The Red Mansions

Chapter 703 The so-called death of a person is good
In Zhen's house——

"Godfather." Shui Xin looked at the young man walking quickly from the corridor, with joy on his face, the petite girl rushed into Jia Heng's arms like a butterfly.

Jia Heng said "Hey" and immediately hugged Shui Xin, and the little girl let out a "giggle" giggle and said with a soft smile, "Xin Xin, do you want to be a godfather?"

Because Shui Xin is her own goddaughter, there is a reason for meeting the sisters of the Zhen family, so there is no need to worry about others being suspicious.

"Think about it." Xinxin said softly, and kissed Jia Heng on the cheek, with a smile on her rosy face.

Jia Heng was also a little bit attracted by Shui Xin, and said softly: "Godfather's face is covered with sweat, you still kiss."

Frolicking with Shui Xin, hugging the little loli, she walked up to her and looked up at the young woman Huaxin who was standing under the eaves of the corridor.

Princess Chu Zhen Qing was wearing a vermilion embroidered dress, her beautiful green silk, and her peach heart bun, but it was not the kind of graceful and glamorous makeup, but coquettish and charming, just like a poppy with thorns.

Under the curved willow-leaf eyebrows, Zhen Qing's long and narrow phoenix eyes faintly gleamed with a clear light, her cold and glamorous face even had a bit of meanness, she looked at the young man with a half-smile, her delicate lips opened like rose petals , asked: "Brother Heng, when did you come here?"

Zhen Xueyu paused, licked her pink lips, raised her eyes, and looked at Jia Heng who was hugging Shui Xin. Seeing the closeness between father and daughter, she couldn't help feeling an unspeakable joy in her heart.

Jia Heng looked at Princess Chu Zhen Qing, the smile faded from his face, his eyes were as calm as a deep, and he asked: "I just arrived, why did the two princesses go south?"

He went down this trip by boat, not only did he not hide the truth from the salt merchant, but also did not hide the truth from Princess Chu Zhenqing. Of course, unless he sneaked in disguise and made a private visit, it would be difficult for him to be ignorant.

However, Zhen Qing immediately caught up with him, and she didn't know what she was planning.

"The old matriarch is not feeling well in Jinling. My sister and I plan to go home and have a look." Princess Chu Zhen Qing said, sighing softly, and the smile on her face gradually faded away.

When the two met again, because there were nuns and maids around, they were very ordinary conversations, but they didn't go straight to the point.

Zhen Xue wore a dark blue long dress with wide sleeves and flowing light, standing elegantly, with a face as clear as snow, with a serene look on her face. At this moment, her lips were tightly pursed, her eyebrows and eyes were soft, like a pool of clear water, she looked at the boy faintly, but also No answer.

Jia Heng walked in with Shui Xin in his arms, and asked, "Did Zeng Yan invite the imperial physician?"

Although keeping a distance from the Zhen family, there is nothing taboo about this kind of courteous greeting.

"I've seen it all. It's also because the old lady is old. It's rare to see people in their seventies. The old lady is in her eighties. She suffered a lot in the early years and left some roots of illness. Later, she fled and entered the palace to serve the nobleman. " Princess Chu Zhen Qing said softly.

Jia Heng heard the words and said in a low voice: "It's not easy for the old man."

The prosperity of the Zhen family began with the old lady Zhen, or in other words, there was the old lady Zhen first, and then the Zhen family, and then gradually became inseparable from the royal family, and finally became a white glove.

"The old majesty also mentioned Brother Heng in the letter, saying that Brother Heng hadn't seen each other when he was in Huai'an Mansion. She is getting older, so she may not be able to see each other in the future." Princess Chu Zhen Qing ordered the female officer Serve Jia Heng tea.

Jia Heng put down Shui Xin, spread out his hands, but saw a rattle, which started to shake slightly.

"Godfather, I want this." Shui Xin stretched out Bai Shengsheng's little hand with a smile on his face.

