Chapter 72: The Xu Family
Thanks to the demon fish Dudu and the blue before death, the reward of the three tubes of the tree outside the window, what is the renewal ticket? It looks like it's going to be hard to code words. Hehe!
==========
was frightened by Xu Huizu's intimidation for a long time, Xu Hao walked out in a daze, he really listened to the words in his heart, without knowing the true details of history, who knows what will happen in the capital?
Xu Huizu's attitude is undoubtedly to consider the problem from the perspective of the entire family, and if he wants to protect the safety of the family, he must only choose to be loyal to the emperor.
Temporarily labeling Xu Huizu as a loyal minister, Xu Hao asked his subordinates on a whim and learned that the elders were all at home when the dynasty was dismissed today, so he ran to ask to see the second uncle Xu Yingxu.
This Xu Yingxu is honest and not good at words, his sense of presence in the Xu Mansion is very low, except for the last dynasty on duty, he almost stays at home on weekdays, and he does not have many friends, compared to the Xu family who talks about Xu Huizu behind his back with a cold face, and the Xu Mansion up and down said that Xu Yingxu is a real cold-hearted person, and he is indifferent to anything in the family.
Xu Yingxu has a well-known benefit, that is, filial piety, and always accompanies his old father.
Xu Hao didn't see the second uncle, because Xu Yingxu had the closest relationship with his father Xu Qingtang, and the silk shop was opened by the two of them.
Xu Yingxu's official position is the lowest among the three brothers, and for so many years he has been from the Wupin Shang Bao Si Shaoqing, who is a famous Qing Shui Yamen, nominally in charge of the jade seal and other important weapons of the country, but in fact there is nothing.
There is a joke in the officialdom that whenever the emperor wants to use the jade seal, the officials of Shang Baosi run to the steward eunuch of Shang Baojian with a piece of unmasking, and sometimes the eunuchs love to ignore it, and Shang Baosi has to beg grandpa to tell grandma. When he finally received the holy decree, he had to rush to the inner Shang Bao Si to beg the female official who held the seal, this holy decree had no deterrent effect on the closest female officials around the emperor, and they had to work hard to please others, if the female officials were making things difficult, the impatient emperor would accuse them of these officials for not doing things well, in short, they were a daughter-in-law yamen, and they were angry left and right.
In this way, Shang Baosi is trying to survive in the cracks all day long, and no one dares to offend in the slightest, otherwise people will nag a few words to the eunuchs and palace maids, and keep it so that Shang Baosi can't eat and walk around.
Therefore, Shang Bao Si is a place that no one wants to go, generally those guards and jinshi who have been rewarded for the first time, newcomers who have won meritorious service, or the children of Xun Gui and the children of ministers are the first stop of being an official, used as a springboard, if Xu Hao is promoted in the future, it is very likely to come to Shang Bao Si, who made him a loose official and a guard and a noble child.
is such a cold yamen, Xu Yingxu has been in it for nearly ten years, it can be seen how low-key he is, he is basically not keen on his career, that is, he often says that he does not seek progress.
Dad and the second uncle have a virtue, it's no wonder that they smell like each other, and Xu Hao is also very close to Xu Yingxu, because he is the same person.
Xu Yingxu looked very happy when he saw Xu Hao, and after saying a few words, he asked people to go to the inner house, and after a while, the next person came out with a few new clothes and asked Xu Hao to take them back and wear them.
Xu Hao, who couldn't cry or laugh, came out after thanking him, fortunately, only the new clothes had no silver or anything, this is the absence of his own family, otherwise wouldn't he be regarded as coming to fight the autumn wind?
He ran to the study of the fourth uncle Xu Zengshou, this Xu Zengshou is Xu Da's youngest son, who is less than thirty years old this year. Married at the age of fifteen, the eldest son Xu Jingchang is already fourteen years old, and he is deeply loved and arrogant by his parents.
