The Shen family in Huaicheng.
"Didn't you say that whoever gets lucky with that little lucky girl is lucky? Why is it different from the rumors." Aunt Cai, the most powerful person around Mrs. Ru, asked the sweeping girl Xiaoxi, that is, Chun Ya, with a puzzled face.
"I don't know the specific slave. Indeed, everyone around her is lucky." Xiao Xi said.
Aunt Cai frowned and said, "It's strange to say that the boy from Aunt Sun's family had a few words with the girl's third brother, and his thighs were burned by lamp oil at night. I don't know if he can still give it to Lao Sun." Leave a family behind."
Xiao Xi was surprised.
She didn't know what was going on outside. She only knew that Grandma Sun's house was on fire and Steward Sun's leg was injured.
Unexpectedly, he was injured so seriously that even his descendants might not be able to survive.
Originally, she wanted to take a leave of absence from Aunt Cai today to check on Manager Sun's injury.
Steward Sun promised that he would ask Mrs. Ru to make her a little girl. Although she changed from a servant of the Shen family to a concubine of a servant of the Shen family, even then she would wear gold and silver.
Steward Sun's wife couldn't give birth to a son, so Steward Sun promised to let her grow up if she had a son.
Xiao Xi felt sour in her heart when she learned from Aunt Cai that Steward Sun had injured his roots.
"Is it possible that luck is divided among people? Whoever treats her well will have good luck, and whoever does her harm will have bad luck?" Nanny Cai murmured to herself.
Xiao Xi lowered her head and muttered: "Slave, I don't know."
Xiao Xi recalled that her own father and You Mazi of Shenshu Village conspired to steal the money from tiger hunting, and deliberately lured the tiger towards the man who hunted the tiger in the Bai family. As a result, her father was bitten to death, and You Mazi is now exiled.
There is also An Xiucai in the temple, who has a scarred face and a thin monkey face. Anyone who goes against her will not end well.
Xiao Xi shuddered in her heart.
When she was in the temple, she helped An Xiucai deal with Xiao Fuyuan.
Xiaoxi couldn't help but worry about her future fate.
The capital, the town government’s mansion.
"What did the Queen Mother say?" Mrs. Li, the old lady of the Zhenguo Palace, was lying on the couch, and several beautiful maids were squeezing her legs and shoulders. From the moment the old lady learned that her niece's identity as an imperial merchant had been taken away, she felt very sad. It's not exciting.
"The Marquis said that there is no need to ask the Queen Mother again for this matter." Mrs. Xiao Li, the Duke of Zhenguo, returned cautiously.
"Hmph, I'm afraid it's useless to beg." Mrs. Li snorted coldly.
"Aunt." Little Li shouted helplessly.
Mrs. Zhen Guogong and Mrs. Zhen Guogong are not only daughters of the Li family, but they are also aunt and nephew. They became mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
"Wan'er had already brought shame to the family when she became the concubine of the Shen family. Now the head of the family is not acting as an imperial merchant honestly, but allows his servants to occupy land and rob civilian girls, and colludes with the prefect of Huaicheng. A businessman, participating in the conspiracy Officialdom is a big taboo. If it weren't for the Marquis who was at the front, I'd be afraid that even my home would be ransacked," said Xiao Li.
Mrs. Li squinted her eyes, feeling quite angry, and said, "What do you know? She has brought shame to the family? If it weren't for the family, she wouldn't have committed the crime of becoming the Shen family's concubine. If it hadn't been for the trouble in the family, Princess Kang would have become a concubine. her."
When mentioning this, Mr. Li did not dare to speak out.
"I know why the Queen Mother didn't help Wan'er. The Queen Mother always blamed us for the destruction of the Zhen family, but she also didn't think about how our Zhen family would be restored to the title of Duke of the State without the Marquis. I don’t understand. She has the same biological brother. How can she miss her second wife, even though her second wife is dead? Our Marquis is now her natal family, but she doesn’t give her any favors. The Marquis begs her to It's harder to do anything than reach the sky." Mrs. Li couldn't help but pick up the Queen Mother.
