Mr. Xiang teases her husband every day

Chapter 119 Pure Minister

Seeing Fengniang with tears in her eyelashes from the bronze mirror, Li Shi sighed.

"Fengniang, take An Jiu and An Wei over there for some meals."

Feng Niang raised her sleeves to cover up her tears, forced a smile, nodded, and led Xiang Anjiu and Xiang Anwei to the side hall, where there was already a table full of dishes .

"Ma'am, Eldest Young Master, Second Young Master, the meals are all cooked in the small kitchen at the old lady's side, and they are still hot."

Hearing what the serving girl said, Feng Niang felt a little better in her heart.

The reason why Xiang's house is so lively today is because Xiang Li's new concubine's daughter is full moon. Xiang Li is very happy, and said a few days ago that he would have a full moon wine, but he didn't want to have such a big banquet.

Inside the house, Mrs. Li asked Ah Ting, who was married and came back to take care of her, to tie up her hair for her.

"It's enough to do it a little bit. It's the hour, and I don't want to go anywhere."

The eldest sister of the Xiang family who was sitting at the other end hesitated for a while before asking, "Mother, are you sure you don't see outsiders?"

Mrs. Li glanced at her, and snorted, "It's just a concubine's birth, why do you want me, an old woman, to come forward to greet her? How can I have such a big face."

The eldest sister of the Xiang family murmured: "Didn't you say that the girl had a good birth?"

"No matter what, she is also my granddaughter. Since she was born in our family, she can't be invisible, right?"

The eldest sister of the Xiang family wrapped up a ball of thread and said: "Fengniang is the same. She has been the only one by Muzi's side for so many years. Now she is just a concubine, why can't she figure it out?" The tone was very disapproving.

Mrs. Li didn't say a word.

After Chunmei's incident, Fengniang completely turned against Muzi. Although they are still husband and wife, they have been living in separate rooms and beds. Muzi has been deserted enough for the past few years.

The two of them couldn't tell who was more unfeeling than the other, but even so, now that Muzi was hosting a concubine's full moon wine, Feng Niang still entertained him for an hour with a smile on her face, giving Muzi enough face.Although an hour later, Feng Niang went straight back to the inner house and never cared about the entertainment.

Alas, I only have pity on her grandchildren.

The eldest sister of the Xiang family bit her lip, put down the thread in her hand, and rubbed against Mrs. Li, Qi Qi Ai Ai asked: "Mother, you said that when Concubine comes back, he, will he not be willing to help?"

"Your business is not difficult. Isn't their family struggling to make ends meet? Muzi also said that he would lend you some money to make ends meet, but you still don't agree, and you have to wait desperately for Muzi to come back. Why, there is no hurry?"

Li Shi was also uncertain about his youngest son's temper.

The last time Sister Xiang went back to her in-law's house in a temper, she said that she would never ask Mongzi again. If it was the Mongzi before, I am afraid that she would never like Sister Xiang again from now on. It's getting better and better.It's just that Sister Xiang's actions are extreme, and she will put down her face and ask her mother's family for help. I don't know if the anger has calmed down.

"Hurry up, how can you not be in a hurry? If it weren't for seeing how hard life is, I wouldn't have the face to come back and beg for my son! Last time I just pissed off Zhao Shen a few times in anger, and he threw me his face. Am I his eldest sister?" How can I bear it? I quarreled with him a few times, but he wouldn't let me. The most annoying thing is, he is obviously an older sister, so why do you help the second sister and not me? When I was young, I took care of him the longest !"

Mrs. Li rubbed her forehead, her expression worried, she waved her hand to tell Ah to stop, and said, "It's not like you didn't see that Congzi was proud of Zhao Jinyan, why did you provoke him?"

Sister Xiang pursed her lips: "At any time, Zhao Jinyan has to obediently call me Auntie, but I can't bear it if I say it. I really shouldn't have agreed to let him in. I and Congzi are brothers and sisters."

After a while, the noise outside gradually dissipated, and after a cup of tea, he came in from outside with a somewhat drunk gift.

"Don't walk around when you're drunk, go back and rest."

Seeing his appearance, Mrs. Li was neither angry nor angry, so much so that she felt uncomfortable.

Xiang Li narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked, "Mother, when will Mongzi arrive?"

"It's about the past few days in the letter, so it's either tomorrow or the next."

