[Red Mansion] The third master of jade-like stone treasures

"That's right?" Jia Zheng's face turned pale, "Look at what you did! You brought a group of people into your uncle's yard to make trouble, and you said it was right?"

Although scolding Bao Cong, Jia Zheng's eyes paid attention to Jia She's reaction.

Jia She gave a cold snort, took a piece of chicken and threw it into his mouth to chew.Although he didn't say anything, it was obvious that Bao Cong didn't deserve the crime, and he wouldn't have a good face.

Bao Cong also saw Jia Amnesty's attitude and Jia Zheng's expression.

However, he still won't admit this "wrong", and there is nothing to admit.

Jia Zheng was still staring at him, urging him eagerly.

Bao Cong protested silently, twirling the wine glass with his fingers and staring intently, as if he was studying something precious.

Seeing his stubborn appearance, Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng became angry.

Jia Zheng yelled angrily, "You! You are unfilial——"

"That's enough!" Jia's mother interrupted Jia Zheng's words, with an angry expression on her face, "It's Chinese New Year, eat well, what's the fuss? I don't want to worry about any of them!"

The Great Zhou Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety. During the Chinese New Year, everyone gathered together for dinner.If Jia Zheng yelled "unfilial son" at Bao Cong, would it be worth spreading the word?

Bao Cong will take part in the imperial examination tomorrow, so will he still want to be an official in the future?

Jia Zheng came to his senses immediately, with a livid face, he looked at Jia's mother in embarrassment: "Mother, don't be angry, it's because the son is not good."

Everyone at the table was silent, Mother Jia hummed with a stern face, then raised her smiling face, and said dotingly to Bao Cong: "Eat, eat."

Bao Cong also smiled at Jia Mu and nodded.

On the side, the three sisters Mrs. Wang, Lin Daiyu, Baoyu, and Yingchun all breathed a sigh of relief. Wang Xifeng brought chopsticks dishes to Jiamu, joked a few words, and revived the atmosphere on the table.

Everyone catered to Jiamu and smiled again.

Mrs. Xing quietly rolled her eyes, Jia She's face was stinky, but she didn't dare to say anything.

As for Jia Zheng, holding his breath, wanting to get angry, and trying to hold back, the expression on his face was distorted when he couldn't see it, but when others saw it.

It's just that Jia Mu pretended not to see it, and everyone naturally pretended not to see it.

A good New Year's Eve dinner, from lively to embarrassing, and then from embarrassing to lively, and finally the lively turned to deserted, but everyone still had to hold on, and had nothing to say.

Bao Cong moved closer to Lin Daiyu, and asked her softly, "Are you full?"

Lin Daiyu nodded naturally. She didn't eat much in the first place, and this meal made her uncomfortable, and the embarrassing atmosphere made people feel full.

After they had finished eating, they sat around and played games to make Jiamu happy, and they also kept vigil with her.

Sitting in the middle, Jiamu smiled until all the creases on her face wrinkled.

In fact, she was already very tired, but she still sat still.

People, you have to obey your old age.

This year she can still sit down and have a New Year's Eve dinner with everyone, and she can still watch the night. Who knows what will happen next year?

When it was over, Mother Jia finally dozed off and was led back to rest by Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing.The mandarin ducks had already laid out the quilt in the house, waiting to serve Jiamu.

Seeing Mother Jia being helped back, she hurried up to take over, skillfully changed her into a comfortable inner garment, untied her hair, and wiped her face, hands and feet with a hot towel.

Mother Jia sighed in her dream, as if she felt that she had returned to a familiar environment and fell into a deeper sleep with peace of mind.

Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing saw that they couldn't intervene, so they just watched the movements of Yuanyang and a bunch of little girls.When Yuanyang finally closed Jia Mu's bed curtain, she smiled and whispered to her, "Thank you for your hard work."

The mandarin duck was blessed, and also smiled and whispered back: "It is my blessing to serve the ancestors, how can it be hard?" Looking outside again, he said: "The ancestors have already fallen asleep, and the two wives have also gone back to rest. Well, here I am!"

Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang said a few words of praise in vain, and then went back separately.

But Yuanyang sent them away, went back to Jiamu's bedside to check again, and then rested on the small bed in the side room.

This night, it's not over yet.

Jia Zheng had a big fight with Mrs. Wang, and then went to Aunt Zhao angrily.

And Jia Amnesty held the jug and scolded Bao Cong while pouring wine. If it weren't for the same ancestor, Jia Amnesty would have greeted Bao Cong's eighteen generations of ancestors.

Mrs. Xing was just like a log, she sat on the edge and listened to Jia She's yelling and scolding, she dozed off from time to time and woke up, and then checked to see if it was dawn, she just kept saying in her heart, Jia She's still going on.

Baoyu tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so that Baochai couldn't sleep, so she had to ask him in a daze, "Why can't I sleep?"

Baoyu was quiet for a while, and then said softly: "It's okay, you go to sleep." Turned over again, was silent for a while, and said: "You said that the master and Baocong..."

After a pause, Baochai didn't hear the answer. Baoyu looked at the moonlight and saw that Baochai was fast asleep.

Blinking her eyes, Baoyu tucked the corner of the quilt for her, and finally closed her mouth.

Lin Daiyu and Bao Cong slept soundly, and Bao Cong woke up early in the morning.

He kissed the sleeping Lin Daiyu, then got up quietly, put on bunts casually, and stretched his muscles and bones in the yard.

The morning sun was warm and cool, Bao Cong broke out in a thin sweat and became more energetic.

After Baocong finished his activities and washed up, Qingwen reported, "Qingshuang came early in the morning and waited in the outer courtyard to say something."

"Understood." Bao Cong nodded, didn't eat breakfast, and went directly to the outer courtyard.

When we got to the second gate, Qingshuang was standing at the gate and waiting.

"What's the matter?" Bao Cong asked.

Waiting early in the morning, it was still the first day of the new year, so it probably wouldn't be a trivial matter.

Sure enough, Qingshuang said with a serious face: "There is news from the palace that Concubine Xiande behaved in front of the imperial court last night and was fined for three months of confinement."

Before sending Qiaoyan into the palace, and later Chen Ping selected a few people from Xinjiang to the palace, and now Bao Cong can get some news about the palace.

"Who sent the message?" Bao Cong asked with a frown.

Qingshuang said: "It's not Qiaoyan."

If it was Qiaoyan, there would be the bracelet given by Baocong as a token.

Since it wasn't Qiaoyan, it meant that Yuan Chun's grounding wasn't particularly serious.

Bao Cong felt relieved, and told Qingshuang: "It's okay if it's just grounding, tell them to keep an eye on it, don't let the big sister suffer." After thinking about it, he said: "In the future, there will be a big sister Any news, no matter how big or small, should be reported to me.”

Qingshuang nodded, "I know, I've been paying attention."

Although it was a trivial matter, Bao Cong still cared a little.

However, the news that Qingshuang reported to him afterwards was that Yuan Chun was copying scriptures behind closed doors in the palace.In terms of food and drink expenses, because they spent money on management, they were not treated harshly.Bao Cong felt relieved, and turned his attention to studying and Yingchun's marriage.

This first month, Jia's family didn't even have time to celebrate the Lantern Festival, and all their energy was spent on the Spring Festival wedding.

Sure enough, as Bao Cong expected, in addition to the 3000 taels given by Jia Mu, the public gave out 120 dowries, and Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian did not give any private supplements to Yingchun.

Moreover, the 120 sets of dowries that Wang Xifeng took care of were very full. When I looked carefully at the dowry list, I found that most of them were big and not so expensive things. There were almost no real money, real estate and land.

But Yingchun herself feels satisfied.

She didn't expect much from the dowry, and what Jiamu and Wang Xifeng gave was already very generous for the Feng family.What's more, she has other sisters' make-up, and Baochai and Lin Daiyu even secretly gave her a silver box.

