48 048 Aunt and nephew
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As soon as Jia Min said this, Jia Zhen's expression changed immediately.
I don't know why, but his expression now is like a mouse seeing a cat. It seems that Jia Min's light words are more effective than a beating from his father.
Oh, no, his father is Jia Jing, a famous Buddhist father who never beats or scolds him.
So, maybe this Master Zhen is really more afraid of Jia Min, the cousin from Xifu, than Jia Jing's father.
I just don't know what the origins of this aunt and nephew were in the past.
Mo Yu looked at this scene with some curiosity. Although he had many questions in his mind, his doubts were soon resolved. Thanks to the thoughtful service of System 006, it once again automatically played relevant information to Mo Yu before he asked.
Of course, as to whether System 006 was afraid that Mo Yu would start to think freely (randomly) after asking in his heart and then broadcast the information to everyone present, it is not for outsiders to know...
In short, through the explanation of System 006, Mo Yu quickly understood the truth of the matter.
It turned out that Jia Min and Jia Zhen had a pretty good relationship.
If you must make an analogy, it is probably similar to the relationship between Jia Lian and Jia Rong.
In the original novel, Jia Rong and Jia Lian had a very harmonious relationship, even to the extent that Jia Rong could easily introduce You Erjie to Jia Lian as a concubine...
Of course, before that, Jia Rong was still very respectful when she met Jia Lian, and even more so when she met Jia Lian's wife Feng Jie'er. Although
they laughed and joked and were not respectful when they met on weekdays, they were very good at observing the etiquette and rules.
This is the foundation of a big family, and it can also be said to be the result of Mrs. Jia's management for decades - no matter how unfilial the descendants in the Jia family are, they will not make big mistakes in these superficial rules.
However, no matter how well the details are done, what's the use? If the general direction is wrong, then everything will be in vain.
This is the fundamental reason for the downfall of the Jia family and even the Zhen family. Lack of direction control is the most fatal. There are so many people in their family, but there is no one who really understands. If not downfall, who else can downfall?
In short, Jia Rong's attitude towards Jia Lian is familiarity and awe. Jia Zhen's attitude
towards Jia Min is almost the same. However, Jia Min is smarter and more skillful than Jia Lian. Therefore, even though she is just a girl, she can easily control Jia Zhen, her cousin from the next room. At that
time, the aunt and nephew both studied in the Jia family's private school. Jia Min was a top student and Jia Zhen was a poor student. Both of them were the focus of the teacher's attention.
Of course, Jia Min was afraid that she would think the things taught in class were too superficial.
Jia Zhen was annoyed that he knew nothing and didn't want to learn anything. He always flirted with girls in class, even "both men and women", not sparing even men with flat heads and decent faces...
It would be fine if he was just fooling around on weekdays. But this old guy should never have done that. One day, he suddenly lost his mind and teased Jia Min, which caused a big mess.
Jia Min was the most favored youngest daughter of the Rong family. She had been noticed for her intelligence and decisiveness since she was young.
She had never suffered such an injustice or such humiliation before, so she immediately taught Jia Zhen a lesson and went directly to complain to Jia Zhen's grandfather, her cousin, the Duke of Ning, Jia Daihua, which made Jia Jing, who didn't care about anything else, furious. Poor old man Jing was not only beaten up by his father Jia Daihua because of his own affairs, but he was also beaten up when his son got into trouble. Who
can he go to for justice?
No wonder Jia Jing immediately quit after Jia Daihua died.
After living like this for decades, it's good enough that he's not dead. It's normal to be a little crazy.
What's more, he's just ordinary world-weariness, and wants to go to a Taoist temple to become a monk and be quiet, which is already good enough.
But it doesn't matter that he let go, the entire Ningguo Prefecture has completely regressed thirty years.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the origin of the Jia family's family education.
Because the ancestors of the Jia family were dukes who were awarded the title of Duke by military merit, the family education has always been simple and rough. At the beginning, there was no private school at all, and they just invited a teacher to the ancestral hall at home to teach a few young children to read.
It's called reading, but in fact it's just to let them recognize a few words, not blind.
In a family like theirs that started with military merit, it's normal for old men and old ladies to have such thoughts.
The Jia family is no exception.
This has to mention Jia's mother's husband, the old Duke Jia Daishan.
