The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Xu Qingheng was sure that Jia Lian was fine, although she didn't get any news from outside, but she thought that Jia Lian planned everything before moving, even if Guangdong was not good, he could escape; besides, there was no news that the governor of Guangdong was taken into captivity. , do officials in Guangdong hide it and not report it?Since the other officials are doing well, Jia Lian should also be safe and sound.In this way, the whole family was so frightened just now, it was assumed that Jia Zheng's family deliberately made the situation dangerous, and deliberately forced Jia Mu and Jia She's adopted child to come to Rongxi Hall.

When the adopted child comes, one day she and Jia Lian don't have a son, and the child will consider himself the heir of Rongxitang.According to Jia Lian's temperament, if they found out that he had only been out for three or five years, the Jia family would pick someone to replace him, and they might be so angry.

"Lian's second daughter-in-law?" Seeing Xu Qingheng not answering for a long time, Mrs. Wang urged her softly.

Xu Qingheng pursed the corners of his lips, and said slowly: "Although the nephews on the back porch are also relatives, they are far away from each other after all. Baoyu was born ice-snow and smart, and has a lot of wisdom..."

Mrs. Wang's pupils dilated suddenly, and Jia Zheng couldn't help but feel a little moved.

The two of them pretended to shirk earlier, but they didn't want Jia She and Xu Qingheng to further ask for Baoyu.

Seeing the expressions of the couple, Xu Qingheng saw Jia Zhu clenched his fists and lowered his head in shame, and then continued: "Second uncle and second aunt are reluctant, such old ancestors and grand masters should not be loved by others. Reluctantly Second Uncle and Second Aunt."

"...Then which one do you mean to choose?" Jia's mother smiled inwardly. Jia Zheng and his wife were afraid that they would be empty if they wanted to fetch water from the bamboo basket. Why did they pretend to refuse and refused to call Baoyu?

Jia Amnesty covered his mouth with his fist and coughed abruptly, reminding Xu Qingheng not to say the wrong thing.

"In that case, why don't you ask Brother Zhu to come over? First, Brother Zhu has married a wife and has a child, and he is not in good health. My sister-in-law needs to take care of him all the time, so as to avoid the suspicion of our uncle and sister-in-law; Come on, Brother Zhu already has Lan'er under his knees, and while the old lady and the old man are still energetic enough, he can still teach him well; thirdly... my mother will only have me as a girl under her knees, if the second master Lian doesn't come back , I went back to my mother's side to guard, and the elder sister-in-law came, and she could take care of the old lady for me, and Yingchun, when I left, I was not afraid that the old lady would have no one to take care of her, and Yingchun would not have a sister-in-law to teach her."

Jia Zhu was stunned, and when she was about to persuade Xu Qingheng to change her mind, she suddenly opened her mouth and was choked by saliva, and then Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang were first surprised and then overjoyed, and then corrected their expressions , So I couldn't help feeling cold, and said in a low voice: "Could it be that father and mother are reluctant to part with Baoyu, so they are willing to part with their son?"

"Zhu'er..." Mrs. Wang was startled, and seeing Jia Zhu's eyes rolled tears, she hurriedly left Jia Mu's side, took a few steps to hug Jia Zhu, and said repeatedly, "Zhu'er, you are as good as Baoyu." For my mother's darling, for my mother's love for you is a bit more than Baoyu... But now there is no news from Lian'er, and there is no one on your old ancestor's old uncle's side to set up a family."

"Exactly, your filial piety to your old grandmother and old uncle is the same as filial piety to us." Jia Zheng was also shocked by Xu Qingheng's words, but he was moved after a while, only to feel that Jia Zhu was already so old that he was adopted to Rong. On Xitang's side, it was difficult for him to regard Jia She as his biological father; besides, Jia Zhu was weak but smart. Speaking of being the master of the house, how could Baoyu today compare to Jia Zhu's finger? , their Erfang and their family went back to Rongxi Hall in a legitimate way.

"Father, mother!" Jia Zhu couldn't help but knelt down for Jia Zheng and his wife, thinking that if something happened to Lian's second brother, he must not let him and Jia Lan occupy Jia Lian's place. What's more, now it's just Jia Zheng and his wife who listen to the wind and rain, and want to take advantage of Jia Lian's absence in the capital.

