The Red Mansions

Chapter 55 Jia Rong: Uncle Heng, my father... he hasn't been idle lately
The King of Chu looked a little embarrassed, and said: "It's not a personal matter, but also to share the country's worries. Sister Chanyue, for the sake of the Brotherhood, used the seal of the Ministry of Households to issue an IOU to my aunt. Once the autumn grain is transferred to Beijing, the remaining silver taels , I will definitely repay you for my brother."

Li Chanyue curled her lips, the girl's cheeks were as white as jade, and said: "30 taels of IOU? Sorry, my small business does not accept credit."

Princess Jinyang glanced at the King of Chu, and said, "Prince Chu, we should go to other places to find a solution to this matter."

It's not that she is reluctant to part with these extraneous things, she only takes care of an orphan girl, and how much food can she use no matter how fine the three meals a day are?It's just that once the food is allocated, it will definitely not be recovered like the previous time. Corruption is rampant.

And there is something else going on here, the grain stores under King Qi's name are obviously twice as large as hers, and he is in charge of the household department, why can't he even allocate money?
King Chu was about to speak, when Lianxue stepped forward with light steps and said softly, "Your Highness, the manuscript of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that you asked me to pick up has arrived."

Princess Jinyang was overjoyed when she saw this, and said, "Bring it quickly."

Seeing this, the king of Chu knew that he was talking about him, so he smiled and asked, "What kind of manuscript is so affectionate to my aunt?"

His aunt just likes to read these stories and the like, but she doesn't know what to read, it's all the imagination of some poor literati.

Princess Jinyang didn't want to continue to entangle with the King of Chu on the matter of buying grain, so she said, "It's a recent manuscript in Zhaizhong. The opening speech is well written, so I left some meaning."

After the princess Jinyang finished speaking, she ignored the king of Chu, took the manuscript, lowered her beautiful eyes slightly, and read it intently, as if the old lady was reading a book and you don't want to bother me.

The King of Chu's face sank, he picked up the teacup, and sipped it lightly, knowing that he was drying himself.

"Other people serve tea to see off guests, but this aunt, my lord, is chasing people away with books. She is elegant and coquettish, and she is very different from ordinary people."

The King of Chu raised his dark eyes, and glanced at the pretty lady in court clothes, with an inexplicable meaning in his heart.

Li Chanyue's eyebrows and eyes curved into crescent moons, a smile appeared on her white and shiny face, and she said with a smile: "Brother Chu Wang, my mother is fascinated by reading, and she forgets to eat and sleep. This thick stack of manuscripts, It might be dark, let's go horseback riding, let Manager Xie handle your food shopping."

Chu Wangqiang smiled to himself, got up, cupped his hands, and said, "Auntie, my nephew is going back first."

Princess Jinyang raised her flower-like face and said, "Go back, King Chu, I won't see you off, Yue'er, brother Chu."

The King of Chu didn't say anything anymore, his face was indifferent, and he got up and left.

After King Chu left, Princess Jinyang put down the manuscript in her hand, raised her eyes, looked at Lianxue, and said softly: "Do you have other things?"

Lian Xue said softly: "Your Highness is about the author of this manuscript."

With that said, he told all about Jia Heng.

"That Mr. Jia said he wanted to see His Highness, but I don't know what he meant." Lianxue said softly.

The eldest princess of Jinyang raised her eyebrows, with a hint of thought in her charming eyes, she murmured: "Jia Heng, a member of the Jia family? Could it be something in the palace?"

She couldn't help but think about it, as far as she knew, the Jia family sent a daughter to the palace, and now she is serving as a female secretary with her sister-in-law. When she entered the palace last time, she heard it by chance.

Lianxue said: "Your Highness, this Mr. Jia Heng Jia doesn't seem to be related to the Ningrong Second House. He seems to want to renegotiate the price of the manuscript."

The eldest princess of Jinyang has a beautiful face, still cold, looking down at the manuscript in her hand, her soft and flowing eyes glanced at "Linjiang Immortal", and said: "This article is written in the style of a generation of masters, and the word The pen is sharp and sharp, Liu Tong must have lowered his price, since he feels that he is at a disadvantage, let him follow the famous example."

"Yes, Your Highness, is that person still there?" Lianxue asked.

The silver of the embellishing brush of a famous artist is about 1000 taels. Hearing that her master has the same idea as her own, Lianxue's heart twitches slightly.

"As for the person... just disappear, let him write the manuscript well, don't be greedy, you must know that he is white, no matter how much money he has, he is like a child holding gold..."

