Evening Shaohua in the Red House

Lin Ruhai raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Just now I saw Madam cutting candles under the lamp. She is as beautiful as jade. I caught my husband's attention for a while."

It might as well be that he suddenly said such teasing words, Jia Min was stunned, then his face became hot, his cheeks flushed, and he said angrily: "Sweet words, I don't believe it."

Seeing her coquettish and soft words, Lin Ruhai couldn't help but feel his heart sway, he stepped forward and put his arms around her shoulders, and said with a soft smile, "everything my husband says comes from the bottom of my heart, how can madam wrong me."

Jia Min glanced at him with some embarrassment, and was about to speak, when the eldest girl Suhe came to send a message, saying that the little girl in Hanzhuyuan was talking back and forth, saying that Aunt Zheng was unwell and wanted to ask the master to go and see.

Jia Min withdrew his smile, glanced at Lin Ruhai, and said, "Master, go and have a look."

Lin Ruhai looked unmoved, and said calmly: "If you feel unwell, please call a doctor. I am not a doctor, so it is useless to go."

It turned out that this Aunt Zheng was a concubine that Lin Ruhai took in at the beginning of last year. Although she was the daughter of a small family, she was born bright and charming, with a delicate temperament. Zhi was diagnosed with Ximai at the beginning of last month.

At that time, the whole family was overjoyed, and Lin Ruhai and Jia Min were even more cautious. They allocated a yard for her and arranged for a dozen maids to take care of her. after.

After all, Aunt Zheng came from a small family with little knowledge, and she was a little apprehensive at first, but after seeing that Lin Ruhai treated her well, she gradually became a little frivolous, and she wanted to eat this today, and wear that tomorrow. The temperature is the best, and Lin Ruhai is often invited to her courtyard under the pretext of being unwell.

Because the doctor said that Aunt Zheng was pregnant with a brother, no one in the whole family dared to take advantage of him, even Jia Min retreated.

At the beginning, Lin Ruhai went there a few times because she was worried about her children, and she became a little bored when the number of times was too many.

Seeing Jia Min drooping her eyes and saying nothing, Lin Ruhai sighed, took her hand and patted it gently, and said softly, "It's been hard for you these years."

Jia Min's heart ached when she heard the words, and when she thought of the gossip she had endured over the years, she was filled with grievances and burst into tears.

As the prostitute of the Duke's Mansion, Jia Min was raised by a noble and precious family. At the age of 16, she married into the Lin family, a century-old scholar. Her husband is a first-class young talent, and Lin Ruhai is not very good at women. After getting married, I love her very much. Although there are two people in the room, I still love her.

It's all light.

The mother-in-law is not a bitter person, she is very important to her, and the housekeeper was handed over to her in the first year. The husband and wife are loving, the mother-in-law is kind, and the life is extremely comfortable. I don't know how many people secretly envy her.

Unexpectedly, she has been infertile for many years after entering the door, and now everyone who is about her age is already a grandmother, but she has never been able to give birth to a son to inherit the family name. Even if Lin Ruhai didn't say anything, she felt ashamed.

She knew how nasty the rumors outside were, it was nothing more than saying that she was unworthy as a wife, that she couldn't tolerate others, and that concubine Ji couldn't conceive and so on.

But she is also dumb and eats coptis, and she can't tell her suffering.

After three years of infertility after entering the house, she stopped concubine Ji's avoidance soup. Lin Ruhai also took in two concubines, and Mother Lin gave two. It's already seven.

Unexpectedly, no one has given birth to a son and a half daughter for many years. She herself prays to gods and Buddhas all day long, and seeks medical advice. There is no more news.

Worrying about children has always been her heart disease. No one looks forward to having a male in the Lin family more than she does. Four years ago, Aunt Li finally became pregnant. My brother, who knew that he couldn't keep it until he was three years old.

Lin Ruhai is already old, but the Lin family still has no son to inherit the lineage. If the Lin family dies in one generation, she will be a sinner of the Lin family, and even if she goes underground, she will have no face to see the ancestors of the Lin family.

Lin Ruhai also knew that Jia Min had suffered a lot of grievances over the years. Outsiders said that he had no children so far because Jia Min used tricks, but he never believed it.

The Lin family didn't have a prosperous branch, and for a hundred years, it was passed down from generation to generation, and there were no close relatives.

At the beginning, Lin Ruhai's father also had a group of concubines, but none of them gave birth to a son and a half daughter. Even Lin's mother only got one Lin Ruhai when she was about 30 years old.

Lin's mother was also aware of this back then, so Lin Ruhai had no children for many years. Although she was anxious, she never blamed Jia Min for it.

Lin Ruhai wiped away Jia Min's tears with a handkerchief, and joked, "Stop crying, your eyes will almost swell into peaches if you keep crying, but it won't look good."

Jia Min burst out laughing when he heard the words "puchi", couldn't help punching Lin Ruhai, and couldn't laugh or cry: "I'm sad, but the master is here to make fun of you."

