Jia Yu is a man in the end, even if he is Jia's mother's biological son, he can't stay in Jia's mother's yard for long. So, after a few more gossips, Jia Yu got up and said goodbye. Jia Jiu, Jia Qian, and Jia Qing sisters did not stay in Jia's mother's house for long. Although it is said that he is only accompanying Princess Changle in Princess Changle's palace, the pressure of court life is not something that ordinary people can bear. Besides, Jia Mu also needs a few of them, so she is naturally willing to let them go back to rest early.

After Jia Jiu and Jia Qian and Jia Qing retired, they did not go back to their respective rooms directly, but went to ask Mrs. Xing for peace first, and Jia Jiu also gave Mrs. Xing a massage and spiritual therapy for an hour.

Jia Qing, who was originally happy about his future, saw Mrs. Xing's unconscious and groggy appearance, and then saw the gray hair of Wang Shanbao's family, his heart was half gray at that time, and even if he was happy, he couldn't be happy.

When Jia Jiu left home, Wang Shanbao's family still had neatly combed black hair.

When they left Mrs. Xing's yard, the love between the three of them was not high, and they stood at the door of the back garden and separated.

In Jia Jiu's yard, a group of girls and grandmothers have already gotten the news, and they have cleaned the house and house, replaced the bedding and tent curtains, rearranged the valuable furnishings that were put away before, and even lit the incense burner.

Before Jia Jiuren entered the house, he smelled it at the door and said with a smile: "I don't want to practice the piano as soon as I come back, how can I use this properly?" ”

Xiaohong diligently opened the curtain for Jia Jiu, but said, "Girl." Didn't the girl use only a few pieces of incense when she was leaving? The box was not used up back then, and a few days ago, the Daomen sent a lot more. It's all piled up in the transept. The maid pondered, this incense has been left for so long, and I don't know if the smell will be dispersed, so I took it out and tried it, how could I think that this smell is still so good. ”

Whether it's Xiaohong or Mama Zhao, they are all smart people. Naturally, he would not do anything like Jin Chu'er, Yu Chu'er, and Caixia beside Mrs. Wang, stealing the master's belongings and going out to give them away. It can be said that except for Jia Yu, Jia Jiu is almost the cleanest and most regular in the entire Jia family.

This incense is actually the same as the rose fragrance in Mrs. Wang's house in the original book. They are all precious and significant. In the original book, the rose fragrance in Mrs. Wang's house is a tribute, and the amount that can flow into the courtier's house is extremely limited, and it is simply a priceless thing, so the girls in Mrs. Wang's house are all eyeing this. Even Caixia Yu Chu'er has stolen it out and gave it away. Jia Jiu's incense here is even more amazing. It was made by Dao Kui himself, and in Daqi, and even in the whole world, probably Dao Kui alone used the same incense as Jia Jiu. The difference is that here in Jia Jiu, including Xiaohong, Qingwen, Jinxiu, and Xiutang, all the girls dare not touch Jia Jiu's things, even if Jia Jiu has not been at home for three years.

I heard that my own girl is back. also brought back several people from the palace, two of whom are still high-grade female officials. Not only the four big girls of Xiaohong Qingwen Jinxiu and Xiutang, but even those specially invited nurturing grandmothers couldn't sit still. This kind of female official given from above is different from the old palace maids like them who have left the palace, what they have is more than just decency.

Those nurturing grandmothers were worried about whether they would continue to stay with this girl or go to Jia Cong's side. Although Jia Cong is a young master, a man's identity is born more noble than a woman, but Jia Jiu is already a first-class county monarch now, or the kind of food and double money, this decency alone has already made most of the girls of the county king's family envious, plus the future draft, this young man must be a nobleman. Under such circumstances, can these grandmothers not compete for the position next to Jia Jiu?

After all, Jia Cong's future can only depend on himself.

