The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Hearing what he said, Tanchun sat down again, and asked someone to bring a fishing rod, added bait himself, and sat by the water with King Baojun to fish.

One day later, the emperor indeed summoned the king of Baojun to enter the palace, and ordered him to study in the household department, and follow the king of Nan'an to collect debts.

Baojun Wang Touhuizi was on an errand, and he was waiting in the yamen of the household department early on. After waiting for an hour, he saw the king of Nan'an, the king of Beijing, Yang Shilang, Xu Yuyu, Li Bizhou, and the Xu family. The in-laws and children Ning Yingzhi, Ning Shengzhi and others came over one after another.

The king of Baojun sighed secretly that although the old Shangshu of the Xu family had left the household department, there were still many children who had taken root in the household department, and met with everyone one by one. After they sat down, the king of Nan'an spoke.

"Although the south side won the battle, it was thanks to the Xue family. Without the help of the Xue family, the consequences would be disastrous. Therefore, we must not be soft-hearted when we are asked to collect debts from various families. Otherwise, how can we be worthy of the south and others Soldiers with food and grass?"

Everyone present nodded their heads.

As soon as Nanan County King turned his head, he looked at Baojun King and said, "It's the first time that the Junwang is on business today, so follow us to Rongguo Mansion. After leaving Rongguo Mansion, we just go to Baojun Wangfu for a meal. That's okay. Let's talk about tomorrow."

Xu Yujue and Li Bizhou were taken aback.

Li Bizhou said: "Didn't the money of Rongguo Mansion be repaid more than ten years ago?"

King Nan'an smiled and went to see King Beijing.

King Beijing sneered and said: "The old debt is gone, and there are new debts. See how arrogant Jia Lian is, daring to stop Miss Lin from being seen. If she doesn't get back the money he took, how can she make people swallow it?" Can you take this breath?"

The king of Baojun was taken aback, secretly thinking that that day people said that King Beijing came out of Rongguo Mansion with a cold face, and it turned out that it was for such a reason.So I went to see Li Bizhou and Xu Yuju brothers who often communicated with Jia Lian.

King Nan'an and King Beijing also stared at Li Bizhou and Xu Yujue.

Li Bizhou pondered for a while, and said: "If there is evidence, it is natural to ask for it."

"I have the evidence. The small garden in his house was built with things from the Zhou and Wu families." King Beijing said.

"In this case, let's go." Nan'an County King patted Baojun King on the shoulder, "After entering Rongguo Mansion, please Baojun King show affection first, after all, we are neighbors, Jia Lian will definitely give Baojun King two Let's save face; if he still pretends to be crazy, then we'll find out."

King Baojun smiled and agreed, wondering why the King of Nan'an seemed to want him to offend Jia Lian on purpose?Then he quietly glanced at King Beijing, Li Bizhou, and Xu Yujue one by one, but couldn't see the expressions of each person, so he said in his heart that he didn't care whether to offend Jia Lian for the time being, and let's settle the errand first.

So a group of people rode their horses to Ningrong Street and went up to the East Street Gate, just in time to see a shabby sedan chair parked in front of the Baojun Prince's Mansion.

The king of Nan'an asked first, "Who is that man?"

He heard Yang Shilang, who was very close to Jia Zheng in the past, say: "Isn't that the second master Jia?"

When they heard that it was Jia Zheng, they all went forward again.

Sure enough, Jia Zheng, who was dressed in commoner clothes, came timidly to greet everyone.

"What is Mr. Zheng doing here?" Yang Shilang asked while riding on the horse first.

Jia Zheng clasped his hands and said, "Come and greet the concubine of the mansion."

The King of Nan'an laughed and said, "It's really unimaginable. Your nephew has a lot of money. Why did you call you like this? We are going to Rongguo Mansion, so you can follow us to seek justice."

Jia Zheng refused to refuse, but the people immediately became more powerful than the next, so he had to follow the crowd to Rongguo Mansion.

After entering the Rongguo Mansion, Jin Cai, the housekeeper, came over and said, "Our second master hasn't come home for several days, and he's in the Shenji camp. Can you wait in the hall for a while and tell the family to go to Shenji camp?" The second master of the battalion general invited you to speak?"

