The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

Of course Mrs. Li doesn't know what Wang Guizhi is worried about. If there will be a gap in three years, the thoughts between the two of them can be said to be very different in this regard.

"Since the first thing is fine for both of you, it's up to you to deal with it separately. Then the second thing is easy to talk about." Jia Mu smiled, "It just so happened that when Uncle Lian was around, he could get ready for his marriage. There is a second daughter-in-law here, if Mrs. Li has any requirements, she can be convenient for her to deal with in the middle, and Lian'er is the eldest son of Xijue, so it is a good idea to get married during the family reunion.

"Then the old lady has chosen the date?" The daughter-in-law decided it herself, and the two families are good friends. It is not bad for the old lady to choose this day, Mrs. Li smiled.

Mother Jia twirled a plum and put it in her mouth, "Not yet. After you agree, everyone has discussed it. I will take the horoscopes of the two of you and ask God Zhang to count a good day for us."

Wang Guizhi looked at Mrs. Li, but did not make a sound.Wang Xifeng is naturally her niece, but to be honest, she has seen too few times, and she did not initiate this marriage, so it depends on what the mother-in-law says.

"The old lady arranges a happy event for the family, so I naturally want to let brother Lian get married as soon as possible, and I will have someone to take care of me. I will discuss it with my younger siblings in a while." Mrs. Li said bluntly.

Mother Jia nodded, "That's good. There is a third thing. Brother Zhen from Dongfu has some new ideas, and there are still some lands behind our house that are half-abandoned. He wants to invite Mr. Shan Ziye to bring the children together. After the house is built, it will be a connected and independent garden for two families. Special personnel will be assigned to take care of it at that time. Whoever wants to invite the two families to let them know in advance that they can prepare it. If there is nothing wrong, everyone can go if they think of it Going around, you can also set up a big stage like Er Xian’s daughter-in-law in Shanxi. If you want to see something, you can invite everyone back to have fun. This matter has not waited for you to come back, and I have not given him a word of truth. Discuss with your master, see if you want to do it or not? I mean, among other things, the children grow up in one day and two days. Brother Zhanyan Lian is getting married. What about Brother Cong in the future? If Jia Zhu has a baby and Baoyu and Meiyu are bigger, they can't still be squeezed into the same room, right, they should expand to the back."

Now the family is well-off, even the money owed to the national treasury has been repaid, and the children have grown up one by one. It is pitiful to see Baoyu and Yuyuan, and there is a nanny and two little daughters-in-law and little girls by her side. How can they be decent? She knows it's tougher outside.But they all returned home, and when Daiyu came, there was only a nanny and two little girls by her side, and she made up for it.Even if the granddaughter is like this, the grandchildren of the direct relatives don't want to take care of them.It was Yuanyang who reminded her that the second wife had just returned home, and there were so many things going on, that it might not be easy to use it for a while. It is exquisite and small, and the east and west rooms are naturally enough to live in, but the three young masters are of the same age, so it is not good to favor one over the other, and send a few more maids, and then there will be no place to stand, so she will be fine.

Mrs. Li thought about the place where she lived for so long. It would be too bad for the girls in the east and west wing to live in, but it really doesn’t seem grand enough to live in the girls. There is also a house in the back, but now it is Jia Zhu lived well, so he really needed to build a few more rooms.

Wang Guizhi hasn't thought about it that far. After all, in her opinion, a room with a bed is considered a place for people to live in...

"Listen to the old lady's orders."

Both of them replied that this would require a lot of construction work, so naturally they had to ask their own men.Which place should be moved first, where the female relatives will temporarily hide and live, when will they start to move, etc.

In the upper room of the Ningguo Mansion, Jia Zhen poured wine for Jia Amnesty, and put aside Jia Yucun's name stickers. Just now, he carefully read the genealogy and recent letters with the family. There is absolutely no such person as Jia Hua. .Since he is an irrelevant person, I don't bother to care about him.Not to mention that when the second uncle Jia Zheng was not an official, even his father would have received a lot of such greetings, even if they were written about wrong color strands of gold, he didn't want to read them again!

