Baoyu Fights the Red Chamber

The Zhen family in Jinling was convicted, and Baoyu saw it from the residence newspaper, and the place was at the Princess Mansion on September [-]th.The brother-in-law handed him the mansion newspaper, and he sighed infinitely and gloomyly after reading it, but didn't say anything.

If possible, he would have saved a sigh, but no one in Beijing knew that the Zhen and Jia families were old relatives.

This is the merit of Jia's mother. Originally, the Jia family recovered the deposit four years ago, and the Zhenjia family's eighth life-long marriage relationship was once separated, but Jia's mother insisted on taking care of the married daughter of the Zhen family. .In February of this spring, Mrs. Zhen sent her daughter to Beijing for an audition. Mrs. Wang and Baoyu joined forces to "break up the relationship". Later, when Mrs. Zhen stayed in the capital, she was very indifferent to the Jia family, so they could break up again.

Unfortunately, Concubine Zhen passed away, and Jia's mother cried like a dear relative, and she cried with a heartbroken heart.In contrast, Grandma You of Ningfu reported illness early, and the two wives of King Xing of Rongfu pretended to be in a coma.Later, Jia's mother killed the slaves at night, and the outsiders didn't know that it was the helpless handwriting of Bao Erye. It was only because Jia's mother had a special affection for the Zhen family, so it was rumored that Shi Taijun rekindled his old love, but the younger generation of Ning Rong's second family gave birth to a concubine. , Don't pay attention to relatives and friends.

After the death of Master Jing, the Zhen family sent only five hundred taels of sacrificial silver to the Ning Mansion, which meant something to the Zhen family.

The reason is that Mrs. Zhen returned to the West a few days earlier than she respected the master. The Ning Mansion sent five hundred taels, and the Rong Mansion was generally the same.

Rong Mansion will be like this because the old lady is not safe after killing slaves at night. Mrs. Xing doesn't know much about these things, and Mrs. Wang is the master.Jia Zhen is that the Zhen family has not taken him seriously for a long time, otherwise his brother Lian would not have been asked to ask for the deposit four years ago.

The relationship between the two families is like this, and as a junior of the younger generation, Fake Stone will confess with a sigh.

Prince Consort Zhang patted his junior brother on the shoulder meaningfully: "There is no such thing as prosperity and decline, and what is gradually declining has the power to rise again."

The fake stones appreciate his consolation.In fact, everyone understands the truth, and the Zhen family understands it better, so why can't they go up and down.The Zhen family was even worse than the Jia family because they belonged to typical foreign relatives, including some who were dead. Four daughters of one family entered the royal family, and one entered the palace of a county prince with a foreign surname.But at the beginning, it was only Mrs. Zhen who became the nanny of today.At that time, Jinshang was just an unfavorable milk baby, whether he could grow up or not was a matter of debate.Because the royal family ruled the world with filial piety, the prince's nurses were all looked up to a little.As long as such a family appears weak, tigers and wolves will immediately pounce on them.In order to avoid being preyed upon by the surrounding tigers and wolves, the Zhen family formed good relationships with various forces, and as a result, they were tabooed by the royal family at the time of the Supreme Emperor.

And Jia Daihua and Jia Daishan will marry the Zhen family, and the Zhen family will be an ordinary farming and studying family.Times have changed, but Mother Jia doesn't have this political sensitivity, she only sees the grandeur of the Zhen family, but she doesn't think that it is a common practice for the royal family to attack foreign relatives.

After leaving the princess mansion, Baoyu didn't find his brother Lian Er, so he returned to the family school immediately.

When Liu Xianglian went to his aunt's house, no one would enter a certain room without warning, and it happened to be a place for secret talks.

After summoning Yinquan, he told him bluntly: "The Zhen family was convicted of a huge deficit and dozens of crimes such as buying and selling salt and Yin, and their furniture has been confiscated. Zhen Yingjia and the men of the whole family have been transferred to Beijing for punishment."

Yinquan's expression was dazed, the corners of his lips curled up for a while, as if he wanted to smile, but tears rolled down suddenly.

