After the Gu of the Red Chamber

Naturally, the divorce of Jia Lin's family was not publicized. First, Jia Min quietly moved out of the Rongguo Mansion, and then Jia She suddenly sent a series of servants to the Lin family.

It's really a series, Jia Amnesty is also straightforward, he directly tied up Sister-in-law Liu's children and Sister-in-law Liu's natal family, tied them together like a string of palms, and let Butler Mo personally The pressure was sent to the Lin family.

Even Jia Min, who knew Jia Amnesty's character, couldn't help twitching his lips when he saw such a blatant appearance of committing a crime, let alone other people, and Jia Min refused to see Jia Zheng, leaving Jia Zheng alone. After hanging out outside the gate of Lin's house for a long time, the melon-eating crowd really understood that something might have happened between Jia Lin's family.

Lin Ruhai is really determined to break up with the Rongguo Mansion this time. In his opinion, there is only one uncle who is innocent and unpretentious in the whole Rongguo Mansion. There was something about wanting to poison brother て.

Although it is hard for him to seek justice for his son, he is unwilling to associate with the Rongguo Mansion any more, so he "inadvertently" let people know about the good deeds that the Rongguo Mansion has done, and by the way, he mentioned the matter of divorce, so Jia Lin The rumor of the two families breaking up the relationship spread like wildfire, which really made Jia's mother fall backwards with anger.

When encountering this kind of thing, the best way is to ask the girl to go back to her mother's house for a walk. In this way, the rumors will be self-defeating, so Mother Jia sent someone to post a post asking Jia Min to go to the house to explain it. He turned it down.

Even Nanny Lai was dispatched. She came to the Lin Mansion in person. First, she briefly talked about the Wang family. In addition, she also invited Jia Min, an aunt, to go back to the Rongguo Mansion. Come on, it's not good for Jia Min to not even show his face.

Jia Min hesitated for a long time, and finally met Lai Nanny, but she was noncommittal about what Lai Nanny said about letting her go back to eat the birthday wine for Jia Mu's [-]th birthday.

She discussed this matter with Lin Ruhai long ago, the so-called etiquette cannot be discarded, and Jia Min is a junior, it is difficult to do it too ugly, so she will give it as a gift, but then she will not go because her brother is not feeling well. It's just a meal.

On the one hand, the posture of breaking off relatives is sufficient, and on the other hand, it is also to let people understand the importance of elder brother in the Lin family, and don't think that it is not a big deal for the bastard to be in the Lin family.

Nanny Lai persuaded: "Miss Si, the old lady usually loves you the most. Seventy is rare in this life, and the old lady's seventieth birthday, do you have the heart not to go back? The old lady is waiting for you eagerly."

Jia Min sighed softly, "Since my mother loves me so much, why should she do things that embarrass me?"

The mother tried to attack Brother [-] time and time again, but she had never thought about the embarrassment of being Lin's wife.

"Fourth Miss." Nanny Lai said anxiously, "You are the only daughter of the old lady, how could the old lady be willing to make things difficult for you, because of this matter, the old lady shut the second wife into the family temple to kneel sutras."

After all, the second wife is a daughter of the royal family, and Wang Ziteng is unreasonable and defensive. If it weren't for the sake of the fourth girl, how could the old lady send the second wife, who is the daughter of the royal family, to kneel in the family temple.

Jia Min said quietly: "In Brother [-]'s sugar-steamed crispy cheese, there is Sweet Dream Fragrance. Madam Lai can tell me why mother's sweet dream fragrance is in Brother [-]'s sugar-steamed crispy cheese?"

Upon hearing the words 'Sweet Dream Fragrance', Nanny Lai felt as if struck by lightning, and was speechless for a long time.

She never expected that the poison that Mrs. Wang put in the pastry would be Tianmengxiang!This is the best of their historian's secret medicine. It is said that it came out of the former palace. Even the old lady doesn't have much in her hand, and she will never use it lightly. Where did it come from?

For a moment, even Nanny Lai wondered if Mrs. Wang had become the old lady's scapegoat. After all, no one else knew, but she knew how much the old lady was tired of Mrs. Wang, and wanted to take the opportunity to frame her Wang's is also very likely.

But Mammy Lai thought about it again, after all, Mrs. Wang has been with the old lady for a long time, and it is possible to get in touch with him for a while. Not to mention anything else, the old lady seemed to give Tianmengxiang to Wang Mammy last time. .

Thinking of this, Mammy Lai hurriedly said, "This... this must have been intercepted by Mrs. Wang in private."

