The Legend of the Long Room in the Red Mansion

After the new year, the emperor starts writing, the court starts work, and everything is as usual.

The war in the coastal areas has gradually ceased to attract attention, and it has dragged on for too long, with neither success nor defeat. No matter whether you want to gain profits or simply care about the frontier, you can't stand the long-term procrastination, and gradually forget it .Only Jia Lian, who was assigned to manage the supplies for war preparations, was always worried, and the rest, even the head of the household department, didn't pay much attention to it.The government has also gradually turned to general affairs such as spring plowing, summer locusts, autumn floods, and winter storage.

Various departments are reaching out to the Ministry of Households to ask for money. The Ministry of Industry said that it was hit by a disaster last year. The Ministry of Officials said that officials in a certain place were corrupted.Talking and talking, people on both sides may quarrel in the hall, each of them is blushing, and there is a tendency to not give up until there is a rivalry.

The emperor who sits high in the Golden Temple and the Supreme Emperor who is a higher rank is also fighting for the control of the court. , For some petty gain, he just made a fuss and lost all face.

Jia Lian was terrified when he heard it below, and all he could do was to tightly hold back the backup of military pay and food and grass so that no one would embezzle it.The relationship between Qian Jin and Ning Shan, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, is not bad, and the two emperors have made up their minds to fight to the end, so no one insists on using the money and food needed in the frontier, and Qian Jin takes care of him from time to time, which invisibly eases the situation. A little stress.

Jia She, a member of the military department, Wai Lang, is currently on a long-term vacancy. The two emperors didn't care about such a small position, but many civil servants who didn't agree with Ning Shan always wanted to get him out and replace him with someone else.Even Jia Zheng, who has always regarded the Ministry of War as a rude and reckless man, is eager to take Jia Amnesty's position as his own, and is working tirelessly for this.

King Beijing Jing was willing to help, because Ning Shan had already held a grudge against him in court, thinking he was in the way, and wanted to play tricks behind his back.Although Jia Zheng is also a useless person, if he can be used to replace Jia Amnesty, Ning Shan's face will be severely slapped. Although there is nothing wrong with him, it will be a joy to let him lose face.

But at present, King Nan'an was captured, King Xining was imprisoned, King Beijing had no soldiers, and King Dongping was stuck in northern Xinjiang and couldn't get away. Therefore, the group of four kings and eight princes could only clamor verbally. Civil servants can't make much trouble.Although the Supreme Emperor secretly supported his confidants and old ministers, he would not interfere in such matters.And now it is obvious that they are competing with the Supreme Emperor. For a while, no matter what the four kings and eight princes do, they feel restrained, and they can only do business as usual and maintain the original balance.

On this day, as usual, the King of Beijing held a literary meeting at home, posing as a corporal of respectful corporals, intending to win over some poor scholars, or simply poor students.But on the surface, the old acquaintance of King Beijing is the son of Xungui.Jia Baoyu, for example, has been invited to the meeting ever since he got the blue eyes of Prince Jing at Qin Keqing's funeral. Friends, we also get together a lot in private.

Wang Nian Fang of Beijing Jing was a weak crown, and he always presented himself as an elegant and noble son with outstanding talent, handsome appearance, and refined temperament. The banquets held at home were also themed with poems, essays, lyrics, and songs, showing a noble and elegant atmosphere.However, the private gatherings of Jia Baoyu and others are often accompanied by romantic and famous prostitutes, and it is not impossible for them to be young and frivolous.It's just that in this way, it is inevitable that it is not as good as King Beijing Jing wanted.

He originally wanted to use this to win over some real learned people, thinking that he would use it, but he didn't expect that most of the attendees who came and went frequently were those who were good at flattering and flattering people. The male descendant is a natural alliance, there is no need to win over, at most it is just to strengthen the relationship.

Just like Jia Baoyu, who is loved all the time at home, but can't touch the authority and connections of Jia's family at all, even if they are pulled over, they can only be counted.However, considering that the concubine Jia in the palace still had the hope of blowing pillow wind after all, she never gave up on Jia Baoyu.

Although Jia Zheng is self-proclaimed, he is also happy that his son will befriend a prince, and he has been working hard to return to the court. If Baoyu can really form an irreversible friendship with the King of Beijing, it will be of great help to him It was good, so he paid more and more attention to Shu Baoyu's behavior. If he didn't notice, he made a big mistake that didn't make sense.

But it turned out that although Jia Baoyu deeply hated the Four Books and Five Classics, he was quite crooked, good at writing eclectic words and sentences, and occasionally had a rich and noble tone of groaning without illness. I begged for the words of Sao, Yao, and Yan, and wrote them on the wall of the fan head, chanting and praising them from time to time.That's why some people come to look for poems and characters, and for paintings to ask questions.Baoyu also got a good idea, and the town's family did these foreign affairs.

Because someone liked his poems, Jia Baoyu took them to a fan and was very proud of them. He showed off at literary meetings several times, not only splashing ink on himself, but also spreading the works of the sisters' boudoirs in the Grand View Garden.

Not to mention Xue and Lin, who are amazingly talented, even Xiangyun Tanchun's literary talent is stronger than Baoyu's, and his poems are all read and praised.For a while, the rumors about the elegant and talented women in Jia's family were so rampant that they spread everywhere in Beijing.

This kind of act of showing his reputation, if he is a man, he can be called a romantic and talented man.However, people in the world have very strict requirements on women. Spreading the works of the boudoir and letting those frivolous and prodigal children hold their hands and chanted, it deeply harmed the reputation of the women.The real wealthy family in Beijing sneered at this, and even used it as a negative example to educate their daughters.In this way, the girls in the Grand View Garden had their boudoir reputation damaged by Jia Baoyu without knowing it.

