[Red Mansion] Marrying a wife like jade

After a palace banquet, even with the support of the Queen, Jia Min and Daiyu were still exhausted: Although the Queen also called several girls to talk to her later, she didn't give any more rewards. Didn't everyone hold Daiyu in their heads?

It's not easy to be a top person, if the queen had not stated that she knew about Shen Yue's marriage with Daiyu, Jia Min would have wondered if the queen wanted to kill Daiyu.When I talked to Lin Ruhai, Lin Ruhai didn't care much: "With the queen mother, it is the face that Yueer earned for Yu'er, but with the queen." Lin Ruhai smiled complacently: "It's all thanks to her husband."

Jia Min couldn't help giving him an angry look: "Does the master still think it's credit for letting my daughter show such a limelight?"

Lin Ruhai was not annoyed either: "The empress made a move, others dare not question Yu'er's upbringing, talent and rules, nor can they question Yu'er's filial piety. How much more convenience and confidence will be added in the future, isn't it the credit of her husband?"

That is to say, but the burden of great fame, especially all kinds of unavoidable things under the fame of a woman, is he a man who can think of it?Jia Min lowered her head, thinking that her family might have to open a few more tables for this year's New Year's wine, and she must let Daiyu deserve her name.

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard Lin Ruhai chuckle, thinking of something funny, looking up at him in confusion, he saw Lin Ruhai stroking his beard and shaking his head with some complacency: "It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense." It doesn't make sense, anyone can see the satisfaction on the face.

Knowing that he has been bringing Shen Yue to the palace banquet today, and that the only one who can make him criticize so much is Shen Yue, Jia Min wondered: "But what did Yueer do to show his face to make the master so proud?"

Lin Ruhai looked at Jia Min, and laughed sincerely: "That kid taught the princes a lesson, and was rewarded by the sage, and even said that he would let Yue'er serve as a bachelor's student, and he would give it to the princes after the New Year It's time for class."

Shen Yue has just been promoted to the fifth rank this year, and this bachelor's degree attendant is the fourth rank. Could it be that the sage promoted Shen Yue again?Even if Jia Min lives in the inner courtyard, he knows that this sudden promotion is not a good thing: "Yue'er is only so old, so don't people hate him for such a promotion?"

Lin Ruhai shook his head: "The sage didn't get promoted to an official position, but he was ordered to go into the palace every five days to give lectures on the principles of studying things to the princes. The job of serving a bachelor is not the job of serving a bachelor."

Only then did Jia Min heave a sigh of relief, and a happy expression appeared on his face, so as long as Shen Yue taught the princes step by step, not only would he become a teacher and student with the princes, but he would be promoted to a bachelor's degree in the future as a certainty.

To be honest, although Jia Min, who has always been fond of books and quiet, has enjoyed the benefits brought by Shen Yuegewu, he still feels that it is a pity that he goes to the Ministry of Industry to spend every day in the testing ground: such a talented son-in-law should just enjoy the wind with his daughter Month, being disheartened every day will really make people less interested.

If Shen Yue returned to the Hanlin Academy, then Jia Min imagined her daughter's life would be more perfect.

It's just that she was curious, why did Shen Yue have the courage to teach the prince a lesson at the palace banquet?Hearing her question, Lin Ruhai couldn't help laughing, and it took him a while to tell Jia Min:

When he and Shen Yue arrived at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, in order to show the importance they attached to the courtiers, several princes were ordered by the sage to greet them personally at the gate of the hall.It's just that for some reason, several princes disliked Shen Yue very much, but some of them pretended not to show it, and the younger ones didn't even pretend to show their dislike directly on their faces.

The princes just showed their dislike at first, so Shen Yue, a courtier, took the initiative to ask them in front of the princes: Why don't you like me?So he followed Lin Ruhai with his normal expression and greeted the adults who had arrived.

According to the thinking of the princes, as a prince, he has already shown his dislike for Shen Yue, so these ministers should respect Shen Yue and stay away.But they found that Shen Yue was much more popular than expected.

