The Agricultural Tycoon of the Red House

Jia Lian walked to the front hall, where Xu Qi, the new chief housekeeper of the Rong Mansion, was standing there humbly waiting for orders.This person was just promoted by Jia Lian yesterday, and he is the nephew of Shan Daliang, the old housekeeper of the mansion.

"Did news come from the Ministry of War and Gyeonggi Prefecture yesterday?" Jia Lian asked.

Xu Qi hurriedly bowed and said, "It's passed on, the batch of money that was robbed by the refugees has been found."

"Where are those refugees?" Jia Lian looked at him with raised eyebrows.

Xu Qi looked around vigilantly, leaned up to Jia Lian and said in a low voice, "Second Master, don't worry, I have followed Second Master's order and persuaded them to voluntarily surrender."

"That's good. Go back and say hello to the governor of Gyeonggi Prefecture, and say that my litchi garden in Fujian is short of people to work."

Xu Qi agreed and bowed respectfully to Jia Lian.

The lame Taoist priest is still making trouble at the door, and has already broken into the Eryi Gate.Don't look at this guy who said he was lame, his legs and feet quickly got up to compete with the monk with a scarlet head.

When Jia Lian and Xu Qi were going out, they saw a Taoist priest holding a floating dust rushing towards him.

Xu Qi jumped lightly, stretched his arms, and immediately stood in front of Jia Lian.

The lame Taoist rushed straight over.

Xu Qi pulled out the sword from his waist and pointed it forward.

The Taoist braked immediately and stopped an inch away from the sword.A group of boys from behind caught up and immediately grabbed the Taoist priest.

Lame stared at the sword in Xu Qi's hand in surprise, and turned to look at the very rich and handsome master boy behind him, even more surprised.

"You are a housekeeper, how can you know how to use martial arts and swords? And you, your body really..."

"There are a lot of weird flowers recently, so naturally we have to defend ourselves. Let me introduce you to my new butler, Xu Qi." Jia Lian smiled, and Xu Qi bowed his hands to the lame Taoist priest, then stepped aside.

At this moment, the Taoist priest has already been wrapped around his limbs by more than a dozen young servants and wrapped his arms around his neck.

Jia Lian smiled and questioned the crippled Taoist priest who was struggling, "I am in a good mood today, so you can speak directly if you have anything to say."

"Where are you Jia Lian! You bastard and idiot, you actually did such stupid things against the law of nature, cut off human affection, increased hatred, you be careful--" The Taoist opened his mouth and wanted to say, but was forced to stink shoe.

The boys were all relieved, but luckily they blocked the Taoist priest's mouth at the critical moment, otherwise, if he cursed his family's second master Lian, they would regret it to death.

"Bah!" The Taoist spit out the stinky shoes by some unknown method. Under the claws and pushes of the servants, he raised his neck and said to Jia Lian while fighting hard, "There is no escape in everything. I listen to the people outside. Said that you are also a good person with a kind heart, how can you bear to cut off the love thread of the daughter of Furong. You must leave a plant to make it bloom, otherwise I will expose your identity and tell the truth in your body! "

"Hehe," Jia Lian sneered twice, staring at the Taoist priest with a icy face, "I thought you would be better than your monk friend, but it seems I was overthinking it. Take it and throw it out! Trespassing Duke I don’t need to say what the crime is, but I also get a portrait to accompany his friends at the gate of the city!”

Everyone heard the Taoist's words in a daze, thinking that the Taoist was talking nonsense.They blocked his mouth with stinky shoes and dragged him out.

After struggling, a mirror fell out of the Taoist priest's clothes.The crowd was busy dragging the Taoist away and didn't pay attention, and the Taoist was busy fighting with the boys and didn't pay attention.

Jia Lian picked up the mirror, looked at the front and back, hehe, threw it on the ground and kicked it flat.

