The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 424
After getting off Tianxiang Tower, Jia Lian led two girls from the garden to Rongguo Mansion.

Because of the pleasant scenery in the garden, the building is magnificent.The second daughter of Aqi, who was born on the grassland, has never seen any high-quality royal gardens, so even Aqin, who has a taste for Jia Lian's stealing fragrance and jade, is relaxed and curious after entering the garden. Enjoy the scenery.

However, Jia Lian remembered that he had an appointment with Sister Feng to visit the garden in the afternoon, so he didn't take a closer look.

After returning home, he changed into clean and neat clothes, and asked someone to clean up a room on the east corridor as a resting place for Aqi and Aqin. Jia Lian went out again, and came to the east courtyard.

After asking about the test results, Jia Lian was not very satisfied, only more than 30 met the standard.

These people are either really young and strong, or they often run errands outside and have great endurance.

In short, only these thirty or so people really met Jia Lian's requirements.All the others failed. According to Zhao Sheng, even half of them completely lay down after running more than ten laps.

These people also included the Zhao family brothers.

"For these 36 people, being able to run for [-] laps, at least shows that their physical strength and willpower are relatively good.

Zhang Yong, from tomorrow onwards, you will take Feng Fei and the others to test me their bow horse riding and shooting, wielding a knife and holding a sword.As long as it is not those with extremely poor talents, such as those who cannot draw a bow, cannot lift a knife, or dare not ride a fast horse, they can be incorporated into the personal guards, and then follow the previous training methods to step up training and strive for the fastest Time, let them have a little "soldier" look. "

After Zhang Yong agreed, he asked Jia Lian again: "Master Hou, even if we keep everyone behind, it's still not enough. Can we screen out some from those who have run more than 20 laps?"

"No, I have made arrangements for this."

Jia Lian wanted to form a 50-man personal guard. With his current wealth, it would be easy to raise [-] soldiers.

But not in a hurry.There are not so many qualified people from the family. At worst, they can choose from the more than 2000 people in Bingmasina. I believe that all the officers and soldiers are willing to be his personal guards.

The reason why I didn't think about it before was because they were all paid official salaries, not as loyal and reliable as their own servants, whose wealth, life and interests were all tied to him alone.

Now that I think about it, he seems a bit narrow-minded.

Allowing some people with official salaries to supplement his personal guards can also show that he does not need cronyism, which is conducive to winning people's hearts.

For example, if he came to the battlefield in the future, if he became the coach, he would not be able to entrust all his safety to his generals.

He can truly be invincible only if he can convince the soldiers of the three armies to work together to support and protect him.

As for the issue of loyalty, as long as the interests and affection are enough, it is actually no different from a domestic slave.After all, even if they are domestic slaves, if they are not good to them, or if they are white-eyed, loyalty is also a problem.

For example, the Lai family.

Leaving Dongkuayuan, Jia Lian went to Mengpozhai to find Jia Zheng, planning to ask him about the future construction regulations of the garden.

He had just returned from the garden and saw that there were still many places under construction.

The boy from Mengpozhai told him that Jia Zheng was still at Rongqingtang, serving Jiamu, and Jia Lian came to Rongqingtang again.

When passing through the main courtyard, I saw Xue Pan running past the second gate in a hurry, and there was no servant around him.

Jia Lian wanted to say hello to him, but he didn't see him at all, so Jia Lian shook his head and ignored him. He found Jia Zheng in the courtyard of Neiyi, had a brief chat with him, and returned home.

It happened that Wang Xifeng also came back to change clothes, and when he saw Jia Lian, he couldn't help getting closer.

The husband and wife were sitting on the kang, Wang Xifeng said a little happily: "You didn't go to the old lady's courtyard to see a play today, but it was a loss."

"Oh, how should I say it?"

"Today, the master hired a troupe, and everyone else is okay, but one of them is playing the role of Xiaosheng and Xiaodan, which is extraordinarily brilliant. He is clearly a man, so it's fine to play the role of Xiaosheng, but it's not the slightest thing to pretend to be a girl." No, even the old lady said yes when she saw her, which is really strange.

I heard from them that it was invited by Master Lai Dabang, a famous character in Beijing named Liu Xianglian. "

Jia Lian didn't pay much attention when he first heard about it. There are many powerful and powerful people in Beijing, and there are also many theater troupes serving the nobles. Naturally, there are not a few famous actors in each family.

