Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 14 [014] Jia Zhen

At this time, a young servant came in with his waist half bowed, and saluted:

"Second Master, Uncle Zhen from the East Mansion sent someone to send an invitation, saying that on the eighth day of the next lunar month, he will marry Uncle Rong, and invite our masters of the Rong Mansion to attend the evening ceremony in the East Mansion, happy and happy. "

The wedding ceremony in Dazhou is called "hunting ceremony". The formal wedding ceremony includes: welcoming the relatives in a sedan chair, worshiping in the hall, banqueting guests, making a bridal chamber, getting together and getting married, and the bridal chamber, etc.

Because Ningguo Mansion is on the east side of Ningrong Street, it is also called Dongfu.

Jia Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, the daughter-in-law Jia Rong is going to marry should be Qin Keqing.

Jia Chen couldn't bear to see that this beautiful and beautiful woman was about to fall into the clutches of Jia Zhen and his son.

Jia Rong has a habit of breaking her sleeves, which is said to be inhumane, that is, infertile.

In the original book, Jia Rong and Qin Keqing have not been able to have a man and a half woman after they got married, and Jia Rong's infertility was exposed.

As a result, Jia Zhen saw that her son was not good enough, so she took the opportunity to go to battle in person. For the sake of the family blood, she didn't care about human relations. Qin Keqing.

As a result, Qin Keqing was pregnant with Jia Zhen's child, but she fell into remorse and self-blame. Coupled with the raging rumors and rumors in the Ningrong Second House, her image of gentleness, gentleness and virtuousness was damaged.

As a result, Qin Keqing couldn't bear the shame, annoyance, and remorseful torture of conscience, so she hanged herself in Tianxiang Tower.

All the unscrupulous things will come out, and the beginning of the quarrel is really peaceful.

As soon as Qin Keqing died, the gang of four princes and eight princes mobilized and came to attend the funeral one after another, and the appearance of King Beijing Jing was even more unusual.

The King of Beijing Jing is the prince with real power, and he needs to be on duty to go to court.

Logically speaking, given his status, the death of Qin Keqing, a great-grandson daughter-in-law of the Jia family, would not have alarmed him.

According to the law and etiquette, Wang Jue is not allowed to attend other people's funerals casually.

King Beijing's participation in Qin Keqing's funeral was an act of arrogance and contempt for imperial power and etiquette.

What's more, the king of Beijing Jing gave Jia Baoyu a string of wagtail incense beads, which exposed his disrespect and disrespect, and his intentions were extremely sinister.

The wagtail incense rosary was not the property of King Beijing Jing, but was given to him by the emperor, and it was extremely precious.

The wagtail represents brothers and sisters. The emperor gave the king of Beijing the wagtail incense rosary, which is to lower his posture to win over the king of Beijing, and want his brothers and sisters to rule the world respectfully. It can be seen that the power of the king of Beijing is so powerful that the emperor is deeply afraid.

However, regardless of the emperor's feelings, King Beijing attended Qin Keqing's funeral and passed on the "brotherhood" bestowed by the emperor to Jia Baoyu.

This is tantamount to slapping the emperor in the face, letting his hot face stick to the cold ass of King Beijing Jing.

Moreover, although the King of Beijing and the Jia family belong to the four princes and eight princes, they are not in a party relationship.

However, the King of Beijing gave Jia Baoyu the wagtail incense rosary.

The power of the King of Beijing had already been feared by the emperor. With the funeral of Qin Keqing this time, the relationship between the King of Beijing and the Jia family was comparable to forming a party for personal gain.

In addition to the other founding nobles attached to Jiwei, the founding lineage was completely twisted into a rope, which was enough to threaten the imperial power.

On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to sleep soundly?
Faced with such a huge court power group, the emperor was naturally worried, and he was bound to wipe out the four kings, eight lords and twelve lords, including the Jia family, and uproot them.

Fortunately, based on the plot of the original book, after Qin Keqing married Jia Rong, she did not immediately fall into Jia Zhen's clutches, but was captured by Jia Zhen after she was widowed for several years.

Therefore, there is still enough time for Jia Chen to plan and plan to save Qin Keqing.

Jia Zheng spread out the invitation card and looked at it, then told the boy:

"You answer me for me, just say that everyone in the Rong Mansion must be careful to prepare a small gift, and come to congratulate."

"Yes!" The servant replied, and took the order to leave.

When the figure of the servant disappeared outside the door, a gust of spring breeze rang the wind chimes under the eaves of the corridor, and the swaying bamboo shadows were reflected in the screen windows.

