[Red Mansions] Why does Xiaoye want to whitewash

Jia Lian stopped, turned around and looked at his father with some puzzlement, and asked, "What else do you need?"

"I heard that the abbot of the Huguo Temple is very accurate in seeing faces, and the temple is also very accurate in obtaining signatures. I donated a large sum of money for sesame oil. You can take a look at it when you have time."

"Look at what?"

"Of course it's about the heirs!" Jia She looked at Jia Lian with distaste, "I have such an expensive son like you, why don't you think of a way to see if you can ask for a son?"

Jia Lian was speechless, and immediately refused: "I won't go, your money should be treated as good deeds to save yourself some blessings."

"I'm rich! What blessings can't I enjoy?!"

"The young master is rich, and he can live a righteous life without a son!" After Jia Lian finished speaking, he didn't bother to argue with him, and left the main room after saying goodbye again.

Who would have thought that Jia Amnesty would tell Mother Jia in front of everyone when he was paying his respects the next day? The abbot's lectures on the Dharma are also beneficial, so don't waste your father's kindness."

"Am I not a fatherly heart?"

After Jia Lian heard this, he looked sideways at Daddy Cheap, this is true!Why didn't he know that cheap dad still has a "fatherly heart"?

It's just that it's not good to wipe the face of the elders and refuse directly. Even Wang Xifeng will support him after going back. Jia Lian can only agree to go to Huguo Temple after he rests.

However, he went there purely with the mentality of outing, and was not interested in things like unwrapping the lottery, so he invited Jia Zhu and Meng Chengyun, and then thought that he was going to let Jiang Minghao be his brother-in-law, So I asked him to go with him again.

Later, when he saw Liu Ding, he casually said something, and Liu Ding also said that he wanted to go out to play together, but he didn't expect that there was his nephew Luo Min in the carriage that day.

Luo Min asked a few questions about Sister Qiao, and Jia Lian answered. When she turned her eyes and saw Meng Chengyun talking to Jiang Minghao with a smile, she shook her head helplessly. It has been so long. Every time they meet, Meng Chengyun Still looking serious...

But Jiang Minghao had already rotted this matter in his stomach, and he didn't take it to heart, but Meng Chengyun was always very sour.

Jia Zhu and Jia Lian didn't bother to tell him that it was he, Meng Chengyun, not the innocent Jiang Minghao who had prepared their tricks early in the morning, so let him misunderstand and feel a sense of urgency.

It's just that sometimes I still feel sorry for Jiang Minghao who doesn't know anything, so even Jia Zhu's attitude towards Jiang Minghao will be a little... gentle?Anyway, the spring breeze and drizzle-like attitude made Jiang Minghao always feel that they were all good people.

Because the original reason for today's outing was to go to Huguo Temple to ask about his heirs, so everyone came to Huguo Temple early, and as the protagonist of today, the others have been watching Jia Lian asking for a lottery.

It may be that Jia Amnesty’s sum of money was not in vain. As soon as Jia Lian signed up his name after drawing lots, he was invited by the little novice to the abbot’s courtyard. The others did not ask for lots, so they asked another little novice to take them to the temple. A bamboo forest is waiting for him.

And Jia Lian followed the little novice into the abbot's meditation room, and saw a monk in cassock sitting on the futon and looking at him kindly. And the abbot of Huguo Temple has always had a very good reputation.

So Jia Lian clasped his hands together and bowed to greet the abbot, and then sat on the futon opposite the abbot according to the instructions, and presented the lottery in his hand.

"What is the benefactor asking for?"

"Son." After Jia Lian finished speaking, seeing the abbot carefully looking at the lottery he asked for, he said again: "I'm not so obsessed with this, but a woman's childbirth is no different from going through the gate of hell, so I come here I also want to ask you, if someone in my family inquires in the future, can I ask the master in the temple to tell them that I am destined to give birth to a daughter?"

"The so-called saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, is that what Buddhists say? My wife is getting older, so it's impossible to risk her life for a child of unknown gender, right?"

The abbot didn't make a sound, but listened carefully to what he said.

When Jia Lian saw this, he respectfully said: "I also know that monks don't lie, but my request is considered kind, can you please agree?"

"The benefactor may have misunderstood." The abbot smiled and put the lottery on the small table, and said: "The benefactor was originally destined to have a son who would die before he was born, but there was a turning point when he was young. If you can’t get what you want, rebirth is still a woman’s life.”

"..." He was the one who dragged Wang Xifeng back. I don't know why, but I want to ask the abbot not to say anything!

"However, the benefactor is open-minded and has kind thoughts in his heart, so it will benefit his descendants."

Jia Lian smiled back in embarrassment, but the abbot was still an eminent monk, and Jia Lian thanked him before leaving, and didn't ask any more questions because what the other party said was accurate.

