Chapter 28 The twenty-seventh chapter Mrs. Wang and his wife turned against each other and Ni Tingzhu and his brothers reunited

It is said that Shen Dajiao asked Mrs. Wang's words, and went home and told her husband.The next day, my son-in-law came to ask for a letter, and Shen Tianfu told him in this way: "My guest went over and told me the truth. This guest is very willing. But I explained that his family has no parents-in-law. Don't call me Boss Bao decides by himself. Tomorrow, bring four pieces of jewellery, and still ask my guest to give them to him, and he will pick up a date." After hearing this, Uncle Gui went home and told his mother-in-law: "It is true that this guest has hundreds of taels of silver in his hand, but he has a bad temper and will bully his husband. This is his and his wife's business. We don't care what he does." Yes." The old lady Bao said: "It doesn't matter what he does! Now this boy is in charge, and he should marry a hotter wife to control him." The old lady insisted on marrying this guest, Immediately they called Bao Tingkui and told him to invite Shen Tianfu and Jin Cifu to be matchmakers.Bao Tingxi said: "We are a small family, we just want to marry a daughter from a poor family as a daughter-in-law. If such a guest asks for a house, I'm afraid it will be naughty." His mother scolded him: "Unlucky slave! Unlucky slave! After all, you are the root of that poor family, and if you say you want to be poor, you will be poor in the future! Like him, he has many boxes and cages, and it is also lively to marry in and set up a house. What do you know, you slave!" Bao Tingxi didn't dare to reply, so he had to ask Mr. Gui to go to the matchmaker together. Mr. Gui said, "It's just that he's bothering you like mother. As long as you pick the best and the best, I don't have to do his work." The old lady told the uncle again, saying: "He doesn't know what is good or bad, brother-in-law doesn't need to care about him." Just now the uncle is willing to go with him to visit two matchmakers.

The next day, I prepared a table of wine and invited a matchmaker.Bao Tingxi has a business, and led the team out to play, and it was my uncle who accompanied him.The old family took out four pieces of gold jewelry and four pieces of silver jewelry, which belonged to the wife of the Wang family in front of him, and handed them over to Shen Tianfu to set them up.Shen Tianfu made another four pieces of jewelry from him, and only took four pieces of jewellery, and asked Shen Dajiao to set them up.I picked it up there, and decided to go through the door on October 10. On the twelfth, the four boxes, four cabinets, basins, tin utensils, and two large beds were moved in first.The two maids followed in a sedan chair. When they arrived at Bao's house, they saw the old man, but they didn't know who he was from, and it was hard to ask.Tomorrow morning, the eldest girl who returns home will come by bridge.Jin Cifu's wife and Qian Mazi's wife were invited to kiss here.At night, take a sedan chair, four pairs of lanterns and torches, and marry into the door.Going into the room and spreading the tent, saying four words and eight sentences, worshiping flowers and candles, eating and sharing cups of flowers, needless to say in detail.At five o'clock, I came out to worship the hall, and when I heard that there was a mother-in-law, I was so angry that I came out and kowtowed a few times, but there was no tea or shoes.Bibi, went to the room.The girl came out for a while to ask the rainwater to make tea and drink with his wife, and then came out to ask for charcoal to burn and went in to add some incense to his wife, and then came out to the cupboard to ask the cupboard to steam dim sum and make soup, and then brought it into the room to share with his wife eat.The two maids walked in front of and behind the house in an endless stream, calling their wives a lot.Boss Bao heard and said: "What kind of wife do I call here! You can't even call me a grandma, so I have to call you a husband-in-law!" The girl went into the room and told the wife this, and the wife fainted with anger.

On the third day, the Bao family invited many actors' wives to come to court.The custom in Nanjing: Whenever a new daughter-in-law enters the house, she has to go to the kitchen to pack a dish in three days and make a fortune.This Lai must be a fish, which means "more than rich and honor".At that moment, Bao's family bought a fish, cooked it in a pot, and asked Mrs. Yu to put it in the pot, but Mrs. Yu refused to pick it and sat still.Qian Mazi's wife came into the room and said, "It's not allowed. Now you come to his house as a wife, and you have to pay him back these rules." The wife swallowed her anger, took off her brocade clothes, put on an apron, went to the kitchen, and put He took the fish in his hand, scraped it three or four times with a knife, and looked into the boiling soup pot with his tail in his hand.Qian Mazi's wife was standing by the pot and watching him tidy up the fish. When he threw the hot water on her face, and even wet a two-color gold satin shirt, she jumped and came over. Said: "What do you say!" He hurriedly took out a sweat towel and wiped his face.Mrs. Wang lost her knife, chewing on her bones, and went into the room.When the guests were at the table that night, he never came out or sat down.

