The Red Mansions

Chapter 229 The Sixth Prince Appears, Preparations Before the Mid-Autumn Festival
In the next period of time, news of good news came back from time to time in various prefectures and counties in Northern Zhili.

The warehouses of the patrolling camps were also gradually enriched, with gold, silver, treasures, food and horses, and so on.

With the deepening of the patrol camp to suppress bandits, the law and order near the capital improved at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not only the gangsters who often wandered outside kept their duties, but even some dudes from eunuch families seemed to be quite honest. It was an unexpected gain to temporarily put away their arrogant and domineering temperament.

Because of this, Jia Yun's reputation slowly spread.

Many people also laughed and said that Jia Yun had the same story as his ancestor Cao A, when he was the captain of Luoyang North, he set up the five-color list, which made the security of the capital clear.

Jia Yun had heard this joke more than once.

Every time he heard it, he smiled and didn't care about other people's teasing.

In the dog days, the weather is getting hotter and hotter.

In the morning, Jia Yun was impatient, and after watching the scribes in the barracks send the gang into the warehouse, she rode home non-stop.

As soon as he entered the city gate, he heard someone calling him.

"Master Jia, please wait a moment, Mr. Jia!"

Jia Yun reined in the reins, looked for the sound, and saw the sixth prince Xie Wenxi standing in front of the window of a teahouse, holding a teacup and nodding to him.

The person who spoke was not the sixth prince, but a young man dressed as a scholar.

Jia Yun cupped her hands to the sixth prince, hesitated for a moment, got off her horse, threw the rope to Jia Wenlin, and walked towards the teahouse.

"My lord, please!" As soon as he entered the teahouse, Xiao Er greeted him, leaning sideways to lead the way.

Jia Yun nodded, raised her clothes, and followed Xiaoer up the stairs to the upstairs.

The sixth prince greeted the scholar at the door of the elegant room with the scholar. Jia Yun sighed and stepped forward to salute.

"Meet the sixth prince!" Jia Yun cupped her hands.

The sixth prince stepped forward to support Jia Yun's arm, and said with a smile on his face, "I wanted to find a chance to thank Mr. Jia, but Mr. Jia has been busy with official duties, so I dare not take the liberty to disturb you. Please don't blame him."

"Don't dare!" Jia Yun shook her head, and said again: "Your Highness, that matter is over, don't bring it up again."

The Sixth Prince was stunned for a moment, and then said with a pleasant smile: "Yes, yes! It's over, let's not talk about this matter, Mr. Jia, please sit inside, there is a good big red robe today, Mrs. Jia must give it to you Ming one or two."

Jia Yun would never refuse to invite him to drink tea, since they came anyway.

After exchanging pleasantries, the three came to the private room, and the sixth prince took the opportunity to introduce the scholar to Jia Yun.

The scholar's surname is Li, his name is Shangzhi, his style name is Zhongyu, he is 28 years old, he is from Nanzhili.

As for how he got involved with the sixth prince, Jia Yun didn't ask, neither did the sixth prince and Li Shangzhi.

The three sat down, and the sixth prince personally made tea and poured it for Jia Yun.

After drinking a few cups of tea and saying something without oil and salt.

The sixth prince saw that Jia Yun was calm all the time, and he was not curious to ask why he was looking for him. He knew that if this went on, Jia Yun might find an excuse to leave.

Therefore, Liu Huang hesitated for a moment, put down his teacup, and said, "May I ask Mr. Jia, what do you think about the Ministry of Housekeeping's urging to pay the owed money?"

Jia Yun drank tea slowly, not in a hurry to reply.

The sixth prince is a poor man!

Since he cured the Sixth Prince's illness, the Sixth Prince never visited him, and he never even sent someone to send some gifts.

Only Jia Yun was given a jade pendant at the beginning.

Although it is also a priceless royal gadget, but after reaching this level, the Sixth Prince's behavior has the feeling of facing forward when employing people, and facing backward when not using people.

Therefore, Jia Yun didn't like the sixth prince from the bottom of her heart.

In addition, she didn't want to have too much dealings with these princes and grandchildren, so Jia Yun also made up her mind to pretend to be stupid and not to get involved in their affairs.

"Your Highness is probably asking the wrong person? I am a censor of five cities, how can I have access to the official affairs of the Ministry of Accounts? So it is difficult to comment on the matter of the Ministry of Accounts urging the payment of the owed money." Jia Yun replied lightly. road.

To put it bluntly, the relationship between the two of them is not enough to talk about ordinary affairs, let alone such a sensitive topic.

Jia Yun didn't know what the sixth prince was thinking, so she came to ask him about this topic out of nowhere.

After pondering for a moment, Jia Yun put down her teacup without waiting for the sixth prince to speak, stood up and cupped her hands and said:

"I've drunk this tea too. Thank you Your Highness for your hospitality. I'm still busy with business, so I'll take my leave first!"

After speaking, he turned and walked out.

"Hey!" The sixth prince stretched out his hand, wanting to chase him out, but held back.

Li Shangzhi frowned and said, "Your Highness, isn't this Jia Yun too arrogant and rude?"

"He has the ability, so he dares to be rude to me." The sixth prince said lightly after taking a breath.

Jia Yun didn't give him face, and didn't even want to talk to him too much, which made him very dissatisfied.

But he had nothing to do with Jia Yun, not to mention that Jia Yun had a close relationship with the emperor, but to say that he himself was the censor who patrolled the city, and he could hear things and impeach anyone, which was not so easy to provoke.

