The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Chen Wangye has returned to China, and Liu Tong and Feng Tang tacitly declared in Dongying to kill people, steal goods, and rob silver mines.Feng Tang set his sights on Ezo Island early in the morning and took it first.From the Han and Tang Dynasties to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of the Celestial Dynasty, and then it was swallowed up by Dongying. Because the place was too small, it was not noticed when the country was founded, so it was not taken back.Feng Tang was justified this time, and only said that he was here to recover the country.

Liu Tong didn't know there was a gold mine there, so he just thought he wanted a pretense, so he went elsewhere.For some reason, Pian Ma gradually lost his energy, and he seemed to be weak and helpless like a flower branch.There was nothing wrong with Liu Tong calling many doctors to check it out. She herself said that there was nothing wrong with it, probably because the climate was not acclimatized, but she seemed to be getting thinner every day.Liu Tong was extremely anxious and regretful, he should not have brought her here in the first place.This woman has long been discussed by many soldiers in the army. Some say it is unlucky to be dumb, some say it is unlucky to be a woman, and some even say that a dumb woman is unlucky.Someone persuaded Liu Tong to send Mrs. Ma back to China.Liu Tong hesitated again and again, and finally reluctantly sent someone who was safe and reliable to take her back.Although Mrs. Ma was also reluctant to part with Liu Tong, she had to leave with tears in her eyes.

After returning to the State of Lu, Mrs. Ma did some training in Liu Tong's residence, but did not improve.Her elder brother Ma Guanshi came to visit her several times, so Ma asked him to help send a letter to Zhao Tu, a confidant in Liu Tong's camp - this person was ordered to stay in Lu State - to ask him if Chen Wang had ever met a witch insanity.Not long after, news came back from Zhao Tu that King Chen was in a coma from Dongying, and he didn't wake up until he was not far from Chenzhou City.Mashi breathed a sigh of relief.As the weather got warmer, she also got better.

On this day, Manager Ma sent two women to see Liu Tong's wife, saying that he wanted to take Mrs. Ma back to her natal home for a stroll.Mrs. Liu Tong likes Mrs. Ma very much.When Liu Tong dotes on other women, she always finds fault with her. She only sees Ma Shi pleasing to the eye and never restrains her. She also told Liu Tong an allusion "I feel pity when I see it".She ordered the people below to take good care of her. Anyway, the man is not here, so there is no need to go back to the house early, and it is better to stay at her mother's house for a few more days to relax.

When Mrs. Ma returned to her natal family, her elder brother asked her to stay in the former boudoir, needless to say.Nai sent the others out, and Manager Ma said with a serious face: "Xiang Zhu, it's not that my brother is troublesome. As Mrs. Liu's woman, why are you thinking about King Chen?" Mrs. Ma was surprised.Manager Ma paused for a moment, then continued, "Your brother has been a man for many years, and has been recruiting women for Mr. Liu for many years. How can you hide your thoughts from me?" Ma's expression changed drastically.He also said, "You and my brother and sister are related in honor and disgrace. My brother is just reminding you, don't worry about being sidelined. King Chen has nothing to do with us. You haven't even met him. Missing him? Could it be someone's way?" Ma Shi shook his head again and again.Guanshi Ma sighed, took a few steps away, stood at the door silently for a moment, and suddenly added a few words, "I know that Mr. Liu is too old, and you are young. Therefore, you have been helping you with Mr. Zhao. Now that Mr. Liu is in Dongying, you need to be more careful. There are more people who are jealous of you and him." He picked up his feet and walked away.Mrs. Ma was anxious and frightened for a long time in the house.

But Guanshi Ma went straight out of the mansion, and went to a teahouse to drink tea with the bird cage.There is a guy who is familiar with him, he can talk and flatter people, and this person greets him every time.The same is true today.

The guy said: "Master Ma is happy today."

Manager Ma smiled and said, "I see you are quite happy today."

The waiter said: "Anyway, there are few customers today, and the work is not busy. How about I sing a few lines with Master Ma to have fun?"

