Red House Farm Stay

Second Mrs. Luo tightened the handkerchief nervously, not knowing how Mrs. Li would answer.

Li Wan was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Then thank you in advance."

Is that the answer?He directly rejected the possibility of talking about it later.

Second Mrs. Luo's face turned blue, and she forced a smile, "They all belong to the folks in the village, and the things that should be done are also worthy of your thanks."

What he said was nice, but his heart was already burning hot.The son of a noble family whose family has been confiscated is considered a phoenix egg treasure.There is no point in my family that is not worthy of your son. It is really deceiving.

If this happened at the beginning, Mrs. Luo might not be so angry, but after the incident with the Wang family, the anger accumulated day by day has been suppressed until today, and Li Wan directly set her on fire.

When she got outside, she no longer had the shame to follow Li Wan, so she found an excuse to change clothes and asked her eldest sister-in-law, the eldest grandma of the Zhao family, to accompany Li Shi.

Second Mrs. Luo went to talk to her mother-in-law. Seeing her daughter's appearance like this, the old lady of the Zhao family knew that the matter was not going to work.

Quickly advised her, "Don't write it on your face, you want to make people guess right. I don't think it's a good relationship, but if you want it, I think it's best not to. If it does, Even if you don’t have the title of the Duke’s Mansion, you have to follow the rules of the Duke’s Mansion, that’s a disadvantage.”

Confiscating the family and seizing the title, I feel palpitations when I think about it, who knows if the emperor will suddenly change his face and count it as a later account, there is always a hidden worry.The old lady of the Zhao family had 1 disapprovals, and she was relieved to see Li Wan decline.

"Daughter, my daughter just can't hold her breath." Second Mrs. Luo's eyes were red.

"You, it's just too smooth, what is this? Others don't want you to force it, and it's not Xiao Wu who suffers in the end."

"Who is outside..." Everyone in the room was kicked out by the old lady, but when they heard movement outside, they raised their voices and asked.

"It's me, mother. Your ginseng tea is ready and here I bring it to you." The third daughter-in-law Bai Xi came in with a cup of ginseng tea, saw the second Mrs. Luo, and said with a smile, "Oh, I didn't know that the elder sister was here. Go get you another drink."

"No need, it's time for me to go out, Xiao Wu is not watching me, don't play crazy." Mrs. Luo twitched the corners of her mouth and forced a smile.

The two came out of the old lady's room one after the other, Bai Xi had a sneer at the corner of her mouth, and said softly, "It's luck, whoever finds that short-lived ghost Jia Lan is really unlucky."

As he spoke, he raised his head and walked towards Jia Zhuo.Wang Tianzuo is a character, and he will be promoted in the future. Many things will be different after going around in this life, but Jia Zhuo is still engaged to Wang Tianzuo, so we can make friends.

As for Qing'er, Bai Xi chewed it in her mouth, wondering if she would marry Li Hong again in this life.

As for herself, she got rid of the boss of the Liu family. Although she wanted to wait, her parents refused. She was also afraid that she would not be able to become Li Hong's official wife, and instead delay her own life.I searched my stomach and remembered that the third child of the Zhao family seemed to have contributed military pay and was given a small official.Relying on his intelligence, he quickly climbed the officialdom, and even the current brother-in-law will rely on him in the future.

She got a headache thinking about it, and couldn't help pressing her temples.It's a pity that in her previous life she was just a concubine in Li Hong's yard, a concubine who had married her husband and died, climbed onto Li Hong's bed with her own intelligence, and carried her in.Detained in a small courtyard, how do I know how much is going on outside.

Thinking of Qing'er, Bai Xi twitched, thinking, the mistress in the previous life will be her embroidery worker in this life, and she is really happy in her heart.

"Miss Xiaozhuo, Qing'er, I want to ask her to embroider another pair of curtains for me. It's a picture of hundreds of sons and grandchildren. I don't know if you can help me adjust the color. I like fresher colors."

