Baoyu Fights the Red Chamber

Fourth watch, the night is quiet and people sleep.All of a sudden, the gongs and sutra chanting in Tiekan Temple were loud.

This kind of posture is naturally Jia Zhen and his son who were shocked by the bad news and rushed back in the starry night.What do you say about the three orders?Isn't there still Jia Cong, Jia Rong's elder, suitable for 13 to 30 years old.

It is said that Jia Zhen and his son rode fast all the way and did not go to the shop at night. I don't know how many horses were injured by running.Such filial piety, of course, must be vigorously displayed, and the monks will be aroused immediately after hearing the news, creating a roaring momentum to welcome them.

Jia Zhen and his son galloped to the gate of the temple, rolled off the horse and howled loudly, knelt and crawled all the way in from outside the gate until they reached the coffin, crying and howling, bleeding from their foreheads.

The momentum was so shocking and scary, no one had the ability to sleep again, so they simply got up and came to cry with them.There was a loud cry for a while, and finally there was a bit of the atmosphere of the Qin family's funeral.

Mr. Zheng will not lag behind, and comes with Baoyu's support.You ask Jalan?How often do the cursive generation take it?Lan Tongxie sent Aunt Tanchun back home and did not go to Tiekan Temple again.The old lady came here once, and she was worried about Daiyu Tanchun, so she insisted that her servants carry it on a soft bridge, accompanied by Jia Yun and his wife, Xue Pan and his wife.What do you say about Guan Pan's children's shoes?His wife, Yingchun, is the niece of Lord Jing's clan. Although she is a married woman and her family is in the capital, Yingchun is worried that Xichun will "sorrow too much", so she comes here to find out.

But when Mr. Zheng saw that Jia Qiang was still invisible, his brows were knotted, and he ordered Baoyu to ask the chief executive, Laisheng.

Baoyu couldn't find Laisheng, so he asked someone casually, and learned that Brother Qiang and Laisheng had gone to Ningfu to set up a mourning hall for the transfer of spirits.

Master Zheng nodded slightly after hearing this, and went forward to caress the coffin and weep.He was really sad, the ancestors of the old Jia family had such a Jinshi, and he still clearly remembered the high spirits and joy of the old Jia family when he respected his brother's title on the gold list, and when he was young, he secretly swore that he was the second.Now the beard and hair are half-white, and the road to Kejia has been cut off long ago. Relying on the shade of his ancestors to become a small official, he finally rose to the fifth rank, and he was injured before he took office!

Mr. Zheng cried more and more sadly, until the day was bright, and his voice was hoarse from crying.

Baoyu is depressed: I don't know how to take care of my body with injuries. How long will it take to recover?If it was your own brother Jia She who was lying in the coffin, it would be appropriate for you to cry like this. I didn't learn "ritual" well, no wonder I couldn't even pass the exam as a scholar.It's just that they haven't read the book well, and they don't know the common sense of survival. Seeing how lazy Jia Zhen and his son are, they stopped their mourning just after dawn, and took a long time to come out after changing into fierce clothes.

Now Jia Zhen and his son lay down in front of the coffin, and Baoyu looked at each other coldly. After washing and changing their clothes, the two spirits were completely different.

He seriously suspected that the father and son had slept enough during the day, and staged this scene according to the time.Don't say that he measures the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Do the math, it takes five days for Pegasus to go to the imperial mausoleum?Definitely and definitely not! No. 19 night to respect the old man Bintian, No. 20 morning Youshi got a report, and immediately sent someone to report the funeral.That day was the fourth day of the journey, and the imperial convoy was full of orders to send off spirits. The convoy was winding slowly, how far could it go?It will take more than ten days for Jia Zhen and his son to return halfway?

After Jia Zhen and Jia Rong lay down for a while, Jia Huang, Jia Yan, and Jia Ying took turns to persuade them to "sorry, and lessen the grief, director".

