Chapter 337 Fan Case
Wang Ziteng actually didn’t want to return to Beijing. The only people he could bring back were his personal soldiers. But how many personal soldiers did he have?
With his current status, he can’t even live past thirty.
But he had to return to the capital, because the Southern Inspector Cheng Luo had already arrived.
He is the emperor's nephew, and his father, Marquis Xinping, was once under the command of Prince Nan'an. The fence-sitters left behind by Prince Nan'an would naturally side with him.
Wang Ziteng knew he had no chance.
The emperor is trying to consolidate power, and he doesn't want another so-called family to emerge in the south that will guard the area for generations.
He returned to Beijing very obediently, hoping that he would be given a slight promotion when the emperor conferred a title on him.
The Wang family needs a hereditary title.
Otherwise, after a few generations, where would the Wang family be left in the capital?
“Brother, brother, here!”
Seeing his brother, Wang Zisheng waved from afar.
He was so happy that he rode his horse towards the prince at the city gate.
A smile involuntarily appeared in Wang Ziteng's eyes.
Now that his parents are gone, his brothers are the closest people to him. What’s more, his brothers gave birth to the only descendant of their Wang family.
"Brother, you're back."
Wang Zisheng's eyes were blurred with tears, "My elder sister..."
“…”
Wang Ziteng closed his eyes sadly. When he opened them again, the room was already cold and quiet. "Let's go to the Jia family and see our good nephew."
When he came back, the first thing he did was to go to Tiekan Temple to worship.
Tiekan Temple is the ancestral temple of the Jia family and is never open to outsiders.
Therefore, Jia Zhu is someone he cannot avoid.
He must find out clearly. His parents died so tragically, what did he, as a son, do for them? Is it to wag your tail and beg for mercy from your enemies?
The group did not go through the main gate of the Jia family, but went directly to the gate of Lixiangyuan and knocked.
The doorman opened the door and Jia Zhu was standing inside.
He calculated the time for his uncle to return to Beijing and waited in the outer study.
The knock on the door was so urgent and overbearing, just like my second uncle's personality.
The moment he heard it, he walked over, stood in the doorway, and signaled the doorman to open the door.
A group of personal soldiers rushed in the moment the gate opened.
but……
Wang Jin knew Jia Zhu. Although he had known from the letters from the second master that Jia Zhu's hair had turned a lot whiter, knowing was one thing and seeing him in person was another.
He looked at Jia Zhu and his lips couldn't help trembling.
Wang Ziteng, who dismounted from his horse in a rage and was about to give Jia Zhu a blow with the hilt of his knife, was stunned for a moment when he saw his nephew looking at him calmly, and then his whole face turned pale.
"Jia Zhu greets the eldest uncle and the second uncle."
Although he called Wang Zisheng, the direction he bent in never changed, and he was facing Wang Ziteng directly.
Wang Ziteng looked at this nephew whom he had loved for many years, and his hand holding the sword at his waist began to tremble uncontrollably.
"You...your hair is white because of your mom and dad?"
How much he hated this nephew!
The Jia family said they would not care about his parents, so he really didn't care about them.
Otherwise, how could his sister die so tragically?
But now...
"yes!"
Jia Zhu straightened up and said, "They did something wrong, and my grandmother wanted to punish them. As a son, I knew they were wrong, but I still couldn't bear it. Most of my hair turned white overnight. The elders felt sorry for me and spared them.
Can……
My eldest uncle was outside and didn’t know what happened later, but my second uncle knew.
I don’t know how my second uncle wrote to my eldest uncle. ”
Wang Zisheng: “…”
He never felt like he had missed anything.
However, he only knew from his servants that Jia Zhu's hair turned white during those days. In fact, they had never really met each other.
"Are you blaming me?"
He looked at his nephew, whose hair was so white that he was almost useless, and frowned, "Your father and mother are having a hard time. Since you saved them, why can't you send some medicine over?"
Send again? Jia Zhu looked at his uncle who seemed to be the most polite in the world, and smiled slowly, "Send me again? Uncle, have you forgotten that my last name is Jia? When my dear mother repeatedly tried to frame our aunt who helped us, what did she rely on? We brothers and sisters are human beings, not animals.
We know how to be grateful.
Although the medicine left behind cannot completely eliminate the cold poison in the body, they will get better if they are nursed back to health. ”
But they died.
They brought this upon themselves.
He could no longer sympathize with his mother, nor with his father.
"If my uncle is here to question me, come here."
