The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 204 talk about marriage
After seeing off her mother in front of the door, Jia Baoyu first breathed a sigh of relief, but then remembered Qingwen who was packing her luggage, and turned into a bitter face again, hesitating to speak to Jiao Shun beside him.

Jiao Shun naturally knew that he was reluctant to part with Qingwen, but he didn't intend to bring up this topic.

Instead, he pulled Jia Baoyu to the side, whispered about Liu Xianglian, and said with half-truth and half-false worry: "Now Mr. Liu intends to defect to the King of Beijing, but he has never had any contact with the palace, and he is afraid that he will be rejected by the prince. outside."

"how come!"

Jia Baoyu thought of Liu Xianglian's beauty in the prosperous age, and immediately put Qingwen's matter behind him, and said excitedly: "My lord is so righteous, if he knows that Mr. Liu is here to vote, he will definitely welcome him backwards. He refused?!"

After thinking for a while, he stomped his feet and said: "The matter is urgent, I will go to the palace and tell the prince about it!"

As he said that, he rushed out in a hurry.

It has to be said that although this kid has all kinds of problems, he is still warm-hearted in his bones - of course, considering Liu Xianglian's good looks, and this kid's penchant for adding men to men, his motivation is likely to come from his old-fashioned heart.

After walking about ten steps away, Jia Baoyu suddenly remembered about Qingwen again, so he turned around slowly, and gave Jiao Shun a deep bow: "Brother Jiao, Qingwen will be counting on you!"

Jiao Shun didn't say anything, just bowed and solemnly returned the gift.

Baoyu thought she had got the promise, and she felt relieved immediately, turned around and ran out in a hurry.

After he left, Jiao Shun didn't stay in the courtyard for long - things had already been settled, and he wasn't afraid that Qingwen wouldn't go to Jiao's house to report.

Hurrying back home for lunch, he took Xiangling and Yuchuan to the vicinity of Shichahai to cheer for the dragon boat team of Rongguo Mansion.

After noon [at one o'clock in the afternoon], near the Shicha Hailongwang Temple, drums and gongs and banners fluttered, tens of thousands of people surrounded the coast, and the twelve teams under the four kings and eight princes immediately shouted Fight hard with the chant.

After a fierce competition, Rongguo Mansion's team finally ranked fifth. Although it is not too high, it is already a big improvement compared to last year's bottom one.

At least Laiwang is very satisfied with this result.

In addition to the rewards set by the mansion long ago, he also rewarded these semi-professional team members with a good meal of wine and food at his own expense. Sent it home.

In the afternoon, Laiwang handed over his errands ahead of time, and then brought his son home and called Jiao Da again. The three of them drank a glass of realgar wine first with a table of hard dishes.

Later, Laiwang was about to say a few auspicious words about the future, when suddenly he saw Qingwen appearing in his courtyard carrying a big and small bundle, and was led to the west chamber by Xiangling and Yuchuan.

That posture, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you are here to drop by.

"What's the matter?"

He couldn't help being surprised and said: "Miss Qingwen came to our house because..."

"I forgot to tell you earlier, that's what happened."

Jiao Shun hurriedly recounted the matter of temporarily getting Qingwen to his own house when he came up with the meeting at the right time, and briefly recounted it.

Laiwang frowned after listening to this. Now that his momentum is just right, he doesn't want to make any unexpected incidents.

Especially in these days, he has already seen that his son is by no means an easy-going lamp in the matter of men and women. It is said that he was seconded temporarily, but it is hard to say whether he can return him in full after the fact. .

Then he solemnly warned: "After all, she is the heart of Second Master Bao, so you must not act recklessly!"

Laiwang originally wanted to say some harsh words and beat Jiao Shun, but now his son's status in the family is not comparable to before, so after hesitating, he chose to save some face for Jiao Shun.

Having been punctured, Jiao Shun hurriedly called Qu and said, "Father, what are you talking about? I'm just taking advantage of the situation to give the second wife a better chance, otherwise if the trouble continues, I'm afraid there will be a death—— Besides, she is serving you and your mother, so how dare I mess around?"

At this time, Mrs. Xu just brought some freshly cooked zongzi over, and she rolled her eyes when she heard the words, and said, "Don't! Mother can't afford this second master's heart, let her live in the west chamber, and be an ancestor. .”

After a pause, he added: "According to what your father and I want, we'd better move out after we are completely divorced, so as to save these messy things from coming to our door."

Both the couple wanted to move out, mainly because they were worried that after they left their citizenship, they would be a little embarrassed with their old masters all day long.

But Jiao Shun was thinking about going in and out of the Grand View Garden seven times, so how could he just leave like this?

But this reason cannot be clearly stated.

Just thinking about how to deal with it, Jiao Da, who was fiddling with a pipe at the side, also said, "I also feel that I should move out. I used to think that the East Mansion was a mess, but now it seems that the West Mansion is not that strong." go!"

The old man has always been a bachelor who doesn't rub the sand in his eyes.

The coquettish operation of Jia Shege earlier obviously disgusted him - it's also fortunate that he didn't know that this matter was actually started by Jiao Shun.

Now the situation has become one-sided.