Patriarch Zhen was kind and generous, and let others help him to sit on a bench beside him.After drinking a cup of hot tea and wiping his tearful face with a hot towel, he covered his eyes with his hands and mourned, "When I heard the bad news, all of us were burned, and we asked the Ministry of Rites for leave to return to the funeral. Both Zhen and Rong'er were escorted by the Ministry of Rites. Don't dare to be self-reliant, and have your own purpose."

Speaking of this, he got up and knelt to the north: "Today's benevolent and filial piety, and grand descendants of meritorious officials, see Qin Ben's extra benevolence decree." Sacred Order: Although Jia Jing was dressed in white, he did not contribute to the country, but he thought of his grandfather's merits and granted him the post of fifth rank. He ordered his descendants to carry the coffin and enter the capital through the gate of the north, and enter his private funeral. Let the descendants complete the funeral ceremony and complete the support When the coffin returns to its hometown, Guanglu Temple will give sacrifices according to the above regulations. In the middle of the court, the princes and princes will allow him to sacrifice and hang. This is my honor."

The "emperor's oracle" is exactly the same as that recorded in the original work, which proves the immortal ability of Shenying's waiter who never forgets.

You said that Jia Zhen also "never forget"?Ah bah, looking through the imperial edicts of the past dynasties, there is no such thing as plain words.If it is a verbal command, it is not the first time that Fake Stone has heard the verbal commandment today, and the verbal commandment is twice as oral today, so there will be no written words such as "enter the private funeral", let alone the word "Qin this", which is clear. It's patriarch Zhen who adapted the imperial decree, which is disrespectful!

It's hard to say if the members of the Jia family were suspicious, they were more respectful than the other on the face, and as soon as the "Qin this" fell, they kowtowed three times and shouted long live, and they praised the filial piety of Shanglongdun today, and the royal grace is so great.

False Stone silently admires Patriarch Zhen for daring to adapt the imperial decree, but it is estimated that he will not adapt it outrageously, and wonders: Is the emperor showing mercy or scolding? "White clothes are useless to the country, but remember the merits of his grandfather." Later, Jia Jing, who was once a general of the first rank, turned into a small official of the fifth rank and was buried as a fifth rank!

Suddenly he had a flash of inspiration: Is Jia Jing's "fifth-rank position" the same as Jia Rong's fifth-rank vain position, which was bought by Jia Zhen with money?Jia Zhen is a smart person, with five grades for father and three grades for son, some complicated etiquette that can make a filial son die can be simplified.More importantly, the relatives and friends who came to worship, no one will forget Qin Keqing's funeral, and Jia Jing has been appointed as a fifth-rank official, and no one can choose the ceremony according to the system.Qin Keqing has the status of a clan wife, who gave birth to an heir, and a clan clan. There are big and small clans, that is, there are many people and few, and their standards can be high or low without explicit regulations.Unlike men, funeral standards are determined according to social status.It's just that no matter how smart Jia Zhen is, she will take advantage of loopholes, refuse to return the imperial silver, and commit a lot of crimes, and she will still be dealt with.

Neijia Youshi also felt guilty, "in the court, the princes and princes will allow him to sacrifice and hang him", I am afraid that he will lose face, "permitted" does not have to come. How many low ones will come?

At first she helped Jia Zhen to change her clothes, Jia Zhen had a pleasant face, and she didn't mention Third Sister You and Jia Qiang, which also made her feel guilty, and it was useless for her to think of many words to deal with.Jia Zhen gets angry when she meets her. It's okay to have a big quarrel, and it's fine after the quarrel.If you hold a grudge, God knows what will happen.She used to act like a mother-in-law because she couldn't understand Qin's behavior. Jia Zhen turned around and built a Tianxiang Pavilion without saying a word. The Qin family is proclaiming ~ prostitution in the pavilion day in and day out!A pair of dogs and men are not ashamed, she is going to die of shame!

