The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 176

On the night of the Lantern Festival, there was a mistake.

Although Ping'er never blamed Jiao Shun, but after all he harbored some grievances, and then began to avoid Jiao Shun again.

As for Li Wan, because Jiao Shun stopped halfway, and Ping'er helped cover it up, she thought it was a big dream from the beginning to the end—as for the problem of the dream being too clear and real, she just thought it was because she had heard too much. Shi's nonsense, the plot in the dream involuntarily.

However, since then, Li Wan originally intended to distance himself from Youshi, but firstly, because of Jiao Shun's kindness, it was hard to turn his back on Youshi completely; secondly, after Jia Lan entered school, the bottom of her heart seemed to be gouged out A big piece, empty and very uncomfortable, with Youshi coming to talk with him from time to time, it can barely fill up.

It's just that in this way, it is inevitable to listen to some dizzy activities again, so that the scene in the cave frequently falls into dreams, and the number of appearances of the dead husband Jia Zhu has been reduced and decreased, completely reduced from the protagonist to the supporting role.

time flies.

In a blink of an eye, it was Fangfei in April.

On the morning of the seventh day of the lunar new year, Jiao Shun finished his morning exercise, and while motioning for Xiang Ling to bring a towel to wipe off his sweat, he said to Yu Chuan who also came up to him: "I don't need to serve you here, you can go to the Bao Brothers' Court to urge you Reminder, today is a big day, and the 81 disaster is only short of this shivering, so don't delay it."

As the specific matters had already been explained yesterday, Yu Chuan hurriedly stuffed the tray in his hand to Xiang Ling, and rushed to Baoyu Courtyard in a hurry.

At that time, Baoyu was still lying high in the inner room, Xiren came out from the inside combing his temples, and greeted with a smile: "What wind brought my sister here this early in the morning? Could it be that Uncle Jiao has something to explain?"

"how?"

Yu Chuan was taken aback when he heard the words: "Second Master Bao didn't tell you?"

"No, what's the matter?"

Seeing his expression, Xiren also knew that it must not be a trivial matter, so he hurriedly pulled Yuchuan to ask what happened.

Yu Chuan said: "Didn't the envoy of the Wuxi people arrive half a month ago? It's just the Duke of Ah."

At the end of last year, Wang Ziteng was ordered to contact the Wuxi people in Guangdong and Guangxi. However, the Wuxi country is thousands of miles away. The governor sent by the Wuxi people to the local area has no say in such important military affairs.

Therefore, apart from wrangling, the two sides have made no progress at all. It was not until the end of February that King Wuxi sent a special envoy—his own brother, Duke Adolphus—that he was allowed to go to Beijing for formal peace talks with the imperial court.

There are countless articles in such big news newspapers.

Hearing Yuchuan mention this matter, Xiren hurriedly said: "Of course I know about it—our second master didn't know how much Mr. Liu shot down the foreigner's flag in the Sifang Pavilion on the day the Wuxi people entered Beijing. I'm back!"

After the Lantern Festival, Liu Xianglian really came to visit Jiao Shun, and the two sides became friends, so they introduced Feng Ziying, Baoyu and others to get acquainted.

Everyone just loved his looks, but unexpectedly, on March [-]th, when the Wuxi envoy came to Beijing, he actually did a great thing - the envoy had just hoisted the Wuxi flag in the Sifang Pavilion, and he was caught by him at sixty paces away. An arrow shot down!
There was a great commotion at that time, men in Sijiu City mentioned Liu Xianglian with admiration, even the imperial court wanted 'Leng Erlang' openly, but secretly let him go on purpose.

His outstanding appearance, coupled with such heroic deeds when he sat down, Xiren, who is determined to accompany Baoyu, can't help but be moved when he mentions it.

After compose himself, Xi Cai wondered again: "But what does this have to do with our second master?"

"It's a big deal!"

