Meng Shi had already learned from Cong Wan's mouth that they met Zhong Guan at the door, and when Zhong Qiyuan came back, she said, "You, Aye, seem to have remembered us."
For more than ten years, except for ancestor worship, Zhong Zao has never come back to visit them, let alone take care of them by his side, and every month a letter in the living expenses is also a tone of complaint.
Meng Shi's respect and love for him have long since been exhausted by his ruthless actions over the years, and he no longer has any expectations for him.
He asked his eldest son to come back today to assist her in presiding over the wedding ceremony of the youngest daughter. She was not surprised at all. After all, he did not come back for the wedding ceremony of the eldest daughter. Even because the eldest daughter was a Taoist priest, he said that the Taoist temple should be responsible.
If this is the only case, Meng Shi will not have any resentment. He always shied away from coming back to host the wedding ceremony for his daughter, but he was able to take time out of his "busy schedule" to hold the wedding ceremony for the concubine.
That time Mengshi broke out, so he sent a letter to question him.
He said in a grandiose manner: "I pray that Chu Yuan and Chu Yuan are the direct daughters. In the future, I will prepare a generous dowry so that they can marry beautifully. And Feng Yuan is a concubine, and the dowry is much less than that of the direct daughter, so I am better to her now, too. compensate."
Zhong Zao also has a more reasonable explanation for his theory: "I leave the money to my daughter-in-law and love to my concubine, what's wrong with me?"
Meng Shi was so angry that he almost fell ill, and then Zhong Qiyuan got interested and wrote: "Is there a dowry? Where is it, why didn't you give it to me?"
Zhong Zao: "... , aren't you married yet?"
Don't say that you are married, not even a vulgar!
Zhong Qiyuan said: "Whose family's dowry was not prepared in advance, you didn't even prepare mine in advance, are you really planning to leave the money to the niece? I'll ask other people how they prepare for the niece. Dowry."
Zhong Zao was afraid that she would actually write to his superiors and colleagues, and hurriedly asked Zhou to compile a list for her.
Zhong Qiyuan: "Who can't write the list? I can write it too, where is the real thing?"
Zhong Qiyuan is not afraid of losing face, but Zhong Zao is afraid. He couldn't bear the fact that she wanted to make things bigger when she took the opportunity, and he didn't want to let his boss see a joke, so he had to save Liang and Zhou for many years, and gave Zhong Qiyuan everything he was going to use as a dowry for his concubine.
Zhong Qiyuan received something, but when Zhong Zao let her return to the secular world, he turned his face and refused to recognize anyone when he was about to say kiss to her: "I am a Taoist priest. When I leave home, I want to be dedicated to Taoism, and I must never touch cause and effect again."
Zhong Zao was so angry that he vomited blood.
After Shi Hong found out, he comforted him: "Since she has few desires and is devoted to immortality, why should you take away her will?"
Zhong Zao: "… "
It's better not to comfort you!
Zhong Zao was really pissed off by Zhong Qiyuan, this time Zhong Chuyuan's wedding ceremony, he did not come back to preside over it as always, just wanted to let his wife and direct daughter know the consequences of offending him! But thinking of the next arrangement, he still sent his eldest son back.
How did Meng Shi and Zhong Qiyuan not know his abacus
Five years ago, he wanted Zhong Qiyuan to return to the secular world, and Mrs. Meng helped to persuade her daughter at first, because she really hoped that her daughter would find a good husband and would not have to suffer from orphans and widows for the rest of her life.
Later, Zhong Qiyuan said to her, "I heard that the second son of Jiedushi of Xuanwu is getting married, and his wife is looking for a suitable family for him!"
Meng Shi was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that Zhong Zao wanted his daughter to marry the second son of Jiedushi.
Jiedushi's family is of high rank, and with the relationship of marriage, Zhong Zuo's status will inevitably rise. In addition, Shi Hong really appreciates him, and in order to completely tie him to his own boat, he also hopes to kiss him.
But the disadvantage is that the family is too high, the other party is the second son, there will be many women in the backyard in the future, and with Zhong Qiyuan's temperament, he is afraid that the other party's three legs will be broken. In this way, it is not a marriage, but a revenge.
