Chapter 496 Xiang Ling's Choice

"Master Hou..."

Leaving the wing a little bit, Jia Lian finally turned around and looked at the woman in front of him.

"What else do you have to do?"

"Master Hou left in such a hurry, is there something wrong with Jiaojiao? Master Hou, don't worry, Jiaojiao is young. She is still young, and it is inevitable that she is ignorant. As long as Mr. Hou is willing to teach her, she will be very obedient.

Mr. Hou, you see, Jiaojiao is Daiyu’s sister. In the future, the two of them will be together. Serving the Marquis is a good story, isn't it?"

A good story? I'm afraid Daiyu will vomit to death.

Jia Lian was a little curious as to why this woman was so persistent. She had just tried to send her daughter to his room a few times before, but she didn't expect that today, she would actually do something like this!

So he shook his head, "No, your daughter is very good. I'm just curious. You humiliate your daughter over and over again. Don't you really feel any shame in your heart? "

"What does the Marquis mean by this? It is her destiny to be able to serve the Marquis. How can it be an insult? The Marquis is really good at joking."

Chen Shi's expression changed slightly, but he forced a smile.

Jia Lian felt that it was a luxury to talk to her about integrity, so he smiled and said: "Oh, since Madam thinks that serving me is your destiny, then I think Madam still has her charm, so it's not as good as Madam to be more generous. How about you come over and serve me?"

Mrs. Chen was slightly startled, then raised her brows, and glanced at Jia Lian shyly, "The Marquis really feels that I am a concubine. How can I still catch my eyes? I am already over thirty this year..."

Jia Lian looked at her calmly. To be fair, although this woman looks to be in her thirties or forties, she has a pretty good figure and does have some pretty looks. It is probably because of her crude and clumsy personality that she was able to marry him because of her pretty looks. The only scholar in the Lin family.

But, let alone compared to Mrs. Xu, who is younger, more beautiful, and more dignified and elegant than her, even Aunt Xue looks much younger than her, and her temperament is completely incomparable. .

Therefore, Jia Lian had no chance of falling in love with her. He just wanted to see where this woman's lower limit was, so as to understand the nature of all women in the world.

He kind of likes studying this.

Jia Lian's interest was clearly misunderstood by Chen. She flipped up her hair and glanced at Jia Lian coquettishly, then quietly came closer and whispered: "If the Marquis really sees this, It’s not that I can’t agree to my concubine, but I have two conditions. If the Marquis is willing to agree, I willHe belongs to the Marquis..."

As she spoke, she fell into Jia Lian's arms. On the one hand, Jia Lian was curious about her words, and on the other hand, she was indeed quite pretty, so it was not a hindrance. The kind of person who watches is just a free fan to play with, so he didn’t push her away. He just smiled and asked her what her conditions were? “First, let my husband become the acting patriarch of the Lin family and take charge of the Lin family. The distribution of property, I know, is just a matter of words to Mr. Hou. Mr. Hou will not refuse to agree. "

Jia Lian has long seen this purpose of women. It seems that for the Lin family's side clan, being able to sit on the position of acting clan leader and be in charge of the distribution of ancestral property is the most attractive to them. Something powerful.

"Secondly... After the Marquis has our bodies, he will legitimately take Jiaojiao into his house as his concubine in the future. I dare not say anything else, at least Daiyu's niece Jiaojiao also has the status and status that her son has.

Furthermore, I am Lin Hong’s wife after all, and it’s not nice to hear about mother and daughter working together. Therefore, it is impossible for me and Jiaojiao to follow you. At most, you are in the Lin family. During these days, whenever the Marquis needs me, he can just summon me, and I will serve the Marquis wholeheartedly..."

Looking at Mrs. Chen saying this seriously, Jia Lian smiled inwardly. Well, this woman is still afraid that he will blackmail her.

