Jia Zheng grabbed Shi Nai's arm and pulled him towards Rongguo Mansion.

The two entered the Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Zheng said to him: "The old lady has been talking about you all these years, but because he can't erase the things back then, he often says to me, let me take care of you, but you don't come to me, so I can't think about it." ”

Shi Nai said ashamedly: "Back then, my aunt wanted to leave more property for Yun Yatou and her mother, but because our mansion was not as rich as your mansion, so we were a little stingy, which made my aunt a little unhappy." Over the years, there have been fewer contacts, and I don't come to see my aunt much, and now I regret it very much, and today I came to Xiangyun to set the family affairs, and the second is to see my aunt make amends for what happened back then. ”

Jia Zheng already knew about Shi Xiangyun, and when Jia's mother came back last night, she told him about the cause and effect.

Jia Zheng doesn't feel anything bad about this, his family is now in power, and the government and the opposition are living very comfortably. Among the four major families, the Wang family is supported by the prince, which can be regarded as a prosperous family.

Only the Xue family has no pillars, but since they have taken refuge in their own family, it can be regarded as their support, and now they are also living well in Beijing, and many errands of the imperial businessmen in the royal family should have been dispensed with, but because of Jia Ke's relationship, they are still allowed to do both. Although the business in the shop is not good, there are still some subsidies from other places, and there is also some income every year, which is not considered to be beyond the means.

Only the Shi family only has the position of two marquis of Guangtong, but they have no income, and they are already unable to make ends meet, and now I heard that even Shi Xiangyun has to stay up late to do needlework. It can be seen that his family is in distress.

Jia Zheng has decided that after coming this time, he will let Jia Ke give Shi Nai activities, so that he can have a real job, so that the family can have a better life.

Shi Nai and Jia Zheng chatted like this, and walked towards Jia's mother's yard, but to be honest, the relationship that was a little rusty in the past slowly got better. After all, blood is thicker than water, and the bloodlines of the two of them are not estranged now.

When the two came to Jia's mother's yard, the mandarin duck had been waiting there for a long time.

Although the mandarin duck had never seen Shi Nai, looking at the old man in a python robe who accompanied Jia Zheng, he thought that he was the old lady's own nephew.

So the mandarin duck hurriedly took a few steps forward and gave the two masters a blessing, "The old lady is here, the old lady knows that the Hou master is coming, and has been waiting inside." ”

The two of them heard him say this, and hurriedly walked a few steps to the courtyard, and as soon as they arrived in the courtyard, they saw an old woman, and when they took a few steps forward, they saw Shi Nai, so they bowed down and saluted, and said, "Second son, our young lady has been waiting for you inside for a long time." ”

As soon as Shi Nai heard it, he knew that this old lady was brought from their Baoling Mansion to dowry, and she was also an old man to him, so he arched his hand and said, "Thank you." ”

Jia Zheng walked further and had already come to the door. Just then, the curtain of the door was opened, and an old lady with silver hair came out from inside.

Jia Zheng and Shi Nai are not Jia Mu at first glance, which one else?

It turned out that Jia's mother had already heard the sound of talking in the yard, so she couldn't wait to come out of the house, wanting to find some nephews who she hadn't seen for many years.

Jia Mu couldn't help but burst into tears when she saw Shi Nai, and she kept falling.

When Shi Nai saw such an old lady, even the hard-hearted heart had now melted, so he took a few steps and knelt down on his knees in front of Jia's mother, hugged her legs and cried.

Jia Mu also held Shi Nai's head and kept stroking, and the tears on her face never stopped.

Jia Zheng watched the two of them from the side, crying with joy after a long absence. Afraid that there was something wrong with Jia's mother's health, she hurriedly went up and persuaded: "Mother, since the second brother is here now." Don't be so sad anymore, hurry into the house and sit down to talk. ”

Mother Jia listened to Jia Zheng's words, then wiped her tears, helped Shi Nai up and said: "I'm old and cry at every turn, how can you learn from me." ”

Shi Nai replied embarrassedly: "I'm afraid you've forgotten, I'm not too young." In a few years, I'm afraid I will have a grandson too. ”

Jia Mu stood there and thought about it, didn't it? Jia Zheng now has three grandsons. And the descendants of his eldest son Jia Yu are a little difficult, so they also have a granddaughter.

So Jia Mu smiled and said to Shi Nai: "It's me who is confused." ”

So the three of them entered Jia's mother's room surrounded by all the maids and women.

After coming to Jia's mother's main room, Jia's mother sat down in the center, accompanied by Jia Zheng and Shi Nai.

After everyone was done, Jia Mu asked Shi Nai: "How did you find that Daoist Zhang?" He actually asked me for marriage. ”

Shi Nai was a little embarrassed, but felt that it was better to make this matter clear, "I'm not afraid to make my aunt laugh, now the house is really a little unbearable." Now in addition to some fields and some annual income, the rest depends on the money issued by the imperial court. ”

Mother Jia also sighed a little when she heard this, thinking that a few years ago, her Rongguo Mansion was similar to theirs, and she also began to eat grain.

