Chapter 39: Aftermath
Daiyu was in a coma in the main room of Dailu Courtyard, the incense burner was burning, the smoke rising was filled with a strong smell of wormwood, Zijuan was waiting carefully on the side, in the room on the side, Snow Goose was looking at the stove, Daiyu was asking for medicine in the stove, but Daiyu never drank it, it had been fried for two rounds.
There was silence in the wing room next to the main house.
After listening to the Wang family pushing themselves away like this, Mother Jia was very angry but calmed down, and said, "They are all people who are going to run for election, they don't understand the rules like this, Aunt Xue still has to teach them well, Aunt Xue looked okay at the beginning, she was still raised by the old lady of your Wang family, and I don't know what the brother had in mind, and he actually gave "The cat in the marriage of Zheng'er back then was hidden from others, but I can't hide it from me, you might as well push a qiē on the mother and daughter of the Xue family, I also said that your Wang family's tutor is not good?"
When Mrs. Wang heard this, her face turned pale, the damn old pious woman, stepped on her sore feet, she had been looking at her unpleasantly since she got married, and Jia Min and Aunt Zhao were looking for trouble with themselves, my poor Zhu'er was born so prematurely that she was frail and sickly, and finally she had a decent life over the years, and there were old things to be brought up again!
Jia Zheng listened to the old man's face and blushed on the side, and blamed him for being young and ignorant, although he didn't look down on the Wang family now, she was also his wife, and he was busy taking Jia's mother's words,
"When my son came, I heard that my niece Lin was very sick, I don't know what the imperial doctor said?"
Seeing Jia Zheng like this, Jia's mother also knew that he didn't want to talk about it, for the sake of her old son's face, Jia's mother followed his wishes and didn't talk about it, but secretly decided that there were some things in Jia's mansion that could not be touched by the Wang family.
Thinking of Lin Daiyu lying on the bed again, half of the thoughts of pursuing were instantly reduced, and now that people are lying on the bed, what is the use of pursuing more.
Wang Xifeng didn't know the pathology, seeing that Jia's mother was embarrassed, and also knew that Sister Lin was not lightly ill, her eyes turned and she thought of a way, "Big Brother Jing seems to be on good terms with Doctor Sun, why don't you go and ask Doctor Sun to come and take a look at Sister Lin?"
Chen said, "But Doctor Sun has disappeared since he went out of Beijing six years ago to play in the mountains and rivers, how can we find him? Besides, he is uninhibited and does not seek fame and fortune, and many high-ranking officials and nobles have not succeeded in inviting him to sit in the house, how can we?"
Wang Xifeng just had a little place to show her ability, how could she allow people to be punctured so easily?" "The fourth sister has a grandmother by her side, also surnamed Sun, who is the goddaughter of Doctor Sun, I heard that she has the ability of Doctor Sun, why don't we invite this grandmother Sun to take a look at Sister Lin first, if she doesn't succeed, how can she not succeed if she contacts her godfather, Brother Jing has a personal relationship with Doctor Sun, and the fourth sister is as close as a sister to Sister Lin, and Doctor Sun will not refuse. ”
Jia Mu nodded when she heard this, very much. I thought that I had just walked into Dailu's courtyard and seemed to have seen Jia Lu, and asked Wang Xifeng, "Where is your fourth sister?"
Wang Xifeng was also busy, and he didn't think about it for a while, Chen replied, "Back to the old lady, when the fourth girl wanted me to ask for peace just now, I asked her to go back first, after all, I'm afraid that Dailu's courtyard will be busy for a while." ”
"Then Feng girl, you send someone to say, please come to Grandma Sun, be polite, forget it, wait a while, you go in person, by the way, go and apologize to your aunt, snubbing your fourth sister." ”
Wang Xifeng leaned over and said yes.
It seemed that everything was settled, but no one left, and Jia's mother didn't speak, so Jia Yu asked in a daze, "Do you want to go back to Brother-in-law Ruhai?"
