[Red House] Ban'er's Road to Imperial Examination

Aunt Xue had already found out Wang Yue's origin on the way here. She was just like Mrs. Wang and didn't care whether Wang Yue was related to them or not.

As married women, Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang pay more attention to the development of the Wang family than many Wang families.

Aunt Xue was able to suppress the other houses of the Xue family when her husband died and the eldest son only knew how to mess around, and kept the qualifications of the imperial merchant and their family business. What did Aunt Xue rely on? It was not her promising elder brother ?

As the wife of the second wife, Mrs. Wang was able to surpass Mrs. Xing to control the back house of the Jia family. Of course, there are reasons for Jia's mother's partiality and the failure of the eldest house, but the bigger reason is that the Wang family has surpassed the Jia family in strength and has become The head of the four major families!

Now Aunt Xue is still counting on her mother's family to take care of her two children, Madam Wang also wants to take advantage of her brother's influence to benefit Baoyu, even if she can't take away the title from Dafang, she still wants to take more property.

The two wives of Xue Wang care so much about their natal family, so naturally they also care about the next generation of their natal family. However, the most promising second brother Wang Ziteng of her natal family has only two daughters and no son so far. The eldest brother Wang Zisheng has only one son named Wang Ren. At a very young age, he has already learned ten percent of his father's faults. He is only 17 years old this year, and he already has three housemates before he gets married. There are very few maids in his house that he has not succeeded.

It's already like this at a young age, and I'm afraid it won't be promising when I grow up.

As for the side branches, not to mention that they are all relying on the influence of the Wang family to do evil outside, but they are promising. After all, they are separated by a layer. How much can they help a relative who has not met a few times?

They are naturally hopeless.

But Wang Yue is different. Although Wang Yue is far away from them, he can't stand him because he is still young, and there is still time to make a relationship. Helping aunt, even if he doesn't want to help, he still has to take care of his own reputation!

Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Wang are indeed sisters. They both have the same thoughts in their hearts. They have made up their minds to make good friends with this little prodigy.

So Aunt Xue showed kindness to Wang Yue as soon as she entered the room, she smiled very lovingly: "It's a pity that I don't have a daughter as old as you. With this kind of intelligence, in a few years, I don’t know how many daughters in the boudoir will miss you, and I don’t know how many wives will rob you!”

Everyone laughed after hearing this, and Jia's mother also laughed: "This is a generation away, I think my aunt might as well marry a wife for brother Pan quickly, so that I can give you a good granddaughter, so that I can take advantage of this." Long Kuai's son-in-law will go home!"

Everyone laughed again when they heard this, and Grandma Liu also laughed. Wang Yue hid behind Jia Mu and refused to come out. Outsiders thought he was ashamed, but they didn't know that Wang Yue secretly said in her heart, these women are real, they When he was only a little old, he started teasing about his marriage!

Jia's mother pulled Wang Yue out and said, "Stop making fun of him, he is a good scholar, so he can stand up to jokes from you bunch of shabby households!"

Speaking of which, Mother Jia pointed to Aunt Xue and said, "This is also your aunt. Their family is very rich. You should call out quickly so that she can spend a lot of money. If the gift is not good, the old woman will help you to seek justice." !"

"No matter how rich our family is, it can't compare to the old lady. If the old lady wants to seek justice for my nephew, she needs to pay first, otherwise I won't obey."

As she spoke, Aunt Xue deliberately looked at the maid who was holding the gift for Wang Yue behind him. The mandarin duck pouted behind Jia Mu, nodding to the safe and wishful golden scorpion on top. Aunt Xue estimated how many times it was. The weight of a gold locket, I guessed that the weight of the gold necklace I gave was not as much as these few gold lockets, so I smiled and said to Xiangling: "Hurry up and bring the gift I prepared, so that the old lady can have a look at it." , palm palm eye!"

Xiangling stepped forward and took out a small box, opened it, and found that it was an exquisitely crafted gold collar, not only the pattern was fine, but also the color was rare, almost [-]% gold.

Grandma Liu stared straight away, feeling astonished at how generous these wives and wives are, and couldn't help but think to herself, if she had known that these wives and wives were so kind, she should have come!

Wang Yue jumped off the kang, and thanked Mrs. Xue respectfully: "Hello, aunt, thank you very much, aunt!"

At this time, Xue Baochai signaled Yinger to bring out her gifts, which were a collection of poems and an inkstone, "I brought these from Jinling, it's not expensive, please keep it, brother Yue!"

Jia Mu pointed to Baochai and said, "This is your Aunt Baochai."

"Hello, Aunt Baochai, thank you, Aunt Baochai!"

Aunt Xue hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, hugged him in her arms, and said, "My son, you have grown up so well. You can tell that your parents have cared for you, and you are no worse than our brothers and sisters." Woolen cloth!"

