The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Chapter 55

Liu Xianglian was still small in stature, she squeezed out from the piles of filial sons and grandsons in linen and filial piety, went to the side of the road, and saw there were some condolence sheds on the side of the road. As if he was being watched by eagles and dogs, he turned his head and saw Wang Ren, who was watching him at the banquet just now, led seven or eight followers, and instead of following the team to send the funeral, he surrounded him with a grinning grin.

Liu Xianglian panicked, and touched her waist, but today she didn't bring the Yuanyang sword. She felt that Wang Ren was not kind, and seeing that she was going back to the funeral procession, she couldn't do it, so she went to the shed on the side of the road regardless. drill in.

Fortunately, he is dressed in a silver crown and jade belt today, and the people in the shed only regard him as the young master of some family, and dare not chase him away.

He rushed to several sheds in a row, seeing that Wang Ren was still staring at him like a hawk dog, lingering outside and refused to leave, thinking when did he offend him again?

"Whose son are you from?"

When Liu Xianglian heard people ask, she turned her head and saw a noble young man who was similar to his age sitting in the shed where the mourning and music were being played. Hide here."

Although the noble son didn't know who the Liu family was, he guessed that Wang Ren had two uncles after his parents passed away, but his uncles didn't restrain him very much. Said: "Xiao Wang asked Wang Ren to talk, you just go out from behind the shed and go home, and don't run around alone again in the future."

Hearing that he claimed to be Xiao Wang, Liu Xianglian guessed that she had stumbled into the shed of a prince's house by mistake, she repeatedly said that she was offended, and hurried to the back of the shed, but she didn't leave immediately when she got out of the shed, she just felt that she should listen Hearing why Wang Ren chased him so aggressively, he stood behind the shed and heard the little prince call Wang Ren in, and Wang Ren sighed three times: "The prince doesn't know, originally my sister and the second master of the Jia family There was a good marriage, but who would have thought that the second master of Jia's family suddenly became greedy for male sex, so he refused to admit his marriage with my sister, and even sent out all the maids in the family, leaving only a few handsome children in the room to serve Just now, the boy, the prince, don’t think that he is dressed up in a dignified way, but he is actually a dilapidated house bought by the second master of the Jia family, in order to make the second master of the Jia family rein in the precipice, he had no choice but to think of arresting that boy.”

Liu Xianglian's heart was ups and downs and it was difficult to calm down. She thought that in this ghost world, regardless of gender, as long as the family is poor and looks good, it will be a disaster. Seeing a few eunuchs coming from behind the shed, she didn't dare to listen anymore, so she hurriedly asked Long No matter what street the Taisi Yamen is on, he hurried to the Longtai Temple Yamen.

When he arrived at the yamen, Liu Xianglian claimed to be the nephew of Lin Ruhai's in-laws. Sure enough, when the doorman saw that he was well-dressed, he immediately sent someone to send a message to Lin Ruhai, and sent Liu Xianglian to the room where Lin Ruhai was on business.

Lin Ruhai thought it was someone from the Jia family who came over, and was thinking about how to send him away, but who knew it was Liu Xianglian, so she asked someone to lead Liu Xianglian to see Aunt Mingcui, not wanting Liu Xianglian to insist on seeing him and have something to say In other words, the left and right took over, and there was nothing important, so he took Liu Xianglian to sit in the study in the back office, and said with a smile: "Looking at what you are wearing, could it be that you have also gone to Ningguo Mansion? Why did you come all of a sudden?" ?”

Liu Xianglian is most grateful to Jia Lian now, but Jia Lian is always difficult to get close to; secondly, she is grateful to Lin Ruhai who drew his sword to help—although Lin Ruhai saved his life for the sake of Jia's family, so after drinking a cup of tea , looking at Lin Ruhai solemnly, "Has Master Lin ever encountered any disaster?"

Lin Ruhai was startled, and seeing Liu Xianglian stood up again, he told him to sit down again, "Why did you say that?—Could it be that you heard something in Jia's house?"

