Old things in the Red Chamber

Speaking of Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian's husband and wife, they are the two most right, that is, they love money from the bottom of their hearts.

When Wang Xifeng commented on Jia Lian, she said to him, "Two taels of oil will be fried in the bones, and the money in the oil pan will dare to be spent." After all, she herself is the same.

"I'll put my words here today. What you think, sisters, is all up to you. You also know that today is different from the past. Our life has become like this. We can live every day."

Yuanyang returned to Shi Taijun's side. Shi Taijun was speechless after being tortured by Mrs. Xing, and coupled with the fright he had received in the past few days, he looked old and haggard.

"What did Feng girl call you over?"

"Let the servants persuade you, saying that our family is different today..."

"She's right. The reason why I don't want to live here is just that. The old man thinks that it is a blessing to escape. To ask for other things is a deliberate torment in his opinion. It's just that he Don't even think about it, his brother is in jail now, his nephew is missing now, he can sleep peacefully, but I can't sleep peacefully."

Yuanyang had nothing to say, and silently accompanied Shi Taijun.

Shi Taijun's mind was deducing various methods back and forth at the moment, and his ultimate goal was to save his son.

"You go down first, let me think about what to do next. Before the emperor convicts me, I can't let go of my mother."

The "old lady" Yuanyang anxiously proposed a solution to Shi Taijun, "The money that the old lady asked me to hide a few years ago...everyone said that money is touching, so I took it out at this time..."

"It can't be taken, and the money can't be taken out. Even if you have money to fill in at this time, you can only listen to the sound of water. The only thing that can save your life is authority. For other crimes, we will come to the door with money, and if they take it, they will take it Yes, it’s just a question of whether you can do things after collecting it. At this time, if you take the money out, they will never do anything. First, they don’t want to put themselves in this muddy water. Dare to say it."

"What if I gave this money to Mrs. Lin? Even if Mrs. Lin wanted to swallow the money, Mrs. Lin would not..."

Shi Taijun hesitated for a while, "You are right, even if you are exiled for three thousand miles, it is better than beheading directly. Our family is not the main culprit in the first place. You go tell them and let them prepare a car and horse for me. I am going to the forest. Girl and their family."

"It's late at night, and our family doesn't have the custom of visiting at this time." Ping'er embarrassedly rejected Yuanyang, "Tomorrow morning our second grandma will invite Aunt Lin back..."

"The old lady was frightened and desperately wanted to see Miss Lin. You know that when Miss Lin lived in our house a few years ago, the old lady cared more about her than her other grandchildren. At this time, she wants to see Miss Lin. She's also human."

"But it's getting dark today, and you also know that the curfew in the capital is very strict these days."

"The old lady is getting old. After repeated blows, it's not too much to want to see my granddaughter?"

"Yuanyang, it's not that I don't want to help you prepare a carriage, you should also think that Aunt Lin still has two brothers at home. I'm going at this time..."

"If you have no choice, just get out of the way, and I'll go to the Second Mistress. If the Second Mistress can't decide, I'll go to the Grand Master."

Just when the two of them were arguing, a carrier pigeon fell into the palace.

A bamboo tube was untied from the carrier pigeon, and someone hurriedly sent the bamboo tube into the emperor's bedroom.

The bedroom is brightly lit at night.The dark guard knelt on the ground and reported the affairs of all parties to the emperor in pajamas.The emperor was wearing a big woolen coat with bright yellow pajamas underneath, holding a letter in his hand.While reading and listening, I also commented on the words in the letter from time to time.

"It is said that a gentleman is magnanimous, and a villain is a good man. This sentence is indeed true. I have treated them with great kindness in the past. At this time, I don't want to repay my kindness to them. Instead, I open eyes for several kings with different surnames..."

"Your Majesty, a letter from Jiangnan."

"Submit it quickly."

The first line of the letter is No. 16 Commander Hua, stationed in Jinling Jiazi, bowing to the Holy Lord.

The emperor automatically skipped these insignificant words.Pick up the key points, and I am very satisfied after reading it.

"Ten years of planning, today is finally successful, when the amnesty of the world... the amnesty of the world is fine, let's add Enke. In the name of... celebrating the longevity of the Supreme Emperor, it is better to support the father than the reputation of the heirs left by the murderer. I am too Be afraid of people's words!"

The first day of the Lunar New Year is coming to an end, and tomorrow is the second day of the Lunar New Year. The second day of the Lunar New Year is the day when married women return to their natal homes to visit relatives. The empress has long sent someone to ask the emperor how to receive those married aunts tomorrow?

It wasn't just that the royal family wanted to entertain relatives. Wang Xifeng rubbed his forehead listening to the quarrel between Ping'er and Yuanyang outside and asked Jia Lian, "Do you mean that Sister Tianlin will come or not? We only have this family of relatives to entertain now, and they don't care about it." It's our cousin, if she goes to the Hou's house tomorrow, how will you deal with the old lady?"

Jia Lian yawned several times in sleepiness, "How do I know, let's talk about it later."

