Chapter 113 Good News
At Rongguo Mansion, Baoyu finished school.
"Second Master!"
Xiren, the maid assigned to him by the old lady this year, held his books and said as she walked, "Madam, my cousin and my young master came to the mansion this morning. Second Master Lian was summoned to the palace by the emperor because he escorted them all the way and also because of Master Lin. Now he has been appointed as a doctor in the arsenal of the Ministry of War."
"My aunt is here already?"
Baoyu couldn't help but quicken his pace, but then he thought of something and quickly slowed down, "Second sister and third sister are also like me, are they just finishing school now?"
Xiren hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "...No, the old lady just came back, and she asked someone to call them."
She didn't know how this could happen.
It was obvious that last year, Master Bao was still the apple of the old lady and the wife's eye.
But in the blink of an eye, it was...
"The old lady didn't call you, I think it's because your studies are more important."
Baoyu: “…”
He was not comforted.
He sensed the change in his family's attitude early on.
His parents hoped that he would study hard, and during this period, he really studied hard.
However, he studied hard, and his parents didn't seem to care much.
They no longer cared about what he learned every day, or whether his handwriting was good or not. They were just old ladies...
"Has Big Sister not returned from Biyun Temple yet?"
Huh? Xiren was stunned and said, "No, isn't the Cheng family of Xinping Marquis going to hold a three-day ritual for Princess Baofeng? According to the time, the eldest lady can only return home tomorrow."
“…”
Baoyu stopped talking.
The only person in this mansion who is kind to him now is his eldest sister.
But my elder sister is not at home.
"Are your aunt and your wife getting along well?"
He suppressed the discomfort in his heart and asked another question.
"My aunt is very close to the eldest lady of the East Mansion, and she is also very close to the eldest lady of our mansion."
The family has been divided.
Because Xiren followed Baoyu, she was also counted as part of the second house.
Apart from the courtyard where the masters already lived, there was actually nothing left of the Second House in the Rongguo Mansion.
The aunt lived in her original courtyard, but that courtyard was actually considered the master's side.
Xiren did not mention Mrs. Wang because their wife returned to Lixiangyuan halfway through the trip. It was said that she was not very friendly when she spoke to the old lady.
"What about the master?"
Baoyu asked again.
"The master has been out of the house for some business."
Baoyu: “…”
The children already know that their aunt is not close to their family.
"Oh, right, Second Master, the eldest lady of the East Mansion said that she wants to invite the teacher who teaches the second and third girls in the mansion to the East Mansion, and from now on, all the girls will go to the East Mansion for school."
Xiren felt that he was a little sad, and tried to change the subject, "The old lady has already agreed, and even the aunt said that Miss cousin should go to study after a few days of rest."
"…So, did they mention me? Can I study in the East Palace?"
Baoyu asked anxiously.
He heard from his wife that he might be transferred to a school.
But every seven days in the school, we had to eat the "recalling the bitter past and thinking of the sweet past" meal which was extremely unpalatable and never filling.
Baoyu was very curious about what was going on in the school and once secretly asked his elder brother about it.
My elder brother said that I could go to school.
You can make friends there and learn a lot of things that you can't learn at home.
But his wife said that he absolutely could not go to school, because so far no one had become famous in the Jia family school.
My eldest brother also studied at home with his teacher first.
If he went to school, the old lady would really dislike him.
He has to stay at home.
"No... I haven't heard of it."
Xiren shook her head.
Baoyu's face gradually turned gray.
He walked slowly towards the bustling yard.
Grandma's hearty laughter is so happy.
In the past, this laughter... only occurred when he was around.
"Madam, Master Bao has finished school."
The voice of the little maid came from inside.
Baoyu's mood was slightly lifted. When he was going to the courtyard, he heard Jia's mother calling him with a smile, "Come on, Baoyu, come and meet your aunt and cousins."
"Ancestor!"
Baoyu bowed to the old lady first, then looked at the bright and beautiful woman that his grandmother had talked about for many years. When he saw her smiling and looking at him, he felt that she looked familiar, "Baoyu greets my aunt!"
He bowed to Jia Min solemnly.
“Get up!”
Jia Min waved to her little nephew.
Although she doesn't get along well with her second sister-in-law, her nephew is her biological mother.
Mother loves me very much.
From letters from home, she guessed that her nephew, who liked to hang out with girls, was spoiled too much by his mother and sister-in-law, and might not be good for his future. However, she didn't expect that the child looked a little like her.
"Daiyu, Chang'an, come and meet your second cousin from your second uncle's family!"
"cousin!"
