Baoyu Fights the Red Chamber

This year's snow is so big that it has only been seen since the fake stone crossing. It happened just a few days after the Zhen family was beheaded.

It turns out that there will be heavy snow every few years in this world, and there will be a bumper harvest in the coming year.Even the people who live in the huts are suffering, and the houses will be crushed.The government also has rich experience in disaster relief: it asks rich merchants for money, goods, and manpower (subordinates), and civil and military officials donate money and manpower according to the oracle.The honorable family of the Rong Mansion is naturally on the list, and the second Lian is in charge of general affairs, and is getting more and more busy inside and out.

That Baoyu was afraid that the children would get sick from the cold, so after the twelfth lunar month, he imitated the posterity to assign homework for the winter vacation, sending all the children who will not take the county exam next year to go home, and the rest will be half-day homework and half-day practice.

That is to say, Baosi School only needs to test the candidates every two or three days, and can help Lian Er at other times. Anyway, his fake father is doing business every day, so I don't know what he is doing.

Suddenly one day, Patriarch Zhen let out a shocking thunder: to brave the wind and snow without fear of the severe cold to help the coffin of Master Jing to be buried in the ancestral grave!

Baoyu thought that he would not leave until the snow melted next year at least. Did he want to be buried in the snow when he went on the road in this weather?

Lian Er knew the patriarch too well, so he whispered: "He is tired of staying in the mansion, and wants to 'get sick halfway' and go to Zhuangzi to play."

Baoyu realized that Zhuangzi is divided into three, six, and nine grades. Find a good Zhuangzi, and the comfort level is no less than that of the mansion, and you don't have to worry about it.

On the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month, Xuewen and Dongyang hung in the air. Jia Zhen paid homage to the ancestral hall and bid farewell to Jia Mu and others, and led a large gang of servants out of the city.

We all know that it is okay when it snows, but the sun is bitterly cold when it comes out.The unlucky Jia family men, except for the infant and the elderly and the long-sick Jia She and his ilk, were all sent to the Shelei Pavilion ten miles away from the city with a knife in the wind.

After the sacrificial wine was placed, Patriarch Zhen recited and wrote well, and after singing, he earnestly taught his son, "Be good at living and governing the family" (Jia Rong guards the mansion and does not go south).

The fake stone wished he could kick him, MD, you are not afraid of the cold when you practice martial arts, the master is a monk halfway!Can the training be delayed?Isn't Rong Qianglian going to send TM forward for three days!

Why did Lian Er also send it?This Buzhen patriarch chanted and sang endlessly, holding high the banner that the ancestral grave had been repaired.For the sake of face, the next Patriarch of the Rong Mansion casually said that he would continue to send them off. Jia Zhenli took his shoulders to the two brothers, and probably arranged entertainment in some village, and wanted to catch Lian brothers to relive the good times of prostitution and gambling together.

Seeing that it was finally about to end, two men in Zhuang Ding's short padded cotton robes scrambled and rushed into the Teai-Sailing Pavilion and cried loudly.

Everyone thought it was a loyal servant who showed his loyalty to send the patriarch, and the most senior elder present ordered the elder to accompany him to help.

Lian Er was surprised: "Isn't this the head of Qizhuang from Qiliantun outside the pass? Why does it look like this?"

Qi Zhuangtou and his son cried even more happily, and told them to send New Year's goods to Jing County after all the hardships, but they were blocked by a gang of government servants and overturned the car.The Zhuang Dings stopped them, and were beaten up by the wolf-like yamen servants, and all the carts and mules were taken away.

Mr. Zheng changed his face suddenly: "It's not bad! There are such evil officials at the feet of the emperor!"

Fake stone toes don't believe it, if it is said that the yamen servants in other places still succeed in robbing, this is a common thing, otherwise why do people still fight for the title of the gold list when they know that the officialdom is dangerous?But Jing County is too exaggerated, can Brother Lian make up a more reasonable excuse?

Seeing Lian Er's face darkened, he said, "Maybe it's for emergency relief. What about the New Year's goods?"

Qi Zhuangtou reported that he piled up on the side of the road and asked the Zhuang Dingmen to guard them, and said that they were not bad, they were all leather goods and cured meat, and some merchants transported fragile things such as porcelain. Resisting the sound, he was beaten badly.

Lian'er's face changed drastically, Jia Zhen knew that he was thinking of the Xue family's business car, and hurriedly advised him not to send it away, because his ancestors had him as a big brother with all his heart, brother Lian went to take care of the living.

In this way, the head of the Zhen clan ascended to the future, and the clansmen returned.

Lan Tongsheng, Jia Zhu, Qin Zhong and others were ordered by the Baosi School to take the students who took the county examination away.

