Chapter 70: Lai Er's Son
Jia Lu and the others left the house and walked along the avenue like outside the city. As I said before, this dynasty is much more open than the previous dynasty, Jia Lu has also gone out under the leadership of his father and brother, but unfortunately he is young, and his father and brother are not at ease, for fear of being photographed by Huazi, every time she goes out, she is surrounded by three layers of maids and sisters-in-law, she is small, except for listening to the voice, she can't see anything.
This time the elders are not there, there is only a maid and a nephew, no one can hinder it, Jia Lu was so curious that he poked his head out, and found that although the climate this year was worse than in previous years, Kyoto was still prosperous, and the selling and selling were endless, the city was clean and tidy, and there was not even a begging person, so there was a rich and prosperous atmosphere, and there was no sign of bad thoughts and a difficult life for the people as Grandma Liu and her mother Han said.
Out of the city gate, the more you go out, the more sparse the people become, the crops are one after another, Jia Lu has never had close contact with the crops in his previous life and this life, and he doesn't know whether the bare pole in the field at this time is good or bad.
After looking at it for a while, the scenery was the same, Jia Lu lost patience, retracted the carriage, and swayed, seeing Jia Rong holding the book, glanced at it once or twice, and quickly closed it, her mouth was still broken.
Jia Lu was dumbfounded, such a familiar scene reminded her of the scene of her racing against time to endorse before the college entrance examination, although the college entrance examination has passed seven or eight years, and it is still a matter of the previous life, but as long as she thinks of Jia Lu, she can't help but feel numb in her scalp.
Jia Rong is good, but not handsome enough, quite like a modern Korean entertainment male star, no matter where he is, with his appearance, a safe man and a man and two men! But in this imperial examination, there is no male and male and two young people who are on the list, and the most important is the good luck of three yuan and the first, a good candidate, a three-mode failure, and the end of the crane has passed the score line of three books, which makes a proud outstanding student nervous that he is afraid of taking the exam.
Jia Lu secretly rolled her eyes, after all, it is not a TV series novel, and Jia Rong is just an ordinary person. Jia Lu stepped forward and threw herself into Jia Rong's arms, Jia Rong closed her eyes and was thinking in pieces, she was frightened by Jia Lu, and she was stunned. Jia Lu took advantage of his stunned moment, took out the book, and before Jia Rong could react, he quickly stuffed the book into the cabinet under the seat, and then sat up, smiling proudly,
"My mother and sister-in-law have specially said that they won't let you read the book, let me look at you, good nephew, you sneak this book out, my aunt sees that you are the first offender, spare you once, if you commit it again, I won't help you hide it." ”
Jia Rong looked at Jia Lu who was holding chicken feathers as an arrow, she used to call herself Brother Rong with her elders, and only when it was so rare would she hold up the elders' shelves and call herself "nephew". Although I still want to watch it again, but Jia Lu is stuck in the cabinet under her ass with her two feet, just look at her for the sake of being both a girl and an aunt, the fact is that Jia Rong can't do anything to find a book.
Hongliu watched from the side, and when she saw that Brother Rong really stopped, she and the girl talked with peace of mind, and couldn't help but sigh at Mrs. Rong's wit. Brother Rong is addicted to books, whether the old lady and grandmother are heavy or light, or a girl with "no skin and no face" can make a move.
In this way, there was nothing to do all the way, and I arrived at the hot spring Zhuangzi.
The head of the manor is the youngest son of Lai Er's family and his daughter-in-law, Lai Er has only appeared once in the Red Mansion, everyone is afraid that he is not very familiar with him, but his brother and mother are familiar with him.
His mother is Mama Lai, Jia's mother's confidant, even if she has long been out of the mansion, she often accompanies Jia's mother to play cards and talk in Rongfu, and she is the most first-class proud. And his eldest brother is called Lai Da, who is the big housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, even Jia Baoyu has to get off the horse when he sees him immediately, and respectfully greets "Grandpa Lai", not to mention those down-and-out clansmen. Among them, Laida's son later relied on the prestige of the master's family to get rid of his slavery and become a county magistrate.
Lai Er is also the chief housekeeper above the slaves under the master of Ningfu in the Red Mansion, and the only time he appears is in Jiao Da's mouth, that is, when Jiao Da eats wine and says that Ningfu is tired, he scolds Lai Er for being eccentric
"If you have a good errand, send someone else, and if you give someone away in the middle of the night like this, send me. You don't want to think about it, but Master Jiao has one foot on his feet, which is higher than your head. Twenty years ago, Master Jiao, who is in his eyes? Don't talk about you bastard king eight lambs!"
It's really feng shui in turns, this Jiao Da is now the big housekeeper of Ning Guofu, and the baby Danlu girl in Ning Mansion has to call him Grandpa Jiao, but Lai Er, who is eccentric in the Red Mansion, is gone, and I don't know where to go on an errand. If Lai Er is still here, how can he let his son work on this Zhuangzi, although this Zhuangzi is good, it is not as decent as serving in front of the master.
How could Lai Er, who has a deep background and a big backstage, lose his shadow in front of his master? The wool came out of the sheep, how did Lai Er get up, and how did he go down.
