Detective in the Red Chamber

Isn't that thing already torn?

Now the two are not talking about the same situation, at least they are fighting openly and secretly.

But Jia Yucun was talking nonsense with his eyes open like this, and Sun Shaozong really couldn't prevaricate it casually, especially if he still refused, not only would Jia Yucun's favor be lost, but Jia Zhen would also be offended.

Forget it, let's deal with it casually.

Anyway, it's just eating, listening to music, and flattering Mr. Shou Xing by the way, and it doesn't take much spit.

Thinking in this way, Sun Shaozong made an appointment with Jia Yucun to go to Ningguo Mansion to celebrate his birthday together on April [-]th.

Chapter 332

After dismissing the office in the afternoon, Sun Shaozong sent Zhang Cheng to take Sun Jiye back to the mansion first, but he rode alone to Mingyufang in the west of the city.

In two days, Sun Chengye's son and daughter will arrive in the capital. Sun Shaozong, who is the 'grandfather', should prepare some greetings no matter what.

But yesterday, son Sun Shaozong went to the treasury to look around, but he couldn’t find any suitable items——When the eldest son, Sun Chengyi, was born, Brother Cheap sent all the things in the treasury suitable for children to his nephew. .

Right now, it's not easy for him to grab things from his son, right?

I have no choice but to go outside and change it.

These days, gifts for children's meeting are usually gold and silver playthings or jade pendants. After all, Nanbian'er is an heirloom of poetry and books, so it is a bit tacky to give gold and silver directly.

And when it comes to jade, Mingyufang in the west of the city is naturally the best choice.

From low-priced street stalls for the general public to top-notch items that are not inferior to Ouchi's collections, it can be said that as long as you bring enough money, you will never be afraid of finding the jade you want.

When I arrived at the gate tower plaque of Mingyufang, I saw dozens of hawkers lined up on the left and right of the entrance, and they all used red ropes to lift up the jade wares to be sold. A few copper bells jingle as soon as the wind blows, which is really pleasing to the ear.

Naturally, Sun Shaozong didn't like the cheap jade wares on these small stalls, but some of them were very delicately knotted, so he could consider buying them back to show Ruan Rong.

Swinging off the horse in front of the archway, immediately there was a temporary white servant on duty here, stepped forward to respectfully lead the horse to take care of it, and asked Sun Shaozong if he wanted a guide.

This is the advantage of being a local official. There are more than [-] cities in the capital, and you can enjoy leadership treatment wherever you go.

Rejecting the courtesy of the white servants to lead the way, Sun Shaozong entered Mingyufang with his sleeves fluttering, first bought a dozen knots from a vendor, and then wandered all the way to the expert.

I stopped and walked around four or five stores, but it wasn't that I didn't find something I liked, but I couldn't agree on the price—although Sun Shaozong was used to being extravagant, he couldn't give too much to his children these days Gold is precious, otherwise the child's life and fortune will be lost.

Although Sun Shaozong is an atheist, he still keeps a respectful distance from such troublesome things.

So just keep going.

Seeing that the jade store in front is quite large, there might be something suitable for it, Sun Shaozong was about to step in, but he was stopped by the clerk at the door, bowing his body and said politely, "I'm sorry, we There are female customers in the store, I'm afraid it's not convenient to entertain you, sir."

Not all female customers are qualified to have the store cleared, especially in such a big store, it is obvious that this is the family of the official and noble relatives.

Naturally, Sun Shaozong would not come here, the more people blocked him, the more he wanted to go in and pretend to be a big-tailed wolf, so he heard what the shop waiter said, so he was going to turn around and go to another house to have a look.

"Master Sun!"

At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly entered Sun Shaozong's ears.

Sun Shaozong looked back, only to see Lin Xiaohong, who had deliberately teased him in the medicinal bath, was looking out in the jade shop.

Could it be that Jia Baoyu is in the bakery?

uh~

To be precise, it should be Jia Baoyu who accompanied the female relatives in the mansion to go shopping—I don't know if it was Lin Daiyu.

Sun Shaozong was hesitating here whether he should call Jia Baoyu out and ask him about his condition face to face, when he saw Lin Xiaohong turned around and talked to someone in a low voice, then he raised his voice and said, "Please come in this old man. He is a relative of our bosom friend, so there is no need to deliberately avoid him."

