Enemies in the Red Chamber

Butler Lin is a know-it-all. The brothers and sisters of the Lin family made arrangements within a few days of moving out. They found a few secretly, or they were desperate because they borrowed money from the Jia family, or they were persecuted because of arranging lawsuits. He promised that as long as he told the matter to one person, he would have a way to survive, and pointed out Jia Zheng's course of action.On the day of the operation, people were sent to hire some hooligans to stop the servants, so as to ensure that those people could really see people.

Jia Zheng came home from the Ministry of Industry, sat in the sedan chair thinking about what the boss had just reported, suddenly the sedan chair shook for a while, and just about to ask what happened, the sedan chair stopped, and a personal servant hurried back and forth, "Someone stopped the sedan chair , entangled all the people with him, and the second master came out to avoid it,' Jia Zheng said, don't panic, and get out of the sedan chair.

Suddenly, I heard a shout, "Master Qingtian has come out!" Everyone who was in a mess just now knelt down and shouted, "Master Qingtian, help me!"

At first I thought it was a mob attacking the officials, and the people around hid far away, but now these two sentences are shouted out and everyone surrounds them, and there is also the loud booing of "revenge for the people!"

Jia Zheng had never seen such a battle before, and the two shouts of "Master Qingtian" made him feel very comfortable.Someone who understood came up and whispered, "My lord, it's better to send these people to the Ministry of Punishment." When Jia Zheng was full of arrogance, he couldn't hear it, and said loudly: "There is nothing you can't say to others, so why be timid. The master is an official of the imperial court, with the salary of the Holy Majesty, he should act for the people, and it will not be too late to send it to the Ministry of Punishment after asking clearly."

Those who were kneeling quickly kowtowed, "My lord is a good man."

Jia Zheng asked the boy to move a bench over and sit there to handle the case in the street.

The person sent by Lin Butler is a clear-headed person, thinking that if these things happen in the street, it will be against the original intention, and it will really lose all face.While no one was paying attention, he slammed into his own person from behind, and coughed a few more times.Fortunately, that man was also clever, pinched his partner, the old lady, and howled loudly, "Mother, what's wrong with you, mother..."

Jia Zheng immediately stood up again, "Go and see, what's the matter?"

The boy went over to have a look, and came back to report, "Master, it's all right, I'm just hungry."

When Jia Zheng saw that this group of people was disheveled and their complexions turned yellow, it was obvious that they had suffered enough.Looking again, the place where he stopped was quite close to his home, and he shouted: "Everyone, don't panic, the official's mansion is right in front, everyone go drink some warm soup and change clothes first, I will not ignore any grievances. Then he ordered the two servants to "go over and carry the old lady."

Fortunately, Jia Zheng was still kind-hearted and took this group of people home, otherwise he would be ashamed.Every time Jia Zheng thinks about it, he breaks into a sweat.

A group of people marched into the Rongguo Mansion, and the people watching the excitement slowly dispersed, and Mr. Lin heaved a sigh of relief.

After changing clothes and eating, Jia Zheng pointed to a reply that looked neat and not trembling, and he heard him say: "Master, the villain has no mother since he was a child, and only his father is left. The father of the villain also passed away due to illness the year before last. Mu Susukida was hit by a disaster again, and it was really hard to live on, so I borrowed a tael of silver and five copper coins from an uncle surnamed Zhou, and buried my father properly. I thought I could pay back the grain after harvesting it in the coming year, who would have thought In the face of successive years of severe floods, there are still three or two taels of silver in Ligunli, which is really not enough. Uncle Zhou said that he would even take away the villain's house and land. Isn't this forcing the villain to die! "

Jia Zheng has always been filial, and when he heard this man say that he was forced to sell the house and land because the funeral father borrowed money, he felt a little bit more displeased with that uncle Zhou. "There is a well-known bank, why do you want to borrow money from a person surnamed Zhou? Although I work in the Ministry of Industry, I know how much interest is set by the imperial court. It can't be so high, so you didn't go to the government office to sue him? "

The man cried, "The old man doesn't know the plight of the poor like us. How can we get in the money house? If we want to go to the government office to file a complaint, where can someone dare to accept the case when Uncle Zhou brings it out of Rongguo Mansion? It is said that Master Qingtian is the most clear, I will try my best to try, even if I fail, it will only be a word of death, it is the same." As he said, he burst into tears.

When Jia Zheng heard the words "Rongguo Mansion", he couldn't stay still, so he suppressed his anger and pointed to another person, saying that he also borrowed money for profit.He also pointed out that there was a bully who robbed his daughter by force, and the bully had already asked the Rongguo Mansion for backing, and no one would care about this matter.

Everyone talked about it one by one, most of them borrowed profit and didn't pay, some were robbed of their money and fields by unknown slaves relying on the power of the Rongguo Mansion, and some were ruined because the Rongguo Mansion sheltered evil people, and so on. .Jia Zheng was so angry that he fell on his back.

Those people were actually beating their hearts, and the people who approached them said it was all right, but there is no family who is not facing the family. This master looks upright, who knows if he is pretending.

"Arrange these people well, and don't treat them badly if they eat and drink well." Jia Zheng turned his head and left, so that the people around him didn't dare to breathe, and followed them on tiptoe.A few clever people went to report the news when they were unprepared, but Jia Zheng turned his head and saw it, and shouted with trembling fingers, "Pull it down, I'll kill you!" No one dared to tease the tiger's beard.

