Using two copybooks from famous masters, Jia Lian agreed to take Jia Zhu to walk around the garden first, and then went back to Jia Zhu's room to practice calligraphy, and promised to finish ten big characters before leaving the study.

Yuan Chun was the only one left beside Jia Mu.

This time, Mother Jia did not take the lead in talking to Yuan Chun like she did yesterday.This made Yuan Chun, who was already a little uneasy, became even more uneasy.After a while, Yuan Chun began to sweat a little. After all, she was only a half-grown child, and she was not as good as Jia Mu, a mature old lady.

"Then Yuan Chun will go back to his room first." Yuan Chun wants to leave with Jia's mother.

Jia Mu didn't try to hold her back, and she pretended not to notice that Yuan Chun's eyes were getting redder.Yuan Chun had no choice but to exit the room slowly step by step.After a while, Hongmei came in, refilling tea for Mother Jia, and said: "Seeing that the eldest girl is crying and going back to her room, can you persuade me?"

These girls were all created by the original owner, and they are the most able to read words and demeanor, knowing that the original owner attaches great importance to this granddaughter, that's why they asked this question.It is also afraid that the old lady will think about it in the future, or that Yuan Chun will really suffer from some kind of illness because of this. The old lady will not think that there is a problem with herself, but she can blame the people around them for not reminding them.

Even if no one takes these complaints seriously, the old lady will always put herself in the cold for a few days in order to show her attitude.How many people are staring at the old lady's close-up work, maybe during the few days of being cold, there will be little hoofs that don't open her eyes.It's not like this hasn't happened before.

The old lady just hummed, as if she was self-sufficient: "Oh, this person, you still have to see your own status clearly. Put eye drops on others or gossip when you have nothing to do, say It turns out that children are throwing temper tantrums, but no one's parents, how can they blindly tolerate it."

Hongmei knew what to say when she went to the eldest girl.When she was about to leave the house, the old lady said again: "Hongmei, send someone to the historian's house to see if Lord Hou is free. If he is free, please ask him to come over to the house sometime and talk to me." Mei responded.

After leaving the house, I asked someone to find the messenger outside the second door, and then I walked towards the eldest girl's house.As soon as I arrived outside the eldest girl's room, I found the girl's two eldest maids standing outside the door. I couldn't help laughing: "You guys know that I can't come, anyway, leave someone by the girl's side, why do you come out to meet people? If the girl wants How about some tea and snacks, if you can't call anyone for a while?"

Baoqin is more familiar with her: "Good sister, it's not the time for joking. I don't know what the eldest girl is doing in the old lady's house, so she will send us all when she comes back. If my sister knows, tell me anyway. , and let me understand that it is not."

Hongmei straightened her face immediately: "Little Hoof, how dare you make up anything. The old lady is the grandmother of the eldest girl, and she is the most doting thing on weekdays. Even if everyone else has it, the eldest girl has it too. "

"But our girl..." Another girl Fuqin also wanted to speak.

Hongmei unceremoniously learns and sells: "Don't cause trouble for the big girl. It is said that the girl treats you too leniently on weekdays, so that you all forget your own responsibilities and can't see your own identity clearly. Is the status important? The eldest girl is at the old lady's place, and she only feels grateful when she thinks of the Duke of the country. If you don't talk and persuade, what are you thinking here?"

Hongmei's voice did not lower, so Yuan Chun in the room had already heard everything she said.Ordinarily, Hongmei could serve the old lady with her heart. If she wasn't such an imprudent person, then she intended to let her hear what she said.Thinking about the unclear status in those words, it is not just about his two girls.

"Who's outside?" Yuan Chun was a little annoyed, a girl actually came to laugh at him: "If you want to be quiet for a while, you can't stop."

Hongmei was not annoyed when she heard this, she just raised her voice outside the house: "Miss, I am the one who came to see Miss."

It's not easy to treat people in the elder's house like your own girl.What's more, I also thought about it yesterday, in the future I can only rely on the old lady, let alone give the old lady and others face, Yuan Chun could only say: "It's my sister who came, why didn't Baoqin invite sister Hongmei to sit in the room?"

