The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

However, Lin Hai guessed that most of Hu Zhong's banknotes belonged to his son, so he threatened him with words, thinking that this person would have to think about it for three days or five days; An An couldn't hold back anymore, and asked to see Lin Hai early the next morning, obviously he hadn't slept all night.

Lin Hai was having breakfast accompanied by Daiyu, and he couldn't help but sigh when he heard the news: "People live their whole life, and even when they are about to die, they only think about their children."

Daiyu also felt a bit regretful: "It's a pity, this person has gone astray."

Lin Hai glanced at her with a smile, and pretended to ask: "Yu'er feels that his feelings are pitiful, and I am fine, can you spare him this time?"

Daiyu hurriedly waved her hands and said, "No way. It would be fine if he was deceived by others, or if he was not responsible for the crime. Now that he has thought it over carefully, he still wants to assassinate his father. Compassionate, sympathetic, but unbearable. "

Lin Hai nodded happily: "Don't invalidate the law because of love, my Yu'er is really a good one." He secretly regretted that if his daughter was a man, I'm afraid she really has the talent of Xiao He.

Then he came outside and ordered Hu Zhong to be brought up.

It turned out that Hu Zhong’s 1 taels of silver, except for the 500 taels that he used to get free households for the whole family and secretly left to his parents, exchanged a mere 100 taels for his daughter-in-law, and divided the rest equally among his three sons. .He didn't say where he is now, and Lin Hai didn't bother to ask.

I only heard from him that the banknotes belonged to Sitong Bank, each of which was 1000 taels, ten in total. He pondered over each one carefully for a long time and remembered it very clearly.Last night, Situ Pan sent a painter to wait here, and prepared a lot of banknotes as a model. Hu Zhong described in detail what the banknotes left for his children looked like, with patterns, marks, and inscriptions.After the painter finished drawing, he showed it to Hu Zhong, revised it repeatedly, and finally he nodded with satisfaction: "That's how it looks."

So Li sent people to Xianwang's mansion with the paintings, and Situ Pan sent people to Sitong Bank in the capital to inquire about the news.Not long after, news came back from the other end that this stack of bank notes was issued in the capital, and the shopkeeper who handled it has returned to his hometown for the New Year, so we have to wait for him to come back.Situ Pan was afraid that the night would be full of dreams, so he immediately sent someone to his hometown to look for it.Lin Hai has put his hands aside for the time being.

On this day, Jia Zheng was discussing with the Qing guests about future affairs, when someone came back suddenly: "A big carriage came to the palace of the virtuous king, and some people want to see the master."

Jia Zheng was puzzled, in the old year he heard that the two nephews of Dafang had a relationship with King Xian, but the manor did not associate with him.While thinking, he ordered "please please".When I hurried out to see it, it was the official historian of the Xianwangfu who hurriedly received him and sat down in the hall to offer tea.

The chief historian said with a smile: "I'm here, I'm here by the king's order to thank you, your son, who is brave, wise and courageous, and saved our prince's friend."

Jia Zheng was uneasy at first, but he was overjoyed when he heard the words: "There is such a thing!" He hurriedly said, "Call Baoyu out!"

The chief historian said: "My son was playing with friends yesterday. It happened that a gentleman was in danger. His guards planned to leave him temporarily. Thanks to your son's rescue. That gentleman is a friend of our prince, and he is now living in our house. The prince I am very grateful to your son, and I am here to thank you.”

Seeing that the Chinese New Year was coming, and the ethnology was on holiday, Jia Zheng just pretended to be Baoyu and went out to hang out again, or he didn't know how he saved someone by accident, so he kept talking humbly.

After a while, Baoyu came slowly. Jia Zheng looked at him and said with a smile, "Come and meet the Chief Historian of the Xianwang Palace."

The chief historian said that he didn't dare, but he first bowed to him when he came up: "I think this is Third Master Huan, he is indeed very handsome."

The room suddenly became dumb like a kite entered the sparrow forest.

After half a day, Baoyu returned a bow: "Is your lord here to find the ring? Why don't I call him?"

