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After hearing this, Mingyan hurriedly said to Baoyu, "Second Master, why do you want to sit on the hillside? It's so cold, don't freeze."

Baoyu said: "Anyway, I don't want to go back now. My wife asked me to come out to investigate, but I found nothing. How can I go back and explain?"

Ming Yan hurriedly said: "Second Master, then we don't have to wait on this mountain, we can go to the tea house to sit, there are many people there, maybe we can hear something."

Baoyu said: "Those teahouses and wine shops are too noisy, I want to be quiet for a while."

Ming Yan had no choice but to say: "Second Master, let's sit there for a while, not too long, and then go back to the city. If it's still early, we'll go to the teahouse to sit."

Baoyu listened and said, "Okay, don't disturb me for a while, I just want to be quiet."

When Baoyu and Mingyan returned to the imperial city, it was almost You hour.

Baoyu said: "Mingyan, it's too early to find someone now, let's go drink tea."

When Baoyu and Mingyan came to sit down in a tea house, they saw several tea guests talking about the affairs of Ningguo Mansion.

"Three days later, all the servants of the Ningguo Mansion were sold off. I heard that even the female family members of the Ningguo Mansion, if no one goes to redeem them for a month, they will all be sent to various meritorious families to be slaves."

A young tea guest said.

An old tea drinker asked: "Xiaoyi, are you talking nonsense? Gathering a crowd to gamble and confiscating the house? Besides, after all, the family is the Duke's mansion, and the female relatives are also convicted?"

The tea guest named Xiaoyi said: "I talk nonsense? How dare I! People outside the Ministry of Criminal Justice have posted notices. If you don't believe me, you can ask others. Even if I can't read, I have heard people read it with my own ears. You don't know, look. I'm not the only one who made the announcement, I'm afraid everyone in the capital will know about it today."

A tea guest said: "I heard that the Prince of Beijing and the Crown Prince personally led people to search the Ningguo Mansion last night."

Another tea guest said: "Let me tell you, I heard a news that there is an inspector in charge of grain and grass in the east of the city. Because he lost money in Ningguo Mansion, he deducted the military pay of the soldiers in the grain depot. How many soldiers are angry?" However, we set fire to the grain and grass depot, which resulted in burning a lot of grain and grass, provoking the emperor's fury, and someone reported in the court hall that the Ningguo Mansion had lured the children of the aristocratic family and gathered people to gamble, and that was it."

"In my opinion, some of these children from meritorious families are really doing too badly. The emperor gave them so much salary, but they don't cherish it, and even gather people to recruit people to gamble. If they don't come here, who will restrain themselves?" Another tea guest way.

"The emperor is just scaring them, right? Ningguo Mansion and Rongguo Mansion are one family, why is Rongguo Mansion okay? I think it's probably because of the dispute between the two families."

"It's reasonable. There are empresses in the palace in the Rongguo Mansion. If they are kind, how can the empress only protect the Rongguo Mansion and not the Ningguo Mansion?"

Those tea guests were still chattering, and Baoyu gradually understood a lot, so he whispered to Mingyan: "Mingyan, let's go, we will go outside the punishment department to have a look."

Half an hour later, Baoyu and Mingyan came outside the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and they saw the notice.Seeing that the sky had darkened, Baoyu said to Mingyan, "Mingyan, let's go find Feng Ziying!"

Wishing to come, Baoyu still felt a little pain when she thought of Daiyu marrying into Prince Jing's Mansion, and thought of hearing that Prince Jing and the Crown Prince had brought people to steal Ningguo Mansion, so she naturally felt that it was better not to go to Shui Rong to inquire about the news.Although Liu Xianglian was in the Imperial Guard, she might not know about the ransacking of the Ningguo Mansion, so she thought it would be best to find Feng Ziying.

Although Feng Ziying and Miaoyu's son-in-law's mansion has been built, Baoyu came to the mansion of General Shenwu after thinking that Miaoyu's new son-in-law's mansion would be not far from the mansion of General Shenwu soon after she gave birth.

Feng Ziying was at the court today and at the imperial guards' place, so naturally he already knew about the ransacking of the Ningguo Mansion.Thinking that I used to be familiar with Jia Zhenjia Rong, I can't help sighing.

When Feng Ziying came back, she went to Ziyu Pavilion to see Miaoyu and her children.Miaoyu is still in confinement. Although she hired a nanny, Miaoyu loves the child very much and asks the nanny to hold the baby in the house every day and take care of it together.

The child was only four days old, but she likes to open her two bright eyes to see people. As a mother, Miao Yu will never tire of watching it.Mrs. Feng repeatedly asked Miaoyu to pay attention to the daily life of confinement, and went back and forth to Ziyu Pavilion more than ten times a day, which did not feel hard at all.

