The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

Ning Shan's sedan chair wandered to Ningrong Street. Before he came, he asked someone to post a post, but no one seemed to care about him. The Ningrong Street was still in a normal state. The middle door was not opened, and the street was not swept. .Originally, Ning Shan might still be angry, but after seeing the small-minded people of today, he didn't care much about these things. Instead, he was full of curiosity, guessing how these people who once became prosperous and then became crazy would do things.

The Marquis of Zhenbei Hou's guard of honor and so on have not yet been fully prepared. I also know that the current confidantes of the Ministry of Rites who understand the holy will have vented their anger on the emperor's behalf and made the trip. Ning Shan guessed this after seeing the present. The sedan chair is more understandable.Today, he is guarded against by treating him as a confidant of the Supreme Emperor, and it is embarrassing for him to be promoted. Whose family did he rise to fame and make great achievements during the reign of the old sage?Who told him that the old sage abdicated when he went deep into the grassland so unluckily?In the end, when he became famous, he could be named a marquis. Now he is being sealed and rewarded, but he is being punished as the old sage's confidant. Apart from being unlucky, does he have to think that his fate is like this?Ning Shan never resigned to fate, he is still young, but now he is nearly half a century old, and there is a single-minded emperor behind him, how long can he sit comfortably on the throne?Sooner or later, he will be ahead of him. He can just wait to follow the new emperor. As long as his martial arts and martial arts are not wasted, he must be remembered when it is time for someone to use him.For example, in the great battle where he was able to become a marquis, if he was not used, who would be used?

He also knew that the Rongguo Mansion was the proper courtier of the Supreme Emperor in the early years. Just look at their current heir, who is only the first prize of Xujue and dares to hang the sign of the Duke's Mansion, let alone the man who lives in the Duke's Mansion. The fifth-rank officials in the main hall are now in charge of the family.Anyway, he is also the father of a concubine, and he didn't even give him the honor of a false job, which shows how small the minds of today are.Now that she has become a concubine, she is her own woman, so what face can she have if she is humiliated like this?Ning Shan couldn't figure it out, back then no matter which family the girls of their Dugu family married into, they were the main family, not only had status, but also monopolized favor.Empress Dugu is especially jealous. When she was alive, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty even had a false harem. Those Mrs. Ronghua and Mrs. Xuanhua were all conferred after the death of Empress Dugu. What are you fussing about?Earlier, she heard rumors that she wanted to let the concubine of the harem visit her relatives. Ning Shan wondered if it was because the emperor was holding the private treasury and the treasury was so poor that he was thinking about the concubine's family's internal treasury, but this The decree has not yet been made clear, maybe she still has scruples about face, Ning Shan thought to herself, no matter how poor and crazy she is, she has no idea of ​​hitting the pockets of wives and concubines.At this moment, I still feel that Ning Shan is a person who still remembers his face, how surprised he will be when he knows that he is really going to visit his relatives. One can imagine how short-sighted she is today.

After waiting at the door for a while, the servant became impatient, Ning Shan still sat steadily, waiting to see what kind of majesty the Rongguo Mansion planned to give him.Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a commotion outside, as if the door had opened, and someone was coming out to greet him.The young man took the name card and handed it in. Seeing that Jia Lian was written on it, he was his younger brother, so she gave her three points of face and got out of the sedan chair by herself.

Looking up, he saw a greasy-haired and pink-faced young man. He was born well, but his attire was very vulgar. Although he was in line with the current fashion trend, he did not meet the appearance of a young man in Ning Shan's eyes.Ning Shan became even more displeased when he heard that this man was one of the Marquis of Zhenbei, with the same look in his eyes that was suddenly proud and wary as the emperor looked at him.It's just that although the two are brothers, they are cousins ​​in terms of etiquette, and it's inconvenient to scold him as soon as they meet, so they have to suppress this tone and follow Jia Lian into Rongguo's mansion.

The mansion is certainly magnificent, but Jia Lian led Ning Shan not to the central axis, the two of them just bypassed the gate and walked towards the side yard of the garden.Ning Shan had long heard that the rules of the Rongguo Mansion were different from those of other houses, and that Xijue's eldest son was allowed to live next to the barn, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, and he still couldn't believe it. In his last life, no one would dare In doing so, except for the queen who was born in their Dugu family, it was he who led the trend of the eldest son's status being unstable, and he could let the second son replace him at will because of his own preferences.The empress took away the eldest son's right of succession out of her own displeasure, and was succeeded by Emperor Sui Yang, who had perished in just two dynasties.And that Emperor Sui Yang also showed the "fair thought" of suppressing the gentry and promoting the poor, and advocated the selection of talents through the imperial examination. Unexpectedly, it was vigorously promoted here, and he was not in vain.Most of the officials in the Daxing Dynasty today were born in the imperial examination. Although there are not many nobles, there are more children from poor families. The education they receive is different from that of the nobles. Yes, this is something Ning Shan couldn't understand.Whether in his previous life or in this life, he has never been trapped by money, nor has he been bullied and oppressed by others because of his low status, and he really can't understand the dislike or even the hatred of the scholars who have worked hard from the bottom of the poor family towards their gentry children.But he didn't expect that, apart from the uncompromising queen of their Dugu family, there are other people who would dare to suppress the head room because of their own selfishness.What happened today was an eye-opener.

