Red Chamber Fellows: You Are Not Guilty

"Madam, our grandma said that today's black-bone chicken soup is full of flavor, and she can't serve my wife herself. Please use this black-bone chicken soup for her kindness. My wife has really bothered me these two days. Please make up for it." Sun Yuan from The dowry girl brought by her natal family said to Mrs. Xing with a smile on her face.

Mrs. Xing said angrily: "Your grandma just woke up, let her just take care of herself and take care of her body, and don't worry about me." After hearing this, the girl said that she would definitely bring Mrs. Xing's care for her daughter-in-law to Sun Yuan.

Unexpectedly, the next day, it wasn't that girl who came here, she became Sun Yuan's nanny, holding a piece of material in her hand: "Ma'am, this is the material brought by our grandma. She can't do needlework now, thinking about it in the wife's room." The girls here are all dexterous, and they will definitely be able to create a fresh look for the wife."

Mrs. Xing looked at the nanny puzzledly: "Your grandma gave birth to An An and Ning Ning only a few days ago, and it's time to raise her body. You are her nanny, so you should persuade her not to worry about these things."

The nanny is more eloquent than that girl: "Probably because you have adopted a child, you will know the kindness of your parents. Grandma has a young master and a young lady, and she knows that her wife treats her well. This is to pay more attention to her wife."

Mrs. Xing had no choice but to ask someone to collect the materials, and told the nanny to go back and just take good care of Sun Yuan, and don't let her worry about these things anymore.

Unexpectedly, on the third day, there was still food and drink brought by someone from Sun Yuan.Mrs. Xing felt something was wrong.If Sun Yuan gave birth to a girl, I am afraid that she, as a mother-in-law, will be embarrassed, and it is reasonable to please one or two.But obviously she not only gave birth to the eldest grandson in the mansion, but now she also gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix twins. When it's time for her to build a prestige for herself, why is she flattering her mother-in-law instead?

After thinking and thinking, Mrs. Xing really thought of a possibility. She hurriedly asked Jia Lian to come.When Jia Lian got twins, she was very excited and smiled at Mrs. Xing: "Mother wants to ask about Ningning and An'an?"

Mrs. Xing rarely had a straight face: "I'm not asking about the child, but about you."

Seeing Madam Xing's complexion, Jia Lian was a little puzzled: "My business? I've only been in the mansion for the past few days, and I didn't even go to the yamen. What could be the matter?"

Mrs. Xing hates iron but steel: "Now your father is not here, tell me the truth. But because your daughter-in-law is pregnant, and now she is confinement, you, are you doing something strange?" Even if the relationship between mother and child has been good in recent years, ask Such a thing is still a bit embarrassing for Mrs. Xing, so she had to change the term.

Jia Lian was even more surprised: "Being a monster, what can I do?" Suddenly he figured it out, and said aggrievedly: "Mother! Others don't believe me, and you don't believe me either."

Mrs. Xing said in her heart that you have a criminal record, and your daughter-in-law is acting so abnormally, how can I believe you?That face also brought some out.Jia Lian is such a shrewd person, he immediately called out to Zhuang Tianqu: "Mother, I haven't even left the house these days. Besides, apart from visiting the two little ones every day, my father also asked me to bring Congcong to everything. Such a small child, what can he learn." After complaining, he said: "Then I sleep in the study every day. My study is not to mention the front yard, and the servants are all servants!"

Mrs. Xing nodded, looking at Jia Lian's situation, it really doesn't seem like she did something weird.Besides, he really doesn't have the time to be a monster, and he doesn't have someone to be a monster: "That's weird."

Jia Lian knew that Mrs. Xing was not someone who was just looking for trouble, so she hurriedly asked: "But what did someone say to my mother?" This person must be found out, so he will not take the blame.

Mrs. Xing shook her head: "It's not who said anything. It's just that these few days, your daughter-in-law has sent me food and drink every day. I think it's time for her to think less and rest, so she doesn't worry about it." And she was afraid that she would not be able to tell you what you did, so she asked you to ask."

Jia Lian knew about Sun Yuan, and he respected Mrs. Xing as respect, and he was filial when he should be filial, but he had never been so attentive.It is indeed a bit abnormal.Coming out of Mrs. Xing, Jia Lian went back to her yard and brought her nanny over: "Nanny, how is your grandma confinement these few days?"

