Chapter 319: cut before play

Chapter 319: cut before play

   Chapter 319

   A batch of dowry is sent away today, and the vacant space in the east courtyard needs to be cleaned up. Chen, who used to call people around, called everyone in the house to the East Courtyard, so when Jiang Liu took Xiao Shuqiu through the garden, the garden was very quiet.

   The master and servant hurried to the wall of the west courtyard separating Jiang Meng and his family, and found that the fifth girl Jiang Mujin had arrived.

   Jiang Mujin saw the sixth sister coming, and immediately greeted her with a small hand, "Come on, my sister has left you the biggest crack in the wall!"

   "Thank you, Fifth Sister." Jiang Liu was also polite, leaning on the wall and looking into Meng Yajiao's yard through the crack in the wall. Meng Jiang's family is close to each other, and they are very familiar with each other's yard layout, and they are very clear about who lives in which room.

  Dazhou Residence is respected in the north, followed by the east, followed by the west, and the lowest in the south. Meng Huizhou and his wife lived in the main courtyard, and the east courtyard lived in a big room. Because Boss Meng was sent to be an official, there are only two brothers and sisters living in the east courtyard, Meng Tingwan in the outer courtyard, and Meng Yajiao in the inner courtyard. The little sisters of the Jiang family were looking for a crack in the wall today. They were on the wall beside Meng Yajiao's house in the east inner courtyard. They were only two feet away from Meng Yajiao's bedroom. It was the best place to eat melons.

   Through the crack in the wall, Jiang Liuwang saw Mrs. Meng's confidant standing under the front porch of Meng Yajiao's door, and knew that Mrs. Meng had come to her granddaughter's room. This is indeed a bit abnormal. It should be Meng Yajiao who was so violent that she recruited her grandmother.

   "Did you see it?" Jiang Mujin asked her sister in a low voice.

   "Well." Jiang Liu grinned at the fifth sister, put the little Yuanbao's ear against the wall, and listened carefully to the corner of the wall.

In the boudoir on the other side of the wall, Meng Yajiao, who had been on a hunger strike for two days, was sitting on the bed holding the quilt, Mrs. Meng was sitting beside the bed, and Mrs. Meng's second wife, Mrs. Zhao, was standing beside her mother-in-law, pretending to be affectionately persuading, "Look at Jiaojiao, Grandma has come to see you, get up and eat something."

   The disheveled Meng Yajiao knelt on the bed and pleaded with tears, "Grandmother, granddaughter, don't marry into the Liu family."

   The Ministry of Justice has thoroughly investigated Li Yanguang's case. Liu Shoucheng's elder brother Liu Jincheng has been ordered by the Ministry of Justice to be arrested by the Ministry of Justice and held in the prison of the Ministry of Justice awaiting trial. The magistrate of Qixian County was also transferred to the Ministry of Punishment. Although he was not put in a large prison, he was also locked up in the yamen and was not allowed to return to Qixian County. Dali Temple Shaoqing Liu Shoucheng was ordered to think at home because his family was involved in the case.

   Anyone with discernment can see that the Liu family is over. Meng Yajiao did not agree with this marriage, and now she refuses to marry.

   Mrs. Meng reproached with a sullen face, "Now the wind is getting louder, your grandfather and second uncle are running around outside, and you can't even take care of eating and sleeping. You don't think about how to share the worries of your elders, but you're going to add to the chaos."

Meng Yajiao was extremely aggrieved, "If the granddaughter didn't want to share the family's worries, she would not have agreed to this marriage. If the granddaughter could help the family by marrying in the past, the granddaughter would marry even if she had suffered all her life's grievances. What's the use of marrying a granddaughter like this?"

At the beginning, the person who insisted on setting up this marriage for her niece was her husband, so of course the Zhao family couldn't let Meng Yajiao say that she was sold to the Liu family, and explained, "Jiaojiao, please don't listen to outsiders and order this for you. The marriage is because the Liu family is a big family with a bright future, and Liu Shilang is young and promising..."

   "If that's the case, why didn't the second aunt marry the second sister to the Liu family, instead of marrying me?" Meng Yajiao stared straight at the Zhao family with her red and swollen eyes. The second uncle was most highly regarded by his grandfather and grandmother in the house, and the second aunt Zhao was in charge of the house, and she and her younger brother suffered a lot. Now that the second uncle is about to lose his job, Meng Yajiao will no longer take the second aunt seriously.