Liu Xianglian looked away in embarrassment, looked at the elegance of Lin Ruhai's study in Suzhou, which was far inferior to it, put one hand on the desk, and asked: "Master Lin really didn't notice anything? For example, Second Master Lian has been hiding from you on purpose? "

Lin Ruhai was stunned for a moment, thinking about it. He was promoted to Beijing and met Jia Lian several times. Jia Lian was just being polite and refused to get close to him. "Do you know why?" "Yu'er" said to him, and he also understood that this was Mrs. Wang's trick of "breaking the boat", so he felt that Jia's family was getting worse and more determined to stay away from Jia's family, so he never paid attention to Jia Lian's attitude.

"Although I don't know, Second Lord Lian must know." Liu Xianglian said firmly.

Lin Ruhai frowned, because Jia Lian thought of Jia Mu again, and suddenly remembered that when he went to Jia's house that day, Jia Mu still saw him kindly, but when he returned, Jia Mu refused to see him; he also remembered that a group of colleagues saw him , always mentioning how about Prince Yizhong's mansion, his brows became tighter and tighter, thinking that something must happen, and seeing that it was getting late, he called Ming Cui to bring food, and ate with Liu Xianglian, then said: " I'll send a sedan chair to take you back."

Liu Xianglian shook her head, gritted her teeth and said Wang Ren's words, hesitantly said: "After all, the Wang family is the family of the Jia family. Now that the second master of Lian is going to send the funeral outside the city, then if Wang Renruo went to the gate of Jia's house and coaxed people to come look for me." , the old lady of the Jia family may not be easy to stop her from seeing. Why bother the old lady?" Although Quan Fu said that Jia's mother was very bad, he only saw that after he entered the Jia's mansion, he pitied the weak and poor Jia's mother. It's clothes and shoes and socks, and I take good care of him.

Lin Ruhai nodded after hearing this, and asked Ming Cui to tidy up the house and order Liu Xianglian to stay. He sent someone to the Rongguo Mansion to speak, and went to the yamen again to look through the documents with all his heart. Before dawn, he got up and went to the front office to sort out the paperwork. Every few days at the court meeting, he stood in the court hall without saying a word. When he retreated from the court, he saw Xu Zhian in front of him, and he wanted to go forward to have a chat. After all, those who are close to him now are more or less related to the Jia family, the Wang family, and the Yizhong Prince's Mansion, so how can we get any results after discussing with them; other people, if they don't know the details, how dare he question these things; besides After thinking about it, Jia Lian must have known about it from Xu's family.He took two steps towards Xu Zhi'an, but couldn't hold back his face for a moment.

The Lin family and the Xu family were originally related by marriage. Two generations ago, the daughter of the Xu family married into the Lin family and left without leaving a son and a half daughter. After the Xu family's dowry was returned to the Xu family, the Xu and Lin families broke off contact.Because of this level, the Lin family and the Li family are distant relatives.

Lin Ruhai hesitated again and again before making up his mind to have a conversation with Xu Zhian, when he saw a few elders approaching, he hurriedly stopped to greet them.

"Today is Dr. Lin's birthday? Did Dr. Lin's house have a banquet?"

Lin Ruhai was amazed that he had just arrived, how could someone know his birthday, and smiled kindly: "There are some simple food, if you don't mind..."

"Of course I don't dare to dislike it." Several people said, surrounded Lin Ruhai and went out, asking about the customs and places of interest in the south of the Yangtze River along the way.

Lin Ruhai saw that several people were senior officials of the second and third ranks, and they left the palace, and urged the servants to go back to the back office of Longtai Temple and asked Ming Cui to quickly set up two tables of banquets. Confused about getting into the sedan chair, seeing Xu Zhian walking in front, he quickly caught up, bowed and said, "Master Xu, do you still remember the student?"

Xu Zhi'an stroked his beard and said with a smile: "When I was a student in political affairs, you were a candidate, why don't you remember?"

"Today is the student's birthday, so I dare to invite Mr. Xu to come over to have a glass of beer wine." Lin Ruhai said respectfully.

Xu Zhi'an pointed to Li Bizhou and Xu Yuheng who came to greet him, and said with a smile: "There is a kid at home, so it's not good to miss the appointment."

