But after Chen Ruijin finished coaxing Su Cheng, he turned around and asked Liu Xiaoqi what he was doing. Liu Xiaoqi said again: "The fourth brother was imprisoned by his grandfather."
Jia Cong looked at Chen Ruijin and raised his eyebrows and said, "Could it be... that the old man noticed it?"
Chen Ruijin said angrily: "So what if we find out. They have already left the palace, why aren't people allowed to see the child? After all, he is also the flesh and blood of their Liu family."
Liu Xiaoqi was surprised: "Child?"
Jia Cong said: "The area where Brother Liu's son and his mother live is not very safe. Recently, someone has been harassing them. Brother Liu is worried and has looked at it several times. I think your grandfather has noticed it?"
Su Cheng poked his head and asked, "Is this a privately raised child?"
Jia Cong said: "No, he was raised by a public servant."
"Why does it sound like you don't live in their home?"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Because their horse pen only raises male horses and not mares. When the estrus comes, they go outside to borrow a mare and breed it."
Liu Xiaoqi immediately darkened his face: "Mr. Jia, why are you swearing?"
Jia Cong shrugged and said, "Am I wrong? It's not about breeding, it's about marrying a wife?" Liu Xiaoqi said nothing, looking a little ugly.
Su Cheng asked again: "Why not get a wife?" Then he looked at Liu Xiaoqi, "Have you got a wife?" Liu Xiaoqi shook his head.
Jia Cong laughed and said, "A woman has to dress up because of her good looks in order to avoid being harassed by gangsters. Shouldn't her man despise her? A child wants to play with his friends, but because of his family's
There were ruffians blocking the door, so they had to climb through the window like a thief. What use was it for me? All creatures in the world, from tigers to mice, knew how to protect their cubs. I had never seen anyone force me not to take care of my children.
"
Chen Ruijin sighed softly: "Let's think about it from the root. How come your family has such strange rules? Don't marry a wife and don't raise a daughter?"
Liu Xiaoqi turned her head to look at the tree and was silent for a long time before saying: "Wives married from outside are prone to trouble. If a daughter... is raised at home, she might be ambitious enough to provoke the emperor. Besides, it is impossible to raise a daughter without a woman at home.
"
"..." Jia Cong didn't know what to say for a moment, and he was silent for a long time before saying, "The rules set by Grandfather? That old man has taken great pains to deal with your family. This is a masked grind! It's easy for a stupid generation to be stupid.
Every generation is a bit outrageous. Why don’t you change it after you leave the palace?”
Liu Xiaoqi said: "I also know that this rule is inappropriate. Since it is handed down from our ancestors, it cannot be broken so easily."
"If no one breaks it, the rules will never change; someone has to take the initiative. Now there is not even a serious emperor, so why do you still keep such weak rules?" Jia Cong said, "Besides, earlier,
The girls in your family should also be sent to the female nurse for nutrition, instead of being thrown out and ignored."
Liu Xiaoqi smiled bitterly and said: "Our family has just left the palace, so everything is out of control..."
Chen Ruijin said: "Whether we change the rules or not is the next best thing. What should I do with Fourth Master Liu's daughter?" Liu Xiaoqi shook her head gently - how could he know what to do? She added, "No matter how big the problem is, Fourth Master Liu is at home."
No, will anything happen at Mingyi's place these days?"
Jia Cong looked at Liu Xiaoqi: "Your niece, why don't you go and see her?"
Su Cheng said: "If it's inconvenient for him, Uncle Cong, why don't you go and see him?"
Jia Cong said: "That's someone's daughter. What can I do if I just look at her once or twice? I can't take care of her forever."
Liu Xiaoqi whispered: "Everyone in our family is responsible for their own affairs, and no one else is allowed to interfere."
Jia Cong shuddered: "Those who make these rules are madmen, those who agree to these rules are also madmen, and those who abide by these rules are fools."
Chen Ruijin said: "Didn't you three mind other people's business last time? You saved a kiln girl and her son. Now just pretend that you don't know that Mingyi is your niece, and fight against the injustice of the head office."
Liu Xiaoqi's eyes flashed and asked: "Who is looking for them?"
