Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Xing'er knew that Jia Lian had something important to do for him, so he immediately knelt down.

He swore: "There is heaven above, there is earth below, and there is a Bodhisattva in between. I, Xing'er, swear here, if any news about my master is leaked, I will die without a whole body and no son!"

Seeing him swearing at the child, Jia Lian's heart beat wildly, and he opened his mouth to spit: "Pi, nonsense, just say it yourself, don't implicate the child!"

Xing'er slapped himself a few times.

That's all for Jia Lian.

He beckoned Xing'er to approach: "You go..."

Xing'er said, "Let's go, little one!"

Jia Lian warned: "Pay attention to secrecy, don't let anyone see you, and don't fake your hands to others!"

Xing'er said goodbye and wanted to leave, Jia Lian said again: "Don't be afraid of retribution for this matter, I will bear it myself." But Xing'er said: "Second Master looks down on people, and the younger ones are not afraid, they are not good people, Second Master How many times have you been wronged and plotted against in these years, and now you are paying back the color, it is just giving back to the other body, the Emperor Heaven Bodhisattva has eyes, and he will not blame the second master."

Jia Lian thumped Xing'er: "There is a lot of dexterity in the mouth, and the dexterity of the action. Go."

Waiting for Xing'er to go far away, Jia Lian went to meditate again, thinking about today's events before and after, and felt that his behavior today was absolutely safe and there was nothing wrong with it, so he felt at ease.After thinking for a while, Jia Lian called Long'er, but a boy he had never seen before came in.

Jia Lian was taken aback: "Who are you?"

The servant knelt down and kowtowed: "The young one studied art with Master Guan in Changping before, and I was lucky enough to meet the second master at that time, but I was still young at that time, so the second master doesn't remember."

Jia Lian stared at the boy, seeming to have some impression: "You are the child whose leg was broken and forced to beg, what is your name?"

The boy said: "I didn't have a name when I was young. When the second master met me when I was young, the village was harvesting wheat. The second master said that it was the harvest season. You are called a good harvest. Don't beg for food in the future. Follow the second master. The second master told you to eat white noodles every day."

Jia Lian remembered it, and said with a smile: "Oh, this is white and fat, and he really eats white noodles. It seems that Master Guan didn't deduct your food expenses."

Fengshou smiled shyly: "Master Guan will not skip food. He also said that if the younger ones weigh the most and are the tallest, they will be rewarded with pork knuckles."

Jia Lian found it interesting; "How many times have you eaten pork knuckle?"

Fengshou's chest puffed up: "The little ones have eaten three times, and I ate the most among our group. Later, shopkeeper Pan sent another group of children in. They were as thin as monkeys, with white noodles, and their bodies It grows like a blow, and the young one loses, and then the Zhuangzi has children coming in every now and then, and the young one never wins again."

Jia Lian looked at his aggrieved face, and was immediately happy: "You tell Uncle Long'er tomorrow, just tell me what I said, tell the kitchen to give you a soy elbow every three days from now on."

When Fengshou heard the words, he kowtowed and smiled brightly, showing his two broken teeth: "Thank you, Second Master, for the reward." Immediately afterwards, Fengshou touched his head again, frowned and said, "But, Uncle Longer went to Changping and is not at home, Xinger Uncle said he was behind the times, and asked him to go to Changping to practice hard with Master Guan and catch up."

Jia Lian raised her eyebrows: "Oh, then you can tell the kite in front of Second Grandma tomorrow, and ask him to go to the kitchen to say something, it's the same."

Fengshou was busy kowtowing: "Thank you, Second Lord."

Jia Lian picked him up with his foot: "It's just a soy elbow, is it worth kowtowing again and again, get up, and grind ink for the second master!"

Momo Fengshou Tete has learned it, thinking about Jiang Yaozi, this little guy is very happy, and he chattered all the way: "Well, Uncle Long'er praised the little one too much, saying that the little one is good at grinding ink !"

Jia Lian watched him add water and grind the ink, taking no time to rush, very impressed with Long'er's true biography, nodded: "Not bad."

When he polished half of the ink, Jia Lian casually took out a handful of copper coins from the drawer and threw it to him: "Go out and buy some cakes."

