Cold fragrance and warm jade [Red Mansion Chai Dai]

Baoyu stared blankly at the crumpled paper full of words.

Chongyu's question has directly touched on the content that he never dared to think about.

Will the old lady not be there?Will the wife not be there?

He never dared to think about it.

But when you think about it carefully, who dares to say that they will be here forever?

Even the emperor, who is always called Long Live, cannot escape the cycle of life and death.

And his relatives, regardless of their identities, are just ordinary people.

They will get sick and die of old age.

Baoyu suddenly thought of his eldest sister Yuanchun in the palace.If one day, his grandmother and mother both leave, only his eldest sister can protect him until he grows old?

But immediately, Baoyu suppressed this idea.

After thinking about it, he opened the purse embroidered with orchids and took out the note inside.

The content written on this note is somewhat similar to the previous one, but it is quite different.The last one focused on the daughter outside his family, but this one is for him to see what kind of life the man outside his family lives.

After Baoyu looked at it, he thought about it.

He wanted to read the note written in the last purse, but suddenly he heard Jia Zheng's voice outside the door, which immediately made him ask for Mingyan's help, and turned off all the lights in the room , He hurriedly went to bed and lay down, pretending to have fallen asleep.

Mingyan also waited for him to lie down, then Fang cautiously opened the door and looked out.

It was indeed Jia Zheng who came over with a lantern.

There was still some uncontrollable fatigue on his face, but he saw Mingyan standing alone by the door, and there was no other movement in the room, so he gently signaled Mingyan to close the door, and then talked to him outside.

Baoyu in the room heard that the door was closed, and just wanted to call for Mingyan, when he heard Jia Zheng's voice faintly outside the door.

"Baoyu is already asleep?"

Mingyan hurriedly replied: "Go back to the master, the second master took the medicine at night and then rested."

Jia Zheng still didn't believe it: "I just walked over and saw the room was lit."

Mingyan was taken aback, knowing that if Jia Zheng found out if he didn't turn off the light with Baoyu and pretend to be asleep, Jia Zheng would scold him and Baoyu, and the matter would be over.Let Jia Zheng know that he is helping Baoyu to deceive him, and he will be taught even worse by Jia Zheng. Now he has to bite the bullet and continue to hide for Baoyu.

Fortunately, Mingyan has always been a smart and courageous person, and now he has the courage to dare to reply: "It must be that the master has drunk too much wine, and just came from a distance, and there is another corner, only looking at the light of the lantern in his hand, only looking at it. It's not impossible to think that the light is on in the second master's room. Master, why don't I take you back to the room?"

Jia Zheng snorted softly, but did not refute, and let Mingyan take the lantern from his hand, and helped him walk to the room.

Mingyan was a little apprehensive at first.He didn't have much contact with Jia Zheng. In the past, Jia Zheng wanted to ask about Baoyu, so he must have given priority to people like Li Gui, the son of Baoyu's nurse, rather than a little bookboy like him.

Mingyan has been with Baoyu for a long time, so he is afraid of Jia Zheng, and he is even more uneasy because he joined hands with Baoyu to deceive Jia Zheng tonight.

But now that he was walking with Jia Zheng all the way, he didn't feel that Jia Zheng had anything to embarrass him, so he boldly looked at Jia Zheng by the dim light of the lantern.

Looking at it, he could only see the melancholy and disappointment on Jia Zheng's face.

Mingyan hurriedly lowered her head again, only focusing on the road under her feet.

He must have read it wrong, right?If not, how could the master be frustrated?

With the official position of the master, in fact, it is not enough to be a junior. Now that he has the power of a junior, he must be ready to be promoted after returning to Beijing.These days, when the master came to Jinling City, there were quite a few people who wanted to visit him. Like tonight, the master was invited out for a drink, and the number of times he came back late at night was quite a few. Presumably, the master was probably proud of himself, so why not Frustrated?Even if you have to worry about Baoyu's affairs, it should be far from being frustrated.

But Mingyan didn't know that Jia Zheng was really uncomfortable at the moment.

