The Coral of the Red Mansion Does Not Return

Chapter 121 Xue Pan

Seeing Zhou Su's provocative eyebrows, feeling the softness and wetness of his fingertips, Jia Hu's eyes deepened, and an indescribable part was about to move, wanting to drag someone to continue the harmonious movement last night.After all, the imperial court has a bath every ten days, and he usually has no time to do other things at all.

The sky was bright and the sun was wrong, the time was wrong, and the place was wrong. Zhou Su licked the juice off his lips, raised his head and smiled innocently, and said with a hint of warning: "Hmph, it's rare to accompany me to the theater, so don't disturb me!"

Jia Hu had no choice but to smile, and wiped his mouth carefully.

He twirled his fingertips with some nostalgia, ah, the Yushan he knew at the beginning was not like that, let him go.

Yushan like this was created by him alone.

But after the beautiful jade was carved, he was caught by the government. He thought that with the title, he would be happy and carefree, but who would have thought that the emperor would not let him go.

A certain idea in his mind was about to move again, and in order to divert his attention, he turned his attention to the big plate of strawberries.

It's up to you!

From time to time, he fed strawberries to someone who was obsessed with opera. At the end of the opera, Jia Hu successfully achieved the achievement of "Lover's Anger".

Zhou Su looked at the bare plate and cried angrily.jpg

I was too busy listening to the opera, but I couldn't taste the strawberry flavor carefully.

Jia Hu touched his nose innocently, and comforted Zhou Su who was furious: "There are still some in Zhuangzi, or next time when we rest, we will go to Zhuangzi to pick strawberries?"

Zhou Su looked disgusted: "You told me to go to the ground like those mud legs?"

"The ones that have just been picked are the freshest. You can eat them while picking them. If you eat them yourself, the taste will be better. It's just done occasionally." Seeing that Zhou Su was still unwilling, Jia Hu tried to persuade him, "I will ask someone to clear the place. There is also a hot spring in the Zhuangzi. After picking strawberries, it's time to go to the bubbles to relieve fatigue."

Eating strawberries in a hot spring?Zhou Su finally got a little bit of interest, and after a while he lost his face again, "Call your sister's family?"

"No," Jia Hu reassured him with a smile, "Wei Xin must have had a lot of entertainment as the governor of the Beijing camp."

"Wei Xin, you must be very happy now." For Zhou Lang, a nephew, Zhou Su was really happy for him. It also exceeded our expectations. Wei Xin is a determined person, and it is most appropriate to order him to guard the capital at this time of year."

One radish and one pit, the prince vacated, and his position was filled by someone else.However, Emperor Taiping did not promote any confidant, but appointed the king of Hejun——Zhou Lang.

Zhou Lang's father was King Wu with a history of rebellion, and he had a close blood relationship with the emperor. He should have been more careful, but Emperor Taiping did the opposite and put him in such a key position.

On the surface, it seemed that if he could support any prince, he would definitely become a minister of humerus in the future, and since he and Jia Hu were related by marriage, getting his support was equivalent to getting the support of the Rongguo Mansion.

But after thinking about it carefully, it was precisely because the princes were vying to win him over that Zhou Lang didn't dare to act rashly.

When the birds are gone, the good bow is hidden; when the cunning rabbit dies, the lackey cooks.

Who knows what the supported prince will think of this Beijing-ying Jiedu envoy who turned his back on the spot?People sitting on the throne have the same mentality - they don't necessarily like courtiers who are only loyal to the person sitting on the throne, but they certainly don't like people who are not loyal.

Zhou Lang knew in his heart that an empty title was already worth the money. Since it would not bring him any benefits to fall to any prince, he might as well choose the least risky way - to be loyal to Emperor Taiping.This left a loyal impression on the future real dragon, and it can be regarded as removing the seal of "rebellious ministers and thieves" that the former King Wu had stamped on the Zhou Lang brothers.

"Wang Ziteng is also trying to die," Zhou Su sneered, "Is it possible for him to guess the methods of the emperor? I am impatient to live under the eyes of the emperor."

oh?It seems that Yushan knows a lot.Jia Hu raised her eyebrows, expressing her doubts.

Zhou Su laughed twice, "I guessed it myself." He didn't want to say more, but said: "This matter is not over yet, Brother Huang still has someone to wait for."

