The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 238 Playing at Dusk
Looking at the scene in front of him, Wang Xifeng naturally felt a little apprehensive.

But then he adjusted his mentality.

As long as the unconscionable people don't go out to fool around, it doesn't matter if there are only two or three in the family. Anyway, it's already a certainty, and it's not the first time.

"I heard that the lord has made a fortune again today, so I'm here to congratulate you." Wang Xifeng smiled, stepped forward to take the wine glass from Xiang Ling's hand, and signaled Xiang Ling to go over to it.

Seeing that Jia Lian just smiled and ignored her, she went over and asked with a smile, "Second Lord, if you don't tell me, how did you get all the money outside?"

"It's only 3000 taels, how much?"

Seeing that Jia Lian replied without raising her head, Wang Xifeng raised her eyebrows slightly, and then said with a smile: "Yes, yes, we all know that our Second Master Lian is now very capable, so how could he take 3000 taels of silver in his eyes?
It is small and shallow eyelids.

So, the younger one respectfully invites the second master to have a glass of wine, and then asks the second master to give him some advice. "

Wang Xifeng said, holding the wine glass in one hand and the bottom of the glass in the other, and served Jia Lian the wine.

As the eldest lady of the Wang family, she was pampered and pampered since she was a child. She has been married to the Jia family for many years, and her fingers are not touched by the spring water. Her pair of bare hands is very well maintained.

Compared with Xiang Ling's weak hands, they are a little less immature, and they look more slender and beautiful.

In addition, she has long nails, which are smeared with bright Koudan, which adds a bit of coquettish feeling to these beautiful palms.

Jia Lian suddenly remembered the woman who fell off the horse in the Prince's Courtyard today. At that time, he noticed that the other's hands were also lit with high-end nail polish.

I want to paint Koudan for long nails, which is also a symbol of a woman with status in this era...

Without thinking too much, watching Wang Xifeng raise the glass with both hands to his mouth, under the nose, the aroma of the wine combined with the fragrance of the beauty's plain hands, just makes people's heart skip a beat.

So he finished his mouthful, and caught off guard by Wang Xifeng, he grabbed her slender waist and sat in his arms.

"What are you doing, girls are still here..."

Wang Xifeng blushed, and after sitting still, she patted Jia Lian's thigh to express her dissatisfaction.

"I'm done eating."

Jia Lian put down his chopsticks, lowered his head to Wang Xifeng's ear, and said softly, "Don't you want to know how the money came from? Let's go inside and I'll tell you slowly."

After finishing speaking, Jia Lian picked up Wang Xifeng by the waist, stood up and walked to the back room.

"Yeah, you're going to die, I still have something to do, don't mess around..."

Wang Xifeng couldn't see what Jia Lian was thinking, and suddenly twisted in disbelief.

It's just nightfall, and it's not time to rest yet!Moreover, in front of Xiangling and other servant girls, the two master and master went in to do bad things, which always made her feel ashamed.

Ping'er was packing up things in the room at this time, when he saw Second Master and Second Mistress coming in, he was a little stunned, but put down what he was doing and was about to leave.

Seeing Jia Lian's firm will, Wang Xifeng obeyed in her heart, so when she saw Ping'er, she stretched her neck and gave Ping'er a knowing look.

Ping'er nodded with her knowingly, then went out, looked at the two girls with different expressions in the next room, and said seriously: "You two go to the door and watch, don't let anyone come in, I'll go to the kitchen Get some hot water back."

Xiangling nodded, knowing the rules, she was about to hold Qingwen's hand and retreat outside to be on duty.

But Qingwen said: "It's good for you to stay here. I just went to get food for the second master. My feet are sore from running. I'll go back and rest for a while."

After speaking, he turned his mouth full of displeasure and left.

Ping'er didn't want to talk about her, so he nodded with the well-behaved Xiangling, and went out of the back door to the small kitchen.

……

Rong Qing Tang, when Jia Mu and the others heard what Jia Zheng said, their faces were full of disbelief.

"You mean, Lian'er won 1 taels of silver in a poetry competition outside?

Even Prince Beijing was admired by Lian'er's literary talents, and promised 3000 taels of gold just to get a copy of the original manuscript written by Lian'er himself? ? ? "

Jia's mother said hello with a forehead, and asked this sentence.

In the hall, Mrs. Wang, Li Wan, including the sisters Jia Baoyu who had gathered around when they heard the movement, as well as the surrounding maids, servants, etc., were all stunned.

Jia Zheng knew that Jia's mother and others would not believe it, and he had already prepared for it.

