Chapter 449： Disheartened

After setting off the fireworks, Ying Bao took Wu Hao and Wei Zhan home.

Unexpectedly, Fan Zhi desperately wanted to go with them.

Yang had no choice but to ask her wet nurse to carry Fanzhi and follow her seven siblings back.

Seeing a large group of maidservants surrounding the princess leaving, Mrs. Yang felt a little disappointed.

Wu Lang pulled his wife and whispered: "It's okay. Qi Lang and his seven brothers and sisters will take care of her, so she won't make any noise."

Ms. Yang was not worried about her son, but she was a little bit upset that her son had given up his mother for a playmate, which made her somewhat uncomfortable.

“Hey, fifth brother and sister, you are so willing.”

Mrs. Cao walked up to the two of them and joked: "In order to please my seventh younger brother and sister, I actually gave up my son to keep company with a servant's child."

Yang frowned: "Sister-in-law, please be careful what you say. How can it be called flattering when children are playing together?"

Wuchang was also very unhappy, but he was afraid that his wife and sister-in-law would quarrel here, so he picked up his wife and left.

When Mrs. Cao saw them leaving, she sneered and turned around to go back.

When he returned to his yard, he saw that his husband still hadn't come back. He couldn't help but get angry and ordered his maid to look for him.

The couples were returning home in pairs, but he was lucky enough to eat a few glasses of wine and then left without even watching the fireworks and not knowing what he was going to do.

No words all night.

The next day, Ying Bao woke up early and was about to get up when Wei Zhan hugged her waist.

“Lie down for a while.” He buried his face in his beloved wife’s shoulder and neck, and said softly: “It’s nothing, anyway, and there’s no need for you to go and say hello to your parents.”

Ying Bao had no choice but to lie down and said angrily: "Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. We have to go early to pay New Year greetings. It only happens once a year. Don't be late."

"It'll be fine in a moment, it won't be too late." Wei Zhan pulled the quilt over and covered the two of them.

As a result, when the two of them got up, washed up, and rushed to Wei's house with their two children, the brothers and sisters were already there, waiting for them to arrive to eat dumplings and glutinous rice balls.

The head of the Wei family didn't say anything, he just smiled and asked them to sit down.

“Let the kitchen make dumplings.” The head of the Wei family ordered the servant.

The servant responded and ran to the big kitchen.

Mrs. Wang asked Wuyou and Fanzhi to be brought to her side, and they sat on the big kang to play. Then she handed each of them cloud cakes to their mouths: "Here, take a bite, and you will rise to the top step by step."

Two children stuttered.

Fanzhi also taught Wu Yao how to speak seriously: "Cai gao."

Wu Yao squinted his eyes and said, "Cao Gao." After saying this, he proudly tugged on Ying Bao's sleeves to ask for praise.

Yingbao patted their heads and said, "They are such smart boys."

The two milk babies were satisfied and continued to play the talking game.

Yingbao watched them for a while and felt that he should buy them some educational toys.

Like jigsaw puzzles, Kong Mingsuo, Jiulianhuan, etc., although it is too early for them to play these, who can say for sure how high a child's talent is.

“Seventh Aunt.” A teenage girl walked up to Yingbao and said with a smile, “Can I live with you?”

“Why do you want to live with me?” Yingbao was curious.

She recognized that the child was Cao's daughter Yuzhu.

Yuzhu’s eyes flickered and she said, “I, I want to be your daughter.”

Yingbao was stunned, but Mrs. Wang's face darkened and she said softly: "Yuzhu, it's time to eat soon. Go find your mother."

Yuzhu was a little unhappy, but she didn't dare to disobey her grandmother, so she had to leave the main house.

Mrs. Wang turned to Ying Bao and said, "If there is another person who doesn't know what to do, just send them away."

She has no good feelings towards the children born from these concubines, especially the children born to her husband’s childhood sweetheart.

At the beginning, he was chronically poisoned, and all the signs pointed to his eldest aunt, his second aunt, and their concubine children. However, Wei Laogou said that they were kind and innocent, and refused to send them to government. Finally, the two concubines were sent to the Wei family temple to practice cultivation, and the old dog fed them well every month.

