The whole heaven is watching Lao Tzu fall in love [Red Mansion]

She quickly calmed down, called Baoyu to her face again, and said to him with a smile: "Just now, my sister gave you a handkerchief, just joking with you, that is not my sister's handkerchief."

"It's not my sister's?" Baoyu looked up at his jade-like little face, becoming more and more bewildered.

"That's right," Wang Xifeng said with a smile on his lips, and stretched out his hand to slowly smooth the broken hair on Baoyu's forehead, "My sister picked it up in the garden before. Seriously."

Baoyu suddenly realized, and also laughed foolishly.Then he said: "That's Baoyu being too stupid, my good sister, please don't say it outside!"

Wang Xifeng pursed her lips: "You are not allowed to say it outside, we have agreed, this is a secret!"

Immediately, he coaxed Jia Lang in this way again.Jia Lang didn't take it seriously either, he just agreed, looking very cute.

What Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang said was unclear, but after that, many of the maids who served in Rongxi Hall that day were released, and it has been difficult to find their traces since then.There were no rumors related to this in the mansion, so Wang Xifeng was relieved from then on, but the marriage was not easy to mention anymore.

Also because of this reason, there are many fewer people serving around Jia Mu.After discussing with Mrs. Wang, they bought another group of little girls from outside the mansion, and recruited a group of family-born children from the mansion, and only then did those vacancies be filled.

And here, Mrs. Zhang also discussed to buy two more maidservants for Jia Lang to envoy.

"Huahong is a good person. He has been with me for so many years, and he is the most caring person. It's just that in a few years, it's time to let him out and be a serious person." She said to Li Zhi's housemate, "I Looking at it coldly, none of the maids who came to the big room before are useful, they are either timid or big-hearted, why don't they just buy a few more from outside."

Li Zhi's family said: "That's right, the third young master can't be without servants. My wife didn't see that every time Baoyu of the second room went out, there were a lot of maids and women surrounding him. The battle was so big." The third young master of our family is much higher than the second master Bao in terms of status, so don't be too far away."

Mrs. Zhang sighed: "You don't know, Lang'er is weird! I don't like so many people around him. These days, you go out to inquire, if you have any good ones, buy a few, and you are also preparing to make up for it. It’s the lack of Liu Yi on my side.”

Li Zhi's family hesitated and said: "Then Liu Yi, is Madam sure you want to give it to the second master?"

"Otherwise?" Mrs. Zhang glanced at her lazily, "I can't find a more suitable person. If Lian'er doesn't have that kind of thought, it would be great to put him in his room as a steward. Sensible, will not fight for things that cannot be imagined."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "It's just about Lian'er's marriage, but we have to take a good look at it."

Having put Jia Lian's marriage on the agenda, the Zhang family naturally went out to dinner every day, exchanging ideas with the wives of the noble families without any trace.On the other hand, he was worried about the Qiu Wei that Jia Lian was about to attend, and the subordinates tried their best to recuperate his body.

This time, both Jia Lian and Jia Zhu were going to participate in Qiu Wei. Jia Zhu had participated once three years ago, but was not selected.Because of the matter of Zhongju, how can it be so easy, just look at Fan Jin's ecstatic appearance after Zhongju in the script, you can know that this imperial examination is indeed extremely difficult.The head hangs from the beam and the awl stabs the buttocks. After ten years of cold windows, I sharpen my sword. I only hope that the spring breeze will be proud of the horseshoe disease, and I will see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day.

What's more, there are three sessions in each Jiangnan provincial examination, and each session lasts three days and nights.Since there are two changes of scenes in the middle, it is actually nine days and seven nights.At that time, all the houses were lined up in a row facing south, with nearly a hundred long rooms and fifty or sixty short ones. There was a big book on the entrance of the alley, and there were lights and water tanks for candidates to walk at night and drink water during the day. for.Candidates should provide their own food during the exam.Because the rural examination takes a long time and the weather is sultry, the food will quickly deteriorate, so candidates generally only bring dry food to satisfy their hunger.For such a long period of time, they can only stay in a small dormitory, and the food is rough dry food. Every year, many candidates with weaker bodies faint in the examination room.Especially for the children of rich families who have hardly experienced hardship, it is a great torture.

Jia Lian has been studying hard for three years, and his uncle Lin Ruhai found him a very knowledgeable teacher from Suzhou.He was originally talented and intelligent, but he just didn't pay attention to it in the past, but now if he pays attention to it, he will never fail.

On the day of the exam, Jia Amnesty personally sent Jia Lian and Jia Zhu into the exam room. Zhang was worried at home, and did not have lunch.Seeing Jia Lian after the end, the other party's complexion was as pale as snow, looking really scary.

