The Fenghua Years of the Red Chamber

It just so happened that Jia Zheng came back from the south after being dismissed from office, and the mansion was cleaning up the dust for him. Zhao Quan, the official of the Jinyi Mansion, came in. I vaguely feel that it is not good to be afraid.Sure enough, the guests were immediately dispersed, leaving only the people in the house, and someone invited Jia's man Ding to announce the decree.

When Jia Amnesty heard that the door of Jinyi Mansion was closed, he knew that something was wrong, and he said something, what should come will always come, and urgently ordered his followers to send a message to the back house, so that the female relatives should not panic and gather together to wait for the emperor's order. , follow Wang Xifeng's orders.After Jinyi Mansion came to invite him, he followed calmly to Rongguo Mansion.

All the men in Jia's mansion, except Baoyu, gathered in Rongxi hall. Zhao Quan didn't see Baoyu, so he sent someone to invite him. Seeing this, Xie sneered, this is the promising grandson that the old lady has been thinking about all day long.

Seeing this, Jia Zheng yelled angrily, "Sinister, beast, how dare you proclaim adultery in the daytime." He wanted to go up to beat Baoyu, but was stopped by those who came to search the house.

Jia's ransacked the house, unlike other places, three princes successively came, first the Prince of Xiping County, followed by the King of Beijing, and finally Prince Zhongshun, each with a copy of the imperial decree.The king of Xiping County, the king of Beijing, and the second house of the Jia family have a good relationship. There are still female family members living in the mansion of the king of Xiping County. He thinks that the property of the big house will be inspected first. Parents, Zhao Quan didn't care about this matter, and directly ordered to search everywhere.When the dispute persisted, the king of Beijing read out the oral order and ordered the king of Xiping County to preside over the search of the house. Zhao Quan was bored, so he gave up.

"Have Zhenggong and Baoyu been disturbed?" King Jing asked.

"My lord, you came in time. The men in the mansion are all guarding at the side now. I just started to search, but I met a fool today." Prince Pingxi said with disdain when he mentioned Zhao Quan.

As soon as the two talked, it was reported that Prince Zhongshun had arrived. All the officials got up and went out to greet him.

"You two princes, the household department of the Rongguo Mansion owes a huge amount of silver. Today, we will check and pay off the debts of the household department first." The reason why Prince Zhongshun requested an order to come to the Rongguo Mansion was because he was afraid that the King of Xiping County and the King of Beijing would help hide the money of the Rongguo Mansion.

With Prince Zhongshun sitting in town, the searchers dared not fool them. Everywhere in the mansion was searched. In addition to some prohibited items bought for the empress, two boxes of Zhen's belongings were also found, which were said to be from Jia Lian's courtyard. , Jinyi Mansion and Household Division kept accounts, among which the old lady and Mrs. Wang had a lot of property, including many things belonging to the Zhang family and the Lin family.

Jia She and Jia Zheng were both listening. In front of the three lords, Jia She looked at Jia Zheng sarcastically and said, "I remember that jackdaw picture was my sister's dowry, how could it become your wife's private property? The house in the suburbs of Beijing." It’s your elder sister-in-law’s dowry, the public is in short supply, and I can’t afford the loan from the household department. I didn’t expect your wife’s private property to be huge. She is indeed the mother’s biological mother, and she has a good way of making money.” Jia Zheng was speechless after being squeezed by Jia Amnesty, and his face was full. flushed.

When it was his turn to register the finances in his own courtyard, Jia Lian listened with his ears upright. What tents, decorations, calligraphy and paintings, etc., there were actually things belonging to the Zhen family. After Jia Lian heard this, he was shocked. , I was puzzled.

Prince Zhongshun saw that Jia Amnesty had no private property, so he asked carefully. It turned out that it was because Jia Amnesty sealed the door to Rongguo Mansion, and Jinyi Mansion negligently copied only the people of Rongguo Mansion, not the big house.

Jia Lian took advantage of the opportunity and said, "Report to the lord, I live with my father. Since my father didn't check it, where did the registered finances come from?"

After some careful questioning, I found out that it was confiscated from the original hospital house of Jia Lian and his wife.After the two of them moved out, no one was arranged to live in the yard, so the old lady came up with other ideas and asked people to rearrange the yard and hide the Zhen family's finances in it.

"Wang Ye Mingjian, my husband and I have not lived here since five years ago, it is impossible to have any property here."

For a while, King Xiping and King Beijing looked at each other, and finally Prince Zhongshun ordered to copy the finances of the big house first, and said another thing about Jia Lian's property.Mrs. Xing and Wang Xifeng got the news a long time ago, and gathered together with the masters and masters of the mansion. The outside gate was sealed and no one was allowed to enter or leave. The two of them could not know the news outside.

When the few people were anxious, they saw a pair of officers and soldiers rushing in. Mrs. Xing and Sister Qiao were so frightened that the servants were running away in panic. Wang Xifeng hugged Brother Peng to comfort the frightened Mrs. Xing and Sister Qiao .

In the end, the letter with Ping'an Prefecture was found in Jia Amnesty's study, and an old letter was found in the secret compartment of Jia Lian's study. It was the letter of divorce. Pressed into the prison, the young descendants and female relatives were locked together, Mrs. Xing and Wang Xifeng learned about the property of the Zhen family from Jia Cong and Brother Mao, and Mrs. Xing's whole body softened.He kept saying in his mouth: "What should I do, what should I do?"

