Chapter 109: Apologize?!
At Ningguo Mansion, Shen Ning, who was about to return to the courtyard after taking her daughter for a walk, saw the little girl who came hurriedly to report the news.
"Madam, you are very happy. The aunt of the West Mansion has brought back the young master and young lady of the cousin family to visit her parents. They have been welcomed in by the old lady. Our master is also back."
"reward!"
Shen Ning carried her daughter, who was yawning and about to fall asleep, to the nurse and said, "Prepare the sedan chair. I'll go take a look."
She originally thought that they would not be home until the evening at the latest, but she did not expect them to come back so soon. It was obvious that they had traveled all night.
Killing thirty enemies and capturing two alive was a great victory, but Shen Ning suspected that they were still scared, so he went over to check on them without any hesitation.
At this time, Jia Min and her mother had already hugged each other and cried bitterly. Wang Xifeng felt distressed when she saw her husband had become darker and thinner, and hurriedly ordered the calming herbs prepared overnight to be boiled up.
"Feng'er, I'm fine."
Jia Lian quietly squeezed Wang Xifeng's hand.
On the way back, he learned from his father and brother Jia Zhen that everything in his family had changed drastically and his father had moved to Rong Xi Tang.
This is a good thing, but his Feng'er... I'm afraid she's worried every day.
Jia Lian was worried that his father and stepmother might dislike Feng'er because of her relationship with Second Aunt. He was even more worried that Second Aunt would make things difficult for him because of Feng'er's relationship with the first wife.
“You’ve lost weight.”
He said with deep sorrow, "I'm back. I won't be afraid anymore."
Wang Xifeng: “…”
She originally thought that life was pretty easy, but when her husband said this, she suddenly felt an endless amount of sadness in her heart.
Misfortunes happened one after another in the family. Although she was the grandmother in charge, she was very cautious in everything she did.
Many things completely overturned all her previous understandings.
As a result, she is now extremely cautious in everything she does, for fear of making any mistakes and being caught by her step-mother-in-law.
When she made mistakes in the past, her aunt would cover up for her and defend her, but now... Wang Xifeng always felt that her aunt was also waiting to catch her making mistakes.
"Hmm~"
When Wang Xifeng leaned towards Jia Lian, her nose felt sore, her eyes became hot, and tears suddenly fell.
Jia Lian hurriedly wiped her tears and said, "I brought you a lot of good things." He was about to say something else in a low voice, but the corner of his clothes was pulled by the little carrot-headed girl, "Second cousin, is this the second cousin's wife?"
Lin Changan's childish voice was clear and bright, with clear curiosity in his eyes, "Are you my second cousin's wife?"
"……yes!"
Wang Xifeng quickly wiped away her tears, and when everyone looked over, she leaned over with a smile, "Are you Chang'an's little cousin?!"
"Well, my name is Lin Changan, and this is my sister Daiyu."
"Daiyu has met the second sister-in-law."
When Wang Xifeng looked over, Lin Daiyu also hurriedly bowed.
When the bad guys attacked, my second cousin asked people to protect his mother and their carriage first.
All the way from Yangzhou to Beijing, the second cousin was very kind to them.
After meeting their grandmother and two aunts, the two children went looking for Jia Lian together.
"Hello, sister!"
Wang Xifeng hurriedly supported him and said with a smile to the old lady and Jia Min who were looking over, "No wonder our old lady keeps talking about our little cousins all day long. Maybe it's the fairy children from heaven who have come to our house!"
"You might as well say that they are both little devils."
Jia Lian brought his cousin to Wang Xifeng, and he picked up his little cousin, "I was tortured by them along the way."
"reward!"
Seeing his familiar movements and the two children's happy faces, the old lady couldn't help but laugh, "Our Lian'er has done a great job this time, and grandma will reward you."
"Mother, you should reward him."
Jia Min also laughed, "We were really helped along the way by Lian'er. As soon as he learned that Li Haifeng of the Li family had escaped, he hired ten escorts from the Fuwei Escort Agency to escort us, traveling day and night. Otherwise, they might have attacked us halfway along the way."
This life was almost picked up.
Fortunately, the son and daughter, who had always been weak, did not fall ill on the road. They even rode horses with their nephew and their health improved.
Jia Min didn't know why they were like this.
When she was at home, she raised her child carefully, fearing that anything might go wrong.
But Lian'er, whenever she arrived in a city or a town, always found ways to take them to try this and that.
They haven't finished eating yet, but they are all talking about what delicious food they can eat in the next town.
Jia Min was very convinced. For the first time, she doubted whether her way of raising children was wrong.
Or maybe the Lin family’s way of raising children was wrong.
Children are supposed to fight and play.
"That man has been arrested. Our family will be blessed from now on."
