The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

But Wu You said that since he went to the south to become a pirate, he has never been back to the capital, and this time he came back to hang around his parents when he had time.His mother was very happy looking at him, and his father, Wu Baozi, simply didn't go to the horse shop, and stayed at home with his son.

Suddenly someone from the Rongguo Mansion came to send a letter saying that someone proposed marriage to the fourth girl. Wu You was so startled that he jumped up and shouted, "Impossible!" After a while, he asked again, "What else did your third master say?"

The kid said: "No, let me go back after I finish talking."

Wu You thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "It's all right, you can go back." Send him away.

His father and mother looked at each other, a little puzzled, Wu Baozi asked: "Aren't you protecting the fourth girl and selling prescriptions everywhere?"

"That's right." Wu You stretched his waist, and said casually, "Jia Zhen can't make the decision about the fourth girl."

Wu Baozi said: "You should hurry over and have a look, Third Master Huan won't just let someone tell you about it."

Wu You snorted, "He just wants to watch the fun, so I'm too lazy to help him."

His mother saw the smiles in the corners of his eyes and brows, suddenly felt that something was wrong, and asked tentatively, "What are you watching?"

Wu You waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, don't ask me any more." Seeing that his mother was still staring at him, a little at a loss, he found an excuse and wanted to sneak out.

His mother had a flash of inspiration and immediately understood, and shouted: "Hurry up and go to Rongguo Mansion!"

Wu You said as he walked, "No—"

His mother stomped anxiously: "Go! You have to go anyway! If you don't go, you are not allowed to come back!"

Wu You felt a little strange when he heard this, but he still said bravely: "What am I going to do? It's unnecessary! I just told you, old lady, how can Jia Zhen control the fourth girl."

"What do you know!" His mother dropped the sewing basket in her hand, "You have to be in a hurry! Are you in a hurry to understand? You have to let people see the jokes! Go quickly!" Wu You was enlightened immediately, "Oh!" just run.

His father never turned the corner, pointed to where he was going, and asked, "What is this for?" His mother smiled and did not answer, and took a basket of needles and thread from the kang, and ordered the maid to thread the needle.

Wu You hurried to Rongguo Mansion and entered from Lixiangyuan.He is very familiar with the mansion, anyway, now Xichun is the only one who lives in the girls' yard, who doesn't stop doing anything, why do you care about anything else when they come here?Then he climbed over the wall and entered, and after a while, he followed the voice of the people and found the window of Xichun Embroidery Room.The window was open, and the curtain was hooked. Wu You peeked sideways, and there were several people sitting inside.He put his ear against the wall, and heard a woman sobbing, as if she was crying for something without the support of her father and brother.Hearing Xichun's voice immediately, he couldn't help but smile.

But I heard her say: "I advise my sister-in-law, just pick up what you like to eat and order others to cook it, do what you like to do, and leave him alone. Whether it's piano or books or embroidery, it's good to have a skill in wiping dominoes." , go find your own fun."

Another female voice said: "Look, since I've managed everything, my life has become better immediately, and I don't care if the master is in the capital or not." Muttering endlessly.

After listening to it for a while, Wu You felt that they were too chatty, and the fourth girl didn't want to listen to them, so she meowed like a cat.Seeing Jia Xichun trembling inside, he just sat under the window and laughed silently with his face up.Suddenly, a head poked out of the window, which startled him!When I looked closely, it was a five or six-year-old boy with a chubby face, horns pierced on the top of his head, and a pair of big black eyes.Wu You hurriedly put his finger on his lips and let out a "hush".The little boy blinked his eyes, also "hush", looked at Wu You's meeting again, and shrank back.

Not long after, I heard someone saying goodbye inside.Wu You took a sneak peek, and sure enough, she saw Xichun sending someone out.When she came back, she ordered the servant girl to carry the Western carved glass mirror with the size of a copper basin that her son had brought from the seafood shop to the table.Wu You took advantage of her maid to cut flowers, quietly poked her head out from under the window, and waved to Xichun in the mirror.Xichun pursed her lips and smiled.Wu You couldn't help cheering, and immediately covered her mouth.

Nai withdrew and dodged back to the wall, tiptoed around the maid woman outside, climbed over the wall and left.When he returned to Lixiangyuan, he breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and said, "Fortunately Brother Huan didn't take it as a joke."

Now Jia Huan is still playing with the baby in Aunt Zhou's yard.For a while, Jia Zheng sent someone over and asked him to go to Wei's house, saying that since the fourth girl didn't want it, that's all.Jia Huan sighed: "At the end it's me again!" He had no choice but to go back to the house and change clothes.

Nai rode his horse and ran to Wei's house. When he came to the gate of their mansion, he only asked to see their uncle.Not long after, Wei Ruolan came out to greet her personally, and said with a smile, "Brother came in such a hurry."

After all, Jia Huan was more polite outside, and he bowed honestly and said: "Brother Wei, I take the liberty to visit, I really have something important to discuss."

Wei Ruolan smiled and said: "I understand." He hurriedly let him to his study, and ordered someone to serve tea and snacks.

