The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 491 Arrangement
The sky is foggy, the Grand Canal Wharf outside Yangzhou City.

Sailboats are sailing, and there are many officers and soldiers.

Jia Lian stood on the deck of the official ship in the middle, clasped his fists at Jia Yu and Yang Xun, and said, "This time depositing money into Beijing is a heavy responsibility, and I hope you two will cooperate carefully along the way, so as not to make any mistakes."

"I will live up to my lord's trust."

The two of Jia Yu's faces were solemn and their emotions were surging, just because the official ship behind them contained a total of more than 500 million taels of silver!
The matter is of great importance. It can be said that if there is any mistake during this trip, it will be enough to kill the two of them.

Fortunately, Jia Lian dispatched thousands of officers and soldiers to accompany them, which made them not worry about the safety of the trip.

As for why the 500 million taels of silver should be transported back to Beijing first, Jia Lian gave two explanations. One is that the court pressed him tightly, and the other is to transport the silver back to the capital earlier so that he can feel at ease earlier.

Otherwise, it would be too conspicuous for so much money to be piled up in the Xunyan Yushi Yamen.

As for why they were chosen, Yang Xun naturally needless to say, as Jia Lian's deputy, if the trip back to Beijing had to be divided into two groups, he would naturally take one.In this way, he can also return to Beijing first to report to the court.

Of course, he also doubted whether Jia Lian deliberately transferred him away first so that he could do other operations.But even if he doubts, he will not be stupid to guess.

During this trip, he followed Jia Lian to the south of the Yangtze River. He basically got the benefits he deserved while sitting down, and he had a relationship with Jia Lian. He would be an official in the capital in the future. What is he not satisfied with? I don’t know what Jia Lian ordered. reason?
After all, even if there are other benefits, he is not qualified to get involved.Therefore, if he can safely send the 500 million taels of silver back to the capital and hand it over to the treasury, his mission this time will be considered a complete success.

The rest is all Jia Lian's business.

As for Jia Yu, it was purely because he intended to go to Beijing for development, and Jia Lian also intended to transfer him to work in Beijing, so he was given an escort job so that he could come to Beijing to get acquainted.

Watching dozens of official ships go away, Jia Lian was in a very calm mood.

Although 500 million taels of silver sounds like a huge amount, even the ministers of the imperial court would probably be a little shocked if they knew it, but compared with the assets he confiscated this time, it is less than half.

However, many other assets have not been sold off and liquidated.

This is also the main reason for him to continue to stay.

But in fact, even if there is no such reason, Jia Lian will still find a reason to stay in Jiangnan, because he still has some private matters to deal with.

"Second Lord, are you going back to the yamen?"

"Well, Zhang Yong will go back first, prepare for the itinerary, and leave for Suzhou early tomorrow morning."

Jia Lian gave an order, and then brought other people to Zhou's manor.

"It's rare for my lord to come here. It just so happens that the sisters of the slave family rehearsed two dances today, one is Tang dance and the other is Song dance. I don't know which one my lord wants to reward first?"

In the gorgeous flower hall that had been arranged long ago, Shen Pan'er invited Jia Lian to sit on the soft couch in the middle, then sat beside him and asked with a smile.

Seeing Jia Lian pondering, she introduced again: "Song Wu is graceful and Tang Wu is unrestrained. Sister Tsing Yi and I lead the dance respectively. If you want to see my slave lead the dance, you can order Tang Wu. If you want to see Sister Tsing Yi, you can order Song Wu. "

"Then come to the Song Dynasty first."

Jia Lian thought, it's not good to be bold and unrestrained when you first come up, it's easy to misfire, so let's start with some clear and refined embellishments.

Seeing that after her reminder, Jia Lian still did not choose Tang Wu, Shen Pan'er pouted slightly, as if she was not very happy, but after Jia Lian slapped her buttocks, she still followed the other sisters with a smile and went down to change. Clothes and make-up went.

The geisha are all outstanding in appearance and superb in skills. After taking turns to perform, it is inevitable that some beautiful things will happen.

Just like being in a boat on the Little Qinhuai River that night.

The difference is that when everyone first met that night, they were quite reserved with each other, and even the bright wind and moonlight later on were mainly paralyzed by alcohol.And today, the girls are getting acquainted with Jia Lian more and more, and knowing that Jia Lian's departure from Yangzhou is approaching, the desire to win Jia Lian's favor is becoming more and more urgent.

