Old things in the Red Chamber

This is a big deal, Mrs. Tong couldn't go to her in-law's house anymore, so she had to go to Lin Daiyu's.She was recently frightened by the matter of having a baby, and the imperial concubine looked a little stronger, but people said it would be gone. Lin Daiyu, who has always been weak and weak, is more frightening than she looks.So when Mrs. Tong rushed to Gu Mansion, the people from Rongguo Mansion also rushed over.Lin Daiyu's natal family only had these two relatives, so their housekeeper opened the door and welcomed the female relatives of the two families in.

The birth went incredibly smoothly, and soon Lin Daiyu gave birth to a little boy. According to the original agreement, this child should be named Lin.Of course, the reason why Mrs. Tong came here also has this aspect. In addition to worrying about Lin Daiyu's birth, it is more about the agreement between the Hou Mansion and Lin Hai. Let me draw a paragraph here. This agreement will end more than ten years later. As an adult, the last thing the Hou Mansion has to do is to watch over his parents and hand over all the property of the Lin family to him.

Not only Mrs. Tong and his wife paid attention to Lin Daiyu's birth, but also the Lin family who was far away in the south of the Yangtze River also sent people. After confirming that the child was very healthy, they returned to the south of the Yangtze River again.Lin Ruhai's branch is very far away from Jiangnan's Lin family. They only need to confirm the child's name. They don't have much opinion on who will raise the child and whether it will be raised in Jiangnan.

Lin Daiyu was also unable to calm down. For her, she finally let go of a major event in her heart.And this fairy-like woman has become a good wife and mother, and the mother of two children.

When Gu Yun hurried back, the child had already been born, and the little one was hugged in his arms. When he saw the youngest son and then looked at the older son standing aside, he was filled with emotion.

Not only did he feel emotional in his heart, but Shi Taijun also felt that a big stone had been put down in her heart. She thought she was worthy of her daughter at this moment.

Lin Daiyu already had two children, and four with the imperial concubine. Only Xue Baochai had no sons and daughters under her knees, and she herself was very anxious.But anyway, she is married now, and she is full of hope for the future.

But the reality slapped him hard. She has always been worried that others would say that she is not virtuous, and she has always treated Jia Baoyu's big maids more gracefully.When she returned to her own home from Lin Daiyu's house, she was told that she was ready to be a mother. In fact, she had been married for a relatively short time. This child was conceived before they got married, and her face was taken off. , She stepped on the ground a few times, and she couldn't be angry.

Because her current mother-in-law and former aunt were very happy, and she personally took her hand and said to her, "Good boy, I know you have worked hard. You have also been wronged, but this child is Baoyu's flesh and blood. You call mother. You have always been a virtuous and understanding girl, so I entrusted their mother and child to you. "

Not to mention what Xue Baochai was thinking, even Xue Baochai's servant girl, Ying'er, felt that what the wife said was too inhumane. How did the wife treat Aunt Zhao, mother and child on weekdays, but now she asked her daughter-in-law to be more generous.

Xue Baochai sent away her mother-in-law and smiled slightly at Sheyue. No one in the room felt her anger. From the eyes of these big maids, grandma is a virtuous person, and she will definitely not be as fussy as other ladies. So they all went to congratulate Musk Moon, and only they knew how much it was sincere and how much it was jealousy.

This incident is not enough to defeat Xue Baochai, for her it is just a part of a miserable life.After living here for nearly ten years, she already understood how women should live in the mansion.

And she persuaded herself, "Women are so miserable, even the empress dowager who is the queen mother is like this in her later years, let alone other people."

After adjusting her mentality, she put all her energy on the housekeeper again.Now Wang Xifeng basically does not appear in this family.Life does not mean that if you do not show up, there will be no intersection between two people. Their relationship is very close. When they are not married, they are cousins, but after they are married, they are cousins.But both people know what kind of person the other is, so try to avoid meeting each other.But because of the entanglement caused by interests, the two will be pulled together.

Xue Baochai put down the account book, thinking about what happened a few years ago. Judging from the account book alone, Wang Xifeng embezzled a lot of money at that time, but it has been so long, and anyone who shouted it would look ugly.

The family is getting more and more unable to make ends meet, but the men in the family have never made any effort to make ends meet. Xue Baochai still feels very headache at this moment, even if she read the account books since she was a child. The Rongguo Mansion has really fallen.

A servant girl outside shouted at the door, "Second Mistress, the Second Mistress next door is here, she is talking with the old lady, and they are discussing about giving things to the four nobles in the palace this year. The old lady wants you to go too See details."

This is not for details, this is to let yourself pay for it.

But Xue Baochai didn't want to spend the money. In previous years, he and the imperial concubine, mother and son were not supported. Although the imperial concubine is gone now, and the four princes and daughters look pitiful, there is still a queen mother in the palace, a queen in the middle, and countless others below. People fawn on people, and it's never their turn to intervene.Besides, this takeover, from now on, the books will not be filled up.

But she is also a newly married little daughter-in-law, and there is no way to refute what the mother-in-laws mean.After she finished listening, she said to the maids around her, "Go back to the old lady first, and just say I'll go right away."

After the maid in Shi Taijun's room left, she fell on the couch, unable to wake up no matter how much she screamed.

