Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Jia Lian sees through Sister Feng's whereabouts and pretends not to know.But from time to time, he grabs his son's food.

There is still something that Sister Feng doesn't understand.

Therefore, the two husbands and wives tacitly agreed that Sister Feng didn't ask, and Jia Lian didn't tell the truth. Anyway, the meat was boiled and stored in the nest.

It's just that Jia Lian gritted his teeth secretly every time he thought of Sister Feng's self-satisfied appearance, hating and loving at the same time.

Jia Lian decided to teach Sister Feng a lesson and let her know that Jia is not easy to mess with.

After that, Jia Lian often left some energy on purpose to clean up Sister Feng at night. Several times, she packed Sister Feng into a ball of dough, only begging for mercy, and promised that she would never laugh at Jia Lian as "Ruan Xiaoer" again!

This is something to say, let's get down to business.

Ever since Jia Lian went to the east courtyard for a joke, got a good beating, and was kicked out by his father, Jia She, and had no chance to tell his father about the donations raised by Mr. Futai, so he had to go again the next day, in order to appease him Father, Jia Lian left five thousand silver, and hoped that his father would add another five thousand to play a leading role in the fundraising meeting for the relief of the villagers.

For Shuntian Mansion, Jia Amnesty had a good impression of him, but it was a bit painful to give out the money, but seeing that Jia Lian offered [-] silver coins to make a face for him, he couldn't refuse. Besides, the last time the house was ransacked, Jia Amnesty made a lot of money. At least, Jia Lian didn't say anything. With this in mind, Jia Amnesty agreed to stand out for Jia's mansion.

For the sake of respect, Jia Lian also reported to Jia's mother about the donations raised by the Futai adults.

For some reason, Mother Jia was very enthusiastic about this matter.

Jia's mother explained that Jia's ancestral home was Jinling, and these disaster victims from the south could be regarded as fellow villagers. She did her best for the sake of her hometown's elders, and immediately ordered Yuanyang to take a thousand silver and hand it over to Jia Lian, who asked Jia Lian to give her porridge for a month. .

For Jia Mu's action, Sister Feng also paid [-] silver, and Xing was forced by Jia Mu's eyes to take out [-] silver, and said with a mournful face that she had saved it for the New Year.

Mother Jia curled her lips and lied, thinking that no one would know. Jia Amnesty received 1000 taels of silver from Sister Feng this time during the Chinese New Year, and gave Xing [-] taels.

The elders moved, and the girls also said that Sanchun and Daiyu Baoyu each paid 30 taels, which was exactly 150 taels of silver.

Jia Lian felt that there are so many disaster-stricken people outside the city right now, good and bad are mixed, and private intervention may not be effective, and it may cause looting, which may hurt people.

Moreover, Jia Lian was on duty this morning. The emperor praised Jia Lian, saying that he was efficient and promised to reward Jia Lian.

Therefore, Jia Lian learned that the six yamen were actively supporting Shuntian Mansion's disaster relief. This time, the six yamen were united and not only donated a year's salary, but also sent officials to help.

Therefore, Jia Lian felt that there was no need for Jia's government to compete with the government if the government came forward. He felt that it would be better to hand over the money to the government for unified allocation.So I transcribed everyone's names once, and it was difficult for Yingchun to sign, so I wrote the monthly donation of Miss Rongfu for half a year.

Then, Jia Lian handed over two thousand silver to Jia Amnesty, so that he could have a good day.

In this way, he will have the capital to boast when he goes out to play tea circles and fight crickets in the future.

Jia Amnesty was very trustworthy, and three days later, at the fundraising venue of the government office, Jia Amnesty was the first to respond to Shuntian Mansion's call and donate 2000 taels of silver on behalf of Jia Mansion.

Not only that, Jia She was also invited to give an impromptu speech: "Just now, someone said, Jia She, you old dude, have you changed your sex? You don't want to buy a wife when you have money? Hey, I have to talk about this matter carefully. Said, there are three reasons for my donation today, the first one, everyone knows what happened in the Forty-Nine City, last time, my Lianer was framed, do you know how our Lianer got revenge afterward?"

Yan Hou sneered from below: "Hey, who the hell, come down if you don't want to talk, what's the point!"

