Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Jia Lian asked, "Do you know what happened to the wealthy households who were robbed?"

Du Butou said: "It's just normal, it's just a robbery of finances, and there is no insult to personality!"

At this point in the question, Jia Lian was basically sure that these bandits really hated the government, and some of them had a grudge against Li Daren's son-in-law, but the enmity hadn't reached the point of being irreconcilable, so this group of bandits replayed them. children.

If you want to know the details, you can only know if you catch the bandits.

Here, Jia Lian has already talked about it with Du Tutou, but Master Hong has just arrived late.Jia Lian looked at the case record at a glance, and it was similar to what Du Butou said. Officials other than Li Wang and Weng's son-in-law, although there was no insult, they would rob them of all their belongings, and would never leave them a single bit.

In addition to the oddity that this group of bandits dared to commit crimes in front of the capital, there was another strange thing. The bandits that appeared on the canal recently only robbed property and never hurt people.This is debatable.

Jia Lian had a clear understanding of the case here, and Yin Feng also arranged the reward document. He guessed that he really had no money, so he just bowed his hands to Jia Lian: "I have no hands and no money here. This time I really need to rely on two people. A virtuous brother saved my life."

Jia Lian and Feng Ziying returned the gift together: "I will never ignore my lord. However, my lord has to take action. Tomorrow morning, my lord will throw out all the yamen servants. It doesn't matter if you can't find the robbers. At least you must create a tense atmosphere so that the Outsiders can see that you have worked hard, my lord."

Jia Lian actually reminded Yin Feng that he should not just sit in the yamen and worry, even if he couldn't catch the bandits, he had to show the emperor that he was actively arresting them.

Yin Feng naturally obeyed, thanked Jia Lian and sent them out of the government office, and went back to order not to mention it.

Jia Lian already has some knowledge of this banditry here, but he concealed it and didn't tell Feng Ziying the truth. It's not that Jia Lian and Feng Ziying have a relationship, but Feng Ziying keeps saying that bandits are hateful and damned. It seems that he has not noticed the peculiarity of this banditry place.

Jia Lian didn't say anything because he wasn't sure, so he didn't say anything.

Both of them are smart people, they probably already guessed the reason why the emperor urgently recruited them into the palace after they came out of Shuntian Mansion.

However, it is impossible for the two of them to deal with a large group of bandits. Although Jia Lian can deal with it, according to common sense, the two of them are not opponents of bandits.

Therefore, both of them had guessed that this time, the emperor probably wanted the two of them to visit the bandits unannounced, and then cooperate with the government to catch the bandits.

However, these should be the responsibility of the Secretary of General Administration.

The two couldn't guess what happened, so they had to go home without mentioning it.

The next day, Jia Lian received the emperor's imperial decree, ordering him to enter the palace in the morning to have an audience.

At the beginning of the morning, Jia Lian had already arrived at the gate of Qianqing to wait, and after another stick of incense, Feng Ziying also arrived at the gate of Qianqing.

When Emperor Chenzheng retired from the court, a young eunuch came to pass the message: "The emperor has an order, and Feng Ziying and Jia Lian will meet."

Jia Lian and Feng Ziying looked at each other and smiled, it seemed that they were going to act together.

For a while, Jia Lian and Feng Ziying arrived at Qianqing Palace, so they had to pay respects and shouted long live three times.

Emperor Qianyuan seemed very happy, and he laughed heartily: "You two are free, get up and talk."

As he spoke, he waved to the eunuchs serving on both sides: "Let's proclaim the decree!"

Qin Fu and Qin Lu came over with trays.

Jia Lian and Feng Ziying thought that Emperor Qianyuan would assign them some errands, but unexpectedly there were gifts to reward them, so they couldn't help being stunned.

Today's emperor is as friendly and harmless as the uncle who came to visit from the neighbor's house, and he took away gifts, which really flattered the two of them.

But they saw Qin Fu and Qin Lu side by side holding a red lacquered tray covered with gold, and the tray was covered with yellow silk and satin. They didn't know what it was.

First of all, it was Qin Fu's accent: "Jia Lian and Feng Ziying, the four-rank imperial guard with a sword, received the order."

Feng Ziying and Jia Lian knelt down: "I accept the order!"

