The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 260 Concubine [Part [-]]

September fourteenth, afternoon.

Four carriages slowly turned into the west entrance of Ningrong Street. In the first carriage, Zhou Rui leaned out half of his body, looking at the very familiar Rongguo Mansion not far away, feeling as if he had passed away.

Back, finally back!

Just as his heart was surging, the carriage suddenly stopped at the entrance of an alley in Ning Rongqian Lane. The driver pointed his whip at the alley and said, "Housekeeper Zhou, this may be inconvenient. You see, we are taking a detour. still……"

Zhou Rui followed his directions and saw six or seven carriages parked outside the door of the second family's house in the alley, not to mention that it was blocked, but there was only a narrow path left.

The new residence my wife arranged for my family seems to be in this alley.

Could it be that it was the little stewards from all over the mansion who came here to congratulate him on the king's return?
As soon as Zhou Rui felt a little complacent, Qian Qi, the little steward, got out of the car behind, stepped forward quickly and said, "Director Zhou, the yard assigned to you by the mansion is just next door to this house, if you want to detour, I'm afraid It will take two quarters of an hour—how about letting the carriage take a detour, let's take a few steps and see how to unload the carriage first?"

This Qian Qi is also Mrs. Wang's confidant, but his ability and status are far inferior to Zhou Rui's. Usually he is only responsible for accompanying Jia Baoyu on trips, or doing some errands for welcoming and sending him off - this time Zhou Rui was transferred back to Beijing, and Wang The lady sent him to meet him outside the city.

It turned out to be self-indulgent.

Zhou Rui felt a little embarrassed, but fortunately no one knew what he was thinking just now, so he quickly got out of the car, and said with a smile, "Well, let your sister-in-law escort the car, and we brothers will go and have a look first."

The two walked side by side into the alley, and when they got closer, Zhou Rui noticed that the carriages were constantly unloading things, such as high-quality silk and satin cloth, or hardcover rouge and gouache, and even holding jewelry. The box goes inside.

Zhou Rui couldn't help wondering: "Whose house is this? It's really a grand occasion."

Qian Qi stretched his neck and glanced inside, and said with a strange expression: "It's the eldest wife's brother, who came from the south after autumn this year."

Zhou Rui suddenly understood that the eldest wife had an older brother in the south of the Yangtze River, he had known about this for a long time, but the Xing family was known for being mean, but they didn't want to be so generous to their natal elder brother.

Because they are all from the second room, he didn't shy away from anything, and immediately sighed that the family relationship of flesh and blood is not comparable to others.

"Where!"

However, when Qian Qi heard this, he sneered, and while leading Zhou Rui into the next yard, he explained under his breath: "This matter has nothing to do with the eldest lady—no, this matter is about the old man and the old lady." Pick the head!"

Hearing that he suddenly changed his words in the middle of what he said, Zhou Rui couldn't help but become more curious, and repeatedly urged Qian Qi to explain in detail.

Qian Qi added three points of artistic processing to the words he had heard in the past few days, and recounted them vividly.

Although there are quite bizarre exaggerations, the overall story line is not wrong.

"Uncle Jiao heard that the Xing family was going to use their daughter as a concubine to repay the debt. At first, his jaw dropped in shock. After confirming it again and again, he seemed to be overjoyed—no, the treasures of gold and silver went straight to the Xing family, and said Taking a concubine is not much different from marrying a daughter-in-law!"

Hearing what Qian Qi said, Zhou Rui suddenly came to his senses, and blurted out, "Your uncle Jiao, could it be Laiwang's son Laishun?!"

"I changed my name to Jiao Shun last year."

As Qian Qi said, he cupped his hands towards the Rongguo Mansion, and said with a bit of sourness and a bit of envy: "Now we all have to be called Uncle Jiao, Master Jiao or Jue Jiao."

"This this……"

Zhou Rui pointed to the next door in disbelief and said, "The eldest wife's niece, who is the child of Laiwang's son?! This, this is too absurd, right?!"

"Don't underestimate this Uncle Jiao!"

Qian Qi sneered and said: "Ever since he fell into the emperor's eyes last year for some reason, he first did something right, and within a year he was promoted and became the chief executive of the Ministry of Industry. His words worked!"

"Even our master is now pointing to him to share some of the credit, so that we can make further progress in the officialdom!"

"Master Taiwei returned to Beijing in May, and specially gave him a nickname of 'Changqing', saying that he will only get along as an uncle and nephew in the future."

When these words came out, Zhou Rui almost suspected that he was in a dream.

I have only been away from Beijing for more than a year, so how come I have become Uncle Jiao, Lord Jiao, Lord Jiao, and even became a celebrity in front of Master Zheng and Taiwei Wang? !

