Red Mansion Royal Cat

Chapter 135

It has been snowy in the north this winter. Since the middle of the twelfth lunar month, it has snowed intermittently for more than ten days, and the entire capital city has become a vast expanse of whiteness.

Jia Cong, who had finally ended the confinement period, suddenly pushed open the door, wanting to take a big breath of fresh air.

"Ah...precious freedom...cough cough cough cough..."

A gust of cold wind entered his throat, and the little fat man hurried back to the house, huddled by the stove and muttered, "It's too cold, no one can drag me away from the stove!"

Daiyu brewed tea elegantly, and said jokingly, "I told you it was cold outside, but you just didn't listen. Go, go, enjoy your precious freedom, and breathe the fresh air you've been thinking about day and night. .”

"Don't say it, don't say it, it's better to be in the room, I won't go anywhere today, just listen to Sister Lin's lecture to me!"

These days, Daiyu would come over early in the morning, and seriously lecture Jia Cong on the collection of classics and history, and force-feed the little fat man's mind with the meaning of "Zhe Ye".

Daiyu tilted her head to kill, handed a cup of tea to Jia Cong, and said with a crooked smile: "No, the lecture is suspended today, and you will accompany me to the Fahua Temple in the east of the city to offer incense. By the way, enjoy the tea you said. free."

Jia Cong held the teacup and sipped the Aoxue plum tea in the cup. Although he didn't taste any flavor, he still praised it.

Daiyu smiled at Yanyan, raised her hand and gently pulled the little fat man's ears and smiled, "Okay, you rough man, you don't have any taste at all, don't search your guts to pile up words. Fahua Temple has a Buddha today. Yes, maybe there will be something interesting to come across..."

In fact, it was not Daiyu's whim to go to Fahua Temple to offer incense today, if she hadn't received Jia Jing's order to explain the collection of scriptures and history to Jia Cong, she would have gone to the temple to pray for her mother as early as when she was young.

Almost all the adult men from the two prefectures were sent to the south of the Yangtze River by Jia Jing. Except for Jia Lian who was in Yangzhou, the adult men of Jia Rong, Jia Qiang, and Jia Yun from the fifth house all packed their bags and rushed to help Jiangnan. The forbidden army went south.

After hearing about the Japanese suppression, Jia Cong clamored to go south with the army, but after being suppressed by Jia Jing, he was forced to stay in the house to study and cultivate his character to this day.

As the wheels crushed the snow on the road, Daiyu remembered Jia Cong's poems about the country in Liang Yuan, and teased him to write another one today.

Wrapped into a chubby bear, Jia Cong looked at the snowflakes falling outside the car, and held back (copied) a poem for a long time.

"The sky and the earth are in a general shape, and there are black holes in the well. The body of the black dog is white, and the body of the white dog is swollen." (From "Song Xue" by Zhang Dayou in the Middle Tang Dynasty)
Before Daiyu could laugh out loud, she heard someone outside the car laughing loudly.

"Interesting and interesting, I never thought that this poem by Yongxue could be written like this."

Jia Cong responded dissatisfied when he heard the words: "I don't want to have ears in the car, eavesdropping on others, immoral!"

Go and listen to the apology from the person outside the car: "Please don't worry, brother, I happened to be passing by too, and I overheard someone wanting to recite a poem, so I listened to one more sentence because of my heartbeat."

The man was sincere in his words, he reported his family name and said: "I am in Gusu Linbai, I have been fond of poetry since I was a child, and I was abrupt, I hope my brother will forgive me."

"Sister Lin, from Gusu!"

Jia Cong muttered to Daiyu curiously, halfway opened the curtain of the car, and poked his head out to look.

I saw a young man of sixteen or seventeen, dressed in ordinary Confucian clothes, but it was hard to hide his demeanor.There is a middle-aged servant in front of him, leading the horse and walking slowly side by side with his own carriage.

Although the voice from the car could tell that the host was a child, Lin Bo was still slightly surprised after seeing Jia Cong's appearance.

This appearance is almost the same as that of my uncle's elder brother. He is really a handsome man.

"Are you from Gusu? Surnamed Lin?"

The man nodded and said: "I am indeed from Gusu, Lin Bai, the son of Nanzhili Suzhou Mansion, whose name is Changqing!"

"The eighth house in Changzhou, which house is it, sir?"

Lin Bai was surprised when a woman's inquiry suddenly came from the carriage.He followed the trend and said, "I'm the third brother of the Lin family in Changzhou, how dare you ask the girl how she knows about my family?"

"That's my brother!"

Jia Cong turned his head to look in surprise, only to see that Daiyu's face was full of joy, and she squeezed to him and opened the curtain of the car.

When Lin Bo saw a woman's face exposed in the car window, he almost subconsciously wanted to look away. After all, men and women are so popular now, it's easy to meet other ladies outside.

But seeing Daiyu's eyebrows curved and delighted, she said: "Brother, my father is a direct branch of the big family, and now he is the inspector of salt in Yangzhou..."

……

When Shangxiang meets relatives, Daiyu is in a good mood.

Driving to the outside of Fahua Temple in the east of the city, Jia Cong found a teahouse to relieve his doubts.

"I also said, how can there be a man as handsome as Lian's second brother in the world!"

Lin Bo looked at his cousin and future brother-in-law with a smile, and sighed: "I originally planned to visit Rongguo Mansion after the test, but I didn't expect that we would meet here."

"Brother Bai San met my second brother?"

"Before I came to Beijing, I went to Yangzhou to meet my uncle, and then I hit it off with Lian's second brother. He even took me to Qinghua Tower...cough cough..."

