Red Mansion: No Empty House Fight

When the old lady calmed down, Jiang Jimei said again: "I am a married woman, so I shouldn't interfere in the affairs of my mother's family, but mother, I have some ideas about the housekeeper."

"Tell me." The old lady could still hear what the girl said, and nodded to Jiang Jimei to say.

"Before I got married, my sister-in-law was still in good health, and she taught me about housekeeping for a while. The way my sister-in-law manages the housewife doesn't take much effort. So although my sister-in-law's health has deteriorated over the years, she has I still don't have much thought about the housekeeper. Now I'm in my in-law's house, and I follow the method taught by my sister-in-law back then, and there's nothing wrong with it. I just take care of it every day, but I don't know how many times a year. A spot check in a month is a little busy for ten or so days."

Jiang Jimei first told the old lady the benefits of Bai's butler method.Seeing that the old lady has saved her worry and effort because of Bai Shi, she is also grateful in her heart, so she also wants to do something for Bai Shi in return.In the past, there was no chance, and the Bai family had nothing to lack, let alone use.Now it was time to put this gratitude on his nephew Jiang Zining.

Although Mammy said a few words in the old lady's ear just now, she sat close to the old lady, so she listened naturally.She didn't understand, she was also from the Liang family, how could there be such a thing as Xiao Liang's.And the little one born from that thing is also out of tune!

And my second sister-in-law and third sister-in-law, although they are not low-born, are still much worse than my elder sister-in-law in the overall situation.In the past, he just let go and ignored his sister-in-law being ignored by his elder brother, and blindly acted like affection to poke people's hearts. Now, he doesn't even care about the face of the Houfu falling on the ground, and only thinks about his own little family.The second brother and the third brother only let their daughter-in-law come out to take care of things, and they pretended to be okay!It should be known that "if there is no skin, hair will not be attached", the face of the Hou's mansion was injured, what good would they do?All of them have shallow eyelids, and only the elder sister-in-law Bai can share some of the mother's worries.

"Now the Hou's mansion is full of chaos, and the three elder brothers also have their own thoughts. If my daughter says something ugly, I should put all my thoughts on raising my nephews! Things like housekeeping, my mother usually takes care of them." Alright, hurry up and marry eldest brother a step-wife, and you must not be a concubine. Although Aunt Liang is your niece, once she becomes an aunt, she will be an aunt for the rest of her life!"

"I know what you said. But look at your two sister-in-laws... Alas!" The old lady heard her daughter's words were sincere, and she was distracted, but there was no regulation to make the family mess Like pressing down.

"For the present plan, the only solution is to divide the property without dividing the family." Jiang Jimei said, "I know that the older brothers are worthless, but they are also my father's flesh and blood. I don't know which father or mother would like to inherit the title of Marquis of Pingyuan, but everything in the world is just It's all driven by profit. The two sisters-in-law are also planning for their own future. Now that the elder sister-in-law has passed away, mother just uses this excuse to reorganize the assets and declare the share, so that the two brothers and sister-in-law will not be angry."

"Let me think about it, let me think about it again!" The old lady patted her daughter's hand and fell into deep thought.

The old lady was thinking about how to restore peace to the Pingyuan Hou Mansion, while Jiang Mingbo on the other side directly brought Jiang Zixing by his side to educate him.When I go up and down the yamen every day, I get close to the school when I have a little spare time.When Jiang Zining got the news, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that Aunt Liang was such a good trick. She kept Jiang Mingbo to death, and made himself, a decent man from the Jiang family, look like a transparent person.

But unexpectedly, this situation didn't last long, Jiang Mingbo told Jiang Zixing to stay at home and not to come out.At this time, Jiang Zining already had Bing Xiangye, the eldest girl next to the four mothers who came back from kneeling scriptures, in the yard.The four big girls are called vanilla, licorice, lotus pod and forsythia.The vanilla in it is the elder sister of Fragrant Leaf.

The four girls have their own specialties: vanilla is good at cooking, and it cooks delicious food; licorice is the best at taking care of trivial matters; News, there is a younger brother named Yin Ding walking in the outer courtyard to convey the news for the Bai family.There is another nanny, who is in charge of the Bai family's dowry, and has not made any mistakes in these years.

The old lady left all of Bai's people to Jiang Zining, and she also planned to save manpower for Jiang Zining.But Jiang Zining's core is a modern person, so he really doesn't think that anything can hurt him in this inner house.So the old lady's thoughts seemed to be in vain.

A few days ago, Lianqiao told Xiangcao that the master led Jiang Zixing to the banquet, which made Xiangye feel very angry.Today, he entered the courtyard with a happy smile: "Fragrant leaf! Fragrant leaf! Let me tell you something!"

