When Jia Zheng arrived at home, he first asked someone to go to Rongfu to see if Jia Lian was there.

Listening to the words of the king of Leshan County before, he finally asked him to have the heart to go there and mention it.

After sending this matter away, Jia Zheng changed his clothes and came to talk to Mrs. Wang's house first.

「…… The homeless people in the suburbs of Beijing are gathering day by day, most of them have no food and clothing, and their flesh and blood are scattered, which makes people worthy of pity."

Jia Zheng said as he sat on the kang with the help of Mrs. Wang.

After the sigh was finished, Jia Zheng spoke again: "At the moment, my family is quite prosperous, so I don't have to worry about money and food for the time being, why don't I send a message to Shuntian Mansion and donate some backlog of food out, what does Madam think?"

The cost of moving out of Rongfu is not small, and now I still owe money over there, and I donate money and food at this time, but I am not a person who can run a family.

Mrs. Wang hesitated for a while, and then bowed her head slightly.

"This is also a good thing to accumulate virtue...... Since the master has this heart, the family will be strapped for a few months."

As soon as the old man Jia Zheng came back, he opened this mouth, and Mrs. Wang was not easy to refuse, if it was at the beginning, there was still an old lady to serve, but she could use an excuse to save this silver.

Jia Zheng knew that since Mrs. Wang said this, she must have been thoughtful and satisfied.

"I heard that Baoyu is scattered, why don't you see it?"

Jia Zheng came to inquire separately.

Mrs. Wang replied, "This month, he did receive the pre-noon shift, and he came back from the palace at noon, and now the master came back early, so he didn't come for a while."

Saying that, Mrs. Wang sent someone to go out and quickly called Jia Baoyu to come over.

Jia Zheng said: "It's not that I have the heart to ask him to come to worship, it's just that the king of Leshan County came to me to discuss his marriage and wanted to marry the third girl to be the daughter-in-law of the house. But Baoyu is already so old, but he has never had a family, and when the people from the Leshan Mansion come to see him in the future, who knows what it is?"

When Mrs. Wang heard that she was going to marry Prince Leshan, she couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Although Tanchun was not born by her, she raised it, and she has been close since she was a child. In addition, the eventful Aunt Zhao is still relegated to Jinling, they are a pair of serious mother and daughter, how can they not like it?

only heard the words of reproach Baoyu later, Mrs. Wang pressed the joy and sighed: "Sir, you are not ignorant, when the old lady was alive, although she always loved her grandchildren's brothers and sisters, but the most inseparable was our Baoyu. Now that the old lady is too old, Baoyu said that she will keep filial piety for three years and not get married, and the law of human ethics and etiquette is here, so it is not easy to say that it is a wrong thing."

Jia Zheng shook his head and said angrily: "Relying on that slight wisdom and aura, do bastard things that are wise enough to refuse advice!" It's all the past that you spoiled him! The words in his mouth are good, but he is doing his filial piety for me? It's just that I still have the heart of coveting the girl of the Lin family to find out this truth, and I don't know?"

Mrs. Wang had to reluctantly persuade for a while.

Suddenly, someone came and said, "Baoyu is here!"

Mrs. Wang told to bring them into the house.

Baoyu entered the house, and when he arrived in the inner hall, he greeted Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang in a proper manner, and then condoled: "The master is tired of hard work."

"Humph!"

Jia Zheng snorted coldly and said, "Where are you from?"

Jia Baoyu said truthfully: "In the garden, talk to the third sister."

Jia Zhengdao: "Although you have become a leader, I also often say that reading can be wise, self-cultivation, and self-cultivation, and the most important thing is that you can't delay it for a day. You've been home for a long time, just to tell your sister a joke?"

Mrs. Wang hurriedly took Baoyu's hand beside her and helped to explain: "Baoyu never slept after eating, and practiced calligraphy in the room for a long time, and his sister came to find it, and only rested for half an hour."

Jia Zheng said, "How could the third girl disturb him to work hard? It can be seen that this beast has been distracted and has learned some delicate mischievousness, and he has brought his sister badly!"

Jia Zheng said while patting the small square table on the kang, and the dried fruits on it shook off and sprinkled on the kang.

Baoyu shrank her head, shushed like a cicada, and reluctantly replied: "It was because the sisters in the family moved out of the Daguan Garden that it was deserted, so they went to say a few more words, and I heard that the Rongfu Daguan Garden was going to be demolished.

Because of the great matter, I stayed for a while, and I didn't know for a while that the master had also returned home."

"The Grand View Garden is going to be demolished?"

Jia Zheng couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it, and only after a long time did he shake his head, he was not interested in speaking, and asked Baoyu to go down first.

Daguanyuan was originally Yuanchun's provincial villa, but now Yuanchun is buried in Jinling's hometown, this provincial villa is disqualified, and sooner or later it will be demolished.

……

Baoyu was able to escape, and couldn't help but sigh for a while.

Now that the eldest sister-in-law and the third girl have moved out of Rongfu, Sister Lin has gone to Gusu, and the second sister is preparing to get married, and there is really no one in the Grand View Garden.

