Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

Chapter 481 Chapter 6.52 "Disposal" of the Wang Family Completed

Volume VI

6.52 The "disposal" of the Wang family is completed

"Have you finished talking?" Seeing that the courtyard became quiet, a familiar gentle female voice came from the room. Li Wan came with a friendly smile, walked to Zhou Yang naturally and said with a smile, "Where does the family come from? With so many disputes, won’t everything be fine if we just let it go?”

With just a few words, everyone in the yard drew their attention to her. As a result, except for one person, everyone including Jia Lian looked at this beautiful young woman with envy - yes, envy. , unabashed envy full of "why not me" meaning.

I saw Li Wan wearing a well-tailored snow-white background and plum-patterned cloud brocade palace skirt, which hung almost to the ground. Probably because he was afraid of the cold spring, which was still cold, he wore another snow-white mink trench coat, just because he was in In the inner courtyard, she was not wearing a hood, and the color and style were in line with her status as a "widow". However, if compared to her beautiful, intellectual, dignified but rosy and confident face, no one would think she was "miserable".

"You put it lightly." In the end, Wang Xifeng couldn't hold it back, and her tone of voice was sour, "You are in charge of millions of dollars of property, and the slaves below do most of the work. You just need to check the accounts on time. Ben, absolutely no one dares to do anything fancy. Even if something really happens, there will always be men to help.

Every day, I have so much money that I can't wait to make the bed and the floor. I just need to say hello to what I want to eat and drink. Which slave from top to bottom in Rongguo Mansion dares to disobey?Now in this capital city, who among the inner courtyards has not heard of your name as 'Mrs. Li'?I am afraid that the lives of the four princesses and concubines will not be comfortable. "

"You, you have such a tough mouth." Li Wanfeng glanced at a certain hottie indifferently, turned to Zhou Yang and said without paying attention to the others, "Since everything has been arranged here, I don't have anything to do anyway, so you can Come, just give me a ride, as for Feng Lazi, no matter how few things here, there must be someone busy, right?"

"Okay!" Zhou Yang nodded with a smile, gently hugged the little widow without any concealment, nodded to Jia Lian and said, "Remember what we just said, these two will only be in your yard from now on. As for whether they can come I won't bother you in your house. Anyway, Feng Shufeng girl won't stay for much longer and won't cause you any trouble.

Second brother Lian, you should pay attention to this in the future. I won’t say anything about this girl from the Wang family. The identity of the other one is still inconvenient. After all, you are an official now, so it won’t sound good if word spreads about it. Fortunately, for the time being. It's not a big problem, as long as they stay in your yard, less going out and less trouble. "

"Do I still know this?" Jia Lian said angrily, and then muttered in a low voice, "Besides, you don't have much work there? You don't worry about what I worry about."

This time someone also said "big brother, don't talk about second brother" and stopped answering in embarrassment.

"It's okay for me to free up the yard, but why can't I just move next door to be a companion with this prude?" Seeing that she had been "arranged", Wang Xifeng snorted in dissatisfaction, and then said to herself Li Wan retreated with a sharp look in his eyes, "Okay, I just mentioned it casually, are you really afraid that I will steal your job? You don't want to see if this cruel and short-lived person will agree."

"You guys talk first, I'll go ahead and have a look." Even though Jia Lian had written a letter of divorce to Wang Xifeng a long time ago, seeing this interaction now, his face was not very good-looking, but he didn't have the courage to say anything more, so he had to take a look. Out of sight, out of mind—it's just that he didn't see it, and when he turned around and left the inner courtyard, both Wang Luan'er and Mrs. Wang Ziteng showed disappointed expressions.

"Farewell, you dare to ask for 3000 taels of 'travel expenses' for a business of 2000 taels. I don't have the guts to use it." Zhou Yang glared at a certain pepper angrily. You are good at reading and arithmetic, which can save you a maid as a deputy, so you should just continue to cause trouble to the Rongguo Mansion for a few more days."

"Ping'er!" Wang Xifeng gritted her teeth and snorted, how could she not understand that this was caused by her close maid "betrayal", "Okay, I still have to work on some things, you two bitches should hurry up Being away from here saves us from being an eyesore. If we really need it, there won't be no room in this mansion."

"You, you'd better keep being tough." Li Wan glanced at her and didn't refute, letting someone pull her out of the courtyard.

This also heralds the completion of the "disposal" of the Wang family. However, after talking for a long time, no one at the scene mentioned Wang Ren, not even Mrs. Wang Ziteng, because everyone realized that today was probably the Wang family. After the last "get together" of Wang Ziteng, those jackals would never make them so "comfortable" again.

