The Marginal People of Jia's Family in the Red Chamber

Li Wan quickly went to tidy up her things. In fact, all she could take away was her dowry and Jia Zhusu's private house.Li Wan would not report these things to Mrs. Wang, and Mrs. Wang just tacitly allowed her to take them away.

"Bi Yue, go and ask my brother to call some carriages for us." Li Wan ordered.

"Miss, doesn't the Jia family even prepare a carriage for us?"

"I am a widow who is unemployed and has a child under the age of one. Do you think those servants with eyes on the top of their heads will work with peace of mind? There are rare copies in it. Don't let these stupid people tell you It's ruined." Li Wan said, in her vision, it's good not to let people from Jia's house go, anyway, she should not appear in the eyes of everyone in Jia's house within ten years.

Li Wan carried the child under the age of one to bid farewell to the old lady and others, and Mother Jia also lovingly rewarded her with some head jewelry.When I went to say goodbye to Madam Xing, I got dozens of taels of silver from the stingy Madam Xing. Li Wan reckoned that this was the most money she had given out since she entered Jia's mansion.Jia Amnesty didn't see it, and other peers and juniors skipped mentioning it.

Mrs. Wang was in the room exclaiming to Zhou Rui's family that Li Wan is a witty person, saving her a lot of tricks, when she heard a servant come to report: "Grandmaid took Master Lan to greet the master, and the master came here with a dark face. gone."

"You whore who wants to die really has no good intentions." Mrs. Wang said angrily, and gave Zhou Rui's family a wink, asking her to help remove some big headdresses, take off the big clothes outside, and lean directly on the bed.

When Jia Zheng entered the door, what he saw was a picture of his first wife lying sick.Mrs. Wang's face was pale, and she was chatting with Zhou Rui's family.

"The master is here, sit down quickly. Forgive me, master. I'm not in good health. You should sit by the window so that you don't get sick."

"Why do Zhu'er's family move out, and bring Lan'er, the eldest son and grandson of my Jia family, how can this work?" Jia Zheng asked directly without asking about Mrs. Wang's illness after sitting down.

Even though she had understood her husband's virtues for a long time, Mrs. Wang still couldn't help her nose sore, and explained with a forced smile: "It was calculated by the master. Zhu'er's daughter-in-law and Lan'er's horoscopes are opposite to mine. Zhu'er-in-law knows , I took the initiative to petition to go to Zhuangzi to eat fast and recite the Buddha's name to redeem my sins, and I persuaded her. However, the child is determined, and I see her filial piety, so I agree, and the old lady also praised her for being sensible."

"The old lady eats more salt than we eat rice. There is nothing wrong with listening to the old lady. It's just that it's not easy for her as a young woman. You should subsidize her more." Jia Zheng frowned and said.

"It's still in the master's terms. I have already ordered the people below not to neglect Zhu'er's daughter-in-law. She is a hero of our Jia family."

"Well, that's good." Jia Zheng seemed to have found a satisfactory answer, and said, "You should take good care of your illness. I will rest at Aunt Zhao's place for a few days." After finishing speaking, he put down his teacup and went out .

Mrs. Wang panted heavily with her chest rising and falling, and said bitterly: "This is my good master, it's so good, Aunt Zhao, a bitch, from Zhou Rui's family, take Tan Chun out tomorrow, and let Aunt Zhao set the rules Have a look. Didn’t she complain to the master that I wouldn’t let her see my daughter, so I’ll show her right now, so that her daughter can take a good look at the portrait of the slave whose biological mother lifts the curtain and holds the basin and fan.”

"Madam calm down, madam calm down, why bother with a servant, there is no need to lower your tone, the master is just a novelty for a while, please rest assured, no one can surpass you in this mansion." Zhou Rui's family was serving tea, While earnestly persuading.

"Humph!"

"Madam, since the master has already said it, shall we make a show and give Grandma something?" Zhou Rui's family asked.

"Whatever you give, a catastrophe is also worthy! What did the master say, the master asked me to subsidize her more, and I asked her to take away Zhu'er's private house, which is not enough to subsidize her. The master just said casually, Do you think he will ask about the follow-up?" Mrs. Wang snorted coldly.

