The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Jia Cong was discussing with others in the Imperial Academy on how to invite Mr. Su, when a servant from the Su family hurried over: "Master Cong, the master told you to go quickly."

Jia Cong knew in his heart that it was his fiancée who messed up Su Cheng's marriage, but he didn't know what she did, so he hastily explained a few words to his colleagues, and while packing his things, he asked, "What happened?"

The servant stumbled and said, "You will know when Third Master Cong has gone."

Then rushed to Su's house.When I arrived at the gate, I saw that the neck of the gate was stretched!Seeing Jia Cong approaching from afar, he shouted, "Master Cong is here—"

Jia Cong jumped off his horse, threw the reins to the door and asked, "But sir, what's wrong with you?"

Menzi said with a bitter face: "No. The third master will know when he sees the master."

Jia Cong rushed in, and was about to turn from the front yard to Su Zheng's study, when the servant who went to the Imperial Academy called him: "Third Master! Our master is in the hall."

"Hall? Are there any guests?"

"……Have……"

Walking into the hall, I saw Su Zheng sitting at the head of the main seat, and an old man with a white beard and a middle-aged literati sat in the guest seat; Su Zheng's face was drawn very long.Jia Cong stepped forward to salute: "Sir!"

Su Zheng gave a "hmm", pointed to the two people opposite and said, "This is Master Qing Song of Taichang Temple and the Grand Master of the Song family."

Jia Cong hastily made a bow: "I have met the two gentlemen at the end of the school." The two hurriedly called him "don't be too polite".Jia Cong looked at the three of them and said, "The complexions of the few are not very good. Could it be that something went wrong in Cheng'er's marriage?" Su Zheng snorted heavily.

It turned out that Song Erye met a young scholar at the literary fair two months ago.The scholar is quick-witted and well-behaved, and the appearance of Song Erye is also rare; both of them are gentle and affectionate, and they have a secret sense of confidant to each other.Wenhui dispersed, and the scholar left very quickly. It was a pity that Song Erye never got his name and residence.A few days later, Song Erye was ordered by his mother to go to Qingxu Temple to fulfill his wish, and it happened that the scholar was also wandering around, so he met again.But this time the scholar fell down the steps and sprained his ankle for some reason, and the two of them recognized the hospital where Second Master Song helped him to go.Later, the scholar specially invited him to drink as a thank you, and when he was drunk, he took a big wine jar and poured it all over his body.Second Master Song is a fine person, immediately saw that this "virtuous brother" was a woman, so he hurriedly found an excuse to slip away.Then I didn't see her again, and the woman didn't bother me anymore.I don't want to think that the woman's family has come to the door in the past few days, saying that Song Erye hooked up with their girl, and had two skin-to-skin kisses, and asked Song Erye to marry her.The Song family naturally refused; they also said that the girl suffered from lovesickness and lingered on the bedside, and it was only Song Erye who couldn't cure it.

Jia Cong sneered and said: "What a thick skin! Who is he? His daughter is disguised as a man to play tricks. How does the nephew know about it? Didn't he just find out and cut off contact? Master Song, don’t pay attention to them. Let’s see who dares to snatch Cheng’er’s man!” Looking again, the three of them were still stern and silent, and asked silently for a moment, “Who is her father?” ?”

Father and son of the Song family looked at each other for a long time, Elder Song said in a low voice, "It's... King Yan."

Jia Cong was startled, and opened his mouth wide: "Huh? Who is it?"

Elder Song sighed: "That woman is the third daughter of King Yan, a princess..."

Jia Cong secretly applauded Chen Ruijin.In fact, apart from their family, no one in Juyan Kingdom can snatch Su Cheng's husband-in-law!But he thought about it: "Don't be afraid, King Yan is the master of understanding, not an unreasonable person."

Elder Song sighed: "Those three princesses didn't bother my son, and we only met three times from the beginning to the end... It's just... just now..."

Jia Cong squinted at him for a long time, and answered for him: "It's just lovesickness." Without waiting for his father and son to answer, he turned his head and shouted to Su Zheng, "Sir, it's dangerous! It's a good thing Cheng'er hasn't married yet. Zhan Zhan Trying all the reasons in the world, you can't beat someone who has lovesickness, right? Ordinary women who mistakenly fall in love with someone else's fiancé can only die of lovesickness, but naturally the daughter of the Tian family can't." Jia Cong clapped the case, "Forget it, divorce."

Su Zheng was in a hurry: "How can we call off the engagement? The day is coming soon!"

Jia Cong sneered and said, "It's better to resign than to divorce, to be married, or to be a concubine. Marriage is, after all, a business of fighting for parents. Would Mr. Cheng'er be willing to suffer that grievance? I don't want to!" Su Zheng still wanted to talk, Jia Cong Cong winked, "Sir, follow my disciple's orders and resign the engagement. Hurry up and return the dowry, Cheng'er is determined not to worry about getting married." Su Zheng stared at him for a long time and let out a long sigh.

