Chapter 40 The fortieth day after becoming Lady Jia

The old lady complained in her heart, what had she been doing earlier. But she ignored Jia Zheng and directed the people, "Quick, help Baoyu in."

Jia Zheng saw a group of people surrounding Baoyu, and he couldn't help but feel distressed, "How spoiled a loving mother is to her son." Just as he shouted, Wang Furen stumbled and hit him on the shoulder, causing his face to twist in pain.

Baoyu is Lady Wang's favorite. Although she blamed him for harming her eldest daughter, how could she watch Baoyu being beaten to a bloody mess?

As soon as she entered the inner room, she wiped her tears and ordered Wang Xifeng in a cold voice, "Take care of the servants. If anyone can't control that mouth, don't blame me for them. And that Mingyan, take care of her first."

Doctor Wang was the imperial physician who had been treating Lady Jia. After receiving the news, he arrived soon.

After taking the pulse and checking the injury, Doctor Wang breathed a sigh of relief, "It's nothing serious, just a flesh wound, just take care of it."

Jia Zheng was a scholar after all, and his hands were not very strong. Although Jia Baoyu was covered in blood, it was actually not as heavy as the last time.

During this time, Jia Baoyu woke up. He didn't expect that this time it was so serious. His father was going to beat him to death. He held the old lady's hand, tears streaming down his face, and shouted in a daze, "Grandma, I didn't mean it, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it..."

The old lady couldn't help crying, "Good boy, it's your father who beat you wrongly. You rest and recuperate."

Jia Zheng, who was standing behind the old lady, wanted to say something but stopped, but was pulled out by Jia She.

"I say, second brother, do you really want to beat Baoyu to death?" Jia She was very dissatisfied

. "Then you still send Lian Ge'er to the military camp." Jia Zheng was in a bad mood and spoke without scruples. In his heart, his eldest brother was the club. No matter how much he hated Baoyu's naughtiness, he didn't send him to the military camp.

Jia She said "Hey", "Do you think I'm stupid? I've already informed Duke Anguo."

As he was speaking, Jia Zhen interrupted, "Uncles, let's not talk about this for now. What should we do with this villa for the visit? Should we build it or not?"

"The emperor has already spoken, how can we build it?" Jia Zheng was furious.

"But the empress still has to visit her parents, and the nobles have villas when they visit their parents. Ours... Well, even if we can't build it, we have to have a place to go, right?" Jia Zhen said with a bitter face.

"Fortunately, the old lady asked us to reduce the scale earlier, otherwise it would be too big and difficult to deal with it now." Jia She said.

The three of them came to the study room, and Jia She pointed at the map, "The main hall has been completed, and the rest of the construction will be extended to build a large flower hall after it is repaired. As for the rest of the open space, let's see what the old Minggong says."

The other two had no objection.

Several people acted separately. Jia She went to ask Lai Da to summon Jia Qiang back and asked the stewards to stop the purchases on hand; Jia Zhen went to ask Lao Minggong to re-plan and design; as for Jia Zheng, he needed to find out the news in the palace as soon as possible.

For a while, everyone was busy.

In the inner room, the women were all sad and bleak, and the original excitement had all disappeared. After Aunt Xue came to see Baoyu, she sat with Mrs. Wang and comforted him softly.

Mrs. Wang's eyes fell on Baochai, whose eyelashes were wet with tears. She turned her head and sighed again, "I indulged him too much."

The old lady was impatient to listen to Mrs. Wang crying, so she just stayed by Baoyu's side.

Seeing that he was occasionally awake, his eyes staring at the top of the curtain, she patted him, "I used to think you were a child, but you have done a good job these two days."

Baoyu turned his head slowly, his eyes were still dull, but much better than before.

"Zhengneng has left Beijing, and the Qin family has returned half of the silver. As for the Qin family kid, I asked a doctor to see him and compensated him for the medicine and silver." The old lady said.

Baoyu spoke after a long time, "I was wrong."