Jia Huan also didn't care about eating snacks, and signaled him to remove all the serving people with his eyes, and said in a low voice: "How is it so good, your family will come to our East Mansion to propose marriage? Doesn't Brother Wei know that the fourth sister has already been married?" The people in our mansion are dead, so what they say doesn’t count?”

Wei Ruolan was startled, then cupped her hands and said: "I'm really sorry, we never meant to offend. Although I knew that the fourth girl was raised in your mansion, because I thought that she was from Ningguo Mansion after all, three media and six The betrothal gift will eventually go from that mansion."

Jia Huan sighed: "It's such an important matter, you don't tell me in advance, otherwise, why would the two families get into an awkward situation?"

Wei Ruolan hastily stepped forward and bowed: "I really don't know how important this matter is, I hope you will forgive me."

Jia Huan waved his hand and said, "It's not anything else; it's just that their house doesn't know what happened to the fourth sister, but our house knows."

Wei Ruolan was stunned for a moment, then asked: "Dare to ask how the fourth girl is doing?"

Jia Huan said: "I won't let others decide for me." Wei Ruolan frowned.Jia Huan took a sip of tea and continued, "She is like a chivalrous woman, and she can't be trapped in the backyard. The day before yesterday, King Yan praised her talent—not the kind of talent for reciting poems and painting, but a real talent for hard work. One day She will be an official in the court. Dare I ask Brother Wei, is your family willing to marry a female adult who holds a wat board in the court hall?"

"This..." Wei Ruolan was dumbfounded for a moment, and said anxiously, "Where is there a lady in the hall!"

"Not yet." Jia Huan said, "We will have one in a few years. There are female emperors everywhere in the West, and our dynasty has been divided into vassal kingdoms. It is not unusual to have a few female prime ministers and female ministers."

Wei Ruolan was stunned.Let alone a cup of tea, he shook his head and said: "Although I love such a strange woman, my parents may not agree to her."

Jia Huan clapped his hands and said, "Exactly, my fourth sister probably won't agree."

The two were silent for a moment, Wei Ruolan smiled wryly and said, "I went to Lingnan in the old year and talked a lot with Cong'er, thinking that his sister must be good."

Jia Huan said with a smile: "It's not bad at all, and everyone doesn't give way to men."

"I just rushed back to Beijing seven or eight days ago." Wei Ruolan said, "I just had a rest, and I didn't have the energy to go out to meet guests, so I heard from my mother that the fourth girl from Rongguo Mansion came back, but the third girl came back." I haven't come back, so I think I got married in the south." Jia Huan laughed "puchi".Wei Ruolan said, "You can tell that's not the case just by looking at you." Jia Huan smiled but did not answer.Wei Ruolan continued, "That's why I begged my mother to ask a matchmaker to go to Ningguo Mansion to ask for a marriage."

Jia Huan said seriously, "Thank you for your kindness."

Wei Ruolan sighed: "Since she is such a strange woman, she thinks she would look down on me, an ordinary person."

Jia Huan said: "It's not that you don't like it, it's just that you two are not suitable. Brother Wei, it's better to marry a woman with three obediences and four virtues to manage the house for you."

After another half hour, Wei Ruolan suddenly asked: "Did Cong'er tell you before that he had seen my daughter-in-law's fate?"

"Huh?" Jia Huan was stunned for a moment, "No! Besides, he didn't know how many lives he had lost in these years, what is a number of lives?"

Hearing this in Wei Ruolan's ears, it was obvious that he admitted Jia Cong's background, and hurriedly asked: "Did he tell you, according to fate, who should my wife be?" Jia Huan shook his head sincerely.Wei Ruolan thought for a moment, and then asked: "Did he marry any of the nobles on purpose?"

Jia Huan turned his head and counted in detail for half a day: their family only married Jia Yingchun and went out, and that was Jia Amnesty's decision. My own Lalang Pei, Shi Xiangyun was Jia Mu's idea, and even Xing Xiuyan was planned by Xie's family; Jia Cong had nothing to do with it.Nai shook his head and said, "I really can't figure it out. I've counted the daughters of my relatives over and over, and none of them were married to him."

Wei Ruolan sighed long and long, then said softly after a while, "...that's all."

So he made a complaint, but actually went outside the door and ordered a confidant to tell his mother about it, and then he turned around and came back to talk with Jia Huan.Naturally, Jia Huan couldn't leave immediately, and the two chatted for a long time.

Suddenly a big servant girl came outside, and she lifted the curtain to wink at Wei Ruolan.Wei Ruolan had no choice but to plead guilty to Jia Huan again, and got out by herself.Because the door of the room was not closed, even though the door curtain was drawn down, and the voice of the maid was crisp and not low, Jia Huan actually heard some of their words.What "Madam said, since that's the case, Second Master Li hasn't discussed marriage yet. He's not the eldest son, so I think Uncle won't care too much about it." He also heard Wei Ruolan jumping anxiously to tell the maid to go back quickly, and told the wife not to worry about it. When he came up with another bad idea, he couldn't help laughing.

