Chapter 158: Betrothed
Mrs. Wang proposed to let her niece be Jia Lian's wife, Jia's mother thought about it, and the two were also a good match, so she nodded, and asked someone to ask Jia Yu to come over to discuss.
Jia Yucai drank wine, was lying on the bed drunk, and wanted to sleep for a while. Hearing Jia's mother's beckoning, she barely got up, asked someone to bring cold water to wash her face, her spirit was lifted, and she deliberately changed her clothes and rinsed her mouth, and took care of herself almost before taking people to the main courtyard.
Because Jia's mother wanted to call Jia Yu, Mrs. Wang avoided first, leaving only Mrs. Xing here. From the bottom of her heart, Mrs. Xing didn't want Mrs. Wang's niece to be Jia Lian's wife. Even though Jia Lian's wife can't be a woman from a small family like her, she must be a good match, she would rather marry the daughter of another family than marry her younger sibling's mother's family. Now in Rongguo Mansion, Mrs. Wang is in charge, nothing has anything to do with her, and when Mrs. Wang's niece marries, will the Jia family still have a place for her to stand?
Mrs. Xing is not happy, she is just a stepmother, in Jia Lian's marriage, maybe his mother can still say a word or two, but Xing's family has no right to speak, only what Jia's mother and Jia Yu say.
Jia Yu came over quickly, saluted Jia's mother first when he entered the door, and then sat down on the chair on her right, and said with a smile: "I don't know what the old lady called her son to do?" ”
As soon as Jia Yu came over, Jia's mother smelled the smell of wine on his body, although he had a heavy incense on his body, he couldn't hide the smell of wine. In addition, although he tried his best to appear sober, he could still tell from his red eyes and flushed face that he was too drunk.
Jia Mu frowned deeply, the boss is so unconscious, can things still be discussed? She sighed, asked the girl to make a good cup of tea, and said to Jia Yu seriously: "You are also old, don't get drunk every day, you should know how to maintain." ”
Jia Yu was very upset. But in the face of Jia's mother, she had to suppress her temperament, and said with a smile: "General Feng invited me today, so I drank more, and my son is not like this on weekdays." ”
Honglan, the girl next to Jia's mother, brought the tea over, and Jia Yu stared at the girl's slender and beautiful hand for a long time before taking the teacup. Jia Mu's eyes were on fire when she saw it, and she barely suppressed her anger, and said lightly: "You drank too much today, go back and rest first, and come over early tomorrow morning." Discuss with you Lian'er's marriage. ”
Jia Yu didn't really want to come over early tomorrow morning, so he smiled and said, "My son will be sober now, the old lady will say it." ”
Mother Jia was impatient to entangle with him, so she said: "The prince Teng's family, who is currently the envoy of the Jingying Festival, has a daughter, who is the same age as Lian'er, and I am also common, born both peugeot and clever, very matched, I called you here to ask you what you mean." ”
Wang Ziteng! That was in the generation of their four major families in Jinling, Jia Shi and Wang Xue. The most capable person. Now that he is the envoy of the Jingying Festival, the person who is really Jane in the emperor's heart, it is better to marry him. Jia Yu was overjoyed, "Old lady." But right? ”
Jia Mu nodded, "If you have no opinion, I will find someone to tell the Wang family a message." Come to think of it, we have been friends for several lifetimes. It shouldn't be difficult. ”
Jia Yuxi said: "In this way, then it will trouble the old lady." ”
Now that Jia Yu agreed, Mrs. Wang took the time to go back to her mother's house. As soon as he told his brother and sister-in-law, Wang Ziteng pondered for a while, then nodded in agreement. Mrs. Wang happily returned to the Jia family, Wang Ziteng's wife was not very happy, and complained to her husband in private, "The eldest master of the Jia family is like that, we don't know, why do you still agree to marry your daughter?" ”
Wang Ziteng said: "I have seen Jia Lian, he is a very handsome child, he is also motivated, and he has a good chance on the road of the world. I grew up with the old lady since I was a child, but I didn't follow Jia Enhou much. Besides, with an uncle like Lin Ruhai, I estimate that there should be no problem in taking the exam. Even if you can't pass the Jinshi exam, it's not difficult for someone like us to get him an errand. ”
"Besides, although I am an envoy of the Jingying Festival, I am not very close to the saints. If you marry with important ministers in the court, I am afraid that the saint will be suspicious, and it will be bad. Moreover, Brother Feng'er's temperament, if she marries early, it will not be good for her, it is better to marry into the Jia family, I am afraid that she will be more comfortable. ”
Wang Ziteng's wife also felt good when she heard her husband say this, so she also smiled and said: "Then Xing's is a stepmother-in-law, so it's not good to care too deeply about the affairs of the young couple." In this way, it is a good kiss. ”
The prince nodded, what he didn't say was that Lin Ruhai had a very close relationship with the saint, but he didn't have much contact before. Now that there is an extra layer of kinship, it is good to get closer.
