My Red Mansion Career

Chapter 193: Confiscating the house ()

Jia Yu didn't waste any time, strode up to Lai Da, stretched out her hand and slapped him twice.

Jia Yu's hand was so strong now that he slapped Lai Da twice in the face, causing Lai Da to spin twice, and his cheeks on both sides swelled up like fermented dough.

Then Lai's throat became sweet and he couldn't help spitting out two mouthfuls of blood mixed with several teeth.

Jia Yu didn't waste any time and said directly: "Lai Da, you have committed a crime... Someone has accused you of maliciously keeping slaves and embezzling and stealing the property of the family owner.

Taking advantage of the name of the head of the family, you are doing evil outside and bullying men and women. Now I want to take you all back to the Yamen for questioning.

If you are wise, call everyone out quickly, otherwise you will be the one who suffers. "

Looking at Jia Yu with her hand on the sword and her face as cold as frost, Lai Da felt his heart sinking to the bottom. He did not dare to plead with Jia Yu, but knelt down to Jia Zheng and begged:

"Master Zheng, this slave has been serving the old lady since his mother's generation, and it has been more than sixty years.

The old slave has also been serving the Jia family since he was a child, and now more than forty years have passed.

Even if you have made occasional mistakes in the past few decades, you wouldn't be so angry that you would bring officers and soldiers to raid the old slave's home, right?

Even if you don't care about the old slave's face, can you spare the old slave's life out of the face of your mother and the old lady? "

Looking at Lai Da who was kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down his face, Jia Zheng couldn't bear it for a moment and looked at Jia Yu, "Think twice...look..."

At a glance, Jia Yu knew that Jia Zheng's pedantic habit had occurred again, and she shook her head helplessly: "Father-in-law, I know you are kind-hearted.

But in life, good intentions are not guaranteed to be rewarded. Just wait and see what happens. "

When Jia Yu said this, Jia Zheng, who had always been soft-hearted, could only sigh and stopped talking.

After everyone waited for another two-quarters of an hour, the soldiers began to escort the Lai family members and servants to the front yard. For a while, the entire front yard was filled with people.

Jia Yu pointed to the dense crowd in front of her and asked Jia Zheng: "Father-in-law... take a look for yourself... Lai Da is a servant of the Jia family, and he has so many slaves in his family."

You are also a person who has read the books of sages for many years. Tell me, what is the crime? "

The uncles and nephews Jia Zheng and Jia Lian looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces slowly changed from shock to anger.

Lai Da is just a steward of the Jia family. Strictly speaking, he himself is of low status, but his life in private is actually more luxurious than that of his masters. Is there such a thing as a royal law?

At this time, they looked at Lai Da's swollen cheek, and their hearts no longer felt sympathy, but were filled with confusion and anger.

At this time, a voice sounded.

"You can't do this to me...I am not a slave of your Jia family, I am a scholar...I will become an official in the court in the future.

You'd better let me go immediately, otherwise I will definitely write a letter to my teacher and ask him to give you a copy.

My colleagues in the Imperial College will not just watch you persecute scholars! "

When Lai Da heard the noise from the crowd, his heart suddenly beat wildly. Just as he was about to speak out to stop it, he heard Jia Yu point to the crowd and say: "Bring out that barking guy."

Two soldiers immediately rushed into the crowd without hesitation and dragged a person out.

Everyone looked and saw that he was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a blue gown and a square scarf on his head. This was a typical scholar's dress in Daxia.

The young man who was dragged out seemed not to realize the seriousness of the matter and was still shouting.

"Let me go. I'm not a slave of your Jia family. I'm a scholar. You can't arrest me!"

Jia Yu, who was a little impatient, frowned and said, "Shut up if you make noise."

The soldiers who captured him didn't care whether he was a lowly citizen or not. He waved his hand and slapped his mouth twice, and he immediately shut up while he was still shouting.

Jia Yu looked at the crowd in front of him again, pointed at the young man and asked, "Who can tell me who this guy is?"

For the last sentence, Jia Yu looked at the maid closest to him.

The maid said tremblingly: "To tell you what, this is our Master Lai's son, his name is Lai Shangrong."

"Oh...it turns out he is Lai Shangrong!"

As soon as he heard the name, Jia Yu understood it immediately.

