Infrastructure masters in the red building

In the small courtyard on Rongfu East Road, Mrs. Lai took a few wives and twisted Shuangwen.

"Miss Shuangwen, I said you are so stupid. You have been working with the third master for so long, but the third master didn't take a fancy to you, and even asked you to be a second-class girl. What are you covering for him? ?”

A woman came up to persuade Shuangwen: "No matter how much the master loves him, the third master is just a concubine, and the serious family property in the mansion will fall into the hands of the uncle and the second master. It seems that in the future, the third master will He was sent far away to the south, to his ghostly fief. Do you want to find a way out in the mansion, or follow him to the south without a name?"

Shuangwen's mouth was stuffed with a veil, so he couldn't speak, but his eyes clearly said: You don't understand.

Lai asked for the veil to be taken out of her mouth, but Shuangwen didn't speak immediately, she lowered her head, as if she had given in.

"Tell me, what secret things does the third master go to Daoxiang Village every day? You must know." Lai admired his authority, slowed down his tone, and lured Shuangwen to speak.

Unexpectedly, Shuangwen took a deep breath, and suddenly shouted loudly: "It's water! Come here, it's water!"

She didn't call for help, she didn't call for someone to come, she just shouted "Get out of the water", which made the women panic instantly, and took a long time to gag her mouth.

Lai's face was livid with anger, but he deliberately said to Shuangwen kindly: "You shout, let you shout!"

"Today, the whole house is guarding the courtyard of the grandpa and grandma, and see who you can call."

Mrs. Lai had a good plan in mind: Grandma gave birth today, and everyone in the house was listening to the news in Jia She's yard on the East Road ahead, waiting to receive the reward.No one will come over in a short time, even if Shuangwen yells out loud, no one will notice.The eldest grandma is the first child again, so it must have been a day and a half of the night.During this period of time, no one would even notice that Shuangwen disappeared quietly.

"Are you bitten to death and refuse to say yes?" Lai's face was lowered, and he laughed twice, and said, "Let her taste the taste of 'fried pork with bamboo shoots'."

"Speaking of which, it's impossible for people who come out of the Jiaofang Division not to have heard of this, right?"

Of course Shuangwen has heard of it: this "bamboo shoot fried pork" is not a delicacy, but the moso bamboo is split into extremely thin strips, then the limbs of the person are tied, the meat is strangled with a rope, and then the thin strips are used to chop the meat. The bamboo strips were whipped continuously, and the beatings were extremely painful, but the skin and flesh of the beaten people did not appear to be injured, and the blood was all inside, which was a particularly vicious lynching.

Shuangwen had personally seen the sisters in Jiaofang Sili being tortured, but never expected that someone in Rongguo Duke's mansion would be so ruthless.

When the bamboo strips were drawn on her arm, Shuangwen's tears immediately flowed down. She shook her head desperately, and even wanted to hand over her bound left arm—you can hit me, but hit my left arm, and the right hand still needs it. Used for drawing.

The woman who was in charge of the punishment got excited, but was stopped by another woman whose heart softened a little: "Ask her, maybe she will say it?"

The person in charge just put away the bamboo strips, tore off the veil from Shuangwen's mouth, and scolded: "According to what your aunt Lai said, all of them will be recruited!"

Shuangwen was choked up and couldn't speak, and he said aggrievedly for a long time: "It's really reading..."

Lai's eyes turned red immediately, and he waved his hand: "Come on, until she is willing to talk." At the end, he wondered again: "A person like the third master is busy building gardens all day long, and he doesn't care about the people below. What kind of muscle is wrong with this girl, she has to be so protective of the third master."

Shuangwen took a breath and endured the pain, but thought in his heart: You won't understand.

The ancients said: A promise is worth a thousand gold.Since she promised others, no matter what kind of threats she encounters, she can't let go, otherwise it can't be regarded as keeping her promise.

But she is also willing to believe that as long as the group of women in front of her dare not take her life, Jia Fang will help her get it back sooner or later.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a sound of "Huola", and the courtyard door was pushed open.

A group of women in the courtyard were forced by Mrs. Lai to come out to discipline a little girl, and they actually had their own secrets in their hearts.At this time, someone suddenly opened the door and came in, and all of a sudden stopped.

"Who am I?" Lai said with a sneer, "Mother Sun, hello!"

The one who came in from the courtyard door was none other than Sun, and there was a little girl who poked her head out of the door and dared not enter, but it was Fuya.