Zhao Nanny had already left the mansion to take care of her, but she was worried about Jia Lian's child. When she heard that Sun Yuan gave birth again, she had to come in and take care of her confinement before going home.Hearing Jia Lian ask about Sun Yuan, a smile turned into a flower on his face:

"Grandma gave birth to twins this time, and she knows how to appreciate the old man even more than after giving birth to brother Cong. She respects me three points more than before. I think she is also very filial to my wife. As long as I use anything Okay, let someone send it to the wife. It’s good for the two girls, and the nanny has sent the materials a few times.”

It seems that not only Mrs. Xing felt that Sun Yuan had changed, but everyone felt it.Jia Lian had no choice but to wait until the time came to see what happened. Anyway, if anyone wanted to put a dung basin on him, he would not do it.

Even on the day of the third bath, Sun Yuan's mother was worried about her daughter, afraid that she would do something wrong again. After asking and asking, Sun Yuan insisted that she had already thought about it.Another nanny told Mrs. Sun what she had done in the past few days, and Mrs. Sun couldn't help being worried.

Sun Yuan really thought about it, had such a dream, experienced such a life, how could she not think about it?

Outsiders don't know that after giving birth to twins, when Sun Yuan lost his strength and fell asleep, he had a long dream:

When the dream started, it was the day when Sun Yuan was wearing a red hijab and got married. Although Sun Yuan in the dream felt vaguely familiar, she still sat on the bed with apprehension, waiting for the groom to take off the hijab.

Also during this waiting, Sun Yuan always felt that something was missing, but he didn't know what it was.At this moment, the hijab was lifted away, and the groom opposite was looking at her.Sun Yuan lowered her head a little shyly, but her heart was a little turbulent, why doesn't this person seem to be her husband?

The groom looked like a frail scholar. Although he was full of bookishness, his appearance of falling down when the wind blew showed his inadequacy.After sitting opposite Sun Yuan for a while, the groom was called to toast.

There were still some people in the new house, all of whom Sun Yuan had never seen before. It took a long time before a shrill female voice said, "Look at us all sitting here, I'm afraid the brothers and sisters don't even know who we are."

The person who spoke was in his 20s, and his hair was full of pearls, so Sun Yuan couldn't keep his eyes open.I had to listen to the introduction one by one: "I am your sister-in-law, this is your second sister-in-law, this is the eldest sister, and this is the second sister."

Sun Yuan had no choice but to bow shyly to everyone - the bride sitting on the bed is a blessing, and she cannot get up casually.

I only heard the elder sister-in-law say again: "No wonder everyone says that the third younger sibling is a scholarly disciple. It's good to keep the etiquette."

What he said was obviously a compliment, but Sun Yuan could hear some dissatisfaction from those words.She felt something was wrong, but she couldn't tell where it was.I had no choice but to lower my head, the bride is always shy anyway.

Another voice seemed to be the second sister-in-law speaking: "After all, the rules of scholars are different from ours. The sister-in-law is too concerned about her younger siblings."

The sister-in-law said: "It's my fault. Our honorable family has always been used to being straightforward. I'm afraid the younger siblings will have to get used to it for a while."

"Sister-in-law said that, as if people like us are too shameful." Another voice joined in: "I don't think my sister-in-law's housekeeper can find any mistakes. It's the dowry..." At this point , was interrupted by others: "Second sister!"

Although the second younger sister stopped talking, the atmosphere in the room became even more awkward because of the word dowry.Sun Yuan roughly remembered that his dowry seemed to be 66 liters, which was considered a fairly standard amount among the first daughters of civil servants in Beijing.But this family seems to be a noble family, and the marriage is always more grand than the civil servant's family.

And in my dowry, there are quite a few rare calligraphy and painting books. Although these things are priceless, to the women in the inner house, they probably think that they are not as precious as head jewelry.

Finally, when these women had nothing to say, they sat for a while and went out to entertain guests.As soon as the nanny came in from the outside, her expression turned a little bit bad: "Girl, this Wei family is too big. Although the girl is the youngest daughter-in-law, she is also the first wife, and even now, she doesn't even give her a mouthful of hot soup."

The feeling was even worse, Sun Yuan always felt that someone was missing in the room just now, and it should be someone very close to her.I don't know who it is, and it's hard to ask, so I had to persuade the nanny: "Nurse, please bear with me, I'm afraid the rules in the house are different from ours, so I have to let them all change it according to the house."

