[Red Chamber] Jia Lian has an ancestor system

In February, the grass grows and the warblers fly, and the city is full of smoke.

On February [-]th, the Flower Festival, hundreds of flowers bloom in the Grand View Garden.

Lin Daiyu was born on the Huachao Festival when all kinds of flowers are in full bloom. On this day, as in previous years, she first placed a birthday wine at Jiamu's place, and then went to the garden to enjoy the flowers together.

This year's birthday, there are a few fewer people, Baoyu is also in the school, dare not ask for leave, Xue Baochai did not come, but Sister Feng and others tried their best to reconcile the atmosphere, Sister Qiao's small mouth was very sweet at the banquet, and she was smart and funny, The banquet was also enjoyable.

The fourteenth day after tomorrow is an auspicious day, and Jia Lian and Xing'er will set off for Jinling early in the morning.At this moment, he packed his luggage in the house, but he felt that there was nothing to pack, and it was not fun to be alone, so he went out to find some friends who he used to communicate often for a drink, and said goodbye by the way.

When I came to Xue Pan's house, I saw two young servants at the door wiping their tears, and there were bursts of mourning from inside.

When the boy saw Jia Lian, he cried, "Second Master Lian."

Jia Lian asked in shock, "What happened? Who left?"

"Aunt Qiuling has gone."

"When?"

"Last night at midnight."

Even though Jia Lian had no relationship with Xiangling, she still felt sorry for her now. She had finally lived a peaceful life in the past two years, and met Xia Jingui, who was very cunning, and even changed her name to Qiuling.

A young servant ran into the house early to tell Xue Pan, and when Jia Lian went in, Xue Pan came out to greet Jia Lian with a mournful face.

Jia Lian said: "People can't come back to life after death, so mourning by the way."

When Jia Lian met Aunt Xue and Baochai, she also said the same thing.Only Xia Jingui said arrogantly: "However, the death of an aunt and concubine is like the death of a serious master?"

Jia Lian really couldn't stand it, and said to Xia Jingui: "As the saying goes, the dead are the greatest, and grandma should respect it."

Xia Jingui didn't want to have a feud with Jia Lian, so she just grabbed Xue Pan and scolded: "Yes, Qiu Ling is virtuous. When she was alive, I didn't see how kind you were to her. Why did she show your good husband-in-law after she died? ?”

Xue Pan was so angry that he couldn't say a word. Aunt Xue wanted to reprimand her, but was stopped by Xue Baochai: "Mom, now is not the time to quarrel, let's make arrangements for the funeral."

Aunt Xue called Xue Pan and Jia Lian aside, and said to Xue Pan, "It's your aunt who died, so how can you arrange it?" Then she said to Jia Lian, "Lien'er, you have some experience in this field, can you Help with the tailoring?"

"You don't have to be polite, Aunt, it's how you should."

Xue Pan said: "The coffin has been prepared, but it has not been buried yet, because I don't know where to put the mourning hall."

Jia Lian looked back and forth, and found that the yard they lived in was not big, and there were people living in the main house and the side house, so it was indeed not a good place to stop.Xue Baochai and Aunt Xue lived in the left and right courtyards, and they couldn't find a place to live.Xiangling died at Baochai's place. Although Baochai didn't mind these things, it was outrageous to stop her spirit at the place of a young lady who hadn't left the cabinet.

Seeing that there was a small miscellaneous room near the stable in the backyard, Jia Lian asked people to surround the stable with cloth wei, moved the things out of the miscellaneous room, widened the door a few inches, and built a shed outside the door for the coffin. Put it in the miscellaneous room and outside the shed to worship, burn incense, burn paper money and so on.

As he was busy, the astronomy student invited by Xing'er also calculated the auspicious time for encoffining and the day for stopping the coffin.

He was encoffined according to the time, stopped for seven days, and then sent to the outside of the city for burial.

Although Xue's family is originally in Jinling, there are also some relatives and business friends in the capital. Jia Lian helped cook at Xue's house and did not return to Jia's mansion until it was getting late.

At this time, the Jia family also heard the news of Xiangling's death, and everyone sighed.

Mrs. Wang arranged some silver and asked Baoyu to send her condolences the next day, planning to visit Aunt Xue later.

Lin Daiyu was very surprised when she heard the news of Xiangling's death, and said sadly: "I said why sister Bao didn't come to have fun on my birthday. At first, I thought it was because the family was busy with business, and she was like a lady in charge. Now I can't do without her. It turned out that Xiangling had gone."

Zijuan said: "Poor Xiangling is such a kind-hearted person."

Lin Daiyu pondered: "It may not be a good thing to go away."

Zijuan nodded and said: "Yes, I have suffered a lot during this journey. I was comfortable during the time I lived in the garden, chant poems with the girls, and even asked the girls for poetry..."

Lin Daiyu didn't shed tears at first, but when Zijuan talked about learning poetry, her tears couldn't stop falling down.

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Early the next morning, Jia Baoyu, accompanied by Jia Lian, went to Xue's house to express his condolences.Because I still have to go to school, I dare not stay for a long time.Xue Pan and Jia Lian sent Baoyu to the side of the street, and the three of them stood and talked for a while.

Baoyu sighed with tears in his eyes: "Xiangling is such a poor man."

Xue Pan also regretted unceasingly: "I didn't give her a good life for a few days. Now the grandma at home has made me too busy to take care of myself. My mother is not in good health. Baochai takes care of the family affairs. Thanks to Lian Er elder brother."

