Jia Baoyu from the Red Chamber

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spnChapter 93 rumors

Sister Feng thought for a while and said: "I really don't know about it. If the old lady is really interested, I'll call two women who often go out to ask."

Mother Jia shook her head and said, "It's fine if you don't know. I'm just trying to make something new. It's not good to force someone to come over and tell you about it. It's just that you, Feng girl, will be fined three cups if you don't come back."

After hearing this, Sister Feng hurriedly begged for mercy: "Old Ancestor, please forgive me! This three cups will still be great."

Jia Mu refused, so she asked Li Wan and others to drink for Sister Feng. Sister Feng had to drink three cups. Although Jia Mu laughed a few times, her interest was not as good as before. went. [

The mandarin ducks also went with them. After Jia Mu left, Mrs. Wang said to Sister Feng with some reproaches: "You are really, the old lady wants to listen to you, just pick up one and say it. It's easy, old lady." Lost interest."

After hearing this, Sister Feng said with some embarrassment: "Auntie, I don't want to say this. In fact, the old lady is even more angry when I say it. There is nothing good to say about it. I simply don't say it." Mrs. Wang listened Also no longer say anything.

Jia Baoyu listened intently when the two were talking, so he heard what the two said clearly, and immediately asked, "Sister Feng, how do you hear it from outside?"

After hearing Jia Baoyu's words, Sister Feng laughed dryly and said, "Where there is such a rumor, it's just nonsense from some ignorant people. Brother Bao, what do you care about these things on your birthday today? Come, let me toast you."

Jia Baoyu heard that Sister Feng didn't want to talk, so she stopped asking, but she kept it in her heart, and made up her mind to ask someone to go out and ask.

Because there were too many people around at this time, and some women were waiting outside, it was difficult for everyone to be too happy, so they dispersed after gathering for a while, but before leaving, Xiangyun secretly He told Jia Baoyu that he would go to her place to make a fuss tonight, but Jia Baoyu didn't comment.

Because Jia Baoyu was thinking about the rumors outside, he didn't go to look for Daiyu immediately, but went back to his yard with Xiren and the others. Outside the yard, Jia Baoyu called a little maid and asked her to call Mingyan over.

Not long after, Mingyan came, Jia Baoyu called Mingyan to him and asked, "Do you know what people say in this mansion?"

Mingyan was puzzled after hearing this, and didn't know why Jia Baoyu asked this question, but she replied truthfully: "I don't know if I know something because I don't go out often, but I don't know if it's true."

"Tell me everything you know." Jia Baoyu didn't hesitate.

Ming Yan responded, "It's not a year or two to talk about the mansion outside. I heard from my mother that our Jia mansion was the focus of discussion in the past few decades, but what was discussed at that time Not only the great achievements of the Duke, but also which son in the mansion is promising and which young lady is beautiful, and it was the same in the past few years, and the most talked about is the second master."

Jia Baoyu nodded when he heard this. Jia Baoyu was born with jade, so it will naturally be discussed. It is a normal thing at this time, but this is not the focus of Jia Baoyu's concern. Jia Baoyu asked: " I only talk about what happened in the past two years, which kind of discussion is the fastest to spread, and I need to say more about others.”

Mingyan thought for a while and then said: "It's nothing else, but a few days ago I heard from my old lady that there seems to be a lot of gold and silver in our house these days, and there are also rumors about the golden lion, the jade unicorn, etc. What, in short, they are talking about the extremely luxurious things in the mansion, and there seems to be a song, I don't know what it is called, in short, that's what it means."

Jia Baoyu immediately understood what Mingyan said. Is this the point? People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. Not to mention that there is no such thing in Jia's house, even if there is, it will definitely be doomed because of these public opinions. It doesn't seem to matter. Outsiders can know the actual effect of the public opinion.

Jia Baoyu was born in the 21th century, and his thinking grew in the [-]st century. It was the stage of rapid development of mass discussion of politics. I have seen too many officials who stepped down because of public opinion. Now thinking about it, it seems that there will be more in a few years. The discussion was on Jia Fu, but at that time the source of the discussion could no longer be found.

Jia Baoyu doesn't understand politics, but he still understands some simple truths after reading books for many years. The current Jia family in this big capital city can only be regarded as an upper-middle family. After Yuan Chun became a noble concubine, she really became the first class. Together with the Wang family, the Shi family, and the Xue family, she can be regarded as the best. Jia's mansion is a bit more luxurious and confusing, but it is even more powerful than Jia's mansion in this capital city. If there are no ten families, there are eight families. Why is there no rumors about other families, but the Jia family has one.

Although it cannot be predicted that someone did it, Jia Baoyu knew that if the matter was not resolved, nothing would happen now, but at a critical moment, this might be the last straw that crushed the Jia family.

Mingyan saw that Jia Baoyu was silent and looked serious, and asked worriedly, "What's the matter, Second Master, is there something wrong?"

