[Red Mansion] Sir, I'm a rough man

Jia Wan calculated that it should be these few days.

Now that Jia Zhen is confined at home, she can't start a game of gambling and whoring at night, and Third Sister You is away from home, so he can't even get close to the mansion if he wants to. I'm worried, and now I'm cured of my rare illness...

If he could bear it, he would not be Jia Zhen.

At night, because it is the beginning of the month, the moonlight is not very clear, and there is a layer of dark clouds around, which makes it even darker. Looking around, there are dark shadows everywhere, and nothing can be seen clearly. Keen and agile, I don't feel any inconvenience.

Jia Wan leaned against the pillar and sat on the railing of the gazebo, with a jug of wine and a jade cup in his hand, drinking sips to pass the time, and then saw a faint light floating out of Jia Rong's yard.

Jia Rong was sent out to run errands during the day, most of the maids and women were asleep, and the servants at the door probably got the greeting and avoided them from a distance, so Jia Wan looked at the starlight and drifted slowly past. The second door, shuttled skillfully in the garden, and passed towards Tianxiang Tower.

There is also a lamp on the other side of the Tianxiang Building, although it is blocked by a cloth curtain, there is still a faint light.

Jia Wantiao’s place is very good, it’s close to Tianxiang Tower, the location is high, and the line of sight is good. I watched the star light go all the way into Tianxiang Tower and disappeared. After another quarter of an hour, the light of Tianxiang Tower also went out. .

Jia Wan waited for a while, guessing that the time was almost up, he took out a slingshot from his sleeve, and lifted a bag from the ground, which was full of "elixir".

It is the kind Taoist priests love to eat. It is hard, round and about the size of a broad bean—Liu Xianglian bought a big bag for two taels of silver.

According to the little Taoist, this thing is cheap and healthy, without any alum or mercury, it’s okay to eat as jelly beans, and it can still make you hungry.

Jia Wan "Zi 1 Bomb" wound up, squinted one eye to aim, and then let go, the projectile shot out with a "swish", and landed on the roof of Tianxiang Tower accurately, and then "dangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdangdang" The tiles bounced and rolled down, and the sound suddenly resounded in the silent night sky, and it was very clear, making people shiver and tremble.

Jia watched the movement over there jokingly, paused for a while, then squinted his eyes and fired again.

"Dang dang dang dang..."

"Dang dang dang dang..."

The frightening voice resounded in the night sky every few moments.

The previously extinguished lights in Tianxiang Tower were turned on again, and the sound of the marbles bouncing stopped abruptly.

Immediately afterwards, Jia Zhen, with her chest bare and only wearing a coat, appeared with a lantern, took a look around, found nothing, and went back the same way. After a while, the light went out again.

Jia Wan opened the slingshot again...

After a while, Jia Zhen appeared again, this time his movements were much more extensive than before, and he even shouted a few times angrily.

Jia Wan didn't say a word, and waited quietly for him to go back. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, the lights in the room were turned off again. Jia Wan raised the slingshot, wrapped three "bullets" at a time, and shot them out.

This time he opened his hands at full speed, one shot after another, the sound that was only a moment, suddenly became like a torrential rain, "Dangdangdangdangdang" one after another, endlessly, as if there was an invisible person, angry He threw handfuls of stones on the roof.

So the lights came on again.

The sound stopped abruptly again.

The originally noisy world instantly became terribly quiet, and the light and shadow behind the curtains were in a panic.

A moment later, a figure rushed out first, without lighting the lantern, with disheveled hair, disheveled clothes, shoes in one hand, and a belt in the other. In the panic, several dogs gnawed shit.

Fortunately, he was able to recognize the way under such circumstances.

Jia Wan followed from a distance, seeing that Jia Zhen crossed the small bridge and was about to leave the garden, snorted coldly, and rewarded him with a bullet in his knee, and then heard Jia Zhen "Ah yo", and rolled into the lotus pond.

