The Return of Lord Qiang of the Red Mansion System

The folks didn't know that Jia Qiang was in a complicated mood, they only knew that it was the first time for Xiaodong's family to entertain guests in Fengyuanfang, so they all put up all their energy to serve them.It took only a while to sit down for a cup of tea, and all kinds of dishes were presented at the price of water.

Because she was taken aback by Feng Ziying's bluntness just now, Jia Qiang didn't dare to ask him any more personal matters, for fear that if she accidentally heard something she shouldn't listen to, she would get involved in the unprofitable turmoil for nothing.So he took the dishes as the main topic, pointed to a plate of navel crab cakes and said: "Crabs are eaten in autumn. This crab is raised in a pond in the suburbs of the city. It is raised with clean water a few days in advance, and it is sent to the store after spit out the mud If you come here, eat it fresh and clean. You can taste it."

Feng Ziying took a sip, nodded slightly, and praised: "It's really delicious. You can go to the mountain with me some other day, and I'll give you roe deer and bamboo rats to eat. Those little things are naturally raised. They grow up on mountain springs and wild fruits, and the meat is tender. Incomparable. As long as it is roasted with fire, and a layer of salt is applied, it will be fragrant."

Jia Qiang wished to stay as far away from him as possible, so she was not willing to accept this.He laughed twice, and was about to introduce the meaty shrimp balls next to him, but Feng Ziying said again: "Before I came here, I made a little thing on the mountain. I said I wanted to make a glove, but for no reason it looked familiar, so I took it I raised it. I was always wondering why it was like this, but I didn’t know the reason until today.”

After finishing speaking, he stopped his chopsticks and looked at Jia Qiang with deep meaning in his eyes.

Jia Qiang was very puzzled, but she was afraid of asking rashly, so Feng Ziying said what she shouldn't have said, so she had to bear it hard: "Mr. Feng just likes it."

Feng Ziying glanced at him, as if she wanted to say something, but finally stopped talking.

After eating this meal for an hour, Jia Qiang felt that it was more difficult than sitting in the smelly examination room for two days in a row.Finally listening to Feng Ziying's farewell, Fang quietly breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been pardoned.

This guy has a complicated background, like an unwrapped firecracker, speckled with gunpowder stars, and he will touch it if he is not careful.It's better to be as far away as possible.

Seeing his ease, Feng Ziying's eyes darkened.He personally unloaded the horses from the broken carriage, held the bridle and made a gesture to turn over, but suddenly whispered into Jia Qiang's ear: "Just watch the fun these few days, don't get involved."

Jia Qiang was taken aback when she heard the sound, and subconsciously wanted to ask for clarification, but Feng Ziying got on the horse and rode away.Staring at his long hair tied at the top and swaying side to side with the horse's tail, Jia Qiang felt a bit annoyed, and had the urge to grab the "tail" and tear him off to torture him to understand.

He didn't believe that Feng Ziying couldn't see his attitude, but still tickled his curiosity from time to time, it was really hateful.

However, he was talking about excitement, what could it be?

Jia Qiang was thoughtful until the clerk called out several times before she came to her senses: "What did you just say?"

"What about the carriage left by that young master?" The man pointed to the ground.Just now, half of the carriage was smashed by Jia Qiang's copper tripod. Although it can be used for repairing, it is not free.

"Chop it up and use it as firewood. At least it can save two loads of firewood."

It's a pity that it still can't make up for the money of the meal just now.Thinking of this, Jia Qiang felt a little regretful.It wasn't until Uncle Sheng came over with the abacus and counted the books, and reported the losses caused by Xiao Dongwei today, that Jia Qiang regained his spirits: "Clean it up, but don't buy furniture yet, wait until the post from Beijing Palace is delivered. , I talked to him."

The two men in the official school saw Feng Shangle before, and they couldn't find Bei, and said a lot of flattery to him, and finally they treated the matter of King Beijing's post to invite the new recruits as a treasure, and dedicated them diligently. up.

Hearing the tone of those two people, he thought that the banquet would be at least ten and a half months away, but he didn't want to finish taking care of the things in the shop. As soon as he returned to the mansion, Chang Yang presented the post in front of him: "Master, this is personally delivered by the steward of the palace. The younger one invited him to have tea, he said that the prince has invited nearly twenty scribes this time, and we will have a chat and drink tea together in the future, it will be lively and elegant."

"Lively..." Suddenly touching Feng Ziying's words, Jia Qiang couldn't help being moved: Could it be that this is what he was talking about?But on the surface, it seems that this is just another literati gathering hosted by King Beijing Jing, who likes the virtuous and virtuous corporals. What can be particularly lively?

Perhaps, there is something brewing that I don't know yet, and Feng Ziying returned to Beijing for this reason——

Before he could think about it, the maidservant Bai Ge suddenly came to report that the second master Lian of Dongfu had sent a servant to invite him, saying that it was an urgent matter, so he must go there.