Lin Bo coughed twice to cover up what he had said.

"Second brother Lian is not only suave and suave, but also capable. He is a role model for us. When I went north, my uncle was preparing a personal entourage for second brother Lian, and sent second brother Lian to Xingyuan as an imperial envoy to participate in the war against Japan. It's a pity, a pity, a pity that I, a weak scholar with no strength to restrain a chicken, can't walk with him!"

Another person who was conquered by the beauty of the second brother!
Jia Cong complained in his heart, and listened carefully to Lin Bo's narration.I don't know what kind of ecstasy drug the second elder brother Jia Lian gave this man, he has already drank three cups of tea, and he is still bragging about the peerless demeanor of the second master Lian.

Daiyu covered her mouth and smiled, interrupting Lin Bai's bragging to Jia Lian and asked, "Third brother, are you going to participate in the next spring competition? How many people from our family came this time? When I returned to the South in September, Why didn't I hear daddy mention that our family has a juren?"

Lin Bo blushed when he heard this, and shook his head again and again: "I'm ashamed to say, our Lin family in Changzhou has only given me a Juren in the past seven years, and I'm still at the bottom of the list. I'm really ashamed of my ancestors!"

"Jiangnan Wenhua is splendid, and Sange Bai is already one in ten thousand to be on the list!"

Jia Cong didn't know how to comfort this second brother's little fan, almost none of them who could be promoted in Jiangnan were simple people.

We must know that the number of pilot examinations in the four provinces of Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian can be said to have always been among the best, and the nine northern provinces combined are not as good as these four provinces.

so horrible!

Daiyu comforted her, "Third Brother, don't need to despise yourself. This matter in the examination room is about luck, and no one can say for sure how it will end until the end."

"Seventh Sister, don't need to comfort me. My family knows my own affairs. Uncle said that I have solid academic background, but it's because I'm immature in strategy. He didn't recommend me to take this subject."

Lin Bo was calm, and said with a smile: "But I'm tired of staying at home, so I wanted to take this opportunity to go around, which can be regarded as traveling around. Uncle gave me several greeting cards, saying that if I fail in the test , so I went to visit his friend of the same year, so he can study in Jingzhong Academy for the future. By the way, I heard that Brother Cong vowed to test Hualang, do you want my brother to take you to visit Xianda together, how about we study together?"

As he said that, Lin Bo winked at Jia Cong, not making fun of him, but not lacking in humor.

Daiyu covered her mouth and smiled, Jia Cong's face was red to the neck.

He covered his face and replied: "Don't mention the matter of studying, don't mention it, let's talk about the Qing Hua Building!"

Of course, Lin Bo refused to mention the matter of Qinghua Tower. After looking for an opportunity to perfunctory, he went to Fahua Temple to offer incense with Jia Cong and Daiyu.

After skipping the matter of offering incense and praying for blessings and adding incense, the three of them also stopped by to visit the New Year Fair outside the temple.It's a pity that the snow was getting bigger and bigger, and the weather was getting colder, so Jia Cong proposed to go back to the house.

However, Lin Bo also invited friends to attend a poetry meeting in the plum forest outside the temple, so the three of them could only leave for now, but they had scheduled a reunion at Rongguo Mansion tomorrow, and the descendants of their in-laws came to visit the mansion.

On the carriage back to the city, Daiyu shared her joy with Jia Cong because she was in a good mood when she met her relatives in another country.

"I haven't seen many relatives in the clan since I was four years old. I didn't expect to meet the third brother in the capital. It turns out that there are several brothers and sisters in the clan, and I am ranked seventh. Six sisters..."

However, Jia Cong felt a little sad. The original book said that after Lin Ruhai left, the Lin family property was disposed of by Jia's family, and even brought Daiyu back to the capital. It didn't say who was in the Lin family in Gusu.

The Lin family is also a big family, even if Lin Ruhai has no children, the Lin family's family property cannot be handled by the Jia family after all.She has her own family nephew to inherit, and even Daiyu has the Lin family to take care of her...

Why didn't I mention it?Think carefully!

Jia Cong responded to Daiyu's excited narration, while thinking about the Lin family's affairs, suddenly there was a loud yell from outside the carriage, and the carriage stopped abruptly with a creak.

He hastily stretched out his arms to embrace Daiyu who was about to fall sideways and hit the car, and asked in doubt, "What's going on?"

"Little Third Master, there seems to be a commotion not far ahead. A large crowd of people surrounded the road and completely blocked the road."

Jia Shixi patted his horse back to the car window, and reported to Jia Cong: "I have sent someone to check in front, and I think I will know what's going on soon."

……

Not long after, a guard found out the cause of the road block ahead.

It turned out that because this place was close to the east gate of the capital, thousands of refugees came from nowhere on the official road, and the long team blocked the official road back to the city.

The people from the capital who were going to Fahua Temple to offer incense and participate in the Buddhist meeting did not dare to go forward for a while, so they gathered here one after another and sent people to investigate.

Jia Cong frowned and said: "Thousands of refugees, no one knows if there will be interested people among them. Let's take a detour and go to Nancheng!"

Jia Shixi nodded in agreement, it was a coincidence that there were too many refugees here.

"The third master is right. The imperial court has sent food to the disaster victims in the counties and counties of the capital city. There must be something wrong with such refugees coming to the capital to survive. Let's go back to the city as soon as possible..."

Just as he was talking, suddenly there was a chaotic and sharp shout in front of him: "Run! The refugees have killed people..."

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(End of this chapter)