"Cousin~"
The three children saluted each other.
When Daiyu and Baoyu looked at each other, they both felt that they looked very familiar.
Baoyu felt much better, and said with a smile: "I have seen this sister before."
"But that's nonsense again."
The old lady laughed and said, "You are in the capital, and she is in Yangzhou, so how could you have ever met her?"
"Although I have never met you, I think you look familiar. I think we are old acquaintances. It is not a bad idea to just treat today as a reunion after a long separation."
"Do you think I look kind, cousin?"
Lin Changan stood in front of his sister and asked his little cousin in a clear childish voice.
“He also looks kind!”
Baoyu rarely has people of his age to play with. Although Lin Changan looks much younger than him, he likes it very much when Lin Changan stands in front of him.
"Of course!"
Lin Changan shouted, "You look like my mother. My sister and I also look a bit like our mother."
"Haha, that's right."
Jia Min smiled and hugged her son and daughter, "Nephews look a lot like their uncles. My second brother and I are a bit alike, and Baoyu is also similar to my second brother when he was a child. Isn't it that we are familiar with each other?"
is that so?
Lin Daiyu glanced at Baoyu and smiled.
"Well, you all look like the Duke."
Grandmother Jia's eyes were warm, "Baoyu is more like you than you!"
The eldest son, on the other hand, looks like the old Duke.
"Tomorrow, my daughter will take the two children to the ancestral temple to burn incense for my father and tell him that I am back."
“Okay, okay!”
Grandmother Jia hugged her grandson who was beside her and said, "Tomorrow we will go to eat at your sister-in-law's house."
While his grandmother was talking to his mother, Lin Changan ran to Baoyu and said, "Second cousin, you just came back now. Are you studying?"
"yes!"
"So where did you read?"
"University!"
"Wow, that's amazing, my sister also went to college."
When Baoyu looked at Daiyu, the little girl was also looking at him, "Then come and study with me tomorrow, sister!"
"I want to study with my second and third sisters."
Xiao Daiyu refused, "But you can read it with Changan."
"Changan, where have you read so far?"
Does this little brother recognize all the characters?
But when I think about how he had learned a rough idea of all the characters by following his older sister when he was three years old, Baoyu actually changed it to "Where have you read so far?"
"My sister went to college, and so did I."
Lin Changan puffed out his chest and said, "There are some words that I can't write yet. But I recognize them all."
“Ha~”
When Jia Min heard her youngest son bragging, she couldn't help but nod on his head, "After all, you want to brag about yourself for going to college, right?"
Only then did Grandmother Jia remember what her little grandson had just said when praising Baoyu for being so great, and she couldn't help laughing.
When Mrs. Wang came from Lixiangyuan to serve dinner, she heard laughter from afar and sniffed a few times.
…
Biyun Temple! Today is Princess Baofeng's birthday.
Although she has passed away for three years, the pain in Cheng Luo's heart is still there.
So when the Cheng family suggested that Biyun Temple hold a three-day ritual for her, he immediately agreed.
What he didn't expect was that his clan also went to the Jia family to invite his fiancée Yuanchun.
Cheng Luo was feeling both excited and anxious.
His trouble-making grandmother was here too.
However, all the anticipation and anxiety turned into joy after seeing Yuanchun and the maids and old women serving her.
As expected, he comes from a family of military generals.
Any one of the six women could fight three at once, right? Cheng Luo was shocked and happy, but the other members of the Cheng family were only shocked and talked about it.
As expected, from yesterday till now, his grandmother and the old women around her did not dare to do anything naughty.
One day, after his mother's funeral was over, the process of his marriage to her could move forward one step and they would get married.
Cheng Luo is looking forward to it.
"My Lord!"
Fu An, who was beside him, came over from outside in a hurry, "There's a letter from the capital, something happened to the Jia family."
What? "What's going on?"
He grabbed the letter and began to read it quickly.
Cheng Luo didn't notice the two old men beside him looking at each other.
"Luo Ge'er, what happened to the Jia family?"
Patriarch Cheng Zhi stroked his beard and asked directly.
"...Uncle, please take a look for yourself!"
After reading the letter, Cheng Luo felt more at ease and he handed it directly to the old man.
Cheng Zhi read it all at a glance.
He handed the letter to the tribesman very smoothly and said, "Tell the people inside about this!"
The Jia family...it is still the same Jia family.
They captured Li Haifeng and a Japanese pirate alive, and brought 30 corpses back to Beijing... Who was he trying to intimidate? Anyway, he didn't know whether others were intimidated or not, but he was a little scared.
