Aunt Zhao's happy life

After hearing what Aunt Zhao said, Jia Zheng said in a low voice: "As long as you have the heart, it is more important than anything else. But people's life span is unknown. Maybe I can live to be 80 or [-] years old, maybe I will die this year." , It's all uncertain, I don't want to see you being implicated by me. I'm gone, you should live a good life, let me look at it with comfort. "

Ruier said: "You're gone, I'm still alive, what's the point of living for a few more decades? I'd rather be with you as a widow!"

Jia Zheng said: "Rui'er, there is no definite number of things in the officialdom. I have seen a lot these years, and our Duke's Mansion has always heard a lot. I don't know how many high-ranking families fell apart overnight. Yesterday they were first-rank officials. Today Er is a prisoner, and tomorrow will die on the road and no one will be buried. Although I am not pessimistic, I dare not say that wealth will last forever and official luck will be prosperous. If there is such a day, I hope you will live well, with my hope, my The love of life, maybe even you can preserve a little bit of our Jia family's blood, doesn't that make me feel more at ease than death?"

Rui'er didn't speak for a while, and the two of them were silent in the dark night.

Jia Zheng also said: "At the beginning, my mother and my father were deeply in love as husband and wife, and it was also a good story in Jinling and the capital. My father left, and no one understood my mother's pain, but she could not die for love, because she had to support us so big. She has to take care of this family for my father. Could it be that my mother is unwilling to go with my father? But in many cases, death only requires a little courage, but living requires an incomparable sense of responsibility. "

"Okay, I promise you, if there comes a day, I will live a good life!" Rui'er said.

"Maybe it's a bit selfish of me to say this, but I really hope you live a long life, as long as you can live, you must live!"

"Okay! Unless it's illness and bad luck that make me unable to stand up, as long as I have a way, I will definitely live on!"

The lives of Aunt Zhao and Jia Zheng were not always so happy and harmonious.

By the end of the year, they had been arguing violently, one was furious, and the other jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it off.This also starts with Jia Zheng's friendship.

It was the Laba Festival that day, and when he was about to go home from the yamen, one of Jia Zheng's subordinates, a master named Li Su, grabbed Jia Zheng's sleeve and said with a smile: "Master Jia is so active when he comes home every day, and he doesn't say he is sympathetic to us." These have no family members!"

Jia Zheng laughed and said, "What? Do you want to eat Laba porridge? Come on, go to my house. My house must have cooked it!"

Li Su waved his hand and said: "Going to your house, we have to talk about etiquette, let's have some wine and order some food outside!"

Jia Zheng said: "You kid is also thinking of taking advantage of me! Forget it, let's go, go early and go early, I have to go home!"

Li Sudao: "Everyone says you are afraid of Aunt Zhao, but you are really afraid!"

Walking together, the two saw a "Laifu Restaurant" doing a good business, and the wine flags were also made uniquely. Jia Zheng said, "That's it!"

Li Su smiled and said, "You really know where to choose! Have you been here before?"

Jia Zheng said: "Where, this is the first time here!"

As soon as the two entered the door, they were surrounded by restaurants and invited to the second floor.

As soon as he went upstairs, Jia Zheng was dumbfounded: his eyes were full of flowers, flowers, willows and greens, Yingying and Yanyan, and his coquettish and shallow smiles were endless.

Just as Jia Zheng was about to go downstairs, Li Su pulled him back, "Let's eat ours!"

After the food and wine were served, Jia Zheng didn't look sideways, just lowered his head to eat the food, and took a sip of the wine now and then.Li Sudao: "Master Jia, don't stand in front of me. It's really uncomfortable. We are together every day. What are you afraid of? I won't talk nonsense!" Then he went to the restaurant to order some girls.

Jia Zheng said seriously, "What is this for?"

Li Sudao: "Okay, okay, I called to accompany me, it has nothing to do with you."

Jia Zheng said: "I don't have any cash in my hand. I only have enough money for food and drinks. If you want to play other things, I don't have any money."

Li Su smiled and said: "Are you stingy or really have no money? Aunt Zhao controls you so strictly? Well, well, well, I will pay, and I will honor you, that's all right!"

Jia Zheng couldn't hold back anyway, so Li Su picked two girls back and asked Jia Zheng, "You really don't want it? Choose one!" Jia Zheng lowered his face and just ate his own. Leaning close to Jia Zheng, leaning softly on his arm, Jia Zheng pushed hard: "What are you doing?" The woman probably had never encountered such a thing before, and couldn't hold back her face, she got up and went to Li Su's side.

Li Su hugged left and right, and couldn't even free his hands to hold the chopsticks.

Seeing their behavior getting more and more unrestrained, Jia Zheng got up and said goodbye: "I'll go back first, it's not good for my family to wait too late."

Back home, Rui'er greeted Jia Zheng as usual and hugged Jia Zheng's face and kissed her face, her expression changed immediately: "Where did you go? Why did you smell like alcohol? Did you come back after eating?"

Jia Zhengdao: "I just went to have a meal with Master Li Su. It's really hard to refuse the kindness."

Rui'er sniffed Jia Zheng again suspiciously: "Why do I smell a powdery scent on your body? I don't have this kind of strong-scented powder, who rubbed it on you?"

