The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Although Jia Yucun can be regarded as a person who has experienced great ups and downs, he has never really interacted with high-ranking people like Lord Zhongshun. Now that he suddenly sees the "means" of Lord Zhongshun, he admires and envies him, secretly speculating in his heart One day, he will also use this ruthless method to avoid future troubles.

So under the watchful eyes of Kou Guan, he wrote a letter, in which he was instructed by Prince Zhongshun to assist Hong Helong in smuggling firearms. Put your own stamp on it.

"Let me give this letter to Mr. Hong, and write another one. I will keep it with me and present it to the prince in the future." Guan Kou said.

Jia Yucun was suspicious.

Koguan sneered and said: "That's not the case. Could it be that you still have to communicate with the prince personally to discuss how to deal with this matter? Let me tell you the truth, the prince has seen this matter a lot. As long as he sees Yinzi at the end, what will he do? He's irrelevant, and he won't ask any more."

Jia Yucun forced a smile, thinking that if he told the King of Beijing about this matter, maybe... Then he wanted to say that there was no evidence, the letter of the Lord Zhongshun was not written by the Lord Zhongshun, and even the letter, the Lord Zhongshun made Officer Kou be careful He accepted it; besides, the King of Beijing Jing might not be able to beat the Lord Zhongshun.

"I don't know if my brother has done this, will he return to the palace to sing in the future?"

"I'm getting old, I can't sing anymore, but I'm just running errands for the prince." Guan Kou stared at Jia Yucun's writing, and after he stamped it again, he put all the letters in his arms, "You send a cronies to go with me."

"Yes." Jia Yucun agreed, remembering that there was a novice in the yamen who used to be a novice in the Gourd Temple who was very good at observing words and expressions, so he asked people to call the door, and did not tell the door what he was doing, only Kou Guan It was a member of Zhongshun Wangfu who ordered Namenzi to go to Guangdong with Kou Guan to pay his respects to the Governor of Guangdong.

That doorman had great eyesight, and after hearing Jia Yucun's words, he knew that he would finally be reused, so he happily packed his bags, got Jia Yucun's 20 taels of silver, and followed Kou Guan to the south.

Seeing that he had succeeded at Jia Yu Village, Kou Guan became more courageous, so he went around to Wang Ren's mansion to cheat again.

That Wang Ren was far less thoughtful than Jia Yucun. When he saw Kou Guan coming, he set up a banquet and invited actors and dancers to add to the fun.

Menzi followed Kou Guan to see the world, and heard Kou Guan boasting at the banquet how he got the hospitality of Zhen's family in the south of the Yangtze River. He felt that he was only one step away from becoming a great success, so he was about to leave Jinling. Then I wrote to Jia Yucun and told what I saw and heard.

Jia Yucun got the letter, and even more believed that Kou Guan was ordered to do things, and he was chased and sent to send some money.

In this way, Kouguan and that doorman led a group of entourages, and spent all the way to Guangdong, spending the money donated by Jia Yucun. Menzi spoke, remembering all the good deeds Jia Yucun had done in his heart.

In this way, after a few months of ups and downs, they entered the border of Guangdong and Guangxi, remembering that Wang Renzhi's uncle and Xue Pan's uncle Wang Ziteng were serving as commanders of the capital in Guangxi. "money for the journey.

When Menzi saw it, he felt it was funny, so he said to Guan Kou: "Seeing that we are almost at the Governor's Mansion in Guangdong, why do you want to go to Guangxi to try to trick Master Wang?"

Kou Guan knew that his move was just to reassure the disciples, but he deliberately pretended not to care and said: "If you come here, if you don't tell the other side, it will appear that our lord looks down on lord Wang."

"It's true, I'd rather tell your palace to be ripped off than to let your palace forget about it." Menzi is determined to stand out, although his appearance is quite different from that of Kou Guan, but he is determined to imitate Kou Guan's way of doing things. .

Sitting in the carriage, just one street away from the Guangdong Governor's Mansion, Kou Guan faintly saw some people dressed as overseas foreigners wandering on the street, and when the carriage stopped behind the back door of the Governor's Mansion, he reported The name of Zhongshun Prince's Mansion, someone came to meet him immediately.

At this time, it was already the beginning of summer, and the weather was so hot that people felt restless.

After Kouguan, Menzi and others entered the Governor's Mansion on horseback or by car, a group of people got out of the car.

