The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

The imperial court of the Kingdom of Shu worked extremely fast.It was said that the Jiaofang Division would be abolished, and within a few days it really began to disband.All the prostitutes went home if they had homes, went to relatives if they had relatives, and those who had nowhere to go were temporarily placed to work in the factory run by Shizi.The women who recovered their lives as good people were all grateful, and each prayed to Buddha and God for blessings on behalf of their sons.Since then, the aristocratic daughter of Chengdu has nothing to fear, and she admires the prince even more.And the prince just came back from his studies in the old year, and the prince's mansion is under construction, and he hasn't even married a side concubine yet.The ladies couldn't help asking their father and brother what the son's life looked like.Hearing that he is very handsome with delicate features, they all secretly moved their hearts.The old ladies and wives of various families couldn't help but take the opportunity of asking for peace to ask the queen mother and queen when the prince would choose a concubine.

The queen only vaguely said that she was busy with state affairs, and the queen mother was very happy.She thought, the eldest grandson is capable, kind-hearted and handsome, so he will have to choose a wife for her.Naixiaohe invited the queen to discuss.The queen was as anxious as if she was frying oil, she only frowned and said: "Yan'er thinks about marrying a daughter-in-law again in a few years."

The Queen Mother said: "He is not young. He was several years old when his father was his age."

The queen sighed: "Yan'er is short and looks like a little girl. She doesn't have much prestige among a group of young people. She then thought that she could grow taller in a few years. If you have more experience, you will be more powerful. If you marry a younger girl, you will be able to hold back."

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "What is he thinking? He is the son of the world, and this alone can overwhelm the men in the entire Shu Kingdom. What's wrong with being short? Cao Cao is about the same height as him, and Yan Ying is much shorter than him. Both of them are not as good-looking as my grandson. How would you know. Since my grandson persuaded him to abolish the Jiaofang Secretary, all the girls in the country want to marry him. Besides, he is busy day and night, so there should be several people to take care of him Yes." The queen is still waiting to argue, and the queen mother waved her hand, "You are his mother, you can't let him do everything. Forget it, my wife is not old yet, so I'll take care of it and choose a few good girls for him "The queen mother then ordered people to go to the photo studio to ask the husband to take pictures of the ladies.

The queen was dumb after eating Coptis chinensis and couldn't tell, so she went back to her courtyard with a lot of worries.Just after entering the door, the nurse guarding the courtyard hurried forward and replied: Something happened to the Ruan family again.

This time it was Miss Ruan San who received a piece of Xue Jian.Two days ago, a maid accidentally damaged a painting, she ordered someone to beat twenty boards and throw it in the stable for two days, and it was almost impossible to drag it out again.It was clearly written on Xue Jian: If the servant girl dies, Miss Ruan San will pay for her life.

The queen's face was like gold paper: "It's okay! Is there any law for the king?" She hurriedly sent to find the prince.

At that moment, the little eunuch who was running errands reported back: "Your Majesty has asked Erye Ruan to leave." The queen was a little relieved.

The eldest son was already in the Ruan Mansion at this time, and her two cousins ​​were sitting in the study with her, while someone went to the backyard to fetch Xue Jian.

Ruan Erye said: "My lord, this guerrilla group really must be wiped out."

The prince shook his head and said: "It can't be eliminated. The forces behind it are too strong."

The two men of the Ruan family asked at the same time: "Isn't it Fang Xiong's remnants?"

The prince sighed: "It's really Fang Xiong's remnants, can't they find a backer? If there is no such thing as today, I would just be skeptical, but now I can be sure: the Federation is behind them."

The Ruan brothers were shocked: "Federation?!"

The prince smiled wryly and said: "I became suspicious since Xue Jian used the metaphor of Schrödinger. I originally thought that as long as our country of Shu governs the world cleanly and the people have a future without grievances, the guerrillas will lose their market. Now it seems that they can't. This matter is obvious. The master kills a slave, and the guerrillas want the master to pay for his life. According to the laws of the Shu Kingdom, slaves are not human beings, and all the countries in the federation have abolished slavery. The guerrillas follow the laws of the federation. The government of Shu cannot be allowed to uphold justice for the slaves. This is forcing us to abolish the slaves."

The Ruan family brothers looked at each other.Uncle Ruan said: "Uncle Cen has mentioned the abolition of slaves several times, but the court proceedings cannot pass."

The prince shook his head: "It's impossible to get through if you have touched the roots of your lords. Why do you have to discuss such matters? It's over if I just let my father and king order it?"

Just as I was talking, Xue Jian fetched it.The son picked it up and looked at it. The pavilion is square and upright.Second Master Ruan saw a big maid from his sister's room coming, and asked casually, "What painting did that girl ruin?"

