The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion - Chapter 983

[Chapter 970]

[I wrote some yesterday, and found that my mother-in-law was too long-winded, so I couldn’t finish it, so I didn’t post it in the end, and I rewrote 4000+ today]

On the sixth day of the first lunar month in the sixteenth year of Guangde, the emperor made a big trip, and his grandson succeeded to the throne and changed to Yuan Longan.

Because the Emperor Taishang was too grief-stricken and could not afford to be ill, the court proposed that the Queen and the Crown Princess should supervise the country and rule under the curtain.

On March 24, the first year of Long’an, the first emperor was buried, and the whole country eliminated the mourning.

On the first day of the fourth lunar month, the new emperor ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, and the first three-rank Weilie general Jia Zhen and his eldest son Jia Rong were also included.

So far, the father and son have been detained for nearly half a year. When they walked out of the prison of the Ministry of Punishment side by side, when they saw the long-lost Chaoyang and the market, they couldn’t help crying in the street.

After crying for a long time, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong got into the carriage under Zhou Rui’s persuasion.

When he saw his uncle Jia Zheng in Rongguo Mansion, he sighed again.

Afterwards, Jia Zheng held a dust-cleaning banquet at Rongxi Hall, and when he asked Jia She during the banquet, he realized that he was not included in the amnesty—in fact, Wang Xifeng was annoyed at his shamelessness and deliberately told Sun Shaozong not to rescue him.

This meal was drunk from Sizheng [10:00 am] to Weizheng [2:00 pm], both father and son were drunk, and by the time Jia Zhen woke up, it was already a month old.

He got up from the bed with a splitting headache, and thought he was in the prison in a daze, and was about to ask the jailer for a bowl of water to drink.

It wasn’t until she took a few steps down the ground that Jia Zhen suddenly remembered that she was at home, so the humility on her face suddenly turned into an angry shout: “Where’s the person? Where did Mother Du Te die?!”

After saying that, he turned his head and staggered a few steps, plunged his head back onto the bed, and kicked off his boots randomly.

At this time, I heard a rustling movement from outside, and then someone held a candle to the bed and whispered, “Is your lord awake?”

“Um.”

Jia Zhen lay still on the bed, answered vaguely, and shouted again: “Can’t you break your leg? Why did it take so long to come here! Go, go and bring you a bowl of sober soup!”

The visitor responded, turned around and lit the candles on the lampstand, and hurried outside again, but it took a long time to bring a bowl of warm soup that was half hot.

Jia Zhen waited impatiently, and turned over scoldingly. When she saw the appearance of the person who came, she couldn’t help but froze for a moment, and blurted out, “Who are you?!”

When the visitor heard this, his body froze, and he held Wen Tang and said: “Master, I… I’m Fang’er.”

As he said that, tears of grievance dripped down.

When Jia Zhen heard the name, she remembered that this was an old concubine in the family. Because of her old age, she hadn’t seen her for a few years, so she didn’t recognize her for a while.

He frowned and asked, “Why are you serving here? Where are Moxiang and Yingti who are on duty in the main room? Where are You Shi?”

“This……”

The old concubine who claimed to be Fang’er pursed her lips tightly, skipped the first question, and said, “The second grandmother of the Xifu also released, and invited my wife to drink the dust-cleaning wine, but it is such a time in the sky, it must be time to come back.”

Said that Cao Cao Cao Cao was coming, the sound of footsteps approached before he finished speaking, and immediately after the curtain was raised, You walked in from outside.

“You still know how to come back?!”

Seeing her pink face, blushing brows and smiling eyes, it was obvious that the host and guests were enjoying themselves, Jia Zhen felt more and more unhappy, rolled over from the bed and sat up, scolding her head to cover her face, “It’s okay if you don’t go to the prison to pick up the master, this whole thing is fine. I didn’t even see you show up, so I just left an old woman by my side…”

“What about the old woman?”

You Shi, who didn’t want to always be submissive, didn’t want to let him scold him this time, and sneered with a gun and a stick: “If she hadn’t been thinking of serving you since she was a child, I’m afraid no one would know if you died of drunkenness here. !”

“You bitch, are you going to do the opposite?!”

Jia Zhen was furious, and pressed forward.

After all, he has accumulated prestige for a long time. Seeing his hair and beard, You Shi couldn’t help but retreat. He grabbed the curtain with one hand and was about to snatch the door to escape, but saw Jia Zhen clutching her head, staggering back two steps, and plopping down again. Back on the foot.

You’s courage suddenly grew stronger, remembering what she had discussed with Wang Xifeng just now, she took out an account book from the next door with a sullen face, threw it into Jia Zhen’s arms, and sneered: “Master, treat me as love in front of others. A servant girl? But if you offend that Feng Lazi again, you won’t be left alone, but you will even worry about eating and drinking!”

Jia Zhen is a bully at heart, not to mention having just been disciplined in prison for half a year.

