Through the Ring of Red Mansions

The next day, Mother Jia sorted out the things Jia Min had left behind and sent them to Daiyu in the Prince's Mansion in Beijing. She also sent Sister Feng, Li Wan and Tanchun to talk to Daiyu together, without mentioning Mrs. Wang. Regarding the matter, I only said that it was the dowry kept by the old lady Jia Mintuo for Daiyu, and now it is almost time to prepare it in the Beijing Palace, so it was specially sent.When Daiyu saw these things, she shed tears again.

Jia Huan was also very worried because of Jia Zheng and others, so he had to go out every day to dredge up activities, but he guessed that Shui Lang was not in the palace at this time, so he must want to let the queen stand up.If Shui Lang wanted to wipe out Jia's house, there was no need to point out Mrs. Wang's confiscation of the Zhen family's belongings, just Jia's amnesty would be enough to confiscate the nobles and confiscate the property.But the whole family in Jia's mansion was staring at him now, and Jia Huan had to put on a good show, so he took Mrs. Lai out early and returned late every day, and gradually found out that the cause of this incident was that Mrs. Wang was running the business of Jia's house. For many years, she has quite a solid foundation. Although she expelled her accompanying room Zhou Rui's family back then, there are still many people brought over from the Wang family, so the affairs of the Zhen family are very secretive. A few things pawned by Xue's pawnshop happened to be taken away by a very knowledgeable inner palace eunuch, and they found out that they belonged to Zhen's family. He also said that Xue and Jia were close, so he secretly reported to the queen that she sent them He was waiting outside the big and small pawnshops of Xue's family in the city. Sure enough, he saw stolen goods coming out constantly. He concluded that Jia's family had privately accepted the confiscated things, so he immediately waited for the opportunity to take people.

There is no need for Jia Huan to speak about this matter. Housekeeper Lai told Jia Mu and Jia Zheng one by one. Only when everyone in the house knows about the noise is satisfactory.

After only two or three days, news came from outside that the prince, the admiral of the nine provinces, went up and begged to go to Beijing to plead guilty. His orders rejected the paper because the internal affairs of the palace did not involve the foreign court. Teng played in the booklet, "Women are ignorant and violate the laws of the country. Fortunately, they have not harmed others. They are loyal to the emperor and righteous for generations in the Jia family. They will not be ignorant. Now they are burdened by a mean woman. I beg your majesty to forgive me." "So.

He also privately ordered people to hurry up and send a message to Jia's mansion, "This is the end of the matter, and there is no time for others to take care of it. We must make a decisive decision to take care of the empress and the whole family!"

Shui Lang just diverted Wang Ziteng's begging to the harem, and ordered, "The two old saints are compassionate and pray for blessings devoutly, and it is not appropriate to go to war."

The queen then went up to play and said, "Now we have found that Jia Wang's family in Rongguo Mansion hates Jia Zhao's family and his sons. Jia Huan, the counselor of Wenyuan Pavilion, colluded with the criminal concubine Wu to frame Jia Huan. Now he passed on the evidence of the crime privately." The palace servant has already bowed his head and pleaded guilty, even though he admits that Concubine Jia did not know about it and that it was all plotted by the Wang family secretly, but Concubine Jia cannot be freed from the crime of negligence, since this is a serious matter, I submit to the Holy Majesty for judgment!"

Shui Lang read the booklet himself, and then sneered at the little yellow gate sent by the queen, "The queen is a middle palace, so she has a reason for such a thing?" After speaking, he threw the booklet on the ground , "Let her figure it out for herself!"

The little eunuch kowtowed in fright, hurriedly picked up the bag and ran away, the queen intended to make a big fuss, the better, now seeing Shui Lang's attitude, she only said that he didn't want to sin against Yuan Chun, and didn't dare to go too far , had to issue a decree, "Jia Wang's virtue is not good, and he will take away the seal of the imperial order, and return all the private property to the household department. If the recovery is not returned, it will be filled with silver, and a fine of 1 taels of silver will be fined. Jia Guifei If there is a crime of negligence, a three-year salary will be fined. This palace is not strict in governing the palace, causing chaos and troubles, and a one-year salary will be fined."

On the one hand, he ordered someone to announce the decree of Feng, and on the other hand, he sent someone to send Mrs. Wang back to Jia's mansion, and because the queen's decree could only restrain the concubine's wife, so he didn't mention how Jia's mansion would punish him. Well, I wrote a letter of confession tremblingly, asking for a salary to make amends.The Holy Majesty ordered that those things that could not be returned be converted into silver and calculated with Jia Zheng's salary, and the household department published a booklet and said, "So that the silver will be withheld for seven or eight years. We and my lord Jia have always been very fond of it." Good friends, how can we see the old politicians suffer innocently, but it will be exposed after three years, no matter how little it is, we dare not be less."

Jia Zheng hurriedly said, "If you can't do it, won't you cause trouble for everyone?"

Everyone laughed and said, "It doesn't matter. Our Shang Shu was originally the same year as Mr. Xiao Jia. What's more, Mr. Jia asked the Holy One privately about this matter, but that's all." After the accounts were settled and the documents of property and property cleared, he left with a smile on his face.

And because the queen remembered that Xue's pawnshop was helping to sell the stolen goods, she didn't need to ask Shui Lang's order, but she told her father and brothers at home that there were already winking people from the household department who wanted to investigate Xue's family according to the law, so He ransacked the Xue family's shops in Beijing, and finally closed all the pawnshops, and made the Xue family restless for a while.

