Baoyu Fights the Red Chamber

Jia Yucun, the famous cool official of the Red Chamber, is the vanguard of this extermination.He used to work for Yingtian Mansion in Jinling, and was a Xibin (teacher) of Zhen's family in his early years. He knew a lot about Zhen Jiangnan, so he went south with the sword above.If there is no holy decree to stop the female family members of the Zhen family, he will definitely deport the Zhen family to Beijing for punishment.

"Transferring men to Beijing for punishment" is divided into crimes and grades: such as men under 50, [-] to [-], and so on.The deportation of the whole family must be the crime of treason, and the female family members of the crime of treason cannot escape.Furthermore, the imperial decree is "retrieval", not "deportation", so the governor of Jiangnan thought that arresting the males of the Zhen family from fifteen to fifty years old would be enough.Jia Chin envoy sternly reprimanded him for "sinister intentions", and the governor was afraid that the imperial envoy would chop off his head first with a swing of the sword above, so he kept quiet.

All the people of the same family, it is inevitable that a talented baby boy or an old man in his [-]s or [-]s, bet on a P, and died before he was on the road.

Thousands of miles away, the soldiers escorted them to the capital, and the old man died, and there were not many young men left.Zhen Baoyu, who is delicate and frail, was able to live because of the imperial decree. Jia Qin thought that the emperor wanted to eunuch this boy into the palace for fun, so he took good care of him all the way.

Jia Qin's envoy failed to please the emperor, and within a few days of Zhen Yingjia's beheading, the emperor randomly found him a crime of "immorality before the imperial court" and deposed him to Hainan, and went to Haikou to become the magistrate.

It is not clear how many factors caused Jia Qin's envoy to be too vicious in this move, but the intention to appease the remnants of the Zhen family is obvious.

Although fake stones do not have strong political sensitivity, they do not lack common sense.Hearing what Lian Er said, he wrote lightly: "The weather is good to go south. It gets warmer as you go south. I heard that Hainan is like spring all the year round. When are you going?"

Lian Er lightly smiled: "Let's go, don't bother us. We are in trouble whether to go to the Shelei Pavilion to see him off. He has always been the most knowledgeable. In mid-October, he sent his family back to his hometown like crabs. It is very convenient to travel lightly."

"In mid-October" the imperial decree pardoned the daughters and minors of the Zhen family, and Jia Yucun was in vain as an official if he couldn't realize it.Baoyu didn't want to lead Quan to hear these things. Could he seek revenge from Jia Yucun?So he ordered Shiyan to go to the Westinghouse, and sent Qingwen to the kitchen to ask for more food.

Lian Er smiled and said, "No need! I'm here, and they will send my case."

His meals were brought from Hulian courtyard.Because Baoxia is close to Jiamu's courtyard, and Baoyu is not married, the whole house has been working in Jiamu's kitchen.Hulian Courtyard is not far from Baoxia, only Rongqing Hall is separated, but Rongqing Hall has always been closed, so you can't walk through it, you have to make a detour.After eating here for a while, Minglong and others brought the food basket and led Xing'er and Long'er over.

Xing'er is no longer the original four. When the four are older, they will be replaced by eleven or twelve-year-old Qingjun boys.Lian Er learned from his brother Bao that he put away the deed documents. The playthings are not as good as the Mingyans, and they can't do the business.

The new boy was bought from an opera troupe, he can sing, and he brought a flute and flute with him, and he sang to cheer up the fun.

Their artistic skills cannot be compared with Jiang Yuhan's. Liu Xianglian couldn't arouse the interest of singing loudly. Seeing that the time was approaching half past Xu (eight o'clock in the evening), she said that the weather was afraid that there would be something wrong with the elementary school students who lived in the school, so she had to go home to study.Bao Sishu repeatedly said "very true" and wanted to follow, but was held back by Lian Er.Yinquan said that he would not bother with the school, saying that he and Jialiu, the strong man, would be the mentors and apprentices, and they would just go on tour in different classes.

After a while, there were only brothers and sisters in distress in the master bedroom, and green tea was replaced on the kang table.

