The Laughing Usa of the Red Chamber

A spoonful of incense was lit in the small green smoker, and it smelled so good, Jia Huan was half lying on the bed with a round wooden pillow, but smiled.

The Ji family belonged to the Zanying family, and they preferred the ancient style of decoration. After many days in Jia's mansion, he was unaware of the change of times and the change of court.Now in this small room full of Jin wind, I can really feel that everything is different.

He was still too anxious to get rid of the declining Duke's Mansion, so that he showed his weakness in front of Shen Xiang.

Fortunately, he made the right bet, Shen Xiang is the same kind of person as him, extremely conceited, and somewhat inexplicably kind, but he, Ji Yulin, has not been mixed up in the officialdom for 60 years.

To create an image of a precocious, bitter child who is used to calculating but knows how to repay his kindness, and then subtly restore the appearance of the previous life, anyone will feel that it is Shen Xiang who taught him, not the theory of gods and ghosts.

He has the ability to make Shen Xiang think so.

When Ji Yulin climbed from a prostitute to the chief minister of the cabinet, how many winds, frosts, snows and rains during the period were unknown, so he was not afraid of any calculations, and he was afraid that he would fall on this "monster seizing the house". If this matter came to light, no one would Regardless of the glorious past of a lonely ghost.

Laughing at himself, he tilted his head to look around, but he raised his eyebrows.

The east chamber is well-furnished, and it looks quite cold, if it is an ordinary child, it must be anxious and depressed, Jia Huan understood, this is Shen Xiang's first challenge.

Seeing old at the age of three, human nature is innate.When he was five years old, he set up a series of tricks to make several concubine brothers compete for the seat of the emperor's disciples, and his ugly appearance was completely exposed.However, he himself joined his grandfather's family, and later worshiped the emperor's teacher. After several schemes, he became a closed disciple in one fell swoop. This is his inborn talent.

Those who are good at planning are good at playing games, and those who are good at playing games have gaps in their chests, forbearance and self-restraint.

These tests are meant to test children.

Jia Huan smiled, took off his clothes and hung them up, covered his neck with the quilt, closed his eyes, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

……

The breakfast was very good, and it could be seen that thought was put into it. Apart from the plain pasta that the host prefers, there were also some desserts and a bowl of white bird's nest.

On the contrary, Jia Huan thought about it for a while, and felt that he should show weakness and enrich his image of an unfavored but arrogant bastard.

He stared at the bowl first, then froze for a moment, then cautiously said to Shen Xiang: "Can I remove the bird's nest?"

Shen Xiang put down her chopsticks and looked at him.

Jia Huan turned his head away, but his ears were a little red, and he said loudly on purpose: "My aunt said, what's so good about the bird's nest, it's sticky, it's still bird's saliva, it's so dirty!"

Shen Xiang frowned slightly, and her heart softened, and said: "I didn't like it, so I withdrew, but next time don't shout at the dining table."

Jia Huan choked in his heart, but his face was flushed red and he tried to calm down, his appearance was so cute that the old housekeeper and two little maids laughed.

Jia Huan, who lowered his head and sipped the porridge silently, raised the corners of his lips, and then froze.

This kind of calculating and self-satisfied mood will disappear after the age of eight, right?Is he... rejuvenated?

Could it be that with this child's body, even his thoughts are childish?

Calculating the pros and cons silently, Jia Huan felt relieved after confirming that the sequelae of returning yang would not have a big impact on him.

The son of successor is different from adoptive successor, he must have close relatives within five generations. Shen Xiang never thought of staying behind, so he paid special attention to Jia Huan.

Because Jia Huan insisted on breaking up with the Jia family, in order not to let him suffer from filial piety, he informed several elders of the Shen clan overnight and arranged for him to be an orphan in a collateral line of the clan.

Recalling the knowing eyes of several uncles, Shen Xiang couldn't help laughing.

Why did the little guy try to mislead him? Now he really jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't clean it up.

It is quite strange to say that with this thought in mind, and looking at Jia Huan's unconscious demeanor, he actually vaguely felt that "this child was born to be my son".

