The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

"The biggest promise I can make to you is to take the blame and send me to my death." Jia Lian repeated.

The fireworks in Jia Zheng's yard soared into the sky with a whoosh, and exploded into a fleeting and brilliant epiphyllum.

Countless fine dust falls on Shui Rong's shoulders under the light of the glazed glass carried by Jia Lian.

Shui Rong's heart jumped up, staring at Jia Lian's eyes that were still blooming with countless peach blossoms in the dark, his heart was stable and flustered.

Jia Lian reached out to brush the fine dust off Shui Rong's shoulders, and before Shui Rong could speak, he opened his mouth first: "Since you are my brother-in-law, you should get rid of those problems of giving away Qianxiang sweat towels and wagtail rosary beads." Putting the glass lamp in his hand into Shui Rong's hand, he turned and went out, and when he reached the entrance of the alley, he still got into the sedan chair.

After entering the Rongguo Mansion through the West Corner Gate and getting out of the sedan chair, Zhao Tianliang whispered excitedly, "Second Master is very capable. When Second Master left, King Beijing Jing was still standing in the alley in a daze."

"Hush—" Jia Lian raised his fingers and hissed.

Zhao Tianliang grinned happily.

Zhao Tiandong said with a smile: "No wonder Second Grandma is so devoted to Second Master. As for the sweet words that Second Master said, even a rude man like me... Hehe."

"Hey." Jia Lian imitated Zhao Tiandong and let out a dry hey, folded his arms and looked up at the full moon in the sky, and said impatiently, "It's the night of the full moon again, I only hope that your second grandma has already fallen asleep..." Looking at the shadow wall Then a person stood up and immediately stopped talking.

Zhao Tianliang didn't stop talking for a while, and followed Jia Lian's words: "I don't know why Second Master's body is so weak. When he came out of Second Grandma's yard, he rubbed his waist and his legs were sore."

"Cough cough." Zhao Tiandong clenched his fists and coughed.

Zhao Tianliang shut his mouth belatedly, looked around, and saw Xu Qingheng wrapped in a crane cloak, standing on the edge of the screen wall like a husband-watching stone from a distance.

"Why did you come to the front yard?" Jia Lian asked.

Xu Qingheng sneered and said, "Come and hear what your master and servant have to say about me." With both hands on the side of the crane cloak, he swept Jia Lian up and down with sideways eyes, and said lightly, "Go back."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "You go back to the backyard first, I'll go to the study to get something. Go ahead, I'll watch you enter the door before turning around." She stared at Xu Qingheng with pulsating eyes.

Xu Qingheng was afraid of being coaxed by him and did not dare to look at him, so he just said: "Come quickly." Then, like a crane, he dexterously walked around the screen wall.

When Xu Qingheng's footsteps were far away, Jia Lian asked Zhao Tianliang, "Where is the medicine I didn't want last time?"

"I see Second Master rubbing his waist all the time, looking for medicine with good intentions, but Second Master said no." Zhao Tianliang said with a smile.

"Stop talking nonsense, bring the medicine soon." Jia Lian said, and sat down in the outer room. Seeing Zhao Tianliang brought the medicine and a bowl of longan soup, he drank the soup and took the medicine.

"You can't take this medicine too much, once or twice is enough. I don't know how the second grandma harvested the second master in such a young age and thin body." Zhao Tianliang said with a smile.

Jia Lian scolded: "You're so confused? You dare to say any nonsense." After sending Zhao Tianliang home, he sat down again, and when his body became hot and the medicine took effect, he reckoned that this would save Xu Qingheng from misunderstanding, so he asked Da Go across the courtyard.

Entering the Dakua courtyard, I touched the front of the room, and pushed the door, but saw that the door didn't move at all, as if it was locked from the inside.

"Qingheng, open the door." Jia Lian shouted.

Xu Qingheng said at the door: "I've already fallen asleep, you can go back upstairs and sleep, lest you have back pain tomorrow."

"Open the door quickly, don't let people see the joke." Jia Lian said anxiously, and when she heard Wu'er, Liu'er, and Wen Yu approaching, she waved them back to their room and went to sleep.

"I said I'm asleep already."

