The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Second Sister You's former little maid suddenly sent her husband to Rongguo Mansion to ask Jia Cong to see him, Jia Cong was baffled.Fortunately, he thought that the little maid seemed to be clever and shouldn't harass the powerful for no reason, so he said to let him in.Not long after that Wang Dahammer came.Jia Cong saw that he was a real farmer, about 30 years old, with a dark face.The man came up and kowtowed three times first, Jia Cong ordered someone to move a block and told him to sit down.Seeing that the regent and his father were both kind, Wang Dachui saw that his father was still looking at him and smiling straight at him. In addition, he was already very courageous, so he gestured to explain his intentions.

It turned out that soon after his wife got married, she told her sister-in-law that she had met Jia Cong, the third master of Rongguo Mansion.Wang Dachui's sister has a long tongue. The news has spread throughout the village within a few days, and everyone in the village is quite envious.A few months ago, when Jia Cong became the regent, his daughter-in-law felt more and more honorable, so she showed off to his sister again, and the sister went out to show off again.Later, Lin Daiyu reduced the land tax, and the village was full of joy, praising Prime Minister Lin's great kindness in unison.Again, the girl talked a lot, blatantly saying outside that this lady was appointed by the Prince Regent, her sister-in-law had met the Prince Regent, and the Prince Regent was a very good man.

A daughter-in-law at the head of the village, with a tongue-in-cheek temper, scoffed, "Jia Cong is a traitor, what a good person!"

Sister Wang immediately said: "Jia Cong is the regent, who said he is a traitor? Are you yourself? Let's go to the official right now, and I will sue you for treason!" .

The daughter-in-law stuck her neck and said: "The people around Mr. Wen who came to collect the grain said it! Isn't Mr. Wen a good person?" Sister Wang became dumb.

Lin Xiangye is naturally a good person to reduce the land tax, but this year's land tax has already been paid, and the reduction for next year has not yet started.Wen Daguan is a real good person.In the past two months, Wen Daguan has collected grain in the suburbs of Beijing at a high price, and the price is more than twice the market price!He's not a good guy who is?Sister Wang lost the quarrel and ran home angrily to settle accounts with her sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law Wang listened for a long time before she understood, and coaxed her to leave with a few words; but at night she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.Ever since Wen Daguan came back for the first time, she felt weird.It's not that there is no fresh grain to sell in the capital, so why go to the village to collect grain at a high price?Moreover, he claimed to be a businessman—this sister-in-law Wang had seen many businessmen when she was a maid in Beijing.Could it be that this high-ranking official is going to do something that is not good for the regent?

I have met a nobleman, it is very face-saving; if something goes wrong with this nobleman, let alone my prestige in the village, can the female prime minister who reduced the tax still be the prime minister?How much less tax can be paid next year, how much less will be paid in the next year, and how much less tax will be paid in ten years. The couple still plan to use the money to buy a house in the capital and marry their son to a daughter-in-law in the city in the future.If the female prime minister loses her position, will the tax be reduced?Don't want to be happy for nothing.

After thinking about it, she was not at ease, so she ordered her husband to rush to the city and begged Jia Cong to remind him of the matter.Wang Dachui waited in the Zhengshitang for a day but found no one, and finally found out that the regent had returned to the mansion, so he chased him to the Rongguo mansion again.

After hearing this, Jia Cong took a deep breath, cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Wang, thank you very much, and also thank you for your wife. The incompleteness you mentioned is an important matter."

Wang Dachui immediately smiled and opened his eyebrows: "Really? I already knew that Mr. Wen was not a good person, and I might have hidden some evil intentions!"

Jia Cong asked, "How many times has he gone to your village to collect grain?"

"Three or four times." Wang Dachui said. "In the beginning, I just sold him the surplus grain at home. Many people went to relatives' houses to borrow grain, only to find that he had collected all the grain from the nearby villages. So they borrowed it from the mountains. The mountains are remote, and they didn't go there." .”

Jia Cong laughed and said, "Why don't you come to the city to buy grain and sell it to him?"

Wang Dachui said: "He only wants the fresh grain harvested in the village this year, and he says he can't trust the dishonest grain merchants in the city."

Jia Cong nodded: "This excuse is really good. Do you remember what the high officials look like?"

"Remember, remember!" Wang Dachui said, "Our family has the most fields and the most food. I have seen him several times."

"Wait a minute, I'll find someone to make a portrait of you." Jia Cong then invited him to rest in the next room, and asked the painter of the shadow figure to come.

Jia She suddenly asked: "Brother Wang, are you ready for dinner?"

Wang Dachui grinned: "I just bought two biscuits at the intersection."

Jia She said: "You are so big, how can you get enough for two biscuits?" Then someone sent a message to ask the kitchen to prepare wine and food.Wang Dachui cheerfully went to the next door.

Jia's father and father looked at each other, and Jia She coughed twice: "Before he came in, I'll listen to what you said before he came in."

