The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Jia Cong sent someone to call his brother-in-law outside, Gao Mang rushed in, and was relieved to see that his siblings were safe and sound.

Yingchun asked him to sit down first, and said: "Yesterday Cong'er encountered something, and it seemed that something was wrong, so I asked the third master to discuss it."

Jia Cong then told the story of Huang Oriole and Mr. Xiao Zhao in detail.At first Gao Mang frowned when he heard that Huang Li was going to ask an imperial doctor for Aunt Zhou, and he was also surprised when he heard that Mr. Zhao.After finishing speaking, Jia Cong said: "Sister and husband are not good at words, how about younger brother to take the lead in sorting out this matter?" Yingchun Gaomang nodded.

Jia Cong said: "My temperament is quite different from ordinary people. Let's first assume that Huang Li is not looking for me, but Brother Huan, what will happen."

Yingchun and Gaomang looked at each other, Yingchun said: "Huan'er would normally throw that oriole out, but not ashamed like you."

Jia Cong said: "That's right. Brother Huan wouldn't say in front of her, 'You are a spy sent by someone'. This is still Brother Huan, who grew up with me when I was young. If it was someone else, such as a brother-in-law When this happened when I was a guest at home, even if I was suspicious in my heart, because there was no evidence, I was afraid that I would not go to the owner and say, 'Hey, the lack of security for your girl is a trick.'”

Gao Mang said, "I won't."

Yingchun said: "Ordinary people don't know how to do it."

Jia Cong said: "Then let's assume that I am like an ordinary person, what will happen in the future. If I have not been tempted by her beauty, I would not agree to the imperial doctor to see Aunt Zhou. After Aunt Zhou died, she left behind a son. The cousin is taking care of her temporarily. The second cousin is sentimental, Huang Li looks outstanding, and he can deal with men. Taking advantage of the second cousin mourning the death of Aunt Zhou and taking him down every minute, [-]% of the newborn child will eventually belong to her If Aunt Zhou really died of dystocia, how ruthless I am, I will sit back and watch his concubine ignore these words, and will repeat them countless times like chanting scriptures every day. After a long, long time, even if the second cousin If I can turn a deaf ear to it, this little cousin must be dissatisfied with me and the Jia family. Children with incomplete minds are the best to take advantage of."

"If Aunt Zhou's death was not caused by dystocia, but because of something else...then this second cousin who is a scapegoat is definitely wrong. The child is now being raised by her. Everyone knows that she wants a son, but she may not be a son in her womb. She will It turned into murdering the mother and murdering the son." Jia Cong smirked, "Turn around and say, in case, I saw that Oriole was crying pitifully, so I invited the imperial doctor to go... I will take the blame for this."

Yingchun said: "So what."

Gao Mang said, "I won't sit idly by."

Jia Cong said: "Neither you nor your cousins ​​will guard against children. If he takes advantage of others and does something to my sister, I don't know what will happen to me."

Gao Mang gasped, and Yingchun squeezed the quilt tightly.

Jia Cong said: "Sister, it's really not easy for the outside world to deal with us now, what I'm afraid of is unexpected. The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant's nest."

After a while, Yingchun said with a smile: "Don't worry, even if it's for the safety of the world, my sister will be safe and well." Gao Mang just grabbed her hand.

Jia Cong also laughed, and asked again: "Brother-in-law, who is this little Mr. Zhao?"

Gao Mang said: "He is not Mr. Zhao's nephew, but his brother's adopted son, named Zhao Tu." Then he took the pen on the case and wrote Zhao Tu's name. "This person is introverted by nature and is used to keeping a low profile. He clearly has an idea in his heart, he shakes his head when he asks a question, and never does anything that shows his intelligence. He was not very popular with my father in the past, but he has gradually emerged since the year before last, and now he is my father's confidant. Ben didn't have much contact with the three of us brothers, but in recent years, he has been secretly approaching me."

"He really has the wisdom to be a subordinate." Jia Cong pouted and said, "Since you knew him?"

"good."

"How old was he when he was adopted by Mr. Zhao's brother? What's the situation? Has your family checked?"

Gao Mang said: "I never suspected him, so I never investigated him. He seemed to be seven or eight years old at that time, and he is now 27."

