Family Has a Concubine

Before Ye Tangcai went back, she told Nanny Cai to report Wen's physical condition to her the next day.

Early the next morning, before breakfast was set on the table, Nanny Cai sent a little maid over, saying that there was nothing serious, and Ye Tangcai asked Qiuju to give him half a penny.

Qiu Ju said: It's not far away, if the girl is worried, we can go back and have a look, and we can chat with my wife.

Are we still the serious masters of the Jing'an Hou Mansion? Hui Ran gave her a blank look, Even if the Chu family is strict and we can go in and out of the Xijiao Gate, what will the people in the Jing'an Hou Mansion say? The guard at the gate sees us coming in and out every day, so I don’t know what kind of ugly words he will come up with.”

Anyway, the day after tomorrow is the old lady's birthday banquet, we can just go back. Ye Tangcai said, Sit down and have breakfast.

The three sat around the table, eating buns and porridge.

Girl! Girl! Qing'er rushed in.

What's it called? Can't you grab buns from us? Qiu Ju snorted.

There's news! Qing'er panted desperately.

What's the news? Ye Tang took a sip of porridge, Do you want breakfast?

No, no need! Qing'er waved her hand, It was the last time, two months ago, didn't the girl tell me to order Uncle Wu to touch Yin Tingniang's bottom?

Ye Tangcai regained her spirits in an instant: Yes!

Putting down the chopsticks, Qiuju and Huiran also looked at him with bright eyes.

Qing'er didn't enter the house, but just sat on the steps and wiped off her sweat: However, what Uncle Wu found is information that everyone knows.

It's enough to have these. Ye Tangcai said, Hurry up.

That Yin Tingniang is from Xujia Village in Changzhou. Qing'er said, Before she married, she was a girl from Qingshigou, two miles away from Xujia Village. Whether her natal family or her husband's family, they are all very ordinary. Farmer. But Yin Tingniang has two things that are different. One is that she looks iconic, and she is a well-known and beautiful girl in eight villages. Second, she can read and write. The Yin family is an ordinary farmer and has no scholars, but the neighbor of the Yin family is a The old scholar, the old scholar often taught his daughter how to read, and Yin Tingniang followed her to recognize. The old scholar also praised Yin Tingniang for her good qualifications, and if she was a man, she would be able to pass the examination for scholar.

Speaking of this, Qing'er covered her eyes and wanted to laugh: In the end, this Yin Tingniang is really outstanding, and the old scholar's future son-in-law didn't know what happened, and suddenly he didn't want the old scholar's daughter, and insisted on marrying Yin Tingniang!

Ye Tang fluttered and almost spit out a mouthful of porridge, she really deserves to be Yin Tingniang!

The old scholar didn't want to talk about this matter because he felt ashamed. First, he felt that he had taught a white-eyed wolf. He was afraid that people would laugh at him for being blind. Second, he was afraid that people would laugh at his daughter and be disgusted by others, which would lose her worth. So this matter No one knew. Back then, her daughter's engagement was during her mother's funeral, so it was hard to tell. I didn't expect that she would be pried away before it was announced. Qing'er smiled and shook her head, Uncle Wu spent a full thirty taels of silver. The old scholar was in a hurry to spend money again, so he spoke out.

The fiancé who was stolen is Xu Rui's father, right? Ye Tang said.

Yes! Qing'er nodded, The Xu family is considered a wealthy family in Xujia Village. I don't think so, Yin Tingniang got married and gave birth to Xu Rui. After a few days of good life, her father-in-law went out to herd cattle, but fell to the hillside The Xu family spent all their savings to treat her father-in-law's legs, but in the end they still couldn't keep their legs and had to be amputated. Because of the amputation, the wound rotted, the more rotten the sicker, the family wanted to give He treats diseases and sells fields.

During the period, someone from the village came to their house to persuade them, saying that it would not heal just by looking at them, and that they should not be cured. Yin Tingniang and his wife were silent, and they did not want to be cured. Who knew that the old man was afraid of death and said that he must be cured, but he could still live! Two acres of lean land were sold. The Xu family was poor and empty all of a sudden! Because of this, the old scholar laughed for a long time, and even personally sent a gift to her to thank her!

Ye Tang let out a snort, and also wanted to laugh for a long time.

In the end, the old man of the Xu family tossed all his family property, but he still didn't save his life and died. There was such a father-in-law at the stall, a well-known rich family in a good village, who suddenly became poor. Yin Tingniang had to follow Xu Rui's father to eat chaff and swallow vegetables Oh, Xu Rui’s father’s name is Xu Dashi! After five or six years like this, because of the tense battle in Yingcheng, the imperial court came to recruit soldiers, but Xu Dashi had no money and no background, so he was dragged away abruptly.”

Ye Tangcai frowned, the battle in Yingcheng should be the big defeat led by the Chu family! Back then, the Chu family guarded Yingcheng, known as the gate of the country.

Yin Tingniang took the child like this and stayed with her mother-in-law for several years. One day, a soldier who was disarmed and returned to the field suddenly returned to the village. The villagers surrounded him, especially those villagers who were conscripted together with the men in the family. To. The soldier said that when Yu'an pass was lost, almost the entire family of the general was folded in, and nine out of ten of the soldiers below died. It was hard for him to survive. He also said that the brothers in the village were all on the same team as him Yes, there are those who died and those who disappeared, if they are alive, they will naturally come back like him.

When Ye Tangcai heard this, she regained her spirits: Then Xu Dashi is dead or not?

That's right, isn't there a saying that the horse leather shroud should be returned? Didn't the body be brought back? Qiuju asked anxiously.

He wrapped his body in horse leather, it was the general's body, you little soldier still want to have a body wrapped back? Qing'er gave Qiuju a sidelong glance.

Qiu Ju looked at Ye Tangcai, and Ye Tangcai naturally knew that when a soldier died on the battlefield, he could only be buried on the spot, or dragged to a mass grave not far away, or even left on the spot to be wiped out by wild animals.

Anyway, only the man who was expropriated in Xujia Village came back alive, and none of the others came back. Everyone was busy setting up the tomb, but Mrs. Xu cried and refused to set it up, claiming that her son was not dead. In the end, it was Yin Tingniang who set up the tomb. The grave. Qing'er said with a slight sigh, Later, Mrs. Xu couldn't get sick anymore, and died of illness within two months. Yin Tingniang sold all the fields at home, and brought Xu Rui to the capital to join a distant relative, but that Relatives did not take them in. Yin Tingniang had to work in embroidery and spinning, and within three months, she met the eldest son, and then became a concubine.

Ye Tangcai focused all her attention on whether Xu Dashi was dead or not, and so did Qiu Ju. She asked anxiously, Is that Xu Dashi really dead?

Anyway, it's true that he didn't come back. Qing'er said, If he didn't die, why didn't he come home? There's not only his wife and children at home, but also his old mother! So, it's very likely that he really died.

Ye Tangcai was not reconciled, she had been unable to find a way to deal with Yin Tingniang, if Xu Dashi survived and came back alive, then there would be something to watch!

Although she was hopeless, she still wanted to find it.