The Red Chamber: Lianyufengchai

"Xue Pan!"

When Aunt Xue heard this, she almost turned her back angrily. She only hated that she didn't have a knife in her hand. If there was, she really wanted to kill the Xue family! Jia Lian hurriedly supported her and said with a smile, "This is It’s not a big deal, Brother Pan is suave and unrestrained, and those wild bees, waves and butterflies are bound to get involved, and it’s no wonder he is.”

Aunt Xue burst into tears, "How did I give birth to such a beast!"

You Shi couldn't let Xue Pan go, so he had to deal with the many worms and girls, let them go out, and never let them in again. Who knows how many worms who were still on the ground crying and moaning just now, turned over and hugged Xue Pan. Pan's legs, shouting: "Master, you can't default on her body if you touch her body!"

Xue Panzheng was also ashamed and didn't dare to look at Aunt Xue and Jia Lian. Seeing that there were so many worms, he was obsessed with himself, and he couldn't help but scolded: "Your wife, who does not know who has not taken the exam in the two houses? Ask them to ask for money, and besides, did I not give money, sir?"

Aunt Xue couldn't bear it any longer, she stepped forward and gave Xue Pan a slap in the face, "There is no man like you in the Xue family!"

She turned around and left. I can't stay any longer. You hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him, "Brother Pan is young after all, when Bao Qi has an impulse, his concubine finds a marriage for him and finds two girls to put in the house, It will be fine! People like us don't all come here like this."

Aunt Xue sighed: "I'm also worried that I don't have a suitable one, and I can't tie this wild horse if my temper is weak."

Later, Xue Pan was angry and ashamed when he heard it, and picked up the thin worm with only a handful of bones in one hand, "You are really tired of living, I will fulfill you!"

The other fist slapped his chest a few times. Jia Lian didn't want to deal with these nasty things, but this worm has a good relative, Qingwen's aunt and brother. He stopped a few times, "Just let out your anger, If you break it, it won't end well."

Xue Pan was in a fit of anger. Although he stopped hitting him, he kicked him twice, "You are also called a man! If I were you, I would either kill your wife or kill myself. I still have the courage to live!"

He scolded a few words, then chased after him and kicked, Jia Lian hurriedly pulled it, "Okay, if you fight again, you will be killed! You still have some money on your body and give it as a soup fee."

Xue Pan was willing, Jia Lian stared, Xue Pan couldn't stand it, so he obediently took out a handful of broken silver from his arms and threw it over. Thousands of thanks, "Uncle Xue, from now on my woman is yours! Use it as you wish!"

Excitedly, he ran out to get a drink! Xue Pan was stunned and glanced at Duo girls. The Duo girls were so pitiful at the moment, even in Xue Pan's eyes, they were very beautiful. Jia Lian grabbed Xue Pan and joked: " If you really like it, keep it outside and don't let Mom know. I'm afraid she won't be able to bear it and will put a hat on you if you don't see it one day."

Xue Pan said with a smile: "Whoever likes it is because I have no time to spare today. I am not interested. I saw her in the back alley, and I played a bit. Unfortunately, I fell into their way."

Jia Lian didn't listen to what he said, "Who cares about you, Mom told me to find you a better daughter-in-law, I'm afraid the days of such nonsense will be gone in the future."

Seeing Jia Lian walking away, Xue Pan didn't know what he was thinking. The girls looked at him eagerly, "Master, from now on, the slave family is yours. If you don't allow it, the slave family will not be around."

Xue Pan said angrily: "Don't look down on yourself, you deserve to be an uncle."

Duo girl actually burst into tears and said, "The slave family knows that she is dirty, but it's all your fault. My man has no temperament, so how can you blame me, a weak woman?"

Xue Pan ignored her. Who would have known how many girls were holding him tightly, "Master, you still have an hour left! The slave family has no money to return."