Jia Baoyu said: "It's hard work, Sister Bao, and I have to deal with such a woman again."

Just as Jia Baoyu was about to get on his horse, he suddenly supported the saddle, turned around and asked Xue Pan, "Did she say anything when she left?"

Xue Pan thought for a while, and said: "At that time, she was already unconscious, but she was repeating 'Daddy' and 'Mumma' repeatedly, and the word 'Daddy' was also a little unclear, and it sounded like '喷Crazy''Diao Diao'."

Jia Lian said, "It's more like the accent of people in Gusu calling parents."

Xue Pan also nodded: "Yes, there are some similarities."

Jia Baoyu suddenly realized: "I felt that a woman as gentle as water, beautiful and intelligent, must be cultivated in the misty rain in the Jiangnan water town. I think she must be a gentle girl from Gusu. When she left, her parents were both Come get her."

Having said this, Baoyu felt a lot of comfort in his heart, and after getting on the horse, he ordered Brother Xue to mourn, and then galloped away.

Jia Lian continued to help with some things, and returned to Jia's mansion in the afternoon.

Jia Lian was riding through the market when he heard someone shouting behind him: "Second brother, second brother."

Turning around and looking, it was actually Sun Shaozu, looking at him with a grin at the junction of the streets.

He brought a few servants with him, and just came back from the countryside. He hunted some rabbits, pheasants, etc., and ordered someone to distribute a net bag to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian felt something was wrong: "It's only spring now, and the weather is getting warmer. It's not the time for hunting."

"Of course I know, but I'm too busy to try my skills. You can accept these things first."

Jia Lian met him once during the Chinese New Year, as relatives gathered together and drank.It has to be said that Sun Shaozu has two faces.In front of Jia's family, he said one set of words, but what Yingchun gave back was another world.

When we met again today, seeing that he was still treating me with a good face, I had to deal with it superficially and let Xing'er take over those wild animals.

Sun Shaozu said again: "It's rare to meet the second brother, we must drink two cups."

Jia Lian asked Xing'er to go home with the wild things first, while he and Sun Shaozu went into a shop.

Jia Lian only thought that he was Sun Shaozu's brother-in-law, and he dared not reveal his true nature in front of him. Unexpectedly, after a while, Sun Shaozu said: "You are a reasonable person, so I will cut straight to the point. Back then, your master You also know that I borrowed 5000 taels of silver..."

Jia Lian's hand holding the cup stopped by his mouth, and he secretly thought about it. He didn't call him father when he mentioned the money, but called him "Your Master". Could it be that he wanted to borrow money?Or pay back the money?

Jia Lian smiled awkwardly: "Sister Yingchun has already entered the house, why are you still talking about money?"

Sun Shaozu's face collapsed, and he snorted: "Why can't I mention it? It's just that I heard rumors from the outside world that the daughters living in your garden are all well-educated ladies. They need good looks and talents. Talented, I thought in my heart that it would be a good thing if I could marry someone to take care of the family affairs, so I reached an agreement with your master, accepted this marriage, and let's not talk about money."

Looking at the disapproval and disdain on Sun Shaozu's face, Jia Lian tried his best to keep calm.

Those who lived in the garden at that time, there were indeed a few girls who were both beautiful and talented, such as Tanchun, Baochai, and even Daiyu, who were also somewhat capable, but they were too weak to think about it. Housekeeper, although sister Xichun is young, she still has ideas on weekdays.Sister Yingchun was the only one who was almost far behind them. She couldn't even manage the maids in the house on weekdays. How could she manage the affairs of the Sun family when she went to the Sun's house?If you don't get bullied by the maid, you have to call Amitabha.

"Why did brother-in-law say that? Come and drink." Jia Lian held the flagon and poured wine.

Sun Shaozu pushed away Jia Lian's hand holding the jug even more frantically, and scolded: "You know what kind of person your sister is! To be honest, I feel that this marriage is a wrong. I will definitely not give up 5000 taels of silver to a person who has no skin, a dull personality, and a cowardly..."

Jia Lian stood up when she heard this, knocked on the table and said, "Sun Shaozu, speak respectfully! What is cowardly? My sister Yingchun just doesn't like to fight. Who doesn't know the stupid things you did? In the end, you will eat nothing." Wipe it off, and put all the dissatisfaction on Yingchun! She is also Miss Jingui at home, you beat her all over her body, we are only afraid of hurting our dignity, so we don't argue with you, don't push your nose on your face."

Sun Shaozu was not the kind of reasonable person. Seeing Jia Lian getting angry now, he laughed wildly: "What I did has nothing to do with your Jia family, why are you so anxious? Tell the truth, your sister is now in my house If you are worried about your sister, you might as well find a way to raise a sum of money. Didn’t you say that the daughters of your Jia family are all expensive? Well, take the money and exchange it. Her precious life!"

"You—" Jia Lian clenched his fist. If he didn't have a sliver of reason left, he would have punched him.

"I don't ask too much. For 2000 taels of silver, I will spare her life."

Sun Shaozu didn't say any more, just drank the last glass of wine, took out some loose silver, slapped it heavily on the table, and then left.

When Jia Lian saw Sun Shaozu go away, anger rose in his heart, and he cursed at his back: "You have no conscience, you will be a corpse in the future."