The Young Master of the Jia Family in the Red Chamber

What the hell kind of question is this? His Highness the Crown Prince must have underestimated him. Before Situ Yan finished speaking, Jia Hu began to slander inwardly.Isn’t it just a linear equation in two variables? He thought it was a difficult question, and he didn’t have to wait until he was in junior high school or the third grade of elementary school. Jia Hu even omitted the thinking process, and directly reported the answer: " Back to His Royal Highness, there are six Yashas and ten Nezhas."

Jia Hu solved the problem too fast, and didn't move the pen and paper. Situ Yan couldn't react in time, and couldn't hear clearly, so he hurriedly said, "Say it again."

"Xiaomin said that there are six Yashas and ten Nezhas." Jia Hu cupped his hands and replied, his voice was a little higher than before.

Situ Yan frowned, and looked at Jia Hu indistinctly. If he hadn't heard of this problem before, then his speed of solving the problem was really amazing. Even the officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs who counted numbers all the year round were not so fast. Situ Yan looked at Jia Hu with more meaning.

The prince thought for a while, then smiled lightly, "I'll test you one more time." But he was a child less than ten years old, two years younger than Situ Jing. After all, Situ Yan's ability to Jia Hu was unbelievable. He had bumped into a question that he had just seen before, and was going to test him again.

Jia Hu responded unhurriedly: "Your Highness, please come up with a question." After entering the palace school for half a year, he read a lot of books in the palace, and in many aspects he was shocked and burst into tears. It turns out that the wisdom of the ancients is really Can not be underestimated.Only the knowledge of natural sciences such as astronomy, geography, and mathematics can help Jia Hu regain the confidence of modern people, especially mathematics. It is absolutely no problem to crush the ancients.

Seeing that Jia Hu was confident, Situ Yan smiled slightly, and asked the question: "Today there are things that I don't know how to count. Two of three or three, three of five or five, two of seven or seven, how many things?" Jia Hu seemed to be wondering if he could still answer the question quickly and accurately.

Jia Hu did not disappoint Situ Yan, he cupped his hands and replied without thinking, "Xiaomin's answer is that there are 23 things."

Situ Yan nodded, with a look of approval in his eyes. One question can be said to be a coincidence, and two consecutive questions can be answered so quickly. Jia Hu should not be fooled, but has his own unique research on arithmetic. Situ Yan His perception of him finally improved.

Before Situ Yan could speak, Situ Jing, who woke up from a nap and was about to call Jia Hu back to Qingyang Palace, asked curiously, "Jia Hu, how did you calculate it?" When he and Su Yi came over, the prince had just finished reading the question. Before they thought of how to solve the problem, Jia Hu answered it.

"This, this..." Jia Hu was at a loss for words for a moment. The difference between modern mathematics and ancient mathematics is too great. Many concepts did not exist before. It is easy for him to solve the problem by himself, but he needs to use the process of solving the problem to be understood by the ancients. Telling it in a way that you understand is too difficult.

Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, it was Situ Yan who rescued Jia Hu, and he said to Situ Jing: "Jinger, it's almost time for you to go to class, so hurry up, if you are late, the teacher will punish you. I'm interceding for you. You have to ask Jia Hu the solution to this problem, and speak slowly after class, don't be in a hurry." Situ Jing thinks about it too, Jia Hu has to enter the palace every day, when he can't ask him, Why bother to say goodbye to the prince when the class is about to start, and lead Su Yi, Jia Hu and others to Qingyang Palace.

Coming home from school that day, Jia Hu tossed and tossed in the study all night, finally straightened out all his thoughts, and explained it to Situ Jing during the break the next day.When Situ Jing heard this, he suddenly showed an expression of enlightenment. It turned out that he still had this kind of thinking, which was different from what the teacher said.However, he felt that following the method Jia Hu gave to solve the problems, many problems became easier. Even if he could not do the mental calculations like Jia Hu did, it would not take many sheets of paper to write and calculate an inscription as before. If you are not careful, you will also faint yourself.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, the day when the emperor sealed the pen, and the palace school would also be suspended. Classes would not resume until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month next year.

There is no riding and archery class on this day. After the first class in the afternoon, the companions can go home.After class, Jia Hu was packing his things when Situ Yan sent someone over to reward him with a picture.Jia Hu opened it carefully, and found that it was written in a round and smooth blessing character.He raised his eyes and looked around, and found that everyone around him showed envious eyes.Situ Jing smiled and said, "Your father rewarded you alone, no one else did." Jia Hu just realized that this was a blessing word bestowed by the prince himself, and was so frightened that he didn't know how to let it go.

