Baoyu Fights the Red Chamber

When the emperor got angry, he laid down millions of corpses and bled for thousands of miles.

Today, he is compassionate and self-cultivated, calmly handling the so-called blood skirt case.Translated into TV drama language——

Do you have any objections to the imperial edict to surrender and dismiss officials?

(All loves: Your Majesty is wise!)

I am a saint.Announce an imperial edict.

……

Martyrdom?how do I say this?

(All the ministers wish they could pinch a certain colleague to death, and there will be a great injustice. Killing an official is a traitor! The current situation is raging)

The emperor is impatient: what to check?The Metropolitan Procuratorate has sentenced the culprit to be beheaded for emptiness, and the arsonists and nuns are all accomplices of the culprit.

(All the lovers are excited: Your Majesty is wise!)

……

(A certain minister: Report to the Holy Majesty, the victimized officials will be compensated...)

What?Say it again, I'm hard of hearing and didn't hear clearly.

(A minister panicked and threw himself on his knees: I deserve death for my crimes!)

Forgive me for the death penalty, and depose Zhengyangmen to watch the night.Announce an imperial edict.

……

You say today is too absurd?That is, if there is no convulsion today, all the officials will burn incense.

Why didn't the censor hit the pillar?A big quilt is wrapped on the pillar!Besides, let's not talk about being able to accept advice today, if you turn around, you will definitely regret it.Since his ascension to the throne today, the strange way of playing cards unreasonably has scared all the officials.

To be honest, there are too many secret guesses about the "blood skirt case": why are all the real-time Beijing officials on the official list who are "inappropriate to the sacred heart"?It's just that no one dares to say such disrespectful words, and no one has a few braids behind him.

Therefore, in today's prosperous age of Buddhism and Taoism, the sacred decree "Nuns and nuns under [-] in all Taoist temples, the government will withdraw their certificates and order them to return to the vulgar" has not attracted much criticism.

Well, this matter actually has a folk foundation.It doesn't matter if a man becomes a monk. Although this dynasty is still in the stage of begging, it is not too short.And there are many female monks... It is a disaster for men to have no wives!A man without a wife is the root of disaster, giving birth to countless right and wrong.

It is a pity that there were no catastrophes in Taiping years, and there were more and more nunneries and Taoist temples across the country. Before that, there were often memorials saying that "the prevalence of Buddhism and Taoism makes men without wives".Use the "Blood Skirt Case" to seize this momentum in one fell swoop!It should be known that thirty unmarried women are rare, and all dynasties and dynasties have expressly written "Twenty unmarried women double-headed tax".And there are very few women who become monks, unless they are sinful women who have been punished to become ordained, or poor widows who have no children and do not want to remarry.If the family has spare money and does not want to remarry, it is possible to be a chaste wife.

The day after the edict was issued was Baochai's birthday, and the day after that, she went out of her boudoir to become a grand gift.As a result, it is inevitable to suffer disasters. Although there are many congratulators at the banquet, they all whisper in private, the aunt's return to vulgarity, the blood skirt case, etc. It's really unlucky!

Of course, the Xue and Hu families were not the only unlucky ones, and everyone who had happy events during this period suffered.The full moon ceremony for Lian Er's twins was also not done well, and most of the "relatives and friends" came to the door with the intention of watching a joke, but even said that the Rong family "suffered an unreasonable disaster" to show their sympathy.

This is for later.But when Mrs. Wang heard the oracle, she immediately called Baoyu and Lian. What she meant was to send Zhizhi, her body deed document, and degree to Jingzhaoyi Mansion immediately.

Lian and Bao had already discussed it, and Baoyu said: "I'm afraid the case has not yet been settled, so why not just send the certificate to the government office. Just marry Zhizhi immediately, and marry Shisong. He practices boy skills. After 20 years old Only then can we have intercourse." (Actually, there is no such miraculous boy skill, Shi Song is a heavenly eunuch! If you want to cover up this matter, intelligence is the most suitable, just leave it aside and ignore it. If it is another girl, even if it is an ugly monster, under the deep resentment, It may also cause the truffle stuffing to be ridiculed.)

Lian Er chimed in: "Second Wife needn't bear it, Shi Song should take care of the master. After a few years, things will change, if he thinks he's not smart enough, he can retire, and he won't be delayed."