"Oh." Jia Cong hurriedly talked about the former Yan Princess Lou.

After listening, Jia Amnesty thought for a while and said, "I'll think about this matter. You should first check this high-ranking official." Jia Cong agreed.

At that moment, the painter had arrived, and Wang Dachui next door had finished eating, so Jia Cong led the painter to Wang Dachui's place to paint shadows and graphics.

As soon as he left, Jia She immediately ordered a servant close to him: "Go to the Grand Master's Mansion and invite Mrs. Zhan Feng." The servant promised and left, but Jia She called again, "Come back!" Jia She thought for a moment and said, "Let Boss Zhan not disturb others, go straight to Huayuanzi Nuan Pavilion, I will wait for him there." The servant agreed to leave again.

Zhan Feng was sitting in his warm pavilion reading the booklets at this moment, but when he heard that Jia She let him meet secretly, he put down the booklets and called for someone to fetch the big clothes.Zhan Kun asked casually, "What's the matter with Duke Rong?"

Zhan Feng said: "Since he is carrying Jia Cong on his back, it is definitely not a small matter." Then he picked up his feet and walked away.

When Zhan Feng arrived at the Nuan Pavilion in Rongguo Mansion Garden, Jia Amnesty was already walking around in circles in a hurry.When the two old men saw each other, before they could say hello, Jia She said at the beginning: "Didn't you say that your people lost Situ Pan a while ago? He must have returned to Beijing!"

Zhan Feng was surprised: "Go back to Beijing?"

Jia She, the old bastard, was also shrewd, so he explained the purpose of Princess Lou's visit today, and finally said: "There is no reason to send the children of King Yan out of the city. Except for King Yan himself, who else has this ability?"

Zhan Feng thought about it: "Sending your children away from Beijing is a way to avoid disaster. Cong'er will obviously live to provide for Prince Yan's heir, what kind of disaster to avoid."

"Also. Someone in the outskirts of Beijing is buying grain at a high price, secretly." Jia Amnesty said what Wang Dachui said again, and hummed, "As long as the fresh rice in the village is fresh, there will be no disturbance in the capital."

Zhan Feng thought for a long time: "If Situ Pan got the soldiers and horses from somewhere, they would not be able to enter the city. There are artillery erected at the gate of the city."

Jia She gave him a blank look: "How did your artillery enter the city?"

"Send it in from the tunnel in the south of the city... oops!" Zhan Feng clapped the case.There is more than one tunnel from the capital to the outside of the city.Except for the one I helped Prince Xianyizhong build, and the one leading to a temple from the Forbidden City.Since there are two, there may be a third.King Yan has been in power in the capital for more than ten years. Hasn't any new tunnel been built?He immediately said, "Call Feng Ziying here."

Jia She said: "Feng Ziying probably doesn't know. If he knew, he would have said it."

"He knows the most." Zhan Feng said, "Even if you don't know the details, you may be able to guess who knows."

Jia Amnesty sounded reasonable, and sent people to Feng's mansion to quietly ask Feng Ziying to come over.Zhan Feng asked, "Why did you keep Cong'er from such an important matter?"

Jia She said with a snort, "I'm afraid he won't be willing to kill him."

Zhan Feng said with a smile: "Master Guo is too worried. Cong'er's idea is still important."

Jia She said with a sigh: "Old Zhan, you have known Cong'er since he was very young. I don't know how his master taught him that he is the least willing to kill people - except for foreigners. I haven't found a full-fledged one for my own people. For the first time, he refused to kill him, let alone Situ Pan helped him many times intentionally or unintentionally. I was puzzled, he is not compassionate."

Zhan Feng said helplessly: "Feng Ziying may not be willing either, he has been with Situ Pan for many years."

"Much more sensible than Cong'er." Jia She complained, "Other people's children are indeed sensible." Zhan Feng laughed.

The two old men were sitting in the warm pavilion discussing, and Feng Ziying also rushed over.Zhan Feng told him both things first.Feng Ziying, who was born in the general family, wondered: "To collect grain? If it is to raise grain and grass, it doesn't matter if you pretend to be a grain merchant from other places and buy it openly. The capital is so big and there are so many granaries. It is also easy to go to neighboring countries to buy. In recent years Countries are building roads."

Zhan Feng said: "We two old fellows can't figure it out either." Nai raised his chin at Jia She, "Duke Rong means that if Situ Pan comes out to make trouble, just kill him. What do you think?" Feng Ziying looked hesitant.Zhan Feng said immediately, "What did I say? He can't bear to do it?"

Jia She said with a sigh: "I don't have to kill King Yan. You all said that he has lost power and is fine. Now we have just returned to Beijing, and everything is unstable. This is not the government of Taiwan." He asked Feng Ziying if he knew King Yan never built a tunnel.