At the beginning, Jia Zheng remembered what Ruhai had said to him before he left Beijing, and there was no lack of advice in what he said.

Jia Zheng also knew that although he was Lin Ruhai's inner brother, he was far less sophisticated than Ruhai when it came to officialdom.He thought that he had made sufficient preparations before he set off, and even after he was appointed, he had discussed with the clean-ups raised in his own home how he should behave when he went out.

But after he really went out, Jia Zheng realized how big a difference there is between thinking and doing.

He brought quite a lot of silver taels before he went out.In his original plan, in addition to the part he spent himself, he also planned to contribute a portion of the money when Jiao Da wanted to buy fields and so on.

Although Lin Ruhai had already made all the preparations, and even asked Jiao Da that if he really didn't have enough money, he could go to relatives and friends of the Lin family for help, or send a letter directly to the capital for Lin Ruhai to appoint someone to send the money, but Jia Zheng always thought about it. Well, what Jiao Da has to do now is to make plans for the future of their Jia family.

The Lin family and the Jia family are related by marriage, but they are not from the Jia family. As the real Jia family, he should do more.

However, all of Jia Zheng's previous plans were shattered one by one after he came to Jinling.

Still in the capital, he is Master Jia Zheng Jia who lives in Rongguo Mansion.Even if his official position is not high, even if the status of his Jia family is not as good as before, he will not cause trouble, as long as he lives his normal life, no one will come to make things difficult for him.Everything is very simple.

Now, he is away from home, and the other party understands what it means to be "the King of Hades is so easy to see a little devil".

Many times, the person he was really looking for nodded and bowed to him after seeing his face.However, before he was going to meet these people, he had to ask for money to clear the way, so that he wouldn't have to be made things difficult by some little people.

This is already an expense.

Another example is that when he went out to socialize recently, he often listened to the complaints of those who invited him out, or the people who originally said they wanted to invite him would then talk about the difficulties they encountered... Often, Jia Zheng did not realize it in time. Before the problem, he had already spent the silver taels.

Jia Zheng knew that he had three tasks in total when he went out this time.Assisting General Jiao to prepare for the future retreat of the Jia family is just one of them.This task is the easiest to complete, and he doesn't even need to bother at all.

The second task is to ask him to make some achievements in the officialdom, so that he can gain a foothold when he returns to Beijing.This incident made Jia Zhengshi somewhat disheartened.

After he came to Jinling, when he wanted to talk to other people about something serious, those people always had a thousand reasons to shirk, or they said they wanted to do something, but in reality they couldn't do anything.

What made Jia Zheng suspicious of himself the most was that if he hadn't been reminded by Lin Ruhai before going out, and had some understanding of these people's methods, he might not have even doubted that these people had never really wanted to do something. It's just that they are all focused on doing things, but there are all kinds of coincidences, which lead to delays in getting things done.

The third task is to let Baoyu stay with him, so that he can stay away from the environment of the capital and read some books.Although he has to run around when he goes out, and no one studies with Baoyu, at least there is no one who spoils Baoyu, and there is no mother Jia who favors him, which makes it inconvenient for him to discipline Baoyu.

However, even with this matter, Jia Zheng gradually felt that he might not be able to handle it properly.

After going out, Baoyu fell ill.His own affairs in the officialdom are enough to exhaust him, but how can he have time to discipline Baoyu?

Just as Jia Zheng was thinking about it, Hu heard Mingyan say, "Master, we've arrived."

Jia Zheng turned his head, wasn't the door of his room beside him?

He nodded, pushed the door open, and finally couldn't help sighing.

Hope, their Jia family's hope, who can fall on it?Could it be that only his daughter in the palace can support their family for a period of time, so that they can wait until Jalan's generation grows up?

But Jia Zheng felt that they might not be able to wait any longer.In the palace, perhaps there will also be changes.

He may be able to manage himself well, but the Jia family is so big and there is a patriarch like Jia Zhen, what can he do?

Jia Zheng collapsed on the bed, he didn't even care to take off his coat, and gradually fell asleep with his heart full of thoughts.

He didn't expect that when he woke up the next day, he would receive great news from Beijing.