The red building is so arrogant

Time flies, and it is May in the third year of Tongzhi.

Jiao's new house.

Aunt Zhao was sleeping soundly in the guest room when she was suddenly woken up by the servant girl. She turned over and scolded angrily: "You little hoof, when I came back last night, didn't I tell you to Don't wake me up in the morning?!"

Since last summer, Jia Huan, who came back early, was introduced by Jiao Shun to work in the newly established Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and after she obtained a seventh-rank official status, her temper has become more and more violent.

Of course, that also belongs to whom.

Facing Jia Lan and Li Wan, who were high school graduates last autumn, her attitude became more respectful.

But if it is against Baoyu...

Hehe, how many people in the whole family think of Baoyu now?

The servant girl timidly said: "Auntie, it's Auntie Ping'er looking for you."

"Ping'er? What about Ping'er?!"

Aunt Zhao was chanting, but she still stood up in her clothes, not to mention that Ping'er was taking care of the internal affairs of the new house, just because she was Master Jiao's childhood sweetheart, it was not easy to offend her.

After a brief grooming, she greeted Ping'er with a big smile, and said with a smile when she saw Ping'er: "I kept you waiting for a long time, it's fine at our house, but once I'm here with you, I can't get up in the morning. "

"It's good for Auntie to sleep soundly."

Ping'er got up and smiled and said, "I didn't dare to disturb Auntie, but the Rongguo Mansion just sent news that Mr. Zheng has already left for the north and will arrive in Beijing soon."

Aunt Zhao was shocked when she heard this, and murmured with a strange look on her face: "It's so good, why are you going back to the capital all of a sudden?"

Ping'er was speechless, so he could only remind him: "Master Zheng has completed his 27-month filial piety period in April, so he will naturally return to the capital."

"Oh, oh oh..."

It's no wonder that Aunt Zhao didn't react for a while, it was mainly due to the atmosphere in the mansion in the past two years, if Ping'er hadn't mentioned it suddenly, she almost forgot that there was Jia Zheng in the Rongguo mansion.

When she came back to her senses, she hurriedly asked, "Does your wife know about this?"

"My wife went to the palace early in the morning, so I don't know about it yet."

"Oh~"

Aunt Zhao was stunned, she thought that it was no wonder she made herself eat too much last night, so she planned to go to the palace today.

After being dazed for a while, she said indifferently: "Then when the third girl comes back, I'll tell her myself - anyway, the master just wants to come back, not that he has already returned, and there is no need to rush home."

As he spoke, he yawned again.

Seeing this, Ping'er bowed slightly: "Then I won't disturb Auntie."

After speaking, he backed out.

When I returned to the back house, I saw the pregnant Lin Hongyu talking with Yu Chuan in the corridor, so she stepped forward and said to Yu Chuan, "You should always inform the eldest wife about the affairs of Mr. Zheng. ,still……"

"I'll go."

Yu Chuan got up swiftly and said, "It just happened that when Sister Siqi came to visit last time, I fell in love with San Ge'er's new shoes, so I sent her the cut shoes with me."

After finishing speaking, she went back to the house to pick up the shoes, took two little maids to the front yard to choose a rickshaw, one pulled it in front and the other pushed it behind, and soon came to the main house.

She is one of her own, so she doesn't need to be informed.

All the way to the back house, Yu Chuan was not in a hurry to meet the eldest wife Shi Xiangyun in the main room, but poked around in the east and west rooms.

A familiar servant girl saw her, and she couldn't help wondering: "Who is Aunt Bai looking for?"

Bai Yuchuan straightened his waist, and asked with a smile, "Where is the attacker? Didn't I send it here before, why didn't I see anyone?"

Xiren was sent to the main house only two days ago.

As for the reason...

In the spring of this year, Shi Shu finally got pregnant, and Jiao Shun had already promised to carry her aunt, but she had a miscarriage in April.

The servant's voice became hoarse from crying, and later, for some reason, he believed that the attacker was hindering him, and staged a full martial arts act while Tanchun was not at home.