Hearing this, Xiang Li just nodded, and after saying goodbye to Mrs. Li and Sister Xiang, he walked out of the door. When he reached the door, he looked in the direction of the side hall, hesitated for a while, and finally stretched out his hand to lift the curtain. strode out the door.

Biting her lip, Xiang Anjiu turned around from the porch where she was hiding, looking at the direction Xiang Li left with resentment in her eyes.

When the carriage set foot on the land of Lizhong County, it was the setting sun, and the sun, like a big orange ball, fell in the western sky, and it seemed that it was about to sink all of a sudden, but in fact it didn't move for a long time.

It was late and the wind was blowing.

Inside the carriage, Xiang Yuan was leaning on the small table, reading the letters with a serious expression by the faint candlelight.

After Zhao Shen finished a cup of hot meat porridge, he was holding a blue and white porcelain bowl to feed Xiang Zhuangzhuang.

"Father, don't feed me, I will eat by myself."

Xiang Zhuangzhuang didn't appreciate it, he was already a big boy, how could he still ask someone to feed him?When the news spread, all face was lost.

Zhao Shen put down the porcelain bowl regretfully, and thought to himself: The child is getting older, and I don't like being intimate with him anymore.

Seeing that Xiang Zhuangzhuang was eating elegantly and quickly, Zhao Shen turned his head to look at Xiang Yuan, but he saw Congzi who had a relaxed face before, but now his brows were furrowed, his eyes were heavy, and his face was tense.

Zhao Shen's heart skipped a beat.

"Congzi, what happened?"

Xiang Yuan has always been able to feel that something is going to happen, he will communicate with Zhao Shen in advance, firstly to make his daughter-in-law prepared, and secondly to enhance the relationship between husband and wife.Therefore, after guessing what Lin Gong meant a few days ago, Xiang Yuan told Zhao Shen exactly what he meant.As it was about his husband's future, Zhao Shen naturally attached great importance to it and kept it on his mind. Seeing Xiang Yuan's solemn expression at this moment, he immediately thought of Lin Gong.

Xiang Yuan put down the letter, handed it to Zhao Shen, and said, "Well, the teacher has retired and returned home."

"So fast!"

Although Xiang Yuan had analyzed it with him, at the end of the day, Zhao Shen still felt that the matter happened too fast, as if he was being pressed by others.

"This is not the worst. It is said that Senior Brother Zhang will also be transferred from the capital to the Fenshui area. The other three Senior Brothers, except for the one who was in the post at the beginning, the other two are planning to be transferred back to the capital this year. It’s not going to happen.”

Zhao Shen read the letter at a glance, and frowned, "How could Mr. Lin get involved in the fight between Wang and Gu? This is not Mr. Lin's way of doing things at all!"

Xiang Yuan closed his eyes slightly.

Indeed, getting involved in the struggle between two aristocratic families is not something that the chief minister of the cabinet like Lin Gong would do at all.But this incident happened, so there is only one possibility: Someone intentionally asked Mr. Lin to get involved.

Not surprisingly, he should still have two years in office in Hejian Mansion.If he is transferred to the capital at the end of his term of office, I am afraid that he will not have a single acquaintance in the capital. At that time, besides the saint, the crown prince will be the one who can back him up. Once he chooses to do this, then his future For official career, there is only one choice: pure minister.

This is also what the saint asked of him.

Duke Lin probably already guessed the meaning of the saint, so if there is no major event when he goes to Beijing to report on his duties, Duke Lin will basically not contact him.The same is true for senior brother Zhang Ji, except for the first time to accept the wind and wash away the dust, in the days that followed, Zhang Ji seemed to have forgotten him as a senior brother, and never sent any news again.

Pure minister?Seems good too.

Xiang Yuan raised the corner of his mouth slightly, met Zhao Shen's worried eyes, reached out and pinched his fingers, then scratched his daughter-in-law's palm, and said softly, "Don't worry, it's nothing serious."

The palm of his hand was scratched, Zhao Shen couldn't help shivering, feeling that half of his arm was numb.Throwing an eye knife, Zhao Shen withdrew his arm.

Since Congzi said nothing happened, then don't worry.

"Master, Zhengjun, you're home."

While speaking, Niu Er said something from outside through the carriage door.

Hearing this, Xiang Yuan opened the door and saw that the carriage had stopped in front of Xiang's house in Chuiliu Lane.

Xiang Li led his servants and stood in front of the gate with a lantern. When he saw Xiang Yuan showing up, he went down the steps a few steps and said with a smile, "It's almost here. If Mugzi is a day later, I'm afraid I'll be worried." Go to the temple to burn incense."