Just as he was talking, there was a commotion downstairs, and the two of them could hear it when they were sitting in the soundproof box, and they couldn't help frowning slightly.At the moment, the two are having lunch in the Zhuangyuan Building.Zhuangyuan Building, as the property of Rongfu, is basically known to everyone in the capital.Due to the reputation of Rongguo Mansion, no one has caused trouble here for many years. Suddenly something happened, and Jia Hu really didn't know whether to be angry, curious, or laughing.

Call people outside to ask Fang Zhi, a young man outside somehow fell in love with the girl who sang a ditty in the building, and insisted that someone go back with him.At the beginning, Jia Hu planned to build Zhuangyuan Building into a gathering place for literati, so naturally everything should be elegant.There are several luthiers in the building all year round, as well as singers who sing poems in the form of tunes.

Anyway, nothing happened, the two simply opened the door of the box and leaned on the railing on the second floor to watch the excitement.

I saw a rather strong boy with thick eyebrows and big eyes pulling a girl. The girl was flustered, ashamed and angry, desperately trying to break free.The boy was still talking: "You can't earn a lot of money by singing, so follow the uncle, and you will be guaranteed to have a good meal."

"Pfft," Jia Hu touched his nose embarrassingly, and explained to Zhou Su, "I just remembered the scriptures I read before."

The people in the building heard the sound and quickly rescued the singing girl from the boy.The boy was not forgiving, and said with a stiff neck, "What's the matter? I can't touch a singer yet? What's the matter with your restaurant? Will you work?" A few people who came with them reminded embarrassingly: "Brother Wen Qi, this The showgirls in the Zhuangyuan Building do not sell themselves."

Xue Pan sneered and said, "Bullshit! The girl who sings in the building doesn't sell herself? I just buy this singer, how much will it cost?"

The people in the company shook their heads and explained the rules to him in a low voice: "...they didn't sign the contract of sale. If the girl is willing to go with you, no one in the building will stop her. If she doesn't want to, you can't force it. He also reminded: "The owner behind the champion building is not easy to mess with."

Someone kindly reminded Xue Pan that he seemed to have been humiliated, and said loudly: "So what? My uncle is the governor of the nine provinces who has just been promoted!" Regardless of the faces of the people in the same company, the contemptuous looks from all around made him firm in his determination to get him.

There were many people on the second floor watching the fun, seeing Jia Hu and the two greeted one after another, "Lord Jia is here too!" "Yo, the prince is here too." Jia Hu politely nodded and smiled to the surroundings, but Zhou Su simply ignored it. , asked with great interest: "Wang Ziteng's son? No, isn't Wang Ziteng only two daughters and no son? Oh, so it's a nephew." He said disappointedly, "Do you recognize him?"

"It's Xue Pan, the current head of the Xue family." Jia Hu recalled the vague contents of the Red Mansion, "Master Wang has a concubine sister who married into the Xue family in Jinling, and this is the son she gave birth to."

"Sister-in-law?"

"The Xue family lives in the Wang family's house now," Jia Hu still remembered the post sent by the Xue family. "It seems that Mr. Wang has some affection for this nephew."

Zhou Su sneered, "He doesn't have a son. But Wang Ziteng's nephew is not very good, not as good as your cousin Jia Zhu." Then he said casually: "I remember that there is a male in the Wang family——Wang Ren, who is also from Beijing. A well-known trash. Even Wang Ren dares not be arrogant in our building, but the one named Xue is quite powerful. ——What does the Xue family do?"

"Huang Shang." The "we" in Zhou Su's words was very useful, and Jia Hu put his arms around them and kissed them twice, regardless of the presence of people around him.People around are not surprised.They are all regular customers, who doesn't know that Lord Jia and Prince Zhongshun are a couple?

Zhou Su sneered, and decided to turn around and ask Brother Huang to dismiss Xue's errand.

When Zhou Su was keeping accounts in his mind, things developed as they expected. The girl didn't want to, so Xue Pan was beaten up and thrown out, and has since been blacklisted in Zhuangyuan Building.The people who came with them were just friends, they scattered when they saw this, and if they were kind, they ordered their servants to send Xue Pan back.

Back in the box, Zhou Sufang asked: "Does Xue's family have a lot of money? Look at that kid, I'm afraid that others will not know that his family has money."

Jia Hu nodded, "A lot." He added, "It's not too much." After all, he also has a lot of silver, and the wealth that ordinary people say is nothing to him.

Zhou Su naturally understood Jia Hu's implication, but he thought of the current situation of Zhongshun Palace's inability to make ends meet, and said heartbrokenly: "Ah, I really hope that there will be a bumper harvest for the ships going to sea this year."