These grandmothers who have seen the world are still so thoughtful, let alone those girls. After all, Jia Cong is not too young, and it is time to have his own yard. This also means that Jia Cong will have her own girl and parenting grandmother. Unlike those grandmothers, the girls of the Jia family are naturally a kind of thought.

Jia Jiu didn't notice the thoughts of these girls, he saw that Jinxiu was also there, and he felt a little strange at the time: "Jinxiu, didn't you follow Cong'er?" ”

Jinxiu replied: "If you go back to the girl, the third master is still studying in Dongfu at this time." According to the habit of the eldest lord in Nafu, he will not leave class until the time of the application. In addition, the master also equipped the third master with four small servants and four long entourage, so the maidservants only need to wait for the third master at the garden gate at the right time. ”

Jia Jiu nodded, and said, "Cong'er is not young anymore, has my father prepared a house for Cong'er?" ”

Jinxiu was just about to answer, but in the distance, she heard Shi Xiangyun's shouting: "Second sister, we are here to say hello." Good tea and good water. ”

Jia Jiu turned around, just in time to see Shi Xiangyun jumping around from the verandah, and unconsciously added a smile to his face: "How old is it, you still walk like this, take your feet carefully." ”

Shi Xiangyun smiled and hugged the hand stove, jumped to Jia Jiu's side, and said, "It's just the second sister here, I can run and jump like this." Elsewhere, the indispensable ice slag, how dare I. As he spoke, he took a deep breath and said, "Second sister, your house is so fragrant." ”

Jia Jiu said: "It's not these girls, they are so happy to see me come back, they actually lit the incense I used when I practiced the piano." ”

Shi Xiangyun said: "Strange way, I said why does this fragrance smell so good, but I have never seen anyone use it, it turned out to be a good thing from Daomen to my sister." I don't know if I have this blessing this time. ”

Jia Jiu smiled: "Since Sister Yun has spoken, can I still hide my secrets?" With that, he greeted Xue Baochai and Tanchun, who were following behind, and Fang took Shi Xiangyun's hand and entered the house together.

Entering the house, they each sat down, and there was already a little girl holding the tea fruit, and Xiaohong entered the house in person and came out with a small box, which was not filled with pieces of fragrant cakes.

Shi Xiangyun picked up a piece and sniffed it vigorously near his nose, and Xue Baochai was careful. Naturally, he noticed the sign on the box and said, "Hey, the date on it is three years ago." ”

Jia Jiu replied: "Not three years ago. Originally, it was only used when practicing. It's just that this box was opened three years ago, and I don't know how it tastes, so I took it out and tried it, but I didn't think it tasted good. ”

Xue Baochai stroked his palms and smiled: "Isn't that why we got cheap." ”

Shi Xiangyun said: "Sister Bao, you are here again, what kind of bargain is this?" ”

Xue Baochai said: "Sister Yun, you probably don't know. It's a good thing from a famous artist. Don't say that the minister's house, even in the palace, no one may ask others to do it. So rare. Not a good thing, what is a good thing? Second sister, I heard that you passed on your skills to Qian Yatou, I don't know if it matters? ”

Three years have passed, and the girls here are no longer the children they were the children they used to be. Among them, Xue Baochai has changed the most. He was ten years old when he came to Jia's house. He was born in the first month, and now he is fourteen years old, not to mention his size, and he has a plump charm all over his body. Even though he has grown a lot taller, Xue Baochai has not lost weight, but has become more and more plump. In the past, you could still see the fleshy chin, but now, the chin can be described by more than just one word. But you have to admit it. Some people just get fatter and more beautiful, and the fatter they are, the more flavorful.

This is the case with Xue Baochai. Even if he is fat, he still has apricot eyes and peach cheeks. The eyes are still as clear as water, and even add a bit of silky taste. Such a pair of eyes, if they are replaced by other people, such as Qin Keqing, who is more than 20 years old this year, it will make people feel frivolous and disrespectful, but Xue Baochai has always been dignified and magnificent, not only can suppress these eyes, but also add three points of affinity.

