Chapter 130 Miscellaneous Talk: The Decline of the Four Families
Many people have not noticed that when the story of Dream of Red Mansions begins, the Jia family is already in the end of the world.
One is because the Dukes of the Jia family are demoted with each generation. When Jia Zhen and Jia She were attacked, they had already left the upper Rong had to entrust the old internal minister to hire a substitute dragon guard, which cost him 2 silver. This shows that he no longer has high-end Xifeng's work for the old nun was nothing more than a side job, while Jia Zheng's hiring of Jia Yucun was more like following the current, and the job Jia Yucun hired was nothing more than a middle-level cadre, like Jia Zheng, about 5th the female relatives of the Jia family, only Jia's mother is still called Yuanchun was the emperor's woman, she encountered misfortune prematurely. Also, don't forget that there is a layer of supreme emperor above the emperor in the from many things, it is obvious that the Jia family is too far away from the high-level decision-making circle and must proceed with example, the eunuch borrowed money, the loyal and shun king's chief historian came to ask for someone, and so is a matter of Zheng Zhi's status. What the Jia family relies on is nothing more than those old relatives and the current emperor's memory of the merits of Jia Daihua and Jia are all false.
Then there is the problem of people. The Jia family’s population is exploding, but its talents are there is any hope, something will Jing was born as a Jinshi and was originally the hope of the literary generation, but he became a Zhu is probably the only reliable person in the Jade generation. He was successful at a young age and even married the daughter of a high-ranking official, the Imperial Academy, Jiji Jiu. However, he unfortunately died before the book are almost no direct descendants left, and Jia Lan seems to lack courage.
It turns out that the decline of the Jia family was gradual, and the direct reason for accelerating the "trees falling and the hozens scattering" was that the Jia family took the risk to collect the "items" of the Zhen family in that time, the Zhen family had just been is obviously the wrong team.
Look at other families.
The Xue family can hardly be called a family at the beginning of the main source is probably Brother Dumb's branch, not to mention Zheng Zhi's status and lack of a fixed you noticed that Brother Dumb, the heart and soul of the Xue family, is actually a person who has canceled his household registration!The Xue family was obviously further away from the core of power than the Jia family, and was the first to decline among the four major Xue Biao brothers and sisters who appeared in the later period are collaterals. Xue Xiaomei was betrothed to Mei Hanlin's son early on, and it is unknown whether the story will be revived later.
There are signs of a renaissance in the Wang family. Although Wang Xifeng's father (the eldest brother of Mrs. Wang's Aunt Xue) who inherited the title is no longer around at the beginning of the article, the momentum of Wang Ziteng's development is very strong. He is promoted to patrol the border, which is a big deal. , with the sudden death of Wang Ziteng, Wang Ren was the "ruthless uncle" among the younger generations, and it was naturally difficult for the Wang family to escape the fate of probably happened at the same time as the Jia family.
Finally, historians show no signs of two marquises of the Shi family were promoted to nobles without being downgraded, and they were still at the Shi Xiangyun's parents are gone, the young Shi Xiangyun was the first to get engaged. It can be vaguely felt that the Wei Ruolan family is still very powerful. This is obviously an aristocratic people are not convinced when I say this. They will say that the historians are very poor. For example, Xue Baochai said that Shi Xiangyun was very tired. The historians did not hire needleworkers and made them all themselves; and Shi Xiangyun couldn't afford the crab feast for the this is just a superficial phenomenon. Don't forget that Shi Xiangyun once came to Jia's house and complained that her aunt made her wear several layers of dresses, as well as the intimate attitude of Princess Nan'an and others towards Shi Xiangyun at the banquet in Jia's house. It proves that historians are very powerful in scene may be the reason why the Jia family declined but the Shi family did not. Think carefully about what Qin Keqing told Wang Xifeng in his dream?As nobles for several generations, the Shi family embarked on a cyclical development path, while the other three families did , there are some details. Have you ever considered that Jia’s mother, Mrs. Shi, is still there. In the book, we can see that Shi Xiangyun often comes and goes. Have you ever seen her nephews, the two Shi Houye, visiting Jia’s house?I'm afraid some people don't think much of Jia She and Jia Zhen.
To sum up, I am afraid that the title question raises some questions.
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1. Regarding calling Jia's Mansion "the end of the world".
