old lady in red

Jia Min was on the verge of crying when she thought of her father along the way, all thanks to Shi Mei's attentive comfort.

At this moment, Jia Min knew that her father was going to die in peace, and from then on the real separation between heaven and man broke down from crying.

Shi Mei couldn't persuade her anymore, she just hugged her and cried together.

Jia Min cried until he fainted.

Jia Daishan's coffin went directly to the ancestral tomb of Jia's clan.

Jia's ancestors are sleeping here.

The ones with the tallest tombstones are the Junjie brothers who led the Jia family to take off, Jia Yuan and Jia Yan brothers, the first generation of the Rongning Second Mansion.

This ancestral tomb is the tomb community dominated by their brothers.

Jia Daishan's private residence is a stone's throw back from his father's private residence.

Mr. Yin Yang asked Mr. Yin Yang to make an appointment early in the morning, and the repairs have been completed.

Jia Daishan stopped in the temple of his ancestor's tomb and did a three-day requiem for the dojo.

July 22 is suitable for burial, grave repair, ground breaking, and coffin removal.

Jia Daishan was buried at the auspicious moment of this day, and he was buried in peace!

Shimei Jia pardoned Jia Zheng and Wang's family, but he was exhausted.

This girl Jia Min is really Jia Daishan's caring daughter, she fainted several times from crying.

After that, Jia Min remained ill in bed until the Mid-Autumn Festival in August of this year, when the family had to go to visit the tombs of their ancestors to worship, and Jia Min reluctantly went to the field.

Shi Mei sighed in her heart, there is a reason for parents to love their daughter.

Jia She and Jia Zheng, the two sons who benefited the most, cried and cried, but as long as they left the cemetery, the two brothers would be fine, and there would be no delay in eating or drinking.

Jia Min couldn't do it, she cried until she couldn't swallow food, and when it was the worst, she vomited whatever she ate.

That appearance made Shimei's heart ache so much that it could only turn into a puddle of water.

Shi Mei had no choice but to order someone to use good rouge rice, cook porridge and oil, and add ginseng soup to hang her life.

After Jia Daishan was buried, Shi Mei had many things to do.

But because Jia Min's condition is not good, Shi Mei puts everything aside and takes care of Jia Min personally.

After more than a month of careful care and comfort by Shi Mei, Jia Min gradually stopped crying, but became very sticky, clinging to Shi Mei all day long, eating and living together.

Whatever Shi Mei does, she has to follow, otherwise she will feel uncomfortable.

Shi Mei understood that Jia Min was frightened by his father's sudden death, afraid of losing his mother.

This situation lasted until late August, when Jia Min gradually regained some vitality.

Jia's mother returned to her hometown more than ten years ago to keep filial piety for her mother-in-law.

About the situation in my hometown, I mostly heard it from Zhou Rui and Lai Da.

Thinking that Jia's mother has been deceived by Sister Feng's Wang's team, like a frog in a well.

Shi Mei decided to sort out the old house by herself.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jia Min's condition improved, and Shi Mei started to take care of family affairs.

Shi Mei recruited Jin Da who stayed behind in Nanjing to take care of the house.

Jin Da is an old scout under Jia Daishan, because he is too old to travel around and work hard, so he got this fat job.

Jin Da told Shi Mei some very bad news: The old twelve houses who stayed in Jinling have been restless these years, especially the five and eight houses in power. To seize land.

Competing to buy fertile land, it doesn't matter if he secretly tricks, threatens and lures, it always makes people retreat.Jia Tan, the fifth-hand uncle who manages the general affairs for the Rongguo Mansion, ordered his opponent to beat him to the point of disability when he was fighting to buy a good farmland.

The other party asked someone to write the pleadings, but he even threatened to write the paving on the street, and anyone who dared to write for him would not be able to gain a foothold in Jinling.

The ninth young master of the eighth house once forcibly bought a girl who was engaged to be his aunt, and forced her fiancé's family to leave her home.

"Why don't these things be reported to Beijing?"

Jin Da said: "The family bullied and dominated the market, and the uncle beat people and disabled them. The slaves told Lai Da every penny, and he said that he would report to the father-in-law one by one. The matter of the ninth young master forcibly marrying a good family as the second wife is not During the first month of this year..."

Shi Mei realized: "Where is that woman now?"

Jin Da said: "Eighth Master stopped him, and Ninth Master put him in a foreign house. It is said that he is pregnant and is still a son. He was supposed to carry him in, but something happened to the father-in-law..."

Shi Mei was startled when she heard the words, this is no longer bullying, but the village of fish and meat.

It seems that the five rooms and eight rooms have been decayed from the inside to the outside, and there is no way to keep them.

However, the two houses relied on the Rongning Second Mansion to occupy Jinling for many years.It's not that easy to knock it off.

Shi Mei knocked on the table: "Write down all the illegal acts of the clansmen that you know, and write down all the ins and outs that you know. I have a use for it."

Jin Da hurriedly responded: "I'm so terrified, the servants will definitely handle it properly."

Shi Mei will not rectify the five and eight households just based on the words of the Jin family.

There must be conclusive evidence before taking action, so Shi Mei decided to stand still.

In the village of fish and meat, it is no small matter.

If it is not done well, it will bring disaster to Rongfu.

Must be cautious.

For the prosperity of the Rong Mansion and for the future of Jia She and Jia Zheng, it is necessary to sort out the family affairs first and make a conclusion.

It was inconvenient for Shi Mei to come forward about the affairs of the yamen outside, so she ordered Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng to try to read the files about the lawsuits between Jia's clan and others.

