Sheng Weiqiao actually didn't think much about helping the Qi family take care of Rong Lingzhan and other young nephews and nieces: he just felt that the Gaomi Palace only had two mistresses, and the princess was in poor health, so she handed over the control of the inner palace to the prince's wife. It has been many years, and it is unrealistic for her to take on important responsibilities now; the prince's wife, Qi, is ill and has too much time to take care of herself. The Jian'an County Lord has already left the cabinet, and the two County Lords of Guangchang and Yunyang, who are half a year old or not, can still be given to her. Mrs. Qi, please give me a hand or something.
But the children Rong Lingzhan and below are too young to be of much use.
Even if everyone has a wet nurse or other care around them, but without a biological mother who always cares about her, who knows whether the servants will slack off
Especially when Rong Qingzui has a restless Tonglian beside him...
"Tonglian is dead!" The next morning, when Sheng Weiqiao told her husband what she thought, Rong Suihe was noncommittal at first, but after hearing this, he quickly interrupted, "He died before arriving in Ruzhou. It’s been a while!”
Sheng Weiqiao was very surprised: "Tong Lian is dead? How did he die? Did he die in the rebellion?"
Rong Suihe shook his head and said, "The princess ordered him to be drowned."
"Mother concubine?" Sheng Weiqiao was startled. Before she married Rong Suihe, she had heard that Princess Gaomi didn't like concubines, and didn't like to go out in the snow to cause an "epidemic in the palace". However, Rong Qing After taking Tong Lian into consideration, although the princess never gave Tong Lian a good look, other than that, she seemed to have done nothing substantial to help the Qi family.
Now I heard that Princess Gaomi ordered Tong Lian to be drowned, and I couldn't help but be surprised, "Is she actually so bold as to offend the mother-in-law?"
Rong Suihe muttered: "It seems that because of the bad news about Qi Jianxun or the Qi family, the eldest sister-in-law couldn't bear it and fell ill. In order to comfort her, the princess asked the eldest brother to deal with Tonglian. The eldest brother was indecisive. Just as he was hesitating, the princess died. Be patient, send him away, and take care of Tong Lian yourself.”
Sheng Weiqiao was speechless for a while, then said: "Let me tell you, when I went to the palace yesterday, I didn't see any trace of Tong Lian! I thought this person had finally learned the lesson, and the co-author was gone. !”
She had never had a good impression of Tong Lian, and when she heard that he was gone, she didn't take it seriously.
After sighing with emotion, he got back to business, "Although Lingzhan and the others are young, they are well-equipped with people to take care of them. After coming to our house, they just kept an eye on the people below. I don't think they are very good." Trouble... After all, my sister-in-law can't get up right now. If she worries about a few younger children, I'm afraid it will be even slower!"
Looking at Rong Suihe, "Do you think this is okay?"
Rong Suihe secretly cursed: You have already told Mrs. Qi, and then you come to ask me, how can I say no, will it embarrass you and Mrs. Qi in front of you
It's just that although he didn't mean to kill Rong Qingzui's family, he never thought of helping Rong Qingzui raise the children. At this moment, he was hurting his wife's face, so he nodded and finally added: "Although I don't know what my sister-in-law is doing this time." When will the disease be cured? But you also know that the sister-in-law has always been good at raising children, and the nephews and nieces have always been very close to the sister-in-law. The next few children from Lingzhan especially need their own mother at this age. If in our house After raising it for a few days, if the sister-in-law still doesn’t feel well, I’d better let them go back and keep an eye on her... not only to prevent accidents, but also to prevent them from missing their birth mother too much.”
Sheng Weiqiao pondered for a moment and said to himself that although Mrs. Qi has not yet reached the end of her life, she has been ill for such a long time. If it takes a longer time, it is not impossible that she will die. By then, the child will not be in the palace. If one is not good, he may not see her for the last time. Isn’t it a pity that we can’t even see each other
He nodded: "That's how it should be!"