The boys went out of the corner gate and escorted the lame Taoist for a few steps, but he escaped, no matter how hard he chased them, he couldn't catch up.At first, everyone wondered why the master made a portrait, but now they understand.Each secretly lamented that his master had a fortune, so he was busy making portraits and reporting to officials, and everything was done according to his master's orders.

Jia Zheng was hiding behind the door of Eryimen. He happened to pass by, and suddenly heard the Taoist shouting those words, and his face was dazed.Gradually, he had an epiphany, and hurriedly hid, collected money from Rongxitang, and stared at Jia Lian with a wicked smile.

Seeing Jia Lian go back to the room with his hands behind his back expressionlessly, Jia Zheng also quietly turned and left.

Just in time, Jia Zheng came across the group of young men who had lost the Taoist priest. He grabbed one of them, pulled him aside, and quietly asked him with money: "What did the Taoist priest say just now? Learn from me, and the money is all yours." .”

The young man glanced at Jia Zheng, turned the whites of his eyes, and said with righteous indignation: "What does the second master mean by this? Are you asking the young man to betray the second master and join you?"

Jia Zheng was stunned, he didn't expect that he could not become a servant with ten taels of silver.Jia Zheng is not a soft-spoken person. He has always regarded himself as a scholar, and he is very upright in his bones. He rolled his eyes and glared at the boy in anger, "What do you mean by that? I just care about that child Lian'er. Let me ask you." What happened just now, let's see how I can help him. This money is only rewarded for your hard work, if you don't want it, then forget it, and go away!"

Hearing Jia Zheng's words, the young man smiled sarcastically, nodded his head, and made way for Jia Zheng.

Seeing him put on a posture of "I don't have the same knowledge as you", Jia Zheng was very angry.He had always shown this attitude to others, but now he was slapped in the face by a lowly slave, and Jia Zheng felt humiliated.This boy's enthusiasm is the same as his master's, he is really looking for a fight!

"Kneel down! How did you treat me just now?"

The boy knelt down to admit his mistake, and bowed his head perfunctorily to Jia Zheng.

Jia Zheng was very dissatisfied with his attitude of making amends, so he raised his foot and kicked him in the stomach, "I call you arrogant, I call you arrogant, you slave still want to go past the master?"

"Ouch, ouch, ouch..." The kicked boy rolled all over the floor and shouted, "Second Master, I was wrong, I was wrong, I should really tell you about Second Master! "

The boy's yelling so loudly naturally attracted the attention of many people, and many people came to see what was going on.Seeing that it was Jia Zheng's layman, they all showed helplessness and sympathized with the boy.

Jia Zheng found that these servants looked at him with uncomfortable eyes, with a kind of contempt and irony.He has been a master for so many years, and he has always said one thing at home, and has always been served as a god by his servants. He has never seen such a battle.

As a master, how could he be rejected by his servants?

"What are you looking at? What kind of eyes do you have, huh? What do you mean?" Jia Zheng grabbed a boy who was watching the fun and questioned him.

The rest of the people were frightened and retreated one after another.

"Second master, I don't mean anything else."

"It's meaningless, I've seen it all, you look at me strangely. Am I funny, you bastard dare to look directly at me, damn it!" Jia Zheng pushed him to the ground and kicked him. .

The little servant was beaten up and screamed, and everyone could only look anxiously and couldn't help.

"Second Master Lian!" Seeing the savior coming, the sharp-eyed man shouted immediately.

All the servants saluted and shouted: "Second Master Lian!"

Jia Zheng was shocked by the sound, frowned and looked over, and saw that Jia Lian had changed into an official uniform, standing there gracefully, and he was looking at himself with a cold face.

Jia Zheng stopped, and smiled provocatively at Jia Lian: "Could it be that I taught a boy a lesson, so you have to open your mouth to stop the second uncle?"

"It's your fault that you beat people, it has nothing to do with me." Jia Lian glanced at Jia Zheng, then at the two beaten boys, "Hurry up and prepare the carriage, you two are late, who is responsible ?”