Therefore, during performances, it is common to wink at Jia Lian, even dancing to Jia Lian's side on purpose, pretending to fall into Jia Lian's arms, and then lingering, it is not surprising at all.

And some programs do not require all the members to join the battle, which leads to the accumulation of more and more beauties on Jia Lian's couch. Excited.

Naturally, Jia Lian would not be polite to the beauties who voluntarily let him take advantage of her, because he was here to please her.

Suddenly he frowned, and the beauty who was already panting in her arms happened to catch a glimpse, and when he suddenly woke up, his face changed color with fright.

Not caring about anything, he immediately turned over and lay down on the bed, kneeling on the ground and shivering.

Her actions not only confused the other beauties on the couch, but even the other beauties who were still dancing in front of her quietly stopped and looked at each other.

Seeing the beauties get up and go to bed one by one, and seeing him at a loss, Jia Lian rubbed his fingers, wondering if he accidentally detected a fake?Feeling speechless, Jia Lian said coldly, "Get up and talk."

Hearing Jia Lian's bad tone, the beauty shed tears more and more.

Shen Pan'er vaguely guessed something, took a closer look at Jia Lian's expression, then boldly stepped forward to pull the beauty up, and reminded in a low voice: "My lord is kind and kind, not a harsh person. What's going on? As long as you tell the truth, the adults will not be too harsh on you."

The beauty heard the words, although her expression was still panicked, at least she felt relieved, she knelt down again, and said in a sobbing voice: "Please forgive me, my servant did not intend to deceive you. This slave is not innocent..."

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of all the beauties changed.

In order to please Jia Lian, the salt merchants, no matter they belonged to their own brothels or specially invited them here, were all well-known Huakui ladies from all over the south of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, those salt merchants probably promised Jia Lian the same way.

But this time, this incident happened. If Jia Lian got angry because of this and blamed the salt merchant family behind him, wouldn't it cause another disturbance in Yangzhou City, which had just stabilized.

The pros and cons are not something a few of their little oiran ladies can bear.

Although they are in the land of wind and moon, they can understand each other.But at this moment, if such a thing happens, it will inevitably reduce the weight of all of them in Jia Lian's mind.

If Jia Lian misunderstood all of them because of this, wouldn't all their hard work during this period be in vain?

Therefore, many people couldn't help looking at her with angry and contemptuous eyes, which made the beauty feel ashamed and ashamed.

"Not innocent? So, you had another man before?"

Jia Lian asked blankly, no one could see what he was thinking.

The beautiful pear blossoms are raining, and her pitiful appearance is very distressing.

At this moment, she could only place her hope on Jia Lian's kindness, so she replied: "This servant has no sense of shame. She has promised her body to others, but has not informed the building. Therefore, if your lord is angry, even if you punish the servant, you will not go to the building. It has nothing to do with it, and it has nothing to do with the person who invites the slaves to perform..."

At this time, a beauty couldn't bear it, she couldn't help standing up and said: "My sister's body was given to Mr. He back then."

The beauty shuddered and did not deny it.

Seeing that there are melons to eat, all the girls hurriedly asked.

The man told her what she knew.

It turns out that this beauty belongs to the Songjiang Prefecture. Two or three years ago in Songjiang, there was a talented man named He Ziyi, who was originally from a poor family. He met this beauty and admired each other. , actually in the forefront of the top two in high school.Just listening to the stories circulated between the two, it is a typical story about a talented man and a beautiful woman.

It's just the ending, obviously.

"Back then, when I heard people talking about Mr. He's high school, I was happy for my sister. I thought my sister had a good eye, but who knows, Mr. He has never been heard from again, and my sister is still the oiran of Yixianglou. lady.

It can be seen that in the world, after all, there are many prodigal sons and few affectionate ones. "

Listening to others sighing and telling her story, the beauty couldn't bear it any longer, and burst into tears.

Seeing this, the others lost their expressions one after another, and turned to look at her sympathetically.

It is common for them to make friends with talented scholars.But easily, they will not hand over their bodies.

Unless, the other party has already been identified and decided to block it.

Obviously, the outcome of losing the bet is not only a waste of innocence, but it is also difficult to become the oiran lady who is sought after by thousands of people.

In a situation like hers, it would be fine if she told the building honestly, but at worst she would get beaten up.Because with their looks, even if they are not young ladies, they can also bring great value to the building, but it is no longer worth spending a lot of money on packaging.

