Xu suddenly yelled, which frightened the three wives and six sons of the Yao family. Even Yao Jingjun, who was standing next to her, shuddered. He frowned and asked, "What are you going to do now?"
Xu stamped her feet and said, "I've decided! I'll leave after the first month of the year to go to my fiefdom and take care of Ah Heng!"
"What?" Everyone was shocked. "You want to go to the fiefdom?"
"Yes!" Xu nodded, very firmly, "When Ah Heng was in Kyoto, she was always entangled with various things, and it was difficult for us to get close to each other, and we neglected to take care of her. This time I go back to the fiefdom, but there won't be so many eyes watching me, so I have to go. I feel relieved to take care of my own daughter myself. I can't leave her to those maids and old women. I always feel uneasy." As she spoke, she said to the maid beside her: "Go quickly, pack my luggage for me, we will set off after the first month of the year."
The little maid was about to cry: "Madam, it's not even the 15th yet. Even if you really leave after the first month of the lunar year, you can't pack your luggage so quickly! Besides--" She glanced at Yao Jingjun, "If you leave, what will happen to the mansion? Who will take care of the master and the two young masters?"
"They are so old now, what if they can't live without me?" At this moment, Xu, who loved her daughter like her life, had no room for anyone except Feng Yuheng. The Yao family was prosperous with male descendants, especially in their generation, all the children born were boys, which was simply the most frustrating thing for the wives. What's good about sons? They just run around outside all day long, how can they be as caring as daughters? Unfortunately, three couples gave birth to six boys, all of whom were boys. They were all desperate. "I don't care, anyway, I have made up my mind, don't let anyone stop me!"
Yao Jingjun was so angry that he stamped his feet: "Aren't you going there to cause trouble? There is a lot of waste there and Ah Heng went there to build it. Do you think you are going there for fun?"
"It's because she has to suffer that I want to go and take care of her..." Mrs. Xu said confidently: "Ah Heng's life is so miserable! She was sent to the mountains to suffer since she was a child. She finally came back, but the Feng family is heartless and framed her step by step. No one from top to bottom hopes that she can survive. Finally, the child has her own ability and has a promising future, but who would have thought that Qianrou would..." When Yao Qianrou was mentioned, everyone in the Yao family fell silent, and even Yao Jingjun lost his momentum. Mrs. Xu's tears fell again, and she continued while sobbing: "The child is now equivalent to having no father and no mother. She has a fiancé, but she is not married after all, and the Ninth Prince is busy with military affairs and cannot always accompany her. No matter how capable she is, she is just a girl. She is going to the fiefdom with a team of people like this, and there is no relative around her. When I think of this, my heart is uncomfortable!"
The eldest son Yao Shu interjected, "It's not like he doesn't have any relatives. He also brought a younger sister with him. The third young lady of the Feng family went with him."
"What's the use of the Third Miss?" Xu retorted, "Everyone knows the Third Miss of the Feng family. It's not that I, as her aunt, talk about her behind her back. In fact, she still has to rely on our Ah Heng for protection. It's good enough that she doesn't cause trouble. How can we expect her to take care of Ah Heng?" As she spoke, she looked at her eldest son Yao Shu and the second son Yao Sen, "You two boys are the eldest grandchildren in the family. After your mother is gone, you must take good care of your younger brother, respect your grandfather, and take good care of your father. Do you understand?"
Yao Shu frowned when he heard this. How could this sound like a will? And where would he go after he left? "Mother!" Yao Shu tried his best to argue, "The court affairs are also very busy, how can I take care of the family much? You are the eldest daughter-in-law in the family, and you are in charge of Zhonggong, how can you just leave like that?"
"Hey?" Mrs. Xu was puzzled. "Are you a member of the Yao family? How could our Yao family produce a scum like you?"
Yao Shu didn't swallow well and almost choked himself to death. Is this a real mother? Who would talk about their real son like this?
"The Yao family motto is to forget yourself! Live in harmony! Be kind to your clansmen! Ah Heng is your cousin. She was bullied and forced to leave the capital to go to that barren land. Don't you feel sorry for her? I have raised you for nothing all these years. Who did you learn to be so hard-hearted?"
When Xu said this, Yao Shu was also stunned, and he also followed Xu's meaning and made a self-examination. Yes, how could he think like this? Isn't it right for mother to take care of his cousin? His cousin went to suffer alone, and he, as the eldest cousin, felt guilty for not being able to help. Why is he holding back and not letting his mother take care of her now?
Yao Shu lowered his head, regretting his arrogance. Yao Sen also felt that his mother was right and dared not refute. Yao Jingjun watched from the side, and listened to Xu's crying, especially when he thought of what Yao Qianrou had done, he felt bad. As an uncle, he did not take good care of his sister and brought so much trouble to his niece. He should let his wife go over and take good care of the child. Ah Heng is so miserable!
