The Fenghua Years of the Red Chamber

Jia She and Mrs. Xing were sleepless for two nights. Early in the morning, they sat in the upper room and waited for Wang Xifeng to come to say hello. Jia She knocked on the table irregularly with her fingers, showing that she was not at peace. Mrs. Xing looked at the door frequently. .

Finally, Wang Xifeng came, and she happened to come with Yingchun and Qiaojieer, which made Jiashe and his wife choked up, "Yingchun, take Qiaojieer to have breakfast first, I have something to say with your sister-in-law." Jiashe Open your mouth to dismiss Yingchun and Qiaojie.

Waiting for the idlers to retreat, Jia Amnesty asked people to open the windows and doors, and asked his confidants to stand guard at the door from a distance, and asked impatiently:

"Your mother has already told me the story, so tell me again from the beginning."

"Ping'er" Wang Xifeng gestured with her eyes and told her to go outside to guard. She has now found out that there are two spies from the second room. Well, something happened to her master, and she couldn't escape.

"Master and Madam, you understand me best, and you least believe in retribution from gods and ghosts. It's just that Keqing's incident is too unbelievable. I didn't believe it at first. Then there was something that I found out. It's all true, the matter is of great importance, and the daughter-in-law is afraid that she has fulfilled the test, so she dares to tell the wife." Wang Xifeng said sorry to the Bodhisattva in her heart, she did not believe in gods and Buddhas in her previous life.

"What?" Mrs. Xing was taken aback. Could it be that there was something else in it that she didn't know.

"It's about Keqing. That day, Keqing had a dream and asked me to see her off. I went to the East Mansion and saw Keqing hanged in Tianxiang Tower. That's why I heard the news of her death. I was quite frightened, and later I followed my wife to Dongfu, and I took a closer look at Keqing, although the neck was covered with thick powder, but I still let my daughter-in-law see the marks, and she believed it." But Qing, I'm sorry, she, Wang Xifeng, is also for the Jia family.

Jia She and Mrs. Xing looked at each other with disbelief in their eyes, Jia She immediately ordered his confidant to go to Dongfu to inquire. "Rong's daughter-in-law has other things to say besides explaining the cost of the sacrificial fields and the school." Jia She asked in a low voice.

"Ke Qing also said things like prosperity must decline, and water will overflow when it is full. She also said that our family has a very happy event right now, which has attracted everyone's attention. She said that it is flowers blooming, and the fire is cooking oil. Let's make plans early. It will be too late to regret it in the future, and now it is another one, the concubine concubine is not a great joy." Wang Xifeng told the truth.

"One more thing, my daughter-in-law thinks it's very strange. Yesterday the master went to the palace to have a face-to-face meeting. The old lady and the second aunt are a little weird. There may be something inside." Wang Xifeng said what he discovered yesterday.

"Master, do you know?" Mrs. Xing looked at Jia She eagerly, hoping to get news from him, but she was very disappointed to see Jia She shook her head.Wang Xifeng immediately understood that the old lady and the second room were probably doing terrible things without telling the second room.

"Can she say that there is no way to resolve it?" Jia She asked.

Wang Xifeng shook her head and said no, she has been reborn for such a long time, thinking about it day and night, and has not found a way to resolve it. Even if Wang Xifeng is very capable, a group of hind legs makes her very helpless. The things in her previous life made her and the Wang family There is no possibility of peace between the second room and the two of them, and it will be a matter of time before they tear their faces apart.Mrs. Jia Shexing is her serious in-laws, and even in this lifetime, she will never try to get rid of the relationship, so she only wants to win over and support them.

"Could it be that our family can't avoid that disaster?" Mrs. Xing asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, ma'am, but you said that our family was in trouble, but he never said when. Since we can't avoid it, let's try our best to delay it later." The rise and fall of the state, let alone a family, Wang Xifeng understands that the Jia family will not Prosper forever.

"Since you say that, you must have an idea. Tell me." Jia She asked, he knew this daughter-in-law well, and he was better than ordinary men, but he was fooled by the second room and lost his eyes.

"Master, madam, I came back this time, firstly to calm my nerves, and secondly, to find a way to solve this matter. To tell you the truth, let me see, even if there is no Keqing Tuomeng, the eldest girl Fengfei will not treat us There is no benefit in the slightest, with Empress, our eldest son will be unable to hold his head up in the mansion even more, even if we separate in the future, what we take over will still be a riddled shell."

"How do you say that?" Mrs. Xing was very surprised.

