Chapter 361: Family and State Affairs, No Worries

Half a year is just a flick of the fingers for people who are proud of the spring breeze, but it is like a year for people who are precarious. However, most people have only experienced the middle of winter and midsummer and ushered in August and autumn, which is just a normal year, nothing more. There was only a small earthquake in the city of Beijing in June, but now it has completely returned to normal, the city walls that should be built are still built, the rich people who should move in are still relocated, and the government has even built porch houses in many places in the city, but they are rented to the people.

In the upper room of the north courtyard of Zhang's mansion, Dongfang was praising this benevolent government with a smile on his face: "The emperor migrated to fill Beijing with rich people from all over the world, so he naturally had a house to live in." I heard that the big houses in this corridor are near the Xuanwu Gate and the Bell and Drum Tower, and the rent of each big room is 45 yuan per quarter, 90 yuan, but it is much cheaper than buying a property. Recently, we have added a lot of people to our family, and we have hired more people than in the past, and I heard that there are many large houses near our house, so I simply rented ten or eight rooms to make my home more spacious. ”

Gu is now nearly seventy years old, which can be regarded as a first-class longevity. However, even so, her eyesight and ear power are now much worse than before, and she walks two steps in the yard at most with Bai Fang's support on weekdays, and rarely even goes out of the door, hugging her little grandson and great-granddaughter when she is free, that's all. At this time, when she heard that Dongfang Clan had calculated the housekeeper's account, she frowned lazily, and then said lightly: "Now that you are your housekeeper, you can do it if you think it is appropriate." ”

"Since the old lady said so, I will let people go to the treasury to pay the money to rent a house."

Dongfang was full of smiles, and was about to stand up and exit, but saw the thick yellow-brown curtain suddenly move, followed by two people coming in one after the other, who were actually her two daughters-in-law. Zhao Fen in front of him was dressed in shiny gold-like clothes, and his face was full of grandeur; Li Yun in the back was wearing a lotus-colored dress, and her face was quite uneasy. After the two came in, Li Yun saluted the two elders first, but Zhao Fen stepped forward and knelt straight in front of the Gu family.

"Old lady, you have to give me justice!" Without waiting for Gu to speak, Zhao Fen kowtowed three times, and then straightened his waist, and the original well-combed bun suddenly became a little scattered, "After I entered the door, I always followed the rules and etiquette, who knew that there were still people who looked at me unpleasantly!" The four girls in my room were all given to me by my aunt when I was a child, and I have been with me for many years, and I have never treated them harshly. And the four mothers in my yard, two of my nurses, and two old people who served my mother, so why should they move out? ”

Gu originally thought that there was something wrong with Zhang Qi and Zhao Fen's young couple, but when they heard this, they were taken aback, and couldn't help but glance at Dongfang Clan. was not only annoyed by the second daughter-in-law's childish anger, but also hated that Zhao Fen didn't know that he was a venerable person, and exposed the matter in person. However, just when she took a deep breath and was about to reprimand, she didn't want Zhao Fen to turn around and pull Li Yun over, and put down a heavier sentence.

"Old lady, it is right for a daughter-in-law to serve her elders, but you can ask your sister-in-law, how is she doing this day? She is the daughter of the Bofu at home, she is much more noble than me in terms of status, and she is the eldest daughter-in-law, you personally let her learn to be a housekeeper, but she can't interfere in any major affairs, let alone care about any use. She just gave her personal girl to her husband virtuously, and the girl raised her first great-grandson, but she was not thrown in the face? It's only been three months since I passed the door, and my wife couldn't wait to add people to the room, and hinted that if I didn't accept it, I would be unvirtuous, and now even my people have to be taken away one by one! ”

Because of the previous delicate things that touched the nail on Li Yun's side, Dongfang Clan saw that Zhao Fen did not show any fierce and pungent nature after entering the school, and he had long forgotten those rumors, so he took out the prestige of his mother-in-law little by little. Where did she expect that the second daughter-in-law clearly retreated to the corner of the wall step by step, but suddenly showed such sharp teeth, and at this time, her face was so angry that her face was blue and white, and she couldn't find a rebuttal for a while.

"Enough!"

Since she heard that Zhang Yue was going to be made an earl after Zhang Yu came back, and she was worried about the current situation of her eldest son Zhang Xin, Gu also knew that the long house was now no longer able to fight and had nowhere to fight, so she had already instructed Feng to take advantage of her illness not to take care of the housework, even if Dongfang didn't let Du Juan interfere because of her youth, she also endured it. However, now that the granddaughter-in-law came here to tell her mother-in-law so bluntly, she only felt a wave of anger rushing to her brain.

Zhang You is not her son-in-law, I think she didn't deliberately make things difficult when the Dongfang clan entered the door, at most, she was separated from each other, didn't this unconscious second daughter-in-law know that Li Yun and Zhao Fen's maiden families were still noble?

Seeing that the old lady was full of gloom, the second lady was so angry that she trembled, the two young grandmothers were kneeling on the ground, one was tilting her head and stalking her neck, and the other was rubbing the corners of her clothes without making a sound, the girls in the room couldn't help but look at each other, and finally they all looked at Bai Fang. However, even if he took the position of Lingxi and really encountered such a thing, Bai Fang was still stunned, and after hesitating for a long time, he still didn't say anything. I don't know how long the stiff atmosphere lasted, but finally a voice came from outside.

