The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

There is a saying that it is better to marry a maid from a big family than a girl from a small family.

In the old days, Leng Zixing had a unique eye, and he prepared generous gifts and asked someone to be a matchmaker to marry the second wife of the Jia family to accompany Zhou Rui's daughter. Those without eyesight only laughed at him for marrying a slave, but they didn't know that this slave was more noble than Xiaojiabiyu.With the help of the Jia family behind Zhou Rui and his wife, he made a lot of money and accumulated a family business in the first few years.

Two years ago, because Lian's second master suppressed Jia Zheng's first house and sold Zhou Rui, Leng Zixing's business also declined a lot.

When the food and drink were brought, Leng Zixing caught a glimpse of his father-in-law Zhou Rui walking slowly outside the door with his hands in his sleeves. He looked away and pretended not to see him. He was still sitting and talking to Jia Yucun. , Then he opened his mouth and said: "I am good friends with a few boys in the second room, and I still have some contacts. I saw those boys jumping up and down and said that as long as the second master Lian can't be found, this Rongguo mansion will return to the second room. What do you say? I can't believe it, Mr. Zheng has already been ruined, not only him, but even the second master Bao has no future. Besides, do you think the old lady is a vegetarian and will make the second room fulfill her wish?"

"Brother, didn't you say that the old lady is partial to the second bedroom? And it is said that the second master Lian offended the old lady very much, why did he say that the old lady will not make the second bedroom come true?" Jia Yucun caught a glimpse of Zhou Rui standing by the door resentfully. Seeing that Leng Zixing ignored Zhou Rui, he also pretended not to see him.

Sure enough, Zhou Rui saw that neither his son-in-law nor Jia Yucun invited him in for a drink, so he had to hang his head shamelessly and go again.

Leng Zixing took a sip of his wine and said, "This is not what it used to be. The old lady is a well-informed person. The family is peaceful, and she just turns a blind eye to enjoy the honor. But now if Lian Er If the master can't be found, there will be no pillars in the family, and there will only be a group of old, weak, sick and disabled guarding a large amount of family wealth. Isn't this obviously waiting for someone to bully? Therefore, even if all the money is spent on finding people, she will The second master Lian must be found back. Just wait and see, the old lady may be thought by outsiders to think that the Rongguo Mansion is about to fall into the hands of the second wife, and they must use Miss Yuanda's marriage as a raft. This is a happy event for Miss Yuanda. I am afraid that it will be very embarrassing. I am even afraid that someone will persuade her to say something, "Er Lian has become a monk with a monk and a Taoist priest, so let Er Ye Bao inherit the Rongxi Hall." In this case, the old lady will have to close the door. There's no one there."

Jia Yucun nodded again and again, respecting Leng Zixing even more in his heart, only felt that he had lost a lot of money because of Jia Lian, and at this moment he was still able to discuss the affairs of the Jia family clearly, and decided that Leng Zixing was not a person who had been in poverty for a long time. , So he said: "Listen to my brother, should I get closer to Lian's second master?"

Leng Zixing nodded, pointing to a plate of fat but not greasy salted chicken with his chopsticks, "Second Master Lian didn't study for a few days, but he won the prize of a scholar. This alone is enough to tell that he There's someone up there."

The words of someone above suited Jia Yucun's thoughts even more. Jia Yucun's eyes shone brightly, and he felt that if he flattered Jia Lian properly, there might be an unknown day when some officials would be reinstated. Talked about everything up and down.After drinking and eating, Jia Yucun still rented a sedan chair, took a bag of books, a bag of clothes, shoes and socks to Jia Zheng's house, entered through the black oil gate, and saw that his resting place had been prepared, just beside the gate of Waiyi In a small setback in Jia Zheng's study, although the room is narrow, he didn't intend to stay with Jia Zheng for a long time, so he didn't care about it.

