Red Mansion, Ningfu Scholarly Family

Chapter 114 Jia Baoyu is furious
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Rongguo Mansion, the main hall of the inner courtyard.

Fortunately, Mrs. Xing had fulfilled her mission and had gotten Aunt Xue drunk.

Just wait for Jia She to come and let him deal with it.

After waiting for a long time, Aunt Xue was almost sober.

Jia She finally arrived.

There was also a new servant following him.

"master!"

Mrs. Xing stood up hurriedly and said with a flattering smile, "My aunt is drunk. Please help her down to rest."

"What the hell is this!"

Jia She's face darkened immediately, and he shouted, "You've lived to such an old age, and you don't even know that men and women shouldn't touch each other? Quickly call two maids to help my concubine go home and rest!"

"Ah? This, this..."

Mrs. Xing suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

You planned this yourself.

"Ah what! Go quickly!"

Jia She said with a righteous look on his face.

Madam Xing: “…”

The master must have encountered a stranger!
But that’s fine too.

In fact, she is quite afraid of Aunt Xue!
The threat is too great!
She was never afraid of the coquettish little girls in the room, but Aunt Xue was different.

A woman’s intuition!
"Hurry up and help the concubine go home to rest." Mrs. Xing ordered hurriedly.

Looking at the little maids taking away the fat meat that was about to reach their mouths, and then looking at the serious servant Kuiyun next to him, Jia She really wanted to raise his hand and slap himself!

Why did he suddenly go crazy and want to say hello to Brother Jing?

Why should he?

Can't you just be a butler puppet?

"master."

Kuiyun bowed respectfully.

"Grandpa said: Those who want to manage their families must first cultivate themselves, and those who want to cultivate themselves must first correct their hearts. Why don't you go to the study and read some books to correct your heart?"

Jia She: "..."

I'm rough x×&!
How can I live like this!

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Lixiangyuan.

Aunt Xue is a very smart woman.

Although he was confused at first because he was involved in Xue Pan's exile, Mrs. Xing made him drink a lot of wine.

Aunt Xue, who was drunk, became sober instead and thought of what Mrs. Wang had said.

She almost thought her chastity was at stake...

It’s not like she hasn’t seen all the filth in big families!
But later she found out that she was wrong, extremely wrong.

Purely judging others by one's own mean standards!
The master and the mistress are both good people.

"Mom, why were you so drunk yesterday?" Baochai said with a smile, sitting on the edge of the bed, gently waving a beauty fan in her hand.

Aunt Xue blushed and smiled helplessly, "The eldest lady was too enthusiastic and insisted on asking me to drink. But because of your brother's matter, I couldn't refuse. As a result... I drank too much."

"At least he's not a stranger." Aunt Xue said with a red face.

In fact, he is already considered an outsider.

But if you really want to build connections, you can get it.

The eldest branch of the Xue family has no power or influence, but has immense wealth. Now, the only man in their family is about to be exiled. What else can they do except shamelessly establish a relationship with them?

"How are you living in the East Mansion?" Aunt Xue asked with concern.

Baochai nodded.

"Dongfu, it's okay."

Although Rong Ge'er's attitude towards her is a little difficult to understand, it's not bad overall.

"That's good."

Aunt Xue smiled and said, "Just live there peacefully and get along well with the eldest girl. The Dongfu family is large and powerful, but there are fewer people. If there is a result in the future, we will have someone to rely on. Your brother, that bastard, is unreliable."

"Mom!" Baochai rushed to her mother and said coquettishly, "What are you talking about? Could it be that you drank too much yesterday and haven't sobered up yet?"

"You girl..."

The two were talking and laughing when suddenly a maidservant beside Lady Jia came in and said with a smile, "The old lady invites Auntie and Miss Bao to come over and watch the play together."

It turned out that ever since Jia She took over, Grandmother Jia had not been in charge of the affairs of the household. Gao Le, who just led people to drink and watch plays in the backyard every day, suddenly remembered that Aunt Xue and her daughter were still in the mansion today, so she ordered the maid to come and invite them.

At once, everyone gathered in Lady Jia's courtyard.

Feng Ji, who was pregnant, the eldest sister-in-law Li Wan, the sisters Yingchun and Tanchun, Xiangyun, the sisters Baochai and Baoqin, and finally Xichun and Lin Daiyu came.

When the sisters met, they first called each other "sister" and exchanged greetings randomly. The room was full of beautiful girls, which made Lady Jia very unhappy. For a moment, she didn't even notice that an important person was missing.

