Aristocratic family's career in the Red Chamber

If it is said that Tu Youhao's sudden rebellion was like a thunderbolt on the ground that caught people by surprise, then his defeat and death was the most unexpected stroke in this grand drama that shocked the entire imperial palace, the capital, and the world The busiest moment came to an abrupt end, and in an instant, all the hustle and bustle turned into silence, so abruptly that people couldn't recover for a long time?

That's, it's over?

The menacing troops leading into the palace, the chaotic party rampaging across the capital, and the knives that could fall on people's heads anytime and anywhere, is it all over?Nothing to worry about?

Not to mention the nobles and lords of civil and military officials in the court, even the ordinary people couldn't come back to their senses for a long time.So the vicious rebellious party was suppressed so quickly?They don't have to hide, don't have to worry about someone breaking in, robbing and killing people?

It's not that I'm unhappy, it's just that I feel anticlimactic and inexplicably absurd.

This rebellion is so violent, who would have thought that it would disappear in such an inexplicable way? !

After the shock, comes the ecstasy.How much pain and sadness you have suffered during the war.How much joy there was at this time, the chief culprit who killed their relatives, the chief culprit who ruined their peaceful life finally died!In particular, the people who were still in shock walked outside with lingering fears and saw the barbarians everywhere. Even if the emperor ordered the execution of some members of the royal family including the bandit leader of the rebellion, including Prince Yiyong, no people came out to say anything doubtful. The emperor is cruel and doesn't care about his family - this time the rebel army has really caused public outrage.

I'm afraid that Tu Youming himself did not expect that the common practice of allowing soldiers to plunder in order to buy off the soldiers in the past dynasties would bring him such a bitter result.He had five sons and three daughters, and even the youngest son, who was only three months old, was bestowed to death by the emperor. No one doubted it.Prince Yiyong, who cooperated with him, was also bestowed with a cup of poisoned wine to bliss. His cousin, Prince Yiyong's son and the two older younger brothers were also given death together, and all the royal family were demoted to common people.

This is the first time since the founding of the country that an emperor bestowed the death of a royal family member, even Prince Yiyong, an elder of the royal family.It's not that the important ministers have never opposed it, but the people are so angry that it is difficult for the people to be angry if they don't kill them.The emperor hesitated for a long time, and finally made up his mind to bear the pain and kill his relatives righteously.

The head of the villain was punished, and his family members were all punished. When the news came out, these simple people soon celebrated this, wept and mourned for the dead relatives and friends, and thanked the benevolent and wise men of today. Even Zhang Su, who led the army to Qin Wang, The two generals Qian Gai were also praised by the common people, and they were praised as the top two figures under the Martial Saint, the most extraordinary generals in the court.Naturally, the main hero who ended the rebellion as a woman, former Prince Yizhong's concubine Rong Shi, even asked the people to be grateful, and wanted to set up a longevity tablet for her, so that God could bless her with a long life.

The good and evil of the people has always been so intuitive, whoever treats them well is a good person, and whoever treats them badly is a wicked person, clearly and clearly.But they don't know that under the light, there are still shadows.

Officials are not as ignorant as ordinary people. The higher the position and weight, the more they know, the more frightened they are by the clues behind the rebellion.Everyone knew it well, but they didn't dare to say it out loud.

The blood-soaked ground in the vegetable market is still proclaiming that the present world will never be as soft-hearted as the first emperor was, and no one wants to risk the lives of the whole family to explore the secrets that don't care about themselves.And those who have been involved, seeing the ripples under the ice, also racked their brains to think about how to protect themselves.

Jia Hu came out of the palace in a state of embarrassment. The carriage had already been parked at the entrance of the palace. Probably because he, Han Yan and Tu Youhao were in trouble together, he was given some medicinal materials and silk. The eunuch said that the queen has orders, and these are rewards for them, praising them for protecting Tu Youhao in the chaos, and letting them go back to take good care of their bodies, so there is no need to thank them.Even so, Jia Hu and Han Yan knelt down to thank the grace, sent the eunuch who delivered the decree to leave, and then got into the carriage.

