On July 13th, under Jia Yun's arrangement, Qin Zhong, who was living in Prince Zhongwu's palace, moved out of the palace and moved to Yu Zhu's residence in Chesiaoma Hutong.
The next day, July 14, Qin Zhong went to the Imperial College.
When Jia Zheng heard about this, he was envious!
Jia Rong of Ningguo Mansion and Jia Lian of Rongguo Mansion were both former supervisors of the Imperial College, which is what the original book calls "Xingmen Jian". Jia Baoyu could not be regarded as a supervisor of the Imperial College because Rongguo Palace
Jia Baoyu's generation has already shaded one of his eldest sons, Jia Lian, and cannot shade another person.
Now Jia Baoyu is not too young and is old enough to go to the Imperial College to study. So this time, when Jia Zheng heard that Qin Zhong was sent to the Imperial College by Jia Yun, he was envious.
Jia Zheng didn't tell Jia's mother in advance. He directly asked Yu Zhu to see him, begging Yu Zhu to ask Jia Yun for his favor and give Jia Baoyu a place as a supervising student in the Imperial College.
Jia Zheng was still very concerned about Jia Baoyu's son. After all, since Jia Zhu's death, Jia Baoyu was his only legitimate son. Jia Zheng very much hoped that Jia Baoyu could pass the imperial examination and become famous.
Because of this, Jia Zheng, who rarely asks for help, couldn't help but want to ask Jia Yun this time, but he himself was too embarrassed to ask directly. He is still only a fifth-grade Minister of Industry Yuanwailang. With such an official position,
Normally, he is not qualified to see the emperor, not to mention that not long ago he went to the palace to beg Jia Yun because of Jia Jing's affairs.
Jia Zheng and Yu Zhu were relatively familiar with each other, and they had a lot of contacts.
After hearing Jia Zheng's plea, Yu Zhu felt funny in his heart and thought quietly: "I didn't expect that the second master of Rongguo Mansion, a man from the Ministry of Industry who was always old-fashioned and ignorant of the world, would actually take the initiative to beg me.
one day!"
"I will report this matter to the Emperor today, just wait for the news." Yu Zhu responded.
Although Yu Zhu's current official position is much higher than that of Jia Zheng, he is not an arrogant person. Moreover, he understands the relationship between Jia Yun and Jia Zheng and will not neglect Jia Zheng.
"This is a great thank you to the minister." Jia Zheng bowed respectfully to express his thanks, and then withdrew.
Yu Zhu reported the matter to Jia Yun that day. Jia Yun smiled after hearing this and thought: "Let Jia Baoyu go to the Imperial College to study? Okay, wonderful. This is not only my favor to Yuanchun and Rongguo Mansion, but also
, As a result, Jia Baoyu will no longer be able to play with his sisters at home all day long!"
Jia Yun said to Zhu: "In consideration of the merits of my ancestors in Rongguo Mansion, in mind of the concubine's kindness, and in mind of the friendship between Rongguo Mansion and me in the past, I agree to this matter and will ask Jia Baoyu to go to the Imperial College tomorrow.
Report, you will tell Jia Zheng what I said!"
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After Yu Zhu resigned, Jia Yun sent Tao Zhan, the eunuch of the West Palace, to tell Yuan Chun about the matter. Yuan Chun was overjoyed and extremely excited when he learned about it!
Yuanchun cared about Jia Baoyu as much as Jia Zheng. She was not only Jia Baoyu's half-sister, but also equivalent to Jia Baoyu's half-mother, because Jia Baoyu was often taken care of by her when she was a child. Jia Baoyu's reading and literacy skills
She was the first to teach them.
In terms of studying for the imperial examination, Yuanchun's expectations for Jia Baoyu were no less than those of Jia Zheng. He wanted Jia Baoyu to study hard and achieve glory through the imperial examination.
After entering the palace for many years, Yuanchun has been worried about this matter because she knew that Jia Baoyu was eccentric and could not become a shadow supervisor of the Imperial Academy like Jia Lian and Jia Rong.
Yuanchun believed that with Jia Baoyu's talent, as long as he entered the Imperial College, he would probably be able to study well and take the imperial examination well.
Originally, Yuanchun had planned to find a suitable opportunity in the future and ask Jia Yun to arrange for Jia Baoyu to become the shadow supervisor of the Imperial College. Unexpectedly, Jia Zheng asked for this today and got Jia Yun's consent.
This is really a great joy. For Yuanchun, this great joy is no less than the previous one when Jia Yun personally came to her small palace to express her kindness and allow her to go home to visit her relatives.
In Yuanchun's view, this is also Jia Yun's holy love for her, because Jia Yun mentioned that one of the reasons why he agreed to the matter was because of her kindness, and as soon as Jia Yun agreed to the matter, he was the first to do so.
It was time for the eunuch to come and tell her that this eunuch was Tao Zhan, the eunuch of the West Palace.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, he is very fond of you!" Baoqin couldn't help but say.
Yuanchun was silent when he heard the words, thinking quietly in his heart: "Yes, he has a lot of love for me, but how can I repay him? Unless..."
