The Honest Man of the Red Chamber

Sitting on the boat, Wang Ren was bored, so he could only squeeze a small handful of melon seeds and eat them. He saw his cousin Xue Pan reading a book on the other side. This stupid boy, what kind of book is he pretending to read?He glanced at the sights on the bank one by one. After a while, he came back to his senses and found that Xue Pan was still holding the book, and he had really read it!

He couldn't help but walk up to Xue Pan and ask, "What book are you reading?"

Xue Pan replied, "We've collected a few miscellaneous items about the allusions from ancient sages."

The name sounds like a serious book?Wang Ren was even more surprised, he couldn't help reaching out his hand to beg for a look, "Show me."

"Here, Brother Wang." Xue Pan carefully took a bookmark and clamped the pages of the book, and put his hands in front of Wang Ren, "You can see it, but don't be too rude, I only have this one."

"Tsk, look at how stingy you are, I can still take this book away! I haven't finished reading so many books at home." Wang Ren took it and flipped through it, holding it in his hand and reading it several times. Later, due to the wind on the boat, it was difficult to turn the page. He wanted to get some saliva, but Xue Pan snatched it away, "Hey! This is not possible."

Wang Renzheng saw Le Chu and begged for it, "Brother, let me see it again."

"Then you really watch carefully."

"Understood!" Wang Ren snatched it over, and even re-read Xishi Huansha, Zhaojun's Outing of the Fortress, etc., and asked Xue Pan after thinking about it several times, "The beauties in this painting are really good! Where did you get this book?" Yes, no matter how much it costs, I will go shopping for a copy."

Seeing that he only paid attention to those beauties for the first time, Xue Pan shrugged, "The paintings of those great generals and celebrities are also good!" His favorite now is Zhou Yu in it, he is really a jade-faced gentleman, Good looks.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark and the wind was getting stronger on board, Xue Pan put away the book, "Where can I buy this book? It's our aunt... By the way, you should have a copy too." He asked Wang Ren "I have it, and you should have one too. I asked, and there were only two hundred copies of this book out! After giving it to the younger brothers in the family, my aunt asked for some and gave it to us, and the rest were Jia Every year, the first person in every family school is lucky enough to get a book, this is not something that can be bought with money!"

"This, this is what my aunt gave us?" Xue Pan said that our aunt belonged to no one except Wang Ziling, my aunt who married into the Jia family.As soon as she was mentioned, Wang Ren couldn't help but get angry, "Aunt misses us too much. Last time my father sent Feng'er to get married, and when he came back, he forced me to study hard. Not only that, but also dropped my monthly bill to ten. Two to one month. What is ten taels enough to spend? I didn’t spend more than that amount a day ago. He also said that this is already more than twice the price of Jia’s house!” How could Jia Lian's monthly allowance be only four taels? His father must be coaxing him.

Who would have thought that his father seemed determined to eat the weight this time. Not only did he ask the housekeeper not to pay him more money, but even his mother, aunt, and his daughters-in-law demanded the same. Anyone who dared to give him a penny would be executed immediately. In terms of family law, no one can be as stubborn as his father.Without money, how could he have a happy life, and even sent a servant to stick close to him, any store would not allow him a penny on credit, Mr. Wang, and directly said that the palace would definitely not pay, and would give it away for nothing. He will never stop him. If he wants to ask for money, his ugly words have already explained that he will definitely not give a cent!This is more than that, after having three drinks with friends, that good guy, after that, grab them all and let him drink them instead!Him, even if he finds a woman, if she dares to play for him first, can he still play?This Wang Ren was so angry that he wished he could chop that kid off with one blow!

Thinking of his aunt's gentle smile, Xue Pan couldn't help shivering, he patted Wang Ren's shoulder sympathetically, "Brother, I think you'd better listen to what uncle said, this time we are going to the capital, if Let the uncle get angry again, so he decided to send you to the aunt..." That's true, that's why life is worse than death! "At least you can move freely now, you can eat whatever you want, and you can have whatever you want. In the hands of your aunt, you can't fly even if you have wings! The copper skin and iron bones are also boiled for you!" At that time, cabbage Bangzi with tofu is the best dish!There is a wild vegetable dumpling wrapped with some real pickles, and he can enjoy it all day. If it weren't for this, would he become as obedient as he is now, obediently studying and eating fat?

Wang Ren was confused, and was about to ask carefully, when he heard the voice of his father who also came to the deck at some time.

"Oh, how do you say that?"

Wang Zisheng twirled his beard a little emotionally, not to mention anything else, just looking at Pan'er's recent performance, he was able to re-enter the Jia family school, although there are many Jia family students looking at his sister's face, whether he is really Some literary talents, otherwise it would be difficult to convince the public with the strictness of the Jia family's learning.Hearing his sister mention his son's name as a bully in the world, he just returned to Jinling and asked him carefully, and he turned into a stingy second-generation ancestor, and those boys around him were trying to be lawless. Became the emperor of the earth, this is still possible!He immediately explained all the bastard things he had done in front of his son, and let him watch him send those boys to the police to punish them according to law, parade them in the streets, and execute them after autumn!Jia Lian, the son-in-law of Rongguo Mansion, has only four or two months of money in January. This kid is good. He didn't spend the 500 taels of silver in January, and it's not that he didn't spend [-] taels in January!

