[Red Mansion] Marrying a wife like jade

As for Shen Yue's intention to come, Xueshi Shen and Shen Xin knew each other well, Shen Xin only had one sentence: "Let go and do your own thing, just give Fifth Prince a good hand." There was indescribable confidence in the words.

Shen Yue really felt relieved, if he didn't have enough confidence in himself, Shen Xin wouldn't be so calm.He also believed that with Shen Xin's character and the financial resources of the Shen family, it would not be possible for Shen Xin to use money for others' personal gain.

However, Shen Yue still asked Shen Xin, even if others hinted, slightly changed the performance appraisal, etc., Shen Yue sincerely admired his uncle: this era is a society of personal feelings, and those who dare to open their mouths to hint are high-ranking For a person of authority, Shen Xin was able to withstand such pressure, it was not ordinary courage.

In fact, after thinking about it, it becomes clear that Shen Xin is currently in a rising period, and the official voice is the most important thing.Behind him is Xueshi Shen, the chief assistant father, even if he refuses to accept other people's request, that person really dares to turn against him?It's just that he is noble.

Shen Xueshi also has something to tell Shen Yue that after he arrives in the Ministry of Officials, he should still focus on the fifth prince, not to make his own decisions, not to be too aggressive, and not to go beyond Wang Shangshu - the current sentence of a horse without a bridle is not what it is Positive comments.

When Shen Yue arrived at Lin's mansion, Lin Ruhai naturally wanted to teach him a lesson.Shen Yue also had his words: "The last time he seized the throne, his father-in-law was almost never trapped in Yangzhou. If it happens again, I can't guarantee what I will do."

Lin Ruhai looked at him steadfastly. At this moment, Lin Ruhai believed that Shen Yue was telling the truth, and also believed that Shen Yue had that ability—this kid is good at other things, he still has a way of deceiving people, and he has not seen many of them. The prince is now all around him, a small official from the fourth rank?

It's not that he is not moved in his heart, Lin Ruhai still wants to suppress the emotion, and then scolds Shen Yue: "What else do you want to do, just help the fifth prince honestly like this, and take down the official job for him is serious!"

Can Shen Yue not know that his husband must hold on to the airs of a strict teacher?He answered yes respectfully, and then put on a face of asking for advice, saying that he was only doing practical things at first, and later patronized the compilation of books, so he didn't know much about the affairs of the bureaucracy.Please help me, sir, otherwise he will only be trapped in the quagmire of the officials.

Knowing that he was talking nonsense, Lin Ruhai still didn't even care about getting angry with him, and seized the time to instill in him the relationship between the officials.Make sure Shen Yue goes to the Ministry of Officials, even if he can't flex his muscles, he can't be tripped up by the intricate interpersonal relationships.

After leaving the scholar's mansion and Zhong'anhou's mansion, when Shen Yue returned to the mansion, it was already past the time to hold the lanterns.After the dinner, they went back to their own yard, but it was quiet and no one moved around. When they all went to the porch, Sixue and Erliu were still alone.

Shen Yue felt a little strange in his heart: he had someone send a letter back, saying that he was returning late, and he didn't see Daiyu in his wife's room just now, could it be that he is not in the mansion?It's so late, what did she do?

"The uncle is back, please greet the uncle." A clear voice of greetings reached Shen Yue's ears, but when he saw it, it was a strange girl who was waiting for him to enter the door with the curtain raised high.Even if they were unfamiliar, Shen Yue only asked calmly: "Where are Hongliu and the others? Is your grandma in the room?"

The girl's eyes were pitch-black, and she looked at the wind lamp hanging on the porch, which had a special brilliance: "Grandma doesn't seem very happy when she comes back from the wife's room. Sister Hongliu and the others are all chatting with grandma to relieve boredom."

The reply was straightforward, Shen Yue nodded after listening: "Who are you following?"

The girl chuckled lightly: "The servant is following Sister Hongliu."

