[Red Mansion] Master Jia

Jia Amnesty summed it up, and carefully looked at Sun Shaozu with his eyes. When he said this, he did have a little memory of the Sun family. Back then, the Sun family was just relying on it. The Rongguo Mansion helped with some things. The Sun family was "very enthusiastic." "No matter how big or small the Rongning Second Mansion is, the Sun family didn't receive a gift back then.

But in the end, it was a friendship decades ago. When it came to Sun Shaozu's father's generation, the Sun family flirted with others, and the relationship became mediocre.

"Uncle Shi, what is this—" Sun Shaozu asked.

Jia Amnesty was slightly embarrassed, but the shopkeeper at the side said, "General Jia wants to buy this painting and fan."

Hearing his interjection, Jia She's complexion was not very good-looking. He didn't bring any money today, let alone no silver.

"Oh? How much money do you want?" Sun Shaozu expressed disapproval.

Jia She glanced at it, only to realize that the nephew grandson was wearing the finest Huzhou Ning silk, worth hundreds of taels of silver.Almost clicking his tongue, Jia She thought, when did the Sun family get rich?

What annoyed him was that the clothes of the grand master of Rongguo Mansion were not as good as that of Sun Shaozu——

It shouldn't be!

It's too bad!

Lose your face!

Such an indescribable and secret comparison made Jia She angry, and the mansion is now more and more embarrassed.Hmph, I have to talk to Mother Jia about the housekeeper when I go back.

The shopkeeper replied to Young Master Sun at this time: "Master Sun, I want this number!" He gestured with two fingers, and then said with a painful expression on his face: "This price is not given by everyone, and this painting is not given by everyone. Look, if it wasn’t for General Jia who was from the Rongguo Mansion, rich and powerful, and my regular customer, Tang Yin’s painting—this is—”

Jia She squinted, but if the shopkeeper hadn't cheated, the painting really belonged to Tang Yin, and with the fan as an extra head, [-] taels would be a solid price.

So, he didn't refute much.

He clasped his fan with his fingers, but his eyes were fixed on the tray, salivating.

If these two items are placed in the study, the level of the room will be raised several steps in an instant!

Sun Shaozu secretly glanced at Jia She, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and the look of complacency flashed across his eyes. He straightened his expression, coughed, and said to the shopkeeper: "2 taels is not very expensive. This, Tang , Tang Yin, that's right, I've heard of him too, he's worth a thousand dollars, he's worth a thousand dollars!"

Having said that, he turned his head to Jia She and said, "Uncle Shi, why don't you buy it, after all, opportunities are hard to come by!" He fixed his eyes on Jia She, as if if Jia She didn't buy it, the painting would be dusted. It seems that Jia She is the owner of Tang Yin's painting and fan.

Jia Amnesty was really itchy and anxious, but he looked at Sun Shaozu suspiciously.

What does it mean that this kid popped out of nowhere?

Could it be that Tang Yin's painting and fan he also took a fancy to—he wants to cut off the beard!

Jia She's eyebrows were erected: "You like it too?"

"I like it!" Sun Shaozu nodded, "It's valuable, who doesn't like it!" Jia She laughed when he heard the rude words. Looking at Sun Shaozu's appearance, he knew that he hadn't read much and was worse than his family. No matter how motivated Cong'er and Huan'er are inferior.

Jia She pretended to be profound and snorted, "Vulgar!"

Sun Shaozu smiled, "It's fine if the silver is not bad. If Uncle Shi wants to buy it, but the silver is not available for the time being, the nephew just brought 5000 taels of silver here. If he bought all of them, I will let the boy go home to get the money. "

Jia She was taken aback when he heard this.

He couldn't help staring at him, his expression was very exaggerated and obvious, which really surprised him.

"Can you take out 2 taels at once?!"

"What's the matter." Sun Shaozu smiled "reservedly", and said proudly: "My nephew is now in charge of my own family. Although I still have a younger brother in my hometown, we are actually separated. I want this place in the capital. The property on the side, my brother keeps a small shop, after all, I am the eldest son, I am the master of this family, a mere 2 taels of silver is nothing."

