The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Liu Xiaoqi pretended to be a woman and sneaked into the Su residence, Su Cheng laughed for a long time, and endured it several times before he could bear it.Nai ordered everyone else to go out: "I have something to say to Miss Ren Qi." Several maids retreated one after another, Su Cheng looked at Liu Xiaoqi's face and wanted to laugh again.

Liu Xiaoqi had no choice but to say, "You might as well laugh to your heart's content before we talk." Su Cheng really leaned over his desk and laughed hard for a long time.

She finally stopped laughing, and Liu Xiaoqi made a serious bow: "I beg Miss Su to help me."

"That's all." Su Cheng said bluntly, "If you don't want to help you, just pretend you don't know each other. How did you end up in this state? Don't you know how to fly?"

Liu Xiaoqi smiled wryly and said, "Other people will too. I escaped from home."

Su Cheng clapped his hands: "Well done! Did your grandfather jump in anger?"

"I don't know." Liu Xiaoqi said, "I wanted to go to Rongguo Mansion to find out the whereabouts of my fourth brother - he also escaped."

Su Cheng hurriedly asked, "Where's his daughter?"

"Our whole family is in Beijing, so he doesn't dare to show up to his niece and daughter for a while." Liu Xiaoqi smiled, "I thought Third Brother Cong had a clue, but he didn't know about it, and he was still at their house. I bumped into my second brother. Fortunately, I calmed down and coaxed him away, and pretended to drag third brother Cong to go to Yihong Courtyard with me to investigate the matter. He left first. I am afraid that my second brother will be fast. , I got a letter from my family, so I didn't dare to go out of Yihong Courtyard like that, so I pretended to be like this." Su Cheng laughed again.Liu Xiaoqi waited for a while before continuing, "Just now, I went somewhere else for a stroll, and took advantage of the parking time to send the girl who came with me to talk to people, and I found that someone from our family approached and wanted to eavesdrop."

Su Cheng asked, "Could it be that your family saw through it?"

Liu Xiaoqi said: "No matter how good the make-up skills of Mr. Luo are, he can't coax others to coax our family. The man's skeleton is on display. That man just wants to follow me, and if he tries, he may find the fourth brother's trace."

Su Cheng glanced at him: "Are you sincerely bringing him to our house?"

"Yes, is Miss Su afraid?"

Su Cheng snorted, "My uncle is Nezha, I have nothing to be afraid of! When the sky falls, the elders will support him."

Liu Xiaoqi said with a smile: "Miss Su's life is better than the princess's."

Su Cheng proudly raised his little head: "That's not right!" Then he said, "What do you want me to do for you?"

Liu Xiaoqi said in a low voice: "Bring a tall maid to change into my clothes, and then borrow a carriage to take her and the little maid from Yihong Courtyard to sit and drink a pot of tea, and then we can go away." .”

"Doesn't it mean that people in your family can see the difference in the skeletons of men and women?"

Liu Xiaoqi said: "Then people have to get out of the car to see it. But whenever I run around, he will think that I am looking for Fourth Brother, so he dare not startle me easily."

Su Cheng wondered, "Are masters like you so easy to deceive?"

"It's just a coincidence that I know what he wants." Liu Xiaoqi said, "Otherwise, I may not be the opponent in a hard fight depending on my ability."

Su Cheng pouted: "Forget it, you understand these things better than me anyway." Then he called a taller maid to come in and have a look, then turned to look at Liu Xiaoqi, and laughed again.

After a while, a servant girl went out from the back door and gave five hundred yuan to the waiting coachman, saying: "That girl Ren, our family has sent another car to take it back. Please wait for a long time, this is our girl's reward for you." .” The coachman didn’t know what the young lady had to do with Sister Kiln, but fortunately, the reward was enough, so he happily thanked him and drove away.The man in the straw hat was sitting under the wall and dozing off, but he picked up his feet and walked away immediately after hearing this.

The Su family's carriage left the front door, bumped and bumped towards the west of the city, and arrived at a house.Two women got off the carriage, one was a maidservant from Yihong Courtyard, and the other was wearing Liu Xiaoqi's clothes.The man wearing the straw hat immediately saw that this woman was not Liu Xiaoqi, and stumbled and said, "It's been tricked!" Now that he had arrived, he took the opportunity to find out who it was - it was a dark brothel.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, Li Wan and Shi Xiangyun are busy with the festival, Chen Ruijin and Princess Jian'an are busy building a girls' school, and Jia Cong and Jia Huan have nothing to do at night, so they chat together in the Lixiangyuan.Jia Huan talked about the scenery of the journey, and the two recalled some memories of their youth.But at this moment someone came to report: "Mr. Liu who came two months ago is here to visit."

Jia Huan asked, "Is that Mr. Liu?"

Jia Cong said: "That's right. It's a long story. You just came back, and there are many things I haven't had time to tell you." Naiming please come in.

