The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Zhou Hu, Situ Cen's guard, rushed down Mopan Mountain to meet Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin, after a few pleasantries, he said, "Our Highness suspects that these bandits are the remnants of Fang Xiong."

"Is there such a coincidence?" Jia Cong asked after thinking for a while, "Aside from Fang Xiong, is there any high-ranking official in Shu whose surname is Fang?"

Zhou Hu shook his head, and said again: "The woman is obviously a servant of a rich family, and she is a 'Master' when she talks and keeps talking. When Fang Xiong died, his grandson was still an ignorant child, and it is seventeen or eighteen to say less now. And he There is an eldest granddaughter, who should be about the same age as this female mountain king."

Jia Cong said: "It doesn't matter, let's get A-Cen out first. He's putting on a good show today. I'm afraid he will show his 'I'm born noble'. Fortunately, this guy is used to being a ruffian. Let the bandits know about him. He is the son of the King of Shu, and he will die soon."

Zhou Hu said: "Your Highness ordered me to go to Chengdu to dispatch troops quickly."

Jia Cong shook his head again and again: "Just kidding! If this family is Fang Xiong's family, he will die at any time as if he is in the den of tigers and wolves. You guys just watch him and don't run around. What if there is something wrong? I will do it with Mr. Tian Go for business. Mopan Mountain is here anyway, and you know the way, so are you afraid that they will fly with their wings?"

Chen Ruijin also said: "This cottage is steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack. It can't be taken down overnight. It's just a matter of giving them some money first, and getting it back later."

As Zhou Hu was a bodyguard, Situ Cen's safety was more important than any bandits and rebels. Hearing this, he hurriedly said, "The wise couple is right. I also think protecting His Highness's safety is more important."

Jia Cong curled his lips and said, "Look, you are all used to it! Cen has developed a habit of taking things lightly all the year round, and he doesn't even distinguish between primary and secondary. You can't listen to him when it comes to matters related to your life. You are professionals. Okay. If you listened to him, this guy would have died in Xiyang long ago. Think about it, if he didn't reveal his secrets, I would bring money to redeem him tomorrow. Bandits are used to kidnapping cases, and today I will help this queen in public Talking, choking to death, the woman who helped her younger brother get ahead, hello, hello, hello everyone. Ming'er will hand over the money and others in a friendly manner, and after he goes down the mountain, he will send as many soldiers and horses as he wants to surround him. Even if you run away now Back to Chengdu, how many days in advance can we send troops? If he reveals his secrets before I come back, you might be able to snatch him and escape. It's only a day or two left, just hold your ground and don't take unworthy risks. "

These words followed Zhou Hu's heart, and immediately said: "I'll go back and discuss with His Highness."

"You are stupid!" Jia Cong rolled his eyelids, "You just hide in secret, don't show your face in front of him. If he is in danger, you come out. If he is not in danger, wait for him to go down the mountain safely before pleading guilty. "

Zhou Hu let him stir, thought about the meeting and said: "Just as Mr. said."

Jia Cong waved his hand: "That's it! You go back quickly."

Zhou Hu said: "There is one more thing. Your Highness asked me to remind Mr. that the gap between the King of the Mountain and her younger brother is not small, and it may be exploited."

Jia Cong waved his hand and said, "Don't count on this, it's better to count on County Magistrate Tian. Ninety percent of her younger brother was raised by her on purpose. How many years has it been since Fang Xiong fell from power? Young Master Fang has only the queen He is a housewife, and expects outsiders to help him out. It can be seen that they still have the logic of living a peaceful life in Chengdu in their minds, and they have no consciousness of being a bandit at all. The more this is the case, the less the bandits will follow him. On the contrary, Tian The county magistrate, rich and courageous, just said to give him a chance to make meritorious deeds, and he might believe it." Zhou Hu sounded reasonable, and Situ Cen was just letting him spread the word anyway, so that's all.

The three said goodbye, Zhou Hu went back to the mountain to secretly protect Situ Cen, and Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin went straight to Fuping County to borrow money.Little did he know that just as Jia Cong went down the mountain, a man dressed as a woodcutter went up the mountain with his back feet—it was Liu Feng, the leader of the Shu Kingdom's merchant party.

Jia Cong swaggered into Fuping County, met a man who looked like an idler, and asked, "Where is the county magistrate? I'm from Chengdu, and I want to discuss a very profitable matter with him." The county magistrate here is the Tu Emperor, and Everyone knows that the magistrate likes money the most, who dares to stop him?The man immediately ran ahead to lead the way, and Jia Cong followed slowly on his horse, and arrived at the county government office smoothly.The yamen servant heard that the official wanted to discuss with the county magistrate about "being brave enough to defecate and make a fortune", so he ran to report the letter.Not long after, Mr. Tian invited me.

When Jia Cong saw Mr. Tian, ​​he couldn't help but want to clap his hands and applaud!You can't judge people by their appearance.Although this person has no resemblance to Jia Xu, but he looks the same - he looks too much like a loyal minister.He is seven feet tall, in his 40s, with a square face with Chinese characters, ruddy and bright, with three beards hanging down. He looks a bit like Guan Gong on stage.

