The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Guan Kou was originally on his mind, but at this moment, seeing that it was just a dewy marriage with no worries—it was expected that Hong and Long would not let Miss Hong live with Jia Lian for a long time. After making up his mind, he changed his clothes and asked people to get off the carriage and go to Jia Lian's residence.

Jia Lian came to take office alone, so he didn't rent a house nearby, but only lived in the small courtyard behind the magistrate's yamen.The magistrate's yamen is not far from the governor's mansion, but only two streets away.

Kou Guan got out of the carriage and met Zhao Tianliang who was out on errands in front of the door, so he followed Zhao Tianliang into the back hall of the yamen, and when he was in the yard, he heard the sound of the piano next door, so he looked suspiciously at Zhao Tianliang .

Zhao Tianliang said with a smile: "Since the second master came, the piano next door has been playing non-stop day and night."

Kouan laughed aloud when he heard the words, as if disturbed by his laughter, the sound of the piano next door paused, and then changed the tune again.

When he got to the side room in the backyard, Guan Kou saw Jia Lian, Quan Fu, and Quan Lu washing a huge Lingbi stone with clean water.

"Where did such a good stone come from?" Guan Kou had been immersed in the Zhongshun Palace for a long time, and he also knew a little about appreciating stones.

"Second Master dug it by himself." Quan Fu said with a smile.

"Sure enough, it's a Qingshui yamen. The magistrate is so leisurely." Kou Guan smiled with his hands in his sleeves, and when Jia Lian got up and went to the grape rack with bunches of purple and black grapes hanging between the oil and green, he followed him. There is a bamboo bed under the grape trellis to enjoy the coolness and a pleasant chessboard, and I think Jia Lian will really enjoy it.

Seeing that Quan Fu and others consciously evaded, Kou Guan first explained what Jia Yucun had done.

Jia Lian listened, nodded and said: "Just act according to what you said before, don't get involved too deeply, if something happens, someone will help you out."

Kou Guan nodded again and again, then smiled and said: "I still want to congratulate the second master, now there is a happy event, waiting for the second master."

"Could it be the matter of the Hong family girl?"

"Exactly," Kou Guan pondered that Hong Helong didn't care about Miss Hong's boudoir reputation at all, and it must have been mentioned to Jia Lian a few times, for fear of what Hong Helong said earlier, "I can't see him". , that's why he came here, coughed, and opened his mouth again, "What does the second master think? This is a marriage that doesn't cost a betrothal gift, and doesn't cost a ransom. Can't do it? It's just that one day you don't like it, She sent her back to the Governor's Mansion, and she didn't complain." Thinking of Miss Hong's difficulties, she couldn't help saying: "It's like asking her to escape to a paradise for a while. According to me, she will be married in the right place for the rest of her life. It’s impossible to get married.”

Jia Lian said with a smile: "You really have a heart of a Bodhisattva. You have never seen a girl's face before, so you first feel sorry for her. Go back and answer him, and say that my wife and I have a deep love for each other, and I will not do anything to be ashamed of her."

"Isn't it okay if you don't ask grandma in the capital to know?" Guan Kou thought about it, but he couldn't find a reason for Jia Lian to refuse this "marriage".

"This means that sincerity is in the middle and appearance is in the outside, so a gentleman must be careful about his independence."

Kou Guan suddenly laughed, "Why do you have to be so cautious? You are not afraid of people whispering behind your back?"

Jia Lian shook his head and smiled, ordered Quanfu to bring a water basin, and took scissors to carefully select grapes under the grape trellis, cut them off and soaked them in the water basin.

"Second Master..." Kou Guan was still about to say, when he heard the melody next door getting more and more sad, he said: "Which daughter next door, her family actually made her play this melody during the day?"

"She's a young widow raising her adoptive son. She's about the same age as Miss Na Hong. She's comfortable without being restrained by her parents-in-law."

Kou Guan was speechless, "Could it be that the second master came here to practice? There is a girl Hong in the distance, and a little widow nearby."

Quan Fu chuckled, and even Xu Qingheng and Jia Lian were not attached when he was about to say it, but felt that the words were too abrupt, so he said a ligature, and quickly bit his tongue.

"Is it really not possible?" Kouan was afraid of Hong and Long's prestige, so he rushed to ask again.

