Chapter 4 004 The fairy is indeed worthy of being called "fallen from the sky"...
The Jinling Wang family has always been very proactive. Since the next schedule was decided, all matters quickly began to proceed in an orderly manner.
Since it is the birthday party of the old lady of the Wang family, the main force in organizing it must be the direct descendants of the Wang family.
Although they are called direct descendants, in fact there are only two families, Feng Jieer and Xianyu.
Although the original novel states that the Wang family of Nanjing is the descendant of Lord Wang, the county earl who was in charge of the capital, and has twelve branches, in fact, the Wang family has only two direct branches, and they moved to the capital early on in order to follow the late grandfather of the Wang family to take up his post in Beijing.
The eldest branch of the family is Feng Jieer's family. Although Feng Jieer's father, the eldest master of the Wang family, as the eldest son of the Wang family, had followed all the procedures to request the title of prince and inherited the title of old master Wang, in fact, he himself had mediocre abilities and had no presence in his generation.
Not to mention compared with the Shi brothers, who are also from the four major families but still have the title of marquis, he is not as good as Jia Jing, his relative from the Jia family who passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, and Jia Zheng, who is a minor official in the Ministry of Works, let alone his own brother Wang Ziteng.
After all, Wang Ziteng became the first-rank governor of the Beijing Camp basically relying on his own abilities. In their generation, he was ranked first in terms of comprehensive qualities.
Of course, it is not true to say that Wang Ziteng's rise was not at all due to his ancestors' influence - even Master Kang, who was known as the "greatest emperor in history", could not completely ignore the family background of his subjects. For children from families like their Wang family whose ancestors had military merits, he would give them some face and look up to them.
But, it was just that one glance at most.
Because whether he can be valued by him and rise to the top depends on his own ability and luck.
A typical example is Jia Zheng, the second son of the Jia family and the Rongguo Mansion, who is also one of the four major families. Although Jia Zheng entered the Ministry of Works with the help of his ancestors, after so many years, due to his mediocre ability, he is now only a fifth-rank official in the Ministry of Works.
It can be seen that having a good family background can only provide an opportunity to become an official, but how high an official one can become still depends on one's own ability.
The eldest master of the Wang family obviously doesn't have this ability.
If I must say, he is actually a bit like Jia She, the eldest son of Rongguo Mansion.
Although the Wang family's eldest master's behavior is not as absurd as that of Master She, he still has a lot in common with Jia She in many aspects.
Especially in terms of offspring, he had a harder time than Jia She.
Jia She at least had three children, Jia Lian, a legitimate son, Jia Cong, a concubine son, and Jia Yingchun, a concubine daughter. But our Wang family's eldest master had a wife, a step-wife, a dozen concubines, and countless maids, but he only had one legitimate daughter, Feng Jieer, and a son, Wang Ren, but he was a concubine's.
The funniest thing is that this illegitimate son Wang Ren is several years older than Feng Jieer, the eldest legitimate daughter. He is even two or three years older than Xianyu's step-brother Wang Yao. So this illegitimate son is actually the eldest grandson of the Wang family's generation and the eldest master of the Wang family. Although Wang Yao is the eldest legitimate son of the second wife, he has to be relegated to the position of "Second Master".
And this does not mean that the eldest master of the Wang family, who was several years older than Wang Ziteng, had no choice but to let his concubine give birth to a child because of infertility after many years of marriage with his wife. It turns out that the eldest master of the Wang family had been having an affair with his personal maid in the room before he got married to his wife, that is, Feng Jie'er's mother.
Originally, this kind of thing could be solved with a bowl of abortion pills. There was no need to offend the in-laws from the four major families just for a girl.
But the girl was born delicate and pretty, and would cry at any time, which made the master of the Wang family so obsessed with her that he even ignored the marriage proposal with the Jia family and secretly sent the pregnant girl out of the Wang family and raised her in the alley as a concubine.
Later, when the baby was almost full term, it finally came out, but it was too late.
Seeing that there was a life in her belly after all, and also the blood of the Wang family, the old man of the Wang family made the final decision and decided to keep the person against all odds.