On the fourth day, Bao Tingkui led the team to go out for a night show, and then went into the room to get dressed.Mrs. Wang saw that he was wearing a corrugated hat for the past few days without a gauze hat, and wondered if he didn't look like a juren.Seeing him go out wearing a hat that day, he asked, "Where are you going tonight?" Bao Tingkui said, "I'm going to do business." Then he went.The wife became more and more puzzled: "What business does he do?" She thought again: "I think he settled the accounts in the shop." He didn't come back until dawn at five o'clock, and the wife asked: "You settled the accounts in the shop. What's the point of this night?" Bao Tingkui said: "What shop? I'm in charge of the theater troupe, and I lead the actors to go to the night theater before I come back." The wife didn't hear this sentence, but after hearing this sentence, she became angry Gongxin, yelled, fell down after looking back, clenched his teeth, and fell unconscious.Bao Tingkui panicked and asked the two maids to drink ginger soup for half a day.After waking up, he cried and shouted, rolled all over the floor, and scattered his hair; after a while, he climbed to the top of the bed, cried loudly, and sang a tune.It turned out that anger became a madness.Boss Bao and the eldest girl all ran in to watch, and they were both annoyed and funny when they saw this appearance.

While making noise, Shen Dajiao came to the room to congratulate with two packs of snacks in his hand.Just after entering the room, the wife saw it at first glance, stepped forward and grabbed him, pulled him to the horse, uncovered the horse, grabbed two handfuls of urine and feces, wiped his face and mouth, Shen Dazuo's nose was stuffed It stinks.Everyone came to tear it apart.Shen Dazuo walked out of the main room, and was scolded again by Mrs. Bao, pointing at his face, Shen Dazuo had no interest and no interest, so he asked for some water to wash his face, quietly went out, and went back.

The doctor is here.The doctor said: "This is a stomach full of phlegm, and the righteousness is weak. I need to use ginseng and amber." Each dose of medicine costs five renminbi.Since then, he has been murdered for two years, and some clothes and jewelry have been spent, and the two maids have also been sold.Uncle Gui discussed with the eldest girl and the old lady: "He was the son of a moth, and he was useless, but now he has brought this crazy woman here, and he has caused this field at home. In the future, our house and capital will not be enough for him to eat ginseng." , Amber is all eaten, how did this come about? Why don’t we drive him out at this time and leave the house, so that we can clean up and live together as a family.” Mrs. Bao listened to her daughter and son-in-law and wanted him for two days. Get out.

Bao Tingxi panicked and asked his neighbors Wang Yuqiu and Zhang Guozhong to speak.Zhang Guozhong and Wang Yuqiu came over and said, "Boss, this is impossible. He was adopted by your father when he was around; besides, he has helped your father in business for these years, how can you drive him out?" How unfilial, how unvirtuous my daughter-in-law is, I said it again and said: "I absolutely can't have him! If he wants to be here, I have to take my daughter and son-in-law and move out to let him!" The two couldn't talk at the moment. The old lady had no choice but to say: "Even if the old lady wants to drive him out, she will share some of the capital to do business with him. How can he go out and live as a couple naked?" The old lady said: "When he came that day, he had to pay for it A few stalks of yellow hair, but his body is still bare. Now I support him so big, and married him twice. Besides, his damn old man doesn’t know how tired my family is. He can’t make up for me, I still have Why post him!" The two said: "Even so, it's better for you, the old man, to take care of him." After talking about it, the old lady changed her mind and promised him twenty taels of silver to live by herself. .Bao Tingxi took the money, cried and moved out a few days ago, and borrowed a room behind Wang Yuqiu's shop.With only twenty taels of silver, I can't afford it if I want to organize a team and get an outfit; if I want to do a small business, I'm not good at it, so I have to sit and eat.After eating up the twenty taels of silver, my wife didn't have to take the ginseng and amber medicines, and she didn't get sick any more. She just sat at home crying and cursing for more than a day.

That day when Bao Tingxi came back from walking down the street, Wang Yuqiu greeted him and asked, "Did you have a brother Ling in Suzhou?" Bao Tingkui said, "My father only has me as a son, and he doesn't have an elder brother." Wang Yuqiu said "It's not from Bao's family, it's from your Ni family's three-arch building." Bao Tingxi said: "Although there are several elder brothers in the Ni family, I heard that my father sold them all since he was a child. Whereabouts, but I have never heard that it is in Suzhou." Wang Yuqiu said: "Just now there was a man who came all the way, and found Mr. Bao next door, and said: "Master Ni is looking for Mr. Sixth Master Ni." Mrs. Bao did not respond. , that person asked me, and I thought of you. Were you the sixth in the Ni family?" Bao Tingkui said: "I am the sixth." Wang Yuqiu said: "The person can't be found, and where I went looking for it. He had to find it back, you just sit and wait in my shop." After a while, the man came to ask again.Wang Yuqiu said: "This is Mr. Ni Liu, why are you looking for him?" Bao Tingkui said: "Where did you come from, is that one looking for me?" The man took out a red paper post from his waist and handed it Watch with Bao Tingkui.Bao Tingkui went on to read:

