The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

When the second grandmother of Ding's family went to visit the wife of the third room, in a shop selling calligraphy and painting on the streets of Chang'an, a young man was hanging a painting of the Diamond Sutra.A spectator asked: "This word is incomplete."

The clerk said: "I heard that there are five pieces in total, but our master only got this one, which is the second one. This one was originally written by a lady from a wealthy family in Beijing earlier. Prince Yizhong broke something and implicated this one." The young lady's father and brother went to prison, and the whole family ransacked the house. This young lady was also arrested and locked up. Later, the imperial court decreed to sell their female family members. The young lady was afraid that she would be sold to some unclean place, so she swallowed the gold ring and killed herself. clean."

The spectator nodded and said: "So that's the case, it's embarrassing." Nai looked up for a long time.

After a while, another guest came in, and the guy still introduced it like this.

At dusk, an old man led a kid in with his hands behind his back.The clerk came forward to greet him: "Grandpa Hua, why are you so busy today?"

Hua Gong said: "The miscellaneous family is also getting old, not as smart as a child. If you have time, you can go out of the house and walk around, slack your arms and legs, so that you can serve the Queen Mother in peace."

"You are always a good person, and you can live as long as the queen mother." The man spat out a long series of compliments.

Eunuch Hua listened to it, and raised his eyes to look at the calligraphy and paintings in the shop, and suddenly saw the Diamond Sutra, standing next to him and looking at it.The clerk immediately came forward and said: "As expected of the person next to the old prince, he has the best vision!" He hurriedly said the set of words just now.

After hearing this, Eunuch Hua glanced at this guy for a long time: "Really."

The guy said sincerely: "Yes!"

Eunuch Hua snorted, "Which lady is from a rich family? What's her surname, what's the name of her father and brother, and what is her official position?" The clerk was dumb.

The little eunuch who followed Mr. Hua smiled and said, "I want to coax people, but I don't even have the words ready. I know this word. It was clearly written by Master Huiban of Pudhi Temple in Qinghua Mountain. How did it become the name of a rich family?" Miss."

The clerk was stunned, and forced a smile: "Maybe this lady's handwriting is quite similar to Master Huipan's? Are all women's handwriting similar?"

A customer next to him smiled and said, "What are your teeth and tongue made of? You've been exposed and you're still stubborn." The clerk smiled awkwardly.

Eunuch Hua nodded at him: "Little monkey, take it off quickly! Miscellaneous, no matter where you got Master Huiban's calligraphy, the Queen Mother likes her very much, and also likes her calligraphy. It will be in a few days. The Queen Mother’s birthday, a few months ago the prince personally sent someone to ask Master Huipan to write a copy of the Diamond Sutra for grandma.”

The buddy was taken aback: "Yes, yes, yes! The villain will take it off now!" He hurriedly took it off.Satisfied, Grandpa Hua led the little eunuch away.The guests laughed and discussed a few words.

About half an hour later, Zhu Tong sat in the Taiping Escort with a telegram and said: "The comrades of SHIELD said that the young lady who is the daughter-in-law of the Ding family is alive and well, and she writes two letters to the third wife every month. They never sent people into Ding's house, let us try to find out why the third wife would go to that desolate guest house to burn paper. The Diamond Sutra is in the handwriting of Master Huiban of Bodhi Temple in Qinghua Mountain. The aunt is only in her 20s. The summer before last year, the Queen Mother Went to Qinghua Mountain to escape the summer heat, passed by their nunnery, had a good chat with Master Huiban, and liked her handwriting very much. The S.H.I.E.L.D. Bureau is short of manpower, so let us check Huiban's background."

Boss Kong muttered a few times: "Could it be that we have enough manpower?" He took the telegram and looked at it for a while, "According to that woman, it is clear that Miss Ding is dead."

"It can be seen that the other party is also short of manpower." Zhu Tong smiled and said, "Liu Feng's rules and regulations are on the surface, and it is not so easy for others to take advantage of them. They are all relatives with empty names but no real power. .”

