Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 22 [022] Phoenix Spicy
Amidst the cries of vendors along the street, Jia Chen walked through the bustling crowd and came to the gate of Ningguo Mansion.

Today's Ningguo Mansion is full of joy, decorated with lanterns and festoons, even the two stone lions at the door are surrounded by red silk and brocade, and put on colorful garlands, which is quite nondescript.

Jia Chen sneered in his heart, this Jia Zhen father and son are just like these two stone lions, nondescript, nondescript, shameless.

Lai Da, the chief executive of the Ningguo Mansion, was well dressed, smiling all over his face, and stood at the door to greet the distinguished guests.

Under the guidance of Lai Da nodding and bowing, the well-dressed dignitaries entered the gate of Ning Mansion.

Behind these distinguished guests, followed by rows of servants and maidservants, they carried boxes and boxes of congratulatory gifts wrapped in red cloth on their shoulders.

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Jia Zhen of the Ningguo Mansion is a hereditary third-class noble, general Wei Lie, and Cong Yipin.

Moreover, the Jia family is a duke of two kingdoms, and their ancestors were the founders of the country. "Duke of the country" is the highest rank of title that non-royal families can get, and their status is detached.

Behind the Jia family is the founding noble group represented by the four kings, eight lords and twelve lords, which is huge and intricate.

Although the emperor has been trying to weaken the authority of the founding line after he ascended the throne, but because the Supreme Emperor is the backer of the founding line, the founding line is still powerful and cannot be lost.

There are also many courtiers who try to cling to and curry favor with the founder of the country, so many civil and military ministers came to present congratulations to Jia Zhen today. They came to participate in the dark ceremony on the surface, but in fact they took the opportunity to bribe Jia Zhen.

When Jia Chen walked to the gate of Ningguo Mansion, Lai Dapi saluted him with a smile:
"Welcome Uncle Chen to our residence."

Although there was a smile on his lips, there was an imperceptible look of disgust and hostility in his eyes.

Reaching out without hitting the smiling face, although Lai Da looks respectful and dissatisfied, but he is just a dog slave, Jia Chen is too lazy to know him, and without even looking at him, he strode across the threshold and entered Ning Mansion.

When Jia Chen's figure disappeared into the distance, Lai Da snorted softly, gritted his teeth and muttered in a low voice:

"It's just a poor relative from a distant house. What's the air? I'll have some fruit for you later!"

In fact, according to Jia Zhen's order, Lai Da had secretly hired eight assassins to ambush him in Ning's mansion, and he would deal with Jia Chen when he ordered.

The reason why eight assassins were hired to deal with a thirteen-year-old boy was actually to prevent Jia Chen from slipping away, so they ambush one assassin in each direction of the Ning Mansion, hoping to catch a turtle in a urn.

Neither Jia Zhen nor Lai Da paid much attention to Jia Chen, so although Lai Da saw Jia Chen holding a long sword in his hand just now, he did not stop him from bringing the sword into the house.

From Lai Da's point of view, Jia Chen only carried the sword with him because he wanted to play. To him, this sword was just a toy.

This is not to blame for Lai Da's negligence, who would have thought that a thirteen-year-old boy would have learned Wudang's best swordsmanship?
With a long sword hanging from his waist, Jia Chen walked towards the ceremony with high spirits.

The surrounding guests didn't know him, and those who didn't know martial arts just glanced at him lightly, then looked away.

They took one look at Lai Da, but they didn't even know that Jia Chen knew how to use swordsmanship.

However, people who know martial arts are secretly shocked.

They were shocked to find that Jia Chen had a fierce aura, which was the aura only exuded by a master of swordsmanship.

It's unbelievable that a ten-year-old boy has such a powerful aura!
Among their nephews, no one has been able to do this.

They all guessed whose family's junior this was, he was so outstanding, he was definitely a future general.

But they almost guessed all the martial arts families in Shenjing City, and none of them guessed that Jia Chen was a descendant of the Jia family.

Because the descendants of the Jia family are all well-known playboys, they only know about flying eagles and lackeys, asking flowers to find willows.

How can anyone be willing to endure hardships and practice martial arts?

One of the guests couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he stopped Jia Chen and asked:

"May I ask whose family this little brother belongs to?"

Jia Chen told the truth: "My Jia Chen is the grandson of a distant house in the Rongguo Mansion."

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar around.

No one expected that this aggressive young man was actually a descendant of the Jia family.

Everyone sighed with emotion: It seems that the general's tiger son, this statement is true.Second Duke Ning Rong is a famous general who was born in Wu Xun. Although most of his juniors are unscrupulous, there will still be one or two good seedlings who practice martial arts sporadically.

The Jia family has a successor!
The guests' impression of the Jia family has been changed because of Jia Chen alone.

Jia Chen didn't care what the people around him thought of him, and continued to move forward.

From the main gate, Yimen, hall, Nuan Pavilion, inner hall, inner three gates, inner Yimen, Saimen, to the main hall of Ningguo Mansion, the main gate is wide open all the way. , like two golden dragons.

Strings of red lanterns hang on both sides of each door.

In front of the five main halls, there is a plaque filled with troubles and dragons, which reads the four characters "cautiously chase after the end".

A couplet beside it reads:
His descendants have inherited Fude, and Li Shu has read Ningrong to this day.

All the doors and windows are pasted with big red Chinese characters.

In the main hall, there are brilliant incense sticks, embroidered curtains, and more than a dozen tables for the Eight Immortals, with a circle of grand master chairs around each table.

Twenty or thirty maidservants are placing melons, fruit, snacks, teapots and cups on the table.

During the shuttle, a rich and graceful young woman yelled like fried beans:

"Be careful, all of you, the melon and fruit color plate is set up, and the plate of pumpkin seeds and nuts must also be filled, the guests will enjoy it.

Also, the rice wine should be kept warm all the time, the light tea for rinsing your mouth, and the mung bean noodles for washing your hands should also be prepared.

If anyone makes a mistake, watch your skin carefully! "

This young woman is wearing a gold-colored white butterfly and a narrow jacket of scarlet foreign satin with flowers, a multicolored engraved silk stone green and silver mouse jacket, and a jadeite flower-sprinkled crepe skirt.A pair of red and phoenix triangular eyes, two curved willow-leaf hanging eyebrows, slender, coquettish physique, and the powder face contains spring power without showing.

It is indeed Wang Xifeng, the daughter-in-law of Jia Lian, the eldest son of Rongfu.

Jia Chen saw that she was sharp-tongued and commanded with determination, she was really capable and pungent, worthy of the nickname "Feng Lazi".

It seems that Jia Zhen borrowed Wang Xifeng to help Zhang Luo Hunli.

As if sensing Jia Chen's gaze, Wang Xifeng looked over here.

"Oh! Isn't this the child of Jia Laoliu's family? You also come to the evening ceremony?" Wang Xifeng smiled contemptuously. Jia Chen's cheap father died of Hualiu's illness. This is not a glorious thing. It's a joke after dinner.

Jia Chen replied neither humble nor overbearing: "I met Lian's second sister-in-law! Brother Zhen kindly invited me here."

Wang Xifeng picked up a plate of peanut crisps, handed it to Jia Chen, and said with a sneer:

"Why did Big Brother Zhen invite you? Are you here to eat and drink again? Take this plate of peanut crisps and go out to eat."

Before Jia Chen could respond, he heard a familiar female voice:

"Feng Lazi, who do you want to kick out?"

Jia Chen followed his reputation and found that the person who came was Jia Zhu's mother, Lou Shi.

(End of this chapter)