Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 143 Jia Mansion
In the morning, I ordered someone to notify Jia's family. In the afternoon, as it was almost time, two sedan chairs and a carriage came out of the house.

Jia Qiang rode a white horse and walked beside two small sedan chairs.

The carriage contained the gifts that Jia Min was going to bring to Jia's house this time. They were all chosen by Jia Min in Yangzhou.

There are a lot of people in the Jia family, and everyone must be considered, otherwise it will be disrespectful.

Jia Qiang specially came to Lin Daiyu's sedan. Through the sedan window, she saw Lin Daiyu who looked slightly excited but not too nervous, and couldn't help but smile.

Lin Daiyu also saw him, and her face turned slightly red when he smiled.

Jia Qiang is really happy for Lin Daiyu. Thinking of the original trajectory of "A Dream of Red Mansions", when Lin Daiyu entered Jia's house, she really paid attention to every step and cared about it all the time. She was unwilling to say another word or take an extra step for fear of being laughed at. She went.

She was lonely and helpless at that time, unlike now, with her mother by her side, her father serving as an official in Yangzhou, and him as her fiancé, all the happiness was placed on her.

Jia Qiang didn't look too much. After all, she was outside, so she still had to pay attention.

The two sedans arrived at Rongning Street and first passed by Ningguo Mansion.

Her initial enthusiasm for seeing her relatives was extinguished by Jia Zheng's questioning.

Letting Jia Qiang and Jia Min enter through the side door not only insulted Jia Qiang, but also insulted Lin Ruhai.

Under normal circumstances, the young lady in the family will not open the middle door when she returns home. Only if her uncle is accompanying her and the uncle's status is sufficient can the middle door be opened.

In fact, after receiving the post, Jia Mu was just happy and did not give any instructions. Either the male master would come to ask about this kind of thing, or the housekeeper's wife would come to ask about it.

If he didn't stop him, this gang of boys would have led a few people in through the side door.

Not to mention that he is a first-grade viscount, even Jia Min's status is worthy of Rongguo Mansion's opening of the central gate to allow him to enter.

After a while, rapid footsteps were heard in the mansion, and Jia Zheng followed Jia Zheng out of the side door.

Jia Qiang, however, waved her hand and stopped the servants' movements.

Jia Zheng looked at Jia Qiang and knew that he had done something wrong this time.

The young man didn't dare to make the decision, so he ran into the house.

After walking for a while, we arrived in front of the Rongguo Mansion.

"Little sister, why don't you come into the house? The old lady is waiting!" Jia Zheng came to Jia Min's sedan and asked.

Jia Min couldn't help but sigh when he saw Ning Guo Mansion in this state.

Jia Qiang jumped off the white horse and handed it to the boy beside him. He walked beside the two sedan chairs.

The door of Ningguo Mansion was closed tightly. Four sergeants from the Beijing Camp were guarding the door, and a seal was affixed to the door.

The two small sedans arrived in front of a hanging flower door, and several boys retreated.

In his mind, Lin Ruhai was Jia Qiang's teacher, and it was just a matter of one sentence to teach Jia Qiang.

"The post sent to Jia Mansion today was delivered in the name of my husband, and it was noted that Jia Qiang, the first-grade Viscount, was accompanying me, but Rongguo Mansion welcomed me so much!" Jia Min replied.

With his relationship with Lin Ruhai, there was no problem.

"Open the middle door!" Jia Qiang said lightly.

This is a formal visit, and the notice has been submitted in advance, but the Rongguo Mansion is so indifferent. One can imagine how arrogant the Jia Mansion has been in these years.

Several boys got the news and were waiting here. After seeing the two small sedan chairs, they quickly stepped forward to change the bearers.

"Little sister, I haven't seen you for many years, why are you so angry at the door of your house?" Jia Zheng raised his eyebrows and said with a hint of reproach in his mouth.

He has never had a good impression of Jia Qiang. Those who were expelled from the family tree by the Jia family are exactly the kind of people he looks down upon.

With the support of the nuns, I walked through the central hall and turned around the large marble screen with red sandalwood frame.

"Master's wife, you represent the teacher, and you haven't been back for many years. Look at this Jia family. No one from the Jia family came out to greet us, but just sent a few servants. No family in the entire capital would do this! " Jia Qiang explained with a smile.

"I didn't expect that the second brother would still remember me as a sister. I thought I was some poor relative of the Jia family!" Jia Min said lightly sarcastically.

Jia Zheng had a very bad look on his face after seeing Jia Qiang.

But he had to admit that Jia Qiang was more mature than any of the younger members of the family. She was already a first-grade viscount at a young age and was deeply favored by the saints.

The servant carried the sedan into the middle door of the house, but Jia Zheng did not follow him. He was thinking about writing a letter to Lin Ruhai and asking Lin Ruhai to teach Jia Qiang a lesson.

She not only represents herself, but also represents her husband. He will return to Beijing after the new year. If he really loses face in Beijing, it will be difficult to serve as an official in Beijing in the future.

