Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

The muscles on Lai Da's face twitched, help him?

What will the Lai family do in the future?Moreover, Jia's family has been in decline, and sooner or later they will be rejected by the Holy One, and the Lai family has no ability to save them.

Seeing that he was indifferent, Jia Lian went on chatting: "Next, I am going to pawn off those old things that are not needed in the treasury. As far as I know, the valuable things in the treasury have been taken by you and the second room one after another over the years. Piloted and sold in partnership, there is not much left."

Lai Da's eyes were full of sneer: so what if you know?Can the second wife die again? "

"However, I heard that when the things in the old man's hands are recorded and stored in the warehouse, there are pictures left. Even if they are lost, they can be traced according to the pictures. In Shuntian Mansion, it is said that there are ghosts in the mansion colluding with thieves and stealing the treasury. In this way, the police in Shuntian Mansion will definitely search the pawnshops in the capital from house to house. Manager Lai, tell me, can they find it? "Of course it can be found out, even if it is bought by someone, the pawnshop will also leave a record, so that the buyer and seller are clear and easy to check.

Lai Da stared and cramped: "You are purely out of thin air, there are no thieves at all, and the things lost in the treasury are all pawned by the second wife."

Jia Lian sneered: "Who is the second wife? Is she the wife of the Duke, or the wife of the third-rank general? Why can she pass over the real owner of the mansion and pawn the owner's things? As far as I know, there are three keys to the treasury. You have one key in your hand, the chief manager, one on the cash drawer, and one for the mistress of the house. Since my mother passed away, this key has been kept in the old lady's room and kept by Yuanyang."

"In order to open the treasury in the mansion, these three keys must be collected. The second wife sells things, how can she be qualified? Where did she get the key? Why didn't you, the big manager, stop it beforehand and report it afterwards??? According to me, this It must be you who guarded against yourself, and now that the second wife is sick and confused, you want the second wife to take the blame for you, right?"

Lai Da gaped.

Jia Amnesty immediately got excited: "Anyone who guards himself and steals is regarded as a bandit. According to the law of this dynasty, whoever steals more than 30 taels of silver will have his right hand cut off, three years of hard labor, and a distribution of three thousand miles."

Jia Lian waited for his father to finish explaining, and then continued: "I have evidence here, the total value of the stolen items in the treasury these years is 15 taels, which is not much, 15 taels is enough for your Lai family to distribute several times, your old man Do the math yourself?"

Lai Da's complexion changed drastically: "People in this mansion say that the old man is not stingy, but it turns out that you, the second master, are the ones who hide your secrets. , Don’t you think it’s shameless to use such despicable means to frame my family and imprison them?”

Hearing this, Jia Lian couldn't help but sneered: "I'm despicable and shameless? Ha, when you dragged the second wife into the water and instigated her to steal and usury, why didn't you call yourself despicable and shameless?"

Lai Da was stunned: "How do you know? No, this matter has nothing to do with me, don't try to frame me!"

Jia Lian threw a dividend contract from an underground bank on his face: "What is this? Do you think I can't find out if you don't tell me?"

This was the last time Zhou Rui was unwilling to die alone, and he confessed his accomplices in the mansion, good guy, from the chief executive to the manager of the cash drawer, almost all the important positions in the Rongguo mansion were taken.

However, Zhou Rui and Qian Hao are just small heads, and the big head is Lai Da of the Wang family. The Wang family has fallen, and Lai Da is left with Jia Mu to protect him.

Jia Lian didn't want to confront Jia's mother until he figured out all the context, so after Wang Ziteng gave Jia Lian his confession, Jia Lian kept silent, even Qian Hao let it go, in order to numb Lai Da and wait for the time to come. Calculate the ledger.

Lai Da suddenly collapsed to the ground, staring at Jia Lian fiercely: "Second Master, you have to forgive others and forgive others. You have already raided my house, and the servant has already lost everything. What else do you want?"

