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◎Fighting. She was anxious, she was anxious!◎
It was not too surprising for everyone that Jia's mother asked Mo Yu to come over and talk at this time.
After all, she originally organized this dinner today for Mo Yu.
Just as the four members of the Lin family had talked about it when they were joking at home before, Jia's mother had always wanted the Jia family to marry the Lin family.
Although the Jia family already had a daughter, Jia Min, married to the Lin family, if they wanted to continue to take advantage of the Lin family's rise, they would definitely have to add another marriage to be safe.
For this reason, she even wanted Xiao Daiyu to marry Jia Baoyu - this matter was actually a bit unceremonious according to the rules of Jinling.
Because the daughter of a married aunt married back to her parents' home, it is called "blood backflow of aunt", which is very bad.
Although Wang Xifeng, the niece of Mrs. Wang, was the daughter of Jia Jing's sister, she married Jia Lian, the son of Jia She, so the daughter of the cousin did not matter much, which perfectly solved this problem.
However, if Xiao Daiyu really married Jia Baoyu, they would be authentic cousins, and the real "blood backflow of aunt".
But for the future of the Jia family, Jia's mother would not care so much. If there were no conditions, she would create them. If it really came to that, it was not impossible to operate them so that they were not "cousins".
Especially in the original work, the younger brother of the Lin family, Jia Min, and Lin Ruhai died one after another, leaving only Lin Daiyu, an orphan in the Lin family, which was even more appropriate.
Apart from other things, as long as Lin Daiyu married into the family, all the Lin family's property would belong to the Jia family. There
was almost no doubt about this. Mo Yu had heard a lot of gossip about "the Jia family eating up the Lin family" in the present world and in System 006 after traveling through time. It was really itchy to see. After all,
the term "eating up the Lin family" is a very hateful behavior in ancient and modern times.
Unfortunately, this behavior has always existed from ancient times to the present, and it is impossible to get rid of it. This is actually because although this matter is immoral, it has huge benefits.
This is also the reason why Mo Yu has been consciously or unconsciously using every day of his life to do more for poor Xiao Daiyu and the crumbling Lin family since the first day he came here.
Fortunately, the effect has been good so far.
There is a feeling that there is no need to be afraid even if I die now... Of course, the feeling of being alive is still quite good, and it is better to not die if possible.
Therefore, after Jia's mother finally decided to come straight to the point and "chat" with him directly, Mo Yu's expression was also very calm, without any panic or very unexpected expression.
Seeing this, Jia's mother couldn't help but silently admire in her heart. Although her daughter and son-in-law were not in good health, they were very good at educating their children.
I won't talk about how outstanding the eldest daughter, Xiao Daiyu, is, such a beautiful and intelligent girl. She is almost tired of talking about this, and it would only cause trouble if she were to talk about it again. Look at this young one, she should not be underestimated.
I didn't expect that this child is so young, but she is already so calm, and can be said to be well-mannered and well-behaved. It really makes people give her a thumbs up silently.
Look at the children in their Jia family, they are really worse than the other. Not to mention Jia Huan, who is about the same age as the child from the Lin family, just talk about Jia Baoyu, who is older than him. There is a huge difference between them.
However, Jia Baoyu's situation was originally a bit special. It was purely because he was delayed by his brain-dead mother. It's just that this matter is not something that outsiders should know.
Seeing Mo Yu sitting down obediently and waiting for Jia's mother to speak, and not letting out the complaints that she had never heard before, Jia's mother's expression became happier, but it was not certain what she was thinking in her heart.
Anyway, Mo Yu didn't care about it.
Since he was called over, he had to chat even if it was awkward. Only to hear Jia's mother asked: "Is it hard for Mo Ge to work in the palace this year?"
Mo Yu smiled and said: "To answer the old lady, it's not hard."
Anyway, it's easy to visit relatives during the New Year, especially relatives like the Jia family, and it's easy to deal with them. His main point is to answer every question, but after answering, it seems that he has not answered, and he will never say a word more.
But his expression is right, his manners are appropriate, and his etiquette is even more thorough, so even if you want to find a shortcoming
in him, you can't. Jia's mother was also helpless about this. She knew that although Mo Yu was young, she couldn't get any advantage from him with her level, so she could only put aside the routine and speak honestly.
Therefore, she pondered for a moment, and then directly asked the question she wanted to know most:
"I wonder if there is any prince in the palace who plays better with Mo Ge'er?"
When this was said, everyone present couldn't help but stand up.
Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu also stopped chatting with others and looked silently in the direction of Jia's mother.
Well, is the old lady Ning okay? Does this count as spying on the master's intentions? It's like he wants to die, right?
Everyone had some doubts in their hearts, but no one dared to say it to her face because of old lady Jia's face.
Mo Yu didn't say it to her face either. He even said politely and apologetically according to the rules that "things in the palace cannot be spread outside", but he could say it in his heart.