Hearing these words, Jia Amnesty felt sore in his heart.

It's not that Rongguo Mansion doesn't have 2 taels of silver, but he really can't get it out. Even if he can use it, he can think of a few unmarried girls and boys, as well as a large group of servants and managers at home. Daily expenses are expensive.

It was the fan—Jia She glanced at it again, thinking to himself, it was the 5000 taels that he had trouble taking out.

Will he buy it or not?

"Uncle Shi? Uncle Jia?" Sun Shaozu saw him hesitate for a while, and called out twice.

The shopkeeper also advised from the side at this time: "General Jia still has to make a decision as soon as possible. These two items can't be kept in my hands for long, because they are too expensive, and the store still needs some liquid money."

Jia Amnesty gritted his teeth, thinking that after all, Sun Shaozu had some friendship with the Jia family, and it wasn't that he borrowed money from him, but he offered to lend money to him, and no fool would do it.Could it be that Sun Shaozu would lie to himself with money, or have other thoughts?

Ding Datian, the Sun family is as it used to be, there is Qiurong Guo Mansion... If the matter is easy to handle, it will be done, and the money comes for nothing.It's not easy, I'll pay him back the money when the time comes.

Thinking of this, Jia She felt that his heart suddenly became brighter.

but--

He still felt that 2 taels was too extravagant, so he decided to buy that "cheap" fan. After thinking about it, he asked, "Nephew first lend me 5000 taels from my uncle, and send someone to return it to you when I return home."

Jia Amnesty said that his face was not blushing and his heart was beating. In fact, this is not the first time he has done such a thing.

Under normal circumstances, some people came to borrow him on their own initiative, and then they did something trivial, or they just wanted to please the Rongguo Mansion and make connections with them.

Jia Amnesty didn't refuse anyone who came, he had to have a certain status before he could speak.

Sun Shaozu smiled and said: "What's the difficulty? Even 2 taels is a trivial matter. If you don't pay it back, don't worry. Rongguo Mansion still needs my little money?!"

"It's only 5000 taels. I really can't afford Tang Yin's paintings. The shopkeeper should find someone else to sell them." Even though he said that, Jia She's expression was not the same, but he knew that even if this Sun Shaozu said that there were 2 taels, and it was not easy for him to take [-] taels from an unfamiliar person whom he met for the first time. Although it was in the name of a borrower, who knew what big things this surnamed Sun had waiting for him.

Jia She felt that the 5000 taels would be enough to pay back the 2 taels when he returned home. It was not a big problem, but he didn’t know if his son could help pay the [-] taels. Speaking of whether his son, Lian’er, had [-] taels of silver, he wondered in his heart. You can't borrow it if you want it suddenly.Just looking at the painting for the last time, Jia She's gaze is still reluctant to part.

On the face of it, Sun Shaozu didn't care, but in fact he only borrowed 5000 taels to support Jia Amnesty, so he was relieved.The shopkeeper even cheated on him, what Tang Yin's painting was 2 taels, he looked at it, maybe the painting was fake.Who is Tang Yin?Is that much money worth the torn paper of one of his scribbles? !

You're a liar!

This silver is enough for him to buy a brothel.

Although he complained in his heart about the black heart of the shopkeeper who cooperated with him in advance, he still readily took out a few large bank notes from his sleeve and handed them to the shopkeeper.

After the shopkeeper took it for verification, he put it away, and asked the boy to pick out a pear wood box with the upper jaw, put the fan inside, and said: "You put it away."

"En." Ruoyou Ruowu replied, Jia Amnesty took another look, it should not be a fake.

He squinted his eyes and looked at it with a smile. When the shopkeeper handed the box to him, he held it in his own hand, and refused to let the boy who came with him touch his hands. He and Sun Shaozu left the antique shop together.

Sun Shaozu was in a very good mood. Although the money was "spent", things would be easier afterwards.

He had inquired about the Rongguo Mansion a long time ago, and he really needed to go through his own business, but he had just arrived, and the Sun family's influence and connections in the capital had no trace at all. Only those few shops, shopkeepers, and housekeepers were really Can't find a way to glory.

