When the carriage stopped at Ningrong Street, Jia Heng escorted Yuan Chun back to Rongguo Mansion. Then he returned to Ning Mansion. He passed by the study room in the east chamber and saw that the lights in the inner chamber were still on. Knowing that Tanchun was still there, he walked into the hall. Asked: "Sister, you are still busy."
Tan Chun lifted his charming face from the document, his eyebrows curved, and said with a smile: "Brother Heng, we're done now."
Jia Heng smiled, found a chair, sat down, and said, "Don't leave yet, let's have dinner together later."
Tanchun didn't hesitate. He put down the book with a "hmm" sound and walked closer. Following a gust of fragrant wind, he walked around behind Jia Heng and stretched out his slender hands to help Jia Heng rub his shoulders.
Jia Heng picked up the tea cup and felt the faint fragrance coming from the girl behind him, and asked: "Third sister, who did you learn this from?"
Tan Chun's face was slightly red and he said softly: "I usually see Yuanyang, Hubo and the others serving the old lady, and Cuimo and Shishu also help me pinch them like this. I feel quite relieved. What do you think, Brother Heng?"
As he said that, he lowered his eyes and looked at the young man, and couldn't help but think of the scene that day again. He was also fascinated by it at that time.
"It's okay. I just feel sorry for having my sister serve me like this." Jia Heng took a sip of tea and said warmly, with a somewhat contented look on his face.
Tan Chun pursed his pink lips and said, "As long as Brother Heng feels comfortable."
After a while, Jia Heng turned around, reached out to touch the girl's little hand, and said with a smile: "Okay, you've been tired for a long day, so stop rubbing it for me and sit down and talk."
Tanchun said "hmm" and sat on the other side of the table. He smiled sweetly and said, "Sister Bao's baby is not due tomorrow. Brother Heng said what should I give her."
Jia Heng said: "You girls only receive embroidery and jewelry as gifts, so you should be aware of them."
Tan Chun nodded, his bright eyes sparkling, and said, "What about Brother Heng?"
Jia Heng pondered for a moment and said, "Just give it to your sister-in-law."
He had thought about it before and decided that it would be better to give Baochai a ring. In his previous life, the ring was of great significance.
While the two were talking, suddenly, Qingwen stepped into the side room, glanced at Tanchun, and said softly: "Master, the chess player in the second girl's room said that she has something to see you."
Jia Heng looked surprised and asked, "Si Qi? You lead her to the study hall."
After a while, Qingwen led a tall and plump girl in a green vest into the small hall.
"Uncle Heng." Si Qi stood up and saluted Jia Heng, then raised his eyes to peek at the young man, then lowered his gaze, not daring to look further.
Jia Heng looked at Siqi and asked, "If you are not waiting on your girl in the room, what are you doing here?"
Siqi took courage, raised his head and said, "Uncle, in the afternoon, the eldest wife found my girl and said she wanted to arrange a marriage for my girl."
Jia Heng was silent for a moment, then frowned and said, "Second sister is not that old, so shouldn't she be so anxious?"
He may have guessed some of the reasons. The golden boudoir and the willow quality will last for a long time.
Si Qi said: "The eldest lady said that we should settle the marriage first and wait for two or three years before getting married. But neither the girl nor I know where this man named Sun came from or what his character is like. The old man is used to being an official outside. Do you know anything about this Sun Shaozu? I heard that he is from Datong Prefecture. Now he is waiting for a promotion in the Ministry of War, and he has been seeking to be a disciple of the great master several times. "
After all, she is the niece of Wang Shanbao's family, and she has already learned some details about Sun Shaozu.
As for the Spring Festival engagement, generally speaking, after signing the marriage contract, one cannot go back on it because of the Jia family's family status, otherwise he will be ridiculed by the high-ranking family in Beijing.
Jia Heng thought about Sun Shaozu and said in a deep voice: "I do know a little bit about this person. He has a hot temper and is prone to speculation. I'm afraid he is not a good match for my second sister."
When Si Qi heard this, his expression suddenly changed, and he said in shock: "This... what can we do?"
