[Red Mansion] The third master of jade-like stone treasures

When Baocong and Baoyu came out from Jia Zheng's place, they met Wu Hui in the corner with a strange boy.

"What's going on?" Bowie asked.

Wu Hui hurried forward and said, "Just now I saw this boy sneaking around the door, I asked someone to tie him up, but it's terrible, he's got a big deal!"

As he spoke, he unwrapped a gray bundle and showed it to Baocong Baoyu.

Inside the gray cloth bundle was a pile of black ashes and some red and green things.

"What is this?" Baoyu asked curiously.

Wu Hui reached out and took out the inside, and took out a half-burnt puppet doll, "Second Master, Third Master, look!"

The puppet was extremely ugly, half of it was burned, and its entire face was gone. When Baoyu saw it, he was startled, "What is this thing! Take it away!"

But Bao Cong picked it up and looked at it carefully, and turned the back, and sure enough, he saw a few words, but they had been burnt and blurred.

It turned out to be the legendary voodoo... Aren't those all fake?

Bao Cong thought for a while, and asked the young man who was being detained: "What's going on? You can explain the cause and effect clearly. If you can't explain clearly, I will send you to see the old man and the old lady, and see what they do. Take your skin off!"

The young man was so frightened that he complained again and again, and quickly kowtowed: "Grandpas, it's none of my business! I'm here with this to sue the second master!"

As he spoke, he said what he knew one by one.

It turned out that his name was Dongming, and he was sweeping the floor in the outer courtyard.His younger sister Qiu'er was serving in Aunt Zhao's house.

A few days ago, Aunt Zhao secretly burned some things at night, and asked Qiu'er to clean them up and quietly take them out to throw away.

Brother and sister Dongming were sold to Jia's family when they were seven or eight years old. They stayed in temples when they were young and saw some things that were made.So when Qiu'er saw the ashes, she felt something was wrong, so instead of throwing them away, she showed them to her brother.

Dongming had been sweeping the ground in the outer courtyard for several years, and was worried about how to find a better job.His sister sent this thing, and he immediately had an idea in his mind, hoping to use it to make a good face in front of Jia Zheng.

It's just that he didn't expect to be arrested by Wu Hui before he saw Jia Zheng.

In front of Baocong and Baoyu, Dongming embellished and described how Baoyu and Baocong fainted suddenly a few days ago, there was a big commotion at Wang Xifeng's place, and the three of them almost died.

He vowed: "These look like they are for casting a curse! I guess the sudden illness of the former two masters and Lian's second mistress may be caused by Aunt Zhao's curse!"

When Baoyu heard this, he sighed and said in a daze, "Aunt Zhao, why did she curse us? We didn't offend her!"

Bao Cong sneered and looked at Bao Yu speechless for a moment.

Where did we not offend Aunt Zhao?She was born as Jia Zheng's legitimate son, and to stand in her son's way is to offend her!

However, he only found out from Dongming's words now that when he and Baoyu were sick, Wang Xifeng also had a commotion, and it just happened two days ago.

It seems that Aunt Zhao also hated Wang Xifeng very much, probably when Wang Xifeng was the housekeeper, she secretly made Aunt Zhao suffer.

Throwing the broken puppet back into the bag, Bao Cong shook his head, and asked Dongming, "Aunt Zhao is a housewife who can't read big characters and doesn't go out often, how can she have such abilities?"

He didn't believe in this kind of messy witchcraft, but felt that there might be something else hidden, and he had to find out the person behind Aunt Zhao's back.

Dongming knew that he had made a contribution, and thought that if he was lucky enough to follow Baoyu or Baocong, he would not have to worry about his future in the future!

So, he hurriedly knelt and climbed a few steps, leaned forward with a flattering smile, and said in a low voice, "How can Aunt Zhao have this ability? I heard that there is a horseman who often talks to Aunt Zhao, she must be instigating Zhao Auntie, you are doing it behind your back!"