Jia Qiang immediately understood: it must be Sister Feng's incident.He hated Sister Feng deeply, and when he heard that she was in trouble, and that she was contributing to the trouble, he couldn't help smiling: "What's going on over there?"

Bai Ge replied: "Just now, the Lord brought the two officials from the official school into the yard, and later, sister Qingyun sent Man'er, who was writhing in pain, back to Rong Mansion, and helped find the doctor with great fanfare. Wait for Lian Er When the master came back from outside, the whole family knew about this matter. Everyone said that the second grandma Lian was so vicious that she wanted to put the blood of the second master to death. But the second grandma Lian insisted that she thought Man'er was fooling around with the servant I don't know the truth about this kind of evil. Now I heard that the doctor is still busy checking the pulse and prescribing medicine in order to save the child. The second master Lian and the second grandmother are fighting outside, insisting on their own opinions. The second master Lian is really helpless, so I want to ask Grandpa to testify."

"Second Grandma Lian is willing to let him invite me?"

When he asked this question, he not only whited the pigeon, but the rest of the servants also sniggered.Bai Ge pursed her lips and replied: "I just don't want to. When that boy came over, his hatband was all crooked, and there were shoe prints on his clothes. It seemed that someone took off his shoes and hit him."

Imagining the situation, Jia Qiang couldn't help laughing: "Second Uncle Lian rarely finds me, because he helped me with Jia Rui a few years ago, so I should go too."

Although he hated Sister Feng, he didn't anger Jia Lian, he just regarded him as a dispensable person and nothing special.The reason why he is willing to go this way is to use Jia Lian to take advantage of Sister Feng.

Now following Shi Shiran to the west courtyard, I saw the courtyard door was closed, and several old women pretended to sweep, but in fact they were all leaning on brooms and listening to the movement in the courtyard with their ears.Seeing Jia Qiang approaching for a while, he saluted and pretended to be busy, and scattered in all directions.

Jia Qiang pretended to knock on the door, only knocked once, and heard a sharp female voice coming from inside: "Grandma is busy today, come back tomorrow to discuss business!"

Then there was a crisp sound, as if someone had eaten a potsticker on his face: "Don't follow that shrew to make trouble, it must be Qiang'er!"

Recognizing that it was Jia Lian's voice, Jia Qiang found it even more amused.

The smile flashed away, and Jia Lian opened the door himself.He usually had a pair of peach blossom eyes waiting to smile, but now his whole face was so gloomy that it seemed to drip water: "Qiang'er, come in quickly, I have something to ask you." Cover the door.

The courtyard seemed to be the same, but the atmosphere was unusual.Sister Feng stood under the eaves with a sad face, with a hint of annoyance on her face, and her eyes kept turning back and forth, as if she was thinking about a countermeasure.All the maids and servants in the courtyard stood close to the corner of the wall, pretending to be wooden and clay sculptures.

Jia Qiang seemed to be ignorant, turned her head to listen to the movement in the room, "surprised" said: "Is there a doctor inside? Who is sick?"

As soon as this remark came out, Jia Lian's eyes immediately burst into sparks, and he stared at Sister Feng fiercely.Sister Feng felt guilty after being stared at by him, she immediately turned her head away.But after all, he was used to arrogance, snorted through his nostrils, and said in a drawn-out tone: "I don't know which kind of slave it is, but it's worth the hassle."

Seeing her sneering and heartless, Jia Lian couldn't bear it any longer, rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to make a move.Only then did Sister Feng panic, she quickly dodged and hid behind Ping'er, and said sharply, "You dare! Just do it! If you dare to touch my finger, my Wang family will not let you go!"

Jia Lian pointed at her and said bitterly: "Your Wang family? You have entered the door of Jia's family, and you keep calling your Wang family! Since you treat yourself as an outsider, no wonder you want to kill my Jia family's children and grandchildren!"

Sister Feng sneered and said: "Children and grandchildren? Whose descendants and grandchildren? You have passed the Ming Road? Accepted her as a housekeeper? Or did Ming Zheng just open his face and become an aunt? I don't know a girl, and I don't know who I have been with. You just insist that it's your seed? I've seen one who picks up money and scolds, but I haven't seen one who picks up cuckolds!"

Jia Lian was so angry at her nonsense, but after all, there was some truth in what she said: although Man'er was a companion, she acquiesced that sooner or later she would be in his room.But he hindered Sister Feng's prestige, and was afraid that she would be jealous and make the house restless. Although he and Man'er had achieved good things in private, he never dared to tell Sister Feng.It wasn't until today that Sister Feng became angry when she learned that Man'er was pregnant, and she did not regret it.

