Red Mansion Soldiers

Chapter 34 Acid

"Little son-in-law... my nephew greets Lao Tai, ah no, my uncle and aunt! After four years of separation, old...uncle and aunt still look good." Jia Hun greeted Li Shouzhong, who was sitting on the main seat, incoherently.

From that day onwards, the banquet was held for ancestor worship. On the first day, the children of the Bafang Jia family were entertained, on the second day, honored relatives were invited, and on the third day, they were entertained with old friends and relatives in Beijing.

Jia Hun, who had been drunk for three days in a row, finally had some free time. He hurriedly picked up several carts of gifts, went to the street from the gate of Lixiangyuan, and headed towards the residence of his prospective father-in-law, Guozijian Jijiu Li Shouzhong.

When you enter the door, you must call Lao Taishan.

Hearing the titles that Jia Hui subconsciously uttered, the mother-in-law covered her mouth to hold back her laughter, and Li Shouzhong couldn't laugh or cry. His son-in-law-to-be really hasn't changed at all.

When I saw him for the first time, I called myself Lao Taishan. The daughter who was hiding behind the screen and peeking shyly ran away in a panic, and even knocked down her precious brother Yaoci.

Distressed, he didn't eat for three days!

"Okay, good, good son-in-law, get up quickly, come on, sit down!"

Li Shouzhong helped Jia Hun to sit next to him.Carefully looking at the son-in-law I haven't seen in 4 years, I am filled with emotion.

Who would have thought that a concubine born to a maidservant in the house would now be a county lord and worship the Great General Sima!

In the past, he was worried that Jia Hun would die in the Northwest War and his daughter would be a widow. Now, he has returned with all his glory!
Li Shouzhong couldn't maintain his old seriousness, and excitedly stretched out his hands to rub Jia Hun's big rough hands with frostbite scars, and couldn't help feeling distressed.

The Li family was not prosperous, and he had just given birth to his only son a few years ago, half a son-in-law. Before his son was born, Li Shouzhong watched Jia Hun grow up, as his own son.

"My son, I have really suffered all these years!" Mother Li also saw the scars on Jia Hun's hands, and burst into tears instantly.

Li Shouzhong was like this, let alone his mother-in-law, Jia Hun and Li Shouzhong Weng and his son-in-law spent a lot of effort to comfort Li's mother who was crying.

"Father, mother!" A little fat man of three or four years old ran in and saw a big black man sitting in the hall, he couldn't help feeling cautious and hid in Li's mother's arms.

"Hehe, come Shaoer, come quickly, son-in-law, this is your brother-in-law, his name is Li Shao." Li Shouzhong beckoned, and the little fat man leaned on the edge of the table and rubbed against Li Shouzhong.

"Come on, Shaoer, this is your brother-in-law, come and call someone."

Li Shao bit his lip and looked timidly at the big black man in front of him, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he sweetly called brother-in-law.

"Hey, you're so good, come, brother-in-law treats you to some candy!" Jia Hun rubbed Li Shao's head, and handed the toffee in his hand to Li Shao.

"Brother-in-law, I think my sister is hiding behind the screen." After speaking, he raised his head and looked at Jia Hun expectantly.

Whoa!

"Hahaha, boy, you betrayed with just a piece of candy?" Jia Hun laughed, and quickly took out a few more pieces of toffee from his bosom, and Li Shao put them into his bosom without any hesitation.

"Ah, the old man's blue and white!" Li Shouzhong, who was also laughing, suddenly realized what the noise was just now, screamed again and again, turned around, entered the screen and began to cry.

On the other side, a girl came out and stared at Li Shao angrily. Li Shao froze and retracted into Mother Li's arms.

When Jia Hun entered the door, he found someone behind the screen. He didn't say anything, just waited for the person to jump out. Now that he had succeeded, he hurriedly looked over.

The girl was wearing a light pink jacket and a white embroidered skirt underneath, as if she was in the mist, she looked about sixteen or seventeen years old, except for her black hair, the exposed skin Snow-white, with a beautiful face and a cool temperament.

With a slender and tall body, it is estimated that he is only a head shorter than Jia Hun, who is more than 1.9 meters high, and the girl can reach his shoulders.

Mother Li looked kindly, looking at Jia Hun standing in front of her daughter, who was taller than her daughter, she couldn't help but feel emotional.

