Family Has a Concubine

When Chu Miaoshu heard that Ye Tangcai was making tea in the house, he felt unhappy for a while, and said, "Is my sister-in-law making tea for His Royal Highness and King Liang?"

"Also make tea for the prince concubine and empress." Ye Tangcai said lukewarm. After thinking about it, he took out the post of King Liang and said: "By the way, this is a post given by His Highness Liang."

"What?" Chu Miaoshu grabbed it with one hand and hurriedly opened it.

Seeing the above content, the unhappiness in Chu Miaoshu's heart disappeared immediately, and his heart was full of joy.

The carriage hurried fast, and finally returned to Dingguo Bofu in about two quarters of an hour.

When the car stopped, Chu Miaoshu jumped down anxiously, carrying his skirt and rushing to Yixiangyuan.

"Mother, mother--" Chu Miaoshu screamed while running.

In Yixiang courtyard, Qin was drinking tea, and Auntie Bai sat next to her to speak with her.

Suddenly, Chu Miaoshu's clear and joyous voice sounded outside, and the Qin family quickly put down the tea cup: "Finally, I'm back."

"Yes! Listening to the voice of the big girl, she looks good." Aunt Bai smiled.

Since Chu Miaoshu went out, Qin had waited anxiously at home, for fear that Ye Tangcai would be embarrassed by Chu Miaoshu and stumble him. After worrying for a long time, he suddenly heard Chu Miaoshu yelling back, listening to her voice, seemingly smiling, Qin was relieved.

"Mother!" Chu Miaoshu giggled as he walked in from outside.

"Sister Shu, you are back." Qin stood up, walked to the bead curtain, saw Chu Miaoshu coming with a smile on his face, took her hand, walked into the room, mother and daughter were on the couch together Take a seat, "How is it? Huh?"

"Mother, I saw His Royal Highness and His Royal Highness Liang Wang in the Prince's Mansion." Chu Miaoshu said excitedly, and then took out a post with a bronzing dragon dark pattern: "Look, this is a post from His Highness Liang."

Qin opened the post, and Chu Miaoshu read: "Tomorrow, July 7th, the birthday banquet in the Palace of Liang, please...come here."

"Is the person at the banquet blank?" Aunt Bai stretched her neck to look at.

"I don't know what's going on. The post was given to me by my sister-in-law." Chu Miao said.

"What did she give you? Didn't you two make dried flowers for the prince concubine?" Qin said.

"Originally together." Chu Miaoshu said and curled his mouth. "When I came to the house of the princess, I sat on the side and wiped the flowers. Then the prince came down. After a while, the lady said that the flowers were almost wiped. , To ask people to go to the sun, the sister Qinse asked me to go out with her to dry the flowers, and my sister-in-law stayed in the house to make tea."

Hearing this, Qin's face darkened: "Making tea, this is a good opportunity to meet the nobles. If you make a good tea, you may be appreciated by the Empress and His Royal Highness. The Yeh has taken all the good opportunities!"

Aunt Bai smiled and said, "That Qinse is the maid of the empress, she asked the eldest girl to go, no wonder the third grandmother."

Qin said coldly: "Even if the maid called, why didn't she say a word to let her go? Didn't she come a few times? Since they are familiar with each other, it's okay to take the initiative to mention it! It's clearly her support Sister Shuer does something insignificant, and she has the opportunity to get close to the nobles."

Auntie Bai screamed and said perfunctorily: "Yes."

Then he drank his tea, his eyelids concealed the mockery in his eyes. If you follow others, you are already taking advantage. Why should they give you all the good opportunities?

"Don't be so stupid next time." Qin said.

Chu Miaoshu kept nodding his head, next time she said about drying flowers, she would definitely ask Ye Tang to pick them.

"Did she get this post because she made tea?" Qin said.

"How do I know?" Chu Miaoshu curled his lips, "I'm not here again."

Thinking about it, he stretched out his hand to pick up this post and looked at it over and over again, feeling better again inexplicably, I don't know how excited it was.

The Qin clan looked at this post and couldn't say how happy it was. Their Chu family hadn't received such a decent post for a long time and attended such a decent banquet.

