The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 712
Seeing Baoyu being pulled into the inner room by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Wang sighed secretly, and was about to step in to follow, but Jia Tanchun grabbed the corner of her clothes.

She looked back suspiciously, and saw Tan Chun winking at her, implying that she was paying attention to the situation of Aunt Xue and Baochai.

Mrs. Wang just woke up like a dream, and found that the one who should comfort her most now is not her son, but the Xue family.

So he hurriedly led Tanchun back to Aunt Xue, pinched the veil with embarrassment on his face, and said falteringly: "Here, look, alas~! Baochai, let me apologize for him first, wait a while for him Calm and sober, I will let him come to apologize and kowtow to your mother to admit his mistake!"

As she spoke, she even made a slight bow towards Xue Baochai.

Other families are full of daughters-in-law worshiping their mother-in-law, but she was led by this evil obstacle, and before marrying her daughter-in-law, she humiliated her face completely, so although she only bowed her neck slightly, her face was like a fire.

Aunt Xue's face was livid when she saw her sister put on such a low posture, she hurriedly helped her up, but she complained in a puzzled manner: "I didn't say that, this Baoyu is too...pretty well-behaved." , Why is it getting bigger and bigger, it’s just, it’s just... oh!"

For a while, she couldn't tell what 'it was', and finally she had to sigh heavily.

Baochai next to him looked indifferent, and returned the gift to Madam Wang twice, saying: "Madam, don't misunderstand, mother is angry because Baoyu messed around at uncle's funeral - if he speaks clearly in private, who can stop him?" Can he find Sister Lin?"

These words are not reasonable at all.

But on weekdays, when Madam Wang was about to bow her head, Baochai would have rushed up the steps, but now she was more than one step late, and she had already revealed her true attitude invisibly.

Aunt Xue also came to her senses when she heard the words, if she was picky about this, it would be as if she was preventing her from going to Lin Daiyu——Baoyu never said that she would marry Daiyu, but if Ruo Shan only wanted her back, It's a matter of course.

Immediately, he quickly changed his words and said: "Yes, yes, yes, if you want him to make amends, you should first make amends to my sister-in-law. It's a good fortune that I didn't make trouble in the mourning hall. Otherwise, my brother might not be able to survive in the spirit of heaven!"

When the mother and daughter sang together, Mrs. Wang hurried down the donkey and dragged Aunt Xue in to talk to Wang Ziteng's wife.

Before entering the door, Mrs. Wang made a special wink at Tanchun, signaling her to appease Baochai for herself first.

When the two of them entered the inner room, Tanchun immediately went to the corner with Xue Baochai on his arm, and sighed softly: "Sister is a sensible person, so I don't need to talk too much, besides, we have been together since childhood, Second Brother Bao What kind of temperament is it, you know best in your heart, if you want to force Second Brother Bao to forget Sister Lin, then I'm afraid it won't be him in the future."

After a pause, he continued: "Fortunately, with Sister Lin's fierceness, I'm afraid she might not be willing to go back to Rongguo Mansion—if not, it wouldn't be until this time, and there is still no news from Suzhou."

"I've just said it."

After hearing this, Xue Baochai said solemnly, "It's okay for him to find Sister Lin, and I can even help him find it—but he shouldn't be in full view, let alone in front of my mother, making such a fuss." Yingtian!"

As he spoke, he gently grasped the apex of his disdainful heart, clenched his silver teeth and said: "My heart is also made of human flesh, how can I stand up to such repeated humiliation and ravages?!"

Tanchun was speechless.

When I was young, I only thought that Brother Bao was good at everything. He was handsome, gentle and considerate, and his talent was top-notch among his peers, and he could win the unanimous love of his elders.

At that time, in her eyes, Jia Baoyu and his brother Jia Huan were completely different, so she chose to be close to Baoyu and stay away from Jia Huan.

But now that his horizons are gradually broadening, Jia Baoyu's perfect image has gradually collapsed, and some places are even worse than Jia Huan.

For example, if Jia Huan is an official position in engineering, even if he is not competent, he will definitely try to gain some ground, but Baoyu is afraid of him like a tiger and abandons him like a pair of shoes—especially when he is well aware of the decline of the Rongguo Mansion. case.

Such a person, not to mention being a husband, is not qualified to be relied on by her mother's family-it's also a good thing that I never counted on him at all.

Seeing what Sister Bao meant, I'm afraid she has already regretted it by now.

It's a pity that this marriage is a gift from the emperor, and it is basically impossible to regret the marriage.

Hey~
I can only hope that after the second brother Bao gets married and starts a business, he will be able to repent.

The two are looking at each other in silence.

Suddenly, Shan Daliang, the chief steward next to Jia Zheng, hurried in, looked around the room, and asked Tanchun, "Dare to ask the third girl, is Second Master Bao here?"

