The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

After the death of the Marquis of Xiangyang, their family sent countless people to let the Qi family go to mourn the old man, but they were all blocked.On the third day of the first seven days, even a fool would know that Falcon Bookstore did it on purpose.On this day, Xue Pan went to visit friends near the Hou's mansion in Xiangyang. He wore plain clothes and stopped by to pay homage.Qi Jianhui saw that he came here just after dinner, so he also guessed that he didn't come here on a special trip.But he just didn't know what to do, so he came out to accompany him.

After the sacrifice was over according to the rules, they said a few words on the occasion, and the two of them went to the next room to have a meeting.Seeing Qi Jianhui's brows furrowed tightly, Xue Pan persuaded, "The old man is so old, it can be regarded as joy and mourning."

Qi Jianhui sighed, "That's not the reason." Xue Pan raised his eyebrows.Qi Jianhui smiled wryly, "There was a cousin whom my grandfather loved very much, who he recognized as his own granddaughter. I couldn't find him for some reason a few years ago. The old man only looked for it two days before he left, but that girl was a bit concerned about the family. Misunderstood and refused to come back. There are local snakes living near her house, and they tried their best to stop us from delivering letters to her."

Xue Pan snorted and said, "Since you're doing this, what are you making a fuss about? Don't worry about it."

Qi Jianhui sighed again: "It's just that my grandfather really missed her, and he still missed her before leaving. I always hope that she can come and see the old man for a ride, so that he can go there with peace of mind."

Xue Pan said: "It's not easy for you." After thinking for a while, "The snakes in the land are no more than rats, so please trouble the soldiers and horses of the five cities to take care of them. Your sister, the benefits will naturally come from giving ideas." He hummed again, "This I've seen a lot of this kind of person. It's okay to give her a man idea."

Qi Jianhui shook his head.After a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "Brother Xue, if you want to find someone but you don't have an address, how would you find them?"

Xue Pan said, "Look for his friends and relatives."

Qi Jianhui said: "I don't know his friends or relatives, he's a man from the forest."

Xue Pan said: "Snakes have snake ways, rats have rat ways. Naturally, the green forest people asked the green forest people. Did you know there is a S.H.I.E.L.D.?"

Qi Jianhui said: "I only found out about it recently."

Xue Pan clapped his hands and said, "Look, if you want to know, you will naturally ask, right?"

Qi Jianhui frowned and said, "I heard that the S.H.I.E.L.D. is shameless after asking for money. Not only our family is looking for that person, I'm afraid they will use this matter to sell it for money."

Xue Pan said, "I don't want people to know that you are also looking for that person?" Qi Jianhui nodded.Xue Pan said, "Would you not entrust others to find out?"

Qi Jianhui's eyes lit up: "It's true! Brother Xue, you really can't compare to those in the past, and you have a better life."

Xue Pan clapped his hands triumphantly: "Be polite, I will treat you with admiration after three days!"

Two days later, a man in charge went to Falcon Bookstore to do business.It turned out that he belonged to Ruixiang Bank.Last year, their young master got married, and the young mistress was from Suzhou.Because of the long distance, I entrusted a bodyguard, which was the best Taiping Escort in Beijing.It went well at first.When I arrived near the junction of Wu and Chu, I encountered very powerful bandits, there were five or six hundred people.Seeing that the bodyguard was invincible, a tall man suddenly descended from the sky, like a ghost, killed the bandit leader and repelled a large number of bandits.Ask the people in the Escort Bureau, they don't even know it!After that, he encountered more than a dozen dangerous situations along the way, all of which were saved by this person.The owner and young owner of Ruixiang Silver House are very grateful to him, and feel that his talent is rare.Nowadays, the world is very unstable, and I want to ask this person to come from home to do things.

The clerk of the Falcon Bookstore said: "Does he have a good appearance and martial arts skills?" The manager talked for a long time, and left a portrait of the man.