Jia Min sneered, "Nurse also lied to me, mother is such a careful person, how could she let Mrs. Wang take away Tianmengxiang so easily. Forget it, since mother doesn't care about my daughter, why should she care about me?" going or not."

As she said that, Jia Min wept secretly. What Jia Mu did really hurt her heart. If she hadn't given up on Jia Mu, she wouldn't have agreed to Lin Ruhai's suggestion of divorce so easily.

Nanny Lai tried desperately to explain to Jia Min, but Jia Min believed that there was something wrong with Mother Jia, so he would believe her words, and served tea to see off the guests politely, but he didn't want to talk to Nanny Lai again. said.

Nanny Lai had no choice but to go back empty-handed and tell Mother Jia that what Wang's stuffed into Brother [-]'s pastry turned out to be Tianmengxiang.

Mother Jia was startled, and cursed bitterly: "What a Wang!"

I thought she was deluded by lard, but it turned out that she wanted to provoke the mother-daughter relationship between her and Min'er!

"Bastard!" Jia Mu couldn't help but beat the ground with her crutches angrily. If Mrs. Wang was in front of her, maybe her crutches would have fallen straight down.

"Old lady, now the fourth girl really thinks that we did it, this matter..."

Nanny Lai was a little worried, the fourth girl was just like the old lady, with a somewhat stubborn personality, she was afraid that she would really think that the old lady did it, and she would really break off the relationship with the old lady in the future.

Mother Jia was furious, "Hmph! I am her own mother, she dares!"

Although she was cursing, Mother Jia didn't think of any good solution for a while, and finally sighed: "Forget it, I will ask someone to help me make peace at the birthday banquet."

On the day of her [-]th birthday, Min'er will have to show up no matter what. At that time, let people make fun of it. I don't believe that Min'er really dares to bear the reputation of being unfilial and refuse to reunite with her.

As for the fact that Jia Min did not come to the birthday banquet at all, it was impossible for Jia's mother to come. After all, this time was her 70th birthday. As her biological daughter, it was impossible for Jia Min not to attend.

Unexpectedly, on the day of her [-]th birthday, although Jia Min was given a big gift by someone, none of the Lin family came to pay her birthday wishes, and she just asked Lin Butler to come and say something, so angry Mother Jia was trembling, she felt that she had never been so ashamed in her life.

And it's not just Jia Min, even Jia Amnesty is like a broken pot, and he directly sued him for not coming. Not only Jia Amnesty, but also Mrs. Xing, Yingchun, Jia Cong, and even Jia Lian also sued When he was sick, the Rongguo Mansion was deserted for a while, and there was only one Jia Zheng beside Jiamu.

Not only Jia Mu's face was pale, even the old concubines who came to drink the birthday wine felt embarrassed. Seeing Jia Zheng triumphantly pretending to be the master of Rongguo Mansion, everyone felt speechless.

Some time ago, all kinds of unavoidable stories about the Rongguo Mansion were flying all over the sky, and everyone listened to them. Even the old concubine Beijing had heard that many censors were eager to sue Jia Zheng for stealing from the main hall. What happened at Jia Amnesty's place was really ugly, maybe Jia Zheng had been kicked out of Rongxi Hall a long time ago, so he could be proud here.

The old concubine of Beijing and Jia's mother were also on good terms. Seeing that Jia's mother's face was pale, she couldn't bear it, and persuaded: "You are too. Why don't you have trouble with the children when you are old? Why don't you just be your old lord?" , eat what you want, drink what you want, don't worry about the dispute between the big family and the second family."

The old concubine Beijing couldn't help sighing secretly, her old friend was also considered a winner in life, she was from a good family background, her natal family was a duo, and she had a strong belly, she even gave birth to two sons and a daughter, and she was one of the noble girls in Beijing. It's the only one, but I can't see it, and I always favor the younger son, which makes the eldest son and daughter divorced for no reason.

Mother Jia couldn't help wiping away her tears, and said angrily, "I'm not doing this for girl Min's sake. Fortunately, I usually favor her the most, but she even refuses to come over for my [-]th birthday. It's really a waste of love for her. "

What Jia Mu said was vaguely blaming Jia Min for being unfilial. If there was no matter about Yingchun and Brother er, if Jia Min refused to come to Jia Mu's [-]th birthday, everyone would more or less agree. .

