The Fenghua Years of the Red Chamber

After the Rongguo mansion was sentenced, the family members were also implicated, and all their orders were revoked, and they were sent to the frontier together. The minor children were not implicated and convicted, but their future was bleak. At this point, the two branches of Rongning and Ningfu were completely overthrown.

The tree falls and the monkeys disperse, the two Rongning Mansions are convicted, and the clansmen and Qing guests who used to live in the Rongguo Mansion all disperse. Only Jia Yun and Jia Qiang are on the sidelines. The old lady and Li Wan took him home and took good care of them.

It's a pity that when the old lady ransacked the house, she was so frightened that she couldn't get sick. Under Li Wan's care, she survived until now with a persistent obsession. When she was taken to Jia Yun's house, she was already on her deathbed. Lying on the bed, weeping, chanting "Niangniang, Baoyu" non-stop, looking out the door, and finally dying with regret.The fifth sister-in-law and Li Wan tried several times to make the old lady close her eyes. Jia Yun went to the prison to report the funeral, and everyone burst into tears.

Jia She was silent for a long time and said: "Yun'er, it's not the same as before. My father and son are unworthy and in prison. I can't see the old lady for the last time. Please ask your mother and son to collect the old lady's funeral and send the old lady back to the south when the time comes. I, Jia She, I am very grateful, and I will keep it in my heart." After finishing speaking, Dafang and his son knelt down and kowtowed to Jia Yun to thank him. Grace.

"Grandpa, Uncle Lian, please, this is what my descendants of the Jia family should do. I was able to live the life I am today with the support of the elders. Don't worry, elders, I will manage the funeral well and escort the old lady's coffin back to her hometown. Jia Yun assured Jia She and his son across the cell.

Lin Xiaohong and Li Wan reported the news to the female relatives with their things, and everyone was numb. After a long time, Mrs. Xing cried loudly and said: "Old lady, you caused a catastrophe and ruined the glory left by the ancestors. You are good, just close your eyes." Let’s go, leaving us children and grandchildren to suffer, I’d like to see how you can meet the ancestors of the Jia family when you go underground.” In her whole life, because of the old lady’s pressure on her head, she has suffered a lot of grievances and bleeding. Tears, now that the old lady has lost her glory, how can she be reconciled.

Mrs. Xing wailed loudly, causing Qiaojie and Pengge to wipe their tears, and the underage men in the opposite prison also cried. Wang Xifeng knew that they needed to vent, so she didn't persuade them. After receiving it from Brother Peng and coaxing it, when Xiao Hong came over, he took out the last piece of jade ring from his sleeve and stuffed it into Xiao Hong's hand. "The old lady is honorable all her life, and the affairs behind her death should not be too shabby. You can pawn this piece of jade and arrange the funeral affairs for the old lady."

"Grandma, my husband and I will take care of the funeral of the old lady. You should keep this jade." Lin Xiaohong refused in every possible way, how could she take grandma's things.

"Xiaohong, you can accept it. You can't keep the jade on the left and right. Instead of putting it in someone else's pocket, it's better to take care of the old lady's funeral and let the old lady go away decently. Besides, the two of you have spent a lot recently. For the old lady's funeral, we descendants must be filial, we can't personally take care of the old lady's funeral, it is unfilial to keep watch, and now I can do this for the second master, and this is the only thing I can do." Wang Xifeng said with a smile.

When they first entered the prison, these yamen servants were quite polite. Now that they have been convicted and become criminals, those yamen servants have also changed their attitude. If Jia Yun and his wife hadn’t spent money on it, they would have been insulted and might not even be able to get out. cell.Because their house was raided late, their eldest wife had enough time to prepare. She and Mrs. Xing collected some small bank notes and many valuables and hid them on their bodies. Now after a period of wear and tear, only this jade ring is left.

The three of Li Wan, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking together, all just wiping away their tears. Mrs. Wang only held Li Wan's hand, and asked Li Wan to deal with it before he died.Seeing this, Wang Xifeng sneered, and then looked at Jia Baoyu who was crying in a corner of the opposite cell, and said in his heart: "Old lady, this is the most promising grandson in your heart. Besides messing with flowers and crying like a woman, he also What's the use, your children and grandchildren who have been eccentric all your life, now don't even pay a penny for your funeral."

Mrs. Xing had a fever that night, and she couldn't ask for a doctor in the prison. Wang Xifeng could only wipe it with water to cool down Mrs. Xing, and whispered in Mrs. Xing's ear: "Madam, you have to persevere, you haven't lived the life of the old Fengjun, want to Thinking of Master, thinking of Brother Mao, and Brother Peng." Coupled with the screams of several children, after a night of tossing, Mrs. Xing finally calmed down and said: "Whether it is good or bad, there is always To live." He closed his eyes and rested.The old lady's funeral was completed with only one widowed granddaughter-in-law staying awake. After seven days of mourning, Jia Yun placed her in Tielan Temple first.

Seeing that the day of leaving Beijing was approaching, Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian made their final plans. After careful consideration, they wrote a letter of divorce, so that their wives would not have to follow their father and son to the frontier to suffer.Mrs. Xing, Wang Xifeng, was taken aback when she received the divorce letter. Mrs. Xing burst into tears. She had been with Jia She for half her life and had no children. Finally, she got the divorce letter.

