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Chapter 437 Chapter 437
As soon as Jia Hu stepped into the side door of Rongguo Mansion, he felt that the situation in the mansion was not right.He threw the reins of the horse to his entourage, grabbed the porter and asked, "What happened in the mansion?"
The concierge looked at the anxious eldest son, and didn't dare to make any mistakes, so he simply replied: "Master Hu, the old master fainted in Rongxi Hall an hour ago, and the Duke invited the imperial physician."
When Jia Hu heard that his grandfather had fainted, he raised his legs and ran back.
The concierge followed behind and shouted: "The old man is in Rongxi Hall."
Jia Hu rushed into the main hall and met Jia She who came out to see the imperial physician. Jia Hu hurriedly saluted, greeted his father, and thanked the imperial physician Wang who often came and went in the mansion.Jia Amnesty gave Jia Hu the matter of sending Imperial Physician Wang out, and turned around to take care of his father Jia Daishan.
While leading Imperial Physician Wang out, Jia Hu anxiously asked, "Principal Wang, what happened to my grandfather?"
"When people get old, they lose their minds when they are emotionally agitated. Now they are awake. Although there is no serious problem this time, but in the future, we must be careful not to be overjoyed or sad, otherwise we will be in trouble if we have a stroke."
Before reaching the gate, a servant woman chased after him, "My lord, my lord, please stay with the doctor Wang."
Jia Hu frowned, turned around and yelled at the servant woman who ran over, "Yelling, what a shame!"
The maid ran to a distance of five steps in front of the two of them, stood still and saluted, panting out of breath, and said: "My lord, the Grand Uncle of the Shi family said that the old lady is not good enough, so I asked Imperial Physician Wang to go and have a look."
It was like a thunderbolt from the blue, hitting Jia Hu on the head, he pulled Doctor Wang and walked back to Rongqing Hall.What happened today, my grandfather fainted suddenly, and my grandmother suddenly died again, what happened in the mansion this day?But he was hindered by Doctor Wang's presence, and he couldn't open his mouth to ask the servant who reported the letter, so he only bit his lower lip, and a little drop of blood dripped out.
The maids and servants in the Rongqing Hall had been locked up by Lao Guogong for half the night, and now they were suddenly released, standing in the yard in panic, like avoiding cats and mice.
Seeing Jia Hu leading the imperial physician in, these people hurriedly clasped their hands together to salute, but they dared not make a sound.Jia Hu didn't care about these people, so he just led Imperial Physician Wang in to see his grandmother.
As soon as Imperial Physician Wang entered the room, he saw Lord Shihou kneeling in front of the Arhat couch, big tears rolling down his vicissitudes of face, those silent tears made Imperial Physician Wang used to seeing people who lived and died all his life. I can understand Lord Shihou's mourning and sadness.On the couch, Mrs. Rong Guogong, wearing homely clothes, her face covered with a kerchief, was lying there quietly.
Jia Hu stepped forward in three steps at the same time, and hastily helped Master Shi Hou, "Uncle, Uncle, please stand up and sit down."
Jia Hu helped Lord Shi to sit on a chair beside him, and then turned to look at his grandmother.Doctor Wang has already taken out his handkerchief and is wiping his hands.
"Doctor Wang, my grandmother?"
"Master, my condolences by the way. Mrs. Tai has been gone for a long time."
Jia Hu couldn't believe it, so she grabbed Imperial Physician Wang's hand and said, "No, it won't happen, Imperial Physician Wang, my grandmother has always been in good health. Please take a look and look again."
Doctor Wang looked at the incoherent Jia Hu and patted his hand comfortingly. This is also a child with a pure heart and filial piety.
"My lord, Mrs. Tai committed suicide by throwing herself to death. It has been about half an hour. Hurry up and get someone to bathe and change Mrs. Tai, otherwise it will be difficult to pretend to be buried in a while."
Jia Hu was dazed, subconsciously let go of Doctor Wang's hand, and murmured, "Why would grandma seek death? Why would she commit suicide? Grandma also said that she should take care of her grandson."
