There are precedents in the history of the Red Chamber

After the Third Anniversary of the First Emperor, Shi Zhongzhu took his wife and daughter back to Bowlinghou's Mansion to pay their respects. In the past three years, his youngest daughter Mingzhu was brought by his servants to live in Bowlinghou's Mansion for a while, but the couple really followed the strictest rules. He came here to abide by the standard of filial piety and never came back.

Shi Ding and Shi Bosong were both at home, Shi Zhongzhu entered the hall, and first kowtowed: "The child is not filial, and if he fails to be filial at the knees of his parents, he will worry his parents." Wei Zhenniang followed suit.

"Get up, get up." Shi Ding and Zheng Shi called out quickly.

After the two got up, Mrs. Zheng touched Shi Zhongzhu's face, saying that she was thinner, and then took Wei Zhenniang's obviously rough hand, her eyes were red, it was caused by the late emperor guarding the mausoleum, and she even sighed that her son and daughter-in-law had suffered. cannot.

Seeing that the atmosphere was tense, Shi Zhongzhu had no choice but to invite Mrs. Zheng back to her seat, whispering comfort in her ear, and Wei Zhenniang took the opportunity to pull her little daughter Mingzhu up: "Mingzhu, come and kowtow to grandparents."

The little maid at the side knew the trick and quickly put the futon on. Just now, the couple moved too fast, and the servants didn't even have the time to put the futon.

Sure enough, Zheng's attention was turned, and she quickly stopped her: "We're all a family, why are you making a fuss, Mingzhu often comes back in the past, don't knock, get up, get up."

"Mother, let her kowtow, today the family is reunited, let her kowtow to show her heart, right, dad." Shi Zhongzhu asked Shi Ding back.

Shi Ding nodded with a smile.

Little Lolita Mingzhu is only three years old this year, and she lived a poor life in the imperial mausoleum, but she was educated by the top parents in the country since she was a child. She is open-minded and not as shy as ordinary children.Sometimes, when she came to the Bowling House, Mrs. Zheng would secretly prescribe a small stove for her to keep her plump and healthy.Of course, to the outside world, the poor little guy didn't know the taste of meat until he came out of the imperial mausoleum!

"Mingzhu sends her greetings to her grandparents, and wishes the two elders good health and everything is safe." "Mingzhu sends her greetings to her uncle and uncle, and wishes her elders a long life of happiness and longevity." "Mingzhu's greetings to my fifth uncle..."

Little Mingzhu asked all the people in the room, the Bowling Hou Mansion and the Zhongjing Hou Mansion were ranked together, so she called Shi Shumei Fifth Uncle.The whole family laughed and called Mingzhu up.

After a pleasant lunch and rest, Shi Zhongzhu took his wife and daughter to the Zhongjing Hou Mansion to greet the third uncle's family.It's all the same process, Little Mingzhu sips the sweet third and fourth uncles to Shi Zhongbai and Shi Xiaonan, making the two young people who have no children overjoyed, they hold Little Mingzhu and don't let go.Shi Xiangxue and Shi Xiangxia were married long ago, and it was difficult for women to return to their natal homes, and it was also difficult for them to come back for Shi Zhongzhu alone, so we did not see each other.

Brothers Shi Ding and Shi Nai are as close as a family, Shi Zhongzhu is not particular about Zhongjinghou's mansion, who would come to visit him after noon.After having dinner at Zhongjinghou's Mansion, the young couple didn't plan to go back to Zhongjiabo Mansion, and went to Bowlinghou's Mansion as usual.

After coaxing little Mingzhu to sleep, the men went to the study for a meeting, and Mrs. Zheng, Mrs. Xu and Wei Zhenniang were doing daily chores in the small living room.

Mrs. Zheng took Wei Zhenniang's hand, caressed it, and sighed: "Zhenniang, you have been wronged. You are a good lady, Miss Qianjin, but you have become a farmer's woman. Look, your hands are rough."

"Mother, Zhenniang is not wronged, husband and wife follow suit, and I am happy to do anything by Yaoyun's side."

