It is said that Jia Xu and Qin Sangu rested in the capital for a day, discussed for a while, and left for Chen State. Reading at midnight, there was nothing urgent at the moment, so the two of them walked slowly and leisurely.
Jia Congwei had actually returned to the capital. Because he did not want to alarm others, he did not return home and stayed at the Taiping Escort Bureau. Within two days, Jia Xu was ordered to clean up the yard. Thinking that this matter was of great importance, he sent all Jia Xichun and Qin Keqing into custody. Please come out and help decorate it so elegantly and generously. On the way back home, Xichun complained in the carriage that his twenty-odd boxes of silver were stupid. Which thing in the yard was worthless?
Jia Cong said with a smile: "Even though my sister has traveled all over the world, she doesn't know the worldly affairs. If you want to marry a good wife, you must have a house, money, and a heart, but elegance comes second. Otherwise, why would anyone marry him?"
Xichun said: "Didn't you say that they are in love?"
"Shan Youqing can only get a good match, but not a wife." Jia Cong shook his head, "Do you know why you need those real money?"
Xichun said casually: "Let the woman know that the man is rich."
"Of course not. There is wealth everywhere in that courtyard, and every brick and tile in that area is extremely expensive." Jia Cong glanced at her sideways and said, "Fourth sister, what we have decorated include window screens, antiques, famous swords, etc. It's just a way of laying the groundwork, and you can exchange it for silver. In fact, the most important thing is the twenty-four boxes of stupid silver ingots in the warehouse. That's not silver, it's sincerity. Tell the woman, 'I'll give you all my money. You care'."
Hearing this, Xichun smiled and said with a smile: "It makes sense. Who is this person? He is so anxious. You are really generous. Is it worth the money?"
Jia Cong thought for a while and said, "I didn't hide this from my sister intentionally. When we found out, you had already gone out to travel." Then he told Jia Xuzhi's origins.
Xichun was so shocked that she couldn't help but recite the Buddha's name: "My ancestors have actually done such a thing!"
Jia Cong snorted: "How many housewives don't do this? That's why her old lady is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease."
Xichun sighed: "There will be retribution after all."
Jia Cong curled his lips and said: "This is a coincidence, not retribution. If the fifth uncle hadn't happened to be rescued by Liu Dengxi, he wouldn't have been a slave in any corner right now. There are many people who have done evil and have good endings, and there are descendants who have retribution. There are also those who do not repay their children and grandchildren. God is not that reliable."
Xichun closed his eyes and shook his head. After a while, he asked again: "Why did you suddenly come back to the capital?"
"Although Uncle Wu doesn't have a pigeon station in Taiwan, there is one in Guangzhou." Jia Cong said with a smile, "So we got the letter in time, saying that they intended to use the hands of the Xie family to pin the blame for Situ Jian's death on King Lu. Gong Yizhi looked at it and immediately said, King Lu couldn't bear the blame. Sooner or later, he would blame others, and King Chen was the first one. I thought about it. The people in my court are lazy and unwilling to take risks on the road that their ancestors have not walked. , if you let them fight, they will be hesitant. King Chen is young, proud, has some abilities, and is dissatisfied with the status quo. It is better to take the opportunity to give him a push and let him be the first to eat crabs."
Xichun thought for a moment and said, "Do you want to use Situ Pan's help to push King Chen overseas?"
"Well." Jia Cong yawned, "He got the benefit first and showed it to his uncles and brothers, and then those people will follow. When they see what it means to be quick with your hands, slow with nothing, they will rush to be the first. By the way. ,How do I remember that you have been to Chen Guo before?"
Xichun said: "He only bought potatoes but not salt. He said that he was too poor at that time and the state of Chen was not close to the sea. I'm afraid he didn't trust our recipe. Now he probably heard that King Lu had dried it and made good salt.
, I want to buy it again. I’m still thinking about whether I should raise the price on the ground.”
Jia Cong frowned and said, "Since their Aunt Su Ni is highly trusted by Liu Tong, Prince Chen can get the prescription from Lu State, so why should he buy it from us?"
