Jia She, the local tyrant of the Red Chamber

Seeing that the New Year's Eve is approaching, the Rongguo Mansion is busy shopping for festivals and arranging theater wine, and Jia Amnesty has become the most idle person again.Every day, he either indulged his grandson to harm the flowers and plants, or led Jia Cong to destroy the harmonious reading atmosphere in the study outside—the Chinese New Year was too busy, Daiyu went to help Wang Xifeng, and Yingchun got married, so he had to go outside to catch Baoyu Jiahuan Accompaniment, Jia Lan is a stubborn good boy, determined to study.

It was Laba day, and Jia Amnesty was eating Laba porridge with some children in the study outside. Suddenly, he saw Baoyu crying while eating.After a little thought, he remembered that in the original book, the child and Daiyu had a memory of Laba porridge.Yin smiled and said, "I remembered a joke. There was a mung bean's wife who wanted to reconcile with him. He was so sad that he kept crying. Guess what happened afterwards,"

Jia Cong only thought he was teasing Baoyu, and rushed to say, "His wife has changed her mind."

Jia Amnesty shook his head: "No, think again."

Jia Huan said: "His wife dislikes him because he loves to cry and is not manly."

"Nor."

Baoyu sighed: "Since you are going to go, let her go. Perhaps it would be better if she went."

Jia She said with a smile, "I'm joking, your answers are so boring."

Jia Cong guessed wildly for a long time again and couldn't figure it out, so he rushed over and said: "Father likes to show off, hurry up and talk about it."

Jia She said with a smile, "It's so easy to guess. Did he cry all the time? Many tears flowed out, and they sprouted naturally."

Several children couldn't help laughing out loud.

Jia She said again: "When mung beans germinate, they are no longer mung beans, but bean sprouts. Bean sprouts grow up and become bean vines. After all, no bean vines turn back into bean sprouts, and bean sprouts turn back into mung beans. People Yes, it is the same. You are all growing up gradually, and I am actually old. However, there is nothing wrong with being old. I have watched you grow up day by day and become capable and good children. What is there to be dissatisfied with? What? I am happy when you are well. Therefore," he couldn't help but stretched out his hand and rubbed the top of Baoyu's head, "there is a very boring saying called 'If you are well, it will be sunny.' It is very annoying to hear it too much Yes, it’s just that when I listened to it for the first time, not only was it not boring, but it actually made sense.”

After a while, Baoyu understood what his uncle meant, and bowed his head sullenly.How could he not know that Daiyu's side marriage was a foregone conclusion?What's more, he saw the fools that day clearly, and he himself would not want the children to become fools.It’s just that if people’s hearts can let it go and stop reading, the world will be much more boring.

Jia She sighed secretly, only he thought about it slowly.

Jia Cong was quick-witted, seeing that something was wrong, he was busy playing cards.

The four of them brought the poker cards and ignored Baoyu, who was still in a daze, and forcibly pulled him to the table.After playing five or six rounds, someone came to invite him outside, saying that he had an important guest.

When Jia Amnesty was most impatient, someone interrupted him, and he asked annoyedly, "Who? Are there so many important people in the world?"

He Xi hurriedly went out to ask, and came back and whispered, "It's Yuan Wuye."

Only then did Jia Shen remember that the fellow had won his favor card and hadn't given any news, so he hurriedly threw down the card and said, "Zi said, the way of martial arts is one piece at a time!"

Jia Cong laughed out loud, "Father, you actually remember "Book of Rites"."

Jia She said with a smile: "If it's not 'Zi Yue', I wouldn't 'Zi Yue', I just said 'Zi Yue'."

Jia Huan threw down his cards and laughed loudly: "Uncle, "Book of Rites" is 'Zi Yue', you are not mistaken."

Jia She said with a smile: "It doesn't matter whether he is a son or not, anyway, this is true. Lan'er will definitely read like a fool if he studies every day. Your uncle and I have decided. In order to keep Lan'er's physical and mental health, this Let the card table out for him."

Jia Huan and Jia Cong worked together to despise it: "If you want to see the former fifth principal, you just say it, why bother to make a big detour."

Jia She laughed, turned around and left.

