The eldest son of the red mansion

Jia Zheng said displeasedly: "This matter was decided by the old lady. This Qin Ye has something to do with our family. His daughter is just right for our eldest brother. You don't have to worry about this matter. Just prepare a gift and I will give you a couple of gifts." Tian then went to the Qin Mansion to ask for marriage for the elder brother."

Mrs. Wang was just asking, and had no intention of intervening. Since Jia Zheng said so, she agreed.

Not to mention that Jia Zheng is here to discuss the marriage for Jia Ke, but it is said that Aunt Zhou's courtyard is completely full of guests at this time.People kept coming to congratulate her, and Aunt Zhou sat in the house by herself, her smile never stopped.These servants are all very respectful when they see her now, even the old nuns beside Jiamu see Aunt Zhou first, and then they dare to speak.

Since Aunt Zhou herself was not good at words, she couldn't cope with the congratulatory people who came suddenly.Fortunately, her eldest maid, Xia Mai, has gradually grown up to speak and act much more quickly.Beside her all the time to support her, and then send away wave after wave of congratulatory people.

When the night was quiet, Aunt Zhou and Xia Mai finally relaxed. They rested for a while, glanced at each other and couldn't help laughing.They never thought that Jia Ke could do this.

At this time, Xia Mai happily said to Aunt Zhou: "Auntie, you are depended on this time, and the family will be separated in the future. You can also go to the nearby Hou's mansion to be an old lady, and you must take me with you when the time comes. , From now on, I will also be a caring person to the old lady of the Hou Mansion." After saying these words, I couldn't help but start to imagine how I would like the wind and the rain in the Hou Mansion, and I started laughing when I thought about it.

Aunt Zhou was also very happy today, she smiled and said jokingly to her: "Okay, if I become an old lady, I will take you with me, and then I will find you a housekeeper, and you will be my nanny in the future."

Xia Mai blushed with embarrassment and said, "My aunt can make fun of people." Then she ran out.

Aunt Zhou saw that the room had quieted down, and her smile gradually faded away. At the beginning, she was still happy for Jia Ke to be a Marquis, but after this period of time, who knows the danger?Others only saw the scenery of him being a marquis, but only his mother thought about the danger he was in it.I have been born and died again and again to have today.What's more, she also heard that Jia Ke led people straight into the grassland this time.The risks involved are not comparable to the previous few times.

So that night when everyone was quiet at night, Aunt Zhou cried herself under the quilt for a while, but the next morning, she immediately changed her smiling face again. She must not let people find fault.

From the second day on, Aunt Zhou's status was different from the past, and her status had risen several steps. Although she is still a concubine now, no one in Jia's mansion dared to underestimate her. When she saluted, everyone knew that she was destined to be an old lady like Jia Mu in the future.In the future, her status will be the same as that of Mrs. Wang now. Even because she is Jia Ke's biological mother, Mrs. Wang may not be as beautiful as her.

Because everyone has also seen clearly over the years that Mrs. Wang's two sons, the eldest son Jia Zhu has failed many times, and the second son Jia Baoyu is still young, but at such a young age, he is a person who is spinning around in the crowd.Although it was said that he was born with a piece of jade, everyone said he was a promising person.But looking at the situation, it is just a lie.

But Aunt Zhou's only son, Jia Ke, is completely different. Now he is the Marquis of Wuyang at a young age.From ancient times to the present, there are only one or two such young marquises. In the future, although Mrs. Wang will guard the Rongguo Mansion, she may end up living on the face of Aunt Zhou.

It was only at this time that Aunt Zhou fully understood what it meant to say that mothers are more expensive than children?Now she wants to say that the scenery is not a little worse than Mrs. Wang.As the servants of the Jia family who were born with a pair of rich eyes, naturally they all rushed to curry favor with Aunt Zhou.

Aunt Zhou's food now no longer needs to send money to the kitchen, and all kinds of delicacies are automatically delivered to her every day, which is no worse than Mrs. Wang.

And the maids in her courtyard are more arrogant than before, thinking that they will all be able to work as servants in the new Hou's mansion in the future, and not all of them will have to take care of them, so now they are starting to be a little proud in dealing with others.

Mrs. Wang was also obviously harassed by this incident during this period. People kept coming to intercede with her, all wanting to stuff their daughter into Aunt Zhou's room as a maid.

Mrs. Wang saw the snobbish faces of these slaves, but she couldn't do anything to them.After all, these people have served the Jia family for several lifetimes, and any of their ancestors has something to do with the two old princes, so they can only try every means to get rid of them.

