Chapter 85: The person on the path is like jade (Please collect, please follow!)

The wife of the Marquis of Lady Bao Ling, Chen, heard her sister-in-law's words and how could she not see the trend? She smiled at Jia Mu: "Yun Yatou often mentions that there is a brother under the old lady's knees who can write calligraphy and poetry."

"It's just that he has been studying outside and never had the chance to meet. I didn't expect him to be so outstanding."

The wife of the Marquis of Zhongjing, Li, also smiled: "The brothers and sisters in the old lady's mansion are all outstanding. I have seen them all, only this Cong Ge'er is a stranger."

"Since he is so outstanding, not to mention Yun Yatou's curiosity, we also want to see a rarity. Old Lady, why not call him over to meet today?"

Jia Mu felt her face heat up when she heard this. She didn't expect this grandson to have made such a name for himself in these few years.

Two years ago, she exempted Jia Cong from filial etiquette, making him unable to even enter Rongqing Hall. Now she didn't dare to let this topic spread again, otherwise, her old face would be torn apart.

She could only let him come in to meet people earlier, which would cover up those previous words.

So she said to Yuanyang: "You go call Cong Ge'er over to pay respects to the old relatives and elders here."

Yuanyang smiled and replied: "I will go find the Cong Sanye to come over."

There was a moment in Rongqing Hall when a needle could be heard falling. The noble hostesses in the hall had some knowledge and had seen many figures.

Yet they didn't know that Jia Cong didn't care at all about filial etiquette or whether he could enter Rongqing Hall in his heart.

When he walked into Rongqing Hall, he only saw pearls and emeralds filling the hall, and pairs of eyes with different expressions looking over.

Jia Cong didn't take those people he was about to meet to heart, he was just curious about Shi Xiangyun, who was drunk on the crabapple and had slept enough.

Jia Cong felt a chill in his heart and thought for a moment. He saw Yuanyang looking at him from the side and smiled slightly: "Thank you, Sister Yuanyang, for the reminder. I will have a number in my heart when I go in later."

The wife of the Marquis of Zhongjing, Li, smiled: "I have opened my eyes today. There is such a handsome and outstanding brother in the world, and it is even rarer that he has such talent and ability. The old lady's good fortune is truly enviable."

Yuanyang smiled: "Cong Sanye, don't be polite. The words you sent are excellent and have won face for the old lady. I am just giving the Cong Sanye a reminder."

She was also happy for Jia Cong, feeling that the Cong Sanye had finally passed this hurdle.

But seeing Jia Cong's outstanding appearance, they were all a bit dazed for a moment.

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Yuanyang also said that the eldest young lady of the Marquis of Lady Bao Ling's mansion was also there. In these two years, she had stayed in the West Mansion, but coincidentally, the Cong Sanye was studying on Mount Luocang, so they had never met.

Jia Cong felt a bit strange that Jia Mu suddenly asked him to go to Rongqing Hall to meet guests.

At this time, seeing a young man walk into Rongqing Hall, with a green jade hairpin, wearing a sky-blue Confucian robe, peerless and handsome, with flying eyes and spirit, a clear air of books, shoulders sloping and back straight, with an extraordinary demeanor, like a jade tree and orchid.

Jia Cong didn't return to the mansion often in these two years, but Lady Wang and Wang Xifeng and others could still see him a few times a year. Although Jia Cong's changes in these two years were not small, they didn't feel anything since they saw him often.

It was just that the outside guests like the wife of the Marquis of Lady Bao Ling, Chen, and the wife of the Marquis of Zhongjing, Li, had never seen Jia Cong.

Jia Cong glanced at Yuanyang. This maid was not only smart and detailed but also considerate and kind. No wonder Jia Mu valued her so much, trusting her more than her own sons and daughters-in-law.

Yuanyang left Rongqing Hall and asked several waves of people before finding Jia Cong in the East Prefecture.

She asked Jia Cong a few more questions, and Yuanyang told him about the outside guests in the hall, and also briefly mentioned the matter of the wife of Prince Ziteng, Zhang, belittling the gift Jia Cong sent in the hall.

The hostesses of the various branches in the Love Shenjing, those who had seen Jia Cong individually, were also things from many years ago.

The delicate girl under Jia Mu's knees looked at Jia Cong with watery eyes and kept sizing him up.

The noble ladies sitting there all felt amazed. They originally thought that Baoyu was already very proud, but they didn't expect that Jia Cong stood here and actually eclipsed him.

Jia Mu, Lady Wang, Wang Xifeng, and others were somewhat accustomed to this scene.

