Chapter 90 No rush
Ningguo Mansion.
Hearing that Jia She and the others had entered the ancestral hall again, Jia Zhen realized it belatedly and looked at his mother, "Should I...should I still go?"
"…What do you think?"
Shen Ning paused and asked back, "Hao Daer."
"Uncle She...Is he trying to take Rong Xi Tang over with him?"
Jia Zhen was helpless and asked his mother for advice, "Mother, I am the clan leader. Should I meet with the old lady and say something before entering the ancestral hall?" Since the old lady and Uncle Zheng have admitted their mistakes, Rong Xi Tang should be returned.
"…The old lady isn't in a hurry, so why are you in a hurry?"
Shen Ning was speechless for a moment, then asked, "Also, if your uncle She is in a hurry, do you think he will ask someone to pass on a message to you?"
Jia Zhen: “…”
He was totally confused!
Could it be that they entered the ancestral hall in such a muddle-headed way just to glare at each other? No, they also gnashed their teeth and farted.
Although the ancestral hall is very large, there are special toilet rooms on the east and west sides, but the rooms on both sides are dark and inexplicably eerie. It's okay during the day, but at night... he is a little scared!
"No, mother, my son's injuries haven't been healed for long."
Jia Zhen had no choice but to fight for himself.
How pitiful he must be if he can’t eat well, drink well, live well, or sleep well.
"Hmm~"
Shen Ning nodded, clapped her hands, and shouted, "Rong Ge'er..."
"Grandma~"
Jia Rong ran over and asked, "You called me?"
"Yes!" Shen Ning nodded. "You will accompany your father to the ancestral hall later and ask your grandfather She if he can take care of your father alone. If he agrees, give him a stool to lie on. Don't use the traditional Chinese medicine to make food. Just give him a bowl of normal rice and some side dishes, but no meat."
"……yes!"
Jia Rong glanced at his father and felt sorry for him. "Grandma, how long will this take?"
His father has suffered too much, this is clearly Xifu's business.
"Your father isn't the only one who's spoiled."
Shen Ning handed over the purse filled with candy that she had brought with her when she entered the palace. "Don't worry, when someone can't stand it anymore, they will take the initiative to ask for Rong Xi Tang to be vacated."
"Can I come out then?"
Jia Zhen took the candy and asked another question.
“…Just bear with it a little longer!”
Shen Ning thought for a moment, "It's best to wait until the other person cries and begs you. This way you can avoid a lot of trouble. At least Zhu'er will remember you for the rest of her life and won't dare to provoke you easily."
…
In the ancestral hall, Jia She came prepared and felt fine.
But Jia Zheng and Wang Fu-ren felt extremely sad.
The two men's moods were up and down because of Yuanchun's matter. They didn't sleep all night yesterday and it was really uncomfortable for them to kneel down now.
Especially after Jia Zhen came in and asked for the privilege, he lay down on the spring stool openly on the pretext of having not healed his injury, not slept all night, and having to go to the palace early this morning, and soon he started snoring.
Although Wang was far away from him, it was still very difficult for him.
She was so sleepy.
My knees hurt too.
She wanted to be lazy, but Zhuer wanted to take care of her, so she knelt here.
Mrs. Wang still wanted to maintain her image in her son's heart, so she could only try her best to endure it.
This lasted until the evening. I was starving and when the meal finally came, it was Shen's "Recalling the Bitterness of the Past" meal.
Jia She ate without changing his expression, and commented as he ate, "This meal feels much sweeter than last night and this morning. It looks like we'll be able to get used to it in two days."
“…”
“…”
Jia Zheng and Wang Shi, who were so hungry that they were eating wild vegetable cakes, choked at the same time. They hurriedly took a mouthful of wild vegetable porridge, stretched their necks, and forced themselves to swallow it down to avoid making a fool of themselves.
How does this crappy thing fit in?
Jia She pretended not to notice and asked Jia Zhu, "Zhu'er, this vegetable cake has no crumbs, so there should be less bran, right?"
"……yes!"
While eating, Jia Zhu kept his head down the whole time.
I didn’t even notice how embarrassed my parents were just now.
He is young and gets hungrier faster.
I went out to receive the order and was so busy that I only drank two sips of water and didn't even have a snack.
Although this wild vegetable cake still makes your throat hurt, the added grain seems to be finer and not completely bran.
When you chew it carefully, you can taste the sourness and bitterness mixed with a hint of sweetness from grains.
It's just a little bit.
Jia Zhu felt a little regretful that he was not full.
"This wild vegetable porridge isn't so bitter anymore."
Jia She looked at his brother who had learned from his experience of choking and said, "Yes, it is just like this, a mouthful of porridge and a mouthful of cake, very sweet."
Jia Zheng: “…”
He couldn't eat anymore.
