Chapter 10：

According to Cheng Shaoshang's words, this is a family feast of unity, a family feast of crabs, and a family feast of victory.

The banquet was over, what should everyone do? Cheng mother drank a few more glasses of wine, sang and laughed, and almost danced for a while, Hu Li quickly helped her back to the inner room to rest. The second uncle Cheng Cheng got up and left, only then did Cheng Shaoshang realize that he was a little limping. Cheng Shi grabbed him and prevented him from breaking free.

The chubby little Cheng Hao yawned and was led away by Mother Fu, the big-eyed little girl Cheng Hao followed behind her younger brother with her head down, Shaoshang had been staring at her since she was just eating. I wanted to follow up to 'make friends', but who knew that Mrs. Qing Li would drag her to Mrs. Xiao and said she wanted to 'see off'.

The Dong family's father and son walked in despair, Dong Lv's walked happily, Mrs. Xiao has always been extraordinary, and directly sent her two nursing homes. If the Dong family's father and son wanted to beat her, they would immediately take action ; After a few years, she will hold Dong's house in and out of her hands, and she will no longer be afraid of anything.

Mrs. Xiao was very thoughtful, and before she left, she instructed Mrs Dong Lu: "At this point, except for one thing, the father and son of the Dong family have nothing to control you. The government ya father told his son and threatened you with his children, what should you do?"

"You might as well tell them that if you don't have children, you will break up and remarry, and the theft and sale of military supplies and the occupation of civilian land are not over. If they refuse to live honestly, they can report at any time. Let's see if they survive."

Mrs. Qing Li and Shao Shang, who were standing on the left and right of Mrs. Xiao, looked at each other, Mrs. Qing Li was not surprised by what Mrs. Xiao said, but was surprised at how this kind of words could be heard by the young lady, Shao. What Shang Xin thought was whether it was serious for a father to tell his son.

Mrs. Xiao turned her head and smiled: "My son, what do you think of your mother's words?"

Shao Shang was caught off guard and a little dumbfounded. He turned his head to look at Mrs. Qing Li, and then looked at the servants and maids beside him, all kneeling down the corridor seven or eight steps away, as if he had not heard these words at all. Ge Shi's servants are not allowed to approach their ten feet at all. Shao Shang looked up again to look at Mrs. Xiao, who was a head and a half taller than him, and saw that the jade beside her ears swayed slightly. His face became more delicate and flawless.

"It is...it is..." Shaoshang shook his head, "What my mother said is very true."

"Oh. What is it?"

Mrs. Xiao's eyes were cold and wise, and Shaoshang was always guilty at first, but if she knew how to write the word 'fear', she would not have gone with the little sister.

"A mother's words are all right, good for the Dong family, good for the Cheng family..." Shaoshang said vaguely.

The corners of Mrs. Xiao's graceful mouth were slightly raised, with a bit of sneering. After a little business, he raised his hand again, and all the servants and maids who were sitting respectfully around stood up and followed.

In the big winter, Shao Shang actually sweated a little from his vest, and hurried back to the small room. The lotus room and Qiaoguo had already warmed the room. Hurry up and say goodbye.

Mrs. Xiao went straight to the bed in the middle of the house and sat down. With a wave of her hand, Mrs. Qing Li had already dismissed the servants and women. For Mrs. Qing Li, she quickly pulled Qiaoguo and exited.

Mrs. Qing Li poured the fruit pulp into two small ear cups and gave it to Mrs. Xiao first, and then to Shao Shang.

You only have one word of exhortation, say it directly. What's the point of telling lies."

Mrs. Qing Li nervously said: "Miss..."

Mrs. Xiao raised her hand to stop her from speaking, looked directly at Shaoshang, and said, "I'm too busy these days, and I don't have time to talk to you, but your grandfather is visiting every day. You, you are also saying that you are smart every day, why should my son pretend to be stupid?"

Shao Shang slowly put down his ear cup, raised his head, and said calmly: "If you don't pretend to be stupid, how can you live in front of your aunt. The stupider the child, the happier the aunt will be. There must be no other way to deal with me."

Mrs. Xiao smiled slightly and said, "Yes, you don't even recognize the words?"

Young businessman can be considered an old man with a face, so he can't help blushing when he hears this.

She originally thought that the traditional Chinese characters were used here, and she was very confident to ask Mrs. Qing Li for some books to read, and by the way, she could find out where she is now. But when Mrs. Qing Li held out several rolls of bamboo slips on a tray, she felt that something was wrong. Sure enough, she didn't know the characters in it. These words are also somewhat familiar, as if they have been seen on some TV dramas or signboards.

Mrs. Qing Li observed her words and expressions, and brought a few new bamboo slips. Thankfully, this time she could recognize three or four of the ten characters, and she was moved to tears.