"Go." Nan'an County King said, and he followed Jin Cai to sit in the south hall of the first five rooms of Rongxi Hall.

Everyone was thinking about how to collect debts from Jia Lian, when they suddenly heard the sound of wooden fish, and after the sound of wooden fish, there was a soft and graceful singing sound.

"This Rongguo Mansion is really weird. They are chanting sutras and singing operas. I don't know which one to sing." Nan'an County King sneered.

Knowing the identity of Miaoyu who knocked the wooden fish, the King of Beijing Jing did not speak, and as expected, he heard Jincai say: "It was a girl with hair who practiced in the house who borrowed the wooden fish from the outside. As for the opera singer, our old lady's age I'm old, I like to be lively."

"Understood." Nan'an County King said impatiently.

King Baojun held his head, and looked at Li Bizhou repeatedly with his eyes. Suddenly, he heard that the second master Liu was coming, so he looked up, and sure enough, he saw Liu Xianglian, the son-in-law of the Rongguo Mansion, coming in from outside.

After Liu Xianglian came in, the listeners said that they were here to collect debts, so they asked doubtfully, "Do you have evidence?"

The king of Nan'an County went to see the king of Beijing.

The King of Beijing who said that he had evidence just now said instead: "When Jia Lian comes, ask him, can't he find any evidence?"

The king of Nan'an County, who had always believed in the king of Beijing Jing, was taken aback for a moment, and asked softly, "You have no evidence?"

King Beijing hurriedly said: "If we try the Zhou and Wu families again, what evidence can't we get?"

"Nonsense!" Although Nan'an County King was annoyed at Jia Lian's slander of his family's princess, but he was attacking Jia Lian's idea of ​​using evidence to justify his crime. When he got down, he immediately pulled his legs out and saw that King Baojun and Yang Shilang were not moving, so he said: "There is no evidence. They are also officials of the imperial court. How can I ask people to speak?"

King Baojun suppressed his laughter, and followed Yang Shilang and others out of Rongguo Mansion. At noon, he invited everyone to have some tea and rice in Baojun King's Mansion. When he heard that Jia Lian had returned to Rongguo Mansion, he sent a young eunuch Xiao Luozi went to Rongguo Mansion for questioning.

That little Luozi went to the Rongguo Mansion, and when he came back, he whispered to King Baojun, "Second Master Lian said that the prince only needs to collect debts."

Under careful scrutiny of these words, there are two points of intimacy.

King Baojun heard this, and he followed Nan'an County King to the prison to search for evidence from the Zhou and Wu families.

On the other side, after Jia Lian was urged back from the Shenji camp, he leisurely went to Xu Qingheng's to have dinner with Xu Qingheng.

Xu Qingheng asked Jia Lian after eating the rice, "What do you think of this dish?"

"It tastes good." Jia Lian said, seeing Wu'er coughing beside him, he looked carefully at the dishes on the table, and saw that there were eight dishes in total, all of which were green or white Vegetarian dishes.

Xu Qingheng picked up a chopstick of spiced kohlrabi and put it in Jia Lian's bowl, and ate in silence again.

That day, Jia Lian was going to look for Xu Qingheng in the garden, but after going to Baojun Prince's Mansion, he heard that there was something going on in Shenji Camp, so he went to Shenji Camp.Seeing her unhappy and only eating vegetarian food now, I can understand her thoughts.

"You're making trouble again." Jia Lian shook his head.

Xu Qingheng was startled, then put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said: "You must be sincere, Yingchun has not been married for a few months."

"It's been a few months."

"It's been a few years since we got married." Xu Qingheng said.

Jia Lian threw the bowls and chopsticks on the table, and said with a sneer, "Are you impatient to live a clean life again?" After finishing speaking, he stood up and went outside. When he reached the edge of the back building, he saw Xu Qingheng chasing him, so he intended to He kicked on the peach tree, then strode upstairs, lay down on the bed, and took out the book he hadn't finished reading before.

Xu Qingheng chased after him, sat on the bed and pushed Jia Lian, and then said, "Where did you get so angry?"

"I don't know what you are fussing about all day long. If you don't have it, you don't have it. Why worry about it? If you bring up this matter again, just make up and get married." Jia Lian moved her fingers and turned to another page, heartbroken. Asking where Xu Yuheng found the book, this ancient man is too strange, he also believed in the story of a woman turning into a man.

