The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

But it was said that Jia Xichun drew the picture of the blue and white dinosaur in Wanli of Ming Dynasty for Jia Cong overnight, and ordered him to send it to Lixiangyuan early the next morning.Jia Cong was overjoyed when he saw it, and ordered someone to reward him with ten taels of silver for the painting.Entering the painting, he kowtowed his head happily.Jia Cong then sat in the room and waited in peace, Xie Jing came after a while, his face was ten times haggard than yesterday.

Hong Xiu brought the tea up, and the two drank it silently.After a long time, Xie Jing suddenly said: "I found out about your father's poem."

Jia Cong was taken aback: "Huh? Which one?" Why didn't I know he could write poetry?

Xie Jing read: "Ruthless is not necessarily a real hero, how can Lian Zi not be a husband."

"Eh, this..." Jia Cong was embarrassed, pretending to be stupid, and said, "Oh, I was a little arrogant that year, and I leaked it when I was fighting against my father in the Imperial Academy."

Xie Jing sighed: "You are right, I am really not as good as your father."

Jia Cong said hypocritically: "Is the situation different? What can be compared?" He hurriedly changed the subject, "Did your third sibling recruit?"

Xie Jing nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said solemnly: "When she entered the palace earlier, the nobleman told her that there was a rumor in the palace that she got a dragon child because of the blue-and-white dinosaur in her hand; The offering can raise her status. But she really doesn’t have it. At that time, my third younger brother just said no. Last time when the third younger brother and sister entered the palace again, the nobleman was frightened and said, Zhou nobleman ordered her to hand over the thing, otherwise it would be impossible Let go of the dragon in her belly."

Jia Cong said strangely: "Generally she is also a noble person, why should she not let him go? He still has a dragon seed."

Xie Jing sighed: "According to the date, when our nobleman had a child, it was not long after nobleman Zhou had a miscarriage. Nowhere did nobleman know that the blue and white dinosaur can guide the fetus from other people's womb into his own. "

Jia Cong shivered: "This... is too outrageous, she also believes this? Or is she just guessing?"

Xie Jing shook his head: "How do we know?"

Jia Cong covered his face and was speechless, before he said for a long time: "The Zhou family is just an ordinary third-rank official, is Mr. Zhou very favored? Where did he come from to say such arrogant words? There is no way to compare with your family."

Xie Jing hesitated for a while, then said in a low voice: "Lord Zhou Yan...although his official title is not very high, he is the confidant of a saint."

Jia Cong was stunned for a moment, always felt that something was wrong and couldn't figure it out for a while, so he put it down first.After thinking for a moment, he said: "This is a useful slander. It is much more useful than Qingming in the palace. The person who said this is really smart. If that thing has the effect of seizing children, it is not certain how many women in the palace will think that the sister-in-law The sons are taken from them." He looked at Xie Jing again and said, "Are you still in a hurry to find Third Brother Ling?"

Xie Jing smiled bitterly and said, "It's always a family."

Jia Cong glared at him: "Baozi! I wouldn't bother to care about him if I changed it."

Xie Jing said: "You can't ignore it. Besides, he doesn't have the ability to compete with me."

"Why does his wife refuse to tell your family about this matter?"

Xie Jing had a bit of embarrassment on his face: "They... want to take credit for that blue and white dinosaur..."

Jia Cong froze, wanted to laugh but couldn't, walked over and patted Xie Jing on the shoulder: "God is fair to every family, and each family is given a two fools. Suddenly, I feel that my brother Baoyu is good." It couldn't be better. Thank you, brother, for your hard work."

Look at what he said in a serious manner, Xie Jing couldn't laugh or cry.

Jia Cong said seriously: "I'm going to the Xian Wang's mansion, but by the way, do you want to help Lingmei to complain?"

Xie Jing waved his hands again and again and said: "Who would go to the palace of the virtuous king to complain for the nobles in the palace!"

Jia Cong blinked: "I didn't say to shout blatantly!"

Xie Jing thought that he had some way to hint, so he was overjoyed, thanked him quickly, but didn't dare to delay, so he left quickly.

Jia Cong really changed his clothes and ran to Xian Wang's mansion.Situ Pan was originally an idle prince who didn't go to court, but read idle books at home.Hearing people say that Mr. Jia is here, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Isn't anyone inviting him to dinner today?" Then let him in.

