Chapter 72

Let's say that Jia Qiang, the serious great-grandson of Ning Guofu, was born with a golden and noble life, but his fate was ill-fated, his luck was not good, he was still in his mother's womb, his father saw his back, he did not leave the swaddling clothes, and his mother died again. He was born beautifully, after growing up, the snow tuaner is generally jade and snow cute, and he is not afraid of life, he laughs when he sees people, his great-grandfather saw it, but remembered that his father was so pitiful and cute when he was young, who wanted to get the head but the white-haired person was born twice to send the black-haired person, and the vultures did not hurt the murderous heart! In addition, the child's origin is somewhat embarrassing, Jia Daihua is somewhat angry because of his mother, so he doesn't like to see him very much, and only hands him over to his daughter-in-law and granddaughter-in-law to take care of.

However, as the saying goes: there are still thorns hidden under the leaves between the flowers, how to ensure that people's hearts are not poisonous. Jia Daihua since Jia Lang's death, Jia Lang's wife left behind does not care much, and now the Zhao family is also going, leaving a little brother, who has to rely on his uncle to live, and his great-grandfather looks at Jia Rong, the son of Jia Zhen, who likes Jia Rong more than him, so there is a villain with a sour heart, secretly talking about the death of his father before this little brother was born, and after he was born, he even killed his mother, but I am afraid that it is the life of a father and mother! There is a saying that "three people become tigers", this rumor was only secretly spread at first, but later it didn't know how, it reached Jia Daihua's ears, only Jia Daihua was angry, and called Jia Jing to teach him a lesson: "My Jia family has always treated people well, although it is not as good as those princely families, but it has never been badly treated. I know that you are not good at mundane affairs, but now the family is your master, the head of the family, but you can't ignore everything and ignore everything. You are a person who reads and inks, you should know the principle of 'self-cultivation and governing the country and leveling the world', and you should also know that 'the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in the anthill', I am still here today, and those slaves dare to talk about Brother Qiang behind their backs, if they are not severely punished, they will go until the other day, they rely on the old face of several lifetimes, but they don't put the young master in their eyes, isn't it a situation where the master is not the master, the slave is not the slave, the situation is plain and funny, and it is not bad for the innocent reputation of my Jia family! ”

Jia Jing just apologized again and again, and said: "Recently, there have been a lot of things in the family, and my son is incompetent, so I am ashamed of my father's expectations, but I don't know that there is such a slave in the family, and I have wronged Brother Qiang." When he came out of Jia Daihua's place, Jia Jing had a thought in his heart, and secretly thought: "The affairs of the inner courtyard of the family are all managed by Mrs. Jia, Mrs. has always been proper, for so many years, big and small things, should be properly handled, there has never been such a thing, why is there no rumor this time?" But I thought that for more than a year, the funeral of my nephew, the funeral of my nephew and daughter-in-law, and the entertainment of relatives and friends, it was really complicated, Mrs. Xu was also tired, and she was bedridden several times, and even handed over the exchanges of relatives and friends to Jia Zhen's daughter-in-law Hu, I am afraid that it is just a moment of ignorance, so that the villain took advantage of the loophole, and when he thought of this, he eliminated that thought.

Besides, Jia Daihua, it is already painful to lose his eldest son early when he was young, who wants to send a white-haired person to a black-haired person when he is old, how can he bear this suffering? Every time I think of my old body and crippled body, still alive, his father and son are young, they have entered the Yellow Spring, they are in the yellow spring, they are in their prime, and they are buried in the loess, that is, they have seen more life and death, and it is also the pain of crying blood, and the family knows that he has a heart disease, and never mentions it, who wants to think that this time because of Jia Qiang, not only led to this heart, but also reminded Jia Daihua of marrying Jia Lang at the beginning, which was originally the meaning of Chongxi, who wanted to get the head to know the unknown person, lure the wolf into the room, and killed a good grandson! Jia Daihua thought about this, both regret and hatred, depressed in the heart, the body was not very refreshing, and he couldn't sleep well for two days in a row, this day he ordered someone to fry the soothing soup and take it, and fell asleep in a daze, and saw Jia Lang come in from outside the door with a smile, standing in front of his bed and asking his grandfather, his voice and smile seemed to have just recovered from a serious illness, Jia Daihua saw that his face was not as thin as before, and couldn't help but rejoice, took his hand and asked him how he was, but after taking medicine, Jia Lang didn't answer, let him sit, and didn't sit, just stood upright, suddenly shed tears, and cried:" Grandfather, grandson is so bitter! He gritted his teeth and fell back. The grandfather was taken aback, and he threw himself out of bed to help, but the gums suddenly turned into a deep stream, Jia Daihua was unprepared, and he fell down, it was true: the phoenix lost its wings and fell in the air, and the bird folded its wings among the clouds, frightened, and woke up suddenly, knowing that it was a dream, but still palpitating, the maid served and finally fell asleep again, hoping to see his grandson in a dream, but there was no trace.

