The Red Mansions

Chapter 52 It's Cold

Back home, Jia Yun cooked two tables of good noodles.

One table was reserved for the female relatives, and the other table was used to entertain Zhou Kun.

At the banquet, Zhou Kun asked Jia Yun when he would move.

After Jia Yun took a sip of her wine, she replied, "Don't worry, I'm humble right now, and I'm not qualified to live in such a big house. It won't be too late to move after I get fame."

"Hey, I thought it was because of something!" Zhou Kun shook his head and said, "Actually, you're thinking about it. In today's world, it doesn't matter so much to laugh at the poor and not laugh at the prostitutes. You can just move and live."

"Although your newly bought house occupies a large area, it looks no different from the house of ordinary civilians from the outside."

"I heard from the gossip that the house was originally used for secret meetings by officials from the bureaucracy who confiscated the house, so it was purposely built to be relatively low-key. You have also visited it. Except for being relatively large, there are basically no violations."

"So even if you move in now, no one will make irresponsible remarks."

"There is another point, you may not be clear, many servants of Xungui's family dare to build high-end mansions. Regardless of the size of your house, it is really nothing compared to those other people's houses..."

Jia Yun murmured: "Even so, this is a trick after all. If I offend someone, someone will make a fuss about it, wouldn't it be..."

"Don't worry, whoever dares to make a fuss about this will really not want to live." Zhou Kun smiled and said:
"I don't want to say too much, just say that the Ningrong Second Mansion of your Jia family, after being demoted, is logically not eligible to live in the Duke's Mansion, but in fact, isn't it still comfortable to live in?"

"Do you know how many honorable families have been demoted? For the sake of face, they all pretended to be deaf and dumb, and still lived in the mansion where they were first knighted. Who dares to use this as an issue? It's offending." People are going to sea!"

Jia Yun smiled and said, "From what you say, even if I move now, it's okay?"

"You can move in without worry, there will be no problem at all!" Zhou Kun said affirmatively.

Jia Yun thought for a while, nodded and said, "Forget it, it's really much more convenient to live there, even if the students from the academy come here, there is a place to stay."

Zhou Kun smiled and said, "That's the reason. Speaking of this, I really admire you."

"Hehe, what do I admire?" Jia Yun shook her head and smiled.

Zhou Kun said: "Think about it, I went to the academy before you to study, but my grades are far behind yours."

"You are in class C now, but I haven't moved at all. To be honest, I can see you working hard every day."

"However, what I admire most is that you have no fame now, but you have made so many scholars and become friends."

"As for me, the two idiots in our dormitory are disgusted by everything, and sometimes I feel like a failure when I think about it."

Jia Yun raised her eyebrows and said with a smile, "Come on, I don't know you yet. You should focus on making friends while drinking. Make sure you know and make friends with many more people than I do."

There is no way for him to develop contacts in the academy.

Because he has no backing, no friends in this world, and his clansmen are unreliable, so he can only rely on himself.

Although he was a chef in his previous life, he was also a restaurant owner, and knew the importance of connections.

When I didn't go to school before, I couldn't make any noble friends.

Now that they entered the academy, none of the students in it were simple.

Just find anyone, and you can get involved with the officials of the DPRK and China. Zhou Kun in front of you is an example.

So as long as there is an opportunity, of course he must seize it and make more friends.

The friendship between classmates is a relatively pure friendship.

Regardless of whether he will be a civil servant or a military officer in the future, the contacts he has made now may be useful in the future.

There is a saying that acquaintances are easy to handle. Generally speaking, as long as the matter is not too big, it is much easier to deal with acquaintances than to ask strangers to do things.

The acquaintances among them also include those who can be connected by twists and turns. Even if the two did not know each other before, as long as there is an introduction from an acquaintance, it can be regarded as a connection.

Because of this, no matter how eager Jia Yun is to study, she will take the time to make more friends and get to know some classmates while she is still studying in the academy.

Jia Yun and Zhou Kun just came back from the academy today. They had nothing to do and talked about sex. They ate a meal for nearly an hour. The food was reheated several times, and the brazier in the room was changed several times.

Perhaps because of being at Jia Yun's house, Zhou Kun also told Jia Yun a lot about the court affairs, which gave Jia Yun a lot of insight.

After eating and drinking enough, Zhou Kun wanted to say goodbye and leave, and Jia Yun gave him ten altars and ten catties of good wine to take back.

Zhou Kun didn't refuse. The wine from Jia Yun's house was really delicious, even better than the Fen wine bought from the inner city. He had no reason to refuse.

After sending Zhou Kun away, Jia Yun, Mei Ren and Xi Ren went back to their room to chat around the brazier.

"Brother Yun, are we moving?" Xiren asked curiously.

When she was helping to heat the dishes just now, she heard a few words, but now she finally couldn't help asking in private.

Jia Yun nodded and said, "Move, I'll look through the almanac later to see if the day is good, and we'll move there."

"Strange, there doesn't seem to be any good houses in the back street?" Xiren asked doubtfully.

Mei Ren also interjected, "Yeah, sister Xiren and I may not be very familiar with other places, but we know everything about the back street!"

Jia Yun chuckled, and said: "You don't believe me, the house we bought is on the back street and the main street, occupying less than half a square, the area is really big, I heard from Brother Kun that the house has been repaired for several years, Hardly anyone noticed."

Thinking about it now, he really admires the official from the Ministry of Officials who had his house ransacked. He was able to build a big house in a place with so many people in Ningrong Back Street without anyone noticing a single movement.

Xiren smiled and said, "If it wasn't for Brother Yun, you said that the house is there, we would never have thought that there is such a big house in the back street."

There is a wind blowing outside the house, bringing a little bit of cold wind.

Both Xiren and Meiren leaned closer to Jia Yun, surrounding him from left to right.

Xiren whispered: "Brother Yun, when we move, I want to live in only one room, is that okay?"

When she was in Jia's mansion, even though she was Jia Baoyu's eldest maid, she also lived with other maids.

Only during the vigil at night, he either slept on Jia Baoyu's couch, or lived outside.

Since she was a child, she wanted to live in a separate room, that's what a normal person should be like.

"Brother Yun, I want it too." Meiren said impatiently.

Jia Yun nodded and said with a smile: "There are all of them. There are quite a lot of rooms in the third house. When the time comes, you will all have your own separate rooms."

Xiren and Meiren looked happy. According to the rules, they have a separate room or a small courtyard, and only the aunts are treated.

Jia Yuneng agreed to them wholeheartedly, although the identity would not be confirmed until the future wife came in, but their status had been recognized in terms of treatment.

Meiren smiled happily, looked at Jia Yun with winking eyes, and whispered while holding his arm: "Brother Yun, it's a bit cold..."

(End of this chapter)