Seeing Baoyu being pulled into the inner room by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Wang secretly sighed, and just as she was about to follow in, the corner of her clothes was grabbed by Jia Tanchun.

She looked back suspiciously and saw Tan Chun winking at her, hinting that she should pay attention to Aunt Xue and Baochai.

Mrs. Wang finally woke up from a dream and realized that the person who should be comforted most at the moment was not her son, but the Xue family.

So he hurriedly led Tan Chun back to Aunt Xue, holding the handkerchief with an embarrassed face, hesitantly said: "Here, look at it, oh~! Baochai, I will apologize for him here first, and he will wait for a while

When he calms down and wakes up, I will ask him to apologize and kowtow to your mother to admit his mistake!"

As she spoke, she even leaned slightly towards Xue Baochai.

In other families, all the daughters-in-law worshiped their mothers-in-law, but she was led by this evil obstacle. Before she even married her daughter-in-law, she had completely humiliated her face. Therefore, although she only bowed her head slightly, her face felt like it was on fire.

Aunt Xue's face was livid with anger. Seeing her sister's low profile, she hurriedly helped her up, but she complained in a confused tone: "I didn't say it, this Baoyu is too... I used to look quite well-behaved.

, why is it so big, so big, just, really... ugh!"

She couldn't explain what 'just' was for a moment, so she had to sigh heavily in the end.

Baochai next to him had an indifferent expression, and returned the salute to Mrs. Wang with a redoubled expression, saying: "Madam, please don't misunderstand, my mother is also angry with Baoyu for making such nonsense at his uncle's funeral - if he had spoken clearly in private, who could have stopped him?"

Can he find Sister Lin?"

This statement makes no sense at all.

But on normal days, Baochai would have rushed up the steps at the moment when Mrs. Wang was about to bow her head. Now she was not only one step late, but her true attitude had also been revealed invisibly.

Aunt Xue also reacted when she heard this. If she found fault with this, it seemed that she was preventing her from going to find Lin Daiyu - Baoyu didn't say that he wanted to marry Daiyu just now, but Ruosan just wanted to find her, but he didn't

It is a matter of course.

Immediately, he also changed his words and said: "Yes, yes, yes, if you want him to apologize, you should first apologize to your sister-in-law. It's a shame that we didn't make a fuss in the mourning hall. Otherwise, my brother's soul in heaven will not be able to live peacefully!"

The mother and daughter sang together, and Mrs. Wang hurriedly walked down the slope and took Aunt Xue in to talk to Wang Ziteng's wife.

Before entering the door, Mrs. Wang specially gave Tanchun a wink and told her to comfort Baochai and Yu for her first.

When the two of them entered the inner room, Tan Chun immediately took Xue Baochai to the corner and sighed softly: "Sister is a sensible person, so there is no need for me to talk too much. Besides, we have been together since childhood, and Brother Bao

You know best what kind of temper you have. If you force Brother Bao to forget Sister Lin, then I'm afraid it won't be him in the future."

After a pause, he added: "Fortunately, given Sister Lin's fierceness, I'm afraid she may not be willing to return to Rongguo Mansion - otherwise, there would still be no news from Suzhou until now."

"I just said it."

After hearing this, Xue Baochai said solemnly: "It's no problem for him to find Sister Lin. I can even help him find it - but he shouldn't have made such a fuss in public, let alone in front of my mother.

Yingtian!"

As he spoke, he gently held the tip of his heart, which was arrogant to his peers, gritted his silver teeth and said, "My heart is also grown from human flesh, how can it withstand such repeated humiliation and ravage?!"

Tanchun is speechless.

When I was a child, I only thought that Brother Bao was good at everything. He was handsome, gentle and considerate, and his talents and talents were among the best among his peers. He also won the unanimous love and praise of his elders.

At that time, in her eyes, Jia Baoyu and her younger brother Jia Huan were completely different, so she chose to stay close to Baoyu and alienate Jia Huan.

But as his horizons gradually broadened, Jia Baoyu's perfect image collapsed step by step, and in some places he was even worse than Jia Huan.

For example, if the official position in the engineering school were replaced by Jia Huan, even if he was not qualified, he would definitely try to find a job, but Pian Baoyu feared it like a tiger and abandoned it like a pair of worn shoes - especially when he knew that Rongguo Mansion was in decline.

situation.

Such a person is not qualified not only as a husband, but also as a support person for his mother's family - it's a pity that I didn't count on him at all.

Judging from Sister Bao's intentions, I'm afraid she has already regretted it now.

It is a pity that this marriage is a royal gift, and it is basically impossible to regret the marriage.

Alas ~ reputation

I can only hope that Brother Bao will come to his senses after he gets married and starts a business.

The two of them were looking at each other in silence.

Suddenly, Shan Daliang, the chief steward next to Jia Zheng, walked in hurriedly, looked around the room, raised his hands to Tanchun and asked, "May I ask, Miss Three, if Master Bao is over here?"

