Red House Shoufu

Chapter 248

In the eyes of Wang Xifeng and the girls, Grandma Liu and her grandparents were plainly dressed, even with a few patches.

But the starching was very clean, and even the little doll's clothes were not stained with mud.Following Wang Xifeng's words, everyone cast their eyes on Ban Er beside the old grandma's legs, and saw that he was staring at a plate of snacks on the table, swallowing unconsciously in his throat.

Sensing that the group of fairy sisters walking out of the painting in the room were all looking at him, the young Ban'er blushed and hid himself behind Grandma Liu.

Grandma Liu touched her grandson's little head, leaned forward and said: "This morning, the old woman took the child on a journey, and she just arrived at your mansion. She only used some porridge in the morning, so she acted extraordinarily. My lord, I hope you will forgive me."

Wang Xifeng handed the child to the grandmother, and waved to Ban'er: "This child looks good. According to seniority, I am still his aunt. Come, come to my aunt... Liu's family, sit down, relatives When I get home, how can I just stand there?"

Encouraged by Grandma Liu, Ban'er moved to Wang Xifeng on short legs, but kept his eyes on the plate of dim sum.

Wang Xifeng touched Ban'er's head, took the plate of dim sum and handed over a piece.Watching Ban'er gobble it up, he carefully asked someone to bring him some tea.

"What's the child's name? I'm afraid he's three or four years old? He looks good and he's smart."

Hearing Wang Xifeng's question, Grandma Liu replied: "My son-in-law spent half his life digging in the fields and never read a book. When the child was born, the son-in-law was so happy that he was distracted, and his head accidentally hit the door panel, so he took it away." A nickname is Baner."

The girls in the room couldn't help covering their mouths and laughing. Grandma Liu didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Instead, she laughed and said: "It's not easy for country people to raise a child. Most of them take nicknames like pigs and dogs. As the saying goes, it's easy to raise a child with a humble name." , When the child grows up and needs to read and write, then find a scholar to get an official name."

"What Liu's family said is that no matter where you are, raising a child is not easy."

Wang Xifeng took the child from the nanny, looked at the baby in the swaddle with soft eyes, and said to Grandma Liu: "I have been married to the second master for several years, and it was not easy to have this sister. The whole family loves her like a blind eye." , I’m afraid there will be a headache.”

Ban'er, who was eating snacks, suddenly smelled the smell of milk, looked up and saw that there was a baby in the arms of the nobleman next to him, and looked around curiously.

While Wang Xifeng was speaking, he hesitated for a moment, handed the snack in his hand to the infant, opened his eyes and looked at his child: "Eat!"

Tong Yin was immature but sincere, Wang Xifeng smiled and said to Ban'er: "She is still young, she can't eat snacks, Ban'er eats."

Then she said to Grandma Liu: "This child is well-behaved and sensible, and Liu's family taught him well."

"The nobleman was joking, but he just told him some lessons passed down by his ancestors, and hoped that he would not go astray in the future."

It was also the first time for Grandma Liu to come to this Duke's mansion, so she was very cautious, and her words revealed caution.

Wang Xifeng also saw it, and asked the girls in the room to go to Yingchun, and then asked Grandma Liu's purpose for coming today.

It turned out that there was not much food in the spring drought last year, and there was a flood this summer, and the family was about to stop cooking.Son-in-law Wang Gou'er had a thin skin and couldn't borrow food. At this time, Grandma Liu remembered something.When Wang Gou'er's grandfather was a minor official in the capital, he had a family relationship with the uncle of the Wang family, that is, Wang Xifeng's father.

In this way, Wang Gou'er is still a serious relative of the Wang family. Grandma Liu wanted to come to the Wang family to try her luck, maybe she could borrow some food and money to tide over the difficulties.As for self-respect and face, can it outweigh a hungry stomach?
When Wang Xifeng heard about what happened to Grandma Liu in front of the governor's mansion, she couldn't help cursing: "The face of the Wang family has been completely lost by these dog slaves!"

"Your nobles, don't blame them. Who would have thought that the Wang family would have poor relatives who couldn't afford to eat..."

