Queen's Road in the Red House

As soon as Jia Min entered Rongqing Hall, he saw a black shadow rushing towards him like an arrow.

Xiaoluo was holding up her skirt and exasperated: "Peony, come back quickly." When she turned around and saw Jia Min, she hurriedly said hello: "Old lady."

Hu Po changed Jia Min's big clothes outside, served hot tea, put down the hand stove and foot stove, and retreated habitually.

Recently, the old lady always only needs Yuanyang to wait in front of her, and the rest of them keep the door.

The parrot was still dissatisfied before, and wanted to show more performance in front of the old lady, but was punished as a second-class maid.The old lady did not make up for the extra tael of silver, and gave it to Amber directly, saying that it was a reward for her ability.

Amber thought hard, and felt that her ability probably lies in being a good watcher, so she worked harder and continued to make use of her strengths and avoid her weaknesses.

Yuanyang handed over five or six pages of paper: "These are all the silver accounts that the second wife has handed out in these days, and the total is 4 taels."

Jia Min couldn't help raising her eyebrows: "What's the use of eating fast and reciting Buddha while doing these things?"

The release of such high-interest debts often leads to the disaster of forcing people to break up and die.If it’s those gamblers and hooligans who borrowed this money and lost their lives as a result, it would be regarded as killing harm for the people, but many common people’s families just want to treat their children’s illnesses and save their lives, or they were tricked into borrowing a sum of money in a moment of confusion. , and not a few people died because of this, it can be said to be a shameful thing.

Jia Min sneered and said, "It's really a golden belt for killing people and setting fires. There are no corpses after repairing bridges and roads. I went to the west and asked the Buddha, and the Buddha said, I can't do the same."

Yuanyang put the account on the table: "According to the law of this dynasty, this amount is enough for exile."

Jia Min shook his head: "No. The Rongguo Mansion is among the eight proposals."

The eight-discipline system, handed down from the Han and Tang Dynasties, means that there are eight categories of people who are generally not punished with death, and even crimes below exile can be directly reduced by one grade.

Such honorable families who have made military exploits such as the Rongguo Mansion are under eight discussions.As long as it is not a major crime such as treason, the charges can be reduced as appropriate.

Yuanyang just said it casually, but Jia Min didn't expect that she would even pull out Bayi directly. It seems that she has seriously thought about what crimes can directly kill Mrs. Wang.

Jia Min lowered his head and took a sip of hot tea, suppressing the hostility in his chest, and then asked: "Have someone keep an eye on Lian's daughter-in-law, hasn't she done these things these days?"

Yuanyang shook her head: "No, Lian's Second Mistress burned all the banknotes. Especially these few months, Lian's Second Mistress has been raising babies, and she dare not do these things, for fear of retribution for the child."

Jia Min sneered slightly: Retribution?How did she and Lin Ruhai ever do evil things? Even the Lin family would open a porridge shed every winter to give porridge to the homeless. How did this good deed benefit her daughter?

"What about champerty lawsuits?"

Yuanyang smiled: "You arrested the old nun from Tiekan Temple that day, but you didn't beat her to death directly. Second Mistress was so frightened that her face turned pale. How dare she take trouble from now on."

Before Jia Min handed over the family affairs to Sister Feng, she knew that although Sister Feng was capable and smart, she had two great shortcomings in her personality. One was greed, and the other was love to show her abilities, and she was easily deceived by others' flattery. eyes.

So he specially tied up the old nun who used to coax Sister Feng into taking the lawsuit in Tiekan Temple, and let her go in front of Sister Feng.

He even said that from now on, these nuns and women are not allowed to wander around the house. Whoever wants to offer incense and oil, worship the Bodhisattva in the house by himself, and God knows it.

Jia Min looked down: "Let's keep these for now, and wait for the movement outside."

--

Looking into the twelfth lunar month.

One day, Daiyu broke a plum blossom from the yard and put it in a vase and sent it to her mother. She happened to see Jia Min wearing a tortoiseshell mirror and looking at the year-end accounts from the village.

Jia Min raised her head and smiled at her daughter: "It's just in time for you to come, so you can see how much a Zhuangzi can produce. Now most of the fields in your hands are paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is only a Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing and a hundred farms. acres of sloping land, the output is limited. I just want to see how to add a few Zhuangzi to you."

