The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Hearing Anise say that her grandfather was a carpenter, Jia Cong suddenly remembered an old incident a few years ago.At that time, Lin Daiyu wanted to sell Situ Pan to a monk from a temple as an apprentice. After escaping, she felt unhappy, and led Jarvis, Shi Li, and Uncle Yang to steal Situ Pan's important thing—an old man with a big fist. Camphor wood box.The clue to open the box is on the Dayu Mountain that the late emperor bestowed on Jia Daishan, Duke of Xianrong. Inside the box are three copies of the imperial edict of the late emperor.Although there are many important things in the emperor's house, not many of them are so heavy that they will alarm the masters and masters to secretly destroy the carpenters.

He changed his mind and thought again, if he just made a box, the carpenter would die after finishing it; why did the late emperor let him go back to his hometown and make him a fourth-rank idle official?And after working for a long time, the granddaughter who grew up to be a carpenter also invited a wet nurse like a lady from an official family.Could it be that the old carpenter still has something to do with the late emperor?What's going on with Jiangnan Zhen's family here?Later generations of red scholars said that the Zhen family was a photo of the Jia family, so it is unknown whether the Zhen family also hid some secrets.

After thinking for a long time, Jia Cong said to Fennel, "I need to see Lord Lingtang."

Fenix ​​hurriedly said, "She doesn't know anything."

Jia Cong said: "I don't know that she has lived in your house for a few years. Some things you think are not important, it is very useful to keep them in order." Fennel frowned, obviously unwilling.Jia Cong said sternly, "As the old saying goes, it's a blessing, not a disaster, and a disaster can't be avoided. There is also an old saying, soldiers come to block you, and water comes to cover them up. It's useless to hide from such a big matter as destroying a family. Dig out the roots, and you can always hide." There is a solution. Even if you really can't beat it, you can only hide, and you will know where to hide if you check it out to be safe." Fennel hesitated.Jia Cong said again, "Are you really willing to be an old maid for a lifetime? Master Lingtang wants you to be an old maid for a lifetime?"

Fennel's eyes flashed, and after a while, she still shook her head: "She's timid."

Jia Cong said: "Dare to take you all over the world, no matter how timid you are, how can you be so timid? Girl Fenxiang, I respect you so I have asked for your consent again and again. It is impossible not to investigate such an important matter to the end." Nai spread his hands and said, "You see, this is the disadvantage of being a slave. I can get your whole family here just by saying hello to Dai Xian."

Hui Xiang said indifferently: "Everyone in the whole family knows that I belong to the wife, even the master can't mess with me."

Jia Cong was very surprised, and looked at her for a long time before saying: "What you said just now, do you really think so?"

Fenix ​​smiled lightly: "If the Dai family loses its wife, there will be chaos."

Jia Cong nodded: "I believe it. Mistress, it's still very important. However, Mr. Dai knows this kind of thing vaguely in his heart, but he probably doesn't pay attention to it." He called people outside and asked them to invite Wu Xiaoxi.

When Wu Xiaoxi came over, Jia Cong stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Treasurer Wu, please help me." Wu Xiaoxi raised his eyebrows lightly.Jia Cong winked, "Help me ask Master Dai Xian for this fennel girl and her whole family, just say that I have a crush on her."

Wu Xiaoxi asked with a smile: "Really? I just said so?"

"Really—" Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "I just said 'I fell in love with it', isn't it okay to fall in love with talent?"

Wu Xiaoxi glanced at him: "Should I have another excuse? Miss Fenix ​​doesn't look outstanding, will she believe it?"

Jia Cong stretched his waist and said, "If you don't look outstanding, you can come here. If you don't believe me, try it." Wu Xiaoxi shrugged, turned and left.Fennel still looks calm and composed, she doesn't believe that Dai Xian will give her away.

At dusk, a boy from Hongguji went to call Fenix ​​and said, "Miss is overjoyed! Your parents, brothers and nephews are all here!"

Fennel stood up after a long while, still in disbelief: "What?!"

The young man said: "Ms. Huixiang is going to meet you outside. The girl's parents, brothers and whole family are here. The shopkeeper ordered you to clean up a small yard."

Fennel opened her mouth wide in shock: "Impossible!"

Then I heard Jia Cong triumphantly outside: "Everyone is here, what is impossible?" Fen Xiang ran out a few steps, only to see Jia Cong holding a few pieces of paper in his hand, "Your family's deeds are also the same. delivered."

Fenix ​​looked up and saw that the top one was her own, she couldn't help but feel cold all over, she took two steps back and leaned against the door.

Another Wu Xiaoxi strolled over leisurely and asked, "I was wondering, Dai Xian brought someone over so quickly?"

Jia Cong compared the hat on his head: "He owes me a favor, and I also hinted that he can help to buy the title through the middle gate of Beijing-the imperial title is not something that can be bought with money."

