Jia Juan of the New Red Mansion

Jia Juan went to the palace to pay his respects. In the Palace of Compassion and Ning, he saw several concubines who were born face-to-face, and also Zhen Jieyu, who was said to be favored by the emperor, so he inevitably became curious.Coincidentally, the Eldest Princess was also talking with the Queen Mother in the Palace of Compassion and Ning.The eldest princess has an unusual status, and her relationship with the queen mother is even more like a mother and daughter. She has always been comfortable speaking in front of the queen mother.

The eldest princess didn't have as many scruples as Jia Juan, so she asked casually, "Hey, why didn't you see Zhen Jieyu?" As soon as the words fell, the expressions on the faces of the concubines sitting below each had their own wonderful expressions, and the queen mother was indifferent. She said, "She is Zhen Wanrong now." The eldest princess was surprised for a while, and then calmed down quickly.After all, she is a princess who grew up in the palace, so she is no stranger to things in the inner palace.

Zhen Jieyu, who gained power a few days ago, was serving the bed last night, and her words collided with the emperor. She was demoted from the third-rank Jieyu to the fifth-rank Wanrong. accompanied.

It is said that since the second prince was captured in rebellion, the emperor has imprisoned him in the Ruyi Pavilion.Concubine Hui's temper became worse and worse, she often took out her anger on the maids and eunuchs around her, either whipping or insulting her, she was completely different from her previous "virtuous" appearance.

The well-connected servants of Huifu Palace have already changed places to work as errands.Only the maids and eunuchs who have just entered the palace will be unlucky enough to be assigned to the Huifu Palace by the chief manager.The emperor placed Zhen Wanrong and Concubine Hui together, so there will be fun to watch in the future.

This was said quietly in Jia Juan's ear by Ye Zhaoyi who had a good relationship with Jia Juan.Only people like Ye Zhaoyi dare to mention this as a joke.If it were someone else, who would dare to gossip in the Compassionate Ning Palace.

Jia Juan suddenly felt embarrassed, how could she know about matters involving royal privacy, such as sleeping in bed.Since it happened last night, it means that the news has not spread outside the palace.In other words, some concubines have already brought the news out through their own channels, but everyone dare not discuss it casually.Who knows how Zhen Wanrong offended the emperor when she was serving the bed, just the word "serving the bed" is enough to make one's imagination run wild.

However, Ye Zhaoyi, who is beside her, has no scruples in speaking, relying on her status as the distant niece of the Empress Dowager's natal family.Jia Juan felt that it was her fate that she could give birth to a healthy little princess in the palace, and the emperor's secret protection should be indispensable.

The emperor must do this because of the empress dowager's face, and the empress dowager's natal Ye family is also considered honest, and she will not do anything out of line again. More importantly, there are not many talents in the clan, just careful thinking If you can't afford to overturn the big waves, you will make the emperor look at you differently.

The atmosphere in the Palace of Compassion and Ning became more delicate. The Eldest Princess regretted being too talkative, "Queen Dowager, you have heard that the grandson of Rongguo Duke's Mansion is engaged to the Li family." "Which Li family?" The Empress Dowager and Shi Taijun When they were young, they would be sisters. If it weren't for the fact that the Wang family occupied the first sister-in-law, the relationship between the Queen Mother and Shi Taijun would not have faded.

According to the queen mother's understanding of Shi Taijun, choosing a marriage for the eldest grandson should be a good match, and the family background is good enough to be worthy of the lintel of the Rongguo Mansion.I think Shi Taijun married his eldest son back to the house-filling wife who had no obvious family background.The queen mother felt strange, the old lady had changed her temper, and later the girl from the Wang family entered the door of Jia's house, and after knowing how the old lady favored the second wife's wonderful style, the queen mother understood the old lady's little Thoughts.

The queen mother did the math, but there are several families of officials named Li in the capital, and I don't know which one could fall into Shi Taijun's eyes. "Li Shouzhong, the daughter of Mrs. Li's family." The eldest princess said with a smile. She had met Mrs. Li once, and she had the impression that she was a very easy-going person. Presumably, the temperament of the daughter of the Li family was not much different.

"Li Shouzhong?" The Queen Mother murmured to herself, and it took her a while to remember such a person, "It turned out to be Mr. Li, the Imperial College Jijiu. Although his family background is a bit poor, the character of the whole family is good." A family with four flowers is a compliment to his family. I heard people say that all the men and women of the Li family recite poems and read books, and they can be called a scholarly family." Rongguo's mansion finally talked about a good marriage.

The Eldest Princess suddenly remembered that Jia Juan was related to Duke Rong, "Ma'am, when is the auspicious date for the eldest son of the Jia family?" Knowing that Li Wan's natal family is so famous, according to modern terms, it is an intellectual family.

In the past, whether he was reading the original novel of Dream of the Red Chamber or watching the film and television drama of Dream of the Red Chamber, Jia Juan felt that the character of Li Wan was a tragic protagonist.After marrying into Jia's family, her husband, Jia Lan, passed away before she could get enough of the eldest and youngest mistress of Gonghou's family. She was just at a good age, but she became a widow struggling through life.