Mother Jia got Mrs. Wang's letter here, and she was also happy, and it happened that the Li family also came over and expressed her willingness to get married. Now the marriage of the two grown grandsons of the Jia family has been settled. Then I invited the official media, performed six salutes, and notified relatives and friends, and I was busy turning over on my back.
But it is said that September in Jiangnan is a good time to eat crabs. At this time, the female crab is full of yellow shell and is extremely delicious. In previous years, Jia Min had to eat enough, but this year, she could only watch her husband and son eat, and it was enjoyable to taste it at will.
The youngest daughter is seven months old, and she is very cute. It's a pity that it's about a natural relationship, the little girl is not very fat, and the tonnage is not as good as her brother's childhood, but there is no shortage of intelligence. Now, she can sit very steadily, obediently snuggling beside her mother, with big black and white eyes, curiously looking left and right.
Since Xiao Daiyu grew up day by day, Lin Rui has completely become a sister, and when she saw her little sister's curious little appearance, she couldn't help but wash her hands, and sat down to tease her, "Sister, let my brother hug me." ”
Xiao Daiyu also likes her brother very much, and when she saw him coming, she clapped her little hands and grinned, and the golden bell on her wrist jingled with her movements. As soon as Lin Rui stretched out his hand, the little girl happily threw herself into her brother's arms, and he held herself on the ground and turned around.
Jia Min went to play with their brother and sister, pulled a pillow at random, leaned in, and said to her husband: "I'm going to the banquet today, but someone proposed to me?" ”
Lin Ruhai's eyes stood up suddenly, "Who dares to think about my daughter!" "Since the birth of his daughter, the silly father has been worried prematurely that someone will abduct his sweetheart.
Jia Min: =mouth=, guess wrong! She glanced at her husband with a smile, "Are you deliberately interrupting?" ”
Lin Ruhai's head was full of questions, "Madam?" ”
"Yu'er is only seven months old, even if someone wants to marry our daughter, they won't propose marriage now." Jia Min patted her husband angrily and funny, "Don't pretend to be stupid with me, it's obviously a kiss for you." ”
"Huh...... Hehe......" Lin Ruhai smirked. He doesn't understand, isn't it clear what he usually expresses? Why is there still someone rushing to stuff his little wife!
"Giggles......" The little doll's unique laughter sounded, and Xiao Daiyu, who was hugged back to the table by her brother, felt that her mother's action just now was extremely interesting, and she also learned from her mother, raised her little hand, and patted Lin Ruhai around.
Her small hands are also small and her strength is small, patting her side and itchy, Lin Ruhai laughed and hugged her daughter, and kissed the wolf fiercely. The little girl kept struggling with her little hands and feet, and finally had red circles in her eyes, so she was reluctant to let go.
Xiao Daiyu kicked her little foot dissatisfied, stretched out her little hand at her mother, Jia Min reluctantly hugged her over, and quietly pinched her husband by the way. "Obediently, let A-Niang take a look."
Jia Min's beloved daughter's little tender face and teased her with a colored ball. The little girl was very coaxing, and she laughed out loud. This one plays. It wasn't until Daiyu ate the milk and was coaxed to sleep again that Jia Min remembered the previous topic.
