The Second Master Lian of the Red Chamber

In the evening of that day, not long after Jia Baoyu was sent back to the mansion by Mrs. Wang Ziteng's mother in charge, he started crying because he couldn't find Jia Yuanchun, howling until his voice became hoarse.

Jia Lian's courtyard was separated from Jia Mu's upper room and separated by several courtyards. Although Jia Baoyu's crying was not heard, there were some inquisitive people who went to learn the lively discussion.Now in this mansion, only Jia Amnesty's East Courtyard and Jia Lian's Little East Courtyard are left who dare to take the old lady's apex as a joke in private.

It is said that the old lady is still the wife, coaxing and scaring, even the master moved out, it is useless, the golden boy-like doll recognizes that the big sister can't leave, howling so heartbreakingly, her eyes are swollen up.The old lady beat her chest and cried out her innocence, the wife also panicked, at this moment Baba took the post from the mansion to invite the imperial doctor, saying that Baoyu had been hit, and he had to drink a bowl of soothing soup.

After a while, the imperial doctor hadn't arrived yet, but Zhou Rui led some of his confidants to the east corner gate, saying that he was worried about Baoyu when the master came back from the ministry, so he made a special trip to wait.

Hearing this, Jia Lian, who was reading a book with loose hair in the room, burst out laughing, startled the maids who gathered in the wing room and chatted while dividing lines, and after a long silence, they began to complain The second master eavesdropped on their girl's conversation and coaxed them away.

The little girls all went to run errands to ask for things while it was cool, and a few big girls pushed each other into the house.

Tweety turns around to help Yiren lift the curtain, and at the same time complains to Jia Lian: "You are still a master, holding a book of sages and sages, and making fun of us. The little girl is bitten by scorpions. When she panics, she doesn't care about anything. The divided lines were messed up, and now we have to re-divide them, and the broken ones can no longer be used.”

Jia Lian has always been very tolerant to the maids, whoever did not break any taboos and was not thinking about climbing the bed, let them go, and kept the big rules anyway, and did not delay any mistakes.In addition, a man eavesdropped on the girls chewing their tongues and said that it was indecent, so he smiled and kept silent, just continued to look at the few strokes in the history books and speculate randomly.

Seeing Jia Lian's good nature, Cui'er aroused another worry.

In this mansion, as long as there are girls who are above five points of beauty, there are few in their hearts who do not think about being an aunt and dragging the whole family, and Tweety is of course no exception.Jia Lian started teasing the girls at a young age, and the other big girls in Cui'er's room were very jealous for a while, and they all wanted to take the lead.

Unexpectedly, Jia Lian's wind and cold seemed to burn the unspeakable place, and suddenly he became a gentleman, and he was better than the master and Master Zhu in the room, and he lost four or five girls in a row, and he just pulled it out and matched it casually Tweety and the rest of the maids were scared, and privately guessed that Jia Lian didn't mean to accept the house from the girls.

Although he thinks he is a hundred times stronger than the aunts in the second room, and the needlework girls are no worse than the beauties in Master Zhu's room, but because of Jia Lian's cold and stern attitude, and no one in the room is rushing ahead, the girls are just a little bit better. Slowly he changed his mind, looking forward to being able to match Jia Lian with a useful servant, and to be a housekeeper and nanny in the future, just like Nanny Lai, who is more decent than the old ladies in ordinary petty official families.No matter how bad it is, it is better than annoying Jia Lian and pulling him out to force him.

But today, Jia Lian suddenly asked Xing'er to bring back a Bihuan, that kind of coquettishness was not comparable to those half-grown girls, and immediately turned Cui'er's face blue with anger.It turns out that there is nothing Jia Lian can see in this room?

No matter how much Jia Lian liked the books of sages and sages, such a person stared blankly at him for a while, but he could only put down the book and look at it calmly and indifferently.

Cui'er is a shrewd and capable girl who loves to pinch things, but it's a pity that she is too exposed and always makes people use her as a weapon. In her previous life, she was the only one of the four big girls around her who didn't really get on the kang, but Brother Feng was the most tolerant This is the only thing he can't do. Before returning home, he gags and procrastinates to marry the old widower who pours Yexiang.

For more than a year, because Tweety was the best at managing affairs and accounting among the girls, after dismissing those who were not good at eyes, he temporarily entrusted her with the affairs of the yard, and was thinking about her skills and achievements. Thinking of the time to pick a good match for her from her confidantes, I just hope that she won't be confused.

Seeing Jia Lian's eyes, Cui'er's heart skipped a beat. She was thinking about the little bit of hope, bit her lips and said loudly, "We are clumsy. We are afraid that if we break the thread, we won't be able to embroider clothes for the second master, so we entrust Bi." Sister Huan, I'm afraid that the second master will feel pain in his heart."

The word "pain" made Cui'er recite nine bends and eighteen bends, with unspeakable resentment, self-pity and jealousy.Yiren next to her was so frightened that she knelt on the ground, preparing to plead for Cui'er if Jia Lian got angry.

Jia Lian burst out laughing with a snort, casually put Hou Hanshu on his lap, looked back and forth between Cui'er and Yiren for a while, then shook his head and smiled, "Except for your future Second Mistress Lian, I don't care for any of them. They are all the same people, whoever does the job well will be rewarded, and you don't want to be stingy when you have nothing to do, and the reward will be less, it seems that I am a man who is angry with you girls, so be stingy."

