In "Dream of the Red Chamber", around the Ningrong Second House, there are also many descendants of the Jia Fu side branch. Jia Lan's good friend Jia Xi, Jia Qin, who undertook the project of managing the little monk and the little Taoist, Jia Yun, who fell in love with Xiao Hong at first sight, Jia Huang, who was the most able to seduce Wang Xifeng and You's family, Jia Dairu, who taught in the Jia family school, and his grandson Jia Rui, and so on.
These side branches of the Jia family depended on the Ning Rong Second House for survival, but in fact most of them lived a very difficult life. In order to curry favor with Xue Pan, Jia Rui simply had no bottom line, allowing Xue Pan to act recklessly in the school, and he assisted and abetted the abuse next to him; Jia Yun, in order to get the project of planting trees in the Grand View Garden, ran thin legs, thinned the soles of his shoes, said all the good things, and sent Wang Xifeng ice chips and musk; Jia Qin's mother, Zhou Shi, also begged Wang Xifeng for Jia Qin's errands; and Jia Huang's wife even "knelt down to borrow Wang Xifeng's head" every day.
Their lives were often inferior to those of the slaves in the Jia Mansion. It is no wonder that Jia Yun's uncle Bu Shiren taught Jia Yun: "Even if their grandfathers can't see it, they will get angry and play with their housekeepers or the people who are in charge of things, and also get a steward." Nominally the grandfathers of the Jia family, but in fact, they are required to be on the heads of the slaves of the Jia family, which is the current situation of the lives of the descendants of these jia family.
However, among these descendants, there is also one person who is very special. He enjoyed almost the same treatment as Jia Rong in the Second Ning Rong Mansion, and grew up in the Ning Guo Mansion as a child, and was favored by Jia Zhen.
It turned out that this person's name was Jia Qiang, who was also the grandson of the upright sect in Ning Province, his parents died early, and he lived with Jia Zhen from a young age, and now he is sixteen years old, and he is more handsome than Jia Qiang.
At that time, Jia Yan, the Duke of Ningguo, had four sons, except for the eldest son Jia Daihua who inherited the title, the other sons were obviously separated. Jia Daihua's two sons, Jia Shi, died at the age of eight or nine, and Jia Jing inherited the title and gave birth to a son, Jia Zhen. In this way, the relationship between Jia Qiang and Jia Zhen is actually not too close.
Jia Yun, Jia Qin, Jia Rui, Jia Huang, Jia Xi and other people all had to rely on people's sniffles and live in a humble way, and even in front of the slaves of ningrong second house, they had to "get down", why could Jia Qiang grow up in ningguo mansion?
Moreover, Jia Qiang was very generous. On the thirty-sixth occasion, in order to please the senior official, Jia Qiang spent one or two eight pieces of silver and bought a bird. Unexpectedly, this "jade top golden bean" not only did not make Ling Guan happy, but it made Ling Guan very sad, saying that Jia Qiang used this bird to tease himself. Anxious, Jia Qiang swore an oath and dismantled the bird cage and released the bird to life.
One or two or eight pieces of silver, just like that, hit the water. For the Jia family's side branch, this two or eight pieces of silver can not be regarded as a small amount, but Jia Qiang does not care at all, which is enough to see that he has never been short of money.
When she was in Yuanchun Province, Jia Zhen also specially sent Jia Qiang to Gusu to buy small plays, which was a big deal involving 30,000 taels of silver, and even Jia Lian said that there was "a lot of hiding" in it. Such a fat difference is also the other grandfathers of the Jia family's side branch, and they absolutely dare not even think about it.
In short, Jia Qiang and the other young masters of the Jia family lived a completely different life, he was extremely favored by Jia Zhen, living a life of fine clothes and jade food, and never knew what a hard life was. Why is that? In fact, between the lines of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the truth has been vaguely revealed, and Jia Qiang's life is related to his real father.
We all know that Jiao Da, the most upright slave in "Dream of the Red Chamber", once scolded a sentence, "Climbing ash climbs ashes, raising little uncles to raise little uncles." Climbing ash refers to the matter between Qin Keqing and Jia Zhen; who raised the little uncle has become a mystery case in "Dream of the Red Chamber". However, after Jia Qiang grew up, such a thing happened -
The people of Ning Province are full of miscellaneous mouths, and those undesirable slaves are capable of making words and slandering the master, so they do not know what villains are slandering and slandering, Jia Zhen wants to hear that the mouth is not very good, and he also has to avoid some suspicions, and now he even divides it with the house, and orders Jia Qiang to move out of the Ning Mansion and go to the gate to live.
This passage can be said to be "there is no silver in this place for three hundred and two", which is vaguely revealed, it is precisely because the relationship between Jia Zhen and Jia Qiang is extraordinary, and the slaves' "slanderous rumors" will make Jia Zhen have scruples and order Jia Zhen to move out of Ningguo Mansion. When we put Jiao Da's drunken scolding together with this passage, the truth will come out - Jia Qiang's father is actually Jia Zhen. At that time, Jia Zhen and his sister-in-law (Jia Qiang's mother) had something unclear, and there was a rumor of "raising a little uncle" in the Ningguo Mansion.
Therefore, Jia Zhen would raise Jia Qiang in the Ningguo Mansion and give him the same care as Jia Rong.