The Wang family of the Red Chamber has a wife

"How is your meal today, mother?" Beside the sick bed, a handsome but slightly thin young man looked at the drowsy woman with her eyes slightly closed on the bed, and turned to whisper to the maid serving beside her.

The servant girl looked about fourteen or fifteen years old. She was wearing a cotton sweater with pleats on her upper body and a pleated ruyi moon skirt underneath. Begonia velvet flowers on her sideburns were in full bloom. Seeing the young man waiting intently for her answer, she couldn't help but His cheeks were dizzy, and his voice was as sweet as honey: "Uncle Huizhu, my wife used half a bowl of chicken porridge, one milk noodle roll, and three pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake today. They are delicious!" It turned out that this person was Jia Zhu who had grown up.

Jia Zhu, who was full of worries, didn't notice her glances at all. Hearing this, she breathed a sigh of relief, and bent down to tuck the quilt for her mother: "Your grandma is pregnant, and you have to take care of various affairs at home every day. , it is inevitable that you are not able to do it, you take care of your wife, and it will naturally benefit you in the future!"

Seeing his indifference, the servant girl felt annoyed, who would have thought that the last sentence would fall into her ears, she couldn't help but turn from anger to joy, and Tingting Fu responded: "My lord ordered, how dare Yuhan not do her best?! Seeing Jia Zhu nodding, turning around and heading out the door, she quickly took two steps to follow and sent Jia Zhu all the way out of the yard.

In another small courtyard, a pretty young woman with a round belly was looking at each other carefully with the account book. Hearing the sound of footsteps outside the door, she raised her head and stood up leaning on the desk with her waist leaning on her back. Her movements were slightly sluggish and difficult. She pursed her lips and smiled at Jia Zhu who came in through the curtain: "Master is back, how is Madam's place?"

Jia Zhu quickly stepped forward to support her, and nodded: "I heard from Yuhan that my mother eats more today than yesterday, it's hard for you to work so hard and worry about the food in the kitchen!" She said as she spoke. , he held his wife's back, and the couple walked slowly to the side of the kang and sat down side by side.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed like a white horse, and the little kid back then is now a young master.Jia Zhu entered school at the age of 13. Two years later, he returned to his hometown to participate in the Qiuwei. Jijiu's daughter, her name is Li Wan, and her style name is Gongcai. She has been married for two years and the young couple have lived happily ever after.

Seeing that spring is approaching in the coming year, I need to prepare for the exam with peace of mind, and my mother is sick in bed, and all the affairs are on the wife who is pregnant for six months. Looking at the few account books, paper and pens piled up on the kang, Jia Zhu couldn't help but feel pity and guilt towards Li Wan, and gently stroked her belly: "It's really not possible to do these complicated and trivial things, and it's okay to leave it to Aunt Zhou and the others to help you with the planning! You can't tolerate a little sloppy now, the palace judge—" —”

"Don't worry, the new year is approaching. I'm worried that there will be mistakes in many complicated etiquettes. That's why I've been busy these past few days! In addition, my sister is getting older, and these housekeeping tasks have to be picked up slowly. Let me take my sister with me, I can relax a little bit—I feel ashamed when I think about my mother's strategic planning and decisiveness the year before last..." Li Wan blinked, and cuddled with a little embarrassment. In Jia Zhu's arms: "I'm young and don't know what to do. I should have asked Mrs. Zhou and some old people to help, but Mrs. Zhou just had a grandson the day before yesterday. Mrs. Lin's family is going to marry a daughter, so there is always something to do with the rest. How can I be embarrassed?" Woolen cloth!"

