[Red Mansions] Why does Xiaoye want to whitewash

Jia Lian raised his eyebrows, "Do something!"

After hearing this, Jia Zhu thought about it carefully, and shook her head in objection: "If other people don't pay it back, we can't pay it back."

When Jia Lian heard this, he felt that what Jia Zhu said was reasonable, so he nodded readily and changed his words: "Then wait for them to object, and we will give them a step down."

After a few words, a large sum of money was going to be spent, but for some reason, Jia Zhu felt a little emotional, and said with a smile, "I'll mention it."

Jia Lian didn't fight with him either, but just bumped Jia Zhu's shoulder with his shoulder, and said with a smile, "Even if you say it, second uncle and second aunt will definitely think that I brought you down as soon as I came back..."

"Isn't it?" Jia Zhu raised the corners of her lips and laughed, "Even if you tell them clearly, they can't do anything to our Second Master Lian, right?"

"That's true."

The two made an appointment to make a big deal in silence. Seeing that it was getting late, Jia Zhu told Jia Lian to go back first.

When Jia Lian returned to the house, Wang Xifeng was already lying down. He told Jia Zhu that he didn't let Wang Xifeng know about it. The children were not in the yard. It was rare for the husband and wife not to go to take care of the children, so they lay down early.

The next day, the husband and wife got up and walked to pay their respects. Wang Xifeng asked Jia Lian, "Are you going to the Fourth Translation Hall today?"

Jia Lian nodded, "I don't need to report on my duties as a petty official. I'll go and have a look when I get back."

"The news of our return probably spread. The eldest sister may come back today, so I will take the children back to Wang's house tomorrow."

"If I have time, I will accompany you. If I don't have time, you can take them to stay at Yue's house for two days, and I will go there in the evening." Jia Lian thought that the grandmother's main focus in the past two days must be Daiyu and his brother. It's okay for the eldest sister and the two of them to go out for two days.

Sure enough, when he arrived at the old lady's courtyard, he said that the Meng family had sent someone over, saying that Yuan Chun would go back to her mother's house today, so Jia Lian asked Wang Xifeng to tell his eldest sister that he could not welcome her.

Then he went out with Jia Zhu, first sent Jia Zhu to the Shuchang Hall, and then his destination.

When I got out of the carriage, I saw a gate that was much smaller than other departments. I told the guard that I was about to enter when I heard the sound of a carriage behind me. When I turned around, I saw a normal-sized carriage stop. A tall and thin man in his thirties was helped down by his servants.

When Jia Lian saw the official position, he thought about the grade of the official uniform, so this should be the "curator"?

And when the man saw a stranger standing here, he was surprised at first, and then suddenly realized: "Jia Lian?"

"Yes, Mr. Cao, I'm the next official, Jia Lian." Jia Lian bowed and saluted.

Mr. Cao was not surprised that he knew that he was not surprised. He just glanced at Jia Lian's silk, satin, bead ring and jade pendant, and said casually: "It just happened to happen, so you go in with me."

Jia Lian followed and walked into a room. Mr. Cao sat down at the desk and pointed to a chair for him to sit on. He didn't ask anyone to bring tea in, and said directly: "I know your identity. It's different from other places, usually there are other countries visiting, basically it's either the Ministry of Rites or Honglu Temple, we just want to get involved and they don't give the opportunity, I don't know how you came in?"

Speaking of looking at Jia Lian's eyes, it's like looking at a fool. Mr. Cao is not afraid of offending this noble son. Anyway, he has been guarding this place all his life. There is no oil and no one can take him down. A dead pig is not afraid of boiling water. !

Jia Lian... It's not that Jia Lian has never seen someone who is rude to him, but there are not many people who are so rude to him in the first meeting, and he was a little silent for a while.

Mr. Cao didn't care too much, so he asked someone to bring in a few wooden signs, and buckled them in front of Jia Lian. They put them in a row and said to Jia Lian: "Come on, take one. Don't look at our Fourth Translation Hall like this. But there are many branches, I will give you a preferential treatment, and I will not assign you any more."

The corner of Jia Lian's mouth twitched, looking at those wooden cards, he suddenly felt that he could understand the emperor's mood when he flipped the cards, but he was planning to favor his concubine, and he was favoring his future work, but what difference did it make to him?

Anyway, people who have donated officials since ancient times have never heard of an extremely human minister. Jia Lian also pulled a chair and sat opposite Mr. Cao, turning over and saying: "Since you give preferential treatment to the lower officials, why not Blind selection, is there anyone from a faraway country?"

"Yes." Mr. Cao raised his hand and shook it, and took a box from the museum shelf behind him. After sitting down again, he boldly pushed aside the sign on the desk, poured it in front of Jia Lian, and said, "This is the blue box." If you want a country with red eyes and hair, you can do it, but all those who knew this language in our Fourth Translation Hall were transferred away by Honglu Temple, so if you want to be an official, there is no way to help you."

Jia Lian reached out and picked up one at random, and saw a few messy letters written on it, a little speechless, this is... English?Why is it different?

