The first paparazzi in the Red Chamber
Chapter 52 Chapter 1 Paparazzi
The censors had never had the opportunity to speak to the aloof Lord Song before.
Listening to him chatting with them so gently today, I feel terrified and honored, not to mention that Master Song's words are reasonable.The censors quickly echoed the promise, accusing Fang Qin of being hypocritical and pretentious, a person who is trying to catch fame.
"However, such a person has a higher reputation than a modest gentleman like you."
Song Xi glanced at the crowd, with a sense of regret in his tone.
Then, he went with Jia Amnesty.
Obviously the two adults just passed by here.
All the censors were very happy that Mr. Song personally praised them as modest gentlemen.It is definitely a very happy thing for them, the censors, to be surrounded by such a talented and virtuous person as Mr. Song.However, it happened that Fang Qin, a young man who was trying to catch fame, got in their way and tarnished the reputation of real gentlemen like them.
Why should they be compared by a villain who does not care about humanity in order to seek fame and fame.
"I can't swallow this breath, how about you?" Liang Leyun said angrily.
"I'm afraid that people in the world won't understand the reason behind this, and think that Fang Qin is just simply divorcing his wife, which doesn't prevent him from being a good official for a lifetime."
"We must talk about this matter carefully, and let the world know Fang Qin's selfish and ugly face."
Liang Leyun took the initiative to say that he would call all the literati friends he knew to discuss and criticize Fang Qin.He intends to write a few articles and spread them out, and he must let people outside know that the people at Yushitai are not ashamed of Fang Qin's behavior.
All the censors agreed one after another, and also said that they would write several articles to comment on this matter.
"It's just that after we finish writing, how can these articles be circulated better?"
"Those literati have always used the articles written by Yushi Hanlin as a model. We only need to put the written articles in the neighbor's house under the name of the doctor, and someone will borrow and copy them." Someone suggested.
All the censors agreed one after another. This idea kills two birds with one stone, which is very good.
There are also those who are bold enough to ask directly: "Why don't you put the book in the sea?"
Everyone thinks that what should be taboo is still to be taboo.This all-inclusive bookstore directly belongs to the author of "Secrets of the Neighbor", who knows when the imperial court will seal "Secrets of the Neighbor", after all, the content of this book is a bit sensitive, and it always exposes corrupt officials.The imperial court is now clearly unreasonable, but it does not mean what will happen in the future.So for the sake of safety, it is more reliable for them to put the article in the shop of Doctor Yushi.
After the censors agreed, they summoned their literati friends one after another, and planned to have a hearty debate when they rested tomorrow.
After the seventh issue of "Secrets of the Neighbor" was released on the market, it has already caused heated discussions in the capital.
The literati held their own opinions, some supported Fang Qin, and some hated and abused Fang Qin. The two sides opposed each other and went to extremes.There are also some centrists, but the degree of expression of opinions is not as fierce as these two factions.Now the neighbor's house, Heina Baichuan, as well as various tea shops and bookstores, etc., are full of people, and the sky is full of noise.
In the afternoon, Jia Amnesty and Song Xi arrived at the neighbor's house.Before the two of them could get out of the car, they heard the people in the bookstore arguing, their faces flushed, and the gentlemen were not gentle anymore, and they blurted out dirty words like "pickled" and "animal".Some of them got angry and cursed as they walked.
"It's all right to divorce the two women. If you are unfilial, you should divorce them. Could it be possible to keep them and harm your family?"
"But according to the book, these two women did not act unfilial at all. It was Fang Qin who was foolish and filial. He listened to his mother's words and divorced his wives casually, forcing the two wives to have no face. different?"
"Let me ask which family of gentlemen will trample on a woman's reputation casually when he marries a wife. He doesn't care about the relationship between husband and wife, and divorces as soon as he says. How can he decide whether this person is good or not? Did he say that we killed people? Now, we will be beheaded for the crime of murder! Besides, the little sister of the Fang family is so unlucky, because she was born in the wrong birth, and has an elder brother who is greedy for fame, so she took her life for nothing."
As soon as the words were finished, someone immediately came out to refute.
There was a lot of noise in the lobby.
It wasn't until the sound of "Master Jia and Master Song are here" came from nowhere, that everyone stopped discussing and turned their heads to look over.
Sure enough, I saw two adults with extraordinary figures walking into the neighbor's house calmly and side by side.
All the literati disciples hurriedly saluted the two adults, and saw that the two adults were about to go to the private room on the second floor.
"Master Song, what do you think about Fang Qin's matter?"
The one who recklessly asked Song Xi about it was Song Yi, who was preparing for the scientific examination next year.This person often likes to show off that he and Song Xi are in the same family, this time he dared to open his mouth because he was encouraged by his companions.
Song Xi has always been a role model for literati and students to follow, and his views are naturally very curious by everyone.
As for Jia Amnesty, probably because of his bad reputation, he was directly ignored by these people. Besides, Jia Amnesty was originally the object of Fang Qin's participation, and his point of view could be guessed without asking.
The originally lively room was suddenly silent and cramped because of Song Yi's words.
After Song Yi opened his mouth, he saw Mr. Song squinting at him coldly. He trembled from being stared at, and was so frightened that he lost half of his soul.Song Yi cried in his heart about the regrets of father and mother, wishing to turn back time.
Just when everyone thought that Song Yi was going to be unlucky this time, they suddenly heard Song Xi speak in a calm tone.
"Husband benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness, Fang Qin has achieved anything. He is unkind to his wife, unjust to his sister, and talks about etiquette and integrity, but he is just a person who wants to gain fame. If he is righteous, he will destroy his relatives. This is a tyrannical law." For example, if the world praises it, wouldn’t it be absurd, but tell those truly benevolent and honest gentlemen how to deal with themselves.”
Song Yi was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly saluted and shouted respectfully: "My lord is very right!"
The crowd joined in.
After the two adults went upstairs, the noise in the lobby also stopped.Everyone only echoed Song Xi's words one after another, and those who had opposed it before all felt that Master Song's words were right, and the more they thought about it, the more reasonable they became.Some people feel that this view cannot be exclusive to them, and they must tell others!
So everyone dispersed and spread the word everywhere.
The next day, a group of people from Yushitai waited and brought many literati to discuss Fang Qin's matter at various bookstores and tea shops in the capital.Soon, Fang Qin's matter turned the tide, and the two diametrically opposed views all converged into one, and everyone began to condemn Fang Qin together, despising Fang Qin's actions.
Even ordinary people who don't even know the big characters know that Fang Qin is just a hypocrite who sacrifices others for his own sake.
Because Fang Qin wants to help the poor, he has always been simple, so he has never bought "Secrets of the Next Door", and he is ashamed to read that kind of book.
When the seventh issue of "Secret Stories Next Door" came out, Fang Qin left Beijing with two hundred coins to comfort the sick poor, so he didn't know about it.
When he came back at noon, after dinner, some neighbors came to greet Fang Qin euphemistically.Fang Qin only thought that they came to express their condolences because of his previous dismissal, so he smiled and said it didn't matter, and he took fame and fortune lightly.The neighbors were full of admiration, and sighed that Fang Qin was really extraordinary, and there were a lot of adults.
Fang Qin humbly agreed with a smile. After seeing off the neighbors, he took a nap. In the evening, he was full of energy and planned to go out for a walk, and condolences to the poor on the street.
Unexpectedly, after this sleep, the attitude of the outsiders towards him changed drastically.
