The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that in the early spring of this year, the joy of the New Year's Eve has not yet passed, and suddenly there is a decree from the palace.Today, I am concerned that all the concubines and concubines in the palace have been in the palace for many years. I think that my parents and family members miss me and cannot see each other. I would like to play a special tribute to the Empress Dowager. Public opinion into its private.There was an uproar in the capital, and everyone praised this as a miracle of the past and the present.All of a sudden, the families whose daughters had won the favor in the palace were all in a hurry, looking at the land, buying wood, stone and antiques, and buying wood, stone and antiques. It was extremely lively.

Gong Kun was not in a hurry to collect debts from various families, but waited leisurely for the debtors to bring money to their door.No one asked him where the news came from, they just pleaded repeatedly, if there is news from the side palace, no matter what it is, just sell it.In this way, he got as much as 50 taels of white wolf with empty gloves.

Jia Cong has never earned so much money in two lifetimes.At first when I knew the number, I was amused for a long time, but now I actually saw the bank note, and my eyes brightened even more.After thinking about it for a while, he looked at Gong Kun and sighed: "I just realized today that people really change."

Gong Kun asked, "How do you see it?"

Jia Cong said: "My original plan was to secretly hide some strength to protect myself and spend my life as a fool. Later, I got a few trustworthy people, and with your help, I still have so much money. I I feel that ambition is starting to grow from the bottom of Xianxin."

Gong Kun smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's because ambition has awakened."

Jia Cong glanced at him.

Gong Kun said: "The third master was so clever back then that he was willing to teach Liu Feng and the others how to read, why didn't he think of teaching Lan Xiang Ziguang how to read?"

Jia Cong was startled, and said with a wry smile: "At that time... I had a hard time, and I wanted to please my father. My father valued those uncles who were soldiers, and uncles who were soldiers valued their children, and their children wanted to study. .”

Gong Kun said: "If it's just for this, it's enough for the third master to treat Weiss kindly. How troublesome it is to teach so many people to read, the third master is a person who is afraid of trouble."

Jia Cong thought for a while: "That's right. Bao Buqi had other thoughts at that time, but he didn't notice it." Yin said, "Yizhi, if I ask my father for more people, will he agree?"

Gong Kun asked, "What are you going to do here?"

Jia Cong said: "It can be regarded as a guard."

Gong Kun said: "The third master's house is too small to fit in. Unless there is a yard."

"Yard..." Jia Cong turned around the map of Rongguo Mansion in his mind, and said, "Then we can only expel Xue's family and seek Lixiangyuan."

Gong Kun smiled and said: "This is not easy, does the third master have any ideas?"

Jia Cong curled his lips and said, "Hey, you are the counselor. Why are you thinking about why they have to stay at our house? It's not that they don't have money. I heard that there are houses in Beijing."

Gong Kun said: "So what if their family is rich? This is the capital city, and the streets are full of dignitaries, and the Xue family is incompetent. If you don't rely on your family and your name, how much money does he have?" For the money, the dignitaries, father-in-law, and slaves all come together, and it will take less than two years to gnaw it out."

Jia Cong said: "There is still Wang Ziteng, isn't there?"

Gong Kun said with a smile, "I'm afraid that Uncle Xue doesn't want to be restrained by his uncle."

Jia Cong sneered: "Wang Ziteng's own son is just like that. Will he still care about him? I heard that the second wife has been trying to borrow money from Aunt Xue. If they don't leave, I'm afraid they will be hollowed out."

Gong Kun said: "With Xue Pan here, if you don't get emptied by this end, you will have to be emptied by others. It's the same for everyone. The second wife can come up with ideas if she can't guarantee it."

Jia Cong was speechless for a long time, and said: "We are really on the same road... I thought about it a long time ago, and as expected, without their second wife, I still wouldn't be able to get the money."

Gong Kun said with a smile: "Didn't the third master turn his face when he got an advantage?"

Jia Cong snorted, "My lord has never met them before, so where do we start?"

That night, he went to look for Jia She, pulled him into a coquettish manner, and said in a low voice, "Father, I want to live in Lixiangyuan."

Jia She frowned first, then pretended to be indifferent and glanced at him: "Where's the Xue family?"

Jia Cong said: "Try to let them move out. Now that the sage has decreed that all the empresses are preparing to visit their relatives, the eldest sister in the palace is still silent, and they are probably released next to each other when they are old. I heard that the second wife finally understood recently. It’s useless to deal with this matter, and she’s crying day after day; Aunt Xue probably knows that it’s time to wake up from the Xue family’s sister’s dream of becoming a concubine in the palace. Take advantage of this moment to drive the Xue family to the Wang family and forget it.”

