Red House Farm Stay

Jia Lan only thought that Jia Zhuo was being controlled by the Wang family, and grabbed Jia Zhuo's hand, "Don't be afraid, there is a brother here, come with me, I will see who dares to stop."

"Your mother, you probably don't know." Jia Zhuo admitted that Jia Lan's words about "brother" touched her for a moment.But it was only for a moment, she pulled out her hand, and saw Jia Lan's face suddenly turned down.

Obviously, this sentence touched his sore spot.

"My name is Jia Zhuo, and I have nothing to do with Rongguo Mansion. Young Master, even if you don't understand why, you should understand that if you have chosen to sit on the sidelines for some things, it is best to continue doing so."

Jia Zhuo didn't blame Li Wan, what position did she have to blame? Even the real Qiao Jie had no position to blame her.It is not easy for a woman who lost her husband to protect herself and her son.She didn't have that ability, and she didn't dare to reach out at the risk of dragging her mother's family into the water.

Jia Zhuo could understand all of this, she thought, even if the old lady was alive, she would only thank her for bringing Jia Lan out of the quagmire of Jia's family and for raising him so well.Li Wan has no obligation to do anything for the Jia family, let alone sacrifice himself for the Jia family.

However, it is only limited to understanding.

When she was in trouble, facing Prince Zhongshun's mighty power, who wouldn't be afraid?But someone braved the risk and fear and rescued her from the fire.

"Sister Qiao..." Jia Lan took a step back with pain on his face.Some wounds, seemingly scabbed, never healed.Once opened, blood will still flow out.

"Sister Qiao is dead. She was already dead when Wang Ren, Jia Rong, and Jia Qin sold her to Prince Zhongshun as a concubine. My son, the person standing in front of you is Jia Zhuo, who is growing up like a It means that weeds can grow in the mountains."

Jia Lan took another step back, the blood on his face faded, Jia Zhuo's words opened his closed eyes and ears.The Li family is like a greenhouse, which protects him from the darkness outside and allows him to hypnotize himself. The court is actually acting according to the law, while the Jia family is just confiscating property and punishing the culprits according to the law.

Jia Zhuo's words directly tore apart his illusory world, revealing his ugly true face.How could the annihilation of a big family be without a shady deal, without the desolation of being oppressed, and without a performance of the most despicable side of human nature.

Forget it, Jia Zhuo still had a lot to say, but she thought about it, why bother, Jia Lan didn't plant the evil fruit.If he didn't have a good grandfather, who knows where their mother and son would be now.

"I really don't know." Jia Lan realized that the words were so weak, which made him even more ridiculous.

"This is fate, we can only drift with the tide and struggle not to be drowned." Jia Zhuo pointed in the direction of the courtyard gate, "I just advise you, as long as your surname is Jia, Prince Zhongshun will not let anyone kill you." Your chance to get ahead."

This sentence was said by Jia Zhuo on behalf of Qiaojie. Jia Lan still remembers her as a younger sister, so she should repay this favor for Qiaojie.In the future, Jia Lan will become an official in high school, and when there is a turmoil in the sea, he is secretly tampered with by Prince Zhongshun and selected for the expedition.On the surface, it looks like a bunch of flowers, but in fact it is a fire cooking oil, and the end is tragic.

Jia Lan was stunned, looking at Jia Zhuo, he was very sure that the person in front of him was Qiao Jie because of the connection of family affection.However, the sister Qiao who said these words and the sickly and delicate younger sister in his impression could not be overlapped no matter what.

"Let me in, let me in." The courtyard door was knocked open again, Li Rong and Wang Gou'er came in one after the other, Qing'er saw a bruise on his father's face, and screamed in fright.

"Who did it?" Jia Zhuo stepped forward quickly, supported Wang Gou'er, trembling with anger, "Uncle, who did it?"

Jia Lan stepped forward and cupped his hands, "I'm sorry..."

"It's you, what qualifications do you have, get out of here." Jia Zhuo pointed at the door angrily, and shouted, "Get out, can you understand human language?"

