[Red Mansion] Mother Jia has a paralyzed face

At the end of the year, the festivals of the capital were sent to Jinling together. Zhang Rui took Jia Zhu and Jia Lian to unwrap the presents together. Obviously there was nothing missing, but everyone was in full swing.

Everyone has a special gift, Zhang Rui was very happy seeing Jia Zhu and Jia Lian holding the gifts from their parents, and asked with a smile: "This year I will only celebrate the New Year in Jinling with my grandmother, will you miss your parents?"

Jia Lian shook her head, no miss was visible on her face, "I am so happy to have my grandmother Lian'er every day!"

"Are you because of grandma? How does grandma feel that Lian'er is because she is having fun outside?" Zhang Rui teased him, "Isn't Lian'er afraid that your mother likes younger sister more?"

Jia Lian pouted, "Mother loves sister as much as she loves sister, and grandma loves me even more!"

"You are all grandma's treasures, the same hobbies as grandma."

"Liar~ Grandmother obviously likes elder brother more." After speaking, she touched Jia Zhu with her hand, "Second brother, don't you think so?"

Jia Zhu blinked, shook her head and smiled without speaking.

Zhang Rui didn't deny this, but said that it hurt the children's heart, and she didn't want to lie to the children, so she changed the subject silently.

Jia Min's letter was also sent along with the ceremony. When I opened it, it was written that Lin Ruhai would be sent to Yangzhou after the Chinese New Year. At that time, the whole family would go back to Suzhou to worship their ancestors. I hope they will wait until Jia Hu and Jia Zhen finish their exams. Try to live in Yangzhou for a while.

Zhang Rui did not expect that Lin Ruhai would be released so soon. Although the official position is not that of the later "Patrolling Salt Censor", but judging from the original book, the Lin family will not return to the capital for at least many years, and she may not see her for a long time. When I came to Jia Min, I was a little bit reluctant to think about it.

In the evening, when Jia Zhen and Jia Hu came back from studying for dinner, Zhang Rui told them about it, "I think your aunt will live for a while when she arrives in Yangzhou, otherwise I don't know how long it will be before we meet again."

Jia Hu had no objection, nodded and said: "Then I will write a letter with my parents and tell them that we will go back to the capital later."

"Zhen'er also ask your father, maybe he has something else to do." His own family is fine, Zhang Rui can decide, but Jia Zhen is different, Jia Jing still needs to approve.

But Jia Zhen replied indifferently: "I will follow my uncle and grandma, my father is most at ease, he will definitely approve."

"Then say it too."

Jia Zhen felt a little troublesome, but she nodded helplessly under the eyes of her aunt and grandmother: "Okay~ I'll listen to you."

Jia Zhu, Jia Lian and their aunt were in a very good mood. They were very happy knowing that they were going to their aunt's home in Yangzhou. They had no objection to returning to the capital late, so Zhang Rui wrote a letter and sent it back. It took a long time for the letter to come and go. But she was not at all worried that there would be opinions at home.

If there is an opinion, she will reject it.

On the night of New Year's Eve, only Zhang Rui and a few children watched the night together, and the grandparents and grandchildren sat around and ate the hot soup pot.

As the only elder, Zhang Rui took the lead and said: "At the beginning of the new year, grandma hopes that our Zhen'er and Hu'er can live up to this period of hard study and have a clear conscience; I hope that Zhu'er and Lian'er will be healthy and carefree .”

"Thank you grandma/grandmother, I wish grandma/grandmother good health and longevity." The children toasted their grandmothers with tea instead of wine.

After drinking this cup of tea, Zhang Rui sighed in his heart, complaining that people always want to enjoy family happiness, and being surrounded by children is indeed a different sense of happiness.

After eating the soup pot, Zhang Rui didn't let the children watch the night, and sent them back to rest early, and she fell asleep by herself.

On the second day, she was full of energy and waited for her grandchildren to come to pay her New Year's greetings.

She had prepared a purse early on, which contained carefully selected gifts. The grandchildren kowtowed to say hello one by one, and Zhang Rui handed them one after another.

"You guys just have fun today, and it's not a bad day to study." He said and looked at Jia Hu, "You can take more servants and guards to go outside, your two younger brothers have long wanted to go out to play , I've been holding back, it's the first day of the new year, you guys relax."

"Isn't grandma going?"

"Grandma is going too, how can grandma rest assured that you children go out to play."

When Jia Zhu and Jia Lian heard that her grandmother was also going, she happily circled around her, cleaned up and went to the temple fair with the guards.

The people in Jinling also dared to come out on this day, shouting and hawking endlessly, and the children were very interested, but Zhang Rui saw that there were too many people here, so he didn't let them in, but walked directly from the side. On the halfway up the mountain.

Jia Lian was a little disappointed, and kept looking back at the temple fair at the foot of the mountain. Zhang Rui glanced at him and said casually, "Walk well."

"Yes, grandma." After being caught straight, Jia Lian stopped looking at the foot of the mountain, and looked at the road and climbing the mountain seriously.

There is a gazebo halfway up the mountain. Zhang Rui is planning to sit there for a rest before climbing up. After climbing like this for nearly two quarters of an hour, he just turned a corner when he heard laughter from above.