Under normal circumstances, it is the emperor's task to bless his ministers, but due to the limited growth environment, the first two emperors of the Situ family couldn't read the characters they wrote.At that time, every courtier who received the blessing could be said to be pained and happy in his heart, and it was a good thing to be valued by the emperor, but such an ugly blessing, what should we do with it when we take it home, and it doesn’t match where it is posted.In Situ Yan's generation of princes, they have received elite education since they were young, and everyone's handwriting is beautiful. Today, they don't write blessings by themselves, and assign the task to their sons.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a high status, and what all the courtiers hope for most is to get the blessing characters written by him. However, Situ Yan is not in good health, so he only writes dozens of them every year, and there are only a handful of people who can get them. Like Situ Che and the others, each of them wrote hundreds of blessings. Officials above the fifth rank in Beijing, as well as all members of the clan, can be distributed to each family, which seems not expensive at all.The characters written by the prince in the past were all for important officials in the court, as well as his mother's family and wife's family. Jia Hu is just one of Situ Jing's four companions, which is really surprising.

After receiving Situ Yan's reward, Jia Hu couldn't go home for the time being, and had to go to the East Palace to thank him first.He said goodbye to Han Qi and the others, and followed Situ Jing to the East Palace. He was a little puzzled, why Situ Yan suddenly looked at him differently, just because he was good at mathematics.

When they arrived at the East Palace, the prince was not in the front hall, but was resting in his bedroom. Jia Hu was in a dilemma. He was not qualified to enter the prince's bedroom. If he accidentally bumped into one of the prince's concubines, it would be a disrespectful mistake.Situ Jing didn't care about these things, and led Jia Hu in. Jia Hu had to keep his head buried all the way, for fear that he saw something he shouldn't see.When he came to a corner, Situ Jing stopped on the spot. Jia Hu didn't pay attention, and bumped into his back. His nose hurt from the collision, and tears came out, and he couldn't reach out to wipe them.

Situ Jing asked in bewilderment: "Jia Hu, why don't you look at the road when you walk?" Seeing that Jia Hu's nosebleed was knocked out, he felt very depressed, and his clothes must also be stained with blood.Even so, Situ Jing took out a handkerchief and wiped Jia Hu's face clean.

Jia Hu shyly said: "This is His Royal Highness's bedroom, I'm afraid..." Jia Hu's voice was so low that he could hardly hear it.Fortunately, Situ Jing still understood what he meant, and said with a chuckle: "There are only me and my father in the East Palace, what are you afraid of?"

Jia Hu opened her mouth in surprise, unable to speak for a while.Situ Jing is two years older than him. After the new year, he will be twelve years old. The Crown Princess died when he was three years old. It has been nearly ten years. It is incredible that there are no other concubines in the East Palace. up.

Seeing Jia Hu's stupefied look, Situ Jing shook his head helplessly, "Don't be dumb, let's go." He said and walked away.

Jia Hu came back to his senses and followed closely. As soon as the two arrived at the door of the prince's bedroom, they saw the imperial doctor coming out with a medical box on his back.Situ Jing's face immediately changed. He dropped Jia Hu and ran towards the inside. A group of people chased after him and shouted, "Huangsun, slow down, you can't run."

Situ Jing entered the room, Jia Hu was in an awkward situation, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was ill, should he go in and disturb him, or just kowtow at the door.He changed his mind and thought about it again, it was rare for him to come into the prince's bedroom, so he had better take a look, maybe he could find something wrong.

Although Jia Hu had thought about it a long time ago, given how much the emperor loved the prince, there should be no one who would dare to attack him.After all, there are not one or two people who are eyeing the crown prince. Whoever takes action to kill the prince is completely displaying Lei Feng's spirit and is willing to make wedding dresses for others. Therefore, the situation in the palace has maintained a delicate balance for a long time. Don't dare to make a move easily.But the situation of Situ Jing, after watching it for so long, Jia Hu felt that something was wrong, he really wasn't as weak as the prince, why did he need to be so careful, good people would be raised and disabled.

It's a pity that Jia Hu can't walk around in the palace. The people he has met around Situ Jing, according to his long-term observation, are very loyal to him. It is thought that Situ Jing's health deteriorated after the death of the princess Yes, Jia Hu had always suspected that there was something wrong inside the Eastern Palace, but he had no chance to find out. He finally came in today, and he was really unwilling to leave like this, so he walked in boldly, and no one stopped him along the way.

