A Complete Explanation of the Negative Textbooks of the Imperial Examination

Chapter 7: Chill

After Xiao Jingduo came out of Xiao Ying’s study, he still felt resentful.

He didn’t have the slightest smile on his face, and walked quickly towards the backyard. The maids on both sides of the corridor wanted to greet him, but they were all startled when they saw his face, and quickly lowered their heads, Don’t dare to speak again.

When Xiao Jingduo walked back to the vicinity of Qingze Courtyard, he heard Second Aunt Xiao’s voice coming from the courtyard.

Qiu Ju was timidly guarding in front of the courtyard. When she saw Xiao Jingduo, she said with tears: “Lang Jun, Madam, she…”

Xiao Jingduo pursed her lips, crossed Qiu Ju, and walked towards the main room.

Second Aunt Xiao’s voice in the house was sharp and harsh: “Aiya, sister-in-law, why do you live in such a poor place? Aren’t you Madam Hou, how come you don’t live as well as me?”

“Oh right”, Second Aunt Xiao covered her mouth and let out a malicious laugh, “I almost forgot, you have been divorced by your cousin!”

On the plain low table, there was a letter of divorce.

Zhao Xiulan burst into tears, and her handkerchief was wet. She didn’t want to listen to Second Aunt Xiao anymore, but Second Aunt Xiao reluctantly dug out her wound and stepped on it. “If my mother didn’t mention it by accident, I wouldn’t even know that you are no longer from the Xiao family. What’s the use of having a good son? In the end, it’s not raising a son for someone else. I’ve heard from my mother. I’m about to enter. At that time, not only the position of Madam Hou does not belong to you, but even your precious son will be called other people’s mother!”

“Shut up!” Zhao Xiulan covered her ears and roared mournfully.

Seeing Zhao Xiulan like this, Second Aunt Xiao was extremely happy. Who let Zhao Xiulan get in first when they got engaged and robbed her of the position of the eldest daughter-in-law? Now that Zhao Xiulan’s position of Mrs. Hou has been robbed by others, it is really unpleasant to repay her. Second Aunt Xiao wanted to laugh up to the sky, what she couldn’t get, Zhao Xiulan didn’t want to get either!

“What’s the matter, you are nameless now, and no one will tell you…” Second Aunt Xiao wanted to sneer a few more words, but heard a cold and chilling voice from behind It sounded, and the unprovoked daytime made people tremble.

“Shut up and get out of my mother’s yard.”

Xiao Jingduo stood at the door against the light, Second Aunt Xiao could not see his expression, but she was still stunned by his posture. Second Aunt Xiao secretly scolded the evildoer, how could Xiao Jingduo look like a ghost who came to claim his life.

Aunt Xiao panicked in her heart, but she felt that it was too shameful to leave like this. She didn’t know when she heard Xiao Jingduo roaring, “Get out!”

Aunt Xiao no longer pays attention to her face now, her calf is weak, but this does not delay her from slipping away, and after running into the yard as if escaping, Aunt Xiao still feels that it is impossible to let go In this tone, she threw the handkerchief vigorously, and said yin and yang strangely: “Bad luck! Sparrows are sparrows, don’t try to fly up the branches, or even if they fly up, you won’t be able to stand the good things!”

After she finished speaking, she hurriedly walked away.

In the Gao Shou Hall, the old lady and Xue Lan were also discussing this matter.

“You said the second child went to Zhao’s place to make trouble?” The old lady grabbed Xue Lan’s hand and asked anxiously.

“Yes.” Xue Lan Rourou said, “Second madam…It’s too urgent. We and the Wu family are about to get married, and now is a critical moment, and we mustn’t make any trouble. ”

It was also quite embarrassing, “I will discipline this idiot well, wait until she comes back to see that I won’t rip her skin off!”