I was very confused when I first saw this mentioned in the fat all, the living standard of the Jia family is the top of the considering that this team was deeply involved in the creation and therefore knows the author’s intentions best, we can only follow his fact, there are quite a few clues in the following example, in the group scene of Lu Xueguang Xia Xue, Xing Xiuyan did not have a big cloak, but the others Baoyu, Daiyu, Baoqin, etc. were all from Jia Mu. What does this mean?Why not describe the collections of Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Xue?Also, once I needed ginseng to make medicine, and Jiamu found some good ones, but they had to store them for too long and lost their medicinal properties, so I had to buy them . Wang lamented that the treatment of girls nowadays is not as good as that of Jia Min’s generation, etc. There are actually many similar situations.
I think we are Grandma Liu. We cannot imagine the scene of aristocratic life without entering the Grand View author also regrets how the family lived during its heyday when it was a powerful family.
2. About "Mrs. Gaoming".
According to the description in the book, as long as the husband is of good rank, he can become the "Mrs."Therefore, when "an old concubine died in the palace", in fact, including Jia Rong's wife, they all went to the palace to accompany description in my article is wrong and I am basing it on modern people’s understanding of , what I want to express is that among these ladies, Jia Mu's status is much higher.
3. About "The Supreme Emperor".
The father of the current saint in the book is indeed still I remember correctly, Jia Zheng did not participate in the imperial examination and was directly appointed as an official. This is related to , it directly led to Concubine Yuan's marriage. (This is a great resemblance of the Supreme Emperor to Qianlong. I don’t remember anything like this before)
4. The Jia family’s population is “explosive”.
This is my subjective may be different from other book feeling comes from two direct lineage started from the second Duke Rongning, and the number increased with each generation, so that there were expressions such as " are all people living in the capital, and there are still several rooms in their hometown in the the other hand, there is the servant housekeeper. According to the description, few servants of the Jia family are let out (I don’t want to), but many are brought in. Qingwen was even bought in by short, compared with when Ning Rong Ergong laid the foundation, which was only a few decades older, the Jia family's population has increased dramatically.
5. "Brother Dumb" Xue Pan's household registration issue.
Xue Pan's fight for Xiang Ling led to a life-and-death lawsuit. Jia Yucun, with the help of the gourd monk, solved the gourd case and helped the Xue family settle the matter. However, the side effect was that Xue Pan's household registration was canceled.
6. Wang Xifeng’s father.
No one asked between the lines, Wang Xifeng's father is not Wang Ziteng, nor is Wang Ren Wang Ziteng's Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue are younger than Wang Ziteng, so the order is Wang Xifeng's father, Wang Ziteng, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Xue.
7. Wang Ziteng’s “sudden death”. There is no direct description in Chapter analysis that combines clues from all Ziteng and Jia Zheng supported the three families of Jia, Wang and Xue.
8. Shi Xiangyun and "Wei Ruolan".
In the Xue family, this is the most obvious. First, Xue Pan's father and Xue Biao's father both lost their official should be considered the beginning of the decline of the Xue family, but judging from the information revealed in the article, the two brothers are still relatively good. One is well-educated and sensible, and the other has stopped walking for seven or eight can try their best to delay the Xue family's decline, but they can't stop they both die, Xue Pan is incompetent and prodigal, plus killing people, the Xue family will basically be destroyed in this generation. Starting from the next generation of Xue Pan (if there is one), they will fall out of this class and survive.
The Wang family, the Wang family is a dominant one, and the Wang Ziteng branch is the one that stands out. After so many generations, it is still able to conduct the first nine provinces in the capital, which is other houses are obviously in trouble, including Sister Feng's father, who is obviously unemployed at home, and Sister Feng's brother is also idle and has not donated an official position, and this is the main room of the Wang can be seen that the Wang family has been going uphill all the way, with each generation getting worse than the last, and Wang Ziteng is an , Wang Ziteng was a military officer, which was unstable and prone to accidents. Once Wang Ziteng fell or retreated, the Wang family would plummet.
Historians, I have always thought they were an anomaly. After careful study, I think that in the first eighty chapters, historians actually had no thunder point of decline, at least no obvious explosive shortcoming of the Shi family is that they are poor, but I don’t think this is a problem, because only in the first eighty chapters, it is impossible to tell whether the Shi family is poor or there are many historians, and the Efang Palace is three hundred miles away, it cannot accommodate a historian in Jinling. This shows the scale of the the same time, while other families were going downhill and waiting for their titles to disappear, the Shi family was actually awarded a new title!This is so difficult!This shows the importance of historians to the emperor!It also shows that historians have been making meritorious deeds and have not been from their wives' diplomacy, Shi Xiangyun was so familiar with Princess Nan'an, and the Shi family's social circle was very good.