Jia Hu entered the prince's bedroom, but he didn't dare to enter the inner room, and kowtowed honestly through the screen.When Situ Yan heard Jia Hu's voice, he ordered someone to pass him in, and then asked Situ Jing, "Jing Er, you brought Jia Hu here?" Without Situ Jing, how could Jia Hu come in.

Situ Jing had just cried, and now he was wiping away his tears in a hurry. After listening to Situ Yan's question, he just nodded slightly.

Jia Hu went into the inner room and wanted to greet Situ Yan again, but he excused him, "You just come and talk, you don't need to kneel back and forth."

"I don't know that Your Highness is unwell, but Xiaomin interrupted you." Jia Hu looked at him coldly. Situ Yan's face was paler than usual, his cheeks were completely drained of blood, and he lacked the energy to speak, so he couldn't help feeling a little worried.Asthma is not a terminal illness, but in this day and age, if it is not done well, it can kill people.

Situ Yan waved his hand nonchalantly, "It's just a minor illness, it's nothing serious, I've already gotten used to it." Since he was a child, he has taken more medicine than food, and this time it's just a little discomfort, just rest for two days Yes, Jing Er made such a fuss that it frightened Jia Hu too.

When Jia Hu saw that Situ Yan said the word habit, his eyes were calm and unwavering, and there was no color of complaining, so he couldn't help feeling a lot.

His Royal Highness is really not an easy person. If ordinary people are in his position and encounter such a bad body, they will easily become abnormal, so as to vent their pain on others, but Situ Yan never thinks about it. All he cares about is Jiangshan Sheji.

Jia Hu didn't know what to say, so he could only keep silent, but Situ Jing threw himself into Situ Yan's arms, and said coquettishly, "Father is not in good health, so don't be busy with so many things all day long. You are sick. Both my grandfather and I will be worried, can you be more obedient?"

Situ Yan smiled, not the kind of deep smile Jia Hu had seen before, but a very happy and pure smile. He rubbed the top of Situ Jing's hair and said with a smile, "Jing'er, don't make trouble. No matter how old you are, you are still acting like a baby in the arms of your father, and you are not afraid of being laughed at."

Situ Jing raised his head and said, "He dare not." After he finished speaking, he turned his head to see that Jia Hu had lowered his head, pretending that he didn't see anything.

Situ Yan shook his head helplessly, his eyes full of pampering, he cheered up and said a few words to Jia Hu, and then sent someone to send him out of the palace.

Jia Hu bid farewell to the prince and was about to leave when someone came to report. Yin Meiren sent someone to visit the prince and asked if the prince was summoned.

Situ Yan nodded and let the person in, with a kind expression on his face.Jia Hu was a little surprised when he heard the words. Yin Meiren is the birth mother of the Seventh Prince Situ Zheng. If the Prince wants to see her, then his relationship with the Seventh Prince is probably not bad. Jia Hu walked outside while thinking.

When he was about to go out, Jia Hu had a face-to-face meeting with the palace lady Yin Meiren sent to visit Situ Yan. He actually just took a casual look and didn't even see her face clearly, but the thoughts in that person's mind were scary. Jia Hu was shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

What the court lady thought was that the empress was really good at predicting things. She said that His Highness the Crown Prince would be ill in the near future, but the Crown Prince was actually ill.

Jia Hu was so frightened that he didn't even remember how he got out of the East Palace, so he walked to the gate of the palace in a daze.

Jia Zhu knew that Jia Hu was not going to have riding and archery class today, so she didn't go home early, but waited for him in the carriage. As a result, Jia Hu never came. Afraid that Jia Hu would come out as soon as they left, it was really difficult, so he just waited.

Finally when Jia Hu came out, Jia Zhu took out his pocket watch and found that they had waited for half an hour, even if he went home first, and then someone came to pick him up, the time was enough.Jia Zhu was a little upset, so she asked Jia Hu where she had gone, and why she had been there for so long without saying a word.

In the capital city of the twelfth lunar month, the temperature is already very low. Sitting in the carriage is holding the hand stove and the foot stove, and it will be very cold after sitting for a long time.Seeing that it was not easy for Jia Zhu to wait for him, Jia Hu said in an apologetic tone that the crown prince rewarded him with something, and he went to the East Palace to thank him, and it was too late after a few words.

When Jia Zhu heard that Jia Hu was going to the East Palace to thank her, she didn't say anything, feeling faint envy in her heart, why didn't he have such luck.

On the way home, Jia Hu kept thinking about that strange barrage.At that time, the court lady was going to meet the prince, and the meeting between the two was purely coincidental, and they didn't say a word. Jia Hu felt that her thoughts should be true, and there was no possibility of misunderstanding or deviation.

