The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 25

The so-called saying that there is no sun, moon, and year in the mountains, is actually in the Gaomen compound, and this statement may not be unfounded.

It seems that in the blink of an eye, a year has passed and it is the beginning of spring.

For the Jia family, the first major event in the beginning of spring is naturally Jia Zhu's meeting.

To be honest, I don't know whether Jia Zhu is lucky or unlucky. In fact, people outside don't know much about his knowledge. They only know that he passed the provincial examination only once, and then delayed because of filial piety. In the eyes of outsiders, it is inevitable to be embarrassed once you pass the exam.

But in fact, Jia Zhu had been sick all the time after finishing the provincial examination. If Jia Min's obituary hadn't just spread, and he was asked to brave the severe cold to participate in the general examination, he would probably have to come out sideways by then. Misfortune is where blessings depend on blessings and what misfortunes is subduing. Although it took three years of work, but after all, the bones of the body are well-raised, and it is not a bad thing.

At least the result of this test is unknown, anyway, at least it can be seen that when Jia Zhu came out of the Gongyuan, although Jia Zhu's face was pale, his mental state was always much better than when he was in the township test four years ago.

Yingchun was very close to this big brother when she was young, but now that she is getting older, it is not easy to be close to her brother, but after Jia Zhu came back, she met Mrs. Wang once, without even saying a word, Instead, I went to see Li Wan again in private.

Counting it, Yingchun was only a three-year-old baby when Jia Zhu failed the provincial examination for the first time, but now she is already a 12-year-old girl in the blink of an eye.

Because her husband was in good condition when he came back this time, at most it was because he was tired and he was a little out of spirits. It was not because he was so sick as three years ago that made people worry. Li Wan's mood was not too bad. , and even reminisced about the past with Yingchun because of having nothing to do.

It is worth mentioning that since Yingchun has grown up, she has not created miracles around her like she did when she was young, and gradually no one mentioned Yingchun's so-called blessings in fate, so whether it is Yingchun Neither Li Wan nor Li Wan knew anything about it.

It's all about Yingchun, no matter in her previous life or in this life, she has never had any serious contact with scholars who have passed the imperial examinations, and she doesn't have much intuitive understanding of the hardships of the imperial examinations.But Li Wan's family is a serious and scholarly family. Although there are no prominent families in the family, they can't be considered very rich, but there are many scholars. Knowing how hard the exam is, I naturally don't think there is anything abnormal about Jia Zhu's appearance now.

If Jia Zhu had been seriously ill as before the last township examination or before the next one, perhaps Li Wan would really be extremely worried, but this time it was just a temporary lack of energy, but it was really not a big deal.Jia Zhu's health is fine, and Jia Lan is even smarter. She is about to go to school, so Li Wan can at most pay attention to her stomach in her spare time. Wan now looks extremely peaceful.

The last time when Li Wan was pregnant with Jia Lan, he still had to worry about the sex of the child in his womb. At that time, Wang Xifeng had already entered the house and was in charge of the family. Under such circumstances, if Li Wan gave birth to a daughter for the first time, he would inevitably be short of breath.Now that Li Wan already has Jia Lan as his son, whether the second child is male or female is not as important as before. As long as the child can be delivered in a healthy and safe manner, it is better if it is a boy, but it is better if it is a daughter. It is also a good word, and there is nothing to be nervous about.

——At least even if she was nervous, it wasn't Li Wan who was nervous.

If it is said that when Li Wan was pregnant last time, the whole house was full of blessings to Li Wan, then even though the harmony between the second room and the first room was not so happy.

Butler power is actually quite important in the Jia family, basically the butler can almost be regarded as the head of the Rongguo Mansion.Previously, when Jia Amnesty's original partner, Mrs. Zhang, was still alive, she also firmly held on to the power of the housekeeper. Later, because Mrs. Xing was not born enough, she had to let Mrs. Wang become the housekeeper's wife.In the next generation, as the eldest grandson and Mrs. Wang's daughter-in-law, it's not impossible for Li Wan to take over the housekeeping right from Mrs. Wang, but Mrs. Wang waited until Wang Xifeng came in before gradually taking over the housekeeping The matter was handed over to Wang Xifeng, the eldest grandma.And Wang Xifeng is indeed a good hand in the role of housekeeper and director. He has never neglected the slightest omission in the long time since he took over the power of housekeeper. From this point of view, even Jia She is satisfied with Wang Xifeng.

It's just that no matter how good the butler's ability is, he can't compare to a direct grandson Jingui.

Even when Zhang's housekeeper was in charge, he gave birth to two sons without delay.And Wang Xifeng has been in the house for four or five years now, but she only gave birth to one sister and son, and the eldest grandson on the other side of the second room is five years old, and there will be a second in a blink of an eye.

Although Wang Xifeng was not so frenzied as to kill her sister-in-law and nephew in the next room because of her delay in giving birth to a son, but after all, when she saw Li Wan with a swollen belly and brought Jia Lan to pay her respects, it was inevitable because of her own birth. After giving birth to my daughter, there was still nothing to do, and my stomach was a little sore.

Even Mrs. Wang, who liked Wang Xifeng better, was looking at her elder sister who was sick from time to time and her own healthy grandson. Thinking about Li Wan's bulging stomach, she couldn't help but be thankful that at that time because of Jia Zheng He tried his best to let Zhu'er marry a daughter of a scholarly family, so he refuted his idea of ​​getting closer.

