The Dream of Red Mansions of the Post-80s

Mother Jia supported the mandarin duck and stood on Ningrong Street, letting the crackling torches stretch the shadow behind her.Looking back at Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion, this place where I have lived for nearly 60 years has suddenly become so strange, everything is like a dream.

After a long time, Yuanyang cried and said, "Old lady, find a place to rest." Jiamu nodded, and slowly walked forward holding Yuanyang's hand.It was already midnight at that time, every house was closed, and the street was quiet, except for the occasional sound of rapid opening and closing of the gate.Yuanyang helped Jia Mu to stop and go. After walking for a long time, there was no place to rest, so she couldn't help feeling anxious.Just as she was about to help Jia Mu to sit on the stone by the street, she suddenly heard a "squeak" sound of the door leaf, and when she hurriedly turned her head to look, she saw a figure poking his head in the crack of the door.When the man saw someone outside the door, he hurriedly closed the door.Yuanyang was about to call the door, when it opened suddenly, and a man ran out and knelt down in front of Jia Mu, saying, "Old lady, old lady!"Jia's mother and Yuanyang took a closer look, and saw that it was Jia Qiang, Fang Lue felt relieved.

It turned out that Jia Qiang was sent out of Ning Mansion by Jia Zhen that day, and she disposed of a small courtyard not far from Ningrong Street.Although Jia Qiang's living here is not the same as living in Ningguo Mansion, it is quite passable.Later, Mrs. Wang expelled the civil servants and other people, and Jia Qiang tried to find the senior officials again. After setting up a few banquets, she officially accepted the senior officials as concubines.From then on, Jia Qiang loved and obeyed Ling Guan in every possible way, and abandoned all the foolish behavior in the past, but now it seems like a new person.

That night, Jia Qiang was chatting and joking with Lingguan when she suddenly heard the noise of people in the street, so she hurried out to see what was going on.But she never expected that Jia's house was ransacked, and Jia Qiang was so frightened that her bones became weak. She hurried in and told the official, and said: "Quickly roll up the money, let's run!" Calm down, she said: "Now that the gates of the city are closed, where are you going?! Is it a blessing or a disaster? If it's a disaster, you can't avoid it. Let's see first." Jia Qiang also felt that his wife's words were reasonable, so she rubbed her hands and walked back and forth on the ground. Listen carefully for someone to knock on the door.

Ling Guan and Jia Qiang stayed together until midnight, and the street gradually became calm again, and there was no knock on the door.Official Ling said: "I think it's already passed, you go out to find out." Although Jia Qiang felt frightened, but his wife spoke, she moved to the door and peeped out through the crack.The moonlight was dim, and I couldn't see anything, so I gently opened the door a crack, and kept poking my head out to look around.Seeing two figures suddenly, Jia Qiang was so frightened that she hurriedly closed the door.Just when I was about to run back, I suddenly felt vaguely like an old lady, so I boldly looked through the crack of the door again, but it wasn't the old lady and her maid Yuanyang, so I hurriedly opened the door to welcome them out.

Yuanyang and Jia Qiang hurriedly helped Jia's mother into the room.When Lingguan saw Jiamu, he was shocked and sad. He hurried up to see him, and he hurriedly relaid the kang and helped Jiamu to sit on the kang.Because Ling Guan was quite like Lin Daiyu, Jia's mother liked it very much that day, so she was impressed.Meeting here unexpectedly today, Fang remembered that he vaguely heard that Jia Qiang had married a girl who used to study opera in the garden.Jia Mu supported Lingguan's hand, took a look, and sat on the kang.

Seeing that there were tears on Jia Mu's face, Lingguan hurriedly scooped up water and brought it to the edge of the kang.Yuanyang gently wiped Jia Mu's face with a towel.Mother Jia didn't say a word, but the tears couldn't help but welled up again.With tears in his eyes, Yuanyang kept wiping Jia Mu with a handkerchief.Ling Guan made tea, and the mandarin ducks were served to Jia Mu.Mother Jia took it in her hand and slowly put it on the table.

