The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Lin Hai finally returned home, and King Wu happened to be in Wuxi, so he went to visit.Chen Ruiwen, who returned to Suzhou first, kept persuading Lin Hai to stay in Wu; Lin Hai didn't know that he was sent by the king of Wu, so he turned around and sighed to his disciples: "What a scholar, he became a lobbyist in less than 20 days. One of the powers It's hard to guard against things." Others knew the details, and hurriedly coaxed him to say "everyone is vulgar" and so on, just to keep him away from this Chen Ruiwen.Lin Hai still sighed, deeply regretful.

I don’t want King Wu to say that Master Lin was kidnapped in the state of Wu. It was really the fault of the lonely king. He didn’t mention a word about inviting him to stay, which made Lin Hai a little puzzled.Jia Cong said with a smile: "Chen Ruiwen is his man, and he has tested Mr. several times before. Isn't it stupid for King Wu to come to the wall?"

As soon as King Wu left, Jia Cong coaxed the old man back to change his clothes. The door came in and quietly replied: "A woman came outside, she said it was an embroidery shop, and said that you ordered her to come to deliver the handkerchief today on the street the day before yesterday. .”

Jia Cong was startled: "Is there any?" Turning around, he asked, "Did I ask anyone for a handkerchief?"

He raised his head and said, "How do I know? Since you mentioned the third master's name, it's good to meet you."

Jia Cong thought to himself, anyway, I have a big insider here, and I am not afraid of whether she is checking the water meter or delivering the courier, so I ordered her to be brought in.

At that moment, the woman came in, wearing ordinary blue clothes, about [-] years old, round face, honest appearance, hands and feet bound, entered the door and knelt down: "My little girl is Zhou Camellia from Heyexiuzhuang, come here The third master sends a handkerchief."

Jia Congqi said: "What handkerchief? I don't remember half of it. Let me see."

Camellia handed over a handkerchief that week.Jia Cong opened it and looked, "puchi" laughed, and said, "I really can't tell." It turned out that the eagle of SHIELD was embroidered on the veil.Nai looked at her carefully again, turned his head to look at her again, and said, "Actually, Xizuo should look like Miss Zhou."

Qi Dian lowered his eyes and said: "There are many kinds of fine work, I'm not the kind of person looking for news in the market."

While talking, seeing that Zhou Camellia was still kneeling, Jia Cong hurriedly asked her to get up, and asked: "Sister Zhou must be busy today."

Zhou Chahua said: "Because I got the letter from Feige in Beijing, I came here to give it to the third master."

"Huh?!" Jia Cong exclaimed in surprise, "Can you actually receive a letter from Feige from Beijing in Suzhou? Is there one in Taiwan?"

"No." Zhou Chahua said, "Taiwan Mansion is too small, so I didn't count the pigeon training. This time I got my life, and I will follow the third master to Taiwan Mansion to train pigeons."

Jia Cong was overjoyed: "You know how to train pigeons?!"

Zhou Camellia nodded.

Jia Cong happily circled around the room: "That's great, that's great! Oh, my fifth uncle is so kind to me! Hey, look, Fourth Sister Chen, Sister Zhou is not just a spy!" At first, I didn't bother to talk to him.

Seeing that he was so happy that he even forgot the letter, Zhou Chahua smiled and handed over the letter box.Jia Cong took the letter box and took out the letter to read. It turned out to be a letter from Jia Xulai. Based on the previous letter from Suzhou, he guessed Wang Wu's life experience. Jia Cong was shocked for a long time before he said: "The earth is really a village!"

Wei Han, the son of General Zhaowu Wei Guang, first married the Wang family and gave birth to a son Wei Ruoheng.Six years later, Li's concubine gave birth to Wei Ruolan.Three years later, because of the late emperor's suspicion, Wei Guang died in fear. Wei Han used the "jealousy" of seven out of the Wang family to support the Li family.The eldest son, Wei Ruoheng, asked to guard his grandfather's tomb for three years, but he disappeared afterwards.

Wang's father, General Jin Wu, Wang Shou, had nothing to do with Prince Yizhong. Because of the villain's gossip, he was dismissed from office and dismissed. Fortunately, he survived and the family returned to Changxing County, Jiangsu Province.When returning to his hometown by boat, he was ransacked by water bandits in Taihu Lake. There were more than [-] people in the family and none of them survived.Both Liu Dengxi and Situ Pan did not believe in this matter, and they were repeatedly investigated and found to be missing.

