Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 100 Unparalleled Wisdom, Interlocking

Jia Lian's heart was full of doubts, and he wanted to ask the reason, but Jia Chen was unparalleled, and he must have an exquisite and complicated plan, so he didn't ask any more questions, but he was a little embarrassed, and said with a dry smile:

"My dear brother, shouldn't I report this matter to my father first and ask his opinion?"

Jia Chen smiled lightly and said:

"It's better not to tell the uncle about this, I guess he might not agree, we can only cut it first and play it later for the sake of safety."

In the past, Jia Lian would report to his father, Jia She, without hesitation, but after getting along with him for a while, Jia Lian found that his father's strategy and methods were far inferior to Jia Chen's.

Hearing Jia Chen's answer now, Jia Lian nodded in agreement, taking Jia Chen's words as the standard and obeying everything.

"Okay, my virtuous brother is far-sighted and unparalleled in intelligence. What you say must make sense, so let's do what you want!"

Jia Lian readily agreed.

After all, he ordered a close entourage to report back to Shenjing Rongfu, saying that Jia Amnesty was terminally ill, time was running out, and he needed to take care of the funeral as soon as possible.

After the entourage left, Jia Lian asked softly:

"Brother, can you dig out those big boxes from the cellar? For safety's sake, I think we have to move to an unknown place."

Jia Chen laughed and said:

"The hero sees the same thing, Lian's second brother wants to go with me!"

Jia Lian asked:

"Then where should we hide?"

Jia Chen said softly.

Jia Lian nodded her head again and again, and called a subordinate to listen to him, and said in a low voice:
"Go and greet a few strict-spoken people, and together move the boxes out of the cellar, bury them all in the backyard of the Jinling ancestral house, and block them with water tanks.

Then lead a few people to guard day and night. "

"Yes!" The subordinate acted according to plan.

Jia Chen said:
"I still need to find a few identical large boxes, put them in a room in the backyard, lock the door, and pretend to be guarded, so as to confuse the line of sight and prevent others from knowing the exact location of the boxes."

Jia Lian exclaimed, "It's so wonderful!"

It was almost the third watch, but Jia Lian was still refreshed and energetic.

He sent people to dig a hole in the backyard of the ancestral residence in Jinling, and then led a few of his men to stealthily lift the boxes out of the cellar and transport them back to the dug hole.

In order to keep it secret, Jia Lian promised to give a reward of fifty taels to each of the subordinates who participated in the burying of the box.

The subordinates got the benefits, all of them were beaming and energetic, and they were all cautious when burying the box.

After all the boxes were buried, Jia Chen told everyone to spread a layer of green bricks on top, and placed several large water tanks on the green bricks.

Jia Lian commanded his men to carefully transport away the soil dug out of the ground, and wipe away all traces left on the ground.

The men poured the excess dirt into the pond.

Jia Chen ordered them to carry several identical empty boxes, deliberately pretending to be heavy, and move these boxes into a room in the backyard, so as to create confusion and confuse the public.

Jia Lian exhorted fiercely:

"You brothers supervise each other. If anyone dares to guard against himself or leak information, I will kill him!"

"Please rest assured, Second Master, we are all Second Master's people, and our lives are in Second Master's hands, who dares to change our minds?"

The subordinates have spoken out and pledged allegiance.

Jia Chen and Jia Lian went to see Jia Amnesty together, and told each other the good news of the treasure.

Jia Amnesty's old face turned into a chrysanthemum with a smile, and he kept laughing like he had lost his mind and gone crazy.

Jia Lian didn't want to hide anything, so he told Jia Amnesty about his plan with Jia Chen.

Jia Amnesty was a little dazed at first, but he was immersed in the ecstasy of getting rich, he didn't mind at all, and agreed to pretend that he was dying of a serious illness.

After a while, the Rong Mansion received a letter that Jia Amnesty was critically ill.

In fact, Jia Amnesty was not Jia Mu's biological son, but was born by Jia Daishan's first wife.

After the death of the main wife, Jia Daishan married Jia's mother and gave birth to Jia Zheng.

For this reason, Jia's mother helped Jia Zheng seize the power of Rongfu.

When she heard that Jia Amnesty was seriously ill, Jia's mother pretended to be sad, and wept and wiped her tears.

In fact, she didn't have deep feelings for Jia She. If Jia She could return to the West as soon as possible, the threat to the Second Household would be eliminated, and Jia Zheng could take advantage of this opportunity to seize the title and inherit the position of first-class general.

Jia Mu immediately summoned Jia Dairu and asked the other party to write a memorial, telling Emperor Chongrui that Jia Amnesty was about to die, in order to imply that Emperor Chongrui issued an imperial decree to transfer Jia Amnesty's first-class general position to Jia Zheng.

In fact, what Mother Jia didn't know was that her reactions were all within Jia Chen's expectation.

This is one of Jia Chen's strategies to deprive Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang of their power.

Jia's mother was old and unwilling to go to the south of the Yangtze River, so she sent Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang to Jinling to deal with Jia Amnesty's funeral.

Because she didn't love Jia Amnesty, Jia's mother simply asked Jia Zheng to bury Jia Amnesty on the spot in Jinling.

When Mrs. Xing heard the news, her eyes turned black and she almost fainted from crying.

As Jia She's official wife, she led Jia She's several concubines, followed Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang, and went south by boat to Jinling.

Wang Xifeng, as Jia Amnesty's daughter-in-law, naturally couldn't stay out of the matter, and went with the boat.

Accompanying him were Jia She's second son Jia Cong, his own daughter Jia Yingchun, and Jia Zheng's sons Jia Baoyu and Jia Huan.

As Jia Amnesty's nephews, they must appear at Jia Amnesty's funeral according to etiquette and customs.

In order to pretend to be like it, Jia She ordered people to build a giant nanmu coffin, and bought a lot of paper figurines, horses, shredded paper and other things to decorate the mourning hall, pretending to prepare for the funeral.

Jia Chen found Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian, and suggested:
"It's not safe enough to bury those boxes in the backyard. They're simply hidden in a huge nanmu coffin. No one would think that there are treasures hidden in the coffin."

Both Jia Amnesty and Jia Lian agreed with each other, followed the plan, and ordered people to transfer the treasure to the huge nanmu coffin overnight.

After a while, Jia's fleet arrived at Jinling City.

Only Mrs. Xing, Jia Cong and Jia Yingchun were really worried about Jia She's life and death, the others were just going through the motions.

Mrs. Wang, who speaks like a snake, is even more gloating, wishing that Jia She would return to the West as soon as possible.

Seeing Mrs. Xing weeping bitterly, Jia Lian comforted her softly when there was no one around except Jia Chen.
"Madam, the old man's illness is just a fake, Madam, please don't let it go."

Mrs. Xing was startled, and wiped her tears and nose with a handkerchief, wondering what the father and son would do in collusion?

Jia Chen leaked the news on purpose:
"Madam, don't tell outsiders that there are a lot of treasures hidden in the master's coffin."

It was only then that Mrs. Xing realized that they had colluded to get money from the Jia family's estate in Jinling, so Jia Amnesty pretended to be ill.

Seeing that Jia Amnesty's "illness" is so serious, which one of Jia Mu and Jia Zheng would dare to force him to hand over the money?

In fact, Jia Chen deliberately disclosed this confidential information to Mrs. Xing, which was part of the strategy to seize the treasure.

(End of this chapter)