Chapter 286: Knowing the general, knowledgeable Baochai
Lixiangyuan
Jia Heng entered the wing and sat down. When Ying'er came forward to offer him a cup of fragrant tea, he raised his eyes to look at Aunt Xue and Baochai and asked, "Auntie and Baochai, are you getting used to living here?"
Aunt Xue smiled and said: "Everything is fine, Brother Laoheng is thinking about you."
Baochai said softly: "Thank you, Brother Heng, for your concern."
Jia Heng asked a few more questions about food and daily life.
He is the head of the Jia clan, and when his relatives come to stay, even if it is out of courtesy, they cannot ignore him.
After greetings, Aunt Xue showed a smile on her face and said: "Brother Heng, there is something I want to discuss with you."
Jia Heng nodded, with a calm face, and said softly: "Auntie, please speak."
Aunt Xue smiled and said: "Even Pan'er has been here for a few days, but I see Pan'er playing around in the capital. It's not an option to idle around like this every day. I heard that the ethnology has invited a lecturer from the Imperial Academy.
, I just want to let Pan'er study for a few days, Brother Heng, what do you think?"
When Jia Heng heard this, he thought to himself that it was not very good.
But with "concern" in his eyes, he asked: "Aunt, if I remember correctly, Wenlong doesn't seem to like reading very much? Have you ever read the Four Books and Five Classics at home?"
Aunt Xue was startled for a moment, then smiled and said: "This...it's not true, he is a bit playful."
No matter how much I want to smear my son's face with makeup, I can't just talk about it.
Jia Heng thought for a while and asked: "In that case, Ruqiang restrained him from studying... I think my aunt intended to let him take the imperial examination and become an official?"
Aunt Xue: "..."
Taking the imperial examination, no matter how much I hope my son will succeed... I can't even think about it.
Baochai felt ashamed when he heard this, his cheeks were slightly hot, and finally he raised a pair of watery eyes and said softly: "Brother Heng, my brother doesn't like to study at home. Now my mother is just worried that he won't be able to study in Beijing."
If people are restrained, trouble will happen again."
Jia Heng looked silent and said: "If it's just for restraint, then..."
Or... go to jail and be restrained. There is no "reporting and discipline" anymore. It is the best way to restrain others.
But the words came to mind just thinking about it. Who could say it out loud? After thinking about it, he continued: "You can try to learn how to do business or something."
Doing business is like not going to school well, men go into business (catering), and women go to sell clothes. They are all self-consolation for not going down a serious path.
Although Aunt Xue had a smile on her face, she felt bitter in her heart and said: "Pan'er has never done business, but he is too young and has little experience, and he is not a caring person."
Jia Heng said warmly: "Wenlong is still young, so he always needs to learn a little bit. In fact, it seems that he would be good at joining the army now. By the way, Wang Jieshuai is now reorganizing the Beijing camp and letting Wenlong join the army to gain experience, maybe he can make a career."
A part-time official."
Xue Pan's temperament is incapable of committing great evil, he is just plain short-sighted and stupid.
As for the idea of Xue Pan taking refuge with Wang Ziteng, it is nothing more than diverting misfortune to the east and making the relationship between Wang and Xue's family closer. When Xue Pan's case is revealed, this will be evidence of guilt.
As soon as Jia Heng said this, Aunt Xue's eyes lit up and she said in surprise: "Yeah, oh my, why didn't I think of that before."
But after a while, he worriedly said: "This person with a knife and a gun is not in danger."
Jia Heng pondered for a moment and said: "The Beijing camp is not as good as the border army. It is relatively peaceful and does not fight much. Let him train with Wang Jieshuai and pass on orders and other things. It will not be a big problem if he works as an official and a half-time official."
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The more Aunt Xue thought about it, the more she realized it was feasible, and she couldn't help but smile on her face.
Mainly because last night Aunt Xue was thinking about Xue Pan, who would become a general like his uncle Wang Ziteng in the future, and now that he had the guidance of an expert "in the system" like Jia Heng, she paid attention to it.
Seeing this scene, Jia Heng secretly thought that if the original work was followed, before Xue Pan came to Beijing, he was overjoyed when he heard that his uncle had been promoted to Bian Queer, precisely because he was worried about being controlled.
Now Wang Ziteng was sent by Bian Queer, who was replaced by him as the "prime minister and prime minister" to manage the northern Xinjiang. Instead, Wang Ziteng was welded to Shenjing to reorganize the capital camp, just in time for the "nephew cheated his uncle, Xue"
Pan Congjun Ji".