Since then, Jia Daihua has added a period of heart disease, coupled with the change of cold and summer, his wife died early, only two old concubines were waiting around him, and Mrs. Xu, who was in charge of the house, was her daughter-in-law, so it was inevitable that she would be negligent and get some symptoms. At first, I didn't think it was a thing, not wrong to go to the court, but then it was gradually sick and difficult to support, and had to take leave to recuperate at home, although it was a decoction constantly, people were seeing the aging down, the doctor invited and pleased, the bitter juice did not know how much to drink, but there was no improvement, in the past an old general who walked like a fly, and gradually reached the point where he could not get up without relying on people's support, and showed the situation of the next life. Jia Jing was very sad when he saw that his father was seriously ill, so he took a leave of absence to serve the soup and medicine in front of the bed, and ordered Mrs. Xu to send two hundred taels of silver to the Bao'en Temple to add lamps in front of the Buddha, and to engrave 5,000 copies of the Diamond Sutra for goodness; He also invited a well-known Taoist priest from the Taoist temple outside the city to make a lantern altar, recommended a puja, drove away evil spirits, and eliminated disasters; Or if you can hear the hexagram in any place, and the gentleman in that place is calculated, he sent someone to take Jia Daihua's birth date to make a hexagram and ask for divination, and the auspicious omen is divided, but there are many fierce beliefs and few auspicious letters, so it is not discouraged; All of this has not had much effect. Jia Daihua is not only the first authoritarian person of the Jia family, but also the head of a family, he is sick, the children of the He clan come to ask An to ask for illness, during which there are also recommended remedies, or push elixir, Jia Yu still believed in some at first, and later knew that it was useless, so he could only just.

In the meantime, there was another incident, but Jia Zheng was impeached by his boss for being a vegetarian meal, and his subordinates were not strict in supervising and harassing slaves and the people. It turned out that although Jia Zheng was ambitious, he was a habitual problem of a scholar, and he was okay to talk about poetry and wine, but he was not very familiar with officialdom and political affairs, and he could not help offending his bosses and colleagues unintentionally. In addition, eight out of ten of the minions he brought were the masters of the fox and the tiger, and they only used the reputation of Jia Zheng and the Jia family to search for gold and silver, and take over the lawsuit, and even took advantage of the birth of Jia Zhengshu's eldest son to gather together, so that a folk song was spread: "Brother Jin, Brother Yin, it's not as good as that real brother." The master given by Jia Daihua could be restrained at the beginning, but he was "inseparable", and he was powerless in the end, and he felt shameless to return to Beijing to face the old master, so he resigned from Jia Zheng and returned to his hometown with his wife and children. At that time, it was an eventful autumn, Jia Daihua fell ill, someone had the heart to try the Jia family, Jia Zheng was involved in a crime, lost his official position, returned to Beijing in frustration, felt that his face was not good-looking, and he encountered a shower on the way back to Beijing, the thunder startled the horses, and he went crazy to earn the reins, only to take the aunt, mother and son and the two maids sent by the subordinates were shocked and flew away, the adults were not tight, but the infant little brother was frightened and cold, and the high fever did not go away on the same day. I can only find a doctor to see, who would have thought of meeting a quack doctor, a dose of medicine, the little brother will have diarrhea, and the next day he will die, only to cry his biological mother to death, several times to seek death and follow. Jia Zheng wants to send the quack doctor to the official, how can he still find a figure? I can only secretly hate, my heart is getting more and more frustrated, the letter is sent to Beijing, the people in the big house do not take it to heart, the Shi family has already had grandchildren, and they have never seen this little brother, and it is only faint, Wang's face is also quiet, but he knows that Jia Zheng will have two more concubines in the room when he comes back this time, and he can only use a veil to vent his anger.

