[Red Chamber] Mrs. Lin replaced her

Jiazi naturally guessed from the very beginning that the Rongguo Mansion would definitely build a family-saving villa.

After all, it is extremely rare for a concubine to visit relatives, so it will naturally arouse the eager attention of the people in the capital.Of course, for most ordinary people, what they watch is all excitement.However, for those families who have women in the palace as concubines, it is a terrible thing.The emperor allowed the daughter of their family who has been in the palace for many years to go home to visit relatives, which naturally represents the supreme grace and glory; at the same time, this is also a "relative of the emperor" that ordinary people in Beijing know that they cannot afford to offend. big event.

How could Rongguo Mansion, who has always regarded itself as the four major families, acted in a high-profile way, and felt that his home was still the brother of the previous Duke's mansion who was always favored, not actively participate in such a "grand meeting"?What's more, this is the first major event that Jia Zheng has encountered since he got the title of Rongguo Mansion.

However, compared to other families in Beijing, Jia Zheng Yifang of the Rongguo Mansion, who had just experienced the turmoil of family separation and was easily removed by Jia She, wanted to build their dream beautiful house. It is not an easy task to come to the family-senting villa, which is magnificent, splendid, and adds endless face to Jia Yuanchun. But the storeroom was almost emptied by Jia She: it was not easy for the Rongguo Mansion’s storehouse to maintain their usual luxurious life and huge expenses, let alone build a house that could rival other families. It's even the family-saving villa of Zhengfeng.At least in the eyes of Jiazi, Lin Hai and other outsiders, they think so.

Of course, what everyone doesn't know is that Mrs. Wang is not short of money.There is a large amount of silver and countless rare treasures in her private treasury.

Not to mention that Mrs. Wang was born in the Wang family, which is also one of the four major families in Jinling, and she married Jia Zheng, the youngest son of Rong Guogong Jia Daishan's favorite, so the dowry was extremely generous.For example, when Mrs. Wang was in charge of the Rongguo Mansion, she often coveted the money and treasures in the treasury of the Rongguo Mansion—Mother Jia might not have been unaware of this.But in her opinion, these things ultimately belonged to her most beloved youngest son, Jia Zheng, and her most beloved grandson, Jia Baoyu, so she chose to turn a blind eye and silently acquiesce in this matter: As long as Mrs. Wang is not caught by Jia Sheyi's people, it will be fine.

At the same time, Mrs. Wang secretly had another source of money that neither Jia's mother nor Jia Zheng knew about: that was the lending that was explicitly prohibited by the court.Mrs. Wang has now handed over the full power of this transaction to Wang Xifeng, and she just secretly draws a commission.But before that, it was always done by Mrs. Wang.Now, Wang Xifeng has only been working for one year, and he has already earned thousands of taels of extra income, not to mention Mrs. Wang who has been secretly lending money for more than [-] years?Therefore, there is really a lot of money in Mrs. Wang's private treasury.

However, just because Mrs. Wang is not short of money does not mean that she will use the money in her private treasury to subsidize the money needed by the Rongguo Mansion to build the family-friendly villa.

From Mrs. Wang's point of view, Jia Yuanchun's family visit is the glory of the entire Jia family in Jinling.Therefore, building a family-visiting villa is naturally the business of the Jia family, not their family.Therefore, the money needed for the construction of the family-saving villa must naturally be borne by the entire Jia family, not by them alone.

Jiazi naturally didn't know Mrs. Wang's absurd idea.

From Jiazi's point of view, Rongguo Mansion must not have enough money to build a brand new villa that can welcome the concubine in the palace to visit relatives.After all, in order to build a family-friendly villa, the Rongguo Mansion needs to buy a piece of land that can already be described as an inch of land, and also has to spend a lot of money to purchase a large amount of building materials such as stone and wood. At the same time, it needs to find someone to design the family-friendly villa. Style, but also to hire people to build family-friendly villas and so on.The prices of these things have been skyrocketing lately... Therefore, it is not an easy task for Jia Zhengyifang, who has moved most of the warehouses away by Jia Amnesty and has no income, to build a family-saving villa. thing.