"I don't know, this time it's Qu Shen who came to see us. If they are sincere, let's go and have a look."
A few days later, King Chen's uncle Qu Shen left Beijing to return to China, and Xichun Wu You was preparing to leave in two days. At this time, Li Wan got news that the Wei family proposed marriage to her cousin Li Qi.
At that time, everyone was discussing matters in Lixiang Courtyard. Jia Cong and Xichun shook their heads at the same time. Jia Cong said with emotion: "Wei Ruolan is still not as good as Wei Ruoheng, and Li Qi can't live a better life than Zhen Yinglian."
Xichun hummed, "How can it be better to have such a mother-in-law?"
Jia Cong said: "Aunt Wei will not treat this daughter-in-law badly. It's just..." He glanced at Wu You, "There are several types of women who want to live a good life after marriage. For example, Miss Li's sister, Sister Xing, etc.
"Yes, their husband's family had some intention of marrying them, so they will naturally be kind to them. It's just good behavior. Like Sister-in-law Liu, Sister Xue and our fifth aunt," Jia Huan couldn't help but laugh. Jia Cong
Hehehe, "Their husbands have taken a fancy to themselves and tried their best to ask them to be their wives, but they will live a much happier life than Miss Li and Sister Xing. And our second sister is also the one in front of us."
The marriage between Zhong and Jia Gao's families, for the sake of our brothers, her mother's family must treat her well. However, she gradually made her second brother-in-law fall in love with her, and she became the latter kind."
Xichun said: "Why did you always say that a woman can only rely on her father and brother in her life?"
Jia Cong said: "Because the second kind is extremely rare to encounter. Which of the three has not established a career by himself, but by chance meets someone who falls in love with them? Otherwise, like ordinary women who never leave the house or step out, how can they meet each other?
Can you match these husbands? And the most important thing here is that all of them are extremely rare beauties. Give Qin Sangu the face of a kitchen lady, no matter how capable she is, our fifth uncle will only be with her
If you make a friend, you will definitely not go to such great lengths to poach Situ Pan and marry him home. Sister, don’t think that all women in the world are so beautiful. Therefore, for most women, father and brother are the most important.
of."
Xichun also sighed softly and said, "Are you going to see Wei Ruolan?"
Jia Cong shrugged and said, "Why are you meeting him? I haven't even met Situ Pan. What he wants to marry is just a girl from a relative, and I have almost never seen that girl." After a while, he curled his lips again and said, "Look at her.
How confident Wei Ruoheng is! I wonder if his wife is pregnant with a son right now, so I turned around and stopped by to see him. After all, I am also a good boy."
Wu Younai said: "In fact, if you want to get involved with Rongguo Mansion, Wei Ruolan's friendship with you for so many years is more useful than that daughter of the Li family."
Jia Cong high-fived: "I'll let you talk! After all, he still can't believe in himself."
Jia Huan said: "I'm afraid he won't be able to talk about the important matter of marriage."
Jia Cong hummed: "A man can't even say anything about his own marriage. How can I expect him to decide the battlefield? Warfare is an art, and the difference between artists and craftsmen is the same. Well, leave them alone, we ourselves
I'm still busy." Then he dismissed Wei Ruolan and didn't mention it.
Two days later, the fourth girl Jia set off for Chen, and Jia Cong left quickly. After a bumpy journey to the state of Chen, Jia Xu and Qin's third aunt hadn't arrived yet! Jia Cong let out a long "Hey" and said, "People talk." When you are in love, you don't care about anything." So he wandered around Chenzhou and saw that the place was bustling with people and plentiful goods. King Chen was indeed a capable man. Later, when Xichun came, Jia Cong wanted to assassinate him. Join her. Xichun first goes to see King Chen and sells the salt recipe.
When she came back, she saw Jia Cong and smiled: "You guessed it right. In fact, they have obtained the prescription from the State of Lu."