"We are the same relatives of the emperor. Apart from occupying the title of the Duke of Zhenguo, what other benefits can we get? Last time, your sister wanted to get a girl born by a bitch outside to be married to Prince Kang. That girl was really fierce. Ken, I don’t know who mentioned it in the ear of the Queen Mother, but she sent a nanny to your sister to reprimand her in public. I saw that the Queen Mother is not happy with anything related to our Zhen family. "
A pin in the room could hear it.
Little Li did not dare to accept such comments about the Queen Mother in public.
"Wan'er went too far this time." Xiao Li could only say this.
"Pass, what do you mean? Wan'er is the one to be dealt with when it comes to servants. Why did I hear that there is another crime called bullying the village lord and defying the imperial power?" said the eldest Li.
"Indeed, it is said that sister Wan'er wants to hire a lucky girl for Ning'er. It just so happens that this lucky girl is a village head bestowed by the emperor." Little Li said matter-of-factly.
"It's nothing. It's just a village head, and it's all in vain. I've seen it, and it's just that there are jealous people in the court who are dissatisfied with the status of the Shen family's royal merchant and take advantage of it."
Mrs. Li said bitterly, how much money she had received from the Shen family over the years, how could she not feel heartbroken when she thought about how much money she had received would be wiped out in the future.
"Isn't it true that the Queen Mother is just following the Queen Mother? The Queen Mother doesn't want to see our family. That villain is eager to remove people and things that have anything to do with us. Isn't the Queen Mother thinking about the dead second wife? Don't recognize us if you can. The Duke's residence is her mother's family." The topic changed and the elder Li returned to venting his dissatisfaction with the Queen Mother.
This was not the first time that Mrs. Li said this, but Mrs. Li couldn't bear to listen and said, "Aunt, let's listen to the Queen Mother. Isn't it good to be a wealthy and idle person?"
Little Li didn't understand that her mother-in-law had such complaints against the Queen Mother. If word of this spread, how would the Zhenguo Government stand?
Even if the Queen Mother doesn't care about it, in the future the Queen Mother will be gone and the Emperor will be punished for the crime of disrespect to the Duke if he fails to protect his integrity.
"What do you know? Your Marquis was also ranked second in the rankings that year, and he is willing to be a rich and idle man? Why don't you look at the Queen's father and brother and compare them with ours." The elder Li sneered.
Xiao Li opened her mouth and simply kept silent.
Mrs. Li complained once, closed her eyes and thought.
Because her niece was deprived of the royal business, she couldn't help but think of another niece - the only daughter of the second wife of the Zhen family back then. Although she was not a niece, she was still called aunt.
Is this girl still alive now?
When the Zhen family was in trouble, she and her son were unwilling to fall into this fate, so they forged letters of rebellion from the Zhen family and surrendered to King Kang. Since her husband died early, the title of the Zhen family was inherited by the second bedroom, so the second bedroom was the first to be implicated in the disaster.
She had always hated her second wife's sister-in-law, and with the pleasure of revenge, she instructed her son to sell her second wife's only daughter to Yangzhou Fireworks Land.
Thinking of this, Mr. Li's heart tightened.
What she and her son did back then was very secretive, and the Zhen family members were all dead and scattered, so no one should know.
Who would have thought that the sister-in-law who went to get married with the Zhen family would actually marry King Jing after she disappeared, and even accompany King Jing to Dabao and become the queen and then the queen mother.
The first thing the Queen Mother did after arriving in Beijing was to summon her to inquire about the whereabouts of her niece.
She lied that her second niece was dead, and the Queen Mother cried aloud and never mentioned it again.
Mrs. Li suddenly realized that the Queen Mother had already discovered some clues.
(End of chapter)