Jia Zhuo immediately changed his face towards Jia Lan because of the little blood connection left with Jia Lan, which was not as good as the few years he spent with the Wang family.

"It's not Jia Lan, it's me. I'm in a hurry. Are you..." Li Rong saw Jia Lan shaking his head secretly at him, knowing that things might not be as they had expected, but he still wanted to know if Jia Zhuo was right. Miss Qiao.

"Do you think Uncle Wang's beating is a trivial matter, so small that it's not worth comparing with who I am? In the eyes of you people, do people with humble status deserve to be treated casually by you, and when you see noble status People who don’t, will automatically become a dog wagging its tail and begging for mercy, full of ugliness.”

Jia Zhuo looked at Li Rong, and suddenly ran into the kitchen. Everyone couldn't figure out what she wanted to do for a moment, and saw her waving a firewood in her hand, and aimed at Li Rong, hitting her head and face.

"In my eyes, you are that dog, a vicious dog that can only bite people, get out of our house." Jia Zhuo struck mercilessly, Li Rong stretched out his hand to block it, and his arm hurt from being hit by the firewood.

Jia Lan wanted to stop him but was afraid of hurting Jia Zhuo, so he used his back to block the firewood in Jia Zhuo's hand.Unexpectedly, Jia Zhuo was not relentless at all, and hit him on the back.

"Xiao Zhuo, that's enough, I just have a skin injury." Wang Gou'er snatched the firewood from Jia Zhuo's hand a few times and threw it on the ground.

"Get out, do you still want me to ask you to get out?" Jia Zhuo pointed to the courtyard door, and he had already seen neighbors looking outside.

"Excuse me, and I'm sorry." Jia Lan saluted Wang Gou'er, dragged Li Rong on his horse and left.

Grandma Liu watched the whole process, but never showed up. She waved her hand when the people left, "Qing'er is going to get the medicine, and Jia Zhuo is going to fetch water."

"It's nothing serious, it looks scary, but it actually happened when I was pushing and shoving." Wang Gou'er sat in the main room, washed his face with the water brought by Jia Zhuo, and rubbed the medicated oil on his face, he didn't care Said.

"That won't work either. You are alone, Uncle Wang. They have a large number of people. This is not called pushing and shoving. This is called bullying people based on their numbers."

Jia Zhuo frowned, she was always on tenterhooks, fearing that she would hurt the Wang family because of her identity.After so many years, they are all safe and sound. Unexpectedly, the first accident happened because of the relatives of Jia's family.This feeling made her extremely depressed.

"Forget it, people's life is not easy." Wang Gou'er said it, and Jia Zhuo knew that Li Wan was the buyer who took over the job of helping people buy Xiaozhuangzi a few days ago.

Because it was a woman who came forward, Wang Gou'er didn't think of Li Wan's head for a while, but later things became clear, and he went to the house to report the situation of Zhuangzi to the buyer through the curtain, and when he asked the buyer to make up his mind, he met Li Rong and his wife came over together.

At that time, Wang Gou'er didn't think too much about it. Wannian County is such a big city, and he always meets acquaintances.When I went back and thought about it, I realized that the buyer lived in the Li family's East Mansion, and when I thought about the information about the buyer that came out of the mother-in-law's mouth, Li Wan's name was ready to come out.

When he went again, for some reason, Jia Lan and Li Rong stopped him halfway and asked if Sister Qiao was Jia Zhuo.He naturally refused to admit it, only said that they made a mistake, but refused to say anything else.So Jia Lan rode over to Wang's house to look for Jia Zhuo in a moment of excitement. After Wang Gou'er entangled with Li Rong, he rushed over.

This end just finished speaking, and the other end of Li's family has already sent someone to deliver wound medicine and a bunch of medicinal materials for strengthening the body.

Grandma Liu didn't allow Jia Zhuo to open her mouth, she decided to accept it, and said to the mother-in-law who delivered the things: "Go back and tell your master, since you have recognized the wrong person, this matter is fine, so far, our family doesn't want to be outside. I heard some gossip and gossip."