All the ministers who knew Shen Yue, said a few words with Lin Ruhai in a hurry, and then pulled Shen Yue, and those who didn't know each other were introduced to themselves, as if the young Shen Yue was not the youngest one to participate in the palace banquet , but what a big shot in general.

The purpose of these ministers is to advance their orders from the Ministry of Industry a little bit.That's right, it's the order, the spring order.This was Shen Yue's idea to Gu Shangshu, and it was also approved by the saint.

Gu Shangshu followed Shen Yue's idea, and according to their official positions and the time when they came to the Ministry of Industry to place an order, the Ministry of Industry made the springs uniformly.And it's not free, Shen Yue's price not only includes material and labor costs, but also technical fees.Even so, after seeing the effect of the spring, the ministers who wanted to transform their own carriages all wanted to share Gu Shangshu.

Everyone wants to quickly use this convenient thing that has been praised by the saint himself.And nowadays, I am also happy to see that the Ministry of Industry, which has always only paid out money, can still earn money for him. If it weren't for the Beirong outside Ping'an Prefecture and Qianxiang across the West Sea, I would have wanted Shen Yue to take the refining All the finished steel is used to make springs.

Under the mentality of comparison, who wouldn't want to transform their own carriage earlier?Although the Ministry of Industry has already lined up according to the order, some people still want to get close to Shen Yue. If they can get the springs to remodel their cars one day earlier, they can install 13 in front of others one day earlier.If everyone's cars are remodeled, the 13 will not be installed.

Just when everyone was chatting happily with Shen Yue, and Shen Yue was annoyed by Tai Chi with a smile on his face, finally a prince couldn't hold back, and satirized Shen Yue's single-minded pursuit of profit and humiliation.

At first, Shen Yue explained with a smile, but the princes united unprecedentedly at this time, and they condemned Shen Yue together, saying that he abandoned his post in the Ministry of Household Affairs to join the Ministry of Industry as a pedantic trick, and ridiculed him for being a supernatural skill by using painting skills He was grandstanding, and when he got along with the craftsmen, he was said to be obscene.

After the group ridicule mode was turned on, Shen Yue's face became more and more ugly. Lin Ruhai just wanted to remind him to pay attention to the gap in status with the princes, but it was too late—Shen Yue did not fight back as Lin Ruhai expected.

He is a scholar, and he pays attention to swearing without dirty words, so he also uses the attitude of asking for advice when he fights back against the princes, but what he said makes them feel more uncomfortable than scolding several princes:

I would like to ask you princes, Shen Yue realized his own strengths, and he wanted to use his strengths to serve the country, and he succeeded.Could it be that if you get the number one scholar in the exam, you can only do some flashy articles without thinking about using your own strengths to serve the country better?

I would like to ask all the princes, Shen Yue himself has a skill, and with this skill in painting, he can solve the pain of missing relatives of the Supreme Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the saint. , but in this way, the pain of the Supreme Emperor, Queen Mother and saints is ignored, but this is the way of a minister

I would like to ask all the princes, Shen Yue has become obscene in experimenting with the craftsmen for the sake of a smooth experiment, will the princes stop using anything produced by the craftsmen, so as not to be like Shen Yue?

Shen Yue kindly reminded the princes that the things they wear, use, and live in are all made by craftsmen who are obscene in their own words. If they don't want to get along with others, Shen Yue takes a wretched look at the princes: "Now Should the princes walk out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, take off the clothes they are wearing, and discard the crowns on their heads?"

The princes wanted to scold Shen Yue for daring to insult the royal family, and then clamored for the guards to drag Shen Yue, a disobedient man who ignored the prince, into Dali Temple.

As a result, Shen Yue, who was so full of scolding, fell down and saluted the saint who had almost listened to the whole process, catching all the princes who were only focused on yelling and distinguishing from Shen Yue just now, by surprise.

Then the situation was naturally reversed. Before the palace banquet started, the sage staged a face-to-face teaching, and then gave Shen Yue such an errand, so that these princes with eyes above the top would know what it is. Thinking about a porridge and a meal should be hard-won, and a strand of thinking should be hard-won.

"Didn't Yue'er offend all the princes?" Jia Min couldn't help worrying.