"Now she lives in Shuiyue Nunnery, why don't the two masters send someone to arrest her, and we will interrogate her, and we will definitely catch a ghost!"

Bao Cong thought about it for a long time, but he didn't remember which onion this Ma Daopo was.

At this time, he regretted a little. In his previous life, he didn't study the original book as a textbook, so that he was almost murdered by someone, and he didn't know who did it.

This Dongming, on the other hand, seemed to be doing well in his work and speaking, and he was considered clever.

Bao Cong could see that he wanted to climb up, so he said hello immediately, and told Dong Ming, "Since you discovered this, you can take a few people to arrest Mrs. Ma for interrogation." : "Don't tell the master after asking, just come back to me."

Dongming was overjoyed when he heard that, he hurriedly paid his respects a few times, and went to do things accordingly.

Baoyu and Baocong talked all the way back to the Grand View Garden.

Baoyu said with a sad face: "If it was really Aunt Zhao and Ma Daopo who did it, what should I do?"

Bao Cong said: "Naturally, I returned to the old lady and the master, except for these two scourges! Could it be that we are waiting for nothing to be harmed by them later?"

Baoyu stopped quickly when he heard this, and asked Baocong, "That Ma Daopo is as bad as Aunt Zhao, so it's not a pity to die. But Aunt Zhao is the mother of Sister Tanchun after all. This matter was exposed with great fanfare. How can I call Sister Tanchun?" What about being human?"

Baocong stopped in surprise, looked at Baoyu a few times, and said with a half-smile: "You are not very good to your brothers, but you are really kind to your sisters. It's hard for you to think about Sister Tanchun."

Baoyu heard him say that he was not good to his brothers, but only good to his sisters. For a while, he didn't know whether Bao Cong was angry or was praising him.

He couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it at all, he just pestered Baocong and said, "Tell me, if Aunt Zhao really did it, what would happen?"

Bao Cong laughed and said, "What else can I do? You've already thought about Sister Tanchun, so we naturally have to help keep it a secret."

After thinking for a while, he taught Baoyu again: "But if she really has the intention of harming others, we can't be soft-hearted. We must use this excuse to warn her secretly, so that she will never dare to harm others in the future!"

"That's fine, that's settled, you must not expose it." Baoyu said happily.

Two days later, Dongming really sent Ma Daopo's fingerprinted confession.

It said that Aunt Zhao secretly hated Baocong, Baoyu, Wang Xifeng and the others, so she forced Ma Daopo to curse people.Ma Daopo reluctantly agreed in order to deceive Aunt Zhao's money.

In order to convince Aunt Zhao that she was indeed doing something behind the scenes, she took advantage of Guanyin's birthday to scatter the five stones into the lotus steamed buns that Jia's mansion asked for.

The lotus steamed buns are all named one by one, so Baoyu, Baozheng, Wang Xifeng and Wang Xifeng were just able to recruit.

Bao Cong recalled carefully that it was true that Jiamu sent someone to give him lotus steamed buns, and said that he had made a wish before Guanyin, so that he must finish eating.

If Mother Jia knew that the lotus steamed buns she gave to her children and grandchildren almost killed them, she wouldn't know how angry she would be!

And this Ma Daopo is too hateful, even though it is not poison in the steamed bun, it is more poisonous than poison!

If you eat too much of the five stone powder, you will die naturally.

But if they didn't eat dead people, a few of them would become addicted, and would often have to eat five stone powder in the future, and the older ones would become waste, wouldn't it be worse?

Bao Cong hated this deeply, and immediately asked Dongming to interrogate Ma Daopo again, told her to vomit the crimes of harming others in the past, and sent her to the government for a heavy sentence!

After Ma Daopo was done, Baocong discussed with Baoyu how to warn Aunt Zhao.

It was inconvenient for the two of them to go to Jia Zheng's concubine to warn them, so they had to ask a woman to do it.