...

Ye Tang got out of the car and headed west across the courtyard. While talking to Qiuju, he walked back to Qiongmingxuan.

The courtyard door of Lanzhuju was open, and Chu Yunpan was absent-minded while reading in the small study.

He suddenly heard the voice of Ye Tangcai talking with Qiuju outside, and he was relieved, and took out a piece of letter paper, but it was sent by King Liang. The corners of his lips curled up, and he put down the letter.

Ye Tangcai and Qiuju walked into the Qiongmingxuan, and Huiran hurriedly greeted them: "Girl, you are back! This is early today."

"Yes, it's just noon." Ye Tangcai said as she walked in.

"The last two times my mother gave me food, but I didn't have one today." Qiu Ju said, rubbing his stomach, "I'm so hungry!"

The three of them had already walked into the room, Ye Tang Cai was lying on Luohan's bed, Qiuju hurriedly rubbed Ye Tang's feet: "Girl, aren't the legs sore?"

"Yeah." Ye Tangcai nodded, kneeling there for a long time, naturally working hard.

"Girl, I will go out and buy some food right now." Seeing Ye Tang's hard work, Hui Ran wanted to go to Zhang Luo for food.

"Don't be busy." Ye Tangcai was stunned. "You can eat whatever comes at home. Stir-fried pork with cabbage is also good. It's light and light."

"Yeah, don't be busy, hungry, make do with it." Qiu Ju said.

Huiran agreed. She was about to get the food and walked out of the living room when she saw a mother carrying a food box and stepping into the courtyard door. It was Mother Qiao. He smiled and said, "I just said I was hungry, and the mother delivered the food."

"Then eat." Ye Tangcai got up and walked to the small dining room.

Grandma Qiao had already walked in and said with a smile: "Three grandma, let's eat!"

Then open the food box and put the dishes inside on the table, a steamed chicken with red dates and wolfberry, a braised pork knuckle, a steamed egg with meat sauce, a crisp green fried lettuce, and a cup of stew .

Seeing these food, Qiu Ju and Hui Ran were shocked.

Qiu Ju said, "Mother Qiao, did you bring the dishes from Yixiangyuan here?"

Madam Qiao said, "Uh...it's almost the same. Suddenly they said there was no need to eat, and I don't know what else to eat. There just happened to be no one in the kitchen... I just brought it over. Don't shout out, otherwise it will hurt me. "I thought to myself, San Ye took half a buck to let the kitchen add vegetables, why did you hide it?

Qiuju is not rare about this thing, the girl usually spends her own money to eat even better than this. But in the end, being greedy is better than eating shredded pork with cabbage. He filled his mouth and promised: "Okay!"

"Eat, I'll clean up in a while." Madam Qiao turned around and went out.

Ye Tang Cai opened the stew cup and saw that it was a cup of chicken foot soup. Ye Tang Cai smiled slightly and took a sip. Maybe the red dates and medlar berries had been put too much, and it was sweet in his mouth.

After eating, Ye Tangcai sat down, and Qinger's voice sounded outside: "Girl, there is a letter from you."

Then he ran in, Ye Tangcai took the letter, and was startled: "Is this from Dingcheng?"

"Dingcheng? Who is it?" Qiuju came over with tea and put it on the small table next to Yetang's couch.

"I remember!" Hui Ran said suddenly, "Did we go to Wen's house last time to find a dowry list for his wife? Old lady Wen gave a reminder, saying that it was with the concubine. The girl went to the translation station and spent enough time. Fifty taels of silver, Fei Ge passed the book to Dingcheng, and asked his aunt for his wife's dowry list."

"Yes." Qiu Ju also remembered, and nodded quickly.

Ye Tangcai had already opened the letter, Qiuju and Hui Ran craned their necks and looked over.

Ye Tang picked up ten lines with a glance, his expression was very tangled.

"What's wrong? Girl? Is the bill out?" Hui Ran said.

"I didn't say not." Ye Tangcai frowned, and then sighed slightly, "The letter was sent to Dingcheng, but it was the big cousin who received the letter. He said that his aunt took the cousins ​​to Beijing together. Sixth I set off from Dingcheng at the beginning of the month and said that I should arrive in Beijing in early July. As for my mother’s dowry list, he said that he had never heard my aunt talk about it, and he helped me find it, but he still couldn’t find it. , Let me ask her directly."

