Judging whether Chu Yitong is suitable to be Jiang Yadan's stepwife takes more than a day and a night. After Mrs. Zhuang explained, her attention shifted to the pair of Ling Zui and Zhuang Man.
So Qiu Yilan received the instruction from her mother-in-law as a matter of course: "Today I will send someone to invite your aunt to bring Man'er over for a visit. Then I will talk to your aunt. As for you, call Man'er to come to your house and take a look. Her tone!"
"Don't worry, mother, my wife must have asked Man'er clearly about her thoughts!" Qiu Yilan accepted the order with a smile.
Then after Zhuang Man listened to Qiu Yilan's detailed explanation of the cause and effect, she leaned on her head and laughed so hard: "Auntie hasn't been back for many years, and she actually thinks that she loves me by marrying me to Ling Zui - this is going to spread. , everyone in the government and the public are talking about how I offended her! If it weren’t for my biological aunt and nephew, and I know that my aunt treats me as her biological daughter, I would have suspected that my aunt has actually hated me for a long time!”
Qiu Yilan calmly picked up the cherry and ate it: "You don't agree?"
This is to be expected.
However, Zhuang Man did not answer immediately. Instead, he thought for a while and then said: "Didn't you just ask me what I meant now? Who knows what Ling Zui thinks? Although there are many people in Beijing who laugh at him, But in terms of status, even if he is the daughter of a nobleman, he has no choice. Don't say no to me at that time, he still looks down on me! Isn’t it about face?”
Qiu Yilan is now a veteran, so she can't tell the meaning of Zhuang Man's words. Although she doesn't think Ling Zui is as good as Mrs. Zhuang thought, she doesn't feel disgusted either, and she even agrees a little. I couldn't help but be surprised: "You don't have a bad impression of him?"
"What are you talking about!" Zhuang Man glanced over, "It's okay for others to say that, but you say the same thing? He's not bad to you!"
"You are so heartless!" Qiu Yilan said at a loss of whether to laugh or cry, "Of course I think he is good - isn't this thinking about you? You also know what is going on in his backyard! Not to mention that he has no less friends outside than my brother! "
Zhuang Man calmly arranged the cherries into a pattern: "Do you think those people can give me a hard time?"
"Of course not." At this point, Zhuang Man was no different from agreeing. Qiu Yilan couldn't help but be curious, "I don't think you will be stumbling over Concubine Ji, but why did you fall in love with Ling Zui? In the past, you It’s not like I haven’t seen him before, but I haven’t heard you say that!”
"Adversity is a lesson in adversity!" Zhuang Man and she have always been good friends. Now, only my cousin and sister-in-law were in the inner room, so there was nothing I couldn't say. She pursed her lips and said, "This time, my eighteenth cousin and Ah Xing are coming to the north. ... I think he is nice, and his temper is not bad either.”
Qiu Yilan thought for a while and said seriously: "This is a lifelong matter, you'd better think it over carefully!" It's not that she doesn't miss Ling Zui's protection and care over the years, but that this marriage matter is between two people. The parties concerned cannot survive for long by relying on temporary impulses.
Nowadays, although the banker relies on the in-laws of the fourth room of the Jiang family, which makes the eldest princess Maode and his wife dare not underestimate him, it has not reached the level of making Ling Zui bow his head and obey his orders - after all, Ling Zui has supported Jiang Qizheng in the face of difficulties. Thanks to his great achievements, his close friend Qiu Jinglan is now someone the Duke of Qin wants to win over!
If you want to live this kind of evenly matched marriage well, you can only rely on true love.
Zhuang Man saw Qiu Yilan speaking solemnly, hesitated for a moment, and nodded, explaining: "At first, I thought he and his eighth cousin were from the same family. Two years ago, I heard A Xing talk about beating him, and I even felt that he was brave. She is not as sexy as my eighth cousin! But later I found out that although there are many people in his backyard and many good looks, he has no children from a concubine!"
"That's because Princess Maode is paying close attention!" Qiu Yilan reminded, "If mother had been in the capital, I don't think there would have been so many concubine children born before An'er!" Then An'er wouldn't be seen either. You are so young, maybe you will be born a few years ago, how many younger siblings will you have? After all, Mrs. Zhuang is so supportive of her daughter-in-law.
Zhuang Man said: "You said, I didn't think it was because Princess Maode was following the rules? But what do you think about his outside lovers? Even if Princess Maode is watching them, you said that there are so many people and Princess Maode is watching. Do you have to come here? Besides, those people don’t know his identity, so are they interested in having a child to gain status or something like that?”
"so what?"
"So even though he is messing around, he knows the importance of things." Zhuang Man lowered his voice, "Eighth cousin is far worse than him in this regard - not to mention that there are many people outside who want to use children as bargaining chips, but none of them succeed. , which shows that he is not completely incompetent!”
Qiu Yilan held her forehead and thought: "Well, being able to arrange flowers and wildflowers is indeed a skill."
"But he is not good at literature or martial arts - I am not looking down on him. This is the truth. You have always wanted to be strong. After leaving the cabinet, a woman's dignity depends on her husband first. There will definitely be many people who say this to you in the future. Think about it, you can Can you bear it?”
Zhuang Man dismissed this: "Will it be difficult for him to become an official in the future?"