Chapter [*] The old year has passed the new year and Jia Lian doesn't care about Xue Pan. If he hasn't been beaten enough by the society, then let him go. The funeral in Ningfu was lively. On the next day, they were sent out to the Tiejian Temple outside the city for An Ling, and I don’t need to go into details. But I heard later that Xue Pan still had some sympathy. It was a strange event. However, the next day, Duo Zhe worm died in his own home. After an investigation, it turned out that he died from an old wound caused by drunkenness. There was a lot of discussion for a while, because many people saw Xue Pan die yesterday. The story of Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian is spreading more and more widely. Xue Pan is full of mouth and can't tell, let alone He has never been a eloquent master. If he hears it, he will immediately punch and kick. Many people break the ribs of people's hands and feet, which further confirms people's speculation. What a girl! All kinds of jokes have been circulated in Shenjing, and Xue Pan has been shameless in recent days. Aunt Xue has already asked people to protect the media, but now no one comes to the door. There is no face in the Xue family. Aunt Xue was seriously ill with anger. Just before the end of the year, Mrs. Wang came to invite her, so she simply moved back to Rongguo Mansion. She still lives in the courtyard in the northeast corner. After a few days of comfortable life, but only three days later, I ran out of money in the family. It turned out that Aunt Xue and Baochai discussed and withheld the dividends they deserved. Follow him back to the Rong Mansion. Aunt Xue only gave him [*] taels of silver every day for expenses. But what can he do to save [*] days of silver, and he spent less than an hour after going out. There is nothing to do The Xue Pan can only change the tricks to toss Duo girls. Duo girls happen to be very skilled in this area. No matter how much tossing, she will become more and more beautiful. Since Shenjing has lost an overlord, it should really give Duo girls a memorial archway of merit. It has always been fine, and soon it will be the end of the year. In the small courtyard of Rongfu, Jia Lian came in from the outside, and saw Sister Feng and Baochai checking the accounts. , I heard the crackling sound of the abacus. Ping'er had a few gold and silver shovels scattered all over the couch, and there were all kinds of patterns. Jia Lian picked up a few at random and asked, "How many are there?"

Jin Chuan'er replied: "It's just peace, and the number of people who attacked them has a total of 472 gold coins and [*] silver coins. It took a total of [*] pieces of gold. Three taels of six cents and seven cents, the broken silver is about five or six hundred taels, and the fineness is different, and it has been smelted once, but there is not much of the original."

Jia Lian grabbed a hand, "It's better to make them all the same, one cent per cent, so that they can be used directly after they are scattered, and there is no need for the trouble of cutting them out."

On the other hand, Sister Feng listened and put down the account book, "This is not as good as a hole, so it is easy to wear."

Ping'er smiled and said, "Grandma, that's different."

Baochai hurriedly stopped him, "You can't talk nonsense, stealing casting is a big crime and breaking the law!"

Jia Lian said: "Let's cast money, one tael, five coins and one tael of gold, silver and copper coins. It's better for our pawnshops and banks to use this kind of money."

Sister Feng thought more, "Our Wang family used to be solely responsible for the tributes from various countries. All the foreign ships and goods in Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan and Zhejiang belonged to our family. They have a kind of foreign money, the size and weight are the same, and the patterns are also exquisite. Now you can be a silver messenger on the other side of the coast."

Jia Lian smiled and said, "Then let's make some foreign money too."

Baochai shook his head: "Brother, our money making is all made by casting, but it can't be so delicate."

Jia Lian thought for a while, "It's just made by a machine. In this way, others can't copy it even if they want to."

Sister Feng just treated him as a joke, "It's just to entertain them during the New Year, and to do these troublesome things. If the second master wants, let Ping'er go back to Wang's house tomorrow, and spend hundreds of thousands of taels for you. Come in a car!"

Jia Lian nodded: "That's good!"

He was already thinking about what the coin machine in his memory looked like, but after a long time, how could he possibly remember that Baochai saw his frowning face and asked, "What is my brother thinking?"

Jia Lian asked back: "What do you say is the most profitable business?"

Before Baochai could answer, Ying'er, who was beside him, was quick to say, "Of course it's an unfounded business!"

Baochai said, "Who told you to talk nonsense?"

However, Jia Lian pointed at the gold and silver clasps on the couch, "Of course it's a business of money!"

Sister Feng hurriedly said: "Don't we have enough money, look at this!"

Saying that, she gave the ledger to Jia Lian, "Our annual income is enough for several lifetimes. Yesterday, Zhuangzi came up to deliver the rent, and he deliberately only asked them to give away the money and what they needed in the year, and the others. All the miscellaneous things are called to stay in the house outside the city. The provincial people are jealous."

