[Red Mansion] Queen's Road

A widow is a widow who is determined not to remarry after her husband dies.

There is also one in Rongguo Mansion, that is Li Wan, Jia Zhu's wife.

Fortunately, Li Wan still has a son to watch over.But Zhang, the widow of the Zhen family, has no children.

After guarding for several years, Zhen's house was raided.

The old mother-in-law and the mother-in-law cried together, and explained to whom the property of these granddaughter-in-laws was hidden in whose family, and explained to them, "In the future, no matter who escapes from birth, go to those old relatives' houses to ask for money, they Let us continue, they will leave without turning your head, and they are not allowed to mention this matter in the future."

The female relatives in the house cried together, and the old lady of the Zhen family called Mrs. Zhang to come and give instructions.Mrs. Zhang listened very carefully. The court values ​​filial piety, and she is a widow. At that time, those elders will not embarrass themselves for the sake of fame.

The boys in the family can't keep it, but these young girls can.

The old lady of Zhen's family can only explain to this point in time, and Mrs. Zhang can only carry out this point. It is up to her to make up her own mind on how to go forward.

There are quite a lot of families in the capital who receive money from the Zhen family, but why did the Zhang family come to Jia's house with great fanfare first?

It was still Jia Zhen's fault. He took advantage of the night to find the granddaughters-in-law of the Zhen family who could call the shots, and asked them for domestic servants as soon as they opened their mouths.

The women of Zhen's family thought about it and agreed. They originally wanted to form a good relationship, and they must ask Ning and Rongfu for help in the future. In addition, they don't know what the future will be like now.

After Jia Zhen finished talking about the serious matter, that lustful heart popped out under the light.

It is said that the more beautiful people look under the lamp, the more beautiful they look.The Zhen family has been in the south of the Yangtze River for decades, and all the granddaughters-in-law who marry into the door are all good-looking, and most of the girls from rich families are beautiful. The sense of dignity that Hua brings out.

This kind of woman does not have a bit of dust, Jia Zhen was quite moved after seeing it, and couldn't help but touch the nearest one. These women dare not shout, even if the family is down and down, they know that it is too embarrassing to shout at this time .

The more she dared not call Jia Zhen, the more she went too far. At first, she was touching and cuddling, and then she hugged her.

Naturally, these women couldn't sit still, and when they went up to fight Jia Zhen, they alarmed the messengers outside the door.

Without saying a word, these solution officers drew their knives and clapped wildly at each other.

After driving the people away, the messengers also went out.

The women of Zhen's family wept bitterly, trembling along the way for fear that the messengers would take advantage of them.

But in the end, they depended on those escorts to protect them. Now that they are in the capital, they thought it would be easier to find their old relatives and friends, but they didn’t expect that it would be worse than those who were not relatives, but escorted them to Beijing for a few taels of meager salary. What about the solutions?

The next day, Mrs. Zhang yelled that she was a chaste woman. The servants in the palace happened to come to pick someone at this time, and no one made it difficult for him. After the verification, she let Mrs. Zhang leave, and there were a few Zhen's who went with her little girl.

After Nei arrived, he made handovers with the missionaries. These missionaries were all from Jiangnan, and they brought Mrs. Zhang to the gate of the Rongguo Mansion because of the incense and fire from their fellow countrymen. Afterwards, they did not stop in the capital and went back directly. Went to Jinling on a business trip.

Wanting to let out a sigh of relief, Mrs. Zhang just entered the gate of Rongguo Mansion.

But the people in Rongguo Mansion are not very clear about all this.

The money is in your hands, and it has already been spent. Can you spit out the money?

No.

The old lady rolled her eyelids, "You may have misremembered, our family confiscated your money, or else you call the servant who gave you the money, and let's have a three-party confrontation."

These minions must still be detained in Jiangnan waiting to be sold.