After finishing speaking, Jia Lian also felt that staying in this room was not comfortable, so he turned over and got off the kang, took off his shoes, and then lifted the curtain and went to the small study room he moved out of in his own yard, intending to read the remaining account books. over.Anyway, I don't get anything clean by being lazy, so I might as well come up with some ideas to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. Later, when I meet my master, I have something to say, so I can get more rewards.

Jia Lian had some talents in money in his previous life, and this year he has had many opportunities to master it, and he is also a good hand at reading accounts. Even a veteran who is proficient in this kind of work will have to turn over the hidden accounts with many marks. With a sigh, the younger generation is terrible.At this moment, the unknown anger that he had started to simmer in his heart in the next few days dissipated, and he was even more energetic when he opened his account.Holding the pen in one hand and turning the abacus in the other, turning the pages, the flickering lights formed a rhythm of its own, which made the little girls passing by in the yard hold their breath and walk around the yard like cats.

Now everyone in the Quanrong State Mansion knows that the elder master has given Er Ye Lian some shops to take care of. No matter what happens, the master and wife of the main house will not get well.Even Bi Yi, who was waiting for the pen and ink and said a few words, was arbitrarily assigned by Lian's second master for the crime of polluting the account book. Who would dare to touch his bad luck at this time.

Jia Lian took the account book and calculated more and more absorbedly. When he came back to his senses, it was already halfway through the second watch, so he tidied up the account book properly, locked it himself, and returned to the bedroom with the key.It was a good night's sleep.

After three poles on the next day, Jia Lian slowly rinsed his mouth and cleansed his face, put on neat clothes and started to eat breakfast. Then he heard Yiren's careful report, saying that Baoyu had a fever at three o'clock yesterday, and the old lady sent someone to invite her overnight. After visiting the imperial physician, Glass, the big maid next to the old lady, came to them to call the door.

"Because the mother-in-law who went out to inquire earlier said that there was no disturbance in Master Zhu's yard, and the elder of the East Court heard the news and ignored it, so Sister Cui'er went back to the glass, saying that the second master also suffered from heatstroke yesterday and was very sick. It’s because you’re not comfortable, you can’t get up, and the rest of us didn’t call you Second Lord.”

As she said that, Yiren also pushed the pale-faced Tweety, obviously wanting to help her regain the face she lost yesterday.

When Jia Lian heard that the maids were so good at handling things, she was happy to give them this face, so she calmed down and asked Cui'er to open his cash cabinet, and rewarded each of them with a full ten taels of silver ingot, and let them buy it by themselves. My favorite jewelry powder.

Tweety and Yiren both heaved a sigh of relief.There is not a shortage of big maids like Yin Zi and the others, and Jia Lian has always been loose, but she just lost her yesterday, and she really needs such a decent person to straighten her back so that she can continue to control the little girls.

Seeing Jia Lian dressed up to go out, Cui'er thought about it for a while and then dared to sell a trick: "Second Master, the money came by coincidence, and we will go to Master Zhu's yard to congratulate Sister Liren in a while, and I was thinking about it earlier. If you pay for a whole table, isn't it raining in time?"

It's also Jia Lian who likes to listen to the gossip in the house while concentrating on outside affairs recently, that Tweety dared to tell him about such things.Although Jia Lian never said it clearly, his estrangement and concern for the second room, and people who can still serve him close to him can still understand it.

Although Liren is the maid bestowed upon Jia Zhu by the old lady, what else can she want the maids who grew up with in the whole house to congratulate?

It must be the housekeeper first, waiting to be the aunt-to-be.

Jia Lian raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and turned her head to tell the little girl who opened the curtain at the door to go to the kitchen to ask for a plate of her favorite walnut cake for Sister Cui'er, and then she finished it slowly, wiped her mouth and went out, "Show the old man the shop." , lest the shopkeepers play tricks" went.

Jia Amnesty's shop business was a loss-making business that Jia Lian reluctantly set aside after spending his blood and money to feed himself. Everyone from the shopkeeper to the waiter was lazy and treacherous, and each had its own horrible features on the books.Jia Lian didn't have a second thought when he took it over, everyone was kicked out, and those who talked too much were transferred to Shuntian Mansion on the charge of stealing the owner's property.Then he did a few small businesses in a serious manner, not asking for much income, just trying to bluff people.

These few shops were set up for the Ningrong Second Mansion and outsiders could see that it only took a few hours to clean up the accumulated affairs of these days. Jia Lian glanced at the sun, took off her accessories, and went straight with Xing'er Wanger He went straight out of the alley at the back door of a brush and ink shop, and turned into an inconspicuous house.

This house was built between two square courtyards, with two very narrow and long ends.As soon as Jia Lian entered the door, he left Xing'er Wanger at the door to drink tea and eat snacks with a fierce-looking half-old man, while he went out through the small door at the other end of the house and entered a hidden corner door. A courtyard.

The weeping willows at the back of the yard are shaded by carved beams and painted buildings. It is Dexin Hall, a folk art hall that has been very prosperous in Beijing in recent years.

After carefully closing the corner door that came in with his own hands, Jia Lian breathed a sigh of relief, stepped past the two guards guarding the door, and went to the accountant.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the accounting room, the door was opened from the outside again.Jia Lian followed the sound and looked towards the door, quickly got up and bowed solemnly, thinking about it in his heart.

Tomorrow is the day when the kings in the palace rest and take a bath. Could something be wrong?