The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

In the afternoon of this day, someone sent a post to the fourth child of the Shu Wang family, which said: Go to Wuhou Temple alone for a while, and discuss important matters in secret.The signature is Qiu Liang.His Royal Highness readily attended the appointment.Naturally, he didn't dare to go alone and took two capable guards.When I arrived at Wuhou Temple, I was strolling for a while, and saw a person in front of me who looked like Qiu Liang, who waved at him, and walked into a side hall.His Highness the Fourth Prince adjusted his clothes and ordered the guards to wait outside and stop others, and he went in alone.After going in, I didn't come out until it was almost dusk.The guards became suspicious, and when they went inside, their master had long since disappeared.The guards were anxious and rushed back to the Shu Palace to report.The king of Shu ordered people to look for Qiu Liang; Qiu Liang had been working in the Yamen since the morning, and he hadn't left yet; he also ate lunch with his colleagues.I talked about Wuhou Temple all day long, and I didn't even leave the gate of the Yamen.

Even if he doesn't like the fourth child, he is still his biological son after all.The king of Shu hurriedly called Qiu Liang to investigate by himself.Where can I check for a while?The post pretending to be himself asking the Fourth Highness to meet, the words on it are not his at first glance.

Early the next morning, the guard at the Iron Statue Temple sent someone back to the city to report, but nothing happened last night, and the whole night was spent waiting.The king of Shu wondered: "What's the matter of waiting all night?" The messenger went out to ask the soldier, and the soldier said, "Yesterday, His Royal Highness came to pass orders in person. Let us prepare well. In the evening, the remnants of the Fang family will rob people." The king of Shu was busy Call him in and let him explain what happened.

The soldiers said, yesterday afternoon, the Fourth Highness led the troops to the Iron Elephant Temple, holding the handbook of the King of Shu to tell them that the prince is planning to lure the enemy, someone will come to attack at night tonight, let them set up an ambush.

The king of Shu was shocked: "Are you reading that right? Is he really the fourth child?"

The soldier said: "We General Huang recognizes the Fourth Highness, and we also saw Lord Qiu Liang and Mr. Ding Wangji wearing armor and mixing among the ordinary soldiers."

"Is he blind!" Shu King asked, "Has Qiu Liang ever left the Yamen?"

The soldier suddenly became stupid!It took a long time to say: "Fourth Highness finally... took the women and children of the Fang family away... it was ordered by the prince's handwriting."

The king of Shu was furious and kicked over: "Trash!" and kicked the soldier to the ground.

At this time, someone came to report again, and the Fourth Highness found it.Someone sent a large cart of gifts to Qiu Liang's family early in the morning, but inside the cart was a dead, plucked hen, and a Fourth Highness who had been stripped of his clothes and shaved his hair and eyebrows. .There are two words written on the top of the head: eggs.At this moment, the man has woken up, but he is so frightened that he can't speak, Qiu Liangzheng sent a carriage back to the house first.The king of Shu suddenly felt ashamed, grabbed the cup, inkstone, vase and smashed it on the desk.

Jia Cong was still sleeping late, so Qiu Liang took a young man to the residence to pick him up.Jia Cong stared and listened to him for a long time, and said: "I'm hungry..." Qiu Liang had no choice but to let him wash up and have a snack first, and Jia Cong listened to him repeat the babble while eating.Hearing someone pretending to be Qiu Liang to hook up with the fourth child, he swallowed the dragon chaoshou in his mouth and muttered, "Why did you get involved? Didn't that old aunt say that you are a lonely minister?"

Qiu Liang couldn't help but glanced at the young man who brought him and asked, "What lonely minister?"

Jia Cong said: "That Mrs. Ding, the prince's concubine, the old sister-in-law who helped the fourth child. Last time she said that Qiu Liang is a lonely minister, so don't provoke him." Nai bowed his head and drank the soup, "This fourth child But someone kidnapped him? What do you want the prince to give in exchange or a ransom?"

Qiu Liang sighed, "Didn't you listen to what I said just now?"

"I didn't wake up just now." Jia Cong said, "Last night I watched the stars and told the legend of Azeroth, so I went to bed very late."

Qiu Liang said: "The women and children of the Fang family were rescued."

"Huh?" The spoon in Jia Cong's hand paused, "Be clear! I'm awake."

Qiu Liangsui elaborated again, looked at him with a smile and said, "It's your idea to keep the Fang family members, anyway, you have to go into the water to help with this matter."

Jia Cong pushed the dim sum plate and cast a sidelong glance at Qiu Liang: "Since when did Master Qiu learn to be a rascal?"

Qiu Liang stroked his beard: "I have always been able to, I was not familiar with it before and I was embarrassed to use it."

Jia Cong rolled his eyes, put his hands on the back of the chair and said, "The fourth son of the prince's family does not seem to be a reliable person. What's the matter with the handbook?"

Qiu Liang smiled wryly and said, "The handwriting really looks like the prince wrote it himself. General Huang has been with the prince for so many years, but he didn't recognize it as a fake."

Jia Cong frowned and said, "Handwriting is hard to imitate."

