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

Chapter 349 Dream of Red Mansions - Jia Yingchun 20

Seeing that Jia Lang was not in a hurry to open it to see what was inside, Lin Ruhai became even more satisfied with Jia Lang. He was flexible, not pedantic, and able to keep his composure, and was destined to do great things in the future.

Since I have accepted Lin Ruhai's gift, I can remind you of some things. In Dream of the Red Chamber, when Lin Daiyu came to Beijing, she was accompanied by a wet nurse and several maids. In addition, she had to observe mourning and wore plain clothes. Didn't the snobbish servants in the Jia family look down on her?

Lin Ruhai had the mindset of a literati, so he naturally felt that Lin Daiyu's visit to relatives should not be publicized and should be kept low-key. However, he misjudged the style of the Rongguo Mansion. He had obviously given the Rongguo Mansion a lot of silver in advance for Lin Daiyu, but he did not consider that the silver did not bring any good words for his daughter. The style of "walking in gorgeous clothes at night" was not suitable for the Rongguo Mansion.

"Uncle, my nephew and my cousin will be leaving in two days. Before we leave, I would like to ask if you have prepared someone to serve my cousin?"

"The rules in the capital are quite different from those in Gusu. In the capital, a rich man must have at least four maids and two maids to manage the affairs."

Jia Lang couldn't point out directly that there was something wrong with the atmosphere in Rongguo Mansion, so he could only remind the servants first.

Fortunately, Lin Ruhai was worthy of being the third place in the imperial examination. When he heard Jia Lang say that the rules in the capital were quite different from those in his old residence in Suzhou, he immediately understood that Jia Lang was talking about the differences between the rules in Rongguo Mansion and Lin Mansion.

When she heard Jia Lang talk about the number of maids serving the daughter of a rich family, she immediately realized that she had prepared too few people for Lin Daiyu. At the same time, Lin Ruhai also understood the implication behind Jia Lang's words. In Beijing, people pay attention to one step and eight steps. It refers to the pomp, but in fact it implies that Rongguo Mansion values ​​snobbery.

Only those who come to visit with pomp and ceremony are the daughters of wealthy families. If they do not, won’t they just beg for money?

"Okay, I understand what Lang Ge'er said."

"I haven't decided on the person for your cousin yet. I'll have to wait for you to remind me so I can make another selection."

After Jia Lang left, Lin Ruhai sat in the study room in deep thought. If what Jia Lang said was true, then the situation in Rongguo Mansion was not as good as Jia Min said. There were still two days left, so why not find a way to ask the servants in Jia Mansion?

Jia Lang returned to the courtyard prepared for him in the Lin Mansion, and asked all the servants to go out on the pretext of reviewing his lessons. Then he opened the wooden box and counted the silver bills inside. There were more than he expected. In addition to the scattered five thousand taels on the surface, there were actually five thousand tael silver bills at the bottom.

A full ten thousand taels, this is really a big gift. Jia Lang felt a little emotional. In his previous life, Jia Lian didn't come. If he had come, he would have received so much silver. However, a few years later, when Lin Ruhai was seriously ill, Jia Lian came and helped deal with Lin Ruhai's funeral and the family property of the Lin family. I guess Jia Lian should have received a lot at that time.

It is said that Lin Daiyu brought millions of Lin family's wealth into the Jia Mansion. I think this should not be an exaggeration. I just don't know whether Lin Daiyu herself knew that the Lin family had so much wealth.

While Jia Lang was curious, Lin Ruhai had successfully used silver to pry open the mouths of the servants in the Jia Mansion. Mama Li and the others told them everything they knew about the Jia Mansion, both what they could and could not say. It was only at this time that Lin Ruhai realized that Jia Lang, this outstanding nephew, did not grow up in the Rongguo Mansion.

After listening to the stories of the Jia Mansion from the servants, Lin Ruhai felt that it was absurd. The head of the family who inherited the title did not live in the main courtyard of the Rongguo Mansion, but lived in the side courtyard near the stables, while Jia Zheng, the second son and a small fifth-rank official, lived in the main courtyard.

