Detective in the Red Chamber

As a result, being stimulated by the cold water, she couldn't help her delicate body trembling slightly, but she still refused to pull her bare feet out of it, instead she gritted her silver teeth and stretched her legs inwards, stretching her two white feet together. Hai Nezha was messing around in the stream.

After a short while, the girl gradually got used to the water temperature, closed her beautiful eyes comfortably, leaned her body back slightly, and straightened out a pair of pleasing proud things on her chest.

I don't know how long it has passed, the girl was in a daze, wandering between the heavens, the earth, the mountains and rivers, and suddenly heard a scolding from behind, "You crazy girl, you are still playing in the water here at any time, and you are not afraid of getting caught in the wind and cold! "

Hearing the scolding, the girl flattened her ruddy mouth again, fiddled with the water with her feet in anger, and said angrily, "Who told my brother to only care about traveling in the mountains and rivers, but left me and my mother in the water?" The family doesn't care!"

As she said that, she turned her head and rolled her eyes, but suddenly found that the little maid holding the inkstone had replaced it with a bowl of steaming ginger soup.

"ah!"

The girl Dang even jumped up, pursing her lips and protesting softly, "Mother was just pretending to be asleep!"

Seeing his sister jumping off like this, Xue Biao shook his head helplessly, and went to the gazebo to say hello to his mother

"Mom, do you feel more relaxed today?"

The woman sat up straight in the leisure chair, her bloodless face was full of kindness, she smiled and shook her head and said, "It's been a long time since I've been sick, so there's nothing to relax or not to relax."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and waved her sleeves, and all the servants in the pavilion retreated obediently.

When there were only mother and son left in the pavilion, Xue Biao lowered his voice and said angrily, "Then Wang Ren only dismissed his son after a few perfunctory words. Come home!"

The Wang Ren he was talking about was the son of Prince Teng, the governor of the nine provinces, and the elder brother of Wang Xifeng, the second grandmother of the Rongguo Mansion.

At the beginning of the year, he came to the south of the Yangtze River from the capital, and temporarily acted as an assistant and supervisor under his father's account. Although he did not have a serious official status, who would dare to bypass him as a yamen when dealing with large and small matters?

However, the Xue family has recently caused some entanglements in business, and if they want to seek help from Wang Ziteng, they naturally have to follow Wang Ren's way.

Originally, Xue Pan had already packed his luggage and was going south to visit Wang Ren in Ningbo Mansion, but before he could leave, he got the news that Wang Ren had arrived in Jinling.

Xue Pan was overjoyed, and hurriedly prepared generous gifts to come to the door to ask for an audience.

Unexpectedly, Wang Ren accepted the gift, but he didn't mention the matter of patronage at all. He only said some nonsense, and then came to serve tea to see off the guests.

"Ugh."

Seeing her son's resentment and helplessness, the woman sighed softly, "Even if we have some relatives, what do we orphans and widows do to impress the Wang family?"

The mother and son looked at each other sadly for a while, Xue Biao cupped his hands helplessly and said, "It seems that my son can only go to the capital for a while, and ask my aunt to come forward to make things right."

"That's all it takes."

The woman nodded, then she couldn't help shaking her head and said, "At first, I thought that my elder brother was not up to date, but I didn't expect to become a good relative, and the business has flourished again."

When Xue Biao heard this, his face suddenly became strange, and he said decisively, "Then wait for a good relative, or not!"

The "aunt" and "big brother" mentioned by the two are not other people, but they are Aunt Xue and Xue Pan's mother and son-and the so-called "good relatives" naturally refer to Wang Shangshu of the official department.

To say that the Xue family has been really unlucky in recent years. First, Xue Pan's father passed away, and then his uncle Xue Bian's father also died of an emergency.

As a result, Xue's family, which was originally the top among Huang Shang, had only one family of orphans and widows left.

Xue Pan's mother and son are still good, after all, there are Wang Family and Rongguo Mansion to rely on.

The situation on Xue Biao's side is much worse.

Although he is not a foolish dude like his cousin, but after all, he was young and lacked in prestige. After running around all these years, he seems to be still prosperous and prosperous, but secretly he has suffered a lot.

Less gossip.

However, the mother and son made a plan to go to Beijing to ask Aunt Xue for help. Mrs. Xue hesitated for a while, and then suddenly ordered, "Take your sister with you. When the Mei family returns to Beijing next year, they will be married soon—and Let her follow your aunt to learn some rules in Beijing, and restrain her mind, so that the Mei family will not be unbearable."

"This……"

Xue Biao suddenly became embarrassed.

His younger sister, Xue Baoqin, had been traveling with her father since she was eight years old, and he was not worried that the girl would not be able to adapt to the bumps on the road.

But my mother has been suffering from phlegm, and the two brothers and sisters don't know how long it will take to leave, and there is no relative to accompany them, but how can they make it happen?

"Mother!"

