Jia Rong, the smiling tiger of the Red Chamber

Jia Rong had just finished her marriage leave. On the first day she returned to the Imperial Academy, what greeted him was not a series of congratulations, but scrutiny and sympathy.Well... the sympathetic eyes accounted for more than half of them.Now everyone in the capital knows that Jia Zheng, a member of the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Affairs, pushed his nephew Jia Zhen from the restaurant during the dispute, causing Jia Zhen to lie unconscious on the bed until now.

Of course, there are also a small number of people.There are all kinds of scrutiny of Jia Rong, and it is full of fear of Jia Rong.

In the current era, it is important to 'do not expose family scandals'. Any scandals in the family are hidden and cannot be spread outside, for fear of affecting the reputation of one's own family, which will have a negative impact on oneself and the family.

Therefore, Jia Rong sued Jia Zheng from the same clan to Jing Zhao Yin's mansion so fiercely, and demanded to be punished by law.This is nothing more than making outsiders mutter in their hearts, this Jia Rong really does not regain the reputation of being ruthless in the Beijing Center.He really didn't hesitate to send the grandpa of the clan who hadn't finished the fifth service to the prison of Jingzhao Yin's mansion.

But to Jia Rong, the gazes of these irrelevant people were neither painful nor itchy, and he didn't take it seriously at all.

"Sir, you're back." When Gu Qingrong saw Jia Rong coming back, she greeted her with a smile, and helped Jia Rong take off her outer shirt with her own hands, and then changed into regular clothes.After thinking about it for a while, he said, "Master, the second lady and the old lady from Xifu came again at the first hour of the day today. They wanted me to persuade you to withdraw the paper of pleadings. You can't show your family ugliness to the outside world, and said that Grandpa Zheng didn't do it on purpose, so let's settle this matter in private. There's no need to make a fuss, it's all over the sky. You don't have to let outsiders laugh."

Hehe... Don't be surprised, the uncle's attitude towards the West Mansion is so indifferent. In fact, the people in Jia's Mansion are really unclear.

Since you are here to ask for help, you should have an attitude of asking for help.What does their attitude mean?Although on the surface he tried his best to put on a pleading and sad gesture, but deep down, he still couldn't hide his aloofness.I don't know what capital they have to be proud here?Just thinking about it for a moment, she couldn't help but want to laugh.

When Jia Rong heard Gu Qingrong's words, she straightened her clothes and said, "Don't worry about it. As long as they come, you can find an excuse to send them out. If you are thin-skinned and embarrassed to speak, just say that you didn't In free time, let people go to Jingzheyuan, find Brother Qiang, and ask him to deal with it. If he is not at home, just hand it over to Zhiwen and Zhiqiu to deal with it." Hehe...or he will be arrested Take this opportunity and kick the Rongguo Mansion quickly. Next time, you may not have such a good opportunity again.

"Please don't worry, my husband. Although the second wife and the old lady are not very pleasant to speak, I can handle it here, so I don't need to bother my second uncle. You don't have to worry too much here." Gu Qingrong thought about what happened this morning. , Thinking of the blue and purple complexion of the old lady of the second wife of the Xifu, she couldn't help but bend her eyebrows with a smile.

Seeing Gu Qingrong's expression, Jia Rong knew that there was no need to care about the old lady and the second wife of the Xifu, she could handle it completely, so she patted Gu Qingrong's hand and said, "You have to work hard here for two more days. They won't come over to bother you when Jingzhao Yin's mansion closes the case."

"It's just talking with two people, and I can't bear the word hard." When talking about this, Gu Qingrong suddenly remembered something, and then said: "By the way, I almost forgot to tell my husband. In addition to the old lady and the second wife who came out of the West Mansion today, at noon, Mr. Wang sent someone to send a call letter. He said he would come to visit tomorrow."

He stopped the movements of his hands, turned his head and asked, "Which Lord Wang? Is it Wang Ziteng?" I also know that at this time, only Lord Wang who will come to visit him is Wang Ziteng.