Jia Zhu pointed at his chest and stepped forward. "My parents are not here. I am the head of the second house. I didn't allow my elder sister and Baoyu to go and see them."
He walked towards his uncle, who was privately called a murderer by some people, and said, "Uncle, go ahead! If I frown, I am not a man of the Jia family."
Wang Ziteng: “…”
How does he make his move? How to take action?
He looked at his nephew whose hair was mostly white, slowly stretched out his hand, and patted him on the shoulder, "Good boy, it's your uncle's fault."
After saying this, Wang Ziteng turned around and jumped onto his horse, "Let's go!"
He couldn't bring himself to embarrass this nephew who had suffered so much that his hair had almost turned white, so he rode his horse straight back home.
As for the memorial service for my sister...
Burn more for her parents, and they will share some with her.
…
At Ningguo Mansion, Shen Ning raised her eyebrows but said nothing when she heard Jia Zhu coming to kneel in the ancestral hall.
Although Jia Zhu is smart, he is too sentimental and indecisive. If he doesn't make changes, he will die even at home, let alone going to the court.
"Send two ice basins."
Shen Ning ordered, “When Baoyu finishes school in the evening, take him over as well.”
Baoyu in the Dream of the Red Chamber, like Jia Zheng, is also irresponsible.
He was discovered molesting Jin Chuan'er by Wang, and was so scared that he didn't say a word to help Jin Chuan'er and ran away.
Qingwen fell ill and was driven out of the Grand View Garden. When he went to see her, he didn't even bother to hire a doctor or spend some money to have someone take care of her. What are you going to do? He wanted to think about other people's clothes. Qingwen died, and he asked the maid, "Qingwen had been calling for him all night. Was she calling for him?"
He felt quite disappointed when he heard the other person calling him "mom".
Even Daiyu knew that the Jia family was spending more than they earned, but he smiled and said that no one would be short of money, but the two of them would be.
Extremely stupid, extremely foolish, and selfish.
Although the Baoyu today is no longer the Baoyu in the Dream of the Red Chamber, who practices martial arts and studies like Rong Ge'er every day and occasionally ranks among the top three in the class in the monthly exams, there are always some benefits to spending more time with Jia Zhu.
Shen Ning didn't ask him to take the exam for an official position, pursue a career, or achieve great success in the future, but at least he was a human being standing there.
"yes!"
Qingzhu quickly agreed.
So that night, Baoyu did all his homework in the ancestral hall.
Jia Zhu looked at his brother and said nothing.
After finishing his homework, Baoyu knelt down beside his brother in a very bachelor manner.
"Brother, next time my uncle and his family come, you can call me too."
At home, their brother takes care of everything for them.
Not only my aunt said this, but also my third aunt, fourth aunt, my cousins, my second sister and my third sister all said this.
Baoyu had been pulled by his parents, with nowhere to escape, and knew how painful those days were. "When my mother did something wrong, they refused to admit it and wanted to put the blame on us. It was their fault, and we cannot punish ourselves because of them."
His little face was still full of anger, "Brother, you are just too easy to talk to."
If it were him, his uncle would bring his personal soldiers with him, and he would not be able to defeat them, so he would go to find Jiao Da and cousin Min.
"They never took care of us and even bullied us. What kind of elders are they?"
Baoyu's memory remains on the time when his parents treated him very badly.
After all, pain is more memorable.
After his parents left home, his life became a little easier.
Although he still missed them a little bit occasionally, he was busy with his studies, practicing martial arts and studying every day. He was so busy that even if he thought about them for a while, he would fall asleep quickly.
He knew that his parents had done something very wrong, and his eldest brother risked his life to save them. The aunt in the East Mansion finally let them go for his sake, but they had brought their own death upon themselves. Why did the Wang family continue to humiliate them again and again?
"Isn't the second uncle just relying on the fact that the eldest uncle is going to be conferred a title? That is the eldest uncle's title, what does it have to do with him? It has nothing to do with our family."
It has nothing to do with them, brothers and sisters. Why do they come to his house and bully his eldest brother?
Baoyu was in school every day. Occasionally, when he had a holiday, Min Jianbai would pull him along, along with Lin Changan, who would rely on their family background to stand up for him.
Time and time again, he has seen quite a few scoundrels.
"How could they come here to bully you? They come here to bully our Jia family."
Little Baoyu was very angry.
He had already made up his mind, and he went back to tell his cousin Min to find someone to put a sack around cousin Wang Ren.
It’s not easy to beat the elders, but can’t he beat the only child in the family? “…”
Jia Zhu didn't expect his brother to say such a thing.
