Before Miss Ouyang left, she still went to see Mrs. Huo. If she didn't go to see Mrs. Huo, Mrs. Huo would definitely think that she didn't respect Mrs. Huo enough.
Mrs. Huo did have such thoughts. She was also wondering why Miss Ouyang hadn't come to see her yet. When Miss Ouyang came, she was still not in a good mood. She also wondered if Miss Ouyang was deliberately delaying coming.
"Just take care of him peacefully," said the second Miss Ouyang. If she didn't take care of him peacefully and think about all those messy things, she wouldn't know what the child would be like after it was born. "If you want to eat something, just ask the kitchen staff to make it. That's how my brother is. Don't bother with him."
"He's always out." said Mrs. Huo.
"After all, the eldest nephew and niece are his biological children." The second Miss Ouyang said directly, why, does Mrs. Huo still want me to stand on her side and consider it? Impossible.
Just because the second Miss Ouyang didn't intend to provoke the Huo family any further didn't mean she wouldn't say these words.
"..." Upon hearing this, Mrs. Huo knew that the Second Miss Ouyang was on the side of Lord Ouyang and his stepson. That's right, if the Second Miss Ouyang didn't side with those people, who would she be on? Mrs. Huo thought she shouldn't have married into the Ouyang family in the first place.
No one in the Ouyang family is a good person.
Mrs. Huo was too lazy to say anything, so as not to make herself angry.
The second Miss Ouyang was just casually chatting with Mrs. Huo. She didn't bother to criticize her. It was useless. A noble lady like Mrs. Huo wouldn't bother with such things.
People like Da Huo like to act superior, believing themselves to be born into a noble family. It's not like Second Miss Ouyang hasn't encountered people like this before. When faced with such people, no matter what you say, it's useless. They have their own rules, and their words are the rules.
The Duke of Cheng's Mansion, the old lady, and the others hadn't interacted much with the Huo family recently, but they knew some of the things going on with the Huo family. They weren't concerned about the Huo family's affairs, but about the Cen family's.
The Cen family brought this upon themselves and cannot blame anyone else.
Concubine Cen became Concubine Cen, and the third prince's concubine Cen was also punished. People in the capital no longer spoke well of the girls of the Cen family as they did in the past.
It was Chinese New Year, so they shouldn't have said those things in the past few days. But the Cen family couldn't just ignore other activities during the Chinese New Year. Today was the day when married daughters returned to their parents' home.
Then a married girl talked about the daughter of the Cen family and asked whether He Xichen wanted to take a concubine.
This made Lady Chengguo very dissatisfied. Her legitimate daughters hadn't said such things, but now that her illegitimate daughters had returned home, they had the nerve to say such things. Whether He Xichen wanted to take a concubine or not was none of their business, and they were still talking about the Cen family girl.
Lady Chengguo said directly on the spot that she did not intend to let He Xichen take a concubine within three years.
After hearing this, Mrs. Mo was quite touched. Even though she knew that the wife of Duke Cheng was probably trying to prevent the daughter of the Cen family from marrying into the family, how could she not be happy when she benefited from it?
"These people are so troublesome," Lady Chengguo said to Madam Mo. "You don't have to care about them. What they say won't affect the relationship between you and your wife. The most important thing is to see things clearly for yourself."
"Yes." Mrs. Mo has been married for so many days, and it has been several months. How could she not understand these things?
The wife of Duke Chengguo and the old lady were both quite nice to Mo and did not deliberately make things difficult for her. As long as Mo could think more clearly, her life would be easy.
"The Cen family is setting traps everywhere," said Lady Chengguo. "Do they think no one knows what's going on with their family now? If they marry a Cen girl, will they be implicated if something happens to their family in the future? Will everyone have to help them out?"
"My daughter-in-law, please remember this." Mrs. Mo thought of her natal family. It seemed that one of her relatives had married a girl from the Cen family.
The Cen family is a large family, not just the direct branch, but also the other branches. The women of the Cen family's side branches also pay attention to the three obediences and four virtues, and pay attention to many things.
Mrs. Mo also knew that the daughters of the Cen family were very tolerant of concubines. They would take the initiative to take concubines for their husbands and prepare maids for them. Mrs. Mo liked He Xichen so much that she was not very willing to prepare maids and concubines for him. She just wanted to wait until later, if He Xichen needed them, then she would talk about it.