On the second day, Jia Yucun taught Jia Baoyu a book for one day, and heard from Baoyu that Jia Lian also had a gentleman named Ge Kui, so he thought of going to Rongxi Hall under the guise of a "colleague", so he gave Ge Kui Kui wrote a post, only saying that he was working in Jia's mansion together, and it seemed too urgent to invite him to a gathering, so he also wrote a post to Mr. Yan, who had nothing to do in Pear Fragrance Garden. The boy went to deliver the letter, and the boy just smiled and said: "Sir, we don't dare to make trouble in the past. Except for the little girls who go there with the wife and the girl, people from our two families don't communicate."

Jia Yucun was very surprised, but he thought to himself that this matter had never been mentioned by Leng Zixing, and he wondered: "Even us teachers can't communicate with each other?"

The boy said: "Although we didn't teach scribes here before, it's not possible. The second master Lian doesn't like our side asking about things over there, and the people over there don't want to pay more attention to our side. Mr. , it must not be sent out."

Jia Yucun still took some money to reward this young man, and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back. He felt that he couldn't sit still, so he went to call on Jia Zhu again. Unexpectedly, when the post was sent, Li Wan sent a message on Jia Zhu's behalf. Xiaoyaoer said: "Uncle Zhu and Mr. Yan are taking homework exams in Lixiangyuan, and we can't come to see you for a few days. Please forgive me, sir."

After Jia Yucun waited for the little boy to leave, he couldn't help thinking, although the boy said so, how could he be content if he didn't try it himself?So at dusk, seeing the flying swallows returning to their nests and the jade trees whirling, he walked out of Jia Zheng's house, walked west of Ningrong Street, and arrived at the corner gate of Rongguo Mansion. He saw that the corner gate of Rongguo Mansion was closed tightly. The servant came out from the door, went up to meet him and asked: "Brother, why did you close the door for no reason?"

The boy looked at him suspiciously, and Jia Yucun hurriedly said, "My humble servant is now a teacher at Master Jia Er's house."

Hearing this, the young man was on guard, and said, "Sir, is he here to hand over the post? I advise you to go back. Our old lady has spoken. If the second master doesn't come back, the house is not allowed to open for a day. Not only is he not allowed to open Even the master and wife of the second room are not allowed to come. The old lady also said that if the second master Lian does not come back on the day when Yuanda girl gets married, she will not show up on the day of Yuanda girl's big wedding." He repeatedly waved his hands and called Jia Yucun to hurry up. Go back to Jia Zheng's house soon.

Seeing that the situation was exactly as Leng Zixing had expected, Jia Yucun couldn't help admiring Jia's mother, who was old and strong, who was willing to tell the people in Kyoto so firmly that she was on Jia Lian's side. After reading the post and heading east again, I can't help but wonder where the second master Lian, who was selected as a scholar, went?Is it true that there are people who are sitting on millions of dollars and can see through the world of mortals?

However, it was said that the day was sunny and the bees and butterflies were flying. Jia Lian took Zhao Tianliang and other cronies to drive out of the capital in a hurry under the pretense of dealing with the slaves, and galloped all the way to twenty Jia's villages outside Beijing.

There are more than [-] households in this Zhuangzi, and the spring is just right at this time, except for some silver-haired old people and children with long hair, everyone else in the Zhuangzi has already gone to work in the fields.

At the entrance of the village, Jia Lian and his entourage saw Lin Ruhai's brother-in-law Lin Kegu in common clothes, waiting under a tall snow-white locust tree covered with acacia flowers.

Lin Kegu and Lin Ruhai grew up on the same breast, and were also two years older than Lin Hai, but he was taller and taller than Lin Ruhai. At this time, he was dressed in Gebu clothes and walked a few steps to Jia Lian, hugging his legs and not calling him. After getting off the horse, he immediately whispered: "Second Master, Master is waiting for Second Master in the village."