Shen Yue already understood that Erliu beside him was two years older than Sixue beside Daiyu, earlier than the age that should be married.But as a slave, the master can't think of it, and he can tell the master himself that he wants to marry someone?The two willows are both girls, let alone say this out loud.

It was Daiyu who thought that Sixue was almost twenty and that it was time to get married, so she asked Shen Yue how she planned to arrange her.Shen Yue got angry with Daiyu because of this, and felt that she didn't believe him, but Daiyu directly convinced her:

"This is your girl. I didn't bring it from home. I have to ask your opinion. I didn't say that I sent all the girls around you out just after I came to the mansion for a year. How to say me."

Shen Yue directly drew the small figure with angry and annoyed brows, if he didn't come in, he would threaten Daiyu with it, saying that one day Daiyu provoked him, he would show it to Jia Min to see her daughter How "virtuous".

But Daiyu didn't care about him, she asked Liangliu her own plan, whether she wanted to marry a family and have children or marry outside.The two Hongliu came to serve Shen Yue, and they knew that this day would come, and because they were getting older, they would not think about their own way out, so they made up their minds early.

The rewards and monthly regulations that the two of them have received over the years are all top-notch, and they accumulated some money, and were encouraged by Shen Yue, so they thought about marrying out, so that their children and grandchildren would no longer be slaves, and people would call them around.Shen Yue also told them that even if they are married, they can still go back to the mansion for help if they need help. If they can continue to be protected by the mansion, who would want to be a slave for generations.

So both of them let Daiyu appoint shopkeepers of Shen Yue's two shops for them, although the one Hongliu chose was Jixian, fortunately the one in front didn't have any children, so they can live a good life.

As for Sixue, she grew up with Daiyu since she was a child, and she was very reluctant to leave. She only begged Daiyu to ration her to a more promising family to have children, so that she could continue to work by Daiyu's side after she got married.

Because the marriage of the six people was fixed, Daiyu had to be surrounded by others, so she picked a few maids from Zhuangzi, and let Erliu and Sixue teach one-on-one, trying to make the newcomers feel better before they got married. get started.So Shen Yue asked this question.

Unexpectedly, when he entered the house, it was still quiet, only the candle flickered, as if no one in the house had heard him come back.Seeing that there was no one in the hall, Shen Yue knew that the girls were staying in the inner room with Daiyu, but he didn't hear the girls joking and joking as usual, so he was even more surprised.

After entering the inner room, it turned out that Daiyu was in a daze alone, and the girls also looked at Daiyu in a daze together.

"Grandma is upset, you should relieve her, why are they all like wood." Shen Yue lost his temper with a few girls for the first time.

Daiyu was awakened by his voice, and quickly patted her chest: "You didn't even say a word when you came in, are you yelling so loud just to scare people?"

The girls also knew that they had done something wrong just now, so they all bent down to plead guilty.Shen Yue stepped forward to pat Daiyu himself, and asked her: "What's the matter, a few people are watching in a daze, are they all like me, can't they be dumbfounded by the beauty?" Standing up, they walked out of the room with winks, letting Daiyu tell Shen Yue what happened to her.

It turned out that when Daiyu went out to socialize today, she got a piece of news that Liu Rong, who was close to her in her boudoir, had been married for more than four years and had no pregnancy letter.When I came back and sighed with Mrs. Fang, I felt even more depressed.

Shen Yue heard that it was just this matter, so he couldn't laugh or cry: "So it's because of this. Your good friend married a scholar, and the husband and concubine left the house, so he let go of his foreign job. If so, your good friend is pregnant. Believe me, it's fatal."

Daiyu glanced at him directly: "Didn't you see that Sister Liu is so haggard, she has to look at her mother-in-law's face before she says a word, she doesn't look like she is swaying in the boudoir. People can't help worrying about her. "

Shen Yue thought to himself, you might as well worry more about your husband.But the matter is too big, so don't let her worry about it. Suppress the desire to tell and listen to Daiyu and continue to say: "Sister Liu is such a straightforward girl, but just because she doesn't have a pregnancy letter, she always bows down to others. But now What about the pregnancy letter, who can guarantee that you will get a boy in one fell swoop? If you give birth to a girl, you still have to bow down."

