The widowed mother of the red mansion

Jia Li entered the room and saw Li Wan in a daze, so she approached from behind, hugged him unexpectedly and asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking about?"

Li Wan was startled, seeing that it was Jia Li, he smiled and said, "You're back, can you still go out tonight?"

Jia Li shook her head: "These days I go out to drink, and I feel sick to my stomach. Later, you will ask someone to bring me a bowl of sour bamboo shoot soup. I don't want to eat along the way, I just want to drink that stuff."

Li Wan hastily sent someone to make it and serve it to Jia Li. Jia Li took a sip and deliberately said that there was something wrong with it, so she asked Li Wan to taste it too.Li Wan had already smelled the hot aroma by the side, so he picked it up and took a sip, only to find that it was very rich, fresh, sour and refreshing, and then he realized it: "You are talking nonsense again, the soup is good, what's wrong?"

"Then just drink a few more sips." Jia Li said with a smile: "I see that you haven't been able to eat much these days, and your favorite dishes are usually just a couple of chopsticks. It's rare to have something to eat Things, don’t you use more?”

Li Wan snorted, "I'm not sick."

Jia Li said: "Don't force it, come, let me feed you."

Li Wan waved his hands repeatedly, and hid aside with a smile: "Don't make trouble, I'll just drink it myself." After saying that, he took a spoon and drank the soup slowly.Jia Li looked at the side with a smile, and suddenly said: "I think you have seen your time these days, maybe you have something?"

Li Wan almost choked.Jia Li gave her the handkerchief, she took it and wiped the corners of her mouth a few times, then forced a smile and said: "I don't know either, Madam said to ask the doctor to come and have a look - it's still uncertain, don't be overjoyed."

Jia Li said: "If it's true, I only hope it's a daughter, we already have a son."

Li Wan couldn't help being startled when he heard this, he couldn't tell whether he was sad or happy, and said with a smile: "Who else thinks there are too many sons?"

Jia Li said: "I don't mind it, I don't mind it. It's just that you give me a daughter first, and then give birth to a son slowly. When you have enough sons, you can have a daughter according to the situation..."

Li Wan hid her face and bent down laughing so hard that she couldn't speak, Jia Li gave her comfort while persuading her to eat more, as if she was sure that she had her future lovely little daughter in her belly.

After the imperial physician came to take a pulse, it was confirmed that Li Wan was indeed pregnant for more than a month. Jia Zheng, his wife and Jia Mu couldn't help being very happy, and ordered to reward Li Wan with some nourishing food, and ordered Tanchun Yingchun to share some housework for her. , Let her take care of her body with peace of mind.Both the Rongning and Ningfu mansions were not considered prosperous, and Youshi from the East Mansion heard the news, and came here specially to give Li Wan an antenatal pill, and talked to her affectionately.

"Let me take a look at your belly, and make sure you can spot a man and a woman at a glance."

Li Wan spat: "How long can you see?"

"I think it's a little brother." Youshi refused to listen, insisted on looking at it, and said, "Hurry up and give birth to more little brothers and girls, all the brothers are butchers for officials, and the ladies are all married to nobles. Son-in-law, how about you being an old lord, holding your grandchildren and granddaughters to live to be over 100 years old, how wonderful it is!"

Li Wan smiled: "Not an old goblin anymore? Live to such an old age."

Youshi said: "You are so ignorant, how many people in the world can enjoy the blessing of our ancestors?"

It just so happened that Jia Lan was out of school, and after greeting You Shi respectfully, he threw himself into Li Wan's arms, "When will Mother give me a little sister? I want a sister!"

Youshi laughed and said, "What brother said, it should be my little brother!"

Jia Lan tilted her head and thought for a while: "Well, as long as they are born by mothers, I like younger brothers and sisters."

You Shi deliberately teased Jia Lan: "Your mother won't love you when she has a little brother."

Jia Lan laughed straight: "No, my aunt is coaxing me."

Li Wan put his arms around Jia Lan and said, "Have you seen your father?"

