The Coral of the Red Mansion Does Not Return

"Isn't this Erliu Zi who lost his wife a few years ago!" Without waiting for Jia Ying to speak, a village woman who was called to make a joke recognized the middle-aged man who was being detained, and exclaimed.The others looked carefully, "It's not him!" "The famous rogue in this village, how did he get involved with the nobleman?!" The person who spoke was glared at by the rest.Didn't you hear that nanny calling someone "big girl"? It can't be said that it has nothing to do with the reputation of the young lady, why bother to shout it out, just to cause trouble?

Seeing this, Jia Hu hurriedly persuaded, "Mom, why don't you go back to the other courtyard first."

In such a situation, Mrs. Liu was afraid of ruining her daughter's reputation, so she hurriedly led people back to the carriage.Bai Guo took hundreds of dollars from the carriage.The village women who talked about farming were so happy that they were rewarded, and they were all very grateful.Jia She ordered people to invite the village chief, sealed several hundred silver, and asked his own nursing home to take the thief back. He was anxious and took Jia Lian with him.

The village chief got the seal of silver, and the tenants in the village are all renting the land of the Jia family, so how dare he speak up, even if he has a thousand doubts, he just keeps silent, and he even issued a strict order not to allow the villagers to discuss and make trouble.

Jia Hu was left behind to entertain those strange guards.

The one at the head cupped his hands and said, "I've met Master Jia."

Jia Hu asked in surprise: "You recognize me?" Before he could answer, he said politely: "Thank you for your help, brother, I haven't asked your name yet."

The guard hurriedly avoided Jia Hu's bow, and said in repeated voices: "Don't dare! I am Han Yi, who is under the command of the Ninth Prince. His Highness Ninth Prince was hunting in the nearby forest, and this man bumped into him in a dazed state, almost startling His Highness. Mount, we brothers caught him. When we were about to ask questions, these wives chased after him, presumably chasing him. His Highness asked that he was a servant of the Rongguo Mansion, for fear of being mistaken When it’s done, let me escort you over.”

Nine princes?Jia Hu muttered in his heart, why is there him everywhere.Suspicion arose in his heart, but there was no change on his face, he just clasped his fists gratefully, thanked him again, and said in a pleasant way: "It turned out to be Mrs. Han. I don't know how the Ninth Highness has always been? Your Highness frightened the horse, where did you get hurt? Don't worry." The courtyard has good wound medicine, and His Highness the Ninth Prince is invited to recuperate inside."

Han Yi turned his body slightly, and only received a half-respect for his master.He replied: "Lord Jia is polite, but it's just a matter of raising one's hand. Your Highness has always been very good." Then he said, "Don't worry, Lord Jia. Your Highness has only suffered a slight injury. There is no need to mobilize people. Besides, His Highness has a village nearby. When you come, I am about to go back to the village, and I am probably in the village now."

Nothing happened to the Ninth Prince, and Jia Hu also breathed a sigh of relief.The thief was chased by Jia's family, which made the Ninth Prince startled.If he has something good or bad, if the emperor asks, the Rongguo Mansion will not be able to escape responsibility.

"Since His Highness already has a place to stay, I will not keep Mrs. Han. I will send someone to inform you when I find out the reason and deal with this thief." You Chi asked, "When will Your Highness return to Beijing? I will come to thank you in person. .”

Han Yi smiled and said: "Your Highness is fine, so I don't care about it. Those who offended His Highness, Mr. Jia can deal with it at will. His Highness has lived in the capital for a long time, and he has been bored for a long time. He has stayed in Zhuangzi for half a month. He said he would stay for a few more days. As for when His Highness will return to the capital, I don’t know.” Seeing Jia Hu’s disappointed expression, he deliberately said, “If Lord Jia wants to thank you personally, why don’t you send a boy to Zhuangzi Ask here."

Hearing the news of Autumn Hunting, the Ninth Prince was very happy, and said he would live in Zhuangzi for a few months, practice bow and horse well, and impress the emperor. ——But the Ninth Prince has always taken a path away from the center of power struggles, and I don't know what kind of stimulation he has received recently.Could it be that as long as he is a prince, he cannot escape the fate of fighting for the crown prince?

