Red Chamber Fellows: You Are Not Guilty

It was late when Jia Zheng and his group returned to the East Courtyard, but Mrs. Wang didn't intend to rest immediately, and waited for Jia Zheng to wash up before complaining to him: "Master, the old lady mentioned the family visit at the banquet just now. Things."

Jia Zheng didn't take it seriously: "I heard you, didn't you say that only the ending is left. Then urge people to hurry up, and when it's ready at the end of the year, you can ask your mother to go home to visit relatives." Mrs. Wang knew that he had such a thing. Said, only talking about my own difficulties: "We didn't get much when we separated. Since the construction of the garden, nearly 100 million silver has been given out. Now I can't think of any other way."

"Why are there so many?" Jia Zheng was also surprised, a little suspicious that Mrs. Wang had slapped her hand: "It's not necessary to buy land, it's just a few buildings."

Mrs. Wang heard that he was suspicious of herself, and really wanted to ignore this hands-off shopkeeper who only knew to ask for money every day, but the garden had already been built like this, and Yuanchun in the palace was still looking forward to it. Angrily said to him: "Since we talked about building the garden, the old man didn't have a penny. The old lady gave 30, brother Zhen gave 40, my natal family gave [-], and I gave [-] for my own dowry. I borrowed the remaining [-] from the Xue family."

Jia Zheng asked puzzledly: "Even if we didn't share anything when we separated, there must be some." Mrs. Wang could only continue to count for him: "The cash we got when we separated was only more than 2 points. The old man said that the servants who served in front of him would follow him, and there were nearly 300 servants who came with them, and the people in this room needed food and drink and monthly money, but there was not enough."

As an outstanding representative of "Why not eat minced meat", Jia Zheng asked the words that broke Mrs. Wang: "Aren't there still Zhuangzi and shops?"

"Master, do you know how many villages and shops we got when the family was separated? How much are we going to do?" Mrs. Wang resisted.

"Why do you ask me about these inner houses?"

Mrs. Wang could only count down by herself: "Five Zhuangzi, three shops. When the Zhuangzi is not ready to send the annual bill, the monthly rent of the shop is only less than 400 taels. Our master does not count, and the monthly bills of the servants add up. It's nearly 200 taels." Seeing what Jia Zheng wanted to say, Mrs. Wang didn't want him to piss herself off today, and then said, "I just need to make up for it with my dowry. It's just that the garden is finished, my lord. Regardless of the money, all kinds of decorations are the big ones."

Jia Zheng, who was annoyed when he heard these things, thought that it was not Mrs. Wang who was enduring him but that he was enduring Mrs. Wang: "There are still some in the warehouse, just put them out." Mrs. Wang really wanted to say goodbye by hand, but she had no choice. Not as good as people: "Not to mention whether it can match the newly built place, even if it is all placed, it can only be half of it."

Jia Zheng also had nothing to say, if he used to ask Mrs. Wang to beg the old lady, but because of his birthday, the old lady even treated him a little coldly, and Mrs. Wang didn't even have the face.As for Baoyu, she is also heartless. The old lady loved him so much and forgot all about it. Now she doesn't even have the best person to come forward.Thinking of Baoyu, and remembering that at the banquet, Jia Amnesty had a happy conversation with Jia Lian and his son, and even Jia Cong was at peace with Jia Lian's brothers, and the name of Jia Huan flashed through his mind.Fortunately, he was not completely out of his mind, knowing that this was not the time to mention Jia Huan, so he just made a note in his heart.

"No way, collect everything in everyone's room and put it out first." Jia Zheng could only say so.Mrs. Wang spent a lot of time talking with him, but she just wanted him to come forward to ask the old lady himself.Who doesn't know that the old lady has a rich private house, even the decoration of the garden is made by her, and she may not be able to use it all up. Who knows that Jia Zheng gave her such an idea in a long time, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed and shed tears.

Jia Zheng was impatient at first, and seeing her cry was even more anxious: "You are more and more open-minded during the big festival."

Mrs. Wang cried and said: "The master also thinks about your mother. Usually, when you go home to visit your relatives, which one doesn't spare the whole family to welcome this dignity? Only our mother, only parents worry about it, and things are not well prepared. , how can the empress gain a foothold in the palace in the future?"

Hearing what she said was miserable, Jia Zheng also sighed, feeling that he was a poor and lowly couple who mourned everything, so he said: "You also urged them to finish it quickly, and I will talk to the old lady someday."

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the inspection and regulation of nobles began to be implemented.This time, it is said that the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households will jointly investigate, but the actual work is mostly from the Ministry of Households. The people in the Ministry of Rituals are just talking about it and pointing out the irregularities, but the meritorious field requires the people from the Ministry of Households to come forward to measure and verify. Then figure out which ones should be recovered and which ones should be reduced, and the household department should decide where to reduce.For a while, the household department was bustling with people coming and going, and Jia Amnesty made Zhang Shangshu scold him like a dog.Zhang Shangshu originally planned to let Jia Lian take charge of this matter, but his grandfather, who had been the emperor's teacher of two dynasties, had already thought of a way to deal with Jia Lian. Waiting for the matter, I am afraid that someone will spread some inappropriate words about the lower officials, so I should avoid suspicion." Zhang Shangshu could only shout in vain.