Fengshou grinned with grinning teeth: "Thank you Second Master, the younger one is waiting outside, Second Master, if you have something to do, just tell the younger one."

Fengshou joked and joked, and Jia Lian's mood became much more comfortable.

A sauce elbow smiled like that, this child is content.

Jia Lian was silent, then laid out the paper, wrote a secret copy, and handed it to Yaozi that night: "Send it to Lixiangyuan and hand it to Erye Yun, and let him quickly send it to Zhang's house and hand it to Uncle Zhang's family."

Although Jia Lian is the right-hand governor of the General Administration Department, a series of accidents occurred just after he took office, and there was no time to establish a special secret channel, and now he can only rely on Uncle Zhang to pass it on.

Jia Lian thought that Emperor Qianyuan must be informed of the relationship between King Zhongyi County and the Yang family as soon as possible so that Emperor Qianyuan could come up with a countermeasure.

At this time, Jia Lian could only rejoice in his heart that Emperor Qianyuan did not take his civil servants to Nanyuan today, otherwise, Jia Lian would have to take care of Zhang's uncle, and he would be at a loss.

The next day, when Jia Lian arrived at the Martial Arts Hall, Jia Yun found an empty spot and told Jia Lian, "Uncle Zhang entered the palace overnight."

Only then did Jia Lian go home with peace of mind. After breakfast, Emperor Qianyuan did not move. Jia Lian was not surprised. Emperor Qianyuan was not in good health. I gave him a terrible news last night, which was enough for him to be busy. He has absolutely no energy today. Shout out.

Emperor Qianyuan didn't have an imperial decree, so Jia Lian continued to take a rest and had nothing to do, so he carefully studied the imperial palace newspaper, but saw that Wang Ziteng had just arrived in southern Xinjiang on a patrol by order, and Jia Lian was shocked immediately, sweating white hair all over: Ping Anzhou In southern Xinjiang, what is Wang Ziteng's fate?

Jia Lian immediately went back to Hemerocallis and asked Sister Feng: "Does your Wang family have a unique channel to communicate with your family?"

Sister Feng was stunned, and immediately thought of his third uncle: "You want to contact my third uncle?"

Jia Lian's face was solemn: "I have business to do, which concerns the safety and career of my third uncle."

Sister Feng also became nervous: "I have to ask my father about this. The third uncle has always been in charge of outside, and my father has been in charge of inside."

Jia Lian didn't hide it either: "Quickly write a letter to my father-in-law, asking him to contact my third uncle, and asking my third uncle to be vigilant about the civil and military affairs in Ping'anzhou, and tell him that there is something wrong with the commander of Ping'anzhou."

Sister Feng hurriedly ordered Ping'er: "Call Wang'er's house quickly."

Sister Feng arranged to deliver a letter to her natal family, but Jia Lian hurried to the East Courtyard to look for his father, Jia She.

Jia Amnesty is now more at ease. Jia Lian visually inspected his father's appearance. The bags under the eyes that used to be loose on his face have become smoother and tighter, and it seems that even his hair has turned darker a lot.Seeing Jia Lian was very surprised: "Yeah, didn't you enter the palace today? Didn't His Majesty transfer you back to Beijing to let you return to work in front of the imperial court?"

Jia Lian shook his head: "Your Majesty let me rest for ten days, and I won't be working in the palace in the near future."

Jia Amnesty beckoned: "Sit down, sit down, sit down and talk, it's not too late at this time, but what's the matter?"

Jia Lian said in a low voice, "Does father know anything about the Wu family and the Yang family?"

Jia She frowned: "The Yang family is the cousin of the noble concubine Wu's family?"

Jia Lian nodded.

Jia She snorted: "Don't mention it, the Yang family is nothing. It was agreed before that I would get a share of their business in Ping'an Island. But when the matter came to an end, I regretted it. I sent someone to inquire. My family actually asked me to ask you, hey, I’m so puzzled, why should I ask you about their family’s affairs?”

Jia Lian's heart was relieved when he heard that, according to his previous experience, Jia She's emptiness from that Ping'an Island should have been after Yuanchun became a concubine, and now Yuanchun has no hope of becoming a concubine, probably the Wu family also looked down on Jia She, a playboy general.