Seeing Jia Zhu kneeling down and hugging his leg, Jia Zheng asked Mrs. Wang to hug Jia Zhu and make Jia Zhu stand up. At the same time, he wanted Jia Mu to persuade Jia Zhu, so he turned to see Jia Mu, "Old ancestor..." Turning her head, she saw Mother Jia hugging Xu Qingheng, and the grandparents and grandson were crying together silently.

Mother Jia choked up and said, "Silly boy, you are more considerate than Lian'er. Even if he doesn't come back, no one in the family dares to look down on you. If you let you go back to your mother's house, our Rongguo Mansion will be even more difficult to see people."

Xu Qingheng sobbed: "If I were here, my sister-in-law would be worried about me, and it would be difficult to host the show. In this case, the old lady might as well let me go and ask me to accompany my mother. This is the best of both worlds."

Mother Jia patted Xu Qingheng on the back, and persuaded: "If you leave, our Rongguo Mansion will have no face to face people." She glanced at Jia Zhu's family of three in a senile manner, and met Jia Zheng's pleading eyes, heartbroken. He sneered at Jia Zheng, did he really think that Xu Qingheng was going to invite Jia Zhu's family of three to occupy the magpie's nest?If Xu Qingheng knew Jia Zhu's benevolence and kindness and refused to agree, he would not have proposed adopting Jia Zhu.

"Old Ancestor, please tell me something." Mrs. Wang looked at Mother Jia expectantly, then glanced at Xu Qingheng's slightly trembling back, and sighed in her heart that Xu Qingheng had become a little tenderer, and she was defeated within a few words. Come on.

The corners of Jiamu's mouth twitched slightly.

All of a sudden, I heard Jia She said in a loud voice: "Just Zhuer, Zhuer, send Lan Geer here quickly, Lianer will come back in a few days, I'm idle and bored, and I'm just envious of other people who can play with their grandchildren." Woolen cloth."

"Master!" Jia Zhu coughed and gasped again and again in anxiety.

"Zhu'er, take good care of yourself and teach Lan'er. In the future, you and your father and son will be able to honor your ancestors." Jia Amnesty stood up with a long sigh, and then waved to Xu Qingheng, "Daughter-in-law Lian, let's go home first and ask our ancestor to persuade you I advise you, uncle."

"Hey." Xu Qingheng agreed, and retreated from Jia Mu's arms. First, he bowed to Jia Mu, then bent his knees to Jia Zheng and his wife, then walked behind Jia She, and followed Jia She who was walking slowly. to go out.

When he got outside, Xu Qingheng felt his face was tight. He wiped his face with a handkerchief, and then adjusted his dress a little. Seeing that Jia She's body was shaking a little, and wanted to help him, he saw that he was standing still, and followed closely. Going up two steps, I saw Jia Amnesty walking through the Nuan Pavilion between Rongxi Hall and Rongqing Hall, and began to chatter.

Xu Qingheng went up to listen carefully, and saw that Jia She wanted to see Yingchun, so he sent Wen Yu to find Yingchun, and saw that Jia She's expression changed after passing through Rongxi hall and entering Dongkua courtyard, so he said: "Mr. Master, don't worry too much about the second master, although the second master and the second wife are dangerous, but the second master is not to be slaughtered..." After finishing speaking, Jia She didn't reply, and he heard giggling for a long time, and he leaned forward slightly , seeing Jia Amnesty laughed mockingly.

With a cane in his hand, Jia Amnesty said with disdain on his face, "Let them know what it means to lose your wife and lose your army? Lian's daughter-in-law, listen to me. When I see your sister-in-law Zhu in the future, I will only treat her as my own sister-in-law." ; When I saw Lan'er, I also treated him as my own child."

"Master?" It was rare for Xu Qingheng to see Jia She's shrewd face, so he wanted to confirm what he had to say later.

"Zhu'er is fine. Your second uncle and aunt are all counting on Baoyu. Doesn't this hurt your brother Zhu's heart? I don't believe that Baoyu is so big that he can be more promising than Lang Geer. Whether you are brother Zhu or not?" Those who refuse to come over will see the family of the second child staring at the fat in their mouths and trying their best." Jia Amnesty became a little complacent, and after he was complacent, he was concerned about Jia Lian again, so he lowered his head and sullenly turned to the room. to go.

Xu Qingheng looked back at Rongqingtang, feeling a little ashamed in his heart, and felt that this torment might make Jia Zhu too much, so he followed Jia Amnesty's concubines into the room, and said with a smile: "My lord, Why don't you send some medicinal materials to the garden on the east side first? The left and right regard Big Brother Zhu as their own son, so it's better not to think about his health."

