Jia Zheng through the Red Mansions

From the Jinghang Grand Canal in Zhenjiang to the Yangtze River, and down the Yangtze River, when the boat sailed into the Qinhuai River in Jinling, the sky had gradually darkened.

Looking from a distance, I saw a dark river surface suddenly lit up with continuous lights, and then walked forward, I saw a painting boat that looked extraordinarily magnificent under the embellishment of lanterns, and looking at the two banks, the gorgeous pavilions The towers and pavilions stand on the shore, brightly lit and very lively.

Under this dazzling light, even the moon in the night sky seemed dimmed.

The boat gradually approached the shore and stopped at a gap. Hong Xi made up his mind to visit Jinling unannounced, so he ordered Daimu to wait on the boat for the time being. He and Jia Zheng went to find a quieter inn first.

After disembarking, I felt that this place was very lively. There were sounds of drinking wine and singing and dancing from the boat and the restaurant. Someone had already seen Hongxi and Jia Zheng get off a boat that had just entered the port. The young boy deftly walked through the crowd to the two of them, and made a bow.

"Are you two foreigners?"

Jia Zheng stopped and looked at the flattering boy in front of him. He was dressed in a cloth shirt, and his small eyes rolled on his thin face. He asked, "Do you have a quieter inn here?"

Hearing the words, the boy quickly said: "You two can ask, if you want to stay in the hotel, our Yunxiang Inn is the number one here, come and see?"

Hongxi nodded, and he and Jia Zheng followed the kid around a gorgeous restaurant, went straight to the alley, entered the alley, saw the signboard of Yunxiang Inn, entered the inn, the boy and Xiao Er had a fight He greeted them, and took Jia Zheng and Hongxi to the backyard.

"You two, we have a single-family house here, do you find it satisfactory?"

There are four rooms in this small courtyard, the courtyard is very spacious and bright, compared to the bustle in front, this place is very quiet, only the sound of cicadas is very clear.

"This place is not bad, I will stay here." Hongxi nodded in satisfaction, and took out a piece of silver to reward the boy.

"You two, if you want to go to Huafang to find a girl, just ask me to make sure you two are satisfied." The kid turned out the money, and the smile on his face became even brighter.

"Go, I will come to you again if necessary." Hong Xi pouted, and the boy happily left.

Xiao Er hurried over to serve her, Hongxi paid the set money and tipped Xiao Er.

Xiao Er added oil to the lamps in the four rooms, and Jia Zheng asked him to prepare pens and inks, and then wrote a family letter to Jia Zhu saying that he was safe, and asked Jia Zhu to do things in the Imperial Academy. , and then asked about the safety of the family members.

After finishing writing the family letter, Jia Zheng remembered what Mrs. Wang entrusted, but he hesitated. Now that Hong Xi wanted to make an unannounced visit, if he went to Xue's house by himself, he would reveal his identity, and it would be troublesome.

Just as he was hesitating, he heard Hong Xi knocking on the door, saying that he wanted to go out with him to see the night view of the Qinhuai River and find a restaurant for dinner.

The two first went to the place where the boat was moored, but they saw Daimu having a good chat with an old man on the bank of the Qinhuai River who was in charge of guarding the boats of passing travelers. He took off the boat, handed the boat over to the old man, and told him that his group lived in the Dongkuan courtyard of Yunxiang Inn.

Along the riverside, I saw restaurants next to each other on both sides, each of which looked very gorgeous, and finally Hongxi chose an exquisite and chic one to enter.

It just so happened that a table of guests had just left, so Xiao Er cleared the table and invited Hong Xi and five people to sit down. This place is next to the window, and one can see the scenery on the Qinhuai River when looking outside.

As soon as he sat down, he heard a commotion in front of him. The crowd gathered in front of a painting boat with thirteen red lanterns hanging on it. Everyone in the restaurant also looked in that direction, and Jia Zheng also looked over curiously. .

I only heard a person at the next table speak at this time, with a disdainful tone: "I don't know who it is, it turned out to be that stupid son of the Xue family!"

Jia Zheng was stunned when he heard it. He was still thinking about the Xue family just now, but he didn't expect to hear the news about the Xue family here, so he turned his attention to the next table, and saw that the person who spoke was wearing moon white The robe, looks about 30 years old, very elegant.

Sitting next to him was a man in a blue robe, who was surprised when he heard this: "Brother Li, maybe I remembered wrongly. The son of the Xue family was only four years old when I left Jinling for Kaifeng, and now he is only three years old." Years have passed, how could a seven-year-old child come to Huafang?"

Then Brother Li snorted coldly when he heard the words: "You don't know, this Mr. Xue has been a frequent guest of Qin Hui's painting boat since he was six years old!"

When Jia Zheng heard this, his eyes almost popped out. He heard it right, what can such an older child do if he is asked to go out on a boat to have fun?

"Haha, it's so cheap that this girl who is a painter can earn a lot of money by coaxing children!" A loud voice sounded from another table, and a bearded man took over the middle-aged scholar's words, cryptically His tone of voice caused ambiguous smiles to appear on the faces of the guests at the tables next to him.

"I've also heard that his father is terminally ill, the Xue residence has even prepared a coffin, this father is dying, but his son is still enjoying himself in the gentle village, I'm afraid there is only this one in the whole world who can do it! "Someone joined the discussion enthusiastically.

Jia Zheng also frowned when he heard the words, this Xue Pan is too outrageous!

"Why is he here too?" At this moment, Hong Xi heard a low cry from the opposite, Jia Zheng turned around and looked at Hong Xi suspiciously.

