[Red Mansion] Mother Jia has a paralyzed face

In fact, Jia Lian had been walking with Jia Hu before Jia Lian entered the examination room. Jia Hu was always strict with his younger brother. Before the palace examination, he was too nervous, and even persuaded him: "You don't need to be nervous. At worst, he is a fellow Jinshi, just answer with a free hand."

At that time, Jia Lian was not used to his brother's sudden gentleness, and he couldn't help but feel a little complacent after finishing the paper. He won by strength, if he could still be a Jinshi in this way, wouldn't it be embarrassing for him to go back?

He felt that he had answered well in the palace examination this time, and when he walked out of the palace with Luan Mocun and got into Jia's carriage, he couldn't wait to talk about his strategy with his brother-in-law, and finally got a definite answer from him, Jia Lian was even more excited.

He warmly invited Luan Mocun to Jia's house as a guest, but the palace examination had just ended, and Luan's family must have been waiting, so Luan Mocun didn't agree to go with him, and got off the Jia's carriage halfway back to Luan's carriage .

Jia Lian was a little embarrassed when he got home. Seeing that his elder brother hadn't come back yet, he came to his grandmother's yard and waited for someone to ask him with a complacent expression.

Zhang Rui felt relieved when he saw his appearance, but he couldn't understand how this guy was about to float, so he continued to focus on reading his book. Jia Lian couldn't boast, so he turned his attention to Jia Baoyu who was writing big characters beside him. .

As soon as he walked over to talk, Baoyu couldn't sit still when he saw brother Lian, but when he was about to come over, he stared at him with bright eyes.

Jia Lian was still a little puzzled, so he slowed down, and then saw the light in Baoyu's eyes dimming little by little, and turned to look at his grandmother for no reason.

Without raising his head, Zhang Rui said: "Ruirui's homework is almost catching up with him. Everyone memorized it today, but he was the only one who stumbled and was punished by the master to copy it until he memorized it fluently."

Jia Lian burst out laughing when he heard that, and Jia Baoyu was embarrassed by his laughter, so he threw the brush on the paper and said angrily, "I don't like reading at all, so you want to force me!"

Zhang Rui was a little angry, but he still calmed himself down and said, "Didn't you promise grandma to study hard? Are you going to go back on your word?"

Jia Baoyu felt aggrieved, and pursed his lips and said: "Grandson doesn't want to study or practice martial arts. Doesn't it mean that with the power of Jia's family, if he doesn't study, he can live a prosperous life without worrying about food and clothing? Besides, Brother Erfang Youzhu, I don't need to study to make progress~"

"You are young, maybe I don't understand too much, and you still feel that I am embarrassing you." Zhang Rui also came from childhood. Of course, it is not surprising that Jia Baoyu has such thoughts, and she will not be harsh. Taking a deep breath, she turned her head to look at Jia Lian, and asked him, "I never asked, where did your father go to play recently?"

Jia Lian blinked, feeling a little strange that her grandmother was not angry, and replied honestly: "Father recently bought a mountain in the suburbs of Beijing to grow peach trees!"

"We grow peach trees in the north, and the peaches are not delicious. Why did he think of such a thing?"

"Father said that we can see the peach blossoms in spring, and then we will build some pavilions on it. If there are people who are stupid enough to study and want to enjoy the peach blossoms, he will rent them out."

Zhang Rui closed his eyes to calm the depression in his chest. He didn't know who was the fool. He didn't know when it would be until the peach blossoms bloomed all over the mountain. Playing these things by myself is better than messing around outside, and it took a while for my expression to be much quieter.

Looking at Baoyu with no expression, he said: "If you don't like reading, just go to your uncle's place and plant trees with him, and tell him by the way, as I said, don't just plant peach trees, if you want to rent it out to others For the banquet, there must be good scenery all year round, let him figure it out."

When Jia Baoyu heard this, he was so excited that he was about to jump up. Seeing his appearance, Zhang Rui sneered in his heart and said, "Don't write any more, go back and clean up first."

When Baoyu disappeared, Jia Lian asked vigilantly, "Grandmother, are you... not angry?"

Zhang Rui had no character at all at this time, and even smiled and said, "Of course I'm not angry, but I feel sorry for Baoyu."

"What?" Jia Lian didn't know where to start.

"Send a message to your father. When Baoyu comes to him, let him suffer a little bit. Those country children will experience how they live. Whoever is separated from the clan will take him to have a look. If Baoyu waits until they come back, Baoyu If you still think like this, I will let your father suffer a little." After speaking, Zhang Rui felt that his idea was very good, "Do you remember?"

"Remember, remember."

Jia Lian felt extremely sympathetic to Baoyu and his own father, but there was still a trace of schadenfreude in his heart, but when he came out of his grandmother's yard, he suddenly remembered his goal, but he really didn't dare to let him go back. So I decided to go back and talk to my wife.

On the second day, Zhang Rui told Wang about her decision, but she didn't say everything, but went to the end. Although Wang was a little distressed, she still trusted her mother-in-law to teach her children.

