Red Mansions Become Baochai

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Therefore, it is already the end of the new year, and most of the gentlemen from other places have left the museum and went home to celebrate the new year.Xue Quan'an found a few old Confucian scholars in Jinling City, and the elders outside also recommended a few teachers.

Xue Ke and Xue Shen invited them in person one by one, and went to the mansion for an interview.In terms of learning, these few are more than enough to teach children to learn, or the Four Books and Five Classics.But in teaching and educating people, morality comes first.The young one, Xue Ke was afraid that he would be impetuous and unable to teach Xue Pan to keep his feet on the ground.As an old man, Xue Ke was also worried that Xue Pan was too naughty, and his husband's lack of energy would not be able to subdue him.I met several groups of people, but I couldn't find a suitable teacher.

The Xue family was originally a wealthy family, and it was much easier to educate a few young children than to teach older students how to start a career.All the people who came to Xue's house came with full confidence, and one by one returned disappointed after accepting Cheng Yi from Xue's house.

Among them, there is an outstanding one named Jia Yucun.He was born with a good appearance, with a round waist and a thick back, a wide face and a square mouth, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a straight nose and cheeks.When I came to visit Xue's house, I was dressed in old clothes and scarves. Although I was poor, I laughed and talked freely, without a trace of embarrassment and shabbyness.Xue Shen saw him and admired him very much.

Xue Ke admired him for his vigor and insightful speech.But I heard his resume, he passed the top three Jinshi, and was an official to the magistrate of the foreign class.He once worked as a museum at the Zhen family, the president of the Jinling Provincial Sports Institute, so he was a little hesitant.

During the banquet, I heard Jia Yucun chanting a few self-deprecating words casually: "Come to the Tianzitang in the morning, and be a farmer in the evening, with a breeze in both sleeves, and be the king of children." Don't take it seriously, this is really unreasonable, and the more you think about it, the more inappropriate it becomes.

Then I sent people to investigate carefully the parallel affairs of Jia Yucun's life, and learned that he was full of talent and learning, and his political performance was not bad when he was an official, so he was very talented.But there are some problems of being greedy and cool, plus relying on talent, contemptuous colleagues, not tolerated by superior officials.I was ginsenged a book, and I didn't need to be dismissed.

A blocked official career is almost like a life and death enmity in the eyes of scholars who have been in the cold for decades.But Jia Yucun didn't show any resentment on his face or mouth.Such a person is both knowledgeable and magnanimous. He should occupy a high position in prosperous times, but he must be a traitor in troubled times!Where is the person that a little family in Xue's mansion can accommodate?

Xue Ke has experienced the business world for a long time, and knows that such a person is the last thing to offend.He specially set up a banquet, talked to Xue Shen during the banquet, and praised Jia Yucun severely.It is said that he has the talent to stabilize the country and help the world, but now he is just a tiger in Pingyang, and a dragon swimming in the shallows.It is definitely not a person who has been sleepy for a long time. Sooner or later, he will flourish.If he was allowed to be a teacher, he would be killing a chicken with a sledgehammer.It would be a great sin for the Xue family to delay Jia Yucun's future.

Jia Yucun saw that although Xue's family was rich and well-mannered, it was only an imperial businessman, and it did not directly help him return to officialdom.He came to find a restaurant just because he was short of money, and he was looking for a place to settle down for the time being.He has a clear mind and knows that the Xue family brothers are inconvenient to invite him to be the embassy because he has been an official.He casually mentioned that he was not enough to spend money on, took a letter of 100 taels of white money from Xue's family, and floated away.I rented a passenger boat and went down to Yangzhou to visit two old friends.

Afterwards, Baochai learned that Jia Yucun almost sat in his family's tutor, and his heart almost jumped out of fright.Could it be that Jia Yucun and the person surnamed Xue had some grievances in previous lives, so they met several times on narrow roads.

Those red scholars of later generations searched for chapters and excerpts from a dream of Red Mansions, from a poem written by Jia Yucun in the Gourd Temple in his early years: Jade asks for a good price in the scarcity, and the hairpin waits for the time to fly in the dowry.It is wildly speculated that Xue Baochai finally married Jia Yucun.Completely ignoring the fact that a mother is more expensive than a child, she was promoted from a concubine to a principal, the eldest maid of Zhen Yinglian's family - Jiao Xing.It is also said that the Jia family was fired, and Baochai remarried Jia Yucun and became a concubine, which is even more ridiculous.

I also thought of my visit to Jia Yucun, and I became Lin Daiyu's mentor according to the gauge in the Dream of Red Mansions.In the future, with Lin Ruhai's appreciation, he wrote a letter of recommendation and went to Kyoto with Lin Daiyu.Because he was also surnamed Jia, he was connected to Rongfu, and Jia Zheng tried his best to help him, so he went back to Yingtianfu in Jinling and became the prefect.Later, Xue Pan and Feng Yuan were randomly sentenced to death.Since then, his official career has been smooth and his official career has been prosperous.

Baochai secretly hated herself for being too young to stop this person.Just be vigilant silently in my heart, and I must be more careful when I meet this person in the future, I only hope that I will never meet him again.

Because I didn't find a man I liked, things like studies were like sailing against the current, if I didn't advance, I would fall back.Xue Ke and the adults discussed it, and for the time being, Aunt He would give lectures every morning.At noon, Xue Ke taught calligraphy.