Qiu Liang said: "My lord looks like he wrote it himself."

Jia Cong thought about it again: "No. Handwriting is like fingerprints. Even if it is imitated, it can only fool ordinary people. Where did the acquaintances fool? Has the prince ever lost any pen and ink? When I was young, I heard Mr. talk about a case. Someone Hired a very powerful master craftsman to cut out a rich man’s words and mount them in one place to make up an IOU, and after the rich man died, he used the IOU to blackmail his son’s money.”

Qiu Liang's eyes lit up: "That paper is really thick!" He immediately called someone to go to the yamen to fetch the fake handwriting.

Jia Cong said again: "My lord, don't be so anxious, the Fang family can't make any waves. Now it's the age of firearms." He winked, "The Fang family has no money, so they can't afford firearms. Even if the rest of the party support It doesn't matter which child is the main one? Zhenyuan is always good at martial arts, so why not let our fifth uncle shoot him three times."

Qiu Liang smiled bitterly and said, "That's the trouble. I searched the Fang family's property a few days ago and found something wrong."

"Huh? Did you reconcile the account?"

"You don't need to reconcile the accounts, just take a quick look and you'll know something's wrong." Qiu Liang said, "How many big families Fang Xiong raided in the capital back then! Now far less than [-]% of Fang Xiong's warehouses have been searched."

Jia Cong blinked: "You mean, the ones that Fang Xiong got out of the capital were not handed over to the lord, but swallowed privately?"

Qiu Liang nodded and said, "Most of them have been taken privately."

Jia Cong's heart skipped a beat: No wonder Fang Xiong wanted to rebel against the King of Shu.Fang Xiong was originally brought to Beijing by the king of Shu, and he confiscated the properties of many big families in Beijing, all of which he embezzled for himself.Depending on Fang Xiong's financial resources, it would be good to use the name of the king of Shu to get the territory.He only needs to hide his troops and horses in the deep mountains until the world is settled and all the kings go to take care of each other. Then he sends troops to kill the king of Shu, and then he can cover the sky in the Kingdom of Shu with one hand.

For fear that the proliferation of guns would be too chaotic, the firearms of Hongguji are not sold to people casually.Fang Xiong himself could not buy firearms, and all the firearms in the Kingdom of Shu were bought by the King of Shu.Since he hid so much money, how could the king of Shu give him firearms?Of course, the money returned from robbing overseas with firearms will not be distributed to him.Fang Xiong probably felt that he had been killed.With a lot of money, money is his confidence, so he is not willing to let the king of Shu just hang around like this; if he can't buy firearms, it is obvious that he can't beat the king of Shu, Fang Xiong really has the only way to kill the king of Shu secretly.

Jia Cong thought for a long time: "In this way, the Fang family still hides a huge amount of money. Then, it may not be the Fang family who took away the Fang family's women and children, and it may not be someone who knows about it."

"What does Mr. Jia mean?"

"Since ancient times, money has touched people's hearts the most." Jia Cong said, "A little profit can make people forget their roots, let alone such a large amount of money? Mr. Qiu, Wan Sheng thought that we could send more people to hang around Qingcheng Mountain .”

Qiu Liang and the young man looked at each other, and asked, "What kind of letter did you get when you suspected Zhenyuan?"

Jia Cong nodded and said: "Zhenyuan is a strange person. He was a robber in the green forest in his early years, and he still had a fake gold medal of the first emperor in his hand, which was very realistic. Later, he became a monk for some reason and lived in Qingcheng Mountain for decades. He didn't go there much. Go elsewhere! As a thief, he should be very sensitive to things like treasures. Besides, he has nothing to do with Fang Xiong, so why is he meddling in the Fang family's affairs? It's true that he wanted to save the Fang family's women and children, but he didn't have any good intentions. I thought he was coming after me. Now it seems that I'm just a gun he used to win the trust of the Fang family."

"Hiss..." Qiu Liang took a deep breath, "Isn't he from the late emperor?"

"The gold medal is real?"

"No."

"But here again!" Jia Cong spread his hands, "I have done such things as imitating gold medals, so can I still be a man of the late emperor?"

Qiu Liang said: "Why did he order Ding Wangji to test whether you are willing to stand on your own?"

"Otherwise, how can the Fang family believe him? A Taoist priest helps them for no reason. Do you believe that you are the Fang family? Even if you believe in it for a while, would you be willing to give him money?" Jia Cong said with a smile, "I thought What kind of high-ranking man, who has practiced for decades without changing his traitorous nature. So why do you need money at an older age?"

Qiu Liang looked sideways at the young man, who was thinking.Seeing this, Jia Cong also looked at him, but Qiu Liang didn't introduce him.The young man raised his head and asked, "According to Mr. Jia, can Yu Zhenyuan, who abducted Fang's women and children, have anything to do?"

"Probably not." Jia Cong thought, "Didn't those people have soldiers and horses? Zhenyuan is a thief, where did they get the soldiers and horses?"

The young man said: "Taoist Qingxiao said that Zhenyuan received a letter at the end of last year and burned it after reading it. This person must have an accomplice."