After seeing off the Song family, Jia Cong invited Su Zheng to the study, and said: "Song Xiaoer looks really good, he looks good in front of Jia Baoyu, it's too easy for the girl's family to miss him. Fourteen A five-year-old girl is in love for the first time. Once she falls in love, it is not so easy to figure it out. This princess will have a good husband in the future, but if something goes wrong, she will miss Song Xiaoer again after getting married, and there will be endless troubles. Three The princess has brothers, and if Cheng'er gets involved, it may cause trouble. As the saying goes, don't be afraid of the thief stealing, but be afraid of the thief. I can use Cheng'er as a raft and come up with a dozen tricks to deal with the princess. Brother. If there is an accident, it may not be able to make up for it afterwards. Besides, since the Song family came to the door, isn't the meaning obvious? Forcibly marrying Cheng'er, her in-law's family always feels that Cheng'er is blocking their royal relatives. Lu, can you not be wronged? Don't worry, Cheng'er must be the most married girl in the whole country. It may not be a good thing for the mansion to marry the daughter of the Tian family."

How could Su Zheng not know?It's just that it happened suddenly, and I was vaguely hoping that this arrogant disciple would mess around.After a long time, the old man sighed, "What is this..."

Jia Cong said: "It's fine if you don't vote for the horoscope."

The old man panicked, Jia Cong tried his best to coax him.Jia Cong obviously wanted to accompany Su Zheng for dinner at noon today, but someone from Feng Ziying came and said that there was something urgent and he wanted Jia Cong to go there now.Su Zheng's righteousness was not going well at the moment, and the anger was transferred from the three princesses to Situ Pan, and naturally to Feng Ziying, and furious at his people: "What time is it? Don't people eat?" Jia Cong "Don't go!"

They all found the Su family, how could it be a trivial matter?It's just that Su Zheng is not happy at the moment, and Jia Cong dare not leave!I had no choice but to wink at that person: "Let's go after dinner." Feng Ziying's people winked anxiously, but Su Zheng refused to let him go.Jia Cong had no choice but to say again, "Wait a minute, I'll go over as soon as possible." The man had no choice but to leave.

During lunch, Su Zheng purposely chatted a lot with Jia Cong, which made the meal a long time.After eating, I left him to talk for a while, and dawdled for more than half an hour.

After finally getting away, Jia Cong hurried to Feng Ziying's yamen.Feng Ziying had already waited to jump her feet, and complained, "Why did it take so long."

Jia Cong spread his hands: "The old man is in a bad mood, there is nothing he can do. If I dare to come here like that, I will definitely make him sick. Is there something urgent?"

Feng Ziying couldn't argue with him at this moment, and said: "You have invited Mr. Xiyang, so you must be able to understand foreign languages?"

Jia Cong rubbed the back of his head: "There are dozens of foreign languages... I only know one. Do you want to deal with Westerners?"

Feng Ziying said: "The smuggling of guns and firearms is too serious. I sent someone to keep an eye on Wang's noodle shop with sesame stuffing in the north of the city. Someone delivered a letter to them this morning."

"Ah? Isn't the door closed?"

Feng Ziying said: "The letter was sent from Nanyang by the people on the maritime merchant ship. I must not know that they are closed."

Jia Cong's eyes flickered: "Written in foreign language?"

Feng Ziying said: "There are only a few lines of foreign language, but those few lines are very important. You can read it." Then he took the letter out of his pocket.

Jia Cong glanced at the words on the envelope—well, Liu Hu's.I can't help but praise it in my heart.A few days ago, Chen Ruijin discussed with Xue Pan and made up a lie to coax Feng Ziying, saying that Wang's noodle shop was doing a secret business of smuggling Western firearms.Jia Cong thought she was just looking for a random excuse.It wasn't until now that Zi realized that her trick had even trapped Liuhu from abroad.How did Liu Hu know that there have been so many changes in Beijing?Still under the orders of the Empress Dowager, he was looking overseas for sources of firearms other than Honggu Ji.He didn't know that he was already a traitor, so he still sent a letter to the address of Wang's noodle shop.

The letter said: He met a sea merchant in Nanyang who transported firearms for Hongguji. That person was not blocked, and some details about Hongguji were leaked.It turned out that the shopkeeper of this house was originally a sailor on a sea ship, and later wandered in the West for many years, and was acquainted with the owners of firearms workshops in Western countries.Firearms are huge profits, but this "hi shopkeeper" can get a very low price, and the price sold by the firearms workshop to the Western army is higher than that sold by Hongguji.The Western countries are at war, and firearms are only allowed to be sold to the army.Fortunately, there is nothing in the world that gold and silver cannot buy.The sea merchant gave him the location of an Italian smuggler's shop.There must be a code word to buy illegal things there, and the sea merchant also wrote the code word routine to Liu Hu.

