Jia Zheng through the Red Mansions

The fact that Jia Min is going to take Daiyu back to the capital to visit relatives made Jia's mother very happy. When the old lady thought that she would see her beloved little daughter, she wished that the boats on the canal had grown wings and could fly over like birds. , the spirit that had been somewhat sluggish due to fatigue instantly revived, the old lady was happy, and the people below were naturally relieved, and Mrs. Wang, after all, did not survive a month, she struggled to die in the moonlight midnight .

When Jia Min arrived at Jia's mansion, it was the preparation period for Mrs. Wang's funeral.

With the identity of Mrs. Gao Ming and her son Jia Zhu, Mrs. Wang's funeral should not be hasty. Li Wan has never dealt with the loss before, and with such great pressure, she is even more haggard. At this time, Jia Min's arrival , It really made Jia Mu and Li Wan breathe a sigh of relief.

On the way, Jia Min heard that there were a lot of things going on in Jia's mansion, so she didn't want to bother the already busy Jia's mansion, so she told them not to inform them of the exact time of landing. At the door, Mother Jia knew they had arrived.

Jia Mu was angry and happy, and hurriedly sent someone to pick her up outside the door. After a while, Jia Min, Daiyu and Haoyu entered Jia Mu's room surrounded by a group of maids.

Jia Mu had come down from the kang a long time ago, and stood at the door waiting for a long time, with Yuanyang and Pearl supporting her, when Jia Min and Dai Yu just stepped into the door, they saw that Jia Mu's trembling silver-haired eyes still had a smile on her face. With tears streaming down Jia Min's nose, she couldn't help crying. The mother and daughter hugged each other, and Jia's mother tremblingly touched Jia Min's hair, and kept saying, "Okay, okay, so It’s been many years, but it’s back.”

Jia Min also choked up and said, "Mother, my daughter is back."

Li Wan also got the letter and rushed over. As soon as Fang entered the door, he saw the old lady and a beautiful lady hugging each other, both of them were crying, so he knew that this must be Aunt Min, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Old ancestor Well, Aunt Min finally came back, this is a happy event, you should laugh. This must be sister Daiyu. In the past, I often heard my father mention that sister Daiyu is full of poems and books. Now that I see her, I know What does it mean to have a poetic and literary spirit!" Li Wan said and looked at Xiao Haoyu who was being held by the nurse, and said to Jia Mu: "Look, old ancestor, this little Haoyu is also a clever little guy !"

Li Wan's words made both Jia Mu and Jia Min laugh, and then Jia Min pulled Daiyu to salute Jia Mu and said, "This is your grandmother."

Dai Yufu saluted, and called out to her grandmother. Jia Mu helped her up, looked at her carefully, and nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, even more handsome than your mother when she was young!"

Then I introduced Li Wan, Daiyu called Shengzhu's sister-in-law, and then Mother Jia sent Baoyu and the others to find them. When Jia Min heard that they were all in school, she quickly waved her hands and said, "Mother, don't you?" Urgent, now I also come to the mansion as soon as I get off the boat to pay my respects to my mother. The things I brought and the maids, women, and servants have not been settled in the house. I will bring her to the mansion when everything is safe Here, when the time comes, naturally all the brothers and girls will be out of school, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds?"

When Jia Mu heard this, she became anxious: "It's not that there is no room in the house. Now there are three rooms in the courtyard in the northeast corner, which are used as guest rooms. They have been tidied up. You can just stay here."

Jia Min smiled: "Mother, the Lin family also has a house in the capital, and they just sent people to take care of it all these years, and I don't know what it has become, but someone neglected their duties and secretly used it for other livelihoods behind our backs. It’s just too far away in Jiangnan. Now that I’m here, there’s no reason not to take care of it. My mother misses me, and I miss my mother very much. how?"

After hearing this, Mother Jia nodded and said nothing more, so Jia Min took Daiyu to the Lin family's mansion in the capital first, but the servants in the mansion are still good, although it is inevitable that the mansion is a bit dilapidated due to poor care , but did not use the house to do other business for private profit like some other families did. Jia Min arranged the things and the people brought back this time, and then gathered everyone in one place to divide the work and purchase Things, reorganize the garden, after all the items have been distributed, it was already a little late, Jia Min took Daiyu and Haoyu to Jia's mansion again.

At this time, Baoyu, Tanchun, Jia Huan and Xichun had all finished school, and they all heard that their aunt and cousin were here today, so they all gathered in Jiamu's room waiting to meet the guests. Jia Min brought Daiyu in. Afterwards, first Baoyu and the others greeted Jia Min, and then the juniors greeted each other. Tanchun and Xichun saw Daiyu's handsome appearance and good manners, and they had a good impression of Daiyu in their hearts. Daiyu saw that Tanchun and Xichun also had their own styles. Since I was a child, I had no sisters, and at this time I was also a little happy in my heart.