"Don't yell!" Lianqiao didn't call Xiangye, but called out Xiangcao instead, "Where are the rules in the past? Don't you know what the situation of Ning Geer is in the mansion now?" A wrong step is a great sin, not to mention if we are blacked out by someone with a heart because of our words and deeds, do you want the master to be implicated by you?"

A few words explained Jiang Zining's current situation where his father doesn't care about his mother and his grandfather is away, and his grandmother has limited energy to support his body.Lianqiao was also surprised: "My sister taught me that Lianqiao was reckless."

Seeing that Forsythia had distracted her words, Vanilla slowed down her tone: "Xiang Ye is in the room serving Brother Ning to copy scriptures. Come with me."

Jiang Zining in the room heard the conversation between the two, and tried hard to restrain the twitching corners of his mouth, thinking that these two people must be thinking too much.There are also many single-parent families in modern times. How can they be put to death in the Jiang family?And even if he upset the father who met him at the funeral, would he still beat him to death?

Jiang Zining didn't realize at all that in this age of "three cardinal principles and five constant principles" and "there are no wrong parents in the world", even if Jiang Mingbo beat Jiang Zining to death, it was just a reputation for being "unkind" and he didn't need to take legal responsibility to serve his sentence.At most, it means that the official road in the future will be more difficult.

"What's so exciting? Tell me about it." Jiang Zining copied the scriptures all morning, and his hands were already a little sore, so he put down his pen and rested for a while.

If you want to say that the biggest advantage of copying scriptures is that you can read and write.Generally, the children of princes, especially the sons of Chengsi, are enlightened at the age of three or four.But because of Jiang Mingbo's dislike, Jiang Zining was only roughly taught by Bai to recite the "Three Character Classic", and he only learned to recite half of the "Thousand Character Classic".

No matter when, knowledge is the primary productive force.In order not to become an illiterate, Jiang Zining, who had already realized that Jiang Mingbo disliked him very much, took advantage of the convenience of copying scriptures for his mother to learn to read.When dealing with people who are malicious towards you, you must be patient when your ability is insufficient.But don't give up on yourself!The more the slut hopes that your life will be worse than that of a pig and dog, the better you will be.It doesn't need to be so good, as long as you are a little bit better than them, you can make these malicious people have trouble sleeping and eating, and scratch their hearts and livers!

"Brother, do you still remember what I told you before, the master took Brother Xing to a banquet? The master was pointed at his nose and mocked!" Lian Qiao carefully said the news she just learned.

"Who was the master ridiculed by? What did you say?" Jiang Zining also asked cooperatively, letting Lian Qiao continue talking.

"It's a censor who just entered the censor's platform. He happened to see brother Xing and the master eating meat together. The censor said that if brother Xing was the master's nephew or nephew, he should Serve your wife for three months, and if you are a concubine, you should keep your filial piety for three years. In short, no matter how you behave, you should not wear colorful clothes, eat meat, and participate in banquets. Because the censor is right, The master's face turned red with anger, and he brought Brother Xing back without drinking any more. Now he is losing his temper in front of him!"

When Jiang Zining heard that it was because of his mother, he immediately thought that Jiang Mingbo would definitely come to visit him.If he didn't do well enough, Jiang Zixing wouldn't have the reputation of being "unfilial" even if his own son didn't care.But what if you don't do well?

"Xiangcao, when you go to the big kitchen to pick up the food box today, you have to take a good look at the dishes. It doesn't matter if you fiddle with them a bit. I guess the master and Aunt Liang will use me as a raft to suppress the rumors for Brother Xing. Forsythia, Go to your grandmother's yard and tell me about it, just say that I have copied ten scriptures this month, and I want to offer it to the Buddha." Only the old lady's yard has a Buddhist hall in the whole house, and there is always Let the old lady have a chance to see how cruel her son is.

Sure enough, after a while, Xiangcao came into the yard with a food box: "Brother did not expect anything wrong. Fortunately, Chef Wang had already prepared my lunch when I went. I told my guess, and Chef Wang I found an identical food box and put it away. I took my brother’s lunch and came out, but no one saw me.”

"Just put the food box, don't bring it out." Isn't it clear at a glance when you bring it out?

Upon hearing Jiang Zining's order, the girls all laughed.At this time, Lianqiao also came back: "Brother, when I came back, I saw the master going this way. I came back by taking a small path. Also, if the old lady sends someone, she will definitely send someone to the second brother." I met the person delivering food at the gate of the courtyard." After speaking, he and Xiang Cao exchanged glances, it was obvious that the time had been estimated in advance.

Here Jiang Zining returned to the table, copying the scriptures with a pen in his chubby hand.After writing a few words, Jiang Mingbo entered the yard.

Licorice, who was guarding the door, immediately saluted neatly, said "Master's greetings", and raised the bamboo curtain at the door for Jiang Mingbo.Jiang Mingbo entered the house alone, and asked the person who came with him to wait on the porch outside the door.

