A Dream of Red Mansions: Zhu Yan drunk

(early February)

In addition, Jia Zheng ordered Jia Lian to go to the eunuch to inquire about the news. When Jia Lian came back and saw that Jia pardoned Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen, all the people were waiting in Jia Zheng's study, and said, "My mother died three days ago." Said: "Why is there no decree in the palace?" Jia Lian said: "The eunuch Xia said that there will always be a decree, so he told him to go back and wait." They asked again, "Where is Baoqin? Ask the little eunuch Baoqin to find out." Jia Lian replied Said: "Baoqin went with the empress three days ago." Everyone was even more frightened when they heard this.

After waiting for two days, there is still no news from the palace.Jia Zheng said that the situation with Mrs. Wang was unknown, and he first hid it from the old lady, and told Baoyu not to mention the matter of going to the Beijing Palace, so as not to implicate others.Mrs. Wang said yes, but her daughter died and her eyes were swollen from crying. She didn't dare to see Jiamu again, so she said she was ill and had to take care of her for two days. When Jiamu heard about it, she asked how her condition was. Sister Feng and others had no choice but to prevaricate. Seeing the different expressions of the people these two days, Jia's mother had already become suspicious. Early this morning, she sent a message to Jia Zheng to ask him what's going on at home recently. Let's just tell her, "Let's do it like this. My son, with a large population, there are naturally many things. How can there be a good thing that lasts forever? Although I am old and I don’t care about family affairs for some years, I can’t escape the principle that good and bad depend on each other. If I am not lenient, I will follow you. Father has gone, and you want to hide something from me. There is no impenetrable wall in the world, and if it finally reaches my ears, it will make me more worried." Jia Zheng then told the story of Yuanchun, and Jia's mother listened, sad After a while, he sighed to Jia Zheng, "It's a pity for my eldest granddaughter." Jia Zheng said sadly, "Who ever thought of such a doom, please forgive me. My son is worried that this may be just the beginning." Seeing that Lai Da hurriedly came in and reported: "Cheng Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has come to issue an order, please go quickly, sir." Jia Zheng hurriedly met Jia Amnesty to receive the order.

Going to the hall, I saw Cheng Ban, the left deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, standing in front of the hall with his order, and there was a maid serving tea, but the censor ignored him. Seeing Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng coming, he said nothing He stated, and then announced: "General Jia Amnesty of the Fuguo took the plunder by chance, and Jia Zheng, a doctor of the Ministry of Industry, inspected the coastal defense. The emperor ruled that Jia Amnesty dismissed the noble, and Jia Zheng was dismissed. After detailed investigation, we will listen to the order."The two took the order, and saw that the censor took a few fans from his entourage, saying that he had searched them from Jia Amnesty, and asked Jia Amnesty, "Where did the fans come from?" Gift, where did he get it, I don't know." The censor smiled and said: "It's okay, the right deputy capital censor has already gone to see Mr. Yucun, and he should be in prison by this time, I will ask him to find out." then went.

Because the entourage took people to Jia Amnesty's place to search for fans, rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and caused a disturbance to everyone in the house. Mrs. Xing was worried that they would seize other belongings, so she hurriedly followed her to the corridor, and saw Mrs. Jia Muwang and others were already standing in the side hall.Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng went to send the censor back. Here Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang were sobbing and weeping in the hall. Jia Mu was sitting in the hall. Before pleading guilty, Jia's mother asked: "What's the matter with the fan? What's the relationship with Jia Yucun?" Jia She hesitated to make a general statement, and Jia's mother asked: "Any other absurd things?" Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng both bowed their heads and said nothing. Jia's mother sighed and said, "Hurry up and ask someone to find out what's going on in Jiayu Village and see how much is involved?" Those who have old acquaintances with the Metropolitan Procuratorate went to inquire about the situation.

At the end of the day, some of the lords came back to ask Jia Amnesty and others for clarification. According to insiders, it would be difficult for Yucun to make a comeback this time. The woman's murder was started, and there were even rumors that it was related to the important affairs of the military aircraft, and it was impossible to prove it for a while. When there was no clue, Mrs. Wang also got some news here. It was Zhou Rui's family who learned about Yucun from his son-in-law Leng Zixing. Some hidden things, hurried to tell Mrs. Wang.After summarizing the news in two clicks, everyone can roughly understand it.

