Jia Hu, a fan of wealth in the Red Chamber

The third day of March of this year was Jia Hu's 30th birthday. Wei Jiang was originally the same age as him, but his birthday was in the first month of the month. It's just that the two of them are the kind of masters who don't show affection for a day and feel uncomfortable. , since they are both 30-year-old birthdays, and they are not far away, naturally we have to celebrate together.In addition, people in Daqi have a saying that birthdays can be made up, but cannot be brought forward, so, naturally, the two people chose to celebrate their birthdays on the third day of March.

Originally, the two of them thought that 30 years old is still young, and there is no need to do it at all, but the adults of the two families disagreed. How can a child of such a promising family not miss his birthday?In their opinion, not only have to pass, but also have to be done in a big way.

The two of them have no choice but to celebrate their birthdays at the same time with their current identities and status. I am afraid that all the civil and military officials from the Manchu Dynasty will come, let alone the mansion they live in now. It's also choking.

So Prince Wei waved his hand, "Liuli Villa" and "Tianwaitian" were closed for one day, and the couple's birthday party was held at "Liuli Villa", and the chefs of "Tianwaitian" directly brought them to Go to the villa, go to the desk!

As soon as the words came out, before everyone had time to cheer, Jia Hu rubbed his chest first, and fell to the ground with a painful expression on his face.

It should be noted that with the popularity of "Tianwaitian" and "Liuli Mountain Villa" today, the daily income can make Jia Hu, a big money fan, smile. It hurts to think about the loss of this one-day closure, and the two stopped together.

Wei Jiang didn't know what Jia Hu was thinking, but today's matter really only made his heart ache once.

He ignored him at the moment, and made him and the stewards and servants around Jia Hu useless.

On the third day of March, the weather is beautiful and the sun is shining brightly. It can be regarded as the most suitable day since the beginning of spring this year.

Early in the morning, before dawn, many vehicles of all kinds drove out from various mansions in the capital, and even some people's homes in the west city. Some homes even had more than one car, and the directions of these vehicles were the same.

When they arrived at the gate of the city, the soldiers guarding the city had just opened the gate. Rao, the soldiers who had seen many people coming and going, also expressed their surprise at this obviously different phenomenon today.

After the group left the city, the young recruit curiously approached the veteran and asked, "What's the matter today? So many people have left the city, and they are all from a famous family in the capital?"

The veteran put down the cloth towel that was wiping his spear, and patted the recruit on the shoulder, "What's so strange, today is the day when Prince Wei and Lord Jia are hosting a birthday banquet, can these people in the capital hurry up and get together?" ?”

The recruit looked puzzled, "No wonder. Then where are they going?"

The veteran grinned, "Think about it, where do all the big shots who go out of this city gate go every day?"

The recruit was thoughtful, "'Liuli Villa'?"

"Exactly." The old soldier replied in the affirmative.

The recruit looked yearning, "Oh, I can go to the 'Liu Li Shan Zhuang' to play for a while sometime, it's worth dying."

The veteran didn't speak this time, but just sat there quietly, who could say otherwise.

Because there were too many people, Jia Hu didn't want to follow the old way. With so many people, there would be hundreds of tables just to set up the table, which would kill people!

So, he held a buffet-style banquet, and the chefs of "Tianwaitian" cooked some special dishes that are easy to use. If the guests want to eat, they can pick it up by themselves, and they don't need to let others, that's great.

For the birthday banquet of their boss, the chefs of "Tianwaitian" tried their best to carefully cook all kinds of fresh ingredients delivered in the morning and put them on several insulated dining cars. The fragrance wafted far away. Attracting many guests to eat.

Of course, it’s still early, it’s not long before breakfast, and it’s still early for lunch. After presenting the congratulatory gifts they prepared at home, and saying congratulatory speeches to the two birthday stars, the guests who came to celebrate their birthdays greeted each other one after another. The acquaintances gathered together, in groups of three or four, and began to wander around the "Liuli Mountain Villa".

Prince Wei and Uncle Hu stood at the gate of the villa for a while, and after welcoming His Royal Highness and several princes who came to the banquet in person, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Jia Hu raised his hand and rubbed his already stiff face from laughing, and couldn't help complaining, "Really, I'm tired and spend money, and I have to entertain these people here for free, what a loss!"