So I guess the decline of the Shi family may have been implicated. After all, the four major families all prospered and suffered losses, or perhaps the death of the two Shi family brothers later led to the decline of the Shi family.
At that time, I had a vague feeling that the Xue family was very generous and often invited this and at it again, I found an interesting thing. The Xue family's standards for treating guests and giving things away, not counting the continuation of the book, also deteriorated in the three vivid.
The three things given as gifts in the first book are the best. One is the coffin when Qin Keqing died. It is said that Xue Pan's father got it during his lifetime. The coffin supplied to the old prince Zhongshun is simply a rare treasure (of course it is so precious) It’s impossible to give it away for nothing, the Jia family will definitely repay it); the second thing is that Xue Pan treated Baoyu to such a big melon and lotus root, and such fragrant pig. These are rare ingredients in the world. Baochai even joked that he was not worthy of his small fortune. eat,
The third item does not seem too expensive, which is the twelve palace flowers that show off Daiyu’s distinctive character, but Aunt Xue specifically said that these are from the palace. The styles of gauze flowers in the palace are obviously the latest, and they are usually New styles in the palace led the fashion of the aristocracy.
That is to say, what the Xue family brings out are definitely not ordinary things. They are the most fashionable, rare and novel clothing, food, housing and transportation, which are worthy of the status of imperial merchants.
When I read the second book, the Xue family was still generous and generous, but in what they wrote, the new and strange characters were no longer there.
What kind of gifts did the Xue family give to guests? Baochai gave bird's nests and foreign sugar to Daiyu, and crabs from Xiangyun and Jia's houses. When Xichun was talking about painting, Baochai said that I had a lot of painting tools for you to use in the old days. They are good things, but they are all seasonal things, and they seem more ordinary than the rare and exotic objects in the first part.
That is to say, in the second book, the things given by the Xue family were all belonging to wealthy families, but they could not show the uniqueness of the imperial merchants.
The third book is a bit sent a large number of things at once, but he actually had to wait for his brother to bring local products from outside. Although good friends are the most important thing, in the prosperous days of the Xue family, does it take his brother to bring local products from various places?
What is even more sighing is the plot of ginseng. Jia’s family has declined so much that he can’t find ginseng to dispense medicine for Sister Feng. It is easy to adulterate in the pharmacy, so I asked my brother's buddy to contact the pharmacy, and I can get ginseng that is completely unadulterated, and then I said that we can't compare with those who have never seen the world. To save the world,
Some people think that Baochai is mocking Jia Mu’s collection of ginseng, but in fact, they forgot that Baochai’s words are not superfluous words like Jin Chuan’s foolish people, but subconsciously defending his own family.
Because everyone has overlooked one point, the Xue family does not have ginseng!If there is one at home, Baochai doesn't need to send someone to the pharmacy to look for it, he can just take it out by himself!
Jia's mother had a treasure that had expired, but the Xue family simply didn't have it. How desolate is this?Although Mrs. Wang would not think of this at all, Baochai has a habit of thinking too much. The "we" in her words refers not only to the Jia family, but also to the Xue about a dignified and generous girl who realizes that she doesn’t have ginseng in her family, and she still has to smile and say that we are not the kind of people who have never seen the world to cover up the family’s decline. Compared with her playful and self-effacing words to Baoyu back then "It's our fresh stuff!" "I know I'm not lucky enough to eat this." It's really sad.
The last pillar of the four major families, Wang Ziteng, died suddenly.
The Wang family is the core of the four major families. In the third generation, Jia Zheng and his generation, the entire four major families have reached the point where they are supported by the Wang family, or Wang Ziteng alone.
Although their family was just an earl at the beginning, they ranked No. 3 among the four major families, only higher than the Xue family of the imperial merchants without titles. (The Xue family's uncle is similar to Sicong's father, and Xue Pan is similar to Sicong, you know. of)
However, their family has a powerful Wang Ziteng who is very good at managing family affairs. Although there is no positive description, women like his sister Mrs. Wang and niece Wang Xifeng can control hundreds of households and thousands of acres of land. The Jia family is managed in an orderly manner. I think their family tradition and family education must be good.
