Wang Xifeng came to Jia Yun's house and invited Bu Wuniang to Rongguo Mansion to discuss the marriage between Jia Yun and Xue Baochai with Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue.
The result was obvious, Bu Wuniang also approved of this marriage.
However, when Jia Zheng returned home from get off work at the Coal Mine Department of the Ministry of Industry in the evening, he heard about this incident and was dissatisfied.
Jia Zheng is an old-fashioned person. In his opinion, Qin Ye asked him to be the matchmaker for Jia Yun and Qin Keqing. Even if Qin Ye died, he should do this, but now Jia Yun wants to marry Xue Baochai.
But even if Jia Zheng was dissatisfied, he did not stop it.
As soon as Jia Yun fell in love with Xue Baochai, she took the initiative to propose marriage. Jia Mu, Bu Wuniang, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Xue also agreed, and Jia Zheng could not stop it even if he stopped her.
Secondly, Jia Zheng also knew that compared to Qin Keqing, Xue Baochai was closer to Rongguofu and was now more suitable to marry Jia Yun as his wife.
The next day Bu Wuniang came to Rongguo Mansion again and brought Jia Yun's horoscope. Aunt Xue also brought Xue Baochai's horoscope. Jia's mother invited a Mr. Yin and Yang.
The result is very good, Jia Yun and Xue Baochai not only have the same zodiac signs, but also the same horoscopes.
Three days later, it was an auspicious day, and Jia Yun wanted to exchange posts with Xue Baochai.
It is a marriage custom to exchange posts and accept gifts.
Dragon and phoenix wedding invitations are the evidence of marriage between men and women in this era, equivalent to a marriage certificate. Replacing the dragon and phoenix wedding invitations means that Jia Yun and Xue Baochai are legally engaged.
Under Bu Wuniang's arrangement, Jia Yun personally brought her dragon and phoenix wedding invitations and engagement gifts to the Lixiang Courtyard of Rongguo Mansion that morning.
Dragon and phoenix wedding invitations are made of red paper, printed with dragon and phoenix patterns, with family name, surname, and birth date written inside.
The engagement gifts include gold and silver and ten items. The ten items are skirt material, coat material, wedding trousers material, satin clothing material (counted as two pieces), embroidered belt, embroidered scarf, a pair of bracelets, a pair of rings, a
A set of headgear means "perfection".
For Jia Yun, this engagement gift is not much, it is mainly a formality.
It is inconvenient for Xue Baochai to see Jia Yun now, so she has been hiding in the boudoir today. Aunt Xue and Xue Pan entertained Jia Yun with courtesy, and held a banquet for Jia Yun at noon, which is commonly known as "eating a meal".
After lunch, when Jia Yun left, she took away Xue Baochai's dragon and phoenix wedding invitation, and also took away the engagement gifts from the Xue family, including the four treasures of the study and so on.
At this point, Jia Yun and Xue Baochai are engaged!
According to Jia Yun's wishes, the two are scheduled to get married next year, which is the eleventh year of Honglou and the sixth year of Tianzhi.
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The day after Qin Ye's funeral, Jia Zheng did not go to work at the Coal Mine Department of the Ministry of Industry. Instead, he went to Qin Ye's home to help with the funeral arrangements.
This is Jia Yun's arrangement.
Jia Yun specially gave Jia Zheng a few days' leave and asked Jia Zheng to help arrange Qin Ye's funeral.
Because there is no decent man in Qin Ye's family, Qin Keqing can only take care of the female family members in the house, and needs a decent man to help with the cooking.
Jia Yun was willing to help, but he was busy with work and engaged with Xue Baochai.
Jia Zheng was a good fit. He was not only good friends with Qin Ye, but also a colleague of the Ministry of Industry. This time, he was helping to handle Qin Ye's funeral not only as a friend but also on behalf of the Ministry of Industry.
It's just that Jia Zheng didn't like secular affairs, including the secular affairs of preparing funerals. This didn't matter. His main task was to receive guests, and other secular affairs could be handled by his Qing guest husband and servants.
