Going through the Red Mansions quickly means going against the system.

At this moment, Jia Jing showed his cynicism and incompetence to Xichun.

He wants to tell his daughter that this dynasty is not a peaceful and prosperous era at all!

The wealthy family is full of wine and meat, and there are cold and hungry bones on the road. Xichun's kindness will only earn his ridicule, but not his love. If you want to impress him with kindness, you are wrong.

And what he brought Xichun to see today was his past.

He was born into a wealthy and powerful family, and since he was the second eldest child in the family, he had been raised innocently. It was not until his eldest brother Jia Fu died of illness that his life was changed.

Others flattered him because of this lucky opportunity to seize the title, but he disdained it because he had seen through the darkness of human nature.

He was born to stand at the pinnacle of power and could easily obtain authority, but he had a heart for the country and the people. When he found that his dream could not be realized at all, he underwent a 180-degree change.

He found that as long as he continued to live, he would become a worm in the country in order to maintain the family's wealth and power. Therefore, he understood the fact earlier than others that if this continued, the country would be doomed.

Therefore, he hates himself more than anyone else, which is why he wants to go crazy when he sees Xichun like himself.

"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and they treat all things like straw dogs. The saints are unkind, and they treat the people as straw dogs. Between heaven and earth, is it just like a straw? Between heaven and earth, is it like a straw? Hahahaha!"

He gave Xichun a hard push and pushed her into the pond. Regardless of the fact that Xichun was still a child, he wanted her to see the ugly world.

Xichun stood in the pond, next to a few little ghosts playing games. The little ghosts looked at her suspiciously, and when they saw that they couldn't touch her, they started playing happily again.

This place was originally supposed to be a washing place for monks and nuns in the temple, and several large stones were arranged like washboards.

There is also a bamboo pole for drying clothes on a tree pole close to the direct sunlight. If it weren't for the piles of swaddling clothes and a pool of little devils next to it, this place would really look like it has been peaceful for a long time.

But now it seems to have been abandoned.

Some of the swaddling clothes that had been torn apart by wild beasts were stained with blood, and some of the swaddling clothes were not even stained with soil. They had obviously been put down not long ago.

It can only be said that Jia Jing and Xichun arrived in time. If they could show kindness, these children would be able to live.

They must not have been released at the same time, and the attacking beasts were nowhere to be seen. Xichun slowly walked over, and sure enough she saw several swaddled children sleeping soundly inside.

"Amitabha, it turns out the donor has arrived."

The old nun at the ancient temple heard the commotion here, saw that the villager was not here to throw the child away, and immediately came over with a smile to salute. When he saw it was Jia Jing, the rich man, his smile became more sincere.

"You are a Taoist friend, it turns out to be a Taoist friend. Now we have just selected the children that the Taoist friend needs. Should the Taoist friend keep them here and continue to raise them, or should we take them back together this time?"

As soon as Jia Jing saw her, he stopped reciting the Tao Te Ching crazily. He asked the coachman to come over and gave him a small bag of silver, and then picked up four or five children from the temple.

"Master, thank you for your hard work. I will take some of them back. If I meet a little one, I will keep it with you. There are all vulgar men in my place, so it is not convenient to take care of the little one. I still have to see that Master is kind-hearted. , if you can support one more, then one. But how many more are there today?"

"Now that the weather is bad and we can't even feed them, this is the family that can't feed them nearby, alas!"

The old nun sighed, knowing that Jia Jing was talking about the new baby beside the pond. But they are also in trouble. Ever since people nearby knew that they were taking in children, more and more children have been abandoned here.

Xichun listened to the two people in the distance talking about the recent busy farming situation, and could also hear the old nun's thanks mixed in during the conversation.

"This fellow Taoist action is truly of great merit!"

Xichun didn't expect that someone would use this word to praise Jia Jing. She really wanted to go over and ask, but did she know what Jia Jing wanted to do by taking in the child? If the nun knew this, what was the difference between her and the executioner's accomplice?

Xichun followed the female nun ghost, picking out the living ones from the pile of little dolls that smelled like corpses, and then opened the swaddling clothes one by one to check which one was a boy.

Because these children are too young, it is impossible to tell whether they are male or female just by looking at their appearance, and the ghosts of the dead children all look confused.

They might as well be sober as the Jade Girl Ghost in Xuanzhen Temple.

Maybe their parents are really in trouble and hope someone will be kind enough to adopt them. Or maybe it's because the child is seriously ill and there's no way to treat him or her. But they all put the children here with hope, but with the Yin and Yang eyes, they knew that many children died here.

It can be seen that not all the nuns in this temple are good.

Xichun enlisted the help of a female nun and soon picked out two boys, both of whom had fainted from hunger because they had been without milk for a long time.

If you don't care, you will really die.

Xichun carried them both to Jia Jing's side with difficulty. She fell silent and stopped talking.

What to say? Call yourself naive and then let this dad continue to make alchemy? Or is it useful to tell him and let the souls of a group of beautiful girls pave his way to immortality?

She understands Jia Jing's despair, but she doesn't understand the backlash. Because she can't save the world, she decides to become a villain?

So what's the point of him becoming a monk?

The female nun ghost stayed and recited the scriptures of the past life to the pond. The little ghost heads seemed to see a beam of light coming over them, and they all curiously stepped forward to touch it. After a while, their figures disappeared from the entire pond.

"Why didn't you pick up those girls? Aren't you very kind?"

When Jia Jing saw her coming, he used to sarcastically speak. Seeing that Xichun didn't reply to him, he stopped saying harsh words.

He took some more food and gave it to the old nun together with the two boys Xichun found, and told her to be more kind and save more if she could.

The old nun received the money and food, and kept thanking her. She went back to see the child off, and four or five women immediately came out of the temple and looked for the still alive child by the pond.

"It's not that we are too snobbish, it's just that we have too many children to support, so we can only accept them based on fate."

The old nun defended herself and smiled with satisfaction when no one blamed her.

"Fellow Taoist, would you like some vegetarian food here?"

"No."

Jia Jing returned to his cold demeanor. Seeing that Xichun was already dead, he planned to take her back early.

All the way to Xuanzhen Temple in silence, Xichun looked at the little girls jumping out of the car and fell into deep thought for a while.

She was also an accomplice who watched them jump into the fire pit.

"Isn't it interesting?... There is something even more interesting. Ever since that old nun knew that I was spending money to do good deeds here, she often went to the villages near them to steal children. So among the children you rescued today, Maybe they stole it."

Jia Jing seemed to think that his stimulation was not enough, so he added with a smile. Seeing Xichun's angry eyes, he couldn't help laughing again.

But the smile couldn't reach his eyes, and his eyes were still filled with sadness.