As soon as the maid named Fenxiang walked in, Jia Cong knew that she was a master with a high IQ. Normally, men are more confident than women, masters are more confident than servants, and scholars are more confident than farmers, industrialists, and businessmen. But this Fenxiang had a kind of "you stupid human beings" in her eyes.
Feeling the sight, he couldn't help but squint his eyes. However, Fenxiang immediately restrained his energy, lowered his eyebrows and saluted Mrs. Dai, and then followed the master's words to salute Mr. Jia and Shopkeeper Wu.
Jia Congnai said: "Interrogation is a very profound knowledge that cannot be learned in an instant. I'm afraid it will take some time."
Mrs. Dai quickly said: "Sir, just teach her a few things at will."
Jia Cong nodded: "Then give it a try. I haven't seen a genius yet."
Mrs. Dai smiled, and her plump face seemed to light up. She gave Fenxiang a few words and said goodbye. Fenxiang personally escorted her out and whispered at the door: "Don't worry, Madam." Mrs. Dai laughed again and patted her.
Patted her hand.
Back in the room, the confidence on Fenxiang's face suddenly rose again. Jia Cong looked at her and asked: "Have you ever studied?"
Fenxiang was startled: "No."
Jia Cong smiled and said: "Back then, Mrs. Dai killed her cousin, who was Mr. Dai's mother. Were you the one scheming behind her back?"
Fenxiang lowered his head slightly: "Yes."
"Why are you helping her? I don't think you are someone who would push yourself into a desperate situation and ask her to save your life."
Fenxiang couldn't help but raise her head and look at Jia Cong, thought for a moment and said, "Our wife is a good person."
Jia Cong shook his head: "At most, he is an ordinary good person, not a particularly good person."
Fenxiang said: "Third Master's biological mother is mean to others. If she becomes our mistress, the lives of our servants will definitely be difficult."
Jia Cong wondered: "Shouldn't that kind of vixen-like woman be better at winning people's hearts? Why is she still so mean?"
"She was really generous and tight at that time." Fenxiang said, "But she was mean to the little girl she brought from home."
Jia Cong nodded: "I see. Now there are many ways to leave the Dai family and go to Guangdong, Guangxi or Taiwan to see the world and seek development. Why are you still willing to be a maid?"
Fenxiang smiled and said, "Being a maid is a leisure and a good life."
Jia Cong said: "Even the life of the maid is in the hands of others. Even though Mrs. Dai is a good person, after all she is not the one who has the final say in the Dai family. I don't know what will happen one day. Master Dai is in a bad mood and you don't like it."
, if you don’t protect everything, people will beat you to death.”
Fenxiang said: "If there is a misfortune in your life, you can't avoid it at all costs. Your Majesty is the emperor, so don't you also suffer misfortune?"
"There is also a question of probability." Jia Cong said, "Emperors and slaves encounter more misfortunes, while ordinary people encounter less misfortunes. This does not explain why you are still a maid at such an old age." He looked at it.
Fenxiang glanced at her, "And you haven't gotten married yet."
Fenxiang lowered her eyes and said, "I specifically asked our wife not to marry me, and she granted me this favor."
Jia Cong said: "If this were the capital or Chang'an, I could understand you. You are extremely talented, and you can't look down on me as a slave boy. The masters and gentlemen of the Dai family are unreliable, and they are not as good as being single. But this is Fujian.
, you have many ways to gain freedom. You are not a caged bird, but you are willing to stay in the Dai family as a single old maid, which is wrong no matter how you look at it. To put it bluntly, nine out of ten people like you are crafty."
Fenxiang was shocked and blurted out: "I'm not a craftsman!"
Jia Cong looked at her: "Isn't it a trick? Does it mean you have a grudge against the Dai family and want to stay at their house to take revenge?" Fenxiang shook his head vigorously. Jia Cong touched his chin and thought for a while, "Is there an enemy outside? I dare not go out.
Are you afraid that your enemies will find you?"
Fenxiang said: "Mr. Jia, why do you bother me? Everyone has their own ambitions, but I just want to live in peace and be a maid."