The old lady had nothing to fear, and Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice jointly issued a letter a few years ago, demanding that the Zhen family's stolen money be handed over. At that time, she did not hand it over. Now, if she handed it over to the woman in front of her, it would be blatant disobedience.

This Mrs. Zhang has no deep experience in the world, so she is not the old lady's opponent at all.The old lady just kept her cold, Mrs. Zhang didn't eat in the morning, and brought the children here, sitting in the Rongqing hall, cold and hungry, and the children next to him crowded around him, each of them burst into flames like frightened sparrows. He feathered himself up and leaned against the big bird, hoping to gain some sense of security.

The Rongguo Mansion didn't even serve a bowl of catechu, and the old lady drank the tea comfortably, not paying attention to these people at all.

If you want to get the money out, wait for the next life.

Although Mrs. Zhang is not deeply involved in the world, she can see that she will not be able to get money today, and she is not a match for these old foxes at all.

She put her arms around the nieces next to her, tears rolling in her eyes.

I have cried many times along the way, no matter how much I cry, the current situation cannot be changed.

"Since the old lady said she didn't receive it, let's take my leave." After speaking, he pulled the little girls out and met Jia Lian who hurried over at the door.

Jia Lian, reeking of alcohol, bumped into a woman with a sallow complexion who was holding a few children, and quickly moved aside.

Seeing this woman go out with her back straight, Jia Lian felt a little bad.

Those who can come out of the prison with all their needs and tails these days cannot be underestimated.

Jia Lian entered the Rongqing hall, "Old lady, is this from the Zhen family?"

The old lady looked up at Jia Lian, "She said that we have collected their money. At the beginning, their money did enter our house. After you reminded me, people returned the money. The family did not collect their money. Silver, what can I give him?"

After finishing speaking, he sighed and called Yuanyang over, "The grandma of Zhen's family is too hot-tempered, she left before she finished talking just now, and she took those little girls without eating. One bite, adults can bear it, children may not be able to bear it, you ask someone to pack some snacks, and then chase them out with 200 taels of silver, let them have a place to stay first."

After finishing speaking, he sighed, "It's good to be able to help, but I don't know what they plan to do. It's not easy to stay in the capital. I came here from Jinling all the way. How did this orphan and widow come back Go to Jinling."

He sighed again, his heart of love was clearly revealed.

If Jia Lian didn't know that the money from the Zhen family was lying in the storeroom of the Lai family, he would really have believed the old lady at this time.

Yuanyang followed her out, came back after a while, and whispered something in the old lady's ear.

Jia Lianguang saw Yuanyang's mouth moving, but couldn't hear what she was saying.

Seeing the old lady and Yuanyang muttering to each other, Jia Lian stood up to say goodbye, thinking in his heart that he would let Ping'er come to Yuanyang to set the routine.

After leaving the gate of Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian clutched his throbbing stomach, thinking whether to have a meal first or meet the second sister of You's family first.

After staying at the door for a while, I saw Lin Zhixiao, the housekeeper, coming back from the outside.

After seeing Jia Jialian, he cupped his hands and whispered a message, "I just went to the pier to check with the people over there. I saw Mrs. Lin's family busy on the pier. I didn't ask carefully, but I saw him. The two masters of the family are also on the pier... Do you think you want to go around?"

When Jia Lian heard this, he covered his stomach, pulled a horse and led the people straight to the pier. When they arrived at the pier, Lin Ruhai had already boarded the boat with his wife and daughter.

The family was saying goodbye, Lin Ruhai stood at the bow of the boat and waved to his two sons, Lin Hao and Lin Jiao ran a few steps after the boat, shaking their arms.

Jia Lian knew it was late, so he hurriedly bowed to the departing boat, and waited until he was out of sight before talking to the Lin brothers.

"The steward of our family saw your servants running on the pier, so I ran over. What's the matter? Where is uncle going?"

"I'm going back to my hometown to worship my ancestors. Now that the weather is getting warmer, it's a good time to travel. If it's later in the day, the road will be a little sunburnt."