Jia Lian suddenly laughed: "You also know that you are a slave? Then you dare to say that you have lost your property? You are a slave, and your life belongs to the master's family. What right do you have to say such a thing? Don't say it is your son Lai Shangrong. It will make everyone in the capital laugh to death!" Lai Da was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood: "What on earth do you want?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "My family owes 140 million in debt to the household department. It's easy to talk about repaying everything. If I don't pay, I will ransack the house and distribute it. Tell me what I want?"

Lai was so angry that his lips trembled: "You, you, you, you don't deserve so much if you sell me!"

Jia She interjected: "There are 120 or 120 members of the Lai family. Except Lai Nanny who is old enough to be spared, the remaining [-] or [-] members, I have a good conscience, not to mention selling them into dirty places like brothels to be prostitutes. I will sell the men to The small coal mines in the Western Mountains dig coal to pay off debts, and the women are bought to be wives to the mountain people in the Eastern Province. Ten thousand dollars is not too much money, and a little money is a little bit."

Lai Da's eyes were about to burst: "You, you, my lord, you are so vicious!"

Jia She sneered: "It's not as good as Your Excellency, you and your master dragged the Wang family into the water, didn't you want me, Jia She, to take the blame for this usury and exploitation for you? You are so cruel and merciless, and you have the face in front of me, the sufferer. Crying for injustice? Your face should really be torn off and pasted on the city wall, even the old Maozi's red cannon can't break through!"

Lai was so angry that his eyes turned black.

Jia Lian almost laughed badly, not knowing that his father could tell jokes, so he couldn't help laughing, and continued to coax Lai Da: "You pay me and I let him go, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? But you don't like it! So, It’s not that I’m vicious, it’s that you risk your life rather than money, you would rather sacrifice your sons and relatives than gold to redeem them.”

Lai Da was run over by Jia Lian and his son again and again, he was really hopeless, and asked in a miserable voice: "I have become a prisoner, what else do you want?"

Jia Lian threw out a contract: "There are two wives in your family, one young master, two young grandchildren, one young mistress, three young ladies, and one young lady Sun. There are ten masters in total. , I want you to take out 5 yuan, and I will let them go. I can also tell you that I have not touched any of the boudoir and things on your women's family. This is the bottom line of my life. Gaming is a man's business. Women have nothing to do, now they are very safe to eat and drink, but they just lose their freedom temporarily, so you have to show your sincerity, otherwise, I am afraid that I will change my mind in a fit of anger and leave the matter to the elder manage."

This is a threat. Once Lai Da does not cooperate, Jia Lian will not care about it and follow Jia Amnesty's arrangement.

In short, either everyone cooperates to live together, or the Lai family dies first.

Jia Lian didn't think there was anything wrong with him. The Lai family was a servant of the Jia family, and they dared to commit crimes and deceive their masters. They deserved to be beaten to death.But he went to the Ministry of Households to borrow money in the name of his master. How dare a servant count the money of the emperor.

Now Jia Lian just let them buy their lives with money, which is kind enough.

Lai Da stared at Jia Lian, his heart twisted and turned, and he struggled fiercely. After a long while, he cupped his hands at Jia Lian: "Thank you for your mercy. However, I don't have 50. The second master is very good at settling accounts and taking my family's money. The details are clear, this is not a day's work, the second master has endured so far, which is admirable.

"Well, since the second master is a person who does great things, he must have different views. We Ming people don't say dark words. I do have money. However, the second master just mentioned the history of Zhongshun Wang's mansion. I must also know that I have a jade in Yunnan. The material factory, the 20 yuan of the jade material factory was paid by me alone, but this jade store is in the hands of people from Changshi, and I can't get involved at all, let alone pay dividends. It's not that I underestimated the second master, the second Even if Master holds this bonus contract in his hand, I'm afraid he won't dare to reach out to ask Chang Shi for money, if Second Master dares to reach out, I don't want any money back, I will give it all to Second Master."

Jia Lian asked with a smile: "You don't need to talk nonsense to insult me, it's useless, I just ask you, how much do you pay for the lives of your whole family?"

Lai Da was silent, weighing nervously, this Jia Lian was almost going to squeeze him out, it was really busy for decades, and if he was careless, he lost everything.

Suddenly, Lai Da's eyes turned cold, and his voice was shrill: "No, my Lai family is full of thirteen masters, big and small, how do you say ten?"