In "Red Mansions", the Lai family was originally a domestic servant of the Jia family, but as soon as Lai Shangrong was born, he was released by his master and became a free man.

In the Lai family, Lai Shangrong lived a life like a young master's brother who was no worse than Baoyu. He was raised like a phoenix by his maid, wife, and nanny since he was a child. He read, wrote, and followed the path of an official.

Later, he became a county magistrate relying on his connections with the Jia family. After the Jia family fell, Jia Zheng helped Jia's mother's coffin return to the south. When the money was not enough, he sent someone to ask Lai Shangrong to borrow 500 taels of silver.

Unexpectedly, Lai Shangrong only gave him fifty taels and found various excuses to avoid complaining. He was so angry that Jia Zheng left without even throwing away the money.

I didn't expect to meet you here today.

Jia Yu walked up to Lai Shangrong and stared at his face and asked: "Lai Shangrong... tell me now.

Where are the treasures and treasures of your Lai family hidden? Tell them as soon as possible to avoid suffering the physical pain. "

"me……"

Lai Shangrong did not dare to speak and looked at his father Lai Da not far away.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Lai Da quickly said loudly: "Master Jia, I know that I have offended you before. If you want to beat or kill me, just go for me. Don't take your anger out on my son."

"Excuse your anger...hehehe..."

Jia Yu didn't waste any words. She stretched out her hand and slapped Lai Shangrong's ears several more times, beating Lai Shangrong until he wailed and several of his teeth were knocked out.

Then, Jia Yu took out the sword from her waist and placed it on his wrist, saying coldly.

"I am counting to three now. If you still don't tell me, I will chop off one of your fingers.

I just want to see how you can read and write after you lose your fingers? "

Seeing his son being beaten, Lai Da, who was slumped on the ground, found the strength to stand up and rush towards Jia Yu.

But as soon as he stood up, he was kicked in the chest by Zhao Qiubai, a soldier captain who had been watching him for a long time. He fell face down on the ground again like a giant monkey.

He struggled desperately to get up, but the foot on his back seemed as heavy as a mountain, pinning him to the ground.

Not only was he unable to get up, but he was swallowed several mouthfuls of dust and choked and coughed repeatedly.

"three two……"

Listening to Jia Yu's cold voice, Lai Shangrong's heart collapsed instantly.

He finally couldn't help but Tao Tao burst into tears, "I said...I said...I'll tell you everything...the secret room of our family is in my father's bedroom. There is a secret door behind the painting next to the bed. Just go in there!”

"It's over...it's all over..." When Lai Da, who was pressed on the ground, heard his son explain the secret room in detail, his whole body seemed to have been ripped out of bones, and he lay quietly on the ground. No more struggling on the ground.

The secret room next to his bed contains not only the treasures that he has searched for over the years, but also a lot of shameful things. Once discovered, the entire Lai family will be destroyed.

In fact, Lai Da was right. When the soldiers placed the things they found in the secret room one by one in the front yard, everyone was stunned.

There are more than 300 silver winter melons weighing 500 kilograms here alone, not to mention other items such as banknotes, gold, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings, almost filling the entire front yard.

And these are not the most important things. The most important soldiers also found a lot of things from the secret room that should not appear in Lai's house.

The first person to exclaim was Jia Lian. He rushed to a box, pointed at the box and exclaimed:

"This... these are golden melon seeds... and this... are the Yutang Spring Vase, the folding fan, and the imperial brush with the Chinese character "福". These are all gifts given to the Jia Mansion by His Majesty. How come they appear in the secret room of the Lai Mansion?"

Jia Zheng was also shocked and speechless. He pointed at Lai Da and was speechless for a while. His body was shaking like chaff in shock.

Jia Yu was also startled by these things. He waved his hand at Zhao Qiubai, who loosened his foot knowingly.

He lifted up Lai Da, pointed at the box on the ground and said, "Well, Lai Da... I know you are brave, but I didn't expect you to be so brave. You even gave Rongguo Mansion the royal gift from His Majesty." Dare to steal things.

You are really afraid that the Lai family will not die quickly enough! "

After Lai Da saw those things on the ground, he closed his eyes in despair. At this time, he was probably regretting why he was so greedy.

When it got dark, Jia Yu, Jia Zheng and Jia Lian returned to Rongguo Mansion with the things confiscated from Lai Mansion.

