Love of Friends in the Red Chamber

However, three days later, a few uninvited guests came to Jia Cong's Pear Fragrance Garden. These people's identities are very prominent, and they are all famous figures in the dynasty, but they are Prince Zhongshun, King Beijing, Lin Jiarui and Jinyi Mansion Hall official Zhao Quan, however, coming hand in hand is a bit strange.

That Prince Zhongshun is a "my old man" when he sees people. In fact, he is only in his early twenties. He is the younger brother of the current emperor, the holy family Youlong, but he has the reputation of an absurd prince. My son, so I have never had any contact with the Jia family, but that year he used the excuse of Baoyu to hide the old man's beloved actor, and sent the long history of the mansion to ask for it, which gave the Jia family a big blow. But he has a weird temper and dare not be stubborn with him, so it can be said that he is walking sideways in the court.

The prince of Beijing is refined and gentle, and he is trusted by His Majesty. However, he and Prince Zhongshun never get along. The two have openly fought each other more than once.

Lin Jiarui is an important minister of the emperor's trust. He is in the limelight, and he is of an orthodox Confucian background. Anger, but admiration.

That Zhao Quan is an unscrupulous character. He sent troops and released horses in his early years, and made great contributions with the late emperor. He has a scar on his face and lost his official status. Therefore, he has been in charge of Jinyi Mansion for many years. His official position cannot be promoted, but he is a hard-core emperor. Your Majesty, no one else cares.

At this moment, these four people sat in the elegant room of Lixiangyuan, staring at each other, how awkward, how awkward.Jia Cong heard the report from his family and hurried out to greet him, but Monk Erzhang couldn't figure it out, he really didn't understand how such four people came to his home.

Prince Zhongshun just sipped tea with his feet up on the chair, King Beijing stood up gracefully, and said with a smile: "Okay, Tan Hualang has finally come out, and there is an order from the sage." Jia Cong hurriedly knelt down to listen to the order, King Beijing Jing Standing facing south, he said slowly: "There is a decree from the sage, that Prince Zhongshun, King Beijing, Lin Jiarui, Zhao Quan, and Jia Cong will jointly inspect the family property of Jia Yucun, a cabinet student. Hereby."

After delivering the decree, King Beijing changed his face, helped Jia Cong up with a smile, and said, "This is the decree just passed down by the Holy Majesty this morning. Everyone is in the dark. Don't be surprised, Mr. Jia. It's important to handle the errands." Cong Su knew that Jia Yucun and his father, Jia She, had done a lot of shady things in collusion with each other. Hearing this, he felt a little relieved and thanked him again and again.

That Zhao Quan was already impatient, and said recklessly: "My lords, my lords, if you have any polite words, you can wait until the errands are finished. My people have already surrounded the mansion of Jiayu Village. Waiting for everyone to be imprisoned, just waiting for these people to go to announce the decree-if this kind of politeness continues, it will not be able to finish the errand after dark."

Prince Zhongshun smiled "puchi" as he said that, and walked away, and the others quickly followed.That Jia Cong followed Lin Jiarui suspiciously, took a chance, lightly pulled Lin Jiarui's lapel, and said softly, "Brother Lin..." Lin Jiarui smiled slightly, and said, "Brother Cong, don't worry, just look, don't say anything, That's it." Jia Cong felt relieved.

Not long after, I arrived at Jia Yucun's mansion, and I saw that people from Jinyi Mansion were hooped inside and out like iron barrels, soldiers were standing there, male servants were all locked in vacant rooms, and women's relatives were faintly heard from the inner room. The sound of crying and cursing became a mess.Jia Cong had never been through such a battle before, he felt terrified, and peeked at the three of them, but he didn't know how many people's homes they had raided, and he still looked as usual, the loyal prince even had a playful smile on his face.

As soon as the Lord came, the officials of the Jinyi Mansion, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, rushed forward and said: "Greetings to all the lords and lords, please show me, and then do it?" The officials knew each other very well, so they laughed and spat: "Don't be so petty and have never seen the world. You can't wait for the rice to cook at home? What's more, this Jiayu Village has no foundation, just greed. In the past ten years, the officials in Beijing have come down. How much can you be greedy?" Cursing like this, he turned around and called Zhao Quan, "Old Zhao, you go and restrain your subordinates, and you must check Jia Yucun's family property, and don't let them rob like hungry wolves. Bring out a poor official, and I won’t be able to do the job in front of the emperor." Others were speechless, so Zhao Quan agreed and walked away.

Here, Prince Zhongshun greeted everyone to sit down with a smile, and there were servants to serve tea. The soldiers of Jinyi Mansion, who were eager to fight, were already impatient. Hearing Zhao Quanyuan's lecture, he shouted and scattered to copy.All I could hear were crying and shouting from all around.The Prince Zhongshun seemed to be listening to a play, with his feet up, his eyes squinted, and he praised from time to time: "This voice is not bad."

The prince of Beijing couldn't be as unrestrained as he was, so he took a sip of tea and called a judge to say: "Where is Jia Yucun, you bring him here to receive the order." He ignored the sneer of the loyal prince , stood upright, and waited for the official to bring Jia Yucun, who was dressed in a suit, and said a few words of comfort. Jia Yucun naturally kowtowed and begged for mercy, but the king of Beijing Jing couldn't bear it, so he made him kneel to accept the imperial edict: " There is a decree that Jia Yucun, a scholar of the cabinet, is corrupt and perverts the law, disregards human life, and the minister of transportation, who takes power and interferes in politics, immediately dismisses him from his post and investigates it. I hereby."

