The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 48 Extra Story 2 The World of Red Mansions in Jia Lan's Eyes

The big maid, Yunque, carefully carried the teacup into the inner room, and the room was filled with the fragrance of ink. Even if she didn't use the plum blossom fragrance of Princess Shouyang, or the golden incense of Wang's family from Xuanhe, or the yamen incense of Mrs. Huarui. I feel that the young master's house is shabby.

On the contrary, on the side of Second Master Bao, even if he took pains to make some strange fragrances, in the final analysis, it was just a fumigated house, so who cares about the elegance in it?

Yunque is not a child of Jia's family, but her family fled to Beijing. The whole family passed out from hunger outside the gate of Rongguo Mansion, and was rescued by the grandmother who returned from worshiping Buddha.Skylark hasn't read any books, but he knows that the feeling of being hungry is not good.

She had also heard that the Rongguo Mansion was in bad shape seven or eight years ago, and she had also seen the tight clothing and food shortages up and down today, just to maintain the last decency.My young master is so talented, but he was restricted by etiquette and filial piety in this small backyard.

"Master, just made hot tea."

Jia Lan put down the Rabbit Shoulder Zihao brush in his hand, took the teacup without even turning his head, and thought about the words and sentences between the lines.Jia Lanzai read the hundred and twenty characters carefully three times before giving up. By the time it was time to drink tea, the tea was already chilling.

"Where did this tea come from?" Jia Lan hasn't tasted such fragrant tea for a long time, and he knows the situation at home better. The first portion of such good tea is to honor his grandfather. If there is any leftover, he must give it away Go to Uncle Bao's room.

Yunque smiled and said: "The third grandma of the Song family gave some to our eldest grandma, and the eldest grandma kept some for hospitality, and sent me to brew the rest for the young master, saying that this tea is the best for clearing the heart and eyesight. The young master is preparing for the imperial examination. But something."

Hearing this, Jia Lan not only did not look happy, but instead became sad.

Yunque knew that he had said something wrong, so he hurriedly added: "Master, I mean that when you are wasting your mind, Grandma is very kind."

Jia Lan smiled wryly at Yunque: "You don't need to explain, I naturally understand what you mean. I'm afraid I won't be able to do this year's palace exam!"

Yunque's face turned pale, and grief welled up in his heart.

In fact, without Yunque's reminder, Jia Lan was already mentally prepared.

This kind of situation doesn't happen every year or two. The family has long put all their eggs in one basket for Uncle Bao's progress.Jia Lan also foolishly thought that he had to study hard by himself, even if he was not as talented as Uncle Bao, his grandfather should still value him.After all, it has been a long time since the Jia family had a Jinshi background.Jia Lan was almost headless, and his body was almost exhausted. That's it. After winning the Juren a few years ago, his grandfather didn't allow him to take part in the imperial examination.

The reason is justifiable, I just say that good things come in pairs, and when Uncle Bao wins the exam, the uncle and nephew will enter the palace for a test together, wouldn't it be a good talk to put outside?
After Jia Lan heard Jia Zheng's words, she fell ill and was so confused that Li Wan was so frightened that her son was going to follow her husband Jia Zhu.Fortunately, a dose of ginseng soup from Aunt Xing's family saved Jia Lan's life.

It's been another three years in the blink of an eye, and Jia Lan only hopes that Uncle Bao can win his breath, so as not to drag himself down again.

Speaking of which, these years, Jia Lan had long thought of moving out and building a house alone with her mother, but because of her grandfather's pressure, her mother's life became more and more wronged, and she suffered endlessly.More than once, Jia Lan envied Second Uncle Lian, who had long been divorced from the family. He was not sensible when he was young, and thought that Second Uncle Lian was stupid for giving up his position as the heir to the eldest house.Looking at it now, it's not that Lian's second uncle is stupid, it's that he can't see through it.

The four great families that were so beautiful back then are not even as good as a fourth-rank Beijing official family now.When great-grandmother was alive, as long as people mentioned the Jia family, they were either envious or jealous.Nowadays, whenever people mention Rongguo Mansion, they get nothing but a sneering sneer.

Jia Lan attributed this situation to her deceased grandmother Wang more than once.

Without Wang's blind doting, Uncle Bao would not have become an ignorant son, and the eldest sister would not have emptied the family's savings because of competition for favor.One wrong step, one wrong step, the only thing Grandmother Wang did right was to send Aunt Xue into the palace.

Today's Xue family is just like the Jia family back then.

Aunt Xue's concubine position is only one step away from the queen, and many people are guessing that before Long Live Lord drives west, [-]% will help Aunt Xue to the position of queen.

After all, everyone sees how great Aunt Xue's favor is.

