Jia Zhu, the White Magic God of the Red Chamber

It wasn't until the sun went down that the freshly baked master and apprentice ended their first meeting.

After respectfully sending Ya'erlin into the carriage and leaving, Liu Xianglian couldn't hold back, and excitedly clenched her fists and cheered in a low voice.Afterwards, he turned around and walked towards the pharmacy and jewelry shops according to Yarlin's previous instructions.

Just as Cha Mo saw Liu Xianglian, whose face was red and excited under the setting sun, he knew that he had one more—no, it can only be counted as half a colleague, and Liu Xianglian should obviously have a higher status than him.Compared with the admiration and admiration for those high officials in the past, Cha Mo now puts Yaerlin in a deified position.

Compared with becoming a high official and gaining glory and wealth, it is happier to be with the uncle.What about prosperity and wealth, birth, old age, sickness and death are still inescapable.But following the uncle is different. Although it is very difficult to want to live forever, it is not illusory.

As long as he can reach the twelfth level of Dou Qi he cultivated, he will become the same holy level as the uncle.And the lifespan of the holy level can live the same life as the heaven and the earth, which is no different from longevity!

Although he has just broken through to the second level now, at least there is such an expectation that it is not.

"I'm back." Cha Mo greeted him with a smile, "Young Master Liu."

Although the mask blocked his face, Liu Xianglian felt the inconsistency of his attitude immediately.This is the difference between outsiders and our own people.

"Well, I'm back." Liu Xianglian smiled, "Master has tested that I can communicate with water elements, so it took a little longer."

Hearing this, Cha Mo immediately felt envious.Although it is not bad to practice Dou Qi and follow the path of a samurai, but he also hopes to be a magician like the uncle!In the past, no one under the uncle's contract learned from the uncle except him.Once Liu Xianglian came, he was no longer the only one, let alone, and felt that his status was much lower.

Liu Xianglian is the uncle's apprentice, and he is the uncle's servant.And this Liu Xianglian was recommended to the uncle by him.

Fortunately, Cha Mo knew his status very clearly, and the dissatisfaction in his heart quickly dissipated.He was originally the son of the Rongguo Mansion, so he couldn't compare with Liu Xianglian, a child of a down-and-out family.Even if Liu Xianglian is the uncle's apprentice, he will definitely be the one who will be used in the end!

Which one can be closer to the uncle, the apprentice or the servant?

With Liu Xianglian sharing the work, he can return to Rongguo Mansion from time to time; can Liu Xianglian run to Rongguo Mansion casually?While teasing in his heart, Cha Mo directed the waiter to close the shop, and after they all left, he took Liu Xianglian to the backyard.

The title deed that Mrs. Wang gave to Ya'erlin's shop only included two double-storey buildings.After selling some things in the two shops and getting enough cash, Ya'erlin asked Chamo to buy the yard behind the small building and renovate it.Now the two shops include not only the two small double-storey buildings, but also the five-entry yard behind them.

Although Cha Mo didn't know Ya'erlin's future plans, such a big purchase of a house is enough to show that it will definitely not be small.

In addition to the main hall, Liu Xianglian was not allowed to enter the back room casually in the two shops.Walking out of the small building, there is a small courtyard with two consecutive small buildings.In this yard, apart from the creepers all over the wall and the weeds on the ground, there are no other plants, only some gravel scattered on the ground.

Under Liu Xianglian's shocked eyes, Cha Mo walked to the corner of the wall, stretched out his hand to push away the dense creepers, and a delicate and small arch was revealed.

Liu Xianglian's astonishment did not escape Cha Mo's eyes, only the masked Mr. Pi'er chuckled: "Didn't expect that?"

He nodded blankly.

In the teahouse before, under Yaerlin's guidance, he was able to communicate with the water element soon.Then he learned how to meditate, deepening the resonance with the water element and increasing the magic power of the inner force. At the same time, he also knew the most basic training method of the water magician.

Before Cha Mo took action, he could perceive the magic power from the ivy covering the arch, but he never thought that there would be such an existence under the ivy.

"It looks like this door is only covered by a creeper, but in fact, people who have not practiced fighting qi and magic can't detect the difference here, let alone lift it up." Chamo waited for Liu Xianglian to enter the arched door before following walked in.

"Shopkeeper Pier, is there any difference here?" Regarding the strangeness of the arch, Liu Xianglian couldn't control her curiosity at all.