"It's in the inner room."

Tanchun said, then frowned and asked: "Why, the master knows?"

Shan Daliang bowed his waist and smiled: "The master asked Mr. Bao to go to the front yard to meet him immediately."

Although there is no direct answer, it is obvious that Jia Zheng heard about what happened just now, so he sent someone to "lock up" Baoyu.

"See you there!"

This is when Mrs. Wang picked up the curtain and came out of the back room. She said with a straight face: "I am here to attend my uncle's funeral today, not in our house! Even if I want to teach my son a lesson, I have to wait until I finish paying my uncle's funeral."

Say it again!”

When Shan Daliang saw Mrs. Wang's face full of anger, she was obviously on the verge of breaking out. How could he dare to contradict her?

Immediately, I responded obediently.

But after he walked backwards out of the living room, he did not leave in a hurry. Instead, in the name of Jia Zheng, he asked an acquaintance to find out what had just happened in detail - the people in the front yard only listened.

It is said that Baoyu is causing trouble again, but he still doesn’t know the cause and effect.

After the inquiry was clear, Shan Daliang hurried back to the front yard and reported the results of his inquiry to Jia Zheng in detail.

Jia Zheng was even more furious after hearing this. The previous quarrel between Jia Mu and Baoyu about taking Daiyu back to Beijing to get married was nothing more. After all, they were just making trouble at home. Who would have thought that now they are making trouble at the Taiwei's Mansion!

The marriage between Jia and Xue's family is a gift from the emperor. If someone takes advantage of this and accuses the emperor, what should we do?!

On one side of him, he was blowing his beard and glaring, and even scolded the evil beast. On the other side, Jiao Shun was also secretly surprised, thinking that this dandy boy had indeed grown up eating rouge, and he could actually notice the body fragrance on his body.

Fortunately, he was stopped on the way. If he were found in the mourning hall and started making trouble, it would be difficult to deal with it.

The main reason was that I was careless. Normally, I would try to cover up some of the dirty tricks, but because Lin Daiyu had gone through the obvious, she was lazy and didn't have to do this. It seems that she needs to be more cautious in the future.

At this moment, he suddenly saw someone poking his head at the door, and when he took a closer look, it was Xue Pan.

Jiao Shun just thought that he had also heard about what happened inside, so he came to Jia Zheng to complain, so he was going to go out and give him a few words to ask him not to make a big deal out of the matter.

Whoever thought about it outside, he discovered that Xue Pan's face was red and white, and he had a lot of bloody marks from being scratched, and even the bun on his head was a little messy.

Jiao Shun couldn't help blurting out: "You fight Baoyu..."

Halfway through the words, he felt that something was wrong. With the physical difference between the two parties, Baoyu had almost no possibility of fighting back. Even if he could barely fight back, it would be impossible to make him look like this.

So he changed his question and asked, "Who are you fighting with again?"

"Who else could it be?"

It was rare for Xue Pan to show some shame, but most of all he was filled with indignation. He gritted his teeth and said, "You're not the bitch of mine who dared to hook up with Brother Lian in front of me just now!"

"That's really too much."

"Really?" Yu

When Xue Pan saw that Jiao Shun agreed with his words, he danced excitedly: "It's okay if she steals people secretly, she might as well run away with them! She wants to do it in front of others, isn't this a slap in the face of me?

Face?!"

Jiao Shun: "..."

This kind of brain circuit is really difficult for Jiao Shun to understand, but the two men in Ningguo Mansion may have something in common with him.

He himself didn't care about his wife stealing from others, and as a cheap man, it was hard for me to cheat on others, so Jiao Bian said curiously: "To tell you the truth, I've always been a little confused. With your stature, can't you control a woman?"

Since Xia Jingui arrived at Xue's house, he had been quarreling a little for two days and a big fight for three days. Xue Pan should have given him a hard time due to his bad temper, but he endured it and did not take action.

You could say that you feel sorry for your wife, but what you said just now doesn’t sound like that.

"This..."

Xue Pan looked around, then lowered his voice and said: "Brother, I don't know. That woman is crazy. When I beat her for the first time, she took a dagger and shaved my lower body cleanly in the middle of the night. She made several cuts.

It’s a bloody wound! Secondly, it hurts, but mainly because I was so scared that I couldn’t stand up for more than a month.”

"The next day I secretly took the dagger away, but she told me that there were several more daggers brought with her, and there was no shortage of poison to seal her throat when she saw blood. Either don't touch her, or you and I will die!"

this……

It's really scary.

Jiao Shun could only pat him on the shoulder to express sympathy, but this time he felt a bit like sharing the same fate - Sanjie You was better than Xia Jingui. If she hadn't calculated it in the first place, Jiao Shun would have been so cowardly.

The owner even resisted and did not dare to use it.

But Third Sister You only stayed at home on weekdays, and at most occasionally went to the temple for a walk. Jiao Shun didn't have many opportunities to meet her face to face.

