The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 79

Even though Aunt Xue believed in the words of the monks and Taoists very much because of the Lin family's affairs, it was impossible to tell the matter anyway.

One is that this kind of ghost talk may not be able to win people's trust, and the other is that the daughter's poor health in the boudoir has always been hidden from others. If outsiders know Daiyu Her health is not good, her daughter should not get married.

So this time Daiyu's illness passed away quietly, especially recently, many women's family members have caught cold because of the change of seasons, and Daiyu's illness is not serious at all, and it is natural that she is hiding in the army. People paid attention.

Especially when Jinling was about to have a big mess, who would care about the posthumous daughter of a merchant family.

Yuan Chun's family was one of the few people who did not fall ill.Although her ancestral home is in Jinling, she is a native of Beijing, and she has some experience in winter and cold resistance.She has never been to the south before, and she made some mistakes in estimating the temperature here. Of course, the winter clothes she prepared are quite thick. In addition, in order to show her virtuousness and generosity when the bride entered the mansion, she specially picked a few in her dowry. A big woolen dress of good value was given to the family. From the husband-in-law and mother-in-law to the three children, there is always a hundred and eighty taels of silver, so the ability to withstand the cold is naturally not bad.So even if the temperature drop this time affected more than half of Jinling, she would not be affected. Even the whole Sun family was in good health due to the proper precautions. Even the weakest second mother in the younger generation did not fall ill.

Just because no one in the family fell ill didn't mean her family was fine. Yuan Chun still had countless things to worry about, especially after seeing many old people from her family in Jinling.

The Sun family came to Jinling to be the magistrate of a prefecture. As Yuanchun's son-in-law Sun Xu was just an ordinary Jinshi with a previous record, he achieved the position of the fifth rank. It is comparable to a Beijing official of the sixth rank, and his official career is not much better than that of the top scholar in Jinke—the so-called shooting out of the top, he will naturally be missed when he marries a good wife and has a smooth official career I don't know how many people in the same department as him are waiting to see his excitement.

This year's winter was cold and a bit evil. Regarding this matter, merchants like Xue's family don't have any sentiments of worrying about the country and the people, but it's okay to mutter, even if snowdrops really fall in winter, it's not for them. It's still elegant.But putting this matter in the official family, it is inevitable that some people will think of other things in advance.

For example, rich people who do not lack money, winter clothes and silver charcoal all fell ill for a round because of being caught off guard, not to mention the families of ordinary people who have no spare money, I am afraid it will be even worse.

The price of making a padded jacket is several times more expensive than that of coarse linen. Although the winter in Jinling was colder in previous years, it was not as severe as in the north. People with stronger bodies could still endure it, so many people At most, it was just a thin padded jacket with all the cotton wadding, and there were even many who were not willing to make padded jackets and just made a few more coarse clothes and folded them together to withstand the winter.

There are many such people.Poor people are used to rough stuff, without the exquisite ability of rich people, the price of this cotton is not cheap, and it can’t be worn too many times a year, and the cotton will inevitably become fluffed and not warm after being used for a long time Those who can really have a thin padded jacket are considered to have a solid family background, and the rest of the really poor families are not coarse linen clothes patched and patched, and they can make an extra piece of clothing for the boys in the family. It's up to fate what happens to others.

In previous years, the winter was survived by relying on the strength of the body. Under such circumstances, the sudden drop in temperature this year will not only harm the poor people.

Let alone those who suffer from frostbite, it is not uncommon for them to freeze to death when the weather gets colder. Moreover, if the poor family fell ill, how could anyone be willing to spend money to hire a doctor? Rates of course skyrocketed.After a while and counting those who died of illness and those who became ill again, it is estimated that if no one comes forward to take care of this matter, I am afraid that this winter will be a huge blow to the population in the south.

Although Jiangnan is the most affluent place in the country, in terms of wealth, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This Jiangnan property is still mostly gathered in the hands of wealthy businessmen. God will not just because Jiangnan is overall rich There will be fewer poor people.

These days, officials’ methods of liquidating political achievements can be described as simple and rude. Apart from relying on the assessment of officials who can fawn on Shangfeng’s hands and feet, they just look at taxes, population, and whether there are any cases under their posts. If they are full, they can be re-elected or promoted. If the assessment results are not satisfactory, it is estimated that the next term will have nothing to do with such a wealthy place.

Oh, by the way, if the latter really has some obvious troubles and is stabbed to the top, then even if you go to curry favor with the officials of the official department, it will be difficult to change the negative review into an upward review.