Baoyu couldn't bear to see his appearance, and pretended to be free and easy: "Cry if you want to cry! I will also cry behind people's back. The world is unpredictable, don't everyone say that there are unpredictable things in the sky, and people have blessings and misfortunes..."

"It's not accidental." Yinquan's voice dimmed, "Sooner or later, I've known it since I can remember."

That is, you were sent out early in the morning.Baoyu sighed: "If you are dead, you will come back to life. As long as you are alive, there is hope. Patience is the first lesson you have to learn. I have selfish intentions about your marriage. If you don't wait any longer, maybe I have someone important to entrust to you. Don't worry." , I have made arrangements, even if the Jia family is destroyed, you will not be in trouble."

Yinquan suddenly knelt down and bowed to the ground: "The master takes one step and sees three steps. The slave is at ease, but if you have a mission, you will definitely do your best."

This is the first time that Yinquan calls her a slave, Baoyu is very awkward, but he doesn't dismiss it.He thought that the Zhen family was gone, and the Zhen family that Yinquan was secretly hoping for was gone, and the boy urgently needed to find another backer.

So he deliberately put his voice in an even and steady voice: "Master, I made it down. You get up, walk out of this door, you are just my brother. People live in the present, and all you have to do right now is to help you manage the family school well, nothing else. "

At the same time, Lian Er also learned that another corrupt official had been convicted, and secretly sighed that Bao's second brother was really a fortune teller!

He didn't rush to find his troubled brother either, and immediately went back to the house to "greeting" to the old lady.

Don't get me wrong, Lian Er's plan is not to run to insinuate the old lady, what good does it do him if the old lady is depressed?More than anyone else, he wished the old lady a long life.As long as Jia Mu is alive, the eldest and second families will not separate.Although the family is separated, brothers and sisters will still help each other, but the feeling is different after all.

Baoyu lived in the courtyard after his marriage. He has always insisted on using the Jiayou courtyard next to the Hulian courtyard.The Jiayou Courtyard is just the courtyard of the Grand Duke who will live in the Qing Dynasty, and there is no overreach, so it doesn't need to be demolished.In this way, as long as the Rong Mansion is not convicted, the old lady and the old man will return to the West, and the brothers can live side by side.

Jia Cong also thought about it, the concubine doesn't need a big courtyard, and he doesn't want to support his first-rank aunt, so he can live in the Baoyu where Baoyu lives now.The Rongqing Hall sandwiched between the Hulian Courtyard and the Baosha just happened to be the ancestral hall.As for other places, how could the old Jia family produce another Duke?That is, if you can't keep your ancestral property, it's better to let it go.

Mother Jia is in good spirits today, and is playing leaf cards with some old mothers.Because he was playing in the four open pavilions, Lian Er saw it from a distance, he couldn't help hesitating, and waved his hands to the maid who wanted to inform.

The mandarin duck and amber standing next to Jia Mu always looked around and listened to all directions, and couldn't help but smile when she saw this scene.

It just so happened that Mother Jia wanted to ask Yuanyang to help her read the cards. Seeing her expression was different, she looked along and scolded with a smile: "Where is this kid acting like a ghost? Come in quickly."

Lian Er walked into the pavilion quickly: "I don't dare to be disturbed when I see the old lady playing cards. It's cool in autumn and the pavilion is windy, so it's better to play cards in the house."

Mother Jia sighed: "I'm really old, my grandson is in charge. The wind is not strong, and I like the warm autumn sun to shine on me."

Some of the old mothers agreed with Jia's mother that it was warm today, and some praised Lian Er's filial piety, saying that it was rare for a man to be so careful.

Jia's mother guessed that Lian Er had something to do, claiming that her old arms and legs could not sit for a long time, and she had to get up and take a few steps to evacuate for a while, and ordered Yuanyang to play this round of cards on her behalf.

Lian Er hurriedly helped each other in person, boasting of his family's wealth and well-being by praising flowers and grass, and the second master with a real job is also a stable job.

Jia's mother snorted: "There is no need to go around mountains and rivers. I entered this family from the great-grandson's daughter-in-law, and now I also have a great-grandson's daughter-in-law. I have gone through a few decades with big surprises and small dangers."

