The scoundrel Wang Xifeng laughed so hard that his flowers trembled, he leaned back and forth, and his laughter shook the chiming clocks in the room.
"Baoyu doesn't live in Yihongyuan? Hahahaha——
Alas, the old lady was still really distressed, and she just hugged and coaxed her, saying, 'My baby, if you don't want to live there, just move back to my place.'"
Wang Xifeng imitated Jia Mu's way of coaxing Baoyu, which is really lifelike.
"Forget it sir, my wife immediately felt uncomfortable on her face.
Actually, according to me, it would be just right for Baoyu to move out of the garden.
Anyway, the brothers and sisters have all moved into the Grand View Garden, and the old lady is lonely here, and she loves to be lively. Now, I can only see Tian'er dragging me to talk when she has something to do.
I have to accompany you, and I have to take care of everything in the house. From morning to night, how can I not be in a hurry?
You were cruel and just said, "Since the Bao brothers don't want to live in the Grand View Garden, then letting the three of them go to the academy to stay together is a serious and good thing to study seriously." At that time, Baoyu's face turned green with fright.
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Hahahaha——
From top to bottom in this mansion, even the master dare not force Baoyu to do that in front of the old lady. You are going against the grain, hahahaha——"
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Wang Xifeng knew that Jia Mu loved Baoyu the most, so she always treated Baoyu in various ways. In fact, it was just to buy it in front of Jia Mu.
Earlier, the Rongguo Mansion belonged to Jia Zheng, and Baoyu would become the heir to the Rongguo Mansion. Therefore, Wang Xifeng was just a temporary housekeeper in the Rongguo Mansion.
When Baoyu married a daughter-in-law, "Second Grandma Bao" was the legitimate grandma of the Rongguo Mansion.
As for the "Second Lady Lian" who was "seconded", of course at that time it was "where you come from, you go back to", it was none of your business.
And even if she hasn't officially married "Second Grandma", Mrs. Wang is ready to put "Secret Grandma" Baochai into the barrel of a gun.
If Wang Xifeng cannot gain Jia's mother's trust and does not curry favor with Jia Zheng's wife, the second wife, she will be "outed" at any time.
However, things are different now.
Jia Lian became the head of the Rongguo Mansion without any hesitation, and the emperor had spoken for it. Therefore, as Lian's second mistress, Wang Xifeng's position as the legitimate head of the family was firmly established.
Since she no longer has to worry about another "Second Mistress Bao" coming to rush her back to Jia She's old house in Rongguo Mansion at any time, Wang Xifeng relaxes her vigilance about who Baoyu will marry as Mistress Bao in the future, and naturally becomes more concerned about Baoyu.
I don’t care that much anymore.
Since February 22, all the brothers and sisters have moved into the Grand View Garden, and it has only been ten days since today.
From the very beginning, Baoyu was overjoyed when she learned that her sister had allowed her to move into the Grand View Garden, but now she looks as sad as if she had eaten a dead fly.
Of course, Wang Xifeng happily took this kind of excitement as a joke.
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Unlike Wang Xifeng, Jia Lian actually did not take these things as a joke.
All these things he did were for the future of the Jia family.
Because the future of the Jia family is directly related to his own future.
After all, this is the world of Red Mansions.
After all, in this world, people cannot be separated from their families. A single move can affect the whole body, and no one can survive alone when the nest is overturned.
Within the same family, you can compete internally, but externally you must be in the same camp.
In this camp, everyone's future is related to the future of the entire family; and the future of the entire family can almost determine everyone's future.
With one more brother who serves as an official, the whole family will have one more force that can be relied upon by each other.
With one more sister marrying into a high-ranking family, the whole family will have one more person to rely on at critical moments.
This is truly "Hello everyone, that's really good".
Therefore, all these plans that Jia Lian made are to enable his three little brothers to go on the right path in the future, at least not to go astray.
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Jia Lian waited until Wang Xifeng was almost done laughing, then asked:
"Tomorrow is the Qingming Festival, are you ready for the annual sacrifice?