Hongmei and Baoqin had already come in together, and she said respectfully: "The old lady sees that the eldest girl is in a hurry, and she is afraid that there is something wrong with the eldest girl, and the old man is worried, so she insists on letting me take a look."

Yuan Chun couldn't bear to lose face anymore, and said in a soft voice: "Old lady Lao is worried. It's nothing, but I suddenly remembered my grandfather and felt that things are different."

Hongmei didn't seem to realize that Yuan Chun's words were consistent with what she said outside the door just now, and said there: "It's also because the eldest girl has read a lot of books, and what she said makes people feel reasonable." Then she laughed: "Look at me. Come here, Baoqin didn't even say to bring out your good tea, be careful next time the old lady has something good, I won't tell you."

Baoqin glanced at Yuanchun, saw that their girls had already nodded, and went out together with Fuqin.Hongmei just gossiped and asked Yuanchun what kind of female celebrity she was these days, and how long she read in a day.She, the girl next to Jia Mu, used to ask these questions for Jia Mu in the past, and Yuan Chun didn't find it awkward, so she answered them all.

Hongmei said again: "Speaking of it, there is one more thing. I'm afraid the eldest girl has never been through it before."

Yuan Chun let her gossip to dispel some conflicts, so he asked casually: "We are keeping filial piety, what else can we do?" If you are greedy for novelty and fun, it's not what a family of filial piety should do.

Hongmei also heard Yuan Chun's meaning, and shook her head indifferently: "After all, it's a big girl. This word is always kept in my heart. What kind of knowledge can a servant have? It's just listening to the old lady talking to the old lady. It is said that the people who bought in the mansion have been dropped, and the replacement has not been selected yet, so maybe we have to call from outside for lunch, so I just talked to the eldest lady as a novelty. It made the eldest lady laugh."

Hearing the word "duty" again, Yuan Chun's heart tightened again, knowing that Mother Jia was asking Hongmei to beat him.It's just that I just think that my aunt's housekeeper has a clue when she doesn't have a mother, but in my own family, I can't even say this?She didn't know that the breakfast was not bought properly.

Hongmei also saw that Yuan Chun's expression was uneasy, so she adjusted her face towards Yuan Chun: "Speaking of which, the servant girl is only a few years older than the eldest girl, but she can't read or read, so she is not as knowledgeable as the eldest girl. .It's just that the big girl, the servants still know what they say at this moment."

Yuan Chun felt a little sad for herself, since she was born, because she was the first girl in the third generation, and her birthday was good, not only Mrs. Wang, but also the original owner had placed a lot of expectations on her.On weekdays, in the mansion, the wind and the rain are like the wind and the rain. Now let a girl beat it. If it turns out that it is necessary to show face, but yesterday the old lady said that her mother had made a mistake. Aunt butler.Now if I annoy the old lady again, wouldn't my life be even more difficult?

Yuan Chun twitched the corners of his mouth at Hongmei, but the expression on his face couldn't be seen: "Thank you sister for reminding me."

Hongmei climbed all the way from the little girl to the position of the eldest girl. She is not a person who can't read her face, and she knows what Yuan Chun is thinking: "This is because the old lady looked bad when she saw the eldest girl go, so she asked the servant to remind her." Miss. It’s the first time for the eldest wife in the mansion to be housekeeper, so it’s inevitable that she’s a little bit unsatisfactory. It’s not that the eldest wife doesn’t want to do a good job, it’s just that everything has to go through a process. The eldest lady doesn’t have to worry about it. Whatever you have, Just tell the old lady directly."

It seems that the last sentence of all the girl's words this time is the key point, that is, if you have something to say, tell the old lady directly.In other words, the old lady didn't agree with her little behavior of giving eye drops to others, so she deliberately turned a blind eye to her expression in the main room just now.

