Red House Farm Stay

As for the aunts of the Li family, Jia Zhuo had learned how powerful they were in Wannian County.At the beginning, the uncle of the Li family bet their treasure on Prince Zhongshun, but later on they realized that they were wrong, and all of them shrank like quails and did not dare to make a sound.

This time Jalan came back victorious, and they thought it was a good time to make amends, so they all came all at once, for fear of being one step too late.

As soon as Jia Zhuo and Qing'er showed up, someone said: "Oh, is this the girl I got back later, she was so handsome."

Li Wan introduced these elders to Jia Zhuo, and Jia Zhuo held back his displeasure, shouting at each aunt one by one, not knowing how affectionate they were.

It's not a big mistake for an unmarried girl to call after Jia Lan. It's the first time a younger generation sees an elder, shouldn't they give a meeting gift?How to send the rich to the rich, and how to send the poor to the poor, there is no lack of etiquette.

All five aunts held their noses and gave presents, of course, including Qing'er, who she brought with her.Those who were prepared were fine, but those who were not prepared had to take off their rings and bracelets. It was a heartache, and their faces were sour.

Jia Zhuo took Qing'er to greet the guests, she was considered half of the host today, she suppressed her laughter all the way, and only dared to let out a little when she went outside.

"Tell them to be weak and weak, and let them get some blood." Jia Zhuo looked down on this kind of behavior. In this era, how important is the imperial examination to a scholar, and if he can do something that ruins his future, he simply A little breakup.But he came here to fix it on the basis of his relative's identity, which is really embarrassing.

Qing'er covered her mouth and laughed non-stop, "I'm always a mess every time."

"I saw you from a long distance, why are you so happy." Several girls walked over from a distance, one of them was an acquaintance, Xie Xin, a girl from the Xie family who had met at Du's house before.

Jia Zhuo took a wrong look and saw that Xie Xin's spring shirt was embroidered with crabapple flowers, which made her complexion look even better with its tenderness and vividness.

"I'm happy to have received a gift from my aunt."

"Little Zaogui, it's no wonder Du Yue likes you so much." People in Jinling City, who didn't know about the Li family, joked behind their backs that the Li family had no successors, and none of their sons inherited Lao Tzu's demeanor. Inheritance went.

"The Du family's celebration banquet will be held in two days, do you remember to come to me." Xie Xin said again.

"I can't forget it." Jia Zhuo invited these girls to sit down, "Brother Lan's house is not big, so you can only do activities here because of grievances. The dim sum is made by a cook from outside, and the taste is different from what you are used to eating. , try something new."

"It's pretty good here. Speaking of which, Jinling has really had a lot of foreigners coming to do business recently. Apart from dim sum, there are also chefs in restaurants, embroidery, and a lot of outside things."

Jia Zhuo thought, isn't it?Those who have no money will not be able to reach Jinling, and they will all die on the way.In order to make a living, he had to quickly lower the price to find work, and naturally a lot of outside things came out all of a sudden.

"I see a girl from the Jin family is here too." The girl who spoke came with her mother. She was still young, very lively, and liked to talk very much.

Jia Lan was engaged, so among the people who came, except those who had a particularly good relationship, no one else would deliberately bring their daughter.There are not many girls' families, and they can be counted with one slap.

Jia Zhuo was stunned, she remembered that she had sent invitations to the Jin family, but it was just out of politeness.I had already prepared that they would not come, not to mention that the reply they gave was also standard polite words, and they didn't intend to come when they heard it, so why did they come now instead.

"Which one is it? I have to find him, or I'm neglecting him." The visitor was a guest, and Jia Zhuo was about to stand up immediately.

"Don't worry, don't worry, they don't necessarily want to be found by you." Xie Xin pressed Jia Zhuo.

It wasn't the ninth girl of the Jin family who came, but the seventh girl of the Jin family.The girls in their family have been seeing each other since the New Year's Eve, and by now most of them have been booked out.

