Situ Cen was worried that his mother wanted him to help his brother give birth to a son. At that time, the officers and soldiers and the bandits were fighting on Mopan Mountain. The officers and soldiers were obviously suffering losses. Zhou Hu and General Sun thought that their own firearms had the upper hand, so it would be easy to capture the mountain.
Unexpectedly, the bandits also have firearms in their hands. Although there are not many, they can take advantage of the mountain to defend or attack secretly. They often succeed. It is a small mountain and cannot be attacked for a long time. General Sun gradually becomes anxious. Zhou Hu advised: "Fang
Xiong is also a military general, and the men and horses hidden under him must not be ordinary bandits, but serious officers and soldiers." General Sun thought for a moment and sent people back to Chengdu to ask for more supplies and food, and prepared to stay here permanently to surround the mountains.
The king of Shu was very anxious when he got the reward. After thinking about it again and again, he sent another general and an army to fight quickly. He couldn't leave a bandit. Situ Cen didn't know about this at first, and was slacking off work at home. The prince specially sent him away.
An important aide came over to tell him, and asked His Highness what he thought. Situ Cen said casually: "Why bother, you are killing a chicken with a bull's knife." But just at this moment, Jia Cong came.
Situ Cen had just sent away the two women whom his mother had given him for borrowing seeds yesterday, and Mrs. Qiu sent someone to tell Chen Ruijin. Jia Cong then asked for favors. Now that he was here, Situ Cen naturally asked him about the matter casually.
After hearing this, Jia Cong thought for a long time and looked at the staff member: "You are the prince's most caring person, aren't you?"
The staff member smiled and said: "It counts."
Jia Cong said: "You go back and tell the prince that 80% of the efforts to polish Panshan will not achieve what he wanted. Ask him to quickly send another person to Fuping County to kill Magistrate Tian and confiscate his home."
Situ Cen couldn't help but sit up straight: "What's going on?"
Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said: "What General Sun said is true. The enemy camp is dangerous and narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are many grain reserves. It is best to surround the mountain inch by inch and slowly suppress it. The two groups of men and horses move up together, and there is no chance that they will do the opposite.
If the bandits take advantage of them, if they don't want to run away, they have to run away as well. There are bandits all over the world now, and I don't know how many families support official bandits. What's the use of the prince? What he wants is the property that Fang Xiong has hidden.
? Mr. Tian from Fuping was also a bandit, and he was the best at escaping in that profession. A master who can easily get five hundred thousand silver notes, his wealth is definitely more than this. The prince will steal him as soon as possible, if he can get
No matter how much benefit there is, it will comfort the prince's heart when he fails to make money."
Situ Cen said: "Zhou Hu is very skilled in martial arts and knows the way. Can we let him secretly go to the bandit camp and capture the female bandit leader first?"
Jia Cong's eyes lit up: "It's also a way! It's just that the bandits' den must be heavily guarded now. If it doesn't work, it's important to protect Zhou's life. And the female bandit leader 90% doesn't know where the things are hidden."
Situ Cenqi asked: "She doesn't know?"
Jia Cong rolled his eyes: "Why else would her brother be still alive?"
Situ Cen said "Oh" and glanced sideways at him: "That fellow Taoist of yours..."
Jia Cong said casually: "He left a few years ago. But..." He frowned slightly, and then said after a while, "He has a strange temperament. He must have been forced to leave."
Situ Cen and his staff looked at each other: "Isn't he from the Fang family?"
Jia Cong smiled bitterly and said, "Have you never seen a black-eyed chicken fighting among itself?"
Situ Cen snorted: "If you fall into that position, you still have to fight among yourself."
Jia Cong said: "Without that money, the trees will fall and the hozens will scatter; if there is something tempting, there will be infighting." He shook his head and said, "The Fang family, starting from Fang Xiong, has performed its own strength all the way." Staff.
After hearing what he said with certainty, he stood up to say goodbye and returned to the Prince's Mansion.
Hearing that the young man was leading the man away, Jia Cong looked at Situ Cen and said, "Just pretend to be unambitious, don't go too far."
Situ Cen crossed his legs: "Do you believe me when I say I have no ambition?"
"Don't believe it."
Situ Cen sighed, "I really meant it when I said I wanted to have another month of fun. We just got married!" He complained, "I should be on my honeymoon right now."
"Anyway, the prince's meaning is very clear today. He is happy for you to come out to participate in military affairs." Jia Cong stretched his waist, "By the way, my wife wants to marry your wife, that courageous little girl.
It’s called Jingle Bell.”
Situ Cen thought for a while: "Ring the bell."
"Oh, Bell. The maids all have similar names."
Situ Cen frowned slightly: "My wife likes that girl very much. Why doesn't your wife come out without anyone?"
"If it's troublesome, we only take bodyguards with us when we go out." Jia Cong said, "You can only help carry a message, borrow it for envoys, and forget it if you don't want to part with it. All of your maids in Shu have low eyebrows and flattery, and they speak softly.
