Mrs. Xing of the Red Chamber

Although Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang were tired and didn't have a good appetite, they still ate some of the dishes they hadn't eaten before.

Anyway, it was Jia Yuanchun's wish, what a good uncle!

If Li Mo were here, seeing so many delicious foods, he might be too full to eat, and he might want to secretly take some back to eat slowly.

It's a pity that one of the people who eat here now is Jia Yuanchun who can often eat these dishes and doesn't think it's very unusual.

The other two, Mrs. Jia and Mrs. Wang, were so exhausted that they didn't have the appetite to eat!

After eating for a while, Jia Yuanchun saw that his grandmother and mother couldn't eat anymore, so he put down his chopsticks.

Accompanying them back to the living room to continue resting, this carefully prepared large table of dishes was only eaten a little, and it was wasted.

Jia Yuanchun accompanied Jiamu and the others while chatting and resting. Around noon, Jiamu couldn't help but take a nap. Seeing that Jiamu was asleep, Jia Yuanchun asked someone to cover her with a quilt.

And said softly to Mrs. Wang, who was still in good spirits: "Mother, grandma is asleep, let's go out and talk so as not to disturb her old man!"

In fact, Mrs. Wang's body has actually recovered a little, and she is not so tired anymore.

Besides, it took several years to see Yuan Chun again. Mrs. Wang was still very excited and didn't feel sleepy.

Hearing Jia Yuanchun's words, he whispered directly: "Okay, let's go."

Jia Yuanchun took Mrs. Wang to his room and sat down separately.

Just now, because of Jia Mu's presence, I had a lot of questions to ask Yuan Chun directly. Now there are only myself and Yuan Chun.

Mrs. Wang wanted to know Jia Yuanchun's situation very much, so she asked:

"What's the situation with you in the palace now? You also said in a daze in the letter. Doesn't that make me anxious!"

Jia Yuanchun said to his mother without any embarrassment:

"I have appeared in front of the Holy One many times before, but I failed to attract the attention of the Holy One.

This concubine is thanks to your mother for the news about Qin Keqing, plus some other considerations.

The Holy Majesty just granted me the title of concubine, and now I have a hard time in the palace, and I can hardly see the Holy Majesty, my daughter is also suffering in my heart! "

Mrs. Wang probably didn't expect that Yuan Chun's life in the palace was like this. How is it different from being a widow!

But don't be discouraged, Mrs. Wang said comfortingly: "If you really don't get the favor of the Holy One, you have to find a way to conceive a child, my lady!

In this palace, the majesty's favor and favor are all empty, and the only way out is to give birth to her own child.

Empress, you have to think carefully, don't forget what is best for you just because of the favor of the Holy One. "

Jia Yuanchun said bitterly: "I also want to have a child of my own sooner, but the Holy One won't come to my place for two or three months.

I just come here occasionally to spend the night, but the next day someone sent me a soup to watch me drink it. How could I have a chance to conceive a child! "

Mrs. Wang was surprised when she thought that Yuan Chun's situation in the palace was so bad.

Can't help but ask: "When the sage went to the other empresses, did you reward them with Bizitang the next day?"

Thinking of the other concubines in the palace who have been competing with him for the favor of the emperor, Jia Yuanchun said with an ugly expression:

"I've already drawn people's attention to this matter. After the Holy Majesty spent the night with them, some concubines were given refuge soup, but some didn't."

Jia Yuanchun was a little annoyed when he mentioned this, why those concubines could get the Holy Majesty's respect, but he didn't!

Mrs. Wang looked at her daughter who was still jealous at this time, and couldn't help saying:

"Look at you, is this the time to be jealous?

The most important thing now is how to conceive a child early, the Holy Majesty's favor is too illusory, you should still

Hurry up and have a baby! "

A woman will naturally have a special affection for her first man, and Jia Yuanchun is no exception.

What's more, there is only one man in the deep palace, the Holy One. Although the risk is great, the benefits that can be brought are even greater. No wonder it will make people rush forward.

Once you can get the favor of the Holy Majesty, those high-ranking officials will be rich and prosperous, which makes it difficult for people not to be tempted.

Although Jia Yuanchun really wanted to be favored by the Holy Majesty, he couldn't pretend not to see the reality.

Being able to struggle for so long in the fiercely competitive deep palace, Jia Yuanchun is naturally not an easy-going lamp, knowing what is best for him.

Said to Mrs. Wang:

"Madam, don't worry, I know what is best for me, the question now is how to conceive a child?

