"If it wasn't Jia Rui who stole it, then it was Jia Huan who stole it?"
After experiencing a sudden reversal, Jia Lian is no longer confident in himself.
"Exactly.
The master was not there that day, but Jia Huan said that the glass kang screen that Wang Ziteng gave to Wang Xifeng was very beautiful, and there were no such exquisite things in the palace. He secretly encouraged Jia Xiang and Jia Yu from the school and told them to grind it.
Jia Lan and Jia Jun took them to see it.
When they arrived at the owner's yard, some of the younger ones were making a fuss in front, and Jia Huan took the opportunity to sneak into the house and steal something.
He took away the one hundred and dozens of taels of silver, leaving the Mirror Slave and the pair of gold hairpins behind, secretly depositing them with Jia Rui, saying that he would pawn or sell them after the news had passed and no one noticed.
”
Jia Lian hates scolding:
"This scumbag Jia Huan! Sooner or later, you have to teach him a lesson."
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Returning to Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian wanted to go to Jia Mu to say hello.
When I walked to the corner outside the courtyard, I suddenly saw a sneaky figure behind the rocks. Then I heard a girl scream softly, and then another figure passed by.
Jia Lian knew something was wrong, so he followed quietly.
After bypassing a large clump of Golden Silk Bamboo and turning around Taihu Shishanzi, I heard Baoyu’s smiling voice:
"I don't care, anyway, I saw you two hugging each other with my own eyes.
Neng'er, you can give me a bite of the snack you gave him just now, and we'll just give it up, and I won't tell anyone about it."
And I heard Qin Zhongdao:
"Neng'er, don't pay attention to him. If he dares to tell others about it, don't expect me to pay attention to him again in the future."
Baoyu smiled and said:
"But it's strange again. Don't you know what's going on with you two? When you look at me, don't you know? Qian'er was in the old lady's house and there was no one else. What did you do while holding her in your arms? Now you have the confidence to coax me!
”
Just listen to the girl whisper:
"Master Bao, don't make any noise, I'll just feed you some snacks."
Baoyu laughed again:
"You want to feed me now, but I refuse to eat.
You fed him with affection just now, but now that he is here with me, he has become without affection, but I am not the one who suffered the loss?"
The girl also laughed in a low voice:
"I have feelings for both of you, isn't that enough?"
At this moment, I saw another thin little nun walking along the bluestone path:
"Intelligence - where have you gone? Master calls you."
The smart boy hurriedly ran out from behind the stone:
"I...I came out to use the toilet."
"Miss Xichun is going to listen to the lecture. Master asked you to hurry over and place the fruit plate. She is going to Yu Xin's family to ask for monthly incense and money. She asked us to sit with the girl first."
Zhi'er was afraid that Zhishan would discover Qin Zhong and Baoyu behind the stone, so he hurriedly pulled Zhishan and left.
Jia Lian quietly hid behind the rocks. It seemed that this smart girl was only twelve or thirteen years old, but the large gray cloth nun's robe could no longer hide the beauty of her young age.
After walking for more than ten steps, she quietly turned around and saw Qin Zhong and Baoyu stretching their heads to look at her from behind the stone. They smiled sweetly, their eyes were turning, and they were full of flattery.
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Seeing Zhi'er go far away, Baoyu grabbed Qin Zhong again, rubbing his ears and temples together:
"Tomorrow let's go to school together, but you are not allowed to talk to Xue Pan Jinrong, that bastard. Their irritating attitude will make you dirty."
Qin Zhong pouted and said:
"Thankfully, Uncle Rui has been ill these days, so my life has become easier.
Xue Pan gave a lot of money to Uncle Rui, so Uncle Rui favored him. He didn't dare to offend you, so he kept looking for me, and he would punish me if he found trouble.
Tomorrow is the day when Xue Pan comes to school again, and I don’t know how to avoid him.
Good brother, why don’t you pretend to be sick today, and we’ll have another day’s rest at home tomorrow.”