Jia Lan said: "I just came from my father's study. He said that my aunt is here today, and he wants me to say hello before I go back to study. My father also wants me to bring a message to my aunt, saying thank you for remembering my mother, what you women say It’s inconvenient for him to say, so he won’t come here, and he still wants to say hello to my uncle.”

Youshi smiled and said: "Okay, okay. It can be seen that our brothers are polite."

After Jia Lan talked with the two of them, he retreated and left. Li Wan watched him go, until his back disappeared before turning around and continuing to gossip with You Shi.

"Tell me the truth, what happened to you and Feng girl?" Seeing that there was no one around, You Shi suddenly whispered.

Li Wan said: "I can't say what's the matter. It's common for sisters-in-law to bump into each other. It will be better after a while."

You Shi said: "I and you are both good, and it is inconvenient to say who is right and who is wrong, but I just want to tell you: Feng girl is a ball of fire, she is very kind to the person she likes, and if she doesn't like it, she can burn you to death! You offended No one should offend her, I thought you were good-natured and don't like to argue with others, but I didn't expect you to break the taboo first."

Li Wan laughed and said: "Even if she is a bully, she can't disregard her face and fight with me straight up. I have no personal enmity with her, and I never pointed out that I want to deal with her. You know the old abuses in the house over the years." , the reform is not my idea alone, what can I do? The house is broken and rotten, who can take advantage of it? Who is she angry with? If you bring this to her, she will Just biting me, it's a bit short-sighted."

Mrs. You sighed: "In theory, both of our mansions should be rectified. Your mansion is fine, there is a lady supporting you above, and your high school master below. Our mansion is just an empty shelf now, you brother Zhen I'm happy all day long, and I can't persuade you in every possible way. Brother Rong has a vicious temper, and this new wife can't control him, and I'm not his mother, so don't be tight."

While Li Wan and Youshi were talking, Jia Li was in the study teaching Jia Lan's homework, when suddenly his personal servant came into the room and handed him a letter.Jia Li went to the outer room, opened the letter and read it, then asked the boy: "Where is the second master?"

The boy said: "If it's all right, I'm definitely going to rest at my wife's place right now."

"Go to your wife and have a look. If she's not there, go to Aunt Zhao's place to invite the master, and tell her that there is something important."

Seeing that the matter was urgent, the boy hurried away.Jia Li asked Jia Lan to stay in the pen and go back to her room to rest, while she changed her clothes and went to the side hall next to the Rongxi Hall, where she usually talked with Jia Zheng about official career and economics.

When Jia Zheng was at Aunt Zhao's place, he saw that Jia Li's servant had come to invite him, so he hurriedly tidied up.Aunt Zhao was full of anger, and after Jia Zheng walked away, she spat on the ground and said: "As expected, it came out of her stomach, what a black heart!"

"Master." Seeing Jia Zheng rushing over, Jia Li didn't dare to go around in circles, and directly submitted the letter.

Jia Zheng took the letter, and after reading it, his face was pale, and even his beard trembled slightly: "Thanks to you, if we were all kept in the dark, we don't know what will happen to us! How did you make friends with that person?"

"We met when we were hunting, and later we get along very well, like brothers who have known each other for many years. Now he and the old guard in Jinyi Department are close friends. That old guard has always been with Prince Zhongshun's mansion, so this impeachment... ..."

This time, it was Song Zhi, his former subordinate, who gave Jia Li the wind. This Song Zhi was very surprised when he saw Jia Li for the first time. He thought it was Zhou Ne's twin brother, but he found out after asking about his identity.The two met, but it seemed that they had a tacit understanding for half a lifetime. When they heard the news, they naturally refused to delay the future of their good brothers, and told each other in private.

"If you don't tell me, I know it's a good thing done by the mansion over there!" Jia Zheng let out a deep breath, extremely anxious: "It's not groundless that the old man snatched the stone nerd's fan, I also heard about it, it's just Lian'er Is the daughter-in-law really... really there are those things about profiteering and exploitation? What else is there to disregard human life, she is a woman in a deep house, where can she come up with such means? Could it be that Lian'er also..."

Jia Li said: "It's not good to jump to conclusions on this matter. If the master wants to know, it's better to invite him to ask in person."