This time, You Shi thought too much, Jia Zhen knew Brother Qiang too well, and her bluffing face was obviously due to ghosts and mistakes, and You Shi was the one who was wronged and implicated.As for the ear-scratching of Third Sister You, he must have guessed that it was Brother Bao who said it, and that kid definitely didn't "know it after the fact".A kid who is as big as a little ghost would not order his servant to slap the third sister in a moment of anger. It must be because of Xichun that he wants to drive the third sister out of the Ningfu.

As for Baoyu's concern for Xichun, in his opinion, it was for Xichun's marriage. Once the three years of filial piety were over, Xichun would die.

When Xichun's mother died, she entrusted Xichun to Jia's mother, and Jia Zhen had no right to make decisions about her marriage.Hou Lian Er went to Jia Zhen again, saying that the old lady was already old, and what would happen if Xichun returned to the west before she was engaged?Jia Zhen entrusted her to Rongfu without hesitation: only Rongfu can marry Xichun, and if she marries well, he can enjoy the benefits.The Rong Mansion has the empress, the wife of the prince's son, the wealth of the Xue family, etc. Lian Er is not a petty weapon, he is a fool to compete with the Rong Mansion for the right to marry Xichun.

He will never offend Baoyu for a third sister You, a woman like a brother is a brother, let alone a brother Bao who is destined to have a bright future.But he didn't want to drive away the two aunts, what a delicious thing, just to relieve boredom.

He thinks this matter is not difficult to deal with: if Ning's mansion is a big place, the courtyard where Xichun lives is farther away from the residence of Youshi sisters, and then the servants are ordered to watch over them, and the Youshi sisters don't have to cry, and the two sides will not meet each other .

Closer to home.The mourning hall was arranged in the Ning Mansion, the archway of the drummer shed was erected in front of the gate, and a date was set for the Tiekan Temple. Patriarch Zhen posted a message to inform relatives and friends that once the matter was settled, the coffin was invited to enter the city at Maoshi on the [-]th.

The scene of moving spirits is quite grand - tens of thousands of people lined up to watch!You don't have to worry about no one cheering, this is what the people want. The reputation of the Ningrong Second Mansion is not ordinary. Not long ago, it was once again famous in the teahouse neighborhood because of "the old lady killed the slaves at night".

Minor officials of the fifth rank have no right to clean up the road, and most of the people watching the excitement are ordinary people.You said that the Qin family was not qualified to clear the way when they were in mourning?That time there was the Siwanglu Festival.Of course not this time, and the reason will not be repeated.

Shenshi's coffin entered Ningfu and was parked in the main hall for mourning.After the ceremony, relatives and friends gradually dispersed, but the relatives who helped with chores would not disperse. The filial son Jia Zhen and the filial grandson Jia Rong had to spread a straw mat beside the spirit and rest on a brick according to the etiquette.

Xichun is a girl, so she doesn't have to and can't sleep on the ground outside, so she goes back to the prepared yard.Daiyu accompanied her back to the hospital, and the two girls have been sleeping and eating together all this time.

It's useless to worry that Baoyu can't go to the inner courtyard with his two daughters, so he doesn't worry at all.

According to Wucaishi, Shenying's waiter Xichun didn't return to Ningfu at that time, and she insisted that her father had become a monk, so she had no father, and she wanted to become a monk herself, and everyone felt helpless against her.

False Stone is very emotional. If a junior in a big feudal family dares to resist like Xichun, he does not intend to live. That is, Jia Mu is compassionate and replaced by a literati family with strict etiquette. For the sake of family reputation, such an unfilial daughter is not a Strangling to death with a rope is like drinking a bowl of medicine to death.He doesn't have the courage of Xichun to fight to the death, he will never fight against the ethics, he will only take advantage of the situation, and be a slippery hypocrite under the existing system in order to survive for a long time.

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Not to mention how a certain hypocrite followed the crowd to offer sacrifices to the family uncle. Following the orders to send Concubine Zhen to the imperial mausoleum to return to Beijing, this year's government examination has also been announced, and the Jia family private school has three new students: Liu Quan ( Yinquan), Jia Lan, Liu Xianglian.

