The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

However, Madam Zhu sent an honest and reliable servant to watch outside the house of Guan Zhourui and his wife, asking him to listen carefully for any movement in the house.However, the couple knew that there was someone outside, and they only whispered their words. Although the man could hear something, he couldn't hear clearly when he pressed his ears to the door, and he was tired, so he let it go.

At the second watch, a boy came over with a bag of snacks and a pot of tea, and said with a smile, "Uncle, the old lady said you worked hard, and this is your reward."

The servant was very happy, thanked the old lady repeatedly, patted his chest again and said: "With me here, they can't escape." The boy complimented him a few words and went away.

The weather is extremely cold at the moment, a pot of hot tea and a snack, immediately feel much more comfortable.Unexpectedly, the good times didn't last long, but within a quarter of an hour, he suddenly had a severe stomachache, and hurried to the toilet.

But he had just left not long ago, only to hear a muffled "boom", as if something had landed on the ground.Zhou Rui and his wife were cold, hungry, frightened and frightened, how could they sleep?Seeing something fall in through a high window, I hurried over to grab it. I saw it in the faint moonlight, but it was a burden, and it was still warm.The two hurriedly opened it—it turned out to be a few big steamed buns!Poor Zhou Rui and his wife have been so rampant all their lives, have they ever been so hungry?Zhou Rui's family hurriedly said: "It must be my wife who took pity on us and secretly sent someone to deliver it!" Tears fell down as she spoke, deeply regretting that she should have betrayed her master earlier.The two of them didn't care if their hands were not clean or there was no soup, they ate them as soon as they grabbed them.It takes several meals in a row to get full.

The night watchman squatted in the latrine for half an hour to get well, came back from cursing, just sat and dozed for a while, and his stomach hurts and made a fuss for half the night.

After breakfast the next day, Mammy Zhu came over again to examine the two of them carefully. She opened the door and saw that the two were black and foaming at the mouth. Go back to Jiamu.Mother Jia became more and more frightened, and sent someone to report to the official again.Not long after, Wu Zuo came to check and found that both of them had died of arsenic poisoning. They also found a blue cloth bag and two half-eaten steamed buns in the house. As expected, arsenic was found in the steamed buns.

Because I called the night watchman to ask questions, I suddenly felt that the kid who brought the tea idea was extremely suspicious.The sky was dark and the man couldn't remember his appearance at all, he only said that he was a little fair, and half a day later he said that he seemed to have seen it in a stable.Nanny Zhu hurriedly called all the boys from the stable to line up for him to see, but he looked carefully for a long time, but none of them was right.Grandma Zhu gritted her teeth, and took Jia Mu's words and abruptly called hundreds of boys from all over the Rongguo Mansion, and he became more and more dizzy.

Nanny Zhu had no choice but to tell Mother Jia that "servants are incompetent".Mother Jia comforted her a few words, but she didn't say anything, secretly suspecting that it was Mrs. Wang who killed her.She wanted to ask Mrs. Wang what "only the second wife knew" about it, so she was called here.

At first Mrs. Wang thought she was looking for her to discuss matters, but she heard Mother Jia ask her what she did when Zhou Rui's family left the house that day.How did she know?Of course I don't know.After listening for a while, it seemed that something was wrong. The old lady seemed to be suspicious of her inside and outside the words. She was shocked, screamed again and again, knelt down and said with tears: "Old ancestor! How dare I do such a thing! At first I heard that there were many people in the mansion. People's outer houses were all burglarized, but their house was safe and sound. I already had some doubts about him. Presumably, it must have been murdered by thieves. What's more, Zhou Rui's family was originally my accompanying room, and he followed me for more than ten years. By my side, how many things I have done with me, even a dog would be reluctant..."

Jia Mu said calmly: "So she knows too much, and you are not cowardly. The man who watched the night had laxatives in his tea, and he used my name to give them medicines. Few people in this mansion would dare. "

Mrs. Wang hurriedly kowtowed: "Even if the daughter-in-law is very brave, she will never dare to take the name of her ancestors..." Looking up, she suddenly caught a glimpse of Jiamu's gloomy face, and she couldn't help but swear a few poisonous oaths immediately.But Jia Mu still didn't believe it. She was anxious and said casually, "If I do such things that destroy the law of nature, Baoyu will not be able to pass the imperial examination!"

Jia Mu immediately shouted: "Shut up!" Pointing at her and cursing, "You swear on Baoyu's future! What a clean person Baoyu is!"

Mrs. Wang cried: "I have said that five thunders will strike the top, and you will never be reborn forever. My ancestors just don't believe it." She kowtowed again.

After a long while, Jia Mu sighed, "Well, if it's not, it's not. Why bother to use Baoyu as a gimmick." Because she waved her down, she still couldn't let it go.

Originally, because Zhou Rui and his wife knew that there were too many things in the mansion, they dared not hand them over to the government, but now that they are gone, there is nothing to guard against.On one side, Zhou Rui's family was entrusted with all kinds of things, and on the other side, the house was carefully investigated, and the whole house was panicked for a while.

