The Lady of the Big House in the Red House

Lunch and dinner.Jia Lian took a sip of Biluochun, "The old lady can't be tracked down on the surface, but in fact we all know what she thinks. The old lady has accumulated a lot of contacts in the mansion for so many years. Let's just wait for this matter. Just follow the news, and don’t pursue the others.”

"I'll listen to you." Shen's natal family is in Zhili, and although she knows a lot of people in the capital, she rarely goes out to socialize.When something like this happened in the mansion, there might be some people who might suspect that the big house did it. It is better to be quiet than to move, so it is best to stay in the mansion with peace of mind during this period of time.

"The two masters will be back the day after tomorrow, you remember to ask the servants to clean up the house." Jia Lian said again.This year he is going to take the test, and he has to work harder in the past few months.

"I have ordered someone to do it. I thought it was still cold these days, so I asked the people in the sewing room to rush to make winter clothes and quilts. I thank them for their careful teaching." Shen smiled slightly, " You should go to take a lunch break first, you still have to study in the afternoon, don't you? My sister should come over later."

"Wan'er?" Jia Lian was a little curious, "Recently, you and your sister often play together."

"The eldest wife said that her affairs are cumbersome, and sometimes she just ignored her younger sister, so she simply asked me to take her to learn calligraphy, so that I could get closer to her." Chen Shi was also worried that she couldn't get along well with this sister-in-law. Fortunately, Xu Hui gave her such a suggestion.

"That's fine." Jia Lian finished the cup of tea, "Then I'll go to the study first."

"Okay." Shen got up to send them off, and after seeing Jia Lian walked out, she told Rose next to her, "Get the cakes and hot tea ready."

"Yes." Yue Ji responded, and said again, "Caiying came here just now, saying that she came to pay her respects to Second Grandma. The slave said that Second Grandma was talking to Second Master Lian, so she sent her away."

Caiying is the housemate given to Jia Lian by the old lady, and she always uses her identity as an old lady to bully other girls in the yard.Shen took a spice box containing aloe incense, put a spoonful of spice in the incense burner, and said casually: "You did a good job, that girl will disappear as soon as she can, so as not to upset me when she sees her."

"That servant will send her away like this from now on." Rose is Shen's dowry, and she is of one mind with Shen, "The servant is going to prepare the cakes that the second girl likes to eat."

Shen looked at the curling smoke rising from the incense burner with long and distant eyes.The eldest wife was kind to her, but she didn't mention the girl in the house.The old lady felt that the eldest lady's arrangement was not appropriate, so she arranged for Caiying to come in.In the end who is inappropriate, she actually knows very well in her heart.

However, it was said that Jia Zhu's body didn't get any better after fainting. Although the doctor Chen gave him a prescription for detoxification and recuperation, Jia Zhu's body was injured after all.The doctor in the mansion also took Jia Zhu's pulse every day or two. He only said that Jia Zhu had been taking the prescription for hurting his body for a long time, and the serious illness was difficult to heal. , otherwise the consequences are unpredictable.

At this time, Jia Zhu and Li Wan's elder brother were occasionally suffering from the cold and had a high fever. After obtaining the consent of Wang and Jia's mother, Li Wan brought up Yun and Yin and asked them to serve Jia wholeheartedly. Pearl, and sent Nanny Zhu to watch.I thought this arrangement was very appropriate, and Jia Zhu's body gradually improved, but Jia Zhu passed out again.

Neither the imperial physician nor the doctors in the mansion could find out why Jia Zhu fainted, but Jia Zhu never woke up.Yun Shi and Yin Shi cried and said that they just took care of Jia Zhu wholeheartedly without any slack, but they still couldn't save Jia Zhu's life.Not long after he and Li Wan's son were one year old, Jia Zhu died of illness.

Li Wan hugged his son and cried like a tearful person, the two maids also looked concerned, but they were thinking about how to escape from the second room.They felt that they were still young, and they couldn't just be widowed like Grandma Zhu. They were all just roommates, and it was okay to let them out to be servants.So when Li Wan asked them what they thought, they all expressed their meaning cryptically.Li Wan's heart was ashamed, and he sent them out without too much entanglement.

Aunt Zhao stood at the door stroking her eight-month-old belly, watching the sunset outside.Aunt Zhou, who lived in the same courtyard as her and opposite the house, asked someone to bring a burning charcoal basin, threw a sachet into it, watched the flames devour the sachet, and showed a sinister smile on the corner of her mouth. smile.

The sachet is exactly the same as the one beside Yin's before.

