The Red Chamber begins with a bastard

Chapter 355 A hard lesson
Jia Huan has never liked Xue Pan and even felt a little annoyed with him, so he pretended not to hear him. Unexpectedly, Xue Pan caught up with him, grabbed the reins of his horse, and asked when he would arrive in Jinling and why he didn't send anyone to inform him in advance, as if he was blaming him.

Jia Huan was speechless. Why did he inform you in advance? We are not that familiar with each other yet, are we? If it were not for Sister Bao, I would not bother to pay attention to you. However, since I could not avoid you, I still had to do the superficial work, so I had to turn over and dismount, pretending to be surprised and said: "I vaguely heard someone calling me just now, but I thought I heard it wrong. It turned out to be Master Xue. We just entered the city not long ago, and we were just on our way, so we didn't see him. I'm really sorry. Hey, Master Xue smells so drunk, where did he come from?"

Xue Pan burped in an unpresentable manner, and the foul smell immediately hit his face. He pointed at the gorgeous pleasure boat by the water and said proudly, "I invited a few friends to drink and have fun on that boat last night. I don't know how happy they were. Brother Huan, do you know who the most popular girl on that boat is? Hehehe!"

Jia Huan shook his head to indicate that he didn't know. Xue Pan boasted, "Xiao Xiaonuan!"

"I don't know him!" Jia Huan shook his head indifferently.

Xue Pan immediately rolled his eyes in surprise, and said in a tone of disappointment: "Oh, my brother Huan, you don't even know Xiao Xiaonuan, the most beautiful girl in Jiangnan. Although studying is important, you can't just stay in the house and study all day. As the saying goes... If a man doesn't indulge himself in romance, he's wasting his time. If a man doesn't indulge himself in lust, he's wasting his time. Come hang out with me more often in the future, and I guarantee you'll never want to leave!"

Seeing that this fellow was becoming more and more vulgar, Jia Huan could not help but laugh and cry, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "Mr. Xue is drunk and talking nonsense again. Go home and rest."

Xue Pan waved his hands and shouted, "I'm not drunk, I'm sober. That Xiao Xiaonuan is not only stunningly beautiful, but also multi-talented. She is truly a beauty. Next time you see her, you'll know that I'm not exaggerating. But that girl is so proud of her beauty that she looks down on others. I've spent hundreds of gold on her, but I still haven't been able to win her over. I'm really losing a lot."

Xue Pan became more and more angry as he spoke. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he said, "It is said that girls love to be pretty. That bitch probably thinks I'm not handsome enough. Brother Huan is handsome and talented. He might be able to be her lover. When the time comes, brother Huan will do his best to get her. It will be a way for me to vent my anger." As he spoke, he made indecent gestures with his fingers, describing something vulgar and unsightly.

"Bah!" Xiao Yuanyuan turned her head away with a red face and spat secretly, thinking, what a dirty and vulgar guy, how did my little brother get to know such a person.

Mandarin's pretty face was tense, as if covered with frost. If she had a matchlock rifle in her hand at this moment, she would probably hit him with the butt of the rifle to teach the drunkard a lesson.

Jia Huan also lost his patience at this time, and said to the two servants behind Xue Pan: "Your master is drunk, why are you still standing there? Help him go home quickly."

The two servants hurried forward to support Xue Pan and persuaded him, "Master, let's go back to the mansion. Don't delay Master Huan San's work. Besides, I'm afraid Madam will worry if you stay out all night."

Xue Pan broke free and said unhappily, "Get out of the way. Am I the master, or are you the master? You bastard, you are controlling me."

Xue Pan was nicknamed the Dai Ba Wang. He was usually domineering and overbearing. Even Aunt Xue could not control him. Naturally, the servants under him did not dare to disobey him, so they retreated aside in embarrassment.

Xue Pan led Jia Huan's horse and muttered, "Come on, brother Huan, come home with me. Your aunt and sister Bao have been thinking about you these days, saying that they didn't have time to thank you last time. Now that I have met you, I can't let you go. At least come home for a meal, otherwise mother will blame me for not knowing etiquette again."

Jia Huan frowned and said, "Let's do it some other time. I just arrived in the city and haven't put down my luggage yet. I'll come to pay my respects to my aunt some other day. And I'll trouble my cousin Pan to send his regards to my aunt and Bao-jie."

Xue Pan just held the reins tightly and shouted, "Why change the weather? Brother Huan, just come and stay at my house. My house is big, you can stay as long as you want. Hehe, it just so happens that... Brother, I have something to discuss with you, Brother Huan."

After Xue Pan finished speaking, he glanced at Mandarin's hot pear-shaped figure and almost drooled with greed. Then, he saw that there was a beautiful girl with bright eyes, white teeth and picturesque features beside Jia Huan, and his eyes lit up. He secretly envied Jia Huan's good fortune. He didn't know where he got such an outstanding beauty, but he didn't have such good luck. If he had met her first, he would be willing to spend one thousand and two taels of silver to buy her.

