Old things in the Red Chamber

It is said that people's words are scary, no matter how angry Mrs. Tong is, Jia Yingchun's way of getting married is broken.

"Bad marriage, it's a matter of bad conscience, she dares to do it, I'm sorry, no wonder her daughter is not favored." Mrs. Tong sat on the bed, with a quilt wrapped around her body, her legs were crossed, her hair was loose, and her heart was together One volt, it can be seen that the anger has not calmed down.

Jia Gu was lying on the edge of the bed, looking at her with his eyes open. To be honest, he wanted to laugh because Mrs. Tong was wearing a green quilt. Seeing her angry made Jia Gu think of a frog...

"Ma'am," Jia Gu sat up and put his arms around her back, "Don't feel bad, go to sleep."

"Sleep, sleep, sleep, you know how to sleep, the old lady has been bullied, you can sleep but I can't sleep." Mrs. Tong was still very angry.

"If you hear this kind of thing, pretend you haven't heard it. You must not make it public. You know, it's different from Beidi. If you make it public, even if you have slapped the Wang family in the face, you will suffer in the end. It's still Ying'er, we need to cover this matter tightly, and Ying'er is indeed a bit cowardly."

"I know, but whether the child is good or not, we can teach it, instead of being gossiped by those women."

"What should I do? You rush to Rongfu now, grab Wang's collar and slap her two big ears. You should calm down these few days, and don't even go out with your children. No matter what else, just say that you were busy years ago. , take care of things at home, and talk about her marriage after a year."

That's the only way to go, Mrs. Tong hated the dumb loss, and secretly wanted to find it elsewhere. Isn't that old godly woman of the Wang family very fond of her precious son, when Jia Baoyu will marry a wife Alright, let's do it again.

Lifting the quilt and lying down, Jia Gu hurriedly tucked the corner of the quilt for her, and hugged her with the quilt, "Madam, there is something we need to talk about, the palace is not what we want to say. You Seeing the Rong Mansion chewing up some gossip makes you so angry that you want to do it, if we gossip about the palace, do you think the emperor and imperial concubine will be angry and come over and chop us off."

"I understand what the master means. This is just to talk to you."

"Next time, whisper it quietly next to the master's ear. If the voice is too loud, the partition wall will have ears."

Jia Gu lay down and covered the quilt. The husband and wife had nothing to say all night.

Jia Amnesty has also heard the gossip among the noble ladies. He is an uncle, so it is impossible for him to rush over to find Wang's theory. She was able to do the work for the sake of losing her share, so she had to go to Shi Taijun's yard by herself.

Shi Taijun has a bottom line that no one can touch, which is the future of the Rongguo Mansion. She was still thinking about Jia Yingchun's marriage a few days ago, but Jia Yingchun fell into her hand in a blink of an eye, and she was angry, but Wang is the mother of the noble concubine. To give face to Mrs. Wang is to give face to the noble lady. Shi Taijun quietly called Mrs. Wang over and preached a few words in private.

Shi Taijun is also not prone to seizures. In the current Rongguo Mansion, Jia Yingchun has become insignificant if she pins her hopes on the empress.

Jia Amnesty waited for a few days, but he didn't wait for any punishment for the Wang family, and the mansion didn't deal with the slaves who talked badly, so he knew that this matter was nothing to the old lady.

He went back to his study and sat for a long time. When the warm winter sun warmed the porch, he made up his mind and got up to find Jia Zhen in Ningguo Mansion.

Jia Zhen is the patriarch of the family and has never been strong-backed. Jia Amnesty invited him to drink and discussed with Jia Zhen during the banquet to erase Jia Yingchun's name from the family tree.

"What do you think?" Jia Zhen didn't understand Jia Amnesty's intention after beating her to death.

"I just saw that my old brother didn't have a daughter to take care of me. Anyway, you don't have much ability to welcome your younger sister. Now you can't marry a wealthy family, and it won't benefit the family. Let me adopt it to my old brother." Jia She said deliberately lightly. As if inadvertently, make the state that everything does not linger in the heart.

"Uncle is thinking too much. Younger sister Ying is the real sister of the noble concubine. In the future, we won't be able to produce a princess of Wangfei County, but we can still produce a first-class wife. My nephew will treat you as drunk. I dare not accept this matter."

Jia Zhen didn't dare to drink any more, so she found an excuse to escape from the banquet, and ran to Shi Taijun and told about it. Shi Taijun had always looked down on his eldest son, and when he knew it, he just snorted coldly , explaining that Jia Zhen must never change the genealogy.

Even though Jia Yingchun's road to marriage is doomed to be bumpy, it is better to have a girl who can marry than not at all. Marriage with a high family is naturally beneficial, and Shi En's poor family can also lose a lot of benefits.A girl from the Jia family should naturally marry from the family of the Jia family.Shi Taijun knew that his eldest son was Niu Xinzuo, and he didn't distinguish with him, so he got stuck and didn't change the family tree.

She drank the tea soup in the teacup and hummed in her heart to see what kind of husband's family Jia Gu and his wife could find for Yingchun. If the husband's family was not good, the old woman would never agree.

When it came time for Jia Yingchun to go back to Rongguo Mansion, Mrs. Tong deliberately suppressed her and refused to send her back, and Shi Taijun didn't ask anyone to pick her up. Lin Daiyu must be the one who would be picked up by the wives every time.Lin Daiyu went to Shi Taijun once or twice out of the five times and promised that she would come back if she stayed for a meal at most.