Her only son, Jia Lan, is the eldest grandson of the Jia family. Speaking of family background, Jia Lan is no different than Jia Baoyu. As a concubine, Jia Lan can be regarded as a serious royal relative.Besides, he is the No. 1 great-grandson of Rongguo Mansion, and the legitimate heir after the Second Household.

It stands to reason that one should have a status in Rongguo Mansion, and Li Wan should be able to speak with his son.However, there is an uncle who is not much different in age. This uncle who was born with jade has attracted all the attention of Wang Shi and Shi Taijun, and his application rate has exceeded the standard. Jia Baoyu must also prepare a copy.Grandmother loves her so much, and as the mother-in-law, Wang even protects Jia Baoyu like a phoenix bump.

In contrast, Jia Lan, a child with a poor background, did not receive special treatment from Wang and Shi Taijun. The financial treatment in the mansion can only be said to be food and clothing. Compared with Jia Baoyu, it is simply heaven. Underground difference.The slaves that Rongguo Mansion used to produce all had a snobbish eye for riches and honour, and they ordered those decent slaves to come, such as adding a plate of meat dishes or snacks, and they had to pay the slaves money.

Jia Lan died early, and there should not be much inheritance left to Li Wan's mother and son after death. Li Wan lost his only source of income. Very reluctantly.She can only endure it, and the spiritual pillar supporting her is her son Jia Lan.

There are not many paragraphs describing Jalan in the book, except that the original author wanted to leave him behind as a foreshadowing, and there are also Jalan's own reasons.Children in ancient times were very precocious, especially living in a big family with complex interpersonal relationships like Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lan realized the coldness of the world prematurely.In addition, the embarrassing situation of Li Wan's mother and son's status forced Jia Lan to keep a low profile, and let Jia Baoyu do the high-profile things like being in the limelight.

Li Wan understood that if he wanted to get ahead in Jia's family, he could only rely on studying.Therefore, Jia Lan disdains to tease the old lady all day like Jia Baoyu. What he likes to do most is to hide in his yard with books and study hard.After a long time, he was seen by everyone as a taciturn child. His only advantage was that he could read well. It was indeed a hit.

If this was changed to another family, it would definitely be affirmed according to Jia Lan's character and future.However, the bad thing was that he was born in the wrong birth, and was born in such a wonderful family as the Rongguo Mansion.Wang Shi is his biological grandmother, and Shi Taijun is his father's biological grandmother, but they have become dispensable people in the eyes of the two of them, and their status is inferior to that of a concubine's little uncle.No wonder, some fan novels like to write Jia Lan and Jia Huan as uncles and nephews who have a good relationship, it seems that there is a reason.

As a widow, Li Wan was unable to attend many occasions, and Jia Lan's chances of being taken out to meet people also decreased.Fortunately, Jia Zheng was not so pedantic that no one would care about Jia Lan's presence on important occasions. Only Jia Zheng could remember his hapless grandson and sent someone to bring Jia Lan over.

Some experts said that no matter how much Jia Zheng cared about his grandson, he couldn't go past Wang and Shi Taijun, who were in charge of the inner house. Besides, he was a father-in-law, and he often went to the widow and daughter-in-law's side. It's not like that.Jia Lan is still young, and Jia Zheng can take care of him only when he is old enough to move to an outside house to live alone.Therefore, Jia Zheng should have heard about Jia Lan, but due to many reasons, he was helpless.

Jia Juan believes that these are all excuses. If Jia Zheng really has the heart to feel sorry for his grandson, as the head of the family, he is capable of thinking of ways to help Li Wan's mother and son. After all, Jia Zheng knows very well that the Jia family will depend on Jia in the future. Lan revived the family business, but Jia Baoyu didn't have to count on it. If he didn't ruin his family business, it would be considered as the blessing of his ancestors.

In a feudal society, no matter how capable a widow is as a housekeeper, she can’t display her talents under the constraints of rules and regulations. She can only take her sisters-in-law to do embroidery to pass the time every day. The most frequently used adjective for her is "heart like a dry well" Four words, just literally, are worthy of people's sympathy.

Jia Juan didn't know what happened to Li Wan in the book, but he only knew that Jia Lan was really promising later on, because the brick family had two opinions, one was Jia Lan's Zhongju, and Li Wan came to the end of all hardships and had no time to enjoy his children and grandchildren Fu died of illness.Another way of saying is that Jia Lan died without any regrets after hearing the good news of Zhongju. As for what disease he suffered from and died, the brick family did not go into details, but in short it was a sad reminder.

"Ma'am?" Ye Zhaoyi's hesitant voice came from beside him. Jia Juan immediately recovered and retracted his thoughts. He raised his head and met the eyes of a concubine with a round face opposite. Looks very familiar.Jia Juan was stunned, this seemed to be Li Guiren, who fell out of favor after hearing that the Seventh Princess was born.

Counting the number of times Jia Juan met her this time, they only met twice, and they didn't talk to each other.Not knowing which play Li Guiren was singing, Jia Juan politely smiled back as a greeting.Ye Zizhao asked curiously. "Ma'am, are you very familiar with Li Guiren?"

"Counting this time, I only saw two sides." Jia Juan shook his head with a dazed expression.