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Chapter 4755 [Fang Guan causes trouble]

The Ning and Rong mansions then arranged a funeral for Jia Jing.

Even the emperor specially bestowed five thousand taels of silver.

Because Jia Jing was appointed as the "Hongji Immortal" by the emperor, he had the title and official rank.

Therefore, the funeral was very lively.

During the funeral, You's stepmother, You Lao Niang, also came to attend the funeral with You Erjie and You Sanjie.

You Erjie and You Sanjie are not You's sisters from the same mother. They are daughters born to You Lao Niang before she remarried into the You family.

Both of them were very handsome, which made Jia Zhen, Jia Rong, Jia Lian and others itchy and they couldn't help but flirt with them.

You Erjie and You Sanjie were born in a small family. Although they later married into the You family with their mother, the You family was just a middle-class family, otherwise they would not have married a widow as their second wife.

Especially after Mr. You passed away, the You family had no one to take over the household, and life became even more difficult. Now they are just struggling to make ends meet.

Therefore, seeing that the Jia family was so wealthy, wearing silk and satin, calling servants to do things, riding horses and sedan chairs, they could not help but want to get close to them. As a result, the two sides became friends.

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Jia Jing's funeral had just ended when another concubine passed away in the palace. This was a national mourning.

The state mourning and family mourning together meant that one could not marry or play music for at least a year. Therefore, all officials and officials who kept male and female actors were exempted from being sent away.

The Jia family had originally prepared a small opera troupe for Yuanchun's visit, but now that it was the national mourning period, they had to disband them all.

"If someone wanted to go back, they would bring a letter and ask their parents to come and take them back in person, and give them a few taels of silver for the trip.

If we don’t invite his relatives, I’m afraid some bastard might take him out under his name and resell him. Wouldn’t that be a waste of this kindness? If anyone doesn’t want to go back, let him stay.” Wang Xifeng discussed with Mrs. Wang.

Madam Wang nodded and said, "This is the right way to do it."

Afterwards, the twelve girls were called in and questioned one by one. More than half of them did not want to go home.

Some said that although they had parents, they only wanted to sell us sisters, and we were sold again this time; some said that their parents were dead, or that they were sold by their uncles or brothers; some said that they had no one to go to; and some said that they were reluctant to leave because of their gratitude. Only four or five people were willing to go.

After hearing this, Mrs. Wang had no choice but to keep the four or five people who were leaving. She asked their godmothers to take the four or five people who were leaving back home and wait for their biological parents to come and pick them up. She also distributed those who did not want to go to the others to serve them.

Grandmother Jia kept the civil officials under her control and assigned the leading female role of Fang to Xiang Nan, the minor female role of Rui to Baochai, the minor female role of Ou to Daiyu, the major female role of Dahuamian to Xiangyun, the minor female role of Dou to Baoqin, the foreign female role of Ai to Tanchun, and Youshi asked for the major female role of Laodan Qie.

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These little actors really caused a lot of trouble.

Because these girls only knew how to learn opera since childhood, they knew basically nothing about other things such as knitting, sewing, sweeping the yard, and planting flowers and grass.

Moreover, these actors develop a sense of arrogance, commonly known as "fan", and people are willing to indulge them in this bad habit.

For example, when Yuanchun came home to visit her parents, she ordered Lingguan to sing "Visiting the Garden" and "Awakening from a Dream". Lingguan thought that was not her own palace play, so she refused to do it and insisted on singing "Meeting" and "Scolding". When Yuanchun found out, she not only did not blame her, but was very happy and gave her extra silk, purses, gold and silver ingots. Another example is that Jia Baoyu knew that Lingguan was a good singer, so he ran to Lixiangyuan to ask her to sing for him, but Lingguan refused, saying that her voice was broken and she had not sung when she entered the palace the day before.

In real life, Jin Shaoshan, who is a perfect man, is also full of style. He has to be urged many times before he goes on stage. The more he does this, the more willing the bosses are to support him.

The reason for this is that people raise actors just like they raise cats, dogs, fish, and birds. They must have a bit of temper and personality to be fun to tease.

But now their identities have changed, from actors to maids, and they can no longer be as arrogant as before.

Firstly, maids are there to serve their masters, so they must obey their masters in everything and not be allowed to lose their temper;

Secondly, maids have to do serious work. Although the work they do is not much, such as knitting, sweeping the house, making beds and folding quilts, etc., it must be done well.

These little actors found it difficult to adapt for a while and therefore caused a lot of trouble.

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That day, Ruiguan gave Fangguan a packet of rose saltpeter and was bumped into by Jia Huan, so he wanted to give some to Caiyun.

Fang Guan was unwilling to give away the rose saltpeter as it was a gift from a good sister, so she prepared to give him her rose saltpeter. However, when she opened the box, she found that her rose saltpeter had been used up by someone else without her knowing.

When she was at a loss of what to do, Sheyue told her to pack something else for Jia Huan, as he couldn't tell the difference anyway. So Fangguan packed a portion of jasmine powder and gave it to Jia Huan.

As expected, Jia Huan gave it to Caiyun without knowing whether it was real or fake. Caiyun was a girl, so she knew the difference between rose saltpeter and jasmine powder and could tell the real thing from the fake at a glance.

Jia Huan didn't care. Seeing that it was also bright red and smelled fragrant, he smiled and said, "This is just like good saltpeter powder. Keep it for rubbing. Anyway, it's better than the ones bought outside."

Caiyun didn't tell the difference and took it.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Zhao heard about this and was immediately furious. She thought that these actors did not regard Jia Huan as their master and deliberately deceived him, so she instigated Jia Huan to make trouble.

Jia Huan did not dare to make a scene, and retorted, "You dare not go, but you order me to go and make a scene. If they report it to the school, I will be beaten, and you will not feel bad? The children have instigated me to go, and if something goes wrong, I will be beaten and scolded, and you usually give in. Now you are instigating me and the little girls to make a scene! Aren't you afraid of Third Sister? If you dare to go, I will obey you!"

When Aunt Zhao heard this, she was immediately struck by the lungs.

The third sister, Tanchun, was her child, but because she was a concubine, she was not qualified to call herself a mother. In addition, she did not behave in a dignified manner, so Tanchun often neglected her.

She had always been angry at her daughter, and when she heard her son say that, she exploded, "This thing crawled out of my intestines. If I'm scared, why should I live?"

Then, he brought the bag of jasmine powder to Jiangyun Pavilion angrily and threw it on Fangguan's face, "You little whore! We bought you with our family's money to learn opera, but you are just a whore and a pimp. Even the third-class servants in my family are more noble than you!

You know how to judge people by their appearance! You use this to coax him, but you think he doesn't recognize you. Well, he is also the same master, how can you look down on him? "

"I gave this to him because I ran out of saltpeter. If I told him I had run out of saltpeter, I was afraid he wouldn't believe me. Isn't this good? I learned opera, but I didn't sing outside. I'm a girl, what do I know about prostitutes and beauties?

Aunt, there is no need to scold me, I was not bought by your family. Meixiang and I are sworn brothers, we are all servants. Why do you have to do this?" Fangguan cried and retorted.

When Aunt Zhao heard this, she became even angrier and started beating Fang Guan.

When Kuiguan, Ruiguan, Douguan, Ouguan and others heard the news, they all rushed to Jiangyunxuan to help Fangguan fight with Aunt Zhao, and the place became a mess for a while.