The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous
Chapter 109 "Pride of Favor"
"Uncle Xu and Uncle Li, are they on the list?" Jia Lian casually poked around his waist, and when he touched the psychic gem in the sachet at his waist, he thought of the monk with the scarlet head and the lame Taoist who said he was named on the list, and secretly scolded him. One sound, two magic sticks!Fortunately, he was clever and only asked them for a prescription, but didn't tell the history.
Jia Zhu was full of disappointment. Seeing that Jia Lian was neither angry nor annoyed, she suppressed her disappointment.
Zhao Tianliang wiped his face, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Xu and Uncle Li should be on the list, I saw the servants of their two families happily outside the tribute courtyard."
"Ask the eldest girl to prepare some congratulatory gifts for the two of them." Jia Lian nodded slightly, thinking that since Xu Yuheng and Li Bizhou were on the list, someone was targeting him only.
"Hey." Zhao Tianliang agreed to step back.
Jia Zhu fidgeted back and forth in the bright room, sat down for a long time, and comforted Jia Lian, saying: "Forget it, although you are not on the list, you are still famous now. You can choose an official for a few taels of money."
Jia Lian smiled, the selection of officials is still a secondary issue, the first thing to do is to find out who secretly manipulated him to make him unnamed on the list.Remembering that he was not named on the list, there was one person who would be more surprised than him, so he raised his voice: "Auntie, sister Yu, have you returned to Lantai Temple?"
Xiao Yaoer, who was waiting outside, hurriedly said: "Miss Xue has gone back, but my aunt and sister Yu haven't left yet."
"Go to the back and say something later. I'll take my aunt and sister Yu home." Jia Lian said, remembering that Jia's mother and Jia She had high hopes for him, and it would be impossible not to give them an explanation, so she got up and smiled at Jia Zhu. Said: "Brother, let me go and talk to the old lady and the master."
"Go, you've only been studying hard for a few years? They may not blame you." Jia Zhu coughed, and followed Jia Lian out of his study with a prescription, fearing that if she followed, Jia Lian would be embarrassed. So he took the car and went back to the East Garden.
Now the rain has completely stopped, and the yard is filled with misty water vapor.
Jia Lian first passed through the Rongxi Hall and entered the Dongkua Courtyard. After entering, he saw several young maids in the courtyard trembling. Lying in bed.
"The son is incompetent, and the master is disappointed." Jia Lian said.
Jia She shook his head and laughed at himself: "You have only been studying for a few days. If someone like you can be named on the gold list, no one in the world will see anyone. Go ahead and do what you have to do."
Jia Lian agreed, left from Jia Amnesty's bed, went through Rongxi hall to Rongqing hall, followed the Chaoshou corridor to the door of Jia's mother's room, stood for a while, and went in and heard Jia Min comforting Jia's mother.
Seeing Jia Lian coming, Jia's mother comforted Jia Lian like Jia amnesty, and ordered Jia Lian to send Jia Min's mother and daughter back to Lantai Temple in a happy life.
Jia Lian didn't have the heart to "plead guilty to the thorns", so she agreed. After Jia Min left first, she followed her to the outside of Rongqing Hall. .Jia Lian got on the horse outside the corner gate after they left the corner gate, and followed the sedan chair to Lantai Temple.
It was dusk at this time, and the sky was very dark due to the dense clouds, and there were not many people walking on the street.
Jia Lian led the sedan chair at the front and went out of Ningrong Street. The street was getting darker and darker. From a distance, he saw Li Cheng, the son of Li Shouzhong, wearing a bamboo hat and a red feather gauze cloak. Seeing that Li Cheng's face was not looking very good, he smiled and said, "Brother Li is here to visit my sister-in-law right now?"
Li Cheng shook his head, seeing Jia Lian grinning, he said angrily, "I can still laugh now!"
Jia Lian received his joy, saw Li Cheng approaching again, and said in a low voice: "This is so strange! My father can recognize your handwriting. Although you have sealed your name, when he and a group of elders were grading the papers, he deliberately turned over the paper first. Look at your test paper—you are a well-known person, you have only studied for a few years, and you can compare with others who have studied hard for many years! He said that when he turned it over by himself, he saw that you answered clearly, When I got home, I only said that you could rank one hundred fifty or sixty."
Seeing Li Cheng's strange expression, Jia Lian seemed to be defending him, so he quickly laughed and said, "Maybe my essay won't be recognized by the adults who mark the test papers."
"If I were you, I'd play the Dengwen drum! Turn over your test paper and let the sage take a look in person." Li Cheng's forehead was slightly itchy with a red mark on his forehead, so he pushed the hat with his hand, from time to time Quietly looking to both sides, as if a guilty conscience is afraid of being caught by someone.
Seeing his situation, Jia Lian understood that Li Shouzhong was afraid of getting into trouble, and told Li Cheng not to come and tell him. He was more grateful to Li Cheng in his heart, holding the rein with both hands, and said with a smile: "This is really impossible! If I set an example, others I also feel that I should not be named Sun Shan, or should not be at the bottom of the list, and it would be bad to beat Deng Wengu! Do you still have to ask the present to personally review the test papers? It is related to the imperial prestige of the imperial court, and we should not act impulsively."
"Hey, are you still worried about the court?" Li Cheng gritted his teeth, he had already told Jia Lian what he had to say, and he gritted his teeth as soon as he caught the horse's belly.
Jia Lian saw that Li Cheng was a bit silly, smiled, and still led Jia Min and Daiyu's sedan chair to Lantai Temple, and entered the back office from the back door of Lantai Temple, Jia Lian followed Jia Min and Daiyu all the way to Jia In the room where Min and Lin Ruhai lived, in the east room, Lin Ruhai was lying on a kang covered with a flowered blue satin mattress, and asked his concubine Ming Cui to bring him a hot handkerchief to warm his legs. A mandarin duck playing with a lotus in a famille rose bowl with green and yellow concoction steaming hot.
"Uncle is sick?" Jia Lian asked hurriedly.