The two carriages went side by side, Han Yan opened the curtains and called Jia Hu, his little face was dazed, obviously a little at a loss, and he looked at the carriage in a daze.Jia Hu knew that he was the rest of his life, so he didn't come back for a while, so he smiled and said: "It's hard for us to escape, uncle and aunt are probably in a hurry, why don't you go back quickly so that they can rest assured, just do it in a daze. What?"

Han Yan smiled embarrassedly, lowered his head, and smiled again: "That's true, but I can't believe it until now, we really survived!" It was like a dream.It was only when I came out that I found that most of the western and northern parts of the palace had been destroyed, and even the number of servants in the palace was significantly reduced, and I am afraid that they all suffered in the chaos.The more it was like this, the more Han Yan couldn't believe it. He and Jia Hutu Youhao's three children actually survived this catastrophe!Han Yan thought of his grandparents, parents and parents at home, so he stopped delaying and shouted at Jia Hu, "Then we will part now, I want to go home, see you later."

Jia Hu nodded: "Naturally!" The two smiled, and at the fork in the road, the carriages separated and drove separately. After a while, they could no longer see each other.Jia Hu took this opportunity to sort things out, and first listened to An Yi's words, it was actually Prince Yizhong's concubine who killed Tu Youming, but it was a reverse in the nest, I don't know what happened?

When the carriage reached Ningrong Street, a servant shouted outside: "Little Su Deng, do you dare to ask if the person on the carriage is the young master of Rongguo Mansion?"

Jia Hu could tell right away that this was Su Deng, Zhang's companion, who used to take him to and from Xu's house to study.Busily opened the curtain of the car, nodded and smiled at him, "Why did you come out? How did you know it was me?"

Seeing him, Su Deng was so happy that his eyes were red, he stepped forward to the side of the carriage, and replied: "The news came from the palace first, saying that my brother is safe and sound, and the palace has sent someone to take you back , the eldest grandma was going to come out to pick you up in person, but she was going to cleanse you of bad luck, so she let the little one come. The little one has been guarding the street for a long time, and it is good luck to shout when she sees a carriage , it is the second car, and I hope you will come back."

Jia Hu scolded with a smile: "Fortunately, those guests don't mind. How can you recognize people like you? On this street, there are only our house and Uncle Jing's house on the east side. You are not afraid of bumping into the guests."

But Su Deng said: "The younger one is the person next to the eldest grandma, and the others don't know anything. They only know that you have been trapped in the palace this time, but it frightened the family. I heard the younger family come back and say, Grandma is looking forward to your return day and night, and she is almost sick. To put it bluntly, the little one is also thinking about it in her heart. The little one is thinking, the guests who are here at this moment are all close to the two houses. , thinking about it, I can understand Xiao’s kindness, so I boldly shouted. Fortunately, I knew that I shouted, otherwise, wouldn’t I have missed my brother?”

"You're making a lot of nonsense." Seeing familiar people, Jia Hu couldn't help but relax a bit. It's really too tense and tired these days. Jia Hu laughed, and suddenly caught the meaning of his words. Meaning, he couldn't help asking, "Why are there so many guests coming to our house these days? How do you know that they are all close?"

Su Deng and Youyou smiled and said: "It's not that many guests, even those who are related to us have sent someone to ask how the family is doing. Not many masters come to the door in person, there are the Historian, the Wang family The eldest son is also from the Dongfu, and you know that in terms of seniority, our master is the highest, even the Wang family's old man, you still have to call our old man "big brother."

After speaking, the Rongguo Mansion arrived ahead. Su Deng helped Jia Hu get off the carriage, and very cleverly gave a purse to the driver of the carriage and one of the guards, and said with a smile: "You two have worked hard all the way. Li had already ordered the people to go down to prepare for it, and the two of you went in to have a rest, and our grandma will thank you both personally."

The two of them touched their purses, but they couldn't feel the weight. They were probably filled with silver bills, and there were some uncontrollable surprises on their faces. They didn't expect to make this trip, but they could have such benefits. I'm afraid it was this honor. For the sake of their son's sake, the grandma of the Guofu said that they were short-handed, so they naturally refused to be the ones who didn't wink, and hurriedly refused: "This is our errand, as it should be, so I don't deserve your grandma's thanks. I'm afraid Young Master Jia will be shocked in the palace, so hurry back and rest, I won't bother you later."

