Chapter 16.39 Visitors
Shi Xiangyun is also forgotten. He was originally a very good person at tossing, and he tossed his husband's future and offended his in-laws' family before he came to his senses. It's just that by that time it was too late. His husband was almost a wreck.
Fortunately, his husband is a transparent person, and the two of them have children, Shi Xiangyun's dowry is not much in the Jia family, but it is a lot in the countryside. Shi Xiangyun put his little idea on the right path, and his husband watched, the husband and wife, but they lived their lives so bummerally.
On the contrary, the problem on Xue Baochai's side is bigger.
Liu Xianglian had overplayed, so she wanted to find a famous lady to marry, so that he could use the power of the Yue family to return to his original aristocratic circle.
Here's the problem, Liu Xianglian's mentality is very optimistic, thinking that if she marries a wife, she will definitely be able to return to his original circle and restore his original social status. But the fact is that in addition to fools like Xue Pan, there was also the Xue family, which was in desperate need of a life-saving straw to pull them out of the quagmire of the Jia family, and no one really regarded Liu Xianglian as a thing.
After Liu Xianglian and Xue Baochai got married, after the sweetness of the newlywed first faded, the problem came: Liu Xianglian found that he was still not accepted by his former circle.
Liu Xianglian couldn't help but find the reason.
As a result, Liu Xianglian was naturally disappointed. Before Liu Xianglian and Xue Baochai got married, they did hesitate because Wang Ziteng was suspected of conspiracy. No, Wang Ziteng specially went to talk to him and told him the whole story. Therefore. Liu Xianglian was convinced that Wang Ziteng was ordered to embezzle and accumulate wealth.
Liu Xianglian also believes that Wang Ziteng will recover one day.
But ten years have passed. Wang Ziteng not only did not recover, but even wanted to keep the Xue family. It also takes a lot of effort on his part! Back then, Wang Ziteng was an old man who was nearly sixty years old. The current Wang Ziteng is even more of a bad old man.
Only then did Liu Xianglian turn around and examine the various interpersonal relationships around her wife.
The Wang family has fallen and not to mention, but the Jia family has been completely separated. On Jia Yu's side, even Liu Xianglian herself knew that he couldn't catch up with this upstart in the DPRK at all; Jia Yuanchun, the wife of King Jia Zheng, has passed away. And he died in disrepute, and even Jia Baoyu had to rely on a little incense to protect himself and his wife and children, not to mention others.
As for his wife's original best friend, Shi Xiangyun, needless to say. The Shi family has been completely defeated, and Shi Xiangyun himself is a toss, even if it is Liu Xianglian himself, he will not pin his hopes on this kind of person - the first one. It's the county lord of Jia. It's a pity. According to the news obtained from all sides, this county lord of Jia County was really once cheated by his wife for tens of millions of taels of silver.
Liu Xianglian is not an outsider, after carefully analyzing the grievances, he was stunned to find that his wife had abandoned the county lord Jia who had been helping him and chose the mother of the Fengzao Palace Shangshu, and when the mother of the noble concubine fell into the dust, his wife abandoned the former ally again and chose to marry this way. Cut each other off.
Since then, Liu Xianglian has known one thing. That is, his wife may be a good wife and mother on the surface, but his heart is very cold, whether it is a relative or a benefactor, before interests, it is nothing at all.
Because of such thoughts, Liu Xianglian inevitably looked at this wife who gave birth to children for herself with strange eyes. But this time, Liu Xianglian will no longer believe in his wife unconditionally, on the contrary, every word Xue Baochai says, he will put it in his heart, and figure it out once, twice, three times, or even countless times.
Xue Baochai is such a delicate character, Liu Xianglian is suspicious of him, how can Xue Baochai not feel it?
In fact, Xue Baochai himself was not very satisfied with this marriage.
Xue Baochai is a high-minded and arrogant person, and he is also a person with great ambitions. He entered Beijing to enter the palace at the beginning, but later his hope of entering the palace was dashed, and he stayed in Jia's house in order to find a family affair so that he could change his identity and change from a merchant girl to a nobleman. If it weren't for the situation at the time, if it weren't for Mrs. Wang's aggressiveness, if it weren't for the Xue family being hollowed out, if it weren't for Xue Baochai discovering the signs that Mrs. Wang was about to fall, Xue Baochai would not have made a decision immediately, and chose to move out of Daguanyuan and out of Mrs. Jia Zhengwang's house, and would not have chosen to marry Liu Xianglian in the shortest possible time.
