The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 447 Mid-Autumn Festival [continued]

According to the agreement, when Lin Daiyu, Baochai and Baoqin returned to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Mrs. Wang comforted Baoqin a few words, and went to the old lady's courtyard with an excuse.

Seeing Aunt Xue staying alone, Lin Daiyu knew that she must have something private to tell Baochai and Baoqin.

She was about to find a reason to avoid going out, but Aunt Xue asked without hesitation: "But I don't know why Brother Shun asked you to go there?"

And seeing that she didn't mean to treat herself as an outsider at all, Lin Daiyu stayed beside Baoqin in silence.

Xue Baochai made a serious correction and said: "We were invited by Sister Xing - as for why..."

Having said that, she turned her head slightly to Lin Daiyu, who was at the side, and cast a consulting look.

Seeing this, Lin Daiyu hesitated for a moment, then took the initiative to say: "Since my aunt asks, we can't hide it from you, old man—except for the second aunt, I dare not spread it out."

She knew that Aunt Xue would probably have to discuss with Mrs. Wang when she went back, so she simply listed Mrs. Wang as a special case.

Aunt Xue was full of promises, so she almost swore to the sky on the spot.

So Lin Daiyu talked to Baoqin, recounted Jiao Shun's small composition plan, and showed Aunt Xue the "Jiaoban Essay".

In the end, Xue Baoqin couldn't help but sighed again: "Not to mention how thorough Brother Jiao's plan is, this article alone is definitely not something that rude and illiterate people can do, which shows the absurdity of the rumors outside!"

Aunt Xue just took over the 'essay' and was about to read it carefully from the beginning. When she heard her niece's comment, she nodded subconsciously and said, "That's natural! If you want me to say, although his poems and articles are not as good as everyone else's, they are by no means easy. Rotten Confucianism can be reached."

This evaluation is clearly personal.

more importantly……

Baochai wondered, "Mom hasn't read it yet, so how do you know how good his poems are?"

"This……"

Hearing her daughter pointing out her omissions, Aunt Xue immediately raised her heart in her throat. Thanks to her frequent stimulation recently, she can barely be regarded as a good doctor after a long illness, so she still maintained her superficial calm and tried her best to pretend nothing happened. Said: "I haven't heard that you are all boasting, so I also praised it."

As he said that, he lowered his head and quickly scanned a few paragraphs of 'essays', and praised again: "Look at how well this is written, and you can understand every sentence-it doesn't look like some talented people, I wish I could pick out two allusions in three words Come on, if the people who get it don’t know what they’re talking about, then it’s a show of their abilities!”

Lin Daiyu chuckled when she heard the words, covered her mouth and said, "Auntie's words scold us all."

Although she could tell that she was joking, Aunt Xue still hurriedly made amends: "It's nothing for you girls to entertain themselves, I'm talking about those who insist on showing off in front of outsiders."

"If you talk about this kind of people..."

Lin Daiyu rolled her eyes, and said with a sneer: "There is one in the mansion, a few stereotyped essays, and they dare to deceive the world!"

How did Xue Baochai not know that she was mocking Baoyu?

I was afraid that my mother would not understand, so I asked the truth, so I quickly changed the topic and said: "Speaking of seriousness, Brother Jiao specifically explained before leaving, let us make some drafts first and don't rush to write. We can only do it when he finds out the Mei family's follow-up actions." Targeted."

After a pause, he added: "Brother Jiao and I have the same views. The Mei family's sudden disturbance must be related to fame and fortune. Presumably, something should be done in a few days."

Although Aunt Xue understood Jiao Shun's tricks roughly, it would be very difficult for her to think about it in depth.

Fortunately, she is not the kind of person who pretends to understand, so she nodded immediately and said: "Since it is Brother Shun's intention, you just follow it-although you girls are not smarter than ordinary people since childhood, these things are still It takes men to make big decisions."

Because Tanchun was not around, no one cared about these patriarchal remarks.

At this time, Xue Baochai sighed again: "Actually, at first glance, this matter is related to Brother Jiao, but when you think about it carefully, there is a lot of scolding from outside now, and the impeachment papers are even sent to the palace. Compared with these Come to think of it, what Mei Hanlin did didn’t matter to him at all—it’s also thanks to him being willing to hold onto him, and planning so carefully and painstakingly.”

When Aunt Xue and Baoqin heard this, they all lamented Jiao Shun's heart.

But Lin Daiyu suddenly couldn't help laughing, and jokingly said: "That's right, it's not that he and Sister Xiangyun are already engaged, I'm afraid I will think he is Sister Baoqin."

"Sister Lin!"

When Baoqin heard the words, she immediately jumped up and made a fuss with her.

