novelonline Chapter 221 Tianxianglou
Chapter 221 Tianxianglou
Chapter 221 Tianxianglou
Ningguo Mansion
Everyone looked at the fireworks in the distance, pointing to the night sky and speaking from time to time.
Jia Heng was also talking to Jia Zheng from a distance, and Jia Zheng asked curiously: "Brother Heng, Dongcheng has copied and confiscated more than 1000 million silver?"
Jia Heng said: "Now it's just a preliminary calculation, and it will take a few days for the results to come out. I also ask the second master not to make any noise outside, so as not to cause unnecessary ups and downs."
Jia Zheng twirled his beard, nodded and said, "That's the reason."
Sister Feng was eavesdropping on the side. It was just over 1000 million taels, so she paid attention to it. With more than 1000 million taels, the vain money can be piled up into mountains, right?
Accompanied by Yuanyang, Hubo, Li Wan and others, Jia Mu was watching the fireworks. She also heard the two talking. That's right, the whole family can't even be happy together, if you two talk about it, you'll both go back to live in the yamen."
These words are a bit of Versailles. Compared with the Ningrong Second Mansion that faded out of the center of power in the past, the current scene is where Mother Jia feels safe and caring.
Qin Keqing called out with a smile: "My husband has been very busy and tired these days, it is only right to relax now."
You Shi and Sister Feng also looked at Jia Heng and Jia Zheng, smiling and persuading them.
Shi Xiangyun's round apple face was as bright as a begonia, and he said with a light smile, "Brother Heng, you don't seem to be two years older than me, but you have a lot more hidden things in your heart than I do."
Tan Chun's bright eyes were gloomy, and he said softly: "The children of the poor have long been in charge of the family. Brother Heng, who is similar to your background, also lost his parents early, and lived alone in a single household. I don't know how much hardship he has suffered?"
When Shi Xiangyun heard the words, he just let out a soft "ah", the smile on Pingguoyuan's face gradually disappeared, and he looked at Jia Heng with a pair of big eyes, and said, "Ah..."
Daiyu's starry eyes twinkled, and she pursed her cherry lips.
Jia Heng's face was calm, and he stopped the imminent comparison, and said: "The sun and the moon are advancing, and the time is prosperous and the year is new. Don't think about the past, live up to the present, and don't be afraid of the future. Don't be too immersed in the past. Looking forward is the way to go." gone."
Daiyu's heart was shocked when she heard the words, the starry eyes under her smoldering eyebrows seemed to be like a heron of stars, the bright eyes of autumn water were rippling, and she was facing a pair of clear and gentle eyes, as if she had seen through her mind, she lowered her head slightly, He repeated Jia Heng's words in his heart.
Jia Mu also smiled and said, "Okay, let's not talk about that, it's time to eat."
She didn't want to mention these in a good and cheerful atmosphere.
When everyone heard the words, all the female relatives sat around the round table and then ate.
Jia Heng was sitting at the same table with Jia Zheng, eating wine and vegetables, the men were somewhat deserted, Jia's mother said with a smile: "Let Huan'er and Lan'er come up too."
The mother-in-law agreed, and then went down and pulled Jia Huan and Jia Lan up.
Jia Lan stepped forward to salute Jia Mu, Jia Zheng and the others in a respectful manner. Li Wan greeted them with a smile and said, "Go to your uncle Heng and grandfather's table."
"Yes, mother." Jia Lan replied, then turned and walked towards the table where Jia Heng was.
Jia Huan hung half of his shoulders, glanced at the few people timidly, lowered his head, and said in a crisp voice: "I have seen the old lady, madam, and sisters."
Everyone had weird faces, Shi Xiangyun said softly: "Third Brother Huan, is he not feeling well, or is he a little cold?"
Daiyu covered her mouth and smiled lightly, "It's been so cold these past two days."
Looking at this scene, Tanchun couldn't hold back his beautiful face, and said sternly: "Okay, hang your arms and squint at people!"
When Jia Huan heard this, he trembled with fright, and everyone showed strange faces.
Jia Mu frowned, and said: "This child is shrinking. He is a good man, and he doesn't appear to be generous."
Sister Feng smiled and said: "I heard from Brother Heng that Huan'er will go to school to study in a few days? Maybe it will be fine in a year or two."