Although his father did not hand over the position of patriarch to him, Jia Jing is old, and Jia Zhen has already taken over most of the affairs. Kai Enke came to run for the Jia clan, and he personally brought the horses and chariots to pick them up. They were placed in Tiekan Temple, and on the day of the exam, chariots and horses from the eastern and western prefectures were dispatched to take them into the exam room one by one. He and Jia She still need to appease the emotions of the group of candidates who are waiting for the results to be released. When the results are released, those who fail to pass must be taken care of, and those who have passed must not be ignored. If you can't take care of your own literati, how can you care about outsiders?When the time comes, let the offshoot elders in the clan know that he is turning his elbows outward, and maybe he will hit him on the head with a crutch. The eighth uncle in the clan likes to do it the most.He is considered young, because of his seniority, even his father would give him two points.

"Uncle, take a look, first get out the houses of Brother Lian and Brother Cong, and set up a row of courtyards in different styles, so that your grandchildren can live in it, just a few more No one is afraid. The second uncle’s side also started to expand from the back. He has many children, and the courtyards of each building are set up more delicately. It will be enough to reserve three or four sets... Then from the back garden on my side and from here Connecting into one piece..." Jia Zhen was talking nonsense. At the beginning, he just wanted to build a beautiful garden, but when he came back from Shanxi, Mr. Shan Ziye also gained a lot of experience from Shanxi College. By coincidence, after discussing with each other, I felt dissatisfied with the previous design. After discussing and modifying, measuring and measuring, I drew this big garden again.At that time, it will be the same as the second aunt's Weilou in Shanxi, setting up a stage on the water, and inviting a whole set of plays from the Zhenwei Pavilion from time to time, and inviting his friends to watch, that will be really interesting. face!

Jia Amnesty listened to Jia Zhen's words, at first he didn't take it seriously, but gradually became a little moved. The Zhenwei restaurant is indeed very good, but after all, it is a place where his younger siblings do business. He has a special room, but if compared to his own home Such a prestige... besides the fact that he moved into the Rongxi Hall, he has not been able to publicize it when he thinks about Jia Zheng who doesn't know what is good or bad. He Jia She is the head of the Jia family!Let Jia Zhen preach like this, and she immediately became excited, pointing to a certain point to start a discussion.

After Jia Zheng came back and said hello to the old lady, he went back to the courtyard and changed into his regular clothes, and waved to make everyone leave before sitting on the couch and taking a long breath.

The majesty of the emperor is profound, and returning to the capital is really not as happy as when he was in Shanxi. Compared with the majestic King Yijun, the emperor is more imposing than when he left the capital. The domineering monarch of Wansheng.It seems that he used softness to overcome rigidity, let the empress dowager take action to suppress Prince Zhongshun, the biggest threat in his clan, and began to ask Jia's mansion to follow him to recover the owed silver and Ku Yin, and two successful Enke, not only accumulated his popularity and Fame, as well as the confidence brought by the increasingly abundant treasury.

Wang Guizhi personally held the tea and handed it to him, and told Jia Zheng about the three things the old lady told them. The emperor won't ask Yuan Chun to be his concubine, will he? That's absolutely impossible!"

Jia Zheng took a sip of tea and his wife's words almost spewed out. Fortunately, he has experienced a few times in the past few years when his wife's words are occasionally inconspicuous. After swallowing the tea, he said slowly, "No. Yes. But...Madam, you must not behave like this in front of outsiders. Thunder, rain and dew are all due to your grace, if Yuan Chun is chosen as a concubine, it will be a great joy!"

Wang Guizhi gritted her teeth, "Bah! Bah! Bah! Don't say such things, we absolutely can't have such a happy event!" She stood up anxiously and turned around, "It's all your fault. I said the source of the canal was good, you said He is a merchant, so he is already a Tongsheng now! Uncle Lin was admitted to Tanhua in his thirties, how do you know he is not good? And that Yuan Kang, I still..." She hurriedly stopped talking However, Jia Zheng heard clearly, "Yuan Kang? Yuan Kang? How can you say the name of the county king..."

But...he stood up and thought about it carefully, but he also felt that it was good, the wife's picture this time was quite decent.If Yuanchun were married to King Yijun, they would be regarded as talented and beautiful, and King Yijun was the youngest son of the emperor, and he was very favored. According to the rules, the emperor should always choose to be the king of the county if he establishes a heir and elder. If he ascends the throne, he will naturally take care of his relatives and brothers.