Jia Lian led Ning Shan out of the main gate of Rongguo Mansion, and went east into a black oil gate, which also had a three-story gate, but looking at the courtyard of the house, it must be cut off by the garden in Rongguo Mansion.I went in, and I saw that the main rooms, verandahs and verandahs are all small and unique, unlike the majestic and magnificent ones that should be in the Duke's mansion, and there are trees, mountains and rocks everywhere in the courtyard. It seems that the rumors are all true. The princes of the Guofu really lived in the garden next to the horse shed, but the fifth-rank officials lived in the main house and were the masters of the house.

Entering the main room for a while, I saw many maids and concubines in beautiful costumes sitting at the head with two middle-aged men. The man was over 40 years old, with a white face and long beard, and a pair of peach blossom eyes. He seemed a bit frivolous, but It also showed the undoubted blood relationship between him and Ning Shan.The woman was younger, she was only in her thirties just by her face, but by her old-fashioned and wealthy appearance, she was more than half a hundred.At this moment, both of them looked a little excited, but the direction of the excitement was hard to say.

Ning Shan went up to pay respects according to the etiquette: "Ning Shan, the Marquis of Zhenbei, has seen Father." Under the names of his mother Jia Ning and Jia She, he was only adopted as the great-grandson of the Ning family, so when he saw Jia She, he could still be called his father.It's just that he now has a higher title than Jia Amnesty and has changed his surname to Ning, so it's not easy to kneel down and kowtow as soon as he comes up.

Even so, Jia Amnesty was also very excited, stood up tremblingly, threw off the pretty maid who came forward to support him, grabbed Ning Shan and cried: "My son, come here to show my father." When the wife heard this, she became even more excited, and she unscrewed all the threads on her sleeves.

Ning Shan almost laughed when she saw it, so she just lowered her head and let Jia Amnesty look at her. She looked decent and respectful, and she didn't reveal the corners of her mouth that she couldn't hide.

Jia Amnesty obviously didn't pay attention to so many things, he only cared about holding Ning Shan to cry and laugh, and he didn't introduce the eldest wife and Jia Lian to him, causing them to stand side by side so that it was very awkward.

Fortunately, Jia Lian was quite astute. Since Ning Shan called her father, he immediately beat the snake and followed her on the stick, stepped forward and cupped her hands, calling out to her elder brother: "I have seen elder brother, younger brother Jia Lian, I hope elder brother will take care of me." , the waist is soft enough, if you say bend, you bend down hard, it doesn't mean to save effort at all.Ning Shan took advantage of the situation and pulled her hand out of Jia She, who was tightly clenched, helped Jia Lian up and said, "Brother, you are welcome." She didn't call out the second or third brother according to the ranking, after all, he himself couldn't tell if he would be with him. He was still confused as to who the fellow brother came from, and he didn't recover until several days later.

Jia She seemed to see his second son only at this time, waved his hands angrily and said in disgust: "What are you still doing here? Hurry up and prepare a table of wine and food, I want to have a private chat with your elder brother, go down, Let's all go down." After saying that, he flicked his sleeves, leaving even the eldest wife behind.When Ning Shan saw that Jia She didn't give his wife face so much, she knew in her heart that the couple was afraid that they were not happy with each other, so they just bowed their hands and sent away the pouting eldest wife. , facing the stepmother who is no longer the stepmother, the father doesn't even give face, what is he rushing to do? !If it wasn't for the face of the old man, she would not be worthy of being gifted by the super-rank Marquis as a third-rank gentleman.

When the two really chatted alone, Jia Amnesty stopped talking, just looked at Ning Shan with tears streaming down his face, and occasionally raised his sleeve to wipe his face, describing his embarrassment and making Ning Shan very uncomfortable.He adopted him before he was one year old, and he hardly got along with this nominal father. He often exchanged letters and things in the years when he was young, and he had no contact with the Ning family for a few years after the defeat of the Ning family. Of course, Ning Shan I haven't resented anything because of this, but it is nonsense to say how deep the relationship is.Just looking at Jia She's appearance, it doesn't seem like he doesn't care about him at all.Is this strange?Whether it is someone in the middle who is provoking it, or Jia She is thick-skinned, he needs to get to know it better.

Jia Amnesty didn't speak, just watched Ning Shan sobbing silently, drinking a glass of wine occasionally, Ning Shan poured wine for him until he was drunk.Once Jia Amnesty got drunk, he no longer had a good mouth, complained all over the years that Jia Mu and Jia Zheng and his wife had oppressed him, and even complained that he, the head of the noble family, couldn't be in charge, let alone be in charge. Even the things he wanted to give to Ning Shan had been withheld all these years.Only then did Ning Shan know that those gifts given to him back then were all taken out by Jia Amnesty from the treasury when Jia Daishan was still alive. His status and rights were handed over to Jia Zheng, and he was pressured to continue marrying a successor who could not manage the house from a small household, and he gave the housekeeper of the inner courtyard to the second wife, Mrs. Wang. From then on, Jia Amnesty never stopped He couldn't touch the treasury anymore, and naturally he couldn't spend any money to send things to Ning Shan, so the communication between the two parties was completely cut off under the interference of Jia Shishi and Jia Wangshi.

Helping Jia She, who was drunk, to the side of the bed and put the quilt under the couch, Ning Shan frowned with her slender and thick eyebrows, Jia Shishi, Jia Wangshi, he remembered.His Ning Shan's father, even if he wasn't a pillar of the country, had no power or power, and was incapable of becoming a martial artist, he could only fill an embroidered pillow with his face when he was young, but he wasn't being bullied by two women. Stepping on the head by the second room, giving a woman who is not right and not right, who doesn't know whether she is a concubine or a female official in the harem, has a strong face.