"What did you do wrong?" The old lady glared, "Was it wrong to complete a friend's request, or was it wrong to help Zhineng?"

"I... shouldn't hit people." Baoyu lowered his head, his eyes red.

"That's right." Seeing Baoyu's unstable breath, the old lady hurriedly said, "But you are not completely wrong. The Qin family kid was the first to tease... Ahem, did the wrong thing first, so it's not all your fault. Besides, after this time, you will know what to do in the future."

Baoyu didn't say anything.

The old lady continued, "It's about your eldest sister..."

Baoyu's eyelids moved.

"It's not your fault either."

Baoyu raised his head, staring at the old lady, looking like he was about to cry.

The old lady approached Baoyu mysteriously and whispered, "I'm not trying to comfort you. I'm telling you quietly that building a palace for visiting relatives is a waste of money and labor. If our family really built it, it might empty our family coffers. So you did a good job on this matter."

Baoyu's eyes moved and he stammered, "Grandfather, I didn't say that for our family at that time."

"Then what did you say?" The old lady pretended to be puzzled.

Baoyu didn't explain, but shed tears silently, "I harmed the queen."

"Stupid boy." The old lady patted his head gently, "The queen is fine now, not conspicuous, and others will only sympathize with her. If she suddenly jumped a few levels like before and became a concubine, it would be fatal. The jealousy in the palace that does not see blood is the most frightening."

Baoyu blinked. In fact, he didn't even feel how respected the virtuous concubine was. So he only half understood what the old lady said, but he roughly understood what the old ancestor meant, "The queen was demoted, this is a good thing"

"It's not a good thing, but it's not a bad thing either." The old lady said, "Don't you still believe your grandmother?"

Baoyu didn't know whether he should believe it or not. He was afraid that his grandmother was comforting him.

"Okay, you will know later."

But in fact, there is no need to wait.

The next day, Lin Daiyu heard the news and came to the Jia Mansion to visit Jia Baoyu. Not long after returning home, Jia Zheng brought back a piece of news.

In the court, several censors followed the incident of Jia Baoyu's first concubine and submitted memorials. The general meaning was that

large-scale construction would not only be a major economic burden on the harem queen's family, but also make people mistakenly think that the emperor likes luxury, and the upper and lower will follow suit, forming a bad atmosphere.

Even a thirteen-year-old boy knows to be frugal. I hope Your Majesty will think twice

. Although Baoyu was nailed to the pillar, in general, it was also taken out of the whirlpool of this matter.

From Jia Baoyu's audacity and disrespect for the emperor in the Jia Mansion, it turned into a contest between the censors and the present. The censors are not easy to mess with. They are poor and have good reputations. If they can persuade His Majesty to withdraw his will, it will be their greatest victory.

In Daming Palace, the emperor sneered and threw a stack of memorials on the table, "What a bunch of smart people, I didn't see them submitting memorials earlier, but now they are swarming here."

Dai Quan said cautiously, "Your Majesty, Censor Chen and others are kneeling outside the palace, wanting Your Majesty to withdraw his will."

"Kneel, let them kneel." The emperor said coldly, "Let the guards move them all to the door of my father's palace. If you want to kneel, kneel there."

Dai Quan was embarrassed immediately. Everyone knew that the emperor didn't care about his reputation the most. Otherwise, they wouldn't have tried so hard to submit memorials in front of the emperor.

"Go quickly." The emperor glanced at Dai Quan.

Dai Quan could only go to work miserably.

The tug-of-war between the courtiers and the emperor continued until the emperor's visit to his parents. However, the courtiers and the emperor could not do anything to each other.

Since the incident was the fuse, the Jia family was very well behaved after that.

However, Jia Qiang had already bought the little actor and musical instruments back because the message came late.

However, when Lin Zhixiao was buying other things, he heard about Miaoyu, who was born in an official family and practiced Buddhism. She was now in Beijing. If he met her in the past, he would definitely report it to Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang believed in Buddhism and would probably invite her back.

