The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Seeing that it was late November, Xu Zhian's poetry anthology and Li Shouzhong's preface and postscript were all printed, so Jia Zhu could move his body.

Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang immediately sent someone to pick them up. Jia Lian resigned from the Li family and first sent Jia Zhu into a carriage covered with layers of mattresses. He led the couple back, and when they arrived in front of the blackened gate of Jia Zheng's first room, they saw several young disciples from Zongli coming to welcome them.

After getting off the horse, Jia Lian asked, "These days, are those over there looking for trouble again?"

Jia Yun rushed to the east and said with a smile: "They really do want to, but the funeral of the eldest lady over there is too big, and the money is spent like water. Such a big battle and ostentation is quite lively when it is arranged. , But things are over, once the accounts are settled, people feel distressed and stomach ache. Now that Uncle Zhen is desperate for money, he was so excited that he planned to copy Lai Er's house by surprise, but someone tipped Lai Er, and Lai Er hid Went to the Taoist temple outside the city. Uncle Zhen was gnashing his teeth in anger, and there was nothing he could do about him, so he closed the door at home to interrogate who tipped off the news."

"Which one can trust the report by eating inside and outside?" Jia Lian walked in and looked east.

Jia Yun and other boys hurried in and said in a hurry: "Who else could it be? Brother Rong. Brother Rong got a lot of money from Lai Er's back and forth. Besides, Uncle Zhen copied Lai Er and got it." Brother Rong won't let Brother Rong use his money. In this case, Brother Rong might as well sell this to Lai Er, it will be more profitable than Uncle Zhen. Only Uncle Zhen doesn't know about this, and still suspects Which slave who made good friends with Lai Er tipped off the news. Now Master Jing has sent word that Lai Er’s family has worked hard for Ningguo Mansion for generations, and now he has given them a favor to redeem themselves. To prevent people in the capital from spreading rumors and causing trouble, saying that they are Ningguo Mansion Eyelids are shallow, all day long he only stares at the servant's money."

Jia Lian paused, not knowing whether to laugh or cry at Jia Jing's move, and said with a sneer, "Jiao Da, who really deserves credit, is ignored, but a master who can only flatter and flatter is regarded as a meritorious person. Now I have the leisure to laugh at me. After shaking his head and sneering, he said to Jia Yun: "Look at it, if there is any news, please tell me." He also asked someone to hold four or five large felt blankets to block the wind, and slowly supported Jia Yun Zhu got into the sedan chair, and asked someone to carry the sedan chair all the way to the backyard.

Outside the gate of the third floor, Jia Yun and the others stopped in their tracks consciously, and Li Wan, who was so weak, also helped the maid out of the sedan chair.Jia Lian still led the way, and directly asked someone to carry Jia Zhu into the small courtyard of their husband and wife.

I saw that this small courtyard is really "small and exquisite", as if it was surrounded by a flower viewing building in the garden in the past. There are still stone tables and chess boards under the spacious rolling shed. When you enter the carved corridor downstairs, you will see a silver-haired Supported by Pearl and Amber, Jia's mother looked forward to it, Jia Amnesty was leaning on a cane, and Jia Zheng squinted his eyes, all looking anxious.

Mrs. Wang had a sallow face and was wearing a sunflower-colored dress. She didn't even look at Li Wan, who came forward to fawn on her, and walked to the side of the sedan chair in two or three steps, and lifted the curtain of the sedan chair. They carried Jia Zhu back to her room in a soft sedan chair.

There are three rooms on the upper and lower sides of this small building. I don't know what the purpose of the upper three rooms is. In the lower three rooms, Li Wan and Jia Zhu live in the east room. Let Jia Zhu spread out the unfinished book.

Just as Jia Zhu lay down on the bed, there was a burst of sobbing and choking in the room.

With tears in her eyes, Jia's mother scolded, "You fool, you shouldn't be humiliating yourself like this because of my age." Limang flashed towards Li Wan in her eyes.

Mrs. Wang didn't scold Jia Zhu, but because of this illness, Jia Zhu lost the official she had finally obtained from Jia Lian. How could she not hate Li Wan in her heart?Sobbing, he refused to ask Li Wan to come closer to the bed, "Old lady, the imperial doctor is here, ask the imperial doctor to show Zhu'er."

Mother Jia nodded with tears in her eyes, and went to the west room with everyone to wait to hear what the imperial physician had to say.

Jia Lian stood next to Jia She and went to the west room together, taking this opportunity to take a look at Jia Zheng's concubine Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou, and saw that these two aunts were equally beautiful in terms of beauty, both of them were fair and beautiful. A well-dressed beauty, but in terms of temperament, Aunt Zhou was too honest and tasteless; although Aunt Zhao is vulgar, she is full of smoke and fire, her eyes are rolling around, she doesn't know she is calculating What.