"You might as well go back to your girl first and ask her to beg the old lady. The eldest master has been in trouble lately." Jia Heng thought for a while and ordered.
Combined with the mandarin duck thing, if Siqi goes to find Jia Mu, it will probably create the impression of "Jia She jumping up and down" and "much ado over nothing".
Si Qi opened his mouth and said hurriedly: "But my girl is weak and only obeys my wife's orders. Can you help persuade her?"
Jia Heng thought for a while and said, "Don't rush it. We'll talk about it in two days."
The main reason is that I have a resigned temperament in the coming spring, and I have to stand up for myself.
Si Qi didn't get the answer he wanted and was anxious, so he had no choice but to respond and leave Ning Guo Mansion.
Tanchun walked up to Jia Heng and whispered: "Brother Heng, the second sister is related to her marriage. The second sister is weak-tempered and doesn't know what to do."
"I will talk to the old lady about this later." Jia Heng said calmly.
In fact, Jia She's grasshopper after the fall will not be able to bounce around for too long. If he dies, he will have to observe mourning for at least three years in the spring, and there will be no need to mention marriage.
During this period of time, he really didn't want to pay attention to Jia She.
Tanchun turned to look at the young man's profile and sighed quietly in his heart, fearing that her marriage would be finalized in three or two years.
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The next day, Ningguo Mansion
The twenty-first day of the first lunar month happens to be Baochai's birthday.
Jia Mu borrowed the Tianxiang Tower in the Ning Mansion, and then took out money from her monthly salary to help Baochai organize her birthday at the age of hair. For this reason, she invited the female relatives of Rongning and Ning Mansion to celebrate Baochai's birthday.
Sister Feng invited a troupe of actors, both Kun and Yi.
All of a sudden, in addition to Jia Mu, Qin Keqing, Second Sister You, Third Sister You, Feng Wan, Sichun, Chai Dai, Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang were all there in Tianxiang Tower.
"It's been almost noon, why haven't you seen Brother Heng?" Mother Jia was heartbroken and fat. She was not affected by the mandarin duck being asked for by Jia She yesterday. She looked at Qin Keqing aside and asked with a smile: "He won't come back for lunch? "
Qin Keqing said softly: "My husband went to the capital camp early in the morning. He usually doesn't come back very often at noon."
"It's not like our ancestors didn't know that Brother Heng is running back and forth between several yamen now. It's hard to come back at noon." Sister Feng interjected with a smile.
Recently, Sister Feng has been busy with gardening. She often goes to Dongfu to survey the wasteland and meet some stone workers.
Different from the original work, the Lai family and the Shan Daliang family who were in charge of this matter fell one after another, so Sister Feng had to worry more.
Jia Mu smiled and said, "Then we won't wait for him. I thought it would be more lively among relatives."
Aunt Xue answered with a smile: "Baby girl, we have babies every year. A bowl of longevity noodles is all we need, so don't worry too much."
Mother Jia smiled and said, "This is Bao Yatou's first baby, so it's right for everyone to have fun together."
Daiyu listened quietly and pursed her lips. She had lived her whole life since she was a child, and there was no opportunity for such excitement in the community. Sister Xu Bao was probably a guest.
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Yuan Chun listened to several people talking about Jia Heng, a thoughtful look appeared on his beautiful face, and his eyes flashed.
He secretly thought that Brother Heng must have gone to the eldest princess's house in Jinyang at noon. I wonder if he used the wolfberry to make tea.
Yesterday, I was worried and confused, but I didn't feel too ashamed. Today, when I changed my mind, I felt extremely ashamed in my heart.
She was really stunned. She seemed to have lost her sense of shame yesterday. How could a clan sister give a tonic that replenishes energy to a clan brother?
Sister Feng took a play list, handed it to Jia Mu, and said with a smile: "Ancestor, which play would you like to watch?"
Jia Mu smiled, cast her kind eyes on Baochai's face, and said, "Just let your sister Xue light it. She is the birthday girl today."
Baochai smiled and said: "No one can be called the birthday girl in front of the old lady."
