The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

But she said that because of the "Robin Hood" and other major events in the mansion, Mrs. Wang dared not immediately tell the news from her son Zhou Rui's family.After waiting for another three days, Fang took advantage of Wang Xifeng's coaxing to make Jia's mother laugh and went out. With tears in his eyes, he stepped forward and said, "There is one thing, I got the news the night before yesterday, because I dare not disturb the old lady. Rest in peace." , so I prepared to go back and forth the next day. It happened that night our mansion encountered the villain who killed a thousand swords."

Mother Jia hurriedly asked what was the matter, Mrs. Wang glanced at the people in the room, Mother Jia understood, and waved them gently to let them go out.Seeing that the door was closed, Mrs. Wang immediately burst into tears and knelt down on her knees: "I beg my ancestors to save Yuan'er!"

Jia's mother was shocked: "Isn't the eldest girl in trouble in the palace?"

Mrs. Wang cried: "It hasn't happened yet, it's just..." She fell down and cried again.

Mother Jia stood up anxiously, pointed at her and shouted in a trembling voice, "Say it!"

Mrs. Wang said: "In order to please Concubine Hui, I once made someone connect with Mr. Liu who came back to our mansion. The previous few times were fine, but that day..." She lowered her head to wipe her tears again, and took Zhou Rui's family home The words that came from him were said again.Asked expectantly, "Did the sage remember it wrong? Why did our family borrow money from the treasury?"

After hearing this, Jia's mother was like thunder. After a long while, she slowly sat back on the chair and closed her eyes tightly.Finally sighed: "Back then, every family borrowed money from the national treasury, and our family was just trying to live up to the grace of God."

Mrs. Wang hurriedly said: "Then you still haven't moved it after thinking about it? Why don't you just pay it back? People always have to taste their debts, let alone borrowed from the state treasury."

Mother Jia snorted, "We paid it back, why don't other families pay it back? If other people don't want to pay it back, we are the only ones who pay it back, and the saint will use us to slap these old relatives in the face? Don't forget, our family is one. "

Mrs. Wang said anxiously: "But Yuan'er is still in the palace!"

Mother Jia thought about it for a long time, and finally waved her hands and said: "The saint may not really let Yuanchun die. There is an old saint in the palace. I will go to see the queen mother tomorrow and try to enlarge the girl."

Mrs. Wang kowtowed in tears: "The sage has even said such things, how can he let Yuan'er out! If he doesn't let her go, the Queen Mother may not be able to ask her to come out. If it's good, it's okay, if it's not, you can't let her out, Yuan My son's life is about to be confessed in it. My ancestors please take pity on that child, she was raised by her ancestors when she was young." After saying that, he kowtowed repeatedly.

Jia's mother also wept and said, "It's not that I don't feel sorry for the big girl. First, if we hand over so much money, the family will be gone. You have been in charge of the house for so many years, so you know it. Second, how can you offend these people?" Dear dear, we were all prosperous and we all lost together. Back then, we sent the big girl in so that she might have a great future..."

Mrs. Wang hurriedly said: "The sage promised! Concubine! What a great future!"

Jia Mu frowned and said, "That's nothing, but she was bought with money, and it's not like a saint really likes her."

Mrs. Wang said: "So what if you bought it with money? Isn't it an official to donate an official? The saint even said such... disgraceful things, which shows that he is really desperate. If our family can attract the saint now Just look at our family's utter loyalty, how can the saint wrong Yuan'er! If you can give birth to a prince..." Jia's mother suddenly opened her eyes.Mrs. Wang knew that she was already moved, and persuaded: "Are you afraid that you won't get much in the future? What are these?"

Jia Mu then kept silent.

Mrs. Wang knew that she had to think about it for a while, so she resigned with tears.

After waiting for another five days, there was no sign of Robin Hood, and no real news came from the government, so Jia Mu knew that the higher-ups did not value it.Nai let out a long sigh, and finally made people call Jia Amnesty and Jia Zhengdu.She said: "When you Lao Tzu was here, because the old saint cared about the heroes, he once borrowed 80 taels of silver from the treasury. Now that I heard that the court is in trouble, let's...pay it back."

Jia Amnesty immediately jumped up and said, "Why pay it back? Everyone has borrowed it, and I haven't heard of anyone paying it back. It's a fool who paid it back!"

Jia Zheng had already heard about Mrs. Wang, and hurriedly said: "Brother, what you said is wrong. There is no reason in the world not to pay back the money you owe! Besides, I and other ministers should share your worries."