As soon as Fang Qin stepped out of the gate of his house, he saw Lingju Lao Liu next door, and was about to greet him, when he saw Lao Liu glared at him first, and then ran away unhappily covering his eyes.Fang Qin was wondering if Lao Liu had suffered some misfortune, and when he was thinking about whether he should take care of him, he found that the neighbors passing by all around looked at him, and they all avoided him like Lao Liu.
Especially the women, they would give him a hard look before leaving.
Fang Qin didn't know why, so he went to the street with his hands behind his back, and saw all the women who knew him gathered together, covering their mouths and cursing.Fang Qin couldn't hear clearly, but it was hard for him to go up and ask because men and women were not intimate.It was so easy to meet a tofu vendor whom he had helped before to say hello to him, and Fang Qin rushed forward to express his doubts to him.
"I really don't know what happened to these people today. Many people hide from me when they see me."
"Oh, Mr. Fang, don't you know? "Secret Stories Next Door" wrote about you!" said the old man selling tofu.
Fang Qin opened his eyes wide in surprise, his heart skipped a beat, and then he recalled the attitude of those people towards him just now, it turned out that it was because of this.
Fang Qin frowned: "What can I write, but it's just groundless gossip, and it's worth their cold words and cold eyes to me. I, Fang Qin, are well behaved, and I'm never afraid of anyone's revenge!"
"Gossip? Did your lord divorce his wife twice and force her to die in her mother's house?" the old man asked.
Fang Qin was stunned for a moment, he didn't want to lie, he just said: "I did divorce two wives, all because they were unfilial first. After the death of righteousness, I have nothing to do with them, as for their current situation, of course I don't know .”
"Oh——" the old man sighed deeply, quickly cut a piece of tofu, hugged it in a lotus leaf, and handed it to Fang Qin. "Master Fang, take it away, I should also close the stall."
"I can't take this tofu. You can keep it and sell it for money. But you harvested it so early today? I think there are still so many tofu left." Fang Qin asked wonderingly.
"I have something to do at home, and the rest is to make dried tofu." After the old man said, he hurriedly packed his things and went away with a pole.
Fang Qin felt the strange gazes from all around, as well as the whispered laughter, thinking about the old man's words, so he planned to find a friend to borrow a book, and see how "Secret Stories Next Door" was arranged for him.
Fang Qin usually associates with poor people. Now that he has been stigmatized, the few people who still trust him are also poor people.But most of these people were illiterate, and they just passed on the hearsay to him.
After much deliberation, Fang Qin went to ask his former colleague Liang Leyun.Unexpectedly, he was scolded by the servants of the Liang family and drove him out.Fang Qin felt so humiliated, extremely ashamed and angry, and immediately wanted to go to the Yamen to sue "Secrets of the Neighbor" for slandering him, but was stopped by Fang's mother.
"Silly boy, you have just been dismissed from office, and you should do your duty the most. Who is the Governor of Gyeonggi Prefecture? Song Xi, your best friend at the top of Yushitai. What can you do if officials and officials protect each other. You are at this moment If you go, I'm afraid you will be beaten and carried back in vain. Now that you are out of the public eye, how many of you will really believe these rumors? After a few days, the rumors will pass, and those who are clear will clear themselves. What are you afraid of?" Fang Mu Consolation said.
This is also the reason Fang Qin thinks about. He is not afraid of the shadow, and he can say what those people like to say.
After all, he has done good deeds for so many years, and he has actually helped more than a thousand people. These people are always aware of his character and helped him rectify his name.
The next day.
Fang Qin found that the attitude of the neighbors towards him became worse, and there was even stinky feces in front of his house.After thinking about it, Fang Qin was still worried, so he asked Ge Qing to come.
Ge Qinglai is the most honest and honest among his colleagues in Yushitai.
Fang Qin still had the door shut, but this time Fang Qin didn't leave and just waited at the door.Finally, when Ge Qing came to go out, he blocked him.
Ge Qing couldn't bear to lose face, so he gave the book to Fang Qin.
"This is the last time I will help you. After you get this book, don't come to me again. When I see you in the future, I will pretend that I don't know you." Ge Qinglai gave Fang Qin one last look, blushing, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm ashamed to be with a heartless hypocrite like you!"
Fang Qin was stunned, he never expected that he would be looked down upon by the most inconspicuous Ge Qing.When he came to his senses and wanted to refute back, Ge Qinglai had already left by car.
Fang Qin gritted his teeth and squeezed the book in his hand that was donated by others, his face was hot.He was so angry that he dropped the neighbor's secret in his hand, turned around and left.Passers-by saw this and wanted to pick it up, Fang Qin yelled hurriedly, turned back and snatched the book from the passer-by.
"Don't be ashamed, you lose it, and you grab it when someone picks it up, you're sick!" A passer-by spat at Fang Qin before leaving.
Fang Qin's face turned purple with anger, and finally grabbed the book and ran to a deserted alley, and flipped through "Secret Stories Next Door".He wants to see what is written on it, and he will definitely file a complaint later.Gyeonggi Prefecture could not sue, so he went to Dali Temple to sue.
Fang Qin read word by word, the more she read, the slower her hand began to tremble.
Who is the author of this book, and why did he dig out all the old times in his family, many of his memories have been blurred, and he only remembered it after reading the description above.Also, this book contains the testimonies provided by Anonymous A, B, C, and D. The tone of their speech is so familiar. It really seems to be the group of people he used when he was the county magistrate in Nanzhou City.
There is also the confession of the villagers in Junjun Village where her sister married, and there is a "two old dog" curse words written on it intact. , It is impossible for people who have not been there to know.
It can be seen that this "Secrets of Neighbors" has really been investigated in Junyun Village and Nanzhou City.
Fang Qin just didn't want to admit it, and felt faintly in his heart that what those anonymous people said about him in this book were all true.
Fang Qin was not reconciled, he didn't believe that he had made a mistake in his judgment at the beginning, how could someone write an article without subjectively making rumors.He must not catch the mistakes of "Secret Stories Next Door" and sue them for a false accusation.However, he panted angrily from the beginning to the end, but he didn't see a word of judgment without authorization. The information he stated was very true, and all the investigations were just describing the real situation.Regarding the radical remarks provided by some anonymous people, they will also specifically mark the words "this is a personal statement that may be biased" afterwards.
Fang Qin's face was pale, and he sat on the ground leaning against the wall, his lips were tightly closed, and he was a little speechless.When he did these things, he never felt that he was wrong. Everything was done according to the rules and regulations, for the sake of justice, and he had a clear conscience.But for some reason, let alone others, even he himself began to question whether his behavior was right or wrong after reading the description in the book...
"Have you heard that those censors all wrote articles criticizing Fang Qin for contemptuous women?"
"It's not a thing at all, but you still claim to be an upright official and a gentleman. A gentleman can do things that bully women, so he can't be ashamed of himself. Three wives, two of them were forced to death, and the last one was smarter and knew how to hide in the temple." , but after all, she has been a widow for three years. Her sister is even worse, tsk tsk... I can't even say it."
"Is there something wrong with this mother, who can raise her son to such a thing? I don't think this pair of mother and son is a good thing."
Hearing this, Fang Qin rushed to the alley and saw three scholars talking with smiles on their faces.
"Shut up, I won't allow you to speak ill of my mother!" Fang Qin yelled at them, "What are you coming at me?"
The three scholars were a little dazed at first, but then they realized that this person was Fang Qin. They laughed, pointed at Fang Qin's nose, and called him a hypocrite, and they made people sick by pretending to be a clean and righteous person for so many years.
Fang Qin was ashamed and angry, and when he heard the excitement, he blushed and his neck was thick, telling them to get out of here.