Xu Qingheng hurriedly said: "I didn't mention that, why are you angry? I just thought that sincerity will lead to success, and I intend to give it a try." Seeing that Jia Lian just read the book and didn't speak, he said: "Yingchun also talks about life. The next child asked me to take care of it, I was not in a hurry, I just thought that there was nothing wrong with me..." As he was talking, seeing Wu'er broke the soup, he went to pick it up and handed it to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian was reading about intersex people in detail in the book, so he turned his face away and refused to drink.

Xu Qingheng personally handed the soup to his mouth, "Come, take a sip."

The medicine is three-point poisonous, Jia Lian glanced at the medicine, and remembered that the doctor at Shenji Camp said that drinking the medicine would hurt his body, so he asked Xu Qingheng: "If you can't give birth, what will you do? Will you please come down?"

"You don't want to take medicine yourself, so what do you say I should do? If I can't give birth, I will never shy away from medical treatment like you. I should take medicine and get acupuncture."

"If the imperial doctor says you're fine, you won't be able to find the problem. But the problem is actually in you." Jia Lian closed the book and looked at her with his arm on his pillow. If he pushed it to Xu Qingheng's head, there wouldn't be so many The trouble, just push it on her head.

Xu Qingheng opened his eyes wide, and said blankly: "Me? Could it be that you want to blame me?"

Jia Lian reached out and touched the back of her head.

Xu Qingheng immediately pushed his hand away, lowered his head and said: "If it is really because of me, then I should ask myself to come down. But, I'm leaving, where are you going to marry a newcomer? Marry a newcomer and come in, How do I explain to the lady of the house?"

"What's the matter with her?"

Xu Qingheng sneered and said: "He suffered a great crime for empathizing with you. If you marry a new person, what if you have children?"

"Okay, okay, teasing you, it's worth getting so angry, if you want to take medicine, you can take medicine, if you want to eat fast, you can eat fast, it's up to you." Jia Lian reached out and grabbed the bowl, thinking that he might die early It wasn't luck, if it was exposed that Xu Qingheng's fault was on Xu Qingheng's body, and the imperial physician confirmed that Xu Qingheng's bones were in good health, then it would be a trivial matter for Xu Qingheng to be sad and make trouble in Xu's family.

"Isn't it over if you drink it early?" Xu Qingheng laughed, took the empty bowl, and handed a candied rose marinade to his mouth.

"Just rinse your mouth with some tea."

"Don't eat it." Xu Qingheng stuffed the candied fruit into his mouth, and brought him some tea to rinse his mouth, "Do you still want to eat?"

"Don't eat."

"Don't eat it." Xu Qingheng put the box containing the candied fruit on his knees, holding the candied fruit one by one with his fingers and slowly tasting them in his mouth, "Baojun King, Nan'an County King, Beijing County King, and Yang Minister, my brother Bizhou, Yuheng, Yingzhi, and Shengzhi have all come to the door, saying that they are here to collect debts. What are you going to do about this?"

"What should I do? I really want to stand up taller." Jia Lian turned another page of the book and heard the singing of lotus officials in the west, so he closed the book and listened to the singing of lotus officials.

"I don't know why you are so fussy." Xu Qingheng licked the rose marinade on his fingers. Seeing Jia Lian frowning, he knew that he was rejected again, so he wiped his fingers with a handkerchief and asked him, "Are you and the palace?" How can I contact the lady in the back room?"

"No contact."

"No contact? Then what if King Baojun eradicates you as a dissident?" Xu Qingheng said in surprise.

"Haven't you heard the saying that there is a link between the heart and the rhinoceros?" Jia Lian laughed, and seeing Xu Qingheng staring at her blankly, he coughed and said, "I'm teasing you."

"Then how do we get in touch?" Xu Qingheng asked again, seeing that Jia Lian was silent, he sighed, "Sure enough, he has a good understanding." As he spoke, he couldn't help feeling a little unhappy, thinking that she had never had such a good connection with Jia Lian before, so he lazily Nestling beside Jia Lian, she put her own hand into his palm and asked, "If there is a next life, will you still marry me?"

Jia Lian laughed and said, "It's not easy to talk about the next life in this life."

"why?"