"That… "
Zhong Qiyuan knew what she wanted to say, so he said more bluntly: "With all due respect, no one in this world is worthy of me."
Meng: "..."
Where did the eldest daughter's self-confidence come from
However, Zhong Qiyuan is obsessed with farming, and he is usually pure-hearted and has few desires. It is estimated that if her husband wants to get close to her after marriage, she will refuse righteously: wait, my land has not been turned, my seeds have not been sown, I forgot to weed, and the vegetable field has worms, I have to go have a look…
Just thinking about it, Meng Shi felt that the other party would divorce his wife sooner or later. It is better not to marry than to be divorced.
Her ideas have always been big, and Meng Shi can't restrain her, so naturally she won't persuade her anymore.
Because Mrs. Jiedushi had already selected a family with better conditions, Zhong Zao borrowed the donkey to get off the slope when Shi Hong comforted him, and by the way created the image of a loving father who was unwilling to take the eldest daughter's will.
Shi Hong still felt a little pity in his heart. In the early years, he heard that Zhong Zao's wife's health was not very good, and he was afraid of early death, so he took the widow of a general who died in battle as his adopted sister, and planned to wait for Zhong Zao's wife to die of illness, and the righteous sister's mourning period was also After that, he betrothed his righteous sister to Zhong Zuo as his successor.
Unexpectedly, Meng's health has improved, and after all these years, he is still alive and well. He couldn't bear to let his righteous sister continue to be a widow, so he betrothed her to another general.
As a result, the abacus of his and Zhong Zuo's kinship and kinship has been defeated.
This time, he also planned to let the second son marry Zhong Zao's eldest daughter, but his wife heard that the other party had become a monk since childhood, and he has been famous all these years, for fear that his son's marriage will disturb the family when he comes back. , and chose another family.
Shi Hong only sighed that he and Zhong Zao really didn't have the fate to be in-laws.
But in addition to the eldest son, the second son, and the third son, his direct son, and Zhong Zao's direct daughter, in addition to Zhong Qiyuan, also has Zhong Chuyuan.
This year, Shi Hong's third son, Shi Xuanwei, was seventeen years old and of marriageable age.
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"No wonder he thinks of us." Meng Shi sighed. I think he was planning how to climb the big tree Shi Hong:
Nine years ago, Shi Hong had more than a dozen prefectures under his jurisdiction. After years of recuperation, he gained stronger strength, so he looked for opportunities to attack Yicheng Jiedushi, Tianping Jiedushi and Pinglu Festival. degree.
After taking over their territory, the neighbor became the equally powerful Wei Bo Jiedushi.
Although the friction with Wei Bo Jiedushi was increasing, Shi Hong won more and more battles because of his large territory and abundant food and grass.
Zhong Zao saw the hope of conquering the world in Shi Hong, so he naturally assisted him more and more sincerely, and also gave birth to a hint of ambition: if Shi Hong could conquer the world, he would certainly gain a high position as a hero, but it was far less than having an in-law relationship with the emperor. to consolidate its position.
Although the concubine Zhong Queyuan and Shi Xuanwei have a somewhat close relationship, he never considered Zhong Queyuan in this marriage. Without him, his favoring his concubine and destroying his wife does not mean that everyone favors his concubine and destroying his wife. Especially people from Shi Hong and other backgrounds attach great importance to the distinction between concubines and concubines. He will never allow his concubines to marry a concubine.
Therefore, Zhong Zao is more inclined to marry prostitutes to officials with lower status than him in order to win over his power. But in the end, he felt sorry for the prostitutes, and as compensation, he was more indulgent to them on weekdays.
Zhong Queyuan thought that her father was tacitly allowing her to approach Shi Xuanwei, and her behavior was even more outrageous.
Although Shi Xuanwei will grow into a black-bellied emperor who kills his brother and kills his father in the future, he is still only a seventeen-year-old boy. Facing such a passionate and hot Zhong Queyuan, he will inevitably have some charming thoughts in his heart.
So Zhong Qiyuan and Wan Du received a notification from the system, saying that the son of luck was about to be deprived of love.
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"Since he wants to be a 'kind father', let him show his sincerity! Otherwise, I don't want to accompany him in acting." Zhong Qiyuan said.