Jia She said: "I'm too lazy to deal with these troublesome things. If you can drive them out, I'll let you live there."

Jia Cong was overjoyed: "Really? Why doesn't the ancestor agree?"

Jia She said with a snort, "You can just move in, but if you can't come out anyway, what can she do to you? In the future, I will prepare some men who can fight with you to guard the yard. The women under her hands can carry it. Halfway through, they are talented."

Jia Cong jumped up happily: "Father, you are so kind! I was thinking of asking you for some thugs in a few days."

Jia Amnesty glanced at him: "What are you doing?"

Jia Cong smirked twice, and said: "Prepare first, what will you do if you don't keep everything in place?"

Jia She stared at him and asked, "How many?"

Jia Cong said: "There must be more than a dozen."

Jia She nodded: "This is easy to handle. I'm just afraid that the old lady will speak ill of you with some distant relatives in the future."

Jia Cong said with a smile: "She speaks ill of my father every day, but I can't help him. What's more, how smart am I? When I grow up, I will remember these gossips. Besides, I will go to high school in the future. My reputation and character are determined by the sage, Uncle Lin, Mr. Su, and her?"

Jia Amnesty couldn't help laughing and said, "You're the worst kid. That's all, you just go."

Jia Cong happily waved his arms and said, "It's a deal!" He hurriedly ran out, and came back after a while, "Father! Pull the hook!"

Jia She was amused for a moment, and yelled at him: "Go! Children's deeds."

Jia Cong clings to him and acts coquettishly: "Are you a child, daddy pulls the hook~~"

Seeing his cute appearance, Jia She really stretched out his fingers to hook him up.Jia Cong shouted "Thank you dad" and ran away.

A few days later, Xue Pan was drinking in the Hualou, because he drank two glasses too much, he stumbled to urinate, and was ready to go back to the banquet in a daze.Suddenly someone kicked him from behind, and Xue Pan immediately fell into the mud.Just about to open his mouth to curse, someone stuffed his mouth with a veil, another bag covered his head from behind, he twisted his arms and stuffed him into a nearby room.

Xue Pan was anxious and frightened, and struggled for a long time, the hands that twisted around him were as hard as iron, and he struggled at all, and he couldn't make a sound, his eyes dimmed in panic.

Just entered the room, only to hear someone ask: "Is it him? Can you spot it?"

The one holding him said: "That's the kid, I decided not to miss him!" Then he kicked Xue Pan on the back and kicked him to the ground, and stepped on his back again.

Someone sneered and said, "It's easy to rob someone from our young master without inquiring about our young master!"

Another asked: "Who is this kid who is not afraid of death?"

The one in the front said: "Whoever he is, beat him up first and vent your anger on the young master! Go back and check, leave him here if you are easy to provoke, and kill him if you are not easy to provoke."

Xue Pan immediately struggled desperately, the foot on the back was so strong that he couldn't move, and he could only make a "woo hoo" sound.The foot was raised suddenly, before Xue Pan could get up, a burst of punches and kicks rained down, mixed with a lot of abuse, and Xue Pan was beaten like mud and couldn't move.At first he wanted to make a sound, but then he couldn't even get out of breath, so he hugged his head and pressed against it.

I don't know how long it took, until the group of people finished beating up, and then I heard them say a few quiet words, someone came in from outside, and obviously said with a smile: "I asked, it's all right. This kid is not someone .”

Xue Pan wanted to tell them that he was Uncle Xue, but he was afraid that he would really be silenced. Besides, he couldn't speak at this moment, so he had to fall to the ground and pretend to be dead.

Someone kicked him again: "I haven't moved for half a day, don't beat him to death."

The scout smiled and said: "It's okay if you kill someone. If you paid it back a few years ago, it doesn't matter now. This kid is surnamed Xue. He is a merchant from Nanjing. He came to the capital after beating someone to death in Jinling in his early years." The one who avoided disaster was related to the second wife of Rongguo Mansion, and the whole family lived in that mansion. It's a pity that the two houses in Rongguo Mansion did not get along. In the past, the second house was the head of the house. He used to use the films in the mansion to send out at will. The Xue family is doing well. .Now the second room has already collapsed, so I can only get Jia Zheng's film. Jia Zhengcai started as a fifth-rank official, who cares about him."

The other laughed and said: "So it's him, isn't it the big fool Xue that people often say? The one who is the best coaxer of money, no matter if you are a fan in the brothel, as long as you don't look too shameful, shake it in front of him for a few minutes." You can get a lot of money by shaking and flattering. I heard that the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion was greedy for Mo's public account. The big house found out and forced her to pay back the money. How many 10 taels of silver, I don’t know but it’s true.”

