The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 174 The Jurchens

Liu Xianglian said that the person was her cousin after all, Yingchun had no choice but to say, "I apologize for you on behalf of Baoyu, he also spoiled the old lady at home, you should be more responsible, and just don't let him come to the door in the future .”

Liu Xianglian shook her head, "What does this have to do with Madam, I just think he is really rude, no matter how old he is, how can he not know a little bit of etiquette?"

"Oh, you don't know the inside story." Yingchun thought for a while, and explained the reason to Liu Xianglian, "Baoyu doesn't know etiquette, what he did today must be for Sister Lin, but fortunately, Sister Lin came late , You stop him again, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous." Seeing Liu Xianglian's puzzled face, Yingchun explained to him the entanglement between Baoyu and Daiyu, as well as what Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang did in the past.

Only then did Liu Xianglian know that there were these reasons behind it, and at this moment he couldn't help but feel a little scared, if Baoyu really made Daiyu abrupt today, how could Mu Xu spare Baoyu lightly, and then he would also be ashamed.Thinking of this, he said angrily,
"I will never associate with Jia Baoyu again. No matter what the reasons were, Miss Lin is married now. How can Jia Baoyu be so ignorant? His Majesty Mu is kind enough to know me, and he once acted as a matchmaker for us. We have never repaid this kindness and this kindness, if Jia Baoyu ruins his wife’s reputation in our house, what face will I have to live in this world! ”

The two have been married for a long time, Yingchun doesn't know the nature of the person next to him, when he hears Baoyu's name, he is obviously really angry.In fact, deep down in her heart, why isn't she angry?

Before she got married, she was just Ermu in the mansion. Even if she was manipulated by the servants, there was nothing she could do about it, because she knew very well that in the eyes of Jiamu and the others, she was just a dispensable concubine. That's all.

Among the three sisters, Tanchun was the second wife. Even if Mrs. Wang pretended to be magnanimous on purpose, she still had some face for Tanchun.As for Xichun, although she is young, she is also the daughter of the Ningguo Mansion, so it is natural for the Rong Mansion not to neglect her.

Only her was left unattended, her father and stepmother never cared about herself, and her brother and sister-in-law were too busy trying to curry favor with the old lady and the second wife.If brother-in-law Lin hadn't been kind enough to tell him about the marriage, what would happen in the future?
Although time has passed, but thinking of the past, Yingchun still couldn't help crying. When Liu Xianglian saw his beautiful wife crying, she was shocked, thinking that she scolded Jia Baoyu for making her cry, so she hurriedly came to her side and hugged her. Her shoulders paid off, didn't she,
"Ma'am, what are you doing? You are still in confinement, how can you shed tears so easily? Is it me? I shouldn't say that about Baoyu."

Seeing that he was sweating profusely in anxiety, Yingchun couldn't help laughing through tears, "You misunderstood, I don't think you said Baoyu, I just remembered the situation when I was in Rongguo Mansion, and I was a little sad for a while."

After hearing this, Liu Xianglian finally breathed a sigh of relief. Speaking of which, he really didn't know what happened to Yingchun before, so he asked. Yingchun hesitated, but told him.

Only then did Liu Xianglian realize that her wife had had such a difficult time before, and she couldn't help feeling depressed, wanting to yell at them, and worried that those people were Yingchun's elders, she couldn't help but blushed, and said after a while, "Then uncle Don't care about you either?"

Yingchun knew that her elder brother Jia Lian and her husband were in the same yamen, and they needed to support each other in the officialdom, and she was very grateful to Jia Lian and his wife for preparing a generous dowry for her when she got married, so she defended her by saying,
"Even if the second elder brother wants to control him, he is powerless. Don't look at him as a decent heir in the mansion, but his status in the mansion at that time can't be compared with Baoyu, let alone him, even the second sister-in-law wants to please him." Living with the second room, how can you control me."

"But later our two rooms separated, and my life was much easier. The second sister-in-law also taught me housekeeping. Even the dowry when I went out was paid by the two of them."

