The Heart of the Red Chamber

During the Flower Festival on the second day of February, Jia Min gave birth to a daughter. Although Shi Taijun was a little disappointed, he was not discouraged. It blooms first and then bears fruit. Being able to have a daughter means that there is no problem with the body. After a period of recuperation, a son will be born. Therefore, even though he sent a lot of gifts, he didn't ask more questions. After all, on the Jia family's side, Jia Zhu's marriage also needs to be taken care of.

Jia Zhu's marriage is considered grand, and the Li family's dowry for their daughter is not considered rich. Those elegant antique paintings are not something that can be bought with money, and the furniture is also made of high-quality mahogany. In the normal sense, a dowry of 64 liters is enough to satisfy the average family.

But it is a pity that the Jia family seems to think that they are not ordinary people. They have always regarded themselves as a noble family. Even if they say that they are second-rate, they think in their hearts that apart from the royal family, they will get their turn.Therefore, even if everyone has a smile on their faces, they still have some thoughts in their hearts.

Jia Zhu was not very happy in her heart, not because of her newly married wife Li Wan, but because of her grandmother and parents' attitude towards their two sons.Logically, Jia Zhu is considered to be the eldest grandson of the Rongguo Mansion, and now he has achieved fame. It can be said that at least half of the Jia family's hope rests on him.

However, since Jia Baoyu was born, he has keenly discovered that his family puts more hope on this child who is still nursing and can't even speak. The reason is that he has visions.As a mother, there is nothing to say about loving her young son. This is human nature. Even if Jia Zhu feels a little awkward in his heart, it is still understandable, but what makes it difficult for him to accept is the attitude of Shi Taijun, the true spiritual leader of the Jia family. Not to mention Jia Baoyu being raised by his side, it is normal for a grandmother to want to take care of her grandson.However, the key issue is that Shi Taijun always boasted in front of outsiders that Jia Baoyu must have good fortune in the future. He was saying inside and out that the future of the Jia family depended on Jia Baoyu!Where did grandma's words put him, the eldest grandson who had already brought some glory to the family?

After marrying Li Wan, Jia Zhu, who has always been sensitive, soon discovered that neither her mother nor her grandmother treated her wife so affectionately, but rather distantly. If those things hadn't happened before, Jia Zhu might not have paid much attention to her. He realized that, after all, he had heard from his classmates that the relationship between daughter-in-law and mother-in-law is generally not very harmonious, but now, Jia Zhu is naturally paranoid.

Jia Zhu didn't expect his wife to be disliked for her lack of family background and insufficient dowry. In his opinion, his wife came from a fragrant family, gentle and beautiful, and she didn't have much jealousy. She was a standard good wife. As for the dowry, Jia Zhu's self-esteem Very tall men are not the ones who want to live off their wives' dowries.

Therefore, Jia Zhu's dissatisfaction was almost evident when he found out that his family was lukewarm about the newlyweds, but they were enthusiastically preparing for the full moon banquet of Jia Baoyu, a gifted younger brother. No one could tell except Li Wan.

After Jia Zhu wrote a few large characters almost to vent her anger, she let out a long breath and left the room tiredly, only to see Li Wan sitting there with a bunch of things in front of her, wondering what she was thinking about.

Jia Zhu walked over and asked softly, "Gong Cai, what are you thinking, why did you take out the dowry!"

Li Wan came back to his senses, stood up quickly, and said, "It's the uncle! My wife told me before that Baoyu was going to catch Zhou, and I asked my concubine to help prepare for the ceremony. I thought about those pens, inks, papers and inkstones." What, of course the master and wife will prepare it, so it can’t be too heavy, so I’m wondering if there’s anything new, so I can send it to my wife!”

Speaking of this, Jia Zhu's face suddenly became gloomy. He forced himself to calm down, squeezed out a smile, and said, "How can you use your dowry? I'll prepare Baoyu's ceremony of catching Zhou. There is also a piece of excellent Hetian jade Pixiu paperweight, plus two Zhu Zizhu classics that I copied by hand, just take that and send it to my wife!"

Li Wan nodded, looked at Jia Zhu, and asked with a bit of worry: "Master, what's bothering you recently? These two days, I have eaten a lot less food than usual, and my face is not very good-looking. If you don't dislike my concubine I don’t know, can you tell me about it?”

Looking at the worry on Li Wan's beautiful face, Jia Zhu felt a little better. He held Li Wan's soft hand with some emotion, and called softly, "Gong Cai!" What to say, just sighed softly.

Li Wan didn't say much either, she vaguely knew Jia Zhu's thoughts, and in her opinion, this was normal, especially, although Li Wan didn't know much about the outside world, he had heard his elder brother complain that Jia's family was nothing She is too well-behaved, and doesn't know how to restrain herself. She doesn't understand the disadvantages of the Jia family's hype about giving birth to jade, but she also knows that it is really a big deal to have so much hope for a baby who doesn't know what the future will hold. Incomprehensible things.

Jia Baoyu's catching thought was a farce in the end.

Wang Ren was fortunate enough to witness the whole process with his own eyes, and he couldn't understand at all, whoever caught the week was not a good omen, how could they put things like rouge and pollen on it, no matter whether Jia Baoyu had Su Hui or whether he was a fairy or not. , at least for now, he is just a baby who doesn't understand anything. Babies are naturally interested in brightly colored things. Those dusty pens, inks, papers and inkstones don't make any decorations, and don't put any honey on them. A one-year-old baby is just like what is written in the novel, doing nothing and not training in advance. When you want him to take "The Analects of Confucius", he will take "The Analects of Confucius", and if you want him to take the sword, he will take the sword!

When Jia Baoyu abandoned all the sages almost without hesitation, picked up the gold-painted rouge box neatly, and smiled foolishly until his mouth drooled, Wang Ren looked at the people in the room with a stiff face, I don't know what to say.

The wife of a small official who took a long time to come and flatter her said dryly, "Master Ling has taken the rouge, and in the future he will marry Mrs. Jia a good daughter-in-law, and give Mrs. Jia a golden grandson in the future!"

The rest of the people also hurriedly followed the words, Jia Zheng, a guy who is not very worldly, didn't know how to go down the steps, so he directly concluded that this kid will be a hungry ghost in the future, so he walked away !On the other hand, Shi Taijun was very calm, pretending that it was normal, and chatting with a group of ladies, none of the people present were smart, they were just flattering Jia Baoyu how to live an extraordinary life, without mentioning the embarrassment just now.