The Heart of the Red Chamber

"You said the emperor gave you the word?" The always calm Wang Ziteng almost trembled and knocked the Ru kiln cup to the ground, "You admit it right!"

Wang Ren hurriedly said: "Father, how could I make fun of this kind of thing! Although I am a low-ranking official, I have met saints before! Besides, let alone the reminder made by Chen Yejun, how can I just talk about my demeanor?" It’s something ordinary people can have!”

Wang Ziteng stood up from the chair all of a sudden, walked back and forth two steps excitedly, then clapped his hands and smiled and said, "Sure enough! It seems that you, Ren'er, have fallen in love with the emperor! Well, let's compare the previous things with Tell me carefully for your father!"

Wang Ren quickly described the encounter during the day and the subsequent conversation in detail, and then said: "The emperor is not in a bad mood, and he is not angry when I talk nonsense like that!"

Wang Ziteng snorted softly: "You also know that you are talking nonsense! However, you finally showed your face to the emperor! Well, the emperor said that he wants you to go to the Ministry of Household Affairs?"

"It's just a talk!" Wang Ren curled his lips, "What can I do in the Ministry of Households at my age?"

Wang Ziteng tapped on the table lightly, with a thoughtful expression, and then said: "Okay, there is no need to publicize this matter, the emperor is also in a difficult life now, as long as the emperor is here, he can only endure Yizhong County Over there, Wang, hmph, the Supreme Emperor is now over 60!"

When God closes a door for man, he will definitely open a window for you. However, the reverse is also true.Wang Ziteng is proud that his son has won the favor of the emperor, not to mention, Wang Ren will definitely be included in the promotion list of the Imperial Academy this year.Well, if the emperor is generous, it will not be a problem to be promoted two levels!Wang Ziteng was thinking about when his son would enter the cabinet, and soon, bad news came.

"What's going on! You killed someone!" Wang Ziteng read the letter in his hand at a glance, and looked at the servant who was kneeling there, not daring to lift his head. Squirt out.

The servant knelt there, trembling with shock from Wang Ziteng's anger, but still wailed: "After all, the uncle is young and vigorous, and he can't stand it, that's why he did such a thing! It's just that the wife is not as good as the old man so far. My flesh and blood, if you break it in like this, you will lose your incense! Also, please read it for the sake of family affection, uncle and master, and give me a little help!"

Wang Ziteng took a long breath and looked at the letter in his hand again. The letter was obviously dictated by his concubine sister and written by someone else. It was very pitiful, meaning that if something happened to his son, she would This mother doesn't want to live anymore!

This is not a threat at all, it is better than a threat!Wang Ziteng only felt a throbbing pain in his head, he took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll take care of this matter, but this kind of thing can't be done again, I, Wang Ziteng, don't like that." Big face!"

Having said that, the servant of the Xue family breathed a sigh of relief and kowtowed to express his gratitude.

"Ren'er, how do you understand this matter!" Wang Ziteng called Wang Ren into the study and asked.

Wang Ren was taken aback, is it already this time?But after thinking about it, he still said: "Father, according to my son's opinion, if you want to keep Xue's cousin, then you must not bear the name of a murderer! In this matter, it is better to make a big deal into a small matter, and make a small matter into a small matter! "

"How to make big things into small things?" Wang Ziteng already had a plan in his mind, and it was purely to test his son's level at the moment.

Wang Ren snorted softly: "That person must not have been beaten to death by the cousin of Xue's family, but those servants, at most they were guilty of slavery and murder! If you don't like it, you can make decisions without authorization, and you can't hold back for a while, which hurts people's lives. In this case, if you pay a family slave and fine you a sum of money, the matter is almost over! Even, the father doesn't have to intervene in person, lest The government over there in Jinling seized the handle so that my father would not have to be restrained in his actions in the future."

"However, my son thinks that he should teach Xue's cousin a lesson, so that he won't think that he has a backer, and it's okay to kill people, and he will act recklessly in the future!" Wang Ren continued, "Now there is still a loophole to take advantage of. My father can turn things around, but after all, my father can't solve the problem every time. If the cousin of the Xue family killed not the son of an ordinary squire this time, but some official, the matter will be difficult to resolve! Therefore, My son thinks that in the name of lax family management, you might as well lock up cousin Xue for a few days and beat him up again, in this way, you can teach cousin Xue a lesson and make people have nothing to say!"

Wang Ziteng stroked his beard in satisfaction, and nodded: "This idea is good, Ren'er has really improved!"

Wang Ren chuckled, and didn't even think about it. Why did that Jia Yucun come up with such unreliable reasons to understand the matter? Maybe, Jia Yucun did this on purpose. On the one hand, he sold a Renqing, on the other hand, also holds a handle, lest the Jia family and the Wang family want to turn their faces and deny people.However, although Jia Yucun has come back now, it seems that he has not gone to Jinling yet, and Huo Jie, the prefect of Jinling, still has a one-year term in office.

This is barely a family scandal. Wang Ziteng naturally didn't want to let outsiders know about such a confidential matter, so he had to hand it over to his confidant butler Wang Fu, and ordered him to take his letter and return to Jinling's ancestral property in the name of cooking. Head, go to Xue's house.

