The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Hong Helong had doubts about Kou Guan at first, but unexpectedly, because of Miss Hong's words, he dispelled his doubts about Kou Guan. After collecting the money and deducting the amount he deserved, he sent someone to invite him Kou Guan came to his study.

"...Did you mention this errand to Guangdong to Jia Lian before?" Although Hong Helong made up his mind not to reprimand Kou Guan, he still couldn't help mentioning it.

Guan Kou panicked and said: "Why did the adults ask this question? This is not a joke. How dare the young ones tell others about it? Even if the second master Lian asked, the young ones only said that the young ones followed the prince, and the adults were very happy." It made some money."

"Seeing that this is the first time you are a serious errand, let me advise you. When you meet those drinking and meat friends, just talk about love affairs. If you are a serious errand, don't talk too much, so as not to cause trouble." Hong Helong said in a deep and authentic voice.

"Yes." Kou Guan felt uneasy, thinking about how he had never been close to Jia Lian since he came here, how could Hong and Long say this so suspiciously?Goodbye to Hong Helong with a suitcase in his hand, he was overjoyed at once, and felt that he could get out of Guangdong as soon as possible.

"It's good if you know... Tell Jia Yucun to find ways to transport the firearms to Guangdong. When they arrive in Guangdong, I will send someone to meet them." Hong Helong said again.

Kouan hurriedly agreed, and when Hong and Long handed over the silver, he asked Menzi and the rest of the people he brought to carry the box onto the carriage, and led a group of people to leave the Guangdong Governor's Mansion and head straight for Jinling.

When he arrived on the ground in Jinling, Kou Guan was afraid that people from the Zhongshun Palace had sent people to Jinling to look for him, so he didn't dare to show up rashly, lest Jia Yucun would find out and fall into his net, so he led Menzi and others in Jinling City Wandering outside for a few days, just wandering around in various teahouses and restaurants, listening to some gossip in the streets and alleys.

After listening for a few days, seeing that no one had mentioned him, he led the door and took the silver into Jinling City and went straight to Jia Yucun's mansion.

However, after Kou Guan fled privately, people from Zhongshun Palace really searched for him for two months, and after two months of searching for him, Zhongshun Palace also let him go.

Therefore, after Kouguan left that day, Jia Yucun also carefully asked people to inquire about the affairs of Prince Zhongshun, but he only heard that Prince Zhongshun now favors a little actor named Qiguan, so he only said that Prince Zhongshun liked the new and disliked the old. So he devoted himself to sneaking in and out with the people of Shenji Camp in order to do things in the future.

Now seeing Kou Guan coming over with a large sum of money after more than half a year, his eyes were dazzled by the silver, so he invited Kou Guan into the room to talk, first complimented Kou Guan, and then extended a compliment to Zhong Shun who was far away in the capital. The prince expressed his sincerity, and then led Kou Guan to give a lot of the silver to him and Kou Guan.

Guan Kou saw Jia Yucun's insatiable face and said: "Master Jia, don't think so foolishly, it's your fault, but the prince must nod, and we can only accept those who personally reward us. How can the prince not see the money? The reason why we should divide it up first—besides, it’s still a deposit, and the large sum of money can only be obtained when we pay for it and deliver it.”

After being reprimanded by Kou Guan, Jia Yucun immediately lowered his head in shame, and brought up the Shenji Camp with Kou Guan, and said: "The masters in the Shenji Camp are said to be fascinated by two beautiful women. Upside down, I haven't entered the Yamen for several months now."

"Then what should we do about this matter?" Kou Guan pretended to be anxious.

Jia Yucun said with a smile, "Fortunately, I have always been kind to others. I have made good friends with the brothers in Shenji camp. Although I have spent some effort and used the name of Governor of Guangdong, this matter has a clue." Chen Yejun's father, brother and others secretly replaced the old firearms with new ones and told Guan Kou about packing the new ones out of the Shenji Camp.

Guan Kou listened to a few words, and refused to listen any more. He just said: "Master Jia doesn't need to tell me about this matter. Mr. Jia just needs to get the firearms to Guangdong and hand them over to Mr. Hong, and you don't need to tell me anything else. I listen. I just receive the reward from the prince, and go to hide in the prince's village to live a carefree life."