The clerk recognized at a glance that the person wearing the straw hat in the painting was their second grandfather, and said: "It will take some time, sir, come back in seven or eight days. The price can only be determined after we find out a rough idea." .” The steward said repeatedly, “The price is fine,” and asked to leave.

As soon as he left, the clerk smiled and showed the portrait to his master.Liu Xiaoqi smiled and said, "Second brother must have incurred some kind of peach blossom debt." Remembering that Jia Cong said that the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion would entrust others to find a Lulin Ren family for them, he muttered, "It won't be that way. Coincidentally, where does it follow..." Nai sleeved the portrait and went to Rongguo Mansion.

After hearing this, Jia Cong said, "I'm hooked!" Then he clicked his tongue, "I don't want the Chu government to rely on robbery so soon for maintenance."

Chen Ruijin also said: "When they came back from this trip, I suspected that there were Chu soldiers pretending to be bandits."

Jia Cong said: "I'm afraid there will be more than one call." Nai hum said, "I'll just say it. Our bodyguard bureau is enough to deal with ordinary robbers, and we can't compare with the regular army."

Liu Xiaoqi glanced at the two of them and said, "Please explain clearly! The King of Chu sent someone to rob Ruixiang Yinlou's young lady's convoy to see her off. The middleman turned out to be the steward of Ruixiang Yinlou. Could it be that Ruixiang Yinlou and the King of Chu are in the same gang to take away the dowry of their own young mistress?"

Jia Cong said: "Their young lady's natal family is a wealthy family in Suzhou, and the two have a lot of business dealings, so they don't know how to kill chickens to get eggs. Besides, it's not that their family didn't give enough betrothal gifts. The manager is either using the name of the master's family to find you To buy information, either it is an imposter from another family's spy, or someone has somehow coaxed the owner of Ruixiang Silver House to take an interest in your second brother and spend money to find out his whereabouts. Anyway, Ruixiang Silver House has an inner ghost."

Liu Xiaoqi frowned and said, "What is the history of the Ruixiang Silver House? I don't know. Why would the King of Chu place spies in their house?"

Jia Cong said: "It may not be that spies were planted, or they were bribed after knowing this. What has it to do with Qi? Liu Er is the bodyguard, and Qi is Liu Si's ex-wife."

Chen Ruijin said with a smile: "Didn't Brother Lan say that? Misunderstood."

Jia Cong said: "That's not right! Shouldn't they be more afraid of their bookstores?"

Liu Xiaoqi snorted, "Afraid? The special envoy of the king of Chu is not a fool. If he mistakenly thinks that my second brother has something to do with...that...fourth sister-in-law, he will avoid it."

Chen Ruijin said: "Don't forget, when your bookstore just opened, Liu Er's bodyguard left. Hurry up and come back a few years ago."

Liu Xiaoqi patted his forehead suddenly: "That's right! The second brother came to our bookstore first on the day he returned to Beijing, and it happened that the special envoy of the King of Chu was doing business with me. He didn't come to talk, as if he was a guest official from outside."

Jia Cong thought: "They are rushing to Suzhou. I'm afraid there will be troubles on the way, and they will go back to Beijing very quickly. Xin'er from Chu State's fake water bandits will not enter Beijing faster than them." Nai stood up, "Suppose that when Liu Er came across the special envoy of King Chu in the bookstore on the day he returned to Beijing, the special envoy didn't know that someone disturbed their prince's business—since King Chu has professional robbers, the business must be more than that. He was wearing that day Do you have a straw hat?"

Liu Xiaoqi said: "I'm wearing it, take it off and put it on your back when you enter the house."

"The characteristic of the straw hat makes him easy to identify." Jia Cong said, "Go to the neighbors and ask if anyone has asked about a person wearing a straw hat, and when; if so, which old lady in the neighborhood told him What are you talking about?" It was about his cousin, Liu Xiaoqi left immediately.