Jia Mu just sat silently.Yuanyang stood by and guarded Jiamu, but she was also speechless.At that time, the sky had already turned white, and Yuanyang persuaded Jia Mu to rest.After persuasion several times, Jia Mufang fell asleep.

Jia Mu slept on the pillow, where she could fall asleep without a trace of drowsiness.The next day, before dawn, he developed a fever, his face was flushed, and he was short of breath and palpitations.Jia Qiang hurriedly invited the doctor to come for a consultation.Suddenly the doctor came, examined him carefully, and said: "The old man has caught a cold, and I'm afraid he was frightened. I'll prescribe a prescription here, take it and see. In addition, it is very important for the old man to recuperate. Yes." After finishing speaking, he prescribed a medicine so that he could leave.Jia Qiang went to grab the medicine and came back with a few paper bags.Lingguan and Yuanyang are busy decocting the medicine, and then serve Jiamu to take it.

Jiamu took the medicine, and Zhiwanfang improved slightly.Seeing that Jiamu's complexion gradually improved after taking the medicine, the Lingguan urged Jia Qiang to go to the Ministry of Punishment to inquire about news.Jia Qiang originally wanted to find a brother from the clan to go with her, but now that the Ningrong Second House has a lawsuit, everyone can't avoid it, and they can still find someone there.Helpless, I had no choice but to prepare to go to the gate of the Ministry of Criminal Justice alone to inquire.

Jia Qiang had just walked a few steps out of the gate, when she saw Jia Yun coming looking around, she hurriedly stopped.Jia Yun approached and met Jia Qiang, and asked Jia Qiang quietly, "Where are you going, brother?" Go to the courtyard, close the door, and say: "The old lady is here." He quietly told what happened last night.Jia Yun hurriedly wanted to go into the house to say hello to Jia's mother.Jia Qiang said: "The old lady has just taken the medicine and she just slept soundly. Don't go in and disturb her for the time being." She then told Jia Yun that she was going to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to inquire about news.When Jia Yun heard this, she said, "It's just right, I'll go with you." Then, the two came out and came quietly to the Ministry of punishment.

When they approached the gate of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the two sentry from a distance first, but there was no abnormality, only a few teams of officers and soldiers were on duty there.Jia Qiang and Jia Yun didn't dare to get too close, they just found a corner to watch from a distance.Although there are sedan chairs and horses passing by in front of the door, how dare the two of them go forward, and they don't know those people.

Jia Qiang and Jia Yun stood there all afternoon, but nothing happened.Jia Yun quietly said to Jia Qiang: "It's not an option to wait like this, you have to ask someone who knows." Jia Qiang nodded and said, "But now who can I turn to?!" Zhang Shilang had a good relationship with Jia Zhen in the past, and he has met him several times, so maybe he can ask him now.So he and Jia Yun went to Zhang Shilang's mansion.

When I came to the gate of Zhang's mansion, I saw five or six door officials standing there.Jia Qiang and Jia Yun hesitated for a long time, then Fang bravely came up to meet the doorman, reported his name, and said that he wanted to see Master Zhang, please let me know.They asked the two of them to wait outside the door, and one of them went to report.After a meal, the man came out and said, "Our lord is not feeling well, and it is inconvenient to see guests. Please go back, Your Excellency." Jia Qiang and Jia Yun had no choice but to come back.The next day, the two of them still went to the gate of the Criminal Ministry to check.

Let's say that after everyone in Jia's mansion was driven to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, they were all driven into prison for the time being.It was May, and the weather was already warm, but the cell stank and filthy.The prison meals that Kuang sent were all sour and stinky coarse rice and astringent vegetables, which were unbearable to swallow.The people are used to brocade clothes, satin quilts, delicacies and delicious food, but now they can't stand it in such a field, and they all complain about it.

