It's no wonder that Lin Zhixiao, as a steward of the Jia Mansion, feels like the Wuyang Marquis Mansion. In fact, the sun has set in the Rongguo Mansion. If Jia Ke hadn't made some achievements outside in recent years, I'm afraid he would have started to live in poverty.
Just because Jia Ke is now the governor of a town and has been named Wuyang Marquis by the emperor. Therefore, Rongguo Mansion gradually has foreign officials coming to offer ice and carbon tributes, so that Rongguo Mansion can barely maintain a balance in income.
But just like this, the direct descendants of Rongguo Mansion also showed that there was no one behind them. Among these people, although Jia Zhu worked hard to obtain fame, his body was no longer able to support him to fulfill his wish.
But others only know how to eat, drink, have fun, and enjoy the glory and wealth. They never worry about the future of the Jia family, let alone work hard. Therefore, people with some discernment know that the Jia family has declined, and now it all depends on Jia Ke.
support.
After listening to Lin Zhixiao's explanation of the large-open middle gate, Jia Ke realized that the old lady was trying to improve his status. Probably none of the masters in the Jia family had ever passed through the middle gate.
Jia Ke also understood the old lady's painstaking efforts. The middle door was opened wide to welcome him. As soon as Jia Ke entered the Rongguo Mansion from the middle door, his status became transcendent. I guess according to the rules, all the family members of the mansion should come out to greet him.
, but everyone was Jia Ke's elders and could not come out to greet the younger ones, so they just opened the middle door and let him, the descendant who had returned from the expedition, enter through the middle door to show his honor.
The other Jia Ke's younger brothers were probably not angry, and they thought they were direct descendants, so they didn't come out to greet him.
In fact, it was similar to what Jia Ke was thinking. This time Jia Ke returned home, Jia Zheng originally asked Jia Zhu to greet him at the gate. But for some reason, Jia Zhu fell ill again, and the illness was very sudden.
As a father, Jia Zheng naturally understands what his son is thinking, but he just keeps competing with Jia Ke. When Jia Ke left, he confidently told Jia Ke that he would be able to be named on the gold list. Who knows that after so many years, he is still
A scholar, now being compared to Jia Ke, feels a bit shameless.
Jia Zheng looked at Jia Zhu's thinning body and couldn't bear to force him. He just let it go.
But Jia Lian was different from him. After Jia Lian moved to Rongguo Mansion, he was actually dissatisfied with Jia Zheng's position in Rongguo Mansion. He didn't know what happened back then, he only knew that he was the master of Rongguo Mansion. Therefore, in
His mentality changed. This time when Jia Ke came back, he did not come out to greet him. He only thought that he was a direct descendant and he was just a concubine. There was no reason for the direct descendants to go to greet the concubine.
Jia Lian has been stunned by the power of Rongguo Mansion. He has forgotten how Rongguo Mansion became what it is today. If he had married Wang Xifeng now, with Wang Xifeng's shrewdness, he would definitely point him out from the side. It's a pity.
Now because of Jia Ke, he can't get married. This is the embarrassment of being dependent on others, but he hasn't felt it yet.
Besides, Jia Ke is now standing at the door of Rongguo Mansion, raising his head to look at the gate of Rongguo Mansion carefully. He saw that the red-painted door of Rongguo Mansion has now been opened, and there are forty-nine door nails on the red door. These door nails are not
Anyone who can nail them will be able to nail these door nails on the door according to their grade to show their honor.
As a duke's palace, Rongguo Mansion can only have forty-nine doornails with sevens on each side. But the Wuyanghou Mansion next to Jia Ke can only have twenty-five doornails with fives on each side.
Jia Ke looked at this splendid gate and sighed. After coming to Rongguo Mansion for so long, this was the first time he entered Rongguo Mansion directly from the middle gate. However, Jia Ke thought that this would not be the last time. He would frequently go in and out of the middle gate in the future.
Thinking of this, Jia Ke walked straight into the middle gate proudly. Lin Zhixiao and all Jia Ke's soldiers were waiting beside him to accompany him.
After Jia Ke entered the Rongguo Mansion, he ordered the boy next to him to take his soldiers to rest, while he himself went to the small study to meet Jia Zheng.
Jia Ke and Lin Zhixiao walked through the rockery, crossed the courtyard, and arrived at Jia Zheng's small study. They saw several boys waiting outside. When they saw Jia Ke, they immediately came up to them, and they knelt down to salute Jia Ke.
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Jia Ke took out a handful of broken silver from his arms and threw it at them, and the boys started grabbing it all over the place.
Jia Ke ignored them and went directly to the outer study room and said at the door: "Unfilial Jia Ke wants to see you."
At this time, Jia Zheng was waiting anxiously in the study room. His four Qing guests were playing chess with him while waiting. However, Jia Zheng was absent-minded. He blocked his chess pieces several times without even realizing it. The four Qing guests
, are all experienced in accidents, so they naturally know what Jia Zheng is thinking, but they don't point it out and just play chess with Jia Zheng casually.
In the past few years, the Jia family has begun to rise again, and the four of them have also made a lot of profits. Most people outside do not dare to look down upon them. Even some small things can be solved with a post from them. After all, the Jia family behind them
There is also Wuyang Marquis, the Jiedushi of Xuanfu Town. So these four are now even more careful to flatter Jia Zheng, not daring to make Jia Zheng even the slightest bit dissatisfied.
When Jia Zheng was anxious, he suddenly heard Jia Ke's voice outside asking for help.
Jia Zheng calmed down in an instant and returned to a state of being unfazed by honor and disgrace. He sat by the chessboard, looked at the chess pieces, and said with a smile: "I lost this time."