Menzi only knew that Kou Guan was still as arrogant as before in front of Jia Yucun, but now Kou Guan is very respectful, and while muttering that he is the official of the frontier, he followed suit.

Following the backyard alley and hallway, a group of people went all the way to the study room in the front yard of the Governor's Mansion. The door was always careful, but Kouguan's bearing was different from the door.

When they arrived at the study room in the front yard, they crossed the threshold, before seeing Hong and Long, they vaguely saw a shadow sitting in the hall, and bowed down first.

"I met Master Hong."

After a long time, the two got up when they heard "Excuse me".

The door looked up quietly, and saw a fat and tall man sitting at the head of the spacious hall, shaking a cattail leaf fan. The man was full of beards, bright eyes, black and purple lips, and he didn't care much about his clothes. He is a tough man.This person is Hong Helong.

Turning his gaze, he saw a young man sitting on Hong Helong's right hand again. The young man was dressed in gold and noble clothes, with a brocade robe and jade belt, and a green jade lightly twisted between his fingers. He looked like someone's noble son.

Menzi thought about Hong and Long's looks, how did he give birth to such a handsome young master, then he heard the young master laughing and said: "Guan Kou, why is the lord willing to let you come here?"

Kouguan laughed and said, "Back to the second master Lian, the younger one is here to do things for the prince."

When Menzi heard this, he thought that this was the second master of the Rongguo Mansion who caused a lot of trouble in Jinling in the early years.

"In that case, Mr. Hong, I will take my leave." Jia Lian stood up, bowed his hands to Hong and Long politely, and retreated.

Menzi watched Jia Lian go out and sighed inwardly.

Hong Helong was not polite to Jia Lian either, he still sat on the chair and shook his fan. When Jia Lian disappeared, he pointed at the open door with his fan and asked Guan Kou, "Your Majesty thinks highly of this young master of the Jia family?"

Kou Guan lowered his hands and said with a smile: "I don't think it's important, the important thing is that this Second Master Lian is very close to Mr. Xu's party."

Hong Helong always disliked Jia Lian for being too fat and weak, so he was relieved to hear this, and then thought of Li Rui's head, and felt a little unhappy, "I'm afraid that the governor of Liangjiang is more important in the eyes of the prince than me, the governor of Guangdong. .”

Menzi was taken aback by these words, and only thought that Hong and Long were about to explode.

Officer Kou was well-informed and knew that Hong Helong had been an official in a place far away from Emperor Tiangao for a long time, and his temper became more and more good, so he said with a smile: "Where is it? Outsiders."

These words made Hong Helong feel better, so he asked: "Why are you running all the way here instead of serving the prince?"

"My lord has won a beautiful official, how can he be considered a young one?" Kou Guan smiled, and sent the two slightly sweaty letters from his arms to Hong Helong to read.

Hong Helong squinted his eyes slightly and saw that Kou Guan was about to take back the letter with the seal of Prince Zhongshun, knowing Prince Zhongshun's temperament, he smiled clearly, and only put his thick fingers on the letter from Jia Yucun. Going up, pondered: "I know that the sun is coming out from the west, and the overseas fan dares to ask me for it, but he really negotiated with the prince first."

Kou Guan smiled flatteringly and said, "The little one can't sing anymore, and I hope Master Hong will give you a bowl of rice in the future."

"This matter is nothing, just follow the prince's words and ask the surname Jia to do it." After Hong Helong finished speaking, remembering that Jia Lian was also surnamed Jia, he laughed again: "I don't know what it is to ask the second master of Lian to intervene just now." .”

Officer Kou was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, you must not do it. Jia Yucun's family is small and easy to deal with. The second master Lian has too much involvement behind him. Speaking of which, the prince has not yet trusted him very much. Even Jia Yucun Then, the lord may not believe him. Now that Jiayu Village is used, he is required to hand over the nomination certificate. My lord must not leave a written statement, so that people can catch the lord... If my lord wants to talk to the lord, just do it Ask the little ones to pass on messages, remember, there must be no correspondence."

Hong Helong nodded knowingly, glanced at the door seemingly, waved his hand, and said: "Go and rest, rest for two days, and when those fans bring the money, you will go back to Beijing to replace it." My lord, let's do something."

"Yes." Kouan hurriedly agreed, and was about to leave, when he heard "come back" again suddenly, he turned around quickly, "What is your order?"