The swaying bamboo shadow dangled on Lin Daiyu's body, making her delicate figure more graceful.

Jia Chen couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

Sensing Jia Chen's lingering gaze, Lin Daiyu lowered her brows and narrowed her eyes, Xia Fei's cheeks did not dare to look into Jia Chen's eyes, she only held a cup of tea, covering her cherry lips and the shy smile that rose slightly at the corners of her lips.

At this time, Jia Zheng picked up the teacup, looked at Jia Dairu and Jia Chen, and said with a smile, "Tea, please." After speaking, he took a sip.

Jia Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, and saw that Jia Zheng wanted to see off the guests.

Serving tea to see off guests is an ancient practice.

When the guests meet each other, the servants offer tea. When the host thinks that the matter is over, he brings up the teacup to treat the guests to tea.

As soon as the guest touched the tea in the cup, the waiter shouted: "See off!", the host stood up to see the guest off, and the guest also left voluntarily.

However, the servants of Jia's family would not easily shout "seeing off guests". After all, it was a bit impolite.

Seeing this situation, Jia Dairu immediately cupped his hands and said:
"Master Zheng, Chen'er and I will take our leave first after bothering you for a long time!"

Jia Zheng put down the teacup and said with a smile:
"Alright, please don't worry, grandpa and Chen'er, I will tell the old lady as soon as possible, and I will pay the money from the Rongfu to engrave and sell the "Disciple Regulations"."

"Thank you, Second Uncle, for making this happen!" Jia Chen bowed his hands and saluted, and under Lin Daiyu's gaze, he left Rongxi Hall with Jia Dairu.

Casually brushing aside a cloud of catkins flying towards his face, the corners of Jia Chen's lips raised slightly. This trip can be described as a complete success, and he will just wait to count the money!
However, at noon the next day, Jia Zheng sent a servant to the Jia Mansion Academy and told Jia Dairu and Jia Chen that the old lady of the Rong Mansion did not want to pay for it alone. .

Jia Zheng has already invited Jia Zhen to Rongxi Hall, and wants to invite Jia Dairu and Jia Chen to discuss this matter together.

Jia Chen's heart sank, he didn't expect Mother Jia to propose such a condition.

This should be because the Rong Mansion's pockets are empty and they really can't afford much money, so they asked the Ning Guo Mansion to contribute together.

Of course, an emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, so even if Jia's father-in-law is not rich, he should be able to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Mother Jia did this to share the risk. After all, engraving this "Disciple Regulations" on a large scale will cost a lot of money, and it is still unknown whether it can be sold.

Now that things have come to this, we can only meet Jia Zhen.

Although this Jia Zhen is the head of the Jia family and hereditary third-rank general Wei Lie, she lives extravagantly and lustfully, and is shamelessly licentious.

In the original book, although he has many wives and concubines, he is still greedy and takes his daughter-in-law Qin Keqing by force, and flirts with his wives and sisters You Erjie and You Sanjie.

Dealing with this treacherous and shameless villain is much more difficult than dealing with the stupid Jia Zheng.

After thinking about some countermeasures, Jia Chen spread out three pieces of Xuelang paper, picked up a pen to write and draw on them, and put them in a paper bag. Then, together with Jia Dairu, they rushed to Rongxi Hall under the guidance of a servant.

In the courtyard, there are two cranes picking their feathers under the pine tree.

Accompanied by a few crane cries, a burst of men's conversation came from Rongxi Hall.

Jia Chen stepped into the Rongxi Hall, and saw a middle-aged man who was nearly forty years old sitting opposite Jia Zheng.

This person has many crow's feet at the corners of his eyes, but his appearance is suave and suave, with a long beard on his chin, he looks dignified, but his eye sockets are dark, his cheekbones are flushed, his expression is tired, and there are a few beads of sweat on the tip of his nose. It is excessive indulgence that leads to the deficiency of both yin and yang.

Without Jia Zheng's introduction, Jia Chen can guess that this person is Jia Zhen, who is promiscuous.

Suppressing the resentment in his heart, Jia Chen saluted, "Chen'er has seen Second Uncle and Brother Zhen."

Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen called it "free of courtesy" and saluted Jia Dairu.

After a few polite words, Jia Zheng said with a smile:
"Grandfather of Xueli, Chen'er, please take a seat. Brother Zhen is very interested in engraving and selling the "Disciple Regulations", so I invite the two of you to come over and discuss this matter."

(End of this chapter)