It turned out that Jia Yu village official became bigger and bigger and more courageous, and he thought he was ambitious and talented, and he was escorted by nobles all the way. There was Prince Teng Libao, who became even more rampant.In the past one or two years, he has developed the problem of literati and poets, determined to find a confidante, so that he can live up to the happiness of life, but it happened that he really met recently, it was Bi Ran, a geisha from Zhucuilou, who is both excellent in sex and art. Poetry, some poets praised: "My eyes are like autumn water without waves, and my eyes are like pearls with tears. I want to get close to show my kindness, but I am afraid that I will attract anger."Her lips are like the buds of delicate flowers, her teeth are like celestial shells and hidden pearls, she keeps her mouth shut and does not refute or slander her, she is at ease in the turmoil.Walking gracefully and gracefully, Jing Shu imitates her appearance into a painting, presents a beautiful woman in the clouds, and often yearns for her spirit.

Yucun thinks he has got a beautiful woman, and often spends romantic time with her, expresses his ambitions in conversation, and inadvertently shows off anecdotes about officialdom, Bi Ran just smiles and keeps silent when he hears it, or finds Leng Zixing and other friends to form a game , and also invited Biran to come to add color.Unexpectedly, these happy days didn't last long, Bi Ran would gradually shirk away, Yucun was wondering why, and after a while, he heard that Bi Ran not only looked down on him, but also wrote a doggerel to satirize him, although the poem did not name him , but everyone in the Fengyue circle in the officialdom knew that this poem was about him, and they secretly joked about him.It turns out that Yucun loves to be jealous. He eats a crab and drinks three dishes of vinegar. The cleverness of this poem is:

Jealousy

The spread of the article is lighter than the ink,

There is no tea fragrance in the character.

A little bit of insight is not enough,

Communication and drinking melt through the intestines.

Yucun was furious when he heard that he was so slighted by the women in the brothel, so he resorted to various means to imprison Biran on the grounds of suspicious behavior, and wanted to torture him to vent his anger.He didn't know that although this Bi Ran was a brothel girl, her predecessor was an official. Her father and brother were framed to death, her family was ruined and her family was displaced. After seeing through his face, she was unwilling to give in even if she was perfunctory. After she was imprisoned, she was not afraid of losing her mind. She maintained her reputation and made friends with many princes and grandchildren. Knowing about this, he would definitely try to save each other, but he had another calculation in his mind, feeling his life experience, thinking over and over again, he was so courageous that he slammed his head against the wall and died.This came unexpectedly for Yucun, and he hurriedly ordered people to fabricate charges, pretending to commit suicide in fear of crime to cover up the past.

Besides, the relative who had a real affection for Bi Ran was originally very low-key, and his relationship with Bi Ran was extremely secretive, so few people knew about it. When he learned of Bi Ran's death, he quietly sent someone to find out the reason, and buried Bi Ran. Nor do I pursue it in a public manner.I only slowly investigated the past events of Yucun's perversion of the law and the people involved.The Procuratorate began to receive materials to report Yucun one after another, and the content became more and more detailed. Some even involved important officials in the court, and they were all sent to the imperial court for judgment.To this day, there is no such treatment.

Mrs. Wang felt uneasy after knowing the inside story, so she hurriedly came to Aunt Xue to discuss it. Aunt Xue saw Jia's house like this yesterday, and the sisters couldn't help worrying about Mrs. Wang. After hearing the news again today, the two sisters discussed that Jia Yucun was also in jail. Not knowing what would be revealed, and whether Wang Ziteng knew about it, Aunt Xue said, "It's better to ask girl Feng to come over and discuss it together. She usually has a lot of ideas." The son came back and said: "The second grandma went to see her uncle and wife after lunch, but she hasn't come back yet." Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue knew that she must go to discuss this matter, so she said to Ping'er, "Go home and wait, she will come back. Tell her to come here immediately, my aunt and I will wait for her here." Ping'er agreed to go.When it was time to light the lamp, Fang heard the little girl report: "Second Grandma is here." I saw Sister Feng coming in, her hair on the temples not messy, but her expression couldn't be concealed. Ping'er led the girls out and closed the door.Mrs. Wang waited and asked: "What's the matter?" Sister Feng said tremblingly: "Our Wang family has been ransacked."

