The Fenghua Years of the Red Chamber

Jia Lian and his wife sat on the carriage with their eyes closed to rest, silent all the way, the hands they held tightly together showed that they were not at peace, what they saw today had a great impact on the two of them.Back in Pingyuan Fucheng, it was getting late, the girls waited for the two to rest, seeing that the two looked unhappy, they didn't dare to fight casually, and the whole courtyard was silent for a while.

"Master, talk to me." Wang Xifeng was not at peace. She saw the misery of those exiles today, and she couldn't help her peers. In the future, Jia's house will be ransacked, and her children will also be reduced to this. Seeing Jia Lian sitting at the table in a daze , then pulled Jia Lian to talk.

"What are you talking about?" Jia Lian replied listlessly, seeing his uncle today, he had infinite emotions.

"My aunt told me a lot about my mother-in-law today, and my uncle must have told you a lot too. Let's talk about this." Wang Xifeng tried hard to get rid of the image of the two skinny children in his mind.

"This, my uncle gave it to me. She said my mother embroidered it herself." Jia Lian took out a purse from her arms and showed it to Wang Xifeng. "It's much better than yours." Jia Lian said with a smile thinking of Wang Xifeng's craftsmanship.

Wang Xifeng took the purse and looked at it carefully. The purse was exquisitely crafted. The royal blue silk cloth was embroidered with magpies kicking branches on one side and toad palace folded laurels on the other side. It was very well preserved.

"The purse is brand new, and my uncle must cherish it very much. My craftsmanship can't compare with that of my mother. Sister Qiao has inherited her mother's talent. The purse is brand new. I didn't send out the purse I prepared for the two children." Wang Xifeng bowed her head from her waist From the exquisite purse, I took out a purse made by Qiaojie and put it in my hand for comparison.

When Jia Lian heard Wang Xifeng's words, she couldn't help worrying, and said: "We are not in the capital, so I don't know how the master spoils the two children. We left like monkeys, and it would be bad if we turned into crabs when we go back."

Wang Xifeng was taken aback, and burst out laughing: "Master, how can you say that about children, crabs, although it doesn't sound good, I hope that children can walk sideways like crabs in the future and not be bullied by others."

"Today I returned half of mother's dowry to my natal family, and my little uncle took it." Jia Lian said suddenly.

"It's the part that the master withheld." Wang Xifeng asked with a turn of her mind. Now she is in charge of her mother-in-law's dowry, and her part has not been touched. It can only be withheld by Jia She. She thought Jia She was corrupt, but she didn't expect used here.

"It's my mother's will." Jia Lian hadn't opened the box, so he didn't know how many banknotes were inside.

"Now there is only my uncle's family left in the Zhang family. It must be that the mother-in-law was worried about the difficult life of the Zhang family, so she made a will. I don't know. If I am unhappy today, it is possible that I feel sorry for the money." Wang Xifeng said.

"You look down on me too much." Jia Lian now has no shortage of money in his hand, "For those shops and farms in your hand, pick some unremarkable ones and transfer them to Yun'er or Fifth Aunt. In addition, I see that the surrounding scenery of uncle's house is good. , you buy some fields and build a house there, we will go and live there in the future." Jia Lian closed his eyes and said.

What shocked Jia Lian was the rows of tablets. In the way of being an official, if he was a little careless, he ransacked his family and wiped out his family. Now there are only tablets and an academy in a corner of the prominent foreign family.It is no wonder that some people know the laws and regulations, but they also ransack their families and exterminate their families. Because if they do not advance, they will retreat.

The memorial tablets of the Zhang family today reminded him of Jia She's conversation a few years ago. Their family might not be able to survive for a few years. After the Supreme Emperor left, the new emperor would definitely deal with them. Can only return.In the past few years, the prosperity of the family has relaxed his tense nerves. No wonder Jia She asked him to come to Pingyuan Mansion because it turned out to be a wake-up call for him about the Zhang family.

The Zhang family, Zhang father and three sons sat in the study room, opened the box, and there was a total of 20 taels of silver in it. Zhang father sighed and said: "Brother-in-law is far-sighted." this much.

"Father, my aunt's dowry should have been inherited by Cousin Lian, but now we're taking it, right?" Zhang Qingping asked cautiously.

"Your uncle has far-sighted plans for the future. Although your aunt's dowry is rich, it is only half of that. In the early years, your uncle spent a lot of money to provide for our family, and there is not much left." Father Zhang sighed. He took a deep breath and said: "The Jia family probably won't be able to last for a few years, so don't touch the money and return it to the Jia family in the future." Father Zhang put the lid on and said.

"Father, you mean the Jia family, I think my cousin is pretty nice." Zhang Xiping, the youngest, asked puzzled.

"Brother Lian is good. Although he is a bit of a dude and lacks knowledge, he is not bad in nature. He is good at common affairs and a good official. However, the rise and fall of a family cannot be reversed by one person." Father Zhang said with a smile.

Seeing Qin Keqing again, Wang Xifeng asked in shock, "Keqing, aren't you already dead?" Qin Keqing said with a smile:

"Auntie, I came here specially to congratulate you today. Congratulations to Auntie for getting what she wanted."