The two boys knew that the second master Lian was saving them, so they quickly got up and ran while patting the dust off their bodies.As for the others, Jia Lian dismissed them without waiting for Jia Zheng to target them.

In the blink of an eye, everyone was gone, but Jia Zheng was left there, only to smack his lips, feeling ashamed and annoyed, feeling that he had miscalculated.

In fact, when Jia Zheng hit someone just now, he deliberately kept his eyes open, thinking that Jia Lian had been fighting against him, and it happened that the boy didn't listen to him, so he thought of taking the opportunity to teach the boy a lesson, which made Jia Lian angry at him.As long as Jia Lian dares to be disrespectful to him in public because of a young boy, then he has a reason to deal with Jia Lian, report the matter to Jia's mother, talk about it outside, and ruin his good reputation!

Unexpectedly, Jia Lian was not fooled at all just now.

Jia Zheng went back to the hospital with a look of miscalculation and irritability.

After Mrs. Wang learned that Jia Zheng had the idea of ​​divorcing his wife, her heart was full of resentment and hatred. She lived like a walking dead all day long, and she didn't like to talk to anyone, let alone Jia Zheng who wanted to divorce her.

Jia Zheng thought that Mrs. Wang didn't know that he was going to divorce her, and now she was in a hurry, and complained to Mrs. Wang as usual when they get along with each other, "What do you mean by what the Taoist said about Lian'er just now? Expose Lian'er's identity, the truth in her body... I thought about it carefully, and it is true that Lian'er suddenly changed his nature one day and became a little weird."

Jia Zheng stroked his chin twice, thinking carefully.

Mrs. Wang originally had a listless expression, she bit her lip and endured Jia Zheng.Hearing his words suddenly, the eyeballs finally got angry, moved, and looked up at him.

Jia Zheng slapped his hands suddenly, and suddenly realized, "There must be some old illness on his body!"

Mrs. Wang stared round.

Jia Zheng became more and more excited, rubbing his hands and wandering in the middle of the room: "Yes, it must be like this. There must be something unspeakable about him. Most likely he has some strange disease that cannot be said."

Jia Zheng grinned after thinking about it, took a deep breath, opened the window, and faced the east.The golden morning sun shone on his face, and he was very comfortable. Jia Zheng looked out the window, everything came back to life, and he finally made it to spring!

Mrs. Wang stared weakly at Jia Zheng's appearance, with a cold expression on the corner of her mouth.Don't worry about it, just ask Caixia to help her into the house.

Perhaps it was because Jia Zheng had an ambition in his heart that Jia Zheng had endless energy this day.He ran home immediately after finishing boring paperwork in the Ministry of Industry during the day.On the way, I went to Zhuangyuan Building to drink two catties of good wine and three catties of Zhuangyuan Building's special signature beef sauce.

When he got home, Jia Zheng went straight to Rongxi Hall to find Jia Amnesty.

Jia Amnesty was leaning over his desk, frowning, thinking hard with a brush in his hand.He's always wanted to write a different story, something a little more fantastical.After some advice from his precious son, Jia Amnesty came up with a good idea: a daughter who died unjustly will be reborn as her favored younger sister, and she will have to go through some twists and turns, and report all the old grievances to her previous life little by little. Those who bullied her.

Jia Amnesty was writing about the tangled plot, and he ran out of ideas for a while, and finally came up with an idea after thinking for half an hour.Just as I was about to start writing, I suddenly heard someone yell "Brother, I'm here". Although the voice was not loud, it still made Jia She tremble.When writing an essay, my five senses are the most sensitive, especially my ears, which can easily disturb my mind when I hear a little sound.

Jia She threw away the brush angrily, and he forgot all the plots that he thought of just now.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh))"

"Master, the second master is here."

sorrow.

Jia Amnesty put his head on the table, weeping.

"Brother?" Jia Zheng entered the door and took a look around, and then he saw that Jia Zheng was lying on the table, hurriedly took the jug from the servant's hand, and leaned in front of Jia She, "The century-old daughter of Zhuangyuan Building is red!"