Coupled with that ice muscle and snow skin, such Xue Baochai is naturally extremely beautiful.

It was hard for Jia Jiu to imagine that Jia Baoyu would be willing to let go of Xue Baochai like this. In Jia Jiu's impression, Jia Baoyu, who is inseparable from a beauty at all, should follow Xue Baochai all the time.

While his thoughts were flying, Jia Jiu shook his mind unconsciously, and when Xue Baochai asked again, he reacted: "Where did Sister Bao hear it?" ”

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "Last time, I went to say hello to the old lady, and I heard the sisters in the old lady's house say so in private. It is said that the old man and the old lady once mentioned this matter when they confessed. ”

Jia Jiu nodded and said, "Since my sister has said so, then I won't hide it from my sister." That's right, I once reversed my power and lost my power to Qianyatou. "Some things can't be hidden, since Xue Baochai mentioned this matter here, Jia Jiu knew that he couldn't say nothing, and he couldn't just say a little. In this case, letting the wind out is also a way.

It's just that Jia Jiu is still a little annoyed in his heart. Jia Jiu admitted that if Xue Baochai asked him in private, he might not be so angry, but Xue Baochai asked him in public. Others are fine, but Shi Xiangyun is a big mouth, if he is allowed to preach it everywhere, even if he releases it half-truthfully, when it reaches Shi Xiangyun's mouth, it may not cause trouble.

Sure enough, Shi Xiangyun asked: "Second sister, what is the reversal body?" ”

Jia Jiu hesitated for a moment, but still said: "This is a common method for people who practice martial arts to hide themselves. For example, the "Nine Yang Heavenly Formula" that I practiced is a martial art of the most yang and the strongest, and once the gong body is reversed, it will naturally become the most yin and the cold. It's just that most people don't do that. ”

"Why?"

"Because doing so will damage the foundation, and it may even kill you. So, if it weren't for the desperate situation, no one would have done it. ”

Jia Jiu said the truth, but he didn't say it completely, so Shi Xiangyun didn't seem to understand it, and although Xue Baochai was smart, he couldn't guess that Jia Jiu used this method at all. This method of substituting the truth for falsehoods and deliberately leading others to deviate is indeed a good way.

Sure enough, Xue Baochai made a worried look and said, "That second sister, you don't matter, right?" ”

Jia Jiu said with a smile: "I'm lucky, plus Daokui and the national teacher joined forces to save me, so I picked up a life." It's just that in the first year, there was no way to go to the ground, so I could only lie in the house. ”

This statement is false. However, little girls like Xue Baochai and Shi Xiangyun Tanchun don't know.

Shi Xiangyun immediately patted his chest and said, "Second sister, you are too bold. If you have a mistake, how can the old lady bear it?! ”

Jia Jiu sighed and said, "I know." But what can be done? I heard that there are no supplies at the border gates. The soldiers could only go to the battlefield with their bare hands, and even most of the guards were only half of the soldiers. How can this stop the iron hooves of the Di people?! Take the risk, take the risk, as long as the father and brother can come back safely. That's enough. ”

Xue Baochai immediately said: "When I was a child, I read and admired the ancient Ti Ying, but I didn't expect that now I have seen a living Ti Ying." ”

Of course, the flattery is good, and Jia Jiu couldn't help but say, "Sister Bao, you are exalting me too much." What Ti Ying, if I change Sister Bao, I'm afraid that Sister Bao will make the same choice as me. What is there to say. It's Sister Bao, I haven't seen her for a few years, and Sister Bao is really a good girl. It's getting more and more beautiful. ”

As soon as these words came out, I saw Shi Xiangyun's face drop. Obviously, Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baochai have a contradiction again, as for the root of this contradiction. No surprises. Naturally, it was on Jia Baoyu. It's just that, unlike in the original book, Mrs. Wang is not the wife of the head of Rongguo Mansion, nor is she the mother of a noble concubine, but a sinner who is locked up in the Buddhist hall. Tanchun naturally will not stand up to play a round and say good things for Xue Baochai, after all, Shi Xiangyun is Jia's mother's maiden niece and granddaughter, behind Shi Xiangyun. It was Jia Mu who was standing.