The second wife doesn't have that much kindness, Shi Song is just a servant, who is not worthy?At this moment, she wished to expose Jia Huan's mother and son, if it wasn't for them, how could she buy a hot potato and put it in the house?You can't kill, you can't sell, you can't let go of the contract, you can't send it to the government, and Jia Zhen and his son are involved in the case. If they are smart and say something, they will be in trouble.So he gritted his teeth and promised.

A few days later, the wife of Su Lingshi from the Ministry of Officials sent an invitation to take Miaoyu back to Su’s house—Miaoyu’s grandfather was old and had retired to his hometown. Su Lingshi was Miaoyu’s uncle, uh, after two servings cousin.

The uncle is also an uncle, anyway, the Su family came to pick up the daughter of the Su family, so Rong Mansion would not allow it.

Of course the Rong Mansion would not be unhappy, Mrs. Wang let go secretly: Is "Dai Fa Practitioner" considered a monk or a vulgar?He couldn't decide what to do, so he sent him back to the Su family as soon as possible.

Miaoyu didn't want to leave, not to mention she didn't want to go back to Su's house, but she couldn't help it.

When Baoyu heard the news, he thought that more than half of the Su family quickly married Miaoyu, which was considered to have complied with the verdict of the Red Mansion that "the poor quality of gold and jade will eventually sink into the mud".In any case, it is better than Gao E's sequel, and the literary ruffian wrote that Miaoyu was robbed by robbers, implying that she was violently killed by a wheel.

The Jingxin Nunnery was quiet, and the only master left was Xichun, who kept his filial piety. She didn't pay much attention, and the servants relaxed a lot.

In order to avoid possible troubles, Mrs. Wang released He Chen's status, and she became a guest.But He Chen didn't have the guts to call himself the master, so he did everything in detail, and became the role of the housekeeper's wife.Baoyu was too lazy to arrange for Chih-chih after she was "married", saying that Shisong would consummate the house after she was 20 years old, and Xichun wanted to keep her, so she continued to do odd jobs in the nunnery as a daughter-in-law.

In addition, as soon as Miaoyu, who never tires of eating, left, the kitchen of Jingxin Nunnery did not need so many people, and the second room just needed it: Mr. Zheng hated the gossip of restaurants and teahouses, and he ate at home every day since the Chinese New Year.At that time, Xiaoguanzhuang had transferred some staff, so they had to go back quickly, because the kitchen of Xiaoguanzhuang had to transfer half of the cooks to Daiyu's other courtyard.They will not go back to the Rong Mansion once they leave, they will be Daiyu's dowry servants in the future, and Daiyu will leave the cabinet next year, so they have to familiarize themselves with the affairs of the other courtyard in advance.

On a certain day in mid-February, when the spring snow was still fluttering, Qingwen and Aunt Xing, who was confinement, went to Jingxin Nunnery to burn incense.

One roommate and one aunt are not qualified to walk with one foot, and the two of them only bring a personal maid, followed by four women, which is considered decent.

Because the master was keeping filial piety in the nunnery, none of them wore hairpins, but only wore light-bottomed blue and white skirts and jackets, covered with blue and white fox fur cloaks, unembroidered bucket boots under their feet, and held plain oiled paper umbrellas, while the maids and mother-in-law wore bamboo hats Phi coir raincoat.

Master He Chen came out in a hurry, muttering secretly in his heart.

It should be known that every compound has a small Buddhist hall without a nunnery. It is normal for Qingwen to come to Jingxin Nunnery to burn incense, but there will be no Buddhist hall in Xiaobaoxia, and Qingwen is not qualified to burn incense in the courtyard of Jia Mu or Mrs. Wang.Aunt Xing is different, she is Mrs. Xing's niece, so it is no problem to use Mrs. Xing's nunnery.In addition, there is also a nunnery in Hulian's courtyard. Sister Feng has tuberculosis and is waiting to die in Jinling. Why should Aunt Xing worry about it?Don't think it's too far to come to Jingxin nunnery, could it be that you visit the Hemerocallis courtyard?How to pick such a bad weather?

The daughter-in-law and mother-in-law in the nunnery at the other end have brought the stove, put the kettle on, and brought the tea set.

Xing Xiuyan said with a smile: "There is no need to wait, we can make tea ourselves if we want."