Yu Chuan explained: "Our grandfather had already guessed that foreign devils valued profits and needed to discuss business with the imperial court, so..."

Under Jiao Shun's lure for profit, Liu Changyou's master and apprentice painstakingly researched the method of making kerosene, and spent a lot of effort on improving it, which greatly reduced the production cost.

At the same time, the peace talks between the two countries have gradually reached an impasse:

The State of Xia demanded Wuxi to cede land for compensation, surrender, and provide Daxia with four ironclad warships for dismantling and research, as well as promise not to invade the sea, no longer sell Y films to Daxia, and so on.

The Wuxi people are only willing to promise not to invade the Xia Kingdom’s sea and territory again, and demand that the Great Xia army must withdraw from the Wuxi people’s colonies, abolish the trade ban that affects the entire East Asian region, open more trading ports, and set up permanent envoys for each other. Wait.

After half a month of fighting with each other, the two sides initially reached a certain degree of compromise in terms of military affairs, commitments, and territorial division. The focus of the debate gradually focused on compensation and trade.

Just as Jiao Shun expected, the Wuxi people were eager to open up the Xia market to avoid the continued expansion of the trade deficit with Xia, but suffered from the fact that there were not many commodities to sell—according to the words of a certain emperor in the previous dynasty: the abundance of products in the Celestial Dynasty is omnipresent , the original foreign barbarian goods to communicate with or without.

Seeing that the time was right, Jiao Shun wrote a letter in time to donate lamps and oil, and put forward the proposal of 'measure the wealth of allies and shine on our Chinese people'.

It is suggested to link compensation with trade, and the Wuxi people will pay to subsidize the Xia people to buy kerosene lamps, and then the imperial court will give the formula for extracting kerosene to the Wuxi people, and then the Wuxi people will supply and transport kerosene from overseas.

In this way, it will help the popularization of lighting equipment among the people and reduce lighting costs; secondly, it will also alleviate the anxiety of the Wuxi people about the trade deficit;

This is exactly the same as Jiao Shun's previous work-study idea, which can be said to benefit the country and the people with one stroke.

As a result, the imperial court has not yet reached a conclusion in the discussion. The Wuxi mission got the news and suddenly proposed to conduct a field visit three days ago to investigate whether the kerosene business has a future.

After a heated debate in the imperial court, Emperor Longyuan finally decided to conduct an investigation and verification today—not only the Wuxi people wanted to investigate the prospect of this thing, but the imperial court also sent special personnel to understand it.

When Yu Chuan said this, he pointed his fingers proudly and said: "I heard from our master that the court attaches great importance to this matter. Today, it is not only the Duke of Nawuxi who is coming, but also the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Household Affairs. , the Ministry of War, the Secretary of General Administration, the Ministry of Internal Affairs... anyway, a lot of people are coming, even the envoys of Qianxiang Kingdom!"

The root cause is that the dispute between Daxia and Uxi actually originated from Uxi's invasion of Qianxiang.

Moreover, this Southern Expedition also received the full support of the Qianxiang Kingdom, so it is not easy to negotiate peace without them alone—in fact, as early as mid-February, the envoys of the Qianxiang Kingdom had arrived in the capital ahead of schedule and participated in the whole process negotiated.

But Xiren said that patiently, after listening to Yuchuan's long speech, he finally couldn't help asking again: "But what does this have to do with our second master?"

"It doesn't matter!"

Yu Chuan stared and said: "In order to let Second Master Bao show his face, our master specially arranged for him to accompany the commentary. This matter has already been reported to the higher-ups. If Second Master Bao goes late, it will not be a major court event that has been delayed!"

"Why didn't you say that earlier!"

When Xiren heard this, he was also in a hurry. He got up and wanted to wake Baoyu up in the room.

It just so happened that Qingwen came in from the outside at this time, and hurriedly confessed: "You came at a good time, and sit here with Sister Yuchuan for a while, I will quickly wake up the second master!"

As he spoke, he called out Qiuwen Bihen again.

