Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 11 Jia Qiang
After Jia Rui came back, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that tomorrow would be a trouble. If he didn't understand etiquette and was bumped into by the emperor or the Supreme Emperor, he might die immediately.

After much deliberation, I had to quickly find a teacher to understand the situation in the palace first.

So Jia Rui tidied up his clothes a little, then hurried out of the courtyard and went straight to Rongguo Mansion.

But before he reached the gate of Rongguo Mansion, he was stopped by someone.

It was none other than Jia Qiang who stopped him.

"Uncle Rui, where are you going in such a hurry?"

When Jia Rui saw it was him, he felt unlucky.

It's not that Jia Rui is afraid of him, the main reason is that this guy has Jia Rui's IOU in his hand, and what Jia Rui lacks most now is money, where can he pay him back?
As for exposing the matter now and letting everyone know what's going on, Jia Rui doesn't have the guts yet.

Now he can only get the position of Long Jinwei through the Rongguo Mansion. If he offends Wang Xifeng again, he may not even have this position now.

"Hehe, let's go to the West Mansion. Isn't Master Zheng looking for an errand for me? I'll go over and thank you."

Jia Qiang smiled, and said, "Then I congratulate Uncle Rui."

But then he changed the subject and said, "Uncle Rui is on an errand, so he should pay back the money he owes us, right?"

Jia Rui's face immediately changed after hearing this, he stared at Jia Qiang closely and said, "Leave a line in life, so we can meet each other in the future."

Jia Qiang originally looked down upon Jia Rui, but now that he was being stared at by Jia Rui, he felt goosebumps all over his body, as if a beast was staring at him and was about to pounce at any time.

Jia Qiang took a step back involuntarily, but he immediately realized that he had lost his composure.

He hurriedly stabilized his steps, then coughed and said, "What did Uncle Rui say? It's natural to pay back debts. Does Uncle Rui want to default on the debt?"

"Okay, it seems that you must have this money."

"I have to." Jia Qiang's face became serious.

In fact, Jia Qiang didn't want to offend Jia Rui to death, but this morning, he got a message from Wang Xifeng from Jia Rong that he wanted to give Jia Rui a look.

Because of this, Jia Qiang waited here.

Seeing that the other party did not compromise, Jia Rui nodded sharply and said, "Okay, come home with me to get it."

Jia Rui thought that in the worst case he would be beaten by Jia Dairu again, so he put the matter aside for the time being.

In the future, after he has achieved great success through the road of Long Jinwei, he will come back to avenge today. At that time, it will not be something that a small amount of money can settle. At that time, he will need his life to settle the matter.

Seeing Jia Rui's determination, Jia Qiang's face felt a little ugly.

Because if this incident gets out, his reputation will not be good. After all, they are all of the same clan. If rumors of bullying the same clan come out, his reputation in the clan will be even worse.

It turned out that Jia Qiang was also an upright great-great-grandson of the Ning family. Her parents died early, and she lived with Jia Zhen since she was a child. Now she is 16 years older and more handsome than Jia Rong.The two brothers are the closest to each other and often get along with each other.There are many people in the Ning Mansion, and those servants who are unwilling to do so are able to make rumors and slander their masters, so I don't know what kind of villains are criticizing rumors.

If this incident is added, his reputation will be rotten on the street.

But he didn't dare to disobey Wang Xifeng's order, so he gritted his teeth and followed Jia Rui to his home.

But when they passed the west wall of Rongguo Mansion, they were stopped by someone.

"Where are you two going to play?"

Jia Rui and Jia Qiang looked up, and it turned out that it was Xue Pan who lived in Rongguo Mansion and lived in the Xue family.

Xue Pan's father died when he was very young, so Xue Pan's mother loved him very much.Xue Pan, who has been doted on so much, wants to get wind and rain, and has been cultivated into a playful temperament.Although he has been to school, he knows a few words.I don't care about the world all day long, I don't know how to make progress, I only know how to travel around the mountains and rivers, and fight cocks and horses, which is a typical dude.

