The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Liu Jing and others found a nunnery in Qinghua Mountain, and learned that someone falsely claimed that King Qin was going to be drafted, and deceived countless officials and ladies.So he ordered the girls to change their Ziyi clothes, and escorted the old sister-in-law's thugs and others to leave quietly.It took a lot of effort for the lady to go down the mountain, and she barely reached the foot of the mountain at sunset.After randomly looking for a village to eat, Liu Jing sent someone to hire a horse-drawn carriage from a nearby farmhouse;Such bumps and bumps, even if Qinghua Mountain is in the north of Chang'an City, they did not drive into the city gate until the second watch.

Liu Jing discussed with Grandma Feng and said: "It's late, and it's inconvenient to send the girls home. It's better to let them stay in the post house first. I'll discuss with Zhu Tong when I go back home. Go back and report to the prince and the queen mother. Tomorrow morning, we will meet at the prefect's yamen." Both of them agreed.Then the old sister-in-law and the thugs were escorted to the prison first, Liu and Feng returned to the Qin Palace, and Liu Jing sent the ladies to the post house.

The post house is very quiet at the moment.Liu Jing told the girls to walk softly so as not to wake others up.A small official led the way and sent them to a large courtyard.Liu Jing said: "Let's settle down for a night for now, and we will talk about everything tomorrow." Everyone saluted and thanked.

Liu Jing turned around and was about to leave when she suddenly heard a "bang" from the next door, which made her jump and shouted, "What's going on!"

A young woman next door said loudly: "Sorry, sorry! I made a mistake in the operation, and I was disturbed."

Liu Jing frowned: "What kind of voice is this? I've never heard it before." Most of the girls showed fear.Liu Jing asked loudly, "Who lives next door?"

The woman next door said: "The person who stays."

"Why don't you sleep and make noise in the middle of the night?"

"Didn't your honor fall asleep?"

The girls chuckled.Liu Jing snorted, "What a sharp mouth." He simply climbed up the wall and looked over there, "What are you doing in the middle of the night? Huh? What kind of lamp is that? It's brighter than an oil lamp. Who are you? "

The girls all pricked up their ears and listened to the woman next door saying: "I neither steal nor rob, I work in the courtyard openly and aboveboard. However, your honor climbed up the fence without any reason, crossed the boundary of the courtyard wall, and invaded my private space. What told you? Why do you ask? Shouldn't you be the first to report yourself?"

Liu Jing folded her arms and said, "My man is Zhu Tong, the political counselor of Qin State." The girls gasped.Along the way, I heard Li Gonggong and others calling her "Mrs. Zhu", but I didn't know which Mrs. Zhu it was.It turned out to be the wife of Mr. Zhu Tong.And after hearing this, Zhu Tong obviously has already left his official position.

He heard the woman next door say: "Oh. Then?" Waited for a while. "What about you? No matter what your status as a man is, what about yourself?"

Liu Jing was stunned: "I am his wife."

The woman smiled and said: "That means you don't have the identity to ask me about my identity? Your man is a political adviser, but you are not."

Liu Jing tilted her head and looked at her, "Are you from Yan Kingdom?"

"No."

"It's weird." Liu Jing said, "If it wasn't for the Yan people, women in any country would have such thoughts."

The woman looked up at the wall: "I am from the Chinese Federation. If you want to talk about it in detail, I am from Guangxi, and I studied at a university in Chengtianfu."

Liu Jing nodded: "I see. From Starfleet Academy?"

The woman suddenly became depressed: "...No. The Starfleet Academy is too difficult to pass, so I didn't pass the exam. I went to Chengtian Institute of Technology."

Liu Jing said "Oh" and said, "This school is not bad." Then he turned around and climbed down from the wall.

Before landing, the woman next door let out a long sigh: "Thank you for your praise. Our school is worse than Starship, I know it."

Liu Jing smiled slightly, pointed to the wall and said to the girls: "If you can live like her after many years, then our country of Qin will be prosperous and strong."

A girl wondered, "Isn't our state of Qin rich and powerful?"

"It depends on who you compare with." Liu Jing said, "Naturally, it can't be compared to the Chinese Federation, but it is still better than some small countries." Then he turned and left.There was a lot of discussion.

After talking for a while, I suddenly heard another "bang" from the next door.Then Miss Gao shouted: "Hey~~ sister next door, what are you doing?"

The woman next door said: "I'm really sorry, I won't do it. I don't know why I didn't get it right."

Miss Gao said: "Sister, don't get me wrong, I'm just curious."

The woman next door said: "I am repairing something. If you are curious, come and have a look?"

Miss Gao's eyes lit up: "Really? Can I go and see?"

"Yes! It's not a rare thing."

Sure enough, Miss Gao ran over, followed by two brave girls, and the others were reluctant to leave, and stood by the wall with their ears pricked up.Then Miss Gao and the others exclaimed: "It's so bright! What kind of lamp is that?"

