Infrastructure masters in the red building

In the capital, the Rong Mansion received good news: Jia Zheng and Lin Ruhai will return to Beijing together soon.

Ever since Jia Zheng sent his younger sister Jia Min south to marry Lin Ruhai last time, there have been many incidents in Beijing.After the third prince took control of the power to oversee the country, the chaos gradually subsided.

The third prince had the intention of wooing the Ningrong and Rongfu to some extent, so he gave Jia Zheng the position of minister of the Ministry of Industry, and at the same time appointed Lin Ruhai to be the censor of salt inspection.

The grades of these two positions sound similar, but in fact, Xunyan Yushi is the most enviable fat job, who needs a smart person who can control himself most to be able to act righteously and stand firm.The minister of the Ministry of Industry needs to slowly grind out his achievements in office.

Considering the results of Lin Ruhai and Jia Zheng in the scientific examination and their personalities, it has to be said that the appointment and dismissal of these three princes are finally a bit on the right track.

As a result, Jia Zheng needs to return to Beijing, and Lin Ruhai also needs to come to Beijing to report on his duties before taking his family with him.The two became companions together.

Ningrong and Rongfu suddenly became lively.

It has been a long time since Jia Daishan and his wife have seen this pair of children, and it is necessary to comfort them when they receive this letter.Thinking back to the day when they left Beijing in a miserable state and when Jia Min married into the Lin family without his biological parents by his side, Rong Guogong and his wife naturally wanted to make up for it.

And Jia She, as the prince of the state and the actual person in charge of this mansion, has long let go of his feelings for his younger siblings. He was even more happy when he heard that his younger siblings returned home. The two courtyards are well prepared for the younger brother and his wife to live here for a long time, and the younger sister and brother-in-law take a rest here.

On this day, Jia Zheng, Lin Ruhai and their family members abandoned their boats and landed at the wharf outside Beijing. There were already people in the Rong Mansion waiting on horseback to return to the mansion.

All of a sudden Jia Zheng and Lin Ruhai's convoy entered the city and arrived in front of the Rong Mansion.Jia Amnesty was accompanying Jia Daishan to greet him outside the gate of the residence.

Jia Zheng and Lin Ruhai were both startled when they saw Jia Daishan coming to pick them up in person, they jumped up and saluted.But I saw that Jia Daishan still had to hold on to his crutches when he moved, but he no longer had to be supported by others, and he didn't always pant when he moved.

Weng and his son-in-law met here, and Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Zhang met Li and Jia Min inside the second gate.When mother-in-law and daughter-in-law meet, they are naturally no match for the heart-to-heart connection between mother and daughter. When Mrs. Shi saw Jia Min, she hugged her in her arms and burst into tears, completely leaving Li Shi aside.

Mrs. Zhang hurried to take care of Mrs. Li, so as not to be too embarrassing for this sister-in-law, but she saw that Mrs. Li looked calm and composed, without any signs of discomfort.

Only then did Mrs. Zhang understand that what her husband said on weekdays, that the second younger brother married the right wife, was because he saw that the young couple had a bad temper early in the morning, and Mrs. Li had a temperament that couldn't be a monster.Although this marriage came about by mistake, it was more suitable than the original one.

Jia Min was hugged by Mrs. Shi and cried for a while. She also felt that her mother had neglected her second sister-in-law, so she hurriedly greeted Mrs. Li, and said that the Li family went to Gusu to marry her, and helped contact many Jia families in Jinling. As a side branch, the wedding was also extremely lively.

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Shi hurriedly called Mrs. Li's hand over, held hands and talked for a long time, and finally managed to cover up the rudeness just now.Li Shi didn't care.

Mrs. Zhang ordered someone to carry out the two little ones, Jia Lian and Jia Hu.Neither Jia Min nor Li Shi had ever met little Jia Hu, and Jia Lian was at the most lively and lovely age. The two aunts and sisters-in-law were suddenly extremely rare, and they took out all kinds of meeting gifts, wishing to hang themselves all over the two brothers...

When the three Rongfu father, son and son-in-law came to the backyard, they saw such a harmonious and harmonious situation.

"If the third child is here, the family will truly be reunited." Jia She sighed.