Jia Cong didn't know about this until he came back from school a few times. He heard that he was a "white and clean boy, I met him in the stable", so he exchanged glances with Yao'er.Wu Baozi's son, Wu Yousheng, was quite white, and his name was chosen by Jia She. He occasionally went to the stables to play a few times, but he was not from the Rongguo Mansion.

The stables were also suspicious of him.It's just that the people in their stables never got anything, and "Robin Hood" never lost anything that day; Everyone knew that Wu Baozi belonged to Jia Amnesty, and Jia Amnesty gave him a lot of rewards, and the flattery of everyone in the stable was not enough, so who would cause trouble for him?Besides, Zhou Rui and his wife were usually quite proud, and they put on airs every day like the second master, and the people in the stable had been secretly resentful for many years.So no one said a word.

The next day, Wucheng soldiers and horses found the outer house of Zhou Rui's family, and found a lot of property in it, but there were not many valuable ones.In fact, because the homes of the wealthy slaves were robbed one after another, their families moved all the valuables into the mansion, which happened to be easy for Jia She.Because the "Robin Hood" was encountered in the Rongguo Mansion before and the case was not solved, they put in a lot of real effort this time, and after a while, they dug out many account books and letters from under a large cabinet.When Zhao Cheng saw it, his scalp was numb. After thinking about it for a long time, he ordered someone to take a big box and put them in, and he rode his horse to Rongguo Mansion himself.

After hearing this, Mother Jia thought that the case was believed, so she ordered someone to call Jia Amnesty and Jia Zhengdu to Rongxi Hall. Jia Lian had been on leave for the past few days and was at home with her. She sat behind the screen and said: "I invite Commander Zhao."

Zhao Cheng came in and clapped his hands repeatedly, only asking Ann, but didn't speak first.

Jia Zheng hurriedly asked: "Your Majesty has worked so hard, our family, young and old, are very grateful. Your Majesty came here so soon, do you think our family's case has been trusted?"

Zhao Cheng smiled bitterly and said: "The lower officials really don't know what to do, so they have to bring them all." Because he personally put the box of evidence on the case.

Jia Amnesty was in a hurry, went up to open it, took a book and read it, the more he read it, the darker his face became.Jia Zheng also took a look at the book, and immediately fell on the desk in anger.Seeing many letters again, I stretched out my hand to open a few to read, and I was shocked!

Jia Mu was in a hurry behind and called Yuanyang: "Bring some in and let me see."

Yuanyang agreed and came out to salute the two masters.Jia She sneered and said, "Take more and show it to the ancestors." Yuanyang hurriedly lowered her head and took some letters and some account books into it.Jia Zheng's face was as black as iron, and Jia She said sarcastically, "Your Madam is such a powerful official."

Jia's mother looked at those pictures anxiously, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Lawless!" Baoyu's fame to swear.

Jia She simply scooped up some more and put them inside the screen: "The ancestors take a look at it slowly and carefully. Let's settle the score after watching it."

It turns out that there are some evidences that Mrs. Wang and Zhou Rui corrupted Mo's public accounts, secretly sold Rongguo Mansion's property, and monopolized lawsuits.Zhou Rui was afraid that Mrs. Wang would throw him out as a scapegoat one day when the Dongchuang incident happened, so he secretly prepared it.Jiamu knew these things more or less, and she didn't take them seriously, but she never thought that they were so courageous and had so many greedy inks.He also hated her for being incomprehensible, and now that she has sent the evidence into the hands of the government, it is completely impossible to cover it up.Half a day later, she came back from the screen leaning on crutches, and saluted Zhao Cheng in person.Zhao Cheng returned the courtesy without sacrificing, saying "dare not".

Jia's mother said: "Master Zhao is exhausted. The old man is not good at managing the family, which has caused the evil slaves to be greedy for ink, and to deceive the superiors and subordinates to do so many things. I also hope that the adults will help severely punish this gang of thieves and slaves, and find them stolen in our mansion." property."

Zhao Cheng understands that this is to put all the blame on Zhou Rui's family.Anyway, this has been the case since ancient times, and it is not surprising. He said yes, and only said "it's all on the lower officials."Pointing to those account books again, he said, "I'm afraid the subordinates will have to take these back, otherwise it won't be easy."

Jia Mu said, "Why don't you put it in the old place for a while and have a look at it?"

Zhao Cheng knew that they had to do something to clean up Mrs. Wang's work in their house, so he said with a smile: "Of course, the old matriarch will take a look at it someday, and send someone to tell me, and the next official will come and pick it up in person." Farewell, and ran away as if he stepped on a hot wheel.

As soon as he went out, Jia Mu sat on the seat and ordered, "Bring them all with me." Yuanyang hurriedly took the box over.It was so quiet in the hall that no one even dared to cough.After an unknown amount of time, Mother Jia sighed, "The second room will pay the debt owed by the state treasury. Boss, what do you think?"

Jia She sneered in his heart, and snorted: "The old lady is too biased, and the big warehouse only has such an idea?"

Jia's mother said: "I don't know whether the big warehouse was stolen by Zhou Rui's family. Besides, in my opinion, the second child's family has no idea." She has always only tampered with the accounts; two, a few days ago, she wanted to take money from the big treasury to pay back the money owed to the treasury, which she obviously didn't know. "Brother Feng said that the inventory was still complete in the old year. I think the thief didn't steal it for a long time. The officials can recover it for us."