   Zhao shi said confidently, "You are the elder sister, you haven't discussed kissing yet, where can you get your younger sisters?"

   Meng Yajiao clenched her fists, "Anyway, Jiaojiao won't marry. If grandmother and second aunt insist Jiaojiao marry, Jiaojiao would rather starve to death."

  There are internal and external troubles in the house. Mrs. Meng is already irritable. Seeing her granddaughter is so ignorant, her face is even more ugly. "Jiaojiao, if you continue to make trouble, grandmother will punish you to go to the Buddhist hall to think about it."

   "Grandma calm down, Jiaojiao will go to the Buddhist hall to think about it." Meng Yajiao got stubborn and got out of bed to go to the Buddhist hall. But her legs were so weak that she couldn't support her body after being hungry for two days.

   "Jiaojiao!" Zhao Shi hurriedly stepped forward to help, but Meng Yajiao swayed her away.

   Mrs. Meng's heart was also tight, and she raised her hand and called anxiously, "Jiaojiao, look up and let grandma take a look."

   Seeing her granddaughter raised her head, although her forehead was flushed, but there was no blood or scars, Madam Meng put down her heart a little, and reprimanded softly, "You are too nonsense."

  Meng Yajiao hugged her grandmother's leg and cried, "Grandma, Jiaojiao don't marry, Jiaojiao can't bear her grandmother."

Mrs. Meng gathered up her granddaughter's messy hair and persuaded patiently, "You are still young, and you don't understand or see through many things. You and Liu Jia Shilang's three media and six hires are only one step away from welcoming this step. Let's ruin our marriage at this time, regardless of the reputation our family carries, it will be difficult for you to marry again in the future."

Meng Yajiao immediately said, "We can let the Liu family come to the house to break off the marriage, so the fault is on their side. If the Liu family loses, they will definitely need silver taels, just like when the Jiang family sold their fields, shops and servants, we will give them silver... "

   "Look girl, someone is coming!" Shu Qiu, who was lying beside Jiang Liu, whispered.

   Jiang Liu, who couldn't hear anything at all, immediately replaced his ears with eyes, looked through the crack of the wall, and saw the old woman standing in the courtyard, he turned his head and asked, "Fifth sister, who is this?"

   Jiang Mujin also shook his head, "It looks a little familiar, but I can't remember it."

   Nanny Zhao, who was lying beside her, explained in a low voice, "She is Ruan Xiu'er. She is the dowry maid of Madam Meng. She later married the steward of the Meng family, and now she is the daughter-in-law of the steward by Madam Meng's side."

   "Bo County sent someone here. It seems that Meng Yajiao's parents are finally going to pick her up." After lying on the bed for several days, things finally made progress, and Jiang Mujin was very excited.

   "It should be." Jiang Liugang nodded when he heard Meng Yajiao's voice coming from the opposite side. The master and servant of the Jiang family couldn't care to speak, and Qi Qi put his eyes on the crack of the wall.

   Meng Yajiao in the room heard that Mrs Ruan, who was beside her mother, was coming. She couldn't care about anything else and ran out of the room, "Mummy, did your mother ask you to pick up Jiaojiao?"

Mrs. Ruan reached out to catch the eldest girl. Seeing her like this, she was so distressed that tears fell. She knelt down and saluted the old lady. , I learned that the eldest girl was ill, and I was worried that the eldest girl would cause trouble for you and the second lady by staying in the mansion, so I sent slaves to pick up the eldest girl to go to Bo County to recuperate."

   Mrs. Meng asked with a sullen face, "Who sent the letter?"

  Meng Tingwan came in from outside the courtyard gate, bowed and saluted, "Grandmother, grandson sees my sister and doesn't want to eat tea and is sick in bed, and doesn't want to disturb grandmother, so she wrote a letter to her parents."

"Ting Wan doesn't know if it's such a big event to discuss with your grandfather and grandmother first, Jiaojiao is ill, if you tell the second aunt, can the second aunt not invite her husband to see Jiaojiao?" He was busy trying to exonerate his husband and didn't see the East Courtyard, but Meng Tingwan sued his parents without a word, which made Zhao, who had taken care of their brothers and sisters for several years, extremely chilled.

Meng Tingwan knelt on her knees, "Tingwan hasn't seen her grandfather for three days, and her grandmother has been ill for the past two days. My second aunt is busy, so Tingwan can't bear to worry her elders because of her sister's illness, so she makes this decision. , please grandmother and second aunt calm down."

   (end of this chapter)