[Red Mansions] The promotion of the female history of salted fish

It turned out that the Chen family was originally one of the four major salt merchants in Huizhou.As the saying goes, money can turn ghosts, and the salt merchants have reached the level of the Chen family? In Huizhou, they are indeed better than officials of the sixth and seventh ranks.During the holidays, there are many officials who take the initiative to visit the Chen family.In the local area, there are many stories about the children of the Chen family spending a lot of money; even the theater troupe of the Chen family,? They can do such a thing as spending 5 taels of silver to buy costumes for the performance of "The Palace of Eternal Life".

The cost of raising an opera troupe is nothing in the Chen family. Among the daily expenses of the Chen family, the most expensive item is raising lean horses.

"Skinny horses" are not actually horses, but young and beautiful girls who were bought from Ren Yazi when they were six or seven years old.These little girls are called the adopted daughters of the Chen family. According to their talents, they are divided into first, second and third grades. Each person spends at least a few thousand taels a year, or even tens of thousands of taels.When he was fifteen or sixteen years old, Chen's father would give him to a business partner or a Shangguan. The Shangguan made it convenient, and the money he spent would be doubled back.

Seeing that she had grown up well since she was a child, Chen's grandmother was moved. She also secretly taught Chen some lessons about thin horses at home. The singing and dancing that Chen knows now was learned at that time.When Mrs. Chen grew up, just in time for the emperor's southern tour, the Chen family took a lot of effort to put Mrs. Chen on the list of escorts. Who knew that the emperor finally gave him the fifth prince.At that time, the fifth prince's reputation was not obvious, and the Chen family felt that the business was losing money, so they decisively withdrew their capital.It wasn't until last year when the Fifth Prince supervised the country that the Chen family contacted the Chen family again, and the Chen family only became more financially rich since then.

After hearing this, Yunling was stunned, "No, why is Mrs. Chen in such a hurry? How does her family treat her differently from those adopted daughters?" Could it be that the Chen family is giving money to Mrs. Chen because they understand her poor life in the prince's mansion? is it easy?Don't dream, it's not because the stock of Fifth Prince is about to appreciate.Even if it was an adopted daughter that the Chen family sent to the backyard of the Fifth Prince's Mansion back then, she would try her best to "connect with each other" now!

Yang Peishan smiled and said, "You think so too?" She reached out her hand and clicked on the account book on the table, shaking her head with a bit of helplessness, "Besides, even if her natal family is worth helping, a mess like a headless fly like her Hit, sooner or later it will be a bad thing."

The two sat facing each other and sighed for a while, Wei Zi came in from the outside and changed Yun Ling's cup of tea.There was green tea in front of Yunling, but she asked her to change it to red dates and longan tea.After changing Yunling's side, Wei Zi said something to Yang Peishan again. Yang Peishan looked surprised and took Yunling's hand, "Why didn't you tell me about your period before you came?"

Yunling turned her head to look at Yuyan, she also looked surprised when she saw Yuyan, probably because she thought she should come in and told Yang Peishan about it.Yun Ling inexplicably felt a little guilty, touched her nose, "Well, I originally came to my sister's place because of this matter, but when I mentioned the Chen family just now, I forgot..."

Yang Peishan shook her head with a smile, and repeatedly told Yao Huang, "Just say that my spleen and stomach are not in harmony today, and let the imperial hospital send an imperial doctor to come out and take a look."

The doctors in the Imperial Hospital are graded. Except for the head of the Imperial Hospital and the left and right judges, the doctors below are divided into Imperial Physicians, Imperial Physicians and Doctors.Divided according to the scope of duties, the imperial doctor only visits the doctor when the empress dowager, the emperor, the empress, the prince, and the prince's concubine are not feeling well. Occasionally, it is the emperor's favor to see a doctor for the minister; It is responsible for treating the empresses in the palace and the influential dignitaries in Beijing; as for the doctor, although it is the same word as the modern term for a doctor, the doctor here is not the modern meaning. ", the salary is extremely low, and the official rank is not high-ranking. It is mainly responsible for assisting the imperial physicians. Occasionally, the talented and selected servants in the palace will go to the doctor when they are sick-but this is different from the imperial physicians and imperial physicians. Physicians and Imperial Physicians can meet patients, listen to maids to describe symptoms after taking pulses, and then prescribe medicines, but it is not so big to let men go directly to the harem when they find talented people and waiters who go to the doctors, so they all It is to send the little maid to the doctor to get the ready-made pills.

If Yang Peishan is really ill, she is qualified to call the imperial doctor to see her.She called an imperial doctor in her own name, and at the imperial hospital, she implicitly expressed that it was not she who wanted to see a doctor, but other people in the house.Yunling, the prince and child, is a sixth-rank grade, comparable to the talents in the palace. If Yang Peishan told the truth, the person sent here would most likely be a doctor.

After all, Yun Ling also stayed in the Prince's Mansion for more than a year, so she still understands these "hidden royal rules".Hearing Yang Peishan call the imperial doctor, she didn't really refuse, she just sat on the chair and smiled softly, "I'm too tired to bother my sister."

"What's the matter?" Yang Peishan disapproved, "It's a matter of one sentence, I'm only happy if you can see others like this."

Yunling looked at the favorability bar on her head, and could only sigh that Yang Peishan was really the best match for a good wife in ancient times.