Feng Ziying naturally didn't know, but he really couldn't guess who would know.Counting the number of Yan Wang's confidantes, they all felt that it was unlikely.Zhan Feng stood up and said: "Ziying, let's go to the Lin Mansion right now. You and I haven't fought for many years, and Prime Minister Lin has fought the most recently, ask her."

Jia Amnesty said, "Let's take a look at the portrait of Mr. Wen first."

"It's not urgent." Zhan Feng said, "It's good for the father-in-law to send someone to the Lin residence." In the early years, in order to get angry with Jia's mother, Jia She opened a black oil door outside the inner door of the outer study.Zhan Feng and Feng Ziying left like thieves through the door.

When Jia Amnesty returned to Rongxi Hall, he heard that the portraits of the senior officials and several accompanying servants had been painted.Jia Cong sent someone to put Wang Dachui down to rest, and he sat and watched the painter paint gourds in the same way, while he waited for his father to come back from a walk in the garden.Seeing Jia Amnesty, he said, "This high-ranking official may be a military commander. Not only is he a strong man, but even the servants who follow him are tall and powerful."

Jia Amnesty let out an "oh" and asked, "Is there any general surname heard?"

"I don't know—" Jia Cong rested his cheeks, "I'm hesitating whether to win someone over."

"Who?"

"Sun Shaozu——" Jia Cong swung his head between two slaps, "I really don't like this person, and I thought that I would fix him if I got the power in the future." In the original book, my sister let him kill him! "But Zhan Yizhi said that we need to appease Mrs. Yan for a while, and I am not allowed to do anything."

Jia Amnesty took the portrait and looked at it for a long time, and said: "It's true that he has the style of a general. Sun Shaozu is useful, so why not win over one or two. This man is greedy for money and lust, and sooner or later he will show his braids." Jia Cong sighed, his face full of helplessness. I took a portrait and left.Jia Amnesty hastily sent someone to deliver a portrait to the Lin family.

Jia Cong returned to Lixiangyuan with a headache.He hadn't thought about things by himself for a few days, it was all done for him by others.Now this matter is another mystery, clues are leaked here and there, which may or may not be related.It's not that he didn't suspect that King Yan had obtained soldiers and horses and wanted to return to Beijing to stir up trouble.But King Yan is a very tolerant character.He was bullied by Liu Dengxi since he was a child, and he was still able to deal with him by pretending to be concerned about the overall situation.And he is not a person who cares about his children's personal feelings.If she really wanted to break into the capital, Princess Xu Yan would never show such a big opening to herself.

Just as I was worrying, a young servant came in to report that there was a visitor at the door of Lixiangyuan facing Ningrong Street.This door is usually closed to visitors.Now that Jia Cong has become the regent, there will be no one to hang out with nothing to do.Jia Cong frowned and asked, "Who is it?"

The boy said: "It's a girl named Liu Mingyue."

"Huh?!" Jia Cong met this girl when he went to S.H.I.E.L.D.She was studying at the Tsinghua Charity Women's School, and she only said hello and said a few words of nonsense to her elders. "Why are all the people here tonight unable to beat the guests with a few sticks?" He couldn't help shaking: the more strange the clues, the more hidden things are behind them, so please come in quickly.

It was the end of the month at this moment, and a sliver of the crescent moon was above Dongshan, hovering between the bullfights.Liu Mingyue came in wearing her school uniform, she didn't put on any makeup, she really looked like a bright moon, lighting up the whole room.Jia Cong just had a daughter last year, and now seeing that the little girl has a heart for her father, she smiled and waved her to sit down, and called for tea and snacks.After shouting, Fang remembered to ask people what they like to eat.

Liu Mingyue smiled and shook her head: "Uncle Jia doesn't have to be busy, my niece will leave as soon as she says a few words."

Jia Cong said: "In the evening, you, a little girl, came to Lixiangyuan quietly to find me. The matter must not be finished in a few words." He also ordered her to boil milk.

Liu Mingyue smiled.So I really ordered some snacks, and said I want to drink cocoa tea.Jia Cong ordered to go down, and Fang asked her why she came here.Liu Mingyue frowned and said: "If you want to say something is wrong, it's really nothing. I'm just a little surprised."

"Big things start with strange little things. Take your time."

"Ah."

Liu Mingyue is pretty, and has been courted by boys since she was thirteen or fourteen years old.The month before last, their school organized a visit to a temple and met a young man by chance.The man found her way to the school somehow, and gave her some poems after chasing her.The poem is really well written, although Liu Mingyue is not yet tempted, she already has a good impression of him.For some reason, Liu Zhuang knew about it.Can the elder brother ignore it?But I went to check it myself.It was soon found out that the man was the fourth son of King Yan, and there were already four or five concubines and concubines in the mansion.Liu Mingyue was unhappy in her heart, so she didn't talk to him anymore; he also retreated in spite of the difficulties.Unexpectedly, today, this person came again.