Xian Sun of the Ning Mansion of the Red Chamber

chapter 15
I have met Jia Zhen here, and I have also met Jia Lian, who is also the second child.

As for the other second child, Jia Baoyu, the "devil king of the world" and "disaster child", went to the temple today to fulfill his wish and was not present.

Jia Huan and Jia Cong are bastards, so none of them called today, and Jia Lan and Jia Zhu were still young, so they didn't come either.

Others such as Jia Huang and Jia Yun are also far away. If we have the opportunity to see each other in the future, it will not be too late to get to know each other again.

Finally, it was Jia Rong and Jia Qiang.

"I heard that Rong'er is married, and this time I came to Beijing, I specially prepared a small gift for the two of you, and I have ordered someone to send it to the East Mansion." Jia Ying said to Jia Rong with a smile on her face.

Jia Rong said repeatedly: "My nephew thanked the second uncle for remembering, and asked the second uncle how he is."

Jia Ying nodded, said no more, and turned her gaze to Jia Qiang.

Speaking of which, Jia Qiang has the closest blood relationship with him. Jia Ying and Jia Qiang's fathers are uncles and brothers. Jia Qiang's great-grandfather is also Jia Ying's grandfather, but Jia Qiang's grandfather is the eldest son. Ying's father, Jia Yan, is the second son.

Before Jia Ying could speak, Jia Qiang took the lead in paying respects and said, "My nephew Jia Qiang has met my second uncle, please greet my second uncle!"

Looking at Jia Qiang, who was handsome and flirtatious, but also good at fighting chickens and running dogs, Jia Ying couldn't help sighing in her heart. It really was a crooked sapling, and even a salute and a greeting seemed frivolous.

Jia Ying deliberately reprimanded her, but she changed her mind and gave up.

For one thing, Jia Qiang has always been raised by Jia Zhen, and now Jia Zhen is right in front of her, so to scold Jia Qiang is like slapping Jia Zhen in the face.Secondly, I also thought that the other party was just like myself, both lost their father at a young age, and after all, they had no one to discipline them.

He thought to himself: "Forget it, Zuo Zuo will have a chance to teach you how to be a good person in the future."

He said: "Get up, you and my uncle and nephew haven't seen each other for a long time, so we have time to sit down and have a chat."

Jia Qiang replied: "Yes!"

After exchanging pleasantries here, Jia Ying said, "You two uncles, my nephew is home now, so I should go to greet my ancestor earlier."

The two of them will not stop, after Jia Ying left, all the people in the hall also dispersed, fasting fasting, hanging out, everything went back to normal, the family was normal and serious for less than a quarter of an hour.

Of course, fasting can be regarded as serious.

Jia Ying came out of Rongxi Hall, went to the front yard and called Xi'er, who was holding a lot of things, and a few servants, and asked them to lead them to Rongqing Hall.

After passing the flower hall and entering Jiamu's compound, I heard a woman's faint laughter coming from the Rongqing hall. I don't need to ask, I know that it must be the Feng Lazi who "heard the smile before the red lips opened".

Seeing Jia Ying coming, the woman who waited outside went in to report, and Jia Ying could only wait for a while.

Like this kind of upper room full of women, on weekdays, even the direct descendants of the Jia family seldom enter it. There are a lot of gossip in the rich mansion. is an exception.

However, Jia Ying's new return today, plus Jia's mother and two wives are guarding the house, so it's not as taboo as usual.

Not long after, the mother-in-law came out and invited Jia Ying in, while Xi'er and the other servants naturally stayed outside the door.

When Jia Ying entered, she didn't care about the charming scene of flowers in front of her, she didn't look sideways, and knelt down in front of the old lady.

He kowtowed and said, "Grandson Jia Ying greets the old lady and the two wives!"

He raised his head again and asked, "Is the old lady still okay in the past few years when my grandson has been away?"

Mother Jia and the two daughters-in-law looked at each other and smiled, "Okay! Now that you're back, it's even better!"

Mrs. Wang said, "Ying'er, get up quickly!"

After talking, he called a group of sisters of the same generation to come and get acquainted, and Daiyu was sitting in front of the old lady at the moment, Qi Sixian came to the house as a guest, so he couldn't help but come to see the host's house, but he sat on the other side of the round stool.

Jia Ying sneaked a wink at Daiyu, then turned around and looked at the group of Yingying and Yanyan who were approaching.

Mrs. Wang was about to introduce Jia Ying, but she heard Jia Ying say, "Second Aunt, stay here, why don't you let me take a guess?"

The eyes of everyone in the room lit up.

Jia's mother is even more lively, so she smiled happily at the moment: "Okay, Yinger, come and guess. If you guess correctly, there will be no reward. Even if you haven't been at home all these years, you owe it to all your sisters. Guess no. middle"

Jia Mu pretended to look around at the crowd, and Wang Xifeng said playfully, "Then you will be punished!"

Jia Mu nodded and said cheerfully, "Yes, it is to be punished!"

But I heard one of the three young girls ask: "But what kind of punishment must be determined!"

Jia Mu said to the girl, "Then tell me, how to punish?"

The girl and the other two sisters looked at each other, and said crisply: "But we have to prepare a piece of scenery in southern Xinjiang for each of us."

But Mrs. Xing interjected: "How can you ask for a gift once we meet!"

Then he said to Jia Ying: "Ying'er, don't care too much about them, these girls are used to being at home on weekdays." But Mrs. Xing was afraid that Jia Ying would be in a hurry on the way north, and she didn't bring any scenery of southern Xinjiang, so she would fall in front of all the sisters. save face.

The girl who spoke earlier didn't reply, and retreated respectfully.

Jia Ying smiled slightly and said, "Auntie, don't worry, I have complied with the requests of my sisters."

