Jialan: Crossing the Red Chamber

Well, why did you do it again? "

Aunt Zhao panicked when she heard him speak, she stuffed the shoe uppers she was holding into the sewing basket and said with a smile: "I'm just idle, I just make you another pair just in time for spring. Aren't you going to greet the old lady?" , how did you come back so soon?" He said, calling Caiyun to pour tea for Jialan.

Jia Lan glanced at the colorful phoenix vamp that Aunt Zhao was pressing under her hand, and said with a smile, "No, I'll go back after sitting down for a while."

After hearing this, Aunt Zhao couldn't help laughing and said: "I heard that the exam period is coming soon, so it's so busy, I don't see anyone all day long."

Jia Lan said with a smile, "It will be fine after a few days."

Jia Huan pushed his shoulders outwards and said, "In a hurry, I forgot that you still have business to do, so go and study."

Seeing that Jia Huan's mood had recovered, Jia Lan didn't insist anymore, and after joking a few words, she went back to Daoxiang Village.

In the evening, Li Wan came back in a sedan chair after visiting the courtyard. Jia Lan asked her about Tanchun and Aunt Zhao. It’s just a little bit unsatisfactory in my heart.”

After a pause, she sighed again: "Usually, your third aunt is the strongest. If she was born as a man, I'm afraid this big Jia family would not be able to accommodate her. It's just that she suffers from being a daughter, and she is a concubine, and her ambitions cannot be fulfilled. And your Aunt Zhao will make some troubles every now and then, which makes the old lady feel uneasy, and Huan'er doesn't live up to it, she is unwilling to submit to this every day."

Jia Lan said: "Even so, it is often sad that my aunt mentions my third aunt before and after her. Is it because of her honor?"

Tanchun has a very good personality, the old lady Mrs. Wang and other elders love it very much, but Jia Huan is silent and can't touch the edge of the eaves when he speaks, so Aunt Zhao is always proud of Tanchun, and from time to time she is in front of others. You have to tell her twice.It's just that Aunt Zhao is a poor person, and not many people in the house see her. Seeing her ostentatiously, Tanchun feels that her status is lowered, and she doesn't want to associate with her.Aunt Zhao didn't know it and continued to act, which made Tanchun faintly annoyed.

Maybe this time it just happened to touch the head of the matter, Fang Du brought up the old matter and raised his anger.

Li Wan said: "Everyone has his own destiny, so don't think too much about it."

Jia Lan said: "I'm just expressing my feelings. Guess what I saw at my aunt's place today?" Li Wan didn't know, so Jia Lan said: "I went to see my third uncle off, and I happened to see my aunt making shoes. With flowers, generous and delicate, it is clearly the style of a young lady, but she insisted that it was made for the third uncle, isn't that lying?"

Li Wan said, "I know about this, so don't tell me about it."

Jia Lan wondered, "Why?" Li Wan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't ask children about adults, you'd better go read a book. At the second watch, I have to visit the courtyard, so I need to close my eyes for a while." go."

Jia Lan pursed her lips in dissatisfaction, but got off the kang obediently and went into the study to study.

Three days later, it was the county examination.There are four county examinations, including questions on stereotyped essays, poems and prose, and policy theory.After Jia Lan finished the test, he realized that it was quite easy, and Yi Yanqiu said, "This is just an entry-level level, so it's naturally easy, and it will become more difficult as it goes on."

It was only then that Jia Lan thought that his teacher might be the invigilator and grader of the rural and college examinations in the future, and also thought about Yi Yanqiu's tricky and weird questions, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

The future seems bleak.

A few days later, Jia Zhen sent news that she had passed the county examination, and she was preparing to take the government examination in April.Li Wan was very happy to hear this, and pulled Jia Lan to laugh and cry, making such a fuss that Jia Lan didn't know what to do.

The rest of the day is naturally to study harder and study harder.

In the first ten days of March, an old concubine passed away in the palace, and the emperor decreed that all imperial edicts and others should enter the court and follow the class according to the system of nobility.And pardon the world: all families with nobles are not allowed to have banquets and music within a year.

Jiamu, Xing, Wang, You, etc. all went to the court every day to accompany the sacrifices, and did not return until they were upright. This kind of communication lasted for more than a month.Things at home were chaotic and noisy, and Tanchun and others were still taking care of them.Because there was a decree that there should be no banquets and music within a year, Mrs. Wang dismissed those opera students, scattered them, and dismantled the opera troupe.

During the period, some Zijuan may have threatened Baoyu and Lin Daiyu to go back to Suzhou's house and never come back again. Baoyu couldn't bear the frightening and passed out.

Or Aunt Xue's birthday, everyone prepared congratulatory gifts and went to watch the opera. Aunt Xue wanted to talk to Xue Biao because she saw that Xing Xiu was elegant and steady in cigarettes, plain in clothes, and a good girl.Mother Jia liked it very much, so she made a deal with Mrs. Xing, agreed to it and so on.

Jia Lan only focused on studying hard and didn't care about these things. Others knew he was hardworking and didn't bother him.

After the Qingming Festival in early April, Jia Lan took the government examination and then the hospital examination.After passing the hospital examination, he entered the Imperial College as a student supervisor.Because he was going to take the provincial examination in August, Yi Yanqiu avoided it on his own, and found another teacher from the Imperial College for Jia Lan, surnamed Liu Mingzihe.