Lin Ruhai invited again and again, seeing Xu Zhian refuse to get into the sedan chair and leave, he became more and more suspicious, and invited a few more people, but seeing that those people refused to come, he had to get into the sedan chair, thinking about some people coming uninvited, no matter what He refused to come even when he was invited, how could there be nothing wrong with it?After entering Longtai Temple, I first invited a few colleagues to entertain him. After I went, I changed clothes in the Yamen. The historian even had a female family member here, and hurriedly asked, "Is there someone from the Jia family?"

Ming Cui tidied Lin Ruhai's sleeves, and said: "The Jia family has no future generations, and Brother Liu mentioned that the second master of the Jia family went to Xu Shangshu's house today, so he also led his old slave to Xu's house." Smiling, half of his heart felt that the Jia family was saving trouble, and that he was estranged from the Lin family with self-knowledge; half of his heart felt that the Jia family really didn't give Lin Ruhai and Jia Min face. Everyone else knew Lin Ruhai's birthday, so how could no one in the Jia family know?

"It's actually like this..." Lin Ruhai thought that the child Xu Zhian was talking about was Jia Lian, and he pursed his lips tightly, feeling more and more that Jia Lian was estranged. He must have another reason as Liu Xianglian said, so he changed his clothes and hurriedly hung up in front of the yamen. I went to the water pavilion behind the cherry tree with vermilion fruits. Before I could enter, I was surrounded by Wang Ziteng and others calling "Shou Xing Gong". Hearty old man.

"Lord Lin, this is Prince Yizhong, old Qiansui." Wang Ziteng pushed Lin Ruhai forward.

Lin Ruhai hurriedly stepped forward to meet Prince Yizhong, and said in his mouth: "It's a crime to alarm the old thousand-year-old."

Prince Yizhong asked Wang Ziteng to ask Lin Ruhai to sit down beside him again and again, and said with a smile: "I went to see Tanhualang in person when he straddled the street that year. Now decades have passed. Tanhualang still has the same style. It's already half buried in the ground."

Lin Ruhai hurriedly said: "The old thousand-year-old is always strong and vigorous, but we juniors can't compare."

"It's incomparable." After Prince Yizhong finished speaking, he asked Prince Teng to pour wine for Lin Ruhai.

Lin Ruhai drank a cup and murmured in his heart. He only felt that after he returned to Beijing, the people he saw were either those who were alienated from him, such as Jia Lian and Xu Zhian, or those who would always mention Prince Yizhong. Now even Prince Yizhong came in person It can be seen that what happened this time must be about Prince Yizhong.After being coaxed to drink two jugs of wine in a row, he staggered on the pretext of changing clothes and left the banquet temporarily. He returned to the backyard, vomited out the wine that had entered his throat, and rinsed his mouth. He said: "Prince Yizhong's mansion sent four girls who can play and sing, but the concubines dare not dispose of them, so please show me."

Lin Ruhai said: "Don't worry about it for now." After hesitating for a while, he said again: "Hurry up and exchange the clothes for me. If you come to the front to remind me, you will say that I am too drunk and passed out. If someone gives someone money, you just accept it." .”

Ming Cui hurriedly agreed, and immediately went to the cabinet to find a snow-blue uniform for Lin Ruhai to change into. Seeing that Lin Ruhai had also changed the hat, she felt more and more puzzled, so she didn't dare to ask, so she ordered a servant to follow Lin Ruhai from Longtai Temple Go out the back door.

When Lin Ruhai went out, the smell of alcohol was smoked by the warm wind, and he became even more drunk. He was afraid of being seen and dared not sit in the sedan chair, so he couldn't help feeling a little sour in his heart. If it wasn't for Li Rui and Jia Daishan's festival, he would go to Xu's house now But Li Rui was demoted to the Northwest in the past and Jia Daishan had nothing to do with it... He reluctantly used the good things between Jia Lian and Xu's family to comfort himself. When Xiaoxiangzi arrived at the gate of Xujiajiao, he ordered the boy to go to the gate and report his name.

Although the person at the door didn't see the post, he entered the door for fear of delaying the affairs of the people inside and asked the boy at the second door to tell Xu Zhi'an.

The boy on the second door hurriedly went to the back garden to find Xu Zhi'an and the others, followed the corridors and paths in the garden, crossed the bridge with flowers and willows all the way, and saw a canna in the banana dock where the cannas were blooming luxuriantly. Xu Zhi'an brought a group of young people to cook tea to feed the white crane, hurriedly walked over, and told Xu Zhi'an that Lin Ruhai came to the door in a female sedan chair without handing over the post.

