Chapter 117117 The strong never complain about the environment. ……
Jia Yuanchun, the eldest daughter of Rongguo mansion, who had always been obedient and submissive, resolutely chose to rebel at the critical moment of the selection of concubines. She gave up her long-planned life plan of entering the palace to become a favorite concubine or a concubine to a prince, and turned to the arms of the middle-aged economical man, Prince Ping.
Although the other party was older and Jia Yuanchun was still only a concubine, at least she no longer had to live the kind of tragic life that her virtuous cousin described in her heart: "suffering for ten years to become a virtuous concubine" and "ruining the whole family and her own life after the grand visit to her parents."
Wouldn't it be nice to live a peaceful life with Prince Ping, who is a little older but very caring and, to be honest, has a decent wealth and status?
Anyway, Jia Yuanchun herself felt it was pretty good.
But the Jia family, especially Grandmother Jia, felt bad about it.
After all, this was the "family sacrifice" that the old lady had carefully nurtured. It was growing and about to bear fruit, but it just flew away. This was really a blow to her heart.
Jia Yuanchun felt that, sorry old lady, it would be better to stab you than to sacrifice her own life. Besides, this knife into your heart will only hurt a little, and it won't kill you. Compared with her long and bitter life in the palace for more than ten years, it is nothing at all...
The old lady of the Jia family was speechless. Although she was unhappy, she had no way to refute this - even if she wanted to get angry, Jia Yuanchun was already a member of the Prince Ping's Mansion, and a concubine at that. She had status and position. Although it was not as good as marrying into the harem or the prince's mansion, the Prince Ping's Mansion was several levels higher than their Jia family's Duke's Mansion.
You can't afford to offend her, you simply can't afford to offend her, so you have no choice but to swallow your anger and even put on a pretty smile... What a joke, Jia Yuanchun was the prince's concubine when she first entered the house, and after a few years, she gave birth to several sons and daughters, and naturally became the prince's principal wife, so she is even more someone you can't afford to offend, and even someone you need to curry favor with.
After the connection with Jia Yuanchun was broken, although the old lady of the Jia family was heartbroken, she was not desperate.
Because there are three other lines: Jia Zhu, Jia Baoyu, and the other three sisters of the Jia family.
In the Ningguo Mansion next door, her nephew Jia Jing is a Jinshi. Doesn't this mean she has hope of becoming famous again immediately?
After counting, there are at least four other ways for the Jia family to turn things around, besides Jia Yuanchun's entry into the palace.
Thinking of this, the old lady of the Jia family immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then she experienced the extreme disillusionment of every line, every hope, and every collapse.
I won’t say anything about Jia Zhu.
Since he was a teenager and had not yet married, he had been entangled with the original wife of Jia Zhen next door. He finally crossed the line. After the affair was exposed, he was beaten up by Jia Zheng. After being bedridden for a year or two, he died.
Crack! This thickest thread was broken. The second branch of the Jia family had completely lost the hope of making a fortune through the imperial examinations...
Are you talking about Jia Zhu’s father, Jia Zheng?
Forget it.
Before Jia Zhu entered school, Jia Zheng had already taken the imperial examination for more than 20 years, but to no avail. If his father Jia Daishan had not seen that Jia Zhu was going crazy from taking the imperial examination and had no hope of passing, he would not have remembered to submit a memorial for Jia Zhu before his death and asked Master Kang to give him a small official position as a deputy minister of the Ministry of Works.
This is the best that could happen to Jia Zheng in his life. He would be promoted one or two levels at most, and there is no need to think about any more - it is ok for him to enter the officialdom relying on his ancestors' influence, but he himself has no outstanding abilities. Apart from being knowledgeable, he is useless. This is really a headache.
As for Jia Baoyu, since this child was born not fond of studying and had a good appearance, the old lady of the Jia family simply trained him to be a social master - the most important things for aristocratic families are etiquette and rules, and Jia Baoyu's etiquette and rules are really impeccable.
This is also what the old lady of the Jia family is most proud of. She has said more than once in the original novel that although Baoyu in her family often messes up and acts crazy at home, when he goes out and meets strangers, he is absolutely well-behaved and polite, and never makes mistakes...
This is really amazing.
This shows that Jia Baoyu is born to be good at building relationships and doing public relations... ahem, although it sounds a bit strange to say this, his good looks do add a lot of points to him.
The female elders all smiled happily when they saw him, the sisters of the same age also loved to play with him, the brothers also liked him very much, and even Shui Rong, who later became the Prince of Beijing, would hold his hand and talk to him affectionately when he saw him, and gave him precious gifts bestowed by the emperor - this behavior of passing on the gifts from the emperor to Jia Baoyu is not discussed for the time being, but no matter when you see it, you will feel that Shui Rong is simply sick...
