By the way, Jia Mu is particularly determined to let Su Zheng accept Baoyu to get started. Jia Huan, who is reading at zero o'clock, simply doesn't know how to talk to the old man! In the current situation, the old man obviously has no interest in talking about it. He occasionally mentions Baoyu and doesn't even say a nice word.
He thought for a long time but couldn't find a way. The next day, he went to the Su Mansion for a routine consolation. After struggling for a long time, he bit the bullet and said: "Sir, there is something that I don't know how to say."
Su Zheng looked at him and said, "I see that you are restless today."
Jia Huan lowered his head and gritted his teeth: "My grandmother ordered me to come and tell my husband whether I can accept Brother Baoyu as my disciple."
Su Zheng raised his eyebrows: "What?"
Jia Huan said quickly: "Anyway, I said it before." Then he pursed his lips and stood beside him with his hands down.
Su Zheng suddenly felt funny: "If your grandmother is not alive, you must accomplish this?"
Jia Huan said: "No. She thinks that everyone in the world will like Brother Baoyu. Just mention it and you will be extremely happy."
Su Zheng hummed: "Did your father also give you instructions?"
Jia Huan said: "I mentioned this twice before, but Cong'er tried to fool him. You have been missing for a long time. Brother Baoyu only came home from Yuntai Academy when the late emperor died. So he is still here for the time being.
I didn’t think of it, I’ll probably remember it in a few days.”
Su Zheng glanced at him: "Can't you fool me?"
Jia Huan said honestly: "If it's brother Baoyu who says that it's not good for him to have you as his teacher, I really can't make sense; if it's from Mr. Baoyu's side that it's not good for you, I don't want to say bad things about you."
Su Zheng picked up the tea cup with a smile, took a sip and said: "What kind of brother is this of yours? From what you brothers said casually in the past, it seemed that you didn't understand the truth. I saw him that year and he was quite quiet."
Jia Huan thought for a while and said, "Compared to me and Cong'er, brother Baoyu is kind and upright. He is talented and intelligent, at least ten thousand times smarter than me."
Su Zheng frowned, the old man was feeling partial.
Jia Huan continued: "Actually, he is very transparent, really transparent. He is a natural and clean person who hates artificiality and hypocrisy. As the saying goes, the world is not naturally clean. If it is too natural and clean, there will be something wrong with it. In the early years
Brother Baoyu is the phoenix egg of the whole family, the flower in the greenhouse. Later, when my uncle became stronger and our second house was weak, he seemed to have moved outside the greenhouse. Although he did not die, he was still a flower and not a tree. I don’t have him.
So clean; but I may not be able to make the decision in my affairs, and he probably can’t get involved in his affairs. When Cong’er and I encounter difficult problems, we will discuss ways to solve them. In addition to crying and writing poems, he can also
It won't be a big deal; if the matter is too big and he really doesn't want to do what my ancestors said, he will probably become a monk to avoid it. Cong'er and I will have a huge headache for him."
Su Zheng thought for a moment after hearing this and said: "From what you said, he is just a weak-tempered and somewhat dull scholar. It won't cause you two a headache."
Jia Huan smiled bitterly and said: "It has gotten better in the past few years, but only a little. In the past... I really didn't know what to say. He didn't know how to guard against others, and he was unwilling to hurt others. He was extremely easy to trust.
The fourth one is unwilling to succumb to the world, and the fifth one is born with pity and pity - not the kind of pity and pity that a lustful person has, but respecting and trusting a beautiful woman when he sees one. However, the current situation of our family... Mr. also knows it. Rich families lack everything.
There is no shortage of beautiful women of all kinds! Fortunately, no one is paying attention to him right now; if anyone is paying attention to him, he will be the biggest flaw in our family. In the early years, Cong'er and I often thought that he might be deceived by someone in the future.
If you are seduced by someone to the point of being obsessed or do something bizarre, your scalp will be numb! You can't care whether he lives or lives. Cong'er once said that the most terrifying thing is not the pig teammates, but the glass pig teammates - they can't help but add trouble.
Needless to say, it breaks easily, and if it breaks, the broken glass will sting your feet."
Su Zheng laughed loudly and said: "That's all, I know what your brother is like. You are so young and mature, but you are actually brothers with him! It's really weird."
Jia Huan sighed: "Why do the two of us like to quarrel with the princes, mothers, father-in-law and father-in-law outside? The whole capital is full of jackals, tigers and leopards. If we don't step forward to fight against it, what will happen to our family? Sir,
Young people are forced to grow old!"
