The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

Mrs. Wang didn't know what happened yet, she only heard that Shi Taijun was going to check the accounts, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat.In order to make ends meet in order to repair the garden, the Rongguo Mansion has already started to live without food. As soon as the income from last year was handed in, she kept enough to eat, and sold the rest for money to repair the garden. Now Shi Taijun came to ask, where did she get something for it? she?And last year she did more than this. In order to repair the garden, she had arranged for the farmer to pay all the rent for this year in advance, and sold it together.

He faltered and talked to Shi Taijun, and as expected, he received accusations.It’s fine if it’s just for gardening, but now there is an imperial decree stating that there will be rewards for food donations, and you can’t take any of them out when you go home. Do you want to watch the rewards fall into other people’s pockets?Shi Taijun was angry and hated at the same time: "When did you become so short-sighted? How much can you exchange for a little bit of rice and grain? You can get it together as a dowry. At this time, the royal family has started to stockpile grain. Our Rongguo Mansion What are you going to do? If my son misses this great opportunity to become a marquis, I will divorce you and return to the Wang family."

Mrs. Wang knelt down and listened with her head down, cursing in her heart, but she also regretted that she shot too quickly. She didn't care whether Jia Zheng could win the Sacred Heart like this, but if this matter was done well, Yuan Chun in the palace would also benefit. It's so shallow, who would have thought that those old grains would still be useful?Can she be blamed for the decree being issued so late?

Yuan Chun in the palace also heard the news of the great reward for donating food. To be precise, she spent a lot of money to inquire about it from the little eunuch serving in the inner study before the imperial decree was issued, and she was trying to spread it to the Rongguo Mansion. The rich rewarder who was the first to send rice grains and money and the most generous reward are already famous and beautiful.A large grain merchant surnamed Li donated the most, won the title of imperial merchant, and was allowed to supply the green rice and red rice needed by the imperial dining room in the palace from next year. Yi's descendants, the Chen family, which is now the hereditary third-class son, is also the third prince's natal family.Before the emperor ascended the throne, in order to please the Supreme Emperor, he took the initiative to marry Miss Chen's family. Once he ascended the throne, he didn't like the series of four princes and eight princes. Therefore, he saw that his family had the most marriages, and he felt very tired. up.Originally, the Duke of Qi’s mansion was the rare one among the eight princes to descend to nobility, and the descendants were considered to be successful. Now it has only passed four generations, and they have been reduced to viscounts one by one. , Now there are only two third prize winners left to support the appearance.

Ning Shan was summoned into the palace urgently, she thought there was some great event, but when she heard that it was for this, she couldn't laugh or cry. "What's so difficult about this? Since you don't like rewarding the Chen family, you can reward the harem, or give favor to the third prince, isn't he still untitled? You can be the first to reward, and it can also divert the court's attention." Among the three evenly matched princes, one was sealed first, and the latter two were about to explode. Let them make trouble on their own, and wait for the money and rice to be collected before solving the famine in Shaanxi and Gansu.

The emperor likes this idea very much. Rewarding the harem is much more worry-free than ennobling him. He has no choice but to give some jewelry and clothing. Can.Immediately, he praised Ning Shan a few words and sent him away, then went to the harem to praise the queen, and encouraged the third prince, hinting that he might be crowned king soon.The queen was happy for herself, and the other concubines also thought they had found the way, and sent letters one after another, telling the family not to thin the donations.

The news of Yuanchun was also sent out together in this wave of enthusiasm. Shi Taijun didn't pay much attention to it when he saw that the Ningguo Mansion hadn't received a reward, but now he heard the word from the eldest granddaughter in the palace, how decent the queen's family is! , suddenly anxious.

Mrs. Wang was called again, and this time she brought Wang Xifeng with her, and three generations of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law gathered around to discuss strategies. In fact, this was nothing to discuss, it was nothing more than paying money to buy rice to save face and get Yuan Chun to the throne.The difficulty is that the family has no surplus food or spare money. Although the three mother-in-law and daughter-in-law all have private houses, they are unwilling to spend it on this matter.

Wang Xifeng was the first one who refused to pay, and only reasoned that she was in charge of the various projects of building the garden now, and the money was like water, and how much dowry she had paid, and so on.Half of Shi Taijun's private house is set up on the garden, and now all that is left are her coffin book, which is the key to her firmly grasping the power of Rongguo Mansion, so naturally she refuses to release it again.As for Mrs. Wang, she is very enthusiastic about making face for her own daughter, but she doesn't want to spend money, she just wants others to pay for her daughter's face.The three shied away and argued with each other, and after a long time they couldn't come to a result.It was still Wang Xifeng, who threw the plaster out with one sentence: "Didn't the Ningguo Mansion donate a lot? Why didn't there be any rewards? Our two mansions are as close as one family and belong to the same clan. It's unknown whether the emperor will be promoted to be a nobleman of our family because of this." .” Shi Taijun and Mrs. Wang’s mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stared round their eyes together.

