Chapter 241 Baochai's Concern

After talking about Jia Lian's affairs, Jia Zheng briefly talked to Jia Mu, Jia Lian and others about the preparation of the provincial garden in front of everyone.

Jia Lian and Jia Mu also listened briefly.

Although Jia Zheng is not used to mundane affairs, he has worked as a clerk in the Ministry of Industry for so many years, and he still has no problem controlling the general direction of project construction.

However, Jia Zheng knew that the construction of the provincial garden did not happen overnight.

Although Jia Zhen of Dongfu has a lot of free time, she is separated from them by one layer. Jia Lian will still be responsible for the specific matters of the garden construction in the future, so he specifically asked Jia Lian if he would be free tomorrow afternoon. .

Tomorrow, Shan Ziye, who is responsible for the engineering design, will prepare the preliminary drawings. At that time, everyone will need to discuss together how to allocate tasks and other matters. Jia Lian cannot be missing.

When Jia Lian said there was no problem, Jia Zheng stood up and left.

"The grandson also resigned."

Seeing Jia Lian following Jia Zheng's footsteps, Jia's mother asked curiously: "It's so late, what else do you have to do? Are you too busy?"

"The new shift is coming soon, and my grandson has to go out to practice boxing and kicking."

"You still want to practice? Don't listen to your wife "Say, have you dismantled everything in the study?"

After Jia She passed away, Jia Lian took the initiative to move his activity center to Dongkuayuan.

So the study room originally in the courtyard here is basically vacant.

Of course, the targets that were set up in the alley were all dismantled.

"The way to martial arts lies in diligence.

Not long ago, my grandfather taught me a set of capture methods and a set of assassination methods for confrontation. My grandson has not yet fully studied them. .

I have been delayed for a month because of my father’s affairs. Now that I have free time, I naturally can’t be lazy anymore.

Although everything here has been demolished, The old lady must also know that her grandson is building a martial arts training area in the east cross courtyard. Although it is not completely completed, there is still a place for simple leg and foot training."

I heard something about grappling. , and what kind of assassination, Jia Mu didn't like it very much.

Others feel the same way. This room is full of peace-loving people, and they don’t like to fight.

"That's all, I don't know anything about you, and I don't want to care about you. You can go alone.

By the way, it's getting dark, Yuanyang, send one tooPeople follow. "

Jia Mu appropriately expressed her concern.

A woman next to her immediately replied: "Second Lady Lian has sent someone to wait outside. ”

Only then did Jia Mu give up.

Jia Lian then cupped her hands, glanced at the sisters who took two steps forward to see each other off, and signaled them to stay with her eyes before going out. Went.

Sure enough, Xiangling and the two maids in the courtyard were waiting for him with lanterns outside.

Girl Feng became more and more considerate towards him...< br />
After taking Xiangling out of Rongqing Hall, before entering Rongxi Hall, he saw Aunt Zhao walking quickly with a little girl.

This The person appears with a unique look, his head slightly tilted away, squinting at the road at a fifteen-degree angle, the look on his face is a bit arrogant, but also seems to be full of criticism and dissatisfaction with the injustice of the world.

But when she saw Jia Lian, she immediately put on a flattering smile and hurried forward to greet him: "Hey, I didn't expect to meet my brother here..."

Jia Lian stood on the spot, He bowed his hands and said, "I've met my aunt. "

"Haha, brother, please stop being so polite...

By the way, I heard that brother has made a fortune today. I heard from the wives in charge. Yes, the shining silver is sent home one after another. Tsk, tsk, tsk, my brother is really capable!

"In our family now, we only count our brothers. In the future, please don't forget to support us as brothers..."

Aunt Zhao said He was so stubborn that he didn't even give Jia Lian a chance to speak, so he threw out a bunch of words.

Jia Lian just smiled at this.

It was not that he was interested in Jia Huan. He has prejudices, but no matter what he read in books in his previous life or what he sees with his own eyes now, he is very sure that Jia Huan is just a little kid with a biased appearance and a bad conscience.

Only after eating too much can he help that guy.

In comparison, both Jia Cong and Jia Lan are much better. But as for Jia Cong, he still has to think about it.

"Is my aunt here to see the master? The master just came out of the old lady's house. Didn't you see your aunt and grandma come over? "

"The master has gone back? "

Aunt Zhao was indeed looking for Jia Zheng. As soon as she heard that Jia Zheng had gone back, she no longer wanted to be friends with Jia Lian. After a few words, she changed her direction and chased him back like the wind.

……

Sister Sanchun left Jia Mu’s place and went to Daiyu’s house to sit as usual.