Originally the daughter of an official, Li's family suffered a crime and sold her into Wei's house as a maidservant, and later became Wei Hantongfang.A few years later, when the imperial court granted an amnesty, his brother was exonerated and admitted as a Jinshi, and entered the Imperial Academy as an official. Li's family was promoted to a concubine and had a son.Later, Li's brother was promoted to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and the Wang family was convicted.

After reading it, Jia Cong handed the letter to Qi Dian, and said, "Did you see it? It turns out that Uncle Wei married two wives. The lives of his two wives are exactly what I said, 'A woman's life is entrusted to her father and brother'. model!"

He started to sigh and said: "Wei Ruoheng is obviously Wang Wu. Such a talent...he is the eldest son of the Wei family, what a pity. Although Wei Ruolan is also smart and talented, after all, he can't compare with him."

Jia Cong shook his head and said, "Uncle Wei's family is incompetent, and he never restrained Wei Ruolan. Wei Ruolan is not afraid of his father at all, but is extremely afraid of his uncle. If Wei Ruoheng has always been the eldest son of the Wei family, his grandfather left early. , I don’t care about things, so I may not be able to work hard to learn literature and martial arts, so I may not be able to achieve what I am today. If Wei Ruolan has always been the son of the Wei family, in order to get ahead and be supervised by her uncle, she will work ten times harder than she does now. Blessing Misfortune and misfortune complement each other, and adversity is fertile ground for growth."

Qi Dian heard the words and thought for a moment: "It also makes sense." He smiled again, "No wonder he dislikes me for no reason. Chen Ruijin is so similar to the current Mrs. Wei."

Jia Cong shrugged and said: "If Aunt Wei's family hadn't suffered any disasters—Uncle Wu only wrote that there was no reason for the disasters, the disasters probably had nothing to do with him and most likely he had nothing to do with it—she would marry a well-matched family in peace and security. Father and brother sheltered to be a decent wife. Besides, the divorce of Wei Ruoheng's mother had nothing to do with her. It's just..." Jia Cong frowned.

After all, Wei Ruolan is the most attention-getting character in the original novel, and Jia Cong has made friends with him on purpose, so he really deserves the word "talented and handsome fairy".Seeing that his body is not bad, he was a little surprised.If this person is Shi Xiangyun's husband-in-law, why did he "scatter the clouds in Gaotang and dry up the Xiangjiang River" so quickly?From this point of view, Wei Ruoheng probably was framed by the current Aunt Wei when he was young, so he should not blame Wei Ruolan to pay his mother's debt... If the young master doesn't recognize him, then it's fine. Pian Xiaoye has a good friendship with him.After thinking for a while, he said, "I have to see Wang Wu. Ah, Mr. Wei."

Fortunately, King Wu is still in Suzhou, and Mr. Wei is here with him today.Naturally, he and Jia Cong pretended to meet for the first time, and they both acted alike, not even looking at each other.So I sent someone to the post office to see Mr. Wei, and asked him to go to Hanshan Temple to visit the historical sites tomorrow.King Wu was overjoyed, he held Mr. Wei's hand and said, "Cong'er has always been invited by others in Beijing and rarely declined, but he never invites anyone." Mr. Wei knew it well, and only said a few words of humility on his face .

The next day coincided with the drizzle of autumn rain, enveloping Gusu like green smoke, adding a third of melancholy to people for no reason.The two came to Hanshan Temple as promised, and exchanged greetings at the gate of the temple with umbrellas each.After wandering around with Zhike monk and donating some incense money, Jia Cong led Mr. Wei to the bell tower.

The little fat man stood leaning on the railing, and he said sadly, "This is the bell that goes to the passenger ship at midnight."

Mr. Wei looked at him and said, "You have something to say."

Jia Cong smiled wryly and said, "People say that I, Jia Cong, have a three-inch tongue. Today I want to test whether my tongue is still usable."

Mr. Wei raised his eyebrows.

Jia Cong said, "I know Mr. Wei's background."

Mr. Wei was stunned.It took a while before he said, "Master Cong really knows everything."

