Zhu Feng and Zhu Hu visited the ancestral hall and received some instructions.
Mrs. Zhu Hu asked him to go back and take care of the inner affairs.
Then Zhu Feng came to a small courtyard in the corner of the back house of the official residence. After knocking on the door, the maid opened the door. When the maid saw that it was Zhu Feng arriving, there was some fear in her eyes.
"Where's your lady?"
"In...inside."
Zhu Feng saw something wrong in the maid's eyes and thought Ning Tong was doing something to commit suicide inside. After entering, she found Ning Tong sitting there with the packed baggage in front of her. Probably Ning Tong also knew that her "ex-husband" was here today. If you want to come back, make it clear and then go your separate ways.
"Tong'er, why did we end up in this situation? Didn't we do well before I went to Pianguan?"
Zhu Feng was a little helpless.
He thought about what the old lady had told him. If he couldn't handle matters in his own backyard, how could he handle national affairs?
Ning Tong gave him a cold look: "Why do you still need me to speak in such a field?"
"Oh! It was because my family was pressing hard at the beginning that they had to let me get married. I am not talented... Tong'er, even if we are not husband and wife, we are still friends. Friends can sit down and discuss things, so why should we leave no room for it? But we It’s a good time to get together and part ways, I also told my grandmother, and she agreed to let you leave the Duke Cheng’s Mansion.”
Zhu Feng's words made Ning Tong relax a little.
Sure enough, the old lady met her second grandson and started talking?
Did you really say it?
Zhu Feng said: "But my grandmother has said that you can leave the Chengguo Duke's mansion, but you cannot marry someone else."
Ning Tong stood up angrily.
If I'm not allowed to get married, then why should I leave Chengguo Duke's Mansion?
"You are bullying! I am not from your Zhu family, so why should I listen to you?"
Zhu Feng said with a sad face: "Don't be impulsive. I'm actually on your side in this matter. Sit down and let's talk about it. In fact, it's not a question of whether you think about it or not. Marriage matters are always ordered by your parents. As the matchmaker says, as long as grandma tells you people from the Ning family, your future marriage will be...I can't help it."
Ning Tong was stunned.
Originally she was very determined and thought that she could break away from the shackles of Duke Cheng's Mansion, but after Zhu Feng said this, she understood that even if she left Duke Cheng's Mansion, his fate would still be firmly controlled by the Zhu family. .
The Ning family did not dare to offend the Zhu family.
In these days, a marriage without the blessing of parents and relatives is not only unhappy, but also impossible.
unless……
She chose to elope with someone.
But who would want him to be a woman who came from Chengguo's palace? Or the former wife of Marquis Anbian? If the old lady of the Zhu family spreads the word, who would dare to offend the Zhu family?
"Grandma may have met your Ning family and conveyed this meaning. Tong'er, don't cry. I hate seeing women cry the most. When you cry, I want to hug you..." Zhu Feng He also seems to be a very soft-hearted person.
"roll!"
Ning Tong's answer was also very direct.
Zhu Feng stood up angrily and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and reminded him: "But grandma also said that you will either be a Taoist nun and live alone for the rest of your life, or... you will marry Brother Zhang as a concubine. If that's the case, , then the Zhu family... can't object."
Ning Tong had already thought of committing suicide because of her unfair fate.
How can a woman with a strong personality still have her destiny influenced by this group of men?
But after hearing Zhu Feng's words, she was stunned.
"Tong'er, can we talk about it again?" Seeing that Ning Tong was not so sad anymore, Zhu Feng shamelessly sat down and continued, "This is also the news I heard from my eldest brother, saying that it was my grandmother who was Even if I let you die, I won't let you leave the Chengguo Palace, because this person can't afford to lose it. But I heard that there is a book in your hand, which was given to you by Brother Zhang, and he said that you had met him before... Then My grandmother transitioned, so she wasn’t so nervous.”
Ning Tong said coldly: "So, you, the Zhu family, have even thought about my way out, right?"
Zhu Feng sighed: "Actually, you also know that although my father has just succeeded to the throne a few years ago and his reputation is not very high, but looking at the current situation in the court, apart from His Majesty and the princes, we cannot afford to offend him. , among the rest, who won’t give us some thin noodles? It can even be said that except for His Majesty, no one in our Zhu family is afraid. Because we have never had contact with any of the royal palaces. "
"Humph!" Ning Tong also understood that Zhu Feng was not bragging.