Jia Lian also watched operas, and sometimes felt that some opera singers were really blessed, and belonged to the kind that God rewarded with food.

But, he himself belongs to the ranks of peerless handsome men, and he felt that it would not be too difficult for him to grab their jobs, so he didn't care much.

It was only when he heard Liu Xianglian's name suddenly that his expression changed slightly and he opened his eyes.

Seeing this, Wang Xifeng couldn't help but asked with a smile: "Why, do you know each other? Could it be that he is an old friend of Lord Hou?"

As the young mistress of Rongguo Mansion, Wang Xifeng naturally knows a lot about Fengyue culture.

He also knew that many of the rich and powerful's sons in Beijing were masculine. Take the former Jia Zhen father and son as an example, they were famous.

And Jia Lian had been following Jia Zhen in those years, so Sister Feng couldn't help but doubt it.

But as soon as she asked, she subconsciously covered her buttocks.It was because she had asked similar questions after being happy on the bed before, but every time she got slapped on the buttocks.

Clinker, Jia Lian didn't hit her this time, which made her suddenly concentrate: "Is it really what I said?"

"Crack~"

The familiar feeling made Sister Feng's arrogance suddenly weaken, and she snuggled into Jia Lian's arms obediently.

Only then did Jia Lian say: "I have indeed heard of this character, but I have never seen it.

But what I care about is not how good his Fengyue drama is, I just heard people say that this man has a long history of learning and is quite skilled in martial arts.

You also know that I am forming a personal guard team and need to recruit some people with clean backgrounds, preferably with considerable skills. It would be great if I could call this person into my personal guard team.

It's you who keep praising this person, but our Second Mistress Feng has taken a fancy to him? "

"Go, it's getting more and more serious!"

Wang Xifeng looked very ashamed, this is the characteristic of the times, women can tease men, because it is only natural for men to be fickle.

But men can't make fun of their wives, their chastity is more important than their lives.

That is to say, Sister Feng has a generous personality and is deeply influenced by Jia Lian, so she is only red-faced.

After listening to Jia Lian's words, he asked how the hundreds of servants in the family were not enough for him to choose his own guards, and then said: "You are the Marquis now, since you have taken a fancy to him, you should send someone to recruit him.

Thinking of him as an actor, it is also his honor to be favored by Lord Hou, so are you afraid that he will not agree? "

At present, the singing and dancing of the Great Wei Dynasty promotes peace, and emphasizes literature over martial arts, so the news of Liu Xianglian's martial arts is not widely circulated.And Sister Feng had seen Liu Xianglian on the stage from a distance before, and seeing her delicate body, she looked like a gentle and handsome man, not at all related to a martial artist.

But, since Jia Lian was using business as an argument, she couldn't object to whether he had ulterior motives or not, instead she started admonishing him.

In his eyes, with Jia Lian's current status, many people would not be able to curry favor with him, let alone an actor.

But Jia Lian shook his head again and said nothing.

Although Jia Lian knew that Liu Xianglian was good at martial arts, but in view of his close friendship with Qin Zhong and Jia Baoyu in his impression, and his ability, he only hangs around in romantic places and does not seek fame. .

Although Jia Lian wanted to recruit talents, he didn't want to have Jia Baoyu and Qin Zhong's first-class arrogant characters by his side.

Just as he was about to leave this person, Jia Lian suddenly seemed to think of something, put aside Sister Feng's delicate body, got up and said, "I just discussed with the master about the finishing matters of the garden, and there are a few things that I need to take care of."

Seeing Jia Lian go straight, Sister Feng tidied up her clothes, with a bit of suspicion on her face.

There must be something wrong if you go out in such a hurry without a conscience.

So he called Ping'er and said: "Call a little girl and ask her to go outside and see what your Lord Marquis is doing."

Although Ping'er was curious, it had been a long time since Wang Xifeng had anyone monitor Jia Lian.In the end, I just watched the movement, and thought it would be all right, so I obeyed orders and made arrangements.

How did Ping'er know that Sister Feng was suspicious of Jia Lian and went to find Liu Xianglian.

Wang Xifeng was not afraid of Jia Lian doing these things, but she thought that as long as she caught her with a sore foot, she would have something to say in front of Jia Lian, and she would not be so humble in the future.

Hmph, the fact that he was going to marry Miss Lin was so foolishly fooled by him.

(End of this chapter)