Liu Xianglian has been playing for many years, and even relies on the reward money earned from the drama to make a living, not only the former Xue Pan regarded him as a first-class character in the play, but even his good brothers in the past are still affectionate in their mouths, but they still despise him very much behind their backs.
When Liu Xianglian was still very optimistic, thinking that sooner or later she would return to the circle in the past, Xue Baochai had already discovered that something was wrong.
But at that time, Xue Baochai had no choice. If he doesn't get married as soon as possible, maybe he won't have the opportunity to marry in an upright manner, and their Xue family will also be swallowed up by Mrs. Wang.
Therefore, Xue Baochai got married.
At the beginning, Xue Baochai was still quite optimistic, thinking that with the relationship between Liu Xianglian and Liu Fang, the current first-class son of the Xiuguo Mansion, they were cousins, and they could more or less get a little care from the Xiuguo Mansion. But he never expected that Liu Xianglian was to Liu Fang, and Jia Baoyu was to Jia Lian, no, it was worse than that.
Because I don't know when it started, Liu Xianglian has already been regarded as a stain by the people of the Xiuguo Mansion. The Xiuguo Mansion was even ashamed to associate with them.
If Liu Xianglian takes the right path, or goes to the imperial examination, succeeds in the Jinshi and Ming arithmetic courses, or goes to the border to earn her life by taking the martial arts, then Xue Baochai will be a little less dissatisfied in her heart. It's a pity that Liu Xianglian wanted to rely on relationships, but she ran into walls everywhere.
There are two of them, one dislikes the other party's mother's failure, and now she is a businesswoman, and she also dictates his affairs and manages men from head to toe; One feels that the other party is not motivated and can't listen to persuasion, and the phoenix crown in the dream is even more distant.
Both of them are stubborn, and one is impulsive and brainless. A person who likes to preach and rarely listens to the persuasion of others, this knot has never been untied. As time dragged on for more and longer. The rift between the husband and wife is also getting bigger and bigger, and now, even Lin Daiyu, who didn't have much contact with Xue Baochai when she moved out of Jia's house, knows that there is a problem between their husband and wife.
Lin Daiyu sighed and said, "Although Sister Bao is amiable on her face, her person is very proud, and she is also in front of her sister. In front of others, how can you be too soft? ”
The Jia family remembered the old things, and couldn't help but say, "Yes." He's just so strong. Even Baoyu has eaten his top row. ”
Lin Daiyu listened. also smiled and said, "When I first heard about Bao's second sister-in-law, I was still worried about my sister. When the second sister-in-law was in the boudoir, she had a bad temper. I thought that Bao's second brother married him. Life will be bumpy. Who would have thought that the second brother and sister-in-law of Bao would live a more and more smooth life noisily. On the contrary, she is a proper sister Bao, but his days are getting more and more things. ”
Jia Jiu sighed and said, "Most men are like this, they don't like wives who are too smart and too strong. Since ancient times, I don't know how many women have dared to challenge the constraints on women in this world in order to please their husbands. Just distort your nature, put on a mask, and disguise yourself as a completely different person. So much so that in the end, I forgot what I really was......"
"Second sister ......" Lin Daiyu never expected Jia Jiu to say such a thing, she couldn't help but be stunned, and then sighed: "Second sister is still like this......"
Jia Jiu said: "It's okay to call me cowardly, or it's okay to call me crazy." At least I still know that in my bones, there is still a trace of unruliness that has never been worn away. As for Sister Bao, for many years, I have been treating him as another self, myself in the mirror. It's just that when it came time to leave home, I realized that I was different from Sister Bao. ”
Lin Daiyu said with a smile: "The second sister and Sister Bao are naturally different. The second sister is much more arrogant than Sister Bao, and she has a lot of limits. ”
Jia Jiu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.
Yes, for many years, Jia Jiu thought that he and Xue Baochai were the same kind of people, full of ambition and desire. Jia Jiu even regarded Xue Baochai as another self. However, Jia Jiu also knew that if he changed his position in Xue Baochai, he would never pin his hopes on others, thinking that marrying a wishful husband would be able to change his fate and make himself happy. How is this possible?
