[Red Mansions] Why does Xiaoye want to whitewash

Sister-in-law Zhen's hobbies in her boudoir are quite simple. She doesn't like embroidery and is not as good at martial arts as the others in the Zeng family. Apart from reading books and chanting scriptures, her only hobby is painting, and she never paints living things, only flowers, plants and stones. ...

Facing such a newlywed wife with personality, Jia Zhen is still a little curious about how he plans to attack him at that time, but considering the bad nature of a man, he must take it more seriously the more he can't get it.Thinking of his slightly swollen and sore forehead, Jia Lian had his own little plan in mind...

Seeing that Jia Lian remained silent after he finished speaking, Zeng Jinghuai, who was already a little guilty, felt a little ashamed and said, "My elder sister is indeed a very good person. If I offend my elder brother-in-law in any way, it is definitely not out of my heart. , when the time comes, my mother will naturally teach my sister..."

"No need." Jia Lian immediately interrupted him, and under Zeng Jinghuai's puzzled gaze, he smiled and said, "Brother Zeng doesn't know my big brother Zhen. Although he is a bit absurd, he has never forced women, and he also hates fireworks. The filth of the earth. On the contrary, I prefer those who can seduce challenges to those who obey..."

Zeng Jinghuai couldn't believe that people were really so boring, but if his eldest sister listened to her advice, she wouldn't delay until now, and now she is destined to marry into Ningguo Mansion, so she nodded and said, "I will meet with my mother when I go back for brother." I conveyed it." After speaking, he looked at Jia Lian with some embarrassment, "Brother didn't intend to deceive at the time, but..."

Jia Lian waved his hand and said indifferently, "Brother Zeng is not considered cheating, besides, isn't it the elders of the two parents who decided to make this marriage? What does it have to do with you and me? Don't worry too much."

Upon hearing this, Zeng Jinghuai laughed and said, "I'm not as open-minded as Lian'er!"

The "open-minded" Jia Lian smiled without saying a word, took another look at Zeng Jinghuai's broad shoulders and thick arms, and had to admit that he was a sincere person who was afraid of fists and only knew how to be careful.

After separating from Zeng Jinghuai, Jia Lian did not go to Ningguo Mansion, but sent a letter to Jia Zhen. After all, the little information he got could not guarantee whether Jia Zhen would be irritable again after hearing it, so he should avoid it for the time being. Sharpness is the best policy.

Jia Lian also wanted to pay attention to the follow-up process, but Jia Zhu was about to move to the Imperial College, and while the old and the young in the house expressed their reluctance, they turned their attention to him again.

When Jia Zhu was no longer in the mansion, only Jia Lian was left hanging around in the Rongguo Mansion. Of course, no one was used to it, but everyone had their own reasons, but the old lady brought up the issue of Jia Lian's future again.

For Jia Mu's persistent hope that he would make progress, Jia Lian was really speechless. After all, he remembered that the old lady loved Jia Baoyu and couldn't bear to see him suffer. Why didn't he get that kind of treatment when he came to his place?

He wanted to go out and hide for leisure, but before Jia Zhu left, he came here specially and told him to take care of him in the mansion, and since Jia Zhu was not in the mansion, he was also worried that he would not know when someone would add some gray to his chic life Shadow, so he can only stay in the mansion honestly and listen to the old lady's chanting to practice concentration.

By the way, let people search for the examination questions and excellent answer papers of the spring and autumn dynasties in the past dynasties, and ask someone to sort them out, and prepare to give them to Jia Zhu at that time, so that he can be admitted to Jinshi earlier and take up the family business of the Jia family, otherwise no one will Dare to disturb his study with the affairs of the house, when can Jia Lian concentrate on playing?

So until mid-April, nothing happened in Rongguo Mansion, and then one day Jia Zhen suddenly sent someone to ask him out for a drink. Jia Lian accepted the appointment, only to find out that Sister-in-law Zhen was pregnant. He congratulated and said: " This is a good thing, but why did Brother Zhen call my younger brother?"

"It's not your aunt." Jia Zhen took a sip of wine and said speechlessly: "Since your sister-in-law found out that she was pregnant, she was happy while worrying about Rong'er's sadness, so let me care about him."

"What my aunt said is not unreasonable." Is it normal for children to worry that if there is a stepmother, there will be a stepfather?What's more, Jia Zhen, the father, is not a very reliable person.

Jia Zhen nodded, sent the wine glass in Jia Lian's direction, and said casually: "Brother, I can't be distracted by the affairs of the Jia family, so I can only entrust this matter to you, Lian'er!"

"No, big brother, what did your son entrust to me?" Jia Lian was really speechless. Since Jia Zhen got married, he came to him when he hit a wall with his sister-in-law. Child, of course he refused without hesitation: "I can't!"

"How can a man say no? You can!"

Jia Lian still refused, but Jia Lian didn't care about him at all, and sent Jia Rong to him the next day.And looking at the boy with a delicate face in front of him, he had a slight headache and said, "Aren't you going to school? How can a boy of your age not go to school?"

"Didn't Second Uncle Lian go to school?"