Unexpectedly, the girl was also unlucky. She was still making trouble even in such a state, not caring about her own health at all. She had to hang out with the eldest master of the Wang family day and night, and finally succeeded in killing herself. Only Wang Ren, the eldest son of the concubine, was left behind, which made the legitimate mistress of the house at that time, Feng Jieer's mother who had just married into the family, almost vomit to death.
Like the old lady of the Wang family, Feng Jie'er's mother also has the surname Jia. She is a legitimate daughter from the Ningguo Mansion. She is the sister of Jia Jing and the aunt of Jia Zhen. In a sense, she is also the cousin of the old lady of the Wang family who is from the Rongguo Mansion.
At that time, the Jia family had not yet gone downhill, and Feng Jieer's mother, as the legitimate daughter of Ningguo Mansion, was naturally raised in luxury. Unfortunately, she had never seen such a scene in her life, and she was so angry that she aborted the child she had just conceived.
She even hurt herself because of this, and it took many years before she had a daughter like Feng Jieer. However, she lost her foundation before, and the fact that the eldest master of the Wang family had been busy collecting women in the room for so many years made her depressed, so this Mrs. Jia died of depression when Feng Jieer was only a few years old.
The old man of the Wang family therefore disliked the eldest master of the Wang family, but there was nothing he could do because this kid was lucky enough to be the eldest son.
In such a big family, it is not a big mistake for the old or young masters to have a concubine's eldest son. Even if they have mediocre abilities, because they are the eldest son of the legitimate wife, the position of the crown prince and the family title will all be theirs.
The situation of Jia She and Jia Zheng in Rongguo Mansion is an isolated case after all. All other families came from this situation, and the Wang family is no exception.
So after the eldest master of the Wang family survived his first wife and married a new wife, he was welcomed to inherit the title. It can be said that he had a smooth journey and got to the shore safely.
The only shortcoming was that, apart from the son and daughter of Wang Ren and Feng Jie'er, no one, whether it was his first wife Jia or his second wife Li, or even his dozen concubines and countless maids, gave birth to a child for him.
He was very sorry for this, as he had exchanged ideas with Jia She many times before when they were in the capital - birds of a feather flock together, that's probably what it means. It was also for this reason that he had betrothed his legitimate daughter Feng Jie'er to Jia She's eldest son Jia Lian early on.
If we ignore their personalities and only look at their family backgrounds and even their looks, Jia Lian and Feng Jieer are a perfect match. Otherwise, this marriage would not have been approved by the then patriarch of the Wang family, Old Master Wang. Unfortunately, Jia Lian's personality is not something that can be relied upon, so it is better not to get married.
Of course, this is just Xianyu's personal opinion. Thinking of the plot between Feng Jieer and Jia Lian in the original novel, she feels that at least Feng Jieer is relatively satisfied with her husband Jia Lian, otherwise she would not be so possessive and loyal to him.
Therefore, Xianyu did not express any opinion on this matter. After all, as an unmarried girl, she had no right to interfere in her cousin's marriage.
But what made her feel strange was that no one ever mentioned the affair between Feng Jieer and Jia Lian again, as if it had never existed at all, and as if what the old lady of the Wang family said that day was all her hallucination... It was quite confusing.
This is all later, Xianyu didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Because at that time, the Wang family was busy preparing for the birthday banquet of the old lady of the Wang family in a dozen days. As the daughter of the second branch of the Wang family, Xianyu didn't have much to do, but she didn't have the heart to think about these things.
After all, this was her first large-scale banquet planning event since she came here. Even if she didn't like the hustle and bustle, it was still interesting to watch.
In response to this, Feng Jieer said, Sister Xian, as long as you are happy... It is true that people who don’t have to work are happier.
Indeed, when it comes to preparing for the birthday banquet, compared with her busy cousin Feng Jieer and Xianyu's stepmother, Mrs. Liu from the second branch of the Wang family, Xianyu is completely a freeloader.
As for Wang's eldest wife, Lady Li, Feng Jie'er's current stepmother, she is a stepmother, her health is not very good, and her temperament is also tepid. She can be a supporting role, but it is absolutely impossible to let her take charge of anything...