It's just that Jia Zi never expected that Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang would have their ideas on her head.With the idea of ​​letting the entire Jia family share the cost of building the family-saving villa, Mrs. Wang naturally went to her big backer Jia Mu to discuss it.And Mrs. Wang's thoughts coincided with Jia's mother: Jia Yuanchun's family visitation is the glory of the entire Jia family, and it should be borne by all the Jia family members, not Jia Zheng's family. money.

Of course, Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang didn't know that Jiazi and Xinhuang had a business partnership, and they didn't know that Jiazi's shop was dealing in building materials such as stone and wood.Otherwise, they would definitely ask Jiazi to provide Jiazi with all the materials needed for the construction of the relative's villa for free.At this moment, they just want to stick their hands out of Jazi’s purse—after all, the red makeup when Jiazi got married made them still have red eyes and itchy teeth when they think about it; When the opportunity came, they reached out to Jazi's purse, so they would not be polite, and they were eager to "kill" Jiazi.

Jiazi didn't know what kind of evil plans Jiamu and Mrs. Wang were planning, or it should be said that she never thought that Jiamu would send someone to find her: Jiamu has always been very shrewd and has been calculating others for most of her life. How could it be impossible to remember what happened on the day the government separated the family?However, the final result of Jia She's quarreling about the separation of the family was that her most beloved youngest son, Jia Zheng, got the title of Rongguo Mansion and took advantage of it, so she deliberately pretended that there was no such thing.As for the money and property taken away by Jia Amnesty, it is estimated that in the eyes of Jia's mother, they should be regarded as dismissing Jia Amnesty.As for obviously favoring Jia She, he even specially reminded Jia Jing, the patriarch of the Jia clan who presided over the separation of the family, "Although Jia She gave up his title, he is the eldest son of Xi Jue after all. How could Mother Jia want to see Jiazi, who is less, and should be compensated accordingly?

Therefore, seeing the servants of the Rongguo Mansion who suddenly came to look for her, Jia Zi secretly rolled his eyes and ignored Jia Mu's order to let her go to the Rongguo Mansion at night.

For Jiazi, the Rongguo Mansion without Jia Daishan is no different from those people in the back streets after Jia Min got married and Jia Amnesty separated and left.Would it be better to let her go to see Jia Mu's pretending to be a loving mother, or to see Jia Zheng's aloof and hypocrite attitude, or to see Mrs. Wang's hypocritical virtue, or to see the ten-year-old Jia Baoyu nesting in Jia's mother's arms, acting like a coquettish and foolish act?

In Jiazi's mind, if he has time to watch the "acting" of those people in Rongguo Mansion, it is better to accompany a few children to play Cuju or go to Zhuangzi Bubble in the suburbs of Beijing. The hot spring is very practical!

However, looking at Jia Min who deliberately raised his eyebrows at him, blocking his way back to Lin Mansion from Gyeonggi Daying, Jia Zi could only smile and shook his head, then directly got into the carriage of Wei Mansion, and met Jia Min. Go to Rongguo Mansion together.Jia Zi can ignore other people in Rongguo Mansion, but Jia Zi can't refuse Jia Min - she and Jia Min grew up together, and their friendship is naturally incomparable to others.

"Look at the sweat on your head." Jia Min smiled and straightened Jia Zi's messy hair, then helped Jia Zi wipe the sweat from his forehead, and said pretendingly, "Don't you look at how old you are?" , why are you still as skinny as you were when you were a child? You have sweated so much, not to mention drying your hair, what if you get sick or have a headache at night, what should you do?" Jia Min's skillful movements and language showed that , it is definitely not the first time she has done this.

Jia Zi stuck out his tongue at Jia Min, with an expression of "Is there you?"Then, Jia Zi seemed to think of something again, shook his head with a smile, and moved directly to Jia Min's side.

