Evening Shaohua in the Red House

In addition, Sister Feng has been pregnant for more than three months, and the nausea has become more and more serious. At first, she was just vomiting acid, and then she had dizziness and dizziness. She invited several imperial doctors to see her, but there was nothing she could do, so she had to stay in bed and recuperate.

Sister Pianfeng has a strong personality, refuses to be praised or criticized by others, and is strong in herself. Although she doesn't go out, she still makes plans and calculations. When she thinks of something, she asks Ping'er to go back to Mrs. Wang.

Unexpectedly, Sister Feng was endowed with insufficient energy and blood, and she did not know how to take care of herself when she was young. Seeing Hong, everyone was so frightened that they hurriedly invited the imperial physician.

Mother Jia and the others were worried, fearing that the fetus would not be safe. Fortunately, the imperial physician said after the pulse diagnosis that the fetus was very healthy. Lie in bed to recuperate, and must not be overworked, otherwise there may be a risk of tire slippage.

Only then did Jiamu and the others come to their senses, and they only asked Sister Feng to take medicine to prevent pregnancy and take care of her body, so that she no longer had to deal with housekeeping, even the morning and evening appointments.

Jia Lian became even more ruthless, saying that Sister Feng would not be allowed to touch the housework again. After this incident, Sister Feng was also terrified, she did not dare to be brave anymore, she no longer worried about housework, and only stayed in her room every day to rest.

It's just that Mrs. Wang felt helpless, all the affairs in the Jia's house were complicated, and Sister Feng was always there to help with the cooking, Mrs. Wang only needed to take care of some important matters, but now she had to take care of everything, so she couldn't care less.

On this day, Li Wan had just finished his breakfast when he saw the little girl in Mrs. Wang's room passing a message: "Madam asked Grandma to come over and discuss something."

Hearing this, Li Wan agreed, and said, "Understood, I'll come right away." He hurriedly washed and changed his clothes and went over.

When I came to Mrs. Wang's room, I saw Mrs. Wang wearing a home-made stone green gauze with a double-breasted tufted bodice leaning on the couch, waving a plantain fan absently.

Li Wan went up to invite Ann, and said, "I don't know why my wife called me here?"

Mrs. Wang came back to her senses when she heard the words, sighed and said: "I didn't ask you to come here for anything else. Now that Feng girl is inconvenient and there is no one to look after her in the house, she is really out of order, and she doesn't look like it from the outside. Now I am going to bed again. I'm getting old and mentally weak, so I can't take care of these many things, so I want you to take care of the cooking, and I will hand it over to Miss Feng when she is ready."

Li Wan had already guessed a little bit about Mrs. Wang's meaning before, but she was not surprised at this time. She lowered her head and thought for a while, and said, "Go back to Mrs. Wang."

If it's too late, it's not that the daughter-in-law is shirking, it's just that there are hundreds of people in our house, there are so many complicated things, and I have to take care of Lan'er, I'm afraid I can't take care of it alone. "

Mrs. Wang pondered for a moment when she heard the words, and said, "Then what do you mean?"

Li Wan said: "I think it's better to ask the second younger sister to help with the third younger sister. One is that there are two more people to help, and everything is cheaper. Second, now that the second younger sister is engaged and the third younger sister is getting older, it's just a matter of taking this opportunity." Experience one or two."

If it were in other families, a girl at Yingchun Tanchun's age should have learned how to be a housekeeper, otherwise she would know nothing after leaving the cabinet, and no one in Pianrong Manor cared about it.

The reason why Xichun was not mentioned is that Xichun is still young, and secondly that Xichun was brought up with Yingchun and Tanchun only because of Jia's mother's order.

Mrs. Wang frowned slightly when she heard this, turned her mind a few times, and said: "Forget it, just follow your idea."

Because of Aunt Zhao's matter, Mrs. Wang was somewhat angry with Tanchun. During this period of time, it has been indifferent, but now that the matter has passed, Aunt Zhao has been punished, and there is no need to worry about Tanchun's innocence. .

