The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

In the late autumn of this year, the two brothers of Rikain both set foot on the trip.That's all for Ge Qiao, Panlong Mountain is very close; Wu You is thousands of miles away.Everyone was a little bit reluctant, but also a little bit excited.I keep talking about the journey of thousands of miles starting with the career with one step, and those in the past were just preparations.Now someone has finally taken the first step.

Seeing that it was November, there was good news from the palace that Mrs. Xie Gui gave birth to the emperor's seventh son early.The Dingcheng Marquis' Mansion gave Rongguo Mansion an extremely generous gift. Jia Amnesty was puzzled, so he called Jia Cong over and asked, "Did you do something wrong again?"

Jia Cong was stunned for a long time, trying to recall what he said to Xie Jing that day, but he really couldn't remember anything related to the Seventh Prince, and frowned, "When I just returned to Beijing, Xie Jing came to ask me to help me think about his third brother. Where did you go? It’s just that I didn’t help you with that matter. I heard from Brother Xianwang that I helped each of him and the sage. The help to the sage was probably because he overturned Mr. Zhou by accident. With Xie’s family There's really no rest."

Jia Amnesty looked at the gift list and said annoyedly: "They sent such a generous gift, don't they have to work hard to pay them back?"

Jia Cong said: "What's the matter, give it away if you like. Dad, take it all, and don't care what he is."

Jia She glared at him and said, "What do you know? Accepting such a heavy gift from someone for no reason is like trying to please us for the Seventh Prince. Since our family accepted it, didn't we agree to help the Seventh Prince?"

Jia Cong snorted and said: "He gave the gift, why did we promise something? If we say we promised something, show the evidence! Unspoken rules, I don't recognize it!"

Jia She said: "Who cares if you recognize it or not, others may mistake us for it."

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Don't worry, Dad, it won't happen, it won't happen soon."

Jia Amnesty is also someone who likes it cheaply. Hearing his generosity, he really didn't give the Chenghou Mansion a gift in return.

Because Jia She had no relationship with any of the princes, it was Jia Cong, the great sage Qi Tian, ​​who had known the nobles of the Manchu dynasty for a while, and within two days, someone came to inquire about what they had done to help the Xie family, and how they had attracted such a big gift. , The gift-giving chariots and horses are mighty for a long time.Jia Cong said: "I asked my father, and he said that our two families have a normal relationship. It seems that the Xie family made a mistake in some letter and thanked the wrong person. Anyway, we didn't ask them to send it, but they sent it themselves. A big deal for nothing hahaha..." Beijing and China have rules, who has ever seen a bum like Jia She?The bystanders also laughed when they heard this.Those who were worried made people inquire about Huizi, and sure enough, the two of them did not have much friendship, so they were relieved.

That day, Jia Cong was idly talking about "I don't know that Brother Feng may come back a few years ago", when suddenly someone delivered a letter, and just now someone galloped into the city and went straight to the palace. Fall into the hands of thieves" and passed out, it was Feng Ziying!Jia Cong shivered in fright, and stood up: "Go! Go to Lin's house."

The three brothers rushed to the Lin Mansion, and they didn't come back until the moon was over the treetop forest, their faces were full of exhaustion.He wasn't surprised to see a few disciples, he just sat down and rested for a while, drank a cup of tea, and said with a wry smile: "Don't look at me, how can the important affairs of the court be let you little kids know at will."

Jia Cong said: "You just said that Xu Hong is dead or not." Lin Hai glanced at him, and he said, "Since Second Brother Yang said that he was ordered to assassinate you, we guessed that he has rebellious intentions."

Lin Hai paused for a moment, then said, "Dead."

Jia Cong frowned and said, "The tree fell and the monkeys scattered. Xu Hong is dead. Who will lead the others? His son?"

Lin Hai nodded and said, "Xu Hong's second son, Xu Su."

Jia Huan let out a "huh": "Will his eldest son agree? Or has there been a fight at home?"

Lin Hai shook his head and said, "It's still unknown. Feng Ziying and the Xian Wang are not together..." He suddenly stopped talking, waved his hands and said, "Don't make random inquiries."

Jia Cong said, "Here we go again. We are all your students. Master said, do you accept your work?"

Lin Haidao: "There are too many secrets in it, so I can't tell you."

Seeing the old man's stubbornness, Jia Cong had to say: "We don't want to know about the secret. Brother Xianwang is alive, right? Are they going to take him out and kill the priest, or take him as a hostage to negotiate with the court? Or is he going to find out? Is there any real evidence from others? Will the Xu family silence it in order to get rid of witnesses?"

Seeing that they were asking more and more questions, Lin Hai simply waved them away: "Don't inquire about those many things, it's none of your business." Then he refused to say anything more.

The next day Jia Cong went to Feng's house to inquire again. Feng Ziying recovered from a night's rest, her complexion was still ugly, but she refused to let him know a word.Only when I went to Wang Ziteng's place did I know a little more.