Su Zheng suddenly felt that his disciples were pitiful, and couldn't help but reach out and stroke his head. Jia Huan took the opportunity to pouted and pretended to be pitiful. Su Zheng said again: "I can't accomplish anything, Jia She, I think it's quite appropriate."
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Jia Huan said: "Uncle, he is old. His fighting spirit has long been exhausted. He knows how to defend but not attack. The situation in the court is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. To tell you the truth, many people are concerned about the money in the treasury.
I thought it was because our family was smart, but in fact it was the saint who ordered Uncle Lin to come to collect the debt, otherwise he would not have thought of taking the blame for this matter, so it would be considered a mistake."
Su Zheng was stunned, a little enlightened, and a little dumbfounded, and said: "He understands the truth after all. Saints also ask others to pay their debts, why is there no one to pay back the money?"
Jia Huan said smoothly: "Therefore, being timid has the advantage of being timid." As he said this, he cursed himself for saying something that was too contrary to his will.
Su Zheng thought for a while and said: "Since it is your grandmother and father's wish, you can't get around it anyway, so let your father-in-law lead him to see me. If you want me to accept it, you have to give it a test."
Jia Huan nodded and said, "Sir, are you ready to accept him? If not, then don't see him. Otherwise, he will have to worry about it for a long time. I can't persuade him, and it doesn't matter if I don't."
Su Zheng felt a little strange when he heard this, and was about to speak. Suddenly he remembered something and asked: "You keep talking about your grandmother and your father, could it be that he didn't mean this himself?"
Jia Huan said: "How could he have such an idea? He doesn't know about it at all. My brother has no ambition to make progress."
Su Zheng blurted out: "This is unreasonable!"
Jia Huan said hurriedly: "I have no desires and no demands."
"Even the matter of entering school is taken care of by his father and grandmother. What does he think about every day?" Su Zheng shook his head, "In that case, let your father-in-law take care of his homework."
Jia Huan agreed, coaxed the old man for a long time, and then went back to his house.
Jia Huan had good intentions and wanted to save Jia Baoyu's face; but when Jia Zheng heard that Su Zheng wanted to read Baoyu's articles, he was overjoyed and immediately ordered people to call Baoyu over and asked him to prepare clothes and articles, and ordered Jia Huan to do more.
Jia Huan naturally knew everything about Su Zheng's preferences. Baoyu also knew that Su Zheng was a great Confucian, so he hurriedly went back to prepare articles and poems in detail without mentioning them.
Three days later, Jia Zheng led Jia Baoyu and Jia Huan to accompany them to Su Zheng's mansion.
Su Zheng saw that Baoyu was fair and fair and looked very good, so he praised him a few times. Jia Huan admired and said: "I heard from my cousin from the Gao family that my second brother looks very much like my grandfather when he was young." Jia Zheng said repeatedly.
Echoed, couldn't help being happy.
Su Zheng took his article and took a look at it. Sure enough, the article was like the person he was, with a gentle and courageous heart and a delicate heart, but it was of no use. He said: "Second Master Jia, do you prefer Zhuangzi?"
Baoyu's face was filled with joy and he said: "Yes. I love the South China Sutra very much in my late life."
Jia Huan could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth. Su Zheng smiled and said, "Don't Huan'er like Zhuangzi?"
Jia Huan's eyelids twitched and he thought to himself, why did you, old man, bother to drag me in again? He could only say honestly: "It's not that I don't like it, I just generally like it."
Su Zheng held back his laughter and asked him: "What does it mean to generally like?"
Jia Huan glanced at the old man complainingly and said, "It's like seeing a very exquisite piece of jade on the street. You like it, but you don't think about buying it."
Su Zheng asked: "If you like it, why don't you want to buy it?"
Jia Huan said: "That kind of jade must be extremely expensive. I am not willing to spend so much money to buy something that can only be displayed for viewing. It has no real use. I think it is not cost-effective."
Su Zheng said: "If everyone thinks like you do, then won't jade items be sold?"
Jia Huan said: "There are people who are very rich and regard ten thousand taels of gold as ten copper coins, so they can buy it casually. Just like I would spend ten copper coins to buy a candied haws."
Su Zheng couldn't help showing pride on his face, and turned to look at Baoyu: "Zhuangzi doesn't serve things. But how can ordinary people not serve things? The only people who don't serve things are those who are extremely capable or have extremely high status.
A high-ranking person, as Huan'er said, regards ten thousand taels of gold as ten copper coins. Ordinary people are obsessed with petty profits and delve into flattery in order to gain insight into world affairs, practice human relations, and pursue an economic career.
