[Red Mansion] Jia Lian, son of a family

Chapter 64

Jia Lian became the first six-yuan winner in the history of the Daqing Dynasty in one fell swoop. When he sat on a big white horse and paraded through the streets, he won countless flowers and purses.If it weren't for his internal strength to protect his body, he would probably be the first number one scholar to be crushed to death by flowers and purses.

The teahouses and restaurants that Sandingjia passed by during the street tour were especially good. The private rooms on the second and third floors were all swept away. Today, Mei Xiruo brought her maids and guards to the teahouse private rooms under the name of Mei’s servants early today. Down.

Since she was seven years old, she had very few chances to see Jia Lian. Even if Jia Lian came to visit, there would be a screen between them where only people could be vaguely seen.And even if there are no elders in the room, there are many people accompanying him, even if he wants to confide, it is impossible.

What's more, Jia Lian has been away all year round since he went to northern Xinjiang at the age of 11. The letters between the two have not been broken, but they are always separated by such a distance. Meixi Ruocai would get up before dawn and leave Cheng'en Gong's mansion to come to the teahouse.

For the ladies in the capital, apart from going out to enjoy the lanterns on the Lantern Festival every year and March [-]rd is the day when they can go out for an outing, the only time they can leave the house is the Sanding Jia Dama Street Parade once every three years.Mei Xiruo didn't care about this day in the past, but today is different.Her brother Lian Liuyuan and Di, her fiancée naturally had to come to have a look.

Thinking of the six ceremonies that the two of them have passed in private, Mei Xiruo couldn't help but her neck turned red.

"Miss, here we come!" A girl in a green dress with a red scarf tied around her waist quickly walked over, pulled Mei Xiruo and walked towards the window, "Miss, look, the one in front is not right. It's our uncle!"

If Meixi opened the bamboo curtain and peeked out, she saw a white horse approaching from a distance, and the young man's face, set off by the crimson champion robe, was even whiter than jade. "Moshang is like jade, and your son is unparalleled in the world." Such a sentence flashed through her mind quickly.The gentleman Pianpian riding on the white horse is her elder brother Lian, her beloved.

She shyly turned her head slightly to one side, but when she heard the cheers getting closer, she couldn't help but look down again.But this downcast eye just happened to meet the pair of dark peach blossom eyes looking upwards.Mei Xiruo was taken aback for a moment, and then her face became hot because of those blinking peach eyes, she hurriedly put down the bamboo curtain and went back to sit down at the table.

The two girls dressed as maids by the window looked at each other, covered their mouths and started to laugh.The young lady's current appearance is obviously shy. If they fight with her as usual, even if she won't be really angry, they will have no good fruit to say under the embarrassment.

As Mei Xiruo's close maids, they already knew that they were going to marry with the young lady.But because of the rules of the Mei family, they also knew that their destiny was not to become the auntie of the uncle.Because of self-knowledge, the two of them had no unreasonable thoughts about Jia Lian.

Both Hou Ye and Zhuang Yuan Lang are very powerful, but they are born like this, and those who can marry the uncle have to use a servant or a long-term follower, which is their goal.Of course, it's not bad to marry the guards or personal soldiers around Master Hou as the young lady said, so even if the grades are not high, they are still officials' wives.

Picking up the teacup and taking a sip of the tea, Mei Xiruo slowly calmed down, and the blush on her face slowly faded as her heartbeat slowed down.Glancing at the two girls who were holding hands and giggling by the window, she coughed lightly: "We've been out for a long time today, it's time to go back home."

"Yes, Miss." The maid who pulled Mei Xiruo to the window responded with auspicious knees, "When the crowd below clears up, the servants will arrange to reply. But Miss, our uncle is really welcome, just now I don’t know how many people threw flowers and purses at him.”

"You have sharp eyes!" Mei Xiruo snorted coldly, "Pay attention to those things that shouldn't be noticed!"

Thinking of Jia Lian shaking his body on the horse just to avoid those flowers and purses, he couldn't help but curl his lips.She could see very clearly that the green bamboo purse on Jia Lian's waist was made by herself not long ago.Reaching out to touch the jade on her chest, she smiled sweeter.This was because she was afraid of the cold after the occasional wind and cold that year, and Jia Lian, who was far away in the northern Xinjiang, found out that she had spent a lot of effort to get such a piece of warm jade.

Jia Lian's honorable status made her grandfather and father a little dissatisfied, but after so many years, they all saw his affection for her, and now he has become the rare Liuyuan Jidi again in a hundred years. Marriage should be blessed by everyone.

Seeing the unstoppable smile on his young lady's lips, Ji Xiangmo curled his lips at Ruyi: "I'll make arrangements, you stay here to guard the young lady. Ever since we knew that my uncle was selected as the number one scholar by the emperor, our young lady has always been like this." I'm in a trance. If it goes on like this for a long time, it's amazing."

After speaking, she shook her head and backed out.

Ruyi, who stayed in the room, curled her lips and chuckled, and lifted the teapot to add tea to Mei Xiruo's empty tea bowl.The lady's trance symptoms are not unique now, but have become more and more serious recently.But my uncle is indeed a dragon among men. Although he has not been in the capital for a few years, his reputation in the capital is not small.

More than two years ago, after my uncle inherited the title of marquis, it was reported that he was married to her young lady, which disappointed many ladies, especially the noble daughters.As long as Ruyi thinks that such a good uncle has almost confirmed the relationship with his young lady ten years ago, she will be extremely proud.