Later, there was no real evidence, but the two of them were already at odds, so Tanchun negotiated with Shi Xiangyun and sent Xiren here.

"Sister Xiren was assigned to the house of my concubine in Dongkuayuan."

Concubine is the respectful title for Xing Xiuyan, and this is the only treatment offered by the Jiao family. In addition, since Jiao Da passed away the year before last, Dongkuayuan has also allocated it to her.

"I said."

Yu Chuan was stunned, he wanted to take a look at the excitement of Xiren, but if he went to Dongkua courtyard specifically, he was afraid that he would be stared at by the servant when he went back.

Forget it, it’s better to do serious things first.

Shi Xiangyun was hugging his youngest son born last winter, chatting with Cuilu and Siqi about the family affairs, and after hearing Yuchuan's report, he asked: "When the master comes back this time, is he planning to recover or to take care of himself for the rest of his life?"

"This……"

Yu Chuan faltered and said, "Sister Ping'er didn't explain it, and I guess Mr. Zheng didn't say it in the telegram."

By the end of last year, the telegram had reached Jinling.

"Ah."

Shi Xiangyun nodded, and said again: "Well then, I'll go back to Rongguo Mansion with your wife tomorrow to have a look—if you want to recover, you have to make a good stand in advance."

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at the same time.

In the palace, clean up the door.

In the front hall, the queen mothers of the two palaces were accompanying Emperor Tongzhi to listen to politics behind the curtain. In the back hall, two sisters, Jia Yuanchun and Jia Tanchun, sat opposite each other, eating tea and snacks and chatting casually.

"I heard that Hou Baoling is about to leave his post and return to China?"

Tanchun sipped his tea and asked.

"Ah~"

Yuan Chun said helplessly: "Last June, there was a civil turmoil in Xiyi and Gaul. The students who made troubles petitioned our embassy in Daxia for help. It was nothing more than Baoling Houzhan's advances and retreats. Afterwards, it was revealed that he had an affair with the leading female student. Really. yes……"

As he said that, he couldn't help shaking his head: "If it wasn't for the fact that he has been stationed in Europa for so many years, he has no credit or hard work, then he would not be asked to resign and return to China, but to be dismissed and sent back to China."

"Has the successor been chosen yet?"

This is obviously what Tanchun really cares about.

"not yet."

Yuan Chun said uncertainly: "However, your master made a memorial yesterday, suggesting that in addition to changing the ambassador to Europa this time, we should also take this opportunity to show our national power in Daxia - what new Chinese medicine, telegrams, telephones, portable cameras?" , armored fleet, rapid-fire guns, water-cooled machine guns... bring everything you can bring."

"Then how to solve the problem of secrecy?"

"Ask your master about this..."

Just as he was talking, the curtain was lifted, Empress Dowager Wu came in yawning and bored, followed by Empress Dowager Li with a dignified gait.

Seeing that there was no one else but them, Tanchun didn't bother to be polite. After all, he was already a comrade in arms who had carried a gun together, and he didn't have so many rules in private.

Empress Dowager Wu even kicked off the embroidered shoes without any image, and directly threw her petite and light body on the Arhat bed, complaining all over her mouth: "The emperor is still young, how can he bear it so early all day long?!"

Everyone looked at each other and laughed when they heard the words, but they didn't reveal that she couldn't get up by herself.

Empress Dowager Wu read a few words, then raised her white tender feet and tapped on Tanchun's back, and asked lazily, "Why do you have time to come to the palace early this morning?"

"Of course it was entrusted by my master."

Tan Chun smiled and took out a small box, put it on the bed and pushed it in front of Empress Dowager Wu.

Empress Dowager Wu turned over and sat up. When she opened it and saw that it was a pile of yellow and orange objects, she looked at it over and over again, and said uncertainly for a while, "This should be the balloon made by the Ministry of Industry last year, right? So many pimples?"

As he said that, he tried to blow air into it, but only a mace shape was blown out, and he couldn't blow it anymore.

Only then did Tan Chun cover his mouth with a smile and said: "This thing is not a balloon, our master specially made it just in case - you accidentally got pregnant years ago, my lord, but my master was scared enough."