After each of them took a sip of tea, Tanchun said to Jia Baoyu: "Second brother, I just saw you hiding all those manuscript papers. Take them out quickly and let's take a look."
< br /> Jia Baoyu liked elegant things the most. Although he didn't like reading, he felt that writing poems and lyrics was an elegant thing.

So before no one paid attention to these poems, they secretly hid them in their sleeves. This scene was seen by the careful Tanchun.

Jia Baoyu smiled, immediately took out the things, and while spreading them among the crowd, commented:

"The words are good, but this poem is a pity. , especially the two poems "Bamboo and Stone" and "Green Pine", are full of the atmosphere of secularism, second brother Lian...sigh."

Obviously, Jia Baoyu, who is maverick, does not I like this kind of value that is generally recognized by the world.

Perseverance, motivation, and growth through hardships, in his eyes, are all common sayings made to cater to secular authorities and are not worthy of praise.

"However, in the last poem of "On Poetry", 'I have never seen a dwarf watch a play. He always follows others' opinions.' This sentence is extremely ironic.

There are many kinds of people in the world. There are few who have true knowledge and opinions, and there are many who follow what others say. Isn’t it just like a dwarf watching a play?

I really don’t know what Brother Lian wants to come here. It can be seen that Brother Lian is an outsider.
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Why can’t he just see through fame and wealth? What a pity, what a pity...”

Jia Baoyu expressed his infinite regret for Jia Lian.

When the sisters heard this, they were not as convinced of his views as before.

After all, Jia Lian’s achievements are there.

Comparing Jia Baoyu and Jia Lian, even they felt that it was much better for a man to be like Jia Lian.

For example, Brother Lian can talk freely in front of the old man and the old lady, and the elders will also consider his words seriously.

Unlike Jia Baoyu, he could only shrink his head when the master glared at him.

All the lofty talk can only be hidden behind the scenes and talked to their daughters.

It is clear at a glance who is better and who is worse.

However, in order not to offend him, Tan Chun and others still did not question Jia Baoyu's point of view, but chose to skip it and bring the topic back to Jia Lian.

"Sister Lin, why do you think Brother Lian is so powerful? I still can't believe it. These poems were really written by him."

Daiyu glanced at her One glance and said to each other: "You ask me how I know?

I have only been here with you for two years, but you have known him since childhood. You don’t even know, how could I know. "

Tan Chun pursed his lips and complained: "I don't know. Anyway, I have heard adults say that Brother Lian doesn't like reading since I was a child.

In addition, he is a few years older than us. Although we are brothers and sisters in the same house, we don’t spend much time together, but we only listen to what others say. ”

In the gates of big houses, especially in overlapping courtyards like Rongguo Mansion, this is indeed the case for children who have not grown up at the same age.

When When Tanchun and the others were only six or seven years old, Jia Lian had already started discussing marriage.

So even though they were cousins, they might not meet once every ten and a half months. Even if they did, they would just greet each other. That's it for a while.

Besides, it's hard for them to tell. In the past, Brother Lian didn't seem to care much about them. But in the past two years, especially after Sister Lin came, Brother Lian seemed to care about them. I cared a lot about them, and I always thought about them when I had any good things.

When Daiyu heard this, she thought for some reason that when she was in Suzhou, Jia Lian specially took her out of the city for an outing.< br />
She understood that Jia Lian had never taken Tanchun and the others out for an outing, not even her own sister to welcome the Spring Festival.

This made Daiyu inexplicably happy.

　"That's okay. If you really don't believe it, let's go over to him and ask him clearly.

Why is it that when he writes poems with people outside, he writes them so well, but when he talks to us at home, he just... hmph, they are so vulgar! "

Hearing the doubt in Daiyu's tone, Tanchun smiled and said: "Sister Lin is talking about the poem 'Bamboo Shoots Braised Pork', right? Hahaha, that was written specifically for you by Brother Lian. It shows how good Brother Lian is to you. He didn’t even write poems for us, but wrote them for you alone..."

Daiyu's thoughts made Daiyu blush immediately.

Seeing that Tan Chun was laughing so happily, he made a show of tearing her mouth off.

"Okay, okay. Yes, please spare her.

Haha, Sister Lin, Brother Lian can obviously write good poems, but they only use poems like that to tease you. Next time you see him, you must have a good argument with him. ..."

Jia Baoyu has long seen that Daiyu looks at Jia Lian differently, which is what he fears most about Jia Lian.

He also knows that Daiyu is the most sincere, so At this time, I can't help but want to stir up the fire and create a rift between Daiyu and Jia Lian.

Although Daiyu no longer pestered Tanchun, she only glanced at Jia Baoyu and said nothing.

