Daguanyuan Food Research Bureau

There was no fluctuation in my heart, and I even wanted to laugh.

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After getting an explanation for the last question from Jia Ying, Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang were finally relieved.

Now that the queen has got the news, it's a sure thing. Don't think about it anymore. Now that it's settled, Yuanchun sent a letter, and there's nothing he doesn't want to see. Jia Zheng thought, so he got up immediately and went to talk to Jia. Mother said this.

Before going out, he said to Jia Ying: "Since you recruited yourself, I won't punish you too much. I will just write a self-examination book." I'm going to ask your sister Lin for help."

Jia Ying answered with a sad face.

After leaving Mrs. Wang's yard, Jia Zheng walked around the front yard again. Seeing that Jia Amnesty had gone out to drink flower wine again, he said a few words to Jia Lian.

"The old man next door has been fighting more and more recently, and we are separated by a wall, so the smell is bad. The old man said that he would plant flowers and trees in the yard. I don't think it's very reliable." Jia Lian He sucked in his nose which was blocked by the wind and cold, "There is no reason to cut down trees instead of putting out the fire." He felt that Jia She was not at home most of the time anyway, so it really didn't matter to him.

Jia Zheng said, "Have you told Brother Zhen?"

"Brother Zhen is not in the mansion either." Jia Lian grimaced, the seniority of the Rongning and Ningfu mansions had long been broken. Although he and Jia Zhen belonged to the same generation, they even had a daughter-in-law.How could he have the nerve to say, patriarch, your father didn't make explosives recently, but tossed poison instead?Consider the feelings of the neighbors.

The Erfang family lived in the west of Rongguo Mansion. Jia Zheng really didn't feel the taste. On the contrary, the explosion finally stopped recently, and the quality of his naps was much better.

After a long time, even the people in the two mansions of Rong and Ning tacitly agreed that Jia Jing was making gunpowder.

Jia Zheng thought that Jia Jing's current research progress should have matured, and it was time to introduce Mr. He from the Manufacturing Bureau of the Ministry of Industry to him. These two explosive madmen should hit it off quite well.

Jia Zheng said, "I'll go to Dongfu someday, and I'll talk to him for you."

Jia Lian saluted sincerely: "Thank you, Second Uncle."

Jia Zheng sat in the three halls and waited for Jia's mother to take a nap before going in and telling about Yuanchun.

"Then Xie Shen's parents are both dead, and his clan is in Wu County, and now his superiors are directing him to marry him. His son couldn't figure it out for a while, so he had to come to his mother."

Jia Ying wrote the self-criticism on the table behind the screen, and she couldn't help but feel emotional. It's true that an old family is like a treasure. A big family has many etiquettes. Sometimes it's not clear. It's always good to ask the elders .Even in modern times, sometimes there are some traditions that only the old people remember.

The old lady experienced the heyday of the Rongguo Mansion, where there were three layers of in-laws and elders, and there were a lot of sisters-in-law and aunts.Jia Ying thought of the old ladies in the mansion every Chinese New Year, how they respected Jia's mother very much.

Jia Ying felt that it was not easy to please several bosses at the same time, and she could get along so well with her colleagues.But there are even more powerful ones. Earlier, her great-grandfather, that is, the father-in-law of Jiamu, the old Rong Guogong had not yet entered Beijing, and was supervising the construction of seaboats and repairing seawalls in Yangzhou, Gusu. At that time, the housekeeper , is the old lady.

Jia Ying has experienced Mrs. Wang's daily life, and deeply felt that in ancient times, as long as you took care of the house, you would have no time to relax.Later I saw that Wang Xifeng was the same, especially in the middle of the year, he was often too busy to touch the ground.

The Jia family's network of connections in the south of the Yangtze River is much stronger and more diverse than that in the capital city. The old lady is actually able to take care of all the contacts and entertainments, red and white matters, festival banquets, various affairs, account books and farms. , The things he does are also impeccable, and even the elders are satisfied.

Moreover, their family took over in Jinling.This task, pressure and affairs are not small, but the old lady still manages it beautifully.

After coming to this world, what Jia Ying admired most was the old lady.

When I was young, I was slick in all directions, and I was able to handle affairs seamlessly. When I was old, I also knew how to delegate power, so that I could retire with peace of mind.

If you really treat the back house of the ancient big family as a house, and then become the old lady of the ancestors all the way from the grandson's daughter-in-law, if you think you have no brains and partial eyes and don't understand the overall situation, you are really brainless.

When Jia Zheng came, all the maids in the room retreated, only a few old mothers trusted by Jia's mother were there, but the old mothers ignored Jia Ying and Daiyu, and let them stand behind the screen, and the two looked at each other. At a glance, it is clear that Mother Jia is going to give them a small class.

Daiyu saw that the servant girl who was grinding ink for Jia Ying had also withdrawn, walked over lightly, and polished it for her, glanced at what she wrote, couldn't help laughing, worried that the two elders were outside, and suppressed it. Then, I didn't laugh out loud.