When the eldest girl of Jia's mother Shi family married into the Jia family, she was just a great-granddaughter-in-law, and the mother-in-law of the two or three layers above wanted to integrate into the Jia family as soon as possible, that is, to marry the maid around her to the servant of the Jia family. So he carefully **, the most top-notch girl among several big girls married to that family.
To say that Jia's mother is also a shrewd person, most of the servants who came out are her old mother-in-law, mother-in-law, and mother-in-law's henchmen. After choosing this second-class family, the mother-in-law above him can also rest assured.
Sure enough, the mother-in-law above saw that she didn't wantonly hold power, but just an ordinary family with more connections, and she still regarded her as a light power, so she was more at ease with her. When Jia's mother-in-law was in charge, the people who were arrogant in front of the servants before went to the top ten after the reform of the inner house.
Coincidentally, at that time, the masters of the Jia family wanted to choose their entourage, the Lai family had a wide range of connections, many personnel, and although the two mansions of Rongning had been divided, they were more intimate and more like a family, and many times, the slaves were used together. This Lai family, Lai Mama's sons are all there, Lai Er was selected by Jia Jing, the slave who has served since childhood is not closer than Jiao Da, who was proud in front of the elders before, Jia Jing's father Jia Daihua died early, and Lai Da next to him naturally became the actual housekeeper of Ningfu. Jia Daishan of Rongfu has lived for a long time, and his wife Jia's mother, as a female elder with the highest status and the longest time in charge of the family, can naturally push his henchman Lai Da's son Lai Da to be the housekeeper of Rongfu. This also has the strange phenomenon that the big families of the barbarian Kyoto family despise and are curious about the two dukes' families are from a slave family, if the two masters are confused, then the two duke's mansions have to be surnamed?
Jia Jing, who had just been reborn, also replaced Lai Er out of this idea. To say that they accompany the old emperor to fight and make a living, the background may not be as good as other scholars, but the most important thing is gold and silver treasures, in order to appease or win over their own generals, in addition to the treasury and the homes of ordinary people, Kang Shizu allowed them to rob casually, those palaces, ministers, eunuchs' homes, boxes of treasures were carried back, piled up several warehouses.
The descendants of Ningfu are no matter how extravagant and extravagant, ** excessive, they will not lose all of these, besides, their family knows their own affairs, Jia Jing knows that Jia Zhen and others are mediocre**, but in this world, if the year is better, it may be more expensive to buy a person, if the year is not good, twenty taels of silver to buy several decent girls, in addition to getting involved in the royal family, how can Jia Zhen and others get to the end of it.
Let's talk about royal affairs, Ning Mansion has always had young daughters, and after she goes, one generation is not as good as the next, and the court has no power, under normal circumstances, who would care about a famous and powerless down-and-out lord like you.
And Rongguofu has always been big-hearted, Jia Yuanchun entered the palace and became the imperial concubine, Rongguofu didn't want to lose this backer and wanted to get a prince, so he could only keep stuffing money into it, at that time, although Yuanchun had no children but was still young, and he was quite favored, Rongfu discussed with himself who practiced in the Taoist temple more than once for the future of the Jia family, and the two governments jointly funded the virtuous concubine Niangniang, who was intoxicated with the practice of Taoism at that time, and ignored it, and Ningfu did not join much.
But after his death, Jia Zhen is not a smart person, and he has to be honored by the Rong Mansion with the future glory and wealth of the Jia family**, in addition, Concubine Jia is getting older, her favor is gradually lost, and she has no heirs under her knees.
Even so, Jia Zhen and the others are not stupid enough to give the entire family furniture to the point, and they are not their own daughters, it will really hurt their muscles and bones, but after the raid (it is not a family raid, the unrelated daughters and grandchildren of the family are not implicated, and the Rongguo Mansion is still there, at that time, they can still be merciful outside the law and leave a trace of family property), there is no windfall in the family, so they can only stay in the Rong Mansion.
Jia Jingfu was reborn, after carefully thinking about the suspicion of the destruction of the Ning Mansion, he quietly investigated the Lai Erlai housekeeper who was deeply trusted by himself, Lai Erguo was selfish, although he did not directly touch the property of the Ning Mansion, but kept improving the people related to the Lai family to take on the treasury and other important responsibilities in the Ning Mansion, and the main line of the Lai family was in the Rong Mansion, Jia Jing couldn't help but be frightened, after he went for so ten or twenty years, Lai Er has always been in the position of the chief housekeeper of the Ning Mansion, and for many years, with Jia Zhen's wife of the small family, You Shi, the family has moved away, and she doesn't know that she has become a vassal of the Rong Mansion.
In this way, Jia Jing got rid of Lai Er, and the rest of the Lai family, without this support, was not as powerful as in Ningfu day by day, and most of them fell into Zhuangzi, but as the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and even in Zhuangzi, it is also the Zhuangtou family who controls the lifeblood of Zhuangzi. The Han family was afraid that these people would connect and lose the fortune of the village. These Jia Lu and Jia Rong don't know, and Hongliu has been by the Han family for many years, although it is not very clear, but he more or less knows that his wife sent himself and others here, I am afraid that it is for this Zhuangtou.