[Red Mansions] Male wife

"Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry," Mrs. Wang frowned and pondered for a while, looked at Jia Xiuyun, snorted coldly, and told him to wait.Mrs. Wang took people to find Jia Mu in person, but she had just entered the courtyard when Pearl quietly withdrew and closed the door.Mrs. Wang glanced at the main room and motioned for Pearl, who hurriedly smiled and came over to explain.

"I was just angry for a while, now I feel better, and I fell asleep. The old lady's body is not as good as before. She is a little angry and tired, and her spirit is not very good." Pearl smiled and said a few words before thinking Get up and ask Mrs. Wang what's the matter here.

Mrs. Wang smiled and shook her head: "I just came to see how her old man is doing." Since Jia Mu couldn't help, Mrs. Wang didn't delay, she turned around and called some rough envoys and servants to follow her.She led a large group of people whirring towards Shanglanyuan.She has consulted all the people who should ask for instructions, and now she is left to decide.

Jia Xiuyun wanted to go out, but was blocked by Zhou Rui's family.Knowing that she was looking at him for Mrs. Wang, Jia Xiuyun smiled and raised his legs.When Zhou Rui's family saw this, they thought that the other party would kick them too, so they backed away in fright.Jia Xiuyun sneered, and put his feet on the stone beside the small garden.

Zhou Rui's family thought they were ashamed, their faces were embarrassed, and they breathed a sigh of relief.She is also old now, and her bones can't stand the toss.After a hundred days of hurting muscles and bones, once he was kicked, no one in the family would earn money.

Zhou Rui's family was thinking about it when they heard Third Master Huan suddenly giggled. She was about to see what was wrong with him when she felt a bump on her lower back. She threw herself face down on the ground and fell like a dog. gnawing shit.There are small gardens on both sides of the entrance of Orchid Appreciation Garden, where orchids are planted. Now that it is winter, the orchids are transplanted into pots. The nurses who pruned the yard filled the pit with some fertilizer and covered it with soil.Zhou Rui's family's plant, the face plate just buckled into the loose soil.She opened her mouth to yell, and took a mouthful of mud. Zhou Rui's family tried to sit up, spit the mud in her mouth, and wiped her face with a handkerchief.When she stood up staggeringly, Zhou Rui's family felt that there was a bad smell in her mouth, and smacked her lips before realizing that it was a stench.She turned her head and saw something black protruding from the soil, and immediately understood what it was. She was so disgusted that she leaned against the wall and vomited.

Jia Xiuyun came out from the Orchid Appreciation Garden, leaned against the big willow tree at the door and looked at her cheerfully. "That manure is fermented, how flavorful can it be?"

Zhou Rui's eyes were red with anger, he glared at Jia Huan while weeping, then turned and ran away covering his mouth.

Jia Xiuyun was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing.

Mrs. Wang came with her people and saw Jia Xiuyun laughing while helping the tree trunk.Mrs. Wang stopped and observed what was going on around secretly, except for Jia Xiuyun, she didn't see anyone else.

"From Zhou Rui's family?"

"Let's go!" Jia Xiuyun stopped laughing and turned to look at Mrs. Wang.

"Leaving?" Mrs. Wang raised her voice with a look of disbelief on her face.Zhou Rui's family is her confidant, how could he not obey her orders?This kid in front of him must have used some kind of trick to get her away. "Say, where did you take her?"

"She left by herself." Jia Xiuyun smiled.

"You bastard! It's the wrong way!" Mrs. Wang yelled loudly, and she ordered people to search Lanyuan, and Zhou Rui's family might be hidden nearby.The nuns and servants got the master's order and immediately became mad. Relying on Mrs. Wang's backing, they searched very arrogantly, and it was easy to rummaging through boxes and cabinets.Some people searched hard, forgot who they were, and went straight to the main room.

Little magpie, little Jixiang, and little magpie were guarding Aunt Zhao in the main room. Little auspicious came out with water, and suddenly saw a strange boy coming in, screamed in surprise, and poured a basin of dirty water on the boy's head. body.

