Tong Jia anecdote

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When Tong Jiu returned to the mansion, the sky was already getting dark.Seeing that she came back safely, Hong Xiao finally let go after worrying about her for a few days.But since she came back, she was just sitting there drinking tea in a depressed mood, not saying anything to me.

"Brother Jiu, it's been a day since the calculations ahead, isn't it all going well?" Hong Xiao asked, Tong Jiu said "hmm", nodded, and still didn't say much.

Hongxiao looked outside again and said, "Look at this day, the wind is blowing and the sky is changing, and it will snow in [-]% of the night. Madam has gone to this big day, and I don't know if I will come back at night."

"Take a bath first, change clothes and I'll pick her up." Tong Jiu said a little tiredly.

"It doesn't take noon or noon, what kind of bath should I take?" Hong Xiao looked at Tong Jiu's neat clothes in puzzlement. After all, she had to wash at night, and she wasn't particularly dirty and didn't rush to take a bath at this time.

"Wash it, so as not to say that I was contaminated with this powder or that fragrance again." Tong Jiu got up, walked inside, and said, "She has been upset for the past few days, and I don't want to provoke her for these unreasonable things."

"I see, she is much better than before." Hong Xiao followed her to the back.

After Tong Jiu took a shower and changed clothes, Ji Lan had already returned from Yangzheng Hall, and I heard that she had just entered the mansion.

"Why did you come back so early?" Tong Jiu asked when she saw her enter the main entrance when she went out.But sensing the stagnation on Ji Lan's face, he hurriedly explained, "No, I was thinking of going to pick you up after taking a bath. I never thought you would come back so soon."

"What's so good about those tents? After this big day, why don't you let me come back early to rest?" In fact, Ji Lan was also thinking about Tong Jiu's meeting with Jiuniang today, and came back after dark. up.He just entered the door, but when he heard Tong Jiu's question, he felt a little unhappy.

Said, "I'll take a bath first, and you go to Su Le's yard for a walk. By the way, look at Yun Man and his wife. Are you free to spend on food and clothing? After all, you are the master of this house. Later, call them A few, come over for dinner together."

"Hey, good." Tong Jiu responded.

"Sister Hong, the bracelet you wanted to change last time can be changed yesterday, you can come to my room and get it." Ji Lan said to Hong Xiao who was beside Tong Jiu.So, Tong Jiu passed through Su Le's courtyard, and Hong Xiao followed Ji Lan back to the main room.

Behind the screen, Sister Fucha waited on Ji Lan to take a bath while Hong Xiao stood outside the screen and said, "I asked Jing Fu about it, but it's not a big deal this time. I just led her to a small hill and worshiped her." There are some lonely graves without tombstones. They are said to be the ancestors of Jiuniang."

"The lonely tomb without a stele—" Ji Lan submerged his body in the hot water of the bathtub, and said tiredly, "When you have time tomorrow, let Jing Fu take you there to recognize it, and find some people to repair it. Find a few more people who are similar to Master Jiu, and go to watch the spirit. You don't need to tell her about this."

"Okay." Hong Xiao responded.

"By the way, Hongxiao." Ji Lan said again, "About 11 years ago, when you and Master Jiu were in the capital. Have you ever heard that in Tong Jia's house in the early years, there was a brother who married, and it was not enough time?" She gave birth to a child in July, and finally divorced the bride and went home?"

"11 years ago——" Hongxiao thought back, "If it was 11 years ago, it would have been when our brother was ten years old. That year, the fifth master of their family got married, but the new wife didn't arrive. He was sent away in one year. At that time, we were all young, but we couldn't remember what it was for. I just remember that Master Jiu cried so much."

Due to the presence of the Fucha sisters, Ji Lan and Hong Xiao kept things relatively secretive about Tong Jia's residence.

"Oh, hehehe." Ji Lan smiled, and suddenly changed the tone, jokingly said, "This hero Hua, usually looks a little arrogant. But for you, sister Hong, you have to answer every question. Treat each other."

"Hey, ma'am, do you still have the time to make fun of us?" Hong Xiao took the bracelet that Fuchami handed over, put it on her wrist and looked at it, and said, "I know what Lin Wuye you are. Are you finding fault? You don't really think he is Master Sule."

"If it's not for Su Le, then it's for money?" Ji Lan didn't care, lightly shaking the hair on his head, guessing.

"I also heard from the manager Qiu from Dazhengchang in Chengde Mansion. Lin Wuye gambled a lot in Chengde Mansion in summer. In winter, the debt collectors from gambling shops even went to Dazhengchang. But later For some reason, I heard that people from Yu Hetang came forward to pay off his gambling debts."

Ji Lan stretched out her jade arms, took off the petals dipped on them, and said, "Your cousin, your arms are long enough, aren't you?"

Hong Xiao shook her head, and said, "Since my brother came back yesterday, I have thought about it. How to say, I grew up from the junior one. These tricks don't seem like she can do it."

"Even if she didn't make it, she still wants to get rid of it? Unless someone can't remember those things for the rest of their lives." Ji Lan said, "It seems that the pillow was smashed just right."

After Hongxiao went out, she waited on the side, and Fu Chaqin, who listened to the conversation between the two, only understood one thing, and said, "Brother Lan, Lin Wu is really confused, come and stir up trouble with Yu Hetang." Our own business?"

Ji Lan was thinking about something else, and asked, "Sister Qin, I remember that Qijia Muyun and Bomuer are cousins, right?"

Fu Chaqin was slightly taken aback, wondering why the master suddenly thought of this, and replied, "That's right, your ex-mother-in-law's surname was Qi Jia."

