The Second Master of the Red Chamber

Chapter 586 Xiangling's Shock

When Jia Lian walked in again, Ping'er, who had just been wearing a gorgeous brocade dress, was gone. Instead, under the north window, a sitting man was wearing a dark green bottom skirt, a moon white thin-sleeved shirt, and a light-colored skirt. A belt, a girl in a maid outfit.

When Jia Lian saw it, she was stunned.

Although he doesn't remember Ri Ping'er's specific attire that day, Jia Lian knows that she probably looked like that at that time.

Because of this, Jia Lian knew that this girl didn't make up her mind temporarily, but had this intention long ago. Otherwise, how could she have made such preparations?I think it's just the right time today, so I made such a proposal to him.

"Second Master Lian is here, you, are you here to find our girl?"

Ping'er, who was picking up the soles of his shoes, saw Jia Lian, seemed to be in a daze, stood up, and saluted timidly.

Jia Lian laughed.That's fine, he thought that Ping'er was too sensible at ordinary times, and he, as the master, was in the way of Sister Feng's bad love, so he owed a lot.Since she likes this sentiment, why don't I give her a good job.

Therefore, Jia Lian also put away some of the arrogance and righteousness he had cultivated over the years, put on the frivolous look he hated the most, strolled over, and said with a smile: "I originally came to look for your girl, but now, my young master has changed. Got an idea."

"What... what do you want to do? Hugh is rude, our girl has gone to see his wife and will be back in a while. "

"Rude, why is this young master so rude? Is it like this, or like this... Jie Jie Jie..."

"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee."

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While Jia Lian was playing exciting and pleasant games with his concubine in the house, the upper-middle mansion in Beijing, what should have been received, also received the news that the clan's children scolded the emperor and were punished by the emperor to guard the imperial temple.

This incident seemed insignificant, and even the emperor didn't seem to have much reaction, he just punished those unworthy children with a small punishment.

But because it happened at such a critical juncture, it's hard not to keep people from speculating.In particular, it is even more intriguing to know that the children of the clan are complaining because they are dissatisfied with the new tax law that the court is going to promulgate.

Prince Yun's Mansion, when the Third Prince heard the news, he thought about it for a while, and felt that there was a lot of room for manipulation in this matter!
His counselors agreed with him and offered advice one after another.

"Third Highness, this is God-given His Highness's handle on the crown prince. If we can do this article well, it will be of great benefit to Your Highness' great cause!"

"The crown prince has always been close to the clan and the old ministers in the court. These people are conservative and stubborn, and His Majesty does not like it. This time, His Majesty wants to implement a new policy, but these people have hindered him in many ways. Therefore, His Majesty has long intended to anger the Crown Prince.

Now this incident happened again, especially among the clan children who were punished to go to the Taimiao, many of them were people who often walked around the Prince's Mansion. Speech comes from the mouth of the prince, otherwise, how dare that playboy have the guts to slander Sheng Gong?
As long as this method is used properly, it is expected that although the prince has a hundred mouths, he will not be able to argue.In this way, even if His Majesty cannot be allowed to abolish his crown prince position, His Majesty will be greatly disappointed with him, and it will not be difficult to shake the crown prince's position in His Majesty's mind. "

"In addition, Your Highness should, as always, support His Majesty's new policy. According to the villain's judgment, if His Majesty wants to implement the new tax law and is willing to convince the world's scholars, nobles, and relatives, he must set an example by the clan. If you are so stupid and stubborn, if you refuse to submit, your Majesty will be in a dilemma.

Therefore, the villain suggested that if His Highness can persuade the people in the clan to support the New Deal, even if it fails to achieve success, as long as His Highness can see His Highness's filial piety and loyalty, and compare with the cowardly and incompetent Crown Prince, His Highness's position in His Majesty's heart will grow day by day , It can also increase the chances of winning for His Highness's future great cause! "

"Finally, seeing that the Supreme Emperor's death is approaching, I don't know how His Highness is preparing? If His Highness can win the first place in the Supreme Emperor's birthday banquet and make the Supreme Emperor and his elders also favor His Highness, then the big thing will be settled. This is the most important thing, compared to Under the circumstances, the first two arguments against Xiao Daoer are useful, but compared with this, they are like mountains and rivers and mighty rivers and seas, which are not in the same breath."

"It makes sense."

"It makes sense..."

The third prince looked at the confidants and counselors gathered together, and his chest was full of pride.

As a prince known for his elegance and virtuousness, he gathers people with lofty ideals from all over the world for his own use. In this alone, how can his vulgar and scheming elder brother compare with him!
But he was born two years earlier, so he is the prince, but he, the virtuous king praised by everyone, can only bow his head and bow his head to him, and obey his orders for the rest of his life?

That's not fair, let's see, that position must belong to him, and it can only belong to him!
In the prince's mansion, the prince can no longer suppress the anger in his heart.

"A group of bastards who failed to succeed and failed!!"