Jia Cong cupped his fists with a smile: "Master Tian, ​​Wansheng likes to get straight to the point and doesn't like to go around the bush. Could you please choose a place where you can talk conveniently, so that Wansheng can chat with you?"

Mr. Tian was slightly startled, then cupped his hands: "It's easy to say." Nai led the way straight ahead, and entered the back office study together with Jia Cong.

The two sat down as guests and hosts, and a beautiful maid came in to serve tea and then left.Holding the teacup, Jia Cong smiled and said, "Master Tian, ​​you have two roads in front of you, one is dead and the other is money."

Master Tian also smiled: "Really."

Jia Cong said: "A few days ago, my lord caught a woman and let her escape, but there is such a thing."

Master Tian's eyes moved: "I have already known about the woman's whereabouts."

"Bullshit!" Jia Cong scoffed, "You have been coaxed by two subordinates. The woman has been rescued by her husband's family. Also, her husband is not dead, but was rescued by the guards. Her husband's surname is Situ, and the woman Qiu Shi."

Master Tian was stunned! "Teng" stood up, pointed at Jia Cong and shouted: "Full of nonsense!"

Jia Cong smirked and said, "Can I coax you? What's the benefit of coaxing you? If you don't believe me, go to the two people's residences and check to see if there is anything wrong. They have already run away."

Mr. Tian took a quick breath, enough time for a cup of tea, but he calmed down and asked, "This must be a dead end. Where is the money?"

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Master Tian already knows who her husband is?" Master Tian nodded.Jia Cong clapped his hands and said, "It's easy to handle. Mr. Tian, ​​pretending to be a relative of the emperor and trying to kill the prince and occupy the princess, this is a huge shortcoming."

Lord Tian was surprised for a moment when he heard the words, and then he laughed: "This is naturally a huge shortcoming. Could it be that the Third Highness wants to take advantage of my shortcoming?"

Jia Cong stretched out two fingers: "Two million taels of silver bill! Here you go." Master Tian gasped.Jia Cong spread his hands, "You want money or your life, you choose."

After a long time, Lord Tian said slowly, "Sir just said that the other way is to make money."

Jia Cong's eyes lighted up: "Master Tian's play is too fake, and he probably won't get much money. The ancients said that tax collection is worse than robbery, and robbery is worse than bribery. Why not make the fake come true?"

Lord Tian's eyes flickered: "Your Highness the Third Highness is not annoying me?"

Jia Cong snapped his fingers: "Oh! I've forgotten so much. The Third Highness has something to tell you. He said: Tian, ​​Da, Ren! Everyone is living for nothing, why bother to move sacks and Fire or a gun? What else can’t be solved with money?” Nai stretched out his hands and compared a three and a seven, “Three and seven, you three and another seven.”

Lord Tian was stunned for a while, then suddenly clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "I never expected that His Highness the Third Highness is actually a glass man with a crystal heart, so transparent!"

Jia Cong also clapped his hands and laughed: "Oh, it seems that the business is promising! Wansheng likes a simple and unpretentious shameless person like Mr. Tian the most."

The two laughed for a long time, Lord Tian suddenly suppressed his smile and said: "The third highness is so magnanimous, is it only for money?"

Jia Cong spread his hands: "Otherwise, what else could it be for?"

Master Tian sneered, "Then what does he need so much money for?"

Jia Congqi asked, "Is there anyone who is not short of money?"

Mr. Tian said with a fake smile: "Sir, the one married by the Third Highness is the only daughter of the Qiu family."

Jia Cong narrowed his eyes: "Don't tell the truth, Mr. Tian is a smart man. In the Kingdom of Shu, he almost buried the son of the King of Shu alive. How many paths do you think you can choose? The ancients said that it is easy to be a bandit, but difficult to be an official. "

Mr. Tian couldn't help laughing: "The ancients never said these words."

Jia Cong laughed and said, "After 300 years, won't I be an ancient man? Mr. Tian, ​​after being an official, you don't want to be a bandit again."

Master Tian looked at him and said, "Do you have a token, Mister? How does the lower official know that Mister never coaxed me?"

Jia Cong took out two waist cards casually: "Here, the ones from the residence of the third highness and the residence of the third master Qiu. Mr. Tian first sent someone to the house of the two subordinates who chased after the concubine to find their treasures, and see if there are any leftovers." Nothing."

Mr. Tian carefully looked at the waist badges for a long time - he had never seen these two things before, he only saw that the badges were carefully made, presumably the waist badges of rich and noble families are all fine.Jia Cong pointed out: "His Royal Highness's piece is plated with silver, and Mr. Qiu's piece is plated with copper." Mr. Tian nodded and asked his subordinates to go to the residence of a certain two people to check.

Not long after, the man went back and forth: "There are only crude things left, and the valuables are gone, and I found two stacks of bills. The villain also inquired about the meeting. The two of them borrowed a lot of money from their colleagues the day before yesterday." .”