Aunt Xue smiled and said, "His uncle's son will be born in just two days. I will take him to talk to his uncle."
Baochai watched this scene quietly from the side, and cast her clear eyes on the face of the young man opposite. There were thoughts on the plump and white face. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt vaguely that she was seeing something in front of her.
The young man seems to be hiding a hidden agenda.
But I can’t think clearly about it.
However, it is not a bad thing after all, seeing that my mother's concerns have been resolved.
Aunt Xue was satisfied this time. She picked up the account book and said with a smile: "Brother Heng, there is something else I want you to decide on."
Jia Heng smiled and said, "Aunt, there's no need to be polite."
Aunt Xue smiled bitterly and said: "Wenlong is a careless person. As for me, I haven't taken care of the business in Beijing these years. I don't know how the people below keep track of the accounts in the shop. It's a mess. I am alone.
People can’t quite understand it either.”
When Baochai saw that her mother still mentioned this matter, Li Rui's face moved slightly and she sighed softly in her heart.
Jia Heng frowned and said in deep thought: "Auntie, I'm not very familiar with the businessman's ways."
He finally knew what Aunt Xue was planning. She wanted him to help the Xue family check the accounts. In the past few years, the Xue family had been celebrating the New Year with Wang Xiaoer, and every year was worse than the last.
Because Xue Pan was incompetent in general affairs, and Aunt Xue was a housewife with no independent ideas, and Baochai was ignorant and clumsy. The shop's profit was earned, and I don't know how much the shopkeepers and clerks who deceived and deceived them were greedy.
I heard that the East and West Houses have done a lot of auditing and chasing, how can you not be tempted?
Suspecting my neighbor of stealing an axe, I wanted to check the store's accounts.
Aunt Xue thought for a while, then simply spoke more clearly, and said: "Brother Heng, we orphans and widowed mothers don't know how the people below are looking down on and deceiving you."
Baochai's cherry lips twitched, and after thinking for a while, she suppressed her intention to speak. She looked at Jia Heng opposite her with her almond-shaped eyes, waiting for his words.
Jia Heng was silent for a moment, and Zhan Ran stared at Aunt Xue and asked, "Auntie, do you have any evidence?"
Aunt Xue: "???"
Baochai:"……"
"If there is evidence, report it directly to the official. Stealing the owner's house is a serious crime." Jia Heng said seriously.
Aunt Xue sighed and said: "I just have suspicions. The profit delivered by the shop in Jingli is getting less and less. I heard that Brother Heng has investigated the company's shortfalls and sorted out many old accounts. Brother Heng, you
Look...I'm sorry to trouble you, but I'm keeping you busy for nothing. I'll wait until we find out..."
"Mom." Baochai listened to Aunt Xue talking more and more unlike her, because as soon as her relatives brought up money, they fell into disgrace, so she quickly said: "Brother Heng, this matter is not easy to handle, isn't it?"
Jia Heng was silent for a moment and said: "Sister Xue, Jinyi Mansion is the palace of the emperor's personal army. It used to run errands for the court. It is not appropriate to be called in for family affairs again and again."
Even if some things are easy to handle, you can't just agree to it easily, otherwise others will take it for granted and not be grateful.
As for not doing it, there is no way to escape it because of the sophisticated nature of relatives and people in the world.
Baochai sighed and said: "I originally knew the difficulty of Brother Heng's matter. The Jinyi Mansion is not our own, so we can't control it at will."
Jia Heng said: "My sister has always been a person of general knowledge and insight."
Baochai's jade face paused slightly, feeling a little embarrassed for being praised for a moment. Her apricot eyes drooped slightly and she said softly: "What kind of insight can you have? Brother Heng is so complimentary."
However, after the feeling of shame and joy in her heart gradually disappeared, she turned around and thought, she knows the general concept and is knowledgeable, so who doesn't know the general concept and has no knowledge?
At this time, Aunt Xue did not interrupt and listened quietly to the conversation between her daughter and Jia Heng.
Jia Heng had a thoughtful look on his face and said: "Auntie, and Sister Xue are very sensible and rarely open their mouths. I'll think of a way and send two accountants from Jinyi Mansion, but they will only help with checking the accounts, and there will be no other services."
It depends on my aunt."
When Aunt Xue heard this, she felt happy and said, "Brother Heng, if you can check the accounts, it will be done."
Baochai stared at Jia Heng, and when she met those warm and reasonable eyes, she rarely opened her mouth. This man...