When the two shop assistants in front of the door heard this, they quickly bowed and made a gesture of invitation.

Sun Shaozong thought that Jia Baoyu was inside, so he didn't think much about it, so he stepped in, but after entering, he saw a little woman standing in front of the dazzling array of treasures, but it was not Ping'er. Who else?

Since Ping'er is here, the shadowy figure in the cubicle is undoubtedly Wang Xifeng - she probably has been admiring jade wares inside, but it's not that she deliberately avoided Sun Shaozong.

It's just that apart from their master and servant, there is only the shopkeeper and an elderly store clerk in the room, and Jia Baoyu is not there.

"So it was Lian's second sister-in-law in person."

Sun Shaozong arched his hands, and asked a little curiously, "Isn't this Xiaohong Brother Bao's maid, why did she come out with sister-in-law?"

It was not Wang Xifeng who answered, but Ping'er who was guarding in front of Duobao, and she said crisply, "Returning to Mrs. Sun, our grandma sees her as a spirit, and it just so happens that there is no one around to serve her recently. Two days ago So Second Master Bao Bao asked her to come over."

It turned out that Lin Xiaohong failed to flatter Sun Shaozong that day, so she found an opportunity to climb up to Wang Xifeng's high branch.

Today, in order to celebrate Jia Zhen's birthday in the East Mansion, Wang Xifeng went out to buy birthday presents. Apart from the accompanying nurse and coachman, she only brought two maids and two wives, and Lin Xiaohong was among them—in a sense, , this little red can be regarded as one step up to the sky.

But in this way, it would be more difficult for Jia Yun to succeed.

But after Ping'er finished explaining, he put his ear on the green gauze curtain and listened for a while, then he began to spread the word again, "Since we happened to bump into each other, our grandma wanted to ask, why did my aunt Yingchun write back yesterday and said that the grandson of the sale I'm not interested? Didn't Mr. Sun propose this deal first?"

Two days ago, taking advantage of the "gap" between sowing seeds, Sun Shaozong explained the matter to Jia Yingchun in the original way - how can the elder brother and sister-in-law who are usually distant from each other be compared with the elder brother Qing?

Therefore, Yingchun immediately expressed his attitude, saying that everything was under Sun Shaozong's orders.

So Sun Shaozong asked her to write a letter to Wang Xifeng, saying that the Sun family had no interest in this business, and asked Wang Xifeng to think of other ideas.

Naturally, this was playing hard to get, trying to force her to give up some benefits—now that she was anxiously calling Sun Shaozong to come in for questioning, she knew that the effect of the letter should not be bad.

Hearing the question from 'Wang Xifeng', Sun Shaozong laughed and said, "My brother is preparing to be transferred to the Shenji Camp recently. If this thing happens, I'm afraid I will be busy for a year or two at least. If you want to make a big promise, but you only earn a small profit, it’s common sense that you can’t get excited.”

Before Wang Xifeng could respond, he pretended to be magnanimous and said, "Although I proposed this deal, but at this time and at that time, since my brother has no other skills, sister-in-law might as well find someone else to cooperate with."

He said lightly here, but Wang Xifeng almost crushed the two rows of silver teeth.

In fact, because Xue Pan recently took Wang Tianguan's daughter and took the post of General Secretary, Wang Xifeng once wanted to join forces with Xue's family to swallow this piece of fat.

However, when Aunt Xue went back and brought up the matter with Xue Pan, Xue Pan shook his head like a rattle, saying that Sun Shaozong had mentioned this deal a long time ago. way of making money.

Besides the Xue family, the Wang family couldn't participate due to family rules, so what about the Jia family—if Wang Xifeng was willing to collect money for the public account, would he still need to work so hard?

So after much deliberation, the Sun family is still the most reliable - there is no way, aside from the name of the Rongguo Mansion, there are only a few personal relationships that Wang Xifeng can contact.

Therefore, when Sun Shaozong's words fell into her ears, they were full of ridicule.

If there were no one around, she might have rushed out with a gun and a stick, so as to let out the sullen feeling that has been pent up in her heart recently.

