By Jia Xiuzhen

As soon as Caixia left, Sister Feng called Ping'er: "Call the Fubing family."

Ping'er called the little girl to invite someone. Fu Bing's family is Mei Ren's aunt. In the past, Mei Ren begged to go, and it was the favor Fu Bing and his wife made in front of Sister Feng.Nowadays, Sister Feng seldom uses them, and no one knows that Sister Feng's outside business is managed by the charming family.

When Fu Bing's family heard that Sister Feng was calling, they came immediately.Sister Feng took out a leather seal that had been prepared the next afternoon, and Ping'er took it and handed it to the daughter-in-law.Seeing that she picked it up, Sister Feng ordered: "Send it to Mei Ren immediately, and let her send someone to do it quickly. He knows everyone. The address is written on it. Just remember one, don't disturb others. This method must not be lacking at the other end, this matter is important, but it must be done rigorously!"

It was rare for Fu Bing's family to see Sister Feng speak so harshly, so she quickly agreed and turned around to leave.

Although it was during the curfew, the back streets of the Rongning Second Mansion were left unattended. Who knows when the masters will call people around, and the Nine City soldiers and horses will not be able to patrol here.In the middle of the night, a group of strong men came from the east, saw the alley clearly, and carried a blue smoke lantern to illuminate the number plate.When they arrived at a courtyard, one of them turned over the wall and opened the courtyard door in two or three strokes.

A few people went in, took a look around the room, lit two cigarettes and threw them inside. After thinking about it, they opened the door latch with a thin blade, and after a short while they went in, they carried a few bulging sacks. come out.The three or four people in the rear searched the house separately.

A group of people went outside, the searchers and the sack-carryers nodded goodbye, a group of people went west, and another group went from east to south to the place where the poor lived together.Most of the human transactions in the inner city are here.On the second day, a group of carts were filled with human trafficked from unknown sources. It looked like they were going to be sent to salt wells or mines, but they never returned.It's just that the people around have long been used to such things, and they don't even have the interest to take a second look.

When Sister Feng arrived in the afternoon, she wanted to ask Wang'er's family to come in, but she couldn't find him, so she sent people to his house to look for it, but they couldn't find it.Just having no choice but to do so, Mrs. Xing's Mrs. Xia came, and when she heard about this, she immediately left with a livid face.Go back and report to Madam Xing, Madam Xing is furious.It turned out that Mrs. Xia went to look for Wang'er and his wife yesterday, because they always pushed back and forth. Mrs. Xing thought that she could not bear the child's entrapment, so she asked Mrs. Xia to give them some silver taels. It will make people feel awkward with them.

Unexpectedly, the family disappeared early this morning, and the house was as clean as it had been washed.Seeing that both sides could not afford to offend, they ran away at night.Mrs. Xing was furious, and she only said that she would sue the yamen to track down the fugitive slaves.Jia Amnesty heard the news and scolded Mrs. Xing back. He said: "I just became a family, and you are here to arrest escaped slaves. Do you think I am not a wimp?! No brains!" Mrs. Xing After being scolded severely, he felt more and more humiliated, and dared not confront Jia Amnesty, and only hated Sister Feng even more.

Then she told Jia Huan again, and told Jia Amnesty about all the things about Sister Feng, and she said, "I thought if she knew she was wrong, she could make it up later. How could she be so reckless? It's really annoying to run away for witnesses again!"

Jia Amnesty rolled his eyes when he heard this, and scolded: "Stupid woman! Why did you come to tell me about such a big thing now! This vicious woman did such a thing, she should be divorced immediately! You have to repent!"

Madam Xing's eyes lit up when she heard Jia She's words, and she quickly agreed, "Master is right, but I didn't expect to go to this place."

Jia She sneered: "Hmph, do you still think that the Wang family is an old man?! At this time, why should you worry about it? It's time to take out the money from the elders! Lian'er's dirty seed was almost plotted against by her own mother-in-law. I don’t know, I’m also a coward! When he comes back from his work this time, you can tell him about it, just tell him what I ordered, why do you keep such a troublemaker? Hurry up and marry another one. relative!"

This Jia Amnesty hated that he was implicated in the Jia Yucun incident that day, but the Wang family did not provide any assistance, and also involved in the Pingan Prefecture incident. He had been planning for a long time, but Wang Ziteng could not help him.Not only did he not help, he got a little wind here, and blocked several roads there. He really didn't care about relatives at all, he was timid and afraid, and he didn't allow others to gain wealth. Too much deception!

