Self-Help Handbook of Strange Flowers to Die [Comprehensive]

As promised, the next day Ding Li found a group of elders in the clan and Jia pardoned Jia Zheng. In addition, Jia Shi, who was super-ranked, and Jia Wang, who was one of the half protagonists, were also invited. Come.

Jia Zheng was going to go to the yamen in the morning, but he was stopped before going out, and he had to go to the yamen of the Ministry of Industry to ask for leave. At this moment, he was sitting impatiently, waiting for Ding Li to speak.

"I asked you to come here today because of the foundation of the Jia family. Not long ago, I went back to the clan to move my mother and deceased wife into a new house, and inspected everything in the clan. It's about the foundation." Ding Li spoke in a calm manner, and waved to Jiang Cha.

Jiang Cha led a few boys to come up with some account books and put them in Ding Li's hand.Ding Li picked up the account book and showed it to several elders of the clan, but the elders didn't understand the problem. After reading it, they still looked at Ding Li eagerly.

Ding Li didn't pretend to be successful, but he wasn't angry, and said lightly, "My Jia family's sacrificial fields, in addition to the Yongye field bestowed by the Taizu, also have a sacrificial field set up by ourselves. This is our standing The foundation, the last retreat, is this correct?"

"The principle is this principle..." But what is the "last retreat"?It doesn't sound good to me!

"What should I do if someone resells the sacrificial land?" Ding Li didn't listen to the following words. After getting a big case, he dropped a big bomb on his own, which immediately shocked the Jia family men present. stood up.

"what?"

"Who?"

"I asked about it when I was in the Hui nationality. At the beginning, oh, 16 years ago, the supply of sacrificial fields to the tribe decreased year by year. I checked the records of water and soil in Jinling. In the past 16 years, except for a few years Except for some floods and droughts, the harvest was good, but the clan did not receive enough supplies, and they never brought them into Beijing. Some clansmen said that they had written about this, but there was no news later, so they did not ask. This household The tribe was also expelled by the clan elders in Jinling, and I only found out about it after going around."

The people present all had years of experience, so they understood as soon as they heard this: this is someone who was greedy for the income of offering sacrifices to the land, and also manipulated the clan elders in Jinling to remove the clan members who wrote to ask about this matter!

They were about to speak when they heard Ding Li say again: "I was worried, so I sent people to various sacrifice fields to check. Guess what happened to the people I sent out?"

"Brother Zhen, don't play tricks! Tell me quickly!" Jia Amnesty was impatient.Although he is not stingy, he can still handle things like offering sacrifices to Tian, ​​and he is very anxious.

This time, Jia She's speech did not arouse public outrage, but got the support of the clan elders, who urged Ding Li to speak quickly.

Ding Li sighed: "Several of the people I sent out were beaten."

"Who is so bold?"

Ding Li shook his head and sighed again: "They said that it was their family's field. When I heard about it, I thought it was wrong. I went to Jinling Mansion and asked for the Yulin Mansion Booklet to check. It’s not our family’s sacrificial field before!”

"what is the problem?"

"You speak quickly!"

"I'm so anxious, Brother Zhen, tell me!"

Both the clan elder and Jia She's brothers urged Ding Li.

"Second Uncle Zheng, if you ask me, I will ask you again!" Ding Li seemed to be in a hurry, he stood up and looked at Jia Zhengdao.

Jia Zheng was wondering if someone was framing the Jia family, and urged Ding Li to speak clearly, he was so decisive, but suddenly he was stunned by Ding Li's words.

"Our family's sacrifice land, the high-quality farmland was sold to the Xue family, the Wang family, and the Zhen family at the price of the low-grade farmland, and the wasteland was purchased at the price of the middle-grade farmland to make up for the missing acres." Ding Li knocked. Looking at the table, he said, "My grandfather and grandmother passed away 20 years ago, and my family has no elders. Therefore, even though I belong to the first line, I still handed over the affairs of the land sacrifice to the Rongguo Mansion under the watchful eye of the old lady. I will pardon the aunt who is in charge of the family. For three years, everything was as usual, and then it was handed over to the second aunt. Not only was it worse every year, but the good land was exchanged for bad land, which suffered for my Jia family members, but enriched the Xue family's Wang family! I want to ask Zheng Er Uncle, don't you know anything about what Second Aunt did?"

"old lady!"

"Mrs!"

Before Jia Zheng could speak, the sound of broken porcelain and the exclamation of two girls came from the flower hall behind the screen.It turned out that when Jia Shishi heard the last thing, he smashed Jia Wangshi with a teacup and passed away because of his anger. Yuanyang and Caiyun both exclaimed.