But Xia Jingui was Xue Pan's wife, and the two of them were almost tied to death.

This is probably because evil people will have their own troubles.

While he was comforting Xue Pan, the steward of Taiwei's Mansion came to him and said that the auspicious time was approaching and the family members were invited to come and pay homage to the body. After that, it was time to seal the coffin.

These days, most funerals in the capital are moved from the afternoon to the morning. The main reason is that the cemeteries are getting farther and farther away from the city. If you still go in the afternoon, it will be already dark by the time you are buried.

When Jia Zheng got the news, he took the lead in going to the mourning hall.

Not long after, a group of female relatives and the timid Jia Baoyu also rushed over.

Jia Zheng gave his son a hard look and said, "We'll see how I deal with you when we get back." Then he led Wang Ren and other male relatives around the coffin, mumbling something.

Because a lot of ice has been placed in the coffin, the body has not decomposed yet, and someone has just cleaned it up. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is lifelike. It is praised.

After the female relatives had paid their respects to the remains, Wang Ren took the wooden hammer from the servant's hand and shouted, "Dad, please get out of the way so you don't get hurt by the nails" while pounding in the seven rivets one after another.

Then there was another cry inside and outside the mourning hall.

Jiao Shun watched for a while and saw that he was still crying, so he went back to the side hall and took out the incense he usually used, preparing to cover up Lin Daiyu's scent on his body, so as not to be smelled by Jia Baoyu again.

.

Unexpectedly, just after smoking for a while, Tanchun suddenly walked in from outside.

Jiao Shun put away the incense without changing his expression and said casually: "My mother told me before leaving home that she was afraid of getting contaminated when she went back - after all, Xiangyun is now a twin."

Tanchun did not raise any suspicion, but said helplessly: "Sister Feng is really worried, so she asked me to come over and ask Brother Jiao how you plan to deal with the aggressive New Confucian school."

After all, she never defeated Wang Xifeng. After all, this Feng Lazisu had a temper that would never give up until she achieved her goals.

Of course, she was actually very curious about Jiao Shun's countermeasures, so the question she asked was not whether it mattered, but how Jiao Shun was prepared to deal with it.

But I heard Jiao Shun say seriously: "Whether it is the New Confucian school of Wangge Lao or our engineering school, they are all for the imperial court and to promote your majesty's new policy. Since we are all on the same journey, why should I prepare any response? I can't ask for more.

It’s just fairness and justice.”

Tan Chun raised his eyebrows when he heard Yan Ying's eyebrows: "Why, Brother Jiao can't trust me?"

"How is that possible?"

Jiao Shun saw that there was no one around, so he pulled her into his arms and said with a smile: "I'm not lying to you, the four words "fairness and justice" of the New Confucian school are enough - not just fairness, but also

There is a preference for them."

"What does this mean?"

Tanchun raised his head, his face full of curiosity.

By the way...

Has she grown again recently? The scale has obviously surpassed that of Aunt Zhao.

"What do you think Confucian scholars are best at?"

"Hao Shou Qiong Sutra? Confusing people's hearts?"

"That's called enlightenment!"

Jiao Shun corrected him seriously: "Confucianism values ​​education the most and is the most important in education. Since it is an engineering academy, it cannot be tested on Confucian classics, right? This time I am going to suggest that the imperial court conduct an inspection from five aspects."

"The first one is: engineering, which is the ability to design projects and lead construction; the second one is scientific research, which is the ability to develop new theories and new equipment; the third one is mathematics, which needs no further explanation; the fourth one is: skills,

That is actual practical ability; the last one is education."

"Anyone who wants to take the official position in the Academy of Engineering needs to choose four of these five items, and then select the top candidates in comprehensive and individual subjects."

After Tanchun thought about it for a moment, he guessed that Jiao Shun wanted the New Confucians to choose enlightenment.

Let Confucian scholars compete with blacksmiths and carpenters in their craftsmanship. Not to mention the question of whether the Confucian scholars can win. Even if there are a few who are not doing their jobs properly, how can they have the nerve to abandon their education and choose to test their skills in front of everyone?

"But how do you test this education?"

"Naturally, the candidates are asked to design the best plan to promote the engineering system in as much detail as possible. When the time comes, we can select feasible locations and try it out. The one with the fastest and best results can be directly listed as the leader of the engineering system - after all, if engineering wants to

To prosper in the world, this education is also the most important thing."

Now Tanchun completely understood.

What Jiao Shun was doing was a conspiracy. What the emperor hoped for most at the moment was to implement the New Deal and promote industrialization as soon as possible. But if he wanted to implement the engineering system faster and better, he would inevitably touch the interests of the scholars.

.reputation

If New Confucianism is carefully designed and implemented, the conflict between New Confucianism and Old Confucianism will definitely become more intense.

This may even lead to disagreements among Neo-Confucians.
Chapter completed!