It was then that Jia Zheng remembered that there were two possibilities for "Young Son" and hurriedly ordered, "Hurry up and call Huan'er."

Yesterday, Jia Huan brought a lot of food and playthings from the Lin residence and went back to the courtyard to present treasures to Aunt Zhao. She was coaxing her to laugh, when suddenly a boy beside Jia Zheng ran in with joy and kowtowed: " Congratulations to the third master! An official has come to the Xianwang's mansion to thank the third master. He is outside at the moment, and the master tells you to go over quickly. "

Aunt Zhao was overjoyed immediately: "The people in Prince Xian's mansion thank you?"

Jia Huan laughed and said, "It's just a little thing." He hurriedly changed his clothes to meet the guest and rushed over.The boy couldn't flatter him all the way.

When he got to the hall, Jia Huan saluted Jia Zheng first.Jia Zheng stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Huan'er, come quickly, this is the chief historian of the Qiansui mansion of the virtuous king." Seeing that the material of his clothes was not good, he frowned, thinking to himself that someone in the mansion waited on him slowly. he.

The chief historian bowed to Jia Huan again: "I am here on behalf of our prince to thank Mr. Jia for saving people yesterday."

Jia Huan returned the salute without sacrificing, and waved his hands again and again: "It's none of my business, brother Yao'er has been fighting those people, I just blocked it with walnut cake. I really don't have any credit for it."

The Chief Historian laughed and said: "Young Master Jia is too modest." Then he presented a long list of gifts, which made all the young servants click their tongues—it was such a generous gift.

After they left, Jia Zheng hurriedly asked what was going on.

Jia Huan said: "It's just that I went out with Cong'er yesterday afternoon and met someone fighting. It's wrong to fight. Both sides of the fight rushed towards an irrelevant passerby at the same time. Originally, we wanted to hide... In fact, brother Yao'er was helping those guards fight, and Cong'er and I just watched from the sidelines. I didn't want someone to come here to make a move suddenly, so I just carried the walnut cake I bought outside, and I just raised my hand casually to block it. Then the man was caught by other guards." He really didn't lie.

Jia Zheng said with a smile, "This is naturally your blessing." He didn't like Yao'er very much, and thought that the Xianwang's mansion had thanked the wrong person, so he simply made the mistake and made the mistake, and he became more and more happy.For a while, I wanted him to have less contact with Jia Cong, and I thought that the kid was really a blessing, and I couldn't guarantee that I could get some benefits from being with him in the future, so that's all.In fact, there was another gift for Jia Cong, no less than Jia Huan's, no one dared to tell him.

This incident spread to Mrs. Wang's ears immediately, and she gritted her teeth with hatred: "You little bastard, it's the credit of others, and he has no shame in coveting it!" The whole house was running around, preaching to everyone they saw, and getting more and more frustrated.

On the other end, Situ Pan really went into the palace and told the present that someone advised him not to lend money to the miser. The saint laughed and said, "You didn't ask him when I will pay back the money?"

Situ Pan said: "Why do you need to ask, after checking the accounts of their second room, it must be there."

The saint nodded.

Unexpectedly, three days later, he received a note from the Rongguo Mansion to return the 80 taels of silver owed to the treasury!

It turns out that Jia Huan can save King Xian's friends even by wandering in the streets, and Mrs. Wang suddenly feels that life is difficult.She is usually used to being flattered, and she is not used to living in such a deserted life.However, she knew how much money she had been greedy for, and it was more than 80 taels.On that day, Jia's mother said that the second room would return the owed silver, and the other side would buy and sell.Although Jia Amnesty did not agree, he could ask Jia Mu to make the decision.Now that the big house is the only one in this mansion, how can Jia's mother sit still?Therefore, she gritted her teeth and took some money from the private treasury, and borrowed some money from Aunt Xue, got together 80 yuan, and handed it to Jia Zheng with tears in her eyes.

