Detective in the Red Chamber

Although the monks were all afraid of this matter, only Miaoyu was willing to take in the baby girl among them—but if the baby was really handed over to the Taoist priests, the nature would be very different!

"Hahaha……"

Daoist Zhang laughed heartily a few times, winked and said, "Just kidding, presumably after Mr. Sun let out the news that the old Taoist wants to adopt children, there are temples willing to take over those children, right?"

"Old Daoist, I was scolded a few times, and I was able to protect a few children for half a lifetime without any worries. It's quite a fortune."

This is really a man with insight into the world!

No wonder he made Qingxu Guan the Taoist leader in just over ten years after he took over as the temple master!

"The old god is indeed as open-minded as a valley."

Sun Shaozong bowed his hands and praised sincerely, and then chatted with the old man for a while. Suddenly, drums and music rang out from the bell tower next to him, and then someone came to report that the carriage frame of Rongguo Mansion had arrived.

Hearing the words, one old and one young hurriedly went out hand in hand.

When I got outside, I saw a few sedan chairs full of flowers, followed by carriages and horses driving one by one, and among them were servants who echoed back and forth, and it was impossible to see the end.

got~

The emperor had just revealed in the mansion newspaper that he wanted to curb the trend of slavery, and the Rongning Second Mansion spread their fortunes on the street...

"Second Brother Sun!"

"Second brother!"

It was Jia Baoyu and Xue Pan who led the way at the front of the team. They saw Sun Shaozong and Taoist Zhang coming out together from a distance, and hurriedly got off their horses and came to greet them.

Seeing that they were only paying attention to greeting him, but were somewhat indifferent to Taoist Zhang who was beside him, Sun Shaozong hurriedly called the two of them to come forward and salute.

At this time, another person rushed over beamingly from behind, also got off his horse and came to the front, but it was Jia Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the ceremony.

I haven't seen you for a few days, but this Ningguo Mansion uncle seemed to be more energetic. After seeing each other with Sun Shaozong, he praised without saying a word, "My brother really worked that night, and I never dreamed about Rong'er again after that." daughter in law."

uh~

Sun Shaozong really didn't know how to respond to these words.

Fortunately, without waiting for him to answer, the first eight sedan chairs had already arrived at the door. Taoist Zhang answered a few words with Jia Mu through the curtain, and then told all the idlers in the temple to stay away, and sent the people from the Rongning Second Mansion to the door. The female relatives invited in.

After all, Sun Shaozong was a foreigner, so he just waited at the door, chatting casually with Jia Zhen, Baoyu and Xue Pan.

Unexpectedly, it didn't take long before I heard a commotion inside, and it was full of women shouting, beating and killing.

Everyone looked at each other in astonishment, and rushed into the curtain to check what happened, but it turned out that there was a little Taoist priest who cut lanterns, and for some reason, he bumped into Wang Xifeng, and the person who was slapped by her turned on his back, and was about to roll and crawl to escape He opened it, but he was surrounded by servants and wives, beating, shouting and cursing at every turn.

Zhang Laodao was a little embarrassed when he saw this, and he didn't go forward to beg for mercy, let alone just sit and watch here.

Fortunately, when Mother Jia heard the commotion, she hurriedly stepped forward to silence the crowd, and only then did the turmoil disappear invisible.

Chapter 348

After letting the little Taoist go, Mother Jia, surrounded by all the female relatives, arrived at the gate of the Taoist mountain, and saw Yingchun leading Ruan Rong and a few big maidservants waiting for her at the bottom of the steps.

The old lady's creases burst into laughter immediately, and she looked back and said, "This second girl is really honest, I was worried that she would suffer some hardships when she married, but now looking at her face, she is really married to the right person."

Jia Yingchun was overjoyed and flustered at the same time, and she didn't know how to respond. Wang Xifeng next to her giggled and said, "With the color of the second sister alone, even if she doesn't have the face of our family, whoever she marries can't be a treasure offering?" You like to worry about it!"

Everyone burst into laughter, and Li Wan hurriedly pulled Yingchun into the team, and then Lin Daiyu stepped forward and called her sister to come over and talk.

Only then did the crowd pass through the two mountain gates and came to the main hall of the Sanqing.

Jia Yingchun chatted casually with Li Wan along the way, but secretly, all her thoughts were on Wang Xifeng.

