Chapter 016: The Empress Dowager’s days are numbered

 The decoration of the Cheng Mansion is generally average and elegant, but the details are low-key luxury, which is in line with Mr. Cheng's image.

  Ruan Ruan's uncle can be regarded as inheriting Mr. Cheng's career. Twenty years ago, he was the number one scholar in the Three Yuan Dynasty. Now he is the dean of the Imperial College, with many talents all over the world.

  In addition, he opened five academies outside the capital to provide education for children from poor families and ordinary people. The fees were only one-third of the market price, but the academic requirements were particularly high.

  It is an academy that pays a lot of money to study, and is only based on grades and moral upbringing.

  Ruan Ruan's second uncle was "uneducated and incompetent". He was a civil servant and got a third-grade official position in the imperial court in charge of agriculture.

  He has been fond of plants since he was a child, and the gardens of Cheng Mansion are his paradise.

  The eldest brother is studying in college, but he is farming and studying in the fields.

  He is not afraid of the sun or rain. He only wants to develop food with a higher yield per mu so that the people around the world can eat. No more famines, no more starving to death.

  Ruan Ruan's third uncle can also be considered a "neither learned nor skilled" type. After he obtained the title of scholar, he "went into business".

  Mr. Cheng was very dissatisfied, but considering that he was the youngest son and had his eldest son who was the champion to support him, and his family was not short of money, he allowed him to do what he liked.

  He is very business-savvy. With the support of Mr. Cheng and the 5,000 taels of pocket money he had saved for more than ten years, he spent only one year purchasing rare treasures from foreign businessmen. The spices and jewelry minerals were more than ten times more expensive with only 6,000 taels.

  Later, Cheng's family, his eldest uncle and his second uncle's silver, and even their wives' dowries, invested thousands of taels or tens of thousands of taels in him.

  In just a dozen years, the Cheng family's wealth increased fifty-fold.

  This is also the reason why Cheng Yurong likes to do good deeds. The Cheng family has been doing good deeds for decades, and they have developed habits and character through hearing and witnessing.

  Especially in the past ten years or so, the more money the Cheng family has earned, the more money the Cheng family has spent on doing good deeds.

  After entering the hall, Ruan Ruan was surrounded by more than a dozen cousins.

  "Ruan Ruan, you are so cute." The eldest daughter of the third uncle's family is sixteen years old and has a graceful appearance.

  "My little cousin is such a little girl, when will you grow up and play with me?" The second uncle's youngest son is only five years old, at the age when a dog is angry with a cat when he goes to the house to reveal his tiles.

  "Third brother, you are so naughty. Girls don't play with you." The second son of the second uncle's family is twelve years old and has dark skin. It is obvious from a glance that he often works in the fields with his second uncle.

  "That's right, you always bully us, and even our cousins ​​won't play with you."

  The youngest daughter of the third uncle's family is about six years old. She has a pair of big round eyes and sharp teeth. At first glance, she seems to be naughty, lively, and independent-minded. The Lord who does not suffer any loss.

  "Smiled, little sister smiled."

  A young man about twenty years old clapped his hands vigorously and jumped a few times. He looked like the little fool that others said, the silly son of a landlord.

  Yes, he is the uncle's son, Cheng Jinyang, the uncle's only child.

  When he was three years old, he already showed amazing talent. He could write not only a thousand words, but also a hundred words.

  As a result, one day he had a high fever and his condition progressed very rapidly. He had several convulsions and foamed at the mouth. Fortunately, he survived, but he became a fool and his IQ stayed at the age of three forever.

  Ruan Ruan looked at this eldest cousin with a touch of heartache in his eyes.

  Three years later, Cheng Jinyang married a wife who married him to repay his kindness. He was a stupid husband and a commoner wife who couldn't read a word. Such a life could be regarded as ordinary and happy.

  But after giving birth to a child, the Cheng family was destroyed by the emperor's order to confiscate their homes and behead them.

