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

Chapter 360 Dream of Red Mansions - Jia Yingchun 31

After Jia Lang told Jia Lian and his wife about his suspicions, he no longer cared about it. As for whether Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng and their wife had found out anything, that had nothing to do with Jia Lang.

Anyway, since then Jia Lian has been quiet for a while and hasn't gone out to fool around. Wang Xifeng has been drinking medicine all day long in the name of replenishing her body. On the other hand, things in the second house are as calm as ever, and nothing happens.

Jia Lang guessed that perhaps it was because Jia Lian and the others could not find evidence that the second house murdered them, so they had to give up.

Peaceful times are always very short. Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng had been struggling for almost a year without any result. Just when Jia Lian wanted to give up, Wang Xifeng suddenly fainted while paying her respects to Jia's grandmother.

Wang Xifeng fainted, and the doctor came to check and found that she was pregnant! Wang Xifeng had to give up her power as the housekeeper for this hard-earned second child, and thus the second wife regained the management power of the Jia Mansion.

The first thing the Second Wife did after regaining power was to invite the mother and son of the Xue family into the Rongguo Mansion without Lady Jia's consent.

Aunt Xue is the second wife's sister and also Wang Xifeng's aunt. Therefore, even if the second wife did it without reporting to the emperor later, even if Grandmother Jia is dissatisfied, she has to accept it.

Xue Baochai is the same age as Jia Lang, but she is younger than Jia Lang. Nominally, the Xue family's reason for going to Beijing was to send Xue Baochai to Beijing for selection, but in reality, it was because Xue Baochai's brother Xue Pan killed someone in Jinling, causing a murder lawsuit. In order to avoid disaster, he went to Beijing to seek refuge in the Rongguo Mansion.

Grandmother Jia politely received the three people from the Xue family. All the arrangements that the Second Madam made in the previous life to gild the Xue family were no longer available in this life. After all, the power in the hands of the Second Madam was already squandered by her. Compare the treatment of a relative of a housekeeper's wife and a relative from the Second Madam's natal family?

Xue Baochai has always been perceptive. When she met Lady Jia for the first time, she discovered that the arrival of her and her two children was not very welcome to Lady Jia. Even the elders, except for the younger generation who were unaware of the inside story, were not very welcoming. Even Wang Xifeng, who was also a daughter of the Wang family, had a very indifferent attitude towards their arrival.

Without the face given by Grandmother Jia, Xue Baochai's first appearance in the Jia Mansion was very dull. The servants in the Jia Mansion could clearly see that the three people from the Xue family were just ordinary guests, completely different from Lin Daiyu, their cousin.

Why is this?

Xue Baochai couldn't understand it. She remembered that when she wrote to the Second Madam, what the Second Madam said in her reply was obviously not the same.

It was indeed the Second Wife who strongly promoted the Xue family's going to the capital. Since she had lost her power as housekeeper and her money, she had no more ways to make money. In order to continue to provide financial support to Jia Yuanchun in the palace, she had to find ways to make money.

Although the Xue family is a merchant family, they are really rich. Aunt Xue still trusts the Second Wife, her biological sister, very much. The Second Wife can roughly figure out the Xue family's wealth with just a few words. In order to get as much money as possible from Aunt Xue, the Second Wife will naturally not miss any opportunity.

At the beginning of this year, Xue Pan killed someone in Jinling. Aunt Xue was so panicked that she wrote a letter to the Second Wife for help. The Second Wife immediately found an opportunity to control the Xue family. For this purpose, she used Jia Zheng's seal to bribe Jia Yucun, who judged the case for Xue Pan, making Xue Pan, the heir of the Xue family's wealth, lose his living identity and had to leave Jinling and go to Beijing to make a living.

Except for the three members of the Xue family, the second wife and Jia Lang, no one else in the Jia family knew about this matter. Jia Lang did not deliberately do anything to expose the second wife's schemes against the Xue family. He just watched coldly as the mother and son of the Xue family acted as "money-spending boys" in the Jia family, showing off the Xue family's wealth and bribing the servants of the Jia family.

Not long after, Granny Liu went to Rongguo Mansion to seek relatives and money. Wang Xifeng acted arrogantly in front of Granny Liu and gave her a small amount of silver. However, she did not expect that this silver was life-saving money for Granny Liu's family. For this, Granny Liu was very grateful to Wang Xifeng.

Wang Xifeng was proud of receiving Liu Lao Lao's sincere thanks. She then thought of Lady Jia and took Liu Lao Lao to see her. Liu Lao Lao cooperated and played the role of a clown well, which made Lady Jia happy and proud.

Jia Lang also mingled with the younger generations and met Granny Liu. Perhaps because she saw respect in Jia Lang's eyes, or perhaps in order to please Lady Jia, Granny Liu pointed at Jia Lang and praised him on the spot.

"This guy looks so handsome!"

"Old sister, you are so lucky to have such promising children and grandchildren. I am so envious that I don't know what to say!"

After hearing what Granny Liu said, Grandmother Jia was also very happy. Now she no longer thought about whether Jia Lang was a granddaughter or a grandson. She only knew that Jia Lang was the reincarnation of the Wenquxing star in the sky, and was destined to pass the imperial examination and become the prime minister in the future, leading the Jia family to glory again.

It's just that it's hard for Jia's mother to express her thoughts openly on a normal day. After all, with what happened when Jia Baoyu was born, Jia's mother finally realized that sometimes a good reputation doesn't bring good things. In order to prevent outsiders from being afraid of Jia Lang, the star of literature, Jia's mother had to use Jia Baoyu as a shield for Jia Lang. For this reason, Jia's mother felt quite guilty towards Jia Baoyu and doted on him even more.

Behind the scenes, shortly after Jia Lang returned to Beijing, Jia's mother handed over all the connections that Jia Daishan left for her to Jia Lang. No one else knew about this except Yuanyang, who was by Jia's mother's side. Although Jia Lang did not think that these connections of Jia's mother were of any use, he still gladly accepted them.

During these two years, Jia Lang carefully distinguished the effectiveness of these connections while making friends with talented people in the Imperial College. Although it was not easy to convince people because Jia Lang was too young, it was precisely because of his young age that people above him would not think that Jia Lang was forming a clique for personal gain.

In addition to studying hard for next year's imperial examination, Jia Lang has also been working hard to accumulate political wealth for his future career as an official. She knows who the new emperor will be, so she naturally will not sit there and do nothing.

When Granny Liu mentioned Jia Lang, Xue Baochai was also present. She stood aside and looked carefully at the most respected person of this generation in the Jia family with her head sideways. After entering the Jia family, Xue Baochai used money to pave the way and quickly bribed many of the Jia family's servants.

It was from these servants that Xue Baochai learned about Jia Lang.

In the second wife's letter, the most favored person of the Jia family's current generation and the one with the most promising future is her son Jia Baoyu. However, in the eyes of the Jia family's servants, the most favored person of the Jia family's current generation is Jia Baoyu, but the one with the most promising future is not Jia Baoyu, but Jia Lang, the young top scorer.

Xue Baochai read a lot of books when she was young. She was born in a merchant family and understood the class gap between scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans since she was a child. When she learned that Jia Lang was the first in the Jinling case, Xue Baochai realized Jia Lang's extraordinaryness.