Everyone laughed and said yes.
After Jia Mu invited her again and again, Baochai reached out to pick up the order and ordered a bunch of plays, all of which were lively plays that the elderly loved to hear.
As the singing began on the stage, everyone listened to the opera.
Not long after, I heard a woman coming up and saying, "Old lady, Grandma Heng, the uncle is back and is on his way here."
As soon as these words came out, Baochai raised his bright eyes and looked at him with a smile, feeling a little happy in his heart.
A bright smile appeared on Sister Feng's pretty face, and she said: "Old lady, that old Mr. Shan Ziye has finished the drawings for the garden. I went to get them, just in time to show them to Brother Heng."
Jia Mu smiled, waved her hand and said, "Go ahead."
While talking, Jia Heng also returned to Ningguo Mansion and went to Tianxiang Tower.
However, Sister Feng looked at her courtyard from the side of the room. When she saw the courtyard was empty, she felt something was wrong in her heart. She walked quickly towards the side room, only to hear waves of teasing coming from inside.
Sister Feng's face changed. She leaned close to the window and eavesdropped on the movement inside. She only heard the rustling sound of kisses, accompanied by a slightly familiar voice from the past: "It's broad daylight... Aren’t you afraid that your King of Hell’s wife will come back?”
Then the familiar man's voice came next, which made Sister Feng worried, "I'm afraid she is still in Dongfu to celebrate the birthday of the eldest sister of the Xue family. How could she know she would come back? My little heart, she has been suffocating me these past few days. .”
Because Jia Mu asked Jia Lian to come back and live with Sister Feng, but Sister Feng had a grudge in her heart and refused to let Jia Lian touch her. After many days in a row, Jia Lian could not bear it. After a while, he hooked up with Bao's second daughter-in-law.
Bao's second daughter-in-law panted and said with a smile: "If I kill your wife, the King of Hell, and help Ping'er upright, I'm afraid you will feel more comfortable."
"Hey, don't talk about Ping'er. Now she won't let me touch her. She won't even let me touch Ping'er. Why do you think my life is so miserable? I should be guilty of such a Yaksha star!" Jia Lian said angrily.
When Sister Feng heard Jia Lian's words outside, her heart sank to the bottom of her heart, her hands and feet were cold, her nose was sore, and she scolded: "What a pair of adulterers and adulterers!"
"Bang!!!"
With a flying kick, he kicked open the tightly closed door and entered the wing angrily.
In fact, Jia Lian had just hosted a banquet for Sun Shaozu and drank too much. Otherwise, he would not have dared to be so pretentious and have an affair with Bao's family in his own courtyard.
Jia Lian was startled when he saw Sister Feng rushing in with a stern look on her pretty face, and said in a panic: "What are you going to do..."
At this time, Bao's second daughter-in-law picked up the quilt and covered Bai Huahua's body. She looked frightened and hid inside.
"You're a little whore, you're a shameless thing, you stole your master's man, and you killed your master's wife!" Sister Feng felt bitter in her heart and had tears in her eyes. She went up and beat Bao's second daughter-in-law.
At this time, Ping'er and Feng'er, who came after them, also heard the noise and entered the side room. After a while, a group of women came from the backyard and surrounded them.
Jia Lian was drunk at this time. When he saw so many people, he became angry and emboldened, and cursed: "I've always spoiled you, even if you become more and more disgraceful, who are you going to hit? This guy , I will simply kill you, I will pay with my life, and we will all die together!"
As he said that, he picked up an unedged sword on the wall, pulled it out with a "scratch", and was about to chase Sister Feng.
Sister Feng was acting wildly, and she was frightened, so she ran to Jia's mother in Huifangyuan. Jia Lian chased her all the way to Jia Dao'er before being persuaded to stop her. A large group of women were surrounding her.
In Tianxiang Tower, Jia Mu is talking to Jia Heng.
"Brother Heng, Baoyu and I went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate today. I heard that the censor there took over the investigation and self-examination." Jia Mu said.
