Night, Dongfu.

Ping's Hospital.

In the bedroom, Ping'er, who had just come back from Xixie Street, heard Sister Feng complaining about Jia Qiang inside: "What do you say you are doing here? Even if it's lively, can you still break the sky? I have to leave no room for affection, you see, the old lady has to cry tonight. ”

Jia Qiang said lazily: "It's not to pierce the sky, but it's okay to pierce you." The hair is long and the knowledge is short, and you don't know how to mix with the things outside. It's really a lively day, and the face is bright, and the imperial concubine in the palace will have a hard time. Even me, too, will end up with a bunch of troubles. What is the use of Xifu receiving a bunch of unused gifts? ”

Sister Feng was about to say something, but Jia Qiang turned over and sat up, and said with a smile: "Sister Ping'er is back!" ”

Ping'er walked in around the jade carved lake and mountain screen, and said with a smile: "What are grandpa and grandma arguing about?" ”

Sister Feng was angry and had nowhere to say, and at this time she just complained: "It's not your good man, the old lady is over 70 years old, and no one is allowed to make a big deal out of it." ”

Jia Qiang ignored her, and pulled Ping'er to let her sit on the shelf bed of Huayue Cave in Huayue Cave.

I picked the wick of the candle on the coral wood seat screen lampstand on the side to make it burn brighter.

also helped Ping'er to go to the embroidered shoes on his feet, replaced them with a pair of looser household velvet shoes, and poured half a bowl of warm tea from the small round table of golden silk sandalwood outside the screen with a lotus petal pattern chicken heart bowl and handed it to Ping'er.

Sister Feng saw that Ping'er actually took it and ate it, and the whole person couldn't sit still, gritted her teeth and said: "You two, one is willing to dare to serve, and the other is willing to be used, I think you two are going crazy!" ”

Jia Qiang sneered and laughed: "What kind of evil vinegar did you eat?" Ping'er went to Xixiao Street before dawn every day, and didn't come back until nightfall. Is she for herself? It's not for this home yet! Shouldn't such a wife be more painful and respectful? ”

Sister Feng was furious and blurted out: "What about me? ”

"Poof!"

Ping'er's heart that was originally served by Jia Qiang was about to melt, and her eyes were full of him.

But when I heard Sister Feng'er's words, I couldn't help laughing.

Jia Qiang also laughed and said, "You are also a good wife!" Come on, Xianggong will also take off your shoes and socks for you, and pour tea and water. ”

After that, Sister Feng was pressed to the couch and sat down.

Sister Feng'er's pretty face is like a burning cloud, if she wants to struggle, where can she afford to struggle?

After the shoes and socks were also removed, and after receiving the tea in his hand, he couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth and smacked: "It's almost the same!" ”

There are no outsiders in the room on the left and right, so what cannot be said openly?

Ping'er laughed angrily: "It's still an aunt, do you want to be faced?" ”

Sister Feng immediately got started, and Ping'er made a fuss left and right.

Jia Qiang watched the two of them fight for a while, and felt pleasing to the eye, but unfortunately, she couldn't continue, and said: "It's almost enough, both of you are not feeling well these days, let Jin Chu'er and Yu Chu'er prepare more hot water and soak your feet in a while." The tea recipe that I opened to warm up my body before I was looking for someone, don't be too troublesome, Ping'er is better, but the second aunt is unlucky, and it hurts for half a life, but she can still hold on. After soaking my feet, I went back to that side after eating tea, and there was nothing big about Xifu now. ”

Listening to his advice, although the second daughter blushed, but obedient and obedient, Sister Feng said strangely: "Are you going out?" ”

Jia Qiang nodded and said with a smile: "Didn't you also suspect before, Aunt Zhao's clever methods were a little too much?" ”

Sister Feng was shocked when she heard this, and said, "There is really a master in the back?" ”

Ping'er also looked at it, after all, Aunt Zhao's performance in the first few times, even she felt moved by the sideways.

A concubine, in collusion with an obscene Taoist aunt like Ma Daopo, can still get out of the whole body, such a means, there are not a few aunts in the whole world.

