Chapter 195 Showing Goodwill
“As for the brother of the Qin family, I originally thought he looked good, and he and Baoyu are of the same age, so I let him study and play with Baoyu.
< br />It seems that I don’t know people well.
After all, he is a person from a small family. He has not received a good education and has poor self-control. It is understandable, but I didn’t expect him to be so disrespectful. Self-discipline, doing such a ridiculous and rebellious thing almost hurt Baoyu."
In order to completely dispel the doubts of the whole room, Jia Mu did not hesitate to take the blame on herself.
Aunt Xue understood what Jia Mu meant and helped her: "Old lady, there is no need to say that. There are all kinds of people in the world, some are good, and some are bad.
I Baoyu is a rare good boy. He was trained by the old lady from an early age. He is knowledgeable in books, etiquette, and sensible. All the children in the world are not as good as Baoyu."
"Hahaha, my aunt said so. , it’s too much to praise him, how can he deserve your praise like this..."
Jia Lian was too lazy to listen to Jia Mu’s whitewash meeting here, so he took a break when they were talking. He said goodbye and went out.
"Lian'er, just wait."
When Jia Lian turned around, Mrs. Wang chased him out and stopped him in the corridor.
"What are your orders, madam?"
"Come here, I have a few words to say to you."
Mrs. Wang said, Then he walked from the corridor to her place next to her.
Jia Lian was not suspicious and walked into the corridor again.
Mrs. Wang is quite tall, a bit taller than Aunt Xue, but even at this age, she walks smoothly and squarely, and has the temperament of a noble lady. Very dead.
Judging from her faint curves, she may have been a rare beauty when she was young.
Her butt is also big, no wonder she is so fertile.
In this day and age, it is not easy to successfully give birth to three healthy children.
I don’t know if people really have a third eye. Although she didn’t look back, Mrs. Wang still realized that Jia Lian might be peeping at her.
This made her walking posture a little deformed. Fortunately, her lower body was not far away. After a few steps, she turned into the house and she felt much more at ease.
He asked Jia Lian to sit down and asked the maid to pour tea.
It was rare for Mrs. Wang to be so polite to him, but Jia Lian just smiled and said: "If you have any instructions, Madam, just tell me. If my nephew can do it, he will do his best."
< br /> Mrs. Wang looked at Jia Lian carefully, feeling secretly melancholy in her heart. Could it be that Lian'er's stupidity in the past was really just an act to deceive all of them, until she realized that the elder's days were numbered, so she stopped hiding and successfully won the title in one fell swoop?
If this is the case, his city is too deep.
"Thank you for clarifying your brother's matter."
Mrs. Wang said sincerely.
She cared more about Jia Baoyu's reputation than Jia's mother, so she questioned her carefully about what happened that night early in the morning.
Although the mothers-in-law’s opinions were similar to those of Jia Lian and his wife, under her real questioning, she could still guess that Baoyu was probably instigated by the little bad guy from the Qin family. We did ridiculous things together!
What she didn’t expect was that, after listening to what the mothers-in-law said, Jia Lian not only did not add insult to injury that night, but actually defended Jia Baoyu quite a bit...
Originally, she She also wondered if Jia Lian had any bad ideas. It wasn't until Jia Lian still did that in front of Jia's mother that Mrs. Wang felt that maybe she had been too worried all along.
After all, if Jia Lian really wanted to harm them, there were so many people just now. As long as Jia Lian poured dirty water on Jia Baoyu, her son's reputation would be ruined!
So for this reason, she also felt that she should say thank you to Jia Lian.
"My wife is serious, we are all a family, there is no need to thank him. As an elder brother, if I don't help him, am I going to harm him?"
Jia Lianzui When I said this, I felt a little suspicious in my heart.
Compared with Jia Mu’s superiority and Jia Zheng’s ignorance and pedantry, in fact, he and Mrs. Wang have always understood the competitive relationship between each other best.
And we almost had a falling out because of the sacrifice last time.
So Mrs. Wang took the initiative to talk to him alone, which made him a little surprised, and he couldn't help but feel a little more wary.
Mrs. Wang nodded, smiled at Jia Lian, and then did not dwell on the matter and asked instead: "By the way, I heard that you and Feng Yatou took Shuiyue'an's Jingxu Locked up?"
Jia Lian thought that this was the main topic of Mrs. Wang, and was about to respond with the "confession" that he had arranged with Wang Xifeng a long time ago. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wang had already continued: "Specific details I have already heard from Feng Yatou. Alas, I didn’t expect that she would do such a sinful thing behind her back. I didn’t even know that this was my sin.
What you did is right. Such a scourge cannot be tolerated."
