It was said that Liu Xiaoqi disguised herself as a woman and sneaked into Su's house. Su Cheng laughed for a long time and endured it several times before she could bear it. Then she ordered everyone else to go out: "I have something to say with Miss Ren Qi." Several maids retreated one after another, and Su Cheng
Cheng looked at Liu Xiaoqi's face and wanted to smile again.
Liu Xiaoqi had no choice but to say, "You might as well laugh happily and let's talk later." Su Cheng seriously bent over the desk and laughed hard for a long time.
She finally stopped laughing, and Liu Xiaoqi bowed seriously: "Please help Miss Su."
"That's all." Su Cheng said crisply, "If I don't want to help you, just pretend that I don't know you. How did you end up like this? Aren't you good at climbing over walls?"
Liu Xiaoqi smiled bitterly and said, "Others can do it too. I escaped from home."
Su Cheng clapped her hands: "Well done! Did your grandfather get so angry that he jumped on his feet?"
"I don't know." Liu Xiaoqi said, "I wanted to go to Rongguo Mansion to inquire about the whereabouts of my fourth brother - he also escaped."
Su Cheng asked quickly: "Where is his daughter?"
"Our whole family is in Beijing, and he didn't dare to show up in front of his niece for a while." Liu Xiaoqi said with a smile, "I thought Brother Cong had a clue, but he didn't know anything about it and was still at their house.
I bumped into my second brother. Fortunately, I calmed down and coaxed him over temporarily. I pretended to drag Brother Cong with me to go to Yihongyuan to investigate. He left first. I'm afraid the second brother is fast.
, the family got the message, and they didn’t dare to go out from Yihongyuan like that, so they pretended like this." Su Cheng laughed again. Liu Xiaoqi waited for a while before continuing, "I just went to wander elsewhere first, and I took advantage of this.
While parking the car, I sent the girl who was following me to talk to someone, and sure enough I found someone from our family getting closer to eavesdrop."
Su Cheng asked: "Could it be that someone in your family found out?"
Liu Xiaoqi said: "No matter how good Mr. Luo's makeup skills are, he can't coax others to do so. The man's frame is still there. He just wants to follow me and try to find traces of the fourth brother."
Su Cheng glanced at him: "Are you sincere in bringing him to our house?"
"Yes, are you afraid, Miss Su?"
Su Cheng hummed: "My uncle is from the lower realm of Nezha. What do I have to be afraid of? If the sky falls, my elders will hold it up."
Liu Xiaoqi said with a smile: "Miss Su's life is better than that of the princess."
Su Cheng raised her little head proudly: "That's not true!" and then said, "What do you want me to do for you?"
Liu Xiaoqi whispered: "Borrow a tall maid to change into my clothes, and then borrow a carriage to send her and the little maid from Yihongyuan to sit together, drink a pot of tea, and then we can go.
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"Don't you mean that people in your family can tell the difference between men and women?"
Liu Xiaoqi said: "That has to be seen by someone who gets out of the car. Whenever I run around, he will think that I am looking for my fourth brother and he will not dare to scare me easily."
Su Cheng asked curiously: "Is a master like you so easy to deceive?"
"It's just a coincidence that I know what he wants." Liu Xiaoqi said, "Otherwise, in a hard fight, I might not be my opponent based on my ability."
Su Cheng pouted and said, "Well, anyway, you know these things better than me." Then he called a taller maid to come in and take a look. She turned to look at Liu Xiaoqi and smiled again.
After a while, a maid went out from the back door and gave five hundred coins to the waiting carriage driver, saying: "Our family has sent another carriage to take Miss Ren back. Please wait, this is a reward from our girl."
." The carriage driver didn't know what the relationship between our young lady and the kiln sister was, but fortunately the reward was enough. He happily thanked him and drove away. The man in the straw hat was sitting under the wall and dozing off. After hearing this, he immediately picked up his feet.
Come and go.
The Su family's carriage left the front door and bumped to the west of the city, arriving at a house. Two women got out of the carriage, one was a maid from Yihongyuan, and the other was wearing Liu Xiaoqi's clothes. The one wearing a straw hat immediately looked at
When he realized that the woman was not Liu Xiaoqi, he was stunned and said: "I've fallen into a trap!" Now that he was here, he took the opportunity to find out who lived here - it was a secret brothel.
As the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, Li Wan and Shi Xiangyun were busy with festivities, and Chen Ruijin and Princess Jian'an were busy building a girls' school. Jia Cong and Jia Huan had nothing to do in the evening, so they chatted in Lixiangyuan. Jia Huan talked about the scenery of the journey, and the two reminisced.
He told me some past memories of his youth. But now someone came to report: "Mr. Liu, who was here two months ago, is here to visit."
Jia Huan asked: "Is that Mr. Liu?"
Jia Cong said: "That's right. It's a long story. You've just come back, and I haven't had time to tell you many things yet." Nai ordered him to come in.
Looking at Mr. Liu again, his face was long and dark, and the circles around his eyes looked like they were drawn with ink. Jia Cong was so frightened that he jumped up: "Oh my god, why do you always look like this?"