She looks languid. Will you pay her back when we are leaving?"
Situ Cen smiled and said, "It's just a maid. You can take her with you on the way. What else?" He thought for a while, "I'd better ask her."
"Yeah, yeah." Jia Cong waved, "Go, go, go!"
Situ Cen then went to the back to see his wife. Qiu was stunned when she heard this: "Mr. Jia has come to ask me for a bell on behalf of Third Grandma?"
Situ Cen said: "The maids in their Taiwanese government are all very brave and brave. One of them is worth three of our envoys. For about a while, we can't find anyone in Chengdu who is suitable and trustworthy. Jia Cong said he would pay you back when he leaves."
Qiu thought for a while: "How can a little girl be asked to pay back? Besides, Grandma Jia San not only helped us both so much, but also saved my life. Man said that if you want me to have one slave, a hundred will be nothing."
That's easy to talk about." He immediately ordered a maid next to him to tell Lingdang to pack his things and leave with Mr. Jia. He also ordered Xunlingdang to hand over the identity deed together with him.
Suddenly, Ling Dang came over to kowtow to Mrs. Qiu, with tears in her eyes. Mrs. Qiu ordered her to reward her with ten taels of silver, and warned her: "Grandma Jia San is the most capable. One of the people she commanded in Taiwan is worth three. Look at this moment."
I know you are smart. You have no choice but to be a servant and do things smartly and not to be stung by scorpions." Ling Dang bowed his head and agreed. Qiu thought for a while and then said, "Mr. Jia has an origin, you follow their family
Grandma may still have some ideas to make a difference, but she must not even think about clinging to her master."
Lingdang hurriedly said: "I will never dare!"
Qiu said, "I know, but I'm just telling you in vain. I see that you and your sister are not the same person, otherwise I wouldn't dare to do anything to you, nor would I dare to send you to Grandma Jia San." He waved her hand and sent her away.
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Ling Ding came here as a dowry with Qiu family, and didn't have many belongings. Jia Cong and Situ Cen were discussing the matter of rectifying the officialdom, and they didn't have time to take her back immediately, so they borrowed Situ Cen's family's carriage to take her back to Jia Cong's horse.
OK, leave it to Chen Ruijin.
Chen Ruijin liked this little girl very much, so he asked her "What's her last name?" "Is Lingdang your real name?" Lingdang said, "My real name is Shen, and Mrs. Qiu gave me the name Lingdang."
"Oh, what are your family names?"
Bell lowered his head and said: "Call silently."
Chen Ruijin was startled: "What is it called?"
The circles around Ling Dang's eyes were already red: "My name is Mo at home. I loved to talk when I was young. My father thought my slave was noisy and wanted me to be quiet, so I gave him this name."
Chen Ruijin looked at her and said, "This is not a name given by an ordinary slave. What is your original origin?" Ling Dang immediately shed tears and lowered her head. Chen Ruijin then ordered her to get up and sit down to talk.
It turns out that the father of Ling Dang was a second-level Jinshi and was the magistrate of Luzhou. Her uncle was an official in Chengdu and mistakenly chose the fourth son of the King of Shu. The prince was very patient in doing things. When the fourth son revealed his thoughts, the prince was not angry.
Instead of killing all his people, he slowly caught the errant ones and investigated them according to law; those who were right tried to trick them into making mistakes. Although Lingdang's uncle was cautious, he still fell into the trap. Even though his father was honest, he had to sit in jail for a long time.
Come in. The uncle will be beheaded, the rest of the men will be sent to hard labor, and all the female family members will be bought by the official.
While she was in prison, Lingdang's cousin taught her how to make herself look ugly so as not to be bought by a brothel. She also taught her how to respond to people's words so that she could sell herself into a wealthy family. Lingdang said in confusion: "Sister, don't you mean wealthy?"
The servants are so busy, are they scheming?" The cousin smiled bitterly and said: "With your appearance, if you enter a small family, I will immediately attract the attention of the master, and you will not be able to escape the age of thirteen or fourteen. A big family.
There are many people in the house, so there are big changes." Because the master and slaves were originally locked up in one place, the sisters fooled the clerk in charge of the official sales and sent them to the market as maids from their uncle's family. Finally, Master Qiu San
Bought it at home.
Their parents and relatives are missing, and the two sisters depend on each other for life. Lingdang is lively and cute, and her sister is outstanding in appearance and does not like to fight. The first two years were relatively smooth until last year. Even though Lingdang's cousin lied when she entered the house.
She is two years younger, and has been working as a rough maid, and has reached the age of marrying a boy. There are so many men who are eyeing her cousin, and it is probably impossible to avoid them. The cousin is also a sweet-hearted person, in fact
She didn't want to marry a vulgar person, so she begged the housekeeper to let her comb her hair. The woman agreed, but secretly took money from several families. It happened that a forty-year-old housekeeper's wife died.
After she fell in love with her, the mother-in-law happily went to her cousin to congratulate her. Upon hearing this, the cousin knew that she was doomed. She opened her eyes blankly and said to Lingdang: "I thought it would be better for a rich family, but I was wrong.
