Are they playing riddles or are you playing riddles with me?
Why can’t I understand?”
Wang Xifeng really didn't understand, and stared at Jia Lian with a pair of red and phoenix triangular eyes.
Her unintentional expression is always one-third of the natural coquettishness and the other part of fierceness, making people love and hate her at the same time.
This woman, call her stupid, she can manage things; call her smart, she can play a good hand of cards to pieces.
Others can't understand, but Jia Lian can.
Wang Xifeng is really not smart, she just lives in the image of a "smart and capable" outstanding character from beginning to end.
She appears to be shrewd, fast-moving, and decisive in every aspect. When she doesn't stop, she naturally doesn't have the chance to figure things out.
What does she want and what can she have?
She always thought that if she got the stewardship of Rongguo Mansion, she would have everything.
For this reason, she worked hard and worked hard from dawn to dusk, just to get the approval of Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang.
In fact, she is just "a knife" for Mrs. Wang.
Because Mrs. Wang also wants to maintain her own "personality".
That is the character of a kind-hearted Bodhisattva, a compassionate wife who doesn't like to do anything and only likes to eat fast and chant Buddha's name every day.
But this "Mrs. Bodhisattva" who was strategizing behind the scenes regarded her niece Wang Xifeng as a knife. She used this knife to cut through thorns for herself and her precious son Baoyu, and she didn't care whether the knife would break.
The blade.
But Wang Xifeng, the "sword god" who fights through obstacles every day, was completely unaware and just charged into the battle for her aunt in high spirits.
She did not hesitate to offend her serious mother-in-law, Mrs. Xing, exhausted her body, and even ruined her marriage to Jia Lian.
Wang Xifeng always felt that she was the smartest, and she could play the whole Jia family around. In fact, she was played around by Mrs. Wang. After being sold, she counted the money for others. After counting the money, she was extremely proud.
The ground shouted:
"Look, look! Thanks to my sharp eyes, this copper coin is missing a piece!"
Alas - this is such a stupid and brainless "knife" with two hundred and fifty!
I hope Wang Xifeng will become smarter and smarter in the future.
I also hope that Wang Xifeng can understand that personality can only be used in the workplace, but between husband and wife, personality is never used, only sincerity.
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Jia Lian stretched out, leaned up, lay down on the kang, pillowed his hands on the bed and said:
"Do you remember that it was still in the first month of the year? Didn't the empress send the eunuch to bring out a white gauze lantern with a four-corner flat head specially made for lantern riddles? She said she had made lantern riddles for everyone to guess. After that, she also asked everyone to pick out an object and make a riddle.
Stick it on a lamp and send it to the palace.
At that time..."
"Why don't I remember?"
Wang Xifeng was very eloquent and immediately went on to say self-righteously:
"Everyone else guessed correctly. The empress also asked the young eunuch to give each of them a palace-made poetry tube and a tea spoon. Only the second sister and the third child didn't guess correctly, so they got nothing.
The empress also asked the eunuch to say, "The third master said that the lantern riddle didn't make sense, but the empress didn't guess. She asked him to ask the third master what he was." The third master actually said that the answer to his riddle was "a pillow and an animal head." Hahahaha -
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Although I don’t know how to guess riddles, I hear them every year, but I’ve never heard of two people guessing two things in one riddle hahahaha——
The old lady couldn't guess it, so she asked Yuanyang to read it several times. I still remember it:
The eldest brother has only eight horns, and the second brother has only two horns.
The eldest brother only sits on the bed, while the second brother likes to squat on the floor.
The old lady frowned and said: ‘This is also a riddle created by a gentleman who has been studying for several years?’ Hahahaha——”
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This Wang Xifeng is really ‘retarded children are much happier’.
The lantern riddles everyone made that day were actually the original "sad prophecies" of the characters in the Red Mansion, and they were not funny at all.
The early spring is like a firecracker that scatters with a bang, the welcoming spring is like a turbulent abacus, the exploring spring is like a kite floating away, the late spring is like a sea lantern for worshiping Buddha and practicing, and the precious hairpin is like a sad and lonely fragrance.