Jia Qiang nodded and said, "It's a master, so let's go and take a look, together with Xiaojing." ”

Sister Feng said ruthlessly: "The person who dares to play the Guogong Mansion still colludes with people like Aunt Zhao inside and outside, who cares who he is, first arrest him and beat him half to death!" ”

Jia Qiang smiled: "I don't care, but Xiaojing thinks that talents are rare, and I want to see if I can take them for my own use." ”

Sister Feng laughed angrily: "How can anyone use it?" Besides, your young gang leader is still a woman. ”

Jia Qiang raised her eyebrows lightly and said, "Don't look down on women, the one who gives advice to Aunt Zhao is a woman." ”

Hearing this, let alone Sister Feng'er, even Ping'er couldn't sit still.

Jia Qiang smiled: "Want to go and see together? ”

Sister Feng and Ping'er nodded again and again, and Jia Qiang smiled.

……

In the west of Rongfu, the row under the back porch was originally a house for the people of the Jia family.

The exterior walls of the two westernmost rooms have been mottled, but the small courtyard in front of the door is neat and tidy, and there is not a single fallen leaf and weed.

Although the ground is dirt, it is also tamped and leveled.

It's a family......

After Jia Qiang, Sister Feng, and Ping'er got out of the car, Li Jing came out of the courtyard, saw that there were three of them, nodded and smiled with the two, and said to Jia Qiang: "People are quite calm, and they were startled at first, but when I heard that the master was coming, I was not afraid." ”

Jia Qiang said "ha", turned back to Sister Feng and Ping'er, and said, "Do you see it?" What does it mean to be extremely smart? ”

Sister Feng was thoughtful, Ping'er was slightly puzzled, and Li Jing smiled: "If it's just to punish her, or kill her, why do you need to come forward?" ”

Ping'er is also a smart person in Bingxue, and she instantly understood, but she was speechless: "She figured it out at once?" ”

Li Jing smiled: "Talented people are like this. ”

Sister Feng couldn't figure it out, and said, "Such a woman is willing to marry a car driver?" ”

Li Jing shook her head and said: "The Tao family and the Zhao family have some origins, but Tao Erniang, who was born in the small court, looks down on Aunt Zhao who was born in the slave family, and Aunt Zhao has always kept it in mind. When the Tao family was involved in the murder lawsuit, Tao Erniang was still young, and no one in the Tao family could help, and the Tao family had already died. When she was desperate, in order to save her brother, Tao Erniang found Aunt Zhao. Aunt Zhao had only given birth to three girls at that time, and she was very loved by the old man, and she was busy looking for maids in Xifu to tell Zhao Guoji about her family. Tao Erniang begged to come to the door, and was hitting the knife edge. She remembered that Tao Erniang looked down on her and Zhao Guoji when she was young, and now she wants to marry Tao Erniang, who was born as a young lady, to Zhao Guoji, and call her grandma. Tao Erniang had to marry, maybe she was a little unwilling two years earlier, but after giving birth to her son Zhao Dong, she accepted her fate. I haven't been around much with Aunt Zhao all these years, until Zhao Dong reaches the age of going to school......"

When Sister Feng and Ping'er heard this, they both fell silent.

Isn't that usually the case for women......

Jia Qiang raised her eyebrows lightly and said, "In other words, all of this she did for Aunt Zhao was to let Zhao Dong enter the clan study?" ”

Li Jing nodded and said, "I asked people to check carefully, there is no one behind it, this Tao Erniang has been studying since she was a child, and she has learned the style of everyone's ladies, and she will not see a foreign man when she is idle." ”

Jia Qiang nodded and said, "Is Zhao Guoji back?" ”

Li Jing smiled and said: "The men haven't come back, so let's come to the door, aren't the bad people innocent?" ”

These words made Sister Feng and Ping'er look at someone together and laugh.

But I heard Li Jing shake her head again and said: "Then Zhao Guoji is also useless, a group of us entered the house, he just squatted down and held his head, he is not as good as his wife, so he knows how to protect his son." ”

Sister Feng sneered: "But if this man is a little useful, Tao Erniang still uses to drop his face and run to talk to Aunt Zhao?" ”

When Jia Qiang heard this, she looked at Li Jing and smiled.

It's also good to have someone who can make her desperate.

"Let's go, let's go in and have a look."

Jia Qiang took the lead and entered Zhao Guoji's house.

There were two other people in the house, both of whom were good hands by Li Jing's side, and because they were two young people, Sister Feng and Ping'er also deliberately paid attention to their eyes.

It wasn't until he saw that he looked mediocre that he stopped paying attention.

