Tong Jia anecdote

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Today, the two got up later than usual.Tong Jiu heard from Hong Xiao that the account reconciliation person from Chengde Mansion had arrived, and Shen Jianping had been waiting in the wing room for a while, and quickly ordered the servants to serve breakfast.

Seeing that Tong Jiu had finished washing up, she hurried to go to the Nuan Pavilion for breakfast.Ji Lan, who was still dressing up, stopped her and said, "Lu Qi, I have had breakfast, I have to go to the Yangzheng Hall today, and I'm afraid it's time to light the lamp when I come back."

Hearing that she was going to go out for a whole day, Tong Jiu walked back and went behind Ji Lan to look at Ji Lan who was half-applied with makeup in the bronze mirror.Holding her shoulders with both hands, Tong Jiu smiled and said to Ji Lan in the mirror, "Later, I'll pick you up."

As he spoke, he squeezed her shoulders, turned around and walked out, saw the corresponding hairpins in the hairpin box that Fu Chaqin held in his hand, pointed to one of them, said, "This one looks good," and went out.

"Master?" Fu Chaqin picked up Tong Jiu's hairpin and showed it to Ji Lan. Ji Lan nodded and put it on her head.

After eating, Tong Jiu went to the accountant in front, and Ji Lan left the mansion and returned to the Yangzheng Hall.

Tuya came to Yangzhengtang early in the morning, and was really relieved to hear that her sister had finally returned to take charge of the house.This month will be over soon, and it will be the New Year's Eve again. If Ji Lan doesn't come back to settle the big bill, the cabinet will not be able to give bonuses to each house.

At this time, the dividends are in arrears, and there is no telling what will happen to the heads of the houses. I don't want to poke these hornet's nests.

"If I hadn't seen these two girls, I would have thought I was mistaken." Tuya stood on the steps, looked at Ji Lan who was wearing a Firefox cloak and had a red hairpin on her head, and said in surprise "You didn't like this bright red and purple color since you were a child, what's wrong with you now, have you changed your sex?"

"Happy." Ji Lan smiled knowingly, walked inside, stood there still, staring at Tuya who was staring at him endlessly, and said, "Go, it's so cold, what are you doing here? "

"No, why don't I take a closer look at you? Ding got such a coral hairpin. Hey, hey, it looks like the Mongolian sheepherder who came to Beijing." Tuya followed her inside jokingly.

"My uncle picked it." Fu Chaqin also laughed.

"Oh." Tuya understood, sat down with Jilan one after another, and said, "Han Luqi, your family, doesn't look like a Han Jinshi at all. I've seen a lot of those scholars in the Imperial Academy, how can he be like him. With hairpins like this, besides those Mongols, who else likes them?"

Ji Lan also ignored what she said, and said to Fuchami, "Let the big shopkeeper in front lead the accountants to start the settlement, and I will go over to see the count later."

Afterwards, he took the teacup from Fuchaqin and said, "I went to Linwuna yesterday, and I brought Yunman and his wife over."

"Why do you care about those things in the house?" Tuya snorted coldly. , Don't take our second room seriously. There should be someone like the sixth, who slaps their room head in the face."

Said disgustedly, "My daughter's family was pregnant with an unknown child before they were married. She was born only seven months after marriage, but she was divorced by her husband's family. Although our Fucha family is not full of loyalty, right? But that's not the case. Her own sister doesn't care how capable she is, you'll have a better reputation, so don't mess with her and send her back as soon as possible."

"No, it's fine for Lin Wu to say such things. Why do you say that when you are an eldest sister? Don't you know what Yunman beats a child? You dare not speak loudly. I have been seeing a doctor these years, and my fetal gas is unstable and premature in June and July. There are no longer a few pregnant women." Ji Lan flipped through the medical books beside her.

While looking for Tuya to see, he didn't like to listen and said, "Even if you have a child with someone else, I don't believe she would dare to do such a thing."

"Hey, you are not big or small!" Tuya glared at her, and said, "Back then, everyone in Tong Jia's house was bloody and incompatible. And—" Tuya said in a low voice, "It is said that When she was newly married, she didn't lose her popularity either."