Jia Yucun hated Zhongshun Wangfu for being a hand-off housekeeper, but he had no choice but to think about ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi, but seeing how Zhongshun Wangfu would come to beg him one day, he agreed and left a copy of the firearms purchase fee. The deposit and the rest were all taken to the capital by Guan Kou and handed over to Prince Zhongshun's mansion.

Naturally, Officer Kou had to stare at Jia Yucun again to write letters to Hong Helong and Prince Zhongshun, and then left Jia Yucun's mansion with the letters and a large box of money.

When I left Jinling again, it was as Jia Lian said, and Liu Xianglian came to meet me.

Liu Xianglian took Kouguan directly to the Jia family's sacrificial house near the cemetery outside Jinling City. Although this house is only used for sacrifices, it is also very spacious, with lush flowers and plants, and complete tables and chairs.

Liu Xianglian introduced Kou Guan into this house, and after settling down in the backyard, she first took the letters and other evidence in Kou Guan's hands, and then saw that Kou Guan wanted to hand over the money to him, so she didn't take the money for now, only with Kou Guan Sitting opposite, he pondered for a while and said: "The Lord Zhongshun will not be able to fall for a while, what are your plans in the future?"

Kouan lowered his head, hesitantly said: "I can't go back to the capital, but this house is bright, if you live in this house, it's not bad."

"Confused, at such a young age, why do you think about retirement?" Liu Xianglian held the sword in both hands, and seeing Kou Guan's hands were as delicate as a woman's, she thought that he couldn't bear the hardship, so she said, "Lian Second Lord, Uncle Feng, and Uncle Xue, please take the money and settle down in the Suyang area for the time being."

"This..." Kou Guan hesitated, and hesitantly asked: "Could it be that Second Master Lian and the others asked me to do this to cheat money?"

Liu Xianglian was taken aback, seeing that Guan Kou knew it was going away but didn't know why, and it was not good to tell him Jia Lian's drunkard's intention of not drinking, and he was afraid that Guan Kou would know that the money was actually Xue Pan's money who had been overseas all the year round. The servants in the business pretended to be fans and gave it to Hong Helong. It was even more difficult to explain clearly. They just said: "Second Master Lian and the others are in charge of important affairs. How can you value this money? You take it to marry a wife." Let's have a baby, otherwise Second Master Lian and the others won't feel at ease—you don't have to worry about it anymore when you go to Suyang area, there are always people around to protect you."

Kou Guan nodded, took a look at the silver box, and thought that if he got the silver, it would be enough for him to spend his whole life hiding in the courtyard of the deep house.So he didn't refuse any more, took the money, resigned from Liu Xianglian, left Jia's house, and went straight to the happy land of Yangzhou.

On this side, Liu Xianglian took these letters and evidence, and went straight to Kuang Yanbing, Governor of Guangxi, according to Jia Lian's previous instructions;

The Shenji camp was originally a yamen full of holes like a sieve, how could it resist Jia Yucun's temptations, seeing the old masters of the Chen family lingering in Xiaohuazhi Lane, happy to leave, so they colluded with each other to shoddy the old and traded the old for the new to build a new one. The firearms were packed and smuggled out of Shenjiying, and then shipped out of the capital. Outside the capital, they were entrusted to people in Jiayu Village.

However, Jia Yucun has also been an official for two years, and he is familiar with those things that violate the law, but compared to what he does today, those things in the past were nothing more than trivial troubles.Besides, he had the heart to meet Hong Helong face to face, so he hung up his heart, complained to the outside world, quietly left Jinling, went to escort the firearms in person, and escorted the chariots and horses all the way through the area under the jurisdiction of the disciples and children of the Zhongshun Palace. Some people suspected his chariots and horses, so they asked these disciples and children for help in the name of Hong Helong.

In this way, I watched the horses and chariots enter Guangdong quickly, but one day I heard that there were government servants blocking the way to check the goods in front of the official road.

Here, the official road does not lead to the village or the back of the shop. If you want to exit this official road and go to other roads, it will take a lot of time in vain.

