Jia Lu through the Red Chamber

Chapter 161 The Strange Historian

"Exactly, the empress is also driving here today." Jia Jing replied.

Mother Jia breathed a sigh of relief, clasped her hands together, "Amitabha, the ancestors bless you, your mother is safe and well!"

Hearing that Jia Yuanchun was accompanying her, everyone was in a hurry. Since Jia Yuanchun was able to accompany her, it can be seen that she was considered favored in the palace. The Jia family was invited to come, but they didn't feel confident. There are several men on duty in the Jia family, none of whom meet the requirements for accompanying drivers. The mother is also in a panic, but fortunately the empress is here, so she can help.

Aunt Xue jokingly said, "The old lady is still lucky. She can still see her granddaughter when she goes out to play! I just wonder if we will have a chance to meet your mother?"

Jia Jing replied, "I'm not in the palace, but outside here, there are not many rules, and I think you can see them, but now the tents are busy cleaning up, and the empress doesn't have time to meet people."

Aunt Xue hurriedly said, "It's not a problem, the journey is exhausting, and the empress should also have a good rest."

Mother Jia nodded and asked, "Then we can go to the tent?"

"Naturally, my nephew ordered someone to clean up your tent first, but the family members are still packing their luggage. There is some fuss, and I am afraid they will bump into the old lady."

Jia Mu understood, "It's always inconvenient when you go out, it's nothing."

While Shi Xiangyun heard that their tent had not been packed yet, his eyes lit up, "Old lady, our tent is packed, we can go to our place!"

The Shi family is Jia’s mother’s natal family. Jia’s mother has been married to Jia’s family for 70 to [-] years. When she was young, she would go back to her natal family several times. Later, her elder brother died, leaving only three nephews, and she lost her husband. Going out lazily, and then getting older and higher in seniority, it was always the three Shijia brothers who came to see her, but she hadn't seen them for a long time.

Thinking of this made my heart move, and said, "The tent still needs to be packed anyway, so it's good to go see your uncle and aunt."

Then he said to Aunt Xue, "Auntie, let's go with us, as if we were going to meet relatives."

Aunt Xue is naturally willing. The Jia, Shi, Xue, and Wang families have been friends for many years. The Jia family used to be the leader, but now the Wang family and the Shi family are the leaders. The Xue family has always used money to make friends with in-laws. Of the other three families, Jia, Shi, and Wang moved to the capital early at the same time. Only the Xue family has stayed in Jinling for many years, and is not very close to the other three families, especially the Shi family. Even more alienated a lot, to have such a chance to get close, naturally it couldn't be better.

"As early as when I came to Beijing, I wanted to visit the master and wife of the historian, but unfortunately I was always busy. Since I have this opportunity, it is better for Pan'er and Baochai to meet their old relatives, so that they will not be young, and even their relatives will not be there. I don’t know, it’s a joke.”

Xue Baochai smiled shyly.

Aunt Xue agreed, and Mother Jia asked Jia Jing again, "Does Jing'er want to go together?"

Jia Jing stroked his beard and said, "Nephew is worried about the old lady, let's go together!"

Mother Jia felt his filial piety, and said, "Just go back to my mother's house, so don't worry about it."

Now that the discussion was settled, a group of people went there under the leadership of Shi Xiangyun, passing by two similar tents, one big and one small, the big one was more luxurious, and the small one was more simple, and the people coming and going were familiar. They are all the daughters-in-law and mother-in-law who are used to it at home. Wu Xingdeng and his daughter-in-law are leading people to bring in the daily things used by Jia Mu and the girls.

Everyone stopped to look at it for a while, and they stopped looking at it because they were too busy.

After crossing three tents, we came to the Shijia. The Shijia had a thriving family and controlled the number of people. There were still about ten people from the two houses, occupying three tents. The women in the two houses each occupied one tent, and the men in the two houses shared the largest tent. .

Someone had come to inform Jiamu that she was coming a long time ago. Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Shi had been waiting at the door of the tent.

"I met the old lady." The two sisters-in-law bowed their knees to pay their respects.

The eldest lady went up to help, and the mandarin duck stepped aside and approached,

"The old lady is a rare visitor. If it's our fault, I should have gone to say hello when I heard that the old lady is here. I'd like to trouble the old lady to come over in person."

Mother Jia patted her hand and said, "We just came here, I was afraid you were busy here, so we didn't notify you, but Xiangyun girl came over and said that you have cleaned up here, so I came here to see you with the cheek."

"Look, old lady, if you say this, you are offended. Your old man came out of our historian's house. Our historian's daughter is not thrown out of the house when she gets married. Our master said, are you an elder in our house or us?" , let us respect you as a father and mother!"

The two entered the tent after chatting and laughing. Different from the extravagant style outside, the inside was really very simple. It was far from being compared with ordinary Houfu families, even ordinary officials and eunuchs.

The huge tent was divided into several rooms, which were covered with thick wool felt, and nothing could be seen. The main hall was about ten or twenty square meters. A soft couch similar to a kang, with nothing more than a desk and a few plates of seasonal snacks on it. The soft couch is facing a large round table surrounded by small camphor chairs.

There are none of the antique calligraphy and paintings that ordinary people would display, but there are all kinds of flowers and green plants, which seem to have just been picked, and reveal a bit of freshness and beauty.

The Rongguo Mansion has always been rich and prosperous, and they all demand dignity. The two sisters, Yingchun and Tanchun, have never seen such a clean place. After tidying up his house like a snow cave, maybe the Shi family and the Xue family have the same character?Anyway, it's the old lady's natal family, and it's not their turn to talk, so she glanced at them and lowered her head, pretending to be a lady with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.

Xue Baochai smiled at the corner of his mouth, dignified and decent, as if the distinctive decorations inside were no different, with a calm and grand appearance, but he looked at the tables, chairs and benches from the corner of his eye.

Her mother, Aunt Xue, was quite able to bear it. When Xue Pan entered the house, he looked disgusted. Although he had been in business for so many years, although he didn't make much money, he still knew about it. The things in this house were probably not as good as his. A wrench is worth a fortune!

Jia Lu looked up and down, the historian clearly arranged the hall in this way, and he was not afraid of being looked at, he was optimistic about it, the historian seemed really poor, thinking that Shi Xiangyun in the Red Mansion had to do it himself Needlework, this historian has been struggling for a year or two. She thought that the Jia family's extravagance and waste are the norm for nobles nowadays. Who would have thought that there is such a strange thing as a historian!

Jia Jing knows more, there are many historians, really very many.