And there was Jia Yuanchun, the daughter of a duke, a legitimate daughter, who not only lowered her status to enter the palace, but also only became a female historian. Jia Baoyu was already seven years old, but he was still eating and playing all day, not making any progress, and just stayed with his grandmother.

Especially unlike the previous life, this life was different from the previous one, when Jia's mother had many girls around her and hired teachers to teach them all. Now Jia Tanchun was the only girl in the Jia family, and she was raised by Jia's mother. Jia's mother saw that she was being taught by her mother, the second wife, and she didn't care about her. So in this life, Jia Tanchun was already six years old, but she had not yet learned to read.

Jia Tanchun is going to be Lin Daiyu's cousin in the future, but she can't even read. How is Daiyu going to get along with her cousin in the future?

No, among the people accompanying Daiyu to the capital, there must be an old maid to teach her knowledge and etiquette. It seems that the Jia family does not attach much importance to the knowledge of their daughters, so this will not do.

With a little encouragement from Jia Lang, Lin Daiyu in this life was finally mentally prepared for the style of Rongguo Mansion before going to Beijing, and she was also equipped with enough manpower. Even because of Lin Ruhai's careful thinking, he did not give Lin Daiyu's "living expenses" privately to Grandmother Jia as he did in his previous life, but put it in the hands of Lin Daiyu's governess, intending to hand over the banknotes in person in front of everyone in the Jia family, so that everyone in the Jia family would understand that Lin Daiyu was not a poor relative who came to beg for money!

After everything was ready, Jia Lang formed a large group with Lin Daiyu, the servants of the Jia Mansion, and those who had come to Beijing to serve Lin Daiyu, and headed straight towards the capital.

After spending some time on the road, everyone finally arrived at the Rongguo Mansion. Now, Wang Xifeng, the housekeeper of the Rongguo Mansion, was not incompetent like in the previous life, and a lot of power was still in the hands of the second wife.

Without the Second Wife's manipulation, there would naturally be no Lin Daiyu's show of authority when entering and leaving the Jia Mansion in her previous life.

Jia Lang accompanied Lin Daiyu all the way until they entered Rong Xi Hall. It was the same process and the same reaction. Jia Lang accompanied Lin Daiyu to meet everyone one by one, and also introduced her to Lin Daiyu.

Soon Jia Baoyu appeared, and things developed just like in the previous life. When it came to the scene where Jia Baoyu dropped the jade, Jia Lang happened to be next to the two of them. He sensed that Jia Baoyu's spiritual jade had changed, and immediately pretended to help Jia Baoyu pick up the jade, and then he picked up the spiritual jade and started sucking it.

Good news can be absorbed, but bad news can only be absorbed a little.

The spiritual energy in the magical jade was originally sealed inside like amber. Jia Lang tried many methods but was unable to absorb it. Now, it is not known whether it is because of the encounter between Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu, the immortal grass and the stubborn stone, or because Jia Baoyu dropped the jade, the spiritual energy in the magical jade finally leaked out a little bit.

After Jia Lang absorbed all the overflowing spiritual energy, he scanned it with his mental power and confirmed that after Jia Baoyu's fall, there was no crack on the spiritual jade. Naturally, he knew that it must be related to the first meeting between Lin Daiyu and Jia Baoyu.

Lin Daiyu was a fairy grass in her previous life, and in this life she needs to fulfill a vow to the fairy attendant Shenying. As the plot develops, Lin Daiyu eventually dies, and Jia Baoyu has gone mostly crazy since then.

If the spiritual jade is regarded as the half of the fairy attendant Shenying, as Lin Daiyu shed more tears, more spiritual energy in the spiritual jade leaked out, until Lin Daiyu died in the end, and the spiritual energy in the spiritual jade was gone.

It would be better to say that Jia Baoyu has become normal instead of crazy in the end. He has grown up and is no longer living in a beautiful dream full of flowers like a child who has not grown up.