"in case?"

Empress Dowager Wu looked at the inflated 'balloon' suspiciously, and suddenly Fu Ling thought: "He wants to trap it in..."

Before he finished speaking, he threw it back into the box in disgust, and then sighed seven or eight times.

Both Tanchun and Yuanchun couldn't help covering their mouths and sniggering, only Empress Dowager Li blushed from the sidelines.

Empress Dowager Wu became furious and tapped Tanchun's back with her toe, and said bitterly: "You let that dog come into the palace the next day, and see how the Ai family will deal with him!"

As he said that, he took half out of the box and threw it on the table: "You share among yourself, and I will keep the rest first."

Empress Dowager Li didn't dare to pick it up. In the end, Yuan Chun simply counted and divided two into five.

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After Tanchun returned home, when he heard that his father was going back to Beijing, he couldn't help frowning at first, but then he thought that Jiao Shun and Mrs. Wang had seen less and less times recently, so maybe he could take this opportunity to persuade her to cut off contact.

So the next day, I went to the main house to meet Shi Xiangyun, and took thirty or fifty servant girls back to my mother's house.

Arrived in the Grand View Garden, was rushing to the hut of Qingtang, when I bumped into a fat man with a fat head and big ears.

The two hurriedly stopped and greeted 'Second Brother Bao'.

The fat man patted his chubby general belly, and asked naively: "It's not a year, why did you two come back together?"

Shi Xiangyun and Jia Tanchun looked at each other with helplessness on their faces.

Probably it was the experience of being hungry and cold when he was in distress, which left Baoyu with psychological trauma, which caused him to suffer from overeating since the first year of Tongzhi, and now his weight has steadily exceeded 250 catties.

At the same time, he also became more lazy, doing nothing but eating, drinking and sleeping every day.

If things go on like this, the mansion also regards him as a useless and transparent person, and according to what he said just now, they still don't know that Jia Zheng is going back to Beijing until now.

Shi Xiangyun was about to explain a few words, when he saw two big ones and one small coming out from diagonally, Li Wan was leading the way, followed by a little boy made of powder and jade, but it was Xue Baochai, who else.

After giving birth, Baochai's figure became more and more plump, but her waist remained as slender as ever. Coupled with her increasingly indifferent demeanor, she was almost similar to her elder sister-in-law Jia Yuanchun.

Jia Baoyu first called his sister-in-law, and then greeted the little boy: "Brother Mao~"

Jia Mao first looked up at his mother, and then reluctantly called out 'Father'.

In this way, Baoyu smiled happily, and stepped forward to tease the cheap son.

With Xue Baochai's invisible Jia Mao standing behind him, he greeted Shi Xiangyun and Jia Tanchun, "My wife has been waiting for me early in the morning. Let's see her first before we talk about anything else."

Li Wan also hurriedly beckoned everyone to go inside.

Jia Baoyu lagged behind alone, followed two steps subconsciously, stopped again, stared at Jia Mao's back for a while, shook his head, and went back to Yihong Courtyard to continue eating and waiting to die.

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at the same time.

Jiao Shun just received a private letter from the Europa Consulate General.

He turned around and couldn't find the header on the envelope, so he cut it to see who it was.

As a result, the first thing to pour out was a few photos.

The person in the photo is Xue Baoqin. She is wearing a lace dress and smiling happily in front of the Palace of Fontainebleau, but no matter how wide the skirt is, it still can't cover her protruding belly.

Jiao Shun hurriedly counted the days, Mrs. Xue couldn't survive the winter of the previous year, and Bao Qin made up her mind to travel across the ocean after last autumn.

Before leaving, she chose to give her body to herself, and the two had been lingering for several days. If she was pregnant at that time, she would have revealed her pregnancy when she sent the letter.

And if there is no accident at this moment, the child should have been born.

How many children is this?
Jiao Shun counted on his fingers, but he couldn't figure it out for a while, anyway, there were ten children born in the first year of Tongzhi alone, otherwise it was perfect.