Several people walked back together, just as the Lin family had just withdrawn, a large group of young men wearing blue shorts also jumped onto the boat on the pier.

Their boat chased behind Lin's boat like a flying arrow, not far or near.

It's just that everyone doesn't know it for the time being.

On the way, Jia Lian's face was contorted when he spoke, and Lin Hao knew that his stomach was churning after watching for a while.

"It's not too early or too late at this time, and it happens that there is a good fish porridge nearby. Why don't you go to the front and have a bowl."

Jia Lian applauded at that time, and the three of them went into a small shop by the side of the road together, ordered a bowl of porridge and a few dishes of side dishes, and rode home when they were full.

When I walked to the gate of Rongguo Mansion, I was still thinking about Second Sister You in my heart.

He was thinking about whether to follow the example of the sages and come to the house three times without entering. Before he could think about the result, the gate ran out from the door and grabbed the reins in Jia Lian's hand.

"Second Master, the charming guest came to the door today."

"What jock? A relative of which family?"

I still can't figure it out in my heart, why should I tell myself when I have a visitor?Whoever comes to the house asks who comes out to recruit.

"Isn't it a jerk? A jerk from Cui's family came with a basket of fruit. I heard from the girls behind me that the second grandma was so happy. She took this to meet the old lady."

"Cui's...could it be my uncle who came?"

The charming thoughts in Jia Lian's heart disappeared without a trace.

Throwing the reins, someone led the horse to tie it up, and went straight to the backyard by himself.

Before entering the door, I heard Wang Xifeng's hearty laughter, and the maids and women standing in the open space in front of the living room also leaned forward and backward with laughter.

Jia Lian strode back to the main room, and saw a young man sitting in the hall, his eyes were fixed on the curtain in the west room, Jia Lian could tell with a single strand of hair that his daughter was in the west room.

Thinking of this, he put his hands behind his back, coughed, and walked in all directions.

The third prince Cui Xian quickly stood up, "Father-in-law is back."

"Well," Jia Lian snorted, "I heard that you are working in Shuntian Mansion now."

"Just copy the documents and be a petty official."

Jia Lian showed his father-in-law's money, "Sit down, sit down."

I also saw a basket of good-looking fruits on the side table, "Come here, what else can you bring, coming here is the same as going back to your own home, I am the only girl who hurts like an eyeball Like, if you dare to bully her, I will talk to you Lao Tzu."

Wang Xifeng tugged on Jia Lian's clothes, feeling that the more he talked, the more he lost his edge.

She herself is a mother-in-law, and the more she looks at her son-in-law, the more she is satisfied.

Jia Lian glared at Wang Xifeng impatiently, "Gentlemen, what are you talking about? It's getting late. Let someone arrange a banquet for us to have a drink."

Let's talk, he raised his chin and looked at the third prince Cui Xian again, "Men, can I have a drink?"

Cui Xian was polite, "I can drink two taels."

Two taels is enough, Wang Xifeng smiled and twisted Jia Lian's waist, stood up and asked them, Weng and son-in-law, to chat a little more, then went to Xijian'er and pulled her daughter out.

When the mother and daughter passed by the living room, Cui Xian stood up and grinned at Qiaoer again, showing his big white teeth.

Like a frightened white rabbit, Qiaoer quickly hid behind her mother.Wang Xifeng went out with her daughter in her arms. Jia Lian saw that the boy's eyeballs seemed to be touching his daughter, and coughed angrily, "Sit down."

I wondered what was wrong with Brother Cui's son, and I didn't see the ghost of his eldest son, second son, and fifth son.

The third prince sat down, put on a serious look, and looked around.

Immediately, Jia Lian felt that this kid looked much smarter.

I just felt a little comfort in my heart, but what this kid said made him almost jump up.

"Father-in-law, I wonder if it's convenient to talk here?"

"If you have something to say, did your father ask you to come?"

"Father never told my son-in-law, but my son-in-law heard something about your house today. The daughter of the Zhen family sued your house for stealing her widow's dowry."

