The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

"Second brother Lian, why do I see you standing out from the crowd when you go out?" Feng Ziying smiled heartily, and Jia Lian said modestly, "What is standing out from the crowd? I have to wash up this morning. I knocked more than a dozen times before someone came to open the door." .”

King Jing of Beijing, who was in micro-clothes, was taken aback when he heard this, thinking that Jia Lian barked too often, and the guards would not pay him any attention.

"Fourth brother, go home quickly. We will treat you as if you have suffered a serious crime to appease you. I don't want you to be so energetic, but someone is worrying in vain." Xu Yuheng smiled, first took two white cloth bags from the boy's hands, and wrapped them The first-grade meat buns in the bag were handed over to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian quickly waved his hands and said, "I haven't washed my hands, so I won't eat."

"Ahem." Li Bizhou and Yuan Jingfeng both clenched their fists and coughed, secretly giving Jia Lian a wink.

It was only then that Jia Lian realized that the bun was prepared by Xu Qingheng, so he had to take it along with the cloth bag. He only said to eat it in the carriage, and it was still wrapped. When his carriage came, he asked Li Bizhou to wait and go home with him.

Yuan Jingfeng asked for leave from the Yamen, and Xu Yuju asked for leave from the Imperial College. The two refused to go back to work and school.

Li Bizhou, Xu Yuheng, and Feng Ziying followed Jia Lian back to the Rongguo Mansion. When they entered the house, they saw that the whole family was waiting to ask their relatives. Even Xue Pan sent a servant to visit if he couldn't come over.It's just that everyone saw that there was nothing wrong with Jia Lian, so they dispersed.

After entering Jinghuanzhai, Li Bizhou and Xu Yuheng first urged Jia Lian to tell the questions and how he answered them. After hearing what Jia Lian had said, they both said: "If you do this, you will definitely win."

Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian were puzzled and said: "He has studied hard for ten years and failed the exam, so he won it once?"

Li Bizhou said: "It's been ten years since I was in the cold window. I'm so stupefied in reading, but I don't know what to say. The fourth brother is focused on taking the exam, and he is very focused. Naturally, he is more flexible than those people." He urged Jia Lian to wash up before speaking. .

Jia Lian agreed, went into the room to wash up carefully, and changed into a comfortable fine cotton shirt. After washing her hair, she left her hair loose and went to the Jinghuan Zhai hall. The hairy peaches on the peach tree have grown a lot. Walking along the veranda and entering the hall, you can see that the pear blossom table in the hall is full of books. They are all the erotic stories that everyone talked about in the restaurant before. When I turned it over last time, it turned out that it was all punctuated and printed with ink.

"It's so fast." Jia Lian sighed.

Xu Yuheng smiled and said: "It goes without saying that there are leaders from the Imperial College. Yu Jue said that this book has been circulated in the Imperial College, but the gentlemen at the top don't know about it. And - secretly sold in our bookstore This book sold unexpectedly. It is expected that people like Pan'er bought this book. They get a headache when they see the large sections. We divide them into small sections for them. Happy."

Jia Lian flipped through two books, and saw that the content in the book was embarrassing, so he didn't read it carefully, and just smiled: "So, even such a book has been broken, sooner or later it will be the turn of the Four Books and Five Classics?"

"That's not true." Xu Yuheng and Li Bizhou were full of confidence.

Liu Xianglian didn't understand why he had to stop at the Four Books and Five Classics, but he and Feng Ziying had the same interests, and they both loved martial arts rather than literature, so they went out to compete with Feng Ziying, and Jia Lian and three others were left to ask for advice.

Although Jia Lian didn't look tired, Li Bizhou didn't dare to disturb him too much, so he left at noon.

At noon, Jia Lian ordered some porridge and side dishes, and who would have thought that, together with six kinds of side dishes, two first-grade steamed stuffed buns would also be delivered.

"Second Master, it was made by Miss Xu herself, at least give it a try." Quan Xidui said with a smile.

If Jia Lian didn't eat it, he didn't know what was good or bad, so he took the bun and opened it, and when he opened it, there was honey-like soup flowing out, and the smell was good, so he ate one with porridge. Save the other for a snack.

Quan Fu stood aside, and when he had finished eating and rinsed his mouth, he said: "My little ones found out that Grandma Xiaorong is the daughter adopted by Qin Bangye, the secretary of the Ministry of Construction, from the Yangshengtang. Good looks are the next best thing. What matters is..."

"I found out all these years ago, what about the others?" Jia Lian interrupted Quan Fu.

Quan Fu immediately said: "There's nothing else, it's just that Uncle Zhen and Brother Rong respect her very much. If there are good things, they will do their best to Grandma Xiao Rong, and Grandma Zhen will be next. The second master asked Xiao to inquire The things in Grandma Xiaorong's room, the younger ones called a few people, but they couldn't find out. I only heard from Brother Qiang, what is the name of the calligraphy and painting in Grandma Xiaorong's room, and what is the name? Ask Brother Qiang My son can't remember it either, he just said it was passed down hundreds of years ago, and it's priceless."