When Mrs. Mo was engaged to He Xichen, no, when she fell in love with He Xichen, she knew that a man of He Xichen's status was unlikely to have only one woman.
This kind of thing not only happened in the Chengguo Mansion, but also in some other families.
The Cen family still had several unmarried girls. Although there weren't that many of the right age, there were still some from other branches. The Cen family wanted to help their girls marry well, hoping that those people would be able to help the Cen family and prevent it from falling into decline.
In Shiyuan Village in the northwest, a matchmaker came to the home of widow Zhang, even though it was the second day of the Lunar New Year. In some rural areas, matchmakers would come to the home on the second day of the Lunar New Year.
Widow Zhang's family lived a good life, so naturally, matchmakers set their sights on them and prepared to propose marriages to them. Not only the grandsons, but also the granddaughters, the matchmakers could all propose marriages.
"I need someone capable," Widow Zhang said. "It doesn't matter if she's pretty or not. Don't bring just anyone in front of me, and there's no need to say so much nonsense. You'll know if she's capable after just one look. If she can't even wash or cook, what's the point of marrying her? Am I supposed to be their fireman?"
Widow Zhang had no intention of marrying a granddaughter to the family, nor did she care whether her grandson liked beautiful girls. After those girls gave birth to children, how many of them could still be as beautiful as before they gave birth?
"That's right." The matchmaker nodded. "The one from the village next door..."
"Don't even mention the girl who always brings things from her husband's family back to her parents' home," Widow Zhang said. "My family wouldn't dare marry a girl from a family like that. We don't have that much stuff for her to take back to her parents' home."
"Not everyone is like that." The matchmaker looked embarrassed. She really wanted to say something about the girl in that family; she had received some money for it. "Their third daughter is quite good and a good worker. If she married into your family, she would definitely not take anything back. If you don't believe me, write a letter when the time comes."
"What's the point of writing a letter? If a person loses his temper, nothing can stop him from doing these things," Widow Zhang said. "My grandson doesn't love her to death, nor does he insist on marrying her. So what's the point of having such a grandson's wife?"
Widow Zhang's idea was very simple. Since her grandson didn't want to get married, there was no need for her family to bring such a person back home. If she could marry someone simpler, she would marry someone simpler. Why rush to marry the daughter of such a complicated family?
"You didn't take money from them, did you?" Widow Zhang asked. "No, what kind of money could they give you?"
"It wasn't given by their family, but by their third daughter." The matchmaker didn't hide it. "She just wanted to escape from the misery and didn't want to be a slave to her younger brother. She didn't think about the future..."
"Don't say anything. No matter what she does, my family won't marry her." Widow Zhang refused directly. "If she really wants to do that, she can marry into another family. It doesn't have to be my family."
Widow Zhang was still unwilling to let her grandson marry a girl from such a family. It was too much trouble.
"This..." the matchmaker said, "That girl is pretty good."
"Then tell your relatives," said Widow Zhang. "If you don't have a suitable son to marry, then find a relative."
“…” There was no way a matchmaker would allow his relatives to marry such a girl.
Widow Zhang didn't kick the matchmaker out, but her attitude wasn't as good as it had been at the beginning. Why, the matchmaker wasn't willing to introduce such a girl to her own relatives, so she introduced such a girl to someone else's family? Was she trying to make things difficult for them?
Liu Fang and Zhen Wenze came to the Liu family's main house, but they didn't enter the house. Father Liu didn't let them in. Don't think that Father Liu might be soft-hearted during the Chinese New Year. It's impossible.
Father Liu had long realized that being too soft on these children would be tantamount to harming his other children. He would never let Zhen Wenze and his wife in, nor did he intend to talk to them much.
Previously, Aunt Chai always came to make trouble, and the second house was still making a fuss in the county town.
Father Liu was very disappointed with these people and didn't want to see them even more.
Zhen Wen Ze had no choice but to take his wife to the third house. Zhen Wen Ze knew some of the goings-on in the county town, and he felt that the second house had indeed gone too far. The third and second houses had always been close, and Concubine Chai from the third house had previously been dragged back to the third house by servants from the first house.
This is really not a good thing.
