Jin Yuliangyuan of the Red Chamber

This topic is not happy.Baoyu and Jia Lian were relatively lucky, so seeing Shui Rong and Shui Hong couldn't help feeling a little bit embarrassed and grateful.

Fortunately, they are not people who hurt the spring and autumn, especially Shui Hong.It's rare for him to stop for half a day. Everyone eats dinner together, the queen and the children can relax in the room, and Lin Ruhai and Daiyu are there the whole time.After dinner, they went to rest separately, and then Shuihong was too busy to meet people.

So Baoyu and Jialian continued to read during the day, but the queen often called Daiyu to talk.Both Shui Xingyun and Shui Muhua are still children, seeing that this eldest sister is beautiful, speaks well, and treats them very well, so they inevitably get close to Daiyu.Daiyu also has a good impression of these two lovely children, often playing with them, and sometimes even tutoring Shui Xingyun's homework, the queen is even more delighted to see them.

Then she also heard that Jia Lian also brought his wife and children, so she told Daiyu to bring both Sister Feng and Jia Heng and Jia Zhi, and she was satisfied at first sight.

So the men were busy with their business, and the women and children in this courtyard gathered together every day, talking and laughing happily, and Sister Feng was also very eloquent, and she often made witty remarks, which made Du Yueyan and everyone laugh non-stop. ——After all, she is the empress, and Sister Feng didn't dare to be too vulgar, so she just chose innocuous words, which made the empress feel a little better.

Not to mention the women and children living a relaxed life, Shui Hong and Shui Rong are too busy.The papers from the capital are handed over to the emperor every day. Apart from being busy with those things, he also went to Yangzhou’s tribute courtyard to check for any hidden dangers. The tribute courtyards of the past dynasties often caught fire, so he told Lin Ruhai to take good precautions.Lin Ruhai already had a countermeasure. He changed the original wooden structure into bricks and tiles, which greatly reduced the possibility of fire. Shui Hong looked very satisfied.

In addition, there is also the location of the martial arts examination.Because this is the first time in the past 40 years, the general force has declined, and there are not many people who have signed up for the test, less than 1000 people, so there is only one test center in Yangzhou.

There are many gardens in Yangzhou, and there are naturally many good places in them. Lin Ruhai simply set up a test center in the garden of Baoyang Lake. Anyway, according to Shuihong's meaning, the first test is theory, which is the art of war, and the second test is archery and moving target. , the third test is close combat, and then it will be enough to set up a target in the open space of the garden and build a school field for the contest.

After all these arrangements were made, Shuihong summoned several senior and virtuous scholars from the Imperial Academy to present the examination questions, and even selected the candidates for the invigilation. Let him be the chief examiner, and the rest of the old bachelors are also among them, and they will go to the other three test centers to invigilate the test.

Although they discussed several test questions together, in the end it was Shuihong who drafted them himself.He has solid knowledge. When the late emperor was around, he didn't dare to do other things. He basically used his time to study. It is no problem to come up with such a test question. What's more, he wants to choose a courtier who can satisfy his own wishes, so naturally he has to follow his own ideas. Only by writing a question can you see who is compatible with you.In order to prevent leaking the questions, he decided to wait until the start of the exam to make a final decision.

The date of the opening of the department has also been set. The liberal arts will be on the fifth day of August. There will be three exams, each three days. There are more than one exam questions, and candidates will draw lots to decide which one to write, so as to avoid cheating to the greatest extent.After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I will take the martial arts exam on August [-]th.The closer the date is, the more test papers there will be in each test center.

Because Yujia stopped in Yangzhou, so the most people came in this direction, everyone sharpened their heads and wanted to squeeze into the place where the emperor was, but this person couldn't come in without restrictions, so the city was closed to a certain extent door, and outsiders are not allowed to come in again.The two streets in front of the gate of Lin's Mansion are guarded by Imperial Forest Army, and no one else can approach them.

Mother Jia and the others finally entered Yingtian Mansion in Jinling, settled down in their own house, and began to make arrangements for Jia Lan to register for the exam, and he took the exam in Yingtian Mansion.Jia Lan was very excited when she knew that she had the opportunity, and she held the book every day and couldn't bear to release it, which made Jia's mother think that this child is a good one.