The eldest man does nothing, and the second man said he has a headache, so he doesn’t know whether I will be the leader tomorrow, taking Baoyu, Huan’er, Cong’er and Lan Ge’er to Tiequan Temple to offer sacrifices to the coffin and burn paper.
Brother Zhen also said he had a headache, so Rong'er sent someone to deliver a message, telling him that tomorrow he would go to Dongfu with a few people from his clan to pay homage."
Wang Xifeng said quickly:
"I'm all prepared. I know you're busy in the office these days, and I'm worried about everything at home.
On the third day of March, the birthday of the third sister, even the empress in the palace sent two young eunuchs to bring some toys, but you were so busy that you forgot about it.
Fortunately, you don’t have me?
Although it was not a big event, we also set up a few tables of wine and asked our own little actors to sing two plays? Together with the birthday gifts you and I gave to my third sister, I didn’t miss out at all.
On the day of the third sister's birthday, I changed my dress and went around to salute, and you were busy outside all day. The third sister came to our house three or four times a day, and when the garden door was closed in the evening, she still
I didn’t see you, so I had no choice but to go back.”
Jia Lian shook his head and smiled:
"I was really busy and forgot that day.
There are not only a lot of things going on in the Yamen these days, but also a lot of entertainment at Mr. Shuyou’s place.
As soon as spring is over, the scholars who go to Beijing to take the exam also have time to relax, and there are more gatherings of literati in the capital.
What's more, this year's top pick and third overall pick are Mr. Shuyou's students. Almost every day in the academy, someone sends a message to invite Mr. Shuyou and me.
In fact, I don’t teach in the academy. Wang Yu, who won the top prize this year, and Cheng Yichen, who won the top prize this year, were both taught by Mr. Shuyou, so I said I wouldn’t go there.
But Mr. Shuyou refused to agree, saying that he had picked them all for me. He answered more than half of the ten invitations for me, and I still had to go to the rest.
I also understand that Mr. Shuyou is working hard, either to let me get to know those noble people who took the imperial examination, or to let me interact with his old friends in the court, and also for my future promotion in the officialdom.
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"Promotion? You're already a third-grade official, and you're still getting promoted?
Don’t forget, our eldest brother has inherited a first-class general of the first rank, and when you are waiting for your title, you will become a second-class general of the second rank.”
You see, Wang Xifeng’s lack of knowledge was immediately apparent, right?
Jia Lian looked at Wang Xifeng and shook his head:
"I don't care about the title of second-class general.
It is usually a false title with no real power at all.
But once there is a war in the court and an imperial edict comes down, you can't immediately go into battle."
"Hey, look at your attitude, do you still want to be a Duke of Rongguo again? Tsk, tsk, tsk."
Wang Xifeng chewed her teeth, but there was a smile on her lips.
After all, the bigger the official Jia Lian is, the higher the grade of Wang Xifeng’s wife will be.
If you can really be the wife of a princess, who would care less about being the wife of a second-class general?
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Jia Lian did not answer Wang Xifeng's words, but suddenly said "Huh?" and said to himself:
"That's not right, our mother-in-law has been a concubine for more than a year, why doesn't her biological father even get promoted?
Now that spring has passed, it is the time for officials to be promoted and transferred. There is no movement at this time, so it doesn’t give the ‘Guo Zhang’ any face, right?
And Baoyu, the 'little uncle', didn't get any favors like 'prince's accompanying reading'..."
Jia Lian suddenly remembered something and asked Wang Xifeng:
"In the past two days, has your Majesty sent someone to deliver anything to my family? Did she bring any messages? Please give me more details."
Wang Xifeng was confused and said:
"It's nothing.
On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the empress sent two young eunuchs to the house and gave the third girl two rattan flower boxes.
It looks quite delicate and pretty. It's made into a peanut pattern. It's not expensive, but it's just a toy for children.
The young eunuch said that the queen asked her to bring a message, saying that she originally planned to reward her with an inkstone, but then she thought she already had one at home, so she changed her reward to this one.
Oh, I also told my wife that if the inkstone at home is not good, I can reward it later."