Chapter 449 Disheartened
After setting off the fireworks, Yingbao took Wuyou and Wei Zhan home.
Unexpectedly, Fanzhi desperately wanted to go with them.
Yang had no choice but to let the wet nurse carry Fanzhi and go back with her seventh brother and sister.
Seeing a large group of maidservants surrounding the princess leaving, Yang felt a little disappointed.
Wulang pulled his wife and said in a low voice: "It's okay. Qilang and his seventh brothers and sisters are here to take care of her. I 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 the seventh younger brother and sister, he actually gave up his son to keep company with a servant's child."
Mrs. Yang frowned: "Sister-in-law, please be careful what you say. How can it be called flattering when children are playing together?"
Wulang 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 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 all going back to their houses in pairs, so he was fine, had a few drinks and left, without even watching the fireworks and not knowing what he was doing.
A night of silence.
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 okay anyway, and you don't need to go to my parents to say hello."
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 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, 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 the cloud cakes to their mouths respectively: "Come, take a bite, and you will rise to the top."
The two children stuttered.
Fanzhi also taught Wu Yao how to speak seriously: "Cao Cao."
Wu Yao squinted his eyes and said, "Cai gao." After saying that, he proudly tugged on Ying Bao's sleeves for praise.
Ying Bao touched their heads and said, "They are such smart children."
The two milk babies were satisfied and continued to play the talking game.
Yingbao watched them for a while and felt that she should buy them some educational toys.
Things like jigsaw puzzles, Kong Mingsuo, Nine Links, etc., although it is too early for them to play with 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 this child was Cao's daughter Yuzhu.
Yuzhu's eyes flickered and she said, "I, I want to be your daughter."
Ying Bao was stunned, but Mrs. Wang lowered her face and said softly: "Yuzhu, it's time to eat soon. You can 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 room.
Mrs. Wang turned to Ying Bao and said, "If there is anyone else who doesn't know what they are talking about, just send them away."
She didn't like the children born from these concubines, especially the children born to her husband's childhood sweetheart.
When he was chronically poisoned, all signs pointed to his eldest aunt, his second aunt, and the children they had, but Wei Laogou said they were kind and innocent and refused to send them to court.
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 at the time and needed to be protected by herself, and she didn't want to give up the Wei family 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 make a disgusting move, 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 affairs.
After chatting for a few words about business matters, the head of the Wei family changed the topic 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, "Just say whatever you want to say, 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 you stronger."
Wei Zhan: "Dad, I don't need my second brother's help for anything. 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 are 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 moment, then said, "Dad, anyone who works for me doesn't get paid. Ask my second brother if he is willing?"
"He has to be willing even if he doesn't want to!" Wei Jiazhu 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 people were born to the woman who had grown up with him since childhood, but also because they were the eldest son and second son who 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 it is a low-level official, maybe it can be done, 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 stupidly tried to bump into him.
Wei Zhan avoided him as soon as he made a wrong step.
"I have seen the general." The woman refused to 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.
Walking out of Wei's house in long strides, Wei Zhan let out a long sigh of relief.
It's better to live in my wife's princess mansion, where I can live comfortably by myself.
Besides, Cao Qingqing, holding back her energy, 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.
After all, I am an innocent girl, 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?
What's good 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?"