But now, there was the matter of the old ancestor closing the family temple not long ago, so he did not dare to act on his own.

When the matter was passed to the old lady, she was about to send her away, but netizens sent barrages to keep her -

"Anchor, Miaoyu is also one of the twelve golden hairpins."

"You must stay."

"I also want to see the good things in Miaoyu's hands."

"I just want to see what Miaoyu looks like. '

...

You and I talked back and forth, the old lady had no choice but to say, "Although Shuiyue Temple is closed, my wife still believes in Buddhism. Then we can build a temple in the other courtyard and invite Miaoyu to come."

Lin Zhixiao hurriedly flattered, "The old ancestor is still considerate of my wife."

In this way, it was approaching the day of the visit, which was also the Lantern Festival.

Jia Zheng had submitted a book early and obtained the approval of the emperor. Several young eunuchs came to the mansion to teach the etiquette of entering and leaving, and everyone in the mansion was busy.

Although she is now a concubine, Yuanchun represents the current emperor, and the Jia family dared not neglect the etiquette. From the old lady down, those who had imperial edicts all wore court robes.

Jia She brought the men and the old lady brought the women, waiting at the entrance of West Street and outside the gate of Rongfu respectively.

The ceremonial procession came from a long distance, covered by curtains, and there were drums and music, lanterns, fireworks and colorful silks along the street, which was very rich and auspicious. But no one dared to speak on both sides of the road, and everyone stood respectfully. Including the masters of the Jia Mansion.

The old lady hadn't stood like this for a long time, and she couldn't support herself at this time. She could only chat with netizens to divert her attention.

Netizens were excited. It was rare to see such a grand scene in ancient times--

"Great, we must reproduce it all."

"The old lady's headdresses are so beautiful, with pearls and emeralds on them."

"My ancestors once had such headdresses, but unfortunately they were lost during the war. If they were still there, they would be very valuable."

After a while, new netizens came in.

The number of people in the old lady's live broadcast room reached the peak value in history.

Just at this time, the eunuch in red was seen riding a horse from a distance. After a while, several people carried a phoenix sedan chair and walked slowly, with dozens of eunuchs and maids behind them, with a grand momentum.

The old lady and others knelt down on the side of the road.

After Yuanchun's phoenix sedan chair was carried into the ceremonial gate, everyone followed back to the mansion one after another.

Because the villa was only half built, the old man simply used a semi-open structure. Half of it is exquisite and small, half embraces the clear stream carved out of the garden, and half is simply trimmed to make the scenery sparse and wide, connected by corridors. Looking at each other, it is a different flavor.

Yuanchun did not have any dissatisfaction with the other courtyard. With the help of the maid, she boarded the boat and entered the palace.

Fireworks were in unison, and eunuchs sang.

The main hall was taken up, and the masters of the Jia family were divided into men and women and led to the outside of the main hall for an audience. Yuanchun sat upright on the throne in the main hall. The senior maid beside her shouted "Exempt", solemnly.

"Ah, ah, it's really grand." "

Comparable to Guo Jia's celebration."

"No wonder the women in the palace are all running for the queen. Look, Yuanchun is only a concubine, but she can look down on so many people. It satisfies her vanity too much."

"Exempt"

"Stand up"

"Kneel down" "

Don't be weird, the one above. Yuanchun is no longer just a concubine, but a representative of the royal family, so she can have ceremonial guards and be worshipped. '

At this moment, the old lady had just been "exempted" and couldn't help complaining, "After all this time, from morning to night, I didn't even get to see Yuanchun. It's too troublesome!" "

Hahaha, that's why it's said that it's hard to see the emperor."

So far, the worship was over.

Yuanchun was finally able to see her family. With the help of the maid, she changed her clothes and went to the ancestor's courtyard.

[Author has something to say]

I actually did 10,000 a day! But my body is hollowed out and my liver can't move. Next time if I have something urgent, I will remember to ask for leave in advance or tell the little cuties.

Bugs, typos, and comments, I'll read them tomorrow, good night, babies, mua~