The Red Mansions

Chapter 132 The Premonition of Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian's Fallout
Capital City, Rongguo Mansion.

It was late at night, after the people of Jia's mansion got together to watch the New Year, they dispersed and went back to rest.

Sister Feng's courtyard.

In the bedroom, after Wang Xifeng came back, she took off her thick coat, revealing her plump and curvy body.

Jia Lian leaned against the door, feeling unspeakably hot in her heart, and could not rush to have a good meal right away.

But he can't.

Because he got sick, heart disease.

He didn't know when he got this disease, but he only knew that in the past one or two months, whenever he saw Wang Xifeng, he fell in love with her and wanted to make out with her.

But whenever he gets within three feet of her, he immediately becomes calm!
After Jia Lian discovered this situation, he was very panicked, so he asked the imperial physician quietly.

He told the imperial physician that he liked a woman very much, but when he got close to her, he felt calm, but this was not the case with other women.

After listening to his general description, the imperial doctor was also quite speechless. It was the first time he heard about this kind of disease, and his brain wanted to explode, and he didn't know what prescription to prescribe for Jia Lian.

In the end, he couldn't think of a solution, so he said he had a heart disease.

Heart disease is the same as brain disease. It is the most mysterious. Even if one's judgment is wrong, others will not know that one is wrong.

So the imperial physician chatted with Jia Lian.

It is said that Jia Lian's heart disease is caused by Jia Lian's expectation of that woman is too high, or she thinks that woman is too perfect.

But after Jia Lian really got to know the woman, he realized that the other party also had many shortcomings. Under disappointment, heart troubles developed unconsciously.

After Jia Lian heard the doctor's diagnosis, he believed it to be true.

Before getting married, he did have high expectations for Wang Xifeng, and hoped that his future wife would be gentle and considerate.

But after getting married, he found that although Wang Xifeng was charming on the outside and a good housekeeper, she was actually a pungent person who couldn't get a little sand in her eyes.

It was because of such a clear understanding that Jia Lian didn't feel that there was something wrong with the imperial physician's diagnosis, so he humbly asked the imperial physician for advice.

The imperial doctor shook his head and said no, and when he asked again, he replied that he needed heart medicine for his heart disease, and asked Jia Lian to give it to him. After a long time, the disease might be cured.

However, after such a long time, Jia Lian looked at Wang Xifeng at this time, his eyes were still fiery.

At this time, he saw Ping'er squatting on the side and fiddling with the charcoal basin again.

Ping'er has become more and more juicy recently, just like that peach, with a small face that is rosy and white, the kind that water can come out with a pinch, Jia Lian's heart is very hot when he looks at it.

But what broke Jia Lian was that Ping'er probably followed Wang Xifeng often because she also had a faint fragrance that could instantly extinguish his desire.

Jia Lian glanced at Wang Xifeng from the left, and Ping'er from the right. This kind of life of being able to see and not eat made him very crazy, but there was nothing he could do.

While he was looking around, Wang Xifeng squinted at Jia Lian and said, "Remember to go to Wang's house on the second day of the Lunar New Year."

"Hey, why don't you go, and I won't go." Jia Lian replied with a dry cough.

Wang Xifeng frowned, and said very displeasedly: "You are getting more and more angry. For some reason, you have slept in a separate room with me, and you don't even want to go back to my mother's house with me? Is the next step going to divorce me? ?”

Seeing that Jia Lian was about to speak, she interrupted her with a wave of her hand, and continued: "Jia Lian, Lian's second master, I, Wang Xifeng, are talking here today. If you dare to divorce me, my Wang family is not easy to provoke!"

Jia Lian said with a dry smile, "Don't think about anything, the reason why I want to sleep in a separate room with you, didn't I tell you before?"

"The imperial doctor said that I am weak and need to avoid women for a while. When I recover, I will naturally move back."

Wang Xifeng snorted coldly, and said, "Stop talking about the imperial physician, I don't know where you found the barefoot doctor, talking nonsense!"

"Forget it, I won't talk to you about this, just ask you, will you go back to your mother's house with me on the second day of the Lunar New Year?"

Jia Lian nodded and said, "I can go to Wang's house with you, but you have to give me 300 taels of silver!"

Seeing that Wang Xifeng was going to be in a hurry with him, he quickly explained: "I'm not quarreling with you, it's because I really have no money right now."