Aunt He has a high quality and a heart, she is good at playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she is no worse than the man who has studied for more than ten years.When Xue Gong was alive that day, he often praised her as a talented scholar.Picking up the pointer now and telling a few children about books is also a lot of fun.After a few tests, she knew that Xue Pan was the worst in his homework among the children, and she needed to help him improve his basics.

Although my son Yunzhen is not yet at the age of entering school, he can analyze the Four Books and Five Classics, and the articles are so colorful that they are very interesting to read.

Baochai surprised her the most. It's hard for her to be so smart at such a young age. She can read and read as well as Gu Yunzhen, and she often sees many wonderful ideas in the books of sages.

Aunt He and Gu Yunzhen didn't even know that Baochai had watched many episodes of "Lecture Forum of Hundred Schools" and read a few books by Mr. Nan Huaijin promoting Chinese studies because of her work in her previous life.Standing on the shoulders of scholars, it is natural that the thinking of the ancients who were imprisoned by Zhu Zi's Neo Confucianism can diverge more.

Aunt He taught students according to their aptitude and focused on Xue Pan.Xue Pan saw that his cousins ​​and sisters had already learned the Wei style of the "Book of Songs", so he carried Zhanbi Qiao and Green Bamboo Yiyi on his back.There are bandits and gentlemen, who are as sharp as cutting, and as sharp as grinding.My own progress is far behind, and I am still spinning in "Enlightenment of Sound and Rhyme", and I am also aroused to be eager to learn.

Xue Pan was dizzy from reciting the books, no matter what the people around him said or did, he would hear them right.Mrs. Xue said: "That western clock is ringing." He touched his head and said: "This little mosquito is buzzing." Gu Yunzhen mentioned that there was a unicorn carved on his bronze inkstone, his eyes were as wide as copper bells, He laughed for a long time and answered with a four-eyed dog.The servant girl gave him a pen holder, and he made the whole family dumbfounded when he confronted a chamber pot.

Because Xue Pan is impatient.Xue Ke purposely found Yan Zhenqing's stele of Qinli, personally taught him the trick of hanging his elbow and wrist, and asked him to copy a hundred characters every day.Xue Pan didn't want to let his father down anymore, so he gritted his teeth and finished it every day.Even while walking, he recited the scriptures of Yan Zhenqing's regular script.

When Baochai watched Xue Pan walk every day, he raised his head and recited: "The face is open and open, and the characters are upright, and the momentum expands outwards to form an arc. The characters are slightly longer and square, and the stippling is different. Wrap the front with a brush to avoid exposure. Vigorous and powerful is majestic..." I almost bumped into flowers and plants countless times along the way, and I couldn't help but look up at the sky at 45 degrees with my forehead. Will later generations make fun of him as the overlord of "Xue Pan Body"?

However, Xue Pan was Xue Pan, and when he finally got used to the daily life of reading and practicing calligraphy, his playful and troubled nature returned.I stopped being lazy and fishing during class, and happily played pitching pots and telling stories with my cousin Baochai after class.Or go to the yard to mold snow lions and have snowball fights.Mrs. Xue was afraid that her husband would force her son to write and study, so she lost her courage. Now that her son has developed a lot of delicate naughtiness, she finally let go of her hanging heart.

Everyone's eyes were only focused on Xue Pan's reformation and becoming no longer tired of studying.After Gu Yunzhen and Baochai became classmates, seeing his cousin Bingxue was smart, he became close to her.Every day, I often discuss articles with Baochai in my spare time, or paint paintings, recite poems, talk about love and play chess.He is a young boy with a natural disposition, from estrus to courtesy.In Baochai's eyes, Gu Yunzhen is just a seven-year-old young lady, and there is no need to avoid suspicion.The two get along longer and more speculatively.

A letter from Jia's mansion began to mention marriage

In a blink of an eye, it is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, which is called Xiaonian according to the custom.According to the old saying, "23, Tanggua is sticky, and Master Stove Lord will go to heaven".On this day, the stove is sacrificed, and the new year is about to begin.

Ordinary people would offer some sweets and dishes in front of the statue of the Stove Lord, offering incense and incense.Since Xue's family is an imperial merchant and is doing business, and the Stove Lord is an immortal official who guides the gods of fortune and wealth, the sacrifice to Stove is more solemn.

When it was getting dark that day, Xue Ke led the whole family to the big kitchen at home.There is a shrine for the Stove Lord on the east wall inside, offering overcooked pig's head, braised carp, bean paste balls, caramel, etc., and two very fat yellow sheep among the offerings.

Xue Pan saw that there was another couplet on it, but fortunately the couplet was short and he knew all the characters on it, so he read in a low voice: "The heavens say good things, and the lower world will keep you safe."

Both Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Liu said with beaming smiles: "That's right, I will offer you something delicious and delicious, and then stick the candied melon to Lord Stove Lord's mouth, and ask him to bless our family with good luck and safety."

Baochai was curious, and pointed to a few big paper horses made of bamboo strips, as well as a lot of grass and black beans, and asked what they were for. Yes, we will naturally prepare his mount and fodder."

It turns out that the immortal can not only openly accept bribes, but even his means of transportation are beneficial.Looking at the appearance of the Stove Lord, he is not at all as vicious and terrifying as the City God, but is very fair and beautiful, almost like a girl.Thinking that the Heavenly Court is overcrowded, all the good seats are taken by those who ascended first, and it is difficult for the gods to find a good job. If you don’t take the Monkey King who is making trouble in the Heavenly Palace, how can you only be a small official who raises horses——Bi Mawen?

Back in the house, Baochai sat on the edge of the kang and talked with him.