Cha Mo replied softly: "Master has set up a defensive array and a phantom array here. Also, Mr. Liu, please don't call me Pier anymore. I am the uncle's book boy named Cha Mo." The mask on the lower face revealed a delicate face.

Just when she was about to ask what the defensive formation and the phantom formation were, Liu Xianglian's attention was drawn away by the words behind him: "The shopkeeper and the tea ink are more appropriate names..." He paused with a slightly tangled expression, "Dare you?" Ask the shopkeeper, where did the word 'Pier' come from?"

The expression on Cha Mo's face changed countless times, and finally turned into a wry smile on his lips: "The word 'Pier' was given by the uncle, who said it was a magic script, meaning 'pill'."

"Magic text?" Liu Xianglian heard a new term again.

"You mages need to recite mantras when performing magic, and the mantras are composed of mantras." Cha Mo patiently explained to him.Although the uncle accepted him as an apprentice, he didn't have much time to teach himself. In the beginning, he, who knew more, naturally had to bear part of the enlightenment.

Cha Mo was overjoyed at the thought of being able to become a half-teacher to the children of an aristocratic family.Even if this is a child of a down and out family, how many servants in this capital can teach these young masters?

"What is that phantom formation you mentioned earlier?" Liu Xianglian remembered her curiosity before, and continued to ask.

"I don't know the details, I just know that it's a kind of formation." Cha Mo scratched his head, "I heard from my uncle that one must first master the magic pattern before learning the formation. The small courtyard was designed by the uncle alone." , I just placed some things according to his orders."

Connected to the arch is a garden. When the two walked out of the garden, a stretch of houses came into view.A seven or eight-year-old boy who looked a little thin ran over, smiling all over his face: "Brother Chamo, you are finally back. Mother has already prepared dinner, we are all hungry."

"Xiao San'er, did you see anyone else?" Cha Mo softly reprimanded the child for his rudeness, but Liu Xianglian could tell from his tone that he was not angry.

After looking at Liu Xianglian several times curiously, the boy reluctantly greeted her: "Hello, my name is Mao San, and I'm Brother Chamo's housekeeper."

"...Hello." Although she didn't understand what such a small housekeeper could do, Liu Xianglian nodded to greet him.

Cha Mo coughed: "Xiao San'er, this young master's surname is Liu, and he is the master's apprentice."

The child was devoted to him to make Cha Mo happy, but this person had a different identity after all.If it made him unhappy, I don't know how the uncle will punish him.After all, the uncle is a person who protects his weaknesses.

"Mao San has met Mr. Liu." Hearing this, Mao San immediately bowed down to salute, "Mao San doesn't know the identity of Mr. Liu, so he offended me so much, please forgive me, Mr. Liu."

The corner of her mouth twitched, and Liu Xianglian raised her hand to help her: "It's okay."

This child's way of speaking is really familiar, and it is similar to the conversation he had with the master when he was in the teahouse.It's just that he is twelve years old, but this child is not even ten years old, so he is so precocious, is there really no problem?

Thinking that the yard where she was standing now belonged to her master, Liu Xianglian couldn't help frowning.Cha Mo, who was standing next to him, was just serving people, and he couldn't be more sensitive to other people's emotions.Pinning the removed mask on his waist, he patted Mao San on the head.

"Okay, go to the kitchen and tell your mother to cook first, just leave a portion for Mr. Liu and me."

"Oh." Mao San rubbed his feet on the ground. Although he was a little bit reluctant, he finally walked slowly towards the back room in the distance.

"Mao San and his mother escaped from the south." Cha Mo looked up at the crescent moon in the sky, and said in a calm tone, "Now only one of the five courtyards is inhabited, including me, there are a total of 17 people. Except for me, everyone else can be said to be desperate."

"They..." Liu Xianglian didn't relax because of his rhetoric, on the contrary, there was a slight furrow between her brows.

"My uncle asked me to find them in various refugee spots outside the city. Except for Mao Sanyouniang, the rest are orphans under the age of ten." Cha Mo said with a blank expression, "Young Master Liu, don't worry, they all signed the deed of sale." .”

Liu Xianglian didn't ask Ya'erlin, as the eldest son of the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion, why he still looked for servants outside, and even bought these orphans without going through human teeth.

Some things, he has no experience, but it doesn't mean he doesn't understand.

Liu Xianglian directly changed the subject: "Master told me to live here from now on, I will trouble you."

"Young Master Liu, you don't need to be polite to me." Cha Mo said respectfully, but his expression was very natural, "Young Master Liu is my uncle's apprentice, so naturally he is also my half master."