"No."

"Look how cautious you are when you stay here for three to five years!" Kou Guan said bitterly, seeing Jia Lian handing him grapes, he sat with Jia Lian under the grape arbor and listened to the little widow next door playing the piano. , Then he sang two lines of opera along with the sound of the piano, and when he opened his voice, the sound of the next door's piano stopped, and it didn't sound again for a long time.

"Oh, it's not good, I misunderstood you." Guan Kou said mischievously, glanced suspiciously at Jia Lian, Quan Fu, and Quan Lu, and then shook his head, thinking that he was well-informed. Such a person, how could he not see it?

After babbling for a while, Guan Kou was about to leave. Before leaving, he confided in Jia Lian again: "Master Hong seems to be reckless and self-willed, but in fact he has more thoughts. The second master carefully resigned from the marriage and told him to bear the grudge. If he turns back, he will give the second master a hard time. Although a prince asks him to promote the second master, but the emperor is far away, if he does something wrong, where can the second master go to reason? Besides, the second master is still working under him... in the capital city as a backer When there were piles of piles, the second master would not offend anyone, so why would he dare to offend the boss for a trivial matter now?"

Jia Lian thought about it for a while, then smiled lightly and said: "I see, you should be careful every step of the way." After finishing speaking, he wanted to send Kou Guan out in person. Someone looked around behind the lion, but they ignored it, and went back to the yamen.

"Second Master, Brother Kou's words are not completely unreasonable, why offend someone for a dispensable woman?" Zhao Tianliang followed Jia Lian three steps away, and handed a box to Jia Lian to see.

Jia Lian opened the box and saw that it was a silver ingot made by Xue's family to buy firearms. He looked at the words under the silver ingot, "Send it to Hong Helong in the future."

Zhao Tianliang agreed, but couldn't help but said: "Second Lord is not that kind to Second Mistress, so..." At a loss for words, scratching his ears and cheeks, he couldn't think of how to describe their husband and wife, let alone Jia Lian's reason for refusing.

Jia Lian folded his sleeves, still not quite used to the climate here, he just felt so hot that he couldn't breathe, pondered for a while, turned his head to look at Zhao Tianliang, then tilted his head and smiled and said: "Why is it not so, besides her, I don't know Will it provoke others?"

"Second Master doesn't even provoke Second Mistress." Zhao Tianliang said with a shy smile.

Jia Lian was startled, but still clasped his hands and said, "It's just that you don't provoke her like you provoke Yuanyang." He looked up at the distant mountains, then wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, and muttered to himself: "I don't know what she has messed up with my Jing Huan Zhai, my things..."

Zhao Tianliang's eyelids twitched, and he thought that if Xu Qingheng knew that Jia Lian missed her, he would be afraid that she would touch his things, how sad he would be.

"Second Master, there are people beating drums in front of the door to complain." Suddenly Cao Zhijian came to report.

Jia Lian was about to go back to his room to rest, when he heard the words, he said to Cao Zhijian, "If it's not about killing people and setting fires, tell him to leave."

"Back to the second master, it's the neighbor's family beating the drums to complain, and the wife next door is suing her natal nephew for taking her property by force." Cao Zhijian was serious at first, but now he smiled playfully, knowing that the widow next door was eager to see Jia Lian come to the door for interrogation in person. She first trial.

Jia Lian paused, and said with a sneer, "Tell her that Mr. Hong is going to recruit his second brother again, and tell her to hide in the room carefully, and carefully catch Mr. Hong's eyes." He said in his heart that these two girls are not as worry-free as Xu Qingheng. , Thinking about it, he raised his feet and went to the study, and after entering the study and sitting at the desk, he picked up a volume and read it carefully, thinking about how to be a parent official who hangs a bright mirror high and sees every detail.

