The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

"Can't you recognize who it is?" Prince Zhongshun asked.

Jiang Yuhan hurriedly said, "I can't tell which one it is."

Prince Zhongshun took a deep breath, suddenly thought of Princess Zhongshun, and thought, if it was the princess who did it, it would be great.So people hurriedly asked the princess, and Princess Zhongshun naturally wanted to deny it categorically.

Prince Zhongshun thought over and over again, so he had to ask other people to disguise themselves and go to Jiangnan quietly, and only asked Jiang Yuhan to stay at home to recuperate.Fearing that there would be a big banquet in the house and it would be suspicious, he quietly sent letters around again, and took back the "hero post" on November [-].

Being forced to this point, Prince Zhongshun sat in a small retreat, and did not ask anyone to burn the ground fire any more. Instead, he opened all the doors and windows, allowing the north wind to come in through the doors and windows and roar past the room.

Prince Zhongshun sat on the kang with his eyes closed, clasped his hands on his knees, and thought to himself that since he refused to send him out of the capital even with news, then it would be impossible for him to ask for an order to leave the capital.Since someone wants to "catch a turtle in a urn", he must not take it lightly.The troops were sent by Prince Tengna's Jing camp; weapons were not lacking in Jia Lian's Shenji camp; grain, grass and money, the money he had collected from various places over the years had been collected in one place, and the amount was already quite considerable.

If the royal waters are muddied and the princes fight, the emperor has no time to take care of him for a while; then he secretly bribes Xu Shining, hides the people in the House of Internal Affairs, and suddenly raises an incident when the city gate is closed after dark...

"My lord, Eunuch Xian is here."

Prince Zhongshun was thinking about that very secret matter, suddenly awakened by the servant's words, couldn't help shivering, and said: "Tell him to come in."

Not long after, an old eunuch with jade pendants, sachets, purses and snuff bottles on his waist came slowly in.

"My lord, how about meditating?" Eunuch Xian lost two front teeth, and his words were a bit leaky.

"If you have something to say, say it quickly." Prince Zhongshun said.

Immediately, Mr. Xian said: "My lord, you can't really be a fairy! You have to take care of us. Then Xu Shining will not leave a way for others to survive. My lord, give me a way and tell me what to do."

Prince Zhongshun took a deep breath, and slapped the spices in front of him lightly on his nose, "The new official has three fires, and this king can't stop Xu Shining."

"My lord doesn't care about our life or death?" Eunuch Xian said pedantically, he couldn't help shivering when the cold wind blew, "My lord should tell Jia Lian to persuade his father-in-law that our family has been in the palace for so many years. , What kind of person has you never seen before? Even if he, Xu Shining, is a piece of iron, if he kicks too many people, he can still leave a mark."

"understood."

"My lord, do you really know?"

Prince Zhongshun nodded lightly, "Go, I will deal with it myself."

Eunuch Xian had no idea, and wanted to say it again, but saw that Prince Zhongshun had already settled down, so he withdrew.

"Come here." Prince Zhongshun called out.

Immediately, a servant waiting outside the door came in and asked, "What is your order?"

"Go to Rongguo Mansion and tell Jia Lian two things. One, the princess was confused before and stood up for several eunuchs. This king didn't know about it. Now that I know, I have closed her door to think about her mistakes. Please tell Mr. Xu how much she offended her." Second, the Zhen family is already a piece of meat on the chopping board, and the empress intends for the sixth prince to have a family of his parents-in-law who confiscated the house, so Concubine Ji Hui must know about this."

"Yes." The servant took the words and went straight to Rongguo Mansion. He didn't want to be in vain, he didn't see Jia Lian's people, and he didn't want to brave the wind to go to Shenji Camp to tell Jia Lian, so he thought about these things It's okay to tell Jia Lian's wife, so he told Xu Qingheng through the door and window of the study.

