The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Xue Pan was stunned, "Second brother asked me if I live a comfortable life, is that the thing?"

Wang Xifeng scoffed, glanced at Jia Lian, and said, "Second Brother Lian, persuade him for me." Then, he pushed the door of the private room openly and closed it again.Through the door, she could only hear her say crisply and heartily: "I wasted a while, I will punish myself with a drink."

"Why can't I persuade you anymore?" Xue Pan said in a daze.

Jia Lian took his arm and pushed it out, whispering as he pushed, "Don't worry, you will flourish later."

"Is it all earned by the eldest sister?" Xue Pan asked suddenly, slapped himself on the face suddenly, and said to himself, "I must have met the little girl secretly to make her sad and anxious."

"It's earlier than that." Jia Lian said.

Xue Pan was stunned.

"When she got Ping'er pregnant, she came up with this idea. Now you can't touch her anymore, and the superiors still count on her to make money. Her methods of cutting and beating made other people dare not argue with your family. It is said that "Jia Lian paused and said in Jia Lian's ear," Zhou and Wu took out 100 taels of silver from the treasury, and 70 million went in. She has it. In addition, she earned at least a hundred thousand from other people." With such a smart and capable person, it's no wonder that today's government entrusts her with important tasks regardless of her being a woman.

"Why is it like this?" Xue Pan, who was eight feet tall, couldn't help sobbing. Although he knew that Wang Xifeng wouldn't cuckold him, but thinking of her sitting at the banquet in such a bright and attractive dress, his whole body trembled. I'm not comfortable anymore.

Jia Lian said: "Let's take it easy. In the future, you can do whatever you want at home, but you can't touch her."

Xue Pan knew that Jia Lian's words meant that his superiors wanted to protect Wang Xifeng, so he stared at the ground sadly, and saw two assistants carrying a large jar of wine, he kicked the wine jar regardless of the presence of guests. After the jar of wine was spilled on the floor, startling all the guests, he suddenly turned around and ran upstairs. When he reached the door of the private room, he heard Wang Xifeng inside, talking and laughing happily. When he went downstairs, he saw that Jia Lian was still waiting, so he followed Jia Lian with his head down and said, "Let's go."

After leaving the restaurant and getting on his horse, Xue Pan refused to go home, but followed Jia Lian's horse closely. When he entered the Rongguo Mansion, he burst into tears, clutching Jia Lian's sleeves tightly with both hands, Weeping: "Second Brother Qiu Lian advises her to go home and stop showing her face. She is outside, and I have no face to face people. As long as she comes home, I don't want Ping'er anymore. I will only guard her from now on." Pass." Wailing, he was about to kowtow to Jia Lian.

"Get up quickly, let people see what it looks like?" Jia Lian said, and took Xue Pan to his outer study. After entering the outer study, he ordered Quan Fu to wash Xue Pan's face.

Xue Pan came in, sat on the chair and covered his face and cried, muttering: "I have no face to face others, I have no face to face others."

Quan Fu and Quan Lu didn't know what was wrong with him, they hurriedly passed the handkerchief and served tea.

Xue Pan cried for a while, and when he calmed down, he said to Jia Lian, "Second brother Lian, what do you think she is like that?"

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Although I don't quite understand it, I think she is not willing to serve you with Ping'er."

"Then I don't want Ping'er."

"What are you talking about, Ping'er already has a second brother."

"Isn't she the one who nodded?" Xue Pan asked Jia Lian after a long time, "Since when did Second Brother Lian know about it?"

Jia Lian said: "I met Xiao Lizi in March, and Xiao Lizi said with a playful smile that she was a woman in the middle school. I asked carefully, and then I learned about the past. It turns out that I told you to tell Dai Quan to listen to her. I wanted to I sent someone to tell you, I am afraid that you will spoil things on the spur of the moment, so I endured it."

"Why is she like that?" Xue Pan still couldn't figure it out, and couldn't help crying. Remembering that Jia Lian still had something to do, he said to Jia Lian, "I won't go home, I don't have the face to explain to my mother. Just stay here and wait for Lian's second son." My brother is going to Shenji camp, so I followed Lian's second brother to Shenji camp."

Jia Lian had no other choice, so he agreed, and without going out to the study, he told Quan Fu: "Go and ask your grandma to prepare to go to Xu's house."

"Hey." Quan Fu agreed.

After a cup of tea, Quan Fu said that Xu Qingheng was ready.

So Jia Lian came out, only took one look at Xu Qingheng's sedan chair, then left the mansion and got on the horse outside the door.