Jia Yucun thought that if he was delayed on the road again, he might lose his current official position before meeting Hong Helong, so he rode on the horse in a panic, and ordered the door to take money to clear it.

The money was sent out, but the road ahead did not give way.

Jia Yucun felt that something was wrong, so he sent the doorman to inquire again, and after a while, the doorman came back and said: "My lord, from what I can see, the officials in front seem to be waiting to stop someone." His eyes rolled around. , Turning to the carriage brought by Jia Yucun, "It's not a little carelessness. I heard that the person blocking the way is Zhou Shaoliang, a subordinate of Guangxi Governor Kuang Yanbing. I'm afraid the person who came is not kind."

Jia Yucun's heart pounded, hesitantly said: "So, we can only go back."

"...My lord, I'm afraid I won't be able to go back. My lord, since they have set up a checkpoint here, how can they not be on guard at the side?" Menzi pondered.

Jia Yucun nodded, "According to you..."

"It's better to move the governor of Guangdong out. I didn't say it. The adults are too careful. The young ones eat and drink with the Kou officials all the way. It seems that the Kou officials have no scruples at all. If you are short of money , and just send someone to ask Prince Tengwang to ask for it. Now that my lord is acting under the orders of the prince and the governor, I should invite the governor. A governor of Guangdong and a governor of Guangxi, I don’t know which one is better. It's amazing." Menzi said in a very ostentatious manner.

Jia Yucun squinted his eyes. On the one hand, he felt that the words of this school were just in line with his wishes, and on the other hand, he felt that this school was a little crazy, so he went out with Kou Guan once, and imitated Kou Guan's style. Nodding his head, thinking about the fact that Menzi had been to the governor's mansion, he said, "Hurry up and ask the governor for help. If it is really inspected by the governor of Guangxi... you and I will have to give up our lives here."

"Yes." Menzi agreed, then packed his bags, passed the checkpoint alone, and headed straight for the Governor's Mansion in Guangdong. The person at the door went to inform Hong Helong.

It has been a few months since Kou Guan left the governor's mansion, and the person in charge of the door still recognizes him and is cursing, so he will be sent away.

Seeing this, the disciple could only open his mouth and said: "I followed Kou Guan of Zhongshun Prince's Mansion to come to the mansion before, but now I have delayed the important matters of the prince and the governor, who can afford it?"

After he yelled like this, the person at the door recognized him, so he hastily apologized, went inside to report to Hong Helong, and after a cup of tea, he invited the doorman into the mansion.

The door hurriedly followed people to the front yard, and when they went down the steps, they saw Master Hong dragging Miss Hong towards the gate, and asked the people of Hong's house curiously: "I wonder if Miss Hong has made up her mind now? I just looked at it." , why did the second master lose so much weight?"

"You only saw that the second master had lost weight, but you didn't see that the wild girl had also lost weight. The wild girl fell in love with the second master Lian, and she went to the second master Lian's yamen every now and then to see the second master Lian and was satisfied. Now she sees the second master Lian The second master didn't look at her, and tossed the second master vigorously, but when the second master is gone, who cares about her life." While speaking, he was not far away from Hong Helong's study, so he closed his mouth.

Menzi laughed inwardly and said, "I'm afraid that the second master of Lian was used to Shanmeng seafood, so he didn't like the porridge and side dishes. Seeing that the door of the study was close at hand, he also shut up and stayed in front of Hong Helong's study. Then he knelt down outside the threshold with a thump, "I beg Mr. Hong to save my lord. Now my lord is blocked by people from the Guangxi Governor's Mansion with his things. Please send someone to bring him over."

After a long time, I heard "Come in and speak" from inside the threshold, and then I bowed my body and stepped across the threshold.

Seeing inside the threshold, Hong Helong was sullen and angry, and the door said cautiously: "Your Excellency, there is no need to be too anxious about this matter. If you send someone to collect it, I don't think the people from Guangxi will dare to block the way. After all, our lord I've seen the boundaries, and it wasn't the place that the governor of Guangxi should be in charge of, and if my lord argues with the governor of Guangxi, it doesn't make sense in Guangxi."

