The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 512 Yucun's Conspiracy

It is a long journey to go north by boat. If you are not particularly in a hurry, you have to stop at each stop for supplies.

Taking advantage of the time when the ship stopped that day, Jia Yucun invited Jia Lian to his official ship for a drink.

"After my virtuous brother returns to Beijing this time, I'm afraid he will be promoted again."

Jia Yucun picked up the wine cup and poured a glass of wine for Jia Lian himself, then Lang Lang laughed.

Jia Lian didn't have much reaction to this, but just smiled and said politely.

"However, you have to be mentally prepared. This time, you have caused such a big disturbance in Yangzhou, and forced the salt merchants to pay that amount of tax money. I'm afraid that those behind them may not be willing to give up. , after my virtuous brother returns to Beijing, there may be troublesome people like Xiaoxiao who seek excuses for my virtuous brother."

Jia Yucun was born in a serious Kejia, and has been in the ups and downs of the officialdom for more than ten years, so he has certain opinions on the affairs of the court.

Although he didn't know what instructions Jia Lian received from the emperor before he left Beijing, but he was sure that Jia Lian had moved the interests of so many people this time, and after returning, someone would make trouble for Jia Lian.

From his point of view, Jia Lian sent 500 million taels of real gold and silver to Beijing before, and the amount of gold, silver and rare toys on board this trip is probably quite a lot.

Such a huge amount of wealth, even if it takes a few months or more than half a year for one person, may not be able to count and calculate it completely, but Jia Lian transported it all back to Beijing in less than a month. If there is no flaw in the middle Jia Yucun didn't believe the mistakes and omissions.

Those who are dissatisfied with Jia Lian will naturally start from these aspects.

As long as they get a handle, no matter whether Jia Lian took the opportunity to be greedy for ink or not, they would not be stingy to charge Jia Lian with a crime of greed for ink.

"Thank you, brother Yucun, for reminding me. But as the saying goes, when soldiers come, they will be blocked by water and covered by earth. As long as your Majesty believes in my brother's loyalty, some young people will not be able to hurt me."

Facing Jiang Feng head-on, Jia Lian took a sip of the wine and replied quite indifferently.

Jia Yucun laughed, "It's extremely extreme, but brother Yu is too worried. With the background and ability of my virtuous brother, coupled with His Majesty's trust, I am not afraid of all slander and frame, and I can sit firmly Taishan. Unlike Brother Yu, who came from a grassroots background, although he was lucky enough to enter the official career, he is like a rootless duckweed, and his future is uncertain."

"Brother Yucun was joking. Brother Yucun doesn't rely on his family background, but on his own ability. In just over ten years, he has gone from being a white official to the third rank. How many people in the world can achieve such a speed of promotion?"

"Hehehe, if it weren't for the kindness of your master's sponsor that day, brother Yu probably wouldn't even be able to be an official, so why would he be promoted."

A knowing smile appeared on Jia Yucun's face.Because what Jia Lian said was also where he was most contented.

From a grassroots background, ten years of official residence in the third grade, not to mention the current dynasty, but the past dynasties, it must be rare.

But his promotion speed does not depend entirely on himself.In fact, relying only on his own ability, his official career was ruthlessly cut off by his boss many years ago when he was an official magistrate!
If he hadn't used Lin Ruhai's relationship to climb up to the Jia family and the Wang family, how would he be where he is today?

It can be seen that it is better to enjoy the shade under the big tree!The world is like this, but it's no wonder that he is stalking dogs and fawning on him.

"Taking this time as an example, although he was transferred to the middle of the capital as a vacancies, but where he can be assigned to take up any position, the superior has not yet decided.

Brother Yu is not good at managing relationships, and he is not from the capital city. It is very possible that he will be transferred to any place by the bureaucracy. At that time, it will be difficult for him to have a drink with Brother Xian again. "

Jia Lian couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Sure enough, Jia Yucun wanted something from him, so he started to trick him without turning a corner.

It's not hard to guess Jia Yucun's mind.He who turned himself into an official for the second time must be ambitious and ambitious, and he wants to wash away all the grievances of the year.

Such an ambitious person naturally wants to stay in the capital as an official, because only in the capital can he be promoted quickly if he can often deal with the big bosses of the center.

But there are only so many good positions in the capital, and he is not sure to win them by himself, so he, the founding mansion, the head of the Rongguo Mansion, which is deeply rooted in the court, is expected to help and work hard.

As for whether the Jia family has this ability, others may doubt it, but Jia Yucun certainly does not doubt it, because it was Jia Zheng and Wang Ziteng who sent him to the position of Ying Tianfu at the beginning.

Jia Zheng at that time could fully represent the Jia family.

But Jia Yucun understood that now that Jia Lian was in the Jia family, Jia Zheng's weight was naturally much weaker. Naturally, he couldn't just please Jia Zheng and miss Jia Lian. This was a very stupid behavior.That's why he was in his forties, but turned his face to Jia Lian, who was only 20 years old, and called out one by one.