"Xiao Min," Jia Zi hooked Jia Min's shoulder, with a smile on his face: "What is it that they are looking for us over there? Do you have any inside information? Let me tell you." Actually, about Rongguo Mansion It's not like Jiazi has no way to inquire about the news—after all, with the self-righteous behavior of the servants of the Rongguo Mansion and the completely unruly mouth that dares to say anything about the color of the master's obscene clothes, I want to know the details of the Rongguo Mansion. For Jazi, the news is easy.However, she was unwilling to spend a little time on the Rongguo Mansion, so she naturally didn't know why Mother Jia sent her and Jia Min there at the same time.

If it is said that Mother Jia is only looking for her, Jia Zi can smile, and then make a naughty guess: Mother Jia is looking for her, in fact, she wants to blow pillow wind to Lin Hai through her, so that Lin Hai, who works in the Ministry of Officials, can give Jia Zheng Say a few good words and get Jia Zheng promoted—after all, Jia Zheng is now working under Jia Lian, who used to be his steward and servant.This is undoubtedly a very humiliating thing for Jia Zheng, who has always been arrogant and feels that he has outstanding talents and extraordinary abilities.Therefore, it is not impossible for the mother and son to take Lin Hai's shortcut.

However, seeing that Jia's mother even went to find Jia Min, Jia Zi knew that Jia's mother was looking for her, and it was definitely not for Jia Zheng's promotion.So, Mother Jia brought her and Jia Min over at the same time, what's the matter?

Could it be that Mother Jia felt that life was boring again, so she went to find the two of them, wanting to show off the concubine of Jia Zheng's family again, and rewarded something from the palace?Or did she want to show off that her son, who had snatched the title from her nephew and had to work under his nephew, wrote another poem that didn't make any sense?Or maybe her precious grandson Jia Baoyu, who is incapable of writing and martial arts, and who just wants to get into the girl's room every day, has received the favor and reward of Beijing King Shui Rong?

Since Jia Zi couldn't figure out the reason why Mother Jia brought her and Jia Min over at the same time, he naturally asked Jia Min who had his own source of information in the Rongguo Mansion.It's not that Jiazi has any fear of Jiamu, and is worried that Jiamu will plot something against her.She was just purely curious: What was the reason that made Jia's mother endure her dislike for her and invite her to Rongguo Mansion?

Of course, Jia Zi also understood in his heart: Although Lin Zhixiao and his wife have gained more and more favor from the masters of the Rongguo Mansion in the past few years, they are only the second-class stewards of the Rongguo Mansion after all, and it is impossible to know Jia Mu's mind.Therefore, Jia Zi really didn't have any hope that Jia Min could give her an answer.

Jia Min shook her head, and said softly: "How would I know? But, I guess it might be related to the second brother's plan to build a family-friendly villa!" Jia Min undoubtedly knew about Jia's mother.Even though she didn't know any information, she still guessed Jiamu's intention to call her back to Rongguo Mansion.

Jia Zi raised his eyebrows slightly, and curled up his mouth with a smirk: "What does the matter of the family-saving villa have to do with us? Could it be that my aunt doesn't know what kind of family-saving villa to build, so she plans to call us over, intends to Consult? In that case, I will charge a fee!" At the end, Jiazi couldn't help laughing while covering his mouth.Jia Zi knew very well in her heart that Jia's mother had already figured out how luxurious a family-saving villa was going to be built, and it was impossible to ask them to discuss such a matter.However, looking at the worries and worries that could not be concealed in Jia Min's eyes, Jia Zi naturally joked to ease Jia Min's worries.

While smiling and joking with Jia Min, Jia Zi carefully considered in his heart what could be missed by Jia's mother?Could it be...

Suddenly, with a flash of inspiration, Jia Zi suddenly thought that she really had something in her hand that Jia's mother had been thinking about for half her life, but she couldn't get it anyway: she was in a hot spring villa in the suburbs.