This time it was Jia Lian's turn to sneer: "Butler Lai has had a lifetime of glory, isn't it enough?"

Lai Dada suddenly felt a cold air rising from the soles of his feet, and it went straight to his bones. He thought that it would be a big deal to break up with Jia's mansion, and he could join Mingzhu again. You can wash away the stains on your body, and become a powerful person in one fell swoop. At that time, he has both fame and fortune, and wealth and honor in his hands. Who would dare to mention the scandal of him being a slave and a servant girl again.

Unexpectedly, from the very beginning, this little boy had no intention of letting him survive.

Lai Da was very desperate, and the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably: "You, are you going to kill me? My mother has served the old lady for decades. She is already in her sixtieth year, and she has been with the old lady for a lifetime. A murderous hand? Where is your conscience? Are you not afraid of retribution?"

"You're wrong. Not only did I not want the ransom for Nanny Lai, but I also left her a sum of pension money. As I said just now, I didn't move the houses of Lai's women, including Nanny Lai."

Jia Lian stretched out two fingers: "I'll take a step back, your brother's life, plus 30 silver in exchange for the lives of your family, it's a good deal."

"You are so vicious!" Since Nanny Lai killed two sons in one fell swoop, how could he survive?

Lai Da's image of a wise elder that he had pretended for more than [-] years collapsed in an instant. His face was pale, and he stared at Jia Lian with gloomy eyes, as if he would pounce on Jia Lian and bite him at any moment.

Immediately, Lai Da really rushed up, but instead of biting, he hugged Jia Lian's leg and cried: "Second Master, you have always been generous to others, please do me a favor, let Lai Sheng go, Lai Sheng is Ning People in the mansion, he doesn't know everything I do, and he doesn't have a son, it's so pitiful, you can forgive him, can you do it?"

Lai Sheng's waist was kicked in a wrong position, and he passed out from the pain. He was neither deaf nor dumb, and now he woke up from the pain, and just as he heard his brother's words, he immediately shouted: "No, brother, your whole family will be ruined if you die. , let me die, Second Master, Eldest Master, in view of years of love, let me die."

Jia Lian sneered: "It's ridiculous. When you harmed us, why didn't you think about it? Once the incident happened, what would happen to us? Colluding with the loyal county king and exploiting usury, which one can escape? But, you actually did it. , not only do it yourself, but also pull the master into the water, and let the master take the blame, what kind of faces are you, thinking that your life is more valuable than the master?"

Lai Da saw that Jia Lian did not let go, and the threat of death drove him into madness: "Who's life is more precious than whose life? Back then, the ancestors of the Jia family were not ordinary people, but they had a good life and climbed up to a master who succeeded in rebellion. Your old man Ancestors can worship generals and become marquises, why can't others? The emperors take turns doing it!"

Jia Lian immediately lost confidence when he saw that he was stubborn, and he clapped his hands, Zhao'er responded, "Second Lord?"

Jia Lian said: "Go and send a letter to the shopkeeper of Wufenglou, saying that Lai Xiucai in Qingyaju is willing to sell himself in Wufenglou to be a prostitute, and tell him to quickly handle the contract of selling himself. I will mediate for naturalization procedures!"

As soon as these words came out, Lai Da couldn't stand it anymore, and all his arrogance and integrity were forgotten. He collapsed and threw himself at Jia Lian's feet, crying again and again: "Second Master, I was wrong, I said , I promise everything, I just ask you to let Rong'er go, think about when you were a child, Second Master, Rong'er respected you since childhood, and grew up with you, do you have the heart for him to be ruined by others?"

Although Lai Shangrong is a slave and maidservant, his skin is indeed good, his face is red and his teeth are white, his eyebrows are square, his nose is high, and he is full of poems and books.In the past, under the cover of the Rong Mansion, others dared not think about it, but now that Jia Lian wants to buy him, those perverts are still flocking to him.

This time Lai Da was really scared, even though Jia She said that he would buy his daughter as a female branch, he was not so desperate. Lai Shangrong was the only grandson of the three generations of the Lai family, and the success of the Lai family was all pointing to him.