Jia Cong hurriedly praised her and said: "Fourth sister knows everything clearly. How can I see it?"
Xichun said: "This King Chen only said that he got other people's prescriptions elsewhere, but he asked about ours being better, so he thought it would be better to buy ours. However, some of his words clearly used our prescriptions. In my opinion, he didn’t buy it last time because he heard that King Lu had already bought it. The State of Lu was not short of food and didn’t have the recipe to grow potatoes, so he bought it.”
Jia Cong asked curiously: "Then why does he buy one more prescription? How rich is he?"
Xichun said, "Don't worry about him. Anyway, I'm sitting on the ground and raising the price." Jia Cong and Wu You laughed in unison.
He still had to bargain for a while, so Jia Cong wandered around the teahouse and tavern every day, waiting for King Chen to come and meet him by chance. Unexpectedly, he didn't even wait for King Chen after walking around for three or four days, but fell in love with the spicy soup on the street. Nothing happened. So he went to drink a bowl. That day he went to drink spicy soup again, and suddenly he felt someone looking at him. He looked around for a while, but there was nothing strange, so he continued to drink.
After drinking and laying down a few coins, Jia Cong was content and walked around the city with his arms behind his back. Suddenly, someone grabbed his neck from behind and dragged him into a small alley. Jia Cong was startled and pinched his sleeves. There was a Western fire and gun in the bag, and when he looked up, he saw a chubby aunt holding his collar on the back of his neck with her left hand, and hurriedly shouted: "Woman, spare your life!"
But he saw a young man walking slowly beside the fat lady. Jia Cong took a quick look and knew it was a girl. The young man raised his eyebrows and asked, "What were you doing just now?"
Jia Cong said blankly: "Take a walk."
"What?"
"I'm so full, I need to eat."
The young master sneered and said, "I have seen you acting suspiciously. You were looking around in my city of Chenzhou and you actually said you were taking a walk to eat?"
Jia Cong said with a bitter face: "Brother, you won't be able to sit still even if you drink three big bowls of spicy soup."
The young master took out a folding fan from his sleeve and pointed it at him and said: "At first glance, you can tell that... he is a playboy from a wealthy family. He has never tasted delicacies from the mountains and seas, so he drinks so much street soup for no reason?"
Jia Cong curled his lips and said: "The delicacies from the mountains and sea are really delicious, but the spicy soup is also delicious! Everyone has his own taste. You can't say that because Xi Shi is beautiful, Concubine Yang is not beautiful."
The young master was stunned: "You...you are talking nonsense!"
"Which one of us is talking nonsense, brother!" Jia Cong rolled his eyes, "I followed my own path and didn't offend anyone, so I was caught by this aunt of yours. Hey, aunt, if you don't let me go, I'll kill you Reported to the official."
The fat lady immediately smiled and looked at the young master: "Master?"
The young master sneered and said, "You should try reporting to the official."
Jia Cong immediately opened his throat and shouted: "Here comes someone - indecent -"
The young master was so frightened that he stamped his feet: "Shut up, shut up!"
"Robbing civilian men in broad daylight——"
Seeing that someone was coming this way, the young master said angrily: "Wait!" He waved his hand to the fat aunt, and Jia Cong's neck immediately relaxed. She shouted again, "Wait," and the two hurriedly ran away. .
The fat lady was really strong. Jia Cong leaned against the wall and panted for a while. He was weak and waved to a few idle people who came to watch the excitement: "Hello everyone~~ Oops!" He turned around and jumped with a "Ouch!" She stood up and said, "Sister Third Aunt!"
Qin Sangu said with a dark face: "What are you doing here?"
Jia Cong raised his eyes and looked around. Sure enough, Jia Xu was standing behind her with a smile on her face. He said with a busy smile: "Hey, hey, hey, there's something."
Jia Xu said: "This is not the place to talk."
Qin Sangu snorted and turned around to leave; Jia Cong followed him obediently. The three of them arrived at a small restaurant. Jia Xu was rich, so he took over the second floor and ordered the waiter to bring some drinks and dishes.