After waiting for a cup of tea, Jia Zheng came over with Jia Zhu's prescription. Mother Jia glanced at it and nodded.

"What's the matter with Pearl?" Mrs. Wang hurriedly asked.

Jia Zheng was a little dejected and said: "Left and right are just resting."

Mrs. Wang wiped the corners of her eyes with her handkerchief, and secretly gave Jia Zheng a wink, asking Jia Zheng to talk to Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian. After waiting for a long time, Jia Zheng didn't speak, so she reluctantly said: "Lian'er, I told you earlier." You want to use the division of the family to exchange Zhu'er's official position. Now that Zhu'er is no longer an official, should we share some of those in the public office? Not to mention, the dowry and betrothal gifts of your elder sister Yuanchun and brother Baoyu are in the public office. Shouldn't you put in some effort?"

Yuan Chun was pulling Baoyu and Xiangyun to play, when he heard this, his face blushed, and he immediately became distressed about his life's major events.

Aunt Zhao's eyelids kept twitching, she laughed and said, "My wife forgot that there are third girls and third masters."

Mrs. Wang kept silent, and Jia Zheng also thought that Tanchun and Jia Huan would not cost a lot of money. Besides, Yuanchun Baoyu gave an example earlier. How could Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian ignore the remaining Tanchun and Jia Huan? ?

Jia Amnesty only found out not long ago that Jia Lian had done this business with Jia Zheng behind his back. Seeing Jia Zheng's empty basket fetching water, he only took pleasure in Jia Zheng's misfortune, but he didn't feel annoyed at Jia Lian.

Jia Lian saw that Jia Amnesty was pretending to be sick and hid, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhu is not in good health now, so he can't be an official. It's not that I forbid him, so our previous business still counts. Two I can't agree to what my aunt said." If he is willing to pay the dowry and bride price, then Yuan Chun must marry as the eldest daughter of the Rongguo Mansion again, so it may cause many troubles.

When Mrs. Wang choked, she became more and more unwilling. She was about to ask Jia Mu to speak for her, but she heard Jia Mu say: "Don't disturb Zhu'er to rest, Lian'er, take all the pheasants and lotus roots that came in from the village. Bring some for your eldest brother and sister-in-law to take care of themselves. Let's go back." Then, he got up from the kang, put his hands on Hu Po's shoulders and went out.

"Old lady—" Mrs. Wang called out.

But Jia Mu refused to agree, she just pretended to be deaf and dumb and asked Pearl: "Where are Baoyu and Xiangyun? The wind is strong, so tell them to follow me back and stop blowing the wind."

Baoyu and Xiangyun were originally held by Yuan Chun. When they heard Jia Mu's call, they immediately ran to Jia Mu's side, laughed and squeezed into Jia Mu's sedan chair, and Jia Amnesty and Yingchun also got into the sedan chair.

Jia Lian took a few steps out following the three sedan chairs, and when she turned around, she saw that Tanchun was still following Yuan Chun watching the sedan chairs go away. Call Tanchun to teach them together?Although puzzled, after all this matter has nothing to do with him.Entering the east corner gate of Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian first sent Jia Mu back to Rongqing Hall. Seeing that Jia Amnesty did not leave immediately, he was very surprised, and deliberately told Jia Mu and Jia Amnesty a joke about the East Mansion.

Jia's mother had a fever on her face, but she didn't say a word.

Jia Amnesty said again and again: "This is the big slave bullying the master." Fortunately, Jia Lian moved quickly, otherwise Lai Da would be more difficult to deal with than Lai Er.

After a while Jia Zheng brought Aunt Zhao over, and Aunt Zhao held another embroidered primrose-colored bag in her arms.

"Let's set the table." Mother Jia said calmly.

Jia Lian was more and more puzzled. After waiting for a while, he saw Parrot and Amber took a small iron pear wood table and placed it in front of the Rongqing hall, and moved three top chairs, three low tables and a low stool. On the low table are four plates of freshly baked chicken oil snacks, one plate of peeled melon seeds, and one plate of peeled and watery winter peaches.

"Let's stay and help Lian'er." Jia Zheng coughed and said in embarrassment.

