Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

126 Chapter 3.33

Volume Three

3.33 Jia Baoyu will live the life of a concubine.

There was not much time left in the morning. Chu Fang simply inspected Jia Lan's mastery of "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", "Thousand Character Classic" and "Thousand Family Poems", and then asked Li very satisfied. Wan nodded, and it was time for lunch. After the family had a sumptuous banquet, Chu Fang and Jia Lan took a lunch break in the arranged rooms, not to mention the bedroom at the back of the Zhou family.

"I've betrayed you!" After giving a few symbolic PP blows, Zhou Yang helplessly looked at Li Wan, who was still smiling, "He didn't even say hello in advance when he wanted to come, which made me almost lose his place. , so I had to take Hu pen, Hui ink, bamboo paper and a set of Duan inkstones as a meeting gift for Lan'er."

"If our grandma hadn't suddenly attacked, how could we have obtained such a satisfactory gift for Uncle Xiaolan." Before Li Wan could speak, Suyun suppressed a smile and said, "It's just pen, ink and paper, and Fang Duanyan is Even a layman like this slave can tell that it’s a high-quality product, so I’m afraid I can’t get it if I don’t have hundreds of taels, right?”

"I got it directly from Zhaoqing Mansion in Guangdong Province, and it was delivered from the capital branch of Xuezihao." Zhou Yang explained angrily. There are only three yuan, one for myself, and the other two were originally planned to give as a gift someday, and now there is only one left. As for the price, let alone 100 taels, the purchase of 500 taels has to be decent enough, and it is not easy to put thousands of taels in the capital. "

"Why, I call you uncle and ask you for an inkstone. Are you still aggrieved?" Li Wan complained dissatisfiedly. Once a woman has a baby, a man will immediately be moved back. This is an eternal truth, "If It’s not that I’ve resorted to some small tricks, but you still have to just grab whatever you want and make do with it, you might as well—woo!”

"If he calls me daddy, it's not like--ouch!" Zhou Yang just teased him for a while when he was "venomous" by Li Wan. Fortunately, she didn't really use force, "I told you to be careful, really If your bite is broken, you will be the one who suffers the loss - OK, OK, I will also suffer the loss, right?"

He insisted that Jia Lan recognize his father, not out of any bad taste, but because of the reality. In modern times, as long as the second marriage has a child, as long as the child is over five or six years old, the "latecomer" will basically have nothing; but the feudal era is different, as long as the child is Once you accept your status and treat each other sincerely, you will be no different from your own children - Zhou Yang has no habit of raising children for other families.

"Ziyang, I'm sorry!" Li Wan gently pulled the maid to take his "position" and then leaned on Zhou Yang's chest. Tears couldn't help but fall down, "Lan'er's surname is Jia, and she can only be surnamed Jia, because He is not an ordinary descendant of the Jia family, but a direct grandson of the Rongguo family, at least his status is much higher than that of the Phoenix Egg."

"He is the legitimate grandson of the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion." Zhou Yang patted her angrily, "The legitimate son of the Rongguo Mansion is the second brother Lian. Even if the second brother Lian is gone, there is also his younger brother Jia Cong, unless the eldest brother has no heir. , otherwise there will be no chance of getting a second wife. No matter how many ideas your old lady has, Phoenix Egg can only be a wealthy and idle person. This is still based on the situation that there is no problem in Rongguo Mansion.

Born with a jade in his mouth, will he be born rich?Very good, we have a relatively long history in China, and there have been various auspicious signs, including a fox shouting (Chen Sheng and Wu Guang), a red dragon entering his arms in a dream (Liu Bang), being born under a tree with a canopy like a canopy (Liu Xiu) and even being born with a different personality. Xiang is not the same as ordinary people (Zhu Yuanzhang), your Jia family is pretty good, and now you have one! "

"This-" Li Wan froze.

"If your Jia family can still enjoy wealth and honor now, instead of being thrown into mass graves, you should really say 'The emperor's grace is so great.'" Zhou Yang said with a sarcastic look, "Whether this kind of thing is true or false, secretly It’s okay to just know it behind closed doors, but there are still people who don’t have eyesight and shout everywhere. Do you really think that you live too well or too long?

The world today is generally peaceful. Although there are many problems, it is far from the end of the dynasty. Have you heard of auspiciousness being offered by various places? Have you heard of such auspiciousness happening in your own family?If my guess is correct, the one making the noise everywhere is your second-room wife, the blind Mrs. Wang, right?Yes, the Jia family is a perfect example of marrying an unworthy wife and making the family uneasy, twice! "

"Ah" Li Wan panicked all of a sudden. Even though her father Li Shouzhong believed that "a woman's lack of talent is a virtue" and named her Li Wan, "Gong Cai", her origin also determined that her current knowledge level was "lower limit" It is still higher than the "upper limit" for most people. "What should I do, in case Tianjia gets angry."

"About this point, I have a very curious question, and I don't know if you understand it." Zhou Yang was really curious, "I have only seen the phoenix egg once, and I have also seen the jade pendant on his neck. It's big, but it's about the same size as an egg yolk. Can a baby really hold it in his mouth?