Fortunately, the water beside the lotus pond was not deep. Jia Zhen flopped in it for a while, then climbed up tremblingly, and climbed into the second gate with one foot high and one foot low.

Jia Wan ignored him, and sat on the rockery by the side of the road and waited. After a while, Fang saw Qin Keqing and the girl named Ruizhu, holding a glazed lamp, supporting each other, trembling, step by step. come over.

Seeing how frightened they were, Jia Wan couldn't bear to tease them any more, and sat quietly waiting for them to pass.

For Qin Keqing, he actually doesn't dislike her. On the contrary, he has a good impression of her. She is a rare good person in Ningguo Mansion.

Although the matter between her and Jia Zhen cannot be justified in any era, in the end it was just a loss of personal morality, and it was not harmful to nature.

Jia Wan is not a moralist, on the contrary, he is just a small person who is selfish and does not lose his bottom line. If Qin Keqing's matter did not affect Xichun's marriage, he would not bother to care about this matter.

He intended to let Qin Keqing and the two of them pass by, but it turned out to be contrary to his wish. He was clearly motionless, but a stone rolled down not far from him.

As soon as Jia Wan turned around, he met a pair of big green eyes, and couldn't laugh or cry: I don't know where the little wild cat came from, but he came here to join in the fun.

The kitten looked at him innocently, but there was already a mess underneath.

Ruizhu cried out with a "wow": "Master, master, please, don't follow us, don't follow us, we are wrong, please let us go, we will never dare again..."

Qin Keqing didn't make a sound, but she had already collapsed to the ground.

While crying, Ruizhu looked around with a lamp.

But there was a "chi" sound, and the lights went out.

The glazed lamps that were specially lit on windy and rainy days went out by themselves when there was no wind or rain.

Ruizhu was so frightened that she threw away the glazed lamp as if she had been burned.

But he didn't know that above his head, Jia Wan was also in a hurry. He was afraid of being illuminated by the light, so he just knocked out the glazed lamp with a stone, when he saw the shameful little wild cat, which was frightened by Ruizhu's cry. , Jia Wan stretched out his hand to catch it, but found nothing. He watched the little guy slide down all the way, kicked hard in the middle, and landed on Ruizhu's neck impartially.

"what!"

A scream rose into the sky, almost piercing Jia Wan's eardrum.

Jia Wan hurriedly jumped off the rockery, catching the little wild cat thrown out by Ruizhu in a panic.

"Meow……"

The soft cry brought Rui Zhu back to her senses, she looked over subconsciously, and was immediately frightened out of her wits—where is the cat, under the dim moonlight, it was clearly a person standing there!

"Ah ah ah..."

When fear reaches a certain level, it can stimulate people's potential. Jia Wan hugged the cat, stared dumbfounded at the explosion of Ruizhu Cosmos, dragged Qin Keqing, who was limp, and rushed out in a staggered manner.

Jia Wan bent down from the ground, picked up the glazed lamp, turned and left.

Lights began to light up in various courtyards one after another, and many people were obviously awakened by the scream.

……

"Master," Yuzhan brought the washbasin into the door and said, "Master Xiaorong has been waiting for you in the courtyard for quite a while."

Jia Wan lifted the quilt and got up, and asked, "What time is it?"

"It's almost noon," Yuzhan said, "I got up very late today."

Jia Wan let out a "hmm", and his eyes fell on the little guy lying on his stomach next to the tea stove.

Yuzhan put down the washbasin and came to help Jia clean up. After noticing his gaze, she couldn't help laughing and said, "Last night, a little wild cat came in from nowhere. If we don’t go, we have to wash it and put it there to bake to save it from catching cold..."

Jia Wan said with disgust: "What an ugly little thing."

A small lump, bony, with big bald ears, a pink nose, a pair of big eyes left on a small face, like a skull.

Yuzhan let out a "puchi" laugh and said, "That cat and dog's fur is like this when it's wet, and it will be beautiful when it dries... Lord, let's raise it! Otherwise, such a small one may be so small once it goes out. It was taken away by a big mouse."