"...No, my nephew will go to Lixiangyuan to see the monkey cubs first, and then go to Jinghuanzhai to study." Jia Lian finally saw Hu Po coming out with a box of ivory dominoes, suddenly realized but came out even more confused, and heard There was a clatter in the bag in Aunt Zhao's arms, and she came out stepping on the big rock in Jia Mu's backyard, turned around a screen wall, and saw Yuanyang and Mother Zhao, talking and laughing, coming over with a basin of carefully washed red winter dates , took a bright red jujube from the basin, and said: "It's really a day in the mountains, but a hundred years in the world. The old lady never likes to talk to the two masters, and thinks they are too reserved. The second master doesn't like to joke. How come the mother and son can play cards together?"

Zhao Momo smiled and pursed her lips, "When the second master was away, the elder master started a game of gambling in a moment of boredom. Who knew that the second master was not lucky, so he went to the poker table, and lost two 300 taels of silver. But within two days, it was passed on. When the news came that the old man was going to be dismissed from office, the second old man saw that the family had lost a fortune, so he deliberately urged the old man to come back to gamble. As a mother, the old lady saw that the second old man had such a mind, and couldn't bear to expose it, so she reluctantly gambled with him. one game."

Yuanyang laughed softly and said, "Second Master doesn't know. It is said that there are no fathers and sons in casinos. Yesterday, an old lady was too old, and her hands were a step slower, which prevented Second Master from making money. And Aunt Zhao was chattering there blindly." Calculating crookedly that the second master can win at least 80 taels. The second master blushed and muttered sullenly, "Will you play?" After hearing this, the old lady heard that if she had the strength, she would like to play The table was turned."

Jia Lian said in shock, "It's such a big bet?" He put the date pit on a plate held by a little girl, and didn't disturb the situation, because Jia Amnesty was not there, so it was not easy to go through Jia Amnesty Court to Lixiang Court, so he kept walking backwards. Go, enter the garden at the back, and look at the withered lotus leaves all the way to the Lixiangyuan in the northwest corner.

Only two five or six-year-old boys dared to come out of the Pear Fragrance Courtyard to run and jump in the garden of Jia's Mansion, and the others all sat down or read books in the dozens of rooms in the Pear Fragrance Courtyard in an orderly manner.

It was nearly dusk at this time, and Jia Lian asked Mr. Zhan from Lixiangyuan for an article. He asked Mr. Zhan to teach punctuation to the students in the school, and stayed for dinner. How's your luck? I ran into Jia Yun and a few grassroots.

"Second Uncle, you came by coincidence, and I just wanted to invite you to see a good show." Jia Yun took Jia Lian's arms and pulled him out from the side door of the street. All the way forward in the shade under the corner of the wall, I saw the carriages and mule carts occupying a street slowly heading east.

"This is……"

"Lai Er's family redeemed themselves, because it was Master Jing who opened the mouth and forced Uncle Zhen to make things difficult for them, and Uncle Zhen had to let go." Jia Yun looked enviously at the carriages and horses, guessing what expensive things were in the carriages .

Jia Lian crossed his arms and asked doubtfully, "I'm afraid that this Lai Er didn't want to redeem himself on the spur of the moment. He had been preparing for a long time, but Brother Zhen just let go like this?" He started to lead Jia Rong, who was well-dressed and suave but somehow guilty, over here. The father and son obviously came to see with their own eyes how much money Lai Er's family had.

"Hello, Brother Jane."

"Hello, Uncle Jane."

Jia Lian's voice called out neatly.

"Hello, Second Brother Lian."

"Hello, Second Uncle Lian."

Jia Zhen obviously had a different mind.

"Brother Zhen, you see that Lai Er is really rich and well-off." Jia Lian took out the psychic gem from the sachet on his waist, and slowly tossed it in his hand to play.

"Hmph!" Jia Zhen exhaled heavily from her nose, and stared at Lai Er's chariots and horses, as if she wanted to eat Lai Er's family alive, "I don't know who this gang of bastards will take refuge in now."

Jia Rong shrank her head in fear of showing any traces.

"Brother Lian, I heard that Nanny Lai, Lai everyone, and Lai Shangrong are all in prison now?" Jia Zhen thought that since Lai Er's family was free, he had to save others. In the front, it is to bribe the government to detain people and not let them go.

Jia Lian said: "Namma Lai's family was beaten back to their original place, and now they are slaves in Liu's family."

Jia Zhen sneered and immediately said to the servant next to her: "Go to Liu's house, just say that the price is up to them, and I will buy the Lai family tonight. If you send someone to watch Lai Er and let him know, who dares to take him in?" , I just can’t get along with me.” It is expected that Lai Er will beg to come to his door in a few days after he redeems himself.

"Yes."