Chen tugged at his sleeve, this stupid goose, he said it without anyone saying anything, isn't it as smart as him? Jia Yu felt Chen's movements, turned around and looked at her suspiciously, Chen turned his head and let go of his sleeves, really, really not saved.
In fact, Jia Mu brought all the masters of Rongguo Mansion here, and it is one thing to ask for guilt and clean up the evil wind in the mansion, and Lin Ruhai is one of the important reasons. Compared with the thriving and rapidly developing Ning Guofu, the Rongguo Mansion has been lacking in succession over the years, although the upper Jia Jing of the Ningguo Mansion is no longer on an errand in the imperial court, and the next successor Jia Zhen is only a keeper, but the third generation of Jia Rong has shown the wisdom of his Ningguo Mansion lineage early, even Jia Qiang has a good appearance, in terms of in-laws, the honorable has the Han family, and the civil officials have the Zhang family. On the other hand, Rongguo Mansion, since Jia Daishan went, Jia Yu only led the vacant position of a first-class general in the court, and indulged in women's sex and antique calligraphy and painting in the house all day long, although Jia Zheng was better, but he was only a five-grade outsider, his personality was high and old-fashioned and mixed among his colleagues, and the big tree with his back to Jiafu for many years had not been promoted to another level, Jia's mother also knew that if there were no special circumstances, he was going to stay in this position until he was old, as for Jia Lian got a small errand in the yamen with his uncle's family, that position was so low that Jia's mother couldn't look down on it, but felt that he had lost the face of the house, and the Zhang family had been estranged from the house since Mrs. Zhang went, if it weren't for Jia Lian's nephew, I'm afraid they don't want to admit that they are relatives, the only promising prince of the Wang family has vacated the frontier, as for the Chen family, there is nothing to say, before Baoyu grew up, Rongguofu wanted to help in the court, so he could only hold on to Lin Ruhai, who was in the heart of the emperor, which is why Jiafu used relatively tough means to take Daiyu over without even having a filial piety after Jia Min went, just didn't want to lose this relationship.
Yesterday, Daiyu was wronged, severely punished the two mothers-in-law and then rectified the house, and in the future, Aunt Lin blamed her, but now, Daiyu is sick like this, how to explain to him!
Jia Yu saw that his daughter-in-law turned around and ignored herself, and moved his rigid brain in the pile of women a little, and also knew Lin Ruhai's difficulties, and blushed, wanting to earn back some face for himself, there is a way,
"Otherwise, let's wait for Daiyu's girl to get better and we'll give news to my brother-in-law?"
Mother Jia couldn't bear to look at it directly, who did this son's IQ follow, what kind of character Lin Ruhai was, when he first entered the official career, he was the only one left in the family, and he could climb to the position of the emperor's henchman with his own ability, which shows that he is not an ordinary person, so he can't hide it from him, but it will anger him.
No one echoed Jia Yu's smug idea, and he knew that he was stupid again, so it was better to be honest.
Jia Zheng stepped forward and arched his hand, "Mother, the top priority is to ask Doctor Sun to come and see Daiyu, as long as Daiyu is fine, then it is easy to say, sister-in-law, we must also do our best to notify, do not delay." ”
Jia Mu thought about it so much that her head hurt, this matter is so tricky, and it has to be like this.
Mother Jia leaned on the back of the couch behind, looking tired, but her tone was unexpectedly firm and stingy, "Daughter-in-law Jia Lian, this house is also going to be rectified, check carefully, no matter which one, not only gossip, anyone who violates the rules, will be arrested, whoever dares to put the money of the servants in the house will give me a beating first, and then a fierce hunger, I will carry it!"
Wang Xifeng knew what he knew, and said loudly, "Yes!"
Wang Xifeng led Jia's mother and was about to go out to do something, but Jia's mother shouted, "Go and invite Grandma Sun first, and also, close the door of the house for me before doing things, who dares to spread the things in the house and sell it directly!"
