Xie Yun looked at the man in front of him who was full of servile looks, and his heart was filled with disgust.
However, on account that he was Qiao Ruoyi’s biological uncle, Xie Yun suppressed the disgust in his heart and said, “So you are from the Hu family. Someone, go and ask Madam to come over.”
When Qiao Ruoyi arrived at the front hall, she saw the Hu brothers and their family members whom she had not seen for a long time.
When Hu da’s wife saw Qiao ruoyi, she stepped forward and said, “We haven’t seen each other for a few years. Ruoyi, you miss your aunt so much. Your grandmother always misses you. She always says that one day she will return to Chang ‘an to visit you.”
“Who is my grandmother and who is my aunt?”Qiao ruoyi flung her sleeves and said, “My mother’s family name is Zheng!”
When Hu da’s wife heard Qiao Ruoyi’s words, she choked and said, “The Zheng family is in exile. To think that you still acknowledge them as your relatives. Our Hu family is the one that is related to you by blood…”
Qiao ruoyi said coldly, “The rules are like this. My uncle’s surname is only Hu. What kind of relatives are you? It’s fine that you came today, but if you come again in the future, I will directly ask the guards to send you away.”
Elder Hu’s youngest daughter stood up and said, “Cousin, I have often heard of your great name in the countryside. Everyone in the Hu family is honored. I didn’t expect that you would despise the poor and love the rich so much. Now that you have become an official of the imperial court, you don’t even care about your mother’s family anymore?”
Qiao ruoyi slammed the table and said, “Men, chase them out. Don’t let them come near the Xie family in the future.”
After the Hu family’s relatives were chased out.
Qiao ruoyi looked at Xie Yun and said, “I know that you look down on me from the bottom of your heart. But now that I’ve married into your Xie family, if you let those Hu family members enter as relatives again, it won’t be because of my face, but because of your Xie family’s face.”
Xie Yun frowned and said, “How is it that they look down on you? After all, they are connected to your bloodline. If I saw them and chased them away, I wouldn’t have given you face. Who knew that you would treat the Hu family like this?”
After all, since Qiao Ruoyi dared to take the risk of claiming the Hu family’s life, Xie Yun also thought that her relationship with the Hu family was okay.
Qiao ruoyi’s abdomen was already high. She stroked her abdomen and said, “Those Hu family members are not my relatives. In the future, you don’t have to give them face.”
Hu Da and Hu er had taken advantage of Aunt Hu’s presence to get rid of their slave status early on.
The Qiao family had some estates in the southwest that were under the control of Hu Da and Hu Er.
Hu Da and Hu er should have earned a lot of silver over the years.
However, when Aunt Hu was around, the Marquis found out that they were squeezing money from the estate. Hu Da and Hu er came to look for Aunt Hu. At that time, Aunt Hu sold a lot of treasures from the estate to the brothers for silver and asked them to return it to the estate.
At that time, Qiao Ruoyi had some fame in Chang ‘an city and it was also when she was proud of herself. However, the wife of the Hu family led a large group of children to the poetry meet.
She begged Qiao Ruoyi to give her brothers and sisters some silver so that they could eat.
At that time, Qiao Ruoyi was ridiculed.
However, at that time, Qiao ruoyi gritted her teeth for aunt Hu’s sake and pawned all the books and paintings that she had bought previously.
She also gave the jewelry, rouge, powder, silk, and satin that had just been distributed from the manor to her new cousins.
Qiao ruoyi was not close to the sisters in the manor. Her cousins in the second house were similar in age to her, but in the end, they were separated by a room.
After having cousins, Qiao Ruoyi was very happy. She even brought her cousins to the poetry meet in Chang ‘an.
Unexpectedly, just three months later, the Crown Prince of the Duke of Zhongyong’s mansion said that he wanted to take his cousin as a concubine. It turned out that during these three months, his cousin said that she was going to the poetry meet, but in fact, she was going to the poetry meet to find a prince’s grandson to entrust her with the rest of her life.
Qiao ruoyi also learned that she had given her aunt the Rouge powder for her life. The jewelry, Lingluo, had not been sold. Instead, she had given her cousins to dress up and go to many places where princes and princes gathered.
Back then, Qiao Lui was only fourteen years old. When he returned to the manor, the Hu family’s cousin had been calling him young master sweetly.
After grandmother found out, she harshly blamed the Hu family. At that time, grandmother even went to Qiao Ruoyi and told her not to associate with the Hu family in the future.
Qiao Ruoyi was still young at that time. Perhaps it was because of her inferiority as a daughter-in-law, but she thought that grandmother looked down on the Hu family because they were servants of the Qiao family.
Later, she gradually learned that the Hu family had done many wrong things by relying on Aunt Hu and her.
Her cousin entered the courtyard of the heir-son lord of the Marquis of Zhongyong and, relying on the fact that her aunt was marquis an Yuan’s concubine, caused chaos in the back courtyard of the heir-son lord, in the end, she was driven out of the front gate of the Marquis of Zhongyong’s estate because she harmed the heir-son lord of the Marquis of Zhongyong’s estate.
At that time, Qiao ruoyi only knew that the so-called relatives were a joke. Since then, she had never treated the Hu family as her own relatives.
In the end, Aunt Hu went to ask the old madam to let the Hu brothers have more than 200 acres of land in the suburbs of Chang ‘an, so that they could live in the countryside.
Aunt Hu would send some silver to them every new year and festival. After Aunt Hu went, Qiao Ruoyi no longer paid any attention to these so-called “Relatives”.
If the Hu family gave them a good look, they would definitely come up for blood!
After all, she was not related to the Hu family. Her legitimate uncle was surnamed Zheng. As long as she did not let the Hu family come to her house, it was not a big deal.
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It was not so easy to get rid of the Hu family members.
The few of them were scheming in an inn.
Hu er sighed and said, “Qiao Ruoyi is really cold-blooded. She has already made up her mind to not acknowledge us. We have no way to get any benefits from her!”
Hu er’s wife said, “Qiao Ruoyi doesn’t care about her reputation. I don’t believe that the Xie family doesn’t care. When Luo Wei was still around, he gave us a hundred taels of silver every year. This xie residence is so wealthy. It should be at least five hundred taels of silver.”
“But Qiao Ruoyi is still an official. and Xie Yun isn’t as easy to fool as Luo Wei.”
Hu er’s wife added, “Brother, sister-in-law, let’s not take these silver taels.”
“Don’t you want your daughter to marry better? Qiao ruoyi has a child now, and there are no concubines in the Xie Yun residence. If the CAIQIN and Caixiao sisters were to enter the Xie family, they would be infinitely rich!”
Hu Er’s wife was moved when she heard this. They were all children of the Qiao family in the beginning, but now, although they were no longer slaves, they were still very poor, causing their children to suffer.
Qiao ruoyi, on the other hand, was different. She had lived a luxurious life since she was young. If her children were to marry an ordinary man, it would be better for them to enter the Xie family and become concubines.
Hu caiqin said, “Father, mother, second uncle, second aunt, back then, cousin doted on me the most. Why Don’t you let me try it in front of her?”
“That’s fine.”
Hu Caiqin thought of Xie Yun, whom she had met in front of the Xie family’s main gate. The young minister had a dignified appearance, but his face was still shining even though he was almost thirty years old. He was the best-looking man Hu Caiqin had ever seen.
If she could be his concubine, her life would be worth it.
