Jia Yao of the Red Chamber

Chapter 48 Jia Yao To Be Married ([-])

Not long after the New Year's Eve, Jia Yao ushered in the first major event in her life: Jiji ceremony.

In fact, in this Jia's mansion, birthdays for young masters and young ladies are not always considered grand.Even Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng's usual birthday was nothing more than inviting relatives and friends to have a meal together.When Baoyu and Jia Yao were Zongjiao's children, they had a decent birthday every year, and there were a lot of birthday peaches and silver noodles.But after the age of ten, when Jia Yao celebrates her birthday, Mother Jia just invites the ladies of the Jia family to get together and order two plays.The three of them, Baoyu and Daiyu, would get together and make trouble at night, but the elders would never get involved.Among Jia's mansions, only Jia's mother had the most grand birthday.But this is not just because Jia's mother likes extravagance, but this is an opportunity to connect with other people and exchange needs.At this time, the circle of noble ladies of Jiamu's generation always gathers together.Determine the interests of this year and consolidate the relationship.

But this year, Jia Yao's birthday will definitely not pass casually like in previous years.Firstly, she is now considered a quasi-princess concubine, and her status is different. Second, Jiji in ancient times was as important as the coming-of-age ceremony in modern times.This is especially true in the aristocratic circle. The age of a noble lady means that she can marry and communicate in the aristocratic circle, and it also means that her behavior no longer represents only personal behavior.If she is in her boudoir, her every move must represent the family, but if she is already a married woman, then she will always consider her husband's family in her actions.Just after the New Year's Eve, Mother Jia has ordered the people below to prepare for Jia Yao's Jiji ceremony.Because Jia Yao is the only unmarried concubine in Jia's mansion, she is deeply loved by Jia's mother, and Jia's mother is the one who presides over the ceremony, and Jia's mother invited Nan'an Taifei, Nanhua Taifei, and Princess Wei to come. Add hairpins for Jia Yao.All of them are distinguished old ladies in that circle, which also shows that Jia's mother attaches great importance to this little granddaughter, and Miss Jia San's future is precious.

During the first three days of Jia Yao's trip and the Ji ceremony, Jia's mansion precepted as a guest, and stayed as a guest the day before.Because Jiamu's old sisters made an appointment to come early the next morning, Jia Yao only had to accompany Mrs. Wang Wang Xifeng to receive some guests from the four major families and Jinling's hometown the day before, so that she could be a little more relaxed.During this time, Nanny Rong and Nanny Bi have been following Jia Yao's buttocks, which can be regarded as checking Jia Yao's manners and etiquette in dealing with others.The result is naturally satisfying to them.Jia Yao's demeanor and etiquette have always been noble but not arrogant, soft but not humble, her words are just right, and her actions are pleasing to the eye.The two nuns watched and nodded secretly, quite satisfied with the results of their teaching.

Jia Yao's aunt came the day before, and she can be regarded as watching Jia Yao grow up since she was a child. Jia Yao is beautiful and has a good manner, and her husband, Wang Ziteng, has always loved the niece and niece of his sister-in-law. .Therefore, the Shi family has always been very kind to Jia Yao.There is also Aunt Xue, whom I haven't seen for a long time, who also misses her niece and daughter.These two elders were considered to be close to Jia Yao, so it was fine for Jia Yao to chat with Xu.

It's just that among the relatives who love Jia Yao more, naturally there are those who are lukewarm or even malicious.For example, Mrs. Jia's second nephew and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Li.As mentioned above, Mother Jia loves her eldest nephew Shi Xiangyun's father Shi Ding the most.The two brothers of the historian now have a weak relationship with Jia's mother.Naturally, Mrs. Li couldn't be close to Jia Yao.And the reason why Mrs. Li hates Jia Yao is because of Mrs. Wang.This is the grievance of the previous generation, and Jia Yao only vaguely knows it.But Li's lukewarm attitude, Jia Yao is not a weak white lotus.At the beginning, Jia Yao politely returned Li Shi's thorny remarks twice, but it seemed that Li Shi himself was making trouble for no reason.

Jia Yao's behavior did not make Nanny Rong and Nanny Bi feel frivolous.On the contrary, these old nuns felt that Jia Yao was holding her own.Thinking about it, they didn't think much of this Li's status, at least they felt that Li's status was far worse than that of Jia Yao who was about to enter the royal family.They stayed in the palace all their lives, even though they were polite to Mother Jia and others on the surface, but in their hearts, they only regarded the royal family as their masters.Even if he may not be faithful, he is still the master.As for Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng, listening to Jia Yao's unfailing counterattack, and seeing her gentle and polite expression, they also deeply felt that their daughter (sister-in-law) was smart.For people like Mrs. Li, it's impossible not to invite them, and they will respond if they are invited.This is the sorrow of family association. What determines your association is the relationship of interests, the needs of the family, not feelings.

The night before Jiji, Jia Yao slept with Mrs. Wang again after a few years (Jia Zheng was sent to sleep in the study by Mrs. Wang).For the daughter who is about to grow up, Mrs. Wang, as a mother, undoubtedly feels the most.

Mother Jia only thought that her granddaughter had grown up, which was a natural process, while Jia Zheng and Baoyu only thought that their daughter (sister) would always be a rosy-cheeked little girl who needed to be protected, and this coming-of-age ceremony meant nothing at all.