Jia She sniffed, his nose almost followed the flagon in Jia Zheng's hand, "It smells so good!"

"That's right, my younger brother specially prepared it for the eldest brother, so of course I put my heart into it. Come and serve some side dishes, and I want to have a drink with the eldest brother." After Jia Zheng sat down, he happily ordered.

The servant girl had to do it, and turned her head to the kitchen, and saw those cooks and servant girls gathered around the stone rock and said, "Second Master."It was exactly what the second master beat up the young servants in Rongxi Hall today. Because there were so many people present at that time, there were quite a few of them who were related to these kitchen ladies.Everyone spoke vividly and vividly, although there were slight differences in their statements, but when it came to the second master's severe abuse of his subordinates, everyone spoke with the same caliber and spoke the same words.

"I didn't expect it. The second master usually looks very kind and gentle, but he is as ruthless as a Rakshasa."

"You've all been cheated before. I've seen it for a long time. His usual gentleness is just pretending."

"No, look at the owners of the houses, which one is not kind to the servants. The housekeeper of the second master wants to show his authority, but he is not as ostentatious as he is, and it is very reasonable. Only those who are punished will be punished." Not conscientious. As long as you do things neatly and keep yourself safe, who hasn't received a generous reward from the second master during the Chinese New Year? In addition, every family has a portion of chicken, duck and fish, and everyone has a lot. They really feel sorry for us. What about the second master, the reward When I can’t see anyone, I work hard for him and pick and choose. We didn’t say or do anything wrong, but he just picks and chooses the eyes and tone. You can say that this thing is accurate, or it’s up to his mood If you want to be punished, you can be punished, if you want to be beaten, you can be beaten?" Aunt Sun was not angry, because the boy who was beaten today was her own nephew.

The crowd joined in.

Aunt Zhao also smiled and echoed: "You all know that I have big eyes, and when I look at people, there are many whites in my eyes. When I turn my eyes, it looks like someone's eyes are white. If I want to be in front of him, I won't be born. Made into a pulp?"

"That's right!" Everyone was indignant.

"Girls, don't talk about it, the second master is in Rongxi Hall right now, and he wants some side dishes to accompany the wine, and he wants to eat with the elder master." The servant girl Xiaoyue passed on a message.

Aunt Sun and Aunt Zhao both pursed their mouths when they heard the words, and stood up reluctantly, "It's for the sake of the old man, otherwise we wouldn't want to make it for that person."

I'm afraid Jia Zheng didn't know it yet, but because he was eager to lure Jia Lian into the trap in the morning, he beat the two servants too much, which made him have a bad reputation in Rongfu.A servant's life is also a fate, and every servant has worked in the government office.Even if you are the master, you are not qualified to take the lives of your servants lightly.And like the Rongguo Mansion, a well-known family in Beijing, who pay attention to both internal and external cultivation, gentle and benevolent, innocent and harsh on the subordinates is a scandal, and it is very embarrassing to spread it.

Jia Zhengyi claimed to be a gentle man, but now in the eyes of his servants, he has become a gentle scum.

……

After the side dishes were served, it was rare for Jia Zheng to lose his arrogance, and his expression was amused; while Jia Amnesty was greedy for alcohol, and drank naturally and happily.The two brothers respected each other and chatted innocuously. The atmosphere was more pleasant than ever.

Jia Zheng saw that Jia She was almost drunk and his emotions were in place, so he thought about insinuating, "Brother, you must be very happy that Lian'er is so promising?" Seeing Jia She nodded straightly, Jia Zheng continued to ask, "But I see This child doesn't seem to be in good health recently, he is depressed and listless, could it be that he is too tired?"

"Oh? Is that so?" Jia She scratched his head, "Maybe he is tired. He is a senior official in the Ministry of Household Affairs. He is much busy. It's not easy. It's not like the second brother who came back to accompany me so early. Drinking, hehe..."