Jia She glared at Jia Lian: "You haven't answered me yet, could it be that you offended the Wu family?"

Jia Lian shook his head: "That's not true, but it's not a bad thing that my father didn't get involved with the Wu family. Just wait, just in these few days, the Wu family will be in bad luck!"

When Jia She heard this, she laughed furiously: "Really, I have to take a good look at the joke."

Jia Lian grinned, but couldn't hold back his laughter. He coughed and said, "If father doesn't get the money, you can tell me to tell Sister Feng that we will never let the master get ashamed, but master, please don't give up." Let people fool you into buying calligraphy and paintings of Tang Bohu and Wumei Village. When did you spend a lot of money and get back a bunch of fakes?

"In the future, I will let Pan You'an find any good ones to show you first. If you like it, keep it. Don't go outside to be fooled again, especially that Leng Zixing. You have to remember that he has a grudge against us. Both Zhou Rui and his wife were killed by his grandmother, so he won't think that it has nothing to do with us."

Jia Amnesty was stupefied by Jia Lian for a while, and then said: "Every time you say these words, let Pan You'an do it, Pan You'an do it, what he does, it's all dead people's things, I What do you want dead people for? What I want are calligraphy and paintings of literati, calligraphy and calligraphy of famous people, rare copies of the former dynasty, does he have them? Tang Yin’s paintings, Erwang posts, unique copies of the Song Dynasty, does he have them?”

Jia Lian was very helpless: "Isn't this what you are looking for slowly? These things are spiritual, and they will only appear if you have them, otherwise..."

Jia Amnesty waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it, I don't count on you, I will listen to you for the rest, and I will handle this matter myself."

Jia Lian had no choice but to leave.

When I came to the front gate of the east courtyard, Wang Shanbao had been waiting for a long time, and saw Jia Lian busy bowing: "Morning, second master, I greet you!"

Jia Lian nodded: "I still say the same thing. Don't tell the master about the irrelevant news outside. You know the master's temper. If you let him know who has the orphan copy and which has the calligraphy, you will do everything possible to get it. Let's The family is now in a critical period. People like King Zhongshun of the Shi family are not good people. How many people are staring at them, and they will be caught if they make a mistake. Although you are slaves, the master is unlucky, and you will not be good. , Do you think this is the reason?"

Wang Shanbao nodded again and again: "That is, that is!"

Jia Lian smiled: "I have something to say first. If you want to buy antiques in the future, just go to your nephew Pan You'an. I don't give money to others. You have to respect the master and buy it elsewhere. I have no objection. However, this bill will not be recognized by the family!"

As Jia Lian said, he went to untie the reins on the lion's head. Wang Shanbao grabbed the horse and waited for Jia Lian to walk away. Then he straightened up, sighed and beat his waist and eyes, and walked slowly back to the courtyard, only to see Jia She squinting at him. He, so frightened that he was so busy that he bent down again: "Master, why did you come out?"

Jia She snorted, "If I don't come out, how do you know that you guys lied to me?"

Wang Shanbao immediately cried out for injustice: "Master, the conscience of heaven and earth, I have been searching outside, but I haven't found what the master loves. Although the second master gave orders, I have never hidden the news from you outside."

"You don't dare to measure!" Jia She sneered and walked away.

Jia Lian returned home and immediately told Xing'er: "Watch Wang Shanbao, watch out for the idiots of the Shi family, don't let these two run into each other, and if they do, tell me right away."

Xing'er was a little puzzled: "The stone nerd is almost begging for food, how could he have anything to do with our master?"

Jia Lian snorted: "No one is born poor. The stone nerd's family was also rich. His grandfather and Shan Guogong are direct brothers, but the stone nerd's grandfather was raised by his stepmother and has no inheritance rights."

Xing'er clapped his hands: "I understand, just like in our house, all the good things are given to the second room?"

Jia Lian kicked Xing'er with a smile: "Speak up, go to work. Oh, what happened to that?"

Xing'er laughed and said: "Last night she went out of the house for a walk, thinking that she didn't know anyone, but the door of the main house, Jin Chuan, was tightly guarded, and she had no chance. The little one was thinking, it's appropriate When are you busy with her?"