Bao Tingkui, the adopted son of Shuiximen Bao Wenqing's father's family, whose real name is Ni Tingxi, is the sixth son of his father Ni Shuangfeng, and my compatriot's brother.My name is Ni Tingzhu, and I found out that it was my brother, so I went to meet him in the mansion.important!important! Bao Tingxi said: "This is it! It's not bad at all! Who are you?" The man said: "I'm with the great master, called Ah San." Bao Tingxi said: "Where is the great master?" Asan said: " The Eldest Grandpa is now working as a husband-in-law in the yamen of Fuyuan in Suzhou, with one thousand taels of silver per year. Now he is in the Eldest Grandpa's mansion. Since he is the sixth Grand Master, please come and meet the Eldest Grandpa in the mansion with the younger one." Go all the way to the Fuyuan Mansion on Huaiqing Bridge.Ah San said: "The Sixth Grandpa, please sit in the teahouse under the river. I'll invite the Eldest Grandfather to meet." He kept going.

Bao Tingxi sat by himself for a while, only to see Ah San come in with a man, wearing a square scarf on his head, wearing a caramel-colored satin gown, powder-soled soap boots on his feet, three mustaches, about fifty years old.When the man walked into the teahouse, Ah San pointed out: "It's the sixth uncle." Bao Tingxi hurried forward, the man stopped him and said, "You are my sixth brother!" Bao Tinglong said: "You That's my big brother!" The two cried loudly with their heads in their arms, and sat down after crying.Ni Tingzhu said: "Brother, since you adopted Papa Bao's house, I don't know about it at all in Beijing. I have learned this trick since I was in my twenties, and I set up offices in various yamen. I have never been able to find any brothers. Five years ago, I went to Guangdong with a county magistrate, and I found an old neighbor in Sanpailou and asked him. Only then did I find out that you were adopted by Bao's family, and both parents have passed away!" Said Then, wept again.Bao Tinglong said: "I am now about Baomen..." Ni Tingzhu said: "Brother, wait for me to finish. In the past few years, I have met this Master Ji, and the host and guest get along well. One thousand taels of silver. In those years I was in Shandong, but this year I was transferred to Suzhou to be the governor. This is my hometown, so I hurried to find my good brother. When I found my good brother, I took out the few taels of silver I had saved over the years Get a house, and bring your sister-in-law from Beijing to Nanjing in the future, and live together with your brothers and family. Brother, you must have married a sister-in-law before." Bao Tingkui said: "Brother..." Then Learn how to adopt him to Bao's house, how he was favored by Bao's father, and how he recruited relatives in the uncle's yamen.Why did his ex-wife, Wang, die and married this woman again, and how and why he was kicked out by Mrs. Bao? Ni Tingzhu said, "That's okay. Where is my sister-in-law now?" Bao Tingxi said, "Now, Mrs. Bao There is a house next door to live in." Ni Tingzhu said: "I will go to the house with you to have a look, and I will reason."