Jia Cong had rarely returned to the mansion to study outside in these two years, but every time he returned, the people in the mansion would be surprised.

Perhaps it was because life was better now, or perhaps it was because he was at the age of growing up, Jia Cong's appearance had grown increasingly proud in these two years, making people unforgettable.

Every time Jia Cong returned to the mansion, some young maids and daughters-in-law in the mansion even deliberately took a detour to pass by the Qingzhi Study just to secretly peek at this unusually handsome brother.

This also made the rumors that Jia Cong resembled his mother spread like wildfire in the mansion. Jia Mu let Feng Jie clean it up for a while before no one dared to talk too much again.

So the reactions of these women in the hall were already seen by Jia Mu and others without surprise.

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Speaking of Jia Cong resembling his mother, Jia Mu remembered some past events.

That woman was originally raised as an outside mistress, but later she was pregnant. I don't know how she instigated Jia She, but she was actually brought into the Jia Fu openly.

She angered the old Duke until he was bedridden, and Jia Mu hated this woman to the extreme. From the time she entered the door until the child was born, she didn't even go to see her once.

With Jia Mu like this, Lady Wang naturally wouldn't get involved. Moreover, she was also pregnant at the time, so Jia Mu and Lady Wang actually hadn't seen Jia Cong's biological mother.

And Lady Xing was married in as a successor after Jia Cong was born, so naturally, she hadn't seen this flower-queen lady who was the most beautiful in the Love Shenjing.

Only Jia Min, who was still unmarried at the time, was naturally spiritual and shrewd, and had the courage. Out of curiosity, she actually went to the East Road Courtyard to see her once.

She came back and praised that she was a beautiful woman, and even excitedly drew a portrait of that woman, but was severely scolded by Jia Mu at the time.

Later, the personal maid who served that woman also died suddenly, and Jia Min married far away the following year, so very few people had seen the true face of Jia Cong's biological mother.

However, seeing Jia Cong growing up so handsome now, and not looking like her eldest son at all, one could know that his biological mother must be a beauty.

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The wife of Prince Ziteng, Zhang, suddenly smiled: "I have long heard that Cong Ge'er resembles his mother. His biological mother was the most beautiful in the Love Shenjing back then, so Cong Ge'er is naturally outstanding. If you ask me, even Baoyu doesn't look as good as him."

Zhang heard Lady Wang's words earlier, a lowly illegitimate son actually hindered Baoyu.

She originally wanted to belittle Jia Cong in front of everyone, so she could take the opportunity to raise Baoyu.

Everyone knew that Baoyu was the phoenix of the Jia family. Wouldn't this be following the wishes of Jia Mu and Lady Wang, and also be considered close to the Jia family for her own husband?

But she didn't expect that the meddlesome Marquis of Zhongjing's wife, Li, actually told the anecdote about Jia Cong's calligraphy, making her lose face in front of everyone.

She didn't think she had any mistakes, just vented all her anger on Jia Cong, ridiculing Jia Cong in public to regain the face she just lost, but she couldn't let people look down on their Wang family.

An illegitimate son born of a prostitute, isn't it just stepping on him if you want to? What is there to be afraid of?

Zhang didn't expect that in Rongqing Hall, in front of Jia Mu and all the old relatives, humiliating Jia Cong was not Jia Cong's personal honor or disgrace, but involved the face of the entire Jia family.

But if Zhang was really such a smart and awake woman, she wouldn't have used a mere birthday gift to provoke trouble just now.

Resembling his mother! The most beautiful in the Love Shenjing!

These two words were so sharp, like a harsh gong suddenly struck in the originally harmonious Rongqing Hall, shaking the women present until they were dizzy.

Everyone looked at Zhang with shocked eyes.

Jia Mu's face was already like frost, and she almost opened her mouth to scold. Where did this bastard wife come from? She was truly stupid to the point of being a portrait!

Lady Wang could no longer hold her frame and shouted "Sister-in-law!" with some shock and anger.

The hostesses of the old relatives present, eight or nine out of ten, had heard of the origin of Jia Cong's biological mother. It is said that she was the flower-queen lady who was peerlessly beautiful back then.

Zhang said "resembling his mother" and "most beautiful in the Love Shenjing" in the hall, isn't that saying Jia Cong was born of a flower-queen prostitute? Isn't this a raw slap in the face of the Jia family?

Was this woman here to celebrate the birthday, or was she here to smash the venue? Wasn't she afraid of making the old lady die of anger?

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