Wei Jiang comforted, "You should be lucky, we only need to hold such a birthday banquet in ten years." He couldn't figure it out, obviously, Brother Hu never cared so much about major events, such as running schools, disaster relief, and helping the people. When asking him for money for such things, he never frowns.But she is so serious about these little things, really, so cute!

Jia Hu turned around and gave him a hard look, "I don't feel comforted at all!"

He tapped his dog's head with his fingers, and said angrily, "Think about it, after our birthday party today, those who like to follow suit will also learn to come to the 'Liu Li Shanzhuang' as soon as their birthday comes. How about holding the last game like this? In my opinion, you should not think about how much money you will make a day today, but you should prepare earlier. In case someone wants to follow our example, you should come up with What kind of regulations come."

Jia Hu paused, blinded by a leaf, but that's the case, he had lost his mind for a while, "Not bad, not bad, Prince Wei has been together with this servant for so many years, and finally learned to plan carefully. Congratulations."

Looking angrily at the smiling Jia Hu, Wei Jiang slapped him and said with an angry smile, "Okay, let's go, mother and the others are still waiting for us to pay their respects." After speaking, he flicked his sleeves, I'm leaving.

Jia Hu chased after him, and instead of the tangled look of the past few days, he was smiling all over his face. Wei Jiang knew that this guy must be preoccupied with how to make the best of this lucrative business!

Hired a rickshaw specially designed to carry passengers, and arrived at the garden dedicated to female guests after a cup of tea. Because of today's and Wei Jiang's reasons, it was originally just a small Zhuangzi-sized "Liuli Mountain Villa". It has become a big hot spring Zhuangzi under the intervention of the government. To be honest, it would take more than an hour for a person to go around the Zhuangzi and ride a bicycle, which shows how big this place is.

With the expansion of the place, Jia Hu was thinking hard every day about how to build this village in a more reasonable way. Unfortunately, the plan couldn't keep up with the speed of the two people's enclosing the land.

Whenever he made a satisfactory design with great difficulty, his face would be blurred by the new land deed the next day. For him with a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, it was really an extremely painful thing.

After being swayed again, Jia Hu got angry, rolled up her sleeves, and was about to rush to the imperial study room to argue with the emperor who was getting worse and worse, but was stopped by Jia Yue, "Brother, what about the 'Glass Mountain Villa'?" Can you designate a special place for us girls to play? It doesn’t need to be too big, just a big yard is enough.”

Jia Hu was taken aback, "Why did you suddenly think of this?"

"Yesterday, the small county of Xining Prince's Mansion hosted a flower viewing banquet. We all went there. During the talk, we talked about my brother's "Liuli Mountain Villa". Sorry."

Hearing this, Jia Hu was suddenly enlightened, not only created a daughter country, but also a children's paradise, as the two owners, they could only meet Princess Jiahui in a pavilion not far from the Moon Gate, Gu and others met.

After several years of development, the current Daqi is no longer so strict in defense against men and women, at least some men and women who are close to each other get along much more freely.

The two kowtowed three times to the two mothers hand in hand, thanking them for their kindness in giving birth.

Mrs. Gu hurriedly called the two to get up, took the two beautifully packaged boxes held by the maid, and delivered them to the two of them in person, and said with a smile, "There is a saying that no matter how old you are, you are all your mother's children." , I specially prepared these two for you two, please accept them. You will definitely like them."

Jia Hu stared intently at the gift box in his hand, dazed, it was actually wrapped in a piece of pink colored paper which is very popular recently.Speechlessly, he is not a girl!Made it so pink and tender, did his mother really make a mistake?

Wei Jiang's face was also hard to say, and he turned his head and glared at Jia Hu.Needless to say, this form of gift packaging was created by Jia Hu. This time it's all right, let's send it to myself, right?

With this glance, Jia Hu was speechless.

Princess Jiahui narrowed her eyes with a smile, "My mother-in-law and I really want to go together." She also took out two gift boxes, not big, about the size of a palm, but these two were wrapped in dark purple colored paper, Jia Hu breathed a sigh of relief, one of the two mothers was finally normal.

The gifts of the two were not big, and Jia Hu and Wei Jiang didn't dislike them either. For people like them, what kind of rare things have you never seen?On the contrary, they were ordinary ones, but they were prepared by their mother with great care, which made them like them even more.