The maids are not strong enough to suppress Aunt Zhao.I can't tell Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng, lest they know that there is going to be a big fight to kill Aunt Zhao.

Originally, I should have told Tanchun, but Tanchun had a tough temper. You must know that Aunt Zhao made such a big mistake, she might feel ashamed and lose face, and she would also make a fuss.That would be a waste of both of them helping her hide it.

After thinking about all the women in the family, Baocong and Baoyu managed to find Li Wan.

Li Wan never cared about foreign affairs, but she had a good temper, she could talk and keep secrets.

Although this made things difficult for her, the two of Bao Cong couldn't think of any other better candidates.

So the two brothers joined hands and went to Li Wan to beg again. Li Wan listened, hesitated for a long time, and finally agreed.

She was looking at the face of Bao Cong who replaced the family school with a good husband, and she also thought that Jia Lan had no father and would always rely on two uncles to support her in the future.When she helped them, she also made plans for Jia Lan.

When Li Wan left, Aunt Zhao had been in a panic for several days.

That day, Baocong and Baoyu were asking questions outside Jia Zheng's study, and Jia Huan happened to overhear them.

When Jia Huan heard that Aunt Zhao had teamed up with Ma Daopo to harm people secretly, and saw that Baocong sent someone to fetch Ma Daopo, she was so frightened that she rushed back to Aunt Zhao's yard like an arrow and told her.

Aunt Zhao naturally refused to admit it in front of Jia Huan, but her heart was already turned upside down.Unexpectedly, it was so unfortunate that Bao Yu and Bao Cong discovered what they were doing.

She was afraid that Baocong and Baoyu would sue, and felt that she had burned those things, and the two of them had no solid evidence, so she just gritted her teeth and refused to admit it, and they couldn't do anything...

Thinking over and over like this every day, she couldn't eat or sleep, so she just called Qiu'er around to beat and scold her.

This day I heard from Li Wan that Baocong caught Ma Daopo, and Ma Daopo said that she was the one who persecuted the envoy, and she immediately scolded Ma Daopo thousands of times in her heart.

But face to face, no matter what Li Wan said, Aunt Zhao only said that Ma Daopo had lied to her, and she didn't admit what she had done.

Li Wan just wanted to bring the warning, and said that Ma Daopo had signed the signature and was taken to the government for a heavy sentence.There are other evidences in Baocong's place, please Aunt Zhao to do it for herself in the future, and don't think about harming others.

After finishing speaking, she didn't listen to Aunt Zhao's sophistry, and left.

Aunt Zhao was so angry that she smashed several tea bowls, dragged Qiu'er in and beat and scolded her.

Dongming knew that his sister was suffering from Aunt Zhao, so how could he be willing?

He went to Qiu Baocong and asked Qiu'er to go to Yihong Courtyard.

It seems inappropriate for a son to ask for a girl from his father's concubine's house.

But Mrs. Wang is used to loving her son, and she can't understand Aunt Zhao.

Bao Cong is now a scholar, so why not want a girl?

So she asked Jin Chuan'er to fetch Qiu'er in person, and then made up a rough girl to go to Aunt Zhao's house.

Aunt Zhao was naturally angry again, she acted like a baby to Jia Zheng and lost her temper.

But Jia Zheng didn't care about these trivial matters, he just said that Mrs. Wang had already made up a girl for her, and it was fine to order her around.

Aunt Zhao couldn't help it, so she had to hold back her bad breath secretly, and fearing that Baocong would stare at her like a tiger, she forcibly settled down for a few days.

When Baocong and Baoyu were completely healed, he dragged Baoyu again and went to study in the foreign study.

Baoyusong had passed away for a few days, and was very reluctant to part with the leisurely days of wandering in the garden.Baocong had no choice but to take out a storybook to coax him. Baoyu got the storybook, plunged into it, and read it obsessively.

