The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Lin Ruhai was carrying the examination papers for the next two years in his arms, filled with emotions, and returned to the back office of Lantai Temple in a sedan chair, his legs could not move, and his concubine Ming Cui hurriedly ordered someone to carry him into the room in a soft sedan chair In the middle of the day, he hurriedly used a hot handkerchief to give Lin Ruhai's legs. Seeing that Lin Ruhai's legs were red and swollen, because of his status, although he was concerned, he didn't dare to ask what happened to his legs.

"Bring the candle and come here." Lin Ruhai lay on the kang, his legs were icy cold outside the door of the imperial study room, and now they were covered by the scalding hot handkerchief, and they felt a sharp pain.

Ming Cui didn't know, so she hurriedly went to get the gold-plated candlestick, and put the candlestick on the kang table next to Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai took out the test questions from his arms, looked at them carefully, and after memorizing them, he burned the test questions with flames, and then asked the servant girl to tell Lin Kegu to come in regardless of the details. Ming Cui waited for the women to evade, and asked Lin Kegu to come to him, and whispered in his ear: "Let the second master Lian learn his six arts of a gentleman with peace of mind. I have me in Qiuwei and Chunwei. Go and tell the old lady One word, my wife and elder sister will come to Beijing next spring." I can't help but feel a little sour, and now it's against his usual character to act as a ghostwriter for Jia Lian, but now he has his fate, so he has to do it accordingly; as for Jia Min's mother and daughter, Now it seems that he, the doctor of Lantai Temple, still has to endure. If they don't take their mother and daughter to Beijing, they will hardly see each other again in their lifetime.

Lin Kegu didn't understand the meaning of Lin Ruhai's words, but since Lin Ruhai said so, he just rode out of Lantai Temple on horseback, and hurried to Rongguo Mansion before the night ban, and when he arrived at the gate of Rongguo Mansion, he walked through the corner gate from the west. After going in, people entered Jia Lian's outer study and waited. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, they saw Jia Lian coming in from outside wearing a scarlet cloak.

"How is uncle?" Jia Lian asked from a distance, still smelling of alcohol.

Seeing Jia Lian's relaxed expression, Lin Kegu didn't look like he had been scolded by Jia's mother for his delay in returning home, so he hurried forward and said Lin Ruhai's words in a low voice.

After hearing this, Jia Lian felt that Lin Ruhai's words had no beginning and no end. When Lin Kegu mentioned that Lin Ruhai's knees were swollen the size of goose eggs after he left the palace, he immediately understood that Lin Ruhai dared to say such words, he must have got the news from his superiors. Immediately rejoicing, he was eager to throw away the stereotyped articles, so he enthusiastically asked Jin Cai to pack up all the Chinese and Western medicinal materials in Rongguo Mansion and send them to Lin Ruhai. He also heard that Jia Min's mother and daughter were going to Beijing, so he didn't care much about it. When Lin Kegu left, he asked Quanxi to tell Jiamu that he was too tired from the day's work and refused to go to rest immediately, so he went to Jinghuan Zhai first, facing a tripod of green jade and three legs in the east room. Yu Xun bowed solemnly, and said silently in her heart: Thank you, sister Jing Huan, for blessing me to get promoted and get rich.

After praying three times in a row, in order to ask for a good omen, he simply ordered Quanfu and Quanshou to carry the three-legged jade smoker to the table in the Ming room, and got some winter peaches and dates to enshrine on the table.

Quan Fu and Quan Shou were very funny looking at Jia Lian's serious appearance, although they didn't know which god he was worshiping, they also bowed together with their palms together.

"Where are my peaches?" After Jia Lian finished his worship, the first thing he did was to care about the peach tree in front of his door. He pushed aside the floral felt curtain and saw the empty peach tree outside the door. He couldn't help feeling sorry for the fruit he cared for Come.