Xue Lan smiled softly, but did not stop her, but continued to beat the old lady’s legs: “Actually, it’s okay for the Wu family to know, after all, Dalang-Jun still lives in the mansion, that one also The new wife will know sooner or later that she is alive and well. Noble marriages are all about the good of two surnames. The purpose of marrying the Wu family’s daughter is to raise the family of the Hou family. It’s good to sell in front of you. This marriage is far from something that one or two people are willing to or not. It’s the Wu family, and even the Cui family’s instigation. Otherwise, how could an aristocratic family with eyes above the top marry the concubine?”

Whoever leads the army to fight, whoever marries my son is a high-ranking person!”

Xue Lan just smiled, noncommittal. After the old lady finished her anger, she still couldn’t help asking the question she had been unable to figure out: “Xue Lan, why did you write a divorce letter for Mrs. Zhao, wouldn’t it be better to directly demote her to a concubine?”

“How can this be done, demoted his wife as a concubine, and served as a concubine for two years. Lord Hou will have to be an official in the court in the future, how can he leave such a stain.” Xue Lan replied.

“Then…” The old lady still felt uneasy, “So, does Dalang stop his wife and marry another?”

Before the old lady was in contact with people in the market, naturally she didn’t know the many rules of concubinage, but she knew very well that when she knew that she had a wife at home, she still proposed marriage to others. To be punished by the county government. Xiao Ying has already married Zhao Xiulan, although Zhao Xiulan is not worthy of the current Xiao family, but after all, she is also the wife.

& nbsp; Yes. But as long as we don’t make trouble outside, no one will know about this incident in our family, then it will be done? Even if someone asks in the future, we can also push it down to Zhao’s body, saying that Hou Ye has long ago I wrote her a divorce letter, and the marriage with the Wu family was decided later. The truth of this matter, the specific time of divorce and marriage, as long as we don’t say, who else will deliberately pick it up and share with the founding hero Marquis Ding Yong is more serious?”

Xiao Ying made up his mind to distort the facts and take advantage of the time difference. As for the time in the divorce letter, he had already asked someone to go to the government to take care of it. Although Mrs. Xiao knew that this was the best solution at the moment, she still felt uneasy. She sighed softly: “It would be great if Zhao Xiulan died, there would be so many troubles.”

Xue Lan also regretted that it was the best time to go to Beijing, but unfortunately Xiao Jingduo saw it through. They originally planned to go back to the mansion, but Xiao Jingduo insisted on living with Zhao Xiulan, but let them There is no time for hands-on. And this little man seems to have a lot of insights into medical theory, Xue Lan didn’t dare to make a fuss about medicine, and could only choose the stupidest way to divorce his wife.

Gao Shou Tang fell silent. After a long time, Mrs. Xiao’s old voice sounded: “Do you think Duoer will blame us?”

“How can it be, one side is the abandoned commoner’s biological mother, and the other is the prosperous Hou Ye father, Lang Jun will not be so stupid.”

“What will Doer do in the future?”

“If the new lady is willing to recognize it, then the Dalangjun will be recorded in the name of the lady, and it will be counted as the heir. Although he has become a concubine, we will not treat him lightly, and he is no different from the son-in-law, so Dalang-jun won’t care.”

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Qing Zeyuan.

Xiao Jingduo stood with his hands behind his back in the cold wind, not moving for a long time.

Qiu Ju quietly stood behind Xiao Jingduo.

“Mother still crying?”

“Well, no matter how I persuade my wife not to listen.”

Xiao Jingduo raised his head, looked at the blue sky, and felt so dazed for the first time.

Why? Overnight, his father changed, his grandmother changed, and all the relatives around him became disgusting, chilling down the spine.

At the station, if Xiao Jingduo didn’t understand pharmacology, Zhao Xiulan would have died on the way. After all, according to ordinary people’s thinking, good medicine is bitter and good for the disease. When Zhao Xiulan complained about the bitterness of the medicine, most people would persuade her to drink the medicine. Who would have thought that the bitterness of the medicine was due to being poisoned? Xiao Jingduo was extremely fortunate that he knew some medical principles, and only then rescued his mother from the gate of hell.

But in the end, the real culprit of poisoning was actually his biological father.

“He has no heart and no lungs. In order to climb up, he will do whatever he can to get rid of his wife. What should I do with my original wife’s son-in-law? With no future troubles?”