Once something happens to him, the Lai family will really have no way for you to survive.

Jia Lian sneered: "It's my turn to be afraid of this. Just now I heard that Jia's house is going to be raided by debt collectors. Aren't you very proud, thinking that your plan has succeeded, and your day as master is just around the corner, right?"

Lai Da finally lowered his head and kowtowed: "Second Lord, this old slave made a mistake. You spared Rong'er. I am willing to dedicate all my wealth to you. I also know the secret of the Second Wife, so I will tell you too. As long as I know, I will never hide it from the second master again, I just beg the second master not to embarrass Rong Er, you let him live, in this life, in the next life and the next life, I will repay you by being a cow and a horse for life and life!"

Jia Lian waved his hands coldly: "Don't be so pitiful. I said it earlier. It is you who are stubborn and clinging to the money to redeem someone. Now I will say the same thing. Take the money and get you out of the house." If you spit out the money that my Jia family stole, I will let your family members go, and I will do what I say, and I will never break my promise."

Lai Da shook his head and got up: "Thank you, Second Master, I will take Second Master there!"

Jia Lian touched his knee, and Lai Da knelt down again.

Jia Lian dropped the pen and paper and said, "Tell me where the gold is hidden, and I'll send someone to find it. If I find it, I release it, but I can't find the seller! So, don't try to fool me, and don't try to run away."

Lai was a rascal, so he had to pick up the pen and paper that Jia Lian had thrown down, and began to draw. When he finished, Jia Lian's eyes shrank.

Jia Lian recognized this picture and was very familiar with it. To be precise, he recognized this big pagoda tree. This tree was on the back street, in the yard where the Lai family used to live.Jia Lian and Lai Shangrong were friends when they were young, and they once climbed this tree.

Jia Lian really admires Lai Da. Jia Lian's previous idea was to bring Lai Da's family back to their original shape and let them go back to the old days.

Now it seems that Lai Da is counting on the people's hearts, and he just pushed the boat along with the current and got his money back. A comeback is just around the corner.

Although Jia Lian hated Lai Da deeply, he had to admire Lai Da's wonderful ideas.

For a while, Xing'er took people to dig, and sure enough, a vat of gold bricks was dug out under the big locust tree, but it was only 5000 taels.

Unwilling to give up, Pan Youan dug up everyone's stove, but found nothing.

Lai Da told the truth.

Jia Lian turned around and saw Lai Da again, and said: "You told the truth, and I also abide by Ruoyan, but before that, I want to know how much money the second wife stole, and where is the money hidden? Don't say it was given to Yuan Chun. Yuan Chun's money is all from the public account, there is no need for Wang to steal it!"

There was a sneer in Lai Da's eyes: "Speaking of which, the second wife is also a wooden mallet. If you give her [-] yuan for something worth [-] yuan, she will be happy."

Jia Lian didn't care about the Wang family, he really wanted to know where the silver was: "You mean, three out of ten, you seven her three, and the second wife still has at least 30 taels in her hand? Is that what you mean?"

Lai Da shook his head: "Your Jia's mansion doesn't have millions of dollars for people to be greedy for ink. I only took out 30 silver from the mansion, and the rest is..."

Jia Lian was afraid that he would say something bad, so he waved his hands: "I don't like to hear it, I just need to know the amount of money."

Lai Da gave up, and stopped talking nonsense, intending to confuse: "The second wife estimates that there are about 25 in her hand, but [-] of which is the original principal, so you don't want to think about it."

Jia Lian calculated silently in his mind that the second wife's remaining 15 taels of silver were searched out, and Lai's family's 15 taels were only 30, leaving a shortfall of [-] taels.It seems that there must be a fight with Pan You'an.

That night, Jia Lian went to the main hall of Rongxi Hall, but fortunately Jia Zheng doesn't live here now.

Wang was seriously ill and moved to a remote place for recuperation long ago. Jia Lian went around all the places in Rongxi Hall, but he couldn't find any clues.

Jia Lian ordered a servant to search for places that are easily overlooked, such as the main hall, flower hall, and Buddhist hall of Rongxi Hall.But he himself sat and listened and thought: Mrs. Wang is a woman, so the money must be hidden at home, where is it hidden?