Jia Heng smiled and said, "It was originally given to my family Xinxin."

Giving the rattle to Shui Xin, she rubbed the bangs on the little Lolita's forehead. At this moment, seeing the two of them talking, the mother hugged the little Lolita over.

"Mother, the rattle my godfather gave me." At this time, Shui Xin came to Zhen Xue with a clean smile on her pink face.

Zhen Xue raised her beautiful eyes, and couldn't help but glance at the young man with knife-like brows and warm eyes, but seeing the young man's eyes cast over, she felt upset for a while, and turned to look at her daughter, the beautiful eyebrows Seeing He Xu's smile, she said in a low voice, "Xin Xin, let's go play."

Concubine Chu Zhen Qing looked at Jia Heng and asked: "After this trip, if Brother Heng has gone to Jinling, see if he can meet the old lady?"

Jia Heng nodded and said, "If I stay in Jinling, I will pay a visit."

An octogenarian who is dying of old age, rather than seeing him, listen to what he can say. The so-called people are dying, and their words are good.

"Zi Yu, haven't you had dinner yet?" Zhen Qing smiled brightly between her brows and eyes, and she left the pear flower wooden chair with her round and crispy mopan.

Jia Heng smiled, and said softly, "I'm in a hurry to see Xinxin, but there's no need to eat."

As she said that, she turned to look at Xinxin... Zhen Xue, who was next to her, had a demure posture, like an angry little daughter-in-law.

Zhen Xue was pursing her pink lips, while the jade hand wearing the ring on her right hand quickly retracted into her sleeve, under the slender eyebrows of willow leaves, her eyes were caught off guard, and she happened to meet the pair of calm and deep, with a bit of playfulness. colored eyes.

The heart of the young woman in Huaxin couldn't help jumping, she avoided her eyes and looked out the window.

But I don't know when, the setting sun in summer shines on the carved bed cabinet at night, and the originally flustered mind settles down, but a joy that I didn't realize was surging in my heart.

Princess Chu Zhen Qing said: "Mommy, go and call Chun'er over."

When she came out this time, Zhen Qing also brought a son, Chen Chun, because Zhen Qing had a strong temperament, although she was a little gentle, she didn't dare to be too naughty.

Zhen Qing said: "Brother Heng, this is Chun'er, Chun'er, this is your Uncle Heng."

The child seemed a little afraid of Jia Heng, and called "Uncle Heng", then looked at Jia Heng timidly, and lowered his head again.

Seeing her shy son, Zhen Qing frowned, feeling displeased, so she could only explain: "Usually he's quite mischievous, maybe he's a little seasick, and it's not comfortable to sit on."

Jia Heng glanced at Chen Chun, and said softly: "The child is not acclimatized, the princess should pay attention to it."

At this time, the child mortality rate is relatively high.

Zhen Qing glanced at the young man, feeling extremely annoyed. What kind of eyes did this man have? Sure enough, he had different faces towards Xinxin and her son.

Zhen Xuerou said: "Sister, do you want to rest here for two more days?"

Zhen Qing said in a low voice: "It's okay to rest for a day first."

The few people had dinner together, Princess Chu Zhen Qing asked the nanny to take Shui Xin away, and immediately went into a study room to drink tea and chat, and sat opposite each other.

Jia Heng looked at Zhen Qing, who was dressed in vermilion, stood up from her seat, took Zhen Qing's jade hand, smiled and said: "Princess, long time no see."

Seeing this, Zhen Qing stretched out her hand to break away from Jia Heng's hand, her brows stood upside down, her eyes were filled with shame and indignation, she lowered her voice, and scolded coquettishly, "Let go of me, you bastard!"

Jia Heng said in a low voice: "I've already helped drive people out, how about pretending?"

Zhen Qing: "..."

Retired others, just wanted to know if this person went to Yangzhou to check the salt affairs, and the next move, it was not convenient for him at all.