Jia Huan was already unhappy, and when he saw this fellow looking at Mandarin and Yuanyuan with a lewd look, he suddenly became furious. So he made up his mind to teach him a profound lesson, and said, "In this case, let me put down my luggage at the place where I stay, and then go home with Master Xue to pay my respects to my aunt. Forget about staying at your house. Although we are relatives, it is not appropriate after all."

Xue Pan just coveted Mandarin and wanted to find a chance to ask Jia Huan for her. He didn't mean to invite Jia Huan to live with him. Hearing this, he said happily, "That's fine. I can also visit Brother Huan's residence to avoid being unable to find him when something happens in the future."

At that moment, Xue Pan greeted those cronies who were hanging out on the same boat, then asked a servant to bring his mount, and headed towards Zhuque Street with Jia Huan and others.

When Mandarin saw that Jia Huan actually brought this annoying guy with him, she was naturally very unhappy. She didn't say a word on the way and just sulked with a stern face. Unexpectedly, the appearance of this cold and aloof beauty made Xue Pan even more itchy, and he hated it so much that he immediately got his hands on her and played with her at will.

About half an hour later, everyone arrived at Taipingli, Zhuque Street, in front of the house that Jia Huan bought.

As soon as Xue Pan entered the house, he shook his head and said, "Brother Huan, your house is too shabby. Although you are a concubine's son, you are still a son of a wealthy family. Living here is really beneath your status. Since you don't want to live in the ancestral home, why don't I give you a house? It just so happens that our Xue family has a villa nearby."

Jia Huan smiled and said, "No reward without merit. I appreciate Cousin Pan's kindness."

Xue Pan patted his chest and said with a domineering face of a prodigal son, "Brother Huan, why are you being polite to me? We are cousins ​​and have a life-long friendship. What is a mere house worth? Besides, I have a million-dollar fortune as an heir. Not to mention one house, I can even afford eight or ten."

Jia Huan ignored this guy and only told Mandalin and Yuanyuan to settle down in the back house first, and ordered Mu Ye to boil water and make tea.

Xue Pan is an uneducated man with a low IQ. People call him the Big Fool Xue. He relies on his family's wealth to do whatever he wants and uses money to get things done. Unfortunately, there are many money-loving people in this world, so as long as Xue Pan uses money, he can achieve his goal most of the time. For example, when he was studying at the Jia family school, Xue Pan successfully made many "good friends" because of his generosity, and even the troublemaker Jin Rong was won over by him.

At this time, Xue Pan had obviously launched another invincible money offensive against Jia Huan, offering him a house as a gift, but Jia Huan seemed indifferent, so Xue Pan could not help but get anxious, relying on his drunkenness to speak bluntly: "Brother Huan, I want to discuss something with you. I like your blonde, blue-eyed foreign girl so much that I feel like I'm being scratched by a cat, and I can't wait to manipulate her.

Hey, you've been playing with it for a long time, can you give it to me to play with? It's not for nothing, I'll exchange Xiangling with you, you've seen Xiangling, her beauty is no worse than your little girl Yuanyuan, and she's a real virgin, and then brother will give you a villa, how about that? Brother Huan, you will definitely not lose out!"

Jia Huan's expression was gloomy, his eyebrows raised. It seemed that he had underestimated this guy's shamelessness. It was really disgusting that he could say such words with such a righteous look on his face.

Little did he know that the circle that Xue Pan moved in was full of even more obscene and shameless things. Exchanging maids was nothing, and there were even fathers and sons sharing maids. For example, Jia She in the original novel gave a maid he was tired of to his son Jia Lian. So, in Xue Pan's view, exchanging maids was just a trivial matter, and he said it with confidence, and he was even sure that Jia Huan would agree, because in his opinion, the conditions he offered were too generous.

Jia Huan suppressed his anger and suddenly said with a smile, "She is just a foreign maid. She is not worth anything and is not worth exchanging. Cousin Pan, please follow me. I will give the foreign maid to you to take away."

After Jia Huan finished speaking, he stood up and went to the back house. Xue Pan was overjoyed and hurriedly followed him. He even imagined all kinds of unsightly scenes in his mind. He really didn't expect that Huan Lao San would be so generous and magnanimous. If he had known this, he would have asked for it directly.

Xue Pan followed Jia Huan into the backyard, swallowing his saliva and laughing, "Brother Huan, you are really my brother, you are so good, hehe, don't worry, I won't let you suffer any loss, Xiangling and the villa near Zhuque Street will be yours from now on, you can move in tomorrow, and I will have someone send Xiangling to you tonight." At this time, Jia Huan stopped in front of a large stone vat, pointed in the vat and asked, "Cousin Pan, what do you think is this?"

This stone jar was originally left by the previous owner. There were a few water lilies planted in it, which were growing well, so Jia Huan did not throw it away. However, no one had taken care of it in the past six months, and the water lilies had died. Only a jar of black, smelly water was left.