Even if the Duke's Mansion is suppressed by top civil servants, there is no need to look at the civil servants' faces. At most, they have no say in the court.
In name, the Duke's Mansion was really only afraid of the emperor.
Zhu Feng said: "Besides His Majesty, who else do you think can make my Zhu family give in to me three points... Actually, this is wrong. I should say, who can make my grandmother and father afraid?"
"Is that Zhang Bingkuan?" Ning Tong asked.
"Yes." Zhu Feng nodded, with a little loss in his eyes, "Tong'er, in fact, in the past few years that you have been in my Zhu family, I still treat you as a close friend. I leave many things at home to you, and I also treat you as my close friend. A family’s…”
"snort!"
Ning Tong was snorting again.
Should we be a family or good sisters?
This kind of family really can't bear it.
Zhu Feng said helplessly: "However, Luo Hua deliberately wanted to let the water flow ruthlessly. It's really..."
"Who is the falling flower and who is the flowing water?" Ning Tong interrupted Zhu Feng and asked sharply.
"Uh..." Zhu Feng made trouble again.
Ning Tong continued to scold: "In addition to saying that you usually make friends outside, when did you treat this place as your home? You asked me to help you take care of the second house, but if you have money or something, you can live here. My hand? You say we are a family, but you know in your heart where you call your family!"
"Ahem!"
Zhu Feng could only cough to cover up his embarrassment.
At this time, Zhu Feng really felt that it was like a young couple quarreling.
Probably because they couldn't be a couple in the future, Ning Tong didn't need to save face for him, so she scolded him so directly.
And Zhu Feng seemed to like the feeling of being scolded... He had never "enjoyed" this kind of treatment at Ningtong before.
"You Zhu family members are all cowards just like you!"
"Tong'er, if you scold me, scold me, and don't bring our Zhu family with you."
"You've done so much and you're still not allowed to scold me? How can you really give face to your Zhu family and make the court only fear the emperor's relatives? I'm afraid you are afraid of anyone with some power in the court, right? When you see the powerful, you just nod and bow. When you meet with your generals, you show off your power. Now that Zhang Bingkuan has gained power in the court, and you, the Zhu family, are fawning over him, do you still have any shame?"
Ning Tong was purely dissatisfied, and this was almost a curse.
Zhu Feng scratched his head and said, "My father has never flattered anyone..."
"Hmph!" Ning Tong said, "Now Zhang Bingkuan didn't even help you fight for your Marquis Anbian? For your title, even your stubborn grandmother let me out of the house, but you still Are you embarrassed to say that you want me to be Zhang Bingkuan's concubine? Don't talk about the reputation of your Zhu family at this time? What do others think? In order to get a title for yourself, Zhu Zhijie gave your mother-in-law to others as a concubine? This is what you are What is the face of the Zhu family?"
"Well……"
Zhu Feng was stunned for a while after being scolded.
He couldn't refute it yet.
That's because he felt that what Ning Tong said was reasonable.
Ning Tong was so angry that she burst into tears and said, "Our Ning family pushed me into the fire pit, but now for the benefit of the Ning family, we can't even say a word for me..."
Zhu Feng asked curiously: "Tong'er, you don't want to leave? If you don't want to leave, you can continue to be my wife. Just pretend that what happened before has never happened."
"roll!"
Ning Tong refused unceremoniously, "A good horse doesn't turn back to eat grass. Not only do I not want to eat you rotten grass, I don't even want to smell it."
"Hey... this... what do you mean by this? Do you agree or not?"
Zhu Feng felt that he had no dignity in front of his "ex-wife".
But he was really not angry, he just felt embarrassed and wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Ning Tong said: "I left your Zhu family and even had a clear relationship with the Ning family. Why should I listen to you? Since you are back, hurry up and go to the government to settle our affairs. From now on, I will follow your Zhu family." The family has nothing to do with it!”
"good."
Zhu Feng nodded, looked at Ning Tong with sympathetic eyes and said, "Tong'er, as a husband and wife, that's all I can do to help you. You will have to walk your own path in the future. But remember, besides Besides Brother Zhang, if you marry someone else, I will think that you are like flowers stuck in cow dung!"
"Go away!" Ning Tong still responded with this simple and crude word.
…
…
Zhu Feng and Ning Tong are going to reconcile.
Originally, Zhu Feng could just send someone to go there, but Ning Tong didn't want to stay in the Zhu family because she was afraid that if Zhu Feng left, her reconciliation would be completely unresolved. The old lady of the Zhu family was the mother of Zhu Fu, the current Duke of Chengguo. The status in the family is too high, and the old lady's character is too cruel. She can't stand it alone.