When Mr. Cao saw him playing around, he thought he was interested, so he simply pushed them all in front of him, and said, "Why don't you take on several jobs? Don't worry, it's all right. We all know that this language can't be learned overnight. Force you, that is..."

"What is it?" Jia Lian looked at the other party expressionlessly.

"Even this salary is still calculated according to one person."

"Oh." Jia Lian silently pulled the boxes and picked them up one by one, saying, "Then which room is my office?"

Speaking of this, Mr. Cao said generously: "I can give you a separate office room. This is a treatment that I don't have at all except me."

"Hehe..." Thank you!

Jia Lian left Mr. Cao's room and resigned from the room he had given him as he said. He opened the door and saw that the inside was not big but it was clean, so he didn't close the door, so he just put the box away from the bookshelf. Take out a book, don't understand it and stuff it back, take out another book, still can't understand it...

"grown ups."

Accompanied by the sound of knocking on the door and voices of people, Jia Lian turned around and saw a small official standing outside the door, looking at him with a smile, "What's the matter?"

"My lord, the younger one's surname is Xu, Xu Deyou, who is in charge of taking care of you. You can ask the younger one for anything in the future."

As soon as Jia Lian heard this, he nodded and called him in, ready to inquire about the situation of the personnel in the Fourth Translation Hall.

But Xu Deyou replied: "My lord, you don't need to socialize. The adults in the Fourth Translation Hall are all a little withdrawn and don't like to talk with others. If you have anything to do, you can talk to the younger ones, or just go to Mr. Cao directly."

In fact, some capable people have been transferred away long ago, and all the clumsy people who don't know how to drill and die are all left here.

"Really." Jia Lian was expressionless, "Is that why the Fourth Translation Hall is so deserted?"

"Yes and no, it's just that many adults don't come here on time, you..." Xu Deyou wanted to say that Mrs. Jia can do the same, but thinking that if such a thing is said directly, it would be like conveying the wrong message, so he squeezed Winking cryptic expression.

When Jia Lian heard this, he looked at the room casually and said, "The official will go back first, and come back tomorrow."

"Sir, walk slowly."

It's just that although Jia Lian was about to leave, he still wanted to say hello to Mr. Cao, but he didn't expect that the other party waved his hand indifferently after hearing his words, and didn't even mean to continue indulging in his calligraphy.

Seeing his concentration, Jia Lian thought it was some kind of hidden calligrapher, stretched his neck and forgot, but found that it was not normal, and suddenly felt that he had strayed into some magical place.

He had been in and out for less than an hour, and the coachman parked outside was dozing off. When he was woken up, he seemed completely unaware that the second master would come out so soon, so he was speechless: "You..."

"Come back, it happens that the eldest sister is coming, and I will see you too."

It wasn't easy for the coachman to ask too many questions. After the second master got into the carriage, he drove directly to Rongguo Mansion.

Everyone in the Rongguo Mansion knew that the second master had gone to work today, and it was strange to see him come back so early.When Jia Lian came all the way to his grandmother's yard, everyone greeted him with surprised eyes.

Jia Lian calmly said: "Idle job, are you so surprised?"

When everyone came back to their senses, Yuan Chun stood up and looked at Jia Lian, smiling and said, "Second brother Lian, it's been three years, is it okay?"

"Okay." Jia Lian nodded, glanced at Yuan Chun with a smile, saw that she was doing well, and obviously lived a happy life after marriage, so she said: "It seems that you are doing very well."

Yuan Chun smiled gently, "It's all thanks to Big Brother Zhu and Second Brother Lian."

Mother Jia didn't know what kind of riddle they were playing, so she directly said to Yuan Chun without saving face: "Don't give him a high hat, lest you don't know his name."

In order for Jia Lian to speak, Yuan Chun covered his mouth with a handkerchief and smiled, saying: "Seeing grandma and Lian's second brother bickering again, it's kind of kind, but Lian's second brother is much more stable than he looked three years ago. points!"

"Then you didn't see how he came back to talk to me yesterday." Mother Jia spoke angrily, but her eyes were full of smiles, which showed that she was really in a good mood.

Jia Lian and Yuan Chun looked at each other, then asked her with a smile, "Is Cheng Yun still here today?"

"Come on, your husband and second brother are good friends, and you said that grandma will take us in for a night today, and he wants to talk to second brother at night by candlelight!"

But Mother Jia said to Yuan Chun with a smile, "I'm willing even if you live here all the time, but let your son stay at home alone?"

"Grandfather is back, the child is fine at home."

"That's good."

Jia Lian met his eldest sister, and it was impossible to stay with the female relatives all the time. When the women talked to each other, they began to ignore him, so they went back to their yard first.

Unexpectedly, it was not Meng Chengyun who waited first, but Baoyu who came first, and even appeared in his yard.

"Why aren't you at Grandma's?"

"I went to ask An to come..." I was unconsciously lost in thought when I was speaking...

The author has something to say: I made up the content of the Four Translation Library, if you understand it, don’t worry about it