It's fine if Grandma Liu doesn't say this, but Wang Xifeng gets even angrier when she mentions this.Although the Rongguo Mansion was in a bit of a difficult situation in the past few years, the Jia family in the capital had the most difficult life. As long as they came to the mansion to tell them, they would not be so poor that they could not afford to eat.

The reason why Jia Lian was able to win the support of most of the Jia clan was not because the family could always take care of his clan members.Whose family pays back every poor relative? Does the Wang family's reputation lose its reputation if the members of the Wang family treat their relatives like this?

Wang Xifeng cursed secretly for a while, and ordered Ping'er to arrange some meals to be delivered.Then he said to Grandma Liu: "There are many guests in the house today, and I don't have much time to accompany you. After dinner, I will send your grandparents back in a carriage. As for the food, I will send some to you first... ..."

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In the Yingchun courtyard, the girls inquired about Grandma Liu's intentions from Ping'er.Daiyu sighed: "In the past two years, my brother often took me to the village to relax. Maybe it's because the weather in the south of the Yangtze River has been good in the past few years, and it's rare for me to not be able to eat enough."

Among the group of people, if they were knowledgeable, Xue Baochai, who often went out to inspect the shop, saw the most.

She then said a lot of things in the market, although because of her status as a woman, what she said was lacking, but it also let the girls know the difficulties of people's livelihood.

Ping'er, who came to take care of these girls on behalf of Wang Xifeng, also told Wang Xifeng's plan: "Grandma said, there is a girl in Grandma Liu's family, if there are old clothes at home, why not pick a few and send them together .”

Daiyu shook her head and said, "Sister Feng's intentions are good, but most of the older sisters' old clothes are made of silk, so it's not appropriate to give them to farmers."

Wang Yuan took out a few silver beans from her purse, about two or two.She stuffed it into Ping'er's hand and said: "Sister Lin is right, it's better to give more money and let the old man buy some cloth by himself."

"Sister Yuan is right..."

Daiyu also took out a small piece of silver from her purse and put it in Ping'er's hand.Immediately afterwards, Sanchun, Baochai, and Xiangyun all took out small pieces of silver beans and handed them to Ping'er.

Ping'er looked at the ten or so taels of silver in his hand, filled in two taels and said: "Grandma Liu is probably blessed by the Bodhisattva when she worshiped Buddha, so she can meet kind-hearted girls, so I will send it to Grandma Liu... ..."

Wang Xifeng also had to entertain guests. Grandma Liu, accompanied by Ping'er, had an exquisite lunch.After she was full, Ping'er stuffed a purse into her hand.

"There are 30 taels of silver here that grandma ordered to give you, and a dozen taels of silver were collected by the girls in the mansion. After you have collected it, go back and make some clothes for your sisters and brothers. The food has already arranged for a carriage. I will let the soldiers at home take you back soon."

Grandma Liu didn't expect that she would not only borrow food, but also get the kindness from the nobles and girls by trying her luck.This money can buy several acres of high-quality farmland in the countryside.

Grandma Liu, who wanted to infer evidence, sighed when she saw the grandson next to her legs, knelt down respectfully and kowtowed to Ping'er: "Thanks to the blessing of the Bodhisattva today, I have received the great kindness of the nobles. The old lady is kind." I took the money with shame, and when the harvest is ready in the coming year, I will bring the board to kowtow to the nobles to thank them."

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The carriage was walking leisurely on the trail in the west of Beijing, the sun was shining in the west, and dogs barked and cocks crowed from time to time in the villages on both sides.Wangjiazhuang is an extremely ordinary Zhuangzi, except for one or two relatively wealthy families, most of them are poor.

Two carriages entered Zhuangzi, and the sound of horseshoes aroused the curiosity of the villagers in Zhuangzi. Knowing that it was Grandma Liu who came back from a relative's house in the capital, they all gathered around Wang Gou'er's house curiously.

After the carriage of Rongguo Mansion left, he closed the door and looked at the food and cloth in front of him, Wang Gou'er asked in disbelief, "Mother, did you really borrow it?"

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(End of this chapter)