Here, Sister Feng is explaining the situation to Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue in detail, and the news has already spread in Jia's mansion over there. It is said that the Wang family has suffered a complete defeat this time. The personal maids, etc., except the married daughters, were all sent to prison to be released, all the servants were dismissed, and all the property and belongings were confiscated.In the next two days, rumors spread in the capital. The servants and servants in Jia's mansion heard all kinds of news from the outside, and gathered at the second gate to talk to each other. The passing women and maids couldn't help listening to it. After a few words, only one young servant said: "It's not because of the defeat in the East China Sea War that the Holy Lord was furious and decided to deal with some important officials who failed to coordinate." The Hu Mansion in Dingyi Lane was also ransacked yesterday, and it was also because of this. Years ago, the mansions raised donations for war funds, and these two mansions only pretended to be innocent, and their families were poor, but they were later found out to be corrupt. If you don’t copy the money, who else will they copy?” Another said: “Don’t talk about other people’s affairs, we don’t know what happened to the two masters of our family. Compare those who copied the house, you can see that the Holy One We are kind enough to our family, but we can't come to a conclusion about our mother's affairs, that's what matters." While discussing, I saw Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Jia Rong and others who were far away. When they came over, the boys on duty hurriedly got up and waited, while the others dispersed in a hurry.

It turned out that Jia Zhen's father and son had close contacts with Jia Yucun on weekdays. Although he didn't have any difficult cases in his hands, he would inevitably do a few ridiculous things on weekdays. Everyone has a position now. In the past, they didn’t perform public duties for nothing important. They only sent some annual money to the Ministry of Officials during the holidays. No need to worry at all levels. Nowadays, if someone reports dereliction of duty, it is another crime. Therefore, it was agreed that they must perform their duties at the post, and the three of them went back and forth to Jia to pardon Jia Zheng.Jia Zheng said: "This plan is very good. Let's all take up the post tomorrow." Looking at Lai Da again, Lai Da understood Jia Zheng's meaning and hurriedly replied, "I have already taught that boy Shangrong, and told him to be safe. If you are divided into officials, you will not dare to cause trouble at this time." Jia Zheng said to Jia Amnesty: "We two are not as happy as the last one who apologized." Jia Amnesty said: "How to write it, the Holy Majesty has not yet If you speak, you will convict yourself first." Jia Zheng remained silent.After waiting for a while, Jia Zhen saw that she had nothing to say, so she resigned and went back to Jia's mother together to explain all the family matters.From the next day, the three went to their respective posts.Because military affairs are very important during wartime, Jia Zhen dare not slack off, and she often waits for orders in the confidential part of the military hall. Rarely can come home.It didn't take long for the top and bottom to rectify the administration of officials, and dealt with a large number of dereliction of duty officials. The three of them became more conscientious and did not dare to slack off.

In addition, when the Jia family was waiting for the call, everything was stagnant, and Jia Zheng didn't ask Baoyu about her homework.This day, Baoyu greeted Jia Mu. After breakfast, Yuanyang replied, "Old lady, the two aunts from Shuiyue Temple are here." Jia Mu said, "Call them in, and open the window. Baoyu, you too." Come here and recite scriptures for your elder sister." Baoyu and the two little nuns knelt towards the window, took the "Original Vow" and read it softly. Said: "Old lady, it's still cold, close the window and read it, the sincerity is the same." Jia Mu said: "It doesn't matter, open it, and read it for a while." After reading for a long time, Yuanyang put a brocade cloak on Jiamu and said, "Old lady, I've finished reading today." Jiamu said to Youshi, "now that Zhen'er and his son are not at home, you are not busy enough to take care of Ningfu alone." Yes, you don’t need to come over often to say hello.” Here, Youshi was replying to Jiamu’s words, Baoyu felt in a trance that a little nun just now looked so familiar, but couldn’t remember it for a while, suddenly his heart brightened, and he thought to himself: It’s actually Fangguan.So he hurriedly chased them out, and asked an old woman if she had seen the two nuns go far, the old woman replied: "I only heard them say that they went to the garden to find Miss Fourth."