Lian Er insisted on going around, saying that in the past two years, some corrupt officials have fallen, and what some people have done is really ashamed of the emperor's kindness.

Mother Jia stared at him and asked, "Whose family?"

Lian Er bowed his head for a long while, and slowly told about the Zhen family's conviction and deportation to Beijing.

Jia Mu looked up at the sky and sighed: "It's so! Don't worry about other people's business. It's serious to discuss the chrysanthemum appreciation feast with Baoyu."

Lian Er said with a smile: "The old ancestor said it was wrong, but relatives came and entertained them for dinner."

Jia's mother had a half-smile and said, "Are you so careful? Well, our family has always been frugal."

Lian Er didn't know what to answer, so he apologized and said with a smile: "It was the second wife's idea. Last time I talked about the flower feast, but I encountered something. This time, I just have a casual meal, so I can't rush for anything."

What Lian Er said was that he had originally planned to invite Liu Xianglian's aunt's house to a flower viewing banquet on the first day of September, but unexpectedly both Jia Dairu and his wife died, so it failed.Mother Jia pointed out that he was careful, with puns. One was that he was frightened by the events of the Zhen family, so he didn’t even dare to hold a chrysanthemum appreciation banquet; The moon was lightly mourned, and even Rongfu dared not hold a banquet.But Jia Dai Confucianism doesn't need to observe filial piety, he was born too low, he was really a maidservant to give birth to a son, that's why Caiyun's parents dared to force him as slaves.

Jia Dairu is the only one of the generation who can study quietly. He was favored by the Duke of the State and his brothers and cousins. After he passed the county examination, the ancestral hall opened and recorded him under the name of a concubine.

You ask why you don't remember higher?Mrs. Rong Guo refused.Do you think about Duke Rong's background, once Duke Feng never stopped his wife from remarrying, of course it was because of his sons and daughters who followed him to conquer the world, but also because his wife was not waiting for nothing, so to put it bluntly, she was a bandit.Three obediences and four virtues, she only knows these four words, so she won't knock out teeth and swallow blood like a virtuous woman. She can't see her husband's evil son, and she has a kind heart if she doesn't cut it with a knife.In her eyes, Jia Dairu was a slave, remembering that the name of the dead concubine was her biggest concession.

Jia Dairu's incompetence as a school teacher is really understandable. When the Duke of the Kingdom invited him to his home as a teacher, how could he see a maid giving birth to a child?He just reads while reading, but he thinks that he just throws away the book to the students and just takes it with him to read.

Jia's mother has some opinions on the decent funeral of the Confucian School.The mistress always pays more attention to the difference between the concubine and the concubine. A concubine who is actually a maidservant and concubine is changed to be a concubine.She didn't think that the family school was so important, and thought it was a man's confusion to force his children and grandchildren to study.Just now she listened to Lian Er detailing the crimes against the Zhen family. From her point of view, it was all caused by the fact that the men of the Zhen family wanted Ke Jia to become a high-ranking official.The daughter of the Zhen family married so well and lived in peace and contentment, can the royal family not treat her?

Lian Er didn't know what she was thinking, knowing it, he probably could only smile helplessly.If the Zhen family lived in peace, they would not have the honor of marrying the four daughters into the royal family.More than half of it is not as good as the situation of old lady Zhen before she became a nurse, and she even died long ago!

Do not believe?The prince's nannie's family is not one or two.It should be known that when the royal family takes a high look, there must be many people who make up their minds. The most common one is to take advantage of the light and take shortcuts, and marriage is the most common.If you promise, you will be involved in various activities. If you ignore it, someone will complain and find trouble in different ways.For example, the simplest way is to lure an unfilial son to go whoring and gambling, and the family will be ruined in twos and threes.