Jia Daihua is seriously ill day by day, knowing that this time is inevitable, but he looks at it, the two mansions of the Jia family, the clan, as soon as he goes, the generation of the generation will no longer have talent, and only the Jia Zhu Jiahu over there can be used below, but the father of the two brothers has long been dirty, and he is afraid that it will be difficult for the two houses to be concentric in the future, and they are too young. Count and count, and when he goes, there will be only one Jia Jing and one Jia pardon left in the huge Jia family within ten years, and there will be no one who can handle the high-ranking people next to him, how can such a family deal with the turbulent battle for the throne? It's Jia Jing Jia Yu, even if he can be a grandfather, but he is still not enough to see in front of the old foxes in the court, but the disobedient nephew Jia Yu insisted on fainting to mix, and picked a King Ning who looked really hopeless······· Alas! It can only be delayed for one day.

In the end, it is because the children of the family are not competitive enough, even if they look at a large area of Wuyang, there is no strategy for the country, and there is no talent for Anbang, what use can it be? If the children in the family are all Zhilan Yushu, where is he worried? Jia Daihua fought hard to plan the seriously ill body, worked hard, and aggravated the condition, Jia Jing persuaded him several times, but it was useless, so he could only stay in front of the bed day and night, and do his filial piety. Later, the deterioration of Jia Daihua's condition has reached the point where he wakes up when he sleeps, and it is rare for the town to be clear.

On this day, Jia Daihua's condition was recurred, and he finally took medicine to settle down a little, and when he served Jia Daihua to sleep, everyone was extremely tired, Jia Jing hastily ate a meal, and lay down on the bed and clothes opposite Jia Daihua. About the fourth watch, Jia Jing seemed to hear someone coming in in his dream, and heard a whisper: "Second brother, hard work." Jia Jingmo listened vaguely, and wondered in his heart: "Who is the second in this room?" Suddenly, I heard someone shouting, listening carefully it seemed that his father was calling him, I couldn't help but be shocked, I wanted to wake up, I didn't want to feel like my body was a thousand pounds, my eyelids were even heavier, and I finally broke away, only to see the indoor lights were slightly dim, and the old father on the bed seemed to be stunned, so he hurriedly got up and went to the bed to hold his hand, and even called his father, and finally called Jia Daihua to open his eyes, but he looked at him in a daze for a long time, and said darkly: "I don't know if I come back to see me for decades, what a really unfilial son!" ”

Jia Jing saw that he was in a trance, but his face was glowing red, different from the past, he knew that it was not good, he was shocked and anxious, and couldn't help but roll down tears. The servants in the house were already alarmed, lit the lantern, only illuminated the room as if it were daytime, and called Mrs. Xu and Jia Zhen and his wife over, Jia Qiang and Jia Rong The two young children were held by the nurse, and they probably felt something, and they were not noisy. On the stove these days, day and night, there is ginseng soup, there is ginseng soup has been sent, Jia Jing helped Jia Daihua to get up and sit on the pillow, and served ginseng soup, I don't want Jia Daihua to be clenched with teeth, can't feed it, only a pair of eyes seem to be looking for something, Jia Jing ordered someone to hold Jia Rong Jia Qiang to him, Jia Daihua only glanced at it, shook his head slightly, still looking at the door, Jia Jing's heart was sour, he just thought he was confused, so he coaxed: "Lang'er is weak, can't get out of bed, can't come to see your old man." Jia Daihua still shook his head, but he had no strength, half a sound, glanced at Jia Qiang again, looked at Jia Jing, Jia Jing knelt down and swore an oath: "Father rest assured, the son will treat Brother Qiang like Brother Rong, if there is half a lie, people and gods will be punished!" ”

As soon as he knelt, there was a room of people in the room, Jia Daihua was speechless, and only nodded slightly, the amplitude was so small that it was almost negligible. Mrs. Xu had already felt that this time was unavoidable, and had already secretly asked someone to prepare the clothes, so she hurriedly dressed, stopped, and after a while, Jia Daihua passed away as if asleep. The mother-in-law has already set up the bed and stopped, laid the bedding, and hurriedly stopped the bed at this time, so inside and outside the family, dressed in linen and filial piety, mourning together, two old aunts and mourning the death of the husband first, and mourning that they have no support in the future, especially grief, crying almost back, among them there is an Aunt Su, who was a girl in Jia Jing's mother's room in the early years, only kept shouting: "Then let me go with it, and I can serve the lord and wife there!" As he spoke, he slammed his head against the pillar, and his face was covered with blood, but fortunately the maids stopped him.