Lin Ruhai shook his head indifferently: "It's only been a few days since the sage sat firmly on the dragon chair, and the princes have some small thoughts and can still suppress it. There are sages who say that they only dare to make small moves, and they will be fine with their abilities. Wait Over the years, the princes have really thought about it, and before it was too late to win over Yueer, who would take a few words of children's quarrel seriously? Then it might become a "good story" for them "the monarch and his ministers get along well." At the end of Lin Ruhai's words, Bring out disdain.

Hearing that Shen Yue was fine, Jia Min felt relieved, and then remembered: "This Yue'er is too, how dare you say something to make the princes take off their clothes in front of so many ministers." After saying that, she couldn't help but blush.

"That's why I said he doesn't understand, it's so incomprehensible. I have already punished him to copy the "Book of Rites", a total of nine copies. After the copying is finished, each prince will send a copy, which is just an apology to the princes. .” If the princes still refuse to let go, just wait for the sage to clean up.

Like Lin Ruhai, the Shen family felt that what Shen Yue said in the Hall of Supreme Harmony was not a big deal - a bunch of princes besieged a small official, not only unwise but also out of style, Shen Yue could only scold him for being young and frivolous, really caring You will get a narrow-minded comment, which is not worthwhile for the princes.

The eyes of the Shen family are now focused on Li Shi, who is almost ten months pregnant. After finding out that she was pregnant that day, the old lady lamented that Grand Master Shen left too early. happy thing.

In order for Mrs. Li to have a good pregnancy, the old lady personally rewarded a nanny to take care of her. Mrs. Shen also ordered Mrs. Liu to set up a small kitchen in Shen Chao's yard, where the supplements were constantly warmed on the stove twelve hours a day.

Shen Yue, who is a brother-in-law, is not good at saying that the fetus is too big to give birth, so he can only secretly remind Shen Chao that if Li Shi gets too fat, he will not be slim in the future.But he clearly underestimated how much the world attaches importance to offspring. Compared with his son, it doesn't matter to Shen Chao whether his daughter-in-law is fat or thin.

Fortunately, the Li family is worthy of being a family of imperial physicians, and they know much more about how to take care of women during pregnancy than the Shen family. The Li family rarely buys supplements from the small kitchen, and the daily walking time is not short.In addition, Shen Chao is now in the period of filial piety, and as his wife, Li Shi is also a vegetarian, so until the birth, Li Shi's figure has not changed much except for the conspicuous belly.

In the third year of junior high, Daiyu specially came to Shen's house to pay New Year's greetings. Looking at Li's "tall" belly, she was amazed: "Does my sister-in-law think it is heavy?" How could this belly be bigger than that of her mother and Fang's at that time.

Fang took Daiyu's hand and couldn't help laughing: "When it grows on my body, it feels heavy. It's just that it's not cheap in action."

"But at that time, Brother Fang, grandma's belly wasn't that big." Daiyu expressed her doubts, her eyes still fixed on Li Shi's big belly.

Seemingly knowing what the whole family expected of her, Mrs. Li woke up from the pain early in the morning on the fifth day of the fifth day, and then began the long wait for labor.Shen Chao's eldest son did not come to the world until this night when the sky was full of red clouds.

The whole family was very happy. The old lady smiled after seeing the wrinkled-faced child. She was supposed to laugh when she saw the fifth generation.Then she laughed, and she shed tears. She thought of her husband again, but she didn't have the chance to meet her great-great-grandson.

Everyone wanted to persuade them, thinking that the old lady would be calmer after a night's rest, but the old lady didn't wake up the next day.

After seven months, another funeral was held in the scholar's mansion.

Although the woman did not have a posthumous title, both the Empress Dowager and the Empress sent trusted people to offer sacrifices, and the Emperor also ordered the Ministry of Rites to assist in the funeral of this first-rank imperial order, raising the standard of the funeral to an unprecedented height for a minister's wife.

But for the Shen family, the departure of the old man who gave them life is a scar that no high-end funeral can heal.Not to mention Bachelor Shen, even Shen Yue felt that God was too harsh on the Shen family.