A good paradise-like garden is scattered, how not to make people sad.

Jia Baoyu still came to the garden, and Tanchun saw his sad look, and when he asked the reason, he smiled.

"I also have the heart to lament the Grand View Garden, I think the master didn't talk much this time. In my opinion, there is a feast in the world, the sisters are older, of course, each has a place to go, I have always bothered for the Grand View Garden, and I can still see it. Let's just say that right now, it is a blessing for the male to marry and the female to marry, with the second brother Lian presiding, and the second sister marrying someone who knows the roots."

Seeing that Tanchun said this, Baoyu had no choice but to bow her head, and prayed to herself for a while, hoping that the second sister's man was a good family.

Tanchun saw such behavior, and he couldn't help but be happy for a while.

Suddenly, the waiter came from outside and said anxiously, "Mingyan passed the word in Erdaomen, saying that the master was going to Rongfu and asked Baoyu to go with him. There is another thing, saying that the lord and the lady are going to help the three girls get married!"

Tanchun's smile disappeared, and at the end, he just sighed.

The outside was urgent, and Baoyu didn't have time to say any more comforting words to Tanchun, so she had to go outside first.

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Rongguo Mansion, inside the Rongxi Hall.

Because the second girl was about to get married in the Spring Festival, Wang Xifeng pulled his fingers and Jia Lian to calculate Jia's mother's private inheritance.

"The old lady's things have been turned upside down, from being a daughter-in-law to now, she has a lot of self. In addition to the poverty and spending of the two mansions in the past few years, it was also decided that more than 27,000 taels of silver were present, most of which were given to Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun as dowries, and the other 3,000 taels were left to Xiangyun, 3,000 taels were left to Zhu's sister-in-law, and 3,000 taels were left to Mrs. You. There are also 500 taels for Xing Xiuyan, who married into the Xue family, and 500 taels for the two maiden sisters of the eldest sister-in-law, which can be regarded as a favor for them who lived in Daguanyuan."

"Dozens of boxes of clothes and jewelry were packed up, and the old lady and the old Ronggong all had them, so the two wives were divided, this is a small head. Half of the other gold and silver ornaments were left to Baoyu, and the three stays were given to us, and the others were divided by Brother Cong and Brother Huan, which is the big head."

"There are still people in it who have served the old lady for so many years, and there are also some distributions, but now they can't be pushed back, the matching people who should be matched, and all the people who should be put back by Kai Grace are put back, and only three or four families are looking for two or four families to be companions......

Originally, it was about the second girl's spring dowry, but Sister Feng couldn't help but be angry as she spoke.

"It's not a good thing. Only let me divide some gold and silver ornaments with light, and everyone else has silver, but I don't see it? Even if you give me three or five hundred taels, you don't have to make people laugh behind your back."

Sister Feng didn't say anything about Baoyu's side, anyway, the old lady was biased to the limit, but she couldn't compare to Shi Xiangyun, so Sister Feng couldn't help but be angry.

I heard that if it weren't for the old lady who suddenly left in her sleep, she originally intended to marry Shi Xiangyun and let Jia Lian marry Jia Lian as a side room.

With this entanglement, Sister Feng couldn't help but complain.

Recently, family and state affairs have come together, Jia Lian is very busy, and when he heard this, he only shook his head and said, "Didn't the old mansion of Jinling Rongfu already ask you to take care of it, what else is there to be dissatisfied? It is the old lady's personal body, and the second master has always paid attention to the rules and has not said anything, and after the old lady's wishes, the right should be filial piety."

"You've said so, how dare I not."

Sister Feng had no choice but to find the conversation and said, "The maids to marry are all selected. It's just that the second girl's companion room, Si Qi's Lao Tzu Niang can be regarded as a family, and it happens to be the son-in-law of Wang Shanbao's family, and his wife is also relieved. I don't have an idea of how many other families to find.

It stands to reason that Mandarin Duck is also suitable, but she has not married and started a family, so it is not good to be a grandmother, and she is wronged to be a dowry maid. After all the calculations, it's better to ask the second girl to choose for herself."

Jia Lian said: "This is good, you just have an idea, the court has been busy recently, and I don't have the heart to do this tedious thing, you can help me worry a lot, don't let Yingchun feel that there are any grievances to be bored."

Because of this, Sister Feng couldn't help but joke and said, "You understand your daughter's heart at this time?"

Jia Lian didn't say this, and only said, "The other maids around the old lady are just that, the mandarin duck has always helped me a lot, don't worry about the heart to send her away." I heard that Jin Cai and his wife, who were watching the house in Jinling, died of illness a few years ago, so when I have time, I will ask Mandarin Duck what her plans are."

Sister Feng was surprised for a while, but she was wrong, and said angrily: "I blame you for the wind and waves, why don't I see it on weekdays, but the good mandarin duck actually loves you!"

Jia Lian said: "Don't talk nonsense, I can see clearly, mandarin ducks like Baoyu."

