The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Situ Cen and Jia Cong left their errands to their two daughters-in-law, and slipped out to strike by themselves.Jia Cong remembered the gossip he heard a few days ago and told Situ Cen that his uncle bought and sold by force.Situ Cen was shocked: "Impossible!"

Jia Cong shrugged: "I knew you had this reaction. Anyway, I told you, you can check it yourself."

Situ Cen said: "My uncle is not short of money, and he doesn't love money that much. I know I'm his nephew."

Jia Cong said: "If I didn't know your brother, I would suspect that he used your name to collect money for the son. Now your brother and the son of Wu are clearly not the same way. And when you go to the teahouse and wine shop, the people in the market will mention your mother's house. It's not bad. Besides, I can see that you and your brother's usual aura don't seem to mean that you don't rely on your mother's family to hold you back. "Ah Cen," he said seriously, "you should check this matter carefully. Don't make a fuss."

Situ Cen narrowed his eyes: "Explain more clearly."

Jia Cong let out a breath, resting his cheeks and said, "Do you feel that you have never been so busy before?"

Situ Cen glared at him: "Nonsense. What did I just complain about?"

Jia Cong pursed his lips: "Neither have I. I have traveled around the world, no matter whether it is nosy or serious, I have never encountered one after another, each one is not simple, and each one cannot be let go. You see " He snapped his fingers, "I came to Shu to help you escape marriage. If you two get married, I will be fine. If you spend your honeymoon in Ansheng, I will also go to Chengdu with my daughter-in-law to steal a fortune The day is free. The prince and the sons are not seen, let alone hang around in front of old man Qiu Liang. Who would have thought that you would fall into the hands of bandits after only going out for a few days."

Situ Cen snorted: "If nothing happened, I wouldn't know that Fuping County has become a den of bandits."

"You came back soon, and the bandits also sent troops to encircle and suppress them. Everything should have been smooth. But the suppression of the bandits didn't go well, and the bandits were rescued by people from the Heavenly Master. Old man Qiu Liang dragged me to follow him Investigate and suppress the Tao of Heavenly Masters. I haven’t been doing serious errands for a few days. Something happened in your brother’s backyard and he stole the dragon and turned the phoenix. Before Fan Meiren’s mother-in-law had time to investigate, Mr. Mei coaxed me to go to Bi’an’s mansion and sang a little song at the door Shi Shi Xiao Qu'er didn't see the owner. That night, someone stuffed a secret letter into the back door of the Shizi's house. Before dawn, Qiu Liang led the army to attack the mansion, and dug out the more than 200 ashes urns underground. That matter has not yet been investigated. There is a shadow, and your uncle's usurpation of private property is happening again. Cen, I think, either there are people who sincerely don't let old man Qiu check the celestial master's way, or there are people who sincerely don't let you rectify the administration of officials." He stuttered. Clean the tea in the cup, "Because your uncle who has been holding back all this time suddenly came out to buy and sell by force, obviously to trip you up, the latter is more likely."

Situ Cen was stunned for a while: "You think too much... don't you?"

Jia Cong smiled wryly and said, "Wouldn't it be better if I thought too much? If I didn't think too much, the scariest thing among these things is that someone can control your mother's house and your son's backyard, and know the secrets that have been buried underground for many years. The late emperor's secret."

Situ Cen shivered in vain.After a while, he stood up: "Go, go and see that embroidery workshop."

Jia Cong glanced behind him: "Where's Zhou Hu?"

Situ Cen said angrily, "He'll follow anyway, you don't care. That's a good idea!"

Jia Cong shrugged: "Look for someone to find out, where is the auspicious embroidery workshop of the Guo family?" Without waiting for Situ Cen to ask, he rushed to say, "I only heard about this, so how do you know the address of his embroidery workshop? It's a local snake, thank you."

Situ Cen had no choice but to send a follower out to inquire.Fortunately, the embroidery shop has a good reputation, so I asked about it not long after.The two then went out and got on their horses to go to the auspicious embroidery workshop.

I was going to take a sneak peek and inquire about the general situation; when I got there, the gate of the embroidery workshop was full of people, men, women, old and young, at least hundreds of people gathered around.After breaking away from the crowd and squeezing in, he was stunned.I saw more than 30 big men standing in front of the embroidery workshop with long sticks in their hands.There were more than 20 people sitting on the ground at the gate of the embroidery workshop, most of them were women and some men, their faces were calm and their eyes were closed.Standing next to it is a group of people who are obviously not watching the excitement, and there are also men, women, old and young, who are either angry or frightened, or quietly wiping their tears or crying loudly.

Jia Cong casually pulled an idler with his neck stretched out and asked, "What happened?"

The man beamed with joy and said: "It's so lively~~ This embroidery workshop was bought by the Third Highness's family a few days ago, do you know that?" Situ Cen couldn't help but stumbled, his lips tightly closed.