Jia Cong came forward to salute sullenly, twirling his heart and said, "Brother Xian Wang, I want to tell you something."

Situ Pan asked what was the matter.

He asked in a low voice, "Do you know blue and white dinosaurs?"

Situ Pan glanced at him: "Do you know?"

Jia Cong nodded, and repeated what he said to Xie Jingbai yesterday, then took out the picture from his sleeve: "I have asked someone to draw the picture, and it looks like this. I may have misremembered some places. of."

Situ Pan quickly picked it up and looked at it carefully for a long time, and said: "It's quite honest and festive." There was a bit of surprise between his brows, "It looks like this...a round belly."

Jia Cong said: "Brother Xie's younger brother is missing, and he was so ill that he went to the doctor in a hurry, and he actually begged for my child. I don't have that ability! So I rushed to draw it last night. I wanted to show him today, but I can't keep it. How can I help, but he ran to say something early in the morning, and I dare not show him."

Situ Pan asked with a smile, "What did he say?"

Jia Cong blatantly blatantly told the story of Mr. Xie Guiren's threat, and finally said: "Although this thing is rare, it is just a plaything decoration. It is so strange that it is spread, who knows what is so strange?" The words are in the mouth of others? I dare not show him casually."

Situ Pan looked at the picture and then at him, and said with a smile, "Don't make jokes in front of me, what's on your mind? Tell me and I'll listen."

Jia Cong made a grimace: "That Mr. Zhou is too courageous. She is also today's little wife, Mr. Xie Guiren was born higher than her and is pregnant with a baby. How dare she speak like that! The strange thing is that Mr. Xie did not complain , Still scared! I'm afraid there's something wrong with it, I don't dare to mess around for fear of causing trouble."

Situ Pan looked at him without speaking.

"One more thing, because it's too coincidental, I don't think it's a coincidence."

Situ Pan asked, "What's the matter?"

Jia Cong sighed: "I don't know what's going on! It's just out of reach! And it has nothing to do with me!" He said, "I'm a little scared, maybe I accidentally caused this mess—— I really didn't do it on purpose. That's why I came here to find Brother Xianwang, and I told you that maybe you can know some cause and effect."

Situ Pan nodded, motioning him to just talk.

Jia Cong thought for a while, then scratched the back of his head and said, "It's been so long, I can't remember some things clearly. On the way to Chang'an in the first lunar month, I passed by a place called Angu County in Ping'an Prefecture shortly after I left Beijing. You know Is it?"

Situ Pan said: "I know."

"I think that place is too poor, and with so many birthday gifts, they lied that they are the nephew of Gaoli, the governor of Ping'an Prefecture." He giggled, "No one would dare to rob us. I don't want to be so unlucky, I only stayed there for one night and happened to meet a rich household in their county who was killed by thieves. That rich household was the uncle of Third Grandma Xie. This is not the most coincidental. The most coincidental is another thing."

Situ Pan's face was a little gloomy now. "What's the most coincidental thing?"

"The blue-and-white dinosaur, I heard from my husband that there are very few people in the world who know about this thing, and he is quite proud in his words. Therefore, I find it strange. It is clearly a thing from the green forest. How could the palace know? I wholeheartedly thought I am the only one who knows about the entire northern part of the Yangtze River. It seems that everyone knows what that Xie Guiren said. That... Later I remembered... Angu County is too small and there are no officials, so I invited a Wang official from the next county. Post-mortem examination. I saw that there was excitement, so I joined in, talked to Wang Yuzuo, and casually mentioned the phrase 'Daming Wanli Blue and White Dinosaur'."

Situ Pan stood up abruptly: "Have you mentioned this to Ren Zuo?"

Jia Cong pursed his lips: "Just a casual remark, I really didn't mean it, I was joking with him, it was really a joke."

Situ Pan's face became darker, and he said after a long time: "Do you remember that case?"

Jia Cong nodded, and talked about the case according to his position, naturally he didn't mention what should not be mentioned, because he sighed: "In the end, I didn't understand it."

After hearing this, Situ Pan was silent for a long time, as if he had realized something, his brows were sometimes furrowed and sometimes relaxed, and suddenly he walked back and forth in the room.After an unknown amount of time, he suddenly stopped and looked at Jia Cong with a smile, "Do you want to know what's going on?"