Daiyu sat down and untied the big fur coat from the big black squirrel outside, and the black fox fur collar around the neck became more and more like a palm-sized handsome face.

Jia Min stroked her temples with a smile, silently calculating in her heart that in the next year, Daiyu would be 14 years old.At that time, I will move out to live for another year, and I will probably enter the palace after Jiji ceremony. Thinking about it, I am really sad.

Daiyu looked down at the number of roe deer, roe deer, pigs, and sheep, the weight of silver frost charcoal, the weight of charcoal, and the silver equivalent of rice and flour.

She calculated quickly in her mind: "Except for the eight Zhuangzi, the rest are equivalent to more than 5000 taels. Mother, it means that this year is a good year."

Jia Min nodded in satisfaction: "Yes, if it catches up with the disaster year, it may only be half."

Daiyu sighed: "Mother, the income in this mansion is about 1 taels a year, but more than that goes out."He has a high position and authority, so he naturally has other ways to get money.

Salt, mining, border trade, shipping, the big businesses handled by these countries are the real money. When Jia Daishan was there, there was no need to contribute, and someone took the initiative to send profits, just asking him to speak in front of the emperor.

Now that the Jia family has lost this income, they still continue to spend extravagantly as before, naturally gradually exhausting their inner pockets.

But Jia Min didn't care: "Mother just care about you, let Lian'er and his wife have a headache about the public accounts in this mansion." Accompanying Daiyu to look at Zhuangzi's accounts in her dowry that day, Jia Min laughed and said: "Zhuangtou He also sent two live deer, saying that they are for the young master and young lady in the mansion to enjoy, if you like it, ask someone to bring it over for you to play with."

Daiyu smiled and said, "Mother, it's very useless. Peony wants to pounce on everything she sees now."

At the same time, in Rongxi Hall.

The older Sister Feng was, the more ruddy and brighter her complexion was, and she looked very good.

She was holding the same list as Jia's mother, and she was talking to Mrs. Xing: "Madam, I have left some sharp goods for my wife to go to relatives. There are eight pairs of bear paws and twenty deer tendons. Jin, I deliberately took some early to honor the old lady."

Mrs. Xing has been married for many years, and every New Year can only follow behind the second room to pick up the leftovers. Now the serf turns over and sings, laughing so hard that he can hardly find his eyes.

"Okay, okay, you just need to save some good food for yourself, and give birth to our first eldest grandson! Since Baoyu entered the palace, he has had little chance to get close to the old lady. This feeling is all out of place. At that time, the old lady will take care of your son, but in a few years it will pass Baoyu."

Mrs. Xing was overjoyed when Wang Shanbao's housemate, who had no eyesight, came over and poured cold water on her.

She whispered in Mrs. Xing's ear for a while, and Mrs. Xing's face changed from sunny to cloudy to storm warning.

She slapped the table: "Ms. Wang is too bullying."

Sister Feng quickly figured out the whole story: Rongguo Mansion only got two stones of royal rouge rice every year, and Mrs. Wang took it away today.It is said that Mrs. Wang Ziteng is not feeling well. Recently, she only eats this rouge rice, and she can't eat anything else.

Mrs. Xing went into a rage on the spot: "She can starve to death if she can't eat."

Sister Feng: ...

Fortunately, Mrs. Xing remembered that Mrs. Wang Ziteng was still Wang Xifeng's aunt in time, so she didn't continue to scold, but turned her head and pulled Wang Xifeng awkwardly: "Don't worry, I'm not cursing your aunt mainly, it's because Wang is too angry. "

Sister Feng: Got it, cursing my aunt is secondary.

Mrs. Xing said angrily: "It's true that I get angry when the New Year's day comes. Every time Mrs. Wang gives gifts, it's the public account, but the gifts that others send in, those good ones become her private house. Brother Feng, she This pick is all money for you and Lian'er in the future."

Sister Feng rarely showed a wry smile: "Ma'am, our second master knows it all, but there is nothing we can do about it. This year, Amitabha saved the money in the palace, otherwise the money sent to the palace every year for Yuanchun would be thousands of taels."

Mrs. Xing gritted her teeth: "After ten years of gifting, tens of thousands of taels are in vain!" She said directly: "It would be great if we could separate the family."