At the same time, in the backyard Buddhist temple.

Jia Baoyu stared blankly at the shabby tables and chairs, pots and pans in the Buddhist hall, as well as Mrs. Wang who looked much older, and burst into tears.

"Madam, what happened?"

"Why don't you go out from here?"

"Were they the two damned women at the door blocking our way? Why didn't you beat them to death?"

"I'm going to find my ancestors right now and chase them out and beat them to death!"

Jia Baoyu wiped his tears and walked out.

Mrs. Wang hurriedly held Baoyu and cried, "Don't go. The old lady is useless. It was the head of the East Palace who sent me here. Just because a servant made a mistake, he abused his power to send me here. He also confiscated the houses of several of my concubines. Wuwuwuwuwu... Where is justice!"

Mrs. Wang hugged Baoyu and cried in grievance.

She was really wronged! Hate!

"That's unreasonable!"

Jia Baoyu suddenly jumped up, his hair standing on end with rage!

"Why should he care about us?"

"The clan leader abused his power to confiscate property. Is there any law left?"

"I'm going to find my ancestors! I don't believe in the world of justice. There is no place for reason in this world!"

As Jia Baoyu said this, he ran out and went straight to Jia's grandmother's courtyard.

"Master Bao is here."

"Master Bao is back."

Jia Baoyu ignored the maids at the door and rushed into the house by pulling open the curtain.

At this time, a play was being performed in the big hall: Sun Wukong Makes Trouble in Heaven.

Everyone was laughing and making noises, haha ​​......

"Look at that Monkey King!"

"Sister Yun, it looks like you."

"nonsense!"

"whee……"

Jia Baoyu's eyes immediately turned red!
My wife is suffering, and you are having fun!
Baoyu roared.

"what!"

"What the hell!"

"Clap!"

Everyone was shocked.

Sun Wukong, who was jumping on the stage, was hit on the head by a stone that flew from nowhere. He fell straight off the stage with a cry of "Ouch": "Yes, yes, an assassin..."

"what!"

"what!"

"Baoyu!"

"My life!"

The room suddenly exploded.

Grandmother Jia didn't care about anything else. She went forward and hugged Baoyu and said anxiously, "What are you doing? Why did you break your vital organ? That is your vital organ!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Baoyu lay in Grandmother Jia's arms, crying his heart out and not saying a word.

Grandmother Jia stamped her feet anxiously: "Go and find out who offended Baoyu. I'm going to skin him alive!"

At this time, the situation had stabilized under the control of Aunt Xue, Li Wan, Yuanyang and others.

Everyone in the troupe was driven out.

Fengjie was escorted to the inner room by Aunt Xue and the sisters Yingchun and Tanchun.

'Baoyu' was also found.

The old women and maids all stepped aside tactfully.

Baoyu was still crying in Grandmother Jia's arms.

Everyone was watching the play just now and had no idea why Baoyu went crazy.

Grandmother Jia tried to comfort and coax him, and Baoyu finally spoke with sobs: "What has the madam done wrong? Why is she suffering in the Buddhist temple in the backyard? Please, old lady, save the madam."

Jia Mu: "..."

Everything else is easy to deal with, except this one.

save?
How to save?
Does Jia Jing listen to her?
Unless she had the nerve to go to the palace to find the Queen Mother, she could not pose any threat to Jia Jing.

But that would have caused a rift between the two governments.

Not only will outsiders laugh at the joke, but without the protection of the Ningguo Mansion, the Rongguo Mansion will be like a flock of monkeys scattering in an instant.

Is it worth it to save a member of the Wang family?

Definitely not worth it!
"Grandfather! Please save my wife."

Jia Baoyu wiped his tears and continued to cry and beg.

Grandmother Jia had no choice but to hug Baoyu and comfort him, "Madam, you are concentrating on worshipping Buddha in the backyard, so you should keep your house simple. Otherwise, it would be insincere and the Buddha would blame you."

Jia Baoyu shook his head: "I don't believe it. My wife told me that it was the clan leader who abused her power. She was not wrong!"

"shut up!"

Xichun couldn't bear to hear Baoyu slandering her father. She lifted the curtain and walked out from the inner room, sneering, "You are just a junior in the clan. What qualifications do you have to criticize the clan leader? If you don't agree, you can go to the clan leader in person. What's the point of crying in the old lady's arms?"

