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Life in Chang'an Chapter 49 The Wang family of the world comes out of Taiyuan

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    In the main hall of a small side courtyard in the inner residence of the Duke of Song Dynasty in Chang'an City, a young woman in her thirties was choosing with a happy face. There were all kinds of exquisite jewelry on the table.  There are many large and small boxes on the ground. The lids have been opened. They are either gold, silver or silk and satin. Counting these items alone, they are worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.

    "Madam, your nephew is really generous. He has given you tens of thousands of dollars as a gift, and this is just for you. I heard that he also gave a huge gift to the Duke of Guo. Unfortunately, it was not paid by the country.  Your Majesty, please go back." The maids next to the young woman also said excitedly. The lady received such a heavy gift, and they, the servants, also received a lot of rewards, and they were all grateful to the prince.

    "Of course, my mother-in-law is from the Wang family in Taiyuan. I hugged Wang Kuang when he was a child. He came to see my aunt, so it's appropriate to give him something like this." The lady also looked happy.  , not only because she received such a heavy gift, but also because her mother-in-law¡¯s family was so generous, and she, a daughter of a foreigner, also had face.

    "By the way, did Wen Xin send someone to call? Why aren't you here yet?" The eldest lady suddenly remembered something and asked the maid beside her.

    "We have sent someone to call her. I guess Miss Wen Xin went to Aunt Zhou on the Third Young Master's side, so the journey is a little longer." The maid replied.

    "Oh~, this girl Wen Xin is really lucky. She actually married His Highness Prince Liang. Now no one in the entire Chang'an City knows Li Liuyang's name. It's really enviable. Why don't you think this girl Wen Qing is so good?  Where's your luck?" The eldest lady suddenly sighed and said with a look of regret.

    "Look what you said, no matter how well Miss Wen Xin marries, isn't she still your daughter in name?"

    Although the maid next to the eldest lady is not old, she is very good at talking. One sentence made the eldest lady's face look much better, but soon the eldest lady's face darkened again, and she said to herself: "Although these words are like this  He said, Wen Xin is my daughter in name, but her mother-in-law is still Aunt Zhou after all, and she is closer to her mother-in-law from the bottom of her heart."

    This eldest lady is the wife of Xiao Yu's eldest son, who was born in the Wang family of Taiyuan. Unfortunately, Xiao Yu's eldest son died of illness a few years ago, leaving only Mrs. Wang and a daughter, Wen Qing, to inherit the family business.  There are no descendants left, so now Xiao Rui, the second in line, has become the eldest son of the Xiao family, the one who married Li Min's sister, Princess Xiangcheng.  Last time, Li Shimin ordered Xiao Yu to adopt Xiao Wenxin to his eldest son, who now lives in the same room as Mrs. Wang. Now she is Xiao Wenxin's nominal mother.

    While Mrs. Wang was thinking about something, she saw the bead curtain outside lifted, and two girls of similar age walked in with their maids, one after the other.

    "Ah? Mother, who sent so many gifts?" As soon as the round-faced girl in front came in, she immediately noticed the various gifts around Mrs. Wang. She rushed up with a cheer and threw herself on the table to pick and choose.  Looking for the jewelry she likes, of course she is Mrs. Wang¡¯s biological daughter Xiao Wenqing.

    The girl at the back was extremely beautiful. She just glanced at the gifts and bowed to Mrs. Wang with a calm expression: "Wen Xin pays homage to mother!" This girl was Li Min's fianc¨¦e Xiao Wenxin.

    "Wen Xin, please get up quickly!" Mrs. Wang ignored her biological daughter, but stepped forward to pull Xiao Wenxin up very affectionately, "Didn't I say it last time, we don't need to be so polite between mother and daughter?  There is no need to salute every time you see me, look at your sister Wen Qing, she never knows what it means to be polite." Mrs. Wang smiled and pulled Xiao Wenxin to sit down and said.

    "What mother taught us is that Wen Xin will pay attention to it in the future." Although Xiao Wen Xin agreed, her speech and behavior were still full of etiquette.

    "Oh, you girl~" Mrs. Wang had no choice but to point to the jewelry on the table and said, "Wen Xin, my nephew from my natal family sent a lot of gifts today. These jewelry are also exquisitely made. You  Pick a few to take home!¡±

    "Thank you, mother!" Xiao Wenxin couldn't refuse the mother's gift to her daughter, but she didn't throw herself on the table to pick and choose like her sister Wen Qing did. She just picked up a jasper hairpin and said, "Wen Xin  It¡¯s picked.¡±

    "You girl" Mrs. Wang was also a little angry, but then she thought of Xiao Wenxin's indifferent temperament, and her anger subsided. She sighed and said, "Oh~, with your temperament, I would have known you would be like this."  !¡±

    After Mrs. Wang finished speaking, she reached for a box and picked out a dozen of the most exquisite jewelry. Some of them were snatched from her daughter Wen Qing's hands, causing Xiao Wenqing to yell in dissatisfaction.