He did this kind of thing without any sense of disobedience. After all, in order to recover, he was willing to accept Jia Zheng, who was not ten years older than him, as his uncle.

What he was thinking in his heart, but not on the surface, Jia Lian murmured, "Brother Yucun's achievements in Yingtian Mansion, it is unlikely that he will be transferred casually..."

"Brother Yu's words are wrong. Although brother Yu has a lot of achievements, in the eighteen provinces of the world, there are not a few people who have more achievements than brother Yu.

What's more, most of those people are the sons of princes, or are old with several adults in the center. People without any foundation like Brother Yu will definitely not be able to compete with them. "

Jia Lian thought for a while, nodded in agreement with Jia Yucun's statement, and then said: "Brother Yucun's words are not unreasonable, but you don't have to worry too much, after you enter Beijing, you can take care of it in various ways. With a background in Kejia, coupled with brother Yucun's ability, he will definitely be able to fill a good position.

It's a pity that my younger brother is a military officer, and his official position is low, so he can't speak in the court, otherwise, he will definitely plan a lot for Brother Yucun. "

Jia Yucun paused, and raised his glass with a smile: "Look at me, today is just a good time to watch the spring, and I invite my virtuous brother to come over for a drink and have fun, but I use such vulgar things as an example to tarnish this scenery for no reason, and I should be punished." , should be punished."

As Jia Yucun said, he drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, expressing self-punishment.

Jia Lian also smiled, and had a drink with him. After talking about some romance, Jia Lian said goodbye and left.

After Jia Yucun sent Jia Lian off the boat, he didn't go back to the cabin to rest, but continued to sit and drink alone.

"master."

Seeing Jiao Xing come out suddenly, Jia Yucun asked her, "Are you going to see Mrs. Zhen?"

"Ah."

"You've been in touch with them for so long, but are you sure that Mrs. Zhen's mother and daughter are by Zhenyuanhou's side?"

Jiao Xing was taken aback for a moment, and then remembered that Jia Yucun asked her to communicate more with the Feng family, not just to let them relive the bond between master and servant, so she sat beside him and explained: "Madam naturally has nothing to say, Xiangling girl , but really loved by Lord Zhenyuan."

As she spoke, Jiao Xing told Jia Yucun what she had learned in detail.

"That's great, since you have this relationship with them, you have to build a good relationship with them, which is also beneficial to me.

Well, you go. "

"Yes……"

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Back to the Lin family's fleet, Jia Lian first went to the boats of some oiran ladies to have a look.

After returning to Yangzhou that day, he found that none of the twelve oiran ladies had left, and all of them were still waiting for him in Yangzhou.

After some flirting, Jia Lian finally chose two more favorites from the rest, and gave generous rewards to the rest, and made certain arrangements to send them back.

With the addition of Gu Qingyi and Shen Pan'er, there are exactly four dancers, which can barely make up a team of dancers without being too ostentatious.

After all, those 12 people all have relatively good reputations in the Jiangnan Fengyue field. If they really want to pack them all up and take them away in one go, the reputation of his romantic reputation as Lord Jia will be completely spread.

At that time, it will be too difficult to coax Daiyu and others.

At this time, he was sitting on the grand teacher's chair, with one arm around the enchanting beauty Shen Pan'er, while admiring the dance of the two beauties in front of him.

Of these two beauties, one is called Wan Qiyun, a Jinling kabuki with an elegant and melodious voice, and the other is called Wei Shishi, who is the youngest, but her pearls are round and jade-like, resembling a jade ring in a Tang palace.

In fact, being able to get into Jia Lian's eyes is enough to prove the beauty of these two beauties.

Seeing Jia Lian seriously watching the dance of the two sisters, Shen Pan'er, who was lying in Jia Lian's arms, couldn't hold back her loneliness. She raised one leg, and the skirt slipped off naturally, and what was pressed on Jia Lian's chest and abdomen was only bright and clean. jade legs.

Jia Lian was immediately attracted by this piece of white light, and he couldn't help caressing it with his palm.

Shen Pan'er was a little happy in her heart, so she tilted her head to Jia Lian's ear, and whispered with a smile: "My lord, is it because I have beautiful legs, or the dancing posture of Sister Qiyun and Sister Shishi is more beautiful."

Hearing this, Jia Lian lowered her head and glanced at the beauty's jade legs in her hands. She didn't want to follow the beauty's wishes, but she had to admit that Shen Pan'er is indeed good at dancing, and these legs are really good.

Slender, fair, and extremely well-proportioned, it can be called absolute perfection.

Such beautiful legs are really rare, even Jia Lian has nothing to say, but gently caresses her, expressing her silent praise.

So Shen Pan'er giggled, and rubbed her legs on Jia Lian's body more and more recklessly, suddenly seeing Gu Qingyi who was sitting next to her frowned and looked at her with disapproval in his eyes, she immediately became dissatisfied.

