Jia Zheng through the Red Mansions

Mother Jia listened to Mrs. Xing's words and thought that now that Jia Zhu even has a son, and Jia Lian, the eldest grandson, is not yet married. It is indeed a joke if this matter goes out, so she nodded: "You didn't remind me earlier that things happen these days. Busy, I forgot this important event!"

Mrs. Xing was slandering in her heart, and she didn't dare to show it on her face. She smiled and apologized: "It's the daughter-in-law's fault."

Mother Jia smiled, and then looked at Mrs. Wang: "Remember that Brother Feng's birthday is in September, right?"

Mrs. Wang quickly replied: "Exactly, Feng girl's birthday is on the second day of September."

Jia's mother thought about it for a while, and then said: "Tomorrow, I will have to invite my wife to stay in the house. Let's make an appointment at that time." Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng are already engaged, and now there is only one less confirmed date.

On the second day, Mrs. Wang went to meet her brother and sister-in-law. Originally, Mrs. Wang was afraid that her brother and sister-in-law would think that Wang Xifeng was too young, so she didn't think about why she came, but Wang Ziteng and his wife agreed with a simple sentence. Although Mrs. Wang was a little puzzled, she didn't ask any questions. , came back and only spent a lot of time talking with Jia's mother before touching her brother and sister-in-law. Jia's mother was very pleased to hear that, patted Mrs. Wang's hand and said: "You have worked hard."

Mrs. Wang was secretly happy but didn't mention it, but why were Wang Ziteng and his wife so forthright?It turned out to be related to Wang Xifeng's elder brother Wang Ren.

Although Manchu children are basically engaged at the age of ten and get married at the age of 13, according to the customs of the Han people, the children are not married into their in-laws until they are 15 years old. Originally, Wang Ziteng and his wife had the same plan, not to mention that Wang Ziteng and his wife were young. Just love Sister Feng as a child, Sister Feng is also extremely intelligent, she helped her mother housekeeping at a young age, and she was more agile, the servants of the palace were more afraid of Sister Feng than their mother.

Sister Feng has been in charge of power since she was a child, and her natural personality is quite domineering, and she is usually fine, but when Sister Feng's brother Wang Ren married a wife, conflicts between sisters-in-law broke out.

Wang Ziteng and his wife were caught in a dilemma. As a mother, Mrs. Wang Ziteng preferred Sister Feng, but Wang Ren married a daughter-in-law from a very powerful family. The daughter-in-law went back to her natal family and cried. For other people, Wang Ziteng and his wife are also dissatisfied with their daughter-in-law and dare not offend.

Now that Sister Feng's sunflower water is coming next year, and the Jia family wants to get married early, Wang Ziteng and his wife naturally have nothing to say. The dowry that came in was twice as much.

Mrs. Xing here is happy that Jia Mu has agreed and went to the Wang family to marry successfully, and she has set a date to get married in May. She also heard that the Wang family made a big deal of dowry, and Mrs. Xing laughed from ear to ear. When Wan married in, the dowry was not much. In comparison, Mrs. Xing's voice in front of Mrs. Wang was half a tone higher than usual.

Mother Jia felt that getting married in May was too hasty, and there was only less than three months to prepare for it, but since the Wang family lived, it had to be like this. Then, move out of your yard and live in the yard behind Rongxi Hall."

Mrs. Xing was even more delighted to hear that, Rongxi Hall, that is the center of Jia's seriousness!Although I didn't live in it, my daughter-in-law is fighting for her luck. She hasn't entered the house yet, so she gave the opportunity to overwhelm Mrs. Wang twice. Mrs. Xing glanced at Mrs. Wang out of the corner of her eye, and she didn't say anything like she usually did. Juju competes for favor in front of Jia Mu, and I feel even more proud in my heart.

Mrs. Xing went back to her room at night to find out about Jia She's affairs. After hearing this, Jia She stroked her beard and said, "Since this is the case, our family can't be shabby, and the dowry must be decent."

Mrs. Xing also knew that her words were reasonable, but the second time was when Jia Lian married a daughter-in-law. Although the old lady would pay some money, most of the money was paid by her own house. Mrs. Xing was naturally reluctant to pay too much money, and suddenly remembered what she vaguely listened to during the Chinese New Year Someone came to give Jia Amnesty some silver, and he possessed a total of 5000 taels, so he tentatively asked, "Master, how much do you think is appropriate?"

Jia Amnesty looked impatient: "You can figure it out, why don't you ask me anything?"

Just staring at her eyes, she heard the boy outside the door shouting: "Master, Miss Jiaohong is at the corner gate, where are you going?"

When Jia She heard the anger on his face, he immediately threw it to Java, left Mrs. Xing's room, and hurried to the corner gate. The young man followed behind and wanted to leave. Mrs. Xing asked a maid to keep him and called him into the room. Asked: "Miss Jiaohong? Where did you come from? Can you tell me clearly?"