Zhao Tianliang followed Jia Lian, remembering that since the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Jia Lian hadn't spoken to Xu Qingheng, so he rode over to him and asked, "Second master doesn't say a word to grandma, and when I see grandma, I secretly open the curtain to see Qi Qingheng." Eight times."

Jia Lian was still walking ahead, and said with a smile, "Then ask her to watch it."

"Why should the second master? Why are you two fighting?"

Jia Lian laughed and said, "You don't understand."

Zhao Tianliang said: "I told Yuanyang once, Yuanyang said that when it is true, it is true and false, the second master entered Xu's house, let's pretend it, maybe in the end, it will become true?"

Jia Lian glanced at him.

While walking on the road, Zhaoer, Wang Xifeng's servant, came over and said, "Our grandma asks the second master to speak for a while."

Jia Lian agreed, and after driving the horse, followed Zhao'er into the shop of Xue's family. When they arrived at the small courtyard behind the shop, they saw Wang Xifeng sitting on the rocking chair under the persimmon tree very contentedly, holding a book in her hand, as if It was intended to make him see her reading a book, the cover of the book was exposed, looking at the word "Xianxiang" on the front, it should be the national history of Qianxiang's country.

Jia Lian smiled and said, "You are at ease now. Pan'er keeps asking why you are like this."

"This is also thanks to you who disliked my illiteracy back then, and told me to calm down and read a few books, to know what it means to endure hardships and compromise. I am fed up with the days of being disgusted by people's eyes everywhere. When you were in Jia's house, you didn't know anything. When it wasn’t, I was a childhood sweetheart. When you became the head of the Rongguo Mansion, you wouldn’t recognize me. In the past, I sent a letter to Pan’er saying that I wanted to get married, and he rushed to the capital to marry me happily. Now he is an official. , I gradually put on airs, and I may not dislike my initiative to marry me in the future. Rather than waiting to be disliked by him in the future, it is better for me to trample him under my feet first. From now on, I will eat according to my own ability, no one else Don't try to blow your beard and stare at me." Wang Xifeng swayed along with the rocking chair, held the book in front of his chest, and sure enough, the words "Xianxiang Kingdom History" on the cover were exposed, and asked, "Where's Pan'er?"

"It's in my study, and he said he can't go home." Jia Lian said in his heart that he was really afraid of being a bastard and an educated hooligan, and he didn't know what earth-shattering things Wang Xifeng would do after studying.

Wang Xifeng was silent for a while, then smiled and said: "If you don't come back, who cares?" He didn't look at Jia Lian, just stared at the birds in the sky and said, "Please take good care of him, he will come back when he understands; If you don’t understand, you don’t have to force yourself to come back. Thanks to you not marrying, I was able to enter this merchant’s house and be able to be where I am today.”

"It's easy to say, easy to say." Jia Lian smiled, knowing that Wang Xifeng wanted to show off in front of him, so she let her.

"Let's go. I'm done with Zhou and Wu's affairs. After the beginning of spring next year, I will go to Qianxiang Country to meet the queen." Wang Xifeng said lightly.

"Grandma Xue, Jia Lian has gone." Jia Lian smiled, and went straight out. After leaving Xue's shop, she got on the horse and took a shortcut to catch up with Xu Qingheng's sedan chair. After crossing the alley, she was still ahead. lead the way.

After walking for a while, Zhao Tianliang came over and said, "Grandma asked Second Master to talk."

"Don't worry about her," Jia Lian said.

Zhao Tianliang was startled, looked back at Xu Qingheng's sedan chair, and stopped talking.

When they arrived at the gate of Xu's house, they saw Xu Yuheng and Xu Yujue coming out to welcome them.

Seeing Jia Lian, Xu Yujue stretched out his hand to touch his waist and said with a smile, "Where is your injury? Tell me to touch it."

Jia Lian slapped his hand away and said, "What are you touching? Can you feel the internal injury?"

"Can it be cured?" Xu Yuju asked again.

"Maybe." Jia Lian said.

Xu Yujue sighed for a long time and said, "If you don't talk about it years ago, you will talk about it after the next year. Any problem is called delay." He touched Jia Lian's waist with his hand, and asked softly, "Is that even the case?" It can’t be done either? It’s hard for Er Heng.”

"You worry too much," Jia Lian said.

But Xu Yuheng remained silent, put his hands on Jia Lian's shoulders, walked a few steps with him, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter with you and Erheng? I heard that you haven't been at home for half a year."

"There's something going on in Shenji Camp," Jia Lian said.

Xu Yuheng sneered and said, "I don't believe you can't even spare the time to go home."

Jia Lian smiled ambiguously.

