[Red Mansion] Jia Lian, son of a family

Chapter 61

Jia Lian stayed in Yangzhou with Su Rong. After Lin Yiyu came back, Jia Lian's daily activities narrowed a lot.As for Shui Rong, he took advantage of his young age to continue to hang out in the back residence of the Lin Mansion.With Jia Min covering him, Lin Yiyu also took good care of Shui Rong because of Situ Rui, and Shui Rong and Lin Daiyu got along more harmoniously.

Lin Ruhai is not very satisfied with the eldest daughter's finger marriage this time.The royal family's daughter-in-law is not so easy to do, Lin Yiyu grew up under the doting of him and Jia Min.Although the invited nanny would also tell her the Three Obediences and Four Virtues when raising her, Lin Ruhai really has no idea how much she can listen to.

The eldest daughter's marriage is already like this, and the thought of Lin Daiyu, the old daughter Lin Ruhai who got by accident, makes her even more worried.

And Shui Rong, who happened to appear in Yangzhou at this time, caught Lin Ruhai's eyes, but he didn't show it like Jia Min.Shui Rong is indeed a more suitable husband-in-law candidate for Lin Daiyu now, but who knows what will happen in the future?

As for Jia Lian, who teaches water-soluble knowledge, Lin Ruhai's appreciation of him still needs him to make a breakthrough in the imperial examination.Lin Ruhai can allow his son-in-law not to take the imperial examination, but he cannot accept that his son-in-law is an ignorant person.

If Jia Lian wasn't even qualified to take part in the imperial examination, how could his apprentice be any better?

Lin Ruhai would not admit it, but in fact, this was all kinds of excuses he thought of because he was reluctant to part with his daughter.A girl is better than a son, she is caring and can act like a baby, and even makes him purses and clothes, but a delicate girl will be someone else's house sooner or later.No wonder everyone in the world wants a son, and no matter how much a daughter loves her, she can't love her forever, and it hurts when she thinks about it.

No matter what the members of the Lin family thought, when the twelfth lunar month came, Jia Lian politely declined Jia Min's request to stay, and took Shui Rong back to Jinling.He will take the county examination in February next year, and the Lin family will also be busy with Lin Xiyu and Lin Xi's marriage, and even Jia Min has to take her back to the capital to make preparations, so there is no time to entertain their master and apprentice in Yangzhou Spring Festival.

Mrs. Zhang wrote to ask Jia Lian to return to the capital first, and then go south to take the county examination after the Lantern Festival.It's not that she doesn't feel sorry for her son for letting him go out in such cold weather, but that Jia Lian hasn't been at home for four whole Spring Festivals.Since Jia Lian left Beijing for northern Xinjiang at the age of 11, he has not been seen on New Year's Eve, a day of family reunion.

In the first three years, Jia Lian lived in northern Xinjiang, and in the next year, he kept filial piety for Jia Daishan in Jinling.Mrs. Zhang understood Jia Lian's difficulties in not being able to return home, but this year he was alone in Jinling again, so it was impossible for her not to feel dissatisfied.But she is a mother, so she was finally persuaded by Jia Lian.

Even though she knew very well, this severe cold weather was nothing to Jia Lian.But now that the river has frozen, Jia Lian has to go back to Beijing by land and then go south by land, which is too hard.And Jia Lian also said that after he finished the county examination, government examination and college examination, he would return to Beijing immediately after the ranking list.

And at that time, it was only in July, just in time to prepare for the autumn in August.

Jia Lian didn't want to miss this autumn. After the palace examination next year, he will be sixteen years old, and he will stay in the Imperial Academy for another three years. Situ Yuan is already the crown prince, and he will only be enthroned in nine years.And he, during this period of time, could become Situ Yuan's inseparable right-hand man and make another step towards the path of a powerful minister.

Shui Rong was very reluctant to part with the Lin family. Standing on the deck and watching the Yangzhou pier receding away, he tightened the fox scarf around his neck and let out a long sigh.

"Sighing so much at such a young age, be careful that you will have an uncomfortable life in the future." Jia Lian walked up to him lightly and patted his head, "It has been decided, I have written to your parents and uncle. "

"Yeah." Because he was wearing a scarf and a thick tiger-skin cape, Shui Rong had no choice but to nod his head harder, otherwise others wouldn't be able to see what he was doing.

"Since it's been decided, we have to take this responsibility." Jia Lian said earnestly.

Shui Rong looked firm: "I will, Master. Although there are many other considerations in making such a decision, but since it has been decided, it will not make her unhappy in the future. I have already used her. If I don't treat her Good words, I can't get past my own conscience!"

"Compared to when you first came to Jiangnan, you have grown up a lot, Rong'er." Jia Lian's mouth was filled with white air, and then slowly disappeared in the cold air, and his eyes and tone of voice fully showed his gratified.

"If possible, I don't want to grow up, Master." Shui Rong's eyes are bright, but the corners of his mouth are curved bitterly, "I know what my parents expect of me, and she is the best choice for me."

Complexity flashed across Jia Lian's peach blossom eyes. He never wanted to participate in such a complicated matter, but he had to do it.It's just that compared to Shui Rong, although he ended up miserable in his previous life, he lived a chic life, and Shui Rong had worked so hard in his two lifetimes, he couldn't help but want to shed a few crocodile tears for Shui Rong.

In the end, he just stroked his head comfortingly again, and left the overtime work to go to the cabin.

