The Red Chamber: The Rise of the Shuzi

Chapter 80
Sure enough, Xichun said with a smile: "Third brother, look, the palace has rewarded you with money for this big Chinese New Year. Let's see if you also reward us brothers and sisters with some money?"

Jia Jing raised her forehead, "I knew it, if you change your name, there must be nothing good!"

Pulling Jia Jing's sleeve, Xichun said with a smile: "Everyone knows that third brother is always generous, and he is very kind to us brothers and sisters. You won't be reluctant to give up a few taels of silver this time?"

"..."

"That's all, it's for you!" Jia Jing shook her head helplessly, unable to bear Xichun's constant nagging, and decided to spend money to eliminate the disaster.

"Hey, just cast the golden cups, one for each person!"

With that said, Jia Jing took out six gold lockets from his pocket, and gave one to each of them.

Baochai and Xiangyun originally wanted to decline, but Jia Jing directly stuffed them into their hands.

Xichun's performance was not as expected by Jia Jing, as soon as Jin Kaizi got her hands, she immediately left Jia Jing's sleeves...

"Ha, another five months' worth of money is in hand!"

Xichun smiled, tossed the golden locket in her hand, and carefully put it into her purse.

Looking at Xichun's little fortune fan, Jia Jing smiled and said, "So? You are here today to blackmail one of my golden sons?"

Hearing Jia Jing's question, Xichun suddenly said: "Didn't you hear that the third brother is free at home today, so everyone wants to invite the third brother to go to the street with us!"

"For Chinese New Year, go around the street? Can the old lady allow it?" Jia Jing looked at Xichun narrowly, "I'm afraid you asked me to go around, do you want me to vouch for you?"

Seeing that Jia Jing had seen through their tricks, Xichun stomped her feet, feeling a little uneasy on her face, "Oh, don't talk so much, third brother, just say whether you want to go or not!"

Seeing that Xichun looked anxious, Jia Jing stopped teasing her.

"Then go for a walk, I just want to go out and have a look, but..." Jia Jing's voice stopped.

Xichun hurriedly asked, "But what?"

Jia Jing smiled and said: "But Xichun, you have to be responsible for my snacks and snacks on the street today, so you have to take care of your stomach!"

Thinking about getting about five months of profit from Jia Jing, Yingchun raised her head and promised, "What's the big deal? Isn't it just eating enough? After you go out, third brother, you can eat as much as you want! I Pay!"

"Deal! Then let's be gentlemen!"

Jia Jing raised her right hand.

"It's hard to chase a horse!"

Xichun also stretched out her right hand and patted it with a smile.

……

As the New Year approached, the market in Shenjing became more and more lively.

To say that in the past, the market in Shenjing was already extremely prosperous, and its splendor was comparable to that of modern ordinary cities.

Now that it's New Year's Eve, Shenjing's prosperity is even more prosperous!

Standing on the streets of the market in Shenjing at this time, it can really be called a sentence, waving sleeves like clouds, sweating like rain!
But the crowd who came and went saw that Yingchun and Baochai couldn't help retreating.

There are so many people on the street, rubbing shoulders, most of them are women, so naturally we have to avoid it.

Immediately, Baochai and Yingchun stopped Xichun who was about to rush into the market, "Why don't we go back first, there are so many people on the street, and it is extremely inconvenient for us girls !"

Xichun smiled and said, "What's the matter? At the temple fair, it was about the same as today. Back then, I could go shopping well. Why can't I go shopping today?"

The enthusiastic Baoyu next to him also hurriedly persuaded him: "Yes, two sisters, it's rare for us to come out. Wouldn't it be a pity if we didn't go for a walk? Besides, there are soldiers from the third brother's house guarding us, what are we afraid of?"

After some begging.

Yingchun Baochai was finally persuaded by Xichun and Baoyu, so everyone quickly blended into the noisy market under the protection of Jia Jing's personal soldiers.

……

In the market, Jia Jing walked along with everyone, and the girls were dazzled by all kinds of new and strange things.

