Chapter 17 Mother VS Mother

Qi Jiulu was kowtowing, and the tablets of golden nanmu were neatly placed on the incense table, just like the ancestors of the Qi family, looking down silently and coldly.

Not far behind him, the expressionless Patriarch of the Qi family rolled up his sleeves and said calmly: "My ancestors and ancestors have blessed you, and you have returned safely. I thought that you would spend a lot of time in the Imperial Capital because of that one." Go down, call me Qi Shi, and raise you for nothing."

"Didn't father still have Jiuzhang?" Qi Jiulu inserted the incense into the censer in front of him, and said lightly, "When my son went to the Imperial Capital, my father started to cultivate Jiuzhang. What? I felt that Jiuzhang was not satisfactory, regretted it, and thought of my son again? "

"Jiu Zhang is a child of the Qi family, and you are also a child of the Qi family. Although you have concubines, they are all of my blood." The Patriarch of the Qi family said, "You are only thinking about people you shouldn't care about, so we shouldn't cultivate Jiu Zhang? After cultivating nine chapters, is it possible that you don't need to serve the family anymore? If you weren't the first son of my Qi family and the marriage contract of the fourth wife of the Xie family, how could it be your turn?"

Qi Jiulu raised the corners of his mouth, but there was no smile in his eyes: "But when you retired, what was the eldest son of the Qi family?"

"So you still can't understand it today?!" Patriarch Qi slightly raised his voice, and said hesitantly, "At the beginning, you thought that if we wanted to retire, you would get your wish?!"

Qi Jiulu said coldly: "The Qi family and the baby are too useless to resist the nobles of the court..."

"I'm not talking about that!" Patriarch of the Qi family interrupted him, "Even if there are no noble people to interfere, do you think this marriage can continue? You really underestimate Xie's ambition! Don't say anything else, let me ask You, Concubine Xian, no, Concubine Min’s current stepmother is her aunt Mrs. Xie, how did she marry Duke Yi’s clan brother?! You must know that all the clans in my northern land have always married in the countryside, why is that so? Mrs. Yun Xie will marry the son of Mr. Yun whose hometown has nothing to do with the Northland, and who happens to live next door to Duke Yi's mansion, so that after Concubine Min Gui was forced to leave home to hide from the limelight, she quickly got married to Mr. Yi through this aunt. Duke?"

"If not, even if Concubine Min lived in the Imperial Capital for ten or eight years, would she have anything to do with the Imperial Palace?!"

Qi Jiulu frowned slightly, but said nothing.

The Patriarch of the Qi family continued on by himself: "Our family has lived in the north for generations. If we want to find a backer from the temple, the regent and the Northern Army are the most readily available. And even if the regent does something bad one day, we can do it." The subterfugeists are all in the Northland, and they are coerced by them, so they have to do it. Although they can't completely get rid of it, they can still give up the car and protect the handsome. But all these years, we would rather stick together, be cautious in words and deeds, and Not willing to take refuge in the regent or any of the nobles in the court... Have you ever thought about why?!"

He breathed out slowly, and said helplessly, "You and Concubine Min were too young when the incident happened. We elders have not had time to explain many things to you. Later, I want to tell you, But you couldn't listen to it, and wholeheartedly believed that we were perfunctory. But now that you have grown up and become a father yourself, are you still as ignorant as before?"

"...If Mrs. Xie wanted to climb the dragon and become the phoenix early in the morning, why did she marry our family?" Qi Jiulu asked slowly after being silent for a moment.

Patriarch Qi said: "They may not have such thoughts at first, but people's hearts are changeable. Why didn't Concubine Min make an oath with you at the beginning? But now she still thinks of you?"

"..." Qi Jiulu looked up at the beams for a while, then got up and walked out without saying anything.

A moment after he left, the Patriarch of the Qi family sighed, and followed him out of the ancestral hall. After walking a short distance, he was stopped by the Chen family who was walking next to him: "Husband, do you believe Lu'er?"

