Chapter 7: Qingwen
Jia Huan suppressed the surprise in his heart, smiled and greeted the mandarin duck, "Sister mandarin duck is here!" "Anyone who has read Dream of Red Mansions knows the status of mandarin ducks in Jiafu.
This is the leadership secretary.
"Third master, you've been studying hard in the morning!" The mandarin duck said with a smile. She wore a green satin vest and a white crepe sweat scarf. White and greasy skin. She has a duck egg face, a high nose bridge, and a faint freckle on the cheeks, which does not detract from her beauty.
Mandarin ducks are never arrogant and bullying in Jiafu, and they have won praise and respect. This is a good girl who is respectable and amiable. It's a pity that Jia Yu was forced to hang himself in the end.
Jia Huan is familiar with the Red Mansion and knows the character and ending of the mandarin duck, which is very emotional. smiled and said, "How is that possible!" I'm reading an idle book. ”
The mandarin duck laughed, pointed to the beautiful little girl next to him and introduced: "Third master, this is the maid Qingwen in the ancestor's room, and now she is going to your house to do things." ”
"Huh?!" Jia Huan was taken aback. He didn't expect Jia Mu to assign Qingwen to him. Qingwen was originally going to give it to Jia Baoyu, right? His original expectation was that as long as the big girl could help carry water, it would be best to look better. Who wants to face an ugly girl, isn't?
Qingwen not only has a peugeot appearance, but also a first-class needlework level. In the book, there is: Yong Qingwen is sick and makes up for the finch Jinqiu.
What a bonus!
Jia Huan immediately looked at Qingwen curiously. Xindao: This is Qingwen who is "merry and dexterous and resentful, and her longevity is mostly slandered"? Sure enough, a very outstanding girl. In her teens, she was already a beauty embryo. Qingwen was one of the few characters he liked when he was reading the Red Mansion.
Seeing Jia Huan staring at Qingwen in surprise, Mandarin Duck and the others laughed. Jia Huan asked the big girl to be the person in the house, which was spread all over Jiafu.
Qingwen blushed at Jia Huan's eyes, and glared at Jia Huan fiercely. She has been laughed at by her sisters a lot these days. Thinking that she was "distributed" from Jia's mother's upper room to Jia Huan's house, I felt very bad in my heart.
Jia Huan invited Mandarin Duck and the others to sit down and have a cup of tea.
After chatting a few words, the mandarin duck said with a smile: "Third master, the person has been delivered, you take your time." I'll go back to my ancestors first. ”
She knew the thoughts of her ancestors, and she originally wanted to pick an ordinary second-class maid for Jia Huan. Later, Jia Huan said that he didn't dare to compare with Baoyu, and the ancestor was happy, so he pointed out Qingwen, who stood out among the second-class maids.
"Haha!" A few maids and servants laughed again. Follow the mandarin duck and go back to Jia's mother to return to her life.
Jia Huan smiled helplessly. He didn't expect it to be Qingwen, so he took a few more looks. It's a misunderstanding. instructed: "Ruyi, you take Qingwen to settle down." See you again later. With that, he went back to his bedroom. Thinking back to Qingwen's deeds.
Qingwen's first appearance in the Red Chamber was the fifth time, that is, this winter, Qin Keqing invited Jia Mu and others to Ningguo Mansion to enjoy the plums, Jia Baoyu took Qin Keqing into obscenity, and stayed under the eaves of the corridor to wait for the attacker, charming, Qingwen, and Musk Yue. Qingwen was already Baoyu's maid at that time. Now it's for him to get there first.
Since Qingwen arrived in his house, he would definitely not let Qingwen be kicked out of Jiafu by Mrs. Wang when she was sick and thus die of illness.
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Half an hour later, Ruyi took Qingwen to Jia Huan to "return to life" in a funny way. The third master was stupid with joy just now, right? Sister Qingwen is indeed beautiful.
Qingwen is taller than Jia Huan, and before Jia Huan could speak, he stiffened his neck and said, "Third master, I won't be a person in your house." If you don't have a maid, I'll do it. You want me to be your housekeeper, and you should go back to the Ming ancestors as soon as possible. ”
"The man in the house" means concubine.
That's a pretty punchy statement. It's worthy of Qingwen. It's very strong. Jia Huan smiled casually, "You think too much." Ruyi, let Qingwen help you with the matter of fetching water. You can arrange the rest of your daily affairs. ”
His Qingwen's liking is an appreciation for outstanding girls, not a liking for the love of men and women.
"Giggles, okay." Ruyi's eyes narrowed. The third master actually wanted her to be the main one. She's already ready to back down.
Qingwen's organizational relationship is in Jia's mother, and the rank is: second-class maid, to Jia Huan's house, how dare Ruyi compete with her for Jia Huan's position as the chief maid?
Watching the two little girls with different expressions leave, Jia Huan smiled and shook his head. For the first time, he was a little shaken about his plans in Jia Mansion.
Jia Huan's plan was to wait for him to grow a few years older and leave Jiafu under a different identity. You can't just be a 7-year-old boy floating in society. That's a high risk factor.
He was not interested in burying his pig teammates in Jiafu. Look at what bad things Jia Yu, Jia Zhen, Jia Rong, Mrs. Wang, Wang Xifeng and others have done!
He is also not interested in saving the tragic ending of "Qianhong cries, Wanyan shares sorrow". From the Internet age, what kind of beauty has not been seen? He is not yet lofty enough to "rescue" strangers.
But today he has become Qingwen's master, and he definitely doesn't want Qingwen's tragedy to happen. This is the difference between treating "one's own people" and "strangers".
If he wants to "shelter" Qingwen, he needs to at least gain "power" first, no matter what form of power.
Jia Huan slowly fell into deep thought.
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The matter of Qingwen's arrival in Jia Huan's house spread all over Jiafu in a very short period of time. Some people are very envious of Jia Huan.
Qingwen's beauty and skillful hands stand out in Jia's mother's room.
However, Qingwen was not actually "disturbed in the workplace" in Jia Huan's house. Her biggest task is to help Ruyi carry water in the kitchen every day. Jia Huan loves cleanliness and takes a bath every day. The rest of the time is light.
Jia Huan likes to handle his own affairs by himself, and he will not call the maid at every turn.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Jia Huan and Jia Lan did not attend the Lantern Festival dinner in Jiafu as usual. In fact, Jia Huan is eligible to participate with his Yongxue poem. But Jia Zheng was annoyed that he was "stubborn" and ordered him to study behind closed doors.
On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Jia Huan and Jia Lan met with Guishu, Zhao Guoji and others outside the Weeping Flower Gate and went to the study to attend classes together. Jia Cong is already in the study with his long followers.
After the arrival of the teacher Lin Juren, the three people were assessed. Jia Huan is the best. There is no mistake or omission in memorization and dictation. Because he had listened to the poems written by Jia Huan at Jia Zheng's banquet, he assessed a few lines of Jia Huan's poems and pairs, and saw that Jia Huan's answer was good, so he decided to speed up Jia Huan's learning progress.
Jia Huan couldn't cry or laugh in his heart. Lin Juren regards rigorous teaching as a reward. He knew that the teacher had good intentions. In these years, learning knowledge needs to be taught. However, he actually had no intention of taking the imperial examination.
The enlargement of Xianwen is about 4,000 words, and Jia Huan and Jia Cong have both learned about 3,000 words. The kindergarten Qionglin has more than 20,000 words, a total of four volumes. Jalan studied the third volume of the Diet Chapter.
The time of the first month flies by. By mid-February, Jia Huan had learned the last martial arts chapter in the first volume of Qionglin. Jalan also studied hard. The atmosphere in the study room where you chase after me makes Lin Juren very happy. And Jia Baoyu has only been to the study once since the first month. Miharu no longer comes to the study to study.
Jia Huan's poem on the snow slowly spread like a ripple in a pond under the propaganda of Jiafu, and the aftermath rippled. It is said that it has been spread to Jinling in the south of the Yangtze River. A little bit famous. Su Shi's poem is not a posthumous work, but the key lies in Jia Huan's age. At the age of 7, he became a poet and can be crowned as a prodigy.
Jia Huan did not participate in the poetry meeting and cocktail party held by Jia Zheng in Jiafu, and there is no way to know about these. Therefore, it did not have much impact on his life.
In the evening of this day, the sun was setting and the spring was cold. Jia Huan came back from outside Jia's Mansion with a wooden sleeve tool. As soon as I returned to the house, I saw Aunt Zhao, Xiao Que, and Xiao Jixiang coming. Ruyi drank tea and talked with him in the bedroom. Qingwen went to the kitchen to get dinner.
Aunt Zhao wore a pink satin jacket with a hundred butterflies, with slender and charming willow eyebrows, apricot eyes and a small mouth, and a beautiful young woman. Putting the teacup on the tray held by Xiao Que, he asked with a smile: "Brother Huan'er, are you going to play in the workshop again?" ”
Jia Huan is angry, and she has been living comfortably recently. Although there are rules for Mrs. Wang, Sister Feng will pay the monthly money of four taels of silver in full and in a timely manner, which makes her smile. It's a bit radiant.
Aunt Zhao relaxed her control over Jia Huan years ago. Time is at Jia Huan's disposal.
Jia Huan said: "Well, I asked my uncle to find a carpenter to make a tool some time ago. I went out today to get it. ”
Aunt Zhao looked at the "toy" in Jia Huan's hand curiously, took it and fiddled with it a few times, but she didn't know the point, and said suspiciously: "Just such a thing costs 1 tael of silver?" Brother Huan, don't you deceive anyone, right? I remember during the Chinese New Year, you said you wanted to build a stove in front of the door to boil hot water. ”
During the New Year, Jia Huan paid New Year's greetings in Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion, because he made a good poem on Chinese New Year's Eve, which was regarded as making Jia Mansion famous, and this year's New Year's money red envelope was much thicker than in previous years. The gold nude and silver horns are combined, and the total value is more than 20 taels of silver.
Aunt Zhao is red-eyed. Pity her for a year's income, counting Jia Huan's share of the monthly money, it doesn't add up to 48 taels of silver. Jia Huan goes out to pay New Year's greetings, and if she goes around, she has half of her annual income.
According to the usual practice, Aunt Zhao wants to confiscate Jia Huan's New Year's money. But Jia Huan said that he set up a small stove under the locust tree in front of the door and intercepted 10 taels.
One is to boil hot water for bathing, so as not to always go to the kitchen to carry hot water. The second is to avoid Aunt Zhao from eating warm meals in winter. There is a small stove to heat it up.
Jia Huan said with a smile: "Mother, the small stove is easy to build, and it doesn't take much trouble." The key is to solve the problem of firewood. The little money we had a month was not enough for firewood. ”
He was ready to make honeycomb coal. I used to do this job in my rural hometown. One honeycomb coal can be burned for two days. Buy some cinders and mix the soil to make some honeycomb coal, enough for him and Aunt Zhao.
Aunt Zhao felt the same way, and hurriedly said, "That's, that's." It costs a lot of money to burn it down all year round. "She's very sensitive when it comes to money.
Jia Huan actually has a hidden idea, he wants to test the tolerance of the people in power in Jiafu to do things for him little by little.
Coming into this world, he has been a quiet little ant for a few months, and now he has to try to "stretch" his hands and feet.
He didn't plan to be a primary school student in the past few years in Jiafu. That's not realistic.
In modern society, it is not easy to fake and get a real account. In ancient times, the household registration system was looser, but it would definitely take a sum of money to change identities and leave Jiafu. And it takes a sum of money to leave the life of Jiafu. He's got to be ready.