Jia Cong said: "If you just sold it to the Dai family in the past two years, I believe it. Because you may have experienced the ups and downs of the world, your heart is despairing, and you just want to live the rest of your life in peace. The dispute between Mrs. Pian Dai and her cousin happened many years ago
It's an old thing - after all, Dai Sanye's mother didn't even start a career, and her son is already so old. It can be inferred that you were still a very young girl when you gave Mrs. Dai advice. Such a young child, no matter what he has experienced
No matter what you live through, you will not be able to break the mortal world. Moreover, the moment you entered this door, your sharpness was sharp. People who have been polished by the world will not make this mistake. At this point, you can rule out the possibility of being frustrated and world-weary. You would have been seven years earlier
Eight years later, I would have suspected that you were a key criminal arrested by the imperial court. But in this world, even Prince Yi Zhong has been rehabilitated. I can't find the reason why Miss Fenxiang is living in the Dai family."
Fenxiang smiled bitterly and said: "A woman doesn't have much ambition..."
Jia Cong interrupted her: "If Miss Fenxiang was a traditional virtuous woman, she would have chosen a fool and a loyal one among the boys to marry." Fenxiang was stunned.
Wu Xiaoxi sighed softly at the side: "Miss Fenxiang, don't blame Mr. Jia for being aggressive. There are a lot of doubts about you. How can I dare to ask you to interrogate Xizuo if I don't understand? The world is in such chaos, and the princes are not fuel-efficient lamps. We are also afraid
A wolf in front and a tiger in the back.”
Fenxiang was silent for a long time and sighed: "This slave is a son of the Dai family. If Mr. Jia doesn't believe it, just check it out."
Jia Cong said: "Of course I will check, and you have to ask." Then he looked at Wu Xiaoxi.
Wu Xiaoxi shrugged and said: "I am a businessman, this kind of thing is not my responsibility."
Jia Cong had no choice but to call a boy who was following him to come in and ordered: "Send news to your family and check on the maid named Fenxiang who lives next to Mrs. Dai Xian." The boy left in response.
Fenxiang didn't expect that he would order someone to check her origins in person, so she was startled. After a while, she lowered her head and said, "Mr. Jia, there is no need to check. A slave can't be considered a true family-born son."
Jia Cong glanced at her: "If I don't check, you won't tell me."
Fenxiang closed her eyes: "I am indeed a son of the Dai family. I... my mother bought it later."
Jia Cong waited for a moment and couldn't help but said: "You were brought here by your mother, right? Your father is not your biological father."
Jia Cong asked again: "So, who is your biological father?" Fenxiang remained silent. Jia Cong asked again, "Is your mother your biological mother or your estranged mother?" Fenxiang was shocked; Wu Xiaoxi couldn't help but look at Jia Cong with a smile.
At a glance, Jia Cong thought to himself that he had exhausted all the bloody stories for later generations, but these were the only ones left~~ "Your mother-in-law disguised you as her own daughter. Does it mean that your family suffered from official misfortune?"
Fenxiang shook her head and said, "I don't know, my mother never even mentioned my last name."
Jia Cong turned around and asked Wu Xiaoxi: "It must have been more than 20 years ago when she was a child. What would happen if she suffered an official disaster? Prince Yi Zhong?"
Wu Xiaoxi said: "The imperial court is fierce in party disputes, and there have been many official misfortunes, and Prince Yi Zhong is not the only one. Besides, he may not be unjust."
Jia Cong said: "Everything that harms our children and grandchildren will be unjustly punished. That's all. If your mother-in-law doesn't dare to tell you, she must be cowardly. If you ask her, she may not be willing to tell you. Why don't we investigate."
Fenxiang's eyes lit up, and she immediately said, "I'm really not a meticulous worker. Mr. Jia doesn't need to worry about this matter."
Jia Cong said: "I understand how you feel. Since it's not the case, wouldn't it be better to find out? Everyone can rest assured. Miss Fenxiang, Fujian and Taiwan are now tied to the same boat, and this matter involves a wide range of things. I will be very sorry if it hurts your self-esteem.