Patriarch Qi frowned, and said: "He is not a child anymore, even when he was a child, you don't know, but he is shrewd about who, how can he be so easy to deceive? But after all, that person This person is in the deep palace now, and it is impossible to be with him. So I knew that there was a flaw in my statement, but I didn't point it out... I just acquiesced that there is no relationship with that person."

Chen said bitterly: "That lady who is also a decent lady, how can she seduce a man like this? Pian Lu'er just never forgets her!"

"Don't say such things. Mrs. Jiang is famously virtuous, and the girls she raised are of course not bad. Otherwise, why would our family hire Lu'er?" Different from Chen's resentment towards Yun Fenghuang, Although the Patriarch of the Qi family was also very depressed about the eldest son's obsession, he had no hostility towards the culprit that the Chen family believed to be the culprit. He said at this moment, "It's not surprising that you can fall into the eyes of your majesty. What do you think about the vision of those nobles in the palace? Concubine Ruomin It's the kind of duplicity, and she doesn't have any backing, how can she be where she is today?"

"...you men, you probably go blind when you see a good color." Chen looked at him incredulously, for a moment, sighed, and said, "Which one is not duplicity? Why are you all forgetting about Xie Fenghuan while pretending to be good? It was her own sister who yelled about it, not someone who framed her!"

The Patriarch of the Qi family said: "There are quarrels between sisters, and children are ignorant. I know you don't like that one, but she has an extraordinary status now, you'd better be more cautious, and be careful that the trouble comes out of your mouth!" Besides, if Lu'er hears it, I'm afraid it will be sad again."

Chen took a few deep breaths before calming down: "Forget it! I won't tell you this! I'll just ask you, can Lu'er agree to take a concubine, or have a male heir with Chao's? Our family is already withered, let alone Lu'er is the eldest son, we have been married for two years, how can I have only a daughter under my knee?"

"He's still brooding about the past, and I'm thinking about letting him blame Mrs. Xie and blame others, so as not to be lukewarm to us all day long, and always remember that we didn't persevere to the end and fulfill his wish." Patriarch Qi pinched his forehead, "What do you want me to say about the heirs in this situation? Either you can say it yourself, but let me tell you, if you make Lu'er no longer have a home in the future, don't bother me."

"If I dare to say what else would I do with you?" Mrs. Chen said angrily, "I said at the beginning that Mrs. Chao should be hired. In that case, he would never have the chance to get close to that person, so how could it happen? This is what it looks like now?! None of you listened, and everyone said Xie’s daughter is the best, now it’s all right, let’s make my Lu’er look like this!"

She began to cry as she spoke, "In the past, who didn't envy our son from all over the world? Now it's all right. If you don't say it on the surface, who doesn't laugh at him in private? Not only a joke, but look at the child's face in the past two years. There is no smile at all, and people are getting thinner and thinner, and even joined the army! You still have two bastards, but I am just such a biological flesh and blood! It's all your fault, it's all your fault and the elders! Let me tell you, If something happens to Lu'er in the future, I don't want to live anymore, I will fight with you!"

While talking and beating her husband, the Patriarch of the Qi family didn't care about his wife's fists and embroidered legs. He just felt aggrieved: "This is something that can't be helped. Who can think of what happened later when we got married? Besides, who can live in this world?" No twists and turns? Lu'er is the eldest son of you and me. If he can't hold on with mere jealousy and ridicule, he is not qualified to take over the Qi family! As for joining the army, what do you know? Uncle values ​​it, no matter how many people ask for such a future, Luo Tieyi is still the son of the famous Luo family in the imperial capital. He joined the army for many years before Lu'er, and now he is no more than equal to Lu'er!"

"It can be seen that Uncle Zhaowu treats Lu'er generously!"

"Be kind, but if there is any war, Lu'er must go to battle!" Chen said with tears, "When the time comes, swords and guns will have no eyes, who knows what will happen? I would rather Lu'er not have this future, as long as he Stay right in front of me!"