"Catch it back? Old ancestor, do you believe it?" Jia She said sarcastically, "The lottery in that cold shop flew in by itself."

Jia Mu ordered Yuanyang to "give the box to your grand master" and said, "Look for yourself, it's still not as good as the amount owed."

Jia Amnesty glanced at the box, then turned her head and shouted, "Lian'er, let someone check it carefully. There are also public accounts. I'm afraid they may not be complete."

Jia Lian hurriedly agreed and came up to hug the box.

Jia Mu said again: "You just look at the account book, and I will keep those letters."

Jia She sneered, "Lian'er, didn't you hear that? Your grandmother wants those letters from your second aunt to take over the lawsuit. Hurry up and pick them up and send them."

Jia Muyin said: "Boss, you have to forgive others and forgive others. We are all a family. It's not like you haven't never done lawsuits."

Jia She was amazed: "I did it? How come I don't know it at all? Does the ancestor have any evidence?" Where did Jia's mother get the evidence?Fang wanted to reprimand him a few words, but pressed down again.But at this moment, Jia She said again, "The whole family is here now, why wasn't she a family when she was greedy for Mo's account?"

Jia's mother knew that he was unhappy, and hated Mrs. Wang for being too greedy. She would have a heart to divorce her.He also hated her for being too quick-tempered, and actually killed Zhou Rui and his wife. The thief Bao Buqi was really involved with the two of them, and their death would have cut off the clues.It's just that there is really nothing to do now, the whole family is pointing at Yuanchun and Baoyu, so what if they can't bear her?What's more, the ones she removed have never been used by herself, they were just for the children.

Jia Lian didn't care about face at this moment, she really stood beside Jia She and carefully picked out the letters in the box, handed one to the mandarin duck, picked another, and handed another.On Jia Zheng's face, it seemed that he had opened a silk and satin shop, and there were all kinds of colors, which was interesting.

When he finally finished picking, he smiled and said to Yuanyang: "Thank you, sister."

The mandarin duck was blessed with a blessing, and returned to Jia Mu with the letter in his hand.

Mother Jia looked at them and sighed dejectedly: "From now on, the family affairs will be handed over to Lian's daughter-in-law and Brother Zhu's daughter-in-law."

Fortunately, Gong San had already expected this matter, and Jia She's heart became colder, and he said grimly: "The public account must be re-examined."

When Jia Mu saw that his face was so dark that she was about to lose her face, she immediately regretted it. Just now she forgot that the eldest son is a bastard. She should comfort her more and said, "Brother Zhu's daughter-in-law has never been in charge, so let her help Feng girl. yes."

Jia Amnesty nodded, "Naturally, it's just that the public account needs to be checked again."

Jia Mu said with tears: "It's a family, why bother to come here, like a black-eyed chicken, I wish you could eat me and I eat you."

Jia She sneered and said: "The old lady knows me. I have never been afraid of face. If anyone touches my money, I must spit it out exactly. Otherwise, don't blame me for not knowing who has face." Who has no face."

Jia Mu said angrily: "Where do you put the reputation of the mansion?"

Jia She said lazily: "But here again! Since the ancestors thought that the reputation of the mansion is more important than money, why not ask the greedy people to spit out the money, won't the reputation be preserved?"

Mother Jia took the crutches and slapped the ground twice: "You can't separate the family!"

Jia Shehui smiled and said: "Second brother can do it if he wants to separate the family, but the accounts must be calculated clearly when the family is divided. If the master is missing a tael of silver, the master is not afraid of going to court. Call all the people in the capital to come. Look at it." He shouted again, "Lian'er, take the account book box in your hand, if you don't keep it, we will have a lawsuit in the future, it's all evidence."

Jia Lian responded bluntly, saying: "Father, don't worry, my son will not lose one."

Mother Jia slumped down on the chair.One of these fathers is her son and the other is her grandson, how could she not know?The money in the oil pan can be fished out and spent, and where there is less money for them, it is their life.It's a pity that the family suffered a catastrophe, and even the foundation was destroyed. The boss didn't even think that only the whole family could survive the catastrophe, and he only wanted to take the second wife at one end, so he couldn't help being disheartened.After half a day, he finally waved his hand: "That's all." Standing up on crutches.Yuanyang couldn't be idle, so she hurriedly motioned for Hu Po to come forward to help her, and left.

Jia Zheng's head almost sank to the ground. Seeing Jia's mother leaving, he wanted to say something to Jia Amnesty, but he couldn't say a word for a long time, and finally covered his face and left.

As soon as he left, Jia Cong, who had been peeping outside for a long time, slipped in with a "Zi Liu", wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and only whispered in a low voice that could be heard in the whole room: "Our second uncle really...has no responsibility at all. The second aunt's business was actually carried by the old lady for him."

Jia She snorted, and stood up with his hands behind his back: "Go, go and seal the account, so that your second aunt can pay back the money."

Jia Cong cheered, and the three of them swaggered towards the tent.