Although Jia Zheng was annoyed that she was being caught for coveting Mo's official account, since it was for the sake of Yuan Chun's concubine, he was not reluctant.What's more, he is also used to being a wealthy and idle person, and he doesn't care about money, so he immediately wrote a memorial, signing his own name alone.He thought, the money came out of his house, and had nothing to do with the big house.If he handed over the money in a dignified manner, firstly, he might disturb the big house and insist on sharing the credit, and secondly, he didn't want to offend the old relatives too much, so what he wrote was to ask the Ministry of Households to come to the mansion to collect it.

Two days later, the Ministry of Households first sent a fast horse to Rongguo Mansion to inform them that they would come;Taking advantage of this moment, Jia She went to the Taiping Escort. Jia Zheng had already prepared money and was waiting in Rongxitang.He also heard that Lao Shangshu came to pick it up in person, so he tidied up his clothes and prepared tea and snacks.After waiting for a while, I heard someone coming and going from outside: "Master, Shangshu Laofu and your lord have led the people from the Ministry of Accounts into Ningrong Street."

Jia Zheng hurriedly said, "I'll go to the door to meet you personally!" Then he straightened his clothes again, shook his sleeves, coughed, and hurried to the main door.It just so happened that the people from the household department had arrived, so they hurriedly opened the door and went out with square steps.Seeing many officials from the Ministry of Households outside and people who came to move things, Shangshu Laofu and those who were surrounded by them bowed to the ground and said: "I have been ignorant of politics for many years, but I don't know that I have done harm to the country. Capital crime, capital crime!"

Lao Fu quickly helped him up and sighed: "Master Jia, you are Zhongliang!"

Jia Zheng straightened up with tears in his eyes before he was about to speak, but was suddenly stunned: he saw his nephew Jia Lian wearing the same grade as him in the official robes of Cong Wupin Hubu Yuanwailang, looking at him and grinning, it's okay to come here Li: "Second Uncle, our inside was already prepared yesterday, so please go in and get the money, sir." Jia Zheng stared at him for a long time, unable to speak.

It turned out that Jia Zheng's official position was too low to be admitted to the palace, so he had to submit the papers for this matter.However, he was afraid that his relatives would resent him, so he didn't say much when handing it over, so the "repayment discount" was also among the discounts.The sage's desk is piled up with all kinds of books throughout the year, and it was not his turn to read them yesterday.Until today, the sage took it casually, took a few glances at ten lines, and grasped the words "the 80 taels of money owed to the state treasury by the Rongguo Mansion will be returned immediately", and he was overjoyed!I didn't even read the flattering words of loyalty in the back, so why did I pay attention to whose name was written on it?Immediately ordered someone to call Lao Fuhe, Shangshu of the household department, to come in and ask him to lead someone to withdraw the money.

At first, Lao Shangshu thought he was asking for money again, so he went into the palace with a mournful face. Hearing that it was raining money, his calves were trembling with excitement, and he kept shouting, "Long live, long live!"

The sage suddenly remembered that he thought that Jia Amnesty would pay back the money after checking their internal accounts. Didn't he think that he would pay it back in such a hurry?Could it be that he wanted to seek credit for Jia Lian before the end of the year?But how can I make it too obvious?Well, let me give you a hint.So he told Lao Shangshu: "Let your Yuanwailang Jia Lian go with him. It's their family who wants to pay back the money."

A flash of understanding flashed in Lao Fuhe's eyes, and he bowed in response: "I understand!"

Because he rushed back to the Ministry of Households and called all the people, Xi Yingying said loudly: "Colleagues! Just now the sage announced that I would go to Daming Palace. It was a great happy event." Everyone asked what was going on, and he made a special announcement to Jia Lian. He bowed, so frightened that Jia Lian hurriedly returned the gift, saying that he dared not.

Lao Fu said: "As we all know, the court has had a hard time in the past few years. When the old sage was in power in the early years, the treasury was quite full, so the old sage gave heaven's grace and allowed the courtiers to temporarily borrow money from the treasury to use it, to accommodate them." After all these years, the treasury has been empty, and no one has paid back the money.” He snorted, “Actually, many people who owe money can afford it. Just don't offend others and don't come out of this." He cupped his hands towards the sky, "It's only suffering for the court and the Holy Majesty."