Thinking of the hot spring villa, Jia Zi's eyes narrowed slightly: Mother of Jia is not going to use Jia Yuanchun's family as an excuse to trick the hot spring villa from her, right?In this way, Jia Mu also found Jia Min when she was looking for her, which makes sense: the relationship between her and Jia Min has always been very close. For the hot spring villa, Jia Min must be used to convince Jia Zi.

Of course, no matter what excuse Jiamu used, Jiazi would not hand over her hot spring villa.What's more, it is impossible for Jia Min to be a lobbyist for Jia's mother, to persuade Jia Zi to contribute his own hot spring villa - if Jia Min is really that kind of person, Jia Zi and her will not be so close.

Jia Min held Jia Zi's hand tightly, pursed the corners of her mouth, and said softly, "Little Zi, I have a very bad feeling. Today, my mother suddenly called us back. I'm afraid it won't be a good thing. I... ..." Jia Min naturally understood that Jia Zi said those words to make her happy.It's just that at this moment, Jia Min's heart is really a little uneasy: Although she roughly guessed the reason why Jia's mother wanted her and Jia Zi, but what Jia's mother was planning in her heart, Jia Min still couldn't figure it out. I have no clue.

In fact, since Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng separated and left Rongguo Mansion, Jia Min has decided not to take care of Rongguo Mansion anymore.Therefore, since these days, Jia Min has not even returned to Rongguo Mansion.This time, if Jia's mother hadn't used her mother's name, Jia Min might not have returned to Rongguo Mansion.However, even if Jia Min went back, he didn't intend to get involved in the Rongguo Mansion's construction of a provincial villa.

However, seeing Jia Mu's smart way to find Jia Zi, Jia Min felt uneasy: She was afraid that Jia Zi would fall into the trap set by Jia Mu if she didn't pay attention. On the way home, he planned to remind Jiazi first, so that Jiazi would not be fooled by Jiamu again.

"What are you worried about?" Jia Zi flicked Jia Min's forehead in a funny way, and said with a smile, "I'm still there! Don't worry, nothing will happen if I'm here." Jiamu, Jiazi naturally has a way.Even if Jia Mu is her elder, she can't do anything to Jia Mu, and sometimes she even has to give Jia Mu a little so-called "face".However, this does not prevent Jiazi from making Jiamu very angry: anyway, in Jiamu's eyes, she is just a little playboy who speaks without thinking, and naturally she can say whatever she wants.As for making Jia's mother half-dead with anger, one can only blame Jia's mother for being too small and easily angered.

Jia Min glanced at Jia Zi, pouted, and made a grimace: In fact, she also wanted to be as free and easy as Jia Zi; but, Jia Mu is her biological mother after all, and she can't obey Jia Mu's orders. Ignore it.However, if Mother Jia wanted to set a trap for Jiazi, she would be the first to quit.

Jia Zi smiled and leaned in front of Jia Min, squeezed Jia Min's face with both hands, and shook his head triumphantly, saying, "Why do you look unhappy? The sky is falling, and I will support you !"

Seeing Jia Zi's relaxed look, Jia Min couldn't help laughing out: "The little girl depends on you today."

"Smart." Jia Zi smiled and squeezed Jia Min's chin, with a look of praise: "Relying on me is the most correct choice for you."

Jia Zi and Jia Min laughed and went all the way to Rongguo Mansion in the rickety carriage.However, what they didn't expect was that there was really a good show waiting for them in Rongguo Mansion.

"Little Zi," the carriage stopped at the gate of Rongguo Mansion. Jia Min suddenly grabbed Jia Zi, lowered his voice and approached Jia Zi's ear, and said softly, "Promise me, no matter what mother or second brother Don't worry about what I ask you to do, okay?"

"Okay." Jia Zi nodded with a smile: "We don't care about anything. Just go in and watch a show, and then come out, okay?"

