Chapter 345 Eryou [Part 1]
Seeing that all the masters had left, the onlookers had not dispersed and were still gathering together to chat in groups. The center of the topic was naturally inseparable from the strange "iron horse" and Jiao Shun riding on the iron horse.
"I used to burn the boiler with Mr. Jiao, but I didn't see any difference at that time. They were all slaves with two eyes. Who would have thought that the Kung Fu family would have been like this in just a few years!"
"That's your clumsy eyes! I've long seen that this person is not a mortal. Look at his stature, I'm afraid he's not half a head taller than our Uncle Rong!"
"Bad! He just relied on stealing a title from our mansion, if it were me..."
"What if you do?!"
Everyone was talking, and Lai Sheng suddenly appeared at the gate of the yard with a gloomy face, and scolded him angrily: "Everyone has dispersed quickly! Recently, it has become increasingly unruly. I have known to gather together and gossip all day long. I will see that when my wife has passed the confinement period, I will have your good fruits to eat!"
Wait for the servants to disperse themselves.
Lai Sheng looked at the direction of the back house and came out for a while, shook his head and sighed: "It's true that things in the world are impermanent."
"What is the impermanence of the world?"
At this time, someone suddenly asked curiously behind him.
When Lai Sheng looked back, it was Jia Baoyu and Li Gui. He hurriedly smiled and said, "Oh, why is Mr. Bao coming? I'll let you know that our master is going!"
As he said that, he would call someone when he acted.
"not busy."
Jia Baoyu hurriedly grabbed him and asked, "I heard that Brother Jiao had just rode an iron horse?"
"Has this all reached the Western Palace?"
Lai Sheng smiled and said, "It's so happening. Mr. Jiao rode an iron horse just now. There were two wheels under the iron horse. It was more agile than a horse. Is it a rare thing for me to see? The things and people are in our mansion, so I'd go and say something to Mr. Jiao..."
"No, no!"
Jia Baoyu quickly waved his hand to refuse, and asked hesitantly: "What are Brother Jiao doing now?"
"Maybe it's about business?"
Lai Sheng said with uncertainty: "I heard that, Mr. Jiao seems to be going to sell the iron horse with our mansion..."
"Discuss business?"
When Jia Baoyu heard this, his brows immediately frowned.
Lai Sheng waited for a long time but didn't see him knowing what to do, so he had to ask again: "Second Master, you are..."
"Forget it."
Before he could ask clearly, Jia Baoyu suddenly shook his head: "Since I'm talking about serious things, I'll just go there myself, there's no need to alarm Brother Jiao."
As he said that, he bowed slightly to Lai Sheng, led Li Gui around and left, left Ningguo Mansion, and then took a car to Zuoanmen.
When I arrived near Zuoanmen, there were already yamen runners waiting on the street, leading the carriage around to a dilapidated alley, pointing to the bottom of the alley, saying, "Master Bao Er, the scar-faced man lives in the inner room. If the carriage cannot be entered, it is better for me to go and call him out to pay my respects."
"Don't!"
Jia Baoyu hurriedly called the yamen runner, helped Li Gui get out of the car, and looked at the dilapidated room at the bottom of the alley under the sunset. He felt as if he was hurt and regretful.
Needless to say, this scarred man is naturally referring to Jiang Yuhan.
When Jiang Yuhan left the Beijing Palace, he disappeared. Baochai had the idea that he asked Baoyu to ask Jia Yucun to help find it - and Jia Yucun was really willing to work hard, and found Jiang Yuhan's lower place in just a few days.
Because Jia Baoyu was half ashamed and half afraid of Jiang Yuhan's scar face, he didn't dare to come alone, so he wanted to come with Jia Shun. But it was said that Jia Shun was discussing business at Jia Zhen and was not embarrassed to disturb him, so he came alone.
However, standing at the entrance of this alley, he still had no courage to face Jiang Yuhan, and only shook his head with tears and said, "It's here, just be here. I just need to take a look at it from afar, and I'll feel relieved."
Seeing this, Li Gui was about to persuade him, but suddenly he was stopped by someone. The man winked at him, then stepped forward and patted Jia Baoyu on the shoulder and smiled, "Since Brother Bao is here, why don't you go to your house for a cup of tea?"
Jia Baoyu was shocked and thought it was Jiang Yuhan who was coming, but when he turned around, he saw the handsome young man who was as tall as jade and was smiling at him.
"Brother Liu?"
Jia Baoyu said in surprise: "How come you are here?!"
The person who came was Liu Xianglian. He saw him raising his eyebrows into the alley and smiled, "I live here now. Where else can I go if I don't go back here at night?"
"You, aren't you in the palace?"
Jia Baoyu became more and more surprised, and turned back to the bottom of the alley and asked, "Where is the official Qi? I heard that he lives here too. Could it be that he was wrong?"
