The Red Mansions

Chapter 197 The Three Rivers Gang's Response
The silent night shrouded Ningguo Mansion, the lights in the inner house were on, and there was a tranquility like water.

Jia Heng and Qin Keqing were talking.

Qin Keqing smiled and said: "By the way, it's a coincidence that the second child is Sister-in-Law Feng's son. I was thinking about what to give her."

Apart from doing those things when the couple are together, if they don't have children, it means that there are family problems, sisters-in-law and neighbors.

"She told you?" Jia Heng smiled and said.

Qin Keqing smiled and said: "That's right, last time we talked about Nian Geng, we all told each other about the birth, she was born on the second day of September."

Jia Heng smiled and said, "Where's yours?"

Qin Keqing gave Jia Heng a white look, licked Tao Ruifang's red lips, and said softly: "It's August [-]th, we got married on August [-]th, but we didn't have a baby that day."

Jia Heng laughed and said, "How about making it up in two days."

The face of Qin Keqing's hibiscus flower stamen was bright and charming, and she said softly: "Birth is born once a year. When it passes, it passes. How can it be mended? Speaking of it, it's also a coincidence. A baby born on August [-]th is born in August. Fifteen years past the door, it seems that after a child is born, one should marry a husband."

"That year, it could have happened twice in a row." Jia Heng said softly, wrapping his arms around the slender shoulders of the graceful and slender beauty, a sentence suddenly appeared in his mind.

Born yesterday, born today.

Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Where is your husband's child?"

Jia Heng said: "Me? It should be the sixth day of March."

Qin Keqing remembered the day of the sixth day of March in her heart, then raised her eyes full of autumn water, and said with a smile: "My husband hasn't said anything yet, what kind of gift will I buy for Sister-in-law Feng?"

Jia Heng frowned, swallowed the word "gold collar", and thought for a while, "You can give it away, if it doesn't work, let someone withdraw 200 taels of silver from Aunt Cai, and buy some more."

Speaking of which, the current Ningguo Mansion is Qin Keqing, the hostess, who manages the house through maids and treasures, and issues monthly regulations to the servants in the mansion, as well as the purchase of rice, fruits and vegetables.

On the other side of the counting room in the inner house, Aunt Cai and an accountant are doing the accounting, while Aunt Cai's daughter-in-law and a woman who was originally from the Ningguo Mansion, as for Bi'er and Zhu'er leading some women and maids in the house. The inner house listened to Qin Keqing's orders.

In the front yard is Aunt Cai's husband, and Uncle Li and Jiao Da are in charge of the servants.

After auditing the accounts in the West Mansion, Jia Heng was aroused to some extent. It is said that no one is happy for a hundred days, and flowers are not popular in a hundred ways. Whether it is out of preservation or other considerations, it is necessary to build a more standardized financial system. Income and expenditure system.

Jia Heng looked at Qin Keqing at the side, and said, "Are you used to taking care of the house these two days? Are you bored?"

Women in this era don't have any charity dinners or high-end receptions, so they can only find something to do in the inner house. Either learn from Pan, Li and Pang and study the secret arts of the boudoir, or learn from Feng Wan, Or make a show of prestige in the inner house, or make some needlework women's reds in the room, and then wipe the dominoes together in Jiamu's house, and make a wine order during the New Year's festival.

"So, when I was reading Dream of Red Mansions in my previous life, whoever had a baby in Rongguo Mansion, you invited the host, I invited the host, because this is the daily life of the women in the inner house. And the reason why I was knighted was that Jiamu wanted to find it. What kind of troupe, celebrating me is just passing by, and the real purpose is to have fun."

Thinking of this, Jia Heng raised his eyes and glanced at the fact that there was also a banquet for the ancestor worship the day after tomorrow. There was a bit of joy in his brows and eyes, and Qin Keqing's face became brighter and brighter, and he thought, maybe this is life.

His wife is good at style and looks like a moon. She is almost a man's gift between the bed curtains, but it does not mean that she is just a little woman hiding behind her back. On the contrary, she is quite independent in many things, and her personality is more like Sister Feng. a refraction of .

