Jia Lu through the Red Chamber

Among the young descendants of this generation, Jia Rong can be regarded as able to sit still and read. He is known as the second one after Jia Zhu to be born in the imperial examination. Such pursuit gave him infinite pride and self-restraint, but it is also This pride made him a little unbearable after a failure.

Jia Lu sighed helplessly, her nephew's psychological quality is too bad, right?

Seeing the timing, Jia Lu saw him close his eyes again, and suddenly jumped forward. Jia Rong closed his eyes and was muttering, but was startled by Jia Lu and froze.

Jia Lu took out the book while he was in a daze. Before Jia Rong could react, she swiftly stuffed the book into the cabinet under the bed, sat down on it, and said with a triumphant smile,

"My sister-in-law and my father specifically said that you are not allowed to read the book, let me watch you, good nephew, you sneak out with this book, and my aunt sees that you are the first offender, so I will forgive you once, and if you do it again, I will not hide it for you. gone."

Jia Rong looked very happy at Jia Lu who was holding a chicken feather as an arrow. She used to call herself Brother Rong along with her elders, but only on such rare occasions would she hold up the airs of her elders and call herself "nephew".

She had no choice but to look at Nanny Li. Nanny Li also knew what Jia Jing and the others were planning, so she turned her head away and did not intend to help him.

Although I still want to watch it again, but Jia Lu's feet are firmly blocking the cabinet under her buttocks, that's all, she is both a girl's family and an aunt, so he can't do things like digging her legs to find books.

Nanny Li watched from the side, seeing that Brother Rong really stopped and talked with the girl at ease, she couldn't help but sigh that Brother Rong is obsessed with books. Only by making a move can things be accomplished.

In this way, all the way without incident, I arrived at Zhuangzi.

The head of Yizhuang led the crowd to pay his respects, "Boy Lai Shangen greets the girl and Uncle Rong."

The surname is Lai, and Jia Lu looked at Nanny Li suspiciously, and Nanny Li said softly, "It's the grandson of Nanny Lai next door, and the nephew of Da Lai."

The head of the manor is the youngest son of Lai Er's family and his wife. Lai Er has only appeared once in the red building. Everyone may be familiar with him, but his brother and mother are familiar with each other.

His mother is Nanny Lai, Mother Jia's confidant, even if she has left the mansion long ago, she would often come to the Rong Mansion to play cards and talk with Mother Jia, she is the most proud person.

And his eldest brother, Lai Da, is the chief steward of Rongguo Mansion. Even if Jia Baoyu sees him right away, he has to get off his horse and greet him respectfully, "Grandpa Lai", not to mention those down-and-out clansmen.

Among them, Lai Da's son, relying on the power of the master's family, got out of slavery and became a county magistrate.

In the Red Mansion, Lai Er is also the butler of the Ning Mansion under the master and above the slaves. The only time he appeared was in Jiao Da's mouth, when Jiao Da had a drink and said that the Ning Mansion was tricky, and scolded Lai Er for being eccentric:

"If you have a good errand, send someone else, and send someone in the middle of the night like this, then send me. Heartless bastard! Pretend to be a housekeeper!"

It's really a turn of events, this Jiao Da is now the chief steward of Ningguo Mansion, Jia Lu, the eldest girl in Ning Mansion, has to call him Grandpa Jiao, but the eccentric Lai Er in the red building has disappeared, and I don't know where he is working.

If Lai Er was still there, how could he let his son work in this Zhuangzi? Although this Zhuangzi is good, it is not as decent as serving in front of the master.

How could Lai Er, who has a deep background and a big background, lose his shadow in front of his master?The wool comes out of the sheep, so Lai Er got up that way, that's how he got down.

When the eldest daughter of Jia's mother's historian family married into Jia's family, she was just a great-grandson daughter-in-law. If the two or three layers of mothers-in-law wanted to integrate into Jia's family as quickly as possible, that is, they would marry the maids around them to Jia's long-standing family members. Servant, at the beginning, Jia's mother chose the second-class slaves in the Jia family. Although he was not the most powerful in the Jia family, he had a lot of connections among the Jia family's slaves.So she meticulously raped herself, and the most outstanding girl among the several big maids married to that family.

To say that Jia Mu is also a shrewd person, most of the servants who are in the early years are her great-grandmother, great-grandmother, and her mother-in-law's confidantes. In this dynasty, courtiers and courtiers have come down one by one. These personal families don't know how to survive. how much.After choosing this second-class family, my mother-in-law in the upper layers can also feel at ease.

Sure enough, the mother-in-law above saw that she didn't wantonly embrace power, but was just an ordinary family with more connections, and thought she was light on power, so she felt more at ease with her.When Mother Jia was in charge of the house, most of the people who used to be arrogant in front of the servants had gone through the reform of the inner house.

Coincidentally, at that time, the gentlemen of the Jia family had to choose followers, and the Lai family had a wide relationship and a large number of people. In addition, although the two Rongning and Ning mansions had been separated, they were close and more like a family. Many times, the servants were used together.

In this Lai family, several sons of Nanny Lai are present, and Lai Er was chosen by Jia Jing. The slave who served him since he was a child is no closer than Jiao Da, who was proud of his elders before. Jia Jing’s father, Jia Daihua, died young. Lai Da next to him naturally became the actual butler of the Ning Mansion.

Jia Daishan of the Rong Mansion lived a long time, and his wife Jia Mu, as the female elder with the highest status and the longest time in charge of the house, was naturally able to push Lai Da, the son of his confidant Nanny Lai, to be the chief housekeeper of the Rong Mansion.

This also led to the strange phenomenon that the butlers of the two dukes' houses, which made the big families in Kyoto look down and wonder, came from a slave family.

Jia Jing, who had just been reborn, also replaced Lai Er out of this idea.

If you want to say that those of them who accompanied the old emperor to fight for success may not be as good as other scholarly families, but the most indispensable thing is gold, silver and treasures. In order to appease or win over the generals under him, in addition to the treasury and the untouchable For ordinary people's homes, Kang Shizu allowed them to rob them casually. In those palaces, ministers, and eunuchs' homes, boxes of treasures were carried back and piled up in several warehouses.

No matter how extravagant and extravagant the descendants of the Ning Mansion are, they will not ruin all of them. What's more, my family knows their own affairs, and Jia Jing knows that Jia Zhen and others are mediocre, but in this world, If the times are better, it may be more expensive to buy someone. If the times are not good, 20 taels of silver can buy several decent-looking girls. I think apart from being involved in the royal family, Jia Zhen and others will not be the last one. the point.

Let's talk about the royal family, the Ning Mansion has always had fewer girls, and after you go, one generation is not as good as the next generation, and there is no power in the court. Under normal circumstances, who would care about a famous and powerless noble family like you.

But the Rongguo Mansion has always been big-hearted. Jia Yuanchun entered the palace and became a concubine. The Rongguo Mansion wanted to lose this backer and want to have a prince, so they could only keep stuffing money into it. At that time, although Yuanchun had no children, he was still young. And quite favored, the Rong Mansion discussed the future of the Jia family with myself who was practicing in the Taoist temple more than once. Not many to join.