Battle of the Red Chamber Ring III

It is said that Jia Huan was locked up with Baoyu, Jia Zheng, Jia Lian and others were locked up together, and Jia Amnesty was locked up with Jia Zhen, Jia Rong and others.Since entering the prison, Baoyu has hugged his knees with his hands and shrunk in the corner, and the jade pendant that usually hangs around his neck has disappeared.

Jia Huan stepped forward and raised Baoyu's face, looked carefully, and said, "You are not Jia Baoyu." He looked carefully for a while, and then said, "It's strange that they all say that now you have lost Baoyu and lost your spirituality. It's because you don't know everyone, so you pretend to be crazy!"

That Baoyu didn't speak or open his mouth, but just shrank to one side and remained motionless.

Seeing that he was not moving, Jia Huan put his hands and legs cross-legged and sat cross-legged on the ground, not caring about the mess, and propped his face with one hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

The silent time seemed to pass very quickly. The cell, which was still somewhat bright, became dark. The cell leader lit candles and put them on both sides, and distributed two steamed buns to each person. Jia Huan stepped forward to take them, and found that there was still one The bowl of water was handed to the precious jade.

Baoyu took the bowl, took a sip and handed it to Jia Huan, then reached out and touched his face, then looked down at the straw on the ground and smiled bitterly: "Someone knows, my father has been planning for a long time, who knows I didn’t notice it when I met you the other day, but you, an unusual person, did notice that you are that Jia Baoyu’s concubine brother, right?”

Jia Huan nodded, and he tilted his head to look at Zhen Baoyu. He knew that Jia Baoyu and Zhen Baoyu were the sons of a deposed prince with the same mother, but he had only heard about these two people and had never met Zhen Baoyu, so Then I became curious. "When did you change?"

Zhen Baoyu smiled embarrassingly: "My father entrusted the old servant at home to take refuge in Jia's mansion, and I hid among the servants who waited on him. Because Jia Baoyu looked the same as me, I was on the way After changing his clothes, he was fine at first, but there are too many girls around him, one or two would come to ask, I had no other choice, so I pretended to be stupid."

Jia Huan asked curiously, "Then what about my second brother, where did he go?"

Zhen Baoyu rubbed his head and smiled innocently: "Probably he was exiled, even if he said no, my father would say that he has lost his mind." He shrugged his shoulders, feeling a little helpless, "It's a pity that thousands All things considered, Jia's Mansion was raided even if it wasn't counted, so I'm going to be exiled." He said it very easily, as if he didn't have the slightest burden.

"You don't seem to be worried at all, aren't you afraid?" Jia Huan looked at Zhen Baoyu, thinking that he should be like Jia Baoyu, who was raised pampered, how could he endure hardships.

Zhen Baoyu chuckled: "Anyway, my father went first. As long as there is no accident on the way, I can reunite with him. Naturally, I have more expectations. It's just you, although I pretended to be stupid, but I didn't close my ears. Are you living in Nanwang Shizi Mansion, why did you come back by yourself?" I have seen people jumping out, but I have never seen one jumping in.

Jia Huan touched his forehead, leaned against the wall of the prison, and looked up helplessly: "If I don't come, I will never have a bright future in this life. I was admitted to the Jinshi and got the honor. I will also be tested by the censor to the end, but fortunately I haven't taken the test yet, otherwise the test would be in vain, but I don't know if my aunt is okay."

Baoyu moved closer to Jia Huan, looked carefully at the steamed bun he was chewing on and asked, "Can this stuff be eaten?"

Jia Huan didn't take it seriously, although he was used to delicacies from mountains and seas, he was still used to steamed buns now. This was probably the greatest benefit left to him in his previous life, no matter what the environment he was in, he could resist it.

Zhen Baoyu saw that Jia Huan's food was good, so he took a bite himself, probably because the taste was different, so he didn't know whether it was delicious or not, so he simply treated it as grinding his teeth, eating one bite earlier and one bite later He nodded and said, "It's quite delicious after chewing too much, better than the food in Jia's mansion."

"The food in Fuzhong is always good, not to mention your portion, why do you say that this steamed bun is good?" Jia Huan felt that he was a bit desperate, but he didn't expect that there was someone more hypocritical than himself.

That Zhen Baoyu shook his head and said: "You don't know, I was guilty at first, let alone other things, my sisters and sisters all came to take care of me, and I don't know which relatives they are from, but there is a waiter who always carries My concubine’s arrogance, I think it’s Baoyu’s housemate, and I don’t like to move. If you take a bite, they will be grateful, as if you have done something great. If you don’t eat, just burst into tears With a snotty nose, it seems that you have made a big mistake again. Hey, I was originally depressed. Seeing them like this made me think of my own house, so the food and drink were not good, and I almost couldn't sleep. "

Jia Huan nodded, he was the same at the beginning of Shizi Mansion, but later he couldn't refuse, and because of Chi Chen's tough attitude, he accepted it, but he accepted it after all, it was not something he earned, so this time he chose to follow This is the reason why the cheap father suffered together. After all, he has been raised for nothing for nothing. Men, they always have to show loyalty. He has always counted the ages of his previous life together, but in the eyes of others It happens to be a child pretending to be an adult, which is very funny.