[My goodness, old lady, are you really anxious? Can you talk about such things casually? Does this count as spying on the palace? If the sticking rod office reports it, what do you think the long-lived master will think? 】
When Jia's mother heard this, she was shocked. Although she has always been a "wise old man" and has established the persona of the "backbone" of the entire Jia family, she is a little older after all, and she is a little overwhelmed when facing these details.
After all, if she really compares it strictly, her behavior just now is indeed inappropriate. Of
course, she can completely explain it as "momentary curiosity" or "casual chat", but as Mo Yu said, does Wansui believe it?
Anyway, she herself feels that she estimates that Wansui will not believe it too much.
Because the present is different from the past, their Jia family is indeed not doing well.
In recent years, I don't know if it's because of her age, but Mo Yu feels that the old lady of the Jia family has made many stupid moves. Whether it was the initial publicity of Jia Baoyu being "born with a jade in his arms" or the later sending Jia Yuanchun to the palace, each move was more stupid than the last.
As a result, Jia Baoyu was completely misled, and Jia Yuanchun basically became a useless chess piece - who would marry a notorious playboy like Jia Baoyu?
Jia Yuanchun, who was highly expected, also rebelled against her fate as a pawn and sought the best possible future for herself, which was basically useless to the declining Jia family.
The worst thing was that Jia Zhu, who had the greatest hope of bringing the Jia family back to life, died before he was 20 years old. He was a top student who passed the imperial examination at the age of 14, but he was gone in an instant, which was equivalent to a complete failure. There was no hope for him to transform through the imperial examination.
So now the only way left for the Jia family was marriage.
One was to marry into the royal family, and the other was to marry into a new official with a bright future.
Otherwise, the Jia family would soon be unable to hold on.
Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the royal family had begun to be jealous of the old nobles.
No matter whether it is the Four Princes and Eight Dukes or the Four Great Families, everyone's life is not easy.
Especially Master Kang, he actually has a somewhat suspicious temperament - as an emperor, how can there be anyone who is not suspicious.
If he does not even have this basic quality, he will never live to the day of sitting on the throne.
In short, now even if the Jia family is slow, they have finally reacted. The old man Wansui has already disliked the old noble families.
If their Jia family cannot regain the trust and reuse of the Wansui family by relying on their striving descendants like the Lin family in Gusu, then what awaits them will be the same fate as the Zhen family in Jiangnan.
Confiscation of property, exile, monkeys scatter when the tree falls.
It is quite miserable.
But there was no other way.
If they wanted to marry into the royal family, with Yuanchun's incident, there was probably no hope.
Who would have thought that Jia Yuanchun, the eldest granddaughter of the second house who was carefully cultivated and originally used to show goodwill to the royal family, would also be abandoned - although the husband she chose, Prince Ping, was also of royal blood, he was too marginal.
This was basically useless for reviving the Jia family.
So although Jia's mother was smart, it was a pity that her vision was limited, and the descendants in the family were not very capable, which restricted her performance, and it was inevitable that she made frequent mistakes in decision-making.
But even so, this old lady was already the one who saw things most clearly in the entire Jia family. The Jia family is in this situation as a whole, and we can't force an old lady like her to turn the tide.
Even the original novel says that the Jia family has failed in the past few generations. The next seed of hope lies in Jia Zhu's son Jia Lan, and I heard that it is Jia Baoyu's son Jia Gui...
But the fifth generation of their descendants all have grass radicals, so why does Jia Baoyu's child have a wood radical?
Is it to commemorate Lin Daiyu?
Hiss...
That's really disgusting.
Anyway, he is here this time, so this time, no one, Jia Baoyu, or the real Baoyu, should get involved.
Mo Yu responded to Jia's mother casually, thinking about all these random things in his mind, and
he just complained crazily, without noticing the changes in the expressions of the people present. You have to know that his inner voice was always outward, and after "listening" to his complaints, everyone's faces were very complicated, especially Jia's mother, who felt like a bitter gourd was stuffed in her mouth, but she couldn't express it because of her face. She didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and felt that her old face was going to be lost.
This little thing from the Lin family is really amazing. She hasn't even opened her mouth to speak, and this child has directly blocked her from saying anything. What else can she say?
He once again proved with practical actions that the Jia family's plan to form an alliance with the Lin family was probably hopeless - they had been rejected openly several times and had been complained about to their faces, so there was no point in mentioning this matter again.
The plan of forming an alliance with the royal family did not seem to be going smoothly.
When Jia's mother asked Mo Yu which prince in the palace she had a good relationship with, she actually wanted to make arrangements in advance to see if she could establish relationships with the younger princes in the palace.
After all, the Jia family still has three girls. They
are not very old, and if they are trained now, they will still be able to compete in ten years. She
actually had this in mind when she sent her eldest granddaughter Jia Yuanchun to the palace a few years ago. After all, Jia Yuanchun's path to the palace was not very conventional. Not only did she spend a lot of effort, but she was not necessarily favored.