Grandmother Jia felt sorry for her daughter, grandson, and granddaughter. She hugged her daughter again on the spot and said to the maid, "Go, carry the fifth box on the west side of the warehouse to your second master and second grandmother."
"Oh, thank you for the reward, old lady."
Jia Lian held Lin Changan in his arms and happily bowed to the old lady.
When Shen Ning came over, the room was full of laughter.
"Sister-in-law!"
As soon as Shen Ning bowed to the old lady, Jia Min pulled her two children over and bowed to her, "Jia Min thanks sister-in-law for saving my family's lives." She couldn't kneel down and kowtow, so she patted her two children and said, "Quick, kowtow to your aunt and thank her for saving your lives."
"Thank you, aunt, for saving my life!"
The two children spoke in soft childish voices and actually knelt down and kowtowed to her.
"What are you doing, sister?"
Shen Ning hurriedly stepped forward and tried to pull up Little Daiyu and Little Chang'an. "I am their aunt. If we continue like this, it will become alienated."
"Sister-in-law..."
Jia Min finally stopped trying to stop him, but she hugged Shen Ning and said, "It's not that we are strangers, it's you who really saved my family's lives."
She never imagined that the escorts she trusted the most were all bribed.
If it wasn't for the eldest sister-in-law's reminder, given the Li family's extremely vicious behavior, who knows what would have happened to the two children.
These two children are her and the master's life. No matter which one of them is in trouble, she...
Jia Min felt like she couldn't survive.
Her tears fell, "Thank you, sister!"
"...Okay, okay, thank you!"
Shen Ning patted her back gently, "You were all frightened along the way. Now that we are home, everything is fine."
"She should thank you."
Grandmother Jia was also very emotional. If it weren't for Shen who took the initiative to send out so many palace guards one after another, the servants in the mansion would be useless no matter how many there were.
As the old lady of the Jia family, she knew the fighting power of the palace guards.
Unfortunately, the guards of the West Palace were disbanded by him personally in the year the Duke passed away.
"Your aunt should also thank you. Lian'er, come on, kowtow to your aunt. The guards who went to pick you up were because your aunt was worried about you."
Of the ten people who went to pick them up, only four were servants from this mansion, and the other six were guards from the East Palace.
Without their protection, my daughter, Lian'er, and two grandchildren would not have known how scared they were when they were attacked.
"Okay, okay, I'll just accept Lian'er's request."
Even if you don't accept it, people are still thinking about it.
Shen Ning smiled and said, "But Auntie, if you want to thank me, you can't just say it without any reason. Can you let Lian'er fool me with just one word? You should at least treat me to a few plays and give me some good food and wine."
"Pah~"
Grandmother Jia was amused by her, "When did you come, could I let you go hungry?"
"Did you see that?"
Shen Ning sent Jia Min to sit next to the old lady, "This is my second home. I am your sister-in-law. I know you are in danger. How can I just ignore it? And Lian'er, get up quickly."
Seeing Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng really coming over to kowtow, she hurried over to help them, "You are still young, and you will have plenty of time to honor me in the future. When the time comes, my brother She and his wife must not be jealous."
Jia She and Xing Shi both laughed at once.
The room became lively again, but Jia Zheng and Wang Fu-ren had their lips stretched in a forced manner.
When Jia Lian brought up the gift he had given to everyone - "salt", the two of them almost couldn't maintain their facial expressions.
But Jia Mu, Jia She, Yingchun and others were very surprised.
This was made for them personally by their grandson (son, brother).
No wonder he came back so thin and dark.
Wang Xifeng completely let go of the thought that she had originally mentioned.
My husband is busy making salt, so he doesn't have time to visit any brothels, right? "Aunt, Aunt~"
After everyone had a small box of salt, Jia Lian asked Shen Ning and Jia Min for advice. "My uncle wrote me a note when I came here, asking me to go to the palace to report to the emperor on the salt affairs in Jiangnan. What do you think? Should I go now or tomorrow?"
What? Jia She and Jia Zheng both looked serious. "Go now."
How dare they delay the royal affairs?
"If the emperor doesn't have time to see you now, he will let someone know."
Jia Zheng glanced at his elder brother and continued, "Why are you talking about this now, kid? Hurry up and hand over the invitation."
"Go ahead!"
When Jia Lian looked at her for help, Shen Ning said gently, "Answer whatever the emperor asks."
"Listen to your aunt," Jia Min also said, "Go!"
Since the elders all said so, Jia Lian didn't dare to delay any longer. He quickly bowed to everyone and was about to leave.
"Wait a moment."
Shen Ning thought of something, "I heard you went to the Li family?"
"yes!"
"The Li family's property was confiscated, and their belongings..."
"My nephew will hand them over to the Emperor."
"Hmm~"
Shen Ning was satisfied. "You have paid what you should pay, and you still have to apologize to the emperor."
