Chapter 186 Seeing
Hua's family in Daliushan Village, in the southern suburbs of Beijing.
Since selling their daughter to the Rongguo Mansion, the Hua family's life has gradually improved, especially since Ruizhu would ask people to send money out from time to time.
Two years later, with the help of their daughter, who was renamed Xiren, the Hua family also bought two acres of medium-sized land. Their lives were about to get better, but Hua Zifang didn't pay attention and kicked off the quilt at night. When she got up the next day, she felt dizzy.
Hua's mother hurriedly called a doctor for her son. He was half recovered yesterday, but she didn't expect that when she asked her son to get up and have breakfast in the morning, he didn't respond for a long time. When she pushed the door open, she found that her son had fallen to the ground somehow. He had been frozen all night and his body was already half cold.
"Oh, my son..."
When a howl came from the yard, the two men who were woken up in the haystack not far away looked somewhat excited.
Done.
This job is still easy.
He died young and evil, and must be buried tonight.
The two of them waited quietly for Hua's mother to find someone to bury her son, and they both relaxed.
No matter how powerful Lord Dong of Shuntian Prefecture and Captain Lu are, they would never have thought that they could do this.
You can't find the body in the mass grave, right?
According to their housekeeper, why is it a mass grave? We all worked together, and if we can't have a grand funeral, we still need a place to rest.
The last time I mentioned the mass grave, it was just because I didn’t want to bother with your Shuntian Prefecture.
If you must dig, then go ahead and dig.
The Jin Palace has nothing to fear because of its upright character.
It's cold in winter, and although the body is not easy to rot, it will not be easy to find out anything from the face if it lasts for more than ten days or half a month.
The two were waiting here for the Hua family to bury the body. A few villages away, the same scene was happening.
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Ningguo Mansion, Shen Ning Courtyard.
After practicing martial arts with Jiao Da, Baoyu was too tired to walk, so he simply asked the little maid to go back and tell her that he was going to have dinner at his aunt's place.
"Aunt, I'm hungry too."
While waiting for the food to be served, Baoyu had already eaten two roasted chestnuts by the brazier.
"Haha, you sound pathetic."
Shen Ning gave him half of the sweet potato that he had been waiting for for a long time, "I think you want to eat my roasted sweet potato?"
"whee!"
Baoyu took it with a smile, "Thank you, auntie!"
These things are too crude and are not available in the West Palace.
But when my aunt-in-law was buried in the brazier like this, she smelled really good and warm when she was taken out.
Tear off the crispy skin, and the special aroma of sweet potato will hit your nose, making you salivate.
The sweet potato flesh is golden and tempting, and some seem to be covered with syrup. Take a bite...
Oh my~ The meat inside is soft and delicate, sweet but not greasy, and has a unique sweet taste.
Shen Ning felt a little sorry for the half sweet potato she had just given away.
When Baoyu saw this, he quickly turned his little body to the side.
His sweet potato was still very hot, so he could only blow on it while eating it.
"Is it tasty?"
Shen Ning asked him.
"Hmm~"
It tastes different from home.
A dish of eggplant at home is served with twenty chickens. Although it tastes good, Baoyu doesn’t know why, but he always feels that the ones at his aunt’s house are sweeter.
"Did the old lady ask you what you ate yesterday?"
“Yes.”
Baoyu turned around, his eyes sparkling, "I told the old lady about Rong'er's appetite, and she laughed for a long time. She also said that if I eat here again in the future, she will have someone send two dishes over."
"Are you worried that you won't have enough to eat?"
Shen Ning was speechless.
“No!”
Baoyu shook his head hurriedly, "Grandma is worried that Rong'er won't have enough to eat."
“…Poof~”
Rong Ge'er, who came in with big strides, just happened to hear it and said, "Then Uncle Bao, let's eat here from now on!"
He and his grandmother could have had two more dishes.
"Yes, yes." Baoyu nodded vigorously. "Aunt, after I learn martial arts, can I stay here with you and have a rest while eating?"
"nature!"
There's nothing wrong with that.
Don’t say that there is no shortage of food at home. Even if there is…, how much can a child eat? “If you don’t want to go back, ask someone to go to the kitchen and tell Aunt Li.”
The more people there are, the more delicious the food will be.
Especially Baoyu is a beautiful child.
Shen Ning also didn't want him to be spoiled by Lady Jia.
It was obvious that the old lady could barely raise a girl, but raising a boy... she really couldn't.
Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Lian and Baoyu in the Dream of the Red Chamber are all useless.
If the men in the family can't support the family, they can only sell their daughters in disguise.
"She'd be happy to cook more for you."
Aunt Li’s recipe is being written.
In order to write the recipe, she is now learning calligraphy from Qingzhu and others.