After the two greeted Jia Qiang, Li Jing said to the two of them: "Take Zhao Guoji out first." ”

The two walked up to Zhao Guoji, Zhao Guoji buried his head before slowly raising it, looked at the room full of people with fear, and finally landed on Jia Qiang's face, knelt down, and couldn't say anything nervous and scared.

Jia Qiang said lightly: "It's not a big deal, Aunt Zhao asks for help, I want your son Zhao Dong to enter the Jia family to study." I'm idle, so I'll come and see. You wait outside, I asked him a few words. ”

When Zhao Guoji heard this, he hurriedly responded, and then glared at a little boy who was only five or six years old and said, "Go back to the old man's words, otherwise you won't be able to hit your legs!" ”

The little boy was a little thin and nodded visibly in fear.

Looking at the woman who held him in her arms and had some vicissitudes of life, but her eyes were still bright and cold, Jia Qiang suddenly felt that when she was studying in the Red Chamber in her previous life, Zhao Guoji died so early, and it may not be the end of his life......

After Zhao Guoji went out, Jia Qiang first found a wooden stool, tried it to be quite strong, and asked Li Jing to sit down.

Li Jing hurriedly avoided it, and Ping'er said with a smile: "Sister has a body, sit down." ”

Sister Feng was too lazy to be jealous, and only looked at Li Jing's stomach with envy in her Danfeng eyes......

Jia Qiang found two more small pestles and asked Sister Feng and Ping'er to sit down, but he just stood there and smiled at the three of them: "Lie down for a day, stand up." ”

After that, his eyes fell on Tao Erniang's face, and after meeting those cold eyes, he sighed and said: "It may not be right to pity the hearts of parents in the world, but there is no big problem in pitiing the hearts of mothers in the world." Tao Erniang, for the sake of Zhao Dong's entry into the clan study, you were involved in the family affairs of the Guogong Mansion, according to the rules, you were to be severely punished. However, thinking of your loving heart, it is not easy, plus ......" He pointed at Li Jing and said: "Benhou's beloved concubine thinks that you are rare, so I decided to give you a chance." ”

"What chance?"

Tao Erniang's voice, slightly hoarse and low, looked at Li Jing and asked.

Li Jing smiled: "It's really hard to find a smart person like Erniang. Most of the people in the world, including me, are ordinary ordinary people with little intelligence at all. Such a god-endowed and intelligent person as our lord and Erniang is commendable. ”

Tao Erniang never dreamed that these rich and powerful people would come to the door for such a reason, and she was stunned for a while.

Jia Qiang said lightly: "The people under Ben Hou do things, regardless of gender or gender, only look at intelligence. You will understand this later. What I just want to tell you is that if you are really capable, if you really have the talent and wisdom to give Aunt Zhao those ideas, then even if you are not a relative of Aunt Zhao, it is enough to send your son to the Jia family. Xiaojing has a grandma grandma under her command, who has no relatives and no reason with the Jia family, just because grandma Sun is resourceful and helpful to Xiaojing a lot, so her grandson is now studying in school. In the future, after the exam, he will become an official after the title of the gold list, and Ben Hou will also help. You are the same, you don't need to rely on the Zhao family, you can also raise your son well. Would you like to? ”

Tao Erniang's cold eyes showed excitement, but she quickly calmed down and asked, "I'm just a woman, and I don't have much knowledge, what can I do?" ”

Seeing her like this, Jia Qiang and Li Jing looked at each other again and laughed.

People often say that one person prospers the country, and there is a soldier who will bear a nest, which shows that as long as the individual's intelligence is on the right platform, it will be able to play an incomparably important role.

However, people who can prosper the country, generals who can lead the division of a hundred victories, are rare.

It is easy to get money, but it will be difficult to find, this is the truth.

The vast majority of people in the world, all living beings, are actually mediocre people.

Because of this, Jia Qiang and Li Jing will reuse old women like Mama Sun, as well as seven or eight talents from Yangzhou salt merchants.

This group of people is indeed very good, especially Mama Sun, whose speculation about the layout of the rivers and lakes and the hearts of the people is simply superb.

However, after all, they are old and lack energy.

Therefore, it is important to find talents who can succeed them.

Tao Erniang doesn't have much experience and insight in the rivers and lakes, it doesn't matter.

Li Jing's experience and knowledge in the rivers and lakes are enough, but she can't do what grandma Sun and her children do.