Shui Rong is so busy following Shui Hong every day that he doesn't have time to see how they are doing, but they are all in the same mansion, no matter what happens, they will know the news.

Baoyu and Jia Lian were very calm, and no matter what happened outside, it seemed that they could not affect them.Jia Lian is a firm-minded person, and he will try his best to do the best when he is sure about one thing.Needless to say, Baoyu, he has always been like this, the closer he gets, the more calm he becomes, he has always been like this, not only because he understands the truth that arrogant soldiers must be defeated, but also because he has absolute self-confidence, he can make himself calm Coming down, it means that he has already made up his mind.

Shui Hong nodded secretly when he learned about it: It's good to be neither arrogant nor impetuous.He has more confidence in them.

Let's talk about Jinling.Jia Lan was raised at home since he was a child and didn't go out very much. Now that he encounters such a big event, he can't help but feel uneasy. He doesn't leak it out much outside, but he often has nightmares when he sleeps at night. Thanks to his tenacity, he gritted his teeth and carried it. .

This time, the whole family was dispatched a lot, and even members of Xue's family came together.Originally, Baochai was a show girl waiting to be selected, so she couldn't come out, but Shuihong said that she wanted to be drafted, but she couldn't wait to take the queen and ran to Yangzhou, leaving those officials too busy to take care of much .Besides, Xue Baochai is ambitious. Hearing that the emperor came to supervise the scientific examination, he thought that Yingtian Mansion also had an examination room. Maybe the emperor would come, and the king of Beijing would definitely accompany him. Let them take a look at it from a distance, and it is not a waste of time.

So although she still plays with her sisters every day, she is looking forward to the coming of the scientific examination soon, so that she can fly on the branches and become a phoenix.

When he came out this time, Jia Zheng didn't follow, after all, the emperor didn't give permission, and the Ministry of Industry still had a lot of things backlogged, so he was in charge, so it wasn't that easy to get out.The other men in the Jia family, like Jia She and Jia Zhen, just relied on the merits of their ancestors to hang up idle jobs and had no errands, so Jia's mother and female relatives relied on them to escort them.

Anyway, Jia's family doesn't have any rules, and aunts and nephews don't shy away from meeting each other.Among Jia Zheng's women, only Mrs. Wang followed, and Aunt Zhou and Aunt Zhao stayed in the mansion.

Although Jia Huan had read books with Jia Lian and Jia Lan, it's just that he likes to exploit by nature, so how could he be patient?But just in time.So as soon as Jia's mother and others left, Jia Zheng was always outside and ignored him, so he had a good time, staying away from home every day, not knowing what to do, and sometimes not even coming back for the night.Aunt Zhao was frightened every day, and when he came back, she would scold her head and face, which made Jia Huan even more unwilling to go home. This went on for more than ten days.

This morning, Jia Huan was gambling in the secret door, shaking the dice, and Jia Qin and Jia Qiang yelled, "Small! Small! Small! Open!" When the dice cup was opened, the number was five or five Four, each of them looked like a defeated rooster, drooping their heads, sighing and losing out the last bit of money.

After all, they were not willing to return their money. Those people didn’t know where they came from. When they saw that they had no money, they drove them away. The three of them were kicked out in disgrace. When they wanted to go back, they didn’t dare to go back, so they could only spit at the door. A few mouthfuls: "Bah! You guys who look down on people with a dog's eyes, wait for the young master to smash you to death with money next time!" After finishing his mouth addiction, he still wandered away.

How did these three get together?It turned out that Jia Qin was originally a collateral branch of Jia's family, so it was naturally not as good as the situation of the Ningrong Second Mansion. When he was looking for a relationship with Toto in the mansion, there was no news. Just idle.Jia Qiang is a decent great-great-grandson of the Ning Mansion, her parents died early, she lived with Jia Zhen since she was a child, and was close to Jia Rong, so she lived a very carefree life, enjoying flowers and willows, fighting cocks and running dogs every day.