Jia Heng said: "If you talk like this again, doesn't the princess think you can hear it more clearly?"

Not much to say, the shadows are deceiving.

Zhen Qing snorted coldly, then stretched out her hand and lightly pushed Jia Heng's shoulder, but her strength was no match for Jia Heng, she struggled a little, Xue Ni's cheeks were as red as blood, almost limp on Jia Heng's body, clear and cold The narrow and long phoenix eyes saw the look of anger, and cursed again and again, but still couldn't help asking: "Bastard, what are you going to Yangzhou for?"

Jia Heng said in a low voice: "Wangfei asks too much."

Zhen Qing looked gloomy, and said coldly: "I'll know if you don't tell me, it's just to investigate the salt affairs."

After all, they have an intimate relationship, and they talk about everything, except for some other things, and they don't shy away from it much.

Jia Heng looked at Zhen Qing's face full of embarrassment and annoyance, and asked with scrutiny, "Princess, do you know something?"

"What can I know?" Zhen Qing frowned slightly, her eyes dodged, and she said in a low voice: "The matter of the salt affairs is a messy water, and there are many people involved, what are you going to do?"

With this person's ruthlessness, he was afraid of resorting to such thunderous methods.

Jia Heng said: "Is the concubine playing tricks on me?"

As he spoke, he sat on his lap holding Princess Chu Zhen Qing.

Princess Chu pinched Jia Heng's leg, frowned, and said in a low voice: "You bastard, let people see you."

Zhen Xue looked at the two who were kissing each other, and at some point, the jade hand hidden in her sleeve clenched her fists tightly, her sister and him became more and more unscrupulous, and now they started to face her.

Although it is not unheard of, but it was detoxification at that time, what is going on with the two of them now?
Jia Heng whispered, "The Zhen family is also involved."

The spice on Zhen Qing's body was a kind of spice that was paid as a tribute to the palace, and it had a strong smell.

"Our family is on business in the palace." Zhen Qing was startled when she heard this, and said hastily.

Jia Heng said: "Princess, it's best to be like this. If it involves the Zhen family, then don't blame me for being cruel."

"You... are cruel? Our two families are family friends, and you bullied us like this. Why are you so heartless and ungrateful?" Zhen Qing said angrily. The bastard was still restless in her arms, so she said this Wait for the words that threaten her.

Jia Heng said in a low voice: "Because we are family friends and have such friendship, I don't want to say that you are not predictable. Now the court is going to do big things, and money is inseparable. When the Han Dynasty was in its prime, these insects were greedy for ink. The court I can still tolerate it, now that the state affairs are difficult and money is needed everywhere, how can they be allowed to run rampant, the princess had better take care of the overall situation, and tell me how much you know about the salt affairs."

Princess Chu Zhen Qing narrowed her beautiful eyes slightly, her heart felt a chill, she seemed to be on pins and needles, this bastard really went for the salt affairs, said: "Only you? Do you know that the salt affairs are a sum of money from top to bottom? Bad debts, intertwined, don't be used as a gunman, especially if you don't know it."

Jia Heng whispered in his ear: "The princess is also using me as a weapon?"

Princess Chu Zhen Qing squinted her beautiful eyes and said in embarrassment: "You are so rude."

Jia Heng looked serious, and said in a low voice: "The Ze of a Gentleman will be killed in the fifth life, not only because Mrs. Zhen is getting old, but some people are also old."

Some things are hard to say directly, but Zhen Qing is a smart person with a delicate mind and can see through a little bit.

In fact, it's useless to say these things, the Zhen family can't turn back, that is to say, even if it sells everything, it won't be a deficit, but it can save some bones and blood, so it won't be like the Niu family and the Jia family in the original book.

Zhen Qing's delicate body trembled, a cold light flashed in her beautiful eyes, she clearly understood Jia Heng's subtext, her voice trembled with fear, "You...you want to touch the Zhen family?"