"How come a dowry list makes such a hanging call." Qiu Ju sighed slightly, and then seemed to think of something: "Wait, the concubine took the girl's cousins ​​to Beijing? How many sons does the concubine have?"

"My mother used to say enviously that my aunt gave birth to five sons in one go." Ye Tang said.

"Five?" Qiu Ju and Hui Ran gasped, amazing!

"But she... actually took away the wife's dowry list silently, and she didn't know what she was thinking about." Qiu Ju looked worried.

This eldest wife was married to Emperor Shangqiu's family and lived in Dingcheng, northwestern China. Since her marriage, she seemed to have only returned to Beijing once ten years ago and never came back. Wen rarely talks about her, and she doesn't know what kind of person she will be.

Huiran frowned, "Don't worry about the unreasonable things. The best work is the best thing you can do."

"Grandma." At this moment, a voice rang from the outer door, but it was green leaves.

"Why is my wife looking for me?" Ye Tang raised his brows. Generally speaking, if there is something bad, the green branch will call her, and the green leaves are usually trivial things.

Luye had already walked in and handed her a pink post: "Here is a post, sent to the wife, for the third grandmother, the wife asked to send it to you."

Since the issue of the crown prince’s post, the Qin family has ordered that the West Point Gate is not allowed to receive posts, so all posts must be entered through the East Point Gate. If they are delivered to the West Point Gate, they must be handed over to her first.

Of course, her order is only valid for Xiaozong. If there is a post for Ye Tangcai, what Qinger can receive will naturally only be sent to Ye Tangcai.

"Well, good, thank you." Ye Tangcai nodded.

Luye has already turned and left.

Ye Tangcai is too familiar with this post. She often received it before she got married. It was Zhang Manman's post.

"It's Miss Zhang Si." Hui Ran also recognized it.

"Yeah." Ye Tangcai opened it and saw a few words in it, saying that he wanted to see her and let her go to Zhang Mansion.

"Let's don't go, just look at it and feel bad." Qiu Ju said.

Although she really wanted to see Ye Licai and his wife become miserable because of Zhang Manman's loss, but Zhang Manman was really pitiful, and Qiu Ju still missed Zhang Manman's good.

I went to Zhang's house for a while and met those bitches. If they mocked them, it would indirectly hurt Zhang Manman. So Qiuju felt very sad.

"But Miss Zhang, let's go, let's not come, she will be more sad and sad!" Hui Ran sighed slightly.

Ye Tangcai said, "Go." It's time to go to Zhang's house, take a look at Zhang Manman, and bring the cat over.

"When are you going?" Qiu Ju said.

"Now." Ye Tangcai looked at the sky, and now it is not yet in the future. He will go back and forth and be back before dinner.

Just in a hurry to eat, she didn't even change her clothes. She still went to the front skirt of the Prince's Mansion, but she didn't need to clean up and went out directly.

Sitting on the carriage, Ye Tangcai yawned. She was aching all over, and she felt that her bones were going to be loose.

After more than two quarters of walking, I finally came to the east gate of Zhang's house.

The gatekeeper was shocked when he saw Ye Tangcai and others, with a weird expression: "Hey, this is not Ye... Granny Chu, how come to our house?"

The former Ye Tangcai occasionally came to Zhang's house. She was so beautiful that no one would recognize her.

But the problem is, the relationship between her and the Zhang family... is so hard to explain in one word! Isn't it embarrassing to come to Zhang's house?

Ye Tangcai took out the pink post and said, "Sister Manman invited me to be a guest."

Xiao Si also recognized it and had to let it go.

The Zhang family is not a noble family, the foundation is shallow, the Zhang family is not big, but the decoration is elegant and fresh, but there is a wonderful thing about it.

Ye Tang walked to Zhang Manman's yard well.

Zhang Manman's maid, Xiaojing, was sitting on the porch, and when she saw Ye Tangcai, she rushed out: "Ye Gu... Granny Chu San, you are here so soon."

