At night, Xin Yao wanted to rest, but saw that Mother Li had taken the maid, took out a brocade box from her arms, handed it to Xin Yao, and said with a smile: "Miss, the little one at the door called Hanako handed my son, saying that it was for you, Miss quickly open it and take a look." ”

Xin Yao took the brocade box and opened it gently, it was two strings of tourmaline incense beads, emerald and shining, bright and quiet.

Mother Li smiled: "Miss, who is this person?" Last year, I gave Miss a jade Buddha, and this year I sent two bracelets, which are mysterious! ”

Jiang Xinyao closed the brocade box, handed it to Li's mother and said, "Put it away, I'm going to rest!" ”

Mother Li was about to say more, but when she saw that the young lady's face was tired, she had to put down the tent, turn off the lights, close the door, and explain a few words to the green moss outside.

Xin Yao smiled slightly, and fell asleep.

……

Just a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, there was a continuous autumn rain for three days.

At three o'clock on this ugly day, there was a commotion in the East Garden, and Ju Lian, who was more than nine months pregnant, suddenly broke her amniotic water and started to start.

The girl in the same room put on her clothes and ran to Qiushui Courtyard. Gu just wanted to get up, but he was hugged by Jiang Hongsheng.

Jiang Hongsheng said sharply to the visitor: "A maid gives birth to a child, and this little thing also annoys the second wife, why are you on an errand?" Why don't you hurry up and invite Wen Po to wait. ”

Gu Shi thought about it a few times in his heart, and said softly: "Chunlan, help me go and see, if there is anything to come back to me!" ”

Chunlan answered outside, listened to the movement inside, and went west.

When the people in Wu's courtyard saw the big girl in front of the second wife coming, their hearts were bright.

Jiang Yuanhang had just been scolded by his father during the day, and he drank some wine with his two aunts at dinner, slept soundly, and heard someone crying in the yard, so angry that he scolded his mother, turned over and continued to sleep.

Only the Wu family, who had a stomach for more than eight months, put on a piece of clothing. Sit outside.

After a day and a night, Ju Lian died nine times and gave birth to a son, weighing seven pounds and eight taels. The old lady took the name Jiang Zixuan. Two hours later, Jiang Zixuan's biological mother died of blood.

That night, Wu knelt down in front of the old lady with a big belly, and begged the old lady to pass Xiao Zixuan to her name with tears in her eyes.

The old lady let Wu kneel without saying a word, and after a pillar of incense, she asked Mama Qian to help the second grandmother up, and agreed to her request.

Wu has been in the body for more than eight months, and this kneeling was launched that night, and everyone in the West Courtyard was so frightened that they turned on their backs. It didn't take long for the second wife and Mama Qian to arrive.

Fortunately, during the day, Wu Fu heard that the girl in the son-in-law's room died in childbirth. was so frightened that he hurriedly invited two stable women to send them to Jiang's house to wait, so he didn't rush around.

At noon on the second day, Wu gave birth to a daughter, weighing five catties and one tael, and the old lady named her Jiang Ruomei. The Jiang family was between two days. There were two babies, a man and a woman, which made the scarce Jiang family suddenly vibrant, and the smile on the old lady's face was even better.

Although Xin Yao didn't leave the courtyard, she knew everything about the house.

At this time, Li's mother squinted her eyes, surrounded by several big girls, and was sparing no effort to instill the theory that all maids who climb the bed will not end well.

Jiang Xinyao leaned on the concubine and looked at the women in front of her. I sighed slightly in my heart.

Xin Yao knew that Mother Li acted like this, completely for her. In a few months, it will be her wedding date, and the girls in front of her have been with her for almost ten years, and they have reached the age of fifteen or sixteen years old, and they are a long age. There will naturally be a lot of thoughts in her heart, for the sake of her own future, she may not have that crooked mind, and Li's mother has to talk about it from time to time.

Ju Lian's fate, Xin Yao had already helped her get it right.

Wu is at his mother's house. In the case of the early death of the biological mother, it is not easy to marry to the Jiang Mansion with a rich dowry.

entered the house and became the second grandmother, it is said that the husband and wife are concentric, but she is not close to the old lady and the third lady like the second master, but she is closer to the second wife and Xin Yao, which is enough to show that her thoughts are far-reaching.

Ju Lian betrayed the Lord and became pregnant. Wu deliberately connived at the people in the courtyard to step on Ju Lian openly and secretly, and when Ju Lian was embattled, she turned her sword, neither beating nor scolding, but only secretly suppressed everyone.

Ju Lian is not a fool, she is the most aware of the changes in everyone's attitudes before and after, and naturally knows the role of the second grandmother behind it.

If she can be more restrained in the future and lower her eyebrows, maybe she can still live. However, she regarded the second grandmother's kindness to her as the second grandmother's scruple of the old lady, the second master, and the meat in her stomach, so she had to compromise with reality and have to show favor to her.

Therefore, instead of reining in, he turned Bengali into a variety of tricks to compete for favor and demonstrate to the second grandmother. The intention is nothing more than one, I have a child with me, and I have the favor of the second master, even if you are the grandmother of the main house, why do you bear me?

It was Ju Lian's actions that made the Wu family murderous to her. The previous one-vertical and one-harvest was just that the Wu family was testing Ju Lian's bottom line, and in the end, the girl brought from her mother's family had some friendship. If Ju Pian knew what was wrong, the Wu family would naturally spare her life. I don't know if that girl is really stupid. Since she is ruthless and unintentional, it is no wonder that the Wu family is ruthless.

The Wu family is unusual, offering Ju Lian as an ancestor, chicken, duck and fish meat day by day, and two supplements for three days, ginseng, bird's nest, and angelica. Not only did she not restrict the second master to her room, but she persuaded the second master to go to Ju Lian's room often, of course, this look, it doesn't mean to leave after a few glances.