The young man knew that Mrs. Xing had always been indifferent, and turned a blind eye to the master's affairs, so he was not afraid of her getting angry, and said with a smile: "It's a red card in Bada Hutong, and the master spent a total of 5000 taels." I bought it from the old bustard, and it will be delivered today."

Mrs. Xing's servant was so angry that she waved her hand to let the servant go down, she held her heart for a long time before she recovered, 5000 taels of silver is just for a kiln sister? !In addition to thinking this way, Jia Amnesty must not have much money in his hands, and the dowry has to be paid out of his own small treasury!Mrs. Xing's heart hurts even more when she thinks about it.

Thinking about the dowry brought in by her daughter-in-law and the future benefits, Mrs. Xing gritted her teeth and took out 3000 taels of silver to buy things for Jia Lian.

From the second day on, Jia Zheng also took over the affairs of Jia's mansion according to Jia's mother's order. The most important thing right now is Jia Lian's marriage. There are people who are in charge of the house to take care of it, Jia Lian is the groom's official business and he can't come out, Jia Amnesty is busy with the concubine he bought, so Jia's mother will leave the matter to Jia Zheng.

Jia Zheng has never held a wedding event, but fortunately, he has a Daimu to help him save a lot of energy. During the period, he always runs outside, but he has more time to go to Hongxi's Baylor Mansion. When they return to Beijing, they can't get along day and night like they did in Yangzhou. Well, there are many people in the Baylor Mansion, Jia Zheng is no longer Hongxi's attendant now, and he is afraid of being criticized by those who care about him.

Even if I didn't see him for ten days, Jia Zheng, who was out socializing, returned home late at night under the pretext of being drunk from the theater appreciation event organized by Wang Ziteng's mansion. When he returned to his room, the oil lamp, Jia Zheng sat at the table. On the chair next to him, although his mind is clear at the moment, his head is still a little dizzy, and his body feels weak. Just as he was pouring a cup of tea to drink a few sips of hangover, Daime came in from outside.

Seeing that Jia Zheng was pouring tea and was about to drink it, Daimu hurriedly called to Jia Zheng: "Master, let's have some hangover soup."

Jia Zheng put down the teacup and saw that Daimu was holding a bowl of hangover soup in his hand, so he took it and drank it, and then Daimu handed over a round stone: "Master, this is the hangover stone brought in by Lord Belle. It is a tribute from Ouchi, and it works well." Here you go, try it."

Jia Zheng hadn't seen the thing before, so he took it with his hand and looked at it, and looked at Daimu suspiciously, Daimu quickly explained how to use it, and Jia Zheng put it in his mouth as he said, and he felt that his mouth was no longer thirsty, and his head was much clearer.

Jia Zheng told Daimu to rest by himself and leave him alone, Daimu persuaded him a few words and then backed down, Jia Zheng sat under the lamp with a sobering stone in his mouth to cool off, but his heart felt warm.

Unbuttoning his coat, he touched the concentric knot that Hong Xi had given him, and he tied the concentric knot at the innermost place where outsiders could not see it.

There is no him around, but his shadow exists all the time, on Daime, on the sobering stone, and on the concentric knot.

Jia Zheng smiled, his eyes were gentle, no matter how many doubts and hesitation before, they turned into hope and belief. Their lives have been in constant contact, and his heart is slowly filled with the things he has done. Thoughts have become pious.

Maybe, if the two feelings mentioned by the predecessors last for a long time, how can they be in the same day and night!

What Jia Zheng didn't know was that Hong Xi was sitting alone in his room in Baylor Mansion at this time, stroking the sympathetic knot with both hands, with the same tenderness in his eyes.

Hongxi also suppressed the idea of ​​seeing Jia Zheng, and now the case of Dai Mingshi, edited by the Imperial Academy, has started trial, because he had heard Jiangnan people's concerns about the matter in Jiangnan, so Kangxi specially asked him to go to the Ministry of Punishment During the hearing, the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple were also trying to figure out the holy will to try the case, and when they saw Hong Xi coming, they also asked insincerely.

Hongxi said something cryptically, how could these people not understand, so Dai Mingshi's case involved a lot of people at the time of the incident, but when the final case was finalized, it was full of thunder and rain.

In the end, on the grounds of lack of evidence and biased reasons, Dai Mingshi was only punished for his talent and property, regardless of his superiority and inferiority. Those who interfered with the case were also exonerated and only fined some money.

On the Kangxi Longevity Day in March, Dai Mingshi resumed his role. After this incident, Dai Mingshi also learned what it means to be low-key. Li Guan for so long, also learned to pretend to be a grandson.

