[Red Mansion + Liaozhai] Furong repays her kindness

After seeing off the guests, Lin Daiyu worried about Mingxuan, and asked, "Madam is tired? Why don't you go to bed and lie down."

"It's so delicate, but just sit and talk." Mingxuan said, those entertainments are tiring when you're not married, and it's exhausting. She asked Daiyu, "How did you have fun today?"

Lin Daiyu nodded, "Misses from all families are very kind."

"It's just that they are no better than the sisters from your maternal ancestor's family, are they?" Mingxuan asked, and before Lin Daiyu could reply, she continued, "The people who came here today are all ordinary officials and ladies from Yangzhou City, so naturally they are no better than the daughters of the Rongguo Mansion. There are a few of them. It’s enough to keep in touch with two people with compatible temperaments. It’s hard to guarantee that someone will come to you, and if you refuse, it will become a hurt relationship again.”

"I don't understand my wife's words. Of course, my father and my wife are in charge of family affairs. Besides, there is no reason in the world that someone must agree to a request."

"It's love to help, it's duty not to help, but there are some people who are justified if they are poor, and justified when they are weak. Rather than saying that you, Miss Lin, look down on them at that time, it's better to stay away from them from the beginning. "

Lin Daiyu listened carefully, and said with emotion, "People's hearts are separated by belly, how can you tell what kind of person you are once or twice."

Ming Xuan laughed, "You're still young, it's okay if you can spot adultery at a glance. The ability to recognize people always comes slowly, and another thing, sometimes you don't need to listen to what people say, just look at her Whatever you do, that's the result."

Lin Daiyu received a lot of gifts, all of which were bracelets, nothing particularly expensive. Xueyan put it in another box, not in the usual makeup box.

Lin Ruhai heard Ming Xuan say that Lin Daiyu treated guests very well, and was very comforting, but in an instant, her face turned ugly, and Ming Xuan asked, "Master, what's bothering you?"

"Sigh... It's really not a practice in the previous life, and I met such a mother-in-law."

"Ah?!" Ming Xuan was taken aback, what did Princess Zhijun do?

Seeing that her face turned pale from anxiety, Lin Ruhai knew that she had made a mistake, so she hurriedly comforted her, "It's not about the princess, it's the old matriarch of the Rongguo Mansion. Yu'er has just become a filial piety, so she wrote a letter saying that she wants to make an appointment for Yu'er." relative."

"The old matriarch said it's not bad, right?" Ming Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, forgetting that Lin Ruhai had two mothers-in-law.

"Hmph." Lin Ruhai snorted coldly, "It's not bad, it can be said to be a wealthy family, it is her Jia family in Rongguo Mansion, and she wants Yu'er to marry her precious grandson Jia Baoyu."

Ming Xuan had been living in another courtyard and was not very familiar with the people in Beijing, so she asked, "What's wrong with this young master of the Jia family?"

Lin Ruhai thought about it, and told what happened when Lin Daiyu went to stay for a year, but omitted the part about Furong delivering the letter.

This jade can be big or small, she immediately said, "Let's not talk about the character of Mr. Jia, but how can this jade be said, it is still so big, no matter how good his family is, I will not agree to this family." Family."

But Lin Ruhai said, "Of course I don't want to. This Mr. Jia likes to hang out with the maids in the inner courtyard the most. He doesn't read and practice calligraphy on weekdays. He likes to flirt with flowers and make rouge."

Ming Xuan opened her mouth in disbelief, "It's because I'm so ignorant, even cousin Daiyu must be in his teens, yet he's so incompetent."

The older one had to keep a concubine during the national filial piety period when he went out to do errands, and the younger one didn't know how to make progress at all, but this Jia family specializes in producing romantic seeds.

"So I have already written to refuse." Lin Ruhai said, "I want to find someone with a simpler income for Yu'er. No matter how rich or noble, it is not as good as a clean life."

"My master is wrong. A simple population depends on the style of the family. If the mother-in-law is strong, even if there are few people in the family, it will not be clean. It is better to look at the family style. If the children in the family are upright and the family style is good, even if there are many people What's the hindrance? But let me ask the master first, have you ever thought about whether you were born as a civil servant or a military officer?" Mingxuan did not have a mother-in-law when she married, but she has seen several sister-in-laws in the palace who were manipulated by the princess.

"Civilian officials are the best, but military officers are going to the battlefield. Yu'er is weak, how can she stand it?"

Mingxuan secretly thought that he didn't understand Daiyu. Although Daiyu was weak, she had a kind of aloofness that would rather bend than bend.One more thing, the civil servants are above the court, and they are also changing rapidly, but the military officials can be knighted for their merits, just look at the Rongning two mansions.

It's just that I refuted Lin Ruhai just now, so I didn't want to say any more, so I changed the subject and said, "After hearing about the two sons of the Jia family, I feel a little scared in my heart. Don't act like that."

There was a son like Jia Lian who was beaten to death at most, and a son like Jia Baoyu who was really going to be beaten to death by Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai is over half a hundred years old, and he can still have a child when he is old. He was nervous, and said, "Our child must be taught well, Yu'er is still young, you should be tight to yourself first, and give birth to this child before you give birth to the child." It's not too late for Yu'er to plan."

Ming Xuan was too busy to respond.

Later, Chen Yunyun sent a post to invite her, but Ming Xuan was pregnant, and no one took Lin Daiyu out, so she had to refuse. Lin Daiyu was afraid that she would be unhappy, so she specially wrote a letter to apologize, and gave her a rabbit-eared glazed lantern as a pawn. apologize.

