Chapter 126 Pick Up
Min Tai is imagining the future.
He found that he was indeed thinking wrongly.
The members of the Jia family are all good-looking, and the daughter looks like her mother. As long as the Jia family is willing to give her a chance, she should be able to find a good husband in the capital.
By then, maybe he would be able to escape from this broken place of Yansui and go to Beijing.
As the saying goes, it is good to lean on a big tree for shade! Then Min Mei discovered that her mother's missing jewelry was being sent back piece by piece, and the owner of the silk shop brought all kinds of materials for them to choose from. It seemed that she wanted to make up for all the losses in the past few years at once.
"Mother~"
Min Mei was really uneasy, "If you can't eat, then don't eat."
Seeing her mother wanting to vomit even after eating, she was really scared.
"It's okay... I'll be fine after a while."
Jia Zhen kept stroking her chest, trying to swallow the meal she had just eaten.
"Mom, do you really want to go back to Beijing to visit your relatives?"
My maternal grandfather is gone. After returning to Beijing, who in the Rongguo Mansion is my relative?
"No!"
Jia Zhen shook her head, "I want to get better soon and go find your brother."
She was afraid that something might happen to Bo Ge'er outside.
"He is still young and doesn't have much money. If he can't enter the Duke's Mansion..."
Although it's summer and they don't have to worry about freezing, everything in Beijing is expensive. When the money runs out, how will the child live? "Your father doesn't want the Duke's Mansion to know about Bo'er's affairs. Mei Jie'er, mother must get better as soon as possible."
She can eat.
It's just that I've been so sick recently that I don't want to eat anything.
Jia Jin believed that if she ate more, she would adapt and return to a normal diet.
"Please keep all the jewelry that those people returned for me."
The family was doing well at the time. Although her stepmother didn't like her, she still bought her enough gold and silver jewelry every year.
All those things added together would be worth about two or three thousand silver coins.
This is the foundation of her and her children's lives.
"When we get to the capital, mother will take you and Bo Ge'er to find a small courtyard and we will live on our own."
She wants to divorce, but the Jia family probably won't support it.
Min Tai and the Min family would not agree either.
So if you want to live a good life, you have to rely on yourself.
"Um!"
Min Mei nodded, "Don't worry, Mom, I've kept them all."
If possible, she would like to sell her mother's dowry and turn it all into silver.
"My uncle came over today to discuss sending gifts to the capital. He even wanted to use your dowry to make ends meet. He was persuaded and came to discuss it with me, but I rebuffed him."
"good……"
Jia Jin was very sad. It was all because of her uselessness as a mother that Mei Jie'er had a reputation for being a hot-tempered woman at such a young age.
"From now on, these things will be done by mother."
The reason why his daughter was able to talk back without being punished was mainly because the Jia family had risen up, and Min Tai wanted to gain benefits from them, so he didn't dare to fight with his daughter casually. "Mother, I just want you and your brother to be fine."
The love they once had as husband and wife has long been exhausted.
Jia Jin knew that if anything happened again, Min Tai would kill her without hesitation.
The main reason for saving her now was because Bo Ge'er was in Beijing, and he was afraid that his son had told the Jia family something.
…
Beijing, Rongguo Mansion.
When it was dark, Wang finally found an opportunity and asked someone to call her niece over.
"aunt!"
Wang Xifeng felt as if she were at home here with Lady Wang. She took the tea brought by the maid and gave her a cup first before taking her own. "Just tell me what you want me to do."
She didn't want to waste time chatting with her aunt.
Wang Xifeng now only wanted to go home to accompany Jia Lian, so she went straight to the point.
“It’s nothing serious.”
Mrs. Wang glanced at Ping'er, who was accompanying her niece, and thinking of what happened that night, she said, "It must be Ping'er, she is getting older."
Ping Er: “…”
Her heartbeat became a little abnormal.
Ever since the Second Master and Second Mistress got married, the people around the Second Master were married off by the Second Mistress on the grounds that they were getting old.
Also the ones that match are quite far away.
Although those who were exiled were minor stewards in charge of the manor, everyone in the mansion knew that it was the same as being exiled and would never be able to return.
The same was true for the other three people who served Second Grandma.
One of them was frivolous and wanted to seduce the Second Master, so the Second Mistress randomly picked someone for him. The other two were lured into the mansion and paired off with the Second Master.
Now she is the only one left by Second Grandma's side.
how……
"Ping'er is two years younger than me."
Wang Xifeng's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly said with a smile, "How can it be older? Aunt, you think she looks old, don't you? There's nothing we can do about it, this is given by her parents."