In this way, Liu Xianglian stayed here after returning home early the next morning to move some commonly used things.Compared to the small courtyard where he was the only one that had been gradually abandoned because it hadn't been repaired for several years, there were people cleaning here, and he didn't have to worry about three meals a day, plus he could learn magic, so he was very content.

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Ya'erlin returned to Rongguo Mansion, and as soon as he got off the carriage, the porter at the side door came forward with a smile on his face: "The uncle is back, the old lady has sent someone to ask for it several times."

"...what's the matter?"

The concierge smiled obsequiously: "The young one is just a janitor, so how could he know. But in the afternoon, my uncle's uncle, Mr. Wang, came, and after that, the old lady asked Sister Fei Cui to ask me several times if I didn't come back. gone."

Has Wang Ziteng been here?

He came to the door so suddenly without handing over the post, which is really a bit like his mother, Mrs. Wang.It's just that Wang Ziteng is not impolite, it's either an urgent matter, or the Wang family and Jia family have completely turned their heads.

Yarlin narrowed his eyes slightly, then walked inside.Qing Mo behind him grabbed a handful of copper coins from his purse and stuffed them to the porter: "It's a reward from the uncle, take it to drink some tea."

The concierge who got the reward was satisfied, Qing Mo hurriedly followed, and didn't stop until the Chuihua Gate.

"Recently, I will go to the study outside to read, you arrange it." Yaerlin kept leaving this sentence under his feet.

Outside the Rongqing Hall, the little girl who was pulling the curtains smiled at him: "The master is here. The old lady has been looking for the master all afternoon, and the master and wife are also inside."

After scrutinizing the little girl from the corner of his eyes, Yaerlin nodded and walked in.No matter what, this little girl revealed some news to him, and he should appreciate it.

"Jia Zhu greets the old lady, the master, and the lady." While saluting, Ya'erlin glanced around, and saw Mrs. Wang, who was still pretending to be sick on the bed when he left, but now her lips were completely pale, and her face was even paler. .His deep black eyes instantly became cloudy, and the curvature of the corners of his lips also became colder.

"Zhu'er is back." Jia Shishi smiled sweetly, "Have you had dinner yet? I asked the big kitchen to leave you tofu skin buns and ham stewed elbows. You need to use them. I'll go back to the yard in a while, remember. Ask the mother-in-law to call the big kitchen to deliver it to you."

"Thank you, old lady, for your concern." Ya'erlin glanced at Mrs. Wang several times, seeing that she was just not looking well, and there was no other serious problem, so she finally felt more relaxed.

"I'm your grandmother. Isn't it natural for a grandmother to care about her eldest grandson?" Jia Shishi patted her side, with a more loving smile on her face, "Pearl, come here."

Taking a look at Jia Baoyu's imperial position since he was born, Yaerlin walked slowly over to sit down.

Pulling his hand and clapping it twice, Jia Shishi regretfully said: "Today is really not a coincidence, Zhuer, you have been recuperating at home for a long time, just as the weather got warmer and you wanted to go out for a walk, but your uncle died Here you come. But your wife doesn't know where you went, and there is nothing she can do to find you back. Your uncle has been waiting for you, and he left not long after dinner."

"It's grandson, isn't it? He just wanted to go out for a walk, but he didn't tell his wife where he went." Yaerlin's eyes drooped slightly, "Grandson went to a tea shop on Baihu Street today. I made some friends, so we chatted for a while."

"Zhu'er is now a Juren, and it's normal for people to communicate with each other." Jia Shishi looked displeased, "If Zhu'er stays in the mansion all day long, I will be unhappy as an old lady! The man's ambition is everywhere, Zhu'er is capable, so how could she just stay in the mansion."

The profound meaning in Jia Shishi's words made Yarlin frowned slightly.Did she know something when she said that?

Arlin is very confident about her means, she should not know about the outside world.And this old lady's home court is also this Rongguo Mansion, plus Wang Ziteng's sudden visit today, then the matter of Jia Baoyu or Jia Yuanchun was exposed.

If it had something to do with Jia Baoyu, Jia Shishi's sweetheart, she wouldn't say these things to him now in the guise of a charitable grandmother.

So, did the old lady know that he didn't want Jia Yuanchun to enter the palace?And this matter was caused by Wang Ziteng's visit today, so he satirized him in a roundabout way and told him to stop meddling in the affairs of the inner house?