But Kou Guan left Jia Lian's yamen, because he thought that Miss Hong's status was not decent, and she didn't have much weight in Hong Helong's heart, so he didn't get in the car immediately and went back to the Governor's Mansion, and led the people to walk slowly along the street, focusing on To see all the local customs and customs, he generously bought some local objects, waited for an hour, and then turned into the Guangdong Governor's Mansion, and asked someone to pass the word in the front yard, and when he heard that Hong Helong invited him to speak, he immediately asked Hong Helong went to the study, and was still far away from the study, when he heard a noise, walked two steps closer, and heard someone shouting "please doctor!", fearing that Hong and Long had something to do, he rushed out of the study in two or three steps Look, after standing outside the study room, you can see inside the wide open door, Hong Helong, who is big and thick, is standing stiffly, frowning tightly, with snot and tears all over his wrinkled skirt, and a cloak hanging on his thick leg. Master Hong Er with disheveled hair and a face full of nosebleeds.

The second master Hong turned a blind eye to Hong Helong's face at this moment, and just cried at the top of his voice, wow-wah, as if complaining, but no one could hear clearly what he was complaining about.

"Has the matter been settled?" Hong Helong saw Kou Guan, and his stiff face immediately became vivid, and he bent slightly to pull Master Hong, "Get up quickly, clean up and be your father-in-law." .”

Master Hong Er stopped crying in a daze, turned his head and looked at Kou Guan, and without waiting for Kou Guan to speak, he turned his head and looked at Hong Helong's face again, stood up cheerfully, and said vaguely: "Daughter...Daughter ..." After finishing speaking, he didn't feel any pain on his face, and immediately ran to the door.

"Second Master, wait a moment..." Seeing that Hong and Long had misunderstood, Kou Guan quickly stretched out his hand to pull Hong Second Master. Unexpectedly, the idiot was so strong that under this pull, Kou Guan was staggered and fell backwards. Go, the fool still ran away in a hurry.

"Hey! It's finally clean." Hong Helong breathed a sigh of relief.

Guan Kou was stunned, and when he got up, he felt a burning pain in the palm of his hand, and hurriedly said: "Master Hong, Second Master Lian..."

Hong Helong saw that Guan Kou's expression was wrong, and suddenly, as if someone was strangling his neck, he sneered and said, "Could it be that you go over there, and he is still unwilling to lift out the dignity of the prince's mansion?" He spat and said: "It's just that the prince gave him two points of face, but he really put on the genealogy of the prince's family! The left and right are just asking him to help take in a maid. In terms of it, he is also taking advantage of it! Originally thought of him It's someone from the prince's side who is willing to share our worries, but if he doesn't want to play, he would rather watch the chaos in my governor's mansion every day than draw his sword to help!" After finishing speaking, he turned to his side fiercely Gao Ji kicked away.

With this kick, the two-foot-high red coral placed on the high table fell heavily to the ground and fell to pieces in an instant.Broken pieces of coral rolled everywhere.

Kou Guan's scalp was numb, and he thought that Jia Lian might offend Hong Helong, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "My lord, don't be angry, the younger ones of their family have seen a lot, and they are urging him to arrest him." He is not willing to take it back. If the girl is often wandering in the past under his nose, he will be scratching his head like a cat, trying to figure out how to steal someone."

Hong Helong sneered and said, "It doesn't matter if he steals or picks up, I just want to be clean!"

"Yes, yes." Kou Guan lowered his head, looked at the red coral that had returned the gold and was now broken into dross, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, thinking about how to persuade Jia Lian again. After all, Jia Lian is now in Hong Kong. Helong's subordinates are officials, although they don't want to please their superiors, they must not offend others.

Just as he was thinking about it, Master Hong's crazy voice sounded in his ears again, and he recognized the words "daughter and son-in-law", Kou Guan turned his head, and saw that Master Hong came out with a girl.

The girl wrapped her hair in a faded red veil, and her body was also in a faded dress, so that people couldn't tell whether it was red or gray.Maybe it's because the clothes are too plain, or the body is very weak, but it seems that the girl's appearance is more beautiful and more pitiful.Although people know her background, they can't give birth to the slightest bit of contempt.

Kou Guan thought that a woman with such a appearance would be more respectable than being a poor girl in the Governor's Mansion even if she worked as a slave in a small family; She came straight over avoiding the taboo; the woman was used to it, and she stood carelessly among the men without any reserve.

Looking at it like this, Kou Guan's heart became colder and colder, and he secretly sighed that this matter would be easy to handle if someone cared about decentness, but now that Hong Helong doesn't care about decentness, and this woman doesn't care about decentness, this matter is even more difficult.