Jia Zhu listened to her words, looked at her docile and shy appearance again, held her fleshy palms and said with a smile: "You, you still want to compare yourself with your mother? It's not like you don't know the arrogance of the west courtyard. The ex-mother pissed off the second uncle, and since then, there is no one to support her in the capital. It is not easy for her to lead me and my sister. If she is not tough and supports the majesty of the mistress, how can we still have us here now? What about talking—" Thinking of the pain of her mother crying secretly in the past, Jia Zhu sighed: "Fortunately, I started school early. Although it is not on the genealogy, my uncle still values ​​it. The second uncle's family is also kind-hearted. Often secretly take care of me one or two..."

Thirteen years ago, Wang Yuening and Wang Ziteng had a complete confrontation. She had no choice but to write a letter and send it to Jinling.Wang Zisheng felt a little fond of this younger sister, so Tete wrote back to Jia Zheng to reprimand him.Jia Zheng didn't dare to say anything wrong to this brother-in-law who was holding a title. He felt aggrieved and walked to the main courtyard all night before Wang Yuening got another daughter.However, after this episode, Jia Zheng had no affection for Wang Yuening. From then on, he didn't easily set foot in the main courtyard, and lived happily and peacefully with Zhao Yiruo and his son and daughter in the small courtyard on the west side. .

Although Wang Yuening's glory and wealth have been clouded, there seems to be a divine will in the dark. This daughter was still born on the first day of the first lunar month, so she was still called Yuanchun.However, Zhao Yiruo's daughter is no longer Tanchun in the original book of the Red Chamber. Jia Zheng named this concubine daughter Jia Mei.

Li Wan hadn't heard Jia Zhu say about these old things, she raised her eyes to look at the depression in her husband's brows, and said in a gentle voice, "Why bother worrying about irrelevant people! No matter what happens in the west yard In the same way, now I can’t afford to turn waves, the uncle just studies hard and earns his wife’s life in the future! It’s not in vain for my wife’s motherly heart!”

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Wang Yuening propped herself up and leaned against the head of the bed, and coldly saw the red-faced Yuzan happily entering the room. She coughed twice, and the subtle lines at the corners of her eyes became deeper: "Yuhan, come here—"

Yuzan recalled the way Jia Zhu talked to her just now, her youngest daughter, Chunxin, was in high spirits when she suddenly heard the familiar gloomy voice ringing in her ears, she was startled, and turned to look at the indifferent woman on the sick bed: "Ma'am, what are your orders?"

Unexpectedly, she was hit on the shoulder by the flying beauty. For a moment, Yuhan was so painful that her eyes were filled with tears, and she knelt on the ground with a "plop": "Madam, please calm down! Madam, please forgive me!"

"Humph—it's really pitiful!" Wang Yuening looked at Yuhan's eyes full of autumn water, and her pale and weak face: "You are a little whore, why are you pretending to be like this?! Good men, I ask you to hook her up." It's broken!" The more he said, the more resentful he became, he unconsciously hooked the jade hairpin to the woman in the west courtyard, looking at her like a sharp knife, wishing to cut her flesh and blood: "Yubi! Call her mother in and take her out, I absolutely cannot tolerate such dirty seeds here!"

Hearing this, Yuzan was so terrified that she almost lost her wits, knowing that she must have let the mistress know about her attitude towards Jia Zhu just now, she just cried: "I don't dare anymore! Ma'am, please forgive me, it's fine if you beat me If you scold me, just let it go, just please don't drive me out, I am grateful to my wife, Ende, and I dare not do anything against the law again!"

Getting a headache from her crying, Wang Yuening closed his eyes tiredly, and waved at Yubi who entered the room with Xunsheng. Two servants had already come outside to pull Yuhan out.

"Ma'am, it's time for the medicine—" Yu Bi stood beside the bed holding a black lacquer and gold tea tray, and glanced cautiously out of the window, where the jade hairpin was humiliated and tearful, and she had already rushed there. The old lady took it out of the courtyard gate.She couldn't help sighing in her belly, Yuhan was still very impatient, although it is true that the grandma is pregnant and it is inconvenient to serve the uncle, but there are still two aunts in the Dongkua courtyard, so it is not her turn to be a wife girl?