But Yingchun and Tanchun were very pleasantly surprised when they heard the letter, and Tanchun was even more overjoyed. Knowing that it was Li Wan's suggestion, they were all very grateful.

From the next day, Li Wan, Yingchun, and Tanchun began to take office. Mrs. Wang still advocated for major affairs in the mansion, and all other trivial matters were dealt with by Yingchun Tanchun and Li Wan.

A group of women and daughters-in-law in the mansion first heard Li Wan and Yingchun Tanchun's housekeeper, each secretly happy, thinking that one is a widow and grandma, who has always been generous, and Yingchun Tanchun is just two young ladies who have not left the boudoir, and they are usually the most peaceful Tranquility is naturally easier to prevaricate than Sister Feng; therefore, I don't care, and I am much more slack than Sister Feng.

Li Wan also occasionally helped Sister Feng with some trivial matters before, and knew everything about the affairs of the Rong Mansion and the details of all the housekeepers and daughters-in-law. She has also learned all the skills of being a housekeeper and director, and now that she is engaged, she has more confidence in her actions, not to mention Tanchun, who is astute and capable, and her subtleties are no less than that of Sister Feng.

Therefore, the three of them made a total calculation, and they were not in a hurry at the beginning, they only looked at the accounts books over the years. After three or four days, everyone was slack, so they chose an opportunity to take a few stewards' daughters-in-law as rafts in public to stand up.

This trick is very effective in killing chickens and monkeys. In addition, the three of them acted fairly and properly, and together

Everything was done in an orderly manner, even Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang were very satisfied, no one dared to underestimate them, although they complained in their hearts, they had to do their jobs honestly.

Time flies, and the weather is gradually cooling down.

One day Li Wan finished cooking the chores and remembered that he hadn't visited Sister Feng for a long time, so he asked Suyun to cook some exquisite food, put them in a box and brought them to Sister Feng's courtyard.

At this time, Jia Lian was still in the yamen, and the girls and daughters-in-law saw Li Wan coming, and hurriedly lifted the curtain.

Ping'er came out early to greet her, and said with a smile: "Grandma, please come in, our grandma is waiting inside."

Li Wan went in, walked straight into the inner room, and arrived at Sister Feng's bedroom. Sister Feng was leaning on the pit, wearing a silver-red jacket, a bun on her head, a half-new and old red-top embroidered pillow, and a cover on her body. Wearing a gauze quilt embroidered with grape twigs in water red, she was peeling a vermilion orange in her hand, and she couldn't help laughing: "I was afraid that you would be bored, but now it seems that you are at ease now."

Sister Feng hurriedly gave up her seat with a smile, and ordered the little girl to serve tea, saying: "It's just to pass the time. The family is bored in the house all day long, and my body is almost covered with lice."

Li Wan laughed when he heard the words, shook his head and said: "It really doesn't hurt my back to stand and talk. We are so busy that the poetry club that we just started has been abandoned. You are free now, so you can talk sarcasticly and wait until your brother is born. , you still want to be so leisurely."

The fact that the housekeeper is a mess, it's a thankless task, but Sister Feng has been able to take care of everything in the past few years.

Sister Feng said with a smile: "There are you anyway, if you are with me for a day, I will benefit from it for a day."

After talking and joking a few words, Li Wan turned around and told Suyun to take out the food from the food box, and smiled at Sister Feng, "I heard that you want to eat dessert these days, and this is just made, and it's still warm." , try it and see if you like it."

Sister Feng saw that there was a plate of butter egg cake, a plate of crystal crisps, a plate of chicken oil sugar rolls and a plate of soufflé fruit stuffing, she couldn't help laughing and said: "I just want to eat this, the ones brought by Grandma Liu a while ago." Jujubes are sweet and fragrant, but it's a pity that the imperial physician doesn't tell you to eat more."

After finishing speaking, he picked up a piece of crystal cake with his chopsticks, ate a chicken cake and two pastries, put down his silver chopsticks, and said: "Now that I am getting heavier and heavier, my appetite is getting bigger and bigger. I eat three meals a day. After four snacks, I'm still hungry."

