The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Jia Cong and Jia Huan followed Qin Keqing along the tunnel from the mansion in the south of the city to Zhenwu Nunnery. It turned out that the exit was actually a Buddhist hall in Zhenwu Nunnery, which worshiped the ancient lamp-burning Buddha.Jia Cong thought about the origin of the lamp oil below, and then looked at this Buddha, and found it interesting.Qin Keqing led the two little ones to offer incense to the Buddha here, because he said, "I'll send chariots and horses to take you back. I can't walk the long way back."

Jia Cong hurriedly said: "No, just tell us how to open the secret passage over there."

Qin Keqing shook her head and refused, because she led them out of the Buddhist hall and walked a long way until they arrived at a small room where she usually lived.On the way, I also met three or two aunts in Ziyi clothes. Qin Keqing only joined hands with them to salute, and the two of them followed suit, but no one asked who they were.When I got to the place, I saw that these were just two ordinary bungalows, the interior furnishings were extremely simple, it was a different world from Ningguo Mansion.Qin Keqing smiled lightly: "It's much better than when I first lost my hair." So she went outside to boil water on the stove to make tea with them.

Jia Cong sighed: "People's ability to adapt is really strong, and they can survive any situation."

Qin Keqing said: "But I feel that it is much better now than in that mansion back then. I don't have to serve my in-laws and husbands, and I don't have to flatter others to see how they look. I earn every penny by myself, and I can support my family."

Jia Cong nodded again and again: "That's right, I admire a capable person like Sister Qin the most, depending on his gender."

Qin Keqing smiled slightly, and said angrily: "Forget it, don't talk nicely. Just leave after drinking tea. I'll get someone to hire a carriage."

The corner of Jia Cong's mouth drooped: "Good sister, I didn't pay attention to it just now, so you can tell us."

Qin Keqing said with a smile: "The opportunity must not be lost, and it will never come again. Who made you inattentive." Then she entrusted her passing aunt to call a familiar coachman for them.After drinking tea, he said, "Since we're here, it would be great to meet Master Jingyuan."

Jia Cong thought about it, yes, when we get to someone else’s place, we have to visit a pier, don’t we?Then he nodded and said: "Yes, otherwise I'm afraid I will be rude, so why don't you look around at my brother?"

Jia Huan also nodded.

The three of them then went to the nunnery where they were presided over.

Master Jingyuan's nunnery is very simple, even worse than Qin Keqing's place. However, the layout of the house is grand, the walls are full of books, and there is an ordinary thick sea bowl on the desk holding a bowl of quiet lotus leaves. It can be seen that this old aunt is very beautiful. Tasteful, extraordinary characters.Yin couldn't help looking at her a few times, and sure enough, even though she had no hair, even though she was old, and even though she was dressed in straw and sandals, this old woman was still a senior beauty, and her whole body was extremely elegant. He doesn't even believe Jia Cong's death.Yin hurriedly put together palms together with Jia Huan and said, "The two of us are urchins. We didn't intend to break into the pure land of Buddhism. Please disturb us."

Master Jingyuan smiled like the warm sun outside: "No problem, I can't guarantee that you are destined to be with our nunnery."

Jia Cong shivered, and hurriedly said: "Uh, don't, we are both men." He laughed himself after he finished speaking.

At this moment, there is already a sister-in-law serving tea for the two of them, Jia Cong glanced at it, and couldn't help feeling sorry: that sister-in-law is so beautiful, no wonder Qin Zhong hooked up with a sister-in-law in the original novel.

Master Jingyuan looked at him twice, and said: "Young Master Cong seems to have disapproval in his eyes."

Jia Cong said honestly: "Yes. Because this little master is very beautiful, from a man's point of view, I think it looks better with hair."

Master Jingyuan recited ten Buddhas together all his life: "Emptiness is form, and form is emptiness."

Jia Cong argued: "People are born with flesh and blood. It is so easy for the six senses to be pure for no reason. Unless some people are born with Buddha's karma, normally, form is form, and emptiness is emptiness."

Master Jing Yuan asked back: "How do you know that this disciple of mine is not born with Buddha's karma?"

Jia Cong shook his head: "What I said just now was just what I was thinking. I don't know whether this little master has a connection with Buddhism. I neither should know nor want to know."

Mrs. Jingyuan nodded: "You are a bit of a child. But I heard that it was your idea that Yihong Court secretly promised married women to sell themselves."

Jia Cong said: "Yihongyuan promises that those who want to sell themselves secretly sell themselves secretly, and those who want to sell themselves openly sell themselves publicly, it has nothing to do with having a husband or not."

Master Jingyuan said in a deep voice: "Chaos is the rule."