After all, Wang Xifeng was a bit more sensible, and advised Mrs. Xing, saying: "Master, I don't want my wife to go to the north to suffer." Although Wang Xifeng persuaded Mrs. Xing, she always felt a little bitter in her heart. She never thought that she would get a divorce certificate in two lifetimes, although she knew it intellectually. Jia Lian just wanted to leave descendants for Dafang. Jia Cong and Jia Mao were both exiled. Only Jia Peng, the youngest son, could easily hide the truth through other methods, but emotionally it was unacceptable.

Wang Xifeng looked at the letter of divorce and said, "Second Master is really ruthless. He knows what my mother's family looks like. How will he live after returning? Yun'er, tell Second Master that I, Wang Xifeng, have entered Jia's family and raised children for Jia's family. The people of the Jia family are the ghosts of the Jia family, and if they want to get rid of me, there is no way in this life." After speaking, Wang Xifeng tore the divorce papers to pieces.As for Jia Lian's aunt Zhou, because she was from a good family, she was not betrayed. After receiving the letter of divorce, she left without any regrets.

Helpless, Jia She and his son didn't give them any chance, and directly asked Jia Yun to file a case at the yamen. Since the two were not guilty, they were released immediately, and Jia Yun placed the two in the newly rented house. The relatives of the You family and the Wang family hide from them, for fear of causing trouble to the upper body.

As for the second room, Jia Zheng was run over by Jia She and his son, and the brotherhood was broken. He wanted to divorce Mrs. Wang directly, but she was the mother of the empress, so she couldn't divorce his wife no matter what.

As for Xue Baochai, it was a good show for Wang Xifeng. It turned out that Xue Baochai tried her best to marry into Jia's family, thinking that she would be prosperous and rich in the future, but after a few years, the Rongguo Mansion fell and was convicted.If Baoyu was up-to-date, she wouldn't have other thoughts. In the case of ransacking the house that day, Baoyu was caught hanging out with men, which was a joke.

Mrs. Wang was also uneasy in the prison, she tore her compassionate face, blamed her everywhere for bringing back the pair of opera singers and ruining her Baoyu. In the cell, apart from being in a daze, she was crying, there was nothing she could do about the dispute between the two, and she never said a few words of comfort.

Xue Baochai was thinking in the prison. She wondered whether it was worth it or not. Baoyu is an unsupportable playboy. At this point, she has never made any progress. In addition, Mrs. Wang has shown her true colors, so her thoughts arose. After all this tossing, when Xue Biao came forward and gave Mrs. Wang 1000 taels of silver, under the scolding of Mrs. Wang's ruthless businessman's wife, Jia Baoyu was asked to write a divorce letter and let Xue Baochai go free.

Youshi was lying on the bed half dead, as if he had been drawn to the core of his bones, and then he saw Wang Xifeng brought some fine cloth and some belongings out, so he became angry, and started sewing with Wang Xifeng. The belongings are carefully sewn into the purse of the clothes.

"Madam, don't worry, the master and the second master have long expected today, and have already made plans. Although the future will be difficult, it will be fine in the end." Wang Xifeng held the needle and thread in her hand, and carefully sewed the safety talisman , Small bank notes are sewn inside, so that the father and son can always get to the place and settle down.

"They don't know if they can survive?" Mrs. Xing finished her tears and continued her sewing, sewing clothes for several people. Now there are only her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the small courtyard. girl.Mrs. Xing's needlework is much better than Wang Xifeng's, so Mrs. Xing makes clothes and Wang Xifeng makes small things like purses.

This small courtyard was clearly rented, but it was actually bought by Jia She in someone else's name. To keep it secret, even Jia Yun and his wife didn't know about it.The two prepared their things and asked Jia Yun to bring them to Jia Amnesty.

When Jia She and his party went out of Beijing, Youshi and Wang Xifeng hid in the crowd dressed as ordinary women, took a look at them from a distance, and left the capital in a bullock cart ahead of them. The small village where Cong bought the land lied to the outside world as a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law surnamed Jia. Because the father-in-law went to other places to do business, he met a bandit and died on the road. Settled here.Another month later, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law bought a girl from the matchmaker and came back. It was Qiaojie.

Mrs. Xing and Wang Xifeng lived in seclusion and hired the village chief to settle the family of four. They were relieved.From time to time, Jia Yun asked someone to bring some things over, and the villagers saw that her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were relying on each other, so no one bullied her, and they lived in peace.

Jia She and his son originally planned to let Jia Peng get away. Qiaojie, Mao Geer, and Cong Geer all followed them to the border. Qiao Jie was sent to the Spring Festival. Wang Xifeng firmly opposed it, saying that Qiao Jie was a woman. , All the way for thousands of miles, no one to take care of, afraid of being humiliated before the Spring Festival, this is halfway Jia Lian sold Qiaojie for money, for this reason Jia Lian was hated by Brother Mao and Brother Cong.

In winter, Wang Xifeng came out of the room wearing heavy clothes and looked north through the heavy snow. The second master and the others must have arrived in northern Xinjiang.