Therefore, Feng Jieer basically took over the position of the head of the eldest house, and became more and more proficient in all the affairs required of a housekeeper. After all the hard work, she became more and more like the second wife Lian in the Rongguo Mansion.
In response to this, Xianyu said that some things were probably really destined. Even though Feng Jieer and Jia Lian did not succeed in the end, it did not prevent her from becoming a "second wife" who could manage the household... She did have that sense of fate.
Feng Jieer, who "heard" all of her inner complaints, said, "Thank you very much, sister. But I will still try my best not to marry into the Jia family."
Thanks to the efforts of Feng Jieer and Xianyu's mother, the old lady Wang's birthday banquet was finally held as scheduled on July 8th.
The reason for such a rush was mainly because the Autumn Examination began on the ninth day of August. It would take twenty days to get from Jinling to the capital even if one traveled day and night. If something delayed them, they would miss it.
Fortunately, both Sister Feng and Madam Liu were capable, and although the birthday banquet was prepared in a hurry, it was very grand and not at all unbecoming.
They even know how to plan a few days in advance and clean up the guest rooms and storerooms early, so that whether they are receiving friends and relatives or collecting and putting away gifts, everything is in order and not messy at all.
The old lady of the Wang family was celebrating her 59th birthday this time. According to the rule of "women celebrate their 9th birthday and men their 10th birthday", this was considered a full birthday and had to be celebrated with great fanfare.
Therefore, as early as the fifth and sixth day of July, many relatives and friends from other places had already arrived in advance with gifts.
Of course, you can't arrive too early, because that might catch the host off guard and they might not be able to greet you properly.
This is also a rule, which reflects the meaning of knowing etiquette.
Lin Ruhai and his family arrived on the sixth day of July.
It was only two days earlier, not too early or too late, just right.
Early in the morning on the sixth day of the New Year, Xianyu had just gotten up and finished washing up when Fengjie broke into the room and dragged her out.
She asked Feng Jieer in confusion what she was doing, but she saw the girl grinning and saying, "It's incredible, the fairy is here, come with me to see her."
Xianyu became more and more confused, but soon she realized that it was the Lin family who had arrived.
So, can we meet Lin Daiyu? She is truly a "celestial being".
Xianyu immediately became a little excited, so she cooperated very well and was pulled by Fengjie all the way to the main courtyard. She saw that the door of the main house where the old lady of the Wang family usually entertained guests was wide open, and bursts of laughter and joy could be heard from time to time, which was very lively.
Seeing her and Feng Jieer coming, several maids and servants came to greet them, opened the pearl curtain for them and said with a smile: "The eldest and second young ladies are here."
Before Xianyu and Fengjie had time to speak, the loud voice of the old lady from the Wang family rang out, saying, "Feng girl and Xian girl are here, come and meet your aunt Lin and sister Lin."
The two sisters hurried into the house and saw that there was an extremely beautiful lady sitting next to old lady Wang. In her arms was a pretty little girl. Although she was only three or four years old, she could already be seen to have a stunning beauty in the future.
These are Jia Min and her daughter, Xiao Daiyu.
Xianyu and Fengjie hurried forward to greet her. After a round of greetings, Fengjie smiled even more brightly. She took little Daiyu's hand and said with a smile, "Oh, is this Miss Lin? She is indeed worthy of being your aunt's daughter. Looking at her appearance, she is probably a fairy from heaven. She doesn't look like the old lady's niece's granddaughter, but rather like the old lady's own granddaughter."
While she was talking, she took the time to turn around and smiled at Xianyu: "Tsk tsk tsk tsk, this time you're outclassed."
Feng Jie'er's words were very tactful. She praised all the female relatives present without making any expression, which made Xianyu feel as if the scene of "Sister Lin Entering the Jia Mansion" was relived.
But it must be said that this set is classic and effective. The old lady of the Wang family laughed out loud, Jia Min also showed a beautiful smile, and even the pretty face of little Daiyu showed a slight blush of shyness.
However, in this happy and joyful atmosphere, the mechanical synthesized voice of System 003 suddenly sounded again:
"This is Miss Lin. Of course she is a fairy, because she came from heaven."
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