Mrs. Wang also had a lazy temperament and casually informed Lai Da that Jia Min, the third lady in the mansion, had returned to the mansion.

So there is the current scene. The huge Jia family is known to attach great importance to face, but what they value is their own face, and they have no idea about other people's face.

Several boys ran over quickly, and soon the middle door slowly opened.

Jia Zheng was too lazy to take care of things. He preferred to drink and chat with a few Qingqing guests.

Jia Min didn't speak anymore. She also thought of Rong Guofu's contempt.

"Open the middle door!" Jia Zheng waved his hand and ordered.

Jia Min is the eldest daughter of the Jia family, and she is also the wife of Lin Ruhai. Although Lin Ruhai is a seventh-grade official, the official of the Salt Patrol is a lowly and powerful one, and he will be reused once he returns to Beijing.

Several nuns came out from the hanging flower door and stepped forward to open the curtains of the two sedans and helped Jia Min and Lin Daiyu out.

Rongguo Mansion did not seem to be affected by the sealing of Ningguo Mansion. There were several well-dressed young men standing in front of the three animal-headed gates.

"Brother Qiang, it's actually nothing!" Jia Min said through the sedan curtain.

There are three small halls, and behind the hall is the main courtyard at the back. The five upper rooms on the front are all decorated with carved beams and painted beams. On both sides there are verandas and wing rooms with various parrots, thrushes and other birds hanging on them.

"The old lady was reading just now, but it happened to be here!" Several girls in red and green said with a smile when they saw the visitor.

"Third Miss and Miss Lin are here!" Several girls rushed to open the curtain cage first, and one girl said inwardly.

Jia Min and Lin Daiyu walked in together and saw Jia's mother who was about to come out.

"Min'er, you are back, and you have finally met your sweetheart Daiyu!" Mother Jia hugged Jia Min and Lin Daiyu, tears falling uncontrollably.

Jia Qiang followed in, but Jia Mu hadn't noticed him yet.

"Mom!" Jia Min also cried and shouted.

In this era of distant marriage, sometimes you will never see each other again for the rest of your life. Especially Jia Min, she almost couldn't come back and couldn't see her mother again.

The excitement in her heart was even greater when they met at this time. She hugged Jia Mu and cried bitterly, wanting to vent all the grievances she had suffered during these years with tears.

Outside she is Lin Ruhai's wife and Lin Daiyu's mother. No matter what happens, she has to bear it herself.

But in front of Jia Mu, she is a daughter, and only her mother's arms are the warm haven that allows her to let go of everything.

"Okay, don't cry. You're so old, and you're not afraid of your daughter laughing at you!" It didn't take long for Jia's mother to recover from the joy of seeing her daughter and granddaughter again, and she comforted her.

At this time, Jia Min was still alive, and Lin Daiyu had both parents, and her life was not miserable.

Therefore, what Jia Mu felt for Jia Min was just the joy of seeing Jia Min again, but not the heartache in the original work.

When Jia Min heard Jia Mu's words, she also stopped crying.

"Old lady, Brother Qiang is here too!" Mrs. Wang reminded from the side.

"Brother Qiang, thank you for sending them here. It's been a hard journey!" Jia Mu saw Jia Qiang at this time and said with a smile.

"Brother Qiang took my husband as my teacher!" Jia Min introduced.

"Greetings to our ancestors!" Jia Qiang smiled and stepped forward to salute.

"I have grown taller and grown up!" Jia Mu looked at Jia Qiang and nodded happily.

There has been no news about Jia Qiang for more than a year. I heard that she was on an imperial mission, but unexpectedly she went to Jiangnan and became Lin Ruhai's teacher.

"Have you made any progress in your studies since you became a teacher of Tanhua Lang?" Jia Mu then asked.

"Brother Qiang won the prize, and it's still Yayuan!" Lin Daiyu interjected at this time, with a look of pride on her little face.

Jia's mother was overjoyed when she heard that, she stepped forward and hugged Jia Qiang, saying good to her repeatedly.

But she quickly thought that Jia Qiang was expelled from the family tree, and such a talent had nothing to do with the Jia family.

When Mrs. Wang heard that Jia Qiang had won the imperial examination, she couldn't help but think of her son Jia Zhu. Jia Zhu died of a serious illness. If Jia Zhu was still alive, he might also have become a civil servant.

"Yu'er, this is your eldest aunt, this is your second aunt, and that's sister-in-law Zhu!" Jia Min introduced Lin Daiyu one by one at this time.

When she was at home, she told Lin Daiyu about the situation in the Jia family. The introduction at this time allowed Lin Daiyu to match the person in her memory with the real person.

Lin Daiyu saw the gifts one by one, and her good tutoring made her behave very appropriately.

"Please come over, girls. We have guests from far away today, so you don't have to go to school." Mother Jia was in a good mood and ordered with a smile.

Someone went to inform them that there were many maids and maids in Rongxi Hall, and the absence of two or three people would not have any impact.