I see that there is a meaning of 'seeking self-purification' in your article, so this line must be changed." Jia Zheng twirled his beard and nodded repeatedly.
He just talked about "official career economy", Baoyu's face was already a little ugly; it became even more ugly after that.
Jia Huan couldn't help but said: "Second brother, even if Mr. Su's words are not what you want, you still have to pretend to be open-minded and accept lessons."
Baoyu stood up and bowed: "I'm sorry, I don't know how to show off."
When Jia Zheng heard this, he shouted "ignorant karma" before standing up to smooth things over. Su Zheng waved his hand to him and asked Jia Huan: "Huan'er, can you pretend to be pretentious?"
Jia Huan pouted and said, "I can."
"How did you learn to put on airs at such a young age?"
Jia Huan said: "There are always times when you have to coax others against their will."
Su Zhengnai looked at Baoyu and said, "Why doesn't Second Master Bao have one?"
Baoyu said: "I'm not used to saying things that go against my heart."
Su Zheng looked at Jia Huan again: "Why is Huan'er so used to it?"
Jia Huan muttered: "Someone in the family must be used to this..."
Su Zheng sighed and asked Jia Zheng: "Mr. Zheng, how old is Huan'er? How old is your second son?"
Jia Zheng was speechless. After half a day, he said: "Baoyu has been raised by our ancestors since he was a child. He is somewhat used to it. It will be fine after two years when he understands the truth."
Su Zheng said calmly: "It will be two more years? He is already seventeen years old, but he relies on a fourteen-year-old brother to protect him from the wind and rain. Mr. Zheng, please forgive me for speaking frankly, your mansion is now just a small town called Huan'er.
The little child is supporting him. He went to the palace of the wise prince to inquire about the news; he also carefully chatted with the rich and powerful; in the market, he interacted with the traffickers and lackeys. The government was in turmoil and was in danger, how difficult it was!" He turned around to look at it.
Jia Baoyu, "Huan'er said that you are a naturally clean person who hates hypocrisy. This is because you have a soft temper. If you were more arrogant, you would be a crazy student. Don't forget that Mi Heng is a famous crazy student."
Baoyu had already heard what he meant. He lowered his head and said, "I don't dare to beat the drum and scold Cao Cao."
Su Zheng said: "Although you don't dare to beat the drum and scold Cao, you can't bear to humiliate the servants. Let me ask you, if Fang Xiong took a fancy to the exquisite and unique house in your house and wanted to force you to move it to make room for him.
How are you doing?"
Baoyu was stunned. After a long while, he said: "He didn't!"
Su Zheng said: "I heard that Fang Xiong also ransacked many homes in Beijing. If he has such intention, what will you do?"
Baoyu thought for a long time, gritted his teeth and said: "I would rather die than obey! Even if one is killed by a stone lion, it is still an innocent soul! I don't believe he can live in peace."
Jia Huan couldn't bear it anymore and rolled his eyes: "You can judge the evil spirit with the heart of a scholar! He kills people like crazy and has countless wronged souls under his command. If you want one too many, you won't have too many. If you want to avenge him, why don't you?
Gotta line up!”
Su Zheng smiled and asked him: "Where is Huan'er? How are you doing?"
Jia Huan said: "Let's go and flatter him first and talk nonsense. Why is the feng shui in our house not in line with his character? If he moves in, he will be defeated like a mountain."
Su Zheng said: "What if he doesn't agree?"
"The capital is so big, you can always find better courtyards and gardens than ours. Pick a house that has no elderly people over seventy years old and children under ten years old, and encourage him to seize that house."
As soon as these words came out, even Su Zheng took a breath. Su Zheng raised his eyebrows and pointed at him and said: "What did you say?!"
Jia Huan said: "Li Dai Taozong'er. In the prosperous age, there were benevolence and righteousness, and in the troubled times, there were swords, guns, swords and halberds. Although others didn't offend me, I didn't offend anyone either. It doesn't matter who suffers innocent things. My grandmother is eighty-one, and my nephew
I am only twelve years old. When I have nothing to worry about, I should first take care of my own affairs. Sir, there is an old English proverb in the West: if you give roses to others, the fragrance will linger in your hands. But most things in the world are that if you plant roses in the garden, the fragrance will linger in your neighbor. If your neighbor is
If he thinks the fragrance in other people's courtyards is not satisfying, he should plant a pot himself instead of me giving mine to him." The latter words are completely inconsistent with the previous ones, but they have some vague meaning.
Jia Huan purely talked about him and diverted Su Zheng's thoughts.
Su Zheng really misled him. After thinking about it, it made sense, but he didn't know how to refute it.
