Chapter 25 I don’t want to be the second Liang Jiangfang
The old lady grabbed him and said, “Now we have nothing. If you make her anxious and then regret not marrying, we won’t lose your wife.” Are you going to lose your troops again?
Today I borrowed money from Liang Jiang and promised to pay it back today. You can talk to Tong Zhao and see if you can borrow five hundred taels and pay her back. ginger."
Mrs. Fang did not dare to tell Fang Chengxu that she had mortgaged the house deed, for fear of being complained again.
Fang Chengxu said dullly: "I understand."
He turned around and walked out of the yard, heading straight to Yixiang Garden.
Yixiangyuan.
Tong Zhaoer had already heard about Mrs. Fang's failure to steal the chicken and lose the rice. Instead of being anxious, she was a little gloating about her misfortune.
After all, a rich lady from a powerful family could not see thousands of taels of silver in her eyes.
Fang Chengxu came back dejectedly, and Tong Zhaoer said with a smile on his face: "You're back?"
Fang Chengxu sat in front of the child's cradle without saying a word.
Tong Zhaoer joked: "This is called leaving in good spirits and returning in disgrace. Look at your disgraced look. You only have a few thousand taels of silver. If you can't sell it, keep it for our daughter."
"Are you wishing that these pills couldn't be sold?" Fang Chengxu asked coldly.
"I gained my fortune but lost my life. It's your mother's own cleverness and it has nothing to do with me. Why are you angry at me?"
"How can you say it doesn't matter? My mother did it all for us!" Fang Chengxu tried his best to suppress his anger and kept a calm look on his face: "Now that she is so anxious and sick, you and I are both responsible."
"Hmph," Tong Zhaoer snorted coldly: "If I want to blame it, it's also your fault that Fang Mansion is poor! What responsibility do you have with me? I didn't know before that such a large Fang Mansion relies on Liang Jiang to support it. If I had known this..."
"So what if I had known this? Do you regret marrying me, Fang Chengxu?"
Tong Zhaoer saw that his eyes seemed to be quenched with ice and his words were cold, so he immediately retorted.
"What are you talking about? I am following you regardless of everything, betraying all my relatives, and am I just trying to get your money? My daughter who came out of the General's Mansion has never seen the world!"
Fang Chengxu's heart suddenly softened when he thought of the grievances Tong Zhaoer had endured for him.
"Now the Fang family is really struggling. I just feel guilty that I can't give you what you want. I'm afraid I still ask you to help you get through this situation temporarily."
Tong Zhaoer refused immediately: "If you are in a tight situation, I will help you without saying a word. But it is impossible for me to be like Liang Jiang and help you and your family."
Fang Chengxu continued to plead kindly: "I know I have wronged you, but things have their own priorities. Just like today's incident with Fang Yuan, you are still the sister-in-law after all, and you refuse to donate. In the end, it is Liang Jiang who ignores the past grudges..."
"You don't need to kidnap me with Liang Jiangan," Tong Zhaoer interrupted him: "Don't think that I don't know what Liang Jiangan is thinking, she just wants to please you and deliberately compares me to you!
If you think she is good, go back to her. Anyway, I won’t be stupid and become the second ginger! "
Tong Zhaoer was merciless and scolded her. Fang Chengxu couldn't help but turned around and left.
Tong Zhaoer was furious behind him: "It's so late, what are you going to do?"
Fang Chengxu didn't even look back, and only left one sentence: "My mother is not feeling well, and it is her duty as a daughter-in-law to attend to her illness at her bedside!"
Tong Zhaoer hummed: "She's not clean during confinement, and she's just pretending to be pretentious. She's trying to get at me the way she did with galangal. In the past few months, I've seen her lively and healthy, and she's in good health!"
On the side, Mother Zhao gently put down the sleeping child and couldn't help but persuade her: "Miss, you are too tough-tempered. Why are you pushing my uncle away?"
"Is it possible that you want me to borrow this money? If you have one, there will be two. The Fang family is a bottomless pit."
Zhao Ma sighed softly: "My uncle is in a low mood today. If you borrow it, he may not remember your kindness. But if you don't borrow it, he may hate you for the rest of his life.