Gein Wang Xifeng went to the Sun's residence a few days ago, apparently to invite her to a funeral ceremony, but actually took the newly drafted partnership articles and asked Yingchun to pass them on to the Sun brothers for review, and urged that if there was no problem, they would send her to the Sun family. The business was arranged as soon as possible.

She really can't wait anymore, Nanbianer has already opened the door to purchase timber, and if she delays, she will miss so many opportunities to make a fortune. Every time she thinks of a lot of money slipping through her fingers, Wang Xifeng feels so uncomfortable that she can't sleep all night .

Of course, Jia Lian's recent infidelity is also an important reason why she can't sleep alone.

However, Sun Shaozong and Brother Cheap studied it carefully for half a day, and found that the rules and regulations listed in the regulations were indeed much fairer than last time, but there were still some ambiguous loopholes in some details.

The two of them listed these flaws, and drew up a revision plan, which Jia Yingchun took with him, ready to hand it over to Wang Xifeng for review.

Therefore, when entering the hall, everyone else wanted to be good-looking in front of Jia's mother, but Jia Yingchun was the only one who stared at Wang Xifeng closely.

It happened that Jia Lian led some healthy servants and brought in sesame oil as an offering. Wang Xifeng didn't know what to explain to him, so he specially confessed his crime to Jia's mother, and went with Jia Lian to talk in the side hall next door.

Seeing this, Jia Yingchun hurriedly asked Li Wan to restrain him playing chess and embroidering oranges, and followed quietly by herself.

Originally, I planned to wait for the second elder brother to leave before discussing business matters with my sister-in-law, but just outside the gate of the side hall, I heard Wang Xifeng yelling inside, "You who killed a thousand swords, are you crazy? You just have two thief eyes. Where are you looking straight? That red-haired girl is also something you can miss?!"

In the current view of Qingxu, Ruan Rong is naturally the only one who can be called a "red-haired fan girl"!

My brother, who is not upright, actually misses the second master's concubine? !

Jia Yingchun was taken aback, and she hurriedly pasted to the door of the hall and listened carefully, regardless of decency or rules.

"Keep your voice down!"

Jia Lian said displeasedly, "This is not at home, what are you talking about? Besides, since she can come, why can't I see it?!"

"Are you watching? Are you watching?!"

Wang Xifeng became more and more annoyed, and mocked aggressively, "You look like you are clearly trying to steal someone away, even swallowing the skin and bones! But before you think about such a beautiful thing, why don't you weigh your own skin and bones first?" How can you stand up to a few punches from Sun Jia Erlang!"

But it turned out that just now Jia Lian took advantage of the time of delivering the offerings, sneaked up and stared at Ruan Rong lewdly for a long time, no one else saw it, but Wang Xifeng saw it clearly, immediately overturned the jar of jealousy, and was even more worried that it would happen Affect your own fortune plans.

That's why she hurriedly dragged Jia Lian to the side hall to talk.

"Are you finished?!"

Seeing that this woman dared to scare herself with Sun Shaozong, Jia Lian also exploded immediately, jumped three feet high, and said with a red face, "I just took a look at her clothes, and you are so stubborn." Forgive me, when I was inside that day, did Sun Lao Er see anything inside and outside?!"

"I usually look at that one more time, and it's fine if you don't agree with me. How can you be so embarrassed by that Sun Laoer, and dare to pick on me like an innocent person with a shy face?!"

A few words made Wang Xifeng choke, and when he was about to share a few words with him, Ping'er's voice suddenly came from outside the door, "Hey, is my aunt looking for our grandma?"

Then came Jia Yingchun's panicked voice, "I...I'm here..."

Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng looked at each other, hurriedly rushed out together, and saw Jia Yingchun hanging her head in embarrassment outside the door, without even asking, she knew she must have heard something.

Bitter too~

How could she listen to so many people in this temple? !

Jia Lian's face suddenly became embarrassing, and he didn't know how to explain it to his sister, so Wang Xifeng pushed him and said, "I'll just explain to my second sister, and you hurry to the front to help."

As soon as Jia Lian heard this, she knew that Wang Xifeng was going to cover up for herself, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly fled back to the main hall.

Waiting for him to go away in an evil manner, Wang Xifeng dragged Yingchun into the side hall and said in a low voice, "My dear sister, you must not dare to tell your family what happened just now, otherwise Sun Erlang and you Brother has a rift, wouldn't it be very difficult for you to be caught in the middle?"