At this moment, Xue Baoqin suddenly jumped out from behind a clump of oleanders, approached a few steps closer, put her head on Mrs. Xue's lap, and said softly, "I'm not going to the capital! After my brother leaves, I will Wouldn't it be a hundred times better to be a housekeeper's lady than to learn those dead rules."

"My son."

Mrs. Xue caressed the blue hair on her head lovingly, shook her head and smiled wryly, "Didn't you still make a fuss about going out to visit the mountains and rivers? Now it's just what you want..."

"It's not like I haven't been to the capital."

Xue Baoqin tilted her head and said with a smile, "There are black and white everywhere, how can the scenery of Jinling be as good as ours? When it gets cooler, I will accompany my mother to live in the village for a few days. Isn't playing the best of both worlds?"

Hearing that she was full of thoughtfulness and attachment, Mrs. Xue felt a little hot and humid in her eyes. She lowered her head and rubbed her chin against her forehead, and said softly, "My son, I'm afraid it will be a big use for the Mei family to come back next year." Yes - you went to the capital with your elder brother, and walked around the Rongguo Mansion and the Wang family more, so that you can have someone to rely on when you get married in the future."

Ever since Xue Baoqin's father passed away, the Mei family had the intention of going back and forth, and because of this, Mrs. Xue thought of letting her daughter go to Beijing first, and walk around with a few prominent relatives, so that the Mei family would have more scruples.

"I……"

"Master, Steward Liu sent someone to send a message!"

Xue Baoqin was still waiting to argue, but suddenly a woman outside greeted her from a distance.

Hearing the words, Xue Biao hurriedly greeted, "What did Steward Liu find out? Tell me soon!"

It turned out that he didn't completely give up after Wang Ren's failure. He specially left the housekeeper accompanying him to inquire about Wang Ren's purpose of coming to Jinling City, and see if there is any chance to make things go smoothly.

The old woman hurried up a few steps to the front, and before she could give all the courtesy, she heard Xue Biao's urging, so she hurriedly said, "Steward Liu said that Wang Yanei planned to return to the capital when he left Ningbo Mansion this time. "

Back to the capital?

Xue Biao frowned, and said in surprise, "Since you are going back to the capital, what are you doing here in Jinling?"

From Ningbo to the capital, you either take the sea route or the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and you will never pass Jinling on the way.

"From Butler Liu, it seems that they are going to wait for some General Sun before heading north together."

"General Sun?!"

"General Sun?!"

Two exclamations blurted out at the same time, but it was Xue Baoqin who got up one step ahead, got up from his mother's arms, and said happily, "Could it be that General Sun Shaozong, who was rumored to have fixed Huguang with a single sword?!"

Chapter 602 Nan ​​Lin Walks North and Gathers the Gold Hairpins 【Part [-]】

A residual sun spreads in the water, half of the river is half red.

Jinling Sanchahe Wharf, facing the Qinhuai River in the south and the majestic Yangtze River in the north, is not only a prosperous commercial place, but also a scene in Jinling City.

But no matter how good the scenery is, after watching it for two hours in a row, it is inevitable that it will get a little tired.

Especially a local like Xue Biao.

He changed his sitting position, poked his head out of the car, squinted his eyes and looked at the river, seeing Wang Jiahaonu still waiting on the pier, he couldn't help feeling a little sour in his heart.

He waited in the carriage for two hours, but Wang Ren wasted an entire afternoon upstairs!

Thinking about how in the morning, when I came to visit with a generous gift, but was rejected by Wang Ren's perfunctory sentence, how could I not let Xue Biao feel sad?

Back then, who didn't know that the four families of 'Jia Shi Wang Xue' were the white jade pillars that held up the sky and the purple gold beams that drove the sea in Jinling City?

At that time, how many people knew about the Jinling Sun family?

Who would have thought that in only ten or twenty years of effort, Feng Shui has changed, things are right and people are wrong...

"Brother, when will General Sun arrive?"

While he was sighing, he suddenly heard a hopeful, lazy and delicate voice from behind, Xue Biao couldn't help but turned his head and rolled his eyes, and scolded angrily, "I told you not to come, but now I'm impatient again!" ?”

Inside the double-wheeled carriage, a pretty girl with sleepy eyes was stretching her slim figure, but who else could it be if it wasn't Xue Baoqin?

Because she has filled her ears with the words Sun Shaozong recently, and she has never been bored, she begged her brother to come to this pier to see something rare.

She just waited left and right, but there was still no one, so she couldn't help but take a nap in the car for a while, until she heard Xue Biao's long and short sighs, and then woke up from the dream.

At this moment, being reprimanded by her brother, she giggled, rubbing the corners of her eyes and said softly, "Isn't this curious? I heard that General Sun is one foot tall, his mouth is as big as a bamboo hat, and he has a bloody eye on his forehead. If you open your eyes, you will kill Ying Ye..."

"Bah bah bah!"