But it still can't stop these snobbish minions from making progress.Mrs. Wang couldn't get an answer, so they went to Jia Mu to intercede. Although Jia Mu didn't care about the matter now, she was still the king of Rongguo Mansion. As long as she opened her golden mouth, there was nothing to do in Rongguo Mansion. It's impossible.

During this period of time, Mother Jia received many respected old ladies.These people were maidservants who used to have a good relationship with Jia's mother. Now that they are old, they all take care of themselves at home. But now, in order to make their children and grandchildren have a good future, they put down their old faces and come to Jia again. Mother side please.

Mother Jia was also very happy about these people's visits, especially these people came to ask her to do something, which made her feel the importance of her position in Rongguo Mansion again.So she annoyed the maid next to her, but every time these people came to visit, she never refuted it.

As for their talk of going to Aunt Zhou's place, Mother Jia refused all of them. After all, Aunt Zhou already has several maids, and if they add more maids, they will probably surpass Mrs. Wang.This is not everyone's rules.

But Mother Jia also let them go, and when the Wuyanghou Mansion is completed, they will arrange their children and grandchildren to be Jia Ke's servants. Also hold on to them first.This appeases these people.

However, Mrs. Wang knows everything about Jia Mu's place very well. Every time I think of these things these days, I can't help but feel angry. Sometimes I even think that after Jia Zheng passed away, Aunt Zhou went to the nearby Hou Mansion to become an old lady, and she But she has to rely on Jia Ke to maintain the Rongguo Mansion. At that time, she might as well die.

The more Mrs. Wang thought about it, the more frightened she became, and the more she thought about it, the more likely this kind of thing would happen, and now it seemed that her son Jia Zhu could not be counted on, although Baoyu had a history.But now that he is still young, it is hard to say what will happen in the future.

Although Mrs. Wang has been calm on the surface these few days, she has been unable to control the Jia family. This is when all the servants of the Jia family began to move closer to Jia Ke, which had a huge impact on her. Unfavorable things, she has been unable to carry out.

Even if there is some disturbance on her side, Xia Mai will tell Aunt Zhou the next day. Although Aunt Zhou still greets her every day, as long as she dares to show Aunt Zhou a little bit of face, Jia Zheng will know about it. They will definitely come to reprimand him immediately.

These are the ones in the mansion, but they are run by snobbish slaves. Seeing Jia Ke's current beauty, they naturally swarmed to praise Aunt Zhou.

This made Mrs. Wang feel that Aunt Zhang's current status was already tied with her.Aunt Zhou is only one rank worse than him now.

Chapter 196

Before everyone felt it, two forces had formed in the back house of Jia's mansion.The serious wife headed by Mrs. Wang, and the party who clings to Jia Ke headed by Aunt Zhou (although Aunt Zhou has not realized it yet).

Although these two forces have just formed now, there are Jia Mu and Jia Zheng pressing on them, so there is no conflict on the surface, and the two sides are not even aware of each other's existence.

But Mrs. Wang has already sensed the danger. They have fewer and fewer bargaining chips, while Aunt Zhou's side is constantly growing.This keeps her awake at night.

She must think of a way to restrain the other party and strengthen her own side, otherwise Zhu'er will see that she will fail in the end, and Baoyu may not be able to grow up.

Mrs. Wang thought about it and there was no good way, but one day when she overheard the conversation of a few maids, it gave her inspiration.

On this day, when Mrs. Wang was walking in the garden with two trusted servant girls, she just turned around a rockery and was about to go to the pavilion on the rockery to stay for a while, but she didn't expect to hear a few maidservants chatting in the pavilion. things about her.

The two maids beside her were about to step forward to scold these little girls who don't know how to be polite, but they were stopped by Mrs. Wang. She wanted to hear what these maids said?

What are these maids talking about?It turned out that they were all envious of Aunt Zhou.

"Sister, have you seen Aunt Zhou? It's really beautiful now. This is the present and the future. When she moves to the nearby Hou's mansion, she will be the same as the old lady in our mansion." An ordinary-looking maid envied her. The eyes light up.

The other one was born pretty, and at this time said disdainfully: "That was when she was born at a good time. If I had been born more than ten years earlier, I must be much better than her." envious.

"Sister, don't talk nonsense. You still want to compare with Aunt Zhou. You see, she is now on an equal footing with our wife. You still want to be better than her? Why don't you go to heaven?" Dissatisfied, he made a few sarcastic remarks.