Meng shi glanced at her, thinking that Zhong Zao, who had been in charge once, would not be so easy to compromise this time.
After Zhong Qiyuan was unwilling to return to the secular world, Zhong Zao asked her to return the dowry. Not only did she not return it, she also asked Shi Hong for justice:
"How can you be a father thinking about your daughter's dowry? Although I don't plan to marry a mortal, but I want to serve the Sanqing Patriarch, a Taoist priest who will live forever with the immortals. I married myself to a Taoist temple, can I be a father? Shouldn't you give me a dowry?"
Shi Hong: "..."
Zhong Zao: "… "
Don't ask, ask is regret.
With the lessons learned, Zhong Zao tightly covered his purse and would never give Zhong Chuyuan a chance to swindle his money for similar reasons.
Fortunately, Meng Shi no longer counts on him. The life of their mother and daughter seems to be not well-off these years, but in fact, she has saved millions of money:
Zhong Qiyuan has been farming in these years, whether it is a good year or a disaster year, the harvest is not bad. The fruits and vegetables she grows have also become popular products in the county. In the end, the herbs she planted were also purchased by major medicinal herb shops and medical clinics in the county.
She even used the dowry given by Zhong to buy a lot of mountain and forest clearings, and then planted precious medicinal herbs that she cultivated that can only grow naturally in the north.
She sent some of the medicinal materials to the Taoist Temple and said, "Brothers, stop using cinnabar and hardware for alchemy, and try my new alchemy formula."
Although the Taoist priests had some twists and turns in the process of accepting this new elixir, they finally found that the elixir made from pure medicinal materials was much better than the elixir they had made before.
Wan originally wondered how she could be so kind, until she saw that this new pill recipe with exaggerated effects spread to Taoist temples in the prefecture, more and more Taoist priests came to her to buy medicinal herbs... Only then did she realize that she was doing it for herself The medicinal materials have opened up a new market.
In this way, although Zhong Qiyuan is farming, his money bag is getting more and more bulging. And she didn't value material desires and enjoyment. She spent very little and was too lazy to manage accounts. The money naturally fell into Meng's hands.
Meng Shi has been saving for nine years, and her family already has millions of dollars. It is not difficult for her to allocate some dowry for Zhong Chuyuan. Naturally, she does not need to expect Zhong Zao to give a good dowry.
But others don't know this, but they see that Zhong Zuo is getting more and more attention in Bianzhou, his status is getting higher and higher, and his life is getting more and more extravagant. As his first wife and direct daughter, he still lives in a small house in the country, and even thieves don't care about it. , - although the bigger reason is that thieves are afraid of Zhong Qiyuan, - who would not say that they lived a poor life when they saw it
When Zhong Guan left, he made inquiries in the village and got the same result. But he didn't sympathize with his mother and daughter, because if his father didn't hate his mother, how could he be valued as a concubine? How to have today's life
People are selfish. Although he respects his aunt according to the etiquette, he also hopes that she will have a bad life.
Restraining this dark thought, a figure suddenly jumped out of Zhong Guan's mind, he moved in his heart and continued to inquire about the villagers.
The villager pondered: "The lady Lang Jun said should be the lady of the Yun family."
Zhong Guan knew the Yun family. After all, when his father took him to teach him, he would inevitably encounter a fellow of the Zhong family, Yun Ding.
Yun Ding is a military officer. Originally, he was only a lieutenant of Jiedushi's commander, but because of his bravery and skill in battle, he made many illustrious exploits and became Shi Hong's cronies. Later, he was promoted step by step to the commander-in-chief in charge of the army, and his status became more and more prominent.
"Why does she live in the country?"
The villager said: "That's naturally because the Feng Shui of Wangxian Township is good. The lady of the Yun family abandoned the brocade clothes and jade food in the city and came here to clean up..."
Zhong Guan was in a trance, it turned out that it was not because the other party was not favored, nor because she was born from a concubine.
For a young lady of this kind of background, if the Zhong family has a direct son, she is eligible to marry the direct son as a wife. But one of his concubines actually gave birth to the obsession of taking him as a concubine, so it is no wonder that the sister-in-law would taunt and humiliate him mercilessly!