The emperor indeed valued Ji Changze very much. As soon as he saw this courtier who was sweet-talking and practical, he handed over the coupon for the royal decree for his wife and mother. He immediately approved it as quickly as possible, and even bought two and got one free. One gave a royal decree to Ji Changze’s grandmother.
When Wei Juncan was about to give birth, the decree was already on the way.
When the child was able to open his eyes and was lying in the cradle, being teased by Ji Changze with a rattle, and Wei Juncan, who was still in confinement, looked on with a smile, the decree came.
Even before when her husband became the prefect, Wei Juncan, who was born in an official family, knew that she would get the royal decree, but when the Holy Spirit's will really came and she would really be the "Madam" from now on, she still felt like she was dreaming surprise.
Ji Changze smiled deliberately and made a mocking salute to her: "I have met Madam, congratulations."
Wei Juncan was so amused by him that the sense of unreality in his heart disappeared a lot.
Ji Changze said: "Although my father-in-law and mother-in-law must have known about this matter, in the end it is still solemn to inform you personally. I am afraid that my mother's death is coming soon. I will write a letter and send it to my family now, and you will also write a letter later. Tell your father-in-law and mother-in-law so that they can feel at ease."
Wei Juncan nodded, and after watching her husband go out, he called for someone to get pen and ink.
After thinking about it for a while, I didn’t know what to write.
She had never had children before, and although she respected her parents, she didn't know what they wanted her to be. Now that she was a first-time mother, her heart softened every time she heard her child's babbling voice.
What I think most about is not how this child will get ahead when he grows up, or how he will be admitted to the imperial examination, but that he can live a peaceful life, not asking for wealth or power, as long as he lives a good life. Just be happy.
Thinking back again, when she married her husband, her father and mother were all sad. At that time, she thought they were sorry for her because she got married in a daze. Now that she thinks about it, her parents may be worried that they don't know her husband well and are afraid that he will treat her badly. She is not good, I am afraid that she will not be able to adapt to a life that is worse than before.
When I turned around, I saw that in the early morning sunlight, which was not dazzling and was very comfortable on my body, my son, who had grown fair and chubby in just a short time after birth, with round elbows, was sleeping in the cradle. There was a girl beside him who was embroidering tiger-head shoes. Keep on guard.
When her mother gave birth to her younger brother, although she was young, she still remembered a bit of what her mother looked like during confinement. The mother could not see the wind, and the doors and windows were tightly closed for fear of letting in a trace of wind. I couldn't take a shower for fear of getting cold and my body would always stink. At that time, my mother wouldn't let my father enter the house because she was afraid that my father would see that scene.
But now she is undergoing confinement. Because she uses glass windows, even if the windows are closed and the house is not ventilated, it will not prevent the sunlight from coming in. She is lying on the kang specially made by her husband. Although the weather is cold now, there is no ventilation underneath. But it was extremely warm, because it was also hot in the house. Although I still didn't take a shower, I could still wipe myself down.
Now I feel refreshed, my body has recovered, and I am in a good mood. The child has been very well-behaved since he was born. Although he is drinking breast milk, the wet nurse and the girls will take care of him when he gets into trouble. Will help the child change diapers with his own hands.
This is how happiness is, slowly seeping into your heart bit by bit.
Even if her husband does not become the magistrate, but is still the little weeping willow magistrate, she will still feel very happy.
Wei Juncan smiled, dipped his pen in ink, and wrote on the paper: Father and mother...
She wants to tell her father and mother that she is living a good life now. Even if her husband is now the prefect and is respected by the saints, he does not treat her lightly. On the contrary, if someone in the government invites her husband to go to a brothel, he has always been Strictly refuse and never approach other women.
When it comes to children, he never believes in holding grandchildren rather than children. He hugs them when they should, and teases them when they should. The children are very close to their husbands.
Now that she is in confinement, her husband has not shared a room with her. At night, when the child cries, he will get up and comfort her himself.
If there hadn't been that accident and they had followed her parents' original plan to find a husband with a similar family background for her, even if he was a good person, he probably wouldn't be as good as her husband.
The girl who was guarding her little master accidentally looked up and saw her master writing a letter with a nice smile on his lips.
She felt relieved too.
When the master is in a good mood, their servants can live with peace of mind. She must take good care of the young master. The master has said that now she is about to get married. The master has told his wife that when she gets married, he will also give her The dowry allowed her to leave the government office.
She has no father or mother, she sold herself here, but she was able to get the support of the government when she got married. How could she not shed tears of gratitude.
After she gets married, she will return to the mansion and serve the master, wife and young master for the rest of her life.
Over there, Ji Changze went to the study to write down a letter and sent someone to deliver it to his hometown at high speed.
