When Jia Lian took it apart and looked at it, Xing'er came over again, craning his neck and staring at the paper.
Jia Lian smiled and simply sent the letter in front of his eyes:
"I just happen to be too lazy to read, so you read it to me."
Xing'er was dumbfounded and grinned:
"The second master is making fun of the little one again. He knows that the little one is illiterate, but he still rushes the duck to sell it."
Jia Lian kicked him hard on the butt:
"Didn't I ask Caiming to teach you how to read? Is it because he doesn't teach? Or you don't learn?"
Xing'er covered her butt and grinned:
"When the second master speaks, who dares not to listen?
But the little one was born without a brain that could read, so he got a headache when he saw the twists and turns on the paper.
They recognize the small ones in these twists and turns, but they don't recognize the small ones. Who said they don't have faces?
I'm not bragging to the second master, but if I meet anyone once, let alone a year or ten years ago, I can still remember their last name.
Whenever a kid wants to find out, even if he is mute, he can tell whether his wife's pants are red or flowery.
By the way, Second Master doesn’t want to know about his wife’s underwear in Jia Yucun outside... Oh! Second Master, don’t hit me! Careful, my hand hurts!”
Jia Lian gave Xing'er some "explosive chestnuts", grabbed his ears and cursed:
"You're such a piece of shit! Just work hard on this bullshit!
I want to promote you, second master, but you have to fight for it!
Look at all the people in charge in the government, is there any one who is blind to your virtue?"
Xing'er was so smart that he immediately understood the meaning behind these words. He knelt on the ground with a "dong" sound and kowtowed three times:
"You little bastard, you don't know what's good and what's good, you're just dog meat and don't serve on the stage!
When I go back, I will learn how to read with Caiming. I guarantee that in less than three months, I will be able to recognize the names of everyone in our house.
I beg the Second Master to promote the younger one. This younger one’s whole life belongs to the Second Master. The Second Master asked me to jump into the oil pan. If the younger one gets an adze, he will have sores on his head and pus on the soles of his feet.
, he died only after his life was rotten."
Jia Lian couldn't hold back a smile:
"Your boy's mouth is really valuable. It seems that I really need to find the most suitable job for you."
Xing'er understood what he heard and immediately got up. Pei Dian'er Dian'er rubbed Jia Lian's arms, hit his shoulders and hit his back. He simply didn't know how to flatter Jia Lian.
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Jia Lian stopped paying attention to him and lowered his head to read the contents of the letter.
Long'er's handwriting was crooked, but it was clear that every stroke was written with utmost care. There were also typos everywhere, and Jia Lian almost had to be confused and half-guessed before he could figure out the general meaning of the letter.
The Jia family is really in chaos this time.
The second master was impeached, scolded by the emperor, and suspended from office. Then, Prince Zhongshun sent people to chase Baoyu and force him to hire an actor. The second master was so angry that he beat Baoyu violently, and then he himself became angry. Because the eldest man was in such a good mood, he gathered all his concubines in his courtyard to hold a banquet and sing an opera. It was very lively. As a result, a branch fell from the tree and smashed the eldest man's head, along with four of his concubines.
His face was scratched.
Seeing that the eldest man was injured and in a bad mood, Mrs.
The eldest man was so excited that he worked hard for two nights in a row and accidentally slipped his waist. I heard that he asked someone to lift it off the girl.
At the same time, there was a rumor in the house that one of the girls was bought from "Yicui Pavilion" and had that disease.
Nowadays, Miss Bao is the housekeeper in the house, and she can win over everyone she can, and buy them off whenever she can. She is not as harsh as Mistress Lian, so even though the house is a mess, everyone from top to bottom praises her.
Hello, Miss Bao.
Mother-in-laws can even bring neighbors into Jia's house to gamble. When they are thirsty, they go to the upper room to steal tea leaves and make tea for them. When they are hungry, they go to the kitchen to cook and cook. After eating and drinking, they continue to gamble. Everyone around them praises them.
In the Jia family, "the family is big and the business is big, but some are stupid."
Miss Bao especially takes care of Master Bao. Anyone who has a relationship with Baoyu, whether it is a maid or a servant, will benefit greatly.
Especially Mingyan and Mingyan's mother, one was promoted to the "leader" of Baoyu's servants, and her monthly salary immediately tripled; the other was promoted to the housekeeper's wife of the second house, although she could not live with the companions of Zhou Rui's family.
The eldest lady is the same, but because of the extra night allowance, she also gets twice the monthly salary.
Ever since Sister Feng was deprived of her power, she could only wait beside the old lady and the eldest lady every day. She received a lot of gossip from the eldest lady, but the old lady didn't know about it, and the wife just didn't care.
Recently, Miss Ping has frequently called the doctor in to help Sister Feng. The wife said that the house is not well off now, and no one is allowed to use the ginseng, cinnamon and other medicinal materials in the house. Mistress Lian's medical fees and medicine money are all paid to Mistress Lian herself.
Overhead.
There was no rest in the palace, and eunuchs came to the door every three days asking for money.
Today, Eunuch Xia wants to buy a house. Tomorrow, Eunuch Zhou will say that his money is not working well. The day after tomorrow, Eunuch Wu will have a baby at home. Anyway, there is no way he can give it away without one or two thousand taels of silver.
In addition, because the project of the Provincial Family Courtyard is too expensive, the Jia family has no money to plant trees and flowers. I heard that it has reached the point where Uncle Zhen is asking for help to find the old lady, hoping for some private savings to tide over the difficulties.
Ke Lian's second mistress was ill, and no one else cared about it. Jia Zhen was so anxious that she had no idea, so she simply threw her hand away.
Work on Jia's garden has stopped, but the housekeeper Lai's newly built garden has been completed.
The garden is very neat and spacious, half the size of the provincial villa. There are springs, rocks, trees, and all kinds of things, pavilions and pavilions, and everything is luxurious. There are several scenes that are more astonishing than the provincial villa.
The first few days were said to be Lai Da's birthday, so we held a three-day show and banquet in his garden.
In addition to inviting Jia Zhen and Jia Rong, we also invited several current officials and several children from aristocratic families to accompany us.
Xue Pan also took the initiative to congratulate him and sent a truckload of gifts.
People all over the capital say that except for the Jia family, no other family’s slaves have such dignity.
In order to pray for blessings, Lai Da made thousands of thin white flour steamed buns every day for three days, spreading blessings at the door of his house, and everyone passing by had a share.
Everyone in the capital said that apart from the Jia family, no other family’s slaves were so rich.
Aunt Lai and Lai's daughter-in-law also went to invite the old lady. Seeing that Baoyu had improved a lot in the past few days, the old lady felt better, so she took Mrs. Wang's Aunt Xue and sat in Lai's garden for half a day. Before leaving, she returned
I rewarded Aunt Lai with one hundred taels of silver.
The old lady returned to the house and ate half a bowl of red rice porridge for dinner, leaving the remaining half for Sister Feng. Just in time, Youshi from Dongfu came over to say hello to the old lady, so they stayed to eat together.
There was no rice, so Youshi could only eat white japonica rice with her servants.
When the old lady asked, she coaxed her and told her that the fields were unstable due to drought and floods this year, so there was not enough fine rice in them.
In fact, nowadays the house is full of people who have nothing to do but make hats. There is not even enough room for an extra bowl of rice.
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After Jia Lian read it, he felt so suffocated that he couldn't breathe.
He slapped the letter on the table and cursed:
"The Jia family is generous to their servants, but they cannot be so generous as to let these bastards bully them to the point of sucking their blood! These bastards think that everyone else is a fool!"