The scholars just didn't want to leave, and sneered: "You think you are some kind of dog, why do you want us to leave. We are not the daughter-in-law you can dismiss as 'unfilial' at will after you marry, and we are not what you say to dismiss. Just send away my little sister."
"A big old man who lives by supporting a weak woman is so ashamed. Since you see that the bachelor and the poor are noble in saving lives, why don't you marry yourself? You forced your sister to do something. Your sister has spent eight lifetimes." Blood mold, reincarnated into your Fang family. I don't know if she swore to turn into a ghost to find you when she died!"
"Shut up! Shut up!" Fang Qin covered his ears and yelled.
The louder he is, the more people will be attracted to watch.
The three scholars hurriedly introduced Fang Qin's identity.
Among the people, the woman was the most angry, grabbing the leaves of rotten vegetables and beating them from a distance.
"Why are we women worthless anymore? Just do as you men do. If you don't ask, which man in this world was not born by a woman?"
The women were filled with righteous indignation, and some even became so angry that they hit Fang Qin's head directly, and listened to the crackling sound one by one, watching the sticky egg white and egg yolk sticking to Fang Qin's face , it feels particularly refreshing.
The man who sold the eggs couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly came to stop him and said, "Save it, I'll help you pour the dung, it's better to save this egg to make up for the children than to beat such a rotten person, it's not worth it."
bad people……
bad people……
bad people……
These people actually called him a rotten man.
Fang Qin's ears buzzed, and the world was spinning. He couldn't hear the sounds around him. He raised his hand to look at the sky, and through the sticky egg liquid, he could vaguely see the dazzling sun in the sky.
Fang Qin laughed and stretched out his hand towards the sky.
A spoonful of manure poured down, filling his mouth, and he could no longer make a sound.
"Is this person crazy!?" The common people commented.
"Ugh—" Fang Qin vomited, vomited profusely, then yelled and laughed, knelt on the ground, cried and laughed strangely for a while, and finally yelled in pain, "Fang Qin's name has been completely lost in "Secrets of Neighbors" "It was ruined! I am not reconciled!"
"Screw your dissatisfaction!"
The women waved what they had in their hands.
……
The Fang family searched half of the capital, and found Fang Qin in an alley late at night.At that time, the person was already delirious, his body was covered with dirty things, and he couldn't even distinguish his five sense organs.Fang's mother was worried, and came to look for him in a carriage. Seeing her son's appearance, Fang Qin was not dirty at all. She hugged her son and cried bitterly, regretting her original behavior.
If she hadn't been jealous of her daughter-in-law for taking her son, she always made things difficult for her daughter-in-law, provoked the relationship between her son and daughter-in-law, and forced her son to divorce her daughter-in-law, her son would not have ended up in this situation.
Fang Qin was helped back, and after being cleaned, her consciousness was still unclear.
That night, Fang Qin planned to commit suicide by leaving a book, but fortunately Fang's mother found out in time, and she cried him back with tears.
"If you're going to die, it's my wife who's going to die. Wait for me to leave a letter and put all the blame on yourself, and your name will be restored." Mother Fang sighed.
The confused Fang Qin was stimulated by this news, and hurriedly came to apologize to her mother for her mistakes.How could he let his mother die!
Fang's mother sat on the ground and cried into tears. She shook her hands and touched the head of her precious son who was kneeling and crawling in front of her. "Good boy, let's stay away from this place of right and wrong, okay?"
Fang Qin nodded dumbly, her eyes were empty like a puppet.For him, his reputation was gone, and things more important than his life were gone. He would rather die than live, and it would be painful no matter how he lived.The only thing keeping him alive is his mother.What did the mother say, and if he stayed with the mother for the rest of his life, he would die immediately.
Fang Qin asked someone to pack the things overnight, and went early the next day.He took his family and left Beijing in a carriage.
The Fang family ran away in such a panic, and immediately set off a wave of abuse from the whole city.Why was he scolded more fiercely when he left?
Because Fang Qin only cared about running away with his mother, but forgot about his third wife, He Shi, who was still in the nunnery outside the city.
The He family returned to the capital on the third day after that, and submitted a complaint to the yamen, requesting the government to make peace.The yamen was straightforward, and immediately gave permission to the He family, and awarded the Fang family's house that was too late to sell to the He family as compensation.Later, there were many matchmakers in the city who wanted to be matchmakers for the He family, and vowed to find a good home for this poor woman.
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The case of Fang Qin made more people understand that the responsibility of a man is not only to be loyal and filial to the emperor, but also to protect the family and wife.A gentleman's benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust should not only be external, but also be kind and gentle to his wife internally. Only by self-cultivation and family can he govern the country and the world.
Husband and wife are gentle, which is the way for a decent husband and wife to get along.
Furthermore, the work of a matchmaker in the capital is becoming more and more difficult these days, and the speed at which a marriage is finalized is much slower than in previous years.Especially some affluent families who pay attention to poetry and etiquette are unwilling to meet people casually, ask about their family background, and get engaged if they think it is suitable.The man needs to investigate, and the woman also needs to investigate. After they have checked each other secretly, they can determine the time of marriage.There are also some richer families who are worried about the unreliability of their own investigations, and will entrust powerful people to help in-depth investigations.As a result, there is an additional business in the capital that specializes in marriage investigations - Qianli Marriage Investigation Workshop.
It is said that this shop was opened by the author of "Secrets of the Neighborhood", and its investigative ability and accuracy can be seen clearly only by looking at the secrets of the neighbors.It is obvious and convincing.
Half a month after the store opened, it has already received orders from more than a dozen customers, and its profit is much higher than that of ordinary stores, even several times or dozens of times higher.
Although some people were happy and some were worried about the final investigation results, the clients were glad they did this, otherwise they would ruin their children's life, and they would never come back.
Song Xi also heard that Jia She had opened such a shop for marriage investigation, and admired him very much.
"I found that you pretend in your head that you are always different from others, and that everything in your hands seems to be linked to money, and you can do business with great vigor."
"Who would have a grudge against money?" Jia Amnesty pays attention to social and monetary benefits in his work, and if it is all unprofitable, it will not be able to last for a long time.
Song Xi laughed, "If you care so much about money, why didn't you want it when the emperor allocated it to you?"
"I only like to scrape the rich people's money. If all the money in the treasury is used for national affairs, I will feel guilty."
At this time, Zhu Mao knocked on the door and came in, delivering a letter.
Jia Amnesty asked what it was.
Zhu Mao said: "Fang Zhenglu said that this is already the tenth letter this month, and it was written by the same person who received it at the Miwen Xuan in the west of the city."
Tenth letter.
Such a persistent delivery of news, could it be some important news.
Jia Amnesty opened it and looked at it, and smiled lightly. It was hard for Fang Zhenglu to wait until the tenth letter before showing it to him.It really was a boring report letter, and the person to be reported in the letter was Jia She.
Jia Amnesty put down the letter and sent Zhu Mao to tell Fang Zhenglu, don't worry about it.
Song Xi took the letter on the table and looked at it. It said that Jia She was unscrupulous and ungrateful.One is that Jia She is lustful and accepts concubines, and the other is that he treats the son of a family friend harshly and does not give financial support.
"Are you interested?" Song Xi asked.
Jia She sneered, "The content is light at the beginning and heavy at the end. There are few details in the first few strokes, and the cause and effect are explained in detail in the back. Although the identity of this son of a family friend who was treated harshly was not clearly revealed, it is obvious that what he said It is Sun Shaozu."
"Sun Shaozu." Song Xi read along, "But the grandson of the late Sun Lin, the Minister of War?"
"You actually know." Jia She sighed.
Song Xi shallowly pursed his lips, "I don't know him, but I heard my father mention this person's name once when I was young."