"A woman's opinion!" Patriarch Qi frowned, "You are far behind Mrs. Jiang of the Xie family in this regard. Concubine Min Gui was a prostitute back then, and Mrs. Jiang was willing to arrange for her to go to the imperial capital for a future. You even the eldest son Refusing to let it out, just like that, you still wanted to suppress Mrs. Jiang's own daughter? I really don't know what to say!"

Just let her stop worrying about it, because he and the elders in the clan are very supportive of Qi Jiulu's gaining a future in the Dingbei Army.

And Qi Jiulu himself meant the same thing.

Chen had nothing to do if he wanted to object.

If Mrs. Chen was only angry just now, she almost died of anger at the moment. What she dislikes the most in her life is the mother and daughter of the Jiang family. She is cruel and selfish, but when she was her own daughter-in-law, she was overwhelmed by the Jiang family inside and out. After she became in-laws with the Jiang family, but because her son's elbow was turned outward, even the young Yun Fenghuang was in danger. Can't suppress it.

Husband still wants to say that now?

At that time, she rushed up to fight him with an "Aww"!

In this dispute between the husband and wife, the unlucky one in the end was... Chao Jingyou.

Chao Jingyou was very much loved by the Chen family before, especially in order to embarrass Jiang's mother and daughter, her predecessors and future generations showed extra importance to Chao Jingyou, almost as if they were their own daughters.

But in the past year, Chen's attitude has changed a bit.

The most important thing is that Chao Jingyou gave birth to a girl.

After all, the in-laws can be regarded as people of status in the Northland, and they still boast in front of people, saying that the granddaughter is beautiful and cute, and she is a smart and blessed child at first glance.

In private, as the father-in-law of the Qi family, it is not easy to directly talk about the daughter-in-law, but the Chen family is urging Chao Jingyou to have another one. The point is to give her another grandson, no, it is best to have ten or eight grandchildren!

Chao Jingyou: "..."

She wanted to give birth, how many women these days can not rely on their sons as their ultimate support?

But the problem is, Qi Jiulu doesn't come into her room at all now, how can she have a son by herself?

It's not that he hasn't considered using some dirty tricks. The problem is that Qi Jiulu is not a fool. He has been practicing martial arts for many years and is physically strong. After getting along with a bad-tempered fiancee like Yun Fenghuang, even if he was careless at first, he has become used to being careful. , not to mention that Qi Jiulu was not a careless person in the first place.

The key point is that he doesn't trust Chao Jingyou at all, it can be said that he is guarding against her.

This is still the Qi family. Even if the whole Qi family respects Chao Jingyou, a woman like this, they even more uphold Qi Jiulu.

Chao Jingyou euphemistically told Chen about her difficulties, and hoped that Chen would help her, but Chen didn't dare to touch her son's bad luck, so she blamed her for her inability to win her husband's heart.

Now that Mrs. Chen and the Patriarch of the Qi family had finished their quarrel, she also called Chao Jingyou to scold her, saying that it was her failure to live up to expectations that caused the cloud to linger on the Qi family, and her yin and yang were strange. Pleasing to the eye, lying down for a long time, I felt a little more comfortable, and waved her to go down.

...The story quickly spread to Jiang's ears, and her confidant aunt just sighed: "This Chao's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law deserve it, but it's a pity for our Seventeenth Miss."

"What's the pity? Is it better to be a concubine to a young and powerful emperor than to be a wife to a well-matched eldest son, and to be angry with people like Mrs. Chen?" Mrs. Jiang said flatly, "Qi Jiulu is young and ignorant, and you are confused too? "

The aunt was startled, and quickly gave herself a slap in the face, and said in a low voice: "Your servant is guilty."

Jiang's expression eased a little, and said: "Fenghuang is a big tree now, and the matter of her and Qi Jiulu has been criticized many times. People outside don't feel sorry for her, and it's okay to speak and act freely. We are her direct relatives. My mother's family, I can't and don't think about her."