The voice gradually became softer and slower, with deep unwillingness: "Is it true that women are only used for giving birth?"

Shen Yue took a serious look at Daiyu in his arms: "But someone said something in your ear?" He and Daiyu have been married for more than a year, and there must be someone who is free , in the name of caring for the reality of ridicule.If no one had mentioned Daiyu, no matter how close she was to Liu Rong, she wouldn't have such emotion.

Daiyu didn't speak, but buried her head in Shen Yue's arms again: "Brother Ai, what if I can't give birth to a child?"

Shen Yue smiled brightly: "Then I can't raise you as a child."

This answer was quite beyond Daiyu's expectation, when she looked up and saw that Shen Yue was smiling, her brows and eyes were squeezed together, and her heart felt sore and swollen: "I'm telling you the truth."

Shen Yue helped her to sit upright: "I'm telling you to be serious. You are still young and your body has not yet grown up. It is too dangerous to have a child. Besides, we have only been married for a long time, so why don't we just have a child?" Between us? Then you won't even look at me."

Now Daiyu was dumbfounded: "It is said that children are a gift from God, they don't come if you want them, and you don't come if you don't want them. Don't say this in front of your wife, be careful if your wife scolds you." .”

For such a pure child, Shen Yue decided not to tell her about his dirty tricks - it is not easy to want a child, is it so difficult not to want a child?

But he still has to untie Daiyu completely, otherwise he won't be like Jia Min back then, eating all kinds of secret recipes for begging for a child, and then he won't be able to find his tune when he's crying.He broke apart the broken pieces and told Daiyu that there was really no rush to have a child. In the future, no matter whether it was a boy or a girl, it would be their children, and he would love them.

"You don't have to care about what other people say, just be yourself." This was Shen Yue's last statement.

I don't know if Daiyu annoyed him, or really listened to it. Anyway, in the end, she said that she would not take the child matter to heart, and would continue to enjoy herself in time as always.

As for Shen Yue, he was not at ease, and the next day he deliberately mentioned this matter to Mrs. Fang: "She is young and has a sensitive mind, so she always thinks about what others say. My wife will explain it to her."

Mrs. Fang nodded naturally: "I'm in the mansion, you just go on your own errands. I just went to the Ministry of Officials. If you have any problems, you should discuss them with your uncle."

Today, Mrs. Fang purposely strolled around the garden with Daiyu, talking about what kind of flowers should be sent out by the flower house to honor the old lady, and casually mentioned that she had only had Shen Yue after more than two years of marriage. It's been another five years since my brother.Taking Li's family as an example again, Brother Shen was enlightened, and she was pregnant with her second child, so it can be seen that when the child will come, it is not certain.

Daiyu also explained Fang's meaning, a little embarrassed: "It's all my imagination."

Mrs. Fang took her hand: "You have been a careful child since you were a child. This is your advantage, but it is also your disadvantage. When others want to make things difficult for you, it is enough for you to listen to a few ambiguous words." You don’t have to think too much about things in the future, tell me or your mother, or there will be Yue’er.” The last one will persuade you the most.

Daiyu nodded in obedience, feeling that with the marriages and marriages of all the friends in the boudoir, and those who have children, the relationship will change a little.He couldn't help but said to Fang: "I go out to socialize every day these days, and I can't help but talk when I see people. I always feel so bored in the mansion. How about my wife and I go out of the city and live in Zhuangzi for two days?" Get up: Those who study in the mansion, those who go to the Yamen, even proposed to go to Zhuangzi, it is really inappropriate.

Mrs. Fang saw her embarrassment, and smiled indifferently: "It's boring just the two of us, let's see if the weather is better, your mother is free, let's invite your aunt and old lady to go to Zhuangzi together Let's go." The niece and daughter-in-law are pregnant, so it's not easy to call them together.

"Is it okay?" Daiyu was very moved when she heard this, but it might be wrong to leave the whole family behind and only the women go out together?