But I'm still hungry.
He has never been hungry since he was a child.
In the past, it was always the eldest brother who went to the ancestral hall. He was obedient and smart, and even if he was unlucky occasionally, he would be let out after half a day at most.
now……
Jia Zheng was very sad.
Now, except Yuanchun and Baoyu, his whole family is here.
Yuanchun is about to get married, and Baoyu is like that again...
Thinking of his young but already disabled son, Jia Zheng glanced at Wang and slowly drank another mouthful of porridge.
Mrs. Wang's heart skipped a beat.
As they have been married for many years, she certainly understands Jia Zheng.
Her husband is blaming her again.
She lowered her head, stubbornly unwilling to take a bite of cake and a mouthful of porridge as Jia She had said. Instead, she ate the cake in small bites, trying hard not to choke.
Of course, in order to be able to swallow it, Wang called Shen in her heart with every bite.
Jia Zhen didn't say a word the whole time.
His porridge was thick rice porridge, the side dishes were salty and delicious, and the steamed buns were big and soft.
Although he was full before coming in, after seeing them eat cleanly, he also ate up all his food.
Well, it feels good to enjoy the happiness while others suffer.
Jia Zhen felt that he could hold on as long as Zheng Shu and the others could hold on like this.
It was not until Xing'er came in to collect the dishes that he asked, "Is there any more water?"
"yes!"
Xing'er put down the pot of hot water he had brought and left four cups behind. "Madam has ordered that the hot water here must not be cut off. If it runs out or gets cold, just shout and someone will bring it in."
Shen Ning was worried that they would get sick, so she asked someone to bring a stove and make boiled water for them.
"Okay."
Jia Zhen nodded, "Go back and tell my mother that we are all fine, and let her rest assured and go to bed early today."
"yes!"
Xing'er bowed to Jia She and the others, then left obediently.
That night, everyone was sleeping in a very shaky manner on their mats.
Also having rested for a night and recovered a lot, Grandmother Jia ate her hearty breakfast while thinking about her family in the ancestral hall.
So, I lost my appetite while eating. "Xing, has anyone sent food to the ancestral hall? How are She'er and the others eating?"
“…I sent it, but it was returned.”
Xing knew the situation over there, and said, "The master and his men had already discussed it the night before. From now on, when we enter the ancestral hall, we will all eat the "Recalling the Bitterness and Thinking of the Sweetness" meal from the school."
What? Grandmother Jia was stunned. "Did you eat that meal yesterday?"
"yes!"
“…”
Grandmother Jia couldn't help but cover her chest.
The old lady tried to taste the rice and really, she vomited as soon as it entered her mouth.
Unexpectedly, her eldest, second and Zhu'er had been eating it for a whole day.
Oh my, she didn’t even know yesterday.
"Didn't you go and see? She'er and the others have never suffered this much?"
The old lady didn't mention the second son, but kept on talking to the eldest son, "If he gets sick... Oh, by the way, Zhen'er's body hasn't recovered yet, okay? How could Shen be so cruel?"
Can't you give me a way out?
Give her a way out, and she will back down! That day, this old lady even cried and admitted her fault.
Just say a word and Rong Xi Tang will definitely make room for the boss.
"My wife asked someone to ask yesterday, and the master said the same thing as the old lady, that Zhen'er's body has not fully recovered, so he can sleep on a bench and eat simple porridge and rice."
So, it is her family that suffers?
Looking at her silly daughter-in-law, Grandmother Jia was so angry that she wanted to hit her.
"Zhu'er is so thin, how can he bear it?"
The old lady felt distressed and stood up. "Come here, prepare the sedan chair to go to the East Palace."
She wants to go see her children and grandchildren.
"My wife will go with you."
“No need.”
The old lady was very angry. "Yuanchun went to look after her brothers and sisters in school early in the morning. You go check on them and ask Feng to fill in the gaps immediately if there is anything missing."
"……yes!"
Xing was slightly disappointed.
She wanted to see the miserable plight of the second brother's family.
The master took a bath and had a full meal yesterday before going there.
I also heard that the master hid two small cotton pads in his sleeves to make kneeling less uncomfortable.
But she went to the second brother's house in person, but there was no preparation.
Xing watched the old lady being carried away by the maids, slowly walking towards where the children were studying.
She didn't see Li Wan who was hiding from her under the flower tree.
Jia Zhu was in the ancestral hall, and her parents-in-law were also in the ancestral hall. She knew that she could never return to this home.
Although Yuanchun came back and was married to a very good family, it was obvious that her parents-in-law could no longer live in Rong Xi Tang.
That day, she and her second brother and his wife vaguely heard Rong Xi Tang.
Li Wan knew that the second brother's wife also wanted to let the first wife re-enter Rong Xi Tang.