"I went to Wang's house. Wang Ren and my brother-in-law invited me out to have fun. How can I go with them if I don't have any money?"

Wang Xifeng's expression slowed down, and he narrowed his eyes and said: "At the end of the year, the farm just delivered the new year's goods, and you put them in the warehouse. Will you have no money? Just fool me for being a three-year-old child, right?"

"Really not!" Jia Lian looked outside the door, took a few steps forward, and said in a low voice, "A few days ago my father took a fancy to a bronze vessel, and he took all of it from me as he was short of silver."

Wang Xifeng cut his voice, and said with a pursed mouth: "The private house money is gone, so go to the warehouse to get it!"

"Who dares to tamper with the silver in the warehouse now? There are only tens of thousands of taels of silver in total." Jia Lian frowned.

Wang Xifeng was startled, rolled his eyes, and said, "No, I just went to see it last month, and there are nearly 10 taels of silver, plus the produce just delivered from the farm, it doesn't matter what the bank has. Is it more than one hundred thousand taels?"

"Didn't Second Aunt ask me to send tens of thousands of taels of silver to the palace a few days ago?" Jia Lian explained.

Wang Xifeng frowned, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable.

In the past, Mrs. Wang, that is, her aunt, in order to make Jia Yuanchun feel better in the palace, so she used the public money to manage it, but she didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

But now she realizes that she was a fool before.

She did everything possible to collect money for the Jia family, worrying about the big and small of the family, and even putting in a lot of her own dowry, but finally made wedding dresses for others.

I don't seem to get any benefit.

As soon as this idea flashed into Wang Xifeng's mind, it took root like a weed, and she couldn't get rid of it even if she tried to hoe it.

After thinking about it a few times, she took a deep breath and said, "If you want any money, you can figure it out yourself. I don't have any money now."

"You know how much dowry I sold for this family before!"

"You are a big man, you can't come back to me for money every time you are short of money, right? You are too worthless, right?"

Jia Lian said unhappily: "We are all one family, why should we divide between you and me? I didn't have any money before, as long as I did something serious, didn't you give it to me? Why do you have to divide it so clearly now?"

"Haha, Jia Lian, I really admire your thick skin!" Wang Xifeng laughed angrily.

She stood up abruptly, stared wide-eyed, pointed at Jia Lian and gritted her teeth and said:
"Go out and inquire, no matter if you are an honorable and wealthy family or a commoner, as long as you want to save face, which man will miss his wife's dowry? Aren't you afraid that others will poke your back?"

Hearing this, Jia Lian finally couldn't hold back her face, and raised her hand to beg for mercy: "Keep your voice down, my aunt, can you keep your voice down?"

"I'm not going to ask you for money, is it? I'll figure it out tomorrow, and I promise to go to Wang's house with you on the second day of the new year. Is that okay?"

"That's about the same!" Wang Xifeng snorted coldly, then suddenly thought of something, and asked:

"By the way, I have been busy with Chinese New Year matters before, and I always wanted to ask you, but I forgot every time."

"At the end of September and the beginning of October, Xing'er disappeared for half a month. What did you send him to do?"

Jia Lian said truthfully, "Let him go with Jia Yun!"

"Jia Yun?" Wang Xifeng's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked, "Why do you want Xing'er to do with him?"

Ping'er, who had been standing silently by the side, became nervous now.

Jia Lian didn't see any abnormality between the two of them, and said directly: "It was the old lady's order to catch Jia Yun's fault."

"Why do you want to catch Jia Yun's fault? Just because of what happened in the back street when he was elected last time?" Wang Xifeng frowned and said, "Then did you catch him?"

Jia Lian: "In the final analysis, this matter is the conflict between the eldest and third families. It has been accumulated since the ancestors, and it only broke out when Jia Yun was promoted."

"I didn't catch the mistake. Xing'er followed Jia Yun by boat to Tianjin and lost it."

"Later, I asked someone to go to Qingshan Academy to inquire. I heard that Jia Yun worshiped the head of the academy as his teacher. His master said that he was too young, so he was forced to not allow him to participate in the examination next year, and asked him to leave Beijing for a study tour. .”

"After I reported this to the old lady, she told me not to follow."

"Actually, it's useless to follow. Brother Zhen also arranged for someone to follow him before. He didn't catch Jia Yunding at all. On the contrary, the people who went out to follow him were playing lazy."

