Red House Shoufu

Chapter 137
At the gate of Rongguo Mansion, Jia Lian had just sent away a guest.As soon as he turned around, he saw his younger brother Jia Cong with his hands in his hands.

"Second Brother, Cousin Lin asked me to tell you that you will find him in the study when you are free."

After delivering the message, Jia Cong turned his head and wanted to run, because he had a lot of gold beans and silver beans in his sleeves. Today, when he followed Jia She, every guest who touched his head would stuff a few gold beans and silver beans.

Especially the eldest brother of the Xue family, it was too polite to give him a dozen or so golden beans directly.

"What's in your hand?" Jia Lian grabbed Jia Cong's head and pulled him back by the neck.

With a crash, the gold beans and silver beans in Jia Cong's sleeve fell all over the floor, along with a few small bank notes.

Jia Lian untied his purse from his body, and there was not much money in it, and squatted on the ground to help Jia Cong pick it up and put it in.

"It seems that you received a lot of presents today, take them back and hide them quickly, so that your wife won't see them."

While talking, Jia Lian stuffed the purse directly into Jia Cong's arms, patted him on the head, and told him to go back and hide the silver worth more than 200 taels.

Jia Cong held the purse and grinned.He seemed to have thought of something, and whispered to Jia Lian, "Second Brother, in the morning, I went to play with Brother Huan, and saw the King of Beijing talking to Second Uncle. It was too far away, so I couldn't hear clearly. When the king of Beijing asked Baoyu to go to study for a prince... probably this is it."

"Is the prince accompanying you?"

"Yes, this is it."

Jia Lian frowned and said to himself, since when did this Shui Rong have a relationship with the prince again, how much did he bet on?
"Okay, you go and play. Also, don't tell anyone what you said just now!" Jia Lian reminded a few words, Jia Cong nodded and ran back to his yard.

When Jia Lian came to the study of Dongkuayuan with a lot of worries, he saw Lin Shu talking to Xue Pan.

Jia Lian was very clear about the matter of Xue's family. After Lin Shu finished his suggestion and Xue Pan's request, Jia Lian nodded and said, "They are all from my own family, so leave this matter to me. But cousin Xue still has to suffer. Apologize, at least the board is unavoidable."

"I can bear this, as long as my sister can live well, let alone a board, I can endure even ten meals."

Xue Pan quickly stated that he was just trying to seek Lin Shu's help today, but he didn't expect that there was really hope.

The three of them discussed in the study for a long time, and they didn't leave until the boy Xing'er came to find Jia Lian.

In the evening, the Lin family's carriage left Rongguo Mansion in a wobble. Before leaving, Jia Lian made a special appointment that he would visit Lin Mansion tomorrow.

……

In the afternoon of the second day, as soon as Lin Shu came out of the imperial city, he saw Jia Lian waiting for him at the palace gate.

When they returned to the Lin Mansion, Lin Shu called Daiyu, and the three brothers and sisters talked about what happened yesterday in the study.

Daiyu almost restored the process of her communication with Qingyao county master yesterday.She expressed her opinion to the two: "Judging from the statement of the Qingyao county lord, the relationship between Prince Beijing and Prince Yizhong is closer. The relationship with Prince Zhongxin's mansion and Zhen's family is more like a show. It’s a disguise for outsiders to see. After all, the relationship between the inner house can better reveal the intimacy of the two families.”

Lin Shu nodded, agreeing with Daiyu's opinion.In recent years, the relationship between the two families is close or not, and the movement between the inner houses is the most direct expression.

Just like when they were in Suzhou, the direct expression of the good relationship between Lin and Wang was that Lin Shu could visit Wang Xiaoshi in the Wang family's inner house.

Daiyu also often went to play with Wang Yuan, and even when Wang Xiaoshi made clothes for Wang Yuan, she would also make one for Daiyu from time to time.

"Only from this point, we can only see that the relationship between the two families is close, and it does not prove that Shui Rong is on the side of Prince Yizhong. Yesterday I got a bad news. The prince is somewhat related..."

Jia Lian told him what Jia Cong told him, and he said with a wry smile: "This water solution is too mysterious, which side is he on? I am confused by him now."

"It's strange that the cabinet has not received His Majesty's order. Choosing a companion for the prince to read is a major matter that concerns the country. It is impossible that there is no news at all?"

There is no crown prince today, so these two grown-up princes are the most powerful contenders for the position of future prince.

If the emperor intends to choose a companion for the prince, the cabinet will definitely be the first to know about it.But these days Lin Shu has been staying in the cabinet, and has not heard any news.

"Second Brother Lian, haven't you heard His Majesty mention it?"

Jia Lian shook his head, not to mention that Lin Shu found it strange, he was on duty at the Palace of Qinzheng, and was by the emperor's side every day, and the emperor had never mentioned this matter.

The two looked at each other in blank dismay.It's not easy to ask the emperor about this matter. Could it be that they directly told the emperor that Shui Rong acted as a middleman for the prince to win over the honorable ministers.Isn't this separating the father and son of the heavenly family?
"Second brother Lian, brother, maybe Brother Cong heard it wrong? It doesn't have to be the prince who accompanied the reading, maybe the prince accompanied the reading. Why don't you check the various palaces in the capital first."

Daiyu raised a possibility. After all, Jia Cong was far away at the time, and it is very possible that he misheard.

Both Jia Lian and Lin Shu were stunned. If Shui Rong had an affair with the prince, it would be the last thing they want to see.

Because of the few words Jia Cong overheard, both of them panicked, but Daiyu saw it more clearly.

"My cousin is still thoughtful. If that's the case, I'll go back and arrange for someone to investigate. I was really scared yesterday. The storm nine years ago has not stopped until now. I'm really afraid that a new storm will come again. "

Jia Lian didn't stay long, and he and his brother and sister bowed their hands, and hurriedly left Lin's mansion.

……

For the next two days, while Jia Lian was on duty normally, he investigated the situation in Prince Jing's Mansion, while Lin Shu took time to take Xue Pan to Prince Zhongshun's Mansion.

On May 28, Xue Pan handed a letter to Xiangling and asked her to hand it to Xue Baochai an hour later.

He changed his clothes, took the self-report that Lin Shu had drawn up for him, and rang the Shuntian Mansion's Drum of Worship.

Cao Jingyi, who was originally on duty in Shuntian Prefecture, was raised to question the case as usual. After reading Xue Pan's letter from Chen, the sweat on his forehead was like raining.

He didn't dare to make a decision, so he hurriedly asked Xue Pan to be invited to the side hall first, while he went to find Yin Tianxiang of Shuntian Mansion.

"This...Brother Cao, do you want to invite Wang Shangshu to come over to discuss this matter first? By the way, there is also the Rongguo Mansion. Oh, really, no matter what bad things happen to me!"

Tian Xiang secretly sighed in his heart that he was really unlucky. Seeing that the three-year term was coming, he first encountered the matter of Qian Xingde, and within two days, he encountered such a difficult matter.

While Tian Xiang and Cao Jingyi were discussing what to do, the Lixiangyuan in Rongguo Mansion had fallen out.About a quarter of an hour later, Xue Baochai went to Wang Xifeng's courtyard.

　There is another chapter in the middle of the night tonight, you can read it again tomorrow morning.

　　
　
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