Xu Qingheng was stunned when he heard this, seeing the wind blowing the leaves and dust flying everywhere, and the iron horses under the eaves ringing non-stop, he couldn't bear to ask the boys to go out of the city against the wind, and called Quan Fu and Quan Xi once they saw Jia Lian return to the mansion , and asked Jia Lian to go back to the backyard to talk.

Unexpectedly, Jia Lian fell in love with two "leftovers" at Wu Tianyou's suburban Zhuangzi, so he led Jia Yun and Jia Zao to follow Wu Tianyou to appreciate the "leftovers" and sent them back to the mansion. Take Wu Tianyou to visit the Wu Family Provincial Hospital.

Jia Lian felt that Hengwu Garden, Xiaoxiang Pavilion, Ou Xiangxie, Jiayin Hall, Tubi Mountain Villa, and Aujingxi Pavilion in the book were very elegant names, so when he was wandering with Wu Tianyou, he saw a certain place As if, he took the name from the book and used it.

Wu Tianyou thought that Jia Lian's belly was full of recklessness, but he didn't want him to be able to name a few good names, so he looked at him with admiration, and then remembered that Jia Lian had bought the land outside his village before, and felt that Jia Lian knew heroes with his eyes, so he went A banquet was held in a hexagonal pavilion surrounded by a corner of his village. In addition, eight foot stoves with strong fires were placed for Jia Lian to sit in the ventilated pavilion and eat wine.

Jia Lian put his feet on the stove, and although he heard the wind blowing, he didn't feel cold. After drinking two cups of warm wine, he heard Wu Tianyou say that Prince Zhongshun asked him for 20 taels, so he laughed and said, "It's only 20 taels." Wan, after the concubine visits her relatives, let the people in the capital see her grandeur, and some of them willingly give away 100 million. Although Fan Jinzhongju satirizes the world too harshly, he is telling the truth."

Wu Tianyou didn't realize that it was wrong for Jia Lian to compare him to Fan Jin. He even wished that someone would flatter and fawn on him like Fan Jin. In the end, he regarded the young and beautiful Xue Baochai as the enemy of Concubine Wu, so he tentatively asked: "What do you think of the girl from the Xue family? They say she is beautiful, but no one knows what happened. The other day I heard that the second master of the Xue family and his wife He went to Beijing with one son and one daughter, and his wife went to Xue's house, met the girl named Baoqin, and when he returned home, he repeatedly said, "If the appearance of Baochai girl is similar to that of Baoqin girl, then our mother is flattering her." Can't make it."

"As the saying goes, beauty is not skin deep. It's too superficial to talk about a woman's future just by looking at her appearance. The Baoqin girl you mentioned is only a child of the Hanlin family. It can be seen what the future of the woman will be. Look at the family background. Although the Xue family has the name of Ziwei Sheren, it is a merchant family. Besides, the appearance of the imperial concubine is as ugly as Master Wu said?"

Hearing this, Wu Tianyou felt a lot in his heart, and poured wine for Jia Lian, "That Grandma Xue said the same thing. Grandma Xue said that everyone is waiting for their girl to be a concubine, and she won't wait." Come on, not only don't wait, but also ask their girl to become a concubine, and listen to her as well."

"Did you say such arrogant words?" Jia Lian was taken aback.

Wu Tianyou said with a smile: "She has done things that are more arrogant than these words." After drinking a glass of wine, and brought up the marriage of the fifth prince and the sixth prince, he shook his head and said with a smile: "After all, the fifth prince has no mother to teach him. Younger, in order to appreciate the kindness of the concubine Fang, she is willing to marry an orphan girl - in this way, the life of the third girl in your family will be easier. Sixth prince, I have to thank our mother." Seeing Jia Lian puzzled, So it was said that Wu Guifei cleverly used a trick to make the Queen Mother decide to betroth a girl from the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River to the sixth prince.

When Jia Lian heard this, she froze in a daze. It took her a long time to clap her hands and sigh, "Your Majesty is sitting in the palace and doesn't know what's going on outside, so she got into this muddy water."