Gu Qingrong nodded: "It's him."

"okay, I get it."

Wang Ziteng?Wanted to meet him a long time ago?Just never had a chance.Now that there is such a good opportunity, he would like to see that this person, who has become the head of the Wang family with the identity of the second son, even with the eldest son still alive, has grown from a A small eighth-rank guard of the imperial forest army, who climbed up to a second-rank envoy of the Kyoto camp.What kind of talent is he?

The next day when I returned from the Imperial Academy, as soon as I returned to the courtyard, I saw Zhiwen greeted me immediately, saluted and said: "Master, you are back. The old lady and the second lady of the West Mansion, together with Prince Teng Wang, have already arrived." It took a while. The old lady and the second wife and grandma are entertaining in the living room of the inner courtyard. As for Mr. Wang, the second master is entertaining in the living room of the front yard."

When Jia Rong heard Zhiwen's words, she smiled: "Well, I see. Change my clothes first."

Zhiwen replied, and immediately took out Jia Rong's casual clothes from the closet, but they were more decent than ordinary ones. , hanging a emerald green auspicious wishful pendant used to press the corner of the clothes.

After everything was tidied up, Jia Rong walked unhurriedly to the living room in the front yard.

As soon as he walked into the living room, he saw Jia Qiang was talking with a middle-aged man in his 40s. He was wearing a dark blue almost black brocade suit. I don't know if it was because of his age, but his appearance was not so good-looking.At least with the beautiful Jia Qiang, his face can be called ugly.However, his stern demeanor is very conspicuous. One can tell at a glance that he is used to getting out of the military camp, and he has definitely been on the battlefield and killed people.

But even so, Jia Qiang, who was sitting opposite him, had a calm face, with a smile on her lips, and the expression on her face was the same as usual.

On the other hand, Wang Ziteng frowned slightly at this moment, and his expression seemed to be a little bad.

Striding in, he raised his voice and said, "Lord Wang, I'm a little late." Except for the emperor, Jia Rong always referred to herself as me, not as a lower official.

When Wang Ziteng was originally, he only listened to his sister complaining that Brother Rong from Dongfu had a violent temper since he was a child, cruel, murderous without blinking an eye, and so on.He didn't take this to heart, he was just a half-grown child.Besides, he also knew that the reason why Mrs. Wang belittled Jia Rong so much was because when Jia Rong was rectifying the clan in Jinling earlier, she touched her interests and gave her a lot of embarrassment.In addition, Jia Rong was selected as a scholar at the age of nine, and Baoyu was overwhelmed by life.

Later, he won the Juren again, so he couldn't help but sigh, he followed his grandfather Jia Jing and was very talented in learning.In the future, it is not a problem for Jinshi to enter the imperial court.He also left three points for him.

In the following year, he won the Chuanlu with the first name in the second class in one fell swoop, and was personally selected by the emperor to enter the Hanlin Academy as a good scholar.In less than a month, he was promoted to editor. Although the speed of promotion cannot be said to be unprecedented, it is also very rare.

This fully shows that Jia Rong is very sacred and intends to promote him.

It was at this time that Wang Ziteng began to really pay attention to Jia Rong. He also thought that there was such a talent in the Jia family. or something.

It's just that he hasn't had time to be happy for a long time, and he can't even find the time to get to know Jia Rong formally.

Just yesterday morning, he just came back from court, and before he even had time to change his clothes, he saw his sister come over crying, saying that Jia Zheng was accidentally at the restaurant and pushed Jia Zhen from the restaurant. Go on, now Jia Zhen is still lying unconscious on the bed.But Brother Rong of the Dong Mansion is a man who doesn't show affection at all. He actually asked people to report the case to Jing Zhao Yin's Mansion. Now Jia Zheng has been taken away.