Jia She nodded, and said to his concubine, Shi Shi, who was standing beside him, "Take the box of ganoderma lucidum that Second Mistress sent to Uncle Zhu, and say that I told Uncle Zhu to stop thinking about it. Even if the issue of adoption is not mentioned, there are many things in Rongxi Hall that he needs to take care of."

"Yes." Aunt Shi agreed, and waited for a while until Jia She took out a bulging red and embroidered brocade pouch from his waist, took out a bunch of keys from the brocade pouch, and took out a bunch of keys from the bunch of keys. After taking off one and handing it to her, he immediately went to the small warehouse in front to get something.

Xu Qingheng stared dumbfounded at Jia She's kit, and when he saw Jia She looking over, he hurriedly turned his eyes away, secretly thinking that with such a large bunch of keys, it's hard for Jia She to not move at all when he was hanging around his waist.

"...In the future, it will be yours and Lian'er's stuff." Jia Amnesty didn't put the brocade bag back on his waist. Hearing the movement outside the door, he looked up to see Yingchun coming in. Before Yingchun could say hello, he took a bunch of keys Pass it to her, "You and your sister-in-law look it up nicely, and record everything in my small warehouse, regardless of the price."

Yingchun hurriedly said: "Hula la la, why did the master think of this?" Seeing Xu Qingheng nodding to her, even though she knew that the things in Jia Amnesty's small warehouse had been registered with Jia Lian, she hurriedly agreed to reach out to pick up the key Come.

Jia She shook the sparse beard on his chin, and sighed, "It is imperative to be on guard against others. You are young, and there are so many things that I have never mentioned to you."

Xu Qingheng just felt baffled, secretly thinking that Jia She was recuperating at home every day, how could he encounter other things?Confused, he looked at Yingchun.

Yingchun smiled and said: "What happened to the master? My sister-in-law and I are not very old, but now that my brother doesn't come back, we have to discuss everything with the three of us. My father kept it secret, but when the incident came, he beat me I caught my sister-in-law by surprise."

Jia Amnesty cleared his nose with a handkerchief, and said with his mouth slightly tilted: "You are right." Then he leaned on the thick and soft chair, looked around, and took out all the priceless objects in the house. After looking around, he finally sighed: "Two years ago, Yuanchun's husband's family in the east came to present the Mid-Autumn Festival, and gave me a gold box with a picture of a Western woman with most of her shoulders exposed. The box was filled with medicine. When I have a headache, I dig out a little bit with a gold ear spoon and put it on tinfoil and smell it, and it will be effective immediately. I only know that it is Western snuff, and I have never seen it in Yuanchun, so I assume it is medicine. , put the box together with a pile of tortoiseshell snuff bottles, turned around and forgot about it. About half a year ago, Mr. Jia Dairu, who had already divided the sect, begged to the door for his grandson Jia Rui, only saying that Ningguo Mansion fell and they had no income. The whole family was struggling, so he had to go to another family to be a teacher when he was old. The family saw that his eyebrows and beard were all white, and the old couple all pointed to a grandson, so they also asked his grandson to study in other schools Who knew that the children in the school bullied his grandson Jia Rui to be honest, and led him to a kiln for a night of nonsense. At dawn, a group of people left, and only asked his grandson to account. Jia Rui has no spare money. He was imprisoned in the woodshed by the turtle slave and forced to write a letter to his family asking for money. Jia Rui refused at first, and dragged on for two days to get sick before writing to the old man Dairu. It is easy to redeem my grandson, and I have no medicine money for the grandson to see a doctor, so I begged to come to me."

Yingchun lowered her head in embarrassment when she heard the word Yaozi, and spat in her heart: If Jia Rui was really honest, he would never have entered that dirty place.

"Come to think of it, the old man is kind-hearted, did you give the old man Dai Confucian medicine money?" Xu Qingheng said.

Jia She pursed his lips slightly, "That day, when I was playing with the snuff bottle, I happened to see the western box, so I found a palm-sized fine porcelain rouge box, and now I dumped all the snuff into the box and asked someone to send it out. Give it to Mr. Dai Confucianism."

"After all, the master is kind." Xu Qingheng thought that Jia Amnesty was stingy with money and refused to give Jia Dairu money for medicine; he also thought that it was because of his reputation of being stingy that no one came to her door.

Jia She sneered and said, "If it wasn't like this, I still don't know what kind of medicine it is!"

