Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 382 The bad news

Dr. Wang immediately called to his nephew and opened the medicine box. He didn't need anything else but took out the acupuncture kit.

Then he took out a silver needle from the acupuncture bag.

Jia Rui saw that he was about to perform acupuncture, so he quickly ordered Xi Ren who was waiting next to him to undress Jia Baoyu.

Dr. Wang quickly stopped her and said, "There's no need to go to such trouble. The effect will be immediate after one injection."

As he spoke, he waved away the attacker and walked to Jia Baoyu's bed. He held the silver needle in one hand and held up Jia Baoyu's right hand with the other.

Then the silver needle stabbed Jia Baoyu's tiger's mouth hard.

Then Jia Baoyu, who was lying on the bed, jumped up with a cry.

Jia Rui, who was standing next to him, saw Jia Baoyu like this, and then looked at the performance of Dr. Wang, and immediately understood that Jia Baoyu was just faking it.

The imperial doctor Wang Zhishan next to him also suddenly realized at this time, no wonder he couldn't tell what happened to Jia Baoyu no matter how he felt the pulse just now. It turned out that Jia Baoyu was not sick at all. He could feel the pulse, so something strange happened. .

At this time, Jia Baoyu covered his hands and huddled in the corner of the bed, not even looking at Jia Rui.

In front of an outsider, Jia Rui could not teach Jia Baoyu a lesson right away. He could only give him a fierce look, and then sent the two imperial doctors out of the courtyard with a smile, and then ordered Wangcai to give generous gifts to the two imperial doctors.

After seeing off the two imperial doctors, Jia Rui angrily walked back to Jia Baoyu's yard. When he entered Jia Baoyu's room, he saw that Lin Daiyu had thrown herself on Jia Baoyu and was crying there.

And Xue Baochai kept persuading from the side.

Jia Rui was extremely annoyed now. He didn't care whether Lin Daiyu had any physical problems or not. He shouted loudly:

"Why are you crying? Shut up."

When Jia Rui drank like this, Lin Daiyu immediately shut up involuntarily.

At the same time, Lin Daiyu also carefully turned her head and glanced at Jia Rui.

In Lin Daiyu's eyes, Jia Rui is a gentle big brother, and he speaks in a gentle tone whenever he talks to her.

When Jia Rui got angry today, he could see the evil spirit in Jia Rui and the authority of the current chief minister.

Jia Rui glared at Jia Baoyu and said, "Be honest, why are you pretending to be sick?"

Jia Rui's words stunned everyone in the room.

They just received a report from the little maid that it was Mrs. Wang who personally took action and saved Jia Baoyu's life with just one injection.

But now listening to Jia Rui's tone, why is Jia Baoyu pretending to be ill?

So everyone couldn't help but look at Jia Baoyu again.

But now Jia Baoyu's eyes dodge and he remains silent. Looking at his guilty look, everyone understands that what Jia Rui said is true.

At this time, everyone including Lin Daiyu was a little angry.

After everyone found out that Jia Baoyu was sick in the afternoon, they were all in a hurry. Didn't they expect that this guy was actually pretending?

Jia Rui looked at Jia Baoyu, but remained silent. He stamped his feet angrily and shouted at him: "If you don't tell the truth, I will be slapped with twenty boards and then be sent to the ancestral hall to be imprisoned for three days."

Jia Baoyu had experienced Guan Ancestral Hall before, and he didn't want to bear that feeling again.

But looking at Jia Rui's fierce look, he didn't dare to tell Jia Rui what was on his mind. If this was revealed, Jia Rui might not get thirty or twenty boards, but one hundred or two hundred boards.

So Jia Baoyu secretly tugged at the attacker, and she stretched out her head knowingly, and then Jia Baoyu whispered a few words in her ear.

Xiren's face was calm at first, but later his face became full of shock, and his eyes almost bulged out.

After Jia Baoyu finished speaking, he shrank to the corner and remained silent.

Xiren turned around helplessly and looked at the people in the room, but he couldn't say anything. In the end, he could only imitate Jia Baoyu and lean into Xue Baochai's ear, and underestimated a few words.

After hearing this, Xue Baochai frowned and looked gloomy, then glanced at Jia Baoyu who was leaning in the corner.

At this time, Xue Baochai began to feel lucky that her husband-in-law had made good arrangements. If Jia Baoyu was placed in the backyard, something would probably happen.

However, I couldn't say this kind of thing here. I could only shake my head, walked to Jia Rui, pulled his sleeve and said, "Okay, don't ask. I'll tell you when I get back."

After saying that, he took Jia Rui's arm and dragged him out.

Jia Rui reluctantly followed Xue Baochai out, but only turned around when he was about to go out and said sternly to Jia Baoyu: "You are not allowed to sleep tonight. Copy the Disciple Rules to me ten times."

Jia Baoyu, who was at the foot of the bed, not only did not get angry after hearing this, but he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Besides, Jia Rui was dragged back to the back house by Xue Baochai. He already covered Jia Rui and sat on the bed angrily and shouted:

"What's going on? You have to carry someone on your back."

Xue Baochai took the fragrant tea from the maid's hand, and then handed it to Jia Rui's hand, "Drink a cup of tea first to calm down."