Let's not discuss whether the so-called "holding jade" is to hold it all in the mouth or bite the edge. The former is almost enough to pull the nine-year-old Lan'er over, and the latter does not matter whether the baby can hold it stably. Madam, well, did you feel very..." This was really not because he was causing trouble, but because he was truly curious. After these days of understanding and testing, he found that this world was really just an ordinary feudal era, at least in his current capacity, No supernatural factors have been found yet, and even the very low "martial arts content" is actually focused on physical fitness, while also taking into account fighting skills.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Zhou Yang's current physical strength is stable between [-] and [-] catties, and it is not difficult to lift a thousand catties in a burst, but this is nothing more than the legendary "strength can carry a tripod", like He hadn't even heard of the original book's use of the tricks of the gods. In this way, Jia Baoyu's "Born with a Jade" is worth discussing.

"Don't talk nonsense, she is an elder after all!" Li Wan hit him a few times angrily, but then showed a confused look, "I have seen that jade before, it is indeed a rare treasure, but if it is Born from jade, I really don’t know how. I only heard the old man in the house say that this jade was indeed born with him.

However, if you say 'Xianyu', it's just to put it more nicely. It may be more appropriate to say that you were born in one child. After all, you can't hide this kind of thing from others. The Wen woman who delivered the baby at that time was not the same. Although she was not married into the palace at that time, the marriage was arranged. At that time, the whole capital was rumored, and there was absolutely no possibility of fraud. "

"Huh?" Zhou Yang actually has no feelings for this so-called "elder". It's just that, not counting her poor vision and IQ, it's strange that he would regard her as an elder. "So, he is really talented." ——Forget it, it doesn’t matter if it’s there or not, that’s it. Anyway, Jia Baoyu will be the concubine for the rest of his life.

In fact, your old lady sees this point more clearly. I suspect that although she really likes this grandson very much, most of the fact that she has grown up to be like a bird now is likely to be done on purpose, because a "natural auspiciousness" grew up in the mansion. Here, if he is extremely talented, then the entire Rongguo Mansion, and even the entire Jinling Jia family will be buried with him. "

"How - is it possible?" Li Wan said stupidly, but as her expression continued to change, she felt more and more that Zhou Yang was not talking nonsense, "The old lady doted on him to the extreme. She almost gave him everything she asked for, but she just... He didn’t say a word about improving his studies, and even prevented the master from disciplining him.”

"Okay, don't think about irrelevant things." Zhou Yang curled his lips disdainfully. Regardless of whether Jia Mu meant it or not, he would have pressed her to death in the back house of Rongguo Mansion, or really pressed her to death. Anyway, all the golden people He has already made a reservation, and whoever dares to think too much, he will kill anyone, "Why don't you let me feed you well, so that you don't know when we will see you next time!"

"This time." Li Wan's voice became extremely gentle, but also intermittent, "I brought Suyun out this time. Of course, it was for the sake of um, please be gentle, for the sake of the old house's affairs. Anyway, you have already taken care of it. , I don’t have anything interesting to look at, I just watch Lan’er study, I only want you.”

In the afternoon of that day, after taking a nap, Chu Fang very seriously called Jia Lan who had already gotten up, and first conducted the simplest teaching of "The Analects"; just outside the west wing, Zhou Yang and Li Wan were like a couple in the school district. Like a young parent who is studying, she stood for nearly a full stick of incense and stared at Jia Lan going to school. If Zhou Yang hadn't pulled her away at the end, she would have continued to follow.

"Lan'er is good!" Chu Fang finally finished his teaching after the one-and-a-half-hour class with only two breaks in between, "It can be seen that the senior sister has put her heart into it. He comes here on Tuesdays and Saturdays of every month. During the rest of the time, he only needs to complete the homework assigned by me, and then the senior sister will watch and review.

With his qualifications, he will be able to take the test in three years. He doesn’t expect to pass in one try. He just needs to get familiar with the examination room and try it again. It is not difficult for a fifteen or sixteen-year-old scholar to be a scholar before he is weak. I can’t go to next year’s imperial examination. But it is more certain to postpone it again, but after that, I think I will stay in a certain yamen to study politics for a few years, so as not to delay Lan'er's studies. "

"Thank you so much, Junior Brother Chu!" Li Wan held Jia Lan in one hand and gently stroked his head with the other, with an excited look on his face. "Thank you so much, Junior Brother. Although my father has passed away, there are still several students in the court." , after the younger brother is appointed an official, I will find a way to help make the connection, don't expect anything, at least I can save some things for the younger brother."

"Thank you, Senior Sister!" Chu Fang bowed respectfully, and after getting up, he glanced at the two of them with a complicated expression, and his tone was very strange, "Although my younger brother is unworthy, I still remember that the past generations of the teacher's family have had a hard time. There are few relatives, but not many close relatives, and there are no cousins ​​named Zhou.

I really don't like that Jia Zhu. Although he has such conditions, he barely managed to win the election with a score close to the bottom. But I also know that I shouldn't interfere with senior sister's personal affairs. I just hope that you two can take care of yourself. I also hope that Brother Zhou will take good care of senior sister. ——Farewell! "

Zhou Yang awkwardly looked at the figure who had slowly left the house. As for Li Wan, he simply let go of Jia Lan and ran to the inner house in shame!
(End of this chapter)