Wang Ziteng here wants to end the matter early.On the side of Xue's family, Xue Wang's family is after all a female generation, and she can't hold her breath. Xue Baochai, who is more shrewd, is still a half-grown child, and she doesn't understand these outside things.After Xue Wang sent a letter asking for help to his elder brother and sister, he was worried all day long that officials would come to his door. Therefore, while ordering people to deal with the government to delay time, he made up his mind to sell Zhuangzi, a shop in Jinling, or something. Some of them were entrusted to members of the Xue family, and the other part were sold directly.Then he hurriedly packed his things, and left Jinling with some maids and servants in the name of sending his daughter Baochai to Beijing for election.

Coincidentally, although they said that the ultimate goal was the capital, the essence of this trip was to avoid disasters, so naturally they would not run directly to Chang'an, but hid everywhere, so they missed it with Wang Fu and his party.

When Wang Fu arrived at Xue's house, he found that except for the ancestral house, the rest of Xue's house had changed owners. Believe in the past for help!Now he was actually turned away by the housekeeper of the dignified cabinet minister's family!

Holding back his anger, Wang Fu went to Huo Jie with Wang Ziteng's letter. Of course, the letter didn't mention the murder case at all.Huo Jie is also a smart person, and Wang Ziteng is gaining momentum, not to mention that people have already said that he, the parent official, will not be embarrassed. Huo Jie's term of office is about to expire, if he offends Wang Ziteng, Wang Ziteng will quietly wear a small shoe, maybe he can Throw him from Jinling to Jiaozhou, Qiongzhou, so there is no embarrassment.With Huo Jie's promise, Wang Fu ordered the servants of Xue's family to look for Xue Wang's group. Fortunately, Xue Qing, the second roommate of Xue's family, still stayed in Jinling. Now Xue Qing set up the scene and gave birth to a family A large sum of silver taels, and promised to revoke their family's slave status, let that family give birth to a son to take the blame for Xue Pan, and then fined the Xue family's 10 taels of silver, and the matter was naturally over.Xue Panren didn't know where he was yet, and Wang Ren's plan to make him suffer a little bit was naturally in vain.

Wang Fu handled the matter beautifully, and then returned to Chang'an full of anger to report to Wang Ziteng.The Xue family is still rich and powerful at the moment, so the so-called problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. Not long after the matter was resolved, Xue Wang's family, who didn't know where they were hiding in the first place, knew it, and immediately went to the pine In one breath, although Xue Wang's heart ached when he heard that he was fined 10 taels of silver, it was worth it if he could exchange his precious son's life.

However, since she went out under the name of being Xue Baochai's candidate, she naturally couldn't go back in such a disheveled manner. Xue Wang thought about it, and then asked someone to write to her brother and Jia Wang, saying that she wanted to go back. Bringing a pair of sons and daughters to Beijing, one is to prepare for the daughter, and the other is to hope that the son can grow up in Chang'an.

When Wang Fu returned to Chang'an, he told Wang Ziteng what he had encountered, and Wang Ziteng immediately felt that his younger sister was indeed a shameless person who didn't know current affairs. Now he received a letter from Xue Wang, Immediately, she became extremely annoyed: "A daughter who is so good, actually thinks of sending her to the palace to be a palace maid! As expected, she is a real sister, and she has the same ideas! Anyway, that girl from Jia's family is still going to be a female official in the palace, this one just went directly to the palace to serve others !"

Wang Ren took the letter thrown aside by Wang Ziteng, looked at it, and asked, "Father, don't be angry, this matter is just my aunt's wishful thinking! I'm afraid my aunt doesn't know much about the draft. When my aunt arrived in Chang'an, my father Just talk to your aunt carefully! However, cousin Xue is not too young now, judging by his behavior, I am afraid that he is similar to cousin Lun, or even worse..."

Before Wang Ren could continue, Wang Ziteng's face darkened. Wang Lun, Wang Zisheng's only son, was really too muddy to support the wall. A few years ago, under Wang Zisheng's nagging, Mrs. Shi married Wang Lun in a hurry. The concubine daughter of a sixth-rank petty official's family is too docile. She has always been submissive to Wang Lun's husband. If she looks good, she can make Wang Lun fresh for a while. I just feel that Mrs. Shi treated him badly, although Mrs. Shi also meant this, but if he hadn't had an uncle like Wang Ziteng, he would be an official lady anyway, and he has no virtue and no conduct, and he is not worthy of being idle, so he hangs around even more. Fireworks also hang out with a bunch of girls at home. Last time, in order to support a fan, they didn't have any money at hand. They even stole a coral ornament from Wang Zisheng's house and pawned it. When Wang Zisheng found out, he was so angry that he moved the house Fabanzi is still lying in his yard right now.

When Wang Ziteng thought of having another virtuous nephew like Wang Lun, he immediately felt a headache. At least Wang Lun was quite cautious besides being obsessed with women, and the master who could beat people to death just because of a girl!

Wang Ren left the headache to Wang Ziteng, seeing Wang Ziteng's face was not very good-looking, so he resigned very tactfully.As for the members of Xue's family, no matter whether they go back to their own home or live in Jia's house, as long as they don't waver in front of him, that's fine.