Fight the Giants

  Chapter 605 Lost Watermelon

  The marriage between the Gong family and the Pingjiangbo Mansion is prospering, and the business has reached a new level.

  Official families are powerful but short of money, while merchants have money but lack some power. As a result, marriages between officials and businessmen have increased. Taking advantage of each other will naturally have an advantage over other competitors.

  The Gong family is next to the Pingjiang Bo's house, and the He family and other in-laws are all shaking in Huai'an.

  Ping Jiangbo Chen Xuan, who supervised the transportation of the general army, was stationed in Huai'an, and was the chief of water affairs. He won the trust of Emperor Yongkang. In the past two years, the Japanese pirates invaded the southeast coast, and it was Ping Jiangbo who led his troops to repel them, which was valued by the people in the southeast coast and Emperor Yongkang.

   Naturally, the He family did not want to miss this marriage with the Chen family, so at the beginning of the year, they rushed to marry Gong Ziyi and Chen Jingci, the concubine daughter of the Chen family.

  Nowadays, merchants in Huai'an can't reach Uncle Pingjiang, so they come to attach themselves to the palace family. He Shi received the post softly.

  A few days ago, the He family had a banquet with others, heard the gossip from the capital, and chatted with everyone.

"Families like us don't like to be indifferent at most. Mother and child should not be favored. Otherwise, it's enough to give up and divorce. Why do you want to kill others and leave your own flesh and blood outside for many years?" ? That is the flesh and blood of close relatives, and it’s not that they can’t afford it.”

   "That's not true. The aristocratic family said they respected the rules. In my opinion, they are not as good as our business."

   "Yes. However, I heard that Mrs. Li passed away due to dystocia."

   "Do you believe it?"

  The woman who spoke thought about it, and then shut up.

   A few days later, these people still got together and talked about the gossip about the British government in the capital.

"I don't know which family rejected the person. If I want to pick up such a high-ranking daughter-in-law, I will wake up with laughter in my dreams. The eldest daughter of the Duke of England, we can't even enter the door of her house. If we can be with him The family climbed up to the in-laws, and the ancestral graves were all smoking. I still look down on them."

  The He family also sighed repeatedly, that family must have been blinded by feces.

   "The family was also unlucky and didn't see her identity."

   "This is too unlucky. Otherwise, you will climb into the in-laws with the British government, and you won't walk sideways in the future?" Are you still trying to find a relationship and look at people's faces?

  It is difficult for their merchants to do some business.

   Not everyone is as lucky as the Gong family to be able to catch up with the Pingjiangbo Mansion.

  Everyone complimented He Shi.

   He was flattered when he was complimented.

  But when I think about it, the British government, Pingjiangbo’s mansion is more than one or two floors behind his family. Moreover, Chen Jingci is just a concubine, and she is not favored by the mistress.

  The one living outside is the eldest daughter of the British wife, and the younger brother has to be crowned heir. If this can be achieved and married with his family, one will wake up from the dream with laughter.

   Whose family is so blind. The heart of gossip suddenly rose.

  After listening to it, I felt a little familiar. Sending servants from other places to humiliate the other party and sternly reject the other party?

  After listening for a long time, I was terrified.

   After inquiring more carefully, it was like being struck by lightning.

   It turned out that the person whose eyes were blurred by **** was herself!

   Impossible to sit still.

  In the study room of He Family Main Courtyard, Gong Fang and Gong Ziyi sat opposite each other, speechless.

   Both grandparents and grandchildren felt quite uncomfortable.

  Gong Ziyi thought of that black-haired, satin-smooth man who often ran around in her mind... her heart throbbed. I saw her in the Yangtze River last year, and I know the fate is over.

  He traveled all over the mountains and rivers, all over the south and north, thinking that he could forget her when he was busy. But still can't.

   I was out during the Chinese New Year, and I didn’t return to Huai’an.

   Until he was called back by a letter from his grandfather. Married to Chen Jingci...

  He thought it took a long time, so he gradually forgot. Unexpectedly, I heard from her again.

  Gong Fang felt that he might be old and lack of energy.

  At that time, he saw that woman and was impressed by her. He knew that she was an excellent candidate for mistress and clan wife, but he still didn't insist on his idea and didn't keep her.

   Missing such an excellent grandson-in-law candidate for nothing.

   Looking at his grandson, he sighed deeply.

   "Now that the mistake has been made and the rumors have spread, our family can't pretend that we don't know, so as not to offend the British Duke."

  If the Duke of England confronted Uncle Ping Jiang, Uncle Ping Jiang would not mind sacrificing one or two married concubines.

   "Grandfather was wrong. We were all wrong."

  The first time he saw her, he felt that she was excellent and matched with his grandson. It's just that I was a little regretful at the time, if only her status was higher...

   Unexpectedly, her status is so high. It's too high for their family to climb.

  Their Gong family missed it. Otherwise, at least the family can prosper for decades.

   "Yi'er, why don't you go to the capital. She is a poor child. I didn't expect her life experience to be so rough. You go to the capital in person and stop the rumors about her. It has not been easy for her these years."

   Gong Ziyi's mind was in a mess.

  When I met her when I was young, she was optimistic, cheerful, wanton, and often rolled her eyes at him. He felt relaxed and at ease with her. He looked forward to being with her for a long time.

  He didn't expect her to have such a background at all.

   Now that she finally returned to the family, she never expected to be questioned by the nobles of the capital again about her manners, and reprimand her for losing face to the family.

   Gong Ziyi was extremely sad.

  The grandfather and grandson were discussing how to help her when He Shi and Gong Shuo walked in.

  He Shi glanced at his son, and felt a little guilty when he saw that he didn't look at her.

   "Mother doesn't know that she has such an identity..." If she knew it earlier, she would have to go to the capital to beg in person, and come home for Yi'er.

  Gong Shuo glared at her. It was all women of this power who caused his family to miss such a noble daughter-in-law, and also caused his son to miss his beloved.

  Gong Shuo sighed: "Father, Yi'er is married now, I'm afraid it's inappropriate for him to go to the capital, why don't you let the He family go. Let her go to the British government to make amends, so that those rumors can be settled."

   "That's right, let me go. Don't let the Englishman hate our house. I'll go to the warehouse to pick some expensive things and send them over, so that the British can see our sincerity." He said hurriedly.

  Gong Fang felt that as the matriarch of the family, it would be best for her to come forward. Just about to nod, Gong Ziyi said, "Grandfather, let me go."

   "I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you to go."

Gong Ziyi shook his head: "It's not good to cover up. I will go openly and bring gifts to visit my brother-in-law. If the people in the capital know that when we were young, we worshiped brothers of the opposite **** facing the Grand Canal. It will be passed on as a good story. Only when I come forward can this rumor be stopped."

  Gong Shuo glanced at his son and sighed.

   "Father, that's fine. Yi'er is the person involved, and his explanation is more convincing than He's. If we can mend the relationship with the British government at that time, they will be called different brothers and sisters, which is also a good talk."

  Gong Fang thought for a while and agreed.

  Chen Jingci, who married into the mansion for less than two months, was worried when she heard that her husband was going to the capital.

  She still remembers that woman, she is so gorgeous, if she wants to fight, she will definitely not be able to fight.

  She thought she had a higher status than her and could overwhelm her. Unexpectedly, she was actually a concubine, and she was just an unfavored concubine.

  Thinking of her husband's indifference to her, Chen Jingci's heart ached.

  Helping Gong Ziyi pack up and salute, after thinking and thinking, she moved in front of him: "Husband, can I go with you?"

  (end of this chapter)