Lin Ruhai held Jia Min's hand, and said in a gentle voice: "Children's affairs are predestined, you can't force it, I can't blame you, you have been wronged all these years.

Qu I know.

Don't worry, whether Zheng's child is a boy or a girl, they will be carried to you to support them, so we, Yu'er, will also have the support of our brothers and sisters, and we will no longer be alone. "

Hearing this, Jia Min's heart was extremely ironic, and the trace of jealousy in her heart was forgotten, and she secretly prayed that Aunt Zheng's baby would be a brother.

In this way, the Lin family had heirs to pass on the incense, and she had someone to rely on for the rest of her life, and Daiyu also had brothers to support each other.

The couple had a conversation, and Lin Ruhai saw the opened letter on the table in a blink of an eye, and remembered the steward who had been sent by the Jia family to deliver the gift, and asked, "Is this a letter from mother-in-law?"

Jia Min nodded, but did not mention what was written in the letter.

It turns out that in addition to greeting Jia Min's recent situation in Jia's mother's letter this time, she also abnormally mentioned Baoyu, praising him for how filial, smart and sensible he is.

Jia Min is so smart. Although Jia's mother didn't say it clearly, how could she not understand the meaning revealed between the lines?

She is the daughter of the Jia family, so she naturally hopes for the well-being of her natal family, but she never thought of marrying Daiyu back to her natal family.

No matter how good Baoyu is, as long as Mrs. Wang is a mother-in-law, she will never agree to this marriage.

This matter is a long story, and the rift between the sister-in-law and the sister-in-law has a long history.

Jia Min is the old daughter of Jia Daishan and his wife. The two elders love each other like a treasure, and she was born very well, talented and intelligent, and has an unusually clever temper. Reading and literacy.

Jia Min was born elegant and beautiful, and he is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. In the Rongguo Mansion, he can be said to be the most precious, unmatched.

However, because the Wang family was born as a general, the rules are rough. The daughters of the Wang family do not allow them to study. A few books, don't be a blind man with his eyes open.

For Jia Min, a sister-in-law, Mrs. Wang was both envious and jealous.

When Mrs. Wang was in her natal family, she was also a rich and precious lady, but she married and became a daughter-in-law. She was not at all as comfortable as when she was a girl.

According to the rules of the Jia family, the daughter who has not left the court is very precious, but the daughter-in-law has to set rules in front of her mother-in-law. Not only must she serve Wenggu day and night, she must also be considerate and considerate to her sister-in-law, and also worry about the basic necessities of the whole family.

Jia Min is an aunt and can eat at the same table as Jia's mother. Mrs. Wang is a daughter-in-law, but she can only stand and serve dishes.

Samples of Jia Min's Qinqi Calligraphy and Painting

They are so proficient, but Mrs. Wang can only know a few words, and the two of them usually don't talk to each other. Compared with the taciturn second sister-in-law, Jia Min gets along better with the eldest sister-in-law Li, who was born in a scholarly family.

Mrs. Wang, because Jia Zheng's two roommates are both smart and beautiful, and the person who hates the most romantic signs in her life, she also looks down on Jia Min's talented woman.

As time went on, many rifts inevitably arose between sisters-in-law.

What Mother Jia revealed in the letter was that Daiyu promised Baoyu to marry her, and that her uncle and aunt were Wenggu, and she would not be wronged if she was caring for her grandmother.

But Jia Min is not confused. Although Jia's mother is close, she is separated by a layer, and she is old, how many years can she protect Daiyu?

Besides, mother-in-laws have always had a lot of trouble with their daughter-in-law, and she has seen a lot of ways other mother-in-laws torment their daughter-in-law.

Lin's mother was kind and kind, although she didn't treat her daughter-in-law like her own daughter, she was still more than ten times better than other families. However, even so, Jia Min still suffered a lot of grievances because of his heirs.

Mrs. Wang already had a rift with her, if she became Yu'er's mother-in-law, how would her daughter suffer!

Thinking of this, Jia Min sighed, and said worriedly: "My mother said in her letter that Baoyu was born smart, and that she had already learned thousands of words in her stomach when she was three or four years old, but I heard people who went back to the capital to give gifts say this. Now the child is only hanging out in Neves, and has not yet officially started school, and I don’t know what the mother thinks.”

Baoyu's temperament was so weird when she was young. If her mother's family taught her well, she might not be able to become a talent in the future. However, she and her mother's family wrote several times and learned that Jia's mother doted on her very much. Baoyu is now five or six years old, but she still only likes her. Hanging around in the inner curtain, I haven't even been to a serious school.

Jia Min sighed secretly, she is a daughter of the Jia family, so she naturally hoped that her natal nephew would be successful. Acting with too much partiality, disregarding seniority and spoiling children and grandchildren blindly, it is really a bit muddled.

But she is a married woman, and she can't meddle in her natal family's affairs.

For a moment I thought of Jia Zhu again, this nephew is a good nephew, filial and courteous, good-natured, but he recovered from his illness, I only hope that Baoyu's temperament can be reversed in the future.

