It is said that on this day, Jia Cong was discussing with others in the Hanlin Academy how to invite Mr. Su. A servant from the Su family came over in a hurry: "Master Cong, I want you to go there quickly."
Jia Cong knew in his heart that it was his fiancée who had messed up Su Cheng's marriage, but he didn't know what she had done. He hurriedly explained a few words to his colleagues, and while packing his things, he asked, "What happened?"
The servant stumbled and said, "Master Cong has gone and found out."
Then he rushed to Su's house. When he arrived at the gate, he saw that the door's neck was stretched out! He saw Jia Cong coming from a distance and shouted: "Master Cong is here -"
Jia Cong jumped off the horse, threw the reins to his disciples and asked, "But what's wrong with you, sir?"
Menzi said with a bitter face: "No. The third master will know it when he sees the master."
Jia Cong hurried in and was about to turn from the front yard to Su Zheng's study when the servant who went to the Hanlin Academy to call him said: "Third Master! Our master is in the hall."
"Lobby? Are there any guests?"
"……have……"
Walking into the hall, I saw Su Zheng sitting at the head of the main seat, and an old man with a white beard and a middle-aged scholar sitting in the guest seats; Su Zheng's face stretched. Jia Cong stepped forward and saluted: "Sir!"
Su Zheng said "Hmm", pointed at the two people opposite him and said, "These are Mr. Song, the minister of Taichang Temple, and the eldest master of the Song family."
Jia Cong hurriedly bowed: "I have met these two gentlemen at the end of my studies." The two men hurriedly shouted to him, "You don't have to be polite." Jia Cong looked at the three of them and said, "The faces of all of them are not very good. Could it be Cheng'er?"
What happened to your marriage?" Su Zheng snorted heavily.
It turns out that Mr. Song met a young scholar at a cultural gathering two months ago. The scholar was quick-witted and well-born, and his appearance was also rare for Mr. Song. They were both gentle and affectionate in nature, and secretly liked each other.
The feeling of a close friend. After the literary meeting was over, the scholar left very quickly. It was a pity that Mr. Song never got his name and address. A few days later, Mr. Song was ordered by his mother to go to Qingxu Temple to fulfill his vow. It happened to be that
The scholar also went to wander around and met him again. This time, for some reason, the scholar fell down the steps and sprained his feet. The two of them recognized the medical clinic that Mr. Song helped him to. Later, the scholar came to know the doctor.
As a thank you for inviting him to a drink, he drank it from a large jar of wine when he was drunk, spilling the wine all over his body. Mr. Song was a smart man, and he immediately saw that this "virtuous brother" was a woman, and hurriedly found an excuse to sneak away.
. Then he didn’t see her again, and the woman stopped disturbing her. In the past few days, the woman’s family members came to her door, saying that Mr. Song had hooked up with their girl, and had two skin-to-skin kisses, and wanted Mr. Song to marry her.
The Song family naturally refused; they also said that the girl was suffering from lovesickness and was lingering on the bed, and it could not be cured except by Mr. Song.
Jia Cong sneered and said: "What a shameless person! Who is he? His daughter was pretending to be a man, so how did the good nephew and son-in-law know about it? Didn't they just cut off the relationship when they found out? From the beginning, the good nephew and son-in-law are not half bad.
There is nothing. Mr. Song, don't pay attention to them. Let's see who dares to steal Cheng'er's man!" Looking again, the three of them were still sullen and silent. They asked in silence for a moment, "Who is her father?
?”
The father and son of the Song family looked at each other for a long time. Mr. Song whispered: "It's... King Yan."
Jia Cong was startled and opened his mouth: "Huh? Who is it?"
Mr. Song sighed: "That woman is the third daughter of King Yan, and she is a princess..."
Jia Cong secretly praised Chen Ruijin. It is true that except for his family, no one in the whole Yan Kingdom can snatch Su Cheng's husband! He thought to himself: "Don't be afraid, the King of Yan is a wise master, and he is not an unreasonable person."
Mr. Song sighed: "The three princesses did not pester my son, and they only met three times from beginning to end... It's just... just now..."
Jia Cong glanced at him sideways for a long time and then answered for him: "I'm just lovesick." Without waiting for his father and son to answer, he turned to Su Zheng and said loudly, "Sir, what a danger! It's a good thing that Cheng'er hasn't married yet. I'll take advantage of you."
Despite all the rules in the world, there is no way for someone to get lovesick, right? Ordinary women can only die of lovesickness by mistake when they fall in love with someone else's fiancé. Naturally, the daughter of the Tian family can't." Jia Cong snapped the case and said, "That's it, break off the engagement."
Su Zheng was anxious: "How can we break off the engagement? The day is coming!"
Jia Cong sneered and said: "It is better to break off the engagement than to divorce, to be an equal wife, and to be a concubine. Marriage is, after all, a business between father and mother. Sir, are you willing to let Cheng'er suffer that injustice? I can't bear to do it!" Su Zheng wanted to speak, but Jia Cong wanted to speak.