"Oh, since Madam knows that she is a married woman, she still dares to obey my summons. Serving, are you not afraid that Lin Hong will know? "

"So what if he knows. Mr. Marquis thinks he is some kind of good person with a reputation as a scholar. In fact, he is just like that. He has no skills and likes to hook up with other people's wives. I know that. Yes, he was having an affair with Widow Li from Liangshui Fang in the east of the city. Therefore, I am not afraid even if he finds out, I will have my own words to deal with him. Moreover, if he knows that it was the Marquis who asked him to become the leftover bastard, he will not even dare to let out a fart even if he keeps it. Maybe he will have to serve me well in the future. I really hope that the Marquis will find him an official position.

If not, the Marquis will show mercy and give him a minor official of the eighth or ninth grade. In this way, he will be satisfied with keeping it and will no longer be able to interfere with our affairs..."

Mrs. Chen’s eyes lit up as she spoke. She was born in a humble background, and at first she thought it would be great to be a scholar’s ​​wife. Later, when she saw the dignity of an official’s wife, she dreamed of becoming an official’s wife too.
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Therefore, this is also the reason why she wholeheartedly gave her daughter to Jia Lian as a concubine. Seeing the attitude of the officials in Suzhou towards Jia Lian, she felt that as long as she climbed into Jia Lian's power, she would have It is not difficult for a well-established husband to find an official position!

Jia Lian looked at her playfully and suddenly threw her away. In her doubtful eyes, he smiled and said: "What you said is not true. Disaster. However, I suddenly regretted it.

Seeing that Madam is so open-minded about such things, I guess she has let Lin Hong be the kind of leftover bastard you call me before, right? "

"How is this...possible? I only treat the Marquis like this. How can other people compare with the Marquis..."

Mrs. Chen With a blushing face and stammering explanations, Jia Lian just looked on coldly.

Sure enough, there are all kinds of women in the world, some are reserved, some are loose and casual, and some are chaste and chaste. There are those who are shameless.

This Chen family obviously belongs to the latter group.

After looking behind, sisters A Qi and A Qin also came over, and Jia Lian finally He restrained his joking and said seriously: "I already know Madam's plan. Regarding the candidate for the head of the Lin family, I am currently discussing with several elders in the clan. Whether it will be Lin Hong in the end depends on his own destiny.

As for your daughter, I advise you to choose a son-in-law for her as soon as possible. There is really no point in forcing her to marry me. There are many wives and concubines in this house, and there are countless beauties. With your daughter's beauty, it is really difficult for her to stand out among them.

Finally, I don’t like to be disturbed again and again, and I don’t like people who don’t know how to advance or retreat. Before I get angry, I'll give you one night to move out of the inner courtyard.

If you haven’t moved out tomorrow morning, my own soldiers will come to help you. It will be a joke by then, but don’t blame me for not reminding you. ”

After Jia Lian finished speaking, he gave the two maidservants a look and took them away.

On the way back to the house, Jia Lian asked Aqi when the two were coming. Arrived.

"After we took a bath, we went to Lin Xiangjun's courtyard to greet the second master. Miss Zijuan said that you had gone back, and we didn't see the talent coming. I just happened to see Ms. Chen throwing herself into the arms of the second master, thinking that she could not ruin the second master's good deeds, so she didn't show up.

Who knows, the second master didn’t seem to like her appearance very much and pushed her away, so we came out to help the second master escape. "

Jia Lian smiled after hearing this. He actually realized that he was a bit of a charmer.

The Xu family in Yangzhou also wanted to recruit him as a cheap son-in-law before, but this time Some people even washed their daughter directly, wrapped it up just like a palace maid, and brought it to him for him to enjoy.

Speaking of his increasingly casual attitude, As for Chen's beauty, Lin Jiaojiao even came to seduce him. It wouldn't be a big deal to just take it and use it at another time and place.

However, Daiyu had just passed away. Father, and Jia Lian also knew that Daiyu didn’t like her cousin, so Jia Lian naturally didn’t like her.He didn't want to do anything that was detrimental to his identity at this time, so as not to damage his image in Daiyu's mind.

I looked back at my two maidservants who had changed their clothes. One was as sweet as a white lotus, and the other was as lonely and cold as the clear moon in the sky. Both of them had just bathed, exuding the unique charm of young women. aromatic.

