The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Since Shi Li hadn't seen him for a few days, it was too early for Jia Cong to return from Yanwang's mansion, so he went to Xiaohuazhi Lane to see him.When I got to the place, I saw that the door was ajar and not closed.Pushing open the door and going in, shouting: "Heavenly King Gaidihu—" By the way, he slipped a glance into the yard, so as not to lose his eyes.

I saw Shi Li and Liu Xiaoqi lying side by side on a rattan recliner under the shade of willows, their bare feet without socks, each resting on an embroidered plinth; five or six pairs of slippers were randomly scattered on the ground.Both of them had pillows in their arms - to support their arms and hold books.There is a table between the two rattan lounge chairs. There are tea, snacks, iced mung bean soup, and a lot of books on the table.Even with his eyes closed, Jia Cong could guess that it must not be a serious book.The two of them didn't even raise their heads, and Shi Li never matched up with him.

Jia Cong walked over to have a look, and the case shop was full of Lvlin Pinghua, including "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness", "Di Gong's Case", "Yin Niang Biography", etc., most of which were imitated by Jia Cong. martial arts novels.Martial arts novels are fairy tales for adults, and they are particularly attractive to male teenagers, and Liu Xiaoqi happens to be at this age.Jia Cong didn't say a word, he ran inside and moved another table next to Shi Li, and moved some food, drink and commentary from the table between the two of them, and moved another set of rattan inside. Lying down on the deck chair and embroidered pier, I picked up a book and read it.

The three of them read the commentary separately, and when they were tired, they covered their faces with the book and dozed off, and never stood up except for peeing until it was getting dark.Jia Cong rubbed his belly: "Hey, Ah Hei, it's time to eat."

"So many snacks are making you hungry!" Shi Li said, "You go out to eat by yourself, and the two of us are going to eat in the kiln."

"Damn it! Don't call me when you go to the brothel! You're too disrespectful, brother!" Jia Cong got up.

Shi Li stretched himself on the rattan recliner: "Not to mention that your family has its own garden, so why bother to send money to your colleagues; can you be the same as us? We are single, but you have a sweetheart. "

Jia Cong rubbed his nose: "I don't stay overnight, what's the matter with going to a brothel? Could it be that the two of you still inform me? Hey, Xiaoqi, you won't tell my prospective daughter-in-law."

Liu Xiaoqi smiled and said, "It's hard to say."

"Is it okay to have a bit of loyalty!" Jia Cong gave him a sideways glance, "Ah Hei is the most moral person in the world, right?"

Shi Li also said: "It's hard to say."

Jia Cong snorted, "These comments are all mine."

Shi Li and Liu Xiaoqi looked at each other, and said: "Forget it, let's hide it for you for the sake of commenting. Let me tell you first, if Miss Chen threatens or lures, brother, I will carry it; if she invites A few beauties tricked me, I will definitely confess."

Jia Cong laughed and scolded: "That idea is promising!"

Shi Li stood up like a carp and stood up: "Let's go!"

The three of them then went to the dark kiln in the west of the city that had only been open for less than a month.Uncle Xiong still didn't come, even Fantou was surprised, and said: "Usually he comes once every three to five days."

Jia Congnai asked, "Do you know his name? What does he do?" Fantou said he didn't know.

Shi Li said from the side: "Is it your turn to ask these questions?"

Jia Cong said: "If you don't come, let's have a drink." He called the old bustard to serve the wine and food in a series of voices.

Jia Cong and Shi Li have similar temperaments, they are a bit lazy, and they don't pay attention to the rules.In terms of appearance, Shi Liqiang went out to Jia Cong's three streets, and he was very understanding of style and caring, and he was generous in rewards; Jia Cong had a lot of interesting things in his stomach, but he was more mean-tempered, and loved to expose the small thoughts of others.Therefore, all the fans love Shi Li more, and Jia Cong doesn't care.