Jia She gave a thumbs up to Song Xi, who has lost his memory.
Song Xi: "Don't laugh at me. Let me tell you something serious. You said that your business is to scrape rich people's money. I should be considered rich. Can your marriage workshop take my business?"
"Your son is only eight years old, and he's about to get engaged?" Jia She knew exactly what Song Xi was referring to, but asked this way.
Song Xi shook his head, admitted that it was him, and even more frankly stated that he wanted to investigate Jia Amnesty's preferences.
"Fortunately, you can think of a way to let me investigate myself."
"No one can understand yourself better than you, so this is the smartest way for me." Song Xi smiled, turned around and sat behind the desk, picked up a pen and wrote down what he wanted to know on the paper, and handed it to Jia Amnesty, "An answer of 10 taels."
Jia She counted, there were twenty items on it, they were nothing more than asking him some common questions like hobbies, food he liked, people he valued, etc.
"You are so rich, and you only need 200 million taels? I don't believe it." Seeing that Song Xi was about to speak, Jia She asked again, "The ones in the warehouse are not counted. You have already given them to me. Besides, you can still take 200 million taels, I'll think about it."
Song Xi was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes and silently calculated with his abacus, "There are still some Zhuangzi shops, plus the property left by the ancestors, it should be enough..."
Before Song Xi finished speaking, Jia Amnesty handed the written paper in front of Song Xi, "Opening offer, free for you."
Song Xi glanced at the answer behind the "Most pleasing" item on the paper, and slowly raised his eyes to look at Jia She, with a touch of affection.
Jia Amnesty sat on the table with one buttock, held Song Xi's hands, leaned over, and looked down at Song Xi with a seemingly casual smile on his lips.
"It seems that you are very happy after knowing the answer."
Song Xi still stared deeply into Jia She's eyes, without speaking.
"We still have to wait until the next year." Jia Amnesty patted Song Xi on the head, got down from the table, took back the paper, and burned it.
"I haven't finished watching." Song Xi said hurriedly.
"Who is fooling, you have a photographic memory."
Jia Amnesty threw the half-burned paper into the copper basin.
Before he could turn around, Jia Amnesty felt a thick chest hit his back.Then, Jia Amnesty felt that the base of his ear was hot and itchy.
Jia Amnesty tilted his head slightly, revealing his fair neck instead.
Song Xi hugged Jia She tightly, buried his head behind Jia She's ear, and inhaled the smell of his body fiercely, as if he wanted to take away Jia She's soul as well.
Jia Amnesty's body was only Su Hexiang used in ordinary smoked clothes, but to Song Xi's smell, it was an unusually pleasant and indescribably charming light fragrance, which attracted him deeply and made him unable to stop.
The man in his arms was obviously a big man like him, only a little shorter than him.But at this moment, Song Xi wanted to rub him in his heart and trap him tightly so that he could never escape from his imprisonment.
Song Xi greedily pressed his lips to the back of Jia She's ear, and kissed lightly. When the kiss reached the ear, he slightly opened his lips, held Jia She's earlobe, wrapped it with his tongue, and followed it with his throat. With a slight movement, there was a burst of dryness and heat below him.
Song Xi could clearly see the red glow on Jia She's cheeks, and also felt his slightly tense body.Song Xi immediately left his body, nodded and leaned on Jia She's shoulder, only holding his hand.
Jia Amnesty calmed down, then turned to him with a smile and said, "It's well controlled."
Song Xi glanced at Jia She, although this was a rare compliment Jia She gave him, but at the moment he couldn't be very happy.
Seeing Jia She's alluring face, he couldn't help turning his head away, it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't be impulsive again with his second glance.
Song Xi bought himself a cup of tea.
Jia Amnesty: "The tea is cold."
"It's just right for me." Song Xi's throat twitched, and after drinking the herbal tea, he raised his eyes to look at Jia She, his eyes unnaturally fell on his neck, which was still crimson, and he drank another cup of herbal tea.
Song Xi simply drank the whole pot.
Jia Amnesty, on the other hand, sat behind the case and sorted out the materials as if nothing had happened.Recently, there have been many reports from various places, one of which is about King Qi and Concubine Rong.
It is said that when King Qi and his party rushed to Taiping Village, King Qi’s drug addiction broke out, and the drugs that Concubine Rong secretly bought were exhausted, and she could not find such expensive drugs to sell in the countryside. The forbidden drug shop can only tell people to keep a close eye on King Qi, and weep at night listening to King Qi screaming for medicine in pain.In the middle of the night, King Qi sneaked out of the post station while his servants were asleep, and searched for medicine shops all over the street, asking for medicines.
Because of the relationship between "Da Zhou Chaowen", everyone knows the disadvantages of drugs.Now seeing this richly dressed man wanting this kind of thing, everyone guessed that he was addicted and tried to persuade him, but some people wanted to catch him first and send him to the yamen.When King Qi saw that these troublemakers were going to arrest him, he thought they were going to murder him, so he ran crazily.In the end, where the people of King Qi went, no one knew.
Concubine Rong ordered all her attendants to search all night.
Still at dawn the next day, the villagers found a noble gentleman lying upside down beside the muddy pond, and reported the case.After being identified by the servants of Prince Qi's mansion, it is indeed King Qi himself.
The muddy pond was not deep, and the water in it only reached his knees. Where King Qi fell, his feet were still dry on the shore.King Qi probably passed out when his head was upside down, or he was unconscious and exhausted due to drug addiction. In short, he drowned accidentally like this.
The news reported by the government had not been delivered to the capital, but Jia Amnesty received it first.Jia Amnesty was not sure whether he should tell the emperor the news, so he asked Song Xi.
"Say, maybe you can still get credit for it." Song Xi said.
It was only then that Jia She remembered that in two days' time it would be the Empress Dowager's Qianqiu.King Qi is the empress dowager's nephew after all, and the emperor should temporarily detain him if the funeral is reported, so as not to affect the empress dowager's mood of celebrating her birthday.
Jia Amnesty then wrote the memorial and asked someone to send it to the palace immediately.After making arrangements, Jia Amnesty raised his eyes to Song Xi.But I saw Song Xi lazily flipping through the miscellaneous notes on the table, resting his chin on the other hand, his eyes were not on the book at all, and he was thinking dazedly for some reason.
Mr. Song also has moments of bewilderment and loss of consciousness, which is really rare.
Jia Amnesty smiled helplessly, ordered someone to prepare hot tea, and he personally cut it off for Song Xi.He didn't put it directly on the table, but directly sent it to Song Xi with his hand.
Song Xi was stunned for a moment, looked at Jia Amnesty, took the tea with a smile, and took a sip.
"Well—" Song Xi frowned, "Ginger tea?"
Jia Amnesty: "It's winter, you'll get sick easily after drinking so much herbal tea, drink this to keep out the cold."
Song Xi nodded and drank the ginger tea he hated the most.Then he grabbed Jia She's arm and was about to say something when he heard another knock on the door.
Song Xishi clasped his hands and watched Jia She not move.
In desperation, Jia Amnesty asked Zhu Mao to report outside the door.
"Master, there is a fake "My Neighbor's Secret" on the market."
Song Xi had no choice but to let go.
Jia She then took a blue book from Zhu Mao's hand. The four-character stamp of "Secrets of the Neighbor" on it was very similar to the original one, but after careful identification, it could be seen that the print was rougher and there were many stamps. Wrong place.
Jia Amnesty flipped through the content, and found that it was all the same as the seventh issue of "Secrets Next Door", but the three-page advertisement in the original book was not printed.