"Yes." The aunt said in a low voice, "It was the servant girl who made a slip of the tongue just now, and I won't dare anymore. But, madam, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of Chao's family are making such a fuss, and since we can find out, there may be someone outside who knows, and I'm afraid it will give Seventeen Where is the lady bringing you trouble?"

Jiang said "Yes": "So it's time to make an idea for Chen. She wanted to dominate me all her life but failed to do so. Logically speaking, I should not give her good looks, but there is no way. In order not to I can only repay my grievance with virtue once if I let them trouble my Fenghuang with nothing."

Her revenge with virtue is to ask someone to propose to Mrs. Chen to ask Qi Jiulu to change her regular wife.

"Lu'er has been married for two years, right? Why is she only a concubine?" The person who said this was Chen's natal sister-in-law. Why don't you see a concubine? Before, you always said that Chao Shi was virtuous, and that it was a pity that your husband refused to hire this Chao Shi, but now it seems that you have lost your eye."

Mrs. Chen is already very dissatisfied with Mrs. Chao now, but she refuses to admit that she has poor eyesight: "I can't blame my daughter-in-law for this matter, it's because my son has been busy for the past two years, and he was calculated by others last year. It hurts for a few days."

"Pregnancy in October is a woman's business. No matter how busy he is, he won't be so depressed. In my opinion, in the final analysis, he doesn't like this Chao Shi, and he doesn't even want to take the concubine that Chao Shi arranged for him. Touch." Her sister-in-law sighed, and said, "It's no wonder, young man, that one is the most outstanding among his peers... In my opinion, this Chao family can't solve Lu'er's knot in one day. If you really feel sorry for Lu'er, you might as well send Chao Shi away for him!"

Chen frowned and said, "It's only been a few days since they got married? Even if there is a knot in their hearts, it will be fine after a while."

"In normal times, it's nothing to wait for three to five years. After a long time, everything will be taken lightly." Her sister-in-law reminded, "Ke Lu'er is not working in the Dingbei Army now? You went back two days ago Look at my mother, did you mention worrying about him? I heard from relatives in Yanzhou that Weihe is a little unstable now, and I don’t know if it will involve our side? At that time, the Dingbei Army will definitely be The first one to go up. Like Lu'er, who has no backing at the top and has a grievance with the Luo family's son, can he not be pushed to the front?"

Seeing that Chen's face changed, she moved her body, moved closer, and lowered her voice, "So you said you have the time to let them come slowly?"

"...Sister-in-law, you must have been entrusted by someone, right?" Mrs. Chen pondered for a while, then doubted, "Could it be that someone has taken a fancy to my Lu'er, and I was thinking about asking you to persuade me to come to their family? Daughter to make room?"

Her sister-in-law glared: "What nonsense are you talking about? Am I that kind of person? I'm Lu'er's real aunt, how can I plot against you two for outsiders?"

Chen said suspiciously: "Then tell me, if Lu'er divorced Chao, should he continue to marry? Whose daughter should he marry?"

"Of course I want to marry again." Her sister-in-law snorted and said, "After all, Lu'er is the eldest son of the Qi family. How can he become a widower without a wife? As for who is going to marry? I, I haven't thought about this before. , but that day you were worried about Lu'er's safety, but I thought of someone."

"Uncle Zhaowu's concubine-daughter!"

"That's the half-sister of the current empress!"

"I'm following Uncle Zhao Wu, and I'm in Yanzhou. Isn't it right for me to be our daughter-in-law in Beidi?"

Chen Shi was stunned for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Sister-in-law, you are...you are too..."

Now she doesn't doubt that her sister-in-law was entrusted to come here, because Uncle Zhaowu's concubine daughter, even before Gu Zhen became a queen, was a noble daughter that the Qi family could not reach.

What's more, she is still the queen's sister now?

Even though Chen felt that his son was outstanding in talent and appearance and was not suitable for an ordinary woman, he was not so confused as to think that his family was qualified to propose marriage to Uncle Zhaowu, especially with Uncle Zhaowu's concubine-daughter as the continuation!

... Maybe her sister-in-law has lost her head? ? ?