The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Chapter 540

Jia Cong and others frightened off King Qin's pursuers by pretending to be ghosts, took a breath, and got together to discuss.Jia Cong first said: "There is no need to guess about this matter. It must be Mr. Ji's uncle who discovered that he was hiding in us. I am afraid that he will not be able to catch him. He will use the soldiers of the King of Qin to kill people. The old man is very powerful. He can recognize him even with makeup. come out."

Mr. Ji smiled wryly and said, "I said earlier that it would be extremely difficult to escape from him." He thought for a while and said, "Since that's the case, we know that my uncle hasn't sent a letter to Beijing yet."

Jia Cong tapped his finger on the marching table and said, "It's impossible for him to react so fast. When he called Cao Shi back to his mother's house, you had already hidden in Gao's house. Only after meeting and discussing with Cao Shi can he get it right." I understand what happened in Shizi Mansion at that time. Then he has to search in and out of Chang'an City, which will take a lot of time. The biggest possibility is that he was seen by his people when he was out of the city. We have an absolute advantage in terms of time. Even if Cao Mister sent urgent letters with pigeons, and now that Mr. Ji is with us, he didn’t dare to write too clearly in his letter. Instead, we used three lines of special personnel, pigeons, and horses to deliver the letter a long time ago.”

Chen Ruijin thought: "In this way, Mr. Cao is in a hurry this time. He knows that he may have made a big mistake and it is difficult to make up for it. Mr. Ji, does this person have any luck?"

Mr. Ji immediately said: "No."

Jia Cong said: "Not necessarily. When people have to resign themselves to fate, they will naturally and take chances." He turned his head and looked at Xiaomei, "Aunt Xiaomei, let's leave now, is it possible for you to enter the city before the Qin army ?”

Xiaomei said: "No problem, the defeated army walks slowly, and I can still recognize the path."

Jia Cong nodded: "Mr. Ji troubled you to write a letter to Mr. Cao, only saying that although the Cao family betrayed you, you still refused to betray her. I troubled Mr. Cao to help you take care of the family, and there will be rewards in the future. Mr. Cao thought , You still have many shortcomings in his hands, so you must not dare to talk nonsense; even if he didn't take chances, he would inevitably check your letter. We are playing time lag, delaying them for a while. "

Mr. Ji clapped his hands and said, "Mr. Jia is so cunning."

Jia Cong snorted, "It's not that you forced me to."

At this moment, the tent has been set up. Mr. Ji sat down inside, and a soldier brought convenience ink.Mr. Ji praised: "This ink is cheap! Who came up with this idea."

Jia Cong said casually: "After 300 years, intellectual property rights will be everywhere in the south."

Although Mr. Ji doesn't know what "intellectual property rights" means, he can hear "300 years later" clearly.I'm so glad I found them.He finished writing in a short time, to the effect that he kept secrets for Mr. Cao, Mr. Cao took care of his parents and wife for him, and loved and hated his cousin, all things will be discussed later.If something happened to his parents and wife, the foundation of Mr. Cao and the king of Xining County would be lost.After writing it, I checked it twice and found no flaws, so I took out my private seal and wanted to seal it.Jia Cong coughed next to him: "Mr. Ji, haven't you read "Water Margin"?" Mr. Ji understood immediately, put away the seal to get the paste to seal the letter, wrote an envelope, and handed it to Xiaomei.

Xiaomei took the letter and put it in her arms, smiling slightly.Jia Cong stepped forward and bowed to the ground: "Please, Auntie."

"Don't worry." Xiaomei turned around and left.

This woman is not beautiful, but her posture on the horse is very good-looking.Jia Cong shouted from behind: "Auntie, what a neat and heroic figure!" Xiaomei turned her head and smiled, and flew away like flying.

Xiaomei chased Qin Bing until dawn and caught up with them. Then she took a detour to the front and didn't go straight to Chang'an City, but went to a small town on the outskirts of the city.There is a post office there.She didn't take out the Gao family's seal, but pretended to chat with the people inside, chatting for a while.Few people here recently send letters. The post office keeper is a man in his forties, and he is happy to have a woman talk to him.Little Main said she was thirsty, so the man went inside to find her a clean cup.Taking advantage of the situation, Xiaomei jumped into the counter and pulled out the postmark seal.When Jia Cong was a post office in Zhang Luo, the postmark was also a wheel seal made according to the method of later generations.Xiaomei transferred the seal to Mr. Ji's letter on the day when Jia Cong and the others left Chang'an City, then transferred the seal to today and put it back, hiding the letter in her pocket.

After a while the man fetched water, Xiaomei thanked him with a smile, and then asked him if he had seen someone before.The man asked who was busy.Xiaomei then described Mr. Banri Ji's appearance after makeup when he left the city at sunrise, and said: "Three people all said that they saw him enter this post office one day."