Guanshi Ma frowned, and said hurriedly: "Your singing is not bad, hurry up and sing, and Master Ma will reward you for singing well."

The guy hastily played a thousand children, cleared his throat, and sang: "Marquis Wen! You only want to be imprisoned in the tiger's prison to make high achievements, and you forgot about the love of crested hairpins. The concentric belt was torn off by him in a hurry. .Yu Lianhuan, I want you to crush me..."

Guanshi Ma heard it clearly, it was "Fengyi Pavilion", he nodded while beating the beat.

For a while, Manager Ma finished his tea and rewarded the guy with two hundred copper coins. He went out for a walk on the street, and then strolled to a restaurant for lunch.When I got there to look around for a while, I went to a table by the window, pointed to the guests sitting on it and said: "You, go to the table over there to eat!"

The man was a scholar, and he asked calmly, "Why should I go to the table over there to eat?"

Guanshi Ma said: "Because of Mr. Ma, I fell in love with this table! Do you know who your Mr. Ma is? Mr. Ma's sister is General Liu... Oops~~~" He suddenly saw who that person was, The arrogance on his face dissipated immediately, and he bowed and bowed with a flattering smile, "Oh, isn't this Mr. Liu? A villain with poor eyesight, I didn't recognize you when you were old. Forgive me! Mr. Liu doesn't care about the villain, Don't take it to heart!"

The scholar raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Steward Ma is too famous, which famous name am I?"

Guanshi Ma cupped his hands and said, "Uncle Liu calm down, the villain is blind, don't be as blind as I am. You see, my sister is dumb, so I am blind."

Uncle Liu couldn't help laughing, and said: "It's a trivial matter, so why bother about Guanshi Ma?"

Guanshi Ma hurriedly said: "I knew that Uncle Liu was a scholar and came from a wealthy family. He is usually magnanimous and generous, and he would not care about me, a layman." Nai sat down across from him without any hesitation, and shouted, "Dude—— —Uncle Liu’s table is mine—” The waiter hastily agreed.

Uncle Liu clasped his hands together: "Wan Sheng is used to sitting here, every day, and feels uncomfortable in other places, so I won't give up my seat to Guanshi Ma for the time being, and I hope Guanshi Ma doesn't care about it."

Manager Ma hurriedly said: "Uncle Liu really has vision! This seat is secluded and the scenery is beautiful!" He gave a thumbs up, "Good vision!" Then he suddenly asked in a low voice, "I don't know if Mr. Zhao is here recently. good?"

Uncle Liu said: "Mr. Zhao is busy every day, guarding the supplies, food and grass behind General Liu. He is very busy."

Manager Ma chuckled and said, "It's weird. I haven't seen him come to see my little sister these days."

Uncle Liu's face darkened: "The horse is in charge, you can eat things indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense. Lingmei is Master Liu's favorite concubine, what do you have to do with Brother Zhao?"

Manager Ma hastily raised his hand and slapped himself on the ears twice: "Look at my mouth! I'm talking nonsense!" Nai laughed and said, "I was probably lowered by someone just now, Mr. Liu, you didn't hear anything, you didn't hear anything. !” So ​​he cupped his hands, didn’t eat, and ran away in a hurry.Uncle Liu watched him from behind for a long time.

This Uncle Liu's surname is Liu Mingqian, from Chang'an, his ancestors belong to a branch of the Liguo Mansion in Beijing, and he is Zhu Tong's classmate and friend.Both of them are the sons of Prince Yizhong's old department. When Jia Cong and the others went to Chang'an to celebrate the birthday of the old lady of the Gao family, he tried Jia Cong for the prince Yizhong who was raised by the Bai family.The business at the Hong Kong port was gradually booming, and the Bai family was short of manpower, so they transferred Zhu Tong and him to help.Later, Zhu Tong got the news of his enemy and went to Ping'an Prefecture to investigate. By accident, he went to the capital with Jia Cong to help Gong Sanyi deal with the affairs of Prince Yizhong's old department in Beijing; Liu Qian was still in Hong Kong at that time.Also, Ding Chu, the son of Ding Chengwu, the first military governor of the capital, took the pseudonym Zhao Tu, and under the guise of falling in love with a female spy, he joined Liu Tong's subordinates, gradually gained his trust, and gained more and more power in his hands. He sent himself a scholar to help.Bai Lingyi was originally hesitant among several people, but overheard Jia She's rude words, she settled on Liu Qian.