Liu Xianglian had also heard about the Jia family's affairs, and knew that what Yingchun said should be true, but he had a bad impression of the second wife of the Jia family, Jia Mu and others. After a moment of silence, he said, "Since In this way, our family will have less contact with the second room of the Rong Mansion in the future."

Yingchun had no objection, but she asked Liu Xianglian for something, and she only heard her say, "Speaking of my background, it reminds me of my younger brother Cong'er in the mansion. He is a concubine just like me. He is worse than me. He is only two years younger than Baoyu, but no one in the family will plan for his future, so I want you to find him an errand to do, at least if he is assigned in the future, he can also Feed themselves."

For Liu Xianglian today, this matter is not a big deal, so he agreed immediately.

……

Dongping Palace, study room.

Mu Xu was sitting in front of the desk, holding the letter from his father in his hand and frowning, because his father mentioned a Jurchen tribe in the letter, and the reason why he lost his composure was because the leader of this tribe was surnamed Wanyan. .

Others don't know what this surname means, can he not know?Although it was a different world, there might not be someone like Wanyan Aguda again, but Mu Xu still didn't dare to underestimate this Wanyan department.

He calculated the time of this world a long time ago, and roughly determined that the current time period should be around the end of the Northern Song Dynasty in the official history.And the Jurchens, to be precise, the Jurchens headed by the Wanyan Department rose at this point in time.

In the official history, these barbarians from the white mountains and the black waters drank their hair and blood, and used their strength from years of fighting with wild beasts to destroy the Liao Kingdom and the Northern Song Dynasty, and almost destroyed all civilizations they could see.

"Jurchens are less than [-], and they are invincible" is the description of this group of Jurchens. They are not comparable to the Jianzhou Jurchen Eight Banners who later established the Qing Dynasty.The fact that the Manchus entered the customs was actually full of historical coincidences. If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's own problems and the help of those traitors, the Manchus could not have unified the world so easily.

But the Jurchens who established the Jin Dynasty were not the same. They actually conquered everything by force. Mu Xu knew their horror better than anyone else in this world.

His father said in the letter that recently, the Wanyan tribe has been a little restless, and seems to be colluding with other Jurchen tribes. In order to prevent them from getting bigger, he plans to personally lead the army to teach these people a lesson.Although Mu Xu had great confidence in his father and their soldiers, the battlefield was changing rapidly, and no one could predict what would happen until the last moment.

What worries Mu Xu the most is that, from the lines in the words, it can be seen that his father doesn't care about this group of Jurchens at all, and writes disapprovingly that when he returns from the expedition, he will bring a few sea dongqings with him. Time to send it to Beijing for myself.You must know that arrogant soldiers have always been defeated since ancient times, and my father didn't know the details of this group of Jurchen, if he underestimated the enemy, he might be defeated.

Calculating the time when this letter was sent from Liaodong, my father should have already dispatched troops, maybe he had already fought hand-to-hand with the enemy.Thinking of this, Mu Xu couldn't sit still anymore, he got up and went to the outside room, heading towards his grandmother's yard.

Concubine Zhang was talking to Daiyu, and when she saw her grandson coming, she couldn't help but asked with a smile, "Didn't you want to reply to your father? Why did you get it done so soon?"

Still Daiyu was careful, and saw that there was something strange about him, so she said, "But what happened?" After Daiyu's reminder, Concubine Zhang also found that Mu Xu had something on her mind, so she hurriedly asked.

Mu Xu came up with the excuse he had thought up in the future, "I'm worried about my father's old cold legs because my father said in the letter that the weather in Liaodong is very cold this winter."

Concubine Zhang frowned when she heard the words, "What can we do, our family has always been small, if he has an uncle or brother to help him, he can come to Beijing to take care of him for a while." As soon as the words came out, she saw Mu Xu The expression on his face immediately became suspicious, "Do you want to go to Liaodong and bring your father back?"

Hearing this, Daiyu looked at Mu Xu nervously, he gave Daiyu a sorry look, and then smiled wryly, "That's exactly what my grandson thinks, and I'm an adult now, since I know that my father is suffering in the frontier, as a son How can I enjoy wealth and honor in Jingli'an?"

(End of this chapter)