[Red Mansion] The happiness of a winner in life

In this way, Jia Amnesty exchanged ideas with a group of students at Baiquan Academy, and learned the Four Books and Five Classics from the great Confucianists of Baiquan Academy.

After bidding farewell to the students, Jia Amnesty went to Shanzhang's study to say goodbye to him. Shanzhang encouraged him and let him go without further words.

"That's it, forgive me now."

"Go, you still have a lot of academies to visit, you should encourage yourself."

The head of the mountain looked at the back of Jia She's leaving, stretched out his hand to stroke his beard, and said to himself: He is really a powerful person, not someone who has lived under others for a long time.I don't know if he will be involved.

Jia Amnesty followed Jinling all the way north with two long entourages, visiting well-known local Confucian scholars or reclusive masters along the way. If they encountered a prestigious academy, they would stop temporarily to study and rest in the academy.

Although he has a map, it doesn't mean he won't get lost.In particular, some of the trails recorded are in the mountains and forests. When encountering roads that need to climb mountains and mountains or are not suitable for carriages, they have to sell the carriages and walk. Fortunately, the children of military commanders have exercised, otherwise I am afraid that they will not be able to persist.

Along the way, Jia She climbed over high mountains, walked across grasslands, and even went in and out of deep mountains and old forests, and even some natural barriers couldn't stop him.

But fortunately, the rewards are also huge.There are some great Confucian scholars or hermits who live in the mountains and forests, with plums, wives, and cranes, and places that ordinary people cannot reach are still conquered by Jia She.

In this way, Jia Amnesty spent nearly three years away before returning to the capital again.Jia Amnesty first went to the inn marked with the seal of Xue's family, showed the sign, and asked him to get ready to go to the room, boil the bath water, and prepare some delicious dishes.

The shopkeeper hurriedly prepared for Jia Amnesty in person, and even sent someone to tell Jia's family that the eldest son had returned home and asked someone to come to meet him.

Jia Amnesty tidied up her clothes and sat in the private room listening to the storyteller in the lobby with her well-fed Lai Xi Lai Fu, while waiting for the Jia family to send someone to pick her up.

Not long after, the servants of Jia's mansion came to Xue's restaurant with an empty sedan chair, and the leader was Qin Zhixiao.When Qin Zhixiao entered the restaurant, the shopkeeper laughed when he saw it, and led Qin Zhixiao to Jia Amnesty's private room.

"I've met you, my lord. My lord, prepare the sedan chair, go home and wash up." Qin Zhixiao excitedly saluted Jia She, and asked Jia She to get on the sedan chair and go home.

"Let's go." Jia She agreed kindly, and walked ahead, followed by Lai Fulaixi and others.

Sitting in a sedan chair, he walked steadily all the way to the east gate of Rongguo Mansion, and then directly sat in a sedan chair back to the Songzhu Courtyard on the east side of Jia's Mansion. As soon as he reached the gate of the courtyard, the servant asked Jia to pardon him to get off the sedan chair.

Jia She got out of the sedan chair and was stunned when he saw that it was Songzhuyuan. Qin Zhixiao stepped forward and explained: "Today, the prince of Beijing Jing invited the master to have a drink, but the master refused, so we went to the Dalai restaurant together. Went to drink."

Qin Zhixiao paused, "My wife said that I don't need to go to see you first, I want to get rid of the bad luck in the yard, and we will go to the Rongxi Hall to have a small banquet at night, to clean up the old man."

Jia Amnesty nodded, although it was customary to go to greet Shi Shi, but since she herself refused, it's fine if she doesn't go.There was a girl in the yard who had already gone to pass on the news. Nanny Zhang and the others took out the grapefruit peels they had prepared, stepped over the brazier, washed their hands with water from grapefruit peels, and asked Jia Shen to bathe in grapefruit peels and changed his body. clean clothes.

After finishing everything, it was noon, and Madam Zhang went to the small kitchen in person, and ordered the cook to make sweet and sour pork ribs, sweet and sour fish, and other sweet and sour flavors that Jia Shen liked, and then steamed Wuchang fragrant rice, which was fragrant, and served it to the Jia Amnesty used it.

Jia Amnesty ate lunch and blocked the left and right, while Madam Zhang stepped forward and reported the situation in recent years in a low voice.

Shi Shi can't do much, after all, Jia She has a small kitchen, and Songzhuyuan's servants' monthly bills, as well as Songzhuyuan's account books, keys, etc. are all managed by the yard itself, not under Shi's management. Can't get in either.

However, Jia Daishan came here a few times and gave Jia Zheng the books he had used before for study. I heard that he even wanted to send them to the Zhang family. Uncle Zhang family let him have a try because of his sympathy. do not stay.Shi's good arrangement made Jia Zheng's face turn red, and Uncle Zhang almost beat Jia Daishan.

After Madam Zhang finished speaking, she asked at the end: "Do you have any arrangements for the four girls? They are all 16 or 7 now. If the uncle doesn't accept the house, they have to match someone."

Jia Amnesty was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that he had been there for three years, although he often wrote letters to his father and the princess, he forgot to arrange for his maid.

"Well, go and ask, if there is someone in the family who is optimistic, then marry them. If there is no one, then I will give you an idea, to be allocated, or to be the steward's daughter-in-law of the shop outside the village, or to stay Be a steward in the kitchen or something."

Jia Amnesty didn't think about taking the maid into the room, so she let Madam Zhang watch and assign a few people out, so she didn't keep anyone by her side.

"In the future, you don't need to put maids by my side, just pick some innocent boys, and you'll be fine."

Nanny Zhang disagreed. A man still needs a woman to take care of him. Although the princess is not married, it is not too much to have a room warmer. Why did you kick out all the girls around you?

But she has always been obedient, and went down after fulfilling her promise.She has always known that a master is a master and a slave is a slave. She never makes decisions for the master. This is not a good slave.

The township examination is in August, and now it is only February in the capital. Jia She is expected to set off in April, pack lightly, and go back in May. He will study at home until August. After the examination, he will wait for his brother Xue Jingcheng in Jinling After the marriage, you will go to the capital and wait for the exam with peace of mind.

These two months are nothing more than sorting out the income from my three years of study tour, and then asking the princess to go for an outing.Thinking of the princess, Jia She smiled softly.

The princess has often corresponded with him in the past three years, and Jia Amnesty will tell the princess the next place to go in advance, and the princess will send the letter to this place.Fortunately, it is his specially domesticated pigeon, otherwise, he would have lost his way in such a strange place if he flew around so frequently.

The situation of the princess in the palace these years is not bad. After all, there is no concubine who would have trouble with the princess. It's just a dowry carried out, so there's no need to show off her skills.

In the past, there were shallow-sighted eunuchs who wanted to rape the princess and withhold the dowry of the former queen from him, but since sending Yingge to the princess, this situation has never happened again. After all, Yingge is his special training pawn. , How to make people suffer is the best thing to do.

Jia Amnesty thought about the princess he met a few years ago, and looked forward to what the grown-up princess would look like.After thinking about it, he wrote a post in Jia Min's tone, asking the princess to go for an outing in Huang'en Temple on February [-]th. The post was stamped with Jia's seal, and sent to the guard of the palace gate.

And the princess Mizusawa here is doing needlework every day, embroidering a wedding dress for herself.Although being a princess doesn't need to do this, even many noble girls' wedding dresses are made in sewing rooms, and I only need to move two stitches, but Mizusawa does it by himself from the beginning to the end. The hijab and embroidered shoes are still unfinished.

The princess was doing needlework, but Yingge beside her came and handed a letter to Mizuze with a smile.