Looking at Mr. Liu again, his whole face was long and dark, and his eye circles looked like ink strokes. Jia Cong was so frightened that he jumped up: "Oh my god, why do you always look like this?"

Mr. Liu gave him a cold look: "Mr. Jia doesn't know?"

Jia Cong said: "Isn't there a child who rebelled in adolescence? Which family is not like this? Is it necessary to make it so serious?"

Mr. Liu said: "I won't talk nonsense with you. Where's Xiaoqi?"

Jia Cong spread his hands: "I don't know. Brother Liu and Xiao Qi haven't revealed where they are going or what they are doing. But I know why Xiao Qi ran away from home."

"why?"

"Fourth brother Liu already has a daughter, and Xiao Qi hasn't talked about marriage yet." Jia Cong said, "Could it be that he has no children and a bachelor life?"

Mr. Liu frowned and said, "He's not yet old. Naturally, there will be a way to match him with a woman."

Jia Cong spread his hands: "You always say 'naturally there is a way', but you didn't think of it at all. Could it be that your family is just working like this, and you only treat the whole family as monks? When the youngest one passes away, the Liu family will be cleaned up? "

Mr. Liu sighed, watched him for a long time, sat down and poured a cup of tea to eat, and then said in silence for a long time: "How do you know... our family is all sinners."

"what?"

Mr. Liu shook his head: "My father has committed a very serious crime, and he should have ransacked his family long ago." Nai kept silent.

Jia Cong and Jia Huan exchanged glances, and Jia Huan stabbed Jia Cong as usual, saying, "Go ahead with your mouth."Jia Cong thought about it for a long time, but he dared not say a word: "Old man, if you want to say that, grandpa is also guilty of rebellion. You must know that this world belongs to Zhu Ming Dynasty, but he snatched it away."

Mr. Liu said: "If I said that the previous dynasty was a foolish king, and the eunuchs were fighting for chaos, and the country was lost by themselves, have you prepared the next sentence?"

Jia Cong smirked and said: "That's right. Then I will say that Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Chengzu, is considered a Ming emperor. No matter how wise and powerful the grandfather is, his time has passed. As the saying goes, heroes don't ask where they come from. Use the crimes of great-grandfather to restrain Liu The fourth brother and Xiao Qi are wrong. No matter how much crimes senior Liu Ke committed, because he is long gone, his crimes will not increase. And your family protects the emperor, the prince, the queen, the empress, and the queen. The Empress Dowager made meritorious deeds again and again; no matter how serious the ancestor's sin was, the meritorious deeds are almost negated by now. Even if he committed the mortal crime of assassinating a saint, the descendants have rescued him countless times and it will be offset."

Mr. Liu was stunned: "How can there be such a calculation!"

Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "Hasn't it been calculated like this since ancient times?" The old man was silent.

After waiting for half a day, Jia Cong said again: "Again. The crimes and rewards of the heavenly family are all a matter of one sentence from the reigning saint. No matter how much credit, one sentence can be broken; no matter how great a crime is, one sentence The words can be forgiven. If you are really panicking, I will help you ask the little sage to issue an edict of forgiveness, and forgive the crimes committed by the old Liu Xin during his lifetime, okay?"

Mr. Liu suddenly shot two cold eyes and stared at Jia Cong: "Why did you ask for it?"

"Actually, it's not a begging, it's an exchange." Jia Cong smiled, "Because he is weak and King Yan is strong. As King Yan's confidant, there are many things I can help him without harming King Yan. It can be a win-win situation for him and the King of Yan. Most of the time, it will not be a matter of life and death. Of course, if he harms the King of Yan, I will block his every way."

Mr. Liu was startled, and said in a low voice, "The world has become like this."

Jia Cong said: "Just like the late Ming Dynasty, the Tian family made it themselves. To put it bluntly, it was made by the first emperor. It is not good to hand over the country to whom, but to the Supreme Emperor. His brothers are several stronger than him, and their status It’s not lower than him, so why should you be convinced?”

Old Master Liu sighed, "The late Emperor hoped that the two of them would be brothers, and the virtuous king can help him."

Jia Cong sneered and said, "Can he trust the sage king? Once the Supreme Emperor has established himself, the sage king will be the first one to kill, and none of the other kings will survive. The second prince he likes is also a master of success. Sheng is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and there are Westerners staring at it, so it is really necessary to change the dynasty. I said, old man, you should take a rest. It would be nice to let your merits and demerits be eliminated and you can take care of yourself. Willing to let the child go. The Lord of Zhongxing doesn’t know where he came from, and he may not be willing to ask for guards like you. Fire and guns are better than swords.”

Mr. Liu thought for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Mr. Jia, why doesn't he go to work in Yan Wang's mansion?"

Jia Cong said, "It's cheaper for me to be unofficial and unemployed."

"So the King of Yan won't give you a salary?"

