While Lu Jing and Jia Lan were talking, Zijuan came over to spread the word, saying that Grandma Zhu heard that the master had returned home and wanted to meet the master, and the aunt asked the master to come and see him.

Lu Jing thought about it and took Jia Lan to the upper room of the West Cross Courtyard, and saw that Daiyu, Zhiyu, Li Wen, and Li Qi were all in the room, among them was a woman in her twenties, with a beautiful appearance and a hairpin skirt, with a lot of sorrow, knowing that this person was Li Kun, so he smiled and said: "Presumably this is Sister Li!" ”

Li Kun glanced at Lu Jing roughly, got up and bowed, and said with a smile: "Exactly, I've seen Brother Jing!" ”

Lu Jing hurriedly returned the salute, and after the two saw the salute, they each sat down.

Daiyu smiled: "We were talking about you, but it happened that you came back!" ”

"What do you say about me?" Lu Jing asked with a smile.

Li Kun continued: "Brother Jing is well-educated, outstanding, and kind to others, and Sister Lin is a match made in heaven. ”

Lu Jing glanced at Daiyu, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "It's my blessing to be able to marry Yu'er!" ”

Daiyu's beautiful eyes looked at each other and smiled sweetly in response, and then changed the subject: "Sister Fang Cai said that my grandmother recognized a granddaughter again!" ”

Li Kun saw that the two of them were in love with each other, and his heart was a little gloomy, and when he heard Daiyu's inquiry, he hurriedly hid his envy, and said with a smile: "Yes, the old lady likes it when she sees Miss Qin, and she not only recognizes her granddaughter but also takes her with her to raise her personally." ”

Li Wen and Li Qi both smiled and said: "I don't want Miss Xue to have this situation, it can be seen that I have a lot of fate with the old lady." ”

Lu Jing noticed the gloom in Li Kun's eyes for a moment, and secretly sighed in his heart Li Kun's encounter, since the rise of Cheng Zhu Lixue in the Song Dynasty, put forward the view that 'starvation to death is small, and loss of festival is big', Ye Confucianism has continued to advocate the wind of martyrdom, and to this day it has been regarded as a noble act to be martyrdom for husband or youth festival.

Jie Naifu will never marry again after the funeral, Lie is a woman who decides to kill herself after being humiliated, or resolutely commits suicide after her husband's funeral, the sooner the widowed woman's festival is kept, the poorer and more bitter the better, and the more Lie dies, the more bitter and decisive, the better, although Li Kun's current situation is forced by the Jia family, but in the final analysis, it is the sadness of the times.

After chatting a few words, Li Kun turned the topic to Jia Lan and said: "The master means to let Lan'er take the exam next year, I know that Brother Jing is good at learning and is the top student in the new department, and I want to ask Brother Jing to guide Lan'er in her homework?" After speaking, he looked at Lu Jing a little nervously, expecting Lu Jing to agree in the face of his relatives.

Lu Jing thought that Li Kun's coming here today was for this purpose, and now he was taking advantage of the situation to raise this matter in public, and secretly said that Li Kun was also a shrewd person, only fighting for interests, not fighting for will, and being shrewd in his bones.

Then he smiled: "I have already taken the test to teach Lan'er, and it is not a big problem for Lan'er to pass the county and government examinations with her current knowledge, if you want to pass the hospital examination, you need to polish it for a few more years, but with Lan'er's talent, even if you take the Jinshi exam in the future, it will not be a problem." ”

Li Kun's face showed joy when he heard this, since Lu Jing asserted so, there should be no problem for his son to be admitted to Tongsheng.

After hearing this, Jia Lan was also excited and eager to try, wanting to prove himself.

Lu Jing glanced at the expressions of the two, and changed his words: "There are no outsiders here, I will say some things directly, if Sister Li believes me, it may be better to let Lan'er take the test a few years later!" ”

Hearing this, Mo said that it was Jia Lan and Li Kun, but even Aunt Li and Daiyu looked at Lu Jing in puzzlement.

Li Kun was extremely surprised in his heart and hurriedly asked, "Brother Jing, what do you mean by this?" ”

Lu Jing shook his head and didn't explain, but just wrote a poem: "The wind and snow send dusk, and the withered grass and dead poplars want to break their souls." Peach and plum and hidden fragrance Feizhi, after the severe cold began to spring. ”

After finishing speaking, he said solemnly to Jia Lan: "If you want to go to the cloud road for 90,000 miles, you must suffer from the snow window fireflies for 20 years, keep the cold window warm, and grind through the iron inkstone. ”

Li Kun was still puzzled after hearing this, and was about to ask again, but Jia Lan hurriedly got up and bowed with a firm expression: "My nephew obeys my uncle's orders. Although I don't know why Uncle Shi arranged it this way, out of reverence, I agreed without hesitation.