Jia Heng nodded and said: "Don't worry, old lady, just wait for the news first."
Jia Mu sighed and said, "Speaking of which, Baoyu and I have been an official for more than ten years, and he has been working very hard... huh?"
Just as he was talking, he suddenly heard the noise outside, his face changed, and he asked Lin Zhixiao's family next to him, "Go and see, what's going on?"
"Ancestor, the second master wants to kill me." Before Lin Zhixiao's family could leave, Sister Feng rushed in with disheveled hair and cried.
Mother Jia's expression suddenly changed and she quickly said, "Girl Feng, what's going on?"
At this moment, even if she is as kind-hearted as Jia Mu, she is still mentally and physically haggard. The past few days have been filled with ups and downs, making it almost impossible for people to live peacefully.
Everyone else also looked at Sister Feng with concern. Aunt Xue stood up, took Sister Feng's arm, and asked with concern: "Girl Feng, what's going on?"
Jia Heng frowned and vaguely guessed the whole story.
Since Sister Feng was so embarrassed, she thought she had caught Jia Lian having an affair again.
Sister Feng cried: "I went back to get the drawings of the garden, and I saw the second master and the second Bao family lingering in the house. They also said they would poison me and help Ping'er straighten."
As he spoke, he cried bitterly.
Back and forth, Jia Lian was exposed one after another, one after another. Sister Feng felt aggrieved and no longer wanted to cover it up. Especially the sentence "I'll be the wife of the King of Hell if I die too much" was even more heartbreaking.
When Mother Jia heard this, anger surged on her old face. She smashed her crutch and said, "That's enough! Come on, Lin Zhixiao, go and get Lian'er over. I want to question you!"
Lin Zhixiao flashed out from behind the screen and hurried away.
Jia Mu took Sister Feng's hand and either helped vent her anger or cursed: "You are really a dirty thing with a crooked upper beam and a crooked lower beam. I don't care about them on weekdays. I don't want to become more and more ineffective. This Lian'er, Everything that is dirty and smelly must be shoveled into the house!"
Just yesterday, Jia She had just made a fuss over the mandarin ducks, and today Jia Lian had an affair with the servant woman again, making Jia's mother even more angry and annoyed.
When everyone listened, Ru Sichun and Xiangyun looked unhappy, while Li Wan and Mrs. Wang sighed.
In fact, yesterday's issue of Jia She's begging for a mandarin duck was temporarily silenced by Jia's mother's punishment of "kneeling in the ancestral hall" and did not cause an uproar like the original work. However, in the Rong Mansion, it was still spread to the rooms of his wife, grandma, and young lady. , there was a lot of discussion last night.
No, today is his son, this father and son...
Jia Mu held her forehead, looked at Aunt Xue again, and sighed: "I see that Ping'er used to be a good person, why?"
Aunt Xue glanced at Sister Feng and said in a low voice: "Old lady, Ping'er's child is usually good. Is there any misunderstanding?"
Jia Heng said thoughtfully: "Old lady, I'm afraid there is another reason for this matter, so it's hard to make a conclusion."
Sister Feng also reacted and hurriedly explained: "This matter has nothing to do with Ping'er. Our ancestors are those two shameless people. They think Ping'er is easier to bully so that they can steal..."
Very different from the original work, Ping'er at this moment did not let Jia Lian succeed, and there was no so-called "righting" motive at all, so the so-called collusion to murder Sister Feng was out of the question.
Just after hearing the word "stealing", Baochai, who was sitting next to Aunt Xue, felt a little unnatural on her plump and beautiful face, and pinched the handkerchief she was holding.
As the saying goes, don't speak short words in front of a cripple.
Not long after, Jia Lian, the informant of Lin Zhixiao's family, came down below.
All the female relatives hurriedly hid behind the screen to avoid the situation. For a while, only Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, Sister Feng, and Jia Heng were left in the room.
Jia Lian had sobered up, but his cheeks were still a little flushed. As Lin Zhixiao's family entered the hall, he glanced at Sister Feng coldly. In front of everyone, he felt that he couldn't hold it in his face. He cupped his hands and said: "Old lady .”