Other things like playing and drinking with friends of the same age outside, or even exchanging belts with the actors in the old prince's mansion (oh, yes, they are called handkerchiefs here), were all common things.
But even with this dangerous person, Jia Baoyu frequently interacted with him and had close relationships with him. He even had a good relationship with Xianyu's cheap cousin Liu Xianglian. Maybe good-looking people always admire each other. It is also possible that Jia Baoyu, as the male protagonist of this small world, has a lot of halos and can always attract bees and butterflies. It seems that there is nothing wrong with him...
The male lead!
I understand. I understand very much.
However, I still dislike him.
The old lady of the Jia family hoped with great joy that Jia Baoyu would become a socialite - someone who could socialize everywhere to expand his effective network of contacts, hook up with a big boss to save the Jia family, and especially someone who could restore the glory of the Rongguo Mansion. Unfortunately, this second master Bao was not up to the task, and although he socialized everywhere, none of them was useful to him.
Not to mention those messy friends, the only water-soluble substance that might be of some use actually has no practical use.
Not to mention that Shui Rong was not the Prince of Beijing at that time, but only the Prince of Beijing's eldest son. Even if he inherited the throne of the Prince of Beijing in the future, he would not be good enough in the eyes of Master Kang.
After all, he was a true "Emperor of the Ages". Not to mention the Prince of Beijing, he did not even take the vassal kings like Wu Sangui and the "uncrowned king" like Oboi seriously.
It just so happens that Prince Beijing has low ability but great ambition, which makes things very uncomfortable.
So it was natural for him to become a member of Crown Prince Yinreng's faction - and, the closer you are to such people, the faster the Jia family will die. Sure enough, in the original novel, the Jia family was quickly defeated, and there was no news of any of these princes coming to their aid.
That's right, not only was Prince Beijing in trouble, but also the Prince of Nangan, Prince of Dongping, and Prince of Xining, whom the Jia family, especially the old lady of the Jia family, had spent a lot of energy to protect, none of them were able to fight, and they all became quails when something happened.
Now that Yuanchun is married to Prince Ping, it is hard to say whether she will help the Jia family if something happens to them in the future. However, even if she does, she may not be able to save the Jia family from this decline.
Because the Jia family’s problem is really not a small problem that can be solved by just asking someone for help.
It's a serious problem that's rotten from the root and there's no way to cure it.
After all, there hasn't been a single male capable of fighting in three generations, and this is a predicament that cannot be solved by just any married woman.
After the three lines of connection with Jia Yuanchun, Jia Zhu and Jia Baoyu were cut off one after another, the old lady of the Jia family was already having a hard time recovering.
Then, Jia Jing, the most promising member of the family who successfully passed the imperial examination, became a monk.
Okay.
It's so hard to find a Jinshi among so many young men in the two mansions, and you still want him to become a nun for me?
The old lady of the Jia family was going crazy.
But although she was the elder, she was, after all, an aunt from the next room, and had no way to control her nephew who was only a dozen years younger than her.
He's just my cousin, which makes us even more distant. I can't say anything. I can only express my regret and that's it.
Not long after Jia Jing became a monk, he died from taking elixirs indiscriminately.
Now, Ningguo Mansion became even more chaotic.
Although Youshi and Qin Keqing tried their best to hold on, they were just women after all, and could not control the wrongdoings of Jia Zhen and Jia Rong, father and son.
In the end, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had no place to stay in Ningguo Mansion. One year after Jia Jing's death, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law ran to Rongguo Mansion and cried. After saying goodbye to the old lady of the Jia family and other female members, they took Qin Keqing's biological youngest son and went to live in a farm on the outskirts of the city.
He said he was in mourning for his grandfather Jia Jing, but in fact he just lived on the farm and never came back.
That village is quite interesting. Inside is the ancestral temple, next to it is the family school, and outside is the sacrificial field.
With this, they no longer have to worry about the little boy's academic enlightenment and he will be closer to school.
Moreover, that place is quiet, which is just right for Youshi and Qin Keqing, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, to take good care of their children and their own health.
Misbehavior will damage one's virtue, while cultivating one's nature will increase one's fortune. After a few years, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong's health became worse and worse, while Youshi and Qin Keqing, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, became much stronger, and even the great-grandson of the Ningguo Mansion raised by them was very healthy.
I heard that he is a very good student, even better than his cousin Jia Lan. He is a good guy.
Everyone felt that after Jia Zhen and Jia Rong died of illness, Ningguo Mansion might be able to "rise from the ashes."