Jia Lian nodded slightly, and didn't say much to Lin Kegu, so he led the people to the large courtyard that was repaired next to the Zhuangzi and reserved for the master's family to rest.

This courtyard is just a small courtyard. In the past, there were not many Jia family members who came to rest their feet. At this time, when Jia Lian stepped into the mottled threshold, only two sons of Zhuangtou came to welcome him. After a few steps inward, he saw the courtyard A luxuriant pomegranate tree is covered with fiery red pomegranate flowers and pomegranate lace, standing Lin Ruhai's thin and lonely figure.

"Uncle." Jia Lian stepped forward and called out.

Lin Ruhai turned back in a daze, although he didn't frown, but there was still a faint "Chuan" between his brows, he waved his hands and said with a wry smile: "Brother Lian, you see, people in the world say that there are many pomegranate seeds, so they regard it as an auspicious thing. But I really don’t know, although there are a lot of them, they are very sour.”

Jia Lian heard his words with a hint of sadness, saw that Zhao Tianliang had just got off the horse, and he had found a basin from the village to fetch clean water, so he washed his hands, wiped them clean with a handkerchief, and invited Lin Ruhai into the house say.

Although the room is simple but clean, there are only two tables and chairs.

After Zhao Tianliang waited to look at the door, Jia Lian and Lin Ruhai sat down on the left and right, and said: "Although my nephew is still not sure who the Qin family married in the Ningguo Mansion - look at the decorations in the Qin family's room, she must be a Ordinary people; even my old lady said she didn't look like Xiaojiabiyu when she saw her. But my nephew has already asked Pan'er that Prince Yizhong has already taken the masonry from Xue's house and asked someone to The coffin was built in a hurry. It can be seen that Prince Yizhong knew that something bad happened to him, but he also knew that even though something bad happened to him, he still had the right to lie in the mast."

Lin Ruhai frowned, a lot of white hair could be seen faintly on his temples, and he said in a rough voice, "Why didn't I know this? Lou Yu, the head of Prince Yizhong's residence, had quietly removed his wife and children from Prince Yizhong's residence. Moved out of the podium."

"Will the sage stop his earlier plan?" Jia Lian asked quickly.

Lin Ruhai took a sip of a cup of rough tea made from unknown tea leaves, then shook his head and said, "I heard you stopped, but how could other colleagues listen to it? Your 'straw boat borrowing Arrow', this is the first time to sue the Rongguo Mansion on charges of the Jia family from other provinces, telling the court that it will be difficult to mention the matter of Prince Yizhong for a while, making Prince Yizhong think that I am afraid that he intends to "much ado about nothing" to procrastinate Days; the second time, with the amnesty given by the Supreme Emperor before his birthday, he persuaded Prince Yizhong to take it lightly and told Yushitai and Lantai Temple to sue him for crimes that were neither serious nor serious, and deceived Prince Yizhong With the Supreme Emperor's amnesty this time, there must be no danger, and after this time, everyone has seen that the Supreme Emperor has pardoned Prince Yizhong, so how dare they criticize him again? These are all rhetoric against Prince Yizhong. We rushed to instigate people to pull out the carrots and bring out the mud behind the scenes before the birthday of the Supreme Emperor, and the accusations of these crimes became more and more serious. It is not easy for the Supreme Emperor to excuse Prince Yizhong. Cough cough, I will tell my colleagues about these things First, they thought it was a risky matter, and then they saw that Prince Zhongshun, Prince Teng, etc. were so easy to fool, and also saw that Prince Yizhong also acquiesced in being sued before the Supreme Emperor's birthday, and they were busy making false claims with Prince Yizhong I just feel that great things can be achieved, how can I give up just for a little trouble? Now I dissuade them, they only think that I am a traitor, and then they conspire to get me out of the capital. Otherwise, I am a doctor of Lantai Temple. Going out of the city for business?" Although he originally proposed this plan in front of the present, it is beyond his control to stop it.