She felt that Brother Huan had been led badly by Aunt Zhao. Seeing that the third girl followed the second wife, compared to the other serious daughters from the first wife, she was much more picky.
Jia Mu said: "Let him learn more from Brother Heng in the future, go ahead, your brother Heng is at the table."
Jia Huan thanked him, and then saluted Jia Zheng and Jia Heng.
Jia Zheng's expression turned a little ugly, and he said in a deep voice, "I'm still sitting still."
"Hey..." Jia Huan shivered, then sat on the stool, not daring to speak, but just peeked at Jia Heng and Jia Zheng from time to time.
Afterwards, it was the banquet, the meal, the cups, bowls, chopsticks, and chopsticks, all started, the meals were ready for use, and the dishes were removed, and some seasonal melons and fruits, refreshments, tea, and candied fruit were prepared, and everyone gathered to listen to the opera.
Just at this time, the head of the troupe came up with his mother-in-law to deliver the play list and asked for some plays.
Mrs. Jia smiled and gave the playlist to Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang smiled and was eating a cherry, spitting the cherry pit on the handkerchief in her hand, and said with a smile: "Just listen to what the old lady likes." , I usually don’t listen to drama much.”
Mother Jia smiled, seeing that Mrs. Wang had something on her mind, she looked at Sister Feng and said, "Young lady Feng, come and order."
Sister Feng knew that Jia's mother liked to be lively, so she smiled and said, "That's [-]% off "Liu Er Dang Yi". What does the old ancestor think?"
Jia Mu smiled and said, "Okay, okay, this is good."
Then, Mother Jia asked Youshi, Li Wan and several other girls, and Shi Xiangyun, Ying, Tan and Daiyu all ordered a discount.
Jia Mu laughed and said, "Brother Heng, do you want a [-]% discount too?"
Facing all the gazes, Jia Heng smiled and said: "I don't know much about the repertoire of the opera, just light it up."
As a person of later generations, there are many kinds of entertainment activities, but I really don't take them to heart.
Jiamu smiled, but she had no choice but to give up, so she waited until the babbling began to sing, and everyone watched the play and talked.
On this side, Jia Heng asked: "Second master, how about the construction of the school's school building in the past few days?"
In fact, although he was the initiator of this matter, recently, because he was busy with official duties, it was delayed instead.
Jia Zhengdao: "According to what you said earlier, Brother Heng, the school site has been selected near the original ethnology, and a surrounding wall has been erected first. The school building has not yet been expanded."
Jia Heng frowned and asked, "Now, who is handling this matter?"
This kind of engineering project is far inferior to the Grand View Garden, but it is still necessary to prevent the person in charge of it from doing anything.
When Jia Zheng heard this, he just looked at Sister Feng.
When everyone heard about the ethnology, they stopped joking and looked at a few people.
In other words, even if they were all listening to the play or narrating, they would still be at Jia Heng's table. It was exactly what Mrs. Wang said earlier, and the current focus and center of the East and West Houses were on Jia Heng.
Sister Feng's red phoenix eyes under Liu Yemei's eyebrows are charming and flowing, she said with a coquettish smile: "I'm about to talk to Brother Heng, I've discussed it with your wife these days, and I'll decide on the blueprint first, a few of the clan's young men, Brother Qiang and the others are each running a stall, so it can be completed sooner."
In the original novel of A Dream of Red Mansions, these projects are subcontracted to people of the same clan, and they are all profitable, which can be regarded as business expenses.
For example, Jia Yun, the second master in the corridor, bribed Jia Lian and Sister Feng back and forth, asked for an errand to plant flowers and plants, and got some money back and forth.
Jia Heng thought for a while, and said: "When I come back from Qingxu Temple tomorrow, we will discuss it again, and try to make some eyebrows come out by the end of this month."
Sister Feng smiled and said, "That's natural."
Jia Heng said: "After the completion of the Chongwen and Wushu schools, I will invite some famous teachers to come and teach."
Jia Mu also answered, and said, "At that time, Huan'er and Lan'er can also go in and study."
Li Wan at the side felt his heart move, a soft smile appeared on his elegant and beautiful face, and he said, "Brother Heng, where are the famous teachers invited?"