"Yes, our master specially asked the old slave to come here to kowtow to grandma, and he will never dare to disturb you in the future." The mother-in-law kowtowed before leaving regardless of the Wang family's obstruction.

Mrs. Liu and Ban'er entered the house one after the other. Mrs. Liu took over a job. A restaurant wanted to pickle pickles. She liked her skills and invited her over.After half a month, she had two taels of silver to take and a lunch included, so she went happily.

Both mother and son noticed the injury on Wang Gou'er's face. He only said that it was accidentally bumped, but Liu's heart was too big, so he didn't pursue it.The family sat around and had dinner, and the most talked about was that they were going to see the release of the county examination results tomorrow.

"Let's go together." Jia Zhuo said to Qing'er.

"I want to find my brother's name by myself." Qing'er was a little proud. Jia Zhuo taught Qing'er to write his own name, and he also recognized the names of the whole family. He just learned to show off all the time.

Ban'er looked at Qing'er, then at Jia Zhuo, feeling that Jia Zhuo's expression was not quite right today.Thinking of what his father and mother had told him, he couldn't help but feel a little bit in his heart. Could it be that she didn't agree.

Thinking of it this way, I couldn't sit still for a while, and my eyes swept around Jia Zhuo from time to time, trying to see the clues.For the first time in so many years, he felt that the time for eating was too long, and he wanted to end it early.

After finally finishing the meal, Ban'er was the first to stand up, "I'll go to the backyard to see how Doro's is doing."

"You silly boy, just go and say something special." Mrs. Liu smiled and went to put away the bowl.

Jia Zhuo pursed his lips and smiled. When Ban'er was talking, he kept looking at him, how could he not know what he meant.

Ban'er waited in the backyard, unable to come left or right, wishing to grind a big hole in the soil under his feet, Jia Zhuo came late.

"You..." Ban'er wanted to ask her why you came so late, and was afraid that she was hiding from him on purpose.I wanted to ask her if she had changed her mind.But when the words came to his lips, he couldn't utter a single word.

"I want to help my aunt wash the dishes. Do you think that I can leave after eating like you old men?" Jia Zhuo pretended to tease him, but he saw Ban Er patting his head mockingly.

"Then, then..." What should I do, I still can't ask, my tongue is dry, even when Lord Qin is testing him, he is not so nervous.

"Then what ah, I never knew that Jia Lan was actually Li Rong's cousin." These rich and powerful families, marriage after marriage, are really relatives and old friends all over the world, so they can also be related, I can't believe it.

Only then did Ban'er realize that Jia Zhuo's expression was different because of this incident.

"They came to the door?" Ban'er frowned.

"Well, I've sent them away. They shouldn't talk nonsense. Don't worry." It's not good for them to betray themselves. What's more, Prince Zhongshun has returned to Chaoping Mansion. The news will never be so well-informed. I will notice even a little thing in the book.

"However, where is the cotton producing area of ​​Day Viet?"

Facing Jia Zhuo's sudden question, Ban'er was stunned for a moment, and said casually, "Cotton is more valuable than rice. In the past ten years or so, many places have changed rice to grow cotton. The lands of Qilu and Jiangnan are both high-yield cotton places. Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, where textiles are concentrated, and the trend of changing rice and cotton is more prosperous."

As for Jinling, it's not that cotton cannot be grown, but the imperial court has decreed that rice and grain should be the main food around Jinling, so cotton cannot be grown.

Ban'er doesn't know how Jia Zhuo's thinking is jumping, but Jia Zhuo is because he saw Jia Lan today, thought of the possible sea and border chaos in the future, and thought of this year's cotton price increase, which was originally irrelevant. Watching it together, I suddenly had a new idea.

"Does Chaoping Prefecture produce cotton?"

"Of course, they are an important place for cotton production." Ban'er nodded, and said: "This year, the cotton production in Chaoping Prefecture has been greatly reduced, which has caused the price to remain high."

"Why did you reduce production?" Jia Zhuo looked puzzled. He hadn't heard of a large-scale natural disaster, so how could he reduce production.