Chen Ruijin smiled bitterly and said, "I was the one who caused this." Then he told the story of how he had asked the Qi family to customize a belt, which had brought disaster to their family. At the end, he sighed, "I should have known better."
Neither she nor Jia Cong wanted to come up with any ideas, so they just waited for Liu Xiaoqi to think about it on his own. Liu Xiaoqi thought for a long time before speaking, and it was Su Cheng who sighed first: "This is all King Yan's fault."
Jia Cong asked curiously: "Why doesn't it belong to King Yan?"
Su Cheng said: "If Aunt Chen didn't order the belt, their family would be in poverty; if she ordered the belt, the gangsters would be jealous and want to steal the money. Fortunately, Aunt Liu's needlework is very good, so she can live a good life with Aunt Chen's payment."
It's better. If you really live by your ability, but because you are afraid of being jealous and harassed, you might as well not show your ability. If you have a good life, wouldn't it mean that ordinary people have no hope for their lives? If the common people have no hope for their lives, what will happen to the Yan State?
Can it be okay?"
Jia Cong couldn't help but applaud and praised: "Cheng'er is so smart!" After a while, he said again, "Huh? Could it be that I told you this earlier?"
"No!" Su Cheng said with a puffed face, "I obviously figured it out myself!"
"Oh~~" Jia Cong hurriedly gave two thumbs up: "Cheng'er is smart!"
Su Cheng added: "Because of her good looks, Fourth Aunt Liu was afraid of causing trouble, so she dressed herself down. This matter is not the shame of her man, it is clearly the shame of King Yan! Under the rule of King Yan
It's because of injustice." He glanced at them and said, "Shouldn't we ask King Yan to punish those ruffians? But you all think it's ordinary and just want to ask people from her husband's family to help. She
"If my husband's family is an ordinary family," she pointed at Liu Xiaoqi, "if we don't have a brother-in-law who can jump over walls and climb trees, do we deserve to be so unlucky?"
Jia Cong nodded repeatedly: "How could you think of this?" He rubbed the top of her head, "It's a good thing that Aunt Liu looks like her. But if she dresses like an ordinary woman, she will be harassed by people in the market.
It's not her fault. She's good at needlework and it's a good thing that she can attract good customers, so it's not her fault that she makes people jealous. It's really the government's fault that innocent people are living a good life but causing disasters." Su Cheng muttered.
Jia Cong nodded vigorously and glanced at Liu Xiaoqi proudly. Jia Cong raised his eyes and looked at Su Cheng and said, "However, Cheng'er, you have to know that there is something called false advertising in the world."
Su Cheng blinked: "What is false advertising?"
Jia Cong said: "Selling dog meat on a sheep's head is false advertising. For example, the government is the parent of the people, the queen is the mother of the world, and the people respect the king more than others. These are all false advertisements selling dog meat on a sheep's head. From ancient times to the present,
Except for a very few upright officials, the rest of the officials are not the parents of the people. They are just stewards sent by the imperial court to manage the affairs of the state, and they have nothing to do with the ordinary people. The queen said that she would not be able to honor the world, even her mother's honor.
It is impossible to have a harem. As for which is more important, the king or the people, I don’t think Xiaoqi’s family knows?”
Su Cheng looked at Liu Xiaoqi pitifully, but Liu Xiaoqi avoided looking at the moon.
"We think Aunt Liu's incident is normal because we are older than you and have more experience than you. At first, we were just like you, believing in the sheep's head hung by the court. When we encountered a piece of dog meat, we thought we were greedy and unjust.
The person was very angry; he also thought about fighting the injustice and reporting the corrupt official. Later I discovered that even if the corrupt official was punished by the court, it was not because he sold dog meat, but because I am a descendant of Rongguo Mansion, the grandson of Jia Daishan, and my family
He is more powerful than him. Right and wrong actually have nothing to do with right and wrong. Later, when I encountered ten or twenty pieces of dog meat, I had some doubts that the court sold a lot of dog meat. Until now, I have not seen a lot of dog meat in total.
A piece of mutton, the whole court was full of dog meat, and I realized that the imperial court did not sell mutton at all. Cheng'er, when he grew up, he gradually understood the process of this matter." He patted Su Cheng's shoulder.