Wang Xifeng's heart sank, since she got married, Mother Jia has always been a kind old man who spoils her juniors, and when she saw her majesty for the first time today, it is really not simple to be a super-grade Mrs. Hou, and she has to respect the old lady more. Thinking this in his heart, he lowered his head even more, bowed down and left.
Jia Mu waved her hand and said to the rest of the people, "You all go back, you have no opinion on this matter, right?"
After everyone saluted, they silently retreated, Mrs. Wang walked a little faster, one step ahead of the others, her foundation in Jiafu is the deepest except for Jia's mother, such a big turmoil is also the most unwilling for her, this kind of turmoil is the most abolished is her people, it is better to go back earlier and arrange it early, and sacrifice less.
Mother Jia looked at the Wang family who was in a hurry, her face was mysterious, Chen walked last, and when she went out, she turned slightly sideways to Jia Mu's face, and her lips hooked a graceful arc.
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The door of the courtyard of Lixiangyuan was closed, whether it was the servants who followed the Xue family, or the rough mother-in-law who was originally equipped by Jiafu stayed in the courtyard all day long, and then did not move around, even the maids and mothers-in-law who went out to the big kitchen to serve food did not say much, in fact, as early as when the rumors of Jiafu were inexplicably prosperous, Aunt Xue let people close the door, and even Xue Pan, who had always been favored, was ruthless not to ask him to go out at will。
Since Daiyu found out that the gossiping mother-in-law was noticed by the girl in the next room, and after being captured by Lai Mama, she didn't even make a sound, and she didn't even get food from the big kitchen in Jiafu, but only bought some food through the small door to deal with it.
On this day, Ying'er was making a purse on the small notebook outside, Aunt Xue came to see her daughter when she had nothing to do, and when she saw that Ying'er was not in the house, she stood up and saluted, shook her hand, let her get up, and asked,
"Where's your girl?"
"The girl is in the room, and she says that she wants to rest and pay, and she doesn't need me to serve her. ”
"It's done, you just wait outside, you don't have to follow up. ”
Ying'er leaned over and said yes, and gently lifted the curtain so that Aunt Xue could pass.
When Aunt Xue first went in, she didn't hear a sound, so she just slept with Baochai. Walked a few more steps, but felt wrong, listened to the muffled whimper, hurriedly stepped forward, through the turquoise tent, saw a lump on the shelf bed, kept rising and falling, the closer it gets, the loudest whimper, sit on the side of the bed and lift the quilt, only to see Baochai's hair bun loose, eyes red, has always been round face has also lost a lot of weight, quite a little peony after being destroyed by the wind and rain.
Aunt Xue is distressed, this Chu Chu pity is another beauty in the eyes of others, in Aunt Xue's eyes, the child is still round and chubby. In the past few days, Xue Pan has been making a fuss about going out, which is not good at home, and it is not good, so Aunt Xue has been coaxed, and finally has a free child, come to see Baochai, I don't want Baochai to cry.
Thinking about when Xue's father was here, Baochai was so petted, and it was not worse than Daiyu Jia Lu and others, in Jinling, relying on her maiden family, the Wang family, and her brother-in-law's Jia family, that is, the girl of the prefect's family looked down on her family as a businessman, and she had to give a face politely. Now Baochai is just a better than the next one, and he is slandered like this by those black-hearted people, his own girl is not good at teaching, and he blames other people's girls for teaching too well, how can there be such a reason.
Aunt Xue looked sad, turned her head, quickly wiped the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, hugged Xue Baochai in her arms, and said,
"My son, what's wrong with you, how much weight have you lost when you cry like this, aren't you digging your mother's heart with a knife?"
Xue Baochai could still endure it a little, how could he still endure it at this moment, turned around and hugged Aunt Xue's waist and cried,
"Mother!"
This aggrieved smell sad, and it was even more majestic Xue Mu, choked up
"Eh, my mother is here!" the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried. Xue Baochai cried that she was wronged, and Aunt Xue cried that after her husband left, the world was hot and cold, and the people were warm and cold.