Jia She snorted and said, "What's the worry? Have you ever heard that the emperor is short of money? He's far richer than us. Second child, have you never been in a palace or seen what it looks like inside the palace?"

Jia's mother said, "Shut up!" She stared at Jia She and said, "What the second brother said is very true. There is no reason in the world not to pay back money."

Jia She hurriedly said: "Everyone hasn't paid it back! We paid it back, but others still haven't paid it back? Isn't the second daughter-in-law complaining of hardship every day? Now our family is also in trouble. It's just a matter of borrowing it for a while, and everyone else will pay it back in the future." We are not too late."

These words were originally spoken by Jia's mother to Mrs. Wang, how could she not know?It's just that there isn't even a single person in the mansion who can stand up to the table.The whole family has fascinated the gangsters, and there is no explanation for these days.I heard that a dog was lost in Prince Xian's mansion before, but it was found back on the same day.It can be seen that this Rongguo Mansion looks glamorous, but the outside is no longer a concern.It will take time to wait for Baoyu to come out.Except for the big girl in the palace, there is no other way.

Then he resolutely said: "I have made up my mind. Open a large warehouse, take money, and return it to the treasury."

Jia Amnesty still wanted to talk, but there was a commotion outside. Just as he cursed, "What are you talking about?", a few women in charge rushed in in a panic: "Old lady, Second Mistress Lian has fainted!"

Mother Jia hurriedly asked, "Why did you faint?"

"Second Mistress just led someone to take stock of the large warehouse in the northwest corner. When I opened the door of the warehouse, there were only a bunch of empty boxes left inside!"

When Jia's mother heard the news, her eyes went dark and she almost fainted. Jia Zheng hurried forward to help her, but Jia Amnesty wanted to go to the storeroom, and was so anxious that she walked around the room and cursed.It took a long time for Jia's mother to regain her breath. She lifted her crutches and stood up tremblingly: "Help me over there!"

Everyone hurried over, only to see that many people in charge gathered in the front, and the doors of the warehouses were opened four times, and they were all empty, not even half of the things left.Jia Amnesty had already yelled at him, Jia Zheng was in a panic and didn't know what to do; but Jia's mother was silent and told people to open every room. She checked carefully from beginning to end, and finally found a small one in the third last storeroom. A sign with the word "cold" on it.Yin pinched it and asked, "Has anyone seen this?"

Everyone hurried over one by one to have a look, but they all said they didn't know.Only one person in charge said: "Where have I seen such a sign before?"

Jia Mu said kindly: "If you think about it carefully, this seems to be used by some business name."

The manager was supposed to buy it, thought for a long time, and said, "It seems to be a shop that sells antiques, but I can't remember what it's called."

Immediately, someone shouted: "Isn't Zhou Rui's son-in-law who runs an antique shop? His surname is Leng."

Another person shook his head and said, "Zhou Rui's own house was also burglarized."

Another said beside him: "The only thing in charge of the whole family is that his house is safe and sound. Their house is such a big place in the house, how many things can they store. Just pretend."

Jia Mu said with a gloomy face: "Take the man first, and don't let it out. Please come from the soldiers and horses of the five cities."

Immediately, someone responded, divided into several groups and led a few young men who were fierce and fierce, and went straight to Zhou Rui's family, and they couldn't help but take them away. In front of the big warehouse.

Mother Jia is still carefully inspecting the warehouse at the back, and she will come out after the inspection. She stares at the couple as long as they have a cup of tea. Pointing to the stick, he asked, "Have you seen this before?"

How could Zhou Rui not recognize the lot in his son-in-law's shop?However, he had seen this empty warehouse with the door open a long time ago, and suspected that the lottery had something to do with thieves, he shook his head repeatedly and said, "I don't know."

Jia's mother said, "If you don't know it, that's all." She ordered Zhou Rui and his wife to be locked up in one place, and their son and daughter-in-law to be locked up in another. Then they got up and led them back to the yard.

Back in the house, Mother Jia just sat upright on the chair in the middle and didn't say a word, let alone others.Not long after, the soldiers and horses from Wucheng arrived. It was not convenient for Jia's mother to see her in person, so she asked Jia Zheng to go out and explain the whole story, and then handed them the lottery.Someone below had told me the location of Leng Zixing's antique shop.

People from Wucheng Bingma Silai heard that it was the Rongguo Mansion that had been attacked by thieves and not the slaves, so they immediately nodded and bowed their heads. First, they went to the scene of the crime. appetite.He then asked if Zhou Rui and his wife could be interrogated, and was told that they were our housekeeper and his wife accompanying the room, and the old lady wanted to ask first.The man knew that this kind of slave knew all kinds of secrets of his master, so he stopped pressing and went to Leng Zixing's antique shop with a stick.