After thinking about it, he remembered the Rongguo mansion, or the story of him becoming the "magical" supervisor of Jia Lian, the Qin Tianjian, and the new Huayuanzi bought by Jiu Beizi a few days ago, wondering if he could catch up with the Rongguo mansion. The gate of Guofu is old.

He chatted and laughed with Jia She, and walked forward while talking, but before taking two steps, Sun Shaozu was stunned for a moment, and Jia She stopped unexpectedly - his eyes fell forward.

"Uncle Shi?" Sun Shaozu wondered, and followed his gaze.

——Standing on the opposite side of the street is a row of two masters, the servants at the back are slightly bowed, one in front of the other, one is a middle-aged man with a short beard, and the other is a young man in his twenties A young handsome young man.

Sun Shaozu felt that the other party was about the same age as him, even two or three years older than him, but because of his martial arts practice and the strong wind in his hometown, the skin on his face was blown old by the wind, and he was five years old. The three groups looked to be rough and strong men in their late thirties.

"It's my boy." Jia She twirled his beard, but pretended to be "inadvertently" and handed the box in his hand to the boy behind him to take it away. He waited for Jia Lian to come over, but he took a closer look. Look, you can't let your son come over, he has to take the initiative to say hello.

The middle-aged man in blue silk robe leaning slightly forward in front of his son is the fourth elder brother of Prince Yong of the current dynasty!

Jia She's expression was a little cautious, he hurriedly brushed the dust off his sleeves, and walked over to say hello, but Yinzhen excused him, and asked Jia Lian and Jia She to talk to each other alone, and he thoughtfully said to wait for a while wait.

Jia She was flattered, Jia Lian thanked him, glanced at Jia She, and Sun Shaozu, who was at the door of the store, came over at this time, licking his face.

This must be a noble person, I don't know who it is, he is also very lucky, it is best to get acquainted with him, it would be best if he could get to know him.Even if Jia Amnesty didn't return him the 5000 taels of silver, it would be worth it if he got in touch with this guy.

But no one paid attention to Sun Shaozu, and Jia Amnesty didn't intend to introduce someone he didn't know well to Prince Yong. He didn't have that much face himself, and he even frowned because he didn't know much about Sun Shaozu, but he couldn't say it directly. Open, to expose Prince Yong's identity outside.

No one paid attention to Sun Shaozu, Sun Shaozu held a grudge in his heart, but he still smiled on his face, and asked carelessly in his clothes on the surface: "This is my brother, he is really a good-looking talent. A good-looking talent! Hehe!" He was thinking too much He praised Jia Lian a few words, but he couldn't think of a second one after searching his stomach, so he had to praise Jia Lian in a dull and boring way.

"This is—" Jia Lian really didn't know him, he thought he was Jia She's dog friend, but he didn't look like his age either.

"He belongs to the Sun family—" Jia She turned to look at Sun Shaozu, he had forgotten his full name, and he had borrowed 5000 taels of silver just now, and he... Jia She blushed a little.

"My younger brother's surname is Sun, and his name is Shaozu." Sun Shaozu smiled, as if he couldn't see Jia Amnesty's previous neglect, and didn't care.

Jia Amnesty nodded, this Sun Shaozu seemed to be a decent person.He is not as disgusted with him as before, after all, he is short-handed.

"Master, what are you buying again?" Jia Lian's eyes shrank slightly, and he saw the servant behind Jia She holding a small box with pineapple wood grain.

Jia She smiled awkwardly, but he didn't intend to lie, otherwise his son would only need to ask if he had a whim, and he wouldn't have to know. After all, there was the antique shop behind, and the shopkeeper was still standing there as if to see off customers.

He evaded the important point and said, "It's just a fan." After he finished speaking, he turned around again in his heart, and suddenly smiled and said, "Son, do you have any silver with you, 5000 taels——I just borrowed 5000 taels from my nephew grandson." Two, if there are any, I will pay them back first.”

The more he said this, the smoother he was, the father didn't even blush when he asked his son for money.