After walking a few steps forward, Jia Hu could vaguely see the people inside. Jia Hu looked at it, tilted his head and said to his grandmother, "It's some collateral cousins ​​I met at Zhen's house."

Zhang Rui nodded, and saw that the man at the head was sniffing the hair of the girl who fell in the middle, and the girl kept hiding behind.

Jia Lian had always been taught by his grandmother to be virtuous, so naturally he felt that something was wrong, so he directly asked with a sense of justice, "What are you doing?!"

When the group turned back, they saw an old lady and a few young boys under the steps. The Zhen family they followed had always walked sideways in Jinling, and of course they looked a little disdainful.

But the man at the head had called Jia Zhen and Jia Hu. Hearing the child's voice and taking a closer look, he immediately recognized the heirs of the grandchildren of the two houses of Jia's family.

As for the clothes of the two ladies, he guessed their identities as soon as he thought about them. He is not a direct descendant, so of course he dare not show any disrespect to the old lady of Rongguo Mansion.

He lowered his hands respectfully and said with a smile: "Is it Mrs. Rong Guogong? The younger generation, Zhenjia Yu'an, has met the old lady."

Since Jia Lian made his voice, Zhang Rui paid attention to everyone's reaction. Jia Zhu and Jia Lian had similar expressions, but his emotions were not as good as Jia Lian's, so he didn't make a sound.

As for the woman in the gazebo, she got closer when she was talking just now, and she was indeed quite colorful, but her eyes seemed a little restless.

As soon as Zhang Rui looked around, she saw that Jia Zhen smiled foolishly, but she didn't have any other expressions. She was very satisfied with this, and the children in their family were still good after all, which made her feel very relieved.

He didn't care about the woman on the ground, and Zhang Rui said a few words to those few people who were completely unnamed except for the Zhen family, and then left.

Jia Zhu Jia Lian was a smart child, seeing that his grandmother never mentioned what happened just now, he knew in his heart that there must be a reason for his grandmother, so he also spoke out.

But when the woman saw that the terrific young masters wanted to flatter the new old lady, she threw herself down in front of the old lady and cried with tears: "The old lady is merciful, save the daughters of the people, The girl of the people is a girl from a good family, she must not... must not... er..."

Zhang Rui squinted at her acting and Lihua led Yujiao to look at Jia Zhen timidly, she felt a little helpless in her heart, if Jia Zhen didn't respond, she would have asked someone to drive this woman out!

When Zhen Yu'an saw this woman saying such things in front of the old lady of the Jia family, she became a little anxious, gave her a vicious look, and said to the old lady: "Old lady, don't get me wrong, this woman is talking nonsense, what kind of woman does the boy want?" No, there is no need to do such things."

Of course Zhang Rui could see what was going on, but she didn't like these two people, and she didn't want to get involved in the lawsuit, so she was going to ignore it.

But these people stood in front of them, and seeing a group of people coming up and down the stairs, Zhen Yu'an turned around and saw that it was the cousin of the second wife of the first branch, and felt a little uneasy.

Zhen Yuyuan, the second son of the Zhen family, came down and bowed to Zhang Rui and asked, "Did my worthless cousin disturb the old lady?"

"It's not a big deal, it's just a chance encounter. My grandchildren and I still have to offer incense in the temple, so we won't stay in this pavilion for long."

"Go slowly." Zhen Yuyuan glanced at Jia Zhen again, and invited with a smile: "The Zhen family invited an opera troupe to set up a stage next to the temple fair to sing, if you have time, you can bring a few cousins ​​to listen. "

Zhang Rui originally wanted to refuse, but it can be seen that Jia Lian was interested, and they had to walk with the Zhen family, after thinking about it, they didn't completely refuse, "I don't like enthusiasm, let Zhen'er Huer and the others go and have fun. Bar."

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Jia Hu and the servants, and said, "Bring more people, so as not to collide with people coming and going, pay attention to Zhu'er and Lian'er."

"It's grandma, Hu'er knows."

"Then you go with the cousins ​​of the Zhen family, and I will go up the mountain by myself."

Although Jia Hu was a little worried about his grandmother alone, he was even more worried about his two younger brothers, so he could only tell his grandmother a few words, "Be careful."

Zhang Rui responded one after another, and took a step forward to see the woman kneeling there with a bit of shame on her face, then she looked away at the brothers of Zhen's family, "It's not a big deal for people like us to take concubines, if you meet someone you like, It doesn't matter if you just beg and carry it back seriously, there's no need to make a fuss outside here and lose the face of the family, right?"

"The old lady is right." Zhen Yuyuan secretly glanced at his cousin, a little annoyed that he threw him outside, but he didn't like the woman either.

Zhen Yu'an also nodded with a sneer, "What the old lady said was that this junior was being rude. When this junior returns, people will ask her at her house. If he wants to, he can be carried back to the mansion. If he doesn't want to, this junior will definitely not be wronged."

The woman originally thought that her wish was about to come to nothing, but unexpectedly, she would have the opportunity to be carried into the rich nobleman's house directly, and a trace of joy flashed in her eyes.

Zhang Rui saw it in his eyes, and didn't want to say too much about irrelevant people. Everyone has their own fate, so there is no need to interfere.