Among the four maids, the one she relied on the most was Ping'er.
Whenever there was anything in the mansion that she was not considerate of, Ping'er was the one who helped her clean up the mess.
"Aunt, you know that the Second Master will take office in two days. I have to know something about the families of the masters in the Ministry of War. If you really don't have anything serious, I..."
She wanted to say I left.
The information of the important people in the Ministry of War was obtained by my father-in-law. He said that they should familiarize themselves with the situation first and then find out who has the right personality and they will have some dealings with each other in the future.
In the past, Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng would not care about what Jia She said.
But now, both of them knew that the old man was truly thinking about them.
Wang Xifeng didn't want her aunt to say that Ping'er should be married off, so she simply used this as an excuse and left in a hurry.
"What's the hurry?"
Mrs. Wang glanced at them with an oppressive look and said, "I have another matter to ask you to come here. When the family was divided, the marriage and property of Ying-maid, Tan-maid, Bao-yu, Huan-boy, and Cong-boy were all divided. They are young, and you are their sister-in-law, so you have to take care of them. Otherwise, those managers outside will think they are easy to bully, and it is possible that one will suffer a loss today and another will suffer a loss tomorrow."
Whatever you do, there must be a legitimate reason.
She didn't believe that her niece wasn't moved.
After paying off the debt owed to the national treasury, all the public accounts were in the red.
That is to say, the Lai family and Zhou Rui's family were confiscated. Otherwise, this niece would have to worry about the expenses of the whole family.
Now that the two families have separated, 40% of the money that was finally accumulated in the public treasury has gone to the second family. Mrs. Wang doesn't believe that her niece won't worry about her future.
After all, the old lady still has Baoyu and Tanchun's expenses to pay.
In order to divide the family property quickly, my eldest uncle promised that all the expenses of the old lady would be his, and he could support my mother as well as his nephews and nieces.
Humph~Everyone can say nice things.
But the one who actually paid the money and took care of the affairs was her niece.
Mrs. Wang believed that her niece would not think that she had too much silver.
"Then you will take over Ying and Cong's property yourself, and leave Baoyu, Tan and Huan to me."
Mrs. Wang looked compassionate, "I am their mother, and I have to think about their future livelihood."
This? Wang Xifeng smiled, "Aunt, you are too late."
Too late?
Mrs. Wang was shocked. "What happened? Did your master change his mind?"
"Why would you regret it?"
Wang Xifeng said, "It was the eldest aunt of the East Palace. She was also worried that the managers would enrich themselves, so she made all the promising properties available separately. She calculated the average income of the past 20 years and made the managers sign a military order to hand over the average amount to the younger brothers and sisters every year so that they could keep it as their own property."
Why would she interfere in something that others had already done? Wang Xifeng learned this method from her aunt.
These days, she has also been using this method to investigate the big family's property.
So far, two shopkeepers and one village head have been arrested.
It helped the big house recover a lot of losses.
"...Aren't they living with the old lady?"
Mrs. Wang didn't understand. "Even if there is a private room, it's not easy to put it there, right?"
"Why is it difficult to put it?"
Wang Xifeng laughed, "Who doesn't have a few boxes around?" Silver doesn't take up any space.
She checked and found that her brother-in-law and sister-in-law's assets had an annual income of about two hundred and forty or five hundred yuan.
Silver is hard to store, just change it into gold.
"My aunt told me before that when they grow up, I will teach them more about housekeeping, so that they won't be ignorant of the ways of the world."
Madam Wang: “…”
Her head was buzzing.
The niece kept calling her an aunt on her left and an aunt on her right, and she was so angry that she couldn't express it in words.
But this anger...can she vent it casually?
Now that the clan rules have been changed, she can't even send a concubine to Lian Er. If she falls out with Feng Er, then...
"I see. I was thinking the wrong thing."
Mrs. Wang tried hard to maintain a kind expression on her face. "Well, I don't have anything to do. You can do whatever you need to do."
She couldn't touch Tan Yatou and Huan Xiaozi's things, but she could ask Aunt Zhao to do it.
He was a person who valued money more than anything else. She couldn't believe that she could watch her son and daughter being better off than her.
"Well, aunt, I'm leaving first."
Wang Xifeng didn't even drink a sip of tea and hurriedly fled from Lixiangyuan with Ping'er.
Neither of them is stupid.
She knew that people wanted to use her as a tool.
"Second Grandma..."
"When did you offend your aunt?"
Halfway through the journey, they both spoke almost at the same time.