Jia Amnesty was startled, hurriedly let him into the carriage, and rarely spoke kindly to his son.A servant had served him with water and fruit, and after applying a wet veil for a long time, he came back slowly.

"Lian'er, where's your brother?"

Jia Lian pointed to the examination room and said, "Brother's dormitory is relatively inward, I'm afraid he hasn't come out yet."

Jia Amnesty then waited for a while, and sure enough, he saw Jia Zhu staggering out of the examination room, and several servants rushed forward to help him.But before his hand touched Jia Zhu's clothes, he saw Jia Zhu staggering and fell down.

"Pearl!"

Everyone was startled by this, and rushed forward to lift Jia Zhu into the carriage.The examinees around were also used to seeing it, and no one said anything, only a few children of family friends came forward to ask and inquire about the news.

When she returned to Jia's mansion, Mrs. Wang looked at Jia Zhu who had passed out, and the tears rolled down like beads with a broken thread.

Mother Jia sent someone to call for the imperial physician, and for a while the familiar imperial physician Wang came, and all the female relatives retreated behind the twelve screens carved with hollow dragon and longevity patterns inlaid with figures on Shoushan Mountain.Only Jia's mother is already a man of heaven and earth, and she is still sitting in front of the bed, naturally worried.

Doctor Wang looked at it, and said: "Your man's brother is already physically weak, and he said before that he should not work too hard. Now, it seems that he has hurt the root, and he must take care of it carefully to keep it safe. Peace."

When Jia's mother heard this, the tears came down in an instant, and she couldn't help trembling and touched Jia Zhu's pale face on the bed: "My pearl, my pearl!" Zheng: "I told him to rest for a while, why didn't he listen to me? He fainted in the examination room three years ago, and you have forced him to work hard every day for the past three years. If there is something wrong with Pearl , Baoyu and I will go back to Jinling!"

When Jia Zheng heard the words, he didn't dare to refute at all, he just knelt on the ground and begged bitterly: "Mother said so, where do you put your son?"

"What mother?" Jia Mu sneered, "You are asking me where I put you, and where you put my grandson! He is still young, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't pass the exam for a while. , I was born to force him! You will not stop until you make a good child sick!"

Mrs. Wang just stood aside and wept silently, but she didn't refute a word.

Jia Zhengsheng received a few crutches, and his whole back was in burning pain, so he had to grit his teeth and bear it.After Jia Mu's anger subsided a little, she went out and asked a maid to dispense the medicine.

Erfang's side was in chaos, but on the other side, Mrs. Zhang was busy sending the exhausted Jia Lian to bed.The small kitchen had already prepared a light meal, and Jia Lian used it a little before falling down on the bed and falling into a deep sleep.

Naturally, his complexion was also extremely ugly. Mrs. Zhang felt very distressed, and watched him by the bed for a long time before leaving quietly.

"I heard that Zhu'er fainted?" She suddenly remembered this, and couldn't help asking.

Liu Yi nodded, and said: "I heard that I'm still unconscious. The servants are in charge of it in private, and they have already ordered people to pack up the excellent medicinal materials and send them away."

Mrs. Zhang nodded slowly, and praised: "You are really safe in doing things."

If it was delivered a little later, someone might have murmured in their hearts and figured out something different.

While talking, he came out of the inner room, only to find that Mr. Jia She was sitting blankly beside the five-legged round flowers on the side of the huanghuali, his eyes were empty, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"master?"

Jia Amnesty looked up, and saw Fa's wife walking out slowly, and gave her a slight nod.

"sit."

Mrs. Zhang sat down as she said, but she was still puzzled.It was rare for her to see Jia She describe it like this, so she felt strange, and couldn't help asking: "Master, what's bothering you?"

To put it bluntly, the Elder Master really didn't have too many worries before.The only thing is that Mother Jia favors the second bedroom too much, and the rest of the time she is just addicted to women's sex and antiques.

Such a dandy Mr. Jia was silent for a long while, then suddenly said: "Qingran, I only know today that there are still so many people in the world who endure the torment of studying every day. They have no clothes, no food, and they have to study hard. Why exactly?"

Qingran is Zhang's boudoir name, but she hasn't heard this name for more than ten years.Since she married into the Jia family, Zhang Qingran has been replaced by the eldest wife of the Jia family, and has become a completely different person. She is no longer the girl who had a smile and no worries before.

The name made her dazed for a while, and then slowly said: "Master, it is precisely because of poverty that I need to study."

"Not to mention that it's to work hard to secure a future and keep future generations rich and worry-free. At least, it's also to let myself have some thoughts so that I can get through this dark night, right?"

Jia Amnesty didn't understand.