----split line----

The period of time waiting for the release of the test results was considered to be a rare time for Jia Zhu to be free.

If you fail this time, then wait until the rankings are released and then try your best to take the next test. There will be a full three years in the middle, and you are not in a hurry for the present day and night.And if you are lucky enough to win this time, then naturally there will be the palace examination later. Not only does the palace examination not fail, but for others, there is also the worry of falling into the third rank of Jinshi, and Jia Zhu only looks at it. No matter how the name of Rongguo Mansion can appoint a second-class Jinshi background, there is no need to worry at all.

People are always growing, and it is now after a round of exams that Jia Zhu realizes that if he hadn't been lucky enough to miss the exams seven and four years ago for various reasons, he would have dragged his sick body to force his way. Only after a test is the real danger.

Therefore, the rare leisure time nowadays is used by Jia Zhuquan for self-cultivation, and by the way... um... raising his son.

Originally, according to Jia's mother's intention, Baoyu was not very old, and it happened that his elder brother was still free now, so he might as well teach Baoyu. After teaching Kung Fu for three to five days, not only Jia Zhu was so angry that she fell on her back, but Baoyu was also lazy and pretended to be sick, and she was never willing to let her brother teach her.

If it is the talent and spirituality of reading, the two Jiazhu together cannot compare with Baoyu's talent. Only Jiazhu is born hardworking and dare not slack off at all even when he is ill, while Baoyu is a three-day fishing and two-day drying net. temper.

For example, when it comes to reading, Baoyu actually prefers to read miscellaneous notes of romantic stories, like the Peony Pavilion in The West Chamber, and is deeply fascinated by them; while Jia Zhu plunges headlong into the torrent of the Four Books and Five Classics, and has no intention of reading them. Climbing out, even the so-called six arts of self-cultivation for a gentleman don't take much effort because they have nothing to do with the imperial examination.

This contradiction is completely irreconcilable.

Jia Zhu thinks that Baoyu's behavior is irresponsible (in fact, not only Jia Zhu thinks so, but also Jia Mu, who loves Baoyu the most, also thinks that Baoyu read too many books like this is "diverting his mind to other things"), while Baoyu However, he felt that his elder brother was only interested in studying for fame and fortune, which was really vulgar, and he was a full-fledged salary beetle.Baoyu was held by Jia's mother since she was a child, and she has always been a self-willed person. Even if she is eleven or twelve years old, she doesn't know how to read people's faces. In addition, she only thinks that she is her own brother in front of her. There is nothing wrong with them. It was unspeakable, so he directly said what was in his heart, only making Jia Zhu blush with anger, and almost got angry again.

Jia Zhu is not a person who really reads and reads. In fact, there is still some gully in his heart. He knows that although he is more than ten years older, he is actually just an older brother. It is really not good to punish the younger brother too much. So he only took Baoyu to Jia Zheng's office to repeat the matter, and Jia Zheng beat Baoyu hard once.

Then Baoyu ran back to Jiamu's place to complain, crying and yelling that she would never study at her brother's place again.

Although Jia Zhu is the eldest grandson of Jia Mu, Baoyu is the only grandson in the family who was raised by Jia Mu. In addition, the older Baoyu is, the more similar his appearance is to Jia Daishan, as if Jia Daishan was reincarnated. Jia Daishan and Jia's mother were very affectionate husband and wife during his lifetime. The so-called love of the house and the crow, this precious jade naturally became Jia's mother's heart and soul.Seeing his grandson's pitiful and distressed appearance, he immediately scolded Jia Zheng who did the work, and even Jia Zhu complained.

"Baoyu is just a small person, even if some words are inappropriate, it is because of his innocence. You are an elder brother and more than ten years older than your younger brother. He is old enough to be your son. , He just said a few words, so what if you let him, even if you teach him, you should be patient, how can you be so cruel."

The old man has always been relatives from the next generation. Compared with the scolding Jia Zheng received, Jia Zhu's admonition is actually not too serious. At least Jia's mother didn't say anything harsh.But firstly, Jia Zhu spent more time with Mrs. Wang since she was a child, and her relationship with Jia's mother is not deep at all. Second, he was the one who was really scolded by Baoyu at the beginning. Anger is also more intuitive.Seeing that Jia's mother clearly knew that Baoyu was at fault for this matter, but still insisted on being biased and only said to let herself tolerate him, she was very cold-hearted at the moment, and from then on she treated Jia's mother with nothing more than superficial affection.

The author has something to say:

Baoyu is a culprit...

Lu beetle: moth that steals salary.Metaphor refers to people who are greedy for official salary.A person who devotes himself to official career and economy and becomes a slave to power and money.

See Chapter [-] of the original work

The scholars in ancient times were so pure and noble, this is basically the most ruthless state of humiliating people. Jia Zhu actually hoped for Jia Baoyu's well-being, and then was scolded by Baoyu... Imagine helping someone sincerely, or That kind of situation where everyone around you, including the whole world, agrees that such an approach is right, and then that person doesn't appreciate it at all, and humiliates and insults people in various ways, and then another person stands up and says, "He is indeed wrong. Yes, but you should tolerate him. If he is unhappy, it is your fault. Even if he humiliates you, you have to bear with it and continue to be nice to him." If you can continue to be nice to these two people, then It can be said that this person is completely a saint...

After all, Mother Jia is not ignorant, she must know that Baoyu is wrong in this matter, but she is still biased...

Well, anyway, I am Hei Jiamu Hei Baoyu...