Jia Cong said: "There are so many people in the world, human nature is very restrained, and the law of heaven is balanced. Since there are men who want to go to brothels for the night, there will be women who want to have sex with women. We just charge an agency fee for ideas. Turn around In other words, if the husbands of those women are able to support their families, or treat them very well, they would not come to Yihong Courtyard even if they think about it. Buddhism often talks about cause and effect, and this is cause and effect.”

Master Jingyuan said coldly: "Since there are three principles and five constant principles in the world, those who violate them will be punished. What if the woman in the courtyard is discovered by her husband's family?"

Jia Cong curled his lips and said: "Everything has risks, and the worst ending should be counted before doing it. Master, we are businessmen."

Master Jing Yuan couldn't help but sized him up carefully, and said, "Young Master, why are you so cold at such a young age?"

Jia Cong waved his hand and said: "I also have enthusiasm, but my mind is extremely small. My enthusiasm is only for my relatives and friends. Others have their own relatives and friends, but they have nothing to do with me."

Master Jingyuan said: "What about those lonely and helpless people?"

Jia Cong folded his hands together and said, "The Buddha and Bodhisattva will take care of them."

A glimmer of satisfaction flashed in Master Jing Yuan's eyes, but Jia Cong just raised his head, and the corner of his eye caught sight of it, and he couldn't help but feel alarm bells ringing in his heart: From the standpoint of a compassionate monk, Jia Cong's words just now are extremely inappropriate. What should satisfy her should be admonishing.However, he didn't know what the old aunt was up to, so he hurriedly found an excuse to leave.Master Jing Yuan never warned him, nor did he keep them, but asked his sister-in-law to send them out.

When they got outside, Qin Keqing personally sent them out of the nunnery and asked, "I have nothing to do with you, why did you help me?"

Jia Cong said calmly: "Sister Qin is beautiful. Even though I am young, I will cherish her. If you have the face of my second aunt, I will definitely stand by and watch—no, I won't even bother to stand by and watch."

Qin Keqing sighed: "So, my face is also good?"

Jia Cong said: "Naturally, if my sister wants to find someone who doesn't care about your face but only cares about your heart in the future, I'm afraid--no." He paused, then continued, "I mean it Although I am a man, I get along a lot with my sisters and sisters-in-law. Because I am young, sometimes they talk less scruples. Many of their ideas are really funny to my ears. They are all women's own imagination, the world decides There isn't a man like that."

Although he didn't say what his sisters had in mind, Qin Keqing nodded and personally sent them into the carriage, and then turned back to the nunnery after watching the carriage and horses leave.

A few days later, the two of them opened the entrance of the tunnel again. This time, they brought enough oil lamps, torches, and even a compass. After searching for a long time inside, they couldn't find the opportunity to close the door.Finally, Gong San, who was hiding by the side to watch the excitement, couldn't take it anymore, so he came out and told them.Jia Cong was overjoyed, and said in his mouth, "Did you tell us that it was serious?"

Gong San also hummed: "Why didn't you find Yao'er to break it for you?"

Jia Cong was stunned for a moment, "Oh!" He said with regret: "That's right! Why did you forget him! He could have broken this two years ago."

Gong San also glanced at him, but remained silent.In fact, Jia Cong really didn't think about it, but Gong Sanyi secretly thought that this son seemed to treat everyone equally, but in fact there was a difference in closeness.

Jia Congyin asked, "Where is the other exit?"

Gong San also laughed and said, "Find it yourself." Then he simply led them in, told them in detail how to drive to Zhenwu nunnery, and left them behind.

Jia Cong and Jia Huan were still children, and they wished that no one would watch them. Whenever they got the chance, they would explore and play in the tunnels.However, they walked for several times but never found the tunnel to Gong Sanyi's residence.Jia Cong thought for a while, then went back and drew a map of the tunnel quietly with charcoal from his memory, and added the mansion and Gong Sanyi's residence on it.The next day, the two searched carefully with the speculative map, but found nothing, but it was a waste of a lot of lamp oil for the benefactors of Zhenwu Nunnery.

The two of them fought more and more courageously, and their spirits were excellent.Unintentionally, Jia Huan turned on the wrong direction when turning on the oil lamp, only to hear a creaking sound, and a stone door suddenly opened in the tunnel, and the two of them were shocked!But I saw a new passage appeared on the wall, and at first glance, it was extremely long.

Jia Cong's heart was pounding and he squeezed Jia Huan's arm: "Brother, do you want to go and see?"

Without turning back, Jia Huan said, "Go!"

The two of them couldn't help holding their breath, and cautiously moved forward.

This tunnel is really long, Jia Cong took out the compass and made gestures on the map for a long time, saying: "We must be going south by west." Then he took out a charcoal pencil and drew a little.In his previous life, his roommate was an architectural designer, and by the way, Jia Cong also learned many common methods of architectural drawing.After walking for a while, the tunnel turned a small bend, and this time it was going due south.At first, the two of them counted their steps to estimate the distance, but they forgot when they got tired from walking.This time, he walked at least ten miles, and finally an upward staircase appeared in front of him.The two then lit the oil lamps and walked up, opened the tunnel entrance, and sneaked out.