Feel sorry."
Fenxiang's face was complicated, a little excited and a little uncomfortable. After a while, she lowered her head and said, "I understand." Wu Xiaoxi then ordered her to be placed in a wing in the backyard to rest temporarily.
Two days later, at night, someone came to the Red Bones and asked to see Jia Cong. When Jia Cong went out to take a look, the man looked at him and bowed. Jia Cong was surprised and happy: "Oh, it's your boy! Let Gong Kun
Where did it go? You haven’t returned to Chengtian Mansion for several years, haven’t you?”
The person who came was actually Zi Guang, Jia Cong's personal servant when he was a child. Since arriving in Taiwan, Zi Guang no longer followed Jia Cong, and was sent to work under Hong. Xiu, helping to manage the miscellaneous items in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Less than half a year later,
Gong Kun asked this guy to leave, saying he was short of manpower. A few years ago, he said he had been promoted and was stationed outside the island. Jia Cong never saw him again. The co-author is stationed outside the island in Fuzhou.
Jia Congnai led him into the house, and after taking another look at his clothes, he knew that he had done something carefully. Ziguang was wearing a satin robe, but he was wearing a pair of old cloth shoes. It was impossible for him to have no money to buy new shoes.
, he must have been dressed like this on purpose to prevent anyone from watching him outside the Red Bones and looking back to check him.
When the two arrived at the house where Jia Cong lived, Zi Guang saluted again and shouted with tears in his eyes: "Third Master!"
Jia Cong sighed: "My eldest brother-in-law let you do this."
Ziguang said: "Fortunately, there is no danger. I am now working as a small manager at Jia's horse racing company and I have just been promoted." He pointed to the shoes and said, "When the salary increases, I will buy clothes first, and I will replace the new shoes next month." Jia Cong pointed to the shoes.
Zi Guang couldn't help but smile. Zi Guang also laughed, "I'm in charge of collecting and inquiring about information here in Fujian."
Jia Cong nodded: "It's probably safer at the horse shop. Did you come over unexpectedly today?"
Zi Guang said hurriedly: "We have someone in the Dai family who has found out about the maid named Fenxiang that the Third Master mentioned. Her mother took her and sold her to the Dai family twenty-one years ago. Then she went to look for that person Yazi. That person
Although he died five years ago, one of his clerks was still there at that time. The clerk said that the fennel and its mother were bought from Jinling."
Jia Cong frowned: "That far?"
Ziguang said: "The guy still remembers that I wanted to buy a few good-looking girls in Jinling and sell them to Hualou as foster mothers. There was a wealthy family that was selling slaves who had committed crimes. The mother and daughter were extremely cheap.
, the steward also said that her mother was good at cooking Huaiyang cuisine, so he bought it and wanted to sell it to a wealthy family in the south to work as a cook. Who knew that when she arrived in Fujian, she learned that her mother only knew a few ordinary side dishes. Fortunately, she originally knew how to cook Huaiyang dishes.
She is cheap, but she still makes money in the end."
Jia Cong asked: "Who is that big family?"
Ziguang smiled and said: "It is from the residence of Mr. Zhen Yingjia, the president of Jinling Provincial Tiren Academy."
Jia Cong touched his chin: "No, this identity is too shameless. If Fenxiang's mother is just afraid of the Zhen family, the Zhen family has been ransacking their homes for many years."
Zi Guang said: "The man from Ren Yazi also said that mother and daughter were not born in the Zhen family, but were bought from outside not long ago."
"That's wrong again." Jia Cong said, "For a wealthy family like the Zhen family, there is never a shortage of servants at home, which is not much different from our family in the capital. Why do you go out to buy a mother and daughter for no reason? Is it Fennel's?
Mother is very beautiful, but Fenxiang is average in appearance.”
Ziguang smiled and said: "If she is beautiful, why would Renyazi buy her as a cook?"
Jia Cong thought about the ending of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" he watched in his previous life, and said: "Could it be that something happened to the first master's family, and all the slaves were sold to the government. Official sales are cheap, and the Zhen family must take advantage of that and sell the slaves of that family.
