The Zhen Family Brothers in the Red Chamber

Mrs. Zhang ordered Nanny Zhen Hu to hug Brother Hu and leave the master bedroom, and waited for the doctor to come and prescribe some medicine to coax Zhen Hu to drink it before returning to her yard with peace of mind.Zhen She's family lived in another courtyard, and it was some distance away from the master bedroom. Although it was a bit far away, Mrs. Zhang was used to going back and forth every day, but she didn't feel bored. She helped the mother's hand into the master bedroom, and sat on the side next to the stool. After brushing the hair, holding the handkerchief and weeping.

Zhen She didn't have much business at first, and he just hang out with a few pig and dog friends on weekdays. He was raised under Mrs. Sun's knees and followed his biological parents. He didn't have a good relationship, but after Zhen Yingjia came back, the two sides had a good relationship. moved around.

As soon as he entered the door, someone said that his wife was sitting in the room crying, so he went back to the room anxiously, and when he opened the door, he saw his daughter-in-law, who was not in good health, with a pale face and obvious tears on her cheeks. Seeing Zhen She come in, she wiped her cheeks with her hands in a hurry, forced out a smile and got up and said: "The master is here, why don't you ask someone to say it, so I can clean up."

"What's the matter, someone wronged you?" Zhen She looked at Zhang with a cold face and frowned. He stepped forward and grabbed Zhang's hand, and the two walked in holding hands. Everyone backed out.

Mrs. Zhang sat down next to the edge of the bed, and sighed: "It's just that I feel depressed, it's nothing serious." Although she said this, tears came down her face, her eyelids were slightly red, and her beautiful eyes were half full of tears. Open ajar.

Zhen She watched her throat move, swallowed her saliva unconsciously, stretched out her hand to grab Mrs. Zhang's shoulder, touched it and said, "You can say what you want, we husband and wife have nothing to taboo."

Hearing what Zhen She said, Mrs. Zhang just glanced to the east, and then pinched the handkerchief and said, "It's because I couldn't do it well, and Brother Hu was wronged, but why..." After that, she didn't When speaking, she just bit her lower lip with her white teeth, and looked at Zhen She with aggrieved eyes.

"Will someone in our house still bully Brother Hu?" Zhen She frowned upon hearing this, retracted the hand that was originally on Zhang Shi's shoulder, and turned to look Zhang Shi squarely.

Mrs. Zhang held her handkerchief and lowered her head to wipe her cheeks: "It's okay, it's just going out to play, and in a blink of an eye, it's bruised and purple. My heart is about to break, but the old lady won't let me pursue it. It's a grandson, that's something we can compare." Then he covered his face and began to cry.

"What do you mean, the old lady has always been fair, so don't be sad, I'll go see Brother Hu." Zhen She turned around and went out after saying that, and when he went out to the middle courtyard, he saw the old lady serving beside her. Jin Shan'er was wearing a ginger red jacket, with smiling eyes on her round face, when she saw Zhen She, she trotted over and knelt down in front of Zhen She.

"The old man is well. The old lady ordered that if the old man comes back, he will go to the old lady's place. He said yes..." Jin Shan'er tilted her head and thought for a while, then smiled, "It's important What about it." She smiled and looked at Zhen She while talking.

Zhen She has always known that the maids serving the old lady are beautiful, but he never looked at them carefully when he went there. Now seeing Jin Shan'er's plump figure, he felt his heart skip a beat, and his eyes went over Jin Shan'er's chest , as if scratched by a small claw, but the geese passed silently and couldn't reach it.After he ordered Jin Shan'er to get up, he let her lead in front, and he followed behind.

Mrs. Sun was lying on the couch eating the fruit, when she heard that Zhen She was coming, she threw the fruit aside, Jin Hua'er pinched the handkerchief and wiped it for the old lady.

"Put some powder on it." The old lady pointed to the box beside her, and Nanny Song knew how to pinch the white powder with her fingers and smeared it on the old lady's face twice to cover up the original rosiness.

Zhen She entered the door and knelt down in front of the old lady, "My son is not filial. He didn't come to pay his respects to the old lady first, so I troubled the old lady to order someone to come."