Jia Cong suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "Can my brother-in-law get his handwriting?"

Gao Mang said: "This is easy." He then ordered someone to go to a certain booklet somewhere in the tent.After taking it out after a while, Gao Mang opened a page and pointed to Jia Cong: "This is the annotation."

Jia Cong took a look, and it was indeed the handwriting on the scroll that Liu Dengxi gave him when he came to Ping'an Prefecture last time.The petite Xiaokai who claimed to be "late born" speculated that the Jia family had secretly hidden the Seventh Prince.He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: But this person has been found.Yin asked Gao Mang, "What is his fame now?"

Gao Mang said: "His father let him study in a private school for a few years, but he never passed the exam, saying that his knowledge is mediocre."

Jia Cong said: "Such a character with a strong character, the diction is also concise and to the point, and the language expression ability is extremely strong, how can it be possible to be mediocre. Has he never worn a Confucian scholar's robe?"

Gao Mang shook his head: "Never."

Jia Cong twitched the corner of his mouth, and said quietly: "This is not fun anymore."

It was obvious that Zhao Tu regarded himself as a Confucian scholar in front of Gao Li, but Gao Li never told Gao Mang.It is impossible for Gao Li to be worried about his own son, so Zhao Tu can only tell Gao Li for some reason not to tell Gao Mang and even befriend Gao Ying Gao Hua with Jia Cong.And Gao Li listened to him.

Besides, Jia Xu handed him two pigeons and a mailbox.Jia Cong once tried to stuff it with a thin stick, and after stuffing it, he took out the paper roll that Liu Dengxi gave him that day.It can be seen that Zhao Tu passed the letter to Gao Li Feige at that time.He is Mr. Zhao's nephew, and he has been trusted by Gao Li long ago. Why did Fei Ge pass on the letter and not speak face to face?

Jia Cong pointed to the account book and said, "These characters are quite small and difficult to write. He can write so well! When I was a child, I spent several years on the shelf to practice calligraphy! In the end, it was Uncle Lin who stared at me for a while. It’s barely built. The smaller the characters, the harder it is to write well.”

Gao Mang immediately said: "I've seen his annotations in another place are even smaller, it's just the small script that Yingchun said."

Jia Cong and Yingchun looked at each other, and Yingchun said, "I can do it with extraordinary brushwork."

The three looked at each other for a while, and Jia Cong asked again: "I didn't seem to have seen him when I came here last year. Did he go out for business?"

Gao Mang said: "At that time, he was working in a warehouse in the suburbs and rarely came to the mansion, so you didn't see him."

Jia Cong curled his lips: Then it is not necessary to pass on letters to Gao Li Feige... unless it is afraid of meeting the young master by chance.The young master has never seen him before, why should he be so cautious not to see the young master?

Gao Mang said again: "By the way, Mr. Zhao has a photographic memory."

Jia Cong was startled when he heard the words, stood up "teng" and shouted: "What did you say!"

Gao Mang added: "When he came to the fore the year before last, he performed a show called "Picture Memory". It happened to be at the chamber of commerce, so my father could save face."

Jia Cong's mind spun like a spinning top, all kinds of thoughts flew around and arranged and combined, scaring Yingchun Gaomang and his wife so much that they didn't dare to breathe.After burning an incense stick, he said solemnly: "I don't believe that people with a photographic memory can catch a lot..." The age is still the same, and the names are similar.He stomped his feet again and said, "It's a pity that the fourth sister is still wandering around in Jin."

Yingchun asked, "What are you doing with the fourth girl?"

Jia Cong said, "Fourth sister is good at painting." Suddenly his eyes lit up, "Brother-in-law, do you have someone who is good at painting and trustworthy? The kind that even my cousin wouldn't say."

Gao Mang said honestly, "No."

"Boring." Jia Cong pouted.

Yingchun said: "It's not difficult to hire a painter. What do you want to do?"

Jia Cong said: "Give a portrait of Mr. Zhao, and draw it quietly. You have to draw it like him, and you can't draw it like the government's shadow figure, so that your own mother can't recognize it."

Gao Mang said, "There are such people."

Yingchun thought about the meeting and said: "Just let people invite the painter to look at him and say that my daughter is suffering from lovesickness."