"Yes." Ye Tang Cai smiled faintly, holding a box of Baiweizhai's lotus seed milk cake in his hand, which is Zhang Manman's favorite food.

"Sister Tang..." There was a thumping sound of footsteps in the room, and Zhang Manman walked out.

She was dressed in a thin light green coat, with loose hair and a pale face. The original round face was almost out of shape.

Seeing Ye Tangcai, Zhang Manman's eyes lit up, and he quickly stepped forward and took Ye Tangcai's hand: "Sister Tang...you must help me..."

Qiu Ju was startled and frowned: "Miss Zhang, how can my girl help you?"

"Why can't it?" Zhang Manman said, tears fell down, "I saw it. I saw you entered the Prince's Mansion, you help me send a letter to the Prince..."

"What's the use of you sending him a letter?" Ye Tang raised his eyebrows. It is expected that Zhang Manman is really unwilling, so after wandering around the Prince's Mansion, she learned about her going to the Prince's Mansion.

Zhang Manman bit her lip fiercely, "Last time in the Queen's Palace, I met with His Royal Highness, and His Highness praised my Hui Xinlan quality and said that my handwriting is good..."

Ye Tangcai said, "Sister Manman, do you often get along with the prince?"

Zhang Manman's face stiffened: "I saw it once in the empress's palace..."

Ye Tang said: "His Royal Highness has only seen you once...Could he still be affectionate to you?"

Zhang Manman's face was pale and bloodless.

"No, maybe he has forgotten what you look like, girl." Xiaojing frowned, did not help Zhang Manman, but persuaded: "You are really embarrassed by Grandma Chu San. Now the root is not the prince. But something like this has happened at home. You are still sending people in, so do you still want to be famous? Maybe the Prince will look down at you then."

Zhang Manman shook his body, then turned and rushed into the room, crying to death.

Ye Tangcai didn't know what she felt for a while, but the root was actually the prince!

"Thank you, Grandma Chu San, for coming to visit." Xiao Jingfu gave a salute, "Don't worry about her now, it's not the point where you can find life and death."

Ye Tang Cai handed the pastry in Xiao Jing's hand, and said, "Right, Mrs. Zhang is there? I'm going to please her too!"

Xiaojing said, "My wife just visited the girl, and then she went out. The third grandma doesn't have to pay a visit."

"Then... Sister Xiaojing, please help."

"Three grandmothers don't hesitate to say something."

"There is a one-eyed cat in your old Futou who is chopping wood...I love it so much that I want to buy it." Ye Tangcai said.

"Uh..." Xiao Jing was startled, and then she smiled: "The third grandma even knows that we have a one-eyed cat."

Ye Tang said: "When I came here before, I saw it once in a while."

Xiao Jing frowned: "The thief cat was blinded and loves to eat and hide things secretly. It is ugly and annoying. The old fortune loves him. The old fortune is an old man who followed the old man when he was young. He loves to raise it, we can only let him raise it. But why does the third grandma like this ugly cat?"

Of course in order to complete the task. Ye Tangcai thought so, but she thought of excuses in her heart: "I came to play with your girl last year, and the big yellow dog in the concierge barked at me. The ugly cat was so fierce that it ran out to scare the dog away. Now I I also raise dogs at home, and I ran out of my yard every day to bark, and my mother-in-law didn’t care about it... I was afraid, so I wanted to find this cat back."

Xiaojing looked at Ye Tangcai sympathetically. As a concubine's wife, even dogs bullied!

"Okay, please, Grandma San." Xiaojing said and led the way.

Ye Tang took joy on her face and followed her out.

Qiuju and Huiran looked at each other behind Ye Tang. When did there be a dog in the house? Still ran to the door of the yard and barked?

They knew that Ye Tangcai was just making excuses to ask for a cat, so naturally they would not demolish Ye Tangcai's platform. But why do girls want cats?

A few people turned around and finally came to the house of the old Futou who was chopping wood.

Old Futou is an old man in his sixties with a hunched back and a white and yellow beard. Even so, he is still in good health and is chopping wood with an axe.

