Jia Lian did not dare to interrupt, lest they would not continue talking, so he kept his head down and drank. In fact, he was concentrating on listening carefully.
Just listen to Wei Ruolan laugh and say:
"It's not the second master Bao who was born with a jade in Mr. Hu's Rongguo Mansion. It's the one who caught the hairpin ring when he was one year old. This is a new story he just came up with.
I heard that he fell asleep in the bedroom of his niece-in-law, and ended up shouting, "Please help me," so loud that all the maids and wives outside heard him.
There is a lot of mystery in the word "Keqing". This is not the maid's name, but the maiden name used by his niece-in-law when she was in her natal family. It is kept secret.
How did your second uncle, who doesn’t live in the same house as her husband’s family, find out? Isn’t that a strange thing?”
"Which nephew's wife? Could it be Jia Rong's wife?" Xie Qianli interjected excitedly.
"Here! Isn't it her!
The daughter adopted by Lao Qinye, the maintenance man of the Ministry of Industry, was born with a beautiful and extraordinary temperament. At that time, he refused to marry several families, until he went to the Ningguo Mansion and became Jia Rong's first wife.
Speaking of which, there is another strange thing.
Qin Ye, a poor eunuch who came from a poor family by studying, had been borrowing money from everywhere in the first few days, saying that it was to send his son, who had come of age, to go to school. How could such a family have enough wealth to provide a decent dowry for their daughter?
But I heard that the room where she let Baoyu sleep was filled with rare treasures."
"Exotic treasure? Exotic treasure? What kind of gold and jade have we never seen before? How rare can it be?"
"Hey! It's really something you haven't seen before.
The mirror is the precious mirror installed in Wu Zetian’s mirror room. Have you seen it?
The plate is a golden plate with flying swallows standing and dancing. Have you seen it?
The plate contains papaya that An Lushan threw and injured Taizhen's breasts. Have you seen it?
The couch where Princess Shouchang lies on is the couch where His Royal Highness Hanzhang slept. Have you seen it?
What hangs is the Lianzhu tent made by Princess Tongchang. Have you seen it?
The cover is Xizi Huanguo's gauze quilt, have you seen it?
The mandarin pillow I am sleeping on is the mandarin pillow that the matchmaker hugged. Have you seen it?"
After a series of barrage of questions, all the young people were attracted to it.
Only Xie Qianli didn't quite understand the allusion and asked Chen Jingxing in a low voice:
"I understand everything else. It means that the room is full of alluring things, the kind that we men like.
But it’s Wu Zetian’s mirror, what’s the allusion? Does it mean that Jia Rong is also afraid of his wife?”
Chen Jingxing smiled but said nothing.
Xie Qianli was so anxious that he shouted directly to Wei Ruolan;
"Xiaowei, tell me, what kind of beauty is that mirror?"
Chen Jingxing saw that he really didn't know, and felt that it would be disrespectful to speak out openly, so he grabbed Xie Qianli and read out a satirical poem by Yang Tieya:
"There are many secret dramas of youth in the Mirror Palace, and the jade and skin are photographed and copied.
Liu Lang fights vigorously, the sky laughs, and teams of mandarin ducks bathe in the golden waves."
After hearing this, Xie Qianli slapped the case and shouted:
"Oh! Sure enough, those literati are the worse ones!"
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This drinking session lasted until midnight, and it ended with everyone except Jia Lian drunk.
Jia Lian himself was so drunk that Xing'er quickly helped Jia Lian get into the car and go home.
In the car, the more Jia Lian thought about it, the more wrong he became, so he asked Xing'er:
"Just now they said that those sexy rumors came from Xue Pan. Xue Pan has never been to Dongfu, how did he know these?
You go and find out who is behind this."
Xing'er smiled:
"Second Master, this servant really knows about this, so there's no need to ask.
The second master has been busy with things these days, so he didn’t know about these unfounded rumors that were being circulated privately in the house. In both houses, there were private rumors that the second master Bao called Grandma Xiaorong by her maiden name. p>
The slave heard very little about it. He only knew that the old nanny who followed the second master Bao came back from the East Mansion to gossip, and the maid in Aunt Zhao's room heard it. Aunt Zhao seemed to have got Bao, so she told the old lady angrily.
Listen, I was spat out loudly.
Aunt Zhao was crying in her room, and she had to be heard by Mr. Huan.
Third Master Huan has been going to Lixiangyuan every day recently, telling all the stories to the people there. Young Master Xue is also a talker, and it is only a matter of the day when the news spreads outside the house."
Jia Lian thought:
This mansion is like a mess, and everyone has his own account. How should we start to draw out the outlines and restore the decline of the mansion?
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When he returned to the room, Ping'er said that Sister Feng was cold and had a headache, so he went to bed first.
Jia Lian saw a plate of snacks on the table and asked:
"She's not feeling well and she still eats this?"
Ping'er whispered:
"That's the yam cake stuffed with jujube paste that Grandma Xiaorong asked Ruizhu to bring. Second Mistress specially asked her to put it here before she went to bed, saying she was afraid that Second Master would be hungry when he came back late."
Jia Lian felt hot in his heart and whispered to Ping'er:
"I'm going to rest in the study outside tonight, so don't disturb her.
I'm here to take care of you. If you feel it's getting worse, just call me and ask the doctor to take a look."
Ping'er pursed her lips and smiled, picked up the snack plate and followed her out of the room, calling the little girl:
"Take this yam cake to the second master's study. The second master smells of alcohol and quickly asks the kitchen to make a sobering soup."
Just as he was talking, he raised his eyes and saw Ruizhu approaching again, and smiled:
"It's already so late, why are you here again?"
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Ruizhu saw Jia Lian first and hurriedly greeted him:
"Ruizhu has met Mr. Lian."
Jia Lian turned around and saw Ruizhu's face was anxious. She ignored the rules and kept winking at him. He knew something was wrong, but Ping'er was following him. He couldn't say anything, so he just nodded:
"I'll come here sooner or later, you grandma is really interested."
Secretly, he waved his hand towards Ruizhu.
Ping'er came forward and said:
"Second Grandma has gone to bed. If you, Grandma, have anything to say, I will tell her when Second Grandma wakes up later."
Ruizhu replied politely:
"I just went back and told our grandma that my second grandma had caught a cold.
Our grandma immediately made perilla soup and asked me to deliver it quickly, saying that drinking it while it is hot can dispel wind and cold."
Ping'er took the food box, pulled Ruizhu and smiled:
"I've asked your grandma to worry about it. I'll ask the second grandma to get up and drink soup."
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Jia Lian did remember that in his previous life, he had a cold when he was a child. His father Jia Xinhua just told him to drink hot water and go to bed. His grandfather went to find the perilla leaves and brewed it into tea for himself to drink. The effect was quite good.
He was lost in thought when he suddenly heard Ruizhu coughing loudly, and then he woke up and realized that she had come to see him for something.
After taking a few more steps, Jia Lian turned back and said:
"Ruizhu, before you leave, come to my study and bring something back to Brother Rong for me."
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After a short time, Ruizhu arrived.
As soon as she closed the study door, Ruizhu knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Jia Lian three times:
"Second Master Lian, help me! Second Master Lian, please help me!
It was me who harmed our grandma!
The second master told me in the car last time that something would happen when the plum blossoms bloom in Dongfu. Baoyu had to take a nap that day, so he must not go to the grandma's room.
I thought this was nonsense at the time, so I didn’t tell my grandma, but now... something big has really happened!"