"Second uncle has an older brother, do you have one?" Jia Lian poked Jia Rong's forehead, his father hit him, he can't bully a child hard, can't he satisfy his spirit?

Jia Rong covered her head, shook her head and said, "But I'm going to have a younger brother."

Jia Lian rolled his eyes and said to him in a voice that only two people could hear: "How do you know it's the younger brother? Maybe it's the younger sister?"

"Grandma and the servants say that..."

"They didn't open their eyes, what a fart!" Jia Lian carelessly rubbed Jia Rong's soft hair, and said with a smile, "You can only be sure if you're pregnant with a boy or a girl, and now you're all deceiving yourself. "

Jia Rong nodded ignorantly, and then asked, "Second Uncle Lian, isn't he worried that his uncle and grandma will have younger brothers and sisters?"

"What's there to worry about?" Jia Lian shook his head nonchalantly, "Only those who are incompetent will worry. I am so powerful and fearless."

But after boasting, Jia Lian immediately said again: "I said that your mother may give birth to a girl. Don't let your grandmother know, women are very troublesome!"

"Isn't second uncle not afraid of anything?"

"Why do you have so many questions!" Jia Lian glared at the boy, got up and said, "I'll send you to the ethnology school, and go back to your own home after school!"

Jia Rong was dragged away by Lian's second uncle, and suddenly said: "Second uncle, Rong'er is not studying in ethnology."

"Really?" Jia Lian didn't have much impression, but thinking that Jia Zhu had invited her husband to teach him in the mansion, Jia Rong, the eldest grandson of the Ningguo Mansion, probably would be no different.But he couldn't lose face in front of a kid, so he said seriously: "Even if you don't study there, as the eldest grandson of Ningguo Mansion, you still have to know the children of the clan."

Then Jia Lian took Jia Rong to the clan school in a carriage. As soon as Jia Dairu's servants saw the sign of Rongguo Mansion on the carriage, they immediately went to inform the master, but Jia Dairu claimed to be an elder, so he only asked his grandson Jia Rui to come out to greet him.

"Second brother Lian came to visit, and I'm not far away to welcome you, hurry up and invite me inside." Jia Rui is only nine years old now, but his actions are rigid, without the vivacity of a child, and it can be seen that his grandfather disciplined him very strictly.

Jia Lian was not in any trouble. He nodded and pointed to Jia Rong who was beside him and said, "This is Rong'er from Ningguo Mansion. I have nothing to do to bring him here to play today. Don't be nervous."

Although Jia Dairu's lineage is down and out, they are elders after all, so when Jia Rong sees the uncle next door who is two or three years older than himself, he also earnestly salutes, which makes Jia Rui very flattered and hurried to help.

After entering, Jia Lian didn't have much interest in chatting with Jia Dairu, so he pushed Jia Rong over and said, "I just brought Rong'er over to have a look. If it's convenient for the sixth uncle, let Rong'er attend two classes, and I'll come pick him up again in the afternoon." .”

Jia Rong looked at Second Uncle Lian and threw him in this strange place after finishing speaking, and then glanced at the unknown people around, resisting a little panic in her heart, and said with a straight face like a little adult: " Bothering."

Then Jia Rong was taken into the school, and Jia Lian hid in the corner like a modern parent sending their child to kindergarten on the first day, and left with a fan after seeing that he was not crying.

All the people living in this street are members of the Jia family, but Jia Lian went out and saw many children who were about the same age as Jia Rong running around. They didn't go to the ethnology school at all, so they went to two of them to play. Behind the child with the wooden spinning top, he looked at it for a while before asking, "Is it fun?"

When the two children turned around, they saw that it was the young master of Rongguo Mansion, and they stood up cautiously. The older one had seen Jia Lian before, and he took the lead in saluting, "Second Master Lian is well."

Jia Lian waved his fan to stop another child who was not allowed to salute, and asked, "Aren't you going to study at the ethnology school?"

The older child shook his head and said, "I don't have the talent for reading, and I can't get a good grade in the exam, so my parents told me not to waste money..."

Like him, he can't read... Jia Lian nodded, and then glanced at some old clothes on his body, but it might be different. If he didn't become Jia Lian, but was like this child, he probably did it for his own life. Quality, if you don’t know it, you have to force yourself to do it.

Thinking of this, he asked him again: "Are there many children like you who can't read in the clan?"

"About a dozen."

Jia Lian nodded, let the child continue playing, and then abducted into the Ningguo Mansion, and had Jia Zhen informed of his arrival.

Jia Zhen thought he was here to send her son back, but after coming over, she didn't see Rong'er beside Jia Lian, so she asked, "Where's Rong'er?"

"I sent him to the ethnology school." Jia Lian picked up the tea bowl and smiled at the little maid serving tea for him. Seeing her blushing, she immediately put away her smiling face and said seriously to Jia Zhen: "Brother When I came back, I saw a child in our family who did not go to school, and I wanted to ask Brother Zhen for his opinion on something."

"You said."

"Children have different talents, and not all children can obtain academic honors. Can you set up more courses in ethnology, martial arts, arithmetic, or other skills that will enable them to make a living in the future? What does Big Brother Zhen think?"