The more concubine it is, the easier it is, and the requirements are not high. People think they are high-ranking when they look at a golden word, so they naturally don't care about the scandal that happened in the Zhongyong Palace.

But for a girl who was born in the first place, it was even more difficult.People are willing to marry, but the Jin family thinks they are undervalued.If they want to marry, a wealthy family chooses a daughter-in-law. Of course, they don't want to choose a shady one, and the scandal is too close.

After such back and forth, the girls from the Jin family didn't want to wait, so they had to lower their requirements, and there were only three girls left, the third girl, the seventh girl and the ninth girl.

The one who came here today is Miss Seven. She and Miss Nine are cousins, and they are also descendants.

Jia Lan is already engaged, so what's the use of her coming?

Oh, Jia Zhuo figured it out now, Jia Lan will be Du Xiao's son-in-law in the future, and this time he will go to war together, how could he not be on this occasion.

However, it was impossible for Seventh Miss to see Du Xiao in the inner court, and Mrs. Du and Du Yue didn't come, so what if they saw Du Xiao.

Xie Xin knew that she had figured it out, and also knew that she still didn't understand it, so she pursed her lips and said with a smile: "This person, once his eyes turn red in a hurry, who knows what weird ideas will come out. I never believe in brazenness. The timid ones starve to death, I only believe in being careful and sailing for ten thousand years."

Jia Zhuo immediately understood, but what about her, did she want to change the camellia to begonia?

Qing'er was born in the market, and when he came to Jinling, he often went to Suyunfang. Wang Gou'er loved the child and often took her to listen to books and plays.She took a few little girls outside and learned from the storyteller's jokes, which made her eyebrows dance with joy, about seven advances and seven advances, from guns to tiger-headed halberds, and the weapons were changed several times, but she didn't care.

Xie Xin listened to the jokes Qing'er had learned, with the corners of her mouth slightly curled up.Looking back, he saw Jia Zhuo's gaze fell on the crabapple flower on her cuff, touched it with his hand, and laughed at himself: "I like camellia, but now I think crabapple flower is also very good, maybe I will like peony flower and peony flower in the future."

That is to say, she has already given up. Jia Zhuo can tell that Xie Xin really likes Du Xiao.But she is also really smart. If she had a glimmer of hope before, she would know that she would have no chance after winning this time.It would be better to let go as soon as possible.

"A person will see countless beautiful flowers in his life, and he will also fall in love with many flowers. In fact, the most common and ordinary ones that can be cultivated by oneself are the most common and ordinary ones. Those delicate ones, just look at them. You don't need to. It’s actually quite good to be able to wait and see.”

After hearing Jia Zhuo's words, Xie Xin burst out laughing, tears came out of the laughter.

"Although your reasoning is crooked, it sounds comfortable, and it's much better than those pretentious comforts."

Jia Zhuo finally met Seventh Girl, and said that she lost her way in the garden, and Li Wan sent a maid to bring them here to play with them.

"It's not surprising. Although Brother Lan's house is not big, the garden is quite organized. It's really difficult for ordinary people to find their way when they come back for the first time." Jia Zhuo fulfilled the duty of a master and helped her get lost. return.

Seventh Girl nodded reservedly, "The gardens in Jinling are different from ours. The gardens we build here are more open-minded, and they are not like here, winding around to death."

Well, there are three left, and Jia Zhuo finally understands how the seventh girl is left. Compared with her ninth sister, it can be said that she is evenly matched.

"Are you just sitting in the pavilion and talking? Is there anything else to play with?" When Miss Seven was chatting, with a lot of pride, these little girls followed Qing'er to the garden, and only Xie Xin was left He and Jia Zhuo still patiently accompany her.

"I heard that there is a barbecue in the front yard." Miss Seven began to throw bricks to attract jade.

Jia Zhuo nodded, and called the servant girl over, "Go ahead and ask, and tell me that you can smell the aroma of their barbecue."

"Yes." The servant girl replied crisply.