Jia Amnesty also smiled: "Okay, let me tell you, it's thanks to the master Qingtian in Shuntian Mansion. He is really a mirror hanging high, and he can solve the case like a god. He can see through the Shi family's conspiracy at a glance. No, our Lian My son has now been transferred to work in front of the Holy One, do you think I should thank Master Qingtian? "Who wants to offend his parents and officials, please clap your hands together: "Well said, Shuntian Mansion, Qingtian!"

Jia She smiled complacently: "Secondly, everyone knows that I was born in Jinling, and these disaster victims outside the city can be regarded as fellow villagers with me. Whether or not we are close to the people in our hometown, one side supports the other. Remember."

"Thirdly, I am not only donating on behalf of the Rongguo Mansion today, 2000 taels of which were not given out by me, Jia She, but by the women in the mansion donating money for makeup and powder. Tell me, I am a big man, am I not as good as a woman?" !"

Jia Amnesty's speech was warmly praised by the officials of Shuntian Mansion and the six ministries. This time, Jia Amnesty finally won a little favor from the officials of the six ministries.

Everyone said that although this old dandy is not doing his job properly, he is not confused about major matters, and his conscience is not lost!

In the first half of his life, Jia She was labeled as inhumane because of beating and killing slaves, but this time he regained his image a little bit.

Afterwards, when someone mentions that Jia Amnesty killed more than a dozen slaves in one go, someone will defend him: "Who doesn't go crazy when the eldest son is killed? It didn't fall on you!"

This time, with the cooperation of the six departments and the admirals of the Nine Gates, Shuntian Mansion successfully raised more than 21 taels of relief money, as well as countless clothes, shoes, socks and bedding, and some people donated bricks, tiles and wood as needed. Numerous simple houses were built against the city wall, which finally ensured that the victims would have rice porridge twice a day and a shelter at night.

It is said that, except for the few people who froze to death before the Shuntian Mansion did not intervene, after the Shuntian Mansion took over, there was no such thing as freezing to death or starving to death.

The most important thing is that this time the disaster relief did not ask for a penny from the court.

Emperor Qianyuan was very satisfied.

On New Year's Eve of this year, Emperor Qianyuan wrote many blessing characters. Rongguo Mansion, which had not received the honor of "blessing" for more than ten years, finally ushered in the blessing characters written by Emperor Qianyuan himself.

When Jia's mother heard the news, she was so excited that she burst into tears, and toasted Jia Daishan with three glasses of fine wine that night.

Furthermore, on the New Year's Eve of this year, Shuntian Prefecture government servants filled the capital with big red plaques.

Don't look at this plaque, with it, Jia Lian's shop can be exempted from tax for one year.

Then there is the official school quota in Shuntian Prefecture. Rongguo Prefecture originally had a quota. Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian donated [-] silver and won the plaque of "Jishan Renjia", so Jia's residence can increase one admission quota.

In addition to eating and drinking, the students of Shuntian government school also have two taels of silver as a subsidy for writing and ink every month.Wealthy people don't care about money, but there are famous teachers in the government school to give advice, and the masters of the government office will also come to teach them in person.

As long as you enter the government school, you can be known as a student of the Futai master outside.

It is also an honor!

Jiahuan, Jialan, and Jia Cong in Jia’s mansion don’t have a quota for the Imperial College, so they can go to the government school, and the masters of the government school must at least be born in Juren, which is much better than Jia Dairu’s old scholar in Jia’s private school.

Now Jia's famous saying Zhengshun has two places, and as long as Yin Feng doesn't leave for a day, Jia's students will be accepted as much as they can.

After Jia Lian was about to start the new year, he called all the school-age boys of the whole family together to take a school test. All the Jia family members on Rongning Street, regardless of their closeness, as long as they were smart and their parents had no crimes or other bad deeds, could join the family. Selection, ten people are selected and sent to government schools for training, as the third generation reserve talents of Rongguo Mansion.

This year's New Year's Eve, Jia's family came to the palace to congratulate more people than Sister Feng.

What's more, this year, a group of guards who had served for three years left the palace, and a new group of guards came in. Jia Lian and Jia Rong's uncles and nephews have all become experienced seniors.

Jia Rong was also appreciated and took part in the palace during the Spring Festival. Fortunately, he was only a bodyguard of the Qianqing Palace, unlike Jia Lian, a personal bodyguard who had to follow the emperor's footsteps.