Xue Baochai was a smart person after all, and immediately replied: "Where." The second sister exalted me too much. The second sister has an extraordinary bearing, I can't catch up with the horse, but when it comes to beautiful faces, I heard that the fourth aunt in the house was a famous beauty in the Beijing Division. This is because the girl from the fourth aunt's family in the house is not there, and if he is here, I am afraid that I will become a firefly in the moonlight. ”

Jia Jiu said thoughtfully: "Sister Lin?" ”

Shi Xiangyun said: "Second sister, you have been on the mountain, probably don't know." Lord Lin has remarried, and what is even more strange is that his new wife is a second-married woman. ”

"Huh? What's going on? ”

Seeing that Jia Jiu was curious, Shi Xiangyun hurriedly told Jia Jiu. It turned out that the one-year period for his wife's funeral expired, and sure enough, someone lobbied Lin Ruhai to remarry. Lin Ruhai originally felt that he was already a handful of years, and his health was not the best, plus the Lin family had been passed down for several generations, and now he was remarried, and he didn't toss the girls of good families, so he was very unhappy. Of course, if it had been changed to the original book, maybe Lin Ruhai would have really responded to Jia's mother to send her daughter to Jia's house, but now, everyone knows that Jia's reputation is not good, Jia's mother is an old fool, Mrs. Wang is insidious and vicious, Mrs. Xing is lying down again on the big house, and Lin Ruhai can't push her daughter into the fire pit. So after picking and picking for a year, I really remarried a house-filling lady.

This lady whose surname is Shang, speaking of which, is still the distant cousin and nephew of the emperor. When he was in the period of marriage, his father was gone, he kept filial piety for three years, his mother was gone, and then his grandparents died one after another, leaving him and his two younger brothers behind. The merchant lady stayed at home, keeping filial piety while raising her younger brother. His fiancé is also affectionate and righteous, seeing his fiancée's filial piety, he also waited, waiting for this Miss Shang for 12 years, and waited for Miss Shang's eldest brother to be selected in the examination, and then he married his wife home. At that time, the merchant lady was already twenty-seven years old.

The problem is that after this Shang family passed the door, he did not come out for ten years, and his husband was forty years old and did not have any children. His mother-in-law naturally has an opinion. Although his husband insisted that children were a matter of two people, with the arrival of her husband's fortieth birthday, her mother-in-law still stuffed a concubine over. Then, the concubine became pregnant in less than half a year.

Shi Xiangyun said: "It's strange to say, after the Zhao family and the merchant reconciled, Mr. Zhao married another wife and soon gave birth to a pair of twins. What's even more strange is that this Mrs. Shang, three years after returning home, remarried Lord Lin, and within a year, she was also pregnant. ”

Jia Jiu said in surprise: "There is still such a thing? ”

Shi Xiangyun nodded again and again, and said, "That's it." Someone said that they wanted to say hello to the Lin family, but the old lady had been angry for several days. ”

Jia Jiu said: "Such a happy event, of course, you have to congratulate." ”

"Second sister! You! ”

Jia Jiu smiled and said to Shi Xiangyun: "Sister Yun, you also said just now, this Mrs. Shang married into the Zhao family before, and she didn't come out for ten years, and then Mr. Zhao married a wife and had a child immediately, who didn't count him behind his back?" A woman's family, with such a reputation, where can life be so good?! My aunt's family is also the same, and it has been passed down for several generations, and when I reached my aunt's generation, I was also forty years old, and I got Sister Lin's daughter and a concubine. Maybe my aunt had no hope for his son-in-law that day, and just wanted to find someone to take care of his children, so he specially chose Mrs. Shang, who was over forty years old. Now, the Lin family is finally about to welcome a son-in-law, and Zong Ao has a successor, so naturally he should be congratulated. ”

Xue Baochai and Tanchun both know the importance of sacrificial incense to a family. The concubine does not have the qualifications to inherit the ancestral family, nor does he have the qualifications to inherit the family property and ancestral property. A family has only concubines, and it can't be said that there is a successor at all.