The man thought for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I don't remember such a person."

Xiaomei begged: "Master, please think about it~~" He said Mr. Ji again, "The beard is about this long, the eyebrows are thick and black, and it looks ugly when drooping. There are two moles here... a small cap in a green coat, and a small hat on the foot. They are ordinary blue cloth shoes..." He went on in detail for a long time. "Has he ever come to you to post a letter?"

The man thought hard for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I really can't think of it."

Xiaomei thought for a moment, then asked, "How many letters did your post office receive that day? Where did they all go?"

The man said sadly: "We only need to fill out the form for the package here, but not for the letter. After paying the postage, just put it in the mailbox by yourself."

Xiaomei sighed and said disappointedly: "Isn't it here?" Then she left with a frown.

She immediately rode into the city and rushed to the post office closest to Cao's house.This time she took the letter from Gao's family and ordered the post office steward to stamp it with the postmark of today's arrival, and send someone to deliver it immediately.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, Mr. Cao got the letter and was shocked, wondering whether he should believe it or not.However, King Qin's soldiers and horses have not returned yet.Theoretically, it is impossible for 2000 people to catch more than 25 people, and he still feels uneasy these days.When I saw the letter from my nephew, I felt as if I had [-] rats in my bosom, scratching my heart with their claws.If this letter is true, could it be that the kid really didn't say anything?Or did you say something that doesn't matter?The old man paced back and forth in the study without a clue, and didn't know that Jia Cong didn't believe him when he did business with Mr. Ji last time, and he vaguely hoped that what his nephew wrote in the letter was true.Picking up the letter and reading it again, and looking at the postmark, he ordered someone to check at the post office where the letter was sent.

The town where the post office is located is very close to Chang'an City, and Mr. Cao's men arrived there not long after.The man asked the man at the post office about Mr. Ji, and after saying a few words, the man thought of Xiaomei and wondered, "Who is this man? Why is everyone asking about him?"

The man hurriedly asked: "Who still asks about him?"

"A sister-in-law who just came here also heard about this man." The man said, "It is said that three people saw him coming in." The man asked what the woman looked like and what she asked.The man has a crush on Xiaomei and refuses to tell.Mr. Cao's people gave him two hundred dollars.The man took the money, and explained everything about Xiaomei's appearance and what he had inquired about.

It's just that there was a misunderstanding here.The man was quite lonely because he was guarding the post office all day long. When a woman came and talked to him for a long time, he liked it very much.After Xiaomei left, he thought about it again and again, and thought about it several times.Therefore, he felt that Xiaomei's visit to the post office had just happened, so he casually said "just now"; in fact, Xiaomei had been away for a long time.When Mr. Cao's people heard this, they naturally felt that "just now" meant that they had just left not long before they entered the door, so they didn't ask this man when Xiaomei came here.

After the man finished asking questions at the post office, he rushed back to Mr. Cao's house to see Mr. Cao, and told him everything he knew; Mr. Cao thought that a woman followed him and sent someone to the post office to inquire.Before Mr. Cao had time to think about it, someone from outside reported that the people sent by the King of Qin to chase Jia Cong had returned and returned in a complete defeat with the loss of one of their generals.Mr. Cao was so shocked that he didn't jump up: "How is it possible! Jia Cong is a three-headed and six-armed Nezha, how could he fight so many soldiers!" He ordered to investigate again.

It's just that he can't sit still anymore.Go inside and change into the clothes of ordinary people, sleeve the letter and go to the yamen to find Wang Yuzuo.Wang Yuzuo's scalp is also numb at this moment.Seeing him, he sent his little apprentice away, and said in a low voice: "Now we are on the cusp of the storm, brother, don't you want to come to me in broad daylight."

Mr. Cao sighed: "I don't know who to consult for a while." Then he took out the letter and showed it to him, and said that there was a woman who went to the post office to inquire about Mr. Ji just one step ahead of his people.

Wang Yuzuo thought for a while and said: "Although the people at the post office can't remember him, it may be that he changed his clothes somewhere after entering the post office, removed the fake beard, eyebrows, and moles on his face. Someone saw him I went in, and I didn't recognize his face when I saw it, and I just remembered some clothes and beard."

Mr. Cao nodded: "My nephew is cunning. Although the post office is small, there is always a desk for people to write letters. It is unknown whether he hides it under it to change clothes, or hides another kind of false eyebrows and beard in his luggage. .The stamp of this post office can never be falsified."

Wang Yu said: "Guess who is that woman?"

Mr. Cao said: "I didn't tell the King of Qin that he was among Jia Cong's men, and the people who are looking for him will not be from the King of Qin's. Then they can only be from the Jia family or the Gao family."

Wang Yu said: "The post office was originally opened by Jia's family and Gao's family. Their people don't need to pretend to be passers-by to inquire. Maybe there are people besides us who are watching Mr. Ji."