Yinquan's ranking this time was not as scary as it was in the county test. It was No. 9 and Jalan No. 17.

Liu Xianglian flew over at low altitude, counting down No. 3. It is unknown whether it has something to do with a crazy student who disrupted the examination room with a knife in his hand.The children's test is not very demanding. Of course, if you don't finish it or make mistakes, you can't do it. If you pass the basic line, it depends on whether the examiner is willing to raise his hand.

The Rong Mansion was very happy, specifically the second room of the Rong Mansion was very happy, but it was not easy to celebrate during the mourning period.Mr. Zheng had no choice but to settle for the next best thing. He asked Baoyu Jialan and half-son Liu Tongxi to drink half-su tea in his study (sacrifices will be held during the day).

Mrs. Wang recruited three snacks for a "home-cooked meal".There is no fishy meat on the table, and the dishes fried in sesame oil are more dazzling than the top-grade vegetarian seats.During the dinner, Mrs. Wang kindly said that Liu Xianglian was really terrified of the examination room. Just imagine that the government examination room is much scarier than the county examination room, and the hospital examination is in June. What will the examination room look like?Therefore, there is no need to act. He frowns and expresses that he can't do well at home with the college examination papers over the years.

Mrs. Wang saw through at a glance that Liu Xianglian did not want to take the exam again, and she was quite satisfied.She thinks that after Jia Dairu's death, Baoyu or Jia Lan should just hold the title of school secretary, and Liu Xianglian will help guard it. If one more school teacher like Shan Juren is hired, everything will be in order.

On May [-]th, two of the healthy servants of the Rong Mansion who went to Jinling returned to Beijing. Their frightening appearances were serious "non-stop, no night stay"—five thousand miles away, and they made round trips in less than forty days. The time spent working in Jinling will also be deducted.

The two health servants brought home a book and Sister Feng's medical record - Sister Feng "got her daughter's tuberculosis", that is, lung disease.Tuberculosis was an incurable disease in ancient times, and it just dragged on.

The handwriting of the family letter was written by Lian Er, and the first half was dictated by Sister Feng, saying that tuberculosis would spread to others, so she left her natal family years ago and lived in the ancestral village next to the grave of the old Jia family. She was born as Jia's wife and died as Jia's ghost .It is inconvenient for her to go back to her residence after suffering from this kind of disease, so she took advantage of Lian Er's visit this time, and gave Caiming, the girl who will accompany her in life and death, to Lian Er as a roommate. Aunt, Bao Caiming has a stable meal for the rest of his life.

The second half of the letter was from Lian Er. From the greetings from the old lady to the master and wife, the second master and the second wife, everyone in the mansion asked about it, even the parrot raised by cousin Lin, and claimed that he had been ill on the way. , I was afraid that my ancestors would worry about me, so I didn't dare to write family letters and so on. There is only one important thing in the whole article: Aunt Xing has been pregnant for almost three months.

Jia's mother was not happy, and Aunt Xing gave birth to a son, that is, a concubine's son.

After listening to Hu Zhu finish reading, she asked for glasses and put it on to take a closer look. The more she looked at it, the more angry she became. Do you think she is really a fool?

After reluctantly enduring it for a day, before the next day, the two half-dead healthy servants were lifted from the couch for careful interrogation.

The two health servants splashed well water on their faces, but just one day was not enough to rest their energy, and they were still alive like ghosts.

Jianfu A told them that Lian Er hadn't arrived when they arrived at the king's house in Jinling. The Wang family said that Lian Er's grandmother had her daughter's tuberculosis, and she took her widowed mother, widowed sister-in-law and eldest brother to nowhere, and said that Wang You might know.They found Wang You's house, and Wang You said that Lian's second grandmother had gone to Jia's ancestral village, and that he saw Lian's second master on the streets of Jinling a few days ago, but he couldn't catch up after chasing him.

