[Red Mansion] Hairpins fly when they are

Jia Yucun has just arrived at the place, and Baochai in the capital is already confinement.

Jia Chao has already learned how to laugh, and often makes unconscious babbling noises. If someone teases him, he will scream even more cheerfully.

Watching her son grow up day by day, Baochai's heart almost softened to water, not to mention the old lady Song, who opened her eyes and closed her eyes as "my good grandson.".

Since having this grandson, the old lady's body and bones have improved a lot. She doesn't even use crutches at ordinary times. Her waist is no longer sore, her legs don't hurt, and her arms are much stronger. She can hold Chao'er for three or four hours without using it. let go.

Mrs. Xue ran at both ends, came to Jia's mansion to accompany Baochai for a few days, and then went home to take care of the pregnant Xiangling.Because Xiangling was less than three months pregnant, it was not easy to run around, so she could only calm down at home.

Baochai was afraid that Mrs. Xue would be working too hard, so she advised her: "Sister-in-law is pregnant for the first time, mother can just stay at home and take care of her, don't run around anymore, I'm already confinement, you don't have to worry about it."

"With your brother at home, I have nothing to worry about. But here, you don't even have a man in the house once my uncle leaves. Why don't I worry?"

Baochai couldn't help laughing: "Isn't the butler a man? Besides, there are servants."

"They don't count. They are all servants. How can it compare to my uncle's one finger?" Mrs. Xue waved her hand and said, "Speaking of which, Mrs. Zhen should be here in two days. When she comes, put I am also relieved that Xiangling will be handed over to her."

Baochai was puzzled: "Mrs. Zhen? Whose family?"

"Look at you, you're so confused when you're lying on the confinement every day, isn't your sister-in-law Zhen?"

"Ah, I remembered." Baochai suddenly realized, "I heard you said that you would bring your sister-in-law's mother over to live together, but then for some reason, there was no more."

"We wrote a letter, and the other end replied that we didn't want to leave our hometown, but we were very happy to find Xiangling, and sent two sets of clothes, and a silver hairpin." Xue said in detail, "The silver hairpin is half The old ones are not new. I figured that the conditions over there were not very good, so I prepared a generous gift and sealed 100 taels of silver to send it over. Since she refused to come over, I can’t just watch my in-laws suffer. Right? This amount of money should be considered as filial piety for Xiangling's pension."

When Baochai heard this, she glanced at her mother.

This glance had no other meaning at all, but Mrs. Xue misunderstood it, thinking that her daughter thought she gave too little money, and hurriedly argued: "At that time we just moved out from Jia's house, and we were buying a house and a shop. , Which one doesn’t need money? These are all paid by you. The generous gift and 100 taels are still paid from the 1000 taels you gave me.”

Baochai nodded while listening.

Xue said again: "It's not that I'm stingy, your brother didn't even earn half a copper coin at that time, and I was still living on the money my daughter gave me. I've done my best to help my in-laws in this way, so why don't you also make money?" Can't you support that family?"

Baochai carefully recalled the content of the original book. At that time, the Gourd Temple caught fire, and Zhen Shiyin took his wife to his father-in-law. He also had silver taels with him. Later, his father-in-law Feng Su bought a house and land for him.

Feng Su's heart was black, he took his son-in-law's money but did not do any practical work, and all he bought were Susukida dilapidated houses.

Furthermore, after Zhen Shiyin became a monk, Mrs. Zhen lived with her own father. Feng Su was a man who knew how to exploit and had a dark heart, so the family property he scooped up was not too small.No matter how you look at it, Mrs. Zhen will not be out of food.

"That's enough. It's still reasonable to promote Mi En and fight Mi Qiu. In the future, I will send some gifts over during the festivals, and my sister-in-law will not be able to say anything."

"That's right. I thought the two families were getting along like this, but I didn't expect a letter from there to come to see your sister-in-law." Xue said, with a worried expression on his face. "I don't know what kind of temperament my wife in-law has, and whether I can get along well."

"Is she staying long-term or short-term? Judging from my sister-in-law's temperament, her mother should be easy to get along with."

Xue Shi laughed when she heard the words: "I guessed the same way. Your sister-in-law is such a soft person, and the wife of your in-laws would not be a pungent person."

This time, Mrs. Xue lived in Jia's house for three days. Seeing that Baochai was full moon, able to get up and walk, and take care of the housework, she went back with peace of mind. She still had to tidy up the house for Mrs. Zhen to live in.

Mrs. Song guessed that her son should arrive, so she urged Baochai to write a letter.

Baochai also had this intention: "I couldn't get out of bed a few days ago, so I was delayed. Don't worry, mother, I will write it right away."

The old lady: "Write more about Chao'er, he doesn't know how to worry about it outside. Just tell him that everything is fine at home, and let him not worry about it outside, and focus on his errands, and come back early when he is done."

Baochai responded one by one, filled two pages, read it to the old lady, and made sure that nothing was missed, then picked up a brush and drew a full moon picture of Chaoer.

The old lady has been staring at the side, saying repeatedly that she draws well and is vivid.

Baochai painted the scene of his son lying in the cradle clapping his hands and squinting his eyes and smiling. After he finished the painting, he felt that it was very vivid when he admired it.