But Jia Baoyu said: "What you said is wrong. If Fang Xiong originally fell in love with someone else, he is doing harm to others; if you instigated him, then you are doing harm to others."
Jia Huan just wanted to kick him! He finally fooled the old man Su. After hearing these words, the old man's eyes lit up immediately. He could only say: "Then according to your wishes, even the ancestors and Lan'er will
Killed by a collision, and then Fang Xiong sent people to clean up the body and move it in?"
Baoyu said anxiously: "Of course not! I just said that I will be killed by myself, so don't bring trouble to others!"
"After you died alone, our ancestors watched your body being cleaned up by Fang Xiong, and about half of your life was gone. If Fang Xiong is happy, Lan'er and I will work together to carry her and move her to the temple.
"If he is unhappy and thinks you have polluted his yard, he will chop up our whole family with one knife, and there won't even be anyone to collect the bodies."
Baoyu stumbled and said, "I only said don't harm others!"
Jia Huan spread out his hands: "You have an idea! How to do it?"
Where did he come up with the idea? He was choked for a long time and couldn't speak.
Jia Huan added: "If others are benevolent and righteous to me, naturally I will be benevolent and righteous to them. However, most people in the world are not benevolent and righteous. If I am just benevolent and righteous, wouldn't I die quickly? It's different when I meet Fang Xiong who is so evil.
, Self-protection in a dangerous situation is the first priority, and no one else can care about it. I haven’t finished what I just said. If we move out of the mansion honestly and give Rongguo Mansion to Fang Xiong, no one else will say anything.
, the ancestor is probably going to be angry to death. I pick a family with no old people or children and encourage him to take it. If that family doesn't have Brother Baoyu, most likely they can only swallow the humiliation and move away. I will quietly give them some money.
I can give more to thank them for blocking the disaster for us. Although they are innocent, they did suffer because of me. As I said before, I couldn’t care less at that time of year."
The room became quiet again.
Jia Huan sighed softly: "Brother Baoyu! If you don't harm others, someone will harm you. You can't just stand and let others harm you, right? If you want to be clean, I have to be unclean. Who made me your brother?" Jia Huan
In fact, I didn't have much brotherly love with him, but I just couldn't help but ignore him. But these few words made Baoyu Jia Zheng shed tears.
After a long while, Baoyu sighed and said: "The house is only left to you. In such a dirty world, it is better to be a monk and be clean."
Jia Zheng was anxious and was about to speak, but Jia Huan rushed to say: "You take a concubine first and give birth to a son before you become a monk. The master still has me; neither the old lady nor the wife can survive without you. You have a son."
They also have something to think about. Don't expect me to be filial to my wife; even if I am filial to her, I am not you, and she still won't survive."
Baoyu was speechless! Then he stumbled and said, "How come you can't even escape the world and escape cleanly?"
Jia Huan said: "The ancients said that if you come out to live in life, you have to pay it back. You have received her love for seventeen years, and you want to leave without paying it back? There is nothing so cheap in the world! If you want to be carefree, you must first
The debt was paid off."
Baoyu became mute again.
The room was silent for a long time.
Su Zheng suddenly remembered that Brother Jia Huan and Jia Cong had asked someone to rescue a group of them from the imperial edict, and it was heard that they forged the imperial edict! Fang Xiong killed so many people in the capital, and these thirteen loyal and good people were not alone.
The whole family was saved. Huan'er's idea just now was really not good. As he said, in such a situation, he couldn't care less about protecting his own family. So he sighed and asked Baoyu: "Second Master Jia, do you want to follow me?"
I am studying, are you willing to put away all those thoughts from the past? From now on, understanding of worldly affairs is knowledge, and understanding of human feelings is writing."
Baoyu lowered his head and thought for a long time, then said honestly: "I'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of it."
Su Zheng nodded and said to Jia Zheng: "This son has no connection with me. The world is dangerous. Let him study and write poems at home. Don't make friends with noble people indiscriminately, for fear of getting into trouble."
Jia Zheng finally sighed and said to Su Zheng: "Zheng finally understands. This child Baoyu is not as good as Huan'er."
The Jia family, father and son, then said goodbye and left.
It's a coincidence that only a few days after this incident, Master Mang Mang and Master Miao Miao counted with their fingers that the time was up. Although they knew that there were people of unknown origins who were disrupting the world, they wanted to go to the waiter of Shenying to undergo transformation.
to him.
Although Baoyu was surprised when he saw the two of them, he was polite to them. After listening to them saying "Let us go" for a long time, he only shook his head and said, "I don't dare to leave this world because my debts have not been repaid."