Fang still smiled so nonchalantly: "I just want us women to go out for a walk together. Over the years, I have been thinking about them and reading them all the time, and have I gained a few good words?"

The resentment in these words is not light.Daiyu glanced at Fang carefully: "Madam?"

Fang Shi was not afraid of the jokes from his daughter-in-law whom he had watched and raised since he was a child: "Master is very funny. It is grandstanding to insist that Yue'er cooks longevity noodles for you."

Come on, Daiyu now knows where her mother-in-law's anger comes from.The roots are still in Shen Yue. His bowl of longevity noodles has led the new trend of celebrating birthdays in Beijing, but he has encountered resistance from Shen Ren—even though Shen Yue has been subtle for many years, Shen Ren still has some machismo in his bones.

Fang has been married to him for many years, so he knows his temper. Seeing that his birthday is getting closer, he is afraid that Shen Ren will not remember it by then, and he will still be angry. Say a few words.Who knew that once she said it, Shen Ren would seriously argue with her, wouldn't Fang become angry?

It's not easy for the parents-in-law to manage the affairs of the young couple's house, and it's not good for a daughter-in-law to talk too much about the housework of the in-laws.Dai Yuming knew that Fang Shi was not just fighting over this bowl of noodles, so she had no choice but to talk about the people and things she met when she went out to socialize, which also made Fang Shi temporarily forget Shen Ren's inconsiderateness .

Shen Yue, who had just arrived at the Ministry of Officials, couldn't laugh at all.If it is said that the place with the most redundant staff in these ministries is the Ministry of Officials: the Ministry of Officials is in charge of the annual performance appraisal of officials all over the world, and a large number of manpower is indeed needed for the assessment at the end of the year.But this need is only for one month in winter every year.

In other words, the court spends twelve months of salary every year to support people who only use one month.That's not to mention, in order to have a good performance appraisal, officials from all over the country have to offer ice and charcoal tributes every year. This is a gray income that everyone knows.The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rituals can be less respectful of ice and charcoal, but do you dare to be less in the Ministry of Officials?Which one do you dare to miss?Maybe you think this person is useless this year and don't send him away, but next year he will be appointed as a performance appraisal post in your place.

Therefore, the local officials sent them to ministries such as the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Households in line with the idea of ​​​​never leaving a group of people.This undoubtedly increased the burden on local officials.But local officials are also people who have been officials for thousands of miles only for money, can they pay this money out of their own pockets?In the end, it didn't all fall on the heads of the common people, causing local officials to seek compensation from the common people under clever pretexts.

It's all about the common people, can Shen Yue not keep his eyes on these people?But the relationship between officials and ministries that Lin Ruhai told him yesterday is really complicated. Many lower-level officials have one or two backers and backgrounds. It is difficult to move these people.

It's difficult but you have to do it. People now point out their fame and ask me to come and work, so can I still pick the pick and leave?When Shen Yue came to the public house where the Fifth Prince worked in the Ministry of Officials, just as Shen Yue wanted to greet others, the Fifth Prince stood up early by himself: "Mr. Shen, please sit down. What kind of tea would you like to drink? My mother and concubine were rewarded by the Empress last time." Authentic West Lake Longjing, let someone soak it for Mr. to taste?"

You didn't take your medicine when you went out today, right?Shen Yue looked at the attentive fifth prince: "This is the Ministry of Officials, where the officials of the world are assessed, and the gift of respect is also one of the assessment items. The fifth prince is courteous to the virtuous and the corporal, and I am ashamed to be a minister." Are you looking at me Less impeachment?

The fifth prince sat down, but the smile on his face refused to fall: "Mr. Shen, what do you think we should do?" He deliberately lowered his voice, which meant that he had listened to Shen Yue's words just now. , but this gentleman should be called and still have to be called.

"The sage asked the fifth prince to come to the Ministry of Officials to take care of the affairs, and the minister is only here to help the fifth prince. Naturally, the fifth prince will follow suit." Shen Yue didn't accept his tricks, and told him clearly that he was here to help.

