Is this still the "feudal defender" Jia Zheng and Jia Cunzhou who talks about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism but keeps silent about benevolence, righteousness and morality?
An aristocratic scholar like him kneels to heaven and earth, kneels to the emperor and kneels to his parents, why are he having trouble kneeling to his nephew today?
Is he crazy?
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Jia Zheng is not crazy.
But without Aunt Zhao, he would really go crazy.
In the eyes of others, he is the most upright, upright, and normal pillar of the entire Jia family, but in fact, he is just a middle-aged man who is half kind and half coward, and has been trying his best to hold on.
Life, this is all life.
Children who are born into aristocratic families like the Jia family and have decent relatives are all born with a silver spoon in their mouths.
For a middle-aged son like him, there is an elder brother standing in front of him who is the eldest son. He is destined to "stand aside".
He can live his whole life without worrying about food and drink, and live the way he wants.
If you like elegance, you can write poems, chess, calligraphy and painting;
If you like romance, you will spoil your wife and concubine, and play songs every night.
Anyway, when you get older, you can't run away from being an official who doesn't bear any responsibilities. It's also relaxing, just to speak well, not to make money, just to enjoy the privileges of an official.
But who would have thought that fate would play a trick on people, whether it was fate that favored them or not, but by some mistake, the second son Jia Zheng was promoted to the position of head of the Rongguo Mansion, and he was ruined in this miserable position for most of his life. p>
There were two other historical celebrities who suffered a similar fate to Jia Zheng, and their endings...
One is Li Yu, the late emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the other is Zhu Youjian, the emperor of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty.
It was also the case in the early years. There was an elder brother who was the legal heir who had already been determined. In theory, it was not his turn to shoulder the burden of the family and the country.
The same is true in the early years, when I only focused on my own life and had no interest in power struggles. I just wanted to live a stable and comfortable life.
Likewise, something suddenly happened to the eldest brother who was the pillar of support. For the sake of the family and the country, he had to accept the call at the last moment. No one cared whether the second son could take on such a big job.
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Why doesn't Jia Zheng, who has been pushed to the shelves, hope to revive his family business?
But the fact is that he tried his best to maintain this illustrious government for hundreds of years, but the Duke's Mansion was actually at the end of its rope, but it still couldn't stop the decline of the family business.
It is true that Jia Zheng said that he was "not accustomed to secular affairs", but it is absolutely false to say that he did not know that the situation of Jia's family was declining.
After all, Jia Zheng has been the head of the Rongguo Mansion for more than ten years. Even if he cannot read the account books, he can still see clearly as long as he is not blind and the money in the family bank is getting less and less year by year. p>
But what can he do?
On this dilapidated ship in the Jia Mansion, which is full of holes, he, the captain, has been hastily blocking the holes for more than ten years, and what will be the result?
Isn’t it worse every day?
It’s not that he doesn’t work hard, he really just has limited abilities.
He is a middle-aged man who has been a fifth-rank official for more than ten years. If he can make do without making a big deal, he is lucky.
In order to satisfy everyone, he worked hard to be everything a perfect and upright family head should be, a loyal minister, a filial son, a good husband, a good father, and nothing could go wrong at all times.
He has really pretended enough!
Everyone only cares about his "usefulness", but no one cares about his "efforts".
Everyone thinks that he is a "coward" who "falls in the wind", but no one cares about the fundamental reason for his cowardice, which is his soft heart.
He also gritted his teeth and was cruel, but the result was even worse.
He desperately forced his eldest son Jia Zhu to study and take the imperial examination. As a result, the eldest son died.
He then cruelly forced his second son Baoyu to study and take the imperial examination. However, Baoyu was exactly the same as he was then. He only loved romance, poetry and wine, hated the imperial examination, and hated the official career. Moreover, Jia Mu was by his side to protect him desperately.
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Not to mention the third son Jia Huan, it is all his fault that he was soft-hearted and could not withstand Aunt Zhao's bullying, so he left this son with Aunt Zhao to educate him. Now... well, he can follow whoever he is.
Jia Zheng didn't want to think deeply about Aunt Zhao's fault.
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In fact, Jia Zheng has seen with his own eyes how dishonest Aunt Zhao is.
Yesterday, Baoyu was possessed by an evil spirit and was about to die. Jia Mu cried as if her heart and liver had been removed.
Others tried to persuade Jia's mother, saying "Baoyu is fine." Only Aunt Zhao, who had gone crazy, stepped forward and said:
"Old lady, there is no need to be too sad. My brother is no longer useful.
It's better to put on the clothes you prepared for your brother and let him go back early to avoid some hardship.
If you just can't let him go and keep saying this, he will suffer in that world and have no peace of mind."
She was so angry that she never uttered bad words, so she cursed her with words like "a bastard wife with a rotten tongue" and "whore".
But Jia Zheng could slap the table, glare, and yell at Baoyu to "throw it out", but he was never willing to "throw it out" of Aunt Zhao.
Jia Zheng only dismissed Aunt Zhao, but in fact he was just sending Aunt Zhao away to protect her.
Because among the wives and two concubines around Jia Zheng, only Aunt Zhao was chosen by Jia Zheng himself.
In his entire life, he thought carefully about the people and things that allowed him to choose on his own, and it seemed that there was only one Aunt Zhao left.
Even though she is stupid and has no sense of style, she jumps up and down all day without doing anything, even if she makes embarrassing noises from time to time for everyone to laugh at.
But no matter what, Jia Zheng cannot live without this woman who is noisy and chirping like a "cicada".
When she was young, she was a chirping, adorable little beauty.
When she reached middle age and gave birth to children, she was a trivial woman who worried about needles, threads, and scraps of silk.
In the naive Aunt Zhao, there is a true temperament of "freedom and carelessness" that Jia Zheng has never enjoyed in his life.
In the huge Rongguo Mansion, and even in the huge world, only by Aunt Zhao's side can Jia Zheng live the most real and relaxed life.
In order to save Aunt Zhao, Jia Zheng risked his life.
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In Jia Lian's shocked eyes, Jia Zheng raised his red face and said calmly:
"Let me ask you... to leave this mother for Huan'er."
Aunt Zhao's eyes widened in shock. She suddenly screamed, rushed forward, hugged Jia Zheng's waist, and cried loudly:
"My lord! Oh my God! You did this for me. It's worth dying for me! My lord!"
Jia Zheng quickly pushed Aunt Zhao away and scolded her in a low voice:
"Don't yell and scream, what a shame."
Jia Lian hurriedly stepped forward to help Jia Zheng:
"Second uncle, what are you doing? Isn't this shortening your nephew's life?"
Jia Zheng grabbed Jia Lian and said anxiously:
"I beg you, please let Huan'er's mother go.
She is a confused person with no calculation in her heart, and her ears are soft. She is instigated by the bastards, and she is deceived and is grateful. She is stupid, doing menial work for nothing, making others laugh, and doing nothing.
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But...but she...I...I can't bear to part with her."
These last few words, spoken from Jia Zheng's trembling lips, seemed heavier than a thousand-jin boulder.
Jia Zheng cried.
Jia Lian's heart softened, but he didn't know how to open his mouth.
Seeing that Jia Lian was silent, Jia Zheng hurriedly grabbed Jia Lian's hand:
"Lian Er, tell me, what conditions do you want to let Zhao go?
As long as I, Jia Zheng, can do it, I will die without mercy."