After reading the letter, Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "I don't know Italian. There are all kinds of Western missionaries in Beijing, just find an Italian to translate."

Feng Ziying said: "How can you show them something so important."

Jia Cong pointed to the Italian lines on the letter and said: "The writings of several Western countries have somewhat the same origin. Although I don't know these words, I can barely break a sentence. Now I just take a stack of paper and cut it into small pieces, I guess Break it up into phrases and copy them on a piece of paper, and translate them in random order for several Italian missionaries, and finally we piece them together. If there is something that is not smooth, then find someone else to translate that sentence alone, just say that it is from the commentary story. It’s just an excerpt.”

Feng Ziying couldn't help nodding her head and said, "You kid has a lot of ideas."

Jia Cong winked.Immediately said in a low voice: "There is one more thing, I just tell Brother Feng, you... Forget it, if there is nothing else, you don't need to tell the prince." Feng Ziying looked up at him, and Jia Cong then whispered Su Chengrang King Yan's daughter robbed her fiancé.

Feng Ziying was shocked: "It's unreasonable!"

Jia Cong smiled wryly and said: "Mr. Su, what else can he do other than withdrawing the marriage? The prince must not know about this, and there is no reason to bother him. If he gets angry, it would be bad if his daughter insisted on returning the marriage to Cheng'er." That princess has brothers, I don't want Cheng'er to be dragged into their house."

Feng Ziying thought for a while, then sighed: "Miss Su has been wronged. It's no wonder Mrs. Su is sullen. According to me, it's better to tell the prince."

Jia Cong also sighed: "Cheng'er is not worried about getting married. Don't talk about it if the prince doesn't ask. He is also very busy as an old man. How can he have time to take care of these children's trivial matters. I also hope that he will send someone to the north soon." America assassinated GeeWashington and spread smallpox."

Feng Ziying wondered, "Why do you only miss that person?"

Jia Cong said seriously: "Because if he doesn't die, he will become the founding father of that land. If he is destroyed, the fate of that country will be destroyed."

Feng Ziying took a deep breath, nodded after a while, "I see."

Jia Cong clasped his fists together, and suddenly thought of another person, so he picked up a pen and wrote a name; after thinking about it for a while, he added two more.Finally wrote three names: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams.Nai said: "I don't know where these three are in North America. I seem to remember that they are all descendants of immigrants from the English country and are local prominent families. If they were not cleared up earlier, they would all become the founding fathers of that country. There are four people in total, please trouble the prince." You and Brother Feng must not stay."

Feng Ziying said: "Since you are a famous family, it is easy to find." She carefully folded the paper and put it in her arms.

Jia Cong looked at Liu Hu's letter again, and said, "Is this useful to us? Since they are smugglers, and the goods are more expensive and less than Hongguji, it may not be better."

Feng Ziying said: "It's not that we want to buy it, it's that we can't let others buy it. We have to find that widow Wang."

"Oh, that's true."

After Jia Cong finished copying the Italian, he was fine and went back to work in the Imperial Academy.Feng Ziying thought over and over again, and finally found a time to tell Situ Pan about Su Cheng.Situ Pan ordered people to find the mother of the three princesses for questioning.Some people came back and forth for a while, and the girl was really sick for more than a month because of love.Situ Pan sighed: "I have wronged that child of the Su family." He ordered someone to give their family a great gift.

Su Zheng almost punched out the gift giver!I endured it so hard that the roots of my teeth hurt from biting.As soon as they left, the old man ordered to throw all the gifts out.Su Cheng hurriedly said: "Grandfather! The thing is innocent! If you don't want it, I want it. Give it to me. I'll keep it for my private house."

Can Su Zheng ask for her things?He stumbled and shook his hands at her again: "Take it, take it!" Su Cheng really smiled and ordered everyone to take it back to his yard, and carefully picked it for half a day.

On the other side, Liu Xiaoqi stopped messing around with the casinos in the west of the city with her eyes closed.Whoever goes to Qi's house to make trouble, he will disturb the gambling houses that person often goes to.A few days later, the gambling houses in the west of the city could no longer start work.It's just that the people in the gambling shop gradually realized that this young man didn't kill people, he only made trouble.

On this day, Liu Xiaoqi went to a big gambling house to make trouble again, and the owner boldly stepped forward and asked, "Why does this hero come to our small shop? The world is not big, and we are friends when we meet. Anything is fine." discuss."

Liu Xiaoqi glanced at him coldly, and said: "It's these gamblers who disturb the neighbors when they lose money. I will demolish your gambling house today, so that they have nowhere to gamble, and naturally they won't disturb you any more. The streets and alleys are gone." Then he tore down the roof of the house and walked away.

When I got home, everyone else was asleep.Liu Xiaoqi quietly walked outside Guan Liusi's house and knocked on the door, said in a low voice: "Don't worry, fourth brother, younger brother is rectifying the chaos in the west of the city." After saying that, he turned and left.Liu Si suddenly opened his eyes.