He was pleased to see them, so he took the two of them into his arms and said with a smile: "I have been busy with business these days, and all my boxing and kicking skills have been wasted. As my bodyguard, You two have the responsibility and obligation to supervise me to practice my martial arts diligently.

So, you all come to my room tonight, how about we practice together?"

This was not the first time that the two sisters were held in Jia Lian's arms at the same time, so they had no intention of resisting.

Hearing Jia Lian’s words, Ah Qin couldn’t help but smile sweetly. After arriving in Suzhou, I don't know whether Jia Lian wants to abstain from sex or because Lin Xiangjun lives next door and has not touched her for many days.

Seeing that Jia Lian was finally interested in them, he was naturally secretly happy and nodded shyly.

As for my sister Aqi, although she was embarrassed to express anything, her blushing face and saying nothing was the greatest acquiescence.

Jia Lian was even happier. After kissing each of her sisters on the face, she let them go into the house to find Xiang Ling, asked Xiang Ling to arrange a wash, and told her to prepare to go to Jinling. About meeting her mother.

　……

Jia Lian didn’t have much to do in Suzhou, so he only spent the shortest time to count the Lin family’s property and take away the things that could be taken away, such as the fields. The deeds of the real estate, such as real money, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc., are all shipped away.

Let Lin Youquan stay and slowly count the rest.

As for the acting patriarch of the Lin family, Jia Lian finally let Lin Hong, the only scholar in the Lin family, serve as the acting patriarch. This was also the result of the final compromise of the elders of the Lin family.

There is no way, a person with a reputation as a scholar still has a lot of status in a poor family. Just look at Jia Dairu, the old man of the Jia family school. He only has the reputation of being a child, but he has been sitting in the family school for many years.

Although he is only teaching a group of ineffective children, it is enough to show the importance of fame to ordinary people.

In this era, as long as you have a reputation, at least you will not die of hunger. Even if you are good at doing some business, such as setting up a private school to teach, you might be able to make a fortune.

Anyway, Jia Lian feels that in this era, the price of studying is very expensive. If you want to study, you have to pay filial piety to your husband, which can also be called a greeting gift. If you are too low, others will not teach you.

As for why the Jia Dai Confucian family is still so poor...

Whether they are poor or not depends on who they compare with. Compared with Rong Guofu, the Jia Dai Confucian family must be poor. But compared with ordinary people, Jia Dairu was richer.

No matter what, his family still has a few servants, and the house is also a large single-family house in the capital.

Secondly, the significance of the existence of Jia Family School is to allow the children among the eight brothers in the Jia family who cannot afford to study, to go to school for free.

Therefore, most of the children in the Jia family school do not need to pay tuition fees, but the family provides materials uniformly. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that those Jia family children in family studies do not cherish the opportunity to study, because their families have no money anyway.

Therefore, Jia Dairu’s students who studied at home could not make much money, but those who sneaked into the family school through relatives and friends could make some money.

For example, at the request of Jia Baoyu, Qin Zhong went to the Jia family to learn reading. Qin Zhong’s father Qin Bangye immediately asked someone to seal twenty-four taels of silver as a meeting gift and sent it to the Confucian family of Jia Dynasty. I'm worried that I'll give less and make people laugh...

Twenty-four taels of silver is enough for an ordinary family of five to live for a year, but they can only worship one child and don't have much talent. People become teachers. Therefore, it is normal for people in this era not to be able to read.

However, although Lin Hong was made the acting clan leader, several clan elders were in charge of the Lin family's ancestral property in accordance with Lin Ruhai's orders.

Also, Jia Lian, the ancestral home of the Lin family, had no intention of letting Lin Hong's family live there. Instead, he asked Lin Youquan to seal it up after finishing his work, leaving only a few servants to do daily cleaning and maintenance.

He felt that Lin Hong’s family had a bad family tradition and did not want them to harm his son’s family.

Go north along the Grand Canal, enter the Yangtze River from the intersection of the canal and the Yangtze River, and sail to Jinling.

Jinling City, the old residence of the Jia family.

As the home built by Ning Rong, the founding hero of the country, its grandeur, magnificence and solemnity are unmatched by other homes.

