Picturesque Rivers and Mountains in the Red Chamber

189 Chapter 3.96
Volume Three

3.96 How much do I owe the palace judge for his favor?
The two of them chatted and laughed and returned to the living room. They saw Qingwen sitting on the main seat with a pout, holding a big red post in her hand. Seeing that the two of them did not get up after entering, she even made a "hum" sound and turned her head. He stepped aside, but then stretched out his hand to hand out the post. It was funny no matter how you looked at it.

"Girl Qing, although Ziyang is a good person and takes good care of his servants, it doesn't mean that you can be arrogant!" Before Zhou Yang could say anything, Dongfang Bing's face had already sunk. He stepped forward and grabbed the post, carrying it away. Qingwen put her on the ground and raised her foot to touch the crook of the girl's hind legs, asking her to kneel on the ground. "Is that a seat you can sit in? Let alone a girl, even if the mistress comes in in the future, she will only be able to sit there. Next time!"

"Okay, why are you arguing with her about this trivial matter?" Smiling, he stepped forward and patted Dongfang Bing on the shoulder. Zhou Yang stretched out his hand to pull Qingwen up, "When this girl followed me, I couldn't even eat meat. She can choose to be a slave, and now that she has a good life, is it possible for me to kick her out? It's just a chair, and she can't move around in front of outsiders. Why do my own family pay so much attention to it? "

"Master!" Dongfang Bing's voice made Zhou Yang stunned, because this was the concubine's official name for the male master, "The elders and younger ones are in an orderly manner, the superiors and inferiors are distinguished, and there is a degree of respect and inferiority. This is not a trivial matter. How will your future be? It's hard to say, but the sisters in the family may not be able to stop with three or five sisters, if everyone is like this, "family restlessness" will be light!"

"Dongfang!" Zhou Yang's face turned slightly red when she said it, but he still persuaded softly, "I know what you mean, but I don't want to be in my own home and have to worry about so many things. It's not like you don't know this girl. What does she know? Rules? Besides, Baochai hasn’t come in now, so she will have to worry about these things in the future. "

"Although I have never met this precious sister, I have heard about her. She is a person who is very particular about etiquette and rules." Dongfang Bing pulled Qingwen into his arms angrily, lowered his head and said softly, "I know you are wronged. But you have to understand that just because I protect you now, it doesn’t mean that your mistress will do the same in the future. With what you did just now, even a slap in the face will be taken lightly; if you are not at home one day, you will really have to use this as an excuse to beat her to death. It’s not too much!”

"Sister Bing'er, ugh——" Qingwen couldn't bear it anymore and cried into Dongfang Bing's arms, "I just see the young master always acting like this, and I'm afraid of what might happen."

"You -" Zhou Yang was exasperated, "Wu Qingwen, can't you use your brain? How can I treat you these days? Maybe you still don't think it's enough."

"Sister Binger and Sister Qiying, this is set, and there is Miss Xue who hasn't come in." Qingwen pouted and interrupted him, "It's hard to talk about Grandma Li and Sister Suyun. To put it bluntly, now that I have followed the young master, I am just a servant who serves me personally. I am worried every day and don’t know what the outcome will be."

"Ziyang, what are you worried about?" Dongfang Bing asked incomprehensibly, "This girl is from Longwu for 33 years, and she is now 20 years old. If she is a folk, let alone serving, maybe the children already have children." Yes; is it possible that you really like older people? It just so happens that the princess has been in Longwu for [-] years.

Grandma Zhu of Rongguo Prefecture is not young either. She should be about the same size as a princess. Her girls are also quite similar. I only met Miss Zhao from the Zhongyuan Escort Agency once. I also inquired about her later and found out that she was from Longwu for 30 years. , she has never been married because her fingertips were married, and she is now an old girl of nineteen."

"What nonsense are you talking about!" After being listed by Dongfang Bing, Zhou Yang doubted whether he had any "cao thief" attributes, so he had to interrupt her quickly, "A person must be over eighteen to be considered an adult. Even if a woman is young, she must You can only marry after you are sixteen, because only at this age, having sex with a man will not harm your body."

"Where did you hear these fallacies?" Dongfang Bing was even more puzzled, "If I really do what you say, how can there be more children in this world? Even in the military, one is considered an adult after thirteen. It's just to take care of their young and weak bodies, so they are usually not placed on the front line; even I was only just over ten years old when I followed the princess.

Sister Qingwen is not young anymore. Let’s not talk about anything else. Let’s talk about the Jia family of Ningrong’s second house that you are most familiar with. When your grandma from the Li family married, she was only fifteen years old. She gave birth to her brother within two years of joining. Son, I haven't seen what happened to her; what's more, if your hobby spreads, maybe it will become something."

