The scumbag ran away from marriage, I remarried on the spot

The next morning.

Gu Jingxi arrived at the Yamen of Dali Temple. As soon as he sat down, the door opened. When he looked up, he was met with a pair of sad eyes.

Qi Yunwen's face was tired, with stubble on his face, his eyes were dark and bloodshot, and he was looking at him with a resentful look, like a resentful woman.

Qi Yunwen asked in a faint tone: "Are you still willing to come back? I was so busy that I didn't go back all night."

As he spoke, he kept walking towards Gu Jingxi and said angrily: "You smell it, I stayed up all night in Dali Temple on this hot day, and I went to the prison to interrogate the prisoner last night. I didn't change my clothes. It’s all the same smell.”

Gu Jingxi seemed to have no sense of guilt and responded calmly: "It was my father-in-law's birthday yesterday."

Hearing this, Qi Yunwen rolled his eyes angrily and snorted: "I don't remember how good your relationship with your father-in-law is, but it's worthy of you taking a day off for him. Don't you know how busy we are lately?"

Gu Jingxi replied: "Go back with my wife."

Qi Yunwen was silent for two breaths after hearing this, and said helplessly: "Do you need to watch her so closely? With the temperament of my siblings, how can the Meng family eat her?"

Gu Jingxi said quietly: "She is timid, maybe she can really do it."

Qi Yunwen said disapprovingly: "If she was timid, she wouldn't marry you. On the wedding day, I could see clearly and she was very courageous. Looking at the capital, how many young girls dare to do this like her? ?”

Gu Jingxi glanced at him: "You don't understand."

"Okay, okay, I don't understand, you are the only one who understands."

Qi Yunwen was too lazy to argue with him about this issue. He was about to take a nap to recuperate. Just as he turned around and took two steps, he stopped again, turned to look at him, and said with a smile: "Yao Ling, I noticed that you are getting more and more interested in your little wife." The more you fall in love with her, the more likely you are to fall in love."

Gu Jingxi asked back: "Mo Bai, don't you care about your sister-in-law?"

Qi Yunwen's smile deepened: "I am attracted to her because I have her in my heart. Why are you attracted to your little wife?"

After hearing this, Gu Jingxi was slightly stunned.

At this time, an adult came over and saluted Gu Jingxi first, then bowed to Qi Yunwen, and said: "Master Qi, Master Jiang came to you and said that he found something suspicious about the case in last night's confession and wanted to discuss it with you. I came to see Sir Si Qing, but I didn’t expect you to be here."

Qi Yunwen responded: "Okay, I'll be there right away."

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Changxing Hou Mansion.

Princess Jingning and Song Xinning made an appointment to come see Meng Jinyao.

Song Xinning had attended banquets with her elders before and had also been to the Changxing Marquis Mansion, but this was the first time she came here after Meng Jinyao married into the Changxing Marquis Mansion.

After the two met with Meng Jinyao, they went to Shou'an Hall with Meng Jinyao to say hello to the elders. Otherwise, it would be too rude to come to the house as a guest without even saying hello to the elders.

After coming out of Shou'an Hall, Meng Jinyao took them to the Zuilian Pavilion in the mansion. It was cooler there and was built in the middle of the lotus pond. It was a good place to escape the summer heat and enjoy lotuses. It was also used as a banquet place when guests came.

Song Xinning suddenly asked: "Ayao, I think the old lady treats you very well. Why has it been so long since you got married that you haven't been allowed to take charge of the center?"

As soon as these words came out, Princess Jingning also thought of this question and asked: "Yes, why didn't you take charge of the middle court? After all, the eldest lady is a concubine, and you are the daughter-in-law of the direct line and the wife of the clan."

Meng Jinyao replied: "Some time ago, my mother-in-law said in front of the whole family that she would give me the middle feed, but I refused." As she spoke, she pulled up her sleeves, revealing the transparent green hair on her wrist. Jade bracelet, and continued, "I heard from my husband that this bracelet has been passed down from generation to generation in the Gu family and is a symbol of being the matron of the family. When I went to serve tea on the second day after my wedding, my mother-in-law gave me this bracelet. This shows that Sooner or later, the power of the central government will be mine, so I am not in a hurry."