Like her, those who conceal and do not report, although they can continue to enjoy the scenery for the time being.The risk is that once one day you are spotted by a real big shot, but you find out that you are no longer innocent, there are not many noble people who feel cheated and have nothing to say.

Not only is his own future uncertain, life and death are unpredictable, but he is also likely to implicate the brothel behind him.

This is why she is afraid at the moment, and why everyone sympathizes with her.

Jia Lian felt a little helpless when he saw that the flower hall, which was originally beautiful and lively in spring, suddenly changed into such a miserable appearance.

He just wants to enjoy dances, listen to music, see beauties, and doesn't want to gossip and eat melons. Is he wrong?
"Why are you crying? Don't tell me you want me to help you, capture that heartless lover and vent your anger on you?"

Hearing Jia Lian's question, the beauty was taken aback and shook her head quickly.

"Then why are you kneeling on the ground, looking pitiful to me? Why don't you get up yet."

Seeing that Jia Lian's face turned warm, the beauty couldn't believe it. She looked at Jia Lian carefully before she dared to stand up.

Shen Pan'er was afraid that Jia Lian would get angry, so she sat next to Jia Lian again and said with a smile: "She deceived your lord, isn't your lord angry?"

Jia Lian lifted her chin: "She's not my woman, why am I angry? Or, you lied to me too?"

"Hehehe, I don't dare to deceive adults. If adults don't believe me, come and test my body. If I find that I have lied to adults, I will let adults deal with it..."

Seeing Shen Pan'er smiling sweetly and confidently, Jia Lian shook her head, and then looked at the others: "Among you, who else is like her? Tell me now, and I won't hold you accountable." matter.

But if you don't say it now, after being brought to the capital by this official, this official will not be as easy to talk as now. "

The expressions of the other beauties changed, and they looked at each other, and finally a timid beauty stepped forward and said, "Please forgive me, my lord, this is not my family... My family is also the same as Sister Mengyun..."

"Oh, you also dedicated yourself to a certain great talent?"

"No, no..."

Perhaps it was because Jia Lian really had no intention of punishing him, maybe because he didn't dare to lie to Jia Lian, the person finally blushed and said bitterly, "The slave's family was forced by the young master's family, but the young master's family was afraid of being known by his father, so he threatened not to let the slave's family know Go out and wait for him to take charge of the family in the future before accepting the slave family to return to the manor. Therefore, the slave family definitely did not intend to deceive adults."

Although it was reasonable for such a thing to happen to these women, it made Jia Lian feel a little bit dispirited.

Without saying anything, he asked them to retreat, leaving only Shen Pan'er and Gu Qingyi behind.

Seeing Jia Lian looking at the two of them, Shen Pan'er smiled angrily, and threw herself into Jia Lian's arms, while Gu Qingyi had a calm expression, sitting behind the guqin next to him, playing as if no one else was there.

"My lord is really not angry with them?"

Shen Pan'er took a piece of snack, put it to Jia Lian's mouth, and smiled coquettishly in Jia Lian's arms, as if she wanted to use her delicate body to completely dispel Jia Lian's unhappiness.

Jia Lian has no interest in bringing up this discussion.He is not so hypocritical that he wants to enjoy the various charms of prostitutes, but also requires them to be pure and clean. In fact, this is a paradox.

However, this made him make up his mind.

"I see that all of you have maids to serve you?"

"That's right, although we are in slavery, we are all sent according to your lady's orders for our daily necessities.

Take the slave family as an example, not counting the people who wait for arrangements when performing arts, but those who serve personally at ordinary times, there are two maids.

But I am nothing, elder sister Tsing Yi is even more powerful, not only are she surrounded by four personal maids, but also the guqin, pipa and other things used in her room are all top grade.

Hey, my lord, please take a look. Let’s just say that the guqin in front of her was made by the master of the former dynasty.

And that day when the lord was on the boat, when he saw Sister Tsing Yi for the first time, the jade flute in her hand was called 'Crying Soul', and it was also a rare item... Woohoo, the more I talk about it, the more envious I become.

In the future, if adults get similar things, remember to buy them for Pan'er. "

Jia Lian felt strange when he heard this: "Oh, I think you have a good reputation in the south of the Yangtze River, so you don't have one or two treasures with you?"

Shen Pan'er said with some embarrassment: "Jiaofangsi is no better than other brothels. There are really good things that can't be turned to others. So, what they use until now are some ordinary objects."

After hearing this, Jia Lian felt a little bit better.

Well, it can only be said that there are benefits within the system.Big factories outside also have the benefits of big factories.