"What if it comes true?"

"Fate and destiny in the past life, fate determines three lives, do you believe this?"

"If you don't believe me, it is enough for me to pay you my life in this life. In the next life, I will pay for others. The first one to pay is Dong'an County King. She is the best woman to me in this life." Jia Lian chuckled road.

Xu Qingheng snorted, and saw that he was about to wipe his hands again, so he pressed his hands firmly on the bed with both hands.

After arguing for a while, when Jia Lian came out of the backyard again, he had already changed his clothes and combed his hair again. When Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong saw it, they covered their mouths and laughed, "Er Ye dares to mess around in broad daylight. "

"Don't talk nonsense, taking a nap messed up your hair." Jia Lian laughed, and was about to ride a horse when she was outside the house. Suddenly, the north wind blew and she felt a little dizzy, so she ordered people to get off the sedan chair and go to Zhongshun Palace in the sedan chair. .

When the sedan chair stopped, Jia Lian went inward with the people of Prince Zhongshun's mansion. On the way, he met Jiang Yuhan coming out. After exchanging pleasantries, he asked him, "Then Hu Jingzhi is in there?"

Jiang Yuhan said with a smile: "It is said that the prince has not seen him for some days."

"Oh?" Jia Lian pretended to be puzzled, and followed the people in again. When he got to the small retreat, he saw Prince Zhongshun was lying on the bed taking medicine, and coughed when he smelled the medicine.

"Are you sick too?" Prince Zhongshun asked after taking the medicine and saw Jia Lian coming in.

Jia Lian touched his cheek and wondered to himself, is he so obviously ill?He said, "The weather is getting colder, and the internal injury has recurred."

"As expected." Lord Zhongshun sighed lightly, then pointed to the chair beside the bed and asked Jia Lian to sit down, "I heard that several county kings have come to your house?"

"Yes, it is said that the lower officials were asked to use the scraps of the Zhou and Wu families to repair the garden. Fortunately, the King of Beijing did not have any real evidence, and the King of Nan'an County did not dare to act rashly, so he took everyone back."

Prince Zhongshun opened his eyes wide and said, "They still want to rely on real evidence?"

Jia Lian nodded, and then said: "I don't know who spread rumors and slandered me, saying that I went around to publicize that the king of Nan'an is not a man or a woman. The king of Nan'an hates me because of this, and the king of Beijing is also very rude. Even though you are engaged, you shouldn't go on a rampage and want to meet someone at my house."

Prince Zhongshun blinked, and said again: "They still want to rely on real evidence?"

Jia Lian nodded again.

Prince Zhongshun had caught a cold originally, but at this time he was even more seriously ill. If Xindao wanted to prove the truth, wouldn't he have to be found out again?Since it was the King of Beijing who went to investigate, given his feud with the King of Beijing, how could the King of Beijing let him go?It's a shame that the king of Beijing has robbed him of his money, and he started to investigate this matter again.

"What are we going to do about this?" Jia Lian asked.

Prince Zhongshun coughed twice and said, "One word, endure."

"Where did you get the money and pay it back?"

Prince Zhongshun said: "Did you forget to give me the roster? When I quietly send someone to ask them for money, your 10 taels will be enough. I will pay it back for you too."

"Thank you, my lord." Jia Lian didn't expect that the loyal and obedient prince would bear it, and asked again: "I don't know who else knows about the princess of the Nan'an palace besides the lord?"

Prince Zhongshun thought for a while, then shook his head again, and said: "Other people know it and won't tell it to others."

While talking, someone suddenly heard that Hu Jingzhi led Chen Yejun over.

Prince Zhongshun said impatiently: "Ask him to borrow tens of thousands of taels of silver and refuse, what are you doing now?"

Jia Lian smiled and said, "I know what he's here for."

"Oh?"

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Does the lord know where Lai Da is hiding?"

"where?"

"It's at Hu Jingzhi's house. I know it all, and I deliberately teased him."

"What's the reason for this?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "Your Majesty, just wait and see, Chen Yejun came with him, he must be suing me. Who said that Lai Da's slut is my boss?"

Prince Zhongshun waved his hand and ordered Jia Lian to hide behind the screen, and ordered Hu Jingzhi and Chen Yejun to come over.

