It's Jia Baoyu who is reluctant in every way, but he can't say it beautifully: "Second brother, since the division of the family, we have been living in the old lady's place, and we have never asked my father to say goodbye." As children, are we too unfilial? Since the eldest brother is gone, my father doesn't know how lonely he is, and he can only pull his aunt's cousin to relieve his boredom and chat for comfort, and often stares in the direction of our house. The thought of my father looking into our house and never seeing us makes me feel uncomfortable. ”

Jia Baoyu is a bastard, in front of Jia's mother, he still knows what filial piety is, especially with the example of Jia Yu - Jia Yu is the one who presents the Rongxi Hall and the ancestral foundation that represent his status to Jia's mother with both hands - with Jia Yu in front of this example, Jia Baoyu is reluctant, and he doesn't dare to say to Tanchun, I won't go.

Slowly, reluctantly, he was dragged by Tanchun to the small courtyard where Jia Zheng now lives. The dispute between the two brothers and sisters in the back garden had long been heard by the girls below, and now that they saw the two brothers and sisters coming, they hurried in to report it.

Jia Zheng's courtyard is said to be three entrances, on the surface, it is only two less than the five-entry house where Jia Yu's family lives now, but in fact, it is two large courtyards less than Jia Yu's side. This courtyard is in the northwest corner of the Shogun's Palace, so the door is not open in the middle, but on the east side. This courtyard was originally for Zhou Rui's family to live in, even if Zhou Rui's family is decent, they are just slaves of the Jia family, and they go in and out on weekdays, and they also rely on a pair of feet to flatter Mrs. Wang, so there is no sedan room and stable in this courtyard, only a small night watchman's single room. Next to this night watch room is the gate. The gate is facing a photo wall, because it is for the servant Zhou Rui's family. Therefore, there is no unicorn or other decoration on the wall, and some are just a simple osmanthus flower. It's not as good as the courtyard where Li Kun lives now, and there is a full moon on the wall, which represents a good omen for the Toad Palace.

Turn left in front of the wall, and you will see a bluestone path, and on the right hand of the two brothers and sisters, there is a hanging flower door, and the door is the residence of the female dependents. Jia Yuanchun also lived here to take care of his father's housework before, but now Jia Yuanchun is locked up elsewhere, and there are only Jia Zheng's concubines and Jia Zheng's youngest son Jia Huan. As for Jia Zheng himself. He was in the study during the day, that is, Jia Baoyu and Tanchun brothers and sisters can see now, located on the left side of the bluestone road, the row of upside-down hugging houses.

This is not Jia Yu's yard, or in order to save private money, Jia Yu still spends a little bit of money on the decoration of the yard, so the flowers and trees in Jia Yu's yard can be seen everywhere, even the banana trees that can rarely be seen in the north. But the courtyard on Jia Zheng's side is empty, and Jia Zheng doesn't care about these, no. It should be said that he once thought about getting a little decoration, but when he heard that the food, drink and flowers of their family were still from Jia's mother, he couldn't open his mouth.

Speaking of which, Jia Zheng is still quite miserable. As Jia Yu's younger brother and the second master of Rongguo Mansion, he also has a lot of private collections. They were all stored in his outer study, that is, the large courtyard southwest of Rongxi Hall. However, when the family was separated, the relevant officials in charge of the matter insisted. Those books should be the public property of Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Zheng is not good at arguing with people, and Mrs. Wang, who is not good at arguing with others, is in prison. In the end, Jia Zheng didn't get it back.

Now Jia Zheng's study is empty, except for a large bookcase. There are a few newly bought books on the desk of the bookcase, and it can be said that it does not look like the study of a serious official at all. It's not that there is no such furniture as bookshelves in the property that Jia Zheng has assigned, but there are bookshelves but no books, so I am afraid that it will be more embarrassing, and Jia Zheng will be embarrassed to put the bookshelves up.

Therefore, the original three connected hugging houses looked empty, and Jia Zheng had to ask someone to find a large screen made of bamboo and rattan, blocking the two rooms behind, leaving only one for daily calling. Bamboo and rattan furniture, unless people who particularly pursue elegance, or the workmanship and materials are very special, are only used by those who are poor. Jia Zheng has fallen to such a point, and it cannot but be said that he has committed his own crimes.

The same goes for books. Originally, if someone like Jia Zheng instructed Xue Pan, he only needed to send a book that he had used, and then let Xue Pan go back and copy it by himself. But for Jia Zheng today, even books worth only a few taels of silver are very precious, and of course he can't give his books to Xue Pan.