When Jia Lian heard it, he had already guessed that it was a matter of repaying the owed money.It's just that he discussed with Jia She last night, after the New Year's Eve, he settled the account and found the second house to pay it back at the money of corruption. Why does it seem like he's going to pay it back right away when he says it now?

Lao Fuhe went on to say: "The Rongguo Mansion is deeply aware of righteousness, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and just now it has written a book for the saint." At this point, his voice trembled, and he shouted, "Immediately return the 80 yuan owed to the treasury by the Rongguo Duke. Ten thousand taels!"

"Wow~~" The Hubu lobby exclaimed.In recent years, the Ministry of Households has suffered the most from the lack of money in their hands. How can I not be ecstatic when I hear so much money at first glance?Next to Jia Lian was his boss, Zuo Shilang Liu Fan, who was so surprised that he shook Jia Lian's shoulders and shouted, "Master Jia, thank you very much!"

Jia Lian was swayed back and forth by him, but his heart was clear: Jia Zheng must have taken the book behind his father's back, and wanted to monopolize the merit!But he didn't know that the sage had left the words to Jia Amnesty in the first place, and secretly rejoiced that he happened to be from the Ministry of Household Affairs.Putting on a humble look, he cupped his hands and said: "It's only natural to pay back the debt. My father and I are completely unaware of this matter. After all these years of ignorance, it was my uncle who first proposed it. My father was shocked." Jump. Now even the booklets are written by my second uncle, neither my father nor I dare to be greedy for credit."

Everyone coaxed: "Master Jia is too modest, your father is the head of the family—"

Lao Fu and Yin said: "The sage has a decree, Mr. Jia, you and I will go to your mansion to get silver."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "All the papers are up, the sage is still afraid that our family will not give us money?" The audience roared with laughter.

Jia Lian then bowed his hands and said goodbye to all his colleagues with a smile, and followed Lao Fuhe to lead the people back to Rongguo Mansion in a mighty way.

As soon as he arrived at the door, before he had notified him, he first asked the doorman about Jia Amnesty: Sure enough, his father is not in the mansion!He rushed to Lao Fuhe's side and said: "My father heard the urgent report from the boys in front that he saw me among the people in the household department, so he found an excuse and slipped out from the south corner gate, and now my second uncle is invited to host. The purpose is to avoid suspicion, otherwise, I will not be able to pay back the money to my son!"

Lao Fuhe is an old Confucian, heard the words "Aiya", clapped his hands repeatedly and praised: "Master Jia represents the imperial court, there is no need to be like this. Mr. She is so cautious and courteous! Rare, rare!" He sighed again, "The market also said that your father is vulgar, and it is true that everyone's mouth melts money, and he destroys bones."

Jia Lian laughed softly and said, "Actually——my father is really a bit vulgar."

Lao Fuhe glared at him: "Bold! Saying bad things about my father."

With a smile on the corner of Jia Lian's mouth, he hurriedly cupped his hands: "My lord, calm down, I won't dare to do it again."

Lao Fu and his son were in a very good mood at the moment, they would not be really angry, they twirled their beards and stood at the door waiting for Jia Zheng to come out to greet him.

When Jia Zheng came out and saw Jia Lian, he immediately realized that he had forgotten that he was working in the household department, but it was too late to regret.He had no choice but to lead them in with a smile on his face.When the people from the household department arrived at the Rongxi Hall, they were indeed filled with more than a dozen boxes of white silver ingots, and there was also a large stack of resounding silver notes.

Lao Fu and Xi were so happy that they could not see each other, so they issued a document with Jia Zheng in court, saying that the 80 taels of silver borrowed by the Rongguo Mansion from the treasury in the past have been paid back!

Jia Lian also grinned from ear to ear, greeted his brothers to have tea and snacks, wiped their mouths at the end, carried the money and bank notes, and went back to the household department vigorously despite the flattery of his colleagues.