Cheng Zhi believed that the old sister-in-law inside would also be scared if she knew about this.
Hiss~ For a moment, the old man didn’t know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.
Princess Baofeng died so tragically in the Cheng family. It turns out how scared he was!
But he didn't expect that the old sister-in-law was so capable that the royal family couldn't pursue the matter.
Originally, she was acting like a demon and preventing Cheng Luo from finding a good marriage, and he was somewhat happy about it.
After all, Princess Baofeng was ruined by her, and if any other wealthy family comes along, it will be even more difficult for the Cheng family's children to leave.
He also had no way to restrain the old lady with clan rules. The good times of the clan in recent years were all thanks to the generosity of the Xinping Marquis and the old sister-in-law.
But now…
"nature!"
Cheng Luo looked at the group of old guys calmly, "Fu'an, take the letter in immediately and show it to Grandmother and the Sixth Old Lady."
The Jia family is not someone they can mess with.
A seemingly insignificant letter was first passed around among the men of the Cheng family, and then passed around among the female members of the family.
Although there are people who don’t know how to read, it’s even more terrifying when it’s read out by someone who knows how to read.
There are several carts full of corpses. How dare the Jia family...?
The old lady of the Cheng family couldn't help but take another look at Yuanchun.
"Amitabha!" The old lady was very dissatisfied with the so-called granddaughter-in-law who was calm, yet always compliant and could not find fault with her. "This is a temple, young lady, do you feel that the sin of killing in your family is... too heavy?"
“…”
Yuanchun glanced at the old lady and said, "Old lady, you have also been to Jiangnan before, so you should know how hateful the Japanese pirates are! How can this be called a heavy sin of killing? This is the blessing of the Bodhisattva. If the spirit of Princess Baofeng in heaven hears about my family's happy event, I think she will be so happy that she will drink three more glasses of wine."
As she spoke, Baoqin, who was in tune with her, brought up a pot of wine.
Yuanchun first burned incense to the spirit tablet of her future mother-in-law, and then offered wine to her.
She believed that Princess Baofeng was a spirit and must be happy that her daughter-in-law's family was so powerful.
"Come here, tell the host that I want to donate another 300 kilograms of incense oil to the princess's eternal lamp, so that the princess can also be happy with me."
"yes!"
The little maid went downstairs to report the good news to the host. None of the other female members of the Cheng family in the hall dared to look at Old Madam Cheng's face.
Why does this eldest daughter of the Jia family seem more majestic than Princess Baofeng?
Princess Baofeng had always been gentle and generous in front of them.
But the Jia family...
Their hearts sank when they thought of how the heads of the two branches of the Jia family had run to the Chen family and made a scene because of a married girl in the family, bringing a group of slaves with them.
Although the Chen family is not their Cheng family, the pronunciation is the same.
Moreover, although Princess Baofeng is noble, it is only in status and she has nothing to do with the military.
But the Jia family is different.
Because Cheng Luo's father made his fortune in the army, the Cheng family had ambitious but unsuccessful sons and daughters who were either in the army or in various government offices.
The Jia family seems to have some connections on both sides...
"What the eldest lady said is right. We should indeed let the princess be happy with us. Then, for the princess's ever-burning lamp, the tribe will donate another 300 kilograms of incense oil."
Since we can’t offend him, and we can’t afford to stay away from him, then let’s make friends! The wife of the clan leader, the Sixth Old Lady, made the final decision.
"That's right!"
"Those Japanese pirates deserve to die!"
"Just announce the good news."
The ladies understood the Sixth Old Lady's meaning very well. They no longer cared about the Old Lady of Xinping Marquis' Mansion whom they had flattered before, and started to flatter this side together.
As the saying goes, he who knows practical matters is a hero.
They have no choice.
Who makes Cheng Luo’s wife so powerful?
Not only is she powerful, but her family is also powerful.
This time, the old lady of the Cheng family originally wanted to show her power by asking Jia Yuanchun to kneel down and recite scriptures to Princess Baofeng.
After all, although she and Cheng Luo were granted marriage, they were still some distance away from getting married.
But he didn't expect that when they came, they were accompanied by six strong women.
It seemed like it was telling them, if you want to fight, then come on!
Although she didn't say it out loud, they could clearly feel from some of her words and actions that Jia Yuanchun hated that Old Lady Cheng would make trouble with her.
For two days, the old lady didn't make a fuss with her, and they didn't find any fault with her, but the maid around the old lady was found guilty and punished by doing cleaning work.
Even the windows were forced to be wiped three times.
That's clean, eh~
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