After all, the Zhen family is a farming and studying heirloom, and it is not so easy to destroy it.However, there are many relatives, and it is difficult to restrain them all. It is inevitable that someone will take the initiative or be lured.Afterwards, those who carried the grievances escalated the incident, causing the Zhen family's dizhi to be overwhelmed and had to stand up.There are male Ding Kejia who have entered the officialdom, otherwise they would not be able to get out of Concubine Zhen, and only the daughters of officials with a rank of three or above can enter the harem through drafts.

Once the Zhen family became foreign relatives and made friends with various forces, they were naturally tabooed by the royal family.The Zhen family is struggling, but they can't do things without money and manpower. The Zhen family is getting deeper and deeper, committing countless crimes overtly and secretly, and affecting more and more forces, becoming a cancer in the south of the Yangtze River.

The royal family can't tolerate it, Mie Zhen is only choosing the right time.

The chaos in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be made the top priority when Zhen is destroyed. This matter has been laid out for a long time and there is no need to elaborate.Furthermore, the royal family governs the world with filial piety, and face must be taken into account.Today, people who can tolerate and approve of him have always been good, and his old nanny lived out her days in peace.

In previous years, old lady Yu Zhen had been suffering, and the royal family gave her countless medicines.And her sister-in-law, Concubine Zhen, "fell ill" at the right time, and died before her. No one can doubt that Concubine Zhen died of an accident.Because Concubine Zhen died in such a way, today he first asked his harem to pray for Concubine Zhen who was ill, and then ordered to arrange a funeral that was almost beyond the limits.

As soon as the two things related to filial piety are gone, the emperor's secret decree that has been prepared is issued——Zhen Yingjia, Dingyou, and a confidant.Officials of the Zhen family, big and small, had to be in mourning for at least three months, and all of them were replaced.In this way, the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River can be minimized.

Because the ancestral grave of the Zhen family is thousands of miles away from Jinling, it took some time for Mrs. Zhen to be buried.When the old lady was buried in glory, the death knell of the Zhen family rang.

What happened to the Zhen family sounds helpless, but there are many people who have found a way out of the desperate situation.What Lian Er and Baoyu did was to make a living, otherwise the Jia family would be destroyed in the same way as the Zhen family.

Closer to home.On the [-]th, Liu Xianglian took his aunt and uncle, and his ten-year-old cousin and seven-year-old cousin to Rongfu. Mrs. Wang thoughtfully placed them in a separate courtyard in the second room, and the old wife Bai led the servants who had been beaten to serve them. .

Xiang Lian's uncle is just a petty official, and his status as an accompanying guest is not high. Madam Wang only invited Xue Xia's family to save trouble.

Mrs. Wang and her sister reunited, so Xianglian Tanchun wanted to settle down "next door" to Xue's family, and Xue's family sent them to the house.

Inviting Xia's family to visit, it was because they planned to send their daughter to Lian Er as a concubine. Lian Er pretended not to understand, and happily said that his brother Tiao was not engaged yet.This is a close relative, the Xia family has nothing to be unhappy about.So Mrs. Wang made a favor and gave Xue Xia's family a chance to see each other.

Because it was a face-to-face and an informal blind date, only Yinglian and his wife brought Xia Huan'er, the prostitute's daughter, to Rongfu to show to Wang Xue (Xue Biao is the son of the second house, so it is not worthy of the Xia family to have a prostitute). Xia Jinyin looked at Xue Biao.

Speaking of merchant women, merchants are not eligible to take concubines recognized by the law, so only prostitutes and maidservants have daughters.Women are married, and they are destined to marry a well-matched family, and they are usually sent to a high-ranking family who needs to curry favor as concubines.The aunt's daughter is naturally very watery, and the maid's daughter looked so smart, so she recorded it under the name of the aunt.But don't think it's worthless. Small cultivation can make a living person with money.From this point of view, Xue Wang is really not a suitable mistress of the imperial merchant, but she is an official lady who married into a merchant, and the Xue family had to pick her up.

Fourteen used to be fifteen. "Relatives come to dine at home", this meal is eaten all day long, and they take them to the garden to have fun. Compared with the banquet, they only need to invite the opera troupe to sing, and everything else.

Girls live in Xiaoguanzhuang, women's relatives go to play in the village, and male guests live in the outer courtyard of the second room.