Mr. Cao took a breath, and said after a long while: "Where can someone keep an eye on him? Could it be the son of the prince?"

"Or people from other countries." Wang Yu said, "That woman is obviously a spy, and there are many people from other countries who are watching Qin. Mr. Ji makes troubles at the Shizi Mansion at night, and it is inevitable that there are secret works from other countries hidden in the Shizi Mansion."

Mr. Cao said: "Or the other concubines in the Shizi's residence."

Wang Yuzuo nodded and said: "Ling'ai is favored, and it is inevitable that someone will treat your nephew as her adulterer and want to squeeze him in his hands."

Mr. Cao looked at the letter: "I don't know whether I should believe what is written in this letter."

Wang Yuzuo read it again to win the letter, and sighed: "If it is fake, we can't do anything. Now I hope it is true." He suddenly said, "Wait...the place where the letter was sent is not on the way from Chang'an to the capital. Could it be that your nephew parted ways with Jia Cong after leaving the city?"

Mr. Cao hesitated for a moment and said, "He's not that bold, he's afraid I'll catch him."

"Besides, why did it take so long to post the letter just on the outskirts of the city?"

Mr. Cao said: "He sent it by surface mail, which is slow in the first place. This section is not surprising."

Wang Yuzuo carefully looked at the letter paper for a long time, took it out and smelled it under his nose, and said: "It's all right to return the paper, it should be from Lingyunzhai; this ink is very ordinary carbon ink. How can he make such a good paper?" The choice is mediocre?"

Mr. Cao said: "Probably he prepared the paper himself, but borrowed the pen and ink from random people."

Wang Yuzuo sneered and said, "Mr. Cao is really hoping that what is said in the letter is true. But what if it is false?"

Mr. Cao smiled bitterly and said: "The two thousand soldiers of the King of Qin have returned. I don't know what happened. I lost the battle anyway. If this letter is false, I don't know what to do."

Wang Yuzuo said coldly: "If it is false, Mr. Lingji, Mr. Ji must have given all the details about us to Jia Cong. According to this son's murderous temperament, you and I should both run for our lives."

Mr. Cao was silent for a moment and said: "What if we think too much?" Wang Yuzuo just looked at him indifferently for a long time and gave the order to evict the guest.Mr. Cao walked away awkwardly.

It wasn't until evening that Mr. Cao got the details of the defeat of the pursuers, and he broke into a cold sweat from fright.The colleague who came over to tell him smiled wryly and said: "King Qin was also in a cold sweat, so quiet that Master has sent him to death row."

Mr. Cao couldn't help feeling a little panicked: "Could it be that he really knows magic spells?"

The colleague said: "The soldier passed the white silk he set up and died. Besides, even if he doesn't know magic, he still has a magic weapon that can fly into the sky. Mr. Cao, just think about it, his magic weapon is flying in the sky No one else can hurt him, but he can kill others. If he fights, he will win and never lose. Even if he really wants to stand on his own..." The man lowered his voice and said, "No one else can stop him."

Mr. Cao stumbled anxiously and said, "Is there no other way?"

That colleague came to him to find a solution, he was stunned for a moment, smiled wryly a few times, and said: "Now we should find a way to rescue Master Jing first."

Mr. Cao thought to himself: If that kid confessed, it would be proper to run away, how could he have time to save the monk?Another thought, what if that kid really didn't tell the truth?His mother and daughter-in-law are all held in my hands.If he doesn't miss his family, he'll be fine once he's gone, why should he write this letter again?Those who think before and after are confused.The colleague reminded again: "Mr. Cao, first save Master Jingde."

Mr. Cao hurriedly calmed down, thought for a while and said, "Since Jia Cong is a Taoist, it is not difficult to save him. How many times have there been conflicts between Buddhism and Taoism since ancient times? King Qin is suspicious and quiet with ulterior motives, as long as he is not a spy from another country, he can escape. Just say that Jia Cong is a high-ranking Taoist with a history, he is afraid that this person will go down to the world to promote Taoism and demote Buddha. If Jia Cong is removed, he will be an important pawn in Taoism."

The colleague thought about it after listening to it: "Avoid the important and take the light, and keeping the unevenness is also a way."

Mr. Cao said: "I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to fight against the prison with our own hands. We can only think of these methods." The colleague sighed softly.

Co-author Qin Wang wanted to pursue Jia Cong temporarily because he was urged by one of Mr. Cao's accomplices.That man was an eminent monk, and he hurried to see the King of Qin that day, and only said that Jia Cong had come here to cause great trouble for the prince.The king of Qin always believed him, and he was confused for a while, so he sent someone to chase him.In fact, within half a day after the pursuers had gone, he suddenly understood—it was absurd.But the soldiers and horses have already left!Right now, he has lost the general and lost face, and is furious.