The widowed mother of the red mansion

After a while, Jia Lian hugged the little Taoist and laughed contentedly, and the little Taoist took the opportunity to say: "I heard that the old man in the house also uses bubble cigarettes. There must be a reliable way. Please trouble me to find out for me."

Jia Lian asked, "You smoke that stuff too?"

The little Taoist said with a smile: "It's such an expensive thing, what luck do I have to smoke it! It's not that we know how to get addicted to it, but sometimes we can't buy it, and when it's out of stock, we take it out on us." .Look at my body, it's full of marks from being punched."

Jia Lian looked at it carefully, and sure enough there were several shocking scars crawling on his snow-white arms and back. The corners of his eyes twitched, feeling sorry for him: "My son, you Zhiguan are so cruel. I can handle it too! To tell you the truth, I can’t handle our master’s bubble cigarettes. I haven’t been in charge of the family affairs these years, but my black-hearted wife is in charge.”

The little Taoist stuck out his tongue: "Master, you're talking about that powerful grandma in the house? That's why I didn't dare to inquire about it even if I had ten courages."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "She has always been in charge of the monks and priests in the mansion's alms giving and offerings, etc. It's strange that you also know that she is cruel. I won't make fun of you, I will show you a clear way-the one in Jia's mansion on Zucchini Street Brother Che, who sent the food, seems to be more relaxed in recent years. He is straightforward, and he is probably assigned to this matter. You should ask him for something and pick up what he missed. Enough for you to know and benefit from.”

The little Taoist said happily: "Is there anything I can't do!" He became more and more flattering.Jia Lian couldn't help being moved, and another group came with his arms around him. After the clouds and rain cleared, they gave him five taels of silver and a ruler to make him a Taoist robe. The little Taoist kowtowed and thanked him and left.

Jia Lian felt a little tired, so he lay on the bed for a while.Suddenly a little maid came in to deliver tea, and said in a low voice, "Grandma is looking for you everywhere, so hurry up and drink some tea."

Jia Lian scolded: "I want you to talk too much! I like to lie down and sit, it's none of her business!"

The little maid trembled in fright, and hurriedly backed out.

The more Jia Lian thought about it, the angrier he became. Later, thinking that Li Wan was here, it would not be too much trouble, so he put on his clothes and drank a few sips of tea to rinse his mouth, and called someone to come in and fix his clothes.

Jia Chehou was in the outer hall, his face was red and he was sweating profusely.The boy next to him looked at his appearance and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, brother, this grandma is the most good-natured, much more gentle than the second grandma in our house."

Jia Che grinned: "The one who called me, is really... the grandma of this mansion?"

The boy said: "Can I still lie to you? Our grandma just came back from Beijing, less than a month ago."

Ever since Jia Che learned that Li Wan's family had gone to the capital, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep for several nights, thinking that there was no chance of seeing him again in this life, and he didn't want to be invited by someone suddenly, it seemed like a dream for a long time.

Li Wan sent people to investigate the source of bubble smoke in the mansion, and found that Sister Feng asked a man named Jia Che in the clan to handle it. She knew that she would not be able to find anything if she asked Sister Feng, so she had to send someone to invite him under the pretext of other matters.

Jia Che stared blankly at the curtain on the door, and suddenly the curtain moved, and a maid came out to invite him in.He quickly regained his senses, adjusted his clothes and walked into the room gently.

After entering the house, he didn't dare to raise his head, and when he was about to make a bow, he heard a gentle and pleasant voice coming from in front of him: "I am young, and I don't know how to address my relatives in the old clan. The helper in the house, your second grandma always boasted about it, so don't be too restrained today."

"Yes... yes." Jia Che blushed even more.In the past, he was in charge of the supply of ice charcoal in the yards of Li Wan and Daiyu, and he was diligent and conscientious, but later the second room entered the capital, and he was honest and honest and would not deal with other matters, so he was hired by Sister Feng to manage bubble cigarettes Things.He didn't know how harmful Paeryan was, he just felt a little ashamed that he was an imposing man who ended up doing such a trivial thing, and was asked about it by the woman he liked.

Seeing that his face was red, Li Wan thought that he was talking about something secret, so he softened his tone: "Don't worry, I didn't ask you to blame you, but to inquire about some unimportant things. Forget it, if there is any difficulty, I will definitely not force you."

Jia Che said honestly: "Going back... Going back to grandma is actually nothing important. Whenever the second grandma sends a servant, I pack my luggage and go to Beijing, and take the post from the house to the The Huguo Temple is just getting the goods."

"Huguo Temple?" Li Wan frowned: "Why is it related to the temple?"