Bought a lot. The mother and daughter lived in the Zhen family for several years and were sold for unknown reasons."
Zi Guang thought: "Third Master is suspicious that Fenxiang has a good background?"
Jia Cong said: "Smartness can be born, but temperament is mostly acquired. A maid in the back house who never leaves home, who is neither humble nor overbearing, must be educated by someone. If you don't understand her thoroughly, how can you judge what this person should do?
Should I kill it or should I use it? How should I use it? Let the other end of Jinling help me check."
Zi Guang took the order. The two talked about their experiences in the past few years, reminiscing about their childhood, and they were quite emotional. Wu Xiaoxi came over after finishing his work. The three of them met and introduced Fenxiang to her.
After telling her mother's experience, Wu Xiaoxi thought: "Jinling and Fuzhou are far away, could it be that the Zhen family collapsed and Fenxiang's mother-in-law didn't even know about it?"
Jia Cong held his cheek and said: "The Dai family is the richest man in Fujian, and the family of merchants is the best informed. Fenxiang has his own way of knowing. They left Jinling twenty-one years ago, and Fenxiang must have been seven or eight years old at that time. Such a genius
The star athletes are already very sensible at the age of seven or eight. The Zhen family sold their mother and daughter back then and sent them to Fujian. Fenxiang will miss the Zhen family. If the Zhen family collapses, Fenxiang will definitely be very happy to go home and tell them.
Her mother-in-law." After thinking about it for a long time, she scratched her head and said, "I really can't think of any other pressure that would make her mother-in-law afraid to this day. Even the imperial court was demolished, right? No matter what crime Fenxiang's biological father committed,
, Aren’t we all forgetting the blame? There is no one to blame even if we want to.”
The three of them were worried about the candle until the fourth watch. They couldn't guess the possibility, so they had to go to bed in despair.
The next day, Jia Cong asked Fenxiang to go home and meet her mother. He also warned: "Now there is no one you can be afraid of."
Fenxiang wondered: "Why does Mr. Jia insist on finding out the origin of this slave?"
Jia Cong said: "Because you are a talented person. I hate to see secret tricks. If you do it carefully, I have to consider how much money I can blackmail your master's family. If you don't do it carefully, I want to poach you to work."
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Fenxiang immediately lowered her head and said, "Mr. Xie Jia is blue-eyed. I really have no ambition."
Jia Cong hummed: "A smart person who is less than thirty years old and has not experienced big storms has no ambition. If it were you and me, would you believe it? I don't know what your mother has taught you. She must have values.
Hua' did a great job. We can't waste you just because she's afraid. Miss Fenxiang, this era needs talents more than in the past and in the future. You have helped Mrs. Dai so much, so you should be confident and ask for more benefits, not just
It’s just to protect you from arrogantly marrying boys, it’s not even a benefit.”
Fenxiang smiled bitterly and said: "My mother told me day and night to be more clumsy, but I finally showed my cleverness. This thing almost scared her to death."
"Then we need to understand more!" Jia Cong said, "Did your biological father and the whole family suffer hardships because of their cleverness?"
Fenxiang was at a loss for a moment, and said: "It seems that it is not clever, but clever." After a moment of silence, she said, "Our family is not suffering from official troubles... In fact, we are suffering from official troubles..."
Seeing that she was struggling, Jia Cong thought for a long time and suddenly thought of a possibility: "Ah! Was the family destroyed by the mysterious man in black on a rainy night?" Fenxiang was stunned! Jia Cong knew that he had guessed right again. "Ouchi guards? You guys?"
The family must have been involved in some heirloom or something like that."
Fenxiang was silent for a long time, and suddenly said softly: "My grandfather was a skilled carpenter. He went to Beijing to work under the imperial decree of the late emperor, and won the Holy Heart. He was made a fourth-grade idle official and returned to his hometown to retire."
"Carpenter?" Jia Cong was puzzled, "Is there a carpenter who wants to be silenced? What did your grandfather make?" Fenxiang shook his head. Jia Cong suddenly remembered something and couldn't help shouting, "Ouch!"