Jia Cong shook his head like a rattle: "I don't want to, I don't want to at all! That..." He asked cautiously, "I just said something casually, didn't I hurt anyone?"

Situ Pan said: "No, but you helped the saint once, and Bao Buqi also helped me once. Think about what reward you want."

Jia Cong was overjoyed, and immediately shook his head: "Farewell, I'm still a child, and now I'm already conspicuous enough, eating and drinking every day."

Situ Pan remembered how happily he ate all over the capital these days, and laughed again, reaching out to stroke his head.Jia Cong then played the game again, said goodbye and went home.

Going all the way back to the mansion to see Jia Amnesty, he said with a smile, "Guess what I'm doing today."

After a round of tricks with Gao Mang, Jia She was so tired that he collapsed on the rattan chair and did not move. After a long time, he said, "I don't care what you are doing. You just go to eat, drink and hang out all day."

Jia Cong smiled and grabbed his arm and said, "Second brother Lian has been a fifth-rank official for a long time. It would be nice to let my little nephew be promoted to an official while he is born."

"What!" Jia Amnesty sat up immediately, pointing at him, "Speak clearly, boy!"

Gao Mang quickly said: "I'll go out and have a rest." He raised his legs and was about to leave.

Jia Cong looked at Jia She, and Jia She said: "No need, you just listen together."

Jia Cong curled his lips and said, "Since Cousin Gao came, I have fallen out of favor." Jia Amnesty poked his finger.

There is no need to hide it in front of his father, Jia Cong robbed everything from Wu You to himself and Gong Kun's nonsense.Gao Mang blushed immediately when he heard that they ordered the county magistrate Li to return the people's tax money with the robbed money.At the end, Jia Cong said: "According to the days when the Zhou family searched for dinosaurs, it is likely that they had direct contact with Wang Yu. And they also acted secretly, so they spread the dinosaur so outrageously. If you are willing to draw upright like me It’s not so much a matter of sending the pictures directly to Prince Xian’s mansion.” Gao Mang laughed again; Jia Shefang wanted to glare at him, so he also smiled. "Therefore, Zhou Yan is afraid that he may be suspected of having a private relationship with a foreign official. As a general in charge of the government, he has a private relationship with a foreign official. This alone is enough for him to drink a pot. The ones he made friends with were such small officials, and the ones who passed on were those in Beijing. The secretive secrets of the rich and powerful will definitely reveal a lot of interesting things once they are investigated."

Jia Amnesty thought for a while and said, "I can't guarantee it. He was working for the saint."

Jia Cong smiled and said, "That's even worse. The palace has become a mess because of rumors about this thing. I don't believe that the sage really didn't know. The incompleteness is because he concealed the information."

Gao Mang said, "Maybe he thinks it's okay?"

Jia She snorted and said, "Whether it's important or not, this is for private use, the worst thing. It was even spread to the palace, causing a mess in the sage's backyard. Ninety-nine percent of Zhou Guiren's madness is because she missed it." What the hell." He suddenly frowned, "This has nothing to do with your brother."

Jia Cong said: "My contribution is not small, right? How does the saint reward me?"

Jia Amnesty was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but say: "That's right! It's not convenient for him to reward you, and I don't work in the court, so I can only promote your brother."

Jia Cong said: "Last time I returned the money from the treasury and only got a false title. Now we don't come to a real one. Dad, let's not play with him anymore."

Jia She said with a smile: "Even if he wants to play tricks, since you went to ask the virtuous king to come forward, I think he will not stand idly by. The virtuous king is somewhat righteous." He suddenly remembered something, "Yes, you Have you said anything to the old lady? Why has she been testing me for the past few days, asking if you found a husband's house for your eldest sister?"

Jia Cong was stunned: "Huh? No! It was a temporary idea to exchange favors for the eldest sister. Oh, that day when Concubine Nan'an came, I was bragging... ahhhhhhhh, the ancestors wouldn't take it seriously. Right? Dad, what did you say?"

Jia She said: "I'm just saying that Huo Xuan's funeral is over. Who is willing to mention this at this moment? If you don't talk about it, you have to avoid it for a few months. You can stop talking nonsense in the future, everything is wrong. You provoked it by mentioning it casually."

Jia Cong pouted and said, "There are no piles of pieces, at most there are only two pieces."