Quan Fu laughed and said: "I know that the second master wants to ask, but the younger ones don't allow others to pick it. When the fruit is ripe and falls off, I peel the peach core and dry it for the second master to keep."

Quan Shou listened, and immediately turned around and went back to the west room, and sure enough, he came out with a delicate flower basket woven with wicker, which was piled with hundreds of peach pits.

Jia Lian looked at it and felt relieved, turned around and went back to the room, and sat lazily leaning against the beauty couch, straightening the colorful pulu blankets on her body with one hand, while asking curiously: "It is said that the eldest girl's marriage is very good. Embarrassed, what kind of embarrassing method is it? Tell me, I still have some contacts with my elder brother-in-law. If I don’t ask clearly, I will be embarrassed when I meet him in the future.” Although the female junior is holding a gold brick, this marriage is done by the Chen family The people were no match for the Jia family's money offensive, and Chen Yejun was not necessarily at ease. He thought of Xu Yuheng again, and asked again: "The third master is very happy, what gift did the house send?"

Quan Fu moved the low stool and sat down beside Jia Lian, rolled up his sleeves and warmed his hands on the smoker, then beat Jia Lian's legs, and said with a bitter face, "I don't know what happened to the Xu and Li families, The third master’s marriage will be postponed to the next year to choose a date.” Then he laughed with Quanshou and said, “As for the elder girl’s marriage, the second master doesn’t know, there are many stories in it. Second master guess who is in the east garden now Most proud?"

"Isn't it Aunt Zhao who is the most proud?" Since Quan Fu said so, Jia Lian guessed on the person who was least likely to be proud.

Quan Xi and Quan Lu, who had just come in together with Quanfu and Quanshou, were stunned and admired repeatedly: "Second Master really has a clever plan! This can also be guessed by Second Master!"

"It's really her?" Jia Lian sat up involuntarily, took a bowl of bird's nest porridge from Quanshou, and carefully stirred the porridge to cool with a spoon, thinking about what kind of shit luck Aunt Zhao had.

Quan Fu kept his hands on his hands, and said with a smile on his face: "Second Master doesn't know how many good shows I have missed. The Second Household is going to put on a running water banquet and a roll call show. Half a month before the wedding, I went to great lengths to ask the old lady for money. , We have to play hard and soft, trying to get our eldest girl to take the right cards and give them the tables, chairs, tables, dishes and chopsticks in the warehouse, as well as the delicacies in the warehouse. Secretly, Chen Cang took the things from Rongxi Hall to support the scene. The old lady was angry that they were not so capable and they were pulling such big tiger skins, so she simply closed the house, and even the second master and the second wife were not allowed to enter the Rongguo mansion! The second master and the second wife There was nothing they could do, but they were afraid that Miss Yuanda would be so embarrassed that they would lose their confidence. Confidence was very important at that moment. If they had confidence, someone would dare to help them force the old lady to appoint Second Master Bao as the young master. Then, they got another spare money from other places."

Jia Lian took a mouthful of porridge, probably because he was used to eating and sleeping in the open air all the way. Now he felt full after eating two mouthfuls. He handed the bird's nest to Quan Xi, and ordered almond tea, and said slowly: "It's just such a show, it may not be counted. It’s wonderful. The word “spare money” must have a story.”