Jia She sneered, this is interesting, his "Secrets of the Neighbor" has been pirated.
Listening to him chatting with them so gently today, I feel terrified and honored, not to mention that Master Song's words are reasonable.The censors quickly echoed the promise, accusing Fang Qin of being hypocritical and pretentious, a person who is trying to catch fame.
"However, such a person has a higher reputation than a modest gentleman like you."
Song Xi glanced at the crowd, with a sense of regret in his tone.
Then, he went with Jia Amnesty.
Obviously the two adults just passed by here.
All the censors were very happy that Mr. Song personally praised them as modest gentlemen.It is definitely a very happy thing for them, the censors, to be surrounded by such a talented and virtuous person as Mr. Song.However, it happened that Fang Qin, a young man who was trying to catch fame, got in their way and tarnished the reputation of real gentlemen like them.
Why should they be compared by a villain who does not care about humanity in order to seek fame and fame.
"I can't swallow this breath, how about you?" Liang Leyun said angrily.
"I'm afraid that people in the world won't understand the reason behind this, and think that Fang Qin is just simply divorcing his wife, which doesn't prevent him from being a good official for a lifetime."
"We must talk about this matter carefully, and let the world know Fang Qin's selfish and ugly face."
Liang Leyun took the initiative to say that he would call all the literati friends he knew to discuss and criticize Fang Qin.He intends to write a few articles and spread them out, and he must let people outside know that the people at Yushitai are not ashamed of Fang Qin's behavior.
All the censors agreed one after another, and also said that they would write several articles to comment on this matter.
"It's just that after we finish writing, how can these articles be circulated better?"
"Those literati have always used the articles written by Yushi Hanlin as a model. We only need to put the written articles in the neighbor's house under the name of the doctor, and someone will borrow and copy them." Someone suggested.
All the censors agreed one after another. This idea kills two birds with one stone, which is very good.
There are also those who are bold enough to ask directly: "Why don't you put the book in the sea?"
Everyone thinks that what should be taboo is still to be taboo.This all-inclusive bookstore directly belongs to the author of "Secrets of the Neighbor", who knows when the imperial court will seal "Secrets of the Neighbor", after all, the content of this book is a bit sensitive, and it always exposes corrupt officials.The imperial court is now clearly unreasonable, but it does not mean what will happen in the future.So for the sake of safety, it is more reliable for them to put the article in the shop of Doctor Yushi.
After the censors agreed, they summoned their literati friends one after another, and planned to have a hearty debate when they rested tomorrow.
After the seventh issue of "Secrets of the Neighbor" was released on the market, it has already caused heated discussions in the capital.
The literati held their own opinions, some supported Fang Qin, and some hated and abused Fang Qin. The two sides opposed each other and went to extremes.There are also some centrists, but the degree of expression of opinions is not as fierce as these two factions.Now the neighbor's house, Heina Baichuan, as well as various tea shops and bookstores, etc., are full of people, and the sky is full of noise.
In the afternoon, Jia Amnesty and Song Xi arrived at the neighbor's house.Before the two of them could get out of the car, they heard the people in the bookstore arguing, their faces flushed, and the gentlemen were not gentle anymore, and they blurted out dirty words like "pickled" and "animal".Some of them got angry and cursed as they walked.
"It's all right to divorce the two women. If you are unfilial, you should divorce them. Could it be possible to keep them and harm your family?"
"But according to the book, these two women did not act unfilial at all. It was Fang Qin who was foolish and filial. He listened to his mother's words and divorced his wives casually, forcing the two wives to have no face. different?"
"Let me ask which family of gentlemen will trample on a woman's reputation casually when he marries a wife. He doesn't care about the relationship between husband and wife, and divorces as soon as he says. How can he decide whether this person is good or not? Did he say that we killed people? Now, we will be beheaded for the crime of murder! Besides, the little sister of the Fang family is so unlucky, because she was born in the wrong birth, and has an elder brother who is greedy for fame, so she took her life for nothing."
As soon as the words were finished, someone immediately came out to refute.
There was a lot of noise in the lobby.
It wasn't until the sound of "Master Jia and Master Song are here" came from nowhere, that everyone stopped discussing and turned their heads to look over.
Sure enough, I saw two adults with extraordinary figures walking into the neighbor's house calmly and side by side.
All the literati disciples hurriedly saluted the two adults, and saw that the two adults were about to go to the private room on the second floor.
"Master Song, what do you think about Fang Qin's matter?"
The one who recklessly asked Song Xi about it was Song Yi, who was preparing for the scientific examination next year.This person often likes to show off that he and Song Xi are in the same family, this time he dared to open his mouth because he was encouraged by his companions.
Song Xi has always been a role model for literati and students to follow, and his views are naturally very curious by everyone.
As for Jia Amnesty, probably because of his bad reputation, he was directly ignored by these people. Besides, Jia Amnesty was originally the object of Fang Qin's participation, and his point of view could be guessed without asking.
The originally lively room was suddenly silent and cramped because of Song Yi's words.
After Song Yi opened his mouth, he saw Mr. Song squinting at him coldly. He trembled from being stared at, and was so frightened that he lost half of his soul.Song Yi cried in his heart about the regrets of father and mother, wishing to turn back time.
Just when everyone thought that Song Yi was going to be unlucky this time, they suddenly heard Song Xi speak in a calm tone.
"Husband benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness, Fang Qin has achieved anything. He is unkind to his wife, unjust to his sister, and talks about etiquette and integrity, but he is just a person who wants to gain fame. If he is righteous, he will destroy his relatives. This is a tyrannical law." For example, if the world praises it, wouldn’t it be absurd, but tell those truly benevolent and honest gentlemen how to deal with themselves.”
Song Yi was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly saluted and shouted respectfully: "My lord is very right!"
The crowd joined in.
After the two adults went upstairs, the noise in the lobby also stopped.Everyone only echoed Song Xi's words one after another, and those who had opposed it before all felt that Master Song's words were right, and the more they thought about it, the more reasonable they became.Some people feel that this view cannot be exclusive to them, and they must tell others!
So everyone dispersed and spread the word everywhere.
The next day, a group of people from Yushitai waited and brought many literati to discuss Fang Qin's matter at various bookstores and tea shops in the capital.Soon, Fang Qin's matter turned the tide, and the two diametrically opposed views all converged into one, and everyone began to condemn Fang Qin together, despising Fang Qin's actions.
Even ordinary people who don't even know the big characters know that Fang Qin is just a hypocrite who sacrifices others for his own sake.
Because Fang Qin wants to help the poor, he has always been simple, so he has never bought "Secrets of the Next Door", and he is ashamed to read that kind of book.
When the seventh issue of "Secret Stories Next Door" came out, Fang Qin left Beijing with two hundred coins to comfort the sick poor, so he didn't know about it.
When he came back at noon, after dinner, some neighbors came to greet Fang Qin euphemistically.Fang Qin only thought that they came to express their condolences because of his previous dismissal, so he smiled and said it didn't matter, and he took fame and fortune lightly.The neighbors were full of admiration, and sighed that Fang Qin was really extraordinary, and there were a lot of adults.
Fang Qin humbly agreed with a smile. After seeing off the neighbors, he took a nap. In the evening, he was full of energy and planned to go out for a walk, and condolences to the poor on the street.
Unexpectedly, after this sleep, the attitude of the outsiders towards him changed drastically.
As soon as Fang Qin stepped out of the gate of his house, he saw Lingju Lao Liu next door, and was about to greet him, when he saw Lao Liu glared at him first, and then ran away unhappily covering his eyes.Fang Qin was wondering if Lao Liu had suffered some misfortune, and when he was thinking about whether he should take care of him, he found that the neighbors passing by all around looked at him, and they all avoided him like Lao Liu.
