In the east courtyard of Zeng Mansion, in the square pavilion, Zeng Ti, the eldest son of the current prime minister Zeng Bu, was just over 40 years old this year, staring at the people under his seat with a dark face.

Mr. Rong and two little maids lay on the ground.

Zeng Ke, the son of Zeng Ti's concubine Yunniang, was supported by Zeng Ti's younger brother Zeng Wei and leaned against the kang on the Arhat's bed.

Among the two little maids, Zeng Ti recognized one of them, her son Zeng Ke's personal maid Xiu Ju, and the other looked like a face-to-face. He was about to ask the maid's name, but his eyes swept and saw Zeng Ke leaning softly on the shoulders of his uncle Zeng Wei like a broken puppet.

Zeng Ti felt that suddenly a strange evil fire surged from the bottom of her heart, even more intense than the shock and anger when she heard that her son and the eldest lady of the Yao family had almost had an accident.

So is the son even more timid to his uncle than to his own father?

With the conscience of heaven and earth, Zeng Ti believes that he has achieved the ultimate of a son, husband, and father. He has no debt to his father, his wife, Wang, concubine, Yunniang, and his children.

There was a father like Zeng Bu. As the eldest son, Zeng Ti was stared at by the civil servant circle since he was young. After he passed the imperial examination, he gradually entered the officialdom, and was often taken to the court to compare with the sons and nephews of Wang Anshi, Zhang Dun, and Cai Jing.

Such a child has no right to choose his wife independently.

When Zeng Ti was married, his father Zeng Bu took over and married a golden boudoir among the Wang Anshi clan. After Zeng Ti's bland marriage with his wife lasted for three years, he took a concubine named Yunniang, who was the only concubine.

In terms of appearance, Yunniang may not be much better than the wife of the Wang family, but she allows Zeng Ti to finish her daytime official duties for a considerable period of time, and will not get bored when she thinks of returning to the Zeng Mansion.

Yunniang is the daughter of an old clerk in Taiyuan. One day, heavy rain came to deliver an umbrella to her father. She ran into Zeng Ti at the entrance of Taiyuan, and locked in her lifelong marriage.

Yunniang was quiet and gentle. She said everything she asked her and did not make any mistakes. When she got to the tent, she seemed to have changed her body, and she was pretty and spicy, which made Zeng Ti not know how to love her.

Due to his father's face, Zeng Ti did not completely neglect his legitimate family, but when Yunniang gave birth to a son for him first, his joy was beyond words. Unlike his father Zeng Bu, Zeng Ti secretly studied the Neo-Confucianism of Zhang Zai and the second Cheng (Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao). In private, he even secretly told Yunniang, who had just become a mother, that the eldest son Zeng Ke was born by Yunniang. In his opinion, Zeng Ti was the true "reason" of men and women's love.

Looking back on the past, Zeng Ti felt that it was probably because she was too arrogant to celebrate the moment of depressed joy and too arrogant to define a lucky trip. God decided to punish him and hit him, so that Ke'er would look unacceptable to him and Yunniang.

Ke'er likes men.

It was Zeng Ti's legitimate wife Wang who discovered it and told Zeng Ti and Yunniang.

This kind of Longyang is definitely not like learning from other young men in the capital to linger in "bee nests" (where male sex workers gathered in the Song Dynasty), nor is it like a young man in the Qingjun family, but is serious about having sex with a man named Yi Xin, who is like a talented man and beautiful woman, and they find a different house to rent and often have a secret meeting.

Zeng Ti and Yunniang were both angry and afraid. What was angry was why they had such a rebellious son? What was afraid of was that their father Zeng Bu would soon find out.

However, the legitimate wife Wang had an idea. The Yixin was originally an actor in the zaju troupe. She had no roots and no foundation. She found a matter of trouble to count him and decided to be a different lady with a good background, with outstanding appearance but no support from her parents. Get married quickly, maybe Ke'er will return to the right path of men and women.

Mrs. Zeng, Wang, also proposed to go to Zeng Bu, the head of the family, to accuse others of their crimes. On the one hand, they could also ask Zeng Bu to give a message to the outside world, so why did the eldest grandson of the Zeng Mansion marry the daughter of a small family?

Zeng Ti originally thought that the most difficult thing to overcome was the hurdle of his old father Zeng Bu. Unexpectedly, Zeng Bu heard that after only a moment of shock, he pondered and clarified two points to his son. One was to lock Zeng Ke at home for several months, and the other was to release news to the public that Zeng Ke was weak and could not even participate in the scientific examination this spring.

However, nothing happened next to Zeng Ti was depressed and depressed.