Han Yi lamented in his heart, he was the bodyguard of the Ninth Prince, and he and the Ninth Prince both prospered and lost together.Seeing that there is little hope, why did the Ninth Prince go to that muddy water?If the status quo is maintained, at worst he will be a prince; if he is vying to get ahead, he does not know whether he can keep his current title of county king.

Jia Hu didn't know about Han Yi's worries, but he just felt that the Ninth Prince was so weird.Who in the capital knows that the Ninth Prince loves actors the most?Although the countryside is beautiful, the Zhuangzi where the Nine Princes settled down is not as luxurious as the stage in the palace. ——Where did this trouble come from?Feeling suspicious, Jia Hu and Han Yi don't have a deep friendship, so it's not easy to ask them directly.

Jia Hu also received Han Yi's kindness, and smiled and said a few more words, Han Yi said it was getting late and it was time to go back and answer.Watching Han Yi and the others go away, Jia Hu's expression darkened, he got on his horse and left.

Back in the other courtyard, Jia Amnesty had ordered someone to interrogate the thief. He and Mrs. Liu were sitting in the lobby, and there was a row of people kneeling in the hall, all of whom were maids and servants around Jia Ying.But Jia Ying was nowhere to be seen.Jia Huyin asked, "Where is Yinger?" Liu said, "Yinger is tired from crying, so I ordered Baiguo to take someone to serve her."

Jia Hu nodded slowly, and sat on Jia She's head without saying a word.A pair of dark eyes made everyone in the hall shiver.

There is a puddle of tea on the ground under the hall, the tea leaves are scattered, and the fragments of the cups are splashed everywhere, which shows the anger in the hearts of the people who threw down the teacups.The person who smashed the tea set was Mrs. Liu. She continued her previous question, "Why did the girl suddenly think of going to play with water?" Ask for details.

The people kneeling below asked and answered, and they couldn't seem to be more honest.

They are the sons of Jia Ying's family, and their wealth, life, honor and shame are all tied to Jia Ying. If something happens to Jia Ying, it is not an exaggeration for the people who served her to be beaten to death.They hated the village man before it was too late, so how could they help him cover it up?In addition, my wife has a tolerant eye, and she has never been able to hide it from her with perfunctory words.Therefore, Liu Zhu and the others explained everything that happened clearly, and only asked their wives to see that they were responsible and punish them lightly.

After listening in silence for a while, Jia Hu figured out most of what happened.

It turned out that Jia Ying went to change clothes, and as soon as she left the thatched cottage, she thought about washing her hands.There happened to be a dark-skinned ten-year-old girl poking her head outside. She was obviously very curious about the group of people, so she asked for questions.That girl Ziyun is the daughter of the village chief's family, her name is Erya, she asked the young master to wash his hands, so he took them to Xiaoxi.

The creek was shallow, so everyone didn't pay attention, but the rocks were very slippery, Jia Ying didn't care to wet his clothes.Wearing wet clothes on a hot day makes it easy to get sick, so the wet nurse hurriedly asked Liu Zhu to take someone back to the carriage to change clothes.The second girl then said: "The sun is so big, walking all the way back, the clothes should be dry, why don't you ask the sisters to get the clothes back, and go to the empty room over there to change."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Liu finally couldn't help cursing: "Stupid! You shouldn't have listened to anyone in the first place and asked the girl to go to such a far place! The girl wants to wash her hands, you just wait for the water to come! Now that you have arrived Beside the stream, it is your duty to be careful of the slippery stones. Why didn’t you take good care of the girl and let her get wet? Didn’t it give someone an opportunity to take advantage of it!” Needless to say, I know what happened afterwards, the thief must be hiding in the Where, look at Jia Ying.

The wet nurse cried: "Madam, let me tell you..."

It's just that the girl has a big idea, was moved by Er Ya's description, and insisted on going to see the crystal clear stream in the countryside.As for the wet clothes, the girl went crazy and wanted to splash water with Er Ya, but she stopped her in time.While persuading, the girl fell when she made a mistake in her eyes.Fortunately, I didn't sprain my ankle, only the shoes and hem were wet.

"I can't persuade the girl, what use are you for?" Liu said angrily.

What a big idea!Isn't this alluding to Hu'er!The nurse always said that people who think too much are not good, and the girl should not learn from the uncle.Mrs. Liu thought that girls are different from boys, which makes sense, so she endured it.I didn't expect to get used to her even more frivolously!The master is also something she can arrange?