In front of them were three large crooked cabinets stacked together, just blocking their sight.The two listened, but there was no sound around them, so they sneaked to the side of the cabinet, poked their heads out to have a look - it was obvious that it was a warehouse outside, which had been abandoned for a long time, and there were many empty boxes, cabinets and ladders piled up in a mess.They waited and waited, but there was still no sound. They became more courageous, ran to the door and pushed it, but the door was unlocked, and opened a crack to look at it.It looks like a small courtyard outside.

Jia Cong immediately became more courageous and said, "Go out and have a look." Yin took the lead and walked out.

There was no one around, it was a deserted old house, the gate was locked from the outside.The two of them climbed up a big willow tree to have a look, and found that the moat was on the north side of the house.

Jia Huan couldn't help exclaiming: "Did we cross the bottom of the river just now?"

Jia Cong nodded and said, "That's right! East Nanjing Road to Lujiazui."

Jia Huan was taken aback: "What did you say, Cong'er?"

Jia Cong was also stunned, and for a long while, he twitched the corners of his mouth mockingly: "It's nothing, let's go back." Yin climbed down the tree first.

Jia Huan also came down and wanted to ask, but Jia Cong quickly changed the subject and said, "Is such a large tunnel really just for the convenience of walking in rainy days?"

Jia Huan laughed and said, "Of course not. This is obviously for contact and escape."

Jia Cong turned his head and glanced at him: "Brother Huan, you know a lot~~"

Jia Huan snorted and said, "I don't pretend to know anything. Mr. Gong told me that he used to be Prince Yizhong's man, and he also said that you, uncle, fourth uncle, and sixth uncle all knew about it. Anyway, the righteous one now Prince Zhong’s family has long since died.”

Jia Cong giggled twice: "Since the master in front of him is gone, this matter is over."

Jia Huan gave him a sideways look: "Could it be that I will report on Mr. Gong?"

Jia Cong waved his hands again and again: "No, no! It's not a good thing after all, don't worry about it, it's unnecessary."

Jia Huan snorted again.Suddenly his eyes lit up, he gave Jia Cong an elbow and said, "Is there any other treasure? Or, let's look for it again?"

Jia Cong nodded again and again: "Yes, yes! That's what I mean. Let's look for it. If we don't have the Yinshan Treasure Treasury Art of War or something." They got excited and immediately went back to the tunnel.

Since then, the two of them came to the tunnel to look for treasures, but it was a pity that they had run out of resources and hadn't found anything.

After some days, Jia Cong finally thought of a way.While Gong San also went to the Escort on business, he went to find Ding Ming, another boy of Qin Sangu, and asked him to pick up sunspots to play for a while.Because the third aunt was not at home, Ding Ming was extremely busy, and Heizi was bored, so he was happy to let him take her away.Then Jia Cong took a piece of Gong Sanyi's scarf that he had secretly hidden a few days ago, gave Heizi a sniff, and led it down the tunnel.

Heizi ran very happily at first, but stopped suddenly after a while, and circled around in confusion.Jia Cong understood that it was Gong Sanyi's smell that suddenly disappeared. Needless to say, another place where he could turn a corner was nearby.So they searched carefully with Jia Huan.Now the two of them are already familiar with the opening methods of many traps in this tunnel, they only tried one and the same, and they found it in a short time.

The two of them and the dog happily ran forward along the tunnel, and finally reached the upward steps.Use the compass to make gestures on the map, and sure enough, it is Gong Sanyi's residence.They have been to this small house many times, knowing that the old man lives alone, and now they thought there was no one in the house, so they became more daring and went straight up.

Open the entrance of the tunnel and see that there is a circle of light slits above it.He went up and took the oil lamp to shine a light on it. It turned out that the exit was a huge water tank with a huge wooden cover on top of it.Jia Cong immediately remembered which water tank this was from, and whispered to Jia Huan with a low laugh: "It's strange to see that this tank has no water in the past."

The two of them thought that there was no one in the yard, and they suddenly felt a sense of excitement that "the parents are not at home, and the children climbed into the room".With a push with all their strength, the two people pushed the lid of the water tank away.The two of them and the dog poked their heads out happily.

I saw that this place is indeed the kitchen in Gong Sanyi's yard, and all the utensils are as usual.It's just that there is a rather thin man in Tsing Yi in his twenties standing in front of the stove to light a fire.

Both of them were stupid at once.

But the man didn't seem to be a cook, after a while he managed to light the fire, stared at the water in the pot for a long time, then turned around and asked, "Can you two cook noodles?"

Jia Cong raised his hand: "I...maybe."

"Come and help me, the bowl I just burned was burnt."