Mrs. Sun was the companion of Mrs. Xian, and her status in the mansion back then was similar to that of Mrs. Lai's now.It's just that at this time and at that time, Sun's authority in the mansion has plummeted since he accompanied Jia Fang to guard the mausoleum for the old lady.Lai Shi is naturally not afraid of her.

"Mr. Lai," Mrs. Sun looked at her newcomer, and said slowly, "The mansion is just about to have a baby, but you use lynching here. What kind of vicious thoughts are you having?"

"This girl hangs out with craftsmen all day long in the Grand View Garden. What good can this girl do? Instead of saying you have to discipline her, you have to excuse her. When you go back to your wife, you won't be able to please yourself."

With such self-confidence, Mrs. Lai could not please anyone but herself in front of Mrs. Shi.

But who knew that Mrs. Sun had no intention of going to Mrs. Shi to reason, she suddenly raised her voice, "Take Mrs. Lai down for me."

The women in the yard didn't move, they were all wondering if Mrs. Sun had lost his mind and lost his mind.But before Mrs. Sun finished speaking, Fu Ya rushed to the door and waved, and then a dozen tall and burly people suddenly poured in from outside the courtyard. Without saying a word, they stepped forward and twisted Mrs. Lai.

Lai immediately became anxious: "Mrs. Sun, what kind of onion are you? I provoked you and you dare to take me? Do you have the guts to go with me to the wife to reason?"

Sun's face was flat, without any expression, but she slowly took out something in her hand, and said in a straight tone: "I'm not here to get you."

Lai stared at the thing in Sun's hand, and immediately straightened his eyes.

"This... this is the wattle that the old lady used to beat people back then." Several women who followed Lai's family recognized the thing immediately, "Good guy, this wattle, even the Duke of the country has been beaten by it, right?" ?”

Sun still had no expression on her face, but she patted the thorn in the palm of her hand and said, "I'm here to beat you."

"You have no capital..." Lai was about to shout "You have no qualifications", but was blocked by two fierce women beside him, and the thorns in Sun's hand immediately hit his head and face.

Vitex twigs are soft but tough, and it is very painful to hit people.The Lai family has been pampered for many years, and it is true that he has not suffered this kind of crime for many years.Under the pain, she yelled, but she didn't know whether she was crying for pain or begging for mercy.

Seeing this, most of the wives who had been following Lai Shi trembled all over their bodies.People of the older generation remembered that the Grand Duke was beaten by the old lady when he was young, and younger people remembered the power of the old lady when he was alive. Even Mrs. Shi was cautious in the mansion, for fear of doing something wrong and not recruiting the old lady. see you later.

This Mrs. Lai only knows that Shuangwen is the daughter of a helpless criminal minister, a criminal slave who was forced into a concubine's courtyard. She can rub Shuangwen horizontally, pinch it flat, and do whatever she wants—— Mrs. Lai But I forgot that Shuangwen was in the Sun family's courtyard, and Sun's family just happened to retain a bit of the authority left by the old lady back then.

Sun's strike was really firm and ruthless. After only a dozen strokes, Lai could not speak and could not stand up straight.Seeing this, the two women next to her hurriedly helped Mrs. Lai - after all, Mrs. Shi is in charge of the house now, even if Mrs. Lai was beaten, no one would dare to offend Mrs. Lai easily.

Mrs. Sun stopped her hands, and said calmly: "I will beat you up as well as you do to other girls."

Shuangwen had already stood up with Fuya's support, came to Sun's side, and thankfully called "Nurse Sun".She stroked the places on her arms where she had just been beaten, and said in a low voice, "I'm fine."

Mrs. Sun let out an "Oh" and said, "Not good...then I beat her too much."

Everyone lowered their heads and tried their best not to laugh.Having suffered this great shame and humiliation, and in front of such a person, Lai was so angry that he almost fainted.

Shuangwen asked Sun: "Mommy, what should I do next?"

Sun remained calm: "Send her up to Zhuangzi."

When Lai heard this, her eyes widened immediately, and she struggled with her arms, almost breaking away from the two women who were pulling her.

"Why do you send me to Zhuangzi?"

"This is the thorn stick left by the old lady, even the Duke of the country can beat it. I can send you to Zhuangzi, can't I do it?" Sun replied confidently.

"Ma'am," Lai finally panicked, remembering to ask someone to find her savior, "Who is going to deliver a letter to Madam?"