"Don't worry, I didn't fall for it, did I?"
Wang Xifeng was very satisfied with Ping'er's loyalty. "But you, why did your aunt dislike you?"
"I don't know either!"
Ping'er had a vague guess, but she just couldn't say it out loud.
After all, the tiredness that Second Grandma felt that day was that kind of "tiredness".
"Forget it, don't go there anymore in the future."
"I just followed grandma. Why would I run to the second room?"
"…Then let's go back!"
Ping'er couldn't guess the reason, so Wang Xifeng couldn't help but suspect that her aunt still wanted to find fault with her housekeeper, so she wanted to get rid of Ping'er, whom she regarded as her right-hand man.
Huh~ Wang Xifeng let out a long breath and quickly returned to her own courtyard with Ping'er.
She has to discuss these matters with the Second Master.
This would also prevent him from agreeing to anything for her without her knowledge.
Wang Xifeng once worried whether the elders would say that she was jealous and whether she wanted to make Ping'er Jia Lian's concubine.
Now that she has the support of clan rules, she no longer has to worry about this.
Wang Xifeng saw her husband waiting for her in the courtyard from afar, so she quickened her pace and walked over with a smile on her face.
The young couple walked into the house hand in hand, but Lady Wang in Lixiangyuan sat there for a long time without moving.
It wasn't until the clock rang that she came back to her senses, "Where is the master today?"
"Madam, the master is at Aunt Zhou's place today."
Aunt Zhou? Isn't she the concubine who lives in the back room of Lixiang Courtyard? You are so good, Jia Zheng, you never come to sit with her after entering the courtyard.
Mrs. Wang's heart was in turmoil. She dropped the cup in her hand as if she had accidentally touched it. "Clean up and come over to give me a leg massage."
"yes!"
Jin Chuan'er responded tremblingly.
At that time, Jia She, who had been traveling hard, had not yet rested.
My third sister's mother is sick.
Judging from the time it took Boger to arrive in Beijing, she might have already passed away.
But it is also possible that it can survive with a last gasp.
After all, Brother Bo was not around, and Sister Mei was in that state, so she was always worried about her and couldn't close her eyes so peacefully.
So, if he hurried, maybe he could still be saved.
Although Jia She had no feelings for the sister he had only met very rarely, as the second girl came to him more and more often, he began to feel a little more fatherly towards her.
The second girl was born out of wedlock, so she definitely can't be compared with Yuanchun.
If you really want to marry up, one thing you may do wrong is to end up like Lian'er's daughter-in-law, with two layers of mothers-in-law and a mean sister-in-law. It will be even more impossible for her to live a good life.
Therefore, the only option he could give her was to marry someone of lower status.
After all, it's okay if he's still around after she gets married. If he's gone, Yingchun may not be able to rely on her brother and sister-in-law.
If she marries down, she will have a dowry in her hands and a few confidants, so her husband's family will look up to her.
But this is the same choice my father made for his three illegitimate sisters.
He originally thought that his father chose such a bad husband for them because he didn't care about them. Now...
Jia She sighed.
His father was very concerned about the situation, but he never expected that his three younger sisters would have such a hard life.
He couldn’t save those who died earlier, but as for his third sister... Jia She really wanted to save her.
"Master, the posthouse is just ahead. Do you think we should go or rest?"
"Can you leave?"
Jia She did not answer, but asked them if they could leave. For safety reasons, he also transferred six guards from Ningguo Mansion this time.
With them around, walking at night shouldn't be a problem.
"It's still relatively peaceful here in the capital."
Huo Qi, the leader of the team, said: "The moonlight is nice tonight, so we can go a little further."
Although traveling at night is hard, the master is not an unscrupulous person.
The last time I came back from Tianjin, not only my wife and uncle gave me rewards, but also my eldest master and old lady.
So, it’s hard work.
"Then let's go!"
Jia She gave him the authority, "You can take a break whenever you feel like it."
If he doesn't understand, he won't give orders blindly.
"yes!"
Huo Qi cupped his hands and said loudly: "Brothers, cheer up and drive another fifty miles to rest."
They are young, and fifty miles is no big deal.
Jia She sat in the carriage with his eyes half closed, swaying back and forth, wondering whether he should find a comfortable position. After half closing his eyes for a while, he heard the sound of rapid horse hooves coming from the front.
Judging from the sound, the other party at least outnumbered them.
He couldn't help but become alert.
Fortunately, the horse team ran past them quickly.
Huo Qi and the others put their hands on their swords out of concern and watched them run farther and farther away until they could no longer see them, and then they set off again.
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