"Hehe, interesting." Ji Lan chuckled to himself, and said playfully, "My cousin abducted her cousin and ran away, but this cousin married her cousin. Thanks to the fact that the Qi Jia family was just a fill-in house in Tong Jia's house, what about the cousin and the cousin? No matter how you calculate, there is still a level behind. After all, it is not as close as my cousin's cousin."

"Master, you, cousin, who are you talking about?" Fu Chaqin became more and more confused.

Ji Lan sighed and said, "It's no wonder she's going crazy." She got up from the tub, feeling a little more excited, and said, "But it's also thanks to her being crazy. Well, I won't take a bath, I'm hungry."

When Ji Lan arrived at the living room, Tong Jiu had already come from behind with Yun Man, mother and son, and Su Le.Su Le was sitting on Tong Jiu's lap, crying.It turned out that when he was learning how to ride a horse, the horse bit him on the back of his hand, and he was startled.

"It's not a problem, it's not a problem. It's always hard to learn skills." Tong Jiu coaxed him with a smile, and rubbed his hands with her own ointment.

Yunman wiped her nephew's tears with a handkerchief, and said, "Su Le is a man, how can he cry like a daughter. My aunt used to know a little girl who was also in her teens. Every morning, she would I ran to the stables to ride a horse, and one day I was bitten on the ass by a horse, and I didn’t say a word.”

"Hehehe, I bit my ass—." The child was crying and laughing quickly.

But Ji Lan and Tong Jiu were startled when they heard this. Tong Jiu subconsciously stroked her buttocks, then carefully looked at Yun Man in front of her and Fucha Jinming beside her, and frowned.

"Ahem." Ji Lan couldn't bear seeing Yunman being stared at by Tong Jiu so directly, she cleared her throat, and said, "Lu Qi, Yangzhengtang has sent a camel team to transport medicinal materials today. After the payment has been settled, we will sell it after you have counted it out."

"Oh, good." Tong Jiu came back to his senses, checked that the injury on Su Le's hand was not serious, screwed on the lid of the medicine bottle, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Study hard, learn it, and wait for the weather to warm up. You go hunting."

"Really?" Su Le clapped his hands, but he yelled "Ouch" and "Ouch" twice, and he didn't forget to bark his teeth and ask Jin Ming, "Brother Jin, can you come with me then? Is it?"

Jin Ming looked at Tong Jiu and Yun Man, but did not speak.

"Let's go together." Tong Jiu said to Yun Man, "In the future, whatever Su Le has, Jin Ming will be indispensable. After the Chinese New Year, I will find a learned gentleman for them and let them study together." , Learn."

Yun Man nodded gratefully, wiped away her tears, and said, "Jin Ming is a good boy, I am no better than my second sister at home. The child followed me, and I don't know how much he has been wronged since he was a child."

As he spoke, he embraced Jin Ming in front of Tong Jiu, and said, "Don't be afraid of my brother-in-law's jokes, you have seen our house, who is willing to go out and ask Mr. to teach and ask. I don't ask for anything, I just want Jin Ming to follow my sister Brother-in-law can learn how to eat, and when he grows up, don't grow up to be as idle as my brother. In this way, I did not raise him in vain."

Ji Lan smiled and comforted her and said, "I know your character best. If you are not a good person, I would not let you come. So, you can live in peace, all the money in this house is mine. Never mind. This gentleman, if she doesn't ask for it, I will. "

At this time, the maids and women came in one after another, and they stood up and greeted everyone, "Okay, let's eat."

After dinner, Dagula came to chat with Tong Jiu for a while.After seeing him off, when Tong Jiu returned to the inner room, Ji Lan showed her the account book and said, "This is the cost of this month's mansion. If there is nothing wrong with it, I will stamp it and let the accountant come to get it."

Tong Jiu flipped through it casually, took out her own small seal and stamped it.

"The expenses of Yunman's mother and son have to go to your account." Ji Lan squeezed out the account book, put it on the desk, and said, "Some people don't learn well when they are young. Get under the bed of your sister-in-law. Now that the children are so old, you If you don’t support anyone.”

"Hey!" Tong Jiu interrupted her, and said, "I want to be able to do that, both of us." He glanced at Ji Lan's stomach with a smirk, and muttered, "Not long ago."

"What's there, where should I look?" Ji Lan patted her and said, "I'm asking about your business. I heard that you have climbed a mountain?"

"Oh, that's right." Tong Jiu took out the jade handle and gave it to Ji Lan, saying, "She, Jiu Niang gave me such a thing when she was leaving."

Ji Lan took it, held it in the palm of his hand and looked at it, but accidentally found that the quality of the jade handle was very close to the ring on his thumb.

He bent his thumb and rubbed his finger against the handle one after another. The more he looked at it, the more he thought it was a piece of jade.Looking up at Tong Jiu, Tong Jiu pretended not to care at all, and was lowering his head to clean up the printing pad on the desk.

Ji Lan opened the drawer, threw one piece in, and took out another one from the drawer to Tong Jiu.

Tong Jiu looked up and saw that it was a tea crystal sunglasses, and looked at Ji Lan in puzzlement.

Ji Lan said, "I look at the one you are wearing now, and you always have to hold it with your hand. It must be a little too big and it doesn't fit well. How about trying this one."

Tong Jiu was just about to pick it up, Ji Lan avoided her arm and gently put it on for her with her own hands.Tong Jiu embraced Ji Lan's waist, moved her nose, and got used to the new glasses.

Ji Lan leaned back slightly, looked at it and asked, "How is it compared to the previous one?"

"Very good." Tong Jiu nodded and said with a smile, "It's also lighter."

After hearing this, Ji Lan leaned on Tong Jiu's shoulder and said leisurely, "So, it may not be that the previous one is suitable."