Mr. Zheng only took half a day off, and went directly to the office in a sedan chair.

Lian Er led his servants to the restaurant near the Salei Pavilion, saying that he would borrow the land to write a post for the magistrate of Jing County.

Bao Sishu turned fifteen years old and had grown to the point where he could touch Lian Er's ear on tiptoe, so he tore off his earmuffs on tiptoe, leaned over his ear and said, "It's almost enough, the roadside shop is messy, I have to write back The government writes, write whatever romance you want."

Lian Er glared at him: "Master, if you can count, brother Zhen will come here? Really!"

Baoyu was taken aback, and hurriedly called Qi Zhuangtou to inquire.

All of a sudden, everyone entered the restaurant, and the waiter led the distinguished guests to the second floor.It is said that this restaurant is not bad, but it should be known that most of the people who go to Salei Pavilion to see off are officials.Of course, this weather is rare. Today, there are only merchants eating downstairs, and the private seats on the second floor are empty.

Lian Er was busy writing posts, while Bao Yu arranged to deliver steamed buns with hot soup to the Zhuang Ding who kept the goods.This place is only seven or eight miles away from the place where the Rongfu New Year's truck was overturned, and the food was packed in a bucket with a big quilt, and then put in a big basket and sent there to keep it cold.It is said that Qi Zhuangtou and his son were able to go straight to the Shelei Pavilion, because they were not far away, and the patriarch Zhen helped the coffin back to the south with too much momentum, and rumors spread like wind.

It was too cold, so Baoyu ordered two cans of hot soup for himself and Lian Er, and brought them to Lian Er himself.Just now, his eyes turned a few times, and he leaned closer to the troubled brother and said: "Etiquette is the most important thing, I always feel that this matter is very strange."

Lian Er nodded, he also thought of it, maybe Bao was trying to test whether the old Jia's family would lead Ding to fight back like a wolf like a tiger.

So he called the Zhao Tianliang brothers and ordered them to "inquire" the county magistrate, and ordered Minglong and Mingxing to follow him to find out who the people whose cars were overturned were.Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong are Lian's Second Master's nanny, and his mother, Zhao Nanny, is quite wealthy, and her two sons are not bad. As soon as Sister Feng entered the Rong Mansion, she saw that she was trying to win over Zhao Nanny, which made Lian Er unwilling to use them.Later, Lian Er and Sister Feng fell out, and then Sister Feng left the Rong Mansion, so she lost her scruples, and the two brothers became his stewards, and today they drove to the Salei Pavilion together.

The Zhao Tianliang brothers were very familiar with Jing County, and six of them went on the road (plus Qi Zhuangtou and his son), and within five miles they had already recruited thirty or forty helpers.Of course not to fight, this is not the goods piled on the side of the road, easy to be robbed.Besides, the one who was overturned by the yamen servant, is there any car from the Xue family and other relatives and friends?Please ask the helpers to say hello and watch.

It's easy to do things with a lot of people, and before I got to the ground, I found out that the county magistrate is not in the yamen, and he is the master of Qingtian, who is doing disaster relief.

Zhao Tianliang asked his younger brother to take care of the goods, and ran to a certain place by himself, and saw Zhixian standing beside a hot cauldron holding a spoon of cloth porridge.

The county magistrate Wenrong's family arrived, so he hurriedly sent a message to bring them here.Rong Mansion has a concubine in the palace. The second is that the snow is so heavy this winter. Except for those who were crushed and injured when the house collapsed on his site, no one was killed.I didn't see it when it was built, but I didn't expect it to be used this year. In terms of strength and warmth, it is no worse than the blue brick houses that ordinary people can't live in. A house can hold three to five hundred yuan, and no one will freeze to death.Other provinces only know that the disaster relief red house was built by the imperial court, and he is an official in Jing County, how can he not hear about Rongfu Xiaoguanzhuang?After it was revealed that the Rong Mansion offered the prescription, the imperial court built a cheap disaster relief house.

Zhao Tianliang said this humbly, and the magistrate jumped up: "I don't know! I didn't issue a ticket to get the car! It's those bastards who took advantage of the disaster to swindle their heads!" After that, a series of voices spread to pursue it, and promised Zhao Tianliang : "At the latest tomorrow, I will send the car and belongings to your mansion together. If it is even a little bit late, if you come to report to the official again, you will be punished severely!"

Zhao Tianliang expressed his gratitude, and said, "As long as the mules and carts for the new year are all there, the younger ones can bring people back to the house by themselves, and the county lord's disaster relief personnel must not be divided."

But Lian and Bao went back to the house, and when they were about to reach Ningrong Street, the young men sent to Xue Xia's family came to flatter them: they were all recruited!