As for what is called an obvious disorder, to put it simply and crudely, the sharp drop in population under the current leadership must be regarded as a big problem.

That's why Yuanchun is worried.

After a woman's family gets married, all she can count on for the rest of her life is her husband and son. Since Yuan Chun is married and has no children of her own, she can't expect anything bad from the Sun family.Moreover, the reason why Wang Ziteng put the Sun family's office in Jinling in a secret operation was not because it was easier for foreign officials to earn credit because the emperor was far away, and Jinling was the elder of the Jia and Wang families. With the help of these families in the camp, even if Sun Xu is really Liu Adou, he can't cause any trouble here, and he can only take the credit for nothing.

The ideal is beautiful, but who would have thought that such a big event would happen in the first year when their family came to Jinling.

In fact, it is not a big deal.After all, no matter how unhappy God is, it is impossible to leave other places alone and freeze Jinling.At this moment this year, the entire Jiangnan area and even some places in the south are inevitably affected by disasters, and it seems that Jinling is only suffering from a group of people because of the cold weather. People are unhappy, not like swallows who can't stand it.In the south where the two seasons of rice are planted, although no one has died from freezing, the second season's harvest may not be guaranteed. It can be seen that the tax must be directly reduced by half.

No matter how capable this official is, he can at most manage to avoid man-made disasters. As for natural disasters, he can only accept his fate. Fortunately, the official department will not impeach for a year of natural disasters. Officials, at most, have to admit that they are unlucky and waste a few more years. It is not easy for anyone to be an official from the beginning to the end, but Sun Xu's ups and downs have been brought forward a little bit.

But who let the Sun family still have Jia's Yuanchun?

As Mrs. Wang's daughter, she will inevitably be influenced by Mrs. Wang. For example, Mrs. Wang always said that Jia Min had bad luck, that she could pick up a good son-in-law for nothing with a bitter look, and that she was also Jia The younger sister from the family, Yuan Chun looks rich and noble, she must be more promising than Jia Min.

Moreover, the Jia family didn't know much about the imperial examinations, and they thought that they were also qualified for the imperial examinations. Lin Ruhai was lucky enough to be a few places higher than Sun Xu, and the difference would not be too much.Yuan Chun had heard from his family that his fate was noble since he was a child, and he couldn't help but believe it after hearing it a lot. He just felt that even if he was not blessed to be a golden phoenix, he should have the life of a first-rank wife.In addition, the Jia family hadn't been a foreign official for many years, so Yuan Chun's ability to accept these things was weaker.

People are always growing up gradually, and it is human nature to learn lessons from setbacks and learn methods. No one will be so harsh that everyone should be born knowing it.Sun Xu is still young in the officialdom, and it is not a good thing to get ahead too early.

But if Yuanchun wants to understand this, he is probably not the daughter of a noble family—the four kings, eight princes and twelve princes, as traditional nobles, all have some problems with self-esteem.Moreover, since Sun Xu married a girl from the Jia family, he naturally wanted to seek success and want to use the influence of the Jia family to become an official, so how could he understand that suffering is a blessing.

Scholars' backgrounds are commonplace. Almost half of the civil servants in the officialdom are of serious Jinshi backgrounds. Every three years, there are always one or two hundred new Jinshis. It's really nothing to brag about.To put it bluntly, this imperial examination is really a matter of thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge. Every time the rankings are released, there are always various rankings who catch their sons-in-law.

There are so many young beauties with different temperaments. If Sun Xu can fall in love with Yuan Chun, an old girl in her 20s, if it is because of true love, it is at most because she can coax children, and it is not because of her official career.

Yuan Chun is always knowledgeable, and it's only the beginning of winter now, and people can still get by with more clothes at home, at least it's not the time to die, and it's impossible to alarm the higher-ups.It's just that Yuanchun is used to planning for a rainy day, and after hearing the steward in Zhuangzi mention the exceptionally cold weather this year, he inevitably shared his concerns with Sun Xu first.

Regardless of whether there are any intrigues among the officials in Jinling, at least everyone's interests are always the same when it comes to self-protection.When natural disasters come, many people will die, but if they find a way to reduce the losses, they can always redeem their sins by comparing them with other places around them.

For disaster relief, no matter what kind of disaster it is, the first to bear the brunt is naturally the most indispensable thing.All the reasonable officials in Jinling turned their heads over this matter. Although they didn't think of any way to save it, they set the tone about money almost without any hesitation.

——Then the merchants in Jinling were unlucky.