Now this time, he didn't seduce Shen Ren any more, and agreed to his request to keep mourning for the old lady for one year.This made some people think that it was Shen Yue who taught the princes a lesson during the palace banquet, and the sage scolded his sons for the sake of being an official, but he had a problem with the Shen family in his heart.

Therefore, although the royal family still showed importance to the death of the old lady, some speculators still showed their alienation from the Shen family: although the number of mourners was not less than that of Grand Master Shen, some families only sent decent butlers. When he came out, the master was gone.

Shen Xueshi and the others had foreseen the appearance of such people who were stalking others, and they didn't feel angry, and no one blamed Shen Yue.But Shen Yue still felt a little guilty in his heart, and felt that if he hadn't given others an excuse, the old lady's last journey would have been more glorious.

He expressed his condolences sincerely, turning his nostalgia for the old man into pieces of burning paper money, and together with the elders, he expressed his final mourning.It is not easy to guard the spirit. Although there are people who follow the trend, there are still a lot of people who are affectionate or optimistic about the Shen family. It is normal to welcome and see them during the day and stay up at night.

Shen Yue's body became visibly thinner, his two big eyes were deeply sunken into the eye sockets, and his fleshy cheeks also shriveled.As soon as the old lady's incident happened, Daiyu went to Shen's house together with Jia Min - Lin Ruhai is the grandson of the old lady, he also asked for the filial piety of the old lady, but was directly taken away by the sage.

Daiyu saw that Shen Yue was getting thinner, more sad than her own body discomfort, so she took advantage of the time to invite Shen Yue into the inner courtyard, and said to him: "Although the old lady is not very old, she was not sick or in pain when she went, dear brother Don’t be too sad.”

Hearing her caring words, Shen Yue's always gloomy heart felt warm: "I'm fine, but you still have to take care of your sister-in-law, so you should be more careful."

Up to now Shen Yue is most concerned about himself, Daiyu's heart is also warm, there are thousands of words in her heart, it seems to be unnecessary to say it, but if she doesn't say it, she calls him into the inner courtyard just because of this, it seems like Some made a fuss over a molehill and blushed for a while.

Seeing her blushing suddenly, Shen Yue's heart was also moved when she saw her filial piety dress made her small face more delicate and vivid.She stepped forward and gently shook Daiyu's little hand: "If you feel that there are some things that you don't feel comfortable talking about, just tell grandma or aunt."

What other words does Daiyu have at this time?Just nodding.Before he could say anything else, someone from the outer courtyard had already come looking for him, so Shen Yue had no choice but to go to watch the spirit again.Behind her, Daiyu only had time to say: "I'll have some snacks delivered to me in a while, so I'll make a cushion."

Shen Yue didn't look back, he waved his hands in the air to say goodbye, and went to the front yard.Daiyu ordered people to send the snacks to the side hall of the mourning hall, and then went to see Mrs. Li.

As soon as she entered the room, she found that Mrs. Li was wiping her tears. Her dowry mother was bowing her head to persuade her, and hurriedly asked, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong, but she's not feeling well? I'll send someone to call the imperial physician."

Li's mother hurriedly stepped forward to help Daiyu sit down: "Miss Lin, please sit down. Our grandma is not uncomfortable, but just thinking that the little boy was born the first day, and the old lady died the next day. Grandma is afraid that there will be a villain." The nonsense has damaged the reputation of the young master."

That's right, there are many people in the world who would feel that if Shen Chao's eldest son beat the old lady, why would he be born the day before and the old lady would be gone the next day if he was healthy?

Daiyu hurriedly wanted to pull Li Shi's hand, but then remembered that Shen Yue had held her hand just now, and put it down a little embarrassedly: "I just came in from the outside, and my hands were cold. Sister-in-law is always very knowledgeable, why is it down now?" Did you come up with such an idea?"

Li's crying was seen by Daiyu, and she was a little embarrassed. Hearing that she said that she was short-sighted, she felt a little dissatisfied. The tears were naturally put away, and a pair of beautiful eyes that were still full of moisture looked at Daiyu. He seemed to want to hear what she had to say.

"Life and death are inherently impermanent. A new life continues the family. It is common for the elderly to take a rest after working hard for the family. How can a child be charged with a crime just because of a coincidence? How unfair is that to the child? Saying this It’s just some foolish people, or people who are jealous. We don’t care what we say to such people, and it’s over if we ignore him from now on.”