Ji Lan snorted and said, "Recognize relatives by dripping blood? You should listen to the opera, our blood may not melt, you were picked up by Ama. Many women who ride horses on the grassland, many of them are not popular. We can only Said, Yunman's life is bitter, Tong Jia's house is nothing."

"Absurd, I think you are picked by Ama." Tuya heard Ji Lan's high-sounding remarks, and said, "Even if everything is as you said, the Tong Jia family is also a famous family. How can such a house be tolerated?" Get over this kind of thing."

"What's wrong with the famous family, there are also young ladies who escaped marriage and election in their family." Speaking of Tong Jia's family, thinking of Tong Jiu's smirk, Ji Lan smiled gently.

"And this matter, I'm in the capital all day long, why don't I know." Tuya was curiously interested, and said, "Which lady from Tong Jia's door ran away, and who did she run away with?"

Ji Lan hooked the corners of his mouth, and said casually, "Run with me."

Tuya only thought that she was just talking nonsense to make her happy, drank a few sips of tea, and said, "This time, Linwu took the soft drink, are you relieved? I walked away from you yesterday and went directly to the palace to find her sister." , her sister said, Yangzhengtang is up to you."

"Of course it's up to me. You see her in the palace, with a glamorous name and a servant. In fact, over the years, her food and clothing, and the ups and downs of the festivals, which one is not Yangzhengtang? Is it not me?" Let's go." Ji Lan sighed, "It's just a matter of looking good at each other."

"Since you came back, Su Le's books have stopped reading. I've been fooling around with Han Luqi all day, no matter how capable I am when I grow up, I'm just a businessman." Tuya sighed, "I don't know what the future holds for this child. What the hell are you planning?"

"It's not good to hang out with Lu Qi. We Lu Qi want fame and fame, and skills. Besides, what happened to the businessman? Grandpa Ama is a businessman. Didn't you grow up in this Yangzhengtang?" Ji Lan felt that as she got older, she became less and less able to talk to her sister.

He said again, "My plan is to bring Yunman and his wife here and let Brother Jin accompany Su Le to study. When we are not in Beijing, Yunman can take care of him. My bonus will be given to their mothers to live." , Lu Qi also agreed."

"Jilan, did I hear you right? Leave the royal mansion alone, and you let a woman as famous as Yunman come and raise your child, and give her your own bonus?" Tuya raised a few voices. .

"Fucha Tuya, Yunman is the younger sister who grew up with us. Look at her now, what is she eating and wearing?" Ji Lan stopped Tuya, who was about to argue, and said, "Yangzhengtang , I am in charge!"

Tuya nodded angrily, picked up the tea bowl, took a few sips, then glared at Ji Lan again, feeling speechless.

Besides, Tong Jiu has been busy all morning.At noon, Ji Lan was not at the mansion, so he just ordered a table outside, which was regarded as a welcome for the people in the Chengde mansion branch and Dagula, but fearing that it would delay the afternoon's settlement, everyone didn't drink.

After returning home, he took a nap and went to the pavilion ten miles west of the city with Hua Jingfu.

In the freezing weather, the two of them rode out of the city gate on horseback. The farther west they went, the fewer people there were.

When they arrived at Shiliting, Tong Jiu got off the horse, took out his pocket watch from his pocket to check the time, it was three quarters.He took off the tea crystal glasses on the bridge of his nose, looked at the old high sun in the sky, but there was no warmth, and said to Jing Fu behind him, "This is a barren mountain, and I feel uneasy in my heart for no reason."

At this time, a carriage drove up from the small path in the west of the pavilion. It was a very ordinary carriage without any name.The carriage stopped in front of the pavilion, the curtain was lifted, and a woman poked her head out. It was Jiuniang, who smiled at Tong Jiu, "Here we come? Let's go."

As he said that, the groom turned the front of the car and headed west on the road they had just come from.Tong Jiu wanted to ask her where she was going, but the car was already far away, so she had to get on the horse with Jing Fu and follow her.