Su Deng tried to persuade Jia Hu to stay again, but the two of them insisted on refusing to let it go. After the two of them drove away, Su Deng hurriedly led Jia Hu to the side door, where someone had prepared a brazier. Su Deng asked Jia Hu to step over and enter. After entering the door, another woman took a grapefruit leaf, dipped it in grapefruit water, and sprinkled water on Jia Hu's body. She slapped Jia Hu twice, and said: "The mildew will dissipate, the mildew will dissipate."

Su Deng smiled and said to Jia Hu: "Brother, don't be wordy, this is still an old custom of the Zhang family. The grapefruit leaves that Grandma took a lot of work to get are the best for exorcising evil spirits and avoiding disasters. After passing through this brazier and dipping in this grapefruit water, the mold will be blown away, and everything will be smooth in the future."

Jia Hu thought of Zhang's kind motherly heart in handling all these things, so he didn't feel too long-winded. After the woman finished finishing, she came in her own oilcloth sedan chair. Su Deng sent him to the gate of the inner courtyard, and Jia Hu got off. After getting off the sedan chair, at the gate of the inner courtyard, Madam Su rushed over with tears in her eyes, looked at Jia Hu carefully, and cried, "Our brother has lost weight, look at the clothes are all empty, God didn't Changyan, our brother is such a good boy, how could he encounter such difficulties."

Both Su Deng and Su Momo are old people around Zhang, and they can be regarded as a little friendly. Hearing this, he hurriedly shouted: "What are you talking about, you can say it casually." What happened in the palace, she complained so much, she somewhat blamed the emperor for keeping Jia Hu in the palace.Even if she really thought so in her heart, it's not easy to say this casually, and she immediately stopped her mouth in fear.Su Deng said with a smile again, "If you survive a catastrophe, you will have a future blessing. Our brother can see that he has a lot of blessings. After passing this hurdle, he can live a hundred and one years. It will be smooth and safe. "

"That's right!" Su Momo hurriedly nodded in agreement.

Jia Hu looked at the two with a smile, but could only shake her head helplessly, and let them go.

Su Deng was not allowed to enter the inner courtyard. Nanny Su helped Jia Hu into the sedan chair he used to get into, and got into the sedan chair herself. The two of them were one behind the other. Much faster than in the past, I'm afraid it was Zhang's order, and wanted to see me earlier.With this thought, she felt more of a sense of identification with Mrs. Zhang.Although he can't really see him as his biological mother, he still respects her very much.

Sure enough, when he got off the sedan chair this time, Jia Hu looked up and saw Mrs. Zhang.At the first glance, Jia Hu couldn't believe that this skinny woman with a sallow complexion was the dignified and dignified Mrs. Zhang. She hadn't seen her for a long time. Mrs. Zhang's appearance was clearly a serious illness.She couldn't help being surprised: "Mother, what's wrong with you? Could it be that you are sick?"

When Mrs. Zhang saw her son, no matter how uncomfortable she was, she was all well now.At the beginning, I was so excited that I forgot to act for a while, but now I was brought back to my senses by Jia Hu’s words, and I pulled my son and burst into tears: “Hu’er, Hu’er, this is true, it’s really my son Hu Son, God has been kind to me, and finally let my son come back safely." As he spoke, he touched Jia Hu's face, hands, and feet up and down in disbelief, to make sure it wasn't fake, and then again Crying loudly, "I look forward to it every day, and I finally look forward to you back. At this moment, I will die in peace. My Hu'er!"

Grandma Jin and Grandma Chen were all crying together, and Mrs. Zhang touched Jia Hu's arm. The child suffered from a serious illness at first, and then he was frightened and afraid that he would not be able to eat or sleep well. When the mother touched the bones of her son, the tears flowed even more fiercely, as if someone stabbed her chest with a knife, she was almost out of breath, so she could only hug her son and cry bitterly, what kind of etiquette? , throwing it all behind, as if to vent out half of all the grievances and fears these days, hugging Jia Hu so hard that even Jia Hu felt a little breathless, and shouted loudly: "My Huer, my Huer..."