Jia Cong slapped the table and laughed loudly: "There is shamelessness in shamelessness!" Nai gave a thumbs up.

Mr. Tian scolded: "How dare you, thief!"

Jia Cong said "ah": "I almost forgot." He quickly took out two portraits from his bosom, "Master Tian, ​​take a look, do you look like it?"

Master Tian took it over and saw that it was the two fleeing subordinates, one tall and one short, and couldn't help but praise: "Like! What a painter!"

Jia Cong smiled and said, "It's not the painter, but the guards next to His Highness the Third Highness who painted this painting. If Mr. Tian doesn't do this business, he will be wanted by the whole country in the future and what the charges will be."

Master Tian suddenly turned dark.After a long time, he smiled wryly and said, "Where does the lower official have so much money..."

Jia Cong still smiled like a lucky cat: "It's only 200 million, and you can get it out if you turn around. Besides, if you are unlucky and you provoke the God of Plague, don't you want to spend money to avoid disaster? Even if you don't give it, your ten thousand family wealth will not be confiscated in the end. Into the treasury? Even if you give it," he shook his head and said, "the ancients said that if the money is gone, it will come back~~This is really the ancients."

Master Tian closed his eyes and clenched his fists, Jia Cong ate tea freely and almost hummed a little tune.After a quarter of an hour, Lord Tian gritted his teeth and smiled wryly: "Forget it, it's just that the lower officials are unlucky."

Jia Cong applauded: "That's right! When it's broken, it's broken. No matter how important money is, how can it compare to life? Lord Tian is wise." Then he raised the teacup, "I wish you and Your Highness the perfect combination in the future and complement each other."

Mr. Tian shook his head, and sighed: "The ancients said that the first rank of officials crushed cows to death."

"Oh, that's not right~~" Jia Cong waved his fingers, "You are a lot of senior officials, and you are still a seventh-rank sesame official." Master Tian sighed with pain all over his face.

At dusk that day, Jia Cong rode out of Fuping County on horseback with 200 million taels of silver in his pocket.Seeing that there was no one around, Jia Cong reined in his horse and picked it off, took out the banknotes from his bosom, counted them, hid a small stack in his bosom, waved the other big stack in his hand and shouted: "Daughter-in-law! Daughter-in-law! Praise me quickly! I just earned 150 million silver to buy you clothes!"

Chen Ruijin jumped out from nowhere like the wind, stretched out his hand to pick it up, took the bank note from his hand and walked away.Nai stood up and counted the children: "Well, the number is right."

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Look at how honest I am, I never hide private money."

Chen Ruijin glanced at him: "Try hiding one." Jia Cong didn't even dare.Chen Ruijin asked, "Did you know that he could get 200 million silver bills immediately?"

Jia Cong said: "The original county magistrate of Fuping County, Mr. Shi, was a capable official. He worked diligently to raise a large family. How long has he been here? Rubbing the ground like a carpet! How could it be possible that he didn't even have 200 million. Besides, he is Bandit background. Bandits are not officers and soldiers, and their camps are unreliable, so they can’t do a business in exchange for another place, and it’s easy to carry bank notes. This habit can’t be broken after two years as an official.”

Chen Ruijin sighed lightly: "Master Shi... Liu Feng got it away."

Jia Cong shook his head: "Master Shi was taken away by Mr. Tian. He wanted to wash off his bandit status, donate an official, and aimed at Fuping County. Of course, Mr. Shi was in the way. The horoscope of the old scholar's daughter is He hired a fortune teller to do the calculation, and he bought four fortune tellers in a row. He was the one who let the wind out, and he was the one who deliberately told the matter to the Qing Ke under the crown prince. He took off his official hat and put it on. I don’t want Mr. Shi to run away... Liu Feng really did the job of persuading him to escape.” He paused, “But Mr. Tian was not the one who made the plan, it was his first dog-headed military adviser—— ——It’s the man I asked you to kill before I entered the city. If he was there, we might not be able to earn the 150 million.”

Chen Ruijin smiled and said: "That one, he was basking in the sun in the yard. He probably died of illness suddenly at this moment. There are no servants in his family, he is the only one, and the food and clothing are very simple."

Jia Cong wondered, "Master Tian won't give him a dividend?"

Chen Ruijin turned his head to look at him: "What do you think?"

Jia Cong rubbed his nose: "There's no way to guess. You just announce the standard answer."

Chen Ruijin stretched his waist: "I knew I would not kill him. Feng Ziying must scold you to death."

Jia Cong was stunned: "Ah?! I'll go! His subordinates are so meticulous!" Nai stumbled, "It's a pity. Talent!"

"Aren't you afraid of killing your own people by mistake?"

Jia Cong shook his head: "So far, we don't need to be so aggressive in our detailed work."

Chen Ruijin was noncommittal, reached into his bosom and squeezed the stack of banknotes, and said with a smile: "It's really comfortable to be rich."