The three of them drank some wine, Shi Li and Fentou laughed, pointed at Jia Cong and Liu Xiaoqi and said, "Who persuades the two of them to drink a big cup of wine, Master Hei will give you ten taels of silver, how about it?"

Jia Cong said: "I don't drink. I just ate too much tea. Xiaoqi, do you want to help them?"

Liu Xiaoqi said: "I also drank a lot of tea."

Shi Li said contemptuously: "Why do you two come to visit the brothel when you don't play?"

Jia Congnai looked at Liu Xiaoqi: "My house is originally a Blossom House, so when I come in, I have to pay attention to how their house is furnished, whether their pink hair looks good, whether their attire is suitable, how is it better than our Yihong Courtyard, is there any advantage for us? You can learn it, but you can't get up the spirit of looking for flowers and asking willows. Don't you know how to be romantic when you are young?"

Liu Xiaoqi said: "I've seen everything since I was a child, but I can't cheer myself up."

Shi Li pointed at the two of them and said, "You two are no fun! You have eaten everything when you were young, and the delicious food is delicious. Now that you are here, you are playing seriously. The girls are too. Doing errands, do you really think that people are willing to see your two poker faces?" He ordered Fantou to take the dice and roll, "If you want to eat wine, if you don't eat, you can sing. Brother Cong is not allowed to sing!"

Jia Cong didn't expect to sing a song at first, but when he mentioned it, he became more energetic, slapped his head and sang: "The big river flows eastward~~The stars in the sky are connected to the Big Dipper~~Hey, hey, a bowl of wine between life and death~ ~"

Liu Xiaoqi still thought it sounded good, so she listened carefully.Shi Li yelled, "Shut his mouth—"

He refused to let him sing, but Jia Cong insisted on singing, and the two had a row for a long time.Fentou had already fetched the dice, and everyone threw the dice and ate wine for fun. When they met Jia Cong who had the right idea, they ordered him to tell jokes, and they played around all night.All three of them were drunk, and they all stayed here overnight.

The next day, all three of them slept until the sun was up, and they were about to leave after washing up and eating porridge, when someone ran in from outside and cried, "Manman let their clan take down the pond!"

Shi Li hurriedly asked: "Manman is the one who sang the song?"

"That's not true!" the old bustard said, "She lost her man years ago, and she has no livelihood by herself, so she came to us because of nothing."

Jia Cong frowned and said, "If it didn't happen a few years ago, the hot filial piety is not yet full. If you want to do business, you have to get through this year. Even if you don't have a relationship with her man, you have to live with your face."

The old procuress sighed: "If she still has a bucket of rice at home, how can she do this? Her husband has been ill for four or five years, and the money has already been spent. The money for the first two years of medical treatment was originally obtained from her business. She has a son to support."

Jia Cong said: "Since this is the case, there is no support from her man's clan?"

The old bustard said: "Master, she doesn't run a charity hall, why should she help her?"

Jia Cong twitched the corners of his mouth: "So I can't blame her... Ah Hei, do you care about this business?"

Shi Li said: "I've heard her music, so naturally I have to take care of it." Nai asked, "Where is Manman?"

The woman who reported the letter said: "I was locked up in the ancestral hall last night, and I will sink into the pond at noon today."

Shi Li stretched his waist: "It's almost noon. Let's go, let's catch up with the fun." Nai ordered the reporter to lead the way.Jia Cong and Liu Xiaoqi followed naturally.

When I got to the place and took a look, I realized that there was really no reason for this matter.The woman named Manman's father was originally a shifter, and he liked to drink and gamble; her husband's family lived in a village on the outskirts of Beijing, and the family had a house and a field, which was fairly well-to-do.Because her father owed gambling debts, she wanted to promise her daughter to someone as a wife in exchange for money; her man wanted to marry a beautiful daughter-in-law in the city, and he offered the most dowry, so her father agreed.This Man Man has a pretty appearance, and at first she wanted to enter a wealthy family and become a child, but she didn't want to marry a countryman!She was very upset and didn't think much of her husband.The idlers in the village often teased her, and she generally looked down on her, but took advantage of the shopping time in the city to have an affair with them; her husband didn't know it at all, and thought she was just cold-tempered.

