After the Rebirth of the Red Chamber

This is a naked threat.

Nowadays, women's status is extremely low, not only must abide by the three obediences and four virtues, but like the Xia family, when the husband dies and the son is young, they are often hanged and thrown into the well by the clan on the grounds that they are afraid that she will not be able to keep them.

The government generally doesn't care about matters within the clan.

Some clansmen couldn't stand it anymore, and couldn't help but said: "Our family is a family of good people, so we don't want to do evil things like that."

Xia's mind also settled down, and shouted: "Brother Yu is young and cannot live without his mother, you can't..."

"Shut up!" Jia She yelled, interrupted Xia's unspoken words, and said word by word, "Brother Jing is the patriarch, and all affairs of the whole clan are decided by him. He can't do anything. ?”

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at the clansman who spoke just now, and said with a sneer, "Brother Jing said what he said, so he led you out to fight against injustices? Don't brother Zi and sister-in-law Zi have a deep love between husband and wife? If sister-in-law Zi misses brother Zi too much ... hum..."

Jia She sneered, looking back and forth between the Xia family and the clan, and said meaningfully: "Or is it that sister-in-law Zi does not have a deep affection for brother Zi?"

As soon as these words came out, many people changed their faces on the spot, and there was something wrong with the eyes of these two people.

The man didn't expect that he just couldn't understand Jia Jing's bullying, and he could burn himself with a single word of help, his face turned red for a moment, pointed at Jia She and said, "You son of a bitch..."

"Shut up!"

A clan elder's face was distorted, and he spat at the clansman, "These are all elders, how can you speak?"

This sentence, although not pointing fingers at Sang Huai, is also a catch.

After all, compared with them clan elders, even though Jia Jing and Jia She are the heirs of Ningrong and Rong respectively, they are also juniors, aren't they?

Jia Jing took a deep look at him, and said calmly: "Lai Er has already gone to see the coffin, maybe, there will be news right now, sister-in-law Zi is about to prepare money, and it will be convenient to withdraw later."

At the mention of money, Xia's hair was blown all of a sudden, and he said sharply: "What money do you pay? Didn't you say that the coffin was bought by the government?"

"The mansion helped to buy it." Jia Jing said, "When I came over last night, I had already given my sister-in-law 200 taels of silver, and the extra 150 taels would be the coffin money. If it weren't for the fact that we are close friends Son, where will I give you so much money?"

Xia wanted to say: You clearly didn't say that yesterday.

But from the corner of her eyes, she saw the jealous or greedy eyes of the tribesmen around her, and she suddenly became dumb.

Because, she suddenly realized: once Jiazi left, the only male in their family would be the baby Jiajuan.If the Ningguo Mansion refuses to protect him, it is still up to him whether Jia Yu can grow up.

She was wrong, she was really wrong.

She shouldn't rely on the benevolence of the Ningguo Mansion in the past, relying on her own orphans and widows, to ask for more benefits.

Jia Jing is not Jia Daishan, and he doesn't have so many complicated feelings for their family.

Perhaps in Jia Jing's eyes, there is no difference between their family and ordinary clansmen.

At this time, Lai Er came. After saluting to everyone, he walked up to Mrs. Xia and said respectfully: "Grandma Zi, the little one has already taken a fancy to a pair of old fir boards. The boss asked for 200 taels, the little one Anyway, I won 150 taels, and I asked Grandma Zi to pay the money quickly, so that the small ones can be carried back and sawed for birthday materials."

On the way back, Zhu'er told Lai Er all the things. Lai Er is an old fritter, so he naturally understood what Jia Jing meant.

In the final analysis, Jia Jing is his master, and if the master has orders, how can he care about others?

The Xia family is not someone who doesn't know the price of firewood and rice. Once they heard the price, they knew there must be something false in it.

But she was frightened by Jia Jing, so she didn't dare to say anything at the moment, thinking that she would see Jia Daihua in the future and make a fuss again, but she didn't dare to provoke Jia Jing again.

Lai Er sneered secretly, and thought: I will talk to the master when I go back, this Grandma Zi is the one who is fighting against Mi En and Mi En.

He urged respectfully: "Grandma should hurry up, not only our family has taken a fancy to that piece."

Only then did Xia reluctantly get up from the ground, walked inside, and muttered: "Who dares to rob our family?"

Jia Jing's eyes sharpened, and he said: "What are you talking about? Which famous brand are we? After all, we are just servants of the royal family. Listening to what my sister-in-law said, could it be because of the face in the house that I can't see what I have done?" People's business?"

Xia's whole body froze, and she hurriedly answered twice: "No... nothing." Then she went to the inner courtyard to get the money.

Jia Jing's sharp eyes flicked across the clansmen present one by one, and he called Zhang Gui directly, and said, "I have something to tell you, just keep it in mind."

Zhang Gui said: "My lord, please tell me."

Jia Jing glanced at the clansmen again, and said: "When the matter of Brother Zi is over, you can go and inquire about it. Our family is a family of good people, so don't make any troubles that end badly."