He hated him so much that his teeth were itching, if he continued like this, wouldn't he be a ready-made prodigal son!If he stretched his legs and left, he would not know anything about the family's livelihood, and his brothers and sisters were all far away in the capital, so why not let him carefree until his family's wealth was exhausted!Then what face does he have!

Seeing that it was the elder uncle who came, Xue Pan hurriedly stood up and replied, "Well, this is a long story." He lowered his head, and he didn't know whether he should have said something wrong or his cousin's luck. too bad?

"The empress gave her the day of marriage, and six dowries, what a sight..." Jia Jingzhu leaned on the birthday star, and slowly stood up, and Jia Zhenyou, who was sitting at the bottom, also stood up and was obedient .

Jia Jing said for a while, "We are just across an alley from the West Mansion, this honor is our Jiamen's surname, when the time comes, how many princes and princes will come to the banquet... as soon as the old lady's invitation is folded, it will be decided In the next day, we will open the door to entertain guests." He looked at Youshi, "You have been managing the family for two years, but you have never handled such a big event. Assign it to you, first write out the routine list, and ask me and the old lady to make things easier."

"Thank you, Master!" Youshi squatted down to receive the blessing. Since she married Jiamen for a few years, she naturally had some problems, but they were all small things.Although she is the second wife, her husband is a bit greedy and playful, but she often takes advantage of his gentleness.Jia's family has strict rules, all the concubines and maids in the house are obedient, she has Wanwan, and even his private money is collected from her.She is also in charge of Zhongfu, she is the master of the house, and there is no mother-in-law on her head. Her father-in-law is very reasonable and easy to talk.There is a major issue at home, she is not born enough, it is better to have someone to help her!

"En." Jia Jing looked at Jia Zhen, "I think the allusion book you published last time is also very good, and the second wife also likes it. Didn't you say that you would help her make another collection of thousand grasses? Have you finished it?"

Jia Zhen really wanted to slap herself, why did he come up with a book of allusions, what he came up with was obviously a picture of a beautiful woman!As a result, as soon as I looked for the master who was best at engraving and printing, I somehow found my aunt!My aunt sent someone to call him, took those pictures of beauties and asked him, the pictures of beauties are quite good, a bit sloppy, but just painting beauties is not enough, you see this beauties too much, don’t you think she is It’s beautiful, why is that, because no matter everything needs to be compared, you can’t just draw beautiful women, you have to draw ugly women, even if you don’t want to draw ugly women, you can still draw some flowers, plants, bridges and buildings no?And if you want to draw beauties, how can you only draw women?You have to have beautiful men too... At the time when my aunt said this, he thought it was true. After returning home, he went to a painter to retouch his brushes for a few days, and then his aunt sent three Confucian scholars over with a lot of them The allusions and stories are given to him, which is three feet high!It is said that just painting is too empty and boring, how can it be as interesting as having a plot...

In the end, it became the miscellaneous collection of the ancient sage's allusions. My aunt gave him ten sets, and helped him draw four pictures of four pictures of the same height. They are as beautiful as real people, and they are as beautiful as heaven!Only his close relatives and friends can invite him to take a look. Compared with this, how dare he ask others to paint beauties again.

Before, he thought that he was not inferior to the beauties drawn by the painters, but when compared with those four pictures of beauties, he immediately compared them to the wilderness!

But he didn't expect that this book would give him a good reputation, especially after his father knew about it, he would flip through it and praise him from time to time. Can he observe it, and tell me about the drawing of various medicinal materials and herbal scripts...

"Because my child doesn't understand medicine, some herbs are very similar and difficult to distinguish, so it hasn't been done yet." Jia Zhen complained greatly. Yes, after all, this is not a story book, but a pharmacology book for people to read.No matter how bastard he is, when he thinks that his aunt values ​​him so much, he won't let himself be careless and harm someone by accident!

Jia Jing also understands that compiling a book is not an easy task, how can it be done in a day, "You put in more effort, work harder, and it doesn't matter if you train more painters. I will give you approval for any money you need in this regard." Thinking of Jia Zheng's sea books and sea maps, he looked at his son more and more, "It would be great if this book could be made sooner, and it would be very decent as a congratulatory gift."

As soon as this book comes out, he will definitely print thousands of copies and give it to those people to have a good look at it. His son is actually so promising!

After Yuan Du finished writing the secret letter to his father, it was already dark, he got up and stretched his muscles a few times, and just walked out the door, he saw many servants holding things in their hands, he couldn't help asking the servants around him, "What's going on here? What's a good day today?" No one here will know his birthday, besides, isn't this today?

The servant immediately replied, "It just so happened that a merchant from Shanxi came back from the capital. We all know that the Empress has chosen a wedding date for Prince Yi and Miss Jia. These are all gifts from them."

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"They send congratulatory gifts, how can they send them to me?" Chasing love was not for him. He casually took a box from a servant and opened it. Xu, although this thing is not comparable to ginseng, it is still a good tonic, and it is rare to have a good appearance.

Sure enough, he is an important member of one party. If he conducts a virtuous government, he will have more money to make up for it.

That Ai Shijing is really a rotten book, and he also wants to compete with Jia Zheng, but Jia Zheng can do it, but it doesn't mean that he can do it too!Not everyone has an accident like Jia Zheng, such a mind and forbearance, and there is also a wife of the prime minister who understands economics!

The author has something to say: Xue Pan: ... Big brother, I didn't mean to harm you.

(A few days ago, I had a good time eating chili, and then my chrysanthemum was disabled... Now it is so hot that it hurts... I can't sit still...