Only as a mother, Mrs. Wang, even if her daughter just changes her hairstyle tomorrow, even if her daughter won't get married until next year, she will feel relieved, sour, joyful, sad, and so on~ all kinds of emotions cannot be expressed in words.For a child growing up, the mother is always the one who feels the most different.Even if Mrs. Wang is a narrow-minded lady who cannot tolerate illiteracy, she will think that my daughter is about to grow up.What does she have to bear?Can she afford it?She wants to leave me, can she take good care of herself?Can she be happy in the future?Can anyone love her as much as I do?Maybe even she just thought, what did my daughter wear when she turned [-]?My daughter's childhood favorite dessert made her lose a few teeth?

Mothers always become sentimental when facing their children.They will never be able to believe that the little ball that was born out of their bodies when they fought so hard back then can live safely in this world without them.They always have a protective desire like a beast when facing their children.It's a pity that whether it's Jia Yao's mother of the vice president in the previous life or Mrs. Wang in this life, no matter how worried and distressed they are when facing their daughters, there will always be a storm that they can't cover for Jia Yao.Some roads will end up hurting a mother's child, and the only thing we pray is that mothers don't have to know what their children have been through.

Just like Mrs. Wang who was inexplicably sad on the eve of Jia Yao and Ji, she could never leave the small house a few times in her life. She couldn't predict what her daughter would experience in another house she didn't know in the future. What she could do at this moment All he wanted was to hold his youngest daughter in his arms, and gently stroked her daughter's black and soft hair with hands that began to wrinkle no matter how much she took care of her. "My Yao'er, my youngest son. My mother's youngest son." Mrs. Wang suddenly talked about the affectionate name her mother in Sichuan used to call her when she was young. Yao'er is the youngest child. It means baby, "Why did you grow up so big in a blink of an eye. You became an adult in a blink of an eye~"

Jia Yao was held in Mrs. Wang's arms, and the feelings of a little girl that hadn't been flooded for a long time suddenly flooded. The girl next to her mother always has a reason to be wronged. She turned over and buried her head on Mrs. Wang's chest, sniffing that only the child I can feel the taste of my mother, "Mother, Yao'er hasn't grown up. Yao'er hasn't grown up yet!" Mrs. Wang patted her on the back lightly, "Okay, mother's Yao'er hasn't grown up, mother's Yao'er hasn't grown up yet!" Always the youngest, the youngest~" In this world, if Baoyu and Daiyu can bring her the feeling of being loved and understood, then Mrs. Wang and Jia Zheng can bring her a sense of security.Even if Mrs. Wang only focuses on the struggle between the eldest and second bedroom all day long, only cares about what happened to Aunt Zhao, and worries about Baoyu only stays on her body, Jia Zheng only cares about her own name, and only talks about poetry. , They will not consider the actions of the Jia family, nor will they worry about the future situation, but there is no doubt that Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang think they can protect her.

Beside them, Jia Yao can pretend that she is still the unscrupulous spoiled little girl.Just like before her parents left in her previous life, she is proud, beautiful, outstanding and self-willed, without thinking about the ugliest face in the world.Even if Mrs. Wang is ignorant, even if she is not kind in many cases, she is the mother who has loved Jia Yao for more than ten years, and she is comparable to Jia Yao's mother in her previous life.

"Mother's little baby, go to sleep. You have to get up early to take a bath tomorrow. Tomorrow, the ancestors will crown you, and you can pull up your hair. You are no longer a little girl! Go to sleep." In Mrs. Wang's gentle voice, Jia Yao fell asleep next to Mrs. Wang again after leaving her baby days.Mrs. Wang was left alone facing the dark night without sleep, and her daughter's cute appearance from childhood to adulthood was in her mind.After an unknown amount of time, Mrs. Wang sighed into the darkness. She suddenly felt that she was already an old tree, and the children she raised with her life were gradually being blown away by the wind.I wish someone could love them as tenderly as I do... This woman who spent half her life in chaos and cleverness was thinking vaguely before falling asleep

The Jiji ceremony on the second day was held as scheduled. At the moment Jia Mu put her jet-black hair up in a bun, Jia Yao looked at her beautiful self in the mirror and sighed silently.Jia Yao, you are growing up again.come on……

The aristocratic families who came here for the sake of the Jia family and the third prince added buns to Jia Yao one after another, and soon, Jia Yao's head was filled with precious hairpin rings.It doesn't look gaudy on Jia Yao's head, but it has a bit of beauty in rings and rings.However, Jia Yao still felt that she was so heavy and full of nouveau riche temperament, so she wished to ask her ladylike temperament to pull out the hairpins that tied her hair, and let these thorn hairpins fall to the ground.However, years of good upbringing made her hold back, and the price was that her neck became extremely stiff when the guests left after the Jiji ceremony that night, and she had to move Taoyaojue twice to relieve the soreness...

After the Jiji ceremony, Jia Yao soon began to study with the foster mother again.She has almost learned all the etiquette rules, and she only needs to review them every once in a while. More often, Sister Rong and Sister Bi will tell her in detail about the relationship between the characters in the palace. Concubine's family relationship and interest relationship.The preferences and taboos of the nobles, which nobles belong to each palace, which places cannot be easily set foot, etc.If someone told her about these things, it would be considered treason against the royal family.However, it would be normal and reasonable for the nuns in the palace to tell Jia Yao about these things.

In Jia Yao's gradual understanding of the palace, one year is like running water across the fingertips, and in a blink of an eye, the New Year is approaching again.And this year...