But he said in his heart: "It is said that the aunt in Rongfu has a 'stupid' personality, loves to withhold money, and has no idea to be manipulated by her husband. If she is really so useless, I am afraid that the old lady will not like her long ago. How can she be alone? Xu Xian sits so securely, and often goes in and out of Rongqing Hall."

Since ancient times, it is the hardest thing to be a continuation, and it is even more difficult to meet the son of the original spouse. If you don't believe me, let's see, which of the two continuation wives in the east and west mansions is as comfortable as Mrs. Wang.

Jia Ying immediately turned to the girl who spoke just now, and said with a smile, "I will follow my sister!"

"You are not allowed to go back on your word!" The girl said strangely.

Jia Ying nodded, looked around at the girls in the room, and said, "Then I'll start now!"

Wang Xifeng looked aside and said, "Since you started first, let's start from you!"

Wang Xifeng said nothing, just pursed her lips and smiled, waiting for Jia Ying to guess.

Jia Ying pretended to be contemplative, and after a while, she said slowly under the attention of everyone: "I heard that there is a strange woman in the mansion who has a 'sharp teeth' and a 'strong nature', who is as temperamental as a man."

Walking to Wang Xifeng's side again, he said, "Should I call you Lian's second sister-in-law? Or 'Feng Spicy'?"

Seeing that she was guessed out so easily, how could Wang Xifeng be reconciled, but she refused to obey: "Hmph, you said that I'm 'naturally strong' and sexual like a man, but I recognized it, but I just never heard of my brother-in-law in front of my family. My sister-in-law said 'sharp-mouthed'!"

Feng Lazi was neither angry nor happy, but it made everyone in the room a novelty, and was full of laughter for a while.

Jia Ying accepted it when she saw it, and said respectfully, "I've met Lian's second sister-in-law!"

Seeing Jia Ying lowering her body, Sister Feng raised her colorful phoenix feathers proudly again.

Jia Ying turned to the three girls on the other side and said, "There is no need to guess, it must be my three younger sisters!"

The same girl said: "That's not enough, I need to call out my name!"

"What's so difficult about this!" He immediately said to the girl, "You are Tanchun, am I right?"

Tanchun wondered: "How can these two elder brothers guess the right one?"

"If you guess the others correctly, I will conquer you!"

Jia Ying looked at the girl who looked like a goose and said, "You are Yingchun!"

Then he said to another woman, "Then you are Xichun!"

Seeing that Jia Ying guessed all three of them correctly, Tanchun dragged Jia Ying to Li Wan, You Shi, and Qin Keqing and said, "There are three more!"

Jia Ying didn't want to escape too much towards these three.

Li Wan is a widow and a standard feudal woman, so she can't joke around.

Youshi is Jia Zhen's successor, and he has no heirs under his knees, but he is the uncle of the East Mansion, so don't let the naughty girls and women in the house spread any gossip.

As for Qin Keqing, this one is even more difficult to provoke.

The sea of ​​love is deep and the sky is fantasy. When love meets, it will be prostitution.Not to mention what she was really like in Jia's mansion, just these two sentences of judgment are enough to deter some people, especially her pair of lustful eyes that are like bone-biting ecstasy.

Jia Ying respectfully said to the other two: "I have seen the two sister-in-laws."

Then he said to Keqing, "This is Rong's daughter-in-law!"

Finally stretched out his index finger to wipe Tanchun's nose and said, "Aren't you convinced!"

Tanchun sighed to the crowd with a disappointed face: "Oh, it seems that we have no chance to see the scenery of southern Xinjiang."

Although Yingchun is woody and Xichun is cold, but after all, one is only older than Daiyu, and the other is younger than Daiyu. The girls are in full bloom, how can they not feel regretful.

But then I heard Sister Feng say: "It's weird! It's weird! Could it be Ying'er that you put spies by our side? Why do you know that everyone in the family is called thousands of miles away?"

Jia's mother was also curious: "Exactly, Ying'er, please tell me what's going on? So that we girls can also listen to it."

Jia Ying groaned in her heart: "It's broken, I just wanted to show off my happiness for a while, what should I say? The book reader appeared in the book?"

He could only force himself to be quick-witted, and covered it up with a playful smile: "Old lady, you are afraid that you will be disappointed. If I say this method, it won't work, and it will still be useful in the future!"

He hurriedly interrupted again: "However, you don't need to be disappointed if you are a younger sister. I still brought a gift with me when I came to Beijing."

After finishing speaking, he said to the outside world: "Let someone move things in!"

When they heard that there was a gift, everyone's eyes lit up. It wasn't that they hadn't seen anything, but they were just curious about what gift this second master, who hadn't been at home since childhood, could bring them.

Jia Ying did prepare some gifts meticulously. There was nothing else in Yunnan except emerald, agate and gold mines, so she chose some, and ordered someone to make several sets according to the personalities of each of the female family members of the Jia family.

There are hairpins, bracelets, rosary beads, Yunzi from Yongchang, emerald ivory gold carving pens and other sets of twelve gold hairpins, as well as a whole set of gifts specially prepared for Jia Mu and others.

Jia Ying took them out one by one and handed them over to everyone.

While I was busy, I saw Daiyu who was sitting next to Jiamu seemed to be in tears again, but she didn't say anything.

But why?It turned out that Daiyu saw that Jia Ying had prepared gifts for all the sisters, but she didn't bring them to her when she was born in Yangzhou, so she thought to herself, "My surname is not Jia after all!"

Jia Ying wanted to go up to explain it, since it was a set of twelve golden hairpins, how could Daiyu be the only one missing?It's just that at this moment, she is being entangled by a group of sisters, and it's hard to get out.

(End of this chapter)