Now Mrs. Qingli knows her cultural background, Mrs. Qingli knows, and Cheng Shi and his wife naturally know too. Mrs. Xiao was okay, she was already mentally prepared for this daughter who had been raised by the Ge family for ten years, but Cheng Shi was very angry, and shouted "break up with the Ge family" several times.

Shao Shang murmured, "I know a few..."

Mrs. Xiao sneered directly: "Those words are considered to be known? Besides, the words you know were originally created by small officials. Although they are simple and easy to understand, people often use them..." She frowned, "But the words in the pre-Qin classics are not written like this." She knew that Ge Shi's kind of stuff didn't have a few drops of ink, not to mention that she didn't want to teach, even if she wanted to teach, she couldn't teach anything.

Shao Shang felt that he had returned to the time of elementary and junior high school. He was accused of his studies by teachers every day.

Gur's was also unlucky. The day after Cheng Shi learned that his daughter was blind, he took his daughter to see Cheng's mother, who happened to come to Cheng's mother's place to say hello (eye medicine). Ge Shi, immediately reprimanded, Ge Shi quickly said that Shaoshang himself was too tired to play and refused to study. Even so, he was still scolded by Cheng Shihao.

"Mrs. Zhong is really..." Mrs. Qing Li said bitterly, "The lady is so knowledgeable, she actually made your son-in-law become a..." Illiterate! Cheng Shaoshang secretly made up for her. She could imagine how happy Ge Shi felt every time she saw Cheng Shaoshang's ignorant appearance.

"It's okay," Mrs. Qing Li said with a forced smile, "It will take a long time to come to Japan, and the young lady will make up for it in the future. You don't know, the female gentleman's learning was said to be in the village, that is, the entire county. , that's also famous..."

Shao Shang faintly felt that it was not good, and quickly smiled: "Actually, my aunt is not entirely wrong, I really don't like reading, I probably followed my father..." In order to comfort the illiterate little boy that day Daughter, Cheng Shi kept saying that he was actually very illiterate.

Mrs. Qing Li was stunned. For the first time in her life, she felt like 'sitting and staggering', and she looked at Mrs. Xiao at a loss.

The well-informed Mrs. Xiao smiled in her heart and said: The rumors about this girl are completely wrong; but it’s good, she’s already fed up with the idiots like Ge’s; what do you do when you meet idiots I don't even know what to say. I have to tear my face and see the blood to know I'm afraid. It's better to be smart than stupid.

"Then learn slowly." Mrs. Xiao said, "Your grandfather has been busy with farming since he was a child, and then he continued to fight. He only began to study literature when he was 30 years old. Report that he has been able to read without hindrance."

Shao Shang complained in his heart, so he had to say it.

Mrs. Xiao added: "You have also seen the family affairs in the past few days. Do you think my father and I are too aggressive?"

"Why do you think like this?" After he said it, Shao Shang dared to answer, "The Dong family relied on the protection of their eldest mother, and they attached themselves to their father like a blood-sucking leech. Helping one or two is a trivial matter, and I heard from my grandfather that they are still bullying the people outside, so what will happen in the future?" She tried hard to learn the tone of voice of the ancients she had heard these days, and she felt that she could be fooled.

If it was another big mistress, even if she wanted to teach her daughter, she would not be so straightforward to expose the ugliness of the elders to the public and be frank and private. Children raised do not know the dangers of the world. And Cheng Shaoshang had almost never had a mother in his last life, and he was a Xibei in this life. Since he didn't know how to get along with his daughter properly, he discussed it frankly. In fact, the correct answer at this time should be 'the elders are the things, how can the juniors be arrogant'.

However, Mrs. Xiao has obviously put all the blame on Ge's 'not teaching and arrogant'.

"But..." Shao Shang hesitated a little and glanced at Mrs. Xiao. In fact, she always felt that Mrs. Xiao had seen through her own nature long ago, and pretending to be stupid would only make her annoyed, and she felt that she had a bad character; she might as well say something else.

Mrs. Xiao said: "It's okay to say it straight."

Shao Shang said: "Since they made a mistake and asked my father to take it, why didn't they directly call the government officials to deal with it, after all, it is their own flesh and blood, so beheading is impossible, but I heard my father say that they can be sentenced Exile. Why not send it to another place, wouldn't it be cleaner?"

Mrs. Xiao frowned and said, "You little children know what exile is, and as far as their father and son are eating, drinking, and having fun, how can they survive in exile? It's really against people. But..." She suddenly With a sneering smile, "I have thought about this method, you know why I don't use it?"

"Why...why?" Isn't it because there is a violation, you said it yourself and asked me.

Mrs. Xiao lowered her body and whispered to Shaoshang who was sitting on the ground: "Think about it for yourself."

After saying this, Mrs. Xiao got up and left, leaving Shaoshang to think slowly.