After lunch, Liu Qian went back to the mansion to think again and again, looking for Zhao Tu to say some insinuations, Zhao Tu couldn't understand what he heard.I really didn't know what he wanted to say, so I asked: "What does Brother Liu mean? I really don't understand."

Liu Qian stared at him for a long time, and said: "Just now when I was eating, I ran into Ma Guanshi, Ma Shi's elder brother, and he said that Mr. Zhao didn't visit his sister these days when his sister came back." Zhao Tu's eyes twitched.Liu Qian sighed softly, "I know that Ma's family is Liu Tong's woman after all. Brother Zhao, you are a beauty! Don't miss General Bai's important affairs because of small mistakes." She bowed to him. To the ground, turn around and leave.

Zhao Tu stood there in a daze for a long time, then suddenly laughed and said, "Nonsense."

What he said was nonsense, so the Ma family was indeed seductive.It was fine for Zhao Tu not to think about her a few days ago, but now someone reminded him, and he missed her more and more, so he couldn't sit still.I endured it for another two days, but finally couldn't hold it back, and patted the back door of the back garden of Ma's house at night.Because steward horse didn't know the importance of things, he needed some advice, so he went to the steward horse's place first.

The two of them were old acquaintances, and when Steward Ma heard him whistling outside, he sent everyone out of the house.Zhao Tu pushed the door open and entered, and asked, "What did you say to Liu Qian?"

Manager Ma smiled and said, "Mr. Zhao is here? Please sit down quickly." Zhao Tu snorted.Guanshi Ma held tea for him personally, but sat across from him and said in a low voice, "I have something to tell my master." Zhao Tu glanced at him, and he said again, "That day, the servant girl next to my sister told me quietly, She didn't know what to write for no reason, she cried and wrote on the wall, and ordered someone to burn it with a brazier after she finished writing. She felt weird, maybe she was hit by something, so she secretly hid one. I took a look. , What was written about 'Mother Qumen Li Shi' or something."

Zhao Tu was shocked.Mrs. Ma knew about Liu Tong's investigation into King Chen's coma in Dongying, and he also knew that King Chen's mother's surname was Qu.What kind of allusion is this Qumen Li family?Guanshi Ma is a rough man, he only knows Ma Xiangzhu's beauty, and he can't detect anything else.However, Zhao Tu knew that this woman's talent, learning, demeanor, and demeanor were beyond the reach of ordinary people.If it is said that a genius of music and dance can learn for a few months, how can a genius of writing be overnight?Nai thought to himself, "I'll investigate this matter, don't worry about it." Manager Ma repeatedly agreed.Zhao Tu told him not to talk nonsense with outsiders again.

Guanshi Ma said with a flattering smile, "I only said that because Uncle Liu is a friend of the master. The villain understands, and he will never speak in the future based on who he is!" Zhao Tu nodded.

Liu Tong was born as a military general, and the spy in his hands was later found by Aunt Su Ni for him.Zhao Tu naturally didn't dare to ask Su Ni to help investigate this matter.Su Ni is also Liu Tong's woman; if Mrs. Ma really has something to do with Xin Mi in Prince Chen's residence, Su Ni will definitely not let her go if it is found out.Fortunately, he still has other places available, so he sent a letter to the Bai family in Lingnan to ask them to investigate.