Uncle Xue Pan, who was called Xue Da fool back then, is now not stupid but smart, and he used the power of his empress to revive the reputation of the imperial merchant.Of course, the Xue family didn't dare to use their name to humiliate the empresses in the palace, so they just let their servants become shopkeepers of the shop.

The Wang family has been suppressed many years ago, and there is no male who can take charge.Fortunately, Mrs. Xue was merciful and did not forget her brothers, and took those poor daughters of the Wang family to support them.The last surname of the four major families, Shi Jia, was also disliked by Xiaozong because of his involvement in the nasty affairs among the princes, and his current situation is not even as good as that of the Jia family.I heard that in order to get more dowry, several aunts and cousins ​​of the Shi family have discussed marriage several times, which has become a joke in the capital.

The arrival of Suyun broke Jialan's wild imagination.

After Jia's mother died of illness, Li Wan was worried, always afraid that something might happen to Jia's family.The two older girls, Suyun and Biyue, were both at the age of marriage, so Li Wan took the opportunity to return their slave status and sent them out to marry themselves.

Suyun's husband is an escort, he has some skills, although he is rough, he is very kind to Suyun.The young couple lived with He Meimei for two or three years, but they never expected that a dart walker would encounter an accident, and poor Suyun became a widow at a young age.Suyun has no intention of remarrying. Since she has no heirs and her husband's family doesn't allow her, she has no choice but to rely on her old master Li Wan.

Fortunately, although Li Wan was struggling, he was not short of Suyun's meal.

Jia Lan knew about Suyun's relationship with her mother, so she treated her with more respect than other maids.

"But what's the matter with mother?" Jia Lan ordered Yunque to make another tea.Suyun hurriedly stopped Yunque, and said: "I just said a few words and left, the young master is not too busy. Only then did the master send the maid to tell the grandma that this time the family is going all out for the second master Bao. The head of the department has to take care of it up and down, and ask grandma to figure it out."

Jia Lan sneered: "It's up to you? What does grandfather mean by that? Second Grandma Bao is the host. Even if you go to the household department to manage, it won't be Mother's turn."

"Who says no!" Suyun smiled wryly, "It's just that the master always says the same thing, so grandma wanted to ask the young master. During the Dragon Boat Festival, is the gold necklace given by the third grandma of the Song family still there? Emergency."

According to Jia Lan's heart, he wished he could refuse flatly, but after thinking about it, it was his mother who suffered so much.

After the lady from the Zuo family entered the door, she restrained Uncle Bao's ridiculous behavior.But who in the Jia family doesn't know?Uncle Bao is hot for 3 minutes. Sure enough, the second young lady from the left has been married for less than half a year, and the two of them continue to have all kinds of small conflicts and disputes.

Today's Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lan can only use one word to describe it.Just like all declining nobles, this family may not be in chaos from the outside, but most likely rotted from the inside.

How many people are willing to live under an old tree full of worms and full of decay?
Jia Lan said no more, and ordered Yunque to take out the gold collar and hand it to Suyun.

Li Wan looked at the collar Suyun brought back and was silent for a long time, until Jia Zheng sent someone to remind him, Li Wan hurriedly asked Suyun to take it out to pawn 200 taels of silver.

In the autumn of October, Jia Baoyu "lived up to everyone's expectations". Jia Zheng was very happy and took advantage of the enthusiasm to invite many guests and friends.But there were very few people present, and even Jia Lian's place only dispatched the second-class steward and paid 100 taels of silver to congratulate him.

The rest of the Song, Xing, Qian, and Zhang families only gave gifts but no one was present.Jia Zheng felt very uncomfortable when these relatives poured cold water on him.The more boring he felt, the more he hoped that Jia Baoyu would argue.

Baoyu had no rest day and night, and was forced by Jia Zheng to study hard.

In the next year's exam, the two uncles and nephews went to high school together.But when it was the important imperial examination, Baoyu ate something to make her stomach upset.

Disrespect in front of the palace is a capital offense.

No matter how courageous Jia Zheng and Baoyu's father and son were, they would not dare to bet on such a thing.

Although Jia Lan is young, his writing skills are good, and he was named the top seven.Shu Jishi was rated excellent again in the assessment. The key is that with the help of Song Chen and Gan Mi, Jia Lan easily found an official position as a county magistrate in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.When he was about to leave Jia's mansion, he had only one request, except for his mother and a few caring servants, the two of them would not take anything with them.

Jia Zheng became furious, and in a fit of anger, he ordered someone to coax the two of them out.

Jia Lan, who had been kicked by Jia Zheng, supported his mother Li Wan, and when she looked back at the plaque in Rongguo Mansion that had peeled off its gold paint, she didn't feel depressed at all, but only relieved after the shackles faded away!

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