For a while he and Gao Mang went back to Lixiang Courtyard to play. Jia She ordered someone to call Jia Lian over and told him quietly: "I'm afraid that your brother made a great contribution to the saint by accident. It's inconvenient to say anything about it. I'm afraid the benefits will fall on your head. Don't make a fuss, be courteous in the yamen, and don't show your whereabouts."

Jia Lian was overjoyed and said, "You are so blessed, Cong'er! Last time, he hit him by mistake, and now he's here again." Then he went back and said that with Sister Feng, the couple hid in the house and had fun secretly, counting the days together and waiting. son.

Two flowers bloom, each representing a branch.In King Xian's mansion, when Jia Cong went out, Situ Pan ordered someone to take clothes in exchange for entering the palace.After changing his clothes, he suddenly stopped moving, and stood alone at the door of the room for a long time in a daze.For a while, a servant saw him stunned, and called out "Prince", only then did he understand, and hurriedly said, "Let's go."

Situ Pan went to the palace to face the saint, and did not hide it. He showed the blue and white dinosaur picture to the saint, and repeated what Jia Cong said about its origin.

The sage picked up the dinosaur pattern and looked at it for a long time, then shook his head and said: "Although this thing has a strange shape and a pleasant smile, if it says it has the meaning of auspicious delivery of a child, I will believe it."

Situ Pan repeated what was said later, Xie Guiren's words and Jia Cong's passing in Angu County that day, and he just stood aside with his hands down and said nothing.

The saint was also dumbfounded when he heard the words.It took a long time before he let out a long sigh: "Zhou Yan..." He stopped talking again, and said after another long while: "Old Jiu, it's not that I can't trust you..."

Situ Pan said indifferently: "I see that the third committee member Xie really doesn't know anything. Instead of questioning him, it's easier for the third brother to try to ask Mr. Xie Gui."

It turned out that the second son of Mr. Napan in Angu County was originally a spy of the imperial court.He recently sent another message that the flying horse came to Beijing, saying that his third brother suddenly disappeared!Coincidentally, rumors abounded in the palace, all around the blue and white dinosaur, and it was rumored that the dinosaur belonged to Mrs. Xie, the saint annoyed these women, and wanted to find out.Mrs. Xie was troubled by inconvenient pregnancy, so Fang took Xie San for interrogation.After asking these days, nothing came out.

The sage nodded: "Zhou Yan, you interrogate. In the future, you can lead him to his department and separate from Liu Dengxi. There must be someone in the palace helping the flames. Let Liu Dengxi investigate carefully." He picked up the dinosaur pattern again. Take a look, "Since they want it, order Jingdezhen to burn some of it like this, so as to save everyone from guessing and causing trouble."

Situ Pan was silent for a moment, and asked, "Who are his subordinates?"

The sage smiled bitterly and said: "Because you are too busy and Liu Dengxi is getting old, I ordered him to recruit some new people to inquire about the news for me the year before last. It has only been two years, but he is so presumptuous. How can he become a great weapon. "

Situ Pan said: "Since I can't bear the loneliness, I can't keep my mouth shut even if I think about it." Then he kowtowed and resigned.

The sage sighed: "I also hope that there is no gap between you and my brother."

Situ Pan said: "The third brother is the son of heaven, he has his own opinions on everything, but my younger brother... I feel a little wronged."

The saint nodded: "You are a sensible person." Nai waved him away.

In the afternoon of that day, Situ Pan captured Zhou Yan and interrogated him briefly. As expected, Wang Yuzuo belonged to him, and the third master of the Pan family was also arrested by him, in order to interrogate Xin Mi of the Xie Mansion.

Situ Pan wondered: "Why do you want to know the secrets of Xie's family so much? Then Wang Yuzuo was placed in Ping'an Prefecture to find out about Gao Li's whereabouts."

Zhou Yan sternly said: "How could it be such a coincidence? My daughter just had a miscarriage, Mr. Xie Gui got the dragon seed, and their family's important relatives were killed!"

Situ Pan looked at him like a fool for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Forget it, let's talk about something else. I'm afraid your few salaries won't be able to support the golden mountains and silver seas of your family..."

Mr. Xie returned home the next day, covered in injuries, but he refused to say where he had been these days. His father seemed to be frightened when he asked urgently, and the family had no choice but to let it go.