Facing the person he likes, Jia Che naturally knows everything he wants to say, and pours out everything he should say or not: "Grandma doesn't know yet? Pao'er smoke is made by the monks in the temple, and only they know how to say it." The abbot of that monastery, Master Shi Ran, who was once conferred the title of Great Zen Master by the Holy One, is extremely virtuous, and he will not be seen by ordinary people, it seems that he ordered the production of this bubble."

Li Wan was shocked: "Who knows about this?"

Jia Che said: "I'm afraid there are not many. There are only two or three houses that can go directly to the temple to pick up the goods. I also heard about it when I was out of the room and wandering around when I was impatient."

Li Wan asked someone to reward Jia Che heavily, and told him not to tell the outside world what happened today, and ordered him to send it out.Jia Che put Li Wanshang's purse tightly in his sleeve, thanked him repeatedly and left.

After thinking about it, Li Wan deeply felt that this matter was strange, so she wrote a long letter overnight and asked her confidant to send it to the Laifu Office, asking her to thoroughly investigate the activities of making children's cigarettes in Huguo Temple.

On the second day, Jia Mu's illness improved slightly, and she was able to drink some soup.Sister Feng served attentively by the side, and managed to feed half a bowl of medicinal porridge, but Mother Jia shook her head and refused to eat.

Her tongue was not yet very sharp, and she spoke intermittently for a long time, but Sister Feng and Li Wan didn't understand, and they were panting anxiously.Li Wan hurriedly stepped forward to comfort his back and said: "The old ancestor is not in a hurry, take it slowly, how can this disease be cured in a day or two? I see this situation, about ten days and a half months later, the old ancestor will come back again." You can make fun of me and Feng girl, let's keep the words in our hearts first, and then we can talk about it happily, okay?"

Mother Jia looked at Li Wan with cloudy old eyes, as if she didn't know her, and after a long time realized that she was her granddaughter-in-law, she burst into tears.

After Sister Feng and Li Wan persuaded her for a while, Mother Jia fell asleep.The two lightly covered her with the quilt, then whispered a few words to Yuanyang and Hupo, and walked out of the room together this time.

"I see the old lady's illness, I'm afraid it won't get better." Sister Feng said abruptly, "What our family sees is going down day by day, but it's just life. What we owed before will have to be paid back sooner or later."

Li Wan felt that Sister Feng's words had the meaning of seeing through the world, and said with a smile: "Our mother has just made the imperial concubine, how can we say that it will go down every day? There are always twists and turns in the world, and there is always a time to go up. I don't like your tone. Who is not good to imitate, is it possible that at your age you still want to imitate that girl Xichun?"

Sister Feng smiled: "You guys flew out, you are different from us after all."

The two were talking while walking in the garden, and happened to meet Sister Qiao flying a kite with someone, giggling.Sister Feng looked at Sister Qiao obsessively, and Li Wan took the opportunity to say: "I know you have suffered all these years, but at least for her sake, being a stable and happy wife is not in vain. If Sister Qiao later Speaking of people, do you want your future son-in-law to visit the mansion or the nunnery during the New Year's Day?"

Sister Feng was taken aback for a moment, and when she was about to answer, a woman suddenly came to report: "Back to the two grandmas, there are people from Beijing."

When they returned to the main hall, they saw a woman beside Mrs. Wang with a few maidservants waiting in the room. Seeing them coming, they rushed forward to report.Li Wan heard that Concubine Jia was ill, but it was not serious, so he said, "It's not serious, let me delay going back for a few more days."

The woman who delivered the message showed distress: "But the wife said, no matter what, I must invite grandma back as soon as possible, and the master also said so."

Seeing that something was wrong, Sister Feng said to Li Wan, "You'd better go back. The old lady has medicine over there. It's not a big deal. Besides, I'll explain it to you. Since the master and wife have opened their mouths, I'm afraid this matter will be troublesome."

Li Wan pondered for a while, then said, "It's up to you."

It was May when I rushed to the capital, and the weather changed as it said.Sitting in the car, Li Wan closed his eyes and rested his mind, when he suddenly heard the patter of rain outside, and after a while the originally flat official road became bumpy.

"Grandma, you see that it's raining too fast, why don't we hide in the nearby nunnery first?" The accompanying nurse asked for instructions from outside the car.

Li Wan said indifferently: "there are nuns in that nunnery, it's not easy for you to go in. Hold on a little longer and go to the station in front."

The nurse hesitated for a while, then suddenly smiled: "I'm afraid I can't help grandma."

Li Wan hadn't figured out what he meant when suddenly there were several shrill screams outside and the sound of a horse raising its hooves in shock. The whole car almost fell to the ground with the running horse.When Biyue Suyun heard that something was wrong, her face turned pale, and she threw herself on Li Wan to block her.