That Jia Yucun's face was earthy, trembling, and he could hardly speak. Two officials held him up to accept the order, Xie Enbi, and King Beijing changed his face, took Jia Yucun's hand and said, "There is no need for Yucun to panic. You are also a person who has experienced many of these things. Why don’t you know that the emperor’s kindness is so great, and there must be a kindness in the future. The emperor still cherishes your talent. When he sent me, he mentioned you again and again. Sigh..." Jia Yucun's face was already full of tears, and he fell to the ground in great grief, and was dragged out.

Jia Cong only felt his heart beating wildly. He knew that the relationship between Jiayu Village and Jia's Mansion was deeply intertwined. Could this "disregarding human life" be a matter of a stone nerd's fan?The "traffic minister" didn't know if he would hook up with the people in Jia Yuanchun's palace, he just thought wildly, and for a while, he didn't realize that the servants had already piled up boxes of documents, account books, money, silk and satin on the floor.They messed up the registration books again, Lin Jiarui just watched with cold eyes, drinking tea with lowered eyelids, he took the path of "pure minister", he didn't rely on anyone, and he didn't offend that faction.

After a while, Zhao Quan went back and forth: "I would like to report to the two lords and your lords that the two boxes of letters and account books copied from Jia Yucun's mansion are all in collusion with foreign officials and courtiers, about favors, and even life lawsuits. There are more than [-] silver in the silver treasury of his mansion, and more than a dozen property shops, all of which are greedy." All the princes and ministers nodded after hearing this, knowing that Jia Yu Village had no family background in the first place. Naturally, it wasn't because of road closures that he accumulated such a large family property. Knowing that this person had a big fall this time, no one could save him.

At this moment, Prince Zhongshun got up from the chair carelessly, looked here and there, didn't care much about the gold, silver and jewels, only looked through the antique calligraphy and paintings, and took out a dozen fans from a box after a while.When I opened it, I found that they were all authentic works of ancient people's paintings and paintings, and they also used exquisite materials and exquisite carvings. Rao couldn't find such objects in his prince's mansion, so he couldn't help but praise.

Prince Beijing saw that Prince Zhongshun liked these ancient fans, so he wanted to be a favor and let him take the fans home to enjoy.Prince Zhongshun agreed without hesitation, but after thinking about it, he ordered Zhao Quan to ask Jiayu Village about the origin of the fan.Zhao Quan promised to go, and came back soon, but before he spoke, he glanced at Jia Cong. Jia Cong had a bad feeling, and his heart was pounding.Sure enough, Zhao Quan didn't shy away from it, and said directly: "My lords, Jia Yucun said that these fans were cheated by a man named Stone Idiot, and it was Mr. Jia's father who entrusted him. If he wanted the fan of the stone nerd, he lost his conscience, accused the stone nerd of defaulting on the official money, copied the fan, made it for the official price and gave it to Jia Amnesty, and he himself deducted a few from it..."

Before Jia Cong finished listening, he had already knelt down, and now he couldn't stop kowtowing, pleading with the loyal prince to let his father go.Prince Zhongshun smiled and said: "Your old man is an old naughty boy, he is even more self-willed than my old man, for a few broken fans, he ruined his family, now that there are many things in Jia Yu Village, this is really nothing For Tan Hualang's sake, it's easy for the rest of us to bury this matter—it's just that I don't know if that stone nerd is dead or alive?"

Then Zhao Quan touched his chin and said: "I heard from Jia Yucun that the man is still alive, but he is crazy. He is afraid that the stone idiot will go out and say something, so he has been detained in his yamen." Prince Zhongshun laughed and said: " In this way, the stone nerd will fall on your father and son, settle him down, return the fan, it's no big deal. Get up, don't be so pussy." He laughed and cursed like this, and threw the fan into Jia Cong's arms If he lost it, he headed out.

The King of Beijing Jing had a close relationship with Jia's mansion, and he wished to be loyal to the prince and help Jia's mansion to cover up this scandal. Naturally, he was willing, so he immediately ordered Zhao Quan to erase these fans from the list. They are all rough people, they didn't take this matter to heart at all, and they didn't take it seriously, so they directly asked the book office to re-copy a copy of the search list——Jia Cong breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn't until the next night that the errands were over, and the two princes returned to the palace to hand over the order. Zhao Quan mentioned Jia Yucun and the intervening criminals went to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs. Lin Jiarui and Jia Cong separated.Lin Jiarui looked at the sky and said with a smile: "Brother Cong, how about going to the humble house for a drink?" Needless to say, Jia Cong had to follow along to ask for advice, so he naturally agreed.So the two rode to the Lin Mansion together, and when they arrived at Lin Jiarui's study, after closing the door, Lin Jiarui asked, "Brother Cong, what do you plan to do about the stone nerd?"

Jia Cong replied blankly: "Naturally, I should tell my father first, then settle the stone nerd, and return all the fans to him—if the sufferer doesn't report, naturally there will be no disturbances."

Lin Jiarui picked up the teacup with a smile, took a sip, and said, "It's natural, but you and your father still have to plead guilty to the emperor in secret - don't think that the emperor doesn't know about this, tonight, Zhao Quan will Report the ins and outs of this matter to the emperor face to face, even Prince Zhongshun and Prince Beijing will report to the emperor in secret - if you don't play it yourself, it won't matter if the emperor wants to use you for a while, but If you plant a thorn, you will suffer when facing Jing'er, not to mention your father, who is covered in sieves, where can't you find any flaws? It doesn't matter if there are flaws, what the emperor wants is loyalty. If you have loyalty, don't worry about it. It's easy to talk about, maybe it's the emperor and Prince Zhongshun who discussed it together when you went to conduct a joint inspection today."

It was really a word that awakened the dreamer, Jia Cong nodded again and again, in his heart he really admired Lin Jiarui's tricks and schemes.