Red Mansion: Bastards rule the roost

Chapter 94
  At dawn, Jia Lian ordered his young man to go ashore with his name card to report the crime.

Liaocheng County heard that the nobles of Rongguo Mansion encountered water bandits in this county, so they hurriedly called on three squads of government officials and others to come and visit.

Since Jia Lian was the eldest son of Rongguo Mansion and held the title of fellow magistrate, he scolded the county magistrate severely, saying that the people under his rule were fierce, there were hordes of bandits, and the corpses were left bare, which was unworthy of the imperial court.

The county magistrate didn't dare to argue, so he only agreed and gave Jia Lian a lot of money to calm down his shock.

For the sake of money, Jia Lian did not care about himself and ordered him to take away the body of the water bandit so that he could investigate the case.

Jia Cong did not show up from the beginning to the end. He just performed various bare-handed exercises in the room with his upper body naked. He practiced until he was sweating like pulp, dripping on the ground like raindrops.

Qingwen was not surprised, but Qianxue was speechless: "How could the third master be so cruel in training? It seems that he has a grudge against his own body."

Qingwen smiled and said: "Are you feeling distressed? Haha, it's really different when the bed is warmed, and I haven't seen you being so concerned about your second master Bao."

"Damn girl, you're going to die." Qianxue spat and argued, "Shouldn't we, the maids, ask?"

Suddenly he heard Jia Lian ask at the door: "Is the third brother here?" He saw Jia Cong's ruthlessness with his own eyes last night, and he no longer dared to call him "Brother Cong".

Qian Xue hurriedly opened the door and said, "Second Master Lian, please come in. Our Third Master is here."

Jia Cong stopped, took the handkerchief Qingwen handed him, wiped his face, opened his arms and let Qingwen help him wipe his sweat, and said, "Brother Lian, is there something wrong?"

Jia Lian smiled and said: "The case has been handed over, and the county magistrate also gave a thousand silver coins. You see..."

"You and I are each half."

"Okay, then I'll tell the boatman to sail." Jia Lian quickly took out the banknote and handed it to Qian Xue. It seems that Brother Cong is not an unreasonable person, as long as you don't touch his evil scale.

In the afternoon, the boat sailed as usual.

Jia Cong ordered Qian Xue to give 50 taels of silver to the ship's boss as money to bury the dead shipman. The boatmen were grateful for his kindness and served him even more diligently.

In the evening, Jia Cong came up from practicing kung fu on the deck. As soon as he washed up, Qingwen and Qianxue came to him, asking to hear a story.

"What story are you listening to?" Jia Cong was stunned.

"The Legend of the Condor Heroes."

"Who told you?"

"Miss Lin, she only knows a little. She said there are many more stories behind it." Qingwen looked naive and held Jia Cong's arm tightly.

Jia Cong burst into laughter. Daiyu must have been unable to keep her face down, so she poured tea and water for me, pinched my shoulders and beat my legs, so she resorted to a trick to drive away wolves and swallow tigers.

"Well, since you are so well-behaved, I will give you a lecture."

"Wait, I'll go ask Miss Lin." Qingwen hurriedly ran out.

After a while, Daiyu, Zicuckoo, and Xueyan came over. The two girls were still holding small horses, obviously they were also here to listen to the story.

Jia Cong asked them to sit down and looked at Daiyu with a half-smile.

Lin Daiyu blushed and said, "I'm not begging you to tell me, it's just that Qingwen asked me to come and listen together, and I can't bear to offend her kindness."

"That's it, how could Sister Lin, a fairy-like person, use such a trivial skill?" Jia Cong said with a smile.

Daiyu knew she couldn't hide it from him, so she spat, turned away and ignored him, cursing in her heart, a shameless little thief knows how to bully others.

"Sister Lin, you can't just eat for free, why don't you tell us a story about the Spring and Autumn Period first?" Jia Cong said with a smile. Bah, why are you freeloaders? It sounds so ugly. Daiyu's black pearl-like eyes showed a trace of embarrassment, but she knew she couldn't defeat him, and said angrily: "Just tell me, I have never seen anyone as stingy as you."

Jia Cong laughed loudly. He didn't expect that Sister Lin would also be stingy one day.

So Daiyu first told a story about "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold" to warm up the scene.

Jia Cong calmed down his thoughts and continued to talk about "The Divine Condor".

