Mother Jia didn’t care much about the fact that her daughter-in-law’s sister came to Jia’s house with her son and daughter for more than a year.
Mother Jia didn't care much about asking Aunt Xue and her family to move out of Lixiangyuan and live in a quiet house between Rongguo Mansion and Ningguo Mansion.
The Jia family has a house and a place, and it’s good to have a “do-everything” person like Aunt Xue as a companion, to eat with, drink tea with, and chat with.
He is just a relative who comes to seek refuge, and he wants everything from the Jia family, so it’s easy to say whatever you want.
What Jia's mother is most worried about now is the Jia family's own housing problem.
Now the family situation has changed, and Jia Lian has become the head of the family.
Ordinarily, Jia Lian should move Sister Feng into Rongxi Hall, which is where the head of the Rongguo Mansion should live.
Nowadays, the emperor puts the word "filial piety" on his head every day. When he is a minister, he must also put the word "filial piety on his head". There is no reason to "only care about himself and not his father". So Jia Lian moved into the Hall of Rongxi, so Jia Lian's biological father
Jia She will have to enjoy the blessings and move back to Rongguo Mansion.
Now that the second son Jia Zheng and his family have lost their title, they should vacate Rongxi Hall, move out of Rongguo Mansion, and live in Jia She's old house in the east courtyard.
This is the truth, but Jia's mother really doesn't want to see her bastard son Jia She causing trouble for her every day. Of course, she is even more reluctant to move away from her youngest son Jia Zheng and her precious grandson Baoyu.
As a sensible old lady with a noble status, Jia Mu was unable to do anything inappropriate for her status.
What's more, Jia Lian got the title. It was the emperor's decree. No one could interfere. No matter how unhappy Jia Lian was, she couldn't say no.
The old lady felt uncomfortable in her stomach, but she couldn't bring it out on her face. She could only keep it in her heart. She couldn't eat well for several days and couldn't sleep well. She had to secretly tell Yuanyang not to tell others.
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After dinner that day, everyone dispersed, and Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng came to Jia Mu's house.
Jia's mother originally thought they were talking about the construction of a separate home for the bride and groom, but Jia Lian said that she was thinking that her uncle Jia Zheng was still ill, and that everyone in the Jia family was busy with Concubine Yuan's marriage, and that the old lady loved Baoyu.
I was reluctant to leave, so I decided not to move my residence for the next two years. I just proposed that because Jia Lian needed to entertain guests in Rongxi Hall on a daily basis, I would let Jia Zheng and his wife move to the backyard of Rongxi Hall.
This was like a "happy, smooth and powerful pill". Mother Jia was overjoyed when she heard this. She took Jia Lian and Sister Feng's hands and asked them to sit next to her, one on the left and the other on the right, and said:
"You are the most sensible and capable person in this family, and my love for you is not in vain.
I feel most at ease when I leave this home to you two."
Before leaving, the smiling old lady asked Yuanyang to take out a five-phoenix hairpin with eight treasures, jade and beads from her dowry and gave it to Sister Feng.
Sister Feng looked at the five silken golden phoenixes among the green beads, which were lifelike. Nine golden phoenixes were arranged under the phoenixes, holding pearl tassels in their mouths. The phoenix held pearls and ruby tassels in its mouth, and the lower end was the size of a lotus seed.
There is a phoenix in the middle of the pearl, and the pearl in its mouth is as big as a dragon's eye, round and flawless, with a precious light.
The Chaoyang Five Phoenixes Hanging Pearl Hairpin that Wang Xifeng liked most in her trousseau immediately pales in comparison to this one and can be considered shabby.
Wang Xifeng was so happy that she couldn't put it down when she held the hairpin in her hands, shouting the words "ancestor" so loudly that she could drop honey.
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When she returned to her room, Wang Xifeng, who was so happy that she forgot about the time, happily asked Ping'er to comb her hair, make up and change her clothes. She put on this golden eight-treasure jade-embedded five-phoenix hairpin, and put on the most luxurious and precious clothes.
The clothes on my face made my whole face radiant. I looked back and forth in front of the mirror, walked around, twisted around, and smiled from ear to ear.
