The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

But it is said that Wang Xifeng gave birth on this day, and Rongguo Mansion was facing a big enemy inside and outside.The child had been tossing and tossing from morning until evening, Jia Amnesty was in a hurry to turn around, but when he turned his head to see Jia Cong and Jia Huan, who were almost asleep while sitting, he suddenly felt relieved.

Finally, I heard a woman running in to announce the good news: "Congratulations to the master! Second Mistress Lian gave birth to a young master! She opened her eyes when she was born, she is fat and energetic!"

Jia Amnesty was overjoyed: "Reward! Reward!" Without even wearing a hat, he ran over to see his eldest grandson.

The newborn child was not very attractive, but this child was born a few days late, but it was well nourished, chubby and extremely cute, Jia She could not put it down in his arms, no matter how he looked at him, he was pleasing to the eye.Needless to say, Jia Lian went to burn incense in front of his ancestors and told them that there were descendants in the direct line.Wang Xifeng passed out after giving birth, and when she woke up and heard that it was indeed a son, she couldn't help shedding tears, and said to Ping'er: "From now on, I will be depended on for the rest of my life."

Since Jia Cong revealed that the next child of Lianfeng and Feng was a son since Fu'er was born, all kinds of items from Rongguo Mansion to Wang's house were for boys. A daughter-in-law next to Mrs. Wang Ziteng once persuaded "Prepare a copy for the girl too", causing her master to scold her, so when the "Master" came out, there was joy everywhere.Those who hang small bows and arrows, arrange things, carry gifts, and distribute money. The tents are even prepared at the beginning of the month to reward the servants in the house and the people outside.As soon as the child landed, the entire Rongguo Mansion turned like a clockwork machine.

There was a boy with fast legs who ran to the stable when he got the letter, and the stable was also ready to deliver the letter. After hearing the news, he ran to report it to the Wang family.

When the Wang family heard that the eldest girl had finally had a child, they immediately closed the house and celebrated.Mrs. Wang laughed from ear to ear, and ordered someone to deliver the gift prepared for her grandson, and rewarded her servant with a lot of money.Wang Ziteng became more thoughtful after hearing the news.What Jia Cong said is true, this is really a boy.

Even the Xue family sent a generous gift, and Xue Pan delivered it in person, and even held Jia Lian's hand in front of Jia Zheng's ugly face and said good things for a long time.Jia Lian was so happy that he forgot that his second uncle had a grudge against the Xue family, so he just laughed.Jia Cong just pretended not to know them.

When the two of them finished talking, Xue Pan secretly pulled Jia Cong aside with a bitter face: "He said he doesn't make decisions about my affairs."

Jia Cong snorted, "That means I don't believe you yet, keep working hard!" He patted his fat belly and ran away.

Jia Amnesty started reading Shuowen Jiezi that night, and after reading it for half a day, he said to Jia Cong, "How about naming your eldest nephew Gui?"

Jia Cong shivered: Isn't this the son of Baoyu and Baochai in the legend? "Father, this name is so indistinguishable! Osmanthus fragrans are among the famous flowers of various colors. Outsiders can't tell whether this is my nephew or niece after hearing it - besides, it is a famous tree in autumn, and it is spring right now." .”

Jia She was happy at the moment, he thought everything he said made sense, and hurriedly said: "By the way, when Fu'er was born, the sweet-scented osmanthus bloomed. Fu'er wasn't famous yet, so this is it. It's also auspicious."

Jia Cong chuckled and thought, Brother Baoyu, I have already helped you once, so think of another name for your son.

Jia Amnesty read the book for half a day, but felt that every word was not suitable for his grandson, so he said irritably, "Why are there so few good words?!"

Jia Cong laughed.

Jia She glared at him: "You are a real uncle, and you don't recommend one?"

Jia Cong waved his hand and said, "Don't do it, this is grandfather's job. Just don't give him a girly name anyway. Like Jia Rong Jia Qiang from the East Mansion and Jia Lan from the second room, it sounds like they don't know men and women. Don’t use too uncommon words, the name is only recognized by people, it’s better for most people to recognize it.”