For example, Shen Pan'er, the oiran lady in the teaching workshop, has significantly worse material treatment than Gu Qingyi from the brothel supported by the Zhou family.

So Shen Pan'er laughed and said, "Are you still envious, didn't I give you this garden worth far more than 10 taels of silver?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Pan'er immediately became excited: "Is it really for my slave?"

Seeing Jia Lian nodding, Shen Pan'er couldn't help turning her head to look at Gu Qingyi, then turned her head and said with a smile: "It happens that people dream of having a garden of their own, so if my lord says so, then my lord is sincere.

That being the case, people think that the name 'Zhou's Bieyuan' is not good, so if you want to change the name, that's fine. "

"as you like."

Naturally, Jia Lian didn't care, as long as it didn't change to "Jia Lian's Biefu", it wouldn't matter, so the Zhou family didn't dare to say anything.

"Hee hee, what do you think of 'Shen Yuan'?"

"Shen Yuan?"

Jia Lian felt a little familiar.

However, she saw that Shen Pan'er had already got up, and with the dancer's outfit that she hadn't taken off before, she began to dance on the spot.

While dancing, while lightly opening the red lips, a love song came out:

"Red crispy hands, yellow vine wine, and willows in the palace walls full of spring~"

"The east wind is evil, and the love is weak...Although the mountain alliance is here, the brocade book is hard to entrust, Mo, Mo, Mo~"

"The love of the world is thin, the love of human beings is evil, and the flowers are easy to fall when it rains..."

Poems can be sung in the first place, especially these Tang and Song nouns. In the land of brothels, countless versions of tunes have been compiled. It is not surprising that dance music is composed.

When Shen Pan'er was dancing, Gu Qingyi, who was beside her, also plucked the strings of the qin to accompany her singing.

After the dance, Shen Pan'er fell into Jia Lian's arms and said with a smile, "These are the two "Phoenix Hairpins" by Lu You and Tang Wan. My family likes them very much. It happens that their surname is Shen, so they are called Shen Yuan. Your lord won't be angry if you name it after your own surname?"

Even if a beauty is acting like a baby, it's hard for a man to show her anger.

What's more, Jia Lian didn't care at all.After all, he can even put the garden under Shen Pan'er's name, which shows how rich he is at this time.

"I just asked you wait for the servant girl. I just want to tell you two things. One is that I have some private matters and I need to go to Suzhou. After I come back, I will probably leave for Beijing, so you should make preparations early.

The other thing is, all the maids around you have been sent back early, and when I arrive in the capital, I will arrange servants for you.

If it's really hard to part with each other, at most you are only allowed to bring one person with you, is there a problem? "

"no problem."

As soon as Shen Pan'er heard it, she knew that Jia Lian's words were mainly addressed to Gu Qingyi.After all, Gu Qingyi had four servant girls by his side.

Gu Qingyi seemed to frowned, but she nodded immediately to meet Jia Lian's gaze.At the same time, she felt relieved, Jia Lian made a public statement and wanted to take her back to Beijing.

"Hehehe, do you want to tell others about your lord's instructions? Or, among the ten of us, your lord just decided to bring the slave family and sister Tsing Yi back to Beijing? If so, there is no need to tell them, lest they envy you. "

The two who previously revealed that they were not innocent have been automatically excluded from the ranks of sisters by Shen Pan'er.She knew that unless Jia Lian was ready to take all of them away, those two would have absolutely no chance.That's right, it's fine not to blame, but also show grace?

Jia Lian's original intention was to decide this matter after he came back, but thinking about this trip, he was going to Suzhou, and it was meaningless to keep these beauties here.

"Just tell them that I have already left Yangzhou, and I don't know when I will return. If they want to go back, let them leave anyway."

As he said that, Jia Lian took out a small stack of banknotes from his sleeve, "They have been with me in Yangzhou for ten days, and I have to make a statement. When they leave, I will make up for it according to their usual standards for performing arts. Ten times the reward, this matter, you arrange it."

"How can I ask the adults to reward you again? We took the money before we came to Yangzhou..."

Shen Pan'er said subconsciously, seeing that Jia Lian's expression was unquestionable, she counted the amount in her hand and said with a smile: "Even if it is ten times, it won't take so much money."

"If there are too many, you can keep them."

"Hehehe, your lord is so kind to the slave family, aren't you afraid that elder sister Tsing Yi will be jealous?"

"..."

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(End of this chapter)