Just at this time, I heard someone laughing and shouting outside: "The shopkeeper! I'm taking bribes~~"

The shopkeeper said: "This is the boy who guards the old lady of Ding's family." He also shouted, "You have received so many benefits from him, and you still haven't really recruited them."

The boy walked into the house and put the things in his hand on the table.Rings, earrings, gold bracelets, and more than a dozen taels of silver.Presumably the woman used all the valuables on her body as bribes.The boy said: "She said that she is about to die unjustly here with us, and there is only one thing on her mind. She has a lover, and she had an appointment with her yesterday. But she was arrested by us the night before yesterday. She thought, her lover couldn't wait for her, and she might be in a hurry. So she wanted to ask me to tell her lover, and said that the master of the house sent her away on an errand. "

Zhu Tong and his accomplice looked at each other for a long time, and said: "The arrangement of this word is not sophisticated. It can be seen that Mrs. Guan is not a secret agent. It was probably picked out and bought by Ding's family after they made a plan. Who is her lover?"

"The cook at Shilixiang Restaurant is called Shen Daming."

Zhu Tong patted the table and said: "Isn't Shilixiang Restaurant just beside the alley of Fuyuntang?"

"Exactly."

Zhu Tong couldn't help being overjoyed: "Finally, we've got a match." Then he smiled at the boy, "Since you've got the benefits of him, you can go."

The shopkeeper said: "Change into the clothes of a government servant."

Zhu Tong waved his hand: "No. Don't you have the clothes of the servants of Ding's family? Wear that." The kid nodded and went out to change clothes.After a while, Zhu Tong sighed again, "These things are a hammer and a stick, and today it can be regarded as a success."

The shopkeeper didn't think it was funny, but said: "I'll go and check that aunt in Qinghua Mountain. Mrs. Ding San can't help it."

Zhu Tong said: "Mrs. Ding San is not difficult."

At dusk that day, Zhu Wei's wife sent a letter to many wives of civil servants, saying that today they had to go to the back garden for a stroll, and suddenly found a plum grove in full bloom, and asked them to come home tomorrow to cook snow and enjoy the plum blossoms.Zhu Wei is now in charge of the case of Fuyuntang, who would dare not go to her wife's post?Regardless of whether there is an arrangement or not, it is said that it must go.All three wives of Ding's family got posts.

On the second day, the wives and grandmas and girls came in droves, and the back garden of Zhu's house was filled with flowers, red and emerald.Mrs. Zhu smiled and said: "I just write a few posts occasionally to try, who knows that every trick will work."

All the wives said: "Mrs. Zhu has a heart. Such a beautiful flower is not hidden. It is a blessing for us to come and enjoy it."

There was a wife with sharp eyes, and she saw that the two grandmothers beside Mrs. Zhu who were helping her were not the two grandmas of the Zhu family, and asked quickly, "I don't know who this grandma is?"

Mrs. Zhu patted the woman's hand and said, "This is my nephew's wife."

Everyone suddenly realized: It turned out that Mrs. Zhu introduced the nephew and daughter-in-law to everyone today.During the days when Mr. Zhu Tong returned to Chang'an, it's not that no one posted a message to Grandma Tong, and she shied away from it.And Zhu Tong has never agreed to the king of Qin to be an official.Mrs. Zhu came out suddenly, probably Zhu Tong was about to leave the mountain.Who doesn't know that he became the prime minister of Lu at a young age?It is due to the fact that the state of Lu is so strong and prosperous.Although losing the Liu family in Dongying, it is nothing to lose in the hands of Yan Guo.Mrs. Zhu took Liu Jing's hand, pointed to everyone and introduced them to her one by one.Liu Jing was originally the daughter of Liu Tong, the overlord of the Lu Kingdom, and had also been the wife of the prime minister for many years, so she handled such situations with ease.