And Jia Baoyu is even more proud of it, going around telling others about the various non-essential, inadvertent, chaotic, and innocent actions of the sisters at home, which only discredit the reputation of the girls even more, but they don't know it. Wrong, on the contrary, they are still proud that their sisters are far better than other sisters in talent and appearance.

Jia Baoyu is a hateful and pathetic character. He was born in this era when everyone is given rules, but he is unwilling to accept the constraints of rules.He lived under the shade of his father and grandfather, but he dismissed it and uttered wild words.He likes women, but he only loves young and romantic years, and he often acts recklessly regardless of his daughter's family's reputation.He is a rule breaker, but he does not have the ability and status to formulate new rules.Because, in the name of innocence, they often do harm without feeling wrong.

Because of what he did, the girls in the Grand View Garden were gradually passed down as Huo Xiaoyu, Cui Yingying, and Zhuo Wenjun, and they were passed on by word of mouth by many dudes in Beijing who pretended to be unrestrained and admiring elegant girls. The ladies have heard it all.It's just that the old lady of Jia's family is getting old and doesn't go out easily, and since Mrs. Wang lost her imperial order, she is ashamed to see people and doesn't go out.Therefore, there was no wind in the Grand View Garden.The sisters joked wantonly in the garden, and could not participate in the activities of the ladies in Beijing at all, so they were carefree.

However, what Tuo Ningshan valued before was that Yingchun had made friends with a few girls in other houses. Although she couldn't leave the door behind closed doors, the servants still needed to buy from time to time, so someone wrote down these rumors and reported them to the eldest lady. Know.

When Yingchun heard about it, she didn't believe it at first, but when she went to the letter to inquire about the seriousness of the matter, she found out the seriousness of the matter. lift up.I can't even figure out why the second master, who claims to be upright and upright, would turn a blind eye to this.

But she didn't have much time to think about it, and several friends in the boudoir wrote letters one after another to persuade her to break up with Jia's daughter as soon as possible, so as not to hurt herself.Yingchun can't sit still anymore, Baoyu is ignorant and hateful, but the sisters are innocent, she can't just watch.Then I called Si Qi and told her to go to Ronghou's mansion to find Wang Xifeng under the pretext of going home to visit relatives, and told her to tell everyone in the Grand View Garden to know, and to restrain the servants from spreading gossip.

Unexpectedly, Wang Xifeng could be called hard-hearted.She only said that now her family and the second bedroom of Jia's family in the Grand View Garden are already two families, and they are two enemies who have torn their faces and can't even maintain the superficial harmony, so she doesn't have to meddle in those nosy things.Anyway, it was still a long time before her daughter and eldest sister grew up and got married, so she only sent a few perfunctory words before sending Si Qi away.

Si Qi didn't know the truth, and came back to report to Yingchun, only saying that the second grandma agreed.Yingchun felt a little relieved, so she continued to stay behind closed doors at home, ignoring foreign affairs.

Those handkerchiefs from her only saw that Yingchun never went to the gate of the Grand View Garden, nor did she hold flower parties and tea parties at home to entertain the daughters of the Jia family as before, so they all thought that she had drawn a clear line from the people in the Grand View Garden, so they also Do not write letters of advice.As a result, both of them will be wrong, and they will be far apart, and the good opportunity of redemption will be missed.

Relying on her ignorance, Baoyu acted recklessly, ruined the reputation of all her sisters and still thought she was proud of herself, only thinking that she had done a great good deed, wandering around more and more every day, doing nothing but being doted on.All of this is deeply hated by one person.

This person is Jia Zheng's concubine, who gave birth to the third girl, Tanchun, and the third father, Jia Huan, and was promoted to be a concubine. Because her maiden name was Zhao, she was called Aunt Zhao.

This Aunt Zhao was very beautiful, and she was modest and courteous in front of Jia Zheng, so she was quite favored.However, she is vulgar, vicious, aggressive and competitive everywhere, but she doesn't know her identity, so she makes a master look like a master, and a slave doesn't look like a slave. She has always been despised by everyone.Even Tanchun, his own daughter, refused to recognize her, and only devoted himself to worshiping Mrs. Wang as his mother.

But ever since Mrs. Wang became a criminal woman, Tanchun was worried about her reputation and future, so she had to stay away from Mrs. Wang quietly and hug another thigh.The best candidate is Shi Taijun, who often pleases them by taking advantage of Guang'er who is raised in front of him in name, and who is also a brother and sister with Baoyu.Over time, I also got a little blue eyes.

In order to go one step further, the object Tanchun focuses on to curry favor with is Baoyu, Shi Taijun's number one treasure.Since she studied female red, the most exquisite and meticulous works have been given to Baoyu.A few days ago, when Baoyu went to attend a poetry meeting at the Beijing Palace, the pair of satin shoes she wore were embroidered by Tanchun over half a month.

Baoyu dressed casually, just as a symbol of their brother and sister's goodwill, but Aunt Zhao was deeply angry, and rushed into Tanchun's room and complained: "Serious brothers don't know how to clean up the dirty shoes and socks. Go pick up tall branches." He said again: "You crawled out of my intestines too, so don't feel that you are so noble." Wait, angrily Tanchun gritted his teeth and cried: "I only hate that I was not born by my wife. " Pointing to Aunt Zhao, he said angrily, "I only recognize Baoyu as my brother, and no one else knows."

When Aunt Zhao heard this, she was completely blown up, and immediately planned to kill Baoyu and let her own Jia Huan monopolize the furniture.