[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

To be honest, Jia Yan is not very comfortable with the current life.Even if he is a human being in two lifetimes, the current living conditions and lifestyle, even Jia Yan, who thinks he has seen the world, can't stand it.

When describing Qin Keqing in the original book, it once said that Qin Keqing still had to change five or six clothes a day when she was ill, and she would change clothes every time she saw a doctor, which made You Shi couldn't help complaining to Wang Xifeng, saying that she was too much trouble .

But now Jia Yan doesn't give in too much.

Although there are differences between monarchs and ministers now, she doesn't have to greet anyone in the Jia family. In addition, she opened her own mouth. She kowtows.However, things like grooming and changing clothes take up a lot of her time every day.Even though she protested again and again, there were four bodies of clothes to change at a fixed time every day.Dirt or not, she'd have to change at that point anyway.And these clothes are always new.

Since accepting the royal appointment, she has never seen old clothes, and every set of clothes is new.

If she only got Jia Min's old clothes from Jia's mother when she first became the county monarch, then now, every piece of her clothes is newly made.

For this reason, Jia's sewing room has doubled in size, and the extra manpower is dedicated to making new clothes for her.Moreover, after Mrs. Jia Shexing moved to Rongxi Hall, the attic of Mrs. Jia Shexing's original house was vacated to store Jia Yan's clothes.

Starting from the New Year of this year, the main building of the East Courtyard was changed to the place where Jia Yan received the visits of Jia’s female family members twice a month, and the left and right wing rooms and other courtyards became the place where the maids of honor trained the maids for the palace.

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For Jia Yan, being unaccustomed to life is secondary. What really makes her unaccustomed is the current state of life like a bird in a cage.

If she was able to get to know the outside world through Jia She at any rate in the past, then now, she is really no different from a canary.

In the past, she was able to talk to Jia Amnesty in Mrs. Xing's main room, accompanied by Mrs. Xing, and she was able to see her nominal mother, Jia Cong, at Mrs. Xing's place in the evening.

But now?

Even Jia Amnesty couldn't comment on her any more: According to the rules, she had to meet Jia Amnesty through a curtain, and then Jia Amnesty would kowtow to her and bow down in front of her.More importantly, there are times and time limits.

Although Jia Yan complained, she was collectively opposed by all the female officials and eunuchs around her, especially the opposition from Si Zan Shaojian and the two servants, so she had to let it go.

Only the emperor can change this situation, and she has no such right.

This is Jia Yan's conclusion from this matter.

Until this situation is changed, Jia Yan can only endure it for the time being.

Also because of the state of the caged bird, Jia Yan was really afraid that the emperor would forget her.

God knows how long she can last in this suffocating life.

Fortunately, the emperor did not forget her. Not long after the persuasion ceremony, the emperor brought King Yi to Jia's house again.

Of course the emperor came to see Jia Yan, and accompanied by Jia Amnesty, he entered the small courtyard where Jia Yan lives now.

King Yi is 11 years younger than the emperor, and is only 27 years old now, and he is also the newly appointed Minister of Xuanhui.

Obviously, the emperor listened to Jia Yan's words, so he put his most trusted brother in the position of Xuanhui Mansion Order.

King Yi also knew this, so he was very curious about this little sister-in-law who had not officially entered the palace. As soon as he entered the courtyard, he was attracted by the big square porcelain jar with a side length of about one foot that was placed in the open air. attention.

King Yi could tell at a glance that the jar was made of eggshell porcelain.The technical requirements of eggshell porcelain are much higher than those of ordinary porcelain. This kind of porcelain is thin and transparent, and it does not need very good light to clearly see how deep the water inside is from the outside.

King Yi originally thought that goldfish would be kept in this eggshell porcelain jar, just like those concubines in the palace. Those who are of high grade and rich use glass as fish tanks, and those who are not of high grade use eggshell porcelain.But when I got up to take a look, I found that it was empty inside!

King Yi thought he had misread it, but when he looked carefully, he found that there was a little water stain on the bottom of the jar, which was still very new. It should be the trace left by the evaporation of today's dew.

What is this for?

King Yi was puzzled, but the emperor's expression...

Well, the current emperor's complexion is rarely good, but it is also a rare case that it is as bad as today.It's just that Jia She was not familiar with the emperor, so he couldn't tell.

The emperor went straight into the flower hall with a cold face, and sat down on the main seat. Jia Yan, who had been kneeling at the door of the main room after receiving the news, had no choice but to follow. After entering the flower hall, he knelt down to worship the king again.