"Good at amorous feelings and good looks, but Fengyue Baojian reflects Sister Feng. What's interesting is that both of them have sharp temperaments. It's just that one is at the mercy of the other, and the other... In the words of the original book of Red Chamber, opposite Conservative, not allowed to change positions, if we get along with Ke Qing in the original book, Jia Zhen would not dare to blame Sister Feng."

Jia Heng's mind surged with thoughts. Now that he is in the red building, facing these characters, he feels more and more that this famous book is like a work of art with ingenuity and ingenuity. Every place is worth pondering over and over again. After ten years of review, five additions and deletions were made.

The husband and wife were talking, Qingwen twisted the waist of the water snake, an imperceptible blush appeared on her pretty face, and she said in a pretty voice: "My lord, hot water and a change of clothes are ready, go and take a bath."

Jia Heng nodded at Qingwen, looked at Qin Keqing who was at the side, and said with a smile, "I'll come as soon as I go."

Said, followed Qingwen to the inner wing.

Entering the wing room, Jia Heng removed his clothes, entered the bathtub, and said with a chuckle, "Qingwen, how many children are you having?"

Qingwen was stunned for a moment, happy in her heart, but she pretended to sneer and said: "My lord is so busy on weekdays, why do you want to ask about my child?"

Jia Heng said, "Just ask."

Qingwen: "..."

Jia Heng smiled and said: "You are the big maid in my room, so you have to ask anyway."

A look of sadness appeared on Qingwen's pretty face. She picked up a towel and wiped Jia Heng's back while saying, "Actually, I don't really remember my birthday. I was sold around when I was young."

When Jia Heng heard this, the smile on his face disappeared for a moment, and he said: "Then you haven't had a child in these few years?"

"Don't say you can't remember, even if you remember, no one has ever told me." Qingwen smiled lightly, and a look of sadness appeared on that pretty melon-seeded face.

She was a maid who was sold to Lai's house since she was a child. Because she was attracted by the old lady when she went to pay her respects at the old lady's house, she learned the rules in the old lady's courtyard.

Jia Heng turned around, looked at the girl warmly, and said: "Actually, I'm not too big, but since you can't remember, then use my sixth day of March. I'll live it for you in the future, and we'll live it together." gone."

No matter in the previous life or in this life, he really didn't have many children. The ritual sense of exquisite life was far away from him.

When Qingwen heard the words, her delicate body trembled, her heart was filled with surprise, and she said excitedly, "Is what the young master said true?"

"When did I ever lie to you?" Jia Heng smiled and said softly.

When Qingwen heard this, joy and sourness intertwined in her heart, and crystal tears glistened in her bright eyes.

Jia Heng smiled lightly and said, "Why are you crying again?"

"Who's crying?" Qingwen Liu Ye raised her eyebrows, pouted, a smile appeared on her face, but the tears in her eyes couldn't stop shedding.

Jia Heng stretched out his hand to wipe the teardrops on the girl's cheeks, and said softly: "Okay, the teary eyes are no longer like you, but like..."

When the words came to his lips, he swallowed "like sister Lin from Xifu".

Sunny is Dai Ying, and Xi is the deputy of Chai.

Although Qingwen is said to be Daiyu's shadow, but this hibiscus flower god is not the sentimental Daiyu who seems to be made of water.

Apart from Qingwen lying on the sickbed at the end, when Baoyu shed tears when she came to visit, when did she shed tears?

However, tears had already been shed several times in front of him, and he didn't know what to say.

"My lord..." Qingwen wiped her tears, raised her eyes to look at the thoughtful young man opposite, her curved eyelashes quivered slightly, her cherry lips fluttered, her eyes were soft and misty.

Its meaning is self-evident... I want to kiss.

Jia Heng smiled lightly, stretched out his hands to hold that melon-shaped face, and leaned over to hold those two moist lips, the soft jelly melted in his mouth little by little, and between his palms and fingers, there was a small gap between his fingers. The youthful beauty of a girl is overflowing.

For a long time, Jia Heng looked at Qingwen's glowing face, and said softly, "Qingwen, help me take a bath."

In his opinion, Qingwen, who is young and beautiful, this way is just a kind of attachment and admiration without a sense of security...