On the one hand, he was annoyed at the failure of his little trick, and on the other hand, he was worried that Jia's mother would not like her from now on. Yuan Chun's tears still fell: "Sister Hongmei, but the old lady thinks that I, I..."

Hongmei had no choice but to comfort her: "You are the granddaughter of the old lady's direct relative, and the old lady can't bear to hurt you. This is why she quietly sent the slave over here because she was afraid that you had something in her heart. Just remember, No matter what, the old lady is your ancestral line, but it's not just your grandmother, that's enough."

Yuan Chun's mind was not slow, and he knew what Jiamu meant, and the expression on his face recovered quickly: "It's only thanks to my sister who broke up with me, that I know what I did wrong. I not only I am grateful to the old lady for her teaching, and I am also grateful to my sister for her hard work along the way."

When Baoqin heard the voice in the room getting louder, she knew that she had finished what she had to say, and brought tea in by herself: "It's all sister Hongmei who insists on tasting the girl's good tea, so I can find it easily."

Yuan Chun angrily said to her, "Sister Hongmei only came here a few times, and you complained. Hurry up and bring that tea over." He only offered tea to Hongmei.

Hongmei also chatted with them, saying that the old lady might have something to look for her, so she wanted to go back and have a look.Yuan Chun said: "I know that the old lady can't leave you for a while, so I don't want to keep you. Hold the qin and find out the bracelet that the former aunt sent to sister Hongmei." Hongmei said dare not, But she didn't refuse it: if she didn't accept it, the eldest girl might have other ideas in her mind.

Here, Yuanchun was thinking about Hongmei's words and correcting his future behavior. Jiamu was also thinking about how to tell Shihou once Shihou came over so that he could feel that what he was doing was reasonable, and he could still do it. follow suit.

The favor card is a good thing, just look at the attitudes of Jia Amnesty and Jia Jing towards Jia's mother.However, this thing also has a drawback, that is, there must be a process, and it is not like a loyalty talisman that can make people immediately obey the person who uses it.

Shi Hou is not Jia Mu's slave, and it is of no benefit to ask him to be loyal to Jia Mu.The main reason is that the loyalty talismans in Mother Jia's hand are not as many as those left in the favor card, and she doesn't know how many lives she will go through, so she thinks about saving as much as possible.

Sure enough, the lunch was called from outside—even if the buyer has been re-selected, but after all, he is not familiar with the business and has not passed the handover, so he has to slowly see if it is suitable.However, Mother Jia felt that it was not without benefits. Her old man asked people to put the dishes on the two tables in her own room, and put a screen in the middle, so that the male and female tables could be used together.

Speaking of the dishes outside, they are fresher than those in Rongguo Mansion. Although some dishes are vegetarian, it is not easy to be particular about the ingredients in the broth.Mother Jia felt that even if the family was keeping filial piety, the adults would be fine, but the three children still need to strengthen their nutrition, especially Jia Zhu. If he still lives well like Jia Zheng's life, even if Jia Shitou arrives as scheduled , can't show anything.

As soon as the dishes were on the table, Mother Jia just asked Mrs. Xing to spread out two chopsticks of dishes, and said to her, "There is nothing else in the kitchen today, you should sit down and eat."

This was unprecedented treatment, Madam Xing's face lit up immediately, but she was afraid that the old lady was just being polite for a while, and said in her mouth: "It is right to serve the old lady, I will use it later."

Jia Mu said: "It's just me and Yuanchun, and it's not very sweet. Besides, we were called in from outside today. We just went out to use it. What are you doing with those vain rituals? There's still a lot of business in the afternoon. I'm waiting for you to open up."

Mrs. Xing sat down as she said, and she felt that the old lady didn't hate her as much as she seemed on the surface, but it turned out that Mrs. Wang's instigation from time to time prevented her from showing her face in front of the old lady.Now that Mrs. Wang is not here, the old lady can see that she is good.

Yuan Chun wasn't too excited, but he had only talked to Hongmei in the morning, and now he just smiled at Mrs. Xing who was sitting down, and started eating by himself.Mrs. Xing also didn't want to argue with a child, this meal was actually the one she used the most since she came to the door.