Cong winked and said, "Sir, listen to my disciple and break off the engagement. Return the betrothal gift quickly. Cheng'er is determined not to worry about getting married." Su Zheng looked at him for a long time and sighed.
After seeing off the Song family, Jia Cong invited Su Zheng to the study and said: "Song Xiaoer is really well-born. He will stand out in front of Jia Baoyu. It is so easy for the girl's family to never forget her. Fourteen
A five-year-old girl has just started to fall in love, and once she falls in love, it is not easy to figure it out. The princess will just have a great husband to pay off; if something goes wrong, she may miss Song Xiaoer again after getting married, which will cause endless troubles. 3.
The princess has a brother, and Cheng'er might get involved in something. As the saying goes, you are not afraid of thieves, but you are afraid of being missed. I can use Cheng'er as a raft and come up with more than a dozen tricks to deal with the princess's brother.
.If something unexpected happens, it may not be possible to make up for it later. Besides, since the Song family has come to visit, isn't it obvious? Forcibly marrying Cheng'er, her husband's family always felt that Cheng'er was blocking their family's path to becoming a royal relative.
, can you not be wronged? Don't worry, Cheng'er must be the girl in the country who has the least worries about getting married. It may not be a good thing for the family to marry a daughter of the Tian family. "
How could Su Zheng not know? It was just that the incident happened suddenly, and he was vaguely hoping that this arrogant disciple would make some mischief. After a long time, the old man sighed: "What the hell is this..."
Jia Cong said: "Just treat it as a horoscope and not vote."
The old man was in a panic, and Jia Cong tried his best to coax him. Jia Cong obviously wanted to have dinner with Su Zheng at noon today, but Feng Ziying's people came, saying that there was something urgent and wanted Jia Cong to go over now. Su
Zheng's righteousness was not going well at the moment. The three princesses turned their anger on Situ Pan, and naturally they turned their anger on Feng Ziying. They were furious at his people: "What time is it? Don't you want to eat for anyone?" ordered Jia.
Cong: "Don't go!"
They all found the Su family, how could it be a small matter? Su Zheng was not happy at the moment, and Jia Cong didn't dare to leave! He had to wink at the man: "Let's go after dinner." Feng Ziying's people winked anxiously,
Su Zheng refused to let him go. Jia Cong had no choice but to say again, "Wait a moment, I will go there as soon as possible." The man had no choice but to leave.
During lunch, Su Zheng made a point of chatting a lot with Jia Cong, which stretched out the meal. After finishing the meal, he left him chatting for a while longer, which lasted for more than half an hour.
After finally getting away, Jia Cong hurried to Feng Ziying's Yamen. Feng Ziying had already jumped up and complained: "Why did it take so long?"
Jia Cong spread his hands: "The old man is in a bad mood and there is nothing we can do about it. If I dare to come like that, I will definitely make him sick. Is there something urgent?"
Feng Ziying couldn't argue with him at this moment, and said: "You have invited Mr. Western, you must be able to understand foreign languages?"
Jia Cong touched the back of his head: "There are dozens of foreign languages... I only know one. Do I want to deal with Westerners?"
Feng Ziying said: "The smuggling of firearms and guns is a big deal, so I sent people to keep an eye on Wang's Noodle House with sesame filling in the north of the city. Someone sent them a letter in the morning."
"Ah? Isn't it closed?"
Feng Ziying said: "The letter was sent from Nanyang by someone on a merchant ship. I must not have known that they were closed."
Jia Cong's eyes flashed: "Written in foreign languages?"
Feng Ziying said: "There are only a few lines of foreign writing, but those few lines are very important. You can recognize it if you look at it." Then he took the letter out of his arms.
Jia Cong took a look at the words on the envelope - yes, Liu Hu's. He couldn't help but praise it. A few days ago, Chen Ruijin and Xue Pan discussed and made up a lie to coax Feng Ziying, saying that Wang's Noodle House was engaged in the smuggling of Western firearms.
Business. Jia Cong thought she was just looking for an excuse to come up with a mysterious idea. Only now did he realize that her scheme had even caught Liu Hu from overseas. How did Liu Hu know that there had been so many changes in Beijing?
On the order of the Empress Dowager, he was still searching overseas for sources of firearms other than Red Bones. He didn't know that he was a traitor, so he still sent a letter to the address of Wang's Noodle House.
The letter said: He met a maritime merchant in Nanyang who transported firearms for Red Bones. The man spoke openly and leaked some details about Red Bones. It turned out that the big shopkeeper of this family was a sailor on a sea ship.
He has been in the West for many years and is familiar with firearms workshop owners in various Western countries. Firearms are huge profits, but this "high-end shopkeeper" can get extremely low prices, and the price of the firearms workshop to the Western army is higher than that of Red Bones.
The price was still high. The Western countries were at war, and firearms could only be sold to the army. Fortunately, there was nothing in the world that gold and silver could not buy. The merchant gave him the location of an Italian smuggler's shop. Go there to buy illegal firearms.
Things must have secret words, so the merchant also wrote the code words to Liu Hu.
