Dressed as a middle-aged mistress, I want to lie down every day

Both sides were very polite and friendly during the meeting.

He Wenyan first looked at Wang Jingye carefully, and then looked at Nie Chengping.

It feels familiar, like someone.

Can't remember who it looks like.

There are also people who look alike. Once, a student from Sichuan came to Beijing to take the imperial examination and looked just like the chief examiner. His wife insisted that the student was her husband's illegitimate child. After thorough investigation, it turned out that the student's family had never left Sichuan, and neither had the chief examiner. It was a joke.

He Wenyan thanked Nie Chengping for his son's study. Nie Chengping said, "You're welcome. I'm doing this because the Mo family hosted us."

He Wenyan...

No wonder he passed the imperial examination but didn't enter officialdom. He is so bad at speaking.

He also asked Nie Chengping in which year he went to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination. Nie Chengping was most reluctant to talk about this. When Mo Yuanji asked, thinking that he was the elder and his brother-in-law was causing trouble for the Mo family, he could only answer.

If others ask, if I don’t answer, it’s impolite, and if I answer, it’s annoying.

"I forgot."

He Wenyan was so embarrassed. He even forgot this? Is it reliable for my son to study with him?

Wang Jingye saw that his brother-in-law had returned to his old ways, so he quickly changed the subject. "The weather is nice today. I've sent someone to reserve a table for lunch. How can you drink, Lord He? I'll drink with you."

He Wenyan said: "Sorry, I can only drink three cups at most."

Wang Jingye...

If one or two of them are like this, it’s impossible to have a good conversation.

Mo Yuanji explained, "My son-in-law has a low alcohol tolerance and generally doesn't drink. I appreciate this approach. Don't force yourself to do things you can't do."

He Wenyan was grateful to his father-in-law for this and always defended him in front of outsiders.

"I get bumps all over my body when I drink, so I just have to control myself and not drink too much."

Mo Yuanji looked at his son-in-law curiously. It was the first time he heard his son-in-law say this. He always thought that his son-in-law had good self-control.

Wang Jingye smiled and said, "Just like my brother-in-law, my Chengping can't drink alcohol. If he drinks, not only will his whole body itch, but his face will also swell up."

Nie Chengping glared at him with a dark face.

His brother-in-law had sent him to Beijing for the imperial examination. Before the exam, his brother-in-law asked him to treat a few students to a meal. He also sent a jar of wine, though his brother-in-law wasn't present, saying he wanted to have some time to mingle with the students. He didn't drink, but one student, in a sarcastic tone, said he wasn't giving him face, so he had to drink one glass. The student wouldn't give in, insisting he drink three.

Later, he forced himself to finish the imperial examination, but his ranking was low. Because his brother-in-law's surname was Wang and he was the empress dowager's cousin, his ranking was moved up.

He is not happy.

From then on, he no longer forced himself to do anything for others.

Seeing his brother-in-law's face sullen again, Wang Jingye really wanted to slap himself. Why was he so quick-witted? Otherwise, his wife would say that Chengping deserved it.

Mo Yuanji tried to smooth things over, "I'm not a heavy drinker either. I'll have some tea later. I have a can of good tea in my collection."

With He Wenyan around, Mo Chenxi didn't know how to cook herself, but fortunately it was Wang Jingye who booked the table.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and Wang Jingye is a little worried because he will not be able to celebrate the festival at someone else's home. He had originally planned to take his wife, daughter and brother-in-law to a nearby state capital to stroll around and then stay in an inn.

His cousin didn't let her go out, and he thought it was because of his brother-in-law. Couldn't she stay at the Beijing Inn during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

It would be so awkward to live in the Mo family.

Mo Yuanji also thought of this. Before the festival, he told Wang Jingye to help look after the house as he was going back to his ancestral home to celebrate the festival.

Wang Jingye breathed a sigh of relief. Although he still lived in the Mo family, at least the two families were not celebrating the festival together.