He was reckless, arrogant and domineering, addicted to lust, and even killed people for it.Xue Pan's concubine Xiangling, originally named Zhen Yinglian, was bought by Xue Panqiang.

Xiangling was abducted when she was young. When she grew up, the abductor saw her extraordinary beauty and coaxed her into selling herself to pay off her "father"'s debt.After the kidnapper first agreed to Feng Yuan, he sold Xiangling to Xue Pan.After Xue Pan beat the kidnapper, in order to get Xiang Ling, he summoned his slaves and beat Feng Yuan to death.Before the Feng family could carry her home, she died on the road, so she got Xiangling as a concubine.

It was not easy to cover up this matter, so in order to avoid disaster, he took the opportunity of Xue Baochai to go to Beijing to be elected, and went to Rongguo Mansion with Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue originally thought that after she came to Rongguo Mansion, she would be able to get the teachings of her uncle Jia Zheng and restrain herself, but after she came to ethnology, she was led very badly by these Jia family members.

However, in the past, Jia Rui had some dealings with Xue Pan for money, and the relationship was not bad.

Now that Jia Rui sees him asking questions, he can only open his mouth and cover it up: "A while ago, I lost 50 taels of silver to Rong'er and Qiang'er in a bet, isn't he forcing me to ask for it now? I'm going home to sell the land and the house Pay him back."

After hearing this, Xue Pan scratched his head and laughed.

"I thought it was a big deal, but it turned out to be just a small dispute."

After he finished speaking, he took out a stack of banknotes from his arms, counted two or three out of them, and handed them to Jia Qiang who was standing aside.

"This is 60 taels of silver. Take it to Uncle Rui to repay the bill, and I will treat the rest as a treat for you brothers to drink."

Jia Qiang took the banknote and felt it was hot.

Originally, he wanted to deal with Jia Rui with the excuse of owed money, but he didn't expect Cheng Yaojin to kill him halfway.

Now that the money is in his hands, he can't say anything to refute it.

So Jia Qiang could only smirk a few times, and then cupped her hands.

"Uncle Rui, I offended you just now, don't take it to heart, it's because my nephew is short of money at this time, I will serve you wine to apologize after a while."

After speaking, he took out the IOU from his pocket and handed it to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui gave him a cold look, took the IOU, turned his head away and ignored him.

Jia Qiang saw that the faces of the two were completely torn, so she stopped talking, turned her head and nodded to Xue Pan, then turned and left.

After Jia Qiang left, Xue Pan stepped forward to grab Jia Rui and asked, "What's going on?"

Jia Rui glanced at Xue Pan in surprise, he didn't expect that he would not hide Xue Pan from Xue Pan just now.

However, Jia Rui naturally couldn't tell Xue Pan about those embarrassing things, so he just smiled bitterly, pretending to be embarrassed, and didn't say anything else.

Xue Pan had been doing business for a few years anyway. Although the business was not doing well, he still had a look on his face. Seeing that Jia Rui didn't speak, he stopped asking.

"It's fine if you don't say it. I will treat you to a drink when I have time in a few days."

To say that Xue Pan is really good to his wine and meat friends.

He often invited Jia Rui and others to drinks, and he paid for them every time.

Perhaps in the eyes of others, Xue Pan is an incompetent and lustful person, and the bad things he has done are beyond description.

But for Jia Rui, Xue Pan has helped him a lot, and to be honest, he also took good care of him.

"Thank you. I'll be free in a few days. I'll treat you as a thank you for today's matter. As for the money just now, allow me a while. When I feel free, I'll make it up immediately."

"What are you talking about? I owe you dozens of taels of silver? If you say this again, you will not be my brother."

Jia Rui didn't continue talking about repaying the money, but nodded heavily.

(End of this chapter)