After Giving Way To My Husband’s Sweetheart

Chapter 15 Cousin is polite

On the second day, as soon as Love got up and packed up, the little girl from Luo'antang came over to send a message, saying that the madam asked Love to come over.

Love went to Madam Tai to plead for mercy yesterday because of Sima Chuge's matter. She never wanted to be entangled by the Wang family. Today when Mrs. Tai ordered someone to come and invite her, she left Yu Nuan to look after the house and hurriedly took Lantian to Luo Fu. Antang.

Last night, the Dowager learned that Love was being embarrassed by Wang on the way to her place. When she saw Love, she hurriedly asked her to sit beside her and asked straight to the point: "I heard that you were coming to my place yesterday. Were you punished by the boss along the way?"

Love replied truthfully: "My mother-in-law really wanted to punish me, but the eldest son arrived later and didn't hurt me."

The wife patted Love's hand and said distressedly: "Such a crystal-like little person has to suffer such injustice when he has just grown hair. It's really heartbreaking."

As soon as Mrs. Tai finished speaking, Love knelt down.

Mrs. Tai quickly helped her up and said, "Grandma knows that you feel aggrieved, but this is how a daughter-in-law is. I will give your mother-in-law some advice later."

Hearing this, Luofu replied in a muffled voice: "Grandma, I am not feeling wronged for myself."

Mrs. Tai’s eyes moved slightly and she asked tentatively: “Then you are doing it for Ge’er?”

Love raised her eyes to look at Mrs. Tai and said slowly: "Although I am not my grandma's granddaughter, my grandma can really care about me. Ge'er is your direct granddaughter. I beg my grandma to take pity on her and don't let her." Enter the palace."

The wife sighed slightly and replied: "Even grandma can't decide on this matter."

Although Mrs. Tai has not been involved in worldly affairs for many years, brothers Sima Zhengde have always respected their mother. If Mrs. Tai is willing to come forward in this matter, Sima Chuge will definitely escape this disaster.

Mrs. Tai murmured: "I remember when the Sima family sent Yu'er to the palace, she held me and cried for several days. She cried until her voice became hoarse and her eyes were swollen and she couldn't open her eyes. I had no mercy."

"Back then, Chao'er's grandfather was just an ordinary hunter before he started his career. But within a few decades, our Sima family was able to surpass those wealthy noble families who had lived for hundreds of years. Only we know the hardships best. This is all It was obtained with the blood of Sima men and the tears of women."

“Today’s Sima family is one person below ten thousand people. It seems to have unlimited scenery, but behind this scenery is also an abyss. One step forward is life, and one step back is death.”

Mrs. Tai looked at Love and said slowly: "My child, can you understand? Therefore, no matter how much my grandmother feels sorry for her granddaughter, she will support the Sima family in sending her to the palace."

 This is something Love understands but doesn’t understand either.

Our Luo family used to be a powerful family, but her parents would not ignore her happiness.

I still remember that before the Luo family fell, someone once persuaded my father to send her to the palace as a favor. Not only did my father immediately become ashamed, he also refused to associate with that person again.

 This is the difference between a careerist and a scholar. A person is interested in power and interests, and for this, he is willing to sacrifice his life and family ties. One is focused on integrity. Even if you risk your life and wealth, you will not lose your integrity.

After Mrs. Tai said these words, she pulled Love and said, "Let's go, I will go to the family temple to offer incense today. You should accompany me there."

Since her aunt currently lives in the family temple, Love is naturally willing to go there. Although she failed to convince the wife, she did not give up the idea of ​​saving Sima Chuge. She took this opportunity to meet her aunt so that they could discuss it further.

Love accompanied the old lady out. The second door was saved and the carriage and horses had been prepared. Just as Love was about to help the old lady get into the car, she happened to bump into Sima Rui who was returning from abroad.

Sima Rui stepped forward and respectfully greeted the old lady. The old lady smiled happily and said, "Aren't you busy today? Why did you come back home so early?"

Sima Rui replied: "I know that my grandmother is going to offer incense today, so I came back after finishing some important things. There was chaos outside, so I escorted my grandmother to the family temple."

Sima Rui is the son of the old lady’s only daughter.

When Sima Chao's grandfather started his business, he did not hesitate to marry his daughter to a tribal leader in the grassland in order to leverage the power of the leader. The leader was already over fifty years old. Less than a year after Sima's marriage, her husband died of illness. Sima Chao's grandfather also married his daughter to him. When he got it back, Sima Nu was already pregnant. She gave birth to her son in Sima Mansion and died happily.

In order to make up for his debt to his daughter, Sima Chao's grandfather gave the son she gave birth to with the surname Sima, which was Sima Rui.

Although Sima Rui is of foreign blood, he may have followed his mother. He does not have the toughness of the prairie people in appearance. Instead, he was born with a jade tree facing the wind, his face is like a crown jade, and he looks like a handsome nobleman.

Sima Rui and Sima Chao are of the same age, and they have always been raised by the queen. In the house, the two brothers are the most favored by the queen.

The wife looked at her grandson, her smile turned into a flower, and she murmured: "Rui'er is a thoughtful person, very good, very good!"

As he spoke, the wife introduced Love beside him and said, "This is your second aunt's niece. She is now Chao'er's wife. Her name is Afu. Do you recognize her?"

Sima Rui hurriedly replied: "My cousin often came to play in the house when she was young, so of course I recognize her."

 Speaking, Sima Rui bowed deeply to Love: "Cousin, you are polite."

Love is not Sima Chao's official wife. Sima Rui didn't call her sister-in-law or anything like that, but called her cousin, which made Love sound more pleasant to her ears.

 She also simply called Sima Rui her cousin: "Cousin is polite."

Sima Rui helped the old lady get into the car, and then helped Love get into the car. He rode beside the car to protect her, and together with several servants and women as guards, the group left Sima's mansion in a grand manner.

Since marrying Sima Chao, Love left the house for the first time. She sat in the car, quietly opened the corner of the car curtain and glanced at the market outside.

Sima Mansion is located in the west of the city, which is a prosperous area in the capital. Here, there are many dignitaries, majestic palaces, and numerous wine shops. When you leave the West City, you will see a sky of ice and fire. All you can see are thatched houses with thatched eaves, and the streets and alleys are full of people wearing rags. There are countless people selling their sons and daughters on straw ropes in the market.

Seeing a fancy car approaching, the hungry and poor people, regardless of the guards' obstruction, begged towards the car with their dirty arms. Sima Rui saw that the guards could not drive him away, so he took out a bag from his wallet. After scattering the copper coins far away, the hungry people let go of the carts and rushed to grab the coins scattered on the ground.

The wife glanced at the misery outside. She sighed slightly and murmured to herself: "Now that the emperor is like this, I don't know how miserable it is outside."

Aunt Xu, who was accompanying Mrs. Tai, echoed: "I heard that the people in the villages outside were starving to death and freezing to death. It's even more difficult to see. There are already ten houses and nine empty houses. Nowadays, strong men are either joining the army or going up the mountains to become bandits in order to survive. .”

 (End of this chapter)