Through the Ring of Red Mansions

It is said that Sister Feng's visit to Ningguo Mansion this time is no small matter, and she doesn't need to do anything. She just pushed her seven or eight-month-old belly there, and You Shi was frightened. , neither of them dared to struggle, they were afraid of shaking Sister Feng, so they just winked at Youshi vigorously, and Youshi came out to greet him with a smile and said, "What are you so busy about?"

Sister Feng pushed her away and said with a sneer: "How can you be a sister and a sister-in-law like you in the world? A good girl and a daughter-in-law have made you a ghost!! How respectful is your sister from You's family? The daughter-in-law of the eight classics, secretly only sent to Jia's house! If you want it, it is obviously a good thing that you agree with each other. If you have to go through three matchmaking and six certificates, everyone will explain that it is also a happy event to kiss and be married. You phlegm fans Confused, fat and fat, now I am in a hurry to recruit matchmakers in private, but how can my future sister gain a foothold in the mansion?! Now it will spread again, and people will say that I am jealous, mean and jealous , That's why you were forced to sneak around, and it made me feel ashamed to stay at home. I only pity the child in my womb. Before he comes out, he wants to see his mother suffer such slander!! How did I offend you? Are you trying to harm me? You don’t even care about your own sister?"

While speaking, crying loudly, pulling Youshi to see the old lady, pretending to be out of breath, just patting her chest and stroking her stomach, Jia Zhen ran away in a hurry, and Jia Rong knelt down to meet her in a hurry, only Begging, "Girl and aunt, calm down." Sister Feng scolded Jia Rong again: "Heavenly thunder splits the brains of the five ghosts and dismembers the seeds of conscience! I don't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is. Now the country's filial piety and family filial piety are both in the body. , you don’t just try to persuade me, but flatter and encourage you. You can’t see that there is a little peace in our family. If someone sues you, isn’t it the crime of the surname Jia? Isn’t it your aunt who got involved? Crying and cursing and throwing the tea bowl, Jia Rong hurriedly kowtowed and said: "Auntie, don't get angry, handle carefully, let me beat myself. Auntie is very angry, at least think about the child in the stomach, and take care of yourself .”

You Shi was afraid that something would happen to Sister Feng in the mansion, so she didn't dare to respond at all, so she helped to scold Jia Rong and said, "The evil seed! What a good thing you did with your father! I can't say anything bad."

Sister Feng patted the table and said to her, "It's ridiculous that you still don't understand what I mean. I'm here to tell you that this is not good. Ever since I was pregnant, I've been thinking of finding a good person for Second Lord to come in. Who would have thought that I would dare to mention it at a time like this? Now that you have said it, I am overjoyed. Who would have known that you had such thoughts in mind? The girl from the You family could have entered our house openly, but this What did you do? How did she miss me? How did the old lady miss her? "

But it happened that Sister Feng was making trouble in the main room in the inner room, and the second sister You, who was hiding aside, could hear clearly. Seeing that what Sister Feng said was reasonable, she originally thought that Xu De followed Jia Lian into the mansion. Well, now I see Sister Feng because she is thinking of her, but also because others misunderstand her reputation. Although she has a hot temper, she is a very reasonable person, and she has no intention of hindering her and Jia Lian's good deeds, so beware of that fear Sister Feng's heart dropped by half, and she waited behind the door for the next article.

At this time, all the concubines, maids, and daughters-in-law knelt down on the ground, begging for mercy with a smile, and said, "Grandma, be careful that your hands hurt! Please take care of yourself!"

Sister Feng stopped crying, and she must take Youshi to see Jia Mu, saying, "Without your way of handling things, good things would be done badly. But I agree with this matter very much. It is a relative's family. You know everything, you just have to get the old lady to nod."

At present, Youshi dare not go with Sister Feng to see Jiamu. How can the main house still have a belly, and she is a sister-in-law who puts her sister in there. Does Jiamu blame her, so she laughed and said, "Old lady Wives, wives, it would be better for my younger sister to go to Zhou Quan for convenience, and I'm afraid it would be inconvenient for me to go."

