Chapter 96 Praise from the niece
Xiao Zhen asked in a deep voice: "Is that a nanny?"
Zhao Shiqing nodded: "It's a decent nanny from a wealthy family. How to say it? Even if she is on an equal footing with the second wife, she still gives me the same nanny. It has nothing to do with dressing, it is seen from her small movements and expressions."
Xiao Zhen could understand that just like the eldest princess, her demeanor was enough to be a master for the noble girl in the capital. She also used to slaves and maids, and she was dressed up and had a good time. However, people like Xiao Zhen and Zhao Shiqing who were used to wealth and honor could still see her identity at a glance.
Some things are engraved in the bones and will be revealed inadvertently.
What's more, the nanny Zhao Shiqing saw was a wealthy family dressed in a dress and did not deliberately hide it.
Zhao Shiqing tilted her head and looked at Xiao Zhen: "Based on your understanding of the Zhong family, which nanny can be on par with the second wife?"
You must know that this second wife has an imperial decree.
Zhao Shiqing also remembered Madam Bai whom she had met in the Star Gazing Tower: "Is Madam Bai in your mansion qualified?"
Xiao Zhen: "First of all, Madam Bai may be arrogant and may speak sharply, but she will never be on par with the wife of the imperial decree. If a madam who came out of the palace doesn't even understand this, she will not live today."
Zhao Shiqing thought about it, for example, Madam Zheng next to Nie, the rules are excellent.
Surely, Zhao Shiqing couldn't understand something that Xiao Zhen couldn't understand. She grew up in Liangdi and knew very little about the princes and nobles except Liangdi.
Xiao Zhen asked, "Have you learned painting?"
Zhao Shiqing: "Have you learned a little."
Xiao Zhen pointed to the table. The Zhong family is a scholarly family, and even the guest room contains four treasures of study.
This is what Zhao Shiqing means to draw that nanny.
Zhao Shiqing is very happy. She hasn't done a painting for a long time and her hands are very itchy.
So she immediately wrote and drew the nanny she had just seen.
Xiao Zhen leaned over and took a look, and finally understood that Zhao Shiqing said that she was not humble when she learned a little.
She really only learned a little.
Zhao Shiqing: I like painting very much, but later I had other hobbies, so I didn’t continue to learn.
Xiao Zhen shook his head, spread another piece of paper, and said to Zhao Shiqing, "Tell me about the person's appearance in detail."
After half an hour, a face that was seventy or eighty-eighth of the person appeared on the paper.
Zhao Shiqing has always been a person who is willing to praise others.
"Ah, you painted so much, it was simply amazing. If the painters in the yamen had half of your skills, those thieves would have been arrested and brought to justice. From today on, you will be the one I admire the most! Uncle Zhen!"
Xiao Zhen: I was already so excited that I fell from the sky when I heard the three words "Uncle Zhen" and it fell so much! "We are brothers and sisters." Xiao Zhen had no expression on his face.
Zhao Shiqing hurriedly covered her mouth with exaggeration, and she forgot that this was the Zhong family.
Zhao Shiqing pointed to the portrait: "Have you seen it before?"
Xiao Zhen shook his head. He has always had a good memory. If he had seen it, he would feel familiar even if he could not name it. However, he had never seen the person in the portrait before and present.
Xiao Zhen put away the portrait and said to Zhao Shiqing, "I will ask someone to check this matter. Go back and sleep, so as not to be discovered by those who are on the night." Zhao Shiqing pointed out the window and said, "Xiao Guai is leaving the watch, don't worry."
The little demon in his arms yawned, and Zhao Shiqing also yelled, "I'm sleepy, I'll go back to sleep, see you tomorrow."
They are brothers and sisters, so the guest room arranged for them is a wing room connected together, only separated by a wall.
Zhao Shiqing left as soon as she said that, jumped out of the window and went back to the room to sleep.
The next day, the brother and sister said goodbye and left Baifeng City with Cheng Yi given by the Zhong family.
However, the two of them walked around outside the city, Xiao Zhen changed into a human skin mask, Zhao Shiqing washed away the disguise on her face, and they went back to the inn where they had lived before.
Xiao Zhen went back to his room, but Zhao Shiqing talked about leisure with the female friend in the inn.
Baifeng City is the upper city. In order to facilitate the reception of female guests, the inns in the city also learned from the appearance of Beijing and hired female friends. The female friends were all around thirty years old, with a cheerful and eloquent personality.
I was not busy at this moment, and the female friend was idle too. Zhao Shiqing gave her a piece of silver. The female friend was overjoyed and started chatting with Zhao Shiqing.
So when Zhao Shiqing came to find Xiao Zhen to go out for dinner, she already knew a lot of interesting things in Baifeng City. "Do you know? Everyone in Baifeng City knows that you are dead, and the girls in Hongxiulou still raise money to do rituals for you to be ritually saved."