"Well, maybe it's because of the lack of parental love and the lack of parental love. This seems to explain that Qingwen, one of the four maids in Baoyu's room, is the only one who doesn't like Baoyu. It's nothing more than Baoyu. In Qingwen's eyes, this kind of immature child doesn't have much sense of security." Jia Heng's eyes were dark, and a flash of understanding flashed in his heart.

In the previous life, the actor who played the role of 87 Red Mansions found a husband who was ten years older than himself.

"If we diverge further, in the version of Dream of Ghost Mansion, the actor of Qingwen also found someone who is more than ten years older than me... This... Well, it may be a bit forced and far-fetched."

On the other side, Qingwen looked at the young man's face, eyes mixed with embarrassment and joy, she responded softly, her heart was filled with sweetness, stretched out her slender hands, and rubbed Jia Heng's back.

After Jia Heng took a bath, he also left the inner room and headed for Keqing's room.

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Let the time go back a little bit, when Jia Heng finished checking the account books in Rongguo Mansion and had dinner, dusk gradually shrouded Anyifang in Dongcheng, but the courtyard where Li Jinzhu lived was already lit with lanterns.

In the inner hall, the lights were brightly lit, and the shadows of candles swayed with the sound of people.

The core members of the Three Rivers Gang sat in a dark room, and noises rang out from time to time.

It was clear that the helmsmen of Leitang were arguing about something.

"Big boss, the five Wei brothers went through life and death for the gang, and were ambushed. It's fine if the gang didn't rescue them, but they sent people to kill people to silence them. I, Old Wu, can't figure it out!" The man in robes said angrily, with his hands in his sleeves.

This person obviously has an old relationship with Wei Wu, so he is fighting against each other at this moment.

A yellow-robed man with a thin face said in a deep voice: "Wei Wu and his gang are not loyal and betray our Sanhe gang. If you don't stop him, what will the hundreds of brothers in the gang do?"

The gray-robed man with the scarred face sneered, "Old Wu, I don't believe that the five Wei brothers would betray the gang! On the contrary, if you, the third son of Qian, fell into the hands of the officers and soldiers, you might not be able to be tortured. If you confess, you don't know." At that time, did the gang also kill you?!"

The man in yellow robe was stunned for a moment, his heart was furious, his neck was stuck, and he snorted coldly: "At that time, I, Lao Qian, would never prefer to die than to live. He would either hit his head against the wall or kill himself by biting his tongue. Don't worry!"

The gray-robed man surnamed Wu sneered, and said: "Nowadays, no one can say beautiful words! My old Wu sees you..."

"enough!"

At this moment, before the gray-robed man surnamed Wu could finish speaking, a heavy drink came from the grand master's chair in the main hall, the sound was like thunder, and it made people's eardrums hurt.

Li Jinzhu sat upright on a grand teacher's chair with a gloomy face. Beside him were the second master Pan Jian, the third master Huang Zhuo, the fourth master Han Ziping, and the fifth master Li Jiuniang.

But the angry shout was not from Li Jinzhu, but from Pan Jian, the second boss sitting beside him.

Pan Jian's eyes flickered coldly, and he sneered, "Are you two going to show your knives and greet your brother to relieve your anger? The officers and soldiers haven't arrived yet, and Du Teniang is killing each other?"

Huang Zhuo, the leader of Leitang and the third leader, frowned when he heard the words, looked at the two leaders of Leitang who were arguing, and said coldly, "Sixth and Seventh, don't back down!"

With gloomy faces, the two snorted coldly, retreated to their seats, and sat down angrily.

Pan Jian sneered and said: "Qian Liu, Wu Qi, you two are also old people in the gang! I might as well tell you, that is, I ordered to kill Wei Wu and a few brothers, and Wei Wu and those others Brother’s family is small, and I will take care of my own mother, daughter-in-law... my son! Why, who else is not convinced? I am sitting here, just greet me!"

As for the daughter-in-law, it's hard to say a daughter-in-law.

The deputy hall masters and rudder masters below were silent when they heard the words, and they were obviously in awe of the second leader of the Three Rivers gang and the think tank of the first leader.

"Brothers, now the imperial court has been watching the gang, and the gang is at the critical moment of life and death, up and down, men, women, old and young, thousands of people, let alone Wei Wu, even if I fall into the hands of the government and the army, you should also Shut it up!" A stern look flashed across Pan Jian's face, and he said loudly, "It's all for the Sanhe Gang!"