Sister Feng sneered again and said, "If you don't settle down on what you have done yourself, I have no face, and you have no face. Why don't you worry about your sister, and you are still pushing back and forth here." She rubbed her belly and said stomachache.

You Shi hurriedly ordered someone to carry it in a soft sedan chair, and personally helped her back to Sister Feng's yard to lie down, and sent a lot of ginseng supplements there.For fear that Jia's mother would know, and You's family would not dare to let people talk nonsense, Sister Feng took care of her for a few more days before going to Ning's mansion to meet Second Sister You. , Said, "My younger sister only sees my elder sister as pitiful, so I must deal with this matter, so as to complete my affection with the second master. In the future, you and my sister will unite and advise the second master to be prudent in world affairs and take care of your body. It is a great gift."

At this point, I took Youshi in to report to Jia Mu and Mrs. Xing. Mrs. Xing didn't care about it, but Jia Mu vaguely heard some wind and asked, "Didn't you say that you hired someone?"

Mrs. You and Sister Feng hurriedly said that they had retired and asked Guan Zhongli to testify. Mother Jia didn't know the truth, so she inevitably left the impression that Sister You disliked the poor and loved the rich, but thinking of Jia Lian, Sister Feng would like to , said conveniently, "In that case, the two of you should discuss it. It's just that you are getting heavier now, don't worry too much, and you are filial, you are not allowed to make big things, you are hired and brought in, and the house can be consummated after a year."

Mrs. You had no choice but to go back to the mansion to buy some good things for Second Sister You, and she couldn't use the dowry to carry them. However, she loaded one cart, and another cart took Second Sister You to Sister Feng's nursery. Although Jia Lian was overjoyed I didn't dare to throw a big banquet, so I only invited Jia Zhenjiarong, Baoyu Jiahuan and others. Jiazhen Jiarong was afraid of Sister Feng, so she said that she would not come back to keep her filial piety in the temple, but Baoyu Jiahuan came to have a glass of wine and let it go .

The next day, Jia Lian took his second sister You to pay homage to Jia She and Mrs. Xing. "Jia She was very happy, saying that he was useful, and rewarded him with 100 taels of silver, and rewarded a 17-year-old maid named Qiutong in the room. He is a concubine. Jia Lian kowtowed to lead her away, and she was overjoyed." There was some complacency and arrogance on his face.Sister Feng hasn't seen much yet, but she ordered her two daughters-in-law to pick up Qiutong. The second sister You met the new couple the day after they got married, and her heart was already half gray before she knew it.

In a blink of an eye, summer ends and autumn begins, and the rainy season of the year is over.The water potential of the Yellow River is gradually disappearing, because flood diversion channels were first built at places where the water was turbulent and prone to flooding in previous years, and embankments were built high and fixed with cement slurry. Therefore, although the water potential is dangerous this year, there is only a small amount of river water overflowing the dikes, and there is no sign of collapse. At this place, people on both sides of the Yellow River felt fortunate to offer incense and fruits to the steles of officers and soldiers stationed on the embankment, and some villagers went to Beijing to worship in groups and offered umbrellas for the people.Xu Huailan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, did not dare to be greedy for merit, and there are three kinds of meritorious deeds. One is that the sage employs wise people and adopts the words of young courtiers in an extraordinary way. The government and the people worked together to subdue the long-ravaged Yellow River flood.

After the memorial was handed in, the Sacred Heart was really happy. On the one hand, he ordered the Ministry of Industry to continue to build dikes and canals according to the preliminary work, and ordered the Ministry of Households to allocate money to cooperate.Another decree was issued, saying, "Jia Huan, a Hanlin scholar, has made great contributions to Zhuo Lun, and he has made great achievements in controlling the river. , nurture the elders, cultivate good talents for the country, be virtuous, loyal and bright, and be a model for women in the world, confer a third-rank imperial order to Mrs. Ruihe, give a golden scroll imperial order document, imperial order clothing, carriage frame, jade as you wish One pair, twelve bolts of palace satin, some gold and silver."

