Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Chapter 116 Sent to Hainan

Yun Zhu felt worried and was led by Lin Zhixiao to Jia Zheng step by step.

Dangdang.

Another group of enclosures ended.

"Don't be afraid, the second master is just asking casually, and he is not a harsh person to his servants." Lin Zhixiao couldn't help but comfort her when he saw her cautiousness.

Yunzhu nodded and walked slowly up to the pavilion. When he arrived in front of Jia Zheng, he bowed politely, lowered his eyebrows and said: "Second Master, you are well."

"Yes." Jia Zheng nodded without joy, looked up and down, then picked up the teacup and fiddled with it.

He was seen scratching the bowl back and forth, as if he had forgotten the purpose of calling her forward for a moment, and seemed not to know where to start asking.

The air was stagnant and anxious. On one side, Jia Mu and Baoyu were looking at each other happily. On the other side, Jia Zheng was pretending to be sophisticated. Yunzhu could not help but rub her fingers in her sleeves, thinking about what the second master wanted to do.

"Three girls arranged this fun for the old lady." In one sentence, such a major move as land contracting was characterized as a fun fun, and Jia Zheng's noble spirit of a scholar was clearly revealed in his bones.

Seeing that the old lady was happy, there was a hint of interest on his face, and he asked again: "You put smoke in the lotus pond. What was it made of?"

Yunzhu nodded, "To tell you what the second master said, the smoke is made from tile frost mixed with candle tears and powdered sugar."

"Well, young people's ideas are indeed very bold." Jia Zheng became more serious: "The paddle on the pulley you made also surprised me, so some things must be explained clearly!"

"Yes!"

Yunzhu was startled by the sudden seriousness, and immediately bowed more standardly, tremblingly thinking about whether he should kneel down or something. When Jia Zheng waved his hand, Lin Zhixiao hurriedly said: "Okay, no. It’s your business, get down.”

Hearing this, Yunzhu breathed a sigh of relief. She had already made up a set of logical and self-consistent lies when she started collecting frost on the tiles, but Jia Zheng didn't ask a single question.

It was inevitable that she would murmur in her heart, but she remained as honest as ever in this tense atmosphere.

"That little girl, where did you come from?" Seeing Yunzhu walking away, Jia Zheng spoke casually, tapping the folding fan with his fingers, turning a deaf ear to the uproar in the Grand View Garden.

The orthodox Confucian education emphasizes the importance of having a good foundation and a strong foundation. Jia Zheng was concerned that the court could not do anything fake. Naturally, he naturally believed that if a new trick appeared, he could please the emperor by paying tribute at the right time.

However, when it comes to the research and innovation of existing technologies, even colleagues from the Ministry of Industry and even subordinates at the forefront of research are almost headless, let alone a young internal servant?

He just had some keen observation skills. Jia Zheng praised himself so much in his heart, but he just felt that he was the good general covered in dust, and his Majesty could not see his good qualities for a long time.

"Yunzhu is a maid in the old lady's courtyard. The second mistress bought her from the suburbs of Beijing three years ago. She was born in Zhaojia Village, Dayi County, under the Chengdu Prefecture. Now she is responsible for making tea in the Second Master Bao's courtyard." If it were someone else. , Lin Zhixiao may not be so eloquent, but because of his friendship with Xiaohong, he took so much trouble to investigate, and now he answers questions fluently.

Jia Zheng was stunned: "Isn't there a craftsman in the family?"

"Three generations have been farmers. Four years ago they moved to Jiangxi Prefecture due to floods, and the following year they moved to the capital due to the locust plague."

"You didn't understand what I meant." Jia Zheng emphasized again with a sideways glance: "Where did she get those ideas?"

"Self-taught...can you trust me, sir?"

Jia Zheng shook his head: "Even the craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry may not be able to use the pulleys and bearings on oars. Not to mention that she has taught herself, these things are only used in water conservancy, how can she learn them?"

"Baoyu taught the maids how to read last year." Seeing Jia Zheng frowning, Lin Zhixiao quickly stopped and added: "You are taught by the master, and everyone practices. The few maids are perhaps the most talented of this Yunzhu. I have a lot of talent, and I have studied a thousand-character essay for a few days, so I often read some leisure books while taking care of the study, and the second grandma also knows about it."

In fact, Mrs. Wang also knows it, but in their eyes, as long as the little maid's heart is higher than the sky, as long as she doesn't climb into the young master's bed, the ladies and grandmothers won't care. They just learn a few words. Baoyu is happy with it, so why bother them? Disappointment?

Jia Zheng was a little disappointed and asked again: "The pulley and bearing are also from the book?"

Lin Zhixiao said: "This thing was made by a carpenter relative of the servant's family. It's just that the drawings Yunzhu gave are too crude. I don't know where she learned it yet."

With that said, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Jia Zheng.

Jia Zheng glanced at the crooked drawings with piercing eyes, "Have you understood it beforehand?"