"Then you stand farther away, I'm going to kick the door." Jia Lian said decisively, secretly resenting Xu Qingheng for not saying it earlier, otherwise he wouldn't have to take medicine, gritted his teeth and kicked at the carved wooden door fiercely. With a bang, half the door came down.

Wrapped in clothes and holding a candle, Xu Qingheng looked at Jia Lian in surprise, "Are you confused by drinking?" As soon as the words fell, Jia Lian hugged her horizontally.

"Hey candle." After Xu Qingheng finished speaking, the candle in his hand fell from the candlestick and went out on the ground, "How much wine do you drink?"

Jia Lian didn't say a word, felt the bed in the dark, and put Xu Qingheng on it.

"Ouch." Xu Qingheng exclaimed.

"Don't bark." Jia Lian covered her mouth.

Xu Qingheng whimpered first, then babbled, then lost his tone, and finally fell silent.It took her a long time to feel someone slapping her face before she woke up.

"Are you all right?"

"He's not dead yet." Xu Qingheng spat, turned around, opened the tent lightly, saw that it was already bright outside, and when he was about to get up, his body was heavy and unable to move as if he was revived after death.

"Even though you are old, you shouldn't say that." Jia Lian leaned on his arm in the bed, and seeing her puffy, he wanted to know that he would not take the medicine. Give me a good face.

Xu Qingheng struggled to get up, but after repeated efforts and couldn't get up, he wrapped himself in a quilt and asked Jia Lian, "Why did you do this last night?"

"No reason."

"Zhao Tianliang said you were false."

"..." Jia Lian was silent.

Xu Qingheng heard the servants moving the door, and asked Jia Lian in a low voice, "When will it be available?"

"have what?"

"I asked knowingly. The old lady and wife of my natal family have also asked several times. I went to Xue's house a few years ago and saw that Ping'er has a big belly. Aunt Xue said that judging by the shape of her belly, she probably wants to add a sister. Hi Grandma Xue has prepared my sister's clothes and mattress right now."

"Why worry about this? You worry about it when you're tired of living a clean life." Jia Lian sat up, got his clothes and put them on, got out of bed, and said to Xu Qingheng: "If you want to, just call our two pugs It’s okay to call a son, feed him and dress him the same way, if the dog is clever enough to call his parents, he’s considered a talent; if he can’t learn it, he’s raising an unfilial son.”

"Your son is a pug." Xu Qingheng cursed while sitting on the bed.

"But I don't have a son." Jia Lian smiled, turned and left.

The speaker was unintentional, Xu Qingheng was stabbed by this sentence, and felt a little lonely for no reason. After counting, Jia Lian had been home for several months, but she had no news at all; and from the beginning to the end, she was the only one. One person worried about this matter, Jia Lian didn't put any thought on it at all.

"Grandma, are you up yet? The imperial doctor who gave Ping An pulse has already gone to the old lady's side." Wu'er asked outside the tent.

"Understood, get up now." Xu Qingheng said, finally got up, washed up, because the door of this room was broken, so he asked the imperial doctor to go to the wing room to feel the pulse.

This time it is a doctor Pang who specializes in gynecology.

Physician Pang sat on the stool by the bed, waited for the maid to cover Xu Qingheng's outstretched wrist with a veil, then gave her a hand to check her pulse, then left after a while, and said: "Grandma's bones are very good."

Xu Qingheng sat on the bed, grabbed the quilt of the hundred sons and grandsons and asked: "If you are in good health, how can there be no news?"

Imperial Physician Pang didn't know that Meng's son was not Jia Lian's son, Xu Qingheng was so anxious only when Jia Lian already had a concubine's eldest son. Take some tonics and take care of it."

"Thank you, Imperial Physician Pang." Xu Qingheng thanked him in the tent, and when Imperial Physician Pang left, he got out of bed, and walked out of the wing door listlessly. When he saw Yuanyang coming, he asked, "Second Master has gone to Shenji Camp?"

"Yes, Second Master said he would stay in the camp for two days, and asked Second Mistress to pack two pieces of clothes for him and send them to him." Yuanyang said with a smile.