Qiu Ju couldn’t think of it, she could only be silent.

The difference between concubines and concubines in the previous dynasty was huge, and the south was slightly better, but many clans in the north were extremely harsh on their concubines and concubines. After years of wars and turbulence, the males continued to be exhausted, and now there are officials who refuted this ethos and asked the court to choose scholars regardless of their descendants, and the status of the concubines was slightly better.

However, no matter what the status of the heir and the concubine, Xiao Jingduo in the past did not care. Because he is the eldest son, heir, and a natural winner in a family, he will treat his younger brother kindly, so he doesn’t care what the outside world thinks of the concubine. But the world is ridiculous. He didn’t expect that he would worry about his identity so soon.

It is absurd to change from a descendant to a descendant.

Qiu Ju was silent for a while, and finally couldn’t help but persuade: “Lang Jun, you can’t be angry with Hou Ye in the future.”

Xiao Jingduo could hardly believe what he heard: “What did you say?”

“Lang Jun, don’t be angry, and admit your mistake to Lord Hou tomorrow. Please please Lord Hou, you can live your life in Hou’s mansion. You have a good life. , Madam can have a good life.”

Xiao Jingduo felt ridiculous: “You asked me to please him?”

“Otherwise.” Qiu Ju also felt sorry for the miserable wife and husband, but what else could be done? “Lang Jun, you still don’t understand, the lowly people have no right to choose, they can only carefully speculate on their hearts, no matter how unwilling they are, they have to endure until the high-ranking people are willing to give away a way to survive, and endure until they have a way back. You can retire. The slaves serve the masters, and the juniors serve the elders. This is the case. When you coax Lord Hou back, it will take a few years for Lord Hou to help you find an official vacancy in the court. Lord Hou will help you. You can bear it for now, and when you have an official position in the future, you can run your business for a few years, and when you are able to talk at home, you can take your wife over to live. ”

“So, my mother has been humiliated, so I can only endure it like this?”

“Yes, that’s the only way. Our whole family has to rely on Lord Hou, and in the future Langjun will have to rely on Lord Hou, even the help of the new wife, how can we compete with Lord Hou? As long as you have the blue eyes of Lord Hou, Lord Lord, maybe Lord Hou will look at your face and treat your wife better.” Qiu Ju whispered to persuade Xiao Jingduo, “Mr. Lord, our status is low and we can only accept our fate.”

Xiao Jingduo looked at the unreachable sky with a sarcastic and cold smile.

He will never surrender. He didn’t believe it, there was only one way in this world with Xiao Yingxu and Wei She. Without Xiao Ying, he can still stand out and correct his mother’s name.

A few months later, the entire Dingyonghou Mansion was plunged into a sea of red, and there were cheers and laughter everywhere.

Xiao Jingduo sat with Zhao Xiulan in the room, watching Zhao Xiulan cry while biting her handkerchief.

There was a burst of cheers outside the mansion, followed by the sound of firecrackers.

Xiao Jingduo knew that this was the arrival of the new wife Wu’s wedding car.

The young Xiao Jingduo was furious about this, and wanted to rush out to ruin the wedding. But he knew he couldn’t, and now he is far from being able to compete with his father.

He swore to himself in his heart that in the future he would do whatever it takes to climb up to the status of a superior man, so that no one in the world can humiliate him.

However, until many, many years passed, when Xiao Jingduo looked at the beacon in the sky outside the fortress, he still couldn’t convince himself that he liked dusk.

that period of time.

He later realized that his resistance to dusk began on the day Xiao Ying got married many years ago. The desperate cry of his mother and the sound of gongs and drums outside the mansion constituted an insurmountable nightmare in his youth.

That was the beginning of his difficult boyhood and the beginning of his journey to power.

Just as a sword has two edges, so do things. The arrival of the Wu family is that double-edged sword.

The author has something to say: [Warning, stepmother is online, please bring your medical kit and nurse, the little boss of Houfu chapter will appear soon]

[Special thanks: the heroine. Thank you to the hostess for a cameo without revealing her name or face]