Phoenix Indus

Chapter 8

In mid-October, when Yongning ushered in the first snow of winter, the Jin family sent away their 19-year-old third grandmother, Jun Xuewen.

In the sad atmosphere of the loss of their loved ones, Jin and Jun's family took care of Jun Xuewen's funeral, and Jun's mother was bedridden because of the loss of her favorite granddaughter.

It's just that Ren Bi has already left, even though the heartache is unbearable, life still has to go on...

Ever since she nodded and agreed to Jun Xuewen's dying legacy, after Jun Xueqi returned to Wen Ningjun's mansion, she has been shutting herself in the Tingyu Courtyard, and she doesn't care about anything, which makes Mrs. Jun and Nanny Shen very sad is worry.

After dinner that day, Nanny Shen walked into the main study room with the ginseng soup that Mrs. Jun ordered the kitchen to cook. Seeing Jun Xueqi listlessly sitting on the big couch under the window in a daze, she felt very sad and bitter. Sighing, forced a little smile, walked forward, handed ginseng tea, said with a smile: "Miss, this is ginseng soup that my wife asked the kitchen to cook for you, you should drink it while it is hot."

Jun Xueqi took Shencha tea unhurriedly, looked at the girls who were joking and joking together in the yard through the slightly open window, and asked with a little worry: "Is the old lady feeling better? Do you still invite a doctor and drink medicine? I don’t have the mood to leave the yard now, and I have to trouble my mother to visit the old lady for me more.”

Seeing that Jun Xueqi asked about Jun's mother, Shen Momo quickly replied with a smile: "The old lady's body is getting better, and the doctor has changed her prescription. Now the main thing is to take care of her. Miss, don't worry."

After finishing speaking, seeing Jun Xueqi looking at the girls in the yard talking and laughing, she persuaded with a smile: "Miss, you have been bored in our yard for five or six days, and you should go out for a walk. Take advantage of these few days It’s not snowing yet, so it’s time to go out for a walk, if it snows next, you won’t dare to go out of the house casually.”

Jun Xueqi smiled wryly and shook her head. After a while, she asked again: "What is Second Sister busy these days? Haven't seen me for a few days? Could it be the last time I came here, because I didn't go out with her?" Going around the yard, are you mad at me?"

Nanny Shen hesitated for a moment before replying hesitantly: "Madam has been busy preparing the dowry for the second young lady and the young lady these days, so the second young lady has been helping the concubine prepare for the new year. After the new year, After the master's third anniversary ceremony is over, our Jun family's three-year filial piety period is over, and it's time for the second lady and the young lady to choose a date to leave the cabinet."

Hearing the word "out of the pavilion", Jun Xueqi's heart ached again, she brought some ginseng tea and drank two or three sips, suppressed the grievance in her heart, stood up and said to Nanny Shen: "I'm a little tired, I want to go to bed earlier, and my mother should go back to rest earlier."

After finishing speaking, he left the study room, walked through the East Nuan Pavilion, the small hall, and the West Nuan Pavilion, and entered the inner room, lay down on the bed, and pulled the quilt to cover it.

Seeing this, Shen Momo sighed helplessly, turned around and left the front room, sent all the maids in the yard back to their rooms to rest, and then went back to her own room to rest.

What needs to be said has been said, what needs to be persuaded has been persuaded, now except for waiting for Jun Xueqi to figure it out by herself, Nanny Shen has no other choice.

In the blink of an eye, it was the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month, and Mrs. Jun was busy preparing for the New Year, the third anniversary ceremony of Jun Yili, and the dowries of sisters Jun Xueling and Jun Xueqi. She didn't even have time to eat a meal or sleep peacefully.

After the ceremony of the third anniversary of Jun Yili, the Jun family can take off their filial piety, so Mrs. Jun asked the steward of the Jun family's tailor shop to make some new clothes for all the masters and servants of the Jun family.

This day, the daughter-in-law in charge of the tailor's clothing store brought in all the new clothes that had been tailored.

Nanny Wu checked the new clothes of the servants briefly, and if there was nothing wrong with them, she ordered Madam Qian, the daughter-in-law of the manager, to take them off and distribute them among the servants in the family.

