The Fenghua Years of the Red Chamber

Wang Xifeng originally thought that if she took over her mother-in-law's dowry, she would definitely get a windfall, but in the end, when it was in her hands, only half of the expected amount was left. Why do you think?

It turned out that the 10 taels of silver requested by j Jia Jing was not enough, and the second room could only take out 5 taels of silver bills, and the rest was paid in kind. Lost 5%. Xiaojing gave Jia Amnesty 2 taels of 1 taels of cash, Jia Lian kept 2 taels for herself, and only [-] taels of silver came to her.

The properties he took over were mixed, good and bad. The jewelry was downgraded by a level, so it could be used as an appearance. If you are not proficient in this way, send it to Jia Amnesty to distinguish one or two, and you will not be filial. In the end, [-]% of the works are authentic and [-]% are fakes.

Jia Jiaben started his family with the army, and now the world is at peace. If it rises again, it will take the road of imperial examinations. Therefore, no matter whether it is true or not, all the original copies are left behind. Wang Xifeng is not a loser. She found a good place for those antiques and fakes of calligraphy and paintings. , not only will not be damaged, but will also be exchanged for the original value.

As the New Year approached, Lin Zhixiao returned from Jinling on business. In addition to completing the purchase of the land for sacrifice, he also brought back two bad news. One was the property purchased by Rong Guogong, and the other was that Zhou Rui bribed the prefect of Jinling to suppress and occupy the ancestral property of the Lin family, which led to the destruction of the Jia family's statement in Shilin in the south of the Yangtze River.

Jia Amnesty was furious and the building was about to collapse. He and Brother Jing racked their brains to preserve Jia's family, but there were many constraints, and it was difficult to support the whole family. The talents of making are cultivated separately, or arranged to study general affairs in the government, or learn business from the shopkeeper, or send them to the academy to study, so as to preserve the vitality of Jia's family.

As for ethnology, it is the foundation of a family, but under Jia Dairu's management, not to mention not one scholar has been cultivated in these years, it has been reduced to a place where urchins play and play, and it is even a place where his grandson Jia Rui dominates.It can be considered that Jia Rui's fate is good. In the previous life, Wang Xifeng punished him until he died. In this life, Wang Xifeng eats vegetarian food and prays to Buddha. He is busy saving his family all day long, so he has no time to send him to the underworld.

The situation of the ethnology, the masters of Rongning and Ningfu are well aware of it, because of Jia Dairu's face, they have been muddling along, but now it can't be the case, Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian sent someone to lure the pedantic Jia Zheng to the ethnology, and happened to meet Jia Rui and others. Jia Zheng was very indignant when the students did such things, he rewarded those who participated with [-] boards and expelled him from ethnology.To make matters worse, Jia Rui was beaten [-] times. She was frightened and frightened, and she felt a little bad. Wang Xifeng kindly rewarded the ginseng, but finally went.After Wang Xifeng found out, he secretly sighed in his heart that it was all destined.

After Jia Rui's death, Jia Dairu was disheartened and resigned from his errand of ethnology. Jia Lian was ordered to manage the ethnology. The poor people in the family got convenience.

As the Chinese New Year comes closer, people and family are busy, and Rongguo Mansion is much more lively than in previous years. This makes Mrs. Wang proud, convinced that as long as there is a concubine, her precious jade will have a bright future, and everyone in Rongguo Mansion will also rely on the second wife to live in the future. , Complacent and at the same time not forgetting to add trouble to the big house.Rumors suddenly spread in the mansion that Jia She oppressed the younger generation and seized the dowry of his first wife.

This remark is not groundless. It was mentioned earlier that Wang Xifeng found a good place for the counterfeit. Because of the plan, Jia She was required to come forward. Jia Lian only brought the real product back and left all the fakes at Jia She. Mrs. Shang Wang's promotion fueled the flames, so it was naturally rumored that all the dignitaries in the capital knew about it, and it became a joke among the people.

After the old lady found out, she reprimanded Jia Amnesty, claiming that she regretted handing over the dowry. Naturally, Mrs. Wang didn't get any benefits, and the old lady taught you to restrain yourself in private.After all this, everyone knew about it, so Jia Amnesty took the opportunity to pretend to be annoyed and brought a few boxes of fakes to the antique shop opened by Zhou Rui's son-in-law, Leng Zixing.