Mrs. Sun smiled, lowered her head, put away the twigs in her hand slowly, and said softly: "The eldest grandma is giving birth, and the wife will keep watch in the front yard. It's better not to let the wife know about such trivial matters." !"

When others saw Sun's aura, how dare they say no.Lai yelled for help, but as she said before, there is no one in the backyard of the Rong Mansion except these women.

The dozen or so women escorted Mrs. Lai out, and greeted Mrs. Sun before leaving: "They are all old sisters. If there is such a thing, call us directly. Don't be polite."

Shuangwen also came to thank Mrs. Sun: "Thank you Mammy."

But Sun suddenly exhaled in front of her, patted his heart and said: "This scared me to death."

"This is all the plan that the third master came up with. He found out that you were missing, so he went to the garden and asked the little workers. He knew that you had conflicts with Mrs. Lai during the day, so he guessed it."

"The third master came to ask me, what can scare the old woman next to the wife. I said that I have the wattle that the old lady used back then. I used it to beat the Duke on behalf of the old lady...Three The Lord asked me to come and beat up the wife without saying a word."

Thinking of Lai's stern look, Shuangwen couldn't help being funny, but couldn't hide his worry: Is it really okay for Jia Fang to punish his aunt's confidant without hesitation?

Sun stabilized her mood, glanced at Shuangwen, and said, "The third master is a protector. If anyone of us suffers such a crime, he will not be able to see it, and jump out to help us."

"Those wives were also old people when the old lady was alive. Now that the wife has hired another group of people, they are also very aggrieved. They have been angered by Mrs. Lai a lot on weekdays, so I called , they all came." Sun was still not at ease, "Who knows if they will be implicated this time."

Sun and Shuangwen looked at each other, and they both sighed at the same time.

At this time, the whole Rong family indeed gathered in the Jia Amnesty Court.Jia Daishan and Jia Shen's brothers all gathered in Jia Shen's outer study, while the female relatives were all in Zhang's courtyard.

In the outer study room, Fuya turned her head and whispered something to Jia Fang. Jia Fang nodded to show that he understood, then walked away to Jia Daishan's place, and whispered something in a soft voice.

Jia Daishan nodded to show that he understood, and then found an opportunity to find Mrs. Shi's maid to send a message to Mrs. Shi who was in the inner courtyard, saying that Lai's son Lai Da fell ill while he was on business outside, and specially invited someone to bring Lai to the hospital. Shi went to see his son.

Mrs. Shi was really nervous in Zhang's courtyard.

Although she and Mrs. Zhang are not in harmony on weekdays, Mrs. Zhang's child is the eldest grandson of Rongfu, and she will be responsible for anything that goes wrong.In addition, her in-laws also came and people were watching here, even if Mrs. Shi didn't care, she had been conscientiously guarding Zhang's courtyard.

"Where did he go?" Mrs. Shi was a little depressed when her usual right-hand man, Mrs. Lai, was gone.

At this time, a girl came outside and said: "The Duke said that Mammy Lai's son Lai Da fell ill in the village, so Madam Lai took her to see her son."

Mrs. Shi said "Oh", indicating that this is human nature, and she didn't want to stop it, and immediately put the matter behind her.

So Lai went to a Zhuangzi in Rongfu in the suburbs of Beijing within two days, and met her son Lai Da there.When mother and child meet, don't be surprised and touched.

Lai Shi: "Son, didn't you go on a business for the Duke? How could... how could you be sent to this village?"

Lai Da: "Mother, why are you here? I pointed at you and whispered in the ear of Mrs. Guo, so that I can come back to work..."

The mother and son talked about their own things, and finally found that their mother and son had nothing to do, and they were trapped in this Zhuangzi for life.

In the Rong Mansion, there was joy.Jia She's daughter-in-law Zhang gave birth overnight, and finally gave birth to a boy, both mother and child were safe.When Jia Amnesty held his precious son, he cried harder than his baby.

In a blink of an eye, Jia Fang learned from Jia Amnesty that the newborn boy was named Jia Lian.

Jia Fang: ...?

He found an opportunity to ask Jia She secretly: "Didn't you say it was Jia Hu last time?"

Jia Amnesty replied happily: "Third brother, what you said makes sense. It doesn't seem very good to call him Jia Hu when he comes up. In this way, I will name the eldest brother Jia Lian, and the second child Jia Hu. The combination of the two children is called 'Lianhu', which means a lot more auspicious."