It is said that it is the twelfth lunar month, and the snow is heavy, merchants value profits over life, rush to collect goods into Beijing, there is an endless stream of commercial vehicles for sale in the New Year and New Year, and Xue Xia's two major merchants are naturally among them.

There are fragile items in Xia's family goods, but they are not high-grade porcelain. His family's offerings to the palace are sweet-scented osmanthus and other things, which are inherited from the long house of the broken heir. It is not a big loss to break the clay pot for cooking soup.

There were no fragile items in Xue's family, but they hit the big prize: the one that was overturned was a New Year's truck from his hometown Jinling to Beijing. The cargo was so large that Xue Pan and Xue Biao had already taken people to Jing County.

Lian Er couldn't help but secretly begged his dull brother-in-law not to get angry, how can there be such a family lover, but he just made a detour to the northeast and came back.Come back as soon as you come back. In the twelfth lunar month, you should go to Shuntian Mansion to inspect the shops. Just get home before New Year's Eve.

Baoyu asked, "Did Mingyan Saohong follow?"

The strong man quickly reported a series of names, all of them were prudent people, and the two smart ghosts were among them.

Lian Er nodded and comforted the troubled brother: "Brother Zhao Tianliang has gone, so there shouldn't be any major incidents. Someone deliberately provoked trouble, and it is not suitable for us to come forward, and we will go back to the house to wait for the report."

There are spies with ulterior motives in the Hulian Courtyard. The students at the other end of the family school should study quietly. The offices of Lian and Bao in Rongfu are located in the east room of Baoxia. The male servants enter through the back door of the courtyard to avoid going to Jiamu from the front door. The maids and women of the courtyard.

But they said that they had spoken back in front of Jia Mu's seat, greeted the two wives of Xing Wang separately, and reunited in the East Room.

Lian Er dragged the chessboard and caught the difficult brother playing chess to waste time.The so-called everything has both pros and cons. When Bao came to Ling Lian Er to cultivate himself, at least his interest in messing around at home was destroyed. Unfortunately, Qiu Tong was thrown into the cold palace. Call to sing.

Today Lian Er didn't care to listen to the music, and played chess in a mess.The troubled brother turned to comfort him, talking nonsense, "Life is a business world, turbulence is an eternal theme, we must believe that risks and opportunities coexist" and so on.

Near Xu time (seven o'clock in the evening), Mingxing rode back to the mansion alone, and reported that "the matter has been settled".

It turned out that the reason for the incident was that the county magistrate was keen on the official voice, and instead of presiding over the overall situation in the yamen, he went to serve porridge for the victims in person, and the yamen servants became distorted.As the county magistrate who knew everything about it said, it was a scam, and the mule cart in Rongfu did not cost a penny to get back. Other families, including Xue Xia's family, paid "hard work money".It is said that Jing County is on the road to Beijing, and if people work hard and don't pay money, they will definitely be troubled in the future.Because the goods had to be reloaded and the road was not easy to travel, Zhao Tianliang was afraid that he would not be able to return to the mansion before the scheduled shift (nine o'clock in the evening), so he asked a group of people to stay at the Jing County Inn tonight and escort the goods into the mansion tomorrow.

The brothers and sisters looked at each other, raised their hands and clapped each other, and said in unison: "It's a false alarm, drink two cups to suppress the alarm!"

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Over the past few days, Mingyan and Saohong brought the Jinling objects donated by the Xue family brothers to the school to honor the bodhisattva-hearted Bao Sishu, the vicious Liu Jiaoxue, and their former suffering friends Lan Zhuzhong and other young masters, who are on par with the Xue family. Send New Year's goods to the school.

It will be dark when they arrive, and Bao Sishu will not be in the family school—a certain one has not run around, and he is not a certain county magistrate with a feverish forehead. He usually only sits in the east room of the building with his second brother Lian to preside over the overall situation.The West Corner Gate will not block Mingyans now, Second Master Lian sent his confidantes to be the gatekeepers, and did not steal the work of the original gatekeepers. It is not too cold and the Chinese New Year is coming soon, they are only on duty at night.

Mingyan sweeps the red to the east room, and Xing'er are singing dumbly.

Lian Er sent Xing'er away with a wave of his hand, and ordered the two clever ghosts to tell the story in detail, who would let these two mouths grab the storyteller's job, so that they would have nothing to do at night to have fun.

This is indeed a refurbishment.Because the coachman of the Xue family was seriously injured, and the Xue family would not have a shop in Jing County, so they settled in the shop nearby to heal their injuries.Mingyan Saohong stayed in Jing County to do follow-up matters, and by the way, he got accurate information: the people who did the work that day were not the government servants, and they would definitely be severely punished by the magistrate of Qingtian County.So people sat in the tea shop to drink tea, and when the incident happened, they came out to stop it.The ones who did it were the street thugs they recruited, some from Jing County and some from other places, one of them was named Zhang Hua!