Lu Jing smiled, looking at Jia Lan's eyes full of approval, with the current situation, if Jia Lan performed too well, not only would the situation in the Jia family be more difficult, but it would also attract the attention of Emperor Yuan Yong.

The reason why Emperor Yuanyong chose Jia Yuanchun as his concubine was because there were no outstanding people in the Jia family, and if one suddenly appeared, it would inevitably be suppressed and even persecuted by the emperor.

Seeing this, Li Kun had no choice but to give up, and secretly thought to himself in his heart, Brother Jing said this in front of his aunt, and it would definitely not harm Lan'er, but why he suggested it like this, Bai Si still couldn't understand.

A few people talked about family affairs for a while, Li Kun pretended to have something in his heart and asked to leave, Aunt Li, Daiyu and others couldn't keep it, so they arranged for a carriage and horse to send Li Kun's mother and son back.

Li Kun frowned and pondered since he left the Lu family, his expression was extremely melancholy along the way, although he saw Lu Jing this time, but the result was beyond his expectations, he wanted his son to gain fame and improve his status in the mansion, but now it seems that he can only take a break from this thought.

Jia Lan saw that her mother frowned, her eyebrows were full of sorrow, and she hurriedly persuaded: "Mother doesn't have to worry, my son believes that my uncle will not harm me, and my uncle's move must have a deep meaning, but we can't understand it for a while." ”

Li Kun nodded, he judged the same way, but he just couldn't figure out the reason, thinking that his son would have to suffer in the house, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's just that you're suffering!" ”

Jia Lan hurriedly shook his head and said: "The son is not bitter, the mother is much more bitter than the son!" ”

Li Kun resisted the urge to cry when he heard this, and hurriedly turned his head and pretended to tidy up his clothes.

Jia Lan noticed this verse, clenched his fists tightly, and thought of the poem written by Lu Jing again, and frowned: "Uncle's poem seems to remind us of something. ”

Li Kun was taken aback when he heard this, he was anxious to ignore the poem at that time, but now that he tasted it carefully, Brother Jing seemed to imply that someone wanted to be unfavorable to the house, so that he and Lan'er could temporarily forbear.

Jia Lan remembered something again, and said busily: "I remember when my grandfather asked me to take the exam next year, Mr. Qi wanted to stop talking, and later suggested that my grandfather should resign from his errand of studying politics. At this point, his brow furrowed.

The more Li Kun thought about it after hearing this, the more frightened he became, at that time he only thought that it was the emperor's favor and concubine who specially added grace, but now that he thinks about it, it doesn't seem to be the case, and he hurriedly explained: "Don't tell anyone about today's events, let's not think nonsense, just listen to your uncle's arrangement, and when we have the opportunity, we will ask again." ”

Jia Lan forcibly concealed some uneasiness in his heart, and nodded with a stern expression.

Not long after the two returned home, Li Kun heard from a few mothers-in-law that the eldest lord wanted to ask for mandarin ducks to be his little wife, and sighed in his heart that the eldest lord acted so absurdly, but he only discussed a few words, so he pretended not to hear about it, thinking that he would go to Lu's house one day to ask about his son.

After Lu Jing waited for Li Kun's mother and son to leave, he invited Lu Zheng to ask about what had happened to the Jia family recently.

Lu Zheng reported Jia's mother for Wang Xifeng's birthday, Jia Baoyu went out of the house to make private sacrifices and other things one by one.

Lu Jing frowned and said, "Sister Feng didn't have a big fight with Jia Lian?" ”

Lu Zheng thought for a while and shook his head and said, "No." ”

Lu Jing was a little puzzled, but he missed the plot of Jia Lian molesting Bao's second daughter-in-law and Wang Xifeng pouring vinegar, so he asked about Jia Lian in detail.

Lu Zheng hurriedly told Jia Lian about it, and said emphatically: "Jia Jialian's second master has raised an outer room in Peach Blossom Lane for more than half a month, and he goes there almost every day. ”

"Does anyone know about this?" Lu Jing asked.

Lu Zheng replied: "The others don't know, but the Xue Pan of the Xue family knows this very well, and the money for Jia Jialian's second master's outer room was obtained from him, and even the house was purchased by him." ”

Lu Jing thought about it for a while and figured out the cause and effect of this matter, Jia Lian helped Xue Pan a lot in the matter of the imperial businessman, presumably Xue Pan also had a lot of thank-you gifts, no wonder Jia Lian is no longer messing with the Bao Er family, it turns out that he is rich, but once Wang Xifeng knows about it, I am afraid it will make a bigger fuss.

Thinking that if Wang Ziteng made a move, there would be movement on the Jia family and Jia Yu Village, so he told Lu Zheng to pay more attention to the affairs of the Jia family and Jia Yu Village during this time.