This time Ning Tong asked Zhu Feng to "send" her out of the Chengguo Palace.
Ever since, the couple went to visit Zhang Zhou together.
It was also in Li Guang's former house that I met Zhang who was instructing the craftsmen to work in the yard.
"Hey, what brought you and your wife here at the same time? Is this it?" Zhang Zhou looked at the two of them with a smile.
When Sun Shangqi said that Zhu Feng and his wife were coming together, Zhang Zhou was waiting to see the "good show".
The Zhu family's feuding drama should be coming to an end soon, right?
Zhu Feng looked at Zhang Zhou with affection and said: "Brother Zhang, I can see you again..."
While talking, he wanted to go over and hug Zhang Zhou, but Zhang Zhou stretched out his hand to stop him.
"Zhijie, we have something to say. Don't use your hands or feet to make others see it. Especially... your family is still here!" What Zhang Zhou means is, who are you, Zhu Zhijie? That's not the case. secret.
Don't even think about eating my tofu in front of your mother-in-law!
Zhu Feng glanced at Ning Tong with an embarrassed expression, only to see Ning Tong looking at him with mocking eyes.
It probably means that if others regard you as a friend, you may not regard them as a friend, right?
Zhu Feng said: "Brother Zhang, I will tell you later about what happened to me in Pianguan and Ningyuan. I want you to witness something today. I...I want to go and leave with Tong'er...she."
"What?"
Zhang Zhou stared at this strange couple.
If you two want to get divorced, it's equivalent to applying for a divorce certificate. You can just go by yourself. What's the point of asking me to witness it?
Do you still want to find psychological comfort from me?
The key is, I was the one indirectly instigating the two of you to reconcile. Are you, Zhu Zhijie, careless? Don’t know what to avoid, and don’t know what to say or not?
And the former Mrs. Zhu...
Zhang Zhou glared at Ning Tong again.
Your husband is ignorant, and so are you?
Zhu Feng said: "I also know that it is a bit abrupt to say this..."
"Don't say anything if you know it's rude." Zhang Zhou interrupted Zhu Feng, "This is your own family matter. All decisions are yours to make. Don't listen to me, an outsider, and I don't need to witness anything you do."
"Strictly speaking, we are just moral friends. Zhijie, if you come to me again after you have settled the matter, I will tell you about the Yanwu Hall. Recently, His Majesty has sent people to various places. , we will recruit people who will enter the Yanwu Hall, and it is estimated that the Yanwu Hall will start at the end of April."
Zhang Zhou still didn't want to get involved in Zhu Feng's affairs.
It is difficult for an upright official to stop household affairs.
Zhang Zhou himself didn't know. Did he have no selfish motives at all when he asked Ning Tong to reconcile?
Of course, this kind of selfishness is not because he is plotting against Ning Tong or Zhu Feng, but because he feels that he should do something "something" for the times.
I advise good family men to get out of the haze in their hearts, have more concubines, and have more children.
Advise the resentful woman to divorce her husband who has a different orientation and bravely find herself.
Zhang Zhou suddenly felt that he was a bit "forcing prostitutes into prostitution and persuading prostitutes to be good".
Ning Tong, like an outsider, asked coldly: "Don't you want to know why your sensible brother asked you to accompany me as a witness?"
Zhang Zhou smiled.
This Ning Tong really has a kind of fortitude that women of this era do not possess.
Perhaps it’s because of being a harem and being tortured physically and mentally for many years that she has such independent will as a woman, right?
"Madam, please show some respect to Mr. Zhang." Sun Shangqi next to him couldn't listen anymore.
Even if you, Ning Tong, are Mrs. Anbianhou, how dare you be so rude to Zhang Zhou?
What's more, you are still the "ex-Mrs."
"Sun Qianhu, this is your fault. They are all my friends, including Marquis Anbian, and so is this Madam Zhu. Come, go hold a banquet at my house. If you and your husband have anything to say, go and explain it yourself. , you can take care of what you have to do by yourselves, I will host a banquet here for you two to come back, we will not return until we get drunk!"
Zhu Feng looked back at Ning Tong: "Tong'er, are we going now?"
Ning Tong said: "You should do this yourself! Find me a house, I want to live there, and I will give you the rent back. I also ask the Zhu family to respect me and don't disturb my life!"