After reading the letter, Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "I don't know the Italian characters. There are all kinds of Western missionaries in Beijing. Just find an Italian to translate."
Feng Ziying said: "How can you show them such an important thing?"
Jia Cong pointed to the few lines of Italian on the letter and said: "The writings of several Western countries have the same origin. Although I don't recognize these words, I can barely make a sentence. Now I just take a stack of paper and cut it into small pieces. I guess
I broke it into phrases and copied them on scraps of paper, shuffled them and had them translated separately by several Italian missionaries, and finally we pieced them together. If there was anything that didn’t make sense, someone else would translate it separately, just saying it was from the Pinghua story.
It’s just an excerpt.”
Feng Ziying couldn't help but nodded and said, "You have a lot of evil ideas."
Jia Cong winked and then whispered: "There is one more thing. I will only tell Brother Feng, you...forget it, if there is nothing else, you don't need to tell the prince." Feng Ziying looked up at him, Jia Cong
So he whispered to Su Cheng that he asked King Yan's daughter to steal his fiancé.
Feng Ziying was shocked: "This is unreasonable!"
Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said: "What else can Mr. Su do besides canceling the engagement? The prince will not know about this, and it will not bother him. If he gets angry, he will have to force his daughter to return the engagement to Cheng'er. That's not good.
.That princess has brothers, and I don’t want Cheng’er to get involved in their family.”
Feng Ziying thought for a while and sighed: "I have wronged Miss Su. No wonder Mr. Su is sulky. In my opinion, it is better to tell the prince."
Jia Cong also sighed: "Cheng'er has no worries about getting married. If the prince doesn't ask, don't say anything. He is also very busy and has no time to care about these children's trivial matters. I also hope that he will send someone to North America as soon as possible.
To commit assassination and spread smallpox."
Feng Ziying asked curiously: "Why are you thinking about that person alone?"
Jia Cong said seriously: "Because if he does not die, he will become the founder of that land. If he is destroyed, the national destiny of that country will be destroyed."
Feng Ziying took a deep breath, waited for a while, and nodded: "I understand."
Jia Cong clasped his fists, and suddenly remembered another person, and wrote a name. After thinking about it for a while, he added two more names. Finally, he wrote three names: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams. He said: "These three names"
I don’t know where they are in North America, but I seem to remember that they are all descendants of English immigrants and are prominent local families. If they are not cleared out earlier, they will all become the founding fathers of that country. There are four of them in total. Prince Fu and Brother Feng must not be able to keep them.
"
Feng Ziying said: "It's easy to find someone from a distinguished family." He carefully folded the paper and put it in his arms.
Jia Cong looked at Liu Hu's letter again and said, "Is this useful to us? Since they are smugglers, and their goods are more expensive and scarce than the Red Bones, they are not necessarily good."
Feng Ziying said: "It's not that we want to buy it, but we can't let others buy it. We have to find the Widow Wang."
"Oh, that's true."
After Jia Cong finished copying the Italian, he had nothing to do and went back to work in the Hanlin Academy. Feng Ziying thought about it again and again, and finally found a chance to report Su Cheng's matter to Situ Pan. Situ Pan ordered someone to go to the mother of the three princesses to inquire.
Someone came and went, and it turned out that the girl had indeed been ill for more than a month due to love. Situ Pan sighed deeply: "I have wronged that child of the Su family." He ordered someone to give their family a heavy gift.
Su Zheng almost beat out the gift-giver! He endured it so hard that his teeth hurt from the anger. As soon as they left, the old man ordered to throw all the gifts out. Su Cheng quickly said: "Grandpa! This thing is
Innocent! If you don’t want me, give it all to me and I’ll keep it for my private use.”
Can Su Zheng ask for her things? He stumbled and shook his hands at her: "Take it, take it!" Su Cheng smiled seriously and ordered everyone to take it back to his yard, and spent half a day picking it carefully.
On the other side, Liu Xiaoqi no longer closed his eyes and messed up the gambling houses in the west of the city. If anyone went to Qi's house to cause trouble, he would disturb several gambling houses that the person frequented. After a few days, the gambling houses in the west of the city could no longer start work.
But people in the gambling house gradually realized that this young man did not kill people, only caused trouble.
On this day, Liu Xiaoqi went to a big gambling shop to cause trouble again. The boss boldly stepped forward and asked: "I wonder why this hero came to our shop? The world is not big, and we are friends when we meet each other. Everything is fine."
discuss."
Liu Xiaoqi glanced at him coldly and said: "These are the gambling people who make the neighbors uneasy when they lose money. I will demolish your gambling shop today and give them nowhere to gamble. Naturally, they will not disturb them anymore."
The streets are all over." Then he tore down the roofs of other people's houses and walked away.
After returning home, everyone else was asleep. Liu Xiaoqi quietly walked outside Guan Liusi's house, knocked on the door, and whispered: "Don't worry, fourth brother, my younger brother is rectifying the chaos in the west of the city." After saying that, Liu turned around and left.