"Ancestor, I'll go out first!" Jia Qiang said consciously.

He is considered a foreigner, and he should leave after coming here to see the ceremony.

"How old are you? Besides, we are a family. Stay, stay!" Mother Jia did not allow him to leave and waved.

Indeed, even by the standard of adulthood considered by ordinary people as sixteen, Jia Qiang is still a half-grown child at the age of fifteen.

Jia Qiang couldn't resist Jia Mu's efforts to stay, so she stayed.

Soon after, three nannies and five or six maids arrived, surrounded by the three sisters.

The first one has slightly plump skin, a medium-sized figure, fresh cheeks, and a greasy nose. She is gentle and silent, and looks amiable. The second one has slim shoulders, a slim waist, a long figure, a duck-oval face, handsome eyes and trimmed eyebrows, a look that is astonishing, and the essence of literary talent, forgetting the vulgarity upon seeing it. The third one is not tall enough and can be described as still small. Their hairpin rings, skirts and coats are all the same decoration.

Jia Qiang recognized it, but she and Lin Daiyu also came forward to see the gift, and the three women also saw the gift to Jia Min.

After some greetings, everyone sat down.

Jia Qiang was originally supposed to sit at the bottom. He was the lowest seniority, but on the one hand, he was no longer a member of the Jia family. On the other hand, his title was equivalent to that of Jia She, the heir to the Rongguo Mansion. .

If he really wants to sit at the bottom, I'm afraid the Jia family will be laughed at by others.

Therefore, Jia Qiang was placed close to Jia Mu, even in front of the three ladies.

"Min'er, when I wrote to you a few years ago, I told you that you were not in good health, but now you look different!" Jia's mother looked at Jia Min and said curiously.

Jia Min remembered why he wrote to Jia's mother. Yangzhou and the capital were too far apart, so it was not easy to exchange letters.

At that time, she was weak and felt that her time was running out, so she wrote a letter to Jia's mother. Although she did not explicitly say that she was ill, she implicitly asked her mother to take care of Lin Daiyu.

"I was really unwell a few years ago. Fortunately, Brother Qiang came to the house to worship my husband as his teacher. Brother Qiang was very skilled in medicine and cured my illness!" Jia Min looked at Jia Qiang with grateful eyes and said The reason.

"Brother Qiang's treatment methods are indeed amazing!" Jia Mu thought of what happened back then. At that time, Baoyu couldn't stop crying when she was sick. Jia Qiang treated her and she was cured. She nodded in agreement.

"I came late and didn't greet the guests from afar!" Before he could finish his words, he heard laughter coming from the backyard.

Jia Qiangxiao looked in the direction of the sound, knowing that Wang Xifeng had arrived.

When he left the capital, Wang Xifeng had not yet married into the palace.

"All of these people are holding their voices and holding their breath, so solemn and solemn. Who is this person, so outrageous and rude?" Lin Daiyu thought to herself.

I saw a group of wives and maids walking in from the back door surrounded by a man.

This person's dress is different from other girls, with brilliant embroidery, and she looks like a concubine or a fairy: she wears a golden eight-treasure bun with pearls on her head, and a hairpin with five phoenixes hanging from the rising sun; she wears a red gold necklace on her neck; The side is tied with a bean green palace ribbon, and the double-balanced rose pendants are more eye-catching; the body is wearing a narrow coat of gold and red satin with hundreds of butterflies and flowers, a colorful engraved stone green and silver rat coat on the outside; and an emerald flower-sprinkled crepe skirt.

She has a pair of red phoenix triangular eyes, two curved willow-leaf eyebrows. She is slender and has a coquettish physique. Her pink face contains spring power without revealing it, and her lips smell red before she smiles.

"You guys don't recognize her. She is a famous rogue here. She is known as 'La Zi' in southern province. You can just call her 'Feng La Zi'." Jia Mu said with a smile.

"This is your sister-in-law Lian!" Seeing the doubt in Lin Daiyu's eyes, Jia Qiang introduced her in a low voice.

"This is my aunt. You don't look like me at all. Standing with me, you look like my sister!" Wang Xifeng was familiar with her. She first greeted Jia Min with a smile and said eloquently.

Jia Min also laughed when she heard what she said. What woman doesn't like others to say she is young.

"There really is such a beautiful person in the world, and I have just met it today! Moreover, this majestic look is not like the granddaughter of our ancestors, but a direct granddaughter. I can't blame my ancestors for not forgetting her words every day." Wang Xifeng He looked at Lin Daiyu again and continued.

Lin Daiyu's face turned red after being praised, and she wanted to hide in Jia Mu's arms.

Ever since Wang Xifeng arrived, the Rongxi Hall has been filled with laughter.

Jia Qiang believes that if Wang Xifeng is placed in future generations, he is afraid that he will be a master of public relations. As for why he is not a master of business, it is actually that Wang Xifeng's business ability has been tested in practice, and it is not bad.

(End of this chapter)