The prince naturally understood how unfavorable this matter was to him today.

Unlike the third prince, he has a mother and concubine who is deeply loved by his father and emperor. His mother and concubine have passed away long ago. Therefore, if he wants to keep his position as the prince, he can only rely on the clan and those who pay attention to elders in the court. A young and orderly old minister.

He has been doing this all these years, and he has worked hard to do it well.But who knows, since his father took the throne, he has shown an attitude of reforming the past and reforming the old, hating those old ministers, causing him to be caught in the middle, which is very uncomfortable.

Many times, he felt that his father looked at him very dissatisfied, and he even wondered whether his father really liked him as the eldest son, and whether he really wanted him to be the prince!

Therefore, he was very wary of and suppressed the third prince who was extremely deep in the city.

The original third prince tried his best to pretend, but later on, he didn't know whether he was completely angered, or the third prince felt that he had grown up, and he no longer hid his disobedience in front of him, the prince!
He was angry, but he found that in the current situation, he really had no good way to deal with such a third prince.

That's right, even their father, the emperor, will only be on the throne for a few years, and even now he is more or less under the control of the Chonghua Palace.Therefore, even if there was a fight, it would not be the turn of the two juniors.

But as the crown prince, he was in the open, and the third prince was in the dark, making trouble for him everywhere, which made him very passive.

It is conceivable that once this matter happened today, his third brother would definitely not just sit idly by, for fear that his troubles would come soon.

Over the years, the prince has naturally cultivated some confidantes. Seeing that the Lord is troubled, each of them began to make suggestions.

However, the handle is out, if there is no power to turn the world upside down, at this time, you can only wait for the opponent to make the first move, and see the trick, how can there be a good strategy?
Suddenly someone said: "I heard that your majesty is worried about the fact that you can't get the clan to support the new policy. Your highness the crown prince has always been close to the clan and won the trust of the princes. If you can solve this problem for your majesty, it will make your majesty happy." , the immediate adversity will be resolved."

The prince shook his head and said: "Gu He never thought about it. But those old guys in the clan are very greedy. Over the years, Gu He has treated them badly, but when it comes to using them, there are always a lot of excuses and perfunctory people. Sincerity is rare.

They are all things that don't see the rabbits and don't scatter the eagles. What's more, if such interests are involved this time, it would be extremely difficult for them to give up voluntarily. "

"Actually, that's not the case. The reason why the clan persists in opposing the New Deal is that one is based on the law of the ancestors, and the other is greed. As the crown prince, the future lord of the world, if he can prepare generous gifts and promises, Then it may not be impossible to say a thing or two."

The prince's eyes lit up when he heard this.Yes, it doesn't seem necessary for him to persuade all the clans, as long as he can persuade a few, so that Emperor Ningkang can see his filial piety, wouldn't that be enough?
But then he still hesitated.He was ashamed to say it out. In order to deal with his troublesome third emperor brother, he had won over the clan, relatives and others all these years. Which one of these people has a small appetite?
As a result, his dignified prince actually began to feel embarrassed for money.

This is also the reason why he intervened in Jiangnan Salt Administration.Originally, when the Yanzheng incident broke out last time, the third prince was going to bite off a big piece of his flesh. Fortunately, he was able to get out unscathed if he prepared properly.Of course, he himself paid a high price.

At least in terms of salt administration, he had to restrain himself a bit to prevent Emperor Ningkang from noticing and bringing up the old case again.

In this way, his prince's mansion will be short of sources, and this is something he needs to consider.

Suddenly, he remembered that the Empress had mentioned to him before that she wanted to give him the daughter of the Zhen family in Jiangnan as his side concubine, and she also said openly and secretly that the Zhen family was a prominent family in Jiangnan, and how closely related the ancestors were with the Tian family.

He didn't listen to anything else, but heard that the Zhen family was ordered by the Supreme Emperor to act as the acting agent for the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau. In his mind, there was one word: rich.

So he talked about it.

"Hehehe, if this is the case, it is indeed a great help for His Highness. The crown prince does not think that the Zhen family is not in the court, and the second is not leading the army. However, this old lady of the Zhen family is the "county head" proclaimed by the great grandfather. Among the clan and nobles, they are quite famous, and even in front of the Supreme Emperor, the rumors are also worthy of words, so the Zhen family was able to sit in the weaving bureau in the south of the Yangtze River for so many years.

No one knows how rich the Zhen family is, but anyone who has been to Jinling Province knows that the Zhen family is known as the No. 1 family in the south of the Yangtze River!

Therefore, if His Highness the Crown Prince can get his help, it will be like adding wings to a tiger. "

Hearing this, the crown prince paid more attention to this matter.At the same time, he was secretly happy, this Zhen's family is fine, he was happy because he originally thought that this was the empress who was idle and bored to be a matchmaker for him, but he didn't expect that the empress had such a deep meaning behind it.Can it be said that the queen is optimistic about supporting him?

