Red Mansion, Ningfu Scholarly Family

Chapter 226 Jia Rong: I read the Book of Rites
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After bidding farewell to Jia Lian, Jia Rong went straight to Daiyu's courtyard. When the maids and wives at the door saw Jia Rong coming, they hurriedly nodded and bowed to him.

"Uncle Rong."

"Greetings to Master Rong."

Jia Rong smiled and waved his hand: "No need to be so polite."

After saying that, he went straight into the yard.

Although the two of them have already started discussing marriage and it is inconvenient for them to meet each other, it is still okay for them to meet once every ten days or half a month with the tacit consent of their families.

"Uncle Rong, why are you here?" Zijuan stopped at the door and said seriously, "Our girl is not at home, Uncle Rong, please go back first."

Jia Rong said seriously, "Stop lying to me. I have something important to do."

"Ah?" Zijuan was stunned for a moment, then asked hurriedly, "What's the matter?"

Jia Rong raised his hand and tapped Zijuan's bun on her head, smiling slightly: "Since it is a serious matter, can you, a maid, know about it?"

Zijuan blushed, lowered her head and quickly moved away.

Jia Rong lifted the curtain and went in.

Lin Daiyu was leaning against the windowsill, smiling, but she stopped when she saw Jia Rong coming in. She said, "Why are you looking at me? It's not like I asked her to block you."

Jia Rong asked curiously, "If it's not you, then who is it?"

Lin Daiyu said, "It was Aunt Li who said that I am now waiting to be married and cannot see any man except my closest relatives."

"Oh."

Jia Rong nodded and said, "You are listening to that old antique. Those are all things in the old almanac. Who would still follow the rules so strictly nowadays?"

Only extremely old-fashioned and pedantic families would do that. The Jia family obviously no longer has such a rule, and Jia Rong does not want such a rule to arise in the Jia family again.

As for whether someone would gossip about me...

Nobody is perfect.

Jie Yuanlang, what's wrong with being a little romantic?
Lin Daiyu waved her hands and said, "I didn't listen to her. It was Zijuan who listened to her."

"But he is not wrong. Jie Yuanlang has read a lot of books and specialized in the Book of Rites. He must know the word 'etiquette', right?" Lin Daiyu looked at Jia Rong and said with a smile.

"hey-hey."

Jia Rong smiled, leaned close to Daiyu's ear and whispered, "Of course I understand. For example... being filial to your aunt is 'etiquette'."

Lin Daiyu blushed: "Pooh!"

"If you do this again, I will ignore you!"

Having said that, he turned his back.

Sometimes she really didn't understand, with Jia Rong's personality being obviously free and unrestrained, why did he choose "The Book of Rites" among the Five Classics?
At this time, the parrot under the window suddenly said, "Brother Rong is here to see his aunt."

Lin Daiyu: "..."

Jia Rong laughed and said, "That's right, Parrot."

Lin Daiyu glared at the parrot and gritted her teeth and said, "If you keep talking, I'll punish you by not letting you eat lunch!"

The parrot was so frightened that it immediately stopped talking, lowered its head in grievance, and buried its little beak in its feathers.

Jia Rong: "You are too..."

Lin Daiyu: "What?"

Jia Rong: "Ahem, very good."

"Hmph, are you saying I'm too powerful?" Lin Daiyu raised her eyes and looked at Jia Rong without blinking.

Jia Rong said, "It's not bad, it's not bad."

"It's because this parrot is so smooth-talking that I don't think I can feed it tonight."

The parrot almost cried.

It's so hard for me to follow you two masters.

Lin Daiyu said, "Don't bully the parrot. Even though it has a smooth tongue, it can't compare to you."

The parrot quickly jumped up and nodded: "Rong Ge'er is so bad."

"Who taught you this?"

Jia Rong looked at Daiyu in surprise.

Lin Daiyu chuckled, covered her mouth and laughed: "I really don't know, maybe..."

"Self-taught!"

Lin Daiyu said with certainty.

Jia Rong: “…”

Is it going to become a spirit?
"Rhododendron."

"Ai."

Zijuan walked in from outside.