She said why Jia Ying suddenly became diligent, and she was writing a self-examination book.

Behind the screen, Jia's mother said: "There are many Xie families in Wu County, which branch is he from?"

Jia Zheng replied: "I heard from Zhu'er that she is far away from the relatives."

Jia Mu pondered for a while and said, "Don't be in a hurry to tell Jinling that the imperial decree has not come down now. Even if the imperial decree is issued, there is no need to contact the Xie family in Wujun, just send you a letter , Let the brothers in Jinling walk with the Xie family. Let’s see how the Xie family treats this child first."

The Jia family has been divided into [-] houses starting from Jia Yuan and Jia Yan. Apart from Ningrong and Rongfu, there are only six houses living in the capital.The current patriarch is Jia Zhen, so the ancestral hall is in Ningguo Mansion, and there are twelve houses in Jinling, so every year during the New Year, the head of the twelve houses have to come to Beijing to worship.The "big brother Chi" Jia Chi mentioned by Jia's mother is the eldest son of the Jia family in Jinling.Jia Ying has only met twice. This distant uncle is very generous, and the gift of meeting is very important.

But the family is really too big, and the various relationships are really complicated.Jia Ying's face collapsed. In the past few years during the Chinese New Year, she could only distinguish people by their names. The "Wen" generation is called Uncle Uncle, she is from the "Yu" generation, and the "Grass" generation is Jia Lan. up.Jia Ying remembered that the last time she met the uncle who called her aunt affectionately, she was not in a good mood.

In comparison, the New Year's environment in Daiyu's family is simpler, passed down through generations, not much different from modern families.

Jia Zheng asked, "What about Shenjing?"

Jia Mu said: "Since it refers to marriage, you don't have to worry too much about not being in touch with each other. Besides, it must be done in a beautiful way... Didn't you say that Zhu'er and that child are all related to Dongping Palace's family members?" Can you make friends with the little prince, since we will be in-laws in the future, we can also have a date first."

Jia Zheng thought about it, since the list was released the day before yesterday, the Ministry of Rites should have come to his door yesterday, and this morning he went to the emperor to look for him, and it made sense, thinking that when San Yuan entered the palace to face the saint, the number one scholar begged for grace.At this time today, Xie Chen should be writing a thank you form.

He understood in his heart, and let Jia Zhu get in touch with him first, so that they could make preparations if he understood what His Majesty meant.

"Because I don't know how the eldest brother-in-law's relationship with the Xie family is, so I can't communicate with the Xie family first." Jia Ying said, "I met him last time and thought his situation is not very good. Maybe the family members don't care about him."

She still remembered that when she was in the Taoist temple, she saw that some books suddenly disappeared, and she asked Chang Sui to find out that there was someone who also borrowed books, but the time coincided with her, and they were borrowed in the afternoon, because most of what he borrowed was Confucian classics. Jia Ying didn't think too much about Confucianism. Looking back now, it was Xie Chen who was in charge of borrowing Mu Shi to copy books.

Those books are not scarce, they are sold with movable type in the study.

Daiyu nodded: "I remember that when I was in Yangzhou, there was a Juzi's family, because he was recruited by his father as a disciple. In the past, regardless of his relatives, they all came to get close. If he is the number one scholar, there should be people in the clan who want to To climb relatives."

Mother Jia smiled and heard the two of them talking, but she didn't comment, and said patiently: "Then, do you know why you asked Brother Zhu to get to know each other first?"

Daiyu smiled and said, "I see."

Jia Ying turned to look at her and said, "I know too."

"Baoyu, tell me first." Mother Jia laughed.

Jia Ying said: "You have to know where Eldest Sister is going to marry in the future, right? If Eldest Brother-in-law is sent outside to become an official and the mansion is built outside, it will be troublesome to prepare for it at that time."

"It won't be outside," Daiyu shook her head. She is quite familiar with the process. After all, her father was also from Tanhua. Maybe even wine."

Jia Ying was stunned: "I remember that my sister-in-law's father used to serve as a sacrifice to the Imperial College."

Jia Mu nodded: "It's all right. But there's one thing that's wrong."

The two jades sat down and listened to the old lady obediently.

"At this time, you can't be so childish when talking to the clan."

Lin Xiangyu knew that when Yuan Chun was not only married out of the palace, but also married a champion, he was in a bad mood.

This is not right.

Obviously, Jia Zhu should be dead, Yuan Chun has already entered the palace, and the second room occupies the Rongxi Hall.

It's all wrong!It's all messed up!

At first she suspected it was Jia Zhu, but Jia Zhu was an adult after all, she was not easy to get in touch with, but she had inquired carefully recently, and there was nothing unusual about him.

Lin Xiangyu has also used her own ability to see, and there is no one in the Mingming Mansion who has traces of being traversed or taken away.

For the first time, Lin Xiangyu became flustered about her cognition.She felt that something was out of her grasp.

The problem must be Erfang.