The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 502 Double Ninth Day [[-]]

After nightfall.

All the lights in the Grand View Garden were reduced, but the three connected large living rooms in Qiushuangzhai were as bright as day.

Below Baochai, Daiyu, Tanchun, Xiangyun, and Baoqin sat or crooked one by one, their faces were full of tiredness, and they lost the interest in talking.

Knowing that Jiao Shun broke into the palace gate last night and brought down the entire Ministry of Rites this morning, all the girls gathered together to discuss why this happened and why it came here .

In the past, it would be Jia Baoyu who made the girls in the Grand View Garden collectively worry about it.

But the frequency of Jiao Shun being mentioned recently, there is a faint momentum of overtaking in a corner, especially in the past few days when the small composition project has made great progress. While all the girls are rejoicing, they also admire Jiao Shun's resourcefulness.

In particular, all his thoughts are to fight against the girls. In the eyes of the girls, he is much better than those who fight for fame and fortune all day long!

Coupled with the sense of accomplishment brought by participating in the whole process...

The girls' affection for Jiao Shun is visible to the naked eye!

Therefore, when they heard that Jiao Shun was displaying his might again in the court, although everyone didn't know what to do, they instinctively felt honored, and they discussed lively all afternoon, but they didn't feel bored.

However, as time passed, the girls kept sending people to Jiao's house to inquire, but they never saw Jiao Shun coming back from the palace. The girls couldn't help feeling suspicious, fearing that something might happen to Jiao Shun in the palace—— If not, how could there be such a thing as letting the courtiers stay overnight in the palace for two consecutive days?

Everyone chattered and talked until halfway through the second watch, and now they have gradually disappeared.

But even so, the crowd didn't want to disperse for a long time.

"The second master is back, go in quickly, the girls are waiting!"

At this time, Shi Xiangyun, Xue Baoqin, and Jia Tanchun suddenly heard a greeting from the waiter outside. The three of them jumped up at the same time, and they all went out to greet them.

When they bumped into Jia Baoyu who was rushing in through the curtain, they asked in unison: "Brother Jiao is back?!"

"Come back, come back!"

As Jia Baoyu said, he walked quickly to the table and poured himself a drink, and then continued under the repeated urging of everyone: "It's dangerous to say that, while we are stirring up public opinion, someone secretly took advantage of the organization to frame Brother, and also Fortunately, there was some censor who rebelled before the battle and told brother Jiao about the matter in advance, and brother Jiao made a decisive decision to enter the palace overnight to face the saint, so the crisis was saved and he led the army of the Ministry of Rites instead!"

Everyone was paying attention to this matter, but now they heard that it was related to themselves and others inciting public opinion, so they hurriedly asked what happened.

Jia Baoyu wanted to drink tea to soothe his throat, but Baoqin snatched it away, so he had no choice but to recount what Jiao Shun had said.

He was in a hurry to come back to report the letter just now, and he was careless and careful in asking, so it is inevitable that there are some ambiguities in this re-examination.

But in general it is still understandable.

I heard that in order to frame Jiao Shun, the servant Zhang did not hesitate to sacrifice Emperor Sejong's powerful weapon to usurp power and throne. After Tan Chunzhi was terrified, he repeatedly slapped his chest, and sisters Baochai and Baoqin also changed color.

Only Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun had never paid attention to these royal secrets. After asking Tanchun and Baoqin, they suddenly realized it.

"This is really God bless!"

Shi Xiangyun couldn't help clasping his hands together and said: "If it wasn't for the censor who suddenly turned his back on the dark and turned to the bright, it would be... Sure enough, good people get good rewards!"

Xue Baoqin was filled with guilt. Originally, she was moved by Jiao Shun's dedication to avenge her, but now that she heard that he was almost killed by a traitor because of her own affairs, her heart throbbed even more.

She didn't know what to say, so Baochai next to her reached out and pinched Xiangyun's face, and said with a smile, "I don't burn incense on weekdays, but now I'm hugging the Buddha's feet, so I'm not afraid that the Buddha will laugh at you."

Saying that, it was rare to stretch one's waist regardless of appearance, and said again: "Since Brother Jiao is back, let's all leave, go back to our respective homes to rest, I'm afraid there will be more programs for the Double Ninth Festival tomorrow. "

Jia Baoyu shyly withdrew his gaze from her chest, and secretly glanced at Daiyu from the corner of his eye, unconsciously feeling a sense of loss.

Xue Baoqin heard her cousin mention the Double Ninth Festival, and couldn't help asking: "Brother Jiao will come tomorrow, right?"

After asking, he added a superfluous sentence: "I want to thank him in person!"

These words are nothing at all, but they have a lot of meaning in the ears of caring people.

Xue Baochai shook her head: "We don't care about that, maybe the Jiao family has other arrangements."