Jia Baoyu yelled at Xichun: "I just don't accept it. I don't believe there is no place for justice in this world. I will sue him!"

Xichun chuckled and said, "It's not that I look down on my second brother, but if you want to sue my father, you have to pass the imperial examination and become an official first. Otherwise, how can you submit a book to impeach him? Are you going to rely on your precious jade? Throw it into the Golden Palace?"

"Oh, and suing a relative seems like a serious crime. Can you bear it?" Grandmother Jia was also shocked by Baoyu's words and quickly covered Baoyu's mouth: "The child is talking nonsense."

Baoyu was not convinced at all, and gritted his teeth and said, "I am going to sue, and I will sue to the palace!"

Xichun said, "Go ahead and sue me. The palace is yours. You can go if you want."

After saying that, he turned and left.

Grandmother Jia tried to persuade him to stay.

"Fourth girl, Baoyu is still young and doesn't understand."

If Xichun went to Jia Jing to file a complaint tonight, she would be punished by the family for what Baoyu said tonight.

Xichun walked to the door and turned around and said, "Second Brother Bao, do you dare to go with me to see the clan leader to argue?"

"Why don't you dare!"

Baoyu stood up suddenly.

"Okay, come on then!"

Xichun walked straight out of the flower hall and went back, and several maids at the door followed her hurriedly.

Jia Baoyu, however, did not move.

How could he dare to meet Jia Jing?

"All right."

Grandmother Jia hugged Baoyu and sat down, comforting him: "Life is the same wherever you are. Although your mother is worshipping Buddha in the back, she is not forbidden to see people. From now on, you can go there from time to time, right? As for the worn-out things, I will take charge of that and replace them all with new ones!"

Jia Baoyu thought about it and gave in.

"We need to build a new Buddhist temple as well."

Seeing Baoyu's resignation, Jia's mother laughed and said, "Okay, okay, I'll pay for the new Buddhist temple!"

Baoyu was satisfied then, and he leaned into Grandmother Jia's arms again.

At this time, no one was in the mood to be happy. Lin Daiyu bowed to Lady Jia, excused herself and left.

Jia Baoyu stared blankly for a long time.

It feels like I haven’t talked to Lin Daiyu for a long time.

At this time Xue Baoqin also came over, bowed and apologized, and left.

Jia Baoyu watched Baoqin leave and felt very sad.

This was a girl who was as good as Lin Daiyu, but she just didn't talk much to him.

Then Xue Baochai came over and apologized and left.

Jia Baoyu felt close to Xue Baochai, and smiled and said, "Sister Bao, why don't you stay at our house and play together?"

Baochai:"……"

It’s not that I despise the poor and love the rich.

It’s just that your family is impoverished.

"Sister Yun..."

Jia Baoyu shouted loudly.

Xiangyun smiled and said, "I'll go and persuade Sister Xichun to avoid her complaining to you. If she does, the family law will be very severe."

Jia Baoyu shuddered all over.

"Thank you, Sister Yun."

Baoyu, who had calmed down, understood very well.

There was an insurmountable gap between him and the Master of the East Palace. Not to mention going out to sue, he would probably be arrested and beaten to death before he even left the house.

At such a young age, he felt power for the first time! He also felt helpless.

His mother was in the Buddhist temple in the backyard, but he could do nothing. Neither his father nor his ancestors could do anything!

Work hard!

It is impossible.

If all else fails, become a monk.

Can the patriarch control everything in the world and also control monks?
Seeing how things had gotten so chaotic, Fengjie made an excuse that she was not feeling well. Tanchun took Yingchun's hand and together they supported Fengjie and left quietly.

Li Wan was the only one left and could not leave, as she was still responsible for serving the old lady.

"Have you been living well over there these days? If you're not used to it, move to my place. I'm free here." Grandmother Jia held Li Wan's hand and asked with concern.

Li Wan smiled and said, "It's very good. The garden in the east courtyard is quiet and comfortable. My wife likes it very much."

The entire East Courtyard belongs to her.

Because she was the only one who moved into the East Courtyard.

"That's great. If you feel lonely over there, just move back and live with me."

"It's not that lonely. If you walk east, there is a corner gate. Past it is Dongfu Huiyuan. I often take my second and third sisters there to talk to Sister Lin and the others."

"So this is ah."

Grandmother Jia nodded in relief and said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if they leave. Let's play cards. Go and call the concubines and wives over, and we'll be all here."

"Today I'm going to take out five hundred dollars to gamble, and make them greedy to death!"