So Jia Jing's line was also broken. As for whether it can be connected later, it still depends on luck. No conclusion can be drawn for now. We can only wait and see the follow-up.
Of the five threads, four have been broken, especially after Jia Jing's death, the old lady of the Jia family is really unable to recover.
When Jia Jing died, she cried bitterly and then fell ill. It seemed that she would not be able to get up. However, she probably thought of the three granddaughters of the Jia family, so she had to struggle to get up again, wanting to get her body back together and take one last gamble.
The three girls of the Jia family were raised by her personally, so she was very confident that these three girls would be able to find a good marriage family to help the Jia family overcome the current difficulties.
Unfortunately, at the critical moment, Mrs. Wang acted up again.
Originally, in the original novel, it was Mrs. Wang who, under the instigation of her subordinates, launched a campaign to search the Grand View Garden, and successfully discovered the explosive contraband, the embroidered sachets. In the end, the entire Jia family fell apart, and the reputations of the girls and Jia Baoyu were ruined.
No one would dare to marry a girl who would search her own family.
The key is to find out something.
This is not fun.
So, no one knows what's going on with Mrs. Wang's brain, but it seems that Aunt Xue is similar. Apart from being obsessed with money, she doesn't seem to have any other ideas. She behaves like a fool everywhere... Well, to be more confident, we can remove the word "like", and they are just a pair of fools.
If Feng Jieer and Xianyu were not also the legitimate daughters of the Wang family, outsiders would really think that all the legitimate daughters of the Wang family were of this level. That would be really terrible. It is estimated that all the sisters in the family would buy tickets to leave the earth overnight.
The strangest thing is that because of Xianyu's arrival, Jia Yuanchun did not enter the palace at all, but married into Prince Ping's Mansion. In other words, the Jia family did not build the Grand View Garden at all.
Logically speaking, there would be no opportunity to search the Grand View Garden.
But the strong never complain about the environment.
Mrs. Wang has the ability to force the important plot back on track - she searched the house again, and if there were no conditions, she would create them. This time, she searched the entire Rongguo Mansion.
The incident started when a servant girl, Silly Girl, found an embroidered sachet in the garden of Rongguo Mansion.
It just so happened that this thing was not far from Baoyu's yard, and something was not right in Baoyu's room - Mrs. Wang finally discovered that her precious son seemed to have started eating meat at such a young age, which was simply unbelievable. So she became confused and started a thorough investigation and searched Rongguo Mansion.
As for why this was accomplished, it was mainly because the old lady of the Jia family was ill.
The old lady was already very old, and because she was saddened by the death of her neighbor Jia Jing, her health suddenly collapsed.
As a result, Mrs. Wang, who had been suppressed for most of her life, suddenly became proud, took charge of the household, and began to search the Rongguo Mansion.
Upon hearing the news, the old lady of the Jia family, whose health had already improved and who was able to sit up and drink porridge, spat out a mouthful of blood, cursed her as a "stupid woman," and fainted from anger.
And then he never woke up again.
Not long after, the old lady of the Jia family passed away.
After hearing the news, the old lady of the Wang family was silent for a long time, and finally did not attend the funeral of the old lady of the Jia family - there must be something hateful about pitiful people, and she didn't want to meet the old lady of the Jia family in this life. She was already this old anyway, so what was there to be afraid of? Of course, she came as she pleased.
With the death of Grandmother Jia, the three sisters of the Jia family lost their support and could only be at the mercy of others.
Also because no one was in charge, they all followed the same path as the original novel.
Yingchun still married the wolf from Zhongshan, Tanchun still married far away as a princess, but Xichun was the most regrettable one.
Originally, she was the youngest, and Youshi and Qin Keqing wanted to win her back to their side, but they looked down on her - saying that the Ningguo Mansion was dirty and they shouldn't get involved with it.
What I am saying is, little sister, it is Jia Zhen and Jia Rong who are dirty, but Youshi and Qin Keqing are not dirty, and they have never offended you. It is not good for you to attack them indiscriminately.
Fortunately, Qin Keqing is a passionate and gentle lady. She even invited Xichun to the ancestral temple to practice Buddhism. Aunt wants to become a nun? No problem, we will arrange it. The ancestral temple welcomes you and provides you with the warmth of home.
Although Xichun was aloof, she thought this was a good arrangement, so she went to the ancestral temple to get rid of her family, and from then on she lived out the rest of her life with a green lamp and ancient Buddha.
Shi Xiangyun never entered Xianyu's circle, so she had no way to "change her fate". It is said that after the Shi family was defeated according to the development of the original plot, her husband Wei Ruolan also died early, and she remained a widow all her life.
In the end, Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai became a pair of resentful couples, and finally Jia Baoyu abandoned his family and children to become monks.
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