Told them that this matter must not be vague and conniving.

Instead of being found out and criticized by others in the future, it is better to conduct self-examination first and make proper remedies for the remaining problems.

On the other hand, Shi Mei met with the family's sister-in-law, nephew and daughter-in-law quietly, hoping to get some useful news from them.

After decades of living and multiplying in groups, Jinling Twelve Houses has become a huge family with more than a thousand people.

The female relatives who can walk to Shimei are mostly five-family and eight-family members, and clan members who have benefited from the convenience of walking with no houses.

Most of the news that Shi Mei heard was favorable to the five and eight families.

Donate porridge in famine years, help neighbors, build bridges and pave roads in prime years, etc.

From their mouths, the black sheep are just a few tribesmen who help out on the street.

If they only rely on their words, the entire Jia family in Jinling is thriving, friendly to neighbors, and loved and supported by their neighbors.

Shi Mei is vigilant that this form of interview cannot yield real news.

We can't just let Wufang Bafang talk for himself.

After thinking about it, Shi Mei decided to attend the Double Ninth Festival on the [-]th day of the ninth lunar month to be there for three days for her ancestors.

Family sacrifices, all family members must show up.

Shi Mei took the opportunity to get in touch with other female family members of the Jia family.

Shi Mei told Nanny Lai: "Didn't Jin Da say that the old tenth house, twelve house and eighth house and five house are a bit dirty, so you bring someone to watch these two houses for me, maybe you can get some real words from them .”

Shi Mei arranged an agreement here, and then Jia She told Wufangbafang that the Rongfu will pay for the seven-day dojo, and pray for the ancestors to ward off disasters.

Jia Ao was very happy and came to discuss specific matters with him.

The rest of Shimei didn't care about it, but asked that many clansmen must have a Taoist place to pray for their ancestors.

Jia Ao fully agreed: "It's natural, why do you need my aunt to order! Without the foresight of our ancestors, how could we have the glory we have today? It is only natural for children and grandchildren to honor their ancestors and make sacrifices." Then he proposed: "This time the father-in-law's funeral Mr. Futai came to pay the memorial service in person. At that time, there were many affairs in the mansion, and Mr. Futai was also busy with business. Therefore, he left without drinking any water. Auntie, do you think our family will continue to be a dojo? Please ask Mr. Futai to come to the mansion and take care Treat me?"

The Rong Mansion took the lead in doing things, and Ying Tianfu's master should give this face.

After Jia Daishan passed away, Jia Tan felt the need to prove to his neighbors that the status of Jia's mansion was still solid.

But Shi Mei waved her hand: "For this kind of thing, he will naturally come here uninvited. If he doesn't want to, he won't come if you invite him. We return to our hometown to keep our filial piety. The Holy Majesty is currently vigorously encouraging people who form cliques and seek selfishness. Why do we need to give people the truth? ?”

But Shi Mei said that while throwing out the bait of sacrifice, she continued to meet her relatives.

Originally, Shi Mei only wanted to bring Jia Zhu and Jia Lian with her. Firstly, she wanted to have children with her, so that the alienation between the clansmen and herself could be shortened.If you have nothing to say, you can also start by praising your children.

Secondly, in the future, Jiazhu and Jialian will have one to shine on the long house and the other to support the second house.

Shi Mei decided to train them since childhood.

As a result, Jia Min, who was ordered to cultivate, was unwilling to stay in the house alone.Shi Mei also didn't want Jia Min to be too sad, so Jia Min became Shi Mei's little tail after Jia Zhu and Jia Lian.

Afterwards, a custom was formed, and when clansmen came to visit, Shi Mei, Jia Min, Jia Zhu and Jia Lian usually received them together.

Shi Mei did not expect that Shi Mei's arrangement would virtually shatter the rumor that Jia's mother favored the second wife.

People in the clan speculated that if Shi Mei was promoted to the second wife, she would definitely take advantage of Zhang's childbirth and wait for delivery, so she would let Wang get in touch with the second wife to build up the prestige of the clan wife.

Now she is only allowed to take care of the internal affairs of the Wang family, and she is not allowed to participate in the family affairs. This shows that Jia Mu has no intention of changing the heir at all.

As a result, those people in the clan who wanted to support the fight between the two families and rely on it for profit stopped.

Shi Mei didn't know about this, nor did she think of it.

However, Shi Mei's efforts these days are still in vain, and there is still no useful news.

In the past few days, almost all the people in the clan praised Jia Lang, the son of Wufang's son, saying that he was smart and smart, he was ten years old, and he had already started writing.

Shi Mei was a little puzzled, and asked Jia Min: "Why do both of them praise this Young Master Lang?"

Jia Min said: "Second sister-in-law's companion Zhou Rui's family revealed in the clan that second sister-in-law wanted to choose Zhu'er's companion to read in the clan. In the past few days, you used the excuse of using three liters of Buddha beans to worship the ancestors, which tripped second sister-in-law. , these people can't get the second sister-in-law who is the real master, so they have to pass a message to you."

Shi Mei smiled lightly, this Wang family, she is not allowed to show off, but she still has the ability to attract bees and butterflies.

On the ninth day of September, Jia's family held a large-scale sacrificial activity.

This time, Shi Mei finally got to see all the ladies in the old twelve house.

Among them, the women of the fifth house and the eighth house are the most decently dressed.

The female family members in these two rooms wear plain silk, while the female family members in the other houses are mostly made of cotton and linen.

The tenth and twelfth rooms are the most shabby.

Although the clothes of the two women's relatives are not ragged, they are so old that they lose their true colors.