"Understood." Just as Xu Qingheng finished speaking, she saw two pugs stand up lawlessly and put them on her lap, raised their legs and pushed the dogs aside, then went back to the room to collect four sets of clothes and a new set of bedding and pillows It is sent.Just as she was about to go back to her room to sleep for a while, she saw Xiangyun walking over with a smile on her face and saying, "Sister-in-law, the east is here to announce the good news. Another brother has been added."

Xu Qingheng shook his head and sighed: "The Chen family is prosperous."

"That's right, the old lady said that brother-in-law Chen's family is going to occupy the magpie's nest—" Xiangyun quickly bit his tongue, smiled, and turned to Yingchun again.

Xu Qingheng smiled, and didn't take Xiangyun's words to heart, turned around and went to the back building, first read the book for a while in the back building, then took Jia Lian's flute to learn for a while, and finally his eyes became astringent, and he He went upstairs and lay down on Jia Lian's bed and fell asleep.

After sleeping drowsily for a long time, she felt someone pushing her. When she opened her eyes, she saw Jia Lian standing beside the bed.

Xu Qingheng was arrested and sat up in a panic, then calmly smiled at Jia Lian and said, "Didn't you come back in two days?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "On the way, I met the long history of Prince Zhongshun's residence. He said that after the Qingming Festival, the emperor and queen mother would go to the Shenji camp to sit for a while after going out for a spring outing. Today, they will not go. The princes probably want Follow along. I’m going to prepare in Shenji Camp, and I won’t be able to go home for a few months, so I’ll come back and pack my things.” Then, with a twitch of his hand, he opened the pillow and read half of the "Taiping Jing" under the pillow. "Take it out, and it's like strolling in the courtyard, going to and from the house, and gathering the books he wants to read and the piano he wants to use one by one.

"...I came to sleep here because the door needs to be repaired." Xu Qingheng sat by the bed and argued.

"Sleep as soon as you sleep, and I didn't tell you not to sleep." Jia Lian went downstairs with a smile.

Xu Qingheng puffed his face, stood up suddenly and followed downstairs, sneered, "What if your son touches your things?"

"I don't have a son." Jia Lian thought that a group of rough men lived in the Shenji camp, and the tea was not very good, so he opened the cabinet again, and was about to bring a few bottles of rose water with him. Come on, it's not good to be too ostentatious, so I put it back.

While he was busy, he suddenly heard a clatter, and when he turned around, he saw Xu Qingheng pushing the place where he was gathered together to the ground with his face flushed.

"What's going on?" Jia Lian frowned, seeing Wu'er rushing in to pack his things, she said to Wu'er, "Go out."

Wu'er saw that Jia Lian's face was very bad, so he turned around and went out.

"You put it away for me." Jia Lian said.

"No charge."

"Really not to accept?" Jia Lian asked again.

Xu Qingheng twisted his temper and turned his face away.

"Okay." Jia Lian said a word, bent down by himself, and put the books, paper and pens on the floor, and a complete set of tools for carving peach pits on the table one by one. He did not order anyone to tidy up, but tidied things up by himself. , packed a bundle, held the piano in one hand, and went out with the bundle in the other.

Before he walked outside the door, he felt warm behind him, and when he lowered his head, he saw Xu Qingheng's arms tightly wrapped around his waist, dragging him not to let him go.

"What are you crazy about?" Jia Lian turned his head and saw Wu'er coming, so he handed Wu'er the piano and the bundle and told her to take it outside.

Jia Lian turned around and hugged Xu Qingheng lightly, patted her on the shoulder, and comforted her: "Okay, okay, I'm leaving, you can sleep with me if you like."

"That's not the case." Xu Qingheng raised his face.

Seeing her tears, Jia Lian said, "What's the matter? I didn't flirt with you, and I didn't ignore you. Why are you angry for no reason? If you miss your old lady, Just ask Yun'er to take you back."

"That's not the case." Xu Qingheng stomped anxiously.

"That's too idle? If that's the case, you can take the money from the mansion and buy whichever piece of land you see is good. Or go to Xue's house and ask how our business is going." Jia Lian's voice was calm. , but a little impatient in my heart.