"Where do you start with this?" Wu Tianyou asked hastily.

Jia Lian pointed to the south and said, "If someone else said this, I would definitely not say it. Logically, our family is also related to Jiangnan Zhen's family. Why do you think our two families have become estranged in recent years?"

"Why?" Wu Tianyou asked hurriedly.

Jia Lian sneered, "Then Zhen's family is the same as ours before, with only airs left. Don't look at their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who are dressed just like the master, but they think their family is decent. You know, it's because of those vanity It's the pomp that ruins the family fortune."

Wu Tianyou was taken aback, and quickly waved his hands and said, "No way, no way, you must be bluffing me."

"Not yet? You won't believe what happened to the Zhen family out of thin air. Then let me tell you, the Zhen family once asked my second uncle's eldest sister to borrow money to put loan sharks in the south of the Yangtze River. Don't you believe it?"

Wu Tianyou said with a smile: "Jiangnan has been a rich place since ancient times. There are many people who do business, and naturally there are many people who want to borrow money. Maybe the Zhen family has some spare money, which is given away for emergency use. Zhen The family hasn’t sent anyone to Beijing for several years, so you don’t know how their family is doing recently.”

"Believe it or not, that's all I can say." Jia Lian picked up his chopsticks and flicked through a plate of carefully cooked dishes, but couldn't tell whether the finely minced meat was quail, pheasant or sparrow meat. , then put down the chopsticks again.

Wu Tianyou said he didn't believe it, but he felt that Jia Lian was not aimless, and murmured: "It's terrible, if this is the case, I will completely offend Concubine Ji Hui."

Jia Lian shook his head and said, "Before the Zhen family enters Beijing, let's stop this marriage first. No edict has been issued."

"How to stop?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "If I know how to stop, I will accompany the emperor to enjoy the flowers and amuse the birds in the palace right now."

Wu Tianyou laughed awkwardly, and asked in thought: "You said, is the empress intentionally killing two birds with one stone?"

"It's hard to talk about things in the palace. However, if I were Master Wu, I would rather tell my wife to tell her to talk to Concubine Ji Hui early. Okay, the Ji family will check it out. If Concubine Hui thinks the Zhen family is good. , that's not bad; if the Ji family thinks that the Zhen family's Yuqing is over, they will find a way to cancel this marriage. Left and right, we Wu Niangniang will not suffer. "

Wu Tianyou nodded again and again, secretly thinking that Jia Lian's words made sense, no matter whether the matter was successful or not, Concubine Ji Hui had received the favor of Concubine Wu, so he thanked Jia Lian again and again.Seeing that it was dark outside, he was left to live in Zhuangzi.

Jia Lian declined, and rode to the Shenji camp, stayed in the camp for one night, went to work on the second day, and rode to the capital on the fourth day.

On the way, he passed by Wu's Village, and heard that Wu Tianyou had told his wife to enter the palace to pay his respects to Concubine Wu, so he exchanged a few words and went back to the city.After going up Ningrong Avenue, I saw people from the Ningguo Mansion and the Ministry of Internal Affairs coming to repair it. I wondered which lord it was, so I stopped to look at it. Who knew that after waiting, I saw Xu Shining and Yuan Jingfeng After getting out, he got off the horse and said with a smile, "Why don't you call someone from the construction department?"

Yuan Jingfeng smiled and said, "I'm not from the construction department?"

Jia Lian was taken aback.

Xu Shining said: "We are short of manpower, Bizhou and Yuheng are not suitable for this business, so we begged for Jingfeng." Seeing that Jia Lian's horse's hooves were covered with dust, he knew that he came from Shenji camp, so he said : "I heard that you also built a small garden? Do you dare to invite me to have a look?"