"Kneel down." Jia Mu said coldly.
Jia Lian was shaken, his face changed, and he opened his mouth, trying to explain, but facing the furious Jia Mu, he had no choice but to kneel down.
Jia Mu said angrily: "After your daughter-in-law is busy with the family, you treat her like this? Are you going to kill her with a sword?"
Jia Lian's face was ugly, and his head was lowered tightly. He felt extremely humiliated in his heart. He gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Old lady, it's her who yells and drinks all day long that makes her behave so shamelessly. She won't let it go. Those few in my room Girl, there is only one person left at the moment, she is blocking her, she has been here for so long, there is not even a boy and a girl, the seven rules, childlessness, jealousy... Old lady, look at how many rules she has committed! "
It seems that Jia Lian was engaged in smuggling and selling privately. He had a lot of money and a strong waist. As the saying goes, money is a man's courage. At this time, he was ordered to kneel down in public. How could he swallow this breath?
Sister Feng's face was pale, and she felt a "bomb" in her mind, and she was blown away.
She is childless, she is jealous...
So, it’s all her fault for men to flirt with women?
You, Lian Er, played with a handsome young man outside, got played by a man, and hooked up with his bastard wife. She turned a blind eye and covered it up for him. Is this still her fault?
Sister Feng felt a sadness welling up in her heart, her eyes turned red, and she swallowed: "Old lady, even if I have a thousand days of bad days, even if I have one good day, he can't say such heartless words!"
When Jia Mu saw Sister Feng, she couldn't bear it. She suddenly looked at Jia Heng and asked, "Brother Heng, what do you think of this matter? You are the leader of the clan. Brother Lian doesn't know how to behave. How should he deal with it?" "
Jia Heng watched with cold eyes, and after hearing the words, he said: "It is difficult for an upright official to deal with household affairs. Old lady, you are the elder. You have experienced many things, so you just have to deal with them."
"But now..." Jia Mu said, "Brother Heng, I'm in charge of Feng Yatou, and you can also help with Lian'er's cooking."
Jia Heng thought for a while, glanced at Jia Lian, and said, "Otherwise... go to the ancestral hall."
Jia Mu: "..."
At this time, Jia She could not say that he was in the ancestral hall. Both father and son went to kneel in the ancestral hall? This is so...
Behind the screen, Li Wan, Sichun, Chai Dai, and Xiang Yun also had strange expressions.
Jia Heng turned to look at Jia Lian, with a calm expression on his face, and said: "Second brother Lian, it is better for husband and wife to be considerate of each other. Why would you call for beatings and killings? Besides, what do you think about the unbearable things you do in your daily life? Sister-in-law Feng didn't tolerate her, so why did she say those heart-wrenching words?"
Sister Feng listened, her heart trembling, her eyes filled with tears, and she twisted her handkerchief tightly.
Jia Lian said: "Brother Heng, I have always respected you. This is between her and me. Don't try to persuade me again. If I violate the rules of the clan, I will kneel in the ancestral hall now."
The worst thing is, he just has to live outside and never come back. With the money, he no longer needs to look at the jealous face and be a groom every night.
Jia Lian said, kowtowed to Jia Mu and went to the ancestral hall.
Jia Mu sighed: "Why have we reached this point?"
Sister Feng looked at Jia Lian who left resolutely without looking back. For some reason, she just felt lost and her face was slumped. She lay in Jia Mu's arms and cried: "Old ancestor, why am I so miserable?"
Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue advised from the side: "Girl Feng."
Jia Mu took Sister Feng's arm and comforted her: "Girl Feng, calm down first. After a while, you will all calm down and apologize to each other. Between husband and wife, fights occur at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed."
Jia Heng looked at this scene and secretly shook his head.
Jia Lian's ability to do what he did was a bit unexpected. In the original work, "one follower and two make three people dead", it should be that Jia Lian was stimulated by the matter of Second Sister You, but now he is so tough, it seems... smuggling on the grassland Sure enough, there is plenty of oil and water.
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