Xu Qingheng hugged Jia Lian tightly, neither crying nor speaking, let go of his hand for a long time and said: "I'm fine, you go." Then he went upstairs slowly.

Jia Lian saw that she didn't even have shoes on, and she couldn't walk quickly, so she went up the stairs. Seeing her sitting by the bed in a daze, she sat on the footsteps in front of the bed and put on her socks and embroidered shoes for her. .

"Why can't we be husband and wife?" Xu Qingheng asked in a daze, seeing Jia Lian frown in doubt, he said again: "I'm talking about children."

Jia Lian frowned, and said with a smile, "I don't know why you are angry about this. Didn't I say that I will fully cooperate with you?"

Xu Qingheng said with blushing cheeks: "You... Hey, you know that your family and our family are waiting for us. Why am I the only one who is anxious about this matter? Why are you always so careless when I tell you? You It made me feel very lonely, like a person surrounded by thousands of troops, asking for help, but you just watched the fun with a smile on your face."

"I was negligent." Jia Lian said sincerely, then leaned on the bed, raised her head slightly and said, "Whenever you talk about a happy life, you will inevitably have a group of children. I don't mind having a son and a half—— "

"Mind?" Xu Qingheng was startled, he had never seen anyone else say that in his life.

"If it does, I like it very much, but if it doesn't, wouldn't it be more free and easy? I can move forward and retreat freely in the court without any burden. When you are at home, you can do whatever you like."

Xu Qingheng was taken aback again, and said in a daze: "It's only now that I understand that you only want to play in the world, and I'm just a part of your game."

Jia Lian held both hands and said, "Why do you have so many emotions? It would be the best if you can play with me in the world; if not, just manage your own happy life, and I will definitely I will fully cooperate with you. If you want a gentle and capable husband, I will be your gentle and capable husband. If you want a smart and smart child, I will try my best to cooperate with you. However, if I am obsessed with managing such a happy life like you ', I can't."

Xu Qingheng immediately understood Jia Lian's meaning. As Jia Lian's bedside person, she more or less understood that what Jia Lian did was very dangerous, and Jia Lian was obsessed with doing that dangerous thing; if he was asked to support his family in peace, it would be a very torture his business.Even the "offspring" in the eyes of others, in his eyes, is nothing more than "future troubles".In this way, he can at best "don't mind".

"What do you think?" Jia Lian asked.

Before Xu Qingheng's eyes, Jia Lian frowned slightly and endured the child's peach stone, with both hands spread flat on his knees, he took a breath, and then exhaled, "People's words are terrible, and they are all on me. , how do you ask me to play with you in the world?"

"Then take good care of your body. When I come back, I will cooperate with you with all my strength." Jia Lian sat up from the footrest, saw Xu Qingheng sitting in a daze, then reached out to hug her, and lightly kissed her lips. Gently, just as he was about to stop, he saw Xu Qingheng holding his hand and leaning his cheek against him, and began to cry.

"Second Master, Mr. Ge is already waiting in the front yard." Wu'er outside the building shouted.

"Understood." Jia Lian said to the outside world, patted Xu Qingheng's back lightly, and comforted him: "I'll give you whatever you want, don't cry."

"You can't give it." Xu Qingheng choked with sobs and put his hands on Jia Lian's shoulders, his eyes were blurred by tears, and he couldn't see Jia Lian's appearance clearly, so what if he was gentle and caring?How true is that tenderness?There was true love, and it was not what she wanted. After a long time, she slowly said, "I want to see your true face."

"What's the real face?" Jia Lian laughed, and took a handkerchief to wipe her tears again. After wiping, she remembered that she didn't wash her hands after putting on her shoes and socks, so she stopped.

"At least let me know what kind of person the person I like is. From now on, pretend that I'm not married to you, and you don't have to be gentle with me; pretend that I'm not even your sister who sworn brothers, but just someone who met by chance. Stranger, you don't have to pity and sympathize with me."

"How far is it to meet by chance?" Jia Lian asked.

"Meeting by chance is just passing by, and there will be no relationship in the future."

"This is more important than me cooperating with you in having children? Are you afraid of people's words?" Jia Lian laughed, and when she saw herself laughing, Xu Qingheng cried more and more, so she stopped laughing.