"Second Master, sit here." The boy tried his best to soften his tone to the nosebleed Master Hong Er, but unexpectedly, the second Master Hong trembled in fright.

Hong Helong glared at the young man, and said softly to Mr. Hong Er, "There is nothing serious about Jia Lian'er's yamen, so you can take your niece to his yamen for a while. It's a matter of marriage," said the tone. After a while, he glared at the timid but secretly delighted Miss Hong, "He can't decide, his parents and seniors are all in the capital, so don't mention it again. If I know who dares to rely on two Take advantage of the second master..." As he spoke, he clenched a hammer-like fist.

Master Hong Er only cared about dodging the doctor, and did not listen to Hong Helong's words at all.

When Miss Hong heard the creaking sound, she shrank her neck, because she often heard people mention how her mother had an affair with others, so she listened to Hong Helong's subtext; The Jia family, now sneaking around like her own mother, couldn't help secretly hating her.

Because of Hong Helong's words stuck in his throat, Kouan wondered what he was doing to persuade someone to call a good-looking girl to have an affair with someone, suddenly he felt his body sink, and when he looked up, he saw Hong Helong put his hand on his shoulder.

"I still have important things to do, so you can take the second master and the girl to Jia Lian's Yamen for a while." Hong Helong sneered at the corner of his mouth. Throwing away his hands, no matter how messed up his clothes were, he strode out.

As soon as Hong and Long left, Miss Hong immediately stretched her neck to look out, and then glanced at Master Hong Er almost indistinctly.

The second master Hong immediately said with a smirk: "Go, go." He didn't care about the scars on his face at all, he pulled Miss Hong with one hand and went out.

That Miss Hong was pulled to Kou Guan, she bowed hurriedly to Kou Guan like bowing to Kou Guan, and followed Master Hong Er with her head down.

Kou Guan's heart was beating wildly, thinking that it would be safe to go to Jia Lian to make a decision on this matter, so he hurriedly followed behind and watched, seeing that Miss Hong was beating the dust on the back of Master Hong from time to time to tidy her messy hair, He didn't care about other people's eyes and followed Master Hong out of the gate.

The servants and others at the door were also used to it, only the butler anxiously called four long followers to follow Master Hong Er.

The people who came and went outside the Governor's Mansion were no strangers to seeing Mr. Hong pulling Miss Hong out, but they all put away their stalls and held their breaths, lest something might happen that would offend Mrs. Hong again. go Ape.

Guan Kou broke out in big sweat, and sighed that Miss Hong was so fearless, afraid that Jia Lian would have nothing to do with her.

Originally, the Second Master Hong was going to walk along the main street, but who knew that although he was cowardly, but relying on his elder brother's power, he broke into the door whenever he came across it, went straight across other people's homes, and took a shortcut to the magistrate's yamen.

Kou Guan felt strange, and thought to himself, how could the second master Hong know how to take a shortcut?Could it be that he is also wise and foolish?It's just that if you are really wise and stupid, how can you treat a wild girl as your daughter?

Going into another house, he could vaguely hear the rhythm of the qin. Kouan heard the sound of the qin very familiarly, and was taken aback for a while, wondering why he went to the next door of Jia Lian's yamen after going around like this?

"What a beautiful piano sound." Miss Hong sighed enviously.

"Qin! Qin!" Master Hong Er was originally going straight to Jia Lian, but when he heard this sound, he immediately wanted to run towards Qin again.

"Hey, Daddy, don't disturb the family members." Miss Hong made a gesture to pull Master Hong, but was led by Master Hong and fell two steps forward, and then she heard Chang Sui yin and yang say strangely, "Girl, don't tear Master Hong down." It's over," she had no choice but to let go of her hand, holding up her skirt and chasing Master Hong Er closely.

Guan Kou was at a loss, seeing that Miss Hong lifted her skirt to show her big feet, she thought again, no wonder Jia Lian wanted to politely refuse, even the maids of Jia's family did not act like this.

Thinking like this, seeing the maidservants in the courtyard running around with their heads in their hands, fearing that something would happen to Mr. Hong Er, they rushed to follow.

This time, after bypassing the corridor, they entered a small quiet courtyard. Under the crabapple tree in the courtyard, the widow who had just played the piano was blocked in a hexagonal pavilion.

