Prequel to the Red Chamber: I Am the Second Wife

"Second Mistress is getting late, it's time to get up." Ming Qian whispered outside the tent to ask Zili to get up, Zili opened his eyes with difficulty, but it was still pitch black outside.Jia Zheng next to him was still immersed in dreams. Yesterday Jia Zheng went out to meet his peers and came back after having a drink. Now he is still dreaming.Zili sighed and struggled to get up.Mingqian and Yuhou took the little girls to serve Zili up.After the rain, he said dissatisfiedly: "When will this kind of life be the end? My wife used to be nice to grandma. Why did she suddenly pick a thorn? That Fang Ruo committed suicide. Grandma was still in the capital when she had an accident. It's up to grandma." Yesterday, Jia's mother suddenly talked about the girl beside her in front of Zili.The implication is that Zili's abuse of a girl is unacceptable.Zili couldn't contradict him face to face, so he could only listen in embarrassment.The Zhang family next to him took the opportunity to add insult to injury and taunted Zili severely.

Ever since Zili and Jia Zheng came back from the capital, the intimacy and flattery that Jia's mother and many members of Jia's family had treated her before had disappeared, replaced by malicious speculation and gossip.

I'm afraid it has something to do with Jia Zheng's official position.After Jia Zheng begged, acted cutely, acted coquettishly, and rolled around, he was finally assigned the post of county magistrate of Shanyin County.After Jia Zheng received the letter of appointment and seal from the Ministry of Officials, he went home to bid farewell to his parents and set off at a certain date.Zili thought that she would just be patient for a few days, and she would leave after a few days anyway.There is no need to argue with those villains of the Jia family.Mother Jia is not friendly to her, probably because she thinks that Zili is pushing Jia Zheng to let her go.

According to Jia's mother's doting character, she was naturally reluctant to leave Jia Zheng's side.Zili looked in the mirror and found nothing inappropriate, so she hurriedly stood up and said, "Keep your mouths in check, don't argue with them. Anyway, we won't be here forever." Take the girl to greet Jiamu.

The sky outside was gloomy, and the air was filled with the special moist smell before the heavy rain. Zili looked at the light gray dark clouds in the sky, and quickened his pace under his feet.When we arrived at Jiamu's side, there were only a few little girls cleaning the yard. After Pearl Harbor washed her clothes, she saw Zili come in and hurriedly greeted her: "Second Grandma is here. My wife was tired yesterday and said I won't rest for a while this morning. Yes. The wife said that she wanted to make a pearl purse for the second master. She found a bag of rice beads and said that she would pick out mung bean-sized ones from it. If the second grandma is free, why not sit down and pick the pearls first. It will save you waiting, Mrs. Use your eyes." Talking about pearls, the girl took out a bag of pearls, and when she opened it, the insides were of different sizes, the big ones were the size of peas, and the small ones were the size of sorghum.

This is clearly embarrassing himself, Zili ignored Pearl's look of enjoying the show, and said to her, "Sister, please bring me a lamp, I'll choose outside."

But Pearl said: "My wife doesn't like bright light when she sleeps. Although she is inside, she can definitely see it when the lights are on outside. I think it's better to invite the second grandma to sit in the yard. Where it is bright and spacious." Mingqian was very angry when he heard Pearl's words.Just as they were about to explode, they were stopped by Zili's eyes.

"Just do what my sister said, it's more comfortable to sit outside." Saying this, Zili asked the two girls to go out with pearls.A little girl had already set up the coffee table and chairs outside, Zili sat down and started picking pearls wholeheartedly.Those pearls are of different sizes, and the slippery ones are particularly troublesome to choose.As the dark clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker, the air became more and more stuffy and humid.Mingqian and Yuhou fanned Zili with fans. They really wanted to help Zili choose, but Zhenzhu stood under the porch and stared at their supervisor.The anger before the rain tomorrow can only be endured.

There was a gust of cool wind, and the bean-sized raindrops slammed down, followed by an exclamation: "Hail is falling." Hailstones the size of a finger belly fell, and a layer of mist appeared on the ground.Before Zili could stand up, his whole body was soaked.