[Red House] How to escape from a broken ship

Sun Jingling said: "It's true that there is no rush. People like us don't get engaged for their children early. Not to mention that they have to be successful in their careers, they also need older children. In order not to delay the children. Besides, Brother Lin and his wife only have a niece under their knees." A daughter, the real jewel in the palm, may not be willing to plan to marry early."

"Listen to the master, when Zhong'er has passed the entrance examination smoothly, she will have more confidence to speak up."

Mrs. Zhao knew what her husband said was right, and the family really didn’t engage in finger-pus marriages or make arrangements for the children early: one was afraid that if something happened to the prospective in-law’s family, wouldn’t it harm the children; The child is delicate and cannot be raised.At that time, both the man and the woman will be embarrassed. Who would like their children to lose their fiancé/wife for no reason.

Jia Yan's crowning ceremony was selected before the Dragon Boat Festival, and he passed the government examination smoothly as expected. Xu Zhi was still No.1, Sun Zhong was third, and he was seventh.After the results of the government examination came out, Lin Hai and Jia Min began to choose a date to hold the crowning ceremony for his nephew, and it would not be so troublesome to crown him early.As early as Jia Yan passed away and the filial piety period ended, Jia Yan's attire was changed to that of an adult.

Now the most important thing is to choose the characters, which means that the teachers feel that Jia Yan is qualified to go out and socialize like an adult.The coronation ceremony was naturally held at Jia Yan's home, and Sun Gao, the magistrate, and others were all present.The guest of honor for the crowning ceremony was naturally Lin Hai who officially crowned Jia Yan. After crowning him, Lin Hai said: "Yan is Guiye. Guizhe is also a minister's ritual vessel, and it also refers to things of weighing. You are the eldest son of the family. For Boheng."

Jia Yan saluted respectfully: "Thank you, nephew, Boheng."

From now on, Jia Yan is a real adult...Of course, before getting married, and combined with his actual age—13 years old, this adulthood still has to be discounted.It's just that he can be received by the head of the family when he goes out, and he will have more confidence when facing his fellow subjects.

Jia Yan now only needs to prepare for the next year's college exam. In April, the college exam went well, and in August it was the rural exam.Next year will be the first year of the official imperial examination, and there will be two consecutive exams. Jia Yan hopes that everything will go well.

Xu Zhi's hometown is in Edi, he originally lived in an inn, but after the government examination, Jia Yan invited him to live in his home.In this way, it is more convenient for two people to discuss homework, and it is also convenient to invite the Sun brothers to come over. The four of them get together to write poems and compositions.

However, Sun Zhao is still young and spends more time studying at home. Usually, there are only Jia Yan, Xu Zhi, and Sun Zhong, and because of the relationship between Lin Hai and Sun Jingling, Sun Zhong occasionally lives at Jia Yan's house, which is also convenient for him to ask Xu Zhi. , Lin Hai asked for advice.

Sun Zhong never admired anyone, he was always outspoken, just like the line in Bai Liang's poem that day, he said what he wanted to say.If he disliked anyone's intellectual character, he would say so.

But now he really admires Xu Zhi.Xu Zhi is well-read and knowledgeable, and what is even more remarkable is Xu Zhi's character - he is not arrogant about his talents, has a truly peaceful mind, and has no shortage of sharp words.As for Jia Yan, Sun Zhong was actually a bit complicated at first. His father once said that his youthful maturity was for others to see, but Sun Zhong was still not convinced at the time.

But now that the relationship with Jia Yan is getting deeper, Sun Zhongyue feels that what his father said is right, and that he is pretending to be mature, so let people say: steady and reliable.But in practice, Sun Zhong doesn't think he can be a good family anyway.

There was a reason for his feeling.

After Jia Yan crowned the ceremony, Han Feng finally found a chance to tell his son what his man had said.Of course, what she said was, "I'm afraid the family members have other ideas." Jia Yan didn't expect that he would just use A Yuan to attract this complaint. He frowned, sat in the study for a while, and finally went to the forest. government.