The carriage traveled a long way and stopped after turning to a hill.Jiuniang got out of the car and took a basket from the car. The top was covered, so she couldn't see what was inside.Walking to the path on the mountain, he said to Tong Jiu who was still riding on the horse, "It's not far, we can walk."

"Let me do it." Tong Jiu dismounted, took the basket from Jiuniang, and followed her.Not far away, I saw a deserted fenced yard with a thatched hut inside.After going around the fenced yard, there is a small forest. Because it grows on the mountain, the trees are not tall, and the trees are sparse and uneven.

In the woods, there are several solitary graves, the soil on them is not old, but there are no tombstones.There are still some paper money that has turned white on the top of the grave, which proves that someone paid homage to it, and the surrounding area is full of weeds.

Jiuniang took the basket from Tong Jiu's hand, walked to the grave in the middle, took out a set of tribute paper money from it, and placed it in front of the grave.Tong Jiu looked at the withered grass around the grave from a distance, so he went to pull a few.

Jiuniang burned incense and said to Tong Jiu, "Come here, these are the elders of my family. It's Chinese New Year, let's pay homage to them together."

Tong Jiu took the incense and said, "Since you are the elders of your family, why don't you even set up a tombstone? And in such a desolate place, don't they have any sons? It's really unfilial."

"They didn't have a son, but now they have another." Jiuniang looked at Tong Jiu, covered her mouth and wiped away her tears, and kowtowed heavily in front of the grave, saying, "You have a son under the spring, so you should take good care of him." She. If you want to blame or blame, just blame me."

She was like this, which made Tong Jiu feel sad, followed her to kowtow in front of the grave and burn incense.After muttering for a while, Fang got up, took Hua Jingfu and pulled up the weeds around the graveyard.

"What did you read just now?" Jiu Niang asked as they walked back after going to the grave, dusting off the sand sticking to her cloak.

"Oh, the reincarnation mantra." Tong Jiu pulled a little distance away from her, and said, "I recited it 21 times, and the Dharma is boundless, and it will take them to the bliss of rebirth."

"Who taught you this?" Jiuniang said with a lonely expression when she saw that Tong Jiu didn't want to get close to her.

"My wife." Speaking of Ji Lan, Tong Jiu smiled and said, "I didn't understand this before. After getting married, she asked me to copy some Buddhist scriptures every night before going to bed. Over time, I understood a little bit. This man Now, you must deeply understand the principle of karma and retribution, don’t do evil because it is small, and don’t do good because it is small.”

"Jiuye." At the foot of the mountain, Jiuniang stopped Tong Jiu and said, "It's not convenient for me to come out once, so I can't bother you during New Years and festivals. I often come here to have a look."

Thinking of Ji Lan's reluctance to let herself have too much to do with her, Tong Jiu hesitated, but seeing Jiu Niang's tears falling again, she said, "It's not a big deal, don't worry."

Jiu Niang nodded and got into the carriage without looking back.Tong Jiu walked over and handed over the basket. Feeling that the woman's eyes were red and swollen, and her face was haggard, she looked weak in the strong north wind in the mountains, so she said, "You are leaving? Then, take care."

"Why, you still want to see me again?" Jiu Niang laughed at herself and looked at her deeply.

"Ang?" Tong Jiu was slightly startled, not answering her words.

"Hehe, I know you don't want to see me." Jiuniang suppressed her sentimentality, pulled a piece of hand off her body and stuffed it into Tong Jiu's hand, covered her mouth and quickly put down the curtain, tremblingly said to the driver, " Walk!"

Holding the piece of jade in his hand, Tong Jiu looked at it, and felt a little pain in his heart. He looked up at Jiuniang's carriage, and he let out a sigh of relief as he walked away.

He said to Jing Fu who was already on his horse behind him, "Jing Fu, do you think she looks like a bad person?"

Jing Fu raised the reins of the horse and looked at the road ahead, "What is good and what is bad?" Seeing that Tong Jiu didn't answer, he slammed his legs on the horse's belly and left.