Family Has a Concubine

This Xue Yinger was just eighteen years old, and after a careful look, she was found to be three points similar to Mrs. Yong'an Hou. There is a red crescent birthmark just on the left calf.

Everyone was startled and speechless again.

Chu Congke stood aside, looking at the two hugging and weeping, his mouth was wide open, and he was stunned and stupid.

This concubine of Xue Shilang's concubine's concubine is actually the eldest daughter of the Yong'an Houfu? Are you kidding him?

The concubine daughter of the Hou family that he misses so much! She was originally engaged to him, but he called her back! Return! up!

Chu Congke immediately had tears in his eyes: "Ying'er..."

Xue Yinger rolled her eyes and said with contempt, "Who are you? Don't disgust me!"

Now Ye Tangcai's heart is left - ha ha ha ha ha! I'm about to cry!

Sisters Qin and Chu Miaoshu were also stunned, and Qin sneered all his life: "Oh, I'm about to die laughing."

Because of this incident, Mrs. Yongan Hou took Xue Yinger to leave early.

In the end, the Yong'an Hou Mansion went to Xue's house to confirm that a small set of old clothes was found in the belongings of Xue Yinger's deceased aunt, which was exactly the one worn by the eldest daughter of Yong'an Hou when she disappeared.

Mrs. Yong'an Hou cried so much that she couldn't help herself, so she found an old woman who had served Aunt Xue Ying'er back then to question her.

The old lady nodded and admitted that Xue Yinger's aunt was driven to Zhuangzi because of a mistake. At that time, the aunt was still with her one-year-old daughter. As a result, her daughter accidentally drowned, and the aunt was afraid that the Xue family would drive her out of the house for this reason.

At this time, by chance, she picked up a little girl who had fainted on the ground outside, about one year old, and she picked up this girl back as the Xue family's daughter.

That aunt was not favored in the first place, and no one in Zhuangzi paid much attention to their mother and daughter.

The aunt hid the children, and after two or three years, the Xue family finally remembered them and wanted to take them home.

The child's appearance has changed a lot, and she is an unfavored concubine, but no one recognizes that the child has been replaced, and this child acts as a child of the Xue family.

The Yong'an Hou Mansion took Xue Yinger to confess their relatives by dripping blood. It turned out that they were connected by blood, and there were all the witnesses and material evidences.

Xue Ying'er, who used to be the concubine's concubine of the Xue family's concubine, has transformed into the eldest daughter of the Yong'an Houfu.

Although in the capital, this Yong'an Hou Mansion is like that, an ordinary nobleman, but Xue Ying'er is also the eldest daughter of the Hou family, who is many times more noble than the former concubine's concubine.

Chu Congke and Aunt Fei knew that Xue Yinger's identity had been confirmed by the Yong'an Hou Mansion, and they were so regretful that their intestines were green, and they were going crazy!

Aunt Fei even ran to the gate of Yong'an Hou Mansion, crying, "Yinger, Yinger, my good daughter-in-law! April was just a misunderstanding, I know, you still love my Congke. You are originally Unmarried couples should get married!"

Then the servants of the Yong'an Hou Mansion rushed out immediately, drove them away with big sticks, and shouted: "Go away, there is no Xue Yinger in our family, and the eldest girl in our family is named Yuan Nanying! She is not Xue Yinger! She is not with your family. If you have engaged, even if you have engaged, you will still be back, you still have the face to come! Get lost!"

When Qin Shi and Chu Miaoshu found out, they were about to scream out of laughter! I can't wait for them to lose face every day to find it fun.

But Aunt Fei's behavior also disgraced the Chu family. When Aunt Fei made a fuss, Uncle Chu hurriedly had her dragged home and locked up.

Chu Congke even dreamed of marrying a concubine from the Hou family, but none of the famous concubine daughters he liked looked down on him, and now Xue Yinger, who had been engaged to him before, he didn't want to let go.

Then he started to write letters every day, and wanted to send them to Xue Yinger, but how could they pay attention to him, not even one of those disgusting letters had entered the gate of Yong'an Hou Mansion.

Since then, Chu Congke has become a big joke in the family.

Ye Tangcai was also amused by the matter of Chu Congke and Aunt Fei, don't blame her for being dark-hearted and fond of making jokes, the mother and son are really funny.

This day, Ye Tangcai and Qi Min went to the street to relax. At this moment, the sound of horseshoes sounded in the distance.

Ye Tangcai and Qi Min were startled, and hurriedly retreated to one side, only to see two government servants coming on fast horses, and finally stopped at a restaurant opposite Ye Tangcai.

Yacha got off his horse, ran to the wall next to the restaurant, pasted something on it, got on his horse immediately, and galloped away.

This is the royal list!

The common people immediately gathered around, looking at the content on the imperial list, their expressions changed, and some of them couldn't help cursing in a low voice.

"Why did the tax increase again?"

"That's right, it only got worse last year, and it's coming again this year!"

"Will we let our people live!"

Everyone knows the reason. It is because of the war in the southwest and the shortage of military supplies. But no matter what the reason is, as long as their interests are harmed, the common people will not be able to help complaining and scolding.

Ye Tangcai clenched his hands tightly, unexpectedly reaching the point of increasing taxation, obviously Chu Yunpan's situation is not very good, at least there is not enough military supplies! Insufficient food and grass! These are the keys to victory!