Jia Heng said: "No one wants to touch the Zhen family. You are the Princess of Chu. If you live in peace, you can keep your wealth and honor for several generations. Why do you think you should?"

Zhen Qing said: "Shut up..."

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore, you always want to trick me, and I will let you trick me later." Jia Heng said in a low voice.

Concubine Chu Zhen Qing turned around from the fear just now, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she snorted, her snow-skinned and beautiful face turned red with embarrassment, and cursed: "Bastard, why don't you die!"

This man is used to bullying their sisters, and now he is even more skilled than his own wife. Does she give him too good looks?
Zhen Xue glanced at the two "Lang Qingqieyi" who were embracing each other, frowned, she couldn't bear to see her, Yingying got up, and said, "Sister, I'm going to see Xinxin."

"Sister, don't go." Zhen Qing got up quickly, approached, took Zhen Xue's arm, and whispered: "If my sister is gone, why am I still here?"

If the two concubines greeted Jia Heng together, then it was the reunion of old friends of Zhen and Jia.

Jia Heng approached, pulled the other arm, looked at Zhen Xue, who had a bright appearance and soft brows and eyes, and was silent for a moment, "Leave it."

Zhen Xue's tender body trembled slightly, she turned her face to Jia Heng, but she still didn't say a word, but the steps she was moving under her skirt stopped.

Jia Heng approached, stretched out his hand to caress Zhen Xue's face, looked at the pale beauty, and said in a low voice: "Xue'er has become less clear recently, and she is frowning."

Under Zhen Xuexiu's brows, her eyelashes hid her panic, she closed her beautiful eyes slightly, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, Uncle Yong Ning cares."

Jia Heng didn't say much, and stretched out his hand to gently hug Zhen Xue, but the beauty whispered: "There is nothing to do with it."

Zhen Xue's words fell, she was taken aback for a moment, but she felt that the young man's hand had been withdrawn, the beauty paused for a moment, her heart couldn't help but feel an unspeakable resentment, every time she bullied her, she insisted on looking at her. Do you look like a woman?Why can't you understand her difficulties?Time after time, when did she escape?

Jia Heng stared at Zhen Xue who was biting her lower lip with her white teeth, but she saw that the beauty closed her eyes slightly, and tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes.

In fact, compared to Zhen Qing's sharpness, Zhen Xue is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, with a stubbornness in her heart. This is clearly waiting for him to give in. She shouldn't have been too forceful before. It's also possible that... the roots are broken, isn't it?"

"You... um~" Zhen Xue heard the words, but before she could say anything, she saw the shadow approaching, approaching with warm breath.

After coming over for a while, Jia Heng hugged Zhen Xue, who was delicate and weak, and said in a low voice: "Xue'er, if you feel guilty, you still hate your sister, a poisonous woman, because she caused you!"

Zhen Qing: "???"

No, the bastard!The first time you blamed her, can you still blame her last time?And this time, can he still blame her?It is again provoking the relationship between her and her sister.

However, this is also good, the two of them are already in love, like glue, it will be easy to handle in the future, it is best to have another son and a half daughter, then it will be easier to handle this bastard.

But this Jia Heng, married the Qin family for a while, but still has no heirs, so there is something wrong with it?

Jia Heng hugged Zhen Xue to the bed in the inner room, and said in a low voice: "Xue'er, if it really doesn't work, just treat it as me forcing you, okay, don't cry."

Zhen Xue just closed her beautiful eyes, without saying a word, the tears accumulated in her bright eyes burst out, and the tears flowed down Ruxue's face.

Jia Heng looked at Zhen Qing, who was stunned on the spot, her expression changed, and she looked like a "vicious second girl", and frowned, "Hey, who is that? His eyes are as cold as poisonous snakes, what's wrong with it? Come quickly and give it to your sister." Apologize."

Zhen Qing: "..."