It turned out that Xu Hong, the general of Jiangxi, fell in love with a widow who went from Beijing to Jiangxi to sell tea a few days ago.In the evening of that day, he abandoned his entourage and had a private meeting with the widow on a boat on the lake, and then moored the boat on a small island in the middle of the lake.The attendants watched from a distance, thinking that their lord had achieved something good, so they only found a fisherman's house by the lake to stay overnight.I thought I could see their adults and the new aunt sailing to the shore the next day, but I didn't want to wait until noon before seeing people.At first they laughed and talked about "short days", but when it was getting late and still no one came back, Fang was a little suspicious and hurriedly asked the fishermen to get a boat to shake them over - but there was no one on the boat.They searched everywhere, but they did not see Xu Hong and the widow.Three days later, Xu Hong's body floated up from the lake and was stabbed to death in the chest.No need to ask, it must have been done by the widow.

The Xu family closed Yuzhang City and searched the city.Coincidentally, Situ Pan went to Jiangxi to investigate Xu Hong's rebellion. No one knew about it;Although the Xu family did not find the widow who sold the tea, they found him.

Feng Ziying was originally in another inn, so she also fooled the search.Someone on the side street shouted "I got the spy", he stretched out his head and saw that it was Situ Pan, he was taken aback, and then wanted to inquire, someone reported that there was someone from Yijing here, which was very suspicious.Fearing that he himself would fall into the hands, he fled in haste.

Jia Cong told his military advisers about this matter, and everyone was full of doubts.Gong Kun glanced at Liu Feng.

Liu Fengnai said: "This matter is extremely strange. The first one, how noble is the body of the virtuous king's daughter, why do you need to go to Jiangxi to investigate in person? It's not that he has no capable people under his command. The second one, the widow is obviously the third aunt Qin in the west of the city. She and King Xian are on the same road. Are they going to collect evidence of Xu Hong so that he can be investigated openly, or are they going to stab him to death as a traitor and then slowly deal with his subordinates? Qin San Since Gu took action, obviously there is no need for evidence. Then Xian Wang, Feng Ziying, and Qin Sangu should flee together. Also, since Qin Sangu escaped, where is she? How far is Jiangxi from the capital? Wang fell into the hands of rebels, Feng Ziying should have asked the officials of neighboring provinces for help, why did he come all the way back to Beijing?"

Jia Huan said: "Maybe Qin Sangu stayed in the south to seek help from neighboring provinces."

Liu Feng said: "Three Aunt Qin is a woman after all, and her outside identity is still a widow in the market. Although Feng Ziying has no important official position on the surface, at least his father is Feng Tang. Sangu Qin returned to Beijing to report and Feng Ziying asked for help. That's the way to go."

Wu Xiaoxi said: "Many local officials in the south are in the hands of the kings, so they may not be willing to rescue the virtuous king. Qin Sangu used the name of bodyguard to escort Lord Lin Hai back to Yangzhou in the early years, and traveled with Tan Ying, the current inspector of salt in Yangzhou. Ying is also the confidant of the Holy One. Maybe they went to ask Tan Ying for help."

Yao'er frowned and said, "It's very awkward. What Xiaoxi said sounds like an excuse to me, it's too forced."

Liu Feng couldn't help attacking the case: "Yes, it's an excuse!" He hurriedly said to everyone, "I thought about it for a long time, but I really couldn't find a reason for leaving Qin Sangu in the south of the Yangtze River and sending Feng Ziying to Beijing. What Xiaoxi said just now It's an excuse, and it took a lot of effort to find out. I'm afraid it won't be that easy for King Xian to be arrested."

Gong Kun stood up, wandered around the room for a few times, and suddenly asked: "Third Master, last time you said that you went to the Sixth Prince's mansion to make a joke, and there is a gap between the saint and the virtuous king?"

Jia Cong nodded: "I don't know which prince wrote it, anyway, I think the sixth prince looks like it, there should be one."

Gong Kunxi said: "There is really a gap. The Ninth Prince is as careful as a hair, and must have noticed it, and started to protect himself. It's just that he never had his own power, and he wholeheartedly assisted the saint to get his current position; he wanted to protect himself and had to start from scratch. It takes time to start from scratch. How many years can the old sage live? He has only started now, and he has long been unable to catch up with the princes next to him. Those things in Hong's hands are gone."

The crowd took a breath.

"Xu Hong has money and private soldiers. They are all in the minority. I just don't know how he can take it for himself." Gong Kun happily walked around the room, "Situ Pan, I have seen that he has ambitions!"

Jia Cong squinted at him: "Do you two know each other?"

Gong Kun was stunned: "I don't know!"

Jia Huan also gave him a sideways look: "It's obvious we know each other."