Princess Jingning was very puzzled: "Since the old lady approved you when you first got married, why did you refuse? This is the right that many wives from aristocratic families long for. You actually want to push back the right you have obtained. Open? Are you stupid? Even if it will fall into your hands in the future, isn't it better to have the power now? "

Meng Jinyao pursed her lips and smiled, and said slowly: "I was too tired when I was in the boudoir, and the string in my mind was always tense. Now I can finally relax. I don't want to be entangled with mundane tasks every day, busy with the spinning top." It seems that while others like to be busy, I can be free.

It will not be too late for me to take charge of the affairs of the central government after the family is separated. Now the eldest sister-in-law is in charge and the second sister-in-law is assisting. The two of them do not deal with each other in the first place. They keep an eye on each other. They cannot cause chaos and do not dare to benefit themselves. "

After hearing this, Song Xinning was stunned for a moment, and then nodded in agreement: "That's okay. You are not in good health. Take advantage of your free time to recuperate and strengthen your body first. I'm afraid it will collapse due to overwork."

Princess Jingning looked at Meng Jinyao and asked in confusion: "Ayao seems to be fine and painless. Is she in bad health?"

Meng Jinyao replied: "I'm a little weak, but I'm better than before."

Song Xinning looked at her friend who looked good, smiled happily, and said, "Now that I have married into the Gu family, my complexion is obviously much better, which shows that the Gu family's soil and water nourish people. Ayao used to get sick easily when the weather was cold, and also when it was hot. , This summer has been great, I guess it’s because I’m living well in the Marquis Mansion and being taken good care of by the maid.”

As she spoke, she couldn't help but sigh: "Ayan, you don't know that when Ayao was in the Meng family, because she was not favored, even the servants would neglect her, and her life was not as good as that of her concubine, and she The location of the yard is not good, it’s cold in winter and hot in summer, and her body bones are a bit weak, so she can get sick directly from the heat in summer.”

Princess Jingning was shocked and shocked: "As the eldest daughter, A-Yao is not as good as those born from a concubine?"

"It's amazing that a family like this can live a good life."

The more Song Xinning talked about it, the angrier she became: "Her yard was originally very nice. It was given to her by her grandfather. Later, Meng Jinyu took a fancy to it. Mrs. Meng directly said that the elder sister had to leave her younger sister, so she asked her to move out and point her out at will. She was given a yard that was cold in winter and hot in summer and moved there.

With such a yard, there was no ice to cool her in the summer, and the charcoal in the winter was withheld. There was no silver frost charcoal, only low-grade thick smoke charcoal, and it was not enough, so she was either suffering from fever or frostbite. , but her grandmother also said that she was delicate and difficult to take care of. "

Princess Jingning was silent after hearing this. She only knew that A Yao was not favored before, but she did not expect that her life was not as good as that of the maids around her. The maids around her used silver frost charcoal in the house, which was used by lower-class maids. It is also a medium-grade gray charcoal, but not a low-grade thick smoke charcoal.

After a moment, she asked softly: "Did Ayao ever resist?"

Meng Jinyao smiled bitterly: "I can't resist. If there were a sensible elder in the family, I wouldn't have endured it for so many years."

Song Xinning said: "Marrying unvirtuous wives has caused harm to three generations. Mrs. Meng and Mrs. Gu are simply worlds apart. As elders who are ignorant, Yongchang Bohui's family is in decline. To a certain extent, they are inseparable from Mrs. Meng." It’s the work of people.”

Meng Jinyao nodded in agreement. Her father's qualifications were average, but her second uncle, who fell into the lake and drowned while drunk, had a talent for reading. It was her grandmother who pampered her too much, and her second uncle became playful and hedonistic and couldn't bear it. The hard work of studying, my grandfather taught me, and my grandmother loved and doted on me, so the education was in vain.

Later, the second uncle became addicted to gambling again, and her grandmother helped him hide it. Unexpectedly, the second uncle's gambling got bigger and bigger. By the time other members of the family discovered it, the second uncle had already lost a lot of the family's property with her grandmother's connivance.

But not long after this, the second uncle got drunk because of drinking with his friends, and finally fell into the lake and died. The second aunt remarried while she was still young and had no children.

If her second uncle had not been spoiled by her grandmother, if he had made a career, and had not fallen into bad habits and died young, how could the Yongchang Mansion have declined to this point?