, "You are very smart, but you haven't grown up yet."
Su Cheng opened her eyes wide and was a little confused.
Jia Cong pointed at Liu Xiaoqi again: "For example, their family. The people in their family are very good. His grandfather said that he should have noticed early that what the imperial court gave them was not mutton but dog meat. But why were they so determined that the imperial court gave them dog meat?
There is no decent emperor anymore, so why should we stick to rules that are harmful to the whole family? This is called Stockholm Syndrome." Liu Xiaoqi stared at him unconsciously.
Jia Cong continued: "Stockholm syndrome is a mental illness. I've told you about mental illness before."
Su Cheng bit her lip and nodded: "People, for various reasons, think and think very differently from normal people. Although they don't look like crazy people on weekdays, they are actually another kind of crazy person."
"That's right." Jia Cong said, "Two hundred years later, in Stockholm, the capital of Western Sweden," Liu Xiaoqi couldn't help being slightly shocked. "Four robbers robbed a bank and arrested four of the bank's clerks.
After being held hostage for several days by the military commanders of five cities in the other country, the police finally caught the robbers and rescued the gangsters. Unexpectedly, the four gangsters actually interceded for the robbers."
He paused deliberately, and Su Cheng couldn't help asking: "Why do they want to intercede on behalf of the robbers?"
Jia Cong took a long breath: "Because they think the robbers are good people."
Su Cheng put his arms on the cases and asked: "The robbers went to rob and took them hostage. How can they be good people?"
"They felt that the robbers could have killed them. But they not only spared their lives, but also gave them food to eat. They must be good people with charity in their hearts, and they took that road out of necessity."
Su Cheng said: "Isn't keeping them alive to threaten the government with live hostages so that they can escape? If they are not given food, they will starve to death. The police officers outside will not have restraint and will just shoot the robbers to death with random arrows."
?”
"That's right! Normal people think that way!" Jia Cong tilted his head, "But those guys thought that way. So Stockholm Syndrome is a disease, and the victims do not complain about the perpetrators.
, but they are grateful because the perpetrators did not treat them worse. Look -" he pointed at Liu Xiaoqi, "isn't their whole family like this? They just think that the Tian family spared their lives and gave them food.
, I have never thought about the fact that the Tian family does not allow them to marry a daughter-in-law, so what are they thinking about raising a daughter?"
After hearing this, Su Cheng thought for a while, looking at Liu Xiaoqi who was filled with pity, as if she was pitying a madman. However, she even murmured in a low voice: "So pitiful..." Liu Xiaoqi had already let Jia Cong say it.
My heart was in turmoil, and when I met Su Cheng's eyes, I felt as if a big sandbag was pressing on my chest.
Jia Cong sighed heavily: "By the way, most people with mental illness don't know or refuse to believe that they are sick or crazy."
Seeing Liu Xiaoqi's expression, Su Cheng became more and more pitiful. It said on his face: Such a young, good-looking boy with such great martial arts skills is actually a madman! He whispered in his mouth again: "What a pity..." The words on Liu Xiaoqi's chest
Another big sandbag was added. Jia Cong wanted to add a few more words, but Chen Ruijin stopped him. The two exchanged glances without speaking for a long time. Su Cheng said again: "Uncle Cong, their family has left the palace now, right?"
"Yes." Jia Cong said.
"In the past, the palace lent them women... that..." Su Cheng pursed her lips and glanced at Liu Xiaoqi quickly, "Now that he has left the palace, is he a bachelor who has not yet married a wife?
Getting old."
Jia Cong clapped his hands: "That's right! How are your family's preparations now? Even the fans are not willing to do such things as having children. If your grandfather still wants to keep the rules in the palace, your family's population will be over.
.”
Liu Xiaoqi was at a loss for a while before saying: "My grandfather probably hasn't thought about these things yet..."
Jia Cong said: "Doesn't he think that the world can be unified by a new king in twenty or thirty years? Even if he can, who knows what the new king's character is? Will he raise you in the palace according to the previous rules?"
It costs a lot of money to have a big family like yours. In addition to daily expenses, you also have to support your wife and daughter. It should be noted that ordinary men work hard all their lives just to raise a wife and daughter. There is no way that the new king will recruit another team of gunmen.