"It's still madam who is knowledgeable, slave girl is ignorant, slave girl is ignorant."

"Forget it, don't talk about these bad things. It's useless to make me angry. I'll ask you to ask Caixia to go to the old lady's yard to see how Baoyu is doing. Come back to me." Mrs. Wang closed her eyes and waved her hands. Zhou Rui's family obeyed and retreated. Down.

Zhou Rui's family conveyed Mrs. Wang's order to Caixia, and left Rongguo Mansion for the back street home. Along the way, they thought in their hearts that the master they served was cruel and merciless, and the master was even more hypocritical.What's the use of "more subsidy", even if it is straightforward to say that a few hundred taels of gold and silver are given to Grandma Zhu, it is several mountains stronger than the three words "more subsidy".

Zhou Rui's family was talking about her master in her heart, but she knew better that she was dependent on her master, and it was thanks to Mrs. Wang's too many private affairs that she had a place to use her skills, and she also took a lot of it. Cheap.Zhou Rui's family felt sorry for Grandma Zhu, but they still wondered if they should cut back a little when they ordered the chariot dealer to help deliver the things.

Li Wan didn't know that someone was planning to plot against her again. The reason why she insisted on visiting Jia Zheng was to spread the news that Jia Zheng agreed with their mother and son to move out among the servants. Take advantage.Jia Zheng is the man who is in charge of the family. If Jia Zheng followed suit and said, "My nephew takes care of the general affairs of the family, and the offenders don't know anything about other matters", then Li Wan would really be disgusted by him.

Li Wan's things have been packed long ago, and the only people she wants to take away are Biyun, Suyun and Nanny she brought from Li's house. I don't know the exact time when Wan left. In the past year, there have been rumors among the servants that Li Wan has a weird temper.

It was just after the curfew, and the adults in the court started to go out. Li Wan's younger brother, Li Ji, had already brought a group of strong women waiting at the west corner gate of Rongguo Mansion.Li Wan had already ordered someone to make an agreement with the woman guarding the west corner gate. The strong woman brought by Li Ji quietly moved many large boxes and burdens to more than a dozen carriages brought by Li Ji. Well-trained and steady, he moved Li Wan's things away in less than half an hour.

Li Wan hugged Jia Lan and got into the carriage, took all his things and people, and told Bi Yue to stay in the yard until dawn, and went to meet with the people in Zhijia's house, saying only, "It's hard to bear to see each other, tired old lady, madam." If you cry, you won’t say goodbye face to face.”

Li Wan and his party left quietly like this, and for many years since then, except for the exchange of New Year's gifts during New Year's festivals, Jia's mansion seemed to have no mother and son at other times.

Li Wan finally got into the carriage, took a long breath, looked at the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in front of him, and said with a gentle smile, "Ji'er, my sister finally escaped from Rongguo Mansion, please be happy."

Li Ji, a young boy, is serious about his words and smiles, and he was taught by Li Shouzhong.Li Ji didn't hide his true nature to his elder sister, and said angrily: "My sister was born less than half a year ago, and the people of Rongguo Mansion kicked her out. You still have the order of the fourth rank and the chastity certificate on you! Rongguo Mansion bullies you!" There are too many people, is this when our Li family has no one?"

"Ji'er, my sister is very happy that you can come to pick up my sister. When your nephew grows up in the future, I can only thank you. But, didn't mother make it clear to you? This is what I asked for."

"If the Rongguo Mansion can have a place to live, why does my sister come out to ask for a living?" Li Ji said angrily.

This sentence touched Li Wan's heart, Li Wan's tears rolled down, but she didn't want to lose her composure, she turned her head to the side, covered it with a handkerchief, and wept silently.

"Sister, sister, it's because I can't speak, don't be sad, don't cry, when I become capable in the future, I won't let you be wronged like this." Li Ji hurriedly comforted her.