When he heard this, he felt a headache for a while, for this sister-in-law.He is completely disappointed now.But even though he was extremely disappointed, he couldn't leave such a thing alone.So after he reprimanded Mrs. Wang, he still asked someone to pass a post to Jia Rong.

It's a pity that my sister still has a face of reluctance, saying that he, a second-rank official, personally went to visit Jia Rong, a small official with a big soybean, and really thinks highly of him.Just call him over.

Hearing what he said, Wang Ziteng couldn't help scolding Mrs. Wang a few words. As a daughter of the Wang family, her vision is so short-sighted.Although Jia Rong's seniority is low, and her official position is not high now, but they ask for others first, if Jia Zhen has something to do, he is the patriarch of the Jia clan.If you don't lower your posture, how can you do it?Even if he is suppressed by force.When he shows his grand plans in the future, it will be your unlucky time.

What's more, although Jia Zhen is unbearable, she is Jia Rong's own father.Even though it wasn't intentional, you made Jia Zhen like this.If you want him to expose this matter, and you don't want to show off your elders, you deserve him to give you some style.

"Brother Rong is back. I know you just came out of the Imperial Academy. You don't have to blame yourself, but I came a little early." Wang Ziteng also got up immediately, and said with a smile on his face.In order to win over the somewhat rigid relationship between each other, in terms of address, they deliberately called out to be more intimate.

Jia Rong and Wang Ziteng exchanged a few words, then sat down, ordered the servant girl to serve tea again, and asked knowingly: "Master Wang is usually a busy person. I don't know if you are coming to my house, but there is something important No?"

Wang Ziteng looked at Jia Rong, and the corners of his mouth stiffened unexpectedly, but he recovered quickly, and said, "Brother Rong, our family doesn't talk about each other. The purpose of my visit today, I think you have already known it." I already know it. Let me just say it straight. I know that Cunzhou has gone too far this time. But he didn't mean it on purpose, it was just a momentary mistake. Brother Rong, you should take three points more here. Look at the two For the sake of my family's kindness, I also look at my face. So there is no need to disturb the Jingzhao Yin Mansion." Even if Jia Rong withdrew the complaint, it was a bit late.This incident happened in public, and Jia Rong reported it to the officials so unabashedly.Now that the news has spread throughout Beijing, let alone other things, at least save Zhou's official position, I am afraid that he will not be able to keep it.

"Master Wang, what you said is ridiculous. My father is still lying on the bed, his life and death are unknown, and he may die at any time, but you here let me turn a big thing into a small thing. Your two delicate words You want me to let go of killing my father and my enemy? Are you kidding me? One family? My father went to persuade them because of their brothers’ dispute because of the sake of this family. What happened? I'm going to lose it. That's what you said, a family doesn't speak two different languages? To say something ugly, if I accidentally beat your daughter seriously, and she falls into a coma, she may die at any time. Do you also For the sake of the friendship between the two families, don't make any fuss?" Jia Rong looked at Wang Ziteng whose face became a little ugly with a half-smile, and said so.

As long as Wang Ziteng should nod and say that he can, I will definitely give him a big gift here.When the time comes, he wants to see it.Wang Ziteng, can you say it and do it!

At this time, Jia Qiang also said appropriately: "This thing didn't happen to me, what I said was light, it's just a matter of the upper lip touching the lower lip."

Wang Ziteng watched the singing and the harmony, obviously he didn't intend to be kind and the words were ugly, and his anger rose a little bit in his heart.Of course, this anger was not directed at Jia Rong and Jia Qiang, but at Mrs. Wang and Jia Zheng.

The father of the person you killed is lying on the bed with uncertain life and death, why can't people say a few ugly words?

"Brother Rong, I know. You have been wronged by this matter. It's just that you can't write two Jia characters in one stroke. After all, you are a family, and you don't have to be so decisive. Besides, Cun Zhou Did you do it on purpose, you just go around him this time." When Wang Ziteng said this, his attitude could be said to be at a low point, especially the last sentence, the word 'circle', which can be roughly seen Show Wang Ziteng's attitude towards this matter.

