Infrastructure masters in the red building

Mrs. Shi's so-called "big clothes for meeting guests" was actually her full set of orders when she entered the palace, and it took at least half an hour to wear them.

Therefore, the yamen servants of Shuntian Mansion waited at the gatehouse of Rongguo Mansion for more than half an hour, even drank their tea, before they waited for Mrs. Shi to call them into the mansion to meet.

The place where Mrs. Shi met people was in the main hall of Rongxi Hall. Above her head was a red gold plaque with nine dragons and green ground, on which was written the three characters of "Rongxi Hall", and next to it was "The Treasure of Wanji Chenhan" Six small characters.

A yamen servant in Shuntian Mansion pulled the team leader beside him and whispered, "Did you see that, that's the imperial pen."

When the team leader came here, he saw that his eyes were full of majesty and grandeur, his calves were already trembling a little, and he murmured in his heart: I'm afraid this errand will be really difficult.

But if they didn't make this trip, it would be difficult for them to deal with the orders from their superiors.I could only bite the bullet and move forward, came to Rongxi Hall, saluted and greeted the lady of the Duke who was sitting at the head, full of ceremonial guards, elegant and luxurious: "I have met Mrs. Guo."

"Sirs, please sit down and watch tea—"

Mrs. Shi put on a polite and thoughtful posture, but procrastination can drag you to death.

"Madam Dare not to work gave you tea, the young ones had already drank it at the porter just now. Now that I come here, I don't care about it, I just want to invite the eldest and third sons of the mansion to work Yuzhi and go to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion. "

"Oh?" Mrs. Shi said quickly, "You don't want to drink tea, so please wait, I want to drink."

One sentence choked the yamen servants in place, neither sat down, nor sat down, nor waited, waited...that time was really long!

After finally waiting for the servant woman in Rongxi Hall to make tea and serve Mrs. Shi to take a sip, she slowly raised her head and asked, "The governor of Shuntian invited the child to come to the house, what is the reason?"

The squad leaders and government servants have long been suffocated, but they were born in this majestic Rongxi Hall and were suppressed so that they did not dare to act presumptuously.This is the team leader who had to bow down and say: "The eldest son had a little dispute with someone in Dongmen City. The two sides fought and broke the leg of the young master of Zhen Guogong—"

Mrs. Shi immediately showed a look of joyful fascination, and said: "What? My little boy fought with the son of the Zhenguo family, and he didn't lose the wind, and even broke his leg? Tsk tsk tsk, this is really a tiger without a dog, When my master comes back, he will be very pleased to hear about this.”

The Yamen servants of Shuntian Mansion were all dumbfounded when they heard this.

"But it's not right," Mrs. Shi's joy suddenly turned into confusion, "My youngest son doesn't have the ability, how can he beat the son of the Duke of Zhenguo? Let alone break his leg?"

The team leader hurriedly said: "It's true, Niu Yong, the young master of Zhen Guogong's mansion, had his right tibia broken, and he has already been sent to the mansion to find a doctor for bone setting."

Madam Shi immediately looked disappointed: "Oh, it's just the tibia?"

Team leader: ... Feelings that the other party is not hurt enough?

"The second boy of my family also broke his right tibia when he was a child. He will be fine after lying on the bed for two months. However, our husband and wife never dared to let him practice martial arts, so he took a book and read Ziyue Shiyun... By the way, Niu Yong, didn't he really break his leg?"

Yamen servant of Shuntian Mansion: ...

"But then again, how do you know that it was my son who went to beat Zhen Guogong? My sons have always been peaceful and never competed with others." Mrs. Shi asked again.

The team leader hurriedly said: "Naturally someone identified... Niu Yong of Zhen Guogong's mansion pointed out that it was Jia She, the eldest son of your mansion, who injured him; it is said that the third son of your mansion was also there when he was beaten. His lord's special orders The villain will take the eldest and third sons back to ask questions."

"He said it was my son who hit it?" The teacup in Mrs. Shi's hand suddenly thumped heavily on the table in front of her. There was a loud clang of teacups and teacups, and several yamen servants were also covered almost at the same time. Shaked.

"The beggars begging along the east gate are still willing to say that my son owes him money! Are you going to lock me up in Shuntian Mansion after hearing Niu Yong's confession?" Mrs. Shi's voice was full of sarcasm.