Others surrounded Liu Jing, and Zhu Wei's eldest daughter-in-law was there to help.Secondly, the daughter-in-law takes care of those guests who are not very talkative.Mrs. Ding San is the one with the highest public status.

After most of the day, Liu Jing went back to the yard and told Zhu Tong: "Mrs. Ding San is really an honest person. Our Second Grandma Nan talked with her for a while, and everything came out."

Zhu Tong hurriedly asked: "How?"

Liu Jing said: "Second Grandma Nan. The first two words are: unfortunately. It is said that this lady is talented in literature. If a man can take the No. [-] Scholar exam, if he is in the capital, he will definitely be coaxed by Zhonghua Bookstore to sell calligraphy."

Zhu Tong said: "Wen Cai doesn't matter, her daughter is safe? Why burn the paper? Boss Kong said that she cried terribly. Who is she crying for, not her daughter?"

Liu Jing said: "She is a crying daughter."

"Ok?"

"She really thought her daughter was dead."

It turned out that Miss Ding's mother hadn't received the last two letters.A few days ago, a woman brought back an official document issued by the government, saying that a Xianyang oiran had died, and begged her client who had slept with her in Chang'an City to identify the body.The mother-in-law felt that the portrait looked like the eldest girl of the third room, so she secretly showed it to the third wife.The third wife recognized her daughter in the painting at a glance.The official document said that this fan had been dead for more than ten days, and there was no news from the family, so it was obvious that it was hidden for some reason.Mrs. Ding San is timid, and she has no other children to accompany her, and she knows that her husband loves saving face the most.Even if there is a misunderstanding on this matter, Master Ding San will definitely not stand up for his daughter's reputation.Not daring to make a fuss, she cried quietly for two days.

I never thought that a sister-in-law came from the family temple yesterday afternoon and personally delivered the letter from the eldest girl.In the letter, the eldest girl complained that her mother did not reply to her letter.Regardless of the style of handwriting and writing, it is undoubtedly the third wife's biological daughter.Thinking about it, that pink head just happened to look similar to the big girl.

The mansion sent someone to question the young man who got the letter from the family temple.At first he refused to admit that he had lost the eldest girl's letter, and only confessed after repeated questioning.It turned out that there was a nouveau riche who heard that the lady of the scholar's family could write well. He wanted to find an idea to make a copybook for his own daughter, and spent a lot of money to buy Miss Ding's handwriting.This young man thought it would be good to just cut one, but he said he wanted to buy another one and offered three times the price.The boy thought, anyway, the third wife, mother and daughter have no status in the family, so what's the point of selling two letters?So even the reply letter from the third wife was sold together.Now that person has been kicked out, the third wife and the eldest girl will no longer send the boy to send letters, but let the sister-in-law run errands back and forth.

Liu Jing said with emotion: "When I went to the capital for training, my husband repeatedly emphasized that I should not take too much trouble to save trouble, and that I must confirm the news with my cooperating comrades. At that time, I only felt that my husband was stinging and stinging. It turned out that there really was such a thing. Waiting for the gap to be caught."

Zhu Tong said: "People in the world are so lazy and credulous. Miss Ding has already become a monk, Master Ding San is trying to gain fame, Mrs. Ding San is timid and has no status and sees through her husband. It is difficult for a family of three to communicate, and outsiders can take advantage of it."

Liu Jing said: "A woman in a deep house, what can I use?"

Zhu Tong looked at his daughter-in-law with a half-smile, "Aren't you also a woman in a deep house? If someone takes advantage of you, you'll be fine."

Liu Jing glanced at him: "Am I a cowardly person? My father dominates, and I am no different from a princess." Zhu Tong repeatedly cupped his hands and smiled.

As he was speaking, the telegraph rang.When Mrs. Zhu was entertaining all the female families in the city, the Taiping Escort Bureau was not idle, and sent someone to check Master Huipan at the Bodhi Temple in Qinghua Mountain immediately.