These words are not unreasonable, especially Jia Yingchun and Sun Shaozong are not just sister-in-law. My brother is now coveting Sun Shaozong's concubine, if Sun Shaozong finds out...

Thinking of this, Jia Yingchun also nodded hesitantly.

Wang Xifeng was afraid that she would not be reliable enough, so he even coaxed and frightened her, and then asked, "By the way, you came to look for me, is it because of that business deal?"

Jia Yingchun immediately remembered the business, hurriedly took out the revised statement and handed it to Wang Xifeng, and then repeated the explanation she heard while lying in Sun Shaozong's arms.

After Wang Xifeng listened to it and read it, he compared it with his own original text, and felt that this was the only way he understood it clearly, and because of this, he greatly admired the business skills of the Sun brothers.

Besides, it has been delayed for such a long time now, and I really can't tolerate any more details.

Therefore, Wang Xifeng read it again, confirmed that there was nothing inappropriate, and said, "I will ask Ping'er to copy two copies when I go back, and then send it over with my fingerprints, so that this matter can be completely settled - when the time comes, you will never forget it." Wan urged your lord and second lord to hurry up and send people to bring the money to the south, otherwise, how much business would be delayed!"

Jia Yingchun readily agreed, and the aunt and sister-in-law left the side hall hand in hand.

When I called Shang Ping'er back to the main hall, I heard the Taoist priest say with a smile, "I saw a young lady in a house the day before yesterday. She is 15 years old this year, and she looks pretty good. ——I think about my brother. It's time for my son to find a relative, if you think about this young lady's appearance, she's smart and intelligent, and has a solid family fortune, she's a good match."

"But I don't know what the old lady is thinking here, Xiaodao doesn't dare to make mistakes, so I ask the old lady to show me before I dare to tell others."

Mother Jia is absolutely necessary, but she is anxious to ruin the friends next to her.

Especially Baoyu, who wanted to interrupt but couldn't, scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks anxiously, fidgeting, and went straight to gouging out Taoist Zhang's old face with his eyeballs.

Originally, this had nothing to do with Wang Xifeng, but she knew that her aunt Mrs. Wang had already made up her mind for Baoyu, so she hurriedly stepped forward to make jokes, which made everyone laugh, so she suppressed the marriage proposal.

She also took advantage of the opportunity to ask Taoist Zhang for a "name talisman" for her only daughter, sister Qiao.

The Taoist priest was just making fun of it, and brought in a tray from Nuo Da, saying that he wanted to invite Baoyu's "Spiritual Treasure Jade" to go outside to open the eyes of the little Taoist priests.

After hearing this, Jia Mu hurriedly ordered Baoyu to take down the "psychic jade" and put it in the tray.

Daoist Zhang worked diligently to use the python burden as a cushion, and then he carried it out himself like eyeballs.

Chapter 349

But Sun Shaozong and Xue Pan were in the shade, holding the iced sour plum soup brought from home, complaining about the early arrival of the hot weather, and saw Zhang Laodao coming out with a large tray, calling for the little Taoist priests to pass it on.

Xue Pan couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he left the sour plum soup and went to join in the fun, but after looking at it twice, he was disappointed again, turned back cursing, and complained to Sun Shaozong, "What is my Tao? He took Brother Bao's psychic jade to show off!"

That Yusun Shaozong had also played with it a few times, except for the aura of "natural birth", there is really nothing unusual about it.

So after hearing what Xue Pan said, he didn't bother to join in the fun.

Unexpectedly, if he didn't join in the fun, Daoist Zhang went around to let his disciples and grandchildren watch, but he came straight here.

Sun Shaozong hurriedly pulled Xue Pan up to greet him, and then he heard the old Taoist say cheerfully, "These monkey cubs have seen that 'Spiritual Treasure Jade', and it's rare for them to be generous. present."

"I heard that Mr. Sun just got a son recently. You might as well choose a few to make playthings for your children. It can be regarded as an old way of borrowing flowers to present Buddha."

Xue Pan laughed while listening to it, and said while clutching his stomach, "You are so old-fashioned, but what you say about borrowing flowers to present Buddha is really fresh!"

Sun Shaozong glanced at him hurriedly, but Daoist Zhang didn't take it seriously, he held the plate and laughed and said, "Red lotus and white lotus root are originally a family. Since all Buddhist disciples are interested in 'the Great Way', I, the old Taoist, casually recited 'Buddha'." 'What's wrong?"