Jia Cong let out a "wow" and clapped his hands: "Sister! You really are a female Zhuge!" Yingchun smiled, and he said, "Sister is really the most beautiful pregnant woman in the world!" Gao Mang nodded repeatedly beside him.

Yingchun said angrily, "Don't talk nonsense." She then asked him, "Little Mr. Zhao, do you have any ideas?"

Jia Cong smiled wryly and said, "If my idea is true, things will not be easy. I'm afraid..." I'm afraid that old man Gong Sanyi will be sad.

I heard from Zhu Tong that day that Ding Chu, the son of Ding Chengwu, the military governor of the first capital camp, was extremely intelligent and never forgetful since he was a child.Ding Chu escaped when their family was ransacked. He was just 27 years old this year.It was also 19 years ago that the Ding family suffered a catastrophe, when Ding Chu was eight years old.Chuzhe, Chushui also, formerly known as Tushui.There is a high probability that this Zhao Tu is Ding Chu.

The Gao family is a hero.He has a high degree of talent, character, and good future. He treats his subordinates well and trusts Mr. Zhao. For Zhao Tu, he is an excellent protagonist.But now it is obvious that there is another master behind this person.It is extremely difficult for ordinary people to impress him; he is low-key and not outstanding, and it is extremely difficult for the princes next to him to find that he is a talent.Unless it is a person who is loyal to the Prince Xianyi.Gong San is also a nostalgic, he misses his former colleagues very much, and he will be very happy to know that Ding's family has news afterward.The Bai family found him two years ago, but they didn't tell Gong Sanyi.Besides, Zhu Tong was lured to Ping'an Prefecture by Liu Dengxi, and no one told him that a nail of his own family had already been buried here.The Bai family has come up with so many tricks, and the ambition is probably not small.

There is also an oriole, I don't know what she meant by her temptation yesterday. "Sister and brother-in-law, according to human nature, neither the eldest cousin nor the uncle would check with the third cousin. She asked Mr. Zhao to test me about it."

He both said at the same time: "Of course not!"

After a long while, Yingchun said: "You mean, the matter of not keeping the balance has nothing to do with her?"

"Yeah." Jia Cong breathed out, "If the third cousin is a bit ambiguous, he may have been dragged out temporarily to block the knife. There is no such thing at all, and Mr. Zhao is talking nonsense."

Gao Mang nodded while thinking, "No matter how confused Third Aunt is, she wouldn't come up with that idea."

Jia Cong clapped his hands and said, "Let's straighten things out again. Huang Li and Zhao Tu are either in the same group, or formed an alliance for some reason. Huang Li may simply want to overthrow the second cousin's sister-in-law, and Zhao Tu must have someone behind her. I'm so sure because Zhao Tu exposed himself to me in order to save Huang Li, he originally wanted to hide from me, meeting me ruined their previous plan."

Gao Mang asked, "Why don't you want to see you?"

Jia Cong said: "If my guess is correct, he wants to meet me with his real life experience, and conceal his identity as 'Zhao Tu'. Let's talk about his real life experience after the portrait is recognized, in case I am wrong Woolen cloth?"

Yingchun said: "You don't need to be so cautious at a critical moment. If you think wrong, your brother-in-law can correct it for you."

Jia Congsui said honestly: "This person's temperament, ability, his writing and his temperament of hiding his strengths, it is obvious that he used to be a child of a high-ranking official family, and his family was in trouble. Inferring the age when he was adopted, it is just It was the time when the Supreme Emperor liquidated Prince Yizhong's troops, and in those few years, many families who had a lot of bells and whistles suddenly ransacked all over their families."

Gao Mang was startled: "In your opinion, he is from the Bai family?"

Jia Cong nodded and said: "It's probably true. Zhao Tuxian saw that it was not a spy placed by the Bai family, but an orphan of a colleague who was found many years later. However, his adoptive father's brother was actually the most trusted staff member of the Pingan Prefecture Jiedushi! This identity It's so easy to use, you don't have to be a fool. It's just that this talent is outstanding, and it's a waste of talent to be a meticulous worker all his life. Sooner or later, he will go back to Lingnan. Because of Hong Kong affairs, the Bai family and the Jia family have a lot of contacts, and sooner or later the important people in their family Will meet with me. I suspect that Zhao Tucheng will not see me because Mr. Zhao personally came to test my mind once before I left Ping Anzhou last time."