"Who..." Jia Ling suddenly remembered the chaste woman who came to Zhen's house today. "It's nonsense. Her dowry should have been confiscated in Jinling. Why should our family be greedy? It doesn't make any sense."

"Master Yan, the consort of Yin and Ma in Shuntian Prefecture, accepted the pleadings because the plaintiff's native place is in Jinling. According to the rules of the capital, before the case is closed, the foreign plaintiffs will be provided with board and lodging by the yamen that received the pleadings. If it is true If there is a grievance, they will not be allowed to pay the food expenses in the future. If they want to make trouble in the yamen, they will naturally be unable to eat.

Father-in-law, this paper of pleadings has been accepted.I heard that people have already provided evidence to Mr. Yan, but this son-in-law has not acted for a long time... Maybe it is because of the face of the nobles of your family. "

If this son-in-law really cared about the dignity of the nobles in the palace... Isn't the noble concubine in the West Garden a noble person?

In the past few days, Jia Lian has also heard people say that this son-in-law will soon be the second Bai Gangtou.

Seeing the sky outside, Jia Lian stood up and pulled Cui Xian, "Let's go, let's talk to your father about what I should do next."

When the two of them left the hall together, they saw a lot of maids and women coming down the corridor, carrying food boxes and about to enter the hall for a banquet. Jia Lian waved, "Tell Second Grandma, just say I'm taking my uncle out to eat." gone."

Wang Xifeng was not angry after hearing this, but turned her head to look at the girl and drooped her head again.

"What do you have to be ashamed of, raise your head up, what are you doing with your head down?"

Qiao'er raised her head with a blushing face, and Wang Xifeng was satisfied, "Since they don't want to eat, let's eat it together. This is the best noodle, and only relatives like the Wang Family Historian will serve these."

King Xue of Jiashi has always been prosperous, all prosperous, and all damaged.

The official talisman that is popular in the officialdom makes this matter clear and plain.

Linlin slumped on the chair, stretched out her hand and looked at the ring on her finger.

The ring is very beautiful, filigree gold mixed with silver, and an emerald is inlaid on it. When the sun shines on it, the precious light shines everywhere.

It happened that there was sunlight coming in at this time, Linlin put her fingers into the sunlight and moved a little, the green precious light shone in the eyes.

Gao Ming, who was talking, shut his mouth wisely.

Linlin looked at this ring, the craftsmanship is good, and the gemstones are also good gemstones, but the meaning it represents is hard to describe.

It may be thousands of years later or it may be in another world. The meaning of wearing a ring generally means that you are married.

But right now, the concubine is wearing a ring on her hand, which means that it is inconvenient for her to be an aunt these days.

Thinking of this reason, Linlin couldn't feel better.Why do humans give special meaning to these rings?

If you can't figure it out, don't think about it, Linlin retracted her fingers, "Madam has said so much, why don't you tell me how many chances I have given them."

It was Wang Ziteng's wife who spoke just now. Wang Ziteng was transferred back to the capital and came back with his wife and children. His wife hurriedly handed over a sign to the palace, wishing to greet him.

Linlin set aside some time to meet her, but who knew she didn't say a word, so she turned to the matters of Xue's family.

Linlin thought that she had never vented her anger or retaliated against Xue's family.

"If it weren't for the merits of relatives and their ancestors, their family's name should have been changed a few years ago. When the settlement is made every year, the inner government says every year that the things sent are not as good as each year. I promised well this time, but next year’s will not be as good as last year’s. I can’t do it again and again.”

"Now they also know that they were wrong, the empress will give them another chance..."

Why does Linlin feel that this person can't understand? Didn't she just say that, given one, two or three chances, is it possible that she still wants to ask for a fourth chance?

"Madam has also been in charge of the house, and knows the consequences of disobeying orders, so Madam, don't bother me here, just step back if you have nothing to do."