Here, Qin Fu handed the tray to the little eunuch beside him, and uncovered the yellow silk and satin, but underneath was a scroll of imperial decree.

Qin Fu read slowly: "The Emperor has a decree to transfer Feng Ziying, the guard of the first four ranks with a knife, to be the General Secretary of the Left, and Jia Lian to be the General of the Right. When the decree arrives, he will take office immediately. Thank you!"

Feng Ziying and Jia Lian kowtow together: "I am waiting to thank you!"

The two had just got up, Qin Lu said again: "The emperor has a reward, Feng Ziying, who is the governor on the left, and Jia Lian, who is the governor on the right, will receive the order."

Feng Ziying and Jia Lian hurriedly knelt down: "My minister Feng Ziying and Jia Lian accept the order!"

"The emperor has a reward, the Secretary of the General Administration, Feng Ziying of the Left Tongzheng, and Jia Lian of the Right Administration, each with a bird's beak."

Feng Ziying and Jia Lian all tilted their heads at the bottom, staring at each other in disbelief: "Huh?"

Seeing that the two were in a daze and refused to accept the order, Qin Lu hurriedly yelled: "Feng Ziying and Jia Lian accept the order and thank you!"

Feng Ziying and Jia Lian woke up at the same time, kowtowed together, and thanked loudly: "I am waiting for my thanks, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Emperor Qianyuan smiled like a big-eyed thief, and raised his hands: "Get up and talk, let's see if you like the gift."

Feng Ziying and Jia Lian looked at a model of Emperor Qianyuan offering treasures, they raised eyebrows and winked at each other, each guessed, and their hearts suddenly became eager: which thing could it be?

When the yellow silk and satin were lifted, Feng Ziying and Feng Ziying almost exclaimed, it was really the bird's-billed gun they had in mind, but this bird's-billed gun seemed to be more delicate than the bird's-billed gun that Jia Lian and the others had come into contact with.

First of all, the length of the bird-billed blunderbuss has been shortened by half. The bird-billed blunderbuss that Jia Lian saw before had to be carried on his shoulders. The length of the bird-billed blunderbuss was about one-third of the length of an adult's arms. The connection between the gun bed and the gun bed is no longer a golden bamboo tube, but the gun tube is directly fixed to the gun bed with two copper hoops.

The improved bird's beak gun not only reduced the length by two-thirds, but also halved the weight.

Jia Lian was upside down, only about two catties.Jia Lian was playing with the bird's beak blunderbuss in his hand, but his heart was cold. Before, the manufacturing office he was in seemed to be a fake manufacturing office, and everything there was specious.The stock remains the same, but the barrel joints are completely different.

Jia Lian was startled all over, fortunately, he thought he had glimpsed the secret of the robbery, but unexpectedly fell into the trick of Emperor Qianyuan.

Emperor Qianyuan's imperial mind is really deep.

Jia Lian could guess that the bird's-billed blunderbuss made by the manufacturing office must be the kind Jia Lian saw, but the bird's-billed blunderbuss in the hands of the royal clan must have undergone secondary processing, and that is the real bird's-billed blunderbuss.

If Jia Lian hadn't owned the real bird's beak gun, wouldn't he have regarded the waste product of the combination of iron, wood and bamboo as a treasure!

Feng Ziying also had a look of horror.

The bird-billed blunderbuss he had seen were the same as what Jia Lian knew, they were the finished product of the combination of iron, wood and bamboo, but it turned out that they were all played by the emperor.Put them in a fake manufacturing office.

Perhaps, that manufacturing office is a low-level manufacturing office, and the real manufacturing office should be hidden in the deep palace and managed by the inner court imperial manufacturing office.

It's really hard to guess what the emperor's family is thinking!

Feng Ziying's face was twitching, his father's beak gun was the kind of gun that was the length of an adult's arms. It seemed that his father Feng Tang was not a confidant in Emperor Qianyuan's heart.

Emperor Qianyuan seemed to appreciate the shock of the two, and laughed: "Why, are you so happy? This is a new type of bird gun that has just been researched. It is not as powerful as the gun, but it can withstand more shots than the gun, and it is also light. , easy to carry, this is my treasure, there are only ten of them in the entire palace, except for the royal family, only you two own it. However, you two have to remember, unless it is absolutely necessary, this shotgun should not be shown to others casually , and, this thing is rewarded by you for temporary use, and you will return it to me after this task is completed, remember?"