But now it's Yingchun first, then Brother て, and even Mother Jia's intention to let Tanchun eat the crispy cheese on behalf of Baoyu, Aunt Zhao inadvertently complained, how can she blame her children for being unkind Unfilial.

The old concubine Nan'an was disdainful, she sipped the tea lightly, and didn't even answer Jia Mu's words, while the old concubine Beijing just smiled and said nothing.Even the two old concubines who are best friends with Jia Mu didn't care, and it was impossible for others to care, and they all diverted away with their words.

Mother Jia complained of failure and was really depressed.

Although the Lin family and the first room of Jia She were missing from the birthday banquet this time, the rest of the people came quite well, but the second room of the Shi family—the orphan girl Shi Nai left behind with the eldest room—Shi Xiangyun, and Their own children——Shi Xiangwen and Shi Mo are here, and even Shi Ding, the eldest son of the historian family, is also rare.

Although Shi Ding came back and forth in a hurry, since Shi Laosan and Jia Mu hadn't seen each other for many years, it was considered to be a face to Jia Mu.

Everyone knew that Shi Ding was also responsible for escorting the Zhen family back to Beijing this time. Many people wanted to ask about the situation of the Zhen family. He ran away directly, and made many people who were curious about Zhen's family affairs feel like being scratched by a cat, and they were extremely curious.

Shi Nai and Shi Ding have been in a bad mood since the battle for the title of Marquis of Bowling, and they really had nothing to do with this rebellious younger brother, so they could only express their annoyance to everyone, and said with a smile: "The third brother Even with this temperament, we brothers can't do anything about him."

Jia's mother was slightly dissatisfied, "You are the only one who can tolerate his stubborn temper!"

One or two are unwilling to help even a little bit, so what's the use of it.

Mother Jia hugged Shi Xiangyun, who was dressed like a big red bun, in a red dress, and coaxed, "Why don't Xiangyun stay in Rongguo Mansion and have a kiss with my aunt?"

Among the nieces and grandnieces of her natal family, Shi Xiangyun is the one she loves the most. One is that she lost her parents at a young age and can only live by her uncle and aunt. Well, all his titles were obtained by relying on her. If it weren't for her strong support, it would not be the second child's turn to sit on the title of Bao Linghou.

Xiangyun was only six years old, and it was the time when she loved to play. Usually, Shi Nai and his wife treated her not badly, but they were definitely not good at it. At such a young age, although she still couldn't hold an injection, she still had to learn how to do it. Luozi, to help supplement the household.

There was a child who loved to do needlework, and when she heard Jia Mu invited her to live in Rongguo Mansion, she immediately agreed. "Is Brother Baoyu here? Then I will live in the Bisha closet, so that I can go and play with Brother Baoyu."

It was not the first time for Jia's mother to stay in Xiangyun in Rongguo's mansion. Every time, she arranged it in the green yarn cupboard, next to Baoyu.

It is said that Baoyu is seven years old now, so the so-called different seats for men and women at seven years old, such an arrangement is naturally extremely inappropriate, but Xiangyun has no father and no mother, and Shi Nai and his wife treated her just out of face, so Mother Jia spoiled Xiangyun. Cloud fame.

Mother Jia nodded in satisfaction, "It's rare that you still remember your elder brother Baoyu."

She pondered in her heart that it would be impossible for Daiyu to marry back into the Rongguo Mansion, but it would be good to let Xiangyun marry in. Xiangyun is her niece and granddaughter, and she has no father or mother. She is the only aunt she can rely on. , I don't believe that if he doesn't rely on her, at that time...

But after thinking about it, Mother Jia felt that she was thinking too much. After all, Mrs. Wang had already been imprisoned in the family temple. At that time, Mrs. Wang's health was broken and she lost her voice again, so she will not be able to control her in the future. In this way, there is no need to marry Baoyu a daughter of the historian.

Although Xiangyun is her niece, she is still an orphan without father and mother, and she is always inferior. If Baoyu wants to marry, it is better to marry a lady from a famous family. Thinking about it this way, Mother Jia treats Xiangyun a little less. a little bit.

Xiangyun was still a child, so he didn't notice Jiamu's indifference for a moment, and he went to find Baoyu to play with a smile. into a small world.

The old concubine of Beijing was mild-tempered, and she looked at Xiangyun and Baoyu who were both swaying and not avoiding others. She couldn't help but glance at Shi Nai's wife, Mrs. Shi Wang, and saw that she only cared about her two children. He didn't even look at Xiangyun, frowned slightly, and sighed inwardly, after all, he wasn't his own, so he would care about the child.

