I'm in the Red Mansion

Chapter 21 Why did this word stand up?

Jia Huan curled his lips in disdain and said, "Third Brother Cong, stop trying to change the subject! What serious business do you have? You'd better tell me the serious business between you and Hong Xiu! If you dare not tell me, you'll be in trouble!"

Jia Cong couldn't help but smile and said, "I really have something important to tell you! If you can accomplish this, I will give you ten taels of silver as a reward afterwards."

When Jia Huan heard the thank-you gift of ten taels of silver, he couldn't help swallowing.

Ten taels of silver! This is a huge sum of money. Jia Huan has never had more than ten taels of silver in his life.

How many sugar figures can you buy with ten taels of silver?

As he thought about this, the vertical line was about to flow out of his mouth.

After a while, Jia Huan suddenly realized something. He asked in disbelief, "Don't try to fool me. You are poor as a ghost. Where did you get the ten taels of silver to give me as a thank-you gift?"

Jia Cong smiled slightly, took out a silver note of one hundred taels of silver, shook it and said, "Look, what is this?"

"One hundred taels of silver? Cong Lao San, did you go out to rob? Where did you get so much silver?"

When Jia Huan saw the one hundred taels of silver, he could not help but let out a cry of surprise. His eyes gradually turned red and his breathing became heavy, as if he would pounce on and snatch the silver bills at any time.

Jia Cong calmly put away the banknotes and said, "Don't worry about whether I stole or robbed them. Just know that I have the silver. How about a thank-you gift of ten taels of silver? Will you do it?"

Jia Huan nodded vigorously and said, "Do it. Whoever refuses will be the grandson! Tell me, what should I do?"

This guy is really greedy for money.

Ten taels of silver can make him agree to do something without even asking what you want him to do.

Jia Cong couldn't help but say: "Whether this matter can be accomplished or not, you must keep it secret and cannot let outsiders know about it."

Jia Huan patted his chest and assured, "Don't worry, Third Brother Cong. Don't you know me? I'm the most tight-lipped person! I promise I won't tell anyone else. Tell me now, what do you want me to do?"

For the sake of money, the former Third Brother Cong has now become the Third Brother Cong.

Jia Cong bowed his head and said, "It's like this. Go back and ask your mother to secretly collect evidence of Shan Daliang's embezzlement. As long as you can collect enough evidence for me, the ten taels of silver will be yours."

Jia Huan nodded immediately and said, "Brother Cong, wait for my good news. When I get back from school, I'll ask my mother to find out."

"Don't worry, my mother is a well-known gossip in the mansion, she will definitely be able to find out the news."

Jia Cong said: "Be careful not to leak the news, so as not to arouse suspicion from others."

Jia Huan laughed and said, "Brother Cong, just rest assured. It may not be possible for my mother to do other things, but for this kind of thing, isn't it something she can do easily?"

Aunt Zhao is a servant of the Rongguo Mansion, and she has some power in the Rongguo Mansion.

This is also the reason why Jia Cong approached Jia Huan.

Although Aunt Zhao appears to be stupid and dumb, she actually has some means and connections.

In the 25th chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions, where the uncle and sister-in-law encounter five ghosts, Ma Dao Po tricks Aunt Zhao into harming Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng.

Taoist Ma rummaged into her trouser waist for a long while and pulled out ten paper-cut ghosts with green faces and white hair, and two paper figurines, and handed them to Aunt Zhao.

He then whispered, "Write their birth dates on the two paper figures, and tuck the five ghosts into their beds. I'll do this at home, and it will work. Be careful, and don't be afraid!"

Later, these ten paper figures were tucked into the beds of Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng respectively, and the two of them were indeed possessed by evil spirits. If it were not for the monks and Taoists who rescued them, they would have died.

Although Aunt Zhao could enter the Grand View Garden, why did she enter Jia Baoyu's bedroom when she had nothing to do? And put five ghosts under his bed?

As for Wang Xifeng, Aunt Zhao didn't dare to go to her place easily, and it was even more impossible for her to enter Wang Xifeng's bedroom.

In the end, Aunt Zhao successfully placed the ten ghosts on the two people's beds.

This is enough to prove that both Jia Baoyu and Wang Xifeng have close friends of Aunt Zhao in their courtyards.

In fact, she has a very wide network of contacts, and there are probably not many things in the Rongguo Mansion that can be hidden from her.

Therefore, Jia Cong thought of asking Aunt Zhao to do this.

Of course, if Aunt Zhao can’t find out the truth, Jia Cong still has a backup plan.

However, the backup plan had certain risks, and he had to take the lead himself. Now that Jia Huan had agreed, Jia Cong was ready to wait patiently for two days.

……

After returning home from school in the evening, Jia Cong planned to go out and work as a part-time painter to earn some money.

Although he still has more than one hundred taels of silver left on him, Aunt Mei still needs to diagnose and prescribe medicine for him later.

He had to pay back the two hundred taels of silver he borrowed from Lin Daiyu, and he also needed to earn some money to improve his food, and studying also cost money.

We can't let Aunt Mei do needlework after she recovers, right?
So, it's time to go out and earn some money.

It just so happened that his sketching skills had already reached a high level, which was completely sufficient.

After dinner, Jia Cong dressed up and quietly left the Jia Mansion with his drawing board and paints.

And asked Hongxiu to help him cover up a little.

Soon, Jia Cong arrived at the front street.

Then Jia Cong found an open space a hundred meters away from the painter in front, placed the drawing board on it, and found a door panel on which he wrote the words "portrait".

Next, Jia Cong picked up Mencius and read it carefully, waiting quietly for business to come.

However, after less than half an hour, he still hadn't received any business.

There was already a long queue at the old painter's stall a hundred meters away.

It seems that I am a stranger and so young that I am not recognized by others.

Thinking of this, Jia Cong couldn't help but frowned.

This won’t work. If he doesn’t get recognition from others, won’t he never have any business?

How can I find a way to gain other people's approval?

After thinking for a while, Jia Cong suddenly frowned and a plan came to his mind.

Then, he suddenly picked up a pen and started drawing on the ground.

Dacheng's high level of sketching allows him to wield his brush swiftly and freely.

Soon, he wrote a line on the ground.

Portraits don’t seem to be free.

These seven words do not have any special meaning, what is interesting is the seven words themselves.

It turns out that these seven words were like three-dimensional words about a foot long growing out of the ground.

If placed in later generations, such a font would not be surprising at all.

In later generations, there were a few Internet gurus who could draw a cliff on the road, scaring ducks so much that they dared not move forward.

Draw a ditch to scare pedestrians away.

The three-dimensional characters written by Jia Cong are just child's play.

However, this kind of three-dimensional characters appeared for the first time in this world.

After Jia Cong finished writing, passers-by soon discovered the magic of the three-dimensional characters.

"Huh? What, what is this word? Why is it standing up?"

"This word, hey, it's simply amazing!"

"What kind of trick is this? How can he write so high? How much ink does it take?"

(End of this chapter)