Wang Ziteng's wife opened her mouth, but before she could say anything, she saw a young eunuch rushing over with a whisk in her arms, "Madam, the West Garden sent the Supreme Emperor's order, ordering you to come to the West Garden immediately to meet him."

Linlin turned her head and ordered people to prepare the chariot and horse, but she ignored Wang Ziteng's wife and took her into the chariot and hurried away.

Linlin was still in the carriage thinking about what had happened to her and hurriedly called herself over.

Eighty percent of the noble concubine is really bad.

After Linlin arrived in the West Garden, she randomly asked a court lady to come over and inquire, and it turned out that something was wrong with the imperial concubine.

The Supreme Emperor showed his old age, and he didn't go around with Linlin. He said two things directly, "First, you should start preparing things for the funeral now."

Linlin quickly agreed, anyway, the shroud needs to be prepared all year round, and it doesn't matter what time it is.It's just that the emperor insisted on burying the imperial concubine with the empress dowager's ceremonies. A lot of skins were pulled in the middle. The emperor only agreed to use the empress dowager's clothing color when wrapping up. No matter what place or occasion, Zhen's crown was not allowed. The name of the Queen Mother.

"Second thing, go back and tell the emperor that all innocent Zhen family members will be sent to my imperial tomb to be guarded by me. In the future, their family members will not hinder your eyes."

Linlin fell silent, she could only relay this kind of thing.

The Supreme Emperor added another sentence, "Tell the emperor that there are many festivals between their mother and son and Zhen's mother and son. Without Zhen's mother and son, let's make each other happy."

Linlin nodded and agreed to repeat, and repeated the two things again, before the Supreme Emperor let Linlin leave.

As soon as Linlin returned to the palace, the emperor was waiting for her, "What did the old man say?"

Linlin said two things, especially about the Supreme Emperor. After saying the last sentence, she carefully looked at the emperor's face, "Aren't you angry?"

"It doesn't matter if you are angry or not. The old witch is going to die soon. I am sitting on a thousand miles of land. No matter how much I am angry, I have nothing to be proud of at this time. Since the old man said so, I I just agreed to him, but I still have use of the Zhen family, and I will send them all to him around the imperial mausoleum after they are used up."

After finishing speaking, he saw Qian Sheng blinking at him outside, thinking that something must have happened outside, so he told Linlin to go to the front court, and Sheng came out with Qian Sheng.

On the way, Qian Sheng said, "Our third prince is leading Master Jia to the courtyard outside the Zhuque Gate to ask for an audience."

The emperor snorted softly, "This kid can climb the pole now, knowing that I have an unusual relationship with Jia Lian... When I was young, I looked fine, but when I grow up, I will think more about it."

He changed his clothes and took Lang Jia to another courtyard.

It's not that the third son of the emperor has never been to the legendary Cui's house, but after he went, the people who came and went there didn't like him at all.

I also heard that the last time, in order to hide the identity of the emperor father, it was a steward of the Cui residence who pretended to be the empress to meet the empress. The third prince was keenly aware that the place in the Cui residence was unusual, so he dared not go there again after going there once.

So at this moment, Jia Lian, the confused father-in-law, was led into his yard.

Although Jia Lian had something on his mind, this time he came to the son-in-law's yard and looked inside and out.

"This yard is not bad. It is a neighbor to the next door Wangfu. I don't know how your father bought these yards. If I can move out, I will ask your father to get involved and get me a good yard."

The third prince laughed dryly. Although this place is not well cleaned up, it is still possible to live in. The kitchen is also on fire, and let people cook a good table of noodles first. Weng and his son-in-law are waiting for the emperor to come.

After the emperor came in with his hands behind his back, he stretched out his hand and patted the back of the third prince's head, "I didn't let you enter the Shuntian Mansion to make you mess around every day. Your second brother is working hard there. I'll settle the bill with you again."