Xu Yuheng said: "I don't care what you do." After a pause, he added: "Do you know who your neighbor is going to marry?"

This neighbor is talking about the Fifth Prince.

Jia Lian thought for a while, then shook his head, "Could it be that there is another girl in your family who wants to marry?"

Xu Yujue laughed and said, "Even if there is a girl in our family, we will not enter the imperial family. The Fifth Prince, because Concubine Hui and Concubine Wu had calculated his marriage, personally begged the Lord to marry the niece of the Concubine Fang's family. "

"Which niece?" Jia Lian asked.

Xu Yuheng said: "It seems to be a girl from the Fang family's family. She hasn't shown her face much before. Her mother passed away a long time ago, and Mr. Fang died the year before last. Now she is an orphan. Therefore, the gentlemen all say that the fifth prince It is for the sake of the concubine Fang that she begged for this marriage. The old man said, looking at it this way, the fifth prince has no ambitions."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "It's too early to say, there must be a demon if something is abnormal." While speaking, he entered Mrs. Xu's courtyard, and when he saw Xu Qingheng coming out of the sedan chair, he glanced at her indifferently, and then said goodbye. Go by.

Xu Qingheng's heart was blocked, and he secretly thought that Jia Lian really took her as an accidental meeting, and then thought, he actually has such an attitude towards the unexpected woman, and he is not even willing to be perfunctory.

Xu Yuheng twisted Jia Lian's arm, coughed, and said to Xu Qingheng, "Go in and meet your father and mother."

"Hey." Xu Qingheng agreed and turned inward.

"What is this for?" Xu Yuheng couldn't help asking Jia Lian.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Don't worry about it."

Xu Yuheng was startled, seeing that he was in front of his father Xu Shining, so he resisted asking.

Because Xu Qingheng went in first, and when they entered the room, they saw Xu Qingheng was already embraced by her mother, Yuan Shi.

Jia Lian had met Xu Shining twice in total, this time seeing him again, seeing his sullen face, he greeted him with a smile.

Xu Shining hummed lightly, and said to Jia Lian: "The house is already prepared for you, stay here tonight, and our son-in-law, Weng, will have a good time."

"Yes." Jia Lian respectfully agreed, and seeing Xu Zhi'an and Mrs. Xu sitting above them both smiled and said nothing, and said, is the Xu family trying to show him off?This time Ma Wei came too late.

Xu Zhi'an said: "You and Erheng go back to your room and rest first, your father-in-law will be transferred back to the capital, there will be plenty of time to talk in the future."

"Could it be that father-in-law is going to be transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs?" Jia Lian asked.

Although Xu Shining had been Jia Lian's father-in-law for several years, he was very unfamiliar with this son-in-law. Seeing him, he guessed right immediately, so he calmed down and said with a smile, "How did you guess it?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "Now is the time when the master is short of money. If the master wants money, he wants to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. I know where he will earn money, but I don't know where he will save money. The transfer of a stern and honest official to the capital is to send my father-in-law to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

Xu Shining smiled and said: "You are really different. Others say that the House of Internal Affairs is controlled by eunuchs, and they definitely would not ask a foreign official to be the head of the House of Internal Affairs, but you can think of it." He smiled at Yuan Shi and said, "This son-in-law Good choice."

Yuan patted Xu Qingheng's hand gently, and said with a smile: "It's very good." Glancing at Xu Shining, she secretly complained that Xu Shining forgot to show Xu Qingheng.

Xu Shining pointed to the chair beside him and asked Jia Lian to sit down, then asked him, "Have you checked the Ministry of Internal Affairs?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "I didn't investigate specifically, but recently I had some contacts with the eunuch in charge of the House of Internal Affairs, and I learned that in the House of Internal Affairs, there are Guangchu Department, Duyu Department, Zhang Li Department, Accounting Department, Construction Department, Qingfeng Department, and Punishment Department. The amount of oil and water in Si, Shangsiyuan, and Fengchenyuan is more than water transportation and salt transportation. If the Lord eats a cucumber, the Ministry of Internal Affairs dares to call out the price of hundreds of taels."

Xu Shining nodded and sighed: "If they hadn't been too greedy, the Lord would not have recruited me to Beijing in a hurry."

"The news that my father-in-law is going to the House of Internal Affairs hasn't spread yet. If it spreads, the first one to reach out to his father-in-law will be the Supreme Emperor. I also ask my father-in-law to think about his words first, so as not to be caught off guard." Jia Lian said.

Xu Shining nodded and said, "I expected that too."

Jia Lian also said: "Restricting expenditure will definitely offend people. Father-in-law must cherish it in the future."