Hong Helong frowned, "You know the second master of the Jia family, is he a man?"

Kou Guan hurriedly laughed and said: "I haven't heard of this matter, the second master of the Jia family has a good reputation in matters of men and women."

"...So, is he looking down on me?" Hong Helong snorted coldly.

Guan Kou thought to himself, could it be that Hong Helong wanted to borrow a woman to win over Jia Lian, but Jia Lian refused to accept it?Seeing that Hong and Long stopped talking to him, he led the door and retreated.

After going out the door, far away from the study, Menzi took a deep breath, covered his chest and said: "My dear, you have such a great momentum."

"The people in the capital are more powerful. You will know when you meet later." Kou Guan smiled, and turned around a gatehouse with the door, and saw Jia Lian who had just left waiting, although he had something in his heart to say to Jia Lian Said, but the door is there, but I can't say it, so I have to exchange a few words, listen to Jia Lian's greetings to Prince Zhongshun, and accept the money from Jia Lian, then lead the door to the guest room arranged by the Hong family.

Wherever the disciples saw Kou Guan go, there were people who treated him politely and gave him money, and treated Kou Guan as they had treated Jia Yucun.

Kou Guan led his disciples to eat and drink in Hong's residence for more than ten days. Suddenly one day, he heard that Hong and Long invited him, so he left his disciples and went to meet alone.

This time, he went to the back garden of the Hong Mansion, and saw Hong Helong talking to a middle-aged man whose back was similar to his own under a small pavilion built against the mountain.

Although the man's body was similar to Hong Helong's, his imposing manner was much more cowardly, with his shoulders arched and his back bowed, his imposing manner was far from that of the tall and straight Hong Helong.

Officer Kou went up and greeted the two of them first, and when Hong Helong asked him to take a seat, he didn't sit down immediately, but looked at the man. When he looked directly, he saw that the man's face was also very similar to Hong Helong's.

When Hong Helong saw Officer Kou looking at him, he pointed to the man on his left and said, "This is my second brother He Chang."

"Greetings to the second master." Guan Kou hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects.

The man was as tall as a mountain, seeing Kou Guan worshiping him, but looking at Hong and Long with flickering eyes like a child.

"Sit down." Hong Helong said calmly.

Guan Kou sat down again after hearing the words, just now he felt that the man was timid from a distance, but now he looked at the second master of the Hong family with a stupid and stupid face, there was a new scar between his eyebrows, his eyes were not as bright as those of Hong Helong .

"It's true that people can't be judged by appearances. Master Hong is very affectionate and righteous. He even took his second brother with him when he was in office." Guan Kou said silently in his heart, lest he would get angry if he looked at that stupid man too much. Hong Helong didn't dare to look at the second master of the Hong family.

"Today, since you are acquainted with Na Lian Er, you don't need to bother others about this matter." Hong Helong poured wine for himself, and saw his second younger brother trembling to pick up vegetables, his brows frowned, Stretching out the chopsticks, he put it in the bowl for him.

"Adults can just give orders if they have something to do. The little ones don't dare to say that they will go through life and death for adults. They can always do it." Kou Guan panicked inexplicably.

Hong Helong smiled when he heard the words, and pointed to his second brother and said: "It's rare that a noodle gentleman came from Guangdong. That day when this thing was running around, my niece ran out to take care of his father, and happened to run into him. So, my niece You get sick for no reason."

Kou Guan's eyelids kept twitching, thinking to himself that the Hong brothers looked like that, and that Miss Hong looked almost the same.

"Now, please go and talk to a matchmaker. My niece is not a serious daughter, and she doesn't even need to be a concubine, so let him stay in the room." Hong Helong said.

Guan Kou didn't understand why Hong Helong spoke so contemptuously towards his niece, so he laughed and said, "My lord, why don't you go and talk to the second master Lian, it's always said that it's indecent for a girl to get sick first, so it's better to talk about it." Second Master Lian asked him to marry himself?"

"No, go and talk to him. He has to say something about not allowing concubines in the family. You just say that my niece is interested in him, and let him make up his own mind—in short, the second brother can't do without his niece, and wait for him to come back. In Beijing, just keep your niece in Guangdong and don't let the Rongguo Mansion in the capital know about it." Hong Helong said domineeringly.

