Standing outside the home she had been away from for many days, looking at the familiar plants, trees, bricks and tiles in the yard, Mrs. Wang's heart was full of mixed feelings and thoughts.

I sighed for a long time, and then stepped inside at the reminder of Zhou Rui's family.

The servants and maids who stayed at home, including Aunt Zhou and the reluctant Aunt Zhao, had already lined the streets to greet her in the yard.

Mrs. Wang paused briefly when passing by Aunt Zhao. The corner of her eye fell on Aunt Zhao's increasingly foxy and rosy face with a cold and sharp gaze. However, she quickly took it back and strode back into the main room with her head held high.

Bah~

What an air!

Aunt Zhao gnashed her teeth and cursed secretly, vowing to pull out Mrs. Wang's fox tail, but she forgot that she was also unclean.

When Mrs. Wang saw the door of the hall, she subconsciously tightened her collar. Then she remembered that she had changed into ordinary clothes before coming in, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. Then she felt relieved.

So she asked Zhou Rui's family to guard the door, took a deep breath and walked into the living room.

Under the north wall, Jia Zheng was holding a copy of "Wanli Wild Harvest" in his hands and stood still, as if he didn't notice his wife entering the door at all.

Mrs. Wang had already expected this. Jia Zheng was willing to take the initiative to invite her to come and talk, which was already a very rare low profile. It was absolutely impossible to expect him to continue to be submissive after meeting her.

Fortunately, what Mrs. Wang wants is just a step on the surface. She doesn't have too many extravagant expectations about what happens in private, and she doesn't dare to have too many extravagant expectations.

She took a few steps forward, took the initiative to lower her eyebrows, and said softly: "May I ask what your instructions are for calling me here?"

Jia Zheng calmly moved his eyes from the book to the front of him. After seeing Mrs. Wang bowing down Yingying, he kept his posture and waited obediently for his instructions. Then he nodded slightly and said, "Sit down."

Speak."

"Thank you, sir."

Mrs. Wang bowed again, then sat down on the other side of the coffee table, respectfully facing Jia Zheng with her upper body.

If you just look at the words and deeds of the two people in this room, no one would think that it was Jia Zheng who bowed his head and asked for help, not Mrs. Wang.

However, this is the normal way for couples to get along in today's big houses, so Jia Baoyu seems to be unusual in being considerate to women, and is favored by all the women. Of course, this was before Jiao Shun came, and he did not hesitate to use licking in the face of it.

The shameless sea king who uses dog tactics, Jia Baoyu's three-point ax seems a bit unsatisfactory.

However, after Mrs. Wang sat down, the couple exchanged a few words with each other, but neither of them took the initiative to bring up the matter of investing money. Instead, they talked about the family feud in the house.

Of course, Jia Baoyu's marriage cannot be bypassed.

Jia Zheng learned about this from Jia Lian and Lai Da a few days ago. He was very unhappy about this. He slapped the book on the table and asked angrily: "I am the last one to know about this kind of thing."

Yes, what do you think? Am I still his father?"

Mrs. Wang hurriedly said: "Master, please calm down - I originally wanted to ask him for permission before making a decision. I didn't expect the old lady to suddenly make a sudden suggestion and make the decision in just a few words. That's why I didn't ask him to make the decision."

Jia Zheng actually knew in his heart that this matter was caused by the cold war between the husband and wife, but he was just a little bit unhappy about it. Now that he saw Wang gave a relatively reasonable explanation, he stopped questioning without any reason and turned to

And discussed many matters regarding the engagement with Mr. Wang.

As they chatted like this, the estrangement between the couple gradually cleared up a lot. Seeing that the heat was almost over, Jia Zheng complained a few words to Aunt Zhao, and urged Mrs. Wang to move back as soon as possible.

Mrs. Wang also reciprocated the favor, saying that she had heard that the treasury was empty and had already borrowed a sum of money from the Xue family. Together with her own savings over the years, it was enough to pay for the investment.

In fact, she paid for all the money herself, but firstly, she didn't want Jia Zheng to think that she had accumulated too much wealth; secondly, she also wanted to wait for the treasury to be full, and then go back to make up some more; thirdly, this would also appear She worked hard for this.

These two things were discussed, and one day the clouds seemed to have cleared away.

But there are still a few shadows lingering in Jia Zheng's heart. I won't mention the distant ones, let's just talk about the recent ones...

Why did she choose to send a message to Jiao Shun?!

And you even deliberately turned the screen away?!

Aunt Zhao's instigation obviously had a big impact on Jia Zheng. He endured it again and again but still couldn't complain, so he said seriously: "Why did you ask Chang Qing to pass the message this time? I heard that you should talk to him alone. This matter?"