The nanny was also just a servant, except that she wanted to talk to his wife when she returned home, so she had to listen to Sun Yuan's words and beat the dowry that came with her.

Before dawn on the second day, the sore and limp Sun Yuan had already woken up by the nanny: "Girl, oh no, grandma, Madam is about to wake up."

Sun Yuan had no choice but to drag his exhausted body to wash and tidy up.But her husband was a little dissatisfied with making people cry so early: "Mother won't argue about these things anymore, you are too careful."

When the husband finished packing, it was already bright, the young couple hurried to the main courtyard, the room was full of people, waiting for them to serve tea.Perhaps the mother-in-law disliked them for arriving late, so it took longer to pick up the tea, and she said the same thing: "You just got married, and it is possible for the younger couple to be closer. It's just that Li'er is naturally weak, and you have to take good care of him." body."

There was low laughter from the room, Sun Yuan blushed with embarrassment, and could only thank her mother-in-law for her teaching.After offering tea and recognizing their relatives, Sun Yuan officially became the youngest daughter-in-law of the Wei family.

No one felt that Sun Yuan was tired all day yesterday and should take a good rest—isn't it natural for a daughter-in-law to serve her mother-in-law?Everyone came here at that time, why did they have to change when they came to her?

Sun Yuan felt that it shouldn't be like this, but she had no idea what it should be.I had to cheer up and serve my mother-in-law wholeheartedly.But she has just entered the door, how can she know her mother-in-law's likes and dislikes?After coming down a few times, her mother-in-law has already given her the attributive "not clever".

When he went back to his yard at night, Sun Yuan's leg, which had been standing all day, was no longer his own.She just wanted to sit down and get her legs back.Unexpectedly, as soon as they sat down, someone who claimed to be the third young master's nanny brought in two pretty girls.

"Please greet the third young lady. I shouldn't have disturbed the third young lady, but tomorrow the third young lady will go to serve her wife, and I'm afraid we won't be able to see each other."

Sun Yuan now knew that the nanny of the Xungui family always had a face, so he also smiled and asked the nanny to sit down.But that one still had something to say: "These two girls, one is a flower and the other is a willow. They were originally serving in the third young master's study. The third young master is so thin-skinned, so I asked me to bring them to kowtow to grandma."

The first day, the first day of the wedding!Has her husband already impatiently brought his own room in front of him to cross the clear path?Gritting her teeth, the handkerchief on her hand had been deformed by Sun Yuan: "Does my wife know about this?"

The nanny just smiled: "Look at what grandma said, these two people were chosen by the wife herself because she was afraid that the third young master would not serve her."

What else to say, Sun Yuan took the tea offered by the two maids silently, only felt that the tea had been steeped for an unknown amount of time, and there was no tea fragrance in the mouth, only bitter.

The next time she returned home, Sun Yuan always felt that there was someone missing by her side, but she didn't know who it was.Even though her husband was with her, she still felt that the sedan chair was a bit empty.

After returning home and officially starting to live in her husband's house, Sun Yuan finally understood what it means for a daughter-in-law who has been married for many years to become a mother-in-law.Really, every moment is suffering for Sun Yuan:

Every day before dawn, I went to the main courtyard of my mother-in-law to serve my mother-in-law to wash and eat, but I could only be hungry, my legs were weak, and I was boiled.

Faced with the cynicism and sarcasm of the sisters-in-law, you have to greet each other with a smile and then counterattack at the right time. You can't let people think that you are at the mercy of others and you are suffering.

After finally returning to her own yard, in order to compete with her husband's nanny for the management right of this small yard, she was even more suffering in case the nanny borrowed two through rooms to blow the wind around her pillow.

Don't think that two sisters-in-law are easy to get along with each other.The same sharp teeth, the same pointing and cursing, compared with the two sister-in-laws, although they are concubine daughters, they have to be handled with the same care.

boil it.Sun Yuan always said to herself in her heart, but she didn't know how long it would be.

Because she is the youngest son and daughter-in-law, she has nothing to do with the power of the housekeeper in the family, but there is no shortage of people who favor the high and the low in that house, and the income of the third bedroom has always been mediocre.After suffering for a while, Sun Yuan had to open the warehouse where his dowry was stored, and began to use his own dowry to supplement the expenses of his husband and wife.

Even if it is like this, it can't win back her husband's heart on the Tong Fangs.He was probably born to cherish flowers, and he cared deeply for every roommate, but he felt tired of seeing her as his regular wife.