He silently reached out his hand and patted his little shoulder. "Brother kneeled in the ancestral hall because I felt that I had not done well enough in some areas. It has nothing to do with the uncles. You are still young, just study hard and don't think too much."
"Brother, I've grown up."
This year, he grew rapidly in height due to martial arts training, and he felt that he had grown up. "Cousin Min said that those who are perfect are saints, and we are ordinary mortals. We just need to be ourselves."
Baoyu was worried about his elder brother's hair, and even more worried about his health. "Brother, we all think that you have done a good job."
Cousin Min said that elder brother’s health and hair were damaged by his own self-inflicted suffering.
Whatever there is, he always ponders it in his mind.
I don't want to hurt this one, and I don't want to hurt that one.
The result can only hurt himself.
In fact, it was useless for him to do this because he ended up getting hurt.
Just like my parents and my aunt in the East Mansion.
"If you think you have done something wrong, tell me and we can discuss it together to see if we can do better."
Baoyu was worried that his elder brother would suffocate himself to death one day, "If you don't believe me, you should believe me, right, cousin Min?"
For the sake of his third aunt and cousin Mei, he traveled thousands of miles home to ask for help.
Jia Zhu: “…”
He couldn't help laughing.
With Cousin Min around, he didn't have to worry about his brother becoming like their father.
"Okay, next time you have an event, call me too."
He still knew what his younger brothers were doing outside.
Although Cousin Min sometimes mentions the Jia and Lin families' names when he is outside, that is mostly when he is standing up for others.
Even if there is any benefit in the end, it will be divided into several parts, shared among the brothers, and some will be used to help the orphans and widows.
Because of this, he became particularly close to people like Liu Xianglian who liked to use guns and sticks.
Originally, Jia Zhu was very disgusted with those people, but since he had a deep understanding of his uncle and father, he mainly observed what his younger brothers did.
None of the three neglected their studies.
Every day in the clan school, they keep a close eye on the top three students in their class.
Especially cousin Jianbai, who, while balancing his studies, also saved up a dowry for cousin Mei on his own.
It's impossible to say I don't admire you.
If he were Min's cousin, he definitely wouldn't be able to do so well.
He would only prove his excellence to his father and uncles at home, so that they would be more considerate of him and be a little nicer to his mother and sister.
"real?"
Baoyu didn't know what his brother was thinking, he was just happy that his brother finally didn't stay at home all day long.
"real."
Jia Zhu nodded seriously.
"Brother, what did you do that made you feel you were wrong and want to kneel in the ancestral hall?"
Baoyu wants to go home and sleep in a comfortable bed.
“…”
Jia Zhu was silent for a moment. "I think I am stupid sometimes." He sighed softly. "I am actually like my father, very useless."
"No, bro, hello, you're fine."
Baoyu moved closer to his brother and said, "When I don't understand something, you always teach me patiently. Because of you, my elder sister, my third sister, and Huan'er can do our own things peacefully."
Whenever I look back, my brother is there.
He never worried that his brother would ignore him.
"Brother, now that we know about Dad's situation, we won't learn from him in the future."
He grabbed the corner of his brother's clothes and said, "If you don't believe me, no matter who you ask, no one will compare you with Dad."
“…”
Jia Zhu put his arm around his brother's shoulders and looked at the ancestral tablets on them. "You are still young, there are some things you don't understand!"
In his dreams at midnight, he felt regretful about the death of his parents.
He knew his father's temper. He should have told him not to snatch his mother's medicine.
But at that time, he was just happy that his parents would not have to die, and felt guilty towards his aunt, and he did not think about it any more and try to do things better.
Obviously they didn't have to die.
"Brother, Uncle Jiao said that everyone has their own destiny. If we want to help others, we must first live a good life ourselves."
Baoyu carefully advised, "If you do this, your ancestors will be upset."
Mom and dad won’t be upset, they may even have a fight.
"Besides, you're kneeling here. My aunt is worried about you. She asked me to come here right after school because she was worried about you."
Jia Zhu: “…”
Baoyu looked at his brother pleadingly, "Tomorrow is the monthly exam, brother, you don't want me to be outdone by my cousin Changan again, right?"
He has to save face too.
"My third sister also said that she would give me a beautiful sachet when I do well in the exam."
Baoyu pulled his brother, "Even Cousin Lin said that if I could suppress my cousin's cocky tail, she would give me her new fan cover. Otherwise, she would have to give it to my cousin."
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