After talking about Jia Lian's affairs, Jia Zheng briefly talked to Jia's mother, Jia Lian and others about the preparations for the construction of the provincial garden in front of everyone.
Jia Lian and Jia Mu also listened briefly.
Although Jia Zheng is not accustomed to mundane affairs, he has been working as a clerk in the Ministry of Industry for so many years, and he still has no problem controlling the general direction of project construction.
However, Jia Zheng knew that the construction of the provincial garden did not happen overnight.
Although Jia Zhen of the East Prefecture has a lot of free time, she is separated from them by one layer. Jia Lian will still be responsible for the specific matters of preparing the garden in the future, so he specifically asked Jia Lian if he would be free tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow, Shan Ziye, who is responsible for the engineering design, will prepare the preliminary drawings. At that time, everyone will need to discuss together how to allocate tasks and other matters. Jia Lian cannot be missing.
When Jia Lian said there was no problem, Jia Zheng stood up and left.
"The grandson also resigned."
Seeing Jia Lian following Jia Zheng's footsteps, Jia's mother asked curiously: "It's so late, do you have anything else to do?"
"It's time to start the shift soon, and my grandson has to go out to practice boxing and kicking."
"You still want to practice? Didn't I hear your wife say that you have dismantled everything in the study?"
After Jia She passed away, Jia Lian took the initiative to move his activity center to Dongkuayuan.
Therefore, the study room originally located in the courtyard here is basically vacant.
Naturally, the targets that were set up in the alley were all dismantled.
“The way to martial arts lies in diligence.
Not long ago, my grandfather taught me a set of capture techniques and a set of confrontational assassination techniques. My grandson has not yet fully mastered them.
I have been delayed for a month because of my father's affairs. Now that I have free time, I can't be lazy anymore.
Although everything here has been demolished, the old lady must also know that her grandson is building a martial arts training area in the East Cross Courtyard. Although it has not been completely completed, there is still a place for simple leg and foot training. "
Jia Mu didn't like it very much when she heard about capture and assassination.
Everyone else had the same feeling. This room was full of peace-loving people, and they didn't like to fight.
"That's all, I don't understand your business, and I don't want to care about you. You can go alone.
By the way, it's getting dark, so Yuanyang also sends someone to follow. "
Jia Mu appropriately expressed her concern.
A woman next to her immediately replied: "Second Mistress Lian has sent someone to wait outside."
Only then did Jia Mu give up.
Jia Lian then cupped his hands, glanced at the sisters who took two steps forward to see each other off, signaled them to stay with his eyes, and went out.
Sure enough, Xiangling and two maids from the courtyard were waiting for him with lanterns outside.
Girl Feng is becoming more considerate to him...
After taking Xiangling out of Rongqing Hall, before entering Rongxi Hall, he saw Aunt Zhao walking quickly with a little girl.
This man appeared with a unique look. He tilted his head slightly, squinting at the road at a fifteen-degree angle. The look on his face was a bit arrogant, but also seemed to be full of criticism and dissatisfaction with the injustice of the world.
But when she saw Jia Lian, she immediately put on a flattering smile and hurried forward to greet him: "Hey, I didn't expect to meet my brother here..."
Jia Lian stood on the spot and bowed his hands: "I've met my aunt."
"Haha, brother, please stop being so polite...
By the way, I heard that my brother has made a fortune today. I heard from the wives in charge that the shining silver is sent home one after another. Tsk, tsk, tsk, my brother is really capable!
Now in our family, we are counting on my brother. In the future, please don’t forget to help me support you as a brother..."
Aunt Zhao was so talkative that she threw out a bunch of words without even giving Jia Lian a chance to speak.
Jia Lian just smiled at this.
It's not that he has a prejudice against Jia Huan, but whether he read it in books in his previous life or saw it with his own eyes now, he is very sure that Jia Huan is just a little kid with a biased appearance and a bad conscience.
He only picked up that guy after eating too much.
In comparison, both Jia Cong and Jia Lan are much better. But as for Jia Cong, he still has to think about it.
"Auntie is here to find the master, right? The master just came out of the old lady's house. Didn't he see the auntie when she came?"
"Master has gone back?"
As expected, Aunt Zhao was looking for Jia Zheng. As soon as she heard that Jia Zheng had gone back, she no longer wanted to be friends with Jia Lian. After a few words, she changed her direction and chased him back like the wind.
…
Sister Sanchun left Jia Mu's place and went to Daiyu's house to sit as usual.
After each of them had a sip of tea, Tanchun said to Jia Baoyu: "Second brother, I just saw you hiding all those manuscript papers. Take them out quickly and let's take a look."