Jia Zhuo looked at Bai Xi in surprise, then at the other ladies who turned their eyes, and laughed, "Look at what the third grandma said, our Qing'er is not an embroiderer, and doesn't do embroidery work. If It's not that you were newly married and didn't know about it, so we couldn't refuse it, and we wouldn't let Qing'er accept it."

Seeing Jia Zhuo's cold gaze, Bai Xi knew she had gone too far, and quickly apologized with a smile: "Look at me, I should be hit, I should be hit, I said something wrong."

Qing'er was admiring peony flowers with a group of young girls. After saying this, the girls around her all looked at her strangely, as if they were born first-class, and she bit her lips tightly, feeling extremely unhappy.

Mrs. Liu was talking to a few wives she just met in the distance, so she didn't pay attention to the situation here.

Jia Zhuo saw that Bai Xi was subdued, and smiled lightly, "The fate of our two families has continued from Liujia Village to Wannian County. Is this idea right or wrong? The third grandma is too polite."

Some people know about what is going on in Liujia Village, and some don't. Everyone's eyes are flying wildly. The murder case is obviously more interesting than whether Qing'er does embroidery or not.Even among the girls' families, someone tugged on Qing'er's sleeves, "Do you know the family who killed people in Liu's Village? What do they usually look like? Isn't it scary?"

Qing'er pursed her lips and smiled, "That's not true, their family..."

A few gossips, the little girls who were shocked for a moment, forgot about the embroidery work just now.

Bai Xi was surprised again. In her previous life, although Jia Zhuo was well married, her health was always poor, and she was recuperating for half a year.I heard that she is also timid, and a little movement outside can scare her.The last two times she had dealt with, she already felt strange, but the impression of the previous life was too deep, and she hasn't reversed it for a while.

It was at this moment that I really felt the difference. Jia Zhuo in this life and the previous life were completely like two people.With a rosy face and a straight back, there is no sign of weakness at all.With such a powerful voice, how can it be seen that in the previous life, he was a person with the nickname of sick Xishi.

Wu Yan became a peacemaker, "After my father passed away, my mother relied on her embroidery work to save money as money, so that she could bring me here to join relatives when the times were not good. A person's life, grow up, Who would have imagined that the washerwoman by the river ten years ago is now Mrs. Yipin. My mother often said that a woman's life is good if she can rely on a man. Who are you going to rely on?"

The washerwoman ten years ago was referring to the mother of a first-rank official in the dynasty. Back then, her family was poor. In order to support a few children, she washed clothes for others outside.This is the washerwoman that the emperor has praised. Whoever does not admire her will dare to look down on her.

None of the people present were wealthy families, most of them were well-to-do families with a little property in Wannian County. No one had a family history of hardship and suffering.

Jia Zhuo pinched the back of Wu Yan's hand gratefully, and realized that he really should learn from her.Although I used the incident of Liu Family Village to divert other people's attention, and secretly demoted Bai Xi, but Wu Yan's trick was not as effective.

The height has been raised directly, so that people can't afford to look down upon it at all, but it has become an admirable move.

"By the way, you haven't met my big sister yet." Wu Yan made an excuse casually, and brought Jia Zhuo to where Li Wan was sitting.

"I've seen Madam." Jia Zhuo bowed to Li Wanfu, deliberately concealed the word Jia, and only called Madam.

Li Wan pointed to the seat next to him, "Sit down quickly and take a look at this exquisite green pot. I heard that it only opened this morning. It's really lovely."

"I thought Big Sister only loved corn and didn't like flowers. If I had known, I would have brought some flowers to Dongfu." Wu Yan smiled and raised her hand to help her pour a cup of tea.

"Flowers, I just like to look at other people's homes. My own home is more willing to grow some food. First, I can exercise my muscles and bones, and second, I can learn some things about people's livelihood, so as not to be coaxed by others." Li Wan was half joking. , served tea, and looked at Jia Zhuo, but the more he looked, the more frightened he became.