At such a time, Jia Lian saw the door flashing, and it turned out that Jin Chuan, Wang's personal maid, stretched her head at the door and waved: "What's the matter with you, what's the matter with the second wife?"

Jin Chuan slowly moved in and bowed to Jia Lian: "This servant has seen the second master. This servant is here to find the second master. The wife seems to be waking up. She has been talking nonsense these days, as if calling for the second master Bao. The maidservant thought, if Second Master Bao can spend more time with his wife, it would be fine if he can't say his wife."

Will Mrs. Wang be okay?That's nothing more than calling Wang Ziteng to take another dose of medicine.

Jia Lian took a few glances at Jin Chuan, nodded and said, "You are a good person, and you are good at serving your wife. I will tell Baoyu to let him come back and have a look."

Jin Chuan's eyes immediately turned red when he heard the words; "Thank you, Second Master, you will definitely get what you wish, and you will be named on the gold list and give birth to a precious son early!"

These words are very pleasant to the ear, Jia Lian said with a smile; "It's good to serve your wife, and the house will not treat you badly. Oh, I remember that you seem to have a younger sister who is also serving the second wife, right?"

Jin Chuan didn't expect Jia Lian to remember their sisters, so he hurriedly said, "Return to the second master, yes, the maidservant's younger sister is named Yu Chuan, she is the third-class girl in the wife's house, two years younger than me."

Jia Lian nodded: "You have served the second wife for many years, but do you know where the second wife likes to stay?"

Jin Chuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "Usually our second wife likes to chant scriptures in the Buddhist hall the most, and they say it is to pray for the eldest lady in the palace!"

Sure enough, Jia Lian grinned: "Go!"

Jin Chuan thanked him and left.

When she was far away, Jia Lian was busy greeting a group of boys, searched around again, and finally locked on Wang's small Buddhist hall: "Tear down these altars for me, vicious people are not qualified to be protected by the gods. To blaspheme."

Lin Zhixiao and Zhao Liangdong heard this and demolished the Buddhist hall by themselves.It turned out that there was a sandwich wall inside the Buddhist hall.

Jia Lian was secretly happy, that's all right.He ordered someone to knock around, he listened carefully, and soon found the echo of the empty sound, Jia Lian was too lazy to find the mechanism, and pointed to the echo: "Dig it!"

As a result, the digging turned out to be piled up with gold and silver bumps on half the wall.

Jia Lian was dumbfounded. There are such lazy people in the world who don't collect gold and silver separately.

Not to mention, the golden bricks and gold ingots mixed with silver are extraordinarily beautiful.

Mrs. Wang really had a wonderful idea. She made a simple false wall as the background wall of the Guanyin statue, but left a fist-sized air hole behind the Guanyin statue, and threw silver and gold into it like a stone. , Estimated how many there are, Wang himself is not very clear.

Jia Lian ordered someone to count carefully, and sat in the small living room thinking about it in a daze, thinking that it was really hard to guess what Wang was thinking.While crying and shouting to earn money for Yuanchun, the family piled up money but refused to take it out.

For a while, the boys finished counting, and Xing'er reported the total to Jia Lian: "Reporting to the second master, here is a total of 5000 taels of gold and 3 taels of silver, which is 8 taels in total."

Half the amount of silver?Then the gap in the national debt becomes 17!

Jia Lian's head was suddenly as big as a bucket, and now only Pan You'an can squeeze out tens of thousands of silver in his hands, but cutting off his flow is still not enough, and it will also affect the future development of Rongfu.

Frowning for a while, he suddenly remembered the time when he almost brought down Mrs. Wang. Although he took a few hundred taels of gold and five thousand silver from Zhou Rui's house, the silver note in Mrs. Wang's hand was confiscated by Mrs. Jia later, because Most of the things Wang stole belonged to Jia's mother, and Jia Lian could not object at that time.However, it now appears that a lot of the money was obtained by her stealing the treasury.

Now that the Jia family is in debt, the little emperor is about to take the blame. At this critical moment of life and death, Jia Lian decided to be cheeky and beat his grandmother once.