Mrs. Sun hurriedly ordered the nanny on the side to help Zhen She up, and asked someone to bring a chair for him to sit down: "Well, you are a man, and you naturally have serious things to do on weekdays. Naturally, the less you come to this backyard, the better. , Originally, I didn’t want people to disturb your progress, but I was afraid that your daughter-in-law would think too much, so now I can only let you come here.” She said helplessly, and sighed as she spoke, only sighed Zhen She felt sour in her heart.

Mrs. Sun has always been good at talking, and when she mentioned it, Zhen She knew that it was related to what Mrs. Zhang mentioned earlier, and hurriedly said: "Brother Hu is naughty, he should have done it in the first place, old lady don't take it to heart. "He cautiously didn't say anything else, he just apologized for his son's sin.

"I knew your daughter-in-law was too young. Looking at this, I knew she was thinking wrong. After all, brother Hu is her first child, and she has no experience in raising children." Sun said and stepped on Zhang, and then Ordered someone to serve tea and snacks to Zhen She, and watched Zhen She eat a piece before giving up, "When you came to the yard, it was a naughty day, you knocked or bumped, how much did I lose inside and out? Tears." As she spoke, she really let the tears flow out in strings.

The maidservants at the side, the nanny, panicked, tried to persuade her for a while, and even Zhen She went up to ask the old lady not to be sad, and after making a fuss for a while, she finally persuaded her, but Mrs. Sun held Zhen She's hand. Putting it on, she fixedly looked at Zhen She as if she had said a thousand words: "Now you have finally grown up safely, and seeing you marry a wife and have children, I have enjoyed a few years of happiness." Zhen She had mixed feelings when she said a word, His family originally had many children, and he was the third one. Naturally, he was not loved by his father or mother. Later, Mrs. Sun took him to the main house, and the food was all delicious, which made him rise to the sky in one step and no longer be bullied by a random brother. The doormat.In terms of hard work, the old lady has never treated him badly.

——Thinking about it like this, I feel that Mrs. Zhang is ignorant, always talking about kissing and raising grandchildren, and I don't see any difference in the cost of Zhu Ge'er and Hu Ge'er.After all, Zhen She is a man, he naturally doesn't know the flowers in the inner house, seeing Zhen Zhu has a batch of new clothes, and his brother Hu also has a batch, so he thinks it's the same.

"I have always regarded you as my own son, but this adopted son is more sensible than my own son. Brother Hu and Brother Zhu were just playing around today. How can children have feuds the next day? The child didn't come here from a fight. I know your wife has only such a son, so she must feel distressed. You can persuade her when you go back. We are a family. She is a newly married daughter-in-law. Naturally, she doesn't understand, but now that she meets It's time to learn something, we both have the surname Zhen, and there are no two Zhens in this one stroke."

"Don't worry, old lady, I'll tell her when I get back." Zhen She hastily responded, Sun nodded before letting go, and ordered the girls below to take out the newly made clothes.

"Your daughter-in-law has been in the house for a few years, but a few years ago I saw that she had a body, and then I had to take care of brother Hu. I didn't take care of you enough, so I took it over without saying a word, but she is your daughter-in-law after all. , I don't want to say something bad about her face to face, why don't I order a few servants to give you, so that she can have more servants, besides, Brother Hu is not young now, and she doesn't have any younger brothers and sisters Yes." Sun said, pointing to Jin Shan'er who was holding the clothes, "These are all raised in the mansion, and you can take the ones you find pleasing to the eye."

Zhen She followed the people Sun pointed out, and saw Jin Shan'er holding her clothes and lowering her head, her cheeks were slightly flushed, he moved a little bit, moved his butt unnaturally and said: "Everything is obeyed by the old lady. arrange."

Seeing that Zhen She didn't refuse, Mrs. Sun lazily lay back on the couch. Jin Hua'er at the side brought a cup of tea to the old lady's mouth and waited for her to take a sip. Press the corner of the old lady's mouth.

"Since that's the case, take it with you. I still have some white jade ointment that the Holy Majesty bestowed on me. It's most effective for dispelling stasis. You can bring it to Brother Hu. It will save your daughter-in-law from feeling distressed and sick for several days." She ordered someone to bring the things over again, and the three maids including Jin Shan'er knelt on the ground. The old lady glanced at her and said, "You all take care of her carefully. If you are pregnant, you will cross the road." This is After pointing out a way, the three servant girls hurriedly hugged their clothes to answer, and then followed Zhen She out of the door.

