Honglouchun

Hearing this, Lin Ruhai understood, looked at Jia Qiang and shook his head with a smile: "Forget it, since you have your own considerations, I won't say more. Just one point, don't let others hold you back. Since you choose to be with him If you take a boat, you must watch over him, and don't cause any disaster."

Jia Qiang nodded when she heard the words, but then shook her head and smiled: "Compared to those Jia family who have the heart of tigers and wolves but only have the power of chickens and dogs, Xue Pan is simply harmless. My aunt is busy these days It's a big deal, maybe I don't know what happened to my Second Uncle Lian recently..."

Lin Ruhai frowned and said, "What is Lian'er doing again?"

Jia Qiang was a little admiring, and said: "Recently, Yangzhou Mansion is restless. I was worried that things here would affect him, so I sent someone to watch him. Unexpectedly, I found out that he and the Jiangnan admiral Liu's family had recently gone away. Very close. Not only did he go back and forth between the Qinhuai River in Jinling and the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou with that third master Liu, but he even had a secret relationship with that third master Liu's concubine. On the boat, he was forced by me a few times, and he still managed to settle down for a while. In the past month or so in Yangzhou, he lived too freely, so he didn't take me seriously again. I sent him to call him Those who returned to the mansion also let him scold them back."

Lin Ruhai was annoyed when he heard the words: "There is such a thing? You really are a jerk!"

His eyes and ears in Yangzhou Mansion are more than ten times stronger than Jia Qiang's, but the situation is really tense recently, so most of the power is used to monitor the eight major salt merchant clans, and there is no extra manpower to manage the prodigal son.

Unexpectedly, Jia Lian would do this!

Lin Ruhai said: "After all, you are a nephew, so it is possible that he does not listen to you. You don't need to pay attention to this matter, Brother Qiang, I will send someone to call him back. Since there is nothing wrong with me, he should go earlier It’s good to go back to the capital.”

As soon as the words were finished, the door was pushed open and Aunt Mei and Daiyu came in.

Two beautifully dressed women came in, and for a moment, the Zhonglin Hall seemed to be lit up.

Aunt Mei is only 26 years old this year, and she is as beautiful as the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

And Daiyu, wearing hibiscus and gold wide-sleeved brocade with pendant flowers, a gilt filigree beaded hairpin on her temples, and red gold and white jade drop bead earrings on her earlobe...

It is as expensive as golden branches and jade leaves, with a pair of star eyes, and it is as clear and graceful as a snow mountain and ice spring, without any trace of worldliness.

These two people are like a peony in full bloom, like a hibiscus just blooming.

Lin Ruhai's xinxing cultivation was much stronger than Jia Qiang's. Facing the beauty of the world, he just nodded and smiled slightly, and said, "Do you know someone from the Xue family has come?"

Aunt Mei looked at Lin Ruhai's gaze with admiration and respect, nodded and smiled and said, "Understood, it's naturally inconvenient for the master to meet his family members. I don't have the status to come forward. It's just that it's not good for the girl to meet alone. When I see you, I hope they don't blame the family for being rude."

Lin Ruhai chuckled and looked at Jia Qiang without saying much.

Jia Qiang shook her head and said: "The Xue family is not frivolous people, especially the second room. To be honest, it's a bit beyond my expectation. Besides, who dares to despise my aunt? Aunt Lin and I respect you, but if outsiders dare Rude, I will drive them away. Aunt Lin has always been teasing me, she is a rude person."

Daiyu was still angry, but now that she heard the words, she couldn't help complaining to Lin Ruhai in a low voice: "Brother Qiang is the most impolite, and he treated the old lady in front of the eldest uncle, the second uncle, and the elder brother Dongfuzhen. They also quarreled in front of each other, and they couldn't win Brother Qiang."

Lin Ruhai knew the general idea about this, but Aunt Mei was quite shocked, her eyes seemed to know Jia Qiang again, she sized up the rebellious son of the Jia family, and asked, "Brother Qiang is still arguing with the elders? Why are you arguing?"

Jia Qiang glanced sideways at a young girl who was complaining, Daiyu was afraid, but instead had a rebellious and excited heart, her eyes were full of playfulness, bit the corner of her lips, and smiled like Jia Qiang I repeated the original tone, and finally said: "... If you dare to insult me ​​today and go into exile for three thousand miles, I will also go to Jingyang Palace to ring the Dengwen drum and Wen Tianque. See you and me in front of you." Life and death! Hee hee! Uncle really doesn’t dare to scold him anymore!” This kind of situation, even for Daiyu, was absolutely explosive.

Perhaps from that day on, Jia Qiang left a shadow of a bad boy in her heart...

Aunt Mei became more and more impressed with this certain person, but Lin Ruhai couldn't help this increasingly naughty daughter, she shook her head and said with a smile: "Okay, brother Qiang has the Supreme Emperor as his guarantor, and some people are really outrageous... But, dear girl, don't imitate him."