Xu Zengshou is the youngest of his peers but has been prosperous all the way, and now Xu Huizu is the right governor of the Left Governor's Mansion, and he is already the Governor of the Left Governor's Mansion and the second grade, which shows that he is sociable and exquisite.
In Xu Hao's generation, everyone likes the amiable and enthusiastic Xu Zengshou, and Xu Zengshou cares about family affection the most.
Xu Zengshou obviously also knew the news that Yan Wang and Lan Yu were attacking each other, and he was sitting in the house worriedly at the moment, and when he saw Xu Hao coming in from outside, he said without seeing outside: "Come and sit next to me and chat with your fourth uncle." ”
Xu Hao walked over and sat down with a smile, Xu Zengshou asked the old lady and his relatives very seriously, and asked Xu Hao about his recent situation, and Xu Hao answered them one by one.
Xu Zengshou sighed: "The old man and the eldest brother can't stand you, I have a strict order, and it is inconvenient to go over and explain in person, why bother with being a family?" By the way, is there something urgent about you coming? ”
Xu Hao smiled bitterly and said the condolences, and Xu Zengshou immediately accused: "You kid is too bold, do you dare to make your own decisions in this matter?" As the saying goes, the dead are the greatest, you are bent on saving money but offending all your relatives, if there is any difficulty in the family in the future, who can help you? ”
Xu Haoxin said that who is related to them? But it's also true, the three aunts in my family are all princesses, as long as whose family has a little relationship with the royal family, won't they all become relatives?
If you calculate it this way, the relationship between Lan Yu and us is not shallow, Lan Yu's sister is the crown princess, and my aunt is the daughter-in-law of King Yan, what is the matter!
Looking at his speechless nephew, Xu Zengshou smiled: "Figured it out? It's okay to do something wrong, make amends in time afterwards, just say a few more kind words. Prepare a thousand taels of silver for your uncle, and you should hurry up and make up for the sacrifice immediately. ”
The fourth uncle is really too generous, right? That's a thousand taels of silver! At this moment, Xu Hao was really moved, and everyone said that the fourth uncle was the best for his relatives.
Not wanting to wait for Xu Hao to get together, Xu Zengshou suddenly said in a low voice: "You go to Yanwang's Mansion by the way, and warn the two of them that they must be honest and responsible in recent days, especially Gao Xu, and definitely not hurt people for no reason, now is a critical moment, any small thing will affect their future and life, remember, remember!" ”
"Yes."
After coming out, Xu Hao came back to his senses, and dared to love this fourth uncle as a like-minded close comrade-in-arms! It's true, it seems that Xu Zengshou has completely stood on the side of his brother-in-law Zhu Di.
It's funny to think about it, but once you have been admonished, you have got clothes and silver, and you can be regarded as a great gain. Xu Hao naturally wouldn't be stupid to give away all the silver, he didn't want to come to the door in person, so he ordered the guards to make up fifty taels of silver for each family, wrote a name thorn to offer, and the remaining eight hundred taels were just reserved for the decoration of the hotel, and then he went to Yanwang's Mansion by himself.
Zhu Gaochi had already prepared for this, said a few words, and sent Xu Hao to the door with a sad face. Before leaving, Xu Hao said very relaxedly: "Brother, let go of ten thousand hearts, our family must be safe this time." ”
Zhu Gaochi was surprised in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Then borrow your auspicious words, and when this matter settles down after a while, come to me if you have anything." ”
After Xu Hao returned home, he handed over the silver to the account office, explained the way, and instructed his husband not to divert it for other purposes. Now Xu Hao confesses everything and says it frankly, and his heart is selfless and the world is wide! Including the matter of carrying my wife behind my back, you can beat me and scold me, but you can't help my style.
Soon the eldest lady Wang got the news, gritted her teeth angrily, and it was in response to that sentence that she couldn't attack at all, she made the decision to give out six hundred taels of silver at once, if the old lady knew, she would be scolded for being a loser.