The rest nodded together.

They knew that Jia Fang was not a part of this mansion by blood, but recalling the past, it seemed that it was because of Jia Fang that they were all together as a big family.Now without Jia Fang, this family always seems to be incomplete.

"When it's time to reunite, we will eventually reunite." Jia Daishan said with a smile.

Back then, as if saying his last words, he personally ordered Jia Zheng to be married off. When Lin Ruhai returned to his hometown to get married, he never expected that everyone would be reunited like this today.That being the case, we should have more confidence, and believe that the future road of this house will be better and better.

After everyone settled down, Jia Min was busy distributing the gifts brought from the south to everyone.Among the female relatives, those prepared for Mrs. Shi and sister-in-law Zhang are obviously the most generous.Among them are many brand-new cosmetics, which caught the eyes of Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Zhang.

"This is lipstick, that is, lip balm. Mother and sister-in-law can choose whatever color they like." Jia Min took out a color card, all of which are painted lipstick colors, marked with celestial stems and zodiac branches, which can be indexed into the packaging box. "I have prepared a whole set for each of you."

Mrs. Shi was puzzled: "The mouth is just the mouth. How can there be so many colors... Aren't they all red?"

As soon as she opened the color card, she was dazzled by all kinds of reds. In order, she saw that they were red magenta, carmine, scorpion, cherry, begonia red and pomegranate red, and red sandalwood... everything that one expects to find. Beautiful.

Mrs. Zhang sighed at the side: "These lipsticks and rouges are only produced by you, the big owner of the Rouge Workshop."

Mrs. Shi never knew that her daughter was the owner behind the now famous Rouge Workshop in Beijing, and she was so shocked that she was unable to speak for a long time.Until Jia Min blushed and said embarrassingly: "It was a wedding gift from a friend of Ru Hai, and Ru Hai left it to me to take care of it."

Mrs. Shi stretched out her hand and patted her heart: "Why is my friend so generous?!"

However, it was inconvenient for Jia Min to say more, so he just chatted about the business experience:

"In the beginning, the materials were rare, and this lipstick could only be made of beeswax, which was slow to produce and expensive. Later, a kind of paraffin wax came out in the north, which was mixed with palm oil from the south, and it was easy to use. Moisturizing and not easily melted, better than beeswax..."

"Besides, red and blue flowers were used for coloring before, and the colors were just thicker or lighter. And the cinnabar was said by the third brother to be poisonous, and no one dared to use it. The color of the lipstick is limited. Who knows that it is like a sea. And I happened to see a kind of cochineal insect shipped from overseas, and I used the pigment secreted by the insect to make lipstick, and the color suddenly became more..."

Mrs. Shi just tried a lip balm in the mirror, and felt that the color was bright and matched her skin tone very well, when she heard her daughter talking about this, she froze into a wooden pillar: What?insect? ...

Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Li saw it all at once, and the two sisters-in-law interrupted together.

Mrs. Zhang: "Little girl, I heard you say it very well. The paraffin wax from the north, palm oil from the south, and materials from overseas... are in your hands."

Li Shi: "Isn't it?"

Jia Min nodded: "Yes, land tax is collected everywhere now, and Gusu is no exception. Fortunately, these materials are extremely cheap, and it doesn't cost a lot to ship them by sea, but after making lip balm, they will be collected immediately. Another price..."

The lip balm and materials made by Jia Min's rouge workshop are not valuable, so the tax revenue is limited.Once it turns into an exquisite and unparalleled cosmetic product, the value can be multiplied several times immediately.

Thinking that the business of owning a daughter can make money properly, and that the financial power in her own daughter's hands will not be inferior to that of the son-in-law from everyone's background, Mrs. Shi feels relieved immediately, and she no longer feels awkward. She looks in the mirror and asks her daughter-in-law And daughter: "Do you think this color number is suitable for me?"

Naturally, everyone in the room nodded.

In addition to the lip balm that is contained in a delicate copper tube and is convenient to carry around, Jia Min also brought something called perfume, which is contained in a small glass bottle and can be sprayed like smoke with just one touch The fragrant mist of the mist comes out.

In addition to the rich and fragrant mist, the glass bottle that holds this perfume is also crystal clear, so exquisite that people can't put it down.