Jia Heng took a look at Li Wan, and said in a clear voice: "I want to invite Jinshi to the Juren of the Imperial College, but I need to look slowly."
The beautiful eyes under Li Wan's beautiful eyebrows drooped slightly, and she said with a light smile, "Juren is already very good."
Previously, Lan'er of her family let the old boy teach Confucianism on behalf of him. At first she could go back and teach him, but now that he has started to read the Four Books, she can't teach him anymore.
Jia Mu laughed and said, "According to me, Lan'er doesn't need to be in such a hurry, he's only a little older?"
Li Wan lowered his head and put on his face with thin powder, a little embarrassed, and said: "Old lady, the black hair doesn't know how to study early, and Bai Shoufang regrets studying late. The child's temperament is unstable, and he is the tree man." When I was in Peide, I am five or six years old now, and I am not young anymore."
Madam Wang: "..."
It was Jia Heng's rebuke to Baoyu at the beginning, but what does her daughter-in-law mean when she uses it to talk about it?
Tanchun and Daiyu looked at each other with strange expressions.
On the other hand, Sister Feng glanced at Li Wan, who was wearing a light blue skirt, with beautiful clouds on her temples. Dan Feng blinked her eyes, and thought to herself, Brother Heng's scholars' truths were all the same, and she had heard a lot. I received a lot, and I fought a lot. Speaking of which, I didn't care about it so much. Sister-in-law Zhu kept silent and took notes secretly?
Jia's mother smiled, but she didn't think too much, and said softly: "Lan'er can study hard, and in the future, if a Jinshi is admitted, it will be regarded as a glory for our Jia family."
Sister Feng said with a smile: "Old ancestor, there was a Guangzong Yaozu just a few days ago, and Lan'er passed the Jinshi exam tomorrow, so my Jia family has a lot of talents, not Taoli Fenfang."
These two auspicious words were also said by a few gentlemen in the second master's mansion the day before yesterday, and I asked them what they meant.
Jia Mu laughed and said, "Look, Feng Lazi speaks in a way now, and I don't know who I learned from."
Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and then looked at Jia Heng with their eyes in unison, without saying a word, but their thoughts were different.
Shi Xiangyun had two dimples on his pear-cheeked and snowy apple-round face, stretched out a finger, and said with a smile: "This is the one who is close to vermilion, and the one who is close to ink is black, I guess it was learned by Sister-in-law Feng and Brother Heng? "
For example, Youshi didn't know if he was suspicious of a dark ghost. Hearing Sister Feng and Brother Heng, a strangeness flashed in his heart, and he quickly cast his beautiful eyes on Jia Heng. Seeing his calm expression, the strangeness in his heart gradually disappeared. He lowered his eyes, but Seeing his third younger sister propping her cheeks with one hand, peeking at her with bright eyes, her face became hot for a while.
Sister Feng also smiled, her heart was a little uncomfortable, she was anxious to choose herself out for a moment, she didn't think about it, she said with a smile: "Brother Heng is now the patriarch, the example of the clan, let alone me, is the clan leader." Everyone here has to listen to his reasoning, which one is not the same as Baoyu or sister-in-law Zhu?"
Everyone laughed again when they heard the words, except... Mrs. Wang.
Now her Baoyu has become the object of their talking and laughing, which is simply unreasonable.
In fact, what Sister Feng said, although she was anxious to choose herself out, there is nothing wrong with it, except for some jokes about Jia Heng, it is nothing that the two are familiar with, but it ignores the tendency that has gradually become glassy Mrs. Wang.
In fact, Jia Heng reprimanded Baoyu in front of a group of people earlier, which greatly hurt Mrs. Wang's feelings, and had already had a thorn in her heart.
As Sister Feng's water tightness, it is impossible not to notice it. The key is Lian Er's matter, which has affected Sister Feng's standard.
But it can also explain the trend of Jia's house now. After Baoyu was reprimanded by Jia Heng, although Baoyu continued to be his second master Bao, his behavior was treated with care by the mansion, and he never returned.
Mother Jia smiled faintly, clearly sensing that Mrs. Wang's complexion was wrong, and said with a smile: "Brother Heng, I think Baoyu's post-viewing impressions are almost the same. I'll go to the funeral tomorrow to pray for blessings. how is he?"