If Jia Huan heard this, he would roll his eyes.

Shen Xiang is a real gentleman, and he is quite out of place in the Jin Dynasty. However, after Ning Jun's prosperous age, the way of Confucius and Mencius was greatly promoted, and the princes of the royal family, no matter their talent, personality, or qualifications, were all regarded as "gentlemen" since childhood. "Template" training, Ji Yulin is one of the best.Under his deliberate indistinctness, the dissimilarity is a strange thing.

Jia Huan's eyes were slightly closed, seeing the joy that could not be concealed under Shen Xiang's cold face, she laughed lightly in her heart.

Ji Yulin, you really are a born hypocrite.

……

In the Jin Dynasty, the ceremony of inheriting heirs was not more complicated than that of later generations, but it was also very solemn. March [-]rd after the Huachao Festival was a rare and auspicious day.

The time was short, but the sacrifices in the mansion were well arranged.After the two of them had their breakfast, they took a bath with incense and shared the bath with Shen Xiang, implying that father and son will share the same water from now on.

It was slightly cold in early spring, and the clean room had the same style of heavy clothes, all of which were blue kilts and jade unicorns.

Shen Xiang took the clean cloth and wiped Jia Huan's body, this is also a bit delicate, so I won't go into details.

The two walked all the way to the main hall, and Shen Xiang's acquaintances stepped forward to congratulate them one after another.Jia Huan took half a step back, his expression was gentle and modest, with a little respect and restraint of a junior, and his etiquette was thorough, and he did not appear redundant when he interrupted occasionally, on the contrary, it added a bit of aura and innocence to him.

Then someone said to Shen Xiang: "Brother Shen is very lucky to have Qilin'er like this."

"Drink three cups today, He Zijing is overjoyed!"

"Okay, Shen Zijing, I didn't know there was such a talented boy in the clan, I'll teach you how to catch it!"

……

Shen Xiang responded one by one, his eyes squinted with pleasure.

Shen Xiang didn't have many contacts, but they were quite important, and some of them were upstarts in the court. Jia Huan listened for a few times, but found that many of them were named in the history books, which made him quite stunned.

Ordinarily speaking, the king of Yongning is now weak and crowned, his mother family is mediocre, and he is not favored among the kings. No one will associate these rising stars with him.It's just that Jia Huan read the history books, and he is familiar with the general team of "The Rule of Shengwu", but he never thought...it's so early!

Su Congbo, the tutor of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, Lin Zhiyuan, the first-rank censor, Yang Suwen from the household department, Qi Tian from the military department, Ye Yunrong from the official department, and... Xu Wenlang, the future number one minister of the Holy Martial Arts.

Others see it as just a weighty succession ceremony, but Jia Huan seems to have seen an era.

Maybe it was because his eyes were too hot, the young man who was just called Brother Wen Lang turned around and asked doubtfully, "Yulin?"

It's also a coincidence that the orphan who died young in the collateral line is named Shen Yulin.

Jia Huan was taken aback, but when he came back to his senses, he smiled shyly, "Brother Xu is good."

Xu Wenlang smiled slightly, half bent down and said to him: "Brother Shen and I are of the same generation, you should call me Uncle Xu."

This time the whole room burst into laughter, Qi Tian turned his head, saw Xu Wenlang seriously waiting for the child to call Uncle Xu, and couldn't help but said, "Xiao Yulin, call him quickly, this man is stubborn, if you don't tell him he won't!" let you go."

Lin Zhiyuan has always been unforgiving, so now he smiled and said: "Wen Lang is usually the youngest, now he has someone to bully! Don't call him the little guy! Be careful of his enthusiasm."

Shen Xiang and Yang Suwen, who were exchanging greetings, also turned their heads and looked at each other with interest.

Jia Huan's heart sank slightly, knowing that this was the second level, he narrowed his phoenix eyes slightly, and a cunning light flashed through his black and white pupils quickly, but quickly, but it was clearly seen.

He held his head up slightly, and his hair tied into a single bun made him look imposing, "Originally, it's okay to call brother Xu uncle, after all, he's older than me anyway."