Glancing at the pitch-black concoction, Wang Yuening didn't even frown, took the hand and poured it down in one gulp, Yubi hurriedly handed over the candied fruit on the tea tray: "Ma'am, Grandma told the kitchen to prepare it for you." I ordered glutinous rice porridge with red dates, do you think I need a bowl?"

Shaking his head, Wang Yuening's voice was hoarse: "Where has Yuan Chun been these few days?"

Yu Bi hurriedly replied: "Grandma said that she wants a girl to help manage the house, so the girl will follow Grandma to assign affairs and look at the account books!" She has served the mistress for seven or eight years, so I don't know her temper?As long as you take out the uncle and the girl for everything, all anger will disappear!

Sure enough, Wang Yuening's frowning brows relaxed, she nodded her head in approval and said, "It's not bad——Jade Bi, take the Eight Brocade Box, and send the hairpin with the Eight Treasures Magpie on the branch to Grandma!"

"Yes, ma'am!" Yuhan hurriedly agreed.

Wang Yuening fell into reality again.

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"Oh, my good aunt, this is a great joy for our Jia family!" Happy event?What happy event?Listening to this strange laughter, Wang Yuening raised her head in a daze in a daze to look at the pretty young woman standing beside her who was covered in colorful embroidery and looked like a fairy concubine.

I saw the woman in Chinese dress with willow-leaf eyebrows and red phoenix eyes covering her mouth and smiling crisply, with a Chaoyang five-phoenix hanging bead hairpin hanging in her bun, looking very charming: "The eldest girl has become a concubine, aunt, don't you?" Become the emperor's mother-in-law? Ouch, my darling, my niece never dreamed that such a day would come!"

Although Wang Yuening didn't understand what she meant, her heart skipped a beat, imperial concubine?Mother-in-law?She wanted to ask clearly, but was surprised to find that what she said was completely wrong: "Young girl Feng is talking nonsense—what is the emperor's mother-in-law? Seeing that the empress is trembling in the palace, we can't hold her back!"

The young woman who claimed to be her niece hurriedly said: "That's right, my niece is only happy for my aunt and mother, and I forgot the taboo for a while! It really should be beaten, it should be beaten! Now I just wait for the mother to give birth to a dragon son, and the future will be good. I can't say enough!"

Feng girl, niece?Wang Yuening suddenly remembered the news from Jinling. He remembered that the eldest brother's daughter-in-law's boudoir name was Xifeng, and she was fifteen or sixteen years old this year. Could it be her?It's just that Xifeng hasn't married her yet, so why did she wear a woman's hair in a bun?

In a blink of an eye, Wang Yuening came to another place in a daze.I saw a large garden with lush flowers, willows, and colorful flowers. If you look closely, you can see that they are all made of grass, silk, silk, paper, etc., tied into soft petals and fine stamens, and green leaves and tender buds, which are very delicate; There are bead curtains and embroidered curtains, osmanthus and orchids, gold and silver, and jewels competing for brilliance. From a distance, you can see the graceful Lin Palace, the majestic Gui Palace, the bells and drums, and the cigarettes, so luxurious and lively.

Wang Yuening only sighed in her heart that she had never seen such a world in the world, she was very envious, and she was taken aback when she saw the guard of honor approaching not far away, did she break into some noble man's house?She hurriedly found a remote corner to hide and watched secretly.

Seeing the woman in the beautiful dress with golden dome and embroidered phoenix, Wang Yuening was struck by lightning and was dumbfounded. Isn't this, this appearance, her precious daughter Yuan Chun?Although Yuan Chun is only 12 years old now, the contours of his eyebrows and eyes cannot be deceived!

"May the virtuous concubine be blessed with golden safety!"