The fake stone used the tea cover to shake the tea leaves, and asked, "What can't wait until the next night?"

Lian Er smiled and said, "Isn't it okay to drink wine? Well, it's not an urgent matter or a big one. You stop me and wait until here to report. Jia Yucun's transfer has not yet been reported to the residence, and there have been no rumors outside. How do you treat me?" You know? His servant Bao Ping took his handwriting to vote." He took out a thick handwriting and put it on the table.

Baoyu remembered Gao E's continuation that "The servant of Zhen's family took refuge in Jia's family", and the servant was also surnamed Bao, so he said with a smile: "Is it five feet long with zero, wide and fat shoulders, thick eyebrows and big eyes, bearded forehead and long beard, thick and dark complexion... ..."

Lian Er couldn't help laughing: "Master Yucun is a civil servant of Qingliu. Where can such a martial artist come from under his door? No matter how you look at them, you should look after them with a steady look."

Looking at Baoyu's letter, the thick one is the identity document of Bao Ping's family. Jia Yucun's handwriting is only a piece of paper, saying that Bao Ping and his wife are from the capital, with parents in their sixties and a three-year-old child. There is something wrong with Hainan's unacceptable water and soil, so it was sent to Rongfu, "If you are prepared to run around, have money for a living, and the love of Wu Wu, your admiration is boundless."

Baoyu touched her chin: "What do you think?"

Lian Er rolled his eyes: "I haven't spoken a few words to Jia Yucun. I'm surprised that he has always been with your second wife. Why didn't he recommend it to the second master?"

Baoyu snorted: "Second Master hates him and has no choice but to socialize. It's very polite for me to ask him for advice. I'm only fourteen years old. What's the point of recommending someone to me? He knows that you and my brothers are not the same. This is a detour to recommend to Grandpa."

Lian Er smiled and said, "You are entertaining him on the face, do you have a place to settle?"

Baoyu was troubled: "Is it okay to come to this house to sweep the dust?"

Lian Er laughed out loud.Baoyu smiled wryly: "There is really no place to settle down. People in Jiayu Village dare not use their deeds! This gentleman is the one who must take revenge. I heard him tell me how he was angry when he was a guest in Zhen's house, but it was just that Mrs. Zhen was confused. Zhen Yingjia, Zhen Shiping and the others treated him with great courtesy. He was able to come to our Uncle Lin's house as a guest of honor, and it was recommended by Zhen Yingjia's personal letter. After that, he used this road to connect with Jia Wang's family and became Jinling Yingtian Mansion. Xiang Wu said no gratitude, only resentment. For such a white-eyed wolf, I think Bao Ping should be called Bao disaster!"

Lian Er frowned: "According to this, Bao Ping may have come to search for us."

Baoyu said: "I can't exaggerate how bad it is. Jia Yucun is absolutely unwilling to die in Hainan. What's so strange about staining his crown with our blood? By the way, he avenged the second master for treating him poorly."

Lian Er whispered: "If this is the case, it won't work if you don't accept Baoping." As he spoke, he pointed to the sky: "Jia Yucun is just a knife."

Baoyu nodded: "If you don't want Bao Ping to be the doorman of Xijiaomen, I will explain to my mother again and put his wife in the kitchen of the second room for investigation!"

Lian Er slapped the table with his fingers, and muttered: "Bao Ping can't put the west corner gate, or we will have trouble getting in and out if we have something to do. Or put it at the east corner gate, and ask him to watch the good show at Huifang Garden in Ningfu across the side street... yes. I have an extremely important matter, and I entrust it to my extremely reliable slave, asking him to guard the second gate of Hulian Courtyard for me, and make sure that Qiutong is not allowed to leave the backyard."

This is called "extremely urgent"?Baoyu eyelid Tara: "Are you making it up? Besides, it's not right there. I've heard that your autumn beauty has an extremely grinning mouth. From Aunt Xing's belly, the child is a wild species. You went to the east courtyard because of your love for the elder's concubine, and you can say anything. That's all, she is the girl in the elder's house, right? If there is anything wrong with the elder, she will add embellishments, which is troublesome."