This Jia Qin got together with Jia Qiang for some reason, he is also a fun-loving guy, and he is also a bit clever, the two of them are like-minded, and Jia Qin's life has been easier since then, but he is still not doing his job.

Jia Huan only joined Jia Mu and others when they went to Jinling in the past few days. He was Jia Zheng's son after all, so he had some face when he said it, so the three of them formed a group.Being lured by those two people, Jia Huan was ten times worse than before.

It was almost noon at this time, they came out early in the morning, and they were a little hungry after playing for half a day, but the half of the copper they had lost was gone, and they walked past a noodle stall, smelling the aroma and feeling even more hungry.Jia Qin said angrily: "I'm really unlucky today! After playing all morning, I can't even win, and now I can't even eat a bowl of noodles!" Jia Qiang was more or less graceful, and persuaded: "Okay, don't complain, why don't we hurry up Go back to the house."

They came out secretly, of course they didn't bring any servants with them, and they didn't dare to eat the overlord's meal first, and then let people go to the house to collect money, so that people would not know that they came out, and maybe they could even find out where they went. The time is over.

Jia Huan sneered and said: "Now that all the decent masters in the mansion have left, who still pays attention to our mother and son, I don't know if there is any hot food!"

The servants in that mansion are all watching people order dishes, Aunt Zhao is not in tune, and Jia Huan is also worthless, who can think highly of them?In the past, there was only Tanchun, which was more or less useful. Now that they are all gone and Jia Zheng is not around, only Youshi from Ningfu is in charge. How can they be taken care of?Jia Huan also often ran outside because he was aggrieved at home.

These words made Jia Qiang's mind flutter, "I heard that Uncle Lian and Baoyu both went to Yangzhou for the exam, and even Brother Lan went to Jinling, why didn't you go?" Speaking of this, Jia Huan hated: "They I have always been a favorite, who still remembers me as the third master!" He didn't think about it because he didn't work hard, he just complained blindly.

Jia Qiang took the opportunity and said: "Hey, no one in the house cares about you now, why don't you take the opportunity to pawn a few things, so that we can spend some money." Jia Huan hesitated.Although he was unwilling, but he didn't have the courage to steal, so he only said a few perfunctory words, and the three of them hurried back home.

After returning to the house, it was already past lunch time. Jia Huan's stomach was growling with hunger, and when he came back, he called for hot food. When Aunt Zhao saw him like this, she didn't bother to question him. The son went to the kitchen to cook some meals.She originally thought that Jia Huan wouldn't come back for dinner today, so people would withdraw the points after eating by herself, but who knew that he came back now and hadn't eaten yet, so she could only ask the kitchen to cook fresh.

The little girl came back after going for a long time, took a small food box, opened the curtain and opened it: "The people in the kitchen said that today's order is gone, I begged for a long time and they didn't know what to do." Where did you get all this, maybe you can only let the third master make do with it."

Jia Huan looked up and saw that there was only a bowl of rice in the box, which is what the servants eat on weekdays, and there was a plate of rough salted duck eggs, and another plate contained a chicken leg and a few pieces of goose breast. .Jia Huan took it out and touched it with his hands. It was half-warm, probably because he was too lazy to warm it up, so he just took it over after touching it casually.

Aunt Zhao was upset, she wanted to talk to the kitchen staff, and took the little girl there in a hurry.Jia Huan was so hungry that he couldn't care about anything else, so he made a meal with tea and hurriedly swallowed duck eggs and goose breasts to relieve his hunger.But after he was full, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, even the people in the kitchen dared to step on him like that, what was he? !

Thinking of what Jia Qiang said just now, he was a little afraid at first, but now he was so angry that he could not help thinking secretly.

The author has something to say: I'm going... I don't know what I wrote anymore, I'm speechless... I came back from my internship yesterday, and I met my roommate watching the old version of the sculpture, so I went to join in the fun , After turning off the lights, I was too busy complaining about New God Condor, chatting about various TV dramas, and spreading common sense of Jin Yong's martial arts novels to my roommates, so I didn't bother to update the article, sorry.Make it up tomorrow!mwah!

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