Wang You believed that Lian's second master was in Xue's house, saying that he was not good enough, so he brought Jia's servants to Xue's shop.The servants of the Xue family refused to accept the excuse of the owner of the Rong Mansion, Mr. Xie, and claimed that they had never met the second master Lian.They had no choice but to leave a message, and then divided into two groups, one went to the ancestral village, and the other waited for Lian Erye in the old house.Wang You was very annoyed and waited with them.

Health servant A stayed in the old house along the way, and said, "The second master of Wanlian came with Aunt Xing that day."

Wang You scolded Lian's second master, saying that Lian's second master pretended to be sick when he was sick on the way to the south, and tricked him to go back to Jinling first, and asked Lian's second master to go see Lian's second grandmother immediately.The second master Lian agreed, and Wang You forbade Aunt Xing to take the maids, saying that the concubines were maids who served the mistress, and pointed out that the maids were Yangzhou skinny horses, and taking them to Jia's ancestral village was to anger his cousin.Everyone behaved badly, saying that they would not take Aunt Xing's girl, but some women from the old house to serve. After all, Aunt Xing was the concubine of the second master Lian, and she was the only woman in the group, so it was inconvenient to travel.

Wang You wanted to take the doctor with him again, saying that he didn't know that Jia's ancestral village was in such a remote countryside, so there was no good doctor there.

The second master Lian gave Wang You the name card and asked him to invite him himself.Wang You took the name card and asked Zhen's family for help. He invited Dr. He, a master tuberculosis expert in Jinling who had treated President Zhen's eldest son, and it took two days before he left for the trip.Aunt Xing vomited badly in the middle of the journey, and Second Master Lian said that he probably couldn't get used to it.When Dr. He beat his pulse, he said it was a happy pulse.

At this time, it was bumpy to send Aunt Xing back to Jinling, so I went to the ancestral village as usual.

Next, Healthy Servant B will talk about their journey.

Jian Servant B reported that they had not been able to enter the ancestral village, and the village master said, "Second Grandma Lian is dead."But they could tell from their expressions that they were angry. They thought they would have to wait for Lian's second master to pick up Lian's second mistress, so they didn't force their way into the village and spent the night in a nearby village.

After the second road arrived, Wang You went in with Dr. He and the two women from the old house.After half a day, Mrs. Jin, the mother of the mandarin ducks, came to send a message that Second Grandma Lian had not seen Aunt Xing and asked Second Master Lian to enter the village alone.

Mrs. Jin is not totally deaf, but she has severe deafness, so she can hear her shouting loudly.Second Master Lian asked Mrs. Jin if she had seen Second Mistress, and Mrs. Jin said, "Yes, Second Mistress may be useless."As soon as the second master Lian heard this, he immediately followed Mrs. Jin.

One day later, Wang You came to the village with red eyes and said that Lian's second grandmother allowed them to enter the village, but Aunt Xing could not.So they left the long-term follower of the second master Lian, and three women from the old house to serve Aunt Xing.

Wang You led them to a courtyard in the middle of the village, the courtyard door was closed tightly, Second Master Lian was writing a letter on the desk outside the door, and Caiming stood behind him.After Huilian Erye finished writing, Caiming picked it up and read it aloud.After reading, Sister Feng's voice came from the door, saying that it meant so.When someone from Caiming came to tell the master, Sister Feng asked how the master was doing, and how the old lady was in good health.

When Jia's mother heard this, she scolded "sinister" angrily. Sister Feng asked if it was true, and who was Lian's second photo gourd painting?

She stopped listening and asked, "What did Doctor He say?"

Jian Servant B said: "He said that Lian's second grandmother's tuberculosis was caused by mental depression, and she had to rest and rest. This would not be exhausting. Therefore, the servants came to ask the old lady and the elder to show me."

The author has something to say: The famous saying of the Red Chamber, "When the fake is true, the real is also fake, and when there is nothing to do, sometimes there is nothing."Life is a play, let's see who plays it better.