When the girls heard Licorice's greeting, they left the house through the small door, leaving only the fragrant leaves that had just grown their heads to serve Jiang Zining's pen and ink.

When Jiang Zining met Jiang Mingbo, although he felt a little conflicted in his heart, he still greeted Jiang Mingbo according to the etiquette rules in his memory.When he straightened up, he directly asked: "I don't see you learning well on weekdays. What kind of miscellaneous books about obscenity, pornography, and music have you read? Why don't you want to copy them into a book?"

No matter how good-tempered Jiang Zining was, he was a little angry when he heard Jiang Mingbo open his eyes and talk nonsense.But Jiang Zining replied in a good voice: "Father, my mother just passed May [-]th. I just heard that copying scriptures can bring peace to my mother's soul, so I just copied a few Buddhist scriptures."

It was the first time Jiang Mingbo saw that Bai's son didn't cry because of his words, but refuted him clearly.But thinking of the purpose of coming here, Jiang Mingbo immediately raised his voice: "Unfilial thing! How dare you talk back in disobedience! Your mother did such shameful things before she was a filial piety! I will ask for a family law teacher today." I will teach you what filial piety is!" With that said, he pulled out the ruler whip that was tucked up in his sleeve, and raised his hand to beat him.

"Let's see who dares to fight!" An angry shout came from outside the house, followed by a sound of greetings with knees on the ground.

The curtain at the door was opened again, and the old lady Liang was helped into the house by Jiang Jimei, pointing to Jiang Mingbo: "You are such a powerful official! I heard you were going to beat Brother Ning at the entrance of the yard. I don't know that Ning What shameful thing did brother do?"

The old lady walked to Jiang Zining's desk, picked up the ink-stained scripture and glanced at it.Although the font is immature, every word is written with care and there is no typo. It can be seen that Jiang Zining was very serious when copying. "If even copying scriptures for one's own mother is considered shameful, shouldn't I, who worships the Buddha every day, be executed in a hurry?" Yell at Jiang Mingbo.When Jiang Zining saw that the rescuers and Jiang Mingbo were facing each other, he immediately pretended to be the background board, and quietly waited for the old lady to stand up for him.

Jiang Jimei was afraid that she would get angry, so she quickly gave the old lady the opportunity to intercede with her elder brother: "Brother probably doesn't know, please don't let the family divide just because of a misunderstanding."

Seeing that the old lady changed Jiang Zining from "unfilial" to "filial", Jiang Mingbo glanced at the food box on the dining table, and immediately smiled apologetically: "Mom, don't be angry, I also heard that Brother Ning is being filial." If he honestly admits his mistake and kneels in the ancestral hall, he will be spared the whip. If not, I will use the family law to teach him a lesson!" After finishing speaking, I found that the expressions of the old lady and sister were very strange.

At this time, Xiang Ye stepped forward and saluted: "So that the old ladies, masters, and aunts will know that although brother's meals are made in the big kitchen, but because of the filial piety period, chef Wang makes my meals all the time." It uses a separate stove. And in order not to mix with the meals of other masters in the mansion, the servants and servants quietly went back and forth more than half an hour in advance, and there must be no meat food."

As he spoke, he stepped forward to open the food box: "Today's staple food is steamed buns with Sanhe noodles, two side dishes, one is vegetarian fried tofu, and the other is cold fungus. There is also a bowl of sea skirt soup, because my brother's The spirit is not very good, so the slaves let the chef Wang do it."

Before Jiang Mingbo could speak again, the old lady waved her hand: "Your sister and I met another person who came to deliver food at the entrance of the yard. I also asked about it just now. The woman only said that someone in the house gave her a dime Ask him to deliver this food box to the yard." At this moment, the old lady felt disappointed in her son in two ways.One is the disappointment of actually framing one's own son to save another son; the other is the disappointment of thinking of such a wrong way of framing.

Because of the two feelings, the old lady lost her energy at once: "Forget it, you are not allowed to talk about today's affairs. You don't need to teach Ning Ge'er how to behave in the future. After Ning Ge'er's filial piety is over, he will go to the Imperial College, and I don't need you. I won't come to Brother Ning's yard in the future." The old lady who had let the two cultivate a father-son relationship had completely let go of this idea.The old lady, who was in her late fifties, looked at the eldest son in front of her, and suddenly felt that Pingyuanhou's mansion would definitely fall.

How could a headed family who doted on his concubine, murdered his wife, and framed his son-in-law have the ability to support the Hou Mansion?Back then, because Old Hou Ye joined the army, he had to show his face and do work for his livelihood, so he didn't raise a few children himself, which was probably the biggest mistake of Liang's life.A wrong son, the Hou Mansion has no successors.Maybe it's time to really consider the advice my daughter gave about parenting my grandchildren.