Quan Fu laughed and said, "Second Master really knows things like a god," and said in a low voice, "There are so many people living in such a small place as Erfang, and everyone is watching their every move. The Second Master just got here." For spare money, Aunt Zhao pestered the second master in every possible way after hearing the news, and the second master gave her ten taels. Aunt Zhao was not greedy enough, so she scolded the second wife to the third girl behind her back, "That old godly woman is really a hard-nosed cock, and she doesn't pull out a dime, but behold After a while, let the old lady know that she sold the land of the second house in the Zongli to Dongfu, how will the old lady deal with her'. The third girl is caring, and she didn't say a word when she heard it. Please Anshi tell the elder girl this behind her back. The elder girl is afraid of hurting the third girl, and she refuses to mention Aunt Zhao's name, so she immediately asks the younger one to inquire. I got closer than before. After telling the eldest girl, the eldest girl went to tell the old lady. When the old lady heard it, how could she not be angry? Immediately called the second master and the second wife, and asked the second wife to admit it He only said that it was not a sale but a mortgage, and that the money has been used up now, and there is no money to return to Uncle Zhen. Is it obvious that the old lady is asking the old lady to pay it for them? Otherwise, the old lady can still call a piece of Zongli The land fell into the hands of Dong Fu, who has repeatedly made trouble with us? The old lady ate more salt than the second wife ate rice. She thought that the second wife was soft and hard, so she used this method to force her to get money. Asking her to pay the money, she didn't give in. She immediately took someone to the east garden in a sedan chair, and personally watched the people move the things from the east to the pawnshop for sale. Come back. Unexpectedly, after moving a few boxes, the second wife showed her flaws and refused. The old lady asked again and again, and the second lady said that she would return the money to Uncle Zhen immediately before the money was spent. The old lady was scheming, see the second The wife's eyes were wandering, and she first asked the second wife to take out the silver she got from the East Mansion and go to the East Mansion to ask for a document, but then she refused to budge, and just sent someone out immediately, asking Hu Po and Jin Chuan to open the box and see the inside of the box. The second wife had a cloth bag tucked in the clothes she hadn’t worn for more than ten years, and there were [-] to [-] bills hidden in the bag. The old lady became more and more angry that the couple had money and wanted to blackmail her. Seeing that the second wife had so many ladders, I was also very surprised. Seeing that the old lady was in a hurry, she only said that the idea of ​​forcing the old lady to pay the money with the mortgaged land was the second wife's idea. Qiu's words instigated him, so he was willing to go to the East Mansion to write the evidence."

Jia Lian wondered, "Since Yingchun didn't mention Tanchun, how did you know what the third girl was talking about?"

Quan Fu said with a smile: "Second master forgot about the mandarin duck? It's just that the second master was angry with the second wife for hiding money, and he became angry and chilled, and said, 'I don't want to treat you with sincerity for many years, but you are so guarded against me' , These days, I live in Aunt Zhao’s room to tease Brother Huan to study. Aunt Zhao sees that the second master and the second wife have divorced, and sees that the second master is not respectful when Mrs. Yuan comes back from three dynasties. Feeling a little sulky, he provoked the second master, saying that the second wife doted on Baoyu and helped Bao Erye to hide at home when he was sick. Although he lived across a wall, the second master had never seen Bao Erye for half a month. The second master Bao didn't make any progress, so he broke into the second wife's room abruptly. Seeing that the second master Bao was joking with the two maids, he pressed the second master Bao on the chair and beat him indiscriminately, and scolded the second wife for being stupid! The second wife was anxious I came to ask the old lady for help, but the old lady thought it was another bitter trick of the second bedroom, and she was afraid that it would pass, and she felt sorry for the second master Bao for a while, so she fell into the trick of the second bedroom and refused to go. If it hadn't been for the last master Zhu who rushed from Lixiangyuan to ask I'm afraid that the second master Bao's life will be ruined by the second master."

Jia Lian held the black lacquered mother-of-pearl inlaid cloud dragon pattern tureen and slowly sipped the almond tea in the bowl, covered his mouth with the tea bowl and smiled and said, "I don't want to have such a change in my family when I don't come back for a few months. Now Aunt Zhao is stepping With the second wife?"