Liu Zihe is not as strict as Yi Yanqiu, but speaks softly and teaches meticulously.Apart from Jalan, he still has a few students.That day, Liu Zihe said he wanted to introduce them to each other, and Jia Lan originally said he wanted to get along peacefully, but after seeing the little leader of the group of students, he realized that there was no peace at all.

It would be strange for anyone to make peace with the youngest son of General Huwei's family, the well-known little devil in the capital.

Jia Lan tilted her head to look at Li Li, and wondered, "You also participated in the literary examination?"

Li Li rolled his big eyes and said, "Master, why can't I participate?"

Jialan Khan said, "I thought you would go to the martial arts." He remembered that Li Liang once said that Li Li was going to take the exam, but later he said that Li Li was not good at books, so Jialan didn't pay much attention .

Seeing that they were very familiar with each other, Liu Zihe smiled and said, "It turns out that they are old acquaintances."

Li Lidao: "Lan'er is old man Yi's student, how could I not know him?"

Jia Lan said with a smile, "Mr. Careful knows how to punish you for shouting behind your back."

Li Li curled his lips and said, "It doesn't matter, anyway, he can't hear it now." After finishing speaking, he turned to Liu Zihe and said, "Sir, I haven't seen Lan'er for a long time, can I take a step to talk?"

Liu Zihe waved his hands, "Nothing to do today, you can do what you want." Li Li walked out of the courtyard with Jia Lan.

After leaving the Imperial College, Li Li strolled into the street, bought a bunch of candied haws by the side of the street, and asked Jia Lan if he wanted to eat it.Jia Lan waved his hands away, so he bought one himself and ate it as he walked.

Seeing his relish, Jia Lan couldn't help but sigh with emotion, he was still a child after all.

Li Li bit a hawthorn, swallowed it whole, and said vaguely: "Recently, the prince held several poetry meetings, why didn't you go?"

Jia Lan looked at the shops on the street and said casually, "I'm busy, I don't have time."

Li Li snorted and said, "Study all day, be careful not to be stupid."

Jia Lan kicked him and said, "Go, you've been going crazy all day, and you still call me stupid."

Li Li hid and sighed: "But since you have entered school, you have more time to play together. Unfortunately, the prince has no time." Jia Lan asked why.

Li Lidao: "Isn't the old concubine dead in the palace? The prince needs to accompany him in court, so where is the time to have fun?" Jia Lan thought so too.Li Li sighed, "My brother, Brother Feng, and Brother Wei are all accompanying me, so I'm the only one left. It's not fun."

Jia Lan said: "Someday I'm free, why don't I accompany you to the falcons."

Li Li's eyes lit up, "That's a good idea!" As he spoke, his eyes rolled again, and he said with a smile: "It's better to hit the sun than to choose a day, just today."

Jia Lan couldn't help laughing: "Are you so depressed?"

Action is worse than heartbeat, and the two hit it off immediately. Jia Lan said he wanted to go home to get the arrow, but Li Li said no, and took Jia Lan directly to Liuhe Mountain.

Jia Lan watched him standing in front of the water-soluble garden and getting close to the guards, as if entering his own courtyard, he walked across the path to a small courtyard, went in and took two sets of strong clothes, bows and arrows, and handed them to Jia Lan. vice.

Seeing his skillful movements, Jia Lan couldn't help but said, "You know the prince very well."

Li Li said: "It's okay, my brother is familiar with the prince, in fact, my brother prepared these things for me."

Jia Lan touched the good material and said with a smile, "Your brother really loves you."

Li Li raised his eyebrows and smiled, "That's right, otherwise, why would he be my brother?"

After changing his clothes, he left the courtyard, and his servants had already prepared the horses.The two got on their horses, carried bows and arrows, and rushed to the back mountain.

I haven't played indulgently for a long time, but this play lasted until the moon rose in the middle of the sky at night.

Jia Lan lay down on the ground, threw the bow and arrow aside, and kept breathing.Li Li set up a bonfire beside him, and laughed with a long grass in his mouth: "Let you stay in the study every day, it will be boring."

Jia Lan rolled over, lay down beside the fire, laughed and said, "Didn't you hear the ancients say that there are thousands of millet in the book, there is a house of gold in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book."

Li Li said: "That's all you have. You have to learn from me." Li Li stood up, stepped on a stone with his right foot, raised his head high and looked at the sky, his eyes were shining, and the corners of his lips were lightly raised, and he said loudly: "Do it!" A man should aim to be on the battlefield, kill the enemy general, behead the enemy, and rejoice in revenge. Wouldn't it be brilliant to be so golden and iron?"

The last sentence floated back and forth in the lonely forest for a long time.

Hearing these words, Jialan's ambition was immediately aroused. He couldn't help standing up, and also looked up at the sky and shouted: "Burning with anger, by the lanai, the drizzle is resting. Looking up, looking up to the sky and screaming, it is as strong as fierce. Thirty Fame and dust, eight thousand miles of roads, clouds and moons. Don't wait for nothing. The boy's head is white, empty and sad. The shame of Jingkang is still not snowed; The meat of the captives, laughing and talking about thirsting for the blood of the Xiongnu. Waiting to start over, clean up the old