If it wasn't for the fourth elder brother being by his side, Jia Lian would have given him a blank look and said something sarcastic about him.But he really didn't bring much money with him, who had nothing to do with so many bank notes.

Thinking of this, Jia Lian's eyes sharpened, and he looked at Sun Shaozu.

He is a martial artist, does he need to bring 5000 taels of silver notes?is it necessary?

... Yingchun in the original book was "sold" by the unscrupulous Jia She.

Jia Lian felt uncomfortable. Although Yingchun was not very close to him, he was only related to him by blood, but after all, he was a member of the Jia family, Sun Shaozu was an outsider, or someone with bad intentions who would abuse his sister to death in the future—Jia Lian Thinking of this, I hated Jia Amnesty.

He was about to say that he would take the silver when he returned home, but the fourth elder brother Yinzhen who was next to him had already ordered someone to bring five thousand taels of silver bills, and sent Su Peisheng to hand them over.

Jia Lian frowned slightly, but Jia Amnesty was taken aback.

He glanced at Prince Yong and almost trembled, this was the boss's favor—Prince Yong helped him exchange money.

"I borrowed it from you, and I will return it to you after returning home in a few days." Jia Lian thanked Yinzhen.

Sun Shaozu was very disappointed, he didn't want to take the banknote, and he was thinking of using the excuse of begging for money to go to Rongguo Mansion a few more times in the future to seek friendship.

What can we do now?

All my thoughts were almost in vain...

Sun Shaozu thought this way, he was not a man of much wealth in the first place, and the expression on his face couldn't help revealing a bit. Seeing Jia Lian, he snorted coldly in his heart.

Sure enough, this Sun Shaozu is not a good stubble!

"Lian'er, where are you going..." Jia She said the last few words very softly, seeing the appearance of Lian'er and Prince Yong, it seemed that they were going out to do some errands.

"I'm just going to tell my master that there hasn't been heavy snowfall in Zhili this winter. The glaciers and rivers have melted these days, but the water level is very low. I'm afraid there won't be enough rain after Qingming. This is not a good thing for farming. So the emperor gave My errand, let the prince and I go to a few agricultural altars in the suburbs of Beijing to worship the heavens..."

Jia Amnesty didn't understand this, but it was a serious matter, and it was not up to the emperor's hated son to do sacrifices. Prince Yong was getting more and more powerful.

He thought about the future, and thought it would be good for Yingchun to enter the fourth prince's mansion. Didn't Sifu Jin take care of Yingchun last time?

The more Jia She thought about it, the more he felt that Yingchun's future would be "fixed".

He wobbled back to the mansion alone, and returned the money to Sun Shaozu, so he was not invited to the Rongguo Mansion. No matter how shameless Sun Shaozu was, he didn't dare to insist on putting his face on it.

He went home depressed.

Jia Lian and Prince Yong Yinzhen went to the suburbs of Beijing to pray for rain.

Kangxi also took the opportunity to see Jia Lian's ability again, because he was not in good health recently, so he asked his son to replace him. Originally, the prince did his part, but the prince just said a few words of modesty, and Kangxi surprisingly gave the job to the fourth child .

At that time, the few courtiers just looked at me and looked at you, and they were stunned for a moment. They learned to be smart, and they no longer plan to participate in the bad affairs of the father and son of the heavenly family, and they all pretended to be quail.

Kangxi was full of ideas, but he still gave the prince some face. After all, the fourth prince supported the prince on the surface, so he asked Prince Yong to sacrifice to heaven on his father's behalf.

Although Prince Yinreng felt uncomfortable, but thinking about it, he didn't go to Mount Tai. He only glanced at the fourth child, and didn't bother to argue.Since his restoration, he has restrained a lot, but he still has to live under the nose of Khan Ama. Although the position of the prince is very popular and he is a favorite, but trapped in the Forbidden City, many actions have become inconvenient. Convenience, while other princes, kings, and even the little Beizi mansion of Brother Jiu can recruit talents in the mansion and raise a group of staff and followers. It was the nanny's house who entertained some people who defected to him.

This made Yinfeng feel at a loss, but there was nothing he could do. If he continued to win over courtiers and family members openly as in the past, he might not be far away from the second waste.

