serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 46 Family Harmony

Imperial City.

In the open space of the Meridian Gate, two teams of criminal officers stood in line, holding court sticks in their hands.

The officials of the Zhongshun Palace, Chang Shi, Dian Bo, the guard commander, and the chief eunuch of the Palace were taken to the Meridian Gate by the eunuch of the Criminal Division, and their crowns and belts were taken away.

Xia Shouzhong, the chief eunuch of the Dragon Head Palace, came out, glanced around with piercing eyes, and said, "The Supreme Emperor ordered: You instigated the prince, and alienated the relationship between the royal family and the nobles, it is a heinous crime! Immediately die!"

Xia Shouzhong raised one hand in the air, "Execution."

"Yes!" With a roar, the two teams of eunuchs rushed over.

The eunuch of the Tixing Division directly hit the four people's backs and waists with the court stick on the kidneys. Every time the stick went down, all the internal organs were crushed, and blood spurted out from the four people's mouths and noses immediately.

On the huge square of Qianqing Palace, King Zhongshun knelt there alone, with his head raised high, as if he was going all out.

In the distance, some court ladies and eunuchs gathered together to discuss in a low voice.

Dai Quan, the chief eunuch in charge of the Qianqing Palace, came out and scolded in a low voice: "What are you looking at? There are no rules at all! Sometimes you will suffer!"

Those palace ladies and eunuchs disappeared in a flash.

Dai Quan walked up to King Zhongshun and said, "My lord, just go in and admit your mistake."

There was silence.

Dai Quan: "Your disturbance today is not only dissatisfied by the nobles, but even the Qingliu will be shaken. The Jia family has just made great contributions to Da Zhou."

King Zhongshun remained silent.

Dai Quan looked around for a while, squatted down beside him, and lowered his voice: "I heard that the Supreme Emperor got angry. If you don't admit your mistake today, it's not just the two servants who died!"

King Zhongshun was startled for a moment, then smiled: "It doesn't matter."

Dai Quan shook his head and stood up. Suddenly, footsteps came from behind him. He turned around and saw Xia Shouzhong walking over, followed by several eunuchs from the Criminal Division.

"Old ancestor!" From a distance, Dai Quan saluted.

Xia Shouzhong nodded, and saw King Zhongshun kneeling there, strode over, stood still in front of King Zhongshun, and said, "My lord, this old slave has ordered the long history, Dianbo, and guards of the mansion to be ordered by the Supreme Emperor." The commander and the eunuch in charge were killed outside the Meridian Gate. The corpses were sent back to the palace."

King Zhongshun was stunned.

Dai Quan lowered his head slightly.

Xia Shouzhong: "By the way, the Supreme Emperor asked the old slave to tell the prince that as a child of the royal family, the prince should consider the overall situation and be loyal to the ancestors and the country. If the prince still acts recklessly like this, only caring about his own selfishness and disregarding the overall situation of the country, he will die in the future." It’s not just these subordinate officials.”

Sweat was dripping from King Zhongshun's face.

Xia Shouzhong reminded gently: "My lord, thank you."

King Zhongshun was startled, and immediately kowtowed: "Your minister leads the decree."

Xia Shouzhong went over to help him up: "Old slave, I would like to say one more thing, the prince must be considerate of the Supreme Emperor, father and son are of the same body, and it is for the sake of the prince."

King Zhongshun's Adam's apple twitched, and he said with difficulty: "Director Fan Xia returned the edict to the emperor, saying that the minister knew his mistake, and now he will think about it behind closed doors."

Xia Shouzhong: "My lord, don't worry, this old slave knows how to answer your lord's call."

King Zhongshun: "Then please ask me a lot."

"My lord said that I killed this old slave." Xia Shouzhong lowered his head.

King Zhongshun looked at Dai Quan again: "President Dai returned the order to His Majesty, saying that I will go back immediately and write an apology, and I will deliver it in person tomorrow morning."

Ningguo Mansion.

On the way from the front hall of the Ning Mansion to the flower hall in the backyard, Jia Hu walked in front in casual clothes, and Zijuan followed carefully behind him.

Lai Sheng's family and Lin Zhixiao's family were in front, and a few rough envoys followed closely behind, carrying a suitcase.

As Jia Hu walked, he asked Zijuan, "How is your girl coughing at night?"

Zijuan: "If you go back to the second master, it will be much better. A month ago, the imperial doctor Wang came here specially and prescribed some medicinal food. Now I don't take medicine much."

Jia Hu nodded, "Just tell me what you girls want to eat or play. If I'm not here, you can go directly to your grandma."

Zijuan said with a smile: "Grandma treated our girl very well, because of this, the fourth girl even lost her temper. But she was coaxed by our girl."

Jia Hu: "Hey! This girl will never grow up."

Zijuan: "Miss Si likes to play with her temper, but she never makes trouble for no reason. Miss Si was with her when she first came here, and she also rests together at night."

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Jia Hu just smiled and didn't ask any more questions.

"Second master, the old lady is waiting for the banquet."

Entering the backyard, Zhou Rui's family waited here with people. Seeing Jia Hu coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to answer.

Jia Hu: "Understood." A group of people entered the vertical flower gate, passed through an east-west corridor, and it was the flower hall in the backyard.

There are more than a dozen seats in the flower hall, the top two seats are Jia Mu, You Lao Niang, Li Shi, and Aunt Xue; There are three seats on the west side, one for Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang, one for Li Wan and Sister Feng, and one for Qin Keqing next to Youshi.

The rest of the seats were occupied by women from the clan that Jia Hu didn’t know. On the day of great joy, Mother Jia sent someone to invite the women from the clan. Due to various reasons, only Jia Zhu’s mother Lou, Jia Yun’s mother, and Jia Qin’s mother Here comes the wait.

