Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 226 Birthday
The day came on February 12th, and Jia Qiang took a rare leave from the palace.

In fact, preparations started in the mansion one night in advance.

When Lin Daiyu came to Jiahou Mansion through the separate door in the morning, her eyes widened. She saw a sea of ​​​​flowers formed by countless flowers.

This is early spring, the weather is still very cold, and the only flower that usually blooms is wintersweet.

But in front of us are all kinds of blooming flowers, turning the garden into a sea of ​​flowers.

The huge happiness made her feel dizzy. Xue Yan, who was following behind, tried hard to cover her mouth with her hands to prevent her from screaming.

Lin Daiyu knew that today was her birthday.

In the morning, my mother said that she would celebrate her birthday at home and congratulate her on turning one year older.

In fact, she has been thinking about growing up quickly, and she wants to be by Jia Qiang's side every day.

Lin Daiyu guessed whether Jia Qiang would remember her birthday, but she never thought that Jia Qiang would do such an amazing thing for her birthday.

Jia Qiang is a high-ranking marquis, a first-rank military attache, and a fifth-rank cabinet minister, but he has devoted so much energy to a little girl like her.

It is not easy to fill Huifang Garden with flowers. It is absolutely impossible for these flowers to survive the night of this season. These flowers can be frozen to death in one night.

After Jia Qiang got Xiaotangshan Village, she began to prepare for Lin Daiyu's birthday.

He found masters in cultivating flowers and trees, and took advantage of the environment of Xiaotangshan Village to make many kinds of flowers that bloom at different times bloom at the same time.

Perhaps it is extremely difficult to do this, but with the warm environment of Xiaotangshan Village, all that is left is enough money and power.

Jia Qiang has enough power, and there is no need to worry about money.

Lin Daiyu walked slowly among the flowers. When she approached the pavilion where she played daily, she heard the sound of the guqin and the pipa playing together.

Then she saw Yi Ya leading the dancers to dance among the flowers, blending into the sea of ​​flowers to the music of guqin and pipa, making the sea of ​​flowers seem to come alive.

She also saw Miaoyu, Jia Xichun, Yinglian, and Xing Xiuyan. They were smiling at her. This smile infected her, and she also laughed happily.

She stretched out her hand and touched the flower on the side. The feeling of the contact told her that the flower was real and not in a dream.

In the pavilion, Jia Qiang looked at the happy Lin Daiyu. He felt that everything he had done was worthwhile.

Since coming to the world of Red Mansions, he has changed the fate of many people, and also made the people he loves no longer controlled by fate, no longer need to shed tears, and no need to endure loneliness.

"Brother Qiang, you are so good to me!" Lin Daiyu came to the pavilion like a dream and saw Jia Qiang, she said with a smile.

"Today is your birthday, and it's the flowering season. It's more meaningful if all the flowers are in bloom!" Jia Qiang said softly.

"I envy you so much. I have been preparing for your birthday for several months!" Miaoyu said at this time.

"You already knew, why didn't you tell me!" Lin Daiyu heard Miaoyu's words and found that she seemed to be the only one here who didn't know Jia Qiang's preparations, and couldn't help but scolded Miaoyu.

"Go find the master, he won't tell you!" Miaoyu quickly waved her hand and replied.

Lin Daiyu looked at Jia Qiang and saw the warm smile on Jia Qiang's face.

"Today is a happy day, enjoy your birthday!" Jia Qiang said with a smile.

The girls were all attracted by the music, dance, and flowers in the garden. Unexpectedly, they could see such beautiful scenery in early spring, and they all felt that their eyes were not enough.

"I really want to grow up quickly!" Lin Daiyu murmured.

In this era, Jia Qiang's birthday gift for Lin Daiyu was almost as shocking as a nuclear bomb.

His behavior, even in future generations, no woman can resist this form.

Jia Qiang's ear was very good and he heard Lin Daiyu's murmur. He smiled without saying it on the spot. He knew what Lin Daiyu was thinking.

In the pavilion of Huifang Garden, everyone held a birthday party for Lin Daiyu and played games together.

"Why isn't it cold in Huifang Garden today?" Lin Daiyu was playing the drumming and flower-passing game when she realized something was wrong with the temperature in the garden.

"I know!" Miaoyu raised her hand to indicate. When Lin Daiyu looked at her, she continued to explain: "There are many water tanks in Huifang Garden. When water is poured into the water tanks, they will become hot."

Lin Daiyu became even more confused upon hearing this, and the more Miaoyu explained, the stranger it became.

"It's just a small trick. I ordered people to put some quicklime in the water tanks and pour water into all the water tanks in the morning. The quicklime will heat up when it comes into contact with water. As long as there are enough hot water tanks, the garden can be warmed up. ." Jia Qiang explained with a smile.

