After a few days of rest, Jia Zheng reluctantly recovered, but mental trauma is not so easy to recover from.
From a fifth-grade Yuanwailang, he changed back to a sixth-grade official, and now he has become a seventh-grade ceremony receptionist.
If the director of the Ministry of Industry still has the opportunity to be promoted through meritorious service, the reception officer basically has to rely on seniority, the kind that starts in ten years.
Because in this official position, he is basically responsible for receiving and managing the accommodation and transportation of envoys from various countries, and there is no opportunity for him to make meritorious deeds.
Xue Hong was afraid that Jia Zheng would be hit too hard and it would be bad if he gave up and resigned. After all, there were not many such fun people.
So Xue Hong specially ordered someone to send a gift to Jia Zheng. He also said: "Xiao Zheng, I know your grievances, and I still think highly of you. Don't worry, I will arrange some for you when I find an opportunity."
It’s a very rewarding task.”
This moved Jia Zheng so much that he almost went to Bowenhou's house to perform a show of prostrating himself to the ground.
What is the highest level of tricking someone? After tricking him, you have to let him say thank you!!
Of course, Jia Zheng has not given up now, but pins his hopes on Jia Yuanchun and Wang Ziteng.
But Jia Zheng didn't know that since Jia Yuanchun became a concubine, Emperor Longqing had never touched her at all, let alone favored her.
Although Wang Ziteng had the background of the Jia family, Emperor Longqing was like Ming Jing, and he was determined to fish through Wang Ziteng. Therefore, there is currently no news about whether Wang Ziteng can be promoted.
However, the Jia family is not without good news. For example, Jia Baoyu and Xia Jingui are officially engaged, and the three letters and six rituals have been completed.
Therefore, the Xia family unconditionally supported the Jia family with 1.5 million taels of silver as part of Xia Jingui's dowry.
However, I don’t know at this moment whether it was Jia Baoyu’s consciousness before reincarnation, or whether he was born with an unruly love of freedom. He refused to agree to this marriage contract, and he still couldn’t forget Lin Daiyu.
But now Lin Ruhai has seen that the Jia family is a broken ship that can sink at any time. He would rather his daughter marry a poor boy with good character than let his daughter get involved with the Jia family...
In the Xue Mansion, Sanchun and Daiyu came together to find Baochai.
Although the five of them are all outstanding women, they are still girls at heart. With Xue Hong's protection in this life, Baochai does not have to be as scheming as in the original work, but has more of a girl's innocence and liveliness.
Baochai tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said to the playing people: "By the way, it's really boring for us to play like this, and the beauty here is not very good for reciting poems."
"It just so happens that Brother Hong's alchemy room has many novel things, such as strange calligraphy and painting, and some novel cards. How about we go to the alchemy room and play with them?"
Daiyu stretched out her little hand to hold Baochai: "Didn't sister say last time that Brother Hong in the alchemy room did not allow others to enter?"
Baochai: "That's it, it's just that Brother Hong has moved away the important things in the room, and there are still some gadgets made by Brother Hong, and they were all given to me."
Xichun said with an innocent voice, "Sister Bao, are there really fun chess and cards there?"
Baochai stretched out her hand and pinched Xichun's little face lovingly: "This is natural, let's go."
Even though Baochai said this, Yingchun was still worried: "I'm worried that the Marquis will blame us if he knows that we entered his alchemy room..."
Baochai: "Don't worry, sister, since we were young, no matter what mistakes my brother and I made, Brother Hong has never been willing to scold us or hit us.
What's more, he has already said that all the remaining gadgets in the alchemy room will be given to me."
Tanchun grabbed Yingchun: "Oh, since Sister Bao has said so, what else is there to worry about? I don't believe that the eldest brother of the Xue family will still be angry with us little girls. Let's go!"
With that said, Tanchun took Yingchun and Xichun one by one and followed Baochai and Daiyu to the alchemy room.
Although Xue Hong's alchemy room is called an alchemy room, it contains more tools, drawings and the like.
There are also some comic strips drawn by Xue Hong for Baochai and Xue Pan when they were young, as well as some small cards, playing cards and other things.
Daiyu: "It's strange. Since it's an alchemy room, why don't we see alchemy furnaces, elixirs, or all kinds of strange things? Instead, there are only tools, books, calligraphy and paintings? Could it be that Sister Bao was trying to trick her sister before? This is not an alchemy room in the first place.
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Baochai: "Brother Hong's alchemy room has never been used to refine elixirs, and most of the things here have been moved to the Hou Mansion. These are just some of the remaining things."
Compared to the cautious Yingchun, Tanchun is much more relaxed: "Sister Bao, what kind of books are placed here, why have I never heard of them?"
Baochai: "Those are not books, they are picture albums. Do you want to take a look?"
Baochai took down a picture album and handed it to Tan Chun: "These picture albums were drawn by Brother Hong for me and my eldest brother when we were young. Later, after Brother Hong moved to the Hou Mansion, I put these picture albums here."
Tanchun opened it and saw that it was a picture album about Journey to the West. The first picture was of Sun Wukong.
Xue Hong adopted the animation style of later generations, so the overall look is novel and cute.
Baochai handed it to Daiyu again, a copy for Yingchun and Xichun, and everyone looked at it in amazement.
Tan Chun: "I can't believe that brother Xue Hong is actually good at painting."
Baochai took out these trinkets from the room, including wooden dolls and even realistic portraits of Baochai and Xue Pan when they were young.
Following Baochai's introduction, Daiyu and others envy Baochai for having such a brother... now he is his love brother.
Needless to say, Daiyu had been dependent on others since she was a child and had a sensitive heart. She was envious of Baochai for having a brother like Xue Hong.
Sanchun also felt a little sad. Compared with Baochai, the three of them were miserable.
Let’s talk about Yingchun first. She was raised by Jia’s mother since she was a child. Her father, Jia She, didn’t care much about her. Her brother, Jia Lian, was also unreliable. Her grandma didn’t care for her, and her uncle didn’t love her. That’s why she developed the “
"Two pieces of wood" character.
As for Tanchun, he had great ambitions and thought he was as good as a man, but after all, he was born a commoner. His biological mother was a shrew, and his younger brother was also in bad shape due to lack of education. Jia Zheng was a warm-faced but cold-hearted guy who was just trying to gain fame. Even Jia Baoyu
When he was about to be tortured by nightmares and went crazy, he didn't show much emotion, and he showed no affection towards Tanchun.
Finally, Xichun is the youngest and the most heart-wrenching one. Her father wanted to avoid the turmoil and keep the family from becoming a monk, so Xichun has never experienced father's love since he was a child.
Xichun's eldest brother Jia Zhen...that's it. He was busy studying "Huha" and how to get Qin Keqing every day, and he didn't care about Xichun at all.
Although Xichun is young, don't think that you don't know anything because you are young. Children can see most clearly when they don't distinguish between good and evil, right and wrong.
On the other hand, Baochai was pampered by Xue Hong and Xue Pan since she was a child. Xue Hong even personally made so many toys and little books for Baochai.
After leaving home, he was a noble man who stood up to the heaven and earth, opened up territory for the country, and scolded Fang Qiu.
When he entered the house, he was generous and gentle, responsive to all requests of his younger brothers and sisters, and capable of doing anything.
Who wouldn’t want a brother like this?
In the spring of spring, Daiyu looked at Baochai's happy face, and some lemon juice dripped from her heart.