The team leader had no choice but to bow again and explain to the other party: "We can ignore the beggar at the east gate, but the young master and son of the Zhen Guogong's mansion did have a conflict first."

Mrs. Shi raised her eyebrows and showed a look of interest: "Tell me! What is the reason for this?"

So the team leader explained the disputes between the two companies one by one, how the "small building" opened first, and how the "East Gate" opened later, but the business was exactly the same as that of the "small building", and even dug up the "small building". The supply of ingredients for the small building.He tried to draw a conclusion: this beam was formed by the Rongguo Mansion and the Zhenguo Mansion, so the people from the Rongguo Mansion must have met the people from the Zhenguo Mansion.Coupled with Niu Yong's own identification, Shuntian Mansion has basically locked the suspect, so it must ask Jia to pardon the mansion and confront Niu Yong in court.

Mrs. Shi's expression changed as she listened, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

The head of the team had a long talk, but at the end he didn't answer when he saw Madam Shi, he could only remind him, and then asked: "Madam... can I ask the Eldest Young Master and the Third Young Master to follow us..."

Mrs. Shi stretched out her hand and shook it, and said: "That's not the case. Think about it, who is right and wrong in this matter? If it wasn't for the boy from the Zhen Guogong's mansion who took the lead in stealing the business from my eldest son , can my son make trouble with him? Can he knock on the door? Can he break his dog legs? "

Mrs. Shi said three times in a row, "It's worth it." The team leader quietly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking: This is finally admitted.He quickly said: "That's it. The villain is ordered by the governor to invite the eldest son to visit the Shuntian Mansion. Right and wrong, I have to judge impartially."

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Shi raised her brows upright, and scolded: "Whoever says it's all right? The boy from the Zhen Guogong's family is talking nonsense, so he insists on dragging my two children into the water together? Guys, please see clearly, this is the Rongguo Mansion. It's not his town government."

Facing the sudden roar of the Hedong lion, the squad leader and the yamen servants around him couldn't help but took half a step back.

"Ma'am..." The head of the class felt his throat was tight, and it was hard to say something, because it didn't make any sense at all.The key point is that both sides are the children of the government, and if they offend either side, they will not be able to please.The team leader's knees softened, and he almost wanted to kneel down and beg, but he managed to retain a bit of a man's dignity, and said, "The villain is just following orders..."

Mrs. Shi softened again: "I know that you are following orders, so it's not good to invite you to sit down and have a cup of tea, but each of you refuses."

Poor men, dizzy and dizzy in this Rongxi hall, wishing to bump into a pillar, so as to wake themselves up and figure out what's going on.

But Mrs. Shi still said in a gentle voice: "But the problem is, the three boys in my family have stayed at home all day today, and have never gone out for half a step!"

This...the squad leader and the yamen servants were all stupid: when they thought they had reached the last move with Mrs. Shi, and when everyone was ready to die, Mrs. Shi suddenly showed her trump card——

Deny it to the death!

Is there any more effective trick than cheating? ——That is the prestige and power, the one who crushes people to death at the top of the official ranks shamelessly in public!

Mrs. Shi raised her voice: "Come here, go, invite the second and third masters, and let them come to meet the servants of Shuntian Mansion!"

After a while, Jia She, Jia Zheng, and Jia Fang appeared in a dawdly manner.Jia She was wearing a silk shirt, yawned as he walked, and asked, "Mother, what's the matter? This afternoon nap doesn't make people sleep well!"

Jia Zheng, holding a book in his arms, recited it while reading it. After entering Rongxi Hall, he didn't look at the yamen servants, as if he already knew that he was just passing through the scene to meet the scene.

Jia Fang, on the other hand, was a little apprehensive. When he saw the policeman, he cupped his hands and said, "Everyone has worked hard, would you like to sit down and have a cup of tea?"

The team leader never wants to hear the word "drinking tea" again in his life.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask Jia She, Jia Zheng and Jia Fang, "Three young masters, have you not left the house today? Can someone prove it?"

Jia She, Jia Zheng, and Jia Fang all nodded, pointing at Mrs. Shi together: "Mother can testify for us."

Mrs. Shi took the seat proudly, trying her best to put on an awe-inspiring demeanor.

Therefore, Jia's family is of one heart and one mind, playing tricks on Shuntian Mansion together.

