with the Yingchuan Hou Ancestor because she couldn't explain how she knew about it. In addition to the fact that she could not confirm that Mrs. Ma was Song Yuzhu, she also felt that she could not understand the other party's thinking behind marrying her youngest daughter to the grandson of her ex-fiancé.
Besides, even if Mrs. Ma is obsessed, what's going on with Zhou Shuyi? Does she know her mother's past? Why is she willing to sacrifice her whole life for her mother's obsession? Being ambitious is not such a pursuit!
Hai Jiao took a deep breath: "In short... After I arrived in the capital in my previous life, the Prince of Yingchuan's Mansion had lost his heir apparent, but the bastard of Yingchuan Hou, Zeng Shuming, was the confidant of the new king and the later commander of the Forbidden Army... His family's successor There are people who have never lost contact with the Zhou family, and I have no idea they were once in-laws..."
There is no such thing as a two-bedroom, one-child adoptive family, or two-bedroom parents. It is said that the second wife of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion had separated and moved out a long time ago. Mr. Zeng was a leisurely official and disappeared from the circle after resigning. Zeng Shuming's son served a full moon wine, and the Marquis of Yingchuan's mansion held a grand banquet. Even the Marquis of Yingchuan's wife, who had been recovering from a long illness, showed up, smiling happily while holding her grandson, but no one from the second room showed up. At that time, some members of the Zeng clan discussed this matter, and someone seemed to have mentioned it, saying that the second wife was ill, the younger one was disabled, and the house-filling wife was not allowed to appear on the stage. The Yingchuan Marquis Mansion was afraid that they would be rude in front of others, so they simply did not post it.
Hai Jiao racked his brains to recall these pieces of information, and could only deduce that the Yingchuan Hou Mansion may have separated the second bedroom because of the death of the prince. Mr. Zeng Er lost the protection of his brother and his life was not as good as before. His wife Zhou Shuyi also died and his son was disabled. He later married a house-filler who came from an unsatisfactory background. He continued to be unpopular with his brothers and sister-in-law, and was completely kicked out of the social circle of noble families.
Haitang said: "So, for Marquis Yingchuan to be so ruthless towards his only compatriot brother, he must have caught ironclad evidence that Zhou Shuyi did something bad. Maybe even Master Zeng was involved."
Hai Jiao smiled bitterly: "If this is the case, even if Prince Yingchuan was just unlucky and was wiped out by the hundreds of families who killed his wife, it still can't cover up Zhou Shuyi's vicious heart. She probably really has plans in the northwest, but We didn't have time to take action. How could Yingchuan Marquis spare her so easily after discovering these evidences? And in this life, even if we stop the Baihu who killed his wife from harming the prince of Yingchuan Marquis, we still can't prevent Zhou Shuyi from having bad intentions! This How can anyone in the world guard against thieves for a thousand days? What’s more, it’s someone else’s thief. Once she succeeds, the Marquis of Yingchuan will still bear a grudge against the Zhou family.”
Their surname is neither Zhou nor Zeng. They are young and powerless. Even if they want to remind the Zhou family, it depends on whether they believe it or not!
This time I was really at my wits end.
(End of chapter)