What did these two children eat to grow up? They grow so tall!

It's fine that Jia Hun is a man, but his daughter is taller than her father.

His father was no longer short in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.

Thanks to meeting Jia Hun, otherwise how could he get married!

Li's mother took Li Shao's hand and led him away, letting the two young men talk about the old days. With so many maids watching, they are not afraid of Jia Hui's mess.

They were speechless and wanted to say everything, but everything was said in the letter.

"Does your hand still hurt?" Li Wan spoke first.

"It didn't hurt at first, but now that you say it, it hurts."

Silence again.

Li Wan stretched out those white and flawless, delicate and soft hands, and took Jia Hun's rough black hands full of scars.

Gently wiping the scar on it, Li Wan felt a little sad.

Everyone in the world praises the bravery and good luck of their beloved Jia Hun, who has already become a minister at such a young age, but who knows how much blood and tears the beloved has sacrificed behind this?
Every time her father told herself what battles Jia Hun had won and how many enemies he had killed, Li Wan didn't feel joy, but endless fear. Accidentally missed, the next time her father came over, he told her the news of Jia Hun's death in battle...

The cold girl never brought her bad mood to others, she just shed tears for that person alone in the dead of night.

"Why are you crying? Come on, give me a smile! Come on!"

"Hmph, don't you find it annoying to say this since you were a child? When will you have some new words!"

Li Wan took the handkerchief and nodded at the corners of his eyes, then rolled his eyes.

This person likes to tease himself like this since he was a child, and he just said a few words, it's so annoying!

Seeing that Li Wan was no longer sad, Jia Hui also heaved a sigh of relief.

My little wife is good in everything, but she has a relatively cold temper. It took me many years to make her lively.

Silence again.

One is clumsy and the other is not talkative.

Whoever speaks first loses.

Li Wan couldn't hold on any longer, and lost to Jia Hun who was used to big scenes.

"You...why are you so dark?"

After finishing speaking, Jia Hun's rosy face darkened again.Li Wan made a breakthrough and burst out laughing.

"This... is exposed to the wind and the sun. The sun is poisonous in the desert, and the sun is strong on the plateau. It will be white after a few months of raising it." Jia Hun regretted that he didn't speak first.

The Jia family is famous for their looks, no matter how successful they are, there is no one ugly in appearance, and Jia Hun is no exception.

Back then, he was also a handsome young man with fair skin and pure and stupid eyes.

Then he joined the army.

Originally, he was only tanned in the desert, but who let him go to the plateau? He was tanned and rosy.

It's been almost two months since I've been indoors.

You can only blame your own body.

After bickering for a few words, they remained silent.

"Are you free in the future? How about going for an outing together? Call Yuanchun and the others, and you also bring brother Shao. I learned some barbecue recipes from the Western Regions, and I will give you a taste in the future!"

Don't let her speak first!

"Well... yes!" Li Wan agreed without hesitation.

As for the reservedness of a girl's family, it doesn't exist, but the black man on the other side is very puzzled, and she has experienced it since she was a child.

For the sake of my girl's reservedness, I missed countless candied haws, sugar figurines and bamboo tube zongzi.

This black fellow will never ask someone a second time!

"Then it's done, I'll pick you up the next day."

So it's settled.

Silence fell again.

The childhood sweethearts have grown up, accompanied by more than ten years, and knowing that they will become husband and wife very early on, the relationship between them has long skipped love and directly become family.

A look, a movement, any small detail can detect what the other party wants to do, and the two who usually talk less are even more tacit.

"Tell me about your time on the plateau? You haven't written these things in your letters."

"Okay, let me tell you..."

As soon as Li Wan asked him to tell him about the plateau, Jia Hun regained his spirits, stood up and stepped on the short pier, vividly, and talked to Li Wan with both hands and feet.

Li Wan exclaimed from time to time, applauded when he talked about something exciting, or asked him a question, which made Jia Hun's mood even higher and his speech became more vigorous!

Standing beside the two of them, Suyun, Li Wan's personal servant girl, sighed.

After all, my son-in-law was being manipulated by his own lady.

They talked until noon, when they were interrupted by Li's mother who came to greet the two of them for dinner.

After having lunch with the Li family, and taking a nap in the guest room for half an hour, Jia Hun finally asked the Li family to stay and bid farewell.

. . . . . .