Hearing the words, Huang Zhuo, the third master, also said in a low voice: "Second brother is right! Lao Qian, Lao Wu, the most urgent thing now is to tide over the difficulties together, not the time to quarrel! Make your tricks clearer, who dares to ignore the overall situation, my old Huang Di One can't spare him!"

The Three Rivers Gang has four halls of wind and rain, and Li Jinzhu personally manages the wind hall. His subordinates are all core backbones such as water workers and sailors. There are four rudder masters and several deputy hall masters under his command.

The Yutang under the management of Pan Jian, the second master, is composed of spies and spies. He usually inquires about news, buys off officials, and has two rudders.

The electric hall is managed by Han Ziping, who is in charge of the business of the shops under the Sanhe Gang. He also has four helmsmen, and they are more like merchants than helmsmen.

As for Lei Tang, because he is a thug in the battle hall, he has a large number of people.

There are a total of two deputy hall masters and eight rudder masters, all of whom are in charge of combat power in the Sanhe Gang.

Because of fighting with swords and guns and fighting for territory, many of them are brothers who were born and died together.

For example, the rudder master surnamed Wu has a life-threatening friendship with Wei Wu.

Previously, Wei Wu led a team to destroy Liu Youzhi's mouth, but was lured and ambush by the official army at the Bingma Si Yamen in Wucheng.

From Wu Qi's point of view, it's fine if the masters in the gang don't think of ways to save them. Yan Shao, the deputy head of Leitang, sent people to rob and kill Leitang's brothers yesterday, doing things that hurt relatives and make enemies happy. It's hard to be angry.

Although it was a failure in the end, this move still chilled the hearts of some core members of the Sanhe Gang like Wu Qi.

Li Jinzhu coughed, sighed, and said: "Brother Wu Qi, now it's time for our Sanhe Gang to live and die. Brother Wei Wu is a hero, and my old Li admires him too. Who knows if he will be his subordinate?" Confess us? Not to mention involving that nobleman, if one fails, it will be a catastrophe! Now we, the Sanhe Gang, have to be unanimous to the outside world, and we have to think about how to get over this hurdle!"

This remark was not only to appease Wu Qi, but also to appease the several rudder masters, deputy rudder masters and other backbones of Lei Tang who were crowded in the hall.

Hearing the words of the gang members in the hall, some people's complexions improved somewhat.

"What's going on now, let the second leader talk about it." Li Jinzhu said with a serious face, looking at Pan Jian who was on the side.

Pan Jian nodded, stood up, and said, "Brothers, according to what I have learned, it is the Wucheng Bingmasi, the Jingzhao Yamen, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate who can't help us! The Metropolitan Procuratorate doesn't need it." Having said that, if you don’t deal with us directly, it is the official of the Jingzhao Yamen, a stone in a latrine, which is smelly and hard, and needs to be dealt with, and the most important thing now is the Wucheng Bingmasi! The current official , brothers also know."

"Writing about the Three Kingdoms!" At this time, a sub-rudder below said coldly.

Huang Zhuo's expression was dark, and he said in a deep voice, "That's right, this person has already ambushed many of our brothers, and this person is not easy to deal with."

Qian Liudao: "Third master, why not send a few brothers to ambush and kill this man!"

Pan Jian snorted coldly: "Idiot, not to mention that he is very popular right now, even that nobleman has been killed because of him. If we dare to touch him at this time, it is tantamount to rebellion! Let's just say that he killed a person with a knife earlier , Cousin Lei just fell into a big somersault, why do you move people?"

Qian Liu's face was sullen, and he couldn't hold it for a while, so he said stiffly: "The second master has always been wise and tricky, I don't know if there is any way?"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the Sanhe Gang looked at Pan Jian in unison.

Even Li Jinzhu looked at Pan Jian, who was always resourceful, and said, "Second brother, if you have any good ideas, tell them quickly and let everyone hear."

Pan Jian's eyes flickered coldly, and he said: "I sent someone to Ningrong Street before, this young dignitary has just been conferred a noble title, and the day after tomorrow is the day of the celebration, when the Ningrong Second Mansion will open the doors for a big banquet, let's also visit Visit this young nobleman!"

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