Chapter 56: Loving Mother and Filial Son
After a grand drama, the Ning and Rong mansions seemed to have returned to their past.
"Mother!"
After dinner, Jia Zhen accompanied Shen Ning for a walk, "Today, my brother Xifuzhu and I went to see my father."
"Oh?" Shen Ning raised her voice slightly, "How is your father?"
She heard Jia Zheng say this while watching the play.
It seems as if only they, father and son, are concerned about Jia Jing.
"Father is in good health." Jia Zhen hesitated for a moment, "But I feel that Zhu'er is asking father for advice on Wang Ziteng's affairs in the Beijing camp."
Shen Ning: “…”
She stopped and asked, "What do you mean by feeling? Did you leave in the middle?"
"It's not my son who wants to leave."
Jia Zhen was also very depressed. "My father saw that he wanted to talk to him alone, so he found an excuse and asked me to water the vegetable garden for him."
“…”
What else can I say? Jia Jing and Jia Zhu are both rare smart people in the Jia family.
They want to talk about...
Shen Ning's eyes flashed, "How many buckets of water did you carry?"
She was a little curious about what Jia Jing was doing every day.
"...Five loads!"
Jia Zhen felt aggrieved.
If he didn't have some basic skills, he wouldn't be able to do it at all.
That's it, I'm not picky.
The shoulder pole and bucket were too difficult to control, and most of the first two loads of water were spilled before they reached the vegetable field.
In the end, he had no choice but to carry it by hand.
"Are you tired?"
Shen Ning looked very grown up.
"tired!"
In front of his mother, Jia Zhen did not hide it, "But father may not be so tired normally." He said, "He just wants me to stay busy outside for a while longer."
Humph~ His father is not a good person, so he doesn’t have to take responsibility for him.
"Hmm~" Shen Ning did not comment, "Then when you go back, what do you think of their expressions?"
"Looks... quite harmonious."
Jia Zhen hesitated for a moment and said, "At least on the surface, they are harmonious."
“…”
Shen Ning nodded, "Your father is very smart, he won't suffer any loss easily, don't ask about his affairs, we just need to take care of ourselves."
Jia Zhen: “…”
He feels like his mother is saying he is stupid.
But there is no evidence.
"Hmm~"
He responded sullenly.
"Go ahead, go back and read one more page of Zizhi Tongjian."
Jia Zhen: “…”
It’s confirmed, his mother just thinks he’s stupid.
"I'll let Qingzhu read one more page, too."
He wrote a letter that day scolding Jia Jing for being blind, and within a few days Wang Ziteng got into trouble.
Shen Ning didn't know how he did it.
Compared to him, she felt that she was quite stupid.
"Then I'd better listen to Qingzhu's reading with you!"
Jia Zhen, who had been feeling very upset, felt relieved when he heard his mother say this. "By the way, what plays did you watch today? Why did I feel that Uncle Zheng was acting strange during dinner?"
"Well, the most exciting play today is 'Li Kui Carrying the Thorns'."
Shen Ning smiled, "As soon as I ordered this play, your second aunt Wang came to me to apologize."
Jia Zhen: “…”
It turns out that his father and his mother are a pair!
He also laughed, "Is it just a small favor? Second Aunt is quite stingy, she didn't even send anything to express her apology!"
"Don't mention it, I really gave it to you."
Shen Ning smiled and said, "I'll ask Xing'er to help me pawn it at Xue's pawnshop and bring back the silver."
She didn't dare to use the things Wang gave her.
Rather than keeping it at home and worrying about it, it is better to send it outside and exchange it for silver.
The mother and son were living in harmony here, but in Rongxi Hall, Wang's eyes were red when she looked at Jia Zhu.
“…She bullied me like that!”
Wang didn’t know how she managed to hold on at that time. “No one said a word to help me.”
Watching his mother's tears falling drop by drop, Jia Zhu's heart ached.
But that person was my aunt.
Mother really shouldn't have let Zhou Rui spread family matters like that.
"Mother, I am giving a gift to Uncle Jing on behalf of my uncle today."
Jia Zhu couldn't tell his mother directly that she was wrong, so he could only say, "Although Uncle Jing accepted the gift, he was also unhappy about you spreading the news that his aunt had stripped him of his Taoist robe."
Wang: “…”
She even forgot to cry.
"My uncle and aunt are both proud people. Do you know how many people in and outside the capital laughed at them because of this?"
Jia Zhu was helpless. "That day, people who wanted to see the joke lined up at the city gate. Do you think Uncle Jing and Brother Zhen would be happy if they knew about this?"
Without Uncle Jing and Brother Zhen to help, my uncle had no idea how difficult the situation was in the Beijing camp.
"Mother, my aunt is not an unreasonable person."
Today, Jia Zhu was asked by Jia Jing whether he was from the Wang family or the Jia family.
I was also asked how I felt after being busy at the Wang family for the past few days.
Jia Zhu is so tired.
He checked the people around his aunts, and both aunts were displeased.
He checked the people around his second uncle and cousin Wang Ren. His second uncle was unconscious and unresponsive, but his cousin Wang Ren was also very unhappy.
It’s my eldest uncle…, he also lost trust in him because of the death of that maid.
Using him to send gifts to Uncle Jing was actually a test.
He was suspicious of the Jia family.
Uncle Jing did accept the money, but he was very unhappy about it.
Jia Zhu felt that he had worked extremely hard for several days, but ended up being treated as a nobody.
But he had no place to reason.
"Please remember what happened this time and don't make the same mistake again." Jia Zhu looked at his mother earnestly, and had to repeat the point. "Otherwise, who can speak for you? If our aunt is really angry and asks us brothers to kneel in the ancestral hall on your behalf, will we dare not obey her order?"
Wang: “…”
She was simply stunned.
Her elder brother asked Zhuer to deliver the gift?
Shen can still...
"Mother, family disgrace should not be made public!"
Seeing his mother's pitiful look, Jia Zhu wanted to sigh, "On the day of honoring my uncle and aunt, one wanted to fight and the other wanted to be beaten. You and grandmother shouldn't have intervened."
Poor grandmother also got involved.
Fortunately, the old lady was old and meant well but ended up doing something wicked, otherwise, based on my aunt's usual temper, I'm afraid she would have turned the table over on the spot.
It's ridiculous that his mother did something even more outrageous.
"You said no one spoke up for you, but you don't even look at what you're doing?"
It’s not a pity for Zhou Rui and his wife.
But Jia Zhu also knew that even if he and his wife had made a thousand mistakes, they were still his mother's right-hand men in the mansion. "My aunt is a clan woman and your sister-in-law. You can't withhold the respect and dignity she deserves just because my uncle is not here."
He didn't say anything, but with his mother's brain, even ten of them wouldn't be a match for his aunt-in-law.
"No one is stupid. You treated her like that. Think about it, if you were her, would you not be angry?"
Jia Zhu said earnestly, "Fortunately, I have already apologized today. Even if this matter is over, you should not think about it anymore. With us brothers here and cousin Feng as the housekeeper, no one will say anything."
At this point, he simply knelt down and said, "If you still feel uncomfortable, just hit your son a few times. His skin is thick and tough and cannot be damaged."
Jia Zhu grabbed his mother's hand and said, "My son will go back to the Imperial Academy to study tomorrow. I will pass the imperial examination for you next year and no one will remember what happened today. Even my aunt will sincerely congratulate you when my son passes the imperial examination."
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