"This is just what the official historian of the Prince's Palace in Beijing said personally, and my son immediately transcribed it. Please read it, old lady."

Jia Zheng took out his manuscript and respectfully presented it to Jia Mu.

Mother Jia took it blankly, glanced at it casually, and found that everyone was very curious, so she simply handed the manuscript to Jia Baoyu who was squeezing in front of her, and said: "Baoyu, come and read it for everyone."

"it is good!"

Jia Baoyu, who considers himself the most talented among the Jia family's sons, took the manuscript papers very neatly as if he was being rewarded.

He still doesn't believe it, could it be that Lian's second brother has really become a monster!

After half an hour.

Jia Baoyu lowered his arms dumbly, and glanced at the people around him who looked almost the same, a feeling of powerlessness welled up in his heart.

In particular, seeing the astonishment in the eyes of the sisters, he felt that he would lose his last piece of pure land at home.

Brother Lian, you really are not human...

Otherwise, how could he write such a good sentence!

"The most important thing is that I can't keep it in the world, Zhu Yan recites the mirror and the flower recites the tree."

"When the wind changes, the snow changes, and the dreams of the hometown will not come true..."

He secretly took out the words and sentences that he was most proud of in the past and compared them. Even though he was unwilling, Jia Baoyu knew that he was crushed!
For a moment, Jia Baoyu even thought that it would be fine if he had little knowledge and hadn't learned a few poems.

In that way, maybe these poems were written by predecessors and used by Lian's second brother, but I don't know...

It's a pity that he turned his head to look at Sister Lin's eyes. From her eyes, Jia Baoyu knew that this was an impossible extravagant wish.

Even though he is poorly educated, sister Lin is extremely intelligent.

With Sister Lin's uprightness, if it was the sentence of the predecessors, she would have pointed it out unceremoniously, so she wouldn't worry about Lian's second brother's affection!

As the former daughter of the Marquis's Mansion, Jia's mother, although not very talented, has also developed a good tasting ability since she was a child.

At least she is more elegant than Mrs. Wang.

She could also tell that these poems were indeed extraordinary.

Those few quatrains are nothing but these two lines, even if she reads them, she still finds them thought-provoking and memorable.

The beautiful face leaves the makeup mirror, like a blooming flower, taking off its branches and falling into the mortal world.

What an apt metaphor.

Who was not a beauty when he was young.

Mother Jia quietly touched her gray temples, and immediately realized that this was an embarrassing behavior, she quickly put it down, and then asked Jia Zheng: "These are really written by Lian'er? Could it be you who made a mistake?" Well, since Lian'er was young, I haven't seen him say a few decent words, if he can write these things, it would be really strange."

Although Daiyu also felt that this matter revealed something strange, she still couldn't help saying, "Old lady, when Lian's second elder brother went to pick me up in Yangzhou, he actually said something, Even my father thought it was admirable when he heard it."

"Oh, what?"

Daiyu felt that it was not appropriate to say it out of her mouth.

But seeing that Mother Jia didn't take it seriously, she put it down, thought about it, and briefly talked about what happened that day.

She did this purely to justify Jia Lian's name so that others would not underestimate him like that.

Lian's second brother is just steady and introverted, he doesn't like publicity.

It's just that it's strange, if Lian's second elder brother can compose poetry and lyrics like this, why did he bother himself to teach Xiangling in the first place, and even go to his courtyard to teach.

Thinking back to every time I went to Xiangling's house to teach her, whenever Lian's second brother came home, he would always come and have a look...

Could it be that Lian's second elder brother is only busy in one aspect, and the other is for the convenience of seeing me?

Suddenly embarrassed, Daiyu was busy looking for a proper reason.

That's right, when his father asked him to take him to Beijing, he must have promised his father to take good care of himself.

It's not very convenient for him to take care of me when I stay in the old lady's house, so I let myself go to his yard often, so he can check from time to time, if I'm sick again, and if I'm in good health...

Even yesterday, when he rarely came to see him, he told him to go to his courtyard.

From this point of view, maybe we should go and sit more when we have time, so as to live up to his painstaking efforts...

"Gou Li's family lives and dies, ****! Sure enough, good sentences, good ambition, this is the heart of a man's family!"

When Jia Zheng heard this sentence from his niece, he praised him, and glared at Jia Baoyu viciously.

You bastard, if you are half as sensible and motivated as Jia Lian, I don't have to worry so much!

Before he could stare twice, he realized that Jia Mu was also staring at him. Jia Zheng immediately turned his expression away, and said to Jia Mu: "My son has heard this sentence from his colleagues before, because they all said that it came from The mouth of our Lian'er.

