86 086 Self-help
◎Come on! It is better to rely on yourself than on others. ◎
The idea that Mo Yu gave to Jia Yuanchun was actually nothing special.
It was just "retreat to advance", "fight to the death", and "survive from the brink of death".
Because Jia Yuanchun's current situation is basically a desperate one.
Since the Jia family has already ordered her to fight for favor in the harem, she is actually being abandoned - everyone can see that sending a daughter to a fifty-year-old emperor means that basically you can't expect to get anything good from the new emperor.
It is true that Master Kang can live another twenty years, but none of them know it.
Normal people see Master Kang as an old man who is about to die.
If she became his concubine, she would be a living sacrifice. She would become a concubine or imperial concubine in a few years.
Even if Jia Yuanchun was asked by the Jia family to seduce the crown prince Yinreng, she would not be so desperate. Master Kang is fifty years old this year.
Jia Yuanchun's father Jia Zheng is not even fifty years old.
It is really difficult for Jia Yuanchun, a legitimate daughter of a duke, to become a concubine of a fifty-year-old man.
Oh, sorry, she is not a concubine, and she may not even be a concubine. After all, she is just a female official now, and her status is very embarrassing.
At that time, Jia's mother took the initiative to take shortcuts and did not take the regular selection route, but took a side road to let Jia Yuanchun enter the palace as a female official. Originally, it was a position that could be used for both offense and defense, but at this point, it was an awkward situation where she could neither enter nor retreat.
It was really that man proposes, God disposes.
Originally, at this point, a normal person would think about whether to change the strategy quickly and save one.
Of course, the reasonable option should be to choose the prince - whether the Jia family really wanted to support the prince, or considering the age and Jia Yuanchun's future, the prince was the best candidate, but surprisingly, they chose Master Kang.
Mo Yu was also very puzzled by this. After all, according to the IQ of the Jia family, it is impossible for them to make such a decision - since they sent Jia Yuanchun into the palace just to gamble on a future, how could they be willing to give up halfway?
They don't have any ability to foresee the future and know how to stop losses immediately and exit early.
Oh, yes, when you think about it, their confusing behavior does have some clues - could it be that they also got some news and knew that the old man can live for at least another 20 years, and the prince is about to fall from grace?
It seems a bit like that, but it's not clear, otherwise, let's wait and see?
Mo Yu muttered in his heart that the Jia family should not be so lucky, but at this moment he remembered some of the plots in the original book, which made him sigh that the Jia family was really a bit weird.
Let's talk about Jia Baoyu. Although this brother Bao's nickname is "broken stone", he has a lot of luck.
When he was born, he had a piece of crystal clear jade in his mouth. Speaking of this, there is a very unpleasant joke about the reason for "being born with jade". The taste is quite strong. Even though Mo Yu is a man, he finds it disgusting.
Of course, in this fantasy world of the Red Mansion, this story of "being born with jade" must be regarded as a good omen.
The Jia family has always done this.
Then, Jia Baoyu had many mysterious events related to the magical jade since he was a child, including but not limited to becoming idiot if he lost the jade, having symptoms such as headache, fever, shock and dizziness. If he placed the jade in front of the Buddha for one night and purified it with some magic, the disease would naturally be cured...
Anyway, don't make it too magical.
Of course the most amazing thing is that, as the leading male character in the entire world of Red Mansions, this classmate Jia Baoyu had a sleepwalking experience in Taixu Fantasy Land when he was twelve or thirteen years old…
Everyone must know what happened in that fairyland-like fantasy, especially the fact that Fairy Jinghuan actually asked a stunning girl named Keqing to personally give Jia Baoyu some enlightenment, which was too shocking and unbearable to watch… None of
these are important. The key point is that the reason why this happened was all because of the entrustment of the old Duke of Ning and the old Duke of Rong - don’t disbelieve it, this is what Fairy Jinghuan said herself.
Not only did the Fairy Jinghuan, who was in charge of the Great Illusion Realm, admit this herself, there were even witnesses - not to mention the bald monk and the lame Taoist, who were also in the circle.
But they had to find a mortal like Zhen Shiyin to be a witness, which is very intriguing.
It was like some special sense of ritual, a little too deliberate.
So, sometimes Jia Fu really had a bit of a weirdness about him.
After all, it was a noble family that had been passed down for several generations. The two first-generation Dukes of Ning and Rong had also made contributions to the country and the people. Maybe the gods and immortals would really give these two old men a break for this reason and let them speak to their descendants in dreams or give them a warning... Let
's not talk about the two ancestors of the Jia family. Even Qin Keqing, the youngest of the masters in the Jia family, spoke to Sister Feng in her dreams after her death.