However, her husband suffered from tuberculosis a few years ago, and in order to treat the disease, the whole family was emptied.Although Manman doesn't think much of men, his son does.In order to raise his son, he sneaked into the city to find dark kilns and secretly did some flesh and blood business since the year before last.Her man secretly guessed that he had swallowed so many tears in order to see a doctor for him.Their village knew about this a long time ago, and it was because her man cried and begged the clan that they didn't beat her to death.Years ago, her man passed away, and when he was about to leave, Na took her hand and said, "I am the one who is sorry for you."

Others thought that she would settle down without having to buy medicine to treat her illness when her man was gone.I don't want someone from the village to visit the kilns in the city a few days ago and saw her.Go back to the village and ask her for money, and if you don't give her, go to the patriarch to report.This manman thought, it's not like no one knows what she did, who cares who?He ignored that person.The man really reported on her.The patriarch was furious when he learned that, he ordered her to be tied up in the ancestral hall and lost overnight, preparing to sink into the pond today.

After listening to the words of the gossip woman in the village, Shi Li rubbed the back of his head: "In this way, we are not chivalrous today."

"It really doesn't count," Jia Cong said.

Shi Li asked, "Are you going to play tricks?"

"Of course!" Jia Cong said, "Otherwise, how would people know that someone is covering her pink hair?" Turning her head, she looked at Liu Xiaoqi's face full of irrelevance, and asked, "Xiao Qi thinks it's okay to help a prostitute. OK?"

Liu Xiaoqi said: "Don't do my business, I just come here to watch the fun. If you say it's unreasonable, where is it more unreasonable than in the palace?"

"No!" Jia Cong clapped his hands.

The three of them went to the ancestral hall.I saw that the patriarch was pointing at the woman and sternly telling her all kinds of wrongdoings, all the people in the clan were cursing, and some even came forward to beat and kick her a few times.Jia Cong asked: "Is this it?" Shi Li looked at it: "It's her."

That Man Man was kneeling motionless waiting to die, but when she heard this, she turned her head and shouted: "Master Hei!"

Shi Li smiled and said: "Someone said you were in trouble, I'll save you." He was originally good looking, and he was wearing a Luo shirt, standing in the hall in a big way.Manman suddenly seemed to be alive, and burst into tears.

There was a bang all around!The old patriarch shouted: "Who broke into our ancestral hall!"

Shi Li took a look at Jia Cong: "Go ahead and play tricks."

Jia Cong made a serious group bow and said: "Hello everyone, we are nosy. Because our elder brother heard this sloppy girl sing a few days ago, he couldn't bear her premature death in youth, so he came here to rescue her." .”

The patriarch scolded: "Could it be that she is an adulterer who came to rescue this adulterous woman?"

"That's not true." Jia Cong said, "It's just an ordinary guest officer." Who has seen such shameless?The patriarch was silent for a moment.Jia Cong took the opportunity to say, "It's not just Miss Manman who is at fault for this matter. Many people are at fault. You see, when her husband married her, he only cared about his appearance and disregarded his temper. How could he marry a wife like this. If If I found out early that this woman is a woman who is restless, I don’t need to marry. As the saying goes, a twisted melon is not sweet. Miss Manman can also be a mate with a wealthy family, even if she still works in her current job, it’s fine, isn’t it Are you okay both times?"

Everyone was in an uproar.The patriarch scolded: "Shameless!"

Jia Cong said: "Food and clothing first, then shame. What shame is there even if there is no food and clothing? Since you know that their families are in a difficult situation, your family should help their mother and children to survive; seeing orphans and widows who have no rice to cook, just stand and work." An'er, no matter what means people use to make a living, you have no right to tell me what to do."

An old woman came out from below and said, "Isn't Er Zhuzi's wife taking care of the children alone? She has never done anything like washing clothes, picking rice ears, pouring night fragrance! Didn't she also drag the children to such a big age?"