This also put Xue Pan in dire straits. Because Jia Zheng directly asked Xue Pan to copy books in front of him, even if Xue Pan later knew that Jia Zheng sent a lot of money and a lot of new books because he was shy and couldn't afford to buy books, Jia Zheng still did not change his education method.

What Jia Baoyu and Tanchun brothers and sisters saw was that Xue Pan was lying on the desk, writing something stroke by stroke, while Jia Zheng was sitting under the window, shaking his head with Xue Pan's filial piety book.

Just when Jia Baoyu and Tanchun were probing their brains into Jia Zheng's study, Jia Zheng also noticed the two brothers and sisters. As for why, of course, it is because Jia Zheng did not concentrate on studying.

Jia Zheng is thinking about his life. It can be said that at a young age, he was carefree. As the eldest son who wants to inherit the family business, Jia Yu has been learning all kinds of knowledge from his grandfather since he was a child, but Jia Zheng, as the youngest son, can snuggle up to his parents and enjoy the doting of his parents who can't get his brother.

Yes, it's doting. When he was a child, Jia Zheng used to be proud, and even believed that he didn't believe in his brother for his mother, so that he succeeded in framing his brother several times. Jia Zheng once thought that it was because his mother loved him more, that is, after his father knew the truth of the matter, he just sighed but didn't say anything, and when he grew up, Jia Zheng knew that it was pity for himself, because his brother was destined to inherit this family business, and he could only take a little floating wealth in the end, and become another side branch master of the Jia family, just like the elders of Jia Daixiu and Jia Dairu in the clan.

But he realized that it was too late. When his grandfather died, his brother Jia Yu and his father got a large amount of property, and he was ignorant, and it was not until his grandmother passed away that he really understood the difference between himself and his brother. But what really hit him was the death of his father Jia Daishan.

When his father died, he not only gave his ancestral business to his brother, but also rushed most of his private house into his ancestral business and gave it to his brother, and what he finally got was the same as that eldest nephew.

Even if there is compensation for his official position, Jia Zheng still feels aggrieved. The main book of the Ministry of Industry, what kind of sesame official is this? What can be bought for a few thousand taels of silver?

From that time on, Jia Zheng began to indulge himself. His only consolation was that he still had a mother, and his heart was devoted to his mother. Gradually, Jia Zheng no longer expressed his dissatisfaction with his brother in front of people, and there were many more people around him who flattered him.

Look at it, father, this is the brother you want to pick up regardless of everything, and he is just a waste who can only drink and play with women! I will do better and better than him! I'm going to show you who your proud son is!

Ironically, even when Jia Zheng was proud that he thought that he could press his brother from now on, the evaluation of him from outside also came down, and soon he was promoted to a member of the Ministry of Works, and then sat on the cold bench. Jia Zheng actually knew the real reason why he had not been promoted for many years, but he didn't dare to admit it, not only did he not dare to admit it, but he stubbornly pouted in front of his mother, just to continue to hold the post of Rongguofu. But he just stiffened his mouth in front of his mother and held the post of Rongguofu, and the more people outside looked down on him, the more people outside looked down on him, the more they felt that there was something wrong with his character, the more they felt that his character was problematic, the more unwilling they were to see Jia Zheng wandering around in front of him, and the reluctance of others to see Jia Zheng also made Jia Zheng's promotion more and more difficult and even impossible.

Jia Zheng died by himself, and finally buried his future. No, not only his own future, but also his own reputation, the reputation of his eldest son Jia Zhu, was also ruined.

But these are all things in the past, and last year, Jia Zheng was still living a drunken life, dreaming of death, turning a blind eye to these things, even if he knew very well in his heart that as soon as he was flattered by those Qingke, that little bit of discord was quickly left behind. But this year is a series of blows, first the fig leaf on his head was lifted, the family was separated, the sect was divided, he was pushed behind here, and he was really swept away for a while. But the worse is yet to come, he doesn't have enough money in his hand, and the clearers can't afford to support it. Without the flattery that surrounds him all the time, Jia Zheng just wants to act as if he can't do it without hearing the voice pointing at him behind his back.

In other words, if it weren't for Xue Pan's living treasure, I'm afraid he would have fallen long ago.

Jia Zheng was actually very happy to have Xue Pan dangling in front of him, especially Xue Pan couldn't sit still, in order to watch this kid, Jia Zheng had a lot less time to think nonsense.

Xue Pan, at the beginning, he was really not suitable for the days of copying books, but Jia Zheng was not the former gentleman who was invited by the Xue family and was driven away by him, but a serious official of the imperial court who even his father had to treat respectfully.

PS: Something happened at home recently, and the update is a bit hard to keep up, sorry. (To be continued......)