An old lady's life

It was already daylight, and there were still many boats parked on the pier. Because of the concession to the dead just now, no one came out from all the ships, whether they were cargo ships or passenger ships. Now that Jia Daishan’s funeral is over, the workers at the dock and the people on board Also showed up one after another.

Hongye and his party were on their way home. Because there were too many people, there was only one carriage. Hongye let Mrs. Zhang and her three grandsons ride in the carriage and followed slowly behind the team. They, the funeral procession, still walked back to the city.

Before leaving, I glanced at a few young teenagers and girls coming out of a luxury passenger ship, all about fourteen or fifteen years old, and two girls who were younger, both men and women were gorgeously dressed, and the women looked pretty Jiao, male appearance is handsome.

This will be the return journey, and there is no restraint from the previous trip. Those who walk fast have already taken a step ahead, and Hongye and a group of female relatives are left behind slowly.

As far as Hongye could see, someone naturally saw it.

Wang Shi looked over and said in surprise: "Old lady, isn't that from the Zhen family?"

The Zhen family?Hongye swears that the Jia family is true and false, but unfortunately the last two in the red building can't get along, so either the surname is "true" and the last is truth, goodness and beauty, which is more "fake" than their Jia family.

For Jia Daishan's funeral, the Zhen family naturally sent people to come, but seeing those people at the pier today, they obviously just came to Beijing. I don't know why the Zhen family sent these young girls to Beijing in this late autumn season and the weather is cold?

Hongye has just arrived, and there is no news, but Wang said again: "Could it be to celebrate Zhen Zhaohua's birthday in the palace?" Zhen Zhaohua is not favored in the palace, but he will never fall out of favor. To give it a face.

Jia Siyao, Jia Xiyao, and Jia Min also know that the Zhen family is the old relatives of the Jia family, but the Zhen family has been staying in Jinling and has not entered Beijing. Being so far away, the relationship between the Zhen family and Emperor Changping has not been alienated.

One is that there is Zhen Zhaohua in the palace, and the other is that Zhen Zhaohua's three cousins ​​of the same clan married into the capital together, and two of them even married into the clan. , the clan inevitably turned a blind eye to it in some respects.

Hongye pondered that Zhen Zhaohua was the last Concubine Zhen of the Red Mansion, a woman who had been seduced by Emperor Changping's side by textual analysis. Such scruples prevented Emperor Changping from attacking the Zhen family.Until the power of the old and new emperors changed, and the new emperor had more power to speak, he first attacked the Zhen family, and finally attacked the fallen noble family.

"Zhen Zhaohua." Hongye said slowly, admiring the scenery along the way, while muttering in her heart, I'm afraid no one will know how much Zhen Zhaohua will be favored by Emperor Changping in the future.She analyzed that Zhen Zhaohua was afraid that Zhen Zhaohua had no children, and the harem was like a virtuous concubine Shu, who had sons by his side. Emperor Changping loved Zhen Zhaohua more. The concubine always helped his son stare at the chair under his buttocks. His things were being coveted by others, so he was naturally not in a good mood, even if those people were his sons.

The road from the wharf to the capital is a big road, which can accommodate five carriages passing by in parallel. Many people live at the wharf, so there are many people on this road, and of course there are also a lot of carriages. People cannot be allowed to travel just because Jia Daishan is in funeral. Everyone avoided the Zhen family's carriage carrying those boys and girls and galloped on the main road, wandering past everyone, and could vaguely hear the voices of those boys and girls.

"It's really unlucky today. If there is a funeral, I would have known that we went to the city overnight."

"That's right, if you meet a dead person early in the morning, you'll have to get rid of the bad luck when you go back."

"I heard that it is the Rongguo Mansion, and we are old relatives of the Zhen family..."

"So what about the old man, I was so happy to come to the capital to celebrate my aunt's birthday, so I ran into a dead person so suddenly early in the morning, isn't it bad luck?"

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Hongye raised her eyebrows, it really was the Zhen family, the son and girl's teaching was unique, but Hongye and the others who heard it were not in a good mood.

Jia Min and the others stared resentfully at the carriage going away, all the old relatives, Zhen's family, will go away from now on!The person who is about to reach Ji's age is still so ignorant of the seriousness, which shows that the Zhen family's upbringing is just like that, and they will resolutely not marry the Zhen family in the future.

Because of this episode, everyone was in a terrible mood. Of course, how serious their expressions were at this time was not visible to others.

But the Zhen family was on everyone's blacklist, and Jia Jing was still wondering why the younger generation of the Zhen family were so contemptuous of the Rongguo Mansion. Is it because the Zhen family thought Rongning and Ningfu were inferior to theirs?

Is the Zhen family so arrogant now?Isn't it just that the current old matriarch of the Zhen family is the nanny of Emperor Changping, and there is a woman from the Zhen family in the harem of Emperor Changping as his concubine?

Early in the morning when the funeral was held, everyone didn't have breakfast. After returning to the Rong Mansion, the servants of the mansion had already prepared breakfast. Although it was a little late at this time, it didn't matter what. The group had their last meal together. The helper took the white seal and left, and the Rongguo Mansion was completely quiet.

Seeing this, Jia Jing and Mrs. Xu knew that the Rong Mansion was just finishing up the government affairs, and they couldn't help, so they left one after another.After all, Jia Min's three married daughters were already married. After all the affairs in Rongguo Mansion were over, they were useless, so they all went home.Hongye didn't tell them anything, she waved her hand and let them do what they wanted.

Originally, Hongye wanted to be a good person and teach Jia Xiyao some countermeasures, but after thinking about it, she found that she couldn't say it, so she could only tell Jia Xiyao vaguely, don't be so sincere, and deal with mother-in-law needs to be adaptable, as long as it doesn't affect her reputation, In fact, there are many ways to fight your mother-in-law.