Seeing this, Jia Xiuyun glared at Mrs. Wang, then went to the young servant and kicked him down the steps.The boy yelled loudly, his forehead and arms were scratched.

Mrs. Wang was so frightened that she cursed with trembling voice: "Things without eyes, who told you to come into Aunt Zhao's room!" She brought the servants to clean up Jia Xiuyun, but she didn't tell them to come into the master's room.Searching the house was a temporary decision, and she forgot about it in a moment of anxiety.unlucky!One wave of ups and downs and another wave of ups and downs.

"What are you doing?" Jia Zheng frowned when he saw this scene as soon as he came in. When he saw Mrs. Wang here, and saw the rooms with all the doors open, he probably guessed something in his mind. .

When Mrs. Wang saw Jia Zheng coming, she hid her face and cried and begged the master to make decisions, as if she was coming to a savior, accusing Jia Xiuyun of all his crimes.

Jia Xiuyun's face remained unchanged, he stood motionless and did not argue.

Jia Zheng frowned and asked, "You said that Xiu Yun contradicted you and spoke obscenely, but why did he suddenly contradict you? Also, why did you come to Lanyuan Garden all of a sudden?"

"Master, don't you believe me? Just ask them, these maids can all testify." Mrs. Wang changed the subject.

"Father, let the son say something. It was the wife who broke in here suddenly to take away the little magpie. The son asked her why in a very good manner, but the wife didn't say anything, and just asked someone to drive her away. The maids in this yard were originally There are only one or two that need to be used. Aunt Zhao is sick, and the little magpie has left. The son really doesn't know who to look for to take care of her. The son wanted to explain this, but he didn't have time to explain it to his wife. The ignorant mothers came to arrest people. When the son got angry, he kicked those two mothers directly." Jia Xiuyun said humanely, and finally added, "If father thinks that I am wrong, he can punish me casually, I admit it."

Mrs. Wang frowned, and looked at Jia Xiuyun and Jia Zheng suspiciously. "Aunt Zhao is sick?"

"Well, the little magpie had already sent me a message before I met Lord Shangshu just now." Jia Zheng sighed, turned to look at Mrs. Wang, and asked her why she suddenly grabbed the little magpie.

Mrs. Wang didn't expect this to happen, she faltered suddenly, not knowing what to say.Then he asked Jia Zheng why he suddenly went to see Baoyu just now.

Jia Zheng looked at Mrs. Wang suspiciously and replied: "Today is the day of the school examination. When I saw my mother, I thought I would stop by his place. Only after I went there did I find out that he vomited blood. What's the matter?"

Mrs. Wang quickly smiled and shook her head, saying nothing.

Jia Zheng narrowed his eyes and stared at Mrs. Wang: "Could it be that you suspect that the little magpie tipped me off, so you came to Xingshi to ask the crime?"

"I don't mean that by being a concubine." Mrs. Wang quickly evaded.

Jia Zheng snorted coldly, seeing her attitude, he knew what was going on, and there was no need to listen to her sophistry.It's just a maid, he wouldn't be angry with his wife, but she chose to provoke Jia Xiuyun.As I said earlier, he was in charge of the child's affairs, and Jia Zheng hadn't figured out a way to ease the previous tense relationship, and in the blink of an eye, Mrs. Wang added fuel to his fire.

Jia Zheng held back his anger and ordered the idlers to retreat.He then reprimanded Mrs. Wang for the place where the orchid garden was appreciated: "You are the mistress of the house, so you don't know how to use people to pay attention to evidence? How can you listen to the wind and rain, and judge things at will based on your own assumptions?" life and death!"

Mrs. Wang bowed her head silently.

Jia Xiuyun waited at the door, listening to Jia Zheng's reprimand in the room, he sneered.Mrs. Wang really has a tendency to make assumptions, otherwise how could Qingwen die.In this place, the life of the servant is only at the thought of the master.