Seeing Jia Hu come in, except for Jia Mu, Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang, the whole table left and waited on them with their hands down.

Mother Jia beckoned and looked at Jia Hu kindly.

Jia Hu looked at Jia's mother with complicated eyes, and walked over quickly, and politely gave Jia's mother a family salute, "Grandson pays respects to old grandmother."

Jia Mu laughed and said, "Get up, sit and talk."

Jia Hu: "Yes." She bowed her hands to Mrs. You and the others, and sat down beside Jia's mother.

Mother Jia looked at Jia Hu carefully with her loving eyes, and said, "You've lost weight, and you've also turned dark."

Jia Hu was slightly taken aback, and Mother Jia continued: "But your body is stronger." After saying this, she paused, "My dear boy, the Jia family is sorry for your family's burden and suffering for you."

Mother Jia was a little excited, "But... since Zhu'er died of illness, no one in the family can take on the important task of revitalizing the family." As she spoke, tears rolled down her face.

After hearing this, Jia Hu heaved a long sigh. Mrs. Xing, You Shi, Wang Xifeng and others came up to persuade her, but Mrs. Wang and Li Wan were weeping and speechless.

It was difficult for everyone to persuade them.

Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "To seek the blessings and longevity of our ancestors, the happy events at home come one after another, and the good days are yet to come. If there is anything that is not satisfactory, it is our Second Master Lian who is not good enough. I will call him Come on, let the old ancestor beat him a few times to vent his anger." As he said, he ordered Ping'er to find Jia Lian.

After hearing this, Jia's mother scolded with a smile: "This Feng girl is getting more and more talkative! If you break Lian'er, she will make trouble with me again." Then she said to Ping'er: "Lian'er has worked hard these days, let him take care of himself." Rest."

Ping'er smiled back: "Yes."

Looking at Zijuan who was still standing behind Jia Hu, Jia's mother was slightly taken aback, and said to Hu Po: "Go and pour wine for your second master."

"Yes." Hu Po took the jug from the woman's hand, and gave Zicuckoo another look.

Zicuckoo understood, walked down and stood behind Daiyu.

Jia Hu stood up and said with a smile, "It's not too late for the ancestor to drink after seeing the gift."

Jia Mu: "Oh?"

At this time, Lai Sheng's family frantically directed a few rough envoys to carry the box in.

Jia Hu helped Jia Mu to go down, and Lai Sheng's family hurriedly opened the lid of the box - a Jade Avalokitesvara carved from a whole piece of Hetian jade.

Jia Mu hurriedly saluted with her palms together, and said with a smile on her face, "Hi Bodhisattva, you have a heart."

Mrs. Xing came over, looked at it carefully for a moment, and said: "Old lady, this seems to be the ornament that was enshrined in the Muni Court." Then she looked at Mrs. Wang, "Mrs. Baoyu also wanted to invite back to worship. Brother It must have taken a lot of effort to invite her back, which shows that the filial piety towards the old lady is stronger than ours."

Jia Mu nodded, "I didn't care about these things, as long as each of you is promising, I'm happy."

Jia Hu: "This is a gift from the Yangzhou salt merchant Wang's family to the old lady. I wish the old lady a long life and good health." He also said to Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang and others: "The gifts from each house will be delivered tomorrow."

"Okay. Since I'm a filial disciple, I'll accept it." Mother Jia nodded and said with a smile, "Let's have a good time today. No one is allowed to leave before the third watch."

Wang Xifeng hurriedly ordered people to carry the box down, and said with a smile: "The ancestors also invite everyone to sit down, drink a sip of wine to moisturize your throat, and then talk and laugh."

Everyone sat down, and Jia Mu picked up the wine glass and said with a smile, "please!" She drank it all in one go.

Jia Hu did it, so did Aunt Xue and others.

Jia Mu said to Baoyu again, "I haven't come to pour wine for your second brother yet."

After hearing this, Baoyu asked for a pot of wine and came up to pour wine for Jia Hu. Jia's mother said again: "You sisters all come here and respect him in turn."

Then, all the sisters also came, and Jia Hu had to have a drink for each of them.

Seeing Jia Hu like drinking water, Wang Xifeng joked: "In the drama, the generals drink from big bowls. You, a real general, must have a lot of wine. Come, pour wine with a cup!" Then, he took the cup from Ping'er and personally Fill up the wine, "Second brother has done a lot of hard work for the country, so sister-in-law is right to toast you with a bowl of wine."

Jia Hu couldn't push it, so he had to drink it.

Wang Xifeng poured another bowl and said with a smile, "This bowl is for your second elder brother Lian to honor you."

Jia Hu smiled, the wine in the inner house was only [-] to [-] degrees, besides, everyone was very happy and didn't shirk it, and said with a smile: "The second sister-in-law told Lian second brother to invite him to drink in two days." Take the wine and dry it.

The mandarin ducks and others also came to pay their respects, and Jia's mother hurriedly said with a smile: "Little hooves, let your second master eat some vegetables to relieve the hangover."

Seeing Jia Hu who was in a hurry, Daiyu covered her mouth and smiled.

It was getting dark gradually, and the Dragon's Head Palace was dark and empty, only wisps of faint light came out from the bedroom.

The Supreme Emperor came out of the palace wearing a long gown.

Xia Shouzhong went up to meet him, "I've checked, and the Chang Shi of Zhongshun Palace is indeed a scholar on the same list as the Chang Shi of Beijing Palace, but we lost contact a long time ago."

The Supreme Emperor was slightly taken aback, and it took a long time before he nodded heavily.

(End of this chapter)