For a while, the Yao family quickly changed from initial strong opposition to Xu's decision to unanimous support. Even Qin and Miao asked to go together so that the three of them could take better care of him.
The third boy Yao Xuan complained: "But if you all go, there will be no women at home!"
Mrs. Xu wiped her tears and began to lecture the children. "You also know that there is no woman in the family? Why don't you hurry up and find a wife? You don't even worry about your own life events, and you still have the nerve to say that there is no woman in the family?"
The six children were given a good lecture and dared not say a word. Then, the three wives of the family began to study what to bring to the fiefdom, completely ignoring the others.
It's not that Yao Jingjun didn't want his wife to take care of Feng Yuheng. In fact, as the eldest uncle, he loved his niece the most, but he also felt that if all three women left, the family might be in chaos. So he thought silently in his heart that he had to write a letter to the camp to ask the old man what to do about this matter<="..
After Feng Yuheng left Beijing, it was not just the Yao Mansion that was in turmoil. At this time, the Pingwang Mansion was also in chaos. Everything was because the fourth prince Xuan Tianyi got angry and said he would go out. But he was a detained person. Emperor Tianwu showed mercy last year and allowed him to go out of the mansion to attend the palace banquet, but he did not say that he could move freely at other times. There were people monitoring the Pingwang Mansion from top to bottom, and there were heavy soldiers guarding outside. No matter how much trouble he made, he could not get out of this mansion unless he broke in forcefully.
But he didn't have the ability to force his way in. His martial arts weren't as superb as those of the seventh, eighth, and ninth brothers. Moreover, he had been locked up in the mansion for the past two years, and had been busy embroidering instead of practicing martial arts. He had fat on his arms, and even if he forced his way in, he no longer had the confidence he had in the past.
Xuan Tianyi was so angry that he smashed everything in the mansion, from the study to the hall, and then from the hall to the gate. He pointed at the gate and cursed the guards outside, saying that they were bastards and asked them to open the door. Unfortunately, the people outside were like wooden people. No matter how he cursed, they pretended not to hear him and ignored him.
Xuan Tianyi was tired of scolding, so he returned to the hall and sat down to drink tea. The servants brought him four kinds of tea, none of which he liked. He couldn't figure it out. She was living well in the capital, why did Feng Xiangrong suddenly leave? And she went to such a far place. He was not stupid. Feng Yuheng went to the fiefdom. Was that to seek refuge? That was clearly to conquer the world. Not only did she have to build the fiefdom and turn that place into a paradise, a paradise that belonged only to her, but she also had to take care of the war that was about to start in the south. How could she come back in a short time?
His little master! She was kidnapped just like that, and she didn't even say hello to him as her apprentice. Isn't this deliberately irritating? He has carefully cultivated little master Xiangrong in the past two years! The skinny little girl, he used various rare medicinal herbs to make her face fleshy, her appearance more mature, and even her height grew a lot. She was getting more and more beautiful, and she was almost ready to be cooked, but she was kidnapped and ran away. Didn't he feed her for nothing all these years?
Xuan Tianyi was so angry that his liver ached. His little master was captured by a monster!
On the 14th day of the first lunar month, because Princess Ji'an was leaving the capital, Emperor Tianwu thought that many people would come to see her off, so he found an excuse to change the morning court meeting to an afternoon meeting, and rest in the morning. After lunch, all the officials went to the palace. Even Xuan Tianming did not rush back to the camp, and went to the palace to attend the court meeting.
The court started to issue documents on the eighth day of the first lunar month, and some pending matters that had accumulated during the new year were resolved one by one. Memorials from various places were also delivered one after another, reporting on the situations in various provinces.
Emperor Tianwu was not stupid as an emperor. He had always handled the affairs of the court properly. Although he had not made many achievements in his later years, he was wise and decisive in handling daily affairs, and there was absolutely no fault to be found in him. But today, someone was bound to cause trouble in the court, such as the eighth prince Xuan Tianmo.
He took a step forward, saluted Tianwu, and said loudly: "Father, it has been more than a year since Dashun developed steel weapons, but now the steel weapons are only in the hands of the Northwest Army and the North Border Army. Soldiers from other places have not received any. I think that the steel weapons should be promoted to the armies in various places to prepare for emergencies."
After he finished speaking, he looked up at Tianwu, but found that Tianwu had drooped eyelids and looked listless, as if he had not taken his words to heart at all. He waited for a while, but when he saw that he did not get a response, he could not help but repeat what he had just said, and at the same time glanced at the officials standing on his side.
Upon seeing this, the officials immediately spoke at the same time: "Your Majesty, I second the motion!"
Tianwu finally perked up a bit, but he only said, "Oh?" and then looked at Xuan Tianming again.
Xuan Tianming was considerate enough to give these people some face and did not leave them in a cold state. He quickly gave an answer that made the Eighth Prince's party bleed: "No!"
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