"Although I haven't seen it in person, I have heard from everyone that the old lady likes my brother very much. Even the elders feel that it is something the old lady has been looking forward to bringing such good news to the grandfather."

"The most important thing is that the family likes it. If outsiders gossip about my sister-in-law, just pretend you didn't hear it." Daiyu nodded to Mrs. Li who was fascinated: "This is the eldest grandson of the Shen family and the hope of the Shen family in the future. If the sister-in-law, the mother, has a grudge against him, be careful that the little brother will only be close to the elder brother in the future, and ignore the mother, the sister-in-law."

At the end, Daiyu made a small joke with Mrs. Li.Mrs. Li's brows that were untied by her were already relaxed, and she said to Daiyu embarrassedly: "Thank you sister, it's really because I don't know much. As you said, this is my eldest son, and I like it naturally. "

At this time, Mrs. Li was visiting her daughter, and she heard Daiyu's words of persuasion to Mrs. Li. After entering the room, she took Daiyu's hand and thanked her: "Although your sister-in-law is a few years older than you, she has such a big heart." It's not as good as you. Thanks to you for persuading her, otherwise, the depression in the confinement period is not for fun." After speaking, he gave his daughter a look of resentment.

Daiyu didn't take credit for it, she just asked Mrs. Li to comfort Mrs. Li again, give them a place to talk privately to their mother and daughter, and go out to arrange lunch by herself.Guessing that Daiyu had gone far away, Mrs. Li nodded towards Mrs. Li's head: "You are still a sister-in-law. This is Miss Lin, not the picky one. Otherwise, I will see what you will do in the future."

Mrs. Li lowered her head in shame: "It's not the third aunt..."

Mrs. Li knew that Mrs. Li San must have said something to her daughter when she came to worship the old lady, which made her think more and more narrow-minded.I was angry with my daughter, and I had to persuade her: "You don't know what kind of person your third aunt is? You can't see others being good, but you can't see others being down. She feels that the Shen family can't get up for a while coming."

Even Mrs. Li snorted coldly when she heard this: "The Shen family is going to be quiet for a few years, so how can that official get lower and lower like the third uncle?"

"You understand now, why did you let her lead you by the nose?" Mrs. Li said softly to Mrs. Li: "You married into the Shen family, and your sisters didn't say anything, but they felt like they were frying. These two years How many people have I looked around, they are all high or low, and your third aunt is feeling more resentful."

"That's it, I want to live a better life, let them see." Li Shi suddenly figured out the key point, and under his mother's satisfied gaze, he ate a whole bowl of chicken shredded noodles.

The old lady also died on May [-]th, so she was sent out of the city to be buried with Grand Master Shen, and the day when Bachelor Shen returned to Beijing from the cottage was naturally postponed for seven months.And because the whole family of the Shen family had to observe filial piety this time, Bachelor Shen asked Shen Xin to take this opportunity to clean up his family's servants, and send the unused ones to the Zhuangzi, and they must not be superfluous.

And because the fourth generation has been born, everyone's titles have also changed. From then on, Xueshi Shen and Mrs. Shen are called old masters and old ladies, and brothers Shen Xin can finally be respected as masters, and brothers Shen Chao and others are called old masters. Taking over the original title of his parents, he was ranked first to sixth.

It was also at this time that I realized that the Shen family had indeed become prosperous. The third generation of six males, two of them had already won Jinshi, Brother Xun and Brother Yan were selected as scholar after being sent to the examination by Shen Yue last year. , the remaining brothers Ming and Nege are still young, but looking at the foundation of reading, it is no problem to get promoted through the imperial examination.

"Those people think that my Shen family has been depressed since then, but they don't know that as long as there are good children and grandchildren, why worry about the Shen family's unhappiness?" Bachelor Shen, who was hit by your funeral and mother's funeral one after another, looked at a row of young poplar trees. The tall and straight grandchildren have long-lost smiles on their faces.

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Yes, I know it's shorter than yesterday, why don't you think the author doesn't exist?