Lin Ruhai sighed: "It's not considered a disease. I have to take medicine for half a year." After finishing speaking, he heard Daiyu cough, and immediately ordered Jia Min and Mingcui to take Daiyu to change clothes and rest.
Jia Lian stood aside with his hands down, watching Jia Min, Ming Cui, and Daiyu go out. Seeing that Jia Min and Ming Cui's wives and concubines were in harmony, he was very surprised. Seeing that Lin Ruhai wanted to take medicine, he handed the medicine bowl to him and spoke. Said: "Uncle, does he know that the list has been released?"
"Did it come out? So fast? How many names are you?" Lin Ruhai asked hurriedly.
Because he was sure that Jia Lian would be on the list, and because he helped Jia Lian cheat, he felt ashamed of the poor student who was studying hard, so he never took the initiative to send a message to order people to look at the list.
Jia Lian laughed and said, "My nephew is not on the list." As he spoke, he sat sideways across from Lin Ruhai. Seeing Lin Ruhai pressing his legs, he thought to himself that he was suffering from rheumatism. It's a pity that he didn't ask the gods. The stick wants plaster or something.
Lin Ruhai was startled, and shook the medicine bowl in his hand slightly. Knowing that this matter could not be explained to the present, some hot medicine juice was splashed on the back of his hand without realizing it. wrong?"
Jia Lian said: "This is absolutely impossible." As he spoke, he told Lin Ruhai what Li Chenglai had said to him, "Master Li knows how to search for my articles by handwriting, and if anyone intends to deal with me, he will definitely do the same. .”
Lin Ruhai listened, and nodded slightly, "You're right, this kind of thing is not far-reaching fraud in the examination room, and they would rather suffer a loss than make a fuss." Frowning slightly, he felt that it was just like what Jia Lian said What happened this time was that someone had a problem with Jia Lian, and asked Jia Lian: "What are you going to do now? Do you want to take the exam in three years, or choose officials now?"
Jia Lian said with a smile: "Of course it's the election of officials. Let's wait and see what will be left for us, the unknown people on the list, after the disciples of the Son of Heaven have elected officials."
"...It would be good if you entrusted the Xu family to enter the household department or go to the south of the Yangtze River to become an official. You will be promoted in a few years." Lin Ruhai coughed and was talking when a little maid came in and said: "Master, the palace A father-in-law came to talk to the master."
Lin Ruhai hurriedly said: "Please hurry up." After finishing speaking, he hurriedly got off the kang.
Jia Lian hurriedly supported him, straightened his clothes a little, and then helped him into the light room, and sure enough, he saw a shrewd and thin old eunuch slowly coming in.
"Eunuch Dai is here, but the saint has a decree for Lin?" Lin Ruhai asked hurriedly.
When Jia Lian heard Lin Ruhai call that person Eunuch Dai, he thought that this was Dai Quan, the famous eunuch in charge of Daming Palace.
Dai Quan took out a snuff bottle from his sleeve and sniffed it. After he sneezed, he hurriedly said, "It's suddenly cold today, which makes my nose very congested." Then he saw a handsome young man supporting Lin Ruhai, and said with a smile : "Is this the young master of Mr. Lin's family?"
"It's Jia Lian, the nephew of Lin's wife," Lin Ruhai said.
Jia Lian hurriedly greeted Dai Quan, and saw that Dai Quan was wearing a mutton fat white jade pendant on his waist, with a ring on his thumb, dressed like a rich man, and he was a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door. Dai Quan can be regarded as a third- and fourth-rank official Bar?
When Dai Quan heard that it was Jia Lian, he cried and said with a mournful face: "Second Master Lian is just here. Let me tell you, how did you lose your name in Sun Shan? My lord thinks that you can be ranked in the top [-] at this moment! My lord Get angry and make us worry about it!"
Jia Lian smiled, and hurriedly asked Dai Quan to take a seat. Seeing that he refused, she invited him to sit in the nanmu armchair on the left, and then told Dai Quan what Li Cheng had said.
When Dai Quan heard this, he was stunned immediately, and said first: "This is absolutely impossible. The adults who are marking the examination papers this time are personally selected today! They are all elders with both morality and ability!"
The implication is that the person who reads the papers is not a trusted aide today, but a person of integrity.
After saying this, Dai Quan was stunned again, turned his head and asked Lin Ruhai: "Master Lin, could it be that someone is not dealing with the Rongguo Mansion?"
Lin Ruhai refused to sit down, but felt that sitting down with legs bent was even more uncomfortable, so she pursed her lips and looked at Jia Lian, making him speak by himself.
Jia Lian said: "Elder-in-law, the number of people I have offended is only the Wang family. Who is the Wang family close to? It can be seen that this matter is not only my business, but someone has taken over the Wang family. The money over there is not against me."
Jia Lian was at a disadvantage, and he refused to let this matter go, so he thought it was his own business, but after he said it, it was as if Zhongshun Wangfu and Wang Ziteng were using Chunwei to suppress dissidents.
Dai Quan was taken aback, thinking to himself that this matter was no small matter, and asked Jia Lian repeatedly: "Second Master Lian guarantees that there is nothing wrong with his test paper?"
"Master Li is the witness. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my test paper. Apart from other things, my uncle was a proctor in the past. How could his article be famous?" Jia Lian swore authentically.
Dai Quan originally came to question Lin Ruhai Xingshi about his crimes, but after hearing this, he felt that Jia Lian's matter was of great importance, so he got up and wanted to return to the palace to return his orders.
Jia Lian touched his body, regretting that he didn't bring any gold and jade things to Dai Quan for a while, so he helped Dai Quan, and said with a smile: "Elder-in-law, today I got a few pieces of paper from the sea above the sea from the Miao Daoist and the Boundless Master." The medicine will be dispensed some other day, and please ask the well-informed father-in-law to see if the pill is available for me."
Dai Quan said with a smile: "It's vague and vague. Our family doesn't like those empty names the most. But it's good to see something new."
"I don't know where to send the medicine when it's ready?" Jia Lian laughed.
Dai Quan was silent, and then said: "It's done, let's send a boy to Zunfu to pick it up."