(End of this chapter)
Many people have not noticed that when the story of Dream of Red Mansions begins, the Jia family is already in the end of the world.
One is because the Dukes of the Jia family are demoted with each generation. When Jia Zhen and Jia She were attacked, they had already left the upper Rong had to entrust the old internal minister to hire a substitute dragon guard, which cost him 2 silver. This shows that he no longer has high-end Xifeng's work for the old nun was nothing more than a side job, while Jia Zheng's hiring of Jia Yucun was more like following the current, and the job Jia Yucun hired was nothing more than a middle-level cadre, like Jia Zheng, about 5th the female relatives of the Jia family, only Jia's mother is still called Yuanchun was the emperor's woman, she encountered misfortune prematurely. Also, don't forget that there is a layer of supreme emperor above the emperor in the from many things, it is obvious that the Jia family is too far away from the high-level decision-making circle and must proceed with example, the eunuch borrowed money, the loyal and shun king's chief historian came to ask for someone, and so is a matter of Zheng Zhi's status. What the Jia family relies on is nothing more than those old relatives and the current emperor's memory of the merits of Jia Daihua and Jia are all false.
Then there is the problem of people. The Jia family’s population is exploding, but its talents are there is any hope, something will Jing was born as a Jinshi and was originally the hope of the literary generation, but he became a Zhu is probably the only reliable person in the Jade generation. He was successful at a young age and even married the daughter of a high-ranking official, the Imperial Academy, Jiji Jiu. However, he unfortunately died before the book are almost no direct descendants left, and Jia Lan seems to lack courage.
It turns out that the decline of the Jia family was gradual, and the direct reason for accelerating the "trees falling and the hozens scattering" was that the Jia family took the risk to collect the "items" of the Zhen family in that time, the Zhen family had just been is obviously the wrong team.
Look at other families.
The Xue family can hardly be called a family at the beginning of the main source is probably Brother Dumb's branch, not to mention Zheng Zhi's status and lack of a fixed you noticed that Brother Dumb, the heart and soul of the Xue family, is actually a person who has canceled his household registration!The Xue family was obviously further away from the core of power than the Jia family, and was the first to decline among the four major Xue Biao brothers and sisters who appeared in the later period are collaterals. Xue Xiaomei was betrothed to Mei Hanlin's son early on, and it is unknown whether the story will be revived later.
There are signs of a renaissance in the Wang family. Although Wang Xifeng's father (the eldest brother of Mrs. Wang's Aunt Xue) who inherited the title is no longer around at the beginning of the article, the momentum of Wang Ziteng's development is very strong. He is promoted to patrol the border, which is a big deal. , with the sudden death of Wang Ziteng, Wang Ren was the "ruthless uncle" among the younger generations, and it was naturally difficult for the Wang family to escape the fate of probably happened at the same time as the Jia family.
Finally, historians show no signs of two marquises of the Shi family were promoted to nobles without being downgraded, and they were still at the Shi Xiangyun's parents are gone, the young Shi Xiangyun was the first to get engaged. It can be vaguely felt that the Wei Ruolan family is still very powerful. This is obviously an aristocratic people are not convinced when I say this. They will say that the historians are very poor. For example, Xue Baochai said that Shi Xiangyun was very tired. The historians did not hire needleworkers and made them all themselves; and Shi Xiangyun couldn't afford the crab feast for the this is just a superficial phenomenon. Don't forget that Shi Xiangyun once came to Jia's house and complained that her aunt made her wear several layers of dresses, as well as the intimate attitude of Princess Nan'an and others towards Shi Xiangyun at the banquet in Jia's house. It proves that historians are very powerful in scene may be the reason why the Jia family declined but the Shi family did not. Think carefully about what Qin Keqing told Wang Xifeng in his dream?As nobles for several generations, the Shi family embarked on a cyclical development path, while the other three families did , there are some details. Have you ever considered that Jia’s mother, Mrs. Shi, is still there. In the book, we can see that Shi Xiangyun often comes and goes. Have you ever seen her nephews, the two Shi Houye, visiting Jia’s house?I'm afraid some people don't think much of Jia She and Jia Zhen.
To sum up, I am afraid that the title question raises some questions.