The head of the team was speechless at once, thinking that he had seen such a strange family, but he had never seen such a strange family - he was choked for a long time, and he really didn't want to stay any longer.He immediately bid farewell to everyone in Jia's mansion, saying: "I understand, the three young masters did not go out today. If asked by the governor, the villain will reply in the same way. If Zhen Guogong's mansion can't come up with a more reliable one Evidence, the villain will not bother you again."

Mrs. Shi smiled sweetly, and said: "How can I let the team leader run away for nothing? Please sit down at the porter's office later, the house has prepared some small gifts, and invite a few of you to have tea." Still could not leave the "tea".

But when these Yamen servants from Shuntian Mansion left Jia's Mansion, they all had smiles on their faces: they were very satisfied with the "small gift" that Rong Mansion gave them, and they were satisfied enough to describe it in front of the governor of Shuntian Mansion. Why did the eldest son Jia just wake up from a nap, how did the second son study hard, and the third son... He was very frail at a young age, and he looked like he was well educated.

Jia Fang ate dinner in the Jia Amnesty Court, and the two brothers sat in silence for a while.Jia Shecai asked: "Your boy...should be all right?"

Jia Fang nodded: "Ziheng sent someone to send him back. The wounds have been treated. It's not a serious injury. It will be healed after a few days."

Jia Amnesty nodded: "That's good." He continued to eat with his head down, wondering if he was regretting the big fuss of "spitting out a bad breath" today.

The two were silent for a while, then suddenly put down their chopsticks at the same time:

"Big brother!"

"Third brother!"

"You speak first--"

Jia Amnesty said, "Okay, let me say—"

"Today I heard my mother bring up the past, and I was really moved." Jia She sighed.

It turned out that when Mrs. Shi was talking to someone from Shuntian Mansion in Rongxi Hall, Jia Amnesty kept eavesdropping behind the Rongxi Hall and sneaked back to her yard when she heard that Mrs. Shi sent someone to look for her. , pretending to have just woken up from a nap, and appeared in front of the Shuntian government office servants.

So he overheard Mrs. Shi accidentally mentioning that Jia Zheng also broke his tibia when he was a child, and after he recovered, he couldn't learn martial arts and could only be a scholar.

But the truth is, Jia Zheng broke his leg, which was caused by the two brothers playing around when they were young. In other words, Jia Amnesty, the elder brother, is also somewhat responsible.

"Suddenly remembering the past, I feel inexplicably uncomfortable...My mother has never liked it, and it probably has something to do with my being too stubborn."

Jia She let out a long sigh, and said for a long while: "Being a parent, I know how difficult it is to be a parent. To be honest, I owe a lot to my mother and second brother over the years. If I can do my best, I will do my best." Compensate them some..."

Jia Amnesty thought about it, and he became a little crazy.

Jia Fang didn't have Jia She's understanding of life, but he was very rational, and said to Jia She: "Stop, now is the time for our Rongfu to unanimously open to the outside world, and this is not the time to think about these things at all."

He guessed that Mrs. Shi performed so "excellently" today because the Rongguo Mansion faced the Zhen Guogong Mansion. For the sake of Rongfu's reputation, Mrs. Shi would never hand over Jia She, even if she didn't like Jia She. .Protecting one's own people is the due duty of a housewife, otherwise, when Jia Daishan comes back, Mrs. Shi will not be able to do the job in front of her husband.

Unexpectedly, Jia Amnesty relented when Mrs. Shi offered some protection.

This is really a family!Teeth and tongue are bumping back and forth all day long, and when it's time to curse, they still swear in unison.

"Don't think about those things that are there. We have to think about it now. You are indeed breathing a sigh of relief now, but what should we do in the future? If we smash other people's copper pots, the other party will not make copper pots again. ?"

Jia Amnesty woke up suddenly, shook his head vigorously, and said in a deep voice, "Third brother, you are right!"

"We have to think of a countermeasure. The copper pot, if the other party can imitate once, they can imitate the second time. The slaughterhouse, the other party has set us up. Is there any other way to keep our 'small building' business going?" Do it."

Jia Fang was confident, and said to Jia Amnesty, "Brother, I have an idea—"

The door of Jia She's outer study was pushed open with a "snap". Jia Daishan, still wearing the official robes he had gone out, just walked in with a cold face, and went directly to the dining table of the two brothers and sat down. Said: "What's going on today?"