Rong Suihe smiled and said: "Then let's wait for the news from my sister-in-law... Although we have good intentions, if the sister-in-law doesn't want to disturb us, it's hard to force the nephews and nieces to come over, right?"
Sheng Weiqiao said: "After all, we prepared first."
So I asked my servants to clean the courtyard and prepare for my nephews and nieces to live there.
However, although Rong Suihe did not openly object to what she did, Sheng Lanci and his wife, who were still living in the palace and were controlling the steward to clean up the Sheng mansion, knew about it and both frowned.
Feng Shitite called her into the yard where he and his wife lived, and scolded her harshly: "How free do you have to be? You are so free, whether you are looking after your own son or helping us take care of Yuan'er. , can’t you? Why do you have to take care of other people’s children? Your own biological son, your only biological son so far, is all raised by us! I don’t see how attentive you are on weekdays! But you are so quick to raise other people’s children. ! Who is the biological child of your ten-month pregnancy, huh?!"
Sheng Weiqiao was very embarrassed and said: "Mom, I didn't mean to focus on my nieces and nephews when they came over! I'm not very good at taking care of children, but I just thought that my sister-in-law is not in good health now. , when I just got married, my sister-in-law treated me very well. Now she is sick, don’t I want to help her? "
Feng said angrily: "You have to help her take care of her children? Can't you send her some medicinal materials, find some doctors with good medical skills, or give her children something?!"
Without waiting for Sheng Weiqiao to explain, she slammed the table and said bitterly, "I finally understand! This is because a group of us help you take care of Ruibin, and you don't even know the trouble of taking care of your children! Do you think your nieces and nephews are coming over? You just care about it casually? If this is your own child, that's fine. If someone else's child falls and bumps into you, not to mention enmity, your favor will be in vain! "
"It's too late for people to hide from such a thankless job!"
"But you are so eager to come here... Why can't you learn from your father's shrewdness?!"
After all, Sheng Lanci doted on her daughter more. Hearing this, she coughed dryly and said, "Yin Lu, our good girl has always been good-hearted!"
"Then take a look at what's going on in her heart?!" Feng said angrily, "How many days have the young couple been reunited since they got married? Now they finally reunite, and they haven't even breathed yet. Make a lot of trouble for yourself! I don’t believe that Mi Zhen will be unhappy!”
"For the sake of the Communist Party, I haven't gotten along with my husband's relatives very much, and I made my husband displeased. I don't even know what to say to you for being so stupid?!"
Sheng Lanci dug his eyes out again, "What do you mean by having a good heart? This is stupidity!"
Sheng Lanci touched her nose and dared not say anything, while Sheng Weiqiao said weakly: "Mi Zhen agreed..."
"That's because he spoils you!!!" Mrs. Feng slammed the table hard and roared, "Ask yourself, if we had just come here yesterday, you would have seen a bunch of children, big and small, in this house. Orphans of soldiers from the Yiying or Jishan Camps, the kind whose father died in battle, whose mother died in love, or who have long since disappeared... Mi Zhen looks heartbroken and takes them all into the house to raise them. Would you be happy?"
"... If such a situation really exists, Mi Zhen really can't leave it alone, right?" Sheng Weiqiao said cautiously. Seeing Feng looking at him fiercely, he quickly raised his hands in surrender, "Mom, I know what you mean! This matter is What I did was not good, I told my sister-in-law about this matter without discussing it with you two and Mi Zhen!"
"But at the time, I saw that my sister-in-law was really haggard, and I wanted to help her, so I told her... Actually, she didn't agree on the spot, she just said she wanted to discuss it with my mother-in-law!"
After hearing this, Mrs. Feng calmed down her anger and said, "Really? It's best for her to see clearly that you don't know how to take care of children at all, and don't worry about handing over the children to you! So as not to cause trouble for our family!"
Sheng Weiqiao: "..."
However, the ideas of Mrs. Feng and Rong Suihe came to nothing, because that afternoon, Mrs. Qi sent someone over to say that she decided to send Rong Lingzhan and Rong Lingtiao over and asked Sheng Weiqiao to help take care of them for a few days.