I can't compare to you in reputation, and I'm inferior to you in qin and flute skills. This girl reluctantly admits it, but she absolutely doesn't think she can't compare to Gu Qingyi in terms of the jade legs that Jia Lian can't put down.

So he turned his eyes, deliberately stretched his jade legs, jumped over the grand teacher's chair, and went to Gu Qingyi's side, harassing him: "Your Excellency refuses to answer my words, Sister Qingyi is the most upright person, you come to help him and talk about it. Are the legs good-looking or not?"

Gu Qingyi happened to be playing the piano for the two of Wan Qiyun, when he suddenly saw a slender foot flying towards her, dangling in front of her, he couldn't help but his face darkened, and he raised his head and gave Shen Pan'er a look.

Shen Pan'er was so frightened that she immediately shrank back, and at the same time put her arms around Jia Lian's body, whispering coquettishly, "Sister Tsing Yi has fierce eyes, she is so scared."

So, let alone Gu Qingyi, even Jia Lian was a little speechless.

If he was a contemporary person, he would probably only think that Shen Pan'er was too mischievous, but Jia Lian, who was born as an Internet user, would naturally see through it easily.

However, it feels very interesting.

Jia Lian never meant to criticize her, but simply wanted to see how far she could go on this road based on her own understanding.

After all, Shen Pan'er didn't know what Jia Lian was thinking, and she snickered after making a fuss, and leaned into Jia Lian's ear, whispering.

Jia Lian kept silent when he heard the words, but his eyes couldn't help but glance at Gu Qingyi's legs.

Intuitively, Jia Lian knew that Shen Pan'er's pair of jade legs was definitely top-notch.I still remember that he had seen it that night on the Little Qinhuai River, but unfortunately there were too many people at that time, and his eyes were full of white things, so he couldn't quite tell who was who.

Jia Lian's gaze made Gu Qingyi hide his legs under the piano, and at the same time he sighed sadly.

She sort of understood that she definitely couldn't compete with Shen Pan'er, because she thought to herself, if she wanted to be as coquettish (sexy) as Shen Pan'er, she couldn't do it.

After dancing for a while, Wan Qiyun and her two also stood up and asked Jia Lian what else he wanted to see.

Without waiting for Jia Lian to think about it, Shen Pan'er smiled and said, "Otherwise, you can play the flute to the adults again."

While speaking, he blinked at Jia Lian.

Lying in Jia Lian's arms, she seduced Jia Lian with her jade leg, so she knew all of Jia Lian's reactions.

Seeing Wan Qiyun's cheeks blushing, she felt quite bewildered, and Jia Lian couldn't help but slapped her ass.

"Why are you beating me, my lord? Do you mean that he made my sister suffer? If your lord wants to let him play Xiao for you, it's okay, but it's better to let sister Tsing Yi come, her Xiao skills are the best. .”

Seeing the beauty's smiling face, Jia Lian didn't know what to say about her.

But he wouldn't go to correct her against his will, would he?

After all, he came here this time to have fun and relax. If he pretended, wouldn't he be asking for guilt?If we say we should rely on her, Jia Lian always feels that sooner or later he will fall into the hands of this woman.

So he took a deep breath, stood up and straightened his clothes, and then asked the four beauties in a dignified manner: "You guys, rehearse a few more elegant dances in the past few days, and other music programs are also fine. I will invite you to the main ship to perform for your future mistress."

"The future mistress?"

Shen Pan'er and the others were puzzled.

"Isn't Madam Hou in the capital? Why are you on the boat again?"

Jia Lian didn't have time to explain to them in detail, and after a brief talk, he hurried away.

Watching Jia Lian leave, Shen Pan'er turned back to look at Gu Qingyi and the three of them, and said, "Everyone can see clearly, even though we are so tempting, the adults have no intention of taking our bodies, I'm afraid, it's just a matter of concern." Mrs. Hou and the future mistress are married.

It can be seen from this that the status of these two people in Lord Hou's mind is not comparable to that of our geisha.

Therefore, we sisters must never think that everything will be fine if you follow Master Hou to Beijing.After arriving in the capital, one has to be more careful about everything else, otherwise, the chance that one has worked so hard to win will be in vain in the end. "

The strange thing is that at this moment, Shen Pan'er is completely different from her previous charming posture, but she actually has a somewhat wise look.

But Gu Qingyi and the others didn't find it strange. Instead, they frowned solemnly and nodded to express their approval of her words.

"But you don't need to worry too much. With your lord's ability, since you dare to bring me back to the capital, as long as I don't make mistakes, no one would dare to take the risk of offending you to bully us.

Moreover, I really want to see what a woman who can be loved by a person like an adult looks like.So, next, let's rehearse carefully according to the adults' instructions.

Oh, by the way, when your lord returns to Beijing this time, you will be handed over the position of imperial envoy, so from now on, let's call you Lord Hou, Lord Zhenyuan, this is your real identity, sisters, don't forget up. "

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(End of this chapter)