As soon as Jia Daihua went, the Jia family and the family all wore filial piety for it, Jia Yu got the letter, took Jia Hu and Jia Lian, Jia Zheng took Jia Zhu, and the rest of the female dependents were headed by the old Duchess of the country, and came over in a sedan chair, and cried bitterly on both sides. Jia Daihua has been ill for a long time, and everything behind him has been prepared, so although the affairs of Ningguo Mansion are busy and complicated, the tent is set up to sacrifice, the monk recites the confession, and ushers in the send-off, but it is in order, miscellaneous but not chaotic. The princesses and princesses who came and went to see it, all praised Mrs. for managing the family in a good way and having a demeanor. Jia Jing reported Ding Wei, the Ministry of Rites heard the heavens, the saint was benevolent, ordered the Ministry of Rites to be the chief priest, and personally gave the nickname, saying "Su Zhong". Up and down the government and the opposition, the four kings, the eight dukes, the six departments, you come and I come and go in the town, the sedan chair and horse deacon, and the street is almost impassable, which is even more huge than the funeral of Jia Daishan at the beginning.

Jia Daihua's eldest son died early, Jia Jing was the elder, and he fell on him by throwing pots and burning paper, crying with a cane, and answering guests. Because he had nothing to do to recuperate, he remembered the studies of the children in his family, and often recruited Jia Zhen to ask about poetry and books, Jia Zhen didn't like to read, and in front of Jia Jing, even the economy that filled his stomach was also turned into a stammer, where could he get into Jia Jing's eyes? So it was inevitable to attract scolding, which only made Jia Zhen miserable, so he couldn't help but play some tricks.

On this day, Jia Jing went to the garden to relax, and suddenly rose, thinking: "Recently, I heard people say that Zhen'er knows how to be motivated, and she reads books overnight, so when I ask him, I occasionally have one or two good sentences, and they are eye-catching, but I don't know how it is on weekdays, what kind of way to make progress, and I will quietly go to see him." He ordered the subordinates who followed him not to make a noise, and took a small path to Jia Zhen's small courtyard - since Jia Daihua died, Mrs. Xu knew her son's personality very well, and was worried that he would be young and vigorous, and what would he do ugly, so she temporarily cleaned up a small courtyard for him in the outer courtyard and moved in. Jia Jing looked at it from a distance outside the courtyard, there seemed to be no one in the courtyard, only a small servant was left to guard, but it was a first-class servant surnamed Gan Minghan next to Jia Zhen, standing in the shade of the wall and dozing, and his heart first became suspicious, and said in his heart: "Isn't that bastard taking advantage of the time and sneaking out?" If he dares to be so unfilial, I will kill this son of a crime, and it is better to make him embarrassed in front of others! I was angry in my heart, so I was anxious to find out, I didn't want the little guy to be half asleep, and when I looked up, I saw Jia Jing, and I was immediately frightened, and I turned around and was about to run to the courtyard gate, Jia Jing shouted: "Bastard thing, stop!" As soon as he drank, the little guy knelt down softly, only kowtowing desperately. Jia Jing then forced him to ask: "What did that bastard do to make you guard here?" Gan Han's face was pale, and he couldn't say a word, so he squeezed out a sentence after a while: "Uncle is asleep, and he ordered me to guard here." Jia Jing sneered: "It's a good sleep!" He's at ease, but I'm afraid I won't have to sleep in the future! Then he raised his foot, kicked Gan Han to the ground, and ordered the two people who followed: "You gag this slave and drag him over there to wait." Regardless of Gan Han's desperate kowtow, he went straight into the yard, and sure enough, there was no one around, the little guy hired people, there was no one, the door of the house was empty, Jia Jing was about to reach out to push, and suddenly heard Jia Zhen's voice faintly coming from inside.

Jia Jing's face changed from five points of displeasure to twelve points of unsightly in an instant