As the end of the year was approaching, Leng Zixing was doing accounts in the shop when suddenly there was a commotion outside, so he coughed and asked, "What are you doing?" Then a few yamen servants came in and grinned at him, "Master Leng, what are you doing?" I committed a crime." Without any explanation, he put the lock on and left.

Leng Zixing yelled "wronged" a few times and no one answered him. Seeing that he had already reached the street, countless idlers came up to watch. He was usually a respectable person, so he felt ashamed and shouted: "My Yue's family belongs to the Rongguo Mansion. people!"

The yamen servant gave him a smack: "You are still dreaming! Now the Rongguo Mansion is suing you."

Leng Zixing was stunned for a moment.

The yamen servant said again: "Did your father-in-law steal the owner's property? Did you sell the stolen goods for him?"

Leng Zixing thought that Dongchuang's incident had happened, he was dumbfounded and didn't say a word.The yamen servant snorted heavily and dragged him away.

Seeing his appearance, everyone knew that it was true, and spread the word "coax~~".

On the other end, Mother Jia sent a trustworthy Nanny Zhu to interrogate Zhou Rui and his wife.At first they just complained, swore and expressed their loyalty.When he heard that his son-in-law had been locked away by the government, his face changed, and he still refused to say a word.The nanny interrogated for a long time, and sighed: "Think about it again, the old lady doesn't want these family affairs to disturb the government. Fortunately, it's me now. If it's someone else, I'm afraid you will suffer. Besides, Why don't you think about your kids?"

Zhou Rui's family was shaken a bit, struggled for a while, and finally explained a few old things about Mrs. Wang.

Grandma Zhu didn't come here to ask this, she frowned and said, "The second wife also asked you to move the big warehouse?"

Zhou Rui smiled wryly and said: "My wife is originally the wife's companion, and the two of us only help the wife with things. Everyone in this house knows about it. Although we know something about the big warehouse, how dare we think about it? Besides, even if it is What did we do, why are we so stupid, taking the lottery from the son-in-law's shop? Obviously we were framed."

Grandma Zhu asked again: "A few days ago, all the servants in the whole house were thieves, but you went out after dinner."

Zhou Rui's family was shocked, and hurriedly laughed and said: "I can't tell the mother about that, but the second wife knows, the old lady just ask the second wife."

Nanny Zhu nodded, she probably didn't want to know about something that the mansion shouldn't talk about.Seeing that I couldn't ask anything today, I locked the door and went out, and went back to tell Jia Mu in detail.

Jia Mu thought for a long time and asked, "In your opinion, but they did it?"

Grandma Zhu shook her head and said, "Where do they have that ability? My ancestors, it was not so easy to move. I see that it was still done by foreign thieves, and it is likely to be the ones from last time. Zhou Rui and his wife thought it was the same. Get framed."

Jia Mu frowned and said, "Why bother to frame them when there is no injustice or enmity?"

Nanny Zhu said softly, "To take the blame." Then she explained, "I heard that those strongmen have always only used slaves and not masters. Therefore, the government doesn't care about them. If they keep doing this, they will be able to do so for a long time. Keep going. It’s just that this time they’re afraid that they’ve got an insider, they’re greedy for profit, and they can’t hold on. They’re afraid of being arrested by the government, so they’re looking for a substitute—they’ve never been clean. I just don’t know who the real insider is.”

Jia Mu thought about it for a long time, and said, "Let's starve them a few times before we talk. The whole house is investigating carefully, and the needle in a haystack must be found out." Then she asked, "Who has the keys to the warehouse on weekdays?"

Nanny Zhu said: "This matter is a bit suspicious. The keys have been in Wang An's hands for many years. Two years ago, once he got drunk and gambled, he foolishly took the keys as copper coins and threw them out as a deposit. Note, just let Lai Da blocked him, and changed him to watch the night in a rage. Later, there was a gardener named Lu Laozhong, an honest man. Because of his poor health, he envoyed money from the bottom of the box to beg Lai Mo Nanny, I'm going to guard the warehouse instead. However, this person suddenly fell ill a few months ago and died. Wang An heard about it, and went to beg Lai Da to change him back...how many days has it been?"

Jia Mu hurriedly said, "Since this is the case, Wang An must examine it carefully."

Grandma Zhu went down in response.