No, her eyes are as cold as a poisonous snake?Will she put her thoughts on her face?The one who killed a thousand knives said she was risking bad water?He also said that she is a poisonous snake, she will poison him to death sooner or later!

Zhen Qing snorted coldly, her phoenix eyes were full of evil, and asked: "Jia Ziyu, last time you could say it was detoxification, what else do you want to say this time?"

"If you hadn't been like a snake and a scorpion back then, scheming against me and your sister, how would you be today?" Jia Heng looked at Princess Chu Zhen Qing coldly, pulled the beauty's arm without any explanation, and said in a low voice: "I see You are the residual poison that has not been eliminated, come here."

As she said that, she got up suddenly, looked down from the heights, looked directly at Zhen Qing's eyes, and said in a low voice: "Bitch, kneel down!"

"You, you bastard! Who are you scolding? You shameless person!" Zhen Qing cursed angrily, her jade face flushed like a peach pistil, her heart was filled with embarrassment.

I can only feel humiliation and anger intertwined in my heart, blending together, but it seems to give birth to an indescribable sense of joy, as if just now "You maidservant, kneel!" self-sufficient.

But after all, it is a person with a strong heart, who did not succumb to the bewitching magic and dispelled the strangeness in a moment, but glared at Jia Heng instead.

Under Jia Heng's brows, her eyes were a little more concentrated, and she secretly said, Zhen Qing's self-awareness is really strong, but there is indeed a trace of indescribable trait hidden in it, it can only be said that it is not overnight.

Maybe wait a minute, maybe it will work better?
Zhen Xue looked at her sister who was gnashing her teeth at that person, and sighed quietly, ignoring the bickering two, quietly waiting for the gift and judgment of fate.

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The next day, Jia Heng, who was refreshed, accompanied Daiyu around the entire Kaifeng prefecture, visited several places of interest, and then went south by boat the next day. Slowly following Jia Heng's fleet, the two ships stopped in Xuzhou to replenish fruits, vegetables and fresh water.

Yangzhou
After more than ten days of sailing with Yang Fan, Jia Heng met the gatekeeper Fang and other bureaucrats in the river yamen in Huai'an Mansion.

At this moment, it was mid-afternoon, the Jianghuai area was lightly raining, and the sky and the earth were vast. Although the local government of Yangzhou had not been notified in advance in writing, it was unknown where Yuan Jichong, the magistrate of Yangzhou, got the news of his going south and led the officials of Yangzhou to greet him at the ferry. , a dense mass of blackness.

Jia Heng looked at the crowd of officials holding umbrellas at the ferry, and the crowd who were obviously local gentry in Yangzhou. It could be said that there were also the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou.

His complexion turned gloomy, and he glanced at Liu Jixian, who was guarding him with an umbrella, and asked, "What's going on?"

Liu Jixian said in a low voice: "Commander, I will stay in Xuzhou and Huai'an for a day, and Yangzhou may have received the news."

Jia Heng: "..."

Well, this is Zhen Qing's fault, it's not a big deal after all.

Under the attention of Yuan Jichong, the magistrate of Yangzhou and others, Jia Heng got off the boat under the guards in brocade clothes, looked at the officials surrounded and greeted him, and his eyes fell on Yuan Jichong, the magistrate of Yangzhou, who was headed by slightly fat and fair-skinned, and said: "Master Yuan is really well-informed."

When I came to Yangzhou to dispatch a troop of water-soluble soldiers due to river floods, I met Yuan Jichong, the former prefect of Nanyang and now the prefect of Yangzhou.

"When Uncle Yongning was staying in Huai'an Mansion, the lower officials heard the news and were overjoyed. They thought about it day and night, and waited eagerly." Yuan Jichong complimented him with a smile on his face, "The name of Yongning Bowei is known all over the world. The folks in Yangzhou Prefecture have long been looking forward to seeing your heroic appearance."

(End of this chapter)