Chapter 65 The 65th day of being reborn as Jia Mu,

she unexpectedly received the "touching" of Yuanyang, which made the old lady feel a little bit of the means of controlling her subordinates.

But she was not in the mood to study it, so she just thought she knew it and sighed to herself.

On the contrary, the Lai family, who got the promise from Rongguo Mansion, was extremely happy even though they did not wait for the old ancestor to come to the mansion. Two days later, they received the confirmation of the appointment of "county magistrate", and they were even more joyous.

The whole family was happy, but only Lai Ma was smart. She personally brought her grandson Lai Shangrong to the door to express her gratitude.

She was very pretentious. Before entering the main hall, she pressed Lai Shangrong's forehead and kowtowed heavily at the threshold of Rongqing Hall, which showed her sincerity.

Unfortunately, the old lady already knew the character of this family, so she just watched a play. She immediately showed a look of relief, ordered people to help the two people up, chatted with Lai Ma, encouraged Lai Shangrong, and then sent them away.

After that, whether the Lai family entertained guests or kept a low profile, the old lady just watched coldly.

Everything in the Jia Mansion stopped for a while. In the capital, the old lady of the Zhen family said goodbye and left after visiting many old friends. She didn't even come to see the third daughter of the Zhen family who stayed in the Jia Mansion.

In the court, the actions to destroy Buddhism and Taoism after the beginning of the year also eased.

The temples, Taoist temples, and nunneries that escaped by chance were very lucky, and there were also many that had been razed.

During this period, a large number of Buddhist and Taoist fields and mountaintops were in the hands of the current people, and gold, silver, copper, iron, grain, cloth, and manpower were sent to the sea, which also made the officials in the court silent.

If they could not stop it before the decree, they would be stopped after the decree...

Under the premise that a large-scale war was about to break out on the sea, no one had provoked it for the time being, but the discontent had long been accumulated under the calm sea, ready to explode.

It was a sunny day, and Daiyu, Sanchun, Baoyu, Xing, Zhen and several other girls went to celebrate Aunt Xue's birthday.

When they arrived, Mrs. Wang had already arrived and was chatting with Aunt Xue. Seeing everyone, Mrs. Wang said that she had a good intention. She knew that everyone would not have a good time if she was here, so she patted Baoyu's hand, and took Lin Daiyu and Baochai to talk for a while before leaving.

It became lively here. Aunt Xue always indulged everyone, and she didn't care that it was her birthday. These younger generations started playing first. She accepted the gift and asked Baochai to accompany her, and she set up a banquet in the flower hall.

They kept making a fuss until the banquet was over, and everyone went back.

On the way, someone mentioned that the group went to Wang Xifeng's place again. After seeing Jia Peng, they heard the news that the old concubine had passed away.

Everyone was stunned, feeling both abrupt and not surprised, and gathered in Rongqing Hall.

The old lady had already made preparations based on the images of "A Dream of Red Mansions" and the suggestions of netizens. Now she arranged for Sanchun, Baoyu and others to return to the courtyard, and told Daiyu, "I think your father will have no time to take care of you in the future, so you should stay in the mansion first, so as not to worry him."

"Don't worry, old ancestor, I will save you." Daiyu nodded quickly.

Rongguo Mansion has always reserved a room for Daiyu. Now that her cough is gradually getting better, the old lady is also relieved, so she turned to look at Xing Wang and ordered, "Go change your clothes, and then go to the East Mansion to tell them, and follow me to the palace in a while."

This refers to those who have imperial edicts. In addition to Lady Xing and Lady Wang, there are also Youshi and Jia Rong's second wife Xu.

Everyone agreed.

After a while, they followed the old lady into the court to attend the sacrifice.

Rongguo Mansion also began to get busy. The first thing was to hang up the white and red.

Secondly, several big stewards followed the old lady and the lady to serve, and they also asked people to come out to take charge temporarily.

Only Li Wan and Tanchun couldn't control it. The people below didn't suppress it, and each had their own thoughts, so there was a little chaos for a while.

Fortunately, there was Wang Xifeng at home. She has always been powerful, and now she has the confidence. She only sent Ping'er to help, and suppressed these disturbances.

