It is said that Gan Lei visited Rongguo Mansion at night and bluntly invited Jia Cong to join him. Reading at midnight

Jia Cong was startled and said: "Why don't I help you? I don't have the temperament to be a spy. Being a spy requires you to be cautious at all times, and I tend to forget about my actions; I also have to strictly keep secrets in front of my family and friends. I will go there

Once you sit in a crowd of trusted people, you will have no way to speak." Then he put on his clothes and bowed to him, and ordered him to light a lamp. "In your own home, in your own room, light a lamp to be fair." Gan Lei couldn't help laughing.

stand up.

The candle was lit, Jia Cong sat on the chair next to the coffee table, and asked Gan Lei to sit down. He said apologetically: "I don't drink tea in the middle of the night, so we don't prepare tea in our yard at night. It will cause some trouble now."

Gan Lei waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter." He looked at him a few more times and said, "Master Lin and Master Su were kidnapped from the imperial prison that day, but you did it."

Jia Cong was quiet for a moment and pretended to be naive: "How can I do that? Besides, I don't have any troops."

Gan Lei said with a smile: "Isn't it enough to spend a thousand taels of silver to hire some bandits? Your forged imperial edict even has the wrong seal."

Jia Cong immediately said: "Who forged the imperial edict? I don't have the guts to forge the imperial edict!"

Gan Lei said: "That's right, you really didn't forge the imperial edict. You didn't cover it with a jade seal, and you didn't tell the jailer that it was an imperial edict. He thought it was an imperial edict. Although you had no soldiers and no power, you were saved with just a thousand taels of silver.

Thirteen loyal ministers came out. Jia Cong, you can come up with ideas that ordinary people can't think of and survive from a desperate situation. What we need most now is a person like you. The one who decided to invite you is the willful, suspicious, young man

The broken eunuch Liu Eunuch."

Jia Cong opened his mouth, and then said after a long time: "He thinks too highly of me..." Oh, what's the matter with having the illusion that I can't stand the old eunuch...

Gan Lei cupped his fists and said: "Today, the sycophant is in power, the emperor is nowhere to be found, the mountains and rivers are in chaos, and the right path is difficult. I hope Third Master Cong can help us and save the saint as soon as possible."

Jia Cong took a breath and said: "So what if the saint is rescued? An emperor without military power is a target. I'm afraid his own son may not be willing to spare his life."

Gan Lei was silent for a moment and said: "Prince Chen is the prince chosen by the saint."

"If the saint goes to surrender to King Chen, King Chen will tell the world that if the saint arrives in Chen State, Chen State will be besieged by the kings. If he doesn't tell the world, he is already a prince. How can he find an overlord to take care of him? Then Chen State belongs to him.

Are you considered a saint? The only one who wants to vote is King Lu. He is young and can still use dad’s teachings.”

Gan Lei was silent again. After a long time, he said: "There is still public support."

Jia Cong waved his hands and said: "The hearts of the people are useless. What is useful is the hearts of generals and officials. You always hope that when the saint comes out, the thieves will fall in the wind. Isn't it impossible? Even if you save him now, you have to hide it.

, otherwise you will die faster than anyone else."

Gan Lei asked quickly: "Do you know where he is?"

"How do I know?" Jia Cong said inexplicably.

Gan Lei sighed and frowned for a long time before saying, "I don't know if he is still alive."

"About now," Jia Cong said, "I had no idea before today, but now I can guess something."

Gan Lei was overjoyed: "How did you guess it?"

Jia Cong then told the story about Liu Dengxi copying Situ Pan's article to Situ Yan. "There must be more than one thing like copying an article. I guess the saint is probably in Situ Pan's hands, because he benefits the most.

Situ Pan grew up suffering from humiliation. He would like to let the saint see him ruling the world, to show that he has real ability and did not get it by cheating. Therefore, he will not kill him."

Gan Lei was a little embarrassed and said: "It was just a matter of youth, and Saint Kuang didn't know about it... How can we rebel because of this? The king is the king, and the minister is just the minister."

