The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 711 A Different Taste
Flash forward to the third day of September, the day of Prince Tengfa's funeral.

Early in the morning, Jiao ran from Taohua Lane to Taiwei's mansion by himself.

In fact, Lai Wang and Mrs. Xu were also planning to send the old master off. After all, they grew up in Wang's family, and their affection for the Taiwei's Mansion was much greater than that of the Rongguo Mansion.

It's just that when they came to express their condolences a while ago, they always felt that the atmosphere was neither awkward nor awkward, especially when they met those old friends, the other party deliberately flattered and flattered them, which made Laiwang and Xu feel uncomfortable.

Therefore, after going back, he changed his mind, and never mentioned the funeral in person, and only asked his son to help bring a funeral ceremony.

As expected, even on the day of the funeral, there were not many relatives and friends who actually rushed over, at least when Jiao Shun arrived, most of the welcoming guests at the door were still idle.

Although there have been a lot of bad rumors about him recently, Jiao Shun was undoubtedly one of the most honored guests at the funeral, so as soon as he got out of the car, seven or eight people greeted him with smiles, and two others hurried in. The government reported.

Not long after, Wang Ren, Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu greeted them from inside.

Wang Ren's face was full of sadness, and he even sighed when he saw Jiao Shun.

He originally pointed at Concubine Xiande and Jiao Shuneng to lend a helping hand so that he could completely free himself from his father's case.

As a result, first he learned the truth about his cousin's participation in politics from his aunt, and then Jiao Shun fell into the turmoil of falling out of favor. Naturally, all his expectations were in vain.

Jia Lian, on the other hand, was full of joy, and when he saw Jiao, he jokingly said, "Brother Shun, I heard that you were listless and doing nothing in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace during the first court meeting of the junior high school, and you were almost impeached for your misbehavior before being impeached. real?"

Jiao Shun spread his arms, and said helplessly, "Little brother was indeed a little out of energy that day, but it wouldn't be said to be a disgrace, would it?"

Jia Lian's smile couldn't be concealed more and more, and he believed that Jiao Shun must have been battered by the blow, so he made a fool of himself at the court meeting.

Ever since Wang Xifeng blatantly cheated, he had swallowed his anger for so many days, and now he finally got his revenge - although the arrow was not written by his second master Lian, as long as he could see Jiao Shun, this dog slave would be ashamed, Why should you care if you avenged yourself?
Jia Baoyu shook his head at the side, and said, "The affairs of the officialdom can change as they say they want to. It's weird to say that being with a king is like being with a tiger."

After a pause, he said sincerely: "I can't do anything for my brother. I just copied a copy of the Shurangama Sutra recently. I'll have someone send it to my brother's house tomorrow. It's all about praying for my brother's disaster relief."

Seeing that these three people were either complaining, gloating, or full of sympathy, but all agreed that they were in decline, Jiao Shun couldn't laugh or cry for a while.

The reason why he was in a bad mood that day was entirely because Aunt Xue used a secret sign to invite him to a private meeting at home the night before.

Aunt Xue also heard the news, so she hurried to find him, wanting to comfort him a little.

She was always modest and considerate, and Jiao Shun was always aggressive, so he coaxed her to go to the yard with the excuse of saying that the pressure was too much to vent.

Later, the two were slept together in the small courtyard, and they didn't fall asleep until the middle of the night. They said goodbye early in the morning and came back to the scene. There are rumors that under the pressure of the New Confucianism, he was restless day and night.

But what the outside world didn’t know was that after the Great Court Meeting, the emperor summoned Jiao Shun alone, and assured him repeatedly that the introduction of the Neo-Confucianism was just to unite all the forces that could be united, and let them share the firepower for the engineering school.

As for overriding and replacing him, the engineering school offering wine and so on is completely nonsense. In the future, the engineering school will still be handed over to him to lead, so that the emperor can rest assured.

What else can Jiao Shun say after hearing this?
Naturally, I can only be grateful, and I promise to cooperate sincerely with the new Confucianism to contribute to the emperor's great cause-in any case, no matter how sincere each other is, this time it is definitely worthy of the name of "the monarch and his ministers get along" on the surface. Character.

However, he didn't need to explain these things to Wang Ren.

So he made a casual haha ​​to perfunctory the past, and accompanied by the three of them went down to burn incense in the mourning hall.

Originally they were about the same age, and Jia Lian and Baoyu should have been with them when the incense was over, but because Jia Zheng was worried that Jia Lian would get carried away, he kept Jiao Shun by his side and talked about it.