Jia Zheng pondered for a while, went to the outer hall, and shouted to the servant: "Go and invite Lian'er!"

Sister Feng was lingering on the sick bed, so she was unable to serve Jia Lian. Jia Lian hooked up with Duohun Chong's wife after only a few days.The two of them were having a good time, and when they saw Jia Zheng's servant coming to invite them, they hurriedly adjusted their clothes and went there, feeling very upset along the way.

When Jia Zheng saw Jia Lian coming, his expression was not as gentle as before, and he said with a frosty face, "Do you know what your wife did?!"

Jia Lian didn't know it, and knelt down and said, "Master, please calm down. Sister Feng has been ill all the time. I don't know what I did wrong to make my master angry?"

Jia Zheng threw the letter in front of Jia Lian.Jia Lian took it trembling and took a look. It's okay if you don't look at it. It's like a bucket of snow water pouring down on Tianling Gai: "Master, I don't know about this! This, these may not be the truth, maybe they are slander?"

"It's better to slander, or our house will be destroyed in your hands!" Jia Zheng said angrily, "If it's true, if you can't manage your own wife well, you are half of the fault, and you two will be punished together." Hurry up and ask her what's going on, and come back to me tomorrow morning to discuss the countermeasures. If there is a false sentence, don't blame me for disregarding our uncle and nephew!!"

Jia Lian was so frightened that she apologized and left.The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. It wasn't just that Sister Feng had the audacity to act like this outside behind his back. What was even more irritating was that she had such a sum of money in her hand, but she cried all day and didn't care about him, causing him to go whoring outside. It's really unreasonable that sisters and children can't be happy!

Sister Feng had gone to bed early, and Ping'er was about to close the door and draw down the curtain. Jia Lian might as well kick the door in angrily, knocking Ping'er down with an ouch.If in the past Jia Lian would have asked her what was wrong, but today she walked straight up to Sister Feng as if she couldn't see, and shouted: "Still pretending to sleep? Our family will be defeated by you, a prostitute!"

Sister Feng was woken up by him, and Ping'er heard the words and couldn't care less about the pain. She hurried over to tease Jia Lian and said, "Master, have you lost your mind? Are you saying these things in the middle of the night to make grandma's illness worse?"

Jia Lian squinted at Ping'er: "Grandma! If those things get out, we're all doomed! What about grandparents? We'll all be slaves!"

Sister Feng is used to oppressing Jia Lian, but she has never been so angry. She immediately sat up and smashed the teacup beside the bed on the ground, cursing, "Where did you pour yellow soup? It must be because you drank too much wine and got caught by the dirt outside." The woman came to me to find bad luck after pouring her ears into the pillow. Don't be complacent, and go back to the old lady and the wife tomorrow morning!"

Jia Lian sneered and said, "I'm afraid that when I finish speaking, you should cry and beg me not to go to them."

Sister Feng became more and more furious: "What did I do to you? Did I steal a man or lose the family? If you don't tell me today, I will never end with you! You are a thief, and you will come up even more!" "

Jia Lian spat out everything mentioned in the letter.Every time Sister Feng heard it, her face became paler, and at the end she said forcefully: "Trash these nonsense things! Why did my old lady do such things? Don't put a pot of shit on my head and torture me to death, you To make room for those whores! You think I don't know what you're thinking?"

Jia Lian said: "Good job, when you come to the court tomorrow, you can go ahead and say so! There are so many trees in our mansion that we are waiting to catch the wrong ones. I'm afraid that you won't come with so few, which will not be enough for the imperial court. Go and copy our family. What crime did I do in my previous life, marrying a nightshade like you, and not giving birth to a son, caused a lot of trouble. You should explain everything clearly as soon as possible, so that the old man and I can save it. Otherwise, everyone will be implicated at that time, and everyone will drown you with a mouthful of saliva, the old lady and the wife can't save you, you have harmed their family, it's good if you didn't slap you!"

Sister Feng was so angry that she rolled her eyes and passed out.Ping'er yelled in fright, and Jia Lian spat a few times: "Let her die! It would be nice if she got off the hook." After saying that, she left bitterly.