"What's the difference between this and the fragrance we usually use?" Mrs. Zhang couldn't help asking.

It should be noted that the wives and ladies of rich families also like to use some incense and dew.Most of the time, the clothes are fumigated with incense in advance, but occasionally floral water is also used.It's just that the fragrance of the floral dew doesn't last long, and the smell is also weak. It's not as good as incense or wearing a sachet.

Jia Min laughed immediately, and said: "Sister-in-law, don't look at what's in this small bottle. It looks exactly like Xianglu, but its effect is completely different. Put on a little son, and it will be fragrant for a whole day."

She chose one for Mrs. Zhang, and demonstrated it to her sister-in-law, saying that it is suitable for rubbing a little behind the ears, on the wrists, or simply spraying a cloud of fragrance mist, and then walking into this fragrance mist, after that, it is fragrant For a whole day, there is no need to prepare additional sachets and the like.

"How do you do this?" Zhang tried a little according to her words, and immediately felt very sweet.

But Jia Min laughed: "It's ashamed to say, but someone else made it and gave it to my shop to sell. I know how to do it, but the ingredients are very troublesome. It uses something called 'alcohol'."

"Alcohol?" Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Li looked at each other, and felt that this sister-in-law had been speaking strangely since she started the business of Rouge Workshop.

"Yes, this perfume is made by dissolving the aromatic substances extracted from the spices into the alcohol." It was quite complicated to explain the principle of this perfume, but Jia Min had a special way to guide the two The sister-in-law carefully discerned the fragrance, "Elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, this fragrance has a top note, a middle note and a back note, and the taste is different..."

In an instant, the attention of the female relatives was all turned to identify different fragrances.

Jia Min breathed a sigh of relief, but that's all she knew.After all, these perfumes were filled even in bottles, shipped directly to Gusu, and handed over to Jia Min for sale after landing.She doesn't know exactly how this perfume is made, and how to tune out those warm or long-lasting aromas.

However, to be able to toss such complex spices and make such an exquisite container - Jia Min felt that there must be the shadow of her third brother Jia Fang behind this.

Because of this, Jia Min believes that this "perfume" will definitely become popular in the capital and across the country.One of the purposes of her visit to Beijing this time was to bring this perfume into the social circle of the aristocratic families in the capital, let them know and understand this new product, and be completely fascinated by it.

Jamin guessed right.Perfume was indeed made by Jia Fang - can this village use the leftovers of sweet potatoes to produce alcohol?Except for the alcohol used by Zhang Youshi of the medical school, the rest was not blended with "burning knives" as the eldest prince expected, but was used to make perfume.

The combination of various spices is completed by Tian Xiaomei's team who has a special research on spices. After the prescription is determined, the ratio of various spices is carried out, and then sent to the second village. After the essence is extracted, it is blended with alcohol to make a large barrel The perfume was transported to Xiaoyuan Industrial Park in Shuixian for filling.

All the glass bottles for the perfume are produced in Xiaoyuan, where the filling is also carried out, and then sent out of the port and shipped to various places.Gusu Jiamin is an important distribution point.

Because it is a new product, when the perfume is landed, the landing tax is uniformly levied according to the tax base of rose dew, sweet-scented osmanthus dew, etc.

But the reality is that perfume has become the "second MSG".In this market, scented dews such as rose dew and sweet-scented osmanthus clear dew are already quite expensive, but when perfumes with various scents are on the market, the price is more than ten times more expensive than perfumed dew, but the effect is more than usual Xianglu improved a hundred times, causing a sensation again for a while.

When this perfume was first introduced to Gusu, people once queued up in front of the branch of Rougefang all night until the store came forward to comfort them, saying that the goods were enough and there was no need to worry.

But on the second day when the branch opened for half a day, all the goods shipped to the shore were robbed. The store broke its promise, so it could only come forward and beg grandpa to sue grandma, and beg all regular customers to "give them another chance".

It was only when the second and third ships transporting the perfume docked that the shortage of goods gradually eased—but this was only the case in Gusu.This thing is in Beijing, and it has not yet started to be officially sold.

But Jia Min has already received many letters from people she knew before asking about it, so she is very confident that once the perfume is released in the main store of Rougefang in Beijing, what a grand event it will be.

