The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Princess Jian'an's wedding convoy had two days left to arrive at the capital.Everyone knew in their hearts that everything would be fine after entering Beijing.Biansheng had only been gone for two hours, when he saw a group of horses running towards him from a distance, with the front leading the way.Zhong Wei ordered to stop and line up, bow and string the sword out of the sheath and fire. The gun was in hand.When the horse gradually approached, Zhong Wei heaved a sigh of relief and shouted: "My own!" Everyone also heaved a sigh of relief.Zhong Wei rode his horse to meet him in front.

The person who came was a young general, and after speaking a few words with Zhong Wei, the two rushed to see Princess Jian'an.Zhong Wei introduced: "This is General Ge Qiao, who was ordered by Taiwan prefect Jia Lian to secretly protect us."

Hearing that it was someone sent by her husband's family, Princess Jian'an couldn't help but blush, feeling relieved.Unexpectedly, General Ge Qiao clasped his fists and said: "Princess, there are ambushes on the way to the capital. There are a lot of people and there are firearms. It is definitely not something we can deal with. Princess, please move away for now."

Princess Jian'an was surprised: "Do you know who it is?"

"I don't know. I don't know if they are waiting for the princess." Ge Qiao said, "Take a shelter for a while and see what they do."

Princess Jian'an thought for a moment and asked, "Where to avoid?"

Ge Qiao smiled slightly: "Princess and General Zhong, please leave as soon as possible."

Princess Jian'an looked at Zhong Wei, and Zhong Wei said: "There are many ambush soldiers, so it's inconvenient to attack and defend here." The princess nodded her head in agreement.

The entire rear team of the convoy became the front team, Ge Qiao led the way, retreated a section of the road, turned to another fork, and drove forward.Because we were really in a hurry, everyone endured hunger and didn't eat lunch.Until dusk, everyone rushed to the foot of a mountain.Ge Qiao went into a small shop by the side of the road and talked to the people inside, and came out with a sullen face and told the princess and Zhong Wei: "There is one good news and two bad news at the end, which one should I tell first?"

The princess sighed: "Let's talk about the bad news first."

Ge Qiao said: "There are two bad news. The first one is that the people who were ambushing at noon really came after the princess. They waited for half a day and couldn't wait for anyone, so they searched all the way to find us."

Zhong Wei asked: "Is there another one?"

"They have found our horseshoe prints and wheel tracks, and they are about to catch up."

Both Zhong Wei and Princess Jian'an were shocked, they looked at each other, Zhong Wei asked: "What's the good news?"

Ge Qiao pointed to the mountain: "There are bandits on this mountain. I am very close to the big boss on the mountain. I can go up to avoid the limelight and borrow the organs of their cottage to guard."

Zhong Wei glanced at him and asked, "Are you on good terms with Jia Cong?"

"Yes!"

"What did I say?" Zhong Wei snorted, "It's all rascal tunes."

"General Zhong, don't wrong the last general." Ge Qiao clasped his fists sternly and said, "The last general is a decent person, and he is totally different from Mr. Cong." Zhong Wei chuckled.

Then Ge Qiao invited him and Princess Jian'an to go up the mountain, and the objects pulled in the car were marked one by one, and they were pulled away in an orderly manner.Someone under Zhong Wei muttered: "Our princess has a lot of dowry, the king of the mountain won't make up his mind."

When Ge Qiao heard this, he said with a smile, "He won't think about these things after anyone's plan." Nai whispered close to Zhong Wei's ear, "The chief's surname is Liu." Can't help laughing.

Everyone looked around after going up the mountain.Not to mention the well-organized houses and the amazing momentum of the soldiers, just judging from the large concrete floor under the feet that has been used for several years, this cottage is unusual.Ge Qiao arranged the convoy like his master, and asked Princess Jian'an and her maids to go into a courtyard on the mountain called Hengwu Garden to rest for a while, then turned around and said to Zhong Wei, "The pursuers have arrived at the foot of the mountain. They couldn't find them. From our trail, we can probably guess that we have gone up the mountain. Before it is dark, we might think about attacking."

Zhong Wei hurriedly said: "Let's go get ready now."

"No need for now." Ge Qiao said, "Everyone is hungry, let's eat quickly. They don't have the ability to come here for a while, so let's walk around outside for two hours before talking." Zhong Wei laughed loudly, and the two They walked out of Hengwu Garden hand in hand.Princess Jian'an naturally heard it.Although he was still uneasy, seeing that General Ge looked confident, he felt a little relieved.

Then everyone had dinner on the mountain.Halfway through the meal, soldiers came to report, and the scouts chasing soldiers down the mountain got lost.With a compassionate face, Ge Qiao brushed his beardless chin like he was stroking his beard: "Let them go. Poor guy, I must have not had lunch yet." After setting up the formation, someone came to report again, and the three scouts who were chasing the soldiers all turned back.Ge Qiao said, "I wish them the best of luck."

Zhong Wei asked, "Is Leader Liu not here?"