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Zhou Shi is pregnant

The shock of Jia Zhu's death made Wang almost devastated, and then fell seriously ill.She always wondered if someone intentionally killed her son, so the whole person in the sickness was bitter and mean, and she would lose her temper and scold the maidservants around her at every turn.Jia Zheng visited her a few times and saw her lose weight like this. Although he was annoyed, he knew that her grief was uncontrollable, so he simply couldn't see it, so he went to Aunt Zhou to rest.

At this time, Aunt Zhao had given birth to another son for Jia Zheng, who was still in confinement; the Wang family was like that, and only Aunt Zhou could bring Jia Zheng a little purity.As soon as he entered Aunt Zhou's room, Jia Zheng saw Xia He next to her taking the bowl of medicine she had just finished drinking.

"Why are you drinking the medicine?" Jia Zheng lifted up his robe and sat down, "Are you feeling unwell?"

"It's just an ordinary body-replenishing medicine. When I had a miscarriage, I hurt my body. The doctor said that I had to take the medicine every few days to recuperate, otherwise it would damage my longevity. The second wife is sick these days, and I go there every day. Serving, I am inevitably a little tired, so I asked someone to prescribe the medicine." Aunt Zhou looked calm, as if she had forgotten the pain of losing her son 20 years ago.She poured a cup of tea and brought it to Jia Zheng's hand, "Master looks a little haggard, I made ginseng chicken soup, master will drink more later."

"Thanks for your hard work." Although Jia Zheng liked the flattery of the two aunts, he would not tell Aunt Zhou not to wait on Mrs. Wang, "You are weak, and there are plenty of good medicinal materials in the house, so ask someone to go and wait for Wang." Bring some to stew and eat."

Aunt Zhou just smiled and did not answer.Although the mansion is full of good medicinal materials, how can a person of her status afford to use them?The second master really doesn't understand the affairs of the back house. Even if the second master ordered it, the second wife would not allow it.Besides, with the second wife here, the people in the mansion would use inferior products as medicinal materials to fool her, so it would be better to spend some money to buy medicines outside.

After eating at Aunt Zhou's place, Jia Zheng rested under her care.Only Aunt Zhou and Xia He beside her know that what she drank just now was not some medicine for recuperating the body, but a strong fertility medicine, which is much more effective than the prescription Aunt Zhao gave her before, but the medicine is also strong several times.After Jia Zhu was removed, Aunt Zhou thought of having another child. She felt that she was already in her thirties, and it was impossible for her to recuperate slowly like Aunt Zhao, so she decided to change the prescription. !

Without her grown-up grandson, it took a long time for Jia's mother to come to her senses.Seeing that Mrs. Wang was always sick, he told Jia Zheng and brought Jia Baoyu and Jia Tanchun to his side.After Wang heard the news, she couldn't catch her breath and almost passed out.She already lost her eldest son, but she never thought that the old lady would take her younger son away!As soon as he got angry and became competitive, his condition improved a lot.

"Is Zhu's daughter-in-law all right?" Xu Hui asked Shen who was teaching Jia Wan how to draw, "Have you visited her? How did she spend with Lang Geer?" The name given to my grandson is Jia Lan.

"Looking haggard a lot, the whole person seems to have lost his soul, and he didn't speak for a day." Shen sighed, "My daughter-in-law sees that if Lan Geer is not there, she will probably follow Uncle Zhu together." I have gone. Now she only cares about taking care of Brother Lang every day, and there is no fat or meat in her food. How can she survive like this. My daughter-in-law has persuaded her several times, but she doesn't listen. "

"I can't let her go on like this." Xu Hui hugged Jia Wan, and fed him with rock sugar lily horseshoe soup mouthful, "After Pearl was gone, the two servant girls beside him rushed to go out to match someone. ;The people in the yard also took advantage of the wind and found another way out. Now the second wife is sick and can't take care of them, you should be careful, don't let the people in the house bully the two mothers and sons."

"My daughter-in-law knows." After Shen's marriage, Xu Hui entrusted her with the affairs of Jia Lian's yard and some of the affairs of the mansion.Except for being in a hurry at the beginning, Mrs. Shen has already started doing all the housework in the next few months.She thought about these schedules for a while, and said, "The girl from the Wang family is getting married soon, what kind of charter should my wife get?"

"I'm afraid the old lady doesn't have the heart to deal with the recent situation in the mansion." Xu Hui pondered for a moment, "Just send a gift to the Wang family according to the previous gift list. Lian'er is about to go to school. , it’s been fine recently.”

"Everything is fine, the masters are asking the second master to practice more, and now he is working hard in the study every night, and the daughter-in-law often asks someone to make soup for her." Shen said with a smile.

"That's good." Thinking of the girl Caiying sent by Mother Jia, Xu Hui asked again, "How about that girl Caiying?"

"That's it. The second master doesn't like her very much, and the daughter-in-law doesn't need her to be close to her, so she just lets her do some work at the needlework." Shen replied calmly.