A slave is a slave, no matter what family he is in."
Half a month later, the uncle of the Qiu family suddenly wanted to take a girl as a concubine, it was the cousin of the Shen family. Lingdang still doesn’t know what the cousin did. It’s just that men have to be busy with things outside. Grandma Qiu has found out that the cousin
Who was it, turning around and telling the uncle, "I really can't find it", and also ordered the maids of the He's Mansion to stand in front of him and let him look for it. Uncle Qiu looked at the maids of the He's Mansion one by one, and the cousin who really didn't have a bell——
The night before yesterday, my cousin had assigned a mute who was over sixty years old and cleaned toilets. At that time, she was considered a daughter-in-law, not a maid.
Lingdang was ignorant when she was at home in her early years. After being imprisoned and working as a slave for two years, she already understood many things. She didn't want to follow in the footsteps of her cousin, so she tried to find a way to show her cleverness in front of the older girl, and finally Qiu was chosen.
, and kept him at his side. After going around for a few times, he was sent to Jia's house.
After hearing this, Chen Ruijin breathed out: "I understand. I will order someone to inquire about your father. He is innocent and has practical talents, so he should not be buried. There is a shortage of talents everywhere nowadays."
Lingdang was so surprised that she knelt down and kowtowed more than a dozen times: "I would like to be a cow and a horse for grandma!"
Chen Ruijin waved his hand and said: "You don't have to do anything for me. You have a good memory and can't forget, so I can use it."
Ling Ding heard this and immediately said: "My sister has a good memory! She also never forgets what she has heard!"
Chen Ruijin frowned: "I know. If she really has talent, she will use it."
Lingdang was so happy that she burst into tears again, and after a while she said, "Grandma, my sister had no intention of hooking up with you..."
"It's understandable." Chen Ruijin shook his head, "Anyway, I will check her out."
Jia Cong came back just before dinner time. After the young couple finished eating, Chen Ruijin told the story about Ling Dang and the two sisters. He said with emotion: "It's really better for you in the future."
Jia Cong pursed his lips: "Civilization is mostly moving forward. Sex discrimination in later generations is still not small, but the profession of slaves has basically been eliminated. And women in later generations have the right not to get married. This is why they are better than now
The happiest place for a woman." He thought for a while and said, "In future generations...Sister Lin is quite famous. Although she died young." Chen Ruijin looked up at him. Jia Cong thought for a while and said, "In future generations...
She often regrets that she died early. As everyone knows, early death is also luck for her. If she had not died, no matter who she married, if the four families of Jia Shi, Wang Xue and others fell, she would not be able to escape being sold by an official. No matter she was sold into prostitution.
As a concubine or a maid, she can't choose any man she wants, that's the worst thing."
Chen Ruijin held his cheek and was stunned for a long time, then suddenly said: "I'm hesitant to help that cousin Lingdang."
"Don't you dare to use it? Are you afraid that your mind will be unstable?"
"Hmm. Those things that my cousin taught me about bells in prison...it can be seen that she has learned many methods. She will fail in the Qiu family. On the one hand, she is too weak in the slave position, and on the other hand, Grandma Qiu is brave enough - an ordinary woman
Most people don’t dare to disobey their husbands.”
Jia Cong nodded: "Theoretically, her plan should not fail."
"The bell is still small, so her cousin may not always tell her what she is thinking. Mrs. Qiu is talented and attentive. After receiving the bell, she will check it out. Even if she cannot find out that she is a young lady from the Shen family - in this section, their sister
They were reformed before they were sold into Qiu's house. A young lady from Qiu's house had no ability to find out what happened outside; she must also know what the cousin did. If the cousin is as innocent as Lingdang said, she
Why not save the cousin together? She also has a talent for remembering things, wouldn't it be useful to have a daughter-in-law around to take care of things?" Chen Ruijin said leisurely, "If I am not wrong, that cousin of the Shen family
It was the idea of the Qiu family's younger brother, the second master of the Qiu family. In ordinary wealthy families, the personal maids who serve the master well, and the maids who serve outside are often a few years late. The cousin never thought that she would be so good.
I'm about to get married soon. I can't make the decision, so the options are all crooked. Something unexpected happened, so I had no choice but to find the uncle."
Jia Cong thought for a moment: "Send a telegram and ask Uncle Wu. You see, he is smart, beautiful, capable, has a mind to climb up, and he never forgets what he has heard. Isn't it the same with Aunt Liu Yunxi who was sent to the Niu family?
Uncle Wu said that this kind of female assistant is the most rare, and it is difficult to train one out of a hundred. Anyway, I think she is more suitable to be an assistant than Meiji - Meiji is too young, and I feel guilty.
Why don't you send her to Prince Wu's Mansion and replace Mei Ji?"
Chen Ruijin burst into laughter: "Fifteen is really not young! Don't compare any girl with your Jia Gui. That's all. In that case, I'll get her out first to see what kind of virtue she is."