Judging from this situation, the Holy Majesty does not want me to be able to bear an heir for him! "

Speaking of this, Jia Yuanchun was still a little sad, he had been trying to find ways to please the Holy Majesty, but he didn't expect the Holy Majesty to treat him like this.

Mrs. Wang thought for a while and said, "See if you can find a suitable opportunity to spit out the Bizi soup you drank, and drink some soup that makes it easier to conceive.

You can't go on like this forever, you must know that a woman's youth is very limited, don't hurry up and seize the opportunity to have a child while you are still young and fresh.

In the future, the attention of the Holy Majesty will be attracted by other more tender women, and when I want to see the Holy Majesty, it will be too late to regret it! "

Knowing that his mother was doing it for his own good, Jia Yuanchun thought about it and said:

"Don't worry, Ma'am, I have my own measure, and when the time is right, I will seize the opportunity to conceive a child.

Now I have just obtained the concubine position by taking advantage of Qin Keqing and other things.Now that the fledgling power is still unstable, it is not a good time to conceive a child.

Pregnancy is not good for me now, seeing so many concubines in the palace who miscarried after conceiving children, and finally ruined their own bodies, my daughter does not want to be one of them. "

"It's good that you know these things. I'm afraid that you will lose your head because of His Majesty's favor and do some crazy things. In a woman's life, only her own children are the most reliable, and the rest are false."

Mrs. Wang felt relieved when she saw that Yuan Chun was very clear about her situation.

After talking about his situation, Jia Yuanchun thought about the note his mother had given him a few days ago.

The above things were not very clear, which made me very ignorant of the current situation in the mansion, so I asked my mother, Mrs. Wang:

"The news that you sent me into the palace, mother, was not very clear. Mother, can you tell me what is going on in the mansion now?"

"Oh, you know the situation in the mansion, the situation is not as good as before!

There is no one in the mansion who is the pillar of the imperial court. If it weren't for the reputation and contacts accumulated in the Rongguo mansion, they would have been reduced to ordinary wealthy people in the capital.

How can it still support the current facade of the mansion! "

Concubine Xiande also knows that Rongguo Mansion is going downhill now, her uncle and father are not very capable people.

The uncle inherited the title of first-class general from his grandfather. He has no real power in the court, and he doesn't even use it much in the early court. When he is a lot of age, he still lives at home as a playboy all day long.

My father relied on his grandfather's shadow to get a fifth-rank member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, and he hasn't moved his seat for more than 20 years. It has to be said that this is also a kind of ability.

After thinking about it, Jia Yuanchun asked:

"Mom, you said in the note you handed me, let me find a way to get my grandmother to agree to take the lead in paying money for the construction of the other courtyard!

Why doesn't the mansion even have the money to start construction now? "

Mrs. Wang said with a wry smile: "You don't know how expensive the rice is if you are not in charge!

Such a large family in our house only knows how to spend money every day, and never thinks about where the money comes from.

Even if there is a mountain of gold and silver in the mansion, it can't stand such a trick! "

Jia Yuanchun couldn't believe it and said:

"I remember that there are not many Zhuangzi and shops in the mansion? How could it be that they can only enter and not exit?

How much income from Zhuangzi and the shop can still maintain the daily expenses of the mansion? "

"There is no one in the mansion who is good at running the shop and managing the village, and every year when the accounts are settled over the years, they are always at a loss!

Later, there was really no other way but to sell some shops and Zhuangzi in the mansion in order to continue to maintain the expenses of the mansion and reduce more losses. "

Can Mrs. Wang tell Jia Yuanchun that she has a share of the credit for this? Of course it is impossible.

Mrs. Wang took advantage of the loss-making shops and Zhuangzi in the mansion to transfer a lot to her private treasury.

"Didn't the mansion find a way to reduce some unnecessary expenses?" Jia Yuanchun asked suspiciously.

Mrs. Wang said helplessly: "The people in the mansion are used to living a life of rich clothes and fine food, so it doesn't mean that it can be reduced if it is reduced.

The ancestors and the old man, your father, will not agree. I tried to say it before, but they all opposed it, and finally I had to let it go.

Besides, wealthy families like us only buy people from the mansion, and have never heard of selling people outside.

There are now two to three hundred servants in the mansion. To maintain the scene and daily expenses of the mansion, how can there be any money left in the mansion! "

Jia Yuanchun thought that it would take such a large sum of money to build the family-friendly courtyard. Even if Jia Mu and the others collected the money to start construction and repair the courtyard, where would the large sum of money needed next come from?