During the Spring Festival, many envoys from foreign countries came to court. Feng Ziying's father, Feng Tang, was ordered to go to the city to assist the Nine Gates in defending the capital, and Feng Ziying was also transferred back to the palace as an errand.It only made Jia Rongwei Ruolan crazy with joy, of course Jia Lian was the happiest.

Feng Ziying is older than Wei Ruolan and Liu Xianglian, and he is much more stable. Although he is loyal, he is relatively rational and considers issues comprehensively. Jia Lian is more willing to discuss things with Feng Ziying.

Most importantly, Feng Ziying has much more contacts in the palace than Jia Lian.

Now, Jia Lian hopes to get Yuan Chun out of the palace earlier, and he hopes to find out some feasible solutions from Feng Ziying.

Although Jia Lian had already made the worst plan, if nothing could be done and Yuan Chun couldn't go out of the palace, Jia Lian would firmly resist her going home to visit relatives. I believe that as long as he, the head of the Rong Mansion, didn't submit a memorial to ask his mother to visit his relatives, the emperor would not be rigid. It was ordered that Rongguo Mansion build a Grand View Garden.

However, this is just the worst plan, the best result is to get Yuan Chun out of the palace, so that she can marry and have children in this life, instead of harming others and herself, and finally dying in court strife like in her previous life.

Reluctantly, starting from the [-]th New Year's Eve, Feng Ziying stayed with King Xijun and was responsible for the safety and security of the emperor.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the emperor's various celebrations and sacrifices during the Spring Festival, they racked their brains and devised various security measures, and they were extremely busy.

Jia Lian himself also increased his duty time, from the previous two hours to four hours. He had to personally guard Emperor Qianyuan from Yinshi, and he could not be on duty until Chenshi. After he was on duty, he could not walk around casually. Trimming, always ready to deal with temporary security should be.

That is to say, during the Spring Festival, if there is any problem with the guards in front of the emperor, or if there is a safety hazard, Jia Lian's trimmed guards must step up. Everyone has only one purpose, which is to protect the emperor's safety, and beware of someone who is supporting the Spring Festival. .

During the Spring Festival, once all the guards were selected, they could not leave the palace at will. They had to wait until the third day of the first lunar month, when the emperor was freed from the busy sacrificial ceremony and reception activities, and the imperial guards could resume their normal rotation order.

From the third year of junior high school, the imperial guards like Jia Lian could only go home for the New Year.

Of course, the rotation during the Spring Festival is also beneficial. This year, Jia Lian was soft on receiving red envelopes. When he returned home in the evening of the third day of junior high school, the amount of red envelopes he got was 2 taels.

You know, there are 36 personal bodyguards in the palace on duty this time, and each of them gets [-] yuan. There are also more guards in charge of the imperial court and ministers leading the bodyguards than second-class guards like Jia Lian.

This is just a dividend in the palace. Jia Lian also received a pair of Shoushan stone matching stamps from the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and ten red and sapphires the size of pigeon eggs from the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

For these, the guard office has regulations, the bank notes are handed over and divided equally, and the property belongs to oneself.Because the ministers have rarely sent in kind.

Jia Lian got the real thing because he was a personal bodyguard, and the minister bought it for Jia Lian's advice.Of course, the smaller the gift, the better. It is impossible to send things in large packages. Therefore, pearls and gemstones are favored by everyone.

Don't think that these silver flowers are wronged, often a small thing can sometimes change a person's life.

For example, because Jia Lian received something from the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he asked him how to speak to please the emperor, and which words were best not to say today. In the end, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang returned safely.

After accepting the matching chapter from the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Jia Lian reminded him of Emperor Qianyuan's hobbies and asked him to choose the correct gift among the three-point gifts.

After Jia Lian went through this Spring Festival rotation, he felt that his previous life was wasted. For these palace guards, during the Spring Festival, money is really like dung.

At the same time, Jia Lian personally experienced the hatefulness and arrogance of the court servants.

For example, Governor Yu Yanming of Huguang, logically, he is the father-in-law of the First Prince. Although the First Prince is from a lower family background, he is the son of an emperor and should not be underestimated.