Jia Cong's eyes radiated gossip: "I know! I heard it's quite cheap."

The idle man raised his hand and gestured: "These are all embroiderers in the embroidery workshop. They are unwilling to work for the Third Highness. The co-worker said that they would resign and go to Lingnan with their original employer! The Third Highness was annoyed and ordered these people They signed the deed of selling themselves. They didn’t want to, so they sat on the ground at the door, saying that they would rather freeze to death or starve to death than sell themselves. The third highness was furious, and sent people——” The idle man pointed at the big men with sticks, “Come over and watch, say If they have the ability, they just freeze to death and starve to death, anyway, he is not afraid that there will be no embroiderer and embroiderer!"

Jia Cong turned to look at Situ Cen; Situ Cen clenched his fists tightly.Jia Cong spread his hands: "It's none of my business! I really don't know how to calculate!" He patted him on the shoulder again, "You're so lucky, how could it be such a coincidence?" Nai Fuer said softly, "I'll shout out now "The Third Highness is here", do you think you will be beaten?"

Situ Cen glared at him, walked closer with his hands behind his back, and asked solemnly, "Who is in charge?"

I saw a man in charge came out with his sleeves covered, looked Situ Cen up and down a few times: "Are you here to meddle too?"

Jia Cong yelled from the back without thinking the matter was serious: "Hey~~ buddies~~ Did someone meddle in their own business before and let you beat me up?"

Situ Cen looked at the steward indifferently: "Whose servant are you?"

The steward snorted through his nostrils: "I am from the residence of the Third Highness."

Situ Cen raised his eyebrows: "Really? What do you do in that mansion?"

The steward said: "Can you control it? The young dog takes the mouse, and you who are sensible, get out!"

As soon as the words fell, Situ Cen's hand was like lightning, and he had already pinched the man's neck.The steward gasped and shouted, "It's reversed..." A big man with a stick near him swung his stick and hit Situ Cen on the head.The people watching the bustle all around screamed in surprise, but saw a figure flashing, Zhou Hu jumped out from the crowd, and kicked the man with the stick on the forehead.With a "plop", the stick-wielding man fell to the ground, and Zhou Hu stood behind Situ Cen.Jia Cong also walked forward with his arms behind his back, shaking his head and pretending to be coercive: "Those who rely on violence to dominate will one day meet players who are more violent than you."

Situ Cen was still pinching the steward's neck, Leng Sensen asked again: "Whose family do you belong to?"

The steward struggled and shouted: "Traitor! Our Third Highness will cut off your dog..." Before he could say the last word, Situ Cen exerted all his strength, but he couldn't make a sound.

Jia Cong walked up to the fallen man with a smile and asked, "Hey, big brother, who are your subordinates? Why are you pretending to be someone from the Third Highness?"

The man was kicked hard, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses, and he hasn't gotten up yet.Then he lay down on the ground and said: "We are the people of the Third Highness..."

Jia Cong waved his hand: "No. It's not like I've been to the residence of the Third Highness once or twice, and I don't wear clothes like yours."

The man said: "We are from Baitou Village in the eastern suburbs."

Jia Cong looked back at Situ Cen and then turned back: "Since you are from Zhuangzi, who called you to come to the city?"

The man sat up: "Boss Wang asked us to follow Guanshi Xu."

"What's Guanshi Wang's name? What's Guanshi Xu's name?"

"Guard Wang's name is Wang Deshun, this—" He pointed at the man who was strangled by Situ Cen, "It's Guanshi Xu, I don't know what his name is."

Situ Cen frowned: "Who is Wang Deshun?"

Zhou Hu whispered beside him: "Your Highness, Wang Deshun really belongs to our family, and he usually manages Zhuangzi's affairs. He has never spoken to His Highness, so His Highness doesn't recognize him."

Situ Cen let go of Guanshi Xu, and Guanshi Xu fell to the ground.Situ Cen looked down at him: "It's okay if you don't want to say who you belong to, and it's not like I haven't tried prisoners before."

Theoretically speaking, according to this posture, experienced judges should have guessed Situ Cen's identity long ago, but no one came out to smooth things over.Another guard stepped forward and twisted Guanshi Xu's arm, took out a rope from his arms, and tied it up.Is this okay?The group of big men with sticks rushed up roaring.Zhou Hu was still standing behind Situ Cen, and the rest of the guards faced them and beat them up, each of them fell down with one move, and fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.Jia Cong folded his arms and said lazily: "Tsk tsk, it's clear that the road is injustice and he draws his sword to help, but no one praises it. Hey~~ Everyone, watching the excitement, don't you think it's a good fight?"

Some people in the crowd applauded: "Good fight—" A few scattered people applauded.Looking at the onlookers, more than half of them have already run away.