"He's here too."
Liu Xianglian said, "When he was in the Beijing Palace a while ago, I heard that he was also persecuted by King Zhongshun, so I often went over and saw each other, not wanting to get angry with each other. Later, when he was run away by the servants of the palace, he only told me alone."
"I went to find Shui Rong for this, and then I realized that he was also a turbid thing that judges people by his appearance! So I simply moved out and now I am a neighbor of Brother Jiang in this alley."
After hearing Liu Xianglian criticized King Beijing Shuirong, Jia Baoyu didn't say anything, so he could only awkwardly distort this and asked about Jiang Yuhan's recent situation.
Liu Xianglian smiled freely and said, "Although his appearance and throat are not good, his body is already good. Someone came to the door to ask for trouble. He fought fiercely in this alley. The two of us joined forces to defeat several rascals."
Jia Baoyu was shocked when he heard this: "Why are there any rascals in this?!"
He immediately grabbed Liu Xianglian and insisted on raising money to buy a property for the two of them.
"Brother Duo Chengbao, kindness."
Liu Xianglian bowed and said seriously: "It's true that Qi Guan and I will follow Baoling Hou to the south at the end of next month. We may not be able to come back in three to five years. Even if we buy an industry in Beijing?"
"Kei wants to go to the West, too?"
Jia Baoyu was startled first, and then became envious: "I heard that Sister-in-law Zhen's third sister is going to go with her brother. This beauty has all her friends, so she is really envious."
He thought of the beautiful scene where Liu Xianglian stood proudly on the bow of the boat, You Sanjie on the left, Jiang Yuhan on the right, and the three of them rode the wind and broke the cold, and he was a little confused and wanted to replace him.
Liu Xianglian wondered: "Do you know the third girl of the You family?"
"It's not serious."
Jia Baoyu smiled and said, "Didn't our flower hall be demolished before? The Mid-Autumn Festival is held in the East Mansion. At that time, I saw it once or twice, and my appearance and figure are the best choices - didn't you always say you wanted to find a stunning person to be your wife, now it's time to get what you want."
"This...ah!"
Liu Xianglian sighed when she heard this and wanted to speak to Jia Baoyu but stopped.
"What's wrong?"
Jia Baoyuqi said: "You have always been a cheerful person, why are you hesitating now?"
Liu Xianglian then said, "The road is full of difficulties and dangers. As a man, I don't know if I can handle it. How dare I take a weak woman to sea? I was just afraid that she would come to the door and make it difficult to tell me. I will just be silly. When I head south, I will tell her clearly and let her find another wishful husband."
"this……"
Jia Baoyu frowned when he heard this, hoping to persuade him that he would rather die together than let the beauty down, but after thinking about it, why didn’t he let down Lin Daimei?
The monk didn't say that he was bald, he could only let him go.
…………
Let’s talk about it back to Ningguo Mansion.
Just as Jia Baoyu left in the car, Jiao Shun and Jia Zhen were talking about doing business together while discussing the matter of doing business together.
I heard Jiao Shun say: "I am responsible for the car manufacturing workshop. You are exploring the shop. The Ministry of Works will give 10,000 taels of silver based on the car manufacturing skills. Let's take out another 20,000 taels of each, which is a total of 50,000 taels of capital."
"this……"
After hearing the capital plan, Jia Zhen frowned and stroked his beard and shook his head: "It's just a ready-made craft. It's probably not appropriate to let the Ministry of Works convert the capital into 10,000 taels of silver? We are all our own family, so it's nothing to be more or less, but how can the court take advantage of it for nothing? Besides, they don't know the goods, and if they follow me, they will just take a few hundred taels of silver."
"You can't say that."
Jiao Shun also shook his head: "After all, I am practicing in the Ministry of Works. I took the things from the yamen for nothing and sold them outside. If I finally lost money, I would have to complain about this matter. How can I still do this business safely at that time?"
"And if we give these 20% of the shares, we can show off the golden sign of the Ministry of Industry when we take out things in the future. This is better than advertising in the newspaper for half a year!"
"Besides, this thing cannot be made by a single workshop. It would be easier to integrate the workshops without taking advantage of the title of the Ministry of Works?"
Although Jia Zhen was still unwilling to accept this, she was not willing to make more controversy, so she asked about the details of the bicycle again.
Jia Rong was wandering around, thinking about what benefits she could get from it.
"Cough~"
At this moment, someone outside the door coughed lightly. The three of them turned their heads and looked at each other. Yindie was standing outside the door and leaning into the inside. Seeing that she looked over, she gave a little salute and said, "Madam has a few words to tell me to Mr. Jiao."
Jiao Shun immediately looked at Jia Zhen when he heard this. Although he had turned against him now, he always had to give this local tyrant three-point face in front of Jia Zhen.