He came again that evening.Sure enough, someone was asking about Liu Er near the bookstore.On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, a man came, claiming to be a policeman from Wucheng Bingma Division, who was in plain clothes to handle important cases, and asked if anyone had seen a man wearing a straw hat and carrying a portrait.Liu Er came to the bookstore and would not let other people see him. The only time he showed his face was when Chen Ruijin asked Princess Jian'an to frighten the ruffians with Qi's waist in the old year.Most of the neighbors watched from a distance; the children were bold and small, and they were familiar with Liu Mingyi, so several of them slipped inside to explore.Some children recognized Liu Er's portrait, and told the man who had arrested Princess Jian'an to leave, but he didn't follow, as if he was not in the same group.On the sixth day of the lunar new year, the arrester came again to inquire about Qi's origin.A woman with a broken mouth told him that she heard that the Qi family came from the marquis' mansion.

Chen Ruijin smiled and said: "That's it, Qi Shi and Liu Er are hooked up."

Jia Cong also said: "I went to the bodyguard bureau, and no one came to inquire about Liu Er. On the way to protect the bodyguards, the people from the bodyguard bureau told Ruixiang Yinlou that they didn't recognize Liu Er. The ghost in Ruixiang Yinlou was either picking up his relatives. Among the people, either the status is very high."

Liu Xiaoqi asked: "Why is your status so high?"

"After picking up their young mistress and returning to Beijing, you have to talk to your boss and the important stewards about the things on the way. If you ask the buddy, according to the professional ethics of the spies, you have to ask the other party for verification. What if the little guy is lying? I didn’t even go to the Escort for verification, the ghost is very sure about the news, so don’t go to the Escort to waste your energy.” Jia Cong said, “I just troubled Fourth Uncle Jia to go to Ruixiang Silver House tomorrow to make some remarks.”

Liu Xiaoqi nodded and said: "Shi Li sent someone to the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion to find out the news, and wait for him to find out something."

Shi Li was going to escort Shi Xiangyun and Mrs. Mu to the Taiwan government, and was busy arranging the affairs at hand recently, so he came here very late.However, the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion has found out a lot.

Just a few days before the old Hou Ye passed away, the special envoy of the king of Chu came to visit him, and Mr. Qi and Qi Jianhui, father and son, accompanied him to talk.Qi Jianhui ordered someone to send a portrait to his wife, saying that it was a relative of the Qi family, did you recognize her?Grandma Qi looked at it for a long time, but she didn't recognize it.Then it was passed on to the rest of the wives and grandmas.Not long after, Princess Lin'an's maid recognized her, and said that the woman in the portrait was the embroiderer her princess went to buy embroidery a few days ago, she came from the palace, and could embroider the flowers in the palace.It was her neighbor who hurt the princess.

Qi Jianhui suddenly remembered something, and blurted out: "Could it be her?" He ordered someone to send the portrait to Grandma Qi again, "Let grandma take a closer look, do you really not recognize it?"

Grandma Qi looked at it carefully for a long time, but she still couldn't distinguish it, but she felt that it looked familiar.It was a daughter-in-law beside her who said: "Grandma, I look a bit like the girl from the fifth uncle's family in the early years."

Grandma Qi suddenly said: "Yes! It's been too long to remember, it really looks like her." Nai sent someone back to her husband: the one on the portrait is the granddaughter of the fifth uncle who entered the palace instead of her own girl.

Later, the special envoy of the king of Chu discussed with Qi Jianhui behind closed doors for half a day, and then ordered people to invite Qi's father and elder brother.Then he ordered to make filial piety clothes for her, and after the death of Lord Hou, he sent more than a dozen groups of people to coax her back to the mansion - all of them were beaten back by the Liu family.

After everyone listened, they each told Shi Li the news from various places and thought about it for a while.