He Chen exchanged a few casual greetings, but she didn't ask why Aunt Xing came here.She is not very curious, and besides, she and the two concubines have similar identities, so there is no need to be too flattering.However, she still left a mother-in-law, so that Aunt Xing and Miss Qingwen would not miss what they wanted.

For a while, Aunt Xing worshiped and said that Mrs. Xing had ordered her to visit the fourth girl.Qingwen said that Second Master Bao suddenly wanted to drink Buddha's porridge, so she rushed to pick up Buddha's rice with Qianxue, and went back to cook porridge later, and asked Aunt Xing to ask the fourth girl how well.

Xichun lived in the wing room on the side of the nunnery, where the servants who took care of the lamps and incense in front of the Buddha lived, and the master's residence was in the back hall.She couldn't bear Miaoyu's complicated and exquisite daily life, so she insisted on living here, saying that she had sixteen servants, and they could take shifts at night to help add lamp oil and incense candles nearby.

After Miaoyu left, she didn't want to move, because living here has a great advantage: Unlike a girl's bedroom, which has a curtain but no door, she occupies the room to herself, and once the door is closed, no one can come in with the curtain lifted.Of course, she couldn't refuse the maid to accompany her at night, so she took turns to go to night with the first-class maid Qiuwen and the second-class maid Caiping Dongxue.The winter snow on the color screen has already been twelve or thirteen, so it is not impossible to do this badly.As for the big girl Fei Cui given by Mother Jia, how dare you make Sister Fei Cui work hard?On weekdays, it is enough to take good care of the maids and mothers-in-law.

When Xing Xiuyan entered the room, Xichun was only served by Qiuwen Dongxue, and the color screen was in the cubicle last night to catch up on sleep.

The two exchanged pleasantries, and Xing Xiuyan leaned into Xichun's ear and said something.

Xichun rolled her eyes: "Ms. Qingwen is picking fomi. Dongxue is going to help with the selection. When I have picked enough, I will send Ms. Qingwen to me. By the way, I will bring back the new color material that my second brother Bao promised me."

Dongxue left at the sound, Xichun said again: "Qiuwen, you accompany Aunt Xing to the next door for a cup of tea."

Xing Xiuyan on the other end has already lifted the curtain to open the door, Qiuwen frowned slightly and went out.She originally thought that Aunt Xing had something urgent to say to Fourth Miss, but what does this mean, is the eldest wife sending a girl to pass on the message?

Thinking of the eldest wife's unbelievable behavior, she couldn't help curling her lips secretly.After going out the door, she saw four women standing at the door with wind collars erected to block their faces, she didn't think much about it, this was a corridor, and the wind was too cold, so she murmured to herself that the four women were so tall, most of them belonged to the big house Execute the wife.The eldest wife is really suspicious, she even sent a criminal woman to protect Aunt Xing, and I don't know who in the whole house would have the intention to harm Lian Erye's concubine.

In the room, Xichun saw a certain girl coming to the door, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly: "Don't hide your head, this is a bluestone wall, and you may not be able to hear the partition wall if you shout. Tell me, what does Second Brother Lian have to say?"

A certain girl hurried forward and took off the collar that shielded her face.

Xichun almost burst into laughter when she saw it, covered her stomach and said: "You, you... There is no silver three hundred taels here! You come to visit me in a grand manner, who can say anything? But with such behavior, is Aunt Xing tight-lipped?"

A certain one coughed lightly and said, "She only knows that Second Brother Lian has something important to say, so she sent a young servant dressed as a woman to see you."

Xichun shivered slightly: "Is there really something urgent? Are they imprisoned or executed?"

Baoyu hurriedly spat on the ground and said: "Don't talk about bad luck! Since you came here, I always wanted to see how the house was, and I was bothered by Miaoyu. Fortunately, she left, so I came here in a hurry. There are things too. , if you split the clan, would you like to be my sister or Lian's second brother's sister?"

Xichun nodded without hesitation: "I am willing. When is it?"

Baoyu coughed lightly again, and said with a smile, "Ask for nothing first. Brother Qiang meant that. He is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the direct line. If Brother Ruozhen had a problem with Brother Rong, it is natural that he should take up the lineage of Duke Ning. .Maybe he doesn't want to get entangled with the Rong Mansion, and it's time for Wufu."

