Chapter Eight: The First Confrontation with Mother Jia
However, her good impression and fancy for Mrs. Jia can be weakened first. It just so happens that she wants to settle accounts with the Jia family and ask them to take back the gifts given by the emperor.
When Mrs. Jia saw her being so rude, she immediately scolded her with an angry look on her face: "How outrageous! How can my Jia family be humiliated by just a little concubine from your Lin family?
He, Lin Ruhai, is so powerful now that he dares to forget how he gained power in the first place.
If it hadn't been for the Duke of Guo who took a fancy to him, betrothed my Min'er to him, and helped pave the way for him, would he be as good as he is today?"
Daiyu couldn't help but feel worried and anxious when she saw that the two of them were making such a fuss when they first met.
Although grandma's body seems to be healthy, she is still an old person. If she is really angry and her body is broken, then the Jia family and the Lin family will probably become enemies.
And this is the concubine she met for the first time. She angered the old lady when she first arrived. She is afraid that her life in the Jia family will be difficult in the future.
My sister has never lived in the Jia family and doesn’t know the situation of the Jia family. But how can she, who has lived here for three or four years, not know?
Not to mention the two uncles and the other masters of the Jia family, the crowding and targeting by the servants alone was enough to make people suffer.
Thinking of the faces of the servants in the past and the attitude of others towards her, she felt aggrieved and her tears flowed uncontrollably. After a while, her eyes became red and swollen.
When Jiusi saw Mrs. Jia talking about Lin Ruhai like this, Lin Daiyu not only did not refute or say anything, but she kept crying and couldn't help but want to hold her head against her head.
It’s really difficult!
But she had no time to talk to her now, so she winked at Er Yue and asked her to look at Dian Daiyu before focusing on dealing with Jia Shi.
With a cold face, she stared straight at the old lady Shi, and said in a bad tone: "What the old lady said is so unreasonable. If my father didn't have real talent and study to get into the top tier, he wouldn't have any ancestors."
With the considerable wealth left to him, how could the Duke choose him among so many people?
In the final analysis, it is just a matter of selecting the best, to help your Jia family and at the same time prepare an escape route. Why should we make it sound like our Lin family owes your Jia family a huge kindness?
Also, I would like to advise you that your old tricks of chanting, chanting, and beating are of no use on me.
I am not a descendant of your Jia family. I must put your body first. I am just a relative of your Jia family.
If this matter is not resolved well, maybe this person will not be considered a relative!
Therefore, we'd better solve the problem calmly, otherwise... I will really go crazy, but no matter who your Jia family is?
What does the Lin family have to do with you?
If you still don’t believe it, you can also send someone to find out where those people you sent to Zhuangzi have gone.”
At first, Jia Shi was angry and wanted to ask someone to teach her a lesson, but when the other person mentioned the person in Zhuangzi, her face instantly turned pale.
When Jia Min got married, in addition to the dowry and dowry arranged by the Duke, she also arranged dowries for some of her close friends. After Jia Min married into the Lin family, those people naturally became her eyes and ears for inquiring about information in the Lin family.
This is why she knows about the Lin family and why they know which items in their house are good things.
After Jia Min's death, the relationship between the two families weakened a lot. Not only did the number of things sent to her decrease every time, but even the letters sent by Lin Ruhai to greet her began to decrease.
Over the years, the Jia family has long been accustomed to making money from the Lin family. How could they be willing to give up this sweet potato now?
Therefore, in order to prevent the Lin family from getting out of control and to prevent the Lin family from falling into the hands of others, she took Daiyu to her side and raised her with Baoyu in the name of filial piety for her mother.
In addition, she also thought of getting rid of Lin Ruhai's other children.
Lin Ruhai, the son-in-law, is unreliable, so how can his children who are not close to the Jia family be reliable? They might as well get rid of them.
Eliminating them, mother and daughter, was what she ordered others to do.
The housekeeper who put them in the coffin, as well as the servants who guarded their mother and daughter in the village, were mostly her confidants, and poisoning them and destroying their bodies was also
Just in case.
But she still miscalculated.
She didn't expect that Lin Jiusi's accident would happen, not only ruining her plan, but also killing everyone in Zhuangzi.
Soon after she left Yangzhou for Suzhou, the news was passed back to the Jia family by other confidants of the Lin family.
This was also the reason why she urged Lin Ruhai to send Lin Jiusi to Jia's house, just to find out what was going on, and then find a way to take advantage of her variable.
As for Mrs. Wang, who was sitting next to her, her face became ugly as she talked more and more. When she talked about what happened next, she simply closed her eyes and fainted.
Not only was she involved in all the things Lin Jiusi said, but even the poison administered to their mother and daughter was part of the dowry she secretly brought from the Wang family to the Jia family.
When her elder sister-in-law Zhang's family was implicated by the prince and fell into trouble, she and the old lady poisoned her to death.
As for Jia Min's death, she also did something secretly without telling the old lady, but I don't know if the Lin family has also found out about it. If they really find out something and put it in front of the old lady, I'm afraid she will really eat it.
I just walked away.
Therefore, ever since Jiusi vaguely mentioned those objects and the gifts given by the emperor, her face has never looked better.
The purpose of pretending to be faint now is to prevent Lin Jiusi from focusing on her. It would be better if he could ignore her existence.
Jia Shi, whose face was already ugly, immediately became gloomy when he saw her acting like this.
How could she not know what kind of person Wang is?
Can she be scared to death with her vicious temperament?
It’s okay to deceive other people in the family, but if you want to deceive her, just practice for a few more years!
However, since Baoyu was here, it was not easy to embarrass her, so he turned a blind eye and pretended not to have seen it, and let her play go on.
When Mrs. Xing saw Mrs. Wang fainted from fright, she gloated and wanted to taunt her, but when she looked up and saw the old lady's gloomy old face, she was so frightened that she shut her mouth.
No matter how discerning she is, she can also see that the old lady is in a very bad mood now. If she really opens her mouth at this time, I am afraid that the person being laughed at will be her, the eldest lady.
When Wang Xifeng saw her behavior, she felt disdainful and at the same time breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, her stepmother-in-law is not so unreliable, otherwise, she really doesn’t know how to help her get through it.
No matter what, she is the eldest wife. If she really loses face, it will be Lian Er and her daughter-in-law who are laughed at after all.
The old lady is so upset right now that she doesn't even dare to speak, let alone other people. If she's looking for trouble at this time, then she won't be happy if she puts herself on the pole!
However, this eldest girl of the Lin family is really powerful. Look at her methods, her ruthlessness, and her courage. Even she doesn't dare to provoke her.