Jia Lian nodded: "Don't reveal your whereabouts, just wait a few more days."

Jia Lian was thinking about Yuanchun, if Feng Ziying couldn't be trusted there, should they be allowed to meet, her mother died of illness when she returned home, is this also a stain on the concubine?

While thinking about it, he went to see his fat wife in Daylily Hall.Now Sister Feng has become a frog with a big belly.

Jia Lian couldn't help being tangled, she only found out she was pregnant in May, and the fetus was only four months old in August, how could she be so potbellied?Touching Sister Feng's big belly, Jia Lian was both happy and worried: "I said, you won't be twins again, right?"

But Sister Feng couldn't help but wink at her like silk: "So what?"

Jia Lian was stunned: "Twins really? When did no one tell me what happened?"

Sister Feng smiled lightly: "It's my business to have children, and I don't want the second father to give birth. What do you tell me?"

Jia Lian cupped his hands: "Okay, okay, I've convinced you. Well, how about your natal letterhead? Is Wang'er reliable?"

Sister Feng laughed and said, "I later felt that Wang'er was young, and Lin Zhixiao was transferred to him. It should be safe."

Ping'er came in at this time, and when he saw Jia Lian, he smiled and said, "Second master, this is really good. Tomorrow, my brother will catch up with Zhou, and today the second master will take a rest. This emperor is really understanding." .”

Hearing this, Jia Lian helped her forehead. She was so busy and confused these days that she forgot about her precious sons and daughters.

Seeing this, Sister Feng scoffed: "You father, ha, you're afraid to play crazy when you leave home? How can you remember people? I'm afraid the second master will feed the dogs with my words!"

Jia Lian usually hugs his son and pampers him when he thinks about it. Once he forgets, he doesn't even remember that he became a father himself.

Jia Lian was a little annoyed, and snorted coldly as he took out two jade pendants from his cuffs, one with the character Wei on it, and the other with the character Han carved on it.

Jia Lian raised her eyebrows and slanted at Sister Feng: "What is this? Ever since their brothers and sisters fell to the ground, they have been carving. Did you make those golden locks and collars by yourself?"

Sister Feng didn't think it was disobedient. When she saw the jade pendant, she smiled and narrowed her eyes. She took her hand and looked at it over and over again. The two words were a bit unfamiliar, but she had a guess about the word "Wei": "This is the old lady's previous residence. The word on the lintel is called 'Wei Rui', this is the character for Wei Rui, right?"

Jia Lian stared: "Oh, it's been three days since I've seen you. I didn't expect you to recognize this word. Come and see this?" Jia Lian pointed to Sister Qiao's name and asked Sister Feng.

Sister Feng stretched her neck and turned over and over again, finally shook her head: "I haven't seen it before."

Jia Lian smiled and led Sister Feng into the inner room, pointing to the water lily in the big water tank in the yard, and said, "Don't you recognize this one?"

Sister Feng scoffed: "Hey, who doesn't recognize water lilies." Then she was taken aback: "Sister Qiao's name is Lianhua? Well, this lotus is also very suitable for her cursive generation."

Jia Lian nodded: "That's not bad, but I remember I told you that this water lily has another name, don't you remember?"

Sister Feng smiled immediately: "I see, Fuhe." Sister Feng looked at the words on the jade pendant over and over again: "Is this the word Fu or the word He?"

Jia Lian grinned wickedly.

Sister Feng understood that Jia Lian was playing with her, so her face darkened immediately: "Literacy is amazing, can it be eaten as food?"

Jia Lian hurriedly put away her grin, pointed at Han's character Han and said, "Why are you upset? This word is pronounced Han, and Han's Han character, as I told you at that time, gave birth to a daughter and called it Han. Gu, think about it? Is there such a thing?"

Sister Feng frowned, and curled her lips for a while: "Who remembers what happened 800 years ago?"

Jia Lian salivated and approached Sister Feng: "I really don't remember? That night, I was drunk, who, who put me in bed? Then..."

Sister Feng suddenly raised her head and licked Jia Lian's lips, then frowned and pretended to be confused: "Oh, that, I don't remember."