    Mrs. Wang stuffed the box into Xiao Wenxin's hand and said, "Wenxin, since we are destined to be mother and daughter, I sincerely love you."?Look, my biological daughter, whatever Wen Qing has in the future, you will be indispensable.  "

    Xiao Wenxin was about to refuse, but Mrs. Wang rushed to say: "I know you don't like these jewelry and other things, but as the daughter of the Xiao family, you can't go out without something that takes advantage of your identity. You must collect these things."  Down."

    "This" Xiao Wenxin hesitated for a moment. As the daughter of the Xiao family, she really cannot lose the face of her family. Xiao Wenxin can not care about herself, but she cannot care about the feelings of her parents and family. Thinking of this, Xiao Wenxin bowed her heart and said: "Mom still wants to  It's because my daughter is willful, so Wen Xin accepted these things."

    "That's right, this is the daughter of the Xiao family who knows the general concept and etiquette!" Seeing Xiao Wenxin accept it, Mrs. Wang said with a smile, and then helped Xiao Wenxin pick out some plain and elegant colored satins, and asked her to go back and make a few more.  Xiao Wenxin also accepted the new clothes one by one.  Then Mrs. Wang took Xiao Wenxin and spoke to her for a while before letting her go.

    After Xiao Wenxin left, Mrs. Wang picked two more boxes of gifts and had them delivered to Xiao Wenxin's biological mother, Aunt Zhou.  Xiao Wenqing saw that the gifts sent by her cousin suddenly decreased by nearly one-half, and her mother specially selected the most expensive things to give. Even the jewelry she liked was taken away by Xiao Wenxin. She couldn't help but feel dissatisfied and pulled her  Mrs. Wang held up her hands coquettishly and said: "Mother, you let Wen Xin take away those good jewelry. Who is your biological daughter?"

    "Go, go, go, what do you girl know? Wen Xin is the Princess Liang appointed by His Majesty, and now that Prince Liang is getting more and more favored, this girl Wen Xin has a bright future. I, my nominal mother, cannot treat her badly.  Marry someone else." Mrs. Wang gave her daughter a sweet hit on the head, and then said with some envy and regret, "If you can marry into a family like King Liang in the future, then my mother will feel at ease."

    "Mom, how can I have Wen Xin's good luck? Otherwise, I would dress up and go out one day, and then seduce a prince and tease him?" Xiao Wenqing said with a heartless joke.

    "How come you, girl, are not talking about the importance of your words?" Mrs. Wang's face straightened up and she lectured, "Although Wen Xin has an indifferent temperament, you must not say these words in front of her. In case she takes it to heart, you  There will be no good fruit to eat in the future.¡±

    "I know, you are serious too!" Xiao Wenqing was dissatisfied with her mother's teachings and muttered in a low voice. Then she rolled her eyes and asked Mrs. Wang: "Mom, you just gave Wen Xin jewelry, but why did you leave the watch?"  Are you sharing the gifts that my cousin sent to Aunt Zhou? My family doesn¡¯t have much money to begin with. In the past, I had to save up for several months just to sell a piece of jewelry. These things that my cousin sent us can make us rich for a long time.  It¡¯s time.¡±

    After hearing her daughter's complaint, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but smile bitterly. Her father-in-law Xiao Yu came from a prominent family. Although the Lanling Xiao family was not as good as the Five Surnames and Qi Wang, it was still one of the most powerful families in the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, the former Empress Xiao of the Sui Dynasty was Xiao Yu.  The two had a very good relationship. The former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty also treated Xiao Yu very kindly and rewarded him with a lot of land. It is said that the Xiao family should be very wealthy.  However, since Xiao Yu returned to the Tang Dynasty and became the Duke of the Song Dynasty, he distributed the land returned by his great ancestor to his clan members, leaving only an ancestral temple for himself. He was also an upright and upright official, never accepting gifts, and his family only relied on the Duke's salary.  With the production support of Hezhitian, the life of the Duke of Guangdong is very tight, even worse than that of some ordinary wealthy households in Chang'an. My daughter usually has to think twice before buying a piece of jewelry. No wonder she just saw so many  Are gifts so exciting?