Jia Rong pointed at the parrot and said, "Take my 'sister' parrot away. Your daughter and I have something important to discuss. It's not convenient for her to stay here."

Zijuan quietly stuck out her tongue, went to the corridor and took the parrot away.

Finally, no one disturbed the two of them. Lin Daiyu sat on the chaise longue, stretched and said, "What's the matter? I just heard that you have something important to do?"

"Of course it's a serious matter." Jia Rong sat next to Daiyu and wanted to put his arm around her slender waist, but...

"Bah, I think your main business is to bully others!" Lin Daiyu pushed Jia Rong's hand away and said, "If you really want to talk about business, you should sit down and talk seriously."

"well."

Jia Rong withdrew his hand and said seriously, "The garden over there is almost finished. All that's left is the plaques and inscriptions. The master has no time to deal with these trivial matters. I'm not good at writing..."

"Stop it!"

Lin Daiyu interrupted with a smile: "Don't people outside say that you are the most talented scholar in Kyoto? Besides, who would believe a top scholar saying that he is not good at writing? You are being too modest."

"No."

Jia Rong waved his hand and said, "Eight-part essays are written on behalf of saints and sages. Every word and every rule is old-fashioned and serious. However, writing inscriptions and plaques requires spirituality and the words need to be elegant. They are completely different."

"Just like writing poetry, I'm not as good as you."

Hearing what Jia Rong said, Lin Daiyu raised her chin slightly.

Yes, Jia Rong writes well.

She writes good poetry.

"Well, when we have time, I, Bao-jie, Bao-mei, and the other aunts will go to the garden and discuss it. We'll come up with a few names for each place."

Jia Rong: "Thank you very much."

Lin Daiyu pouted her lips.

Being polite again.

"Any thing else?"

Lin Daiyu asked seriously
Jia Rong said, "The business is over."

"It's just some personal matters."

Lin Daiyu picked up the tea bowl and said, "Let's not talk about personal matters today... Hey, what are you doing!"

"Thanks for the tea."

Jia Rong took Daiyu's hand and drank the tea.

"Hmph, rude."

Lin Daiyu said this and stopped chasing Jia Rong away. The two chatted in private for a while and finally parted reluctantly in the afternoon.

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The next day.

Lin Daiyu went to find Xichun early and told her about the inscription on the plaque in the garden. Xichun was naturally very happy.

"So, we can move into the garden this year?" Xichun asked excitedly.

Lin Daiyu thought for a moment and said, "It will take a long time to carve the inscriptions on the plaques, and it will take some time to put in the decorations, clean up, and move the furniture in. It will probably take until the end of winter, or tomorrow spring, before we can move in."

"Ok."

Xichun felt a little disappointed.

She actually didn't want to live here, but in order to prevent Sister Lin from being harassed and bullied by Da Baoyu, she had to stay here.

Wait until they move into the garden, hehe.

Da Baoyu, don’t even think about going in!
"Sister Lin, let's go find Sister Two, Sister Three, Sister Bao and the others and take a tour of the garden together. Then we can choose a plaque and write an inscription, and try to move in as soon as possible."

"it is good."

Lin Daiyu nodded and said with a smile: "But there is still one person who needs to be invited as well."

Xichun asked, "Miss Xing?"

Lin Daiyu laughed and said, "Miss Xing, how can you have time to hang out with us now? I mean your teacher!"

"Oh, yes, yes!"

Xichun suddenly realized.

"My teacher is great at poetry and couplets!"

"Ah."

Lin Daiyu nodded: "We know."

Although Miaoyu has never participated in their poetry meetings, her talent is still recognized!
You can see it just from teaching little Xichun.

However, Miaoyu did not come to attend.

Everyone thought she was too aloof.

Lin Daiyu didn't care much about it. On the contrary, she somewhat liked Miaoyu's self-admiring personality.

Tanchun said, "Since she won't come, we won't force her. Let's go to the garden and write poems now... It's just right that a club will be held in two days, right, Sister Lin?"

Lin Daiyu nodded and said, "Then let's start a club today and write poems while walking around the garden."

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(End of this chapter)