Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 107 Pregnancy
Jia Rui was a little confused. He turned around and looked at Xue Baochai again. Seeing her shy face, he became even more confused.

Ying'er couldn't stand it anymore, "Master, our grandma might be pregnant, it's not that the old lady asked me to invite a doctor to come and show grandma."

When Jia Rui heard this, a joy surged from his heart, "How can the doctor outside help? Just wait while I ask the imperial doctor to come and take a look."

Then go outside.

When I came outside the house, I saw a young man standing outside, carrying a medicine box behind him. It seemed that he was the doctor invited by Ying'er.

"I'm so sorry, sir, for making your trip go to waste."

As Jia Rui spoke, he took out a silver coin from his arms and threw it to the young doctor.

The doctor did not accept the money, but his face showed dissatisfaction.

"You said you invited me to see a doctor, why did you ask me to go back again?"

Jia Rui frowned, is this guy sick?It was such a good thing to get money without working, but he felt disgusted.

Jia Rui is not a good-tempered person now, "You bastard, you dare to act arrogant in front of me, come on, please drive him out."

When the young doctor saw that Jia Rui really turned his face, he ran out quickly and stopped picking up the money on the ground.

Jia Rui was actually trying to scare him and was not prepared to take action. Otherwise, where would he have any room to escape?
Seeing the young doctor running out in a panic, Jia Rui frowned.

Something is wrong!

Why is this guy so anxious about seeing a doctor?This needs to be checked.

After thinking of this, Jia Rui came to the front yard and said, "Prosperous wealth."

As Jia Rui's favorite henchman, Jia Rui called out his name, and a young servant rushed in front of him.

"What are your orders, sir?"

"What happened to that young doctor just now?"

Wangcai blinked his eyes, and then said: "I don't know about this, it was Miss Yinger who introduced it."

"Go to Long Jinwei's yamen to inform me, check this doctor for me, and check all eighteen generations of his ancestors."

"Let's do it now, little one." After saying this, Wangcai walked out.

"Come back, I haven't finished speaking yet!"

Wangcai quickly came back.

"By the way, go to Tai Hospital and ask them to send someone over."

"Little one understands."

After saying this, Wangcai did not leave immediately, but paused for a moment. Seeing that Jia Rui really had no more instructions, he turned and left.

Jia Rui turned around and returned to the inner courtyard. When he came to the bedroom, he heard Brother Ying and Ying'er quarreling inside.

"Why is one of my hairpins missing, did you take it?"

"Hmph, I have a lot of your broken silver hairpins, is it worth taking them?"

"But I was here this morning, why am I gone when I come back?"

"How much is a silver hairpin worth? Is it necessary to buy another one because of such persistence?"

"What do you know? This silver hairpin is the first gift my uncle gave me. It is my treasure." Brother Ying was about to cry.

When Ying'er saw that Brother Ying was really anxious, she was also a little embarrassed about her bad tone just now.

"Don't worry, let's look for it together, maybe it fell somewhere else."

After saying this, they opened the door curtain and came out, but as soon as they went out, they saw Jia Rui standing at the door.

This startled the two girls, and they hurriedly wished together.

"What's wrong? Is something missing from the inner house?"

After hearing this, Brother Ying's face was filled with grievances.

"Uncle, the silver hairpin you gave me is missing."

Jia Rui thought for a while, and finally found this story from his memory.

It turned out that when Jia Rui hadn't made a fortune, he often teased this little girl of his own, but because she was young, she never got started.

But I often give her small items to please her.

This silver hairpin was the first time Jia Rui gave it to Brother Ying. I didn't expect this little girl to be so concerned about it.

"You can't find it so early. Go call the little girl and grandma in the yard and ask together. Someone must have come into the room to get it."

After Jia Rui said this, he entered the room.

Yinger and Brother Ying glanced at each other, as if they also thought of something.

Then he went out aggressively.

Besides, Jia Rui entered the room and saw Xue Baochai sitting in front of the bed, embroidering something, so he leaned over and looked down.

I saw Xue Baochai holding a small bellyband in his hand and embroidering a picture of peonies.

This is obviously for the unborn child.

Jia Rui gently sat next to Xue Baochai and held her in his arms.

"When were you pregnant? Why didn't you tell me?"

Xue Baochai leaned gently into Jia Rui's arms and said softly: "You are so busy and there is no definite news. How dare I disturb you."

Jia Rui nodded lightly, "The imperial doctor will be here in a moment. If someone in our family gets sick, don't look for a doctor outside. Go directly to the imperial hospital to say hello and ask them to send someone."

The reason why Jia Rui speaks so confidently is also related to his own power.Jia's mother asked Tai Hospital to send someone, relying on her seniority and Jia Daishan's remaining power.

But Jia Rui's side is different. He really relies on his position in the court and the favor of the Supreme Emperor.

Xue Baochai nodded slightly.

After a while, Brother Ying shouted outside.

"Uncle, grandma, the imperial doctor is here."

"Let him in."

Following Jia Rui's words, the door curtain opened, and Brother Ying came in with an old doctor in his sixties.

It should be said that although the imperial physician is also a doctor, he is also an official.