In addition, before Jia's mother made the decision, she handed over the dowry left by Jia Lian's birth mother to Sister Feng. , the money that can be used is getting less and less, so he is naturally thinking about it again.

And I heard that Sister Feng still has such a thing as lending usury!Naturally, such ill-gotten gains should be brought back to the officials. This is another reason to do something.

Several reasons have come across one, Mr. Xi, who never cared about his son's affairs, had to take back his elder's money this time.

Sister Feng hasn't rested for the past few days. As early as when Jia's mother passed away suddenly, she knew that her life had to be changed.Now all she cares about is Qiaojieer, but fortunately she made preparations early in the morning, thought twice, and betrothed Qiaojieer to the eldest son of her direct brother Wang Ren years ago.Now that Jia Lian has a son, everything is full. When Sister Feng told him, she agreed without much fuss.

Thinking about it, her natal family is always reliable, and in order to prevent the people in the house from making trouble, she made other arrangements, and now her body is getting worse day by day, and she has no desire to win, and she doesn't care about the name, she just wants to be safe Watching Qiao's sister get married as an adult will be considered complete.It's just that things in the world are often not available, but they are out of calculation.

Jia She and Mrs. Xing live in Rongqing Hall, but there are countless other concubines, so it is really difficult to arrange.I don't know who pushed them, so Jia Amnesty let them all live in the garden.Mrs. Xing didn't dare to disobey her, and she didn't want to let them live comfortably, so she wanted to choose a secluded and spacious courtyard for placement on the grounds that the shortage of manpower was too expensive.It was originally built for the servants in the garden, the group of concubines naturally didn't like it, and went to make a noise in front of Jia She.

After hearing this, Mrs. Wang was so angry that she fainted, so she went to Mrs. Xing and said, "This garden was originally used to visit relatives. In the past, girls lived in it, and it was the mother's word. Now we arrange people to live in it without authorization. , or concubines like concubines, I'm afraid that if there are rumors outside, it would be a crime of disrespect to read a book at random!"

Mrs. Xing was both angry and happy when she heard this. What is so angry is that Mrs. Wang can still dominate herself in the name of a noble concubine, not to mention that her daughter is gone, but there is still a grandson.The good news is that he has no idea about Jia Amnesty, but the pretext is ready-made.Immediately, he answered a few words angrily, and then told Jia Amnesty what he had said.

When Jia She heard the words disrespectful, he felt a chill in his neck, and he was unwilling to lose the battle, so he said, "Where does the royal family really care about such trivial matters! But what you said is also reasonable, the main courtyard is not suitable. Those who live in the side courtyards they live in as they like, just say what I said, whoever wants to ask, let him ask me!"

The concubines felt troubled when they heard this, one thing is that the garden is much more spacious and the scene is better, isn't it much happier than nestling here under Mrs. Xing's eyes?But then again, there is still a widow and grandma living in the garden, Jia Amnesty has no reason to go wandering in it, if his family moves there, those who stay behind will have to take advantage of it!It's really hard to do business at both ends.

Mrs. Xing waited impatiently, and came to ask after two days, but half of them were willing to live in the garden.Mrs. Xing asked someone to clean up the house and come out, and it was not much better than living here.I can walk around.

Here at Li Wan, because Lin Ruhai got the decree to return to Beijing, and the Ninth Prince stayed in Jiangnan alone, he hurriedly called Jia Lan back, and before leaving, he only said that "Cui Liu" had said that he would find time to "see" Li Wan.She also had to wait and see.

There was a lot of noise outside this day, so people asked, but it was Jia She's concubines who moved into the garden, and there was a lot of people talking about it.Now this garden actually only lives in the serious master Li Wan, but it's a pity that this is the other courtyard where the imperial concubine visits relatives, and there is also the old residence of Princess Fan, so it is not easy to use it for other purposes.If not, I'm afraid it should be even more lively.

It's a little quiet at night, the garden is so big, and those concubines live in a remote place, where can they hear the movement!But the maids who were waiting around kept saying: "There are more people in the garden, and the popularity is more lively, and even the lights on the road are much brighter."

Li Wan couldn't help laughing, the two girls couldn't help being embarrassed, Li Wan said: "When it was lively in the past, it was still annoying."

The two laughed and said: "We have no luck, we didn't catch up with that time. Just listened to what the mothers said, and said that it was Bao Erye's birthday, even the girls drank together, and the mothers also drank a lot, we are I can't even think of it like that!"

Another said: "There is also our autumn festival here, which is even more lively. It is more fun than the temple fair on Xisiheng Street!"