Jia Qiang: "..."

He finally carried it all by himself.

"Pfft!"

Seeing his expression like this, Daiyu couldn't help laughing out loud, like a hibiscus blooming.

……

guest house.

Jia Qiang met Xue Ming's wife, Liao Shi, and... Xue Baoqin, who was only 11 years old.

If Daiyu is beautiful and natural, like a hibiscus celestial herb left alone in the world, Baochai is like a snow lotus in the ice field, and the two of them are in the painting, it should be a freehand painting of landscapes and splashes of ink.

Then Xue Baoqin is like a Western realistic oil painting.

It doesn't look that beautiful, but in terms of facial features, every part is exquisite to the extreme.

She is not as handsome as Daiyu, nor as dignified and cold as Baochai. She is just her, graceful, neither fairy nor mysterious, just a truly beautiful embryo.

Xue Pan acted as an intermediary and introduced: "Second Aunt, he is Brother Qiang. I have nothing to say to the Xue family. When I was in Beijing with my mother and younger sister, I lived with him in Lixiangyuan...Now in Nanxing, he It also helped us a lot. The second uncle fell ill, and it was Brother Qiang who found the imperial doctor and the precious medicine from the side, so he was saved. Otherwise, the mourning hall for the second uncle will be set up at this moment... "

"You kid..."

Mrs. Liao couldn't do anything to hear him talking nonsense. After being annoyed, she looked at Jia Qiang who was described by Zhilan Yushu, saluted and said, "Thank you for saving my life!"

Xue Baoqin followed suit.

Jia Qiang hurriedly avoided the ceremony, gave her a little support, and said: "The two families are family friends and old relatives, but it's just a matter of duty. The husband should have come to see Second Uncle Xue in person, but the husband himself is also recuperating in bed. An imperial physician was sent by the Emperor of Beijing urgently after receiving the will, to entrust Long En. The master ordered me to make a confession in front of Second Uncle Xue and Madam."

How dare Xue Ming and Liao Shi bear it, Xue Ming couldn't move, so he ordered Xue Biao to kneel and kowtow on his behalf.

Liao Shi and Xue Baoqin returned the salute again...

After the ceremony, Jia Qiang smiled again and said, "Because my teacher's wife passed away early, Aunt Mei has been taking care of the backyard of the Yamen in Yanyuan. Now I can hear Mrs. and..." She looked at Baoqin, but she didn't know what to call her.

Xue Pan shouted from the side: "Brother Qiang is just like me, just call Qin'er sister."

Then he said to Xue Baoqin: "Qin'er will treat him the same as me in the future, just call him brother."

Xue Ming and Liao Shi laughed and said, "It should be like this."

Xue Baoqin was not shy, she bowed her knees generously and called out: "Brother Qiang."

Jia Qiang responded with a smile, took out a jade pendant from her sleeve pocket, and said, "Take it as a fan pendant."

This jade pendant was prepared by Aunt Mei for him before he came here.

Although Jia Qiang was impatient, she was so polite...

Just like before, Liao Shi also gave him a meeting gift.

After finishing the greetings, Jia Qiang said: "Auntie and Aunt Lin have prepared a table in the backyard, shall I bring Madam and Sister Qin in?"

Mrs. Liao hurriedly said: "It's impossible. It's not that I took Joe frivolously. It's just that I was also sick and was taking medicine. The doctor told me not to use more than some clear porridge every day. And... I suffer from It's phlegm disease, if it's not clean, it's not easy to disturb the inside, and I'm afraid of getting sick. But Qin'er can go to thank my aunt and girl on my behalf."

After all, he asked Xue Biao to fetch the gift list she brought and handed it to Xue Baoqin.

When Jia Qiang heard the words, she didn't force her, and she understood, "That's fine, then I'll just take Sister Qin in. Ma'am, I'd like to rest..." After a pause, she asked again: "Is Madam suffering from phlegm?"

Liao sighed and said, "It is this incurable disease."

Jia Qiang smiled and said: "Since it's all lung diseases, the precious medicine in Tianning Temple is actually effective for Madam's illness. The imperial physician will come to see Second Uncle Xue in the evening, and Madam will take a look at it then. It was a blessing to be saved.”

As soon as these words came out, Xue Ming, Xue Biao and Bao Qin all became excited.

Especially Xue Ming, it seems that the relationship between the husband and wife is very good, and at the moment he is more concerned about treating the illness than himself, and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, the imperial physician is very skilled, and that precious medicine... will surely cure the disease. Your illness!"

"Father! Mother!"

Xue Biao and Xue Baoqin's brothers and sisters were naturally full of surprises. Ever since Xue Ming and his wife suffered from serious diseases one after another, the two brothers and sisters felt like a huge rock weighing ten thousand catties in their hearts.