The Overlord of the Red Mansion

Chapter 221 Your father came to me in a dream

Jia Rong couldn't sleep well, so he got up from bed.

Qingwen, who was sleeping, felt the noise and thought Jia Rong was going to the toilet.

"Xiren, bring the urinal for the master."

Xiren shouted directly on the bed, not letting the maid next to her get a good night's sleep.

Jia Rong thought that he had never been so wicked, but when he saw Qingwen wake up herself and still wanted to wake others up, he felt that this woman had absolutely no sense of morality.

Suddenly, Jia Rong had a brilliant idea.

Why don't I write a book?
Throughout the ages, which saint hanging on the wall doesn’t have a few famous quotes?
Jia Rong Kant: Women's rationality is limited, and they are more suitable for emotional rather than rational thinking.

Jaron Bonaparte: Women are men's property, they exist to please and obey.

Jia Rong Darwin: Women's intelligence is lower than men's. This is the result of natural selection.

"Women are the source of evil and the tools that lead men to depravity."

"Women are appendages of men, and their existence is to help men reproduce."

Jia Rong found himself with a choice of taking the blame for foreign celebrities and plagiarizing their famous quotes for his own use.

This idea is really great. Jia Rong feels that he will definitely win praise from many scholars and officials in this feudal era.

Anyone who doesn't praise doesn't know the rules!
When Jia Rong was thinking about good things, Qingwen, who provided Jia Rong with inspiration and good ideas, was scolded.

Sheyue, who slept in the same bed with Xiren, scolded: "What do you mean by chamber pot and urine pot? I think you are having a wet dream and your brain has gone mad!!"

Jia Rong frowned and said, yes, I can use the dream as an excuse to say that the emperor had appeared in my dream!
I'll write a letter to the emperor later and ask him to go and see his father instead of leaving things to my grandfather all day long.

Qingwen quickly sat up, pulled aside the bed curtain and looked at the maid's bed more than a meter away.

"You shameless bitch, if you scold me again, I will tear your mouth off!"

Xiren hurriedly put on her shoes and came out, saying anxiously, "The prince is still standing here! What are you two doing crazy?!"

The two women then remembered that Jia Rong was still there, and they hurriedly came out from the bed curtains.

When he came out, he saw Jia Rong standing in the corner as expected. He immediately lost all sleepiness and quickly knelt on the ground.

Jia Rong was not concerned at all. "It's okay. It doesn't matter if they quarrel a little. Children often quarrel. Just don't use violence."

"I have something to do in the study, you guys go back to sleep."

Jia Rong hoped that they would continue quarreling, and even felt that Xiren was being a little too nosy as she was the one who always tried to mediate.

Qingwen and Sheyue both breathed a sigh of relief. Xiren came over and said, "Master, I'll hold the lantern for you. It's very dark outside today, and the moon is not out. You can't see anything on the road."

Jia Rong said casually, "No, I can do it myself. You all go to sleep and get up tomorrow for dinner."

Soon a maid came in from outside, and she must have been woken up by the quarrel in the room.

Because it is summer, people wear less clothes and just put on some simple clothes when they go out.

Some people even deliberately exposed their belly buttons, thighs, or even breasts, just hoping to be noticed by Jia Rong.

You must follow the rules and manners in front of your host, and sometimes you also have to be enterprising.

Jia Rong quickly asked everyone else to rest and went to the study.

But Ping'er still came to serve, helped to grind the ink, and asked the maid to light the lamp and bring tribute paper to spread out.

Jia Rong sat in a chair, thinking about how to write a letter.

When everything was almost done, Jia Rong began to write a letter to the emperor.

A letter from His Majesty: My dear Sir, the Dragon Boat Festival has passed, and the hot summer is gradually approaching. Today, when I was meditating in front of the furnace to make the elixir, I became absent-minded and fell asleep sitting cross-legged out of exhaustion.

In a trance, as if in the clouds and mist, I suddenly saw the Emperor Retired and the Empress Dowager calling the Emperor's name behind me.

When I looked back, I immediately bowed and greeted him. The Supreme Emperor called him "Your Majesty" and asked me about the country.

I replied to Your Majesty that we should expand our territory and conquer a country in the South China Sea.

The retired emperor said angrily: The fishermen and bandits are occupying a small island. A few hundred people can take over this tiny piece of land. How can this be considered expanding the territory?
I am frightened and dare not answer.

The emperor asked again: "Court ministers, are the kings behaving themselves?"

I replied that there was only King Zhongxiao in the city.

The emperor asked again: Why haven't they been buried yet?

I replied that a lot of things had happened in the past two years. When the Supreme Emperor heard about it, he strangled me and I couldn’t breathe. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager quickly said that this was Duke Ningguo, not the emperor’s son.

The Emperor released my neck and asked me why I had seen him.

I replied: I will become a monk for the emperor!

The retired emperor asked me to tell His Majesty that since the country is peaceful and the people are safe, the funeral should be jointly presided over by His Majesty, the Ministry of Rites, the Taichang Temple, the Cabinet Grand Secretaries, the royal family and others. He also ordered me to continue refining the elixir and go out to accompany the burial, but not to interfere with my duties and make decisions.

He also said that the empress could be deposed but not killed, and that the emperor should not delegate everything to others but should do everything himself, especially at funerals, which showed filial piety!
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Would the emperor believe in such a bizarre thing as dreams?

definitely will.

Modern people also believe in this kind of thing, because dreams cannot be dialectically analyzed.

Jia Rong quickly finished writing the letter, left it to dry for more than half an hour, and then sealed it up. Before dawn, he had someone deliver the letter to the palace to show it to the emperor.

The emperor was a lazy man. He slept with women almost every night, sometimes two or three at a time.

It’s not that I don’t want more, but if there are more I feel overwhelmed and too tired, so I think two or three is best.

Secondly, the beds are generally a bit small and not suitable for four or five people sleeping together.

The imperial court has established the left and right prime ministers, who basically do the work of the grand councilor.

The emperor doesn't like to meddle in other people's affairs, especially in recent years when the country has been peaceful and the people have been prosperous, he has become even more indulgent, leaving things to others and enjoying himself, and attending court once every two weeks is considered diligent in his work.

To some extent, in the year since the smallpox ended last year, the emperor has lived a more relaxed and comfortable life than Jia Rong.

The bed was very crowded. When the emperor went to sleep, he simply pushed away the woman who was in the way and swung his arms and legs casually on the bed.

Jia Rong was still late in delivering the letter, mainly because he did not deliver the letter personally. The servants he sent were not as fast as Jia Rong, and they were blocked at every level when entering the palace. When the letter finally reached the emperor, he was getting dressed and preparing for dinner with the help of the eunuchs.

"Your Majesty, Prince Zhongxiao presented a letter."

After hearing this, the emperor walked over and took the letter.

"What does my brother want? Are you asking me to grant official positions to some of his relatives?"

The emperor smiled, opened the letter and saw if Jia Rong had anything to ask for.

Soon, the emperor could no longer laugh.

"Your Majesty..." The eunuch who was serving him saw that the emperor didn't say anything and stood there motionless with his back to the crowd, so he called out softly.

Unexpectedly, the shout from behind frightened the emperor so much that his face turned pale, as if he had heard a ghost, and he jumped onto the dragon bed in panic to hide.

Everyone looked at the emperor who was standing against the wall in astonishment. At this moment, the emperor was pale and his face was full of fear.

(End of this chapter)