But right now...

Ping'er stuck to the curtain and listened carefully for a while, then spoke for her again, "But I don't know how Master Sun thinks, how should the two families work together to make brother Ling nod?"

"Is this..."

Sun Shaozong spread his hands together, "The second sister-in-law can handle such a big family business without leaking water. Why do you need to ask me about such a small business?"

As he said that, he said to the shopkeeper, "Your name can have jade pendants for children. It's better to be more elegant, and the price should not be too high."

Chapter 333 Considerate, Chilling

Due to a delay in Mingyufang, it was already much later than usual when I returned home.

Sun Shaozong went to the back house first, handed over the knots and pendants he bought to Ruan Rong for safekeeping, and told her to stare at the Dongkua courtyard for the past two days, and if she found any omissions, she would quickly make up for them, lest Sun Chengye would be embarrassed to speak up.

Then he went to Xiangling's house again, and 'tasted' the poems and songs that Xiangling tried recently, whether he understood or not, there was nothing wrong with being full of praise——Anyway, Xiangling didn't expect him to have this culture Accomplishment, just has the achievement, can't help but want to show it in front of men.

After dealing with all these trivial matters, it was almost past Haishi when Sun Shaozong quietly sneaked into Jia Yingchun's courtyard under the pretext of handling official business in the study.

After knocking on the door for a long time, I saw Siqi open the door from the inside, and asked casually, but it turned out that two maids were waiting for Jia Yingchun to take a bath, but Sun Shaozong didn't dare to knock on the door when he was outside, so he didn't hear anything until now .

Hearing that Jia Yingchun was taking a bath inside, Sun Shaozong's eyes lit up immediately, he hurriedly sent Siqi back to the West Wing Room, and rushed in honestly, no matter how shy his "sister-in-law" was, he flirted wantonly .

There is a poem that says

The powdery fragrance is wet with sweat and Yaoqin Zhen, and the spring is amused by the crispy melted rain cream.

After bathing, Tan Lang's alley, Linghua cools and refreshes purple grapes.

This time, the clouds gather and the rain rests, and the red luan scatter, but it only makes the ground and bed full of 'mud', even if they want to make do for a night.

In desperation, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to hug Jia Yingchun with his head down and hips, waited for Xiuju to replace all the bedding on the bed with new ones, and put a pillow on half of his waist before carefully placing her on the bed. bed.

Xiuju checked with the lamp again, and saw that there was nothing 'overlooked', so the two of them were able to lie down on the bed steadily.

As for the embroidered oranges, although Cai Cai also shared a considerable part of the firepower, he was only a maidservant after all, so after serving the two to rest, he went to the outer room to rest on his own.

When only he and Jia Yingchun were left in the room, Sun Shaozong told her in detail about his chance encounter with Wang Xifeng in Mingyufang today.

He then reminded her, "If she asks you to tell me what you have or what is not, you can just say that you can't make the decision, anyway, you have never been a person who makes decisions."

"Ah."

Jia Yingchun responded lazily and obediently. While trying not to move the lower half of her body, she put her head on Sun Shaozong's shoulder, and gently rubbed her red and hot face on the firm and cold muscles.

Ordinarily at this time, he should lend her his arm to pillow on.

but……

Too much muscle is also bad, except for the elbows, other places are much higher than ordinary pillows-and if she is allowed to rest on her elbows, there will be a gap of more than one meter between the two of them.

Less gossip.

But after Sun Shaozong finished explaining the matter, he raised his hand and found two written documents from the coat hanging on the bedside, handed them to Jia Yingchun and said, "I ordered some small things in Mingyufang, and the prices are not bad. You clearly asked Siqi to buy it with the proof, so as not to meet the sons and daughters of Chengye and not be able to present a decent meeting gift."

After all, Jia Yingchun was a decent wife. Although she was not in charge of the family, when Sun Chengye's family members arrived in the capital, she must be the first person they wanted to meet.

Therefore, besides preparing his own portion today, Sun Shaozong also made a special trip to pick out a few gadgets for her.

But after all, this thing was to be given away, so it would not be appropriate to buy it for her directly, so Sun Shaozong just selected it in advance, and then sent Siqi to buy it at that time, so it would not arouse the suspicion of others.

