dream of red mansion

Chapter 841
The next morning, when Jia Qing came out of Wu Xian'er's house, he happened to meet Lu Zhu who was carrying a water basin.

Because Jia Qing had a secret conversation with Wu Xian'er last night, he was in a different mood, so he looked her up and down again.

"What are you looking at, my lord?"

Luzhu didn't know that her young lady had sold her out, and she thought that her face hadn't been cleaned up, and because she was holding a water basin, she couldn't check it, so she was a little awkward.

"It's nothing, your lady was tired last night, you go in and help her wash up."

Hearing this, a cloud instantly flew up on the face of the green pearl, looking a little delicate.He saluted Jia Qing and went in.

Go back to Ganlu Hall to wash up, and have a simple breakfast.

After a while, Jia Yun and his wife came over to say hello.

Jia Yun's daughter-in-law was chosen by Jia Yun's mother for him two years ago. Although she is not a lady from a famous family, she is also a lady from a small official family.

Xiaojiabiyu, who was born in Beijing, is delicate and pleasant, but it is very suitable for Jia Yun, who is like a white-faced niche.

Originally, she lived in the house given to Jia Yun by Jia Qing to serve Jia Yun's mother. After Jia Yun's mother passed away, she moved back to the palace and lived with Jia Yun in the original Jia Rong's courtyard.

After kneeling and paying respects, Jia Yun bowed and said, "Father Bing, all the carriages have been sent over to the Chariot and Horse Workshop. Do you want to have a look?"

Jia Qing nodded, Qingwen and Peifeng waited on her to change into a robe, and followed Jia Yun to the front yard.

Nanyuan was originally the place where Ningguo Mansion raised horses and harnessed carriages.After the Ningguo Mansion was restructured into a royal mansion, several servant houses at the back were demolished and expanded into its current appearance.

Outside the entire stable is a large yard, where more than a dozen carriages are neatly parked at this time.

Jia Yun said: "Every carriage here is made of the best materials according to the requirements of the father. In order to prevent bumps, everything from the wheels to the shaft to the cushions inside has been treated to prevent bumps. On potholed roads, as long as you don’t run very fast, it won’t be too bumpy.”

Jia Qing nodded, limited by the skills of the times, even if the chariot and horse dealers found a lot of skilled craftsmen, it was impossible to make the carriage as stable as the cars of later generations.

However, he personally tested the carriage specially made for him by the previous chariot and horse shop, and it was indeed much better than the one made by the imperial court.

This batch was also personally requested by him, and it would be even worse after thinking about it.

Jia Yun continued to introduce: "These carriages are not sold to the public at present, but the cost of each one is only 500 taels of silver, especially the king's carriage specially made for the father, the cost is even more More than 1 taels!"

As Jia Yun spoke, her eyes were full of reverence.

Without his reminding, Jia Qing has already seen the big guy in the front.

In this era, carriages are inherently valuable items, but ordinary carriages are only a few dozen taels of silver, and with a horse, only a hundred taels of silver is enough.

1 taels of silver to build a carriage is estimated to be comparable to the 1000 ordinary cars and [-] million luxury sports cars in later generations.

With consideration for his new car, Jia Qing looked at his king's car.

First of all, from the appearance point of view, it is indeed mighty and domineering.

Four wheels, six horses!
The whole body is resplendent and resplendent, with dragons and phoenixes carved on the wall of the car.

The width is twice as wide as that of an ordinary carriage, and its volume is more than six or seven times larger than that of an ordinary carriage.

Even though Jia Qing is not a good person, he couldn't help but love him at first sight.

Good stuff, naturally everyone likes it.

The last time he saw Tana's carriage he thought it was quite grand, so it's not surprising that compared with this one.

Jia Yun is a qualified "shopping guide": "Father's king's car was made by ordering chariots and horses from the very beginning of his father's appointment as king.

Just for these six horses, each one is a one-in-a-million prairie horse, worth no less than a hundred gold. "

Jia Qing pouted, no wonder it was so expensive, the six horses alone accounted for half of the value.

"Also, the axle is made of extremely tough iron pear wood, the body is made of high-quality red sandalwood, and the tassels hanging on the roof are all made by masters of Suzhou embroidery."

Jia Yun introduced it to Jia Qing tirelessly, but Jia Qing listened impatiently, stepped forward to jump on the carriage, opened the curtain and sat in.

No matter how good it is, it is better to experience it for yourself.

Jia Yun understood, and asked the driver on standby to drive the carriage.

The more horses there are, the more difficult it is to drive a carriage.A carriage with six horses is already extremely difficult to steer.

These two coachmen are trainers specially trained by the carriage and horse shop. They are proficient in the habits of horses and know how to safely drive a complicated carriage.

The huge carriage moved slowly in the Nanyuan compound, but unfortunately the place was not spacious enough, so it barely made a half turn, and Jia Qing ordered to stop.

"Father, how do you feel?" Jia Yun asked Jia Qing how he felt.

Jia Qing nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Okay, this time I'll take it with me when I go outside the Great Wall!"

The inside is indeed very spacious, and there is no problem in seating more than ten people, just enough to enjoy the romance with my concubines.