    Although she lived a miserable life, Mrs. Wang had her own plans. After waving her hands for the servants to leave, she said to Xiao Wenqing: "Oh, I know that I have wronged you on weekdays, but Aunt Zhou is  It must be given!¡±

    "Why is this?" Xiao Wenqing is not stupid. Looking at her mother's face, it seems that there is some hidden secret that she doesn't know about.

    "Hmph, do you think that your cousin is so kind and would give me these heavy gifts on this special occasion?" Mrs. Wang said with a gloomy look on her face, "Although I am born in the Wang family of Taiyuan,  But he is not the eldest son of the Wang family, and he has no contact with Wang Kuang on weekdays. Today he suddenly sent so many gifts, isn't it for your brother-in-law, Prince Liang?"

    Thinking of this, Mrs. Wang felt angry. She was born in the Wang family, and she knew very clearly about the affairs of the family. When her husband was still alive, she was the legitimate wife of the eldest son, and she would become the duke in the future.  Madam, the Wang family members also have very close contact with her. During the New Year and festivals, she is constantly receiving gifts, and from time to time, younger generations come to pay their respects.  But since the death of her husband, she has no son. The title of Song Guogong can only be inherited by her second brother Xiao Rui. Although Mrs. Wang is still in charge of the internal affairs of the Xiao Mansion and her status in the mansion has not changed much, in the eyes of her mother-in-law's family,  However, it is no longer of half use value. In the first few years, he occasionally sent people over to check on him and give him some small gifts, but in recent years, he has not been able to use it.No one came, and there were no greetings during the holidays, as if the Wang family had never had a daughter like her.

    Since Xiao Wenxin, the future princess, was adopted as her daughter, the Wang clan suddenly became concerned about Mrs. Wang again. Some time ago, no less than ten groups of the Wang clan's descendants came to pay their respects. Today, the one who came today was the eldest son of the Wang clan.  In addition, Mrs. Wang was still unaware of the other party's intentions when she was given such a heavy gift. She just wanted to use herself as a nominal mother to please Xiao Wenxin, the quasi-princess, and gain Li Min's favor.  You know, who doesn¡¯t know Li Liulang¡¯s name now?  Not only was his literary talent outstanding, but the shochu and cement he produced were both hugely profitable, attracting people from all over the Tang Dynasty to rush to buy and invest.  And now that Li Min has won the favor of His Majesty, for such a potential prince, how could the Wang family not try their best to get this line?

    After listening to her mother's story, Xiao Wenqing was also very angry. She raised the jewelry she picked and wanted to throw it to the ground. After all, although she was a little girl, she was also a person of integrity. Such a gift from a snobbish person.  , she, Xiao Wenqing, really wasn't surprised, but she didn't expect to be tightly held by Mrs. Wang, who had been prepared for it.

    Mrs. Wang said with a smile on her face: "You girl has such a strong temper. Although they didn't give me these things specially, it's not that easy to become a mother. These are  The reward they gave us is what we deserve, but you girl really knows how to waste things!"

    "Eh~, that's right! These are originally paid for mother's hard work, mother, you should understand clearly!" Xiao Wenqing is also an open-minded person. When she heard what her mother said was reasonable, she immediately became happy again and carefully held the jewelry in her hands.  Hidden in his arms, and then pounced on the gifts to pick something for himself.

    Looking at this heartless daughter, Mrs. Wang was angry and laughing at the same time. With her temperament, she would not be disadvantaged when she got married in the future, but she just thought that Lanling Xiao's daughter was like an uneducated wild girl.  , she couldn't help but have a headache. It seemed that she had to spend more time to control her temper.

    In the side hall of Prince Liang's Mansion, Li Min's face was tense and gloomy.  Wang Zihao, who was wearing a blue robe, stood with his head lowered and his lips tightly closed without saying a word. Wen'er and Hua'er, who were standing next to him, were also affected by the heavy atmosphere in the hall and stood there without daring to move.

    Li Min walked back and forth a few times, then suddenly took a long breath, stared at Wang Zihao with his eyes, and slowly uttered three words: "Why?"

    Except for the people around him, only Wang Zihao knew about his visit to the Dengxian Tower, and only he, the owner of the Dengxian Tower, could arrange an invisible 'chance encounter' in the Dengxian Tower.

    The three words that Li Min asked seemed to be as heavy as a thousand words, which made Wang Zihao's waist bend even more. It took him a while to hear his answer: "Your Highness, this matter is all my fault. As for the reason,  , the villain only has one thing to say."

    When he said this, Wang Zihao suddenly raised his head, took a step forward with a painful look on his face and said in a deep voice: "The Wang family in the world comes out of Taiyuan!"

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