Jia Yingchun can naturally feel this thoughtful thought, so she leans into his arms more and more, and can't help but say Ai Ai longingly, "When I was at my mother's house, I couldn't help but have a few juniors. My nephew, but I never need to come out to entertain him, but now... I'm worried that I won't be able to handle it, and I'll lose our family's face."

Her timid appearance caused Sun Shaozong to feel a little flustered. He unconsciously slid his hand down, but said in a serious manner, "What are you afraid of? You also said that you are a few juniors, and you are not here." What a big man."

"At that time, you can say whatever you like. Anyway, you can't say malicious and hurtful things with your temper. If you really want to be inconsiderate, don't these juniors dare to pick on etiquette?"

Having said that, he put his hands on the key point, "But having said that, if my eldest brother is surrounded by a few children and shouted 'Grandpa', I'm afraid I'm going to feel bad again—or, let's work harder?"

With Jia Yingchun's temperament, how could he reject him?

With only a groan, Sun Shaozong let him fiddle with it again...

The words are divided into two parts, not to mention how harmonious the Sun family's back house is.

But when Wang Xifeng returned to the Rongguo Mansion, he originally wanted to use the excuse of the birthday gift to give Jia Lian a step down, so that the husband and wife would not always be so twisted.

As a result, Ping'er was sent to the study to inquire, but Jia Lian went to the East Mansion early, saying that he wanted to help Jia Zhen, Jia Rong and his son to decorate the house.

Wang Xifeng hesitated for a moment, then simply went to Ningguo Mansion, planning to help Jia Zhen's surname Youshi first, and then wait for an opportunity to reconcile with Jia Lian.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the back house of Ningguo Mansion, he saw Youshi's eyes were red, as if he had just cried.

This made Wang Xifeng a little surprised, because You Shi has always been a "broad-minded" person, otherwise he would not be able to tolerate the absurd dirty things of Jia Zhen and his son, but now he looks like he can't bear it?

Is there anything more unacceptable than father and son getting together?

Curious, Wang Xifeng instructed Ping'er to call all the maids around Youshi outside, and then made a few indirect remarks. Seeing Youshi's teased eyes were full of tears, she went straight to the topic and said, "Who are we two?" Don’t know who? What’s your embarrassment? It’s okay to hide it from others, so how can you hide it from me?”

Although these words obviously 'beautified' the relationship between the two, You Shi felt desolate, and just wanted to find someone to pour out his bitterness, so he sobbed along the way, "You know everything about our family. Yes, I have already seen it, as long as they don't involve me, I will let them go."

"Today, my stepmother heard that the master is going to make a big fuss on his [-]th birthday this year, so she brought her two younger sisters to help. Who knows...who knows that the master and Brother Rong are following her!"

"Now his father and son, together with your second master Lian, are wandering around my sister like wolves, and they won't let them leave no matter what..."

"Our second master is here too?!"

Wang Xifeng originally wanted to inquire about some romantic gossip, to satisfy her inner curiosity, but how could she have imagined that Jia Lian would also have a part in it?

Dang even was so annoyed that he wished he could crush the teacup in his hand!

He intends to make a scene, but this is not his home after all, so he can only stand up and stamp his feet, saying, "If that's the case, let this heartless happy death stay at your home, I'll go back and wait for widowhood!"

After saying that, regardless of Youshi's persuasion, he left without looking back.

Chapter 334 Pity the world's parents heart

The next morning.

The "Shenxiansan Special Rectification" meeting convened and hosted by the Ministry of Punishment was successfully held in the lobby of the Ministry of Punishment with the full cooperation of invited officials from various departments.

The first session of the meeting was naturally a tribute to Guangde.

Probably because of the presence of the General Secretary, the representatives of each yamen were extremely enthusiastic during this session, posing in various kneeling and licking poses, almost swollen the flattery.

However, Sun Shaozong keenly discovered that the clerk sent by the General Administration Department was only stained with ink once from the beginning to the end. He was obviously pretending and did not record these praises. My ideological consciousness is a bit low!

After the praises are over, it's finally time to talk... Ah bah, it's time to discuss the topic.