This is to remind the clansmen present: If you have something, take advantage of these few days and clean it up quickly.

If it was normal, these people would complain in their hearts that he was unreasonable.

But today he had a fit, and instead of blaming him, everyone thanked him for giving him a chance.

If he really did something, he wanted to clean it up quickly, so as not to be caught by the patriarch and lose face.

Those who haven't done it are thinking that in the future, they can't bully others and break the rules of the clan.

But no matter what, none of the people present thought of telling Wang and Xia about this matter.

Everyone thought: If she hadn't caused this trouble, how could the patriarch have the time to meddle in such nosy matters?

All the guests in the mourning hall were male guests, and the female relatives were all sitting with Mrs. Wang in the inner courtyard.

Seeing Mrs. Xia come in to get the money, Mrs. Wang frowned slightly and asked, "What are you doing with so much money?"

Xia Shi looked at the female relatives sitting there, and said in a low voice: "Second steward Lai has already taken a look at a pair of fir boards, and said that he wants 150 taels of silver."

Otherwise, she didn't dare to say a word.

Different from his daughter-in-law Xia Shi, Wang is gentle and understanding. Although he is puzzled, he will not ask in front of so many people, but just nodded: "Then you go, don't delay."

It was as if, yesterday, Jia Jing never said that the coffin came out of the mansion.

Mrs. Xia paused, and opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something. Seeing this, Mrs. Wang hurriedly urged, "Why don't you go soon?"

"Yes." Xia Shi deliberately walked past her mother-in-law holding the money, just wanting her to come forward, but she didn't want to, but her mother-in-law chose to swallow her anger.

Even though she was unwilling in every possible way, she did not dare to quarrel with her mother-in-law.

Not to mention how Lai Er added fuel and sauce to Jia Daihua after returning to Ningfu, and narrated all kinds of words and deeds of the Xia family.

It is only said that Jia Jing has further consolidated his reputation in the clan through this incident.

At least, for a long time, no one would dare to be a monster with him.

After Jia Zi's funeral, Jia Jing really took Jia Amnesty and filtered through the eight houses in Beijing.

Because of Jia Jing, the people of the clan told him early that they would take advantage of these few days to clean up those little heads and tails.

Jia Jing didn't delve into it, but asked them to abide by the law, and specially opened a class in his home school, which was devoted to explaining "Law of the Great Xia".

Of course, in the family study, it is naturally not the famous master of punishment that Gu Hengzhi was looking for, but just a small official of the Ministry of punishment.

Don't look at a group of officials and masters in the Ministry of Criminal Justice, in fact, those who are really proficient in the law are the officials who have never moved their homes all their lives.

Because of Jia Jing's high betrothal money and his respect for the law in words, this little official went to every family to learn and act as a teacher in his spare time.

Besides, Jia Jing didn't find anything from other clansmen, but found some good things from Xia's.

Jia Jing threw the account book on Xia Shi's face, and said with a sneer, "I don't know, my sister-in-law is so capable and skillful. No wonder Brother Zi died young. It turns out that you did all these things without a conscience. thing!"

He originally thought that only the women of the Wang family would dare to do such things as lending loan sharks, but he didn't expect that a daughter-in-law from a side branch of his Dongfu would have such courage.

This was because he was afraid that the Ningguo Mansion would not fall fast enough.

Sitting on the side, Mrs. Wang didn't even know what her daughter-in-law was doing.

But when Jia Jing said that his son died early, it was because his daughter-in-law had done something outrageous, and Wang, who lost her husband when she was young and lost her son when she was old, immediately couldn't sit still.

"You poisonous woman, Sangmenxing, I shouldn't have agreed to Zi'er marrying you in the first place!" Wang Shi grabbed the teacup in hand and threw it out.

Because she had never seen a gentle and gentle mother-in-law get angry, Xia couldn't react for a while, and was stunned for a while after being covered all over her head and face with the teacup.

Jia Jing picked up the teacup and winked at Jia She, and Jia She said angrily, "How dare our Jia family want such a daughter-in-law? To respect elder brother, it is better to send the Xia family back to her natal family in the name of the patriarch." good."

The word "Xiu" awakened Xia family all of a sudden.

She didn't dare to say anything more about "many people have done it" at the moment, she just kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Brother Jing, I'm obsessed with ghosts. Brother Yu is still young, he can't leave his mother. Please." For Brother Yu's sake, at least don't divorce me."

Then, he went to ask Wang: "Ma'am, ma'am, the daughter-in-law is ignorant. The daughter-in-law didn't know that this was impossible. The daughter-in-law was just thinking about saving more money for Brother Yu, and she didn't dare to force anyone to die." Ma'am, ma'am, please forgive me, I will never dare again."

She cried and begged, and her forehead was bleeding.

Wang's heart was already soft, seeing her like this, she couldn't help looking at Jia Jing in embarrassment: "Jinger, look, this..."