Only Aunt Zhao made a fuss again. Tanchun was furious and picked up Jia Huan and threw him to Fengjie, but she managed to control Aunt Zhao.

As for Wang Xifeng, Jia Huan was afraid of her. The old lady had asked Wang Xifeng to control him for a period of time, and after his temper was corrected, he was even more respectful and fearful. Now that he was watched by Fengjie, he had to take care of Qiaojie every day and study hard.

In fact, Jia Lian is now a fifth-rank official, and he can ask for an imperial decree for Wang Xifeng. However, he has not returned yet, and the imperial decree has not been issued, so Wang Xifeng is happy to be lazy.

Besides, it is not an easy job to observe the mourning period for the royal family.

Not to mention the hassle, you can't even have enough food and drink, it's better to stay at home and take care of the children.

Wang Xifeng now has a son and a daughter, and has experienced the old ancestor's power coming and going, so she is a little indifferent. Later, she and Jia Lian had a considerable dividend, and now she just hopes that her son can grow up safely.

After tapping Jia Peng's nose and listening to Ping'er's report on the family situation, Wang Xifeng nodded, "Let's do it this way. It will only take a while. It will be fine when the old ancestor and the others return home."

Ping'er replied "yes", and then thought of something else, "Grandma, the East Mansion has lost its master now. There is no one to supervise it. We should send someone to check on it."

"I do intend to let Tanchun go to the East Mansion to stand out again. She is a promising person. She has managed the housework well in recent times, and the old ancestor likes her. It's just that..." Wang Xifeng was tired of holding the baby, so she gently handed Jia Peng to the wet nurse, patting her shoulder and said, "Sister Zhu is short of people, I'm afraid she won't be able to take care of it. You know, I don't plan to let you stay there for long..."

As she was speaking, she heard the servants report that Grandma You from the East Mansion had returned home.

Wang Xifeng and Ping'er looked at each other and went to greet her.

When she brought Youshi back, she learned that the ancestor was afraid of disturbances in the family. It

happened that the emperor had issued an imperial decree to the world, so she asked Youshi to report the birth and bring back the news. To be honest, this imperial decree was a great honor for the old concubine.

- The nobles were not allowed to have banquets and entertainments within a year, and the common people were not allowed to get married for three months.

But for the Jia family, it was another round of chaos.

Not to mention the crying and clamoring about the dismissal of the actor's tutor, the old lady specifically asked Youshi to bring back: no matter in the east or west mansion, the masters were not allowed to gamble and play, which was a bit difficult to deal with.

After all, who can control the masters?

Wang Xifeng simply gave up and just acted as a mascot to suppress.

And the old lady did give some reminders. She went out early and came back late every day. When there was a big sacrifice, she had to get up early at five o'clock. She really didn't have much energy to worry about it. Only occasionally opened a perspective to look at Rongguo Mansion.

For example, whether Daiyu is well today, Jia She will be watching his grandson tomorrow, and Baoyu will be reviewing his studies the day after tomorrow. He did not make a fuss because the little actor was dismissed. Very good...

In this way, after nearly a month of sacrifice, the spirit will be sent.

Because the former mausoleum is located in Ci'en County, more than 120 kilometers away from Kyoto, it takes some time to travel. The old lady brought all the usual people.

This time, a large number of people were taken away, and there must be no one available in the inner courtyard.

So the old lady asked Jia Yun to run errands for Li Wan and Tanchun in the inner courtyard, and to manage the restaurant by the way, and Jia Qiang was transferred out to take care of things for them.

Although the journey was smooth, it was boring, and the old lady also had a sore back from sitting in the carriage.

She could only get off the car and walk around when she stopped to rest, and live broadcast the ancient mountains and rivers to netizens. Netizens were impatient, clamoring to see the imperial mausoleum every day, and were extremely excited.

On this day, near Ci'en County, the old lady got off the car and unexpectedly saw Xing and Li Yushi's wife talking and laughing, as if they had a good relationship. Subconsciously, the old lady looked around the motorcade, but found Mrs. Wang next to Princess Beijing.

This is... the sisters-in-law have completely fallen out, and each is planning "diplomacy"

. The old lady's brows frowned imperceptibly, and just as she was about to say something to her netizen, a fast horse suddenly came galloping.