"Although it's a little high, it's not bad. It's just ma'am. It's a rule to participate in the draft, and it's God's destiny to get a marriage. God chose to let Yuan Chun be born on the first day of the lunar new year. Naturally, she won't have a good home. Don't worry. Let's go!" Although Jia Zheng felt that his wife had a good idea, after all, Prince Yi was the queen's son. Although Yuan Chun was extraordinary in appearance, classic and beautiful, gentle and generous, intelligent, quick-witted, and talented, there was nothing wrong with it, but he did not enter the palace. More than a month, and among the sisters again, her daughter doesn't like to show off anymore, and it's not necessarily that the queen missed it for a while. "With my current official position and meager achievements, I don't look at the monk's face and look at the Buddha's face. Even if the emperor and queen don't match Yuanchun with a royal family, they will let Yuanchun go home and let us marry ourselves, just like you did back then. .”

After listening to Jia Zheng's words, Wang Guizhi managed to calm down a bit, "Well, I hope so." She decided to ask the people from the Zhenwei Hall to secretly inquire about what the beautiful women who entered the palace for election would bring. Xiaoyin hides in the mountains, so let Yuanchun pass through the gap between his heels without showing his head or showing his heels.Or is it specially paired with a little yellow flour to make Yuan Chun look not white enough and reduce her beauty score?I don't know if obesity is one of the criteria for being brushed down?Anyway, Yuanchun is in the puberty period. In order not to enter the palace, there are still about seven months to eat a little fatter, and then lose weight?

Seeing his wife's eyeballs in a trance, Jia Zheng knew that she was thinking of some "crooked" idea again, "My dear madam, the talent show is not only for recruiting concubines, but also for talents, so that ladies can also choose When you can show off your charm." He explained more quietly, "Although the four major families were originally connected and related, at that time, your mother also picked you up during the draft. If you can't even pass the selection test, That's a big embarrassment! Our Yuanchun is such a good daughter, don't destroy the Great Wall yourself!"

Wang Guizhi froze for a moment, summed up some vague memories and circumstantial evidence, nodded in astonishment, "Got it." So this draft can be regarded as an aboveboard woman's appearance on a blind date?But why don't the men show up?Is it just for the daughters to choose?

She asked, and Jia Zheng laughed and said, "The spring and autumn, isn't it the time for men to show off?"

... It's true, Wang Guizhi applauds the wisdom of the ancients from the bottom of his heart, whoever said they don't know should look at each other in advance!No wonder everyone had no opinion when the draft was released. It turned out that this was also held by the royal family, a boudoir daughter's debut?

Chengjun Wang and Lijun Wang had a drink in Chengjun Wangfu.

"Second brother, you and Miss Zong Renling's daughter-in-law happened to be in the draft. I don't know if Concubine Zhuang can help you make up... I'm really afraid that when the time comes, King Xian will suddenly intervene, and you know He is very cunning, and he is used to pretending to be in front of his father. Originally, there are quite a few people who lean on him in the clan, if the clan clan lord Ling also..."

"Xiuxue is the only daughter of the First Grade Zong Ren Ling. Eldest Brother already has a Zheng Concubine. The Emperor will not ration her to King Xianjun."

"But you, you also..." Prince Li couldn't help being puzzled, the second elder brother also has a concubine, and the father wouldn't ration the daughter of the patriarchal order to the elder brother, so he wouldn't ration him either!

King Chengjun smiled slightly, looking as cold as water, "You don't have to worry about this." He paused slightly, "There is one person, I am a little worried."

There is no need to beat the drum heavily, and Prince Li immediately thought, "Second brother, you mean fourth brother?"

"Yes, he was young, because he was born in a difficult time, and he was a little sick when he was a child. The queen and elder brother took care of him when he grew up. He only taught some internal skills to increase his breath, and he was strictly prevented from being seduced by maids. At that time, Grandpa Huang gave him a big companion to be a personal eunuch." Chengjun Wang thought of Yijun Wang who was reaping the harvest at this time, and his heart was still a little sour.He was also born after four days and three nights of concubine mother's tossing, even later than Yuan Kang. She stayed with the queen in her room all the time, and even became the first person to hug Yuankang, so she took the word for him on the spot, Nan Zhi!

Thinking of Yuan Kang, King Li nodded, "Yes, he didn't marry a concubine."