Baochai covered her mouth and smiled, but Aunt Xue's expression was unconsciously in a daze.

That's right, in fact Rongguo Mansion, whose reputation was even more damaged, chose to swallow his anger, but Jiao Shun, who had nothing to lose, took the initiative to take the responsibility, and planned so hard to help the Xue family avenge their grievances.

Is there no special reason for this?

She glanced at Baoqin first, and then at Baochai. It was obvious that neither the niece nor the daughter had anything to do with Jiao Shun, so his reason was...

Aunt Xue's face was hot for a while, she was afraid of showing her marks in front of the junior, so she hurriedly got up and said: "In this case, you sisters should take a rest first - I will take this essay away first, and I will send it back to you in the evening."

She waved the draft in her hand to the three of them, and then hurried away without waiting for a response.

Daiyu and Baoqin only thought that she was busy looking for Mrs. Wang to check on her. Although Xue Baochai noticed something strange, she never expected that her gentle and shy mother would have a second spring at this time.

But she said that Aunt Xue escaped from the Xiaoxiang Pavilion as if she had escaped, and finally calmed down her turbulent emotions, so she went back to the Qingtang hut and told Mrs. Wang the truth.

While flipping through the 'essays', Madam Wang couldn't help worrying: "I've only heard that scholars can manipulate public opinion, but now he gathers a group of little girls to do the opposite. This...is this really possible?"

"Others can't do it, but Brother Shun may not be able to!"

The words defending Jiao Shun blurted out, and after she finished speaking decisively, Aunt Xue felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly added: "Both Baochai and Lin girl have analyzed it, and the contributions are all anonymous, even this essay will pretend to be If it is successful or stolen, even if it fails in the end, there shouldn’t be any harm.”

As he said that, he couldn't help but praise Jiao Shun: "Although he is young, he is very stable and honest, and he will never be reckless..."

When talking about Jiao Shun's "steadiness" and not "recklessness", she couldn't help but feel a little guilty, and the words that followed unconsciously became vague.

But she praised Jiao Shun continuously in a short period of time, which also gave Mrs. Wang a warning sign. After all, Baochai almost promised Jiao Shun at the beginning, and now Jiao Shun is flourishing in officialdom, and has the ability to take responsibility...

On the other hand, Baoyu, her own family, had been in a quarrel for more than a month because of an unscrupulous nun, and even resisted the summons from the palace.

The fault is not Xue Baoqin's arrival, but I don't know what troubles are going to happen.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Wang hurriedly said: "I went to the old lady just now, and the old lady talked about Fengshui again, and asked Baoqin if it would delay Baoyu and Baochai's marriage."

"This……"

Aunt Xue couldn't help frowning when she heard the words. She hadn't considered this before, but now that her sister reminded her, she immediately realized that something was wrong.

The younger sister had just been divorced, but when she turned around, the older sister got engaged as if nothing had happened. Although there was no causal relationship, it was always a bit of a joke when it spread.

But if you want to push it back, listen to the meaning of what my sister said, the old lady is clearly unwilling to postpone the marriage in order to avoid bad luck for the family.

She was not very close to Baochai before, but now...

When I was in a dilemma, I suddenly heard Caixia shouting outside: "Madam, Madam, there are people coming from the palace, the old lady asked everyone to go to Rongxi Hall to gather together!"

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she thought it was the Mid-Autumn Festival gift from the palace. Although she didn't dare to neglect, she couldn't say she was in a hurry.

I don't want to hear Caiyun add immediately afterward: "Sister Yuanyang said that the concubine must also be present!"

"And my business?"

Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang looked at each other when they heard the words, both of them were a little confused.

"Go, go and take a look and you'll know!"

Mrs. Wang led the way, and the two sisters went out of the hut in the Qingtang to wander around and rush to the Rongxi Hall in the front yard.

When they got there, they saw that Wu Yangyang had gathered a lot of people, including Baochai.

The two sisters were about to ask what was going on, when the eunuch who passed the decree said with a sharp smile: "This person is here, so the miscellaneous family will start to proclaim the decree?"

Although it was a question, before anyone could respond, he raised his voice and shouted: "There is a will!"

Everyone hurriedly knelt down on the ground according to their rank and status, and heard the eunuch who passed the decree read a lot in a cadence, and the core idea was summed up in two words: marriage!

On the day when the Mei family retired, the emperor acted as a matchmaker for Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai, and ordered them to choose an auspicious day to get married!
This time, although the humiliation that the Mei family imposed on the Rongguo Mansion and the Xue family did not disappear, the impact it brought was weakened by most of it.

Jia Zheng's brows, which had been locked for a long time, were completely relaxed, and he stepped forward to accept the order with a smile on his face. While ordering Jia Lian to take it in as an offering, he thanked the eunuch who delivered the order.

