The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 238 Sheng Rong Poetry Collection
The next morning, Jia Yingchun came down from upstairs to eat.

Jia Yuanchun looked Yingchun's clothes up and down.

Because the temperature in the room was high, the maid next to her was holding a yellow cloak with patterns of gulls and peonies printed on it.

She was wearing a blue-green long gown and an orange long skirt, a red date pearl necklace on her head, a jade pendant on her belt, and a blue-white handkerchief.

"Since you are going out, you should dress low-key. Did the master tell you what you should wear yesterday?"

Jia Yuanchun felt that when she was away from home, she should not appear too wealthy nor too shabby.

Jia Yingchun shook her head. "No, after Daiyu and I left yesterday, I don't know anything else."

After hearing this, Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baochai, who were eating, looked at Lin Daiyu with a smile.

Lin Daiyu blushed and lowered her head to eat the glutinous rice dumplings made in the kitchen in small bites.

Yingchun and Yuanchun came over and sat down.

Jia Yuanchun said, "Let's eat first, the master will make arrangements later."

Jia Yingchun nodded in agreement and did not need to do anything. The maid beside her brought porridge and shrimp dumplings, and arranged the various dishes.

After more than twenty minutes, the girls had finished eating, and it was the turn of the wet nurse and the maids to sit down and eat.

While everyone was chatting, Jia Rong walked in with two women.

Seeing this, Lin Daiyu looked at the two women in Western clothes with curiosity. They had golden curly hair, blue eyes, and strange-looking noses. They were about the same height as Jia Rong and were also rather stocky.

Jia Rong walked in and said, "They are from England, female nobles there, probably small nobles like the Xue family here. They came to us to discuss some things. You eat your food and we can chat casually."

The nun said, "This is very rude. Are these your women?"

After hearing this, Shi Xiangyun was surprised and asked, "Can she speak human language?"

Jia Rong laughed and said, “This is indeed rude. Let’s sit down and talk. These are all my women, whether they are maids or women.”

The maids quickly prepared a place for Jia Rong, bringing in a movable sofa for him to sit on, preparing chairs for the two nuns, and using an exquisite wooden screen to form a semi-covered meeting area.

After Jia Rong sat down, he said to the two nuns who were looking around, "Please sit down. Would you like something to eat?"

"Thank you." Both nuns accepted the hospitality.

Jia Rong did not say anything. The maids brought a few empty tables and quickly placed various cakes and buns, steamed dumplings, rice rolls, spring rolls and other foods on the two tables. They also brought out a pot of colorful porridge, covering the two tables.

The two nuns were stunned.

"This is too extravagant. What kind of noble are you in this country?"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "Probably the regent of your country, but our country is more powerful than England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, France, and Italy combined, and I am probably the prince of this huge country at the moment."

"I am also an artist, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, doctor, poet, warrior, and seventh-generation nobleman."

Jia Rong crossed his legs, "You can think of me as the most powerful man in this country."

Jia Rong has no sense of shame and does not hide his strength.

The nun looked at Jia Rong. She had already read the man's writings, knew his words and deeds, and had witnessed his fall with her own eyes.

"From what I've heard, you're an arrogant man who insults all women!"

Jia Rong still had a confident smile on his face. He said, "That's great, isn't it? I have profoundly revealed the essence of women and expressed the truth with knowledge, rather than meaningless praise."

The nun frowned and sneered: "I don't believe the truth can come out of your mouth."

Jia Rong laughed and said, "You don't believe the truth about women from the mouth of a man who has hundreds of women, but you tell a man as a woman that what he says is false and arrogant. Isn't this arrogance?" The two nuns kept silent, but obviously did not believe what Jia Rong said.

Jia Rong crossed his legs with one hand raised. Soon a maid sat down beside him and was touched by him, while he used the other hand to casually express his attitude.

"As far as I know, countless people in your country have been killed by unknown infectious diseases, and the number of casualties could be as high as millions."

"Do you know that the man sitting in front of you is the man who conquered the smallpox virus?"

"It was me who crushed the smallpox virus and the Black Death and protected 80 million people. You should kiss my shoes instead of questioning my correctness."

Both nuns looked surprised, obviously not knowing that Jia Rong had conquered smallpox.

"No way, no one can beat that disease!"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "It was in my hands that the king and queen of our country defeated the red spots and turned them from red spot monsters into human beings again."

"You can go out and ask around. Thousands of red-spotted monsters were transformed back into humans under my healing. It was me who successfully brought those children into this world."

"I established the world's first women's hospital in this city. It will not only treat pregnant women and children, but also train female doctors."

"Whether it's artistic achievements, wisdom, mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, politics, or trade, I am the best of this era. A poor noble like you is completely incapable of understanding my greatness. You should go back and tell your king to ask the wisest people in your country to seek knowledge from me."

"As far as I know, some people in the West have proposed the theory that the sun is the center of the world. I call it the heliocentric theory."

The two nuns looked at each other, shocked that Jia Rong knew so much about the Western world.

The nun quickly said, "Do you agree with this view? Instead of our world being the center, the sun should revolve around us?"

Jia Rong smiled and said, "In my opinion, the heliocentric theory is better than your geocentric theory, but for me this view is too narrow."

"The world we live in is called the Solar System, and the Solar System is in the Milky Way."

"There are seven planets in the solar system besides Earth."

Jia Rong quickly shook his head. "Your wisdom is not enough to understand my greatness. Astronomy alone is already very obscure and difficult for you to understand, not to mention other things."

"In addition, I know your languages. In just one year, I have learned seven foreign languages. From now on, my steamship will travel through four oceans and five continents. I hope that the West will send intelligent and beautiful female nobles to talk with me."

Jia Rong felt that he had said too much and the two nuns could not accept it.

"You guys eat first. When you go back, tell all the male scholars in the West that I will give them a hundred years to figure out why apples fall from trees. Then they can come back to me. Before that, I will only meet with ladies."

Lin Daiyu, Shi Xiangyun and others showed strange expressions. Why did the apples fall from the tree?
Because it’s ripe?

The two nuns soon began to taste the oriental delicacies. Stimulated by the meat, eggs, milk and desserts, they no longer cared about elegance when eating and soon wolfed down their food until they were full.

When they left, Jia Rong gave them a copy of his autographed Poems of Saint Rong.

After reading the first sentence, the two nuns were shocked by the openness of the country.

Although they wanted more books on medicine and craftsmanship, Jia Rong only wanted to give them his own collection of poems.

It’s not about worrying about boring things like technology leaks. The only reason is that Jia Rong has an extremely strong desire to share and wants to spread his collection of poems to the whole world!

Jia Rong doesn't care about the opinions of foreign women or those great scholars and literati in China.

If foreign countries protest, we attack them; if domestic countries oppose, we attack them.

Not to mention those literati, even the emperor could not oppose Jia Rong's desire to share.

Even if the whole world is scolding him, Jia Rong doesn't care.

(End of this chapter)