Jia Lian thought in his heart that he would not be afraid of finding a place to give bribes, and smiled at Dai Quan: "I want to choose officials to go to Guangdong, and I would like to ask my father-in-law to say a few words in front of the Lord."
"Guangdong?" Dai Quan didn't understand why Jia Lian wanted to go to Guangdong when he refused to go to the Liangjiang area controlled by the Li family and the Xu family.
"There is only one governor in Liangjiang, but in Guangdong and Guangxi, there are two governors in Guangxi and Guangdong. The establishment of official positions is too complicated." Jia Lian laughed.
Lin Ruhai was stunned, and wondered if Jia Lian was planning to bring down the Governor of Guangdong and let the current trusted Governor of Guangxi lead Guangdong and Guangxi?
Dai Quan was also stunned, how could he not know that Guangdong, Guangxi and the area are the serious troubles of today's confidantes, and now that Jia Lian is interested in this, he feels that his future is limitless, so he got closer to him and said with a smile: "Second Master Lian is willing to leave his hometown, I will Let me say a few words for you." After saying that, he said goodbye to Lin Ruhai, bowed his body slightly and went out, and when he got outside, he saw the steward of Lin's house giving Sai Hebao to the little eunuch who came with him, but he pretended not to see it. When he got on the sedan chair, he was carried back to the palace.
When he came out again, the sky was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. Dai Quan squinted his eyes and sat in the sedan chair. After getting out of the sedan chair, I heard someone outside the sedan chair saying "there is water on the road, don't come out, father-in-law, carefully dirty your boots", so he sat quietly, opened the curtain, and saw that it was Zhongshun Prince's Mansion When Chang Shi came over, he smiled and said, "Brother Liang is a fool, and he hasn't returned home yet?"
Prince Zhongshun's chief Shi Li bowed his body outside the sedan chair, and said with a smile: "I was going back to the mansion, but on the way I saw my father-in-law's sedan chair listening, so I rushed over to say hello. I don't know if my father-in-law would give me some face and follow the official to have a drink or two? "
Dai Quan laughed and said, "I'm on duty last night. No, I'm rushing to the palace. You asked someone to talk to me earlier. I've been thinking about the day I'll see you. You're here now." It's just right, I have a vacancy in my hand, and I'm going to other places to do a general judge, and I don't know if your nephew will take a fancy to it."
Prince Zhongshun Shi laughed and said: "The yellow mud on his legs hasn't been washed clean yet. He left his hometown and joined me to be an official. It's too late for joy. How dare you not look down on him?" Because he got closer, almost Putting his head into the sedan chair, he lowered his voice and asked, "Eunuch, I just saw Jia Jialian enter Lantai Temple for the second time. I don't know if Eunuch saw it or not?"
Dai Quan thought he was the one who came to your door, and said with a smile: "Where did you not see it? That Lian Erye is very funny, our family has never seen anyone who can read the book for only two days and be named on the gold list. Fortunately, he is still pestering him." I said that I was wronged, so I asked today to take out his test paper for him to check. Mr. Lin got the foreign plaster that was rewarded today, and the front is bright. Hearing him say a few words that are beyond the reach of the heavens, he immediately sent me out. .”
Prince Zhongshun's Chief Shi heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said with a smile: "It's really a little ignorant, I don't know why the sage thought of rewarding Mrs. Lin with plaster?" Before Prince Yizhong died, Lin Ruhai fled in front of the battle. Don't you dislike him now?
"The Supreme Emperor first rewarded the medicine, and now he is a filial piety. After hearing about it, he immediately followed the Supreme Emperor's footsteps and rewarded it--tell me, Mr. Lin is really ashamed of the emperor's kindness, and dare to say that his legs and feet are outside the imperial study. The root of the disease left by kneeling."
Shi Su, the head of Zhongshun Wangfu, has always been on good terms with Dai Quan, and bought four or five official positions from him one after another. He thought that Dai Quan was on good terms with him, so he thought that Lin Ruhai would not be valued today. Dai Quan, who follows the current day, will not slander Lin Ruhai for two consecutive years, and said with a smile: "After all, today's heart is broad-minded. Since this is the case, the lower officials will not dare to delay the father-in-law." Said, walked a few steps outside the sedan chair .
The sedan chair got up and moved forward. After a while, the bearer handed Dai Quan a purse.
Dai Quan took the purse, squeezed it, saw that the inside was very thick, smiled, put the purse, Xindao Zhongshun Wangfu really felt guilty, closed his eyes and rested his mind, leaned against the sedan chair wall until the sedan chair stopped again, and then Holding the hand of the little eunuch, he got out of the sedan chair, went in slowly, first went to the servant's room, saw a few little eunuchs in that room playing dice for money, cursed, and asked: "My lord, how is it now?" where?"
The little eunuch smiled and said: "The lord is at the beauty of Yuxiu Palace, the lord told the father-in-law to come back and go to Yuxiu Palace to look for him."
After hearing this, Dai Quan didn't care about the little eunuch who threw the dice, so he went straight to Yuxiu Palace, all the palace people stuck to the wall to say hello to him along the way, after entering Yuxiu Palace, he didn't go to the main palace of Yuxiu Palace, Going along the corridor to the wing room on the left side of Yuxiu Palace, outside the wing room, I heard the continuous sound of the qin inside, and sighed that the beauty in this room was indeed Hui Zhi Lan Xin, when I got to the door, first I heard the sound of the qin disappeared, and then saw another The maid asked him to go in, and then she bowed her body and went in.
Entering, she saw Fang Ruhui wearing a ponytail, wearing a homely sweetheart collar pink skirt, holding a jade pot standing beside Shui Mu who was also wearing homely clothes and frowning, pouring wine for him.
Dai Quan carefully observed his words and demeanor, and his heart was as beautiful as a flower, but Shui Mu's brows could not be relaxed. It can be seen that Shui Mu had already guessed why Jia Lian was not on the list, so he bowed in front of Shui Mu, greeted him, and said: "The young one met Master Lin by order of the Lord, and Master Lin said there was nothing wrong with it."
"If there is nothing wrong, then why is Jia Lian not on the list?" Shui Mu didn't shy away from Fang Wenhui, sitting on the spacious beast-headed arhat bed freely.