Lianfang and Qiaoguo hurried in, served Shao-shang, changed into new deep clothes, wiped his face, washed his hands and rinsed his mouth, then tucked into the hot quilt, closed the thick curtain and whispered softly' Please 'she take a nap.

Shao Shang wanted to laugh very much, she was put in this pose, what else could she do without taking a nap. Lying on the bed, she suddenly remembered a pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the town in her previous life. The mother-in-law called her daughter-in-law a thief and subsidized her parents’ family for so many years. The son cannot get a divorce. She didn't know if he left or not, but the man was angry and went out to work, and he refused to pay his wife again, and his son followed his grandmother and refused to pay attention to his mother, so his daughter-in-law was scolding the man on the street all day long.

...Well, then Mrs. Xiao can only hurt people. In fact, the Dong family should thank the old lady Cheng, otherwise Mrs. Xiao would not know how to deal with them.

…

Fortunately, Mrs. Xiao, who was lucky not to hurt anyone, returned to her temporary room, only to see Cheng Shi already half lying on the bed, full of alcohol, with a red face that was not covered by a beard. very.

Mrs. Xiao was not surprised at all, she slowly took off the hairpin and ring, and then let Qing Li tie her arms, very skillfully loosening Cheng Shi's collar, revealing the sweat-stained heat He waited for the servant girl to call a large pot of hot water and wiped and scalded her husband herself. Cheng Shiyou woke up, took the hangover soup and drank it, and laughed at his wife: "Yuanyi."

Qing Li and a few servant girls who used to serve all covered their faces and snickered, Mrs. Xiao glared at Cheng Shi, unbuttoned her arms, screened everyone, and sat down beside her husband, "Tell you and Second brother, talk well, you are good, drink like this!"

Cheng Shi wiped his face with a hot cloth and said, "Second brother has been quiet for so many years, and I don't know how to talk to him. I've been talking to him about the move of the mansion in the past few days, He always kept silent; when he was in a hurry, he said that he didn't have to move, so he would just stay here and study. I was so angry, cough...Isn't it a little inconvenient for my legs? Don't hurry up while the second brother is a little drunk this time. Give him a few more cups, how can I get him to speak his mind?"

Mrs. Xiao approached to write and asked, "Then, will he say it this time?"

Cheng Shi put the hot cloth on his face, and said sullenly: "He just said to me repeatedly, 'Brother, you are not sorry for me, it is me who is not promising', I have his tears all over my sleeves."

Mrs. Xiao was also stunned. Thinking of the past, she sighed: "Our family, the second brother is the most wronged."

Cheng Shi tore off the cloth towel and said in a low voice, "When he was young, his family was poor and he had no money to let him go to study; after the war, we met a few Confucian scholars, and someone recommended him to go to Bailu Mountain to follow Mr. Sang is studying, but..." He had tears in his eyes, "We are fighting outside, and someone has to take care of the children. He asked to stay and let the third go."

Mrs. Xiao wept and said, "Later the third brother succeeded in his studies and was awarded the post by His Majesty. The second brother was happier than anyone else. It's just that it's a pity that he himself..."

Cheng Shi wiped away tears and said, "He is different from the third brother. He studies, not for being an official to make a fortune, but because he likes to study classics. This time, I must do what he wishes!"

Mrs. Xiao said happily: "Second brother agreed?"

"Finally nodding!" Cheng Shi breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a while, and then hurriedly said, "It would have been better to ask the third brother to go to Bailu Mountain to study. The jewel in the palm of the prince. Now our family can count as one foot on the threshold, and someone recommends it to go to the residence of any great scholar."

Mrs. Xiao slapped the bed decisively and said, "Okay, after Zhengdan, I will send the second brother out. Just in time, I want to dry that bitch!"

When it comes to Ge Shi, Cheng Shi is also full of anger: "What to do, just let it go, with such a mother-in-law beside him every day accusing him of being useless and useless, the second brother is so depressed! This slut, if it's just gossiping in the inner house, that's all, he's going to sell A Ding's house on his own initiative while we're not here! If it weren't for the war ahead, I'd want to come back and whip her right away! Cough, How much does Taigong Ge love her, since she doesn't look down on her second brother, it would be better to remarry earlier, and the Ge family will not refuse!

Mrs. Xiao sneered: "Do you think she has never thought of remarrying?" She did it more than ten years ago!

"Then why didn't she remarry?" Cheng Shi was so sorry.

Mrs. Xiao rolled her eyes at him: "Don't worry about this." As she spoke, she sorted out her clothes and was about to go out.

Cheng Shiqi said: "Where are you going?"

Mrs. Xiao turned her head and said coldly, "That **** was scolded by us just now at the banquet, and you were with the second brother just now, she is not easy to pass, and now that you are back, she Why don't you go and cry with the second brother? We are all back, are we still watching the second brother being bullied by that bitch?!"