In fact, Jia Lian also knew that the people Jia Zhen sent out had never been with them at all. On the contrary, they were more likely to hide and gamble for money.

Wang Xifeng and Ping'er breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Wang Xifeng said: "Since Xing'er has business to do, I won't punish him, but I want to remind you, it's fine to go outside to borrow money, don't borrow usury from your father-in-law!"

Ever since she followed Jia Yun, she tried to get Jia Amnesty to snatch the usury business, and she got 3000 taels of silver in return.

Of course, she never told Jia Lian about this.

Jia Lian always thought that it was Jia She who robbed Wang Xifeng of her business, which caused her to make no money, so she didn't get involved, for fear that Jia She would beat him up.

Hearing Wang Xifeng's reminder, Jia Lian nodded yes, even though Jia She is his own father, if he borrowed money, he would have to pay it back with interest, and he dare not not pay it back.

Therefore, he would rather go to Jia Zhen and Jia Rong to borrow money than to go to Jia She to borrow money.

After Jia Lian went out to rest in the next room, Ping'er came to Wang Xifeng and whispered:

"It's really yours. This ability to beat back is so good!"

Wang Xifeng rolled her eyes and said, "Don't come here. If you, a little girl, hadn't whispered in my ear every day that Jia Yun was long and Jia Yun was short, how could I follow him? Hmph..."

"Oh! This is so unreasonable, I didn't say it was my fault!" Ping'er said angrily.

Wang Xifeng pursed her lips, stepped forward and tapped Ping'er's forehead, and scolded:

"It's different when you become an adult, let me remind you, if you let me hear such offensive words in the future, be careful, you will have good fruit!"

Ping'er giggled and hid away, and when Wang Xifeng finished speaking, she replied with a smile: "Grandma can't blame the servant girl for speaking badly, the servant girl learned this from grandma!"

"No learning!" Wang Xifeng said forcefully.

……

During the day, Jia Yun's house is much quieter than the lively Jia's mansion.

Of course, this is only relative.

The excitement is still very lively, but it is only lively at home, not too public.

This is the keynote set by Xue Baochai.

Since the last time she and Mrs. Pu were granted the title of Ruren, the matter of Jia Yun being released as an official has naturally been exposed.

But Xue Baochai did not forget to give a password to everyone in the family, and no one was allowed to go out and say that Jia Yun was an official, and when asked, the only answer was that he had traveled.

In fact, she also understands this matter, and she can't hide it for too long.

But as long as you can hide it, you can hide it for as long as possible, which is good for Jia Yun.

Silent night.

In the wing room, Xue Baochai, Xi Ren, and Qin Keqing were still sitting around the fire cage talking.

Xue Baochai took Qin Keqing's hand and said with a smile, "I've been busy all day today, so I didn't have time to ask you, how is your younger brother?"

Qin Keqing said melancholy: "I'm afraid it will be abolished. Since I went to Jia's Academy to study, my whole person has changed. I have been glib and dishonest all day long."

"My family went back to see him this morning, thinking that he was keeping a filial piety for my father, but I didn't expect him to get involved with my father's aunt."

"The ugliness of the family should not be publicized. The slave family can only pretend that they don't know. They left ten taels of silver and came back."

Xue Baochai and Xi Ren were surprised when they heard this.

Xue Baochai couldn't believe it and asked: "I used to hear that your younger brother was shy, how did he become like this?"

Qin Keqing sighed: "It's the same as when Mencius was young. He lived near the tomb. Mencius learned it as a funeral, and he danced and wept bitterly."

"So he moved to the side of the city, and Mencius played for the Jia people to show off and sell things. The city is close to the butcher, so he learned to do business and slaughter."

"In folk terms, you can learn from whoever you are with."

"The younger brother of the Nu family followed the children in Jia's free school, and learned their bad habits."

Xue Baochai sighed, patted Qin Keqing's hand, and said with relief:
"Don't worry, he's still young. He will be better when he grows up and becomes a director."

Qin Keqing shook her head and said: "Things at the root have become bad, even if you think about it, it won't get better."

"The slave family will not care about him in the future, and he has no blood relationship with him."

"Furthermore, the slave's family is married again, and my father has gone away. Having a natal family is the same as not having a natal family. Let him fend for himself in the future!"