With a sound of "whoa", the man got off the horse and ran straight to the Jia Mansion motorcade. The crowd was startled. The old lady saw it from a distance and her heart was shocked.

Sure enough, the flying horse quickly approached the Jia Mansion motorcade and brought a bad news "The old master of the East Mansion exploded the furnace, and Master Zhen died of illness."

"Wow, what the hell Jia Zhen is dead, where is Jia Jing?"

"The furnace exploded, this is making elixir"

"Jia Jing is still so good at seeking death. '

The old lady was also confused. She knew that Jia Jing would swallow cinnabar and die during the national mourning period, but he was invited home, and he could still be tossed like this.

Why didn't he go to heaven when the furnace exploded? And what was the situation with Jia Zhen?

The old lady hurriedly opened several perspectives, but at this time, Jia Rong had gone from being stunned by the sudden news to wailing. Occasionally, a few intermittent sentences such as "Dad, why did you abandon the child?" and "I will never see you again"

also made the old lady sigh. Thinking of Jia Zhen who often flashed in front of her, and thinking that death is like the extinguishing of a light, she, who had died once, sighed even more, her nose was sour, and her eyes were wet.

At this moment, Mrs. Wang was called over. The old lady took a long breath, "...Zheng'er's wife, you take Rong'er's wife to ask for leave first, and then pick a few managers for Rong'er, and let him take them back."

"I know, old ancestor." Mrs. Wang's eyes were also red, she wiped her tears with a handkerchief, "Why is it so sudden..."

The old lady was also silent. Sometimes human life is so fragile. Even the old lady did not expect Jia Zhen to die suddenly.

While waiting for Jia Rong to rush back to Ningguo Mansion, the old lady also knew the whole picture of the accident from Bao Dai's perspective. It turned out that Jia Jing had secretly taken the alchemy furnace and several Taoist priests from Xuanzhen Temple back to the mansion.

It was just that he had his own yard, and no one dared to say anything even if it was filled with smoke.

This time, the alchemy furnace exploded, half of the roof of the east wing was blown off, and several Taoist priests who made alchemy died on the spot. Although Jia Jing was lucky enough to be rescued, he was also burned in many places and lost most of his life.

As for Jia Zhen, it was purely because of the exhaustion and palpitations he had suffered for many days, and the sudden loud noise that shook his heart, that he tripped over the threshold and died with his eyes wide open.

His death was humiliating and unjust.

For a while, the old lady's comments were all "...".

When Ningguo Mansion encountered this incident, Youshi could not bear the blow and fell ill in bed, so she had to borrow Wang Xifeng to take charge of the situation.

When Jia Rong rushed to the mansion, Jia Zhen had already prepared the coffin and many guests had arrived. Jia Rong cried bitterly again before he began to take care of the funeral arrangements.

After all this busy work, it was almost July and the old lady was about to return, but someone came back first.

It was Jia Lian, who was granted special permission to return home to visit because of a great victory at the sea and he had not been home before the New Year.

But after he returned home, he had no time to spare.

That day, he accompanied Jia Rong to Tiekan Temple to send off the spirit.

Within two days, the old lady and the ladies also returned, and they all went to mourn the spirit.

During this period, Jia Lian's military merits came down, his position was implemented, and Wang Xifeng also had a pleasant title.

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Ps: The imperial edicts in the Dream of Red Mansions: Jia Mu, Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, You, Xu (Xu is Jia Rong's second wife, and Gao E's Hu should be wrong). There is

no need to mention the others here. Xu's imperial edict was obtained by Jia Zhen donating the fifth-rank Dragon Guard to Jia Rong.

In addition, the imperial edicts in the Qing Dynasty, from the first to the fifth ranks; from the sixth to the ninth ranks, were imperial edicts.

As for Wang Xifeng, we all know that Jia Lian donated the title of "Tongzhi", but since Wang Xifeng did not enter the court to sacrifice in "Dream of Red Mansions", it is obvious that she is not an imperial edict. Then, Jia Lian's "Tongzhi" is likely to be the sixth-rank state Tongzhi, the deputy position of the prefect.

Back to this article, Jia Lian was promoted to the fifth rank in the sea, so he could ask for an imperial edict for Wang Xifeng, which is a different setting from "Dream of Red Mansions".