Because his family was really wronged, Jia Lian suppressed his anger and said, "You just talk nonsense. But anyway, it's your fault. How can you do it if you lose your life?"

Sister Feng knows Jia Lian's temperament best.Seeing that he was a bit weak, he immediately took advantage of the situation and denied it: "I didn't do it because of our face in the room - at that time, I suddenly heard that Man'er said that Qiang'er treated her like this, I was already panicked. After listening to Qiang'er refuting her words, she suddenly admitted that she was pregnant, and she was even more panicked. After all, she is my companion maid, and she is pregnant, and has something to do with the nephew of the East Mansion. How ugly is this word spread? People who don’t know think that the two mansions are so dirty. I got angry and scolded her for a while, and she yelled out of nature, insisting on me Hit her. Do you think I was wronged?"

After being sung and composed by Sister Feng, Jia Lian hesitated again.Seeing this, Jia Qiang said lightly: "I've only met this maid Man'er a few times. I don't know why she would suddenly bite me, but she knelt in front of my door all morning without saying a word, and when she went to the second aunt, she opened her mouth." And the second aunt didn't even ask where the evidence was, and just took it directly, as if she had prepared it long ago."

As he said that, he ignored Sister Feng's suddenly very ugly expression, pretending to be puzzled: "Second Aunt, can you explain to my nephew?"

Jia Lian is not a fool, when Jia Qiang tapped her lightly, she suddenly came to her senses.He didn't know the grievances between Sister Feng and Jia Qiang, and thought it was Sister Feng who discovered his affair with Man'er, so he thought of this good show of setting the blame and then exposing it. Force her to abort and sell her to the house.

The so-called anger and urgency, although there are omissions in this guess, Jia Lian couldn't think of it for a while, and only gritted his teeth and regretted why he married such a vicious woman, and couldn't allow himself to have children-he was just new to Man'er for a while, not much. Sincerely, if it wasn't for her being pregnant, no matter how much Wang Xifeng tortured her, he would say a few words at most, and he would never be so angry.

He was about to speak with a gloomy face when the curtain of the room was lifted suddenly, and the doctor came out wiping his sweat with a tired and helpless expression: "Master, madam, the child was not saved. Besides, the girl has lost her vitality, and I am afraid it will be difficult to have a baby in the future."

As soon as the words were finished, Jia Lian thumped the stone wall resentfully, feeling dejected and speechless.The rest of the servants and maids also looked panic-stricken.Only Sister Feng first smiled triumphantly, and then pretended to cry in frustration: "If I knew this, I shouldn't be angry at her for not making progress and talking about her, so that she was so sad that she broke her body. Pity her for serving me." , but ended up like this!"

"Put away all your posturing, it doesn't have to disturb people!" Jia Lian had seen through Wang Xifeng's heart so far.Thinking that under the skin of this beautiful girl, there is actually a heart more poisonous than a scorpion, and suddenly the whole body shivered.

Sister Feng didn't know what Jia Lian was thinking. She thought that since the child was gone, no matter how angry the husband was, he would have to admit it.As long as I use water and kung fu like before, let him taste the sweetness when doing things in the room, and coax him a little bit, I'm not afraid that he won't change his mind.

Unexpectedly, Jia Lian didn't even look at her directly, but said to Jia Qiang: "It's useless to talk now, I just teach you this trip for nothing."

Jia Qiang said: "My condolences to Second Uncle. When Second Uncle feels better, please come to my courtyard. I have something to ask Uncle."

Jia Lian was a little surprised, wiped his face, and said with force: "You can tell me now, what's the matter?"

"Today, my second aunt kept saying in front of officials and scholars that I was using force on Man'er, and even showed the false evidence to others. My nephew is young and ignorant, and I want to ask my second uncle if they have done anything wrong to me from now on. How to make up for prejudice?" Jia Qiang asked in a deep voice.

Sister Feng, who was planning how to win Jia Lian, suddenly forgot the other things, and immediately retorted: "It's no wonder I, who knew that Man'er borrowed the courage from the tiger and dared to rely on you? Besides, I was also angry for a while, so I said too much A few words, why don’t you just explain to them and you’re done? This point of tongue is worth taking as a matter, do you think your second uncle is not upset enough?”

Seeing her slapping a palladium, Jia Qiang said with a smirk: "Second aunt is so eloquent, so it was my fault? It's just that I can't write two Jia characters in one stroke, and people accused me of unnecessary things. When you have bad conduct, you don't say "other than this Jia Qiang, other people in his family are good." Just like what the second aunt said just now: "People who don't know think that the two houses are so dirty. '."

"you--"

"enough!"