The person who delivers the letter is also very familiar with the route, and he is very filial. Every time he comes up with something new or something delicious, delicious, drinkable and fun, he will make a copy and send it to his hometown.
Logically speaking, this is a private order, but the people below are trying their best to get this job, and even play guessing games, and only the winner can take it.
There is no other reason, sir, you are so generous!
It doesn't take long to send a letter once, and you can eat and drink at public expense along the way. When you come back, you will not only get the gratitude of adults, but also get rewards.
This kind of money must be looked down upon by Wuxian Cheng and others, but for these poor people with small salaries below, it is simply a windfall from heaven.
Therefore, they wished that Mr. Ji would send a letter every day.
Of course, Ji Changze was not that exaggerated. At most, he would only send something to his hometown once a week, because every time the laborers rode around on horseback, he still felt uncomfortable, so he pulled the three subordinates and started a conversation: "Should we do it?" "Express delivery" small meeting.
As for how the three people were frustrated and full of resentment... He just didn't see it. If he couldn't see it, it meant it didn't exist. It was quite perfect.
After watching the person who delivered the letter leave, Ji Changze returned to the house, rubbed his hands, and began to write a letter full of subtle flattery with a serious face.
Yes, this letter is addressed to the emperor.
Since becoming the emperor's confidant (self-proclaimed), he has given full play to his shameless spirit and added a lot of personal items to his greeting package.
In fact, being an emperor is also a hard job. There are too many people under him, and everyone has to send out invitations at a fixed time.
Because this is a tradition, and everyone has nothing new. Basically, it starts with a dry sentence: Your Majesty, Holy Ann, I send you greetings. The weather is good recently, and I will think of you. If the weather is bad, I will also think of you. Although I am far away in x, I have always been thinking about His Majesty Barabala in my heart.
Stacks of foldables were all the same and nothing new. Except for the different handwriting and names, everything else was almost the same. The emperor couldn't see it even with eighteen pairs of eyes.
But what can be done? He is not a foolish king. The people below are thinking about him and specially greet him. How can he just leave it aside and ignore it and chill the hearts of his ministers
No way, just watch.
Not only read it, but also reply one by one: I know, I saw it, I know your heart, the weather here is also good, dear, please pay attention to your health.
Replying to one or two is okay, but replying to so many piles and not letting others do it for you is like a tiring and hard laborer.
And every time he did these things, what the emperor looked forward to most was to see Ji Changze's greeting note.
The text is humorous and the language is interesting. Occasionally, he will tell interesting local anecdotes, sometimes mixed with a few food recipes and very vivid descriptions of how delicious this thing is and how much happiness he will feel after eating it.
Among the boring greetings, Ji Changze successfully stood out with his unique sweet words and became a breath of fresh air in the emperor's working life.
Gradually, even though the emperor didn't know what Ji Changze looked like (he had seen him before but didn't take it to heart at the time and had long forgotten it), Ji Changze's status in his heart was indeed becoming more and more important.
If this was a favorability-increasing game, Ji Changze would probably hear the prompts "The emperor's favorability increases by three" and "The emperor's favorability increases by five" all the time in his ears.
The emperor even couldn't wait to call Ji Changze back to the capital during the Chinese New Year. Although he couldn't call him back to the capital to work, he could always come for a walk.
Because Ji Changze would occasionally mention how much he and his wife were in love, how gentle, considerate, generous, kind and outstanding his wife was, and she took the initiative to help him share the pressure of the orphanage and so on. Although she was everyone's daughter, she had no Arrogant and arrogant, when he was appointed as the county magistrate of Chuiliu County, the county government was extremely dilapidated, but she never complained. Instead, she secretly used her dowry to supplement the family income.
It was precisely because he saw his wife, who was everyone's daughter, like this that he firmly decided to make money and improve the environment of Weeping Willow. This is why he built Yuanhua Pancreas, named after Yuanhua, because Yuanhua has always been famous in Weeping Willow. The purpose of showing off women (which he did not know until Ji Changze arrived), he felt that it was very appropriate to compare Yuanhua to his perfect wife.
Because of Ji Changze's all kinds of overt and covert praise, the emperor not only had a good impression of him and his wife, but also had a good impression of Master Wei, the person who taught such a good daughter.
When it comes to educating his children, he can't compare to a minister.
Before, he specially asked the queen to reprimand the third prince's concubine who dared to influence the royal selection. Who would have expected that after the reprimand, the third prince, who had been doting on the woman, immediately ignored her, and even threatened to ignore her to the end. mean.
It's not that the emperor didn't want to see his son neglecting that poisonous woman, but you were so sweet and sweet before, but you just turned your back immediately after being scolded by the queen. Not only were you cowardly, but you were also extremely irresponsible.