Li Shangzhi was quite jealous. Jia Yun was so young that he was the same as Juren, and also held an important position.

What about yourself?
Apart from being a Juren, he can't even be regarded as the sixth prince's staff.

Comparing the two, it's no wonder that Li Shangzhi feels at ease.

After thinking for a while, Li Shangzhi said: "Your Highness, all the emperors are racking their brains to enter the household department. Our side, Jia Yun's way is not going to work. What should we do next?"

"What do you think?" The sixth prince glanced at him and asked.

Li Shangzhi hesitated for a moment, and said: "Yesterday, the steward of the Prince's Mansion in Beijing County came to talk to the students and wanted to join forces with His Highness. Your Highness can think about it."

The sixth prince glared at him, and said angrily, "Are you confused, aren't you? I don't know if Father is dissatisfied with King Beijing?"

"How come? Isn't it rumored that the emperor is wooing the King of Beijing County?" Li Shangzhi frowned.

The sixth prince pursed his lips and said: "That's not called wooing, that's called hypocrisy. Father wants to slowly disarm King Beijing, so he has no choice but to do so."

Seeing that Li Shangzhi wanted to ask more questions, the sixth prince threw the teacup on the table, stood up, and said with a blank expression:
"Don't ask again. I thought you were a decent person, but now it seems that you are nothing more than that. Give you another month, if you can't figure out a way to let you enter the household department, you will not come to the palace from now on."

After finishing speaking, the sixth prince ignored Li Shangzhi and left angrily.

Li Shangzhi froze in place, and after a while, he threw the teacup on the ground with a slap, his face was black, his eyes were red, he gritted his teeth, "I'm so angry!"

"Guest officer, please excuse me 30 taels of silver, plus five taels of money for a teacup." After hearing the voice, the waiter outside quickly rushed in, speaking softly.

Li Shangzhi became even angrier, pointing at Xiaoer and shivering, he reluctantly took out a bank note from his bosom after a while.

……

Jia Yun didn't go to the Yamen to run an errand, but went home directly.

Coming back from outside the city, her whole body was covered in ashes, Jia Yun took a shower and changed into a loose thin shirt.

There are people coming and going in the yard, all busy preparing for tomorrow's August [-]th.

In the room, Jia Yun said to Xue Baochai, "I'll send someone a message in the afternoon to ask my mother-in-law and brother Xue to come over tomorrow. What do you do?"

"You are a real person. How can you let them come over this Mid-Autumn Festival? We should go there." Xue Baochai slapped Jia Yun lightly and said with a smile.

Jia Yun was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and said, "Uh, that's right, Brother Xue brings his mother-in-law to our house every time, but it's a habit."

"Then you agreed to go to Xue's house tomorrow?" Xue Baochai said happily.

Jia Yun nodded and said, "Of course I'm going, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival, so there's no reason not to go."

Xue Baochai nodded and said with a smile: "Well, the slave family will arrange for Yinger to send a message to Xue's family so that mother and elder brother will be prepared."

"I'm also busy. I'm going to prepare the gift this afternoon, and I'll send it out tomorrow morning." Jia Yun stretched her waist and said.

He has classmates, classmates, colleagues, tutors, teachers, masters, and clan elders in the capital, all of whom want to give gifts.

Of course, there will definitely be many people giving him gifts tomorrow, but he can't receive them himself, so Ni Er can only be responsible for receiving them.

After Xue Baochai ordered Yinger to go to Xue's house to report the letter, she turned around and said, "Then I will be in charge of preparing the gift for going to her mother's house tomorrow, so that there will be no delay, what does your husband think?"

"Okay, let's do it!" Jia Yun nodded.

……

Rongguo Mansion, Sister Feng's courtyard.

In the room, Wang Xifeng saw Ping'er leading some little maids to bring in some moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits, and was confused.

After the maids retreated, Ping'er whispered: "These are brought by Xiren just now, and they are said to be fresh fruits, much tastier than those on the market."

"In addition, if Xiren brings Baochai, it means that it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and today's monthly regulations will be issued one month earlier."

Wang Xifeng nodded, and told Ping'er: "Okay, you divide these melons and fruits, and send them to each room! By the way, take the monthly money too."

Ping'er nodded, stretched out his finger, took a piece of mooncake, divided it into two halves, handed half to Wang Xifeng, and said with a smile, "Try the mooncake from Erye Yun's house, it's better than our family's."

Wang Xifeng took it and tasted it, his eyes lit up, and said, "It's really delicious, even better than the mooncakes sent last year."

"This year should be due to Second Master Yun's advice. He's quite picky." Ping'er said with a smile.

Wang Xifeng smiled while eating mooncakes and said, "The key is that he is not only picky, but also knows how to cook it deliciously, so we are also lucky."

Ping'er nodded, finished the mooncakes in twos and twos, clapped his hands, and began to distribute melons and fruits.

Wang Xifeng was not idle, went to fetch the secret box, took some silver from it, and distributed it according to the person.

Some people have many people, some people have few people. After dividing them, put them in sachets and mark them well, so as not to send them by mistake.

Soon, the two were done separately.

Ping'er went out for a while, came in with a bamboo basket, and put Li Wan's master and servant's portion into the basket.

"Let Tan Yatou get her share. When you go to the sister-in-law's yard, just tell Tan Yatou." Wang Xifeng ordered.

Ping'er nodded and said: "For the mandarin duck's share, only grandma can notify it, it's not convenient for slaves to go there."

"Go, I'll remember this, I'll go there later..."

(End of this chapter)