In the next few days, even though Jia Yun was very busy, she came to Qin Ye's house several times to visit and help.
Regarding Jia Yun's arrangement, Qin Keqing, Ruizhu, and Baozhu were all grateful and respectful. The second master was so kind and considerate that he even considered such a thing!
According to Jia Yun's arrangement and Qin Keqing's agreement, Qin Ye's suspension will only last for seven days.
Seven days is not a short period of time. Many people only stop for three, five or even one day after their death. Although Qin Ye is an official, he is only a sixth-grade civil servant after all, and his rank is not high. Moreover, Qin Ye's body was completely destroyed.
It has been on display for three months and has been transported back to Shenjing City from Huainan.
During the seven-day period, not many people came to visit the funeral to offer sacrifices, but there were some. Under Jia Yun's mobilization, many people from the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry came to visit the funeral and offer sacrifices, including Xiao Fu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry.
At the end of the seven-day mourning period, Jia Yun personally sent Qin Ye to his burial.
Jia Yun also fulfilled her promise. Even after Qin Ye's funeral, Jia Yun still sent two personal soldiers to guard Qin Keqing from now on.
Jia Yun was extremely cautious in selecting these two soldiers, and chose honest and honest men. One of them was Tong Dunxing.
Tong Dunxing was unwilling to do so. Rather than protecting Qin Keqing, he wanted to protect Jia Yun, thinking that he would be more promising in this way.
"Guarding Miss Keqing is an important task I have entrusted to you. If you guard her well, I will reward you with another two taels of silver every month. If you guard her for one or two years, she will naturally come back to me in the future."
After hearing what Jia Yun said, Tong Dunxing accepted it happily.
After sending two personal soldiers to permanently guard Qin Keqing, Jia Yun only had eight personal soldiers left.
However, Jia Yun soon recruited two more soldiers. The soldiers recruited this time were still recommended by his original soldiers.
Because Jia Yun recruits his own soldiers carefully, seeking excellence rather than too much, and requires both good conduct and high value of force. It is not easy for him now to recruit such soldiers.
Letting his own soldiers recommend his own soldiers has become a fixed method for Jia Yun to recruit his own soldiers.
There is no way. Although Jia Yun is already a third-grade military attache, he has not served as a general in the army and led soldiers. When will he become a general in the army and lead soldiers? Then it will be convenient for him to recruit soldiers.
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It’s spring, when flowers are blooming, spring is full of joy, and gardens are full of spring colors.
On February 19th, Jia Yun took a rest.
In the morning, Jia Yun walked into the back garden of her house in a poetic mood, facing the bright spring sunshine.
His mansion has a back garden. Although this back garden is much different from Huifang Garden in Ningguo Mansion, and even more incomparable with the later Grand View Garden in the original novel, it is not too small. There are also pavilions and pavilions in the garden.
Bu Wuniang and the maids in the house often went to the back garden to play among the flowers, plants and trees, and Jia Yun would come sometimes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this moment, Jia Yun found Xiang Ling in the back garden. This girl was sitting alone in the pavilion, holding a book in her hand and reading with concentration, so that Jia Yun even walked to
She was outside the pavilion and she didn't even notice.
Jia Yun coughed deliberately. Xiang Ling reacted and found out it was Jia Yun. She quickly stood up and bowed in a reserved manner: "I've met the second master!"
Even though Xiang Ling was raised by a kidnapper from a young age, she is very rule-abiding and can be said to be conservative.
Xiangling has been in Jia Yun's house for more than half a year, and she is not close to Jia Yun yet.
In Xiangling's view, she is Bu Wuniang's maid, and Jia Yun is a man, and there are two people in the room, Xi Ren and Zijuan. If she takes the initiative to get close to Jia Yun, it will be unruly.
Because of this, Xiangling rarely approached Jia Yun for so long.
This is different for Qingwen. Qingwen doesn't pay attention to such things. She is open-minded and willful, and she often takes the initiative to find Jia Yun.