"Old Fortune." Xiao Jing walked over and said that Ye Tangcai wanted to buy the cat.

Old Fu frowned, then shook his head: "No."

Ye Tang Cai stepped forward and said, "I know you can't bear it. Granny Fu stayed. But the cat is often beaten by people in the house. Maybe it will be gone someday."

Xiao Jing was startled. How did she know that the cat was left by the old wife of the old blessed head? But at this juncture, he didn't ask, and he couldn't help but echo Ye Tangcai's words: "Yeah, the previous one was bored with a big stick. You might as well give it to Grandma Chu, and you can give him a way to survive."

Old Fortune thought for a while, and agreed.

He walked into the room and took out the dried fish. After a while, the ugly cat was led over, and he caught it in a sack: "Take it away!" He looked sad.

"Uh...thank you." Qiu Ju thought the cat was too ugly. Now it was put in a sack, some of them were afraid to take it, but in the end they held it in his hand.

"Hui Ran, take ten taels of silver." Ye Tangcai said.

"No need!" Old Futou waved his hand unceasingly. "Just treat it well. If you take it home and think it's ugly, or think it likes to eat hidden things secretly, then send it back."

"Okay, I will treat it well." Ye Tang said with a smile, and said to Xiao Jing again: "Thank you, sister Xiao Jing."

"What are you polite?" Xiao Jing said.

"It's getting late, we're leaving."

Xiao Jing sent the person to the Chuihua Gate, and then left.

Behind an apricot tree not far from Chuihuamen, Ye Licai watched Ye Tangcai leave with gloomy eyes, pinching the veil with hatred. "What is she doing here? Did she come to see my joke on purpose?"

"It should...no! Why didn't you come here? I must have just come to see the four girls." Liu Er said anxiously, "Grandma, let's go back soon, Xiao Jing is coming here."

Ye Licai's expression changed. Zhang Manman's loss was caused by their elopement. Ye Licai was naturally afraid of Zhang Manman's personal servant.

These days, she didn't even dare to go out, and she learned that Ye Tang had come here, for fear that Ye Tangcai would say bad things about her and make the Zhang family hate her even more, so she came out and looked at it.

"She must have said bad things about me, but my mother-in-law went out and she didn't say it." Ye Licai's voice was cold and cold.

"Grandma, let's bear it first." Liu Er said, "When Aunt Qiuwei hits the ball next month and gets good grades, the family will be better. If you have a big fat boy next year, everything will pass. "Liu Er comforted.

Ye Licai touched the slightly protruding lower abdomen, yes, she had to bear it! After a while, she will still be the precious grandmother of the Zhang family, maybe she will be the first lady! There will always be a day to get ahead! Ye Tangcai was still a concubine.

"Just now you secretly followed them to get the cat. Did you hear what they said?" Ye Licai helped her stomach and walked back cautiously and hopefully.

"Said that Chu's family raised a dog and barked in front of her yard every day. She was so scared that she ran to our house to find an ugly cat to block it." Liu Er said with a flutter.

Ye Licai also had a happy smile on her face, "Even dogs bullied her, tsk tsk. My mother was right, making jokes is only a momentary, marrying a bastard, but it is a lifetime of humiliation and suffering. "

Sure enough, she was right to elope! Even if I am wronged for a while, I will soon be able to turn over. But Ye Tangcai can't turn around for a lifetime!

...

Qinger drove the carriage across the street.

In the carriage, there were waves of slightly sorrowful meows.

Qiu Ju looked at the sack that was constantly struggling, her small face was green: "Girl...why do we want to get such an ugly cat home? The girl wants to keep cats, but there are so many outside."

Ye Tang smiled: "It has its own magical effect. You are not allowed to treat it badly!"

This cat is spiritual.

After Ye Li Cai started in the previous life, she lived a miserable life.

I used to think that this cat was ugly and blind before, and when I was in trouble, I felt that I was just as blind as this cat. Otherwise, why didn't I see the affair between Ye Licai and Zhang Boyuan?

She has fed it twice, and the cat comes to her with dried fish in its mouth every day.

Although she didn't eat that dried fish, it was the cat's wish.

Moreover, this cat is of great use to her now.