The Rich and the Idlers of the Red Chamber

Soon it was the end of the year again, the Jia family had a bad year, not to mention the Rongguo Mansion, the Shi family hadn't released it during the Chinese New Year, Jia Daishan had been in a bad mood for the past six months, Jia Zheng and his wife were quite proud Full, but dare not show it in front of Jia Daishan.As for Jia Min, after not being her own mother's housekeeper, life is a bit difficult. Apart from Jia Zhu and Jia Yuanchun, and Jia Daishan, Xiao Wang is very stingy to everyone. Jia Min is a smart and sensitive person, otherwise It's just that most of the Jia family's men don't care about the inner house. Shi's family is under house arrest, and Jia Min can't even go to visit him, let alone go to Jia Daishan to cry. Therefore, the originally bright The little girl became much quieter.

As for Ningguo Mansion, Jia Jing's family didn't come back, leaving Jia Daihua an old man and a bunch of concubines who are not on the table. I also don't want to face Jia Daishan's bitter and vengeful face again.As for Jia Amnesty, he is even more unwilling to get along with a group of people who don't agree with each other.

Therefore, after opening the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, everyone went back to their respective homes.After the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, Jia She and his family went back to the Viscount Shunping's mansion, and they had to wait until Ah Shou was arrested for a week before going back to live in another courtyard.

In previous years, the Chinese New Year was relatively quiet, but this year, the concierge received a lot of posts every day, and some people who had never heard of it also sent posts saying that they would come to pay New Year's greetings, which made Jia She's headache , He didn't intend to really meet these people, but he just picked some relatives who were close to him and some people who had been in contact with him before. After the tenth day of the first lunar month, he slowly calmed down.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, God didn’t give face, and there was another heavy snowfall. Under such circumstances, the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival that was originally going to be held could not be held. At most, the folks had a small-scale fun. Jia She simply played with ice lanterns at home. , I made a lot of ice lanterns of different shapes in the garden, and put a candle inside, which is quite interesting to look at.

Ah Shou is also very fond of all kinds of ice sculptures. He is now stronger than before, and he can get out of your arms without any effort. He almost made him climb onto the ice sculptures, scaring Mrs. Zhang enough.It is not a bad thing for boys to be naughty, and it is not a luxury hobby to like ice sculptures. These days, handmade works are not as valuable as later generations. Jia Shen wants to make more new gadgets to improve his life. There are many craftsmen in his family. For these people, making some ice sculptures is really trivial.

Jia She simply asked someone to put ice sculptures on the corridor, and even replaced the colorful lanterns hanging on the corridor with ice lamps. Ah Shou liked to see them, so he just asked people to hold them and stand on the corridor to watch them.

When the relatives and friends who came and went knew about this, they couldn't help laughing, and they all wanted to say Jia She's love for his son when they turned around. Some people said sourly that being a child is like killing a child, but more people are thinking of Jia She. She lost a son before, I'm afraid he turned the guilt towards that son into love, and doubled it to the current child.

On the contrary, some people have heard some things about Jia She, and it is inevitable that they will say: "Playing things and losing one's ambition!" But this kind of evaluation is not painful to Jia She, even if it reaches Jia She, he still pretends not to see it. .

These are not the most important things in the Viscount Shunping's mansion now, but it is Ah Shou's work to catch Zhou.

Only now did Jia Amnesty realize that there was definitely something wrong with Jia Baoyu when he caught the rouge back then. This thing should never have appeared on the table for Zhou Zhou. There were a lot of things prepared for Zhou Zhou, but even if he was preparing snacks, it was like watching Ordinary, the kind that doesn't even have a scent when it's cold, but books and other things with better meanings, either they are made of very bright materials, or they are painted colorfully, in short, to attract Eyeballs and attention are important, and the other ones that don't have a good meaning generally have a gray and insignificant appearance. In this way, even if they have not experienced training, there will be no major problems.

On the day of the Zhou Banquet, it was a rare fine weather. Ah Shou was dressed like a big red envelope, wearing a lightweight hollow gold collar with a safety lock on it. Ah Shou clearly liked this shiny golden thing He liked it very much. He grabbed the safety lock and put it in his mouth. He already had a few small white teeth the size of a grain of rice in his mouth, but he didn't put in much effort, but a lot of saliva smeared on the safety lock.

Mrs. Zhang dressed up and turned her head to look, and saw her son sitting there gnawing on the safety lock. Jia Amnesty was still watching and amused. It's soft, although this ring gold lock is light and light, it still hangs on your neck, if you don't take it off, you can put it on when you take it out!"

Jia Amnesty bowed exaggeratedly and saluted: "Madam's lesson is that you should obey your orders!"

Amused, Mrs. Zhang hid her mouth and laughed, and then watched Jia Shejie quickly take off the collar and golden lock, and gave A Shou a little tiger carved from a carrot. A Shou didn't mind, and happily grabbed the carrot.

It was noon to catch the Zhou banquet, and in the morning, guests arrived one after another. Mrs. Zhang went to receive the female relatives, while Jia She reluctantly kissed his son's delicate cheeks, and then went to entertain the male guests.