Seeing his unbelievable look, Qian Qi slowly withdrew his smile, and solemnly reminded: "I am dissatisfied with you, this time it is also because the Laiwang family has quit their membership, so I got the opportunity to send someone to replace you—— I know that you and his family have some problems, but now you don't dare to provoke his family!"

After a pause, he added: "How about Lai Da? My son was broken in the face by Uncle Jiao, and now he is still holding him up. In August, Uncle Jiao was promoted, and the Lai family specially sent 800 taels of silver." I am afraid that people will still remember that incident!"

hiss~
Zhou Rui may still feel that talking about others is not true, but after hearing about Lai Da's experience, he couldn't help but gasped.

Lai Da can be said to be the benchmark among the family slaves of the Rongguo Mansion. In terms of power and connections, Zhou Rui can't reach him. His own son was broken by Jiao Shun face to face. Give generous gifts to the enemy to make amends.

This is too...

Zhou Rui couldn't help questioning: "The Lai family relies on the old lady, and even the old lady wants to give him and his wife a little favor. No matter how much this Jiao Shun grows up, he won't go over the old lady, right?"

"Whoa!"

Qian Qi said helplessly: "Isn't it that the old lady also looks at Uncle Jiao differently? He doesn't know how to plan, but let our Second Master Bao fall into His Majesty's eyes. He summoned him once on the August Festival, and summoned him again yesterday. Once, I made the old lady happy, and said that Uncle Jiao is the lucky star in the life of our second master Bao!"

As he spoke, he spread his hands and asked Zhou Rui: "How dare Lai Da offend someone whom the old lady values?"

Zhou Rui fell silent.

Not long after, the motorcade came around to the door, Qian Qi helped unload the things, and left in a hurry.

Zhou Rui sent him outside the door, turned back home and remained silent for a while, then suddenly called out to his wife who was checking the luggage, and ordered: "Hurry up and prepare a generous gift, and let's go to the next door to congratulate him too."

Although Zhou Rui's family didn't know why, they knew that their husband would never aim at nothing.

So he hastily picked out some precious ones from the gifts he had prepared earlier, picked them up in person, and followed her husband to the next door.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the courtyard, he saw Qian Qi who had just left was also mingling among the guests.

…………

At the same time, the back house of the Rongguo Mansion.

Yu Chuan found the maid on duty, took out a bulging purse and stuffed it for her elder sister Jin Chuan, with a nose that wasn't a nose and eyes that weren't eyes, and said: "We've been very busy lately, I'm afraid we won't be able to go home for a while. You can take this money home for me when you have time."

Jin Chuan weighed the purse and heard that there were more silver coins than copper coins in it. He couldn't help laughing and said, "Is this the happy money that your uncle just sent out? It's really a big deal!"

Yu Chuan gave her sister a hard gouged look, then turned and left.

"return!"

Jin Chuan hurriedly called to her, restrained his smile and said seriously: "I know what you think, but based on Miss Xing's background, even if there is a reason for the incident, it is Qu Cai."

"Humph!"

Yu Chuan didn't refute, but let out a cold snort, and let out a lot of sour air from his throat.

"You girl!"

Jin Chuan raised his hand and poked her temple hard, and said seriously: "You don't see what Uncle Jiao is happy about? I'm afraid that no one will be able to pass Miss Xing if she lifts people inside again—— Son, even the doctor wants to give her three points!"

"The ones brought from outside are nothing compared to us, let alone our background? Since you can't compete with others, who are you showing your anger? Is it for Miss Xing, or for you Uncle Jiao?!"

Yu Chuan also knew that what her sister said was true, but she wanted to fight for the position, but was inexplicably taken over by others. Even if she knew she couldn't compete, how could she not be annoyed, how could she not be sour?

"You, you!"

Seeing that she was still not enlightened, Jin Chuan threw the purse into her arms, and said without doubt: "If it's according to my opinion, it's better to try to have a good time and keep some affection. From now on, you want to raise a concubine , maybe pointing at others!"

Yu Chuan held the purse subconsciously, and asked in a puzzled way: "What does this mean?"

Jin Chuan cursed with hatred: "Idiot! You take the money back, and gather some people from Uncle Jiao's house to gather together and add a dowry to the bride. Wouldn't it show your generosity?" At that time, don’t say Miss Xing is grateful for your kindness, I’m afraid Uncle Jiao will love you more!”

Yu Chuan followed her train of thought, and immediately turned from anger to joy, and said cheerfully: "I'll go back and discuss with them, if there are shallow-sighted ones, I'll take the lead myself!"

Saying that, he put the purse in his sleeve, turned around and flew away.

…………

A few streets away from Rongguo Mansion, in a small courtyard.

