176 176 Shen Jin
◎I admire you! What kind of lunatic is this? ◎
Although everyone had long been shocked by the unreliability of Ningguo Mansion, it was still beyond everyone's expectation that it was so unreliable.
Not only the Lin family felt so, but even the people from Rongguo Mansion who came to accompany them next door looked speechless.
Sure enough, "Ning was the origin of the quarrel", this is the truth.
However, even if everyone can see that Jia Jing is just mentally ill for doing this, but the status of this old man Jing is the highest in Ningguo Mansion, and he is also the father of the clan leader, so naturally no one dares to say anything.
Jia's mother is of a higher seniority than Jia Jing, but she is not in a good position to interfere in the family affairs of the next room.
The main thing is that, although everyone thinks this is absurd, it really doesn't affect anyone else.
Ningguo Mansion is already in that state, so it seems understandable that it will be a big deal.
Besides, Xue Pan really has some connection with Ningguo Mansion - this has been complained by the onlookers before.
To be honest, in general, there are at least eight or ten scandals about illegitimate children in a year for aristocratic families, and they basically insist on one thing, that is, they don't admit it.
After all, aristocratic families have to save face.
What are a few illegitimate children? Let's not talk about whether these children's life experience is really so innocent, and whether they are really their family blood.
In this era, whether the child can be raised is secondary. Therefore, the cost of recognizing the illegitimate child is too high. It is better to buy a few young concubines and try to have children faster.
It is also reassuring.
Li Guangdi did this, and was sharply ridiculed by later generations for refusing to recognize the illegitimate child.
But it is undeniable that this is the normal choice that a person with a brain should make.
Obviously, Jia Jing is not such a normal person with a brain.
His emotions are more than a little stronger than his reason. And he is very casual and does what he wants. Otherwise, he would not have given up his good Jinshi background to be an official, but chose to go to Xuanzhen Temple outside the city to pursue the "Tao" he cares about.
Looking at Xue Pan again, I don't know what stimulated him, but he really seemed to be like that, and he was not as unbearable as I saw that day.
Maybe he is still young, only thirteen or fourteen years old, can he still give some help to the right path?
If so, it would be an excellent case of "going against the will of heaven and changing one's fate".
However, Jia Jing's actions did humiliate Jia Zhen's family, especially Jia Rong.
After all, today's banquet is the first birthday banquet of Jia Rong's first-born son, and they actually took this opportunity to grandly introduce their direct competitor. It's really heartbreaking.
Jia Zhen and Jia Rong, who didn't care much about power and status, couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. On the other hand, Youshi and Qin Keqing were very indifferent, and seemed to have exchanged glances in the chaos. I wonder if they have formulated some new battle plan.
Mo Yu said that compared to these so-called men, the future of Ningguo Mansion really depends on the women.
It depends on whether Youshi and Qin Keqing can turn the tide.
Mo Yu watched the monkey show in Ningguo Mansion and lost interest.
It was still those old stuff, which was really boring.
Yes, with just these few people, what else can they do?
Looking over there, Jia Mu and others also adjusted their expressions, with a polite expression of "congratulations" and "Jing Da Lao Ye", so this matter passed so plainly.
Xue Pan was still a little bit unbelievable. He really got through and won everyone's recognition.
Of course, this was just his beautiful illusion. In fact, except Jia Jing, no one really took him seriously.
His situation was actually the same as before.
However, with his dullness, he probably couldn't feel it at all.
So, sometimes being a little dull is better, at least it's easier to be happy.
Because Jia Jing was very happy, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong didn't dare to show that they were unhappy, Youshi and Qin Keqing didn't comment, Jia Mu and other relatives of Rongguo Mansion just watched politely, and as for the Lin family's foreign guests, they adhered to the guiding ideology of "harmony brings wealth" and didn't say anything bad, so this birthday banquet was very successful.
After the meal, as usual, the relatives and friends were arranged to watch a play and drink tea.
Because Jia's mother was old and had to take a nap as usual, she went back to the Rongguo Mansion next door first, but before she left, she still wanted to invite Jia Min to have dinner.
Jia Min declined of course.
She originally thought that she would sit for a while and then go back, but she didn't expect that Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue would come to her again at this time.
These two people would not come to the temple for no reason. They came to Jia Min to ask her to be a matchmaker...
It was ridiculous.
They actually wanted Jia Min to tell Jia's mother that they wanted to make Xue Baochai and Jia Baoyu a couple.
Because the room was full of close female relatives, and there were also children who didn't seem to be very sensible, such as Mo Yu. Other children were either sent out to play because the topic was not suitable for them to hear, or were sent back to take a nap because they were too young, such as Jia Rong and Jia Huan.