Immediately, they met the tea money and walked to Wang Yuqiu's shop together.Wang Yuqiu also saw the ceremony.Bao Tingxi asked him to stay behind.When Mrs. Wang visited her uncle, she had no clothes or jewelry at this time, and she was only dressed in homely clothes.Ni Tingzhu took out four taels of silver from his purse, and gave it to his sister-in-law as a meeting gift.When Mrs. Wang saw this respectable uncle, her sorrow was reduced by half, and she served tea by herself.Bao Tinglong then sent it to his elder brother.Ni Tingzhu drank a cup of tea and said, "Brother, I'll go back to the mansion for now. I'll come back and talk to you. You are waiting for me at home." After that, let's go.Bao Tinglong discussed with his wife at home: "Brother, come soon, we have to prepare a meal and wine. Now buy a salted duck and a few catties of meat, and buy a fish, and ask Wang Yuqiu to clean it up and cook it. Four things are good." Mrs. Wang said: "Bah! You are a ignorant bastard! He lives in the Fuyuan yamen, and he has never seen salted duck and meat? Of course he only came after eating. He doesn't like you to eat something like this? Now it's reasonable to weigh three cents and six cents of silver quickly, put sixteen small plates in the fruit shop, buy a few catties of Chen Baihua wine and wait for him!" Bao Tinglong said: " What the wife said is true." Immediately, the silver was weighed, the wine and dishes were prepared, and they brought them home. In the evening, as expected, one took the bridge and two lanterns of the "Governor's Ministry". Ah San followed, and his brother came.Ni Tingzhu got out of the sedan chair, came in and said, "Brother Kuang, I don't have anything in my apartment, I only have more than seventy taels of silver with me." He asked Ah San to take it out from the sedan chair cabinet, and handed over a bag to Bao Tinglong. Said: "You keep this. I will go to Suzhou with Mrs. Ji tomorrow. You can quickly look at the next house. The price is two hundred taels or three hundred taels. It's fine. You can move in with your sister-in-law." Let’s go. You pack it up and come to the Yamen in Suzhou. I told Mrs. Ji that I will pay you a thousand taels of silver for this year’s Shuxiu, and bring it to Nanjing to make a capital, or buy some real estate for the day.” At the moment Bao Ting Long collected the money and kept his brother to drink.Eating, talking about the pain of separation of parents and brothers, talking and crying, crying and talking.I didn't go until I ate for more than two days. Bao Tinglong discussed with Wang Yuqiu the next day and called Fang Yazi to come over and ask for the house.Since then, Mr. Ni, who is well-known at the door of the family, came to look for his brother, and now he is in the office of Mr. Ni of Fuyuan; everyone calls Bao Tingkui Mr. Ni Liu, and it goes without saying that his wife is.After another half a month, Fang Yazi settled on a house in Shijia Lane, Xiafuqiao, with three frontages and four entrances, which belonged to Shi Yushi's family.Shi Yushi is not at home, and he is living with others, and the price is two hundred and twenty taels of silver.After a negotiation was made, twenty liang of silver was paid as a deposit, and a date was chosen to move in before exchanging the silver.On the day of the move, the neighbors on both sides gave away viewing boxes, and my son-in-law also came to do favors and make friends.Bao Tingkui invited him to drink for two days.He also redeemed some hair and clothes for his wife.The wife's body became a little chirping again, and she needed to see a doctor every few days and take eight cents of silver for medicine.The dozens of taels of silver are gradually running out. Bao Tingxi packed up and went to Suzhou to find his eldest brother, so he boarded the Suzhou boat.The wind was not favorable that day, the boatman wandered in the north of the river, and after walking all night, he arrived in Yizheng, where he lived on the yellow mud flat, the wind was even stronger, and he couldn't cross the river, Bao Tinglong went ashore to buy tea and snacks.Suddenly, I met a young man with a square scarf on his head, a straight jade-colored silk gown, and big red shoes on his feet.The young man looked Bao Tingkui up and down, and asked, "Aren't you Master Bao Gu?" Bao Tingkui said in surprise, "My surname is Bao, and my husband's surname is your first name. How do you call him that?" The young man said, "You are Anqing. Father Wang's son-in-law in the Grand Master's yamen?" Bao Tingkui said, "I am. How does your husband know?" The young man said, "I am Father Wang's grandson-in-law, aren't you my uncle? Bao Tingkui laughed and said, "What do you mean? Let me invite you to sit in the teahouse." The two of them walked into the teahouse and brought tea.Yizheng has plenty of meat buns, put them on a plate and eat them.Bao Tingkui asked: "Master's name?" The young man said: "My surname is Ji. Don't you recognize me? I was in the mansion for the boy student exam, and when I saw you patrolling the field, I recognized you. Later, your father was still there. My family has eaten wine. Don't you remember all these things?" Bao Tinglong said: "You are the young master Ji in the old man's house. Why did you become this relative?" Ji Weixiao said: "Since Mr. Xiang was promoted to the post, Mr. Wang didn't go with him, but lived in Anqing. Later, my family chose a gentry family in Anqing, Dianshi Township. Because he was a virtuous old man, we got in touch with him, and my family ended. This relative." Bao Tingkui said: "This is also very good. Are you at home?" Ji Weixiao said: "It's been more than three years since I saw you." Bao Tingkui said: "My lord, why are you Here?" Ji Weixiao said: "I am the same year as the first emperor, Wenwu, because of the salt transport department, so I came to see Uncle Nian. My lord, where are you going?" Bao Tingkui said, "I will go to Suzhou to see A relative." Ji Weixiao said: "When will I come back?" Bao Tingkui said: "It will take about 20 days." Ji Weixiao said: "If you come back and have nothing to do, come to Yangzhou to be stubborn. If you go to Yangzhou, Just look it up in the door book at the gate, and you will know where I am. At that time, I was the host and invited my aunt." Bao Tingkui said: "This must come to the Marquis." After that, they parted ways. Bao Tingkui got on the boat and went all the way to Suzhou, and then went ashore at Changmen, where he bumped into his brother's servant Ah San head to head.Because of this, there are different teachings: