Chapter 399: The Gift (I)
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth year of Yongzhi, Jia Huan returned from Jinling with Daiyu. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoThe children of the Jia family greeted each other, and the relatives of the Jia family were waiting in the back house. Subsequently, all kinds of interesting stories about Jia Huan and Daiyu in Jinling soon spread throughout Jiafu. Of course, there are also Jia Huan's famous poems.
The return of Jia Huan and Daiyu is a major event in Jiafu before waiting for the concubine in the first month.
However, only a few people know the content of the deliberations in the Rongxi Hall. Jia Zheng temporarily suppressed the contradictions and rifts between Jia Huan and Jia Yu. The conflict that was supposed to break out a few years ago has been postponed, and it is not yet known when it will erupt.
The current priority of Jiafu is: to prepare for the New Year.
It's already the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month.
In the afternoon of the same day, the housekeepers of Jiafu began to prepare for the ancestor worship that had been postponed for several days due to waiting for Jia Huan.
In the small room near the east corner gate of Jia's house, the sunlight at three or four o'clock fell in, bright and transparent.
Shan Daliang greeted Lin Zhixiao, the second housekeeper of Jiafu, with a smile on his face, to drink tea, and said courteously: "Brother Lin, this is my treasured dragon well before the rain." You taste it. β
Since Lai's family was cleaned up by Jia Huan to Jinling for farming, the order of the housekeepers in Jiafu is: Shan Daliang, Lin Zhixiao, Wu Xindeng, and Zhang Cai.
Lin Zhixiao was dressed in green clothes, in his forties, and dressed as a housekeeper. Looking at the happy smile on Shan Daliang's face, he smiled and picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, praising it: "Good tea!" β
"Haha." Shan Daliang smiled happily.
Lin Zhixiao and his wife Lin Zhixiao's family are called "deaf and dumb" in Jiafu, and Wang Xifeng described "all of them can't make a sound with an awl", and they are very low-key. I know what happened, but I won't say it.
Why Shan Daliang is so happy now, he understands it in his heart. Just now, news suddenly came out inside and outside the house: the old man suppressed the idea that the third master wanted to check the accounts of the provincial villa.
This news probably made many people breathe a sigh of relief, and a stone fell to the ground in their hearts. The news that Second Master Qiang brought back from Jinling was too scary. The third master of the ring is angry, who is not afraid? Zhou Rui, Lai Wang, Lai Da, and Lai Er are examples.
The government used one million taels of silver to build a provincial villa, and the big man (Jia Yu), the single housekeeper, and then the stewards and leaders below were all greedy for a lot. It has long exceeded the limit of one percent stipulated by the three masters.
He didn't take more. Many people in the house are afraid that the third master of Huan will come back and be ruthless. I didn't expect the old man to suppress the matter. But is this really going to be like this? Based on his observations, I'm afraid not.
Taking a sip of tea, Shan Daliang cut to the chase with a smile and said, "Brother Lin, the third master has returned to the house, and the matter of worshipping ancestors in the house should be prepared." This requires Brother Lin to worry a lot. β
Lin Zhixiao smiled and agreed, "It's a matter of duty." β
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The golden sunset came in from the eaves. The warm spring interior is a little dim.
The little magpie came in from the warm pavilion and lit a candle. looked at Jia Huan, who was sitting in the wooden chair and listening to Aunt Zhao babbling on the collapsed chair, and said with a smile: "Auntie, third master, you can prepare dinner." β
Aunt Zhao was pulling her son to say that she was very happy about the daily trivial things in Jiafu, such as when and where she was proud, and for example, one day she made a mistake in the East Cross Courtyard and was forgiven by Mrs. Wang in Jia Huan's face. At this time, he was interrupted by Xiao Que, and suddenly said angrily: "What is Brother Huan'er's status in the mansion now, even if you go to the small kitchen to get food, do those prostitutes still dare to embarrass you?" β
Xiao Que is a teenage girl with an ordinary appearance, and she just smiles when she hears the words. Don't look at the fierce scolding of my aunt and grandmother, in fact, I am not angry.