After a while, he took back a plate of barbecue, "Young master roasted it, and said that the girls should try his cooking."

"What about the others?" Jia Zhuo asked.

"The ladies sent two dishes, one to the garden, and one here." The servant girl answered very clearly.

Everyone has it, Jia Zhuo was relieved, and said to Miss Seven, "Taste it quickly and see if it smells as good as it smells."

Seventh Girl took a melancholy bite and lost interest, she stood up and said, "They won't get lost in the garden, right? I'll look for them."

Jia Zhuo and Xie Xin looked at each other, and they both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.This seventh girl seemed to be determined to do something. If she wanted to lose face in other places, Jia Zhuo could ignore it, but if she lost face in Jia's house, they would also lose face.

"Sitting for a long time, my legs are a little numb. I also want to go for a walk in the garden."

Xie Xin chuckled, and then said seriously: "It's exactly, let's go together."

The front yard and the inner yard are separated by a moon gate, just walk through the garden.Although there is a woman guarding her, it is really not difficult to sneak past while she is free.

It's best for Qing'er and the others to look for them. They can hear their laughter from a long distance away, so look for them and see where Miss Seven is.The two remained calm and walked towards the Moon Gate.

The woman guarding the Moon Gate was indeed not there, Xie Xin smiled and said, "I'll accompany Qing'er and the others."

"Then I'll trouble you." Jia Zhuo knew that Xie Xin was trying to avoid suspicion. Speaking of it, after she thought about it, she became more agile, and her nervous and dull image before the big change.

It turns out that liking someone can really change another person so much.

Jia Zhuo asked to follow his maid to find the gatekeeper's mother-in-law, "You can go to whoever is in charge of the affairs of the second gate."

"That girl..."

"I'll go ahead and ask Big Brother about something, you go."

Jia Zhuo walked to the front yard and beckoned to Jia Lan's servant, and learned that Du Xiao was outside having a barbecue with the big guy just now, and now he didn't see anyone.

The front yard is not big, the place where they barbecue is on the west slope, there is still room to walk around, and there is only a small pond on the east side.

"Do you want to call the young master here?" The servant asked in a daze.

"No, take me to the pond in the east." Jia Zhuo shook his head, Jia Lan is the host today, if he came forward, it would be even worse.

Glancing at the boy, "Can you swim?"

"Ah, oh, yes, I grew up on a boat when I was a child, and I know water when I can walk."

This is really, really good.

Jia Zhuo quickened his pace, and sure enough, he saw Du Xiao's back, shouting something not far away, waving his hands again and again.

There was a loud "plop", and the water splashed in the pond. Du Xiao only had time to take off his shoes and was about to jump into the water.

Suddenly, a force from behind grabs his belt, and a thin figure jumps ahead of him.

"How come Little General Du is free to come here to watch people fall into the water?"

Du Xiao turned his head, looking at him with big black and white eyes, his red lips parted slightly, and his words were mocking.

"You are Miss Jia, hurry up and save someone." In a hurry, he forgot to refute General Du Xiaotie's title.

"Isn't this rescued? Why are you panicking?" Jia Zhuo twitched the corner of his mouth as he watched the boy dragging a girl in a yellow shirt to the shore.

From the beginning to the end, so calm, Du Xiao waved his hands in a moment of impatience, "It's not because of me, I don't know her..."

Just finished speaking, thinking of Jia Zhuo's mocking look when he saw him for the first time, in a blink of an eye, he finally figured out the joint.

"What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up, for the sake of the girl's family's reputation, you'd better pretend you haven't seen it before." Jia Zhuo couldn't help shaking his head when he saw his sudden realization. Will be fooled.Who knows which courageous girl will be cheaper, Mrs. Du picks and chooses, but don't have to hold her nose and marry back a lame one, that would be funny.

Jia Zhuo walked to the shore and saw Miss Seven who was so ashamed and angry that she couldn't speak. Shen walked up on his own, otherwise something big will happen."