Lian Er sneered: "She only came to the Elder Master in June and July this year. The Elder Master has already rested. What can be the matter? Before that, Qiu Tong was Miss Luo Hong's girl, and Luo Hong fell out of favor for at least seven or eight years. When she falls into work in the sewing room, all she can know is how the eldest wife has withheld things. Qiutong babbles about this to Ai, a thing that slanders the master, the master wants her, and the elders can't let her go, and she has to have a good life. In order to avoid damage to the reputation of the family, we have to ask Uncle Bao Ping, who guarantees our peace, to take care of it."

Baoyu was a little dazed: "Miss Luohong? Tongfang? How could there be a maid?

Lian Er confides in family ugliness: Who did Master She spoiled, and he didn't follow the rules. Luo Hong once mates with a maidservant and wife according to the aunt's rule.There is another strange thing about the big house, Master She's concubine status is not in the hands of the mistress, but Master She is holding it.Mrs. Xing wanted to sell some of the old ones who fell out of favor a long time ago, so she used her status as the main wife and falsely claimed that "the document of the slave's status was burned due to a fire" and went to the Yamen to make up for it.The concubines who fell out of favor were hungry and full, and had no new clothes for the whole year. When it was cold, they shivered from the cold, and the servants lived better than them, and they were willing to leave.When Qiutong grows up, she is conceited of her beauty, and uses her beauty to win over the elder's long-term servants, but unexpectedly, the elder is in vain!Seeing that Mrs. Xing sent the house, she was afraid that she would be betrayed, so she gritted her teeth and rushed to Master She.Mr. Xi is very happy, he can't use it himself, so he rewards his son.

Fake Shitou curses inwardly and knows that you are someone who likes "beauty and cheapness". The original book chooses a career as a mistress and second sister You, and here you can earn as much as you can~ Husband Qiutong is not ashamed at all, he is really a role model for men.Forget it, if you are serious with Lian Er, you will lose!That's the case with Qiutong, she can let her and Bao Ping love each other, there is a saying, "Don't be afraid of people telling lies, but be afraid of people telling the truth", besides, whether it is true or not, Qiutong's mouth can't hurt her tendons. The bone-chilling gossip.

One day later, the fake stone muttered to the fake mother, and Bao Ping's daughter-in-law moved to the kitchen of the second room.

The current number of servants of the Second Household is the standard equipment for fifth-rank officials, because the only serious masters are Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Wang, which is not too loose.Only the kitchen is more economical: Aunt Zhou and Guixiang are the only ones who eat people, and the cooks mainly serve Mr. Zheng.But Mr. Zheng had a quick breakfast, had on-duty meals for lunch, and eight or nine out of ten dinners met with Qing customers in outside restaurants and teahouses.Pity him for recovering from his injuries, he will be bored at home, and the usual gathering of guests to have banquets in the mansion is rare.Occasionally there is a banquet, and people are transferred to the kitchen of Xiaoguanzhuang.

There are many and good cooks in Xiaoguanzhuang. You need to know that Daiyu, who is going to marry into the royal palace of Zhongjing County, eats at Xiaoguanzhuang if she doesn’t eat at Jiamu’s place. Friends outside, the kitchen must not be bad.Therefore, Mrs. Wang eats breakfast and lunch at Xiaoguanzhuang in the council hall, and dinner at her age is mostly vegetarian.

Even so, the number of servants is not bad, but the cooking is mediocre.Bao Ping's daughter-in-law doesn't have cooking skills herself, so she thinks the cook in the second room is too bad, so she wants to go to Xiaoguanzhuang, but it will be difficult to speak to the master for a while, so she has to endure it for the time being.

The twelfth lunar month arrives in a flash.On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Zheng happily led his son to present New Year gifts to his in-laws.

To be honest, it's been a while, the time is too early, and secondly, it is enough for Baoyu to come to the door.But the fake stone did not dissuade the fake father, anyway, the political lord will not fall.The Kong family also took aim at his embarrassing status to make this marriage, and the fake father was as circuitous as possible.