The two chatted about everything for a while, and Zhen Baoyu felt a little sleepy looking at the dancing candlelight. Jia Huan saw that Baoyu was sleepy, so he pushed him to sleep on the bed. It's just a hard board, there is no other thing, and because of eating, drinking and sleeping together, the smell is not good, but probably because it is closed by officials and officials, the cleaning is also diligent, Jia Huan leaned on The wall was sleepy all night, and was awakened by the movement of the cleaning staff in the morning.

A man in commoner clothes cleaned up one by one, and next to him was a guard with a key. This is the only place where he dared to do this. In Jia Huan's words, all the people here are political prisoners. Well, if it were those reckless murderers, they would probably take the opportunity to run out, since they would all be dead anyway.

After cleaning up, someone brought breakfast to share. It was a bowl of gruel. Jia Huan and Baoyu shared half of each other. Xili finished eating with a snort. Maybe there is a difference between Zhen Baoyu and Jia Baoyu. Jia Huan chatted with him. Two sentences will know.

Zhen Yingjia seemed to know that Baoyu was not his child from the very beginning, but since he had no children before, he treated Baoyu with a strict father's mentality. Although there was an old lady in the mansion to take care of her, the old lady didn't know that Baoyu was not her own. The seed of the son, thinking about the success of his children and grandchildren, did not stop him much. Here in Jia's mansion, the old lady knows the origin of Baoyu, and Mrs. Wang is indulgent, so there are some differences before and after.

"You are better than my brother." Jia Huan looked at it for a while, and finally said this sentence.

That Zhen Baoyu was really drinking the rice porridge, squinting his eyes slightly as if he was enjoying it. Hearing what Jia Huan said, a mouthful of porridge stuck in his throat, and he patted it for a while before he went down: "You scared me to death. up this."

"I'm not free." Jia Huan shrugged, he felt that he had to find something to talk about, otherwise he would think wildly.

Zhen Baoyu frowned and looked at Jia Huan for a while, then carefully put the porridge on the ground, then approached Jia Huan, and patted him on the shoulder: "You don't know this feeling, obviously everyone is going to die together, you But I escaped for some reason, guilty conscience, it’s better to go with him openly, besides, my father is not dead, he is just exiled, as long as he is alive.” He nodded while talking, “ If nothing happened this time, I originally planned to run out someday, and then tell them that I was going to become a monk, anyway, I can't enjoy that kind of glory and wealth."

Jia Huan nodded. In fact, there is nothing wrong with squatting in prison, doing nothing but chatting. Baoyu doesn't seem to dislike Jia Huan too much, but it may also be because the two of them are locked together now.Zhen Baoyu didn't seem to know much about his family's affairs. As for why the house was ransacked, he could see it very clearly: "It's just that people are leaving tea. My father noticed it after the death of the concubine. Tell me How is it in the Imperial Academy in the capital? At the beginning, my father also wanted me to study in the Imperial Academy in Jinling."

Baoyu murmured to Jia Huan about his own family affairs, and in the middle of talking, he suddenly stopped talking, blinked his eyes and looked at Jia Huan and said: "The people in your house are really strange. They pretend to be dead even though they are not dead." Die, I saw him sneaking out over the wall in the middle of the night."

"Oh, who are you talking about?" Could it be that someone died before the house was ransacked?

"It seems to be the one who lives in Xiaoxiangyuan. It is said that she is called Sister Lin. Unfortunately, I only saw her once. She has been ill since then. Jia Baoyu is really lucky. Her appearance is really a fairy." Zhen Baoyu Drooling, looking yearning.

As soon as Jia Huan heard it, she knew it was Lin Daiyu, but who would make a special trip to pick her up from the house? What did she do?

Zhen Baoyu pushed Jia Huan: "Tell me your name, maybe I know."

Jia Huan was pushed to one side, squatted straight again and said: "You should also know that she is the daughter of Lin Ruhai, the inspector of salt in Yangzhou, and her name is Daiyu. Anyway, you may not meet each other in the future. Others said that I told you your name."

"Lin Daiyu, Lin Daiyu, Lin Ruhai, Yangzhou, ah, I know!" Zhen Baoyu's eyes lit up instantly, "At the beginning, my father wanted to get a daughter-in-law for me, but it's a pity that Lin Ruhai died too early, and there was no news after that. It turned out to be Jia's mansion, ah, that Lin Ruhai is so stupid, his wife is like this, and he dares to send his daughter to his grandmother's house." He shook his head while talking.

