Chapter 151 Liang Family Banquet

Shen Su only rested for three to five days before starting to prepare for the palace examination. He already had an idea of ​​how he would perform in the exam.

However, the palace examination of Dazhao has always been set by the emperor himself. Before the examination, no one knows what questions the emperor will set, so it is said to be preparation, but it is just reading more good essays written by predecessors, and writing one from time to time to practice.

Half a month after the imperial examination, the Shen family received an invitation from the Liang family. The current head of the Liang family, Liang Qingyuan, and the mistress Meng Shanqing sent the invitation personally, saying that it was the third daughter of the Liang family's family to meet her relatives, and invited the whole Shen family to attend.

In the capital, many families received invitations. The Liang family's move left everyone confused. The first thought was, where did the Liang family have a third daughter? Then they remembered that they had heard vaguely a few days ago that the child brought back by the wife of Marquis Xuanping was adopted. Could it be that this child was actually registered under the name of the Liang family?

After the wife of the Marquis of Xuanping returned from the Liang family that day, when someone asked about the child that Liang Qingzi brought back, she told them that the child was not Liang Qingzi's, but was adopted from outside.

Regardless of whether people believe it or not, the news has been spread quietly. However, Zhang was still concerned that the Liang family had not spoken out yet, so she did not dare to publicize it, so not many people knew about it.

This time, even the Xuanping Marquis Mansion received the invitation, and Zhang breathed a sigh of relief. How to say it, although her father-in-law has been wearing the green hat since he passed away, it will be completely different if he has a child. It will not be a green hat anymore, but the plaque of the Xuanping Marquis Mansion will be green.

"This Xuanping Marquis's Mansion is also not decent. How can a father be the heir without a son?"

"If my son is the crown prince, then the mansion will still be the Marquis Xuanping's. Otherwise, the Shi family can only be the Earl Xuanping's mansion."

In the Dali Temple, during lunch, the officials were discussing the affairs of the Liang and Shi families.

Dali Temple Secretary Wei Wenyuan frowned and shook his head, "If the Xuanping Marquis knew about this, he would probably be so angry that he would come back to life."

When Liang was just over 20 years old, she married the Marquis Xuanping, who was over 60 years old. At that time, people in the capital city gossiped a lot about this. The most common thing they said was that Liang might have some special hobbies. After all, given the status of the Liang family, it was impossible that Liang married for status.

Marquis Xuanping was already so old, and if Liang Qingzi had remarried after his death, no one would have said anything. But she refused to remarry for all these years. At first, everyone really thought that Marquis Xuanping had some extraordinary qualities that made Liang fall so deeply in love with him.

"Do you think it's possible that the Liang family and the Shi family have a grudge? My third cousin is the county magistrate of a county in Yunzhou Prefecture. He wrote to me and told me that a noble lady from the capital visited a brothel and claimed to be the wife of Marquis Xuanping!"

Everyone in the county knew about it, so you can imagine how far the news had spread.

Dali Temple Baixiaosheng Temple Master Zhengbai looked as if he had seen the truth, "Tell me, if this isn't a grudge, what is it?"

"What you said makes sense, but I've never heard of any feud between the Liang family and the Shi family before?"

Shen Yun had a different view from everyone else. He said to everyone, "What kind of deep hatred is there that is worth a girl sacrificing her life to avenge? Besides, it's just a visit to a brothel. Xuanping Hou himself didn't say anything."

When people heard this, they felt that it made some sense, but also made some sense. Marquis Xuanping did want to say something, so he had to be able to say it.

Xie Hui, who had been silent for the whole time, also spoke up: "Last month, Mr. Ren of the Household Department drank too much in the brothel and got into a quarrel with others out of jealousy and jealousy. As a result, the servants of the two families got into a fight and almost lost their lives. Mr. Ren His wife is a cousin, is there any grudge? "

"This……"

Everyone understood what Xie Hui meant. Since it was said that Liang's visit to brothels was because she had a grudge against the Shi family, and that she married Marquis Xuanping in order to discredit them, then if that was the case, then Lord Ren, who visited brothels and fought with others, must also have a grudge against his wife's family, right?

In fact, the adults who said this knew what was going on. They all thought that men and women were different. How could a man visiting a brothel be the same as a woman looking for a young prostitute?

But thinking in the heart is one thing, it doesn't sound good to say it out loud. We are all educated people, no matter what happens behind the scenes, it is not good to say openly that men are men and women are women.

Lord Bai laughed and replied to Xie: "Lord Xie is right. The Shi family themselves have not come out to say anything, so how can we outsiders know anything about it?"

Wei Wenyuan even said: "I can tell at first glance that Master Xie will definitely love his wife in the future. I wonder whose daughter-in-law is so lucky."

…

The Liang family banquet was scheduled for the tenth day, a holiday, so everyone would be free to come.

Liang Qingyuan discussed with his wife that Kui'er would be the Liang family's child in the future, so naturally they had to openly let everyone in the capital see her.

Originally, the couple wanted to register the child under their names, but the younger sister said that she didn't want to have children in the future, and Kui'er was her child, so they were the child's uncle and aunt.

The mother's uncle is the oldest, and the uncle is just as close. Liang Qingyuan and Meng Shanqing are both very happy. Compared with a daughter, a niece only has two more words in her name, but they are all the same.

"Kui'er, how are you feeling today? If you're not feeling well, we'll show up and come back later."

Early in the morning of the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Liang Qingzi came over and combed her daughter's hair herself.

The little girl in front of the mirror had willow-shaped eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, a cherry-like mouth and a large nose. She had a good appearance, but her face was a little pale.

The little girl spoke in a soft voice, "Don't bother me, mother. I'm much better now."

Ever since she could remember, Kui'er knew that she was not in good health, and her heart ached with every breath she took. It was her mother who searched for famous doctors for her and took care of her. After returning to the capital, she got the prescription from Doctor Hua, and she feels much better now.

"Many people will come today, but don't be afraid. You are my daughter, and no one dares to bully you. This capital is still too cold. From now on, we will go to the south to spend the winter every year."

Liang Qingzi brought Kui'er back this time because her brother wrote to her saying that Doctor Hua from the Imperial Hospital was an expert in pediatrics and might be able to cure Kui'er.

"Thank you, mother."

Kui'er knew that she was not her mother's daughter. She remembered that she was always scolded for paying money when she was little. Later, her parents abandoned her because they disliked her poor health and she had a new brother. When she was about to die, she met her mother.

"Thank you again? Didn't mother tell you that you don't need to thank me? Come on, follow mother out to greet the guests." Liang Qingzi asked the maid to put a cloak on her daughter, and then took her daughter's hand.

Shen Yuan came today with her grandmother, aunt, father and elder sister. Her sister-in-law did not come because she was pregnant and it was inconvenient for her to go out.

However, the male guests were in the outer courtyard, being received by Liang Qingyuan, and were not with them.

Not long after Meng Shanqing had invited the female family members to sit down in the warm pavilion, she heard from the servants that the second aunt had brought the third girl.

The ladies and young ladies present all looked towards the door, all of them were curious about the daughter that the Liang family was going to adopt.

"Thank you all for coming here despite your busy schedule. I am your daughter Liang Yingkui." Liang Qingzi bowed slightly as a courtesy, and then said to her daughter gently, "Kui'er, say hello to all the ladies and sisters."

The girl was very slim, and even with makeup on you could see that she had some imperfections, but she was very graceful and walked slowly up to me and bowed.

"Kui'er has met all the ladies and young ladies."

Snap——

Someone's teacup fell to the ground.