"Father-in-law wants to see, so go and see, what dare you say?" Jia Lian laughed, and did not enter Rongguo Mansion through the corner gate, but led Xu Shining and Yuan Jingfeng along the alley between Ningrong and Rong's two mansions, and entered through the back corner gate. Pear Fragrance Court, then enter the small garden through the side door of Pear Fragrance Court.

There are only a few pavilions in the garden, and only more peaches, plums, apricots and pears have been planted, and more rocks and trees have been placed. Therefore, although the construction has only started in just four months, it is completely different from before.

Standing on an arched bridge, Xu Shining counted along the stream, and saw that there were 24 bridges in total, so he smiled and said, "Are you trying to drag the 24 bridges on a moonlit night? Why don't you build some houses. "

"Counting the old lady, there are four people in the family. What are you doing building the house?" Jia Lian said.

Xu Shining put his hands on the bridge, and when he heard Jia Lian say this, he glanced at him and asked hesitantly: "If your internal injury is not good after two years... Although it is not good to meddle in your family affairs, you should also think about it." Think about what happened next."

"Father-in-law, don't worry, I know it well." Jia Lian said with a smile, secretly thinking that whoever jumps up and down to inherit his "mantle" will wait to die.Left and right, he had no intention of leaving the "world" he had brought down to irrelevant people.When the emperor liquidates, just go to those who volunteer to be his sons.

Xu Shining clapped his hands on the railing, and said with a smile, "You just know what's in your heart." He raised his eyes and looked at the garden, just as he was about to say that it was not good for Jia Lian to embezzle so many things from the Zhou and Wu families, when he saw Xu Qingheng wrapped Wearing a vermilion cloak, he came here alone.

At this time, there were only bare branches left in the garden, and a few or two branches of lotus, and her red dress became the only bright color in the garden.When he got closer, he saw Xu Qingheng followed by a big yellow dog and two white fluffy pugs.

Before Xu Qingheng came over, the big yellow dog rushed over and nestled at Jia Lian's feet.

Xu Shining was about to say that there were too many dogs, when suddenly he saw two black dogs with slender waists rushing over behind Xu Qingheng, just like the roaring dogs in the painting.

Xu Shining was startled, and backed away, and when Xu Qingheng came over, he said to her: "Why do you keep so many dogs? There is a saying that women don't keep dogs, and men don't keep cats. People will gossip when they see it."

"What is there to gossip about? The garden needs to be repaired, and there are many people coming and going. These dogs are used to watch the garden." Holding the stove in his arms, Xu Qingheng greeted Xu Shining and Yuan Jingfeng again, and said: "Just now It is said that father and elder brother are in Ningguo Mansion, so they asked people to prepare food and drinks. Should we go to the front to eat now, or just eat in this garden?"

While speaking, I saw many flakes of snow slowly falling from the sky, the flakes were as big as goose feathers, but fell gently and slowly, and in just a moment, the garden that was originally bleak due to winter was dyed into a clear snow country.

"Send someone to bring over the food and wine. Let's enjoy the snow in this garden." Jia Lian ordered.

Xu Qingheng agreed, and immediately waved to the distance. Seeing the little girl standing in the distance, she followed Jia Lian, Xu Shining, and Yuan Jingfeng to a pavilion where the snow was appreciated.

This pavilion was originally in the garden of Jia's mansion, but the pavilion was dug into a lotus pond, and a veranda and curved bridge were built, and the pavilion was surrounded by carved couches.Walking on the curved bridge at this time, seeing the snowflakes slowly falling into the water and disappearing, it is also very interesting.

After entering the pavilion and sitting down separately, within a cup of tea time, a servant woman brought a food box and brought hot wine, braised ox tongue, bad deer tendon, fried quail and other appetizers.

After Xu Shining and Jia Lian and his wife toasted him and Yuan Jingfeng respectively, they hissed for a long time in their mouths. Jia Lian was supposed to be extravagant, and he also rested the garden magnificently. It's like an orchard. Knowing that he has a sense of propriety, he doesn't make fuss about the garden. He just said: "The Lord really gave me a hard job. How can the job in the Ministry of Internal Affairs be so easy to get? Women's work is cumbersome. But there is another group of eunuchs stirring up trouble inside."