Xue Baochai glanced at her and understood something in his heart, so he said no more.

Xiren saw that the two of them were silent, so he said, "Miss Ping'er came here this afternoon and gave me a big bag of New Year's goods, all of which are jewelry and fabrics!"

Xue Baochai smiled and said, "My cousin probably asked me to give it to me."

"Second Grandma Lian?" Qin Keqing asked curiously.

In the past, she was called Auntie, but now she is not from the Jia family, so naturally she changed her name.

Xue Baochai nodded and said with a smile: "I'm afraid you don't know, our master is a glutton. In the past, apart from you, Grandma Zhu, Cousin Feng and Ping'er, she was greedy."

"What? There is such a thing?" Qin Keqing said dumbfounded, thinking that she had heard it wrong.

Xiren smiled and said, "It's true, but it's enough for us to know, don't tell others."

Qin Keqing shook her head again and again and said: "The slave family is not a chatterbox, and this also involves the master, the slave family will keep their mouths shut."

After a pause, she asked curiously: "It's just that I'm a little curious. Grandma Zhu and Mistress Lian are not ordinary people. How did the master get them?"

"Then how did he get you?" Xue Baochai said with a smirk.

"Ah, this..." Qin Keqing blushed, hesitated for a moment, looked at the room, gritted her teeth and said, "It's in this room, he hugged the slave's house and..."

Xue Baochai was surprised: "No way? You let her give it so easily..."

Qin Keqing blushed to the point of her ears, and she defended in a low voice: "At that time, I was afraid that people would find out that I was with him, so I didn't dare to resist too much..."

The more she got to the end, the more confident she became.

After all, at that time she saw Jia Yun was young and handsome, and she was willing to get close to him.

But at the beginning, she just wanted to talk to Jia Yun, but she didn't expect Jia Yun to be so straightforward, and she went up to her, which caught her by surprise.

Seeing that she couldn't explain anymore, Qin Keqing quickly raised her head, grabbed Xue Baochai's hand and asked:

"Ma'am, you haven't said yet, how did the master get Grandma Zhu and Grandma Lian?"

Xue Baochai shook her head and said, "Let Xiren tell you, I don't know much about some things."

Seeing Qin Keqing looking over, Xiren quickly shook his head and said, "Sister Qin, you should ask the master in the future. I promised him that I will not talk nonsense about those private matters, even in front of my wife. I dare not make an exception."

Qin Keqing saw that they didn't speak, so she stopped forcing her and said:
"Forget it, I just wanted to listen to it as an interesting story. Since you don't say anything, I don't want to ask any more. Sister Xiren will show you the jewelry sent by Miss Ping'er!"

After Xiren got up and went to the cabinet to fetch a package of jewellery, Xue Baochai picked up one, looked at it, and said:
"These gold and silver jewelry are novel in style, and they should have just emerged. My cousin has put some thought into them."

Xiren said with a slight smile: "Miss Ping'er said that these jewelry were bought last month, and they were supposed to be delivered earlier, but it's the end of the year, and the Jia family is busy with business, so it has been delayed until today. Come."

Xue Baochai nodded, looked at the two of them and said: "Everyone can choose a few pieces according to their own preferences. When Xiren is free, take a few jars of snow clam oil left by the master at home and give them to Miss Ping'er as a gift in return. "

Xiren responded, and then said with a smile: "I'm afraid you don't know that the snow clam oil made by the master is now sold at 500 taels of silver in the capital, and there is no market for it, so it is not easy to buy. "

Qin Keqing was puzzled and said: "I remember the master said that this snow clam oil doesn't seem to be sold, how come outsiders know about it?"

Xue Baochai said: "It should have been leaked from Grandma Zhu. By the way, Xiren, it is estimated that Grandma Zhu will bring her maid Suyun to send the money after the new year."

"At that time, you can only charge 60 taels of silver per box, and you can't charge more."

Qin Keqing asked: "Sister Xiren knows how much she took away?"

"Every time the master gives the clam oil to Grandma Zhu, I go to the warehouse to get it, and the quantity is recorded." Xiren nodded and said.

Qin Keqing sighed: "Buy it for 60 taels of silver and sell it for 500 taels of silver. The profit is too huge."

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "No matter how rich it is, it's only a small amount. The money she earns is right to be used as the food and clothing that her husband gives her. It's not an advantage."

(End of this chapter)