Master of Karma in the Red Chamber

Wu Min hurriedly stopped him, blocking Yan Liang's arm, "I can't, I just made an appointment to have dinner there tonight."

"Then I have to trouble Mr. Wu to change the location. Guangyuan Tower can't accommodate your Buddha. Don't be afraid, you are very popular, and there will always be many places to go when you come." Yan Liang said bluntly.

Wu Min was in a hurry, and with a crying face, he turned his head and gave Qi Shengao a wink, asking him to beg.

Qi Shengao wiped his mouth, "Look at what I am doing, I still worry about myself."

"Master Lin always has a solution." Wu Min said to Lin Ruhai with a smile.

Lin Ruhai shook his head, twitched his beard and said with a gentle smile, "Brother always says one thing, I'm sensible and don't get involved. Fortunately, it's only March, and you can still go after March."

Qi Shengao laughed and gave Lin Ruhai a thumbs up.

Wu Min sighed, glanced at Yan Liang with dissatisfaction, waved to them, and went to the car first.

Yan Liang looked at Wu Min's carriage, squinted his eyes and said to his followers, "Buy some sweet-scented osmanthus cakes from Dongjie."

The guard understood and rode away.

"Brother Jing really loves my daughter. After the court, I was thinking about buying my little daughter's favorite sweet-scented osmanthus cake. I'm ashamed of myself, I'm ashamed of myself!" Lin Ruhai cupped his hands to show his admiration for Yan Liang.Then he thought to himself, he should reflect on himself, and really care about his daughter more.

Lin Ruhai then left in a car.

Yan Liang stepped on the pedals and wanted to leave, but was overtaken by Qi Shengao, who got into his carriage first.

Yan Liang frowned, looked back at his carriage, which was several times more luxurious than his own, and asked with a frown, "Is it comfortable enough, want to feel the cold? It's better to walk back."

"Go back to the mansion, you go ahead!" Qi Shengao ignored Yan Liang's sarcasm, and ordered Luo Jiu through the window.

Luo Jiu took the order, jumped to sit in front of the carriage, and shouted loudly: "Your Excellency, you want to go home!"

The carriage galloped away immediately.

Yan Liang also got into the car and sat beside Qi Shengao with a cold face.

"Don't think I didn't see it, the people you sent weren't buying sweet-scented osmanthus cakes at all."

"Then?" Yan Liang asked.

Qi Shengao was surprised, "You didn't intend to hide it from me, did you?"

Yan Liang agreed.

Qi Shengao didn't understand, "Wu Min, he's so good, why did he offend you? Could it be because of his unintentional mistakes in court just now?"

"It wasn't an unintentional mistake." Yan Liang frowned slightly.

Looking at his expression, Qi Shengao knew that he was serious.Umin is usually pretty and charming.Although he has a little problem, he likes to steal the limelight, but it doesn't hurt.Yan Liang has always been a person who does not fight for these things, so it is impossible for him to have a personal feud with Wu Min.The biggest possibility is that Wu Min planned something secretly, and Yan Liang found out that he was on guard.

"What bad thing did he do?" Qi Shengao asked

Yan Liang shook his head, "I don't know, it's just my doubts. These days the bureaucracy is not peaceful, and I always feel that someone is secretly investigating something, and I'm afraid something will happen soon. Naturally, I can't leave the capital at this time. Otherwise, if What happened, I am thousands of miles away, and I have no room to argue."

"You mean he's plotting against you? Why, he doesn't seem to have any deep hatred with you. "

"Ha, Master Qi has become naive now? Whoever says harming others must have hatred. Of course, after many battles in the court, don't you even understand the reason for guarding against others? I forgot, you have always valued it Umin."

Yan Liang stopped the carriage and asked Qi Shen to step down.

Qi Shengao: "You are too stingy. If you disagree with me, you will be chased away? My carriage is ahead of me, and I can't call you back."

"I'm afraid that someone has been secretly watching our every move, so it's not appropriate for me to go to Mr. Qi's house at this time. And today, if Mr. Qi doesn't believe it, don't tell others. Leave some room for everything. If you defend yourself, you can also save yourself." Yan Liang instructed.

Qi Shengao said nonchalantly: "A few Wumins, you're scared, just ask someone to check him later. As for the conversation between the two of us, of course I won't talk nonsense. Whether it's right or wrong, I know you It's good intentions, for my own good."

In fact, in terms of friendship, the friendship between him and Wu Min is much deeper than that with Yan Liang. After all, they have been officials in the same dynasty for nearly ten years.Since Wu Min followed him, he has always been like a child, with a sweet mouth, and occasionally has a little temper, but he knows how to measure and understands the depth of troubles.

Seeing Qi Shengao like that, Yan Liang guessed seven or eight.After the people left, he took a car to Guangyuan Building.Just at the end of the month, shopkeeper Gou thought that the master came to check the accounts again, so he took the initiative to enter the door with the account books.

Yan Liang checked roughly, and now Guangyuan Building has a stable source of customers, and the monthly income is probably a few, so there is no need to check too carefully.

Yan Liang carefully asked shopkeeper Gou about the reception of distinguished guests in Guangyuan Building recently, "Is there anyone who impressed you deeply, and wondered if there were any special people."

"Apart from a few old customers who often come here, officials from the Ministry of Officials have been here many times recently. They are like three or five people getting together, and they always mention you to the younger ones." Shopkeeper Gou continued to recall, "By the way, Master Wu Min has also been here a few times. But it’s also strange. In the past, Master Wu liked to be lively and would always bring a few friends with him. The last three times, he came alone. He always said that he was in a bad mood, so he just drank alone .”

