The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

In a blink of an eye, it is the Chinese New Year.This day was the sixth day of the first lunar month, Fu'er asked the prince to go out for a stroll, the old man had no choice but to agree with his granddaughter.The climate in Lingnan is warm. Even though it is the coldest season of the year, there are still several colors of flowers competing for beauty, and flower sellers can be seen everywhere in the market.A group of bumpkins from the capital had never seen the world, and they all made a fuss like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.His Excellency Governor personally led his old relatives and a group of children to the street, feeling ashamed of his old face in this life.Only Jia Cong looked a little disappointed.He visited the Yangcheng Flower Market in his previous life, and there were many more varieties of flowers than this.

But I saw a few people walking towards me, four or five burly men holding a young master in fine clothes.The young master looked handsome, and the servants around him were powerful and eye-catching.

Wu You hurriedly turned to Jia Cong and said in a low voice, "That's the young master of the Bai family, who is very much favored by Bai Lingen."

Jia Cong recognized the man at this moment, turned around and stared at Wu You with his mouth crooked: "Brother Wu You, what are you talking about? The wind is too strong and I can't hear you clearly..."

Wu Xiaoxi followed his brother all the time, covered his mouth and smiled and said: "Where is the wind coming from? I can hear it clearly. My brother said that that is the young master of the Bai family, and he is very much loved by General Bai."

Jia Cong glanced at Xiaoxi and grabbed Wu You's arm: "I said, General Wu, have you ever fought with someone? Have you accidentally touched someone's arm or leg or something that shouldn't be touched?" place?"

Wu You said inexplicably: "Why did I fight with him? I didn't even say a word. Besides, the two of us are in a partnership. It's just that we met a few times at the Hong Kong dock." He said proudly, "This Mrs. Bai is quite arrogant, and she likes to pretend she doesn’t understand. Once when we were installing a pulley, she looked aside and walked away. After a while, she even sent a servant to come over and point fingers! It’s a pity that she didn’t know what was going on. But I don’t know why. For his grandfather’s sake, I didn’t bother to talk to him. I just showed him. Who knows how small-minded he is! Later, when we were moored on the pier to maintain the artillery, he asked someone to point him out. Pointing, but it’s a pity that I still don’t know much! That little face is dark, tsk tsk! It’s refreshing to glance at it from a distance!”

Jia Cong frowned: "It's okay to have a little quarrel. I just ask, have you ever touched her? Have you ever touched her?"

Wu You said: "No. Every time he comes out, he is accompanied by several useful soldiers, and I'm not close to him, so he can't touch my head even if he touches porcelain."

Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief: "It's fine if you haven't touched it before." Looking up at Wu Xiaoxi, she had already bent over with a smile.The brothers who listened to them all laughed.

Xichun was originally the youngest girl in the Jia family. In the old days, she was loved and flattered by her elder sister and younger brother in the house, but no one cared about her, so she had a somewhat casual temperament.Now outside, Jia Amnesty doesn't care about everything, Jia Cong deliberately indulges, and recently he has become more reckless.She looked at Wu You and then at the young master of the Bai family opposite, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "I want to ask everyone, how many people can tell that she belongs to a young master?"

All the brothers held back their laughter and said, "I can't tell~~"

Only Tian Gengzi was honest, looked at the young master carefully for a long time, and said: "The clothes he is wearing, even if he is not the young master of the Bai family, it probably belongs to a relative's family."

Everyone snickered more and more, Shen He sighed solemnly: "I always thought that Gengzi was the only one who was an honest person in the whole courtyard of Lixiangyuan. I don't want Wu You to be an honest person! Wu You, I'm sorry You, I blamed you wrong!" Everyone laughed again.

Wu You noticed something was wrong at this moment, looked around, grabbed his sister and asked, "What does the fourth girl mean?"

Wu Xiaoxi hugged his shoulder with a smile and whispered a few words, Wu You immediately stared at the young master Bai with his mouth open and eyes wide open.Everyone laughed.The tourists all around looked at them, and Young Master Bai also turned to look over.

Jia Cong hurriedly pushed through the crowd and walked over, and clasped his fists at her: "Young Master Bai, please stay safe."

Young Master Bai also made a bow: "I heard that Third Master Cong came to Lingnan, and I was thinking about meeting one day. How does Third Master think Lingnan is better than Jingzhong?"

Jia Cong smiled and said: "I'm new here, and I'm here to see the world. The scenery of Lingnan has a special taste. I ran into the young master and said hello. It's Chinese New Year, let's not mention the important things for the time being, the important thing is to play. Young master Bai, let's say goodbye Let's play on our own."

Young Master Bai nodded, glanced at their crowd, and opened his eyes instantly!Jia Cong followed her gaze and saw Wu Xiaoxi smilingly holding Wu You's arm with one hand, and tugging at his skirt with the other hand, making him bend down and talk in his ear.Wu You couldn't help but laugh when he heard that.Young Master Bai's pretty face suddenly darkened, and he said to Jia Cong for a long time, "Wouldn't it be too unruly for you men and women to walk on the street casually?"