"Yes..." Lin Zhixiao felt uneasy and quickly flattered him: "For safety reasons, my servants will pay attention to everything that comes in and out of the inner courtyard."

Jia Zheng did not continue to ask, but he felt a lot of regret in his heart.Although he had already left the Ministry of Industry, he actually still had illusions before that.

It is almost an open secret for people who are familiar with the sages to fantasize about the appearance of generals and generals.

Seeing that the atmosphere was strange, the old lady heard the whole story and asked, "Our family also has a craftsman class. Since Zheng'er thinks she is talented, why doesn't she go to the craftsman class?"

In a wealthy family, it is a good thing for the servants in the house to be good at it. If possible, they can be trained and sent to the right position, which is far more valuable than a servant who just serves others.

"After all, this is a girl's family. I'm afraid I won't be able to take on big responsibilities. Let's take a look first and then say something." He didn't say it to death, but the stench of the literati's nobility was still exposed.

The old lady didn't show any emotion on her face, but her heart was stunned, so she hugged her baby bump and stopped talking.

But he said that Na Tian’s mother got up from the water and asked the old lady to see clearly in the telescope without saying anything. She also watched Yunzhu use these smoke bombs to register in front of the masters, and she was filled with hatred and anger. It's because I didn't complete the errands that everyone told me to do.

It is said that people's joys and sorrows are not connected with each other.

Although there were some twists and turns, Yunzhu still got what she wanted and grabbed a six-thirds-acre pond. She smiled secretly when she saw the dental plaque engraved with a large and small size falling into her hand.

"The manager said that you cannot change the appearance of the yard. You must follow the instructions of the garden craftsman to take care of the lotus pond every year." She said to Xiaohong with her fingers that she would pick leaves in March and flowers in May, and wait until October. You can dig lotus roots only, you cannot touch the koi in the lake, and other shrimps and crabs can be caught according to the season...

Xiaohong was not interested. Yunzhu talked for a long time, but she still looked downcast and asked, "What's wrong with you? But what's wrong with you?"

Xiaohong thought for a while and sighed.

The second master is always strict, so the way she spoke without restraint today happened to be in the eyes of others, which must have displeased the second master.She murmured in her heart, wanting to make amends but not knowing where to start. After all, her father was in the position of the housekeeper. Would others laugh at her because of her daughter?So I thought about it and said to Yunzhu: "I'd better not go out of the yard from now on."

It turned out that he was worried about something embarrassing.

"The second master can't even stand his own son." Yunzhu hugged Xiaohong's shoulders and comforted her softly.

Everyone in the mansion knew that Jia Zheng was cold-faced and disciplined, and no servant was complete who had not been scolded by him.But there is a good thing about Zong'er. He never punishes his subordinates corporally, and only gets over it after scolding him.

He only punished Jia Baoyu corporally.

After hearing this, Xiaohong thought of the days when Baoyu was beaten. She made a puff and pursed her lips. She was about to speak, but was interrupted by the excitement outside.

"what happened?"

"Go and see."

The two of them quickly cleaned up the tea room and headed towards the place where the noise was.

The white smoke in the lotus pond has not completely dissipated, and even spreads everywhere. Unknowingly, even the canal and rockery behind Yihong Courtyard are overflowing. The female servants are walking among them, as if in a dream.

"It is indeed a fairy spirit. What do you think you are doing with those candle tears? It's really wonderful." Xiao Hong whispered. Seeing the mother-in-law pushing several servants to take them out, both of them were confused.

how?Is there a territorial fight?
It happened that Baoyu came from outside and played for a long time. His forehead was shiny. The two of them went to help fetch water to wash him. Unexpectedly, when Baoyu saw Yunzhu, he ignored Sheyue and others and asked her to come forward by name. Serve.

Several maids were wiping his hair around him, and Baoyu was sometimes asking about scooters, and now about smoke bombs. As he listened, he became lost in thought again, staring blankly at the maids sweeping outside the window.

Although Yunzhu described the process of frosting the tiles and candle tears very interestingly, Baoyu still couldn't hide his silence and didn't pay much attention.

When Daiyu walked in, she saw Baoyu looking like he was out of heaven. She was looking for someone to talk to to relieve her boredom, but now she was talking like a goose, so she quickly stepped forward and waved her hand in front of him.

Daiyu just thought that he was very tired today, and asked quickly what went wrong?

While talking, Yunzhu sat down on the small round table beside him and said with a smile: "Miss Lin, please give me a review. Just now, Second Master Bao asked me to talk about scooters and smoke bombs for him, but I said a lot. Second Master He didn't even give me a straight look, which is really heartbreaking."

"Is he always like this? He comes and goes as he pleases. Let me see, he has his body snatched away? He's so stupid." Daiyu's cheeks shone brightly. As she spoke, she held up the silk handkerchief in her hand. Tucked into his sleeves, he made a heart-holding gesture with his hands and tried to move Jia Baoyu's neck.