It's because Xiangyun is still young, that's all. If Xiangyun is older and is so close to a foreigner, if word gets out, won't the child's reputation be lost?Who else can she marry besides Baoyu?

The old concubine Beijing wanted to remind her, but looking at Shi Wang's appearance, she knew that this reminder was probably in vain, and it was nothing more than a tactful reminder afterwards. yes.

While everyone was chatting and joking, Qin Keqing from Ningguo Mansion also came to congratulate Jiamu on her birthday.

Just as Lin Ruhai guessed, when more than two people know a secret, it is no longer a secret, let alone in the identity of the Ningguo Mansion, it is a miracle to marry such an adopted daughter of the Qin family, even if Jia Mu didn't say it, everyone She also guessed that Qin Keqing's identity was not pure. Seeing Qin Keqing coming, many officials with lower status gave way to her on purpose.

Qin Keqing didn't come here by herself, she specially brought her adoptive brother Qin Zhong and clan brother 'Qin Jun' here.

Qin Keqing pointed to Qin Zhong first, "This is my brother Zhong, who also visited the old lady before."

Last year on Mrs. Jia's 69th birthday, she also brought Brother Zhong, but at that time Brother Zhong was still young and a little shy, he was really not outstanding, and he was the son of her adoptive father. Brother Zhong didn't care too much, but after seeing him for a while, it's enough to give him a meeting gift, so he must have forgotten Brother Zhong long ago.

She then pointed to Tu Lei and said with a smile: "This is my brother Qin Jun, who just came from Jinling not long ago."

When talking about Qin Jun, Qin Keqing's voice could hardly hide a trace of nervousness.

She was raised outside the palace since she was a child. Although she knew that her biological father's identity was unusual, she had never seen her biological father. There are many brothers and sisters, but after all, they have never met, let alone any feelings.

She never expected that besides her, her father would have other illegitimate children out there, and what was even more unexpected was that she fell in love with Brother Lei as soon as she saw her, not knowing whether it was because of her siblings or not.

She didn't want Brother Lei to take this risk at first, but seeing that her father's hope of clearing up her grievances was right in front of her eyes, Brother Lei insisted, so she had no choice but to let Brother Lei try.

After all, Brother Lei's situation is different from hers. The Holy Majesty and the new crown prince may tolerate her as an illegitimate daughter, but I'm afraid they won't tolerate Brother Lei's illegitimate son. Easy to do.

Tu Lei smiled and bowed to Mother Jia, "Qin Jun has met Mrs. Jia."

"Good! Good!" When she heard that it was Qin Keqing's younger brother, Jia's mother didn't take it back, but when she looked up and saw Tu Lei's appearance, Jia's mother couldn't help being surprised, and tremblingly said: "Rong'er Daughter-in-law, this child is your brother!?"

Not only her, but even the old concubine Beijing and Nan'an had strange expressions on their faces. They are all old people in court. Naturally, they have seen the appearance of the deposed prince. With this face, if you say he It has nothing to do with the deposed prince, only ghosts believe it.

"Exactly." Qin Keqing pulled Tu Lei away with a smile and said with a smile: "Look, old lady, don't we look alike?"

One is the illegitimate child of the abolished prince, and the other is the illegitimate son of the abolished prince. They have the same father, not to mention that the one born by Tu Lei is actually similar to his father.

Jia's mother and the old concubine Beijing looked at each other, and it took a long time before they replied.

How can it be possible that the bloodline of the same deposed prince is not the same.

Jia's mother felt that this was definitely the most exciting birthday party in her life. First Jia Min and Jia She refused to attend, and then Qin Keqing specially brought her younger brother to her birthday party.

What made Jia's mother even more depressed was that according to Jia's age, coupled with Emperor Pingkang's temperament of cherishing and respecting the elderly, on Jia's [-]th birthday, Emperor Pingkang should show some kind of talent, either rewarding playthings, or giving gifts. dishes and the like, but this time Emperor Pingkang didn't show any signs of it.

During the three-day birthday banquet, Jia Zheng ran back and forth many times, but he never saw an angel descending. No matter who it was, he could see something wrong. At the end of the day, everyone dispersed early, not daring to stay longer in Rongguo Mansion.

Even Shi Xiangyun, who was going to stay in Rongguo Mansion, was taken back by her second aunt. Even though Shi Nai may not have much talent, he still has the ability to turn the steering wheel when the wind blows. Knowing that Rongguo Mansion has something to do with the deposed prince, everyone is not happy. Dodging, what else is Qin going to do?