As soon as he reached the second gate, he saw a young servant rushing towards him.Jia Zhenghu said with a stern face: "Which servant beside you, why did you run away, tied me here." Then someone pushed the boy over.

"Who are you, why are you running around? To be honest, if I want to know that you dare to deceive the master, be careful of your dog's life!"

These boys have always been afraid of Jia Zheng, and their legs were weak at the moment, and they knelt there and kowtowed fiercely, "Second Master, spare your life, the younger one should be damned for bumping into Second Master. The younger one is in front of Young Master Mingyan next to Second Master Bao. The second master asked to go to Uncle Qin's house to have a look, the little one just came back from seeing it."

"Uncle Xiao Qin? Which Uncle Qin? Make it clear!"

The kid didn't dare to hide anything, so he said everything he knew, "It was the brother of Grandma Xiao Rong over there. Master Qin died and only Master Qin was left. Master Xiao Qin is still sick, and Second Master Bao is worried." , Master Mingyan sent the younger one to take a look."

Jia Zheng nodded, "Get up, and tell Baoyu later that they are all relatives, so take care of them when you have time."

The kid hurriedly answered yes, stepped aside cautiously, wiped the sweat off his face after watching Jia Zheng walk away, spit unluckily, and left resentfully.

Besides, when Jia Zheng entered the study, he slapped the table and shouted, "Call the second wife and Lian'er and his wife, and I will ask you carefully! They all shut their mouths tightly. Who dares to talk nonsense? I will tell him to think about it later." I can't even say it!"

When Mrs. Wang heard that she wanted to call the three of them to go there, she asked the messenger, "What did the second master say? It's fine to call me and Lian'er, but why does Feng girl want to go outside?"

The person who sent the message didn't know anything about it, and only said: "The person who came over is from the second master's side, that's what he said, and I really don't know the rest."

Mrs. Wang and the others stopped asking, packed up and hurried over.Along the way, the servants and Qingke had already avoided going out, and the three of them were a little uneasy.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Jia Zheng with a stern face, and before he saluted, he saw Jia Zheng pointing at Jia Lian and saying, "Kneel down!"

Jia Lian didn't dare to refute, and knelt down obediently. Wang Xifeng also knelt and dared not speak when she saw it.Mrs. Wang asked: "Master, what's the matter? If there is anything wrong or impossible for the children, just talk about it. After all, they are still young."

Jia Zheng even scolded Mrs. Wang, "You ask them how they manage the house and do things, and the face of the whole family will ruin them! And you, how did you become an elder? His child is still young and ignorant. , are you young too? No matter how many Buddhas you read and how many sutras you copy, you and I will have no face to see our ancestors even after we die!"

When Mrs. Wang heard that all the ancestors had come out, she cried and said, "What do you mean by the master?"

Jia Lian also said: "My nephew made a mistake and my uncle can beat or scold me, but please let my husband and I understand what I did wrong."

Jia Zheng slapped the table, pointed at Jia Lian and said angrily, "Do you know what happened to me when I came back today? People stopped me in the street to cry for grievances, and it was our Rongguo Mansion who were sued! Taking lawsuits, accepting bribes, giving loan sharks, bullying the weak , and committing crimes, do you dare to say that you didn't do it one by one?"

Jia Lian unconsciously glanced at Wang Xifeng, and then kowtowed to plead guilty, "Letting my uncle worry about my nephew's filial piety is a crime that my nephew and his nephew's wife would never dare to accept. !"

Wang Xifeng was terrified, and gritted her teeth to plead guilty, "My niece and daughter-in-law are young and ignorant, and the house is full of old people. They have been honored for several lifetimes, and there are some omissions. How can my uncle punish my niece and daughter-in-law without daring to complain? My niece and daughter-in-law really dare not accept the crime." No matter what, these things cannot be admitted.

The Buddhist beads in Mrs. Wang's hand were about to be torn off, she closed her eyes tightly and calmed down, and said, "It's because I, an adult, can't handle things, but if I'm capable, I can't do this, sir, don't blame me." The children are gone. The masters of the mothers-in-law and daughter-in-law in our family also know that no one has any face. No matter how capable a young daughter-in-law is, Feng girl, she can't handle it all. Do such a thing!"

He asked again: "What's the matter with the master saying that people stop people in the street and cry for injustice?"

Jia Zheng also felt that what Mrs. Wang and Jia Lian said was right. Jia Lian was the one he saw growing up since he was a child. Apart from being romantic, there was nothing wrong with him. He never dared to do such things. Going out, there is no chance to do these things if you want to, those slavish slaves must be deceiving the master and doing such things!But I don't want to think about it, even if I take a step back, they really didn't participate in it. Without the connivance of the master, no slave has the ability to do these things!

"You guys get up first, although you didn't do it, it's because of your poor family management that this disaster happened!"

Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng quickly answered yes.

Jia Zheng told them how to stop the sedan chair to complain, how to bring them back, how to feed them, how to dress them, how to complain about their grievances, and told them one by one.All three praised Jia Zheng for his benevolence and benevolence.

Mrs. Wang said again, "Many people have seen this matter today, and they don't know what to say about it outside. According to the master, how should we deal with it?"