The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Liu Qian found out that the person who led the merchants in the city to stop the market was Liu Feng, the prime minister of Qin State, and Liu Shu was shocked.However, this person was also involved with Liu Tong's fourth son, Liu Ge.Liu Ge is the most incompetent of Liu Tong's sons.Little talent and learning, stupid and confused, and powerless.Theoretically speaking, Liu Feng was the prime minister of a country, so he should not have been chosen in the Lu country.

Liu Shu was stunned for a long time: "It's a mistake, how could it be him?"

"It's really him." Liu Qian said, "General, the real person doesn't show his face, I'm afraid the generals were coaxed by Fourth Master in the past."

Liu Shu said firmly: "The fourth child is not pretending, he is really incompetent and stupid."

Liu Qian pondered: "Then...would it be possible that Liu Feng just fell in love with him so he can be tricked?"

Liu Shu said: "A person who has been a minister of Qin, there is no need to pick a fool to assist him."

Liu Qian nodded, and thought for a while again: "Could it be that this Liu Feng has a way to restore the Yan Kingdom to benefit us?"

"Huh?" Liu Shu narrowed his eyes, "How can you see that?"

Liu Qian said: "Otherwise, what are they making troubles for? They have been making trouble for half a day without being able to solve the problem. They even sent so many rich men to jail, they don't do business, and they never end with the government."

"That's right!" an official clapped his hands, "Why did they go on strike? They didn't ask the general for any conditions, and the general didn't mess with them. It's not like the general did what happened to Yan."

Liu Shu snorted coldly: "They want me to give up the power to the fourth brother. I don't want to see if the fourth child has the ability."

Another official said: "General Zong gave him the power, will he be able to persuade the country of Yan? I don't believe Liu Feng's words are so sharp."

Everyone was discussing, Liu Shu suddenly stood up.The room was instantly quiet.Then I heard him say: "Prepare the horse. I'll go to the old four's house."

Liu Shu was too lazy to change his clothes, so he just ordered someone to take a cloak and put it on, then walked away.Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.Liu Qian frowned, got up and went for a walk outside the door.Others also scattered in the courtyard one after another, but they didn't dare to leave Liu's residence.Liu Qian ordered a few words to the clerk who accompanied him, and the clerk agreed to leave.

Liu Shu went straight to the door of Liu Ge's house, jumped off his horse and walked straight in.The door didn't recognize him, so he stepped forward to stop him.The soldiers shouted: "This is General Liu!" The door trembled and dared not stop.Liu Shu entered without blinking his eyelids.

He has no brotherly relationship with Liu Ge, so he is not familiar with this house.Standing in the front yard in a daze, he called a passing servant to approach him and asked, "Where's your master?"

The slave said in a daze, "I don't know."

Liu Shu frowned: "Where is his study?"

The servant pointed out: "Turn around this corridor, and behind it is a door with hanging flowers. Inside the door is the yard of our grandfather's study." Liu Shu nodded and walked away.

According to the words, through the vertical flower gate, one enters a quiet courtyard with four or five rooms.After entering the main room, I looked around, and at a glance, I saw someone in the east side room.Liu Shu went in and took a look, and sure enough, he saw his fourth brother sitting alone by the window reading a book.

Liu Ge heard the noise and put down his book, instead of standing up, he just looked at Liu Shu and said, "Brother is here." He said casually, just like a usual greeting. "Please sit down."

Liu Shuli looked up at him. "All these years, I have actually underestimated you."

Liu Ge said: "No. My little brother is still worthless."

Liu Shu sneered and said, "You are very promising. Prime Minister Qin doesn't even want a chancellor. He would rather go on strike with you. The whole Jinan is in a state of chaos, and the people can't buy rice or firewood."

Liu Ge said: "They were also forced. The elder brother offended Yan Guo, so he didn't try to contact and negotiate, just spent time in the mansion. The merchants were seriously damaged, some were in high debts, and some were on the verge of bankruptcy. How could the merchants dare to cooperate if they were not at a dead end? Is the government right?"

Liu Shu glanced at him and said, "Do you have a solution? Do you know what Yan Guo wants?"

"There is no way, and I don't want to know what Yan Guo wants." Liu Ge greeted Liu Shu with a grinning smile, "I just know that brother has no way."

Liu Shu frowned: "Have I offended you?"

"No." Liu Ge said softly, "However, my mother died at the hands of my wife. My wife's wish for the rest of my life is that my eldest brother Ping Pingshun will take over the country of Lu after my father dies. But if she doesn't do what she wants, I will take half of my revenge."

Liu Shu was shocked: "Your mother..." He thought for a long time, but couldn't remember who Liu Ge's mother was, let alone how she died. "Your mother is Aunt Xu, isn't she? Didn't she die of illness?"