—————————————————————
1. Regarding calling Jia's Mansion "the end of the world".
I was very confused when I first saw this mentioned in the fat all, the living standard of the Jia family is the top of the considering that this team was deeply involved in the creation and therefore knows the author’s intentions best, we can only follow his fact, there are quite a few clues in the following example, in the group scene of Lu Xueguang Xia Xue, Xing Xiuyan did not have a big cloak, but the others Baoyu, Daiyu, Baoqin, etc. were all from Jia Mu. What does this mean?Why not describe the collections of Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Xue?Also, once I needed ginseng to make medicine, and Jiamu found some good ones, but they had to store them for too long and lost their medicinal properties, so I had to buy them . Wang lamented that the treatment of girls nowadays is not as good as that of Jia Min’s generation, etc. There are actually many similar situations.
I think we are Grandma Liu. We cannot imagine the scene of aristocratic life without entering the Grand View author also regrets how the family lived during its heyday when it was a powerful family.
2. About "Mrs. Gaoming".
According to the description in the book, as long as the husband is of good rank, he can become the "Mrs."Therefore, when "an old concubine died in the palace", in fact, including Jia Rong's wife, they all went to the palace to accompany description in my article is wrong and I am basing it on modern people’s understanding of , what I want to express is that among these ladies, Jia Mu's status is much higher.
3. About "The Supreme Emperor".
The father of the current saint in the book is indeed still I remember correctly, Jia Zheng did not participate in the imperial examination and was directly appointed as an official. This is related to , it directly led to Concubine Yuan's marriage. (This is a great resemblance of the Supreme Emperor to Qianlong. I don’t remember anything like this before)
4. The Jia family’s population is “explosive”.
This is my subjective may be different from other book feeling comes from two direct lineage started from the second Duke Rongning, and the number increased with each generation, so that there were expressions such as " are all people living in the capital, and there are still several rooms in their hometown in the the other hand, there is the servant housekeeper. According to the description, few servants of the Jia family are let out (I don’t want to), but many are brought in. Qingwen was even bought in by short, compared with when Ning Rong Ergong laid the foundation, which was only a few decades older, the Jia family's population has increased dramatically.
5. "Brother Dumb" Xue Pan's household registration issue.
Xue Pan's fight for Xiang Ling led to a life-and-death lawsuit. Jia Yucun, with the help of the gourd monk, solved the gourd case and helped the Xue family settle the matter. However, the side effect was that Xue Pan's household registration was canceled.
6. Wang Xifeng’s father.
No one asked between the lines, Wang Xifeng's father is not Wang Ziteng, nor is Wang Ren Wang Ziteng's Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue are younger than Wang Ziteng, so the order is Wang Xifeng's father, Wang Ziteng, Mrs. Wang, and Aunt Xue.
7. Wang Ziteng’s “sudden death”. There is no direct description in Chapter analysis that combines clues from all Ziteng and Jia Zheng supported the three families of Jia, Wang and Xue.
8. Shi Xiangyun and "Wei Ruolan".
In the Xue family, this is the most obvious. First, Xue Pan's father and Xue Biao's father both lost their official should be considered the beginning of the decline of the Xue family, but judging from the information revealed in the article, the two brothers are still relatively good. One is well-educated and sensible, and the other has stopped walking for seven or eight can try their best to delay the Xue family's decline, but they can't stop they both die, Xue Pan is incompetent and prodigal, plus killing people, the Xue family will basically be destroyed in this generation. Starting from the next generation of Xue Pan (if there is one), they will fall out of this class and survive.
The Wang family, the Wang family is a dominant one, and the Wang Ziteng branch is the one that stands out. After so many generations, it is still able to conduct the first nine provinces in the capital, which is other houses are obviously in trouble, including Sister Feng's father, who is obviously unemployed at home, and Sister Feng's brother is also idle and has not donated an official position, and this is the main room of the Wang can be seen that the Wang family has been going uphill all the way, with each generation getting worse than the last, and Wang Ziteng is an , Wang Ziteng was a military officer, which was unstable and prone to accidents. Once Wang Ziteng fell or retreated, the Wang family would plummet.
Historians, I have always thought they were an anomaly. After careful study, I think that in the first eighty chapters, historians actually had no thunder point of decline, at least no obvious explosive shortcoming of the Shi family is that they are poor, but I don’t think this is a problem, because only in the first eighty chapters, it is impossible to tell whether the Shi family is poor or there are many historians, and the Efang Palace is three hundred miles away, it cannot accommodate a historian in Jinling. This shows the scale of the the same time, while other families were going downhill and waiting for their titles to disappear, the Shi family was actually awarded a new title!This is so difficult!This shows the importance of historians to the emperor!It also shows that historians have been making meritorious deeds and have not been from their wives' diplomacy, Shi Xiangyun was so familiar with Princess Nan'an, and the Shi family's social circle was very good.