Especially the women, they would give him a hard look before leaving.
Fang Qin didn't know why, so he went to the street with his hands behind his back, and saw all the women who knew him gathered together, covering their mouths and cursing.Fang Qin couldn't hear clearly, but it was hard for him to go up and ask because men and women were not intimate.It was so easy to meet a tofu vendor whom he had helped before to say hello to him, and Fang Qin rushed forward to express his doubts to him.
"I really don't know what happened to these people today. Many people hide from me when they see me."
"Oh, Mr. Fang, don't you know? "Secret Stories Next Door" wrote about you!" said the old man selling tofu.
Fang Qin opened his eyes wide in surprise, his heart skipped a beat, and then he recalled the attitude of those people towards him just now, it turned out that it was because of this.
Fang Qin frowned: "What can I write, but it's just groundless gossip, and it's worth their cold words and cold eyes to me. I, Fang Qin, are well behaved, and I'm never afraid of anyone's revenge!"
"Gossip? Did your lord divorce his wife twice and force her to die in her mother's house?" the old man asked.
Fang Qin was stunned for a moment, he didn't want to lie, he just said: "I did divorce two wives, all because they were unfilial first. After the death of righteousness, I have nothing to do with them, as for their current situation, of course I don't know .”
"Oh——" the old man sighed deeply, quickly cut a piece of tofu, hugged it in a lotus leaf, and handed it to Fang Qin. "Master Fang, take it away, I should also close the stall."
"I can't take this tofu. You can keep it and sell it for money. But you harvested it so early today? I think there are still so many tofu left." Fang Qin asked wonderingly.
"I have something to do at home, and the rest is to make dried tofu." After the old man said, he hurriedly packed his things and went away with a pole.
Fang Qin felt the strange gazes from all around, as well as the whispered laughter, thinking about the old man's words, so he planned to find a friend to borrow a book, and see how "Secret Stories Next Door" was arranged for him.
Fang Qin usually associates with poor people. Now that he has been stigmatized, the few people who still trust him are also poor people.But most of these people were illiterate, and they just passed on the hearsay to him.
After much deliberation, Fang Qin went to ask his former colleague Liang Leyun.Unexpectedly, he was scolded by the servants of the Liang family and drove him out.Fang Qin felt so humiliated, extremely ashamed and angry, and immediately wanted to go to the Yamen to sue "Secrets of the Neighbor" for slandering him, but was stopped by Fang's mother.
"Silly boy, you have just been dismissed from office, and you should do your duty the most. Who is the Governor of Gyeonggi Prefecture? Song Xi, your best friend at the top of Yushitai. What can you do if officials and officials protect each other. You are at this moment If you go, I'm afraid you will be beaten and carried back in vain. Now that you are out of the public eye, how many of you will really believe these rumors? After a few days, the rumors will pass, and those who are clear will clear themselves. What are you afraid of?" Fang Mu Consolation said.
This is also the reason Fang Qin thinks about. He is not afraid of the shadow, and he can say what those people like to say.
After all, he has done good deeds for so many years, and he has actually helped more than a thousand people. These people are always aware of his character and helped him rectify his name.
The next day.
Fang Qin found that the attitude of the neighbors towards him became worse, and there was even stinky feces in front of his house.After thinking about it, Fang Qin was still worried, so he asked Ge Qing to come.
Ge Qinglai is the most honest and honest among his colleagues in Yushitai.
Fang Qin still had the door shut, but this time Fang Qin didn't leave and just waited at the door.Finally, when Ge Qing came to go out, he blocked him.
Ge Qing couldn't bear to lose face, so he gave the book to Fang Qin.
"This is the last time I will help you. After you get this book, don't come to me again. When I see you in the future, I will pretend that I don't know you." Ge Qinglai gave Fang Qin one last look, blushing, gritted his teeth and said, "I'm ashamed to be with a heartless hypocrite like you!"
Fang Qin was stunned, he never expected that he would be looked down upon by the most inconspicuous Ge Qing.When he came to his senses and wanted to refute back, Ge Qinglai had already left by car.
Fang Qin gritted his teeth and squeezed the book in his hand that was donated by others, his face was hot.He was so angry that he dropped the neighbor's secret in his hand, turned around and left.Passers-by saw this and wanted to pick it up, Fang Qin yelled hurriedly, turned back and snatched the book from the passer-by.
"Don't be ashamed, you lose it, and you grab it when someone picks it up, you're sick!" A passer-by spat at Fang Qin before leaving.
Fang Qin's face turned purple with anger, and finally grabbed the book and ran to a deserted alley, and flipped through "Secret Stories Next Door".He wants to see what is written on it, and he will definitely file a complaint later.Gyeonggi Prefecture could not sue, so he went to Dali Temple to sue.
Fang Qin read word by word, the more she read, the slower her hand began to tremble.
Who is the author of this book, and why did he dig out all the old times in his family, many of his memories have been blurred, and he only remembered it after reading the description above.Also, this book contains the testimonies provided by Anonymous A, B, C, and D. The tone of their speech is so familiar. It really seems to be the group of people he used when he was the county magistrate in Nanzhou City.
There is also the confession of the villagers in Junjun Village where her sister married, and there is a "two old dog" curse words written on it intact. , It is impossible for people who have not been there to know.
It can be seen that this "Secrets of Neighbors" has really been investigated in Junyun Village and Nanzhou City.
Fang Qin just didn't want to admit it, and felt faintly in his heart that what those anonymous people said about him in this book were all true.
Fang Qin was not reconciled, he didn't believe that he had made a mistake in his judgment at the beginning, how could someone write an article without subjectively making rumors.He must not catch the mistakes of "Secret Stories Next Door" and sue them for a false accusation.However, he panted angrily from the beginning to the end, but he didn't see a word of judgment without authorization. The information he stated was very true, and all the investigations were just describing the real situation.Regarding the radical remarks provided by some anonymous people, they will also specifically mark the words "this is a personal statement that may be biased" afterwards.
Fang Qin's face was pale, and he sat on the ground leaning against the wall, his lips were tightly closed, and he was a little speechless.When he did these things, he never felt that he was wrong. Everything was done according to the rules and regulations, for the sake of justice, and he had a clear conscience.But for some reason, let alone others, even he himself began to question whether his behavior was right or wrong after reading the description in the book...
"Have you heard that those censors all wrote articles criticizing Fang Qin for contemptuous women?"
"It's not a thing at all, but you still claim to be an upright official and a gentleman. A gentleman can do things that bully women, so he can't be ashamed of himself. Three wives, two of them were forced to death, and the last one was smarter and knew how to hide in the temple." , but after all, she has been a widow for three years. Her sister is even worse, tsk tsk... I can't even say it."
"Is there something wrong with this mother, who can raise her son to such a thing? I don't think this pair of mother and son is a good thing."
Hearing this, Fang Qin rushed to the alley and saw three scholars talking with smiles on their faces.
"Shut up, I won't allow you to speak ill of my mother!" Fang Qin yelled at them, "What are you coming at me?"
The three scholars were a little dazed at first, but then they realized that this person was Fang Qin. They laughed, pointed at Fang Qin's nose, and called him a hypocrite, and they made people sick by pretending to be a clean and righteous person for so many years.
Fang Qin was ashamed and angry, and when he heard the excitement, he blushed and his neck was thick, telling them to get out of here.
The scholars just didn't want to leave, and sneered: "You think you are some kind of dog, why do you want us to leave. We are not the daughter-in-law you can dismiss as 'unfilial' at will after you marry, and we are not what you say to dismiss. Just send away my little sister."