Liu Ge said coldly: "My mother's surname is He. She really died of illness. Because she offended his wife, who accompanied Han Deng's family, and made his wife kneel in the courtyard all night for no reason, she fell ill. I was happy, and refused to ask a doctor for her, and it dragged on for three days. There was only a little girl by her side, and she had the courage to invite a doctor to come back and prescribe the medicine. The stove in Mr.’s home was boiling medicine for her and hurriedly carried it back, but a daughter-in-law who pretended to be inadvertent bumped into it and kicked it over. When I boiled the medicine and took it back, my mother couldn’t take it anymore.”

Liu Shu was dumbfounded.After a while, he said, "Impossible! There must be a misunderstanding here. Among the many women in my father's backyard, my wife has never treated any of them harshly."

Liu Ge sneered: "Which one has never been treated harshly? Which one has your mother let go of the favored one? Naturally, she will not take action against the unfavored one. It's just that living in the mansion is worse than a dog."

Liu Shu stayed for another half day: "Mrs. Han Deng's family must have misunderstood Aunt He."

"It's not a misunderstanding." Liu Ge said, "It's a framing. The method of framing is not clever, and the wife can detect something wrong after thinking about it for a while." His expression was blank, "but the wife didn't think about it. Well, my mother is not worth her trouble to think about it, but there is a grievance. Anyway, since someone said that one of the master's concubines was not good, and the one who spoke was his companion, just punish him casually. After punishing the wife, he forgot about it. "

Liu Shu immediately said: "I will kill Han Deng's family to vent your anger for you!"

Liu Ge raised his eyes and looked at him for a long time, then shook his head and said, "No need. My mother still won't come back alive even if my elder brother chops up their whole family. Anyway, as long as my wife can't achieve what I want, everything else doesn't matter."

Liu Shu opened his mouth and closed it again. After a while, he said earnestly, "Even if my wife has been careless, what does she have to do with ordinary people? You made such a fuss..."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Ge raised his hand and waved: "Brother, you don't need to talk about the truth. Ordinary people have nothing to do with me, and I don't care."

Liu Shu said, "Don't you want to be the Lord of Lu?"

Liu Ge smiled lightly and said, "Don't you know what kind of person I am? I don't have the ability to be the lord of Lu. I just want to prevent you from being the eldest brother and suffocating my wife. As for the Liu family, the people, and the Lu country , what does it have to do with me."

Liu Shu stared at him for a long time, sighed heavily, turned around and went out.Just as he led the people out of the hanging flower gate, he heard two "squeaks~~clicks" behind him, and the courtyard door closed.Liu Shu shook his head, stood in a daze for a moment, then walked forward along the corridor.

Liu Shu left two guards at the door.The two of them were chatting, when they suddenly heard a shout of "dodge, dodge" from inside, and the sound of horse's hooves.I saw a dozen horses rushing out of the front yard like lightning, crossing the threshold and rushing straight to the road at the door, and ran away without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The guards looked at each other.One said: "I look at the clothes, as if they are our generals and brothers?"

Another said: "I see it too. Where did they go? Why didn't they call us?"

The two hurried in to inquire.However, Liu Ge's family has very few servants, and no one is watching in the front yard!The two gatekeepers were just playing dice in the porter's room, so they didn't notice.Anyway, Liu Shu is not at Liu Ge's house now.The two had no choice but to return to the Liu family mansion.

All the Luchens were still waiting in the courtyard of Liu's study.After seeing two guards back, Liu Shu and the guards beside him didn't know where they went, so they had to leave for the time being.

The next day, the strike remained, and the whole city was restless.The officials gathered at Liu's house again, only to find out that Liu Shu hadn't returned home last night!Everyone was shocked and hurriedly sent people to look around.It turned out that Liu Shu led the guards away from Liu Ge's house yesterday and went straight out of the North City Gate, and never came back.No one knows where they went or what they did.Liu Qian pondered: "Out of the north gate... could it be that he has entered Beijing?" Everyone discussed for a while.

Mrs. Liu sent someone to Liu Ge's house to ask what the two brothers had said. Liu Ge did not hide anything, and told the truth.The old lady Liu was shocked, and immediately asked about Aunt He's death, and sent six or seven slaves that day.But according to these words, there is no way to guess why Liu Shu ran out of the north gate.Mrs. Liu asked someone to ask Liu Ge again.Liu Ge indifferently recounted the meeting of the brothers yesterday in detail, and finally made an oath in the name of his deceased mother. "Brother just left the yard, I went to close the door myself, and vaguely heard him sigh outside. But there is a half of the truth, my mother will never be reincarnated." After this poisonous oath, Mrs. Liu did not I don't believe it.I just don't know what happened on the road from the hanging flower gate on Liu Ge's mansion to the front yard, which caused Liu Shu to leave the city suddenly and never return home at night.