Xu Qingheng nodded solemnly.

"Until when?" Jia Lian asked again. At first she couldn't figure out why she had to be picky when he treated her so well; then she thought, if he was as affectionate as she was, maybe he would be with her too. same mood.You have to carefully understand what kind of mood it is, the partiality is like a gossamer, and you can't catch it.

"Until I don't like you." Xu Qingheng said desperately.

Xu Qingheng stared into Jia Lian's eyes, and saw that in those bottomless pupils, he had shrunk into a shadow that was so tiny that it almost didn't exist.

"If I don't like you, I can live in peace, and I won't ask whether you like me or not. Otherwise, the more I like you, the more I hate you. I can't live this life." Xu Qingheng said again.

Jia Lian's eyes shone slightly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, he stroked Xu Qingheng's hair with his hand, and smiled softly: "Okay, wash your face quickly, if you cry like this, others will think that I have bullied you."

Xu Qingheng was stunned.

"Second Master, the carriages and horses are ready." Wu'er urged again outside the building.

"Tell me to wait outside." Jia Lian said to the outside world, then stood up and said to Xu Qingheng: "Don't come to my back building in the future, you want to rest, pick another room, and clean it up as you want. Whatever it is. Don’t be so angry, I won’t let you go. Don’t send letters to Shenji Camp every now and then, it’s also a job for me to reply to your letter. From now on, you should take care of yourself.” Gently Putting the handkerchief on Xu Qingheng's hand, he turned and walked towards the stairs, washed his hands downstairs, then walked towards the corner door.

Why is it so like farewell?Xu Qingheng was depressed, walked to the window and looked at Jia Lian's disappearing figure, thinking: Why didn't he look back?

"Second Grandma, Second Master said to ask someone to move his things to the study outside." Wu'er went upstairs gently and said.

Xu Qingheng said: "Then move."

Wu'er stepped forward to persuade and said: "Why is the second grandma fighting against the second master? Aren't the first few months going well? In May, the master will return to Beijing to report his duties. If there is no news in May, why don't you call me a master and a wife?" In a hurry?"

"In May, I'm afraid there will be no news." Xu Qingheng sighed.

Wu'er didn't dare to persuade him anymore, so he hurriedly packed Jia Lian's things lightly.

On the other side, Jia Lian rode a horse and took Ge Kui, Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Tiandong, Cao Zhijian, Cao Zhirui, and Cao Zhicheng to the outside of the city.

On the way, Zhao Tianliang remembered the medicine he gave Jia Lian last night, so he asked with a smile, "I wonder what the second master thinks of the medicine last night? I heard that the second master kicked down the door of the room."

"It can be seen that it is very powerful." Zhao Tiandong smiled.

Ge Kui was too old to mess around with young people like them, so he quietly led the horse and followed quietly behind.

Jia Lian said with a smile: "Sometimes I laugh at you." Thinking of Xu Qingheng, she asked a few married wives, "Does your wife make a fuss because you don't love enough?"

"What?" Zhao Tiandong asked.

Cao Zhijian said with a smile: "Our daughter-in-law is too busy doing housework and taking care of her parents-in-law. How can she care about whether she loves it or not? As far as I can see, the granaries know etiquette in real life. , Only when you want to be satisfied can you pursue deep affection."

"Bah! You don't know what to say." Cao Zhicheng spat quickly, looked carefully at Jia Lian's expression, and said deliberatively, "Could it be that the second grandma is making a fuss? It should be, the second grandma has no parents-in-law to wait on, and no children to feed below. Your husband is promising and clean, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, don't tell her to make a fuss about love, what do you want her to do?"

Jia Lian held the reins without saying a word, shivering from the cold wind, and asked, "How can a man love a woman as deeply as the ocean?"

"What kind of woman does the second master want to have a deep love for?" Zhao Tianliang was originally silent, but now he became interested.

Ge Kui also couldn't help looking over.

Jia Lian murmured: "If you say that you are beautiful, like a flower, and like-minded, it is too big to be overstated. Occasionally, you will be attracted by a woman who raises her hand for an instant, and you will long for it, but if you do something for her, you don't bother to do it." I did. It's not affectionate."