The nurse lifted the curtain with a smile, pointed at Li Wan with a sword and said, "Grandma, don't panic, our young lady just wants to invite you to have a cup of tea and talk about friendship."

Li Wan forced himself to calm down and said, "I can go, but I have to let these two girls go."

Both Biyue and Suyun burst into tears, tugging at Li Wan's sleeves and unwilling to leave.The nursing home smiled and said: "What two loyal sisters, it's a pity that I can't decide, they have to go together."

Li Wan took a few deep breaths and said, "Okay."

They said yes, but in fact they were no different from prisoners. Those nursing homes forced the three little-footed women to sloppyly go to an inconspicuous nunnery, not to mention stumbling, without holding an umbrella.Li Wan tremblingly walked and looked back at the several corpses lying on the road, and found sadly that there were only two innocent people in the nursing home, and the others were all accomplices of this man.She thought she was safe, but there were thieves in the mansion!However, she claimed to have investigated the forces of the Zhongshun Palace quite clearly. What are the origins of these people?Why target her?

After entering the nunnery, I saw that the concierge was clean and tidy as soon as I entered. It was just like an ordinary nun's nunnery, and there was nothing unusual about it.

The nurse escorted them to two turns, and they got to an inner hall.Just stopped, suddenly Biyue and Suyun were knocked unconscious by the nurse without making a sound, Li Wan suddenly changed color, before cursing, the guard said: "It's just knocked unconscious, if you hear something you shouldn't hear , with our lady's temperament, I'm afraid it will be a dead end."

Li Wan suppressed his anger and asked, "Who is your young lady?"

"Su Wenyue." A cold voice came from the side hall, and Li Wan turned his head to look, only to see a tall and elegant woman slowly walking towards him, with a face full of frost and inviolability: "It's really hard to catch you, wait a moment Don't go outside. If you don't do it again, I'm afraid there will be no chance."

Li Wan said: "I don't know what enmity I have with the girl, why did you arrest me?"

Su Wenyue sat on a Huali Eight Immortals crossing the sea chair, picked up a cup of tea, and leisurely brushed the tea leaves on the water with the tea lid: "Li Wan, styled Gongcai, is the wife of Jia Zhu, the grandson of the Rongguo Mansion. Jia Zhu died young and survived. His son was named Jia Lan, and the Li family was also the daughter of a famous eunuch in Jinling, and his father's name was Li Shouzhong, who once offered wine to the Imperial Academy."

Li Wan felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his whole body was cold: "You...why are you..."

Su Wenyue stared at Li Wan with emotionless eyes: "You are one of the characters I hate the most, selfish and cruel, hypocritical and mean. No, it should be said that there is no one I like in your house. I went to school at a very young age. I have passed Shitouji, but I have never liked it since I was a child. God has no eyes, but let me come here..."

Li Wan couldn't understand what she said, but felt fear for no reason: No one should know what happened to Jia Zhu, but who is this woman?Moreover, she doesn't seem to have much kindness towards herself...

"...But, you are not guilty of death." Su Wenyue suddenly burst into a faint smile: "Come on, make amends, tell me the secret of your Jia family, and I will spare you two servant girls from dying."

Li Wan's voice changed: "What secret?"

"Where is the baby girl who was saved by the old Rong Guogong desperately?"

Li Wan was terrified: "What baby girl? I've never heard of it."

Su Wenyue's complexion suddenly changed: "If you don't tell the truth, I have plenty of ways to listen to you telling the truth!" After she said that, she raised her hand, and the knives of several guards immediately pointed at Biyue Suyun who was limp on the ground.Li Wan jumped on the two of them at once, trembling: "Girl, spare your life, it's not a lie, even if you kill me, I'll still say that."

Su Wenyue said slowly: "From the book, it seems that you really don't know, but everything has developed beyond my expectation. What is that Jia Li? Why have I never heard of such a thing?" No. [-] person? Also, the Jia Mansion should have been in decline long ago, why it was more prosperous then, there must be something strange..."

Li Wan seemed to be quite frightened, and leaned tightly on Biyue and Suyun, but his ears and eyes were closely watching the movement outside the house.After she made sure that everyone was in the room, while Su Wenyue was pacing up and down, Li Wan suddenly smashed a jade tablet on her body, and the fragrance immediately overflowed, and everyone in the room fell limp except her. Down.

Li Wan went limp, and sat down beside the pillar, gasping for breath.Fortunately, she carried the psychedelic jade token Ah Ba gave her before, which came in handy at this critical moment.

The effect of Mixiang is only one hour. Li Wan didn't think that he could drive away to Jia's mansion during this period of time, so he decisively entered the vacancy building and consulted with Ah Ba...

The author has something to say: Yes, Su Wenyue came from time travel (^o^)/~