"Actually, the academy didn't allow it just now, so, Brother Heng, is it because of me...?"
Thinking of this, her heart skipped a beat, and two blushes appeared on Li Rui's snow-white face.
After a second thought, I looked at the young man opposite who still had a calm expression, and thought, no, this is just my imagination. They are married, so there should be no other thoughts.
Seeing that Jia Heng agreed, Aunt Xue smiled and said, "I have to trouble Brother Heng a lot more. I'm going to ask someone to warm some wine. Let's have a few drinks together today, and then we'll have dinner together in the evening."
Jia Heng resigned politely and modestly.
Suddenly, a woman came in from outside and said with a smile: "Madam, Miss, Uncle Heng, Miss Lin is here."
While talking, Daiyu, accompanied by the maid Zijuan and guided by the maid, entered the inner compartment. When she saw Jia Heng, the girl with bright eyes and white teeth covered her mouth and smiled and said: "Oh, I didn't want Brother Heng to be here. It's really funny."
It's an unlucky time to come. If I had known Brother Heng was coming, I wouldn't have come."
Jia Heng said: "..."
What exactly does Daiyu mean by this?
So, what he is taking now is Baoyu’s script?
Baochai stood up with a smile, helped Daiyu sit down, and asked, "What does my sister mean by this?"
Daiyu looked at Baochai with her starry eyes, smiled softly and said softly: "Either a group of people come, or none of them come. Today, Brother Heng is here, and I will come again tomorrow. We are staggered like this. Sister Bao is here."
Don’t people come here every day? It’s not too lonely here, nor is it too lively. Why can’t my sister understand this?”
When Baochai heard this, his heart moved slightly, and he smiled and said softly: "It seems to make sense."
At this time, Aunt Xue greeted Daiyu with a smile and exchanged a few words.
Daiyu smelled the fragrance of Baochai and asked, "What kind of fragrance does sister use?"
Baochai smiled and said, "I don't usually smoke incense."
Aunt Xue smiled and said, "Bao girl never puts perfume on her clothes."
Ying'er interjected from the side and said: "Girl, maybe it's the fragrance of Lengxiang Pills?"
Baochai said softly: "Maybe it's Lengxiang Wan."
Jia Heng looked at the two women who were talking quietly. One was slender and the other was plump. For some reason, four words came to his mind: fat and thin.
Although Keqing has the beauty of Chai Dai, the Chai Dai in front of her has its own beauty and beauty.
Daiyu's bright eyes fluttered as she cut her eyes, and she asked in surprise: "Lengxiang Pills?"
Baochai smiled and said: "It turns out that the child was born with a disease because he was born strong. A mangy-headed monk gave him a fairy prescription and a bag of powdered medicine with a strange smell to make a medicine. It turns out that this prescription is not good.
It is also strange to have twelve taels of white peony stamens that bloom in spring, twelve taels of white lotus stamens that bloom in summer, twelve taels of white hibiscus stamens that bloom in autumn, and twelve taels of white plum blossom stamens in winter..."
Jia Heng listened to Baochai describing the origin of Lengxiang Pills and mentioning the scabby monk, his eyes were deep and he was lost in thought.
After listening to Baochai's story about the origin of Lengxiang Pills, Daiyu said with a smile: "This is really rare, and it is made with snow-white flower petals."
Then he looked at Jia Heng and said, "Brother Heng, do you think so?"
Jia Heng smiled and said: "It is indeed very rare. But Sister Xue, do you have many pills in reserve? If you take this medicine for a lifetime, it will eventually be used up. How about you introduce the medicine into the prescription? I will go back and look for Xinglin
A good hand will take a look and prepare some more medicine."
He is more curious, is there really a magic medicine in this world?
However, Baochai may not need to take medicine for the heat poison in his body after getting married.
Probably, maybe.
As for the prescription, he studied Taoism intensively in his previous life and actually read some medical books. In his opinion, flowers and the like should be adjuvant medicine, or they may be used to confuse the medicine. What really works is the medicinal foam.
"When it comes to this kind of trouble, it still can't compare with the various rain, snow, frost and dew in Miaoyu."
Baochai chuckled lightly and said softly: "There is still half a packet of medicinal foam, together with the prescription, I will show it to Brother Heng later."
Daiyu listened to the conversation between the two, her starry eyes flashed, and she pursed her pink lips.
After a while, the mother-in-law came over and said with a smile: "Madam, the wine is ready."
Aunt Xue smiled and said, "Have two glasses of wine to warm yourself up."