She wanted to try something out, but since Wu Yan was by her side and she was in someone else's house, she suppressed this idea.He just dropped a thread, "I heard that you planted Doro yourself. I have a pot at home, and it doesn't grow very well. I would like to invite you to take a look."

Jia Zhuo pursed his lips and smiled, "Madam has orders, I'll go and have a look some other day."

Wu Yan was a little confused. No one knew better than her what Do Luo looked like.Qingqing knew that this was Li Wan's excuse, and she didn't say anything, but she started to mutter in her heart.

In the afternoon, everyone left one after another, some people came to pick them up, and some people had been waiting outside with a carriage. I saw Wang Tianzuo driving over in a mule cart and picked up the three of them back.

Li Wan went out to get in the car, saw it from a distance, and knew that it was inevitable for a small family to drive by himself, but he still felt sore.Does sister Qiao really want to marry such a person?No matter how low the marriage is, at least you have to find a family that doesn't worry about food and clothing.

When he went back, his face became gloomy.Jia Lan, who got the news, frowned when he saw his mother's face, "My son thinks that if he walks around more, maybe his mother will be happier, but if he is not happy, then I will reply to all these posts in the future."

"That's not the case." Li Wan looked at his son, feeling very relieved, "You dare to call me a widowed woman to visit me, so why would you show me face? It was I who saw a person today, adopted by the Wang family. One of the adopted daughters of the family was engaged to their son Wang Tianzuo, do you know about this?"

Jia Lan opened her mouth, knowing that it would be useless not to admit it, her mother would ask because she was certain of her identity in her heart.

He lowered his head in frustration, "My son has heard about this..."

"I heard about it, so why didn't you tell me." Li Wan showed disapproval. If her son had said it earlier, she could at least find a way to prevent her from making this marriage, but it's too late to say it now.

"Mother, we're staying at the Li family. There are some things going on outside. If the Li family doesn't tell us, we don't know at all..." Jia Lan looked at her mother and said slowly.

Li Wan's eyes widened and he covered his chest with his hands, "Prince Zhongshun, Jia Rong, Jia Qin, Wang Ren, how could they do it, how dare they dare, sister Qiao is theirs, theirs..."

Kissing a niece, kissing a brother, so what, in their eyes, all of these are not worth 5000 taels of money.

"Her name was chosen by herself, and she resolutely disassociated herself from the Jia family. Even if Mother knew, she didn't need...to recognize each other." Jia Lan sighed.

"I understand, I understand..." Li Wan felt uncomfortable, and touched the Buddhist beads wrapped around his wrist again, took them off, and recited the Buddha's name one by one.

After a few days, Jia Zhuo took Qing'er to the gate of the Li family's east residence. She knew that Li Wan had noticed something, and Jia Lan would explain it to her.

Seeing that Jia Zhuo brought Qing'er to the door together, Li Wan knew that she really would not recognize Jia's family members.He asked them to sit down, set tea, and asked the maid to serve them crispy cheese.

It was the first time for Jia Zhuo to eat crispy cheese. Dairy products are not something ordinary people can eat because there is no suitable preservation method and the output is small.

I took a sip with a spoon, and it tasted very rich in milk, which was similar to the double-skin milk she ate in another time and space.

Qing'er had to look at Jia Zhuo after a few mouthfuls, for fear that he would make people laugh if he ate too fast and would be unrefined.Since the little girl went to Zhao's house, the class concept that was only vaguely remembered in her heart suddenly appeared in front of her in a magnified and extremely clear way, which made her both depressed and novel, and worried about gains and losses for several days.

"It's the first time we've eaten crispy cheese, so it tastes like this." Jia Zhuo ate half of it, seeing Li Wan looking at her, he stopped the spoon to talk to her.