Jia Amnesty took these two items and turned them over again, finally circled a word, and said solemnly: "This is done!"

Jia Cong poked his head over to have a look, covered his stomach and wanted to laugh, tried his best to endure it, and stretched out two thumbs to praise: "Good! It's very appropriate and charming! It's my father who is knowledgeable!"

Jia Amnesty became more and more proud when he heard the words, and immediately wrote "Jia Gui" on a piece of paper and ordered someone to send it to Jia Lian; on the "Shuowen Jiezi" on the desk, the word "Meng" was clearly surrounded by an ink circle.

When Jia Cong returned to his room, the more he thought about it, the more interesting he became, and he fell on the kang and giggled for a long time.The people in his room ranged from Lan Xiang Ziguang to Hong Xiu 123 Romance Xiao Xiang, no one paid him any attention.

The next day, the threshold of Rongguo Mansion was almost leveled by those who came to congratulate him. From Jia pardoning Jia Lian and Jiamu to welcoming the Spring Festival, Jia Cong was too busy.In the afternoon, even Su Zheng came.Jia Amnesty is overjoyed!This old man was originally a Qingliu, he had never joined a wealthy family, and he didn't want to give face like this.Jia's mother also felt that she had a good face, so she hurriedly ordered someone to call Jia Zheng.

Originally, he was the grandson of the eldest son, and Jia Zheng had nothing to do with him. He also knew that most of these people came to see Jia Cong's recent limelight, so he just talked with a few old relatives.Because Jia Huan was studying under Su Zheng's door, and he also intended to ask Su Zheng to accept Baoyu, so he went to Jia She's study with the cheek.

Because Jia She had a new eldest grandson, he was pleasing to everyone, so when he saw him coming in, he smiled and introduced to Su Zheng: "This is my second brother, Cun Zhou."

Su Zheng stood up and cupped his hands, Jia Zheng rushed forward and gave a deep salute: "I have admired Mr. Su's name for a long time, and I didn't know that Mr. Huaner was accepted as a disciple until a few months ago. Zheng is very grateful."

Su Zheng wanted to be polite to him, but when he heard Jia Huan's name, he couldn't help sighing: "Huan'er told me when he went to Chang'an to bid farewell. Second Master Jia, I am an old man relying on the old to sell the old and trusting the old. Huan'er is a Excellent boy, don't let his future be delayed by irrelevant things."

Jia Zheng blushed with shame, and bowed again: "Students are ashamed."

Suddenly someone came to call for Jia She, saying that Liu Biao, Duke of Li, had come to congratulate him. Jia She said, "Let Cong'er come and accompany him sir!"

The man said: "Master Cong is accompanying Prince Beijing."

Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng shouted at the same time: "Call Huan'er!" "Call Baoyu!"

Everyone is biased.Su Zheng had no feelings for Baoyu at first, but he couldn't help frowning when he heard Jia Zheng's yell: Sure enough, my disciple is not liked by my own father, poor child!Sui said, "Where's Huan'er? Let him show me the homework I gave him the day before yesterday."

Jia Zheng was somewhat embarrassing.Jia Amnesty didn't bother to care about him, so he said "I'm sorry" to Su Zheng and left.

All of a sudden Jia Huan came over with his homework in hand, and saluted his father first.Jia Zheng coughed, and according to his usual habit, he closed his eyes and reprimanded a few words, "If you don't study hard, I will break your legs" and so on.

In fact, he talked to Baoyu in the same way, and he spoke harshly; it fell into Su Zheng's ears and was extremely unpleasant. The old man became angry and said angrily, "He is the only one who can work hard. Let him write He wrote two articles for one article, and copied four chapters for what he was asked to copy once, so it’s not easy to study?"

Jia Zheng was embarrassed again, and Jia Huan hurriedly laughed and said, "Sir, my father was just talking, and he never really beat me."