Jia Wan knelt down and poked the little guy's face twice, the little guy didn't get annoyed, he held his finger with his little paw and licked it, the rough and tender little tongue brushed like a small brush, which was quite comfortable.

Thinking of its "feat" last night, Jia Wan poked its forehead twice with his finger, and said, "Then raise it!"

They are all comrades who pretend to be ghosts and scare people together, so it is also necessary to take care of each other.

After packing up and coming out to see Jia Rong, I found that the kid had a strange expression, excited, scared and happy. Seeing Jia playing, he said with a smile: "Second uncle, father said that the old man's affairs were too hasty. , I felt a little uneasy, and wanted to set up an altar on the Tianxiang Building, and invited 99 Quanzhen Taoist priests to have a funeral on the 81st to relieve their grievances and cleanse their karma."

Jia Wan nodded and said, "This is a good thing, just please."

Jia Rong smiled awkwardly, and said: "It's just... Recently, because of the funeral for the old man, the expenses continued, and another 5000 taels were allocated to Brother Qiang to buy things, and now I can't get that much money for a while. Father said, Let my nephew come over and beg my second uncle to see if I can borrow 500 taels of silver for a few days, and pay it back as soon as there is spare money in the account."

"That's amazing." Yuzhan came in to serve tea, and said, "Baoyu and Huan Sanye, none of them are older than our lord, and now they are studying in school. In addition to the monthly allowance of silver, there are eight taels of snacks every month." Tea money... Our father was 15 years old, and he never saw a single piece of money in the monthly bill, let alone a little bit of family property, and now we ask our father to ask for money... How can there be such a reason in the world?"

Although Yuzhan is a servant, she is the girl of the "elders". It is not easy for Jia Rong to reprimand her as the master, so she can only laugh along with her and say, "What my sister said is very true. If there is no other way, I wouldn't come to ask for help." uncle……"

Jia Wan said: "I don't know, it's so difficult in the house... Yuzhan, go open the box and take 800 taels for Brother Rong."

He added: "There's no need to pay it back. My father passed away and I couldn't make it back in time. I should do my part at this moment."

Jia Rong thanked her and left, Yuzhan said: "Master, you are too sincere. Where did the mansion come to this field? It's just that the uncle changed the way to steal money from you."

Jia Wan shook his head and smiled: "It's okay."

Yuzhan sighed and said, "Master, you don't know yet, something happened last night."

How could Jia Wan not know, and said with a casual smile, "Why?"

Yuzhan said worriedly: "It was said that it was three o'clock yesterday, and a woman's scream was heard in the garden outside the second gate. Everyone was afraid that something had happened, so they quickly lit the lanterns to see, but no one found it, but Looking at the traces, it seemed that something crawled out of the lotus pond... Later, on the road leading to the second gate, I found a woman's handkerchief.

"Finally found the Tianxiang Tower, everyone was terrified, there were golden pills scattered everywhere under the Tianxiang Tower.

"Who doesn't know that our old man died suddenly after eating a golden elixir?

"Everyone said that it was the old man who appeared.

"It is also said that within a few days after the old man went, the uncle found a large group of people. They ate and gambled in Tianxiang Building every day, slept with women and prostituted men, so the old man didn't show his spirit, but now he suddenly appeared. I'm afraid someone did it. Something more scandalous...

"Otherwise, why did the uncle suddenly remember that he wants to invite a Taoist priest to make a dip?"

No one talks about what is more offensive... This is not worth discussing, who in the whole house doesn't know?

……

At night, a white and slim figure quietly entered Tianxiang Tower.

Throwing the snow-white silk onto the beam, the figure stood on the stool, slowly tied the silk into a knot, closed his eyes, slowly stretched his head in, and two lines of tears fell silently.

Just about to kick away the stool under his feet, a soft voice suddenly came: "Mr. Qin, why did you commit suicide?"

Opening his eyes, he saw a Pianpian boy standing under the moonlight, looking at her with a smile.