Li Wan had a sore nose and almost burst into tears, trying to hold back, "If you like it, you can come to my place to play often. I am alone at home, and I want to have someone to talk to. Nothing else, a bowl of crisp cheese There are still."

"Thank you Madam for your love, we will come and disturb Madam when we have time." Jia Zhuo said with a smile, and he knew it was perfunctory.

Li Wan laughed at himself, "When I saw you that day, I felt like an old friend of mine. When I knew you were engaged, I wanted to add makeup to you."

As they spoke, they waved, a maid came over with a box, opened it, and a red coral hairpin with a phoenix tail fell into their eyes.

"No, it's too expensive." The phoenix head was holding a pearl, and the phoenix tail was inlaid with a large piece of red coral. Jia Zhuo was startled and quickly refused.

"My old friend only left one daughter. If, if I can see you again, she will be as old as you." Li Wan had tears in his eyes. When he was alive, everyone had shortcomings. , then only remember the benefits.

Even if Sister Feng made all kinds of mistakes outside, it took her life to pay for it, but she was only very good to her sisters and wives at home, and now she is also very good.The more I thought about it, the more unpleasant it became, and I felt pity for Jia Zhuo even more.

Jia Zhuo had no choice but to accept it, and Li Wan gave another bracelet for Qing'er to wear.The two sisters talked with Li Wan for a long time before leaving and going home.

Originally, this was a trivial matter, and people who knew it had nothing to think about.But in the eyes of Mrs. Luo Er, it is completely different.

"Master, what do their family want to do? It's fine to give their son a child bride-in-law. They also want to marry their daughter to Jia Lan, and they don't want to see if their muddy legs are clean." The second wife angrily shouted at her master. temper.

"Okay, you don't care what other people want to do, you don't even want our Xiao Wu, you can really like the Wang family, it's useless to think about it." The second master also felt it was a pity, but Li Shi didn't answer, and they didn't catch up The reason why a son marries a daughter is just that.

The second wife didn't get a response from her husband, so she went back to her natal home to complain.

Complaining is of course hoping to hear as many people as possible, so the three younger sisters-in-law have become her audience.Hearing that the Wang family's daughter got a bracelet from Li Wan, Bai Xi couldn't help but shine in her eyes.

He heard the babbling of the eldest sister, "Baba, come to the door, is this what a girl from a good family does?"

My mind has drifted away, if Wang Qing'er can marry Jia Lan in this life, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds.When I became a widow, I really let out a breath of anger, which was much more interesting than letting her do some embroidery work.

"Why do I think it's a good thing?" Bai Xiyouyou said.

"Why is it a good thing, the girls of the Wang family are worthy too." Second Mrs. Luo looked at the youngest sister-in-law angrily, and said with hatred.

Bai Xi said slowly: "She doesn't like anyone, and then she chooses a daughter-in-law who can't read. Wouldn't it be great?"

If she looked at the elder aunt meaningfully and smiled, the smiling Mrs. Luo would be pleased, clapping her hands and laughing, "Wonderful, really wonderful, if this is the case, it is really a good thing."

Although Wanxi was still such a good son-in-law candidate, Bai Xi's words finally put her in a better mood. She happily ate tea and was escorted out of the house surrounded by three sisters-in-law.

Bai Xi squeezed her wrist, thinking about how to make this happen.

Not long after the liveliness of the Wang family had passed, it was the turn of the Ma family to be lively again.The two children of Ma Zhou and Li Hong are both old, and Ma Meng has a lot of money and has a lot of friends in Wannian County. Many families have the idea of ​​getting married.

But Ma Meng spread his hands, as if he was sorry for everyone, his son had already been engaged, if it wasn't for the other girl's filial piety, he would be ready to marry this year.

It's fine if the relatives are engaged, but if the relatives are also engaged, they should have gone to Yue's family long ago. How could they defect to such a distant relative.

So Ma Meng couldn't say anything, so he had to say that he was high-spirited, and he wanted to make money and set up his own family before getting married.This is true, but in this way, it is inevitable to live a hard life with him, and naturally fewer people come to the door.