The eldest maid took a look at Shizi, and faltered about him.Uncle Ruan simply said: "Go and get the painting." The maid was a little startled, but she didn't dare not to go, and left with a blank face.

Not long after the painting was brought, when everyone saw it, they all looked awkward.I thought that the maid must have damaged some ancient masterpiece, but who knew it was a small meticulous painting.Although it has been torn into two halves, it can be seen at a glance that the painting is the prince, and it is very similar to each other.

The prince thought for a while: "Since I returned to Chengdu, I haven't seen my cousins."

Ruan Erye also said: "When did the third girl draw so well?"

The big servant girl lowered her head and said, "Our girl bought it for 15 taels of silver."

An aide following behind Shizi jokingly said, "So expensive?"

The big servant girl said: "I heard that it has risen to 20 taels now."

The prince looked at Huizi's portrait carefully and asked, "Where did you girls buy it?"

The eldest maid said with a mournful face: "Your Highness, don't ask, our girl won't tell. If she tells, the lady next to you won't be able to buy it, and then she will have to blame her."

The prince said: "Someone violated my right to portrait, I have to defend it. Not only do I have to find the seller, but I also have to claim for his illegal gains." He ordered the people to "put it away and search it." The portrait rolled up.The prince said slowly, "Your manor has to check it out. How did the guerrillas know that a maid was beaten? The two cousins ​​may not know."

The two Ruan brothers sighed at the same time, and Uncle Ruan said, "I've been checking since I received Xue Jian, but I didn't find anything."

The prince frowned, and said for a long time: "I closed the Jiaofang Division because I guessed that there must be secret operations of other countries and guerrillas. Those women are all relatives of officials and officials, and there are many smart people. And they are all innocent people who have been implicated. It must be important. With the ability to contact our country’s officials, I don’t know how much information flew away from the wine glass and pillow. Now it seems that there must be a lot of servants from each family.”

But at this moment, a woman rushed in and said, "That little bitch is about to die!"

Everyone was shocked.Uncle Ruan immediately ordered: "Don't let anyone know! Send her to the village in the western suburbs to recuperate."

The prince glanced at the desk, and there was ink left in the inkstone by someone who wrote it earlier.She immediately spread out a large piece of snow wave paper, took out the thickest brush in the pen container, and wrote: I tried to abolish the slaves, you let her go.Nai ordered people to paste this paper in Miss Ruan San's room, and told the two cousins: "I'm going to the newspaper office, and you arrange people to carefully protect the third cousin." Then he left in a hurry.

The next day, "Chengdu Weekly" published a special issue. The headline on the front page roughly said that Ruan San girl had received Xue Jian, and then published a short paragraph written by Shi Zi.She said: The ancients said that those who do not know are not guilty.Miss Ruan San will be 14 years old.The ignorant young girl is mentally immature, so she doesn't know what will happen if she beats someone twenty boards and puts her in prison for two days.Moreover, the current law allows the master to dispose of the slaves at will, Miss Ruan San did not break the law, and no one told her that it is wrong to kill the slaves.If someone had told her in advance not to hurt the servant's life, she would definitely not have done so.Therefore, the guerrilla's move is an "ex post facto law", that is, to modify the rules based on what has happened, and then use the newly revised rules to judge the previous events, which is the most wrong in jurisprudence.

Uncle Ruan held the newspaper and asked the prince: "Does this work? Reason with thieves and thieves."

The son said: "A dead horse is just a living horse doctor. If the guerrillas are really just the rest of the Fang family in charge, it will be useless. The Fang family has a blood feud with my grandfather. But if it is the people of the Federation who have the final say, they must consider my words. The Federation What is important is to gradually modify the laws of Shu to be similar to them, and the most important part is to abolish slavery. I throw such a big bait, and they will not refuse."

Uncle Ruan asked, "What benefit does the abolition of slaves in Shu have for them?"

The prince thought for a while and said: "Jia Cong thought that the next hundred years would be a period of rapid technological development, and talents were most needed. Among the slaves, there are many talents that should not be wasted. But I think there are other reasons." Uncle Ruan nodded .The prince asked the little girl again, but it turned out that she had disappeared yesterday afternoon.Now Miss Ruan San dared not go anywhere like a frightened bird, and more than a dozen guards were set up in the courtyard to follow her.

As soon as this newspaper came out, the big families in Chengdu started to stir up trouble.Who would have thought that Miss Master could accept Xue Jian even after killing a slave girl?The civil servants wrote to the imperial court one after another, begging the court to take another heavy hand to wipe out the guerrillas, and the generals were as big as a fight—they did their best.The King of Shu also had a headache.Why doesn't he want to wipe out the guerrillas?Situ Cen repeatedly talked about the benefits of abolishing slavery, and all civil and military officials in the Manchu Dynasty opposed it, so he couldn't do anything about it.