"Hurry up and ask the imperial physician!" Jia Amnesty and the others hurriedly asked the boys to take the post to find a familiar imperial physician.

As soon as Ding Li beckoned, Jiang Cha went to the next room and invited the Imperial Physician Wang, whom the Jia family used to rely on, to show him to the two female relatives.

Doctor Wang looked at Jia Shishi first, and said with a sigh of relief: "It's okay, I'm getting old and angry." He took out a sniffing bottle from the medicine box and gave Jia Shishi a sniff, Jia Shishi let out a groan Then wake up and turn around.

Physician Wang went to see Jia Wang's again. Although Jia Wang's forehead was smashed, it was only a slight skin trauma. At this time, the bleeding was no longer there, so he left the trauma medicine and was taken away by Jiang Cha. go out.

Jia She, Jia Lian and his son looked at each other in blank dismay, and understood that Imperial Physician Wang had been invited by Ding Li a long time ago just in case, and he really planned for a rainy day!Ding Li was convinced again.

Jia Shishi finally came back to his senses, and pointed to Jia Wangshi: "You... how are you! I trust you to entrust the family affairs to you. Is that how you are? Don't you think about Baoyu?"

When Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian heard this, they felt very bored.Baoyu is the only one in this family?Selling the sacrificial field will lose Baoyu alone?At the moment, my heart was a little cold, and I stayed behind and didn't speak.

"Old lady, I can't help it either! It's been more and more difficult in the mansion these years, and Yuan Chun is working hard to open the way for our family in the palace. Why don't we need money? I can only mortgage the sacrificial land to exchange some money for my old man. , wait for the money to come together and buy it back, don’t need to alarm others. Who knew Brother Zhen would actually break this matter?”

Ding Li sneered after hearing this: "Then it's my fault? Blame me for picking this up and making the Jia family lose face?"

"It turned out to be just a temporary turnaround, so what's the point of making a fuss?" Jia Wang shook her head with a look of grievance.

When Jia Shishi heard this, her heart was pounding. She also knew the situation at home. In recent years, Yuanchun spent more money in the palace.It's just that Jia Wang's self-sacrifice sacrificed to the fields, but he had to beat him!And Baoyu.Baoyu can't have such a mother who sells her husband's family to sacrifice the land. Although the Wang family wants to punish him, she can't hurt Baoyu!

Jia Shishi has been used to saying one thing in the Rongguo mansion all these years, and the Rongning second mansion in the sacrificial field accounts for [-]% of the quota, so they counted the affairs of the clan as family affairs, and began to think this way in their hearts.

When she cleared her throat and was about to speak, she heard Ding Li say: "Since the old lady is fine, let's go back to the main room and continue talking about offering sacrifices to the fields. Second aunt please go to the main room with us! They are all elders of our own parents, we only need to ask the whole story, Second Aunt doesn't have to avoid it too much."

When Jia Wangshi heard this, she immediately turned to Jia Shishi for help. She knew that the only one who could save her now was Jia Shishi!Even if Jia Shishi will hold him in his hands from now on, it is better than being interrogated in the clan.

"As the saying goes, family ugliness should not be publicized. It's our own business. Where do we need such a big fanfare?" Jia Shi really opened his mouth to fight for Jia Wang.

"This is not an ordinary thing." Ding Li said in a cold tone, "I also understand the meaning of the old lady. I think this sacrificial field was originally prepared by the big bosses from our two prefectures. It doesn't matter if it's a turnaround right?"

Although Jia Shishi could hear the sarcasm in Ding Li's words, he still nodded bravely: "That's the truth. It's just a temporary turnaround. It's our own business to deal with your second aunt like this. We heard it, wouldn't the friendship of several lifetimes be hurt?"

"Old lady, if you can convince the clan elders, then this is a family scandal between you and my family, and we will talk about other things later." Ding Li didn't want to argue with Jia Shishi, and simply gave the conditions.

Jia Shishi frowned and thought for a while, the condition was a bit harsh.Just for Baoyu, there is really nothing that cannot be challenged! "Go and invite the clan elders, I will go and talk to them myself."

Ding Li kept his hands still: "Let's ask the old lady to go out and talk to them by herself. I'll wait here. When the old lady finishes speaking, just tell me to go out."

Jia Shishi sighed, knowing that Ding Li would not let her pull up the big banner as a tiger's skin.If Ding Li went out to invite him, he would first acquiesce to Jia Shishi's proposal, and then Jia Shishi would tell the clan elders how those Jia family members who were attached to the Rongning Second Mansion would risk offending their two thighs What about the risk of pursuing Jitian?