Of course it's not difficult. Princess Maode and his wife were afraid that Ling Zui would be dragged into the dispute between the two queens, so they sent him to the south to work hard, so why didn't they casually give him an official position? Later, the dispute between the two queens came to an end. Ling Zui returned after hearing the news. Didn't he just leave
"Generally, as masters, some people work hard, and some people take it easy... I don't know what right the former has to laugh at the latter?" Zhuang Man spread his hands and said innocently.
Qiu Yilan lost to her logic and sighed: "Okay, I know what you mean. I will definitely tell my mother the truth when I turn around!"
After seeing off Zhuang's mother and daughter that day, Mrs. Zhuang and Qiu Yilan hurriedly had a meeting together -
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were doing the same thing today. Qiu Yilan was responsible for asking Zhuang Man what he wanted, and Mrs. Zhuang was also going to recommend Ling Zui as her niece's son-in-law to her sister-in-law Wen. However, the results were completely different.
Zhuang Man unexpectedly agreed, while Wen declined as a matter of course.
So when Mrs. Zhuang saw Qiu Yilan, she sighed: "Why is such a good boy like Zui'er so obsessed with women and unable to control himself like Dan'er? How else would he and Man'er be such a good couple?"
Qiu Yilan once again lamented the fate between Ling Zui and Mrs. Zhuang. Considering how enthusiastic Mrs. Zhuang was about arranging this marriage, Mrs. Wen would definitely tell her Ling Zui's true identity in detail, lest Mrs. Zhuang think that her natal sister-in-law You are blind and don’t recognize good people’s hearts!
In this way, Mrs. Zhuang actually thinks that Ling Zui is good at everything except this shortcoming. This is not an adopted son, he is basically his biological son!
After sighing, the problem comes - if Zhuang Man doesn't agree, Qiu Yilan can get over it by saying: "After all, there are many talented people in Beijing. Cousin Man'er is so good, let's pick her slowly!"
But now it's hard to say that. Qiu Yilan thought for a moment and then said: "Man'er doesn't think so."
"Oh?" Mrs. Zhuang was surprised.
"She feels..." Qiu Yilan repeated what Zhuang Man said exactly, and finally said, "After all, it is Man'er who is marrying herself, and the daughter-in-law doesn't know what to do? Let mother make the decision!"
Qiu Yilan couldn't make up his mind about this kind of life-long decision. He was a good friend and a foster brother who was not a real brother but was almost like a real brother.
"That's it..." Mrs. Zhuang pondered for a while, "We agreed before that Mother Chang would go and greet Princess Maode, and we'll discuss it later when the news comes over there!"
Neither the eldest son's continuation nor the adopted son's marriage went smoothly. Mrs. Zhuang felt disappointed and decided to wait for Princess Maode's opinion before she thought about the follow-up. Then she changed the subject: "Today, someone is here to report. The fourteenth daughter-in-law came back from outside today, her eyes were red, she seemed to have cried hard, and she couldn't cover them up even though she put on powder! "What's the reason?"
Qiu Yilan asked in surprise: "What's the reason?" He Shuijin has always been tenacious and calm, what news could make her lose her composure like this
"I'm wondering too! After checking with others, it turns out that she secretly asked a doctor under the pretext of checking the accounts." Mrs. Zhuang said, "Is there something wrong with her health? If so, she is pitiful for such a young person. ! And if something happens to her, there really won’t be anyone in this family who is so capable!”
Mrs. Zhuang had not been on good terms with the He family before she went to Northern Xinjiang, so she naturally didn't have a good impression of the people in the third room. But He Shuijin was an exception—mainly Mrs. Tao, Qiu Yilan, and Jiang Yashuang, all of whom had a good opinion of He Shuijin.
Moreover, after Mrs. Zhuang came back this time, He Shuijin met her several times. His neither humble nor arrogant attitude and just the right amount of respect made Mrs. Zhuang feel that this junior was very unusual and she was very impressed by her. At this moment, I suspected that she was suffering from some bad illness, and felt a little pity in my heart.
When she said this, Qiu Yilan's face changed slightly: "Look at the doctor... She can't help crying... Could it be that... she was murdered by the He family and had a miscarriage, leaving sequelae?"
It's very possible!
It has been two years since the miscarriage between Shuishuan and Shuijin. In the past two years, she has used both soft and hard tactics as usual, and has controlled Jiang Yaheng very tightly. Except for occasionally stealing food outside, she still has no concubines in the backyard. If they were a healthy couple, they would be pregnant again! But there is no news so far. Could it be that she can no longer give birth, or is having difficulty giving birth
"Such a big hatred! I really don't know how He Shuijin plans to take revenge on the He family?" Qiu Yilan sighed in her heart, "No matter how capable and powerful the infertile women of this generation are, they are nothing - but fortunately the He family's son is He Shuijin’s husband, otherwise, according to He Shuijin’s temperament, if he doesn’t have an enmity or if he does, he will fight to the death, it’s probably going to be hard for everyone in the third house to talk about it!”
Mrs. Zhuang noticed something strange about her and was about to ask, but Chang's mother knocked on the door outside and whispered softly: "Madam, the 19th Young Madam! The 14th Young Madam has brought something over and said she has something she wants to discuss with you two! "
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked at each other in confusion, and Mrs. Zhuang thought thoughtfully: "It probably has something to do with her going to see the doctor... But, if she really has a health problem, what are we two doing to her?"