So I guess the decline of the Shi family may have been implicated. After all, the four major families all prospered and suffered losses, or perhaps the death of the two Shi family brothers later led to the decline of the Shi family.
At that time, I had a vague feeling that the Xue family was very generous and often invited this and at it again, I found an interesting thing. The Xue family's standards for treating guests and giving things away, not counting the continuation of the book, also deteriorated in the three vivid.
The three things given as gifts in the first book are the best. One is the coffin when Qin Keqing died. It is said that Xue Pan's father got it during his lifetime. The coffin supplied to the old prince Zhongshun is simply a rare treasure (of course it is so precious) It’s impossible to give it away for nothing, the Jia family will definitely repay it); the second thing is that Xue Pan treated Baoyu to such a big melon and lotus root, and such fragrant pig. These are rare ingredients in the world. Baochai even joked that he was not worthy of his small fortune. eat,
The third item does not seem too expensive, which is the twelve palace flowers that show off Daiyu’s distinctive character, but Aunt Xue specifically said that these are from the palace. The styles of gauze flowers in the palace are obviously the latest, and they are usually New styles in the palace led the fashion of the aristocracy.
That is to say, what the Xue family brings out are definitely not ordinary things. They are the most fashionable, rare and novel clothing, food, housing and transportation, which are worthy of the status of imperial merchants.
When I read the second book, the Xue family was still generous and generous, but in what they wrote, the new and strange characters were no longer there.
What kind of gifts did the Xue family give to guests? Baochai gave bird's nests and foreign sugar to Daiyu, and crabs from Xiangyun and Jia's houses. When Xichun was talking about painting, Baochai said that I had a lot of painting tools for you to use in the old days. They are good things, but they are all seasonal things, and they seem more ordinary than the rare and exotic objects in the first part.
That is to say, in the second book, the things given by the Xue family were all belonging to wealthy families, but they could not show the uniqueness of the imperial merchants.
The third book is a bit sent a large number of things at once, but he actually had to wait for his brother to bring local products from outside. Although good friends are the most important thing, in the prosperous days of the Xue family, does it take his brother to bring local products from various places?
What is even more sighing is the plot of ginseng. Jia’s family has declined so much that he can’t find ginseng to dispense medicine for Sister Feng. It is easy to adulterate in the pharmacy, so I asked my brother's buddy to contact the pharmacy, and I can get ginseng that is completely unadulterated, and then I said that we can't compare with those who have never seen the world. To save the world,
Some people think that Baochai is mocking Jia Mu’s collection of ginseng, but in fact, they forgot that Baochai’s words are not superfluous words like Jin Chuan’s foolish people, but subconsciously defending his own family.
Because everyone has overlooked one point, the Xue family does not have ginseng!If there is one at home, Baochai doesn't need to send someone to the pharmacy to look for it, he can just take it out by himself!
Jia's mother had a treasure that had expired, but the Xue family simply didn't have it. How desolate is this?Although Mrs. Wang would not think of this at all, Baochai has a habit of thinking too much. The "we" in her words refers not only to the Jia family, but also to the Xue about a dignified and generous girl who realizes that she doesn’t have ginseng in her family, and she still has to smile and say that we are not the kind of people who have never seen the world to cover up the family’s decline. Compared with her playful and self-effacing words to Baoyu back then "It's our fresh stuff!" "I know I'm not lucky enough to eat this." It's really sad.
The last pillar of the four major families, Wang Ziteng, died suddenly.
The Wang family is the core of the four major families. In the third generation, Jia Zheng and his generation, the entire four major families have reached the point where they are supported by the Wang family, or Wang Ziteng alone.
Although their family was just an earl at the beginning, they ranked No. 3 among the four major families, only higher than the Xue family of the imperial merchants without titles. (The Xue family's uncle is similar to Sicong's father, and Xue Pan is similar to Sicong, you know. of)
However, their family has a powerful Wang Ziteng who is very good at managing family affairs. Although there is no positive description, women like his sister Mrs. Wang and niece Wang Xifeng can control hundreds of households and thousands of acres of land. The Jia family is managed in an orderly manner. I think their family tradition and family education must be good.
(End of this chapter)