After saying that, Ning Tong turned around and left.
"Tong'er..."
Zhu Feng also chased him out.
…
…
Zhang Zhou stood there, looking at Zhu Feng and Ning Tong making trouble like they were playing tricks, and he was a little confused.
Said the heart.
As a couple, one of you is a weirdo, so why should you both be weird?
Sun Shangqi asked: "Sir, are you ready for the banquet?"
What he meant to ask was that Zhu Zhijie had already run away after his mother-in-law and might not be able to come back for a long time. Are they sure there would be a banquet waiting for them both?
Zhang Zhou said: "Stop, even if I eat it myself. Eat something good! Oh! They...Sun Qianhu, pretend you didn't see or hear it, don't go out and spread the news."
"I understand the humble position." Sun Shangqi was also snickering.
Zhu Feng was promoted to Marquis of Anbian, but there was a family upheaval. The key was that Zhu Feng had no temper at all. He actually came over and asked his friends to witness the couple's reconciliation... In Sun Shangqi's opinion, no one would tell such a thing. Only Zhu Feng and his wife can do this.
…
…
In the end, only Zhu Feng came back.
Zhang Zhou went over to ask a few questions and learned that Zhu Feng did not go to the government in person, but asked Zhu Daqi to go on his behalf. If everything goes well, it is estimated that by the afternoon, there will be no relationship between Zhu Feng and Ning Tong.
"Brother Zhang, this wine is really good."
Zhu Feng picked up the wine glass and took a sip of wine. He seemed to have no appetite for the dishes on the table.
Zhang Zhou said: "Looking at you like this, you seem to care about Mrs. Ling very much. Why are you doing this?"
Zhu Feng raised her head, looked at Zhang Zhou first, then shook her head seriously and said, "I care about her, but I only treat her as a friend, nothing else."
I go.
Zhang Zhouxin said, you stole my lines.
"I just called someone to arrange a place for her. From now on, I will leave her affairs to you." Zhu Feng said.
Zhang Zhou smiled and said, "You're drunk after just one sip? What does her matter have to do with me?"
Zhu Feng said: "Ever since grandma arrived in the capital and knew that Tong'er wanted to reconcile with me, she has been making things difficult for her. I heard that it was you who told grandma that you should be kind to her, so that they, the master and the servants, could avoid being locked up in the woodshed."
"Really? I'm helping you." Zhang Zhou defended himself.
Zhu Feng shook her head: "Grandma also said that if Tong'er leaves the Chengguo Duke's Mansion... No, it should be said that she leaves the Anbian Marquis' Mansion now, and she is not allowed to marry anyone else, unless the person she marries is you..."
"You are wrong! I have a family, so I can't possibly miss your wife. We are friends." Zhang Zhouyi understood what the old lady of the Zhu family meant after hearing this.
What the Zhu family wants to say is that if Ning Tong wants to reconcile because of his relationship with Zhang Zhou, then our Zhu family will admit it.
In addition, we do not admit anything related to Ning Tong's remarriage.
Zhu Feng said: "I know too. In fact, I also asked Tong'er, and she seems to have no idea about you..."
Zhang Zhou was stunned.
Although this sounds fine, why would your wife have any thoughts about me? We are just friends of interest! It's all about showing affection and stopping at etiquette... This may not be right, it should be called abiding by etiquette.
But when you say it like this, it seems that I, Zhang, am very incompetent and cannot be favored by women.
"But for the sake of her future, I have to make it clear to you, Brother Zhang. In fact, even I think that if she follows you, it will be her best choice." Zhu Feng looked at her with firm eyes this time Zhang Zhou.
As if to say.
I can't do it, brother.
It’s up to you from now on!
"You kid, are you deliberately making fun of me?" Zhang Zhou picked up the wine glass and almost wanted to throw it at Zhu Feng.
Zhu Feng subconsciously dodges and looks angrily, probably because he feels that he said the wrong thing, but he doesn't feel that he shouldn't mention it.
Zhu Feng said: "Brother Zhang, I have an unkind request... How about you accept me as a student? From now on, I will treat you as a gentleman. If you want to be beaten or punished, you can say hello to me as you like!"
Zhang Zhou squinted at Zhu Feng.
What a great Zhu Zhijie.
Are you digging a hole for me?
Zhang Zhou thought to himself, your wife has become your master's wife, wouldn't others say that I, Zhang, stole my student's wife?
What is your intention, Zhu Zhijie?
(End of chapter)