Jia Lian saw this a few years ago, so now that the old lady is too old, Jia Baoyu has moved out of Rongfu again, and the mandarin ducks who stayed behind can't help but embarrass him.

As for Baoyu, in fact, he is not a good person who is worthy of trust, I really don't know what kind of vision this good girl is as mandarin duck.

Sister Feng hesitated for a while before she nodded, and said, "What you say... It's a little right, I think it's because the mandarin duck used to serve the old lady, it's not good to go out of the way, and there is another sister on Baoyu's side, and the mandarin duck is not easy to fight, so I hid it tightly, so I didn't see it before."

While he was talking, someone hurriedly came, saying that Jia Zheng, the grandfather of Shuiliangfang, was here and had already passed the Neiyi Gate.

Jia Lian didn't want to delay, so he got up and went out to greet him.

Jia Zheng came to persuade Jia Lian to stop fighting along the West Sea, and he had already made up his mind, and when he arrived in the front hall, as soon as Fang sat down, moistened his mouth with tea, and began to persuade him.

Jia Baoyu, who accompanied him, was bored, and looked for an opportunity to go out and walk out of Rongxi Hall.

The Grand View Garden was just repaired and was about to be demolished in five or six years, Jia Baoyu found his way to see the construction, and couldn't help but cover his sleeves and tears, and it took a long time to turn around, and someone carried a lantern to the garden of the East Courtyard to see the second sister who was about to marry to welcome the spring.

"Mrs. is well."

Jia Baoyu first visited Mrs. Xing's side and asked for peace according to the rules.

Mrs. Xing is not as good as in the past, her heart is wide and fat, and she is a lot richer, so when she saw Jia Baoyu, she calmly asked him to get up, smiled and said a few words, and sent someone to lead him to see the second girl to welcome the spring.

The second girl welcomed the spring as before, Jia Baoyu comforted for a while, and only got three words of reply, then shook her head and went out with a wry smile.

"Second Master Bao."

Someone outside had already paid attention to Baoyu, and came forward to speak at this time.

Jia Baoyu saw the person clearly, and suddenly had a cheerful meaning on his face, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Sister Mandarin Duck, who is here to help the second sister?"

The mandarin duck nodded and said, "I don't know how many years the mansion hasn't talked about the happy event of marriage, the second girl is out of the cabinet, and I naturally have to do my best."

The two chatted for a while, reminiscing about the old days, and the smile on Jia Baoyu's face slowly dispersed, and he sighed inexplicably.

"Second Master Bao?"

"Sister Mandarin Duck, in my opinion, there is such a thing as Xing and Dispersion in the portals of the world, how many people in our family used to gather happily, but now it is gradually dispersing, the second sister is scattered, and a new portal has been erected in the Gui family, and it will rise again in the future. It's not that I'm demented, it's hard to be embarrassed to say this on a happy day, but I can't help but think more."

"Second Master Bao has always been like this, what is difficult to do or not to be embarrassed."

The corners of the mandarin duck's mouth were hooked, revealing a light smile.

Jia Baoyu finally came back to his senses, looked at the smiling mandarin duck, and asked, "If you can't live in Rongfu for a long time, what are your plans for Sister Mandarin Duck in the future?" The old ancestor is gone after all."

Mandarin Duck said: "I am a child of a family, so naturally I will not be sold easily. It's easy to say where I live, although my brother and sister-in-law have made trouble in the past, but Second Master Lian feels very sorry for me, and he shouldn't be in a hurry to catch up."

Jia Baoyu was relieved and said, "That's good."

mandarin duck

He added, "But if I think about it, it's better to go back to Jinling. What Second Master Bao said is right, after all, there is no fun here, and in the future, I will accompany the old lady in front of the tomb, and I won't have to worry about the outside affairs."

Jia Baoyu saw the mandarin duck smiling like a flower saying this, his mouth opened slightly, and his heart rose and fell like a tide.

It took a long time before he spoke.

"If Sister Mandarin Duck doesn't dislike it, why don't you come to my house?"

Immediately after Jia Baoyu's body was loosened, he found that his whole body was already wet with sweat, and he was so busy wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Seeing that Jia Baoyu had a handkerchief, the mandarin duck stopped the action of going to get it, and only asked with a smile: "If I want to go, I still have to ask the second wife to speak, and the second master will know by then." It's nothing, but can Second Master Bao talk about it?"

Jia Baoyu opened his mouth again, and was speechless for a while.

is not only afraid to mention the mandarin duck to the old lady and the old lady, but also the future is unknown, Xu is the mandarin duck has passed, and he has not lived well here.

The mandarin duck couldn't hide his disappointment in his eyes, and he only smiled reluctantly: "I said the wrong thing, I shouldn't have teased you." I've already told my brother and sister-in-law that it's better to go to Jinling."

Jia Baoyu was muffled, at a loss for a while, but Mu Ran nodded.

Just as the chess in the house came out to look for the mandarin duck to speak, the mandarin duck responded, bowed to Baoyu, and trotted over.