Jia Zheng said angrily: "Okay, this is the end of the matter, don't ask me to see you a second time in the future. You are not allowed to come to Shanglanyuan in the future, just keep your mistress's shelf in your room." !"

"Master," Mrs. Wang called out aggrievedly, with tears in her eyes. "Just now I asked Zhou Rui's family to stay and watch him, but he is gone now."

Jia Zheng frowned and glared at Mrs. Wang, then raised his head and called Jia Xiuyun to come in, and asked him if something really happened to Zhou Rui's family.

"She blocked my way and wouldn't let me go out. I took advantage of her not paying attention and walked out, but I accidentally bumped into her. She fell, it was nothing serious, but her clothes were dirty and her face was dirty, so I went I left, maybe I went to change clothes. When my wife asked me just now, I said she was gone, but my wife didn't believe me." Jia Xiuyun explained.

"You—" Mrs. Wang's lungs were about to explode, she stared at Jia Xiuyun, wishing she could eat her. "If you explain it well, will I search for it?"

"Mrs. Hui, I want to explain carefully. Maybe you were too anxious and didn't give me a chance to say something." Jia Xiuyun said in an extremely 'innocent' way.

Mrs. Wang had never received such anger from her younger generation, and she was so angry that she was speechless and unable to refute. She clenched her fists fiercely, really wanting to beat this heaven-defying bastard into meatloaf at this very moment.

Jia Zheng's frown deepened. He couldn't scold Mrs. Wang in front of his son. He sighed and waved his hand to tell her to leave quickly.Before leaving, Jia Zheng did not forget to emphasize to Mrs. Wang: "Remember my words."

Mrs. Wang lowered her eyes and nodded, she gave Jia Xiuyun a hard look from the corner of her eye, and then she went out and led the person away.Zhou Rui's family changed their clothes, washed their mouth and face, ran back, and saw Mrs. Wang returning home lost.She saw that Mrs. Wang looked at her with blame in her eyes, she was startled, she followed with her head down, and she was ready to go back and be scolded by Mrs. Wang.However, she felt extremely wronged. Just now, Mr. Huan was clearly bullying others on purpose. She thought that running over could add fire to Mrs. Wang, but she ended up being wronged for nothing and had to be trained.

Jia Zheng looked at Aunt Zhao's condition, and after comforting her, he also comforted Jia Xiuyun a few words. "Your mother won't come again in the future. I stopped you. I promise you that no one will embarrass you again. Don't worry."

Jia Xiuyun nodded.

The next month, the Pei family's dowry was indeed delivered.The gift-giving team lined up Rongning Street mightily, with tens of thousands of people watching.At first, he was prepared to see the jokes of the men and wives in Rongfu, but now seeing so many dowry gifts, he also looks envious.

It turns out that marrying a man is better than marrying a woman!

When Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang saw the box after box of betrothal gifts, they felt as if they were regretting something.

As early as the previous month, Jia Xiuyun asked Jia Zheng for instructions.Since Jia Zheng personally agreed to take care of his affairs, Jia Xiuyun wanted to find out who would buy him the dowry.Jia Zheng was not sure, so he went to ask Jia's mother what she meant, and he still hoped that Jia's mother could help.Jia's mother was still angry, and Mrs. Wang was fanning the flames, so she deliberately put on airs and told Jia Zheng to leave it alone.When Jia Zheng heard this, he was very worried. How could he buy a dowry as a man, so he decided to discuss it with Jia Xiuyun on another day.Jia Xiuyun didn't want to, so he offered his idea to let him agree to it. He said that he would think of a way to buy the dowry, and he just asked Jia Zheng to end up with the result.

"Father also said that I should learn how to be a housekeeper. This is a good opportunity. You can give your son all the dowry rights. Before your son gets married, your son will not only be able to buy yourself a better dowry, but also give you at least 1 taels of silver."