King Yi and the emperor had cooperated tacitly for a long time. Seeing that the emperor was in a bad mood and didn't want to speak, he spoke first: "Is this the little sister-in-law? The status of the little sister-in-law is different now, but are you still used to it?"

Jia Yan didn't recognize King Yi at first, but before the emperor came in, she had already been instructed by Si Zan's young supervisor, Ji Tong, and knew that he was the most trusted younger brother of the current emperor, so she quickly smiled and said, "Lord Lao asked, It's not that I'm not used to it. It's just that everyone says that the palace rules are like this, so I can't..."

The emperor then said: "Oh? What is not used to?"

Jia Amnesty immediately noticed something wrong with the emperor's tone.

He swears by his experience as a companion in the palace that year that the emperor is really in a bad mood.

Jia Amnesty was afraid that Jia Yan would give the wrong answer, but he was in front of the imperial court at the moment, unable to give advice to his daughter, so he broke into a sudden cold sweat in this early spring.

Jia Amnesty didn't know whether his daughter had noticed that the emperor was angry. He only heard her daughter reply:

"There are a lot of things I'm not used to! Let's just talk about these clothes. Changing two or three outfits a day is a lot of work, but changing five or six outfits a day is a lot of trouble! The eight female officials and the father-in-laws all said that this is necessary. And at home, they actually made countless clothes for me. Not only did the family open an old warehouse, but the Yan family also gave countless filial piety. Even Lin My younger sister’s family has also brought out the best materials that have been treasured for decades! It can still be sustained for a year and a half. My old clothes are worn out."

King Yi said: "Huh? Do the girls of your Jia family still pick up your sisters' old clothes and wear them?"

In King Yi's eyes, the Jia family is famous in Beijing for its extravagance, even the princesses and princesses are not as comfortable as the girls of the Jia family.

The girls of Jia's family actually want to pick up the clothes of the older sisters to wear?Before today, King Yi had never heard of such a thing.

Jia Yan said with a smile: "Not only the sisters, but I also wore my aunt's old clothes before I got the royal appointment. Fortunately, the court's laws in this regard are much more relaxed than before, so the clothes I wore , all the sisters can wear it. If it weren't for the fact that these clothes looked brand new when they were put away, I wouldn't dare to accept the Lin family's clothes."

The implication is that Lin Daiyu is naturally included among these sisters.

These clothes are all made of the best materials, and with the rule of changing four clothes every day, when each clothes is put away, Jia Yan only wears it for an hour or two at most, and hangs it in the window like the later generations. People try on it once or twice. For Jia Yan, such clothes are naturally no different from brand new ones.

For Jia Yan, who has lived in two lives, the clothes she bought in stores and on the Internet in her previous life have been tried on by many people in places she doesn't know. Are the clothes she wore less than three hours old?

The emperor was not so angry when he heard that these clothes would be distributed to Lin Daiyu, Tanchun Xichun and others.He said: "I heard that you took 5 taels of silver from the Xue family?"

Jia Amnesty was taken aback for a moment, but Jia Yan had already spoken: "Long live back, there is such a thing. The son of the Xue family committed crimes in the early years and was condemned to death by a ghost. He lost his household registration. The daughter of the Xue family hit the wooden clocks and hoped that someone would help them solve the case so that their family would not be legally extinct. Even here, the daughter of the Xue family has tens of thousands of taels of silver I begged twice, and I needed money, so I gave her an idea."

The emperor frowned and said, "Are you short of money?"

Jia Yan said: "Yes, long live, I want to set up Zhuangzi in Yuzhou and Qilu to resettle refugees and prepare for the famine, so I am short of money."

King Yi couldn't help but widen his eyes. He looked at Jia Yan and then at his imperial brother. Coincidentally, the emperor happened to look over too, and the two brothers exchanged looks.

King Yi said: "Sister-in-law, what you are talking about is not what you asked Wen Degong's servants to do?"

Jia Yan replied: "Yes, my lord. No amount of manpower is too many to help the people in the world. Our family was in chaos for a long time before, and we are not as good as Wende Gong's family in terms of family style. Not to mention that sister Lin is still carrying Almost all people are capable of doing things. Money is easy to get, opportunities are easy to get, but people who do things are not easy to get. I don’t know how Wendegong trained these people at the beginning. I just need to pick up the ready-made ones. It’s cheap, just let these people move to prevent this year’s drought and even possible locust plagues.”

The emperor was dumbfounded: "What did you say? There will be locust plagues this year?"