The enthusiasm of Feng Ziying and Jia Lian was immediately quenched by cold water.

However, it's good to have it temporarily, it's better than nothing.Anyway, during this period of time, they can use this treasure to their heart's content.

The treasures that the two got from observing each other, these two guns are exactly the same.

Emperor Qianyuan smiled and waited for them to get over the excitement, and then walked away: "Let's go, let's go to Nanyuan to experiment."

Nanyuan is the royal hunting ground, where many birds and animals are raised artificially.Every autumn, the emperor would respectfully invite the empress dowager to visit Nanyuan, and take the princes and concubines out to relax. At this time, the eunuchs in charge of raising them would release the birds and animals into the forest for the emperor to shoot and hunt for fun.

This time, Emperor Qianyuan took advantage of the opportunity of autumn hunting to verify the power of the new gun.

Nanyuan was not far from the capital, and the emperor's guard of honor arrived at Nanyuan an hour later.

The identity of the Tongzheng Secretary is a secret, therefore, Jia Lian and Feng Ziying are still the imperial bodyguards at present, and they follow behind Emperor Qianyuan in an orderly manner, step by step to protect the emperor.

This time, almost all the royal family and nobles in the capital were mobilized. Prince Ying, King Zhongshun, King Zhongyi, King Xi, and King Beijing were all on the hunt.

In addition to seeing these royal family members, Jia Lian also saw a few acquaintances, Yu Liuyue and Zhen Yinglian, who are now sisters-in-law, and both of them are serving the Queen Mother.

There is also Jia Rong, who is now a celebrity in front of the Queen Mother. Emperor Qianyuan is filial to the Queen Mother, and Tite asked him to guard the Queen Mother so that he could meet and cultivate feelings with Zhen Yinglian.

In addition to these imaginable characters, Jia Lian also unexpectedly saw Yuan Chun, the eldest daughter of Rongguo Mansion.

Originally, Jia Lian and Jia Yuanchun hadn't seen each other for 15 years, and the last time Jia Lian saw Jia Yuanchun, she was already a majestic and virtuous concubine, but now Jia Lian really didn't recognize this maid in Tsing Yi.

If it hadn't been for Yuan Chun's frequent glances to be caught by Jia Lian's sixth sense, and then let go of his divine sense to identify, Jia Lian really wouldn't have recognized that this youthful and elegant beauty was his sister Jia Yuanchun.

Before Yuan Chun heard that Jia Lian was relegated from the capital, she was very disappointed. She thought that the brothers in Jia's family would strive for success, and her competitiveness in the palace would rise. She seemed to have suddenly fallen from the spring into the winter, and she was constrained everywhere, and everything went wrong.

The Empress Dowager also changed her face. Fortunately, Jia Rong had some affection in front of the Empress Dowager, and Zhen Yinglian and Yuan Chun had some intersections. As a maid in the Empress Dowager's Palace, she got a chance to go out of the palace to breathe.

Seeing Jia Lian, Yuan Chun was very excited and beamed with joy.

Her abnormal movement was soon noticed by the empress dowager, she smiled and glanced at Jia Lian, but saw Jia Lian followed Emperor Qianyuan without any other distraction, nodding secretly in her heart, this Jia Lian became more and more quiet after experience.

The empress dowager couldn't help but look at her niece Zhen Yingyu, and sighed secretly, if she hadn't had high eyesight and low abilities back then, now this rich son-in-law belongs to the Zhen family.

The mother looked at Jia Rong and Zhen Yinglian again, and felt relieved, finally there was a girl who was willing to listen to her.

It's a pity that the child Jia Rong is really pitiful. She has lost her mother since she was a child. One grandfather doesn't care about things, and one father is unreliable. The child told her before that, when the time comes, his uncle will come to propose marriage. If it wasn't for Jia Zhen The couple broke the child's heart, and the child would not say such sad words.

The empress dowager couldn't help shaking her head, it's really difficult to have both in this world, the sons and daughters whose parents are uplifting don't live up to it, and the sons and daughters are uplifting, but the parents are out of tune.