Jia Huan next to him took a few more glances at Jia Min, and was very envious of Jia Min's whole body style. This is exactly the kind of dignified yet aura, gentle and undiminished woman written in ancient books. The blueprint for the most regrettable woman in the heart of the mother.

Baoyu's eyes have never moved away since seeing Daiyu. Baoyu felt very dazed when he saw Daiyu for the first time, as if he had known him for a long time. It was obviously the first time we met, but it made him feel like he had been separated for a long time. The feeling of reunion.

Daiyu was also looking at Baoyu at this time, and the eyes of the two met. There was a trace of panic in Baoyu's eyes looking at Daiyu, and then he realized that he was too abrupt to stare straight at her like this Look, I couldn't help lowering my head a little bit embarrassedly, Daiyu also blushed and lowered her eyes, but she felt a little strange in her heart, if someone looked at her like this in the past, she would definitely not be like this now, but, this brother's eyes It was too bright and clear, and it was full of it, as dazzling and pure as the twinkling stars in the night sky.

Jia Mu was very satisfied with the appearance of the juniors getting along happily, so she said with a smile: "Don't let us restrain you, go play inside, and someone will call you when the meal is passed on later."

The juniors went to chat in the back room. Daiyu was still thinking about what happened just now, so she was a little cautious towards Baoyu, and only talked to Tanchun and Xichun. They are all full of inner beauty, and the chat is more cheerful, but Baoyu has long put aside the embarrassment just now, and also participated in it with great interest. The interest was not high, but when everyone talked about poetry and the method of composing poetry, Jia Huan, who had a lot of experience, couldn't help but interrupted.

Until the servant girl came in to pass on the message, they still had more to say.

During dinner, Jia Min saw that Daiyu had a happy expression on her face, and the atmosphere between the brothers and sisters was also very good. In her heart, she felt that her decision to bring her here was correct. She couldn't bear to torment her like this, but this little guy was very upbeat, and he was even happier now.

Since then, Jia Min brought Daiyu and his brother to live in Jia's house, and began to help take care of the place. As the younger sister's assistant to the sister-in-law's funeral, it was a bit out of order, so after weighing the two, it was still Li Wan who presided over it, and Jia Min Instructing and helping with other things in the mansion.

Li Wan followed Jia Min, looking at Jia Min's demeanor, he admired her even more in his heart, and seeing that Xiao Daiyu was young, but her style and character were one in a million, and so was Xiao Haoyu. Clever, now my aunt really has both sons and daughters!Ever since Li Wan gave birth to Jia Lan, she also wanted to have both children in her heart, but unfortunately she never got pregnant again. Now seeing Daiyu, she wanted to have a daughter in her heart.

With Jia Min's help, Mrs. Wang's funeral was handled properly. Needless to say, Jia Zheng's two major projects have been completed one after another. Among them were beggars who had nothing because of floods, and there were also old people who had no children to support and could not survive. After Jia Zheng learned of this situation, he tried his best to urge the river workers, and promised that he would definitely use every mu of land of each family A lot of them were returned to them, and all the people in the Yamen were called to reiterate that it is not allowed to forcibly coerce the owner of the original land to sell the land to the local big landlord-there are not a few people who want to take this opportunity to swallow the land .

Jia Zheng's policy made the common people feel grateful, and almost offended the local big landlords virtually. You must know that these people are all local prominent families. The rich merchants are still a little happy after being wiped out. They have always maintained their status, they are scholars, farmers, businessmen, and they are upper-class people. They have gone, and now someone is cleaning them up, these big landowners are clapping their hands and cheering in their hearts.

But when this storm also hit them, their joy immediately turned to hatred. After discussing with several big families, they went directly to the governor, Jia Zheng, the immediate boss of the prefect.

The governor also had some complaints about Jia Zheng, a subordinate, and he didn't talk about visiting the governor's yamen for so long, let alone being filial. , let alone there is Xuezheng, although Xuezheng is at the same level as him, but his authority is still above him, and he is the emperor's cronies, this is the master he wants to curry favor with.He also had to weigh whether it was necessary for him to offend Mr. Xuezheng in order to put this tone down.

At this time, these people found him, but the governor was a little embarrassed. It seemed that he could see the hesitation of the governor. The master of the Dong family was unhappy, and he was about to leave immediately. His expression changed, and the governor quickly apologized and comforted him, and vowed to deal with the matter frankly.

After sending these people away, the governor began to think about it. At this time, Jia Zheng sent a document, saying that most of the river has been repaired, and now there is still a shortage of 30 taels of silver, which is a document requesting funds from above.