Gently lowering his head to hide the sarcasm at the corner of his lips, Yaerlin said in a humiliating voice that made him feel sick: "The old lady dislikes her grandson, and she doesn't want to let her grandson Chenghuan fall under her knees."

It's not that Yarlin has never done the thing of making compromises, but for him, it has been thousands of years ago.As a result, after possessing Jia Zhu, he had to choose to be careful every step of the way. The old lady would pop out from time to time and disgust him twice!

After Liu Xianglian becomes a magic apprentice and can control the magic power to draw the most basic formations, he will free up his energy to let the old lady know what "three obediences and four virtues are!"

Didn't she often demand this from her daughter-in-law and grand-daughter-in-law? In this case, she should also learn how to "obey son when a husband dies"!This Rongguo Mansion should belong to Jia She, but in the end the owner was kicked out to live next to the stable.

Ya'erlin didn't believe that Jia Amnesty was really willing and never wronged, not to mention that there was a nanny beside him who didn't know the details.

Revitalizing Rongguo Mansion or something...

Although his body is surnamed Jia, as long as their second wife is separated, they will no longer be the direct branch of the Rongguo Mansion. As long as the Rongguo Mansion commits a felony that is not a felony of punishing the nine clans, it has nothing to do with him.Jia Jing, the patriarch, just let go, what is he, who is essentially a different world, worrying about so much!

"This monkey, talking nonsense again!" Jia Shishi smiled and patted him, "I'm going to be a father, and I'm still such a monkey! Old lady, I'm so happy that you two can be married .As long as you are getting older, you will naturally have to either marry a daughter-in-law back or choose a good man to marry."

"Just like your elder sister Yuanchun, although she is only 11 years old, she is not young, and it is time to talk about marriage." Jia Shishi shook his head and sighed, his tone was very helpless, "Although Yuanchun is the son-in-law of our mansion, The daughter is the eldest daughter of the fourth generation in our mansion, but people outside don't see it that way."

"Your master only holds a fifth-rank official position. It's not easy for Yuan Chun to be a good husband and son-in-law." Jia Shishi looked like a good grandmother who was worried about his granddaughter, ignoring the embarrassment and anger in Jia Zheng's eyes sitting below, She continued to say earnestly, "If you can continue to participate in Chunwei this time, Zhu'er, and finally get a good rank in the palace examination, Yuanchun's marriage will be easier to talk about."

"It's a pity... Alas—" Jia Shishi shook his head again and remained silent.

Ya'erlin sneered in his heart, but his face was full of guilt, and his words were choked with sobs: "It's all because of my broken body. If I had known that the imperial examination was related to the elder sister's marriage, I shouldn't have listened to the imperial doctor's rest. I just desperately refused. You should also take this class!"

The expression on Jia Shishi's face froze, she didn't expect that her grandson, who had always been only interested in studying, would say such a thing.Could it be that what she meant when she was a grandmother was to blame him for not being in good health and not being able to participate in Chunwei?

If this word gets out, wouldn't she, the Duke and Madam of Jia Shishi's superior order, have to bear the reputation of disregarding her grandson's health!

"You child, you are talking nonsense!" Jia Shishi wiped away tears with a brocade handkerchief, hiding the sternness in his eyes, "You are saying these words to gouge my heart out, Zhuer! If you are really because of the imperial examination What's the matter, how can I explain it to the Duke of the country and the ancestors of the Jia family?"

"Pearl, why are you talking to the old lady? It's too rude!" Jia Zheng stood up, yelled at Yarlin, and then saluted Jia Shishi to the end, "Old lady calm down, my son didn't teach his grandson well , go back and discipline him well!"

Jia Shishi paused for a moment when he wiped his tears, and for the first time, dissatisfaction with the always obedient second son arose in his heart.Doesn't this mean that the distance between her and Jia Zhu is getting bigger and bigger!Jia Zhu is the only one in the whole house who looks promising. Although her precious treasure, Baoyu, has great fortune, she is still young after all.

This son of hers is really just studying and studying, and he is getting more and more pedantic, and he doesn't understand human feelings at all. No wonder he couldn't be promoted for more than ten years!

The author has something to say: Jia Shishi came out again to play with the sense of presence, haha. . . ==

Two more potatoes have been added, look at how fat the words in this chapter are.

Forget about Liu Xianglian's CP sister Lin, let him marry Baochai according to the outline, and satisfy his wish to marry Juemei.

☆、Chapter 19