Jia Zheng was very upset when he heard this. He held back his breath and stared at Jia Amnesty, "But I can see that he doesn't seem to be simply tired, it seems to be..."

"Huh?" Jia She blushed and looked up.

"What's wrong?" Jia Zheng asked tentatively.

Jia She was stunned, because his expression was a bit dull because of his drunkenness, so the process from being stupefied to shaking his head in denial seemed a bit slow.

Jia Zheng felt that Jia She was giving away his flaws, so he went up to Jia She and continued to ask, "Brother, do you know? Today I heard Taoist priests say the same thing about his body..."

"Really? Taoist priests say he is not in good health?" Jia Amnesty was very surprised. He has been busy writing these days and forgot to think about his son.He's just such a precious son-in-law, so there's nothing wrong with him, "Lian'er, my good face... no, I'll go and see my son!"

Jia Amnesty hiccupped and staggered out the door with the help of the maid.

Jia Zheng watched off with a smile.As soon as the people left, he sneered and sighed, Jia She must have found an excuse to escape because of panic and fear of being exposed.Just now when he tentatively asked Jia Lian if he was sick, Jia She's expression had already betrayed him.Look at his shocked look, there is definitely something wrong.

No, this matter cannot be delayed.

Jia Zheng thought for a while, and immediately went to see Jia Mu.

……

Today in the court hall, Jia Lian received verbal praise for selling strawberries and accumulating nearly one million taels of silver for the treasury.This time the emperor did not reward Jia Lian for any small reason as before, which reassured Jia Lian instead.Rewarding again, the glory comes too fast, it is easy to be arrogant and enviable.What's more, in the current situation, someone is already eyeing him. If he doesn't have enough backing, Jia Lian will not be blessed to be promoted no matter how high he is.

King Beijing suddenly stood up and mentioned the Fujian case.

The emperor also remembered the fourth prince who was handling the case in Fujian, and asked casually how the case was going. He was a little unhappy when he heard that no news had come.He dealt with the next few memorials without interest, and retreated after a few perfunctory sentences.

Jia Lian was unfortunately left by the emperor again.

This feeling is a bit like when I didn't finish my homework when I was in elementary school, and I was always kept by the teacher to make up the homework.He studied well in the past, and he never tasted this kind of taste, but now he has found it all.

"Aiqing, it seems that the fourth child's business in Fujian is not going well." The emperor said.

It's just nonsense.

Jia Lian slightly nodded at the emperor.

"Tell me, isn't the murder of the Fujian Supervisor's family very strange? What kind of person would he be, who can silently kill everyone in the entire mansion?"

Jia Lian also wanted to know, but he was engaged in agriculture, not in criminal investigation. Obviously, the emperor left the wrong person to ask the wrong person.But Jia Lian couldn't question others like this, so he had to respond anyway.

"I feel that the murderer must not be simple." Jia Lian imitated the emperor and said nonsense.

"Yeah, it must be very difficult. It will indeed take some time to investigate carefully." The emperor suddenly felt that the fourth child was not easy. After all, the murderer he faced was well-trained and ruthless. Maybe his personal safety There will be danger.The emperor felt a little distressed, frowned and took two steps, and suddenly said to Jia Lian, "I've been thinking about the Huibin building these days, maybe it's just a coincidence, if those ministers are the fourth son who he took the initiative to curry favor with, wouldn't the fourth son Injustice?"

Jia Lian silently praised the emperor, lamenting that he finally recovered.

"Others don't know, Zhou Qingyuan probably won't be." Jia Lian said.

"Yes! I think so too. Zhou Qingyuan is definitely not. If he is not, then the other two are probably not either." The emperor began to reflect on himself. How could he think of such a stupid and impulsive solution?He remembered that the reason why he came up with the idea of ​​testing the fourth brother was that the boss accidentally mentioned the matter that the fourth brother had a banquet for several high officials in the court.What the boss said made him vigilant, thinking that he was proud of being favored by the old man, and he had the intention of colluding with foreign ministers to seek power.