Many people think that only Jia Huan's "a pillow and an animal head" is a satire that Baoyu is an embroidered pillow, while Jia Huan will be the one who can "stand tall and see far" to build a family.
Jia Lian used to think so too.
It wasn’t until this trip south, where I listened to many local customs and anecdotes, and gained a lot of knowledge, that I realized that “pillow with animal head” is an extremely ominous prophecy.
Because in Yangzhou, throwing pillows on the roof and keeping company with animal heads is a "spiritual" behavior after a death in the family.
"Pillow with animal head" means to hold a funeral when someone dies in the family.
However, that’s not the problem this time.
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"Do you remember the riddle that the master sat on?"
After Jia Lian said something, Wang Xifeng stopped laughing, rolled her eyes, and smiled awkwardly:
"I guess it's not interesting, I don't remember it."
Jia Lian rolled his eyes at her and said:
"The body is straight and straight, and the body is hard.
Although I can’t speak, I will respond if I speak.”
Wang Xifeng frowned:
"It's...a parrot carved on a square stone?"
Jia Lian grinned:
"Oh my mother - you are worse than the third child.
Inkstone! It’s an inkstone!”
Wang Xifeng gave Jia Lian a hard look:
"Tch, I don't use an inkstone, so how could I have guessed it?"
After a pause, her eyes darted around, and she suddenly said:
"Eh? Inkstone? You mean inkstone? Is it related to this sentence?"
Jia Lian was too lazy to wait for her to guess again. It was too strenuous to talk to someone with a low IQ.
Directly:
"The empress said, 'If the inkstone at home is not good, wait until you can reward it later.'" It means, 'If you feel that the master's official position is not good enough, wait until later and look for opportunities to be promoted.'
This time, the flower box made of rattan in the shape of Tanchun’s peanuts was ‘promoted’ to the prince ‘Teng’.
You see, your uncle is going to be promoted again this time."
"Ah? Really?"
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As expected by Jia Lian, within a few days, the imperial court issued a decree to promote Prince Teng, the ruler of the nine provinces who was responsible for patrolling the northern border, to the post of capital inspector of the nine provinces.
When the news came, the Wang family was full of joy, while the Jia family had their own thoughts.
For example, Mrs. Wang was very happy.
For example, Jia Zheng is depressed.
For example, Jia Mu is very worried.
For example, Wang Xifeng is secretly happy but pretends to be indifferent on the surface.
It is inevitable that some people in the court will talk about it, saying that Concubine Xian De's father and brothers were not promoted, but Concubine Xian De's uncle was promoted. What does this mean, Your Majesty?
What does it mean?
Doesn’t that mean that the emperor doesn’t want to promote Concubine Xiande’s biological father Jia Zheng, nor does he want to promote Concubine Xiande’s brother Jia Lian?
They are the only two people in the Rongguo Mansion who actually hold actual official positions in the officialdom.
Forget about Jia She, everyone knows that the last time this "first-class general" went to court in person was on the day when the current emperor ascended the throne.
Jia Zheng felt awkward, but Jia Lian felt it was okay.
After all, Jia Lian himself didn’t even take the imperial examination.
Those who are Jinshi can only serve as seventh-grade county magistrates if they are selected into the foreign class, and then they will be promoted based on seniority in the local government.
Only those who have been admitted as Jinshi to the Hanlin Academy and then selected to join the foreign classes can be the fourth-grade prefects.
Dian Hanlin means that those who pass the imperial examination can be selected as Shujishi of the Hanlin Academy, that is, Tianzi's disciples. There are only about thirty places in total every three years.
In addition to being outstanding in knowledge and good conversational skills, you also need to be able to pass the "face-to-face" test, which is not even a little bit off.
You know, Jinshi in their twenties are rare, and there are almost no Hanlin in their twenties.
And Jia Lian himself has just passed the age of twenty. At this age, he has become the third-grade prefect of Shuntian Prefecture in the capital. If he is still not satisfied, it would be outrageous.
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Jia Lian himself had a very good attitude and thought that it would be good to work in Shuntian Mansion for a few years. However, he did not expect that others were really worried about him and would try to get him promoted no matter what.