Jia Zheng disagreed at first, but later seeing Jia Xiuyun's confidence, he was tempted.He calculated that the dowry gift from the Pei family was about 3 taels.This number is already the first in the capital, and the prince's married daughter does not have such a number.It is natural that the dowry cannot be overstated. This is because Concubine Shu personally asked the emperor for permission. Considering the special case of male wives, the Holy Majesty allowed the Pei family to marry generously.Now that it has attracted the attention of the emperor, the Rongguo Mansion naturally wants to marry generously and cannot lose face.Jia Zheng originally wanted to add some money to the dowry, but Jia's mother didn't care about it, and he had to pay for the dowry himself.What is he going to do with his monthly salary?

Jia Zheng said with a smile: "I don't ask you to keep it for me, I just want your dowry to be richer, just to make our Rongfu look good. But what do you have, we can't turn the dowry into a dowry and send it back, what an embarrassment."

"Father, don't worry, you will never lose face. You just leave these things to me. I am willing to pay or make money. My son promises you that he will never lose a penny." Jia Xiuyun laughed.He had to give Jia Zheng a sweetheart, and if he was attracted by 1 taels of silver, he could stabilize his position and not waver.

Jia Zheng was indeed tempted by the money. If he really had so much private money, his back would be even tougher.Jia Zheng was fully willing in his heart, but on the surface he put on a look of entanglement and difficulty. He seemed to have pondered for a while before nodding his head and agreeing, and repeatedly told Jia Xiuyun to be careful.

When Jia Xiuyun was disposing of the dowry gift, it happened to be at the end of the year, and every family began to spend a lot of money on buying things. Jia Xiuyun took the opportunity to dispose of the dowry gift almost, and exchanged more than 1000 taels of silver.There were also some things that were too special, Jia Xiuyun kept them and didn't deal with them.These things were specially made by the Pei Manor or were rare in the capital. Jia Xiuyun was keeping them for the time being in case someone would find out that he was handling the dowry.

The bun shop's business is booming for the time being, and it will make a lot of money by the end of the year.Jia Xiuyun didn't touch the money and bought another shop on the bustling street. He opened a restaurant and the main thing was hot pot.There is an iron-coated groove in the middle of the special stone table, and the table top is surrounded by smooth wooden boards.The charcoal fire is placed in the iron trough, and the iron net is placed on it, which can be used for barbecue or hot pot.Hot pot and barbecue are the choices of a wide audience no matter in ancient times or modern times.It's cold in winter, so it's not good to do this kind of business in restaurants.

Of course, it is not feasible to expect the catering industry to make a lot of money, so Jia Xiuyun had to think of another way.He is just an ordinary person and can't think of any special ideas, but he knows that education has been a very expensive industry since ancient times.That's why Jia Xiuyun came up with the idea of ​​opening an academy early on.Let those young people who are willing to donate money to enter the Imperial Academy but have no way to get started to study in his academy.In today's private schools, the masters are all scholars who failed the rankings, and those who won the imperial examinations all went to become officials. If the quality of the masters cannot improve, they will not be able to achieve excellent teaching methods.Jia Xiuyun thought that it would be best for the academy to be run jointly by the government and the people, with the protection of the government and the chance to invite officials with academic level to give lectures.

But he just thought about this idea, and there are many parts that are not perfect.Site selection, start-up capital, risk of cooperation with the government, etc.

Jia Xiuyun spent the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival while conceiving his great educational dream.On the second day of the Lantern Festival, Jia Xiuyun was summoned by Pei Jin, who gave Jia Xiuyun several land deeds.

"My mother asked me to give you the second half of the dowry." Pei Jin said with a half-smile.

Jia Xiuyun smiled and flipped through the land deed. He wondered why there was no farm shop in the dowry gift, so there was a follow-up.Jia Xiuyun smiled and asked Pei Jin: "You stopped these things and wanted to give them to me alone. It seems that it has nothing to do with your mother."

Pei Jin smiled even more elegantly. "Those who know me are none other than Xiuyun."