It didn't take long for a sentence to circulate in the capital, and the cheeky Xu villain slammed the door and pretended to be a big husband.
Xu Hao smiled when he learned about it, he had many enemies, and he couldn't find out who was deliberately disgusting himself, so let's just do it. He kept Xu Huizu's words in mind, and at that time he told Zhu Gaochi for a long vacation under the pretext of Mu Ningxue, except for the errand that had to be on duty, he didn't plan to have any contact with all parties in the capital.
I hid at home for many days, and it was rare to have a light snow on the tenth day of the first month of February, which is probably already a snow in Zuihou this year. Soon we will see geese moving north, glaciers thawing, and spring blooming.
The sisters of the Wang family have lived in the Xu family for half a month, and in recent days, they have changed their previous affection and vein, and they have become very cold when they bump into Xu Hao. Xu Hao guessed that it was probably that nursery rhyme that worked, such a woman who listened to the letter, you should go home quickly.
The snow made the old lady come to Yaxing, and sent Yuelan into the garden early in the morning to inform her, saying that she would bring the whole family to enjoy the snow in the morning.
Tianxiang Pavilion, the owners of the garden gathered together for this purpose, discussing how to entertain distinguished guests.
Xu Cuiyun said sadly: "Don't say that there are no delicacies from the mountains and seas, even if you have them, you can't make new ideas, what should you prepare to entertain?" ”
Wang Xuansu groaned: "A few days ago, I went to Cuiliu to eat snow tea, and the aftertaste is endless, so it is better to treat you with this tea." Prepare some snacks or something, it's too late to send people into the city to buy at this time, and there are no good things in this season, so it's better to prepare some interesting games to make the elders happy. ”
Xiao Yuying, who was sitting alone, had picturesque eyebrows and chuckled: "This little snow is thin, shallow and unclean, besides, where can you find so much plum snow?" I can prepare whatever I see, so why bother? Don't you know that the old lady is most disgusted with the vassal elegance of the girls in the family, and he is not allowed to learn any poems and lyrics, do you want the old man to be old and accompany us to hide and seek and pretend to be a family? ”
Wang Xuanqing knew that Xiao Yuying had not been waiting to see her since she learned that her aunt was interested in marrying, and she often spoke-for-tat, she was the daughter of the Hou Mansion, and she was too lazy to care about Xiao Yuying, so she smiled and stopped talking.
Xu Hao smiled and watched them discuss back and forth, and glanced at Xu Cuiliu, who was sitting beside him and had not spoken, he heard that the Wang family had hurt her mercilessly, so that Xu Cuiliu lived alone on the hill these days, and if it weren't for the old lady coming, he would never go down the mountain easily.
Xu Hao thought that it was time for the guests to leave, and when they all left the red leaves and moved back to Tianxiang Pavilion, he thought of a way to get Cuiliu to the bamboo garden, and accompanied her for a period of time to slowly enlighten her.
At this time, a very handsome girl from the Liu family began to speak, Xu Hao didn't even remember the name of the family, and he didn't bother to listen to what she said, so he joked with Hongye in a low voice.
Suddenly, Xu Hao's gaze met the girl's gaze, and the girl's face turned red in an instant, and she stammered when she spoke.
The girls present all knew that they were deliberately laughing, and the embarrassed Wang family girl was embarrassed, Xu Hao smiled when she saw this: "Why are you making fun of others, it's very good." ”
The girl glanced at him gratefully, Mei Zizi lowered her head, Xu Haoxin said badly, and hurriedly said: "But I think the idea of red leaves is better, why don't we entertain the elders with the special barbecue in the garden?" The day before yesterday, I made a pair of mahjong, and you all said it was fun, so you just set the table and teach them to play, and the food was ready-made, and everyone was preparing some other shows, and chose a place with the best view. ”
Hongye made a grimace at Xu Hao, Xu Qinglian nodded and smiled: "Then according to Hongye's idea, let's discuss it again, and then go our separate ways." ”