The other squinted at her, and then said proudly: "What do you know? I heard from my mother that Aunt Zhou was a country girl when she first came to the house. If she didn't see her honesty, she wouldn't be a The maid of the old lady was finally given to the master because of her honesty. That’s why she is what she is today. Otherwise, she would have a good life today because of her good looks and cleverness.” This handsome maid There is still a bit of contempt for Aunt Zhou's birth.

"That's because they are lucky, otherwise how can we enjoy the glory and wealth now. It doesn't look like we are still serving others as slaves."

The handsome servant girl said bitterly, "Slaves are divided into different ranks, just like your slave can be compared with Aunt Zhou's slave?"

"That's why I said that Aunt Zhou is lucky."

The handsome servant girl said: "This is not only determined by luck. If the uncle crawled out of her intestines, she would not be where she is today. So it is better for men to have men, and it is better for daughters to have daughters. We slaves , if you want to climb up, you can only work hard on the three masters in the mansion. As long as you succeed, the family members still have to rely on us. Look at Aunt Zhou's brother, who used to be unpopular. Now I have managed several thousand acres of Zhuangzi, and this is not because of Aunt Zhou, and now Aunt Zhou has the final say on the Zhou family. Who in his family dares to disobey her?"

"My sister is telling the truth. A few days ago, when my father followed Steward Lin to collect rent for the uncle, he sighed to me once when he came back. He said that Zhou Wang, who was like a bastard before, is shaking now. Get up and wear silk and satin, just like a rich man in the country, and he has a few people under his command." This ordinary-looking maid still remembers this incident vividly, because she saw Zhou Wang's sudden prosperity, Feel envious and jealous.

"Now I understand, those of us who are slaves can't be regular wives, but as long as we can climb into the beds of your lords, and if you have a better stomach, you will have a good life in prosperity and wealth in the future. If you give birth to yourself If the child strives for success, he may be able to turn his back on the guest." The handsome maid said in the tone of someone who had experienced it.

When Mrs. Wang heard this, a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind.I only heard the words "It's not Aunt Zhou's final decision on the Zhou family now.", "I'm more confident, and I will live a prosperous and prosperous life in the future."

She suddenly thought that she is also a person with a daughter, and her daughter is really extraordinary, if she can become the master of the Jia family, who else can do anything to her?And the master of the Jia family is the royal family.

When Mrs. Wang thought of this, everything suddenly became clear, and she finally found a way to move back to this game.And it can guarantee that she, Jia Zhu and Baoyu will live a prosperous and prosperous life, so that they will not act according to Jia Ke's face in the future.Although the daughter is still young, it is not yet time.But it's time to prepare for my daughter, and teach what needs to be taught, otherwise I'm afraid something will go wrong.

Not to mention that Mrs. Wang is determined to take her daughter to the test.But it was said that Jia Zheng took a rest all day, and when he got up in the morning, he rectified and went out early.Jia Zheng was going in the direction of Qin Ye's mansion.

Jia Zheng hadn't set foot in this place for many years, just because he was afraid of being suspected by others.Although the matter has passed for so many years, the matter of that year should also end with the death of his father.But after the dangerous situation back then, Jia Zheng still dare not be careless.

So these years, Qin Ye and Qin Ye have only occasionally met and said a few words, but they didn't expect to step out of this place again now.

But that day Qin Ye was sitting idle at home, when he suddenly heard that Jia Zheng from Rongguo Mansion had come, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart, he had no apparent contact with Rongguo Mansion these years.But only he knows about the relationship.

Today's Jia Zheng must have something important to come here. He has lived in peace for a long time these years.I am even more afraid of the dangers of the past, and I don't want to live the days of those years again.But at this time Jia Zheng came down in person, and he had to go to the door to meet him.

When Jia Zheng saw Qin Ye, he saluted Qin Ye first: "Jia Zheng, the younger generation, came to Tangtu and saluted the old man here."

Qin Ye hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and then said to him: "Why is Mr. Zheng so polite? You are my superior, how can you give me courtesy?" After speaking, he helped Jia Zheng and invited him into the inner hall to talk talk.

Qin Ye invited Jia Zheng to the study, and the two sat down as guest and host.A servant girl brought tea, and Qin Ye sent all the family members out.Only then did Qin Ye cautiously ask: "I don't know if Master Jia has anything to tell you when you come to the humble house?"

When Jia Zheng heard Qin Ye's question, he said without concealment: "The girl has been in your mansion for many years, and it's time to get engaged. I'm here today to propose marriage to Mr. Qin."