Fang Wenhui's eyelids kept twitching, thinking that Jia Lian was not on the list?Suppressing the curiosity in my heart, I just stood there looking at my nose, nose and mouth.
Dai Quan also wondered why Shui Mu didn't shy away from Fang Wenhui, and thought for a while that this was probably Shui Mu's way of showing his love for Fang Wenhui, so he said: "Although the little one doesn't know what it is for, when the little one returns to the palace, A long history acquaintance of Prince Zhongshun secretly stuffed money into the little one." After finishing speaking, he presented the purse containing the money bills to Shui Mu to show his loyalty.
Shui Mu glanced at it, and smiled in his heart that Prince Zhongshun's mansion really did not have 300 taels of silver here, and said with a sneer, "This is much more profitable than selling an official."
Dai Quan panicked, then just smiled and said nothing.
Fang Wenhui heard some clues from these few words, and couldn't help but her heart beat violently. She secretly wondered if someone would frame an honest gentleman like Jia Lian?Although she had only met Jia Lian once, Fang Wenhui had always admired Jia Lian, and was grateful to him for persuading Fang for her.
Shui Mu picked up the wine glass and took a sip of the wine, his brows furrowed even tighter. If he hadn't told Jia Lian to cheat and knew that Jia Lian would be sure to win, now he still doesn't know that someone hid it so deep. Come on, how could it make Jia Lian lose Sun Shan's name, and said with a sneer, "He is a dude, so it is reasonable for others to not be popular."
"My lord, don't you turn over Jia Lian's test paper?" Dai Quan asked suspiciously. Seeing Shui Mu holding the wine glass and remaining silent, he thought to himself that he was confused. ?Otherwise, as the Ninth Five-Year Master, how could he turn over a dude's test paper for no reason.
Shui Mu suddenly asked Fang Wenhui, "Is Jia Lian engaged to a girl from the Xu family?"
Fang Wenhui had been speculating how Jia Lian would offend Prince Zhongshun before, but now he quickly came to his senses and said, "Exactly, the two families planned to get married after Jia Lian was named on the gold list."
Shui Mu lowered his head, Xu Zhi'an, that old fox, has always had his own way, never thought that he would accept Jia Lian as his grandson-in-law, and asked Fang Wenhui, "Then does Jia Lian have any enemies?"
Fang Wenhui thought about it, and secretly thought that if she talked too much, it would make Shui Mu suspicious; but if she didn't say it, Jia Lian would be harmed and her ambition would not be rewarded, and she couldn't bear it, so she hesitated and said: "My concubine's family He is related to Xu's in-laws, Li's family, and he has heard some things before entering the palace. If you say Jia's second master's enemy, the first one is Du Taiwei's ruling county uncle Wang's family. Jia's second wife is Wang's aunt, Jia's second wife Behind the backs of the old lady and the eldest master of the Jia family, he promised the niece of the Wang family to the second master Jia. The old lady and the elder master of the Jia family refused to admit this marriage, and the Wang family became furious. The family has broken off contact, and it is pulling the Shi family after Baoling Hou, and the Xue family of the imperial merchant after Ziwei Sheren to isolate the Jia family."
Dai Quan hurriedly echoed: "I also heard that after the Wang family and the Jia family fell out, the two families cut off contact. Although the Wang family is not in the capital, other families are still there. Besides, it is said that after the prince Teng left, the Xue family followed the prince. Jia Lian is very close, maybe the Wang family became angry and refused to teach the Xue family a lesson so as not to beat the rich man away, so they only taught Jia Lian."
"Looking at it this way, it really looks like the Wang family." Shui Mu had a sneer on the corner of his mouth. Naturally, he was not a person who was easily persuaded by Fang Wenhui and Dai Quan's words, but he couldn't be loyal to the palace at this time, so he could only take the prince. Teng made the raft, so he said to Dai Quan, "Go and tell Jia Lian that between him and Prince Zhongshun, there is only Prince Teng's grievances and grievances, and nothing else. Now, I allow him to use the Xu family and the Li family. relationship, get close to Prince Zhongshun’s residence.”
Xu and Li have always been impartial between him and the Supreme Emperor. Now that Jia Lian is taking the lead to lean towards the Supreme Emperor, he does not believe in the Zhongshun Palace and refuses to consider the "big picture", so he persuades Wang Ziteng to abandon his grievances with Jia Lian for the time being.
Fang Wenhui nodded, her eyelids kept twitching, thinking that Jia Lian is the person of today?
"Yes." Dai Quan agreed, remembering what Jia Lian said, and said, "Jia Lian is also a man of merit and fame, and is also in the selection of officials. I don't know where the Lord will send him? Although he is small, his ambition is great." It’s so great that I’m willing to go to Guangdong to clear up redundant official positions.”
When it comes to redundancy, the most redundant official position in Guangdong is the governor of Guangdong, the chief official of the border.
Shui Mu was slightly surprised, "He really said that?"
Dai Quan smiled and said, "Isn't that right?"
Shui Mu pondered for a while, he didn't want to see that the chief official in Fengjiang was the overlord's confidant, and he also wanted to see where the fledgling Jia Lian had the guts to bring down the Guangdong governor who had a solid foundation in Guangdong, so he said: "Allow him! Let's wait and see what he can do! If he really succeeds, he will be the most available person by my side." Then he took a dried apricot and threw it into his mouth, and asked Fang Wenhui: "The emperor Xue You can always find faults in the things that the family pays tribute to, right?"
Fang Wenhui didn't understand what it meant, Dai Quan hurriedly laughed and said: "Didn't Fang Meiren say that the hairpins that the Xue family paid tribute to are not of good quality? According to me, the name of the Xue family in the household department is the name that the Wang family said Xiang Ge The ones I got here must not be as good as the ones bought by other people on the market.”
Fang Wenhuifu understands in his heart that he wants to help Jia Lian now, making the Xue family think that the Wang family is incompetent and inseparable from the Jia family; in this way, one of the Wang family's financial resources is cut off, which means that the Zhongshun Prince's mansion is also cut off.It's just that she has to go all out to "be proud of being favored" and take the risk of offending others to pick on the jewelry bought by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Yes, the concubine asked someone to tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs has ignored it so far. The concubine will call the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs tomorrow."