On the other hand, Mrs. Wang's place has been frightened in the prison of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for several days in a row, and she has been ordered by the queen to order her to question her. Ken let her go, and said relentlessly in front of Jiamu, "Since Huan'er was young, he has been plotting against him. He didn't want to raise him, and he was afraid of taking Baoyu's favor, so he just locked us in the yard all day. Let the whole family People from all walks of life came to abuse us! It’s so easy for Huan’er to succeed, and instead of saying any kind words of harmony, he secretly kills him like this. I thought I was a vicious person, but I didn’t expect to see the second wife now. I also want to bow down, admire and admire!!"

The maids and women next to her heard what she said was unseemly, and they all wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare. Sister Feng and Li Wan hurriedly pulled her to persuade her, "Third wife, don't be impatient. Anyway, the old lady and the master are here. , let’s say a few words, let them get angry.”

Mrs. Wang didn't know that even Yuan Chun would not be able to protect her this time, so she cried even more recklessly, "You are just a slave born in a family, and you have been a slave in your family for three lifetimes, why compare with me? But just because she gave birth to a good son, she will be a concubine for the rest of her life, and Baoyu is about to marry the princess as the county matriarch, a dignified family member, ask someone else if the third child is worthy of carrying shoes for him?"

The third wife laughed angrily, "Our Huaner is not as powerful as Baoyu, we can't even keep his mother's order! There is no noble girl who will let us climb skirts!!"

Finally, Mother Jia couldn't help but smashed a teacup on the ground, pointed at the two of them tremblingly, and cursed, "Okay, okay, today I can say my true heart, I'm not dead yet!!"

The third wife wanted to bite her tongue because she might as well scold Jia's house, and now she felt so remorseful that she hurriedly shrank to Jia Zheng's side and lowered her head, not daring to speak. No way? Get out of here soon, and make the old lady so angry!!"

Jia Mu looked at the people in the room, and finally felt disheartened. There were thousands of words in her mouth and she didn't want to say anything. She just sighed, tapped her crutches and said, "What kind of evil is this? People are like killing their fathers and enemies!! The second wife goes to the family temple first, don’t worry, one day I’m here, Baoyu will have a bite to eat, and one day I’m gone, there will be his master, and Daiyu’s county Keep them as the master." He ordered again, "Tell me that even if I am old and gone, this person is not allowed to rule Baoyu and the two of them as Baoyu's mother. Death!!"

Jia Zheng hurriedly knelt down and said, "Why does the old lady do this? Just teach her to stay in the family temple for the rest of her life and that's it!"

Tears rolled down Jia's mother's eyes and said, "Baoyu has always been filial, and you don't know that he won't listen to his mother's words in the future to cause a big disaster. I am not a cruel person. You have been husband and wife for so many years, and she is not No credit at all, but I have to think about your descendants, you and Baoyu don't blame me..."

Jia Zheng also cried, "The old lady cherishes Baoyu, and the son can only be grateful. How dare he complain? If Baoyu complains because of this, then the old lady will love him for nothing, and I don't recognize him!"

Seeing that there was no turning point, Mrs. Wang began to cry more and more. She was also called Baoyurou'er and Niangniang Yuanchun. Jia Mu ordered several thick and strong women to stop their mouths, stuff them into the car and go directly to the family temple. went.Jia Huan, Baoyu, and the others were in the garden with Sanchun and others, and they were far away from each other, so they didn't hear them.When Baoyu asked about it, he said, "She herself was ashamed to see people, and she begged to go to the temple. Let's go see it later."

As soon as things were settled, Sister Feng had to pay a fine to Mrs. Wang because of difficulties in her work. Yuan Chun was fined in the palace, and she had to rely on Jia's help. The housewares have gone, and there is still a dowry for Yingchun. Mrs. Xing has been working on it for half a year, but she only got two boxes of cloth rulers. Jia Zheng's salary was also fined. The remaining money is not enough to add to the bottomless pit of Jia's mansion anyway. Besides, after the original incident, how could Sister Feng be willing to commit another crime, so she asked Li Wan to say, "We can't do it anyway, and it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice. Why bother to cover it up like this?" , I simply went back to the old lady together to let everyone know, otherwise we will only blame us for being mean."

Li Wan hesitated, "A family like us can't even hold up our face?"

Sister Feng sneered and said, "Can face be eaten? If we have to wait until there is no grain of rice on the table, wouldn't it be more embarrassing, and we will also be charged with many crimes. Why don't we just get scolded now, which will also make people feel embarrassed?" I know it's difficult in the house now, otherwise it will be too early for the second girl, Baoyu, and the third girl and Huan'er!" Therefore, the two of them had to come to ask Jiamu.

Jia Mu then sighed, "According to what you said, it was Yinnian that took Maonian's rent. Presumably the two newly added villas in recent years are not very useful, and they can't be transferred for a while. What should we do with our family?" So that's it?!"

She couldn't help but ask Yuanyang to treat some of her body as silver for a while, and then ordered Sister Feng to quietly scatter some useless slaves, and locked up those empty rooms to reduce expenses everywhere.And set aside the dowry for Yingchun. Because Yingchun is her serious sister-in-law, Sister Feng also added a thick dowry. In addition to the dowry of Daiyu and Tanchun, she made up 36 The big box full of them looked very beautiful. Madam Xing was secretly happy when she saw it. For a while, she didn't find Jia Lianfeng's sister and had a lot of trouble.