He leaned close to Jia Huan and said quietly: "I only met once when I was four or five years old. That time my father invited someone to eat and drink. I only met once from a distance. For some reason, I originally agreed to live again Yes, but it disappeared the next day, and then I heard my father talk about his family, hey, it’s so messed up, I can’t talk about it.”

Jia Huan was not interested at first, but when Zhen Baoyu said this, he became excited. He looked around like a thief, and then said to Baoyu: "Tell me, I didn't know much about it before."

Zhen Baoyu coughed twice, cleared his throat and said, "You don't know, that Lin Ruhai is also a hard-working person. I didn't say it before, and I married a daughter-in-law and didn't have a baby for ten years. The old lady Lin really can't wait." From then on, she entrusted someone to marry a concubine from a good family, but she was born in a peasant family, she was said to be average-looking, she had never studied, but because of a sudden disaster at home, she sold herself."

Zhen Baoyu speaks more honestly than Jia Baoyu, and seems to be more informed. Often, he can get a general idea of ​​something after a little word of mouth. In fact, Mrs. Lin really has nothing to do. She is too poor and always says I was about to die, so I thought that at least you let me see my grandson, and I was looking for someone who was immoral and ugly. To put it bluntly, it was just borrowing my stomach. I have reached the limit. Although I have my own selfishness, but The old woman was really anxious seeing her son standing in his thirties and yet to have a child.

That Lin Ruhai is also an honest person, she told her mother not to touch it, but she really didn't touch it, the girl stayed in the mansion for two years, and Mrs. Lin raised her in front of her when she gave up her heart. Yes, Jia Min wanted to do it, and designed Lin Ruhai to fall asleep after drinking. Do this kind of trick again, who doesn't know.

The girl gave birth to Lin Ruhai's eldest son a year later, and Mrs. Lin died with a smile.There was only such a son in the whole family, and after all, Lin Ruhai began to take care of his own son, and when he was one year old, he named him Lin Lu'an, and also took the nickname Changsheng.That girl is also true, when she gave birth to a son, she didn't even look at it, and she just locked herself in her own yard embroidering shoes, and she knew the bitterness of it.

This is not wrong at all. It is for the sake of the child. Since it has been born, it is okay to only recognize the aunt. The child may have been raised too much and has some weak diseases. Jia Min begged Lin Ruhai Another one, a man, what's the difference between sleeping once and sleeping twice? You said before that if you cut it off, you will cut it off, but you have to mention it. Ever since Lin Ruhai found out that the girl was pregnant once, she knew the reason why the two of them had no children. It was because of Jia Min that he felt a little depressed.

As a result, the second child came very slowly, Lin Ruhai thought that he couldn't spoil the girl, so he ordered the people in the mansion to pick up his aunt and live in the backyard together.

This aunt's stomach just showed up, and Jia Min was pregnant, and the difference between the front and back of the two was not less than a month, and Jia Min was only pregnant, so she stopped calling Lin Lu'an to raise her, and the people in the house talked too much, letting him know about herself The difference between being a legitimate son and a concubine immediately made the child rebellious, and he stopped kissing with Lin Ruhai afterward. My aunt conceived and gave birth to a girl in October, and Lin Luan went to see her twice quietly, and Lin Ruhai knew about it.

His wife was pregnant, and the concubine already knew that Lin Ruhai had no choice but to let Jia Min do whatever he wanted, and everyone in the house changed their attitudes.It's a pity that Jia Min only gave birth to a daughter, Lin Daiyu.

"I don't even understand why Jia Min did it. Now that you have a daughter, you should take good care of your concubine by your side. Anyway, it's a small part of your feelings, but she doesn't think so, since you can have a baby , Naturally, you can have a second child. If you give birth to a son-in-law, how will you divide the son-in-law? You just pushed the son-in-law to the concubine's place. Stupid people know how to leave a way for themselves, but she didn't. After three years, she was desperate to get married At that time, Lin Lu'an was already in his teens. Lin Ruhai sent him to study in the academy. I sent my aunt and younger sister out of the house." Zhen Baoyu touched his chin and finally finished speaking, then looked at Jia Huan.

Jia Huan knew that Jia Min had only one daughter, so he didn't know that he had a son. Since he is gone now, he must be dead. Now that everything has changed, he will come to Jia's mansion to pick up Lin Daiyu. Yes, probably this Lin Luan.

Zhen Baoyu thought the same as Jia Huan, just said that, he pouted: "Hey, that Lin Lu'an must have picked him up, I'm so stupid, I should have gone together at that time!" His father was also exiled I went to the northwest. If I had been together at that time, I would have seen it. I regret it!