Feeling Jiazi's tone as if coaxing a child, Jia Min couldn't help pinching Jiazi, and said angrily, "I'm telling you the truth!"

"I'm not kidding!" Jia Zi smiled and pinched Jia Min's face: "Okay, let's go, let's go and see what Auntie is looking for us. If there is something to do, we should solve it as soon as possible, and when the matter is resolved, we will go sooner." go home."

Hearing Jia Min suddenly mentioning home, Jia Min squeezed Jia Zi's face with his backhand, then quickly covered his own face, and stepped aside.

Jia Zi gave Jia Min a funny look, then jumped out of the carriage, helped Jia Min out of the carriage himself, and then went to Jia Mu's yard talking and laughing together.

In Jia's mother's yard, Jia Baoyu and Third Sister You were talking head to head.I don't know what the two of them said, but Third Sister You suddenly laughed happily, and at the same time slapped Jia Baoyu twice coquettishly.And Jia Baoyu held Third Sister You's hand, with a bright smile on his face, obviously also very happy.Third Sister You struggled twice to free Jia Baoyu's hand, then leaned on Jia Baoyu's shoulder and laughed again.This kind of action also caused Third Sister You's slightly open collar to open even more.From the perspective of Jia Zi and Jia Min, you can even see Third Sister You's snow-white chest.

Jia Zi raised his eyebrows slightly: If Jia Baoyu wasn't too young, and Third Sister You's clothes were always poorly dressed, she would have thought that Third Sister You was deliberately seducing Jia Baoyu.

"Unexpectedly," Jia Zi smiled and gave Jia Min a signal look: "This girl from the You family is quite frugal, and the fabric of the clothes can be saved if possible."

"You are the most narrow-minded." Jia Min glared at Third Sister You displeasedly, and then pushed Jia Zi amusedly: "Really, what are you doing with that kind of thing? Let's hurry to see it at Mother's place." Take a look, and then go home!"

At this time, Third Sister You and Jia Baoyu also noticed the gazes of Jia Zi and Jia Min.Seeing Jia Zi, Third Sister You involuntarily flinched, and then seemed to think of something, and quickly straightened her back, as if "I am the master of this house".

As soon as Jia Baoyu saw the figures of Jia Zi and Jia Min appearing at the same time, his eyes lit up, he stretched his neck involuntarily, and looked behind Jia Zi and Jia Min.However, seeing that there was nothing behind Jia Zi and Jia Min, without the figure he was expecting, Jia Baoyu's eyes dimmed: it turned out that Sister Lin didn't come over, which made him feel happy in vain.

Jia Zi naturally didn't care about the reactions of Third Sister You and Jia Baoyu.Therefore, after just taking a look at them, Jia Zi and Jia Min went straight into the main hall of Rongqing Hall.

When Jia Zi and Jia Min entered, they found that there were already many people in Rongqing hall: apart from Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang, Jia Lian was also called directly after leaving the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry. come over.In addition, Aunt Xue unexpectedly appeared in Rongqingtang.At the same time, Jia Rong from Ningguo Mansion also appeared in Rongqing Hall: Jia Jing went back to Jinling to worship his ancestors, so Jia Mu directly brought Jia Rong over.However, for her, it seems better that Jia Jing is not around - Jia Jing, like Jia Zi, was born to fight her; and Jia Rong is young after all, so it is naturally easier to coax her.

Seeing Jia Zi and Jia Min coming in, Jia Lian and Jia Rong stood up quickly.Jia Zi raised his eyebrows with a smile, and saluted Jia Mu together with Jia Min.

What Jiazi didn't expect was that there was indeed another person waiting by Jiamu's side.Although Yuanyang rejected Jia's amnesty, considering Jia's mother's personality, it was impossible for her to continue to believe in Yuanyang.Therefore, it is normal for Jiamu's first maid to be replaced.Therefore, Amber, who has always been the second person around Jia Mu, quickly rose to the position and became the number one celebrity around Jia Mu.However, Jia Zi couldn't figure it out, how could the person who waited beside Jia's mother become Second Sister You?