I haven't seen him for a few years, and Xiang Li is a little fatter, but his neat demeanor is still considered elegant.

Xiang Yuan smiled slightly: "Brother."

Xiang Li responded, and hurriedly called his servants to help lead the horse to carry the salute.Xiang Yuan watched coldly, always felt that Xiang Li seemed to have a guilty conscience?

Xiang Li really had such a guilty conscience.

He didn't know why.If he was talking about Chunmei, he was wrong, but didn't he also drive Chunmei away afterwards, planning to have a good life with Fengniang?Unexpectedly, Feng Niang was determined to separate from him as if she had eaten a weight!On weekdays, he doesn't care about food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and he has to take care of everything by himself. What's even more annoying is that because of Chunmei's incident, the two sons also complained to him, venting their anger with Fengniang, and hating him in every possible way. This dear father.

After a year or two, Xiang Li also became cold-hearted. Seeing that Feng Niang was still unmoved, he simply brought in the concubine's room again.This time, he was a good girl from a small family with no background who had been chosen out of thousands of choices.This concubine's room was also upbeat, and gave birth to a girl for him as soon as she entered the door, which made him very happy.As soon as I am happy, I promise my concubine half-time full moon wine.He didn't intend to do such a big thing at first, but because of Xiang Yuan's relationship, the Xiang family is rising, and those who are invited and those who are not invited all come to the door with gifts. Seeing this, Xiang Li had to urgently send his servants to the hotel to make a reservation. Come back from the table, that's why the whole moon wine didn't go wrong.

Xiang Yuan and his party entered the inner house and arrived at Li's courtyard. Feng Niang was waiting under the porch early. Seeing them coming, she stepped down the steps and said happily: "Xiaozi, Jinyan, you have counted, come in quickly, Mother is very anxious to wait."

Since Zhao Shen entered the door, he found that Xiang Li and Feng Niang didn't seem to have reconciled, and this time the two didn't show much warmth even in front of everyone.Xiang Li didn't say a word, and Feng Niang acted as if Xiang Li didn't exist.However, the smile on Feng Niang's face towards them at the moment was very sincere.

"Uncle, Aunt, welcome back."

Xiang Anjiu led Xiang Anwei and stood beside Fengniang, smiling all over her face.After saying hello, and seeing Xiang Zhuangzhuang standing beside Zhao Shen, Xiang Anjiu stepped forward to hold Xiang Zhuangzhuang's hand, and said cheerfully: "Zhuangzhuang, let's go, brother will take you in to greet grandma! "

Xiang Zhuangzhuang still remembered Xiang Anjiu, happily following Xiang Anjiu towards the house.The three little ones happily entered the room, and after a while, Li Shi's loud voice came out.

"Oh, grandma's good grandson, I really miss my grandma."

Xiang Yuan bent his lips and smiled.Looking sideways at Xiang Li, he saw that he had a dull face, his gaze was fixed elsewhere, and the corner of his eye glanced at Feng Niang from time to time.

After entering the house, Xiang Li found that not only Mrs. Li was in the house, but Sister Xiang was also there.

"Miss?"

Sister Xiang had a embarrassed expression on her face, and said falteringly, "I, I'll come back and have a look."

Xiang Yuan looked at Mrs. Li, and Mrs. Li glanced at Zhao Shen, and said vaguely, "Well, she's coming back for a few days, look at me, an old woman, and I'm going back soon."

Xiang Li looked at Sister Xiang, obviously a little angry.His mouth moved, looking at Xiang Yuan and the others who had just arrived home, they didn't say anything after all, they just gave orders repeatedly for hot water and food to be brought up.

After washing up, I had a warm meal, and the fatigue from the journey seemed to have dissipated a lot.

Xiang Yuan and Zhao Shen's room is still the same one.It's just that as Xiang Li's business grew bigger and bigger, he bought all the houses on the left and right, and the Xiang family's house has been expanded several times.Therefore, the room is still the same room, but it has become the main room that belongs exclusively to him and Zhao Shen's courtyard.

Zhao Shen's body was heavy, and he ate and slept all the way, finally returned to Xiang's house, after eating and drinking, he was lying on the bed drowsy.In the dimness, he seemed to hear Niu Er whispering to the murmur: "...the day before yesterday, concubine...full moon...fengniang..."

Fengniang, have a concubine?

Zhao Shen only had time to think of this and fell into a deep sleep.