However, the chief eunuch of Qianqing Palace dared to ignore Yu Yanming, just because Yu Yanming gave him a bank note and did not pay tribute to his favorite antiques, Qin Fushun, the chief eunuch of Qianqing Palace, felt that Yu Yanming underestimated him, and suddenly felt heartbroken. Dissatisfied with his life, he fooled him twice and made him wait in the cold for a whole day, but he was not able to see the emperor.

It turned out that Qin Fushun never told the emperor about Yu Yanming's request for an audience.

Yu Yanming was supposed to have an audience with the emperor at noon on Zhengdan, but when it came to Wushi, it was Jia Lian who said good things to Qin Fushun for Yu Liuyue's sake, and Yu Yanming gave Qin Fushun a bloodstone. Met the emperor.

This incident reminded Jia Lian of his previous life, when the eunuch Xia and Zhou eunuchs in the palace repeatedly came to persecute him, and a bastard dared to openly call himself uncle, now Jia Lian just vomited blood.

At that time, Jia Lian thought that the emperor had hinted something, but now it seems that it was these shady people who made trouble.Seeing whoever has a slightly weaker background, he will dare to step on your face.

Some people dare to slap the father-in-law of the great prince, let alone Yuan Chun is just a concubine with no children and no favours?

Jia Lian couldn't help thinking of those years. In order for Yuanchun to conceive, Jia's family spared no expense to collect those magical medicines to help her conceive. The coercion also caused Jia's mansion to be manipulated first. As Yuanchun had no hope of having a child, these servants showed their fangs, begging for a wife, buying a house, and even recognizing a godson.

What is borrowed, it will be changed in three to five days, but it has not been returned in three to five years.Forcing Jia Lian, the majestic young master of the Duke's Mansion, to have no choice but to avoid them.

It was rumored outside that Emperor Qianyuan favored Jia Yuanchun and sent cartloads of silver to Jia's mansion, but in fact it caused Jia's house to send cartloads of silver to the palace.

Thinking about it carefully, the concubine of Yuanchun in the previous life brought Jia's misfortune and humiliation, and there was no sign of prosperity at all.

Jia Lian gritted his teeth bitterly, no, Jia Yuanchun must be eliminated as soon as possible.

Beginning on the fourth day of the fourth lunar month, three generations of Jia Mu, Mrs. Xing, and Sister Feng's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hosted wine and banquets at home. The male guests who came to the mansion all sat at the Rongxi Hall. Bringing Yingchun sisters and Daiyu along, all the receptionists are female family members of relatives.

In this way, I was busy until the fifth day of the fifth day before I finished entertaining the relatives.

From the sixth day onwards, it was the exchange of colleagues. In previous years, there were few guests in Jia's mansion. This year, Jia Lian, a very popular palace guard, was added, and the number of visits suddenly increased.

In particular, there are two more generals' wives in the family of Jia's family members this year, Mrs. Feng and Mrs. Wei, the generals of Shenwei.

Coincidentally, the two generals' wives not only had the same official positions as their husbands, but their own family backgrounds were also the same. Both wives came from scholarly families.

Although Mrs. Feng was born in the clan, her father was a concubine and had no title. However, her father was smart and educated, and now he is a young minister in Honglu Temple, and he is favored by the royal family.

Mrs. Feng is the eldest daughter of the first line. She was smart and smart since she was a child, and she could speak well in front of the queen mother. This is one of the reasons why General Feng was more important to the emperor and let him defend the capital.

Feng Tangxi can also be said to be the son-in-law of the royal family, and he can be regarded as his own.

When Feng Tang was defeated, the two youngest sons of the Feng family were able to escape because of their royal blood.

Mrs. Wei can barely be described as a noble family.Her family is known as Qinggui, but his ancestors counted up to three generations, they were all small landlords who planed food in the soil, but the family had surplus food, and the descendants could cultivate and study as family heirlooms.

Mrs. Wei's father was very smart, and he didn't have a famous teacher to guide him. However, with his own intelligence, he studied hard and became a Jinshi in two rankings overnight.

Mrs. Wei was already ten years old at the time, and her mother was already looking after her relatives. Originally, marrying a country gentleman was her best destiny, but her father won the Jinshi, and she herself jumped from a peasant girl to an official overnight. miss home.