Jia Zhu was full of disappointment. Seeing that Jia Lian was neither angry nor annoyed, she suppressed her disappointment.
Zhao Tianliang wiped his face, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Xu and Uncle Li should be on the list, I saw the servants of their two families happily outside the tribute courtyard."
"Ask the eldest girl to prepare some congratulatory gifts for the two of them." Jia Lian nodded slightly, thinking that since Xu Yuheng and Li Bizhou were on the list, someone was targeting him only.
"Hey." Zhao Tianliang agreed to step back.
Jia Zhu fidgeted back and forth in the bright room, sat down for a long time, and comforted Jia Lian, saying: "Forget it, although you are not on the list, you are still famous now. You can choose an official for a few taels of money."
Jia Lian smiled, the selection of officials is still a secondary issue, the first thing to do is to find out who secretly manipulated him to make him unnamed on the list.Remembering that he was not named on the list, there was one person who would be more surprised than him, so he raised his voice: "Auntie, sister Yu, have you returned to Lantai Temple?"
Xiao Yaoer, who was waiting outside, hurriedly said: "Miss Xue has gone back, but my aunt and sister Yu haven't left yet."
"Go to the back and say something later. I'll take my aunt and sister Yu home." Jia Lian said, remembering that Jia's mother and Jia She had high hopes for him, and it would be impossible not to give them an explanation, so she got up and smiled at Jia Zhu. Said: "Brother, let me go and talk to the old lady and the master."
"Go, you've only been studying hard for a few years? They may not blame you." Jia Zhu coughed, and followed Jia Lian out of his study with a prescription, fearing that if she followed, Jia Lian would be embarrassed. So he took the car and went back to the East Garden.
Now the rain has completely stopped, and the yard is filled with misty water vapor.
Jia Lian first passed through the Rongxi Hall and entered the Dongkua Courtyard. After entering, he saw several young maids in the courtyard trembling. Lying in bed.
"The son is incompetent, and the master is disappointed." Jia Lian said.
Jia She shook his head and laughed at himself: "You have only been studying for a few days. If someone like you can be named on the gold list, no one in the world will see anyone. Go ahead and do what you have to do."
Jia Lian agreed, left from Jia Amnesty's bed, went through Rongxi hall to Rongqing hall, followed the Chaoshou corridor to the door of Jia's mother's room, stood for a while, and went in and heard Jia Min comforting Jia's mother.
Seeing Jia Lian coming, Jia's mother comforted Jia Lian like Jia amnesty, and ordered Jia Lian to send Jia Min's mother and daughter back to Lantai Temple in a happy life.
Jia Lian didn't have the heart to "plead guilty to the thorns", so she agreed. After Jia Min left first, she followed her to the outside of Rongqing Hall. .Jia Lian got on the horse outside the corner gate after they left the corner gate, and followed the sedan chair to Lantai Temple.
It was dusk at this time, and the sky was very dark due to the dense clouds, and there were not many people walking on the street.
Jia Lian led the sedan chair at the front and went out of Ningrong Street. The street was getting darker and darker. From a distance, he saw Li Cheng, the son of Li Shouzhong, wearing a bamboo hat and a red feather gauze cloak. Seeing that Li Cheng's face was not looking very good, he smiled and said, "Brother Li is here to visit my sister-in-law right now?"
Li Cheng shook his head, seeing Jia Lian grinning, he said angrily, "I can still laugh now!"
Jia Lian received his joy, saw Li Cheng approaching again, and said in a low voice: "This is so strange! My father can recognize your handwriting. Although you have sealed your name, when he and a group of elders were grading the papers, he deliberately turned over the paper first. Look at your test paper—you are a well-known person, you have only studied for a few years, and you can compare with others who have studied hard for many years! He said that when he turned it over by himself, he saw that you answered clearly, When I got home, I only said that you could rank one hundred fifty or sixty."
Seeing Li Cheng's strange expression, Jia Lian seemed to be defending him, so he quickly laughed and said, "Maybe my essay won't be recognized by the adults who mark the test papers."
"If I were you, I'd play the Dengwen drum! Turn over your test paper and let the sage take a look in person." Li Cheng's forehead was slightly itchy with a red mark on his forehead, so he pushed the hat with his hand, from time to time Quietly looking to both sides, as if a guilty conscience is afraid of being caught by someone.
Seeing his situation, Jia Lian understood that Li Shouzhong was afraid of getting into trouble, and told Li Cheng not to come and tell him. He was more grateful to Li Cheng in his heart, holding the rein with both hands, and said with a smile: "This is really impossible! If I set an example, others I also feel that I should not be named Sun Shan, or should not be at the bottom of the list, and it would be bad to beat Deng Wengu! Do you still have to ask the present to personally review the test papers? It is related to the imperial prestige of the imperial court, and we should not act impulsively."
"Hey, are you still worried about the court?" Li Cheng gritted his teeth, he had already told Jia Lian what he had to say, and he gritted his teeth as soon as he caught the horse's belly.
Jia Lian saw that Li Cheng was a bit silly, smiled, and still led Jia Min and Daiyu's sedan chair to Lantai Temple, and entered the back office from the back door of Lantai Temple, Jia Lian followed Jia Min and Daiyu all the way to Jia In the room where Min and Lin Ruhai lived, in the east room, Lin Ruhai was lying on a kang covered with a flowered blue satin mattress, and asked his concubine Ming Cui to bring him a hot handkerchief to warm his legs. A mandarin duck playing with a lotus in a famille rose bowl with green and yellow concoction steaming hot.
"Uncle is sick?" Jia Lian asked hurriedly.
Lin Ruhai sighed: "It's not considered a disease. I have to take medicine for half a year." After finishing speaking, he heard Daiyu cough, and immediately ordered Jia Min and Mingcui to take Daiyu to change clothes and rest.