Shi Nai paused for a moment, and then said: "I originally thought that marrying Xiangyun to a wealthy family would also be able to help our mansion. But over the years, I have no dealings with those powerful people in the court, so I used a treasure in our house to give it to Daoist Zhang, begging him to give him a recommendation, but I didn't expect it to be sent to our house. ”

When Jia Mu heard him say this, her brows furrowed, and she asked unhappily, "Didn't you give that thing away?" ”

Shi Nai said helplessly: "You don't know the things in our house, almost all of them have been defeated back then, leaving only this one, when my father died, he had arranged a personal soldier, and left me a message that it could only be sold as a last resort, I thought that now the house has reached the point of exhaustion, so I used this treasure to say to Daoist Zhang, as long as he can find a rich family for Xiangyun and help the house, this treasure will belong to him." ”

You must know that this jade gourd is not trivial, back then, Jia's mother's elder brother Shi Lao Houye, in order to get this thing, offended two or three princes of the court.

Because of this, the status of the old marquis Shi in the court is a little unstable, and many people have become hostile to the old marquis under the shuttle of the three princes.

What is so great about this gourd that it makes so many powerful people worry about it?

To say this, I'm afraid it's a little hard to say. At that time, the emperor had not yet ascended the throne, and his father was in charge of the world.

As soon as this emperor ascended the throne, he was going to build the imperial mausoleum, and this Emperor Taizong, too, chose an auspicious place for himself in the west mountain of the capital.

Everything was fine when the construction of the imperial tomb began, but when the construction was halfway through, an ancient tomb was dug under the temple when it was a child.

This made the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty at that time very surprised, you must know that every time the imperial tomb is built, the Ministry of Industry has to explore in advance. How is it possible to find someone else's burial underground?

In the end, Emperor Taizong made an arbitrary decision to let the tomb be dug clean, and then sent a mage to suppress the owner of the tomb.

This matter fell on the head of the old marquis Shi, so the old marquis Shi was helpless, and took the soldiers to dig up the tomb, and the old marquis Shi was afraid of any danger, so he asked the soldiers to test with live chickens and ducks first.

As a result, he was safe and sound, and the old marquis Shi led people into the tomb. When they entered the tomb, they saw that there was nothing in the whole tomb except the coffin of the tomb owner.

Old Marquis Shi asked the coffin to be opened, and when he looked at you, he only stunned him.

It turned out that there was a stunning woman lying in the coffin, and I don't know how many years she had been buried here, but it was lifelike. It was as if he was asleep, and his cheeks were still rosy.

Everyone has never heard of this matter, has never seen it, and is a little overwhelmed. Later, it was the old Marquis Shi who personally came on the field, and a jade gourd was found in the woman's arms.

This jade gourd seems to be just made of ordinary jade, and there is nothing unusual, but as soon as this gourd leaves the corpse, it quickly becomes a pair of dry bones when it sees the corpse.

Only then did the old marquis Shi understand that this jade gourd was a rare treasure.

So the old marquis Shi became selfish and carried this jade gourd in his arms. He thought it was done tightly, but he didn't want to be seen by a few soldiers next to him.

So this gossip spread, and a few old princes of the dynasty were not young, and when they got the news, they immediately prepared a generous gift to meet the old marquis Shi's mansion.

The purpose of these princes is the same, that is, they want to buy this jade gourd with a lot of money, and at that time, it was like the old marquis Shi made a promise that as long as the old marquis sold this jade gourd, the glory and wealth of the Shi family will be wrapped in them in the future.

How do you know that Old Marquis Shi has already invited a master to come and see this jade gourd. One of the cultivators was shocked when he saw this green gourd, and finally told Shi Lao Hou Ye that this was a rare treasure that could bring people back to life and ascend to the heavenly realm.

Since the old marquis Shi knew how powerful this treasure was, where would he sell it to these princes as a funeral, so he sternly refused.

It annoyed these people and began to oppose Old Marquis Shi in the court, and forced Old Marquis Shi to sell this treasure through political pressure.

Even Emperor Taizong at that time saw that he was not young and peeked at this treasure, but he had a good reputation and couldn't leave an infamy for one thing, so it was up to these people to isolate the old marquis Shi in the court.

Fortunately, at that time, Rongguo Gong Jia Daishan, he still had some ability, there were many protégés in various troops, and with the help of Rongguo Gong Jia Daishan, others did not dare to go too far, and the emperor also cared about the strength of Rongguo Gong Jia Daishan and did not rob it.

So Shi Laohou also kept this treasure, but it also left a bane.

More than ten years later, the Tatars went south, so all the courtiers together to protect the old marquis as the front, the old marquis could only take 5,000 foot soldiers to the north to meet the Tatars, and as a result, he was surrounded by a dirt mountain.

At that time, the old Marquis Shi persisted in Tushan for 7 days and 7 nights, and almost all the 5,000 foot soldiers were wiped out, and three or four thousand Tatars were killed and wounded.

As a result, the old Marquis Shi waited for reinforcements to arrive, and was finally forced to commit suicide.

After the death of the old marquis Shi, those powerful people were still thinking about this jade gourd, and as a result, this incident annoyed Jia Daishan, the prince of Rongguo.

He was furious in the court, and the emperor at that time also had a headache when he saw this situation, after all, this matter, Zhong Wenwu and those princes were also at a loss, just because of one thing, he killed the general of the dynasty and lost 5,000 soldiers and horses, which is unreasonable.

In the end, the emperor still came out and made a mud, and when the court announced that the thing was circulating among the descendants of the old marquis Shi, as long as they didn't make a move, no one could take it by force, so it appeased Jia Daishan, the prince of Rongguo.

Later, after Jia's mother heard about this, she began to be a little jealous of this thing, and felt that this thing was a little evil, so she asked these two nephews to offer things to change to an official and a half-job.

Therefore, over the years, although everyone no longer mentions the matter of the jade gourd, the official positions of the two marquis of the Shi family have not been moved, and they can only live with two empty marquises.