Don't mention how Mrs. Zhang knows what it's like to have three more servant girls around Zhen She, just say that the old man, the doctor, has gone back and forth five or six times, and he knows it's not peaceful.

The ruthless Sun family helped her son solve all the problems with one trick. Zhen Yingjia knew the meaning of the string, and invited Zhen She to eat and drink for five or six days in a row. It was a treat and an apology. He was obviously arguing with his younger brother when he was one year older than Brother Hu, and then he took a flower boat to enjoy the extravagant fun, sent two upright officials to serve Zhenshe, and became a groom for five days in a row, and he did what he liked He found some antiques and asked Zhen She to give him the palm of his hand. He only said that his knowledge is not as good as that of his elder brother, which made Zhen She feel a little more at ease.

Sure enough, Mrs. Zhang was expected to lie down for a few days by the old lady. She didn't mean it, but she just wanted to avoid going to the old lady's place.In the end, after she had rested and opened the yard to have a look, she realized that it was not good.

The maids given by the old lady are obviously serving people, and Mrs. Sun didn't do it absolutely, but only ordered them to do some housework.It's just that Zhen She had some genuine affection for Jin Shan'er, so she pointed out someone to offer tea to his wife, and if he kneeled in front of the main room with a teacup and handed it over to his wife, it would be considered as having passed the Ming road. .Although she is not a concubine, the monthly salary of one tael and a half will be reduced to two taels, and she can't do anything except serve the master on weekdays.

Mrs. Zhang sat on the main seat and looked back at Zhen She, pinching the handkerchief on her knees, her face was not annoyed, she just asked: "This maid looks familiar, but the lady in front of her waiter?"

Zhen She was looking at Jin Shan'er who was kneeling on the bottom, because there was a patch of white on the back of her neck with her head down, thinking about Run who got her hands at night, she replied absent-mindedly: "The old lady said that you usually take care of Brother Hu's wife. I was busy, so I gave three maids to wait in the room, and I took them all, but this is a family child after all, and my wife will take care of it in the future."

What Zhen She said was fair and aboveboard, and she looked at it afterwards. A few days ago, a friend who had a drink together mentioned that it depends on whether his wife is virtuous or not. It is also a fact that Zhen Yingjia changed two daughters-in-laws and gave birth to three children. My own daughter-in-law two years earlier than him was only Brother Hu, which was indeed a little less.

Zhang's complexion was a little bad, but she looked down at Jin Shan'er and then raised her head to order someone to pour tea.

That Jin Shan'er held the teacup shyly and timidly, stretched her hands above her head, and said softly: "Madam, drink tea."

Mrs. Zhang flicked the white jade bracelet on her wrist, then took it with one hand, and put it aside after pausing for a while, and the maid at the side came up with a tray. Nobile with handle. "In the future, you must serve the master well, and don't be naughty."

Jin Shan'er responded, and knelt down to take it.

Mrs. Zhang waved her hand and told her to leave. Jin Shan'er bent over and took three steps backwards, then turned and left the master bedroom.There were originally two concubines in Zhen She's house, one was Zhang's personal servant girl brought from her natal family, called Que'er, and the other was the former Tong Fang who taught Zhen She's personnel affairs, and was two years older than Zhen She. age.When Mrs. Zhang entered the door, she was transferred to the back room by her, and she has never seen her since. Que'er has to serve Mrs. Zhang during the day and Zhen She occasionally at night. She is a capable right-hand man.

It's impossible to say that Mrs. Zhang has no means, otherwise how could there be only brother Hu like Zhen She, but unfortunately, the two have been married for more than ten years.The originally beautiful Zhang family was also aged by the years, and she had a lot of thoughts, but Brother Fan Hu had a headache, so he liked to go to battle by himself, so Zhen She naturally had less worries.

If Mrs. Sun grew up watching Zhen She, the three maids she selected all scratched Zhen She's itch. Seeing Jin Shan'er leaving, Mrs. Zhang asked, "If the master really likes it, why don't you raise her into a concubine's room?" .” She looked at Zhen She with a smile, as if these were not serious matters.