Seeing the three of them entered the room knowingly or confusedly, Qingwen couldn't help wondering: "What's the matter, I just played with my sisters till midnight yesterday, and you're making trouble with him this morning?"

"Second Master Bao is really..."

Hearing that Baoyu was making trouble until midnight yesterday, Yuchuan couldn't help complaining, but he didn't bother to spend any more time talking, instead he asked under his voice, "How is sister, did you find that Mingyan?"

At the beginning of February, Wu Gui asked Jiao Shun's connections again, and was transferred back to Tian Xingjian's shop, where he worked as a shopkeeper under Li's shopkeeper.

Firstly, Qingwen is grateful for Jiao Shun's kindness, and secondly, she is also annoyed that Mingyan has ruined Baoyu, so she makes up her mind to help Jiao Shun punish Mingyan, and it is best to drive him away from Baoyu.

only……

"I want to find his shortcomings!"

Qingwen said with a bit of resentment: "Uncle Jiao takes Erye Bao to the yamen every three days, but whenever he is free, he goes to serve his wife and old lady. Since he has no time to spare, how can Mingyan have the opportunity to make mistakes?" ?”

"Is it our fault?"

Yu Chuan pursed her lips: "Obviously, Master Zheng told us to help manage Second Master Bao before his departure—in short, sister had better think of something, so as not to make our master wait in a hurry."

Qingwen was still waiting to answer, but she heard Baoyu yelling inside: "I don't care about merit or fame! They all coaxed me, are they trying to force me to death?!"

Seeing Yu Chuan's complexion turned ugly, Qing Wen hurriedly explained with a sneer: "You know what kind of temper Master Bao is, most likely because he was sleepy and hasn't woken up yet."

Yu Chuan secretly slandered, this kind of good thing that people don't have to take any responsibility to show their sages before, others can't grab it by breaking their heads, but this Baoyu dog bites Lu Dongbin and doesn't know a good heart.

The fault is that he thinks that his family will be dependent on others, and he really wishes he could get away in a fit of anger.

Suddenly, she remembered something, and hurriedly said: "You go in and say something, just say that the leader of the team today is the King of Beijing, and the prince's face must always be taken into account."

Although Qingwen was a little puzzled, she still followed her suggestion and went into the room to say this.

Not long after, I heard Baoyu yelling again in the room: "Where is the one I wore when I went to the Beijing Palace? Find it quickly, and don't miss the prince's business!"

Tch~
This son, who is too muddy to support the wall, really has an extraordinary relationship with the King of Beijing, but only his sister refuses to believe it!
Yu Chuan thought of the unresolved relationship between the sisters, and couldn't help becoming more and more disgusted with Jia Baoyu's actions—or else, the world is volatile and people's hearts are changeable. Until last September, when she was transferred to Jiao's house, she admired Jia Baoyu the most. In fact, it is Baoyu.

So when Qingwen came out from inside, Yuchuan got up and said goodbye.

It's just that she was called back not long after she left.

But it turned out that the news that Jia Baoyu wanted to show his holiness in front of others quickly spread in the mansion. Baochai Daiyu Xiangyun Sanchun and others heard about it and came to inquire about the truth.

Pian Baoyu was all about resisting and resisting before, and he never revealed anything in front of others, and Xiren only knew half of it, so he had to invite Yuchuan back to ask what happened.

Wait for Yuchuan to tell everything he knows.

All the girls have different expressions, half of them are happy and worried.

Lin Daiyu was the first to speak: "Why did you choose him? If you make a fool of yourself in public..."

"Miss Lin, don't worry!"

Yu Chuan hurriedly patted his chest to assure him: "Our grandfather had Second Master Bao participate in it two months earlier, and in the past half month, he made a draft early so that Second Master Bao could be familiar with it by heart—and with our grandfather , Mr. Yun watched from the sidelines, and appointed him to get a good fortune!"