"Ji'er, you have been closest to me since you were young, and you understand my sister's suffering. My sister only asks you, is there any girl under [-] who is determined to keep the chastity? Let me ask you again, if I want to remarry, will my father agree? ?Also, if I don't manage to escape from Rongguo Mansion, will we have a chance to meet again in this life?"

"Sister..." Li Ji was speechless.

"Ji'er, you also understand that you don't. Daddy is all about imitating the sages. Not to mention that I have a child to entrust, even if I just got engaged to Jia Zhu, Jia Zhu went there. Daddy may also let me watch the widow. I As long as you dare to say the word remarriage, Daddy promises to drive me out of the Li family. Believe it or not. Isn’t my aunt a precedent for me? These years, my aunt has been widowed since she was a widow, but she has said a word to her father. No matter how difficult the family is , and never came to the family to talk about it. Isn’t it because Dad insisted that the Li family’s daughters should remain single and not allow Auntie to remarry? Look at what Auntie’s life is like now, will I live like this in the future?” Li Wan resented Ming, she also acted helplessly.

"My mother must have told you about my situation in Jia's mansion. My mother is just looking at the flowers, and she also knows that Jia's mansion is not a good place. My sister was a widow when she was young, and she was struggling in it. In this life, she might not have the chance to meet you again. Do you have the heart to turn yourself into a dead wood?" Li Wan said, tears came down again.

"Sister, sister! I didn't mean to accuse you. I'm too happy to be happy that you came out of Jia's mansion. How could I object!" Li Ji retorted loudly, and Li Ji didn't refute those disrespectful words about his father. In fact, he didn't approve of his father's attitude either.Ever since grandfather passed away and the Li family was handed over to father, things have gone from bad to worse.

"Ji'er, it's my sister who misunderstood you. It's just that my mother sent a message saying that you don't approve of my keeping the festival, so I couldn't help explaining it to you."

"Aren't I thinking of my sister? Jia Zhu is not worthy of my sister's behavior. It's just that the order and the letter have been accepted. What's the use of talking about it now." Li Ji said dejectedly: "I am useless after all, if the Li family is also a high-ranking official Xianjue, how dare the Jia family bully my sister like this."

"Ji'er, you have such a heart, sister thank you. If you work hard from now on, you won't let your wife and children be bullied in the future, and your younger brothers and sisters can have someone to rely on." Li Wan laughed, She is the eldest daughter, and she always takes on the role of the elder sister as a mother. Wen Yan taught: "You don't know that it is difficult for women in this world to gain a foothold. I still have Lan'er. I can't let him suffer the slightest bit of grievance. Now I can It's the best situation possible."

"Sister, what are you going to do now? Where are these things going?" Li Ji asked.

"Let's move to Zhuangzi at the foot of Huguosi Mountain."

"But sister, that village is small and outside the city. Although it's at the foot of the Huguo Temple, it's a little far away from the temple. I don't worry about you living there with your nephew, or you'd better live at home. Although father doesn't say anything, he still wants you to go back." Li Ji suggested.

"No, there is no reason for a married woman to live back with her natal family. Besides, she told Jia's mansion to go to Zhuangzi. If she lives at home and let the people of Jia's mansion know, it's another matter of right and wrong, let's forget it." Li Wan excused.

"Then I will rent a yard for my sister in the city, at the feet of the emperor, so I can rest assured."

"No need. I live outside the city and have my own considerations. Just help me transport my things there. Don't worry."

"Running errands for my sister is what I should do, but don't say whether to help or not, we are all a family, and my sister is so polite that I feel uncomfortable." Li Ji said.

"Well, my sister understands. Let's go first." Li Wan smiled moved.

Li Ji sent Li Wan to the Zhuangzi. This Zhuangzi was Li Wan's dowry. The Zhuangzi was not big and mainly grew some fruits and vegetables. The yard in the Zhuangzi was also a small and exquisite secondary courtyard. You had to take a carriage to walk around with the Rongguo Mansion. The luxury of the house is naturally incomparable, even with the Li family.But Li Wan happily lived in such familiar green mountains, green waters, and farm life.

