old lady in red

In the evening, Jia Li's mother arrived at Rongfu in a sedan chair.

Nanny Lai blocked the way with a sad face: "Fifth Madam, it's really unlucky for you to come today, our wife is sick."

The fifth wife secretly scolded Nanny Lai for opening her eyes and talking nonsense, the Duke's wife also ran away from Wu Jinzhong at noon, and fell ill in a blink of an eye?

The Fifth Wife did not dare to expose Nanny Lai: "Oh, this is exactly what you should look at."

Nanny Lai bowed and blocked the fifth wife's way: "Fifth wife, forgive me, it's really inconvenient for our wife right now."

The fifth wife didn't dare to force her way, so she had to sit down again: "I don't know what kind of illness Mrs. Rong has? After all, we have lived here for a long time, and Mr. Hao knows a lot."

Nanny Lai is fine as long as she doesn't break into the inner room: "Speaking of this matter, it is really difficult to describe. You also know that since the death of the father-in-law, our wife has mourned too much, fainted several times, and hanged herself by a mouthful of ginseng soup. When we came to Jinling, Miss Si fell ill again. Our wife was so distressed that she dragged her sick body and watched over Miss Si day and night. Finally, Miss Si got better, alas, but met some dog slaves who didn't have long eyes...

How dare he take advantage of the death of his father-in-law to deceive his wife.How dare you withhold half of the [-] silver futures.

Are you angry or not?

The wife never thought that the servant Yangzi dared to do this, and it would be a little bad to go back to the house.

You see, this wave after wave of tossing, how can our wife, a noble and precious person, be able to sustain it.

But our wife also said that during the filial piety period, it is not allowed to publicize the teacher and move the crowd, and I have taken pills to hold on.

At this moment, it is difficult to sit and sleep, the uncle and the second grandfather visit, and the wife is thrown out to disappear.

Please forgive me, when my wife recovers in the future, the slaves will definitely report to her. "

The Fifth Wife was scolded by Nanny Lai for killing dogs and slaves one by one.

She knew how much money their family had stolen from Li Zhi.

She is the head wife of the fifth room, so she naturally knows how much money she has embezzled.

She was also worried at the beginning, but her husband said: They are all descendants of the ancestors, and the ancestors bless the big family and a couple of husbands, so why not bless us to be rich gentry?

Therefore, from the beginning she concealed her shyness, and now she is upright and eating and drinking.

They have held Rongfu's land and shop in their hands for a long time, and they have already regarded it as their own property.He was extremely reluctant to hand over tens of thousands of silver to Li Zhi every year.

Even if half of it is deducted, even if Wufang has accumulated a lot of family property, and there are dozens of boxes of snowflakes and silver piled up in the warehouse, moldy and wormy, they are still not satisfied.

At this moment, the Jingui pretended by the fifth wife suddenly collapsed.

Compared with her son's beating and disability, she was more worried that Wufang would lose a huge amount of money.

Mrs. Fifth couldn't stay any longer.

At this moment, Jia She and Jia Zheng are telling Shi Mei about the viciousness of the Wufang father and son.

What Jia Zheng meant was to arrest him immediately and send him to the government for punishment.

Shi Mei smiled lightly: "Do you know Huang Jiukun, the servant of the Ministry of Officials?"

Of course Jia Zheng knew: "Yes, I went to the mansion to express my condolences at the beginning of the year and wrote a elegy to my father."

Shi Mei nodded: "Ten years ago, he was Ying Tianfu."

Jia Zheng didn't understand yet, but Jia Amnesty did: "Is Huang Jiukun's father recommending him to go to Beijing?"

Jia Zheng was stunned: "Is he from our family?"

Shi Mei shook her head: "It doesn't count. At the beginning your father was the prince and master, with great power, so he came to seek refuge, so he would naturally cover it up for the Rong family. I have seen the case file of Jia Lian's fight to buy the land. The case was closed very cleverly. The verdict It was the two parties who settled and withdrew the lawsuit under the mediation of the government.

As for whether Wufang has fulfilled the promised compensation and whether the plaintiff has recovered, it has nothing to do with him.

Moreover, he wrote that Wufang instigated the slaves to beat and maim people, and wrote that the two sides fought and were maimed by mistake, and the Guan family also signed and pledged.

Things have changed now, unless the Guan family can find someone who was there to testify for him.

Otherwise, the government will have nothing to do with Wufang. "

Jia Zheng was furious: "That means... we have nothing to do with Wufang?"

But Shi Mei said: "Since I want to touch him, I can't help it. As long as we make it clear that we will never tolerate and protect Wufang, then the witnesses who dare not come forward will naturally come forward."

Jia Zheng was overjoyed: "The witness is in your hands? So what are you waiting for?"

Jia Amnesty has followed Jia Daishan for many years, and knows more about the rules of officialdom than Jia Zheng. He sneered and said, "You are very honorable when the tribe bullies others? You want the reputation of Jia's mansion to be stigmatized?"

Jia Zheng was stunned: "How could the street be smelly? I'm just killing relatives, trying to put things right..."

Jia She snorted coldly, feeling that it was impossible to communicate with Jia Zheng, and knowing that Jia Mu usually favored Jia Zheng, now that he was being fair to him, he didn't want to upset Jia Mu, so he rolled his eyes and remained silent.

Shi Mei looked on coldly, and it seemed that Jia Amnesty was not useless, Jia Zheng really lacked experience, no wonder he was a mess as an official.

Jia Daishan really doesn't know how to teach his descendants.

Jia Zheng frowned and looked at Jia Amnesty, unwilling to let go: "Brother, why are you silent? Did I say something wrong?"