Ping'er brought hot tea to rinse her mouth, and said with a smile: "Not only is she hungry quickly, but the taste is also very strange. A few days ago, I wanted to eat sour ones, but these days I like to eat sweet ones."

All the daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law who served in the underground laughed and said: "You are sour, the one in grandma's belly must be a brother."

Sister Feng was delighted when she heard the words. The imperial physician said after taking the pulse earlier that the baby might be a boy in seventy to eighty percent.

Li Wan was a little worried. He glanced at her swollen belly and said worriedly: "Although pregnant women need to nourish their bodies, they should not eat too much. They should move around more on weekdays, otherwise the fetus will be too big. Production can suffer."

Sister Feng didn't care when she heard this, she waved her hands and said, "Don't worry, I'm all temperate, and besides, there's an imperial doctor who asks for pulse regularly."

Li Wan frowned slightly. It wasn't that she didn't believe in the medical skills of imperial physicians, but that the examination and medical treatment in this era was too backward. A woman's childbirth can be said to have passed through hell, so she couldn't help but not worry, but now Sister Feng is full of joy and can't listen to it at all. Otherwise, it seems that I can only remind Ping'er to pay more attention in private.

After chatting for a while, Li Wan suddenly remembered something, and winked at Ping'er, who understood, and led everyone down.

Seeing this, Sister Feng was puzzled and said with a smile: "What is this for? Is there any important confidential matter that you want to tell me?"

Li Wan said seriously, "I have an important matter to discuss with you."

Seeing that she was so solemn, Sister Feng suppressed her smile and listened to her in detail.

Li Wan said: "A while ago, my third younger sister and I cleaned up the accounts and found that our family allocates a sum of money to Jinling every year, and the amount is still increasing every year. I don't know why?"

After hearing this, Sister Feng sighed and said: "The money was originally used to pay for the envoys of our ancestral tomb for four seasons sacrifices to the private schools for the children of the clan, and to help some old, weak, sick, disabled, and poor people in the clan.

Although the two families of our Jia family are in the capital, there are still more than a dozen family members in Jinling's original place. These years, the population of the family has increased, and the expenses have also increased. Not only our family, but also the East Mansion has to allocate money every year. In the past, the number was only a lot more than ours. "

Only then did Li Wan realize that this was the reason. It was just a common saying that Daosheng Mien fights Mi Qiu, and this will only breed their laziness, which is not a good strategy. Going down is not a long-term solution.”

Sister Feng laughed bitterly and said, "I don't know, it's just that this is an old rule in the hands of our ancestors. It has been like this since the old man was here. How can we abolish it? Besides, several of the great masters of the Jinling clan are still there. I'm a generation older than the old lady, and we juniors can't say that. In the past few years, more people have gone out of the house, and fewer people have come in. I also got over it by tearing down the east wall and frugally."

Li Wan bowed his head and pondered for a long time, then suddenly remembered Qin Keqing's idea in the original book, and said: "I don't think it's better than this."

In this way, take a sum of money from the official, and set up more farms, houses, and acres of land near the ancestral tombs for sacrifices, and set up the family school here. In the future, the clan's annual supply expenses will come from these incomes. The remaining profit will be used to buy farm property, so that the income will naturally be more, enough for them to spend, and we don't need to pay extra money; besides, even if you are guilty of this sacrificial property, you will not be admitted to the government. When they are defeated, their children and grandchildren go home to study and work in agriculture, and there is also a setback. "

With this property, even if the house is ransacked in the future, the members of the Jia family will have no worries about food and clothing.

Sister Feng was stunned when she heard these words, and stroked her lower abdomen lightly, vaguely remembering Qin Keqing's instructions in her dream that year, she never cared about it back then, but now she has to think more about the child in her womb Anyway, it's all the money of the flower officials. She doesn't need to touch her self, and she has gained a good reputation for nothing.

Thinking of this, Sister Feng made up her mind and said, "Your idea is very good. I'll ask Second Master to do it tomorrow."

Li Wan thought for a while and said: "After all, this is a major matter for our clan, we can't just take care of it. Brother Zhen is the head of the clan, so we will hear about this matter from Huidong Mansion."