This matter seemed to be over like this, but the old lady completely lost her mind for her son.And even though the old lady said that this matter is not allowed to spread, there is no impenetrable wall in the world, and some people still know what Jiang Mingbo did.So much so that Jiang Mingbo couldn't even be called a second wife after a year.There are also those who rush to curry favor with him, but he doesn't like the girls of these families.Therefore, the position of the eldest daughter-in-law of the Pingyuan Hou Mansion has been vacant.

After careful consideration, Jiang Zining's second uncle's family and his cousin Jiang Ziyao of the same age, and his third uncle's four-year-old cousin Jiang Zirong were all taken to the yard by the old lady.Only Jiang Zining stayed in his yard because of his filial piety.

Three years passed so slowly.After Jiang Zining became a filial piety, he entered the Imperial College together with Jiang Ziyao, but the name was very different.

In the past three years, although Jiang Zining kept his filial piety in his yard, he always paid attention to the old lady's favorability in small places.Don't let the old lady find out immediately, but let the old lady hear it from other people's mouths after a while.This gave the old lady a feeling that "Brother Ning silently cares about herself and doesn't take credit for it".

So Jiang Zining entered the Guozijian with the favor of the Pingyuanhou Mansion, while Jiang Ziyao donated a prison student.Invisibly, it gave people the illusion that "Jiang Zining is the heir to the Hou family".But Jiang Zining is confident that he will make this "illusion" a "reality".

A few days before entering the Imperial College, the old lady also asked the old Hou Ye who had returned from the battlefield to give Jiang Zining and Jiang Ziyao a good account of the situation in the court, so as to avoid any mistakes in behavior after entering the Imperial College.

When Jiang Ziyao and Jiang Ziyao finished listening to the story of the old master, Jiang Zining felt like a bolt from the blue.He clearly heard the words of "Rong Guo Gong Jia Jia Dai Shan", "Ning Guo Gong Jia Jia Dai Hua", "Four County Princes", "Eight Dukes of the State", and "Shenwu General Feng Tang" said by the old Hou Ye. A familiar name for the class.

So he didn't just travel through time but through books, right?It's in "Dream of Red Mansions", which is the first pit in ancient and modern China and abroad, right?Jiang Zining took a few deep breaths to calm himself down, and summed up what his grandfather said just now: what he and Jiang Ziyao were going to was actually a high-level class at the Imperial College for noble children and princes of aristocratic families.The purpose of this class is to prevent the children of noble families from being ignorant, and the advantage is that they can establish friendship with people in the same circle since childhood.

But if this is really the world of Red Mansions, then the people in this circle will sooner or later become a dish on the emperor's table!

In order not to make his future so miserable, Jiang Zining felt that he could not be content with being an ordinary person who suppressed Jiang Zixing.He must become an indispensable person, but he must not make the emperor afraid.This goal is a long-term goal.And as an old noble family, and my grandfather was under the two cousins ​​of the Jia family back then, I can only go for this goal!

On the first day of school at the Imperial College, Jiang Zining ignored Jiang Zixing's hostile eyes, and Shi Shiran and Jiang Ziyao got into the carriage.No way, he is only eight years old, and he can't ride a horse yet.Even if they can ride a horse, the old lady will not allow two people to ride a horse to school.

The reason why Jiang Zixing hated Jiang Zining was because under the pressure of the old lady and the old master, Jiang Zixing just hired a teacher to teach him at home.Originally, he was very proud of being the only child in the Pingyuan Hou Mansion who was taught by a teacher.But now that he saw that both Jiang Zining and Jiang Ziyao had gone to the Guozijian, but he was suppressed and could not even donate to the prison, he naturally hated them very much.And because of the dispute between Jiang Zining and Jiang Zixing, he hated Jiang Zining very much.

Jiang Zining didn't care about his hatred, but was a little nervous.After arriving at the Guozijian, he dragged Jiang Ziyao into the courtyard of the high-skilled class. After reporting with the doctor of lectures, he was assigned to the elementary class.They can only go to class B after they are ten years old or pass the examination.

As soon as they entered the elementary school class, Jiang Zining and Jiang Ziyao received a warm welcome.You know, although the second generation of Marquis Pingyuan is a bit ineffective, the old Marquis himself is still active in the Ministry of War and on the battlefield.According to Laohou's current age of over 40, at least he can be active for another ten years.By then, maybe the third generation of Pingyuanhou's Mansion will grow up well?It is very necessary for the two third generations to make friends when they are young.

"Polite! This is Feng Ziying, my father is General Shenwu. This is Qi Jianhui, the eldest grandson of the Marquis of Xiangyang, and this is Qiu Liang, the grandson of Marquis Jingtian. This is Niu Jizong of the Duke of Zhenguo's family. This is Shi Guangzhu of the Duke of Shanguo's family." The two talents After putting the things away, a heroic young man who was one year older than himself clasped his fists and introduced him.