Hong Xi pointed to the outside, Jia Zheng looked outside, and saw the crowd surrounding the boat spread out, revealing the open space in the middle. Standing in the middle of the open space was a burly man in a brocade robe, standing behind him. With four burly men.

"Little baby, this Yanqiu girl today, I'm going to make a decision, you'd better go home early and go to breastfeed!" After the man said, Xue Pan's face turned green with anger.

"Damn, your eyes have grown to the belly of a dog, you don't even recognize your uncle Pan, and you dare to grab a girl from me, I'm impatient!" This Xue Pan is small, his voice is not small, his eyes He stared at him, and there was a row of guards standing behind him, all of them also looked fierce.

Jia Zheng stared at the brocade-robed man for a while to make sure he had never seen him before, then turned his eyes back to look at Hong Xi, and asked in a low voice, "Who is he?"

"My tenth uncle." Hongxi said helplessly, what happened to each of them, first he met Jiushu, then tenth uncle, why did his uncles all come to Jiangnan one by one?

What?As soon as Jia Zheng heard it, he immediately looked over again. The man who could be called a typical bully turned out to be Kangxi's tenth prince, King Dunjun!

"That kid is going to die." Hongxi stroked his forehead. His tenth uncle was a bully that no one dared to provoke in the capital. Even Huang Mafa turned a blind eye to him. The Eight Banners in the capital saw him He was trembling with everything, fearing that he would offend this one, and suffer from a fat beating, and this kid in front of him actually swears at Mr. Pan, who is really ignorant and fearless.

As soon as Hong Xi finished speaking, Lao Shi stared at Xue Pan, looking up and down at Xue Pan, and said in a strange voice, "I'm just impatient, what can you do to me?"

"How?! Send you to see Lord Yan! Come here, beat me to death!" Xue Pan jumped his feet in anger, and gave an order, and the guards behind him rushed up with sticks, knives and guns in their hands. .

"Bang bang" a few times, just a face-to-face effort, the group of servants were kicked to the ground by the four guards behind the old ten, each of them let go of their weapons, and lay on the ground. .

When Xue Pan saw this situation, his legs immediately softened by three points, and then he saw the gloating expressions on the faces of the crowd around him, and he couldn't help becoming angry, pointing at the old ten and shouting: "If you have the kindness, wait for me!" Come on, if I don't beat you to death today, I won't be Xue Pan!"

The old ten raised his eyebrows, folded his arms, and raised his head: "Master, I don't believe in this kind of energy today. No matter how many people you call, I will wait here!"

Xue Pan ran towards the direction of Xue's mansion, and the servants who were lying on the ground screaming and screaming also struggled to get up, and they didn't care about taking weapons, and ran back with the little master one by one.

It took only a cup of tea, and there was the sound of hooves and hoofs, and Xue Pan rushed over here with a large group of people. At this time, Pan returned to his original high-spirited appearance, pointed at the old ten and shouted: "It's him, hit me!"

"Plop!" The sound rang out one after another, and the group of people were thrown into the Qinhuai River by the four guards without even touching the hem of the old ten's clothes, which disturbed a row of painting boats in the river.

"You...you..." Xue Pan was completely dumbfounded at this moment, looking at the old ten and trembling.

"What's the matter with me, huh? How many people are there, let's call them over together!" Don't mention how excited Lao Shi was at this time, he was in the capital, but even the censor didn't dare to participate in his book, it's a pity that the capital Those boys in the movie are too useless, they know to hide when they see him, he can't find a reason to beat up people, he didn't expect that he would break his fast in Jinling, this trip to the south of the Yangtze River was really not in vain!

It's a pity that this kid looks domineering, but he is an embroidered pillow that is strong on the outside and good on the inside, and he didn't let out the excitement just now, this kid almost peed his pants!

"Why, I can't even speak? Where did you scold people just now? Where did you go?" Old Ten's lips curled up, and the two guards behind him walked towards Xue Pan.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Xue Pan wanted to run away, but was arrested after only two steps.

"Let go of me, I'm the young master of the Xue family!" Xue Pan struggled fiercely.

"I haven't heard of what the Xue family is, but I've been very bored recently, so it's good to play with you!" The old ten looked at the little doll, with a frightened expression on his chubby face, but There was still a hint of disbelief in the big round eyes.

Old Ten ordered the guards a few words, turned around and boarded the boat to find Yanqiu girl to vent his anger, poor Xue Pan was pressed by the guards and took him to a big house that Old Ten bought in Jinling, first in the woodshed He was locked up all night without eating a sip of water or a bowl of rice. The next day, he was dragged out of the woodshed before dawn. He did not lose any of the rough work of carrying water and chopping firewood. How could Xue Pan have done this before? Playing tricks, these guards are not used to him, they knocked out a bucket of well water and poured Xue Pan down, beating until Xue Pan lost his temper, let alone running away, his legs were almost broken.

When Aunt Xue got the news and begged Jiuye, who was temporarily staying in the mansion, to help find Xue Pan, Xue Pan turned from a chubby man into a small bamboo pole, and the clothes he used to wear could fit two of them into it. up!

Aunt Xue hugged her son and cried heart-rendingly, Lao Jiu frowned when she saw it, Lao Shi touched her nose nonchalantly, Lao Jiu thought that she had just promised to save the lives of Xue's family, so she went out of her way I just wanted to teach my elder a dozen or so words, when I saw Xue Pan staring at me blankly, and said: "You are the number one in a small hall, your master Pan will definitely To hold your field?"

That's right, this guy didn't learn how to behave after so many days of lessons. Seeing his mother and his family rescue him from the devil, he immediately reverted to his old ways.

Old Ninth's face turned green, and Old Ten laughed so hard that his stomach hurt from laughing, this kid is really a treasure!