"The Liang family actually split up?"
Nanjiao Forest Farm.
Half a year later, the young ladies in Beiguan City who were good at riding and shooting made an appointment to come here for hunting again. When they got together, the legitimate daughter of Mr. Zhou, the Beiguan Farm Envoy, shared with everyone the news she had just learned in the past two days.
Not many people were invited to come hunting this time.
There were only about ten people in total, and it was not as lively as the last time, but the girls who came were all of similar temperament and straightforward personalities, so they didn't have so many reservations when speaking.
As soon as Miss Zhou finished speaking, Miss Sun, the legitimate daughter of Sun Shoubei, a member of the Northern Army, who was on good terms with her, curiously asked, "So, the second branch of the Liang family was separated? When we went to the Liang family for a banquet before, it was the second wife who entertained us. My mother and I thought at that time that the second wife was the head mistress of the Liang family..."
"Who said it wasn't?" Miss Zhou sighed.
The reason why she knew so much about the Liang family was that his family and the Liang family were located on the same street in the north city. Although the Liang family's mansion occupied twice as much land as their Zhou family's, the two mansions were only separated by a wall.
In the past two days, I could vaguely hear noise and quarrels coming from the other side of the wall.
Of course, in such a large mansion, Miss Zhou did not learn about the Liang family's situation through a few vague words floating through the wall, but through the Liang family's servants who were not very tight-lipped.
The Liang family was an outsider family, and many servants were lost and injured on the way to exile. After arriving at Beiguan, they hired a new batch of servants in order to manage such a large mansion.
Naturally, these servants purchased from the border are not as tight-lipped as those trained in the capital.
The Zhou family and the Liang family lived next to each other, and servants from the two families would often meet each other.
Just now, Miss Zhou learned from the maid in her own courtyard that the second branch of the Liang family and the first branch had a falling out, and the first lady Liang had driven the second lady out of the house.
As for the second master of the Liang family, he was captured and taken to the Western Suburbs Camp, and has not yet returned to Beiguan City.
"It seems that the second master of the Liang family committed a crime under the banner of the Empress Dowager." Miss Zhou lowered her voice and continued with emotion: "After all, Madam Liang is the niece of the Empress Dowager. She can tolerate the arrogance of the second house relying on the power of the first house and tolerate the second lady taking charge of the household expenses, but when it comes to the reputation of the Empress Dowager, she can't tolerate it easily."
"But Madam Liang was also very generous. Although she drove Madam Liang II out of the mansion, she kept the second wife's two legitimate children in the mansion to be raised. She said that after all, they were the bloodline of the Liang family, and it was the parents' fault, not the children's fault. It would be bad to let them suffer with them."
"So, Madam Liang is a nice person." Miss Sun sighed, "I met Madam Liang at the Liang family banquet before. It seems that except for her weak health, she is a very kind person."
"The two houses are separated. I think what the second master of the Liang family did will not affect the first house. The first house of the Liang family is also related to the Empress Dowager, and they will return to the capital sooner or later. In this case, the young master of the first house of the Liang family may be a good match..." The news that the Liang family intends to choose wives for the two young masters has been spread for a long time, but after half a year, the final candidates have not been decided.
The Liang family has high standards and obviously looks down on people of ordinary families.
However, some families with considerable status in Beiguan City were still waiting and watching, not daring to easily promise their daughters to them.
But if the Liang family still has a close relationship with the capital, and if the first wife can still stay safe when the second master of the Liang family gets into trouble, then the young master of the first wife will be considered by everyone.
The two young masters from the two branches of the Liang family, who were about to get married, had shown up at the winter flower-viewing banquet held by the Liang family previously. All the young ladies present had seen them before.
They started chatting, some people were quite interested, some were dismissive, the conversation was quite lively.
This is only the case in Beiguan, where the atmosphere is open. If it were in the capital, no young lady would dare to discuss her marriage like this.
Wei Yunlan took a quick glance and noticed that Huang Yuling, who had been silent beside him, had a tense face and a serious expression.
Perhaps because he was afraid that others would notice something was wrong with him, he turned his face towards the woods. If Wei Yunlan hadn't happened to turn her head and look over there, she wouldn't have noticed.
Wei Yunlan walked over and asked with concern, "What happened?"
Huang Yuling bit her lower lip, looking as if she couldn't speak.
Wei Yunlan felt something and lowered his voice, "But... was Mr. Huang persuaded by the Liang family?"
In the previous life, Deputy General Huang was persuaded by the Liang family to form an alliance with them and married Huang Yuling into the Liang family's main house.
But later, the North Gate was breached by the barbarians. Huang Yuling led the North Gate women under her command to fight the enemy, but she also encountered a lot of opposition and slander, especially from her husband's family.
What's worse, when Beiguan was leaderless at that time and someone in the court proposed to appoint Huang Yuling as a general and let her temporarily take charge of Beiguan, the Empress Dowager, who was a solid backer of the Liang family, also expressed her opposition.
The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and there was no better candidate under the circumstances at the time.
The Empress Dowager's remarks did not interfere much and only delayed the court's transfer order by a day or two.
But it was just a short day or two.
Huang Yuling, who had been guarding the border with great difficulty and waiting for no reinforcement, died in the hands of the barbarians. When he died, he was not given a legitimate title and was not granted the position of general.
The official position is secondary.
The truth is that the Liang family and the Queen Mother not only failed to give Huang Yuling any help, but also became stumbling blocks for her to realize her ambitions.
The young master of the Liang family is not a good match for Huang Yuling.
Thinking back to the banquet, the eldest son of the eldest wife looked frail and sickly, and Wei Yunlan felt that he was very different from Huang Yuling.
"Yuling, Lord Huang only has you as his daughter. You might as well have a good talk with him and tell him that you don't want to marry into the Liang family." Wei Yunlan suggested.
In fact, she couldn't understand why Huang, with his high position as Deputy General, wanted to marry his daughter into the Liang family.
As the saying goes, a rich family marries a daughter, while a poor family marries a daughter-in-law.
Deputy General Huang was a second-rank officer and held great power in the army. Although Huang Yuling was a concubine, she was his only daughter and could have married into a duke's or marquis's mansion.
The Liang family has nothing except their nepotism with the Empress Dowager. What on earth is so worthy of Deputy General Huang's attention?
Not knowing what she was thinking of, Huang Yuling sighed heavily, lowered her eyes and said, "It's useless. It's hard for anyone to change what my father has decided."
Huang Yuling smiled bitterly, trying to be cheerful, and continued, "But my father promised me that as long as I agree to marry, he will allow me to dress up as a man and fight the enemy beside him. It will be worth all my years of hard work in martial arts."
Fighting in battle and slaying barbarians with one’s own hands has been Huang Yuling’s dream since childhood.
And now, agreeing to marry into the Liang family is her closest chance to realize her dream.
"Yuling, if you want to go into battle and kill the enemy, this may not be the only way." Wei Yunlan advised.
"If you don't want to marry into the Liang family, even if you are unable to convince Mr. Huang, try to delay it as much as possible."
In the previous life, the Liang family lived peacefully until Beiguan City was broken and Dayong was defeated.
Not necessarily in this life.
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