Mrs. Wang learned what Grandma Liu said just now. After hearing this, Jia Mu and Mrs. Xue recited a Buddhist name first. Jia Mu said, "It's just a waste of money. What's the matter? Let Zhou Rui's family go by tomorrow." Invite the Bodhisattva back, light the ever-burning lamps for these children, and let people offer a good vegetarian meal every day, so that the Bodhisattva can bless the children!"

Mrs. Wang hurriedly nodded in response, and Wang Yue said in a timely manner: "I have a few portraits of Bodhisattvas here, and the monk taught me a way to enshrine these portraits in front of the Buddha for a period of time, and then wear them close to my body, so that they can make people feel better." Bodhisattva always bless you!"

As he spoke, he took out several embroidered pouches and gave one to each of Jia Mu, Mrs. Xue Wangxing, Baoyu, Sanchun, Li Wan and Daiyu.

Several people took it enthusiastically, and Baoyu, who was the most impatient, opened it first. After seeing it, he couldn't help shouting: "What a beautiful painting!"

Hearing his admiration, other people also hurriedly opened the painting. Everyone couldn't help sighing at this sight!

These portraits of Wang Yue are painted with lead, which he drew with the graphite he found accidentally. This is probably the first batch of lead paintings in the world, because until 1812, that is, during the Jiaqing period, the world's first pencil just appeared.

"It's just as real!"

The others couldn't help but exclaimed, and Mother Jia called Yuanyang even more: "Yuanyang, quickly bring my glasses!"

Yuanyang hurriedly took out Jiamu's tortoiseshell reading glasses, and Jiamu put on the glasses, carefully looked at the painting in her hand, and after a while said: "It's really rare! It seems real, and I looked at it a little bit." It looks like a foreign painting."

"The old lady is right. We lived there with a missionary from the West. I heard that he used to paint for the emperor in the palace. Ban'er fell in love with him and studied painting with him for several years." Grandma Liu Smiling and explaining for Wang Yue.

"That's no wonder, I look more beautiful than the Bodhisattvas in the temple."

"That's not it," Xue Baochai continued with a smile, "The old lady is still knowledgeable, but we wouldn't recognize it as a Western painting."

"There are not only the skills of Western painting, but also the skills of Gongbi painting. Brother Yue, I'm afraid you have also learned Gongbi painting?"

When it comes to painting, of course Xichun is the one who has the most say. Each of the four ladies of the Jia family has a big maid next to them, each with the four characters of piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting. cultivated.

For example, the maid next to Yuan Chun is called Baoqin, and her piano skills are very outstanding, and she has a bit of everyone's demeanor.

The maid next to the second lady Yingchun is called Siqi, and she is better at playing chess. The maid next to the third lady Tanchun is called Shishu, and her calligraphy is more outstanding, and the maid next to Xichun is named Ruhua, and her painting skills She was taught by Qing Ke raised by Jia's family. Among all the sisters, her painting skills are the highest.

Hearing Xichun's words, everyone took a closer look, and there was indeed some shadow of Gongbi painting in it. Daiyu couldn't help but praised: "It seems that Brother Yue's teacher is really a strange person who has learned both Chinese and Western. It's hard for him to combine The combination of our Gongbi painting and Western oil painting is so ingenious, it is impossible to achieve this without master-level painting skills."

Tanchun also said: "Although the teacher is superb in painting, this apprentice is also very talented. Brother Yue is only eight years old this year, so he learned painting early, at most five or six years old. It's only been a few years, anyway, I can't compare to him."

Everyone else shook their heads, and even Xichun couldn't help sighing: "I saw this painting today and realized that my painting skills for so many years are for nothing. It can be seen that many things in this world still require talent."

Listening to what their sisters said, how could the wives and wives not be able to tell that Wang Yue's painting skills are so superb? Far beyond ordinary people.

"The one for the old lady is Medicine King Bodhisattva. I only wish the old lady good health and a long and safe life. The one for the aunts and grandmas is Guanshiyin Bodhisattva. I wish them all the best. The one for the uncles and aunts is the Bodhisattva of Great Light and Universal Illumination. Call the Great Sun Tathagata, and hope that the evils around the aunts and uncles will recede, and the light will shine everywhere."

After Wang Yue finished speaking, she continued: "This is what I drew when I was free. The drawing is not so detailed, and it makes my aunts laugh at me."

Seeing his modesty, everyone couldn't help laughing and said: "This is not a joke, it opened our eyes, that Western painting has always been only available in the court, today it is a good thing that only a saint can see. "

"Where did you get the good stuff? You're all secretly looking at the good things here, but you didn't even call me!"

A delicate voice came from behind, and everyone couldn't help clapping their hands and laughing: "Our poor family has arrived, so it can be seen that she was born by a treasure hunting mouse. She can't be seen when there is nothing to do. She will look for something good when she finds it." Here comes the baby."

Why can't Wang Yue guess that this is Wang Xifeng, who was so clever in the book that he missed Qingqing's life, and is also his mother-in-law in the original book.