Xu Shining nodded again, and suddenly heard Yuan Shi coughing, and then remembered Yuan Shi's earlier order, secretly wondering why such a transparent son-in-law has such a relationship with his daughter?So he said to Jia Lian: "You and Qing Heng go back to your room to have a rest first, and then come over after dinner."

"Yes." Jia Lian agreed, seeing Xu Qingheng stand up, and followed her out.

Walking outside the house, I heard Xu Shining say, "Such a good son-in-law suffered internal injuries, making Qing Heng a widow", his eyelids twitched, and when he was about to go back and explain that the "internal injuries" had nothing to do with something, he felt that It would be unnecessary to do so, so he still followed Xu Qingheng back.

Going all the way into Xu Qingheng's room, Jia Lian went in and sat down on a stool.

Xu Qingheng sat across from him, and seeing that he had actually pulled out an abacus from his body, he didn't know what he was planning to make the abacus crackle.

"Brother Yun and Brother Zao brought the dowry for Yingchun. There are three sets of big things. She can't ask for so many, so she decides on her own and gave one set to Xichun. Sister-in-law You took it back and locked it in the room. " Xu Qingheng propped his hands on his knees, seeing that the soup utensils brought by Wu'er and Liu'er were aphrodisiacs, he opened his mouth in embarrassment, thinking that Xu Shining and Yuan Shi wanted to try to see if Jia Lian's internal injuries were injured. What is it?

Jia Lian hummed lightly.

Xu Qingheng whispered anxiously: "Someone is watching outside." The implication was to ask Jia Lian not to be so indifferent.While speaking, she stood up and sat down opposite Jia Lian. Seeing that he didn't lift his eyes, she reached out to take away his abacus. Then she stretched out her hand and saw Jia Lian looking at her coldly.She felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and couldn't help but grab Jia Lian's hand.

Jia Lian dodged coldly, put the abacus in his sleeve, and then went to look at the house. He saw that the house was neatly tidy, and the hanging curtains were embroidered with Bingdilian and Shuangfeiyan, which looked like a new house.

"There are people watching outside, do you have to worry my mother?" Xu Qingheng said angrily.

Jia Lian raised her legs, straightened her clothes, and said, "You don't like me now, do you?"

Xu Qingheng was startled.

"Half a year has passed, do you still like me?" Jia Lian stared into Xu Qingheng's eyes.

Xu Qingheng was in a daze, and murmured: "You have been away for half a year, and I was not allowed to write to you, and even moved all your personal things to the front yard. I can't see you, I can't hear from you , I can’t look at your things, I shouldn’t like you, but when I sit in the sedan chair and see your back on the horse, I like it very much, and I can’t wait for it.”

"...What does it feel like?" Jia Lian stared at Xu Qingheng.

Xu Qingheng was stunned, and then murmured: "It's probably a way to engrave you in your bones, for fear that you will be forgotten after being burned to ashes." Suddenly he was in a trance, remembering that Yuan's family must be watched outside, so he said softly: "Someone is watching outside, please say something nice to reassure my mother."

Jia Lian was scribbling on the table with his fingers, and when he stopped, he said with a smile: "In the Shenji camp, I tried to draw a portrait of you, thinking that if I painted thousands of pictures, I would always fall in love with you. But halfway through the painting , the people in that portrait gradually don’t look like you, and in the last one, you can’t even find your shadow.”

Xu Qingheng stared at him blankly, he was still ecstatic when he heard his first sentence, but the latter sentence was like a bucket of cold water to his head, and asked in a daze, "Why is that?"

Jia Lian said: "Who knows, that night I was holding a pen, and I couldn't imagine what you looked like no matter what. I couldn't help but panic, so I hurriedly rummaged through the box to see the first picture I drew for you. After reading it, I fell asleep peacefully. "

The corners of Xu Qingheng's mouth could not help but curl up.

"Then I got up again and looked at it again, but I felt that the first painting didn't look like you."

"Why is that?" Xu Qingheng asked again.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "It would be great if I knew. I wanted to come back to see what you look like that night, but fortunately I held back."

"Why hold it back?" Xu Qingheng wished to dig out Jia Lian's heart and see what he was thinking.

Jia Lian smiled and said, "If I come back, you will win."

Xu Qingheng burst out laughing, but couldn't help shedding tears, grinning and crying and laughing, thinking in his heart that he really liked her, couldn't help it for a while, so he threw himself into Jia Lian's arms.

Jia Lian's hand lightly patted Xu Qingheng's back, and when she saw her wipe tears on his skirt, he laughed softly in her ear, "The words made up above sound good enough, right?"