Xiao Zhen: "Hongxiulou? I don't know you, I haven't been to you."
This name is not serious when it sounds like it.
Zhao Shiqing widened her eyes: "Ah? Why are you so ruthless? The girls in Hongxiulou are wet with countless veils."
Xiao Zhen: "I don't care."
Zhao Shiqing sighed, "Those girls are so stupid. But because I heard that the prince-consort is a handsome man, I thought you were handsome, and they had never seen you before, so I was sad for you, but I won't know it in the future."
Xiao Zhen was curious: "Why can't it?"
Zhao Shiqing: "I told the female friend that you all look on the shortcomings of your parents' faces, three-pointed like a human and seven-pointed like a ghost, and people in the capital are called ghosts and sad."
Xiao Zhen
Zhao Shiqing had enough nonsense and finally got back to the topic: "Zhong Ziyang has an outdoor room, and he lives in the alley behind this inn. This is not a secret in the Zhong family. Zhong Ziyang's wife did not come to catch the adulterer, but she did not bring the outdoor room into the mansion. The outdoor room has been living here for more than half a year. The female friend saw her a few days ago, with a big belly, and she looked at it for six or seven months."
Xiao Zhen was shocked. He didn't know that Zhong Ziyang had an outdoor room.
Count the time, when he met Zhong Ziyang in his previous life, the child in the outdoor room was at least two years old.
Where was the mother and son when Zhong Ziyang left Baifeng City?
Seeing that he did not speak, Zhao Shiqing continued, "Zhong Ziyang's wife is his cousin, that is, the niece of the third old lady's family, her surname is Gong, Gong. Gong gave birth to Zhong Zhanbo, but Zhong Zhanbo was not born in full term. Do you know this?"
Xiao Zhen shook his head. The Zhong family is just a sieve. Even Zhong Zhanbo is not a full term, and it has been passed outside.
Zhao Shiqing lowered her voice: "Mr. Gong married Zhong Ziyang and gave birth to Zhong Zhanbo for seven months. She claimed that Zhong Zhanbo was a seven-star son, but the Wenpo who delivered the child said that Zhong Zhanbo was white and fat when he was born, and was stronger than many full-term children.
It turns out that no one knew about this, but after more than twenty years, just last year, the Wenpo told people about this matter, so everyone in Baifeng City knew about it."
Xiao Zhen asked, "Is that Wenpo still alive?"
Zhao Shiqing: "After the Zhong family heard about it, they went to settle the score with this Wenpo, but they lost it. Wenpo's family didn't know where they moved, and the house was empty."
Xiao Zhen: "It sounds like this peaceful woman is being instructed." Zhao Shiqing continued: "After this incident, Zhong Zhanbo has not gone out for many days. By the way, Zhong Zhanbo has been married for many years, but has not had any ladies. Do you know this?" Xiao Zhen: "I know that the Zhong family has the rules of having a concubine without a child, so Zhong Zhanbo has no concubine." Zhao Shiqing: "Generally, everyone thinks that being a wife cannot give birth, but it is different for Zhong Zhanbo. Zhong Zhanbo's wife's surname is Shen. The Shen family's women are famous for having good children in Baifeng City. There is no woman in the Shen family who cannot give birth to children, so people in Baifeng City believe that Zhong Zhanbo is not good at that."
Xiao Zhen touched his ears and it must be that there was something wrong with his ears. Zhao Shiqing's simple and cute little girl would definitely not say something like "that aspect is not possible".
Xiao Zhen asked, "Why are all this happening when you find out?"
What kind of thing?
Of course it's related to having a baby.
Zhao Shiqing said three things.
Zhong Ziyang's outer room is about to give birth;
Zhong Zhanbo is a full-term child born in the seven months of marriage in Gong;
Zhong Zhanbo cannot let women give birth to children.
Zhao Shiqing blinked: "Everyone has his own faults, what do you think they are talking about? Not all this is the case."
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Xiao Zhen: I understand, I am ignorant.
However, Xiao Zhen had a new view on Zhong Ziyang.
He held back and didn't say it, but looked at Zhao Shiqing: "What do you think is going on?"
Zhao Shiqing's eyes were bright: "Zhong Ziyang is not the biological child of the third old lady. He was probably brought back by the third old lady from outside and raised by the third old lady.
The third old lady has three sons under the knee, but this unknown Zhong Ziyang took the position of the eldest son. How could she not be angry?
He swallowed his anger and finally waited for the time to get engaged to Zhong Ziyang.
The niece of the third old lady's family, Gong, lost her virginity before marriage, became pregnant, so the third old lady decided to let Zhong Ziyang wear this cuckold.