This old lady is not only good-looking, but also well-read. He is a talented person who grew up in the previous study method of the Jia family. It can be said that he is a natural talent and self-taught.
It is estimated that Jia Zhu inherited his grandfather's intelligence when he entered school as a teenager. Anyway, the old man was very fierce. He learned a lot of culture with this very poor teaching method, and relied on this knowledge to bring Rongguo Mansion to the peak. It was
also after he inherited the title of Duke Rong that he persuaded his cousin, Duke Ning, Jia Daihua, in the neighboring East Mansion to reform the Jia family's education method. The class for the poor was not enough, and it had to be made more formal.
Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion both occupy a large area. In addition, there are the ancestral halls and sacrificial lands of the Jia family not far from the outskirts of the city. You can build a private school by demarcating a piece of land from anywhere.
Yes, the Jia family's family education was promoted by the old man Jia Daishan.
It was also because he loved his daughters that he allowed his daughters to study in the family school with his sons.
Of course, permission is one thing, and the person's wishes are another.
Jia Daishan and his mother had two sons and four daughters in total.
The sons were Jia She and Jia Zheng. Whether they were willing or not, they had to go to the family school to study.
But among the four daughters, only the youngest daughter Jia Min loves reading the most, while the other three daughters don't take reading seriously.
This is not only related to their own preferences, but also inseparable from the guidance of their mother Jia - Jia's mother herself has not read much, and her idea is still the traditional "women are virtuous if they are not talented".
Under the influence of this view, Jia Min's three sisters basically lost the idea of wanting to study.
Moreover, Jia's mother's great success as the wife of the Duke of Rong also set a bad example for the three of them, that is, even if they don't study, it doesn't matter, because their backgrounds have determined that they can't marry badly and lose their current rich and glorious life.
Daughters usually marry high.
The daughter of the Duke of Rong can't marry low.
Although it's not mentioned in the original novel, since he has come to this world, as long as Mo Yu wants to know a lot of information, System 006 can still get it for him.
For example, the three elder sisters of Jia Min all married rich or noble men, and some even became princesses of counties. In fact, with the status of the Jia family at that time, it was more than enough for a legitimate daughter to marry a prince as a princess. The highest she could do was to become a princess of a county, but Jia Daishan was conservative...
But it was precisely because of this conservatism that Jia Daishan was wise.
It can be said that he was a rare smart man who had seen through the truth of the facts at that time - the Jia family had been too prosperous, and it was time to retreat...
That's right, wisdom will always hurt, and God is jealous of talents. The old man died young and didn't have time to finish anything. The mother of Jia was left alone to live with four girls and two sons. Several decades have passed in a flash.
Without him as the only wise man to lead the Jia Mansion, and his cousin Jia Daihua from the neighboring Dong Mansion died soon after, and his nephew Jia Jing, who was not bad at all, simply quit because of emotional problems. Ning Mansion fell into the hands of Jia Zhen, who was incompetent, and was completely finished.
Rong Mansion fell into the hands of Jia She and Jia Zheng, and it was not much better. It can be said that except for Jia Daishan and Jia Daihua, everyone in the Jia family is now a loser... The once-prominent Ning and Rong Mansions have indeed reached the point where the mansion is about to fall.
There is nothing that can be done about it.
Jia Min only needed a few words and a look to convince Jia Zhen, so that he would never dare to matchmake for the two young children of the Lin family again. She turned around and saw her precious son staring at her with a pair of beautiful eyes like black grapes, wondering what he was thinking.
Or rather, he actually didn't think about anything, because at this moment she didn't hear any of her son's thoughts.
That should be why he didn't think about anything.
So is he sleepy?
Poor thing, she just arrived in the capital today, and she has gone through so much trouble. Although the Jia family is her mother's family, the way they handled this matter is too unkind.
Jia Min recalled what Mo Yu had said before, about the Jia family plotting against the Lin family, waiting for the Lin family to die and only their daughter Daiyu to be left, so that they could eat up the whole family. She felt worse and worse.
After all, she had been out for a long time today, and it was time to go back.
If nothing serious happened, the Jia family wouldn't have to come so often in the future.
Jia Min wanted to leave, and she made up an excuse to say goodbye.
Unexpectedly, when she had packed up everything and was about to leave with Mo Yu and Daiyu, someone suddenly said, "Wait! You can't leave!"
[Author's words]
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