Well, a 70-year-old birthday banquet turned out to be so deserted. Rao Jiamu had a lot of troubles, and her face was really bad, and she kept gloomy. Everyone was secretly shocked, even the favorite and sister Baoyu, who was playing with her younger sister, didn't dare to mention Xiangyun's affairs anymore, so she went back to her room early to rest.

Nanny Lai hurriedly asked the cook to make a bowl of birthday noodles, brought it to Mother Jia herself and said, "The old lady will use some."

She also noticed just now that the old lady didn't use much during the birthday banquet. The old lady was getting old and couldn't bear the hunger.

Mother Jia pushed it directly, "I'm not in the mood."

Mammy Lai was still waiting to persuade Mother Jia, when Mother Jia suddenly sighed, "What do you mean by Keqing? Why did you bring her younger brother out to meet people?"

She is not a fool either, as soon as she saw the situation, she knew that Qin Keqing wanted to take the opportunity to introduce her "clan brother" to everyone, although she didn't know how Qin Keqing would have the courage to let the illegitimate son of the deposed prince come out to meet people directly .

However, this illegitimate child is very different from an illegitimate daughter. Back then, the Ningguo Mansion dared to marry Keqing, thinking that it was just an illegitimate daughter. Even if the new emperor knew about it, he would not do anything to this niece. As far as Ningguo Mansion is concerned, since Jia Jing, no one in Ningguo Mansion has made progress, and if they are suppressed, they will be suppressed, which is nothing.

But now even the illegitimate son of the abolished prince appeared, and this matter was not so simple. For the first time, she regretted being a matchmaker and told Ke Qing to Brother Rong in the next door.

Nanny Lai shook her head, and she really didn't understand. In general, children like Diao Ge'er are always hiding and hiding, so why would they openly propose to see others?Isn't this courting death?

Mother Jia was not surprised, even if she couldn't think of things, it's no wonder Lai Mammy couldn't think of them either.She pondered for a long time and asked, "Is Miss Yuan all right in the palace?"

As soon as Yuanchun was mentioned, Nanny Lai couldn't help sighing, and said bluntly: "The Zhen family has suffered. Concubine Zhen was relegated to the court lady and sent to the Punishment Department. The female officials in the palace were re-arranged. The girl was reassigned to Jingren Palace to take care of the library."

Since Concubine Zhen is no longer a concubine, naturally she can't use female officials. The palace people in Concubine Zhen's palace redistributed them. Although they spent a lot of money, they only placed Miss Yuanda in Jingren Palace, and there was no way to send her to other places. Go to the side of the empress.

Although Jingren Palace is not a cold palace, it is better than a cold palace. Not to mention that the Holy Majesty never set foot in Jingren Palace, even the other princes in the palace never went to Jingren Palace. Miss Yuan was reassigned to Jingren Palace, isn't it? Do you intend to take care of Miss Yuanda's affairs?

To put it bluntly, the eldest girl is already 20 years old. If she continues to make mistakes, let alone become a prince's side concubine, I'm afraid that after the eldest girl turns 25 and comes out, it will be difficult for her to be a serious wife. Difficult.

"Oh." Mother Jia sighed slightly, "Yuan'er's chess move is ruined after all."

She was secretly dissatisfied, if the Zhen family hadn't used Yuan Chun to control them back then, Yuan Chun would not have been forced to become an old woman, and now it is even more embarrassing in the palace, neither staying nor leaving, it is really annoying.

She thought for a long time, then thought of something and asked: "I remember that the Qin family intends to send the child to Jia's family to study?"

Qin Ye is a sincere person, otherwise he would not have won the trust of Prince Abandoned. He entrusted Qin Keqing to Qin Ye. Because of this, the eunuch was too shy to send Qin Zhong to a better school, so he came up with the idea of ​​studying at Jia's family.

It's just that Jia's family has its own rules, non-Jia's children have to pay 24 taels of gift for admission, Qin Ye is just a poor official in Beijing, and he can't afford 24 taels of gift for a while, she doesn't want to break the rules , but if Qin Jun followed suit, the situation would be different.

How to put it, putting Qin Jun under the nose is better than him going to other places.

Mother Jia pondered for a while, and ordered: "Someone tell Grandma Rong to take her two younger brothers to the Jia family's attached school. Since they are relatives, why stick to those rules."

Nanny Lai understood, and said in a low voice: "Yes, I understand, this old slave will tell Grandma Rong the good news."