Jia Cong waved his hand and said, "Who needs to behave after leaving the capital? It's so troublesome. It's so easy that no one cares about it, even my old man. Besides, when you go to the countryside, you do as the Romans do. The folk customs here in Lingnan are open, isn't it the same for ordinary people?"

Young Master Bai frowned, opened his mouth to speak, suddenly startled, and murmured: "Yes, you once said in Chang'an that you didn't like rules."

Jia Cong nodded again and again: "Master Bai still remembers~~ I am flattered."

She opened her mouth a few more times, but in the end she didn't say a word, she shook her head, but cupped her fists and said, "Let's leave this day alone, and we'll discuss business in the future."

Jia Cong also cupped his fists, and withdrew and came back.

After the two groups walked away, the two old men, Wang Ziteng and Jia She, were coaxing Fu'er and Meng'er in front of them. Although they saw their every move and did not interfere, they called Jia Cong to him: "Who is that person?" ?”

Jia Cong smiled and called his brothers and sisters to surround him, saying, "He is Beringen's grandson. What do Father and Uncle Wang think of this son?"

Prince Teng snorted and said, "Beringen's grandson is so handsome, he doesn't look like he came from a general's family." The boys and girls laughed in unison.

Jia She gave Wang Ziteng a contemptuous look: "What kind of eyes! That's clearly a little girl!"

Wang Ziteng was taken aback.

Jia Cong stretched out a pair of thumbs: "My father has a good eye! Uncle Wang, you didn't see such an obvious girl?"

Only then did Wang Ziteng understand, and he couldn't save his face. He said angrily, "She is dressed like a kid. If it wasn't for an old flirtatious old man like your father, who would have noticed it. I'm not your father!" Fu'er walked forward.

Everyone laughed again.

Jia Cong ran on him in order to lure him away, so he hurriedly made a gesture to make everyone stop laughing, and said in a low voice: "This girl is not the granddaughter of Bai Lingen, but the orphan of Prince Yizhong, probably the only one of Prince Yizhong. The remaining grandchildren will be her."

Jia Amnesty was shocked: "What a bold man!" After a while, he said, "The two brothers of the Bai family are indeed loyal, and they are worthy of the kindness of the uprising Prince Zhong."

Jia Cong stared at Wu You and said, "The two old men of the Bai family are nothing serious... It's just that the princess seems to have taken a fancy to you."

Before the words were finished, Wu Xiaoxi jumped up: "I said she has a crush on you! You can tell by that look! She is talking to the third young general on the surface, and her eyes have been on you all the time!"

Wu You was embarrassed and at a loss: "Don't talk nonsense! I just saw it."

The brothers all laughed, and said one after another, "I saw it too!" "She never took a second look at so many of us!"

Jia Amnesty couldn't help raising his head and followed the princess's direction for a few more glances.Jia Cong felt that there was something strange in his eyes, and hurriedly said, "Father! You must be thinking of something strange."

Jia She turned around and said, "What a strange thing! It's just that I saw the Crown Princess once when I was young and recalled her appearance. This girl doesn't look much like her grandmother."

Jia Cong pouted and said, "It's fine if it's nothing. I'm afraid you're thinking about marriage—don't think I don't know what you mean by marrying my sister to the Gao family."

Jia She stared at him and said, "Your sister is so old, she should have married a long time ago. Isn't the Gao family better than other families?"

Jia Cong snorted, "Forget it, I won't expose you. Anyway, don't make any decisions about the marriage of the brothers."

Wu You hurriedly said: "He is the princess, and I am just a grassroots citizen, so I can't even go together."

Jia Cong's eyes lit up: "Wow~~ Have you taken a fancy to her? If you like her, we will help you chase her~~"

"Nonsense!" Wu You glared at him, "It doesn't make sense." Seeing all the brothers with their eyes wide open and gossip soaring into the sky, he couldn't help but sigh, "What are you thinking? I just said Passed, at most we know each other.”

Jia Cong said "Oh", "What did you say?"

Liu Feng said from the side: "If it can be a good thing, it's also good to get married by the way. Bai Lingen was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi before, and his family is extremely powerful in this area."

Jia Cong waved his hands again and again: "Brother Wu You will chase after him if he likes it, or some other brother will chase after him if he likes it in the future. , cement, and pirates are more reliable than marriage."

Xiaoxi said: "Besides, there will be a day when you can't keep everything together in the future. Brother, you really didn't like her, did you?"

The corner of Wu You's mouth twitched, and without saying a word, he picked up his feet and chased after Prince Teng.

They talked for a long time, and now Zifang thought of Prince Tenglai.Fortunately, Fu'er fell in love with a small gadget and pestered Wang Ziteng to buy it. Wang Ziteng searched for an excuse for a long time and pretended not to buy it to amuse her, and didn't pay attention to them.