Jia Lian smiled and only asked Ping'er to remember to go to Wang's house tomorrow. Just as he was talking, Jia Rong came in with a yellow cloth bag in his hand, "Uncle and aunt, nephew brought back the gift of the Spring Festival."

Jia has linked it, see "Huang En Yongxi" printed on it

With four big characters, he poured the gold inside on the couch. He picked up an ingot and weighed it in his hand, "This year is indeed more than in previous years."

Jia Rong bowed and smiled and said, "Last year it was only one hundred taels of gold. This year, our family has pursued the title of the county king, and naturally we have doubled to two hundred taels of gold."

He couldn't help but glanced at the dazzling yellow and white scorpion on the couch. Jia Lian returned the bag to Jia Rong: "How is the preparation in the ancestral hall?"

Jia Rong said: "Everywhere is ready. Prince Xianjun's divine position has been properly replaced."

Seeing that Jia Lian didn't ask any more questions, he stepped back and burned his pockets in the ancestral hall. From a single point of view, it is a Spanish silver coin, but it is much rougher than expected. After careful inspection, there is even a cruder cross: coin. Jia Lian calculated the age in his heart, and the Spanish Benyang in the image has not yet Start casting. Order people to put it away first, and wait until the new year. The next day, the old lady has a formal seal, and they are all according to the class: wearing court clothes, first sitting in eight people and eight sedan chairs, and leading everyone into the palace to greet them. Yuanchun was there In the Kunning Palace, after everyone visited the shrine, they ordered people to retreat, leaving only the Jia family, and then called Jia Lian to enter the palace. The ceremony was ceremonial, and Yuanchun gave her a seat. The old lady is in good spirits. Speaking of Baoyu, she really knows how to make progress now. , is studying every day. Yuan Chun smiled and said: "Since this is the year of the Great Competition, it is better to let him try the imperial examination."

Mrs. Wang also smiled and said, "This is the meaning of the letter from the master. At first, I wanted to donate a supervisor to Baoyu, but he was determined not to, and he had to pass the test himself. I saw that he was so ambitious, so I let him go. "

Yuan Chun nodded and said, "If this is the case, even I feel at ease."

Chapter 3 Why didn't you come to see me in Yuanchun, the old lady and Mrs. Wang were sitting next to me. Every time their mothers entered the palace, they always said that they could not do without Baoyu. Mrs. Xing was under Mrs. Wang. Don't talk. Jia Lian is still far away, and Sister You Shifeng is standing below, but the three of Keqing are fortunate to be in the palace for the first time this year, and talk quietly. So Jia Lian moved to the door and beside them, "What are you talking about? Woolen cloth"

Keqing said softly: "Miaoyu said that the house is too empty and too dark, and it is not comfortable to live in at all."

Jia Lian smiled and said: "This is the royal rule, style comes first! You can see that there are dragons and phoenixes carved everywhere, eaves and arches, and there is no more than one beast on the roof."

Miaoyu tightened her long coat of raccoon fur, "It's not as warm as our house!"

Jia Lian put her hand in his arms, "Although this Kunning Palace is the main hall of the harem, it is only used for festivals and celebrations, and it is only used when the emperor is getting married. Usually the queen and the queen dowager don't live here. Going out to the west, there is a place not much bigger than our yard, called the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and it is usually there."

Baochai looked around, "In this way, the palace is no better than our home."

Jia Lian could not help twisting her smooth little face, "You're right! When the first emperor died, I slept in the firewood room outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation for a month!"

The three of them looked at Jia Lian with disbelief: "There is still a firewood house in the palace"

Jia Lian smiled and said: "You think that this palace is full of splendor, in fact, except for a few important places, such as the Daming Palace, Kunning Palace, the palace where the Empress Dowager and the old concubine live, the rest are similar, and they have been in disrepair for a long time. The roof is leaking."

They were talking quietly here, and they provoked Sister Feng and You to come over.

Baochai glanced at Yuanchun in front of him, and then said, "Sister Feng, brother just said that there are a few things in the palace that are not very good."

Sister Feng covered her mouth and smiled and said, "Our grandfather's words can be trusted even if the place is made of gold and silver, he can pick out thorns. In short, it can't compare to our own."