Guan Kou seemed to have heard the Arabian Nights, and immediately realized that Miss Hong was not a girl of serious background. He secretly glanced at Second Master Hong, seeing that Master Hong just ate and drank and ignored Hong Helong's words, he hesitated and agreed with a yes. Not daring to stay for long, he left the pavilion and went back to the guest room to rectify his thoughts. After returning to the guest room, he was still unsure how to talk to Jia Lian. When he was restless, he saw the doorman carrying some wine contentedly. When he got angry, he sighed and said: "You are at ease, I am having a headache."

Menzi smiled and said, "I've never seen you have a headache, what's the headache now?"

Although Guan Kou didn't regard Menzi as his own, but he wished to have more people to relieve his worries, so he said something very unreasonable to Hong and Long.

When Menzi heard this, he laughed immediately, clapped his hands and said, "What's the worry? Just ask Second Master Lian to agree. Although Second Master Hong is stupid and ugly, his daughter is very handsome."

"Oh, you know Miss Hong?" Guan Kou asked doubtfully.

The door got closer, and he sat down beside Guan Kou, and said with a smile, "It's been so long, why don't you know? I heard that the first person in the governor's mansion who should not be offended is the second master Hong. So Hong The Second Master has been foolish since he was born, but he is a compatriot of Mrs. Hong and his mother. Mrs. Hong has a successful career and has been entrusted by Mrs. Hong on her deathbed, so the Second Mr. Hong also enjoyed the great blessing. Although he is stupid, he should When she got married, she still married a lady from a scholarly family. That lady of the family had never had any children for Mr. Hong after a few years of marriage, so she went there in a few years. Later, she married another Xiaojiabiyu, who also married Xiaojiabiyu. Couldn't give birth to a son and a half daughter, and went with the original wife. During the period, he took in many concubines as beautiful as flowers and jade, but there was no good news. After two years, suddenly there was an unmarried girl with a big belly That girl said that the child belonged to Master Hong Er, Master Hong was very happy when he heard it, and praised the girl. Who would have thought that girl who lived a good life for a few years would not know the heights of heaven and earth, and secretly insulted Master Hong Er, There was another suspicion of adultery. Master Hong found out and sent the concubine away. Although everyone suspected that Miss Hong was not the second master Hong's own, but the second master Hong was stupid and followed him after she was born. Miss Hong beside her is her treasure, and besides Mrs. Hong, she only listens to Miss Hong. Therefore, master Hong treats Miss Hong as a servant girl and asks him to take care of the second master Hong. It is expected that Miss Hong also knows her identity. I don't dare to dream of wearing gold and silver like other girls and calling for servants. Miss Hong is 21 and [-] now, and she has no one to teach her. Although she looks good, she behaves vulgarly and doesn't know etiquette. And Master Hong is another Fool, although he loves her, he doesn't know how to get some benefits for her, and he won't be merciless towards her when he goes crazy, tearing and shoving, causing people inside and outside the house to see all the jokes. It is said that the second master Lian When they passed the mansion, they saw the second master going mad and scratching and scratching Miss Hong, and a bunch of servants in the mansion just watched the fun and didn't help Miss Hong, so they somehow coaxed the second master to save Miss Hong's life. From then on, Miss Hong put all her heart on Lian's second master, fell into lovesickness, hid in the room and did not go out, and refused to pay attention to the second master. Is this okay? She ignored, and Hong Er master made a fuss It became more and more fierce. On Mrs. Hong's birthday one month ago, Mr. Hong made a big fuss in front of the wives of the rich and famous families in Guangdong, which made Mrs. Hong very embarrassed. Mrs. Hong beat Miss Hong several times. The girl has been honest and responsible for more than [-] years, but now she refuses to bow her head."

"It's no wonder Mr. Hong didn't give her any face in what he said." Guan Kou frowned, thinking that this is also a poor person.

"Everyone in the house knows where she came from. Master Hong didn't even give her a name. How can such a person have any face? It is said that the second master Hong is left alone, and he hurt his face when he messed around. Master Hong called people He took the whip and whipped Miss Hong twenty times. Seeing her gritted her teeth and persisted, Master Hong was stunned, weeping and mad, but he didn't know how to intercede. Master Hong ordered the whip to be taken away. According to me Said, it's just an optional thing to make the second master happy, you can persuade the second master Lian to take her in for two days, and then come back when you get tired of it."

"...That's the only way to go." Kou Guan frowned, thinking to himself that this dewy marriage should be told to Jia Lian.