After three days of hard work, an official in a scarlet robe brought a few soldiers to the women's prison, went to the family's place, scanned the crowd, and said, "That's Wang Xifeng?" Sister Feng heard , tremblingly had to agree.The hall official yelled sharply, "Take it away!" Two soldiers came over and couldn't tell each other, and took Sister Feng along the way.Mrs. Wang was about to cry when the hall official shouted again: "Quiet!" No one dared to speak out.The official said again: "I will start to roll the roll, and stand up when I hear the name." Then he started to roll the roll, only to hear the official read: "Xing Shi, the wife of Jia Amnesty, Wang Shi, the wife of Jia Zheng, and Wang Shi, the wife of Jia Zhenzhi." His wife, Youshi..." After reading it for a while, he said: "Thanks to the kindness of the present holy majesty, you will not be held accountable for your crimes. Go out." Everyone didn't have time to think, so they followed the jailer and walked out trembling.

Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue brought Baochai Daiyu and other female relatives out in surprise.After leaving the gate of the Criminal Department, everyone stood on the street, looking at each other, not knowing where to go.They didn't know where Jia's mother was alone, and everyone couldn't help crying.

Mrs. Xing and others were at a loss, when they suddenly saw Jia Qiang and Jia Yun trotting over, everyone was surprised.When Jia Qiang and Jia Yun saw Mrs. Xing and others, they didn't care about anything else, they hurried up to say hello, and then told the old lady's story again.After hearing this, Mrs. Xing was both sad and happy, and hurriedly followed Jia Qiang to see Jia's mother.

When everyone saw Jia Mu, they said a thousand words, but they didn't know where to start, they just sobbed and howled around.Mother Jia heard the sound of crying on the pillow, opened her eyes, turned her head slightly, tears were already streaming down from the corners of her eyes.Mother Jia signaled to get up, and everyone hurriedly helped Mother Jia to sit up.

Seeing that all the children, granddaughters-in-law and granddaughters had come back safely, Mother Jia was a little relieved, and asked, "How are you and Baoyu?" Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang looked at each other and replied, "Mrs. The brothers are all fine, please don't worry too much, old lady." Mother Jia lowered her head and thought after hearing this.After a while, Mother Jia asked again, "Why didn't you see Brother Feng?" Mrs. Wang just didn't know how to answer, and Mrs. Xing said, "Because there are still a few questions to ask, I am afraid that Lian's daughter-in-law will not be able to come back to visit Mrs. Ma'am." Mother Jia stopped asking.

Jia Mu rested for a while, and said slowly, "Yuanyang, bring that bundle." Yuanyang hurried to get two small bundles, and held them with Jia Mu.Mother Jia took it in her hands, rested for a while, and then slowly said to Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang, "These are some jewels. I kept them in the cabinet in the early years and never used them. In the panic that day, I asked Yuanyang to find them." When I came out, I took it with me. Now I leave it to you, there are plenty of places to spend money." After finishing speaking, he raised his hand tremblingly to take off the earring.Mrs. Wang hurriedly grabbed Jia Mu's hand, Jia Mu shook her head gently, and Mrs. Wang had to let go.Jiamu asked Yuanyang to take off the earrings slowly, and then took off the rings and bracelets on her hands.Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, Youshi, Li Wan, Baochai, Daiyu, Xichun, Qiaojie, Ping'er, Jiarong's wife, etc. were also busy taking off the hairpins and beads they were wearing.Jia Mu said: "One moment is not as good as one moment. If you can endure wealth, you must be able to endure poverty. Now that the family is in trouble, everyone must come from frugality and simplicity. Only when everyone works together can we tide over the difficulties together." Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang and others hurriedly said: "The old lady is very good at teaching!" Jia Mu asked Yuanyang to wrap up all the jewelry and hand them over to Mrs. Wang.He said to Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue and Youshi: "I will give these gold and silver jewelry to you four. This is all our family property now. You should discuss and make good use of it." The four agreed, I don't feel tears falling like rain.Everyone underground couldn't help covering their faces and weeping.