Although she was really dissatisfied, because she had always regarded Jia Lian as her elder brother and respected him very much, she didn't have so many demands.

Unlike Jia Baoyu, she would be very angry as long as there was something not to her liking.

But recently, she found that she was rarely angry with Jia Baoyu.

Especially, recently everyone in the family knows that Jia Baoyu was born with jade, while Xue Baochai has been wearing a gold lock since she was a child. The gold lock must be matched with jade. Gradually, there are rumors about a good relationship between gold and jade. The argument comes.

Daiyu felt very boring.

She is a very smart person. It can be seen that Jia Mu wants her to get close to Jia Baoyu, but her aunt doesn't seem to like her!

Many times, she wanted her father to take her home and live there, and she was too lazy to look at the noses and eyes of these people here.

On the one hand, I was reluctant to visit Chun and the others, and on the other hand, I was afraid of hurting Jia Mu’s heart, so I never did.

When Yingchun and others here heard Daiyu say that they should go find Jia Lian to find out, they really thought of going to Sister Feng’s courtyard to sit there.

But Daiyu said again: "Didn't you hear it? Brother Lian went out to boxing! It will take an hour.

We can't see each other even if we go there People.

Didn’t I hear the third girl say yesterday that the second brother Lian’s son will be born in two days?

When the time comes, why don’t we go make trouble for him together? ."

Yingchun and others all agreed that this was a good idea.

"In this case, we still have to prepare gifts for brother Lian. He gave them to us on our birthdays before. Sister Lin, what are you preparing..."
< br /> "None of your business."

...

The Xue family and Baochai have been in a bad mood since they knew that the draft was fruitless.

Although entering the palace has always been an arrangement of the family, and she did not necessarily have to enter the palace, the feeling of years of preparation being wasted... In particular, the reason why she failed in the election was probably because she had An unreliable brother, this kind of frustration is really uncomfortable.

In fact, at her age, she can still run for election in three years.

But both she and her mother, Aunt Xue, knew that with the Xue family’s current declining state, this He failed every time, and the next time, the chance was even slimmer.

Therefore, she can understand her mother’s decision to give up her candidacy.

But what her mother did next made her depressed mood even worse.

Ying'er told her that these days, the servants in Rongguo Mansion were spreading rumors about a "good match", and they were talking about her and Jia Baoyu.

It seems a bit deliberate.

To be honest, she felt that the mother's matter was done too hastily and without enough consideration.

She had just failed in the talent show, and her mother and aunt immediately spread such rumors. Doesn’t it make the Xue family very utilitarian? Secondly, who can't see that the old lady of the Jia family wants to marry her precious grandson and her precious granddaughter?

Moreover, she could tell from sitting together on weekdays that Jia Baoyu liked Daiyu very much.

Besides, Jia Baoyu himself was just a cousin with a fair character in her eyes.

But the shortcomings are also obvious. She is not motivated, and she has learned to be lustful at a young age...

In this way, she has no intention of Jia Baoyu.

However, due to her parents’ orders to find a matchmaker, Baochai couldn’t tell her inner thoughts to her mother one by one, so she could only feel depressed by herself.

So these days, she rarely goes to Rongguo Mansion.

"Madam is here."

Following the maid's announcement, Aunt Xue walked in alone.

Baochai stood up quickly and gave up her seat on the kang.

"Have you heard that there is another news in their house today."

Aunt Xue said with a smile.

"What?"

When Aunt Xue saw that Baochai still didn't know, she told Baochai what she had heard.

"Is mother serious?"

"Why did I lie to you? It has spread throughout their house, saying that Prince Beijing bought one of his The manuscript of the poem cost three thousand taels of silver for a special trip.

At dusk, it was delivered to their house by someone. This is absolutely true."

Baochai’s eyes, which were always calm, couldn’t help but have his pupils dilated.

A word worth a thousand dollars, this is just a thing that exists in legends, but it actually happened, and it also appeared in Jia Lian?

This cannot help but be shocking and surprising.

Although they don’t know much about Jia Lian, they have heard a lot of news. The most certain thing is that Jia Lian is not a scholar.

Today’s news is not about giving all the most basic thingsoverthrown? So from now on, what else is worth believing about Jia Lian?

"Does mother have a poem manuscript?"

Baochai wanted to see it with her own eyes to distinguish the authenticity from the fake.

　“I don’t have one, but it’s not difficult to get one.

　Well, I haven’t talked to your aunt for two days.

Their house is busy building a garden for relatives, and I'm afraid it won't be convenient for us to live here. We just want to discuss moving out with her..."

"That's fine. "

Baochai and Aunt Xue got up, changed their clothes and went to Mrs. Wang's room.