The maid who greeted the prince was sent by Yin Meiren, and the empress she thought of should be Yin Meiren.But how could Yin Meiren know whether the crown prince would get sick? Jia Hu didn't believe that she was really good at predicting things. There must be something behind this incident that he didn't know.

But Jia Hu just suspected that Yin Meiren was related to Situ Yan and Situ Jing's frailty, so there was nothing he could do right now.He didn't have any evidence to support his point of view, and his special ability to see through people's hearts couldn't be known to outsiders. Jia Hu fell into distress.

In the end, Jia Hu persuaded himself not to think about it for the time being, and to talk about it after entering the palace after the new year. As long as he can find a little bit of clues, the emperor will be happy to investigate the rest by himself. He has the opportunity to observe the seventh prince more. Well, anyway, he often goes to the East Palace.

After returning home, Jia Hu and Jia Zhu first went to Shi Taijun's yard to pay her respects. Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Wang were also there, and they were surprised to see their son.Mrs. Zhang felt that Jia Hu came back early, but Mrs. Wang felt that Jia Zhu came back too late, so both of them took their son to ask for his health.

The hand that Wang touched Jia Zhu was cold, and she also heard that he waited for Jia Hu outside the palace for half an hour, and immediately refused to follow her. She accused Jia Hu of not being friendly to brothers as an older brother, which made Jia Zhu Frozen in the wind, "Brother Hu, it wasn't your aunt who said you, you always knew, your brother Zhu was born weak, you couldn't come out in time, why didn't you tell him, let him wait for you in the wind for so long , if something goes wrong with this freezing, what can I do?" Wang was heartbroken, but Jia Zhu lowered her head in embarrassment.

Shi Taijun has always been partial to Jia Zhu, seeing that Wang's words are reasonable, he also criticizes Jia Hu, saying that he is careless in doing things and does not take his brother to heart.

Mrs. Zhang didn't know the reason of the matter, but she was still very dissatisfied when she saw that Mrs. Wang and Shi Taijun were full of accusations against Jia Hu.Somewhere in the palace, that is where the sons and daughters of the dragon and the phoenix live. Jia Hu and Jia Zhu enter the palace as companions. To put it bluntly, they serve people.If the master has any orders, to do things immediately, how can Jia Hu tell Jia Zhu that the people in the palace can be called by him casually?

The same goes for Jia Zhu, she should go home when she can't wait for anyone, why bother to wait outside the palace? Just waiting, it's better than him waiting all the time, it's all Jia Hu's fault.

Seeing that Zhang was angry but wanted to speak, Jia Hu stretched out his hand to grab her sleeve, and said with a smile: "Old lady, grandson didn't make brother Zhu wait on purpose, but just after school, His Royal Highness rewarded grandson. Er Fu word, grandson didn't dare to delay, and immediately went to the East Palace to thank you, and it was late. When we were in the car, grandson had already told brother Zhu and apologized." Jia Hu said that it was reasonable. It is said that no one can find fault, and what he said, it seems that Jia Zhu is wrong, the elder brother apologized to the younger brother, and he even complained to the elders.

Sure enough, Mrs. Wang shut up and asked someone to take Jia Zhu back to change clothes and drink ginger tea.Shi Taijun's eyes lit up, and he said in amazement: "Brother Hu, what did you say, His Royal Highness rewarded you with blessings?" First it was written by the emperor, and then by the crown prince, but after Jia Daishan left, the Jia family got the blessing letter, but no one knew which prince wrote it. Jia Hu was able to get back the blessing letter written by His Highness the crown prince himself. Shi Taijun didn't look at him with admiration.

In the eyes of Wang's and Yuan Chun's mother and daughter, there are vigilant eyes flashing at the same time, the old lady is going to treat the eldest house differently.

In fact, Shi Taijun's thoughts are definitely in favor of the second wife, but this does not mean that she is only hoping that the first wife will not be good.After all, it's a family, if the first room is really in dire straits, wouldn't it be the other way around that would hold back the second room?Shi Taijun just couldn't see that Jia She got most of the Jia family's property, but Jia Zheng was very few. If he wanted to dig some from Jia She's hands to supplement the second house, it would be best if the brothers shared it equally.

It is impossible for Shi Taijun to be unhappy that the sons and grandchildren of the long house are striving for success. If Jia Hu can get along well in the palace, he can also pull his own brothers, which is simply the best of both worlds.But if Jia Zhu had a good life in the palace, she probably wouldn't think of letting him pull Jia Hu and Jia Lian.