Mrs. Wang replied casually: "When Baoyu meets the master, he is like avoiding a cat and mouse. I can't let the girls send messages to the master, right? Chang Qing is not an outsider now, not to mention that the master has always relied on..."

Halfway through, she suddenly thought of something, and her originally submissive and gentle face suddenly showed a look of shock and anger. She suddenly stood up and asked, "What do you mean by this?!"

Seeing that she had peeked into his thoughts, Jia Zheng felt a little embarrassed. He turned his eyes to avoid Mrs. Wang's gaze, stroked his beard to hide it and said, "It's not interesting. I just asked casually."

"It doesn't make sense why you suddenly ask this?!"

Mrs. Wang finally waited for this opportunity for reconciliation. She originally thought about getting back together no matter what, and was even prepared to bring up Jia Zheng's old issues again. However, she never expected that Jia Zheng would doubt herself and Jia Zheng. Jiao Shun...

She said angrily: "Who do you think I am?! I'm several years older than his wife. It's all because you have always relied on him that I treated him as my nephew. Who would have thought that you would beat me up..." "

While Jia Zheng was in a state of embarrassment, he was also angry. He thought to himself, if you hadn't been dressing up in such a slutty way secretly, how could I have been so suspicious?

But this matter was indeed his fault, so he could only argue with a smile: "You are too worried, I never meant it."

However, Mrs. Wang soon caught another source of his words. She clutched the handkerchief tightly and asked tremblingly: "Then you just asked me, 'Am I still Baoyu's father?' What did you mean by that? Is it possible for you?" Do you really believe those rumors outside?! You, you, you, I have been a couple with you for so many years in vain!"

Baoyu was her biggest enemy, so when Mrs. Wang said this, she was filled with resentment. She ignored Jia Zheng's rebuttal, threw up her sleeves and rushed out of the door.

"This, you... ugh!"

Later, Jia Zheng raised his hand to stop her, but he was anxious but didn't know what to say. He watched Mrs. Wang lead the people away, and in the end he could only sit back on the chair dejectedly, sighing.

…………

But it was said that Mrs. Wang returned home in shame and anger, and even smashed a set of cups and two vases, still feeling angry.

Grain

When the attack was about to continue, Aunt Xue and her daughter who were living here were alarmed.

When they entered the door and saw the mess on the ground, they knew that Jia Zheng must have been angry with him, so Baochai backed away and stepped forward to persuade him: "After all, my uncle missed the opportunity to be promoted and fell ill again.

It's inevitable to be a little sullen - now that he has finally handed me the steps, if there is anything he doesn't like, my aunt should try not to argue with him, why bother making a fuss for the people below to see?"

"Alas~"

Mrs. Wang sighed, tears rolling down her face. She touched it lightly with a handkerchief, shook her head and said with a bitter smile: "You don't know, if it just doesn't suit your ears, that's fine, but he actually... ugh!"

Seeing Mrs. Wang's face full of shame and anger but she hesitated to speak, Xue Baochai knew that there was probably an unspeakable reason. If she stayed here, her aunt would never say it clearly, so she gave her mother a look and then took the initiative to withdraw.

bedroom.

After her daughter left, Aunt Xue sat on the couch side by side with Mrs. Wang, took her sister's hand and asked: "What on earth did brother-in-law say? If you really don't like it, we will ask the old lady to make the decision. If not, there will be brother."

Support us!"

"he!"

Mrs. Wang turned around with an angry look, but still couldn't speak.

"Sister, can't you even trust me?"

It was not until Aunt Xue urged her repeatedly that she told Jia Zheng that she was having an affair with Jiao Shun, and that she even believed the rumors outside and thought that Baoyu was not a flesh and blood of the Jia family, so she made it more jealous.

Aunt Xue was dumbfounded when she heard this. She covered her heart and said in horror: "This is too...how old is Brother Shun? Not to mention his sister, I can be his mother regardless of my age. How could my brother-in-law be suspicious of this?"

"Hmph~"

Mrs. Wang gritted her teeth and said, "He can even raise suspicions about Baoyu, let alone someone else?"

After a pause, he couldn't help but sarcastically said: "He himself is in poor health, so he naturally thinks that there is evil hidden in others!"

Aunt Xue had already heard about Jia Zheng's situation, but she couldn't hide her criticism, so she changed the subject and said, "What are you going to do next, sister? Are you going to move back in?"

"He humiliated me so much, what else is there to move?!"

Mrs. Wang said angrily: "From now on, we sisters will just live together as widows here!"