Another point is that Wang Ziteng was still employed as a third-rank official during his lifetime. After his death, according to the rules, he must be awarded a "sorrow" by the court, but whether it is a posthumous title or a reward, he has not received it now, or the court has Giving up completely is like fate, dying in an unknown way, and no one will care about you after death.In the inner courtyard of the Wang family, only Wang Xifeng, Wang Luan'er and Mrs. Wang Ziteng were left. Seeing that the courtyard was empty, they all looked down at each other. Their status was actually guaranteed by the Wang family. Now, Wang Ziteng died and the Wang family was defeated. From now on, they had no backer, and they were all reluctant but helpless.

"Sister Feng, I envy your vision." After a while, Wang Luan'er said quietly, "Although there will be some obstacles in terms of status in the future, compared to the actual benefits, what does this matter? Just look at that just now With Mrs. Li’s appearance, whoever doesn’t know her would imagine that she is a widow who is nearly thirty years old and has given birth to a son?”

"How about you, why did you get mixed up with Lian Er, who is not making progress?" Wang Xifeng said dissatisfied, "I know you have always been high-spirited, and you don't even look down on Jia's phoenix eggs. No matter what, you can't do it now. Not that much."

"If I just take it a little slower, I'm afraid it'll be hard to tell which house I'm going to work as a slave in after today." Wang Luan'er sighed, and let her mother help her get up with some difficulty, "Brother Lian, it's hard to say anything else. , if you bend down and serve well from now on, it will not be difficult to be rich and wealthy for a lifetime, but it is a pity that this reputation is probably "

"Luan'er, the Wang family has just lost like this?" Mrs. Wang Ziteng still can't accept it even after all these days. "Your father just left, how come the family has lost so quickly? Your eldest brother said that the shop outside Even Zhuangzi”

"Don't think too much from now on. Just listen to me if you have anything to do." Wang Luan'er shook her head lonely, not even bothering to explain anything. She turned to Wang Xifeng and said, "Sister Feng, you can't write two 'kings' in one sentence." I'm afraid Rongguo Mansion will continue to lose in the future. When you get to the Zhou family, please don't forget your sisters."

"Let's talk about it." Even if Wang Xifeng wanted to save face, she could only shake her head helplessly after thinking about it for a long time. She knew very well that from now on when she arrived at the Zhou family, she would no longer be the "Second Mistress Lian" of the Rongguo Mansion, let alone the next generation of women. The master may not even have anything to take care of. Even if he really wants to help, how can he help?

Here, Zhou Yang first asked his soldiers to hitch a carriage from the Wang family - after arriving here today, no one could tell where the courtyard belongs - and then he picked up Li Wan and got in the carriage and went out. They only talked a little along the way. He didn't "take the chance" back to Rongguo Mansion, but went directly to the gate of Zhou Family Courtyard and went to Xue Baochai Courtyard.

"I've met Sister Bao!" Seeing the mother and daughter talking, Li Wan naturally went up and gently bowed and gave a Wanfu gift, but avoided addressing Wang Shuying.

"Zi Yang?" Not mentioning Xue Baochai who was chatting with Li Wan, Wang Shuying stood up with her eyes shining and looked at Zhou Yang with a look of surprise - well, it wasn't because the two met.

"It's a good idea for you to use our Li family's good daughter to please the Xue family." Seeing Wang Shuying's performance and being told by someone just now on the road, Li Wan still complained a little dissatisfiedly, " A few days ago, my second aunt has already moved to Beijing, and I asked Xue Zihao to help arrange it, and live in Xiaohuazhi Hutong, and Ziyang can arrange a matchmaker to come to the door."

This is something Zhou Yang has long talked about with Wang Shuying and Xue Baochai, but has not implemented it until now. That is to give Xue Pan and Xue Biao the decision to propose marriage to the Li family and let the two brothers marry sisters Li Wen and Li Qi. For someone from a merchant family to marry a legitimate daughter from a family of poets and writers, it was an undisputed "downward marriage" in feudal society.

"How about it? Now I have fulfilled what I promised you. What about what you promised me?" Zhou Yang said with a bad smile - this was also what he had specially promised two days ago when his mother and daughter complained because Xue Pan was "closed" again. condition.

"Hmph!" Xue Baochai rolled her eyes at him and took Li Wan to the inner bedroom, obviously starting to discuss related matters directly. Wang Shuying was carried to the study by someone to fulfill the original "conditions".

In fact, there is nothing to discuss. The Li family is now virtually extinct. The family situation can not only be described as "declined", but it is just a great name. The Xue family has suffered enough from being a "merchant" and has nothing to do with it. Opinions, the two can be regarded as taking what they need, the only thing that needs to be really discussed is the time arrangement, and——

"Good sister, how can you thank me?" Li Wan gently held Xue Baochai in his arms, bit his ear and smiled, "I know you are with His Highness Yongchang."

"What's wrong with you? You want to learn this shameful thing from her." Xue Baochai's cheeks turned red and she hit the widow several times, but she still couldn't break free.

(End of this chapter)