He was about to go to the palace to ask his cousin what was going on, but his cousin gave him a message asking him to go to Shuangfeng Temple.

Wang Jingye went to Shuangfeng Temple, and Queen Mother Wang asked him to tell her in detail about his parents-in-law, especially Nie Chengping's biological mother.

Wang Jingye carefully selected what he knew and said, "Xiangxiang's grandmother was the original wife. She died of illness after giving birth to Xiangxiang's mother. My father-in-law went on a long trip for about a year, and when he returned, he brought Chengping's mother with him. The Nie family didn't agree at first, but my father-in-law said that Chengping's mother saved his life, otherwise he would have returned home as a corpse. Now that they had a child, the Nie family had no choice but to acknowledge her. Xiangxiang's mother didn't accept her stepmother from nowhere at first, and she wasn't nice to Chengping and his younger brothers and sisters."

Queen Mother Wang only knew that her cousin's father's second wife had two sons and one daughter, the eldest of whom was Nie Chengping.

"When Xiangxiang's mother was fifteen, she got angry with her father and followed the master up the mountain. Her father went to look for her several times, but she refused to come down. One time, her father and stepmother took her younger sister to see a folk doctor. On their way back, they made a detour into the mountains to visit her, but unexpectedly, a rock fell from the mountain and hit the carriage.

"His father died on the spot while trying to protect his young daughter, and his stepmother couldn't be saved. His sister was terrified, and ever since then, even now, at nearly 30, she acts like a child."

The Queen Mother didn't know this, so when she heard about it for the first time, she asked, "Where is your father-in-law's second wife from, and what's her surname?"

Wang Jingye shook his head and said, "I don't know. Xiangxiang's mother never told me, and I didn't ask. After that incident, Xiangxiang's mother felt very guilty and blamed herself. If it weren't for her father, she wouldn't have gone to the mountain, and the accident wouldn't have happened. After that, Xiangxiang's mother treated Chengping and her younger brothers and sisters very well. She said that as the eldest sister, she had to protect the family for her father."

Wang Jingye continued by shaking his head. "Every family has its problems. My father-in-law was the eldest son of the Nie family. Now that he's gone, his children are all minors. There's bound to be some fighting over the family fortune. Luckily, Xiangxiang's maternal family protected the four siblings. It wasn't until I married Xiangxiang's mother that the Nie family, fearing the Wang family, dared not take any action."

After Wang Jingye finished speaking, he asked, "Could it be that Chengping's mother is from the capital? Did she elope with my father-in-law?"

Queen Mother Wang said, "The Emperor is twelve years old now, and I have begun to look for a candidate for Empress. I am thinking of sending a nanny to teach her after I have chosen one. One of the candidates is Zhong Hanlin, the Emperor's teacher when he was still the Crown Prince, and Zhong Hanlin has been teaching the Emperor ever since. When I met Nie Chengping the other day, I thought he was very similar to Zhong Hanlin.

"Zhong Hanlin's original wife was the daughter of Li Daxueshi. They were married for three years without children, and then she died of illness. Zhong Hanlin then married his grandmother's great-niece. I sent someone to investigate. Zhong Hanlin's mother was close to Li Daxueshi's wife, and she had her eye on Li Daxueshi's daughter. However, Zhong Hanlin's grandmother preferred her niece, and she brought her up in the Zhong family, like a child bride in folk customs, to marry her grandson.

"Zhong Hanlin's mother has always been mean to the current wife, which means that Zhong Hanlin married this concubine against his mother's wishes. Then there's a problem with the original wife's death. Nie Chengping's mother married your father-in-law outside and was already pregnant when she was brought back. She didn't know her parents' home. It's very likely that Nie Chengping's mother left the Zhong family, not died of illness. She was already pregnant when she left, or perhaps she didn't know it herself and only found out after she left. Otherwise, if she could have given birth, Zhong Hanlin's grandmother wouldn't have repeatedly blamed her for not having a child after three years of marriage."