Su Zheng still refused to let go: "It's just talking, how can you open your eyes and talk nonsense!"

Jia Huan glanced at his father, stepped forward and took Su Zheng's arm and shook it: "It's just an ordinary polite remark, the same as Mr. Pingsu telling people that we are villains."

Su Zheng laughed when he said that, and Jia Zheng also breathed a sigh of relief.Su Zheng then ignored him, took a closer look at Jia Huan's homework, and gave him some pointers. The master and apprentice simply started teaching in Jia She's study.It was not pleasant for Jia Zheng to watch from the sidelines, Jia Huan was obviously closer to Su Zheng than to his real father;

On the other end, Jia Cong was bored and had tea with Shui Rong.Shui Rong tried to tease him with one sentence from left to right, but Jia Cong pretended to be stupid and played haha ​​to fool him.Shui Rong finally couldn't help but slapped him on the head: "I'm getting better at pretending."

Jia Cong shook his head: "Qiantui, the county king, you are getting more and more boring. What do you want to inquire about? Why don't you just ask me?"

Shui Rong pretended to sigh: "I have always acted cautiously, fearing that something might happen."

Jia Cong heard that he meant to tell the truth, and snorted, "How old are you? I was afraid of wolves and tigers in the future. An old man like my father is stronger than you."

Shui Rong looked at him again, gritted his teeth: "That's all." Nai whispered, "I heard that you intend to do some business of reselling things for others."

Jia Cong was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean by acting for others..." He laughed out loud, "Isn't it just selling stolen goods? Yes, yes, who told you? Lord Shui also wants to intervene? Welcome, welcome. "As he said, he thought about it, he only told two people about the sale of stolen goods, one was Zhong Heng, and the other was Wang Ziteng.Geographically, Wang Ziteng's house is closer to Shui Rong's mansion, but Jia Cong hadn't mentioned this to Wang Ziteng when Shui Rong posted him a post; Quick, tell him that night?It must be known that at that time he went to the Wang family on the first day, and to the Beijing Palace on the next day, and was tempted by Shui Rong for half a day.Sui smiled and said in a low voice, "How is the leader of the hour?"

Shui Rong was taken aback: "Who is the leader of the hour?"

Jia Cong curled his lips and said: "You pretend, you continue to pretend! Are you interested? The most important thing in business is integrity. Since you intend to join forces, you must show sincerity. Hey, what I told the leader is true! But I think you Your own home is fine too, your home is the palace of the prince, and it is cheaper than ours."

Shui Rong saw that he had spoken so far in one breath, and knew that denying it would be futile, so he smiled wryly and said, "It's a mansion of the opposite sex who once held a heavy army."

Jia Cong said "Oh": "Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite." Because of thinking for a while, he said, "So, in fact, you still have some people in your hand? Is there anyone who knows water?"

Shui Rong thought for a while: "Yes."

Jia Cong said: "To tell you the truth, I have already thought about an industrial chain, but now I only lack navy."

Shui Rong raised his eyes and glanced at him: "You sell stolen goods with others, what do you want the navy to do?"

Jia Cong chuckled: "The navy is the source. What's the point of robbing merchants in China alone? Do you know the English country in the West?"

Shui Rong said: "I don't know."

"This country is very rich. Because their neighbor Spain captured the Aztec country, and Aztec had a lot of gold, Spain sent people to load a boat full of gold back from Aztec. It's just that they often encountered pirates... ..." He smiled and glanced at Shui Rong, "Actually, these pirates, like the leader Zhong Heng, are decent English officers and soldiers dressed in thieves' clothes."

Shui Rong couldn't help raising his voice: "You want to plunder maritime merchants with a serious navy?"

Jia Cong said with a smile: "Of course I don't want to rob. It would be better if I could rob the Spanish gold ship ahead of the British army, or simply follow up with the British ship - it's just that I can go so far towards less good ships. There are no good artillery, if any."