Outside the house, the parrot was so startled by the cry that he fluttered his wings twice, Ying'er got up quietly, lifted the curtain, and saw the two masters crying together through the cracks, and didn't dare to go in, so he pulled down the curtain and stood outside the door, with one ear sideways, listening to the instructions inside.
After a while, the mother and daughter eased up, and Aunt Xue carefully wiped Xue Baochai's face and asked,
"My son, why are you crying? He also hugged Baochai into his arms.
Xue Baochai is not a sensitive, sad character, after his father went, his mother was weak, his brother was ignorant, and she was sharpened to be more tenacious, this time she was really wronged, only to cry like this, now I am back to my senses, I really want to know how things happened, so I can avoid it next time, my father said before his death that he was not afraid of business losses, but he was afraid of losing money again and again in a place.
She is also very convinced of her mother, when her father died early, although there was Jiafu self-help, Aunt Xue was able to keep a lot of the Xue family's property, and naturally she also had her ability, and this time if it wasn't for her mother who immediately closed the hospital and scolded a few mothers-in-law, I was afraid that this basin would be buckled on their heads.
"Mom, why, why, is this happening, is my daughter doing badly?
Aunt Xue caressed Baochai's back and let her relax. Aunt Xue didn't have much foundation in Jiafu, even her sister didn't find out, how did she know what happened, and only told her own thoughts,
"Bao girl, it's not that you didn't do well, but you did too well, so good that you became someone else's way. Let me ask you, what about Miss Lin's family, and what about the Jia family's girl's family?"
"Sister Lin's father is a doctor of Lan Shitai and a salt patrol, and her family has something to do with the scholarly family and the marquis of the Liedai, which is excellent, and the younger sister of the Jia family is the girl of the Guogong Mansion, except for those princesses and county lords, there is no more noble than them. ”
"What about our family?"
"Our family is a generation of imperial businessmen, ranking among the four major families in Jinling, but" Xue Baochai was originally quite proud, but in the end, he couldn't catch it.
Aunt Xue touched her head and sighed, "Our family is a generation of imperial merchants, but since your father went, the family's industry has not been as good as a year after year, although it is the four major families in Jinling, but it only has some power in Jinling, and this is Kyoto." ”
"My son, our family is rich and powerless, just like a young child holding gold bricks in the city, your uncle is on the frontier, we have no other way but to rely on your aunt's family. Now, your superiority over the girls of their family will naturally get in the way of some people's eyes. ”
"Sister Kelin is much better than the sisters of the Jia family, why didn't she find her fault?"
"Because your sister Lin has an old lady to take care of her, and her father supports her!
Xue Baochai's lips trembled, what she heard today subverted her cognition, she always thought that her family was one of the four major families in Jinling, although there were no people who were slaughtered for officials, but those who were officials were polite to their own family, and they didn't want to come to Kyoto, only to know that they were nothing.
"In this world, everyone pursues power and profit, in order to be more chic. Aunt Xue suddenly tugged at Baochai's arm and said
"Bao girl, we women, in addition to being born, only marrying can make us relaxed, and you don't have to be inferior everywhere, so those talented and beautiful women are not credible, only the power in your hands is right. Before that, we had to endure until everyone thought you were a good one, and everyone thought you were a harmless person who loved your sisters. ”
Aunt Xue thought that when she was in her mother's house, she was more liked by her father and mother than her sister, fighting for her in everything, and once married, now her sister hugged her and came to the door to take refuge, and her face flashed with sadness, didn't her sister just endure it to the point that everyone thought that she could take better care of herself and adapt to the life of the Guogong Mansion, so she won this qiē?
However, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Zhao and others were intrigued, and Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan had to put on a mother's face in the face of Jia Tanchun. And the love between himself and Xue's father for decades has long been forgotten.
Xue Baochai knew how to endure, and he also planted a yearning for power in his heart.