  At that time, he seemed to know the seriousness of the matter. He knelt down and kowtowed to Shen Qiong, begging her to let go of his one-month-old son.

  It wasn't until her forehead was smashed and her face was stained with blood that she agreed to let the child of the Cheng family go.

  As a result, Shen Qingqiu kicked a rock and fell, and the one-month-old Cheng family child in her arms fell heavily ten meters away. In an instant, he was bitten wildly by several wild dogs wandering nearby.     Blood spattered, but in the blink of an eye, the child was eaten and only a fist-sized head was left, which was bitten by a wild dog, making a squeaking sound.

  Cheng Jinyang witnessed this scene before he was beheaded and let out a shrill cry.

  The reason why Shen Qingqiu hates the Cheng family so much is that Uncle Shen refuses to accept Shen Shaosheng as a closed disciple. The reason is that her brother has evil intentions and a vicious personality.

  Ruan Ruan still remembers that when he was reading a book, the unscrupulous author made Shen Qingqing very innocent. Because of his negligence and clumsiness, he failed to save the child in time. Shen Qingqing felt sad and guilty for several years, and was very afraid of getting married and having children.

  Thinking of this, Ruan Ruan wished he could kill Shen Qingqing with one shot.

  wrong! It should be Lingchi.

  Oh, that's not right! The top ten tortures of the Qing Dynasty should be used.

  No, no! No matter which method of death is used, Shen Qingqing is too cheap.

  Ruan Ruan gritted his teeth, thinking about how to kill Shen Qingqing before he would be satisfied.

  Seeing that his daughter is so popular, Shen Hong is proud and proud. "My daughter is so good. She cries three times when she's hungry and cries three times when she pees. She doesn't cry once more. She's very good."

  Cheng Yurong secretly tugged on his sleeve and told him not to get carried away and to pay more attention to his elder brothers and sisters-in-law. look.

  Seeing that her child was different from her younger sister, Mrs. Lin lowered her eyes and cried silently.

  She had a difficult delivery when she gave birth to Cheng Jinyang, and she never got pregnant again after a serious illness. She thought she could spend her whole life with her husband with only one child.

  Unexpectedly, when my son was three years old, he had a high fever and became a fool when he woke up.

  She persuaded her husband to take concubines several times, but he said that the Cheng family did not allow concubines.

  Anyone who violates family rules will be removed from the family tree.

  Ruan Ruan entered the Fuyun Mall system with his spiritual consciousness and looked for the magic medicine he wanted on the panel.

  She went directly to look for fifth-level products, and finally found a repair potion that could repair brain nerves and restore normal intelligence.

  She is now at the second level and has only 30,000 merit gold. It is still 70,000 yuan short of the third level, 1.07 million short of the fourth level, and 6.07 million short of the fifth level.

  The repair potion also requires thirty thousand merit gold.

  A total of 6.1 million merit gold is needed. Where can she find so much?

  She is only one and a half months old now and has to be fed by others.

  The only things that can be sold are the items from the novice gift pack and a health charm obtained from a lottery.

  But she is still a little baby, how can she sell things?

  Really annoying.

  "Father-in-law, I heard that the Queen Mother is seriously ill? The imperial doctor said that there is no cure with medicine or stone?"

  The men chatted until they reached the palace. Shen Hong only went to court to find out that the Queen Mother was seriously ill and that she would not have much time left.

  "That's what happens when you get older. If the Lord of Hell wants you to die at the third watch, he won't stay until the fifth watch." Mr. Cheng sighed. He had known the Queen Mother for decades, and it was better not to be a confidant but to be a confidant.

  "The Queen Mother celebrated her seventieth birthday a few years ago. She should be seventy-five now!"

  "Yes, the Emperor is also in his forties. He is the Queen Mother's youngest child. He was already in his early thirties when he was born. ."

  The chat content hit Ruan Ruan's ears, making her eyes sparkle.