Jia Rong, the smiling tiger of the Red Chamber

In the palace examination, Jia Rong was appointed by Emperor Longqi to be the famous biography of Erjiatou, and soon the reporter who summoned him announced the good news to the Ningguo Mansion with drums and gongs.

Seeing the reporter of the summons coming, Jia Zhen was stunned for a long time. After being reminded by the servant Wan'er, she hastily rewarded the messenger who came to report the good news. Everyone came with a purse, which contained The bank note of 20 taels of silver, the leading one is a little thicker, and it is 50 taels.After seeing off the reporter, Jia Zhen burst into laughter in front of the mansion, and then loudly told Wan'er and Shou'er to invite the chef from Fumanlou to come over, and he was going to hold a three-day feast , to celebrate.

As for the members of the Jia clan, after hearing the news, all members of the clan were shocked, but after the shock, they were all joyful.Uncle Rong from the East Mansion is really extraordinary. He was only 16 years old, and he already won the Jinshi award, and he was ordered by the emperor himself.

Immediately prepared presents, one after another came to the door to congratulate again.

This time, more people came than last time, and the gifts they brought were heavier.

Not to mention the members of the Jia family, the nobles of the major families who got the news, no matter they were good friends or unfamiliar, all sent people over.What shocked and surprised Jia Zhen the most was that the third prince, fourth prince, fifth prince, and sixth prince all sent congratulatory gifts to her one after another.

Ningguo Mansion, which has not opened its main entrance for several years, also opened its main entrance to welcome visitors from all sides because of this incident.All of a sudden, the Ningguo Mansion was extremely lively.

Gu family

A little girl dressed in tender pink, about twelve or thirteen years old, walked hurriedly into the courtyard where the eldest girl of the Gu family lived, and shouted: "Great joy, girl is very happy!"

When she arrived at the door of the room, she saw a girl in pink and green clothes, fifteen or sixteen years old, with a handsome appearance and a calm body, she picked out the curtain and came out. It was one of the two big girls who were serving Miss Gu. The name was Yingxue, but when she saw her eyes sinking slightly, Liu Ye frowned, and reprimanded her, "What are you making such a fuss about? What are your rules?" Seeing that the hairpins on the little maid's head were all gone Somewhat messy, when he was about to say something again, he was interrupted by the little maid.

"Sister Yingxue, I'm really overjoyed. Someone from the Ningguo Mansion just came to report that our future son-in-law has won the first place in the second class!" If in the past, she was reprimanded by Yingxue like this, The little girl couldn't tell if she was crying, but now the situation is different, so the little girl is not afraid anymore, so she boldly interrupted Yingxue's words and spoke hastily.

As soon as Yingxue heard this, she was just like the little maid. Naturally, she didn't have the time to say some reprimands. With her usual calm expression, she immediately became happy, and asked repeatedly: "Is this true?"

The little maid nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Of course it is true. How dare I talk nonsense about such a happy event? I heard that the person who came was the big housekeeper of Ningguo Mansion, and he is now in front of the master and wife answering."

Yingxue was really happy when she heard the little maid's words, and she was about to turn around and go into the room while muttering to herself, but then she thought of something, and put the girl on her wrist that she had only rewarded a few days ago. He took off his shredded shrimp beard bracelet, stuffed it into the hand of the little maid, and said: "This is your reward." After saying that, she turned around and entered the room in a hurry.

The little maid happily weighed the shrimp whisker bracelet that Yingxue had just stuffed into her hand, there were at least two taels.She is just a third-class maid who runs errands, and her monthly salary is only five hundred yuan.This bracelet is worth half a year's monthly money.He went back happily with the shrimp whisker bracelet.

"Yingxue, just now I heard that it is true that our son-in-law was selected as a Jinshi?" Yuwei, who is also the first-class maid beside Miss Gu with Yingxue, immediately grabbed her hand when she saw Yingxue come in. , asked hurriedly.

Yingxue nodded and smiled immediately: "But, my uncle is still the top-ranked Chuanlu."

After Yuwei heard Yingxue's words, she immediately became happy too, she folded her hands together in worship, and muttered to herself what is really a Bodhisattva Buddha's blessing?Yingxue, who was listening, couldn't help rolling her eyes.

It is my own ability that my uncle can be so promising.What is the relationship with Bodhisattva Buddha?

However, Yingxue quickly ignored Yuwei who was nagging, but turned around and went into the inner room to announce the good news to Miss Gu.

Miss Gu was embroidering something at this time. When Yingxue and Yuwei were talking just now, she also vaguely listened to her ears. A little reddish said, "But what good news is there?"

Yingxue smiled at the moment, and blessed Miss Gu Yingying, and said: "The servant is here to congratulate the girl. The girl is really happy. Just now, the little girl from the wife's yard came to spread the word that my uncle won the second-class head. Famous Chuanlu." As he spoke again, a series of words of congratulations came out of his mouth.