After sending Qin Keqing away, Wang Xifeng was walking alone on the empty street when she heard a loud noise. Wang Xifeng walked in and saw that the Rongguo Mansion was surrounded by officers and soldiers and was raiding the house. The one who was tied up and brought out, she saw Jia Amnesty, Jia Lian, and Qiaojie, Wang Xifeng followed them all the way to the criminal prison, Wang Xifeng kept searching inside, but she didn't see Brother Mao.

Wang Xifeng hurried back to the Rongguo Mansion, searched around in the garden, but could not find Mao Geer. After Jia She and Jia Lian left, Wang Xifeng searched everywhere. One day, she went to the depths of the blooming flowers, and suddenly saw Two snakes, one big and one small, frightened her so much that she didn't dare to move. The two snakes suddenly turned into Maogeer and a little boy in brocade clothes. They ran over and hugged Wang Xifeng's legs and said, "Mother, mother, Where have you been, my brother and I have been looking for you."

The two children had had enough of acting coquettishly, so they ran away, saying, "Mom, come to us." Suddenly, the flowers receded and turned into withered grass, and the two little boys also became skinny, with a basket on their backs. , ran farther and farther, and finally the figure slowly dissipated, Wang Xifeng anxiously shouted Maogeer, Maogeer, you are there, come out quickly.

Jia Lian woke up Wang Xifeng who said "Brother Mao, Brother Mao" in his mouth, and gave her a sip of water to drink. After Wang Xifeng's rapid breathing calmed down, he asked, "But do you miss Brother Mao?"

"You all go down." Wang Xifeng was still in shock, looked at Jia Lian and said, "Master, I dreamed about Rong's daughter-in-law again, and dreamed about ransacking the house, but I couldn't find Brother Mao." Wang Xifeng told the dream to Jia Lian said again, "Master, do you think it was an early warning from the heavens, and brother Mao and that little boy disappeared." Wang Xifeng asked in a panic.

"You said that Rong's daughter-in-law gave you congratulations? Brother Mao has a little boy next to him. Are you happy?" Jia Lian asked thoughtfully. When Wang Xifeng heard this, he was taken aback, and hurriedly counted his life. At this time, she was pregnant.

"I haven't changed my clothes for two months." Wang Xifeng hugged her belly and wept with joy, her child came back.

"Tomorrow, the doctor will be invited to the mansion for a pulse diagnosis." Jia Lian was also very happy, he was finally going to have a son-in-law.

"However, what else is there to explain in the dream? Did something happen to Brother Mao?" Wang Xifeng recalled the ransacking of the house in the dream, and the eagerness she had when she was looking for Brother Mao.

Just as Wang Xifeng guessed, in the middle of the capital, the Rongguo Mansion's large house was brightly lit, and the girls and women came and went in a hurry. After a while, Dr. Chang was invited to the Maoge Children's Hospital. Now Maoge'er was unconscious. With a high fever, she muttered indistinctly: "Mother, come and play with me and my brother."

Dr. Chang hurriedly came forward for diagnosis and treatment. After putting some needles on Mao Geer, he hurriedly wrote prescriptions for taking medicine. It turned out that Mao Geer was hot in Beijing these days, and Mao Geer was greedy for cold. He used ice every day, but the day before yesterday After stealing two ice bowls from the house, he started to have a stomachache and a fever. It only got better today, but he became unconscious at night and started talking nonsense.

A bowl of medicine was poured down, and when Mao Ge'er's fever subsided, Jia She ordered someone to wrap Mao Ge'er in a quilt, intending to carry Mao Ge'er to his yard to take care of him, but the servant was careless, and Mao Ge'er's body was placed The purse under the pillow fell under the bed, and the servant went to pick it up, and found a puddle of water under Maoge'er's bed, and there were still unmelted ice slags the size of rice grains in it.

After some interrogation, it was found that a second-class sweeper girl next to Mao Ge'er did it, because Mao Ge'er was ill, and the people who had been tossing and tossing for days were on their backs. Was taken advantage of.The girl took advantage of the people who were on duty at night to fall asleep, put the ice stolen from the rooms of several big girls, put it under the bed in Mao Geer's washbasin, and stuffed a few small pieces into Mao Geer's quilt. Thinking about taking out the basin tomorrow while taking advantage of the chaos, who knew that when he woke up in the middle of the night, he found that Mao Ge'er had been burnt.

The girl was afraid that she would be found out, so she took the basin out of the bed, seeing that the ice in the basin had not melted, she took out the ice and kept it under the bed, and added water to the basin, which happened to be for Maoge to wipe. If it wasn't for the traces of water under the bed, I'm afraid that this girl would hide in the past, and no one would know that this girl harbored evil intentions.

The people who serve Maoge people were sorted out again. As for why the girl wanted to kill Maoge, the reason was that the girl's parents made a mistake and Wang Xifeng assigned her to Zhuangzi. When Jia Amnesty's people arrived at Zhuangzi, the couple heard that they had disappeared for many days, so it might be more or less ominous.As for whether someone else was manipulating behind the scenes, it was unclear. After Jia Amnesty lost his temper, he couldn't escape from the second room and the others, so he tried to trip Jia Zheng up.

Fortunately, after Dr. Chang's diagnosis and treatment several times, Mao Ge'er's life is safe, and he will not dare to be greedy for cold in the future.In the Pingyuan mansion, Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng had a sleepless night. When it was dawn, they hurriedly invited a doctor into the mansion for treatment. Sure enough, Wang Xifeng was pregnant, and the fetus was two months old.