Because there were too many things, Jia Yu had to mobilize hundreds of trucks to deliver everything to Jia's house.

When the soldiers filled the courtyard of Rongqingtang with everything, everyone in Rongguo Mansion was stunned.

At this time, dozens of members of the Lai family, including Lai Da, Lai Sheng, Lai Nanny, Lai Shangrong, and other members of the Lai family were all tied up and kneeling in front of the hall.

With Yuanyang's support, Jia Mu walked tremblingly to Aunt Lai, pointed to the long list of various utensils given to Rongguo Mansion by the emperor on the ground, and said in a particularly soft voice.

"Xiaojuan... you have followed me since you were thirteen, and I have always been a sister to you.

Although the Duke of Guo did not take you into his house at that time, he also betrothed you to Mr. Lai, the housekeeper.

I even promoted both of your sons to be the stewards of Ning Rong's Second Mansion. Isn't that unkind to you?

But is this how you repay the Duke and me?

These...these are all artifacts given to Rongguo Mansion by the late emperor and the Supreme Emperor. If they are lost, they will be punished.

You...your family actually moved all these things away.

You...you are trying to trap our Rongguo Mansion in despair! "

Daiyu, Tanchun, Baochai, Xiangyun, Xichun and other girls also looked at the box containing the imperial gifts in surprise.

They couldn't believe that the Lai family was so bold that they even dared to steal the things given to the Jia family by the emperor.

You know, stealing something given by the emperor is a capital crime.

Grandma Lai no longer had the shrewdness and philistineness of the past. She just knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately.

Tao Tao cried loudly: "Miss... Miss... all the mistakes are my slave's fault. You can kill me or cut me into pieces if you want."

I just hope that you will give my eldest grandson a way to survive for the sake of my decades of service to you.

He had just graduated from the Imperial Academy and was waiting for his release from the imperial court as an official. He had nothing to do with this matter and had no knowledge of it.

Just be generous and let him go!

As long as you release Shang Rong, I will be grateful for your kindness even if I am underground! "

Aunt Lai was crying while kowtowing to Jia Mu. After a while, her entire forehead became red and swollen, making her look particularly scary.

Mother Jia looked at Aunt Lai, who was still kneeling on the ground and kowtowing. Her eyes were red and swollen with tears streaming down her cheeks.

Aunt Lai entered the Shi's Mansion at the age of thirteen and followed her as soon as she entered the mansion. It has been more than sixty years now. Needless to say, Jia Mu's feelings for her must be very deep, otherwise she would not let her go separately. The two sons have become stewards of Ningrong's second residence.

Now seeing Grandma Lai end up like this when she is old, how can she feel better in her heart?

But now things have become so big that they are beyond her control.

She could only look at Jia Yu, but before she could speak, Jia Yu spoke first.

"Old lady, this matter is no longer something you can handle.

Stealing things given by the late emperor and the Supreme Emperor must be reported to the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture.

At that time, CRRC or Jinyiwei will definitely take over. If you want to keep the Lai family, it is not impossible, but the Jia family will definitely pay a corresponding price. Are you sure you want to do this? "

Jia Mu suddenly fell silent.

Xichun, the youngest at the side, asked curiously: "Brother Yu, what price do you have to pay to protect the Lai family?"

Jia Yu said without hesitation: "The laws of Daxia stipulate that anyone who steals the things given by the royal family will be executed!

If the Jia family wants to keep the Lai family, it will have to be exchanged for the Jia family's title. Are you willing? "

"What……"

Xichun was so scared that she covered her mouth.

She never imagined that she would have to pay such a high price to keep her family.

The surrounding Jia family girls and various masters were also frightened.

Jia Mu was the first to make the decision.

She immediately made a decision and said: "Brother Yu, since you are in charge of this matter, and you don't have to do anything for the two masters, it is up to you to hand over all of Aunt Lai's family to the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture.

In addition, I’ll leave you to deal with the rest of the matter. It’s up to you. "

"Ok."

Jia Yu nodded, then pointed to something on the ground and said: "But old lady, there is something I have to tell you clearly in advance.

When I leave later, I have to take away thirty thousand taels of silver on the ground. Do you have any objection? "

Jia Mu replied without hesitation: "Yes! Thirty thousand is enough. How about you take fifty thousand taels?"

(End of this chapter)