Family Has a Concubine

"Third grandma." Xiaoyue walked in with a tangled expression.

"What's the matter?" Ye Tangcai said.

"That...Wang Momo and Luzhu came to Beijing to pay New Year's greetings to you." Xiaoyue frowned deeply, with a troubled expression on her face, "Waiting at the Chuihua Gate."

Qingliu's face darkened: "What year do you wish? At the end of last year, didn't you already pay your respects when you went to Beijing to pay the land rent?"

In the big family, the land rent is collected twice a year. At the end of the year, after the stewards of the villages have finished their work, the master will set up a table for them. It is considered to have a New Year meal with the village heads, and pay New Year's greetings and New Year's money in advance.

Generally, Zhuangtou does not come to Beijing for the New Year, but stays in Zhuangzi. Unless you are very close to the host, those who are very close to Beijing will come in to pay New Year's greetings.

And Ye Tangcai's Zhuangzi is also close to Beijing, but Wang Momo and Luzhu didn't go to Beijing the year before last.

Thinking about it, Huiran and Qingliu's faces darkened.

Ye Tangcai smiled, "Then please come in!"

Xiaoyue glanced at Ye Tangcai, and agreed: "Yes." She turned and walked out of the room.

"Third grandma..." Qingliu worried.

The corners of Ye Tangcai's lips curled up, "I'm the master, since they want to pay New Year's greetings, let them do so. If you have anything to do, tell them in person."

Huiran and Qingliu were startled, then nodded: "The third grandma is right."

After a while, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the pearl curtain outside was opened, and a mother and daughter came in. Nanny Wang was dressed in a dark gray ivy-patterned beige, with a black forehead inlaid with jade on her head.

The most eye-catching thing is the girl beside her, about sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a light blue padded jacket with plain patterns and a long skirt with light green gauze and white flowers. On the right side is a light blue tufted yarn flower and a plain silver flat hairpin. The whole person looks delicate and harmless.

Ye Tangcai smiled when he saw it.

The previous Luzhu was not dressed like this.

Dewdrops like bright red and purple, and bright colors. But now it is uncharacteristically, and the cautiousness to please is too obvious.

The dewdrops met Ye Tangcai's eyes, and her body trembled slightly, she quickly knelt down with Wang Momo and saluted, "Girl...no, it's grandma's New Year greetings."

Luzhu and Qiuju were at odds in the past, but later Ye Tangcai became Mrs. Hou, and Ye Tangcai refused to accept concubines for a long time, so Luzhu and Qiuju suddenly felt a little bit of the same enemy. I often exchange letters, and I come and go again and again, and there is a sense of sympathy for each other.

Recently, Qiuju only gave her two letters, one was in the twelfth lunar month, saying that Ye Tangcai finally agreed to let Luzhu return to Beijing after the Chinese New Year.

Luzhu was overjoyed, and before she had time to prepare, she received a second letter from Qiuju yesterday, saying whether Ye Tangcai was going to take a concubine.

Luzhu was dying of anxiety, and couldn't wait for Qiuju's letter, so she took her mother to Beijing to see what was going on.

"Come on, don't be too polite." Ye Tangcai put down the blue and white porcelain teacup in his hand, "Didn't you come here at the end of last year, and you didn't come to Beijing during the Spring Festival in previous years. Why did you come here on purpose this year?"

Lu Zhu's face was stiff, but Wang Momo was embarrassed.

Ye Tangcai made things difficult for them for a while, so she didn't have the mood to continue, she just said lightly: "Luzhu and I are one year old, and two months older, seventeen! It's time to get married, I remember how many people there are in Zhuangzi?" A boy, Wang Momo, you see which one is suitable, so come and call me back."

Luzhu's expression changed, and her lips trembled slightly: "Grandma... I, I... When grandma got married, the wife called us into the room and said..."

"Things have changed, I don't accept it anymore." Ye Tang said coldly.

Luzhu was dizzy: "But..."

"But what!" Before Ye Tang could say anything, Wang Momo turned her head and glared at her, "Did grandma write a guarantee letter with you? Master is master, if you don't think it's suitable, you won't accept it. If you really Being accepted is also to help grandma share her worries, now grandma thinks that accepting you is inappropriate for the current situation, so make another arrangement, are you still talking?"

Dew bit her lip hard.

Ye Tangcai looked at Grandma Wang and sighed slightly. Fortunately, her nanny was still sensible, "Madam, you can choose when you go back. If the people in Zhuangzi can't do it, come back to me. Hou's mansion has a lot of Zhuangzi and land property. , There are also several young and promising people in charge, I will ask some people to pick a few for Mammy to see."

"Thank you, Grandma." Wang Momo quickly kowtowed, and turned her head to stare at Luzhu.

Luzhu's eyes were slightly red, and she looked around Ye Tangcai, only to see Huiran and Qingliu, and just outside, she saw Xiaoyue and Baishui, and said, "Why don't you see Qiuju?"