Jia Baoyu liked elegant things the most. Although he didn't like reading, he felt that writing poems and lyrics was an elegant thing.
So before no one paid attention to these poems, they secretly hid them in their sleeves. This scene was seen by the careful Tanchun.
Jia Baoyu smiled, immediately took out the things, and commented as he dispersed them to everyone:
"The lyrics are good, but the poems are a pity. Especially the two poems "Bamboo and Stone" and "Green Pine" are filled with the atmosphere of secularism. Second brother Lian...sigh."
Obviously, the maverick Jia Baoyu does not like this kind of value that is generally recognized by the world.
In his eyes, tenacity, motivation, and growth through hardships are all common sayings made to cater to secular authorities and are not worthy of praise.
"However, the last line of "On Poetry", 'I have never seen dwarves watching a play, they just follow others' opinions.' This line is extremely ironic.
There are many kinds of people in the world. There are few who have true knowledge and insights, and there are many who follow what others say. Isn’t it just like dwarves watching a play?
I really don’t know how Brother Lian wants to come, but it can be seen that Brother Lian is someone who has escaped.
Why can't he see through fame and wealth alone? It’s a pity, it’s such a pity…”
Jia Baoyu expressed his infinite regret for Jia Lian.
When the sisters heard this, they were not as convinced of his views as before.
After all, Jia Lian's achievements are there.
Comparing Jia Baoyu and Jia Lian, even they felt that it was much better for a man to be like Jia Lian.
For example, Brother Lian can talk freely in front of the master, the old lady and others, and the elders will also consider his words seriously.
Unlike Jia Baoyu, he could only shrink his head when the master glared at him.
All the lofty talk can only be hidden behind the scenes and talked to their daughters.
Which one is better and which one is worse is clear at a glance.
However, in order not to offend him, Tan Chun and others still did not question Jia Baoyu's point of view, but chose to skip it and bring the topic back to Jia Lian.
"Sister Lin, tell me why Brother Lian is so powerful. I still can't believe it. He really wrote these poems."
Daiyu glanced at her and said, "You ask me how I know?
I have only been with you for two years, but you have known him since childhood. You don't even know about him, how could I know. "
Tan Chun pursed his lips and complained: "I don't know, anyway, I have heard adults say since I was a child that Brother Lian doesn't like reading.
In addition, he is a few years older than us. Although we are brothers and sisters in the same house, we don't spend much time together, but we only listen to what others say. "
In the gates of big houses, especially in overlapping courtyards like Rongguo Mansion, this is indeed the case for children who have not grown up at the same age.
When Tanchun and the others were only six or seven years old, Jia Lian had already started discussing marriage.
So even though they are cousins, they may not meet each other even once in ten and a half months. Even if they meet, they just greet each other.
Besides, it's hard for them to say that the former second brother Lian didn't seem to care much about them. However, in the past two years, especially after Sister Lin came, Brother Lian seemed to have cared a lot about them. He always thought of them when he had any good things.
When Daiyu heard this, she thought for some reason that when she was in Suzhou, Jia Lian specially took her out of the city for an outing.
She understood that Jia Lian had never taken Tanchun and the others out for an outing, not even his sister Yingchun.
This made Daiyu inexplicably happy.
"That's okay. If you really don't believe it, let's go find him and ask him clearly.
Why is it that when he writes poems with people outside, he writes them so well, but when he talks to us at home, they are just... hmm, they are so vulgar! "
Hearing the doubt in Daiyu's tone, Tanchun said with a smile: "Sister Lin is talking about the poem 'Bamboo Shoots Braised Pork', right? Hahaha, that was written specifically for you by Brother Lian. It shows that Brother Lian is very interested in How kind you are, you don’t even write poems for us, but write for you alone..."
Tanchun revealed Daiyu's thoughts, causing Daiyu to blush immediately.
Seeing that Tan Chun was laughing so happily, he made a show of tearing her mouth off.
"Okay, okay, just spare her.
Haha, Sister Lin, Brother Lian can obviously write good poems, but he only teases you with poems like that. Next time you see him, you must argue with him carefully..."
Jia Baoyu had long noticed that Daiyu looked at Jia Lian differently, and this was what he feared most about Jia Lian.
He also knew that Daiyu was most sincere, so at this time he couldn't help but want to stir up trouble and create a rift between Daiyu and Jia Lian.
Although Daiyu no longer pestered Tanchun, she only glanced at Jia Baoyu and said nothing.