Jia Cong said: "I still think that the only ones who can team up with thieves are thieves, and they don't have soldiers in their hands. They are known as the three thieves in Xinglin, and the ones who wrote to him must be the other two thieves. Unless the soldiers themselves are Fang Xiong's subordinates, the bandits join forces with the Fang family."

Qiu Liang's yamen is not far away, and someone has already taken the fake Shu King's handwriting, and upon closer inspection, it is indeed framed.Qiu Liang clicked his tongue and said, "There is such a way!"

Jia Cong didn't take it seriously: "It's not a new method that people have used before." He thought about it again, "How many people know about fake gold medals?"

Qiu Liang asked: "There are only a handful of them. Mr. Jia suspects there is a traitor?"

Jia Cong said: "Honestly speaking, their trick is quite good. Why didn't they think of it before? Could it be that they got a fake gold medal and coaxed past the reminder of the presiding Taoist priest of Qingyang Palace, and followed the gourd?"

Qiu Liang thought about it: "It's really possible. I'll go back and check it out."

Jia Cong yawned: "I'm so sleepy, I didn't get enough sleep. Anyway, people have already run away, and I've come up with ideas, and I'm not a policeman. Go back and sleep for a while."

The young man smiled and said, "Mr. Jia is not very worried."

Jia Cong said: "No matter how capable they are, they don't have firearms in their hands. What kind of waves can they make?" He yawned again.

The young man nodded: "It makes sense. Does Mr. Jia know who I am?"

"I don't want to know." Jia Cong waved his hand, "It's good that we don't know each other." The young man smiled and said goodbye to Qiu Liang.

After the two of them left, Jia Cong went back to the house and asked Jia Xu, "Who is this the king of Shu? His son?"

Jia Xu nodded: "That's right. Since the Fang family still has money, we don't need to worry about it. Anyway, no matter what they want to do, they have to try to buy firearms."

"Right."

Jia Cong was really sleepy, he told Chen Ruijin last night that it was almost dawn, so he really wanted to go back to sleep.Coincidentally, Liu Feng came in from the outside and said, "Miss Chen hasn't woken up yet?"

"Yeah, we talked about love for too long last night."

Liu Feng said: "Just now I was cutting flowers and trees outside, and the young man who came with Lord Qiu especially asked me to inquire about Miss Chen."

Jia Cong scratched his head: "The son of the King of Shu is such a gossip! What did he say?"

"He said, I heard that Miss Chen is as beautiful as a man from heaven, but is it true? I said, it's really rare, very rare. He asked Miss Chen and the girl next door which one is more beautiful, and I said that the girl next door looks better. Be stronger."

Jia Cong and Jia Xu met eyes: "What does he mean?"

Jia Xu thought for a long time, and said, "I'm afraid someone will spread the word about Chen girl's appearance outside. No, if the rumor is too outrageous, it may cause trouble. But I don't know how much truth Ding Wangji told the king of Shu. .”

Jia Cong waved his hand and said, "Never mind him, I'll go back to sleep first."

Just two steps away, before bypassing the big screen, someone came in and replied: "There is a scholar outside the door asking to see you." Then a post was handed over.

Jia Cong said annoyedly: "I'm not letting people sleep anymore!" He took a glance at the post and was so shocked that he woke up on the spot!It read: Liu Yifei.This name is obviously a homophony of "Liu Yifei".For a moment, Jia Cong suspected that he had met a fellow villager from his previous life.After thinking about it, if you are a fellow villager, why write Miss Liu's name wrongly?I'm afraid it's a rumor again.So please come in.

Jia Cong recognized the scholar as soon as he entered the door, it was the young lady from the Fang family.Nai twitched the corner of his mouth: "Mr. Liu is so courageous!"

Miss Fang smiled and said, "Everyone thinks that our family has hidden in the deep mountains and old forests. Besides, no one knows me."

Jia Cong couldn't help but yawned again: "I'm sorry, I went to bed late last night. I have reached a deal with you, General Fang, and it's settled. Why is Mr. Liu looking for me again?"

Miss Fang said: "Make another deal with Mr. Jia, please ask Mr. Jia to come up with an idea to help our family get rid of that fake 'General Fang'."

"Huh?" Jia Cong was taken aback, "Didn't he receive the favor of Mr. Fang Xiong? I think he is quite sober. Your family only has women and children, and you have to rely on him."

Miss Fang looked at Jia Cong for a long time and asked, "Does Mr. Jia know that our family has a treasure?"

"I just heard from Mr. Qiu that it was copied from the house in the capital."

"If Mr. Jia can help us get rid of that person, the treasure will be shared equally between our two families." She suddenly said with affection in her eyes, "My little girl is also willing to promise her with her body."

Jia Cong was so frightened that he jumped back and moved away from her: "Don't mess around! Wansheng is a performer and not a person!" Miss Fang was stunned.Jia Cong hurriedly said, "It's easy to talk about business when you have money. In business, you don't need to talk about other things. Miss Fang is open-minded. If you want to find someone to rely on, you might as well find yourself. Wouldn't it be better to make a promise?" Is a stranger reliable?"