From then on, she also lived the life of a young lady with a maid, an educated nanny, and a family tutor.

She is quite self-righteous, she feels that her father earned his official status by himself, and feels that he is a bit higher than the Feng family and the Jia family, and thinks that they are all dandies who rely on their ancestors' meritorious deeds to eat, drink and have fun .Because of this matter, she and her mother-in-law were very out of tune. Fortunately, her mother-in-law, Mrs. General Wei, went early, otherwise, she didn't know how to make a fuss.

Wei Ruolan's elder brother, Wei Ruosong, married her niece and daughter of her natal family. Her maiden name is Yang Shuhui. She can read, read and write poetry.

On the eighth day of the lunar new year, the wives of the two generals made an appointment to visit Jia's mansion. It was a coincidence that neither the Feng family nor the Wei family had any daughters of the right age, and the wives of the two generals brought their eldest daughter-in-law out to socialize.

Firstly, his son was with Jia Lian, and secondly, their family had no daughter but had a son. Jia's family happened to have a daughter to marry, and the two wives also wanted to take the opportunity to see each other.

Mrs. Wei would like her younger daughter-in-law to marry her natal niece, but unfortunately, General Wei repeatedly refused to agree. A grandma with high eyesight and low power is enough.

To be honest, it is more compatible for a newborn like Mrs. Wei to marry into a noble family. After all, we all have a common language.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Feng family has given birth to her eldest son, and she treats people more warmly and thoughtfully than the parents-in-law of the Wei family. When they met Sister Feng, they talked about the child in three words.

Grandma Wei relied on her status, she was very noble, she didn't get involved with Sister Feng and the others, she thought it was too vulgar and boring.

As the host, Sister Feng naturally entertained every guest warmly. After she smoothed out Grandma Feng's hair, she turned around and bowed to Grandma Wei.

Sister Feng is a fourth-rank respectful person, and Grandma Feng's family is also a fourth-rank respectful person. Only Grandma Wei is a fifth-rank Shuren. She is only 16 years old this year, and her rank is already very high. , her grade is the lowest among the three young wives.

Therefore, Sister Feng felt that she was lowering her profile and accommodating her.

However, Sister Feng didn't know anything about poetry, she only knew how to talk about housework, so naturally she could only talk to her about Lassi's family affairs. Yang Shuhui couldn't speak a few words with Sister Feng, so she became impatient. What books do you read.

Sister Feng giggled: "My younger sister is really good at joking. I was haunted by his brother and sister all day and couldn't get away. I couldn't get away from where to read. I didn't like reading since I was a child, but I can recognize the bank note and the card book."

Hearing this, Yang Shuhui spoke with a little aloofness: "Girls like you should also read some poetry and books. Like me, I read the Four Books for Women when I was enlightened. Our Yang family was born in school for generations, and my daughter's family went out If you don’t know how to read or write, you will be laughed at.”

She looked down on Sister Feng's illiteracy, and by analogy, she thought that the girls in Jia's mansion must be like this, so she couldn't help but despise her, seeing Sister Feng joking with a few grandmas, she suddenly felt condescending.

Sister Feng didn't care, but she was impatient with her sour chirping. With a turn of her eyes, Sister Feng had a plan, so she smiled and told Yang Shuhui: "Well, my sister is a new wife. If you are impatient to talk about housework with us, all the girls in our family will talk about it." Stepping on the snow and admiring the plum blossoms in the east courtyard, cooking wine and talking about poetry, how about my sister playing with them."

Sister Feng just wanted to get rid of the trouble, and didn't ask her if she liked it or not. She hurriedly ordered the car to be set up, and assigned her, the little daughter-in-law, to several sister-in-laws to entertain.

At first, Yingchun and the others saw that she was young, bright and beautiful, and came from a scholarly family, and thought she was a talented woman like Qin Keqing, but after a few words, she showed a mean face, because they heard from Daiyu that she hadn't read much. Books, but I can recognize a few words with my husband.

Yang Shuhui frowned secretly, and her words were very compassionate: "It's a pity that the younger sisters are so talented as heavenly beings, but they can't read characters!"

She thought to herself, these girls might speak vulgar words like Second Mistress Lian, and she would no longer want to talk to the Yingchun sisters, and just went to look for plums in the snow.