Yinfeng's complexion was not good, and seeing the concubine who came over, his mood was even worse. He went to other people's houses, and the concubine could only feel sad.

Sacrifice is familiar to Jia Lian from Orpheus Continent, and Yinzhen also knows a lot about it. Jia Lian has read the sacrificial procedures of the Qing Dynasty, but he can't communicate with the heaven and the earth, and the gods that have never been seen in the sky.

Although the Ephesian continent does not worship the heavens very much, it means that there are so many gods with names and surnames, and they each perform their own duties. Most of the time, if the tributes for the sacrifices are rich, miracles can be performed immediately, so almost all ordinary people are believers. God, if a son or daughter with magic power is born in the family, it will be praised to the sky. I can't wait to let the child enter the magic academy immediately, and become a priest or magician who can communicate with God.

Many priests and magicians are similar, but their positions are different. Magicians can marry, but priests have to serve the "true god" in the temple all their lives, and they have to maintain a pure body of abstinence.Magicians are more humane, but poor families have to send their children to teachers as apprentices, and it is very expensive for rich families to attend magic schools... It is a lot of money.

In the previous life, Jia Lian had endured a lot of hardships to become a veritable great magician, and his magical power was not weaker than that of the Pope, but he died only because of a bad plan.

The altar in the farmland is very simple, and the fourth elder brother is afraid that the cost will be too high and it will drag down the savings of the household department. He has already obtained Kangxi's permission, and only brought a group of more than a dozen people, mainly from the Qin Tianjian. There are only four The guards and one Su Peisheng, but when they went to the counties and towns, soldiers came to guard them.

Jia Lian looked around, and saw that surrounded by majestic soldiers, he and Prince Yong's "power" to the people was impressive. Many people looked at them with timid eyes, that is, the mischievous The boy's face also became quiet at this time.

The common people know that this is a sacrifice to the heavens, and they all hope that it will rain quickly. Qingming is coming soon, but there is not much snow in the winter ahead, and the willow leaves are about to sprout until now. The river is flowing slowly and is about to bottom out. Yes, the fish and shrimp are dying of thirst.

"Let's get started." Yinzhen looked worriedly at the people and fields around him, frowning tightly.

Originally, he wanted Jia Lian to come over the day before yesterday, but Jia Lian said he wanted it today, and he told Kangxi specifically. At that time, Khan Ama watched Jia Lian for a while before agreeing.

Although Yinzhen felt that it was Jia Lian who saw the sky again, he was still worried. Recently, the people around Zhili were panicked. There was even a message saying that this year is still a severe drought, and the seedlings planted are also white species. Now they are plowing the land. It was a waste of effort, which caused the price of grain and rice to rise a lot. The farmers were even more unintentional about farming. They went to the mountains to hunt and dig edible wild vegetables, weeds, and even bark, and stored everything to survive this test.

What makes Yinzhen most angry is that some big grain merchants hype up grain prices. If this is not Zhili, I am afraid they will do even more evil things!

Behind the back of the hands, the sacrificial thing is that Jia Lian, the Qin Tianjian, said a prayer first, and then Yinzhen went up to the stage to worship the heaven, earth and gods, and the people and soldiers below also knelt down, prayed sincerely, and looked at the altar.

Although it was simple, the common people knew that this was the prince's visit. They thought that God would send a rain to give them a way out for the sake of the emperor's and the fourth prince's precious status.

But when the fourth elder brother finished offering sacrifices, the sky was still so clear and Yinzhen's face was gloomy, he had expected it a long time ago, but he was just doing his best to obey the destiny.

But he still looked at Jia Lian expectantly.

Jia Lian blinked, and said to him, "My lord, why don't you try the true god that I believe in."

Yinzhen narrowed his eyes dangerously.

The piety of Jia Lian's beliefs, even showing his determination to preach on many occasions, actually had the same thoughts as that missionary from the West.

However, the former dynasty and Khan Ama are not taboo. If it weren't for those arrogant missionaries who insisted that the people not bow down to their ancestors, but only bow down to God, they would not be so strict on Catholicism in the Qing Dynasty.