Unfortunately, no matter the descendants of the ancestors of the Jia family, such as Jia Baoyu, or the good aunt Wang Xifeng who Qin Keqing spoke to in her dreams later, they are all unreliable.
They had spent all kinds of favors, and perhaps even paid an unknown price, to get the opportunity to "dream", but it was wasted by these two. There may
be others, but even the several parties who "dream" said that they chose Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng as the two "dream" objects, and they thought they were the most reliable...
Yes, these two people are already the most reliable two people in the Jia family.
It's really, the man is silent and the woman is crying, which makes people want to hold hands and look at each other with tears in their eyes, and they are speechless.
In short, considering that the Jia family has the probability of triggering such a strange "dream", it is possible that they really received some mysterious revelation, so they pulled back from the brink and took urgent action to "abandon the car and the marshal".
And Jia Yuanchun was obviously the "car" to be abandoned.
As smart as she is, how could she not see the family's calculations?
No wonder she was so "desperate to seek help" and actually came to me for help.
Thinking of his honorary title of "immortal boy" that had been spread for some unknown reason, Mo Yu couldn't help but want to hold his forehead and smile bitterly, but seeing Jia Yuanchun's half-dead and desperate look, he held back.
Forget it, just do a good deed for the day.
Anyway, he could also learn from the ancestor of the Jia family or the "immortal" Qin Keqing and say a few words to "enlighten" Jia Yuanchun.
As for whether she can "enlighten" and how much she can "enlighten", it all depends on Jia Yuanchun's own luck.
Thinking of this, Mo Yu no longer hesitated and told Jia Yuanchun his thoughts.
In fact, his idea is quite simple, that is, let Jia Yuanchun just find a non-mainstream royal family member to marry...
Yes, choose someone who is compatible with her, seduce her in a subtle way, ah, no, meet her a few times, wait for the other party to be interested, and then find an opportunity to ask the Queen Mother or Master Kang to arrange a marriage, and the matter will be settled. If it really doesn't
work, you can also not specify a target, and directly ask these two big guys to arrange a marriage, and the game is all about blind marriage, opening the box and excitement (not).
In fact, Mo Yu recommended that Jia Yuanchun go directly to the Empress Dowager. After all, he was familiar with the Empress Dowager, and most importantly, he was more familiar with Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu...
Thinking of the status of his mother and sister in the Empress Dowager, Mo Yu couldn't help but sigh - it was really a world where beauty took all. Although Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu were indeed both talented people with high IQ and EQ, it was undeniable that their looks definitely added a lot of points.
Looks are justice, it is indeed the truth.
Even the Empress Dowager likes beautiful people to talk to her.
In this case, Jia Yuanchun can also go this route.
Find an opportunity to show her face in front of the Empress Dowager, and then find a clan member or minister who is not very conspicuous but absolutely safe to marry as soon as possible, and then everything will be settled.
If you don't want to be a cannon fodder, you can only save yourself.
What should you do if you encounter a family that wants to cheat you?
Of course, run as fast as you can. If
you don't run quickly, do you have to wait until the New Year?
Mo Yu silently complained in his heart, and he didn't notice that he was silent for a little longer.
When he finally came to his senses, he thought to himself that it was not good. When he looked up, he saw Jia Yuanchun staring at him with a confused face.
Mo Yu touched his head a little embarrassedly, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, big sister, I was a little distracted just now... Where were we just talking about? How about we continue now?"
Seeing him speak, Jia Yuanchun came back to her senses and realized that she was also fascinated by "listening" to Mo Yu's inner voice just now - in fact, it was not her fault. After all, today was her first time to communicate with Mo Yu at such a close distance, and of course it was also the first time she felt what "speaking out loud" was like at such a close distance and in person.
In short, just like what everyone whispered, her little cousin from the Lin family was really not an ordinary person.
Not to mention how magical this "speaking out loud" thing is, just talk about the things in his inner voice, many of which she had never heard of.
Then there was no way she could understand it.
But the most amazing thing is that even though she heard these words for the first time, it was not difficult to understand them. She soon understood what he meant.
It turned out that she had indeed been abandoned by her family.
All those nice words and sad tears she shed when she was sent to the palace were in vain.
Whether it was her grandmother, Mrs. Jia, who loved her, or her biological mother, Mrs. Wang, who always said that she was the apple of her eye, they didn't care about her life or death.