Jia Cong looked at him and sighed: "Actually, I'm not better than others. Some people always say that I'm smart, but it's just because I don't think about 'how it should be' in everything, but think about 'how it is.' For a person

There are only two kinds of people who work hard without asking for anything in return. His parents are the people who have received great kindness from him. One is those who owe him in his previous life, and the other is those who owe him in this life. Situ Pan is both.

No. In the past, it was Eunuch Liu who forced him to sacrifice his life for the saint by force, and he was not willing to do so. Now even Eunuch Liu is gone...General Gan, don't think that the saint is still a saint. He may not be comparable to an ordinary prince now."

Gan Lei remained silent after hearing this, and then said after half a day: "Master Cong, look, where is the saint now?"

Jia Cong shook his head: "I can't guess. Now let's try to see if we can rescue those three people. Is it serious? Is the doctor one of yours?"

Gan Lei said: "Yes."

Jia Congchou said: "Four. Except for the hero who wields the stick, it is difficult for the others to survive."

Gan Lei said: "That doctor is really a doctor."

Jia Cong said calmly: "Those in power would rather kill ten thousand people by mistake than let one go. Who cares whether you are wronged or not?"

Gan Lei screamed and stumbled.

Jia Cong yawned and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow. There's no point in hurrying. Do your best and listen to fate."

Gan Lei said: "The one who wields the stick..."

"Don't tell me." Jia Cong said, "Today I laid a trap for Brother Feng. He respects that hero and hopes that he will survive. In a few days, if he is not safe, he will ask me to help persuade him to surrender. I will see the opportunity when the time comes.

Act. If I know the details, I'm afraid I'll expose myself. I'm not very good at pretending."

Gan Lei nodded, then smiled and said: "Master Cong helps us with everything, but he doesn't agree to join the gang."

Jia Cong said: "I've already refused, okay? I told you earlier that I can't be a spy with my temperament."

Gan Lei sighed: "I'm not asking you to be a spy... that's all. You won't just sit idly by anyway." Then he led the way and said goodbye.

The two of them went out and entered Qi Dian's house. Without lighting the lamp, Qi Dian asked: "General, is that all?"

Gan Lei said with a smile: "He doesn't want to join the gang, but I insist on him joining the gang."

Qi nodded and said, "It's just that a few brothers still have doubts."

Gan Lei stood by the window and looked up at the moon for a stick of incense. Fang Youyou said: "Now that we have lost Eunuch Liu, it is like losing our backbone, and people are in panic. Loyalty alone cannot accomplish anything. The rest of us are like

Neither do I. Jia Cong is a very pragmatic person. He doesn’t think much about the death of Eunuch Liu, he only thinks about how to save the remaining people. We really need him. A few years ago, he was in the Second Prince

When attending the banquet in the mansion, he once said that during the Three Kingdoms period, the state of Wu was bound to die. To send troops to attack Wei and Shu was to seek death because they were weaker; to remain stationary was to wait for death because they were weaker. This is what we are doing now. I

After calculating all the people who know about it, they are all reliable and there are no traitors. It can be seen that Situ Pan and Feng Ziying are getting stronger and stronger. We are too weak. If we don't move, we will wait for death. Jia Cong can think of a way when there is no way out.

Come, let him lead everyone, it is better than waiting to die. The saint is still in the den of tigers and wolves."

He hesitated for a moment, opened his mouth, and finally lowered his head and said "yes".

Gan Lei sighed: "Thirty years to the east of the river, thirty years to the west of the river." He turned around and left.

He reached the door in a few steps and suddenly shouted: "General!"

Gan Lei stopped.

Qi nodded and said, "I suspect that Jia Cong is not loyal enough to the emperor."

Gan Lei was shocked: "Is there any evidence?"

He started and nodded: "No, it's just a thought of mine. In the past few days, I have been seeing this person day and night, and when I occasionally mentioned the saint, he always disapproved of it. I respect everyone who mentions the saint, but Jia Cong does not.

"In my opinion..." She hesitated for a moment before saying, "We guessed that Jia Cong protected the Seventh Prince not necessarily because of loyalty but because of Mr. Lin. I'm afraid we were right. He only raised the Seventh Prince because of his appearance.