Situ Yuan was sitting in the reception hall drinking tea in his inconvenient moon white python robe, which was as leisurely as his own home.Seeing Jia Amnesty come in, he smiled, "Don't come here without any problems."

Jia She said with a smile, "I'm all right, and the former principal is also all right?"

Situ Yuan sighed: "I have to keep your favor card for life, you are really lucky."

Jia She hurriedly said: "I'll talk about it later, I'll have someone secure the outside first." This thing is too revealing, so it's not very interesting for people to hear such a secret.

He Xi hurriedly led a few people to watch on both sides, and Situ Yuan said: "I still can't find out who is behind it, so it can be seen that it is secret. But I can't get away from two of them." He stretched out two fingers , "Elder Wu Ge or the Queen Mother."

Jia She frowned: "These two have nothing to do with me."

Situ Yuan snorted, "The King of Leshan County was destroyed by you alone."

Jia Amnesty hurriedly interrupted: "No! That's the great effort of the sage and Jiang Wenshi. You and Xiao Qi helped twice, and I made up for it at most."

Situ Yuan smiled and said, "If you don't get rid of Nan'an and his son, how can it be so easy? Although Nan'an is a kind person, he and Wu Ge are old sage's confidantes. If Leshan can't help them, he is ready to support the two. Prince's."

Jia Amnesty was stunned: "There is another matter."

"Apart from Nan'an and his son, you have lost the military power of the Second Prince." Situ Yuan shook his head and said, "Look, which of these princes has military power? The Second Prince could have been one step ahead of others, You have been ruined for life."

Jia She couldn't laugh or cry: "Where is this? What about the Queen Mother? Oh yes, she is the mother of Prince Xianyizhong. Didn't she get trapped by the saint?"

Situ Yuan smiled and said: "The Queen Mother has been in charge of the harem for decades, so it's so easy to be trapped. It's not easy for her to make a big wave, but it's not difficult to deal with someone quietly."

After Jia Amnesty thought about it, she was right. The women who were queen mothers in ancient times were all women who were so powerful that they exploded.Nai asked him what happened.

Situ Yuan sighed: "It's really amazing. They first made an ancient book on celestial phenomenon, and made it into a Tang thing—Master Hu of the Qin Tianjian loves this one the most. I think it's very realistic, and Master Hu believed it."

"What's wrong with that book?" Jia She was thirsty, and reached out to pour himself a cup of tea.

"Naturally, it's about the astrology. According to the book, the rooster lays eggs and the recent celestial phenomenon is the same as that of Zetian Empress Wu in Tang Dynasty when she was a child."

"Pfft..." Jia She spit out a sip of tea, "Chicken Sichen? My niece?"

"No, if it's your niece, no one will believe it." Situ Yuan said with a smile, "It's the little girl who got my Yu Pei'er that day."

Jia Amnesty was startled when he heard this.Situ Yuan sitting opposite seemed to be able to see a black air rising from the bottom of his feet, and his whole body was gradually engulfed in it, his face was gloomy like the king of Yama.It took him half a day to hear him say: "Very good, this is trying to steal my heart."

Situ Yuan sighed in his heart: Fortunately, this person only has a small family in his eyes and has no ambitions.He also said: "That book was sold by a down-and-out old scholar from other provinces to a bookstore that Mr. Hu frequented. Only Mr. Hu would buy it among the regular customers in the bookstore, so the origin of the book can no longer be found out. .”

"Probably not many people in the capital are good at making old books." Jia She said.

"That's right." Situ Yuan nodded and said, "I had someone steal that book, it wasn't written by those in Beijing. I don't know if it was done from other provinces or someone else. The craftsmanship is pretty good, These people in Beijing couldn’t agree more.”

After hearing this, Jia Amnesty had to give up. "Therefore, the Qin Tianjian can only know the hen Sichen, who will tell the fortune for the saint? Find out where the hen is?"

"Daoist Qingping." Situ Yuan said, "This Taoist has a very close personal relationship with the saint, and ordinary people can never manipulate him. Only the Empress Dowager saved the lives of his two beloved disciples, and Elder Wu Ge was kind to him. he."

Jia She thought for a while: "Since this is the case, I should be the queen mother."

Situ Yuan asked how he saw it.