She couldn't help but sigh.
Judging from the attitude of the eldest aunt in the East Palace, my parents-in-law will never give up until Rong Xi Tang is given up.
Why haven’t you seen this yet? Go and give some advice to your parents-in-law.
If we persuade them to give up Rong Xi Tang earlier, they will suffer less!
At this point, I don’t know how many days I’ll have to stay like this.
Li Wan's brows were furrowed.
She was worried about her husband's studies and his health.
The workload at the Imperial College is quite heavy. I have fallen behind so much that I don’t know how much effort it will take to catch up.
After thinking about it, she finally walked in the direction where Xing left.
In their second branch, it seems that only the eldest sister-in-law Yuanchun is the most favored by the aunt-in-law of the East Palace.
Li Wan couldn't help but want to knock on the wooden clock.
Although she and Yuanchun just met yesterday.
But yesterday was a day of chaos and disorder.
Especially when she saw her mother-in-law beating her daughter with her own eyes, she was stunned at that moment.
She had been married into the Jia family for more than half a year. In recent months, her original loving impression of her mother-in-law had been shattered little by little. But she never expected that her mother-in-law would be so ignorant and presumptuous.
The emperor looked very kind and the emperor looked very filial, but even her father was very nervous about his position. If it weren't for the family, he would have wanted to resign.
But the mother-in-law actually wanted her elder sister-in-law to jump from the emperor's place to the emperor's place.
Li Wan was quite convinced.
I originally thought that my sister-in-law was a female official in the palace.
But I didn't expect that my in-laws had that idea.
No wonder my aunt-in-law was so angry.
How many retired emperors in ancient times had a good ending?
Although their son was the emperor, the imperial power could only be held by one person.
It's fine that the emperor now holds the imperial power, but he is old, can he hold it forever? The prince was forced into that state, let alone the emperor who has already sat on the throne.
He is filial and tolerant now, because he is frightened by the prince's previous experience.
But the more filial and tolerant you are, the more severe the counterattack will be in the future.
Li Wan sighed, and while thinking about things in the palace, she turned to where her sisters-in-law were studying.
She walked slowly, and when she arrived, Xing had already left in front.
"Sister-in-law!"
Yuanchun, who was about to go back, was not surprised at all to see her sister-in-law, but a hint of joy flashed in her eyes.
"Big sister!"
When she bowed, Li Wan also hurriedly returned the greeting, "Did my aunt come just now?"
"Yes! Just left!"
"That……"
Li Wan wanted to say something else and turn to the ancestral hall, but she changed her mind and finally said, "Big sister, do you know that the old lady just went to the East Palace?"
"……Know."
Yuanchun nodded, "My aunt just said so."
"It's not a good thing for the master and his wife to stay in the ancestral hall all the time."
Li Wan's words were difficult to speak, "Big sister, what do you think? Should we go and ask the aunt of the East Mansion for help?"
“…What are you going to ask for?”
Yuanchun walked back slowly with her, "Some things can't be solved just by asking for them."
Her parents were wrong.
Yuanchun sighed softly in her heart, "The one who got it wrong can only get over it if he asks for it himself."
Otherwise, who knows how many troubles will happen in the future.
"I believe that big brother also understands this."
Not only her eldest brother was waiting for her parents, but her uncle was also waiting.
Even my aunt-in-law and elder brother Zhen from the Dong Mansion were waiting.
"My grandmother used to be... It was actually useless."
Since my aunt-in-law has decided to take care of things here, she won't give up halfway.
"However, if you don't go there, people who think they are the wrong ones will still have unrealistic fantasies."
Yuanchun also heard some things from Baoyu yesterday and she was very sad.
Although I had already realized my parents' shortcomings when I was in the palace, I was stuck in the mud at that time and there was nothing I could do.
Now that she had left the palace and looked at how the aunt of the East Palace handled the matter, Yuanchun suddenly realized that it was their family that had made a mistake.
"Wait for brother to come out, sister-in-law just needs to take good care of him."
Judging from the look of my sister-in-law, she is still very affectionate towards my brother.
That's enough.
"Brother Lian has a kind personality, and sister-in-law often came to our house when she was young," Yuanchun reminded Li Wan, "Although she has a hot-tempered personality, she is also clear about gratitude and resentment, and she is very kind to her family."
My grandmother is in good health and my eldest brother is doing well in his studies, so my parents don’t have to worry about the future of the second branch.
"If sister-in-law is worried about my brother, she can make a few more knee pads for him."
"……Um!"
Li Wan understood.
Although my elder sister-in-law is the biological daughter of my parents-in-law, she only stands on the side of reason.
That's good!
A smile appeared on her face. "Then sister, make two too. We will send them in to the master, mistress and grandfather later."
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