Mr. Liu gave him a cold look: "Mr. Jia, don't you know?"
Jia Cong said: "Isn't there a child who is rebellious in adolescence? Which family is not like this? Is it necessary to make it so serious?"
Mr. Liu said: "I won't talk nonsense with you. Where is Xiao Qi?"
Jia Cong spread his hands: "I don't know. Neither Brother Liu nor Xiao Qi revealed where they were going or what they were doing. But I know why Xiao Qi ran away from home."
"Why?"
"After all, Fourth Brother Liu already has a daughter, and Xiao Qi hasn't said anything about the marriage yet." Jia Cong asked, "Will he be a bachelor all his life without children?"
Mr. Liu frowned and said, "He is not yet old enough. When the time comes, there will naturally be a way to match him with a woman."
Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "You always say 'naturally there will be a way', but you have never thought of it at all. Is it possible that your family is just doing this and just treating the whole family as monks? When the youngest dies, will the Liu family be clean?"
Mr. Liu let out a long sigh, looked at him for a long time, sat down, poured himself a cup of tea and ate it. He was silent for a long time before saying, "How did you know... we are all sinners in our family."
"ha?"
Mr. Liu shook his head and said, "My father has committed a very serious crime and should have been executed long ago." He remained silent.
Jia Cong and Jia Huan looked at each other. Jia Huan poked Jia Cong as usual and said, "You can talk nonsense." Jia Cong thought for a long time and did not dare to finish the sentence and said: "Old man, if you want to say that, my great-grandfather
It is also a crime, a serious crime of rebellion. It should be noted that this world originally belonged to the Zhu Ming Dynasty, but his old man took it away."
Mr. Liu said: "If I say that in the previous dynasty, the emperor was in power, the eunuchs were fighting, and they themselves lost the country, have you prepared the next sentence?"
Jia Cong faked a smile and said: "That's right. Then I say that Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, can be regarded as a wise king. No matter how wise and powerful the great grandfather is, his era has passed. As the saying goes, heroes do not ask where they come from. Use the sins of your great-grandfather to restrain Liu Si
Brother and Xiao Qi are wrong. No matter how big a crime Senior Liu Xin committed, because he is gone long ago, his crime will not increase. And your whole family has protected the emperor, the prince, the queen, the queen, and the emperor again and again.
Queen Mother, you have made meritorious deeds time and time again. No matter how serious the sins of your ancestors, the merits are almost equal to the crime. Even if he committed the serious crime of assassinating the saint, the countless rescues by his descendants can offset it."
Mr. Liu was stunned: "How could such a calculation be possible?"
Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "Isn't this the way it has been calculated since ancient times?" The old man was silent.
After waiting for half a day, Jia Cong said again: "Moreover, the sins and rewards of the Heavenly Family are all a matter of a word from the reigning saint. No matter how great the merit is, a word can be taken away; no matter how big a crime is, a word can be taken away.
The words can be forgiven. If you are really upset, how about I help you ask the little saint to issue an edict of forgiveness for the sins that Senior Liu Xinxin committed during his lifetime?"
Mr. Liu's eyes suddenly shot out two cold gleams and stared at Jia Cong: "How can you ask for it?"
"Actually, it's not a request, it's an exchange." Jia Cong said with a smile, "Because he is weak and King Yan is strong. As a confidant of King Yan, there are many ways I can help him without harming King Yan. Even
It can make him and King Yan win-win. Many times, it won't be a life-or-death situation. Of course, if he harms King Yan, I will block every path for him."
Mr. Liu was startled and said in a voice: "The world has become like this."
Jia Cong said: "Same as in the late Ming Dynasty, it was done by the Tian family themselves. To put it more clearly, it was done by the late emperor. It was not good to give the country to anyone, so it was given to the Supreme Emperor. His brothers were several better than him, and their status
It’s not lower than him, so why should you be convinced?”
Mr. Liu sighed: "The late emperor hoped that the two brothers would get along well with each other, and the wise king could help him."
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Can he trust the wise king? Whenever the Supreme Emperor secures the throne, the first person he wants to kill is the wise king, and none of the other kings will survive. The second prince he likes is also a lord of integrity, Shui Ronghuo
Chengdu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and there are still Westerners eyeing it, so we really need to change the dynasty. I say, old man, you should take a rest. It would be great if your merits and demerits are eliminated, and you can take care of yourself in retirement. Why bother to let yourself go?
I'm willing to let the child go. The master of Zhongxing doesn't know which family he came from yet, and he may not be willing to have guards like you. Fire and spears are better than swords."
Mr. Liu thought for a moment and suddenly asked: "Why doesn't Mr. Jia go to Prince Yan's house to work?"
Jia Cong said: "It's cheaper if I don't have an official position."
"So King Yan won't give you a salary?"
Jia Cong laughed twice and turned to look at Jia Huan. Jia Huan was eating watermelon. He took a handkerchief and wiped his mouth and said: "What more salary do you need! How much is the salary? Doesn't the salary also come from taxes?