Before Jia Zhen was summoned urgently, she was throwing a temper tantrum in the study. Although he donated a lot, he couldn’t hold back others, and was robbed of the top spot by the Chen family. Now that he has donated a lot of silver rice for nothing, she was feeling distressed, and suddenly heard Rong The Guofu was anxious to find him, and couldn't help cursing: "How soon will there be good things to remember me? Do I have to go if I am asked now? In the Rongguo Mansion, if she is called an ancestor, does she really regard herself as an ancestor?" Stepwife You Shi had always been afraid of him, so he didn't dare to persuade him, but just lowered his head and let him vent in silence, but he still had to take a look to find out what was the big deal.

After listening for a long time, I realized that it was about that nobleman again. I heard that the reward might be converted into Yuanchun's promotion, and Jia Zhen became angry.However, Mrs. Wang is still nagging: "Zhen'er, you submit the memorial as soon as possible, which shows that our family has also made great efforts. The sooner we arrive at the imperial court, the sooner our nobles will be promoted. Let others take the lead in everything."

Jia Zhen was furious: "Your Rong Mansion has a good plan. You use the rice grain and silver money from my mansion to exchange promotions for the nobles in the palace, and you don't ask me if I agree?"

Shi Taijun said majesticly: "What is the east mansion, the west mansion, the Jia family has always been prosperous, and now there is no girl in the harem in your mansion, this credit is useless if you don't give it to the nobleman, why do you care about it for a while? In the eyes of the emperor, it is natural that you will be invited to take credit for you."

Jia Zhen still disagreed, he was trying to please Jia Amnesty and Ning Shan, and see if he could find an opportunity to help him, but if he couldn't, it would be good to remember Jia Rong, he had been training in the Beijing camp for half a year, and he was an official. I just went home without getting a job, if I can find a real job while I'm here, it won't be a waste of effort.

No matter how intimidating the Rongguo Mansion's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are, Jia Zhen just shakes her head and disagrees. Even if he pays for nothing, he can't get any benefits, and he can't let others go. Are you being taken advantage of?Jia Zhen is not stupid, on the contrary, she is considered the number one capable person in the two mansions, and she is also the head of the clan, with natural advantages in her hands. It is more difficult for the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Rongguo Mansion to calculate him than Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian. .

Jia Shi, who had no choice but to take Jia Zhen, resorted to the most drastic means, with a stern face, and asked someone to call the fourth girl, only saying that the construction of the garden in the Rongguo Mansion is busy and chaotic, and there is not enough manpower, so I'm afraid it will be slow. He asked Jia Zhen to take Xichun back to Dongfu for a while, and then bring him back later.

Jia Zhen sneered: "It was said that my sister was the eldest daughter of a bereaved woman. In the future, it would be difficult to say that she was taken away, but she was raised with the concubine of the Xifu. Later, she was overwhelmed by Miss Lin and Miss Bao. , Now that the idea of ​​attacking my family fails, are you going to use her to blackmail me? All right, I will take it back when I take it back, but you will return my Huifang Garden. "

Huifangyuan has become a part of the provincial hospital, so what can I give back to him?Jia Shishi has no spells at all, Xichun can't threaten Jia Zhen, he almost forgot about this girl, even though they have the same mother, but his son is twice as old as her, and Jia Shi has been raped since he was a child The two of them only met a few times a year. If Jia Shishi hadn't brought it up this time, he would have almost forgotten that the girl belonged to his own family. Most of the Jia family couldn't remember clearly, and many He directly regarded Xichun as a girl from Rongguo Mansion.

What's more, Xichun's life was not good. She lost her mother at birth, and lost her elder sister-in-law when she was one year old. Jia Zhen presided over funerals one after another in those years, and she was angry with this weak girl in her heart, and ignored her even more. Let her live with the West Mansion, but hand over her share of money to the Rongguo Mansion every year, and don't care if the money reaches her.Now that Xifu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have annoyed him, he simply settled all the accounts together.

"Where did you spend the money I gave to my sister every year? The dignified Ningguo Mansion, the eldest daughter of the first house, you treat them like concubines, and listen to the slaves gossiping, not as good as the third girl in the second room." Well. This is the upbringing that the old lady promised? What did you teach? What did you cultivate? That's the patriarch's daughter, not a white girl who is just an official. Seriously speaking, the one you sent to the palace is not as good as My sister has a high status." Isn't it necessary to tear the face, everyone tear it together, Jia Zhen's alias is not stingy, she has always followed the style of the old master Jia She, who is afraid of it?

Jia Shishi didn't intend to make such a scene at the beginning, but now the situation started to get out of control, she also had a headache, since when did she, the old lord, start to lose her influence?Senior Dahe Chaopin's commandment has always been her magic weapon to travel across the two prefectures, but now, starting from Jia Amnesty, to Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, and then Jia Rong and Jia Qiang, all of them have escaped her. control, and more and more disobedient.Jia Shishi didn't know exactly what she wanted, but she was sure of one thing. All of this changed when Ning Shan appeared, and it was all caused by that bastard who caused trouble. Why didn't he die in the border town?