But then again, if they really cared, they wouldn't have sent her to the palace, right?
Everyone knows that once you enter the palace, it's like entering a deep sea, and from then on you will never be able to get close to your parents' home like other girls.
Not to mention getting close to your parents' home, it's hard to say whether you can see your family again in this lifetime.
In this deep palace, how many women's lives have been buried, how many women's lives have been devoured, one careless, a lifetime.
To see relatives again is extremely difficult, absolutely impossible.
Therefore, no matter how strange the Lin family's little cousin's magical power looks, as long as it can help her, it is a useful magical power.
No, this is no longer a magical power, but a god.
Jia Yuanchun's speed of self-attack is basically in the first echelon, second only to Master Kang.
Therefore, she almost quickly recovered from the confusion of knowing the truth for the first time, calmed down again, and showed a grateful and expectant smile to Mo Yu:
"Brother Mo, this idea is very good, sister, I would like to hear the details."
Seeing Jia Yuanchun's attitude was so good, Mo Yu softened a little, and thought that since she came here anyway, she simply said a few more words.
That's the general guiding idea.
Get out of this situation by getting married - don't mention that women can hold up half the sky, or that daughters should be self-reliant and not rely on men's strength...
Mo Yu thinks these words are all right, and he also supports this idea very much.
However, it is limited to the present world.
Now it is a fictional world of the Red Mansion with the background of the Qing Dynasty. What should you do with a woman who has been plotted by her family to enter the palace?
Escape?
That would make her an illegal resident, and it is also very unsafe for a beautiful girl to run around alone. She might end up in a more miserable situation than now.
Shout some slogans to resist?
Forget about it, and think honestly about how to find the next job and what kind of job is more realistic - I'm sorry, for you, Jia Yuanchun, the only job you can do now is to be someone's wife.
Looking at Jia Yuanchun who was about to cry, Mo Yu couldn't help but sigh again, and then he contributed all his wisdom and intelligence - there was no way, he was such a good man, and he couldn't bear to see the young ladies crying like this.
The good news is that Jia Yuanchun listened to his suggestion and finally stopped crying.
The bad news is that Jia Yuanchun thought his suggestion was great and was going to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager's Palace today.
...
Okay, just be happy.
Mo Yu did not comment on this. Anyway, there were only so many things he could do now. At most, he could only help Jia Yuanchun get here.
The rest of the way would depend on her.
I wonder if this girl is smart enough to get what she wants from Master Kang - yes, although the path Mo Yu pointed out to Jia Yuanchun was to follow the path of the Empress Dowager, but, after all, this entire harem is still Master Kang's harem.
In other words, Master Kang is the only one who makes the final decision.
The others, such as the Empress Dowager and the concubines, are all in vain.
No one can make the decision, and they have to ask the Emperor for his opinion as a rule. For Master Kang, it basically means that he is the only one who can make decisions on all matters.
This was originally a common problem among capable emperors.
Master Kang's symptoms were particularly severe. Anyway, he wanted to keep everything under his control.
In fact, he did so.
Whether it was the mild-tempered Mongolian Queen Mother, the temporarily vacant position of the Queen, or the several high-ranking concubines who assisted in the management of the six palaces, all of them were just puppets of Master Kang.
What kind of management could there be? What's the point of messing around? Aren't they all his people?
Once you see through this, it's not difficult to control Master Kang.
The simplest and most effective trick is obviously "unexpected".
Now Master Kang already knows that the Jia family sent Jia Yuanchun into the palace in order to take advantage of the situation and please both sides. He has even received wind that Jia Yuanchun is preparing to seduce him.
So whether Jia Yuanchun is keeping her troops inactive or taking active actions, it is all within his expectations.
And it is not a good expectation. She
will be convicted for guessing the emperor's intentions or for intending to harm the emperor.
In any case, she can't escape.
But what if Jia Yuanchun chooses neither of the two?
This will definitely make Master Kang feel very surprised.
He is not afraid of him feeling surprised, but afraid of him not feeling surprised.
As long as he feels surprised, he will immediately make the next plan - it is easy to get priceless treasures, but it is hard to get a lover.
Don't say there's none yet, then hurry up and find one. If you can't find one, ask others to help you find one. If you can't even find someone to help you, then there's no need to struggle, you can just go to bed...