Because Jia Yucun is not at home, there is no need for Jia Chao’s full moon wine. The old lady puts her hope on the hundred days. If her son can come back before then, she will hold a lively hundred-day banquet. , and had no choice but to feel wronged by Chao'er, who had to push back the wine setting.

Baochai began to take over the family affairs after the full moon, and those who were well-informed knew that Jia's mansion had a baby, so they rushed to send postings and gifts, but Baochai pushed all the postings, but the gifts sent were not easy to return.

As long as Jia Yucun is in the officialdom for a day, communication and entertainment are essential, including the back house.If you return every gift intact, people won't praise you for your honesty, they will only think that you despise poor courtesy.

Baochai accepted all the presents, and then gave them in return at the same price.

Although the housework is trivial, fortunately the Jia family is not a big family, all the servants add up to only more than 20 people, and it only takes half an hour a day to finish the work, and there is an old lady to help take care of the children, Baochai thinks Still very easy.

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One day, Jia Yucun just came back from the outside. When he took off his outer robe, the white silk underwear inside was completely soaked. Shuangshou smacked his lips in pain: "Master, it's really hard work, why bother to run outside in person? The people below will just go."

"Sitting in the house all day, it's easy to lose your eyes and ears. If you don't go out and see for yourself, how do you know if they are fooling people?" Jia Yucun also felt sticky and uncomfortable. "Bring a basin of water, I want to wipe it off." body."

Shuangshou: "Where is a basin of water enough? I'll ask someone to carry a bucket, so I can have a good wash?"

Although the local area is short of water, the county next door is not short of water. The two hundred soldiers brought by Liu Dong have done nothing for the past two days. .

Jia Yucun waved his hand: "One pot is enough, and it's not easy to transport water by horse-drawn cart, so leave more for the third prince."

Shuangshou agreed, and turned around to bring a basin of water. Jia Yucun didn't want him to serve him, so he just wiped his body with a handkerchief, thinking about things while wiping slowly.

Even with Qin Yuchuan as a helper, Jia Yucun was too busy to learn the magic of clone. Today he went to the countryside and found that the people here are really poor and the people are really simple.

They wore shabby coarse cotton shirts, there was no green in the field, everything was scorched yellow, but they kowtowed excitedly when they saw themselves, and kept saying thank you to the court for thinking about them.

Just because the taxes and food were paid back, half of the tax was reduced and exempted, and the spring seeds were distributed for free, the common people were satisfied like this.

The wells in many villages have long since dried up, and they have to travel long distances to the mountains to get water.Jiayu Village asked several villagers to lead the way and went to the mountain to have a look. It was a spring.

According to the villagers, when the weather was good in the past, the spring water gushed out here, and the water quality was clear and sweet. This year is too dry, and the water level of this spring is only a thin layer at the bottom, which still seeps out from the depths of the mountain.

Water diversion is imminent, and Li Heze has also been out for two days to check the terrain and plan the route. This is hard work, and he has to sleep in the wild at night.

What's more important is that even if everything is ready, it has to be reported to the court to see how much money the emperor is willing to spend to build the water conservancy project here.

As the emperor got older, his actions became more and more absurd. He practiced the palace in summer, built hot springs in winter, and the national treasury became increasingly empty. The reason why he sent Jia Yucun this time was because of his ability, and because he was an official of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

The Ministry of Households is in charge of the household registration and finances of the whole country. It is not difficult to guess the emperor's intentions. He wants Jia Yucun to settle the affairs here with the least amount of money.

If the emperor is only willing to withdraw half of the silver and let him raise the other half locally, how can it be good?The county's financial situation is very worrying. With the ancient county magistrate in front of him, how much money can the county leave?

Are we going to force the people to pay back the taxes and rations they just got?

Although the emperor sentenced the Gu county magistrate to ransack the house, but the job of ransacking the house is Jin Yiwei's job, and Jia Yu Village cannot cross the border, so no matter how much money is copied, it belongs to the emperor and does not belong to the people of this county.

Alas, now I hope that the fourth prince can understand his difficulties and deal with him in front of the emperor.

Shuang'an trotted in from the outside, with a happy face on his face: "Shuangshou, where is the master?"

"Wipe yourself inside, where did you get the letter from?"

"It's from home, it's from the capital."

Shuangshou nodded: "Then you go in, I'll go to the kitchen and bring the master a bowl of mung bean soup to relieve the heat."

Shuang'an stuffed the letter into his hand: "You have been running outside with the master for a day, you rest, I will go."

"Thank you, I'll treat you to a drink when I get home." Shuangshou smiled.

When Jia Yucun came out of the bathroom, he saw his servant Shuangshou sitting on the ground beating his legs, and said, "How can you sit on the ground if you don't have a stool?"

Shuangshou was startled, and quickly stood up, while slapping the dust on his buttocks, he apologized: "It's my fault, I usually walk around with the master, but after going out for a long time, my leg hurts. "

Jia Yucun smiled: "Don't talk about you, I also feel pain in my feet, with several blisters, you took a needle to pick it for me."

Shuangshou immediately became nervous: "Let's invite a doctor to take a look and prescribe some medicine."

"It's not a big deal, there's no need to ask the doctor, you go get the needle quickly."

Shuangshou didn't dare to say any more, and when he turned to leave, he remembered that there was still a letter, and hurriedly said: "A letter came from home, I put it on the desk."