Even though Jia Zhen didn't know about Jia Rong's tip-off, she had already vented her anger on Jia Rong's head, slammed a cane on Jia Rong's face, and said with a sneer, "You bastard, if it weren't for you in the past That servant said, these things now...these are our own things!" Suddenly remembering that Jia Rong still wants to see someone later, he tightly clenched his cane and said to Jia Lian intentionally: "Sister Feng I got engaged to Brother Pan, and the Xue family gave out twelve betrothal gifts, countless silk clothes, gold and silver jewelry. The aunt of the Xue family also promised that sister Feng would be in charge of the family's account books and keys when she entered the house, and that Brother Pan would be in charge of the house in the future. I listen to my elder sister in everything; and I am afraid that my elder sister will miss her uncle and aunt, so she decides to stay in Beijing for a few years and never return to Jinling." Tsk-tsk in his mouth, intending to let Jia Lian know that he would not marry, and some of them were People marry back like babies.

Jia Lian was delighted to think that there was no news about Wang Xifeng's engagement to the Jia family. It can be seen that the Wang family was lazy to tell the Jia family, but they had asked the Xue family to invite some shopkeepers, and now they should quietly send some congratulatory gifts to the Xue family.Seeing that Jia Rong was wearing a pale yellow two-color satin gown with gold makeup and a moon-white double dragon grabbing pearl belt, it made her lips red and her teeth whiter.This looks like going on a blind date.Seeing that it was already dark and the convoy of Lai Er's family hadn't finished yet, he was about to exclaim again when he saw Yu Lu, the second housekeeper of Ningguo Mansion, rushing over and whispered something in Jia Zhen's ear.

Jia Zhen immediately cupped her hands and said, "Brother still has something to do, so I'm leaving first." After finishing speaking, she hurriedly took Jia Rong onto the horse, led only four or five people, and hurried out of the city gate all the way. When he arrived outside the city, he followed the guidance of others and entered a rather shabby courtyard.

Jia Rong thought about the fact that there were only three entrances to the yard, and she was not happy anymore. In the dark, only two lanterns illuminated the road, making the ground even more filthy. Suddenly, she heard a crow crowing, she was startled, and nearly bumped into it. On the back of Jia Zhen who was walking ahead.

"Where are you going to hit the corpse?" Jia Zhen scolded, seeing a man with a shabby face coming in front of her, she knew that this was Qin Ye, the clerk of the Ministry of Industry, she cupped her hands, and followed Qin Ye into the room without saying a word Inside, after entering, I saw that the room was pitch black, with only two candles lit, a few tables and chairs, and another person standing in the bright room, looking closely, it was the long history of Prince Yizhong's mansion in modest clothes. Lou Yu.

"I have seen Uncle Jia." Lou Yu stepped forward and cupped his hands.

"Don't dare, I don't know what happened to the old thousand-year-old?" Jia Zhen stepped forward and asked.

Lou Yu sighed: "To be honest, Old Qiantui is very bad."

"Why is this? Lin Ruhai sued the Rongguo Mansion, and later found out that those who committed the crime were not from the Rongguo Mansion clan, but from other provinces with the surname Jia. Today, he blamed Lin Ruhai for being unfavorable in handling affairs and taking personal revenge, and fined him half a year's salary. Now there is no If people talk about the old thousand-year-old again, why is it bad for the old thousand-year-old?" Jia Zhen racked her brains and couldn't figure out what could be wrong with such a illustrious family like Prince Yizhong's mansion.

Lou Yu sighed: "Old Qiansui has become more and more restless recently. He only said that it is too late to plan everything when it comes to the end. Now send the little master out first. No matter what, I will always let him have a safe life."

"Hey!" Jia Zhen sighed heavily, thinking that Prince Yizhong was worrying unnecessarily, but she felt that after helping Prince Yizhong this time, she would be the first person closest to Prince Yizhong in the future, and pushed her away again Jia Rong, "This is Brother Rong at home."

Lou Yu took a step forward, looked at Jia Rong's pink face, red lips, and handsome figure, and he was full of praise, and asked Jia Zhen and Jia Rong to follow him to the east room.

Qin Ye, who had been silent all this time, raised his hand and opened a blue and white cloth curtain, and invited the three of them in.

I saw that the room was also dark, with a red candle burning on a high table with mottled red paint, and a crude canopy bed was hidden by the rough curtains that could not be seen in the dim light. The young girl, the young girl was wearing a palace-made skirt and a flying fairy bun, like a bright pearl, making this humble room luxuriant and radiant.

Jia Zhen, Jia Rong and his son suddenly saw the rare and handsome girl who was bright, charming and coquettish, and they couldn't help being dumbfounded. There was an indescribable charm in the girl's eyebrows and eyes, her eyebrows were pleasing to the eye, gentle and peaceful However, it makes people think of the four words "let you pick and choose", which makes people fall into the sea of ​​desire and love.