Wu Xiaoxi thought for a while: "That's right, pointing at you getting promoted and getting rich, what's the point of sending a girl?"

"I said it's better if you don't have an outstanding appearance. If you don't have an outstanding appearance, Dai Xian can't remember what she looks like even after seeing her, so he will think that there must be something attractive about that girl." Jia Cong turned to look at Hui Xiang, " Even if you are a female Zhuge, in Dai Xian's eyes, you are just one of the countless maidservants in the Dai mansion, no different from the others."

Fennel leaned on the door and took a deep breath for half a day, then said in a trembling voice, "How could the wife agree?"

Jia Cong said: "The wife doesn't make the decision, so why should she have the final say? If Dai Xian cared about Mrs. Dai, there would be no such thing as Cousin Dai back then. Both you and Mrs. Dai think that winning the 'cousin' means winning the backyard; in fact From Dai Xian's point of view, it doesn't matter whether the cousin is the cousin or who is the wife, they are equally unimportant. Even if Mrs. Dai dies now, at worst, it is appropriate for Dai Xian to marry another surname in his twenties. According to him now If you have a higher status, you can find a Miss Dahu who has a higher family status. Miss Dahu has a better education than Mrs. Dai, and she can manage the affairs of Dai's house better than Mrs. Dai." He clapped his hands, "See? Attachment As for people, you can't control everything. Even if you have thousands of resourcefulness, you can't beat someone's casual words."

Fennel closed her eyes for a long time, and finally sat down on the ground.Jia Cong and Wu Xiaoxi looked at each other, then turned and went straight to the small yard where her parents were placed.

This place was originally a guest house for entertaining big merchants, which is more elegant than the official post house.Fenix's stepfather is surnamed Ye, and his left leg is not very convenient. Everyone calls him Ye Laizi. Now he is looking around in the courtyard anxiously, and he can't believe that his ordinary-looking, eldest daughter is attracted by nobles.His son and daughter-in-law turned around joyfully, saying: "Eldest sister has always been silent, but suddenly she has achieved such great success! We are also honored." Her mother, Mrs. Bai, just sat on a wooden plinth in the courtyard in a daze. .

When Jia and Wu came in, Wu Xiaoxi led Ye Laizi and the others to talk; Jia Cong took the opportunity to bow his hands to Bai Shi: "This old lady, you are too late to be polite."

Bai Shi hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Hello, nobleman."

Jia Cong said: "It was I who fell in love with Miss Huixiang and begged Mr. Dai for your family."

Bai's eyes lit up immediately, she couldn't help but look at Jia Cong's eyes, quickly restrained her eyes, and said: "Thanks to the favor of the uncle, I will thank the uncle for my daughter." He took a sneaky look at him again.

Jia Cong made a bow with a smile and said, "Wan Sheng wants to have a few words with Aunt Bai." He pointed to the back room, "Please come in, Auntie." Bai did not dare to contradict, and followed behind.

The two found a quiet room inside. Jia Cong sat down first, but Bai did not dare to sit down.Jia Cong didn't force her to sit down, and said: "I want to ask Miss Huixiang's biological grandfather, family affairs, and what kind of relationship you have with the Jinling Zhen family."

The Bai family was shocked, and stammered: "...what... what... I don't know about the Zhen family and the Jia family."

Jia Cong said: "Fenix ​​was too young at the time, so I didn't know many things. I thought about it later, since Fenix's family was to be destroyed by the masters, those people were not human beings, they were killing machines, so they definitely wouldn't just kill the master, Don’t kill slaves. There is no difference between killing one and killing a thousand. You two can only escape early and hide in the Zhen family. The old lady of the Zhen family is the late emperor’s nurse, and it is safer to hide in their house than elsewhere.”

Bai Shi trembled all over and just shook her head: "I don't know what the uncle said..."

Jia Cong rested his cheeks and said: "Well... Aunt Bai, you must be a safe person. How could you commit crimes and sell them after staying in Zhen's house? Could it be for some reason that you had to leave Zhen's house? It has been dismantled into parts, so what are you still afraid of? Who knows that a family of carpenters died 30 or [-] years ago?" Nai spread his hands and said, "Let me tell you the truth. Fennel's family and my family can't be said to be involved in the same thing."

Bai's eyeballs were almost popping out, and after a while he forced a smile and said, "It has nothing to do with... Grandpa's house."

Jia Cong said seriously: "Not long ago I went to Qin State on business, and was kidnapped. The kidnapper asked me a lot of things I didn't understand. I turned around and thought about those words again. Although I still didn't understand, I could vaguely guess. They were looking for an important item that had been lost in my family, and an old camphor wood box related to that item. The kidnappers said that the two items were so heavy that they were related to the fate of the country. Our family had lost that item for a long time. The strange thing is that we have been looking for it for a long time, but there is no clue at all; and that thing is not something that anyone would dare to buy. A few years ago, a big man suddenly came to our house to ask for that thing, and it was said that it was lost. Surprised. There is another strange thing. I didn't kill the kidnapper at the time, but the kidnapper was silenced. Aunt Bai, do you know if Miss Fennel's grandfather is good at carving old camphor wood?"