Jia Yingchun vaguely knew that there were turmoil in her marriage.

"No wonder my aunt doesn't go out these days." Jia Yingchun held a chess piece in front of Nanny Jin and thought about it, "Even if you marry a small official who is released outside, you will be far away from the capital and never see you again." The people and things here. It's just that I don't want to part with my old uncle and aunt, and I also don't want to part with sister Lin and my sister-in-law."

She had other things in her heart, and she was absent-minded when playing chess. She was depressed for a few days. When the New Year came, she looked a little thinner when she wore new clothes. This month, she didn't return to Rongguo Mansion. During the Chinese New Year, Siqi and Xiuju were sent back home to greet everyone on their behalf.

Unexpectedly, after a few days, Xiuju came back, but Siqi did not come back.

"Sister Siqi told others, and her family begged his wife, and the wife allowed Sister Siqi to go out and marry someone, saying that she married his cousin. The servants watched, and Sister Siqi was very happy."

Jia Yingchun only said that she knew, she packed up a bag of gold and silver locks, and asked Xiuju to take it back to Siqi, all these years of friendship between master and servant, she has nothing else.

Even Qi Jing'an felt that this was unreasonable.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Xun accompanied Qi Jingan, who was pregnant, to the Princess Mansion to return to the province. Because Qi Jingan was married for the first year, everyone walked in the Princess Mansion, and Jia Xun accompanied her father-in-law and brother-in-law. Talking in the front hall, several sister-in-laws were busy with the banquet, Qi Jingan only talked about this matter in front of her mother. "That family has no rules. The girl is not married yet, so the eldest girl hastily dismissed her."

Princess Anyang has a beautiful face, was born rich and honored, and has a demeanor that others cannot imitate. She smashed nuts with a delicate hammer, and the nuts were eaten by her daughter. The mother and daughter chatted while eating.

"Let's not talk about the rules and regulations. Your father-in-law and mother-in-law made it clear to raise a daughter. They are not mothers. Naturally, they will not raise a girl. If you don't send her back, maybe the other side will be happier. Now it's all right, the monthly fee has passed, the eldest girl is married, and in a few days, the second-class girl will not be able to come, she is single, she is not as good as the sojourner cousin in your house."

Qi Jing'an bit the nut, "What's the point, how much does it cost to raise a girl?"

"How much does it cost to raise a girl? Is it too little money?" Mrs. Wang came back from her mother's house, and she leaned on the kang and talked to her confidant Zhou Rui's family, "My brother's daughter is a girl who was born on the same day. She is born 24 times a year. Counting the clothes, head, face, shoes and socks, nothing can be done without a hundred taels of silver. The girls in our house are not so grand, and they have to make twelve sets of clothes and some jewelry a year. You don’t spend seven or eight hundred taels of silver in a year for the rewards of gold and silver, and the food you eat every day. It’s nothing. It’s when you get married that it’s difficult for you. , the dowry alone can spend four or five years of the mansion's future."

Zhou Rui's family also laughed and agreed, but they didn't agree in their hearts. Clothes were made of materials from the treasury, and jewelry was just a few hairpins and bracelets a year. No dowry, even a commoner knows how to cut a few feet of fabric for a dowry.

But this cannot be said.Holding a beauty stick, he slowly loosened the bones for Mrs. Wang.

"Alas..." Mrs. Wang sighed. This year is not a good year. There is a severe drought in the summer, and there are not many prospects in the village. In previous years, there was a sum of floating money sent by the Lin family to support the expenses for half a year. After her death, the annual gifts sent by Lin Daiyu were much thinner, even less than one-tenth of last year's, and the expenses in the palace have not been reduced. The empress still needs money...

Mrs. Wang was worried about money, and Xue Baochai was sitting on the couch with her mother, also worried about her own money.

It is said that the imperial merchants were rich. The Xue family was indeed rich when Xue Baochai's father was alive. Several business routes in the family made money, and the steady flow of water was a steady business.Moreover, Father Xue also has some contacts and skills, and often sends some goods to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whether it is tea or silk flowers, each time the profit is doubled, or even three cups.

Since Xue's father passed away and the whole family moved to the capital, they only spent money and didn't make money. However, some of the family's business routes were taken by others. Xue Pan was young, no matter how old the foxes were. It's in sight.

Xue Baochai put down the account book, "This year alone, our family has paid out 15 silver."

"Why did you go out so much?" Aunt Xue asked hastily.

"The imperial concubine was appointed as a concubine, and she sent silver to the palace twice, [-] each time, all of which were from Yinzhuang's ticket number, as well as the gem bonsai and coral bonsai purchased, which cost [-], plus our family this year. It cost [-] yuan to give gifts to relatives, and the remaining [-] yuan is for our family of three to eat."

Mrs. Xue was stunned, and the big head flower was in the palace. This is the money that my sister came to borrow. There was no IOU or paperwork, and at that time, she had the intention of sending it out and never taking it back.

"My worries are all about you and your brother. Your brother will marry a good wife as soon as possible, and you will marry a good man..."

"Mom..." Xue Baochai interrupted her without hesitation.

"We still have to rely on your aunt's family, and your aunt relies on the empress in the palace." Xue Wang clasped his hands together, murmured, and prayed devoutly, "May the Buddha bless you, and bless the imperial concubine and empress to give birth to a prince as soon as possible."