After speaking, ask him to boil a pot of good wine. After the third prince went down, he and Jia Lian sat down as guests and hosts. "I didn't tell you carefully last time, I got a few jars of good wine, and I will take a jar with you when you leave."

Jia Lian didn't bring up the matter of Zhen's family immediately, but asked the emperor first, "How did you arrange these sons? I heard that you took him to Shuntian Mansion. Do you want him to be an official in the future?"

The emperor said to Jia Lian indifferently, "Of course the eldest will inherit the family business, and the second and third will be his arms, so first let the two younger brothers come out to practice and practice."

Let Jia Lian say that compared with scholars, farmers, businessmen, he is of course better at being an official, but although the son-in-law is his own son-in-law, he is the son of Brother Cui.

It's hard to say it too bluntly, so I had to say tactfully, "Otherwise, if you let the second and third of your family come out to be officials, after a long time your family is rich and powerful, and no matter what you do, they will respect you three points. A sign of long-term prosperity of the family."

The emperor nodded and said yes, "In this case, let's take a look at the good fortune of the two of them first. I also had the same idea before, so I got them to Shuntian Mansion first. If you have the talent, go ahead. If you don't have the talent, do it as soon as possible." go home."

Jia Lian felt that his son-in-law was absolutely talented, but he liked Bai Ze very much in his heart, so he was full of praise for these two children, exaggerating and exaggerating.

The third prince brought people in with wine and vegetables, placed them on the table, and poured wine for the two of them with the jug.

After three rounds of cooking, Jia Lian drank a few more sips of wine, and finally explained the purpose of coming here today.

"I don't know what to do in my heart. Tell me what I should do about this matter. The son-in-law himself knows better than anyone else that we are not greedy for the married woman's dowry. He must have copied her dowry in Jinling. How did he accept the pleadings?"

The emperor put down the cup, "You said that the son-in-law knows it well in his heart, this sentence is true, and the son-in-law also knows what is going on with your family's money, since you want to give out the money, of course you have to accept the pleadings to disgust you. "

"If I had the money in my hand, I would have given it to her when she came to the door, but don't I have the money? Besides, our old lady and wife may not be willing to spit out the money.

The child is here today, I will talk to the child first, and in the future, besides me looking for you, even if someone from your mother-in-law looks for you, don't take it seriously. "

The third prince agreed.

The emperor drank a glass of wine, pinched the glass and thought for a while, "Otherwise, you should go to other places to hide for a while, and come back after this lawsuit is over."

"Where are you going to hide? I don't even have a place to hide. Besides, I can hide to save my worries. My wife and children are still at home."

The third prince came up with an idea, "Father-in-law, why don't you find a place to be a petty official?"

Jia Lian also really thought about this matter, "A few years ago it was fine, but now it's not good. Now I have to go out. First, I won't release people at home. Second, I will release people. Your daughter-in-law is staying at home. I won't let you go." rest assured."

If Jia Lian really went out to become an official, Wang Xifeng and Qiao'er had no choice but to leave.The reason is also ready-made, Wang Xifeng wants a housekeeper, and Qiaoer already has a husband's family, so it's nothing to go out and back with her.

The third prince was also anxious, and the emperor didn't take it seriously at all, "When the sky fell, there was a tall man to support it. Something happened to your family, and your old lady figured out a way. Why are you so anxious, it will only be embarrassing at that time. I don't think this matter will go down for trial, your family can't afford to lose this person, even if it's for your concubine's sake, your old lady will wipe this matter away."

After Jia Lian took his son-in-law out, Wang Xifeng led Ping'er and his daughter Qiaoer to have a meal at ease.

So Qiaoer was sent back, the paint was removed and Pinger was taken off, and the two talked in the room.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, especially at noon when the sun is shining, so hot that I want to sleep.

The two of them were talking without saying a word, when a girl named Xiao Hong came in from outside, and shouted at the door, "Grandma, there is a little girl in the madam's yard."

Wang Xifeng opened his eyes and raised his chin to signal Ping'er to go out.