Not long after Wei Ruolan came back, her face was flushed, seeing Jia Huan's half-smile, she knew he heard it, and said with a wry smile: "My wife has absolutely no intention of underestimating Miss Si."

Jia Huan said with a smile: "She didn't underestimate my sister, she underestimated our brothers. Could it be that Lingtang's success is not due to Uncle Ling, but to his talent and good looks?" Be right.

Jia Huan got up and said goodbye.

After sending him out, Wei Ruolan sighed softly and went to see his mother.Mrs. Wei, Mrs. Li, smiled and beckoned him to sit next to him, and asked, "Is Mr. Jia interested? Although it is not convenient for you to marry a woman who shows her face, your cousin will not inherit the family business anyway."

Wei Ruolan smiled wryly: "Madam, it's not that I despise her, but she despises me. Since she despises me, how can she despise my cousin?"

Li Shi immediately put down her face: "Why does she look down on you!"

"Jia Cong, Jia Huan, and Jia Baoyu." Wei Ruolan said, "Of course girls rely on their brothers, otherwise what else can they rely on? Jia Huan just told me on purpose that the fourth girl is from their Rongguo Mansion , has nothing to do with the Ningguo Mansion."

Mrs. Li looked at him and said, "Jia Huan means, how many of their brothers can support the four girls as officials?"

Wei Ruolan sighed, "Yes. So Madam, don't think about it anymore."

Li Shi suddenly laughed: "Okay, tight. Lan'er, what I said just now was to test him." Wei Ruolan was taken aback.She squeezed her son's palm, "Even going to propose a marriage today is to test their house. I already guessed that this marriage probably won't work."

"Since the wife guessed it, why did you ask someone to propose a marriage?"

Mrs. Li glanced at him: "You tell me happily, if you bluntly say that people look down on you, can you be willing? Besides, if you don't make such a fuss, you may not be willing to marry the daughter-in-law I want you to marry."

Wei Ruolan moved her body: "Who?"

Li Shi said: "I have set my sights on Rongguo Mansion a long time ago." She sighed, "Many years ago, I heard someone mention that Jia Cong from Rongguo Mansion said that the most important thing for a woman is father, brother and son, and nothing else matters. At that time, he was still a child of seven or eight years old, and I knew that this son was transparent. Later..." Li Shi paused, "The second girl in their family got married. A concubine, married to the Gao family in Ping'an Prefecture The first son. We were engaged a long time ago, but we didn’t get married until the second girl Jia. Guess why this Jia Cong delayed his sister’s marriage and told the Gao family why?”

Wei Ruolan shook her head: "I don't know."

Li Shi said: "The woman's previous son died young."

Wei Ruolan frowned: "But really?"

"Really." Li nodded and said, "Even if he didn't die young, he would probably be weak."

Wei Ruolan said: "He knows everything."

Li Shi said: "I just use this as an excuse to delay the marriage. Ordinary people would not agree. But the Gao family actually agreed. Not only agreed to this, but also agreed to the third master Gao not to take concubines! Just think about it What! You can't rely on Jia Amnesty's old fool."

Wei Ruolan said: "Of course it's because of Cong'er."

"That's right." Mrs. Li nodded, "You know, in the eyes of Gao Li, the governor of Ping'an Prefecture, Jia Cong is a remarkable person. Anyone who can get married with him is willing to agree to any conditions. Just now Jia Huan meant that they could Support the fourth girl as a female official! How can ordinary people do this?" She looked at her son and said earnestly, "Think about it, how does your father compare with Gao Li, our family and Gao's family? The fourth girl will marry into our family?"

Wei Ruolan remained silent.

After a short pause, Mrs. Li said again: "As the saying goes, one person attains the Tao, and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven. Nowadays, ghosts and gods are unpredictable in this world, but the Rongguo Mansion must be more and more prosperous. Meat rots in the pot, not everyone has soup to drink Jia Cong is a family member. Their grandma Zhu is the daughter of a famous eunuch in Jinling. Her father, Mr. Li, once offered wine to the Imperial Academy. Everyone in the family reads books. She can be regarded as a bookstore. The two nieces of their natal family used to live in the same yard with the girls in their mansion. Later, when the girls of their family went south, they moved out with their widowed mother and rented a place on Ningrong Street. Grandma Zhu had always been helping them. The old lady Li The girl has married a child and is waiting for the list."

Wei Ruolan stayed for a long time: "Madam, what do you mean?"

Mrs. Li smiled and said: "The only one who can match up with their family, is not bad in status, and is about the same age as you is the second girl Li. But let's wait for their elder uncle to win the election. Otherwise, we The kiss is too conspicuous."

Wei Ruolan smiled wryly, "Wouldn't it be conspicuous if their eldest son-in-law won the exam?"

"Fool." Mrs. Li stroked his head, "It's better to have a cover, even though a smart person understands what's going on in his heart, it's still better than no cover. Lan'er, it's better to show weakness than to be tyrannical. It’s okay to play a little bit of a fool.” She sighed softly, “You will be practicing martial arts in the future.”