Baoqin was a little disappointed and muttered a few words. Seeing that the sisters were getting up to leave, she had no choice but to go back to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

She originally planned to go back to her own room, but Lin Daiyu dragged her to the bedroom of the main room when she didn't want to, and stuffed something into her palm involuntarily.

Xue Baoqin took a closer look, but it was the sachet that she had given to Lin Daiyu a while ago, and asked her to give it to Jiao Shun after she left. Daiyu had made a special trip to ask for Jiao Shun's manuscript as a souvenir for her. .

"Sister is this?"

"Since you want to thank him in person, can't you just whiten your teeth?"

"This……"

Xue Baoqin originally thought that it would be best to be separated from each other, and since then the world will be far away from each other and miss each other, but now her heart is throbbing, and being instigated by Lin Daiyu, she can't help but have the urge to vomit.

Brother Jiao was almost framed because of himself, and was involved in the taboo of the Sejong Dynasty. If he didn't even have the courage to express his heart, how could he be worthy of his kind treatment?

Thinking like this, he unconsciously pressed the sachet on his heart, and got up in a daze.

But unexpectedly, there was another crispy little hand on the heart.

"ah!"

Baoqin exclaimed, blushed and took half a step back, and said angrily, "What kind of monster is my sister?"

Lin Daiyu was amazed: "You are one year younger than me, I don't think so..."

As she spoke, she pursed her lips for a moment of hesitation, then suddenly leaned forward and whispered something in Bao Qin's ear.

Baoqin opened her beautiful eyes in surprise, then covered her mouth and said with a sneer: "Sister, who is not like a fireworks fairy, didn't expect to care about these things?"

"Is there anything you can do? If you don't, you know the joker!"

Lin Daiyu became angry from embarrassment, and turned her back to hide the embarrassment on her face.

Earlier in Qiushuangzhai, when Xue Baochai stretched her waist, she could see Jia Baoyu's expression and movements. Although she endured it and never had an attack, she never forgot it in her heart.

After thinking about it carefully on the road, I was shocked to realize that I was far behind.

Needless to say Xue Baochai, Yingchun and Xiangyun are also of equal flesh and blood, while Tanchun has been catching up from behind lately. After calculation, only Xichun, who is the youngest, is still not showing off her mountains and dews.

At this time, Baoqin hugged Daiyu from behind, and said with a smile: "I have actually heard of a folk prescription, that is..."

As she spoke, she leaned into Daiyu's ear and whispered.

When Lin Daiyu heard this, her already flushed face became hotter and hotter. She pushed the Baoqin with her shoulder, and said angrily, "You're so embarrassed to say it! Besides, the third younger sister has grown hair so fast recently, could it be that she was given... ...Bah~ I'm too embarrassed to say!"

…………

Not to mention how the little sisters laughed and laughed.

But he said that in Chongyang, Jiujiu, Jiao Shun originally wanted to stay at home with his parents and concubines, so that they could have a good reunion, but he didn't want Jia Lian to come to invite him in person, and said that it was Jia Zheng's intention to invite Jiao Shun to the Grand View Garden for a banquet.

At first Jiao Shunchu thought he had heard it wrong. How could Jia Zheng reject him recently?

But when he got to the garden, Jia Zheng really took the initiative to greet him, and after a long absence, he pulled him to talk about some family affairs, and then asked about yesterday's events in a roundabout way.

Jia Zheng was full of jealousy when Jiao Shun was promoted to engineering school, and Jiao Shun became more and more alienated.

But now I heard that he single-handedly brought down the three officials of the Ministry of Rites in one pot. Immediately, he felt that it was difficult for him to fight for the front. Although he was still unhappy, he felt that it was best not to offend him. .

That's why today I specially put on the posture of "reconciling the general and the prime minister" in order to restore the relationship between the two parties.

However, although he wanted to ease the relationship, the prejudice in his heart could not be easily reversed, so what he showed was that he wanted to be good, but he couldn't let go of the embarrassment of his figure.

He was awkward, and Jiao Shun was even more awkward.

After all, when he saw Jia Zheng's old face, he couldn't help but think of what happened in the woodshed that day.

It is said that people are good at being ridden by others, but they never expected that he, Jiao, who has been a disaster for so many years, would one day be exported by someone's face!
In fact, he didn't object to women taking the initiative, but it was a gesture of initiative, not a strong control.

"Nephew?"

Jiao Shun couldn't help but secretly gritted his teeth. Jia Zheng on the opposite side immediately saw his absent-mindedness. He tried to hold back his face, but his attitude was obviously a little bit colder.

"Uncle Shi, don't blame me."

Seeing this, Jiao Shun hurriedly said perfunctorily: "I just came back from the palace in the middle of the night last night, and I had to deal with two family matters, so I didn't go to bed until the middle of the night, so it's inevitable that I'm not in good spirits."