Hearing her words getting more and more outrageous, Xue Biao spit a few times, and said dumbfoundedly, "You remember the words of those foolish men and women, why did you forget that I met Mr. Sun at the beginning? Although he was born majestic, how could he be How tall is Zhang Xu? What bloody eyes and so on, especially..."

"uncle!"

As he was talking, he suddenly heard the driver in front of him urgently say, "General Sun is probably here!"

Xue Biao didn't care about arguing with his sister any more, he hurriedly picked up the curtain and jumped out of the carriage neatly.

Looking up, I saw an official ship approaching the shore slowly, with two apricot-yellow flags waving in the wind at the head and tail, and a letter of "Chi——Huguang Recruitment Envoy" was written.

Can't go wrong with this!

Xue Biao hurriedly held the gifts left and right, and strictly ordered Baoqin to stay in the car and not to move around, so he cheered up and went to the bow of the boat.

Unexpectedly, before he got close, countless officials and gentry poured out from all directions, holding gifts and referral letters, it was Wu Yangyang who filled the pier.

"Hu Liuyi, who is a low-ranking Jinling garrison, and his younger brother is the same year as General Sun!"

"My father once conquered Mobei with the boss!"

"The lower official Jinling pushed the official Ai Shiyu, it was entrusted by Master Yin Jia of Fengshuntian Mansion..."

"Gao Guangsui is here in Jinling, I have a great gift for you!"

"The little girl is only twenty-eight years old, she is beautiful, she loves the general Huwei, and she is willing to commit herself to be a concubine..."

All kinds of descriptions are different, only Xue Tiao is dumbfounded.

Although he also knew that Sun Shaozong would definitely be reused when he returned to Beijing this time, he never imagined that Sun Shaozong was already so hot in the middle of the journey.

There must be a reason for this!

Could it be that I have been busy with housework recently, accidentally closed my eyes and ears, and missed some important news?

It is difficult to squeeze to the front, Xue Biao is thinking of finding a familiar person to inquire about why Sun Shaozong is so sought after.

Suddenly someone yelled loudly

"The prince of Lord Wang, the capital inspector of the nine provinces, is here!"

"Get out of the way! Don't stand in the way of my yamen and General Sun talking about the past!"

Now in Jiangnan, the names of "Jia Bujia, A Fang Shi, and Feng Nian Xue", even if they are piled up and measured, may not be worthy of the title of "Jiangnan King"!

So with just these two sentences, the front immediately gave up a passage as if the tide was ebbing, and there was a soft-backed, thick-skinned person who still did not forget to slant his shoulders and put on a flattering face, trying to impress Wang Yanei.

Only Xue Biao did not advance but retreated. He smiled and greeted him and cupped his hands and said, "Unexpectedly, the elder brother of the Wang family also came to welcome the second elder brother Sun."

Wang Ren came down from the restaurant not far away, rode a big horse, and went to the pier to meet him without leaving his eyes. Suddenly, he heard these two calls of "brother", and felt somewhat displeased.

But the two families did have some relatives, but it can't be said to be high-ranking.

So he raised his chin arrogantly on the horse, and replied calmly, "So it's Xue Jia Erlang."

This is what Xue Pan said.

After finishing speaking, he didn't bother to pay any attention to Xue Biao, and lightly knocked on the horse's belly, and the divine horse with a black body but only four snow-white hooves kicked and stomped towards the official boat.

Although it was a soft nail, it was already expected by Xue Biao, so he just followed the horse with a smile and passed through the crowd together.

At this time, the official ship had already got the news.

I saw a big man of Angzang stepping out of the cabin door, bowed his hands at the bow of the boat, and said respectfully, "It's the first time in my life to go back to my hometown in Jinling, but I didn't want to disturb all these relatives and old friends. Sun is really panicked. If there is any lack of etiquette, please forgive me."

Although everyone at the scene basically believed that it was because of Wang Ren's presence that he was willing to show up on his own initiative - but it was enough to give everyone face by saying these few scene words first, regardless of high or low.

Therefore, there was a sound of "don't dare to take it" and "serious words" all around.

At this time, a boatman had already set up the gangplank, and Sun Shaozong walked to the pier in a few steps, and Wang Ren hurriedly got off his horse to meet him.

"Ya Nei."

"Erro."

When the two of them opened their mouths facing each other, Wang Rendang said, "What? I haven't seen you for a few years, so I can't call you a big brother?!"

He said it was a nitpicking thorn, but the seven points of eagerness were clearly seen in those words.

Sun Shaozong's heart couldn't help but sunk, it's true that he hasn't seen him for several years, but back then the Sun family hadn't recovered, so why did Wang Ren take a look at him?

At that time, if he dared to take the initiative to call 'brother', he would be spat all over the face by the servants of the Wang family!

However, times have changed, and if we pursue these things now, we are just asking for trouble.

Therefore, he smiled respectfully rather than obediently, "Isn't it because my brother is full of aura that he can't open his mouth for a while?"

"Haha... No matter how expensive you are, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop your evil spirit!"