"These things belong to the Ningguo Mansion?" Jia Lian asked.

Quan Fu smiled and said: "We don't know about that, but seeing that Grandma Xiaorong is comfortable with it, she doesn't feel that she surpasses Grandma Zhen, so it looks like she brought it here by herself."

"How can a clerk in the camp have so many dowries? Then ask Yun'er to go to Brother Qiang's side for fun, pretending to inquire about the romantic affairs in Grandma Xiao Rong's boudoir, and carefully ask her what the furnishings in the room are. kind of."

"The second master was too narrow, so he asked about the affairs of the little wife's room."

Jia Lian laughed. Jia Qiang, a younger brother-in-law, could clearly understand what was going on in his sister-in-law's room, and it became more narrow to investigate carefully. After thinking about it, she asked someone to invite Liu Xianglian to come. It's a little ominous, you go and send a message to Master Lin, telling him not to act rashly, no matter what he did earlier, let it go for now, stay for two days, we will discuss it together. Also ask Master Xue, Prince Yizhong let go Has the coffin in their home been carried back?"

Liu Xianglian listened to what Jia Lian meant, that the situation had changed, so she immediately agreed and went.

As soon as Liu Xianglian left, the mandarin ducks came in from the outside. When they came in, they suddenly saw Jia Lian with black hair loose, but she was taken aback. She suddenly thought that it was Lian's second master who was hiding a beauty in the golden house. In the room.

"Second master, the old lady said that she fell in love with a set of rosewood furniture in the storeroom and wanted to buy it as a dowry for Miss Yuanda." Yuanyang saw that Jia Lian didn't know when Yuanchun would get married, and said, "Miss Yuanda is in June. It's only been two months since I left the cabinet, so it's too late to call the carpenter."

"How much money is there in the market?" Jia Lian sat on a chair and sipped almond tea. Xu Yuheng got married in September, and after September, he was engaged to Xu Qingheng.

"My father checked it out. The whole set of beds with big treasures on the market cost at least 2000 taels. The Babu bed that the old lady likes can't be bought in a store for less than four or five hundred."

"Ask the old lady to pay 1000 taels." Now that Mother Jia has settled down and is even willing to restrain Mrs. Wang who put usury, he can't help giving up two steps.

Yuanyang hurriedly resigned and went to Rongqingtang to report to Jia Mu.

Jia's mother just couldn't believe it. She thought that Jia Lian would ask for three or four thousand at least, and she was ready to bargain with Jia Lian. Now that Jia Lian was so unexpected, she made her grandmother look like a villain. The belly is normal, pondering over and over again, although I feel sorry for the silver, but for the future life, gritted my teeth and called Hu Po and Yuanyang to count three hundred gold together, and confessed to Yuanyang: "Tell the second master, 150 taels are for Yuanchun to buy a dowry, and the other 150 taels are for Yuanchun. It's for Yingchun, I'm afraid that I will forget about it sometime, so I will give the money to him for safekeeping now."

Yuanyang agreed, took the gold and went back to Jinghuanzhai.

Seeing the gold, Jia Lian felt amusing and said with a smile: "The old ancestor is wise after all. He knew that the silver took up space, so he hid it in gold. Please go and ask the second girl to kowtow to the old ancestor, and then give the 300 taels to the old ancestor. Send it back."

"Second Master is doing this, just like giving up Liuchi Alley with the old ancestor." Yuanyang was also surprised that Jia Mu would be so "a bowl of water is flat", resigned again, and went to talk to Yingchun, and Yingchun was flattered when Yingchun was flattered Thanks to Jia Mu, and returned all the gold to Jia Mu.

When Jia's mother saw her, she was filled with emotion, and she insisted that the money was for Yingchun's wedding, and Jia Lian must accept it; she also ordered Yuanyang, Lin Zhixiao's family, and Jin Cai's family to carefully remove a whole set of rosewood furniture from the miscellaneous The colored furniture was carried out of the warehouse and delivered to Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang.

Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang didn't know about the mutual humility between Jia Mu and Jia Lian. They only knew that Jia Mu still loved them as before. happy event.

The next day Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang had a discussion, and Jia Zheng urged Mrs. Wang to talk to Jia Mu.

When Mrs. Wang came to Jia Mu, she wentssip about the house for a long time, and then said: "Master didn't care about these things, he only said that Zhu'er's marriage was not decent, and she didn't do much when Yuanchun celebrated the ceremony. I want to be happy in Yuanchun." I'll make it up someday. This is the list written by the master, please take a look at it." As he spoke, he presented a list of details, from how many operas he invited to how many dishes he arranged, to Mother Jia for reading.