"A big old man who lives by supporting a weak woman is so ashamed. Since you see that the bachelor and the poor are noble in saving lives, why don't you marry yourself? You forced your sister to do something. Your sister has spent eight lifetimes." Blood mold, reincarnated into your Fang family. I don't know if she swore to turn into a ghost to find you when she died!"
"Shut up! Shut up!" Fang Qin covered his ears and yelled.
The louder he is, the more people will be attracted to watch.
The three scholars hurriedly introduced Fang Qin's identity.
Among the people, the woman was the most angry, grabbing the leaves of rotten vegetables and beating them from a distance.
"Why are we women worthless anymore? Just do as you men do. If you don't ask, which man in this world was not born by a woman?"
The women were filled with righteous indignation, and some even became so angry that they hit Fang Qin's head directly, and listened to the crackling sound one by one, watching the sticky egg white and egg yolk sticking to Fang Qin's face , it feels particularly refreshing.
The man who sold the eggs couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly came to stop him and said, "Save it, I'll help you pour the dung, it's better to save this egg to make up for the children than to beat such a rotten person, it's not worth it."
bad people……
bad people……
bad people……
These people actually called him a rotten man.
Fang Qin's ears buzzed, and the world was spinning. He couldn't hear the sounds around him. He raised his hand to look at the sky, and through the sticky egg liquid, he could vaguely see the dazzling sun in the sky.
Fang Qin laughed and stretched out his hand towards the sky.
A spoonful of manure poured down, filling his mouth, and he could no longer make a sound.
"Is this person crazy!?" The common people commented.
"Ugh—" Fang Qin vomited, vomited profusely, then yelled and laughed, knelt on the ground, cried and laughed strangely for a while, and finally yelled in pain, "Fang Qin's name has been completely lost in "Secrets of Neighbors" "It was ruined! I am not reconciled!"
"Screw your dissatisfaction!"
The women waved what they had in their hands.
……
The Fang family searched half of the capital, and found Fang Qin in an alley late at night.At that time, the person was already delirious, his body was covered with dirty things, and he couldn't even distinguish his five sense organs.Fang's mother was worried, and came to look for him in a carriage. Seeing her son's appearance, Fang Qin was not dirty at all. She hugged her son and cried bitterly, regretting her original behavior.
If she hadn't been jealous of her daughter-in-law for taking her son, she always made things difficult for her daughter-in-law, provoked the relationship between her son and daughter-in-law, and forced her son to divorce her daughter-in-law, her son would not have ended up in this situation.
Fang Qin was helped back, and after being cleaned, her consciousness was still unclear.
That night, Fang Qin planned to commit suicide by leaving a book, but fortunately Fang's mother found out in time, and she cried him back with tears.
"If you're going to die, it's my wife who's going to die. Wait for me to leave a letter and put all the blame on yourself, and your name will be restored." Mother Fang sighed.
The confused Fang Qin was stimulated by this news, and hurriedly came to apologize to her mother for her mistakes.How could he let his mother die!
Fang's mother sat on the ground and cried into tears. She shook her hands and touched the head of her precious son who was kneeling and crawling in front of her. "Good boy, let's stay away from this place of right and wrong, okay?"
Fang Qin nodded dumbly, her eyes were empty like a puppet.For him, his reputation was gone, and things more important than his life were gone. He would rather die than live, and it would be painful no matter how he lived.The only thing keeping him alive is his mother.What did the mother say, and if he stayed with the mother for the rest of his life, he would die immediately.
Fang Qin asked someone to pack the things overnight, and went early the next day.He took his family and left Beijing in a carriage.
The Fang family ran away in such a panic, and immediately set off a wave of abuse from the whole city.Why was he scolded more fiercely when he left?
Because Fang Qin only cared about running away with his mother, but forgot about his third wife, He Shi, who was still in the nunnery outside the city.
The He family returned to the capital on the third day after that, and submitted a complaint to the yamen, requesting the government to make peace.The yamen was straightforward, and immediately gave permission to the He family, and awarded the Fang family's house that was too late to sell to the He family as compensation.Later, there were many matchmakers in the city who wanted to be matchmakers for the He family, and vowed to find a good home for this poor woman.
……
The case of Fang Qin made more people understand that the responsibility of a man is not only to be loyal and filial to the emperor, but also to protect the family and wife.A gentleman's benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trust should not only be external, but also be kind and gentle to his wife internally. Only by self-cultivation and family can he govern the country and the world.
Husband and wife are gentle, which is the way for a decent husband and wife to get along.
Furthermore, the work of a matchmaker in the capital is becoming more and more difficult these days, and the speed at which a marriage is finalized is much slower than in previous years.Especially some affluent families who pay attention to poetry and etiquette are unwilling to meet people casually, ask about their family background, and get engaged if they think it is suitable.The man needs to investigate, and the woman also needs to investigate. After they have checked each other secretly, they can determine the time of marriage.There are also some richer families who are worried about the unreliability of their own investigations, and will entrust powerful people to help in-depth investigations.As a result, there is an additional business in the capital that specializes in marriage investigations - Qianli Marriage Investigation Workshop.
It is said that this shop was opened by the author of "Secrets of the Neighborhood", and its investigative ability and accuracy can be seen clearly only by looking at the secrets of the neighbors.It is obvious and convincing.
Half a month after the store opened, it has already received orders from more than a dozen customers, and its profit is much higher than that of ordinary stores, even several times or dozens of times higher.
Although some people were happy and some were worried about the final investigation results, the clients were glad they did this, otherwise they would ruin their children's life, and they would never come back.
Song Xi also heard that Jia She had opened such a shop for marriage investigation, and admired him very much.
"I found that you pretend in your head that you are always different from others, and that everything in your hands seems to be linked to money, and you can do business with great vigor."
"Who would have a grudge against money?" Jia Amnesty pays attention to social and monetary benefits in his work, and if it is all unprofitable, it will not be able to last for a long time.
Song Xi laughed, "If you care so much about money, why didn't you want it when the emperor allocated it to you?"
"I only like to scrape the rich people's money. If all the money in the treasury is used for national affairs, I will feel guilty."
At this time, Zhu Mao knocked on the door and came in, delivering a letter.
Jia Amnesty asked what it was.
Zhu Mao said: "Fang Zhenglu said that this is already the tenth letter this month, and it was written by the same person who received it at the Miwen Xuan in the west of the city."
Tenth letter.
Such a persistent delivery of news, could it be some important news.
Jia Amnesty opened it and looked at it, and smiled lightly. It was hard for Fang Zhenglu to wait until the tenth letter before showing it to him.It really was a boring report letter, and the person to be reported in the letter was Jia She.
Jia Amnesty put down the letter and sent Zhu Mao to tell Fang Zhenglu, don't worry about it.
Song Xi took the letter on the table and looked at it. It said that Jia She was unscrupulous and ungrateful.One is that Jia She is lustful and accepts concubines, and the other is that he treats the son of a family friend harshly and does not give financial support.
"Are you interested?" Song Xi asked.
Jia She sneered, "The content is light at the beginning and heavy at the end. There are few details in the first few strokes, and the cause and effect are explained in detail in the back. Although the identity of this son of a family friend who was treated harshly was not clearly revealed, it is obvious that what he said It is Sun Shaozu."
"Sun Shaozu." Song Xi read along, "But the grandson of the late Sun Lin, the Minister of War?"
"You actually know." Jia She sighed.
Song Xi shallowly pursed his lips, "I don't know him, but I heard my father mention this person's name once when I was young."