Jia Lian wanted to steal the fragrance at first, don't look at Sister Feng's bulging belly, but her face is an authentic melon-seeded face, which is now like a ripe peach, looking at the juicy pink pistil, it makes people salivate, Jia Lian originally wanted to taste it As soon as I tasted it, it could withstand such teasing from Sister Feng, and there was a gurgling sound in my throat, I opened my mouth to bite the small cherry mouth, and sucked it vigorously, and suddenly felt that it was fragrant and sweet.

Jia Lian knows the taste by eating marrow, and he wants to speak again. Suddenly, the door of the room slams, and Jia Lian is busy pulling the bamboo curtain across the roof to more or less conceal the romance.

It was Ping'er who walked in. It wasn't that Ping'er didn't wink, it was because Zhao'er's matter was so serious that Ping'er had to report it to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian was very displeased at being interrupted, and even Ping'er, a beautiful maid, could not ease his anger a little.

Seeing this, Ping'er knew that this was a sign of Jia Lian's anger, so he hurriedly explained the reason: "Reporting to Second Master, someone came from Uncle Feng's side and said that he had something very important to discuss with Second Master. The maidservant didn't dare to disturb him at first. But it was Uncle Feng who said: "Human life is at stake, this servant has lost his sense of proportion, please forgive me!"

Jia Lian's face turned awkward immediately, but he didn't want to say anything to Ping'er. He reached out to touch Sister Feng's face, got up and left.

Ping'er turned pale with fright.

But Sister Feng thought of Ping'er and stretched out her hand: "Come and sit down, don't be afraid of your second master, it's okay, I'm here!"

Ping'er rolled his eyes, shook his head and said, "I'm fine, grandma is at ease."

Turning around, he said that Jia Lian went out to the study quickly, and met Zhao'er at the head. Zhao'er's face turned pale, and when he saw Jia Lian, he was about to speak. Jia Lian waved his hand: "Let's go in and talk!"

When the two arrived at Shuijingfang, Jia Lian made sure that there was no one else within a hundred paces, so he asked, "What's the matter, Miss?"

Zhao'er whispered in her ear: "Yesterday, the city gates were closed and no one else was allowed to enter or leave. The eldest girl was with Uncle Feng and camped in the woods outside the city. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, King Zhongshun suddenly appeared and took the eldest girl away. Uncle Feng looked around and disappeared. This morning the eldest girl came back by herself, but the eldest girl said that King Zhongshun was just talking to her. I sent them back to the mansion, but unexpectedly the eldest girl insisted on going back to the palace. Today, the nine gates just lifted their guards. Several princes and princes went back to the palace. The eldest girl went back to the palace with King Xijun, but Uncle Feng was sent by the emperor Don't get distracted after talking, so he sent his servant to deliver the letter."

Jia Lian's face turned livid when he heard the news, this Yuan Chun saw that he was looking for death, this was a joke with the lives of the whole family!

Do you think he can get away with it as long as he coaxes Emperor Qianyuan into his hands?

Can the current Emperor Qianyuan be fooled?

Jia Lian gritted his teeth angrily. Originally, he thought that this time at least one battalion of troops could be obtained from Emperor Qianyuan in his own hands, but unexpectedly, he was ruined by Yuan Chun, an overly clever girl.

Now Jia Lian is not only sad that the reward he got is gone, but also worried that Emperor Qianyuan suspects that Jia's mansion is not clear with King Zhongshun.

Feng Ziying naturally doesn't talk too much, but can't she keep others from knowing the inside story?

Jia Lian was thinking nervously, turning around like a millstone, and then, Jia Lian decided to go to the palace to see Emperor Qianyuan.He must ask Emperor Qianyuan to shoot arrows in front of you in the distance, so that he can change from passive to active.

Jia Lian was so anxious that she didn't even have time to say goodbye to Sister Feng, so she told Xing'er, "Prepare the horse with me!"

Fortunately, the empress dowager didn't take back the jade pendant last night, and Jia Lian also forgot to return it because of the Yuanchun incident, so it happened to be used at this time.

But he said that Jia Lian came to Daoqianqingmen, handed over his waist card, and explained his purpose. He asked to see Emperor Qianyuan and reported something important.