The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

In the past when the Jia Mansion was at its peak, a mere 40 taels of silver would definitely not have entered the eyes of Zhou Rui's family.However, the Jia family declined, and the Wang family was taken over, and the life of the remaining children was far worse than before. Zhou Rui's family weighed the weight of the money, thought for a while, and called her a man, and the two murmured. After talking for a while, Zhou Rui's family came out and called her mother-in-law: "As soon as the door opens tomorrow morning, I will invite Grandma Lai, and say that I will come back from my wife in the afternoon and want to talk to her."

The old woman respectfully agreed, and Zhou Rui's family went in again, and collected the money by herself, without saying anything all night.

Because Lin Hai refused to accept the gift, Jia Zheng wanted to come to the door to inquire in person, but one was that he had not passed his filial piety, so he walked around like this, and the other was that during the Chinese New Year, there were many family affairs and various things in the clan, which had to be dealt with by Jia Zheng. This year is not as good as previous years. Jia Rong is getting more and more haggard these days. In the twelfth lunar month, she said that she can no longer go out, and there are no other men in Ningfu, so You can only entrust Jia Zheng; It has been a little bit bad since autumn, Xia Jingui first pretended to ask people to invite famous doctors everywhere, but later saw that he still didn't change those two problems during his illness, and the extravagance was too much, so she gradually became less willing to pay, she didn't come out Qian, Mrs. Xing can only call her poor but not show off her wealth. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law left her father-in-law aside and fell ill. Mrs. Wang only perfunctorily invited a few traveling doctors to see them, and they all prescribed stable prescriptions, such as ginseng and musk, which should not be available at all, and the licorice field seven seems to be free of money. Adding it in, several places forced each other, and Jia Amnesty's illness, which was originally seven percent, became ninety percent. That day when Jia Zheng passed by, he suddenly got up from the bed with his eyes open, took Jia Zheng's hand and said, "Brother , I wish I had listened to you."

Hearing his words, Jia Zheng was completely different from before, knowing that he was afraid of flashbacks, tears rolled down his eyes, and reluctantly said: "Since the elder brother has figured it out, he can get rid of all those problems from now on, so that he can take care of himself, and there may not be a comeback when."

Jia She shook his head and said slightly: "I'm useless, what about Lian'er, let's see him." After that, he fell straight down, and he didn't make it through this year. Jia Lian was away, and Jia Rong was ill again. Jia Zheng had no choice but to handle the funeral himself, but he let go of visiting Lin Hai.

At that time, Jia's house changed clothes from top to bottom, and hung a filial curtain in the courtyard. Jia Zheng hurriedly sent his own male servant to look after Jia Lan, and even Jia Huan sent someone to take him out to live by his side. In the middle of the illness, the mansion sent a letter to the south, and this time it was busy asking people to report the funeral again.Jia Zheng's place was not ready for a while, and Mrs. Wang came to ask if the drummer shed and archway were still erected in front of the door, and what kind of etiquette was followed. , there was a little bit of uncertainty before the gift, and it was not good to put on airs before the family got the will, because he said: "he took the official position, or he should first prepare according to the etiquette of the common people. You ask people to secretly choose another set of funeral rites for the sixth and seventh grades, and change them when there is a will."

After Mrs. Wang heard this, she kept everything simple and asked Jia Yun to stop at Tikan Temple. The matter of my brother's illness and death.

One book was published, but there was no decree after waiting for more than a month. People from all over the place looked at the direction of the wind and saw that there was no decree, and they didn't even come to express their condolences.Seeing the wall being pushed down by everyone, Jia Zheng was so anxious that he didn't close his eyes for several nights, counting the days, when he saw the door rushing in on that day, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "But Lian'er is here?"

The young man said in a panic, "It's not the second master Lian, it's the master of the procuratorate and some other mansion who brought people over to visit the master. Seeing that the servant has nothing to do with him in the past, he doesn't dare to stop him, so he goes back and forth to the master first." gone."

Jia Zheng felt ominous, changed his robes in a hurry, and walked out the door. A group of people in front of him had already come in, but Lai Da was the leader. When he saw Jia Zheng, he bowed and shouted: "Second Master." When Jia Zheng saw that the newly appointed Procuratorate surnamed Li was behind him, and the officers and soldiers behind him were all sealed up everywhere, Jia Zheng knew that this was a house raid. He felt sad and looked on his face. He hurriedly exchanged greetings with those few people, and asked the reason tremblingly. The master Li took a look at Lai Da, and said with a smile: "It is only because your servant came out and reported on your mansion's invasion of fertile land and over-construction of the furnishings that the Holy Majesty sent him Li came here to seal it up for inspection, he is not arresting criminals, don't panic, my lord." Then he showed Jia Zheng the scriptures written by the Holy Master, and pointed out the names, surnames, and positions of the next few soldiers and inspectors .

Seeing that his words were considered polite, and that Yuan Chun was still there, Jia Zheng calmed down a little, and sent someone to call Mrs. Wang, Jia Lan, Jia Huan, etc., and even the mansion sent someone to deliver a letter. With a wave of Fang's hand, soldiers moved around, and in an instant all the furniture in Jia's house was compiled and searched. Several teams moved all afternoon and did not return until late. Jia Zheng led the whole family to send people away. Up to Mrs. Wang, down to the gatekeeper, everyone turned pale with fright and trembled all over. They wanted to say a few words, but they couldn't, so they could only sigh sullenly: "Move to that mansion first." Some money, no matter where it goes, it is serious to rent a house and settle down." After finishing speaking, I saw the woman in the mansion poking her head at the door, not daring to come in. Jia Zheng asked her to come over, and the woman said It was the You family who sent someone to invite Jia Zheng to live there for a few days. Jia Zheng was very embarrassed at the moment, no matter how embarrassed he was, he just nodded in agreement. Now Jia Zheng, Mrs. Wang, Jia Lan and others moved to Ning Mansion to live. The rest of the family helped the old and the young, each found a place to live, and waited for the holy order in a panic.

Jia Zheng sent people to take turns guarding the city gate to pick up Jia Lian. He only hoped that Jia Lian would come back soon, and he could count himself as a helper.

After waiting and waiting, it was easy to hear the news that Jia Lian had arrived, and before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the reporter said, "Second Grandma and Miss Xue are here too, and they are with Second Master."

Jia Zheng was startled, then frowned and asked, "What are they doing here?"

The reporter lowered his head and said: "I heard that Second Mistress is homesick, so Second Master told her to go back to Beijing to take a look at this time."

Jia Zheng frowned even more, and asked again, "Where are they now?" If Daiyu came home, she should live here.

The reporter said: "It is said that they all went to Xue's house first."

Jia Zheng thought about it for a while, and then said: "Go and tell your wife, let her invite your aunt to our house..." Realizing the tragedy at home, he immediately changed his words: "It would be best to come to Ningfu for a gathering—bring Daiyu and Bao Girl."