"I see."

Jia Zheng nodded slightly, he didn't believe it at all, but said in his mouth: "The virtuous nephew will have a few more glasses later, so relax and relax."

Relaxed, most of them want to be relaxed.

Every time there is a big event in Rongguo Mansion, whether it is active or passive, Jiao must take it easy - but now that there are more and more women prostrating under him, he is vaguely unable to move around.

Some of them are fine, they all know each other well.

Some of them are not easy to let each other know, which is a bit difficult to coordinate.

At this time, Jia Baoyu's entourage was suddenly poking around outside. Jia Zheng couldn't help shouting, "What are you going to do with your unruly things?! Why don't you come in and answer!"

Seeing that he was arrested, the young man had to report the truth recently: "Second Master Bao and the two young masters of the Xue family have been waiting in the Ouxiangxie for a long time, so I specially sent a young man to come over to find out when it is convenient for Uncle Jiao to come over. .”

"Humph~"

Jia Zheng snorted coldly, waved his hands and said, "Go back and tell him that I'm going to test his essay later, so he can just wait with peace of mind!"

The boy left with a bitter face.

Jia Zheng hesitated for a moment, then suddenly asked: "I heard that Director Lai wants to entrust your connections to find a job for his son. What do you think of this?"

He brought up this matter not to stand out for Lai Da, but to see Jiao Shun's absent-mindedness, so he deliberately wanted to use this to test and see what kind of attitude Jiao Shun has towards the Rongguo Mansion and towards himself.

"Is this..."

Jiao Shun was too busy to smear Mei Hanlin recently, so he didn't pay attention to it for a while, but now that Jia Zheng brought it up, he immediately scrambled and said, "I should ask Uncle Shi for instructions, and my nephew will do it—" ——It just happened to be a coincidence, in the past two days I was discussing with the emperor about the construction of the engineering school in the palace, and I happened to have a rare advancement."

"Oh?"

Jia Zheng listened to the ear in front of him, nodded his beard unconsciously, and heard that there was a rare advancement step, subconsciously asked: "But I don't know what kind of advancement step it is?"

"Uncle Shi should have also heard that the Ministry of Accounting always pushes back and forth and refuses to allocate the funds needed for the construction of the engineering school. The emperor's repeated orders and repeated requests are ineffective, so he wants to simply abandon the Ministry of Accounts and raise funds by himself."

"Self-financed?"

Jia Zheng frowned when he heard that, "You mean donate?"

"good."

Jiao Shundao: "The nearby yamen want to collect donations from the people, they either force them to apportion, or there is a lot of thunder and little rain, but engineering is different, and it is inseparable from business and industry, not to mention that imperial merchants are asking To send the children in, now we only need someone to pierce the window paper."

"You want the Lai family to take the lead?"

Jia Zheng's brows became more and more tight: "His family is afraid that they might not dare to show the limelight."

Jiao Shun cupped his hands slightly: "That's why Uncle Shi needs to nod."

After a pause, he continued: "However, since I have made such a start, I'm afraid that in the future, Mr. Lai's family will have to compare with my family. Otherwise, there will be some strange rumors outside."

"Release the Lai family?"

After Jia Zheng heard this, his frown, which was originally tightly frowned, suddenly relaxed a lot.

In fact, he was also quite dissatisfied with the Lai family's control of the house, especially when he secretly investigated the master's affairs a while ago. It wasn't the old lady who made the mistake, so he might not be willing to make a big deal into a small one.

Nowadays, it is the Lai family who take the initiative to ask for an official, so it is considered a kindness to ask for benevolence and benevolence for this reason, and the old lady should not be able to find fault.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it had been done.

only……

"Even if the Lai family is willing to stand out, the expenses in engineering must not be small. How much are you going to ask him to donate?"

"not much."

Hearing this, Jiao Shun slowly stretched out three fingers.

"Ten taels?"

Jia Zheng wondered, "What can such a small amount of money do?"

Jiao Shun shook his head and corrected: "It's 3 taels."

"3 million taels?"

Jia Zheng was taken aback, and immediately waved his hands again and again: "His family has just built a garden. Although it is far inferior to this Provincial Courtyard, I am afraid that he has already added the money he has saved for several lifetimes. You let him come out 3 Ten thousand taels, I'm afraid that if we sell the house at a discount, we may not be able to get it together."

"Ha ha!"

Jiao Shun laughed, and said disapprovingly: "I'm afraid Uncle Shi has underestimated his family, otherwise, you can entrust this matter to my nephew, and see if he can handle it."

After hearing this, Jia Zheng's face became more and more suspicious. The Rongguo Mansion owed a whole lot of money to build this pro-protestant's house, so why do you think that the Lai family still has enough energy?

Where did his family get so much money? !
(End of this chapter)