"Uncle, my nephew wants to sell all the property in Jinling and set up property in Gusu." The opening remarks made Lin Hai raise his eyebrows, what happened?

Jia Yan himself said that Jinling was far away after all, and he might not be able to take care of it even if he sent someone there.Moreover, the people in Zhuangzi, the master's house is far away, and there are few people in the family, it is inevitable that the good and the bad will be mixed, so he wants to transfer out even Zhuangzi and his people, so as to save trouble in the future.It doesn't look good when you pack it up.Therefore, I would like to ask Old Steward Shen to help introduce a middleman from Yangzhou to see if he can transfer Zhuangzi from here.

This idea is considered comprehensive, Lin Hai said yes in his heart, but he said: "You are not wrong, but now you still concentrate on your career. As for Zhuangzi in Jinling, let Shen Quan look at it as you said. Let's see."

Unexpectedly, this news brought a little trouble. The head of the village in Jinling cried loudly in front of Jia Yan while delivering the Dragon Boat Festival gift.He still has his parents in his mouth, which means that the masters and wives used them back then, how could the master not use them anymore!The uncle is a filial son who wants to be a butcher for the official!

Jia Yan originally wanted to use some of these people. After all, they are old members of the family, and it will be easier.Naihe actually held the deceased master and wife to hold him down when he came up, and there were some threats inside and outside the words, which made Jia Yan disgusted for a while.It happened that Sun Zhong came to look for Xu Zhi, and he witnessed a scene of "Jia Boheng's hair fell down, and Xiao Tongsheng was merciless".

Sun Zhong asked himself if he could deal with it neatly, and the answer was, he couldn't.After all, the parents are still there, and the habitual dependence cannot be changed.When Jia Yanfa was left behind, those old Zhuangtou realized that they regretted it and begged endlessly.But Jia Yan's eyes were always calm, and he even asked all the servants in the family to come to the atrium.

"I know you have been serving generations at home." Jia Yan sat on a chair with a calm tone: "So if there is something that doesn't suit your wishes, you can come up and tell me, 'Think about the old lady' If I don’t listen, I’m not filial, haha.”

The domestic servants below, male and female, stood side by side, all looking at him.Today's Jia Yan is not the Jia Yan who is a bit of a godless Jia Yan when they see it. He continued: "There are five relationships in the world, heaven and earth, monarch, relative and teacher. I don't know when it will start. I still have to listen to the lessons of my slaves."

"It would be fine if I worked hard at home, but now I just want to dispose of the property, and you dare to make trouble. If your thoughts don't go your way in the future, will you still have to kill the master!" Jia Yanteng stood up: "Don't If you think I’m kind and soft, I’m happy to be kind if everyone is kind. But if the slaves bully the master, do you know how this court will deal with these people? A Yuan!”

A Yuan took a step forward, and said loudly: "My great Wu has its own laws. The slaves who deceive the master will be punished as disobedience. They will be sent to the officials for the first sentence of shackles, and then they will be exiled as slaves in the frontier! If the master treats the slaves who deceive the master, the situation is true. Just pay two bolts of cloth after you cut your hand!" All the people below were trembling, and Han Chang was the first to kneel down: Please deal with the slave who bullied the master!

Jia Yan ordered: "Gag the mouths of these people, write the confession and ask them to be charged! Then send the leaders to the prefect of Yangzhou, and Uncle Tao will personally escort them, so I can rest assured." When he spoke just now, Tao Hou But he had been standing beside him holding the stick, and before the Zhuangtou wanted to pounce on Jia Yan's clothes, they were all beaten by Tao Hou.

Standing at the side corner of the garden, Sun Zhong watched the audience and said in a low voice: "If the patriarch kills the slaves in this dynasty, it would be a crime if someone first sued. Why did Bo Heng say that?"