In the dead of night, the woman next door said clearly: "This is a horse lantern, also called a boat lantern. It is used to light oil, and it can be hung on a boat or horse. I have a battery connected to it. The battery is too big, and it is not cheap to hang it. Get on the horse, but it’s still called a lantern.”

"It's so bright!" "It's so bright!" There was a burst of chirping from the next door.

Another girl couldn't stand it anymore and ran over too.Not long after, there was another exclamation: "It's so bright!" The girls were all in their fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth years, and there was no one who was not curious, and they all ran over in the blink of an eye.

Surrounded by the lantern for a long time, Fang remembered that he hadn't found out the woman's surname.It turned out that her surname was Song, and she was an engineer sent by Dajiala Safe Factory to repair safes, so everyone called her Song Gong.Miss Gao immediately said: "But the safe in Fuyun Hall? Mrs. Zhu brought all the locksmiths from the entire Qin Kingdom, but I can't open it."

Song Gong proudly said: "The safe in our factory is extremely safe. If it is not a professional, no one else will be able to open it."

Another girl asked: "So, sister Song is from Dajiala? What does Dajiala look like?" She looked at Song Gong's clothes, "Do you all wear this?"

Song Gongdao: "This is my work uniform. It is convenient to wear when doing things. We call you Hanfu. Few people usually wear it. It is troublesome."

Miss Gao asked in surprise, "How can it be troublesome to wear clothes?"

Song Gong said with a smile: "You don't feel troublesome if you don't wear new clothes. People in Dajiala are very busy. Students study and adults work very hard."

Miss Gao said proudly, "It's not as good as our Chang'an."

Song Gong said: "Everyone has their own. Most of the women in our Chinese Federation have their own careers, and their marriages can be independent. You can cut flowers and cook tea to spend your days leisurely, instead of being buried in the machine all day. But whoever your father and brother want you to marry, it doesn't matter who you are." You have to get married whether you are old or ugly. After you get married, you have to get up early to greet your mother-in-law. Unlike us, you can sleep until noon on rest days. You can’t complain about husbands taking concubines and second wives at home, and raising fans outside. No matter what kind of grievances you suffer from your husband’s family, you have to endure it. If you’re unlucky and don’t have a boy, if you don’t have a baby boy, you’ll let your concubine take the lead. Just like the third wife of your censor doctor Ding’s family, she only has one daughter, and that daughter is still young Marrying a dead man at a young age is really desolate. Besides, we can break up if our relationship with our husband fades, and we can divorce if we like another man. It's our days that are better."

All the girls were dumbfounded, and they were stunned.After a long while, it was the girl Gao who woke up first again, blushing and shouting: "We are all girls from a good family, how can we like other men! We won't recognize the stinky man outside at all!"

Then Song Gong said: "No! You don't know any other men at all, how can you pick the one you like? It's not a canary in a cage. The master went outside to buy a male bird for breeding, and that's the only one." Miss Gao was at a loss for words.Someone else wanted to pick it up, but Song Gong had already cleared the desk and said, "Everyone has never met each other before, so you don't have to lie about your face. Zi said, food and sex are also. Think about it yourself, if you can choose it yourself, you are willing." Marry an old Jinshi who is nearly middle-aged, or a young scholar of the same age?"

Miss Gao said: "Naturally they are about the same age."

"However, the old Jinshi was only a scholar when he was a young scholar." Song Gong said, "Will your father and brother take the risk of marrying their daughter to a scholar?"

Miss Gao thought for a moment and said: "Father and brother are right. After all, marrying is a lifetime. What if that little scholar doesn't make a difference?"

Song Gong smiled and said: "This is the difference. We don't have to be married for a lifetime. We can choose to love each other, or we can choose to forget each other in the rivers and lakes. Because we don't need monthly money from our in-laws to buy makeup, we earn money to buy clothes." She Nai mentioned the lantern and raised it above his head, "And because the women of the Chinese Federation don't have to waste their days in the backyard, they can just show their talents and learn, so Starfleet Academy can make electric lights so quickly. When Qin State didn't even have clean oil lamps, Da Jiala The government buildings have been wired and lighted. Let me tell you, girls. Do you all like embroidery for clothes? Does anyone not?"

Miss Gao immediately said, "I don't like it, I don't like it very much."

Song Gong said: "I don't like it either, and I don't know how to do it. Do you know how to do it?"

Miss Gao curled her lips: "Yes. My mother forced me to learn."

Song Gong smiled and said: "Same! My mother also forced me to study, but I didn't listen to her. I can't study hard. It's just because I know in my heart that if you don't study hard, you won't be able to get into college, and if you don't get into college, you won't find it." If you have a good job, if you can’t find a good job, you have to learn embroidery. It’s much easier to fix a safe than embroidery.” She took two steps with the lantern in her hand, turned her head and smiled, “Would you like to come to my room and have a sit?”

