Jia Lian walked as fast as flying, went straight to his room, rummaged around on his bed, and sure enough, he also found the same paper man or ghost in the pillow as on Baoyu's bed.
When Ping'er saw Wang Xifeng's birth date written on the paper, he burst into tears and cursed:
"What kind of filthy bastard would use such a vicious thing to curse the Second Mistress? This family is simply lawless!"
Jia Lian glanced at Wang Xifeng, who was curled up in the corner, grinning and biting the rope, and felt uncomfortable in his heart, so he quickly ordered someone to bring a brazier.
As the crimson flames rose, the paper man and paper ghost turned into ashes in an instant, and Wang Xifeng also became quiet. Suddenly, with a tilt of his head, Wang Xifeng collapsed on the ground, and actually fell asleep.
After all, with a normal body, who can endure the lifeless commotion in a state of madness?
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When Jia Lian saw Ping'er rushing towards him, he hurriedly untied Wang Xifeng's rope, hurriedly wiped his face with hot water, stepped forward and pulled Ping'er over:
"Don't worry about those other things. I want to ask you, who has been in our house and entered the second grandma's bedroom this morning?"
Ping'er saw Jia Lian's serious face and knew that the matter was not trivial. He quickly covered his forehead and thought again and again, and finally said:
"There are no outsiders?
Second Grandma is in charge of all the affairs of our house, and there are always a lot of people coming and going in this courtyard. But no one can enter Second Grandma’s bedroom.
This morning, except for Feng'er and I who went in, it was Sister Shan and a few little girls who went to clean the house. They were all our own people, no outsiders."
The scariest thing is when there are no outsiders.
Because it means that the people who stuffed the paper man under Wang Xifeng’s pillow are his own people.
Isn’t it terrible that a trusted confidant becomes a trusted confidant who stabs you in the back?
But at this time, Jia Lian had more important things to do.
Jia Lian asked Ping'er to take good care of Wang Xifeng, and then ordered Jia Yun to take twenty strong servants and follow him on horseback to the Daguangming Temple located in Gouwei Hutong, Nancheng.
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The reason why Gouwei Hutong is called this is because in the capital city where "the city is a square city and the roads are north and south roads", the streets and houses are basically facing south and north, east and west, and Gouwei Hutong is the number of
There are not many slanted alleys, and there are turns in the middle. One end is thick and the other is thin. Because it looks very irregular, it got the irregular name "dog tail".
But in such an alley with irregular shapes and irregular names, there is a "Da Guangming Temple" with a shocking name.
But the name is "temple", but it is actually "nunnery", and nuns live there.
Daguangming Temple was originally the family temple of the eunuch of the previous dynasty, and it was indeed filled with monks. However, with the fall of the great eunuch, the monks in the temple had no support, so they had to think of their own ideas to spread the incense.
However, these monks themselves failed to live up to their expectations, causing poor business and lack of incense in the temple. The monks gradually lost their spirits and dispersed one after another.
The monk went and the nun came again.
I don’t know when a group of nuns came to the temple. Unlike the group of monks who only focused on the business of their neighbors, this group of capable nuns specialized in the business of wealthy households, and actually made this small temple not only
Not only has it been brought back to life, but it is also becoming increasingly popular.
The temple gates are getting bigger and bigger, and the temple property is increasing. Now most of the houses in Gouwei Hutong are owned by Daguangming Temple.
In the newly built houses in the temple, women from the families of princes and nobles can come to live every now and then. As these wealthy and faithful women continue to come to the house, the temple has more money to build new houses.
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Jia Lian also didn't expect that the Daguangming Temple in the small alley would be so big.
What was even more unexpected was that when Jia Lian rushed to the gate of Daguangming Temple, Xing'er, who had just been excited to arrest people, actually led 20 people and a car in a daze at the gate of the temple.
As soon as he saw Jia Lian coming, Xing'er trotted over to lead the horse:
"Fortunately, the second master is here. Xiao Zheng doesn't know what to do."
Jia Lian glared at Xing'er:
"What's wrong? You dare not enter the temple?"
Xing'er's pretty face grimaced and she grinned:
"My second master, when we first came, it was a nunnery, and a group of us men rushed in. It was a bit... inappropriate.
Second, come on, Fu Tongpan’s girl is burning incense in the temple right now, we don’t dare to go in.”
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Jia Lian also knew in his heart that as Xing'er's identity, he did have many concerns.
So I gave Xing'er a blank look:
"So you're just waiting for me, your second master, to charge into the battle as a vanguard for you?"
Xing'er said with a playful smile:
"How can that be possible? Am I not hesitating to send someone back to ask for instructions from the second master?
By the way, Second Master, this Fu Tongpan is not an outsider, he is our Second Master’s disciple, and he has received a lot of support from the Second Master.”
"Protégé?"
Jia Lian frowned upon hearing this.
Can Jia Zheng have disciples?
He is just a young official from the Ministry of Industry. He is not a great Confucian, nor is he an academician, nor has he ever been an examiner. Where did he come from as a disciple?
Xing'er didn't know that Jia Lian didn't know Fushi's background. Seeing the contempt on Jia Lian's face, he only thought that he despised Fushi, but he didn't expect that Jia Lian despised Jia Zheng.
So he smiled and said:
"Hey, Fu Tongpan came up with the word 'disciple' himself just to curry favor with our master.
In the early years, who in our family didn’t know ‘Heel and Foot Fu Erye’?
From morning till night, he would follow our master with a keen eye, flattering us, and flattering us so sweetly that it would make people blush.
When he was in front of me, none of Zhan Guang, Shan Pinren, Cheng Rixing and other Qing guests could take their turn to come forward."
Oh, it turns out he is just a Qingke next to Jia Zheng.
I guess it must be because he was good at flattering, and he was really useful to Jia Zheng, so he naturally had to "take it seriously", so he used the connections of the Jia family in Rongguo Mansion to get Fu Shi a job as a general judge, which became an "official explosion"
household".
Although this general magistrate is just a sixth-rank official, who is under the supervision of the prefect above him, since it is called a "sub-prefecture", he has set up another office at the border of the state capital to independently take charge of local money, grain, salt, and arrests. Especially as long as it is not the ground in the capital, it is the "sky" above the heads of the people. Such a real fat man, with all the money, food, salt, and oil in his hands, the money at home will "explode" even if he doesn't think so.
Difficult.
Fu Shi, Fu Shi, it’s so good that I got this name—it’s true that I was born with a flattering name.
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Jia Lian sneered:
"Don't call him a sycophant, no one can stop me from catching Ma Daopo today. What about Fu Shi's girl?"
Xing'er hurried forward, approached Jia Lian and whispered:
"If Fu Shi were here, who would be afraid of him? It's just her sister who is in the temple now, so it's hard to get in."
"How do you say this?"
Xing'er smiled evilly:
"Second Master, aren't we afraid of being blamed for her?"