As for whether Jia Xiyao can comprehend, Hongye thinks she can't do anything for the time being.

All the things at the gate of Rongguo Mansion were removed, leaving only the hanging white things. The gate was closed again, blocking all eyes trying to observe Rongguo Mansion. Hongye asked Mrs. Zhang to go back to the East Courtyard to rest. She asked them all to go down to rest, and she left Mrs. Wang by her side to help.

In the past few days, Hongye has been feeding Jia Hu and Jia Zhu with the water from the pool in the space. Sun Shou came down, but Jia Hu was not really sick. Zhang thought that years of recuperation had played a role, and decided to take care of her more carefully.

Jia Zhu is in good health, but he is more than one year old, and he is often hugged by the nanny when he walks, and he rarely has time to go to the ground. He is a little baby, so others should not be too harsh on him.

Lin's family, Huifang Courtyard, Ai Cao was thinking about what to have for lunch, and the maid Qingyao was reporting the names of the dishes, but when she heard the names of the dishes, Ai Cao's mouth watered, she wanted to eat all of them.

Lin Hai and Jia Min walked into the yard one after the other, and all the maids and nurses who were working in the yard bowed down and saluted together.

"My lord, my wife is auspicious."

Ai Cao turned around and looked at the two of them. She thought that Lin Hai and Jia Min would definitely come back after lunch in Rong Mansion, but she didn't expect to come back before noon.

"Greetings to mother!" Lin Hai and Jia Min saluted, and Ai Cao hurriedly waved her hands: "Get up, what are you doing? Why did you come back?" She thought she would not be back until the afternoon.

Lin Hai and Jia Min came back to Huifang Courtyard after changing and washing in the main courtyard. They used to wear filial piety clothes, but now they are ordinary clothes, but the color is very plain, and Jia Min only uses a wooden hairpin to hold his hair , The gold and silver ornaments have already been put away.

Ai Cao was sitting at the bottom of the corridor, basking in the wind and sun. Lin Hai and Jia Min didn't care too much, and sat on the corridor together.

"As soon as the affairs of the Rong Mansion are over, the mother-in-law is busy arranging the government affairs. It is useless for us to stay, so we all come back." It is estimated that we have not had a good rest for seven days, and Lin Hai's face is a little dull. reason.

Jia Min also said: "Eldest sister and the others have all returned home, and my mother and the others are also busy, and they haven't been home for several days, so they have to worry about family affairs." Jia Min's condition is not better than Lin Hai, she looks more haggard and tired, "What is mother talking to Qingyao and the others? She seems very happy."

Ai Cao smiled and clapped her hands: "It's just in time for you to come, I'm ordering lunch. If you want to eat anything, just say it, and I'll let the kitchen cook it together."

Lin Hai shook his head: "No need, mother. I ate breakfast after returning from the funeral. I won't be hungry now. Just let the kitchen make whatever mother wants to eat. Don't worry about us."

Ai Cao thought to herself, seeing that you are like that, she smiled and said, "Okay, you don't have to stay with me here. Go back to the yard and have a good rest, don't get sick from exhaustion, if you really want to accompany me, come and have dinner with me at night." She also thought that the two of them are keeping their filial piety now, and they can't eat meat. She has no taboos, so let them watch her eat meat, and they are vegetarians?

Lin Hai smiled and said nothing, glanced at Qingyao, and said, "What dishes did mother order? Why don't I refer to it for mother?"

Qingyao felt her heart beating suddenly, her face blushed suspiciously, she quickly regained her composure, and reported a series of dish names without changing her expression.

Seeing this scene, Jia Min's face changed instantly, and then quickly returned to normal.

Ai Cao thought to herself, this is the king of acting.She could tell that Lin Hai didn't have any emotion in that glance, but just signaled Qingyao to report the name of the dish, but thanks to what the former Lin mother did, Qingyao obviously had a wrong idea, thinking that the master treated her favorably.

Yaoshou, since Jia Min will be able to give birth to a son in the future, she, an old lady, should not cause trouble for others.But now it seems that Jia Min has already noticed Lin Mu's thoughts, but everyone pretends to be confused.

Ai Cao said with a smile: "Okay, I have a bit of a strong taste recently. Let's have mapo tofu first. Since I ordered tofu, I won't order fish. Let's have sweet and sour pork ribs and stir-fried vegetarian dishes. You can't always eat the taste For heavy ones, let’s order vegetable leaves to wash the stomach, and of course the soup is also indispensable, it doesn’t need to be so greasy, just light.” Lin’s mother’s diet in recent years has been very plain, and the wormwood has been increasing the number of meals in the past few days. I'm not afraid that Lin Hai and Jia Min will become suspicious.

However, Lin Hai frowned with a relaxed expression, "Mother is so much better, and the combination of meat and vegetables pays more attention to maintaining the body." Speaking of which, he is in the Rong Mansion, and he still knows about the Lin family's affairs. Rong Mansion followed him, one was at Lin's house, and he would come back the next day.Of course, he knew about his mother's diet change, and Lin Hai was really worried about his mother's 'sorrowful' look before.

After talking again, Ai Cao drove the two of them away, and asked them to go back to the main courtyard to rest. She was much more comfortable alone.Until the figures of the two were out of sight, Ai Cao glanced at Qingyao and said, "Qingyao is growing up too, what do you think about your marriage? It's actually quite reasonable to be a poor man/wife rather than a rich man's concubine. It makes sense, I know that many generals of the fifth and sixth ranks in the army are not married."

Qing Yao's complexion changed suddenly, standing behind Ai Cao thought she couldn't see it, so she boldly expressed her emotions. Ai Cao didn't see it, but she could guess it.

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