Li Wan said with a smile, "Go and tell Feng girl, she will definitely come back with a big belly."

Grandmother Jia said, "I won't bring her back with me!"

"Oh my, I think I heard someone say something bad about me. So here I come." Sister Feng came in from the back with a smile: "Is there anything delicious? I'm hungry again."

Yingchun and Tanchun also followed in.

Grandmother Jia laughed and scolded, "This monkey is already seven or eight months old and still doesn't know how to be careful. He runs from the front to the back, making a fuss back and forth."

Li Wan smiled and said, "It's good to walk more, but not too much."

"Let's not eat, let's just play cards."

"Haha... I like playing cards."

Under the leadership of Lady Jia, everyone became harmonious again, and laughter filled the courtyard again.

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Ningguo Mansion, Jia Rong's courtyard.

Ping Er smiled and said, "Master, we have more than 70,000 taels of silver."

They were all copied from Wang’s concubine’s room.

It has to be said that being a housekeeper in Ningguo Mansion is really a pleasure to manage money. It's easy to deal in tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. This is simply unimaginable in the impoverished Rongguo Mansion.

Feng Jie only lent out a few thousand taels of silver at most, and was complacent when she earned one or two thousand a year. If she knew that she could now control the flow of more than 100,000 taels of silver with a wave of her hand, she would probably be jealous to the point of going crazy.

I might even think about... replacing it!
"it is good!"

Jia Rong closed the fan in his hand.

"Order Jiao Da to lead two hundred personal soldiers to the south and deliver the silver to Xue Ke. Then he doesn't need to come back for the time being and should work with Xue Ke over there."

Jia Rong thought about it and wrote another letter.

Let Xue Ke look for an opportunity over there and take some people out to sea for smuggling to test their abilities.

Two hundred personal soldiers are already a considerable fighting force, and they can fight even if they encounter a large-scale Japanese pirate group of several hundred people, unless they encounter an attack by a large Japanese pirate army.

But that possibility is almost non-existent.

How could there be so many Japanese pirates? Would they really dare to cross the ocean and fight on land against Daxia?

Almost crazy.

Nowadays, most of the pirates who roam the sea and occasionally go inland to plunder are a mixed group of people.

Finish writing the letter and seal it.

I read two more articles and prepared to go to bed.

Qingwen will still help me bathe tonight.

As August approached, the evening breeze had become a little chilly. Qingwen closed the window, changed her clothes, tied her hair into a loose bun, and walked forward wearing her embroidered shoes.

"Master, change your clothes."

"How do you take a shower with clothes on?"

"You're getting lazier."

Jia Rong took off his clothes and stepped into the wooden barrel.

The water temperature is neither hot nor cold, just right.

After lying comfortably for a while with his eyes closed, Qingwen tiptoed forward to massage Jia Rong's shoulders and wash his body.

As the little hands slid over his body, the hot-blooded Jia Rong couldn't help feeling hot all over, but it was a pity that Qingwen was only a young girl and it was not appropriate to touch her.

I'm really afraid of hurting her.

"You can take a rest tonight and let Ping'er serve you in the room." Jia Rong said with great concern.

Qingwen pursed her lips and chuckled, "Master, why are you so well today? Is there a reason for that?"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "I'm afraid you're too tired."

Qingwen said, "I'm not tired today."

Ok.

Jia Rong changed his words: "I'm afraid I'll hurt you."

Qingwen asked suspiciously, "What hurt me?"

Jia Rong chuckled: "You have seen it before."

"Do you want to see him again?"

Qingwen immediately knew what was going on and her face instantly turned red.

He ran out dragging his shoes.

Jia Rong: “…”

"Hey, at least finish what you're supposed to do!"

no answer.

After a while, Ping'er came in coquettishly, closed the door, and said with a smile, "Qingwen said she was not feeling well, so I came to help you bathe."

"it is good."

Jia Rong smiled slightly and called Ping'er to come over.

Ping Er used to serve Feng Jie, so she was a little nervous at this time. Her hands were shaking on Jia Rong, especially when Jia Rong, who seemed to be serious, took her hands and gradually...

"Master, I..."

Ping'er shyly turned her head away.

During the time she was here, Jia Rong had always arranged for her to settle accounts without causing any harm. Not only her, but even Xiao Xiao, Qingwen and Xiangling never acted recklessly.

Ping'er therefore believed that Jia Rong was truly the legendary gentleman.

I didn't expect today to be like this...

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(End of this chapter)