I heard Jia Zhen laugh and waved his hand indifferently, "Go and come back quickly, I'll wait for you to continue drinking."
However, when Jiao Shun claimed the crime and left the flower hall, he immediately turned gloomy and gritted his teeth and cursed: "What a rude little hoof, he has become increasingly lacking in his eyes!"
As he said that, he picked up a chopstick and chewed hard, as if he was about to chew someone.
Seeing this, Jia Rong moved her chair to his side, and her eyes lit up, quietly proposing: "Master, why don't we just come and kill the chicken to warn the monkey, so that our wife will not be more and more proud, and she will be able to make a fortune for the wild man!"
"Ph~"
Jia Zhen tilted his head and spat on his face, throwing his chopsticks and bones onto the table, and cursed unhappily: "I just know that I am thinking about my family, and you don't even look at the fact that Jiao's surname is taking shape. If it really becomes a climate, we will be pointing at him for the rest of our lives. Why bother offending him for the sake of a woman?"
As he said that, he sneered, "I now think that I have two more sons. After the older ones are filial, the younger ones are filial. If you really want to talk about it, whoever takes advantage of the advantage may not be sure of whoever suffers! "
Not to mention how in the jacquard hall.
But Yindie and Jiao Shun whispered a few times in the corner, and then turned back to Youshiyuan.
Here, Youshi, You Laoniang and You Erjie were also having meals.
You Shi was calm in the main position and advised You to use wine from time to time. However, both You and his daughter were a little nervous, afraid that You Shi was presenting the Hongmen Banquet.
But until he finished using the meal, Youshi never took the matter out like Yindian, and never asked about the private relationship between You Erjie and Jiao Shun.
While this made Old Madam You secretly relieved, she couldn't help but feel suspicious.
When the maids came in to clean up the dishes, she pretended to ask for help, but took the opportunity to pull Yindie to the outside room. Qiqiai Ai asked: "Miss Yindie, is the words you said before? Is it your wife's meaning?..."
Yindie covered her mouth and laughed. When she smiled, her Madam You and the second monk were confused and then she explained: "Don't the old lady in the family know that our wife's mind is now all about the young master?"
"So, is it the girl's own meaning?"
Old Madam You became more and more puzzled. She was thinking hard and couldn't figure it out, so she had to continue asking: "What is that girl doing this for?"
"Of course it's to please Mr. Jiao!"
Yindie said half-truely: "To be honest, our wife has promised me to Mr. Jiao long ago. After two years, my brother will be older and will send me to the Jiao family. At that time, whether to be a maid or an aunt, it will be all based on Mr. Jiao's words."
"Now I see that the second girl is interested, and Mr. Jiao may not be unintentional, so I try to make a move and sell it well. As for whether the matter will be successful in the end, it will not be my control."
This was not true, but Mrs. You believed it after hearing this, and secretly glad that she didn't speak recklessly during the meal, otherwise she would have backfired.
Then she couldn't help asking: "I wonder when the girl plans to lead the second... to lead us to see Mr. Jiao?"
"That's it..."
Yindie sighed helplessly and said, "I originally wanted to invite the old man to the next door and then lead the second girl to quietly meet him. Uncle Jiao had already gone home when I found the flower hall in the backyard. It seems that I am destined to be destined to be unfamiliar today. Let's wait until I have the chance next time."
When Mrs. You heard this, she was disappointed. She returned to the inner room listlessly and pulled You Erjie to say goodbye and leave.
Unexpectedly, he was about to rush forward, but the little maid who led the way led them to the East Gate. Old Madam You couldn't help but say in surprise: "This place is close to the West Gate, and you always go to the West Gate. Why are you trying to get far away today?"
"How could I know this?"
The little maid shook her head and said, "The above said there is a car waiting for Dongjiaomen."
Seeing that she was also in a ignorant manner, Old Madam You didn't ask any more questions.
When I arrived outside the Dongjiao Gate, I saw a carriage waiting not far away. Unlike ordinary carriages, the horse was extremely tall and burly.
My mom You recognized that it was a Western horse raised in Ningguo Mansion. It was usually the most precious, but it was usually only Jia Zhen and Youshi who could ride it when they went out, and even Jia Rong had no right to call it.
She was the most vain person. Seeing this, she was so unwilling that she immediately left. She pulled her daughter closer and circled around the horse three times, and said in amazement: "Good horse, good horse, what a big horse!"
As he said that, he saw Sister You lowered her eyebrows and eyes lowered by the shaft of the car, looking trembling, and couldn't help but laugh and scold, "You girl is so timid. You are so chewing on your mouth. Can you still bite you?"
Sister You Er glanced at her secretly and whispered to her mother to look into the car.
Chapter completed!