"Of course he's not here." Ge Qiao said, "If he's here, we'll attack first if he can't keep it all together. Look, General Zhong, who's the pursuer?"

Zhong Wei smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know at all. What about General Ge?"

Ge Qiao thought: "It can't be the Empress Dowager, she doesn't have such good soldiers. These people can't be raised with money, they have to be trained. It's not King Yan, who approves of this marriage; It’s too embarrassing to wait until the country of Yan to do it. Besides, I don’t know what they are planning. Killing, seeking money, or kidnapping.”

Zhong Wei said: "Maybe at night I will send people to check."

Ge Qiao said with a smile: "It doesn't need to be at night, you can go now, it's fair and square."

Hearing this, Zhong Wei sent a brother Gao Lai Gao Qu who is very good at pretending to be a bandit, and followed a real bandit sent by Ge Qiao to cross the forest and cross the stream, and made many detours to the bottom.I saw a dark camp at the foot of the mountain, and I couldn't see the number.The real bandit then took out a waist card from his pocket and said: "I'll avoid it first, you can tie this around your waist."

The man nodded, tied his waistband and walked into the camp, coughed loudly a few times, and lit the torch in his hand.Sure enough, after a while, a soldier came to ask him, he cupped his hands and said: "I was sent by the leader of my family, please see your leader."After a while, someone who reported the letter came back and said that the general asked him to take him there.

This person swaggered into the tent of the Chinese army, and saw that the leading general was nearly fifty years old, and he was not angry and pretentious, obviously he was a veteran.He cupped his hands: "This leader invited you."

The general asked, "Who are you?"

The man said: "A mere pawn is nothing to worry about."

The general looked him up and down for a long time, then stared at his waist badge for a while, and pointed with a smile: "Your leader is interesting. Is this your name?"

The man looked down and blushed involuntarily.There are three words engraved on the waist card: fine ghost.Just now on the road, the real mountain bandit happened to comment on "Journey to the West" with him. There are two little monsters, one is called fine ghost and the other is called clever insect.He could only laugh dryly: "Our leader... is playful."

The general looked at the badge again, smiled again and Zifang said, "Forget it, since you don't want to use a common name, I will call you a fine ghost. Who is your leader?"

The fine ghost was helpless, pursed his mouth and said: "Our leader is the leader of this mountain. Money dropped from the sky and picked up from the ground, whoever picks it up first. As the saying goes, there is a way to steal. Since we are in the green forest, such a good idea The leader should know. Since the ticket was sent out, I was so jealous. If we let others get it first, our leader can't do anything, can't we? But now we have it. Now that it's in our hands, the leader can't help it. It’s not so good to think about it.”

The general looked at him with a half-smile and said, "Your leader has a big appetite. Do you know who he robbed?"

The fine ghost also smiled and said: "It doesn't matter who she is. Money can't talk anyway."

The general said: "Aren't you afraid that the Rongguo Mansion will take artillery to bombard your cottage?"

"This is nothing to worry about."

The general sneered: "If you drop money from the sky and pick it up from the ground, whoever gets it will get it. Since we met, it's not too much to share half of the meeting."

Jing Jinggui wrinkled his mouth and said with a dry smile: "Don't be joking, leader, it's very boring."

"Who's joking?" the general said, "I don't know how many people there are in your mountain village? What if I set fire to the mountain?"

The fine ghost said coldly: "Does the leader want to hang out in the green forest in the future after doing such a bad manner?"

The general laughed loudly: "Since I have so much money, I can buy a title and become a nobleman. What kind of green forest is there?"

Jing Jinggui gritted his teeth for a long time with a dark face, and said: "Dare to ask the leader what's his origin?"

The general stroked his beard: "Wang Wu of Taihu Lake."

The fine ghost nodded and said goodbye with fists folded.When he reached the door, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Sister-in-law Chun from the small restaurant, what did you do to her?"

The general said: "There is no one in that restaurant, I think she saw so many people and ran away." The fine ghost left again.

After the person left, the general led people to search the small restaurant at the foot of the mountain again, but there was still nothing suspicious.Nai sat down casually, and asked his confidant at the bottom, "In your opinion, who is this king of the mountain?"

The confidant said: "It's definitely not a bandit from the green forest. The badge he hung on his subordinates, 'Fine Ghost', there must be a reason for this scripture. In the commentary, the fine ghost is the subordinate of King Golden Horn and King Silver Horn. But the boy who guards the alchemy furnace for the Supreme Lord."

The general said: "Why did they arrest Princess Jian'an?"

The confidant smiled wryly and said, "Since we don't know who did it, how can we guess it? It's just that we haven't seen any traces of fighting along the way, so it can be seen that King Lu's people have never fought with this king of the mountain."

The general said: "I can't keep it all. What kind of coaxing method was used?" After sitting for a while, he slapped the table angrily and said, "Seeing that the fish is about to enter the net, someone else snatched it away." He breathed a sigh of relief and led the people out.