Miss Gu was also very happy when she heard that, she pursed her lips and smiled, thinking about that day, with the help of her mother, she secretly took a look at Jia Rong from behind the screen.With a tall and straight figure, Zhilan Yushu, such an appearance makes him unable to move his eyes away.Afterwards, no matter whether it was the father or the mother, they all told themselves one after another that their future husband was extremely outstanding, although his temper was a little weak, but he was very good, and he had grown up around him, and he didn't have a maid in the house, he was a clean man.

He also said that he will definitely be a happy life in the future!

And since they got engaged, he would ask someone to send him some things from time to time, although they were not expensive, they were all delicate and interesting.His actions like this also made him yearn for the future.

Thinking about it this way, Miss Gu took out a rainy blue purse from her embroidery basket, with a few green bamboos embroidered on it, handed it to Yingxue, and said, "Yingxue, you quietly asked someone to give this to you." ...Send it to him, it's my heart." She had already embroidered this purse a few days ago, but these days, he has been busy with the imperial examination, and it has been a long time since anyone sent anything over.Although she felt a little disappointed in her heart, she also knew that at this time, he was really unhappy.Moreover, it seemed even more obvious that the things he gave him were chosen by himself, not fake hands.

Yingxue looked at the purse, and immediately understood, she answered with a smile, and even teased Miss Gu.

She blushed at what Miss Gu said!

Jia Rong won the Erjiatou famous biography, and was selected by Emperor Longqi himself, and entered the Imperial Academy as a Shuji.Now the slaves in Ningguo Mansion are in a mess because of this matter.The reason is that there are too many people who came to congratulate, and many of them are people of high status, which makes them have to cheer up and deal with it.

But although it is tiring, it is also willing.

If the master is able, these servants will have a better life in the future.Besides, in the past few years, they have observed it coldly.Although this uncle's temper is not very good, but if he does his errands honestly, the uncle will not say that he will give you a whip for no reason.Now that I think about it, those people that my uncle dealt with before made big mistakes.

It wasn't until nightfall that the Ningguo Mansion, which had been noisy all day, slowly calmed down.

Youshi looked at Jia Zhen, who was drunk like mud, and while directing the servant to support Jia Zhen, he took the time to turn around and told Jia Rong: "Brother Rong, I will help your father go back here first. You have been tired for a long time." Today, tomorrow I will meet guests and friends, and I will go to Yue’s house, and I will rest early.”

"Thank you mother for your concern. Father still has to trouble mother. I will take my leave first." Jia Rong cupped her hands and said so.

Youshi nodded with a smile: "Okay, let's go to rest quickly."

Jia Rong didn't stay any longer, turned around and left with Guan Yan washing ink.

After Jia Rong left, Youshi looked at Jia Zhen, with a trace of dislike flashing across his brows, and then ordered: "Hurry up and take the master back to the yard, and let someone make the hangover soup."

Immediately there were servants and maids who responded, but they were too busy to mention it.

Youshi also followed slowly, and after walking for a while, he turned his head to Yindie and said, "Yindie, what you said earlier was not wrong at all. Brother Rong has a bad temper, but he treats people well." That's right, at least I have never been rude to my stepmother. I have no hope of having a child here. For the rest of my life, I will mostly rely on Brother Rong. It seems that I will keep a distance from my stepmother in the future . " Thinking of the suggestion her stepmother made when she went back last time, she couldn't help frowning.

Yindie said: "Madam, if you can think clearly, the servants will feel at ease here. Although the uncle has a violent temper, isn't it because of this that he can suppress the master? Besides, Madam, when you first got married, What is the situation in our house? You are not unaware, they are all masters who take care of the dishes, and a man with a good temper is actually bigger than the master. Even if you go to the kitchen to ask for an extra bowl of porridge, you still have to pay for it. I need to give you another money. If it wasn't for the uncle's strong temper, he would take a drastic step to clean up the house, and now we still don't know what kind of chaos the house would be in." I'm afraid the wife wouldn't have such a comfortable life now.

Thinking of what the old lady said when she followed her back to You's house last time, Yindie frowned in disgust, paused, and said again: "The old lady's suggestion is too unreliable. Yes. If you really follow her wishes, if something happens to the east window at that time, she will leave it clean and not touch the slightest bit, but you will suffer and suffer, my tired wife. Not to mention, the last time the master and you Let's go back together... These two girls angered the master, they ignored them, but let you take the blame. They gave you a lot of embarrassment, and made you bored in the yard for three full months, unable to see people."

After Jing Yindie said this, Youshi immediately remembered that when she was last year, the master accompanied her back to her mother's house. It satisfies her vanity.So she also planned to turn a blind eye to the matter of the second sister and the master.But unexpectedly, the second sister didn't know where to offend the master, so the master threw up his sleeves and left on the spot.Not to mention restraining his own feet, he even yelled at himself in front of the servants, almost uttering the words of divorcing his wife.Let yourself, this wife, lose no face left.

