Chapter 26 Can't Stop
The Lai family's case was handled quietly in Shuntian Prefecture.
After two days of surveillance, the officials of the Imperial Censorate who wanted to make a report had to give up.
But their stillness did not mean that the nobles and officials who owed money to the national treasury were not worried.
Ningrong Street became lively again, as it was rare before. All the excitement of the Jia family in the past few days was dug out clearly.
To sum it up in one sentence, the Lai family fell and the Jia family was well fed.
Otherwise, where would the money come from to repay the treasury?
I heard that both families took back more than ten carts of goods.
Some families who have no money, or who consider themselves rich slaves, cannot sleep well at night.
In Rongguo Mansion, both Lady Jia and Lady Wang were bombarded by their families for several days. They had no choice but to borrow some money from others. However, Shen Ning was safe and secure.
"grandmother!"
Jia Rong, whose buttocks had recovered a lot, was shocked to see his grandmother's stomach moving.
"Well, your little aunt is being naughty."
On the recliner, Shen Ning, who was basking in the sun, held her belly with both hands and said softly, "At about the same time every day, she would turn over twice."
Jia Rong: “…”
So magical.
He had never seen it.
"Come here and say hello to her."
“…”
Jia Rong swallowed his saliva, not knowing how to greet him, and stammered, "Nephew...nephew greets aunt."
"Haha, dear, did you hear your eldest nephew's voice? From now on, he can hold you and play with you everywhere."
Jia Rong: “…”
There is no problem with hugging, but the question is how does grandma know that this is an aunt and not an uncle? "Grandma, what if it is a little uncle?"
"Well, I dreamed about it." Shen Ning smiled, "It was a girl, delicate and soft, very cute."
“…”
Jia Rong couldn't help but smile.
He was going to have his own aunt.
There are a lot of people in Xifu, and he is the only one in his family.
Although this aunt came very late and still needed him to hold her, from then on, he was also a biological aunt.
"Grandma..." He was about to say something else when Jia Zhen came rushing over. "Mother!" His face was very anxious. "Father is back."
Jia Jing?
Shen Ning was a little dazed.
Although I know that I will have to face Jia Jing one day, but this is not a festival, and no one is celebrating their birthday...
"He's with the old lady in the West Mansion."
What? Shen Ning frowned slightly, "...Did the old lady ask him to come back?"
“It should be.”
Jia Zhen was not only helpless, but also afraid! He had expelled his former twelfth grandfather, Jia Dairu, from the Jia family and crossed out his name on the family tree.
The clan education reform, coupled with the raid on the Lai family, my mother returned the treasury silver...
All of these things were quite thrilling. He had been hesitant and didn't dare to report it. He had thought that when the clan school had some effect and his mother's health was better, he would tell his father the good news. Who knew that he would come back like this? Especially since he was called back by the old lady of the West Mansion.
Jia Zhen was not only afraid of being beaten, he was also particularly afraid that his father would quarrel with his mother again.
The baby is already pregnant, what if there is an excitement...
"Mother, I'm going to ask father to come back. No matter what happens, please don't worry."
"etc!"
Shen Ning stopped Hao Daer who wanted to comfort her, "Didn't the West Mansion notify your father to come back?"
"yes!"
Jia Zhen lowered his head and said, "These days, there are many people coming and going from the West Mansion. Isn't my son worried? That's why I asked someone to watch over him."
Who knew he would see his dad?
His father still had no home to return to, so he went to Xifu first.
"Mother, the Shi family also paid back the treasury yesterday. I heard that they sold a lot of things to pay back the treasury, and also borrowed some from the old lady of the West Mansion."
The Shi family has the largest number of members.
There is a legend in my hometown that the Afang Palace is three hundred miles long and cannot accommodate a single historian from Nanjing.
Not only was he extremely wealthy, but he also had 24 sons in a row.
But when he died, a lot of his family property was divided up.