It was just a thin volume, and he finished it quickly. He wanted to read the next one, but Bao Cong refused. He only asked him to listen carefully to the class first, otherwise he would tell Jia Zheng that he read idle books.

Baoyu was driven by a whip at the back and hung on a carrot in front, and finally gradually resumed the habit of going to class every day.

Two or three months later, Bao Cong suddenly heard Jia Mu Jia Zheng and the others ask about the Supreme Emperor's birthday ceremony, and he realized that he almost forgot about it, after all, the deadline is next year!

"You bastard! Why don't you take your majesty's will and the emperor's birthday into consideration?" Jia Zheng scolded with a straight face: "Hurry up and come up with an idea, do it as soon as possible, and let everyone see if it's suitable. If not , have to do it all over again!"

"Do you think that presenting a birthday gift to the Supreme Emperor can be filled by the broken things you carved in your daily life? Why don't you put more effort into it!"

"Understood, master." Bao Cong replied depressedly, but he was muttering in his heart, didn't he scold him at the beginning not to be playful, but to study hard?Now it's urging him to concentrate on carving?

It turned out that Jia Zheng still valued these vanities more, and he probably didn't forget this important event for a day.

Jia's mother also knew that Jia Zheng scolded Bao Cong, and she was afraid that Bao Cong would not come up with a good idea, so she made a special statement and asked the whole family to help Bao Cong think together.

When Lin Daiyu heard this, she laughed and teased Baocong: "That's it, the cobbler has a bunch of Zhuge Liang, and it's very easy for you to make ten birthday gifts!"

The sisters all laughed when they heard this, and said happily, "Your metaphor is good. Isn't Bao Cong just a cobbler? Even if he can carve good things, let's see, the inscriptions and poems on it still need us Come and help him think!"

Sister Feng also smiled and said: "I don't know Chinese characters, and I don't know how to paint or carve. Just prepare things for Brother Baocong, such as white jade, sapphire, jade, big, small, square, and round. What do you want? I'll go up the mountain of swords and go down into the sea of ​​fire." I can find it for you!"

Recently, she can get hundreds of taels of silver for nothing every month, and she is in a very good mood, and she is more generous in her hands.

But Bao Cong was still worried. What everyone said about old birthday stars, Wanfu and birthday celebrations were good, but they were not appropriate.

To talk about why it is inappropriate... He was influenced by the things Ruan Zhongwen said in his letter a few years ago, because he intuited that the emperor's imperial decree was a conspiracy, and it was not as simple as celebrating the birthday of the Supreme Emperor.

People in Jia's mansion only thought it was a great honor, and they all thought about the bright side, and didn't think about anything deeper.

He wrote a letter to Ruan Zhongwen for advice. Ruan Zhongwen was in Shandong, and the reply did not arrive so quickly.That's why he dragged on for a long time and still hasn't made up his mind.

The brothers and sisters got together and discussed lively. Baochai saw that Baocong still had a sad expression on his face, so he asked, "Brother Baocong, after all this has been said, do you have any ideas? Why do you think you are still worried? "

Bao Cong replied: "I'm just a little strange, why is it so good, the emperor will ask me to make a birthday gift for the Supreme Emperor."

Baoyu said casually: "What's so strange about this? He got a liking from the big sister's white jade ring finger. He thought you carved it well, so he remembered to ask you to be a birthday present?"

Bao Cong asked back: "Isn't that strange? I gave the jade ring finger to my elder sister, and the style is for women. The emperor likes that finger ring, why don't you ask me to make another one for him, and ask me to be the emperor's?" Birthday?"

After hearing this, Lin Daiyu tilted her head and thought for a while, then said doubtfully, "It sounds a bit strange."

But Baochai answered, "I said it's a bit strange, but it's not strange."

Lin Daiyu was even more puzzled, and asked with a smile, "Sister Bao, what do you say? It's strange, but it's not strange?"