Otherwise, the emperor is difficult to serve.
If the son still dotes on that woman after the queen scolds her, he will only feel angry in his heart and wonder if the third son doesn't take them seriously and actually dares to like someone they hate.
Now that people were obedient and instead of pampering, he was indifferent. He was angry again. He felt that this son used to be smart, but now he seemed smart but fierce, but he was too irresponsible. Is this still his son
In addition, he was able to pamper that poisonous woman for such a long time without seeing her true face, which shows that he has no understanding of people.
He had added this son to the "Competition List for the Throne" before. Now it seems that he has no outstanding abilities, is too timid, and has bad eyesight. He can't even compare to the daughter raised by the Wei family. Go on, you are still competing for nothing, just stay here and be a prince from now on.
The third prince naturally didn't know that his father had removed him from the "throne competition list", but he could clearly feel that his father had become more and more cold towards him recently, and the eyes he looked at him no longer had the same expectations as before. satisfy.
And all of this started when the father asked his mother to scold his concubine.
At that time, the father did not say the reason, but only sent a message to the queen to be reprimanded by her. However, the father never interfered in the harem, and he had no interest in their sons' concubines. This was the first time that he took the initiative to be reprimanded by the queen.
That woman must have done something to offend the Emperor. Unfortunately, no matter how I asked her, she just cried and complained that she had never met His Majesty and had never done anything to offend His Majesty.
The third prince has already recorded this debt on his concubine, so it is conceivable that her life will not be much easier.
I'm afraid she was so depressed that she never imagined that she had tried so hard to marry the third prince even though her rival's innocence was ruined, but in the end, what she was given was a lifetime of indifference.
Being confined inside the house, she could still hear the chatter of the little girls outside.
"I heard that there is a thing called a fire kang in the palace. It will be very cold tomorrow, but it will be too hot to lie on it. Your Majesty has already used it and ordered the queen to make one too. Now every palace wants to I want it, but I don’t know if our Third Highness can have it.”
"The Third Highness is the Queen's legitimate son, so it is natural that he should be so. Is this fire kang really so powerful?"
"No, it seems that Mr. Ji, who was the former magistrate of Weeping Willow and is now the magistrate, got in. The same happened to Mr. Ji before. Why is this Mr. Ji so powerful? I heard from Little Box that his godfather's brother is here. Your Majesty is traveling with you, and even though Lord Ji is out in public, Your Majesty values him very much."
"Of course it should be taken seriously. Mr. Ji has donated so many treasures to His Majesty. Let's not talk about it for now. Now that the sun has come out, I have to go and dry the bedding."
She listened blankly to the people outside talking.
She naturally knew who the former magistrate of Weeping Willow County was. Wei Juncan's husband was also a poor student she found casually.
There are people around her who are married to such students. The poorer these men are, the more arrogant they are in their hearts. They look down on officials who marry them. Most of them think nothing of marrying their own daughter. It's not "how much I should cherish her no matter how good she is", but "she married me just because I am so good".
Except for those who have their own means and scheming, most people who marry into a small official family cannot live a good life, because in addition to facing husbands who think they are talented, they also have to face country parents-in-law who may not be able to read or write. , they are illiterate and regard their "excellent" sons as the most powerful people. They think that when a woman marries into their own family, she should be a cow or a horse. Even the woman's father should immediately pave the way for his son. If the daughter-in-law's family helps, they will be proud of it. Their son is very powerful. If he doesn't help, it's his daughter-in-law's fault.
She had seen too much, so from the beginning she wanted to marry into the royal family and become the imperial concubine. She would be much better than others in terms of reputation.
As for Wei Juncan, if you want to blame her, it's her unlucky fault. Who made her happen to bump into his hand? Who made her so pushy? If Wei Juncan hadn't stolen her limelight, how could she have taken action.
Wei Juncan should be allowed to marry such a person and spend his next life struggling in the swamp.
But she can become the third prince's concubine. If the third prince ascends the throne in the future, she may also become the imperial concubine.
But now, everything has changed.
Logically speaking, one should believe that Wei Juncan was a slut. Ji Changze, who treated her lightly and was not outstanding in literary talent, should have spent his whole life as a humble official in a small place like Weeping Willow, suddenly became the prefect. With such a favor, Wei Juncan also had a royal title. .
But she, for some reason, failed to reprimand her, and even the third prince treated her indifferently.
She was lying next to the door, unable to figure out why things turned out like this.
Wei Juncan's husband is obviously a lowly businessman. He should love money and be arrogant. He should treat Wei Juncan coldly when the mountains are high and the emperor is far away and Wei Juncan's natal family cannot help him.