The outer courtyard of the second room is neater than Xiaoguanzhuang. It is a dignified courtyard of the Guogong era, with pavilions, carved stone beams and painted walls. If you want to bend bows and archery, it is like the old martial arts field, but now the flowers and plants are lush and different.

Xianglian's aunt's house is the host and guest, and the ten-year-old children of Yu's family are accompanied by Jia Lan and his witty companion to play.

Mr. Zheng was accompanied by Baoyu Xianglian. There was nothing he could do. He was too knowledgeable and had nothing to say to Xianglian's uncle. He simply recruited Zhan Guang and other Qing guest ministers to recite poems on his own, so the original No. 70 eight chapters was "姽" General Hua's poems came out.

Zheng Gong said: "Today, the purpose of Shang'en is to check and review the previous generations who should be commended, but those who have not been invited, whether monks, nuns, beggars, women, etc., have one thing to commend, that is, send their resumes to the Ministry of Rites for preparation. Please give me a reward." Then there was a strange story about a woman: in a certain dynasty, King Heng was lustful and fond of martial arts, and there was a concubine named Lin Siniang, who was called "General Xihua" by King Heng, and ruled over all the concubines.Later, when bandits rebelled, King Heng was killed in front of the battle. Lin Siniang led all the concubines to attack the enemy camp at night, and all of them died. She was a loyal daughter.

False Stone thinks about this scene in the original book, that is, when Shenying's waiter was at the age of 13 when Jia Lan was [-] years old. Once again, he secretly sighed that everything was ahead of schedule, and wind, frost and swords were pressing against each other!He tried to change his fate, and fate kept compressing the time, not allowing him to plan it slowly.

All the guests in that room praised Heng Wang as "the most romantic person in the ages", and Lin Siniang "is really enviable and amazing, it is really a clever question, and everyone should hold it together", but everyone's face is wishing to say "" Fragrant~yan".

Fake Stone is in a bad mood and has no eyesight, no poetic interest, Master Secret Dao copied Jia Lan's Qijue gangster, or copied Shenying's waiter's "Heng Wang is good at martial arts and good at sex" long fu, from vulgar to fragrant ~ gorgeous and elegant, to Play the lottery?Think again that there are too many words in the long Fu, and it is boring to write!Qijue belonged to Jia Lan, maybe the fake father called Jia Lan to show his talents, it would be better to copy Jia Huan's five-character law.

At that time, all the poems and fus were accomplished, Mr. Zheng looked at his son-in-law first, and was quite surprised that he was good at others, so he hurriedly chanted.The Qing guests praised "the origin of the family education is really not false", and rushed to pass it on.

When the government official looked at his son-in-law, he was more sonorous and beautiful than Baoyu.So he chanted again, and aroused a lot of thoughts like "how old is he after all, and his intentions are different", "it was like this when he was not crowned, and in a few years, I'm afraid it won't be the big Ruan and the small Ruan".

Some people cheer and some poems interrupt it, so the time is not difficult to mix up.

After the dinner at Xishan Mountain, Liu Xianglian still didn't go back to his family school to live with a certain cat. He wanted to accompany his aunt's family and send them back to Yongding County early tomorrow morning.It must be known that his uncle is employed and has been away from the capital for the sake of his nephew. He has been on leave for several days, so he doesn't want to delay.Therefore, Mrs. Wang didn't have a night banquet, and she was tired after playing all day.

Baoyu felt sorry for Yinquan, and called him to drink tea and play chess in the tutor's room.Based on his own experience, sometimes there is no need to say anything, and it will be easier to have an insider with him.

The two played quietly, the autumn night was quiet, but I heard that the tea cover occasionally touched the tea cup, and the chess pieces fell off the chessboard.

In the middle of a game of chess, Mingyan and Saohong suddenly arrived and announced, "Second Aunt You is gone."

The author has something to say: The world is unpredictable, the Zhen family just played like this...

Spoiler: "Contracting Poems for General Yuhua" is not a waste of writing. The emperor suddenly wants to praise someone because he is not full. It lays the groundwork for future serial cases.