Li Ji sent people to him, and let his personal servants stay behind to give lectures to the servants in Zhuangzi, and organized the men to guard the door. He was busy for a long time before leaving. Now he is studying in the Imperial College, and he has to rush Go back to class.Li Shouzhong, as the Imperial Academy, is the most strict in self-discipline.

Arriving at this Zhuangzi, Li Wan felt that all his restraints had been thrown away, and even the air was much fresher.

With the assistance of Suyun and Mammy, I met the servants, gave them instructions, and picked a few maids to tidy up the yard.This Zhuangzi has been sorted out long ago, waiting for Li Wan to move in, but the decorations in the house have not been done yet.Li Wan put all the things brought out from the Rongguo Mansion on display, and after a whole day's work, it was barely finished.

When Li Wan waited for Biyue to come back, she knew that the people in Jia's mansion hadn't said anything, so she simply forgot about Rongguo's mansion. Now she was full of interest in furnishing her new home.

After being busy for nearly a month, Li Wan finally sorted out the affairs of Zhuangzi by relying on his original memory and his own experience.During this period, Li Wan took Jia Lan to Li's house. His mother was kind, his two younger brothers were excellent, and his younger sister was also very cute. As for Li Shouzhong.Li Wan could only say, no matter how true the old saying is, birds of a feather flock together and people are divided into groups, which is the same virtue as Jia Zheng.

The only thing that Li Shouzhong is better than Jia Zheng is that he reads well and he really abides by the rules.Living his own life as a copy of the rules, Li Wan was not very close to his father at first, but now it is even worse. Li Shouzhong was a little aggrieved by the fact that Li Wan came out of Jia's mansion. He didn't know that it was Li Wan's own. How could his wife and son know his virtues, so how could they tell him.

But no matter how indignant he was, when he heard Jia's excuse, Li Shouzhong actually thought it was reasonable, "It's right to be filial to the elders." Although he felt sorry for his daughter, he still agreed with Jia's approach.

Hearing Li Shouzhong's words, Li Wan silently revised her plan. In the future, as a widowed "unknown person", she should come to Li's residence less often.When he misses his relatives, he invites his mother to go to Huguo Temple to offer incense. As a man, Li Ji can go out easily, but he can often visit Zhuangzi.

Li Wan has settled down on Zhuangzi. Her most important task is to train Jia Lan, but the most urgent thing now is to take care of the space, so that such golden fingers cannot be left unused.

The space Li Wan got was really only three acres of land and a spring, and there was no bequest from the ancestors in it.It is not in vain to read Li Wan's online novels for many years. In such a rare place, the most likely to produce are exotic flowers and rare medicinal materials.

Li Wan called Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law and said, "I have nothing to do all day long, and I want to plant something to relieve my boredom. Do you see any strange flowers and plants on this village and the surrounding mountains, as long as they can be planted in the soil?" , help me find some, and I will try to move around."

The master's family ordered, and Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law readily agreed, and quickly found many wild flowers and weeds, flower pots and shovels for Li Wan.Of course, Li Wan's aesthetics is a bit weird to Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law. At the beginning, Zhuangtou's wife found her famous flowers such as peonies and begonias. The first daughter-in-law's eyesight is like weeds, but Li Wan carefully raises them in flower pots.

Li Wan has opened up flower beds in his yard, and there are flower pots on the porch, under the corner of the wall, and in the house. Li Wan is now experimenting with how to grow good flowers quietly.

At present, Li Wan already knows that the growth rate in this space is more than ten times the normal growth rate. Some annual herbaceous plants are often planted on the same day, and they can bloom on the same day, and soon complete the growth process and die.The soil in the space cannot be transported outside, but the spring water can. The flowers and plants watered with spiritual spring water grow very well, and there are variations, always growing towards strange colors and flower shapes. Spring water will not degenerate and die.Further results are still waiting to be verified by Li Wan.

On this day, Li Wan was observing her new orchid grass in the room, and Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law came to flatter her.

"Master, these are the ginseng seeds picked up by the tenant king of the village. Wang tenant is a lucky man. He picked a 50-year-old ginseng in the back mountain two months ago, sent it to the drugstore, and got a hundred taels of silver. Now it's gone." The land in our village is no longer leased, and we are about to move to the eastern suburbs."