"It's in the room."

As Tanchun spoke, he frowned again and asked, "Why, does the master know?"

Shan Daliang bowed his waist and smiled coyly: "Master asked Second Master Bao to go to the front yard to meet him immediately."

Although he didn't answer directly, it was obvious that Jia Zheng had heard about what happened just now, so he sent someone to 'lock and take' Baoyu.

"See what you see!"

This is Mrs. Wang coming out from the back room through the curtain, and said with a stern face, "I'm here to attend my uncle's funeral today, not in our house! Even if I want to teach my son a lesson, I will wait until the funeral is finished for my uncle." Say it again!"

Shan Daliang saw Mrs. Wang's sullen expression on her face, obviously she was on the verge of breaking out, how could she dare to contradict her?

Immediately busy obediently agreed.

But after he backed out of the living room, he didn't leave in a hurry. Instead, he used Jia Zheng's name to find someone he knew and asked him about what had happened just now. It is said that Baoyu is making trouble again, but he still doesn't know the cause and effect.

After inquiring clearly, Shan Daliang hurried back to the front yard, and reported the results of his inquiring to Jia Zheng in detail.

When Jia Zheng heard this, he was even more angry. Earlier, Jia Mu and Baoyu were arguing to take Daiyu back to Beijing to marry her. After all, it was just a disturbance at home, but now it has come to Taiwei's mansion!

The marriage of Jia and Xue's family is a gift from the imperial court, what if someone takes the blame and sues it before the imperial court? !

On one side he blows his beard, stares and scolds the evil beast, but on the other side Jiao Shun is also secretly surprised, thinking that this dude really grew up eating rouge, and he can detect the body fragrance on his body.

Fortunately, he was stopped halfway, if he finds him in the mourning hall and makes a fuss, it will be difficult.

The main reason is that I was careless. Usually, I would try to cover up one or two things when I was stealing, but because Lin Daiyu had passed the Ming Road, she was lazy and saved this effort-it seems that she needs to be more careful in the future.

At this time, he suddenly saw someone poking his head at the door, but upon closer inspection it was Xue Pan.

Jiao Shun only thought that he had also heard about what happened there, so he purposely came to Jia Zheng to complain, so he was going to go out and mention something to him, telling him not to make a big deal out of it.

Whoever thought of the outside only realized that Xue Pan's face was red and white, and there were many blood marks from being scratched, and even the bun on his head was a little messy.

Jiao Shun couldn't help blurting out: "You fight Baoyu..."

In the middle of the sentence, he felt that it was wrong. With the physical gap between the two sides, Baoyu had almost no possibility of fighting back. Even if he fought back reluctantly, it was impossible to make him look like this.

So he changed his mind and asked, "Who are you fighting with again?"

"Who else could it be?"

Xue Pan seldom showed some shame, but most of them were filled with righteous indignation, he just heard him grit his teeth and said, "Isn't that bitch from my family who dared to flirt with Lian's second brother in front of me just now!"

"That's really too much."

"right?"

Seeing that Jiao Shun also agreed with his rhetoric, Xue Pan danced excitedly: "It's fine if she steals someone secretly, she might as well run away with him! If she wants to do it in public, isn't she hitting me?" Face?!"

Jiao Shun: "..."

Jiao Shun really couldn't understand this kind of brain circuit, but the two men in Ningguo Mansion might have a common language with him.

He himself doesn't care about his wife stealing, and as this cheap old man, it's not easy to do it for him, so Jiao Shun curiously said: "Speaking of which, I've always wondered, with your stature, can't you still restrain a woman?"

Since Xia Jingui arrived at Xue's house, he had been arguing for two days and three days. Xue Pan's violent temper should have given him plenty of punches, but he held back and didn't strike.

If you say you feel sorry for your wife, what you said just now is not the same thing.

"This……"

Xue Pan looked around, then lowered his voice and said, "Brother doesn't know something, that woman is crazy - the first time I hit her, she used a dagger to shave my lower body clean in the middle of the night, and cut several lines. Bloody hole! The pain is second to none, the main reason is that I couldn’t stand up there for more than a month.”

"The next day I secretly took the dagger away, but she told me that there are still several more dowry, and there is no shortage of poison to seal her throat. Either don't touch a finger of her, or you will die!"

This……

It's really scary.

Jiao Shun could only pat him on the shoulder to express his sympathy, but this time he felt a little sympathetic to the same person - Third Sister You was better than Xia Jingui, if she hadn't been tricked by her back then, Jiao Shun would have been so daring My master, even resisted and did not dare to accept it.

But Third Sister You was only at home on weekdays, at most she went to the temple occasionally, and there were not many opportunities for Jiao Shun to meet her face to face.

But Xia Jingui is Xue Pan's regular wife, and the two of them are almost tied to death.

This is probably because the wicked have their own grind.