Miss Gao hesitated a little, but Song Gong had already walked to the house.Since the lanterns were far away, the courtyard was naturally dark, and the little girls were a little timid.Miss Gao squeezed her fists and raised her legs to follow.Although the girl next to him didn't interrupt her conversation just now, she was quite curious about Dajiala.So he also went in.

Early the next morning, Grandma Li and Grandma Feng rushed to the prefect's yamen, and Zhu Tong and his wife were also there.Eunuch Li brought the king of Qin's letter and ordered Zhu Tong and himself to go to Yunju Temple to arrest Cao Shi.Zhu Tong took the order.

The two of them changed into regular uniforms, led more than a dozen yamen servants to pretend to be house servants, and went straight to Yunju Temple.When he arrived at the temple, Eunuch Li showed the badge of the Prince Qin's Palace, and the sister-in-law who led the way was so frightened that he chanted "Amitabha".Zhu Tong asked: "Do you dare to ask Aunt Cao in the temple?" The aunt nodded repeatedly.Zhu and Li looked at each other and smiled: "It's not too late."

The Cao family was originally a concubine of the first son, Ji, and lived alone in a small courtyard.Zhu Tong and others went straight in, only to see Mrs. Cao sitting in the courtyard in a daze.Eunuch Li stepped forward to hit Qian'er: "Cao Niangniang."

Cao Shi looked at him, then at Zhu Tong, and set up Wanfu. "May I ask who this adult is?"

Zhu Tong smiled and said, "My surname is Zhu."

Mrs. Cao smiled: "It would be better if the surname is Zhu."

"Why is the surname Zhu better?"

"The one surnamed Zhu is not stupid." Mrs. Cao turned around and said, "Master Zhu and Eunuch Li, please come in with me." Zhu Tong thought for a moment, let the yamen servant stay outside, and Eunuch Li followed her in.

Although the house is simple but large, there are only a few pieces of furniture, and it is a bit empty.Mrs. Cao walked to a low cabinet, bent down and pulled out a box from inside.Nai took the box and put it in front of the two of them, and opened it.I saw more than a dozen locks of hair neatly arranged inside, as well as three small purses and a cloth tiger.Mrs. Cao picked up a very delicately embroidered purse and said: "I made this for my daughter myself." Then picked up two other purses that were roughly sewn into purses, "My daughter learned to make this by herself. She put down her purse and picked up the cloth tiger, "I bought this for my daughter too."

Zhu Tong thought: "Those hairs, could it also belong to the princess?" Cao nodded. "Someone threatened you with the princess to do something for them?"

Cao smiled wryly and said, "I have put in a lot of effort. But I told all the girls who came here, regardless of their appearance or temperament, that they could give it a try. How many court officials were involved, you didn't find out until now."

Zhu and Li were shocked.Zhu Tong said: "You... want to report to us?"

Cao shook her head: "I dare not. I have no idea who is buried next to my daughter."

Zhu Tong said: "Why didn't you tell the Queen Mother?"

Mrs. Cao glanced at Eunuch Li, but said nothing.Eunuch Li pondered: "The Empress Dowager is not refined. It is understandable that Madam Cao cannot believe her. But why didn't you tell the Empress Dowager?"

Mrs. Cao lowered her head and said, "I think, if anyone who has the guts to falsely claim that the lord is drafting a talent show to make money is not the brother of the queen mother, he is the brother of the queen mother. Since she is using the name of the queen mother, it is obviously not her."

Zhu Tong thought for a long time: "It makes sense. After helping others for so long, Madam Cao will not have no clues."

Cao Shi smiled wryly and shook his head.After a while she said: "Actually, it's not difficult to guess."

Zhu Tong cupped his hands and said, "Please advise, Madam."

Mrs. Cao took out a booklet from the kang and handed it to Zhu Tong: "This is the girl who came to my place. I have secretly recorded the name, family background, and age. They all gave people money, and they didn't bother few."

Zhu Tong smiled and said: "I already guessed, isn't it just for money?"

Cao Shi said: "Your Excellency only checks out those who should be well-informed and not very noble, but did not send their daughters, it is suspicious."

Zhu Tong's eyes lit up: "It's a way." Nai flipped through it casually.I couldn't help turning to the last page, laughed, and handed it to Eunuch Li.

Eunuch Li took a look, the last one on this booklet was actually the eldest granddaughter of the second master of the Gao family!He also laughed and said: "That little girl is so clever, and she said that her father sent her there quietly behind someone's back."

Zhu Tong looked at Cao Shi with a smile: "Is there anything else?"

Cao shook her head: "No more."

Zhu Tong pointed to a box of rouge on the desk: "Well, I just bought such a box for my wife a few days ago, 60 taels of silver."

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