After the rebellion was successful, I realized that this place was the Red Mansion

Chapter 27 Entering the Palace as a Concubine
Jia Baoyu hurried to the old lady's room. As soon as he entered, he heard Brother Lian talking:

"There's chaos outside. Everyone knows the court wants to surrender Prince Qian, and all the officials are thinking about how to preserve their own wealth and glory. Prince Zhongshun will personally leave the city tomorrow to negotiate with Prince Qian. I heard that many officials want to follow him out of the city to see Prince Qian!"

Everyone in the room understood what it meant:
A few days ago, everyone was still calling him the King of Thieves, but now they are scrambling to pay homage to King Qian!
Jia Baoyu walked into the room and kowtowed to Lady Jia politely. Everyone in the room was thinking about Jia Lian's words, and no one paid much attention to him.

Even Lady Jia is like this.

Jia Baoyu sat aside and asked, "Second brother, when will this bandit king break into the city?"

The maids and servants in the room all looked at him.

Jia Lian hurriedly said, "Baoyu, from now on remember to call him Prince Qian. Never call him the Thief King again. How can there be a Thief King? Prince Qian has obeyed the will of heaven, raised the banner of rebellion, and raised an army of righteousness. Now he will enter the capital, ascend the throne, and be crowned emperor. He is the new ruler!"

New king!

These words struck Jia Baoyu as utterly irritating, and he exclaimed, "What kind of new ruler is he? Sister Lin's father was murdered in Yangzhou by the bandits he led, and we still don't know if his remains have been buried. Poor Sister Lin has cried so many times over this!"

Everyone knew that he had become insane again, especially when it came to matters related to Lin Daiyu. He had several times smashed the magical jade he was wearing and cried angrily.

"Baoyu, stop talking nonsense!"

Grandmother Jia, who had always loved him, scolded him at this moment, neither too light nor too harsh. Only then did Jia Baoyu shut up in a depressed mood. It happened that his father came back from outside at this time. Jia Baoyu quickly stood up with his head down.

"What did you say just now to make the old lady angry?"

After Jia Zheng bowed to his mother, he asked him with a stern face.

Jia Baoyu nodded and didn't dare to say anything.

Grandmother Jia said, "What does a child know? He has never been an official, and he doesn't know what's going on outside."

Jia Zheng then forgave him and sat in Jia Baoyu's seat, while the latter had to stand.

"Master, is there any news from the palace?!" Jia Lian asked hurriedly.

"The palace... is even more chaotic than the city."

Jia Zheng sighed, "The old sage, seeing that the matter was over, went back to refining the elixir. The Emperor is in the harem and has not come out to meet the ministers. The ministers gathered around Prince Zhongshun to discuss tomorrow's affairs. Later, the Empress Dowager issued an imperial decree, ordering Prince Zhongshun to negotiate with Prince Qian. Emperor Xu and the retired emperor, like the abdicated Emperor Xian of Han, have fiefs of ten thousand households and rank above the princes. They don't need to call themselves subjects when reporting matters, and they don't need to bow when receiving imperial edicts."

Most of the women in the house, such as Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, Wang Xifeng, etc., have not read many books.

Jia She was also there, but he hadn't read many history books.

On the other hand, Grandmother Jia frowned and said after a while, "The Han Xian Emperor was more than a thousand years ago. The recent dynasty changes are not as amicable as the abdication in ancient times."

After the Jin Dynasty, morality declined and people's hearts were no longer as they used to be. People all over the world fought for the throne with real weapons. It was common for them to slaughter all the royal family members of the previous dynasty after entering the capital.

Now the Emperor of Shun Dynasty wanted Prince Qian to follow the abdication ritual of the Han Dynasty, to be granted a fief of 10,000 households, and to not call himself a subject when reporting matters, and not to bow when receiving imperial edicts.

"The ministers also said the same thing as the old lady."

Jia Zheng said, "My uncle told me privately that, based on his understanding of Prince Qian, he probably wouldn't even be willing to give him a fief of ten thousand households."

The room was quiet for a while. Wang Xifeng twisted her handkerchief in her hand and asked after a while, "Then our family..."

Everyone knew what she wanted to say, but no one could answer at the moment. The only person who could answer was not here, but outside the city.

Prince Qian Chu Yan decides the life and death and honor of the Jia family!
"master!"

Jia Lian gritted his teeth and said, "I went out of the city with the envoys and met Prince Qian. His Highness Prince Qian not only learned the girls' names from Leng Zixing, but also... their talents and appearances."

Inside the room, Madam Wang, Madam Xing, Wang Xifeng and others, including the maids and servants who served them, all looked at him.

"From the tone of His Royal Highness Prince Qian, he seems quite interested in these girls!"

Jia Lian has finished speaking!
For a moment, the room fell silent.

Yuanyang, who was massaging Lady Jia's legs, looked around and felt relieved that the girls were not around. Otherwise, wouldn't she have blushed with embarrassment when she heard what Master Lian said?

"Lian'er!" Madam Xing was the first to speak, and hurriedly asked him, "Which girls in our family did Prince Qian ask about?"

"This issue……"

Mrs. Wang hesitated. She had already sent one daughter to the palace, so how could she bear to send several more?

“This won’t work!!”

The stunned Jia Baoyu finally came to his senses and quickly objected: "A good and innocent girl was given to a thief to be defiled for nothing! He always said that my family was..."

"When Prince Qian ascends the throne, he will no longer be the Thief King, but the Emperor of the New Dynasty!" Jia Lian said immediately.

"What's the difference between this and selling your daughter for fame?!"

Baoyu's angry words made everyone silent.

"Baoyu, go back and study hard." Mrs. Wang chased him away, and Jia Baoyu had no choice but to leave. After a while, Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian also left.

When they returned home, Wang Xifeng complained to him, "Why did you say those things in front of the old lady and the mistress? You know that the old lady loves the girls the most, and Baoyu plays with them. You want them to enter the palace, and Baoyu is so angry that he falls ill. How can the old lady forgive you?"

After hearing her words, Jia Lian was so angry that he slammed the table several times and said angrily: "What do you know? Right now, there is a disaster of confiscation of property and extermination of the clan. You are really a woman's view. The knife of King Qian has not even been put to your neck, and you don't even know how to cry out in pain!"

Wang Xifeng was annoyed and replied, "You can't say that in front of the old lady!"

"Humph, I just want to tell you directly, do you know which girl the Qian King wants?"

"Who do you want?"

Wang Xifeng asked hurriedly. No matter how stupid she was, she knew that if she could send another person into the palace and as long as she was favored, the Jia family could avoid this disaster.

Jia Lian did not answer her.

Wang Xifeng asked in surprise, "Could it be that Prince Qian wants your sister Lin?!"

In the Grand View Garden, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai and Xue Baoqin are the most outstanding in appearance and talent, but none of them can be sent to the palace.

The two maids from the Xue family have nothing to do with the Jia family.

As for Lin Daiyu, if she were sent to the palace, Baoyu would cause such a commotion that he would turn the Rongguo Mansion upside down!

……

Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

"Master Bao, the girl has fallen asleep!"

When Zijuan saw Jia Baoyu coming with a lantern, she hurriedly stopped him and spoke.

"I just want to say a few words to Sister Lin!"

Jia Baoyu came to the screen window and looked through it and said, "Sister Lin, are you asleep?"

Lin Daiyu had not yet lain down. She was annoyed that he had left without saying goodbye, so she told Zijuan not to let him enter the room.

"My dear sister, I have but a few words to say to you." Jia Baoyu muttered to himself outside the window, "The thief king has not even entered the city yet, but he is already thinking of the sisters in the garden and wants them to enter the palace."

Inside the room, Lin Daiyu was still pretending to be asleep.

Jia Baoyu panicked, thinking she was as moved as everyone else. "Sister Lin, you... also want to enter the palace and become the concubine of that thief king?"

After hearing what he said, Lin Daiyu felt so angry that she started coughing again. Her internal organs felt as if they were being torn apart.

"I, I shouldn't have doubted you," Jia Baoyu continued from outside the window. "But now our family is facing a disaster of confiscation and extermination. You and I are both helpless. I feel so depressed and uncomfortable. That thief king is stalking the city like a wolf, and I can't protect my sisters."

Lin Daiyu calmed down a little, knowing that he said "enter the palace to be the concubine of the thief king" because he was frightened, but she was still sad in her heart. She had always regarded him as a confidant and thought Baoyu knew that she would rather die than surrender to the bandits.

"Baoyu."

Through the window, Lin Daiyu sat up from her bed and said, "I only want to ask you one thing. If I were abducted into the palace by thieves, what would you do?"

"I, I'll go to the palace to save you. Even if I die, I want to die close to Sister Lin!"

In the past, Daiyu would have been moved by Brother Bao's words, but for some reason, after hearing his words, she remembered that a few days ago, Baoyu had been training in armor for less than a day and then became lazy and didn't go.

If she was really kidnapped by the thief king Chu Yan, would Brother Bao really put on armor to save her?

"You don't have to commit suicide for me." Daiyu said, "You have parents and grandmother to be filial to, how can you just die?" She was different, she had lost her parents.

Jia Baoyu was silent for a moment, then said, "Then I... will become a monk!"

Daiyu heard him mention becoming a monk three times, so she laughed and said, "If you become a monk, I won't accompany you."

"Where is Sister Lin going?"

"I'm going to the palace to be a concubine~"

Daiyu had originally laughed at his previous question, but when Jia Baoyu heard it, he felt like he was struck by lightning: "Sister Lin, you, you are the same as Sister Bao, you also want to enter the palace and become the emperor's concubine?!"

Daiyu was stunned.

Not hearing him speak for a long time, she hurriedly ordered Zijuan to go out and check, but Zijuan said that Master Bao had already gone back and was in a daze when he left.

Daiyu lay on the bed in a daze, tears rolling down her face.

Baoyu was not her closest confidant. He was very nice to her on ordinary days, but when disaster struck, he became suspicious of her.

Why would she enter the palace and become a concubine just for the sake of wealth and glory?
(End of this chapter)