"You saw with your own eyes that he was the only one in the room?" Yan Liang asked.

"It should be, when Xiao Er served the wine and food, Mr. Wu was indeed alone in the room. Afterwards, the door was closed, and he couldn't see it." Shopkeeper Gou saw the master asking this question, so he was afraid of missing something, so he explained everything in detail.

Yan Liang was silent, "Which room?"

"It's in room No. [-] in Tianzi."

Go up to the second floor, turn left and go straight, then turn left to the last two rooms.Tianzi No. [-] and No. [-] rooms are located on the east corridor of the second floor. Because there are stone troughs on the corridor and green bamboos are planted, they are quiet and elegant, and they are also called "Bamboo House Gentleman" rooms.From the lobby on the first floor of Guangyuan Building, there are gauze curtains hanging on the east corridor, and green bamboos below.If there is any movement between the two rooms, the guys who come and go will not notice it at all.

"When he was here, did Tianzi No. [-] have any guests?" Yan Liang asked again.

Shopkeeper Gou immediately replied: "This month, Room No. [-] of Tianzi was occupied by a wealthy businessman from other places. When the master came, he was wearing a hat gauze, silk and satin, and only four pieces were hung on his bare waist. Exquisitely carved mutton fat jade. Except for the thumb, all of them wear gemstone rings, and there are entourages who take care of them carefully. But this master came once at the beginning of the month, and after that, only his servant came to order with a food box The meal, while waiting for the food, the boy sat in the second room and drank tea. The master has never appeared again. Let me think about it, yes, when Master Wu was there, it was meal time, and the boy had been here .”

Yan Liang: "What about the boy?"

"Square face, high brows and eyes, walking with the wind, really a bit of momentum. Laifu takes care of him, and even gossips with me, saying that this little servant is taking advantage of others and coming to have a meal, pretending to be like an uncle."

"If this person and Mr. Wu come again, remember to send someone to notify me immediately." Yan Liang said.

The shopkeeper Gou hurriedly agreed, although he didn't understand, he didn't ask any more questions.

Only then did Yan Liang leave Guangyuan Building.

A group of shadows behind the carriage followed Ningrong Street, stopped, turned around and returned to Wufu.

Wu Min sat alone at the table drinking tea, and after hearing the report, he waved his hand and sent the boy away.After a long while, a male voice sounded from behind the jade screen a foot away from the north of the table.

"That place, I can't go there in the future."

Wu Min turned his head with a smile and looked at Yupingfeng, "It's okay, this Jia Yanliang will go there to check the accounts at the end of the month."

"Be careful sailing for thousands of years." The person behind the screen warned.

"Among the restaurants in the capital, Guangyuanlou has a lot of customers, and I often go there. If I stop going suddenly, or change to another restaurant, I'm afraid it will be even more suspicious. Now the spies in the palace are monitoring It's urgent, the matter has come to a critical moment, it's better for us to meet less often, and we will ruin the plan." Wu Min's smiling face suddenly stopped, his eyes were cloudy, and he tightly clutched the teacup in his hand.

"Okay, the masters also mean the same." After the person behind the screen finished speaking, the room became quiet.

Then I heard the sound of the windows being rolled open, and a gust of cold night wind blew in.

Wu Min leisurely walked to the window, smiled and looked out, but there was nothing to see outside the window except the vast night.Wu Min chuckled and closed the window.

……

Ningguo Mansion.

Jia Rong recited three articles to her grandfather verbatim, and obediently bid farewell to her grandfather and father.

Jia Zhen saw that Yan Liang had no intention of resting, so she handed over the book with a smile, saying that he had studied a few articles recently and had to recite them by heart.

"Let's write it down." Yan Liang pointed to the table, and he picked up a book and read it on the Luohan couch.

Jia Zhenle obediently agreed, and then sat upright behind the table and began to write.

"Reading is not about swallowing jujube. You can't memorize it all the time. You have to understand the meaning and integrate it so that when you think of using it, it will naturally appear in your mind."

Jia Zhen nodded in agreement. He had just written a sentence when he picked up the pen, and after answering to his father, he forgot the next sentence. The brush hung in the air for a long time before it fell down.

At this time, Yan Liang asked again: "How is Baoyu these days?"

"It should be fine." Jia Zhen thought for a while, but she really didn't pay much attention to this child.

Yan Liang turned his head and asked Mrs. Song, "When there is no class, do you still study with Brother Rong?"

Mrs. Song said with a smile, "I wanted to quit after following for a while. I heard that I was reprimanded by Mr. Zheng, so I dare not refuse to follow, and I still come every day. His old lady complained to Grandma , said that Baoyu played in front of her less often, but her old man still prefers that Baoyu is willing to make progress."

Yan Liang sneered: "It's only natural to be called 'Shi Taijun'."

If Mother Jia didn't even understand this simple truth, she would be a fool.

"One more thing, I don't know if it should be said or not." Song Pozi hesitated.

"Say."

"It's the maid, Xuan Yue, that the master gave to Uncle Xue a few days ago."

Jia Zhen, who had been trying her best to write silently, told herself not to be distracted by their conversation, heard this and poked a brush on the rice paper.

It's over, it's spent, it's written in vain.

The author has something to say: Thank you LLL and fans for feeding mines O(∩_∩)O Thank you