Jia Zheng hurriedly said, "No, no! I don't!"

Rui'er sneered and said, "Do you know for yourself!"

Jia Zheng didn't want to yell loudly in the corridor, so he took Rui'er's hand: "I'll go to the room and tell you."

Rui'er said coldly: "What are you afraid of? Who are you afraid of hearing? The room is full of your servants, what are you taboo about?"

Jia Zheng took Rui'er to the room, closed the door, and said softly, "Don't you believe me? It was Li Su who asked me to eat. Who knew that while eating, he called two women over, and one of them was thick-skinned. When I came over, I leaned against me, and when I pushed it away, I came back!"

Rui'er said: "Push it away? The devil will believe it! Are you afraid that you will push him down all at once?"

Jia Zheng was in a hurry: "If I lie to you about lightning strikes, you will die!"

Rui'er scolded angrily: "You didn't come back to eat and you didn't ask a servant to pass a message, which made me freeze in the cold wind for so long! I was worried about what happened to you! I haven't touched a single grain of rice until now. , do you have a conscience!"

Jia Zheng was also very guilty, and didn't know what to say. Rui'er asked again: "Since you don't have the intention, why don't you stop him? You just want to gain fame! If you are a serious person, once you go in and see clearly, you should Walk!"

When Jia Zheng went to the desk, he bit his finger and wrote a book in blood. Rui'er was so anxious that he grabbed his sleeve and said, "I don't know how to read, why are you bothering?"

Jia Zheng said: "I'll read these words to you: If Jia Zheng fails Zhao Rui'er, he will die! You keep it, this is for you to restrain me!"

Rui'er was so distressed that she burst into tears: "What are you doing! I believe you, I'm just angry but you won't refuse!"

Jia Zheng supported her by the shoulder: "Okay, okay, let's go to eat, don't be suspicious in the future, you will suffer!"

Since then, Aunt Zhao has become more at ease, she believes that her man is worthy of her lifelong pursuit.

With the gentle hometown arranged by Aunt Zhao, Jia Zheng often sighed that he didn't want to be an official, but only wanted to be an ordinary folk couple.Ruier jokingly said: "You scholars are all fake and noble! Aren't we just like folk couples now? Do you really want to go to the fields to cut firewood and carry water yourself? If we don't have any helpers, maybe you can get a grain of rice. I can’t grow it. When you talk about pastoral happiness, it’s because your eyes are full of scenery and leisure, and when you become a farmer, you only feel bitter and tired!”

Jia Zheng twirled his beard and laughed, "Let's say you can't read, but you know a lot. We people are deceived by books!"

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, it was time for Jia Zheng to go on vacation. He discussed with Ruier about the New Year in advance.

Rui'er missed the old lady and wanted to go back a little bit. Jia Zheng missed his mother and children even more, thinking about family affairs.But when he calculated it, it took him more than a month to hurry up in the spring, and he almost lost half his life. In this freezing season, one month is definitely not enough for one round trip.The mountains are high and the road is far away, with more energy than energy.

Jia Zheng decided not to go home, so he wrote to his mother to explain the reason, and greeted his family from afar.

Not long after, I received three letters from Jia's house. First, Jia's mother expressed her understanding of her son's hardships, and told him not to worry about his family. , and asked Rui'er to serve Jia Zheng wholeheartedly.

The second letter was from Mrs. Wang. She said that the two children are fine, but they both miss their father and talk about it at home every day!She also said that she really cared about Jia Zheng so much that she didn't think about eating and drinking. Fortunately, Jia Zhu was smarter, and Yuan Chun was more talented than ordinary people, and she was even more charming, which was her only comfort.Seeing the news about the child, Jia Zheng had a bright smile on his face.

The third letter is very short, Aunt Zhou entrusted Mrs. Wang to write it on behalf of Mrs. Wang, asking if the second master is well, and asking Rui'er what she needs, telling Rui'er not to be embarrassed to speak.

Across the mountains and rivers, looking at letters from family members, it seems like the whole family is gathered together.Ruier repeatedly asked Jia Zheng to read the letter again. She was so excited that she had to ask Jia Zheng to write back another letter, saying that everyone here is well and that she misses the relatives in Jia's house.

Celebrating the New Year in a foreign land, of course, cannot be vague.

Rui'er used a ladder to paste couplets, lanterns, and window grilles everywhere, and went to the market with Changsheng and Fugui to buy a lot of fireworks.

On New Year's Eve, everyone in the small family helped make dumplings. Jia Zheng couldn't find the venison that Jia's family must eat during the New Year. He only bought some mutton stewed carrots.Rui'er said: "That's great! Go and see those ordinary people's homes. They can't even afford the flour for making dumplings. What is there to be satisfied with when we have mutton? The stuffing of our dumplings is also meat. Still not happy?"

More than a dozen people, regardless of their status, put two tables together and ate dumplings and mutton around them.While eating, Zhenmo choked up: "I seem to feel at home for the first time!"

Ruier put a large piece of mutton into her bowl: "When you are so happy, don't be hypocritical! We are a family, and you are my brothers and sisters!"

After dinner, Ruier asked Jia Zheng to set off fireworks. Jia Zheng said, "I've always been afraid of fireworks, I always thought they would blow me up!"

Chang Sheng said: "What are you afraid of, I will go!"