Lian Er raised his eyebrows: "The one who married the dead Grandma You Ergu?"

Sao Hong said: "Master, what a coincidence, it's not that one! A ignorant thief (beggar), who only knows how to eat, drink, whore~gamble all day long, and finally made his father unable to bear it, so he drove out Zhang with a big stick. The door of the house. It's a coincidence--"

Mingyan continued: "The two of us took our servants to the pharmacy to buy medicines, and we saw that thief wearing a silk robe and holding a summer fan, standing like a dog beside the Fulin Restaurant—"

Sao Hong said: "We just thought, is this kid picking up the gold that falls from the sky, or is he digging up the silver buried in the ground? Or is he trying to get lucky at night, and every time he touches it, it's a paste? At this moment—"

Ming Yan laughed: "No, you two have sharp eyes, you must know that you and I have waited for a long time, and finally saw a wonderful scene! Hey, I saw more than ten horses rushing from the other side of the street, and the leader was a tall and burly man." , with armor draped around his body and eyes like bells, it is the candidate general Sun Quede from Datong!"

If you record according to the two descriptions, you can write ten thousand characters in a vigorous manner.To put it simply, Zhang Hua, who pretended to be a businessman anointing Liangzi, picked up Sun Shaozu who came to Jing County for some reason (according to a secret visit by two people afterwards, Sun's car was overturned).Zhang Hua tried his best to curry favor and invited Sun Shaozu into the restaurant.Zhang and Sun have never seen tea smoke sweeping red, and the shopkeeper of Fulin Restaurant is very familiar with certain two (there are few tea houses and restaurants in the area of ​​Kyoto that they are not familiar with). Zheng Yi helped to do odd jobs, pretending to be the waiter in the shop, and heard a few ears when the food was served.Uh, Felicity is an ordinary restaurant, and there are no wiretapping devices such as copper pipes in the private seats, and the so-called private seats are not single rooms, they are only slightly separated by thin boards, and the diners around are noisy, and if you don’t get close, you can’t hear what they are saying.

The "several ears" I heard were Zhang Hua recommending whoring to Sun Shaozu ~ betting on the land, it is estimated that the underworld society in Jing County wanted to share a share with the capital's shabaotou.During the period, Muni was mentioned...

Baoyu's face changed suddenly: "Second brother Lian, our house is more like a sieve than a sieve! Whose girl is not called the second girl by the big girl outside, but our family is famous among the vendors in the four springs! What is the name of the practicing girl who lives here? It's all spread!"

Ming Yan and Sao Hong were taken aback, Lian Er laughed: "Isn't it referring to the one in our nunnery, I'm afraid it means the Miao Ni from the Shuiyue nunnery, but?"

Mingyan Saohong nodded repeatedly, and incidentally reported several "Miao Ni nunneries" in Jing County.The fake stone hit his forehead. He misunderstood it because, including Gao E, the word "Miao Ni" in the massive fan literature refers specifically to Miao Yu, and the nuns who do the screwdriver business here are all called "Miao Ni".

Interrupted by the fake stone, Mingyan Saohong finished in a few words.In fact, there is nothing to talk about, just heard a few ears, and in the subsequent secret visits, they stayed in Jing County not specifically to inquire about this matter, but Sai Yin asked a certain yamen servant to find out that the Sun family did not have a car and suffered the same disaster.It is said that if there is, Sun Shaozu will not go to Jing County until the day before yesterday.

After the incident was revealed, Lian Er asked about the preparations for the Xia family's New Year's ceremony by the brothers.

Xue Biao and Xia Huan'er made an appointment last month, and this year is the first time they will be giving an annual gift, so it must be tight.Speaking of this, Second Master Lian thought of his mildew-cold neighbor. Such an annoying thing had to be given as a New Year gift to his family. When would his frail bastard get consumptive?

Baoyu couldn't help laughing: "Don't say a few words and accumulate some morals! My master is also Baoqin's brother, and the second master admires Mei Hanlin's nobleness very much. I will take my young master to pay New Year's greetings in the first month."

Lian Er laughed out loud, what could be more joyful than good brothers in trouble together?

They were so happy that they didn't expect that a dark wave related to what they said today was surging.Just in this twelfth lunar month, a soaring fire shocked the government and the public...

The author has something to say: We are a detective duo, bringing the latest news about Fengyue...

This article is a bit long by accident, and it will be finished in half a month, that is, in mid-July.Kowtow and worship, don't smash small bricks, this cannon fodder is firm and updated every day!