Jia Amnesty and Jia Fang stood up quickly.Jia Amnesty gave it without hesitation, and honestly explained the cause and effect, including how the other party "fake" the business, why he was not angry, and how he called at the door, because he was afraid that Jia Fang would be injured, so he accidentally broke the other party's calf...

Jia Daishan frowned and listened, and finally asked: "Have you checked it out?"

Jia Amnesty and Jia Fang had discussed it long ago. First of all, the possibility of leaking secrets from the craftsmen was ruled out. It is impossible for diners to understand the structure of the copper pot after only one or two visits.Then it can only be the inner ghost.

This is Jia She nodded, and answered Jia Daishan, saying: "A copper pot in our house was stored in the big kitchen. Once I couldn't find it. The people in the kitchen searched around, and finally found that it was the person in charge of gold and silverware Put it away. There was about two days in the middle, I asked, and no one else came to the big kitchen, that is, a young man from the Ning Mansion came."

As soon as Jia She said about Jia Fang, he remembered: Jia Zhen, that day he invited Jia She to eat this copper pot boiled meat for the first time, and Jia Zhen happened to be there.Jia Fang and Jia She exchanged glances, and the two brothers suddenly had a tacit understanding.

Jia Fang thought, the target should be him.But Jia Zhen has nothing to do with these cousins, what are they doing?

Jia Daishan sat down, reached out for a bowl, and said to his two sons, "Tell me I'm hungry."

Jia Amnesty hurriedly prepared the bowls and chopsticks, served a bowl of rice and soup for Jia Daishan himself, and then stood by with his hands down.

Jia Daishan kept silent, and silently ate a large bowl of soup and rice, then got up and said, "I'll go to the next door for a walk."

Jia Amnesty and Jia Fang: ...

Neither of them dared to say anything, but they thought that Jia Daishan would definitely have a sense of propriety and properly handle the little doubt they raised.

Jia Daishan hadn't left the house yet, so he said, "What Fang'er said is right. You have to think about how to manage that 'small building'. It's the right way. It's all shameless. Let's do it later." If you can’t do business anymore, our Jia Mansion has become the biggest joke in Beijing!”

Strange to say, the matter of Jia Daishan's going to Ningfu was silent, without causing any splashes.The two mansions went back and forth as usual, nothing happened, Jia Zhen even came to Rong Mansion, just in time to meet Jia Fang.

This Jia Zhen didn't feel ashamed at all, Jia Fang even made a few indirect remarks, but Jia Zhen didn't respond at all, as if the matter of the copper pot had nothing to do with him.

In addition to the Ning Mansion, Rong Mansion also had a rare visitor, a female family member, the wife of Niu Qing from Zhen Guogong Mansion, and Niu Yong's mother.She came to the door aggressively, and when she left, it was said that she was crying and put on makeup.

And Mrs. Shi's golden sentence is sung throughout the Rongning Second Mansion: "Don't look at your Niu Mansion and get a national prince's hat and start shaking. Think about it, who led you to set up the eight national leaders?" Your great merit? Who is your benefactor, and whose love should you accept?"

"I haven't watched it for many years, Mrs. Niu, are you getting older and starting to forget things?"

"Let your daughter-in-law come out to take care of the house! Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing is more suitable for you."

"That little son of yours actually pushed his nose on the face and bullied our Rongfu? My son didn't go out at home that day. If I had known about that, I would have let my son go out early, and put your stinky son out early. The kid's dog leg is broken!"

"I'm ashamed to go to Shuntian Mansion to file a complaint. How shameful?"

——Prestige is not majesty, sturdy is not sturdy?

Jia Fang stuck out his tongue, thinking, ever since he came to Rongfu, he has only seen Mrs. Shi stalking in the nest, but he really has never seen Mrs. Shi being sloppy to the outside world, she looks like a big sister.This is a woman with all kinds of shortcomings, and occasionally she shines so brightly that it makes people look at her with admiration.

Another day, Jia She was quick-mouthed, and accidentally brought out the fact that the "Xiaolou copper pot boiled meat" was actually in Zhang's name-the unanimous situation disappeared immediately.

It is said that Mrs. Shi chased Jia Amnesty for two miles with a feather duster - but Jia Fang couldn't control this much, he had already made thorough preparations.

If anyone wants to beat Jia Fang in the hot pot business, Jia Fang can only offer three words: think too much!