"It's just..." the little guy pouted, "Uncle is an elder, and he wants to give a gift to the younger generation...Brother Xu didn't give it..."

After finishing speaking, he only used his pair of beautiful phoenix eyes to look at the three-color emerald beauty pendant on Xu Wenlang's waist.

Now Jia Huan dug a pit for Xu Wenlang and buried it. He remembered that beauty pendant belonged to the old library of the Ji family. It is said that Xu Wenlang had been wearing it since he was crowned, almost his whole life.

Xu Wenlang laughed, took out a suet white jade Wenchang Pei from his sleeve, knelt down and fastened it on Jia Huan, Lin Zhiyuan refused, "This is not what the little guy likes!"

Xu Wenlang had no choice but to bow his hands to the surroundings and beg for forgiveness: "Brother, let me be brother, this three-color jadeite is worth nothing, but the color is rarer, but you all despise it, so let me let my brother go."

Qi Tian glared at Lin Zhiyuan who was still waiting to say something, and said with a smile: "Wen Lang is very close to this beauty, I think it's a gift from a beauty, so please don't make noise."

The atmosphere was getting hot, and there was a message from someone outside that the second master of Duke Rong's mansion had arrived.

Lin Zhiyuan spit out a sip of tea, then turned to Shen Xiang and said, "I can't tell that Zijing is someone who has a lot of friends."

Shen Xiang thought about the reason early, and said: "Yulin's parents died early, but they were close to me when they were young, and later they followed me all the way to Beijing, but they got lost. Fortunately, Jia Yuanwailang's concubine, Mrs. Zhao, rescued her. Having been educated to this day, it would be shameful not to invite people here today."

Qi Tian sighed and said: "Little Yulin has a hard life."

Jia Huan lowered his head, seemingly depressed, but he was actually hiding the twitching corners of his mouth.

He had thought about leaving Jia's mansion, and even misleading others that he was Shen Xiang's biological child, but he never thought that Shen Xiang would be able to sever even the slightest blood connection with just one sentence.

What's more, even if someone finds out about his relationship with Aunt Zhao in the future, they will only think that Shen Xiang is his biological father. After all, who would be so stupid to do this for a strange child.

Jia Huan closed his eyes tightly and let out a long breath.

If you treat me the same way from now on, Ji Yulin will never let you down.

☆☆☆☆☆.

Jia Zheng came to Shen's mansion, because the servant behind him was stopped outside, without the low-browed and pleasing companionship, his official posture seemed a little ridiculous.

When he came, he knew that this matter was a certainty and could not be changed, but Mrs. Wang's words went into his heart: since Jia Huan has already been sent out, it is useless to think too much, it is better to send Aunt Zhao as a gift, if he is down and out with Jia in the future His family has nothing to do, if he is rich, he must remember the kindness of the Jia family, if he is a little white-eyed wolf, there are only three girls left.Jia Huan was a loner and didn't get close to anyone, she only liked to hang out with Sister Tan, and she would smile when she was scolded.

Thinking of Aunt Zhou who had just opened her face last night, Jia Zheng was not so reluctant.Although Aunt Zhao is beautiful but vulgar, she is not as gentle and careless as the Zhou family.

Because he walked and thought all the way, there was a stick of incense in the corridor with a small cup of tea, Shen Xiang frowned, seeing that the auspicious time would be missed, so he asked someone to invite him again.

At the right time, people have arrived.

Except for Shen Xiang and Xu Wenlang who are all officials of the third and fourth ranks, Su Congbo is the prince's scribe, just a rank one, so Jia Zheng's official steps froze at the door.

Lin Zhiyuan was still working in the Ministry of Industry at this time, he was not a big official, he was Jia Zheng's immediate boss, so he said to him with a smile that was not a smile: "Master Jia is so majestic."

Jia Zheng was thick-skinned, suppressed his uneasiness, cupped his hands and said, "I'm sorry, my lords, I suddenly lost my position..."

"Uncle Jia, what's wrong with Brother Huan?"