Jia Lian stood aside with his hands down, watching Jia Min, Ming Cui, and Daiyu go out. Seeing that Jia Min and Ming Cui's wives and concubines were in harmony, he was very surprised. Seeing that Lin Ruhai wanted to take medicine, he handed the medicine bowl to him and spoke. Said: "Uncle, does he know that the list has been released?"
"Did it come out? So fast? How many names are you?" Lin Ruhai asked hurriedly.
Because he was sure that Jia Lian would be on the list, and because he helped Jia Lian cheat, he felt ashamed of the poor student who was studying hard, so he never took the initiative to send a message to order people to look at the list.
Jia Lian laughed and said, "My nephew is not on the list." As he spoke, he sat sideways across from Lin Ruhai. Seeing Lin Ruhai pressing his legs, he thought to himself that he was suffering from rheumatism. It's a pity that he didn't ask the gods. The stick wants plaster or something.
Lin Ruhai was startled, and shook the medicine bowl in his hand slightly. Knowing that this matter could not be explained to the present, some hot medicine juice was splashed on the back of his hand without realizing it. wrong?"
Jia Lian said: "This is absolutely impossible." As he spoke, he told Lin Ruhai what Li Chenglai had said to him, "Master Li knows how to search for my articles by handwriting, and if anyone intends to deal with me, he will definitely do the same. .”
Lin Ruhai listened, and nodded slightly, "You're right, this kind of thing is not far-reaching fraud in the examination room, and they would rather suffer a loss than make a fuss." Frowning slightly, he felt that it was just like what Jia Lian said What happened this time was that someone had a problem with Jia Lian, and asked Jia Lian: "What are you going to do now? Do you want to take the exam in three years, or choose officials now?"
Jia Lian said with a smile: "Of course it's the election of officials. Let's wait and see what will be left for us, the unknown people on the list, after the disciples of the Son of Heaven have elected officials."
"...It would be good if you entrusted the Xu family to enter the household department or go to the south of the Yangtze River to become an official. You will be promoted in a few years." Lin Ruhai coughed and was talking when a little maid came in and said: "Master, the palace A father-in-law came to talk to the master."
Lin Ruhai hurriedly said: "Please hurry up." After finishing speaking, he hurriedly got off the kang.
Jia Lian hurriedly supported him, straightened his clothes a little, and then helped him into the light room, and sure enough, he saw a shrewd and thin old eunuch slowly coming in.
"Eunuch Dai is here, but the saint has a decree for Lin?" Lin Ruhai asked hurriedly.
When Jia Lian heard Lin Ruhai call that person Eunuch Dai, he thought that this was Dai Quan, the famous eunuch in charge of Daming Palace.
Dai Quan took out a snuff bottle from his sleeve and sniffed it. After he sneezed, he hurriedly said, "It's suddenly cold today, which makes my nose very congested." Then he saw a handsome young man supporting Lin Ruhai, and said with a smile : "Is this the young master of Mr. Lin's family?"
"It's Jia Lian, the nephew of Lin's wife," Lin Ruhai said.
Jia Lian hurriedly greeted Dai Quan, and saw that Dai Quan was wearing a mutton fat white jade pendant on his waist, with a ring on his thumb, dressed like a rich man, and he was a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's door. Dai Quan can be regarded as a third- and fourth-rank official Bar?
When Dai Quan heard that it was Jia Lian, he cried and said with a mournful face: "Second Master Lian is just here. Let me tell you, how did you lose your name in Sun Shan? My lord thinks that you can be ranked in the top [-] at this moment! My lord Get angry and make us worry about it!"
Jia Lian smiled, and hurriedly asked Dai Quan to take a seat. Seeing that he refused, she invited him to sit in the nanmu armchair on the left, and then told Dai Quan what Li Cheng had said.
When Dai Quan heard this, he was stunned immediately, and said first: "This is absolutely impossible. The adults who are marking the examination papers this time are personally selected today! They are all elders with both morality and ability!"
The implication is that the person who reads the papers is not a trusted aide today, but a person of integrity.
After saying this, Dai Quan was stunned again, turned his head and asked Lin Ruhai: "Master Lin, could it be that someone is not dealing with the Rongguo Mansion?"
Lin Ruhai refused to sit down, but felt that sitting down with legs bent was even more uncomfortable, so she pursed her lips and looked at Jia Lian, making him speak by himself.
Jia Lian said: "Elder-in-law, the number of people I have offended is only the Wang family. Who is the Wang family close to? It can be seen that this matter is not only my business, but someone has taken over the Wang family. The money over there is not against me."
Jia Lian was at a disadvantage, and he refused to let this matter go, so he thought it was his own business, but after he said it, it was as if Zhongshun Wangfu and Wang Ziteng were using Chunwei to suppress dissidents.
Dai Quan was taken aback, thinking to himself that this matter was no small matter, and asked Jia Lian repeatedly: "Second Master Lian guarantees that there is nothing wrong with his test paper?"
"Master Li is the witness. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my test paper. Apart from other things, my uncle was a proctor in the past. How could his article be famous?" Jia Lian swore authentically.
Dai Quan originally came to question Lin Ruhai Xingshi about his crimes, but after hearing this, he felt that Jia Lian's matter was of great importance, so he got up and wanted to return to the palace to return his orders.
Jia Lian touched his body, regretting that he didn't bring any gold and jade things to Dai Quan for a while, so he helped Dai Quan, and said with a smile: "Elder-in-law, today I got a few pieces of paper from the sea above the sea from the Miao Daoist and the Boundless Master." The medicine will be dispensed some other day, and please ask the well-informed father-in-law to see if the pill is available for me."
Dai Quan said with a smile: "It's vague and vague. Our family doesn't like those empty names the most. But it's good to see something new."
"I don't know where to send the medicine when it's ready?" Jia Lian laughed.
Dai Quan was silent, and then said: "It's done, let's send a boy to Zunfu to pick it up."
Jia Lian thought in his heart that he would not be afraid of finding a place to give bribes, and smiled at Dai Quan: "I want to choose officials to go to Guangdong, and I would like to ask my father-in-law to say a few words in front of the Lord."