Jia Heng was holding a teacup, drinking tea, chatting and laughing in front of everyone in the hall, always calm and calm, upon hearing this, he just put down the teacup and said softly: "Give me a look tomorrow morning."
Jia Mu smiled and said, "Then tomorrow, I'll let the mandarin ducks bring it to you."
Jia Heng nodded, and didn't say anything else, just took another look at Shi Xiangyun, the little girl seemed to realize from some subtle changes in the atmosphere that she had just said something wrong, that bright red face that looked like a sleeping begonia , drooping slightly, with a slightly forced smile on his face.
At this time, he seemed to notice Jia Heng's eyes focused on him, and saw that he was somewhat gentle, and his heart was at ease, his dimples suddenly appeared, and his smile was innocent.
After listening to several dramas, until Xushi, Jia Mu let out a sigh of relief, and then said with a smile: "It's getting late, let's go here first."
Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Then I'll see the old lady off."
Mother Jia took Qin Keqing's hand with a smile, and said, "From now on, you will come to our yard often when you are free."
She really likes this neat, soft and kind girl.
Qin Keqing agreed with a smile.
Afterwards, everyone left their seats and got up, sent Jiamu, Mrs. Wang and other female family members away from Tianxianglou, went out through the corner gate, got into the carriage, and returned to Rongfu.
After seeing off the guests, Jia Heng, Qin Keqing, Youshi, Second Sister, and Third Sister returned to Tianxiang Tower, ordered the mother-in-law to remove the banquet, and then ordered the servants to send the troupe to the front yard for a rest.
The lights in the Tianxiang Building are brightly lit, people are flickering, the noise disappears, everything is silent, there is a bit of solitude after the prosperity has disappeared.
Qin Keqing smiled sweetly: "It's getting late, Sister You and the two girls should go back and rest earlier."
You Shi knew that the young couple still had something to say, so she agreed with a light smile, and then took Second Sister You and Third Sister You to the house where they lived.
After several people left, Qin Keqing sighed quietly, Jia Heng stepped forward slowly, hugged the beauty from behind, and felt a strong and delicate fragrance floating between the nostrils, and said in a warm voice: "Keqing, what are you sighing for?"
At that time, a round of bright moon hung behind the plane tree, and the cold moonlight passed through the window of the pavilion, projecting the figures of a pair of Biren on the screen.
Qin Keqing nestled her tender body into Jia Heng's arms, and said softly: "I am Sister Tanyou and Sister Feng, and I am Sister Tanyou and Sister Feng. Sigh, if we are daughters' families, if we can't take care of them well, we will spend half our lives..."
Just now, why couldn't she see Sister-in-law Feng's forced smile, her husband was kidnapped by gangsters in the brothel, but was fired in the end... She also pretended to be nonchalant and joked with her.
And Sister You, her husband-in-law was exiled from the army, and she was going to be strangled to death.
There is also the sister-in-law Zhu, who lives with a son.
In contrast, how lucky is she to be able to tie the knot with the person behind her?
Feeling a certain emotion of the beauty, Jia Heng said softly: "This world is like this, it is somewhat unfair to women."
At this moment, why doesn't he have this kind of emotion, if there is no one in this world, Tianxianglou is the place where the sweet wife in his arms will disappear.
Thinking of this, something moved her heart, and said something in Qin Keqing's ear.
When Qin Keqing heard this, her delicate body trembled, and the charming eyes under Liu Ye's slender eyebrows showed a hint of shyness, and said angrily: "Husband, this...how can this be done?"
The group of female relatives had just dispersed, and the laughter was still ringing in my ears, and she was messing around here, what did she look like...
But there was an indescribable strangeness in my heart, I felt a slight trembling all over my body, and my snowy, shiny cheeks suddenly burned like fire.
"There is a wing room inside. This is the back garden. It is in the back yard, and there is no one there." Jia Heng whispered, "Let Baozhu and Ruizhu be guarded below."
Qin Keqing was also a little moved by what was said, her face was red and crimson, and she responded with a trembling voice like a mosquito, and was picked up by Jia Heng's waist, and walked towards the inner wing.
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(End of this chapter)