After a while, Wang Ziteng's wife also led her daughter out to answer the gift. After just meeting each other, Jiao noticed that Wang Ziteng's wife had a sullen and angry look on her face, and Wang Xining's eyes were red and swollen, obviously she had just cried.

It would be perfectly normal for a father to cry at the time of his funeral, but the gloomy and indignant look on Wang Ziteng's wife's face was strange.

So when Li Wan and Tanchun helped the mother and daughter back to the inner room, Jiao asked around a few words by the way.

"Ah~"

Jia Zheng sighed, and said helplessly: "Actually, at the beginning of the year, the Wang family had already exchanged characters with the Baoninghou Mansion, and even the date of engagement was chosen, but...then Baoninghou Mansion has been procrastinating and never mentioning it again." Regarding this matter, I simply sent back the Geng Tie of the second girl in the name of sending the funeral ceremony."

[Note: The fact that Wang Ziteng married his daughter to the son of the Marquis of Baoning was clearly mentioned in Chapter [-] of the original book {one version said it was married to a niece, but most of them were written to marry a daughter}, not Wang Xining The character was created by me, so that would be too unfair. 】

Jiao Shun heard that it was a matter of retiring engagements again, and couldn't help but shake his head feeling that the world is going downhill—calculating with his fingers, he has witnessed three remarriages in just one or two years.

Speaking of...

Recently, I haven't seen Baoqin for a few days.

Just as he was thinking about something, Wang Ren welcomed Jia Rong in again.

On the one hand, Jia Rong assured her that her father was unwell, so she could only represent Ningguo Mansion with full authority, but on the other hand, she couldn't help but peek at Jiao Shun.

Hearing the news of Jiao Shun's falling out of favor recently, he was both sad and happy. Once Jiao Shun's backing was missing for the happy event, brother Xiong would be nothing to worry about, and his stepmother, You Shi, himself would also be happy. It's not like there is no chance to get a share of the pie——Since having a son, Youshi has become more and more prosperous. He was only half-colored, but now he is full of charm. It is no wonder that Jia Rong has something wrong.

But without the backing of Jiao Shun, it would be difficult for the Ningguo Mansion to make a fortune in silence.

Especially since I just made a 'heavy bet' on him, and now it hasn't paid off yet, and I have to lose all my money first, how can people be happy?
So when the condolence procedure was finished, Jia Rong couldn't wait to squeeze beside Jiao Shun, trying to smile and say hello: "My nephew has seen uncle, I wonder if uncle is okay recently?"

Jiao Shun had already seen what he was thinking, so he lowered his voice and said with a smile: "Thanks to you, I can eat and sleep. As for how you eat and sleep, you don't have to ask me. You can ask your wife when you go back." after all."

Jia Rong felt embarrassed when he heard him teasing herself.

In fact, in the past, he could have done it himself, anyway, he is such a shameless master.

But the problem is that the Jiao Shun now seems to be no longer the Jiao Shun he used to be, and if he let him do it on his own, he always feels a bit at a loss.

"Uncle joked, joked."

In the end, he could only reply embarrassingly, and then cursed Jiao Shun from the bottom of his heart that he would not recover from this setback. At that time, not only You Shi, but also Second Sister You and Third Sister You might not be unable to miss him.

Thinking about it this way, he felt that it would be better for Jiao Shun to completely lose power.

The words are divided into two parts.

The men gathered in the mourning hall to talk, and the women gathered in small groups to whisper in the side hall.

But Xue Baochai originally thought that after his uncle had finished his funeral, he would let his mother recuperate for two days, and then ask her to go to Jiao's house to inquire about news.

But now seeing Jiao Shun in the front hall, he couldn't help himself, so he urged Tan Chun to ask him clearly.

However, Tanchun reasoned that Jiao Shun had absolute confidence, and even if he didn't ask, he knew that the rumors outside would not be credible—in fact, he had contacted Jiao Shun long ago, and when he sent Yingchun to the temple on the fifth day of September, he would come back again. It's not too late to lie down and get to the bottom of it.

Having encountered a soft nail in Tanchun, Xue Baochai was worried that showing too much attention would lead to misunderstandings from others, so he had to put the matter aside for the time being.

At this moment, I saw Jia Baoyu walking in with straight eyes, murmuring words, and saw several elders in the room who didn't know how to salute.

When Xue Baochai saw this, he thought that he was fascinated by some Buddhist and Zen principles again, and he wanted to come forward to persuade him, and he was going to get married next month. It stands to reason that the two of them should avoid it.

So I had to turn my attention to Mrs. Wang.

Seeing her son behaving like this in front of everyone, Mrs. Wang also felt that she couldn't bear it, so she scolded in a deep voice: "You child, no matter how sad you are for your uncle, you will..."