Wang Ziteng is really a smart person, it doesn't matter, he is the only one among the four major families, and he is worthy of the name to be able to sit in the position of a senior member of the second rank.It's just a pity that there are too many people behind him holding him back.What's more, the members of the Wang family's direct line are withered, Wang Ziteng has no son, but his elder brother does have one, but it is not as good as Jia Zhen.

"Master Wang, why don't you make a deal with me?" Jia Rong didn't continue what Wang Ziteng said, but threw out an irrelevant topic instead.

"Brother Rong, what you said is very interesting. Why don't you tell me."

Jia Rong smiled and said: "I heard that Mr. Wang is over forty years old, but he has only three daughters and no sons under his knees. Doesn't Mr. Wang feel regretful?"

"What do you mean by that?" Wang Ziteng's expression sank when he heard Jia Rong's words.If he has a good family background, a harmonious husband and wife, and a smooth official career, but he has no children, it will be a headache.

"I can give Master Wang a son, the son of a direct relative, but the condition is that in the future, you are absolutely not allowed to meddle in the affairs of our two houses. In the court, you fight and we have nothing to do, and each goes his own way. I don't know Wang. What do you think, my lord?" He didn't believe it, but now Wang Ziteng felt that there was anything more important than having a son of his own.Not to mention Mrs. Wang, even a direct daughter like Wang Xiyun also needs to stay behind.

When Wang Ziteng heard Jia Rong's words, he immediately sneered and said, "How is this possible?" In these years, in order to seek a son, he did not say that his wife was him, but no matter how many concubines he took in, he just couldn't see her. son.Now he has given up a little bit, but Jia Rong said that he can give birth to a son for him, how can he believe it?

"Why is this impossible?" Jia Rong asked back, "I have a servant girl who has studied medicine since she was a child and is best at gynecology. It’s because of illness and infertility, so she can’t cure it.”

When Wang Ziteng heard Jia Rong's words, if he said that he was not moved, he would be lying.It's just that the suspicion in his eyes still hasn't receded.

Of course, Jia Rong didn't think that Wang Ziteng would nod his head and agree with him just by saying a few words. He just smiled and said, "It's not too late for Mr. Wang to decide whether to agree or not after seeing the person." Then she turned her head and said to Xi Mo : "Go and ask Zhiqiu to come over."

Washing the ink immediately nodded, and went to do it without mentioning it.

Zhi Qiuben was waiting at the door, got the hint of washing the ink, and naturally entered the room soon.They blessed Jia Rong, Jia Qiang and Prince Teng respectively.

"Go, get Mr. Wang's pulse." Jia Rong didn't talk nonsense, pointing to Wang Ziteng and said.

Zhiqiu was also unambiguous, and said yes.Then he rushed towards the prince, walked two steps in front of him, stopped, and said in a deep voice: "My lord, please extend your hand."

Wang Ziteng had already noticed Zhiqiu as soon as she came in, ahem... don't get me wrong, it's not that he has an unruly intention towards Zhiqiu, but that Zhiqiu walks lightly and lands silently, others may not be able to see What?But Wang Ziteng was born as a military general, and he could tell at a glance that this maid was skilled in martial arts, perhaps not weak.He stretched out his hand with some hesitation, but when Zhiqiu stretched out his hand, he shrank slightly.Zhiqiu seemed to have known that he was going to do something like this a long time ago, so he reached out and grabbed Wang Ziteng's wrist firmly, placing three fingers between his pulse points.

"My lord, please forgive my servant and maidservant for speaking bluntly. The reason why lord Wang has been childless all these years is probably not because of Mrs. Zun or her, but because of yourself." Said so.

As soon as Wang Ziteng heard Zhiqiu's words, his face turned red immediately, he looked at Zhiqiu sharply, and said angrily, "You are a slave, what nonsense are you talking about here?"