Mrs. Jun personally inspected the new clothes of the masters, and it took enough time for a cup of tea. Fang nodded in satisfaction and praised: "The clothes are well done this time. Go back and tell your master, and give them to the shop." Each of them will be rewarded with five hundred coins." Pointing to the daughter-in-law, he said to Madam Wu: "Another sling of money will be given to her to buy some fruit."

The daughter-in-law accepted the order with gratitude, took the money, and went back to the shop.

Mrs. Jun ordered the servant girl to take the little girls to send the new clothes and the new headgear delivered yesterday to the masters of each courtyard.

Then I saw Qian Momo walking in quickly and said with a smile: "Ma'am, the Jin family in Yongning is overjoyed. The son born to the aunt of the Jin family turned five years old two months ago. Last month, Prince Anping asked the imperial decree to confer the eldest son of King Anping as Anping." His Majesty, His Majesty nodded in agreement. Five days ago, His Majesty decreed to formally enshrine Prince Anping's son, and now Aunt Jin's grandma is Princess Anping's son."

Mrs. Jun was very happy when she heard the good news from the Jin family.The better the Jin family is, the better life Jun Xueqi and Sister Ling will have in the future.Furthermore, now that the second wife of the Jin family has Prince Anping's concubine, she is no longer afraid of being oppressed by the head of the capital. When Jun Xueqi passes through the door, she can live a more comfortable life without always worrying about it.

After lunch, Mrs. Jun personally prepared a congratulatory gift, and sent two decent wives in charge to take the boys to the Jin family in Yongning to congratulate them.

In the evening, when Mrs. Jun went to Dongyuan to accompany Mother Jun for dinner, she told Mother Jun the good news of the Jin family, and said with a happy smile: "In recent years, when the wife of the in-laws came over, she complained a few times. While relying on Grand Master Jin to be a high-ranking official, the eldest aunt is also the concubine of Prince Anle, and she controls the second room. Now the third aunt is the concubine of Prince Anping. In terms of background and power, the Anping Palace is much higher than that of Anle Palace , now my wife can finally live with peace of mind."

Your mother has been ill in bed for a long time. After hearing this, a rare smile appeared on her pale sick face, she nodded and said: "This is a great joy. In the future, Qi girl will pass through the door, and there will be someone who will be the princess of the world." With the support of my sister-in-law, I don’t have to look too much at the faces of my sisters-in-law when I go to the capital every year, and I can live a more stable and comfortable life. The third aunt of the Jin family has a good relationship with Qi girl since she was a child, and her cousins ​​are like sisters , with her in the capital to take care of her, even if the second room moves into the capital in the future, there is no need to worry about Qi girl suffering or being wronged there."

After finishing speaking, he ordered Madam Liu, who was waiting by the side, to say: "Go and open the biggest box in the room. There is a piece of high-quality jade Ruyi in it, and a pair of high-quality jade pillows. They were all given to me by my mother when I left the cabinet. I feel sorry for me, and I pressed the dowry box for me. Now that I am also a grandmother, it is useless to keep those boxes, so it is better to add a dowry to Qiyatou. The second wife of the Jin family is born as a concubine, and this fame and status will naturally be higher. On the next level, there must be some precious things that can be handed out in the dowry of Qi girl."

Seeing that Jun's mother had been ill for so long, it was the first time she was so happy, and she was relieved a lot. She nodded with a busy smile, and took the two little girls in to open the box.

Here, Mrs. Jun declined with a smile and said: "The mother-in-law wants to add a dowry to Qiyatou, the daughter-in-law is naturally happy, but these two things are too expensive, mother-in-law should keep it for herself, and just pick a few sets of dowry for Qiyatou."

Mrs. Jun let out a long sigh, waved her hands, and said with a wry smile: "In the end, I was the one who felt sorry for Qiyatou, who was a good daughter-in-law, but ended up marrying as a follow-up. Although you don't complain about me, I It's not that I don't understand in my heart, it's just that they are all my granddaughters, and the palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. Girl Wen is a hard-working girl, she lost her mother at a young age, and although she got a good husband and wife, she was hit by no one. In the end, she ended up with a confidante. I just can't bear to let her go so young that she can't close her eyes even if she walks."