At that time, the landing tax will be on the perfume, and the third prince may have to pinch his nose and suffer a big loss—but this will be in Suzhou Port, not Jimo Port.

In order to welcome Jia Zheng and his wife to return to Beijing, and Lin Ruhai to return to Ning with his wife, Jia Amnesty proposed that the whole family go to Wanqing Building for a feast.

Mrs. Shi immediately objected: Why go home for a good trip, why eat out.

Jia She smiled and explained to his mother: "You may not know this, but it's very popular in Beijing recently. It's a new experience to eat outside. Besides, you also know that the small building opposite Wanqing Building belongs to your daughter-in-law. Property. There are quite a few special foods there, if you go to Wanqing Tower, my son will be filial to you, please try something new."

The small building is actually Jia Amnesty's property, and it was bought when he and Mrs. Shi had a quarrel in the early years.Now that things have changed, both parties no longer care about the past, but Mrs. Shi has developed some interest in that small building.

Besides, she had never been to the Wanqing Tower before, and I heard that private rooms could be specially set up in the Wanqing Tower so that the female relatives would never show their faces.Mrs. Smith was moved.

Jia Daishan smiled: "Let's go together, the whole family together."

It's just that Rong Guogong still wanted to keep a low profile, so he didn't choose the night with the most people, but chose a noon.Sure enough, Rongguo Mansion dispatched more than a dozen large carts to send the hosts to Wanqing Building one after another.

The Wanqing Building was also very good, leading everyone in the Rong Mansion to walk through an exclusive corridor to the private room.

In the private room, there is a table for men and a table for women, and there is no screen between them. After all, they are all a family and they are very familiar.

Jia Amnesty specially ordered the best table and noodles in the Wanqing Building, and made preparations early, ordering all kinds of pots and copper pots for barbecue from the small building.

The banquet was really lively—Jia Zheng accidentally told the fact that his sister and brother-in-law first met in Wanqing Building, which made Jia Daishan, who didn't know about it, widen his eyes.

So Lin Ruhai and Jia Min went together to salute their father in front of Jia Daishan, and simply asked Mrs. Shi to sit with Mr. Rong so that the young couple could worship together.

The others were overjoyed when they saw it, so they simply asked the young couple to have another couple's worship, which completely made up for the regret of not getting married in Beijing and not having the woman's parents when they got married.

During the dinner, someone did not know who said another sentence: "It would be great if the third brother was here."

For a moment, everyone felt a little disappointed.

Jia Amnesty was the first to recover from this confusion, and said loudly: "Although the third child is not here right now, he will definitely be reunited with the whole family soon. I will drink a cup myself and respect the third child from a distance. You can do whatever you want!"

Having said that, everyone at the banquet drank one after another.Only Jia Daishan had received Zhang Youshi's doctor's order not to drink alcohol, but only drank a little nourishing honey water.

It's just a short afternoon after dinner.The female relatives went back to Rongfu by car.Jia Amnesty wanted to take a walk outside to relieve the alcohol.Lin Ruhai and Jia Zheng immediately wanted to be together.Who would have thought that Jia Daishan would also propose: "It's not too far from Rongfu, let me walk back with you!"

This suggestion frightened the juniors, and Jia She was half sober from the wine immediately.He and his brother and brother-in-law were about to persuade him, but Jia Daishan said with a smile: "You have to be considerate and considerate of my father. I haven't walked on the street for so long, and I don't even recognize this capital."

Jia Amnesty had no choice but to call a car, and followed the four of them closely, in case Jia Daishan felt unwell, he could immediately help his father into the car.

Unexpectedly, Jia Daishan said with a smile: "In the past, the general on horseback was reduced to holding a cane. After taking two steps, everyone was so nervous..."

Jia Amnesty had no choice but to quietly order the car to follow farther away, don't be too obvious, it will only make Jia Daishan unhappy.

Jia Daishan sighed, "If Fang'er hadn't invited a famous doctor, it would be impossible for my father to walk around here today."

With that said, the family of four had arrived at the gate of Shuntian Mansion.

At this time, a young man with a pockmarked face passed by them.Jia Daishan was taken aback, and suddenly said: "You, you..."