This old Taoist is really interesting!

Sun Shaozong saw that the kindness was hard to give up, so he lowered his head to check the objects in the tray, and saw that there were also gold huang and jade rings inside, or that everything was going well, or that every year was safe. There can be as many as ten pieces in total.

He couldn't choose carefully, so he casually picked up two golden ones, and jokingly said, "Since the old god said so, I have to choose two cheap ones!"

Daoist Zhang saw that Sun Shaozong had only selected two pieces, so he persuaded him a few more words, but Sun Shaozong refused to take any more.

When I was young, word came from inside that the female relatives had already arrived upstairs, waiting for the master and brothers to arrive, and then they would draw lots in front of the shrine to start the show.

To be honest, Sun Shaozong was also very puzzled, burning incense to fulfill his vow, why did Mao have to sing operas in Taoist temples, and the singing lasted for three days?

Don't Taoists like quiet and inaction the most?

But he said that as Jia Rong, Jia Qiang and others entered inside, they saw that the seats in front of the stage were opened like fans, and the others had their own places to go, while Sun Shaozong and Xue Pan sat with Jia Zhen and Jia Lian. To the main seat.

Today I don't know why, Jia Lian's face always looks a little weird, Xue Pan asked a few words curiously, but he also hesitated and refused to speak clearly, as if he was hiding something shady.

Except for the mat in front of the stage, there are two small buildings in each of them, facing the stage at an angle of 45 degrees, separated by a corridor about Zhang Xu wide.

At this moment, all the Yingying and Yanyan upstairs were laughing to themselves, especially the opera singers raised by the Jia family and the Sun family, who were obviously talking about drama, but actually they were competing with each other.

One side was selected by the Duke's Mansion, and the other side was trained by Jiang Yuhan himself. Both of them were dissatisfied with each other. As a result, before the singing began on the stage, voices started fighting upstairs.

In the end, it was Wang Xifeng and Ruan Rong who reprimanded each other, which made them calm down.

At this time, Jia Zhen stepped forward, burned incense and prayed in front of the incense table, and then cast lots for the three plays to be sung today.

The first one is "The Story of the White Snake", which tells the story of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty beheading the white snake to revolt; the second is "Manchuhu", which tells the story of the [-]th birthday of Fenyang King Guo Ziyi, whose seven sons and eight sons-in-law were all high-ranking officials in the court. When praying for birthday, I put wat boards all over the head of the bed; the third fold is "Nanke Meng", which naturally talks about wealth and glory, but in the end it is just a big dream.

Jia Zhen, who has always been careless, didn't see anything wrong, but Sun Shaozong saw it next to him, but he didn't think it was a good omen—the Rongning and Ningfu both started their careers with military exploits, and now they are quite influential in the court. Power, it corresponds to the first two dramas, but this third drama...

tsk~

Our men are obviously atheists, so why do we believe in omens?

Besides, even if the Jia family really had a horse with a high horse and short stirrups, it would not involve the Sun family.

Thinking like this, Sun Shaozong will put this thought behind him again.

But Jia Zhen sent up the playbook, and soon saw Baoyu coming down with him, holding many gold and jade ornaments in her hand, but they were the ones that Taoist Zhang had sent in before.

"Second Brother Sun."

When Baoyu came close, he spread those things on the table, pretending to be proud and said with a smile, "I don't have much use for these things myself, so I just add them to my little nephew and share them."

But it turned out that he had just heard Taoist Zhang say that he gave Sun Shaozong two pieces first, and then he thought about the last time he was poisoned, and it was thanks to Sun Shaozong that he saved his life. It's a small talk.

These are all the things that the Taoist priests used to please him. Sun Shaozong chose two in advance, but he just couldn't get rid of his feelings. Now, why would he want these things again?

So he showed the two gold wares to Jia Baoyu and said, "These two things are destined for me, but I can't see the others. Besides, this is also a good intention from others. You'd better keep it for yourself."

Baoyu persuaded him a few words, but seeing that Sun Shaozong was determined not to accept it, he had to go back to the second floor and wait with Jia Mu and her sisters to watch the play.

"how?"

Seeing that he brought the thing back again, Lin Daiyu sneered and said, "Did you not get rid of these treasures? Or do you plan to keep it for yourself and give it to some girl as a dowry?"