Ten days passed in a row, and Miss Ruan San was safe and sound, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.The son suddenly remembered that someone sold her portrait, so he asked if he could find out.The people below looked at each other for a long time, one pushed the other.The boy stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, half of the investigation has been found."

The prince raised his brows: "What do you mean by half?"

The co-authors have found out the place to buy the paintings, which is a very small painting shop.The portraits of the eldest son are not displayed, and those who want to buy them have to give a secret signal, and the owner will take the paintings from inside and sell them.This portrait was not painted by the owner himself, a little brother delivered it every day, and only sold [-] portraits, is there any more.It's just that when Shi Zi's subordinates checked the past, all the portraits of that day had already been sold out, and the person who delivered the paintings did not come the next day!And never came.They had asked the art shop to draw a portrait of the boy who delivered the painting. They have been searching around for the past few days, but there is no news.

After hearing this, the prince thought about it, and ordered someone to send the portrait to the Chengdu government office, and let the policemen help find it.

Not long after, the boy who sent the portrait came back laughing like a flower: "His Royal Highness! You have an eye~~"

"Huh?" Shizi was discussing with a group of classmates and staff, without raising his head, he asked, "What eyebrows?"

The kid glanced at everyone present, suddenly fell silent, and winked at Shizi: "That, hehe, it's the matter that His Highness just asked the little one to do, and there is a clue."

The crown prince also glanced at everyone in the seat: "Hey, whoever secretly painted my portrait and sold it, you should confess it earlier and get a lighter punishment."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.One said: "I can't draw."

Another said: "I don't know how to draw portraits."

Another said: "I am not short of money."

The prince snorted and said, "Never recruit, right?" Nai waved his hands and said, "Come on, my god arrester from the Great Shu Kingdom said, who is the culprit?"

The kid hesitated for a moment, then muttered something in a low voice.The prince asked him to speak louder.He really said loudly: "I took the portrait, and the two team leaders said in unison, it is the young master who came to complain a few days ago."

"Which young master."

"Master Ming Duan's younger brother, Second Master Ming Shun."

"Cough cough cough..." Ming Duan had just said a lot, but now his mouth was dry, he was drinking tea, and choked on hearing the words.Shizi looked at him with a half-smile.It took a long time for Mingduan to come back, and said quickly: "Your Highness, my younger brother can't draw." The son was silent.Mingduan said again, "Really not. Besides, he has been stretching like me for the past four years, and he has never even touched a pen. My sister-in-law is still injured, so he has no choice but to think about other things."

The prince thought for a moment: "Where is your brother?"

"At home."

The prince stood up: "Go, let's go to your house and have a look."

All the people booed: "Let's go, take a look!" Then they followed together.

The two brothers Mingduan lived in a small house near the palace. It was originally the queen's property, and it was temporarily lent to the prince's envoy.Ming Duan led the way, and a large group of people followed from the back door of the Wangfu Garden, turned into a small street, and arrived within a dozen steps.

Mingshun was taking care of his wife, and when he heard that his elder brother had brought many people back, he came out to meet her.Ming Duan winked at him: "Shun'er, are you going out today?"

Ming Shun said: "I didn't go out today, I just walked around the house with my daughter-in-law."

"Where did you go those days?"

"Huh?" Ming Shun was taken aback, "Occasionally go shopping in the market."

Just as I was talking, a servant woman came in and whispered back: "My lords, Miss Tong said that since our house has a male visitor, she will go back first."

Ming Shun hurriedly said, "Got it, you send her off." Then he said to everyone, "This is a friend my daughter-in-law knew in Jiaofangsi. She just came to visit her." The servant went out.

Not long after, he heard noises outside, Shizi walked quickly to the door and raised the curtain.I saw a woman in blue clothes, as quick as a cunning rabbit, flying towards the gate of the courtyard, glanced back at the gate, and immediately jumped out of the threshold.The prince smiled and said, "Tong Niangzi, just wait." Before he finished speaking, the Tong Niangzi had long since disappeared.The prince shrugged, "The monk can't run away from the temple if he can run away." Nai ordered, "Uncle Hu, help me follow her."

Uncle Hu said: "You don't need to go in person with a woman, just send Xiao Wu."

"It's fine." The prince looked at Ming Shun and said with a smile, "Even if you lose her, there are people who know where to find her, right, Second Master Ming."

Ming Shun forcefully smiled a few times: "This...probably hehe..."

The prince patted him on the shoulder: "How many times have you raised the price?"

Ming Shun glanced at his brother, who shook his head.Mingshun hesitated for a moment, then stretched out four fingers: "Four times. At first, it was sold for five taels."

"Oh. What happened next?"

"Later eight taels, ten taels, 15 taels, 20 taels." Mingshun said honestly, "They negotiated to raise it to 30 taels in a few days."