Jia She gave a thumbs up to Song Xi, who has lost his memory.
Song Xi: "Don't laugh at me. Let me tell you something serious. You said that your business is to scrape rich people's money. I should be considered rich. Can your marriage workshop take my business?"
"Your son is only eight years old, and he's about to get engaged?" Jia She knew exactly what Song Xi was referring to, but asked this way.
Song Xi shook his head, admitted that it was him, and even more frankly stated that he wanted to investigate Jia Amnesty's preferences.
"Fortunately, you can think of a way to let me investigate myself."
"No one can understand yourself better than you, so this is the smartest way for me." Song Xi smiled, turned around and sat behind the desk, picked up a pen and wrote down what he wanted to know on the paper, and handed it to Jia Amnesty, "An answer of 10 taels."
Jia She counted, there were twenty items on it, they were nothing more than asking him some common questions like hobbies, food he liked, people he valued, etc.
"You are so rich, and you only need 200 million taels? I don't believe it." Seeing that Song Xi was about to speak, Jia She asked again, "The ones in the warehouse are not counted. You have already given them to me. Besides, you can still take 200 million taels, I'll think about it."
Song Xi was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes and silently calculated with his abacus, "There are still some Zhuangzi shops, plus the property left by the ancestors, it should be enough..."
Before Song Xi finished speaking, Jia Amnesty handed the written paper in front of Song Xi, "Opening offer, free for you."
Song Xi glanced at the answer behind the "Most pleasing" item on the paper, and slowly raised his eyes to look at Jia She, with a touch of affection.
Jia Amnesty sat on the table with one buttock, held Song Xi's hands, leaned over, and looked down at Song Xi with a seemingly casual smile on his lips.
"It seems that you are very happy after knowing the answer."
Song Xi still stared deeply into Jia She's eyes, without speaking.
"We still have to wait until the next year." Jia Amnesty patted Song Xi on the head, got down from the table, took back the paper, and burned it.
"I haven't finished watching." Song Xi said hurriedly.
"Who is fooling, you have a photographic memory."
Jia Amnesty threw the half-burned paper into the copper basin.
Before he could turn around, Jia Amnesty felt a thick chest hit his back.Then, Jia Amnesty felt that the base of his ear was hot and itchy.
Jia Amnesty tilted his head slightly, revealing his fair neck instead.
Song Xi hugged Jia She tightly, buried his head behind Jia She's ear, and inhaled the smell of his body fiercely, as if he wanted to take away Jia She's soul as well.
Jia Amnesty's body was only Su Hexiang used in ordinary smoked clothes, but to Song Xi's smell, it was an unusually pleasant and indescribably charming light fragrance, which attracted him deeply and made him unable to stop.
The man in his arms was obviously a big man like him, only a little shorter than him.But at this moment, Song Xi wanted to rub him in his heart and trap him tightly so that he could never escape from his imprisonment.
Song Xi greedily pressed his lips to the back of Jia She's ear, and kissed lightly. When the kiss reached the ear, he slightly opened his lips, held Jia She's earlobe, wrapped it with his tongue, and followed it with his throat. With a slight movement, there was a burst of dryness and heat below him.
Song Xi could clearly see the red glow on Jia She's cheeks, and also felt his slightly tense body.Song Xi immediately left his body, nodded and leaned on Jia She's shoulder, only holding his hand.
Jia Amnesty calmed down, then turned to him with a smile and said, "It's well controlled."
Song Xi glanced at Jia She, although this was a rare compliment Jia She gave him, but at the moment he couldn't be very happy.
Seeing Jia She's alluring face, he couldn't help turning his head away, it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't be impulsive again with his second glance.
Song Xi bought himself a cup of tea.
Jia Amnesty: "The tea is cold."
"It's just right for me." Song Xi's throat twitched, and after drinking the herbal tea, he raised his eyes to look at Jia She, his eyes unnaturally fell on his neck, which was still crimson, and he drank another cup of herbal tea.
Song Xi simply drank the whole pot.
Jia Amnesty, on the other hand, sat behind the case and sorted out the materials as if nothing had happened.Recently, there have been many reports from various places, one of which is about King Qi and Concubine Rong.
It is said that when King Qi and his party rushed to Taiping Village, King Qi’s drug addiction broke out, and the drugs that Concubine Rong secretly bought were exhausted, and she could not find such expensive drugs to sell in the countryside. The forbidden drug shop can only tell people to keep a close eye on King Qi, and weep at night listening to King Qi screaming for medicine in pain.In the middle of the night, King Qi sneaked out of the post station while his servants were asleep, and searched for medicine shops all over the street, asking for medicines.
Because of the relationship between "Da Zhou Chaowen", everyone knows the disadvantages of drugs.Now seeing this richly dressed man wanting this kind of thing, everyone guessed that he was addicted and tried to persuade him, but some people wanted to catch him first and send him to the yamen.When King Qi saw that these troublemakers were going to arrest him, he thought they were going to murder him, so he ran crazily.In the end, where the people of King Qi went, no one knew.
Concubine Rong ordered all her attendants to search all night.
Still at dawn the next day, the villagers found a noble gentleman lying upside down beside the muddy pond, and reported the case.After being identified by the servants of Prince Qi's mansion, it is indeed King Qi himself.
The muddy pond was not deep, and the water in it only reached his knees. Where King Qi fell, his feet were still dry on the shore.King Qi probably passed out when his head was upside down, or he was unconscious and exhausted due to drug addiction. In short, he drowned accidentally like this.
The news reported by the government had not been delivered to the capital, but Jia Amnesty received it first.Jia Amnesty was not sure whether he should tell the emperor the news, so he asked Song Xi.
"Say, maybe you can still get credit for it." Song Xi said.
It was only then that Jia She remembered that in two days' time it would be the Empress Dowager's Qianqiu.King Qi is the empress dowager's nephew after all, and the emperor should temporarily detain him if the funeral is reported, so as not to affect the empress dowager's mood of celebrating her birthday.
Jia Amnesty then wrote the memorial and asked someone to send it to the palace immediately.After making arrangements, Jia Amnesty raised his eyes to Song Xi.But I saw Song Xi lazily flipping through the miscellaneous notes on the table, resting his chin on the other hand, his eyes were not on the book at all, and he was thinking dazedly for some reason.
Mr. Song also has moments of bewilderment and loss of consciousness, which is really rare.
Jia Amnesty smiled helplessly, ordered someone to prepare hot tea, and he personally cut it off for Song Xi.He didn't put it directly on the table, but directly sent it to Song Xi with his hand.
Song Xi was stunned for a moment, looked at Jia Amnesty, took the tea with a smile, and took a sip.
"Well—" Song Xi frowned, "Ginger tea?"
Jia Amnesty: "It's winter, you'll get sick easily after drinking so much herbal tea, drink this to keep out the cold."
Song Xi nodded and drank the ginger tea he hated the most.Then he grabbed Jia She's arm and was about to say something when he heard another knock on the door.
Song Xishi clasped his hands and watched Jia She not move.
In desperation, Jia Amnesty asked Zhu Mao to report outside the door.
"Master, there is a fake "My Neighbor's Secret" on the market."
Song Xi had no choice but to let go.
Jia She then took a blue book from Zhu Mao's hand. The four-character stamp of "Secrets of the Neighbor" on it was very similar to the original one, but after careful identification, it could be seen that the print was rougher and there were many stamps. Wrong place.
Jia Amnesty flipped through the content, and found that it was all the same as the seventh issue of "Secrets Next Door", but the three-page advertisement in the original book was not printed.
Jia She sneered, this is interesting, his "Secrets of the Neighbor" has been pirated.
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