Jiao Shun couldn't resist stubbornly refusing to agree, and after a moment of pondering, he resorted to the procrastination formula: "Since everyone says they want to move out, let's move out—but these days, the mansions in the capital are generally It has gone up a lot, so it may not be so easy to find a suitable and inexpensive one.”

"According to my point of view, let's just find a large courtyard, or an old town house in a row, and flatten them all and reopen them, so as to save the unsatisfactory ones and the unsatisfactory ones."

"This……"

Laiwang pondered for a while, and questioned: "Is this too much effort? I'm afraid there is no one who can't live in it for a year or two."

It's not just a year or two, if you deliberately procrastinate and procrastinate at that time, you can always mess up for two or three years!
Jiao Shun was secretly proud of himself, but his face was serious: "It doesn't matter if it's just us, but now that I'm grown up, if I don't make a plan now, I'm afraid it won't be so easy when there are more people in the future. .”

After taking out the big killer weapon imported by Tianding, both Jiao Da and Xu were really tempted.

Especially Jiao Da, he doesn't really have any requirements on where to live, the reason why he wants to move out is just to avoid the dirty things of the Ningrong Second Mansion.

Compared with it, it is obviously more important to continue the incense.

Xu Shi also thought the same, but she is an activist in this regard.

"It's time to make a plan!"

She pulled a chair and sat down next to her son, stared at Jiao Shun with burning eyes and said, "You are seventeen now..."

"mother!"

Seeing this posture of urging marriage, Jiao Shun regretted that he should not be greedy for cheap, and took out the big killer weapon of future generations, so he rushed to say: "I am about to be promoted, and I am still one of the best fat vacancies in the sixth rank. , according to this momentum, by the age of 20, you may already be in the fifth rank of the official residence, and by then, even a noble girl will be worthy of it!"

For the Xu family who was single-mindedly thinking of changing his family, the attraction of a noble lady from a noble family needless to say.

At that moment, she moved the chair closer, and asked with a low voice: "My son, I heard that the embroidered oranges from the second girl's room often come to our house recently. Could it be the rumors at the beginning..."

A few days ago, when his mother asked about this matter face to face, Jiao Shun could not tell the truth and explained it truthfully.

However, now that there are repetitions, he was worried that his mother would be overjoyed, so he casually said: "Mother, why didn't you say that Miss Bao and I often exchange letters?"

"whispering sound!"

Mrs. Xu stared: "Didn't you say this earlier? The letter is all about the workshop, and it doesn't involve any personal relationship with the children at all—besides, although the Xue family has a lot of wealth, it is nothing more than a royal family after all. Shang, how can the lady of the Duke's family say to go out and cheer up?"

Jiao Shun was a little surprised when he heard this, he didn't expect Xue Baochai to be less important than Yingchun in the eyes of his mother.

But if you think about it carefully, you will be relieved.

Because of the influence of the plot in the book, I always think about the two daughters, Chai and Dai, but the Xu family has been a servant of Jia Wang's family since childhood. From the perspective of the masters of the two families, the Xue family who is now living in Rongguo Mansion Although wealthy, he can't support the word "powerful".

In the eyes of the people in the old capital, the power is obviously higher than that of Caixiong.

According to this standard, the Xue family is naturally not considered a noble family, and Xue Baochai is not considered a noble daughter.

On the other hand, Jia Yingchun, even though he was only a concubine, but if Jiao Shun was able to use his family slave background as a counter-appointment to his master's daughter as his wife, it would be more honorable and legendary if he said it.

After sorting out his thoughts, Jiao Shun had no choice but to say again: "Perhaps there is such a thought, but after all, our family is from the second grandma's family, and the second grandma is not on good terms with the master and his wife. I'm afraid it won't be so if you think about it. easy."

"That's right."

Thinking of this episode, Mrs. Xu couldn't help but nodded and said: "The Elder Master may not be able to look up to our family—and besides, if we really want to become in-laws with the Elder Master, I'm afraid it will cause a lot of trouble in the future."

Jiao Shun felt relieved when she heard her backing off, but he didn't want Xu to say: "What about the third girl? The second master values ​​you very much now, and after three years, the third girl should also talk about marriage. Then maybe..."

Speaking of this, she hesitated again: "Actually, Miss Shi is not bad. Although the historian family is already down and out, but after all, it is a hereditary Marquis. If we can marry her in, we will really..."

"cough!"

At this time, Laiwang suddenly let out a dry cough.

Only then did Xu realize that she was in front of Jiao Da, and that her son's surname was already Jiao.

She smiled awkwardly at Jiao, and Uncle Jiao also smiled at her, but he couldn't hide his worry when he lowered his head and turned his pipe upside down.

He stretches out his hands to eat and opens his mouth recently, and he feels much more comfortable than before.

But just because I have free time, I think more.

Occasionally, I couldn't help worrying, if after I died, the incense of the Jiao family returned to the family, wouldn't I be happy for nothing?
But Xu's slip of the tongue today obviously aggravated his worries, thinking to himself that it would be better not to let Jiao Shun change his name, but let him choose a son to adopt to the Jiao family in the future.

But it's too late to regret it now.

I can only think of another safe way to ensure that the incense will not be cut off after I die.

(End of this chapter)