Mother Jia only glanced at it before throwing it back to Mrs. Wang, "I'm getting old, and I get a headache when I see words. You and your husband should discuss the matter of Yuanchun."

Mrs. Wang held the list tightly, and when she came here, she wanted to use the list to tell Jia Mu that it was time to pay. To support the scene, the daughter-in-law specially showed it to the ancestors."

Mother Jia snorted lightly, hating the couple for their overreaching, as if she was sure that Yuan Chun would hand out the silver if she felt sorry for her, she pursed her lips tightly and remained silent.

Mrs. Wang gradually became a little apprehensive, and then she felt that the boat was going straight ahead, and when Jiamu saw that Yuanchun's wedding was too embarrassing, she would help.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law faced each other quietly, and suddenly there was a burst of laughter outside the door. Before Jia Mu could say anything, the maid in front of the door opened the curtain, and saw a group of elderly wives and sisters from Zongli coming in together. , Everyone cupped their hands at Jiamu: "Congratulations, the old sister-in-law is overjoyed!"

Jia's mother was worried about Mrs. Wang's plan. At this time, she saw a group of white-haired old wives coming to the door happily. She hurriedly stood up and asked someone to invite them to sit down. She was confused and asked, "Where is the happy event?"

Mrs. Wang was also very surprised.

"Old sister-in-law, do you think about what day it is today?"

Jia's mother frowned and thought about it for a while. Seeing that Pearl was outnumbered, she suddenly thought of Jia Lian's head. According to the old wives, Jia Lian passed the exam?

Mrs. Wang said with a sneer, "If you have something to say, just say it, don't make us old ladies murmur." She complained that Jia Lian had only read the book a few times seriously. How can a prodigal son surpass countless gentlemen when he turns around?

"He has only been studying for a few days, and he will be able to win?" Jia Mu smiled, because she didn't believe it in her heart, and the smile didn't reach her eyes.

Before the old lady could say anything, she heard a burst of firecrackers outside the yard, and then Pearl came in and said, "Old lady, the first master, the second master, and Master Zhu are here."

The elder sisters-in-law hurriedly tried to avoid it, but Jia Mu hurriedly comforted her: "It's okay, they are all juniors, so it's okay to meet them."

After hearing this, everyone sat still, all of them proud.

"Old lady," Jia She yelled before entering the door. After entering the door, he supported Jia Yun's shoulder and said with a smile: "Old lady, Lian'er won 150 six places!"

Jia's mother couldn't believe it, and she was ecstatic for a moment, talking about the blessings of the ancestors again and again, and said to Jia Amnesty: "Quickly open the ancestral hall to comfort the ancestors!" It is often said that Lian'er is talented!"

"Don't worry, old lady, they are all top-notch titles." Jia She was overjoyed, and when people celebrate happy events, they feel refreshed, and suddenly feel that their bones are much better.

Although Jia Zheng also laughed, he felt a little embarrassed. Jia Zhu had been hanging on the beam for many years before entering school, and it took Jia Lian only a few days to enter the school!

Jia Zhu felt that the Jia family was hopeful. Although she was still a little weak, she was in good spirits. Seeing Mrs. Wang's smirk, she couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

"Where's Lian'er?" After Jia's mother was overjoyed, she remembered that Jia Lian was not there.

Jia She said: "Brother Lian took people to inspect the Zhuangzi yesterday. According to Quanxi, there is a villain in the Zhuangzi who is disobedient and uses the name of our house to bully men and women. Brother Lian I'm going to clean up people."

Jia's mother scolded: "The foolish thing, he chose to go out today with the announcement, and ask someone to urge him to come back. It will take at least two or three days before he goes out of the city. It's too late in the same year to go to the school of politics to give thanks and preface. ! Send someone to see if you can intercept him!"

"Yes." Jia Amnesty agreed, and asked the stewards to go out of the city to find someone.

After half a day, more and more people came to congratulate the house. Li Bizhou, Yuan Jingfeng, Xu Yuheng, and Xu Yujue were sure to arrive. Feng Ziying, Chen Yejun, and Shi Guangzhu also came. Everyone was enthusiastically complimenting Jiamu and Jia She. Suddenly someone shouted outside the door, "Old lady, old man—"

Everyone in the room was talking happily, when they heard such a hasty sound, Jia Mu and Jia She's joy stagnated, and when they saw Zhao Tianliang kneeling on the ground in a panic, Jia Mu and Jia She were both heartbroken.

"You're back, where's Second Master Lian?" Jia's mother sat on the couch and asked, leaning forward, seeing Zhao Tianliang's face flushed and his heart beating violently.

"Second Master, Second Master ran away after a monk with a scarlet head and a lame Taoist priest!" Zhao Tianliang said tremblingly.