Kong Shilang's mansion is on the famous Xinglong Street, also known as Qiongguan Street.

Mr. Shi Lang is from the fourth rank, and the house he lives in can live in the fifth and fourth ranks.It is said that in the capital city at the foot of the Son of Heaven, there are as many officials as hemp, and only those who rank up to the third rank are eligible to face the saints, and those who are lower than the fourth rank are all minor officials, so there is not much difference between the mansions of the fourth and fifth ranks.This house was permanently produced in Beijing by the Confucius family in Shandong, and he went to Kong Shilang to become an official, and exchanged for other unlucky people to enter Beijing.Uh, people from the Kong family will not be high-ranking officials, but it is impossible to be a sesame official of the sixth or seventh rank, so this kind of house is prepared.

When Baoyu came to the Confucian mansion, his first impression was that the servants were very well-mannered, and the doorman was like a scholar.It's not surprising if you think about it, this is Yan Shenggong's presence in Beijing, or it can be said that the world's scholars are in Beijing's facade, how can Mending not be upscale?

As soon as you walk in, the first feeling is that it is extremely frugal.Feel again, revealing a low-key luxury.

You must know that books were very expensive in ancient times. If you pass by the corridor and see servants in half-worn cotton coats hurrying past with books in their hands, you can imagine the background of this house.

In fact, the Kong family did not show off to the Jia family, it was the elder uncle's family who brought New Year's gifts, mainly books, and the servants were carrying New Year's goods.

The two sons-in-law came to give the New Year's gift on the same day, and it was a coincidence that Jia's family drove her away: Kong Shilang's eldest daughter married back to her hometown in Shandong. The snow came late this year in Beijing, and it started to snow in Shandong in early October, so the New Year's gift was given. His servants set off early and have been in Beijing for some days.The slave house can only live in a common shop, and it's the twelfth lunar month, why don't you rush to the door?

Regarding Aunt Kong's grandma marrying back to her hometown, Shitou guessed that Kong Shilang had the tendency to favor concubines and destroy wives, but there could be another explanation: the sons and daughters mattered, and if Kong Shilang dared to marry his daughters back to his hometown, the royal family would probably have a problem.His eldest son is married to the granddaughter of Lao Shanzhang of Wuya Academy in the capital city, that is, a native of the capital city.Although the Jia family was originally from Jinling, it has been passed down in Beijing for five generations, and six generations.

There are many guests in the Confucian family, so I walked in for a while with a fake stone, and I saw a servant leading several groups of people in.

The guests and servants were extremely quiet, making Jia's father and son involuntarily lighten their footsteps.

They handed out invitations first, and when they went to the hall, they unexpectedly found that there were no outsiders, only Kong Shilang and his son Dalang Erlang (the Kong family didn't call them "Ye", but they called them "Lang" in the old fashioned way) ).

The fake stone eyes look at the nose and the mind without squinting, and respectfully kowtow.Kong Shilang kindly asked him to look up and speak, so he glanced at his future father-in-law from the corner of his eye, but his father-in-law happened to be sideways holding a teacup, so he couldn't see clearly.

So a certain one recited silently: Kong Yuezhang is 45 years old, and he still has a long time to live in the capital. Fortunately, he is not the eldest son, and his gray-haired parents don't need to stay with him.Father-in-law has three sons and two daughters, and according to his concubines, he has two concubines and three concubines.

His son, Kong Dalang, is 27 years old, a Jinshi, and he is a teacher in Wuya Academy, so he can be called Confucius like his ancestors.There is already a son and a daughter, the son is seven years old and the daughter is two years old, both of them are descendants.

Kong Erlang was seventeen years old, a scholar, studying in Wuya Academy, married in March last year, and his wife's family is also from his hometown in Shandong.Erlang and Aunt Kong's grandma who married back to Shandong are twins of dragons and phoenixes. Kong~'s second child was born a little earlier than his sister.Both brothers and sisters are good concubines, so it seems wrong to say that Kong Shilang dotes on his concubine and destroys his wife. The eldest son was alone and he grew up to almost ten years old before he had concubine children.I just don't know if the wife can't give birth, or if she died.