But as long as Ding Li didn't directly refute herself, Jia Shishi thought, she would have a way to round things up.

Jia Shishi still had confidence in the face of a group of white clan elders, and although Ding Li questioned Jia Zheng before, he didn't clarify the matter, even if he had sharp ears, it was not easy to intervene at this time and say that he heard it. what.Therefore, Jia Shishi lured them with profit and threatened them, and used his widow status to make several clan elders unable to advance or retreat. In the end, he had no choice but to agree not to pursue the matter.

Seeing that the matter was settled, Jia Shishi then called Jia Wangshi out, asked Jia Wangshi to copy the scriptures as atonement, and made a promise to redeem the sacrificial land.Then Ding Li was asked to come out to make a final decision. After all, Ding Li, the acting patriarch, summoned the clan elders to discuss matters today.

Jia Lian almost gritted his teeth: This is a matter of laying down the foundation of the ancestors, and it has passed so lightly?He glanced at Jia She, who was full of impatience beside him, and then at Ding Li, who had a cold face, and finally stepped forward: "Old lady, who should take care of the sacrificial field in the future? When will it be redeemed? The amount of the redemption Who will come out?"

Jia Shishi looked at Jia Lian indifferently, thinking that Dafang was going to take advantage of this to seize power, but he didn't expect to see Jia Amnesty's face full of impatience, seeing Jia Lian's words and neither supporting nor refuting.

If Jia Amnesty made a fuss without hesitation, Jia Shishi could still swear a few words, but Jia Lian didn't know how to refute such a serious question.

On the other hand, Jia Zheng, after the catastrophe just now, heard Jia Lian's question, and immediately reprimanded him with a surge of adrenaline: "Presumptuous! The sacrificial fields in the clan are taken care of by the elders, and they only stare at these Adu things for their own profit. ? Still not backing down!"

This sentence scolded all the clan elders, Jia Shi's family and Jia Wang's family.Ding Li lowered his head to hide his smile, lest he couldn't help laughing.Jia Zheng's eloquence is really great!

"Since the clan elders don't pursue it anymore, let's talk about another thing. I want to divide the clan." Ding Li threw another thunderbolt when the person who was scolded was still holding back his anger.

"What? I don't agree!" Jia Shishi was the first to yell.No matter how disobedient Ding Li is, how much he makes himself angry, he is one of the vital forces of the Jia family.The reason why the Jia family occupies a place among the Four Kings and Eight Dukes, and is like the leader of the four major families, is because of the honor that other families do not have!

"That's why I will take half of the sacrificial fields bought by the Ningguo Mansion back then. The Yongye Field was given by the Taizu, and I will take all of it away. Let's see when Second Aunt plans to redeem it?" Ding Li seemed to be taken away. He said as if hearing Jia Shishi's words.

Jia Lian silently went back behind her father, pretending that she hadn't said anything just now—good guy, Big Brother Zhen is just pulling out the bottom line!

Looking at the land that Second Aunt has changed over the years, it would take about 10 taels to fill it up just based on what Big Brother Zhen said.

Ding Li added, "If Second Aunt alone can't handle this matter, how about I invite the heads of the families involved to discuss it?"

Jia Shishi looked at Ding Li's calm expression, but the words he said were like sharp knives, and he knew that Ding Li was determined.She suddenly aged a few years, and she lost her vigor and spirit: "Brother Zhen, you can't write two Jia characters in one stroke, how can you do that?"

This is hard to see, and I have begun to take the emotional route.

But Ding Li ignored it: "To be honest, if the old lady could not suppress the matter today and treat the matter of the second aunt's sale of the sacrificed land fairly, I would not say that. It's just that the old lady's actions made Jia's family Where do you put your foundation and She Shulian's elder brother? The old lady doesn't tell me, I know, it must be for Baoyu. For Baoyu, even She Shulian's elder brother, who is related by blood, can ignore it, and it doesn't care about Jia's family. How about my foundation, I am afraid that one day the old lady will also fill in my nephew and grandnephew in the next room for Baoyu. What will happen to my Rong'er? What will happen to Qiang'er? If they have wives and children, what will happen? What should I do? I can't afford to gamble, so I simply ask the old lady to show her high hand, it doesn't matter who you want to fill in for Baoyu, just don't talk about my family."

These words not only changed Jia Shi's complexion, but also the faces of the clan elders were also unsightly.Just thinking about it makes sense.Jia Shishi even disregarded the interests of his own son, turned a blind eye to the destruction of his ancestors' foundation, and only cared about the damage to the precious jade. This is no longer a matter of partiality, but a matter of confusion and madness!