The eye sockets of the person next to him were all red.

Jia Hu patted Zhang's back, and hurriedly persuaded: "Mother, don't cry, don't cry, isn't your son well? But mother, don't be sad, and take care of your body."

But at this moment, Mrs. Zhang couldn't persuade her. Holding Jia Hu in her arms, she felt that she was still in a dream. She was afraid that if she let go, the dream would wake up and Jia Hu would disappear. Hearing this, she hugged Jia Hu tightly. Hu, said: "Mother is fine, mother is fine, mother will never see my son again in this life, now, the sky is falling, I will recognize it." Yes, no matter what Zhang's previous She stubbornly insisted in front of Jia Mu Jia She that her son must be safe and sound, but she knew better than anyone in her heart that her son might be in danger.Now that Jia Hu really came back safely, why didn't Mrs. Zhang be overjoyed?

Jia Hu had no choice but to use the last method, saying: "Mother, I haven't eaten a decent meal in the palace for a long time. I just escaped from danger earlier, so I didn't dare to eat it harshly. I only ate some porridge. But I’m so hungry, I want to eat eight-treasure duck, is there any in the kitchen?”

When the son is hungry, wanting to eat is naturally the most important thing. Mrs. Zhang hurriedly wiped away her tears, and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you can eat anything you want." Next to her, Nanny Jin hurriedly ordered the girl to go to the kitchen .Mrs. Zhang picked up Jia Hu, and Jia Hu blushed and struggled non-stop. Ms. Zhang lowered her head and shouted, "Don't move, let mother hug you." Jia Hu was thinking about her fears these days, so she forcibly endured it. Let Mrs. Zhang hug her all the way into the house.

Jia Mu Wang and Jia Zhu and Jia Lian were both there. Seeing him, Jia Mu Wang cried and laughed: "The curtain is drawn from the sky, but our brother Hu has returned safely."

Jia Zhu also came to congratulate Jia Hu, and said sadly, "My brother is suffering outside." Little Jia Lian called out, "Brother, brother, brother is back."

Jia Hu stepped forward to kneel and kowtow to Jia Mu, saying: "I made grandma worry, grandson kowtows to grandma here, thanks to grandma's kindness, grandson is safe and sound, and returned home safely."

No matter how eccentric Jia Mu usually is, she is her own grandson. Seeing Jia Hu's skinny body, baggy clothes, and dark yellow face, she couldn't help but shed sad tears, and stepped forward to help her up. Jia Hu hugged him into his arms and rubbed him for a long time: "Poor child, I don't know how much he has suffered, look at the flesh on his face is gone."

Jia Hu herself didn't feel much, and only comforted her: "Grandmother, don't worry, you see, grandson is in good spirits, but he hasn't eaten well these days. After a few days, the meat will come back."

When Jia Mu was told by him, she hurriedly said, "What do you want to eat? Just tell grandma, grandma asked the kitchen to make it for you."

Jia Hu was not too polite, and said with a smile: "I remember that the meatballs made by Shan Shan next to my grandmother are delicious, and my grandson is still reading them."

Naturally, Mother Jia asked Shan Hu to do it in a hurry, rubbed Jia Hu, and showed a lot of affection: "Our brother Hu, it's so pitiful to see you, I said you are a lucky one, really aren't you? You are safe and healthy. I’m back.” Looking at Zhang who was still wiping tears, “Don’t cry too, it’s a good thing that Hu’er is back, he didn’t cry for you before, but now he’s back, you should be happy and laugh right."

Zhang smiled through her tears, but she still couldn't stop her tears. She hiccupped and said, "Daughter-in-law is happy. She's just overjoyed, and she can't stop."

Mrs. Wang sighed for a while: "It's not like this is a parent... Poor parents all over the world!"

Mother Jia then sighed: "Isn't that true? Even at my age, what day is it that I don't worry about my children." Touching Jia Hu's small face, her eyes were a little distant, "I don't know Zheng'er how is it now."