Only then did Jia Baoyu come out of his thoughts, but the seriousness on his face still did not disappear, and he said to Mingyan after a moment of silence: "Mingyan, you should immediately find me a suitable person to secretly investigate who is spreading the rumors." , what I want is the source, if you find it, don’t startle the snake, come back and tell me secretly.”[

Hearing what Jia Baoyu said, Mingyan knew that Jia Baoyu attached great importance to this matter, so he nodded and said, "Second Master, don't worry, Mingyan will definitely find out in the shortest time."

Jia Baoyu said again: "Don't be impatient, don't make it public, it's nothing if you can't find it, but don't make a mistake when you check it. You should know a lot of people outside these years, so find someone reliable to check."

"Second Master, don't worry! Mingyan knows what to do."

"Okay, let's go down! I won't call you again if there's nothing important to do recently, you finish this matter properly and go down!" Mingyan went down after listening to the order.

After Mingyan left, Jia Baoyu calmed down and went back to the yard, and told Xiren about Xiangyun's coming to make trouble at night, Xiren laughed and said, "I've heard Miss Yun say this a long time ago. Let me tell you, it's better to invite everyone over tonight so we can discuss it."

Jia Baoyu would not refuse, because he discussed with Xiren: "Drinking wine at night, everyone has fun, don't stick to it. What should I eat now? Tell them to prepare for it."

Xiren laughed and said, "Don't worry about that. We made a settlement yesterday. Each of us will contribute a little, and there are ten taels of silver in total, which is enough."

Seeing that the arrangements were made, Jia Baoyu didn't have anything to do with himself. Since the time was still there, it wasn't very appropriate to go out or do anything else. Although Jia Zheng asked him to look for him, that would be tomorrow. Baoyu thought that there would be nothing else to do except to check his homework, so he was neither curious nor impatient.

So I just sat there reading a book, but after reading for a while, I couldn't read any more. Jia Baoyu had almost finished reading those idle books in the West Chamber, and he lost his mind. , Said that Jia Baoyu added hands but messed up.

Seeing that Xiangling didn't have much to do, Jia Baoyu thought about what he was going to teach her to read a few days ago, so he said: "Xiangling, don't do it, I have time today to teach you some words, so you can learn to read and write. Go to apprentice early."

Xiangling's eyes showed eagerness when she heard this, but she was too embarrassed to be with Jia Baoyu when everyone else was busy. Xiren saw it and smiled and said, "You go and join him! We don't care about reading and writing, and neither does he." It's hard to find someone to join in this room, and if you study hard, you can help relieve his boredom, otherwise you don't know what's going on."

After Xiangling heard this, she came over happily. Jia Baoyu first asked Xiangling what words she had learned, but this question was inappropriate because Xiangling had learned hundreds of words. With the foundation, everything else is easy to say.

Since this is the case, there is no need to teach it from the beginning. Jia Baoyu took a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" and asked Xiangling to read it one by one. Ling, let her re-read it several times, and wrote it down on a piece of paper as a mark.

After reading two volumes, I happened to find a hundred words that Xiangling didn't know. Jia Baoyu saw that it was almost the same. Handing the piece of paper to Xiangling, he said, "You memorized these hundred words well these few days. If you don't know it, just ask me or Daiyu, and learn some more after memorizing it." Jia Baoyu just lamented this. At that time there was no Chinese pinyin, if there was, it would be much simpler, as long as the pinyin letters are taught first and then the phonetic notation is over, but now it can only be like this.

Xiangling happily took the paper from Jia Baoyu's hand, read it on the spot, read it one by one, and asked Jia Baoyu every time she encountered something she couldn't understand, and Jia Baoyu answered them one by one, and it took about half an hour. Xiangling almost remembered it.

Jia Baoyu knew that this was just a temporary memory, and if he didn't review it, he might forget it the next day, so he said to Xiangling: "You have been studying for a few days, and if you don't forget it in three days, it's almost the same. At that time, I will ask you more questions, and if there are no more questions, I will learn other things."

Xiangling responded with a smile, and was grateful to Jia Baoyu, but Jia Baoyu's sense of accomplishment was very sufficient. Every time he looked at Xiangling Jia Baoyu, he felt that he was very close to his ultimate goal, thinking that he could save others It is so easy, saving Jia's mansion is not expected to be difficult. Although it is a good idea, it is enough to make people feel comforted. This is not because Jia Baoyu helped Xiangling, but Xiangling gave Jia Baoyu confidence.

ps: Ask for a red ticket, although I don't want to say it, but today is my birthday!But the red tickets are the fewest recently, so I solemnly ask for it.

ps2: I looked at some of the mistakes in the last chapter, Ah Chao, and there were indeed problems, and I changed them, but I found that the changes didn’t work. It’s not a problem, so let’s put it aside and wait for me to think about it How can I change it together.