Xu Zhixiao's naive expression is charming: "In troubled times, heavy codes are used, and things are in a hurry. Boheng scares them. It's not new to kill chickens to make an example to monkeys, but it's hard for him to do it so neatly." He admires such people. Jia Boheng usually doesn't talk much. , No matter how you look at it, you are a very good-tempered little brother, but when you really start your hands, you are full of strength.

This is called a wonderful person.

"Boheng is very good at handling housekeeping." Xu Zhi said with a smile: "Brother Yu still thinks that if someone makes trouble, he plans to step forward and help."

Jia Yan smiled and asked the two to sit down: "Now that the two elder brothers have seen the joke, brother Ying Xiang will drink tea."

Because Sun Zhong was an early student in the examination, he already had written words. He said that when he was born, he was just in time for the temple bell to ring. His grandfather believed that he was born in response to the bell, which must be auspicious.Therefore, Sun Zhong's character should be Xiang.

"Don't worry, Boheng, Yangzhou government will definitely punish such bullies and evil slaves!" Sun Zhong said, and Jia Yan smiled and thanked him for his kindness.

The three of them often do this now, reading together and then going out for a walk together.

Today, Jia Yan dealt with these matters at home, feeling a little bored, and didn't want to study.The three simply went to Qiling Temple in Yangzhou. Qiling Temple was built in the Sui Dynasty, more than 800 years ago.In the temple, there are many stone inscriptions left by scholars of past dynasties, and there are also historical sites of previous dynasties, such as the Qiling Pagoda built in the Sui Dynasty, and the Pingshan Hall in the Song Dynasty.

It is also interesting to say that among the three, only Sun Zhong has a special experience in calligraphy. Jia Yan specializes in writing Yan style to gain a good reputation, while Xu Zhi writes Yan style in the exam, and he likes to write Youjun cursive in private posts and letters.Therefore, Sun Zhong concentrated on looking at the handwriting on the forest of steles, while Jia Yan and Xu Zhi only commented occasionally.

"The three of you are also here to see the forest of steles?" A boy's voice suddenly appeared, and it was still a boy's voice changing.

The three of them turned their heads together, the one who saw him smiled, Xu Zhi said, "I'm here to see the Forest of Steles, I wonder what is the name of this young master?"

The visitor was about sixteen or seventeen years old, taller than his peers, handsome, with piercing eyes and long eyebrows.Hearing Xu Zhi ask his name, he smiled shyly: "My name is Ji Mingkuan, you can call me Mr. Ji, I don't know how to call you three."

As I said before, Xu Zhi is knowledgeable, good-natured, and has a lot of experience after traveling for a long time.But he has been going smoothly since his studies, and Liang Xu has blue eyes, so he is inevitably slow in some things; not to mention Sun Zhong, the eldest grandson of the house, is steady enough, but he doesn't think too much about some things.

Only Jia Yan, whose parents are both deceased, is almost in the doldrums, and his family property is gone. He will notice some things that real scholars don't notice.

For example, now, Jia Yan thinks that Mr. Ji Kuan is very interesting.Ordinary people would politely say "What is your surname" when asked "your surname", Ji Kuan did not have such politeness at all.What's more, who would open his mouth and ask the other party to call him son... And he directly asked himself how to address the three of them. Although the words were very ordinary, they felt inexplicably condescending.

Xu Zhi was the oldest, and he stood up to introduce the three of them. Jia Yan just smiled and said nothing.He thought of the person who dealt with the slaves by himself in the morning, and who would act on hearing the slightest news. That's not smart, it's frivolous.No matter what you do, you have to confirm it before doing it, and clinging is also risky.Jia Yan stood aside, listening to them discussing the forest of steles, without saying much.

Fortunately, he is also like this usually, and everyone is used to it, but this Ji Kuan suddenly asked him: "Mr. Jia, what do you think of this Pingshan Hall?"