"It's not about the trivial matters." Hong Helong said coldly, he shook his hands and loosened them again. Kouguan has been away for several months. Letters came and went, and there was no mention of firearms by Lord Zhongshun in the letters; but now he has accepted the money from Fanzi, and Jia Yucun has also brought the firearms. I can't stop; but although I can't stop, since I saw the strangeness in it, how can I not take precautions; then I remembered that I had the intention of asking Jia Lian to intervene earlier, and admired my brilliance, thinking about Jia Lian's back. There are a bunch of powerful and capable people, if he is too worried about this matter, and no one is counting on him, then he made money for nothing and caught Jia Lian by the way; if someone really wants to assassinate him, then Let the person who plots against him go and argue with Jia Lian's father-in-law's family, "... the people under this official have been busy with other cases recently, and I will write a note, and you can take it to Lian's second master, please Lian's second master." Grandpa is going to pick him up."

"If Second Master Lian asks about this matter, how should we go back and forth?" Menzi asked hurriedly.

"Let's just say, it's the birthday outline sent from the capital to me." Hong and Longzhi said in a certain way.

"Yes." Menzi saw that Hong Helong was about to write, so he hurriedly bowed to serve the pen and ink. Seeing that Hong Helong was very satisfied with his behavior, he was overjoyed. When Hong Helong picked up the pen and wrote the note, he held the note respectfully Following the steward of Hong's residence, he went to the magistrate's yamen two streets away.

Unexpectedly, he followed the housekeeper of Hong's house to the gate of the magistrate's yamen, and saw Zhao Tianliang running out from inside, and the two collided with each other, almost rolling to the ground.

After Zhao Tianliang pushed open the door, he grabbed the butler of Hong's residence by the lapel and said, "Quick, call the doctor! The second master fell into the water!"

The steward of the Hong residence was taken aback, knowing that Hong Helong loved Master Hong very much, he hurriedly grabbed Zhao Tianliang's sleeve and asked, "It's so good, why did it fall into the water?"

Zhao Tianliang said: "Hurry up and ask for a doctor. My second master Lian also fell into the water to save your second master."

On the face of the gate, there was uncertainty, seeing the butler turn around and order people to go back to the governor's mansion to inform Hong Helong, so he hurriedly followed Zhao Tianliang to the backyard of the yamen.

I saw that the backyard of the yamen was full of strange rocks and strange trees, one after another, as if Jia Lian wanted to live here forever.

Bypassing the rocks and trees, and arriving at the lotus pond behind, there are only a few green lotus leaves floating on the water in the lotus pond. Jia Lian is drenched in the water beside the lotus pond.

"Second Master? Second Master?" Jia Lian didn't care about himself, so he first went to see Second Master Hong who was shaking and shivering after falling into the water.

"Father?" Miss Hong appeared out of nowhere, and also wanted to check on Master Hong.

All of a sudden, Jia Lian, who had always been gentle and elegant, pushed Miss Hong away, and said with a sneer, "Is Miss Hong satisfied? Your second master was very easy to get sick in the first place, but now that he fell into the water, he might lose his life."

Miss Hong shivered in fright.

The gate quietly went to see, and saw that Miss Hong was also covered in water, and wondered if it was Master Hong who fell into the water, and Miss Hong and Second Master Lian went to rescue together?I also feel that if this is the case, Second Master Lian doesn't have to speak sarcasticly to Miss Hong.

"...Second Master Lian..." Miss Hong muttered.

"You don't need to call me the second master. Send someone to tell your lord right now. In order to seduce me today, you deliberately fell into the pond by yourself, and your second master also fell into the water in order to find you. After that, even if your family is angry, I will never let your second master come in again." Jia Lian sneered repeatedly, was blown by the wind, shivered, and sneezed again.

"Second Master Lian, if you say that, I won't be able to live." Miss Hong glanced at the people around her, and saw that there was only one stranger whom she seemed to have seen before, and the others were servants of the Jia family, so she felt pitiful again. Kowtow to Jia Lian.

"If I don't say it, I'll be the one who can't live." Jia Lian sneered, already very tired of this Hong girl's entanglement, every time he saw her, he couldn't help thinking about the kind of woman he met before. Reserved, courteous, generous and reasonable, even Meng Shi is more permeable and cuter than her, "Zhao Tianliang, now go and talk to Master Hong."