Jia Yun is not surprised by Xiangling's conservatism.
Many readers in previous lives had the impression of Xiangling as beautiful, docile, and innocent. However, Jia Yun also read Xiangling's conservatism when reading the original work.
This can be seen from a plot.
Xiangling, who had been Xue Pan's concubine for a long time, entered the Grand View Garden that day and met Jia Baoyu. When it came to Xue Pan's intention to marry his wife Xia Jingui, Jia Baoyu sneered and said, "I don't know why I worry about your future."
"I mean, I'm worried that Xiangling will be bullied.
After hearing this, Xiangling immediately blushed and said dissatisfiedly, "What are you talking about? We usually work together to respect each other. What do you mean by suddenly mentioning these things today? No wonder everyone says you are someone who can't get close to you."
"People" means that she is Xue Pan's concubine, and it is rude for Jia Baoyu to say such things to her.
After saying this, Xiangling left, and from now on it was not easy to enter the Grand View Garden.
Because of this conservatism, even though Xiang Ling admired and respected Jia Yun in her heart, when she suddenly met Jia Yun alone in the back garden pavilion, Xiang Ling still looked reserved and felt uncomfortable.
Jia Yun walked into the pavilion, glanced at the book in Xiang Ling's hand, and smiled slightly: "What book are you reading?"
Xiang Ling immediately blushed: "My husband asked us to read it. This book is inconvenient for me to read."
Jia Yun stretched out her hand: "Bring it to me and take a look."
Xiangling's face turned redder, but she didn't dare to resist and handed the book to Jia Yun.
After reading it, Jia Yun found out that it was "The Classic of Female Filial Piety" and she couldn't laugh or cry.
Lao Tongsheng has been teaching reading and literacy to the maids in Jia Yun's house for more than half a year. Now several of the maids know a lot of words. The one who knows the most is Xiang Ling who is the best at learning.
Recently, Lao Tongsheng has been teaching several maids to study books such as "The Book of Filial Piety", "Nv's Commandments", and "Biography of Women". This is not Jia Yun's arrangement, but Lao Tongsheng's own idea.
Lao Tongsheng thought that several of the maids had similar looks. Among them, Xiren and Zijuan were already nominally Jia Yun's housemates. Qingwen, Xiangling, and Liu Wuer probably also had some who would be Jia Yun's housemates in the future.
So out of his loyalty and concern for Jia Yun, Lao Tongsheng took the initiative to ask Jia Yun to let several maids learn books such as "The Classic of Filial Piety", "Nv's Commandments" and "The Biography of Women".
But Jia Yun didn't expect that Xiangling would actually study this kind of book seriously in private, and even went to the pavilion in the back garden to study alone.
At the beginning, Jia Yun arranged for the maids in the house to read and write. One of the reasons was to let Xiang Ling learn more about reading, and later let her learn poetry and write poems.
But this is not urgent, it can wait.
But there is another thing related to Xiangling that can be done now, and that is to send people south to find Xiangling's mother!
Because Jia Yun felt that Xiang Ling's fate in the original work was very miserable, and she really wanted Xiang Ling to live a happy life, so when Xiang Ling came to his house, he planned to send someone south to take Xiang Ling away in a few days.
The mother came to find her.
This matter has been delayed for more than half a year and has not been done yet.
It's not that Jia Yun forgot, he didn't.
Just because he has been busy for the past six months, and Xiang Ling has never been close to him.
Now that more than half a year has passed, Jia Yun feels that she should do this. With her mother, Xiangling will live a happier and better life. Moreover, Jia Yun is worried that Xiangling's mother may die if this matter is delayed for too long. After all, at the moment
Many years have passed since Xiangling was abducted.
Jia Yun even suspected that even if he sent people to find Xiangling Niang now, Xiangling Niang might be dead.
Hope this isn't the case.
Thinking of this matter, Jia Yun couldn't help but think of a person, that person was Jia Yucun.