Baoyu hurried into the garden again, and as a result, he caught up with him at the water pavilion of the lotus root and Xiangxie. Baoyu called Fangguan, and the two little nuns turned around, and one of them was Fangguan.Baoyu saw that she had grown taller than before, with a calm face, unable to tell whether it was joy or sorrow, so he asked, "How are you doing? Have you been bullied?" Fang Guan only said lightly: "It's okay, Thank you, Second Master, for asking." Baoyu saw that she was a different person than before, and said slowly: "Although you say so, I don't believe it. I used to talk and laugh, but now I see me with indifference. Why? It doesn’t look any better than before, and you keep it from me.” Fang Guan sneered and said, “I’ve learned a few scriptures now, and I know that happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy are all temporary, not human nature, and rash movements among thorns will hurt the body and bones. In the past, when we were performing on stage, love, hate, separation and madness, did we really have all these delusions in our hearts? Tears were forced out to win sympathy, I'm afraid there are countless numbers, now that I've become a monk, how can I mess with you anymore." After saying that, Xichun was still waiting for her, and left.

Leaving Baoyu thinking about what she said, he walked back in a daze, and happened to meet Xiangyun coming over. Xiangyun smiled at him and said, "Second brother, what wind are you blowing here in such a cold day?" I got out of the words just now, and didn't hear what Xiangyun said, so I said to Xiangyun: "If you are not happy, don't pretend to be happy to coax me, I never want you to wrong your own mind." Yun also said in a hurry: "Why did you come up with such a sentence out of nowhere? You are a person who is good and bad at times, clear and dumb at times. I'm going to find Sister Lin. Let's talk about it when you wake up." After that, he went to find Daiyu.Here Baoyu was stunned for a while, when suddenly a cold wind blew by and shivered, Fang came back to his senses, let out a hi, regretted his slip of the tongue, and hurriedly went to Xiaoxiang Pavilion to ask Xiangyun for an explanation.Suddenly Xiren came to call him in a hurry: "Go ahead, the old man has passed away." Baoyu said in surprise, "Didn't you be fine yesterday?" Xiren said, "I just heard that I drank too much, I got up early this morning and found that I was already cold." Baoyu hurried away.

It turned out that Jia Amnesty had been feeling depressed recently, he was worried about how he would be punished, and at the same time he was even more intoxicated and happy for a while. Madam Xing did not dare to persuade him when she saw him like this, instead she went to Madam Wang and sighed, saying: "We two The mouth is also a blessing, and it doesn't take advantage of your mother, but you are troubled by your mother's affairs and feel at ease." Mrs. Wang is worried about Yuan Chun and Wang Ziteng's affairs every day, and she doesn't separate from Mrs. Xing. Let her talk, now Jia For the funeral of Amnesty, she still knelt down and recited Buddhist scriptures every day without passing. Jia Zheng had never been good at housekeeping, and she pitied Jia Mu for getting old and bereaved her son. She spent most of the day serving and comforting Jia Mu at Jia Mu's place. A few days later, Jia Zhenjia Rong and others came back from leave to discuss with Jia Zheng. They all said that it was an extraordinary time and everything should be kept simple, so they only informed the close branches of the clan. I don't know, so the ostentation before the funeral in Bija's mansion is really heaven and earth, and the chores inside are still arranged by Sister Feng.