Because of this, Mrs. Wang completely gave up on the head of the Wei family.

If it weren't for the fact that her son was still young and needed to be protected by herself, and she didn't want to give up the Wei family's property that she had worked so hard to support, Wang Jin would have reconciled with Wei Shixian at that time.

At this moment, the concubine's granddaughter dared to be disgusting, and Mrs. Wang wanted to slap her.

Ten-year-old Yuzhu wants to be the daughter of eighteen-year-old Yingbao, but she can't think of it.

After dinner, Ying Bao took Wu Jing and Fan Zhi back home, while Wei Zhan was left to talk by the head of the Wei family.

The head of the Wei family called his seventh son to his yard to talk about family matters.

After chatting for a few words about business matters, the head of the Wei family changed the subject and said to Wei Zhan: "Qi Lang, you are now a second-grade official. Your status is extraordinary. You must have trusted people around you to help you."

Wei Zhan looked at his father and said, "Whatever you want to say, dad, just say it. There's no need to beat around the bush."

The head of the Wei family coughed lightly, picked up the tea cup and took a sip: "Your second brother has read a lot of books. He also helped open a shop for the family before. He is proficient in all seventy-two industries. It is better to let him work with you. You use outsiders to make it stronger.”

Wei Zhan: "Dad, I have nothing to do and I need your second brother's help. If my second brother follows me, it would be overkill."

The head of the Wei family glared at the seventh son with dissatisfaction: "What do you mean, you are overqualified and underused? I see you running around all day long, it will be easier if you have someone to take care of you."

Wei Zhan lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "Dad, anyone who works for me doesn't get paid. Ask my second brother if he is willing to do it?"

“He has to be willing even if he doesn’t want to!” Wei Jiazhui said righteously.

In fact, among the several adult sons, the head of the Wei family valued Dalang and Erlang more.

Not only because these two men were born to the woman who had grown up with him since childhood, but also because they were the eldest son and second son whom he had raised emotionally.

As for the increasing number of children, the head of the Wei family had no time to take care of them all.

Therefore, if Qilang can support one of his two brothers to become an official, the head of the Wei family will be quite happy.

Of course Wei Zhan knew what his father meant, but his father might not know that he seemed to have a second-grade official position, but he had no real power, and it was impossible to appoint his brother to any official position.

If you are a low-level official, maybe you can, but how can the eldest brother and the second brother become a minor official with only two or three guan of money per month?

"Dad, if there is nothing else, I will go back." Wei Zhan stood up and walked out of the house without looking back, even when his father called after him.

He walked through the Moon Gate and suddenly met a woman, who seemed to be a relative of his sister-in-law's family.

The woman didn't give way and was about to bump into him stupidly.

Wei Zhan would avoid him if he made a mistake in his steps.

“I have seen the general.” The woman did not give up and turned around to salute Wei Zhanfu.

Wei Zhan walked away without batting an eyelid.

He has been taught all kinds of conspiracies and tricks by his mother since he was a child, and he has been traveling and fighting for many years. What kind of person has he not seen? This woman's tricks were just tricks, and he knew what she wanted to do even with his eyes closed.

Strutting out of Wei Zhai's house, Wei Zhan let out a long sigh of relief.

It’s better to live in the princess’s mansion, where you can live comfortably by yourself.

Let’s talk about Cao Qingqing. She was holding back her energy and met Wei Zhan by chance, but Wei Zhan ignored her, which immediately pushed her self-confidence to the bottom.

She suddenly regretted following her sister here.

I am an innocent girl after all, so it is really shameful to act like this.

Cao Qingqing was so disheartened that she wanted to crawl into a hole in shame.

At this moment, she suddenly hated her sister.

If she hadn’t tried her best to persuade her parents, how could they have encouraged her to be a concubine?

How good is it now? If someone rubs her face against the soles of her feet, how will she see anyone in the future?

Cao Qingqing lowered her head and gently wiped away her tears.

"Sister Qingqing, what's wrong with you?" Wei Wenbai appeared in front of Cao Qingqing at some point and asked with concern: "Who bullied you?"