The post to relatives and friends had already been sent out years ago. Jia Amnesty has officials and nobles, but he has no real power. Ordinary people would not come to flatter him. Therefore, most of the people who came were close ones.People came from every room in the Jia family, but the Shi family and the Wang family almost tore apart their faces with Jia She, and Jia She didn't post a post, so no one came over, but the four princes and the Jia family can be regarded as elders. Dear, when Jia Amnesty was not heir, he was quite familiar with the children of these families and played well, so they also sent people over, and the other ones were in-laws, such as people from the Zhang family.

Many of them have never dealt with Jia She since Jia She came out as successor. They thought that after Jia She fell out with the Rongguo Mansion just to take a gamble, they would regret it later. Who knows, Jia She She used to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger. He pretended to be a dandy, but he had his own ideas inside. After leaving the Rongguo Mansion, he probably lost his scruples and didn't have to hide his clumsiness. In two or three years, he would have The current situation has made many people envious.

In particular, all nobles are facing the situation of no successors, not only no successors, but also in an embarrassing period of transformation, let the children study, if they cannot squeeze into this circle, let the children practice martial arts, It's not very useful, and you have to worry about taboos from above. Therefore, in this case, the children of each family are less successful and more dandies.

If it turns out that everyone is like this, it’s fine, but Jia She came out. He was originally the bottom of the group. Many people taught their children negative teaching materials. It turned out that he was not incompetent. He was in the past. After pretending, he turned into a young talent who was praised by saints all of a sudden. In a few years, he earned a title for himself, and he was not tabooed by his superiors.

As a result, the original group of friends were in bad luck. Whenever they heard that Jia Amnesty was doing something again, after returning home, they would immediately face harsh words from the elders, and even had to taste the taste of chicken feather dusters and bamboo shoots fried meat, not to mention How depressed.

Of course, correspondingly, in the circle of parents, Jia Daishan has also become a negative teaching material. He knows how to fight, but what is the use of having a Sacred Heart? , and made a dead fish eyeball who thought he was a bright pearl and dusty as the heir. If they were Jia Daishan, they would all vomit blood.

In any case, since Jia She became a knight, he has stepped into the circle of nobles again, but Jia She doesn't care about it. For him, the title and official position are just a layer of bluffing tiger skin. Don't make those foxes and wolves feel that he can be bullied and affect his normal life. As for the others, is it possible that he has to rely on his title and official position to live on hundreds of taels of silver every year?That little money is not enough to maintain the Viscount Mansion!

Jia Amnesty is not very interested in talking to people and talking nonsense, but it doesn't mean he doesn't know how to do it. Now he is showing the demeanor he trained with a group of experts in the Valley of Thousand Flowers in his previous life, calmly talking to a group of people. The guests chatted and laughed, it can be said that the host and guest had a good time.

The same is true for the Zhang family in the inner courtyard. Zhang was born as a daughter of an aristocratic family, and she was trained according to the standards of the headed mother since childhood. Jia Amnesty, that really blinded her personality.

In particular, Zhang's life is comfortable now, there is no mother-in-law to wait on, no difficult sister-in-law below, her son is smart, her husband is considerate and gentle, she has a commandment on her body, and her waist is straight, so she is naturally full of confidence and does not need to treat anyone The meaning of the song is flattering, but many wives still have to treat her with respect, which is naturally more comfortable.

Now let the servant girl take out her son. Ah Shou looks cute and wears a bright red dress. When she sees Mrs. Zhang, she stretches out her hand and clearly calls "A Niang", which makes people like it immediately. Immediately, the following The female relatives kept praising her, making Mrs. Zhang elated.

Before the banquet started, it was Zhou Zhou, and soon, the prepared things were put on the table, Mrs. Zhang carried Ah Shou to the table with her own hands, and coaxed: "Ah Shou, pick up what you like when you see it, you understand? ?”

Ah Shou didn't know if he understood, he sat down on the table, looked at the table full of things curiously, grabbed a piece of jade pendant, and was about to say, "Young master will be of noble character in the future." A gentleman is like jade" or something, Ah Shou threw the delicate piece of mutton fat jade pendant aside, then stood up, took two steps on the table unsteadily, and finally grabbed a piece of jade pendant. However, Jia Amnesty had obtained a bloodstone before, and before he had time to engrave the inscription, he simply put the bloodstone seal on the table this time.

Seeing Ah Shou holding on to the bloodstone and not letting go, everyone on one side laughed and said in unison: "Young master will inherit the grace of the heavens and the virtues of the ancestors in the future, and the official fortune will be prosperous!"

When the news spread to the front seats, there was also a lot of praise, which made Jia Amnesty blushed, but Jia Zheng, who was not very willing to come over, said dryly: "Catch Zhou or something, it's just to get a good one. It's a sign, it depends on whether the child will live up to expectations in the future!"

Jia Amnesty's face remained unchanged: "My cousin is right, but, so what if you don't live up to being a son, as long as I am still here, I will naturally find a way to arrange him, everyone thinks it is not!"

Immediately, everyone who had been a little cold at Jia Zheng's words immediately cheered up, saying that Jia Amnesty was really a kind father's heart, and so on. Finally, the Zhou Catch Banquet came to a successful conclusion.