There were a total of thirty-six people in Shen Ning's courtyard, including the maids who swept the yard and guarded the house.
It is impossible to abolish it.
This is the dignity of a big family.
Because she has Jia Yue here, and last time Youshi said that she didn't have enough people here and needed a few more.
Shen Ning didn't object either.
When I come to her, I can learn to read in my spare time and exchange experiences in needlework, eating, etc.
In the future, everyone will live a good life when they go out.
"That's right, Aunt Li enjoys cooking Ning Cui Xuan's meals the most."
Rong Ge'er added with a smile, "Aunts always give suggestions. Last time, Aunt Lin even took some delicacies from a travel book and told Aunt Li about them. Then we had Tibetan butter tea and Jiangnan crab roe soup dumplings."
"Then...should I give my opinion too?"
Baoyu has never eaten the two dishes he just mentioned.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a little envious.
"Okay!"
Rong Ge'er nodded, "Which dish did you think was not delicious yesterday?"
“They are all delicious.”
Baoyu said, "But I think Auntie's roasted sweet potatoes can also be a dish."
“…”
“…”
What a compliment! Such a sweet mouth.
Seeing how happy his grandmother was, Rong Ge'er decided to learn from her in the future.
"Really? I think my baked sweet potatoes are delicious too."
"But grandma, I didn't get to eat it."
Rong Ge'er was full of resentment.
He had eaten roasted sweet potatoes with his grandmother, but when he came today, he just smelled the smell.
"You can't blame me for this, go find your uncle Bao."
Baoyu took a look and quickly bit off the last bite of the sweet potato, "It's gone."
He said in a solemn voice, "The food is here, we can eat now."
As they were talking, Xiren and Sheyue came over with a food box.
"Madam, our old lady said to add two dishes for you."
"Yes!" Shen Ning nodded, "Put it on!"
She noticed that Xiren's expression today was different from usual, and her eyelids were a little swollen.
But I'm too lazy to ask.
But she didn't ask, Baoyu did, "Sister Xiren, what's wrong with you?"
When everyone else treated him badly, Sister Xiren remained the same as before.
“…No, nothing.”
Once she was sold in, she was no longer herself.
Even if her brother died, she... couldn't go back.
At noon, Xiren received the news of her brother's death and cried secretly without anyone knowing.
I feel sad that my brother passed away due to illness, and I am even more worried about my mother.
Without my brother, how would my mother survive? I didn’t know which of my family members would get the land that we had finally acquired.
She really wanted to go home.
But when the master went to pay his respects to the old lady, he didn't know what he said, but the old lady was angry.
With great difficulty, my great grandmother and my second grandmother accompanied me to play card games. I finally felt better, but it was already late.
Xiren wanted to talk to Baoyu in the evening and ask him to ask for leave for her so that she could go home, burn some paper for her brother, and settle her mother.
"How come nothing happened? Did you cry?"
"I really don't have anything."
When she was in the West Mansion, Xiren didn't dare to say anything, let alone in the East Mansion.
The eldest wife obviously doesn't like her.
Xiren whispered, "Second Master, please eat well. The old lady is waiting for you."
"Oh~"
Baoyu looked at the two dishes his grandmother had brought over, one was rouge goose breast, and the other was shredded chicken and shark fin soup. Both were still steaming, and were obviously freshly prepared. He brought them over, "Auntie, this shredded chicken and shark fin soup is delicious. Have a bowl first."
"good!"
Shen Ning touched the little girl's head and let Qingzhu serve her a small bowl.
Because there were two extra dishes sent by the old lady during the meal, Rong Ge burped after finishing the meal.
Baoyu heard this and asked Xiren, "Sister Xiren, did you bring the hawthorn pills I asked you to bring?"
"Yes."
Xiren hurriedly took out a small porcelain bottle from her purse.
"Brother Rong, why don't you take a hawthorn pill?"
“Hahaha, I think grandma wants to eat more.”
His grandmother also ate half a bowl of rice more today.
Rong Ge'er smiled and poured out two hawthorn pills, threw one into his mouth and handed the other to Shen Ning.
"Well, it's okay to take a hawthorn pill at night."
Shen Ning has no shortage of hawthorn pills.
After traveling to this world, delicious food is her biggest motivation to get up and exercise every day.
In order to prevent herself from becoming fat, doesn't she have to find ways to control her eating every day?
But no matter how much you restrain yourself, there will always be times when you can't control yourself, like today.
I won’t talk about the Rouge Goose Breast, but the Shredded Chicken and Shark’s Fin Soup…
Shen Ning forced himself to suppress the urge to have a second bowl.
But even so, I still ate half a bowl of rice more.
And before eating, she even ate half a sweet potato.
If I had known this earlier, I would have left it to Rong Ge'er.