As she spoke, Jun's mother cried loudly in distress and distress.

Although Mrs. Jun was also bitter in her heart, she could only hold back the tears in her eyes, comforted Jun's mother with soft words, and did not dare to cry, which made Jun's mother worse.

During the New Year's Eve, the Jun family was still in the filial piety period, so they couldn't make festive arrangements, but on the night of the New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered together and had a New Year's Eve dinner.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Mrs. Qiao from Qiaojiazhuang brought her two sons to pay New Year's greetings, and visited Jun's mother who had just recovered from a serious illness. By the way, she discussed with Mrs. Jun about choosing a date so that she could marry Jun Xueling.

In the evening, Mrs. Jun saw off Mrs. Qiao and the two masters of the Qiao family, and then sat with Aunt Jiang in the Xinuan Pavilion in the main room of the summer courtyard, discussing the dowry list for Jun Xueling, and sighed with a smile: "It will be done in March." For the master's third anniversary ceremony, we will send Ling girl out of the pavilion in May. The days go by really fast, seeing that Ling girl and Qi girl are getting married, we just can't accept it. "

Aunt Jiang poured tea and served it with her own hands, and said with a smile: "Ma'am, this is a bit exaggerated. Ma'am is only in her early thirties this year. How can she be old? If the old lady heard her say that, she would definitely laugh at her. of."

Mrs. Jun shook her head with a smile, put down the dowry list in her hand, took the tea from Aunt Jiang, and sighed bitterly: "Although girl Wen and girl Ling are not my own, they are both raised by me. I'm the same as Qi girl in my heart. I wanted to buy them a generous dowry, so that their sisters can get married in a good manner, and don't go into the in-laws' house to suffer. But I didn't expect that the Qiao family fell, and Uncle Qiao thought about it again. In order to obtain fame, there is no intention of making a comeback in business, so our family has not helped the Qiao family in the past few years, and the life of the Qiao family is still so neither rich nor poor.

"Now that Ling girl is passing through the door, I have to think about the dowry. I can't make Ling girl feel wronged too much, and I can't hurt the face of the Qiao family. If the Qiao family feels that our family has overwhelmed them, then in the future, Ling girl Life can't be easier. I mean, prepare more dowry and silver, anyway, they are all packed in boxes, and they are not very conspicuous. The dowry Zhuangzi and shop can only be exempted, and there should not be too many dowries. Now, although the Qiao family is not in a difficult situation, it is not rich after all. It is not certain whether Uncle Qiao’s official career will be smooth or not. If there are too many people to bring over, it will be a burden. Just let the four maids and the nanny with Ling Yatou go with him. Let’s forget about the little girls, reward the four big maids with some money, let them feel wronged when they get there, and do the work of the little girls.”

Aunt Jiang was very grateful to see Mrs. Jun's plan for Jun Xueling so much, she smiled and said: "Madam is very considerate, so just do as Madam says. There is a wife who plans for the second young lady, and the second young lady's future Life must be smooth and satisfying." As he spoke, the tears in his eyes flowed down.

Mrs. Jun took Aunt Jiang's hand, patted and comforted her and said, "Don't worry too much, Qiao's Village is just outside Wenning City, Ling girl is not married far away, if there is any difficulty in the future, send someone back to tell Just a word is enough. Besides, we all live in Wenning. If something happens to the Qiao family, we can hear the news, and we will definitely not let Ling girl be wronged. If you miss her on weekdays, send someone to take it It's very cheap to go and see her. Besides, Uncle Qiao's words and deeds are very extraordinary today, if she really gets to high school, Ling girl will be the wife of the official family, are you afraid that she will not have a good life in the future?"

Aunt Jiang felt a lot relieved when she heard this, she nodded in agreement, and while wiping the tears on her face with a handkerchief, she said with a smile: "I have been with my wife for so many years, but I am still so useless, let my wife see you as a joke." gone."

Mrs. Jun waved her hands and said with a smile: "Mothers are reluctant to let their daughter leave the court. When Qiyatou goes out, I don't know how I will cry?"

The two discussed it properly, and it was already late at night. Aunt Jiang asked Mrs. Shijun to go to bed before going back to her room to rest.

(End of this chapter)