After wandering in Guangzhou until the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Jia Lianfang led a large family to take office in Taiwan.A small half of Lixiangyuan's brothers stayed in Guangzhou to recruit all kinds of people; Yao'er also stayed for a few more days, in order to find a bigger and better house to buy, so it was inconvenient for them to come to live in Wang Ziteng's house every time.

Although they have heard that Taiwan is quite barren, this group of people have traveled through many places along the way, and they are still amazed when they pass by the emptiness.However, the affluence is also much stronger than originally thought, with all kinds of scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce, but it is really inferior to Beijing and Guangzhou.When they arrived at Chengtian Mansion, everyone walked around the city first.Riding his horse and standing in front of the magistrate's yamen, Jia Lian couldn't hide his disappointment.

Jia Cong smiled and tugged at him: "Second brother, there is a saying called don't bully young people to be poor; horizontally speaking, it can also be called don't dislike being poor at the moment. At present, many places in Taiwan government are still blank, we can make it the world's most The bustling city, merchants and celebrities from all over the world come here in droves, stronger than Yangzhou! At that time, your name, Jia Lian, will naturally go down in the annals of history."

Jia Lian smiled wryly and said, "Look, even Chengtian Mansion has such a great idea. How can it compare with Yangzhou! It might take decades."

Jia Cong snorted, "Not necessarily, the speed in Shenzhen has changed a lot in three years."

Jia Lian was taken aback: "What Shenzhen?"

Jia Cong grinned, "It's a good thing for us to manage our business anyway. It's a good thing that this place is like a blank sheet of paper, and you can draw the most beautiful pictures." They entered the magistrate's yamen.It turned out that Fang Dexin, the magistrate, had already packed up his belongings, and only waited for Jia Lian to deliver the official duties immediately, and left happily two days later.

Jia Lian put up a notice to tell the people that the magistrate had changed; he also ordered the county magistrate to come over to meet the new Shangguan and get to know some local celebrities and wealthy households. He was also busy for some days.Wang Xifeng was also busy arranging for a large family, and getting acquainted with local female relatives.Jia Amnesty has nothing to do, and spends his days coaxing his two grandchildren to play.He, the superintendent, had never been in the barracks for a day.

Jia Cong bought two adjacent houses in Chengtian Mansion.Because he is the young master of the government's mansion from Beijing and the younger brother of the magistrate, two wealthy businessmen heard about it, and they negotiated to buy it for him at a low price.One of these two places is temporarily used to accommodate the brothers for daily living, and the other is used as an office.

After a few days, Yao'er rushed over from Guangzhou, and everyone discussed several serious matters, and the various yamen began to work.The busiest place every day is Jia Tanchun's place, surrounded by people begging for money.Although Tanchun is young, she is quite restrained, and she speaks clearly without haste or rashness; she is also born well, even if others are dissatisfied, she will not blush with her.Xichun occasionally passed by and couldn't help laughing: "The third sister is really the secretary of the household department!"

Jia Cong heard it from the side, and said sternly: "Everyone is not busy at the moment, it's nothing. Just wait, when all the yamen officially start work, everyone will ask her for money, but she doesn't care about it." When there is a lot of money, you have to judge which one is really urgent, which one is not in a hurry, which one doesn't need that much money, and when the next payment will come in... Mrs. Linlin can tell that this household secretary Deserved or undeserved."

Hearing this, Tanchun cast a glance at him.

Lin Daiyu was the first to get busy.She and Xichun have been wearing men's clothes since they entered Taiwan. They lead the old kiln worker Hu Laoniu and two Western gentlemen brought from Beijing to the suburbs every day to find a suitable place to build a cement workshop. When he came back every day, he was disheartened, so Yao'er led a few brothers to help.Neither of her two little girls had ever yelled for hard work, and others were even more helpless.Finally, a site was chosen in a wilderness more than [-] miles north of Chengtian Mansion.

They invited villagers from several villages not far from here to work to build houses and kilns. The wages were much higher than their usual work in Chengtian Mansion, and soon attracted many strong men to come.Jia Lian, the magistrate, issued another notice stating that Mr. Jia intends to build a road from Jia's cement workshop to Chengtian Mansion; the common people can work instead of tax.As soon as the notice came out, many families with poor industries or abundant labor at home sent strong men to build roads.According to Jia Cong's idea, Jia Lian had long written notes on typhoons and tsunami, and even wrote that the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Mr. Wang Ziteng, sent some relief food, just waiting to send the tax credit to the court when it was time to pay taxes. That is.

At that time in Guangzhou, Jia Cong wrote a letter to Gong Kun, asking him to quickly explain the affairs in Beijing, and come to Taiwan to help him, and even brought Jia Yuanchun here, as an excuse to find out by himself.