Jia Zhu, the White Magic God of the Red Chamber

Chapter 25

"What kind of impact will it have, you don't have to worry about it." Ya'erlin closed his eyes, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly, "I and my mother arranged this matter today. Baoyu's jade is too eye-catching. the best."

Li Wan was startled, but then relaxed.Jia Baoyu's matter was a bit taboo, she knew it early on, but she, the eldest grandma, seemed to have a high status in the mansion, but she actually relied on Jia Zhu.Jia Zhu and Jia Baoyu are direct brothers, so could it be that she could talk nonsense about his brother in front of him?

Now that Jia Zhu already knew what was wrong, and Mrs. Wang had already taken action, she no longer had to worry about it in private.Li Wan was very satisfied that she didn't need to speak out about it.The relationship between her and Mrs. Wang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not good. If she ruined her younger son after robbing her eldest son, it would be no wonder if she wasn't hated to death.

"Since the uncle said so, I just listened to it." Li Wan whispered in Ya'erlin's ear, "There is one more thing to discuss with the uncle. Aunt Min gave birth to a sister on Huachao Festival. Hey, the old lady asked someone to send things over early in the morning, and I was about to give birth, so I just asked Su Yue to send some medicinal materials to my wife."

After a pause, she confirmed that Ya'erlin was listening before she continued: "The fifth day of next month is the Dragon Boat Festival, and every year the manor will send Dragon Boat Festival gifts to Jiangnan Min's aunt, this time we need to make up for last time? "

"What are your plans?"

"I heard from the old lady that Aunt Min's sister is not in good health. I want to send some medicine that you made." Li Wan is purely because she is also a mother. Jia Min also cared about his heart, so he thought of sending some medicine over there.

After being silent for a while, Ya'erlin spoke slowly: "You should discuss this matter with your mother. According to Zhou Rui's family, Aunt Min didn't have a very good relationship with her mother before she got married."

Li Wan moved his lips together a few times, and finally replied: "Yes."

She didn't know that there was a gap between her mother-in-law and Aunt Min, but she just thought that Ya'erlin would eventually pass the imperial examination three years later.There is her natal father Li Shouzhong in the capital, but he alone is not enough, Yaerlin still needs other support.

Thinking about it carefully, among the in-laws in the Rongguo Mansion, only Lin Ruhai, the uncle of the Lin family, was married to Aunt Min.Uncle Lin is in the emperor's heart, if Ya'erlin can get some kind words from him, not to mention smooth sailing in his official career, there will be benefits in the end.

It's just that after hearing what Ya'erlin said now, Li Wan's heart suddenly cooled down.As long as she gives up immediately, she won't be willing, maybe when she asks her wife, she can also share her thoughts by the way?Although Mrs. Wang doesn't like her very much, she treats her husband first and foremost. If it is for Jia Zhu's benefit, maybe Mrs. Wang will be willing to let go of the past suspicions?

"You are also tired today, the courtier. Let's go to bed early after dinner?" Ya'erlin's eyes were dark, filled with a little bit of desire, which made Li Wan's cheeks blush immediately. He lowered his head and let out a small "um", and said no more.

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After Li Wan greeted Jia Shishi the next day, he did not immediately go back to the yard to look after Jia Lan, but followed Mrs. Wang.

"What, what's the matter?" Mrs. Wang frowned slightly with her slender eyebrows.Except for the daily greetings, her daughter-in-law stays in the yard with knowledge and interest, and doesn't walk around easily.Following her like this all the time today made her a little curious.

"Master asked me to discuss with my wife about the Dragon Boat Festival gift to Jiangnan." Li Wan said with a low eyebrow.

"Dragon Boat Festival?" Mrs. Wang frowned, "It's fine to follow the example of previous years, what else needs to be discussed."

Li Wan looked at the maidservant behind the two of them. Although Mrs. Wang was a little impatient, she still asked those people to retreat.

"Ma'am, what I'm going to do in the future is the way to become an official through the imperial examination. My daughter-in-law doesn't want me to be a lone minister, because lone ministers are the most tiring and dangerous. The Rongguo Mansion now has to use in-laws in this respect, except for the daughter-in-law's natal father." , only Uncle Lin who is far away in Yangzhou." Li Wan was very slow.

As she spoke, she quietly observed Mrs. Wang's expression.Seeing Mrs. Wang go from being frightened and angry at the beginning to being silent at the end, she finally let go of her heart.

"Although Uncle Uncle also entered the court as an official, he followed the path of a military officer after all." Li Wan said in a low voice.

She is very clear about what Wang Ziteng means to Mrs. Wang, but the boundaries between civil and military are already clear.My father-in-law, Jia Zheng, hasn't been promoted for so many years. Apart from his own incompetence, there are many private affairs.Then there is Uncle Jing from the East Mansion, who spent so many years in the Hanlin Academy but failed to make a name for himself, and finally managed to become a Taoist.

Li Wan didn't want her husband to follow the same old path, and he didn't want Jia Lan to repeat the path of his father's generation in the future.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fell silent for a while, and when they reached the gate of the yard, Mrs. Wang said, "What do you and Zhuer plan to add as a gift?"

Li Wan raised his eyes and saw that she looked normal, lowered his head and said softly: "I heard from the old lady that Aunt Min's sister is not in good health, so the uncle and daughter-in-law want to send some healing potions made by the uncle."