Bai was dumbfounded.Jia Cong waited for a long time, and she suddenly stepped forward and grabbed Jia Cong's clothes: "Master! Our girl doesn't know anything! She was only four years old at that time, what can she know?"

Jia Cong hurriedly said: "Don't worry, auntie. I don't know anything. How old is she who is older than me, what can she know? It's just that the matter is not over, and there are still people looking for our two, and they are not weak. —Where can I, Jia, be kidnapped by anyone? Since they can find me, they may not be able to find you. Both families are grasshoppers on the same rope; You can't get away from home. You always think that you can live in peace if you hide, but the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop."

Mrs. Bai fell to the ground with a "boom", and murmured for a long time: "Even the uncle can find Fuzhou... Those wicked people will find them sooner or later..." Nai wiped his tears, "I'm sorry, my servant ..."

Jia Cong made her cry for a while, and persuaded her: "It may not be impossible for the old man. Is your girl still alive and well? Our whole family is also living well. Although the villain is not weak, he may not be strong enough Go. That's why I said to understand the matter first, even if I die, I have to be a ghost, right? My real name is a great talent all over the world, no matter how bad I am, I can ask the princes to protect me, right? Before they kill us Wouldn’t it be good if they killed me? I also fell into their hands, didn’t I escape?”

Bai shook her head slowly: "That's what they want from the uncle, and they want to keep it alive."

Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "Could it be that they want to kill Fennel now?" Bai Shi shuddered.Jia Cong smiled and said, "Aunt Bai, have you ever thought that the people who are looking for our two families now are not the same group of people who were in Mie Fenxiang's family back then."

Bai was shocked: "It's not the same call?!"

Jia Cong said: "The moon is black and the wind is high and the heroes are all over the house. It is obvious that the master behind the scenes is the late emperor; the late emperor has passed away many years ago. The things in our house and the old camphor wood box made by their father must be someone else looking for now, and It's probably not the prince's family."

Bai could not help asking: "Why not the prince's family?"

Jia Cong said: "They are princes, and I am a subject. They want what the late emperor bestowed, and they just ask for it. Why kidnap me? This is because someone else wants to make a profit from it."

Bai blurted out: "The master said that anyone who knows the inside will be killed by the saint!"

Jia Cong snorted and said: "There will always be people who are alive and know. No matter how bad the emperor is, he will always know; even though he is dead, there are still the empress dowager, queen mother, and little sage. These three may not be so tight-lipped. There are so many court ladies and guards. That's why I want to figure out what's going on, so we can guess who might know and who can profit from it. Aunt Bai, what do you think?"

Bai is just an ordinary woman.Although Jia Cong half understood and half understood what Jia Cong said, he already knew that this old man surnamed Jia was tied to his original master's family.She hid with her young lady for more than [-] years and was still not safe. Cooperating with this Uncle Jia might not have a chance of survival.Nai swallowed her saliva: "Slaves... really don't know much."

Jia Cong said earnestly: "As much as you know is as much as you know. Old things are like a jigsaw puzzle. If you put together more pieces, you will get more clues. Auntie, the enemy is dark and we are clear. If we help each other, we all have a way out."

Seeing his sincerity, Bai hesitated for a while, and said, "I'm just an ordinary servant." Jia Cong nodded and smiled, encouraging with his eyes.Bai Shi coaxed him back and opened his mouth.

Fenix's grandfather was named Zhen Deren, a member of the Eight Routes outside Zhen's family in Jinling.When he was young, the Zhen family was not yet in power, so he learned to be a carpenter.This man was extremely talented, and gradually became a generation of famous craftsmen. Later, he was recommended by his younger brother Zhen Yingjia to go to Beijing to work as a carpenter for the emperor.Suddenly one day Zhen Deren returned to his hometown, saying that Beijing was not as comfortable as Jinling, and the sage even gave him a small official position, and the family was prosperous for a while.Later, Bai's own daughter died of illness.When Zhen Deren learned about it, he called her to go, and said sadly: "A companion is like a tiger. The sage ordered me to make something... If he doesn't need it, just return it; if it is useful, everyone who knows it will definitely silence it." So he ordered She regarded Fennel as her own daughter, and asked her old lady to find an excuse to send their mother and son to Zhen Yingjia's house as slaves.The old man said with tears in his eyes, "Although she is a girl, she is still one of Zhen's blood." At that time, Mrs. Bai didn't know why.Half a year later, a watchman saw a group of black-clothed men flying over the roof of Zhen Deren's house. The next day, they found that their entire family had been massacred.