"Yes, yes, yes." The boy lowered his head, not daring to look at Seventh Girl, and ran away in a hurry.

Before the mother-in-law came over, Jia Zhuo didn't ask a word, and the atmosphere was embarrassingly depressing.

Seventh girl clenched her lips tightly, her teeth trembling.

The mother-in-law finally arrived, with a blanket in one hand, wrapping it around Miss Seventh, and the two of them half-lifted and half-carried to the inner courtyard.

The woman guarding the Moon Gate waited in panic, and when she saw Jia Zhuo, she wanted to plead for mercy.Jia Zhuo stared at him, scaring the words of the two wives back.

The steward in charge of the second door trotted forward and followed Jia Zhuo, "Girl, the room is ready, and ginger soup has been boiled in the kitchen."

"Yeah." Jia Zhuo was noncommittal, didn't even look at her, and the manager couldn't help scolding the two gatekeepers in his heart, which was really harmful.

Mrs. Jin Er got the news and rushed over, she hugged Miss Seven and rubbed her hands together, "You, why are you so playful..."

The second lady knew what she knew when she saw it, but no matter how much she complained about her daughter, she didn't dare to reprimand her outside, and had to cover it up for her.

"Isn't it? It's all our fault. The servants in the family are innocent and lazy, otherwise Seventh Miss would not have caused such a big incident. As the master, I am really ashamed." Li Wan who rushed over repeatedly apologized.

The second lady squeezed out a blunt smile, "It's none of Madam's business, let's go back first, and we'll make amends to Madam later."

Miss Seven refused to stay long, let alone wash and change clothes at Jia's house. The second wife had no choice but to wrap her daughter in a blanket and hurried back.

When Jia Zhuo returned to the garden, the girls were long gone. They said they were tired from playing and went back to the pavilion to talk.

In addition to these girls, there was another person in the pavilion who shouldn't be here. Jia Zhuo saw Mei Rui sitting among the girls, learning about the chaos of the war outside, so he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and one by one, they went to the pavilion. Can you calm down a bit?

This day is really impossible.

The other girls didn't think it was strange that there was such an extra person in Jia Lan's family. Only Xie Xin kept frowning, and when Jia Zhuo came, she looked at her with a sullen expression on her face.Obviously wondering, what's going on here?

"Miss Mei is not in good health, so she can't let the wind blow outside, and the waiter, why don't you hurry up and help her down." Jia Zhuo stepped forward with a smile, and her eyes fell on Mei Rui.

"I'm feeling better, I want to go out for a walk, I didn't know there was a banquet at the house today, I'm really sorry." Mei Rui stood up timidly, and couldn't stop looking at Qing'er.

Qing'er opened her mouth wide, she wanted to speak for Mei Rui, but seeing Jia Zhuo's expression, she immediately shut her mouth.

A servant girl came over, supported Mei Rui with all her strength, and said with a smirk: "Miss Mei, I see that you are not walking steadily, so you should hurry back and rest."

As soon as Mei Rui left, Xie Xin raised an eyebrow at Jia Zhuo. Jia Zhuo smiled wryly and spread his arms out. This is not her business.If Jia Lan caused trouble, let him suffer.

Qing'er pulled Jia Zhuo, "Miss Zhuo, did you already know? When I saw her just now, I was almost scared to death. I thought I was wrong."

"I only found out two days ago." Jia Zhuo's day was really more tiring than that of the master.

After seeing off the guests, Li Wan left Jia Zhuo behind, while Qing'er was sent back to the Wang family by Li Wan's servants.

"Auntie is asking about Miss Seven." As soon as Jia Zhuo finished speaking, Li Wan dismissed the steward of the second sect on the spot, dismissed her from her post of steward, and sold the two wives directly.

Jia Zhuo didn't expect her to hit her so hard, so he couldn't help but look sideways.

"Daughter-in-law is here, so I can't make her a mess." Li Wan also has a good face, and it's fine if his family can't compare with Du's family. If the family is still in a mess, he can't blame others.