The Imperial Hospital was not far from the Fifth Prince's Mansion. Within half an hour, a man in his thirties and wearing official robes walked in from outside.He checked Yang Peishan's pulse first, and since Yang Peishan said that she had a disharmony between her spleen and stomach, the imperial doctor gave her a hawthorn pill in a very polite way, and then it was Yunling's turn.

With palms up, Yunling put her wrist on the wrist pillow that Yang Peishan had just put on. Yuyan had already prepared it on the side, and covered it with a veil. After a while, he opened his mouth and said, "The pulse is like a bead on a plate, strong and powerful, congratulations to this child, she has been pregnant for a month and a half."

Although Yun Ling had already been mentally prepared, she was still a little dazed when she heard such an affirmative answer.She knew that this baby would change her life forever.Seeing Yang Peishan with a happy face, Yunling exhaled slowly, hoping that this change is for the better.

Instructing Yao Huang to give the imperial doctor a high-quality red seal, Yang Peishan also asked Wei Zi to find out the clothes of the elder brother when he was a child, and told Yunling to sleep at night and put it under the pillow.This is a folk tradition. When pregnant, pressing the boy's clothes under the pillow or quilt can "bring a younger brother", so that the one in the belly is also a boy.

Yunling has studied modern biology, so of course she doesn't believe it, but she also knows that Yang Peishan gave her these things out of kindness.Yun Ling also hoped that this child would be a son, not that she wanted a son to improve her status in the backyard of the Fifth Prince's Mansion—since the ensuing canonization ceremony ended, her position in the Fifth Prince's Mansion was very stable. Very—but in ancient times, giving birth to a daughter was much more troublesome than giving birth to a son.Like Concubine Zhuang's daughter, even though she is a princess, didn't she stop her son-in-law from taking concubines?If it is because the Zhen family is too arrogant, then the son-in-law of the eldest princess and the second princess also has a housemate, and even the housemaid of the son-in-law of the eldest princess is the maid that the eldest princess brought with her when she got married.

The son is different, Yunling can guarantee that she will not be a wicked mother-in-law, and she will never take the initiative to make a concubine for her son.As for what kind of wife the brat will marry in the future, as a clan in a patriarchal society, is she still afraid that he will suffer?

After exhorting all kinds of "precautions", Yang Peishan asked Yuyan to come to the main courtyard to ask Madam Wu if she didn't understand anything, and then let Yunling go back to Guantong courtyard.Then he ordered the kitchen, "Yunling will cook whatever she likes according to her taste."

Yao Huang went out to pass on the message, but Wei Zi was a little puzzled, "Don't you ask someone to tell His Highness now?"

Recently, the fifth prince didn't know what errand he had received from the emperor, so he was very busy going out early and returning late every day.Yang Peishan vaguely felt that the fifth prince's mood was not particularly good, so she shook her head, "When Yunling's pregnancy is stable, let her announce the good news by herself. Compared with others in our house, the relationship between Yunling and His Highness is still a bit shallow .”

After all, Yunling entered the mansion the latest.Both Yang Peishan and Concubine Cui had sweet moments with the fifth prince, and even Wang Ruzi and Feng Ruzi had some affection for the fifth prince because of their children.Recently, the fifth prince seems to be fond of Yunling, but in fact it is all for the face of his successors.With this child, Yang Peishan felt a little more at ease about Yunling's future life.

The next day when everyone came to the main courtyard to pay their respects, Yang Peishan told Yun Ling to stay.Yunling's relationship with Situ Hui is not bad recently, and she is even pregnant with a child, so naturally she will not pretend to be condescending and refuse to announce the happy news to the fifth prince.It's just that after Yunling decided to announce the good news in person, she didn't see Situ Hui for five or six days. After asking Yang Peishan, she found out that Situ Hui had lived alone in the study in the front yard for five or six days. I don't know what was arranged by the emperor. Task.

Yunling discovered that in Situhui's place, the priority of affairs is that work is more important than children than women. Once the emperor assigns official duties, Situhui can't even take care of his elder brother who is studying next to the study in the front yard, let alone Yunling. The women of the backyard.Yunling has been in the mansion for a year, and she has witnessed Situ Hui's gradual reuse by the emperor. She is very familiar with Situ Hui in this state, so she didn't take the initiative to find him.Generally speaking, the official duties assigned by the emperor to Situ Hui would not be too complicated, and it would be the same if he told Situ Hui after three or five days.

Yunling thought to herself that Situ Hui's petting for her now was only for her successors, and she didn't take the initiative to come to provoke her, but other people in the mansion didn't think so.On the second day after she was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yunling was trimming the bonsai by herself, while thinking about what to eat for lunch, she saw Pan Youren walking briskly from outside.Although he tried to keep a straight face, his cheerful steps and slightly curved mouth gave him away.

"What kind of happy event does this look like?" Yunling was having a headache thinking about the menu. Yuyan got instructions from Madam Wu that Yunling was not allowed to eat any cold food. It is midsummer now, water chestnut, Lotus root slices and watermelon were all removed from the recipe, Yunling couldn't help feeling a little depressed.Seeing Pan Youren's expression, one knew that he had received good news about himself.This group of eunuchs and maidservants are ghosts, this expression of suppressed joy is also to win rewards in front of her, Yun Ling has already discovered it.

Wasn't it the same when she was with the Queen before?How these servants who are close to them do things depends on the preferences of the superiors.So even though she saw the current state of Pan Youren and Yuyan Yuchan, Yunling didn't say anything, and was happy to fulfill their intentions.