Jia Hun was not in a hurry to go back, but led the horse, with his hands behind his back, and walked unsteadily on the street.

After paying a visit to Li's family, his marriage will start to go through the procedure.

In fact, the procedures have already started. As early as when my grandfather was alive, he had already completed the four steps of "Na Cai", "Ask the name", "Naji" and "Nazheng", and the engagement was completed.

Next, you only need to go through the remaining two steps of "asking for a period" and "welcome in person".

Jia Hun's visit this time was actually to remind the Li family that they were about to get married.

When he thought that he and Li Wan had been an "old husband and wife" for more than ten years, and now they were going to hold a wedding, he couldn't help laughing.

On the side of the orange stall, the grinning dandy who ate a sour orange heard the laughter behind him, thought it was a joke, and was about to whip his whip angrily.

When he turned his head and saw a six-foot-tall black man wearing a purple gold-woven bullfight jacket, he was so frightened that his whip dropped to the ground.

I've seen big black men before, and I've seen people six feet tall, but this bullfight uniform is not something you can wear easily.

Purple robe, bullfight suit, Lord Hou!

Jia Hun also noticed the dude and looked at him playfully.

Dandy's scalp is numb.

"Puff, why don't you smoke?"

"Little, how dare you offend Lord Hou?"

The dandy who can speak well on weekdays can't say anything.

His father spent most of his life working as a servant, and he finally managed to get a position as a servant. If he really smoked, the whole family would be exiled to Dayuan Island tomorrow!

Thinking of this, Dandy's legs trembled as if they were sifting through a sieve.

"Tsk, with such guts, how dare you come out and be a dude? Get lost while a certain family is in a good mood!"

Seeing Wandan's reaction, Jia Hun felt bored and kicked Wandan's big ass, and Wandan rolled several times before stopping, rubbing his big crotch and howling.

"Why is this dandy in Yanjing City so lazy? A certain family remembers that they used to have a lot of prestige... Oh, what the hell!" Jia Hun was picking oranges in front of the orange stall, and asked the shivering stall owner, what to peel? Open an orange and try it out, I almost feel sour and stick out my tongue!
"Have you never eaten your oranges, you bastard? How dare you sell them if they are so sour!"

"Small, small..."

"Forget it, you weigh two catties for me, and I'll take it back and give it away."

Such a sour orange can't be the only one that gets sour!
. . . . . .

The sky gradually darkened until the last ray of light escaped from the book, and Jia Zhu was shocked to realize that he had read the book for a long time.

In front of the window on the second floor of the study in Jia Zhu's yard, Jia Zhu, who was dizzy while reading, rubbed his eyes and was about to go downstairs to eat something. He didn't like to be around when he was reading.The maid downstairs was well aware of Jia Zhu's habits, seeing Jia Zhu leave the window, she quickly greeted her with a bowl of ginseng soup.

Jia Zhu's courtyard is the original Jia Zheng's courtyard. It is on the west side of Jia She's courtyard. The study "Qi Shuang Zhai".

After eating a bowl of ginseng soup, Jia Zhu felt as if she had come back to life, quietly experiencing this transparent feeling.

"Hahaha. Brother Zhu, brother, I'm here to see you!"

The heroic laughter could be heard from a long distance away, and Jia Zhu, who was interrupted from the experience, smiled helplessly. Every time his big brother Hun came here, it was the same as going back to his home, and he never notified him.

"The evil guest is coming, Pearl, go and prepare some tea." Jia Zhu ordered her maid, Pearl, to greet Jia Hun.

"Brother Hun, do you need me?"

"Hey, I can't find you if I have nothing to do?"

"That can't, come on, let's go into the house!"

The two went straight to the second floor and sat in front of Jia Zhu's favorite window. Pearl had already brought the tea.

"I heard that Uncle Da Zong admires you very much and wants to recruit you as his son-in-law?" Min took a sip of tea, and Jia Hun asked.

"Where is it, where is the only daughter of Uncle Da Zong that I, Neng Xiao, the son of the fifth-rank official, thought about? It is the daughter of Uncle Da Zong's cousin who said that she has taken a fancy to me, and is now discussing with her father."

Jia Zhu has a clear understanding of herself.Although it is rude to talk about his father, his father is essentially a five-rank Yinfeng Yuanwailang, and because of trespassing, he lived in Rongxitang. No matter what the reason is, not refusing is the biggest mistake, so he is not welcomed by his colleagues.

