In order to eat, I signed a contract with the system

Chapter 396 Dream of the Red Chamber - Jia Yingchun Ends

No matter whether it was the first or second wife in the Jia family, except for the second wife, no other female members were found to have committed any crime. They were locked up in the cell for a few days and released after the trial was clear.

Except Jia Lang, all the other male members of the Jia family were also thrown into prison. The younger Jia Huan, Jia Zhong, and Jia Lan were only questioned a few words and then released. Only Jia Lian and Jia Baoyu, the two older male members, were left waiting for the final trial result of the Jia family.

Jia Lian was originally charged with the crime of "secretly marrying a second wife during the period of national mourning", but he turned back early in this life. Although he had to have some fun during the period of national mourning, he was fortunately released after paying a fine.

However, the second branch was also charged with embezzling the Lin family's wealth. Although Jia Baoyu was not the mastermind, he was the heir of the second branch and was naturally implicated. Considering that he was unaware of the crime, he was only given fifty lashes of the cane and then released.

The second wife was charged with too many crimes and was eventually sentenced to death. After this result, she was too frightened and died of illness in prison before the day of execution. Her body was finally dragged away by the jailer, casually wrapped in a straw mat and abandoned in the snow.

All the servants in the Jia family were taken away by the officers and soldiers. Some were sold, and some were beaten with sticks. Only old lady Jia's mother was left alone. She was seriously ill and was finally taken back by Aunt Li at the request of Lin Daiyu.

Li Wan finally left with her dowry and her son Jia Lan. Everyone in the main house was fine. Although the Jia Mansion was ransacked, Wang Xifeng and the first wife's dowry were still there, so they were able to barely hold on. They rented a small courtyard and moved in with their two children.

Xue Baochai was pregnant and crying bitterly. Aunt Xue had returned to Jinling with Xue Ke after she got married, and Xue Pan had also died, leaving Xue Baochai alone with nowhere to go.

Aunt Zhao's indenture still marked her as a slave, so she was naturally sold. Jia Huan cried and begged the first wife for help, and finally he found her and bought her back. However, Jia She was unwilling to help the second wife support Aunt Zhao and her son. Aunt Zhao had no choice but to take Jia Huan to temporarily live in a dilapidated temple outside the city.

After Jia Baoyu recovered from his injury, he did not stay in the capital, but wandered around like a madman. He met Shi Xiangyun, who had fallen into a brothel, by the side of a painted boat, and broke the glass hydrangea lantern given by Lin Daiyu during the beating by the official sedan chair and ceremonial guards.

While wandering, Jia Baoyu saw Jia Yucun in a prisoner's car and laughed wildly. Jia Baoyu happened to meet Jiang Yuhan, who was married to Xiren. The couple wanted Jia Baoyu to reunite with Xue Baochai, but Jia Baoyu was already disheartened. Xue Baochai arrived and saw only the gold lock that had been left behind. The sound of footsteps on the snow echoed in the white land, and Jia Baoyu disappeared into the sky...

Jia Baoyu's ending is exactly the same as in "Dream of Red Mansions". Jia Lang didn't even have the mood to watch. However, Lin Daiyu was completely enlightened after her mother's death. After handing over the 200,000 dowry to Jia Lang, she took Xueyan and left Jia Lang's mansion and went to the temple to become a nun.

After Jia Lang had been in the emperor's service for three years, he took the 200,000 taels given by Lin Daiyu and the imperial edict to promote him to the position of inspector of the Ministry of Personnel, and began to inspect the performance of officials throughout the country.

Along the way, whenever Jia Lang arrived at a place, he would secretly spend money to build a foundling home to take in orphans. When he encountered corrupt officials, he would take measures to clean up the local officialdom. Along the way, Jia Lang was hunted down by many people. If Jia Lang had not been a cultivator, he would have lost his life long ago.

However, although this process was arduous, the effect was very significant. Under Jia Lang's inspection, the country was not completely free of corrupt officials, but there were indeed fewer bad officials who did bad things and did not do their job.

Whenever he encountered any corruption, Jia Lang would do his best to deal with it. If the emperor did not have enough trust in him, those officials whose wealth was ruined by Jia Lang would have joined forces to get rid of Jia Lang long ago.

After waiting for a while, Jia Lang was transferred to the Ministry of Justice by the Emperor and began to investigate the truth about the unjust, false and wrong cases in the world. Even though Jia Lian and others failed to successfully reconcile with Jia Lang, they still lived a much more peaceful life because of Jia Lang's existence.

Jia Lang lived until he was eighty years old. He became an official at the age of nineteen and outlasted three generations of emperors. He resigned at the age of eighty. During this time, he donated money to countless abandoned baby homes across the country, which were rotated by the six ministries. He also trained many good officials who cared about the people and the country. He also discovered high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn, which reduced famine.

A full sixty years of career as an official had brought Jia Lang countless merits. When Jia Lang was about to leave, before the system appeared, Jia Lang used the energy of heaven and earth that he had absorbed that year to hide all his merits.

After Jia Lang left, the history of "Dream of Red Mansions" gained a famous minister who will be remembered forever, and lost a Jia Yingchun who no one cared about.

Fairy Jinghuan waited and waited in the Taixu environment until the other souls finally returned. It was only at this time that she finally discovered that Jia Yingchun was abnormal. When she went to find Jia Baoyu to absorb the spiritual jade, she found that the energy of heaven and earth in the spiritual jade had long been empty, leaving only Jia Baoyu's pure stone shell. Fairy Jinghuan was so angry that she opened her mouth wide and swallowed all the souls in one gulp.

"Who the hell did this?"

After Lin Daiyu passed away, she returned to the fairyland. Recalling all the past, she immediately realized that she had been plotted against by Fairy Jinghuan. However, she had already lost her original nature and turned into a grass with no magical power. She could only keep the matter in her heart and practice hard.

After Ruyi returned to the system space, he said that he was tired and wanted to rest, but in fact he closed his eyes, practiced the skills with all his strength, and began to absorb the power of merit.

With the protection of the energy of heaven and earth, nothing that happened to Ruyi could be seen by the system. After Ruyi successfully absorbed all the power of merit in his body, the first level of the way of merit, the heart of merit, was also cultivated.

If Ruyi had one foot in the mortal world before, now that he has cultivated the heart of virtue, he has both feet in the immortal realm. Not only is his consciousness stronger, but he has also realized his innate skill - seeing through cause and effect.

With this innate skill, in the future, not only will he be able to discover the cause and effect between himself and others in time, but he will also be able to judge whether it is a good thing or a bad thing based on the color of the cause and effect. At the same time, it will also help Ruyi to cut off the cause and effect lines that are entangled around his body.

The more he practiced, the more Ruyi realized clearly that being entangled by cause and effect is not a good thing. Cultivation is like climbing a mountain, and cause and effect are like the burden on the climber. Some cause and effect are like water, food and other positive causes and effects that cannot be thrown away but are needed, while some are like garbage, stones and other negative causes and effects that waste physical energy.

Most of the causal forces on Ruyi's body are black, which are negative causality, and the sources of these causal forces are basically the same world - "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

In order to reduce the burden of her own cultivation, Ruyi decided to go to "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in the next world to sever the cause and effect.