Zhen Wen Ze's plan to get closer to the eldest wife was ruined by these people's actions.
"You always try to please others without any hesitation. Do you think others will let you in?" Liu Fang was unhappy. They went to the eldest wife's house today and were ignored by her again.
She is obviously his daughter, but he treats her like this. I don’t know if other people in the first house said anything unpleasant about her.
People outside were going to laugh at her again, and Liu Fang felt bad.
"That's because you did something wrong." Zhen Wen Ze said.
"What have we done wrong?" Liu Fang frowned. She had done nothing wrong at all. It was clearly the people from the first wife who were unreasonable and were tormenting them.
Liu Fang believes that her life in her husband's family is not very comfortable, and it has something to do with the people in the first wife's family. Zhen Wenze likes the people in the first wife's family so much, so if Zhen Wenze has the ability, he should find a way to marry Liu Yulian. However, Liu Yulian is not yet of marriageable age. If Zhen Wenze dares to touch Liu Yulian, he will not be able to live.
"That's just how you are. You all think you're doing the right thing." Zhen Wen Ze was speechless towards Aunt Chai and Liu Fang. These two people never felt that they had done anything wrong.
Liu Yanyuan and his wife were fine. Perhaps they had other thoughts, but they didn't rush to the front and didn't run directly to the people from the Liu family's main house. This was much better and would not make people unhappy.
"Stop talking about this." Zhen Wenze said, "Come to your brother's side, and everything will be fine."
"If you hadn't thought about going to the main house and hadn't gone there, would I have said these things?" Liu Fang thought it was all Zhen Wenzhe's fault. If Zhen Wenzhe hadn't taken her to the Liu family's main house in the first place, they wouldn't have been turned away by the main house, and her mood wouldn't have been ruined.
Aunt Chai felt a headache when she heard the conversation between her daughter and son-in-law. She wanted her daughter and son-in-law to stop talking so much and stop arguing, but she didn't dare to speak casually for fear that her son-in-law would be dissatisfied.
If my daughter marries into the Zhen family, at least she will not lack for material things.
Aunt Chai was afraid that someone like Zhen Wen Ze might divorce him. If Liu Fang never brought any benefits to Zhen Wen Ze and kept quarreling with him, then Zhen Wen Ze would have a reason to divorce Liu Fang.
Divorce may not happen, but amicable divorce is more likely. Amicable divorce would at least give the woman some face.
"Fang'er, come, come here, go to the kitchen and help your sister-in-law." Aunt Chai hurriedly asked her daughter to come over.
Liu Fang didn't want to go to the kitchen at all. When she was in the Zhen family, she didn't have to go to the kitchen at all. The maids cooked and she just had to wait for the food to be served. When Liu Fang was in the third room, she still had to do some things. After she married Zhen Wen Ze, the Zhen family had several servants, so Liu Fang naturally didn't have to do those things.
"Doesn't my sister-in-law often cook and sell food? She can do it by herself, why does she need my help?" Liu Fang said.
"..." Aunt Chai wanted to say that Liu Fang was stupid. Couldn't Liu Fang just put on some superficial effort? Don't let others think she's incompetent.
Liu Fang walked to Aunt Chai's side and said, "What do you need help with? I can't cook, don't ask me to do it."
"Then wash the vegetables." Aunt Chai said.
"Water that's so cold will freeze you." Liu Fang said.
"..." Aunt Chai really didn't know what to say. At the beginning, they asked Feng Guanjing to do more work, but not Liu Fang. After Liu Fang got married, she did even less work. With Liu Fang's character, how could she be willing to work?
"No need to go in." Liu Fang said, "The water is outside. Just let her come out and wash later."
Liu Fang didn't like Feng Guanjing. She thought it was because Feng Guanjing didn't protect her that she lost her child. Because Feng Guanjing didn't have a child, she had to get married early and didn't even have time to look at more families or choose a better one.
Feng Guanjing is wrong!
Liu Fang didn't want to have more contact with Feng Guanjing. "Who knows if she's pregnant again? Then she'll say I got rid of her child."
"You..." When Aunt Chai heard this, she knew that her daughter didn't want to do those things at all, and she was helpless.
"Mom, you know what I meant." Liu Fang said, "Let her do it herself. It's easier that way."