Jia Cong said: "There are [-] roads in the world, and whoever chooses which one to take is free to do so. Elderly people, the same rice supports hundreds of people, even gods can only care about themselves."

The old woman tapped the blue bricks on the ground with her cane and said, "There is justice in the world after all!"

Jia Cong sneered and said: "You are so old, are you still joking? What is fairness, can you eat it? This sloppy girl didn't want to marry the man she is now, but she was sold by her father. Isn't it fair?" ?”

The old woman said: "If she hasn't married, I'm afraid I will sell her into a kiln!" Jia Cong laughed when he heard that, just looked at the old woman and said nothing.The old woman suddenly remembered: Isn't she just a fan now?Suddenly speechless.

Jia Cong said: "As long as she wants to, there is nothing wrong with being a fan. Looking back, if there are not so many men who love to go to brothels, how can there be a fan business? Turnips and vegetables, everyone has their own love. A One is honey, the other is arsenic. Frost. Old man, why bother to care about how other people live."

The patriarch said: "It's just that since she married into our village, she is the daughter-in-law of our village. How can she be allowed to go outside to lose her reputation?"

Jia Cong clapped his hands and said, "Why did you come back again? You didn't help her. Could it be that she just waited to starve to death?"

Shi Li said: "Forget it, Li'er has made it clear. Let's go." Two steps forward, he waved his dagger and split the rope on Man Man's body.

Is this okay?When the patriarch gave an order, more than a dozen strong men rushed forward.Jia Cong shrank behind Liu Xiaoqi: "I'm a literati, you go!" Liu Xiaoqi gave him a sideways look, stepped forward and easily knocked them down a few times.The patriarch yelled again: "Don't go to adultery!" Many more people rushed up.It doesn't matter how much you come.It's just some ordinary peasants, they are all given to Liu Xiaoqi for nothing.I had to watch helplessly as they left the ancestral hall with that vine and went straight to their house—the son was still at home.

Shi Li is a romantic person, and accompanied her in to pack her things.Jia Cong and Liu Xiaoqi were waiting outside.Jia Congnai said: "Others can ignore this matter, but I definitely can't. There are many fans in our Yihong Courtyard who have not been admitted to music, like her, a good girl from a good family who goes to the building to place orders in order to get by and even get some makeup money. There are too many. Their clansmen also know about it, but there is nothing they can do about it. If this vine sinks into the pond, the clansmen of those women will also make trouble, and our business will be greatly damaged."

Liu Xiaoqi snorted, "The co-authorship is for your family's business." Jia Cong chuckled.

But seeing the old woman slowly approaching just now, Jia Cong bowed to her.The old woman looked at Jia Cong and said, "My old lady is old. Although she is an old woman from the country, she has seen some characters. You don't seem like a villain, but you help that prostitute for some reason."

Jia Cong thought for a moment and said: "Everyone walks the path of their own choice and gets their own karma. In the future, whether they have no regrets or regrets, they have nothing to do with others. This vine may be infected with something bad in Hualou. He was ill, and died miserably after a few months; perhaps he entered a rich family by virtue of his appearance and became a young man, and by means of tricks, he was favored by the master, and even made money to become his wife; perhaps after earning a few years of money, he bought a shop in Beijing. Little days. There are all kinds of things in the world, so who cares about it? Old man, the practice of forcing good people into prostitution will be destroyed, but I also oppose forcing good people into prostitution."

The old woman looked at him: "What a strange idea."

Jia Cong smiled softly: "Have you ever heard such a sentence, old man? 'I object to every word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to speak." I hope that one day, everyone can freely choose what they want to go. The road is no longer restricted by any family or parents."

Liu Xiaoqi raised her eyes and stared at him for a long time.Jia Cong was startled, then suddenly let out an "ow", spread his hands and said, "I really didn't say it to you." Liu Xiaoqi remained silent.Jia Cong curled his lips and said, "Forget it if you don't believe me."