Jia Cong curled his lips: "Who asked you to say that your surname is Wei? You also look like you know a lot about things in Beijing. There are not many people with the surname Wei in Beijing. Age, such a strong soldier in your village and Jiugong gossip is obviously a child of Jiangmen, and he is on Taihu Lake and his surname is Wang... It's too easy to guess. And... that... Looking at your face, it looks a bit like Wei Ruolan, especially the eyes and face the lower half of the

Mr. Wei was stunned for a while, and said with a wry smile, "I see."

Jia Cong said, "Do you want to take revenge on Wei Ruolan?"

"If I want to, will you stop me?"

"Yes." Jia Cong said, "Everyone has their own standpoint. He is my friend. He is obviously not as capable as you. I can't just watch you fix him. He is not as cunning as Feng Ziying. If he fails to keep it clean, he will be repaired and killed by you."

Mr. Wei sneered and said, "I'm afraid the third master can't stop me."

Jia Cong sighed: "So I want to try first to see if I can convince you, after all, he is innocent."

Mr. Wei said: "But his mother is not innocent."

Jia Cong shrugged and said, "You don't think your mother was killed by her mother, do you?"

Mr. Wei said grimly: "The third master doesn't know anything, so don't comment."

Jia Cong said: "I really don't know what happened in the backyard of Wei's family back then, but I do know that Wei Ruolan's mother was not responsible for Ling Tang's dismissal. It is clear that she herself can no longer be a housewife. "

Mr. Wei was furious: "Can't be? Is it because of your tolerance, talent, learning, and appearance? Or is it because you can't be a housekeeper, a filial son-in-law?"

"It's my natal family who can't be the one." Jia Cong said, "Games, talent, learning, and appearance are all common dowry, it doesn't matter if it's more or less; the housekeeper and director have accountants and housekeepers' wives; filial piety is not the most important thing. Marriage has two surnames It's good, they have two surnames of similar families. The fundamental difference between the mistress of a family and the ordinary concubine lies in the father and brother, and in the natal family. Lingtang's natal family is down, no matter whether there is Wei Ruolan's mother or not, she will definitely You want to go down and change to a wife whose natal family is comparable to that of the Wei family. Your father did nothing wrong. It’s the same with any other family. Mr. Wei is not young. There are many rich and noble families around Taihu Lake, and there must be no fewer. See examples."

Mr. Wei was dumb, and suddenly leaned on the railing, and burst into tears again.

"My father is not an infatuated man, but just an ordinary man with little love. Among the men in the world, there are more men with less love than men with more love, and those who are infatuated are really rare. You can't insist on it just because you happen to be infatuated. All men in the world are infatuated, which is unreasonable. Expecting a man who is not infatuated to suddenly become infatuated is like expecting a rooster to lay eggs. It was the late emperor who was wrong."

After another half a day, Mr. Wei smiled wryly and said, "I couldn't find an excuse to refute you."

Jia Cong turned to look at him, and said, "Actually, you know what's going on in your heart. It's just that you don't want to hate your own father, you can only hate Wei Ruolan's mother."

After a long while, Mr. Wei raised his face, with drizzle falling on his cheeks, he said leisurely: "My grandfather was framed, and it was just a loss of office, it will not bring trouble to the Wei family."

Jia Cong shook his head and said, "The Wei family is not afraid of misfortune...it is Lingtang's natal family. Since the natal family cannot benefit the Wei family, the wife of the main house is useless. The purpose of the wife of the main house is to benefit the natal family. She took that position But it is no longer useful, how is it different from ordinary concubines? Therefore, it is necessary to change to a useful woman who has a natal family that can be mutually beneficial with the Wei family. What is virtuous and filial is not unimportant, but the latter is more important than the status of the natal family. Your father is not Ruthless, but love and profit can only be one, how many men will choose love?"