Shui Rong thought for a while and said, "If there are too many maritime merchants plundered, I'm afraid it will damage the maritime trade. Although the maritime ban is severe, some of them are officially approved by the imperial court."

Jia Cong grinned: "It's okay, we also have maritime merchants." He said, "It's a long story, I will talk to the prince in detail in the future. Since the prince intends to do business together, everything will be easy to handle. Let's talk , why do you dare to tell me about this matter? Are you not afraid of getting into trouble? I am quite familiar with King Xian."

Shui Rong snorted, "Forget it, how many times have you met him since you knew him when you were young? Also, it was Huo Sheng who persuaded me to speak up with you when I was in trouble."

Jia Cong was taken aback: "Huh? He's not familiar with me either! Just believe what he says."

Shui Rong said: "It was your cousin Jia Baoyu who told him. He said that Baoyu is an honest person and would not lie."

Jia Cong was stunned again: "...I take back what I said to Brother Xie Jing a few days ago."

Shui Rong smiled and said: "Huo Sheng's father is not reliable, so his grandfather sent a letter to my father before he died, asking my father to take care of his children and grandchildren. I look down on Huo Xuan, and I have little contact with him. I also stay in the military camp all year round. I like Huo Sheng very much. It was my idea to send those two little girls to your family."

Jia Cong hurriedly said, "Then it was your idea to ask for another box of poisonous snacks?"

Shui Rong said: "It's his own. His concubine Zeng specially ordered him to go and get the snacks, but he fooled it."

Jia Cong nodded: "Trust is the first step in cooperation." Then he asked Shui Rong about Zhong Heng's recent situation, Shui Rong only said "everything is fine" and refused to say more.

The next day Wang Ziteng sent a large sum of thanks to Jia Cong for finding a son for his daughter, and there were many interesting Western things in it.The steward who came to give the gift said: "My master once went around to find out what the dynamo and transmitter were. He didn't want all kinds of maritime merchants to know, so he invited a Westerner who can speak my Korean dialect."

Jia Cong was overjoyed: "I still want to find some Mr. Xiyang to ask!" Come in please.

Then came in a Western monk wearing a monk's robe.His Chinese name is Zhao Shouqian, and he has been preaching in this dynasty for nearly 20 years.Hearing from Wang Ziteng that this son likes Western things, and knowing that he has been very popular in Beijing recently, and those who enter the palace every day are all noble and royal families, so he came here to try his luck and wanted to take advantage of the situation to teach him.

Jia Cong hurriedly invited him to sit down, and asked him to inquire about Western affairs, especially scientific knowledge such as mathematics, physics and chemistry.

It's a pity that Zhao Shouqian was devoted to preaching, so he didn't know much about it, and Jia Cong had no interest in religion, so he wanted to send him away after talking about it.Zhao Shouqian was anxious, and cupped his hands and said, "Although I don't know this, I know an Englishman who is also a monk. He likes science very much and knows a lot."

Jia Cong hurriedly asked, "Does he know Sir?"

Zhao Shouqian was both surprised and delighted: "Mr. Jia, do you know Mr.?"

Jia Cong nodded and smiled, "I know, and I admire him very much."

Zhao Shouqian became more and more joyful: "The Mr. Aylward I know also admires you very much! You must be able to talk."

Jia Cong said: "Since this is the case, how about inviting him to meet him when he has time?"

Zhao Shouqian crossed himself on his chest and said, "I'm going to see him right now. I wonder when is it convenient for Mr. Jia?"

Jia Cong asked, "What about him? Is he free?"

Zhao Shouqian said: "He only translates books at his residence, so he has plenty of time."

Jia Cong said: "Since that's the case, I'll wait for him here tomorrow." He ordered Lan Xiang, "Go to the Beijing Palace, and say that I want to listen to Mr. Xiyang's interesting Western stories tomorrow, not at their house. play."

Lan Xiang went away in response.

Zhao Shouqian saw that he had turned down his appointment with the prince, and he became more and more convinced that this son was a follower of Sir Newton, so he left very happy.