Ye Tangcai no longer had the heart to go shopping, so she went to the embroidery shop to buy some embroidery thread, and then went home, she dug out a few "Topography" and read it.

"Girl." Qing'er walked in at this moment. "The house in Songhua Lane has been neglected all the time, let's wait for a while!"

"Why?" Qiuju was sitting aside doing embroidery, and raised her head when she heard it.

A strange expression appeared on Qing'er's face, "After all, the couple lived in this room. Some people thought it was dirty and were unwilling to buy it. The girl didn't drive them out back then."

Ye Tangcai curled her lips: "I've been kicked out, how can I let Ye Chengde see this big show."

If they were late, Yin Tingniang might take Xu Rui to live elsewhere immediately. She didn't believe it. Yin Tingniang didn't have any private house, so Ye Chengde wouldn't be able to feel the direct blow from Yin Tingniang.

"Besides, no one dares to spend a large sum of money to buy this kind of thing now." Qing'er said again.

Qiuju was even more surprised: "Why?"

Qing'er said: "I have already looked for several buyers, but those people said that they really want to buy a house, but there has been a war in the northwest for two years, and now they are in the southwest again, endlessly, the treasury has long been stretched .I don’t know when Yu’an Pass will be fought, and food, grass and weapons have not yet been found. Not only has the tax increased, but there are rumors outside that the emperor is going to hold an autumn chrysanthemum banquet!”

Autumn Chrysanthemum Feast? Ye Tangcai bit her lip hard.

What kind of autumn chrysanthemum banquet is held, in fact, it is to ask rich businessmen to give money to buy military supplies!

"But this kind of autumn chrysanthemum feast was only set up twice for the Northwest last year. If we set it up again this time, I'm afraid it won't work!" I dare not expose my excess property.”

Ye Tangcai was not worried about whether the house would be sold or not, but was worried about military supplies!

Ye Tangcai said, "Tell grandma to put it on hold and sell it later."

She pulled out those things, but they belonged to the Ye family. If these things were sold, the money would be returned to the Ye family.

...

The imperial court really wanted to hold an autumn chrysanthemum feast for the rich merchants.

In the imperial study room, Emperor Zhengxuan was sitting behind the dragon case with a gloomy face, while Liao Shoufu, Liubu Shangshu, King Liang and the crown prince stood below.

"The imperial list for increasing taxes has already been posted. However, due to the severe wear and tear caused by the Northwest War in the past two years, it cannot be increased, otherwise there will be civil violence." Zhong Bing, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, said. "And... this year's locust plague is serious, and I'm afraid the harvest will be lost!"

One is not well controlled, and the external turmoil is not over, and the internal turmoil will be added again! That would not only make matters worse.

Emperor Zhengxuan rested his forehead with his hands, put his elbows on the Nanmu dragon case, and said: "Let's hold the Qiuju Banquet first!"

Qian Zhixin's face was dark: "Now that group of people are all crying about being poor. They couldn't give it away last year, and there won't be any more this year."

Emperor Zhengxuan frowned deeply: "I have to come up with a plan." Thinking about it, he raised his head: "King Liang!" This son always had a quick brain.

Liang Wang snorted softly: "No plan! Let the prince think about it!"

Emperor Zhengxuan slipped his hand supporting his forehead, and almost fell off in anger.

The prince's face froze, what plan could he have!

King Liang glanced mockingly at the crown prince and Emperor Zhengxuan, he wished he could kill them both! But thinking that it was Chu Yunpan who was at the border, he said, "There is another plan."

"Say it!" Emperor Zhengxuan was almost so angry that King Liang jumped up.

"Borrow food!" King Liang said.

"Borrowing food?" The crown prince was stunned, and then his face turned livid: "The king of Liang means, do you have to borrow from Beiyan and other small countries?"

"No!" Emperor Zhengxuan refused without thinking, his old face darkened.

Bei Yan has always been a subordinate of Da Qi, and is called poor and cowardly, always begging for mercy at Da Qi. Every year when they come to the court, they send a lot of tributes, but in order to show the grandeur of a big country, the gifts given by Daqi will be more abundant than the tributes.

But in the past ten years, Beiyan has gradually become richer, and naturally she has become more and more aggressive, and her attitude is not as respectful as before.

Da Qi looked down on Bei Yan, but he began to be a little apprehensive.

"It's really inappropriate." Liao Shoufu said, "The Beiyan children have come to belong to our Daqi, and with our Daqi as their suzerain, how can we ask them for help!"

"Yes! Absolutely not!" said the crown prince, then turned his head to stare coldly at King Liang: "It's a shame for Da Qi."

"It's not as simple as face." Wu Feng, Minister of the Ministry of War, said, "Now Beiyan is growing stronger and stronger, which is not the same."

As he said that, Emperor Zhengxuan, the prince and others were full of resentment. They refused to recognize Beiyan's growth everywhere, but they didn't interrupt Wufeng's words.

Wu Feng continued: "If you borrow food from them, isn't it showing weakness to them? Now that the war in the northwest has just ended, and the southwest has risen again, if we borrow food from Beiyan, Beiyan will think that our Daqi is so weak. If they take advantage of it Human beings are in danger, isn't our Daqi caught in a pincer attack?"

"Hmph, mere boy Beiyan, how dare you offend me!" The prince shouted angrily. How could his Da Qi be threatened by Bei Yan's cowards?