"Second Lord Lian, please spare me!" Miss Hong said, kowtowing her head like a chicken pecking at rice. When she saw that Zhao Tianliang went away mercilessly, she felt a chill in her heart, and felt that her little life was about to be lost. Glancing at the dying Master Hong Er, he hated Master Hong Er for being a fool, and jumped into the water when he saw her fall into the water; he also hated Jia Lian for being too hard-hearted, letting her show her favor in every possible way for more than a year, but he still refused to look at her. She took one look, stood up, and saw that everyone in Jia's residence was only surrounding Mr. Hong Er, and felt that everyone was insulting her from a humble and helpless family, so she gritted her teeth and said cruelly, "You don't need to say to Mr. Lian." , I will go to see the adults by myself." After finishing speaking, he wiped the water off his face and turned his legs outward.

Jia Lian didn't ask anyone to stop her, and when someone brought the quilt, he asked people to wrap the quilt with Mr. Hong Er and send him to the wing room, and made people light a fire to warm him up, but he felt a little dizzy. , still insisted not to change clothes, and sure enough, after waiting for a while, he heard a burst of hurried footsteps, and then saw Hong Helong leading a group of doctors over.

"Lord Hong, I am ashamed to be an official..." Jia Lian stepped forward and cupped his hands.

Hong Helong frowned tightly, and was about to reprimand him, but saw that his face was blushing, so he suppressed his anger and said: "Master Jia is also going to change his clothes, and then I will ask the doctor to take a look." After finishing speaking, he turned to the wing room Going to the inner room, I saw Mr. Hong lying on the bed in the inner room without a sound, holding his hand to test his forehead, only to feel that the forehead under the back of his hand was scorching like coals, his brows were wrinkled again, and he made room for the doctor to give it to him. Master Hong Er was treating his illness. Seeing that Jia Lian was still standing, he sneered and said, "What about the dead girl?"

"Miss Hong said that she has to explain to the Lord herself. Could it be that she hasn't returned to the Governor's Mansion?" Jia Lian asked in surprise.

Hong Helong gritted his teeth and said, "She must have absconded in fear of crime." After all, thinking about Master Hong's illness, he would either lose his life or become even more stupid, so he tore Miss Hong into pieces in his heart. He also hated Jia Lian, and blamed him for ignorantly accepting Miss Hong, which made that dead girl ignorant of the heights of heaven and earth, and caused such a big disaster, "Master Jia tidy up, and go to run an errand for me. Well, someone in the capital sent me a few carloads of birthday cards, and now those things are parked halfway, so you can pick them up for me."

"Yes." Jia Lian had received the news from Liu Xianglian a long time ago, knowing that the firearms were on the way, and now he recognized that this person was the person who came with Kou Guan earlier, so he naturally knew what the so-called birthday outline was. Yes, so I agreed, said to the door to wait a moment, and then went to change my clothes.

After changing his clothes, he rode a horse and brought some people to meet Jiayu Village with the gate. Who knew that the man fell down like a green onion before he left the street where the Yamen was located on the horse, and was half supported and half hugged by Zhao Tianliang and others. Get back to Yamen.

Menzi had no choice but to follow back, following people watching Jia Lian lying on the bed with chills all over, he urged Zhao Tianliang to ask: "Can Second Master Lian still go out?"

Zhao Tianliang spat on the face of the door: "Second Master is so ill, you still ask him if he can go out?"

The door was spat on, touched his nose, and followed Jia's people to stare back and forth for half a day, then went to the back room to see Master Hong Er, first stood outside the door to watch Hong Helong sighing, and then saw Hong Helong's wife also came, so she hurriedly avoided the side, waited for half an hour, and when Hong Helong's wife left, and saw that Master Hong was wrapped in a quilt and carried into the sedan chair, he hurriedly approached Hong Hong beside the sedan chair. He Long said in a low voice: "Lord Hong, Second Master Lian is ill and cannot go. What should we do now?"

Hong Helong's face was ashen, and he asked his subordinates first: "Did you catch that damn girl?" Seeing his subordinates shaking his head, he cursed: "If you catch her, kill her immediately!" He looked at the door again, hesitantly said: "Second Master Lian is really sick? "

"It's really sick, and it fell straight off the horse."