It sounds good now, and he is called the second master of the Duke's Mansion, but he still has to move out after all. At that time, his father, Jia Zheng, was just a fifth-rank Beijing official, the kind who could kill five or six people with one brick on the streets of the capital. .

His own health is not very good, Qiu Wei almost failed in the examination room last time, even if Uncle Da Zong wanted to marry his only daughter to him, he would not dare to marry him.

Uncle Da Zong's niece is very suitable for me, but she has a bit of a tough temper. No one dares to come to propose marriage if she dances with guns all day long. Otherwise, how could such a beauty be my turn?
"Ah, that's not bad. After my brother and I marry your sister-in-law into the house, it will be your turn next. Wait, Uncle Da Zong's niece, Li Peilan?" The figure of a tough woman appeared in Jia Hun's mind.

Back then, he followed his grandfather Jia Daishan and visited many martial arts gyms in the capital.

The Chongde Martial Arts Hall is one of them. It is the ancestral property of the current official of the Ministry of Rites, the grand uncle Li Huan. Li Wei has no talent for practicing martial arts, so this martial arts gym belongs to his younger brother Li Chun.

Li Peilan is Li Chun's daughter.

He still can't forget the scene of Li Peilan chasing and beating a dozen or so peers with a wooden sword.

He gave Jia Zhu a sympathetic look, but didn't continue to ask.

"Oh, by the way, how is Enke preparing for this year?"

"Fortunately, I experienced Qiu Wei last time, and I probably already know how to take the test. In recent days, Uncle Li read my article and said that I have reached the level of the second-level. If I can meet an examiner who appreciates me, I guess Can go to the front position of the second class.

Speaking of it, it is also thanks to you, big brother. If it weren't for big brother's beautiful battle, the emperor wouldn't open another Enke once he was happy. Otherwise, he would have to wait three years for the next exam. "

"It's all thanks to the soldiers. More than 8000 people went up, and finally more than 3000 came down, and there were hundreds of people who couldn't even find their bodies. Alas..." Jia Hun sighed.

"Let's not talk about it. It's all over and the battle is over, so there's no point in talking about it." Jia Hun shook his head.

"By the way, why are all the dandies in the city so annoying? I didn't meet a few along the way."

"Ah, there's no reason for this, it's just that the old dandies have married wives and had children, so naturally they won't go out to cause trouble, and the rest are some low-ranking little dandies, whose fathers and grandparents don't have high official positions.

Recently, there are a lot of elders who have become officials. Naturally, the dandies in their family will follow their fathers and grandparents. They will leave the tea and continue to be lawless in Beijing. If they are not killed by someone, no one will take care of them. The newly-appointed nobles are afraid of bumping into you and being established! "

That's right, Jia She, the biggest hooligan leader in Yanjing City back then, has retired, and their group must be similar. My brothers are all seventeen or eighteen years old, and there is no reason to be beaten by my group. Naturally, he has to be a man with his tail between his legs.

"Okay, by the way, the last thing, is there nothing to do in the day after tomorrow?"

"What's the matter, Hugh Mu, the Imperial College in the future?"

"I want to take Yuan Chun and your sister-in-law for an outing in the future. Taking this opportunity, you can ask Yuan Chun to invite Li Peilan out to meet you."

"Yeah!"

They are all young and restless boys in their teens, and this is the time when they are most curious about their other half.

The two brothers looked at each other and smiled.

"Then it's settled. Come on, I bought some oranges on the way back. Would you like some?" Jia Hun randomly took out two oranges from his pocket on the ground and handed one to Jia Zhu.

Jia Zhu, with pure eyes, took the orange and peeled off the peel in two or three strokes.

"Bah, vomit, what is this!"

Jia Zhu, who had a refined temperament of a scholar, broke his skills in an instant, his whole face was sore, he shrank together, his whole body twitched, spit out the oranges in one gulp, and gulped down the tea.

"Brother, I have no grievances with you in the past, and I have no grievances in the present, why are you plotting against me!"

Jia Zhu felt the backstab from her relatives.

"Hahaha, how could I be the only one to eat such sour oranges!" Jia Hun laughed loudly!
　The last few days have been too busy and the quality of updates has dropped.Fortunately, I have already been busy, transitioning to two or three chapters, and designing the next plot well

　　
　
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