Another one said: "Why do I hear that the second wife is proclaiming that her daughter is going to be a concubine every day, and Xue's family believes it, and she also wants to send her daughter to the palace to seek some wealth and bribe her?"

Another said: "Where did you hear the gossip? It doesn't make sense. What I heard is true. The daughter of the Xue family is going to marry the son of the second room of the Jia family who holds a stone in his mouth. Ten thousand talents are dowry money advanced."

The one in front smiled and said, "I've never heard of advance payment of dowry since ancient times, so where did you hear the gossip?"

The person said: "A few months ago, I heard Yulan talk about it in Cuixiang Building, and she also heard it from a guest. At first, the guest was the chief steward under the second room of Rongguo Mansion. Unfortunately, he asked the big house to sell it directly. Fortunately, his son-in-law was originally from outside, and bought the old man's family with money. Now he has no money and no skills, and he spends his days in the brothel. He The son-in-law is also considered conscientious, because at first he relied on his father-in-law's power to start his business, so he treated him well. Later, he met some girl in the second wife's house, and after listening to some Gossip, if you have nothing to say, tell Yao sister for fun."

He paused, and then said: "The son of the Xue family—that's it, he has no skills, and he only makes money troubles all day long. The wife of the Xue family is afraid that he will cause trouble again, and seeing that the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion will lose power, he fears that he will be in trouble in the future." The Rongguo Mansion paid more and more attention to the big troubles, and only spent 50 million silver to give the daughter to the man with the stone. After all, they are relatives of the officials, and they will be able to rely on their waists in the future."

Another one laughed and said, "What a humble woman! What about officials and relatives? The capital is no better than the Jinling mansion. The next one is the gate of the yamen. Don't come in if you have a reason but no money; Come in. If their family goes to a lawsuit, no one will take care of him if they can't produce the seal of the Rongguo Mansion. I heard that someone has already started to try their hand at their family. When the two-way lawsuit is settled, they have nothing to do, and everyone can understand that this is a good fat sheep. The meat is in the pot, and everyone has soup to drink. It just depends on who strikes quickly. Go with a knife."

The one in front said again: "The dowry advance is the second wife's own plan. Jia Zheng and his old lady don't know. It's up to us to say whether this relationship will be successful in the future."

Someone else laughed and said, "If you can't get married, you won't have to pay back the money."

"Also? Forget it, the second wife of Rongguo Mansion is so greedy that she is about to smoke. She took out all the money in the oil pan and hid it. Half of the capital knows that it is better to expect Rongguo Mansion to raid the house than to expect her to pay back the money!"

The people who said it burst into laughter.

After laughing, someone asked: "Then how to deal with this person?"

The other said: "What else is there to do? Life and death have nothing to do with us, go back and receive the reward!"

A group of people laughed loudly, came back and kicked Xue Pan a few times before leaving.

Xue Pan was shocked and dumbfounded at this moment, his whole body was frozen into his heart like drinking cold water in the twelfth lunar month, he didn't even remember the pain, and lay on the ground motionless.

On the other side, because he disappeared, the youngest who was with him couldn't wait for their uncle for half a day, so the one who ate wine with him smiled and said: "Don't fall into the latrine."

The boys were afraid that they would not be able to explain it when they went back, so they searched everywhere, and asked the people from Hualou to help them find it.After searching for a long time, I finally saw a person lying on the ground in an empty room, wearing the clothes of their uncle, and came to have a look, with a cloth bag on his head.The boys hurriedly took off the cloth bags to take a closer look at the face - although it was bruised, purple and swollen, at least they could tell that it was indeed their uncle, but they couldn't help crying.

After a while, someone from Hualou came over and probed Xue Pan's breath with his fingers, saying, "Don't cry, you are still alive." Then he was helped up, followed by a group of spectators, who made a noise and helped him to eat wine in that house.Someone brought him some incense and smelled it for a while, and it took him half a day to wake up.

Xue Pan squinted his eyes and looked at these people in the room, then closed his eyes and groaned a few words, now that he can't drink anymore, he just said to go home.

Xiaoyaoer quickly agreed, and carried him downstairs, and several people wanted to help him get on the horse.A friend who was drinking in the back scolded: "Stupid! How can you ride a horse like this? You don't have to hire a car." Then Xiao Yaoer hurriedly called a carriage on the street, stuffed Xue Pan in, and pulled him Back to Rikain.