Seeing the arrogance of his well-behaved wife at this time, he felt a little guilty at first, and while flipping through the account book, he said sternly, “Master, you haven’t woken up yet, what are you doing with an account book? ”

“It’s for the Lord to sober up!”

You Shi laughed and said: “I want to let the master know that our servants have been scattered. Jia Qiang eloped with two actors, so your concubines have all gone to find their own way…”

“what?!”

Hearing this, Jia Zhen really lost a little bit of drunkenness, and asked dumbfounded, “How dare you, how dare you…”

“They’re leaving on their own, they have nothing to do with me.”

You rolled his eyes, pointed at the account book, and said, “Master, let’s look at the account book first. How can those delicate and expensive ones be able to stay cold and starve with us?”

Only then did Jia Zhen start to read carefully, but his hangover was not over, and he was used to being a hands-off shopkeeper. How could he understand it in a hurry?

Therefore, You Shi finally helped him make a conclusion.

Since Ning Guofu was confiscated, it wasn’t much better, not to mention that he was a family member.

How can I raise five or six hundred mouthfuls to eat, drink, and chew with the remaining little floating wealth?

After only half a month of hard work, the money and food ran out, so he could only dismiss the servants and ask the Rongguo Mansion for help.

But the Rongguofu is not as good as it used to be now. It was already cutting down on food and clothing to reduce expenses, and it was still possible to rescue the Ningguofu. It was absolutely impossible to maintain Jia Zhen and Jia Rong’s wives and concubines to live a life of luxury and lust.

In addition, You’s intention to overcome the coercion, and within a few months, even Jia Rong’s successor, Hu, could not bear the poverty, and escaped from the house to hang out with a few playful children – this is the same as Jia Zhen and Jia at the beginning. Rong helped pave the way.

Up to now, only You Shi and Fang’er are left in the family, and they still owe Rong Guofu a lot of money. Although the relationship between the two families, Rong Guofu may not ask for it, but this is by no means a long-term solution.

After learning about the current situation of her family, Jia Zhen’s face faded a bit, and she sat on the head of the bed and muttered repeatedly: “Why is this, why is this…”

After half a year in prison, he was already quite haggard. Before, he was still a little energetic because of the taste of alcohol.

Seeing this, You Shi’s heart was not only full of pity and sympathy, but full of consolation and contempt, and then poured a basin of cold water on it: “I just heard Feng Lazi and Aunt Zheng say that his family stayed here to make up for the pardon. I’m afraid it’s going to start selling properties – I’m too embarrassed to fight the autumn wind again at this juncture, I’d better hurry up and think of something, so that in the end, even relatives can’t do it.”

Jia Zhen became more and more frustrated. She looked at the account book in her arms, and then looked at You Shi with a cold eyebrow, and couldn’t help but sighed: “In this rush, where do you want to go?”

He hugged his luck again and said, “Besides, although the West Residence has become a dilapidated house, there are still a few wealthy relatives here. It will not shorten the food and clothing expenses of our husband and wife, right?”

After speaking, seeing You Shi’s sneer, Jia Zhen felt a little embarrassed and angry. She threw the ledger on the ground with a snap, and forced her to ask, “What about you? Have you ever come up with any good ideas?!”

“It’s not that there is no idea.”

You waited for his words, then raised her eyebrows and said, “Taiwei Sun will get married in a few days. How can he be better…”

“and many more!”

Jia Zhen interrupted her and asked in confusion, “Which one is Taiwei Sun?”

“It’s Sun Family Erlang, the in-law of the West House!”

You and You Rongyan raised their faces: “The Empress Dowager [Prince Concubine] has appointed Master Sun to take over as the Admiral of Longjing Guard. This is an official position from the first rank, and naturally it should be called Taiwei.”

“He actually became the Admiral of the Dragon Guard?!”

Jia Zhen is almost in a dream. Although Sun Shaozong has been on the rise very fast in the past few years, he has long been surprised, but in just a few months, he has been promoted from a fourth-rank official to a first-rank senior officer. It is really unacceptable.

Suddenly, he remembered something, hurriedly took Fang’er out, and then leaned closer to You, and said with anticipation: “You and him are not… hehe, I can’t say that I can find him to help the master find a good job, In the future, we won’t have to worry about the cost of food and clothing!”

“Pooh!”

You Shi immediately slapped him, took two steps back vigilantly, and said coldly: “At this time, the master has not forgotten the innocence of people! I’m fine, if you let Taiwei Sun know, be careful about your cheapness. bone!”

“you……”

Jia Zhen also took a half step back, angrily wiped her face with her sleeve, and said angrily: “Okay, what do you think we should do? The family is in short supply, and the West Palace can’t be trusted according to what you said. Are we going to do it on the street? Can’t be a beggar?!”

“Which one wants the master to be a beggar?”

You said, “The West Palace can sell products to fill the holes, but we can’t do it in the East Palace?”

Jia Zhen kicked the ledger, and rolled her eyes at You Shi, apparently saying that Ning Guofu was already a family, and there was nothing to sell.