Not long after, the matter fell into Gong Sanyi's hands.The old man threw it to Zhu Tongjia Huan, so that they could make trouble for Ma Xiangzhu.The two of them huddled together for half a day, but they couldn't do it well. Jia Huan said, "Cong'er is the best at such weird stories. Anyway, don't worry, let him break it off." He released a pigeon God.When Jia Cong got the letter, he smiled and said, "What's so difficult about it? There are a hundred of them." Sitting there, he recalled the story of the sky thunder dog blood white lotus that he had seen half a day ago, and randomly connected a few.Xichun and others laughed when they saw his story, "Why doesn't this kid write a commentary?"

What he breaks is: Many years ago, Concubine Hui's brother Neiku Zhan Shi Qu Shen had a concubine named Li, who was originally the daughter of an official family.His grandfather was convicted of party struggle, and his family members sold him.Qu Shen bought this girl because of her outstanding appearance.Li Shi is gentle and talented, not only Qu Shen loves her very much, but Concubine Hui also promised that if Li Shi gave birth to a daughter, she would give birth to a daughter to the second prince as a concubine.However, Mrs. Qu Shen and the other concubines were all jealous of her and tried their best to harm her; Li's nature was gentle and kind, and she endured again and again.Finally, when Qu Shen left Beijing for business, all the women in his backyard wanted to take the opportunity to kill Mrs. Li.Li Shi didn't intend to fight with others, and almost died, but suddenly found that she was pregnant.For the sake of the fetus in the womb, he asked the farmer who delivered food to Fuchu for help.The peasants felt sorry for his innocence, and stole them out of Qu's mansion in hidden vegetable carts.Li then pretended to be the wife of a vegetable delivery farmer and gave birth to a daughter.The daughter who can't speak by nature is Ma Xiangzhu.

When the letter was sent back to Beijing, Zhu Tong read the story a few times and said, "Cong'er's arrangement is too bizarre, I'm afraid Zhao Tu won't believe it." He pointed, "How can people hide in the vegetable cart? Qu Shen I lost my concubine inexplicably, so let’s forget it if I don’t check it out, and let the peasants take advantage of it? Then why didn’t Qu Shen go to ask him for justice after returning to Beijing since the Li family was safe? Didn’t it mean that both Qu Shen and Concubine Hui liked her? ? Is it possible to turn a daughter into a pariah by letting her be an official daughter?"

"Zhao Tu wouldn't think about what you said." Gong San also said, "He will probably believe Cong'er's nonsense. It's not that he is not smart, smart people sometimes become stupid. Ding Chu is a rich man, but because of The prince seized the heir to be an innocent and suffered, and became the adopted son of a merchant. Seizing the heir is similar to party struggle. His original surname is Ding, but this time he can only follow the merchant's surname Zhao; Ma's surname should be Qu but the farmer's surname is Ma. Both of them are talented Outstanding, but his identity is not as outstanding as his talent and learning. When Zhao Tu saw this story, he couldn't help but feel that he was also a fallen man. Since Mrs. Ma is dumb, it is easy for men to pity him; no matter how smart Zhao Tu is, he is still young, and Mrs. Ma's appearance is talented. They are much higher than that female spy from Ping'an Prefecture." He smiled and leaned back on the wicker chair, "This age is not sentimental, when will it be sentimental?" He ordered Zhu Tong to embellish the story and pass it to Lingnan.Zhu Tongyou didn't believe it.

Not long after, Zhao Tu got the news from the spies of the Bai family.Sure enough, as Gong San also guessed, he didn't realize that there was anything wrong with this matter, so he immediately believed it.Nai Dahe, from then on he loves Ma Xiangzhu more and more; and deeply regrets that he did not meet this girl earlier, so that she fell into the hands of Liu Tong's old prostitute, broke the pot and smashed it, and became what she is now.And inexplicably jealous of Chen Wanglai—it was obvious that Ma Xiangzhu knew about the marriage contract that Concubine Hui had just said casually.It's just that King Chen has married a concubine, the daughter of Mrs. Qu Shen.He was inexplicably relieved again.