"But you told me about the Wang tenant who picked ginseng in Lingxu Mountain?" Li Wan asked. For such a lucky person, Li Wan still heard a lot of gossip. Running behind the mountain, I hope to have the same luck as Wang Tianhu.

"Isn't it? He's leaving now. He deeply feels the kindness of the master's family in the past. He thought he didn't have any good things. Hearing that the master likes to grow something, he entrusted me with this ginseng seed."

"Didn't he make a fortune from ginseng? Why didn't he want to grow ginseng again?" Li Wan wondered, if she was poor and white, she would definitely be able to get rich by relying on this?

"Look at what the master said, ginseng is naturally nourished, and it is only by absorbing the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth... Well, what the slave means is that Wang Tianhu is just a farmer, how can he have the ability and spiritual energy to feed such a precious thing as ginseng. It's only a lady from the official family like you, master, who has this blessing." The daughter-in-law of Zhuangtou realized that she had said the wrong thing in the middle of her sentence, and quickly changed her words.

Li Wan also knew that in their hearts, medicinal materials are the aura of heaven, earth, and the essence of the sun and the moon, and they cannot be grown by planting.Li Wan can't say that such an idea is wrong. When thinking about the previous life, the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine was often not recognized. Some experts said that it was because the medicinal materials were not authentic, the age was not enough, excessive fertilizer use, air pollution, etc. , where there is the aura of traditional Chinese medicine.

Li Wan accepted the relationship between the king's tenant and Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law, and said: "Give it to me, it's a good thing. I'll try to plant it, but it's just for fun, it doesn't matter if it succeeds or not. It's rare that you have the heart and always keep my words in mind. I Someone went to the city to buy mutton, and you can share a leg of mutton as a reward."

"Thank you master, thank you master." Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law promised in a hurry. These days, mutton is a precious thing. A pile of useless seeds can be exchanged for mutton, and Zhuangtou's wife deeply feels that she has made a profit.

Li Wan dismissed Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law and experimented with ginseng seeds.When planting flowers, one has to think about not being too shocking. For plants like ginseng that need time to settle, there are not so many worries.

The planting in the space can completely ignore the season, temperature, fertilizer and rain, as if planting directly, the soil seems to be alive, and can adjust the temperature and humidity by itself.

Li Wan planted a few seeds in the flower bed in the yard, and the rest were planted in the space, but one day, the ginseng leaves popped out of the ground, and Li Wan was so happy that he recited Buddha repeatedly.

The ginseng seeds in the flower bed were naturally not killed, and Li Wan also used the excuse that he didn't know where to throw the remaining seeds, so let's forget about it.

But Li Wan didn't grow live ginseng, and he didn't take any anger at Zhuangtou's daughter-in-law who sent ginseng seeds. He still liked to let her find all kinds of weird plants.Over time, everyone in Zhuangzi knew that the owner liked to raise plants, and the rarer the better.Li Wan also harvested a lot of strange things.

While taking care of the space, Li Wan did not forget his son and the people who served him.

Li Wan, Biyun, and Suyue had agreed a long time ago, after they settled down in Zhuangzi, Brother Hao would find a good family to betroth them to.The two big maids are the same age as Li Wan, but they are only 19 years old this year.Li Wan couldn't bear the hardships of the two girls who had helped her a lot in the farms, and was afraid of marrying a businessman with a low social status.

It was Jia Lan's nanny who directly listed those candidates and asked Suyun Biyue to choose herself. In the end, Biyun chose a businessman from central Beijing, and Suyue married a gentry in the suburbs of Beijing.Li Wan canceled the slave status of the two maids, and accompanied each of them with a dowry of 500 taels, which was better than the daughters of small families.Originally, marrying the girl next to the official lady is just for face and relationship, but now that she is capable and brings a generous dowry, her husband's family does not dare to bully them anymore.

After Suyun and Biyue left, there was no one around Li Wan who really understood her, and it was only then that Li Wan began to fully release her true character.