Seeing Second Sister You absent-mindedly pinching Mother Jia's shoulders while keeping her eyes on Jia Lian who was chatting with Jia Rong in a low voice, Jia Zi raised her eyebrows slightly, and finally understood You Er The reason why Sister Lai is here: Second Sister You is really interested in Jia Lian.In fact, it is not difficult to understand that Jia Lian is now a fifth-rank official of the imperial court no matter what.Although in this capital city where officials walk all over the street, a fifth-rank official from the Ministry of Industry is inconspicuous, but for Second Sister You, who is of ordinary background and who bears the name of Jia Zheng's stepdaughter, but is not taken seriously at all. In other words, Jia Lian is already her best choice.Therefore, even though Jia Lian took her daughter with her, she still attracted Second Sister You's full attention.What's more, Jia Lian has a good skin.

"Azi, Miner." Seeing Jiazi and Jia Min coming in, Jia's mother pretended to complain and smiled, "You two heartless little girls are finally willing to come. Is it because I won't send someone to find you? Don't you know to come and see my old lady?"

"Auntie, what are you talking about?" Jia Zi raised his eyebrows, sat directly next to Jia She, and said with a smile, "I'm busy with the affairs of the Gyeonggi Daying. And Xiao Min has been helping My elder brother and I take care of the Jia family’s family education. Auntie, you know that family education is related to the future of the entire Jia family, so naturally it cannot be taken lightly.” Regarding what Jia’s mother said just now, Jia Zi naturally wanted to refute, how could she not We can't let Jia's mother easily put the unfilial hat on her and Jiazi's heads.Besides, all the people present were smart people, and none of them could understand the meaning of Jiazi's words: Whether it was the capital camp or Jia's family learning, it was much more important than making Jia's mother happy.

Hearing Jia Zi's mention of family education without hesitation, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang's eyes quickly flashed a trace of anger, but Jia She, Mrs. Xing, Jia Lian and others were all happy: Jia Baoyu is the first A person who was kicked out of his family education!

Jia Mu pointed at Jia Zi with a smile, and said with a smile: "Look at her, I was just joking, and I made her so anxious. Do you think she should be beaten?" Obviously, Jia Mu will My son was still in a good mood, so he didn't care about Jia Baoyu any more.

Mrs. Wang interjected with a smile, "Azi's mouth is still so sharp, and she looks like she won't take any losses." Thinking that soon everyone will give her money with their hands, Mrs. Wang is naturally in a very good mood , even the smile on his face increased a bit, so he stopped thinking about Jia Baoyu being kicked out of his home school.

Jia Zi raised his eyebrows lightly, and said with a smile: "I'm not stupid, why would I still like to suffer? Rong'er," then, Jia Zi turned his head to look at Jia Rong, who was laughing muffledly beside him, He smiled and said: "Your grandfather is not at home, and I don't have much time to take care of you. If there is anything in the house, you can directly send someone to my house to look for me, or you can go to your great-uncle."

Jia Rong quickly responded: "Don't worry, aunt, my grandson is no longer the person who doesn't understand everything like before, and my grandson can handle some small things by himself. If there are really things that my grandson can't handle, go to Trouble my aunt."

Jia Mu joked with a smile: "Azi, what you said is right. Could it be that there is something wrong with Rong'er, and I can just ignore it?"

Jiazi glanced at Jiamu with a smile, and said in his heart, "I can say that I am afraid that you will let me manage the Ningguo Mansion in the ditch?"

The author has something to say: Jia Min: I'm a little nervous

Third Sister You: Watch me beat your chest with a hammer

Second Sister You: When I give birth to Jia Lian's son, am I afraid that I won't get any benefits?

Jia Baoyu: Where is my sister Lin, come back soon

Jazi: Everyone has a little too much drama today