Jia Lian was nervous.Opening her mouth, she thought that this shouldn't be Mrs. Wang's line.
"As for the shady money she left behind..."
Mrs. Wang glanced at Jia Lian, and when Jia Lian was about to speak again, she interrupted again: "Girl Feng also said that you should keep half of it for Shuiyue Nunnery for operation, and the rest should be transported back to the city to buy grain, hire people, and build porridge sheds to help the poor.
This It's also good. In this way, the sins committed by Jingxu can be eliminated to the greatest extent, and I can feel at ease in my heart."
Jia Lian smacked his mouth and couldn't help but lose it. She said: "I thought my wife wanted me to transport the things to the house and return the account!"
Mrs. Wang was silent for a moment and said: "For one thing, all her money is Ill-gotten wealth naturally has to be dissipated as it came in.
On the other hand, if it is brought to the house and returned to the account, let alone the difficulty of establishing a name, I am afraid that the servants will still be suspicious. , The purpose of dealing with Jingxu in the government is to seize people's money, which is not beautiful."
What else could Jia Lian say? Wasn't this what he was going to use to deal with Mrs. Wang, but Mrs. Wang actually said it? , how should he respond?
Simply shut up and say nothing.
"So, you two can keep the money for the time being, and give as much as you can to the poor. It can be considered a kindness.
By the way, Jing Xu is also someone who often walks around in front of the old lady. The old lady doesn’t know about it now. I’ll talk to the old lady later and that’s it. You don’t have to worry.”
Mrs. Wang Said slowly.
Jia Lian just looked at her. Is this a response to his defense of Jia Baoyu? Not only did they not mind at all that they took away Jingxu and replaced Shuiyue Temple as the host, but they even threw such a huge amount of money directly to them.
Unable to guess Mrs. Wang’s thoughts for the time being, Jia Lian didn’t bother to guess. He just said, “In that case, thank you so much, Madam.”
Jingxu collected all the wealth. At least it was worth ten thousand taels. It was undoubtedly a piece of fat meat. If it was put into his mouth, Jia Lian had no reason not to eat it.
Perhaps Mrs. Wang didn’t know that there would be a marriage plan in the future. Otherwise, she might not be so noble. She would only wish to have all the money in her hands...< br />
There was really nothing to talk about alone with Mrs. Wang. After finishing the topic, Jia Lian said goodbye after a few words.
"Well, you go ahead."
Mrs. Wang looked at Jia Lian who was striding away, her smile dropped, but she just stopped smiling, not like It was so gloomy before.
Jia Lian’s guess was right, Mrs. Wang’s placeWith his sudden generosity, he really meant to reciprocate his kindness.
Jia Lian’s attitude towards Jia Baoyu today made Mrs. Wang somewhat relieved and sober. With the current situation, it would not be good for her to be at loggerheads with Jia Lian.
One is for the harmony of the family, and the other is that the daughter has just been crowned a concubine and her status is unstable. She also needs help from Wang Ziteng, Jia Zheng and others. Jia Lian can barely count as a share.
Therefore, letting Jia Lian and his wife swallow Jingxu's private property smoothly was her initiative to show her good intentions.
In fact, Wang Xifeng also contributed to this. When counting the items that night, Wang Xifeng deliberately did not let the Jia family’s mothers-in-law know the exact amount.
When Mrs. Wang asked her last night, she deliberately underreported the number. Mrs. Wang was born into a noble family and had been the head of the Jia family for twenty years. Her vision was quite high, and ordinary wealth could not really sway her heart.
What's more, she still felt disgusted with such dirty money, so she decided to give it to Jia Lian and his wife generously.
Mrs. Wang was thinking about it in her mind, and Jia Lian could feel how much she had worked so hard. Suddenly she saw the intact teacup on the table, and Mrs. Wang felt very speechless:
Could it be that he was afraid that I would poison him?
Mrs. Wang's mood suddenly became unhappy. Did she think she was an ignorant fool like Mr. Yang? With her status, how could she do such a despicable thing?
So he stood up with a flick of his sleeves, asked the girls to pack their things, and went to Jia Mu's side again.
Actually, Mrs. Wang misunderstood Jia Lian again.
It was just a habit developed by Jia Lian not to drink tea or drink casually, not because he was afraid of poisoning her.
Jia Lian knew very well that Mrs. Wang was not stupid. As the biological mother of the imperial concubine, she had a distinguished status. It was difficult for her to have anything worthy of risking her life.
Such people are actually safe.
Unless one day he loses his footing and falls and is surrounded by enemies, Mrs. Wang will be able to grab something for her Baoyu.
Now Mrs. Wang can probably only acquiesce in Wang Xifeng’s loan, which may allow them to destroy the Great Wall and play like a house...