Jia Cong said: "Let me reason. The Taiping Escort escorted the people from the Ruixiang Silver House to Suzhou to pick up their relatives. Because the young lady brought a lot of dowry, they were robbed by the officials and bandits under the king of Chu. Liu Er jumped out to defeat the officials and bandits and guarded the bodyguards." After returning to Beijing, he went to the bookstore to visit Xiaoqi, and happened to meet the special envoy of the king of Chu to do business. But at that time, the special envoy of the king of Chu might have thought that he was also a customer for business. Knowing the feat of Liu Er's bodyguard, he asked someone to pretend to be a policeman in plain clothes to handle the case. He inquired about Liu Er near the place where he met Liu Er - Falcon Bookstore, and found Qi's. Then check Qi's. Surname Qi, Those who come out of the Hou's mansion will easily become suspicious of the Xiangyang marquis' mansion with the surname Qi. He went to the Xiangyang marquis to inquire in person, which can be regarded as finding out the origin of the Qi family."

Chen Ruijin thought about it: "It seems to be true. However, it is far-fetched to think about it carefully, and the connection is still unclear."

Jia Cong said: "The first thing. Since the special envoy of the King of Chu thought that Liu Er was looking for Liu Xiaoqi for business, he is probably a spy. What's the use of asking a spy to find a few idle men, gossips, women and children? , It’s just that the officials and bandits lost a deal, and it’s not a big deal. There are many green forest deals that may or may not succeed; why would the Chu State paint Liu Er’s portrait? I think this is the most important thing. The crux."

Chen Ruijin said: "It's Chinese New Year now, and the special envoy of the King of Chu is very busy. He is willing to leave so many important matters behind and go to Xiangyang Hou Mansion to inquire about the Qi family himself."

Liu Xiaoqi thought for a long time with his cheeks on his hands, and said: "The special envoy of the king of Chu has not yet suspected that the second brother has something to do with our bookstore. Otherwise, it would be too hasty to coax the fourth sister-in-law to come by taking advantage of the funeral of the Marquis of Xiangyang."

Jia Cong nodded: "Well, they only think that Mrs. Qi and you are neighbors. You like Ming Yi so much, and the children play together every day. I'm afraid you are just meddling in other people's business."

After a long time, Shi Li suddenly said: "The Kingdom of Chu has gradually divided into several factions over the years, and the kings and uncles are not very convinced by the King of Chu. This special envoy of the King of Chu was sent by the first King of Chu. The current King of Chu It's his grandson. I don't know if the king of Chu is behind this special envoy."

Jia Cong slapped the case: "You mean, who is the special envoy of the king of Chu who is not in good order? Who is the king's uncle who wants to seek assassins and usurp the country?"

Shi Li said: "You are used to seeing the princes and lords in the middle of the capital, but you have forgotten that SHIELD started from the green forest? The people who came to the SHIELD may not be spies, and they may not all be from the green forest. Didn't Qi Jianhui tell Xue Pan that he wanted Looking for a person in the green forest? A mysterious straw-hat guest quietly helped Ruixiang Yinlou protect the dowry of the young lady, but he did not receive the reward. Ruixiang Yinlou has no history, I have already checked. Since they have ghosts in Ruixiang Yinlou, I must know it too. Therefore, Liu Er is not like a spy, but like a lone ranger in the green forest. When Princess Jian'an went to Qi's house, he showed up, but he was not Princess Jian'an's person. This move seems to be in love with Qi. Princess Jian'an The noise of carriages and horses, at first, who knew that they were there for the waist, not for trouble?"

"Ah!" Jia Cong stood up and said, "A high-powered green forest hacker, who pays special attention to what an ordinary embroiderer is doing? That embroiderer also has a daughter, who looks like her own. Counting by age Forget it, when the daughter was born, the palace maids hadn’t been dismissed yet.” Nai looked up at the crowd, “If it were me, I would have guessed that this green forest lone ranger wearing a straw hat was once the palace guard. If so , the Qi family is very valuable. Even if the Straw Hats went to the Falcon Bookstore to do business, they might ask them to help take care of the Qi family."

Chen Ruijin suddenly said: "We seem to have overlooked a word."

"what?"

"Qi Jianhui said to Xue Pan, 'It's not just our family looking for that person'."