Wang Xifeng hurriedly came to persuade her: "It's fine for Madam to say this in front of me, but don't reveal it in front of the old lady."

"It's a custom in Beijing that parents don't separate families for no reason. After hearing this, the old lady thinks that our eldest wife is cursing her to die early? It's hard for the old lady to start supporting our eldest now. If the wife speaks out After saying this, let Erfang take advantage of it, and we will destroy the Great Wall by ourselves."

Sister Feng started to speak idioms in a hurry, which shows her solemnity.

After Mrs. Xing said it, she was afraid first, and now she said sullenly: "I also know it's just wishful thinking, so I won't mention it in the future."

--

So at the Laba family banquet, Mrs. Xing and Sister Feng were shocked on the spot when they heard the word "separation" from the first ancestor.

Jia Min scooped up the Laba porridge in the bowl: this kind of festival had to sit with people from Rongguo Mansion, which made her lose interest.If it wasn't for the fact that she had something serious to do today, she would have had porridge with her daughter in the Rongqing Hall long ago.

"Mother, you are in good health, how can you talk about the separation of the family!" Jia Zheng said with a trembling beard.

Jia Amnesty's eyes lit up.It's just that he lacked confidence, and he was afraid that this was the old ancestor's words to test the filial piety of their brothers. If he showed joy, he might be kicked out of Rongxi hall again.

So there were 1 wishes in his heart, and he had to say like Jia Zheng: "Does the mother despise the sons? The sons are willing to serve their mothers nearby."

Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing naturally stood up quickly.

Even Li Wan, Wang Xifeng and the four girls stood in the corner, not daring to breathe.

Jia Min's expression was calm, as if he had developed a strong interest in the porridge in the bowl, without raising his head: "Yes, the mansion of Duke Zhong in Beijing is a big family, as long as the elders are still there, even if the next few generations are crowded with more than ten rooms It's so uncomfortable to live together, and I don't want to separate without reason."

Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng and his wife hurriedly responded, and halfway through the reconciliation, the bowl in Jia Min's hand fell to the ground.

"It's a pity that my family in Rongguo Mansion is unlucky. If we don't separate the family now, we will have to ruin our family in the future!"

The children and grandchildren couldn't stand anymore, they knelt down together, and Sister Feng struggled to move and knelt down with her stomach upright. Fortunately, Jia Lian thoughtfully supported her, and quickly pulled a thick cotton cushion from the seat for her. Pad under the knee.

Sister Feng's heart was warm, and she showed a sweet and gentle smile to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian patted his wife's hand backhand.

The two of them were not nervous: although they didn't know who the old lady was going to attack, but in the past few months, one of them was busy building a house for Daiyu, and the other was busy raising the baby and housekeeping. They were very good people.

Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng were so panicked that they had nowhere to put their hands and feet, racking their brains to wonder if they had made any mistakes recently.Jia Amnesty thought of the two pretty girls he had just received in the room, which were gifts from Jia Zhen, while Jia Zheng remembered the last time Jia Baoyu came home, and he whipped him again.

Feeling apprehensive and surprised at the same time: This little incident will not lead to the destruction of the family!

"mandarin duck."

The mandarin ducks that had been prepared earlier handed over a stack of papers full of words.

Others were still ignorant, Yuan Chun's heart was beating wildly and he couldn't help but look at his mother.

--

In Daiyu's house.

Zhou Huangwei rested her chin and watched Daiyu drink a spoonful of porridge from a porcelain bowl made inside, and asked with a smile, "Does the Laba porridge in the palace taste better?"

The Laba Festival is very important in the palace, and even a special palace is set up to cook porridge, and a prince is even sent to monitor it personally.

Those who can get the reward of Laba porridge in the palace are also important officials of the court.Of course, carrying the honor also has to bear hardships, and in the cold winter season, you have to meet early in the morning and bump your heads to thank you.

This year's Laba, in addition to the emperor rewarding the ministers, the empress dowager also rewarded four girls with Laba porridge.

Compared with the hard work of the ministers, Daiyu was much luckier waiting for her daughter's family. She didn't need to get up tomorrow and go to the gate of the palace to kowtow in line after putting on makeup.

In addition, there are also two lanterns of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea that are appreciated in the palace for viewing.