Third Sister You was sitting on the bench, sulking while picking vegetables, when she suddenly saw her mother come back from the outside excitedly, and seeing her gossiping face, she knew that she must have heard some big news again.

Sure enough, this old lady You poured half a cup of tea first, moistened her throat slightly, and then gestured to her two daughters: "When I came back just now, I saw that a few days ago because of my brother's dispute over property, I was arrested by the government. The house with the seal on it has been torn off, and it is being refurbished with great fanfare!"

"That guy, even the furniture is freshly painted. They are all good materials shipped from the south. They look like they are made of wood, but they are actually piled up with money!"

Speaking of this, she pretended to be mysterious and asked: "Do you know who bought that house?"

Third Sister You looked up, then lowered her head and sneered, "It's not our house anyway."

Mrs. You rolled her eyes at her choking.

Fortunately, there is also a well-behaved and curious Second Sister You, who was very cooperative and said: "But that second-entry house at the street corner? Mom, tell me, who bought it?"

"Speaking of which, you have all seen this person."

Only then did Mrs. You cheer up again, and continued to shake her burdens outside: "It's that Uncle Jiao who lives in Rongguo Mansion! But he didn't buy this house to live in. Guess who he gave this house to?"

"To whom?"

"Give it to Mrs. Rong's elder brother! Do you know what he is planning?"

"Mom, tell me!"

"The reason is to take Uncle Xing's only daughter as a concubine!"

"how can that be?!"

Third Sister You couldn't help interrupting after hearing this: "That's the eldest wife's niece! Although Jiao Shun has grown hair now, the Xing family can't afford to give their daughter to him as a concubine, right?"

"It can be said that it is!"

Mrs. You slapped her thigh and said, "I didn't believe it at first, but I can't stand the people saying that on the street!"

After a pause, she sighed in admiration again: "However, this Uncle Jiao is really generous. I heard that not only has he settled down for the Xing family, but he is also planning to buy a car repair shop for the Xing family—the one that is in charge of repairing and changing tires! "

"This is a unique business that is sure to make a profit. The water covered by Nalian's second grandmother can't get in. I heard that even the eldest wife got a bad nose at the beginning. Thanks to Uncle Jiao's face, he pulled it out immediately." The feathers of an iron cock!"

Third Sister You subconsciously said: "It's not surprising, the tire business was originally handled by Jiao Shun, and it's not easy for others to intervene, so he can always talk."

"That's what happened."

Mrs. You suddenly realized.

But Second Sister You was a little puzzled, she poked her younger sister's elbow in doubt, and asked curiously, "Why are you so familiar with Uncle Jiao's matter?"

"I, I heard it from my eldest sister!"

Third Sister You lowered her head to avoid the eyes of her mother and elder sister.

In fact, it was after she broke Jiao Shun and Youshi's day-to-day publicity that time that she quietly inquired about Jiao Shun's details.

After being questioned by her sister, some embarrassing images appeared in her mind, and she couldn't help but spit twice again.

Then he explained with a cold face, "I got a bug in my mouth."

Mrs. You and Second Sister You exchanged glances, but they both thought that her spit was aimed at You Shi.

After a little hesitation, Mrs. You couldn't help asking: "Speaking of your eldest sister, why did you fall out with her? You don't even want to go to the Double Ninth Festival, so why don't you let mother know the truth first, I went to Ningguo Mansion It’s also good to help us talk about it.”

"What is there to talk about?!"

Third Sister You threw the half-picked vegetables on the ground, and said angrily: "Is there any reason for her to be disgusting? You can go if you want, and you don't have to pay attention to me!"

As he spoke, he turned his back and sat facing the wall, no matter what his mother and sister said, he didn't respond at all.

Seeing this, Mrs. You had no choice but to say, 'I'll talk to your sister', and then led Second Sister You out of the house, and rushed along the street to Ningguo Mansion.

When passing by the house at the intersection, Second Sister You looked around curiously, and she saw that the inside was rich and noble, although it was far inferior to the Rongning Second Mansion, it was more than ten times better than her own house.

When they arrived at the Ningguo Mansion, they happened to see the servants carrying out a large sedan chair with four bars, the fine carvings on it were enough to dazzle the eyes.

Mrs. You came forward to inquire curiously, only to find out that it was the Wangong sedan chair used by the Xu family in May, and she planned to lend it to Jiao Shun for his concubine. Since she is not a regular wife, she cannot use it, so she had to measure the size in advance and replace it with a pink one. sedan chair.

The mother and daughter were amazed, they both said that this is called taking a concubine, but it is more expensive than ordinary people's marriage.

Second Sister You looked at the sedan chair with a good eye, thinking to herself that if she could have such beauty when she got married, she would be a concubine for others...

(End of this chapter)