In the heavily hung bed curtain, Jia Min was wearing only a big red belly pocket. Stretched out his hand and grabbed her husband's ear, and asked with a sneer: "Say, what have you done recently, attracting people to chase me and want to be a matchmaker for you!" "This matchmaker is still Mrs. Feng, the wife of the current Yangzhou prefect. In particular, she also privately pulled herself to say a set of so-called intimate words, which made Jia Min sick to her stomach.
Jia Min was tired of listening to these intimate words. But it's all about it. Men are lustful, instead of letting him find some fox spirits who don't know the details to enter the door, why don't you find some honest ones for him to put at home, which not only has a reputation for being virtuous, but also bolts men to the house, and so on......
If Jia Min didn't know her husband's personality and whereabouts very well, she would have thought that it was because he was dishonest outside and drank flowers and wine everywhere that made Mrs. Feng so worried about her falling out of favor.
Lin Ruhai mourned and begged for mercy, and all kinds of sweet words and smashed at Jia Min as if he didn't want money, and it was easy to coax his wife to let go, and hurriedly took the person into his arms, stroked the beautiful back with one hand, and solved his doubts softly on the other hand, "Liang Mingli and Zhao Shoujing have a very close relationship, and now Zhao Shoujing's position as the head of the general business is in jeopardy, of course he has to use all the relationships he can use." Liang Mingli should have been entrusted by Zhao Shoujing to let Mrs. Feng find you. "Just kidding, it's impossible for him to let the salt merchant have the head of the general merchant, okay? Do you want to give them a group foundation and make it difficult for him together?
Jia Min said with a smile: "The saints have made an order, for the time being, we will not choose ladies to fill the court, and we must also go with the saints." ”
Lin Ruhai smiled and nodded, "Yes, yes." ”
Speaking of which, it is better for Lin Ruhai to come forward to solve this kind of matter, if Jia Min refuses directly, he will definitely leave a reputation of jealousy and intolerance. Although Jia Min doesn't care about herself, she now has a daughter, even if it is for Daiyu, she has to be careful about her reputation.
Sure enough, as soon as Lin Ruhai's meaning was revealed, he immediately stopped. It is normal for officials to follow the saints. For this reason, Mrs. Feng also made a special attempt to apologize, "I didn't think about it that day, so much that I embarrassed my sister." ”
Jia Min smiled and didn't make a sound, only pushed the plate with small snacks on the table, "Taste, this is the newly made Chongyang cake and cloth cake." ”
Seeing this, Mrs. Feng also changed the topic, washed her hands, and tasted both small snacks before pointing to the clothes cake and said, "I have eaten it in the past, but it is not as good as you do here." ”
Jia Min said with a smile: "You also know that our master has served in Gusu for many years, and his taste has changed a little, and there are several Gusu cooks at home." ”
"No wonder it's so authentic."
"If it is paired with Tiger Hill's Baiyun tea, it will be even better."
"It's a shame."
The two talked for a while, and it happened that Daiyu woke up and was hugged by the nurse, and Mrs. Feng looked at the child for a while, praised a few words, and then got up to say goodbye.
Jia Min sent Mrs. Feng back, and saw her daughter lying on the kang, staring at the door with big black and white eyes.
It's so cute! She took two steps forward, picked up her daughter, and kissed her fiercely. asked someone to bring water, fed Daiyu a small half bowl of warm water, and took out all kinds of cards to teach her daughter to recognize things.
"Cat, cat."
"Ahhh......h Dingding ......"
"Dogs, puppies."
"Ahh......h Bell bell ......"
Every time Jia Min picked up a chapter, he told Daiyu clearly and slowly what it was, and Xiao Daiyu also clapped her little hands with joy. Follow her aloud as if you're really learning.
The mother and daughter were having a good time, and Jia's mother's letter arrived, Jia Min wiped her daughter's mouth, and handed the little girl who was a little unhappy to the nurse, and then took the letter to read.
Jia's mother mainly told her daughter that her two nephews were engaged, and Jia Zhu's wife was the daughter of Guozi's priest wine, and her name was Li Kun. Jia Lian's wife ordered Wang Xifeng, the daughter of Wang Ziteng, and now the six rites have completed the five rites. Only the last one remains. The weddings of the two nephews are scheduled for next year. Finally, he also asked if Jia Min was likely to return to the capital next year.
