Old Lady Jia through the Red Mansions

Chapter 13 Depressed Jia Zheng

The old lady felt depressed. After dinner, everyone rinsed their mouths with tea.The Jia family used to drink tea after rinsing their mouths.So, everyone was still sitting around the table waiting for tea, but after waiting for a long time, no tea was served.It's all a little strange.

Only Jia She, who had been with the old lady for a while recently, changed this habit after the old lady recovered from her illness.It was said by the imperial physician that it is not good to drink tea after meals.He knows why.It was also asked:

"Mother, why don't you serve tea?"

Then the old lady said:

"Last time, when the imperial doctor saw me, he said that drinking tea after meals would be bad for the stomach."

Afterwards, he himself asked the imperial physician about health preservation.

After he stayed with his mother, he never drank tea after his mother's meal.Now that my mother has no possibility to explain to everyone, he has to explain the reason to everyone himself.

Everyone sat for a while, and the old lady said:

"Come on, let's go for a walk in the yard to digest food, so as not to accumulate food at night. As the saying goes, 'Walk a hundred steps after a meal, and live to 99.'"

After finishing speaking, the old lady took her two grandchildren one by one and walked out.Others naturally have to follow.While walking, the old lady asked little Jia Lian:

"Is Lian'er tired?"

Little Jia Lian said in a childish voice:

"Lian'er is not tired."

"That's good. From now on, let's exercise our bodies to be strong, and we won't be tired when we go to the garden, and we won't get sick!"

"Lian'er is exercising with grandma, will Brother Zhu join us?"

Seeing Jia Lian tilting her head and looking at her, Jia Zhu thought for a while and replied:

"My brother wants to learn from the master, and he can do it after school."

Jia Lian was happy when he heard Jia Zhu say that. It's great that someone will play with him in the future!Just what did grandma say about exercise?

"Grandma, what is exercise?"

After hearing Jia Lian's words, Mrs. Lan thought for a while. She remembered that it was mentioned on TV that Jia Zhu was in poor health. She couldn't pass the imperial examination, so she died early.After thinking about it again in my heart, I said:

"This kind of exercise is just like your grandfather. You have practiced martial arts since you were young. Practicing martial arts is a kind of physical exercise. Brother Zhu is now studying Chinese, and you must have a good body for the imperial examination in the future. Otherwise, your body will collapse. ! Then it is necessary to spend some time practicing martial arts."

As soon as the old lady finished speaking, Jia Zheng who followed behind said:

"Mother, Brother Zhu is a literati, a literati and refined scholar, how can he act as rudely as a warrior."

The old lady got angry when she heard Jia Zheng's words. She was just talking about exercising, not letting the children practice martial arts full-time.What does this cheap son mean?Seriously:

"What? You look down on martial arts? Our family started with martial arts, so do you still want to stay in Jia's house? If you don't want to stay, you can find a place to move out yourself."

Jia Zheng didn't expect the old lady's reaction to be so big, so he said:

"I, I, I don't want our family to use martial arts to transfer text..."

"Zuanwen? You can forget about your ancestors' foundation by turning your text? You don't need to exercise if you turn your text? If you don't have a good body, what can you do to take the imperial examination? Do you know why every time you hear people who take the exam, their students faint and are carried away?" Come out, and some people even died because of it? Isn’t it because their health is not good…”

As soon as the old lady got angry, she slapped a lot.Jia Zheng was so speechless that he couldn't speak a word.Finally, he asked Jia She to invite a martial arts master back for the children, and let the two children spend an hour a day practicing martial arts!It was Jia Zhu who pulled the old lady's sleeve sensiblely and said:

"Brother Zhu listens to grandma's words, and from now on, he will practice martial arts with the martial arts master invited by uncle to exercise his body!"

Only then did the old lady stop, and she gave Jia Zheng a look: If you don't let Brother Zhu practice martial arts, stay away from my old man!

Under the care of the old lady, Jia Zheng wished to make himself transparent so that no one could see it.This was the first time the old lady had expressed dissatisfaction with herself.From childhood to adulthood, he only heard the old lady say something wrong with his elder brother.If you can't do it, you can't do it. He really looks down on his brother.

As the son of the same son, he is much more promising than this brother!However, even so, the father still let the eldest brother take over the title!I only got a job as a member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang.Just because the eldest brother was born a few years earlier than himself, when he learned about this, he felt very uncomfortable.

At that time, the mother was already unwell because of the death of the father, and when the imperial decree arrived, she even fainted directly.

It was a long time before he could talk to his mother again.And the mother who woke up suddenly became nice to his eldest brother, which made him even more depressed.And the lecherous elder brother also became lecherous during this period, and even sent the troublesome concubine to the Zhuangzi outside.As for how he would help the old lady, in short, recently, I have been hearing from people that he often spends time with the old lady.

As for the series of changes in the family, he felt that the elder brother was unreliable in his work, and the servants in the family had done something bad, so he just dealt with it quietly. Why did the people in the whole capital know about it, and let the yamen participate? Isn't that Did it make the Rongguo Mansion a laughing stock?

Even so, why didn't the old lady who always had a good face didn't talk about her eldest brother?Instead, he reprimanded himself because of his own words.It's all the fault of Jia Wang's bad things. If it weren't for her, why would the old lady suddenly dislike herself?

It was Jia She, anyway, he was a dandy with no literary skills, but now he listened to what the old lady said, and he quite agreed with it.I thought: No matter if you are a dude or a literati, what can you do without a good body?Of course, Lian'er will also be awarded the title in the future, and it doesn't matter whether he leaves the imperial examination or not.But it would be even better if you can take the test!After all, their Lian'er is quite smart.Even if he himself is incapable of writing or martial arts, he still admires literati.

After listening to the old lady's words, Mrs. Zhang agreed and did not understand.She knew that what the old lady said was really for the good of future generations.She came from a scholarly family, so she had heard of how harsh the scientific research environment was.Without the good health and perseverance that the old lady said, it would be really difficult to pass all the exams.

Jia Yuanchun on the side was very surprised. When did the old lady talk to her father in such a tone?In her small memory, it has never been done before!The target of the old lady's tone has always been facing the uncle, why did she suddenly turn to her father?

Could it be that the old lady doesn't like their second room?Then what is the reason why the old lady doesn't like the second bedroom?Is it because my wife made a mistake?

No matter how precocious Jia Yuanchun matured, she couldn't figure out the reason for being only six years old.

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