Jia Huan received the decree at the prescription of Yimen in Rongfu, when he heard a burst of exclamation from inside the second gate, they all said, "Aunt Zhao!"

"My aunt has passed away!"

Jia Huan was so frightened that he couldn't care less to greet Mr. Shan, so he ran into the inner courtyard in a hurry, only to see Tan Chun holding Aunt Zhao, and Lin Zhixiao's family next to him strangled the Renzhong acupoint desperately, and Aunt Zhao woke up faintly. Jia Huan then crawled over and hugged her, and burst into tears, crying, "My dear..." He choked even more.Tanchun also shed tears along with her, but she was extremely happy.

Seeing that Aunt Zhao was just too excited and there was nothing serious, Jia Huan asked her to hold the imperial decree first, then arranged for the female officials who came to declare the decree, and went back to the front hall to socialize.Here, Aunt Zhao has been helped into Mother Jia's room, but she still dare not sit down, so Mother Jia smiled kindly, "I've seen that you are a good person, and you are destined to be rich and powerful, otherwise you won't be at ease." I gave you to Zheng'er, and now it has come true. From now on, you are also the wife of the third rank. Hurry up and take out your wife's money. In a few days, other noble ladies and wives will come to congratulate you, so sting Wouldn't it be a joke if you expose it!" Then he asked everyone to come and greet her.

At that moment, Aunt Zhao came out in the bright red clothes of Mrs. Gao Ming, wearing a golden crown of emerald pearls and a little powder on her head. The posture, everyone hurriedly came forward to pay a visit, and they all changed their mouths and said that the third wife did not mention it.

Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue also came over and called her "sister", but everyone saw Mrs. Wang's forced smile, knowing that she was probably not angry now, and no one dared to touch her bad luck.Mrs. Du Xing said with a smile on her face, "Now the third wife can no longer live in the second wife's yard, the old lady should arrange a new place for the third wife."

Jia Mu laughed and said, "But I'm only concerned about joy. Quickly order someone to clean up the courtyard on the east side of Rongxi Hall, and ask the third wife to move there tonight."

Aunt Xue quietly gave Mrs. Wang a hand, and Mrs. Wang came back to her senses, and smiled with a virtuous look, "Rongxi Hall is very big, why bother to let my sister move it, it's better to move those rooms to the west. Once the house is tidied up, it will be convenient for my sister to live in."

Aunt Xue also laughed, "It's so lively, the sisters live close to each other, and they are intimate."

Mrs. Xing said, "There is no reason why the two of you are ordered to live in the same courtyard. Doesn't it seem that our family is too stingy. I am afraid that Niangniang and Huan'er will not agree."

Aunt Xue laughed and said, "We are all a family, who can say that I am stingy."

After hearing this, Mother Jia said, "The most important thing in our family is the house, and it's not that we can't live in it. The third wife has to arrange people to do it in one yard." So she ordered to clean up the east courtyard. All the women hurriedly responded.

When he was young, Jia Huan also came in after socializing outside, kowtowed to the third wife, and called "Ma'am!", which caused the third wife to cry again. Afraid that Jia's mother would be unhappy, she quickly restrained herself and took Jia with one hand. Huan, holding Tanchun with one hand, very sad and happy.

On that day, Jia's mother only set up a few seats in the inner house due to her order. Everyone helped the third wife to the main seat, Jia Huan accompanied the table, and Daiyu, Baochai, Baoqin and Sanchun all had their own congratulatory gifts.In the evening, Tanchun accompanied the third wife to rest in the new yard, and Jiamu moved the amber and Qiu'er under her hands, and said that she would pick two servants for her. The retired mother in the palace can usually provide some help, so Mother Jia just gave up.