The fine ghost returned to the mountain, held the waist card in his hand and threw it on Ge Qiao's desk, and said it all over again angrily.Ge Qiao smiled and clapped his hands: "He really noticed."

Zhong Wei also found it funny, and asked, "What's the point of being a Journey to the West badge?"

Ge Qiao said: "It was made for fun, and it just happened to be used to stir up muddy water."

Zhong Wei said: "Is this Taihu King Wu?"

Ge Qiao said with a smile, "I have nothing to do with Wang Wuye. Those people down the mountain have one goal, to frame them."

After another half a day, someone outside said: "Ms. Chun is here." An ordinary village girl in her forties came in swiftly and saluted Ge Qiao.Ge Qiao asked her what she had heard, and Mrs. Chun then told what the general had said to her confidant in the small restaurant just now.

Only then did the fine ghost know that it was not a joke that Ge Qiao ordered him to ask one more question "Sister Chun" at the end, and Mrs. Chun hid in the small restaurant and eavesdropped, and couldn't help asking: "How did General Ge know that he would go there?" say?"

Ge Qiao said casually: "After all, there is no room in the tent to make people feel safe. Since there is no one in the restaurant, he will relax his vigilance." He said to Zhong Wei, "Master Wang Wuzhai has a very close personal relationship with our Third Master Cong. Therefore, these people will not belong to the king of the village. It is obvious that the army is serious and not reckless. Taihu Lake is in the country of Wu. If they are allowed to succeed, the blame will probably be on the back of the king of Wu. He has a grudge against the king of Wu and is unwilling to do it himself Looking for trouble. Provoking King Wu to form a deadly enmity with King Lu and Rongguo Mansion. In King Yan's territory."

Zhong Wei said: "Jia Cong has helped King Wu a lot, probably all the princes know about it."

"From this point of view, the Chu State is the most suspicious." Ge Qiao said, "Wu State has become too rich in recent years, and has occupied territory in Dongying, and they have also started to build various factories. The most important thing is the population. Many The people of Chu moved to the state of Wu one after another."

Zhong Wei said: "Many people from Qi have passed by."

"Most of the Qi people who moved to Dongying went to the land of Liu Tong." Ge Qiao said, "Jin people first went to Yan State and then Dongying to Dongying. By the way, Chu people also went to Dongying via Yan State. Or The king of Chu is the most suspicious. Besides, how much money did Wu earn from Chu? Wu Bu almost occupied Chu. If I were the king of Chu, I would be the first to know whether to hate Wu or Jia Cong. The drawing of the loom was given to him by Jia Cong. Two years later, he gave it to the King of Yan, and the state of Chu happened to be caught in the middle and Babaer died of poverty.”

Zhong Wei said: "One more thing. The rapid decline of the state of Chu in the past two years started with the assassination of the first king of Chu. The reason for his assassination was that he robbed a beauty in the state of Lu."

Ge Qiao propped his chin and said, "Well... let's start by saying that we don't know whether those people at the bottom of the mountain want to kill people, rob money, or kidnap people. Later, they added a frame. They want to do all of these things. What is Mr. Huan doing? , It’s so troublesome to want to be a kiss.”

Zhong Wei said: "General Ge, do you have any ideas?"

Ge Qiao put his head on the palm of his hand, shook his head and said: "I have an idea, but first, go and ask the Lord what he means." Then he sent Aunt Chun to tell Princess Jian'an about it.Sister-in-law Chun responded and left.

Zhong Wei said: "Why do you ask her? She is just a woman."

Ge Qiao winked: "I heard that women who marry into Jia's family have two talents, let's see if she has any good ideas."

When they arrived at Hengwuyuan, Mrs. Chun stood up and recounted the conjectures of the two generals who passed down the mountain from the beginning.The princess listened silently, thanked her, sighed softly, and sat in front of the case for a long time, her eye circles darkly red: "My grandmother wanted to poison me to death, just to take advantage of my husband's family. My second uncle's grandson sent A large army came to kill me, and she wanted to pretend to be a bandit and plant it on my sixth uncle. In the early years in the palace, my mother and concubine also said, I am a girl and I can just recruit a son-in-law to avoid these things." After a long while, murmured He muttered, "Where can I avoid..."

Sister-in-law Chun said: "I don't know if the princess has the idea to rule those people down the mountain." Princess Jian'an was taken aback.Mrs. Chun said, "Since they are here for the princess, how does the princess want to deal with them? Maybe our general can do it?"

Princess Jian'an asked, "Isn't someone trapped on the mountain now?"

Mrs. Chun said: "It's not difficult to deal with them. They are lured into the mountains. There are various pits and traps, and they can also divert water into empty valleys. If you just want to walk, it's easy. There are paths on the mountains."

Princess Jian'an thought for a long time, and said, "I'm in a mess right now, so I'll think about it tonight. You'll come back tomorrow."

Sister-in-law Chun bowed down and said, "I obey the order."