Feng Guanjing was in the kitchen. She heard the noise outside and the conversation between Aunt Chai and Liu Fang. She was not surprised at all. Liu Fang was not a good person to begin with. It was impossible for her to consider people like them. She only thought about whether she was living a good life.
It was clearly Liu Fang who caused her to have a miscarriage, but Liu Fang still blamed her.
Feng Guanjing just wanted to be lucky that Liu Fang was married. If Liu Fang had not been married and they lived under the same roof, the relationship between her and Liu Fang would have been even worse.
"Make two more dishes." Aunt Chai walked into the kitchen, "Add more oil, don't be stingy."
"Okay." How could Feng Guanjing say no? There was also Zhen Wenze at home, a son-in-law, who was almost like a guest. Aunt Chai couldn't let Zhen Wenze eat too badly, so the rest of them could only do as Aunt Chai said.
Fortunately, Zhen Wenzhe brought back a lot of things, so they didn't lose out.
In the Liu family's main house, Liu Yulian was sitting in the yard, and He Xiyuan was also helping to pack some things.
"How to grow strawberries?" He Xiyuan saw a book.
"Yes." Liu Yulian nodded. "I didn't tidy it up before. Now that we've planted strawberries, I'll tidy it up."
After Liu Yulian sorted out these books, she would print and sell them later. No matter how much they sold for, at least more people could see them.
It not only contains Liu Yulian's idea of growing strawberries, but also some content displayed in the system.
Since the fields in the system are different from the fields outside, Liu Yulian will think more when using the knowledge in the system to grow things to avoid empty talk.
"Sort out what's useful," Liu Yulian said. "I sold the wool yarn making book for a little while ago. It wasn't a lot, but at least it was enough for pocket money."
"Yes." He Xiyuan said, "Indeed, it can be used as some pocket money."
"It's just that my handwriting isn't very pretty." Liu Yulian thought about her own calligraphy, which was really not very good. "Fortunately, the bookstore has taken it away, and they will copy it and print the book, so I don't have to worry about whether the handwriting looks good or not."
Liu Yulian was not afraid of others knowing that her handwriting was not good-looking. She was not an omnipotent person and could not do everything. She had to give others some opportunities. If others knew that her handwriting was not good-looking, they would at most say that her handwriting was ugly, or that her handwriting reflected her personality, saying that she was ugly and had a bad character.
So what.
Could it be that because her calligraphy is ugly, she can't write?
Ever since she invented the simple pencil, her handwriting has become much more beautiful.
"I wrote in pencil." Liu Yulian felt a little embarrassed. Others wrote with brushes, but she wrote in pencil. "But, Shopkeeper Wu said it's okay."
"That's great." He Xiyuan said, "I've seen that your pencil writing uses less paper."
"Speaking of paper, reeds can be used to make paper," Liu Yulian said. "Those reeds that grow a lot outside can be used to make paper."
Although the system didn't have everything, Liu Yulian was from the future and knew some things. She didn't rely entirely on the system, but still had some knowledge from the future.
"Want to build a paper mill?" He Xiyuan asked. "Paper can make a lot of money."
He Xiyuan didn't care much about money at first, but when he came to Northwest China, he realized its importance. He wasn't afraid of being criticized for always thinking about money. If he didn't, how would he support his family?
"I do have this idea." Liu Yulian said, "Some grasses can be used as forage. We have to give it a try."
Liu Yulian's space contained grass seeds that could grow to four or five meters tall. In her later life, she had seen a short video about a botanist who had brought a plant from Africa to China. The plant could grow to four or five meters tall and could be harvested three times a year. One acre of land could yield enough grass to support a large number of livestock.
The grass in the game can also be like that. Liu Yulian thinks that the game is based on reality, and the planners didn't just make it up out of thin air. There are farms and ranches in the game, and they also sell some basic items. There may be fewer advanced items, but more basic items.
"We have to do it one by one." Liu Yulian thought for a moment, "You can't become fat in one bite."
Ultimately, it all cost money, and someone had to keep an eye on it. Liu Yulian couldn't possibly do that alone, and even if she wrote it down, no one would believe her. She planned to plant grass soon, reclaiming some wasteland for it. She didn't have good farmland to plant grass, and the court wouldn't let her use good farmland for that either.
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