These words implicitly meant to curse Jia Zheng. Aunt Xue opened her mouth and didn't know what to say. However, she saw Mrs. Wang peeling off her formal clothes and started to pull off her inner clothes again. She couldn't help but said in shock: "Sister, what are you doing?"

What to do?"

Mrs. Wang walked to the closet with only her shoes and socks on, rummaged through it and pulled out several sets of voluptuous clothes and gesticulated on her body while gritting her teeth: "Since he has determined that I am a wanton woman, I naturally can't let him down - in the past

I will never change it again, I will only use these shameful ones!"

Aunt Xue almost had a heart attack when she heard the first half of the sentence - she thought her sister was so angry that she really wanted Hongxing to seduce Jiao Shun!

After hearing the second half of the sentence, Aunt Xue breathed a sigh of relief and followed her sister's words and said: "Then let's continue to live freely here for a while. When my brother-in-law improves, it won't be too late for my sister to move back."

Mrs. Wang didn't comment on this, she put on a lace hollow suit, not even covering it with a silk scarf and quilt, and continued to complain to Aunt Xue.

The two sisters chatted for half an hour, and when they saw Mrs. Wang chanting sutras, Aunt Xue said goodbye and went back to her room, leaving Mrs. Wang alone, solemn and naked, kneeling in front of the Buddhist altar.

But when Aunt Xue returned to the house, Baochai, who had been waiting for a long time, hurriedly ordered someone to bring in an ice basin and made a bowl of sour plum soup herself.

After being busy for a while, when the mother and daughter sat down across the kang table, Baochai asked about the two sisters' answers just now. Aunt Xue shook her head repeatedly: "These are private matters between the elders. Don't pry about your children."

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Hearing what her mother said, Baochai made a good guess in her mind, and couldn't help but feel distressed secretly. If her parents-in-law were still at odds after she got married, she would probably add a lot of troubles to her.

But she smiled and said comfortingly: "Everyone is cleaning up the snow on his own. Even sisters can't help. I have to worry about my aunt's affairs. Mom can just take care of our own home first."

When Baochai said this, Aunt Xue remembered that she had received an errand earlier.

only……

If Jia Zheng hadn't suspected Mrs. Wang, it would have been okay for her to call Jiao Shun to confront her. Now that this matter has arisen, it would be inappropriate to call people to the hut in Qingtang - even if Mrs. Xu goes in and out of the hut

, may cause Jia Zheng’s misunderstanding.

She backed down for a moment, but then she thought of Baochai's words that if this matter was done properly, it might be a good opportunity for Xue Pan to establish his prestige in the imperial business circle.

The inability of her son to support the family has always been the most troublesome thing for Aunt Xue, especially when Baochai is about to get married. If she can take the opportunity to solve it...

Thinking like this, she became determined again, so she said to Baochai: "I heard that Sister Xu often goes to Zijin Street to supervise the work in the past six months. Why don't we also meet with their mother and son in the name of supervising the work in Zijin Street?"

a while?"

Although Baochai was extremely intelligent, how could he have imagined that Mrs. Jia Zhengwang's grudges and grudges would actually affect Jiao Shun?

She just thought that her mother was worried that the people in this hut in Qingtang were too chatty and not as easy to talk as in the old house on Zijin Street, so she repeatedly praised her mother for her thoughtfulness, and said that Xing Xiuyan was about to give birth, so she might as well prepare some useful gifts for the mother and child, and give them to her in person when the time came.

Jiao Shun mother and son.

After the mother and daughter discussed this, they talked about the marriage of Baochai's cousin Xue Baoqin.

Xue Baoqin and Mei Hanlin's family in Beijing were married at the fingertips. Now they are only thirteen years old, and they are not yet ready for marriage. However, Mei Hanlin's mother fell seriously ill at the beginning of the year, and she was afraid that she would not be able to survive her grandson.

She wanted to get married, so she asked the Xue family to send her daughter to Beijing to get married as soon as possible.

Baoqin's father readily agreed, but before setting off northward, he accidentally fell off his horse and broke his leg, so he had to let his son Xue Biao do it for him.

Baochai then said: "Although they are elder brothers and fathers, Xue Biao is only fifteen after all. If he really wants to get here, I'm afraid my mother will have to make the decision. In my opinion, we might as well try to ask Mei Mei first."

As for the current situation of the family, it will be better to have a clear picture when the brothers and sisters arrive."

Aunt Xue would naturally not have any objections to this, but it would be a bit troublesome to ask someone to inquire about it.

Jia Zheng said he was ill, and Jia Lian happened to follow Sun Shaozu to Jinmen Mansion. As for Xue Pan...

Aunt Xue hesitated and said, "Why don't we just leave the two masters alone and leave it to Brother Shun?"

"That's all."
Chapter completed!