Hong Helong took a deep breath, he didn't want to see Jia Lian, but he didn't want to see Jia Lian because of Prince Zhongshun's family. Now that Jia Lian was like a catastrophe, causing Master Hong's life to hang by a thread, he wished to take advantage of himself as the boss immediately. Jia Lian was sent to be an official in a place of bitter cold.

"My lord?" Menzi called out tentatively.

"You go with the housekeeper." Hong Helong knew that Fanzi had already collected the money, so the firearms had to be delivered to Fanzi; as for whether someone really wanted to frame him, he had to wait until the firearms were handed over. Then ask Lord Zhongshun to take care of it for you; when the rice is cooked, Lord Zhongshun will have to deal with him even if he didn't know anything before; as for Jia Lian, it doesn't matter if he doesn't go to support Jia Yucun, wait for him to find a reason in a few days, Then coax Jia Lian to help sell the firearms in a muddleheaded manner.

"Yes." Menzi just felt that it was more appropriate for the housekeeper of Hong's house to go instead of Jia Lian - after all, he had seen before that Guan Kou was more majestic than the official Jia Yucun, so he suppressed the joy in his heart and went out with the housekeeper of Hong's house Go to pick up Jia Yucun.

Hong Helong also led Master Hong, who was dying in the sedan chair, to go.

When the outsiders left, Lin Zhixiao sent someone to make medicine for Jia Lian. Quan Fu and Quan Lu looked at the door and told Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Tiandong and Jia Lian to talk in peace.

"Second Lord? How do you feel?" Zhao Tianliang asked with concern.

Jia Lian was lying on the bed covered with a quilt, but he really had a fever. Now he covered his forehead with his hand and sighed, "It's so dangerous. Fortunately, you saw that doorman coming with the housekeeper from Hong's house half a street away."

Zhao Tiandong laughed and said: "That's the case, the second master can't make the mistake of really following the second master Hong into the water."

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Why don't you watch him die? If Miss Hong falls into the water alone, I won't save her."

Zhao Tiandong was about to say that he didn't know where Miss Hong had gone, and after thinking about it, he couldn't think of anything good about Miss Hong besides her pitiful appearance, so he didn't mention her, just said: "Now the second master How should I do it? Do you want someone to send a message to Uncle Feng and Uncle Xue?"

"There is no need to send a message. Since Hong Helong asked me to meet Jia Yucun for no reason, it means that he intends to harm me. It is better to have one less thing than one thing. Just ask Uncle Feng and Uncle Xue to perform their duties. It's the Governor's Mansion."

"Yes." Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong agreed.

"...Go and find out what happened to Second Master Hong. If he disappears and Miss Hong can't find him, then I will become the enemy of the Hong family." Jia Lian said.

"It's funny to say, although the second master jumped into the water to avoid a hard job, he also saved the life of the second master Hong. How can he become the enemy of the Hong family now?" Zhao Tiandong laughed. Although he thought it was funny, Jia Lian ordered So, I immediately went out to inquire.

There were countless doctors coming and going at the Governor's Mansion in Guangdong, but he couldn't find any one who gave him a letter of approval. It took half a month before Zhao Tiandong got a letter of approval.

Zhao Tiandong went to Jia Lian's hospital bed with a fierce face, looked at the young and strong Jia Lian who had been raised for half a month and was completely healthy, and said, "Second Master Lian, then Master Hong is getting more and more stupid. It’s hard to say, it’s said that the whole person is lazy, only knows to take a nap, and doesn’t even have the energy to go crazy.”

Jia Lian looked up at the embroidered pattern on the top of the bed with his arms resting on his pillow, feeling pity for a moment, and sighed that if Hong Helong had taught Master Hong well and wouldn't push him to a girl, then Master Hong would not be like this.Thinking about it, I felt that Master Hong Er was getting more and more stupid. Hong Helong still didn't know how to take his anger on him.

Sure enough, after Master Hong's condition stabilized a bit and he was no longer in danger of his life, Hong Helong immediately sent a message to send Jia Lian to inspect the impoverished areas in the world.