While they were talking, a few people gathered at the small table to eat wine and chat.
Until the time when we were still friends, we stopped drinking wine.
Aunt Xue wanted to leave some food again, but Jia Heng declined politely: "Aunt, if we have something else to do later, let's have dinner together another day."
He wanted to wait and see Xichun.
When Aunt Xue saw this, she couldn't force her to stay because she didn't know whether what Jia Heng said was official business.
Daiyu chuckled and said, "Aunt, it's getting late, so I'll go there too."
With that said, he said goodbye to Baochai who was beside him, and took the prescription and a small amount of medicine foam with him.
Aunt Xue nodded and followed the maid to escort Jia Heng and Daiyu out of the wing.
On the corridor, the two of them were walking side by side. Daiyu said softly: "Brother Heng, are you going back to Dongfu now?"
Jia Heng smiled and said: "Go and sit in Xichun's house."
Daiyu's starry eyes sparkled, she chuckled and said, "Brother Heng, I'll take you there."
Jia Heng nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, it will save me the trouble of looking for the maid to ask for directions later."
While the two people were talking, they walked slowly along the Chaoshou Veranda.
Jia Heng smiled and said: "Sister Lin's complexion is rosy and her steps are as fast as flying. She looks much better than before."'
Daiyu tightened the red cloak around her body, turned her head, smiled at Jia Heng, and said softly: "Maybe she just drank wine."
Jia Heng was silent for a moment and said, "I told Sister Lin last time that I should take good care of my body and bones."
There was a hint of self-pity in Daiyu's soft voice, and she sighed faintly and said: "I was born weak and sick, so I took more medicine than food. There were several different prescriptions, and there were no Taoist monks to give me cold-flavored pills.
Warm fragrant pills.”
Finally, he couldn't hold it back and said something sour.
Jia Heng's face was stunned for a moment, and he was a little amused by Daiyu's child's request for attention. He said softly: "Sister Lin, I'm looking for a doctor in the past two days to help Sister Lin plan a food supplement recipe and take care of her body."
stomach."
Hearing this, Daiyu's delicate body trembled slightly, she turned her head, looked back at Jia Heng, and said softly: "I have troubled Brother Heng so much, and I feel uneasy."
Jia Heng said warmly: "Yes, Uncle Lin also entrusted me to take care of you in the letter."
When Daiyu heard this, she turned her head away, her starry eyes drooped slightly, and she was speechless for a moment.
Several steps behind the two of them, Zijuan pulled the little girl Xueyan to prevent her from coming forward and disturbing the two who were talking.
While the two were talking, they also arrived at the Xichun courtyard and saw Ru Hua standing at the door and seemingly quarreling with a woman, but in fact it was mainly the woman talking about Luo Ru Hua.
"It was just when the girl was growing taller that the egg custard she asked her mother to fetch from the kitchen didn't come for two days," said Ru Hua, frowning.
The old woman said: "The girl only asked me to go, but those in charge of the kitchen and the kitchen all said that it was like this every day, and that they were tormenting people in the cold weather. They criticized me several times. Every time I went there, I was very angry. You
If you don’t believe it, go and get it yourself.”
When he heard this, his cheeks turned red and he said anxiously: "I give you ten cents every time on behalf of the girl, just to let you run errands. Why do you ask me to ask for it in turn?"
She is a maid, she has to wait on girls, and she has to argue with the cook, so how can she run away so often?
The woman sneered and said: "You can't even get angry with a plywood if you earn ten or eight pennies a day. A decent young lady with a lot of money can eat on a small stove if she gives the cook some money, and she usually studies painting."
How can I save money on food?"
The two were quarreling with each other. At this moment, Xichun in the room was crouching in front of the desk, looking at a painting, rubbing his slightly cold hands, frowning, listening to the argument outside the room,
I was a little upset for a while.
He left his seat, walked to the door, opened the cotton curtain, and stood in the corridor. His originally pink face had a faint frost color, and a crisp voice sounded, "What are you two arguing about?"
The old lady glanced sideways at Xichun, and said with a smile: "If the girl is capable, just send the cook to run a small stove. I am an old man who can't do anything for the girl. I can't do much for the girl."
When Xichun heard this, her pretty little face was full of anger. She didn't know whether she was cold or angry, her shoulders were slouched and trembling.
Jia Heng stood not far away and watched, his face gradually turning cold.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
The garden opera and the chaotang opera were written in a staggered manner. When it was time to write, I would write a special note about it.
I remember someone said this before when they talked about a large-scale court drama.