This master Huipan was originally the daughter of a scholar, and he was born because of the horoscope of Ji Ke, father and brother.The summer before last, she was favored by the Queen Mother, and her father and brother were very happy.At the beginning of autumn, her elder brother recognized a high-ranking monk who had attained the Tao, and said that her elder brother must have noble relatives.Her elder brother counted all the horoscopes of Hefu's birthday.The eminent monk calculated for a long time, and said that Master Huipan's Buddha-nature has already turned away his bad luck, and he will have a noble son-in-law in three years.You can lead her hair to practice in the temple first, and then she will have her own good fortune.Since then, Master Huipan has grown hair.Twenty days ago, Master Huiban disappeared out of thin air, and there was no further news.The bodyguard who went to investigate specially brought a fake portrait of Bai Lan, and all the aunts in the Bodhi Nunnery recognized it: it was Hui Pan.

Now that the matter has come to this point, a small half of what Bi Daguan has done has been revealed.

Before the early autumn of the previous year, the investigation of the Qin royal family had begun and a plan had been made.First coax Master Huipan to lead the practice.According to the account books, Fuyun Hall was opened in the winter of the previous year, and its function was to give Qiu Xing a stepping stone to become an official official.At the end of the year, Qiu Xingzheng entered Chang'an and joined Qin Wang's uncle Yu Er as a Qing guest.The eminent monk calculated that Master Huipan would get his son-in-law in the summer and autumn of next year, so it can be seen that their original plan should be later than now.Because Zhu Tong returned to Qin suddenly, the king of Qin was anxious about the sharp reduction of taxes and wanted to persuade him to become an official.Qiu Xingzheng was afraid that he would not be able to compare with Zhu Tong, so he changed his plan and opened the Fuyun Hall ahead of schedule.

On the other side, Widow Huang from Jixiang Embroidery Workshop in Xianyang urged Bailan, the oiran, to escape from Baihualou and follow Fourth Master Ding to become a good man.They also kidnapped Master Huiban, took her away, or forced her to rewrite the Diamond Sutra ordered by King Qin for his grandmother, and sent it to the Ding Mansion after being mounted as a scroll.Then kill Master Huipan in Baihualou and put on Fentou's clothes, arrange for the reckless man Xia Kui to transport the body at night, be wronged and imprisoned before fleeing.At the same time, they blocked Mrs. Ding San's correspondence with her daughter.After Xia Kui bloodbathed Fuyuntang, the government had to post a portrait of Master Huiban.How can anyone in Chang'an recognize an aunt who practiced deep in the mountains?Mrs. Guan, whom they bought in Ding's mansion, sent Mrs. Ding San a fake official official document with a picture of the eldest girl on it, making the third wife mistakenly think that the fake Bailan was her own daughter.

If Master Yu was the one who was ordered to investigate the case, Qiu Xingzheng would be able to tell that it was a sister-in-law who died, not a fan.Zhen Bailan is an aunt in Ding's residence.As long as Fourth Grandma Fanding doesn't force her too much, she can live in peace.Qiu Xing was blowing the wind and coaxing the second master Yu to go to Ding's mansion to check on the lady Huakui in a big way.Mrs. Ding San had nowhere to complain about her injustice, and Mrs. Guan was arguing some words, urging her to take the opportunity to sue the imperial uncle.

Master Yu Er was originally a fool, and Mrs. Ding San was timid and not good at words.Guan Pozi and Qiu Xingzheng sang against each other, and Guan Pozi took the opportunity to present the Diamond Sutra written by Master Huipan.The two ends are wrong, and when the matter is cut and the tail is not clear, it is passed to the Qin Palace. The King of Qin saw that the words on the scroll were written by Master Hui Ban, and checked the fake Bailan's portrait. Miss Ding is gone.

After hearing Zhu Tong's conjecture, Liu Jing said a word with her chin on her hands: "What do you have to do with the Gao family?"

"I don't know. To be investigated."