Zhen She felt that her wife was indeed virtuous, just like what the old lady said after all, she didn't have many children, so she didn't know the hard work of raising children.He smiled and stretched out his hand to hold Zhang's hand: "How can it be, she was just a maid, it would be bad if she raised her up."

Mrs. Zhang's hands are as white as white jade, and they are small and soft. Zhen She unconsciously squeezed two more hands, and then looked up to see Mrs. Zhang's blushing face and said: "If you are easy to give birth, wait for it." Lift the child after it lands." He smiled and touched it again before going out.

——It’s just that he didn’t know that Zhang’s face was livid when he said a word to the shy Zhang who was bowing her head!

Zhen She went out, naturally to meet friends.Mrs. Zhang was sitting in the room, leaning on the back of the chair weakly, and the nanny who was standing behind her came up.Mrs. Zhang put her hand on Nanny and stood up.

The nanny glanced at Mrs. Zhang, and said comfortingly: "It's just a few servant girls, don't worry about it, my wife. Brother Hu has grown up now, so why don't you worry about it? I gave birth to your wife, just borrowed a belly."

"That's what I said. It's just that I married into Zhen's family all these years ago. When I didn't have brother Hu in four or five years, I just raised a bird. The old lady never interfered with it. Now..." Zhang thought No way, so suddenly.

Mammy was about to say something, when there was a burst of noise outside, Zhen Hu was at the front, followed by four or five serving maids, and the closest one was Brother Hu's nanny, and Brother Hu ran to In front of Mrs. Zhang, the nanny and maid who followed behind her immediately knelt by the door when she saw Mrs. Zhang, and kowtowed to Mrs. Zhang.

"Madam, did you hit Brother Zhu?" Zhen Hu was wearing a baby blue jacket with a gold collar around her neck, and she wore a pompom crown with not much hair on her head.He looks seven points like Zhen She, three points like Zhang Shi, but his eyes are not as innocent and cute as other four-year-old children, and he seems to be born to be bully and fearful.

Mrs. Zhang hugged Zhen Hu in her arms, and stretched out her hand to feel it: "I'm sweating, go change my clothes, I don't want to catch a cold." It's only spring, and children are more precious, and Zhen Hu ran around just now , there was steaming heat between his foreheads, if he didn't change his wet underwear, Mrs. Zhang was afraid that he would catch a cold.

Zhen Hu didn't want to go, he twisted his body and got out of Zhang's arms, and looked at his biological mother resentfully: "If you don't go, I will go by myself." But nothing happened.

But Mrs. Zhang was frightened: "Madam, go, Brother Hu, don't do it yourself. When I see Brother Zhu tomorrow, I will hit him twice to vent my anger on Brother Hu, okay?"

"Not twice, but a lot, at least, at least..." Brother Hu wrung his fingers, and then stretched out nine fingers to Mrs. Zhang, "At least eight."

The nurse at the side smiled and squatted down, and said to Zhen Hu: "This is nine strokes, if it is eight strokes, the young master will put away one finger."

Zhen Hu glared at her, but didn't say anything, just looked at Mrs. Zhang angrily, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly agreed, and then he obediently followed the nanny who stepped forward cautiously to change clothes.Waiting to come out, but was hugged in the arms of the nanny.

Zhen Hu's nanny was brought by Zhang Shi from her natal family, so she was naturally trained. Although Zhen Hu had nursed Zhen Hu, she didn't dare to get too close in front of Zhang Shi. She put Zhen Hu in front of Zhang Shi, while she stepped aside.Seeing her nanny leaving, Zhen Hu frowned displeasedly, but she didn't say anything after all, she just stood still in front of Mrs. Zhang in a fit of anger.

Mrs. Zhang saw that Zhen Hu's coat hadn't been changed, so she reached out her hand to feel inside, and found that it had been changed inside. She nodded approvingly and said to the nanny, "You've served me very well. Two silver coins is a reward." The nanny hurriedly knelt on the ground to thank her, and Mrs. Zhang asked Zhen Hu about her food, clothing, and how she slept at night, and then let the nanny leave with Zhen Hu in her arms.