In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 340 Dream of Red Mansions - Jia Yingchun 11

Although Jia Lang was not very clear about Aunt Li's good intentions, she herself was not a real child. She knew that her relationship with the Jia family could not be severed at all, so even though she found it a bit annoying to deal with those people in the Jia family, she still endured it in the end.

Anyway, he will only stay in the capital for a few days and will be back soon. Even if those servants in the Jia family who like to flatter the weak want to say something gossipy, it will not have any impact.

With such a mood, Jia Lang and Aunt Li, accompanied by some relatives who were going to the capital to attend a wedding, went to the Rongguo Mansion in the capital. Grandmother Jia had received a reply from Jinling a long time ago and knew that Jia Lang and his family were coming back, so she asked the Second Madam to arrange servants to wait for them at the street corner.

When the Second Wife received Lady Jia's request, she was reluctant. She felt that Jia Lang was just a bastard's son from a big house, so there was no point in accepting him. She did not dare to refute Lady Jia's request openly, but secretly she specially arranged for Zhou Rui's wife to have someone quietly lead Jia Lang and the others to the corner gate behind the Rongguo Mansion, where the servants entered and exited.

"Master, please get out of the car!"

When Jia Lang lifted the curtain and was about to get off the car, he discovered a problem. Although Jia Yingchun had never been here in her previous life, she had seen the gate of Rongguo Mansion. It was obvious that all the people coming and going here were servants of the Jia Mansion. If he really brought Aunt Li into the Jia Mansion from here today, he would be considering himself a servant of the Jia Mansion.

This vicious method was obviously arranged by the Second Wife. Jia Lang rolled his eyes and ignored the servants who kept shouting at him to get off the carriage. He lowered the curtain, held Aunt Li's cold hands, and said to the driver: "Since the Jia family doesn't regard me as a member of the family, then we should not be so shameless as to stick to them. Let's go back!"

Aunt Li had long recognized the corner gate from the gap in the curtain that Jia Lang lifted. It was here that she entered when she was sold to the Jia Mansion by the human traffickers. If she were alone, even though Aunt Li had cut her indentures and was a free person, she would not feel humiliated to enter through here.

But asking Jia Lang to enter from here is not allowed! She can be a servant, but Jia Lang cannot. Jia Lang is the legitimate master of the Jia family. Even if he is a concubine's son, he is not someone that the people in the Jia family can insult at will.

Aunt Li only thought that it was her status that implicated Jia Lang. Her hands and feet were cold and she was shaking with anger. If she had known that the people in the Jia family viewed them mother and son in this way, she would not have gone to such lengths even if she wanted to pave the way for Jia Lang. The integrity of a scholar is so important. If Jia Lang lost his integrity in order to curry favor with the Jia family, that would be putting the cart before the horse and would ruin everything.

Jia Lang held Aunt Li's hands and tried to calm her down. She always knew that Aunt Li had her own pride in her heart. She had been forced to become Jia She's concubine in order to survive, which was a regret in her life. Now, for Jia Lang, she swallowed the humiliation of being a concubine.

But if her son had to continue to be a servant to the legitimate wife, Aunt Li would not be able to swallow this.

"Erlang is right. Let's go back. The Jia Mansion is too big for us, the illegitimate children, to get close to it!"

The servant arranged by the Second Madam was dumbfounded as he watched the carriage driving away, but he was not really dumb. The servants knew a little about how much Grandmother Jia valued Jia Lang and his mother. Originally, the Second Madam wanted to take advantage of Aunt Li's birth as a maid, but she was short-sighted and wanted to make Jia Lang lose face because of his young age. However, she did not expect that although Jia Lang was young, he was not a child who knew nothing. He saw the problem at a glance and turned back, not even bothering to argue with them.

If Jia Mu didn't get anyone, how would the Second Madam, who was in charge, report to the emperor? If the Second Madam couldn't report to the emperor, how could the servant who had done a bad job end up well?

The servants hurried after Jia Lang's carriage, shouting all the way: "Master, please stop the carriage, please stop the carriage! I made a mistake, I made a mistake!"

"Erlang, is it that the man from Jia Mansion who just caught up with us?"

Aunt Li vaguely heard the servants' shouting. Jia Lang sneered and shook his head at Aunt Li, indicating that she should ignore him.

"This matter should not be the intention of the old lady of Rongguo Mansion. I think it should be the intention of the second wife of the housekeeper."

"Second wife? We are from the first house. What does it have to do with the second wife? Why would she do such a thing?"

Aunt Li didn't understand. In her understanding, she was the concubine of the first wife and had nothing to do with the second wife of the second wife. Since there was no relationship, then naturally there would be no offense to her. There was no reason for the second wife to do this?

"The second wife wants the title of the first wife."

Jia Lang didn't need to explain too much. Just this one sentence was enough to make Aunt Li understand the Second Wife's thoughts. After hearing Jia Lang's answer, Aunt Li instantly realized that they were implicated by the First Wife this time. But as Aunt Li got closer, other doubts arose.

"The title is determined by laws. How can the Second Madam get it just by wishing?"

"Why not?"

"As long as the first wife has no heir, and the second wife has a favorite concubine who can speak in front of the emperor, plus the second wife's brother has made contributions to the previous dynasty, do you still think it is impossible now, Auntie?"

"This..." Aunt Li was really shocked by Jia Lang's words. If what Jia Lang said was true, the second wife's plan might really succeed. Especially now, the second wife's eldest daughter Jia Yuanchun has entered the palace, and the second wife's brother has indeed been promoted and his current official position is higher than Jia Zheng.

"The eldest wife has no heir..."

"I remember that the bride that the eldest young master is going to marry tomorrow is the niece of the second wife, right? That's her niece. How can the second wife be so cruel?"

After all, Aunt Li did not grow up in a wealthy family. She did not have enough understanding of the power struggles and intrigues within wealthy families. She actually believed that blood ties could prevent the calculations of those who were blinded by greed.

Jia Lang did not directly expose Aunt Li's expectations, but just shook his head to indicate that he didn't know either, and perhaps he was just overthinking.

The coachman drove the carriage according to Jia Lang's instructions and took Jia Lang and Aunt Li away from Rongning Eighth Street. When they left through the alley, many Jia clan members and children of the Jia family who lived nearby saw them. The Jinling clan members who had originally come to the capital with Jia Lang and Aunt Li also happened to see them.

"Isn't that the carriage that Jia Lang and his mother rode in? Why didn't they go in but turned around and left instead?"

As soon as these words were spoken, people nearby started talking, and everyone quickly pieced together what the second wife had done.

The second wife had originally planned to have these people see Jia Lang and his mother enter the Jia Mansion through the servants' corner door and then spread the news so that the servants would look down on Jia Lang's status. However, she did not expect that her arrangement would now backfire on her, which is commonly known as stealing a chicken but losing the rice.