Whether this is actually the case is doubtful.

"Check it out, there should be clues," Jia Lian said.

The emperor nodded. He didn't know whether Jia Lian was talking about the Beijing or Fujian affairs, but no matter which one, it needs to be investigated carefully.

"By the way, what do you think of this child, Prince Jing?" The emperor asked with a smile.

Jia Lian was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect the emperor to ask him this question, he thought it over quickly in his heart, and considering the emperor's probing gaze, Jia Lian immediately sorted out his answer.

"The prince is as gentle as jade, with a gentle temperament and a very warm personality. I admire him very much and respect him very much." Jia Lian laughed.

Seeing Jia Lian's unusual smile, the emperor paid special attention, "Oh? How do you know that he is warm?"

As expected of the emperor, he immediately grasped the key points revealed in his words.

Jia Lian hurriedly told the emperor that he met the king of Beijing by chance, the king of Beijing courted him to dinner, and the king of Beijing donated money to buy strawberries, etc. as examples.

The emperor didn't feel anything at first, but after listening too much, his heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly realized that Shui Rong was actually approaching Jia Lian deliberately.Thinking about it again, Jia Lian is being reused by him now, and he recognizes Jia Lian's ability very much, so other people must recognize Jia Lian even more.Jia Lian is an undoubted talent. With his talent alone, the common people don't have to worry about food, drink and clothing. He can even raise money for the treasury, supervise the army, and use a single potato to control the situation in the Northwest War.Who doesn't like such a talent?Especially for those who are ambitious to become kings and emperors, Jia Lian is a piece of fat smeared with honey.

King of Beijing...

The emperor remembered that he had a good relationship with the eldest prince since he was a child.

Dare to win over Jia Lian! ?

This Jia Lian is someone he trusts and relies on, and he believes that he is the mainstay in the court.It's too daring for the eldest son to try to win over his favorite talents!

The princes won a little power for themselves, and the emperor didn't feel disgusted.Those petty officials of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh ranks, they can do whatever they want.But in the court, those senior officials of the second rank and above, those whom he particularly relied on favors, were all his people, anyone who moved them would have the intention of shaking the emperor's throne, so we must guard against it!

There is the fourth child in the front and the eldest child in the back.

None of the two sons he valued the most could rest easy.But now that the fourth child has learned his lesson, he took the initiative to invite Ying to go to Fujian to endure hardships, which is quite interesting.It is indeed dangerous for the boss to grow up in Beijing alone.

Suspicious, the emperor sent Jia Lian away.

When Jia Lian met the prime minister, he told him what happened just now.Jing Yingguang is an old minister, so it must be very useful to listen to his opinions more often.

"...Although the mother and concubine of the fourth prince are honorable, they are still inferior to the eldest prince." Jing Yingguang explained to Jia Lian as he walked, "The first prince's biological mother, Concubine Shu, is the queen's own sister, so he is not You think it's as simple as being named under the Queen's name, but he really has a blood relationship with the Queen. In terms of background, he is the eldest, the only son of the late favorite concubine, and the adopted son of the Queen, so his background is more noble. His mother, Concubine Shu, was favored by the emperor to an extent that is unmatched. Even today, the emperor still forbids anyone to mention the name of Concubine Shu casually. Concubine Shu is a white lotus that grows in the heart of the emperor. It's untouchable. It's a pity that she died early, otherwise, depending on how favored she is, the eldest prince would have sat on the throne of the prince long ago."

"I didn't expect that the eldest prince's biological mother turned out to be the queen's own sister. I never knew it." Jia Lian sighed.

"Of course you don't know. Apart from the old man in the palace and a few veteran ministers, not many people know about this matter."

Jia Lian was puzzled: "Why? What is there to hide about the identity of Concubine Shu?"

Jing Yingguang hesitated to speak, but after thinking about it, he decided to continue.