Chapter 99 Jiangnan News
On May 20th, it is appropriate to consecrate, lift, lay foundation, break ground, and dismantle.
At this time, the maids and mothers-in-law in Rongguo Mansion finally realized that things in the mansion had changed.
Since the 17th, the second house has been moving boxes from Gongzhong Daku to Lixiangyuan. Now it is moving from Rongxi Hall to Lixiangyuan. Then...
At the moment of Shenshi , at the auspicious time of moving, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang left Rongxi Hall and went to Lixiang Courtyard. Jia She took Xing family from the East Crossing Courtyard to Rongxi Hall in a low-key manner. The two brothers returned home in peace and harmony. Its position.
Yuanchun and Jia Zhu, who were worried about their parents making trouble for a while, relaxed their tone at this time.
Finally succeeded.
"Brother can return to the Imperial College with peace of mind tomorrow."
"It is indeed time to return to the Imperial College."
Jia Zhu smiled, "However, brother wants to trouble my sister. ”
"Tell me and listen."
"When I'm not at home, help take care of your sister-in-law."
Jia Zhu sighed, "Mother is upset, Mrs. Li... ...Like my uncle, I come from a family of scholars, I..."
"Didn't my mother specially ask for my brother's marriage?"
Yuan Chun interrupted his brother, " Brother, instead of asking me to help take care of you, why don’t you do it yourself?”
Huh?
“But don’t I have to go to the Imperial College?”
After going to the Imperial College, I can’t come back until half a month.
Jia Zhu was very puzzled.
He had no doubt that his sister didn't want to help.
"Brother, you must understand that mother... is still angry with me."
Yesterday, her mother specially called her to speak alone and asked her whether the eight thousand taels of silver sent to the palace during the Chinese New Year last year were still there now. How many.
Yuan Chun said no more.
At that time, it was two thousand taels in her hands, and she spent nearly 600 taels. When she came back, the rest was returned to Gongzhong.
My mother acted as if she wanted to eat her.
"Moreover, my mother values my brother more than me."
Yuan Chun gave Jia Zhu advice, "My brother is studying in the Imperial College. It can be said that his future wealth and future will all depend on Master Li. There."
Jia Zhu: "..."
He was a little stunned.
Did his sister want him to threaten his mother with himself?
"Brother, if you don't sweep one house, how can you sweep the world?"
Yuan Chun smiled and left these words, Shi Shiran walked away.
Jia Zhu watched her sister walk away. After a while, she scratched her head. Unexpectedly, she turned around and saw his wife Li Wan coming this way.
The moment he saw his husband, Li Wan's face burst into a happy smile.
The family was separated successfully, and her husband finally no longer wanted to live in the ancestral hall.
She is so worried these days.
I often can’t sleep at night.
"It's windy right now, why are you here?"
When holding his wife's hand, a warm smile appeared on Jia Zhu's face.
“What are you afraid of in the warm wind?”
Li Wan smiled and said, "Mom and dad have moved in. Should we go over and say hello?"
"...Let's go together!"
Jia Zhu's hands moved a little. force.
They should congratulate others for moving, but when parents move...
He always feels that there is still a storm.
"Hurry up, I just came over there and saw Baoyu passing by."
"Baoyu?" Jia Zhu wondered, "Didn't he go to school?"
"It seems that sir is feeling a little unwell, so he left school early."
"..."
Jia Zhu felt a little uneasy, "Then let's go quickly."
The two of them hurried to Lixiangyuan, but before they arrived, they heard Baoyu's voice crying and reciting the book.
"...In ancient times, those who wanted to bring enlightenment and virtue to the world first governed their country. Those who wanted to govern their country, first organized their families. Those who wanted to regulate their families, first cultivated their own bodies. Those who wanted to cultivate their own bodies. , first correct your heart. If you want to correct your heart, you must first be honest with your intentions..."
The little guy stood in the courtyard, choking while reciting this paragraph of "The Great Learning" very clearly
Jia Zhu wants to touch her forehead.
My father is already sensitive, so once my younger brother learns to recite this paragraph, isn’t he asking for a beating?
Sure enough, when I looked at my father again, his face was already livid.
Jia Zhu stepped forward hurriedly, "Baoyu, in "The Doctrine of the Mean", destiny is called nature, nature is called Tao, and cultivating Tao is called teaching. How do you explain it?"
Baoyu was confused. For a moment, he said quickly: "It means... following the original goodness of human beings is the Tao. The Tao is the straightforwardness, the straightforwardness is the nature and the ordinary, the ordinary principles are the common sense, and the natural common sense is the middle. That’s right.”
“That’s a good answer!”
Jia Zhu didn’t hesitate to praise him. He bowed to his father and said, “Father, you can see that Baoyu learned the Doctrine of the Mean quite well. ? I just learned "University" and can only memorize it. Can you do a random check in a few months? ”
"..."