Xu Zhi'an didn't have much friendship with the Lin family, so he said: "Tell Master Lin to go back, I can't help him decide on this matter." Seeing Jia Lian and Li Bizhou chattering, he waved his hands to tell the servant to keep calm He went to the ground, smiled and looked at the crowd around the long case, "What are you guys trying to plot against me?"

"They want to take your old man's poetry collection and add punctuation to print it." Liu Xianglian was still not interested in punctuation, so she pointed it out before Jia Lian, Li Bizhou, Yuan Jingfeng and other good students persuaded Xu Zhian.

"This kid's mouth is too fast." Xu Yuheng sneered, made a good tea, and personally held it to Xu Zhian's short table, "The first book with punctuation is the "Tea Classic" by Wanting girl. , made her very proud, always praised brother Lian as a person who does not look down on men and women, and even called himself Bizhou's younger brother by the word "Biting", which made Qingheng and the others clamor for him. In the book with their nicknames printed, all the four younger brothers and four elder brothers are called Brother Lian. The punctuation we worked so hard to make has become a joke in their daughter's house. Therefore, this second book should be printed. I bought the old man's poetry anthology, and got tens of thousands of copies. Who wouldn't rush to get the old man's poetry anthology? If it spreads, the punctuation will be more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people."

Xu Zhian took a sip of his tea, saw the white birds scrambling for the fish flopping on the water in front of him, pointed at Jia Lian, "He must have come up with this bad idea."

Jia Lian, Yuan Jingfeng, Li Bizhou, Xu Yujun, and Liu Xianglian were standing behind a large table filled with the Four Treasures of the Study, seasonal fresh fruits, and stereotyped articles. Seeing Xu Zhian pointing at him, he hurriedly said, "It's really unfair. Print some popular pamphlets, or print some collections of poems that everyone rushes to send, so that everyone will know what the punctuation is, and I never thought that the third brother would mention the old man as soon as he opened his mouth."

Xu Yuheng also nodded and said: "He just learned rhyme from Mr. Ge, how did he know that the old man can compose poetry?"

With the breeze blowing, Xu Zhi'an didn't bother about this matter, he just took a big golden fan and knocked on Xu Yuheng's head, "Print it carefully, if the printing is not good, I will punish you to copy it a hundred times yourself." Thinking back to Xu Yuheng again If it is said, the eyelids twitched again and again, and I thought it was okay. The girls in their family originally studied more and more complicated, and they were much more courageous than the girls in other families. They all wished to be men or go out and travel Thousands of mountains and rivers or writing books to spread fame all over the world, Jia Lian's move can be regarded as flattering them all, and the word Biting, without revealing her boudoir name, makes them secretly vain.After pondering for a long time, I just felt that Jia Lian should know who he was going to marry, otherwise it would be bad for him to cast a net all over Xu's family and harm their daughters of Xu's family, so he said to Jia Lian: "You are a flatterer. It was shot on the horse's leg."

Li Bizhou and others were puzzled, Jia Lian was startled, left the square table and stood in front of Xu Zhian to listen to his lecture.

Xu Zhian waved Xu Yuheng back, and said in a low voice, "What a smart man, why are you so confused now? How can the Zhang family make their own decisions for the flowers of the Li family?"

Jia Lian was taken aback for a moment, knowing that Xu Zhian was not referring to Li Wanting in terms of the marriage he was talking about, the voices and smiles of Xu Yuheng and Xu Yujue immediately appeared in his mind, thinking that the Xu family sisters must not be bad in appearance; and secretly annoyed, only felt that they looked like Xu Zhian Such a person would never be like Mrs. Wang, who spends all day making fun of other people's children's mandarin ducks.

"If I see you harming people with all kinds of tricks again..."

"Don't be an example, the younger generation will never dare again." Jia Lian hurriedly agreed with her hands down, sighing that Xu Zhi'an is old and mature. Sure enough, it is more difficult to seduce and seduce the emperor these days than to seduce the emperor. He wants to contact his future wife Feelings, I'm afraid I can't.