Not only Mrs. Xing, but the men also ate too much after a meal without words: I haven't seen meat for a long time, although today's meal is still called a vegetarian feast, there are a few dishes that clearly It tastes like meat, no wonder everyone uses more.

Jia Mu proposed that we all go to the garden for a walk to digest food.This is another brand new experience for everyone, and no one has any objections to it.However, Jia Zheng felt that if he walked back and forth with Mrs. Xing, it would be in the way of etiquette, so he had to grab the two younger ones and interrogate them to avoid embarrassment.

Who knows that Jia's mother disagreed. Before Jia Zheng asked the children, the old lady walking behind them had already said, "I just want to learn. When can't I do it. This person has eaten and is digesting all his strength." On that idea, how can I have the energy to listen to your poems and essays. Why don't you talk to your elder brother about the car and boat, Lian'er is quick on his feet, and let the younger brothers walk by themselves."

Jia Zheng, who was used to being a filial son, naturally couldn't refute the old lady's words, although he didn't quite understand what the old lady said.As if Jia Lian had escaped from the sky, he took Jia Zhu and walked a few steps quickly, so as to stay away from Jia Zheng.It made Jia Mu have to tell him to slow down loudly.

Here, Mother Jia and Mrs. Xing talked about housekeeping tips, and even Yuan Chun felt that it was more effective than what Mrs. Wang taught her in the past.Mrs. Xing listened even more carefully, and she was able to ask a few questions later.Mother Jia saw that her group had been away for a long time, so she said to Mrs. Xing: "No matter how much I talk about, the things you encounter in the future may not be included in it. You just have to worry about it. After all, you are the master. , there are those who dare to laugh at the master without opening their eyes, just develop it."

The maids and women who walked with them were vigilant, thinking of telling someone close to them that now the old lady wants to be the eldest wife, so don't bump into it by herself.

Thinking that Shihou might come over in the afternoon, Mother Jia only said that she was tired and wanted to go back and take a rest.Everyone was accompanying her, who would stop her when she wanted to go back?It's just going back with her again.When they were leaving, Jia's mother said to Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng's brothers, "Your uncle may come over this afternoon. If you have nothing to do, you don't have to go out." They agreed.

Maybe it's because the Shijia siblings have a good relationship, maybe the original owner has a certain prestige in the Shijia.During the rest, Jia's mother felt that she didn't have much time to work. Someone had already reported that Shihou had passed the mansion, and the two masters had already greeted her.

My natal brother, Mother Jia, didn't bother, she just waited in the main room where she lived.At this time, Shihou was only in his fifties, and he seemed to be in good spirits, but he was very thin.After Mother Jia gave up her seat, she first cared about the person's body: "Why are you so thin?"

Shi Hou seems to have a really good relationship with his sister, and he didn't hide it: "The women here are all debts, and it's not because of those three bastards."

Jia's mother knew that Shihou's eldest son was also Shi Xiangyun's biological father. He had always been in poor health and had to be raised slowly.In this way, the second child and the third child had some ideas, thinking that Shihou's title could not be passed on to such a person who obviously has no tomorrow, so they each recruited their clansmen and exerted some strength in Shihou's ear .

It seems that the failure of children and grandchildren is not just a matter of the Jia family.Jia's mother had no choice but to say: "I shouldn't be the one to say this. But the order of seniority and youth can't be messed up. You have also seen the situation in our mansion, and it is said that She'er can only be demoted to the first rank, you can't Know why?"

This Shi Hou is naturally concerned-who doesn't want to pass on the title of his family for several generations.It's just that the court usually lowers the title to the third class or even more, but after three or five generations, no matter how high the title is, it will come to an end.If it wasn't for the purpose of inquiring about Jia She's Xijue's internal affairs, Shihou wouldn't have come here just like that.

Seeing him staring at her, Jia's mother said to Jia She, "Boss, tell your uncle everything about it."