Li Wan sighed: "That's true, but only three or two years..."

One spoke quickly: "Yeah, everyone said that every year is not as good as every year..." The other quickly pulled up his sleeves, and the one who was talking quickly stopped talking.

Li Wan came back to his senses, and said with a smile: "The girls have grown up, and when they go out, they will be deserted. When the brothers and men are all married, they will naturally come back to be lively."

Those two hurriedly followed Ying Shi, not daring to say anything more.

Since Baoyu became a filial piety, Mrs. Wang began to talk about the marriage between Luo Baoyu and Baochai. Xue Pan saw that there was no room left, and Aunt Xue's health was getting worse day by day.Although everyone didn't point it out, they all knew in their hearts that this marriage must be done before autumn, if Xue Pan really wanted to kill him after autumn, he didn't know how long the marriage would be delayed.

Baochai's dowry had been prepared as early as when she came back from the palace. The wood for the furniture was brought in from the south two years earlier, when the houses were building large-scale projects. All rosewood.I took the size of the house from Jia's house and started to make furniture.

Aunt Xue divided the rest of the farm shop into two shares, one for Baochai as a dowry, and the other for Baochai to keep for future descendants of Xue Pan.Every time at this time, I can't help but think of my own son who is still in prison, I don't know what suffering I am suffering now, and I think that I will die in a few months, and my family has nothing to do, it is really heartbroken.After doing this, his body and spirit got worse.

He also said that Baochai saw that Third Sister You, although impatient and not very familiar with world affairs, was very affectionate to Xue Pan, and valued her twice more than before.Besides, she was about to go out by herself, and Aunt Xue needed someone to take care of her at home at such an old age, so she often talked to Third Sister You, and taught her some things about human relationships.

The wedding here is approaching, and Jia Lian on the other side came back from a mission for Jia Amnesty, and as soon as he finished explaining the outside affairs, Mrs. Xing sent someone to summon her.Talking like this and that made Jia Lian so angry that he went to Sister Feng's room in a dusty world, and saw that he was about to kill again.

Pushing the door open and entering inside, I saw Sister Feng half leaning on the bed, her face was sallow, her eyes were blurred, her cheeks were sunken, how could she still have half of her demeanor back then? "I can't live anymore!" Jia Lian's heart skipped a beat, she panicked a bit, and she didn't know where the anger just now went.

Seeing Jia Lian coming in, Ping'er went forward to salute, and then softly called to Sister Feng: "Grandma, grandma, the second master is back..."

Sister Feng slowly opened her eyes, looked at Jia Lian with a sad smile and said, "Master is back, along the way...cough cough cough, how was the journey?"

Jia Lian didn't dare to sit too far forward, so she took two steps forward and asked, "What's the matter? I was fine when I left. How long has it been? How did you become so sick?"

Sister Feng shook her head: "It's useless..." When she was about to say more, she was out of breath.Ping'er quickly calmed down and poured water again.Jia Lian casually said a few words of comfort, only to let her rest for a while, then went out by herself, and gave Ping'er another wink.

Ping'er helped Sister Feng to lie down, whispered a few words to Sister Feng, and then lifted the curtain and went out.Seeing her coming out, Jia Lian pulled her aside and said in a low voice, "What's going on? Why didn't you deliver the letter to me?!"

Ping'er sighed and told all the recent affairs in the mansion before saying: "My wife doesn't like grandma, now my wife is in charge and making some jokes, grandma can't help but say a few words, and let my wife take a lot of it, it's not a training A few times. I know grandma's temperament, but it's her mother-in-law. The imperial doctor came to see her and said it was a symptom of stagnation of liver qi.

Later, it got worse, my wife somehow listened to Mr. Huan's instigation, and made up a lot of crimes, but my grandma was so angry that she replied a few words.The wife wants Wang'er's family to testify and convict grandma.Unexpectedly, the family took money from their wife the day before and ran away that night!When grandma found out, she was even more angry, and now she is lying down with this disease. "

After Jia Lian heard this, he wanted to believe it or not, so he said, "I don't know who of you can listen to it now. Forget it, whether he is true or not, we have to deal with Baoyu first. Ping'er, what do you want?" I remember, if you let me know which one of you is making up nonsense to deceive me, I will definitely not forgive you!"

Ping'er calmly glanced at Jia Lian, and said with a sneer, "How can I hear the slightest sincerity in my ears when listening to our words? Who told us to be slaves, so I have to let the Lord be willing!"

Jia Lian had nothing to say back for a while, so after saying a few words in a casual manner, she went to Second Sister You.