"Old lady, a message has just been sent from outside, our second master and eldest young master have arrived at Tongzhou Wharf, and now they are rushing to Beijing! The second master also asked people to spread the word that he must be the first to face the saint now, and he will come back later. ”

Hearing these words, the originally stiff faces suddenly gradually stretched. Thinking that Zhang You's father and son went to sea for more than half a year this time, sweeping the coastal islands, and killing pirates on Dongfan Island, I don't know what kind of risks they have encountered, if they make housework at home as soon as they come back, it will undoubtedly be a joke to spread it, so Gu immediately made up his mind.

"Hear it all? The second brother and the super brother are coming back, no matter what is unhappy or unhappy, let me go now! The second wife just said that she went out to rent a house, I don't think there is any need, there is still vacant land at home, if you don't even have the money to build a few rooms for your son and daughter-in-law, I still have a private house here! Brother and daughter-in-law, even if your wife is in a hurry and does something inappropriate, you can quietly remind me, or you can whisper to me, what kind of system is such a big noise! No matter how noble you were when you didn't go out of the pavilion, now that you are the daughter-in-law of the Zhang family when you are out of the cabinet, you must remember to respect the elders and the young! ”

The annoyed Gu family blocked the Dongfang clan one by one, and then reprimanded Zhao Fen heavily, and calmed down the commotion just now, she simply kicked everyone out, and then sighed for a long time. Glancing at the few girls next to her who didn't dare to make a sound, she couldn't help but feel physically and mentally exhausted. She is already sixty years old, I don't know how many years she will live, and now she can see her second son knighted as a wish, but if she wants to complete another one, who knows when?

One by one, she turned the Buddha beads on her left wrist, and she only felt upset: "Bai Fang, how long has Brother Yue's daughter-in-law been out?" ”

Bai Fang came to her senses at this time, and hurriedly replied: "The third young grandmother went out in the morning, if it was according to the past, most of the British duchesses would have to keep food, and they would not come back until at least after lunch." After a pause, she added another sentence in a low voice, "The third young master is in the Beijing camp every day, and if you go out early and return late, you will not be able to get home until at least late at night." ”

Gu snorted lightly: "If you ask you one, you will answer two, why don't you talk about brother and brother?" ”

"Old lady, the second young master has always gone out on time and came back on time, and there are no more rules, isn't the fourth young master still in the country, except for the holidays, there is only one vacation every three months?"

However, Bai Fang's answer that he thought was leakless was wrong today, Zhang Yue, who had been busy for half a year, was not in the Beijing camp outside the city, but in the British mansion.

Because of the birth of a son in his later years, coupled with her son's congenital deficiency at the beginning, Mrs. Wang specially gave her son the nickname Tianci and went to the Buddhist temple to send his name. At this time, seeing Zhang Yue looking at his little cousin Tianci who was still sleeping in swaddling clothes, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but smile and reminded: "Brother Yue, you have been staring at him for a quarter of an hour!" ”

"Look at what you said, uncle, I just look at the heavens one day at a time, ten days of great changes, these days have not seen a strong circle, like a calf! If nothing else, what child is so strong under a year old? ”

Zhang Yue looked at Du Juan as he spoke, and he was indescribably grateful. Not to mention anything else, just based on Zhang Fu and Mrs. Wang's care and love for him in the past few years, he naturally hopes to keep the only heir of the couple. Twenty years later, his cousin will be able to inherit Zhang Fu's mantle, what are you worried about at that time?

Although the Gu family had ordered everyone not to talk nonsense, Mrs. Wang also knew that her birth was difficult, and there was almost no doctor in the family at that time. It wasn't until Du Juan brought this Dr. Feng to the door, bathed the child with various medicinal herbs, and prescribed additional prescriptions for the nursing mother, that the child's body gradually improved, and he had never been sick in the past two months. She has always had a child who has suffered from gains and losses, and when she heard Zhang Yue say this, she couldn't help laughing.

"It's not your daughter-in-law's fault? I have to go with me almost every day, and if my daughter-in-law is half as good as her in the future, I will be relieved. Anyway, I heard that you still often live in the Beijing camp? It's not that I'm talking about you, although you have to do your best to do what the emperor ordered, you don't have to be in a hurry, you can't finish the things in this world, let alone you do it alone. The emperor will call you to do this, and the emperor will call you to do that, this mind is really hard to guess. Your lobby uncle is not here, otherwise you can still refer to the details. ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Wang's tone was a little more solemn: "Just now Xiyu also said that your second uncle is back, this time he has made military merits, and he is about to be knighted, you have to think about yourself." I'm not trying to stop you from becoming a civil official, but after all, a military attaché is hereditary, and if you have a title, you don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life...... Yesterday, I also heard that Meng Xian was at the funeral in Haifeng, Shandong, when he happened to meet the Japanese from the sea, and the magistrate was gone, but he organized Ding Zhuang to kill dozens of people, and was reported by the Shandong Political Division. After all, the emperor remembered the merits of Lao Mengshan in the past, and now that he has returned from the one-year mourning period, he will probably be reinstated. It's such a good person who has such ups and downs, and now it's easy to rise again, isn't it for the sake of watching the knighthood with his eyes? ”

Hearing this unexpected news, Zhang Yue's eyelids jumped. Although he knew that Meng Xian would definitely not be so idle for the rest of his life, was it too fast to make such a smooth comeback after just one year of mourning?