I don't know what he thought of, but Yuanchun suddenly blushed.
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After Yu Zhu resigned, he immediately sent someone to summon Jia Zheng to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and conveyed Jia Yun's words to Jia Zheng. Jia Zheng was overjoyed when he heard the words. He first saluted in the direction of Qianqing Palace and then bowed to Zhu to thank him.
Immediately afterwards, Jia Zheng was no longer in the mood to go to work, so he quickly rushed back to Rongguo Mansion and went directly to the Rongqing Hall of Jia Muyuan.
It was noon at this time, Jia Mu was taking a nap, and Rongqing Hall was quiet. Although Jia Zheng was anxious to tell Jia Mu about the happy event, he still didn't want to disturb Jia Mu's nap, so he went to his inner study again.
Mengpo Zhai and sent someone to call Jia Baoyu.
Jia Baoyu was with Lin Daiyu when he suddenly learned that Jia Zheng had summoned him. He was immediately frightened. He was already scared to death of Jia Zheng, and now that Jia Zheng was anxious to come back from the Yamen to summon him, he subconsciously
He wondered if his father had found out about some of his bad deeds.
Jia Baoyu, who had a guilty conscience, spent a long time before walking into Mengpo Zhai. Jia Zheng stared at him and said, "Why did it take you so long to come after I summoned you? What are you doing?"
Jia Baoyu responded hesitantly: "I didn't do anything, but... suddenly I felt a little uncomfortable and my head felt a little dizzy."
Jia Zheng immediately became angry: "You don't do serious things all day long, and you don't study well. You are just wild and playful!"
Jia Baoyu remained silent and just lowered his head.
Jia Zheng then said: "Today I asked someone to ask for mercy from the emperor. The emperor has allowed you to go to the Imperial College to be a prison student. You will go tomorrow!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hearing this, Jia Baoyu immediately raised his head, his eyes widened, and his face turned pale...
Jia Zheng continued: "This kindness from the emperor is not insignificant. I would like to warn you that you must study hard when you go to the Imperial College. In the future, you can go to the official career through the imperial examination, so that I will not waste my support for you, nor will I waste my support on the old lady."
Your mother and I hurt you..."
As he listened, Jia Baoyu became distracted and lost his mind. He couldn't even listen to a lot of what Jia Zheng said later. He finally came to his senses when Jia Zheng finished nagging him and asked him to resign. , too busy to leave, and too busy to walk quickly to Jia Muyuan.
"Ouch!" Because he was absent-minded and walked too fast, Jia Baoyu accidentally fell on the way to Jia Mu's courtyard, causing a small wound on his forehead and bleeding.
However, Jia Baoyu seemed to have lost all sense of pain and hurriedly got up and continued to walk quickly to Jia's mother's courtyard.
The maids, daughters-in-law, and mothers-in-law of Jia's mother-in-law were suddenly shocked when they saw Jia Baoyu walking quickly with dirty clothes and a bruise on her forehead. This is the old lady's darling. What happened?
The maids, daughters-in-law, and mothers-in-law asked about Jia Baoyu one after another, but Jia Baoyu didn't bother to answer. He broke into Rongqing Hall and met Yuanyang: "Good sister, where is the old lady?"
Yuanyang didn't care to answer, but looked at Jia Baoyu's forehead and asked: "Second Master Bao, what's wrong with you? Did you get into a fight?"
Jia Baoyu said hurriedly: "It's just a fall. Where is the old lady? I have a big emergency with the old lady!"
As Jia Mu's chief maid, Yuanyang is naturally not simple, she is steady and virtuous, and she is also very good at serving Jia Mu.
According to what Li Wan said in the original work, if there is no Yuanyang in Jia Mu's house, she can't do anything. Jia Mu's things are all managed by Yuanyang. For Jia Mu, Yuanyang's words are sometimes more effective than those of Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng.
Because of this, in the original work, Jia She fell in love with Yuanyang and wanted to marry Yuanyang. Jia's mother disagreed and embarrassed Jia She and Mrs. Xing. As a result, Jia She spent 800 taels of silver to go to I bought a concubine named Yanhong from outside.
Jia Mu attaches great importance to naps. When she takes a nap, she hates being woken up by others. However, it usually doesn't offend her to be woken up by Yuanyang, both because she likes Yuanyang very much and because Yuanyang usually only wakes up when there is something important or urgent. before waking her up.
At this moment, Yuanyang ordered Hu Hui, Parrot and other maids to treat Jia Baoyu's wounds, while he walked into the Nuan Pavilion and woke up Jia's mother from her nap: "Old lady, Second Master Bao suddenly came to you in a hurry, saying that something big is going on. It was urgent, and I fell down and injured my forehead."
What? My beloved fell down and was injured? Is there a big emergency? This is not a big deal! Jia Mu hurriedly asked Yuanyang to call Jia Baoyu into the Nuan Pavilion.
"Second Master Bao, the old lady is asking you to come in." Yuanyang said to Jia Baoyu.