"Guangdong?" Dai Quan didn't understand why Jia Lian wanted to go to Guangdong when he refused to go to the Liangjiang area controlled by the Li family and the Xu family.
"There is only one governor in Liangjiang, but in Guangdong and Guangxi, there are two governors in Guangxi and Guangdong. The establishment of official positions is too complicated." Jia Lian laughed.
Lin Ruhai was stunned, and wondered if Jia Lian was planning to bring down the Governor of Guangdong and let the current trusted Governor of Guangxi lead Guangdong and Guangxi?
Dai Quan was also stunned, how could he not know that Guangdong, Guangxi and the area are the serious troubles of today's confidantes, and now that Jia Lian is interested in this, he feels that his future is limitless, so he got closer to him and said with a smile: "Second Master Lian is willing to leave his hometown, I will Let me say a few words for you." After saying that, he said goodbye to Lin Ruhai, bowed his body slightly and went out, and when he got outside, he saw the steward of Lin's house giving Sai Hebao to the little eunuch who came with him, but he pretended not to see it. When he got on the sedan chair, he was carried back to the palace.
When he came out again, the sky was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. Dai Quan squinted his eyes and sat in the sedan chair. After getting out of the sedan chair, I heard someone outside the sedan chair saying "there is water on the road, don't come out, father-in-law, carefully dirty your boots", so he sat quietly, opened the curtain, and saw that it was Zhongshun Prince's Mansion When Chang Shi came over, he smiled and said, "Brother Liang is a fool, and he hasn't returned home yet?"
Prince Zhongshun's chief Shi Li bowed his body outside the sedan chair, and said with a smile: "I was going back to the mansion, but on the way I saw my father-in-law's sedan chair listening, so I rushed over to say hello. I don't know if my father-in-law would give me some face and follow the official to have a drink or two? "
Dai Quan laughed and said, "I'm on duty last night. No, I'm rushing to the palace. You asked someone to talk to me earlier. I've been thinking about the day I'll see you. You're here now." It's just right, I have a vacancy in my hand, and I'm going to other places to do a general judge, and I don't know if your nephew will take a fancy to it."
Prince Zhongshun Shi laughed and said: "The yellow mud on his legs hasn't been washed clean yet. He left his hometown and joined me to be an official. It's too late for joy. How dare you not look down on him?" Because he got closer, almost Putting his head into the sedan chair, he lowered his voice and asked, "Eunuch, I just saw Jia Jialian enter Lantai Temple for the second time. I don't know if Eunuch saw it or not?"
Dai Quan thought he was the one who came to your door, and said with a smile: "Where did you not see it? That Lian Erye is very funny, our family has never seen anyone who can read the book for only two days and be named on the gold list. Fortunately, he is still pestering him." I said that I was wronged, so I asked today to take out his test paper for him to check. Mr. Lin got the foreign plaster that was rewarded today, and the front is bright. Hearing him say a few words that are beyond the reach of the heavens, he immediately sent me out. .”
Prince Zhongshun's Chief Shi heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he said with a smile: "It's really a little ignorant, I don't know why the sage thought of rewarding Mrs. Lin with plaster?" Before Prince Yizhong died, Lin Ruhai fled in front of the battle. Don't you dislike him now?
"The Supreme Emperor first rewarded the medicine, and now he is a filial piety. After hearing about it, he immediately followed the Supreme Emperor's footsteps and rewarded it--tell me, Mr. Lin is really ashamed of the emperor's kindness, and dare to say that his legs and feet are outside the imperial study. The root of the disease left by kneeling."
Shi Su, the head of Zhongshun Wangfu, has always been on good terms with Dai Quan, and bought four or five official positions from him one after another. He thought that Dai Quan was on good terms with him, so he thought that Lin Ruhai would not be valued today. Dai Quan, who follows the current day, will not slander Lin Ruhai for two consecutive years, and said with a smile: "After all, today's heart is broad-minded. Since this is the case, the lower officials will not dare to delay the father-in-law." Said, walked a few steps outside the sedan chair .
The sedan chair got up and moved forward. After a while, the bearer handed Dai Quan a purse.
Dai Quan took the purse, squeezed it, saw that the inside was very thick, smiled, put the purse, Xindao Zhongshun Wangfu really felt guilty, closed his eyes and rested his mind, leaned against the sedan chair wall until the sedan chair stopped again, and then Holding the hand of the little eunuch, he got out of the sedan chair, went in slowly, first went to the servant's room, saw a few little eunuchs in that room playing dice for money, cursed, and asked: "My lord, how is it now?" where?"
The little eunuch smiled and said: "The lord is at the beauty of Yuxiu Palace, the lord told the father-in-law to come back and go to Yuxiu Palace to look for him."
After hearing this, Dai Quan didn't care about the little eunuch who threw the dice, so he went straight to Yuxiu Palace, all the palace people stuck to the wall to say hello to him along the way, after entering Yuxiu Palace, he didn't go to the main palace of Yuxiu Palace, Going along the corridor to the wing room on the left side of Yuxiu Palace, outside the wing room, I heard the continuous sound of the qin inside, and sighed that the beauty in this room was indeed Hui Zhi Lan Xin, when I got to the door, first I heard the sound of the qin disappeared, and then saw another The maid asked him to go in, and then she bowed her body and went in.
Entering, she saw Fang Ruhui wearing a ponytail, wearing a homely sweetheart collar pink skirt, holding a jade pot standing beside Shui Mu who was also wearing homely clothes and frowning, pouring wine for him.
Dai Quan carefully observed his words and demeanor, and his heart was as beautiful as a flower, but Shui Mu's brows could not be relaxed. It can be seen that Shui Mu had already guessed why Jia Lian was not on the list, so he bowed in front of Shui Mu, greeted him, and said: "The young one met Master Lin by order of the Lord, and Master Lin said there was nothing wrong with it."
"If there is nothing wrong, then why is Jia Lian not on the list?" Shui Mu didn't shy away from Fang Wenhui, sitting on the spacious beast-headed arhat bed freely.
Fang Wenhui's eyelids kept twitching, thinking that Jia Lian was not on the list?Suppressing the curiosity in my heart, I just stood there looking at my nose, nose and mouth.