From this stall to that shop, and from that shop to the street vendor...

Everyone wandered casually along the way, talking and laughing along the way, and the things on hand were also increasing rapidly.

In such a cheerful situation, time naturally flies by.

In the blink of an eye, it was almost noon.

Seeing that it was indeed getting late, several people reluctantly went back from the market.

……

When Jia Jing returned to the Hou Mansion, Jia Rong had been waiting in the living room for a while.

Seeing Jia Jing coming back, Jia Rong hurriedly stood up and saluted, "Third Uncle is back?"

"Well," Jia Jing nodded, and said again: "Your house is also busy these two days, just hand over the things to the concierge, you don't have to make a special trip to wait for me to come back!"

Jia Rong smiled and said: "It's just a matter of waiting for a while, what's the matter!"

As she spoke, Jia Rong brought over a small yellow cloth bag.

It is the reward of this year's palace.

This is the first time Jia Jing has seen this thing, so after reaching out to take it, she couldn't help but looked back and forth curiously.

There is a seal on the pocket, with the four big characters "Huang En Yongxi" written in the middle, and next to it is the seal of the Ministry of Rites, offering sacrifices to Qing officials, and another line of small characters reads: Marquis Zhaowu Jiajing, gift spring sacrifice, net discount of 300 silver Two, on the 27th of the twelfth lunar month in the sixth year of Hongde, Jia Rong, the supervisor, received it in the hall, and Xu Ningsheng, the prime minister of the temple, was on duty.

Below that is the Zhubi monogram of Xu Ningsheng of Guanglu Temple.

Looking at the monogram of Guanglu Temple on the pocket, Jia Jing asked, "Did you get this reward from Guanglu Temple?"

Jia Rong replied with a smile: "Back to the third uncle, the rewards of the nobles in Beijing are not received at the Ministry of Rites this year. They are all placed in the Guanglu Temple treasury. My nephew went to Guanglu Temple. Bring it back."

"Thank you for your hard work!"

Jia Rong hurriedly said that she didn't dare.

Jia Jing opened the pocket, and inside were six 50 taels of silver bills.

After taking out the banknotes, Jia Jing handed back the yellow cloth pocket to Jia Rong.

This bag needs to be burned in the big furnace of the Ningfu ancestral hall, which is equivalent to reporting to the ancestors, telling them that their descendants are still blessed by the emperor.

But she said that Jia Rong was about to leave with her pocket, but was stopped by Jia Jing again.

"By the way," Jia Jing thought of something, and asked again: "Has the day for treating guests to New Year's wine in the first month of the two houses have been planned?"

Jia Rong replied: "I haven't even started planning the date yet. Before I came, my father told my little nephew that after I left my third uncle, I would go directly to my second aunt Lian's to ask about it."

Jia Jing nodded, "That's fine too. By the way, tell me to copy an extra copy to me after the date of the list is drawn up, and the one in your house is the same. Now that I have moved out, I have to be here too. The mansion will host a banquet for those old relatives."

Jia Rong nodded and said, "Don't worry, third uncle, my nephew will save me from this matter!"

Afterwards, seeing that Jia Jing had nothing to say, Jia Rong got up and left.

……

As soon as Jia Rong left, Lai Fu came in from behind with two invitations and two account books.

"Lord Hou, Lao Li from the Green Willow Villa and Qi Junqiang from the Liaodong Village are here, and they are waiting outside now!"

Jia Jing nodded, "Let them all come in, it's so cold, how can you stand outside?"

Turning around, she instructed Amber again: "Let the servant girl serve some cups of hot tea to warm them up!"

"Yes! Lord Marquis."

Amber hurriedly arranged for the maid to serve tea.

And Jia Jing took the note and account book from Fu's hand, put it on the desk beside him, picked up another note and opened it...

　I would like to report a good news to everyone, we successfully PK Sanjiang, and we will successfully advance to Sanjiang Recommendation next week!
　　thanks for your support!
　　Thank you!

　　


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