[Red Mansions] The good life of the wife of the official family

This maid didn't dare to speak, she just kowtowed to Zhao Zhihan repeatedly on her knees, claiming that she was wrong.Zhao Zhihan was also lazy to see her, and only asked Sister Feng to return the five taels of silver she had collected.She was fined with a board and a year's worth of money before letting her go back.

How could this servant girl think that such a thing of losing her wife and losing her army would happen, she felt wronged after being punished and went back, and seeing that others looked at her with distasteful eyes, she never dared to have other thoughts.

This kind of drama of killing chickens and monkeys naturally also gave a big warning to other servants of the Wang family.Needless to say, Sister Feng, looking at her red palms every day, accompanied by tingling pain, did not dare to accept bribes any more.Zhao Zhihan asked Wang Ziteng to get the court laws and punished her to copy the court laws for a month, and told her to remember some of them.

Whenever Zhao Zhihan copied Buddhist scriptures there, Sister Feng would accompany her to copy the law.Wang Xiyi, on the other hand, stole the fact that she didn't need to go to class these days, so she was so happy that she had nothing to do, and played around everywhere.After playing for a few days, I felt a little boring again, so I watched Zhao Zhihan and Sister Feng copy things.Tired of watching, she automatically crawled to Zhao Zhihan's bed and fell asleep.

After Zhao Zhihan became pregnant, she rarely saw Wang Ren, and even had no time to give him lessons.I only learned from Wang Xifeng and Wang Xiyi that Wang Ren has been thinking about the books that Zhao Zhihan gave him.At the same time, my own carving skills are also constantly improving, and I have carved many gadgets.

One day Wang Xiyi brought back to Zhao Zhihan a full-body portrait carved by Wang Ren, which looked so much like Zhao Zhihan that Zhao Zhihan was delighted on the spot.Immediately, he called Wang Ren to see him.

Wang Ren was a person who had hardly been in Zhao Zhihan's courtyard, so he felt a bit cramped when he entered Zhao Zhihan's courtyard.Zhao Zhihan held the villain in her hand, asked Wang Ren to sit down, looked at him and said, "You carved this with your own hands?"

Wang Ren nodded, "Yes, Auntie. Auntie didn't see her very much after she became pregnant. I thought I didn't have anything to give to Auntie, so I carved this. I wanted to hollow out this villain and set up a mechanism to call her It’s moving. Seeing that it’s too young to succeed, I just gave the villain to my aunt.”

Zhao Zhihan liked it very much and asked Wang Ren to study hard. I don't know when Wang Xiyi rubbed her eyes and crawled out of bed, and said in a daze, "Brother Ren, isn't your husband fired by you? Why are you still studying hard?"

Zhao Zhihan was taken aback when she heard that, and looked at Wang Xiyi.Wang Xiyi was overwhelmed, and suddenly remembered that she had said the wrong thing.She laughed, stepped back, and said with a smile: "Madam, Brother Ren and Sister Feng, you talk, I'll go out and wash up." After finishing speaking, she turned around and ran away.

Zhao Zhihan turned her eyes to Wang Ren, Wang Ren silently glanced at the roof, then turned her eyes to other places, but did not look at Zhao Zhihan.Zhao Zhihan still stared at him, and asked Wang Ren in a soft and fake voice: "Ren'er, you fired your husband?"

Wang Ren finally looked at Zhao Zhihan, and said incoherently: "Auntie, this, that, what... no!"

"Then what girl Yi said?"

Wang Renzheng didn't know what to say, but he heard Sister Feng saying from the side: "The teacher who taught the Four Books and Five Classics has been resigned, and the master who taught sculpture is still here."

Zhao Zhihan understood that none of the three brothers and sisters in this family loves to study, they are really like a family.Now Wang Xifeng and Wang Xiyi can also read some characters and can read without barriers, but they are not interested in poetry and songs at all.Wang Xifeng loves the housekeeper, but she really loves status.Wang Xiyi, she hasn't figured out her true love as a girl, she is just a playful kid.

Zhao Zhihan looked at Wang Ren, and knew that although he didn't study, he didn't just go out and fool around like before, but had been studying his favorite mechanical things.She didn't blame Wang Ren, let alone discourage his interests.But just some encouragement and a few idle words, let him go back.

Wang Xiyi ran out and saw that Zhao Zhihan had finished talking with Wang Ren, and Sister Feng also went back to her room, so she ran back.As soon as she came back, she smiled and rubbed into Zhao Zhihan's arms, looked up at Zhao Zhihan and said, "Madam, are you tired?"

Zhao Zhihan nodded her head slowly, and Wang Xiyi smiled again and rubbed off her arms to help her into the room.After arriving in the room and sitting on the edge of the bed, Wang Xiyi touched Zhao Zhihan's belly and said, "Madam, you must give me a little brother so that I can play with him."

"Why not have a little sister?" Zhao Zhihan looked at her with a smile on her face.

Wang Xiyi said: "Ma'am, I don't understand. Those girls are expensive, so it's not easy to play around with them. If it's a boy, I don't have that delicate air, so I can play with him." Wang Xiyi's words put her own Undoubtedly, the "true qualities of a man" were fully displayed, so he chatted with Zhao Zhihan for a while, and then ran to play again.