She paused for a moment, "The Li family was delayed because of you and didn't escape in time, so it seems like a credit... But at that time, the Li family hadn't committed any crime. You barged in like that to cause trouble for them, and in the eyes of some people, you were bullying them."
Shen Ning glanced at Wang and Jia Zheng, whose faces were frozen, and then said, "I apologize to the emperor. If you want to use this to attack you again in the future, you can't do that."
"yes!"
Jia Lian quickly agreed and then hurried out.
“…”
Although the specific reason is still unknown, is this an apology?
Jia Min looked at Shen Ning, "This apology... is actually a show of merit, right?"
It’s a huge sum of money, nearly 10 million.
If it weren't for Lian'er's disturbance, at least half of the Li family would have escaped.
Some of your wealth will definitely be able to be shipped out.
"If the emperor is in a good mood today, that's a credit."
Shen Ning smiled and waved to Xiao Daiyu, "Come here, let your aunt hug you. You are exactly like what your aunt imagined."
"Give her a hug!"
Jia Min laughed, "If mom hadn't hugged your aunt first, your aunt would definitely ignore me and hug you first."
"How dare you be jealous of your daughter?"
When Shen Ning scolded her, she finally hugged the girl she had been dreaming of, Lin Daiyu.
Everyone says that Lin Daiyu is a crybaby, but they ignore her cuteness.
The little girl also liked to laugh, "Aunt, mother said that you gave birth to a little sister. Can I take the little sister to play with her?"
"nature!"
Shen Ning agreed immediately, "Aunt, you know, since Rong'er went to school, the house has been very quiet. Look, sister Min is back now, so you can give Yingchun and Tanchun to me?"
"What are you talking about?"
Grandmother Jia was about to be amused by her, "You are lonely, so you want to snatch my granddaughter?"
She understood that Shen had previously suggested to Lian'er to ask for credit in the name of apologizing for her crime.
"What do you mean?"
Shen Ning smiled, "They are my nieces too. Yue'er is growing up day by day, and it won't be long before she has to learn to speak. If we move their school to my place, they can just follow their sisters to attend classes."
"…Are you crazy?"
Grandmother Jia was about to hit her with a smile, "Yue'er is only a little older? You want her to study?"
"I didn't ask her to study. I just asked her to crawl around beside her sisters when they were studying. Once she got used to hearing and seeing this, she might as well be a talented girl like her sister Min."
Shen Ning hugged Xiao Daiyu, "Look, her sisters are so good-looking. If she follows them, she will definitely grow up better. Aunt, you just said you wanted to thank me. It's just a small request. Are you still going to refuse me?"
“…You, you!”
Grandmother Jia couldn't win the argument, so she said with a smile, "Yue'er has grown up and can talk now. If she doesn't want to, don't blame me for hitting you with my walking stick."
Her daughter is beautiful, talented, and married well.
The same goes for Yuanchun.
The young sisters below will not be too bad with the guidance of those in front.
The old lady also wants the younger generations to have good relationships.
“Haha, just keep knocking.”
Shen Ning smiled, "I am so old, and I can still be hit by my aunt's walking stick. That's my blessing."
Everyone in the room burst into laughter at once.
Only Wang Shi, though smiling on the surface, felt as if she was being fried in oil inside.
Judging from the way the sister-in-law treated Lian'er, you can tell that Lin Ruhai asked him to go to the emperor to report on the salt affairs in Jiangnan in order to help him.
The eldest sister-in-law asked him to do something that looked like he was apologizing for his crime but was actually seeking credit. What if the emperor was in a good mood and rewarded him with something...
Wang was so angry. Her eldest son didn't have time, and Baoyu was too young. They couldn't go to Jiangnan at the beginning. Otherwise, how could Lian'er get such a good thing as buying the family school land? Now...
She could only hope in her heart that the emperor was in a bad mood.
Just ask him a question and let him come back.
The emperor was not in a bad mood at this time, but he simply had no time. As soon as he finished his court session, he took Dong Xiaoquan to the Shoukang Palace of the retired emperor.
The emperor likes Japanese copper the most.
If you don't have to maintain an army or spend money on building ships, and you can get something back from Japan without bloodshed, what's the point of a title?
"Your Majesty, Jia Lian is here."
When Eunuch Liu heard the report from the front that Jia Lian had entered the palace, he hurried over and reported in a low voice.
After all, the emperor had already said that as soon as Jia Lian entered the palace, he would be summoned immediately.
"Coming?"
The emperor's eyes lit up, "Great, father, Jia Lian, the salt-making expert from Rongguo Mansion, has come to the palace. Do you want to meet him?"
"From Rongguo Mansion?"
The emperor's memory was not very good. After thinking for a while, he remembered it and nodded on the spot: "Jia Daishan's grandson, right? Quickly pass it on!"
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