Mrs. Wei's father was a scholar and his surname was Chen. The Chen family is considered a respectable family in the local county. When the two sisters talked about getting married, they had higher standards than others. Mrs. Wei married a talented scholar, while her younger sister chose a handsome scholar.
Mrs. Wei said that her younger sister was short-sighted, but her younger sister said that after several years of examination, she was still the best candidate for examination. Maybe she would stop here for the rest of her life, and there was no way she could win the first prize in the future.
As a result, the two sisters had inner discord and secretly competed with each other.
However, a scholar is always a scholar, but he went a step further and passed the Gongshi examination. Mrs. Wei won the contest and proudly pointed out her sister's family affairs. The sister accused Mrs. Wei of being nosy and cursed her to be extremely happy and sad.
Mrs. Wei scoffed. Unexpectedly, not long after, her husband became seriously ill and died within half a year.
At that time, Chen's father and mother had died, and Mrs. Wei took her three sons with her. The orphaned and widowed mother had no one to rely on, so she had no choice but to shamelessly seek refuge with her sister.
The four mothers stayed under the fence and were ridiculed.
Fortunately, Wei Shicheng kept up the good work.
Children take the exam to be a scholar once a year, and the exam to be a scholar happens once every three years. In the spring of the next year, the exam is to take the exam for tribute scholars, and it is spring a few days after the results are released.
Wei Shicheng took the scholar examination at the age of sixteen and won the top prize at the age of twenty. He was picked up by the Queen Mother as his son-in-law and made Princess Yuanheng his wife. Then Mrs. Wei was taken to the capital. After that, she gave a sum of money to her sister's family to repay her debt of gratitude. There was no more contact.
More than ten years have passed, things have changed, and the knots of the past have gradually disappeared. When my sister was dying, she wanted to see her sister, so she asked her daughter Jia Mengjun to write a letter to Mrs. Wei.
Mrs. Wei couldn't stand the long journey, so she asked her mother Zheng to go back to her hometown for her.
Zheng's mother soon sent back a message saying that her sister wanted to entrust her only daughter, Jia Mengjun, to Mrs. Wei.
Mrs. Wei had long expected that her sister would ask her for something, so she agreed to it for the sake of taking her in.
Mother Zheng helped Jia Mengjun take care of her funeral and took her back to the capital.
Jia Mengjun grew up with the three brothers of the Wei family. He knew how powerful his eldest cousin was, and also knew that he had led his aunt to a successful career, but he had no idea that their career had reached this level.
She didn't know that this house was awarded to Princess Yuanheng by the Queen Mother. She thought it was Wei Shicheng's own earned family fortune. She was so shocked that she couldn't even speak. In her imagination, the palace was probably like this. It's like that.
Seeing her shocked look, Zheng's mother felt proud of herself, so she introduced the Wei family's personnel to her.
Jia Mengjun listened carefully and became excited when he heard that his second cousin's first wife had died.
Among the three brothers of the Wei family, Wei Shiyuan, who belongs to the second genus, is the most handsome and romantic.
Jia Mengjun's appearance took after her father, a scholar, and she was also more delicate than a flower. Since childhood, many people called them a golden boy and a beautiful girl.
After going back and forth, there was some interest between the two of them.
It's just that Mrs. Wei is living under someone else's roof, holding her breath in her heart. She wants to train her son to be a successful person. How can she let her son focus on the love between her children? And not long after, Wei Shicheng passed the exam. After he went to the capital to settle down, Mrs. Wei took Wei Shiyuan and Wei Shiqian away from the Jia family, and came to the capital to join their eldest son.
Since then, Jia Mengjun has never seen Wei Shiyuan again.
The next year when she was fifteen and hair-haired, her mother arranged a marriage for her, and the other party was also a good-looking young man. Jia Mengjun gradually forgot about Wei Shiyuan, and only waited for him to get married two years later when the period of filial piety was over. Unexpectedly, something unexpected would happen. When Jia Mengjun was seventeen years old, just as her wedding was approaching, her fiancé fell off a horse while drunk and broke his neck.
In this way, Jia Mengjun became an outcast.
It's not that she has to keep her integrity and not marry, but she has always been called a life-stealing husband because she is a widower. No one dares to marry, and she looks down on those who want to marry.
Jia Mengjun had a very high self-esteem and was not willing to give in to himself easily, so he wasted three years like this. After a person reaches the age of twenty, she is already a veritable old girl and has not found a suitable family. From now on, it will be even more difficult to achieve a high level or a low level, unless it is to be someone's concubine.
But being a concubine will be a waste of three years.
I can't find a better choice than when I was seventeen, and the choice is a loss.
So hesitant, Jia Mengjun is already twenty-nine this year.
In fact, it was not true that she couldn't get married at this age, and it was appropriate to be a stepmother to fill a house for others. But when people heard that she was a widower, they gave up the idea.
At this time, she heard that Wei Shiyuan's first wife died, and she immediately became interested. However, she didn't know if Wei Shiyuan could still cherish his old love, and whether he would mind that she was a lonely person.
All the way into Songhe Hall, when Jia Mengjun saw Mrs. Wei, he knelt down with a delicate expression and called out with a choked voice, "Aunt..."
Mrs. Wei sat back on the Arhat couch and said calmly: "Raise your head and let me take a look."
