serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 202 Letter

The Courtyard, the Ministry of Rites arranged a courtyard for the Manchus.

O Bi stood in the courtyard, looking up at the distant sky, with a dazed smile on his face.

A gust of morning wind blows, and the withered and yellow leaves fall one after another.

Fallen leaves fluttered all over E Bi's head, and Yong Qi's entrustment echoed in his ears: Redeem the noble officers and the soldiers who were captured with the yellow banner and the Han barracks, and disturb the peace talks between Huang and Huang.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, E Bi came back to his senses, and saw the leader of Xianghuang Banner rushing in excitedly, greeted E Bi, and said, "Master E, the emperor of the Great Zhou agreed to our request to visit the prison." , he was also transferred from the Criminal Division to the prison of the Criminal Department. I saw the eldest son, and everything is fine."

Hearing this, E Bi felt relieved, looked at Xianghuang Banner Zuo Ling, and asked, "Have you found any news?"

Xiang Huang Banner Zuo Ling replied: "Zhen Yingjia will participate in the peace talks, but I don't know his identity."

There was a trace of smile on the corner of O Bi's mouth, and he immediately said seriously: "This is exactly the young master's expectation. You should have heard about the situation in the capital. Those county kings Baylor are all watching. As long as the two parties sign a contract, they will immediately persuade His Majesty The decree is to call the young master to Beijing, and this trip will be more or less auspicious! Once something happens to the young master, it will not only be bad for the Qing Dynasty, but also not good for the big families in Shengjing! Do you understand this truth?"

Xianghuang Banner Assistant Leader: "This slave is willing to die for the young master!"

E Bi: "Okay, come here!"

A servant came in at the sound.

E Bi: "Go and find Wuya Ruixing."

Attendant: "Hey." He hurried out.

E Bi thought for a while, and then said: "The peace talks can be postponed first. The most urgent thing is to redeem the captured noble officers. As long as they return to Shengjing, those Eight Banners nobles will naturally continue to support the young master. The next thing is to think There is a way to redeem the officers and soldiers of the Xianghuang Banner and the Han Army Camp, they are the foundation of the young master."

The leader of Xianghuang Banner hesitated for a moment and said, "Will the Han people agree? Even if they agree, where can we get so much food?"

E Bi's eyes sparkled: "It's just a few more Koreans starving to death."

Xianghuang Banner Zuo Ling nodded with a smile. In North Korea, the Koreans were just low-class slaves, and the Manchus and Liaodong Han people who migrated to the past were the emperor's subjects.

At this moment, the attendant came back in a hurry: "Master Rui is not here, he left early in the morning."

Xianghuang Banner leader: "Where did you go?"

Attendant: "It seems to have gone to the East City."

E Bi became impatient: "Send someone to look for it separately!"

The attendant responded loudly and ran out.

E Bi turned to Zuo Ling Xianghuang Banner: "I can't wait here anymore. I have to go to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites immediately."

The leader with the yellow flag: "Then me?"

E Bi pondered for a while, "You don't want to go out, the city of Beijing is very chaotic now." After speaking, he hurried out.

Seeing the figure of O Bi disappearing outside the moon gate, Zuo Ling of Xianghuang Qi blinked his eyes, turned around and entered the West Room, walked to the desk, spread paper and picked up a pen, and began to write.

Ningguo Mansion

In the distance, a few rough envoy women came carrying a soft sedan chair, followed by a few stewards' daughters-in-law, and stopped outside the meeting hall.

The sedan chair curtain was lifted, and Wang Xifeng came out. It was a troubled time in Ningguo Mansion today, and the meeting hall was full of people inside and outside.

All the stewards' wives saluted Wang Xifeng one after another: "Greetings to Second Mistress!"

Wang Xifeng kept nodding with a smile: "Don't be too polite, don't be too polite."

Chamber
Brocade noodle boxes are neatly arranged on the long table.

Zijuan is calling for several wives in charge to put labels with the names of the generals of the Yongwei Camp on the surface of the box.

Wang Xifeng walked in.

Zijuan: "Second Grandma is here."

Wang Xifeng nodded with a smile, glanced at the brocade box on the table, turned around and walked towards Lin Daiyu who was sitting at the desk to settle the accounts.

The abacus beads "cracked" and the brush kept drawing circles on the account book.

Lin Daiyu sensed it from the corner of her eye, and without looking up, she said, "Zicuckoo, serve good tea to Lian's second sister-in-law."

Wang Xifeng said to Zijuan with a smile: "You just do your work." Then she smiled to Lin Daiyu: "I came here for tea?"

Lin Daiyu couldn't bear Wang Xifeng's inability to explain why, so she had to apologize: "Come on, come on, today is my fault, please take care of Lian's second sister-in-law." Putting down her pen, she took the face towel from the daughter-in-law in charge, wiped her hands, "Why did you come here today?"

Wang Xifeng: "I heard that my sister-in-law has suffered from an old illness again. Let me come and see. I have a few more words to tell you." As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Zijuan and the others.

Lin Daiyu understood, and said to Zijuan and the wives in charge: "You all go and rest. I will talk to Lian's second sister-in-law for a while."

Zicuckoo led everyone back out together.

