[Red Mansion] Master Jia

Chapter Forty Seven

Let’s not talk about the doubts about Jia Lian from the fourth elder brother, just say that the construction of Yuqing Palace has already started, and Jia Lian pays close attention to it. There is a lot of attention to where wood and other building materials are placed, and it took a lot of work from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to serve them properly.

The three-story building is not too big and not too high. Most of the construction work is done when the prince is out. When the prince is not on business in the afternoon, the workers naturally dare not make too much noise, but there are still people coming and going. , too much dust and idlers waiting, which made Yinreng a little annoyed, but when he thought of the extremely mysterious and weird three-story "tower" Jia Lian showed him, he could only use "tower" to describe it, because it There are not many windows around, and there is only a lookout on the top floor. The roof is still in the shape of a pentagram, and some mysterious patterns and symbols will be drawn on it with gold powder and silver powder according to Jia Lian's intention.

It's not that Yinfeng didn't have doubts, but Jia Lian answered generously. He learned all his skills from Guangming Fashen. Naturally, the layout of these patterns and towers also respected the principles in his book.

Yinfeng flipped through the book of the god of law for a few times, but he was not interested in continuing to study.He has learned a lot of languages ​​since he was a child, and he doesn't speak Manchurian and Chinese, Latin and French, which were involved in Kangxi, so naturally Yinfeng can't be left behind.

Although Yinreng also likes Western learning, but he usually has enough homework and cannot be weaker than Yinfeng and Yinzhi. Kangxi attaches great importance to the group of Westerners in Nan Huairen. As his favorite son, he naturally has to get in touch with them. It put a lot of burden on himself.

Putting aside the so-called Guangming Dharma God's book, although Yinfeng only read it a few times, he also knew that it was not something that ordinary people could make up. A young master of the Duke’s Mansion, if he was not lucky enough to get the inheritance of this book, did he really have some bad intentions, like the White Lotus Sect in the south, making up some specious teachings?

Not long after Prince Yong's mansion, the little eunuch visited again...

Jia Lian left his errands in the evening, came out of Qin Tianjian, and didn't go back directly to Rongguo Mansion. Taking advantage of it was still early, he sauntered to the restaurant—it was Xue Pan who was smashed by Brother Nine's teacup that day. The one at the head.

He opened his mouth to ask for a private room, but the shopkeeper sized him up a few times, and asked Xiao Er to take him to the place——

When Jia Lian entered, he found that Prince Yong was already sitting on the other side of the square table, and Su Peisheng was still standing behind him. As for the private room with the door open next to the guards, there were two "majestic" figures, and there were a few familiar ones downstairs. are drinking tea.

After the second child left, Jia Lian saluted, Yinzhen raised his eyebrows, looked at him for a moment, then smiled faintly, and said, "Sit down and drink tea."

Jia Lian sat upright, looking up at the opposite side, Prince Yong's expression was acceptable, when he suppressed his smile, he was neither happy nor angry, but the eunuch Su Peisheng who he stretched out his hand looked at him as if his eyebrows were not eyebrows, and his mouth was not his mouth.

After drinking the tea leisurely, the two exchanged a few words, and then left the restaurant separately.

Back at Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian went to see his son and daughter first, and after dinner and changing clothes, he went to Jia Amnesty's room alone.

Jia Amnesty was in Mrs. Xing's room at this time, because he had high expectations for Yingchun who was raised under his wife's knees, he often came to Xing's place to ask about Yingchun's "study", and Mrs. Xing treated Yingchun better after seeing this.

It can be said that the Rongguo Mansion now treats Yingchun just like it treated the eldest girl of the second room. Everyone in the mansion knows that the second girl is about to "get up".

Although Yingchun was taught to be calm, she was always worried. From time to time, Siqi and Xiuju wanted to get rid of her own girl. Fortunately, she taught her mother to do her best. The nanny can now smack and roll, point and scold in front of everyone.

Recently, Tanchun has become more and more lazy to come to Yingchun, because Mrs. Wang is not pleasing to the eye, and because of the faint jealousy in her heart, she hides in the second room, and occasionally goes to Baochai's place.

On the contrary, Baochai often came here to welcome the spring under the pretext of giving things or other things. Sometimes when the mother was teaching the rules of welcoming the spring or something, she would stand by the side, silent, but staring straight at her.

She had a lot of thoughts in her heart, but she couldn't tell her mother when she went back, her brother Xue Pan was going to move out a long time ago, Mrs. Wang lost the fight with Dafang, at that time Xue Pan built a yard in the capital, but After Mrs. Wang was released, Mrs. Wang invited her family back and lived in Lixiangyuan.

Baochai was willing. The yard that Xue Pan bought in the capital was very small, where the Rongguo Mansion had a wide area, and the right side was next to the busy market, so you could hear the hawking outside during the day.