Jia Zheng's expression softened slightly, "That's all, the old lady loves you, but you can't be called naughty. Now the time is just right, don't write two big characters, play around, like What does it look like?"
"Yes...! My son will go back and write big characters now."
Baoyu took a peek at the warehouse.
He heard that his parents had moved their home, so he came here to visit his mother.
But his mother, who had always spoken for him when his father asked him to endorse, this time she heard him cry and she didn't even come out of the warehouse.
"Resign, son!"
As he retreated to the courtyard gate, Baoyu glanced in the direction of the warehouse again, but his mother never raised her head.
Baoyu wiped away his tears, spread his legs, and ran to Jia Mu's yard.
"Slow down, slow down, be careful of falling."
Because Yuanchun was so happy, he saw two beautiful butterflies on the way back and chased them for a while. However, he didn't expect that when he arrived at the grandmother's house, he would see his little brother looking as embarrassed as a kitten. "What's wrong? I fell down." Is he gone? "
My brother looked so pitiful. She worriedly checked his arms and legs, fearing where he had fallen.
"Where are you with your maid and mother-in-law? Why are you allowed to run away alone?"
"Big sister~"
Baoyu suddenly jumped into her sister's arms Li burst into tears, "Woo, woo, woo~~~~"
"...Tell sister, what's going on?"
Yuan Chun hugged his brother and touched him Her arms and legs felt uninjured, but her brother was crying so sadly. She suddenly thought of something, "Are you coming back from Lixiangyuan?"
"Hmm~"
Baoyu felt wronged He kept saying, "I didn't memorize the wrong book, and the master still scolded me."
Yuan Chun: "..."
She hugged her brother closer.
Recently, many people in the family have been secretly rumoring that my brother’s jade was prepared in advance by my mother in order to gain favor for my brother in front of my grandmother.
Whether it was prepared in advance, she didn't know, but it has been passed down over the years...
Yuan Chun sighed softly in his heart.
Grandma had already told her what her uncle had said about her mother.
She didn't think it was anything.
My younger brother’s psychic jade looks like it belongs to Taoism and can only be used as a small accessory or a magic weapon.
But in the past few years in the palace, Yuanchun has learned a lot, and now...
"Good boy, that was the master's mistake."
Yuanchun's voice was soft, "The master has been busy these days and is in a bad mood. He will be fine after a few days."
"Really?"
"Really!"
Baoyu sobbed, "Then I'll be good and endorse the master in a few days."
Previously When he endorsed, his mother would stand beside him.
Recently, his parents have been living in the ancestral hall. He was afraid that they would worry about him, so they became much better behaved.
"Yeah~"
Yuan Chun wiped his brother's tears, "Stop crying, sister will tell you a story later."
My brother is actually smarter than his brother Jia Zhu There is aura.
But his father only taught him to study hard.
No guidance at all.
Yuanchun, who has been back for more than ten days, has long since discovered that although his younger brother has read the book and can express the meaning, the meaning is still a little short of it. "We will talk tonight. Confucius said: Fight with bricks!"
“Really?”
Baoyu’s eyes suddenly lit up. At his age, it's time for fun.
Although I prefer my older sister to my younger sister, I read Zi Yue Zi Yue every day, and it’s rare to get something different.
"Of course it's true."
Yuan Chun scratched his brother's little nose, "Let's go, let's wipe our faces clean first, otherwise you will have snot bubbles in your nose. "
Baoyu: "..."
He sniffed hurriedly.
Prevent yourself from actually getting snot bubbles.
Jia Mu quietly disappeared when their siblings entered the hospital.
It would be a lie to say that I am not sad.
Why did the second son she loved so much become like this?
The old lady wanted to ask Er'er to come over and give him a lesson, but she was afraid that Baoyu would be the one who would be more unlucky in the end.
Among all the grandsons, Baoyu is the most like the Duke.
The old lady stroked her chest and finally suppressed the bad breath.
……
Ningguo Mansion.
Shen Ning is looking at the little maid who has been training with Jiao Da for three months.
“From now on, you will be called Xiaodong, Xiaonan, Xiaoxi, and Xiaobei!”
"Thank you, Mrs., for the name."
This name sounds much better than their original names of Daya, Erya, Pandi, and Dingdi.
The four little maids were very happy.
Shen Ning nodded.
But her daughter is still young, and she is not ready to go out now, so she looks at Jiao Da again and says: "I would like to trouble you to train them for a while."
Soon. It's summer, and the woman who teaches them how to drink water is already in place, waiting for the hottest period of June and July.
What Shen Ning wants is a maid who can ride a horse, hold a sword, fish in the water, and escape with her master in bad situations.
“There is no problem with slave religion, but they will eventually have to enter the inner house.”
Jiao Daodao: “My wife should find a mother-in-law to teach them the rules.”
“Mama Jian is the one who specializes in teaching good manners to the mother-in-law.” When her mother-in-law looked over, You said hurriedly: “I’ll let her pass when I turn around.”
"That's it."