Sister Feng was still waiting to grab the white, but was stopped by Jia Lian.Looking at his wife who had been married for a year, he said with disappointment on his face: "I thought you were jealous by nature, so you acted without heart. I didn't expect that what's more, you would disregard the face of the family just to express your anger. Qiang My son took the scientific examination, everyone in the family knows, don't you know that today's ranking is released? You deliberately picked outsiders to come over, but you just wanted to make things worse, so that you can get rid of Man'er. Just for this, you will not hesitate to kill your relatives The reputation of the whole life. Your heart is more than vicious, it is soaked in arsenic!"

Jia Lian's voice was not high-pitched, but she knocked on Sister Feng's heart word by word, like a Hong Zhong Da Lu, echoing endlessly, making Sister Feng's complexion turn pale.Those self-confident, self-righteous, self-righteous before, suddenly all disappeared.She had a premonition: From then on, she might never be able to win back her husband's heart.

Ignoring the ashen-faced Sister Feng, Jia Lian said to Jia Qiang again: "Although I only bought a job with money, I also know a few people. This is because my second uncle is sorry for you. I will definitely help you settle it and make those people forget about it." What the poisonous woman said."

Although he knew that the situation was not as serious as Jia Lian thought, Jia Qiang changed his mind about him.Although this man looks greedy and lustful on the surface, he spends all the money in the frying pan, and has a full-fledged dandy temper, but in the end he has a bottom line and a sense of responsibility.

For the first time in this life, he called out to his second uncle sincerely: "Second uncle, thank you."

Jia Lian shook his head with a wry smile, and said again: "I was the one who was sorry first."

Looking successively at Jia Lian with a bitter face and Sister Feng who was speechless, Jia Qiang quietly withdrew her previous plan to blackmail.

He has always been a person who respects one point and returns two points.To reciprocate, the right is to sell Jia Lian's face, at least today, don't let him add more weight.Moreover, Wang Xifeng received far more retribution than he thought.At first, he just wanted to use his strength to make her feel ashamed, but now, besides being ashamed, she also lost something more precious.

Seeing that this farce came to an end, Jia Qiang left the west courtyard.Standing under the setting sun, he squinted his eyes slightly, wondering if Mother Jia would blame Sister Feng for this incident, when suddenly a young girl came slowly.

At first Jia Qiang thought it was a maid from the Rongfu, but she glanced at it by chance, only to realize that she was well dressed.And the face is like a silver plate, the eyes are like autumn water, and it is the embryo of a beautiful woman.A red gold necklace was hung around her neck, and her figure was slightly plump, and only then did she realize who it was.

Xue Baochai lived in the Jia Mansion a few years earlier than in her previous life.

In the past few years, he deliberately managed it, one relying on Qingyun, and the other relying on Jia Jing's mysterious masters, Jia Qiang was very well informed, and there was basically nothing in the two mansions that could be hidden from him.When he saw Xue Baochai, he immediately remembered something.

When Fang arrived at Jia's mansion, it happened to be a draft in the palace, and Mrs. Wang hastily submitted the roster for her niece.But because the ancestors of the Xue family had been noble, and no one has been an official in two generations, they were picked up for the reason that their background was not obvious, and they were easily dismissed.

Afterwards, Mrs. Wang became seriously ill, and Aunt Xue no longer had the vigor to show off that she seemed cautious but couldn't help showing off when she first arrived.Although he still smiled at everyone, he was no longer so interested.With only a pair of children, he spends his days in Lixiangyuan, and meets the shopkeepers from time to time to manage the business in Jingzhong.

Also doing business in Beijing, although Jia Qiang didn't deliberately inquire about it, she also knew that the Xue family's property had been shrinking frequently in recent years.It is said that during the Taiping period, there was neither war nor famine, no matter how young and ignorant Ren Xuepan was, the shopkeepers were old after all, so it must not be so difficult.

Outsiders were surprised, Jia Qiang was in the middle of the game, but she could see it clearly: every point the Xue family lost, Jia Mu and Jia Zheng would be red for a few days.Once or twice, it can still be regarded as a coincidence.But every time this happens, it is hard not to think about it.

Wanting to understand the key point, Jia Qiang could only shake her head: In her previous life, the Jia family took advantage of Lin Ruhai's death and took most of the property from Lin Daiyu under the guise of keeping it.The Lin family is the home of Zhongming Dingshi, and Lin Ruhai let go of the salt government for a few years, and the Jia family enjoyed the benefits, at least one or two million silver.In this life, it's Xue's family, but I don't know if they will always be allowed to suck blood and marrow?

Curiosity is curiosity, Jia Qiang doesn't want to mention Xue's family.He and Xue Pan are friends over the wine table, like drunken nonsense, it can't be taken seriously.Besides, the Xue family never took him seriously, so why did he rush forward?

He only thought that Xue Baochai had come to look for Sister Feng on business, he turned his head slightly and was about to walk away, but he heard her stop him: "Brother Qiang, please stay, I have something to say."