Leng Zixing opened the box and broke out in a cold sweat after looking at three or five copies. It turned out that these calligraphy and paintings were sent to Mrs. Wang to replace the original ones. Leng Zixing's shop was originally a place where Mrs. Wang sold stolen goods. , and also raised a group of fake masters.These fakes were made by these masters, and now it was Jia She who brought the things, he was already guilty, thinking that Jia She was here to smash the store, how could he not be afraid, and he yelled badly in his heart.

"What's the meaning of the old man?" Leng Zixing asked bravely, for fear that Jia Amnesty would let him test the authenticity.

"Shopkeeper Leng, these antique calligraphy and paintings in the box don't please our lord. I heard that Shopkeeper Leng's shop is quite famous, so I sent them here to buy one or two. Look at the price of these things, Shopkeeper Leng." Follow Liu Zhiqing said.

Leng Zixing was in a cold sweat. Combined with the previous rumors, he had already guessed that these boxes contained the dowry of his late wife, and secretly scolded Mrs. Wang for being too greedy.Now this box is probably full of fakes, today the Elder came to find him personally, naturally he found out about it, he didn't want to lose money, and came to find trouble.Leng Zixing knew that it was full of fakes, so he could only invite a clever master to check the authenticity, delaying time, and hurriedly sent someone to the mansion for help.

Jia She raised his hand to let someone carry the box to the inner room, leaving Liu Zhiqing to watch for the master to inspect, and to appreciate the cultural relics in the building by himself. The master knew what the shopkeeper meant when he saw the calligraphy and painting, and each painting was slow. Slow investigation, Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian in the Rongguo Mansion have already made preparations, and cooperated to send Zhou Rui and his wife out of the capital. After sending out the gift list to the royal family and nobles to ask for instructions, it took her two or three hours to see Mrs. Wang.

Leng Zixing couldn't wait for the government's decree, so he knew that today's bad luck was not good. He licked his face and said to Jia Amnesty: "My lord, you have a lot of antique calligraphy and paintings, and the small shop can't eat them. Otherwise, you can go and buy them." Ask elsewhere." Leng Zixing didn't want to offend the old man, and he didn't want to make a loss-making business, so he thought of ways to invite Jia Amnesty out.

Jia She is such a person who is easy to dismiss, "It's nothing, the things I brought are not for sale, everything in the box is priceless, I want to exchange some desirable rare items, look Come on, your place is well-deserved, that fan is pretty good, the front one, and the white jade ornament, glass screen, why, you don't want to change?" Just now when the master inspected, Jia She had turned the shop around At the same time, Leng Zixing brought out many rare treasures to enjoy.

Leng Zixing smiled wryly, I'm afraid I can't be good today, the items that the elder pointed out just now are all priceless, none of them can be worth all the things brought by the elder, the elder Jia She is a stupid person, if there is no purpose today Arriving, fearing that it would not stop, Leng Zixing could only bite the bullet and agree to barter, and then discuss it with his father-in-law. At the same time, he secretly rejoiced that he did not send more treasures to Jia She.

Since childhood, Jia She has been fascinated by rare treasures and antique treasures. These years, he has lived in a corner. He can only pass the time by playing with toys, appreciating real calligraphy and paintings. The objects were moved by others, and the people in the shop were not allowed to touch them during the period, fearing that they would be replaced again after passing through other hands, so they moved back the authentic treasures in the store. Of course, some rare copies even if they were fakes were also moved back together.

After Jia She and his party left, three people came out from behind the curtain. One was dressed in brocade clothes, with a dignified smile and a playful smile, the other was gentle and polite, with a bookish look, and the third was a servant. The servant looked at a weeping Leng Zixing and asked Said: "Shopkeeper, who was that just now?"

"That's the elder of Rongguo Mansion. The shop is in bad luck today. Didn't expect to meet him?" Leng Zixing shook his head and said.

"Shopkeeper Leng, are you joking? Who doesn't know that Mr. Jia is generous." The shopkeeper on the opposite side came in with a smile and said, all the shopkeepers in this street love Jia She, because Jia She valued things, no matter how high or low, they never returned them. price.

A group of people went out from the shop, "Your Majesty, this General Jia is not particular about it. It is too deceptive to exchange fakes for treasures." The servant Sun Liang said that the reason why he said fakes was because two of the original paintings were in his master's house. hand.

"Ziyue, what do you think?" The person called the prince is the current younger brother, Prince Zhongshun, who survived the battle for the throne because of his young age.

"My lord, this Marquis Jia En, it's hard to say, I'm afraid the shopkeeper's reaction may be different." Gong Ziyue said, he was the companion of Prince Zhongshun, and because of the age difference, he had never seen Jia She's demeanor in the upper study. .