How her own father and brothers treated her, and how her sisters and cousins ​​treated her, Yingchun was grateful in her heart, and could only swallow it silently.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Bao Cong followed the wedding procession to Feng's house.

The alley in front of Feng's house was crowded by the wedding procession, the neighbors on the left and right, and the families living at the entrance of the alley, all stood on tiptoe to watch the excitement, and talked about how lucky the Feng family was to be able to marry the daughter of the Duke's Mansion.

Jia Lian was crowded and hot, and when he saw the courtyard where Feng's family only entered three times, his face showed some disgust and impatience.

When Bao Cong saw it, he joked with Jia Lian: "Second brother Lian is reluctant to let his second sister get married, so he put on such a bad face? If you don't want to, you have to be willing. The second sister will get married anyway."

Jia Lian was used to socializing, so of course she knew that Bao Cong was reminding him not to put on a bad face, so he smiled along with the meaning of the words, and sighed: "Of course I don't want her to marry and suffer, but just like you said, If you don't want to, you have to be willing, after all, the female college is going to marry."

Bao Cong smiled, stopped talking, but looked at Feng Jiangyi and Yingchun who had just got off the wedding sedan chair.

A couple of newlyweds entered Feng's mansion under the crowd's watch, worshiped heaven and earth in the lobby, Feng's parents and Feng Jiangyi warmly invited everyone to sit down and have a feast.

The process is similar to when Bao Cong got married, but the scene is much simpler.Bao Cong watched, but for some reason, like a worried old father, his eyes suddenly turned red.

Finally married Yingchun well!

After the wedding banquet lasted until evening, Jia Lian was so drunk that he kept pulling Feng Jiangyi, threatening him that if he didn't treat Yingchun well, he would come to show him off.

Baoyu and Jia Huan tried to pull Jia Lian away, telling him not to stop Feng Jiangyi from going back to the new house, but Baocong stood by and watched with a smile.

In his opinion, Jia Lian really looks like Yingchun's elder brother at this moment.

After the guests dispersed, Baoyu and the others finally tossed Jia Lian out of Feng's house.

Several people were waiting to board the carriage and go back to Jia's mansion when Bao Cong suddenly saw a figure in the dark night.

"You guys go back first, I'll see someone, and I'll go back later." Bao Cong stood beside the carriage and said.

Baoyu poked his head out of the carriage and asked, "Who is it?"

Bao Cong pointed to the lonely figure, and said, "It's Brother Liu."

Baoyu looked at the place Baocong was pointing to, and indeed he saw Liu Xianglian. He jumped off the carriage and said, "I'll go with you."

After saying that, he asked the coachman to take Jia Huan and Jia Lian back to Jia's mansion first, while his two brothers followed Mingyan and Qingshuang and walked towards Liu Xianglian.

Liu Xianglian also saw them, and before they could speak, she invited with a low smile, "Want to drink?"

Baoyu and Baocong also laughed: "Go."

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, then wandered down the street.

At this point in time, most teahouses, taverns and restaurants are closed.The three of them walked for two streets but couldn't find a suitable place to drink. They turned another corner and saw a bustling two-story building.

Several lanterns were hung on the eaves of the small building, and some small portraits of beautiful women were painted on the lanterns.

That is the logo of Hualou.

Liu Xianglian laughed, pointed at the building with her sword, and said to Baoyu Baocong, "We're going to beg for wine there today, do you two dare to go?"

When he asked this question, he naturally knew that Baoyu and Baozheng had always kept themselves clean, and this was also the reason for the strict control of their wives.

Bao Yu and Bao Cong looked at each other, gritted their teeth, and then both nodded, "It's my duty to accompany Brother Liu to drink!"

"Okay, let's go!" Liu Xianglian pulled one of them with each hand and dragged them to the small building.

Bao Cong was dragged to the door, looked up and smiled wryly.

Very good, not the kind of messy Xia and Liuhualou, but the kind of brothel with a bit of style.

Just drink some wine, Lin Daiyu knows, she shouldn't beat him to death, right?

Looking at his brother again, Bao Cong stepped into the gate of the brothel as if he had broken his wrist.