It seems that this is easy to do, but it is not an easy task to heat up a huge garden.

For this reason, he sent many people to complete this matter, so that he could ensure that all the arrangements were completed at the same time when arranging flowers in the morning.

"This small trick can only guarantee the temperature of the garden for two hours. We will go to Dengxian Pavilion at noon, where I have ordered people to prepare a stove!" Jia Qiang continued.

Lin Daiyu and the girls played happily all morning, and then went to the Dengxian Pavilion together.

Dengxian Pavilion has prepared delicious meals. Since most of them are from the daughter's family, the taste of the daughter's family shall prevail.

"Sister Lin, here is the play list. Just order whatever play you want to see!" Before dinner, Jia Qiang smiled and placed a play list in front of Lin Daiyu and said.

It was another surprise. Although it was normal for a wealthy family to have a birthday party, it was rare for Jia Qiang, a grown man, to be so thoughtful.

Lin Daiyu ordered the play "Tianhe Pei", which aroused the ridicule of several sisters.

The opera troupe hired the most famous troupe in Beijing, and the opera they sang was of course nothing to say.

While the girls were eating, they did not forget to give the actor a reward.

It can be said that none of the daughters sitting here are poor.

Even Yinglian and Xing Xiuyan have twenty taels of money every month, not including the gifts from Jia Qiang from time to time.

Twenty taels of silver doesn't sound like much, but from the first time Grandma Liu got twenty taels of silver from the Jia family, it helped her family get through the most difficult time. You can see that twenty taels of silver means a lot to ordinary people. It's a considerable fortune.

They usually have no place to use money, but now they are in a good mood, so they are naturally very generous.

This also made the actors work harder, and then the girls ordered two more plays. The lunch took more than an hour to end.

In the afternoon, we were still at Dengxian Pavilion. Everyone watched juggling and juggling, all performed by women.

It is rare for men to enter this kind of performance in wealthy families.

It wasn't until evening that Lin Daiyu returned to Lin Mansion, where there was still a birthday party.

The next day at the court meeting, some ministers used this incident to impeach Jia Qiang for her extravagance.

This impeachment is of course not painful for Jia Qiang. At his level, unless he makes a big mistake, it will be difficult to touch him.

Instead, word of what he had done spread throughout the capital, and he celebrated the birthday of his unmarried wife with flowers blooming in winter. Such behavior made many women jealous of Lin Daiyu again. More than ten days later, Feicui came to report that Qin Keqing returned home and asked to see Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang calculated the time and found that Qin Keqing returned home after Qin Zhong's funeral, and did not ask him to return home as soon as he had promised before.

In the main hall, he saw Qin Keqing. Qin Keqing was dressed in white, which made her look even more poignant.

"Master, don't blame the slave family for not returning home as soon as possible. The slave family has to observe mourning for three years. Please give me a piece of grass and reed to fulfill the slave's filial piety!" When Qin Keqing saw Jia Qiang, he immediately bowed and bowed.

When Jia Qiang saw Qin Keqing's appearance, she knew why she didn't return home as soon as possible. After all, she was dressed in mourning clothes. It was always a bit bad to enter Jiahou's mansion during the Chinese New Year.

As for the three-year filial piety period mentioned by Qin Keqing, Jia Qiang didn't even care.

Before, he was worried about how to deal with Qin Keqing. There was danger in Qin Keqing and he didn't want to get too close to him.

The three-year filial piety period gave him enough time to think and prepare. When he was strong enough to handle it, he no longer had to worry about the possible dangers to Qin Keqing.

"Performing filial piety is the right thing to do. You still live in Tianxiang Tower, I don't care about this!" Jia Qiang waved her hand and said.

He couldn't let Qin Keqing live in some reeds. He didn't have any reeds at home, but there were some in the Grand View Garden. He couldn't let Qin Keqing live in the Grand View Garden.

"Thank you, sir!" Qin Keqing thanked him.

After the death of the Qin family master and Qin Zhong, she had a different kind of feeling for Jia Qiang.

When she was most helpless, it was Jia Qiang who shielded her from the wind and rain. She was a weak woman with a very soft temper, and was not good at communicating with outsiders. If Jia Qiang hadn't come forward, it would have been difficult for her to handle those things.

When she first entered the Jiahou Mansion, she was very embarrassed. You must know that she was sent to the Jiahou Mansion without any status.

At that time, she also had a trace of trepidation and a trace of expectation. Jia Qiang's name was so famous in the capital. She was a true young talent, unparalleled in her achievements.

But Jia Qiang was very indifferent to her and had almost no time for personal contact.

She thought Jia Qiang disliked her, until this time Jia Qiang helped her deal with the funeral of the Qin family master and Qin Zhong, and the Qin family members came to fight for the family property, which made her face her own identity, and she fully accepted her concubine's identity. .