Dai Quan also wondered why Shui Mu didn't shy away from Fang Wenhui, and thought for a while that this was probably Shui Mu's way of showing his love for Fang Wenhui, so he said: "Although the little one doesn't know what it is for, when the little one returns to the palace, A long history acquaintance of Prince Zhongshun secretly stuffed money into the little one." After finishing speaking, he presented the purse containing the money bills to Shui Mu to show his loyalty.
Shui Mu glanced at it, and smiled in his heart that Prince Zhongshun's mansion really did not have 300 taels of silver here, and said with a sneer, "This is much more profitable than selling an official."
Dai Quan panicked, then just smiled and said nothing.
Fang Wenhui heard some clues from these few words, and couldn't help but her heart beat violently. She secretly wondered if someone would frame an honest gentleman like Jia Lian?Although she had only met Jia Lian once, Fang Wenhui had always admired Jia Lian, and was grateful to him for persuading Fang for her.
Shui Mu picked up the wine glass and took a sip of the wine, his brows furrowed even tighter. If he hadn't told Jia Lian to cheat and knew that Jia Lian would be sure to win, now he still doesn't know that someone hid it so deep. Come on, how could it make Jia Lian lose Sun Shan's name, and said with a sneer, "He is a dude, so it is reasonable for others to not be popular."
"My lord, don't you turn over Jia Lian's test paper?" Dai Quan asked suspiciously. Seeing Shui Mu holding the wine glass and remaining silent, he thought to himself that he was confused. ?Otherwise, as the Ninth Five-Year Master, how could he turn over a dude's test paper for no reason.
Shui Mu suddenly asked Fang Wenhui, "Is Jia Lian engaged to a girl from the Xu family?"
Fang Wenhui had been speculating how Jia Lian would offend Prince Zhongshun before, but now he quickly came to his senses and said, "Exactly, the two families planned to get married after Jia Lian was named on the gold list."
Shui Mu lowered his head, Xu Zhi'an, that old fox, has always had his own way, never thought that he would accept Jia Lian as his grandson-in-law, and asked Fang Wenhui, "Then does Jia Lian have any enemies?"
Fang Wenhui thought about it, and secretly thought that if she talked too much, it would make Shui Mu suspicious; but if she didn't say it, Jia Lian would be harmed and her ambition would not be rewarded, and she couldn't bear it, so she hesitated and said: "My concubine's family He is related to Xu's in-laws, Li's family, and he has heard some things before entering the palace. If you say Jia's second master's enemy, the first one is Du Taiwei's ruling county uncle Wang's family. Jia's second wife is Wang's aunt, Jia's second wife Behind the backs of the old lady and the eldest master of the Jia family, he promised the niece of the Wang family to the second master Jia. The old lady and the elder master of the Jia family refused to admit this marriage, and the Wang family became furious. The family has broken off contact, and it is pulling the Shi family after Baoling Hou, and the Xue family of the imperial merchant after Ziwei Sheren to isolate the Jia family."
Dai Quan hurriedly echoed: "I also heard that after the Wang family and the Jia family fell out, the two families cut off contact. Although the Wang family is not in the capital, other families are still there. Besides, it is said that after the prince Teng left, the Xue family followed the prince. Jia Lian is very close, maybe the Wang family became angry and refused to teach the Xue family a lesson so as not to beat the rich man away, so they only taught Jia Lian."
"Looking at it this way, it really looks like the Wang family." Shui Mu had a sneer on the corner of his mouth. Naturally, he was not a person who was easily persuaded by Fang Wenhui and Dai Quan's words, but he couldn't be loyal to the palace at this time, so he could only take the prince. Teng made the raft, so he said to Dai Quan, "Go and tell Jia Lian that between him and Prince Zhongshun, there is only Prince Teng's grievances and grievances, and nothing else. Now, I allow him to use the Xu family and the Li family. relationship, get close to Prince Zhongshun’s residence.”
Xu and Li have always been impartial between him and the Supreme Emperor. Now that Jia Lian is taking the lead to lean towards the Supreme Emperor, he does not believe in the Zhongshun Palace and refuses to consider the "big picture", so he persuades Wang Ziteng to abandon his grievances with Jia Lian for the time being.
Fang Wenhui nodded, her eyelids kept twitching, thinking that Jia Lian is the person of today?
"Yes." Dai Quan agreed, remembering what Jia Lian said, and said, "Jia Lian is also a man of merit and fame, and is also in the selection of officials. I don't know where the Lord will send him? Although he is small, his ambition is great." It’s so great that I’m willing to go to Guangdong to clear up redundant official positions.”
When it comes to redundancy, the most redundant official position in Guangdong is the governor of Guangdong, the chief official of the border.
Shui Mu was slightly surprised, "He really said that?"
Dai Quan smiled and said, "Isn't that right?"
Shui Mu pondered for a while, he didn't want to see that the chief official in Fengjiang was the overlord's confidant, and he also wanted to see where the fledgling Jia Lian had the guts to bring down the Guangdong governor who had a solid foundation in Guangdong, so he said: "Allow him! Let's wait and see what he can do! If he really succeeds, he will be the most available person by my side." Then he took a dried apricot and threw it into his mouth, and asked Fang Wenhui: "The emperor Xue You can always find faults in the things that the family pays tribute to, right?"
Fang Wenhui didn't understand what it meant, Dai Quan hurriedly laughed and said: "Didn't Fang Meiren say that the hairpins that the Xue family paid tribute to are not of good quality? According to me, the name of the Xue family in the household department is the name that the Wang family said Xiang Ge The ones I got here must not be as good as the ones bought by other people on the market.”
Fang Wenhuifu understands in his heart that he wants to help Jia Lian now, making the Xue family think that the Wang family is incompetent and inseparable from the Jia family; in this way, one of the Wang family's financial resources is cut off, which means that the Zhongshun Prince's mansion is also cut off.It's just that she has to go all out to "be proud of being favored" and take the risk of offending others to pick on the jewelry bought by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Yes, the concubine asked someone to tell the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs has ignored it so far. The concubine will call the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs tomorrow."
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