Hearing that Jiao Shun had already made arrangements, [-]% of everyone's worries disappeared immediately.

Tanchun couldn't help asking: "So, it's not the right time for this event, but your master has already planned it? How could he predict that foreign devils would be interested in these things two months in advance?"

"It's more than two months!"

Yu Chuan hurriedly explained: "Last year when the iron-clad steamships of the Wuxi people made trouble at sea, our master guessed that there would be another fight in two strokes, so he studied the affairs of the Wuxi country when he had free time. Those Jinshi masters may not know as much as our master!"

Because of Baochai's words earlier, Tanchun changed his perception of Jiao Shun, but now he heard that he was so predictable and prepared for the Wuxi people a few months in advance, he admired him even more.

At this time, Xue Baochai was paying attention to another aspect, and sighed with relief on his face: "Brother Bao has really improved this time. If it were different from before, he would just hide as far away as possible from such things."

"But it is."

Lin Daiyu continued, "I don't believe that he is so obedient."

There is still worry in the words.

"It is extremely, it is extremely."

Shi Xiangyun nodded solemnly and said: "Second brother usually only listens to sister Lin, and we take everything we say as deaf ears."

"You loquacious, look at me..."

Seeing Lin Daiyu stomping her feet to get annoyed, Yuchuan hurriedly said: "Our master has spent a lot of thought, and he specially invited his wife to come forward before, so that he can coax Second Master Bao into submission."

"I said."

Lin Daiyu immediately forgot about Xiangyun, and said frowningly: "The Wuxi people heard that the red-eyed and green-eyed man drinks blood, and is more vulgar than the savages in the mountains. If he is frightened, what should we do? Why did you choose him..."

Just as I was talking, Wang Xifeng suddenly came in through the curtain, Yang Pazi pointed and said, "Okay, I said why no one is seen, and the feelings are all hidden here! Walk around, follow me to the old lady's place— ——The old lady heard about Brother Bao, she has already sent Lin Zhixiao to take someone to guard the yamen, and if there is any good news, she will send it back immediately!"

Saying so, he said to Yu Chuan specifically: "You come too, the old lady is worried that she can't find out the truth! Brother Bao is also the same, such a big matter is still hidden from the family!"

After her interruption, Daiyu couldn't say anything more, so she could only rush to the old lady's room together with all the sisters.

It was not just the old lady, decent ladies from the eastern and western mansions, such as Xing, Wang, Li Wan, You, etc., had gathered here a long time ago, and all of them were beaming, not much worse than when the empresses in the palace were conferred the title of imperial concubine. .

It's no wonder that the younger generation of men in Rongning's second mansion really lack a leader who can take the lead—even if they show their faces this time, they may not really be able to go to Datian Listening, and there may be a good start. good thing.

But as soon as she entered the door, Mrs. Wang stepped forward to hold the jade bracelet, and said with a smile: "You can be considered to be here. The girl in Xiangling didn't know what to ask, but I just listened to brother Shun. My wife didn’t understand the question just now, and she is throwing a tantrum at us.”

As he spoke, he personally led him to the old lady, and stood side by side with Xiang Ling who had been found long ago.

Originally, because of the disharmony between the Jiao family and the Lai family, the old lady had been ignoring Jiao Shun recently, but today she completely changed her color, and amiably pulled Yuchai to ask questions.

Seeing this scene, who doesn't know that after today, Jiao Shun's market in the mansion will be bullish again?
So two women thought at the same time: If he can really teach Brother Bao [Brother Bao] to be successful, the family might be reluctant to marry a concubine daughter to further bind the relationship between the two parties.

So one of Xia Fei's cheeks and one face showed hesitation.

Inside, there was another woman who secretly said, if he can help and raise his son in this way, why worry about his future future?

only……

In this world, there is no reason to be favored by others for no reason all the time.

But what can I give him?
The woman suddenly thought of something, her heart was beating wildly, and her legs were almost not close together.

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