After a while, he said: "You feel bad if you use your own family as an example. How about my family? My eldest wife seems to have no such person in the house. The concubine Ji who is more pampered can step on her face. Second sister-in-law Lian On the bright side, her daughter-in-law really didn't take her seriously. My father married her because my grandmother liked my second uncle and sincerely married him a useless wife to occupy that position. The second wife relied on her elder brother to be called Wang Ziteng, and she has dominated the internal affairs of the mansion for many years. But she made the ugliest move, which was to coax the old lady to marry her niece into the mansion. Now Wang Ziteng is the second wife's brother He became the father of Lian's second grandma. Otherwise, she would have made a huge mistake. At most, our family would not allow her to be a housekeeper. How could we dare to let her fall into the position she is now? Think about it, Mr. Wei, your mother is the queen of the general family. Wouldn't it be more painful if she lived like my eldest wife?"

Mr. Wei was silent for a long time, and said: "After all, the third master is an outsider. I understand these truths, but the old grudges are hard to get rid of. My mother died pitifully, and I always resented that I was innocently abandoned, and hated that vixen who provoked their husband and wife. Divide the relationship between our father and son."

"Um, that..." Jia Cong said with some embarrassment, "This is one of the reasons why I have to take care of this matter. The disaster of Wei Ruolan's maternal ancestor's family is probably caused by an elder of my family. Otherwise, she would still be a rich man. Miss, you can't fall to the point where you want to turn yourself into a vixen. It's hard for a person to keep his conscience in the face of hardship."

Mr. Wei glanced at him: "What do you mean, is she justifiable?"

Jia Cong shook his head and said: "No and no. I mean, it's normal. Most people in the world would do that when they fall into her situation, but very few people keep a conscience. They won't criticize and abuse them because of us. , They don’t do that. Just like the vast majority of men in the world will change their first wife when they encounter your father’s situation back then, but there are few like you who have been married for many years and have no children but don’t take concubines or change wives.” He He said with emotion, "Zhen Yinglian can meet you, it is also a blessing if she survives a catastrophe."

He turned the topic very well, Mr. Wei immediately said: "I heard that the third master can give away a child?"

Jia Cong laughed and said, "Where do I have that ability? My brother's son and daughter are all his destiny, but my little Meng'er was supposed to be pregnant for five months because the second sister-in-law was too busy with the housekeeper. Small childbirth. That's why I forced my sister to take care of the housekeeping and let my second sister-in-law take care of the baby's care, so Menger was born naturally. Everything in the world has its cause and effect. If the cause changes, the effect will naturally follow. It's changed." He said, "According to Zhen Yinglian's fate, she should have been persecuted by a shrew, her mother would keep her son, and die of dystocia. Now her fate has changed, Brother Xue has completely cut off her sleeve, and that shrew has been raped by some lust Marry a man who is short of money, if Zhen Yinglian is pregnant in the future, you can ask a better doctor to take care of her, it will be fine."

What he said was too natural, too smooth, too honest.Mr. Wei was convinced, overjoyed, and bowed to him: "Thank you, Third Master, for your guidance."

Jia Cong said with a smile: "It's not really a suggestion, just a few random words. It's just that you haven't had children for a long time, so I'm afraid there may be other reasons." Mr. Wei hurriedly asked why.He said, "You are too busy, you have to be the head of the village and your assistant, how much time can you spend with your daughter-in-law?"

Mr. Wei blushed when he said that: "You are only so old, you know this."

Jia Cong curled his lips and said: "I'm not very old, but my father is a shameless old romantic. I knew everything when I was young. Last year my sister was pregnant, and I invited two imperial doctors to take care of her. Half Chatting with the imperial doctor on the road, they said that women are most likely to conceive around the [-]th day before menstruation, Mr. Wei might as well try." This is not what the imperial doctor said, but that he drank with his married best friend in the middle of the night in his previous life. Listen to your buddies when you brag about beer.

Mr. Wei was taken aback: "Isn't it the days after the menstrual event?"

"The imperial doctor said it was from the [-]th to the [-]th day before the menstrual event." Jia Cong couldn't help pointing at him and said with a smile, "The day you mentioned is the most difficult to conceive hahaha no wonder there is no son hahaha it's terrible to be uneducated hahaha Ha ha……"

Mr. Wei blushed with embarrassment, and scolded: "What kind of things are you at such a young age!"

Jia Cong laughed more and more.Originally, they were surrounded by desolation, but when he smiled, all the melancholy disappeared.After laughing for a while, Jia Cong patted Mr. Wei on the shoulder: "If you are really upset, change your surname to Wang. Your good son took the surname of his ex-wife, and I will regret it."

