That night, Lin Daiyu looked at the poem "Magnolia" written by Jia Huan during the day under the lamp. Her eyes were focused on the first sentence for a long time: "Life is just like the first time we met."
She thought of the first time she met Brother Huan. At that time, Brother Huan was sneaky and mysterious, which made her think that Brother Huan had some serious illness in his brain - this was also said by Brother Huan. .
The first time she met Brother Huan, her impression was not good.
But soon, as Brother Huan's words came true one by one, she discovered that Brother Huan was the one who really treated her well.
I just don’t know whether Brother Huan will easily change his heart towards her in the future, but he said that old hearts can change easily...
As she thought about it, she couldn't help but shed tears.
Before entering Jia's house, she always loved to cry.
And when I entered Jia's house, I heard Brother Huan's words: Why use other people's mistakes to punish yourself? Since then, Lin Daiyu rarely sheds tears.
But now, I couldn't hold it back anymore.
After crying for a while, she felt boring.
Wiping away her tears, she was lost in thought. For a moment, she didn't know what she was thinking.
In Lixiang Courtyard, Xue Baochai was also fascinated by the poem "Magnolia".
Next to her, Xiang Ling said coquettishly: "Girl, this poem written by Brother Huan is really good."
At this time, the Jia family has not yet built the Grand View Garden, and Xiang Ling has not studied poetry with Lin Daiyu.
She can't write poetry yet, but she still has some superficial appreciation ability.
After Xue Baochai heard Xiang Ling's words, he smiled and asked: "Xiang Ling, do you also know poetry? Then tell me, what is good about this poem?"
Xiangling chuckled and said: "Girl, this poem, throughout the whole poem, does not have any gorgeous words. But after people read it, they can't help but think about their first meeting. Just imagine, that person didn't Where is the first meeting in my heart?"
Xue Baochai smiled and said: "You are shameless, tell me, who did you first meet?"
Xiangling said charmingly: "Girl, you were the first person I met! I wonder, girl, who did you first meet?"
When asked by Xiang Ling, Jia Huan's figure could not help but appear in front of Xue Baochai's eyes.
The first time I formally met Brother Huan was at the Mei Xue Poetry Club.
Brother Huan is not only tall and handsome, but what's even more difficult is his aura like a loose valley. Compared with Baoyu's aura of wealth and nobility, it makes people forget about vulgarity.
Brother Huan is not only extremely talented and knowledgeable, but he also speaks with a sense of humor. He is truly unique!
At this time, in various brothels and palaces in the imperial city, the words "If life is just like the first time we met", I don't know how many girls' eyes turned red from crying.
In Mengpo Zhai, even Jia Zheng was filled with sighs after reading this poem.
Now Jia Huan's poems no longer need to be disseminated by Emperor Chongkang.
Now in the imperial city, there are many brothels and Chu palaces, as well as some other princely homes, which specially bribed some servants of the Jia family.
As long as Jia Huan has a new poem and they can spread it as soon as possible, they will get a reward of ten taels of silver.
Therefore, the speed at which Jia Huan's poems spread throughout the imperial city was definitely beyond Jia Huan's own imagination.
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Early the next morning, Jia Huan got up early for a run to exercise as usual, and then sorted out his notes.
After dinner, before Jia Huan went to find Jia Lian, Jia Lian came to the door very enthusiastically.
"Brother Huan, have you packed everything properly? If so, let's go out and buy books."
Jia Huan smiled and said: "I was about to go find Brother Lian, but I'm going to trouble Brother Lian."
Jia Lian patted Jia Huan on the shoulder and said with a smile: "We are all brothers, isn't this the right thing to do? You are so angry just saying this. Let's go, after buying books today, I have a good place to go, please go to Brother Huan Host."
Jia Huan said with a smile: "I feel sorry for delaying Brother Lian for a whole day. How can there be any reason for Brother Lian to invite the host? I should be the host this time."
Jia Lian said: "We don't talk about this among brothers. You haven't Jinyi yet, how can I, as your elder brother, let you invite me? Brother Huan, let's go out and talk."
"Okay, brother Lian, please."
Jia Lian was a little too enthusiastic today.
In the past, had Jia Lian ever looked at him with a straight eye?
Even though he is somewhat famous now, he has not yet finished the scientific examination, so Jia Lian definitely has no reason to rush to curry favor with him.
I'm afraid that Wang Xifeng has already told Jia Lian about Mrs. Wang's secret murder, and Jia Lian is preparing to win over me and find an ally.
Forming an alliance with Jia Lian is a good choice, as it can avoid a lot of trouble.
Although Jia Huan didn't think highly of Jia Lian, Jia Lian was already one of the few people in the Jia family who had some conscience.
There are not many good people in the entire Jia family.
Jia Lian is a lustful ghost who thinks about problems with his lower body, and he is not taboo about meat and fish, so he is really not worthy of publicity.
But Jia Lian is actually not a bad person.
Jia She asked him to buy the fan from the stone fool. The stone fool was very stubborn and would rather freeze to death and starve to death for a thousand taels of silver a piece without selling it. Jia Lian had no choice but to reply to Jia She truthfully.
Jia She entrusted Jia Yucun again, and then Jia Yucun, a man who had killed thousands of swords, devised a plan. He blackmailed the fool into arrears of official silver, and took him to the yamen, saying that the official silver owed should be sold as property to compensate, and the fan was I copied it and gave it to the official price.
Jia She called Jia Lian over and scolded him face to face: You said you couldn't buy it, how did Jia Yucun get it?
Jia Lian said that for such a trivial matter, there was nothing he could do to trick someone into ruining his family's career, and was then severely beaten by Jia She.
Later, Laiwang's wife took advantage of the fact that she was Wang Xifeng's dowry and asked Caixia to marry her son. Wang Xifeng asked Jia Lian to talk to Caixia.
Jia Lian assigned this matter to Lin Zhixiao. Lin Zhixiao told Jia Lian that although the boy who came to the Wang family was young, he did everything he could to eat, drink and gamble outside.
Jia Lian said, "I don't know these things." In this case, give him his wife back, give him a beating and lock him up before questioning his wife.
From these two incidents, we can see that although Jia Lian is a bad person, his heart is not bad after all.
Moreover, in the Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian was in charge of matters such as welcoming guests and other social activities, so he was somewhat capable.
If you can give him a hand, you might as well give him a hand.
The two brothers talked, went out, got in the carriage, and went straight to the bookstore.
Not long after, the two of them entered the bookstore, and the shopkeeper came up to them and asked, "I wonder what books you two want to buy?"
Jia Huan asked: "Shopkeeper, I want to buy some historical literature. Do you have any in your bookstore?"
The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "My bookstore is the largest bookstore in the capital, so it is natural that Shiwen's bookstore is indispensable."
"And I'm not boasting, I have the most complete collection of contemporary writings in the entire capital. Not only do we have collections of outstanding writings from the provincial, general, and imperial examinations in the past dynasties, but we also have specially written writings by Jinshi masters with strong writing skills. There is a collection of essay examples, including excellent contemporary essays from the previous dynasty. I can slowly select them to ensure your satisfaction."
(End of chapter)
