It is said that it is early spring in the first lunar month, but it is still the cold winter. There are traffic on Ningrong Street, blocking from the east to the west.

Jia Yuanchun was promoted to the imperial concubine last winter, and the Jia family became the top noble family in the capital. Friends, relatives, officials, disciples, and all kinds of people who were interested in joining the Jia family. All kinds of gifts and good words came over like they didn't have money.

There are crowds of people.

Jia Rui, who was a small leader in the Jia Mansion's gatehouse, experienced a bit of the "seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister" and received the red envelopes from the gatehouse.

On the morning of the fourth day of the first lunar month, Jia Rui and several servants from the Jia family rested in the ear room next to Xiangnan Hall, bragging.

Jia Rui got married in the autumn of the 11th year of Yongzhi. The money he gave to his wife was Jia Huan. The children were almost one year old.

While four or five people were chatting, Baoyu and his servant Mingyan and the other two went to the south hall, preparing to enter the inner ritual gate and enter the back house of Jia's mansion.

Several servants guarding outside the Xiangnan Hall were all flatteringly talking around Baoyu. Someone asked for the small items that Baoyu had with him and said, "Master Bao, is this thing rewarding slaves?"

Looking at Baoyu who was surrounded by slaves outside, handsome and handsome, Jia Rui sarcastically said, "Wu Er and others are blind. In this mansion, the Third Master is in charge of the Third Master. The Third Master was the leader of the ancestor worship a few days ago."

It is easy to understand that Jia Rui takes the team. He and his grandfather Jia Dairu both received the favor of Master Huan San.

A long-faced servant smiled and said, "Mr. Rui is thinking. But the master is only the legitimate son of Master Bao Er..."

A group of people laughed and argued: The Third Master returned to his residence at the end of the year and was unstoppable. Now, this is the hottest topic in the residence, except for some gossip.

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Baoyu entered the Neiyi Gate and passed Rongxi Hall. He did not go to Dongkuanyuan to find Jin Chuaner and others to play, so he went straight back to his residence.

In the back house of Jia's house, all the wines were arranged in the upper room for several days, and Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng came out to entertain him. He didn't like the excitement.

The charming person is Qianxue facing Baoyu. In early spring, the weather is cold. The smoke cage is burning in Jiangyun Pavilion, and the exquisite house is as warm as spring. After Baoyu entered the house, the maids were busy changing his clothes.

In front of the bright lichen mirror, Baoyu opened his hands and cooperated with the maids. Seeing Baoyu being depressed, Qianxue asked with a smile: "Didn't the second master go out to meet with the master? Why did he look like this when he comes back?"

Baoyu had just gone out and saw the grandson of the King of the State of Jinguo Qing who was first-class Boniu Jizong. He was a powerful figure among the four kings and eight kings. He sighed: "It's all clichés, what's the pleasure? Before leaving just now, the master asked me about my homework, how can I not be bored?"

It was all the bad guy Huan Lao San who wanted him to go to the clan to study. How much does the master care about face? If he really was the last tenth in the first lunar month, he would be afraid that he would get rid of the master even if he didn't die.

Meiren stood behind Baoyu, changed Baoyu's shape, and said gently: "The second master went to laugh at the girls, maybe he was in a good mood."

When talking about this, Baoyu was even more depressed and lay down on the bed in a depressed manner, "I won't go."

The best sisters in the mansion are Lin Daimei and Bao. But they are not close to him anymore. Besides, the third sister is obviously facing the third brother Huan.

Meiren and Qianxue looked at each other and both laughed.

Miss Bao is the fiancée of the Third Master. As long as the Third Master passes the Jinshi, he will marry him. Miss Lin clearly shows that she is close to the Third Master and is entrusted to the orphans at the end of her life. The Third Miss naturally looks to her younger brother. The current situation in the mansion is probably to make the Second Master feel panicked. It would be better to treat it like this, so as not to hang out in the red-fung team at home all day long.

Baoyu made a big fuss in the Jia Mansion a few years ago. The most direct consequence was that the girls in the mansion were alienated from him. That is, Xiangling said: Mr. Bao is really a person who is difficult to get close to.

Baoyu was talking to the maids in her room. When lunch was approaching, Mrs. Wang’s eldest maid Yuchuaner came to send a message, “Second Master, the wife gave the order, go to my uncle’s house to pay New Year’s greetings together on the sixth day of the lunar month.”

"good."

Baoyu was originally lying on the bed, but suddenly he started to do it and suddenly became energetic. Although he didn't care much about the outside, he also heard that his uncle was very disliked Jia Huan. What should I do if you are the third and sixth grade of Huan?

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The person who notified Baoyu was Yu Chuan'er, and the person who notified Jia Huan was Caixia. In early spring, the cold wind blew on the treetops of the garden in Jia Mansion.

Caixia was wearing a purple-red tooth-pinching vest and walked on the corridor to the north to cross the courtyard. The sky was slightly cloudy. People came and went, and there were guests. She was a maid who was not conspicuous. She was thinking about Jin Chuan'er, Cai Yun's teasing, and the throbbing of seeing the Third Master. Perhaps, she could say something to the Third Master alone.

Caixia went out of the corner gate from the north and entered the backyard of Wangyueju a few steps. A maid was drying clothes on the rope in the yard and hurriedly greeted: "Sister Caixia is here. Sister Ruyi and the others are in the house."

Caixia is now sixteen or seventeen years old, and she is Mrs. Wang’s personal maid. It is OK for Jia Huan’s little maid to call her sister. She nodded, thanked her, and went into the house.