First, the actor Yi Xin, who was in charge of the matter and was in the prison of Kaifeng Prefecture and was also accused of traveling west, was said to have been drowned halfway through the water and no one in the mansion could tell the door. Zeng Ke, who was under house arrest, knew that Zeng Ke made a fuss in the East Courtyard like crazy and screamed in the middle of the night. Then it was the day when he was welcoming the Yao family's daughter, and the bride actually looked for a short sight in the street, and was involved by Zhang Jie, the confidant of his father's enemy Zhang Dun.

Finally, although Yao Huan's aunt was a powerful character, she not only refused to resist the settlement plan thrown by the Zeng family, but also asked the Zeng family to do personal favors. The storm ended peacefully in a family drama. Unexpectedly, Zeng Ke almost killed Yao Huan today - it was better than she was hit and killed by the Bian River that day.

But what Zeng Ti was most agitated was that after his son who had caused such a disaster, he saw his anxious old father without fear, guilt, disgust or pride in his eyes, but with a completely cold look. Only when his uncle Zeng Wei talked to him would he respond and let him go wherever he went.

Under Zeng Ti, there were four younger brothers and sisters. The eldest sister had married an official in the capital. The second and third brothers were both out of the state road as officials. There was a younger brother Zeng Wei. Because his father Zeng Bu was born when he returned to Beijing to reunite with his mother Wei after he was a long time ago, he was only in his early twenties and was only two or three years older than his nephew Zeng Ke. Therefore, he studied together since childhood. After Yunniang gave birth to Zeng Ke, she even died of two children. Mrs. Zeng still had her child, but she was just a sister. Therefore, although Zeng Wei and Zeng Ke were uncles and nephews, they were like brothers.

Zeng Ti even suspected that Zeng Wei might have known Ke'er's dirty things earlier than Wang.

"Have Yunniang ever said when she will come back?"

Zeng Ti finally spoke, and the first sentence was to ask Zeng Ke’s personal maid Embroidered Ju.

"Brother Ke has vomited for several days, and it was better to take the fourth decoction yesterday. Today, Mrs. Yun went to Tianqing Temple to burn incense to pray for Brother." Xiu Ju replied tremblingly.

Zeng Ti snorted coldly: "As soon as Yunniang left, trouble happened."

Zeng Ti knew that his son had been sick these days. Since he had recovered from taking medicine, he was not too worried. After all, Shen Fuzhi and Yao Huan came to the house. Even if Zeng Ke and Yunniang were sitting in the house, they would not be able to come out to meet. The Zeng couple and Shen Yaoniang went through a formality and made a gentleman's friendship on the face.

When Xiu Ju heard the male owner's words, she panickedly defended: "I had a soup for noon. Mr. Yun told me to go to the kitchen to watch it. Wanglan followed Mr. Yun to Tianqing Temple again, so the person in my room was indeed broken. When I saw that my brother was sleeping soundly, I went to boil the medicine. I never thought that my brother ran out..."

Zeng Ti sighed, brewing for a while, trying to show a calm look, and said to his son Zeng Ke: "Ke'er, you're sleeping well, how did you get up?"

Zeng Ke didn't hear anything, his eyes were dull, and then he closed his eyes and felt drowsy.

Zeng Ti was angry and angry again in anger. Just as he was about to have an attack, Zeng Wei made a gesture, carefully supported Zeng Ke on the kang table, got up and came to the elder brother, and whispered: "Damn't angry, after I stopped Ke'er just now, I asked him, he said that Yi Xin was coming and told him that if the woman from the Yao family had not entered the door, Yi Xin would not die. Today, the woman from the Yao family married in, Ke'er went to kill her, and Yi Xin would be back."

"What kind of gods and ghosts are talking about!" Zeng Ti shouted in a low voice.

Rong Laolao on the ground raised her head and said, "I heard what Silang said. I also wanted to ask a few words, but Aunt Chen grabbed me like a red-eyed rabbit and insisted that I would kill her niece. I, this is the first time I saw her mother and mother today. No matter how long I was in the East Courtyard, I was just a servant who served as a servant for Dalang and the eldest lady. How could I have no reason to ask Dalang and the eldest lady to nod and recognize the life of Yao, the adopted daughter..."

"Why did the maid who followed you to welcome guests lock the door out of the inside when something happened?" Zeng Wei interrupted Mr. Rong and asked.

Not a real big boss, Mr. Rong was less humble at Zeng Wei, and he was open and unfaithful and did not avoid Zeng Wei's eyes: "This little girl, she said she thought she was really a ghost, and she was so scared that she locked the door."

Zeng Wei sternly said: "I can't even recognize Brother Ke?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the little maid on the ground started to cry: "I am from the old lady's courtyard. Huai Yuezhong came to the mansion. I really have never seen Brother Ke."

"On my mother's yard?"
Chapter completed!