Jia Rui took the tea bowl and drank it all, "Tell me, what's going on?" Xue Baochai sighed and sat next to Jia Rui, "It's not your new aunt Qingwen's fault."

As soon as Jia Rui heard Qingwen's name, he thought that after lunch, Qingwen went to her cousin's house.

Could it be that Jia Baoyu met Qingwen in the front yard?

But Jia Baoyu just met Qingwen, why did he pretend to be sick in front of him?

But as soon as his mind turned around, Jia Rui already understood that Jia Baoyu wanted to leave Dingxihou Mansion by pretending to be sick, or to let Qingwen go to see him.

If he just wanted to leave Dingxihou Mansion, Jia Rui would not be very angry. If the other party really wanted Qingwen to visit him, Jia Rui would not be able to accept it.

Qingwen used to be your Jia Baoyu's maid, but now she is my Jia Rui's concubine. How could Jia Baoyu be so bold and dare to spy on my woman?

After thinking of this, Jia Rui slapped the table hard. Because he was really angry, he didn't regain his strength. With the blessing of Longxiang Kung Fu and Nine Yang Magic Kung Fu, the red sandalwood table was suddenly slapped. broken pieces.

Everyone in the room was shocked.

After reacting, Xue Baochai quickly ordered people to clear the table, then walked behind Jia Rui and gave him a pat on the back, "Master, don't be angry. The worst is, let Baoyu go back to Rongguo Mansion, so as not to bore you."

"Haha, he wants to go back to Rongguo Mansion. It's a good idea. Let's see how I deal with him."

After finishing speaking, Jia Rui immediately stood up and walked out. Xue Baochai opened his mouth to persuade, but seeing Jia Rui's angry look, he said nothing more.

Don’t know what happened the next day? Mr. Sun actually caught Jia Baoyu and began to urge Jia Baoyu to study day and night.

And this time the management was very strict. He stood next to Jia Baoyu with a ruler in hand. If he memorized a wrong sentence, he would be punished.

In just one day, Jia Baoyu's hands were beaten into pig's trotters.

Jia Baoyu didn't dare to scream loudly after returning to the yard, because Mr. Sun's yard was next to him. If he screamed loudly and Mr. Sun heard it, he would have to deal with it.

It was only at night, when Jia Baoyu was holding the quilt in bed, that she could cry secretly for a while.

Fortunately, Lin Daiyu was constantly comforting her, otherwise Jia Baoyu didn't know if she could survive it.

And this kind of days is not just one or two days, but continues continuously. In the next ten days or so, Jia Baoyu will not be able to rest for a moment.

Even Jia Mu, the old lady of Rongguo Mansion, had heard about Jia Baoyu's situation and sent her personal maid Yuanyang to intercede with Jia Baoyu in person.

However, under Jia Rui's angry scolding, Yuanyang could only return to Rongguo Mansion in disgrace.

Jia's mother stomped her feet in Rongqing Hall angrily, but she had no choice but to send people to see Jia Baoyu in different ways every day, and at the same time send various supplements.

However, this situation did not last long. After Jia Rui found out, Jia Rui said that it would not be easy for people from Rongguo Mansion to enter Dingxihou Mansion casually in the future.

Of course, under this kind of torture, Jia Baoyu's knowledge also increased rapidly.

Even Lin Daiyu, who was born into a scholarly family and whose father was born in Tanhua, had to admit that Jia Baoyu is now a completely different person from before.

Not to mention Jia Baoyu's suffering in Dingxihou Mansion, Jia Rui still came to the cabinet as usual, preparing to handle the day's official business.

As a result, after sitting for less than half an hour, a young eunuch hurried in and handed a memorial directly to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui was stunned for a moment, because according to the rules, these memorials had to be approved by several other bachelors before they were sent to Jia Rui for review.

"Sir, the governor of Fujian is urgently sent to Babaili."

Upon hearing this, Jia Rui immediately took the memorial with a serious face, then carefully checked that the seal was intact, and then opened it and looked at it carefully.

This sight made Jia Rui jump up from his stool in shock.

It turned out that this memorial was to report to the court that the Prince of Nan'an County had been captured.

After reading the entire memorial, Jia Rui shivered with anger and cursed in his heart that the Prince of Nan'an County was a fool.

It turned out that the Prince of Nan'an County had been stationed in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Somehow, he heard that Guangdong was prosperous, especially Guangzhou, the distribution center for foreign trade, so he wanted to go there and make a fortune.

Of course, now the entire Navy is mainly operating around Fujian and dealing with pirates. There are no extra ships to escort the Nan'an County Prince, so he just builds a large ship and goes straight to Guangdong with a hundred people. .

I don’t know whether it was due to leaked information or bad luck on the part of Prince Nan’an. In the early morning three days after leaving Fuzhou, Prince Nan’an’s ship was surrounded by pirates.

When the pirates saw that the flag on the ship was that of Prince Nan'an, they went crazy and besieged the warship.

The reason why the pirates are so crazy is because they have lost many brothers in the battle with Nan'an County King this year. Almost everyone has relatives who died in the war.

In this way, although Prince Nan'an's warship was said to be brave, it finally fell in the face of the wolf-like pirates.

In this way, Prince Nan'an was captured.

(End of this chapter)