Walking among them, you can truly feel the heritage of the Jia family.

“I heard that the Marquis was coming, and I have already cleaned all the rooms in the main courtyard. The Marquis and Miss Lin will take a look first, and they can live wherever they want.”

Jin Cai, the father of Yuanyang, has been looking after houses in Jinling these years. I don't know if it was because of the mandarin duck, but Jia Lian had a good impression of this little old man.

He is a person who is loyal to his duty.

Since it was his own home, Jia Lian chose the main house without hesitation and let Daiyu live in the side courtyard.

Returning from Daiyu’s house,Finding Xiang Ling sitting alone in the room in a daze, Jia Lian walked up to her, sat next to her, and said with a smile, "What are you thinking about?" When he got closer, he stopped obediently.

"Are you thinking about your mother?"

"Hmm..."

Xiang Ling nodded, with a rare complex expression on her face. There is a bit of yearning, but also a bit of worry and hesitation.

Perhaps, for her who has lost her family since she was a child, the word mother is too unfamiliar to her.

If Jia Lian had not told her that her mother had been found, she would not have believed it.

"We will go to the government office early tomorrow morning. If your mother arrives in Jinling City by then, you can see her.

It's too late today , it’s not good to visit the government office.”

“Yeah, I understand.”

Xiang Ling was afraid that Jia Lian would misunderstand, so she waved her hand quickly. In fact, she is not as eager to see her mother Feng as others think. After all, she has been here for so many years, so why bother in one day?

"The second master and Miss Lin are tired from traveling around, and Miss Lin is so weak. Naturally, she needs a good night's rest. There is no need to worry.

But the second master is right. I am so kind and even helped me find my mother. I don’t even know how to repay the second master."

　"Repay?"

"The obedient and pretty maid with absolutely excellent appearance With the pestle in front of him, Jia Lian became accustomed to being rude, "You have been following me for so many years, haven't you always repaid me? You have done much better than that little girl Qingwen, have you forgotten?"


Jia Lian couldn't help laughing when he saw this. He is a handsome pair. In addition to being both naturally beautiful, each one is more interesting than the other.

One is flamboyant and has a cunning and aggressive personality. One is just the opposite, well-behaved, quiet, slow-tempered, and often too cutesy.

Yin rubbed her delicate body in his arms and sighed with a smile: "So, it's not me who is good to you, but you who are good to me. Do you understand?

However, I am really worried."

"What?"

"You said you are so obedient and good, in case your mother sees you, If I don’t want you to be a maid next to me and feel wronged, wouldn’t it cost me a lot? Over the years, I have long been accustomed to having a little girl like you by my side. If you leave, I will be sad for a long time. ”

When Xiangling heard this, she suddenly became anxious. She quickly got out of Jia Lian's arms and said anxiously: "No, no, no, I will never leave the second master in my life, never!"

But the more she became so dumb, The girl's serious look and words are the most touching and disarming.

Jia Lian was originally teasing her, but when he saw this, he couldn't help but become serious and asked: "What if your mother insists that you follow her?"

Xiang Ling's Her face suddenly became tangled, and it was obvious that she had never thought about this problem. But facing Jia Lian's gaze, she quickly figured out the answer.

"If my mother really wants me to go with her, I will tell her that my second master has been very good to me over the years, and he is also the best and best person I have ever seen. Man, I won’t go anywhere except the second master. Unless the second master wants to drive me away, otherwise, I won’t go anywhere, not..."

Perhaps this question is to her, It was so difficult, the little girl couldn't help crying as she spoke.

Only then did Jia Lian realize that he had committed a sin.

The little girl finally had the opportunity to see her mother, but she still gave her such a difficult problem. Secretly giving himself a slap, Jia Lian held the little girl's face and looked at the teardrops hanging on her face, which was crystal clear and delicate as if it could squeeze out water. He gently wiped her away with the tip of his tongue and comforted her repeatedly. .

Jia Lian's intimate behavior naturally made Xiang Ling sad and shy. She quickly fell into Jia Lian's arms and enjoyed each other's tenderness before giving up.