Sister Feng is so smart, she understood immediately, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will take care of it."

I don't know how Jia Lian did it, Jia Zhen, Jia Zheng and even Jia Amnesty agreed to this method, and within a few days they sent people to Jiangnan to take care of the matter.

After hearing the news, Li Wan finally felt relieved.

It's October, and the weather is getting colder. Sister Feng is about to go into bed, and the whole family is very careful. The delivery room has been tidied up early, and Mrs. Wen has also been invited into the house.

Everyone was talking in Jiamu's room that day, only to see the nurse coming in with Qiaojie in her arms, wearing a small red cotton jacket, green silk floral trousers, white silk socks, three shoes inlaid with gold pieces, pink The makeup is exquisite, the eyebrows are picturesque, really delicate and lovely.

Qiaojie got off the ground, greeted Mrs. Jia Muwang first, and then rushed towards Li Wan with her short legs, and said in a childish voice, "Mother, hug!"

Li Wan took the little one with a smile, rubbed her chubby face, and said with a smile, "Does Qiaoer miss you, Madam?"

Sister Qiao nodded immediately, and said with a smile: "I think, I want to eat!"

Seeing that the two of them were so close, Jia's mother couldn't help laughing and said, "Qiao girl is kissing you."

Li Wan said with a smile: "Old ancestor, don't be fooled by this little girl. This girl is just a greedy cat. I often bring her food, so she remembers it. When she sees food, she will think of me as an old lady."

Everyone who said it laughed, and said: "Our girl Qiao has a real heart,

Whoever has food is a mother. "

Aunt Xue also wanted to tease her, so she asked with a smile: "Sister Qiao, what is your mother doing at home?"

Qiaojie frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Mom is secretly counting silver in the house."

Everyone burst into laughter when they heard the words. Mrs. Wang was drinking tea when she choked for a while, and Baoyu hurriedly stepped forward to stroke her back.

Tanchun smiled and said, "Qiaoer is indeed a sincere child!"

While talking and joking, suddenly I saw Feng'er, a little girl from Sister Feng's courtyard, running over panting, saying, "Second Mistress is about to give birth!"

Suddenly the whole room was startled, Mrs. Jia Muwang didn't care about talking and joking, and hurried to Sister Feng's courtyard.

But she said that Sister Feng had just had breakfast and was about to go for a walk in the yard when she suddenly felt a pain in her abdomen and a faint stream of heat flowed out of her lower abdomen.

Everyone in the room was taken aback when they saw Sister Feng's appearance, and hurriedly gathered around to support them, calling for people loudly.

Ping'er was bringing in the bird's nest porridge that had just been boiled, and when he saw this scene, his complexion changed drastically, the whole bowl of bird's nest porridge fell to the ground, even the tray and the bowl, and he ran to help Sister Feng, and said in panic, "What's wrong with grandma? But it's about to give birth?!"

Sister Feng held Ping'er's hand tightly, suppressed the panic in her heart, gritted her teeth and said, "I just had pain in my lower abdomen. I wonder if the amniotic fluid has broken. Go and call the midwife."

When Ping'er heard this, his hands shook again, and he managed to calm down. While helping Sister Feng to the delivery room, he rushed to invite the imperial doctor Wenpo, and then sent someone to tell Jia Mu, Jia Lian and others.

When Jia Mu and others arrived, Sister Feng had already entered the delivery room, and the two stable women were looking after them inside, so they had to watch outside.

Seeing the time passing by, Li Wan's heart was pounding when he heard Sister Feng's groans from time to time in the room, and Mrs. Jia Muwang and others also looked solemn.

Jia Lian and Jia Amnesty kept sending people to ask questions, all of whom were very anxious.

Li Wan was praying secretly, when suddenly she heard Sister Feng's cry of pain, followed by the sonorous cry of a baby.

Everyone was overjoyed immediately, and Li Wan also breathed a sigh of relief.

Mother Jia heard her voice resoundingly, and hurriedly wanted to ask questions, only to see a steady woman come to the door curtain and said loudly to Mother Jia: "The old lady is very happy, she has added a great-grandson."

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