Jia She felt that it was Jia Mu who made a face for him in front of his uncle, but Jia Mu just thought it would be more convincing for him to speak out in person, and she was afraid that Jia She would not be able to tell the truth, so she would tell what he had and what he didn't, so she only let him say Keep it short.

Jia Amnesty also knew that it was hard to say anything about cheating the Wang family, so he only told the saint how his family paid back the money owed, how he went to the palace to meet in person, and made it clear that the Ministry of Rites would come to his house tomorrow or tomorrow to give advice on changing things. Plaque and restructuring.

No matter how brief Jia She said, Shi Hou was dazzled: "The sage took your money on the spot?" Seeing Jia She nodded, he looked at Jia Mu uncertainly: "Sister thinks?"

Jia Mu only said: "You see it better than me, a person in the inner house. Naturally, the saint is not short of money, but it is difficult to ask his courtiers to collect debts. But if this comes out of this house, I will not recognize it. "

Shi Hou also knew that prying into the holy will would not be of any benefit to a family, so he did not pursue it.Jia's mother asked: "I know that our family owes some money. Don't talk about your own family affairs, but if you can't pay back when you are here, those three bastards may think about it in the future? "

Brothers have already fought against each other for a title, how can they still think about it?Shi Hou himself was the first to not believe it.It's just that there are many historians and there are many marriages, so the mansion really doesn't have much money.Even if they only owed a hundred thousand taels, that would still be able to evacuate the warehouse in their own house.

Jia Amnesty saw that Shi Hou was in a dilemma, and that Jia's mother was also frowning, so he asked cautiously, "How much money does my uncle's family owe?"

Shi Hou sighed: "There are also 3 to [-] taels, but I don't remember exactly."

Jia Amnesty didn't understand why his mother and uncle were in a dilemma. Even he could afford such a small amount of money.Fortunately, Mother Jia saw what he meant, and told him the historian's troubles: "Your three brothers got married one after another, which is not a small expense. If it weren't for this, the three of you wouldn't be staring at each other. That title is not because most of the family property goes with the title."

Jia Amnesty just glanced at Jia Zheng, and Jia Zheng was annoyed but couldn't tell the difference, so he had to look at Jia's mother again.Jia's mother said to Shihou, "I called you here today. We will go back to the south to observe filial piety in a few days. We will not see each other for at least three years. But she and Zheng'er didn't know much at first. For affairs in the court, it is necessary that you, uncle, take care of them and find two useful aides. Besides, I still have a few private houses. Both of them can do things by themselves. When your brother-in-law is leaving They have made arrangements for them, and I won’t be able to use mine for the time being.”

After she finished speaking, she took out a box from her hand.Both Jia She and Jia Zheng stared at each other, Jia She was fine, but Jia Zheng's eyes were a bit cloudy.Not to mention that Mother Jia saw it, even Shi Hou saw it for real, and immediately declined: "My sister didn't have a rich dowry back then, and she has two nephews, how could she give me her own things."

Jia Amnesty didn't wait for Mother Jia to speak, and said from the side: "Uncle is wrong. It is said that my mother's uncle is the eldest, and our brothers often count on uncle. Besides, mother's things, she can give them to whomever she wants. What's more, uncle is in need. With the three cousins, uncle just needs to be more patient, there is always a difference between the elder and the younger. Besides, our family is not difficult to do so, it should all be lent to uncle."

Are you so moved?Mother Jia wondered if the favorability card on Jia Amnesty resonated with Shihou's, or if she could say such well-founded words, the contrast with the original book would be too great.

In fact, Jia Amnesty only thought in his heart that he not only had the private house given to him by his grandmother, but also the things copied from the servant's house, so he could even repay the debt owed by the historian ten times or eight times.Then why not make the old lady happy, the old lady has been worrying a lot these days.

Jia Zheng also gave a few words of persuasion, but what he said was far from what he usually advertised.Shihou saw that Jiamu was sincere, so he took it over: "Okay, just like Xier said, I borrowed it from my sister."

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