Xu Qingheng glanced at Jia Lian, first put a fried quail in Xu Shining's bowl, and then said with a smile: "After the new year, my father will figure it out." Suddenly remembering the words from the Palace of Zhongshun, he didn't know what to do. He should have said it in front of Xu Shining, so he looked at Jia Lian again, "While you were not at home, Prince Zhongshun sent a message."

"What are you talking about?" Jia Lian sniffed, saw the big yellow dog rushing in, poured a glass of water, picked up a piece of pheasant leg, rinsed it in the clear water and fed it to the yellow dog.

Xu Qingheng said with a smile: "Prince Zhongshun said that the concubine was the one who stood up for the eunuchs on her own. He didn't know, but now that he knows, the prince has taught the concubine a lesson and told her to think behind closed doors. Father, please don't blame me."

Jia Lian smiled.

Xu Shining asked suspiciously: "Why did Prince Zhongshun suddenly change his temper? Not only the concubine, but other disciples and family friends of Prince Zhongshun's mansion also softly or hard wanted me not to pursue the previous bad debts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in a daze - except for the Supreme Emperor, Since Chang Sheng didn't move, he turned a blind eye, as for the others, whoever is close to the eunuchs of the House of Internal Affairs, who should not talk too much?" As he spoke, he looked at Jia Lian suspiciously.

Jia Lian said with a smile: "There is a way that those who know the current affairs are heroes. It is likely that the Supreme Emperor will not show up, and the Prince Zhongshun will not show the limelight." Seeing that the yellow dog had finished eating the chicken legs, he looked up at him anxiously So he took a plate of melon seeds on the table and gave it to nibble one by one.

Xu Shining said with a smile: "Although what you said has two points of truth, but the attitude of the loyal prince has changed too quickly, and if things are abnormal, there must be demons."

Jia Lian just smiled and asked Xu Qingheng, "Aside from this, is there anything else?" Seeing Xu Qingheng's hesitation, he said, "There are no outsiders around, so just talk about it."

"Prince Zhongshun also said that the Zhen family might be in trouble. The empress intends to ration the girl from the Zhen family to the sixth prince. She is deliberately plotting against Concubine Wu, Concubine Ji Hui, and the sixth prince." Discussing how to reject the Queen Mother's suggestion of marriage, he couldn't help shivering, secretly glad that he didn't join the royal family, then looked at Jia Lian tenderly, secretly thinking that despite all his flaws, he was much better than the royal family.

"Besides this sentence, there must be something to say later." Jia Lian said with a smile.

Xu Qingheng said in amazement: "Why aren't you surprised?" Looking at Xu Shining and Yuan Jingfeng again, they also had an expression that he had expected, "Do you know that a wealthy family like the Zhen family has become a turtle in a urn?" , The meat on the anvil, you are not surprised at all?"

Xu Shining secretly lamented that Xu Qingheng really had been brought up by Xu Zhian. He only knew about the love of his children, but he didn't know anything about the outside world, so he said to her: "In our three families, Xu, Li, and Yuan, seven out of ten people are here. An official in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. We don’t know what happened to the Zhen family in the south of the Yangtze River. Their wives and grandma gave loan sharks, their lords and young men robbed people’s daughters by force, and even the slaves under them worked as minions for tigers, and foxes pretended to be powerful. Many things are remembered. It's on."

"It turned out to be like this." Xu Qingheng sighed softly, and said with a smile: "If you say it like this, it's not surprising. Prince Zhongshun said that Concubine Ji Hui should know about this."

"Lord Zhongshun is as close as the Ji family?" Xu Shining frowned.

"Maybe he wants to stir up trouble. The Supreme Emperor and His Majesty are both here, so how can Prince Zhongshun dare to befriend someone who is not a prince." Jia Lian thought to himself that he "put himself in the shoes" of Prince Zhongshun.