?Your Majesty allowed our shop to openly smuggle and sell stolen goods for how many years."
Mr. Liu shook his head and asked, "You really don't know where they are?"
Jia Cong said: "I don't know, and they don't know each other. Brother Liu may have left Beijing or even Yan. By the way, Sister Chen likes your little great-granddaughter, who is Brother Liu's daughter, and wants to take her in."
She is a disciple. We will take her with her back to the south in the future. You won’t object, right? After all, Fourth Brother Liu has also entrusted his daughter to her."
Mr. Liu said: "That has nothing to do with our family. Our family does not raise girls."
Jia Cong nodded: "That's because you have no objection. Thank you, we will take good care of the child."
Jia Huan had wiped his hands and said, "Are you two finished?"
Jia Cong said: "I'm done. Are you okay?"
Jia Huan said: "Now that you have finished talking, Mr. Liu, how have you considered the matter of partnering as a bodyguard? Today, my fourth uncle came to the house to discuss with me. He said that he has a business deal. The young master of Xiangrui Bank has a wife. The young lady is
A wealthy family in Suzhou is a well-known beauty in the city. She has a very generous dowry and asked me if I can take it. Although Suzhou is not too far away, there are many bandits and bandits along the way. If your family is willing to work together, we can take it.
Come down. Otherwise it’s still too risky, our escort’s life is also our life.”
Without waiting for the old man to answer, Jia Cong thought to himself: "How about borrowing some temporarily unused troops from the prince to serve as bodyguards?"
Before he finished speaking, Mr. Liu shouted: "What nonsense! How can it be unreasonable."
Jia Huan's eyes lit up and he said, "If you encounter mountain bandits or water bandits, wouldn't it be a good time to train your troops? Give some of the money you earn as escorts to the soldiers, so that they can get some hard-earned money."
Jia Cong waved his hands repeatedly: "Absolutely not! Only the prince can pay rewards to soldiers. Let's turn over the escort funds to the treasury."
Mr. Liu shouted again: "That's nonsense! How can the imperial army be used as bodyguards?"
Jia Cong said: "But ordinary people's homes, such as Xiangrui Yinlou, do not have soldiers in their hands, so they cannot defeat the mountain bandits and water bandits. Our bodyguard bureau is already the best in the capital. If the prince is willing to lend troops, our bodyguard bureau will gain a reputation.
Most of the money for the escorts has been turned over to the state treasury, the soldiers have been trained, and the common people's wives and dowries are all ready, isn't it all right? We don't know how to lead troops, so why don't we bother the general to do so?"
Jia Huan said: "Otherwise, if you always come up with ideas, what would we do about this kind of thing?"
Mr. Liu was speechless for a moment. After thinking for a long time, he sighed: "That's it. In this case, it is a good idea for our family to form a partnership with your escort agency."
Jia Huan looked at him and then at Jia Cong: "The people in your family... are really powerful."
Mr. Liu glanced at Jia Cong indifferently, and Jia Cong hurriedly said: "It's really amazing! Sister Chen's kung fu is passed down from their family."
"Oh -" Jia Huan twitched his lips, "Then I'll go see my fourth uncle tomorrow and tell him what's next? Will your family send someone there as well?"
Mr. Liu said: "It's not difficult to protect someone. You can find some way to cover up the dowry."
Jia Huan said: "We in the escort agency will always hide some rice bags, straw bundles and the like, but I'm afraid some thieves will find out. We can discuss it with my fourth uncle tomorrow. He is an expert."
Mr. Liu nodded and stood up: "That's all, let's do it. I'll send someone over tomorrow at midnight."
Jia Huan also stood up, cupped his hands and said, "See you there!"
Mr. Liu suddenly said: "Today, our seventh child went out from your Yihongyuan, specially dressed as a pink head."
"Ha?" Jia Cong couldn't help laughing when he thought about Liu Xiaoqi's face, "Then he doesn't have to wear women's clothes hahahaha..."
While he was smiling, Mr. Liu said: "First, I went to the back door of Master Song's house in Taichang Temple, and told the little fans in the kiln that Mr. Song ordered his sign and asked them to type it out; and then
He went all the way to the back door of the residence of Mr. Su Zheng, the great scholar of the Hanlin Academy. He asked to see the eldest lady of the Su family. The young lady made a pretty maid to invite him in. I don't know what she said, but no one came out.
In the end, the maid of the eldest lady of the Su family rewarded the coachman with five hundred dollars and sent him away."
Jia Cong stood up in shock, and shouted at the same time as Jia Huan: "What?!"
Mr. Liu smiled coldly, jumped up the wall and walked away!
The Jia brothers looked at each other, and Jia Cong shouted: "Liu Xiaoqi! Get out of my trap, you idiot!"
Jia Huan hurriedly asked: "Is he at our house?"
"Not here." Jia Cong said, "I'll call to calm down the fire first." He also ordered the young man to prepare his horse quickly, "I can guess where that young man is, so go find him!" (. )