"Last time it was said that Guo Jing and his wife were scared to retreat from Li Mochou. When they saw that Yang Guo was the son of an old friend, they took him away and raised him, hoping to teach him and make him an upright hero.

Speaking of Yang Guo, he was born with sword-shaped eyebrows on his temples, powerful phoenix eyes, and was very talented. He was loved by everyone and had flowers blooming. He is really different from me..."

The girls laughed.

In this way, Jia Cong practiced martial arts during the day and told stories with Daiyu and others at night.

It took Kankan a month to arrive in Yangzhou. During this period, Jia Cong finished teaching "The Divine Condor" and Daiyu also finished teaching "Zuo Zhuan".

Moisturized by the wonderful stories, Daiyu's spirit doubled. Except for shedding tears because of a few tragic scenes, she never felt sad because of her own family affairs. Because she thought, Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu had gone through such hardships, so what did her little trouble mean?

Jia Cong didn't expect "The Condor" to have such an effect, and was greatly relieved.

Seeing that they were about to disembark, Daiyu pulled Jia Cong and said: "Brother Cong, you are so cruel. Why did you let Miss Long suffer so much and let her... lose her body to that thief? What can she do to you?" , let you treat her like this. I will never obey you, you must change the story."

Jia Cong smiled bitterly, why should you blame me? If you want to blame it, blame Master Jin.

"I can only tell stories, not change them. My sister is making things difficult for me. I think my sister is very talented, so why not write this story out and change it into whatever you want?" Jia said. Cong secretly thought, I might as well let you code the words, so as not to think about things all day long and come up with mistakes.

Daiyu's heart moved, should she write a storybook by herself? This is quite interesting, and it would be a shame if such a good story could not be published.

"That's fine, but I have forgotten some things, so you have to keep an eye on me." Daiyu said.

Jia Cong said hurriedly: "That's natural. Once it's written, I'll sign it with my sister's name and go back to Beijing to show it to Sister Bao and Third Sister. I hope they'll be shocked."

Daiyu felt quite proud when she heard this, and said: "You obviously made up the story, so how can you sign it with my name? Am I not deceiving the world and stealing my name?"

"Then sign our names and treat it as a co-author. Since we are a couple of heroes, we are naturally two people. Hehe, Yang and Long practiced the Jade-Nv-Heart Sutra together. We co-authored this book. What a match made in heaven." Jia Cong smiled.

Bah, Daiyu spat, her face full of embarrassment. When she heard Jia Cong compare the two of herself to Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu, and thought of the shameful training method of Jade-Nv-Heart Sutra, her ears suddenly turned red and she said angrily: "Dirty." You are full of crazy things. Who are you and what kind of hero are you? If you keep talking nonsense, I will definitely tell Sister Bao that you bullied me when I go back."

Jia Cong hurriedly raised his hands in surrender. After thinking about it, the original work was a novel with love as the main line. Daiyu, a boudoir lady, should not be so shy as to change it beyond recognition. Then I would be sorry for Jin Lao's masterpiece.

"Let's talk about it first. My sister is the one who writes the story. She must be responsible for my story. Small details can be changed, but the main point cannot be lost. For example, this is obviously a story about love, hatred and enmity between people in the world. Don't change it to make me a talented person and a beautiful woman. It’s a drama.”

Daiyu rolled her eyes at him and said, "You don't have to say that. If you ask me to change such a good story, I'm still reluctant to change it. You can only change Miss Long's situation to be better, but you're not allowed to?"

Jia Cong smiled and said: "That's no problem. In fact, I am also very upset about Xiao Longnu being humiliated by Zhen Zhibing. My sister's change is in line with my wishes."

"I think you're such a pervert that you just want to sacrifice yourself for me, huh. Otherwise, how could you make up such a nasty plot?"

Daiyu rolled her eyes at him angrily, and secretly made up her mind to change Xiao Longnu's fate.

Jia Cong was unhappy at being implicated for no reason. He smiled and said, "I don't know how to treat Xiao Longnu. If she were my sister, maybe I would become a beast." After saying that, he ran away, dodging the pillows thrown at him. .

Daiyu was so embarrassed that she beat Jia Cong away with all her strength. A little joy arose in her heart, which dissipated her anger. Did Brother Cong mean this to me...? But he already has Sister Bao, and this damn bastard is getting bolder and bolder, and he won't let him go when he gets home.

(End of this chapter)