"Yeah, mother, the second brother and the two of them taste like good honey mixed with oil. I see that the younger brother and the younger brother follow the second brother, and they don't feel bitter even if they eat bran and swallow vegetables." The sister-in-law Xu teased.

"Thanks to you being a sister-in-law, you don't even know how to love your siblings." Zheng smiled angrily.

Wei Zhenniang replied seriously: "Sister-in-law is right." After speaking, she couldn't hold back anymore, and burst out laughing.

The three of them laughed heartily for a while, Zheng waved his hands and said: "Keep your voice down, it's almost like waking up Mingzhu, my youngest daughter's house, feel shallow."

"Mother, don't worry, the bedroom is so far away from the small hall, Mingzhu won't be disturbed."

Not wanting to make the Zheng family and the Xu family have scruples, Wei Zhenniang took the initiative to tell them the day of the imperial mausoleum and divert their attention.

"In my natal family, I claimed to have learned cooking skills, but when I was in the field, I couldn't even tell the difference between shallots and leeks. Yaoyun asked me, didn't I learn cooking skills? I can only tell him that making vegetables, no matter how small they are I can taste it when it is ground into juice, but if you show me the vegetables growing in the ground, I will be blind."

"I learned later that shallots are hollow and cylindrical, and leeks are flat. Mother, sister-in-law, there are so many interesting things like this..."

"When I came to the fields, I realized that I had little knowledge. Those rural women who could not read big characters knew how to sow seeds, how to get rid of insects, and how to collect them. No wonder Zhao Houji was born as a farmer, and he really specialized in art! "

The matter of farming in the imperial mausoleum is probably the moment when Wei Zhenniang is closest to nature and freedom in her life. She talks about interesting things endlessly. In the past, Wei Zhenniang was very reserved, speaking slowly and full of bookishness. Now when talking about planting crops, she is very excited. stand up.

The noble ladies of the Zheng family and the Xu family have never heard of this before. When the incident of Zhao Houji came out just now, there was a gust of rustic farming, and it passed after a while. Hearing this, the two of them felt fresh.

Zheng sighed: "I'm afraid you will feel wronged, as long as you live well, mother will be at ease."

It was rare for Wei Zhenniang to show her emotions. She held Zheng's hand and said, "Mother, we have a good life and will be even better in the future."

In the inner courtyard, the female relatives are tender and affectionate. In the study, Shi Ding, Shi Bosong, Shi Zhongzhu, and Shi Shumei gathered together. Now Shi Bosong is 28 years old and is standing close to him. I am old, but I also have to learn to deal with housework.This was the first time that Shi Shumei participated in such a party as an adult, and she was inevitably excited. She clenched her hands into fists and rubbed her clothes with her thumbs nervously, thinking that her father and brother didn't know about it.

Shi Ding ignored his youngest son's naivety, and directly entered into today's topic, asking Shi Zhongzhu, "What do you plan to do in the future?"

"Father, I have already handed over the paperwork for selling fake products. It depends on the attitude of the sage." Shi Zhongzhu was not sure. It is a Qingshui yamen, but the grades are displayed there, and they are not obvious on weekdays. Seriously speaking, it is "a major national event, only sacrifices and military affairs".

"Saint." Shi Ding sighed. Shi Ding was only the first group to hang out with the saint. In fact, with Shi Ding's qualifications, he should have been in the cabinet long ago, but he didn't know what the saint planned, and he never mentioned it. thing.

"The heart of a dragon is unpredictable, we don't know what the saint thinks now." Shi Bosong said.

Shi Zhongzhu saw that Shi Shumei had arrived to enter the study to participate in family affairs, and sighed in his heart how time flies, wait, time?By the way, time!

Shi Zhongzhu suddenly realized that this is a book that has recorded this world. Calculating the time, Jia Baoyu should be married, and the old lady of the Jia family should have her [-]th birthday. So the house raid is not far away?

Shi Zhongzhu quickly asked: "Has the Jia family's aunt's [-]th birthday passed?"