Jia Yun seemed to see through Jia Qing's thoughts, and smiled.

Jia Qing glared at him, but he was not angry, and said: "After I leave, I will leave all the family affairs to you. Please take care of me and make no mistakes."

"Yes." Jia Yun bowed to accept it, with a regretful expression on her face.But it's not because he can't go outside the Great Wall to play. For him, he has traveled all over Dachu all the year round, and he has never seen any scenery.

Unfortunately, he couldn't accompany Jia Qing to serve.

Jia Qing didn't say anything, there must be someone who can take the helm in such a huge palace.

Now there are only three men in the palace, namely him, Jia Yun and Jia Chu.Jia Chu didn't say anything, he was only three years old.

If he wanted to go out, Jia Yun needed to stay in order to deal with some emergencies.

In the afternoon, Jia Qing went to the princess mansion and took Daiyu and the princess back to the palace.

In the evening, Jia Qing summoned Baochai, Daiyu Tanchun and others to Ganlu Hall, and everyone discussed the itinerary on the road, what to bring and what not to bring.

Baochaiyin said: "We have been going for several months. What do you eat on the way? You can't eat dry food or barbecue for every meal, right?"

Daiyu then said: "That's too boring, I should think of a way, or we can bring two more cooks?"

Baochai laughed and said, "I don't need a cook. We used to live in the garden, and Wu'er's mother was good at cooking. Let's just bring them with me. It's just that Qiao's daughter-in-law can't cook rice-free porridge. If you have the ability, where will there be so many ingredients for her to use?"

When everyone heard this, they all became worried.

Jia Qing couldn't help laughing, and said: "We are going to the outside of the Great Wall, not into the desert. Look at you one by one, what are you worrying about? Although the people outside the Great Wall are sparsely populated, there is no shortage of food. On the contrary, the people outside the Great Wall The scenery is beautiful, the golden mountains and rivers, the green grasslands, and because of the sparsely populated, all kinds of natural ingredients, delicacies and game are innumerable. Even if we can't find enough ingredients for a while, we just send people to Datong Mansion to buy them from the Mongolian tribes. We can also Picking wild game and hunting by yourself, plus we bring some easy-to-storage rice noodles with us, why should we worry about this?"

When everyone thought about it, they knew that they had made a mistake of imagining.

Daiyu was not convinced, and said: "We don't know what's going on outside the Great Wall. You have been there and you didn't tell us. We are worried that something is wrong?"

"Yes, yes, you are both right."

Jia Qing spoke in an unhappy tone, which made the others laugh. Daiyu blushed and gave Jia Qing a glare.

Just discussing some matters about the itinerary, Tanchun said for a while: "Second brother, I have something to tell you."

Jia Qing asked her to speak.

"Lan'er has asked me several times in private, and she also wants to go with us to the outside of the Great Wall, saying that it is to see the smoldering places outside the Great Wall, and feel the freedom and wantonness of the predecessors on the battlefield, in order to increase experience and insight. But the sister-in-law disagrees. , I helped him talk to his sister-in-law, but he couldn't. Yesterday, Lan'er gave me some advice, and troubled me to beg you, her mother would naturally listen to what you said."

After hearing this, Jia Qing scolded: "You brat, why didn't you come to me yourself?"

For Jia Lan, Jia Qing is both the second uncle and the teacher. When he was free these years, he taught this little guy a lot.

"He is afraid that you will scold him for being playful, so he dare not come." Tanchun said with a smile.

Jia Qing smiled and said, "It's better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. If he wants to go, I will naturally agree. How about this, I will go to Sister-in-law Wan at night and ask her to let her go."

Xichun listened to it for a long time, then suddenly said: "Brother, can we take our sister-in-law too? She was nice to us in the garden before, so why don't we take her with us when we go out to play? Besides, we are all gone. , she is alone in the garden."

Xichun said very seriously.Tanchun pulled her and said, "You're embarrassing him. We don't know what kind of temperament my sister-in-law is? I'm afraid she's not used to traveling with us."

Li Wan has a conservative personality and is punctual, unlike Wang Xifeng who is always aggressive.

Daiyu laughed again and said, "It's not difficult. Although my sister-in-law doesn't like to go out, if Lan Geer is detained by him, she may not feel at ease. Another one, I heard that Baoyu has persuaded the old man to go out. Ancestor, you also want to go with us. When he goes, the ancestor is definitely not at ease, and must find someone trustworthy to watch over.

Lian's second sister-in-law wants to be the housekeeper, and taking care of the old ancestor has nothing to do with the two wives over there, so the old ancestor has no one to send.

As long as we mention the old ancestor a little bit, the old ancestor will definitely let the sister-in-law be dispatched.

She never refused to listen to her ancestors. "

Baochai laughed and said, "It's just that you have a lot of tricks. If she knew that you were plotting against her like this behind her back, she would definitely say that she loved us for nothing!"

Daiyu retorted: "I'm also thinking of her. It's so much fun for so many of us to go out and have fun together. What's the point of staying at home?"

Jia Qing also laughed, and said: "Okay, let's follow Sister Lin's plan, and we must abduct her too!"

(End of this chapter)