Xu Qingheng immediately understood what it meant to stir up water.

But Xu Shining frowned and said: "Prince Zhongshun is too courageous, he is making trouble with the empress." Seeing that Xu Qingheng followed her, he said to her, "You will also be the one who will enter the palace to greet the empress in the future, remember Don't meddle in these matters. Just follow the steps and say hello, and come home."

Xu Qingheng hastily agreed.

Another half an hour after eating, the Xu family and the Yuan family came to pick them up, and Xu Shining and Yuan Jingfeng went home with their family members.

There was a table of scraps left, Jia Lian picked out the meat and fed it to the dog, Xu Qingheng sat beside him, saw him take off his shoes and put his feet on the stove, so he took off his shoes too, put his feet on it, seeing Jia Lian looked up Seeing her, he narrowed his eyes and smiled.

"Yesterday, a little Lizi came over and said that the Fifth Prince had made the Supreme Emperor angry for some reason, and the Supreme Emperor punished him to kneel outside the palace. It was freezing cold, and the concubine Fang was very distressed when she saw it. I begged the queen mother to intercede. Who knew that the queen mother would not let go, so the concubine Fang went to beg the Lord again, knelt for half an hour, and then saw the red. The imperial doctor said that the concubine Fang was kneeling on the marble steps, and the cold air entered the palace. There is no more pregnancy. There are some gossips in the palace. They only say that the concubine Fang is by the queen mother's side, how can she be pregnant? The queen mother said that she went out of the palace three months ago to worship the Buddha. Seeing that the Lord came to visit in person, she ordered the concubine Fang Accompanying you. That's why the people in the palace shut up. The lord also said that he didn't want Fangfei to be so emphatic in love and righteousness, and he wanted to fulfill the oath at Qi Guifei's bedside regardless of his own body, so he asked the queen mother to order Fangfei to move back to the previous place. In Concubine Qi's palace, the Fifth Prince will be commensurate with the Concubine Fang's mother and son." Xu Qingheng tilted his head and looked at Jia Lian, waiting for him to speak.

Jia Lian lowered his head and thought that although Fang Wenhui's move was a dangerous move, it was also a wonderful move. If the fifth prince treats her badly in the future, he will be drowned in saliva.

"...Xiao Lizi also said that if you suffered an internal injury, the concubine Fang would enter the palace with cold air..." Xu Qingheng hesitated.

"He really said that?" Jia Lian's eyelids twitched.

Xu Qingheng put his hand on Jia Lian's arm, leaned over to look at him, and asked softly: "After the concubine Fang enters the palace, do you still have contacts? Otherwise, what is Xiao Lizi doing with these words?" Suddenly she frowned, "Could it be It's because I heard that you can't... so the concubine Fang is willing to accompany you?"

"Where do you want to go?" Jia Lian said in her heart that Xu Qingheng's imagination was no worse than Yuanyang's. "She is a concubine who has already entered the palace. What she wants is to climb up. What has it to do with me? She is a man. Son of Heaven."

"But this matter is really strange, for no reason, what did Xiao Lizi bring you and the concubine together?" Xu Qingheng pondered, and the hand that was on Jia Lian's arm suddenly grabbed his sleeve, "You really have nothing to do with her gone?"

Jia Lian leaned back.

Seeing that he had acquiesced, Xu Qingheng suddenly opened her eyes wide, and said for a long time: "If it's because of you, she is determined to stay with you to the end regardless of honor, disgrace, or misfortune, and she has a deep love for you."

"You think too much."

"I hope I'm just thinking too much." Xu Qingheng thought of the two reasons why Jia Lian liked her, and felt that he was only luckier than Fang Wenhui in marrying Jia Lian.

"Go back and rest." Jia Lian's eyes flickered, and he knew that he would meet that Eunuch Dai who quietly put Xu Qingheng's eye drops on him for a while.