On the evening of the first day, Mrs. Xing and Yanhong were waiting for concubine Ji, Sister Feng and Qiu Tongping'er, Youshi and Jia Rong's wife, Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou were sitting in the inner room with them. I heard people crying outside, crying all the way into the inner room. Plop knelt down to Mrs. Xing and others, and couldn't stop crying for a while, couldn't speak, and her eyes were swollen and red, but it turned out to be the embroidered orange brought by Yingchun, Mrs. Xing scolded: "Your uncle and girl? Why haven't you come yet? What's the use of telling you to come here and cry!" Xiuju choked up and said, "Madam, our girl was killed by the Sun family three days ago." Everyone was startled Tiao hurriedly asked: "What's going on?" Xiuju replied in a twitching voice: "Since the last time I went back, Miss has been sick intermittently. My uncle never asks, just messes around on his own. I often scolded the young lady as the daughter of a criminal minister, saying that she should die as soon as possible so as not to drag the Sun family down. A few days ago, they caught me when they were pouring medicine on the young lady, so they locked me up. Today our family went to report the funeral. Let me out and tell me that the young lady is seriously ill and can't come back, and I found out that the young lady was killed by them a long time ago, I took advantage of their unpreparedness and ran back to report." Everyone was very angry when they heard this, and cursed: "This family beast has lost the laws of heaven and kings, so report to the officials and arrest him." He was cursing inside, when he heard people from the Sun family coming outside, talking to Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen and others, listening to his plausible words Why Yingchun suddenly contracted the plague a few days ago, and died suddenly today. Several family members including Sun Shaozu were also infected. Now they are seeking medical advice at home and do not know if they are alive or dead. To prevent the spread of the plague, they have been burnt. If the Jia family is not afraid of infection, they can He sent someone to mourn the funeral, and ran away without waiting for Jia Zheng to realize what was going on.That night, everyone inquired about the situation of the embroidered oranges, and ordered Jia Rong to invite the imperial physician to take someone to the Sun's house for inspection, arranged for someone to report to the official, and discussed how to confront the Sun's family. Close your eyes.

Unexpectedly, another incident happened the next day. It turned out that Uncle Xing took a pair of cards from Ning Mansion who did not know when, and went to the accountant of Rong Mansion to collect the money for the funeral. The foreign helper took care of Mrs. Xing's cooking, and gave him a large sum of money without looking carefully. When I looked back and found that the brand was wrong, I went to recover it, but Uncle Xing said that Mrs. Xing owed him the money, and asked Mrs. Xing. When Mrs. Xing heard that she was going to go, she was annoyed when she heard about it. She only complained in front of everyone how Sister Feng asked the accountant to pay money at will, and said Youshi: "Why is the Ningfu randomly issuing cards to people?" Don't come to ask for my brother's money, ask your second grandma to make up for it, if you really have no money, find Yuanyang and sell a few old lady's things, it's not like you haven't done these things, now that the master has just left, you are blackmailing me It’s over.” Two more tears came out, and she wiped them with a handkerchief.Sister Feng's health is not as good as before, and she has been unbearable after a whole night of strong support inside and out. Now that Mrs. Xing has exposed her affairs in public, and brought a mandarin duck along with her, and remembers that the large sum of money she left in the Wang family was confiscated together, I can't bear it. Ti, now that my natal family was defeated, and being forced to ask her for money, I couldn't help being anxious and hurt, covering my face and crying bitterly. Seeing that Mrs. Xing's anger was still there, Ping'er didn't dare to comfort her, so she quietly served Sister Feng to bring some soup. bolus.When Aunt Zhao saw Sister Feng like this, she hid her titter from behind.Seeing that Sister Feng was like this, Mrs. You had to get up and apologize to Mrs. Xing to persuade Mrs. Xing, and ordered someone to go to the account of Ningfu to collect some silver and borrow it for use.

On the morning of the third day, Jia Lian finally rushed back day and night, climbed to the coffin and cried loudly, Baoyu, Jia Huan and others also cried with him for a long time, then stopped, went to see Mrs. Xing and others, and talked about Yingchun again. Everyone was weeping and sighing about the matter here, when they suddenly saw a daughter-in-law in Mrs. Xing's room running over in a panic, and said to everyone, "Yanhong rolled up the money and ran away." After hearing this, Mrs. Xing hurried to Yanhong's room to look. Seeing that all the gold and silver were soft and the jewelry was gone, he went to Jia She's room and checked in his own room. Together with her deed of sale, Jia She's original bank note, some small and portable antiques, and her head and face jewelry were all taken away. She rolled away.Madam Xing immediately gasped and passed out.

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