Jia Fang couldn't help but wanted to wipe off his sweat, but after thinking about it afterwards, Jia Fang vaguely felt that the direction of Jia's family had changed somewhat because of his arrival.

Jia amnesty won the eldest son, and the Rongguo Mansion celebrated three days in a row, and there was an endless stream of gifts and congratulators from all over the place.It is said that it was the third day of washing, and the women's family was so crowded that there was no place to sit down.

This also reflects from the side that the family members of the Rongguo Mansion are upright.

Jia Fang's daily life was the same as before, and he still took people to the Grand View Garden to build Hengwuyuan.Shuangwen also entered the garden with an easel on his back, and when Jia Fang saw it, he said to her apologetically: "It really hurts you to let you enter the garden and stare at these craftsmen. If you don't want to enter this garden, you can do it." No need to come in. I just happened to exercise Zhao Cheng and Qingsong."

He had previously heard that Lai referred to casually splashing dirty water, referring to Shuang Wen's relationship with the small workers in the garden.Jia Fang thought about it, now Xiaogong lives in the Grand View Garden, and Shuangwen is a girl's family. Such an approach is really not appropriate.

Shuangwen shook his head with a smile, and said, "I appreciate the kindness of the third master. But I really don't want to be scared because of what others say."

well said! ——Jia Fang secretly praised Shuangwen.

"After this incident, I feel that when others belittle you, if you belittle yourself and feel that you are acting frivolously and out of proportion, then you should really be belittled." Shuangwen said this Shi Shi straightened his neck and raised his head high, "I am not wrong, if I back down, then others will look at me again, it is wrong."

"Okay!" Jia Fang clapped his hands this time, "This is the most heroic speech I have ever heard here. Shuangwen, you will definitely achieve something in the future."

Then he was a little embarrassed: "I'm really sorry that you have suffered because of my affairs."

After all, Shuangwen was to keep his promise and resolutely not to reveal Jia Fang's secret to the outside world, which is why Nanny Lai targeted him.There is a stubbornness in this girl's bones, even Jia Fang admires it.

Shuangwen shook his head with a smile, and said, "It's okay, Third Master, I promised you, you can't break your promise and get fat."

"It's just that, Third Master, I want to ask you, can a microphone be installed inside and outside Daoxiang Village? That way, if there is anything going on outside, I can also notify you."

Jia Fang: ... a megaphone?

The one from his main house to the west wing?

"Oh, you mean that!" Jia Fang always called the phone in his room a native telephone, and Shuangwen said "megaphone", and he didn't understand until he had a reaction.

"That's true." Jia Fang stretched out his hand and rubbed the center of his brows. "It would be much more convenient if there was a microphone connecting the inside and outside of Daoxiang Village."

Shuangwen's proposal is indeed a good suggestion.If he can set up an earthen telephone from Daoxiang Village to Taoyuan Village, then why bother?If there is anything, as soon as the head calls, the other end will come back quickly.

But the problem is: From Daoxiang Village to Taoyuan Village, it is not a physical space in the traditional sense, but a space compressed by "shrinking the ground whip".

Jia Fang is not a professional in the telecommunications industry, and he doesn't know much about Alexander Bell, so it may be too late for him to make a quick start. At present, he is only using the physical properties of sound waves propagating in metals.Can long-distance sound propagation also be achieved under such conditions?

Jia Fang decided to give it a try.

He went to Baigongfang to buy a coil of copper wire of appropriate thickness, and then tried to lay it from the gate of Daoxiang Village courtyard to the ink landscape in the main house.

The length of the copper wire has been calculated in advance, and it is definitely much longer than the 37 steps from Daoxiang Village to Taoyuan Village.But as soon as Jia Fang rolled the copper wire into the tunnel leading to Taoyuan Village, a strange thing happened.

The coil of copper wire came to the end in no time, and Jia Fang, who had just taken half a step, was dumbfounded at the coil of copper wire that fell to the ground behind him - he clearly saw the coil of wire behind him, but he couldn't reach out to grab the coil of wire. Picking up the roll is always half a step away.

The conclusion couldn't be more clear: only Jia Fang can pass through this "shrinking ground whip" that compresses the physical space, while other substances can't.Of course, if he could get thousands of miles of copper wire, he might be able to pass through, but it was too difficult.

Jia Fang was not discouraged—according to the theoretical requirements of "Zhizhi Gewu", he had already proved that the copper wire could not just be pulled through the "shrinking ground whip"—then, what about sound waves?