Jia Yao of the Red Chamber

Chapter 12 Jia Yao's Reading and Jia Min's Death

Although Jia's family has only made a fortune for three generations, the girls have already been raised like a big family.Although the girls in Jia's mansion don't need to be rich and rich, they also need to read some collections of poetry and poetry, so that they can read and hyphenate characters.Even girls with high status like Jia Min, Jia Yuanchun, and Jia Yao have to hire a more educated female teacher to teach them.Others taught women red needlework, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.Although they don't seek to be proficient, if girls show talent in a certain aspect, they will naturally have the opportunity to learn more deeply and finely as they are noble and favored by the elders.Jia Yao's aunt, Jia Min, is very talented in poetry, and she is loved by the old Rong Guogong and the old lady Jia. She naturally has the opportunity to read hundreds of classics. Jia Daishan even asked a famous talented woman in the capital to do it for Jia Min. master.In Jia Yao's generation, Jia Yuanchun, as Jia Zheng's eldest daughter, also has deep attainments in female celebrities.When Daiyu came to Jia's mansion, she asked Jia's mother and sisters what books they read, and Jia's mother replied flatly, "They just know a few words, so they don't want to be blind."

In fact, it's not that Jia's mother doesn't like her daughter's study, but that Yingchun and Tanchun are just two concubines in her heart, and Xichun is the daughter of Jia Jing who became a Taoist priest. In Jia Mu's heart, although these girls are her granddaughters, they can only read a few words.And when Grandma Liu came to Grand View Garden, she praised the books in Daiyu's room, so you can know that Jia's mother definitely does not dislike her granddaughter's reading, and it can also be seen that Jia's mother loves Daiyu's granddaughter even more. Guo Ying Tanxi three people, because Dai Yu is her precious daughter's only flesh and blood.In the same way, as the youngest daughter, she was born with auspicious omens, and she gave birth to cute Yuxue. Jia Yao, who grew up under her nose, is now at the age of schooling. Mother Jia didn't just ask Jia Yao to know a few words, that's all. Instead, I have to ask a few female gentlemen to teach alone.If Jia Yao was lazy and stubborn, Mother Jia would love her granddaughter and it wouldn't matter.The point is that her granddaughter has been smart since she was a child. Moreover, given Jia Yao's family background, appearance and character, she doesn't have any talents to match her. She feels that she has wronged her precious granddaughter.

With the influence of the Jia family, it is not difficult to find two female teachers who can enlighten children.Not long after, I found two well-known female gentlemen, one taught Jia Yao how to read and write, and the other taught some basic piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Although the two female masters were not professional, they taught Jia Yao enough. (In the eyes of others), because Jia's mansion is the gentleman invited by the concubine, the reward is naturally not bad.The two masters became more and more patient, and they did not dare to criticize Jia Yao at all, which made Jia's mother and Mrs. Wang feel satisfied after seeing it.

But she said that because Jia Yao didn't want to pretend to be a naive child all day long, she deliberately showed seven points of intelligence when studying.In the eyes of the two female gentlemen, it is Jia Yao who learns very fast and understands everything.Although the current teaching is still very basic and simple, it is already good for the young children who have just come into contact with it, if they don't cry every day and don't want to learn.But in the eyes of Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang, how could it be so simple?Their own children are just like other children, they can all see how extraordinary their own children are, not to mention Jia Yao's performance is very good.In the eyes of the two, Jia Yao is a fairy boy descending to earth.Since I started studying, I have changed every day (this is all imagined by Mrs. Jia Muwang), and now I don’t speak childish words. You have to hold back your laughter, otherwise Jia Yao will be unhappy.And Jia Zheng has always liked Jia Yao more than other children. Now that Jia Yao is studying decently, Jia Zheng likes it very much, and he praised Jia Yao better than her brother Baoyu.

In fact, Jia Yao suppressed herself not to be better than Baoyu.Jia Zheng said this because he implemented a strict father policy for his son and did not praise him easily.Mother Jia and Mrs. Wang obviously knew this too, so they didn't take it seriously.Otherwise, no matter how much they love Jia Yao, if Jia Yao is a girl who overwhelms her son-in-law, they will also mind.Fortunately, Baoyu is also a very smart child, and now because his sister is a good student, he wants to maintain a tall image in his sister's heart, so he knows how to be motivated.Although Jia Zheng still reprimanded him from time to time, in the end it was just a formality, and he was still satisfied.He felt that the eldest son who died earlier than himself might be more promising, and his body was not bad (Jia Yao always infiltrated Baoyu's thought that girls would look down on men who were not strong), otherwise he would not dare to let the younger son learn from the past. The son is reading.Now he is very satisfied with this second son in every way.