"Prince Zhongshun reported it like this, saying that it was continuous rain, which led to a great drop in the production of cotton bolls." Ban'er's voice became smaller and smaller, "You suspect..."

"I don't know what I'm suspicious of. I just know that what he said may be all lies." Jia Zhuo doesn't understand politics, let alone military affairs. Together, but asked her to say why, but she couldn't answer a word, maybe, it was just a kind of intuition.

"Should I write to Yuan Ziwen and ask him to ask?" Ban'er felt that since he was not clear, he should investigate clearly.

"Okay." Jia Zhuo nodded, then suddenly tilted his head to look at Ban'er, "You hurried to the backyard, what are you trying to say to me?"

"Ah, that, that..." Ban'er stammered for a long time before he said, "That's right, I suddenly want to see you."

"It's still ghosts that you see when you're eating." Jia Zhuo was angry and funny, stretched out his fingers and tapped his forehead, and said angrily.

"Shhh, don't talk nonsense." Ban'er put his finger on Jia Zhuo's lips, and felt it was inappropriate, so he quickly retracted it.Seeing Jia Zhuo looking at him and smiling, he thought of what he did boldly when he was drunk that night, and he felt his heart beating extremely hard.

Jia Zhuo knew what he was thinking by looking at his expression, and handed him a set of tools angrily, "The bonsai ordered by the customer is for the elder's birthday. Let's put it together and send it away. Uncle Wang brought back a bonsai. A large begonia-colored bowl is especially suitable, and it's up to you to make it."

The person who ordered porcelain with someone last time, Wang Gou drove there twice, and no longer asked for small things, only big bowls and vases, but there are few such things, and even fewer broken ones.So I agreed to go there every three months. Of course, the price of the big items is slightly higher.

There is a large crabapple-colored bowl. Jia Zhuo likes this color very much. One-third of it is missing. Several floors, imitating the several levels of the official, agricultural, industrial and commercial, and making scenes, implying that the old birthday star lives a life like a fairy, or will become a fairy, in short, it is a good idea.

The shopkeeper also gave away a lot of small objects that can be used in bonsai, such as small people, finger-sized pavilions, cattle, sheep, horses, and small bridges.Looking at it now, it's all-around useful.

Ban'er skillfully used soil to build the base, and Jia Zhuo helped him with the tools. Anyone could see the tacit understanding between them.

Grandma Liu originally wanted to talk to Jia Zhuo about the topic she hadn't finished talking about during the day, but when she saw the two people's backs, she just pursed her lips and smiled without disturbing her, and turned to leave.

Someone in the Li family was also applying medicine. Wu Yan helped Li Rong apply the medicine oil, and rubbed her arm vigorously, "The injury is so serious and you have to hide it from your grandfather, did you get into trouble outside again?"

"No, did you send the medicinal oil to Jialan? Keep away from people and don't let the elder sister see it."

"I sent a boy over there, saying that you wrote the test questions, and asked him to correct them. Then I went to the study to apply the medicine. The boy reported that it looked scary, but it didn't hurt the bones."

"Thank you for your hard work." Li Rong didn't expect Wu Yan to be so thoughtful in doing things, and when she was distracted, she was rubbed to the sore spot, and she yelled out "Aw".

"Did you run out of monthly bills? I'll get you 100 taels. If it's not enough..."

"Do you think that Jia Lan and I were beaten for eating the overlord's meal? I don't want your money." Li Rong was angry and funny, this woman took him for someone, and Li Rong didn't bring a penny with him. , Eat a meal without being beaten up?His face can still be brushed.

"Your father, I mean, when my father-in-law passed away, did the gap between you and your mother be too big?" Li Rong mentioned Wu's father who had never met for some reason.

Wu Yan thought to herself, mother and I would be relieved after his death.But she said in her mouth: "That's natural, it's like the sky is falling, and the days are turned upside down all at once."

"Oh." Li Rong didn't know what to think of, and heaved a long sigh.