Jia She glanced at Shi Mei, curled her lips, and finally said nothing.

Shi Mei looked at Jia Zheng and asked, "It's not wrong to destroy relatives in a righteous way, but to set things right in the case of the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, guess what he will do? At present, does His Majesty trust us or him? You are still filial piety for your father. , have time to break up with him? What will others think of you?"

Jia Zheng blushed, "Then, let's just let it go?"

Shi Mei said: "Of course not. Today your fifth aunt came to intercede with me. I said I was sick and I didn't see you. I will definitely look for your brother in the future. What did you say today, what did you say when you saw him?"

Jia Zheng frowned, "Mother? Didn't you say you can't speak up?"

Jia Amnesty sneered again.

Shi Mei looked at Jia She coldly, "Is it so funny?

You have had fun with your father since you were a child, wandering around, and your younger brother studied with me in the inner house. He is also a scholar, and he only sings with literati when he goes out. Naturally, he doesn't know as much about officialdom as you do.

Don't you call yourself your elder brother and the heir of Rongfu?

What should brother do?

Your younger brother doesn't understand, as an elder brother, you should teach him and remind him.

The heir should be responsible for the rise and fall of Rongfu, instead of just enjoying the glory and not taking responsibility. "

Now it was Jia She's turn to turn red, and he bowed his head and bowed: "My son is wrong, so I will tell my brother about the seriousness of this matter when I go down!"

Shi Mei nodded, "That's good! Now that your father is gone, the three of us, mother and son, must work together!"

Then, a piece of paper was thrown out: "This is the testimony about Jia Tan instigating the servants to attack Canguan City. I don't care what fifth uncle says when I see you tomorrow, but..."

After saying this, Shi Mei threw out another account book: "I want him to spit out these things!"

Jia Amnesty picked up the account book and flipped through a few pages, his eyes were red.

He was not Jia Zheng, he was protected by Jia's mother like a noble lady whose fingers never touched the spring water.

He knows the value of these fields and mansions too well.

Jia Amnesty's eyes brightened: "Mother, don't worry, with this account book, I will see that I won't strip Wufang. It's no wonder that these years are losing money every year. The rich land in the south of the Yangtze River is not equal to the income of the land in the eastern province. All the money went into their pockets."

Shi Mei stared at Jia She: "Don't mess with the silver, I have a use for it."

Only then did Jia Amnesty calm down: "Mother is at ease, son knows how to behave."

Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng bid farewell.

Shi Mei warned again: "The fifth house can no longer be in charge, but don't touch their property before the first year of Jiahe. It will be your grandfather's reward."

Wufang's wealth in Jia Yuan's hands is already [-] yuan.

After Jia Yuan passed away, their appetites got bigger and bigger.As a result, the family wealth embezzled today is almost equal to that of the main wife.

Shi Mei left them a fortune of [-] yuan, which is very interesting.

Shi Mei didn't want to make people feel sad.

Certainly, there must always be someone to take care of the general affairs of the Rong Mansion.

Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng cannot waste time on housework, they must enter the court and take on the important task of supporting Rongfu.

In this life, Shi Mei is not going to let Yuan Chun enter the palace again to be ruined by the royal family.

Shi Mei assigned the task to Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng brothers, and she retreated to the back house to teach Jia Zhu and Jia Lian with Jia Min.

Born in October, Jia Zhu is already five years old. He has already begun to study, and now he has begun to write rubbings of famous masters.

In the past, Jia Zhu was taught by Jia Zheng himself to study, but now Jia Zheng is filial and wants to live in a hut in the cemetery. Jia Zhu's children can't go with them, so they stay at home with their grandmothers and mothers to study.

The Wang family is illiterate, and Shi Mei, a pseudo-grandmother, has 5000 years of advanced knowledge, but she is not very good at poetry and poetry.

Shi Mei asked Jia Min to guide Jia Zhu.She herself enlightened Jia Lian.

Jia Lian was born in September and is four years old.

Jia Amnesty originally asked Jia Min to know about Jia Lian's depiction of red.

Shi Mei feels that it is too early for four-year-old children to start writing, and boring will make children lose interest in learning.

Shi Mei decided to learn from modern teaching and dictate to Jia Lian some easy-to-understand and catchy Tang poems and Song Ci.For example, climbing the stork tower, thinking in a quiet night, geese, geese, etc.

As for literacy, you can also learn to read by looking at pictures.

Mrs. Zhang is not here, Mrs. Wang is illiterate, what Shimei in the Houzhai says is what.

Therefore, the literacy of Jia Lian, the second young master of Rongfu, is relatively new.

Jia Zhu's literacy started from these abstract philosophies at the beginning of human beings.

Jia Lian's literacy started from the real objects such as "people, cows and horses, chickens, ducks and dogs, you and me, clouds and rain".

Shi Mei made these words into pictures, and let Jia Lian learn to read them.

Jia Min typed these characters in the order prescribed by Shi Mei into a photocopy with a red brush, and asked Jia Lian to trace them in red.Jia Min found it very interesting and naturally cooperated.

However, Shi Mei underestimated Jia Lian's intelligence.

Shi Mei plans to teach Jia Lian three characters a day, and requires him to be able to read and write.

As a result, Jia Lian finished the three-day course Shi Mei had prepared for him in one day.

Shi Mei was surprised but also very happy, this is a piece of jade in the rough!

Whoever says our grandson is lustful and has no talent, we will never end with him!

Shi Mei held Jia Lian's tender face and kissed her: "My dear grandson, you are so smart!"

Jia Lian's bright eyes were shy, timid and joyful, looking at Shi Mei with watery eyes, and pursed his mouth: "Grandmother, grandson is a man!"