"Ma'am, hold on, the master and the second master have already separated one or two when they ransacked the house, and this crime will not fall on us." Wang Xifeng hurriedly supported Mrs. Xing, and together with sister Qiao helped Mrs. Xing to sit in the corner Down.

Wang Xifeng asked Sister Qiao to take care of Mrs. Xing and Brother Peng, and called the prison maid to come over and quietly stuff the money, and asked to bring some water and food.Wang Xifeng died in prison in her previous life, so she knows all about the tricks in prison.When food and water were brought in, that is, some rough corn buns, Wang Xifeng took them directly to Mrs. Xing and Qiaojie, but did not distribute them to the second wife and mother-in-law.Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai knew that they had become enemies with Dafang, so they imitated Wang Xifeng and asked for food and water.

"Ma'am, at least eat something, we'll be fine?" Wang Xifeng encouraged Mrs. Xing. In this life, their eldest wife has not committed any crimes in the previous life, so nothing will happen.

"That's a serious crime of ransacking the family and exterminating the family. It's all the fault of the second child's family and the old lady for confiscating the property of the Zhen family and bringing disaster to the family." Mrs. Xing suddenly collapsed, crying crazily, and suddenly got up and rushed towards Mrs. Wang , tearing at Mrs. Wang's clothes and hair, trying to fight her desperately, Wang Xifeng and Xue Baochai took a lot of trouble to separate them.Baoyu, Jia Cong, and Jia Maogan, who were imprisoned in the opposite cell, were in a hurry.

After Wang Xifeng settled Mrs. Xing, she went straight to the second wife and mother-in-law, slapped Mrs. Wang and Xue Baochai, and said, "We're not finished, and I will be a backstop even if I die." He and Xue Baochai shuddered.

Let's say that after Prince Zhongshun sent Jia's belongings to the household department, he went to the palace to return his orders.Prince Zhongshun was born of the Holy Majesty's adoptive mother, and the relationship between the two brothers is much closer than others.

"Have you seen that Baoyu who was born with the title jade?" Seeing Prince Zhongshun coming in, the Holy Majesty began to gossip instead of talking about business. The reason why Prince Zhongshun asked for orders to search the house was because he wanted to see the rumored piece of jade.

"It's just a drunkard. As for the piece of jade, it's just a means of fighting for favor in the inner house." He talked about the house raid today, and finally showed the piece of jade that he got from Baoyu to the emperor.It turned out that after seeing Jia She in the antique shop, Prince Zhongshun thought Jia She was interesting, so he ordered people to keep an eye on the movement of Rongguo Mansion, and knew exactly about Wang Xifeng's exchange of jade.

"It's just such a piece of jade, and it fools everyone, making Jia pardon Jia Enhou to be a mouse." The Holy One said with a sneer.

"The view of ministers and younger brothers is not like this. The two houses of Rongguo Mansion were at odds. Jia She closed the yard and established his own family. It was just because of his mother that he didn't separate the family. Fortunately, he didn't separate the family. Otherwise, how would he pay off the complementary debt?" The property was valued at a value lower than the market value, and Prince Zhongshun was even more ruthless. He directly valued the property copied from the Jia family at [-]% of the market value. Overall, more than [-]% of the property of the Jia family entered the treasury of the household department.

"He, Marquis Jia En, can't afford to suffer." The Holy One said with a smile, thinking that Jia She was studying in the palace when he was a child, even if the prince bullied him, he would bully him back openly and secretly.

"No, the first time I met him was in an antique shop. He exchanged a few boxes of fake goods for a lot of good things back home. Those fake goods were Jia Zheng's elder sister-in-law's dowry." Prince Zhongshun laughed. He shook his head and said.

"Let's keep an eye on them. Those nobles will definitely get rid of the Rongguo Mansion's crimes. I'm afraid my ears won't be able to stop in the near future." The Holy One said with a frown.Sure enough, as the Holy Majesty had expected, there were constant disputes between the court and China, and the noble family and the ministers who were born in the imperial examination were arguing endlessly, so many officials were implicated and imprisoned.

After one month, with the help of other families among the four princes and eight princes, the case of the Rongguo Mansion was finally closed.

Regarding the matter of making friends with foreign ministers, it was investigated and dealt with as ordinary relatives.The reason why Jia Amnesty sent letters to Ping'an Prefecture was to contact a few younger sisters, ask about their living conditions, and make up for the dowry. There is no such thing as making friends with foreign ministers.As for the letter copied from Jia Lian, the old lady lost face, everyone in the court knew about it, and it also exposed the old affairs of Rongguo Mansion to everyone.

As for the case of Shuiyue Temple, Mrs. Wang pushed all the crimes on Wang Xifeng's head. The Rongguo Mansion has nothing to do with it.

Leng Zixing's lawsuit against Jia Amnesty is even more nonsense. Antique calligraphy and paintings all depended on his eyesight, and the transaction was clear at that time, so it was a false accusation.

The most troublesome thing was the matter of accepting property from the Zhen family. Jia Amnesty, Jia Lian, and Jia Zheng refused to plead guilty, and they couldn't settle their disputes. Finally, they went to the Holy One and got the property, no matter who took it, it was always copied from the Rongguo Mansion. Together they were convicted.

In the end, Jia She, Jia Lian, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen and his sons were all exiled because they collected the most wealth from criminals and took back the title of Rongguo Mansion. Jia She, Jia Lian, Jia Zheng, and Jia Zhen were all exiled sea ​​frontier.