Because Li Jing's skills are good, it's a pity that she is intelligent......

Although Tao Erniang has no foundation, she can learn and be a disciple of Mama Sun and others.

With her ingenuity, it won't take a few years to become a teacher.

After revealing a little bit of what she could say, Tao Erniang decisively agreed, but she said a request:

"I want to reconcile with Zhao Guoji, and Zhao Dong will change his surname to Tao."

……

On the return carriage, Jia Qiang saw that Sister Feng had been silent for a long time, so she whispered with relief: "You and Tao Erniang's situation is different, she only needs to think about her son, and you have too many more things on her shoulders than she does." However, if you want to do the same one day, just do it, and I'm here for everything. ”

Sister Feng'er heard this, her eyes were red, but she didn't shed any tears, and laughed at herself: "What I was thinking about was not this, but I thought that the women in this world were mostly poor people who attached themselves to men to survive, and I really looked down on them." Unexpectedly, there is such a wonderful woman. She really had the courage to take her son and Xiaojing away that night. ”

Ping'er smiled: "It's nothing, Tao Erniang is indeed smart, but there are also a few girls on the side of the Xixiao Street Hall, who are really smart and have become more organized and assertive." They are all literate and literate, which is very remarkable. has been a gentleman for half a year, and now the accounts over there are a little unable to win them. ”

When Sister Feng heard this, she was more and more shocked and said: "It's also strange, how come I didn't see so many capable people before, but now they are worthless, and they are bald and bald." ”

Ping'er smiled: "Even if there were in the past, who would dare to let them do these big things?" It's just a grandmother's ability, but it's just a matter of serving people at home. In the final analysis, it was Ye Bufan who gave them that opportunity. ”

Sister Feng said angrily: "Your words are so sour that I want to peck on you!" ”

Ping'er tilted her head and smiled like a flower.

Jia Qiang looked at Sister Feng embarrassedly and said, "I can also arrange for you to do a good errand, but ...... You can't read. ”

"Poof!"

Ping'er couldn't help it and burst out laughing.

She was also illiterate, but for more than half a year, she has been learning from the people around her, and now she can recognize hundreds of characters, at least it is not a problem to recognize an account book or letter on weekdays.

And she's still studying.

These words annoyed Sister Feng'er, and she pounced on Jia Qiang to fight with her.

As a result, it was naturally cleaned up, but unfortunately the body was useless these days, and I was happy.

When he was sent to the second gate of Xifu, he went back to the house in a huff.

Jia Qiang and Ping'er returned to Dongfu, but because Ping'er was useless, she was asked to go back to the backyard early to rest.

And Jia Qiang, on the moonlight, went to the East Road Courtyard.

To a small courtyard, push the door in, knock lightly, the door opened, a maid saw that it was Jia Qiang coming, she was surprised, turned back to another girl and said: "Ruizhu, go and tell grandma, Master Hou is here!" ”

……

Rongguo Mansion, behind the Big Flower Hall.

Baoyu-in.

The bedroom is like a girl's room, the door is hung with green embroidered soft curtains, the walls in the room are exquisitely clear, the piano and sword bottles are all pasted on the wall, the brocade gauze is covered, the gold color pearlescent light, even the bricks on the ground are green chiseled flowers, and the bed tent on the bed is also the most exquisite warm yellow yarn.

The atmosphere in the room was a little wrong, Baoyu lay on the bed and cried, and the maids such as Raider, Musk Moon, Autumn Pattern, and Bi Jin were ugly on the side, as if they wanted to persuade them, but they didn't know where to persuade them.

Baoyu was scolded by Jia Qiang today, and after Jia Qiang left, if Jia Qiang hadn't stopped him and Mrs. Wang, he would have been beaten to death by Jia Zheng!

Jia Zheng didn't dare to brag, but when it came to protecting the women around him, he felt that Jia Qiang was not as good as him!

What hurts Baoyu the most is that the eyes of the sisters looking at him have clearly changed, so sad......