Therefore, when he met Jia Rui, he did not dare to be negligent and would honestly kneel down to pay his respects to Jia Rui.

Now that Jia Rui is begging someone, how dare he be rude, so he stepped up to help the old doctor.

"It doesn't have to be like this, old man."

Even if the old imperial doctor stopped, after all, he had walked through the palaces of princes and nobles several times, and most of the cases were like this.

"What's your surname, sir?"

"Go back to Mr. Jia, I don't need your surname to be Wang."

"Mr. Wang, Zhuo Jing is unwell. My grandmother at home said that she might be pregnant, so I asked Dr. Wang to make sure."

With that said, he took Imperial Physician Wang to Xue Baochai's place.

At this time, Xue Baochai was already lying on the bed. The curtain at the head of the bed had been lowered, and only one hand stretched out from the curtain.

Jia Rui quickly moved a chair and placed it on the bedside, and then asked Dr. Wang to sit on it.

The doctor Wang sat on the embroidered pier, stretched out a hand and put it on Xue Baochai's pulse gate, and began to feel the pulse carefully.

After a while, Doctor Wang took his hand back, then stood up and congratulated Jia Rui with a smile.

"Congratulations, Mrs. Jia, Mrs. Zun is indeed pregnant."

This time Jia Rui smiled even more happily, and then ordered the doctor to be sent back to the hospital. Of course, he also gave a big gift before leaving.

After sending the imperial physician away, Jia Rui returned to the bedroom in the inner courtyard excitedly.

In the end, he missed it and caught a little maid and asked, only to find out that Xue Baochai had gone to Mrs. Wang's place.

After Jia Rui heard this, he complained a little in his heart. She was pregnant, so why did she run around? What if her precious son was injured?
Then Jia Rui hurried to Mrs. Wang's place. When he entered the door, he saw Mrs. Wang holding Xue Baochai's hand, and the two of them were chattering there.

Jia Rui went up and bowed to Mrs. Wang first, and then said to Xue Baochai with some complaints:
"You're pregnant, why are you running around?"

Before Xue Baochai could reply, Mrs. Wang stood up and hit Jia Rui on the forehead.

"Knowing that she is pregnant, she still speaks so loudly and scares my great-grandson. See how I deal with you."

Jia Rui was fearless outside, but at home, Jia Dairu and Mrs. Wang had nothing to do.

So after being beaten, he could only stand aside aggrieved.

Xue Baochai, who was sitting on the bed, gave Jia Rui an apologetic look.

Looking at this bright face, and Xue Baochai, who was shining with the brilliance of motherhood because of her pregnancy, Jia Rui felt a burst of satisfaction in his heart.

"From now on, Baochai will live next to my yard." Madam Wang ordered Jia Rui.

Jia Rui was a little reluctant after hearing this.

"Old lady, Baochai has only been pregnant for more than a month, so it's not appropriate to let her move out now."

Mrs. Wang didn't even look at Jia Rui, her eyes were fixed on Xue Baochai.

"I say it's appropriate, so don't talk about it."

Jia Rui opened his mouth several times, but finally had no choice but to shut up. He really had no way to refute this old lady.

Xue Baochai sat there and gave Jia Rui an apologetic look, then lowered his head, gently touching his abdomen with a smile on his face.

That night, Jia Dairu, who came back from ethnology, also learned the news that Xue Baochai was pregnant. The old gentleman was ecstatic after hearing the news. He had never drank a few glasses that night.

That night Xue Baochai moved out of Jia Rui's bedroom and moved to the small courtyard next to Mrs. Wang so that Mrs. Wang could take care of her at any time.

Regarding this matter, Jia Rui murmured in his heart, this is because he had to travel such a long distance to see his wife, whoever would not be angry.

But his little arms couldn't twist Mrs. Wang's thigh, so in the end he could only admit that he was unlucky.

Jia Rui got up early the next day, first ran to see Xue Baochai, and then spent a long time with her.

Only then did I eat at Xue Baochai's, then changed into official uniforms under the service of the maids, and led the people straight to the yamen of the household department.

From this day on, for more than ten consecutive days, Jia Rui's busy days began.

There were too many things going on in the Hubu yamen, and Jia Rui mandated that any expenditure of more than 3000 taels must be approved by him. Therefore, Jia Rui was busy from morning to night, and even had no time to go to the palace for several days in a row. The emperor met him and flattered him.

On this day, it was not until it was time to turn on the lanterns that the household affairs were finally settled.

Looking at the dark night outside, Jia Rui felt a burst of sadness in his heart.

Ever since he came to this Red Mansion plane, he has never worked so hard. He originally thought that being an official would bring him glory and wealth, but he ended up becoming a social beast again.

Jia Rui left the yamen of the Ministry of Households in the dark with his people, and met several waves of yamen servants from Shuntian Mansion patrolling the city, as well as officers and soldiers from the nine admirals.

It turns out that there is a curfew in the capital, and no one is allowed to wander the streets after dark.

That is to say, Jia Rui is a second-rank official, and these city patrollers will not ask questions when they see Jia Rui's guard of honor and the lanterns of Jia's mansion.

(End of this chapter)