The fifth prince still had an understanding expression on his face: "I know, I know. Don't worry, I'll show you my face, as long as you have an idea. Tell me, which division shall we start with first?"

Shen Yue, who had no choice but to ask the fifth prince, what ills he found in the official department these days, why did he get impeached directly?

It's okay to talk about other things, but when you talk about the fifth prince, you can't help but get angry: "Those officials, they go to the government all day just to answer, drink tea and brag, read the mansion newspaper diligently, and lazy people see the sky." Send a servant to ask for leave, and still receive the salary of the court when he doesn't do anything. Such a person who is a vegetarian, even impeaches me, the prince who is on an errand!"

Shen Yue followed suit and nodded: "Has the Fifth Prince talked about this with Wang Shangshu?"

The fifth prince was even angrier: "Wang Shangshu has more principles, saying that these people are of great use during the winter months, and the hearts of the courtiers should not be chilled by a moment of slack. Tell me, is he holding court Buy the silver yourself?"

It seems that these princes have realized that they are in charge of Chai Migui.Shen Yue continued to nod: "It's true that Wang Shangshu doesn't need to pay for this money." As the official secretary, he has more subordinates, more people who can command, and more people who will cooperate when something really happens. No wonder Wang Shangshu in this way.

How could Shen Yue not understand the truth?He asked the Fifth Prince calmly: "So you talked with him once, and then you didn't talk again?"

The Fifth Prince snorted angrily: "The old guy is selling himself old because of his age. He always tells me that things will be smoother and smoother. I say things and he pushes things to the west. Why should he be angry with him?"

Shen Yue said bluntly: "You are wrong."

The fifth prince's face collapsed: "How did I go wrong?"

Shen Yue smiled and said: "It's his kindness to give you advice because of his age, you just listen to it. No matter how he gives you advice, you just need to ask him a correct sentence and let him announce it in public. .”

The fifth prince didn't believe it: "What are you talking about?"

Shen Yue looked at him like a fool again: "The sage has announced at the court meeting that each department, department, and department will start to investigate current abuses. No matter what he tells you, you just ask him in the Ministry of Officials, which department to start the investigation, and tell him in public Just announce it. Wang Shangshu, after all, is still the Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials."

The fifth prince's eyes are so bright, he really confuses Wang Shangshu, why didn't he think of his father talking about it?As long as Wang Shangshu publicly announces which department to investigate from, no matter whether the people in that department have private interests or not, they will have opinions on Wang Shangshu, and the people in other departments will also feel sad.

At that time, the fifth prince would like to laugh wildly with his hips on his hips, and see if that old guy still has the face to point him out.

Having come up with an idea, Shen Yue ran back to his office and continued to look through the documents of the Ministry of Officials, but he saw the fifth prince's little eunuch running back and forth.No need to ask, I must have ventilated the method I thought of just now to the other princes.

The fifth prince was also very conflicted about whether to ventilate the brothers.He has never been very popular among his brothers, but after taking care of Shen Yue's marriage, he came into the eyes of the present and was the first to go to the court to listen to politics.But not long after, the brothers were all standing on the same starting line again, and the fifth prince felt a great sense of crisis.

He firmly believed that since he was the first person to approach Shen Yue for an idea, he would be the first to open a gap in the investigation of the affairs of the Ministry, and once again shine among his brothers.

But the fifth prince still believed that when other brothers approached Shen Yue for an idea, Shen Yue would definitely tell them the idea.At that time, everyone knows that they have a good idea and don't share it. What is the consequence?Thinking about the cold face of the fourth child, the knowing gaze of the elder brother, and the angry mouths of the sixth and ninth child, the fifth prince dared not be unreasonable.

If the Fifth Prince talked about his entanglement to Shen Yue, Shen Yue would definitely tell him, the reason why you dare not do it yourself is because I usually act impartially among you brothers, you know?

The fifth prince is not stupid, he will not be a good person, and let people know that his heart has been dark, so Shen Yue can no longer be a life mentor for the fifth prince.It has to be said that under Shen Yue's training/teaching, the princes are making continuous progress.

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