"Isn't that right? The second wife is not a human being." Quan Fu smiled. If Tanchun hadn't strategized from it, how would Aunt Zhao, mother and son be where they are today?Yin said softly again: "Although the third girl is young, she is very smart. Aunt Zhao got favored because of her, and she followed Aunt Zhao to flatter the second master without losing her head, and went to accompany the second wife wholeheartedly." Speaking, the second wife only felt that Miss Yuan was married, and the third girl was the most considerate as if she would never leave her. She gave clothes and jewelry to the third girl with distress, and now she has told the old lady that she will raise the third girl in the It's next to her. Aunt Zhao cried to the second master about this matter, and only said that the second wife was wooing the third girl to bully her. The second master said that she had a crystal glass intestine, which was better than the second wife with a belly full of crooked intestines. To be clear, it's just that the old lady nodded too much, and he didn't dare to ask the third girl back, so he only handed over his ladder to Aunt Zhao for safekeeping."

The almond tea in Jia Lian's hand was a bit cold, she put down the tea bowl, and couldn't hold it back with a puff, then Aunt Zhao has become a crystal glass person, shouldn't the price of crystal glass be reduced these days? "How do you know? Even Ti Ji's affairs are clear?"

"It's been said that Aunt Zhao is a crystal glass intestine. She has such a long face, why doesn't she tell the second wife that she has no face?" Quan Fu and others couldn't help laughing.

Jia Lian also couldn't help laughing, laughing back, he had to do serious business, so he took a look at the posts he received when he was not at home, and saw that most of them were posts from visits in the same year, and some were congratulatory posts from relatives. Seeing a post with the word Jia Yucun written on it, his eyelids kept twitching, his first thought was to send Jia Yucun away, and then he felt that he was not in a hurry to send him away, so after thinking for a while, he asked Quan Fu: "Can someone send a maid to Jinling?"

Quan Fu was startled, but Quan Xi hurriedly said, "I sent a little girl, Ying Lian, and now Ying Lian lives in our backyard."

"Tomorrow, call Jia Yucun and bring Yinglian over here." Jia Lian thought that he would not rush to send Zhen Yinglian home, but Jia Yucun might not recognize Zhen Yinglian. Just send Zhen Yinglian home, and then send Jia Yucun away.

So he yawned and fell asleep after washing up.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, Jia Lian went to the hall of Jinghuanzhai, and invited someone to invite Jia Yucun, and ordered Yuanyang to call Yinglian. Timidly, I just felt that I had done a good deed by sending her away, and there was no need to say anything to her, so I asked her name and hometown again, and seeing that she still couldn't remember anything, I focused on it in the front hall. Waiting for Jia Yucun to come.

Yinglian obediently stood aside with her hands down, curiously watching Jia Lian writing with her wrists hanging, she inexplicably said: "My father also writes like this." After saying this, she also felt that her words were very inexplicable.

Jia Lian's hand paused, but he didn't continue to ask. Hearing the sound of footsteps, he saw that Jia Yucun came in wearing a gray cloth. Looking like a gentleman, "Mr. Jia is here?"

Jia Yucun saw Jia Lian standing behind the heavy red sandalwood table with a jade tree facing the wind from eight or nine paces away, cupped his hands rather flatteringly, walked forward slowly, exchanged greetings first, then saw Jia Lian's words, He said: "Brother Shi's characters are not enough in shape, but they are more than spirited. They are indeed a hundred times better than ours with painted shapes." Looking at the hall from the corner of his eyes, he saw that although it was a hall, it was full of books, saying that it was a hall. The study is not bad either.

Jia Lian put down his pen and said humbly: "Mr. Jia has won the prize. I just came here yesterday, and I heard that Mr. is a talent who has read a lot of poetry and books. Today, I saw it as expected. Yinglian, quickly serve tea to Mr. Jia." Paying close attention to Jia Yucun's expression, he saw that Jia Yucun was still indifferent when he heard the word Yinglian, and wondered if Jia Yucun had forgotten Zhen Shiyin a long time ago. Without a family, he couldn't remember about the Zhen family?

Jia Yucun only cared about Jia Lian's courtesy to him in his heart. He never paid attention to the name of a girl. After sitting down in the hall with Jia Lian, he thought about how to answer Mr. Ge. He failed the test, but he is a real Jinshi, so I don't believe that Jia Lian would not want to hire him as a teacher.

