When Jia Lian came out of the cabin to take a look, it was Jia She's confidant Kang Ning, who had been chasing him here in a hurry all the way from the dry road.
The man and the horse obviously had a hard time chasing each other. Kang Ning's face was covered in dust, and the horse was covered in sweat.
Kang Ning jumped off the horse, his legs were so numb that he couldn't stand. Fortunately, he was supported by the boatman.
The horse was also so tired that its legs were shaking, and it kept shaking its head and snoring.
Jia Lian knew that this was an emergency, so he dismissed everyone and took Kang Ning into his cabin, leaving only Fa'er guarding the cabin door.
The reason why Fa'er was left behind was because Jia Lian had just been assassinated by a servant last night. It was like "once bitten by a snake, for ten years he was afraid of well ropes."
Kang Ning didn't know what happened to Jia Lian last night, but seeing the unfamiliar face, he hesitated and didn't dare to speak.
Jia Lian saw it and smiled:
"He is Xing'er's cousin, he is reliable. If you want to say anything, just say it."
Kang Ning hesitated again and again and said:
"If the eldest master has something to say, ask the slave to tell it to only the second master, and not to spread the word to anyone else."
Jia Lian had no choice but to let Fa'er go out of the cabin.
Kang Ning looked around again and saw that there was no third person in the cabin, so he lowered his voice and said:
"The eldest master secretly got a message last night, saying that Fu'er was going to assassinate the second master on the road. Although no real evidence was found, the life of the second master was at stake, so the eldest master immediately asked his servant Pegasus to catch up with the second master and let the second master catch up with him.
Be very careful.
It's best to find a fault first and tie him up and hold him captive.
The eldest master also asked his servants to tell the second master that someone is eyeing the title of Rong Mansion. The second master is now a figure in the limelight, so he must be careful of the people around him plotting."
He took out a Nine Dragon Jade Pendant from his arms and handed it to Jia Lian with both hands:
"The eldest master said that the ground in Yangzhou is not very peaceful, so he asked the second master to wear this thing around his waist and never leave it day and night."
After saying that, he knelt down again with a "gudong" sound and kowtowed:
"It was the eldest master who ordered the slave to keep his words to himself. That's why I offended the second master. I beg the second master to forgive me."
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Jia Lian took the Nine Dragon Jade Pendant and held it in his hand, feeling warm in his heart.
This should be because Jia She got the news from Ren Jinbao, the father of his concubine Cuiyun, and rushed to deliver a message to him.
Others see Jia She as a good-for-nothing, bastard, and old pervert all his life, but this Jia She still misses his son in his heart.
Let’s look at the behavior of Kang Ning, Jia She’s confidant. He speaks clearly and acts neatly and decently. If he can train the servants around him to become like this, will Jia She be a waste?
But why does Jia She keep wearing the appearance of a "waste bastard, old pervert"?
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Jia Lian thought for a while and didn't want people who didn't know the details to know that he was rich, so he only gave Kang Ning twenty taels of cash as a reward.
Kang Ning had never seen Jia Lian reward money so generously, and he felt a little embarrassed holding the money.
Jia Lian smiled and said:
"Take it, you came to deliver a message to me to save my life, and I must reward you with this money.
I've just left the house, so I can still have some money to reward you. If I get back later, I'll be completely wiped out.
I asked you to go back and bring a message to my father. The same thing happened with this, and the words didn’t reach even six ears:
When it comes to the affairs of the Provincial Qin Biyuan, if you can have as few hands as possible, do as little as possible. It’s best to push it to six, two, and five.”
After that, help Kang Ning up with your own hands:
"Tell my father, you should also be more careful about being plotted by others."
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After sending Kang Ning back, the two big ships continued to move forward.
Qingwen sat at the table, frowning and gritting her teeth as she wrote her five hundred words in regular script. Dogwood was beside her so bored that she could only hold her chin and take a nap.
Jia Lian stood leaning against the window, looking at the mountains in the distance with a myriad of thoughts.
He took away Jia Lian and came to the world of Red Mansions. In fact, he had no psychological kinship with the characters in Rong Ning's second house, so he always focused on how to strengthen himself and tried to change his destiny by himself.
, let yourself become your ideal hero in this world of Red Mansions.
But only then did he realize that they were all living people, and they had family affection for Jia Lian.
Just like Jia She and Jia Lian, the relationship between father and son is broken and connected. I don't miss Jia She, but Jia She still misses me.
It’s because I have ignored the family affection in this world.
Perhaps it's because I was indifferent to family ties in my previous life.