At such a time, Jia Lian's sixth sense suddenly noticed that the eyes of King Zhongshun and King Zhongyi were a little weird, and he couldn't help but focus on his ears. He stretched his hearing, but he heard King Zhongshun say; I will lure the servants and guards away, and it will be up to you when the time comes."

King Zhongyi's lips moved slightly: "Don't worry, it's good for you, and you won't find it if you fail. You know me. As long as he's not good, I'm willing to die."

King Zhongshun twitched his cheeks: "Remember your promise, if I am here, I will definitely remember your grievances."

Jia Lian's eyelids twitched, he didn't dare to turn his head, fearing that King Zhongshun and others would find out, so he could only calm down and cover his consciousness quietly, only to see King Zhongshun and King Zhongyi County holding a bird's beak gun.

Jia Lian's heart suddenly flickered, this is really bad.

Jia Lian didn't know what they were going to do, so he could only attach his spiritual sense to the King of Zhongyi, staring at his words and deeds, but saw him secretly making a few gestures, and two court servants went to Emperor Qianyuan up.

The two of them knelt down in front of Emperor Qianyuan and kowtowed, and said: "Reporting to His Majesty, the servants and maidservants in the forest have carefully inspected them two or three times. Except for cattle, sheep, pigs and elk, there is no one bigger than them in this forest. living creatures, Your Majesty, please feel at ease hunting."

Emperor Qianyuan nodded: "Well done, I will reward you when this hunt is successfully concluded."

The two servants kowtowed and said: "It's all a servant's job, I dare not claim credit for the reward."

Emperor Qianyuan waved his hand: "Back down."

Jia Lian locked his consciousness on these two people again, wanting to hear what kind of deal they had with King Zhongyi.

But I heard one of them say: "Fifth brother, the godfather asked us to obey the orders of King Zhongyi, but he ordered us to put wild boars into the hunting grounds as livestock. If we really hurt these royals and nobles, our lives are in danger." .”

The other reprimanded: "Why, you are afraid, sixth son, and you don't even think about it. If your godfather hadn't rescued you, picked you out of the crowd and gave you 20 taels of silver to settle down, your mother and I Can you and your siblings live to this day? To be a human being, you must repay your kindness, even if it costs your life, you must not be ungrateful and be a villain."

Lao Liuyan said: "But, we are the emperor's people, why do we want to kill the empress dowager?"

The fifth child reprimanded sharply: "What nonsense, who is going to harm anyone? We are just inspecting the woods as a matter of routine. As for the wild animals on the mountain running down by themselves, what does it have to do with us? We just left the palace today, what can we do, what do we know?"

The sixth child immediately lowered his head: "The emperor is doing well with you, he eats delicious food and often rewards you, let's..."

The fifth child reprimanded again: "Shut up!"

The two stopped talking, and gradually became among the eunuchs in the palace without any trace.

Jia Lian suddenly became depressed.

The two spoke vaguely, whether they wanted to kill the emperor or the empress dowager, right now, Jia Lian didn't want anything to happen to Emperor Qianyuan, otherwise, Jia Lian's life would be difficult no matter whether it was King Zhongyi's pride or King Zhongshun's Dezhi.

Furthermore, once there is a riot in Kyoto, even if King Zhongshun and King Zhongyi cannot break into the palace, the nobles in the capital will not have a good life. The Rongguo Mansion has enmity with the two kings, and the first to be dealt with is the target.

At this time, Emperor Qianyuan had already got on his horse, followed by five princes, big and small, and a large row of imperial guards behind him, even if a wild animal came out, it would not be on the emperor.

Jia Lian looked around the empress dowager again. Apart from Jia Rong and another third-class guard, there were only a group of servants, a dozen court ladies, and eight nuns.Then there are Yu Liuyue, Zhen Yinglian, Zhen Yingyu and several young women, as well as their respective maids.

Jia Lian stared carefully, and found that except for the two guards Jia Rong, the rest were old and weak women and children.

Jia Lian frowned, Zhongshun Wang was leading the guards and internal ministers, it seemed that he played tricks on the few guards around the Empress Dowager.

At this time, Feng Ziying had already got on his horse. Seeing Jia Lian not moving, he hurriedly reminded: "Second brother Lian, the hunt will start soon, and there is a reward from the Holy Spirit."