Suddenly someone said loudly: "What's the matter? You take a selfie and leave. It's because these masters are unlucky to come back to the yamen."

Jia Cong said: "That's right! Hurry up and go to the Yamen to report the case, saying that someone pretended to be the steward of the Third Highness's house to bully the good people." He clapped his hands, looked at Situ Cen and said with a fake smile, "These masters are really lucky. It's their fault It's a fake. If it's really the steward of the Third Highness's house, the masters probably won't be able to live to see the sun tomorrow morning."

Situ Cen's face darkened: "What are you talking about?"

"It's nothing." Jia Cong shrugged and said loudly, "Guys, this manager Xu is a fake, don't worry, everyone. If you want to go to another country, don't go there for now, and you can wait until your third highness really robs the people's property. .”

Situ Cen said angrily, "How unreasonable!"

Jia Cong smiled and said, "What's wrong?" Situ Cen didn't bother to pay attention to him, and ordered the guards to take Guanshi Xu back to the mansion. He wanted to interrogate himself, so he flung his sleeves and left.Jia Cong turned around and said to the embroidery masters who were sitting quietly at the door, "It's okay, you should eat and sleep. No one forced you to sign the contract of sale. I will tell your boss that I earned a few money from selling the workshop for nothing. It's still his." He also brushed off his clothes and followed.

Several guards pushed aside the crowd, Situ Cen got on his horse and glanced around from the corner of his eyes.I saw a young man in Tsing Yi standing behind the crowd wearing a bamboo hat, the face under the hat seemed to be smiling.Although he covered his brows and eyes, the man obviously looked at him with a good look.Situ Cen Lema ordered a guard beside him: "Ask who is that man wearing the bamboo hat." The guard responded and left.

Situ Cen, Jia Cong and others took Guanshi Xu straight back to the mansion.He had just sat in the outer study for a while, when the guard who had just left behind also rushed over.Situ Cen asked him how he was doing.The guard said: "The man wearing the bamboo hat said that he is in other business, and his business is quite large and profitable. He said...he is hesitating whether to sell his property and move to Ping'an Prefecture." The guard said Slight hesitation.

Situ Cen glanced at him: "Finish."

The guard bowed his head and said: "The man said that in the past six months... more and more people have been robbed of their properties, all of which are well-made shops, workshops and factories. Since the Third Highness doesn't know, can they be robbed?" The property was returned to the people. He said that since there was a misunderstanding, he was going to wait until next year to look at it. In the first month of next year, if the property has not been returned, he will leave." The guard looked up at Situ Cen, "He said... go In Ping'an Prefecture, although it is not as cheap as in Shu, after all, the property is your own. Even if you are poorer, you don't have to worry about the good family property suddenly becoming someone else's."

Situ Cen stayed for a long time, looked at Jia Cong with a sneer and said, "Today we just said that the people in Chengdu are living comfortably." Jia Cong shrugged and said nothing.Seeing that the guard was still there, Situ Cen asked, "Is there any more?"

The guard took out a square-folded piece of paper from his sleeve and presented it to Situ Cen: "The man wearing the bamboo hat just borrowed the pen and ink from Jixiang Embroidery Workshop to write this."

Situ Cen opened it and saw that there was a neat list on it.The first item is that in April of this year, a certain antique shop was robbed by my family, and the name of the steward who came forward to snatch the shop was written on the back; The four items are in June, one farm and one restaurant... The last item is the Jixiang Embroidery Workshop. The steward's name is Xu Ershui, and he must be the newly arrested steward Xu.Each item is marked with a sequence in front of it, which is clear at a glance. Situ Cen has robbed nineteen properties of common people in more than half a year, all of which are extremely profitable.

Jia Cong stretched his head beside him, and laughed loudly: "It only cost you 20 taels of silver to buy Jixiang Embroidery Workshop! It's shameless! It's no wonder that the merchant doesn't run away."

Situ Cen said angrily, "I didn't buy it!"

"Yes, yes, you didn't buy it, you robbed it!" Jia Cong pointed out, "In May, you have to be a bit more shameless, and you can buy a silver building for 3000 taels. Oh, it's getting cheaper as it gets closer, and at first we only robbed one place a month , Gradually more and more frequently. This courage is so fast! Could it be that you might notice it at first? Then you found out that you didn't know anything, so you acted recklessly?"

Suddenly hearing a commotion outside, Situ Cen frowned and asked, "What's going on?"

A guard came back and said: "That officer Xu was stupid when he saw the gate of our mansion. He dragged him for a few steps, and he slammed into the stone lion. Fortunately, the brothers were quick and stopped. His Highness said that he will interrogate Him, the subordinates brought him here. But just now he struggled again and almost hit the wall."

Jia Cong was next to him, pretending to be a tiger, shaking his head and baring his teeth: "Want to die? It's not that easy!"