Mo Yu knew everything in his heart, but he couldn't tell Jia Yuanchun the terrible truth one by one. First,
it would be easy to discourage Miss Yuanchun's enthusiasm - she had already been bullied badly by the Jia family, and if she was hit by Mo Yu over this matter, it would be too bad, and she could just give up.
Second, Mo Yu didn't have time to tell Jia Yuanchun in detail.
Because before he knew it, he and Jia Yuanchun had been in this rockery cave for half an hour.
It was really too long.
Neither Mo Yu nor Jia Yuanchun should have been out of public sight for such a long time. Especially
Jia Yuanchun, she didn't work in the palace originally, and if she was caught, it was hard to say how she would be dealt with. Don't let herself
be killed when she fails to save herself. Before
Mo Yu could finish his thought, he heard faint shouting from afar.
His face changed immediately, and he urged Jia Yuanchun to leave. Jia Yuanchun's face also changed.
Of course, she knew the seriousness of entering the palace without permission, so she didn't stay any longer and left from the other side of the rockery cave.
Mo Yu waited until her footsteps were far away and could hardly be heard, and then he slowly walked out of the cave.
While walking, he was stretching his waist, looking like he just woke up.
Yes, at this moment, acting is a necessary skill, otherwise how can you stay in the palace. People here are known to be very cautious, so you can't be careless.
Sure enough, as soon as Mo Yu walked out, the palace maids and eunuchs who were responsible for following him on weekdays surrounded him.
None of them were here just now, but now they appeared from nowhere, which is really amazing, as if they have some special abilities.
Not only did they show up, but they also surrounded Mo Yu one by one, asking about his well-being, and some even cried,
"My little brother from the Lin family, you dare not run around again. If you can't get away, we servants won't be able to survive even if we have a hundred lives. Next time if you want to go somewhere or have some fun, you must tell us first, and we will accompany you. Don't just run away by yourself."
They chattered for such a long time, but in fact they were just afraid of taking responsibility, or maybe they just wanted to monitor him.
But it didn't matter, today's incident was not normal, after all, there was only one Jia Yuanchun working in this palace.
This is Jia Min's niece, and she is a real relative after all. Even though most of the people in the Jia family are hideous, Mo Yu feels that this cousin whom he just met for the first time is not bad.
She is a smart girl.
Unfortunately, she was not born into a good family, and she did not encounter any good times.
If she was born into the Jia family in Jia Min's generation, the situation would not be so bad - it must be said that that time was the best time for the Jia family.
Now is almost the worst time.
The men of the Jia family are completely useless, and only the women are still trying to maintain the glory of the Jia family, and even want to restore the former glory of the Jia family.
This is of course an impossible dream.
But sadly, they all refuse to believe* - or they are not unwilling, but just unwilling to give up.
Everyone wants to continue to live a good life. Who wants to suffer voluntarily?
But Jia Yuanchun dared.
And she took action very quickly.
She actually chose Prince Duoluoping Naersu as her husband - it must be said that this was the best choice she could make.
This Prince Duoluoping was the descendant of Daishan's branch, the first "crown prince" who was abolished, and he almost replaced Huang Taiji to become the emperor.
Daishan was really close to the throne at that time, but he lost to Huang Taiji by one move.
However, his descendants still retained quite a lot of honor - this is also a feature of the Aisin Gioro family. Even if they hate it so much in their hearts, they still have to maintain the superficial "deep brotherhood", which is really touching.
In fact, this is the true human nature and one of the core essentials of imperial art. Anyway, most people don't understand the power politics and are too lazy to understand it. The same is true for Mo Yu. Why bother?
If you have the free time, why not go and eat some melon?
Mo Yu was drinking tea in the study when he got the news.
Although the old tutor's teachings were strict, he still adopted many of Mo Yu's opinions, such as the strict break time between classes.
Once every half an hour, no problem, just enough time for a cup of tea.
The old tutor didn't agree at first, but after trying it for a while, he found that even the students who hated studying the most could concentrate a lot. After being amazed, he accepted Mo Yu's suggestion.
The young masters were of course very happy, and they worshipped Mo Yu as their big brother again, cheering for a long time before they stopped.
Mo Yu also developed the habit of taking a short break with tea during the break.
However, at such a leisurely and pleasant moment, he suddenly heard two children chatting outside the window:
"Brother, do you know that Uncle Duolo Pingjun Wang's family is going to have a wedding."
"Oh? Who is getting married?"
The child paused for a moment, as if looking around to see if there was anyone, and then lowered his voice and said: "It's their brother Naersu, who is getting married."
[Author's words]
It has been edited and crawled away to sleep.
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