Of course, she must have set up a trap and let Zhong Ziyang jump in by herself. Maybe she thought the child in Gong's belly was his.
But Zhong Ziyang is not stupid. Over time, he gradually figured it out.
When Zhong Zhanbo grew up, he was the best among the grandchildren of the Zhong family and passed the imperial examination in less than 20 years.
It would be fine if Zhong Zhanbo was a waste, but he was very outstanding. How could Zhong Ziyang not be angry?
I guess he must have done something to Zhong Zhanbo, otherwise Zhong Zhanbo would have been a high school juren under 20, but he only went to Beijing to take the exam once, so he was unwilling to be the imperial examination. Although he was polite, he was listless and had no vitality. He must have suffered a blow, and it was a very severe blow.
As for Zhong Ziyang, he publicly raised the outdoor room, but Gong did not make a fuss. It seems that it was related to Zhong Zhanbo. Zhong Zhanbo could not have children, so Gong only gave birth to one son Zhong Zhanbo. If other women were not allowed to give birth to them, then Zhong Ziyang would be cut off, and the third old master would definitely not agree. "
Xiao Zhen was silent. It can be said that Zhao Shiqing's guess was already very reliable.
Xiao Zhen suspected that the reason why Zhong Zhanbo could not give birth to a child was that Zhong Ziyang was the one who made a fool of himself.
If this is the case, then the kidnapped Zhong Zhanbo in his previous life.
Since Zhong Ziyang knows that Zhong Zhanbo is not his son, will he still fight his life to redeem Zhong Zhanbo if he already has a baby?
No wonder I couldn't find the ransom at that time.
The fact that the ransom was taken away by the robbers was supposed to be false, and everything was a scam set by Zhong Ziyang.
In that scam, Zhong Zhanbo became a useless person from then on.
If Xiao Zhen and Xiao Yue hadn't happened to pass by, believed it, suppressed the bandits and rescued Zhong Zhanbo, then according to Zhong Ziyang's original plan, Zhong Zhanbo would have been torn to vote.
Zhong Ziyang not only wants money, but also Zhong Zhanbo's life.
The 20,000 taels of silver was exchanged for the Zhong family's collection of calligraphy and paintings left by their ancestors.
After walking around like this, he entered Zhong Ziyang's own pocket.
Xiao Zhen remembered the persistence and sincerity that Zhong Ziyang showed in his previous life, and couldn't help but laugh at himself.
If there was no girl in front of me who was like the little sun, if only he was himself, even if he was born again, he would not have asked about these things about giving birth to children.
Yes, it is also about inquiring about news. Men and women have different perspectives and different news.
If he asked, he would only ask about the Zhong family’s friends and enemies. Zhao Shiqing was different. What she found was the privacy of the back house.
And not only could she inquire, but she could also imagine that just like the female friend told her about having children, she imagined a love, hate, and love that had been through more than forty years.
Xiao Zhen regretted again. If Zhao Shiqing had been brought back to the capital back then, the Princess's Mansion would have been filled with laughter and joy.
After dinner, the two went back to the inn.
Three days later, Zhong Zhanbo woke up in the middle of the night and found that he was lying in Hongxiulou. The two Hua girls were both angry and funny, and poked his forehead with slender fingers: "You enemy, no wonder even the wife of the Shen family can't give birth to a child for you. It turns out that she is a god-evil."
Zhong Zhanbo was shy and angry, and wished he could find a hole to crawl into it. "Nothing nonsense, I am not a god-like eunuch. I was harmed by others, I was harmed by others!" Hua Niang covered her mouth and giggled, obviously she didn't believe it.
This sudden humiliation made Zhong Zhanbo carelessly wonder why he was in Hongxiulou. He saw his wife's shadow on Hua Niang's face, and his wife's ridicule and abuse had long become his nightmare.
Ten years after getting married, my wife laughed and scolded her for ten years.
But what can he do? He couldn't even argue with his wife. Whenever his wife called him a dead eunuch, he had to close the doors and windows, for fear of being heard.
He spent a whole ten years like this and endured a whole ten years.
I remember that back then, he was successful at a young age and was in his prime.
Zhong Zhanbo covered his face and started crying like a child.
Suddenly, a hand fell on his shoulder, and the strength made him feel that this was a man.
Zhong Zhanbo looked up in shock and met a strange face. "You said you were harmed?"
The man was very young and had a very ordinary appearance, and he looked like he had forgotten him when he saw him.
The man took out two silver ingots worth ten taels and threw them to Hua Niang. Hua Niang smiled and took the silver ingot and retreated.
The house was decorated in a colorful manner. The man sat down on the scepter in front of the bed, looking at Zhong Zhanbo with gentle eyes.
For some reason, facing a stranger, Zhong Zhanbo suddenly had the desire to talk to him.