Shen Ning nodded, "Jiao Da, have you tried the training plan I gave you last time?"
"...not yet."< br>
Jiao Da’s face was a little unnatural.
"Is there any inconvenience?"
Shen Ning was not surprised at all, and asked the old man with a smile.
“Those obstacle drawings you drew are not easy to make.”
“Can’t you find a carpenter to make the objects according to the drawings?”
“It is possible, but, The people who take over the carpentry work in our house have been borrowed by Manager Lin from the West House recently. "
"...Are there no servants in our house who can do carpentry work? "
Shen Ning knew that the carpenters who could take over the carpentry work in both houses were real craftsmen.
When Jia Zheng of Xifu moved, Lixiangyuan must be renovated.
But her obstacles do not require such delicate work, "The pictures I drew are very simple, right?"
Jiao Da: "..."
He didn't even know how his wife, who was so good at staying at home, came up with those weird things and even let the trainees crawl and jump.
If you are used to crawling or jumping, you can do anything with your eyes closed.
The old man doesn't think that kind of training is useful.
But this...
It’s not easy for him to tell his wife.
"Find a few people who are good at carpentry to make it. As long as it is polished well and there are no wood thorns, it doesn't matter even if it is ugly."
Shen Ning simply said bluntly, "Once it's done, let Zhen'er go over and have a look. Whoever can run over the fastest will be rewarded with twenty taels of silver."
Is there any reward?
Jiao Da was stunned for a moment, "Yes, I will let someone do it now."
"Wait!"
Shen Ning stopped, "I heard You said you all had iron blocks tied to your body during training?"
"Yes!"
When it comes to professionalism, Jiao Da nodded seriously, "The guards are also soldiers, and they are in war. They need to wear armor."
"Have Xiaodong and the others been tied up?"
"They are there now."
Jiao Da looked at them. First, the little maid should be called Xiaodong.
The little maid came out of the queue, bent down and tapped her calf.
The metallic sound of Bang Bang surprised Shen Ning, "Can you untie it and let me see?"
Xiaodong did untie one of his legs.
The two iron pieces were wrapped in cloth and placed on the hand. They felt like they weighed two or three pounds each.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Shen Ning handed it back to her, turned to Youshi and said, “From now on, I will add braised pork for everyone at noon every day.”
“Yes! ”
Youshi responded.
She already knows that Yuanchun, the eldest sister of Xifu, always looks for the kind of powerful dowry woman.
The second younger sister, Wang Xifeng, specially trained several of her mother-in-law's six strong wives, but all of them were robbed.
Their family has such conditions, so what’s a few mouthfuls of meat?
"Mrs. Xie!"
The four little maids, their eyes shining with joy.
Who would have thought that after entering the mansion, they would have such a good life.
"Go ahead, I'll have a good time training with your Grandpa Jiao."
Shen Ning waved her hands and watched them leave, then said to Youshi: "The young man who comes into the house again in the future, The little maid has been training for three months.”
If you have that kind of talent, you can train it more.
“Yes!”
Youshi nodded hurriedly.
But at this moment, Jia Zhen walked in hurriedly, "Mother, something happened over there in Jiangnan."
Shen Ning: "..."
She had guessed it a long time ago, "It's the Li family?"
"Yes!"
Jia Zhen looked very bad, " The Li family really colluded with the Japanese pirates and almost entered Yangzhou."
"Have everyone in their family been caught?"
This is what Shen Ning is concerned about.
“One escaped.”
Shen Ning suddenly stood up, “Who escaped?”
“The seventh child of the Li family.”
< br>Jia Zhen is also worried about Jia Lian who has not returned yet, "The court has issued the sea arrest documents. Those who go to greet Aunt Min and Lian's second brother may have already greeted them as long as they don't miss it."
Aunt Min is a member of the official family, and Lian Er is from the Rongguo Mansion. As long as there is a post station, they will normally rest there.
After all, the inns along the road from Beijing to Jiangnan are the best.
"...After the Li family was arrested, did the seventh son of the Li family send anyone to rescue him?"
"No."
Jia Zhen shook her head, "Li Haimu was arrested. The next day, he committed suicide.”
What?
Shen Ning frowned deeply, "Who are the people who arrested the Li family?"
"I don't know the specifics. I only know that they were sent by the emperor. The local garrison has no "Not moved."
Jia Zhen said: "It is said that nearly ten million in property was confiscated from the Li family. Several major salt merchants related to the Li family may also be in trouble."
Then. Is it going to be bigger?
But the bigger it gets...
"By the way, you haven't told me whether Jia Lian has received the letter or whether he went to Li's house to cause trouble."
"It's making trouble."
Jia Zhen's face turned pale, "I just received the news that he not only beat Li Haimu, but also the younger generation of the Li family. But it is said that the beating was very good. Because of Li Haimu, My family had difficulty walking, so they delayed their trip. Except for Li Laoqi, who was not at home, they all caught up.”
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