She is not the only one who wants to be sick at this moment. The emperor really wants to get sick himself. Some people say that the affairs of the royal family are no small matter, so a row of ministers knelt in front of him, crying like their dead mothers. No matter how they cry, the emperor's attitude has not softened at all.His desire to abolish the empress became more and more intense. For some reason, she suddenly began to hate his wife who had been with him for many years. He blamed all the sins of the princesses on the queen mother. He thought it was because of the queen mother. There is no reason to bring up his daughter well. With this alone, he can completely abolish the Queen Mother.Even when the husband and wife were arguing, the Supreme Emperor became angry and accused the Queen Mother of being unvirtuous at the beginning, and encouraged his son to rebel.What a wise prince he was at that time, he was completely ruined by his mother.

For the emperor, the emperor's attitude was very bad, and he even beat him back.When there was no one in private, the emperor advised the Supreme Emperor. "If you like Dou Meiren, you can take her to live in another courtyard or other places. Your mother has been married to you all her life. With so many years of hard work, you should give her a good end."

The Supreme Emperor didn't listen, the older he became, the more stubborn he became, and he even used his whole life's experience on this matter. When he abdicated, he didn't rebound so hard, but this time he felt that he was almost at the end of his life , must let the emperor follow his own will.That kind of can't wait, not to mention the emperor in the palace, even the ministers in the court have already felt it.

The ministers knelt in front of him and begged bitterly. Seeing that the Supreme Emperor didn't seem to change his mind, they came up with a way, which was to procrastinate.The Supreme Emperor is old, and he can't consume the emperor and the ministers. The result of those ministers' discussions is to hand it over to the Ministry of Rites to discuss whether it is feasible?As for when the results can be discussed, it is the emperor who has the final say, and the emperor's orders cannot be obeyed at all.

The Supreme Emperor is not stupid, on the contrary, he is old and mature. He sneered at that time, "You are fooling me as a fool. Let me tell you the emperor, I have already mastered this trick before you were born. Are you Seeing your father become a tiger with its teeth pulled out, he is becoming more and more disobedient now. If you look at your father disliked, immediately serve a glass of poisoned wine, I have no complaints at all."

The emperor himself understood that he was a filial son of the Supreme Emperor Card, and threatened him to agree to the Queen Mother.The emperor's filial piety was not pretended, on the contrary, he was really filial to his father.If he is not involved in power struggles, he is willing to be a good son.

The old man is already so out of line, but to the emperor, he is a foolish father, and he definitely has no intention of poisoning him to death.But the Supreme Emperor has been persecuting him, there is no way, the emperor asked several confidant ministers in private, how to solve this matter.

Someone came out and said to him, "It's not impossible to use the dragging formula that some adults said a few days ago. Your Majesty, everyone said that Jiangnan is good. In addition, the situation in Jiangnan is changing now. Jia Jingzhi and the Zhen family are fighting fiercely. Why don't you sit in Jiangnan? The affairs of the capital are entrusted to the empress, and the empress should share the worries of her majesty."

The emperor was very moved when he heard this, "Aiqing is right, the matter in the south of the Yangtze River is not a trivial matter. I brought Lao Qi and Lao Jiu there, and I should let them know something about people's livelihood. Son of wild grass, I am really ashamed of my ancestors."

The emperor made up his mind and went to the harem to discuss with the empress first. After hearing this, the empress was not surprised, "Don't worry, go to the south of the Yangtze River. If you are in the palace, it will make me feel tied up. There is nothing wrong with the old man. You are gone. To tidy up a little beauty, the Empress Dowager can crush her to death without me doing anything."

The emperor nodded, "The beauty Dou is not a serious problem. Don't let the queen mother take her life, or the old man will feel uncomfortable. As long as she is obedient and doesn't encourage the old man to do something out of line, you will be fine." I can save her life. What I am worried about now is the aunts in the clan's mansion. I heard that they are indispensable in this matter. Someone made a condition for that beauty Dou, otherwise how dare beauty Dou Confront the queen mother. After I leave, you don’t have to worry about other things, but you have to watch those aunts carefully. If you find out who came up with such a bad idea later, don’t tell me, just finish it. killed them."

The queen nodded, "There is one more thing you need to make up your mind about. Concubine Xian came to my place to greet me eight times a day, and gave me a stack of lists, from the main concubine to the side concubine. The paper was given to me, and I will have someone fetch it for you to see. They are all ladies from official families. Fathers and brothers are high-ranking and powerful. I think something is wrong. It seems that our family sold our son to others, but Concubine Xian is worried about me. Make trouble for her inside, look at me like looking at a thief. He won't listen to what I say, you beat her a few words before you leave, let me say that Lao Qi will marry all the people on this paper After returning home, his younger brothers will have no wives to marry. Otherwise, they are all girls from small families, how can they be princesses."

The emperor just smiled, "Don't worry about this matter, you can do what she wants when she gives you the roster. There are so many ministers in the court, how can I let them take them all. Besides, I When I married you, your family was not a big family, and you didn’t have a good reputation. Didn’t the two of us have lived for so many years? Fate is a matter of fate. If the daughter of the family is destined, then let him marry."

The queen thought that this was a way of taking death, but after thinking about it, Lao Qi was not her own son, so he stopped him once, and they didn't understand the meaning, so there was no reason to stop him a second time.

You can't be a good person.

Seeing the emperor lying on the bed and slowly falling asleep, she went out and handed the roster to the maid. "Tell the concubine Xian, the emperor has agreed to this matter, and I have also agreed. I just told the girl's family about this matter and let the concubine Xian figure out a way for herself. I can't come out of this palace."