Jia Mu asked, and Jia Min understood. The errands of patrolling the history of the salt palace are all changed every year. Lin Ruhai has been on the side for two terms, and recently someone in the DPRK impeached him, but the saint did not express his position, but in this way, everyone felt that the saint was unlikely to let him be reinstated.
If Lin Ruhai is not a salt politician. The biggest possibility is to return to Beijing and join the Sixth Department as a waiter. Coincidentally, the left waiter of the household department had just been dismissed, implicating many people. Xiao Jin did not appoint a new candidate for the time being. Combined with these, everyone thinks that Lin Ruhai must be the next candidate for the left servant of the household department.
Others don't know, but Jia Min knows. Xiao Jin planned to let Lin Ruhai do it for a few more years, and he didn't plan to transfer him back to the dynasty immediately. It is really too important for the two Huai salt administrations, and the taxes of the Great Xia for a year. A quarter of them are from Lianghuai. There are still too few trustworthy people in his hands, and Lin Ruhai has been recruited back, and Xiao Jin no longer has anyone who can be trusted to preside over the Lianghuai Salt Administration.
Jia Min thought about it, and when her letter was delivered to Jia's mother, the candidate for the left waiter of the household department was almost decided, and it would not hinder anything. She wrote a reply, first congratulating her two nephews on their engagement. He vaguely said that he should not return to his senses in a short time. Write a reply letter, ask the girl to move the warehouse list, and start to list the gift list to be sent back to Beijing. The two nephews are engaged, and she, as an aunt, must have something to show for it.
In the evening, when Lin Ruhai came back, when Jia Min told him about the marriage between Jia Zhu and Jia Lian, he said in a very self-deprecating tone: "Come on, everything is back to square one." "Li Kun and Wang Xifeng, after all, still married the original person.
Lin Ruhai patted her fragrant shoulder comfortingly, and comforted: "Not really, that Zhen Xiangling is doing well now, the Zhen family has not been burned, Zhen Shiyin is now also getting an errand in Dejian, and now he is a professor of the school, in charge of educating the people in the school, inspecting the students' learning, the advantages and disadvantages of morality, etc., to discipline him." The little girl in his family is also six or seven years old, and she is very smart. So, you see, things are slowly changing, but compared to the original plot, this change is very slow and subtle. ”
Hearing her husband mention Xiangling, Jia Min's nervousness slowly eased, and she said with a smile: "What Zhen Xiangling, people call Yinglian." Speaking of the Zhen family, Jia Min can't help but think of one person, Jia Yucun, who has been helped by Zhen Shiyin, and the girl Jiaoxing who formed a marriage because of the occasional review. She calculated, Jia Yucun should be dismissed at this time, right?
"Xianggong, do you know Jia Yucun?"
Lin Ruhai was stunned for a moment when he heard a man's name come out of his wife's mouth, and then reacted, "I don't recognize him, but I heard about something." After Najiayu Village was raised, he was given an official position, specially sent a gift to Zhen's house, and asked a girl to make a second room. ”
Jia Min was happy: "Jiao Xing! ”
"Well, I don't know." Lin Ruhai shook his head, "After the gourd temple was moved, there was still a fire. Fortunately, there are no houses around, only the temple was burned, and the monks in the temple scattered, but now the gourd temple is completely dilapidated. ”
After so many years, Jia Min can't remember the plot of many original works very clearly, but Zhen Shiyin left his old wife behind and ran away with the Taoist priest after her daughter was lost and her family business failed. When she first read this paragraph, she scolded the abducted Taoist priest and Zhen Shiyin scumbag. "There are no Taoist priests, monks and the like, do you want to abduct Zhen Shiyin and leave home?"
Lin Ruhai smiled and asked her with a slight curiosity: "How do you know?" ”
Jia Min was surprised when he heard it: "Is there really one?" "I don't know what the Taoist priest will think when he finds out that Zhen Yinglian is not lost, Zhen's family is not burned, Zhen Shiyin is not only not sick, but also a professor of Fuxue, and he has a good life.