In Jia Huan's bedroom, the pretty little girl Ruyi was holding a pen to record the gift lists from all over the place and summarizing the gifts. Two other little maids were helping. Qingwen was missing. Caixia looked at Ruyi enviously. It was a great thing to read and read. The third master's house was different from other places.

Seeing Caixia come in, Ruyi hurriedly put down her pen and stood up, greeted Caixia to sit down, poured a cup of hot tea in the kettle simmered in the copper stove for Caixia, and asked, "Why is Sister Caixia free of time to come to play today?" She has been following Aunt Zhao since she was a child and is also familiar with Caixia.

Caixia thanked Ruyi, sat down and said softly: "Mrs. Let me tell you to tell the third master. On the afternoon of the sixth day of the lunar month, we went to my uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings together, and we would leave food to my uncle's house in the evening." Seeing that Jia Huan was not here, she couldn't help asking, "Is the third master not here?"

Ruyi explained: "The Third Master went to Dongzhuang Town to greet the gentlemen. I will not return tomorrow morning. I will pass on the conversation to the Third Master."

"Yes." Caixia couldn't hide her loss. She sat for a while, then said goodbye and left.

Third Master, do you still remember the promise I gave her?

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During the Chinese New Year, the most common things are all kinds of New Year’s wine. The Xue family has houses in the capital, but lives in the Jia Mansion. The family is sparsely populated, and only Aunt Xue’s family of three is the three. The etiquette of the New Year is much less.

In addition to going to the relatives of the Xue family these days, Xue Pan also wants to go to the family family in the imperial merchant family to pay New Year's greetings and have a drink.

On the afternoon of the fourth day of the first lunar month, Xue Pan and Wang Chengsi and Wang Wei of the Wang family met at the Shi Family Bowling Hou Mansion.

Shi Zhi, the second son of Baoling Hou Shi Nai, called his cousins ​​to have wine, play cards, and bet money in the backyard. The maids were serving him.

With the domino, Xue Pan lost dozens of taels of silver and said to Wang Chengsi, who was half drunk, "Big Cousin, we have made an appointment to go to your house for drinking on the sixth day of the lunar month. Hey, that boy Jia Huan is going to go too, so you must vent your anger at that time."

The few people here laughed. The fact that Jia Huan is not popular among the four major families has long been heard by the children of various families. However, it is said that Jia Huan is very majestic in the Jia Mansion. Even the celebrity in the Jia Mansion, Lian Er's sister-in-law, wants to give him three points.

Wang Chengsi was in his thirties, slightly fat and had short beards. At this time, he smiled reservedly and said, "Wen Qi, relatives should be more kind." That's right, but he had decided in his heart that he would give Jia Huan a bad impression the next day.

As the eldest son of the Wang family, he knew a little about his father's ideas. Jia Huan was in trouble in Jinling and knocked down Jia Yucun, who was dependent on the Jia family and Wang family, which made Jia Yucun exiled to Annan, and his father was extremely annoyed.

First, this disrupted his father's arrangement. Jia Yucun's age and Jinshi were able to provide excellent supplements to the power of the Wang and Jia families.

Second, his father recommended Jia Yucun to the court, but Jia Yucun made a mistake, which made his father look ugly and extremely embarrassed. The left assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, Mr. Hu, once mocked his father for not knowing people in person.

This place must be retrieved.

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The morning light emerged at the top of the mountain. In a moment, Dongzhuang Town was bathed in the golden sunshine.

In the teacher's living area in Wendao Academy, the dean Ye Hongyun sent Jia Huan to the north gate. Two boys followed. After a long talk all night, Jia Huan and Ye Hongyun were both in good spirits.

At the gate of the north gate, Yao Wei and Du Hong, who were in charge of Xianheng Trading Company, had already been waiting. Xianheng Trading Company firmly controlled the administrative power of Dongzhuang Town and the derived commercial power through the power of shops and houses, and slowly and continuously expanded and grew. Another person in charge, Liu Yichen, was spending the New Year at his home in the capital. He was from Daxing County.

As a market town developed with education, Dongzhuang Town, with a permanent population of nearly 100,000, has less prosperity and prosperity in the Spring Festival. The market town is a little quiet and cold in the morning. The wealthy students who used to consume in the past have never seen pilgrims going to Tanzhe Temple in Jinyun Peak, Miaofeng Mountain.

Ye Hongyun patted Jia Huan's back of the hand and said with emotion: "Ziyu returns to Beijing and be careful of everything. If there is any dissonance, take a step back and go back to the academy to study. After the spring exam in February, the situation will be better." As the dean of the academy, the mountain is long in Jinling. Even if he is unwilling, he will still learn some information about the government.

Most of the children of the academy belong to the mountain chief. The mountain chief is close to Mr. He. Mr. He, Wang Ziteng, and Mr. Xie are not the same person.

He was not very optimistic that Jia Huan could pass the level of his uncle Wang Ziteng. In the face of politics, sometimes family affection is nothing.

Jia Huan smiled quietly and said, "I know. Mr. Ye take care of him."

After saying goodbye to Mr. Ye, Jia Huan and Yao Wei and Du Hong had breakfast and chatted with him at the headquarters of Xianheng Trading Company in Dongzhuang Town. Then he took Chang with Qian Huai and Hu Xiaosi back to the Jia Mansion in the capital.

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At around 4 pm on the sixth day of the first lunar month, the carriages of the Jia family and Xue family drove into the royal palace located in Qiuye Hutong, Xiaoyongfang.
Chapter completed!