If Jia Lian can really serve the imperial court wholeheartedly, and has the ability to make it rain from the heavens and win the hearts of the people for the imperial court, he doesn't mind Jia Lian's falsehoods and threats.

Hmph, now he is blackmailing himself.

Yin Zhen thought about it, but nodded in agreement.

I don't know if it was supposed to rain, or Jia Lian just calculated the rainy day.

It's not that Yinzhen hasn't asked other monks and Taoists in the capital. Under the threat of losing their heads, none of them dared to say that it will rain today, and the Taoist brother said that everything Jia Lian said was accurate, and Jia Lian was shot. The flatterer of He Rongguo Mansion, the tired and crooked Yinzhen walked away in a huff.

He ridiculed again in his heart, that is, the eighth and ninth brothers admired the Taoist priest, one word, stupid!

Jia Lian got Yinzhen's permission, and began to read and write prayers aloud, using the magic language of Orpheus Continent. It was raining today, but his current mage tower has not been built yet, so he can't call the wind and rain like before. Even His Majesty the Pope with the most power of faith, the ability to call wind and rain is only in a small range, but for the people, this is enough to shock, no matter how large the range is, it belongs to the power of God.

It has been a long time since a great magician became a real god in Orpheus Continent. Jia Lian was even more desperate when he came to Qing Dynasty. He wondered if he could go further in the future.

Jia Lian had a lot of thoughts at the moment, and Jia Lian restrained his thoughts, counted the time, and finished reading "Superficial Kung Fu". He didn't shy away from the soldiers and people around him, and said: "My lord, everyone, this wind and rain, half an hour later. It will come, everyone take shelter from the rain."

He just looked at the clouds in the sky and felt the breath again. It was indeed going to rain.Recently, his ability to feel nature has improved a lot. He had a vague feeling a few days before this matter. When he went out today, it was indeed going to rain, so he sent the fourth elder brother over to worship the sky together.

Wen Yan Yinzhen believed most of it in his heart, but the flesh on the county magistrate's face twitched again. He was worried that if Jia Jianzheng's words would not work, in case many people around complained, said or even did some outrageous things What to do, he thinks he can protect the fourth elder brother and Master Jia, but people can't stop their mouths, rumors, rumors, this will spread... It's not good for Master Jia... It's not good for the fourth elder brother... ...It's even worse for the emperor!

The county magistrate felt bitter, and the head of the town and the village also felt that this matter was unreliable.

They are all educated people. Although they are somewhat different, they are different from the ignorant and illiterate people here. They communicate with the world. Although they usually worship Buddha and burn incense, the Buddha and Taoist seldom care about human affairs. Otherwise, there would be no such thing as 3 people dying of starvation due to the severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River.well.

The fourth prince and Jia Lian left first, and asked the head of the village to provide a place to stay temporarily. The officials who were left behind hurriedly followed. Seeing that the prince had left, the surrounding people couldn't help discussing in a buzzing manner.

Some people even followed the fourth prince to the area around the Li Chang's house, insisting on seeing if Mrs. Jia was right.

……

"My lord, many people are surrounded outside..." the county magistrate drank a cup of tea, got the letter, felt restless, and walked up to Yinzhen to report.

I don't know which bastard is causing trouble. After the honest sacrifice to heaven, can't the wife go home and heat up the kang?

He cursed inwardly.He hates it in his heart, but he is not a corrupt and vicious county magistrate after all, isn't he just afraid that in case of chaos, the people who are used by others will be sent to death foolishly?

Not only did they lose their lives, I am afraid that the people of this town will not be able to escape, and even his official position and life are at risk.

Yinzhen put down the tea bowl, glanced at Jia Lian, saw that his expression remained unchanged, he was very calm, and his heart also settled down.

He couldn't help but said slowly: "The time hasn't come yet, it will rain later."

The magistrate almost coughed.

Does Prince Yong really think what Master Jia said is true? !

This is too much!

He glared at Jia Lian, who "confuses the public with demonic words" and "the culprit of the crime".

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