When Shangfeng spoke, Jia Lian could only take the Zhao family brothers, the Cao family brothers and a dozen yamen servants. After patrolling outside for a few days, Hong Helong sent someone to say that a certain village was closed due to the construction of a river embankment. Dispute, please ask him to mediate; after the mediation, a flood was reported somewhere, and he was asked to go to the local area to check it himself; after turning around, suddenly one day, Jia Lian was going to be led to a certain coastal village in the name of plague.

Jia Lian had realized that Hong Helong wanted to lure him to see Jia Yucun selling firearms to Fanzi in person, so as to hold onto him. If he didn't go this time, it would arouse Hong Helong's suspicion, and he had to go; but if he went, then he planned that Hong and Long would fail, and would be involved instead.

Thinking about how to get the best of both worlds, Jia Lian could only take his own people slowly approaching the village Hong Helong mentioned. When he got close to the village, he suddenly came up with a plan and said to Zhao Tianliang: "You The people who sent the letter to Uncle Feng asked their people to pretend to be fans and show their traces in front of our people. When our people go to arrest them, we will fight each other. I will ask Master Hong to send more people to catch overseas spies .”

Zhao Tianliang only felt that Jia Lian's plan was very clever, and said with a smile: "Second master is clever, if second master catches him like this, he will ask that fake man to report to Mr. Hong, and then second master will use Old Master Xu to suppress Mr. Hong. Master Hong has nothing to say." After finishing speaking, he went to deliver a letter to Feng Ziying.

But a day later, Feng Ziying's people first sent two spies whose hands and feet were bound and their mouths gagged.

Jia Lian was even more delighted when she saw it, and said with a smile, "I originally wanted to act with a fake, but I didn't want Ziying to catch the spies long ago." So, he didn't follow Hong Helong's orders and asked people to watch The two foreign spies sat in sedan chairs, turned around and rushed to the Guangdong Governor's Mansion. When they arrived at the gate of the Guangdong Mansion, they deliberately made a proud appearance. After asking for a report, they waited in the front hall with the spies.

When Hong Helong came over, he saw Jia Lian sitting on the top chair with his legs crossed, and two short, dark men kneeling in the hall.

"Lord Hong." Jia Lian made a gesture and stood up, bowing to Hong and Long.

Hong Helong was very displeased, and said with a sneer, "Didn't I order you to go to a village to check the epidemic situation? My lord, Long En, rewarded some foreign countries with rice grains. I originally asked you to do it, but I didn't want you to Turned back halfway." Calculating, now Jia Yucun should have handed over the firearms to overseas fans, and Jia Lian was supposed to help conclude the deal in a daze, but now it seems that he can't.

"My lord, the lower officials have more important matters than the epidemic." Jia Lian guessed that the so-called rice grains were firearms, and calmly pointed at the two spies on the ground, "Look, my lord, this is what the lower officials caught halfway back." Spies, it’s a waste of His Majesty’s kindness to give overseas rice and grain, I don’t want those fanzi Yelang to be arrogant and dare to send spies to spy on our Guangdong military situation, and even want to send troops to attack.”

Hong and Long Wuqing's lips were pursed into a straight line, their eyelids twitched, they swept the two spies away, and then looked away. As an official, how could he not know the existence of these young people? Those who refuse to start a war are the ones who report good news and not bad news to the imperial court. Now that Jia Lian has arrested someone, he is slandering in his heart that Prince Zhongshun is ignorant of people. After all, Jia Lian is not with them.

"In my lord's opinion, do you want the lower officials to hand over the papers to reveal the wolfish ambitions of those Japanese thieves to the present, lest foreign enemies invade us in the future and catch us by surprise?" After Jia Lian finished speaking, he followed the manuscript again, very showy : "If this booklet is presented, there are a few elders in the court who agree, and they will be furious in the future, so now it is more important to use the elders, and the lower officials follow the elders, and they can..."

"Shut up, how can you talk about war lightly!" Hong Helong was trembling in his heart, and he was glad that he didn't drag Jia Lian into the firearms business. Lu; also think that if this matter is reported to the present day, I am afraid that today is not thinking about how to resist foreign enemies, but just like the emperor sent the prince to Guangxi to contain the governor of Guangxi, and sent someone to Guangdong to divide his power.