Thinking about it, my uncle is so amazing in both civil and military skills, and the people around him should not be so bad.

When Jixiang made arrangements to return to the room, he saw the master and servant with flushed cheeks.Sighing softly, suppressing the heat on his cheeks from daydreaming, he picked up the gauze hat that was put aside and walked forward: "Miss, the carriage has been arranged, do you see?"

If Meixi came back to her senses, she took the gauze hat from Jixiang's hand and put it on calmly, covering her fiery red face: "Well, let's go back. Mother said that today I will set up a banquet in the back garden to enjoy the flowers, but I can't It's too late to go back."

After the horse parade, the students admitted to the palace examination had a one and a half month vacation, enough for qualified students to return home.As for Jia Lian, this month and a half was spent cleaning up the shops and farms under the name of Ronghou Mansion.Jinling has already adopted the rule that multiple servants are in charge together, and the rule cannot be more than three years, and the capital naturally has to keep up.

Back then, Jia Daishan dealt with Lai Da's family vigorously, and Mrs. Zhang was not like Mrs. Wang who used the money in the palace to enrich her private house. Although the servants of the Ronghou Mansion were not very clean, at least these people knew the master's behavior. The bottom line will not shake the foundation of Ronghou Mansion.

Jia Lian was not at the helm of the Rongguo Mansion before, but after he came to the throne, he had no time, so he could only let this situation continue.But now, before he was about to go to the Hanlin Academy to take office, he had to deal with these matters.When he ransacked the house in his previous life and knew that those servants were richer than him, the Second Master Lian of Rongguo Mansion, he hated these corrupt servants deeply.

In this life, he will never give these opportunities to the servants of the Ronghou Mansion!

After checking the account books, Jia Lian asked those servants who had embezzled more than 200 taels to spit out the money, and the whole family released it in the name of praying for the old man Jia Daishan.For those below 200 taels of silver, after returning the taels of silver, they will stay for inspection.Then the rules of the Ronghou Mansion were completely changed. The servants, especially those involved in the purchase of the kitchen and logistics, had a task flow chart. Each link was assigned a special person to be responsible for it. If any link went wrong, the person in that link would be responsible.

Jia Lian also set up an investigation department and a supervision department.The people in the investigation department mainly inquire about the prices in the capital, while the supervision department is the supervisory servant.The people in these two departments are not fixed, and the servants of the entire Ronghou Mansion take turns.Of course, Jia Lian can't guarantee that the servants of the Ronghou Mansion will meet his requirements. Who knows if it is possible for them to unite with hundreds of people to fool him, the master.

Therefore, Jia Lian also specially promulgated regulations with clear rewards and punishments.As long as these servants work hard, they may be rewarded with 100 taels of silver or even a house with two entrances at the end of a year.

In addition to this, there are also hidden guards like the Rongguo Mansion that Jia Daishan taught him in the dark. Jiang Jie is the leader of the dark guards, and he does not want to do the task Jia Lian arranged for him to inspect the servants of the Ronghou Mansion. But he had to answer.

If the old master knew that the young master had arranged for them to do such an overkill task, would he be so angry that he would get out of the coffin? !Jiang Jie left Rongxitang's study maliciously.But what the little master said is good, how can you sweep the world if you don't sweep a house, if the Ronghou Mansion is not stable, the little master can't let go of things in the court.

The changes in Ronghou Mansion did not alarm too many people. Under Zhang's control, there were not many servants who could embezzle more than 200 taels.When she and Jia Amnesty were about to get rid of their services, releasing these people under the name of the old man was something that the big families in the capital often did.

After dealing with all these, Jia Lian ran away amidst Zhang's joke that he wanted to marry his wife back early so that she could enjoy life in peace.He was still preparing for the exam when he heard the news that Lin Yiyu was pregnant, so he just sent a congratulatory gift from the servants of the Hou family. Now that everything has been settled, he naturally has to pay a visit in person.

Situ Rui was receiving Jia Lian in the flower hall. He tapped Erlang's leg, raised his eyebrows and jokingly said, "The number one scholar has finally finished his work and thought of me. Does this king think that the palace is full of glory today?"

"The prince's words are not right. Does the relationship between Yilian and the prince still need such politeness?" Although Situ Rui's words were a bit harsh, the tone of his voice was obviously someone who was close to him, so Jia Lian was not care.

Having been ridiculed by Situ Rui for many years, Jia Lian has long been used to his style.As far as he knew, this Situ Rui would not act like this in front of Emperor Longxu and those who were close to him, but he always had this attitude when facing outsiders.

After Lin Yiyu married him, Jia Lian was already considered half of his wife, that's why his attitude changed so much.

With a sneer, Situ Rui stretched out his finger and picked up a purple grape from the fruit plate, put it in his mouth and swallowed it, and then said leisurely: "Stop pretending, Lian Er. You have always been in the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. Come on, today Why come here?"

Jia Lian's eyes fluttered for a while, and finally he clenched his fist and coughed: "Actually, Lian's coming here today is not Lian's intention. My lord, Lian's aunt sent a letter from Jiangnan, asking Lian to visit his cousin 'in person'."

He emphasized the tone of the word "in person", which made Situ Rui's face darker when he heard the words: "Xi'er is in my backyard, maybe something will happen to her, mother-in-law is like this Don't worry about letting you come and visit in person?"

"My lord is going to become a father soon, so I think I can understand Aunt Lian's loving heart." Jia Lian said calmly with a smile on his face.