Since Mrs. Wang had no objection, Zhang Rui talked about another matter, "Baoyu promised me to study hard before, but yesterday he said that someone told him that he could live a good life without studying. You will take care of him, the servants around him are all arranged by you, go back and ask what is going on."

Wang's first reaction was that the servant said something in Baoyu's ear, so she nodded and decided to interrogate her carefully when she went back.

"I know that Baoyu is your youngest son. Compared with other children, I feel more distressed, but the palms and backs of the hands are full of flesh. If Baoyu is not sensible, do you really want Zhu'er to take care of him? Zhu'er is in the Imperial College It's also very difficult." When Zhang Rui said this, she was quite earnest, "This emotion will be worn down. Although Zhuer is a kind and good child, she will definitely take care of her younger brothers and sisters, but she won't help her brother to share the burden. Forget it, do you want to cause trouble?"

"You're right." Wang was a little embarrassed, she really couldn't help but be more tolerant to her younger son, but Zhu'er was her complacency, so of course she had to think about Zhu'er.

After returning to the East Courtyard, Mrs. Wang immediately interrogated Baoyu's servants one by one, but in the end she found out that Baoyu was listening to Wang Ren from her elder brother's family at her natal home.

Then I wrote a letter to my second elder brother, Wang Ziteng, now that my second elder brother has just been promoted to be the governor of the Beijing camp, but the children here are still focused on enjoying themselves, and Baoyu, who wants to pull her, doesn't make progress. Discipline one or two, otherwise this big brother's spirit in heaven will not be able to rest in peace!

Until the day when the rankings were released, Jia Hu kept the servants of the family waiting outside the palace. As soon as he learned of Jia Lian's ranking, he rushed back to Rongguo Mansion to inform the wives in the mansion.

And when Jia Hu received the congratulations from other adults in the household department, he was still a little dumbfounded, but after all, their Rongguo Mansion also has a three-level jinshi, and counting Uncle Jing from Ningguo mansion, that is a four-way jinshi, which is indeed something to be excited about. thing.

The servants hurried back to the mansion, and when they saw the masters, they immediately congratulated loudly: "Old lady! First lady and second lady! Master Lian won the 140th place, and he has been awarded Jinshi!"

Zhang Rui twitched the corners of her mouth, she thought that Jia Lian was so proud of himself because he did well in the exam!That's good!The ranking was also returned by one.

The others were also very excited, they didn't care about the rankings, as long as they were Jinshi, but Tu Jialan was too excited, she wobbled when she got up, the doctor checked and said that she might be pregnant , but the month is too small may not be correct.

This is a matter of double happiness, so when Jia Lian came back, he thought he would be laughed at, but he didn't expect that no one at home paid attention to him. When he asked, he found out that Tu Jialan might be pregnant, and couldn't help but giggle.

On the other hand, Luan Mocun was directly named the No. [-] champion, and even surpassed Jia Lian in the limelight of these honored nobles, saying that the Jia family would choose their in-laws.

Afterwards, Jia Lian was not too nervous about the imperial examination. Even if Jia Zhu failed to pass the exam, he would not pass the exam. So the three brothers got together and began to figure out where they could arrange for him to be released. .

Jia Lian leaned back on the chair and didn't care about sitting. He said indifferently, "I can go anywhere." The only thing he worries about now is that if his wife becomes pregnant, he won't feel at ease taking her to take office with him.

Jia Hu and Jia Zhu have different ideas from him. If the Scholars they sent out in the same period before went to Yili to become county magistrates, they would be promoted after three years if their political achievements were good, but if they were sent out to poor counties, they would be promoted after three years. After the assessment, he was also transferred to a better county to be the county magistrate. If he didn't find a suitable opportunity, he would have to wait a long time.

Fortunately, the Jia family has a lot of contacts now, but they just wanted to help Jia Lian find a better position, so it was easy to settle down. His appointment was also the first batch to be issued, and he was in the mansion next to Jinling. magistrate.

And Jia Lian's daughter-in-law, Tu Jialan, actually started to have serious pregnancy reactions after being appointed by him, and she was definitely unable to go with her. She probably knew it herself, so she lost weight day after day. It made Jia Lian very distressed.

Mrs. Zhang was a little dissatisfied, but she also knew that she was pregnant, so she didn't show it. Instead, she tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, and finally said to her mother-in-law when she said good morning one day: "My daughter-in-law wants to go out with Lian'er. After Lian's daughter-in-law gives birth and the child is old enough, I will come back to the mansion."

Not only Zhang Rui, but even Mrs. Wang was also taken aback. Mrs. Zhang explained: "Firstly, Lian'er has no one to take care of him in the back house, which will delay his errand. Secondly, my daughter-in-law grew up in this capital since she was a child. Before you My daughter-in-law loves me when I go out, and now I have Pingyuan in the house to take care of me, so... you don't blame her for not serving you, do you?"