He struggled to move to the couch, knelt down in front of Jiamu with a plop, stared blankly at the grandmother lying there with a kerchief covering her face, hesitated for a while, then slowly stretched out her hand, trying to uncover the scarf. A handkerchief covering a grandmother's face.A big hand stretched out beside him and held him down.
"Brother Hu, you are still young, don't see the description of your grandmother. Go and call your parents."
It was Master Shi Hou who held Jia Hu down.
"Uncle, why did grandma vote? A few days ago, grandma showed Hu'er the toys she was going to give to her great-grandson." Jia Hu refused to believe it, and went to take off the veil.
Lord Shi Hou shouted: "Brother Hu is obedient. Can uncle and imperial physician Wang trick you? Send someone to teach your mother to come and change your grandmother's clothes."
Or ran to find Jia Hu's servant girl, stepped forward and said, "Master Taijiu, I should call someone."
After a while, Mrs. Zhang came in with people, and Jia Amnesty also arrived.Jia Amnesty saluted Lord Shihou first, then clasped his fists to Imperial Physician Wang, and talked about his hard work and troubles, and asked the entourage who followed him to pack a generous amount of money for Imperial Physician Wang, and ordered someone to send Wang The imperial physician leaves the government.
"Mrs. Zhang, bring someone with you, and hurry up to wash and change your mother's clothes."
Jia Amnesty came over and assigned them one by one, then pulled Jia Hu up, and went to the small flower hall outside with Lord Shi Hou, and gave the room to Mrs. Zhang and her nanny.
"Uncle," Jia Amnesty said with red eyes, clenched fists and trembling slightly.If the person in front of him was not his own uncle and mother's brother, he would have punched him long ago, and would have beaten him to death.
Master Shi Hou's current situation seems to be more than ten years old.He hunched over and leaned on Jia Hu's body, as if he couldn't even sit still.
"Xie'er, do you think I'm willing? That's my own sister. It's your uncle who I've held in my hand since I was a child, and loved my sister for 60 years. When your grandparents left, she was the one who worried the most. Afraid that she would be bullied by others because of her simple mind, she asked me to take good care of her and take care of her. Now I have to do it myself and send her to see your grandparents. Uncle is old and can't handle her breaking out. What a disaster, even your father can't stand it..."
Jia Hu was stunned. Grandma's death was caused by her uncle?
"Uncle, once my mother gave birth to me, my father couldn't bear it. As a son, I will help my father to do it. How can uncle treat mother like this!"
Jia She's eyes were red, unable to hide his grief and indignation, he couldn't continue...
"Xie'er, you only think about your mother and being your filial son. Have you thought about the court's laws? Have you ever thought about the Supreme Being and the saint? If the saint punishes your father and son, how many servants will be hurt? Have you ever thought about sister Ying? If she is dismissed by the royal family as the crown princess, will she still have a bright day in her life? Have you ever thought about how brother Hu and brother Lian will be treated? Involvement? This will be an eternal stain on the descendants of the Rongguo Mansion. From then on, the Rongguo Mansion will never turn over again. Also, have you ever thought about the Shijia? What will happen to the Manchu women of the Shijia? "
"Xie'er, you are not only a son of man, you are also the Duke Rong of the imperial court, the Minister of the Ministry of War, you are also the father of Brother Hu, Brother Lian, and Sister Ying. For the next few decades, it will all depend on the sage and prince's friendship between you and Brother Hu. This kind of relationship should be a bit less."
Lord Shi Hou was holding on to speak, tears began to roll down again.He raised his big palm-like hand to cover his face, preventing Jia She and his son from seeing his distressed appearance.
"Xie'er, your mother is over sixty years old, so it's not considered short-lived. You pack up all these sad things, and go to see the saint early in the morning, and tell her that she was shocked to hear that loan sharks might kill people, and she was extremely ashamed. Apologize with death. Then I really took advantage of you to take care of your father, and the servants in the yard were not caring enough, so she committed suicide. Uncle will also submit a secret book tomorrow to plead guilty. Frankly, the woman taught by the historian, because her mind is too simple, Bewitched by the old concubine of Nan'an County, please ask the sage to investigate the culprit. Huh, the one who dragged your mother to put usury is just trying to make the sage feel embarrassed after the incident, so that he can get away!"