After a while, Ping'er came back, "It is said that the Wang family sent someone to talk to Mrs. Xue."

Wang Xifeng felt unhappy when she heard this, "If my parents were here, I wouldn't have to suffer such cold treatment now. They are all from the same natal family, why bother to treat my aunt separately."

"It will be fine when our uncle marries a daughter-in-law. The uncle's place is your natal family."

"These words are just deceiving myself. How can I not know the virtues of my brother? Our grandfather is two points confused. My brothers are not confused, but a bit evil.

It's not bad for him to stay in Jinling now, if he comes here, he must come to me every day to grind some money.I was unhappy if I gave it to myself, and I don’t know what he can do if I don’t give it. "

I thought a lot in my heart, after all, my brother is the only male in the Wang family. When my parents passed away, if my uncle and aunt had disciplined this brother more, they would stand up now.

In the final analysis, it is not their own, and it is just a cosmetic.

The more I thought about these troublesome things, the more upset I became, and I sighed, "I don't care about our family. You are two years younger than me. Now that I am older, maybe I really won't be able to give birth. From now on, our family will rely on Your belly is gone."

Ping'er also sighed, if his stomach could be relied on, there would be a man and a woman by this time.

The two masters and servants were relatively speechless, and they heard Qiaoer's laughter in the side room.Only a little smile appeared on Wang Xifeng's face, "Anyway, there is still such a little blood, our master is so confused, and he is qualified to be a father. Our elder master has never thought that the second girl should look for her at her age. It's gone."

Ping'er thought for a while, "It's not necessarily that the old man doesn't want to think about it, I think it's because the old lady is not happy, there is no man in our room who is in a hurry, how can the empress in the palace think about it?" Not more anxious than us."

"If we really want to do such a good thing, it won't be our second girl's turn. The third girl is no smarter than our second girl." Wang Xifeng sneered, "Let's not talk about it, it's meaningless to talk about it."

Ping'er turned around and brought a bowl of tea to Wang Xifeng, and was about to pass it to Wang Xifeng when she heard Qiao'er's nanny greet Zhou Rui's family in the yard.

Ping'er put the tea in Wang Xifeng's hand and stood up to look out the window. He saw Qiao'er's nanny holding a ball in her hand and talking to Zhou Rui's family.

I heard Zhou Rui's family ask, "What is this old girl holding?"

"Our girl has been learning to cut clothes these days. This is a broken material. I will take it back and tidy it up and make some shoe uppers."

"This is a good material..."

"There are still a few pieces to look at here, if the old sister likes to pick a few."

"Our family doesn't need to make shoes now, so you can take them away. I have something to see Second Grandma so I won't tell you."

Wang Xifeng also heard the two people's greetings in the yard, and frowned, wondering if the old lady was fooling her sister and deliberately let her cut the fabric and took it away by herself?

Just as I was thinking about it, Zhou Rui's family came in, "Second Grandma, my wife asked me to invite you, Mrs. Xue is also there, and she said it was to discuss something, so I want you to go over with me."

Wang Xifeng thought that it might be someone from the Wang family who said something just now, "You go back first, I'll comb my hair and go."

After washing up here, I went to Mrs. Wang's yard. As soon as Mrs. Wang saw Wang Xifeng coming over and pointing to the side for him to sit down, "You have always been quicker than us in thinking. I have something to ask you for an idea."

Mrs. Xue brought up the disqualification of her family's imperial merchant qualification.

Then she had a frowning face, "I entrusted this matter to my sister-in-law, but I didn't expect that the empress would not give my sister-in-law any face... Now I don't know what to do, Feng girl said to see what to do next."

"What can I do? I don't have much rice to eat, and I haven't seen anything. Otherwise, go to the Lin family to find a way."

"It's not that I haven't thought about it, it's just that their wife is not at home now." Mrs. Xue turned to look at Mrs. Wang, "I sent someone to inquire about their family's master and wife who brought their young lady back to their ancestors to worship their ancestors." I went, and now there is only one grandma left at home, who doesn't go out easily, he is still a junior, do we have any friendship with him..."