Ye Tangcai smiled lightly: "Qiuju is married."

Luzhu's face froze, married? Even Qiuju is married, then she... Thinking about it, she became dizzy.

"Mammy has worked hard all the way here, Qingliu, let the kitchen prepare some hot soup and rice for Mammy and the others." Ye Tangcai said.

"Yes." Qingliu looked back at the two of them, "Nurse, Luzhu, grandma is giving you food, please come here."

Only then did the mother and daughter go out with Qingliu.

After dinner, the mother and daughter left Beijing in a small carriage.

Luzhu was sitting in the carriage crying, and Wang Momo glared at her: "Don't come if I tell you to come, if grandma is interested, she would have called you a long time ago, so why bother."

Luzhu is still not angry: "It's clearly agreed, although I didn't sign any guarantee, but..."

"But what?" Wang Momo said with a slight sigh, "Actually, I also think you have this opportunity, but if the master says no, then you can't. If we are slaves, we should have the duty to be slaves. The relationship between other people's husband and wife There is no inevitable situation. I was brought over by my wife from Wen’s house, and the maids who were with me at that time, originally Xiaodie and Xiangyu should open their faces, but Ye Chengde didn’t like them very much at that time. Just match them up, and instead give the current Aunt Hua a disgrace. There is no such thing as absolute, I can only say, you don't have that life."

Although Luzhu is unwilling, but Qiuju is married, it can only be like this.

After the mother and daughter went back, Mother Wang was afraid that Luzhu would not stop, so she hurriedly found someone for her.

Although she can't be an aunt, she is her own daughter, so naturally she has to look for it. I also thought about, as Ye Tangcai said, looking for Chu Yunpan to be in charge of the village, but in the end I was reluctant to marry her away, so I found a handsome boy with a stable personality in my own village, and asked Ye Tangcai for help. I replied.

Ye Tang rewarded her with a total of eighty taels of silver to add to her box, and then sent her away.

As for Qiuju, after Yu Yang stuffed it into the carriage that day, he delivered it to a prostitute, saying that she would sell it to anyone as a concubine, no matter who it was.

The matchmaker looked at Qiuju who had lost her hands and was dumb, and smacked her lips twice. She couldn't arrest anyone but a poor man.

So it was sold to a remote small village in the Southwest.

Although the village is poor, there is still a rich family. The owner is an ugly old man in his early sixties. Although he looks ugly, he has a reputation as a child. The family has dozens of acres of fertile land.

I want to buy a beautiful concubine with a good figure, but this kind of beautiful girl is usually expensive, costing more than ten taels, or even tens of taels, the old man is reluctant.

When she finally saw Qiuju, her eyes lit up. Although she was dumb and didn't need to do fine work, she still had her face and her figure was fine. That's what he does when he buys people! So it took two taels of silver to buy it and take it home.

The old man's mother-in-law was so angry that she saw the world rubbing against people.

These are all things for later, Ye Tangcai doesn't know the situation of Qiuju.

Qiuju was still with her from the previous life to the end of her life, and she was thinking of this kind of affection in her heart. Originally, she wanted to ration her to the servant of Zhuangzi where Wang Momo lived, but Chu Yunpan said to let him handle it. She thought he was worried and wanted to marry Qiuju far away. Who would have thought that he ruined everyone.

Chu Yunpan didn't say anything, because he didn't want Ye Tangcai to feel uncomfortable. Ye Tangcai didn't ask any questions, so she didn't have to respond by herself.

But after Luzhu's mother and daughter left, Ye Tangcai waited for Chu Yunpan to come home.

But he didn't come back for lunch, and she wasn't there at dinner time.

Ye Tangcai was worried, and sat by the window sill to wait.

At this time, a figure hurriedly ran into the gate of the courtyard, Ye Tangcai was overjoyed, thought it was Chu Yunpan, looked carefully, but it turned out to be Xiaoyue, Ye Tangcai was a little disappointed.

Xiaoyue ran in and walked up to Ye Tangcai, her expression was not very good, and she muttered, "Third grandma..."

"What's wrong?" Ye Tangcai tilted her head.

"This..." Xiaoyue pursed her lips, "For some reason... the third master seems to have been detained by the Ministry of Criminal Justice."

Ye Tangcai was surprised: "What did you say?" He is the Marquis of Zhenxi, who would dare to detain him! Moreover, why detain him? Could it be... that his rebellion with King Liang was revealed?

Thinking about it, Ye Tangcai became dizzy for a while.

"You bastard, look at you scaring the third grandma!" Qingliu couldn't get out of anger, "The third master is the Marquis of Zhenxi, so nothing can happen. First we will fight the war, and then catch the bandits. He is our big brother Hero, third grandma, don’t be afraid, that’s just nonsense that Xiaoyue heard somewhere.”

But Ye Tangcai's face turned pale, and her body trembled a little.

No, if his rebellion with King Liang is revealed... No matter how great the merit is, it will not be worth the crime of treason!