Xin Hongcheng also used his own method to give Daiyu a sheep's horn lamp made of five-color glazed glass, which is small and exquisite and can be hung in the house.

Daiyu took a sip of the porridge given by the imperial congee, and after thanking the saint, she changed it to her own: "It was frozen when it was delivered, and the best porridge after reheating is nothing more than that."

Indeed, the emperor's house boiled a large pot of porridge, enough to distribute to the ministers, but the taste was not as fine and delicious as the one in the mansion.

Granny Ge divided the porridge into many portions with a serious face, almost only a few drops in a bowl: "Girl, this is the grace of the heavenly family, and now we are blessed to follow you. This grace is divided."

Mo Ran waited for the maid to accept it first, and Yun Rong left a copy for Xiao Luo: "Use it when she comes back."

Just as she was talking, Xiao Luo ran in nimbly, her face full of joy after eating melons: "Girl, girl, there is already a commotion in Rongxi Hall."

"The old lady didn't avoid people when she got angry. Many maids inside and outside Rongxi Hall heard it. When I left, even the housekeeper Lai and others rushed over, saying that they wanted to reconcile accounts on the spot."

Xiaoluo ran all the way back, her cheeks were rouge from the cold.

Yun Rong quickly handed over a bowl of hot jujube tea, and Xiao Luo drank it and continued to say vividly: "In front of everyone, the old lady recited the second wife's huge profits these days, taking advantage of lawsuits, etc., and the second master listened. His eyeballs were about to fall off, he raised his hand suddenly, almost poked the second wife's face with his fingers, pointed at her and reprimanded her a few words."

"It's useless for Miss Jia to cry and persuade, not to mention that she wants to put out the fire by herself, but the eldest wife and Second Mistress Lian are trying to fan the flames, and they have said a lot about the mistakes and omissions of the second wife when they were housekeepers. The angry second master said I couldn't even tell, and the old man was furious, saying that the second room and the whole family are talking mice."

Zhou Xuanwei was puzzled: "A talking mouse?"

Daiyu smiled: "It's Shuoshu."

Xiaoluo nodded: "It's a mess now. I want to continue listening. Lai everyone and Lin Zhixiao's family waited for the housekeepers to rush over, and dismissed all the maids and women outside. Had to come back."

--

The inside of Rongxi Hall, which Xiao Luo couldn't see, was still in turmoil.

Lai Da, Lin Zhixiao and other housekeepers had already heard the news that the old lady was going to rectify the second room, and they were just tool people who came in to settle the accounts.

So I regarded myself as a deaf and blind man, one holding a pen, and the other hiding in a corner with an abacus, and Thunderbolt's abacus wrote quickly, hoping that the fire of the masters would not burn them.

Jia Zheng's face turned pale, and tears flowed from his eyes: "Mother, my son is useless to make her do such violent, greedy and stupid actions, causing disasters for the family! Mother, my son really regrets it! "

Jia Amnesty couldn't sit still like a monkey on fire: "Second brother, do you just regret it! 4 taels of silver, are you going to let this woman who violates the laws of the country and disobeys her elders lightly go away?" !" He pointed at Mrs. Xing: "If your sister-in-law does such a thing, I will divorce her on the spot!"

Mrs. Xing who was also shot while standing: ...

Jia Zheng was blocked by Jia Amnesty, he had nothing to say, he must not divorce his wife, after all, how can a dilapidated household like the Xing family compare with the powerful Wang family!Once he divorced Mrs. Wang, while Wang Ziteng accepted a returned younger sister, his daughter's reputation and status in the husband's family would definitely be hit hard.

It's strange that Wang Ziteng can bear it, how dare Jia Zheng provoke him.

So Jia Zheng had no choice but to excuse Mrs. Wang: "After she entered my Jia family, she gave birth to two sons and a daughter, which is different from my sister-in-law's situation."

Jia Amnesty refused to let her go: "Hmph, although the Xing family has never raised a child, she has also dressed her father in sackcloth and filial piety, and it is reasonable to say that she will never do so. But if she wants to do such a wicked thing, she should be given a break! "

Wang Xifeng saw that the two of them went astray on their own, and started arguing about divorcing their wives. She couldn't help but stand up and bring the topic back to the right track: "Master, madam, how the second master treats the second wife is the responsibility of their second wife." The most urgent thing is to separate the family!"

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