If Jia Jiu was that kind of person, Jia Jiu would have entered the palace as an imperial concubine a long time ago, and where would she become an old girl? Where will you go to Yuqing Mountain?
Even if he doesn't have a golden finger, Jia Jiu won't ask for things that don't belong to him, let alone calculate others for his own **.
This is the pride that belongs to Jia Jiu.
The two of them were talking, and suddenly heard someone outside: "Bengong thought that he was the fastest, but he didn't want someone to force Bengong to come faster." ”
Jia Jiu and Lin Daiyu hurriedly stood up, turned their faces and looked, who was not Princess Changle?
The two hurriedly greeted Princess Changle, and after the ceremony, they heard Lin Daiyu say: "Her Royal Highness the princess is well-informed, I think I have heard about it, and I have also passed the assessment of the Daomen." ”
Princess Changle said: "Yes, I heard." Hongu is jealous to death. You've only been cultivating for a long time, and you've gone up to Yuqing Mountain in a dignified manner. Poor Bengong grinding the national teacher I don't know how long, the national teacher was unmoved, let alone teaching exercises. ”
Jia Jiu said: "Changle, why did you come?" ”
"Not welcome?"
"Of course you're welcome, but there was a bit of a surprise."
Princess Changle said, "Okay, tease you." I'm now going to the Three Treasures Hall without doing anything. Last year, Henan Province was flooded, and this year it caught up with a major drought, and there was no harvest for two consecutive years. Even if the father has done his best, the family of the imperial court last year has been cleaned up, and he can't take out the money. So, my father asked me to come to you to think of a way. ”
Jia Jiuqi said: "But, didn't I hand over all those Zhuangzi to you?" Can't these Zhuangzi transfer money? ”
Princess Changle sneered and said, "It's also a shame that this is Yuqing Mountain, and there are only three of us in this courtyard." If there was one more person, I wouldn't have said it. In the past two years, my imperial grandfather has become more and more confused. For his own sake, he forced my two good aunts to take out the Zhuangzi in their hands. If you take it out and manage it well, it's nothing. The people he arranged were all moths! Those Zhuangzi have long been almost destroyed. ”
"What!"
Princess Changle said: "Not only those Zhuangzi, but even those salt and fertilizer Zhuangzi are the same, and they have also dragged down several nearby villages. ”
"How did the Emperor ......?"
"The imperial grandfather is no longer the wise and martial imperial grandfather at the beginning. For the sake of power, he will do anything. Princess Changle said angrily, and she didn't even care about the rule that the Emperor Taishang was his elder, and he couldn't speak ill of the Emperor: "There are people in the court who flatter the emperor's grandfather in order to make money for themselves." Today's government ,...... I don't even have the face to say it. It's just that the matter of the victims of this disaster can't be put aside, so I specially came to ask you, but is there any way to do it? ”
Jia Jiu said: "But at the beginning, whether it was the Zhuangzi in the north or the inevitable salt and fertilizer Zhuangzi, it was all for the Daomen and the imperial court to supervise each other......"
Princess Changle said: "That was in the past. I don't know what kind of madness the imperial grandfather had. After he got the Zhuangzi from the hands of his two aunts, he squeezed out all the people of the Daomen. It's strange to say, Daomen didn't say a word, and he really let go. That's a gold mine with three or four tea taxes a year! ”
Jia Jiu said: "Your Royal Highness Princess, I think I know the reason. ”
"What the reason." In an excited mood, Princess Changle didn't even notice the change in Jia Jiu's title. And this detail fell into Lin Daiyu's heart.
Jia Jiu replied: "This time, you should have heard about the docking of the big ship of Daomen?" ”
Princess Changle nodded again and again, and said, "No, it's bigger than a treasure ship!" I don't know where Daomen found such good wood and made such a big keel. ”
Jia Jiu replied: "It's not wood, it's steel." ”
"What?"
Princess Changle is really stupid this time.
Jia Jiu replied: "The princess heard it right, it is steel. I was the designer of these ships, although the wood used on the outside and the keel and main components were specially cast steel. The carrying capacity of these ships is quite good, but the speed is much faster than that of the treasure ships, and the influence of the monsoon on the sails is not considered. In other words, this kind of ship can go to sea at any time without picking the season. ”
Princess Changle didn't react for a long time, but just said stupidly: "Then what?" ”
"Relying on these ships, Daomen found many islands overseas and brought a lot of grain." (To be continued.) )