……

Jia Lian didn't care about the quarrel between the crown prince and the third prince, as long as these two didn't come to trouble him, he didn't want to mess with any of them at all.

The emperor is still in his prime, so hugging his thighs tightly and not thinking about things is the way to get promoted, get rich and survive.

Therefore, after Jia Lian returned to the mansion, he completely forgot about the affairs in the palace, and embraced his concubine tenderly with peace of mind.

Looking at her beautiful and clean face, the tears were still wet, and bruises could be seen on the raised wrist, Jia Lian couldn't help being distressed and funny: "You have solid eyes, you don't know how to cry when it hurts."

Ping'er looked up at Jia Lian, shook his head and said, "You don't have to worry about me, I don't care, I'm very happy..."

Jia Lian looked at the bed curtain speechlessly.

This Pinger is really a good material for an actor in future generations.He said that he wanted to play with him again, so he really put himself into it, and he was so real from the beginning to the end.

Aside from not yelling loudly because he was afraid of attracting people's attention, he really experienced what it was like to force a maid from a good family with a young girl.

That is to say, even he was brought in, and he couldn't help using some strength.It's also Ping'er's fault, it's enough to pretend to struggle and scuffle for a while, but she plays like the real one, otherwise, with his control, he wouldn't hurt his obedient concubine.

Naturally, Ping'er could see Jia Lian's remorse, she smiled, stretched out her Jiaolan jade finger to touch Jia Lian's face, and once again looked at her to show that she was fine, then she forced herself up and cleared the bed curtain.

It was only because of their emotions that they couldn't control that much. Now that she was satisfied, she naturally couldn't keep the evidence and let Sister Feng come to trouble her.

Jia Lian didn't say to help, because he was not afraid of being discovered by Sister Feng at all.He even felt that it was good for Sister Feng to find out, but that Nizi's understanding in this area is too poor, and she is really an idiot if she doesn't know how to ask for advice with a master-level figure by her side.

So I just leaned on the bed and watched Pinger's actions.Because of his graceful figure and soft limbs, Jia Lian got up again after a while, and quietly got down on the bed, and hugged Ping'er from behind who was about to clean up the cups, saucers and tea cups, "Let the little maids come in and clean up, carefully hurt your hands."

Ping'er looked at the broken cups and saucers on the ground, blushing.Although she had intended to protect her before, the second master was too strong. When he pressed her here, he knocked her down a lot, some were broken and some were not.

How could she have the nerve to let the little maid come in to clean up, I'm afraid they thought it was a thief.

"Second Master, go find Xiangling, Ping'er, Ping'er can't stand it..."

This is a lie, she just wanted to distract Jia Lian so that the house could be tidied up quickly.According to her prediction, Sister Feng will be back soon.

Jia Lian refused, and was about to pick up Ping'er and bully him again, but Xiangling's voice sounded from outside the corridor: "Second master, the master of the second sect has sent a message, please go to the master's study outside."

Only then did Jia Lian slowly put down Ping'er, who was delicate and soft, and kissed her white teeth and red lips, and then wiped her mouth and opened the door to come out.

The courtyard was no longer as quiet as it was when he first came back. The voices of the little maids joking and talking in the boiling water room, as well as the child's voice of "Yahah" from the baby girl in the East Chamber, could be heard faintly.

However, there was only one person on the main corridor, and that was Xiang Ling, the dumb maid.

As soon as the girl saw Jia Lian coming out, she looked him up and down, blushed immediately, and lowered her head, daring not to speak.

Jia Lian was slightly taken aback, then walked over and said softly, "When were you here?"

"No, not for a while..."

Hearing her hurried denial, Jia Lian was naturally sure that this girl must have been listening to the corner outside before.

"Don't guess, I didn't bully your sister Ping'er, let alone beat her..."

Jia Lian tried to explain, but he found it unnecessary.Thinking that he was making such a fuss inside with Ping'er, but no one came to inquire outside, it must be the credit of this girl.

So he lightly stroked the top of Xiangling's head, and said softly: "I really didn't lie to you, I was just messing around with your sister Ping'er, you will know in the future."

After speaking, Jia Lian saw that Xiangling didn't respond, so he left.

But he didn't know that when he left, Xiangling's innocent and lovely face lifted up, looking at his back full of panic.

What should I do, is the second master going to treat me like he did to sister Ping'er...

Thinking of what she had faintly heard before, Ping'er's voice of shame, anger, scolding and struggling, she could imagine how miserable Ping'er was cleaned up inside!

By the way, sister Ping'er!
Thinking of something, Xiangling didn't care about anything, and hurriedly opened the door to enter, and rushed into the Xici room, but all she saw was Ping'er, who was neatly dressed, bending over two brocade quilts on the heated kang.Although Ping'er's face cannot be seen, Xiangling can tell from her skillful movements, brisk and natural posture...

Sister Ping'er, are you in a good mood? ?

(End of this chapter)