Sheng Weiqiao asked: "Does Ling Sui have a niece?"
The little niece is Qi's little daughter who was born not long after Sheng Weiqiao entered the house. Because Sheng Weiqiao had already gone to Western Xinjiang with Rong Suihe when she landed, and she still doesn't know the niece's name and title.
The visitor apologized and said with a smile: "The little prince and grandson have always been attached to Jian'an County Lord. These days, he is often picked up by the county prince to live in him. The wife of the princess thought that since she has the county prince to take care of her, she won't bother the princess! As for the little prince, he is still young now. She is often noisy, and the prince's wife is afraid of disturbing the princess, so she stays in the palace and lets Guangchang and Yunyang take turns taking care of her, so she doesn't plan to send her here."
When Sheng Weiqiao heard this, she thought of what Feng said, "See clearly that you don't know how to take care of children at all." She was a little embarrassed, but she quickly comforted herself: "My sister-in-law has always been considerate. She must be because she feels that Lingsui and her niece are My son is too young and naughty. He is not as sensible and worry-free as the older Lingzhan and Lingzhan. I was afraid that it would disturb us too much, so I didn’t send him here! It’s definitely not that I don’t think I can take care of the two little ones!”
After adjusting her mentality, she smiled and said to the visitor: "I have just started to clean up the house. Now that my sister-in-law has made a decision, let Lingzhan and Lingtiao come over quickly! Speaking of which, I have some time I haven’t seen them anymore, and I miss them in my heart.”
The people from the palace went to answer the question, while Jinli next to him reminded Sheng Weiqiao: "Your Majesty, don't forget that we have made an appointment to visit Ningwei Hou's Mansion tomorrow!"
Xu Zijing and his wife have helped the Sheng family a lot in the past two years, especially after the Gaomi King was defeated in Chang'an. Rong Suihe, who secretly came to Chang'an, stayed briefly, but left in a hurry because of Na Fuzhen's personal expedition to Western Xinjiang before he could clean up the situation.
Although he had Dong Liang, Gongsun Xi and other confidants left behind at that time, these were all secret rooms, and his reputation was not obvious, nor did he have the ability, status and prestige to coordinate the overall situation.
It was Xu Zijing who stood up for the sake of the friendship between the Xu family and firmly grasped the Gaomi Wang faction for Rong Suihe. He even sent Xu Baomo and his wife to Western Xinjiang to help Rong Suihe.
If a family friend can do this, it can be considered as their best effort.
When King Gaomi sent his people back to Chang'an, Xu Zijing and his wife naturally followed them.
Now that the official has been restored to his original position, he is still Ningwei Hou, still in Ningwei Hou Mansion... Of course, the Hou Mansion, like the Mi Zhen County Prince's Mansion and Sheng Mansion, has suffered a certain amount of impact and damage.
It's just that they came back early, and the scale and luxury of the Marquis's Mansion were not as good as those of the Prince's Mansion and the County Prince's Mansion. Now that their children and elders are not around, they spent some time tidying up the main house, and that's about it.
On the contrary, the underlying industries, such as some farms in Gyeonggi Province, suffered even greater losses.
These days, Xu Zijing is out doing inspections and has not been in Chang'an.
I rushed back after receiving the news that the Sheng family was coming, thinking that I would be back tomorrow morning... Otherwise, according to the relationship between the Sheng family and the Xu family, especially Xu Zijing's help to Rong Suihe this time, the Sheng family arrived on the first day After being invited away by Princess Gaomi, why did I have to go to Ningwei Hou Mansion today
At this moment, Jinli reminded him, just because Sheng Weiqiao was thinking about helping his sister-in-law wholeheartedly, so don't forget about the Xu family!
Sheng Weiqiao understood what the maid meant, nodded and said, "Don't worry! I'll remember it!"
After saying this, he finally remembered something and patted his head, "By the way, how are the Yongyi family? They said they came from the same boat. When they saw Mi Zhen on the dock, they actually took them Forgot!"