Baoyu chuckled:
"It's okay for me to pretend to be sick. After all, the old lady also knows that I'm not in good health.
It's just that whenever I'm sick, you don't go to school, which makes people think that we have become a young couple."
Qin Zhong also smiled:
"Don't you think so?
But now you refuse to admit it?"
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Isn't this TNND just like the variety show "Metamorphosis" and so bloody?!
A clean and simple boy from an ordinary family, loved by his father and cared about by his sister, he should have worked hard to make progress and become an inspirational example of "a noble son comes from a poor family".
But after he got an opportunity to enter the aristocratic life, he threw away all his previous advantages, and instead imitated the playboy behavior of a libertine, seducing this one, teasing that one, and specifically choosing the most foul-smelling ones.
All in one.
Qin Ye and Qin Keqing's hard work was wasted.
At first, Jia Lian thought that it was only Baoyu who led Qin Zhong to evil, but now he realized that the two of them were already in cahoots and were no match for each other.
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Jia Lian coughed and strode over:
"Qin Zhong, Baoyu, what are you two doing here?"
When Baoyu saw Jia Lian coming, he smiled calmly and said:
"I'm here to find Qin Zhong and ask him to go to the study together."
Qin Zhong felt guilty and lowered his head, not daring to look at Jia Lian. He only knelt down and saluted:
"I've met Uncle Lian."
Jia Lian responded to Baoyu by saying, "Just go and study." Then he turned to Qin Zhong with a low face and said:
"The mourner has already been to your home. You are your biological brother. How can you only wear plain clothes and not mourning clothes?
Furthermore, your sister's funeral is being held in the Ningguo Mansion. Even if you don't follow the vigil after school, you should still go over and help with the funeral.
Do you need someone else to teach you this etiquette?"
What he said was so serious that Qin Zhong knelt on the ground, too frightened to raise his head.
Baoyu couldn't see it and spoke for Qin Zhong:
"Second brother Lian, we went to school today and temporarily changed into plain clothes. He is going to change into mourning clothes soon.
As for him not going to Dongfu, it was me who pestered him to study..."
"Studying is a good thing, but you can't break etiquette or lose rules."
Jia Lian interrupted Baoyu.
Baoyu was also annoyed:
"Be polite when you open your mouth, and be polite when you shut up. Does Second Brother Lian really think of himself as a master?
I’m going to study here and say goodbye to Brother Lian.”
While talking, Qin Zhong pulled him up:
"Let's go to the study. Who else can arrest you and take you to the East Mansion?"
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A quarter of an hour later, in Jia Mu’s house.
Jia Lian told Jia Mu that when he met Jia Dairu on the road, he hired a sedan to take him home. When Jia Rui died, he gave him fifty taels of silver to send him home.
Jia Mu cried at first, then nodded:
"Jia Rui died at a young age, which was due to his unlucky fate. If you can cherish the old and pity the poor, you are sensible.
This idea reassures me that our children are all well-mannered and not arrogant."
Jia Lian took the opportunity and said:
"There is nothing wrong with the sage, the old lady.
It’s just that it’s not enough for our children to know etiquette and not be arrogant. The children living in our family cannot be lacking in etiquette.”
Jia Mu heard something in his words and immediately asked:
"Which one are you talking about?"
Jia Lian shook his head:
"Brother Rong's daughter-in-law in Dongfu is gone, and his younger brother has been living in our house. He neither wears mourning nor goes to the vigil, which will inevitably make people say something."
Jia Mu said "ouch":
"I'm confused.
She kept him here for the first few days, but then his sister died. Baoyu said she was afraid that the child would be too sad, so she kept him here again, but he never went to watch the funeral?"
Seeing Jia Lian nodding, Jia Mu stamped her feet and said:
"Bastard, bastard! How could this be possible!"
He immediately ordered Yuanyang to send Qin Zhong home quickly.