Kong Sanlang is four years old, a good concubine, and there is a ten-year difference between the second daughter who is going to marry into Jia's family.It seems that Kong Shilang is aiming at ten children, and only Kong Yuan, who is three years younger than Kong ~ the second brother and sister, is an odd number, which seems to be an unplanned product.

Kong Shilang didn't know that the second son-in-law had many disrespectful thoughts in an instant, so he asked a few words casually, and ordered Kong Dalang to take Baoyu to the study, and he took his father-in-law and concubine son to receive foreigners.

False stone thought: the master leads people to the study, it must be to test knowledge.The master is not afraid of the exam, the past and present masters have already failed the exam, the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, let it be roasted!

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Sun was not interested in being an examiner, so he asked his prospective brother-in-law to flip through the book at will, and then he ran away somewhere.

There is a floor kang in the study room, which is warm, and there is a silent servant standing by the door.

A certain one secretly thought that the servant was not serving him, but guarding him.So I didn't go to find out the ancient books hidden by the Confucian family, but only took the "Zhou Li Zhu Shu" published in this dynasty, so as to save the noble servants from embarrassing.

Near noon, Kong Dalang came back and said, "My mother has invited me", and took his prospective brother-in-law to the backyard.

The fake stone maintains the character of a gentleman who does not look around, so all he can see from the corner of his eyes is a few cedar trees, a wintersweet tree, and a few clumps of green bamboo near the main house. The gentleman's "pine, bamboo and plum" are complete, and nothing else is seen.

Kong Dalang did not lead him into the hall, but the Nuan Pavilion next to him.The curtain-playing woman looks like a concubine in clothes, but I don't know if she is a good concubine or a maid concubine.

When I entered the pavilion, I saw a thin woman wearing the official uniform of the fourth grade. I didn't dare to look at her appearance, but I could tell that the woman was thin from her figure.

After kowtowing, the future mother-in-law didn't ask him to look up, she just called out and asked a few homely things like whether it was cold or not, and whether he was thirsty or not, then ordered the meal to be passed on, asked Kong Dalang to accompany him, and took the servant girl away by herself.

Without sleep or food, the servants served the dishes silently, and the two ate in silence.

The fake stone tastes like chewing wax, and she said in her heart that "the mother-in-law looks more and more happy when she sees her son-in-law." The mother-in-law of the father is probably so dissatisfied with the father that she doesn't even bother to pretend.However, Master is also extremely dissatisfied with you. I have never seen a mother-in-law who wears imperial uniforms to see her son-in-law, so who is the pressure?Grandpa's fake mother is only half a level lower than you, fake aunt is the first rank, fake grandmother and countess!

Having tea after dinner, Kong Dalang casually asked him what books he read in the study.

The fake stone answered with concentration.Unexpectedly, after only a few words, the servant came to tell the political master to call his son.

Kong Dalang sent gifts to his brother-in-law, all the way to the gate.Kong Shilang was greeting Mr. Zheng when he saw a certain one coming, he nodded and smiled.Only then did a certain one see clearly the faces of the Confucian father and son, they were both Chinese characters with three beards, and they were honest and gentlemen without makeup on the stage.

After getting into the carriage, Mr. Zheng sighed again and again, "This is a scholarly family".

A certain one repeatedly cursed inwardly: Master's senior brother and Zuo Shi's family are both scholarly families, how could they be so pretentious! MD is a different kind of Mawei, right?Just let the horses go!As long as the Kong family can save the master's life, what's the point of being wronged?The Kong family just wanted an honest son-in-law, don't worry, the master must be more honest than a lump of wood!

Thinking about it this way, a certain one easily put the unhappiness behind it. Anyway, it will be next month to visit Confucius’s house again. It’s just a new year’s greetings.

The author has something to say: I am dissatisfied with the Yue family and have no feelings for my wife, but I can bear it, super able to bear it...