Jia Mengjun raised his head cautiously and saw Mrs. Wei sitting in the seat. Although she could vaguely recognize her appearance from back then, her appearance and temperament were no longer the same as when she lived in the Jia family.
Jia Mengjun thought that Feng Shui took turns, and now it was his turn to live under someone else's roof. He didn't know if his aunt would be like her mother back then, sarcastic and scolding her all day long.
She raised her head for a moment, then lowered her head again, becoming more cautious.
Mrs. Wei stared at Jia Mengjun for a moment and said, "I'm tired from the journey. Let's go freshen up and rest first. If you have anything to say, I'll talk to you later."
Jia Mengjun had already prepared a draft, but after hearing this, he had no choice but to suppress his brewing emotions and said "yes" obediently.
After her servants took her out for placement, Zheng's mother stepped forward and told her what happened during this period.
Mrs. Wei did not comment and said calmly: "I know." Kanshu La
Mother Zheng asked again: "How does the old lady plan to arrange this person?"
Mrs. Wei pondered.
In fact, she had an idea after knowing that Jia Mengjun was a young man.
When the husband dies, the woman is determined to keep her integrity. If the neighbors can prove that the woman has no affair with others, the local county magistrate will submit a memorial and ask the emperor to commend the woman and issue an imperial commendation. After that, the local county will erect a memorial arch for the woman. , is the so-called "Chastity Archway".
Although Jia Mengjun's surname is not Wei, she is his niece. If she can erect a chastity memorial arch, it will also bring glory to her long face.
However, Mrs. Zheng's answer disappointed Mrs. Wei.
"The widow has a lot of disputes in front of her, and her cousin and grandma are lonely and healthy. Although no one dares to marry her, there are many people who covet her. Moreover, her cousin and grandma are young and beautiful, and they also have thoughts of remarrying. She dated every man of the right age, but in the end they didn't dare to marry her back, so she gave up."
Mrs. Wei frowned deeply, "Then let her stay in the house first. If there is a suitable place, we will talk about it later."
Mother Zheng knew that she was unhappy, so she quietly withdrew and asked the little girl to come over and help Mrs. Wei take a nap.
She turned around but didn't see Nong Shao. After asking, she found out that something happened in the house.
"What?! Aunt Xue and the second master in the third master's house were caught red-handed?"
"Ouch! Mother Zheng, please lower your voice. It will be terrible if the old lady knows that we are discussing in private!"
Qiu Ci's little face turned pale with fright.
Nong Shao has been imprisoned for the past few days, and she has been waiting beside the old lady.
The old lady was obviously not in a good mood, how could she dare to get into trouble.
Mother Zheng asked in a low voice: "Isn't there a quarrel between the second master and the third master?"
Qiu Ci said: "The third master's favorite is Aunt Xue and her daughter. But now that the fifth girl is dead, Aunt Xue has also been sent to a nunnery. How could the third master not blame the second master at all? He is so afraid that he can't change his mind for a while. Come on. The third master didn't know whether he was really busy or deliberately avoiding it. When he returned home, he stayed in the study in the front yard and didn't go to the backyard at all. Aunt Song opened Shu'er Xiu'er's face one after another, but she couldn't Keep the second master."
Mother Zheng was so stunned that she was speechless for a long time without saying anything.
The person who was also speechless at this time was Aunt Song Song Qian who was running to straighten up the second wife.
She rubbed the handkerchief vigorously and pulled off all the azaleas on it.
of deformed.
Shuer Xiuer knelt in front of her, trembling and afraid to speak.
Tinglan asked again: "What did the second master say? What do you mean you don't have to worry about serving me anymore?"
Shu'er said: "The second master said that he has been busy with official duties recently and has no time to come to the backyard, so that my aunt doesn't have to worry and trouble. After this busy period, I can come and talk to my aunt."
Aunt Song looked gloomy, "He really didn't touch you?"
Shu'er shook her head, "No, he said that the two of us would be able to serve my aunt safely. There are many people there to serve her."
This means not wanting them.
Song Qian took a deep breath and exhaled, "A lot of people are waiting on him? Ha... That's right, he is indeed being waited on by a lot of people!"
Shu'er Xiu'er didn't understand what she meant, so she looked at Tinglan, who waved her hand, "You guys go down first."
The two girls quickly exited and closed the door.
Tinglan said: "Maybe the second master is really busy with official business, and we can't tell if we misunderstood."
"impossible!"
Song Qian's face turned very dark, "Although I haven't been in the mansion for a long time, I know him somewhat. Even if he is busy with business, he is definitely not this busy."
She raised her eyes and looked at Tinglan: "Aunt Xue's whereabouts haven't been found yet?"
Tinglan shook her head, "I haven't found Aunt Xue, but today the second master will definitely go to the old lady's house, saying that the old lady's niece has defected to her, and the family will always be harmed."
"The old lady's niece?"
"Yes, I heard that she was a widower and her parents passed away. Mother Zheng helped with the funeral arrangements and brought her back to the capital. I don't know how to arrange her arrangements at the moment."
Song Qian was puzzled, "I've never heard of anyone else in the old lady's family. They don't seem to have much contact with each other. Why did they come here after a family member passed away?"
Ting Lan said: "When you are poor in the busy city, no one cares about you, but when you are rich in the mountains, you have distant relatives. The Wei family is becoming more and more prominent now, so it is not uncommon for relatives to come to seek refuge."
"How old is this cousin?"