Jia Lian said: "Prince Yizhong is obviously in the posture of 'sacrificing one's life for righteousness'. Those censors are still so obsessed with obsession, it is really too impatient. You need to know that at any time, you must not forget the words "abstain from urgency, use patience" .”

"...Let me take advantage of going out on business to avoid the limelight before returning to Beijing." Lin Ruhai shook his head helplessly and sighed again and again.

Jia Lian nodded slightly, and then said with a smile: "Uncle, you originally said that the people in the capital sued Prince Yizhong for crimes that were neither serious nor serious, and told him to be careless and careless, while outside the capital, they impeached him severely. It will take at least one or two months to pass the news outside Beijing and outside Beijing. It is inevitable that something in the capital will be released, and the gentlemen outside the capital will impeach Prince Yizhong impassionedly and impassionedly."

Lin Ruhai wondered why Jia Lian brought this up, so he just looked at him quietly.

"I don't know outside of Beijing, but is there a master who is close to my uncle, is clever and transparent, and can listen to people's persuasion?" Jia Lian asked tentatively.

"...Do you want to persuade those masters?" Lin Ruhai was dumbfounded. Originally, Jia Lian's attitude had always been prudent and protective. He neither wanted to get close to Prince Zhongshun and others, but also respected him and other present-day supporters. Now he suddenly said this, It's really surprising.

"The opportunity must not be missed, the time will never come again." Jia Lian looked at Lin Ruhai and said confidently.

Since he expected that Prince Yizhong would use his strength to "sacrifice his life for righteousness" to defeat a series of officials today, how could he miss this great opportunity to present a certificate of honor to the present.

"What if you and I guess wrong? This is too reckless!" Lin Ruhai was beating drums in his heart. If he guessed wrong, Jia Lian would drag the entire Jia family into the fire pit.

Jia Lian crossed his arms, determined to win and said: "A prudent person will also have a day when he should make a move. If the planning is right, this is a great opportunity to show his face in front of the present. Besides, keeping a low profile is reserved for ordinary days. When it’s critical, you should take good care of it.”

Lin Ruhai felt that what Jia Lian said made sense. If he missed this time, it would take more than ten years for a fledgling young man like Jia Lian to show his face in front of the present, so he nodded and said: "There are two people from Guangxi Although I don’t want to be nice, but I’m a protégé of Mrs. Li, you ask someone to go to Xu’s house, take Xu Shangshu’s post, and then go to Jinling Liangjiang Governor’s Mansion to meet Li Rui, and then ask Li Rui to give a post, Finally, go to Guangxi. In this way, with the posts from Xu Laoshangshu and Li Rui, the matter will be settled."

"Thank you uncle for your advice." Jia Lian stood up and bowed deeply to Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai said: "I still have a foreign job, so it's inconvenient to stay for a long time."

Jia Lian hurriedly sent Lin Ruhai out again, and saw that Lin Kegu ordered someone to carry a blue cloth sedan chair, followed the sedan chair for two steps, and personally saw him off. The people in Zhongzhuangzi came back one after another with their hoes on their shoulders. It was a quiet rural scene, and they said to Zhao Tianliang, "Brother Liang will go home tomorrow, and when he gets home, just say, just say, I'll follow you!" Lame-headed monks and lame, disheveled Taoist priests ran away."

How could Zhao Tianliang not know that Jia Lian was in a hurry to see Lin Ruhai and he must have something important to do, so he laughed and said, "If the second master said that he ran away with a [-]-year-old girl, people would believe him, but now he says He ran away with a monk or Taoist priest, who would believe it?"

"Could it be that second master, I can't see through the world of mortals once?"

Zhao Tianliang relied on being Jia Lian's brother-in-law, and Jia Lian respected him a lot, so he still laughed and said, "Second Lord is a common man, and the word 'see through the world of mortals' can be seen through by Second Master, what else is there to see through?"