Wang Xifeng walked to the long table, opened a brocade box, looked at it, and said with a smile: "Hey, I have prepared so many old wild ginseng, who are you giving it to?"

Lin Daiyu smiled, but did not speak.

Wang Xifeng smiled: "If you don't tell me, I know. I still know the word 'Yongweiying'. This is for the families of the generals of the battalions."

Then he sat down on the chair beside the long table, "Yesterday, I accompanied my wife to the birthday banquet of the old lady of the Xiangyang Hou Mansion, and I met the old lady of the Dingcheng Hou Mansion, did you see the old lady pulling The wife praised you, saying that thanks to you, her illness has improved."

Lin Daiyu sat down beside her, only glanced at her, and said nothing.

Wang Xifeng smiled: "If you don't like to hear it, I won't talk about it. Hey, I heard that the second wife got angry. Sister-in-law Zhu came out of Rongxi Hall crying, and now she is going back to her mother's house."

When Lin Daiyu heard this, she immediately became interested and asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Xifeng: "You don't know?"

Lin Daiyu said angrily, "What are you talking about?"

Wang Xifeng: "I don't know the details. It seems that the master of the family impeached my uncle, and now the palace is planning to punish my uncle."

Lin Daiyu frowned slightly when she heard the words. Recently, Youshi suffered from an old illness. For some reason, Qin Keqing could not touch the account books of the Ningguo Mansion. She came here in a sedan chair every day at dawn, and returned very late, knowing nothing about the outside world.However, he also guessed that it was Wang Ziteng who made the incident.

At this time, I also understood why Jia Hu was unwilling to have too deep acquaintance with Li Shouzhong. He knew that this matter would bring Li Wan a lot of trouble and make her even more embarrassed in front of the second wife, but he still did it for his sake. The so-called impeachment of Prince Teng on the basis of belief is so indifferent to his only daughter, let alone other people.

What kind of person is Mrs. Wang, Lin Daiyu is very clear, Li Wan's future life can be imagined, if Jia Mu does not protect her, she will be tortured to death by Mrs. Wang.

After a moment of silence, Lin Daiyu: "That's all?"

Wang Xifeng picked up a brocade box casually: "The Liaodong army is very generous, and the palace may not be able to produce so many old wild ginseng at once."

Lin Daiyu heard the lingering sound of her words, and said with a smile: "If you have anything to say, just say it."

Wang Xifeng: "I just have one thing to ask you. Give me a piece of old wild ginseng, 300 years old is fine, 500 years old is even better, I will give you at the market price."

A trace of doubt flashed in Lin Daiyu's eyes, and she continued: "If you want to use it, I still have half of it, and Qingwen will send it to you later."

Wang Xifeng came to a realization at this time, and quickly said: "I don't want to use it." Then, he sighed softly, "It's not because of my ineffective brother. The Marquis of Zhongyi was ordered to reorganize the infantry to lead the yamen. Dare to go to the Beijing camp, worried about going to the battlefield, so I want to patrol the fifth battalion and guard the city gate.

Now that my uncle is involved in a major event, and your second brother Lian is not here, I dare not open my mouth on the master's side.So, I want to buy an old ginseng from you, and let him go to Zhongyihou's mansion to make connections. "

Lin Daiyu nodded. Yesterday, Jia Hu’s old boss Cao Yi came to visit, and his uncle Jia She personally entertained him. Cao Yi not only brought the treasures of Liaodong, but also a letter written by Li Chengyang, Marquis of Ningyuan. Li Chengyang hoped that Jia Hu would give the emperor Write a memorial to hand over the Yanshan Fortress to the Liaodong Army.

After hearing Jia Amnesty's words, Lin Daiyu knew that Yanshan Fortress was still in the hands of the Yongwei Battalion. The reason was that the cabinet hoped to hand over Yanshan Fortress to Jizhou Town to balance the power of the Liaodong Army.

Li Chengyang promised that as long as Jia Hu submits the memorial, he and the Liaodong Army owe Jia Hu a favor no matter whether it succeeds or not.

Lin Daiyu thought for a long time and asked, "Which city gate does uncle want to go to?"

Wang Xifeng smiled: "He really wants to go to Chongwenmen, but this fat job will definitely fall on Zhongyihou's cronies. Xuanwumen is close to home and safe."

Lin Daiyu also smiled: "You are smart, because Chongwenmen is a fat job, Zhongyihou will not let his cronies be guards. Besides, there is the Military Weapons Bureau next to Xuanwumen."

Wang Xifeng's eyes lit up, and then he smiled and said: "No wonder the old concubines praised you as a beautiful and intelligent girl. I'm convinced today. If you listen to me, I will worship Wenmen."

Lin Daiyu gave her a blank look: "Then why don't you go quickly, Zijuan."

Zicuckoo came in in response: "Miss."

"Bring the old mountain ginseng I put on the bookshelf."

Lin Daiyu hurriedly said to Wang Xifeng again: "The 300-year-old is just right, but the 500-year-old is not good."

Wang Xifeng nodded, "I'll go get it with Zijuan, and I won't disturb you." After speaking, she stood up and led Zijuan out.

Lin Daiyu was stunned for a moment, got up, walked to the tent and sat down, thought for a while, took a piece of blank letterhead, and started to write.

(End of this chapter)