Although she was really dissatisfied in her heart, because she had always regarded Jia Lian as her elder brother and respected him very much, she didn't have so many demands.
Unlike Jia Baoyu, she would be very angry as long as there was something not to her liking.
But recently, she found that she was rarely angry with Jia Baoyu.
In particular, everyone in the family recently knew that Jia Baoyu was born with jade, while Xue Baochai had a gold lock since she was a child. The gold lock must be matched with jade. Gradually, there is talk of a good match between gold and jade.
Daiyu felt very boring.
She is a very smart person. It can be seen that Jia Mu wants her to get close to Jia Baoyu, but her aunt doesn't seem to like her!
Many times, she wanted her father to take her home and live there, and she was too lazy to look at the noses and eyes of these people here.
On the one hand, I was reluctant to visit Chun and the others, and on the other hand, I was afraid of hurting Jia Mu's heart, so I never did.
Here Yingchun and others heard Daiyu say to go find Jia Lian to find out, and they really thought of going to Sister Feng's courtyard to sit there.
But Daiyu said again: "Didn't you hear it? Brother Lian went out to boxing! It will take an hour.
We couldn't see anyone when we went there.
Didn't I hear the third girl say yesterday that Brother Lian's second brother would be giving birth to a child in two days?
When the time comes, why don't we go make trouble with him together? "
Yingchun and others all agreed that this was a good idea.
"In this case, we still have to prepare gifts for Brother Lian. He gave them to us for our birthdays before. Sister Lin, what are you preparing..."
"What do you tube."
…
The Xue family and Baochai have been in a bad mood since they knew that the draft was unsuccessful.
Although entering the palace has always been an arrangement of the family, she did not have to enter the palace herself, but the feeling of years of preparation being wasted... Especially, the reason why she failed in the election was probably because she had an unreliable brother. This feeling of frustration is really uncomfortable.
In fact, given her age, she can still run for election in three years.
But both she and her mother, Aunt Xue, knew that given the current declining state of the Xue family, they had all failed this time, and the next time, the chances would be even slimmer.
Therefore, she understands that her mother has given up on letting her run for office.
But what her mother did next made her depressed mood even worse.
Ying'er told her that these days, the servants in Rongguo Mansion were spreading rumors about a "good match", and they were talking about her and Jia Baoyu.
It seems a little deliberate.
To be honest, she felt that the mother's matter was taken too hastily and without consideration.
She had just failed in the talent show, and her mother and aunt immediately spread such rumors. Doesn't it make the Xue family very utilitarian? Secondly, who can't see that the old lady of the Jia family wants to marry her precious grandson and her precious granddaughter?
Moreover, she could tell from sitting together in the same place that Jia Baoyu liked Daiyu very much.
Besides, Jia Baoyu himself was just a cousin with a fair character in her eyes.
But the shortcomings are also obvious. Not motivated, but still learned to be lustful and lustful at a young age...
In this way, she had no intention of Jia Baoyu.
However, due to her parents' orders to find a matchmaker, Baochai could not tell her inner thoughts one by one, so she could only feel depressed by herself.
So these days, she doesn't go to Rongguo Mansion easily.
"Madam is here."
Following the maid's announcement, Aunt Xue walked in alone.
Baochai stood up quickly and gave up his seat on the kang.
"Did you hear that there was another news in their house today?"
Aunt Xue said with a smile.
"What?"
Aunt Xue saw that Baochai still didn't know, so she told Baochai what she had heard.
"Did mother really mean what she said?"
"Why did I lie to you? It has been spread throughout their house that Prince Beijing made a special trip to buy a manuscript of his poems and spent three thousand taels of silver.
At dusk, I asked someone to deliver it to their house. This is absolutely true. "
Baochai's eyes, which were always calm, could not help but expand.
A word worth a thousand pieces of gold, this is just a thing that exists in legends, but it actually happened, and it also appeared in Jia Lian?
Yawen Library
This cannot but be shocking and surprising.
Although they don't know much about Jia Lian, they have heard a lot of news. The most certain thing is that Jia Lian is not a scholar.
Doesn’t today’s news overthrow the most basic things? So from now on, what else is worth believing about Jia Lian?
"Does mother have a poem manuscript?"
Baochai wanted to see it with her own eyes to distinguish the true from the false.
“I don’t have one, but it’s not difficult to get it.
Well, I haven't talked to your aunt for two days.
Their house is currently busy building a garden for the parents-in-law, and I'm afraid it won't be convenient for us to live here. We just want to discuss moving out with her..."
"That's fine."
Baochai and Aunt Xue got up, changed their clothes and went to Mrs. Wang's room.