There were a few offers to recruit, but Li Hong didn't need to refuse, the Ma family had already rejected them for him.

With the arrival of summer, Jia Lan entered into intense exam preparation, pushed aside all social engagements, and only studied behind closed doors.

At this time, a guest from Dongfu arrived.Li Wan looked at his sister-in-law with a bunch of children, and couldn't help but froze on the spot.

"Oh, big sister, I really can't do anything. One is sick and the other is pregnant. I'm in such a mess. I had to bring a few children here to hide and relax. It also saves the patients from being disturbed by them. You Don't worry, I won't let them disturb Lango."

The fourth brother-in-law, Liu Shi, was very destined to have children. She gave birth to four children, two sons and two daughters, and a son and two daughters from concubines, seven in total.As soon as she came, she brought seven children, which was really spectacular.

Li Wan was so angry that he could only greet her with a smile. The East Mansion was originally the old house of the Li family. She could come to live as a married woman, but her decent daughter-in-law could not come.

"Look at what you said, I'm too happy that you brought your child here. I think the yard is deserted and there is no one to accompany me, so I hope you come here. But who is sick? "

It must not be the parents, otherwise how could her daughter-in-law leave.

Sure enough, Mrs. Liu said: "The second elder brother is sick and needs to rest, and the fifth sibling is pregnant again. This pregnancy is not stable, so she also said to rest. I thought, isn't this just for me? I have the most children, and they are young. I have to avoid them, and I will go back when they are better."

"Then I have to ask Lan Ge to go back and have a look, and to greet his uncle." When Li Wan heard that her parents were fine, she said it lightly, guessing it wasn't serious.

"Don't bother Brother Lan, it's serious to let him concentrate on preparing for the exam." Liu smiled warmly, as if she didn't know that she brought seven children here, and it was also an interruption.

When the elders of the family came, Jia Lan naturally came out to greet them. Li Wan arranged the yard for them, and the cleaning and arrangement required someone to make up their minds.Mrs. Liu didn't send the letter in advance, Li Wan didn't know it at all, and arranged from the beginning, going around in a hurry.

Fortunately, the banquet was held in Xifu, so the family went to Xifu without Li Wan's fuss.The old man and the old lady over there were very rare about the children, and they were happy to hear the noise, and even asked Rong's daughter-in-law to hug Liu's youngest son-in-law more often.The eagerness to hug her grandson was beyond words, and Wu Yan blushed with embarrassment.

Finally when it was time to light the lamp, Li Wan talked to Jia Lan while pressing his temples.

"You go to Zhuangzi to live for a few days. If your grandfather didn't allow us to move out, why should I live here." Li Wan sighed, trying to hide from them, but he still didn't hide.

"Grandmother doesn't know they're coming?" Jia Lan asked instead of directly answering Li Wan's words.

Li Wan was startled, she was only concerned about worrying, but she forgot that her daughter-in-law would take the child to travel far away, without the approval of her mother-in-law, it would be impossible to do it no matter what.

"Mother can't..." Li Wan swallowed those three words back into her stomach. The facts were already in front of her eyes. Whether she admitted it or not was the truth.

"It doesn't matter to my son. I'll go back to Jinling tomorrow and say hello to my second uncle before I come back." If he doesn't know, he's fine. If he knows and doesn't go back, someone will step on him at a critical moment, accusing him of having a bad character. .

Li Wan also understood this truth and nodded, "I'll ask someone to prepare some medicinal materials for you, go back early."

"Mother, learning is not about sharpening your guns in front of the battle, it is all about accumulating on a daily basis. Since my son can remember, he has been taught by a famous teacher and has been studying hard until today. No matter what happens, the son believes that he can do it, and he will never disappoint his mother for so many years. hard work."

"Brother Lan..." Li Wan covered his eyes after listening to his son's confession, tears still dripping down his fingers.