And the people involved in Jia Zhu's case were also exonerated from felony because of the amnesty on the Longevity Day. Te Kaien restored Liu's son's status as a scholar and allowed him to take the imperial examination.

The Imperial Academy is also busy writing articles and poems for Kangxi's birthday. If anyone is favored by the emperor, it will be a success. Nengping was selected. One day, the eunuchs around Kangxi went to the Hanlin Academy to deliver an edict, summoning Xiong Shi, Hei Shuoli, and Jia Zhunan to have an audience in the study.

Everyone looked at the eyes of the three with envy, envy and hatred. It is obvious that the articles of the three were favored by the Lord Long Live, and the first two were better, especially Jia Zhu. He jumped from the top two to the second place in the rankings, and now he has only entered the Imperial Academy How long did it take before he was honored again? The colleagues of the Imperial Academy stabbed Jia Zhu with their eyes like knives.

Jia Zhu himself didn't expect that he knew how well his articles were doing. Birthday writing that required literary talent was not his strong point. This time his article was not a birthday writing, but a birthday writing. The memorials are almost the same.

It turned out that after Jia Zheng came back from Yangzhou, he was worried about the Lin family's purchase of land in their ancestral home, so he asked Jia Zhu to ask about it. Both the family temple and the family school are in the capital, which were purchased later.

Jia Zheng listened to Jia Zhu about the Lin family's affairs, and when he heard Jia Min's words repeated by Jia Zheng, Jia Zhu was also in awe. She was a little aunt, and she really had a delicate heart. Compare them to these men!

Going back and talking to Li Wan, Li Wan was also very surprised, so he said to Jia Zhu: "I only learned the superficial things about housekeeping from my mother and wife. Now after listening to my aunt and wife, I realize that I am actually a frog at the bottom of the well. Speaking of which, a great-grandfather who once connected with our family is now over [-] years old. He came to Beijing this year to celebrate the emperor's birthday, and he is currently living in his father's house. His family is also a famous family with deep roots. If we go to visit and visit, we will also learn from it."

Jia Zhu naturally readily agreed, and went with Li Wan the next day, only to find out that Mr. Li came to the capital from Jiangnan. He asked the best doctor in Beijing to come to treat his illness. After drinking the medicine for three days, he still didn't get better. Li Shouzhong was in a hurry.

Although the Jia family can invite the imperial physician, although the Li family and the Jia family are related by marriage, it is not in compliance with the rules to go to see a doctor like this. Jia Zhu's family has an imperial physician who is familiar with the imperial hospital. It is okay to prepare more gift money, Li Shouzhong But he refused to break the rules.

Although the old man Li was ill, when Li Shouzhong's son-in-law returned home, he insisted on seeing him. Jia Zhu talked with the old man Li, and felt that the old man was wise and respectable, and he was even more worried about his illness.

Coincidentally, this day was the day when I was writing an article celebrating birthdays, and Jia Zhu mentioned in it the old men from various provinces who came to Beijing to celebrate their birthdays. Come in.

Hearing Jia Zhu's mention that many of the elderly over 65 and [-] who came to Beijing were in poor health due to the exhaustion of boats and cars, they immediately passed the imperial decree, and authorized the imperial physician to treat the elderly who came to Beijing to celebrate their birthdays, and gave a banquet in Changchun Garden[-] Over the age of the elderly.

Under the special decree of respecting the old and respecting the virtuous, Kangxi felt really relieved when he heard the sound of Long Live above the ruling and opposition parties. After a few days, he promoted Jia Zhu to the job of "walking in the South Study Room".

Although walking in the South Study Room is not an official position, taking this errand means that the close ministers around Cheng Kangxi can directly participate in government affairs, and even review memorials for the emperor in many cases!

Jia Zhu took this errand, and she really reached the sky in one step. The whole family of Jia's family was even more joyful and encouraged. Jia's mother said happily, "Lian'er is going to get married soon, and Zhu'er has a bright future again. It's really double happiness!"

Both Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing laughed, but the things they laughed at were quite different.

Jia Zheng was also happy for Jia Zhu, walking in the South Study Room. To put it bluntly, this is the predecessor of the Military Aircraft Department. If it was changed to Yongzheng, Jia Zhu's position would be equivalent to the Minister of Military Aircraft!

All of a sudden, Jia's mansion was full of traffic, and there were countless people posting posts asking Jia Zheng to go to different mansions for entertainment. Jia Zhu's happy event was not over yet, and another great happy event came out, Jia's mansion The eldest girl, married to Jia Yuanchun of Mancha's Zade, actually got the favor of the queen mother, who frequently sent Jia Yuanchun to the palace to have an audience, and even rewarded many Taoists from Mancha's house.

This incident was also spread around Mrs. Fujin in the capital. All of a sudden, Mancha's mansion, which was originally not of high status, was full of traffic.