Shui Rong didn't go back to the capital, but spent the Spring Festival with Jia Lian in the capital.This was the first time that he did not celebrate the New Year with his parents. In previous years, even if Shui Gen was in northern Xinjiang, he would still have the five princesses by his side, and even go to the palace to attend the New Year banquet.

And Jia Lian, who was polished by the system to be a considerate and good man, did not forget to take a water solution to go out to watch the lanterns during the Lantern Festival.Next to the Confucius Temple, in the Qinhuai River, there are dots of stars, like a river of lights.In the painting boat on the Lantern River, the sound of silk and bamboo and the sound of prostitution can be heard from time to time.

Shui Rong took Jia Lian's robe and looked at everything in the boat curiously with big eyes. After hesitating again and again, he still couldn't hold back and asked, "Master, aren't the women in the boat afraid of the cold? They wear so little clothes?" Those who walked over and over, they have practiced their internal skills to keep out the cold just like us?"

The water-soluble internal strength cannot be compared with Jia Lian, but he is also more cold-resistant than ordinary people, at least he does not have a thick cotton coat under his cloak and scarf.

His naive question made Jia Lian almost stagger.Back then, he was also a member of the group of flowers, and he also had admiration for these colorful and artistic women in the painting boat.But now that he heard the question of water solubility, why did he only find it funny and sad.

Turning her head to look at the painting boat, Jia Lian pursed her lips.In his previous life, he was just like those men in the painting boat, he only saw the beautiful side of those women, but he didn't notice the alienation and pain in their eyes.Of course, it's not like there are only greedy women in their eyes.

In such weather, they only wear so little to keep beautiful, so how can they really not be cold.No matter how many charcoal basins are put on the painting boat, how much effect can it have on such a painting boat that is ventilated everywhere and only covered by light gauze?

"Rong'er, they have no way to control their own lives, they can only live in this way." Jia Lian's tone was a little cold, and he reached out to take Shui Rong's little hand that was holding the corner of his robe, and quickly left here, heading towards Jia's ancestral house go.

Winter has passed and spring has come, and the weather in February is still a bit cold.Jia Lian wore a few clothes sewn with fine cotton cloth. After inspection, he walked into the examination room with a basket.There are five exams in total in the township examination, and on the day after each exam, you can leave the test shed and go home to rest, which is much more comfortable than having to struggle in the test shed for the next few days and nights.

Looking at the examinees whose faces were pale from the cold and were sitting behind the desk rubbing their hands, Jia Lian was very grateful for his little Wuxiang Gong body protection.This is only the first step of the imperial examination, and the test is not light. It is not so easy for scholars to do it, and those officials who have passed the imperial examination have also suffered hardships.

After this incident, Jia Lian became more mature.He shouldn't look down on those scholars, he has more than them, and he doesn't necessarily have as many as he thinks.

Under Jia Lian's prudent treatment, at the end of June, he finally won the Jinling area's Tongziqian Xiaosanyuan in one fell swoop, and successfully became a scholar.Jia Zhu also took part in this boy's test. She was not good at nouns and only ranked in the middle, but she also won the honor of a scholar in the end.

Knowing the news of Jia Zhu's going south, Jia Lian sent someone to pick him up at the pier holding books, and arranged a yard for him in the ancestral house.It's a pity that Fei Ming, who was with Jia Zhu, rejected Jia Lian's kindness, saying that Mrs. Wang had already arranged a place for them to live in Xue's house.

Jia Lian was noncommittal about this and continued to read.

He has already done what he should do as a cousin and the head of the Rongguo Mansion. Jia Zhu didn't want to appreciate it and let the maid next to him slap him in the face. If anything happens in the future, he can't find it .

Although the Xue family has surrendered to Jia Lian, they must still have their own relationships.Xue Wang's family was born in the Wang family, and she and Jia's Mrs. Wang are sisters. This is an inseparable blood relationship. Xue Xun can't find a reason to refuse Jia Zhu to live in Xue's house.

On the way back to Beijing this time, Jia Zhu finally couldn't find any excuses to refuse to go with Jia Lian.Jia Lian was looking forward to what Madam Wang could do, but unfortunately, in this age when the waterway was not completely safe, Madam Wang attached great importance to Jia Zhu's life.

Jia Lian is the Lord Marquis, and he can be compared to a personal soldier belonging to the imperial court.Following him is better than sailing under the banner of the Jia Mansion.

On the pier of the capital, two groups of people dressed as servants were looking forward with red faces.And the two groups of people chatted a few words from time to time, and complimented each other, they were the servants of the master sent by Ronghou Mansion and Jia Mansion to pick them up to take the scientific examination.

The comparison between the two groups of people is obvious. The clothes of the Ronghou Mansion are more uniform, not to mention more energetic, and there are more smiles on their faces.The news that Jia Lian had won the Little Sanyuan had already spread back to the capital, and they were both scholars, so there was still a difference between the Little Sanyuan and ordinary scholars.

But no matter how the family was divided, it was still the Jia family, so the two groups of servants did not cause any unpleasantness.It is a good thing that Jia's family has produced two scholars!

As the four big ships approached, the pier immediately became lively, and Jia Lian graciously asked Jia Zhu and his party to unload and salute and leave first.It's not that he's generous, but that compared to Jia Zhu's one boat, he also brought two boats of Jiangnan specialties, which took more time than Jia Zhu's.

Fortunately, under the arrangement of his wife, Mrs. Zhang, the servants of the Hou Mansion were well prepared, and they didn't appear to be flustered at all.