If Jia Qiang knew that Uncle Xiaobao had slandered him so much, she would definitely cry out for injustice. He didn't have that ambition. Who wants to be an annoying patriarch?He would tentatively ask, and it was Jia Rong who asked him to ask.

Jia Rong was also helpless. Since Baoyu delivered the message on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, he sent a servant to deliver a letter to his father while raising money.And how much cash can he and Jia Qiang have?You can only collect and sell the antique calligraphy and paintings at hand.Then sold Qin Keqing's dowry, [-]% of the dowry was prepared by Jia Zhen. After Qin's death, Jia Zhen didn't know whether she was too sad or felt ashamed of her son, so she didn't take it back.Jia Qiang sold the small theater troupe to the Gaoliang brothers at a discount, showing his latent business talent in one fell swoop. The little girl bought with a few taels of silver became a twelve official, and was sold for seven thousand taels.In this way, they pieced it together, and sold several shops where the house deeds were found from Jia Zhen's study, and made up a hundred thousand taels.

As soon as the edict was promulgated on the twentieth day of the first lunar month, the two of them lost their secret hope of being lucky: no one was dismissed because of the Feng~Yue case!How could the Ning Mansion stand up to the overthrow of other things?Those people who have not been imprisoned can be dismissed by officials, like them, I am afraid that they will have to respond to Uncle Xiaobao's curse.

So Qiang Shoubei hurriedly paid back the silver owed to the household department, but Ning's house owed a full 100 million taels of silver!

Fortunately, Jia Zhen did not go too far when she went south. On the 25th of the first lunar month, the health servant returned with a handwritten letter: Jia Zhen asked Jia Rong to enter the ancestral treasury, and suddenly trusted his wife Youshi, and appointed Youshi to be by her side when opening the treasury. Youshi sealed it privately.

Zuku opened, Jia Rong, Jia Qiang and Youshi checked it out, Brother Rong's eyes were dark, and he was insolvent!Want to pay off the imperial silver, or sell the Zhuangzi shop or sell the luxurious mansion in Ningfu.But it's not up to him to sell these things, Youshi even refused to use his ancestral wealth, saying that there is Rongfu, as long as the position of patriarch is given up, Rongfu will be wiped out.

Jia Rong has no right to cede the position of patriarch, nor is he willing to do so. It is said that he would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. As long as he can keep his father and his official title, the Ning family will not be in a downturn in his generation.So Jia Qiang was asked to test Lian and Bao, saying that the Rongfu was clean, especially Bao Shulan's brother was going to take the imperial examination to become an official.only……

Lian Er Baoyu heard: 90 taels of silver? !When a man runs a bank?Besides, not to mention that Rong Qiang is a junior, it is not so easy for Jia Zhen to divide the clan. There is still a descendant in the line of Ningfu.

Of course, Lian and Bao also indicated that the Rong Mansion would act as the guarantor, and asked Jia Qiang to write to Xue's family that Zhang Shiwan was in debt.This is early February.

20 taels is a little bit of use. After February, one after another, things go wrong. Zhen Rongqiang is fine for the time being.

Poor Gao Liangzi can't get out of hiding at home, there are a lot of old cases!One of the cases surprised Bao Erye: A certain "filial son" took a fancy to twenty antique fans and wanted to buy them to honor his antique-loving father. Home.The ruined stone nerd, his wife and children, became a beggar. One day he threw his life at the official sedan chair, "lucky" stopped a certain Qingtian, and uncovered the old case in one fell swoop.

In the original book, this is a joint crime between Jia Yucun and Mr. She: Mr. She, who is a good antique, asked Lian Er to buy a fan, but the stone idiot refused. .

But she said that seeing other people's family's redemption money flowing out like water, Jia Qiang gritted her teeth and sold the house that Jia Zhen gave him, and lived back in Ningfu.Afterwards, in the name of the great-great-great-grandson of Duke Ning, he demanded money from the family of the Ning Mansion to repay the ancestral debt.

The lineage of the Ning Mansion naturally appealed to the Rong Mansion, and Master She had been ill for a long time and refused to see any guests.