Looking at Wang Xifeng with his eyes, "I heard that the second master of your family and the uncle of the Lin family know each other, or invite the uncle of the Lin family out, and let's set up two tables of wine..."

Wang Xifeng didn't want to mix "into this matter, her family has no shortage of silver flowers recently, as long as she takes care of her daughter's things and doesn't let others touch them, that's enough.

"Lian Er is just confused. He is unreliable in handling things. Today, my son-in-law came to the door. I said let him keep the son-in-law at home for a meal. Who knew that he would take the child away when he turned around, and he didn't know that the two of them were together. Where did I go, I can't find it right now."

Mrs. Xue did not give up, "I heard that your in-laws have a big family and a great career, and I heard that they know many important people in the capital..."

"It's not like you don't know that my son-in-law is a concubine, and their grandmother is a tigress." Wang Xifeng sighed, "If our uncle is a concubine, then I'll just go and tell him Yes, but at this time we want to talk but we can’t talk, so we can’t help you because of our will.”

Mrs. Wang was unhappy listening to it, and said nothing with a stern face. After they had parted, Mrs. Wang said to Mrs. Xue, "Young girl Feng is not at odds with us now."

Mrs. Xue took a deep breath, sighed too much in the past few days, and brought a sad look on her face.

Wang Xifeng came out of Mrs. Wang's yard, thinking that his wife's purse was about to be broken now, and that the Xue family's wealth was about to be emptied by his wife, and he was afraid that his wife would not be able to take out the money of the Xue family, so she turned around and made up her own mind .

His own dowry is not much money now, but Qiaoer's dowry is eye-catching.

When she returned home, Jia Lian also came back, lying on the couch reeking of alcohol, while Ping'er was taking off her boots.

Wang Xifeng hurriedly ignored changing clothes, sat beside Jia Lian and pushed him twice, "Be careful when you go out these few days, if there are those who want to sell shops, Zhuangzi, and yards, go and have a look." , it’s time to prepare a dowry for our daughter.”

"I remember it, and I need you to remind me."

"I was worried in my heart that my wife was eyeing our sister's betrothal gift. Today I found out that Xue's family was raped by the imperial businessman. They secretly asked my aunt to enter the palace to intercede. I didn't expect my aunt to be pushed back by the empress. "

Jia Lian opened his eyes and propped himself up on his elbow, "Really?"

"Call me over, let me think of a way, and asked me to talk to our in-laws and send messages everywhere, but I didn't agree."

Jia Lian lay back again, "The Cui family sent a lot of good things, and there are six pots of bonsai made of precious stones alone. When the time comes, the old lady will call the two of us over and say to send it to the palace to support the empress. , whether we like it or not, we have to take this thing out."

"That's what I mean too. I mean, if you go out to buy things once, let's pawn or sell them off, and then move all the valuables out and hide them."

Jia Lian's head is a little dizzy now, and he can't think of any better way. The husband and wife didn't sleep well all night.

Jia Lian had a feeling that the sun was setting, and this feeling was particularly obvious, just like when the Zhen family asked people to intercede.

Did the Zhen family also feel the crisis, so they sent people to the capital for help early, but found that there was no way to ask for help.

I got up in the morning with a pair of big dark circles under my eyes, and didn't plan to go out, so I wandered to the warehouse, opened the box and looked at the betrothal gifts.

Laiwang, Wang Xifeng's chaperone, accompanied her, "I heard from those old family members that even the aunt and concubine didn't have such a good betrothal gift at that time. Maybe in our family, there are generations of aunts and grandmas who are not as good as our girls. Decent."

Jia Lian thought in his heart what's the use of being decent, and it's still a matter of whether this pile of things can be kept now.

While opening the box in the warehouse for inspection, someone asked for leave from outside to go to Rongqingtang.