This wet nurse was specially chosen by her. For her daughter's unrestrained temperament, she even beat the maid beside her daughter.Therefore, in some matters, those maids listened to the wet nurse better than Ying'er.If it wasn't for the wet nurse who also had the idea of ​​being relaxed and relaxed, how could Ying'er run out so easily!

She was angry and sad at the same time, she was raising such a daughter like a sweetheart.Ying'er has a strong temper, what should she do if she can't think about it?Thinking of this, Mrs. Liu couldn't sit still, and wanted to get up to see her daughter.Being held down by Jia She, "Bai Guo is here, I will definitely watch it happily. Ask if Yinger has been seen, and how much you have seen!"

Jia Hu also said: "Mother, Bai Guo is safe, so don't worry."

Afterwards, a group of people checked that there was no one inside and outside the house, and the little maid who had been sent to pick up the clothes from the carriage came back and waited on the girl to change her clothes.

Liu Zhu said: "There are a dozen of us, Caiqing, Wenxue, I, and I waited on the girl inside, and the wet nurse led a dozen people to guard at the window and the door. It was absolutely safe," she said here, Obviously very angry, her voice raised a lot, "Who knows that the girl just took off her coat, we heard a noise on the beam!" Liu Zhu swore, she heard the sound of swallowing saliva clearly!

Obviously, all of this was premeditated. First, Jia Ying was led to wash her hands by the stream, and then she was led to splash water on each other—after Jia Ying accidentally wet her clothes, she stopped insisting on doing so.It can be seen that the purpose of the mastermind behind the scenes is to lure Jia Ying to the wooden house where someone is hiding and destroy her innocence.

Jia Hu crushed the white porcelain cup.

"Just took off the outer shirt?" Liu was very grateful and confirmed again and again.

"I just took off my outer shirt," Liu Zhu said affirmatively, "the thief escaped from the house after that, we were so busy blocking the girl that we had no time to take care of it, so we had to shout for help."

Afterwards the girl refused to change again, so they had to put on the clean coats—they were soaked by the naked underwear again as the girls walked along.

The thief was a middle-aged man, and a countryman was already strong. It was predictable that he escaped from a group of maidservants and hid in a remote mountain forest.

It's a pity that I happened to meet the Ninth Prince.

This time, Jia Hu believed in the accidental appearance of the Ninth Prince.

Jia She asked: "Did you see clearly when you came here? Is it really this person?"

Liu Zhu nodded affirmatively, "That's him!"

Mrs. Liu rubbed her brows wearily, and said: "Liuzhu, Caiqing, and Fangxue each hit ten big boards; other maids and maids each hit twenty big boards. You don't need to go to the girl's errands in the future, you all go Chuang Tzu. As for the wet nurse..."

Mrs. Liu opened her eyes suddenly, and said in a serious tone: "The wet nurse is getting old, and the life is so comfortable that she has forgotten her duty." Hearing the wet nurse's words, "At least I nursed the girl", she sneered and said, "What face do you have when something like this happens to the girl?!" He said angrily again, "Drag me out! I'll beat you to death!" He flung his sleeves and left to see his daughter.

Liu Zhu and the others looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.The innocence of the daughter of the boudoir is the most important thing. She witnessed the whole process of the girl being watched by others, she saved her life, and she was not drugged with dumb drugs and sold to such a dirty place. She is really lucky.

Fearing that he might offend his daughter, Jia Shesheng hesitated to follow, another servant came to report, and when he was recruited, he took Jia Hu to the outside room.Before leaving, Jia Hu said lightly: "Liu Zhu rewards 100 taels, Caiqing and Wenxue rewards 50 taels." He also added a warning, "Life in Zhuangzi is still easy, as long as you keep your mouth shut." Slapping a sweet date, Jia Hu's methods are consummate.

The three of them were overjoyed and kowtowed to thank them without hesitation.With silver, it won't be too sad in Zhuangzi!

Because there was a delay in talking later, when Jia Hu arrived, Jia Amnesty had already read the criminal's confession.Seeing Jia Hu approaching, he said, "Hu'er, this is Wu Han's confession, take a look." Wu Han is the thief's name.

Looking at the thin sheets of paper, Jia Hu frowned.As expected, this incident was carefully planned by someone with ulterior motives.

However, to ruin Ying Er's innocence, what's the benefit of being the mastermind behind the scenes?