Several clan elders selectively forgot that they also promised not to pursue the matter of offering sacrifices to the fields under the temptation and coercion of Jia Shishi just now, and they all remembered that there was a trouble in the Rongguo Mansion because of the wall-building problem. If so, it is more and more certain that Jia Shishi is old and confused now.

Seeing the changes in the faces of the clan elders, Jia Shi felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.She wanted to fight again, but just as she was about to speak, the clan elders who had agreed before said to Jia She: "Brother She, you are now the head of the Rongguo Mansion, what do you think about this matter?" Do it?"

The impatience on Jia Amnesty's face finally disappeared.He looked around at the elders of the clan, and said casually: "Yo, finally remembered that I am the head of the Rongguo Mansion?"

The clan elder who spoke immediately felt that it was a mistake to ask Jia Amnesty just now.But since he had already asked, and it was reasonable for Jia She, as the head of the family, to handle this matter, he could only bite the bullet and continue listening.

"If you want me to say, everything is done according to the family law of the ancestors. Lian'er, you send someone to invite you, Wang Shibo, and then send someone to write letters to the Zhen family and the Xue family. No matter what to do, first redeem the ancestor's foundation. That's right."

"Nie Zhan, what are you going to use to redeem?" Jia Shishi confronted Jia Amnesty, showing his ability again.

Jia Amnesty picked his ears, "The money spent by the second sibling is naturally redeemed by the second sibling! There is also the private house of the second brother. In this house, the second brother spends more than me."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Seeing his second son's complexion changed, Jia Shi quickly scolded, "The antiques you buy every day and the amount you spend on powder are countless! Zheng'er goes up and down every day. Yamen, it doesn’t look like you are throwing money around for fun?”

"Old lady, I don't like to hear your words. I calculate my own expenses. Except for the monthly bills, when did I go through the public account? But the cleaning customers raised by the second child, and the calligraphy and paintings that I bought all went through the public account. , when there are at most ten thousand taels a month, there are three or four thousand taels when there is less. If you don’t believe me, just go to the accounting room and you will find out.” Jia She knew that Jia Wang’s housekeeper was not good at withdrawing money, so he In addition, he still has his own private house left by his grandfather and grandmother, otherwise he would not die of aggrieved death?

The more he talked, the more boring he became. Jia Amnesty also understood why Ding Li didn't bother to pay attention to being made things difficult by Jia Shishi several times before.When you don't take a person seriously, you don't care whether the person is holding back or not.Jia Amnesty shut his mouth and thought.

When Wang Ziteng heard that Jia Lian invited him to Ningfu, he thought it was because of Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng's marriage.It's just that when someone is called in to ask, Wang Ziteng knows that something is serious.With a cold face, he asked the people sent by Jia Lian to wait first, and went into the inner house by himself.He wants to ask, does his wife know about the good deeds that his sister has done!

Of course Wang Ziteng's wife knew about it, and she just kept it from him.Now that Wang Ziteng asked, he still doesn't care.The thing was done by Jia Wang, she just bought some fields to help my sister-in-law turn around!

"Long hair but short knowledge!" Wang Ziteng wanted to slap the ignorant woman, "You also think about Sister Luan! If she has a brother who resells her husband's family to sacrifice land, what good will she say in the future?"

Only then did Mrs. Wang Ziteng realize that something was wrong: "What should I do?"

"What else can I do? Return!" Wang Ziteng felt a sudden pain in his temple.He remembered that the person who sent the message said that this matter also involved the Xue family and the Zhen family, so he immediately called the housekeeper. "Hurry up and send a letter to Xue's family, the sooner the better, ask your brother-in-law to ask your sister about the Jia family's land sacrifice, and make a decision quickly, whether to return the land or make up for the silver, and come up with a solution!"

Wang Xifeng happened to come with Wang Xiluan to greet Mrs. Wang Ziteng before entering the room. Then Mrs. Wang Xifeng wailed and cried while hugging the two of them, saying that she had killed two girls!He hugged Wang Xifeng again, apologizing in his heart, saying that he had killed his niece, and that his marriage with Jia Lian might fail!

Wang Ziteng didn't think so.Jia Lian asked someone to invite him, probably because he couldn't get away at this time.But for people to say things so clearly, it can be seen that they are not trying to turn against each other.So Wang Ziteng is not very worried about Wang Xifeng's marriage.He even wished that Wang Xifeng would marry now, firstly to ease the relationship between Jia and Wang's family, but to save some face for the girl of the Wang family.