Yingchun Gaomang looked at each other.

"Zhao Tu's ability is only higher than his uncle, and with his age and seniority, it is more appropriate for him to test me than for Mr. Zhao himself." Jia Cong said, "I don't believe how important a warehouse can be. To the point where he doesn’t even show up for things like opening a commercial street.”

Gao Mang couldn't help nodding: "At that time, you held a seminar on economic development and asked someone to call him. He said that the work on the other side was important, and he refused to come to the city."

Jia Cong said with a smile: "Actually, even if he is here, if no one seriously introduces him, even if I have seen him, I can't remember his face."

Yingchun said: "Everyone says you are smart. He has a photographic memory, and he is afraid that other people will have a photographic memory. It can be seen that you are extremely cautious in your actions."

Jia Cong nodded in agreement. "Besides, because he helped Zhu Tong to avenge, although he never said it clearly, he is basically one of my people. It can be regarded as that I poached the corner of the Bai family. However, it was he himself who proposed that he follow me to Beijing, and the Bai family also I have no objection, I can only say that they sent the corner of the wall under my hoe and let me dig it, am I a fool if I don't dig it?"

Yingchun smiled and said, "Don't talk nonsense."

Jia Cong made a grimace: "Zhu Tong didn't know there was such a character as Zhao Tu."

Gao Mang said: "It seems that the Bai family doesn't value Zhu Tong very much."

Jia Cong said: "Maybe Zhao Tu is alone. But I can't think of why he saved Huang Li. Whether Huang Li is their own or an ally, she is just a pretty woman, and it is not worth him to destroy the plan. If He said that he originally wanted to use Huang Li to enter the Gao family..." He shook his head, "I already told my second cousin that she hooked up with me, and the plan to climb up to the position of auntie and have a child named Gao is broken. Treat her as It is the most appropriate way to assassinate the abandoned son."

Yingchun suddenly said: "The oriole seems to have only bought into the house last year."

The three looked at each other for a moment, Gao Mang said: "So she might have been sent to Zhao Tu by the Bai family."

Jia Cong frowned and said: "The Bai family and the Gao family are in normal business relations. What's the point of stuffing people into the inner courtyard of the Gao family? It's not worth it at all. Besides, their family and our Jia family also joined hands to make a fortune, so there is no reason to separate the two of us." Home."

Yingchun frowned: "I seem to have thought of something, but I just can't grasp it."

Jia Cong hurriedly said: "You take it easy! The day is coming, I'm overthinking what to do when my nephew was born a little old man."

Yingchun Liu raised her eyebrows upside down: "Shut up!"

"Yes!"

Yingchun said with a smile: "I've almost died of idleness these days while raising a baby. In the past two days, I suddenly have something to think about. It's like playing chess. It's quite interesting."

Jia Cong turned to look at Gao Mang: "Did you hear that? My sister likes to play chess! I want to make her happy so I can play chess with her."

Yingchun snorted immediately: "He is a stinky chess basket, who will play with him!"

Gao Mang patted his head twice, Jia Cong laughed.

After spending half a day on their nerves, the two of them let Yingchun rest for a while and withdrew.Jia Cong turned his head to look at Gao Mang, and said earnestly, "Brother-in-law, now I really realize that my father has discernment."

Gao Mang asked, "What's the matter?"

Jia Cong said apologetically: "I used to think that my sister was a talented woman and good at chess. I had to find a scholar with amazing literary talent and chess skills to be a good match. Although I like Cousin Mang, I always feel that you are a general. How can you match my sister?" I just realized today that writing poems and playing chess is not a problem, what matters is that brother-in-law has her in his eyes." Nai brushed off his skirt, bowed to Gao Mang, "Thank you brother-in-law. "

Gao Mang waved his hand and said, "You underestimate your sister. Anyone who is good at chess must have a big valley in his chest. Although I said many things about the Gao family, it was actually her idea. You always say that the cousin of the Lin family is smart , although she is knowledgeable and knowledgeable, she may not be as far-reaching as your sister. In such a troubled world, it is not sure who is better to leave a name in history."

Jia Cong froze for a moment, then grabbed Gao Mang's arm and laughed.Gao Mang also laughed.