Shen Ning took the help of Rong Ge'er and ate Baoyu's hawthorn pills. They tasted sour and sweet and were quite good.
"The old lady misses you, so go back early!"
"Uh-huh!"
Baoyu bowed to Shen Ning and said, "Auntie, I'll come again tomorrow."
Xiren couldn't wait any longer, so she helped him put on the raincoat, bowed to the host here, and quickly took Baoyu away.
"Sister Xiren, what's wrong with you?"
"Sister Xiren's brother is gone."
Musk Moon said, "She received a letter from home at noon. She wants to go home tomorrow."
"…Then let's go back!"
Baoyu said, "Just tell Lian's sister-in-law."
The housekeeper is Lian's second sister-in-law.
Because she is both sister-in-law and cousin, she has always been very nice to him.
Baoyu saw Xiren crying again and hurriedly pulled her hand, "Do you want me to go and tell her?"
"... Today the master paid his respects to the old lady, and the old lady was very unhappy at the end."
Xiren wiped her tears and said, "Second Madam Lian has been accompanying the old lady, so I didn't find a chance to tell her."
"It's okay, I'll go talk to her." Baoyu said, "Let's go there now, I'll ask her to get you another car."
As he said this, he suddenly thought of something and said, "You know where the money box is. Go get it yourself."
He didn't pay attention to these things before.
But over this period of time, Baoyu gradually felt the benefits of silver.
He gave his servants money, and some of them would be nice to him for a while.
"I would like to thank you for your reward on behalf of my brother!"
Xiren's tears fell in big drops.
If you go home without money, it's like going back home for nothing.
With the money and the carriage sent by the government, the villagers and the clan did not dare to do anything to her mother.
Early the next morning, Wang Xifeng indeed sent a car to Xiren.
When she returned to Daliu Village, her mother was already bedridden.
"My son..., why did you come back just now?"
Hua's mother cried until her voice was hoarse, "Your brother...your brother is gone! He left us mother and me."
Xiren hugged her mother, tears streaming down her face, "Mother, why did my brother..."
"I don't know either. He was sleeping soundly. I even tucked him in before he went to sleep."
Hua's mother couldn't accept her son's death like that.
He was clearly getting better.
Her lively son...
"Who knew that early in the morning, he would be lying on the ground like that."
Hua's mother cried until her eyes went dark. "My son, it hurts so much."
"Mother~mother~~~~"
Xiren's tears also fell, "Is my brother with dad? I'll go see him."
“Wooooooa ...
Hua's mother burst into tears.
She raised her son but lost him, and she was too ashamed to see her husband after her death.
Xiren cried for a long time before finally persuading her mother to stop crying. She took the paper money and gold ingots she had bought on the way and went to the place where her father and brother were buried.
After climbing over a small hill, I could see it right away, but I didn't expect that someone was digging something there.
Xiren's heartbeat suddenly quickened and she quickly stepped back.
While working in the Rongguo Mansion, she mingled with the maids and old women in the mansion and heard a lot of things.
Of course, during the past six months, the Great Edict was still popular in the East Palace.
The second grandmother then asked the older sisters who could read to read the Great Edict to them.
The Great Edict not only contains laws, but also includes cases from various places from time to time...
Xiren's mind was filled with a lot of horror stories and cases at this moment, and she didn't dare to move forward.
Her brother's grave might be being dug up. She is alone, and there are two of them...
The snow was still falling sparsely at this time, and there was almost no one outside.
Xiren didn't dare to delay, so she dropped the basket and ran to the village chief's house.
Soon, three gongs sounded, and all the villagers in Dalius Village were alarmed.
A group of people carrying shoulder poles and hoes rushed to the cemetery in a hurry.
…
Rongguo Mansion, it’s time and Xiren hasn’t come back yet.
Wang Xifeng was very angry.
The maids in their family are not allowed to spend the night outside.
In particular, the old lady gave Xiren to Baoyu, partly with the intention of giving her to the future person in the house.
Although the current Jia family rules make it impossible for Baoyu to marry Xiren, but for her to spend the night outside like this... is absolutely not allowed.
"Ping'er, go find Lin Zhixiao and ask him to send someone to Liujia Village immediately."
Over in the East Mansion, someone broke into the house a few days ago.
Even if they didn't say anything, Wang Xifeng could guess from all the things happening outside that the people in Prince Jin's Mansion were not giving up and were still keeping an eye on their Jia family.
In this case, if Xiren spends the night outside...
It would be terrible if someone bribed him.
Wang Xifeng made a prompt decision and asked Lin Zhixiao to go find someone.
Ping'er left in a hurry.
But not long after, she came back.
Xiren also came back with them.
Xiren was in a state of disgrace at this time. When she saw Wang Xifeng, she knelt down on the ground and said, "Please, Madam, make the decision for me."
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