He told his wife about the most important things, and only then did Mrs. Wang Ziteng calm down.Wang Xifeng had to marry Jia Lian, and the two of them had to be in harmony after marriage, so as to prove that the girls of the Wang family were not all rebellious people who sold their husband's family to sacrifice the land.

Mrs. Wang Ziteng is holding Wang Xifeng in her arms, and she is a sweet relative of my son. Wang Ziteng will ask someone to find the land contract and take it to Jia's house without mentioning it.

As for the members of the Jia family, when Wang Ziteng came to the door with the deed, and cordially discussed with Jia Lian to let Wang Xifeng enter the door earlier, the elders of the clan were rejoicing, and Jia Wang knew that he had been made a person by the family. Abandoned!And the profits she has gained from the housekeeper over the years and her own dowry will also be filled into the hole she dug!

The fact that the wife of the family was questioned by the head of the family happened in the Zhen family and the Xue family successively a few days later.However, the situation of the two is different.The Xue family is like the Wang family. After the owner of the Xue family said his interests, he sent someone to return the sacrificial land. Afterwards, the deed went to Beijing, and he could go directly to the Ministry of Households to change the fish scale book.

But the Zhen family has been living on their own for a long time, and even the head of the family is reluctant to let go of the fertile land he has obtained, so he simply ignores this matter, just presuming that he didn't know about it, and has nothing to say.

After the sacrificial fields of the Wang Xue family were returned to the original owner, because of the good relationship between the family, the owner was still clear about this matter, so it did not affect the relationship between the old relatives, and there were some subtle tacit understandings exist.As for the Zhen family, they were secretly alienated by these three families.

Ding Li got back to the field of sacrifice, and directly handed over the position of patriarch to Jia She.As for Jia Amnesty, under the banner of Jia Shishi's "foolish old age", he divided the property of Rongguo Mansion, and the first house and the second house have lived in their own way since then, but they couldn't bear Jia Shishi's nonsense, and they couldn't get Jia Zheng's family together. Completely drive out of Rongguo Mansion.

But now that this is the case, it is natural for Jia Zheng's family to live in Rongxi Hall.The family had no choice but to move to Jia Zhu's yard.Jia Amnesty moved three more yards into the "Western Courtyard" along one side for Jia Zheng's family to live in, and then moved the stables back to the West Courtyard.

So far, the plot in the original book of A Dream of Red Mansions has been changed beyond recognition because of Ding Li's intervention.Yingchun went back to live in the big house, and now she is a dignified girl in the mansion, while Yuanchun is Fang Yang who has taken the current path and pointed out that she is a good wife to a son of the clan who is considered outstanding, so she doesn't have to suffer in the palace anymore. There are no durian flowers blooming to illuminate the palace.

In the Lin family in the south of the Yangtze River, Lin Hai and Jia Min's couple's complexions are getting better, and Lin Daiyu's insufficiency has also been relieved a lot.And the brother of the Lin family who should have died in the original book is still alive and well, and it looks like it will get better and better. There should be no "jade belt hanging in the forest".

After the incident of the Xue family, the head of the Xue family also realized that he did not pay enough attention to his wife and children, and found that his son had some bad habits of anointing his children, so he began to pay attention to the upbringing of his children, and he also began to preserve and cultivate himself, so that the Xue family Went to another road.

Jia Rong and Jia Qiang were still studying at the Jia family school after Ding Li's division of the sect. After all, the gentlemen of the family school came here because of Jia Jing's face. Will not be staying here again.The two studied hard for several years, and successively won the fame of scholars without relying on concealment.

After a few more years, the two younger brothers successively obtained the fame of juren, got married and had children, and were recommended for official positions and released.In this regard, Jia Lian, who was already in the household department at this time, gave them a lot of advice, which saved them a lot of detours as officials and students.

At this time, Fang Yang had already lived in another house, and had become a young man who was facing the wind.It's just that this son of the clan who bears the title of county king seldom goes back to live in his mansion, and mostly stays in Ding Li's courtyard in Ning Mansion, and is often hated by the eldest daughter Jia Ling in the family.

Because of these changes, Jia Baoyu is no longer the phoenix egg of the Jia family who is full of stars. Naturally, he is not as rich and idle as in the original book, and he has nothing to do every day.

Ding Li's life as Jia Zhen went smoothly most of the time.This time, he was the first to leave.Fang Yang took Ding Li's hand, still muttering that Ding Li should wait for him, he would definitely go to him, until Ding Li's spiritual consciousness left this world that was not a dream of Red Mansions before, he closed his eyes and left Tu Yize's body.

In February 1978, on a train bound for Beijing, Ding Li opened his eyes.