At that time, she was much younger than she is now, and her thinking was clearer, so she must have had other alternative plans.
One of them was that if Jia Yuanchun did not make any progress, but there were other opportunities, she could help her brothers and sisters.
The younger brother could marry a princess, and the younger sister could become a concubine or a princess for the brothers.
As long as they could climb up the big tree of the royal family, nothing else would be a problem.
As for the happy marriage of the children?
What is that?
Can it be eaten?
Besides, in this day and age, the marriage of every child is arranged by the parents and matchmaker. The family has arranged everything, so they just need to follow the family's plan. There is no need to make so many things.
It is because Yuanchun has grown up and has her own ideas that she is out of control.
If it were someone else, such as Tanchun, it would be great.
With Tanchun's qualifications, she is fully qualified to be a concubine. If she is lucky, she can marry and give birth to a son, then she can be the legal wife.
Jia's mother has a good plan. After all, it is better to sell one or two granddaughters than to let her precious grandson Jia Baoyu marry a princess.
Especially since Tanchun is the daughter of the same father as Yuanchun, but unfortunately she was not born in the womb of Wang Furen, the wife of the first wife, otherwise she would not be worse than Yuanchun.
No matter what people think of Jia Mu's personality or decision-making, they have to admit that she is really good at judging people and really knows how to train people - of course, only girls. Not
to mention Jia Min, she is a real lady from a noble family and a model of a noble lady.
Yuanchun was also raised by the old lady to be such a beautiful lady, and she was even able to stand firm in the palace and plan a good way out for herself under such unfavorable conditions. It is really amazing, which shows how successfully the old lady trained her.
Just as Mrs. Jia judged, Jia Tanchun was not bad either, and because she liked to read, she was much smarter and more knowledgeable than Jia Yuanchun. Such excellent qualifications even made people ignore her status as a concubine, and she was the best among the three daughters of the Jia family.
But Yingchun and Xichun were not so good.
Although they were both raised in Mrs. Jia's room like Tanchun, for some reason, one of them was cowardly and incompetent, and the other was cold and heartless, neither of them was a good candidate for marriage.
So this is a bit like the master leading the way, and then the practice depends on the individual?
Okay.
Anyway, after all, this road is probably not feasible.
Although there are still three girls, at most only Jia Tanchun can be sent out as a tool for marriage.
Good guy, Mo Yu's brain is also fast, and he has sorted out all the possibilities in his mind without waiting for Mrs. Jia to speak. He
even came to the conclusion of "no hope" again.
This is...
Jia's mother had been repeatedly rejected by Mo Yu, and she was a little bit upset. Fortunately, Feng Jie'er and You Shi were good at coaxing people. Seeing that things were not going well, they hurriedly escorted the old lady to the table for dinner, and finally gave the old lady a way out and temporarily put the matter behind her.
Mo Yu was naturally relieved, and Jia Min and Xiao Daiyu were also very happy about this, but because they were still guests at the Jia family, they couldn't show too much happiness.
So after the meal, everyone in the Jia family was very silent, mainly because the old lady was unhappy, so everyone certainly couldn't show too much happiness. On the contrary, the three members of the Lin family ate happily. After all, the Jia family still had the habit of being poor and particular in the past. Even if the food was empty, they had to save face...
It was hard for them to prepare so many delicious foods. If they didn't enjoy a good meal, how could they live up to this big table of rich food?
Because the atmosphere was too weird, Feng Jieer and You Shi tried to smooth things over, but they were persuaded by the old lady Jia's words "Don't talk while eating".
What "Don't talk while eating" means that the old lady was obviously angry*.
Originally, the women of the Jia family didn't have so many rules when eating. It was just because they were criticized by Mo Ge'er of the Lin family.
It was so boring.
After getting angry outside, she went home to show off. It seemed that the old lady was no different.
The women couldn't help but grumble in their hearts, and they felt that this meal was getting harder and harder to endure.
However, Mrs. Jia was Mrs. Jia after all. She had been the wife of her great-grandson and his wife, and now she had her own great-grandson and his wife. She had seen all kinds of storms.
Therefore, although she was angry and annoyed, and felt embarrassed that her thoughts were exposed, she quickly regained her composure and smiled lovingly again.
Apart from other things, her mental quality was really great and worthy of praise.
After the meal, it was time for a casual chat as usual.
I don't know what method Lin Ruhai used to fool Jia Jing, Jia Zhen, Jia Rong, Jia She, Jia Zheng, and Jia Lian. Anyway, no one ran to the inner courtyard to disturb the peace of the women.
At the same time, it also means that Jia Min, Xiao Daiyu and Mo Yu can only rely on themselves to resist the siege of the women of the Jia family.
[Author's words]
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