The governor's eyes lit up, this was an opportunity, so he pressed the paperwork but no money was issued, Jia Zheng waited for the money to come, and the money didn't come, the river worker couldn't afford to delay, so Jia Zheng sent someone Going to inquire about this matter, the governor's transfer of money was very happy before, it didn't make sense at this time only 30 taels was short but there was no news. Went to the governor's side.

Jia Zheng weighed it. He had a way to get the money together, but if he did so, it would be tantamount to slapping the governor in the face. It was too reckless, so Jia Zheng went to the governor's office in person.

The governor naturally said something meaningful, and then focused on the ownership of the land. Between the words, the implied meaning could not be more obvious.

Jia Zheng was unhappy when he heard this, but he still replied respectfully and politely: "My lord, it is the responsibility of the parents and officials to cultivate the land. Naturally, the lower officials dare not neglect in the slightest. Please rest assured, my lord." .”

The governor didn't expect that Jia Zheng would completely ignore his hints, and when he answered in such an official tone, his complexion darkened and he snorted coldly: "If that's the case, then what are you still wasting time here for? Why don't you go back soon? At the gate of the yamen to urge He Gong, if you delay the matter, what you just said will become a joke."

Jia Zheng didn't say much when he heard the words, he just left, and walked out of the gate of the Governor's Yamen. .

Jia Zheng went back to the yamen and posted widely to invite those wealthy businessmen again. The rich merchants turned green when they saw the famous posts of the magistrate's yamen, but they had no choice but to go there anxiously. After being short of 30 taels of silver, the official was very worried, and their hearts were relieved. Isn’t it just 30 taels? There are more than 30 of them, and each of them took out 1 taels. The magistrate had a good impression, so why not do it, he donated all of them, and they all took out money.

However, Jia Zheng stopped them and ordered them to exchange all the banknotes on their bodies into silver, and let the servants carry them. Then they went to the gate of Puji Hall, inspected them in person in front of the common people, and handed them over to the person in charge of the repair of the river. hands of people.

Looking at the surrounding bystanders and the victims in the Puji Hall kneeling on the ground, kowtowing and thanking each other tearfully shouting "good people get rewarded", the rich businessmen were somewhat shaken in their hearts. Who wouldn't like it? To be worshiped like this, especially when they were always surrounded by malicious words such as "the smell of copper", "it's just a little more noble than the pariah" and "there is no profiteer, no business", this kind of strong The contrast made them wish they could spend more money.

This is what Jia Zheng wanted. Now he can supervise them in office, but he still has the day when he will leave office. After he leaves, will these wealthy businessmen feel sorry for the money they have spent, and start to intensify from the common people? What about asking for it?

Now, an invisible bond has finally formed between them and the common people. Jia Zheng believes that as this bond becomes stronger and stronger, it will become a deep-rooted belief one day, and that is enough.

The master of the Dong family happened to be passing by at this time, looking out from the car curtain, his face also showed a complicated look, this magistrate... For the first time, the master of the Dong family felt that maybe this time he did something wrong up.

The big landlords were silent, but some people couldn't sit still, was it the governor or who?He was annoyed at Jia Zheng's ignorance, and at the same time, he was afraid that the emperor would know that he would not be able to protect himself. He also blamed the Dong family for causing him to be duplicity and let him go. However, no one now Concerned about his mood.

The workers who repaired the river were also local people, and they were also moved by this, so they worked harder, and soon the river was perfected, and the problems such as saline-alkali land formed after being flooded were also started to be dealt with. After everything was done properly, Jia Zheng also organized people to help these refugees rebuild their houses and distribute the land. Those merchants offered to help at this time, sending fabrics, agricultural tools, and looms, and there were all kinds of things, although It's not such a valuable thing, but it also makes everyone feel grateful.

While Jia Zheng's side was in full swing, he also kept an eye on Song Zhu and Zhen's family at all times. Liu Bao would also find opportunities to explain to him what Song Zhu asked him to do. Although Song Zhu was also a thoughtful and experienced person, Zhen Although the house looks slack, if you talk about secrets like a study room, it is really like an iron bucket. All they can inquire about are insignificant and trivial things, but there is nothing that is really useful.

Song Zhu tried every means to find someone who could defeat the Zhen family, but he couldn't find it. Jia Zheng spent most of his thoughts on governing the place. Note that the Zhen family is also a small part, but The opportunity came to my door in person.

One day, Jia Qiang took Jia Zheng to meet a person, saying that as long as this person is willing to help, the affairs of the Zhen family will be easy, Jia Zheng is a little puzzled, is it so powerful?Jia Zheng secretly had a guess in his heart, and seeing this person just confirmed his thoughts.

Jia Zheng looked at the young man in front of him and sighed in his heart, it really was him.