After that, she didn't even step into her Yusheng courtyard for a full year. Even now, when she came to her courtyard, she just covered her with a quilt and slept.

"Yindie, the old lady will send someone to deliver the letter in the future. Don't pass it to me." Thinking of this, You Shi's face was darker than the sky, and he said with a bit of anger.

As soon as Yindie heard what Youshi said, she immediately responded crisply.

On the second day after becoming Chuanlu, Jia Rong was very busy for the first seven or eight days.Been busy visiting friends.

Of course, he didn't forget to go to his future father-in-law Gu's house.By the way, the wedding date of Jia Rong and Miss Gu has been decided after friendly agreement between the two families, and it will be on May [-]th.

Now Ningguo Mansion is busy with Jia Rong's marriage.

It was at this time that the noble ladies in the capital knew that their ideal son-in-law candidate, Jia Rong, had already made a marriage contract with him more than a year ago without saying a word.What surprised them even more was that the object of the engagement was not a daughter of a noble family, nor a noble daughter of a noble family, but a little-known daughter of a fourth-rank official, and she had become an official a few years earlier up.

To put it bluntly, she is the daughter of a commoner.

Oh, what a terrible thing this is.It's like a flower stuck in cow dung.

Many of the women knew that Jia Rong was about to get married, but they didn't give up completely. Some wanted to give Jia Rong their concubine's daughter as a second concubine, and some even came to the door directly to persuade Jia Rong Jane, ask him to call off this marriage and marry a noble girl back.The sixth prince and concubine even entrusted the Xifu side, saying that the Dongping County King intends to betroth his own younger sister, Princess Anhua, to Jia Rong.

Hearing this, Jia Zhen was immediately moved.

In fact, Jia Zhen didn't pay much attention to Jia Rong's marriage at first, and even after Jia Rong won the first-ranked biography, he didn't pay much attention when he was busy showing off first?It's just that these days, people kept talking about it in his ears, Jia Zhen felt that the eldest girl of the Gu family was not worthy of her son.

A person like Jia Lian from the Xifu could marry a county lord for nothing, but his son is better than Jia Lian, not to mention marrying a county lord, even if Princess Qianjin came back?

Thinking of this, Jia Zhen was even more moved.The Dongping County King mentioned by the six princes and concubines is not one of the four kings who rank first among the four princes and eight princes. He has always been on good terms with the six princes, and his direct sister is a serious princess.

Fortunately, after hearing this, Jia Zhen didn't lose her head completely, and agreed directly.According to his past experience, Jia Zhen himself was reminded many times by Jia Rong and Wan'er and Shou'er who Jia Rong arranged beside him for such a major event, especially if it involved the reputation of the mansion.Every time Aunt Pei would even persuade without a trace, that scholars value integrity, and the master should be cautious when meeting friends outside.Once or twice is of course useless. After a long period of time, it will be subtle and subtle, causing Jia Zhen to dare not make decisions directly even though she is tempted now.

Although he is a dandy, he also knows that his son's success in the first place will lead him to resign. If someone with a heart spreads the word, his son's reputation will be ruined.

His son is now a different person.However, a decent Jinshi master has a bright future in the future. If there is a stain on his body and delays his future, it is not a joke.

Because of this thought, Jia Zhen didn't directly nod her head to answer. Instead, she chose a moment to slightly mention something to Jia Rong, but the result was known without saying anything. After Jia Rong gave her a cold look, she listened After analyzing some accidents, he decisively shut up and remained silent.After finding a time, I directly refused.

Dongping County Palace

In the elegantly furnished women's boudoir, wearing emerald clothes with a pretty face and a double-ringed bun, the [-] or [-]-year-old maid said in a lively tone: "Princess, it's almost time. You have an appointment with the princess to play cards, don't you?" It's time to wash up..."

In the crystal mirror, a clear woman's face was reflected, with curved willow eyebrows and eyes like crescent moons. She was a complete beauty. She remembered something, and a blush appeared on her cheeks. .”

"Princess, the servant girl secretly heard that the prince and concubine of the county are busy looking at the sons of various families these days, and the most promising one is the eldest son of General Jia of Ningguo Mansion, Mr. Rong, who is only sixteen. He is already a famous biography of the top two in the current discipline, with a bright future. Such a person is barely worthy of..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Princess Anhua hurriedly interrupted her, and said in a stern tone: "Shut up, you can talk about such things, do I spoil you too much on weekdays?" , so that you dare to say such unrestrained words?"

When the servant girl heard Anhua's stern tone, her complexion was not good, and she knelt down immediately: "I ask the princess to make amends, this servant girl made a slip of the tongue."

Princess Anhua reprimanded her a few more times and fined her two months' money, before the incident was brought to light.But thinking about the maid's words just now, and thinking of that gorgeous young man in his mind, he still couldn't help but quietly blushed his cheeks.