Jia Huan shook his head speechlessly, Aunt Zhao's mantra! Seeing Xiao Que's maid again, it made him sigh a little.
In the four or five years since he came here, many people's fates have deviated from their original trajectory. Now the attackers are in Daiyu's room, and in the original book, Xiao Que's informant to the attackers about Jia Huan and Aunt Zhao will definitely not happen again.
The water flows low, and the people go high.
Jia Huan stood up and ordered, "Xiao Que, go and bring a few dishes back." He said to Aunt Zhao again: "Mother, I'll go to the third sister and their place, and I'll come over for dinner later." β
Aunt Zhao impatiently put the stove on the table and said, "You go." There you go. "The relationship between her and her daughter Tanchun is still very stiff. But I also know that Brother Huan has a good relationship with his daughter, and there are often correspondence in Jinling.
Jia Huan nodded disappreciatively and walked out of Aunt Zhao's house. Facing a winter chill. Qingwen, who was waiting in the warm pavilion, smiled and came out with two little maids.
Qingwen's padded jacket is covered with a light green tooth-pinching vest, and the maid's outfit is just pretty and charming, very outstanding, far beyond the appearance of the maid. At the end is a pretty girl who is merry and dexterous.
She was holding a few boxes of gifts in her hand, smiling like a flower, the girl's shallow charm was circulating in the winter sunset, and her bright eyes were rippling with clear waves, and she could see that after she returned to the house, she was in a good mood, and said crisply: "Third master, are you going to the third girl?" β
Jia Huan nodded, and took Qingwen to the corridor behind the courtyard to the Baoxia Hall where Sanchun lived. The two little maids were left behind.
The trees and rockeries outside the cloister are covered with the withered yellow color of winter. Only the pines and cypresses are still evergreen.
Jia Huan twisted his head and asked with a smile, "Qingwen, did you send a gift to Sister Mandarin Duck?" β
The "big secretary" mandarin duck next to Jia's mother is the son of Jiafu's family, and her parents are looking at houses in Jinling. When Jia Huan came back from Jinling, in addition to preparing some common gifts for the mandarin duck, there were also the recent situation and family letters of her parents.
Naturally, the letter was written on behalf of the letter.
The fifty-fourth chapter of the original book of Red Mansions: Shi Taijun broke the old clichΓ©s, and Wang Xifeng played colorful clothes. There is a passage in it about the situation of the golden mandarin duck's mother. At that time, it was the Lantern Festival, Jia Mu feasted the people at night, Baoyu went out, didn't look at the attacker, and talked about attacking people.
Wang Xifeng made an explanation: The mother who attacked the person had just gone out not long ago, and she was still in the midst of filial piety, so she didn't follow Baoyu.
When Jia Mu heard this, she nodded and said, "That's it." It just so happened that the mandarin duck's mother also died, I think his old son and mother are in the south, and I didn't ask his family to go to his house to go and keep filial piety, but now I call him two of them to be companions. β
According to the timeline of the original book of the Red Mansion, this is the fifteenth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of the Red Mansion, and it is inferred that the mother of the mandarin duck died in the autumn and winter of the thirteenth year of the Red Mansion. It's not that far from this point.
Qingwen smiled dexterously and said, "Third Master, I have already sent it." It was handed over to Sister Mandarin Duck by hand. It's just, Third Master, why don't you give her the gift in person? β
The relationship between the third master and the old lady is estranged. Bringing a gift to Sister Mandarin Duck was the first thing she said. The third master had a lot of things to do before he left Jinling, so he didn't think about it. The attacker then added: Sister Mandarin Duck's parents are also in Jinling. That's why the third master sent someone to visit, and left the silver for Sister Mandarin Duck's parents.
Why don't you tell Sister Mandarin Duck these things directly? With this feeling, if there is any movement on the old lady's side in the future, I can know in advance. Who doesn't know the status and weight of Sister Mandarin Duck in the house?