Besides, even if you don’t want to borrow the money, you still have to make it clear about your difficulties and concerns so that he can understand you instead of rejecting him outright. "
Tong Zhaoer thought about it and realized that she seemed to have been a bit more forceful just now. She felt regretful and told Mother Zhao:
"He just came back from a long day of running around. He must be hungry. Go to the kitchen and bring him the soup I just made."
Zhao Ma agreed and went to do it immediately.
When Fang Chengxu left Yixiang Garden, he was really hungry, especially when he smelled the aroma of food wafting from the galangal yard, which was like a hook, attracting him. I heard that after Liangjiang started a small stove in the yard, his daily meals were cooked in a different way, which was completely different from the food in Fang Mansion.
Liangjiang is also good at winning people's hearts, and the maids and wives in the house often go to Tingzhuyuan to have a tooth ceremony.
The Fang Mansion should soon be at the point of reducing its food supply.
Fang Chengxu thought that Liang Jiang could generously help the Fang family regardless of past grudges, so he should go and say thank you in person.
As soon as he entered the courtyard, the laughter and laughter inside immediately stopped. Yu Ma and others all turned their faces and looked at him with eyes full of vigilance and caution.
Liang Jiang sat on the swing and swayed slowly: "Master Fang, is something wrong?"
Fang Chengxu rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "I'm here to thank you."
"No need," Liang Jiang said coldly, "I can't afford it."
In front of the servants, Fang Chengxu was speechless and couldn't say anything, and remained silent for a while.
Yu Ma had the foresight to retreat with a few people.
Fang Chengxu then said: "It's just that I can't pay you back the money today. In three or four days at most, the reward from the court should come down."
"Okay." Liang Jiang said only one word lightly, cherishing words like gold.
Fang Chengxu felt grateful: "I was the one who felt sorry for you before. I didn't expect that instead of adding insult to injury, you actually..."
Liang Jiang's voice became even colder: "Don't get me wrong, I have never forgiven your family for what they did to me.
I am willing to help your Fang family today because I have always admired the soldiers who defended our country with great courage. After all, the Fang family is also the queen of Zhongliang. "
"I thought you looked down on us warriors who wield swords and sticks."
"Your eyes have always been bad."
"No," Fang Chengxu hesitated: "Before I went to Beijing to participate in the martial arts competition, Mrs. Liang tried to dissuade me. I thought this was your intention. After all, you didn't want to marry me at the beginning."
Liang Jiang didn't know this and was a little surprised. She knew that her mother didn't want to have anything to do with Shangjing anymore, but she wouldn't interfere with Fang Chengxu's future, right?
"One general's achievements lead to ten thousand bones. She is just worried about your safety and doesn't want me to follow in her footsteps."
"you……"
"My father died on the battlefield, and my mother cried her eyes out because of it."
Fang Chengxu's heart softened and he felt a little guilty: "I'm sorry, I didn't know."
Liang Jiang shrugged: "I have admired my father since I was a child. I hope to be like him, with an iron horse and a silver spear, galloping on the battlefield. Just thinking about it makes my blood boil."
Fang Chengxu smiled bitterly: "The battlefield is cruel, how can it be as pleasant as you imagined?"
Liang Jiang tilted his head: "Of course I know. To fight a war, you not only rely on instant skills, but also familiarity with the art of war and the thirty-six strategies. However, it is better than the intrigues in the court, and the party is united and opposed."
Seeing her innocence, Fang Chengxu felt a sense of pride and blurted out: "Actually, it's the same in the military camp. Where there is power, there is intrigue."
Liang Jiang chuckled: "I don't believe it. I heard that in the military camp, the most capable people prevail. Whoever kills more enemies is the general."
Her smile was like a spring flower blooming, charming and bright. Fang Chengxu was stunned for a moment, as if he had lost his soul.
He said stupidly: "Not entirely. For example, Lieutenant General He, who was the most effective before Duke Liang, had countless military exploits in his life, but now he can only be a border guard. Do you know why?"
Liang Jiang's heart moved: "Why?"
Before Fang Chengxu could answer, he suddenly heard someone behind him asking angrily: "Fang Chengxu, is this what you call a bedside attendant? Under the guise of filial piety, you came here to have a private meeting with this bitch!"
(End of chapter)