Next, several cousins ​​headed by Jia Yue and Daiyu also sent their gifts one after another. After a while, Jia Hu and Wei Jiang's hands were full of various gift boxes.

Looking at each other helplessly, the two of them walked away in embarrassment just holding the gift, causing all the women to laugh heartily.

On the veranda not far from the octagonal pavilion, the two women looked at the pavilion without blinking, but did not talk to each other.

Seeing Wei Jiang and Jia Hu walking away, the charming woman who looked like the reincarnated Concubine Yang said, "Sister Feng, long time no see, how are you lately?"

After a while, the thin and haggard Wang Xifeng beside her seemed to come back to her senses, a bitterness flashed in her eyes, and she shook her head slightly, "There is nothing good or bad. These years, good or bad, that's all. .”

Yuan Chun looked at his cousin, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, and sighed in his heart. The once bright and glamorous girl, Feng, is now a woman and a mother. After the events of the world, the silence settled down.

If Jia Hu saw her, he would definitely not believe that this person would be the prestigious and pardoned Second Mistress Feng among the Twelve Beauties of Jinling.

Looking at the tall and straight figure going away, in a daze, Wang Xifeng remembered that her father, Wang Ziteng, had promised her marriage to that man... If she hadn't objected back then, what would have happened?

"When you return to Beijing this time, I'm afraid you will stay in the capital?"

"It's not sure yet. Our master's term of office has expired. It would be good if he can find an errand in the capital when he returns to Beijing this time." This is why when she returned to the capital, she heard that her cousin Yuan Chun was in the capital, so she came to her reason for coming.

Although Jia Yuanchun's husband's family is not visible, but because of his backing to the big house of Jia's family and the help of Xinyuan, he is much better than his family who has no connections in the capital now.

Yuan Chun patted her hand lightly, and comforted her, "Don't worry, your lord has a good reputation as an official. He has done a lot of practical things when he was in office. The adults in the official department are all people who distinguish between public and private. It is not a good idea to stay in the capital." impossible."

Wang Xifeng smiled lightly. With Yuan Chun's words, her heart finally returned to its original place.

Returning to the mansion where she lived temporarily, she learned that her master was in her aunt's house. Wang Xifeng didn't say anything, but the neatly manicured nails were cut off.

Sitting quietly in the flower hall of the main room, Wang Xifeng asked the maid to ask the master to come out to discuss.

Wang Xifeng's husband is Guo An, the former magistrate of Shuozhou. He is an authentic Northwest man. Although there are many aunts and concubines, he respects Wang Xifeng, the first wife of a great family.

At this time, she saw her eldest maid coming to invite her, and she arrived in a short while.

Wang Xifeng glanced at him, took a deep breath, suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and lightly relayed what he said to Jia Yuanchun today.

Although Guo An regretted Wang Xifeng's failure to see Mrs. Gu and Princess Jiahui, he was also happy with the news she revealed. As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Wang family was demoted to Sina In that place, either he committed the serious crime of ransacking his family and exterminating his family, or Wang Ziteng, who was also a fierce general in the Northwest Army.

And the relationship between their Wang family in the capital is always there.Well, this time he returned to Beijing to report on his work, relying on his relationship with the second wife of Jia's family, wouldn't he, the wife of the first wife, get on the line of the owner of Xinyuan who is now very popular?

Guo An gently held Wang Xifeng's jade hand, and said affectionately, "Madam, you have worked hard."

Wang Xifeng glanced at Guo An's handsome face, and sighed in his heart, "You and I are a husband and wife, why are you so outrageous?"

He raised his hand and poured a cup of tea for Guo An, and said, "Today, I chatted with my cousin about the big and small things in the capital. I heard that the Jia family's ethnology has been established as a school according to Mr. Jia's wishes. There are a few great Confucianists teaching and educating people there. I thought, Jia Geer is already six years old, just at the age of entering school. Our family doesn’t know those great Confucians in the capital. Cheap."

Guo An thought for a while, and felt that this was a good opportunity to make friends with Jia Hu, so he agreed.

After discussing for a long time, the husband and wife had dinner together, and Guo An went to the side courtyard where his aunt lived.

Wang Xifeng sat alone in the flower hall of the main courtyard, quietly, without moving, as if she had fallen into a certain kind of thought. From time to time, the situation when the Wang family was still in the capital appeared in her mind. Everything in the world revolves around her, until now, there is only silence in the room.