Lin Ruhai said: "Well, last year, Dejian wrote a joking story, a crazy Taoist had to kidnap Zhen Shiyin to leave home, and was beaten out by Zhen Shiyin's wife. ”
Jia Min laughed and clapped his hands again and again: "Good fight." "If the two don't know each other, they will come to their house and marry her daughter. She treated people as human traffickers and threw them directly into prison for a year and a half, to see if he was still nosy.
Not to mention that Jia Min was thinking about how to clean up people here, the Miao Zhenren and the Vast Master also felt that something was wrong. According to the calculation of cause and effect, the Zhen family has been defeated at this time, Yinglian has also been abducted, Zhen Shiyin should be very sick, as long as he goes over to hook up, he can abduct people smoothly. But what's going on now? Zhen Yinglian stayed in the Zhen family well, grew up to seven safely, and it is possible to continue to be stable, and then get married and have children, and have a smooth life. Zhen Shiyin, who should have been sick and dying, didn't live too nourishing in his small life, and even worked on an errand in the prefect's yamen.
Nima, what the hell went wrong. The two pinched their fingers and calculated, but they only calculated that everything in the Zhen family had changed, the catastrophe had passed, and since then they have been safe and smooth. Well, they can't take care of the Zhen family's affairs anymore, and they don't agree with the heavens. Counting other people's, it's okay, there are no changes in other aspects, the Zhuzhu Immortal Grass and the Tongling Baoyu have all passed down on time, and the rest of the merry ghosts have also followed, and the matter is still under control.
Smooth days always pass quickly, the busy New Year passes, and then the New Year, and soon it will be February, and Xiao Daiyu will turn one year old. Jia Min has been very excited to prepare for her daughter's first birthday banquet these days, especially the things used to catch the week, and prepared countless kinds. She especially wanted to see what her daughter would catch out.
Hehe, if you grab a book and a pen, I don't know if it will make her second brother Jia Zheng envy to death. Yes, Jia Baoyu also caught Zhou at the first birthday banquet last year, but the result was the same as in the book, only grabbed the hairpin ring rouge to play with, took it away and cried, and Jia Zheng's face changed color when he was angry, and he said that he was just a drunken person, but Jia's mother hurt Jia Baoyu wholeheartedly, and now it is more and more important, and it hurts almost like her own eyeballs.
Because Jia Zheng was not very good to her youngest son, Jia's mother also wrote a letter to complain to her, mentioning that their three brothers and sisters caught Zhou, and said: "When your second brother caught Zhou, he caught a bow and arrow." Now, he can't even get on the horse, can he? Not to mention archery. It can be seen that how can we do things accurately? It's just a joke, and it's just an auspicious meaning. He arrived, and he took it seriously. ”
"Say nothing to me every day, don't say anything, it's weird! He trusts him more than anyone else. ”
Although Jia's mother complained to her daughter, she was embarrassed to mention the specific matter of Jia Baoyu's arrest of Zhou, which was still written by Xiao Chen and rushed to Lin Ruiba.
Lin Ruhai didn't know if he had been an official for a long time, so he discussed this matter with her in private, "Jia Baoyu was born extraordinary, did you say that your old lady was afraid of attracting the eyes of the royal family, so she specially trained him to catch things like this?" ”
Jia Min: =mouth=, how does she know.
Lin Ruhai felt that he had guessed very correctly, "You read the book, how smart Jia Baoyu is." If you discipline well, you might be able to become a big official. But what kind of character he has, it is clearly written in the book, and most of them are connived and doted on by the old lady. I suspected it at the beginning, Mrs. Jia must have deliberately raised him like this, so as not to be taboo by the emperor and assassinate him again. ”
Jia Min: ==, I think so much.
Anyway, whether it is intentional or not, Jia Baoyu is growing up according to his life path, but Xiao Daiyu is already different from the book. It was about when Jia Min was pregnant, and her health was better, and Xiao Daiyu was not as thin as written in the book. Jia Min didn't use a nurse, she breastfed herself, and when she was five months old, she added complementary food little by little, and increased or decreased clothes with the change of temperature. And the most important point is that every hour or so, the little girl will be fed some water to drink. Raised so carefully, although Xiao Daiyu is not as round as her brother when she was a child, she is not so thin that people feel pitiful, and there are even ten small pits on her small hands, which look very healthy. (To be continued......)