"Who did the Lord know outside? If you like to carry it back, don't leave any excuses outside." Wu Yan's hands paused, and then continued to rub. The medicated oil will heat up, and the bruises will disappear. be fast.

"Nothing, is that kind of person?" The more Li Rong thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable, so he put Jia Zhuo's matter aside and focused on asking Wu Yan.

"I was molesting the maid, but I still didn't listen to your arrangement to close the room randomly. My master doesn't even drink flower wine outside. Why is he that kind of person?"

Wu Yan smiled lightly, "My husband has always kept himself clean, and it's the concubine who treats the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain."

"That's about the same." Li Rong was satisfied, and after nodding, he realized that he had chatted with her for so long, which was unimaginable before.

Li Wan sent snacks to his son's study, "Mother knows that you work hard, but you can't burn yourself out. It's quiet here. From now on, my mother and I will live here. There are relatives next door, so we can walk around more if we get along. , if you don’t get along, stay away, the hatchback is cheap, you say it’s okay.”

"Okay, my son also thinks this place is good." Jia Zhuo stepped forward to take the tray from Li Wan's hand, which contained the chicken soup she cooked herself.

Li Wan sniffled, his expression changed, "Lan'er, you have something to hide from your mother."

Jia Lan was annoyed now, how could he forget the smell of medicinal oil on his body?Said embarrassingly: "I went out with Uncle Rong in the afternoon and just wiped it off accidentally."

"How many times has Mother told you that you must be careful outside." Li Wan watched his son finish his soup, then packed up his things and left.

Call the woman next to you to come in, "What happened in the afternoon?"

The mother-in-law hesitated for a moment, some things were kept secret, although the uncle and nephew thought they were keeping it a secret, in fact, no one of the servants knew that they were fighting because of a young girl.

"That girl from a middle-class family, how is this possible? Lan'er has only been here for a few days." In Li Wan's eyes, her son is of course the best.Jia Lan's marriage had already been blocked because of the Jia family's incident before. The reason why she brought her son to Wannian County was also to avoid her natal sister-in-law from using Jia Lan's marriage as a bargaining chip.

She didn't want to settle down, so she simply let her son focus on the imperial examination, as long as he was selected as an official, and raised by her son's appearance, she was afraid that she would not be able to find Shuyuan to match.Today, I was shocked when I heard what the mother-in-law said about the middle-aged girl.

"I heard that this girl has been entangled with Young Master Rong before. A servant has seen it, and said she is very beautiful." The mother-in-law filtered out what she heard, and picked up what she heard to listen to Li Wan.

"What's your name?" Li Wan frowned, feeling unlucky in his heart.

"I heard it was Jia Ming Zhuo, the child of a distant sister of the Wang family's mother-in-law, who was sent to be raised by them. The Wang family also has a son, who is three years older than this girl's family." The woman replied.

"What kind of character is this, the Wang family doesn't care about it." Li Wan naturally heard the implication, how good the life of ordinary people can be, if they are willing to raise another girl's family, isn't it the idea of ​​​​making their son a daughter-in-law in the future? ?Even the dowry is saved, what a bargain.

"Everyone is also puzzled. The Wang family really cares for this little girl as their own, and they don't know what it is." In the eyes of outsiders, it's good for a girl from a distant relative's family to support you. Who really takes you seriously.In the eyes of these servants, the behavior of the Wang family is not generous, but rather different.

"Would you like to tell Grandma Rong about this matter, after all we are foreigners." The woman suggested.

"Let's take a look first, Brother Rong's wife is a good one, maybe she already knew about it, let's see what she does with it." Li Wan tilted his head and looked outside, "It's such a big open space, it's a pity to leave it empty. Let’s plant it, what, what’s that called?”

"Ma'am, did you mean corn? I don't know if there is time, so let someone plow out the field first. Grandma Rong gave me a pot of doro. It looks so cute, should I put it on you first?" In the house."

"It's okay, it's just a plaything after all. When parents come over, let's put it in their room to enjoy."

"Yes, the old slave has written it down." The old woman responded with a blessing.