Jia Amnesty was calmed down by Master Shi's words.Uncle made such a choice in order to preserve the two houses, and he and his father had to clean up everything behind.
"Uncle, my nephew wrongly blamed you." Jia Amnesty immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Master Shihou.
"Get up, get up, you boy. How is your father?"
"I just drank soothing soup and fell asleep."
"Let your father go to the emperor tomorrow morning to plead guilty. When he comes back, he will be mourned. None of the people in this yard can survive. Neither can the Lai family survive."
"Yes. My nephew can save it. Don't worry."
Jia Amnesty responded to Master Shihou's words one by one, and turned to Jia Hu, "Hu'er, take your uncle to the study of Rongxi Hall, and together with your grandfather, let someone make a bowl of soothing soup for your uncle. I will guard your grandfather and uncle at night."
From the conversation between his father and uncle, Jia Hu understood the cause of his grandmother's death.He never thought that his kind and kind grandmother who always smiled at him would go to lend usury.
Is the Rongguo Mansion short of money?
This night, the Rongguo Mansion was different from the past on the surface, but inside it became tense.
Jia She asked Mrs. Zhang to take the nanny to scrub Jia Mu, sent his uncle and son to the front yard, then called the two maids that Jia Mu used to use, Yuanyang and Amber, into the house, and told them to go find Jia. Mother's shirtless clothes.The four women worked together to replace Jia's mother inside and out.
Jia Amnesty gently arranged his mother, knelt down and kowtowed to Jia Mu who was on the couch, "Mother, don't worry, my son will not let anyone who tires you to death be spared."
Mrs. Zhang didn't know why her mother-in-law died. When she saw her husband knelt down and kowtowed, she knelt down and kowtowed too.After hearing what my husband said, I realized that there was a reason for the grandmother's mother-in-law being strangled to death.
Mrs. Zhang was terribly frightened. Just now she was shaking her hands and was helped by the nanny to deal with her mother-in-law's affairs.The mother-in-law's ferocious, unrepentant appearance, she dared not look at it after one glance.It was the grandma who helped the mother-in-law, with the help of the two maids.
"Husband, is this mother?" Mrs. Zhang grabbed Jia She's hand, shaking her body and her voice.
"Grand Concubine Nan'an urged mother to give us usury, and uncle did it." Jia Amnesty's voice was full of hatred.
Mrs. Zhang let out a soft cry, and immediately covered her mouth.
"Why? Mother has the final say in the mansion. It's been more than a month since I started housekeeping, and I didn't dare to reduce the expenses in my mother's yard."
Mrs. Zhang didn't understand her mother-in-law's behavior.The mother-in-law was born in the Marquis Mansion, and the dowry was generous. Even with the dowry alone, she could not eat enough all these years.
"Is there any difficulty for mother? Or do you not know the court's legal punishment for lending usury?"
Jia She smiled wryly, he couldn't answer his wife's question.He thought to himself: It is really possible that mother does not know the laws of the court.Of course, it is also possible that they knew it and thought that their father and son could resist everything, so they didn't care.
"Yizhen," Jia She hugged his wife in his arms, leaned his head on his wife's shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "Tomorrow morning, my father and I will go to the sage and the emperor to plead guilty. You should restrain these people in the mansion first." .Anyone who dares to stab and be naughty should be gagged and tied up, and I will deal with it when I come back.”
Jia Amnesty immediately felt his wife's frail shoulders tremble slightly, and her whole body immediately stiffened.He secretly hated those old people in the mansion, relying on listening to his mother for many years, they have often tripped up his wife for more than a month.Hmph, after the mother's funeral is done, all those dog slaves have to be sent out of the house.
He patted his wife on the back to reassure her nervous wife.
"Hu'er will stay in the mansion tomorrow, and you will bring him and Ying'er with you. If there is anything to do, you can tell your son to do it."
When Mrs. Zhang heard that her son was staying in the mansion, she softened immediately.
"Husband? About the funeral?"
"There's no rush, we'll talk about everything when my father and I come back tomorrow."