At this moment, Princess Jinyang knew that she was not from Ning Rong's second residence, so she didn't have much contact with her. In addition, the villain of the king of Chu just came to her door, so she obviously didn't have much desire to see her.

Just as I read down, it was just at the end of the first chapter, my eyes fell on the ending poem, my red lips parted lightly, and I couldn't help chanting: "Hey, human feelings are as snobbish as they are in ancient times, who knows that a hero is a white body? Take it easy Like Yide, he will punish all the heartless people in the world."

Lianxue's face was slightly startled, she raised her eyes to see her own princess's face, and saw that there was a bit of amused look on her beautiful and heavenly face like a peony flower stamen.

"This Jia Heng, my palace didn't say that he betrayed his promise when he saw the benefits, but he was insinuating my snobbish eyes?" The eldest princess of Jinyang said with a beautiful face and a voice like flying jade, and opened the second chapter.

Lianxue said: "Your Highness, then I will inform him."

"Wait a minute, let him come over after dinner, I want to ask who is the snobbery." Princess Jinyang said.

"Yes." Lianxue was surprised, and she responded with a salute, then turned and left.

Princess Jinyang picked up a stack of manuscripts in her hand, got up, walked around the screen, sat on the recliner, and stared at the manuscripts intently.

I didn't realize it just now, but I was fascinated all of a sudden.

It's like seeing the gold and iron horse, the turbulent and chaotic times at the end of Han Dynasty.

There are many stories that are different after all through opera and text, especially the selection of historical materials means that the arrangement of stories is different.

Along the way, I saw Meng De offering a knife, and the eighteen princes begged for Dong.

After reading it, Princess Jinyang covered the scroll, her beautiful eyes revealed a hint of understanding, and she said, "Yuan Shao is the one who has messed up the world for 400 years in the Han family?"

With the insight of this eldest princess of the Han Dynasty, it is natural to see what evil idea Yuan Shao gave to Butcher He, except for the ten regular servants, where there is no need to transfer border soldiers into the house, isn't this asking for trouble?
"Ask later if Jia Heng thinks so?" Princess Jinyang took a sip of tea and continued to read the manuscript.

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Jia Heng wrote the invitation card at home, and because of impermanence, he went to the house of his cousins ​​Dong Qian and Cai Quan in the morning to hand over the invitation card.

Aunt Cai and her husband, the two of them were shopping for various items for the wedding, as well as booking banquets and renting sedan chairs from restaurants.

On this side, Jia Heng had just handed an invitation to the gatekeeper of the Rongguo Mansion and asked him to pass it on to the maid. At this time, it was already noon, and he walked along Ningrong Street to the alley where his home was located.

After lunch, he planned to go to Feng Tang's house and Song Yuan's house in the afternoon.

This side of the room was walking back, looked up, and suddenly saw Jia Rong and a young man with delicate features, even more handsome than Jia Rong, in a blue gown, coming from the direction of Dongfu, also walking towards the wicker alley.

Seeing Jia Heng from a distance, Jia Rong took a few steps quickly and said with a smile: "Uncle Heng, I'm just going to find you. I prepared a light banquet at home, and I came to treat Uncle Heng to a drink to make amends to Uncle Heng. Brother Qiang just happened to be there. My son is here, just to be a witness."

Jia Qiang looked at Jia Heng curiously.

Jia Heng turned around to look at Jia Rong, and said calmly: "I have something to do later, so I can skip the drinking, as long as you have the heart."

Jia Rong smiled and said, "Uncle Heng is busy with getting married recently?"

Seeing Jia Heng's frowning and cold eyes, Jia Rong hurriedly said: "My nephew has no other intentions, but I just heard about Uncle Heng's marriage, so I prepared some Cheng Yi to honor Uncle Heng."

With that said, he took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve.

Jia Heng glanced at Jia Rong, and said, "I don't want to collect your money, you can keep it for yourself."

As he said that, he ignored Jia Rong's clinging and walked away.

Jia Rong had sharp eyes and quick hands, and took Jia Heng's arm again, and said with a playful smile: "Uncle Heng, good Uncle Heng, Brother Qiang and I have prepared a banquet to apologize to Uncle Heng, and Uncle Heng also wants to give his nephew a face It is."

"Another day, I really have something to do today, so I can't get away." Jia Heng said, and was about to push Jia Rong away.

"Uncle Heng, my father...has been busy lately." At this moment, Jia Rong suddenly lowered his voice and said.

(End of this chapter)