After a while, I saw Hu Jingzhi walking in with Chen Yejun, who was sloppy, with steady steps.

"My lord." Hu Jingzhi greeted lord Zhongshun first.

Prince Zhongshun asked, "What are you doing here?"

Hu Jingzhi hurriedly said: "My lord, Big Brother Chen has something important to say."

"... But it has something to do with Jia Lian?" Prince Zhongshun said with a smile.

"My lord is indeed a prophet." Hu Jingzhi laughed.

Chen Yejun was startled, and thought to himself that Prince Zhongshun had guessed that Jia Lian had come first to lay the groundwork, and seeing Hu Jingzhi urging him to speak, he hesitated.

Hu Jingzhi didn't know that Jia Lian was in the room, and seeing that Chen Yejun was still on the road to make a fortune, he didn't say anything at this moment, and hurriedly said: "Quickly tell the prince, so that the prince will not be deceived by the villain."

"...I can't just come and talk nonsense in front of the prince after taking your money." Chen Yejun couldn't help muttering.

Hu Jingzhi's heart sank, and he secretly asked Chen Yejun what does this mean?

Prince Zhongshun sneered and said: "That's enough, you are really just a villain who can only provoke and provoke. This king originally thought that you had some real talents and practical actions, so he allowed you to use such low-level tricks. Now, this king can't tolerate you either. There is no need to come to Zhongshun Palace in the future."

"My lord?" Hu Jingzhi hurriedly called out again.

"Go out." Prince Zhongshun waved his hand.

All thoughts in Hu Jingzhi's heart were disillusioned, he glanced at Chen Yejun complainingly, and saw Prince Zhongshun chasing away guests, then followed Chen Yejun out.

"My lord should listen to what he has to say." Jia Lian came out from behind the screen.

Prince Zhongshun sneered and said, "Listen to his instigation?" He secretly thought that now that the emperor is pressing every step of the way, it is definitely not the time to have a relationship with Jia Lian.

"The lord should follow the plan. Although Lai Da is a servant, the affairs of the Ningrong and Rongfu were all in charge of Lai Da and Lai brothers. They all knew about the affairs of other families. Otherwise, how could Hu Jingzhi befriend Nan'an Palace, Beijing Palace?" Jia Lian said slowly.

Prince Zhongshun sighed: "This king is impatient, but Lai Da is really useful?" On the cusp of this storm, the four kings in the southeast, north and west have errands, but he is the only one who is idle at home, which is really inappropriate, and it is appropriate to drag other people into the water is.

"It's very useful. Give him a stage that is high enough and big enough. I believe that the opera he sings will not lose to others. When he sings on the stage, the prince will listen to the opera if he likes it. If he doesn't like it, he will listen to it." Wouldn't it be good to do your own thing?" Jia Lian laughed.

Prince Zhongshun nodded repeatedly when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "The exam next year, I will do my best to build a big stage for Hu Jingzhi, and ask him to sing with King Beijing." After finishing speaking, he sent someone to contact several people secretly The master went to ask for money, gossiped with Jia Lian for a while, and then let him go out.

Jia Lian got out of Prince Zhongshun, got into the sedan chair, and saw Hu Jingzhi standing at the corner looking at him awkwardly, so he glanced at Hu Jingzhi and walked towards him.

"... Second Lord Lian plotted against me?" Hu Jingzhi said with a pale face.

Jia Lian smiled and said, "What am I planning on you for? I have already persuaded the prince to help you get a title on the gold list next year."

"And why?" Hu Jingzhi didn't think Jia Lian was timid.

Jia Lian looked up at the sky and said with a smile, "Lai Da is hiding in the room, but can you still see someone?"

Hu Jingzhi shuddered when he heard the word "Lai Da", "Second Master Lian wants to be Lai Da?"

"What do I want him for? You want him," Jia Lian sighed, "Do you know that your son is in the hands of the second wife?"

Hu Jingzhi trembled again.

"I want you to have a bright future, and then bring your son to inherit Rongguo Mansion."

"Why is that?" Hu Jingzhi asked tremblingly.

Jia Lian laughed and said, "Would you dare to take over the Rongguo Mansion that I built up? Are you willing not to take over? Work hard, and you will toss Rongguo Mansion down for me in the future. I will credit you with first-class merit."