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

Chapter 367 Dream of Red Mansions - Jia Yingchun 38

Although they failed to get money from Lady Jia, it was good to get 30,000 taels from Jia She. Even though Jia Zheng and the Second Wife wanted more, they could only do so for now and wait to ask for more money later.

As the construction of the garden progressed, it was July in a blink of an eye. The Jia family received news from the Lin Mansion in Suzhou that Lin Daiyu's father, Lin Ruhai, was seriously ill, and they hoped that Lin Daiyu could go back and reunite with Lin Ruhai as soon as possible.

Naturally, no one would stop such a thing. Lin Daiyu has been crying since she received the letter. Grandmother Jia looked around tiredly and found that apart from Jia Lian, the only person left in the Jia family who could accompany Lin Daiyu back this time was Jia Lang.

But in her heart, Grandmother Jia didn't want Jia Lang to accompany Lin Daiyu back. First, the autumn examination would be in two months, and sending Lin Daiyu back to Gusu would delay Jia Lang's study time. Second, it was because of the Lin family's wealth.

The Lin family was originally from a noble family, and had always been a single-line family. In this generation, there was only one daughter, Lin Daiyu. How could an orphan like Lin Daiyu protect the dowries and money earned from business for several generations of mistresses?

"Lang is a scholar, how can he compare to Lian in business management? This matter must be handled by Lian!"

Although what Grandmother Jia said sounded nice, she actually knew that Jia Lang had a good reputation as a scholar, so he naturally could not act according to her thoughts behind her back. But Jia Lian was different. Jia Lian was greedy for money and obedient. As long as Jia Lian went, all the wealth of the Lin family would be brought back to the Jia Mansion after Lin Ruhai's death.

Jia Lang had no objection to this. Although she was grateful for the information Lin Ruhai sent her, she really had no idea about seeing Lin Ruhai off to his final resting place.

Everyone wants the Lin family's extinct wealth, not only the Jia family wants it, but even the one above wants it. He doesn't want to ruin his future by competing with the one above for money.

It's a pity that it is obvious that even the shrewd old lady Jia Mu didn't understand this matter. It is hard to say whether the Jia family will be charged with embezzling the Lin family's wealth in the future.

After deciding on the accompanying person, the date of departure was quickly set. Upon learning that Lin Daiyu was going back, Jia Baoyu, who had been chatting and laughing with Baochai, suddenly became stupid. He not only ran to Lin Daiyu's yard to pester her not to go back, but when he got no response from Lin Daiyu, he ran to Grandmother Jia crying and begging her not to ask her to go back. Grandmother Jia, who was thinking about the Lin family's wealth, naturally refused to agree.

Finally, Jia Baoyu was at his wit's end and resorted to the trick of throwing the jade. However, Lin Daiyu, who was worried about her sick father at that time, was in no mood to argue with Jia Baoyu. Naturally, the people in the Jia family would not let the family wealth slip through their fingers just to appease Jia Baoyu.

Jia Baoyu found that even if he broke the jade, he still couldn't change Lin Daiyu's intention to leave, so he fled in panic. Jia Lang took the opportunity to pick up the spiritual jade and found that the jade leaked more spiritual energy this time. After returning, Jia Lang could feel that the jade wall containing the spiritual energy of the spiritual jade was getting thinner and thinner due to the advancement of the plot, but he didn't know why he lacked some stimulation and still couldn't absorb it smoothly.

Now, after re-engaging with it, he discovered that every time Jia Baoyu dropped it, invisible cracks would appear on the jade disk of this magical jade. Thanks to these cracks, he could absorb a lot of spiritual energy from it.

It only took Jia Lang a short time from picking up the jade to absorbing spiritual energy to handing it to his grandmother Jia who was standing beside him. No one would have noticed, but in the blink of an eye, the spiritual energy in Jia Baoyu's magical jade had been reduced by more than half. Presumably, if Jia Baoyu dropped it a few more times, it would have absorbed all the spiritual energy inside.

After absorbing the spiritual energy this time, Jia Lang felt a great change, as if he had been enlightened. In the past, he had sharp ears and eyes and excellent memory because of the existence of his spiritual power. Now he has a photographic memory. Not only has the range of perception doubled, but he also has the ability to look inside his body's meridians.

Jia Lang couldn't help but sigh. It turned out that cultivation required both body and soul. As a necromancer, he only had a soul and no actual body, so he had never found a way to improve his abilities. In order to maintain his "life", he even had to replenish his energy by absorbing the souls of others.

There were no settings related to cultivation in the previous mission worlds. If Jia Lang had not opened up the system's golden finger in the previous world, he would still not know that his improvements in the mission world could also affect his own body.

The world of "Dream of Red Mansions" cannot be said to be very advanced, but there are indeed settings of so-called fairies, demons, ghosts, monsters, and practitioners. With Jia Lang's current strength, he can only hide among them and dare not provoke them, just to avoid being discovered.

The fairy Jinghuan, a monk and a Taoist mentioned in Dream of the Red Chamber, none of them can be offended by Jia Lang now. According to Dream of the Red Chamber, the twelve golden hairpins and the attendant Shenying who appeared in it were all fairies and herbs who secretly came to the world because they could not stand the loneliness.

But according to Jia Lang's understanding, she believes that these immortal herbs that "came down to earth" in Dream of Red Mansions are more like "medicinal herbs", while the story of Lin Daiyu and the fairy waiter Shenying repaying their kindness with tears is more like a kind of counteraction.

If the Realm of Illusion, where the Fairy Jinghuan, who is in charge of love and romance, lives, is viewed as a medicine garden, then the spirits living there can be regarded as the medicinal materials in the garden. The attendant Shenying is a key ingredient in it, but his medicinal properties are difficult to bring out. It is only through the corrosion of the fairy grass juice of Lin Daiyu's body that the energy of heaven and earth contained in the Sky-Bulding Stone can be ground out.

The so-called reincarnation is more like a preparation process. The fate of each magical herb corresponds to the preparation method of its original body. When all the herbs are prepared, it is time for Fairy Jinghuan to make the elixir.

Those so-called seven emotions and six desires, various environmental emotions, male infatuation and female resentment eventually became tonics for Fairy Jinghuan's practice.

If Jia Lang's guess is correct, then it means that the medicinal ingredient representing Jia Yingchun's true body has gone wrong. Now is not the time yet, and Fairy Jinghuan will not open the lid to check, so he will not be discovered for the time being. But if someone should have smelled the scent in advance but did not, that would be bad.

It is precisely because of this speculation that Jia Lang has never significantly changed the fate of any woman in "Dream of Red Mansions" so far.

Now, because Lin Daiyu had dropped the jade many times, Jia Baoyu's stubborn stone, the spiritual jade, was finally corroded, leaking a lot of the energy of heaven and earth. But now it has all been absorbed by himself. No matter what, he will face the Fairy Jinghuan later.

Now Jia Lang can only be thankful that due to the limitations of this mortal world, Fairy Jinghuan can only do so little. When he becomes an official and his luck is connected with the people of the dynasty, Fairy Jinghuan will impose more restrictions on him.

Only then will I be safe.

One day, I will definitely go to those larger worlds with higher levels, learn how to practice, and transcend the limitations of this world.