He is cute and his adopted brother, he just likes it. If the general is determined to make this man our commander, the future... the future... the future will not be safe in his heart. Any brother he knows is more important than a saint. If he meets

If there is any difficulty, he will probably give up saving the saint."

Hearing this, Gan Lei stood at the door for a long time, as if he had been cast a restraining spell, and suddenly opened the door and walked out. When he got outside, he said: "That's okay... just like a saint has three advantages and two disadvantages, brothers also have a way out."

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Li Dian stood in the room and stared at the door for a long time. He smiled slightly in the darkness and whispered: "I guessed what the general said."

The next few days were all uneventful. The Qin family and the Xue family were very busy because Qin Zhongbaoqin was about to get married, and invitations were sent to Rongguo Mansion. Jia Mu only said that she was not well, and ordered the eldest wife to go. Mrs. Xing was not happy

He couldn't help but go to Mrs. Wang with the invitation and sarcastically mocked her. Mrs. Wang was so angry that she fell ill that day. Baoyu then went to wait on the bed, which made Jia's mother scold Mrs. Wang, "All she does is seek death all day long, which delays Baoyu's studies."

"On the other hand, Li Wan, in the past, all these things taxed her the most. Now that Jia Lan is favored, she has lost some support. Aunt Zhao even complained that she was not going away, saying that she was afraid that Mrs. Wang would be overtaken by the illness. Mrs. Wang

There was nothing she could do, so she only vented her anger on the two new aunts. Jia Zheng refused again and found an excuse to order them not to wait in his wife's house. Mrs. Wang's heart suddenly became as cold as ice.

On this day, Aunt Zhou helped her out of the house and walked a few steps to the Rongxi Hall. It happened that the two girls brought Han Quan to the Rongxi Hall to play. Mrs. Wang was full of anger and anger towards this little girl.

He was just an adopted son with no power, so he pointed at him and cursed: "Where did you come from, a bastard raised by a dirty little whore! Who let him in such a place as Rongxi Hall?"

"

Han Quan was annoyed. He jumped up to her and shouted, "I'm not a bitch!"

Mrs. Wang slapped him twice. Although Han Quan had suffered some hardships in the past, he had not been beaten yet. She beat him so hard that he couldn't stand still and fell to the ground with a thud. He burst into tears.

Mrs. Wang suddenly felt a sense of sadistic pleasure, and she raised her legs to kick him.

The girls following him all received orders from Jia Cong, and one of them hurriedly stepped forward to stop her: "Second Madam, please stop! Uncle Han is our Third Master Cong's favorite. Third Master Cong is not a polite person when he urinates, so we can't protect all our slaves."

What will Mr. Cong do?"

Mrs. Wang was stunned, and she retracted her legs forcefully. Han Quan cried louder and louder. Mrs. Wang said tiredly: "It makes my ears buzz." She turned around and walked out quickly without Aunt Zhou's support.

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The girl hurriedly helped Han Quan up, coaxing him not to cry. The other sneered: "It's strange that Mr. Cong said that if anything happened in the house, he would report his name instead of the eldest lady. Bullying the weak is afraid of the strong, bah!"

The one who coaxed Han Quan said: "The eldest lady herself is like a glass man in the house, so she doesn't have much face. Besides, Mr. Cong is ruthless in his actions. As the saying goes, those who are soft are afraid of those who are hard, and those who are hard are afraid of being stunned...

"

The two of them were chatting casually, but it sounded to Han Quan's ears that Mrs. Wang would be afraid of Jia Cong, so he broke away from the girl's hand and ran away. The two girls didn't know what he was going to do, so they chased after him with shouts.

run.

Han Quan's legs were short, but he ran extremely fast. He left the girls far behind and ran straight into Lixiangyuan. It was his luck. Recently, the three gentlemen went out to visit friends a lot, but today they were free to bask in the sun.

Xiao Dian was serving tea at the side. When he suddenly saw him barging in, with tears on his face, everyone was shocked. Before he could ask him, Han Quan glanced at Jia Cong and saw Jia Cong sitting on a wicker chair, bumping into him like a calf.
To be continued...