Lin Ruhai shook his head secretly. Back then when there was a lot of rumors about Baoyu holding a psychic jade in his mouth and falling into the grass, he felt that it was wrong. Such auspiciousness is not something ordinary people can afford. , wantonly publicized, not afraid of fear from above

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Fortunately, when Baoyu caught Zhou Zhou, he caught the powder hairpin ring, and kept messing around in the inner curtain, so the higher-ups were relieved.

But this is the matter of the Yue family after all, so he didn't want to say much, and said: "I heard that my mother-in-law sent people to send a lot of things today. I remember we still have a few wild ginseng in the warehouse. You will send people to pick them up tomorrow." Come out and return the gift to your mother-in-law."

Jia Min agreed, her face flushed slightly.

Although the Jia family used the pretense of congratulating Daiyu on her birthday, anyone with a discerning eye could tell what they were really doing.

The gifts given this time are all gold and jade decorations, silk and satin, which are similar to Jia Min's previous birthdays, or even worse.

It's just that the precious is very precious, but there are few items that are really suitable for Daiyu. Only a top-quality warm jade pendant, a set of exquisite clothes, shoes and socks given by Jiamu, and a small and exquisite guqin given by Li Wan can be seen. It was carefully prepared for Daiyu.

Lin Ruhai smiled. In previous years, I didn't see the Jia family sending people to give Daiyu a birthday gift. This year, I was promoted to be a salt transport envoy, so the Jia family hurriedly sent someone to send a congratulatory gift. On the surface, it was said that it was to celebrate Daiyu's birthday. , by the way, is to congratulate him on his promotion, as expected, it is difficult to give charcoal in the snow, but it is easy to add flowers to the cake.

Jia Min was a little ashamed and flustered when her natal family acted like this.

Seeing that Jia Min was a little uncomfortable, Lin Ruhai coughed lightly and changed the subject, "I heard from Yu'er that there was a Guqin and two sets of manuscripts of ancient books in the gift, and she liked it very much."

Jia Min smiled slightly, "Zhu's daughter-in-law's natal family is also a family of scholars, accumulated over a hundred years, with a huge collection of books, and there are also many rare books of ancient books. Most of these manuscripts and Guqin are her dowry."

Although the Guqin is not a rare treasure, it is also an extremely rare treasure. It is not uncommon for their family to have a good Guqin, but it is not as small as this one. It is suitable for little girls to learn and use, which shows that they have put their heart into it.

Lin Ruhai nodded and said, "It's hard for her to bother so much, and we shouldn't be too thin when we return the gift."

Jia Min smiled and said, "Master, don't worry, I know what's going on."

It was late March at this time, and Jia Min was busy arranging for the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony to be sent to relatives and friends in the past, and Lin Ruhai also started inviting Daiyu to be a teacher.

Within a few days, someone from below recommended Jia Yucun, who was dismissed last year.

Lin Ruhai was moved when he heard that Jia Yucun was a scholar in the second list, so he asked someone to inquire about him, and found out about him. He also heard that he had helped the wife of Zhen's family and presented brocade and silver taels. There is a disadvantage of being greedy and cool, but he has not forgotten his old benefactor, but he is a kind person who repays his kindness. After meeting, he found that his talent and learning are also very good. Other people

He was not as good as him in the selection, so after weighing it, he was hired as Daiyu's husband.

In the Rongguo Mansion, Jia's mother waited for Jia Min's reply for a long time, and she couldn't help but feel a little puzzled, but she didn't show it on the surface, and she still talked and joked with her grandchildren every day.

It just so happens that many girls in the mansion have come of age recently. Sister Feng went back to Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, and may give the girls who have reached the age to the servants, or release them to marry by themselves.

Mrs. Jia Muwang also has several big girls who have reached their age, and they are also released.

The girls below were also promoted, and Pearl Amber and others in Jiamu's room were all promoted.

Yuanyang is only 12 years old this year, and was promoted to a first-class girl two years ago. Because of her cleverness, prudence, and good needlework, she has gradually become No. 1 in front of Jia Mu. She cannot live without her. Now She is already the deacon girl in Jiamu's room, in charge of everything in the room.

The gold and jade bracelets in Mrs. Wang's room were also promoted.

The two second-class girls in Li Wan's courtyard had also reached their age, so Li Wan raised Suyun Biyue, who was originally a third-class girl, to second class.

Suyun and Biyue are only eight or nine years old, and they have been in Li Wan's courtyard for a long time. Suyun is stable and Biyue is smart, and they act quite appropriately.

Fu Ling spoke in the courtyard, and said to Suyun Biyue: "You are here now, and you will serve with all your heart in the future. If you want to play tricks, don't blame me for being rude!"

The two laughed hurriedly: "Sister, don't worry, we are young, but we know what is good and what is wrong, and we are determined not to mess around."

Fu Ling nodded, "That's the best, come with me, I'll take you to familiarize yourself with the places."

Take the two of them around and teach them where to wash, where to sit and lie, where to change clothes, and the likes and taboos of the master, etc.

Suyun and Biyue were clever at first, and they kept all Fuling's words in their hearts.