Jia Lian rested on the kang with his hands on his pillow and his feet up. Seeing that Wang Xifeng kept smiling like a fool, he smiled and asked:
"Now, do you want to sweep the cracks in your Wang family's floor to see if it's enough for our Jia family to live a lifetime?"
Wang Xifeng never took her eyes off the phoenix hairpin on her head in the mirror. She couldn't help but rub the longan-sized pearl with her fingers. When she heard this, she blushed slightly, glanced at Jia Lian quietly, and pursed her lips.
Cai coquettishly said:
"This is the good stuff that the old lady keeps at the bottom of the box. What's wrong with me being so curious? Are you going to laugh at me for being so petty?"
Ni came over to Jia Lian and said:
"I know that this kind of treasure was originally planned by the old lady to be left to Baoyu's wife.
Now it’s just for your sake that you gave me the advantage. I’m taking advantage of the second master.”
As he spoke, he brought his lips smeared with rose rouge up and kissed Jia Lian on the cheek.
Jia Lian only said half a sentence, "This smells like rose..." before her mouth was blocked by the warm red lips that smelled like rose.
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In the blink of an eye, another month later, Jia Zheng, who had suffered a stroke, had completely recovered with constant acupuncture treatment.
Anyway, the three months of shutting up and thinking about life have not ended yet. He doesn’t have to go to the Ministry of Industry to work or take care of the house. Jia Zheng is happy every day. Every day, he either asks Mr. Qingke to play chess and chat with him, or he hides alone in his dream.
Reading books in Po Zhai's small study is quite relaxing.
Over at the Provincial Courtyard, because Jia Lian had solved the funding problem and personally commanded and dispatched people to work day and night, progress was rapid, and in a short time, all the projects in the garden were completed.
Jia She had no interest in gardens to begin with, not to mention that the Provincial Courtyard was built for Jia Zheng’s daughter. Jia Zhen invited him to take a look, so he went to the gate of the garden, took a look, and said hastily:
"It's very good. It's good everywhere."
Turned around and left.
Seeing this, Jia Zhen couldn't help but murmur to herself:
As expected, the eldest master doesn’t care about anything, so he’d better hurry up and ask the second master to come and take a look at the couplets on the plaque.
However, Jia Lian also said that the couplets on the plaques of the Provincial Family Courtyard were all inscribed by Baoyu, which is unreliable.
This is a garden for the emperor's family, how can we deal with it?
It’s not like we can’t afford the money, so we have to ask a talented man to write the inscription. How can we get Baoyu, a kid, to write blindly?
As a result, he came to invite Jia Zheng. Jia Zheng loved elegance the most, so he immediately called a large group of Qing guests and went into the garden for a stroll.
By coincidence, he met Baoyu on the road. Jia Zheng immediately ordered Baoyu to follow him, writing plaques and making couplets along the way.
Jia Zhen followed absent-mindedly, but one of Jia Zheng's Qing guests came up and said:
"I have carefully written it down for Uncle Zhen here. I will write it down when I get back and ask someone to send it to you. You will need it in the future."
Jia Zhen smiled but said nothing.
Afterwards, the man indeed sent a copy of all the plaques and couplets written by Baoyu along the way. Jia Zhen didn't take it seriously and threw them on the table.
When it was later said that she really wanted to find a craftsman to make a plaque and hang it according to this, Jia Zhen turned over the study room to find the piece of paper with the plaque and couplet inscribed by Baoyu, and secretly sighed in her heart:
Jia Lian, this kid, is really unpredictable again!
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As written in the original text of "A Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Lian was able to predict the future.
But if it was not written in the original text of "A Dream of Red Mansions", Jia Lian would be numb.
Just as Baoyu was reciting in front of all the guests in the Provincial Courtyard, "The smoke of Baoding tea is still green, and the fingers of chess are still cool after playing chess in the window", Jia Lian, who was riding out alone, was standing at the entrance of Xiaohuazhi Lane with a solemn expression.
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The courtyard where Yan Hong lives is the sixth house in the alley.