But Jia Lian waved his hand: "You go, I had a cold yesterday and I had a bad headache."

Feng Ziying was taken aback.

He had stayed with Jia Lian for a long time, and had a basic tacit understanding. In the morning, Jia Lian was clearly healthy and safe, but now he suddenly said that he had a cold last night, so something must be wrong.

He turned over and got off his horse: "Hey, it's nothing fun, let them behave, anyway, I won't choose a guard, I'll take a rest too, shooting prey with a gun, it's a waste, I don't want to bear it, it's better to wait and shoot directly The same goes for the target."

Feng Ziying walked slowly to Jia Lian, and asked softly, "Second brother, what's wrong with you, is there something wrong?"

Jia Lian narrowed his eyes and said softly: "I noticed that some of the servants were behaving strangely. I was worried that something would happen. Because I saw that there were so many people around the emperor, I thought nothing would happen, so I stayed here to prevent them from harming the empress dowager. .”

Feng Ziying suddenly got on the horse: "You said that my heart was up and down, I'd better go and see, if something really happened, we should talk to each other and come up with an idea."

Jia Lian nodded when he heard the words: "That's also good, you go."

But at this moment, Emperor Qianyuan had already rushed out at the head of the horse, and Feng Ziying was a step too late to get on the horse at this time, so he hurried to catch up with the whip.

Jia Lian walked to the side of the Empress Dowager's phoenix chariot, and bowed to the Empress Dowager in salute: "Jia Lian, the imperial bodyguard of Weichen, pays his respects to the Empress Dowager when he sees the Empress Dowager."

The empress dowager raised her hand: "An, live forever."

Jia Lian got up and bowed to Yu Liuyue again: "My minister sees the eldest prince and concubine, and greets the prince and concubine."

Yu Liuyue raised her hand: "Brother Yi, please stand up, how polite you are!"

Jia Lian cupped his hands to Zhen Yinglian again: "Hello, Miss Zhen."

Both of them returned the salute together.

At this time, Jia Rong came over to greet him: "Second Uncle, why didn't you go hunting?"

Jia Lian said: "Let's give the opportunity to the young people."

As soon as these words came out, Jia Yuanchun and Zhen Yingyu suddenly felt uncomfortable, and each of them blushed. Both of them are older than Jia Lian, and they are both 23 years old now.Especially in Yuanchun, Jia Lian was born in September. She was born on the first day of junior high school, and the youngest month is one year old.Jia Lian is not yet 23, she is already 23 and 25.

Jia Lian did not expect that his unintentional modesty would disturb the two beauties.

But Jia Lian was secretly exchanging affection with Jia Rong for the past few months. When Jia Lian entered the barracks, the pigeons that sent the letter did not dare to let go. They just took advantage of the opportunity of going out to buy wine and vegetables to receive Jia Yun. intelligence.

In the past two months, because he was on duty at the Shotgun Camp, the management was very strict. Jia Lian was obsessed with making bird-billed guns. When he returned home last night, it was already late at night, and he hadn't had time to meet Jia Yun. He just listened to Xinger Zhaoer Said roughly, not carefully.

However, this time, Jia Lian heard the news he likes to hear the most. Jia Zhen is already seeking to donate an official for Jia Qiang, and is going to find a county magistrate for him, so that they can go back to their hometown to become officials.

Jia Lian smiled when she heard the words, and Jia Zhen finally figured it out.

Otherwise, after waiting for two years, Yuan Chun will jump over the wall in a hurry, and Qin Keqing will die.

Jia Rong talked about this with a depressed face: "Second Uncle, I think I will live with Second Uncle after I get married. Second Uncle, let me marry me in Wutong Garden, where I live now. Anyway, Brother Bu is still young. , it's too early for him to get married!"

Jia Lian smiled and waved: "I have a plan for you. You ask Miss Zhen to ask the Queen Mother, saying that she misses her hometown and wants to go back to see the scenery of her hometown, and she wants to burn incense and sweep the graves of her ancestors. You don't have to go home?"

Jia Rong smiled when she heard the words, and was about to speak when she heard a burst of exclamation: "My God, that's a wild boar!"