A little girl, on weekdays, is just eating the leftovers of the master's food, who knows that after having a piece of meat in her stomach, she can be on an equal footing with the grandmother of the main house. The monstrous wealth came to her face, and no one could resist her.

Eating and drinking like this, plus a little movement in the delivery room, Ju Lian's dream of wealth has not had time to be done, and his little life is over like this.

Jiang Zixuan had no biological mother when he landed, and the old lady spoke to the name of the Wu family and was raised as a sister-in-law. Wu had children and daughters overnight, and he also fell into the reputation of a philanthropist, which made the second master grateful and loved in every way, and counted in one fell swoop, what a big winner!

Xin Yao turned her mind and happened to hear Mother Li talk about the old lady asking the second grandmother to kneel, and her heart sank.

The old lady asked the second grandmother to kneel, and she knelt with great meaning. It seems that there are some things that are not too late as soon as possible!

……

It's early winter in the blink of an eye. This winter, two trivial things happened.

The first one was that Zheng Liang, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, brought back a stunning woman on the way home.

This woman's surname is Su Mingping, and she was originally the only daughter of a large family in Anqing Mansion, Anhui Province. Her father committed a crime, confiscated the family property, and sentenced her to exile, and she took her old mother all the way to Beijing to join distant relatives. I never thought that my relatives would see that their mother and daughter were helpless, so they only threw away a dozen taels of silver and drove people out.

The old mother was so angry that she couldn't afford to get sick, and she spent all her money or died. Su Ping bought a thin coffin and buried her mother when she had the last bit of jewelry on her body, while she was dressed in filial piety, had nothing to love, and planned to commit suicide in front of her old mother's grave.

It happened that Zheng Liang rode back from Zhuangzi and passed through the countryside. Seeing a woman crying in front of a new grave, she stepped forward and felt that her eyes were bright.

It turned out that this woman's eyebrows were like a crescent moon, her hands could give birth to flowers, and her tearful eyes were as pitiful as the orchid in the empty valley. The end is the best in the world. Asked about its origin, the woman refused to open her mouth with tears, and slammed into the tombstone while people were unprepared, but fortunately, Zheng Liang's eyes were quick and he grabbed it, and in this way, the woman's forehead was already bloody. Fainted.

Zheng Bianxiu has always been a person who pities fragrance and cherishes jade, where is he willing to throw a delicate beauty into the wilderness and ignore it. At that moment, he hugged the horse and brought it back to the house. Within a few days, this woman named Su Ping became Zheng Bianxiu's first aunt.

It is said that for this matter, Zheng Bianxiu's wife Jiang Shi made a fuss for a few days. In the end, under the pressure of the in-laws, I gave up.

……

The second trivial matter has to do with Hui.

Xu's self-inflicted gold shop was robbed, and he was furious and had a small stroke, and he couldn't speak at first. The body can't move, lying on the bed like a living dead, but fortunately, the imperial doctor invited by the Hou Mansion has excellent medical skills, and after a few months of conditioning, except for some unfavorable speech, it is not a big problem.

After this catastrophe, the Zhou family was suddenly tight on money, and in desperation, they had to take the shop out, and it was a young man named Xu Yanming who took over.

The economic source of the Zhou family, in addition to the gold shop, there are two Zhuangzi in the western suburbs outside the capital, and the rest is a few small shops, doing some small business, not making a lot of money.

The two Zhuangzi in the western suburbs have a total of 600 acres of fertile land, which originally did not belong to the Zhou family. At that time, the first emperor disposed of many officials involved in the case because of the case of Concubine Hui, and these two small Zhuangzi made the Marquis of Annan a big bargain. Old Annanhou gave his daughter Zhou Yujing as a dowry.

Zhou Yujing later settled in Suzhou, and before leaving Beijing, he gave the Xu family the two Zhuangzi half-bought and half-given plates. In this way, the two Zhuangzi came into the hands of the Xu family, and the Zhou family became a small landlord.

Now the Zhou family has to rely on these two Zhuangzi for food and clothing in order to live decently, so the two sons of the Xu family, Zhou Xiangyou, and Zhou Xiangliang have to go to the western suburbs often.

On this day, as soon as the brothers entered the village, they heard the tenants in the village abandon their farm work and gather in groups of three or five to whisper together.

The brothers were curious, and hurriedly called someone to talk back, and when they asked, they learned that there was a family digging a ditch in the northwest corner adjacent to Zhou's Zhuangzi, saying that they had dug up many valuable treasures. When these two people heard this, their hearts moved, and they hurriedly sent the little maid to investigate.

The little guy replied that the surname of this Zhuang family is Liu, the name is Ping, there are six in the Chinese New Year's Eve today, one wife and two sons in the family, the family has been farming for generations, the family * ten acres of paddy fields, and the life is tight.

He also said that digging out the treasure is indeed a thing, digging the ditch of a few Zhuang men saw with their own eyes, said that the box is heavy, when opened, can not understand what it is, listen to the old man said that they are all antiquities, is a rare treasure is not decided.

The little guy chattered for a long time, and then said at the end: "Master, good luck for the Liu family, the ditch dug by their family is on the edge of our Zhuangzi, the elder brother is next to the younger brother, and there is only one ridge missing, if the box is one meter away from our side, it will be our family." ”

When the brother heard this, he went to the field himself.

ps：

Thank you, book friend Wuma, 107, sit back and wait for the wind to come, Ye Jing's sister's reward.

Thank you to the book friends who sent the mooncakes to the buns, the buns are in mind. (..)

( Miss Jiang Si )