Jia She said: "Only women would think of starting with women. If it were Mr. Wu Ge, with the same method, he might figure out that my grandson rebelled."

Situ Yuan thought for a while, and said with a smile, "This idea is new. It makes sense after careful consideration."

Jia Amnesty snorted, thinking that this was called empathy.He also said: "Besides, since this Taoist is also considered to be highly respected, he is absolutely unwilling to do wrongful deeds for himself. If it is for his beloved disciple, it is easier to be shaken. Since the person quietly revealed to me, it can be seen that this matter has long been known. The people in the prison noticed that he must have been to the Qintian prison too."

Situ Yuan nodded and said, "That's right, he's been there four or five times."

"From this we can see that Taoist Qingping is very hesitant, or he is also being coaxed." Jia She suddenly looked at him with contempt, "You can't find out if someone around him is coaxing him?"

Situ Yuan smiled and said, "I'm not all-pervasive, that Taoist priest is the confidant of the saint."

Jia She waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I'm afraid you know more about the sage's harem than he does."

Situ Yuan smiled, and comforted, "No matter who it is, it may be rare for a year or so. You can slowly plan to repay her."

Jia She nodded.

This was the end of the explanation, Situ Yuan joked with him a few more times, and went back home.

Jia She was sitting alone in the reception hall, thinking for a long time.

Since then, the whole country celebrates the New Year, rejoicing and reuniting with the whole family, and the world is lively and peaceful, so there is no need to elaborate.

The new year just came out in the first month, and Jia Amnesty really followed the preface and began to toss the Rongguo Mansion.

He plans to install copper pipes for pouring hot water in many houses. Earlier, only strong houses and game rooms had this.Each courtyard has a special hot water room, which is only closed when the weather is warm, and when winter comes, people will heat hot water day and night.

He also disliked the unclean toilets, and made a kind of "flush toilets" in various yards.The toilet is originally made of porcelain, and one end is connected to the large water tank outside with a copper pipe, but the bottom is connected to a thick sewer pipe, and the water directly drains the waste.However, he didn't make it too troublesome, he just dug a hole in the ground, and there was a big wooden bucket connected to the toilet drain pipe in it, and a cover was placed on it.After a few times of convenience for the master, the servant lifted the lid of the ground, and it was still the person carrying the wooden bucket to pour it out.The servant who poured Yexiang in this way had a heavier job, as long as he didn't have to brush the wooden barrel carefully.

Jia She felt that his set of things was very interesting and convenient, so he went outside to show off all day long, attracting many people to see it.Even the sage came to take a look at him because of his troubles, and praised him as "interesting, but troublesome." Because he especially wanted people to come and ask him how he did it, many people came to take a look to make him happy. , and pretended to ask a few times, but none of them followed his example - as the saint said, it was really too troublesome.

But in a month's time, everyone who was willing to come to see it has seen it, and in March, no one will come to Rongguo Mansion to join in the fun.

This is what Jia She wants.This ancient time is really too unsafe, he is going to make a tunnel in case of emergency.He made such a fuss in front of him, no one suspected that he was going to do something else.Even the saint, no family has ever thought about sending spies to check, anyway, people are eager for someone to look at it at any time.

Naturally, those who build tunnels cannot use ordinary civil engineering craftsmen hired from outside, nor can they use people from Zhuangzi.Jia Amnesty thought about it for a long time and couldn't do anything, so he went to find Qi Zhou and told him everything.

Qi Zhou thought for a while and said: "The future is really unpredictable, that's okay." Yin laughed, "Don't you know that there are workers in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice?"

Jia She pursed his lips and said, "It's amazing for me to know. Could it be a prisoner?"

Qi Zhou nodded and said: "But most of the death row prisoners are waiting to die in hard labor, but sometimes there is not so much hard labor for them to do. Naturally, the prison boss is not willing to raise them for nothing, and wants to find a way to make money from them. Then someone To buy these condemned prisoners, the prison boss has his own way to take them out of the prison, and send them to a certain place blindfolded, and the laborer will quietly take them away from somewhere. You still need to pay more, which is regarded as a mortgage. After all, you are a criminal, and you must not make mistakes. You can buy it for three to five months, or buy it for half a year, and do labor for the buyer. This is a job."