"Send someone to check."

Jia Amnesty didn't know that what he did today attracted the loyal prince to investigate him, and he returned with a generous receipt. After taking away the items he wanted, he handed over the rest to Jia Lian. When Mrs. Wang learned about this, she swallowed her blood bitterly. It will be reported in the future and ordered people to spread the word that Jia She sold his ex-wife's dowry to buy a maidservant and so on, doing his best to smear it.

Jia Amnesty did not intend to hide his actions. His original intention was to tell the old lady and Mrs. Wang that Jia Amnesty's advantage is not easy to take advantage of. If you dare to do one thing today, he will dare to do two things. Will definitely get it back.When the old lady found out, she pointed at Jia She angrily and was speechless.

The big family is not interested in selling people, so Wang Xifeng told the old lady specially, saying that she was praying for her mother, and let a group of people go out. This group of people was carefully selected, and some of them were slaves who ate, drank, prostituted, and gambled. Some of them were the old lady, the servants who were placed by the second room in the big room, and some loyal servants who were loyal to the big room, and reported them together. Sister Feng said that this one was not dedicated, that one who ate wine and gambled, and talked about the master behind his back. Well, looking at the list, the old lady knew that the boss was acting as a monster, and took this opportunity to drive out these rumors, so she didn't pursue it further.

In addition to these, some older girls were released to marry on their own.As for those slaves who are domineering under the banner of the Rongguo Mansion, such as Lai Da and Zhou Rui, they will not let them go, and they will only deal with it later when they find out all the evidence.

When the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, the family-speaking villa began to be built. Jia Lian’s nanny, Mrs. Zhao, came in to find a job for the two sons. She followed Jia Lian and set off for Jiangnan again. The last two milk brothers are relieved.

Ever since the construction of the family-speaking villa began, Wang Xifeng was so busy that his feet never touched the ground. Later, seeing that the other female family members had nothing to do, she specially told the old lady Ming to ask the second girl Yingchun to follow her and learn how to be a housekeeper.Last time after Jia Amnesty dealt with the nanny, Jia Yingchun felt ashamed and at the same time knew that she still had family members who cared about her, but she became more open-minded, and then invited the nanny to teach her, which was much better than the original Er Mutou , followed Wang Xifeng all day, but it helped a lot.

When Wang Xifeng was busy, the servants outside asked her to comfort Baoyu, saying that Qin Zhong died of illness, and Baoyu was very sad when he returned from the funeral.

One day, Ping'er came to report cautiously, saying that Qiu Tong and Chun Xing hadn't changed their clothes for two months. Wang Xifeng was startled when he heard this, and said with a smile: "They are very lucky. Go and invite the doctor. The ones you want are Zhunxinpai." Someone will announce the good news to the old lady and the old man, and ask you to stop taking the medicine, do you believe me?" Ping'er said with a smile: "Slaves are not so lucky." What kind of temperament is Lian'er's grandma? She avoided Zitang, but she still didn't dare to conceive. Those two who didn't know the depth didn't know how to die.

Speaking of pregnancy, Wang Xifeng thought of her weak body. She was obviously not pregnant due to the continuous soup and medicine. Wang Xifeng smelled the fragrance of Ping'er's body and asked suddenly: "Ping'er, you have changed your makeup. The fragrance on your body is not the same as before. different?"

"Grandma, you have used up all the rewards you gave me earlier. Today, this servant is using a prescription. I heard that it is a new prescription from Yongchun Tower. There are several scents of orchid, jasmine, rose, and osmanthus. Among them, the scent of orchid is the most brilliant. After applying it, it won't come off for a long time, and you don't need to touch up your makeup frequently, all the maids love it very much, today the servant girl uses orchid-scented one." Ping'er helped Wang Xifeng to sit down.

"Girls like it? Don't you all use it?" Wang Xifeng asked with a smile.

"How can this be so? It's not suitable to buy cosmetics in Wing Chun Tower. In our house, only old ladies, wives, second master Bao, grandma's maids and favored aunts have them." Ping'er did not know the inside story and reported truthfully.

"When did you buy this kind of powder, why don't I know?"

"Two months ago, Mrs. Cai from the purchasing department came to ask for a rose-scented powder. You praised the powder at that time." Ping'er smiled and said in front of Wang Xifeng.

Wang Xifeng was so angry that her nails were about to break off, so she gave Ping'er even better makeup powder. It happened that the two came outside to report that the two were really happy, so they went to announce the good news to the old lady together, and said that the mansion was under construction. People moved to the nearby Zhuangzi to live.