But he said that the days passed by, and it was the end of the year.Zhao Zhihan has a bigger belly and has trouble moving, Hongyi is mostly worried about buying new year's goods.Because there are new people in the family, there is no New Year's celebration.Wang Ren and Wang Xifeng are still in filial piety, so it is even more difficult to ignore the feelings of these two children.

On the second day of the new year, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue returned home, just like visiting relatives as usual.Mrs. Wang brought back Jia Zhu, Jia Yuanchun, and Jia Baoyu who were babies, and Aunt Xue brought Xue Pan and Xue Baochai.When all of these arrived, the house felt like the floor was full of children.

It was also difficult for Zhao Zhihan to take care of them, she just took care of herself.In this family, the happiest person is the Wu family.There are so many grandchildren, grandchildren, and the one in Zhao Zhihan's belly, Wu Shi couldn't tell how much fun he had to watch.Some of the old problems that the body has developed in this winter have not been committed this day.

And Wang Ren made a lot of gadgets, coaxing the younger brothers and sisters not to be unhappy, and even the frequent fights and disputes between children were much less.Wang Ren and Jia Zhu were jealous when they met each other. Wang Ren didn't talk to Jia Zhu first. Jia Zhu had a warmer personality.

Avoiding these children is just Zhao Zhihan sitting in a room with Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue talking.While looking at Zhao Zhihan's appearance, Mrs. Wang said to Aunt Xue: "I see, Second Sister-in-law's baby must be a boy."

"How do you say that?" Zhao Zhihan didn't know whether she had a basis for her statement, or just said it out of thin air.Aunt Xue also smiled, and said: "I also look like it. They say that if it is a boy, then when you are pregnant, you will not be as juicy as before. You see, the complexion of the second sister-in-law is indeed not as good as before. "

"Yes, that's the way to say it. I'm pregnant with both Zhu'er and Baoyu. I only have Yuanchun when I'm pregnant. They all say it's beautiful. Looking at my sister-in-law like this, she must be a boy." Mrs. Wang also said echoed.

Zhao Zhihan didn't care much about having boys and girls, after all, patriarchy is also a kind of spiritual harm to children.It would be great to have a boy, after all, this is what this society needs.But giving birth to a girl doesn't necessarily mean being unhappy.It's not fair to the children to be too concerned about their own gains and losses.

After talking about the child, they talked about some daily life, and the three of them talked about the officialdom.Because Aunt Xue's family is in Jinling, she doesn't know what's going on in the capital, so Mrs. Wang came up to Zhao Zhihan and said, "I heard that Li Qing, Minister of the Ministry of War, was enlisted by his second elder brother a few years ago, and was even demoted to a second rank. ,Is it?"

Zhao Zhihan glanced at Mrs. Wang, and said, "What do we women know about the officialdom? Your second elder brother didn't tell me when he came back, and I can't ask, so he doesn't know what's going on."

Mrs. Wang patted her thigh lightly and said: "Sister-in-law, you are a solid-minded person. Although this is an outside matter, isn't the second elder brother your husband? Doesn't matter about the outside matter, don't you care about your husband? I've heard that Li Qing and his second elder brother got angry because of Li's being divorced. In order to avenge his personal revenge, he hurt his second elder brother during the hunting. Later, he also targeted his second elder brother in everything in the court. From the beginning, I wanted to ask my second elder brother to be investigated and prosecuted for committing a crime. But I didn't expect that I would be investigated and prosecuted first."

Aunt Xue didn't know what was going on, and she was also eager to gossip, she just asked: "What is it, what did the second brother get involved with him, and he was demoted two ranks in a row?"

Mrs. Wang said: "I heard that Li Qing took bribes and protected his subordinates because he took money from his subordinates. When his subordinates committed crimes, they sent things to his house, and he suppressed them all. What's more If my mother died in the family, he would cover it up and not let the higher-ups know when he gave the money. The petty official also escaped the three-year filial piety period and stayed in office. Do you think this is a big treason? But for the one who values ​​filial piety the most, it is considered light to punish him by demoting him by two levels."

Aunt Xue sighed, and said emphatically: "This official, you can't hide such black hearts, and you will be dismissed one day. This kind of demotion is not so good, and some people have their homes ransacked." Yes, no one in the whole family can escape. Those who can be beaten and killed can be sold and sold, that is the real tragedy. Therefore, one can either be a clean official and not get caught. Or the power can reach the peak and no one can govern. But, How can there be someone that others can't cure?"

Zhao Zhihan lowered her head but kept silent. In the future, Jia's house would be ransacked, just like the scene Aunt Xue was talking about.Died to die, sold to sell, none of them ended up a good end.

As for the matter between Wang Ziteng and Li Qing, she herself knew about it.Wang Ziteng was able to achieve his current official position, so he was naturally not a soft-hearted person in the officialdom.Li Qing plotted against him, and he had so many tricks in other people's hands.It is not Wang Ziteng's style to overthrow him if he does not join him.It used to be that his in-laws didn't do anything to him, but now they are his enemies.

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