Jia Cong touched his belly and said, "I'm so full. You eating delicious food in front of a fat man like me is a malicious violation of my human rights."
Qin Sangu still had a dark face: "You stupid young man! Do you know who that woman was just now?"
Jia Cong said casually: "She is a young lady from an official's family in Chenzhou? Or is she simply King Chen's sister? King Chen doesn't seem to have a sister, is that his cousin?"
Qin Sangu said: "It's not the little girl, it's the fat one."
"Oh, fat auntie." Jia Cong said, "She is very strong and her movements are agile. She must be good at martial arts. Look, fat people can also be very powerful in martial arts."
Jia Xu said: "The fat one's surname is Zhou Damei. He used to be the leader of the Ouchi female guard."
"Um..." Jia Cong felt a line of croaking crows flying before his eyes, "What did you say?"
Jia Xu continued: "He is also Chen Ruijin's master. He was ordered by Liu Dengxi to protect Concubine Hui. After the second prince was granted a title to the Chen Kingdom, she followed him. King Yan knew about this person, but he didn't know that she was a master."
Jia Cong felt sweating on the top of his head: "The amount of information is a bit large, you always ask me to slow down..." After half a day, he said, "What is her relationship with Zhou Camellia?"
"It doesn't matter, they both happen to be named Zhou."
Jia Cong made a face: "So there was something dangerous just now. When I was drinking spicy soup, I felt someone was looking at me. Is it them or you?"
Jia Xu said: "No, there is someone else."
"No," Jia Cong's lips drooped, "Chen Zhou has such a big idea, it's quite complicated."
Qin Sangu said: "You should restrain yourself! You are just running around so recklessly. King Yan sent someone to follow Qu Shen back to Chen Kingdom. Just now that person saw you and recognized you. I can't protect these two people." I'm here to test you."
"What's there to test?" Jia Cong curled his lips and said, "Have you ever seen someone who is full after eating? Who is the other one?"
Jia Xu said: "The other one is Qu Shen's second daughter. Her eldest sister has married King Chen."
"That's not right!" Jia Cong said, "Since someone from King Yan has recognized me, why is it someone from King Chen here to test me?"
Jia Xu said: "He is here alone and has no suitable people with him. Naturally, he told Qu Shen and asked King Chen to send someone out."
"Why did you send a girl?" Jia Cong scratched his head and said, "I don't like reckless and silly girls. Fifth uncle, does that Aunt Zhou know you?"
Jia Xu smiled slightly: "Of course I don't know you. Chen Ruijin only met me later."
Qin Sangu watched the two of them for a long time and suddenly felt a little strange. After a while, she said: "You call him fifth uncle. Are you calling him fifth uncle because you know he is the fifth uncle, or is he your fifth uncle?"
Jia Xu smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you that day? My nephew is very naughty."
Jia Cong held his cheek and said, "Hey, this naughty nephew is probably referring to me."
"I'm not referring to you, I can't point to Huan'er."
"Fifth Uncle, can't you see through my occasionally cynical appearance and see your nephew's crystal-clear heart..."
"Bah--" Qin Sangu slapped the table, which made Jia Cong tremble. He jumped over and hid behind Jia Xu: "Oh, she's angry! Anyway, she's angry with you, not me. Fifth Uncle, you're old Take care of yourself, nephew, I can't help you!"
Jia Xu gave him a dumbfounded look and said to Qin Sangu: "I don't want to hide it from you. We have to meet each other when we come to Chenzhou. Wouldn't it be interesting to meet like this?"
Qin Sangu said with a cold face: "Boring. What's going on? Tell me clearly!"
The uncle and nephew looked at each other, and Jia Cong shrank behind Jia Xu: "It's none of my business!"
Jia Xu sighed softly: "I really don't know where to start." Then he recounted his childhood experience, only changing "Liu Dengxi" to "S.H.I.E.L.D.". Naturally, the focus of the narrative was on Shi Taijun.