"My wife never cares about things. I don't know. Over the years, how much money our family has put into the palace. Overtly and secretly, it is sent to the palace every year. There are also eunuchs who beat the autumn wind. Every year, they don't have ten thousand or twenty thousand silver. Over the years, only 10,000+ taels of 20 taels of silver, and the money spent to send the eldest girl into the palace, totaled 30 million taels of silver." Wang Xifeng remembered this clearly, " When I was a female official, the cost was so high. Now that I am a concubine, I spend even more money on the up and down management and gift giving. How can our family have so much money to make up for it. The daughter-in-law housekeeper has looked at the scenery all these years, but in fact it is Some people can't make ends meet, I'm ashamed to say, these years, the original 35 taels of silver in the treasury was saved by our old man when he was working in the south. I paid 5 taels, and now there are only 30 taels of silver left in the treasury. The expenses of the empress are from the public account. I am afraid that the public account will be empty in a few years. When we take over, it will be an empty shell. If it doesn't work out, our big house's private property will also be compensated." The old man and his wife are all greedy for money, and Wang Xifeng said this to make them vigilant.

"The empress in the palace will not just watch the house fall." Jia Amnesty still had illusions in his heart.

"My lord, it's hard to put it bluntly. I don't know if the old lady will be there at that time. If the old lady is gone, by then, the empresses in the palace will miss her parents most, so they won't care about us." Wang Xifeng said nothing. With a merciless blow, by that time, the empress would have already died.

Sure enough, the faces of the two became even more ugly, and Jia Amnesty said, "Daughter-in-law Lian, you have always had ideas, what do you think should be done now?" "Yes, daughter-in-law Lian, tell me."

"Master and Madam, the most urgent thing now is the matter entrusted by Keqing. It is related to descendants. This matter should not be delayed. Taking advantage of the empress's celebration, the master and Uncle Jing discussed the matter of empress concubine to the ancestors, and increased the number of offerings. It should be better to buy some sacrificial land instead of subsidizing all the money to the second house. The sacrificial land is inherited by us. No matter what happens in the future, we can do things without any worries. Besides, the worst plan is still on Cousin Lin and my younger sister. "

"Yu'er? If your uncle was here, it would still be possible, but now that your uncle Lin is gone, she is an orphan, so what can she do?" Mrs. Xing didn't believe the two candidates at all. "There is also Yingchun, that soft-tempered person"

"A woman's point of view, you continue to talk." Jia Amnesty is not an official in the court, and he only hangs out at home on weekdays, but it does not mean that he has no brains, but he was raised as an heir since he was a child.

"The nobles of the Lin family have been honored throughout the generations, and it was not until Uncle Lin's generation that they became officials through the imperial examination. They have more heritage than our family. They are all well-established and scholarly families. The marriages of all generations are from high-ranking families. Uncle Lin has been an official for many years, and friends and relatives have old contacts. There are many, people say that people go to tea, but there are always those nostalgic feelings. We just don’t want to do anything else. Just for this, our family has to treat Cousin Lin kindly, let alone the serious niece of the master. Uncle Lin can do it Xunyan Yushi, the confidant of two generations of emperors, is now donating to Yangzhou. Presumably the royal family remembers his cousin. Uncle Lin is also capable of being thoughtful. An orphan girl with a huge family property must be arranging for her cousin. Just in case." Wang Xifeng is now planning to change Lin Daiyu's fate. "In the future, we will choose a good relative for her. Even if there is something wrong with our family, it will not involve Sister Lin, and there will always be someone to take care of her."

"The old lady will treat Yu'er well. I see what the old lady means to tell Baoyu about Yu'er." Mrs. Xing said with a frown.

"Master, madam, you two don't know that the second master went to the south, and the old lady and the second wife told the second master to bring back the property of the Lin family quietly." Wang Xifeng whispered to Jia She and his wife, "That's all. If the cousin married Baoyu, no one would be able to tell the fault of our Jia family, but I see that this matter may not work out. The second wife is determined to choose a daughter-in-law from a wealthy family for Baoyu. No mother, a cousin who lives with Jia's family. In the final analysis, Baoyu's marriage is still decided by her parents. The old lady will definitely match them up, but to put it bluntly, the second wife should not, and keeps procrastinating. The old lady can live for a few more years In the old lady's heart, Baoyu is the most important. My aunt, in order not to spit out the money that came into her mouth, this cousin Lin can't go out of the gate of Jia's house, and there is only one way to go in the end." Wang Xifeng didn't finish that word. , everyone understands what she means, this matter is not her Wang Xifeng's nonsense, Lin Daiyu's last life is the end.