The news of Liu Shu's disappearance spread like wildfire, and by nightfall the whole city knew about it.The rest of Liu Tong's sons couldn't sit still any longer, and all of them held lanterns and torches and gathered in Liu's residence, clamoring for Liu Shu to immediately deal with the businessman's strike.After arguing for half an hour, someone shouted from behind: "The old lady is here."

I saw Mrs. Liu leading more than a dozen maidservants out of the back hall with her arms folded, and glanced coldly: "It's so late, what are you doing here?"

The second child said: "Madam, the businessman has been on strike for three days, and will continue to do so tomorrow. Let's find out how he is going to deal with it."

Mrs. Liu snorted twice: "Don't you know that your eldest brother left the city after leaving the fourth family's house yesterday morning?"

The second child said: "Yesterday was yesterday, and it's already evening today. The eldest brother must have come back. Ma'am, we can't even buy rice. The eldest brother must find a way to deal with it, right? It's not a problem to hide like this."

Mrs. Liu said: "Your elder brother has not come back yet, you all go back. There will be a solution when he comes back."

The second child said leisurely: "What if he can't come back?"

Mrs. Liu stopped drinking: "Bold!"

The old five said: "It's more than a whole day. If you want to come back, come back early."

Although Lao Qi was young, he also said loudly: "I'm afraid there is no way to deal with this mess, so I just avoid it. If he is gone, what will Lu do?"

Mrs. Liu smiled and looked at them coldly for a long time: "What do you think?"

The second child coughed twice and said, "Since the eldest brother is not here, Lu Guozi should be taken care of by our brothers. It can't just be so deserted, can it?"

"Oh, who will cook?"

The third child said: "Let's cook together."

Mrs. Liu smiled, looked at them and said, "Your father gave birth to seven sons. Excluding the sixth son who died young and Shu'er is not here, there are five more. Can the five of you take care of the country of Lu together? Won't you fight?"

It wasn't until this time that the fourth brother, Liu Ge, said, "Five happens to be an odd number. If there is a dispute, it's good for the brothers to vote. There is always one side with more votes to thank."

The other four nodded in unison: "Exactly!" "The fourth brother is right." "Let's do it this way."

Old Madam Liu said calmly: "Go back and rest. Even if my son is not in the mansion, it is not up to Lu Guo to make decisions for you." She turned around and wanted to leave.

The second child chuckled twice: "Ma'am, as the saying goes, the harem is not allowed to engage in politics. This is a man's job, so you can always say it."

Old Mrs. Liu turned around abruptly: "Even though I am a girl, I can hold you down!"

Liu Ge laughed and said: "That's good. Since the wife is capable, the merchants must have resumed the market in the morning. If not, please ask the wife to go back and wipe the dominoes honestly. It's not your turn to be in the morning. "Old lady Liu was stunned—how could she have the ability to restore businessmen to the market?

The second child stood up and said, "That's it. If there is no resumption of the market tomorrow morning, the five of us will jointly manage the Lu Kingdom temporarily."

The other four also stood up: "Listen to the second brother!"

Mrs. Liu squinted at them for a moment, then sneered, "But with my old bones here, don't even think about it."

The second child smirked, cupped his hands and said, "The sons are waiting for the resumption of the market!" After saying this, he left his seat first.The other four followed suit.Mrs. Liu watched them go out, biting her teeth so badly.

Naturally, the market did not resume after dawn, and the shops all over the street were still closed.Officials from the State of Lu gathered at Liu's house to wait for news.At si o'clock three o'clock, the five gentlemen arrived together to take over the government of the state of Lu.The officials naturally refused.The second child pointed to the outside and asked, "It's the fourth day of the market strike. How do you deal with it?" Everyone was dumbfounded.

Because Liu Qian was the head of the group of officials, others couldn't help but look at him.Liu Qian thought for a moment, then cupped his hands and said, "Generals, can you find a way to restore the merchants to the market?"

The second child raised his head and said, "Yes!"

"Okay." Liu Qian said, "If the generals really have the ability, I will leave this matter to you!" Saying this, she bowed deeply to the second child.The ministers were astonished.

The second child was overjoyed, and cupped his hands and said, "It's easy to say, easy to say. All you adults, just rest assured and take care of us!"

Liu Qian said with a smile: "To be honest, I really don't have a good way to deal with this matter. If the generals can deal with it, I will be very grateful." The second child laughed.

The fourth child asked, "Where is the elder brother's seal?"

A long attendant serving in the study said: "The general's seal is always with him."

The youngest, Lao Qi, pointed to a red lacquer box on the desk: "Isn't this printed?"

The third child was the first to step forward, picked up the box and opened it - inside was the general's seal.The third child carefully took out the seal, and exclaimed: It turned out that besides the gold seal in the box, there was also a tiger talisman from the state of Lu.