"Miss Mei went to the pavilion to talk to the girls today, I'm afraid she won't be able to hide it from the Du family." Jia Zhuo reminded Li Wan.

Li Wan smiled wryly, how could a person who was so understanding as his son become a fool now.The Du family marrying a daughter is already a low marriage. Jia Lan's own ability is one thing, and a good family style is also highly valued by the Du family.

Jia Lan had no concubines other than the two maids, and Li Wan would not let him give birth to a concubine without a concubine.It turned out to be a good thing, somehow brought a woman to hide at home, Du Jiaming didn't say anything, how could he be happy in his heart.

"What are you doing without telling the Du family? I have done nothing wrong." Jia Lan also finished seeing off the guests, and when she heard that her sister was still there, she came over to thank her.As a result, after hearing a sentence and a half, he couldn't help but walk in.

Jia Lan came in and said seriously, "I don't have any thoughts about Miss Mei, I just feel sorry for her, why don't you believe me?"

"Then how does big brother plan to arrange for her to live in Jia's house for the rest of his life?" Jia Zhuo looked at him with a half-smile.

Jia Zhuo only believed half of Jia Lan's words, saying that he didn't take her in because he had other plans for Mei Rui, she believed it.But Mei Rui is sticky, she doesn't quite believe whether he is completely unmoved.

"I recognize her as a younger sister. Let mother find a good family to marry her off. Let's just put on a dowry and save a life." Jia Lan thought very simply.

Li Wan looked up at his stupid son, "Being married is not a matter of lip service. Her biological parents are all there. Do you think my sister's parents agree? If you marry her, her parents agree." If you really want to marry yourself, why didn’t you mention it early in the morning, and now you are forced to the corner to say the words about marrying yourself. Do you agree to the last sentence, Miss Mei?”

"Why doesn't she agree?" Jia Lan was stunned, he never thought that Meirui would disagree.

Jia Zhuo took the opportunity to get up and leave. Jia Lan personally sent her to the door, scratched her scalp and said, "I heard about the incident of falling into the water, but I really want to thank you. The Jin family really... I thought it was just an accident, but now It seems that I am afraid that there is something wrong with my original upbringing. It can also be seen that the veil and sachet that I threw that day were all aimed at him, and I suffered an innocent disaster."

Jia Zhuo laughed dryly, looking at Jia Lan's appearance, he probably thought it was funny for Du Xiao to be deflated.I probably feel that I will not be counted, and I am still in the mood to joke.

"Why, didn't you? I saw it all. Those little girls were watching him from behind the curtains of the car." Jia Lan laughed again when he thought of what he saw when he saw off the guests just now.

Silly brother, Du Xiao is a favorite, aren't you?

Jia Zhuo only asked him, "Would you like to go to the Du family's celebration banquet in a few days."

"Of course I'm going." After Jia Lan answered, he said, "I'm going to enter the military camp after the Du family's celebration banquet is over. I'm afraid I won't be able to go home again. You all come to accompany her, especially you. If it is convenient this time, I would like to trouble you to come and accompany my mother more. "

"She is your mother and my aunt, so you don't need to ask me. Besides..." Jia Zhuo shook the gold bracelet on his hand, "Look, it's all a gift from my aunts. I need to come a few more times , think about it and often meet in the future.”

Jia Lan laughed loudly, "The uncles are civil servants, and I am now a military officer. The two have nothing to do with each other. They have found the wrong person."

Obviously, I don't want to pay attention to them at all, but because of relatives' face, especially grandpa's face, I don't want to tear my face.

"Sister Qiao, don't worry, I remember everything about you. Wait for me for a few more years, and when I come back after making great contributions, I will definitely deal with them." Jia Lan suddenly mentioned this matter, and Jia Zhuo took a moment to react. understand what he is talking about.

She pursed her lips and smiled, "Okay, I'll wait for you to avenge me."