Jia Cong laughed twice, then turned to look at Jia Huan.Jia Huan was eating watermelon, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and said, "What salary do you need? How much is the salary? Isn't the salary also coming from tax money? How much did the prince allow our shop to openly smuggle and sell stolen goods?" years."

Mr. Liu shook his head and asked, "You really don't know where the two of them are?"

Jia Cong said: "I don't know, and the two of them don't know each other. Brother Liu may have left Beijing or even Yan. By the way, Sister Chen likes your little great-granddaughter, who is Brother Liu's daughter, and wants to take her in." She is a disciple, and we will take her back to the south in the future, you will never object, right? Brother Liu also entrusted his daughter to her."

Mr. Liu said: "That has nothing to do with our family. Our family doesn't raise girls."

Jia Cong nodded: "That's why you don't object anymore. Thank you, we will take good care of that child."

Jia Huan wiped his hands and said, "Have you two finished talking?"

Jia Cong said, "I'm done. Do you have anything to do?"

Jia Huan said: "Now that you have finished talking, Mr. Liu, how do you think about the matter of partnering bodyguards? Today my fourth uncle came to the mansion to discuss with me. He said that there is a business. A wealthy family in Suzhou, or a well-known beauty in the city, has a very rich dowry. Ask me if I can take it. Although Suzhou is not too far away, there are many bandits along the way. If your family is willing to partner, we will Next, otherwise it would be too risky, our bodyguard's life is also our life."

Without waiting for the old man to answer, Jia Cong thought about it first: "Why don't you borrow some from the prince and temporarily use the soldiers and horses as bodyguards?"

Before the words finished, Mr. Liu shouted: "Nonsense! How unreasonable."

Jia Huan's eyes brightened and he said: "If you meet bandits and water bandits, can't you just train soldiers? The money you earn will be rewarded to the soldiers, so that they can also earn some hard money."

Jia Cong waved his hands again and again: "Absolutely not! Only the prince can give rewards to soldiers, and we just hand over the dart money to the treasury."

Mr. Liu drank again: "It's nonsense! How can the imperial army be used as bodyguards?"

Jia Cong said: "Ordinary people's homes, such as Xiangrui Yinlou, have no soldiers in their hands, and they can't defeat bandits and water bandits. Our bodyguard agency is already the best in the capital. If the prince is willing to borrow troops, our bodyguard agency will gain a reputation. Most of the money for the darts has been handed over to the treasury, the soldiers have been trained, and the wives and dowries of the common people are all complete. Isn’t it all four corners? We don’t know how to lead soldiers, so why don’t we bother the general to lead the soldiers.”

Jia Huan interjected: "Otherwise, you always come up with an idea, what should we do with such things?"

Mr. Liu was at a loss for words for a while.After thinking about it for a long time, he sighed: "That's all. If that's the case, it's also a way for our family to partner with the expensive escort agency."

Jia Huan looked at him and then at Jia Cong: "The people in your family...are really amazing."

Mr. Liu glanced at Jia Cong indifferently, and Jia Cong hurriedly said: "It's really amazing! Sister Chen's kung fu is passed down from their family."

"Oh——" Jia Huan twitched the corners of his mouth, "Then I'll go see Fourth Uncle tomorrow and tell him what's next? Will your family send someone there too?"

Mr. Liu said: "It's not difficult to protect people. You can find a way to cover up the dowry."

Jia Huan said: "Our security guards will hide some rice bags, fodder bales and the like, but I'm afraid some thieves will see through it. Just discuss it with fourth uncle tomorrow, he is an expert."

Mr. Liu nodded and stood up: "That's all, that's it. I'll send someone over tomorrow morning."

Jia Huan also stood up, cupped his hands and said, "See you soon!"

Mr. Liu suddenly said: "Today, the seventh son of our family went out from your Yihong Courtyard and pretended to be a fan."

"Huh?" Jia Cong couldn't help laughing when he thought about Liu Xiaoqi's face, "Then he has to wear women's clothes hahahaha..."

He smiled, while Mr. Liu said: "First, I went to the back door of Mr. Qing Song's house in Taichang Temple, and sent the little fans in the kiln to say that Second Master Song had ordered his brand, and let them print it out; All the way to the back door of the mansion of Su Zheng, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. I begged to see the eldest lady of the Su family, and the lady sent a pretty maid to invite him in. I don’t know what she said, but no one came out anyway. In the end, it was Miss Su's maid who rewarded the coachman with five hundred dollars and sent him away."

Jia Cong stood up in shock, and shouted at the same time as Jia Huan: "What?!"

Mr. Liu smiled coldly, jumped onto the wall and left!

The Jia brothers looked at each other, and Jia Cong yelled: "Liu Xiaoqi! I'll get you out of here!"

Jia Huan hurriedly asked, "Is he at our house?"

"Not here." Jia Cong said, "I'll call to vent the fire first." Then he ordered the boy to prepare the horse quickly, "I can guess where that guy is, so I'll go find him!"