The nanny knew that Sun Yuan was going through a difficult time, so she wanted to go home and talk to her wife, so as to vent her anger for the girl, but the wife scolded her: "Which new daughter-in-law didn't come here like this. Even if the rules of the Wei family are different from ours, It's a little different, just let Yuan'er keep her own role. You can only persuade her from the side, why did you incite the girl to mess around instead?"

Sun Yuan knew what happened to the nanny in her natal family, so she could only smile wryly: "I won't let the nanny say it, but the nanny doesn't believe it. There are older brothers and sisters-in-law in the family, and I am just a married woman. People say that the water splashed by the married daughter is not the mother's fault." For the sake of brother and sister-in-law, how can you tear yourself apart from your in-laws?"

The nanny also shed tears: "But the girl is too bitter."

Sun Yuan shook his head, feeling that such days are so unreal.But every day is still real.Fighting with sister-in-law, secretly fighting with Tongfang, quarreling with sister-in-law, making things difficult for mother-in-law.Day by day, suffering.

Until one day, when she was serving her mother-in-law for dinner, she couldn't help throwing it up, thinking very firmly in her heart: I'm finally pregnant, and I can rest for a while.She didn't know why she was so confident, but she just decided.

She was right, she was really pregnant.It was just because of depression and daily fatigue that the pregnancy was not stable, and the imperial doctor asked her to rest in bed more often.

The mother-in-law's complexion is not very good.It was probably because the imperial doctor said that she was depressed and told her not to work hard, but not long after returning, two more pretty girls came into their room.The reason for giving it away is very good. She is pregnant and cannot be left alone to serve the third young master.

Sun Yuan only caressed about her belly, no matter how many people came, with the child in her belly, no one could shake her position as wife.The nanny also burst into tears with joy: "The girl has finally made it through."

It turned out that she wasn't the only one who felt that she was suffering. Others also knew that she was suffering.But how can this be considered a head start?

Once the imperial doctor announced that her fetus was stable, the days of serving her mother-in-law came back again, because her mother-in-law said: "At that time, how dare we say that we were not in good health? Even at eight months, we had to give mother-in-law Bring tea and water."

The sisters-in-law are not optimistic about her belly, because they have all given birth to daughters so far.If she gave birth to a boy, she would have to take the position of the eldest grandson.Fortunately, the nanny was there, so she escaped many open and hidden arrows.

The sisters-in-law were about to get married, only to realize that they were just concubines, and they might not have as much dowry as her when they got married.The two began to flatter the sister-in-laws, but they hoped that the sister-in-laws would add more makeup to them.

Despite being extremely careful every day, Sun Yuan still gave birth prematurely.Because of the premature birth, not to mention the imperial physician, even the steady woman, they were all called in from outside the mansion.Fortunately, Sun Yuan didn't know why, but he had a vague understanding of the matter of childbirth, and his strength was used at the right time. In addition, he was born prematurely and the fetus was not big. After a day and a night, he finally heard the cry of the baby in the delivery room.

"Child!" Sun Yuan called out with relief.

The nanny's voice came: "Does grandma want to see the young master and the young lady?"

Sun Yuan opened her eyes strangely, how could there be two children, she clearly remembered that she only had one.But the memories flooded in. It turned out that she was exhausted after giving birth and fell asleep. All the suffering was just a dream.

Tears can't help but fall down, it's so good, it turns out that all kinds of suffering are just a dream.In reality, she is still the wife of the eldest son who has been fully cared for by her husband and is not an eyesore.It was the daughter-in-law whose mother-in-law never asked her to set rules and who could go back to her natal family once a month.It's the housekeeper's wife who has no sisters-in-law, and Qiao's mother.

Now Sun Yuan knows what she has always felt lacking in her dream, and that is Sister Qiao.So she asked the people around her: "Where are Sister Qiao and Cong Cong?"

The nanny cheerfully replied: "The two are guarding the young master and the young miss and refuse to leave. If grandma wakes up, sister Qiao will definitely be the first to come over. Grandma must be hungry after sleeping for so long. The chicken soup is stewed thick and thick, grandma should drink it while it’s hot.”

Sun Yuan nodded, asked someone to help her sit up, took a sip, and it tasted really rich without being greasy, and said to the girl next to her: "This soup is good, quickly bring a bowl to the wife. In the next two days My wife has been worrying too, so I ask her old man to make up for it too."