"Sir, please have tea." Yinglian held the teacup in both hands and placed it on the coffee table next to Jia Yucun.

Jia Yucun nodded slightly, glanced at Yinglian, and sighed in his heart that it was the Rongguo Mansion after all, a little girl was born so smart, but when she saw a rouge mole on the center of Yinglian's eyebrows, she couldn't help being a little startled.

Seeing that Jia Yucun was still silent, Jia Lian pointed to Yinglian and sighed: "I just came, and our old lady gave me a big problem. The old lady likes Yinglian very much, and she said that she doesn't look like a girl. A child from a poor family asked me to help her find her hometown. This matter is really difficult, and I heard that Mr. Jia is resourceful, so I invited Mr. Jia to speak."

Jia Yucun didn't want to talk too much about right and wrong, so he didn't open his mouth. Hearing what Jia Lian said about this matter, although he felt that it was too coincidental, he could do something for Jia Lian when he came here. Even if he remembered wrongly, it didn't matter. She was abducted at the age of five, and now her appearance has changed, and the Zhen Feng clan who was sent home may not have a daughter, so she hurriedly looked at Yinglian again and again.

Yinglian lowered her head even more under his gaze.

Jia Yucun said: "I'm not afraid that my elder brother will think I'm talking nonsense. When I first heard the word Yinglian, I was a little suspicious in my heart. Looking at her now, she looks like the daughter of my old friend." During the stay, Zhen Shiyin presented silver winter clothes; after he went to Beijing to rush for the exam, the Zhen family suffered a fire and lost most of his property, so he had to rely on his father-in-law Feng Su and other things, and finally said: "According to me, her father has become a monk now, and her mother is relying on her to go out. Zu lives by doing needlework. Her grandfather was just a farmer, and he was very stingy and philistine. Instead of sending her back to her hometown, the old lady of Zunfu should keep her by her side. Otherwise, if she returns home, if her mother goes to Now, her grandfather might not sell her after looking at her appearance."

Yinglian looked at Jia Yucun suspiciously, although she was full of joy that someone knew her background, but she was used to being beaten by kidnappers in the past, so she dared not show any trace of going home at this time.

"I don't care about what's going on in her family. Mr. Jia will tell me where her maternal grandfather's home is. When we send her back, it will be considered a merit for us." Jia Lian raised his eyebrows slightly.

When Jia Yucun heard the words, he had to say, "I borrowed Shixiong's pen and paper. When I write it down, Shixiong just asks someone to find it." Then he got up and went to Jia Lian's case to write Daruzhou Yi with Jia Lian's pen and paper. He showed Jia Lian his hands.

Jia Lian glanced at her briefly, then asked Yinglian: "If life is very hard after you go home, will you blame me for sending you back?"

Yinglian looked at Jia Lian blankly, shook her head for a long time, and then looked at the words written on the paper, her eyes were a little eager.

Jia Lian smiled, and asked Jincai to arrange someone to take Zhen Yinglian home, and then saw that Jia Yucun wanted to use the "Analects" posted on the wall to guide his articles, and sent Jia Yucun out on the excuse that he had just returned home and had a lot of housework to do. Jia Yucun's back disappeared from the front hall, and he heard Quanfu and Quanfu say something inwardly, "This is really destined, I don't think that Xiaoyinglian will return home one day", so he whispered to Quanfu : "Go and tell the Elder Master that the Second Master has broken ties with Zhou Rui who murdered the Elder Master. This Jia Yu Village was recommended by Zhou Rui's son-in-law Leng Zixing."

Quan Fu was taken aback, seeing Jia Lian being so polite to Jia Yucun just now, and thinking that Jia Lian was going to dig into Jia Zheng's corner to snatch Jia Yucun away. Hearing this, he asked in confusion, "How did the second master know?"

"This Jia Yucun, I've been staring at him for a long time."