Slightly melancholy, he was brought in front of the others by the little novice, and several people looked at him in dismay. It was Jia Zhu who opened his mouth first and asked, "But the signing is not good?"

"That's not true." These few people are not that talkative, so Jia Zhu didn't hide it, and just spread his hands and said: "I wanted to ask the abbot to help me cover up the house, don't be so urgent , who ever thought the abbot would say that if I sign it, it means that it is the life of my daughter, I feel that I have thought a lot about this before."

This... I have never heard of people in temples telling people that they can't have a son directly. They usually say it very euphemistically, but Jia Lian's words are more like lies...

Jia Lian didn't care whether they believed it or not, and said directly: "The abbot of the Huguo Temple personally helped me to untie the lottery. By the way, help me publicize it outside, lest some gossips gossip about my wife."

Then he laughed and went to the foot of the mountain with everyone according to the original plan. Liu Ding's family has Zhuangzi not far from here, which is located not far from the river. This season is just right for enjoying the lotus.

Among them, only Luo Min is a junior, who has always acted like a tutor, with a smile on his face all the time. Seeing him asking Meng Chengyun for advice, Jia Zhu couldn't help sighing to Jia Lian: "If Lan'er would It would be nice to be like him."

"Lan Er is already very good, don't be too greedy." In fact, in Jia Lian's opinion, at least in terms of intelligence, he is better than his father Jia Zhu, and his personality is as gentle as Jia Zhu. He is already someone else's family. The child is a model.

If you see a more outstanding child and want to make your own child like that, then what will sister Qiao do?Could it be that he has become a sensitive person long ago?

And Jia Zhu just said casually, he is still very proud of his son.

There weren't many people who could really sit still and fish. After a while, Liu Ding and Jia Lian began to hang around, not caring whether the fish would take the bait or not.

"Knowing that you brought Luo Min here, I should bring those children out of the family too."

When Luo Min heard his name, he turned his head and smiled at Uncle Lian and Uncle Lian, and then turned around to ask Uncle Meng for advice.

Looking at Luo Min, Jia Lian couldn't help sighing, "It's true that every family wants such excellent children and grandchildren!"

Liu Ding looked at Jia Lian amusedly, and said: "Your family has three daughters, and you don't have an excellent son for the time being, but you can have an excellent son-in-law!"

“这个倒是可以有。”贾琏摇了两下扇子，笑着说：“我这一想到我的女儿将来要嫁给哪个坏小子，就恨不得揍他们一顿。”

"How old is your daughter and you start to have a father-in-law mentality?"

"In the blink of an eye, the children will grow up, don't they have to get ready early?" Jia Lian is now focusing on Zeng Qingbai, but the eldest sister is older, and she will have to see each other in four or five years. Can he not have a sense of urgency?

"How is my son?" Liu Ding tapped Jia Lian on the shoulder with his fan, and said, "I didn't say that, my eldest son is also proficient in everything from literature to martial arts, how about us as in-laws?"

Jia Lian brushed off his fan and refused expressionlessly: "Our eldest sister is still young."

"It's only four years old. I don't mind. You can wait."

"I mind." Liu Ding's eldest son is indeed good, but he is already seeing each other for marriage, even if it is nothing for the eldest sister, Liu Ding is good, and his sister-in-law is also very nice, but that's not the case. On behalf of others, they would like their son to wait for a little girl, and they cannot let them hold their grandson early.

Liu Ding followed Jia Lian and said, "Then my second son is not bad, how about sister Qiao's promise to our family? Your sister-in-law and I will definitely raise him as our own daughter."

Jia Lian paused, thinking that the second child of Liu Ding's family was also a chubby boy, and turned around and said, "There are hundreds of girls in the family. If your son grows up to be a good one, I can let him be in the front row."

"My son is definitely not bad!"

"..."

Luo Min looked at his second uncle's back in a daze, Meng Chengyun saw that he had lost his voice, raised his head, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, Uncle Meng." Luo Min shook his head, turned his eyes back to look at the river again, his heart was like waves on the surface of the water...

At noon, they grilled fish directly by the river, but they didn't catch it, but the people on the village went down to catch it.

When going back in the afternoon, Luo Min took out two wooden boxes and said to Jia Lian, "Second Uncle Lian, this is for Sister Qiao and Lin Ke. Could you please help me with them?"

Jia Lian took a look, took it over and said with a smile, "Then I will thank you on their behalf."

But Jia Lian took a look at the two boxes, one big and one small, and wondered how he allocated them.Luo Min noticed and immediately explained: "The small one is for sister Qiao, and the big one is for Lin Ke and Jia Lan."

After hearing this, Jia Lian nodded, put it in his hand, and said, "I'll leave it to them when I get back."