Chapter 189: Letters
Jiang Yan went through it in her mind, but she still couldn't remember what kind of character this Fu Qian was, and what was unusual about his girl. Aren't the twelve hairpins in Jinling all related to the Jia family, there is no such person.
Qingwen doesn't sell Guan Zi either, "I heard that the girls in their family are all talented and beautiful, and more importantly, they are all twenty-three years old, and they haven't allowed anyone yet." ”
Jiang Yan almost thought she had misheard, "This isn't a nonsense, right?" How can it be! "This is not modern times, at this time it is common to get married at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and at the age of twenty-three, I can't think of it. Even the maids are going to be matched at the age of twenty, and this is already too late.
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Qingwen hurriedly said, "How is it impossible!" Their family often comes to visit our house, and who doesn't know about it. You don't see anyone all day long, and you don't know anything. ”
Jiang Yan couldn't help but be curious about this strange woman, that is, in modern times, girls still have to suffer all kinds of forced marriage, how can this girl persist until now?
Jiang Yan asked, "Then do you know why she hasn't allowed anyone yet?" ”
"How do I know this, can this be spread nonsense?"
There was a mother-in-law outside who called for dinner, so Qingwen was not interested in talking about this anymore and went outside to serve food. Although Jiang Yan had to talk about sex, she had to follow.
When they arrived at the place where they went to eat, in addition to the people who usually delivered them food, there was actually a mother-in-law in Mrs. Wang's house, and several big maids didn't know what she was here for, so they asked, "Mama, what's the matter?" ”
The woman was carrying a two-layer food box in her hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, why haven't you come yet?" ”
Everyone knows that this dish is for attacking people, but they are still puzzled, what does a good wife do to reward attacking people's dishes? This is no ordinary treatment.
Just like the emperor giving a reward to the minister, this means to value and be close, why did the attacker suddenly become too important?
The attacker had already been notified, so he hurriedly walked over and smiled with the woman: "Ying'er was playing in the Baoyu House just now, and I accompanied her, so that Mama waited for a long time." ”
The woman hurriedly waved her hand, "If it's somewhere, I won't be there for long." She handed the food box to the attacker, "This is what my wife asked me to deliver, and my wife also instructed you not to kowtow." ”
The attacker hurriedly took it gratefully.
For a while, the attacker left with the food, and the rest began to talk about it.
"Could it be that the wife sees her attentiveness? She went to her wife yesterday, presumably because she had her blue eye at that time. "That's all there is to it.
Bijin glanced at Jiang Yan and said with a smile: "That mother-in-law still asked you to go at that time, don't you regret it now?" ”
Jiang Yan immediately shook her head, "As far as I'm clumsy, I guess I can't say a word in front of my wife, where can I still be rewarded." ”
She said this, but everyone else was secretly thinking to themselves that if they had gone there yesterday, they might have gained some benefits.
No matter what other people think, Jiang Yan is indeed not interested in those two dishes, and even less interested in Mrs. Wang's blue eyes, this dish is not delicious, she has to rely on loyalty and courtesy, she can't eat this bowl of rice.
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In the afternoon, Jiang Yan received a letter from Xie Jingxing. They have been exchanging letters, and the last time she met Qing'anhou, she wrote about it in the letter. This time he wrote back, but he didn't say anything about the matter, only that his grandmother had always been charitable, and that it wasn't once or twice that he had given porridge and medicine. As for Qing'anhou inviting Jiang Yan to be a guest, he knew that Jiang Yan would definitely not go, so he didn't say much. As for the drought in Liangzhou, which Jiang Yan was interested in, he wrote a full piece of paper. There was already a drought in Liangzhou last spring, but unfortunately the local people did not pay attention to it, so that many places failed to harvest in autumn. The situation has eased as the imperial court has sent relief money and grain, and presumably those displaced people will also be sent back to their hometowns.
He also mentioned in the letter that he knew a poor disciple in Yunzhou, who had just passed the Jinshi examination last year, and was also sent to the local area to supervise the disaster relief situation this time, if Jiang Yan didn't know anything, just ask him, he now has acquaintances in it.
Jiang Yan looked at the letter and smiled, although Xie Jingxing was a little bitter in Yunzhou, his daily life was colorful, where was like her, life was mediocre, and the biggest thing recently was that Jia Baoyu was beaten.
It's a pity that there is no vacation this year, otherwise she will definitely have to go to Yunzhou again, even if she doesn't do anything, it is better than staying in this acre and three points of land every day.
Jiang Yan was feeling bored, and Bi Zhen ran in excitedly, "Aunt Zhao is making trouble again!" The three girls were so angry with her, and they didn't know what to do! ”
Aunt Zhao? Jiang Yan remembered the last time she and Ma Daopo cursed Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng, although she was not caught, but she had to be honest for a while, could it be that Mrs. Wang's drastic substitution didn't scare her?
Aunt Zhao really can't help it, last time Jia Huan knocked over the oil lamp and burned Jia Baoyu, she was fined two months of silver because of improper discipline, and then asked Ma Daopo to help and gave her all her body for many years, and wrote an IOU of five hundred taels, now that the thing has not been done, five hundred taels is naturally gone, but her savings are not coming back, she is really tight in her hands. Who knew that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and a rule was made outside, the maids' monthly silver was halved, and her two girls were enough to lose a penny! She lives on the money withheld from the maids, how can she live now!
Aunt Zhao naturally didn't dare to go to Mrs. Wang's Wang Xifeng theory, so she could only go to her daughter to explore the spring, so as to help her mother and not let her mother starve to death.
If she just asked for some silver, although Tanchun was not rich, she gritted her teeth and gave it, who knew that Aunt Zhao took a tael of silver that Tanchun had saved with great difficulty, but it was still too little, crying and shouting that she had no conscience, and her own mother was reluctant to give silver, and she didn't want to think that Tanchun would only have two taels of silver a month, and she would buy rouge gouache and make some people, and it would be good to have extra money.
As soon as Tanchun heard that she had called out all her mothers, her face changed. The concubines and concubines have always only had a mother in the main house, and Aunt Zhao has a concubine, so they can't claim to be their mothers, and the two of them are not good when they are told to be out.
But Aunt Zhao didn't care about this, she only cared about what she said, and Tanchun was not a good-tempered person, so she quarreled with her on the spot.
The maid in Yihong Courtyard has the permission of Jia's mother to keep the original moon silver unchanged, and Bi Jin can't empathize with Aunt Zhao's suffering, and it's too late to be happy when she sees her, so I'm busy telling everyone.
Aunt Zhao's noisy Jiang Yan didn't care, she had to get used to it. It's about the moon silver, this money is brought over by the big girl every month and sent to everyone, Jiang Yan has never cared about how much others get, but she didn't expect that the people in other rooms have been halved. Jiafu is already poor to this? I'm afraid that the construction of the Grand View Garden will cost all the money.
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