"This is too ruthless." Madam Xing came from a low family background. Although there were fights in the family, she had never experienced the death of her relatives for the sake of money.

"What do you think?" Jia She knew in his heart that if the money went into his own pocket, he would definitely not spit it out, so what if he murdered for money?

"Grandpa Lin has gone, and the old lady kept her cousin in the big house with the second younger sister on the grounds that she kept her filial piety for fear of offending the old lady and spoiling the mother's wedding. When the cousin gets married in the future, outsiders can praise our family's benevolence and righteousness." As for the dowry, I will write to the second master to ask the second master to keep all the dowry of the mistress of the Lin family and bring it back together. If these things are leaked out, people will inevitably be offended. At that time, we only need to add some fashionable things to it. It's a generous dowry, we can't spend much. In fact, if my cousin can marry Baoyu, our family will not attract criticism. Unfortunately, this matter can't be done. If it turns out to be as the daughter-in-law said before, then the saliva will be worth it Drown us, if this money enters our pockets, we will admit it, but our first wife can't take the blame for the second wife." Wang Xifeng knew that Lin Daiyu was an orphan and couldn't keep her huge family property.

"What about welcoming the spring?"

"My younger sister is 14 years old, and now I can send someone to teach her, but I can't change her soft temper. The candidate for the brother-in-law must be carefully selected. Character is the most important thing. Once something happens in our family, it does not involve a married woman. At that time, others can ignore us. , but as a daughter, Yingchun can't ignore her parents." Wang Xifeng said.

The reason why Wang Xifeng mentioned Yingchun was to pity Yingchun's hard life in her previous life, and to plan for the future. She had carefully calculated and preserved her assets. The most suitable person was Yingchun. Yingchun could not just watch her parents starve to death.

"Thirdly, we have to keep some private property in our hands and hang it in the name of a reliable person. Even if we have something to do in the future, we will not be too downcast, and we will keep a property for our children and grandchildren." The money that redeemed Qiaojie was given to Grandma Liu by them before. After kneeling in front of the Buddha all these years, she doesn't care about money, but she must never live without it.

"Daughter-in-law Lian, you are usually close to your second aunt, why are you so today?" Mrs. Xing said suspiciously.

"Master, madam, I used to be a fool, thinking that I was her niece, and she would definitely not harm me. Now I know that I am a pawn in her hand." Wang Xifeng smiled wryly, "How can a niece kiss her daughter-in-law?" What about the daughter-in-law? My aunt can't even let her own sister go."

"You mean the Xue family?" Jia She asked.

"Yes, at the beginning the second master went to the letter and settled the Xue family's lawsuit. Later, I realized that this is not a serious matter. This is the root of disaster for the Xue family. How can such a human life lawsuit be discussed?" When it comes to the master, at most it's just letting the slaves act fiercely, and the control is not strict. I heard that Jia Yucun actually implicated this lawsuit on Cousin Xue, sentenced him to beheaded, and replaced the execution with others. This Cousin Xue every day Wandering around in the capital, if someone has a heart to check, he will be able to get involved. After the left and right groups, cousin Xue can't escape a dead word. Same as Cousin Lin." Wang Xifeng smiled sarcastically, she could see clearly in this life, only then did she realize how stupid she was in her previous life, her aunt was really calculating, she took all the money of the Lin family and the Xue family for herself.If that's what she thinks, then Mrs. Wang is too scheming, and she has counted all the relatives in the family.

After Jia Amnesty and Mrs. Xing heard this, they felt hairy in their hearts. This is no kind of lady who eats vegetarian food, recites Buddha, and has a soft heart.Although the women of the Wang family have never read much, this scheming person has more eyes than others. The aunt and nephew of the Wang family are really scary. Mrs. Wang has a heart like a snake. This Wang Xifeng who can see through Mrs. Wang's conspiracy , I'm afraid it's also a black hand.Wang Xifeng never expected to leave such an impression on her in-laws.

"Isn't this Miss Ping? Why are you here? Second Mistress is inside?" Jia Amnesty's concubine, Cuiyun, dressed in beautiful clothes, greeted Ping'er.

"The servant has seen my aunt." The masters were talking inside, and they dared not let anyone in without ordering Ping'er, and they were fighting with Jia She's concubine.

"Okay, let's stop here today, I'll write down everything you said." Hearing the commotion outside, Jia Amnesty made people disperse.