This is the rabbit lamp that Mingxuan said last year to burn for Lin Daiyu. There are two ears on the small lamp and a pair of red jadeites as eyes, very gorgeous and lovely.

Chen Yunyun brought back a chubby, fluffy live rabbit, and Madam Wang said, "Although this thing looks fun, it's so dirty, it's not allowed to be kept in the house."

Lin Daiyu said coquettishly, "It's still so small, it's better if it gets sick outside."

"But rabbits can't take a bath, it's stinky, and it's suffocating you again," Wang Momo saw that Daiyu wrinkled her nose slightly, looking delicate and cute, she couldn't laugh or cry, she wanted to grab the rabbit, but Daiyu didn't let go .

Yishuang said, "It's okay, Mammy, don't worry, I look at it on weekdays to make sure it's clean and fragrant."

"Okay, okay, I'll let you guys do it." Wang Momo thought that Daiyu would not want the rabbit until it stinks.

Lin Daiyu looked at Yishuang and said, "You really have a way?"

"Of course!" Yishuang nodded, thinking that I would secretly cast a descaling spell on it every day.

Lin Daiyu rubbed the rabbit contentedly and said, "What name should I give you? Yuanyuan gave it to you. Let's call it Pangpang."

Later, the rabbit really grew very fat, this is another story.

Lin Ruhai originally wanted to practice the formula of delaying words, but he didn't want Jia's mother to write one letter after another, as if he would not agree, and the last letter deliberately wrote that Daiyu and Jia Baoyu lived in the same room when they were young, and they slept together. Threatening each other.

Jia's mother loved Jia Baoyu the most, but no matter how much she loved her, the title of title would not reach Jia Baoyu, so she had to find him a good in-law's family as a backer, and getting married to the Lin family was undoubtedly the best choice.

After sending several letters in a row, she finally received Lin Ruhai's reply letter, but she didn't want to berate her Baoyu for being an unworthy child, accusing him of being an insider, greedy and lustful, and ignorant of self-motivation.

Mother Jia was so angry that her hands shook, and she slapped the letter on the table again, "What a Lin Ruhai, what a patrolling salt censor, climbed up to the palace, and even our Rongguo mansion is no longer in their eyes."

Because of Jia Lian's concubine looking for the door, Wang Xifeng fell ill with anger, and Yuanchun's marriage was not settled for a long time, and he had no face to leave the house. Now Jiamu has only a mandarin duck beside him who can persuade her. Feeling wrong, he yelled twice, "Old ancestor?"

Mother Jia groaned and fell heavily on the bed, her face flushed red.

By the time the imperial doctor came, it was already too late. The old lady had a stroke. Although she was rescued, she would still be unable to speak clearly and move inconveniently.

Jia Zheng asked, "The old lady was fine this morning, why did she suddenly have a stroke?"

"The old matriarch is getting old, you need to take good care of it, the most important thing is to be peaceful. In the past two years, the old matriarch has fainted several times, and her body has suffered great damage. I really can't recover." The imperial physician left after prescribing the medicine. left, everyone in Jia's mansion looked at each other in blank dismay.

It was still Jia Zheng who spoke first, "Maybe the old lady is mad at Lian'er's affair..."

Jia Amnesty scolded Jia Lian with widened eyes, "I told you to be careless in everything you do. You can't even control your daughter-in-law. Let her go to the old lady to make trouble. Now it's all right. You don't dare to say that you've been held in the shit basin." .”

Jia Zheng heard him pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, and asked anxiously, "Brother, what do you mean?"

"Hehe, the imperial doctor said that the body has been damaged in the past two years. Why did the old lady work so hard? Why did she faint several times? You have to ask the second wife, the eldest girl." Jia She sneered, and Jia Yuanchun said it several times The man was not happy about the marriage, and he didn't even have a good reputation with the girl from the Jia family.

Mrs. Xing listened to Jia She the most, and hurriedly followed, "Yes, the old lady fainted at least three times because of the eldest girl's marriage. Let me tell you, maybe the eldest girl is married, and the old lady will be happy when she is happy." That's it."

Mrs. Wang's voice seemed to come out from between her teeth, "I don't need Mrs. Wang to worry about that."

"I'm just worrying in vain. The eldest girl is already at this age, and the second wife has already given birth to her first child at this age." Mrs. Xing said.

I have nothing to say, and I still want to talk about others, Madam Wang scolded a fool secretly, but Madam Xing continued, "Oh, I am a poor man, but I have a cong. If the eldest girl is like me..."

Really couldn't bear Madam Xing's cursing at her daughter with empty teeth, Madam Wang said with a sneer, "The old lady is still awake, so the eldest lady should stop making noise here, so as not to disturb the old lady."

"Second wife is the most filial, we can't compare." Mrs. Xing also sneered, Jia She gave her a look, "You stay here to serve the old lady, I still have some business to do, and I will come to see the old lady in the evening. "

He scolded Jia Lian again and said, "What are you still doing here? Be careful that people will rely on you again. I have something to order, so come together."

Jia Zheng also wanted to leave, but Mrs. Wang stopped her and said, "Since the old lady is not well, I want to move Baoyu out to save him from being naughty. The imperial doctor just said that the old lady wants to rest."

Mrs. Xing disdainful, she said something to save face, but she was afraid that her son would get sick.

Jia Zheng said, "You're right, move it back when the old lady is well."

In this way, she and Shi Xiangyun were the only ones left in Jia's mother's courtyard. The eldest wife and the second wife took turns to serve the sick, and Yuan Chun helped to watch Jia Baoyu in the Rongxi Hall.