Jia She sighed: "Sure enough, where there is a hand covering the sky, there must be a dark side."

Qi Zhou smiled and said, "Do you know where to buy it?"

Jia She glared at him: "Where am I going?"

Qi Zhou said with a smile, "Forget it, I'll go and think of something for you."

Naturally, Qi Zhou didn't have much skill, so he never kept the matter from Mr. Qi. Finally, Mr. Qi came forward to hook up with the prison boss of the Ministry of Punishment. Together with the idiot, he pretended to be two buyers and bought two batches of workmen for him. When he came out, he covered his mouth and earplugs, put them in the cart transporting earth, stone and wood, and quietly sent him to Rongguo Mansion.

Jia Amnesty surrounded the entrance of the tunnel tightly with a cloth curtain, so that the confidant patrol team kept an eye on them and repaired the tunnel in shifts day and night.The outsiders only thought he was repairing the set of underground pipes, and no one cared.

One day Jia Amnesty was in the room thinking about scheming the Queen Mother, when suddenly someone poked his head at the door and asked, "Who is it?"

A kid came in with a smile and replied: "I see that the master is busy, so I don't want to disturb you."

Seeing that he was a patrol member at the other end of the tunnel, Jia Amnesty snorted, "If you're bothering me or not, tell me quickly."

The patrolman said: "Go back to Master, there was a worker last night who wanted to see Master."

Jia Amnesty was taken aback: "A worker? What does he want to see me for?"

The patrolman said: "He said that he has his own talents and learning in his chest. I think the master must be a philanthropist, and he wants to give it to the master."

Jia She sneered, "I'm a philanthropist! I'm sure I won't be a philanthropist in my previous life and my next life."

The patrol member said: "He said that although the master bought them to work, he didn't even mention the food, but he had good food for every meal! Both meat and vegetables are available. They have never eaten such good food."

Jia She said with a smile: "That's to make them work better. How can you have strength if you don't eat enough? How can you feel in the mood if you don't eat well? People who take the initiative to do a good job and people are forced to do it. The things they make are completely different."

"Once, we asked us to bring them wine." The patrolman couldn't help but look very pale, "I've never seen someone look like that, so many people." He probably remembered the situation that day in his entire life.The sun, the wine, and those tunnel diggers really made him feel that their lords were living Bodhisattvas, and he himself was also an envoy of benefits around Bodhisattvas.

Jia Amnesty was taken aback.That day, he suddenly remembered a movie "The Shawshank Redemption" he watched in his previous life, and he felt humanitarian feelings for a while, so he gave them a drink.

"Therefore, he wants to see the master."

Jia Amnesty thought for a while, and there were not enough talents among the prisoners, so he asked, "Did he say his last name? Why was he imprisoned?"

The boy laughed and said, "He said that once he entered the death row, everything was the same as in the previous life yesterday, and disappeared with the wind. But if he didn't make it clear, the master would not dare to use him. He said his name is Baigan, so the master must have heard of it." , I naturally know why he was imprisoned."

Jia She frowned and said, "It sounds familiar." After thinking for a long time, he couldn't remember who Bai Gan was, so he let the boy go down first.

Looking back, Jia Lian came over.

Jia Lian was stunned after hearing this: "Why did father mention Mr. Bai for no reason?"

Jia Amnesty waved his hand and said, "Just tell me if you know, I can't remember who this person is."

Jia Lian said, "Isn't that the counselor of Leshan County King?"

Jia She said "Ouch".Why not?I also met once and gave a box, and there was a beautiful woman in the box.

It's fine if it's someone else, this man, he really doesn't dare to accept it.It's a pity not to accept it.After four or five days of hesitation, he finally went to find Qi Zhou to make up his mind.

Qi Zhou was not at home, but Qi's father was.Jia Amnesty took him to the study and explained it in detail, then asked the old man what to do.

The old man slapped his hands: "Take it! Don't be in vain!"

When Jia Amnesty had no idea, he immediately slapped his hands after hearing this: "Listen to you!"

The author has something to say: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !Well, I don’t believe it myself. I, I, I can do this, it’s good, what’s more, ah, the moon is so warm tonight