Legend has it that Baoling Hou, who was of the same generation as the old lady in Xifu, borrowed 150,000 taels of silver from the national treasury. Like his father, he had many children, including three legitimate sons, eleven illegitimate sons and seven illegitimate daughters.
The 150,000 taels were borrowed from him and were also spent by him.
He left the title and half of the property to his three legitimate sons, and the rest was taken away by marrying off daughters or dividing it among his illegitimate sons.
However, the eldest son who inherited the title died of illness within two years, and the title was passed to his second brother, Shi Nai, the current Marquis of Baoling. Because his brother only left behind a daughter, he and his third brother Shi Ding divided the family property again.
This time the situation was even uglier.
As a result, Shi Ding left in anger and went directly to the Nine Borders.
Jia Zhen actually admired that man very much. He heard that he had made several military achievements on the border.
Now that he had to pay back the treasury silver, Shi Nai found that the family wealth he, the Marquis of Baoling, had received was not enough to pay for it. He wanted his brothers to share some of the burden, but none of them agreed. As a result, his wife went to the old lady in the West Mansion and cried twice.
"I'm afraid the old lady will complain to my father, but my father doesn't understand. If she quarrels with you, please bear with it for now."
“…”
Shen Ning nodded slowly, "Don't worry, I won't quarrel with your father."
However, hiding like this and waiting for Jia Zhen to come forward is not her style.
After all, according to some of the original body's memories, Jia Jing was extremely impatient with his son, and he would probably beat Jia Zhen up the moment he stuck his head out.
"He is a monk who has left home and become a Taoist priest. He can't take care of us, mother and son."
If Lady Jia wanted to use Jia Jing to pressure her, she was making a wrong calculation.
Shen Ning stood up and said, "Bring a sedan chair so that we can go together, mother and son."
"Mother!"
Jia Zhen was very anxious.
"My son did nothing wrong, I did everything."
Shen Ning looked at Jia Zhen, who was not crooked yet, and said, "No matter what your father does, he can't swing his fist at me."
Is she a person who is afraid of trouble? If she wants to make trouble, then she can make trouble.
If things get settled in a hurry, she will be able to live a peaceful life for the next ten years.
"Let's go! If you don't leave now, your father will hear too much and the misunderstanding may get worse."
One word makes the person who says it jump; one word makes the person who says it laugh.
The same thing, packaged in different languages, may be a tragedy in one case and just make people laugh in another.
"Grandma, father, I am with you."
Although Jia Rong's eyes were filled with fear, he held onto Shen Ning's clothes tightly and said, "I'm not afraid of being beaten."
…
Jia Mu's Courtyard in the West Mansion.
Jia Jing, dressed in a simple Taoist robe, with an upright yet somewhat thin figure, stroked his three long beard and listened silently to the complaints of Jia Mu and Jia Zheng.
He is here, but his soul... seems to be wandering outside.
"Jing'er..., did you hear everything Auntie said?"
Grandmother Jia finally couldn't help it and asked loudly to Jia Jing who was not in the right state of mind.
“…I heard it.”
Jia Jing's voice was deep and rich, quite magnetic, "Madam did something that my aunt and my second brother didn't like." He sighed softly, "But the incident has already happened, even if I come back, it won't help."
He has seen through what he should see through.
But the lady obviously couldn't see through it.
"Although we are husband and wife, we are not husband and wife anymore."
It's time for him to give up this mundane world.
Jia Jing knew very well where his weakness was.
The last time they quarreled, he said that the child was hers, and if she died because of it, he would never see the child again in this life.
However, she still insisted on giving birth.
Jia Jing doubted that she would not be able to survive the birth process.
This might be God's way of severing his last earthly ties.
Jia Jing had already given up trying to stop him.
"Whatever she does, Jing... won't stop her, nor can he bear to stop her."
They are all going to die, so let her do whatever she wants!
Jia Jing sighed in his heart, "Aunt, second brother, second brother's wife, you should know what her situation is now. In these last few months... let her be content!"
(End of this chapter)
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