"My lord, I'm about to be bullied into my house." Jia Lian said anxiously.

Hong Helong softened his tone, pondered for a while and said: "I know, I will handle this matter myself, this is a major military matter, you must not submit the memorial privately, otherwise, I will punish you for passing crime."

"...Yes," Jia Lian agreed unwillingly, pointing to the two spies on the ground, "Then these two..."

"Leave it to me." Hong Helong said. Seeing that Jia Lian wanted to say more, he said in a low voice, "You didn't obey my order and left your post without permission. You don't know how the epidemic will be delayed. You still have to go back to the yamen quickly. Shut up and think about it.”

"Yes."

With their backs on their backs, Hong Helong listened to the sound of Jia Lian's footsteps. When the footsteps disappeared, he turned his head to look at the two spies on the ground, stretched out his hand to pull out the cloth strips from the spies' mouths, and asked, "You guys?" Whose person is it?"

The two spies shook their heads in silence.

"How did you get caught?"

One of them boldly said: "It was captured by a group of unknown identities and given to the official just now."

Hong Helong was taken aback for a moment, then asked again: "Did you arrest other people?"

"About five or six others."

Hong Helong immediately became angry again when he heard the words, and thought: Well, that kid has not been very respectful to him since he came to take office, but it turns out that kid's mind is not on being an official, he is only thinking about opportunism! Wave your hand They ordered the two spies to be dealt with on their behalf, and they were afraid that Jia Lian would be troublesome, so they would report the sea battle here to the court, so they called the housekeeper again, and told the housekeeper: "Good life, keep an eye on the door of the magistrate Jia's house. Send the letter, stop it immediately!"

"Yes."

After the housekeeper left, Hong Helong sat alone in the living room again. After sitting for a long time, he felt that there was something missing in his ears. After he got up, he walked slowly outside, until he walked around to Master Hong Er's courtyard. , I saw a group of beautiful maidservants in the courtyard of Master Hong Er standing under the steps to accompany Master Hong Er to bask in the sun.

"daughter……"

After a long time, Master Hong Er yelled in a low voice.

Hong Helong couldn't help clenching his fists, hating Miss Hong for being cruel, for abandoning Master Hong and running away; and hating Jia Lian for being hard-hearted, intentionally or unintentionally making Master Hong sick like this, so he turned around suddenly, went to the study, and He wrote vigorously, and wrote to Prince Zhongshun how Jia Lian harmed Guangdong and how he wanted to bring the coastal war to the court.

After a few days, Jia Yucun sent the second sum of money from Fan Zi, and sent the letter and the money directly to his own people to the capital to be witnessed by Prince Zhongshun.

When the letter and the silver arrived in front of Prince Zhongshun, Prince Zhongshun was very surprised. He wondered where the money came from, and then read the letter. Then he carefully asked Hong and Long's cronies what was going on.

Hearing that Guan Kou went to Guangdong to spread the word, and even instructed Jia Yucun to do things, he felt that Kouguan alone would not have such courage, and suspected that there was someone behind him, so he asked people to track down Kouguan's whereabouts; He is a member of the King of Beijing, and Kou Guan has always been on good terms with the King of Beijing. He also felt that this matter may not have been instigated by the King of Beijing, so he made people keep an eye on the Palace of the King of Beijing to prevent the King of Beijing from colluding with Jia Yucun. Helong fabricated the charges and impeached Hong Helong for illegally selling firearms; finally, he heard Hong's family mention that Jia Lian repeatedly rejected Miss Hong, which made the second master Hong go crazy every time and finally fell into the water. So far, Lord Zhongshun felt that Hong Helong was too Instead, he wrote a letter to persuade Hong Helong to put the overall situation first and not to care about the young and energetic Jia Lian.

The letter from Lord Zhongshun has not yet received a reply, and news from Guangdong spread to the court. As soon as the news came out, all the civil and military officials in the court were afraid to speak out, but it turned out that the governor of Guangdong was kidnapped by overseas thieves. The dragons have no leader, and there are foreign thieves coming!