You jokingly said, "Second Master Lian is afraid that he will only be satisfied if he lives in the Heavenly Palace."

Jia Lian said indifferently, "Even in the Heavenly Palace, if you weren't there, I wouldn't be happy by myself."

Sister Feng and others laughed shyly, and even You Shi was secretly happy. Seeing that the time was approaching, a little eunuch from outside trotted in with his head lowered and knelt down in front of Yuanchun, "Qi to the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager welcomes you."

Yuan Chun smiled and said, "Let her come in!"

After a while, the little queen was surrounded by people and walked into the palace. Jia Lian hurriedly led Sister Feng and the others to salute. When the little queen saw Jia Lian, she couldn't help smiling, and hurriedly dismissed the salute, "Duke Rong, please, Get up, ma'am!"

Sister Jia Lianfeng and others are all thankful. The little queen looked at Sister Feng carefully, and then looked at Keqing's three 3s, and smiled meaningfully at Jia Lian. This made Jia Lian have a strange feeling. Wait for the little queen to go. I have seen Yuanchun and Sister Feng before: "You are very familiar with the Empress."

Jia Lian categorically denied it, and changed the topic: this empress is not... an ordinary person, when King Zhongshun rebelled, she was slashed desperately and came to report to us, and we caught up to rescue the empress and the others. "

Keqing said: "Second Master, it can be seen that she always looks at you differently."

Jia Lian straightened up, "Your father-in-law is a high-ranking official in the imperial court, and the empress may look at it differently because of this."

Baochai said, "That's true."

With his mouth echoing, his eyes were suspicious. Jia Lian said sternly: "She is the empress, and she is not a big sister-in-law who can joke around!"

Speaking of which, You Shi suddenly blushed and spat: "What do you say?"

Sister Feng interrupted: "The more you say it, the more outrageous it is. This is the palace, and she is also joking with the eldest sister-in-law."

"Chain Brothers!"

Yuanchun called him over from above. Jia Lian walked to the hall, "The Empress Dowager, the minister is here!"

Yuan Chun smiled and said, "Everyone is congratulating you at Daming Palace, and the emperor asked you to come over."

"The minister obeys the order!"

Jia Lian handed over his hands and was about to retreat. The little queen said at this time: "Mother, it's better for the concubine to go with the king."

Yuan Chun thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Alright, you go and tell the emperor that you must be the old ministers of Youli Pavilion, they are all the teachers of the emperor, and they can't do things arbitrarily."

Jia Lian sent the little queen to go first, and then he resigned Yuanchun and followed the little queen. After leaving the Kunning Palace gate, the little queen screened everyone and asked Jia Lian to follow. Jia Lian looked around: Everyone else retreated. A few feet away, he softly called out, "The Empress"

The little queen said with anger: "Why don't you call me a slave girl?"

Jia Lian almost stepped on his heel and fell, bowed his head and said, "Miss, you have broken the minister! How dare the minister?"

The little queen hummed softly: "What else do you dare not?"

Jia Lian prided himself on being daring, but in broad daylight, the little queen sent a chill on her back, "This minister is indeed daring."

The little queen glared at him, then smiled and said, "It was your three ladies who were by your side just now."

Jia Lian replied: "Yes! It was the first time they entered the palace, they were very surprised, and they were amazed!"

The little queen said: "Other people have only one official life, you are better, the concubine can be brought into the palace!"

Jia Lian can be proud of this: "It's all the mighty grace of the first emperor and the emperor! The minister is grateful!"

The little queen said quietly: "Do you want to see the prince?"

Jia Lian's heart was beating wildly, "I'm afraid this is inconvenient for me! I have to go to Daming Palace."

The little queen covered her mouth and smiled: "The emperor is wrestling with a group of half-year-old children, and he has no time to tell you to go!"

Jia Lian was secretly vigilant and asked, "When did the emperor have this preference?"

The little queen pondered for a while, "It's probably just two days. I heard from the emperor, he admires your uncle very much!"

At this time, Jia Lian only remembered one person - Ao Bai, "Where did those half-old children come from?"

The little queen smiled and said: "I heard that they are all orphans of the Jinyi Army, and they are the most loyal and reliable."