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Jia Lian was deep in thought when Dogwood came over and poked Jia Lian with her fingers like water green onions:
"Why haven't you spoken? Aren't you bored?"
Jia Lian knew that it was because Zhuyu was bored. So, he simply shook his head:
“Not boring.”
"How about we talk? I'll tell you a lot of interesting things?"
Jia Lian remembered that he had read a psychological research report in his previous life, which said that men speak an average of 2,000 words a day, while women speak an average of 7,000 words a day. Sure enough, all women are born to talk.
So, Jia Lian smiled faintly:
"No need."
In an instant, Dogwood was so angry that she turned into a pufferfish.
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Looking leisurely at the boats coming and going on the canal, Jia Lian continued his train of thought and remembered the only time he took a boat ride as a child in his previous life.
That was when his father, Jia Xinhua, was finally allocated a tube building that no one else wanted in his workplace. The three of them, their grandparents, and their grandson finally moved out of that dilapidated bungalow, and finally no longer had to run to the public toilet in the heavy rain to poop.
Jia Xinhua, who was so happy that he forgot his last name, actually took Jia Liancheng for a rowing trip in the North Sea.
As a result, when the two men came out of the park, they found that the most valuable Shanghai Forever 28 Dabang bicycle at home was lost.
Jia Xinhua was so angry that he kicked Jia Liancheng hard and slapped himself in the mouth.
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He was immersed in endless memories when the dogwood tree next to him suddenly slapped him on the shoulder: "Ah, it really does exist!" Jia Lian was startled.
Zhuyu was completely unaware of Jia Lian's dissatisfaction. She pulled Jia Lian's sleeves and pointed at a group of boats in the distance, jumping up and down with excitement:
"Caobang! Caobang! That fleet belongs to Caobang!"
Jia Lian pushed away Dogwood's hand impatiently and looked at the seven or eight inconspicuous cargo ships:
"The water-carrying boats are all the same, so don't call them nonsense."
Seeing that Jia Lian was not interested at all, Zhuyu turned around and called Qingwen who was writing:
"Qingwen, come and see, this time I see the real Caobang."
Qingwen loves liveliness, so she immediately put down her pen, ran over and stuck her head out the window to look:
"What grass? What grass?"
Cornus officinalis is a little complacent:
"Don't you know? It's not grass, it's Caobang.
The largest gang on this canal is the Cao Gang.
They control many wharves and warehouses, and are so powerful that even the imperial cavalry army’s canal boats have to be given over to them.”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed at the boat:
"I heard that when looking for Caobang's boat, you have to look at the bow.
If the bow of the boat is nailed with five iron nails into a plum blossom shape, then it must be.
The number of Caobang's ships is seven, and every seven ships are in a fleet, which is called a "single seven". A fleet of fourteen ships is called a "double seven", and a fleet of twenty-one ships is called a "single double seven".
If you see a Cao gang boat on the canal, you must let them go first, otherwise you will be asking for trouble."
Qingwen saw that there were indeed plum-shaped ship nails on the bows of those ships, and she pointed her thumb at Dogwood:
"You are so well-informed."
Seeing that other ships were indeed giving way to those small boats, Qingwen curled her lips and said:
"Then our ship also has to give way to them?"
Cornus officinalis raised her head:
"He deserves it!
Although ours is not an official ship, but with the blue tooth flag on the bow, they know that the people in this ship are beyond their reach, so they naturally dare not provoke them."
Patting his head, he said again:
"Yes, there is another case that they cannot afford to offend, and that is the White Boat of the Yan Gang. This kind comes from the government through the Ming Road. The Cao Gang will avoid it when they see it.
However, the Yan Gang's boats also have a kind of black boat, which is a boat used to smuggle smuggled salt. Once this kind of boat is discovered by the Cao Gang, they will rob the boat, kill people and steal money, and the government will not care about this kind of windfall." p>
Oh wow, Jia Lian feels that he really underestimated this little girl. It seems that his brother, the spy chief of the Intelligence Bureau, really did not do it for nothing.
Zhuyu discovered that Jia Lian was also listening to her, and she immediately became more energetic:
"There are many people in the Cao Gang, and all the three religions and nine schools give them some respect, but after all, they are not as financially strong as the Salt Gang, and the leader of the Salt Gang also has big backers in the officialdom.
However, in recent years, the leader of the Salt Gang has grown older and his rule has become looser, so there have been more and more sneak attacks by the Cao Gang."
Zhuyu was still talking, but Jia Lian's eyes were attracted by a graceful figure on a small boat in the distance due to an inadvertent glance.