"Okay!" Zhou Yang interrupted her directly and said angrily, "Why don't you say that Uncle Zhu took in a 13-year-old girl when he was 12 years old? He died before he was twenty. That girl is better than She died too early, this is an example of premature sexual intercourse that harms the body and shortens the life!"

"Shouldn't it be earlier?" Dongfang Bing couldn't understand at all, "If life is really affected, then shouldn't it be earlier?"

Zhou Yang really didn't know what to say, because this was the standard "three differences in views". He thought for a while, and simply took Dongfang Bing in his arms and pulled Qingwen into the bedroom. It took him nearly two sticks of incense. Finally, the voice finally quieted down, and a certain maid who was almost full had already disappeared somewhere, leaving only a cold-looking certain girl. "What else?" He looked at the girl angrily and said.

"Are you really...really reluctant to use her?" Dongfang Bing has returned to his usual expressionless face, "It has reached this point. I just endured it and didn't move, but I accepted it. I don't know what it was at the beginning. It’s not me, and I haven’t seen you take care of it.”

"Okay!" Zhou Yang was really too lazy to talk nonsense anymore. He picked up the big red post on the bedside table and frowned after flipping through it. "Jia Zheng's post invites you to come to the house tomorrow to talk about it? It stands to reason. He said, although I have some friendship with the Jia family, I am only Brother Zhen and Brother Lian, and I have nothing to talk with."

"Pfft..." Dongfang Bing couldn't help laughing, looked at someone with a strange expression and said, "If I remember correctly, you are a disciple of Rongguo Mansion, and Uncle Zheng is the de facto head of Rongguo Mansion. You You actually said you have no friendship with him?"

"Naughty!" Zhou Yang hugged the girl awkwardly and gently tapped Zhen's head buried in his chest, "It's now, don't say anything, you don't know what happened to my 'Rongguo Mansion disciple'" !”

"I never thought that you could actually do something like this-" Dongfang Bing paused obviously and hesitated for a moment before continuing, "I stole someone else's daughter-in-law, and then stole someone else's famous post, and then ended up... Not acknowledging the relationship with others, this kind of behavior, well, I'm afraid the word 'shameless' is not enough to describe it!"

"Even if I owe a favor, I should repay it to the court judge. I really don't know what to say to this Jia Zheng and Jia Cunzhou." Zhou Yang shook his head speechlessly. Zhou Yang really didn't know how to deal with this pedantic, poor and indifferent person. The self-aware Mr. Zheng Er exchanged, "It's going to be a long time anyway, so let's talk slowly!"

"Ziyang, you may not like to hear what I say, but you still have to say it." Dongfang Bing said seriously, "Li Jijiu was also a great scholar in the capital at the time, and he was a good match for his marriage with Rong Guofu. This was because Dai Shangong was still there. , otherwise with the current state of Rongguo Mansion, unless the Li family was blind, it would be impossible for the Li family to marry their good daughter.

You may not know how difficult it is to file a name in a scientific report. Scholars can also jointly sign a guarantee, usually five people to one guarantee, to prove each other's innocence. If something happens to one of them, they will be imprisoned as a group. However, there is no such thing in martial arts examinations, at least one must It is impossible for most people to achieve the conditions required to secure the title of five scholars or the title of one juren.

This has isolated most warriors who are interested in martial arts examinations, because it is difficult to collect the merits of five scholars within a radius of twenty or thirty miles; if any merit-examination merits are placed in a county, even the county magistrate will ask for them. To be polite, it is really not something that ordinary people can achieve in these two situations. "

"I didn't know it until later." Zhou Yang said helplessly, "It wasn't until I won the martial arts exam and had my own social circle that I realized how much I owed the favor to the palace judge. So these days, I have been trying my best to It’s possible to take care of her, but this is not a favor from the Jia family, so there is no need for me to meddle in others’ affairs.”

"Ziyang, listen to me, you can't do this." Dongfang Bing said softly, "As long as the contact between you and this sister of the Li family is not broken, it will be exposed sooner or later. If the relationship between you and the Jia family is Being cold, I'm afraid it will harm your reputation; on the contrary, with this little romantic debt, as long as your status is high enough, the Jia family themselves may not be troublesome.

The rich and powerful family looked glamorous, but the extent to which the inside could be messed up was beyond the imagination of ordinary people, so the Ningrong Second Mansion probably talked about it in private at most.

However, your initial start and even your establishment depended on the reputation of Rongguo Mansion, even your registration. No one will care about the methods of this sister of the Li family. They will only see that you have inherited the favor of Jia family in Rongguo Mansion. , if you can't even return this, how can other people feel safe to associate with you? "

"You can still say that?" Zhou Yang was dumbfounded, "To tell you the truth, what I have always been most worried about is that if exposed in the future, it will bring danger to the palace judge, but you actually said that this is nothing at all? "

(End of this chapter)