Xue Pan leaned over to take a look, only to see his own reflection, and asked in confusion: "What treasure is in here? Hey, Brother Huan, you..."

Only then did Xue Pan realize that Jia Huan had a cold expression on his face and was staring at him with cold eyes. He couldn't help but shudder.

Jia Huan pointed at the stone jar and said coldly, "Brother Pan, take a closer look. What's in it?"

Xue Pan's heart was beating fast, but under Jia Huan's gaze, he still gritted his teeth and looked out again. There was nothing but the stinking water and his own reflection, so he muttered, "Nothing!"

"Didn't you see the beast in here?" Jia Huan suddenly stretched out his foot and hooked the drunk Xue Pan, who immediately fell headfirst into the jar, upside down. He struggled desperately and tried to get up, but Jia Huan lifted his feet, making his feet off the ground and he had no leverage.

Xue Pan was obese to begin with, and on top of that he was drunk, so he couldn't struggle free, and soon he choked on several mouthfuls of foul water, which tasted really sour.

Mandarin and Yuanyuan ran out after hearing the noise, and were stunned by the scene before them.

"Little brother..."

"Yuanyuan, let's go in!" Mandalin vaguely guessed Jia Huan's intention and hurriedly pulled Yuanyuan back into the house.

Seeing that Xue Pan's struggles were getting quieter and quieter, Jia Huan picked him up and threw him to the ground like a dead dog. Xue Pan immediately vomited crazily, even vomiting yellow bile. However, this made his hangover mind sober up a lot. As soon as he recovered, he pointed at Jia Huan and cursed: "Huan Lao San, you f*cking want to kill me!"

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Without saying a word, Jia Huan immediately picked him up and pressed him into the stone jar. When he saw that he was almost done, he lifted his head up again.

"Huan Lao San, fuck you!"

Jia Huan immediately pushed him back into the water fiercely. This was repeated several times. Xue Pan was tortured to death. His temper was completely gone. He stopped cursing and looked at Jia Huan in horror, saying, "Brother Huan, I know I was wrong!"

Jia Huan immediately tried to push him back into the water, but Xue Pan hastily changed his words and said, "Master Huan, I was wrong, I was wrong!"

"What's wrong?" Jia Huan asked sternly.

Jia Huan had led troops in battles before, and had killed at least 800 people directly and indirectly. The aura and eyes honed in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood were not something that Xue Pan could withstand. His hair stood on end, and he thought Jia Huan was really going to kill him. He almost peed himself, and cried, "I was bewitched and had my eyes blinded by lard. I dared to set my sights on Third Master Huan's woman. I deserve to die. I won't dare to do it again. Third Master Huan, please be magnanimous and forgive me this time."

Jia Huan then let go, threw Xue Pan to the ground, and said coldly: "For the sake of Aunt and Sister Bao, I will forgive you this time. How you, Xue Pan, behave in the circle is your business, but don't use that trick in front of me, Jia Huan. If you do it again, don't blame me for being cruel and ruthless and not considering the relationship between relatives."

After Jia Huan finished speaking, he pulled out his yellow double-barreled pistol and placed it on the blue brick shelf next to the stone vat, full of murderous intent!
Xue Pan shuddered smartly and dared not say a word. His usual arrogance and bad temper were completely gone. It was true that every evildoer must be punished by another evildoer.

Jia Huan drew a bucket of water from a well in the courtyard, washed his hands, and threw the bucket to Xue Pan, saying, "Wash your hands clean, and don't dirty my floor!"

Xue Pan obediently twisted the rope to fetch water and washed away the dirt on his body, but the stench was hard to wash off.

"Get out!" Jia Huan shouted.

Xue Pan was suddenly as if he had been pardoned, and was about to escape, but Jia Huan shouted again, "Wait!"

Xue Pan stood still in fear and said, "Brother Huan... Master Huan San, I will never dare to do that again!"

"When you go back and see Auntie and Sister Bao, do you know what to say?"

"I just said that I was drunk and accidentally fell into the water tank!" Xue Pan said cautiously.

Seeing this lawless fellow cowering like a quail, Jia Huan was a little amused and shouted in a deep voice, "Get lost!"

Xue Pan ran away quickly, as if he had escaped from hell.

Jia Huan turned around and found that Mandalin and Xiao Yuanyuan were standing at the door at some point. The two beauties, one big and one small, were looking at him with different expressions.

Xiao Yuanyuan secretly stuck out her tongue and thought, it turns out that little brother can be so scary when he gets angry, but that Uncle Xue really deserves it!

Mandarin's beautiful sapphire eyes looked at Jia Huan silently for a while, then suddenly ran down the stairs and kissed Jia Huan on the face without saying a word.

Xiao Yuanyuan's face turned red and she immediately covered her eyes and turned away.

(End of this chapter)