Gong Kun said: "I really don't know you." He waved his hand, "Don't talk about irrelevant things. Judging from this matter, regardless of Feng Ziying, Qin Sangu has probably been pried away from the saint by him!"

Jia Cong couldn't help but "Ouch": "I knew he would pry it, so I might as well pry it!"

Gong Kun said: "You have nothing in your hands, and you want to pry someone from the saint for no reason? She is not the same as Liu Xianglian. Situ Pan has been in charge of the spy in the saint's hands for many years, at least she is her old boss."

Jia Cong rested his cheeks listlessly: "Forget it, anyway, we and Situ Pan can also cooperate to win over all possible targets."

Then some days passed.There was a lot of discussion in the court about who to send to rescue the virtuous king, and how to save him, but they still couldn't come up with a useful method.

Lin Hai had a close personal relationship with Situ Pan, and he couldn't wait any longer, so he said to the saint, "At any rate, I must ask someone to find out what the Xu family wants."

The saint sighed: "I am also waiting for the letter."

A few more days passed, and it seemed that the Chinese New Year was about to come, and finally there was news.The Xu family, headed by Xu Hong's second son Xu Su, has turned against him, and demanded a ransom of 100 million taels from the court with the life of the wise king Situ Pan.The saint naturally couldn't agree, and discussed with the old saint how to respond.

The old sage thought that Xu Hong just died of a romantic affair, so he would have no rebellion; Situ Pan must have done something inappropriate to frighten the Xu family, so they rebelled.So he ordered to find a suitable person to recruit the Xu family and Jiangxi generals.The sage argued for a long time with the account book given by Lin Hai, but the old sage couldn't hear a word.Lin Hai repeatedly begged the sage to try to save the sage king, the sage sighed: "I have recommended many people, but the old man refused. Anyway, they dare not do anything to the old nine, let's wait and see in the next year." Lin Hai stepped out of the Daming Palace , The whole heart is completely cold.

The virtuous king is held in the hands of the rebels, and the court is safe and sound.Someone secretly said in the teahouse and wine shop: "Who said that the virtuous king is the pillar of the country? It's no different without him."

The mansions of Dukes and Marquises in Beijing set up annual events one after another, and the exchange of plays and wine was very lively.The objects given to the Rongguo Mansion by the palace this year are also as exquisite as in previous years. Among them is an ornament from Jingdezhen, which is said to be a blue and white dinosaur imitated according to the pictures of the Ming Dynasty. The nobles in the palace love it, and they all say that it has the effect of attracting children.Jia Cong couldn't help but laugh when he saw it, and turned the fake into a tribute. He didn't know how to meet Jiang Ning's mother-in-law hundreds of years later.

Since the virtuous king is not here, there are also a lot of people in their mansion.On the contrary, Lin Hai and Jia Cong, master and apprentice, often went for a walk, and said a few words of comfort to Situ Pan's son.When Jia Cong saw that his eldest son Situ Yue was taciturn and his brows were tightly furrowed with sorrow, he knew that Situ Pan was the kind of master who even hid it from his own people.Because when Lin Hai went out to pay respects, he leaned on the prince's ear and whispered: "The prince will turn evil into good fortune, and disaster will become auspicious. I am not comforting you, but telling you." The prince has also heard Jia Cong's "good fortune boy "Rumor, after hearing what he said so decisively, I couldn't help but look up in surprise.Jia Cong put his finger on his lips and "shushed".Shizi nodded repeatedly.

It was not until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month that it was agreed that Zuo Yushi Laofu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was ordered to go to Jiangxi as the imperial envoy to recruit Xu Su to rescue the virtuous king.

Jia Cong immediately thought of Lao Fu and that old face, he didn't know what to say, and asked Jia Amnesty, "Is the sage trying to kill the virtuous king?"

Jia She said: "Lao Fuhe is just a cover, what matters is Feng Tang."

Jia Cong sighed: "The sage can't be counted on at all. If Brother Xianwang wants to escape, he can only save himself."

Thinking that Situ Pan probably did it himself, Jia Cong couldn't restrain his joy from watching the excitement.I really don't know how he plans to get Xu Hong's men.

He returned lightly to Lixiangyuan, and called for some more snacks to wait for Lao Fu and Feng Tang to come back to listen to the commentary, and an imperial decree came down.

The imperial envoy, Lao Fuhe, was afraid that he would not be able to take on the task because he was old, inarticulate, and somewhat pedantic, so he asked the saint to help him.This man's whole family is loyal to the sage, and he is eloquent and eloquent. He is a subordinate he admired very much when he was the minister of the household department, and now he is Jia Lian, who is transferred to the deputy envoy of the general administration.The sage didn't recognize Jia Lian, but Jia Amnesty's 80 taels of silver was really pleasing to people, so he agreed.

Poor Jia Lian has just left the yamen, and when he returned to his courtyard, he only hugged Jia Xiaomeng for a while, and then he was called out to receive the order.