I don't want to wait for the search to be completed, Jia Baoyu who just sat down suddenly jumped up again, first grabbed Tanchun who was closest to him, sniffed her like a puppy, then shook his head and let Tanchun go, and then He went to Baochai.

"You, what are you doing?"

Xue Baochai took two steps back in embarrassment, but saw Jia Baoyu stirring his hands in front of him a few times, then shook his head again and muttered: "It's not Sister Bao, then this smell..."

"What kind of hysteria is your child having again?!"

Mrs. Wang was completely annoyed this time, and she didn't care to cover up for her son, she got up and said angrily: "In front of your aunt and sister, how dare you..."

"I see!"

However, before she could finish speaking, Jia Baoyu chattered excitedly, startling everyone, but he got into his fist and said excitedly: "It's Sister Lin's smell. Although there are some changes, it should It’s the taste of Sister Lin, that’s right! Sister Lin, Sister Lin!”

As he spoke, he yelled and rushed out.

Everyone looked at each other at a loss, and finally Tanchun said first: "Stop the second brother quickly, and don't let him disturb the mourning hall!"

Everyone woke up like a dream, and hurriedly chased them out.

When I got outside, I saw Jia Baoyu running crazily towards the front yard. Mrs. Wang didn't care about her dignity, she chased and shouted at the same time, and finally someone stopped Jia Baoyu in the lane between the two gates.

When the crowd came up to him panting, he was still yelling "Sister Lin, Sister Lin".

Mrs. Wang looked at the expressions of Aunt Xue and Baochai next to her, she gritted her teeth and stepped forward to slap her hands, she slapped her face, cursing: "Niety! You are so crazy that something happened out of nowhere, how can there be any sister Lin here?!"

Baoyu covered her cheeks for a while, and then said weakly: "I, I did smell Sister Lin just now. Although, although it's not the same as before, it should be Sister Lin's smell!"

Seeing that he was still full of 'Sister Lin', Mrs. Wang was so angry that she raised her hand to greet him, but was stopped by Wang Ziteng's wife.

Wang Ziteng's wife said to Baoyu as if coaxing the child: "Baoyu, did you make a mistake? I heard that Miss Lin has returned to her hometown in Suzhou. How could her smell appear in our house?"

"This……"

After this reminder, Jia Baoyu finally calmed down a bit, but immediately he raised an objection: "But it's been so long, and there is still no news from Suzhou, maybe Sister Lin didn't leave at all, Or, or her, her..."

After he talked about it, his teeth chattered and tears welled up in his eyes, but he could no longer utter a single word.

But most of the people had already guessed that he probably wanted to say: Or maybe it was Lin Daiyu's soul that came.

"You child, why are you thinking about such nonsense?"

Wang Ziteng's wife stepped forward and took his hand, coaxing: "Miss Lin is definitely safe and well, you just think too much, so you think you smell her breath."

"Yes, is that so?"

Jia Baoyu always felt that something was wrong, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't remember where he smelled Sister Lin's smell, and the smell was indeed different from before, as if it was mixed with something else or something. human taste.

Could it be that he missed sister Lin too much, so he was confused?
With such thoughts in mind, he naturally didn't struggle any more, and obediently followed his aunt back to the side hall in the backyard.

This storm has finally come to an end.

But the impact is not so easy to dissipate, especially for Xue Baochai.

Although I have heard before that Jia Baoyu went to Suzhou to look for Lin Daiyu after making a lot of noise at home, but hearing about it is worse than meeting him, and now seeing Jia Baoyu running madly for Lin Daiyu with his own eyes, Xue Baochai is quite a man of the city, with a face I can't help but get cold.

But what she cared more about was what happened to the smell Jia Baoyu smelled.

After all, she is the only one here who knows that Lin Daiyu did not actually go south to Suzhou, but has been living in seclusion in the capital.

So is there a possibility that Jia Baoyu really smelled her breath?And sister Lin did in some way sneak into the Taiwei's mansion? !

Thinking of this, Xue Baochai unconsciously put his hand into his sleeve pocket, where there was the manuscript that Lin Daiyu sent early this morning.

Could it be that the reason why Lin Daiyu invited herself to write a short story book was actually because she wanted to secretly hide Chen Cang on the Mingxiu plank road, and wanted to let herself relax her vigilance first, and then jump out at the critical moment...

no no no~
This really doesn't look like sister Lin's style!

But if she doesn't figure out what's going on, Xue Baochai's heart is really uneasy. After thinking about it for a long time, she finally made up her mind that even at the risk of alarming the snake, she must find out about Lin Daiyu's situation.

(End of this chapter)