Seeing everyone on both sides kneeling on the ground, begging for peace, all kinds of sounds mixed and continuously drilled into his ears, Wang Yuening only felt that his heartbeat was as unstoppable as a drum, and a thin layer of sweat had already broken out on his palms.She followed a group of people in a trance and walked slowly through the garden, and there was a white-faced and beardless eunuch at the side who respectfully invited her to be seated and received the ceremony, and Wang Yuening followed the crowd from the east steps ignorantly There were shifts lined up on the ascending platform, and everyone seemed to have not seen a middle-aged woman who was out of place.

The tea has been served three times, and after the concubine Xiande descended from her seat, she went to the side hall to change her clothes, and climbed back on the carriage lightly, not knowing where she was going.Wang Yuening lost her soul, and still went out with a group of people.

When she woke up, the woman called Xiande concubine held the hands of two beautifully dressed women and wept secretly, calling "grandmother" and "mother". Wang Yuening took a closer look. The gray-haired old woman is indeed her deceased mother-in-law Jia Shishi!She was startled in horror, only feeling a chill rushing from her back to the top of her head.

"Whose relatives are standing there? Why do they look so familiar?" Concubine Xiande held back her tears and comforted the two elders. Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of Wang Yuening standing beside her with an unsteady expression from the corner of her eye. After thinking about it for a while, I couldn't stop my doubts in my heart, and asked aloud.

At this moment, all the people in the room, old and young, followed the direction pointed by Concubine Xiande's hand, and they were also very surprised: "I really don't know who this is? But I think it looks familiar!" Among them, there are two bright and intelligent people, quietly He looked at the middle-aged beautiful woman standing second under Concubine Xiande.

As if waking up from a dream, Wang Yuening called out to Concubine Xiande, "Yuan Chun'er, I am your mother! Why don't you recognize me?"

"Where did this crazy woman come from!" Listening to her words, Concubine Xiande said angrily: "This palace is the daughter of a first-class Rongguo Mansion, with a noble family background, and my mother is the daughter of the King of Jinling, so where does a mother come from?" Come quickly, get this crazy woman out! Slap your mouth!" As soon as the words fell, two rough envoy servants came in to support Wang Yuening on both sides, and took her out regardless of her struggling strength.

Wang Yuening watched helplessly as the fan-like slap came towards her, and the burning pain spread across her cheeks. She let out a cry of pain, but the two rude servants didn't notice her, so they made her break free and let her go straight. Passing through a group of undefended eunuchs and maids, the guards of honor were smashed.

"Catch her!" Hearing the fierce and suppressed shouts behind her, Wang Yuening didn't care about anything else in a hurry. She pulled her skirt and ran around like a headless chicken. The burning smell of incense candles and fireworks was pungent, and she only felt that her head was buzzing and dizzy.

Yubi hurried into the room, and saw Wang Yuening on the couch with cold sweat on her forehead, groaning from time to time, she couldn't help but turn pale in shock, she knew that she was being trapped, so she hurried forward and twisted the cold veil On Wang Yuening's forehead, shaking her arm: "Madam! Madam!"

Wang Yuening opened her eyes suddenly, and stared at the lotus-colored flowered curtain on the top of the bed for a long while without moving her eyes away. After a long time, she slowly turned her face, looked at the anxious Yubi beside the bed, and said wearily: :"What's wrong?"

Yubi withdrew her hand in a panic, remembering what she wanted to say: "Go back to Madam, the girl from the West Court has taken away the white jade hairpin that Grandma gave to Grandma, and now she is making a fuss in Grandma's yard!"

Even though she was lying on the sickbed, Wang Yuening's aura at this time could not be underestimated: "Your grandma is just thin-skinned, why don't you understand? She is pregnant, and she is going to ask someone to take that little bitch Drag it to the study in the front yard! Tell the master, if Zhao Yiruo can't teach, then don't teach him at all!"

Seeing Yuhan's back disappearing behind the screen, Wang Yuening closed her eyelids again dejectedly, thinking of all the scenes in her dream just now, she couldn't help but be infatuated.