When Jia Baoyu heard this, he immediately ignored Amber and Parrot, who had to treat his wound. He quickly walked into the Nuan Pavilion and cried to Jia's mother: "Old lady, please save me! My father wants to send me there." Where is the Imperial College? He is going to the Imperial College tomorrow, please stop him quickly!"
Jia's mother was stunned. After she realized what she was doing, she asked the maids to treat Jia Baoyu's wounds while asking for details. However, Jia Baoyu's understanding was limited.
At this time Yuanyang smiled and said: "Old lady, the second master came to see you just now. When he learned that you were taking a break, he went there. Why don't you send someone to call the second master now to ask?"
Jia Mu nodded and immediately sent someone to call Jia Zheng.
Jia Zheng came to Rongqing Hall and saw Jia Baoyu's injured appearance. He was confused, but he didn't bother to ask about such a thing first. Instead, he greeted Jia's mother first, and then told Jia's mother the details.
Jia Mu said, "You should have discussed this matter with me in advance. Why did you take the decision without permission and go to the emperor to plead for mercy?"
Jia Zheng said awkwardly: "I was a little impatient."
In fact, as a father, he wants to send his son to study in the Imperial College. This is to discipline his son well, and there is no need to discuss it with Jia Mu in advance. Qing Dynasty does not have such etiquette, but Jia Zheng is very filial to Jia Mu, so naturally he does not
Will respond to Jia Mu like this.
Jia Mu paused and said: "The number of graduate students in the Imperial College is indeed precious. It is a rare good opportunity for Baoyu to go to that place to study. But I was thinking about it. Baoyu is still young now and was born shy. He has grown up to be so big.
I have almost never left home. Should we wait until two or three years to discuss this matter?"
Jia Zheng: "..."
Is Jia Baoyu still young? He is already in his teens. When Jia Yun was as old as him, he would have been awarded titles and officials long ago and was about to take the martial arts exam.
Jia Baoyu was shy by nature? He was not shy in front of his sisters, sisters, and their friends.
Jia Baoyu almost never left home? He went out to fool around all the time.
Jia Zheng only thought about these words in his heart and would not tell Jia Mu.
What Jia Zheng said was: "Old lady, this time I had the shamelessness to ask Minister Yu Zhu, Minister of the Interior and Minister of the Imperial Council, for the quota of Yinjian students this time. Minister Yu also begged the Emperor on my behalf, and I just asked for it.
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"Thanks to the merits of our ancestors, the kindness of the noble concubine, and the old friendship between the emperor and our family, the emperor graciously agreed to this matter. For Baoyu, it is a God-given opportunity to study for the imperial examination. How can he not go if he says no?"
"If Baoyu doesn't go, wouldn't he be disobeying the emperor's order? Not only Baoyu is disobeying the emperor's order, but I am also disobeying the emperor's order, and it may even implicate the ministers."
Jia's mother was shocked when she heard this: "..."
In fact, she also hoped that Jia Baoyu could study hard and succeed in the imperial examination, but she really doted on Jia Baoyu. She was afraid that Jia Baoyu would suffer hardship in the Imperial College. Just now, Jia Baoyu begged her again and again even though he was injured, which made her even more distressed.
But now, after listening to what Jia Zheng said, Jia Mu understood that this matter involved the emperor, and the emperor's orders and ministers could not refuse if they wanted to!
Is it possible for Jia Zheng to beg Yu Zhu again, and Yu Zhu to beg Jia Yun to take back the imperial life? Isn't this a trick on the emperor? Jia Yun's kindness to Rongguo Mansion should not be wasted like this!
Thinking of this, Mother Jia looked at Jia Baoyu. Even though Jia Baoyu looked pitiful and pleading, she couldn't care less and said with a smile: "In that case, Baoyu, you can go to the Imperial College tomorrow."
Jia Baoyu: "..."
Jia's mother then said to Jia Zheng: "I remember that when Yun...the emperor was studying in the Imperial College and practicing martial arts, he did not live in the Imperial College. Baoyu is the same this time. He still lives at home and only goes to the Imperial College to study."
This means that Jia Baoyu can be a day student.
How can Mother Jia rest assured that Jia Baoyu will live in the Imperial College, otherwise she will miss him very much.
Jia Zheng wanted Jia Baoyu to be a resident student, which would be more conducive to study. Moreover, the Imperial College was not close to Rongguo Mansion. If Jia Baoyu was a day student, someone would have to be sent to escort him to and from school every day.
Immediately, Jia Zheng expressed this idea, and Jia Mu heard the words and said in a deep voice: "There is no need to discuss this matter anymore, just do as I say!"
Jia Zheng: "..."
Jia Mu said again: "You asked the emperor to arrange Baoyu's affairs this time. When will you ask the emperor to promote you to an official position again?"
Ever since Jia Yun became emperor, Jia's mother had been looking forward to Jia Yun's promotion of Jia Zheng's official position. However, this has not happened so far. Jia Zheng is still working as a fifth-grade official of the Ministry of Industry.