ebookland Chapter 335 Dream of Red Mansions - Jia Yingchun 6
Chapter 335 Dream of Red Mansions - Jia Yingchun 6
Maybe traders are not exactly what they imagine, Jia Yingchun thought. Traders are good at chess. Good chess players are meticulous and good at analyzing and planning. Otherwise, they can't win. Maybe Jia Yingchun in "Dream of Red Mansions" gave up struggling because she saw too clearly.
Who knows? Anyway, I will never accept my fate. Some choices are not what I want. Even if I get beaten to a pulp, I will not give up struggling!
As Aunt Li left the capital, rumors about the matter quickly spread throughout the capital. Everyone had their own opinions on the matter. Some people, like Xing, believed that Grandmother Jia did this to "balance" the two branches of the Jia family, just like the first branch of the Jia family inheriting the title and the second branch managing the family business, which was a kind of "balance".
Some people suspected that there was something fishy going on, but no one suspected that there was anything wrong between Aunt Li and the baby in her belly. Everyone tacitly regarded Aunt Li and Jia Yingchun as pawns in the fight between the two families, and the sacrificed pieces.
After all, for people in the capital, leaving the capital and returning to Jinling is "exile". Coincidentally, the Jia family members in Jinling also think so.
After riding in a carriage for half a month and traveling by water for more than a month, Aunt Li finally arrived in Jinling. The servant sent by the Jia family to see Aunt Li off saw that Aunt Li had moved into the Jia family's land. He briefly explained a few words to the person in charge of the land, then took out Grandmother Jia's letter and said that he would understand after reading it, and left without waiting for Aunt Li to settle down.
Aunt Li was pregnant and about to give birth. She was accompanied by only a little maid and a lame old woman. The three of them were abandoned in the Jia family's land by the servants of the Jia residence.
Jia Yingchun saw everything through her spiritual power, and couldn't help but sigh that the servants in the Jia family were really snobbish. Now almost everyone thought that Aunt Li and herself had been abandoned, but she didn't know what the people in Jinling would do.
There is very little description of the Jia family members in Jinling in "Dream of Red Mansions". Most of the Jia family members who have close relations with the Rongning and Ning mansions live in Rongning Eighth Street near Rongning Mansion, and have very weak relations with the Jia family members in Jinling.
The reason why they are still connected is, firstly, because the ancestral tomb of the Jia family is here, and secondly, because the current patriarch of the Jia family is still Jia Jing of Ningguo Mansion.
Naturally, what happened in Rongguo Mansion had to be notified to the clan leader. Jia She did not know what was written in the letter written by Jia's mother. However, Jia Jing later wrote a letter to Jinling in the name of the clan leader of the Jia family in the capital, asking them to help take care of Aunt Li and her unborn child. For this, Jia Yingchun remembered Jia Jing's kindness.
Aunt Li was a woman of strong character. She vaguely felt that her child was about to be born. In order to implement her plan, Aunt Li naturally did not dare to stay in the Jia family's land any longer. She first took out the "family property" that the Jia Mansion had given to Jia Yingchun, and bought a piece of land at the edge of the Jia family's land and closest to the Jia family's ancestral tomb. She then asked the Jia family's relatives to help build a house.
During this period, Aunt Li lived with her maid and the lame old woman in an empty house on the Jia family's land.
According to the fate in "Dream of Red Mansions", the original Jia Yingchun should have been born in February, because February is the season when forsythia blooms. Now that February has passed, I probably won't have to be called Jia Yingchun anymore in this life.
After three months, almost four months, Jia Yingchun's predictive skill was finally upgraded. Seeing that she was almost ten months pregnant, Jia Yingchun quickly used the skill to predict the situation seven days later.
The skill showed that she was born seven days later, but due to the tight time and insufficient preparation, the gender of her birth was not only seen by the midwife, but also by the little maid and the lame old woman who served Aunt Li. In order to keep her mouth shut, Aunt Li spent almost all the money she had on the surface.
Jia Yingchun frowned. It was not that she disliked the way Aunt Li handled the matter, but she knew that the midwife who appeared in the scene did not look like someone who could be bribed with money.
I always feel that if I do nothing and just let things develop, there will be a lot of trouble in the future that I can't get rid of.
After thinking all night, Jia Yingchun could only come up with a way to tell Aunt Li everything through a dream. She was unable to do anything else in her current situation.
In this dream, Aunt Li first used silver to silence the three people who knew the secret. However, she did not expect that not long after, the midwife who received the money came to blackmail her. Aunt Li had to pay money again to keep them silent. The lame old woman and the little maid who originally served her became arrogant because they knew her secret. Not only did they not want to listen to her anymore, they also started to act cunningly and always threatened her with "favors" and "secrets" to tolerate their insubordination.
Although Aunt Li was a resolute person, she was not a ruthless person and could not kill to silence someone. So she thought for a long time and finally made a decision. She gently touched her belly and said to the child in her belly: "My son, I believe that we are connected by heart, and we will be fine."
Not long after, on the day when Jia Yingchun was about to be born, Aunt Li endured the pain of labor and pretended that it was not time for her to give birth yet. She sent the lame old woman and the maid away, and when no one was around, she delivered the baby herself.
Jia Yingchun was naturally very cooperative and did not cause Aunt Li to suffer for too long. She gave birth to the baby quickly.
Aunt Li endured the discomfort of her body and took advantage of the fact that no one came back to quickly clean the blood stains on Jia Yingchun's body and wrapped Jia Yingchun in swaddling clothes.
After the lame old woman came back, she found out that Aunt Li had given birth in such a short time. She took a closer look at the swaddling clothes, wanting to pull them apart to see whether it was a boy or a girl, but she saw Aunt Li staring at her fiercely.
"Wang Pozi, what do you want to do?"
"Hey, auntie, I just want to see if the baby is a boy or a girl."
Wang Pozi and Xiaocao, the maid, were both Xing's people. They originally wanted to help Xing to monitor Aunt Li. This time Aunt Li was "exiled" by Jia's house, and Wang Pozi and Xiaocao naturally didn't want to follow her, but Xing didn't care about them. They were not born in the Jia family, so they had no relationship. In the end, they had no choice but to follow Aunt Li back to Jinling.
"I know you belong to the eldest lady. You and Xiaocao both belong to me."
"I dare not ask you to contact my son. Who knows if you will have bad intentions towards my son."
"I didn't dare to control you in the Jia Mansion before, but now you are in Jinling, and your indentures are in my hands. I'm sure you know what the consequences will be if you offend me."
Aunt Li deliberately revealed their identities, on the one hand to emphasize that she gave birth to a son, and on the other hand to attribute the reason for not asking them to take care of the child to the fear that they would do something to the child.
Obviously, Aunt Li was right to do so. After Wang Pozi and Xiaocao learned that their indentures were in Aunt Li's hands, they dared not act like a troublemaker anymore and took good care of Aunt Li who was in confinement every day. Aunt Li also deliberately acted neurotic and kept a close eye on Jia Yingchun's son. Not only did she feed him and change his diapers herself, she even had to keep him next to her when he slept, not giving Wang Pozi and Xiaocao any chance to get close to him.