The young man suddenly turned his head, which immediately startled Jia Daishan and the others.

Judging from the back, the young man has a good figure, and even every step is graceful.But as soon as he turned around, others could see clearly that his face was pockmarked. It was obvious that his face had been traumatized. There were large and small scars on his face, one big and one small, and the two eye sockets were even a little misaligned... ...a good face is ruined.

The young man seemed to recognize Jia Daishan. He stood in place, looked up and down, and suddenly his body moved.

Jia Amnesty stepped in front of Jia Daishan, wanting to protect his father from harm, but who would have thought that the young man was lying on the ground, and solemnly kowtowed three times to Jia's father and son, with a look of pleading in his eyes.

Jia Daishan immediately said: "Are you..."

The name he thought of was inconvenient to say casually in broad daylight.

The young man put his hands on the ground, stood up and bowed his head to pay tribute to Jia Daishan again, then turned around and walked towards the gate of Shuntian Mansion without looking back.

Jia Daishan raised his eyebrows, and asked, "Xie'er, did the guardian take it with you?"

How could Duke Rong of the Kingdom of Rong go out without guards?Jia She said hello, and a dozen people rushed up immediately.Jia Daishan stretched out his hand and pointed: "Go and protect... him, cough cough..."

Speaking of this, Jia Daishan didn't know where he was touched, and suddenly coughed loudly again, blushing and panting for a while, and couldn't straighten his waist.

Jia Daishan's situation is not good, but that of the alluring young man is even worse.He rushed towards the gate of Shuntian Mansion, unexpectedly a group of street gangsters, dressed in rags but looking like wolves and tigers, rushed towards the weak man.

The servants and nursing home of the Rong Mansion also rushed up together. They were used to listening to the old man's orders, and they didn't have time to think about it. They rushed up to protect the young man, and immediately confronted the murderer who rushed up. Immediately outside the gate of Shuntian Mansion was a gang fight.

Both Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng panicked and took care of Jia Daishan in a hurry.

And Lin Ruhai took the time to pay attention to the scuffle outside the gate of Shuntian Mansion.He knew that the other party was definitely not a street gangster, how could a gangster be willing to run wild in front of the gate of Shuntian Mansion?

But it was also thanks to the servant of the Rong Mansion who rushed into the battle, stirred up the muddy water, and gave the weak man an opportunity to take advantage of.This man with an excellent figure but an extremely ugly appearance rushed to the Dengwen Drum in front of the Shuntian Mansion Gate, pulled out the drumsticks, and struck hard on the surface of the cowhide drum.

A murderer rushed up and directly hugged the weak man's slender waist, trying to throw him out.

But it was too late, before the man was thrown out, the drumstick in his hand had already struck the surface of Dengwen's drum.

"Boom-"

If a person has a strange grievance, there will be a drum.

With the sound of Dengwen's drum, Shuntian Mansion was shaken, the gate of the mansion was opened, and countless yamen servants came out of the mansion.

"Which one is beating the drums to appeal for grievances?" the team leader of Shuntian Mansion shouted.When the menacing thugs saw the yamen servants pouring out, they immediately left the servants of the Rongguo Mansion who were fighting and fled.

But the weak man was thrown out, knocked his head on the stone steps in front of the Shuntian Mansion, and immediately made a bloody gash, staining the stone steps a little red.

But he held on to the drumstick tightly.

The assailant retreated, the young man struggled to prop up his body with the drumsticks, wobbled to the Dengwen drum, took a deep breath, and swung the drumsticks out again.

"Boom, boom, boom-"

The Dengwen drum was sounded and the entire capital was shaken.

"Ruan Yunqing, a grassroots citizen, has great grievances. He sued Zhou Deyu, the current prince of the prison, for murdering His Royal Highness, the former Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace—"

The sound is shrill, and the sound is crying blood.

"His Royal Highness is wronged, His Highness is too wronged!"

The author has something to say: ①Supplementary explanation: In the original work of "Red Mansion", there are rose dew and sweet-scented osmanthus clear dew, but both of them can be used for drinking. They are similar to honey water with special aroma, and they are very similar to perfume. Big difference.Hereby explain.