Baoyu's slender hands dangled in front of his eyes, giving off a refreshing fragrance. Baoyu suddenly came back to his senses and said, "I'm tired though. I always feel like my eyes are covered with something. Is my sister feeling well?"

Daiyu was talking about asking Mrs. Hu to force six kinds of porridge and soup today. Yunzhu saw Baoyu say "Ouch" and was about to fall over. She didn't even care about the handkerchief on her hand and hurriedly stepped forward. One pallet.

But she overestimated her own strength, and instead got tied up with She Yue Qixie's left and right legs. In the confusion, she and Daiyu also fell to the ground.

The maids standing aside were all frightened, and Xue Yan even made a sound, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Daiyu up from Baoyu, "Girl! Are you okay?"

Before Daiyu could shake her head, she saw Jia Baoyu rolling around on the ground holding his head, his wet hair that had just been bathed spread all over the floor, and his pale face suddenly frightened Daiyu to tears, "Quick, go and invite the old lady. "

Wang Xifeng had been in confinement for nearly half a month, and Mrs. Wang had been extremely worried for half a month.

At this time, Mrs. Wang was talking to Lai and everyone with a sad expression. When she heard that Lai had brought the people, she sneered in her heart, but her face was calm and she just said: "It seems that we are going to interrogate people today."

Seeing the woman below her clenching her teeth and not speaking, Mrs. Wang felt resentful. After Zhou Rui's family observed her words, she stepped forward and said: "After all, the second grandma is young and has no experience, so I understand that she can't convince everyone. What's the matter?" Considering that our wife has a bodhisattva temperament, you dare to act like a monster in the house?"

As he said that, he threw a pack of red paper figures in front of the woman, raised his eyebrows, and shouted: "Now that I have explained the whole story, I can still spare your life! Otherwise, according to our master's temper, we will You're going to be sent to the Criminal Ministry Court to see if you can afford to live in an official's house!"

In this room, there are three halls holding a trial, and in that room, there is a lot of excitement, and in the palace of the Duke, some people go out to find a doctor, some go to the monks, and some go to the coffin shop.

Zhao San and his wife, who had been paying attention to the news in Jia's house, were worried, but they had no way to appeal. But one night, a circle of blisters appeared at the corner of Zhao San's mouth.

This matter 'coincidentally' became a factor in impeachment and landed on the emperor's desk.

The old emperor held up the ink pen, squinted his eyes and scratched a mark on the fold, and said in a low voice: "This old Jia is disobedient. He came back to the capital without saying a word. Why, he is not satisfied with the official he asked for?" Already?"

The supervisor didn't know why.

"Back to Your Majesty, I heard that the old lady of the Jia family was ill, so..." What is this?When an official who is sent abroad returns to the capital privately, it is out of filial piety that he should hand over a letter of apology in order to be considered honorable to the emperor and his ministers.

Xia Shouzhong, that old boy, has been busy visiting Jia's house recently, but he didn't mention anything at all. He needs to go back and ask what's going on.

The old emperor raised his eyebrows, with some doubts, and approved another sentence on the fold, and then said: "Go, draft the decree, let me think about it... How about going to Hainan?"

The chief eunuch responded, but the image of the Jia family's imperial concubine with a big belly appeared in his mind. He couldn't help but speculate in his mind that the imperial concubine was about to give birth, but your majesty wanted to send the imperial concubine to give birth to her father. What did it mean?
Jia Baoyu was still unconscious in bed, and the palace's decree arrived at Jia's house.

This time, he was not as gentle as before. He first scolded the Jia family for their feudal superstition and the theory of witchcraft, then criticized Jia Zheng for leaving his post without authorization, and finally appeased the old lady with a few words.

The Jia Mansion was enjoying the spring breeze at its peak, but a bucket of cold water was poured over its head on a sunny day in March. The various mansions in Beijing were even more eager to move around, but they all excluded the Jia Mansion.

"Your Majesty has lost face since the East Palace, and his behavior has become more and more erratic." After seeing off the eunuch who announced the edict, he met Jia She's probing face. Jia Zheng held the edict in his hands with a solemn expression.

Somehow, he had a helpless feeling in his heart, like I would have turned my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon shone in the ditch.

At this moment, the sun was setting in the west, it was already evening, and even the Grand View Garden was no longer as lively and joyful as it used to be. Apparently, this edict from Jia Zheng, an expatriate, frightened many people.

Excluding the heartless duo, Yunzhu and Xiaohong sneaked out of the yard and admired the world they had worked so hard to build in the rockery cave. Just as they were joking about squeezing each other, they saw someone entering in the distance. to Yihongyuan.

The figure in the silver-red gold silk pomegranate skirt, with beads and gems on her head, is Aunt Zhao who cannot be underestimated in the inner house.

What is she here for?
(End of this chapter)