But I heard You continue: “In the current status of Taiwei Sun, how can he squeeze with his brother again? I think he will have to build another house before and after his big marriage. In that case, we might as well…”

“You mean…”

Jia Zhen’s eyes widened suddenly: “Selling Ning Guofu to him?!”

After speaking, he became furious, pointed at You Shi and scolded: “Well, you are a wicked and rotten servant, you just got rid of the falsehood, and now you want to help the adulterer to steal the grandfather’s ancestral property! The cub who sold the old man’s land has settled down?! Okay, okay, if I don’t teach you a lesson today, you are afraid of murdering your husband!”

Saying that, Zhang Ya and claws are about to fight.

Fortunately, You Shi had been on guard for a long time, and he was also hungover, weak and frail.

Jia Zhen took a few steps behind, and nearly fell with one deep foot and one shallow foot, so she scolded and returned to the room, clamoring to give her a good look when You Shi came back.

I don’t want You to take his son to Wang Xifeng, and since then he has ignored Jia Zhen and his son.

Jia Zhen became more and more annoyed, and she scolded Jia Rong at home, and even came up with all kinds of ways to concoct You.

However, within a few days, Fang’er, the only old concubine left in the family, came over and said that the firewood at home was not enough for a day.

Jia Zhen thought that if Youshi was willing to ask for some money from the Rongguo Mansion, it would not be too bad for him to be lightly dealt with.

But when Wang Xifeng was found, You just avoided it.

Jia Zhen was furious, and went back to the next place to scold Fang Xie in the middle of the night. By noon the next day, she was really hungry, so she had to bite the bullet and go to Jia Zheng to borrow money.

He asked to borrow one thousand taels of silver, but Jia Zheng gritted his teeth and squeezed out two hundred taels for him.

Jia Zhen was greatly disappointed. She thought that with one thousand taels of silver, she could do some small business, but what could these two hundred taels be enough for?

After going home and discussing with their son for two and a half sentences, the father and son unanimously decided to go to the temple for offering sacrifices to the five internal organs first, and then make good plans.

So I left Fang’er and went to a restaurant I was used to eating and drinking, and each brought two fans home to be happy. After sobering up the next day, I found that I had spent more than 60 taels of silver, and this was the beginning. Regret.

After a few days, I changed to a lower-grade restaurant for consumption. Fantou is also shared by father and son.

But to live frugally like this, he also had to pay six or seven taels every day, and Banyue Jingjing scattered the rest.

Seeing that the cooking is about to be cut off again, the father and son discussed with a frowning face for a long time, but they really couldn’t figure out the way to make money, so they had to look for Jia Zheng with a shy face.

This time, he was reprimanded a lot, but only fifty taels of silver were given to him.

The father and son returned home in dismay, and finally regained some memory, thinking that the outside is too expensive, or it would be more affordable to open fire on their own.

As for physical needs…

Although Na Fang’er is older, she can still make do with it, and the father and son don’t have to look for any more fans.

Unexpectedly, his father and son had a good plan, but Fang’er had already listened to it. At that time, he was ashamed and angry, and he wished that a fish would die and the net would be broken.

These days, Jia Zhen’s father and son went out to restaurants, but they never thought about what Fang’er would do at home, so she still never gave up, but she didn’t expect to end up like this.

Immediately left two beasts, and went to find You to call the shots.

Leaving Jia Zhen and Jia Rong unable to carry their shoulders and hands, they were willing to go to the Rongguo Mansion to borrow a few maids and wives, but who would be willing to jump into this fire pit?

So the idea of opening fire just fell apart.

The father and son had no choice but to choose the fly house and the food stall to barely satisfy their stomachs.

It’s just that as time goes by, Jia Zhen feels more and more that her son Jia Rong is beautiful and charming…

As it was, it could last a while.

But unfortunately, Jia Zhen and Jia Rong went out to eat wontons at the stalls outside, and as soon as they sat down, they bumped into the former Hu Peng Dog Party.

After eating a few sarcastic words from the other party, Jia Zhen became arrogant again as soon as she got angry, set down the banquet and summoned fans, so that the little people could see what a skinny camel is bigger than a horse!

The face slap was quite successful.

But when she woke up the next day, Jia Zhen wished she could smash her old face to shreds—for just such a meal, the money she lived on was all gone, and she owed the restaurant more than ten taels!

After reconsidering the pain, Jia Zhen regained his spirits, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet to find You, and arrogantly dropped two words: “Sold!”

At the end of May, Ningguo Mansion changed hands.

Afterwards, Taiwei Sun sent 100 servants to take a brief rest. During this period, You Shi, Wang Xifeng, Li Wan, and Aunt Xue took turns to supervise the work, and contributed a lot of good ideas for Taiwei Sun to adopt every day.

In mid-June, there was another decree in the palace, and the Grand View Garden was authorized to reopen for the purpose of holding weddings.

For a while, the competition in the Grand View Garden seems to have returned to the heyday of a few years ago…

[End of This Chapter]