As the days passed, Jia Qiang went to court every morning, went to the cabinet to handle government affairs after going to court, and then took time to deal with the affairs of the nine provincial capitals. It can be said that he was the busiest courtier in the court.

At night he practiced the 'Taixu Sutra' and 'Maitreya Meditation', and from time to time he would use Jia Gong's speed to go out of the city to Zhuangzi on the outskirts to help train strong men.

Every month, Jia Qiang would be summoned to Daming Palace and Cining Palace to chat with the Emperor and the Queen Mother.

Until June, on this day, news came from Rongguo Mansion. During the day, Wang Xifeng went crazy with a sword and chased Jia Lian. At night, both Wang Xifeng and Jia Baoyu fell into a nightmare.

This news was told by Feicui, so there was no need to inquire. The affairs in Rongguo Mansion were often talked about by the servants of Rongguo Mansion.

When Jia Qiang heard the news, she immediately thought that this was Ma Daopo's method.

He was not interested in Wang Xifeng and Jia Baoyu's nightmare, but was somewhat interested in Ma Daopo's methods.

He originally thought that Ma Daopo and others were just deceivers, but judging from the situation of Wang Xifeng and Jia Baoyu, Ma Daopo still had some tricks, and she might even be the inheritance of magic.

He immediately ordered someone to inquire about Ma Daopo's information. With his status, it was easy to find out this information very quickly.

Ma Daopo was originally a handyman who worked as a sweeper and cook in Shuiyue Temple. The female handymen in the temple were called Daopo.

It's just that this Taoist Ma seemed to have another chance. She somehow helped Jia She and was able to enter and leave Jia's house. She even became Jia Baoyu's godmother after Jia Baoyu was born.

Now Ma Daopo lives alone in the city and calls herself Tianshui Temple.

"I want to go and meet Ma Daopo!" Jia Qiang saw that Ma Daopo lived in the city, and had the idea of ​​​​going to check it out after dark.

As soon as it got dark, he and Jia Gong left the house together.

Jia Gong is brought with him because of his speed. When necessary, his speed can make it impossible to see clearly in the dark, and no mortal can track him.

Although Tianshui Temple is in the city, it is also a separate courtyard with no residents around it. It is the only courtyard close to a forest.

This made things easier for Jia Qiang. With a wave of his hand, all five divine corpses, Jia King Kong, Jia Wei, and Jia Jian appeared.

It's not that he kills the chicken with a knives, it's that he doesn't dare to look down on anyone with weird means.

Five divine corpses, Jia Jingang, Jia Wei and Jia Jian, surrounded Tianshui Temple.

Jia Qiang and Jia Gong came to the door of Tianshui Temple together, and he nodded to Jia Gong.

Jia Gong tapped the wooden door hard, and the bolt inside the door broke, and his figure disappeared from the spot.

After a while, Jia Qiang walked into Tianshui Temple.

What Tianshui Temple enshrines is not the gods and Buddhas he is familiar with, but an old man with white hair, who does not look like a real god.

Jia Qiang did know that this seemed to be the so-called statue of Mr. Hu San, and it was actually enshrined in the vixen.

Strips of cloth hung on the walls, with strange talismans drawn on them.

He activated the 'Qi Watching Technique', and then he frowned, because there was no extraordinary aura here.

Including the statue of Mr. Hu San and these cloth strips and talismans, they are all pretending to be gods.

He turned around and entered the side room next to him, and saw Jia Gong holding a middle-aged woman in small clothes in his hand.

The middle-aged woman was caught while dreaming and was not fully awake at the moment.

"Let her wake up!" Jia Qiang said in a deep voice.

Jia Gong waved his palm, and with a 'pop' sound, a red slap mark suddenly appeared on the middle-aged woman's face.

His slap was controlled and used skillfully, aiming for pain, not lethality, otherwise this blow would have decapitated the middle-aged woman.

"Ah!" The middle-aged woman finally realized what she was doing. She screamed and tried to struggle.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't shake Jia Gong's arm.

"Are you Ma Daopo?" Jia Qiang asked in a deep voice.

"The villain is Ma Daopo, please spare my life!" Ma Daopo was completely awake at this moment and could see Jia Qiang clearly, and she quickly begged for mercy.

She often went in and out of the houses of powerful people, so she could tell the clothes Jia Qiang was wearing at a glance.

When Jia Qiang came out this time, she would not wear a python suit. She just wore ordinary clothes. However, his clothes were all produced by the top embroidery workshops in Jiangnan, and the clothes produced there were not something ordinary people could wear.

The most important thing is that Ma Daopo felt the aura of the superior from Jia Qiang.

(End of this chapter)