When it was reported that Jia Baoyu from the Rongguo Mansion asked to see him, Feng Ziying was playing with her infant son in her arms. Hearing that Baoyu was visiting at this hour, Feng Ziying hurriedly handed her son to the nurse and welcomed her out.

Feng Ziying naturally knew the reason why Baoyu came, so she hurriedly asked Baoyu to sit down in the flower hall, and sighed: "Baoyu, I only found out about your Ningguo Mansion today. Uncle Zhen has indeed gone too far. You know, because Ningguo Mansion Gathering people to gamble like this has already been reported many times. The emperor thought that your Jia's mansion is a home of meritorious service, and it is also the natal family of a virtuous concubine, so it has been suppressed. I only hope that they can wake up by themselves. The wind is getting stronger and stronger, not only seducing the children of the aristocratic family, but also ruining many officials in office. Yesterday, there were people playing in the court. Ma Shang of the East City, in order to fill the loophole of losing money, also withheld the military salary of the Kubing, which caused the Kubing Mutiny set fire to the army food and fodder. Now the emperor is furious, and he doesn't know what crime he will be convicted of, and no one dares to intercede."

Baoyu said: "Brother Feng, I don't want you to intercede. Now that you have told me this, I understand now. Brother Zhen is guilty, but those female relatives should be innocent."

Feng Ziying said: "You don't have to worry about this. You have so many relatives in Jia's mansion. Now the emperor has ordered the Ministry of Punishment to post a notice that the female relatives can be redeemed. 300 taels is not a lot, and the ancestral hall and temple will not sacrifice land. If you move, you should not be in a desperate situation."

Baoyu asked again: "I don't know if my eldest sister is okay in the palace now? Brother Feng, have you heard about my eldest sister?"

Feng Ziying shook her head and said: "I heard last time that the emperor ordered two midwives to come to Fengzao Palace starting from the fifteenth day of this month. Now I haven't heard about the palace concubine giving birth. Your Majesty is sure to be fine."

After hearing this, Baoyu didn't know what to say, so he got up and said goodbye: "Thank you Brother Feng, if there is any news about the emperor's disposal of Ningguo Mansion, please let me know."

Feng Ziying nodded and said, "Baoyu, don't worry, as long as it's not against the law, you can help me."

When Baoyu returned to Rongguo Mansion, Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang had already looked through their eyes.

It turned out that although Jia Amnesty also went out to inquire, but like Baoyu, the people he was looking for were either absent or vague.Because everyone knew that it was no small matter for the emperor to ransack the house of Ningguo Mansion, who was close to the Rongguo Mansion, regardless of the impending concubine Xiande. No one knew what the next step would be, and no one dared to talk nonsense.

Seeing that Mrs. Jia Muwang was very anxious, Baoyu hurriedly told the news of his inquiry one by one, and said: "Old lady, madam, the emperor is furious now, and it is impossible to intercede. However, sister-in-law Zhen and Mrs. Let’s redeem Brother Rong’s daughter-in-law and children first. Feng Ziying said that since the emperor said that he can redeem people, it means that the female relatives and children will not be guilty.”

Mrs. Wang asked again: "Baoyu, did you ask about your mother's affairs in the palace?"

Baoyu hurriedly said: "Madam, don't worry. Feng Ziying said that she has not heard about any concubines giving birth in the palace. She said that the elder sister is a noble concubine. The emperor asked the two midwifes to live in Fengzao Palace from the [-]th, so the eldest sister It should be fine."

Jia's mother wept and said, "Brother Zhen is too troubled, why did he cause such a catastrophe?"

Baoyu said: "Old lady, madam, you'd better not be sad, first discuss how to redeem sister-in-law Zhen and Rong'er's daughter-in-law and children."

Mother Jia wiped away her tears and said, "Brother Zhen's daughter-in-law, Rong's daughter-in-law and the two children must be redeemed first. Yuanyang, you go and get the dowry money I prepared for the fourth girl and get 3000 taels, let's discuss it." Who is better to redeem."

Mrs. Xing said: "Madam, in my opinion, brother Zhen's two concubines, Luan Peifeng and Luan Peifeng, don't redeem them, let them sell them off. Now our house is also in a difficult situation. They have no children, and they are still so young. I'm afraid they are the ones who brought Brother Zhen to harm. I heard that they celebrated their birthday yesterday, and they had a quarrel all day, and this kind of thing happened."

Mother Jia nodded and said: "Brother Zhen has them two, Yingying and Yanyan in the house, but there is such a fire incident, it can be seen that they have never reminded Brother Zhen and Rong'er. The elder brother and the daughter-in-law are honest people, and the two of them must not be good people, so it doesn't matter if they don't redeem themselves."

After discussing with everyone, it was decided that Baoyu would take Lin Zhixiao's family from Zhou Rui's family to bring 2000 taels of silver to the Ministry of Punishment to redeem him the next day.