It's really that the capital is overcrowded, and the temporary house I found can only be unsatisfactory.

Also, Baoyu...

From the very beginning, Baochai was willing and looked forward to marrying Baoyu, but now she is indifferent, which is actually a long psychological journey.

It's just that my mother still talked about good words, and my aunt didn't let go of her engagement, she just said that the old lady still missed Lin girl, and she had to wait until the eldest girl in the palace, cousin Yuanchun, asked the imperial concubine's order or the queen mother's order. Huanxin, wouldn't it be better to give her a marriage.

The meaning behind the words is that Yuan Chun may be able to become a concubine in the future, and it is not certain that Cousin Yuan Chun will issue the Yi decree.

She was so happy that her mother smiled, and said when she came back that it would be good to wait, but she was so worried that Baochai had grown a few hairs.She was a girl, but she really couldn't speak up, so she just said, let her mother find another marriage for herself.

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Jia Lian went into Jia Amnesty's study and talked about meeting Prince Yong in the restaurant in the evening.

"So, the lord is implying that our family...your sister..." Jia She twirled his beard and accidentally pulled off several of them in agitation.

"Maybe that's what it means." Prince Yong only spoke a little bit, throwing stones to ask for directions. Jia Lian didn't think that he was so important and worthy of Prince Yong's "marriage" to win him over.But apart from the reason of wooing, he really couldn't find any other reason for Yinzhen to do so.

"What is Yuemo?" Jia She thought for a while, and felt that this was not allowed, so he hurriedly asked again: "Have you agreed?"

Jia Lian didn't answer him for a while.

Jia Amnesty was anxious and stared at him. He really didn't know who was the son and who was the father. Every time Jia Lian made him lose his temper, he tried his best to calm down, sat down slowly, put away his expression, and took a sip of tea pretending to be calm .

"It's up to you to decide." In fact, Jia Lian has already agreed to Yinzhen. Yinzhen has doubts about him, but he doesn't want to let go of his "talent". According to the various novels and historical facts in the later generations, after this cold-faced prince ascended the throne, even the heroes who supported him, if they were favored and arrogant, would rape their officials and even confiscate their homes to death... For example, the Nianjia, who has been very popular recently. , and the Tong family who are very powerful and more powerful than the prince.

"I have the final say? That's right!" Jia She nodded. When it comes to the important matters of children's marriage, it is reasonable to have to have the final say.

In the past, Jia Lian had no choice but to choose a member of the Wang family, but now his daughter's marriage is really according to his own wishes.

It's settled!

Jia She was smiling, and he was calculating in his mind that his house full of antique calligraphy and paintings, plus the valuables accumulated in the mansion over the years, were all married to Yingchun to Prince Yong's mansion.

Jia Lian glanced at Jia She indifferently, that's the way a father in this body treats his children, "Second sister's status is not too high, after all, a girl from the Nian family has just entered Prince Yong's mansion."

Hearing that Jia She was breathless, he frowned, "We are the Duke's Mansion! You are still the supervisor of Qin Tianjian!"

After hearing this, Jia Lian smiled. "There is more than one official in the Nian family. Nian Xialing, Nian Xiyao and Nian Gengrao are all extraordinary figures. What's more, Nian Xialing's brothers are either high-ranking officials or governors."

After finishing speaking, Jia Lian looked at Qiu's house in a leisurely manner, "Hmph..." Jia She was discouraged, so what if he is just an old dude? !

When Jia Lian met with the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, he hesitated slightly in his expression and speech. When he talked about building the "house", he gave Yinzhen a hint that there was a reason for doing this, and it was not because he had taken refuge in the prince. Yinfeng.

After hearing this, Xu Zhen twirled the finger on his thumb, and then saw that Jia Lian was also wearing the same finger that he had given as a gift, his eyes became gentler, and even Su Peisheng began to give him a good look.

After that, the fourth elder brother didn't ask any more questions, with an expression of waiting for you to talk about it in the future.

In Jia Lian's heart, he felt that the fourth elder brother was not a person who was particularly narrow-minded or would take revenge on everything. Later generations might have misunderstood him, or his actions touched his bottom line.

After hearing this, Jia Lian smiled. "There is more than one official in the Nian family. Nian Xialing, Nian Xiyao and Nian Gengrao are all extraordinary figures. What's more, Nian Xialing's brothers are either high-ranking officials or governors."

After finishing speaking, Jia Lian looked at Qiu's house in a leisurely manner, "Hmph..." Jia She was discouraged, so what if he is just an old dude? !

When Jia Lian met with the fourth elder brother Yinzhen, he hesitated slightly in his expression and speech. When he talked about building the "house", he gave Yinzhen a hint that there was a reason for doing this, and it was not because he had taken refuge in the prince. Yinfeng.

The two of them tacitly skipped over this matter, but chatted for a few words.

It was only then that Yinzhen mentioned that the mansion planned to enter a princess.