He was comforting Xue Pan here, when the steward of the Taiwei's Mansion came and said that the auspicious time was approaching, and the family members were invited to pay their respects to the remains, and the coffin should be sealed after the work was done.

Most of the funerals in the capital these years have been moved from afternoon to morning. The main reason is that the cemetery is getting farther and farther away from the city. If you go in the afternoon, it may be already dark by the time the burial takes place.

When Jia Zheng got the news, he went to the mourning hall first.

Not long after, a group of female family members and the timid Jia Baoyu also rushed over.

Jia Zheng gouged out his son's eyes and said, "Wait back and see how I deal with you." He led Wang Ren and other relatives and men around the coffin muttering words.

Because a lot of ice cubes had been placed in the coffin, the corpse hadn't rotted yet, and someone had just tidied it up, so it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it was lifelike.

After the female relatives finished looking at the remains, Wang Ren took the wooden hammer from the servant, and shouted, "Father, get out of the way, don't be hurt by the nails", and smashed seven rivets in one by one.

Immediately afterwards, there was another cry inside and outside the mourning hall.

Jiao Shun looked at it for a while, and saw that he still had to cry, so he went back to the side hall, took out his usual incense, and prepared to cover up Lin Daiyu's breath, lest Jia Baoyu smell it with his dog's nose .

I don't want to just smoke for a while, Tanchun suddenly walked in from the outside.

Jiao Shun put away the incense without changing his face, and said casually: "My mother told me when she was about to leave, that she was afraid of getting contaminated with something - after all, Xiangyun has twin bodies now."

Tanchun didn't become suspicious, but said helplessly: "Sister Feng is really worried, so let me come over and ask, Brother Jiao, how you plan to deal with the aggressive Neo-Confucianism."

After all, she did not hold back Wang Xifeng, after all, this Feng Lazisu is a character who will not give up until he achieves his goal.

Of course, she herself was also very curious about Jiao Shun's countermeasures, so what she asked was not whether it was necessary or not, but how Jiao Shun planned to deal with it.

However, Jiao Shun said solemnly: "Whether it is Wang Ge's new Confucianism or our engineering school, they are all for the imperial court and to promote His Majesty's New Deal—since everyone is a fellow traveler, why should I prepare to deal with it? All I can ask for is nothing more. It’s just fair and just.”

Tanchun raised her brows when she heard the words: "Why, Brother Jiao doesn't trust me?"

"how is this possible?"

Jiao Shun saw that there was no one around, so he pulled her into his arms, and said with a smile, "I'm not lying to you, the word 'fairness and justice' is enough to deal with the New Confucianism—not only to be fair, but also to be fair." There is a bias toward them."

"What does that mean?"

Tanchun raised his head, his face full of thirst for knowledge.

Speaking of...

Has she developed again recently? This scale has obviously surpassed Aunt Zhao's.

"What do you think Confucian scholars are best at?"

"Beautiful head and poor scriptures? Bewitching people's hearts?"

"That's called enlightenment!"

Jiao Shun seriously corrected: "Confucianism is the most important and the longest at enlightenment. Since it is the Academy of Engineering, it can't take any Confucian classics, right? This time I plan to suggest that the imperial court conduct investigations from five aspects."

"The first is: engineering, that is, the ability to design projects and lead construction; the second is scientific research, that is, the ability to develop new theories and new equipment; the third is calculation, which needs no further explanation; the fourth is technology, That is, practical ability; the last item is education."

"Anyone who wants to take an official position in the Academy of Engineering needs to choose four of these five items, and then select the top comprehensive and individual items."

After Tanchun listened to it, he thought for a while, and guessed that Jiao Shun wanted the new Confucians to choose the option of enlightenment.

Let the Confucian scholars compete with blacksmiths and carpenters, not to mention whether the Confucian scholars can win, even if there are a few of them who are not doing their jobs properly, how dare they abandon their education and choose to test their skills in front of everyone?

"But how to test this education?"

"Naturally, candidates are asked to design a set of best plans to promote the engineering system in as much detail as possible. When the time comes, select the feasible ones for trial use. The fastest and best results can be directly listed as the leaders of engineering—after all, engineering Prosperity in the world, this education is also the most important thing."

Now Tanchun fully understands.

What Jiao Shun is playing is Yangmou. What the emperor is looking forward to the most is to implement the New Deal and industrialization as soon as possible. However, if he wants to implement the engineering system faster and better, he will inevitably touch the interests of scholars. .

If the new Confucianism is carefully designed and implemented, the conflict with the old Confucianism will become more intense.

Even the New Confucianism is likely to have differences because of this.

But if the Confucianists are best at teaching so highly, but the New Confucians are still unwilling to seriously design and implement it, it will prove that the New Confucianism is unreliable, and no matter how anxious the emperor is, he will definitely think about it.

(End of this chapter)