The three people in the study looked at him strangely, did they mean the same thing?How did the topic jump so fast?Shi Bosong was used to his second brother's jumping, and replied: "You just came back, and the news is well-informed. My aunt's [-]th birthday is two months away, and she has already sent messages to relatives and friends. Although our family has always been estranged from Jia's, but The etiquette still has to be entered, why, are you interested?"

Shi Zhongzhu didn't answer this question, and continued to ask: "The Jia family has a concubine?"

"Hmph!" Before Shi Bosong could speak, Shi Shumei said uncontrollably: "Second brother, you don't know, ever since Jia's family had a virtuous concubine, her eyes longed to grow up and go to heaven. Jia's family even came to our house to borrow Yinzi, none of the serious masters came here, and he was the companion of the second wife of the head. Listen, head? The second wife? It's just such an unruly family, with disorderly seniors and no rules! And I was so angry with the second wife. Brother, why are you inquiring about their house, I don’t want to go when my aunt’s [-]th birthday is.”

Shi Shumei chattered a lot like a machine gun, and Shi Ding slapped him on the back of the head, "Okay, everyone will show you that you can have your [-]th birthday several times in a lifetime, and you are lucky if you live to this age , go see what's going on."

Shi Shumei was obviously unconvinced, thinking that her family has two nobles and one uncle, and there are many talented people in the clan. Compared with a first-class general and a fifth-rank official, how dare the Jia family hold their heads so high?He muttered, "It's just that the Jia family is not likable."

"By the way, didn't Xiangyun always fall in love with Jia's aunt? She's going too, right?" Shi Zhongzhu always thinks of characters in the plot after knowing it.

This time Shi Shumei looked at him like a prehistoric monster, and said: "Sister Xiangyun has already married, okay, brother-in-law is released, how can I get back in time, second brother, why don't you even know about this?" "Ah, are you married?" Who are you married to?Could it be Jia Baoyu? That's impossible. Chai Dai is Jia Baoyu's official spouse. Shi Xiangyun should marry... Who should he marry?Shi Zhongzhu frowned and thought, who did Shi Xiangyun marry, why can't he remember it? After all these years, he can't remember even a little memory from that year.

"Yeah, Xiangyun is nineteen this year. How could he not be married? At that time, you were in the imperial mausoleum, and your daughter-in-law packed a set of make-up. You really don't know?" Shi Ding was also very strange, In the past, I don’t remember a long time ago, Shi Zhongzhu was quite concerned about this, and suggested to him to find a suitable family for Xiangyun, saying that the Jia family was hanging on the three families with Jia Baoyu’s marriage, not because he cared about this little sister who had no father and no mother. , Shi Zhongzhu inquired about what these people were doing.

Shi Zhongzhu once again realized his ignorance of the plot, why Shi Xiangyun got married when he didn't know it.Ask again: "Who are you married to?"

"He was born in a poor family in Jinling, his name is Chen Li." Shi Shumei replied.

"A child from a poor family?" Shi Zhongzhu vaguely remembered that Shi Xiangyun was married to a nobleman, probably Wei Ruolan, or something, anyway, he was from a family of fallen noblemen.

Shi Bosong listened to his brother's question and explained: "Shi Xiangyun's dowry is not only the original dowry left by her biological mother, but also the private house left by her uncle. The makeup of our two houses, the real ten-mile red makeup, no one dares to say that our family has treated you badly." Orphan girl. Xiangyun’s life will not be sad, Chen Li is released outside, we are in Beijing, who in the local area would dare to go all out to offend him.” Shi Zhongzhu knew that his elder brother misunderstood him, and he didn’t want to explain, just silently Sigh, the plot seems to be a big butterfly, immersed in my own brain hole, I can't figure it out.

Shi Bosong also didn't understand how it turned into a crusade meeting of Jia's family after discussing Zhuge'er's future arrangements carefully, so he quickly straightened the crooked arm board and said, "Second brother, why do you ask this?"

"Ah? Oh?" ​​Shi Zhongzhu connected the brainwaves, and said to Shi Ding: "Father, do you think the sage intends to clean up the nobles?"

Shi Ding sat upright and said seriously, "What do you mean?"