As a guard? If he refuses to take you, what will you do?"
Chen Ruijin added: "The Empress Dowager has begun to look for firearms."
Liu Xiaoqi turned pale unconsciously. Su Cheng couldn't bear to say: "You two, stop talking, Xiao Qi'er is so pitiful."
Everyone was silent for a while. After a long time, Su Cheng broke the silence. She asked Chen Ruijin gently: "Aunt Chen, is it his grandfather who is stubborn now, right?"
Chen Ruijin said: "I don't know. It seems so right now."
"Then his grandfather will have to die one day? Will the remaining people change their rules after the old man returns to the west?"
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Change the rules? Their perverted rules have been maintained for all these years according to the huge and strict constraints in the palace, otherwise it would not be possible at all. Cheng'er, you have also learned this, the greater the influence, the greater the influence.
The reaction force is also greater. Now that the restraining force in the palace is gone, the old man can barely rely on inertia to maintain it for a few years; it is like a bunch of springs tied with a cowhide band. When he is gone, it will collapse immediately. How many years has it been? Female Guard
That end has long since dispersed."
Su Cheng looked at Liu Xiaoqi and said softly: "Your family rules are based on two basic rules: the emperor needs you, and the emperor is on guard against you. Now these two are gone."
Jia Cong was pleasantly surprised: "Cheng'er still has this ability of induction! How come I didn't realize it before?" Su Cheng should have been happy when she was praised, but she couldn't be happy at the moment, so she just curled her lips.
Chen Ruijin smiled slightly and said to Liu Xiaoqi: "That's all. Apart from anything else, do you want to go and take care of Mingyi? If you don't go, I'll have to go. I'm really busy these days, so I probably won't care about it myself.
I will send someone else to take care of the matter."
Liu Xiaoqi said: "No trouble. Since fourth brother can't go out, it's my duty to take care of my niece."
Chen Ruijin nodded, told him the address, and then warned: "This matter is troublesome. Don't be too ostentatious, for fear of attracting the attention of the government; because they are all local ruffians, one group will leave and another will follow."
Su Cheng asked: "Maybe discuss with the gangster leader?"
Jia Cong said: "The original gangster leader in that area has left Beijing, and there has been no new gangster leader."
Su Cheng turned to look at Liu Xiaoqi: "Why don't you become a gangster leader and protect your sister-in-law and niece?" Liu Xiaoqi's eyes flashed. Su Cheng suddenly laughed and said, "Your niece
It’s impossible to say that I can be a holy aunt.”
Chen Ruijin smiled and said: "The leader of the Demon Cult can also do Mingyi's temperament. Xiaoqi, why don't you take her place for a few years? After I accept her as a disciple, she will be taught to manage the land west of the city."
Liu Xiaoqi hummed: "She is only six years old. By the time she becomes the leader of the Demon Cult, I will have already dominated the world." He said goodbye and left. Chen Ruijin later sent Su Cheng home without mentioning it.
Neither of them expected Liu Xiaoqi to do things so quickly. The next day, Luo Tainiang came to Lixiangyuan to deliver a message, saying that there was a young master like a demon last night who picked up all 24 gambling houses in the west of the city in one night.
!Everywhere I went, I would beat people's thugs all over the courtyard, and I would randomly draw a bird on the snow-white wall of the house. It looked like a kite or an eagle. Then I would throw the pen on the ground and jump up to the rafters.
He used his fists to tear out a hole in the skylight, flew from the hole onto the roof, and walked away on the tiles.
Chen Ruijin hurried to Qi's house to take a look. There had been more and more people harassing her in the past few days, and she was very worried. But no one came today. Chen Ruijin comforted him a few words, and then found two people nearby.
Han inquired.
Both of them said: "There was an incident at the gambling house last night. I guess no one will bother the Pan family today."
Chen Ruijin asked: "Did the Pan family offend the gambling house?"
They both said: "Aren't the people who go around causing trouble and asking for money the ones who lost money in gambling?"
Chen Ruijin laughed dumbly, but still shook his head: "It's just treating the symptoms." (. )