Yingchun was surprised and said: "Could it be that the medicine is not snuff?"

Jia Amnesty sneered and said, "It would be fine if it was snuff. It is said that Jia Rui used the drug once and said it was effective, and he felt refreshed. Jia Rui came to thank him, but I didn't have time to pay attention to him. Who knows Jia Rui The disease is gone, he can't deviate from the medicine, and he doesn't know how to control himself. In just two or three months, he used up a box of medicine. Now his face is full of snot, tears and yawns, and he is as thin as a stick. He is even more ill than his predecessor. The Confucian couple came to me again, where do I still have the medicine? I asked your second uncle to ask Yuan Chun to find another box of medicine while your second uncle came over to talk. I thought that if the medicine was for Jia Rui , Your elder sister Yuan may not have the time to help, so you just assume that I will use it. But that day, your elder sister Yuanchun sent a letter saying that the box of medicine needs 600 taels of silver to be exchanged from overseas."

Xu Qingheng gasped, thinking to himself that it's no wonder Jia Amnesty is hanging the warehouse key on his body now, because he realized that he was the only one being missed.

"Did the father give it?" Yingchun asked hurriedly.

Jia She sneered and said, "I asked Jia Dairu to ask the old ancestor first, and asked the old ancestor for 20 taels of silver. After taking the 20 taels of silver, he told Yuan Chun not to buy a box, and only got a little bit the size of a thumb for Jia Rui to eat." Eat and see. Who would have thought that Jia Rui had used it and asked for it again. It is said that Jia Dairu asked Brother Qiang again, asked for silver, and bought a little bit more, but within two days, it was used up again. I heard from Brother Qiang that now Jia Rui looks like a sick and consumptive ghost, and he is not in human form anymore."

Yingchun turned pale with fright, and hurriedly said: "Is it because of the medicine? Fortunately, my father is used to ginseng and velvet antler, so he doesn't like the medicine. The medicine is probably not snuff, but the magic paper that the Westerners cast a curse on. of."

Xu Qingheng was also so frightened that his fingertips were slightly cold, and secretly thought that the medicine was too poisonous, and it killed people invisible, "It's really God's blessing, it's fortunate that the master didn't use that medicine, otherwise the one who is sick now is the master."

"Illness is the next thing. The most important thing is that the money spent is like running water." Jia Amnesty's right hand couldn't help shaking, "It must be that Xue's family is doing business outside. Those strange and harmful things that came back."

"It can't be the Xue family. The Xue family still relies on our second master for business." Xu Qingheng said.

"That's what Wang Ziteng got. There are only a lot of Western things around their house." Jia She sneered.

Yingchun nodded, "Then what's going on with Brother Rui now?"

Jia She pursed his lips and remained silent.

Yingchun just wanted to ask again, seeing Xu Qingheng shaking his head slightly, he stopped talking, secretly thinking that Jia Rui was ruined by Jia She, Jia She absolutely refused to buy medicines for Jia Rui with money, and Jia Dairu was very poor, so if you want to come to Jia She Things were not going well for Ray.

Jia Amnesty evaded why Jia Rui didn't mention it now, and said again: "Lian's daughter-in-law, no one dares to touch your things now, you and Yingchun sister-in-law first, count my things, and don't miss anything. Make a note, when it gets dark at night, ask someone to lift it up and put it in your yard."

Xu Qingheng smiled and said: "Master, someone is plotting, master just be more careful, why bother to move things away now? If the daughter-in-law has evil thoughts, greedy for a while, and puts everything down, the master's hard work these years will be in vain .”

Jia Shexi clasped his hands and said, "You're not that kind of person... There's even a dowry for your sister inside." After a pause, he narrowed his eyes slightly and imagined that if he fell into Yuan Chun's trap, he might not be able to do so in a few years. All the things in the small warehouse were moved to Yuan Chun's hands.After thinking about it like this, he told Xu Qingheng again and again, "Put the things with you, please remember that if Lian'er doesn't come back, no matter how much I beg you to scare you, I can't return the things. Wait until Lian'er comes back, and then send them away." Someone brought the things back to me... If Lian'er doesn't come back," eyes wet, I can't help but think of Jia Lian's presence, no one would dare to take advantage of him, "You are a good boy, you won't treat me badly, every now and then It's enough for me to give you two fans to play with. Please remember, if Lian'er doesn't come back, even if the knife is on my neck, you can't return the things. That's what killed me!"