Bi Jin has always been a sharp-toothed person, but he didn't dare to scold Jia Qiang anything, and only scolded the culprit Qian Xue and scolded:

"Shameless obscene thing, how could you treat her poorly in the past? Even the old lady and the wife sent her out this time, and they also gave up the silver and clothes, how could they have treated her badly? It's like forcing her to die! ”

"I don't want to leave this place even if I say I'm dead, but what is the result? I heard that I could go to Dongfu, so I ran away like a dog! ”

The attacker persuaded, "Okay, don't talk about it. People go to high places, water flows to low places, and it is also a good thing that she can have a good place to go. He also persuaded Baoyu: "This matter has nothing to do with the master, the Hou Ye must not understand it, so he is so angry, why should the second master be wronged like this?" ”

Baoyu raised her head, looked back at the girls, and said, "I just don't understand, what we said that day was what we said in private, how did my wife know?" It's strange that there are no outsiders walking around. ”

Attacker: "You have a lot of taboos, and when you are happy for a while, you don't care if there is anyone or no one." I have also made eyes, and I have given a code, but the other person already knows it, and you don't know it. ”

Baoyu said: "Why doesn't everyone's wife know that they don't single out you and Musk Moon Autumn Pattern?" ”

When the attacker heard this, his heart moved, he bowed his head for a long time, and there was no answer, so he smiled and said: "Exactly, if we also have a place where Meng Lang is smiling and careless, why did my wife forget?" I don't know if there is something else to do, and I don't know if I'll give it to us when we're done. ”

When Baoyu heard this, she didn't think about anything else, and said with a broken heart: "If even you go with you, why don't I become a monk and become a monk." ”

Then he burst into tears.

……

Not far from the Baoyu Courtyard is the residence of Li Kun and Jia Lan.

An oil lamp was lightly lit, and Li Kun, who had finished washing, looked at Jia Lan reading, and said with a smile: "It's almost time, don't watch it." How did your big brother teach you before? Reading and writing under the lamp and candle hurts your eyes, concentrate on hard work during the day, and you don't have to stay up at night. ”

Jia Lan was a little ashamed when he heard this: "Mother, is it my son's, I was stubborn with Uncle Huan during the day." ”

Li Kun said with a smile: "Didn't your eldest brother say that when you go home on vacation, it was to relax, and you should be stubborn." ”

Jia Lan said in surprise when she heard this: "Hey, my mother has always let her children study hard and go to school earlier, but now how can she make her son so stubborn?" ”

Li Kun smiled and said: "Your eldest brother is right, if you don't have a good body, you can't do anything." Did you come back and see you Aunt Lin? ”

Jia Lan nodded and said, "Aunt Lin also gave me a set of pen and ink, all of which are excellent. Mother, Aunt Lin didn't wear a jacket this year. ”

Jia Lan remembered that in previous years, as soon as autumn came, his aunt would wear a thin jacket, and when the frost fell, it was time to change into a thick jacket.

Li Kun smiled: "It's your eldest brother who takes care of it!" I watched from the sidelines, and I also understood that this person really needs a good body and bones to stand firm, otherwise everything is empty. ”

Jia Lan suddenly smiled and said, "Mother, now you believe in the words of the eldest brother." ”

Li Kun was calm in his heart, shook his head and smiled: "It's not just my mother who believes in him, you see, now even the old lady, the old man and your second aunt and aunt, who doesn't believe him?" In previous years, Baoyu was like a phoenix, but he only treated him as a child. Now the eyes of the family are on Qiang'er, why? ”

Jia Lan realized: "It's the eldest brother who has changed the Jia family a lot, and it's still a good change." He has real ability, so everyone obeys him. ”

Li Kun stroked Jia Lan's forehead and laughed softly: "This is just one side, not all of it. Look at how he taught your second uncle today? Do you know what that's called? ”

Jia Lan was still young after all, and said, "Mother, is the eldest brother telling Second Uncle Bao not to take people for blame?" ”

Li Kun smiled and said: "Your eldest brother is teaching you Second Uncle Bao, it doesn't matter if you can be high or low, the important thing is that the man must be responsible, and he can't let the girls around him die for him, such a man is not a man, nor can he be the descendant of Ning Rong's second duke." ”

To tell the truth, when he heard Jia Qiang's words in Rongqing Hall today, even if Li Kun's heart was like a tree, he couldn't help but ripple for it.

It's not that I have any thoughts about Jia Qiang, but I simply feel that having such a man in the world is a blessing for my daughter's family!

If so, if she can find such a gentleman in her next life, how good would it be......

"Lan'er, remember, to be like your eldest brother, a man who stands up to the sky!"

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PS: More than 6,000 words, one more chapter~~ It's not that I'm thinking about it, it's mainly that I have to find time to write a few articles recently......