It's just that at dawn the next day, Jia Gu sent someone to spread the word that Jia Hou would come to visit the old lady after dinner.After Shi Taijun heard the news, he tidied himself up in a hurry. Sitting upright on the couch, he was still as imposing as before, but after nearly 50 years, the first time the mother and son met did not hug each other and cry, but each other Treat with indifference.

In the past, female family members did not see other men, and in other occasions where everyone participated, men and women were also separated. If it is not husband and wife or relatives, it is difficult for strangers of the opposite sex to meet together.

The mother and son are strangers than strangers.Ask yourself, when Jia Gu came back from the Northland, he also contacted his brothers with the idea of ​​recognizing his mother, but this idea was not strong enough.So when encountering a little incident, he immediately abandoned the plan to recognize each other.Shi Taijun has never had any plans to bring his son back. Until now, one of the mother and son is gray-haired, and the other is about to enter old age.It can be said that they met each other in old age, and the two hated each other.It makes people feel that things are changing.

Shi Taijun is good at touching people's hearts with reason, but when he meets Jia Gu who is indifferent, he is destined to hit a wall.

"You've had a good time these years. Outsiders say you've had a lot of glory these years, but in fact, you know yourself well..."

"Don't worry about it. If you said this 30 years ago, maybe I would immediately knelt down in tears and hugged my head to recognize you. Although what you wanted to say 20 years ago would not be enough to cry, it would never be like that." It’s like this now. It’s useless to say these things. After all, Jia Zheng is my brother. It depends on the old grandfather who passed away. I shouldn’t stand by. You went to my house yesterday and asked me to fish him out. You said it."

There are only three mothers and children in this room, Jia She casts an anxious glance at his brother.I thought to myself that I tried my best to bring the old lady back yesterday, just because I didn't want him to pester you.Why did you run into it by yourself today?

"No matter what you say today, it is inseparable from the rebellion. The standard for the Ministry of Criminal Justice to convict these people is to see how much these people participated in the rebellion. If they participated a little or did not intend to get involved, there is no The crime of beheading is at most confiscation of family property and exile of the whole family. If you become a core figure, then this is really killing both young and old."

Jia Gu noticed that Shi Taijun looked at her very calmly, so he knew that she had been prepared, so he continued slowly, "According to the news from the emperor, the marriage between the Jia family and the Zhen family in the Rongguo Mansion itself is very important. There are a lot of tricks, and a large number of private soldiers and armaments were sent to the south of the Yangtze River by the opportunity of delivering the dowry. Therefore, the Jia family wanted the whole family to be executed, and even the three clans. I heard that because of this incident, historians were also implicated.”

Shi Taijun shivered in fright, but calmed down quickly, "It's okay for the others, your brother and your nephew are blood relatives to you, you can't leave them alone."

"When it comes to blood relatives, how many people in and out of the whole family don't know about usurping the throne, but they are all implicated because of your son. Aren't they my blood relatives? So don't use blood relatives with this matter. I said, I don’t recognize these blood relatives either.”

"What's the difference, you brothers were born by me..."

Jia Gu stopped Shi Taijun and said, "I just want to ask you, don't worry, no matter what you say, I will help you save your grandson, I just want to ask you, I am so similar to my brother, when you saw him When he was there, did you miss me a little bit... All these years, I said these years, do you feel any guilt towards our father and son?"

Shi Taijun opened his mouth and came, "You are all the meat that fell from my body, I regretted how I missed you, but I couldn't find you at that time, and I just thought it was your fate that was taken away by the Buddha. "

Her quick and brisk answer made Jia Gu wonder if this was the truest answer in his heart.But then I thought that I was too stubborn.

"The last question, why didn't you want me?"

This time Shi Taijun also said very neatly, "When you were born, it was a dystocia. The mother-in-law told me that the baby's feet came out, and I suffered from the boss when I gave birth to you. But when you were born, you found that your body There are large areas of birthmarks, and when I hugged them to burn incense in the temple just after the full moon, some eminent monks told me that you must have committed a great sin in your previous life, or you were an evil spirit who escaped from hell. If you have a birthmark on your body, you will not be able to get rid of the birthmark if you don’t cleanse your body for life after life. Such a child is usually against the father and the mother..."

"Don't tell me, I already know. What I promised you just now will remain the same. Jia Baoyu, I will bring him back to you. But you should also live an honest life for your grandson. If it is because of your carelessness , or your grandson’s life was caused by reckless actions, then it has nothing to do with us. Also, as I said just now, I am not blood relatives with them, and you threw me away early. It has nothing to do with us, I will give you Brought it back, if you let me take care of him and raise him in the future, then I will let you see what it looks like when I am angry? At that time, we will liquidate the grassland accumulated by these two or three generations. Either your grandson will die or I will die. Death."

Don't look at Shi Taijun's excited face.Jia Gu stood up and prepared to leave.Jia Amnesty followed, "Getting a living person out must have cost you a lot of effort. I didn't see you yesterday, so I didn't make it clear to you. You should take care of yourself at this time, and you don't want to. If you don’t want to stick to these things, don’t stick to them, once you stick to them, then you will have the heart to die.”