Mr. Wei shook his head and said, "My surname is Wei, why did I change my surname?"

Jia Cong let out a sigh of relief: "It's boring."

Mr. Wei said: "I want to put my mother's spiritual seat back in the Wei family's ancestral hall, and move the ashes back to the Wei family's ancestral grave."

Jia Cong really couldn't understand the strange and useless obsession of the ancients, so he waved his hands and said, "Forget it, you are so stubborn at such a young age. If my sister was treated like this by her husband's family, I would have let her marry her lover. Who cares?" Is their family's ancestral hall as big as ours? If you have the ability to rebuild the Taihu Wei family and put your mother's spiritual seat in the place of the ancestors, wouldn't it be better than going to the Wei family's ancestor's grave to pay respects to the old lady of the Wei family every day? Stronger? Don’t forget, women rely on not only their father and brother, but also their son.”

Mr. Wei's eyes lit up: "Third Master, good idea!"

Jia Cong said: "A good man has ambitions in all directions. Everyone is interested in profit. When the Wei family in the capital fawns and wants to connect with the Wei family in Taihu Lake, that's when your mother can feel proud."

Mr. Wei slammed his fist hard on the railing, gritted his teeth and said, "That's fine! It'll be fun then." Jia Cong cheered from the sidelines.Mr. Wei glanced back at him, and suddenly praised, "No wonder the king of Wu said that the third master's tongue can protect half the world." Jia Cong made a grimace.

He asked again: "Who is Mr. Luo and Mr. Yi who kidnapped you?"

Jia Cong proudly said: "Isn't it amazing? The most remarkable thing is that they have fewer people than you, and they don't hurt your peace. The people in your village are only slightly injured, right? I just want to tell you, the military adviser It also has a history."

Mr. Wei said with a strange expression: "How much did you get down this wave?"

Jia Cong was startled, then laughed again.

After a while, just when Jia Cong thought he had figured it out, Mr. Wei said again: "Back then... it wasn't just my mother. I was the eldest son, and suddenly I don't know what has become."

Jia Cong rolled his eyes: "You are a boy, and you are smart, how can you treat you badly? No matter how foolish you are, I would not let a nine-year-old child guard the grave of his grandfather. That is not scolding for himself. What? If you have guarded the tomb for three years, your reputation will stand out, and you will avoid the sharpness of the new wife. Your old man changed his wife out of the family situation, and you are still his son. Husband and wife are like birds in the same forest. Fly; but the blood of father and son can never be replaced. Besides, Mr. Wei, is it your grandfather's dying idea for you about guarding the tomb?"

Mr. Wei was shocked! "His old man... treated me very well... since I was a child... just..."

Jia Cong looked at his shattered appearance, and said calmly: "Your father is mediocre, and I don't think he could have come up with this idea. Your mother, wife, must be changed. The benefits of the family are greater than your own. Li. Your grandfather tried his best to think of a way to save his grandson you in the embarrassing situation at that time."

Mr. Wei closed his eyes for a long time, his face was so sad that it was horrible to look at, thinking that old man Wei had often deceived his grandson; Jia Cong just waited obediently on the sidelines.He suddenly asked: "If you were in my father's situation, would you be the same as him?"

Jia Cong said: "I am stronger than your father. I can stand in the court without borrowing the strength of my wife's family. Therefore, I will choose to protect my son. Uncle Wei's mediocrity is the original sin."

Mr. Wei said: "Protect your son, not your wife."

Jia Cong said: "Could it be that your mother blames your father for his heartlessness..."

"More than that. She wholeheartedly thought that Lord Li forced my father to divorce his wife."

Jia Cong blinked: "But Lord Li's official position is not as high as your father's." Nai patted him on the shoulder and said, "There are too many stupid women in the world, and it's not unusual for her to be like this."

Mr. Wei smiled wryly: "Third Master, is this to comfort me?"

"Yeah." Jia Cong nodded seriously.

"That's all. This is a temple." He looked at the misty and rainy Gusu and said, "How about finding a place to drink?"

"Okay."

The two then left Hanshan Temple, and went outside to find a tavern to drink at will.Mr. Wei got drunk and shouted, "My mother won't enter their ancestral hall!" Jia Cong applauded.