Ge Kui said with a smile: "The love between a man and a woman is about a matter of course. There is love at first sight for life and death, and there is also love for a long time. It is unheard of to force yourself to be deeply in love with someone." Out of curiosity, he looked at it carefully again. Jia Lian secretly thought that Jia Lian had friends all over the world, and he was fascinated by women. There were many women in the palace, and there were many outside the palace.

Cao Zhirui said: "A man has a deep affection for a woman. If you leave out the four words of talent, appearance and interest, you will be deeply moved by that woman. Second Master think about it carefully. Is there anything that is deeply moved by Second Mistress?"

Zhao Tianliang said with a smile: "Since the second master asked how the love is so deep, he has already been moved. In the words of the Taoist priest Qingxuguan, if you feel the breeze blowing on your face, you are already blowing the breeze on your face."

"Don't talk about these useless things," Jia Lian said.

Zhao Tiandong said: "Second Master can't be affectionate, is it because Second Master paid too little? You see, when Second Grandma didn't pass the door, she wrote seven or eight letters to Second Master, and Second Master only replied one; door, waited so long for the second master at home, the second master came back, and whispered a word of hard work, even if it wiped out the hard work of the second grandma. Comparing the two, as long as the second master sits comfortably, someone will treat you You don't regret your love, so the second master is naturally too lazy to be affectionate with others."

Zhao Tianliang also said: "It's like raising a child. It is said that raising a child will prevent old age, but just like Jia Rui, it is said that he is sloppy and useless after the end, but the old man Dairu still regards him as a treasure in his heart. This is because the former Decades of hard work have been spent on him, and when the hard work is spent, this love will be given away."

Ge Kui thinks so.

Jia Lian was silent for a long time, and tentatively asked Ge Kui, Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Tiandong and the others, "If I spend all my hard work, will I also have a deep affection for Second Mistress?"

Ge Kui, Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Tiandong and the three Cao family brothers all nodded.

"Then entrust all the belongings to Second Mistress?" Jia Lian said reluctantly.

Ge Kui laughed and said, "Second Lord really has never shown affection to others. Exchange those gold and silver marinated things for true affection, and you have to humiliate yourself."

Jia Lian shook his head and smiled, "It can be seen that I have nothing to do with the words 'Love is as deep as the sea'." He walked forward again, and turned to Zhao Tianliang and said, "Tell Yuanyang to go back to the house to publicize it, just say I am I suffered internal injuries in the south, and I am afraid that it will hinder my heirs."

"What's Erye talking nonsense for?" Zhao Tianliang said hurriedly.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Your second grandma is worrying about this, so let me be the target of public criticism."

"What if the second grandma has one someday?" Zhao Tiandong asked.

Cao Zhijian went on to say: "Second Grandma has it, and Second Master revealed the truth. Second Mistress was so moved that she wanted to make a life-and-death promise with Second Master. In this way, Second Master may not have a deep love for Second Grandma."

"Exactly, this seems to be helping the second grandma, but it is leading the second grandma into the pit, making the second grandma mistakenly think that the second master has a deep love for the second grandma, and it can't make the second master have a deep affection for the second grandma." Cao Zhijian said, coughing He said, "This hard work is not about playing around in circles. There is a way to moisten things silently. In daily life, always put her first. For example, if you get something, first think about whether she has it? Does she like it?" Don't like this?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "What you said reversed the cause and effect. It is because of the deep love that it will be like this; it is not the case that the love is deep."

After saying this, everyone fell silent.

After a long time, Zhao Tianliang asked: "Do you still want to tell Yuanyang that the second master suffered internal injuries?"

"Let's talk." Jia Lian held the reins, thinking to himself that it was more difficult to be affectionate with Xu Qingheng than to get promoted and get rich.Since she said that he only treated her as a game, and now that he has conquered her game, he should go to conquer his own game, he doesn't believe it, Xu Qingheng must be talented, good-looking, and liking her can be What a hard thing.

"Hey, the second master is tempted." Cao Zhijian sighed.

Jia Lian narrowed his eyes and glanced at him coldly.