Xiangling's father, Zhen Shiyin, was Jia Yucun's benefactor. With Zhen Shiyin's support, Jia Yucun was able to go to Beijing to take the imperial examination. As a result, he succeeded in the imperial examination and embarked on an official career. He also took in the maids of Zhen Shiyin's family, whom he had fallen in love with when he was poor.
Jiao Xing is the second bedroom.
Later, Jia Yucun committed a crime and was dismissed from office. Later, he hooked up with Jia Zheng through Lin Ruhai, and then hooked up with Wang Ziteng through Jia Zheng. With the help of Wang Ziteng, he became the prefect of Yingtian Mansion, and then met Xue Pan.
The case of fighting for Xiangling.
Jia Yucun knew clearly that Xiangling was the abducted daughter of her former benefactor, and also knew the whereabouts of Xiangling's mother, but he did not help the poor mother and daughter, as if the matter had nothing to do with him.
The original book also mentioned an incident later, where Jia She framed Shi Daozi for the fan, which was also planned by Jia Yucun.
Although the original work was only handed down eighty times, according to Jia Yun's judgment, this villain from Jia Yucun will probably add insult to injury to the declining Jia family in the following chapters.
Some people even doubted that Xue Baochai would marry Jia Yucun because of the saying "The hairpin is waiting in the box to fly"...
As for Jiayu Village, Jia Yun naturally wanted to severely rectify it, but it was not time yet.
In December of the seventh year of the Red Mansion, when Jia Yucun and Lin Daiyu went to Beijing together to seduce Jia Zheng with Lin Ruhai's letters, Jia Yun could have stopped him at that time, but he did not.
First of all, although Jia Yucun is a sinister villain, as long as Jia Yun herself is strong, Jia Yucun will not be very harmful to Jia Yun.
Secondly, Jia Yun wanted to wait for Jia Yucun to commit more crimes, so that he could be punished severely.
Thirdly, Jia Yun was already thinking about Xue Baochai at that time, thinking that once he stopped Jia Yucun from colluding with Jia Zheng, Jia Yucun would not be able to become the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture, and would not take over Xue Pan's case of fighting for Xiangling.
It may affect Xue Baochai's fate.
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Now, seeing Jia Yun suddenly acting dumb in front of him, Xiang Ling felt even more uncomfortable and lowered her head and said something.
Jia Yun nodded: "Go."
Although he had decided to send someone to find Xiangling Niang, Jia Yun would not tell Xiangling about this matter first until she was found.
As I said in advance, if Xiangling Niang died, Xiangling would be very disappointed and sad, and a good thing would turn into a bad thing.
Xiangling felt relieved and hurriedly walked out of the pavilion with her head lowered. Suddenly, she met Qingwen on the path among flowers. She accidentally bumped into Qingwen, and the two of them said "Oops" together.
Qingwen looked at Jia Yun in the pavilion in front of her, and asked Xiang Ling in a strange tone: "What shameful thing have you done? Is it like a guilty conscience?"
Xiangling's face turned red: "I didn't... didn't do anything, don't talk nonsense."
After saying this, Xiangling hurriedly walked away.
Qingwen walked to the pavilion and asked Jia Yun: "What did the second master just do to Xiangling?"
Jia Yun smiled and said: "I didn't do anything."
Qingwen snorted: "Then why did Xiangling walk so fast like a thief and bump into me without looking at the road? Second Master, I'm not telling you, you just got engaged to the Xue family's girl Bao.
, it would be inappropriate to be in a hurry and want someone in the room at this time."
Jia Yun: "..."
Jia Yun walked up to Qingwen, and Qingwen backed away in fright. Jia Yun pressed forward step by step, and then smiled evilly: "Yes, your second master is anxious and wants someone in the room again, but I have a crush on him."
It’s not Xiangling, it’s you. Well, go to my room tonight and I’ll give you a face..."
"Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah!"
Before Jia Yun finished speaking, Qingwen ran away while "poofing".
Jia Yun smiled playfully and muttered: "Little Hoof, I can't cure you yet!"