The eunuch laughed and said, "Our family doesn't dare to be that. If you want to thank, you must first thank Long Live Lord Shengming!"

With that said, he cupped his hands in the direction of the palace.

Then the topic changed, and he said again: "The next thing is Zunfu Jiao Jijiu. If it weren't for him, even if this matter could be accomplished, the decree would not come down so soon."

"Jiao... sacrificial wine?"

Jia Zheng suddenly opened his mouth as if he had swallowed a fly, and said in astonishment, "What does this have to do with him?"

"Of course it has something to do with it, at noon today..."

…………

Rewind time to this afternoon.

At the same time when the girls rushed to Jiao's house, Jiao Shun's secret book was also sent to Emperor Longyuan early.

In this secret letter, Jiao Shun first briefly described the matter of the Mei family's public resignation, and then said that now that he has been slandered by many people, he didn't care about having another Mei Hanlin.

However, it was not enough for Mei Hanlin to slander himself, and he even poured dirty water on the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion. This second wife is not only her old benefactor, but also the biological mother of the virtuous concubine in the palace. If you start, you will be punished!

You can't sit idly by in public or privately!
After thinking about it, I was inspired by the conflict in Dali Temple last time.

The reason why the students were defeated last time was that apart from the Holy Son of Heaven making a decisive decision at the moment, some scholars in the early days were eager for success and wrote articles in newspapers to intensify conflicts, distorting the facts, so that they left a lot of talk, and were later arrested on the spot. Dismantling leads to chaos, which is also an important factor.

Therefore, I am going to follow the gourd painting and indirectly call some talented young girls in the Rongguo Mansion—I really don’t have the ability, and I can’t find a reliable literati—to first concoct a few articles with hidden clues, and then target them. That jumping beam clown reaped the consequences!

The emperor was originally sullen, but when he saw that Jiao Shun could only rely on a group of fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls in the Rongguo Mansion because he couldn't find a suitable shooter, he couldn't help laughing. , but I'm afraid I have to say 'only women and villains are difficult to raise'.

And this also made him look forward to the establishment of the engineering school as soon as possible. Otherwise, the dignified engineering school would rely on a group of little girls as gunmen, but what would it be like?

He was satisfied that Jiao Shun reported such an embarrassing incident truthfully, but he didn't know that Jiao Shun reported this matter in order to prevent the emperor from being aware of the tricks last time, and by the way, he also passed his "harem participation in politics" way out of the way.

After reading the secret book, Emperor Longyuan pondered for a while, and ordered someone to summon the virtuous concubine Jia Yuanchun, and told her about the Mei family's resignation and insulting Mrs. Wang.

When Jia Yuanchun heard that her mother was humiliated again, she was naturally annoyed, but when the emperor asked her opinion, she was deeply blessed and said seriously: "I am not allowed to interfere in politics since I come to the harem, how can my concubines influence your majesty with their own preferences?" ?”

Emperor Longyuan looked down at the passage where the little girls were summoned to be gunmen in the secret book, shook his head and said 'boring' twice, and suddenly asked: "How about I just bring the daughter of the Xue family into the palace? In this way, The matter of retiring is nothing."

"This……"

Jia Yuanchun hesitated to speak, but finally bowed his head and said: "This is also her blessing, and the concubine is up to His Majesty to decide."

"No fun, no fun."

Emperor Longyuan said twice again in boredom, closed the secret folder in his hand with a 'snap' and put it on the table, took a pen and paper and wrote a short hand letter, threw it to Dai Quan and said: "Go, draw up a letter as usual Send the decree to the Rongguo Mansion."

After Dai Quan left, Emperor Longyuan smiled at the silent Jia Yuanchun: "Don't worry, I'm not interested in a little girl who hasn't reached the age of Ji - the decree just now is for Baoyu and the eldest son of the Xue family." The marriage was given by my daughter, this matter was almost settled, and now I can be regarded as honorable for both families."

After hearing this, Jia Yuanchun hurriedly turned over and knelt down: "The concubine thanked His Majesty on behalf of my younger brother!"

"Ha ha……"

Emperor Longyuan smiled triumphantly and came out from behind the case, helped Jia Yuanchun up, and said with burning eyes: "It's not enough for my concubine to just talk about such a big happy event, there must be something new and interesting. "

Apart from being ashamed, Jia Yuanchun was also faintly worried.

The emperor has been too sensual lately, and those medicines have never been stopped, if...

She intends to persuade her, but her mother's family has just received such a great favor, how can she spoil the emperor's interest?

After a little hesitation, he had no choice but to submit.

(End of this chapter)