It was only later that I found out that this was what was mentioned in Ru Hai Zou's memorial to the Holy Majesty. At first I thought Ru Hai intended to support Lian'er, so he deliberately promoted him.

Now that my niece said so, I think it really came from him.

If you look at it this way, I'm afraid that Lian'er is really talented and able to come up with these sentences, which makes sense.

It's just why he didn't show it much before... I can't guess what he's thinking, I'm afraid I can't put it aside with common sense. "

Mother Jia didn't care much about the family, country and world, but she was deeply touched by Jia Zheng's words.

Jia Lian's grandson really cannot be treated like an ordinary person!
Take what happened yesterday as an example. In the face of such a major event, most people are eager to take advantage of it. When paying money, hide away!
Fortunately, Jia Lian was so generous that he took the initiative to hand over all his father's inheritance to the family to build a garden!

Although in hindsight, he probably wanted to force Zhen'er to give up the territory of Huifangyuan, but this is not the way ordinary people should act.

She and Mrs. Wang were willing to pay the money because they really loved Yuan Chun and couldn't bear to see her not go home and see if she had such an opportunity.

But as for Jia Lian, Yuan Chun was only a half-grown boy when he entered the palace, so what was he planning, was it just to make a fuss?Based on all the previous facts, Lian'er may have really escaped the category of "ordinary people". His behavior and method of doing things cannot be ignored by common sense.

Not sure, these poems may really be written by him.

"Old lady, I just heard that Lian'er has also returned home. Instead of speculating here, why not call him over and ask him if he is right?"

Mrs. Wang, who had no interest in poetry, suddenly spoke.

Jia Mu raised her forehead, "Look at me, it's not right.

Yuanyang, you go and invite him here, just say we have something to ask him. "

What kind of weight of people, who to use to invite, is particular.

Now Jia Lian can't be like before, any little maid can be called here.

……

Before it was completely dark, and the mandarin ducks did not delay, they left Jiamu's Hospital and came to Fengjie's Children's Hospital alone.

Her mood was a little complicated, but most of all she was amazed.

As the most prestigious maid in Jiamu's house, she is also the most educated servant.

This is due to the fact that her parents have been elders in Rongguo Mansion for several lifetimes, which gave her a basic foundation for her love of reading since she was a child.

Later, she served Jia Mu, who was also an elegant person. Even in order to win Jia Mu's favor, she worked hard on reading and reading, so that she left the other ignorant maids far behind.

This is actually one of the reasons why other maids couldn't shake her position at all.

As Jia's mother is old, she needs such a considerate person with "both ability and political integrity" to serve and take care of her.

Because of this, she is one of the few maidservants who can hear the impressive connotations of those verses.

The original Second Master Lian was good enough, but I didn't expect that everyone still misunderstood him...

Yuanyang didn't know what kind of mentality she should have. Logic should be admired and respected, but she found that such thoughts were not too serious.

Because, the more perfect Second Master Lian is, the farther away he is from maids like them...

Yuanyang was very familiar with Sister Feng's Children's Home, and usually helped Jia's mother take care of things, and had to deal with Jia Lian and his wife, so she didn't go through the main entrance, but directly entered Sister Feng's Children's Home through the side moon door, and went up the corridor of the main room.

The yard was quiet, except for the faint chirping of insects, which seemed a little noisy in the quiet evening.

"Sister Yuanyang, why are you here?"

Yuanyang, who walked to the door of the main room, didn't see anyone, hesitated for a while, and then opened the curtain and went in.

He saw Xiangling sitting on the edge of the tea table head-on, with his head propped on his hands, in a daze.

Hearing the movement, he came back to his senses, and immediately greeted her, a little nervous.

"Why are you here alone, are your grandpa and grandma at home?"

"Yes, here..."

Xiangling blushed a little, both grandpa and grandma had been sick for a long time.

And Sister Ping'er, she didn't come out after going in...

Although Yuanyang didn't see or hear anything, but only saw Xiangling's eyes subconsciously looking in, thinking about Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng were still at home, but all the door curtains were drawn down, so they didn't realize anything.

Her pretty face turned red immediately, and she hurriedly let go of Xiangling's hand, "Go and tell your master, just say that the old lady called him."

After Yuanyang quickly finished speaking, she stepped out of the room.

Immediately, Jia Lian's voice came from the inner room: "The old lady called me, right? Sister Yuanyang, wait a minute, I'll go with you right now."

Yuanyang didn't answer either.

After a while, Jia Lian came out of it as expected.

It was very dark, and Jia Lianfeng's handsome face was hazy.

The mandarin duck lowered its head, not daring to look back.

(End of this chapter)