Since the widow didn't have anyone in the family, she could only force her to make tea and pour water with a smile on her face, watching with trepidation the stupid Master Hong Er sitting on the crescent stool she had just sat on and brusquely scratching with his thick and clumsy fingers. Poke on the strings.

"Daddy hurt his hand carefully." Miss Hong followed anxiously, with both hands lightly resting on Master Hong's shoulders, and looked at the young widow impatiently, "Daddy, you scared the wife."

Following Miss Hong's words, Master Hong Er raised his head and glanced at the young woman standing under the crabapple tree with a smile on her face while holding a handkerchief. With just one glance, he turned his head disinterestedly and continued to poke on the piano, inadvertently With a swipe of the ground, he made the sound of the piano, and immediately attracted Miss Hong to look at it as if offering a treasure.

"I don't know that Second Master Hong is here, and I'm sorry to welcome you. Second Master, please have some tea." When the tea arrived, the woman tremblingly handed a cup of tea to Hong Er Master herself.

Master Hong Er only cared about "playing the piano" for Miss Hong, and didn't drink tea.

"...Madam, our master will leave after playing for a while. He is like a child. You don't have to be too afraid." Miss Hong said softly.

After hearing this, the widow forced a smile at Miss Hong.

Kou Guan sighed in his heart that Miss Hong saw Master Hong Er as a child, but in the eyes of this widow, Master Hong Er was a tall strange and rude man. The woman cupped her hands and said, "Sister-in-law of the Meng family, the second master Hong is here to look for the second master of the Jia family next door. You can send someone to ask the second master Jia to come and pick up the second master Hong." Peach cheeks, like clouds, full of temple hair piled on the back of the head, and in response to the saying that if you want to be pretty, you need to wear three-point filial piety, wearing a very plain gauze dress, she looks like a young girl in [-] years old, and her appearance is better than that of Miss Hong. Even better.

"Yes." Mrs. Meng lowered her head, and hurriedly withdrew to send someone to invite her. Suddenly, she heard the sound of a broken string, and when she turned her head, she saw that two strings of the Guqin behind the incense burner were broken. Behind the Guqin, Hong The second master stared blankly at the fingers cut by the strings.

Mrs. Meng said badly in her heart, and then she was thinking about how to explain to the Governor's Mansion. After seeing that Master Hong was stunned for a while, she hurriedly sat up from the stool depicting the ladies of the Tang Dynasty, and picked up her hands with two palm-leaf fans. Changqin smashed towards the pillar a few steps away.

"Father!" Miss Hong called out, not caring about apologizing to Mrs. Meng, she hurried to stop Master Hong.

Master Hong Er gently pushed Miss Hong, causing Miss Hong to roll out of the hexagonal pavilion covered with blue tiles, and knocked her forehead on the steps.

"Second master hurt his hand! Please call for a doctor!"

Mrs. Meng nodded dizzily, first asked someone to invite a doctor, then asked someone to invite Jia Lian, and then saw Mr. Hong violently kicking away the stool, jade table, and incense burner, and kicked away the foliage in the small courtyard. Mao's flowers tossed and tossed, and finally cried while clutching his fingers. After crying for a while, he called his daughter again.

Ms. Meng was stunned by the fright, and wanted to avoid the random things thrown by Mr. Hong, and urged the elders of the Hong family to persuade Mr. Hong. After a few steps, she saw that Miss Hong staggered and fell towards her , he stretched out his hand to support her, and saw that Miss Hong was leaning powerlessly on his body. Although she disliked her being in a mess, but thinking that she was also a miserable person, and she needed her to stop Mr. Hong Er, she stretched out her hand Hold her firmly.

"Daddy!"

Miss Hong caught off guard and called out.

After the sound, I saw the second master Hong who was looking for Miss Hong push away his long follower and Kou Guan like a mad scalper, and rushed towards Miss Hong.

Meng Shi was so frightened that her face was like gold paper, she felt that the ground was shaking like a mountain, and when she wanted to dodge, she felt unable to move. When she lowered her head, she saw Miss Hong tightly hugging her waist with a mocking expression on her face.

"This..." Mrs. Meng didn't have time to distinguish Miss Hong's expression, when she saw the stupid Second Master Hong rushing to hold her and Miss Hong in his arms, calling for his daughter repeatedly.