Mr. Zheng was annoyed when he heard about the Ning Mansion, and his Lian nephew had already said that the Ning Mansion would not open the ancestral treasury if it could not pay back the money owed!Thinking of the twists and turns of the Rong Mansion opening the ancestral treasury for the return of the emperor's silver, he was even more angry, so he would not pay attention to it.

Mother Jia didn't care either.A certain rumor has been circulating for a long time, and she must have heard about it, and only then did she know that Brother Jiang, the heir of the Rong Mansion, is because the men of the Ning Mansion have disappeared, and the grandson of the Great Jin is almost gone. Consumption!

You said that a certain rumor has too many loopholes and is different from the reports from Jinling?Alas, old man, it's all good from one's own children and grandchildren, if it's bad, it's also caused by other family's unworthy sons.What's more, the old lady thought about it carefully before and after, and found that Sister Feng's illness was too strange, and it was the kind of "suffering in the heart, hard to speak" that came out of her life.

She thought that even if the grievances of Da Jinsun's family were untrue, now because of the scandalous old case of the men of the Ning Mansion, her granddaughter cannot live with her!She didn't hate her so much that she came to the door with a cane and beat her up, it was just being polite!

Return silver? 80 Liang Ningfu can't get it out?There are snowflakes and silver paving the ground for the funeral of the daughter of a prostitute!

Her old lady is still not ignorant, Ning's mansion is corrupting Shangrong's mansion!She didn't notice that Rong Guogong's descendants wanted to take the imperial examination to become an official, so it's bad!To save the family from tossing away like the men of the Zhen family.

In this way, the old and frail Jia Mu heard the news that she was "seriously ill mixed with grief" and could not see guests.

Mrs. Xing Wang and Mrs. Xing are known to be very harsh, and no one touches her nails.

Mrs. Wang is a bodhisattva, she burst into tears and fell on her back as soon as she heard it, following in the footsteps of her mother-in-law and "seriously ill".

Masters Lian and Bao were willing to listen. After hearing this, they sighed again and again, and whispered: "You still don't know the situation in Rongfu? There has been no money for a long time! We used the house as a mortgage to raise funds for Ningfu without telling our elders. One hundred thousand taels! You have so many families, can you raise one hundred thousand taels to pay off the debts of your ancestors? I haven’t seen that Brother Qiang has no place to live!”

Amidst the clamor, there was not a single splash of water on the county test release list.No one dared to congratulate those who had passed, fearing that they would come to ask for money.

This year's grades were pretty good: Qin Zhong, Jia Jun, and Jia Qin passed the county exam without incident, and Lou Qinglu (Jia Jun's cousin) and Jin Zhi (Jin Rongge's third cousin) who were attached to the school passed the county exam.

Not a day later, Xue Jiashang sent a letter to Feige——Jia Cong passed the county examination in Jinling!

Second Master Lian couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear, Second Master Bao's eyeballs were about to fall out: How many years has Jia Cong been studying?Genius!

All geniuses have one point of talent and nine points of sweat.When Jia Cong was a child, he was in the inner house. He was clever and knew that no one would care about him. Not all servants were illiterate, so he learned a few words here and there.Therefore, when he was enlightened, it wasn't that he couldn't even write his own name.After entering the private school, who else knows better than him?But he was afraid of showing jealousy on his face, so he always worked hard secretly.He didn't even think about going to the examination room, just to learn more, and it would be cheaper to help his brother take care of the general affairs.

He arrived in Jinling with Xue Pan in June last year, and Lian Er was not willing to return to Beijing. This matter caused troubles, and the most important thing was that his younger brother wanted to take the imperial examination to become an official.No one took his words seriously, but the Wang brothers wished they could send him away immediately, and Xue Pan was also anxious to take Uncle Lian back to the capital, so they worked together to entrust favors, and hired a scholar with a lot of money to teach Jia Cong alone.Sister Feng didn't need Jia Cong to worry about it. For more than half a year, he studied hard with his head hanging on his head, and he actually passed the county examination in Jiangnan, where talented scholars gathered.

But he said that the second master Lian was happy, and the Ning family was blessed. He abandoned his past suspicions and took the initiative to find nephew Rong and Qiang, and gave them an ingenious way to repay their debts...

The author has something to say: Rong Qiang: We are the brothers in trouble, we can't live anymore!The hateful Rong Mansion is desperate to see death!