"Healing potions, the ones that sell for about 3 taels of silver in the shop?" Mrs. Wang raised her voice.But because this matter cannot be publicized at will, the voice is not loud.

"What the uncle meant was that our second room had spent countless efforts to obtain it, not that the uncle did it." Li Wan lowered his head and curled his lips.

The cost of the potion plus the glass bottle is less than three taels of silver, Madam Wang is not ignorant.According to her, it is the most cost-effective to give this potion, and it is good, and it doesn't cost much to them. I don't know why Mrs. Wang is still dissatisfied.

"Then give me a bottle." Mrs. Wang finally said reluctantly, "but other etiquettes will be waived, and I will talk to the old lady about this matter. Tell Zhuer to prepare more, the old lady will definitely I will."

"Don't worry, ma'am." Li Wan bent his knees slightly, watched Mrs. Wang enter the main room, and then turned to leave.She didn't want to say more about Mrs. Wang's stinginess, but thinking about the miraculous curative effect of this potion, she felt that it was right to give it less.

Rare things are expensive, if this healing potion is the same as Chinese cabbage, it will be worthless.

At night, after listening to Li Wan's recitation of Mrs. Wang's words, Ya'erlin couldn't help raising her voice too loudly: "Just give me a bottle if mother says so?"

"Yes."

The corners of his mouth twitched a few times, Yarlin had nothing to say.Knowing that Aunt Min is still lying on the bed because of the birth of her sister, although this primary treatment medicine is unlikely to cure Aunt Min, at least it can alleviate many of her symptoms.

In addition to that sister who is not in good health, she must have two bottles anyway.It doesn't matter if it's cut like this?

But it was Mrs. Wang who arranged this, the mother Yaerlin recognized, so in the end he only sent three bottles of healing potions to Mrs. Wang.It's just that his body has become stronger recently, and the magic power in his body has also increased.This time it was not the primary potion, but the secondary potion.

Compared with the primary level, this level [-] is always better.After it's sent to Jiangnan, it's up to Aunt Min's choice whether to take it herself or give it to her daughter.

Mrs. Wang asked Mrs. Wang to keep one of the three bottles for Zhou Rui's family to arrange to send to Wang Ziteng's mansion, and the remaining two bottles were taken to Rongqing Hall.

Jia Shishi put on reading glasses, picked up a bottle of red potion and looked at the light for a long time, then put it down and said with a sigh: "No wonder this thing is so expensive, and it looks so extraordinary. My wife, I lived to be sixty years old." In the coming year, this is the first time I have seen such a potion with starlight hidden in it."

"Pearl has a heart." Jia Shishi took off his presbyopic glasses and stared at Mrs. Wang, "The second one, Zhuer can get some more?"

Mrs. Wang smiled wryly: "Old lady, the two bottles of pearls were obtained through a lot of connections. These medicines are sold in the newly opened pharmacy shop on Baihu Street. The old lady should have heard of them too. The shop only sells one bottle of this potion in two days, and the price starts at 3 taels of silver. The price of this potion on the black market has already skyrocketed!"

"A bottle of 3 taels of silver?" Jia Shishi squinted his eyes, "How did you get that pearl?"

She didn't know much about this potion, but she did know the capabilities of those two shops on Baihu Street.Not only the four kings and eight princes were watching, but the eldest prince was also watching closely, but he couldn't detect anything.Let's do it directly, but the result is that all the people sent are gone forever, and the shopkeeper with the weird name is so powerful that it is shocking.And the waiter in the store was just invited from the surrounding areas, and he didn't know anything except cleaning and receiving customers.

I heard that the First Prince sent two people to pretend to be Xiaoer, but after half a month, they still don't know where these potions and accessories came from, and even where the shopkeeper's daily life went. !

"Those two shops are the dowry of my daughter-in-law. After Zhu'er won the Juren, the daughter-in-law handed over those two shops to Zhu'er." Mrs. Wang smiled from the bottom of her heart, Jia Shishi didn't want to inquire about it, but fortunately Pearl had already prepared for this. "It is for this reason that Zhu'er got these two bottles of medicine. He often goes out to Baihu Street recently, just for this reason."

"Those two shops belong to Pearl?" Jiashi asked.In fact, this matter has been found out a long time ago, she just pretended not to know.After all, the eldest prince found out the reason why the shopkeeper rented these two shops, but it was because the two shops happened to be next to each other, so it was more convenient for him to manage.

"Yes." Mrs. Wang nodded, "That's it, Zhu'er begged the shopkeeper for a long time before he got these two bottles of medicine." She smiled wryly, "6 taels of silver is not a lot, but Zhu'er will All his savings over the years have been spent. He didn't tell me, but Zhu'er's daughter-in-law told me in private."

"Is Zhu'er's savings enough?" Jia Shishi frowned.

"Zhu'er's daughter-in-law said that Zhu'er exchanged the gold and silver necklaces he got since childhood and the calligraphy and painting decorations in the room for silver." Mrs. Wang shook her head and smiled bitterly. Not just Zhu'er's, but also Yuanchun's and Baoyu's."

"You, is this poor woman and me?" Jia Shishi asked the eldest maid to put away the two bottles of potions, and continued to order, "Take out the pot of coral ornaments in my storeroom, and the potion that I got last time." Send the Hui ink and the 6 taels of silver note to Zhu'er together."