The reason why Mo Yu stayed was not because he was a half-day boy who couldn't go out to play with the girls, and of course it was not because he was ignorant - this was just an excuse to keep him.
The real reason was that they wanted to use his "oracle" to promote this "golden jade marriage".
And the reason why the two old sisters from the Wang family found Jia Min was also very simple, it was because Jia's mother wanted to pair Jia Baoyu with Lin Daiyu.
Jia's mother had this idea for a long time. She had mentioned it several times, openly or secretly, since the Lin family came to the capital two years ago. However, Jia Min refused and evaded the idea every time with various reasons.
Wang Furen obviously saw that Jia Min was unwilling.
In fact, she was unwilling to do so.
Before Jia Min got married, she couldn't get along with her sister-in-law. She felt bad when she thought that her baby Baoyu would marry the daughter of this sister-in-law in the future.
However, it was one thing for her not to want her son to marry into the Lin family, and it was another thing for Jia Min to openly express that she didn't want to marry into their family.
To put it simply, the Jia family may look down on the daughter of the Lin family, but the Lin family cannot look down on her treasure Baoyu...
just like that, they are double-standard people.
Fortunately, Jia Min is too lazy to deal with her awkward temper... What's the matter, I just can't stand your family and don't want to push my good daughter into the fire pit.
As long as I am happy and my daughter is happy, who cares whether you are happy or not? You are just an outsider anyway, don't make too much of a fuss.
So for a long time, the atmosphere between Mrs. Wang and Jia Min has been weird and very awkward.
Under normal circumstances, the two of them will never have any chance to cooperate on a thing.
It was not until Aunt Xue rushed over from Jinling and wanted to marry into the Jia family that the deadlock was broken.
Although Aunt Xue was also a legitimate daughter of the Wang family and the biological sister of Lady Wang, she had spent more than ten years in a merchant family like the Xue family. She was influenced by the family and became a businessman.
She knew better than anyone that Jia Baoyu was the best marriage partner for Xue Baochai.
She would basically not be selected in the selection. Not only was she not qualified, but Master Kang was also too old. If she was assigned to other princes, she might not be successful. She was more likely to be selected as a palace maid to serve people.
You can easily imagine what the final fate of a palace maid would be.
Aunt Xue was left with only Xue Baochai as her daughter because of the "real and fake young master" incident. She had to rely on her daughter for her old age, so she would definitely be reluctant to let her enter the palace.
It can be said that if she really entered the palace, whether she was a noblewoman or a palace maid, it would be almost the same as being dead.
At her age, it would be too tragic if she didn't leave any bloodline in her life.
Therefore, the only way for Aunt Xue was to find a good husband for Baochai and let her stay by her side.
However, she had tried two or three times before and found that Jia's mother was determined to marry into the Lin family. Her love for the girl from the Lin family was not fake.
The old lady wanted the girl from the Lin family to be her grandson's daughter-in-law.
What about their Baochai?
Was she going to enter the palace to serve others? Of
course not.
Aunt Xue was extremely anxious, but she still seized every opportunity to come to Rongguo Mansion to find Madam Wang.
She didn't even know what method she used, but she moved from the Xue family house that was cleaned by the second master Xue to Rongguo Mansion.
It is said that even the old lady nodded, and asked her to keep Madam Wang and her sister company and talk about the sisterhood of the old days.
This was originally just a courtesy among relatives, but Aunt Xue didn't care so much. As long as she could achieve her goal, she didn't care whether it was embarrassing or not.
She was determined to match this "golden jade match
". Fortunately, her sister Madam Wang always supported her, and of course she agreed to her plan to create a "golden jade match".
The two hit it off, but even if the two joined forces, they could not PK the old lady.
The old lady was a person who had never lost a battle in her sixty years of fighting.
Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue wanted to use the usual strategies to deal with her, but it would definitely not work, and it might even backfire.
In this situation, they were desperate and actually thought of the principle of "the enemy of my enemy is my own", and began to "conspire" with Jia Min.
Jia Min was speechless when she heard Mrs. Wang's plan.
After all, it would take ten years of cerebral thrombosis to come up with such a plan by holding the hands of the former "enemy" and the current "rival in love" of her dear niece.
Mrs. Wang's operation made Jia Min a little at a loss for words - she felt that the other party was too stupid and it was easy to defeat him.
Fortunately, Jia Min was not the average middle-aged woman with little knowledge. She was just stunned for a moment, but soon came to her senses and gave Mrs. Wang a perfect answer:
"Since the second wife and the concubine have no objection to this marriage and both want to 'close the relationship', why do we need to go through so much trouble? Why not tell the old lady and let her make the decision. After all, 'close the relationship' is a big happy event."
[Author's words]
As expected, she didn't catch up and crawled away crying.
This book has been written for a long time, and I am ready to start closing the world line and enter the countdown to the end.