Shi Xiangyun said: "Second sister, the old lady is very unhappy. ”

Jia Jiu said: "The old lady is unhappy, firstly, because the fourth aunt is the original wife of the Lin family, and secondly, I am afraid that it is because of the bad words against my aunt outside." Although it is said that children are a matter of two people, but a family has no sons, and people are always accustomed to thinking that it is the woman's fault. Just like Sister Yun, as you said, when the Shang family was in the Zhao family, I was afraid that it would be difficult. As a result, after each of them gets married, they will immediately have their own flesh and blood. What I'm worried about now is that this Mrs. Shang is now in her forties and is the first child, so I just hope that he can do it smoothly. has a younger brother, and Sister Lin's life is also better. ”

Xue Baochai listened and nodded secretly, but Shi Xiangyun was still a little puzzled, and said, "Second sister, what are you talking about?" I heard that if the Lin family doesn't have a son, everything will be Sister Lin's. But if the Lin family has a son, Sister Lin will just be a dowry in the end. ”

"Sister Yun, what you said is wrong." Jia Jiu hurriedly analyzed the inheritance system of Daqi to Shi Xiangyun, "According to my Daqi law, clan property and ancestral property can only be inherited by sons-in-law or heirs, and daughters and concubines can get it, but it is only the dowry of the main mother and the private property of the father." And if there is only a daughter, the daughter can only get seventy percent of her father's private property at most, and if she has a concubine, she can share her father's private property equally with the concubine. Like the Lin family, if the Lin family only has one daughter, Sister Lin, in the end, it may not get more than the property that is shared equally with the younger brother. Furthermore, what if a woman does not have the support of her mother's family, even if she has thousands of dowries? Aren't you a child who walks around the city with gold bricks? It's better to have a brother, and someone will support him in the future. Therefore, for a girl, the dowry is important, but it is not as important as siblings. Even if you don't have a cousin or a cousin, you can borrow something in the future. ”

Shi Xiangyun blinked, he didn't understand, and Tanchun didn't quite understand, only Xue Baochai was thoughtful.

Xue Baochai knows his brother. Xue Pan's behavior, no one knows better than Xue Baochai. Good/lustful, confused, reckless, and completely ignorant of the consequences, such a Xue Pan made Xue Baochai reluctant to mention him at all. In Xue Baochai's heart, if it weren't for this brother, if it weren't for this brother who had been burdening him, I was afraid that he would have been on the rise a long time ago, instead of falling to the point where he is now.

It's that Xue Baochai doesn't want to admit it, and Xue Baochai himself knows that in his heart, he actually really thinks that Xue Pan, the elder brother, is really better than not. If there is no such unsuccessful brother, he Xue Baochai doesn't have to draw camps, calculate this and that, and he doesn't have to intrigue with the shopkeepers outside, he can also be like the girls in this house, just chant poems and paint all day long, and flatter in front of the elders.

However, Xue Baochai also had to admit that Jia Jiu was indeed telling the truth. A broken curtain can still block three gusts of wind, let alone a big living person. If there was no Xue Pan, I am afraid that those people in the family would have already found a way to get their family's property away, even if the prince Tengsheng was with him and it was useless to enter the cabinet to worship the prime minister. Because it's the law of the land.

knew that what Jia Jiu said was the truth, so Xue Baochai lowered his head and didn't speak. At this moment, the dissatisfaction with Xue Pan in his heart was slightly suppressed, but if he wanted to find a way to correct Xue Pan, Xue Baochai would not spend this strength.

This is the difference between him and Jia Jiu. (To be continued......)