When "Heshan Academy North Campus" was opened, there was a time when the front door of Rongguo Mansion was bustling with people, cars and sedans were coming and going in an endless stream.
All high-ranking officials want their children or the children of their relatives to be lucky enough to become disciples of the famous contemporary Confucian scholar, so they find Jia Lian, the deputy head of the North Campus of Heshan Academy, through the back door.
As long as the aristocratic children who want to make progress can enter Heshan Academy to study, in addition to increasing their knowledge, they will also become classmates with the future nobles. This way, they will have a better reputation in the officialdom in the future, so as to avoid being said to be purely innocent.
I only got an official position because of the kindness of my ancestors.
Although they came to find Jia Lian through the back door, since it was for such an honest and fair thing as "the children's advancement", we had nothing to be embarrassed about.
But this time it's very different.
No one who came to Jia's house this time directly said what they wanted to do.
He said that he came to visit the second mistress Lian and the second master Bao of the Jia family. In fact, the gifts given to the second mistress Lian and the second master Bao were far less generous than the gifts given to Jia Lian alone.
Most of them were couples. The women went into the inner house to visit, and the men made a special trip to see Jia Lian to talk.
If you are alone with the female family members, just go through the motions with the old lady and Baoyu, and then the main point is to go straight to the second grandmother Lian’s room to talk.
Both men and women were affectionate and polite. They talked in circles, talked in roundabout ways, talked about the past and the present, and talked about things. They obviously came here for something, but they didn't say what it was for.
But after all is said and done, what I must say is: Fortunately, the Buddha is blessing us, and the Buddha is compassionate. The Buddha is good, and it is right to make offerings to the Buddha, but we must be careful about people using the name of the Buddha to deceive others.
If you lie to people, you will do great harm to them.
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Wang Xifeng’s body is really good.
The next day, when Baoyu was still lying sickly on the bed and asked Xiren to feed him porridge, water and ginseng soup, Wang Xifeng was already in high spirits to welcome and send off a group of noble ladies. p>
In particular, Wang Xifeng is a born "crazy person". The more something happens, the more energetic she becomes.
But Wang Xifeng is also a shrewd person, and she quickly realized that these people who came to see her were not interested in drinking.
Taking advantage of the gap between a group of people going out and a group of people not coming in, Wang Xifeng asked Ping'er with a puzzled look on his face:
"My illness comes and goes strangely. When I recover, these people come to see me and they see it strangely.
Why do I think there is something else behind this?
Look at what Mrs. Qiu Duwei said just now, "I am the blessing of Second Grandma Lian. With such a capable person as Second Master Lian, Second Grandma Lian's blessing is naturally insignificant." Why do I feel that they are so bright?
You came here to see me, but actually, you are all here to sell me a good deal to the second master?"
Ping'er had already seen that there was something going on, but she never guessed that it would be related to Aunt Zhao and Ma Daopo, so she comforted Sister Feng and said:
"Second Master is now so capable that all these people are rushing to fawn over him. This is Second Mistress's blessing. Second Mistress is blessed with great fortune and good luck, so she can just live with peace of mind.
But don’t be too tired, Second Mistress, after all, the one in your belly is the most valuable.”
Having said that, Ping'er secretly made up his mind to ask Jia Lian what was going on.
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Wang Xifeng and Heping'er were unsure, and Jia Lian naturally understood the reason.
These female relatives from high-ranking families all have contacts with Ma Daopo, and some even privately paid for Ma Daopo to use evil methods.
These are all shameful things. Once exposed, the family's reputation will be damaged, the head of the family will be disgraced, and I don't know how many women will lose their status and dependence.
You know, Jia Lian holds Ma Daopo's confession in his hand, and what's even more terrible is that he also has a large paper basket with his name and birth date written on it that he found from Ma Daopo's house.
The abbot of Daguangming Temple, Faci, was a money-grubbing old nun. Since then, he and his two apprentices have driven away the sick monk who was the gatekeeper of Daguangming Temple. They have dominated this feng shui treasure land and the incense business has grown bigger and bigger. Today, Daguangming Temple has
With twenty or thirty nuns, the temple property is dizzyingly large.
But yesterday, Ma Daopo, the "mighty man" who made money in the temple, was suddenly taken away by Jia Lian, and the old nun Facike was frightened.
She didn't know that Ma Daopo was still doing evil things to harm people behind her back, but when she thought about Ma Daopo being captured, she got scared and lit up the sea lanterns in front of the Bodhisattva to show off when people came.
You can't use half a kilogram of sesame oil in a day, but you defraud those high-ranking ladies out of hundreds of kilograms of sesame oil every day. That's going to be troublesome.
When Fa Ci heard that Jia Lian was now the head of the Rongguo Mansion, he didn't dare to come to find him because he was unhappy, so he and his disciples immediately went to each family separately in the name of "saving Buddhist disciples" to ask for their wives.
Unexpectedly, almost all of the women who had been begged for their lives were shocked when they heard this. When they sent someone to inquire, they were even more frightened when they learned that Ma Daopo's house had been raided. I don't know how many people stayed up all night last night.
Jia Lian didn't want to frighten these high-ranking nobles, let alone get involved in these internal battles. Anyway, from Ma Daopo's detailed confession, he already knew a lot of the dirty secrets in the families of these high-ranking officials.
So Jia Lian calmly accepted the heavy gift from the other party and listened calmly to the many good words the other party said. Finally, when the other party was going around and around, not knowing how to express the unspeakable words in his heart, Jia Lian smiled softly and said leisurely
Say the previous sentence:
"To tell you the truth, sir, I suspect that the incident involving the evil tree has something to do with Ma Daopo of Daguangming Temple.
But I found her for interrogation, and not only could I not find out anything, but I also saw that this person's six suns were dark, the rest of her body was withered, the sky collapsed, the halls were withered and white, there were black lines under her eyes, and there was also a dark aura on her face.
It’s the color of ‘frost on snow, snow on frost’ as mentioned in the book. I’m afraid it will take only a few days for God to accept this person.”
He speaks half casually and half magically. The other person is often confused at first and then relieved.
Okay, as long as Ma Daopo dies and there is no evidence to prove her death, the matter will be settled as if it were covered by a big quilt.
Therefore, the cleanest way to solve a problem is to solve it with the people involved.
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Jia Lian received the gifts steadily for two days, and received thirty or forty boxes of good ginseng alone. Wang Xifeng was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth:
“I haven’t seen such good ginseng in the past few years.
Thinking about when I first got married, oh, who cares about ginseng? The old lady said she was dispensing medicine. Doesn’t that mean that if you take a pound of whole ginseng, just take a pound of whole ginseng?
Later, my wife said that ginseng was valuable. Except for the old lady who used ginseng for medicinal purposes, anyone else who wanted to use ginseng had to get it from my wife.
When I was pregnant with our eldest sister, I wanted to make medicine with ginseng. I asked Ping'er to ask for it three or four times, and then I was given a pack of Luxu and the whole ginseng was gone.
This time, hum, I have plenty of ginseng, even if I eat a pound a day, I can still afford it!"
Jia Lian was reading an idle book and chuckled:
"If you eat too much ginseng, be careful of bleeding from your mouth and nose."
Sister Feng glanced at Jia Lian:
"It's so easy to have no guests here right now, and you don't want to take a break, so where are you reading?"