But why, he is so good.
She is unwilling to give in and does not believe that Wei Juncan can take advantage of all the good things in the world.
Even if Ji Changze is good to Wei Juncan, shouldn't his parents, who are businessmen and should have a shallow vision, pick on Wei Juncan and make arrangements to give Ji Changze concubines to breed offspring after their son becomes the prefect
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"Concubinage?"
The gray-haired Grandpa Ji sat at the door, basking in the sun and squinting as the person in front of him spoke to him in a flattering manner.
"No, Mr. Ji is already the prefect. I heard that he still doesn't have any concubines. It would be a bit embarrassing to say this. Old lady, look, my granddaughter is sixteen years old. She is beautiful and smart, and her appearance and temperament are beyond words. , and I wholeheartedly admire Lord Ji, you see..."
Grandpa Ji touched his beard and waved his hand: "My patriarch does not accept concubines. He is very busy and has no time to marry a girl to the house."
The visitor's expression froze, and he never thought that this could be the reason for the rejection.
He wanted to say a few more words, but Grandpa Ji had already squinted his eyes and started to doze off while sitting. The servant waiting next to him hurriedly came forward; "Mr. Ma, the old lady is getting older and more confused. She often sits like this recently." He sat down and fell asleep, why don't you come back another day?"
After all, the man didn't dare to wake Master Ji's grandfather, so he could only leave with regret.
As soon as he left, Grandpa Ji immediately opened his eyes and snorted coldly.
Nagasawa often sent letters and things, but he often told them about the current affairs in the officialdom. Now that he suddenly sat in a high position, I don't know how many people were jealous and wanted to pull him down. There were many people in the government offices staring at him. (They are all his confidants), he not only has to take care of the state capital, but also has to finish the things left by Weeping Willow. He is so busy every day (either lying down or sitting) that he hardly even has time to return to the inner office. However, those people below who wanted to drag him down also made trouble for him and wanted to send women to him (to please his boss).
How can he have time to deal with these women? His wife will not bother him because she has a good relationship with him and feels sorry for his busy schedule. She only wants to make him live a long life, but these women who serve others with sex will not Thinking about it this way, if they were really allowed to enter the house, they would just want to squeeze him dry.
Anyway, as long as they have grace, they don't care about his body.
He was very distressed about this and refused many times. Fortunately, his wife didn't mind sacrificing her own image and acted out a "tigress" scene with him, which stopped the servants from thinking of giving the woman away (they were too busy to even think about it). It’s time to think about how to please your boss).
The old man was literate, and while he felt sorry for his grandson, who had so much trouble with the greater his rights and responsibilities, he directly rejected the people from his hometown who wanted to curry favor with his family and wanted to send women to their homes.
Directly saying, "These women are like wolves and tigers, my grandson is so busy every day that he has no time to deal with them." It definitely won't work. Fortunately, he is older and has a higher seniority. Every time the other party wants to say it again, he just pretends to be confused or pretends to be asleep. It works every time. .
After pushing away another rotten peach blossom for his grandson, he stood up with satisfaction and asked the boy beside him: "Did Nagasawa send someone to deliver a letter today?"
"We haven't entered the day yet, but counting the days, I'm afraid it will be these days."
The servant carefully supported the senior old lady in the family and asked, "Where are you going, old lady?"
"Just go and see your wife and see what she is doing."
The madam is making clothes for her great-grandson.
She was older, but her eyesight was not bad, and she was sewing a small piece of clothing carefully. Grandpa Ji came and saw it, and laughed at her: "What are you doing with all this effort? Nagasawa Juncan and the others have many servants at hand. Can the child still lack clothes?"
"What others do is not as good as what I, my great-grandmother, can do."
Grandma Ji and Grandpa Ji have lived together all their lives, and she is not afraid of him. She speaks casually: "I used to be afraid that I wanted to go to Nagasawa but couldn't bear the pain on the road. Now Nagasawa sends people to deliver things and letters every two days. It’s as if he is still with us.”
While the two were talking, Ji's father came.
Because Ji Changze also gave him a supply channel for Yuanhua pancreas. Although it was small, Ji's father felt that his son had become a talent and he was also proud of his career. Recently, he was walking like a tiger and a tiger.
When I saw my parents, I bowed to them first, and then casually mentioned that I was going to drink today, and it turned out that a man insisted on marrying his daughter to his son as a concubine.
Grandpa Ji and Grandma Ji immediately became wary: "Did you refuse?"
"Of course I declined."
Ji's father answered very quickly. Seeing this, the second elder gave him a satisfied look.
The three of them looked at each other and smiled, saying nothing.
Today is also a day to work hard to protect Nagasawa from being squeezed dry.