"Where did the boss lose? It was clearly because I took advantage of the loopholes and was unable to win." Zhan Guang replied with a smile.
"If you lose, you lose. There are so many reasons. Just take those words. The promised prize cannot be missing from you." Although Jia Zheng lost the game, his tone was very happy. Zhan Guang
He quickly stood up and thanked her.
At this time, Jia Zheng said slowly to the door: "Come in, who is showing the pestle outside?" He seemed very unhappy.
Jia Ke waited for a long time before getting a reply from Jia Zheng, and then he dared to lift the door curtain and enter the small study.
When the four guests in the house saw Jia Ke coming in, they all stood up quickly, bowed and bowed their hands to salute Jia Ke. Jia Zheng hurriedly stopped him, "You don't have to do this, you four have watched him grow up, so he can be regarded as yours."
How can I salute my nephew?"
Zhan Guang hurriedly said to Jia Zheng: "Sir, the etiquette must not be discarded. The eldest brother is now a noble man. If we rely on our elders and sell them, others will think that we do not understand etiquette, and we will be laughed at."
Jia Zheng stopped talking after hearing what he said. Jia Ke quickly helped the four of them up and said respectfully: "You are all my father's friends. How dare I accept your great gift? Wouldn't this be a disgrace to me?"
Already?"
Jia Zheng was very satisfied when he heard what Jia Ke said. He thought that Jia Ke was not being treated as a courtesy by the four Qing guests because of his sake.
After Jia Ke helped the four guests up, he came to Jia Zheng, knelt down on the ground, and touched his head to the ground. He choked and said, "After five or six years of separation, how is your father doing? The unfilial child is back."
After saying that, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Jia Zheng.
Jia Zheng also had tears in his eyes at this time, but he held it back with force. He stepped forward to help Jia Ke up and looked at him carefully.
When Jia Ke came to see Jia Zheng, he had not had time to change his clothes. He was still wearing a helmet, crown, armor, robe and belt. Jia Zheng saw that he had shed his childishness as a boy and became a dignified and majestic general.
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He couldn't help patting Jia Ke on the shoulder with relief, and said to him: "I know everything about you outside, thank you for your hard work. It's because of my incompetence that I let you, a child, fight for the sake of the family." There was something on his face as he said that.
Sad.
"Father, don't worry. He knows his son's martial arts skills. There is no place in the world that his son cannot go to." Jia Ke quickly comforted him, but his tone also revealed incomparable confidence.
After these years of fighting, Jia Ke has almost understood the force value of this incident. Now Jia Ke thinks that no one in the world is his opponent, even those gods and gods, Jia Ke thinks that he can protect himself.
Jia Zheng shook his head and said to him: "Don't be careless. There are no eyesight on this battlefield, so you must be careful." After saying this, he said happily: "Fortunately, you have some martial arts, so you didn't lose two generations.
The reputation of Duke Rong is known to the two Dukes underground, so they can rest in peace."
While the father and son were talking, a young man suddenly came in from outside. After entering, he greeted Jia Zheng and said, "Sir, the old lady has sent someone to see if he is back? She is anxious to see him."
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When Jia Zheng heard this, he remembered that Jia's mother was waiting in the room as soon as she got the news of Jia Ke's return. She quickly told Jia Ke: "Hurry up and see your grandmother in the back house. During your absence,
He misses you."
Jia Ke quickly handed over his hand, "Since grandma is waiting behind me, I won't stay here much longer. I will come back to talk to father after seeing grandma."
"You have seen the old lady, so you don't have to come to the study. Instead, go to the back house to meet your aunt. She is the one who misses you the most among these people." Jia Zheng said magnanimously.
"In compliance with your father's orders, shall I go to the back house now?" Jia Ke asked Jia Zheng again.
Jia Zheng waved his hand to him to go quickly and not to keep the old lady waiting.
Jia Ke left the housekeeping's outer study, took the small door on the side, entered the hanging flower door, passed through the hall and came to Jia's mother's courtyard.
As soon as Jia Ke entered Jia Mu's courtyard, he was discovered by the little maids. They saluted Jia Ke in a soft voice and reported to Jia Mu in the room. While Jia Ke dealt with these little maids, he came outside Jia Mu's room.
There was a little maid waiting nearby early in the morning. When she saw Jia Ke coming, she quickly opened the curtain for him.
Jia Ke entered the inner room and saw an old lady with silver hair all over her hair. She had already walked to the door. Was it Jia's mother or who?
When Jia Ke saw it, he hurried forward to support him and complained: "How can there be an old lady coming to greet her grandson? You can just sit in the room. When I come out, others will talk to me."
When Jia Ke's mother heard Jia Ke's complaints, instead of being annoyed, she felt that this grandson was close to her. So she laughed and said, "You monkey, I came out to pick you up just to make you look good, but you started complaining about me."
"Yes, yes, your old man is right, it's my grandson, he was confused just now." Jia Ke was teasing with the old man while helping Jia Mu back to her upright position.
Jia Ke then let go of the old man, came to the center of the hall, knelt down respectfully, and then said loudly: "Unfilial grandson, Marquis of Wuyang, Jia Ke, the governor of Xuanfu Town, pays his respects to his grandmother, and wishes her good luck and good health.
"After saying that, he kowtowed to Jia Mu three times.
Jia's mother sat on it, listening to Jia Ke's official name, her heart was surging. Their Rongguo Mansion finally stopped the downward trend and began to rise.
Since that incident, her husband lost his life, and only then could the family be kept safe. She only thought that she would never have such glory again in this life. She never expected that she could still see it when she was about to be buried.
The rise of the Jia family.
Jia's mother now believes eighty-nine percent of Taoist Zhang's predictions. If it weren't for that kind of luck, how could Jia Ke become an extremely popular minister at such a young age?