Different from several parents, Jia Yao felt that Baoyu's growth really made her sweat.The doting affection of Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang is really terrible. They can let them raise good children, let alone Jia Baoyu, who is already a little crazy.Jia Yao really wondered how her elder brother Jia Zhu, whom she had never met, managed to do so in such a doting environment, she was really a god.

In fact, what Jia Yao didn't know was that before she and Baoyu were born, it was Jia's mother who still had some of her young personality despite her age.Although he dotes on his grandson, he still hopes that his grandson will make progress.So she didn't stop her son from disciplining him.However, first there was Jia Hu, her real eldest grandson, the child whom the old couple had been looking forward to for ten months died of illness when the Duke was here, and then there was her youngest son, the eldest son who was exhausted after Zhongju. I couldn't afford it, and eventually died.Mother Jia was getting old again, so she couldn't help being hard again.As for the three grandchildren today, Jia Huan is the concubine born to her aunt, and Jia Lian and Baoyu are her only two remaining grandchildren. She is naturally happy that the child is promising, but even if the child is not promising, she is willing to raise it forever , I don't want anything to happen to them again.

In the blink of an eye, two years passed so peacefully. During this period, Master Jing in the East Mansion had a daughter named Xichun, who was raised by Mother Jia. , but the little girl's father died soon after.Mrs. Wang's brother-in-law, the head of the Xue family passed away, and the clansmen fought to divide the property, but in the end the direct branch won.

It's just that these are still relatively far away from Jia Yao, and some useful information she got is that although Xichun's status is high, she is not valued by the East Mansion, otherwise Jia's mother would not be indifferent.Among the three masters of the historian, only the eldest was born before Jia's mother was married, so Jia's mother is the closest to the eldest nephew, so the original book loves Shi Xiangyun very much.Aunt Xue is by no means a benevolent person as described in the original book, otherwise how could it be possible to keep more than half of the property of the first line when the two children were young with the strength of a single woman.In the past two years, what really shocked Jia Yao was the death of Jia Min.

The letter from Yangzhou would take ten days at the fastest, because Jia Min always reported good news to his old mother but not bad news, so the news of Jia Min's death came before Jia's mother had made any mental preparations.

Ever since she heard the news of Jia Min's death, Mother Jia's tears have never stopped, and she hasn't smiled for a month.The body became seriously ill.Jia Yao knew that Jia's mother dreamed of her daughter when she fell asleep, and she was still thinking about her daughter when she woke up. When she was the most ill a few days ago, she was a little confused. For a while, she seemed to think that Jia Min was still a little girl, unmarried, Acting like a baby by her side, running, jumping and playing around her.Although Jia Yao has never met this aunt, but was born here, she still has a natural liking and admiration for Jia Min because of her blood relationship.Now that Jia Min is dead, and Jia's mother is like this again, she is also very heartbroken and bitter.It's just that she stays with Jia's mother every day in a sensible way, and doesn't go to class anymore.When Jia's mother was crying, she wiped her tears and comforted her with a soft voice.

Although Mrs. Wang was at odds with Jia Min, she wanted Jia Min to be unlucky at most and make life difficult. Now that she is gone all of a sudden, Mrs. Wang has put aside some of the old grudges and has something to be happy with. Human non-sadness.Mrs. Wang still remembers Jia Min's ostentation as a young lady, the way Jia Min acted like a baby beside Jia's mother, and how beautiful Jia Min was when she got married.In the past, when she thought about it, she only felt disgusted, but now it is a bit of a pity.I feel that Jia Min is indeed a delicate and transparent person no matter what.

In this way, Jia's mansion was shrouded in a sad atmosphere for many days, and even the servants walked a lot easier as before.However, the deceased has passed away, and as Jia Mu's illness gradually improved, this prosperous family finally gradually recovered its original lively atmosphere. On this day, Jia Mu got out of bed for the first time in more than a month, and could bear Greetings, daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law, although the spirit is not very good, but I can already give orders.

I saw that she summoned all the masters of the Rong Mansion, and all the juniors were listening to the admonition below, and saw Jia Mu saying, "Now, Min'er is gone, and my granddaughter is only living with her father in Yangzhou. There are no female elders to teach, no brothers to support, it is inevitable to be weak. Miner left this flesh and blood, I want to take my granddaughter, raise her by my side, and personally teach adults."

Jia Yao was hugged by Jia's mother, and she couldn't help being stunned after hearing these words.She knew that Daiyu was coming, which meant that the plot of the Red Mansion was about to begin