If you don't check, you don't know. If you check, you will be shocked.Unexpectedly, due to the long history, some Xijue families sold off meritorious land as their own property, married daughters as dowry, and divided the meritorious land into different families.The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Households did not dare to hide this matter, and immediately played it, which aroused the anger of the Supreme Emperor and Emperor Longyan, and ordered that anyone who sold or failed to preserve meritorious deeds should be clarified and played back by the successor, and the lack of meritorious deeds was limited to ten days. In one case, if the compensation is based on the market price, the title will be even lowered.

For a while, some Xun families in Beijing visited each other, not to mention each other, but also went to their in-laws and princes' homes to talk about their merits, hoping that someone would be able to listen to the heavens for their meritorious deeds. Let Xungui have a chance to prepare silver taels.Zhongshun is a bachelor, that is, he has never been in contact with honorable people, you want to visit?I'm sorry, my prince doesn't know you, but Menzi dismissed all these people with one word.Zhongping and Zhongan can't send people away like this, because they not only know each other, but they are already very familiar with each other, right? When you were young, people started sending you money to support you in fighting for the big position, but you haven't won yet .They didn't ask you for money. Don't tell me, they were worried for a long time, and the emperor didn't settle the matter. They just treated it as it was and passed it on. They still give you festival gifts during the holidays. You don't say a word to them now. It's not suitable.

Why is it inappropriate.Zhongping and Zhongan, who had to meet guests, were thinking about this sentence in their living room.Who of these two didn't have any idea about the big man back then?From their point of view, they are noble princes, and those people should respect them, but now they talk about that kind of filial piety, and they really don't take the majestic prince seriously.If it weren't for the fact that there are not many people who can be used by the two of them now, and although the descendants of Xungui are not very successful, there are always some who can be used by themselves or their in-laws. Be less polite.After all, he hadn't ascended to a high position, and let these people look down on others and persecute them so far, why didn't they dare to cry in front of the emperor for the merits of their ancestors?

Thinking about it this way, using people's money to eliminate disasters is the way Zhongping Zhongan has always been in contact with these nobles, and the two princes still went to the palace to meet their mother and concubine.Speaking of their mothers and concubines, they are also pitiful. Both the Empress Yuan and his successors passed away for many years when the Supreme Emperor was in Zen. The current queen mother in the palace is today's adoptive mother. Martial arts, but the queen mother.At that time, the mother and concubine of the two were more prominent than the empress dowager back then, but they have been inferior since then. How could they not apply this ready-made eye medicine in front of the empress dowager?But let the emperor let it go lightly, and from now on he will be a concubine in front of the queen mother.

Zhongping looked at the small palace where his mother and concubine lived, he was hesitant and didn't want to make her sad, so he had to persuade his mother to just be patient for a while, and he calmed down when he planned properly and needed to rebuild the Palace of Compassion and Ning to support his mother. .Concubine Zhen Taigui is also over fifty, the corners of her eyes are weathered, and the water in her eyes is no longer flowing, and she is a little bit brighter because she sees her son happy.

After hearing her son's intentions, Concubine Zhen asked, "All nobles want to receive meritorious merit, and there was no objection during the court meeting?"

"A good brother who was taught by Tu Ling. He is as cunning as him. Before anyone can say anything, he first thought about a new thing called a charcoal pen. checked."

"Didn't those nobles claim to be with each other to help each other? Why do you admit this? This is not a matter of a few acres of land, but the foundation of children and grandchildren."

Zhongping shook his head: "Over the years, there are more nobles who are worthless. I count only three or four people who can go to the early court. It is said that there are some in-laws, but the in-laws also have their own families. How can they really connect their own families for the sake of their in-laws?" None."

Concubine Zhen also nodded, thinking about it and said to Zhongping: "How is your nephew?"

Zhongping burst into laughter: "That's someone who doesn't know how to count. Ever since Jia Amnesty entered the upper study room, he followed him and called him Dad, and he didn't give him a good face. He didn't know what he was thinking, and acted out a marriage proposal in front of his father." , and mistaken the person, it is not someone else's own daughter, but a niece who is raised in their family. A good concubine is given to a person without father and mother, how can it help in the future. "

Concubine Zhen Taigui said: "Mr. Li is still too hot-tempered. Back then, the child was already crowned the county king at a young age, so he couldn't plan many things."

Zhongping also said solemnly: "As soon as Mrs. Li left, the people in front of him were just servants. My good emperor brother said that he was worried about his nephew, or did he let his old people surround him tightly? Now there is another Jia Forgiveness, the person who has been nested for 20 years has actually jumped out again, and took care of the housework for others, and wiped out all my people."

"Jia Amnesty." Concubine Zhen suddenly remembered something: "You might meet this Jia Amnesty."