Xue Baochai's pale pink lips were slightly open, her breath was as hot as fire, and her cheeks were like a burning cloud suddenly appearing in the clear sky. A pair of beautiful eyes seemed to be dripping with water, and she called urgently: "Brother Rong, listen to me first."
When did this happen? Brother Rong looked at the person in his arms. The vital parts were covered with spring light. He was plump but not bloated, and his fair skin was tinged with pink. The happiest time is about to enter, and the body and mind are waiting for bliss. Wouldn't it cost someone's life to suddenly stop? Brother Rong was in a dilemma, and suddenly he felt the person in his arms tremble slightly.
"Why is Aunt Bao crying?" Brother Rong quickly took out his hands and held Baochai's white and rosy face. Gennu wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, but the tears overflowed from Baochai's bright eyes and couldn't be stopped.
After hearing what he said, Xue Baochai started to cry even more. Choking with sobs, she said, "In Brother Rong's eyes, am I such a casual woman?"
No, absolutely not. Brother Rong swore to the sky and said endless good words: "In my eyes, Aunt Bao is the purest and most innocent beautiful woman. She is Guanyin in the South China Sea, Chang'e in the Moon Palace, and a Bodhisattva. goddess."
Baochai was really frightened just now, thinking that she was going to be eaten clean by Brother Rong today. Secretly wiping a handful of tears on his face, he pulled up his clothes to cover his shame, and said, "I remember Brother Rong in my heart, and I also think about Brother Rong. I came here specifically to see Brother Rong, for fear that you might be hurt in the slightest. But I don't want to. You... I recognize you in my heart, and this innocent body will always be yours. Brother Rong took advantage of it, and I didn’t say anything else. But I agree to the matter of fornication even if I die. "
The implication is that Brother Rong can take advantage, but he cannot break through the last line of defense, otherwise it will be fornication. Baochai is very principled and sees everything clearly. She would definitely refuse to indulge in him. If Brother Rong wanted to take the final step, he had to express his feelings no matter what.
only……
Brother Rong was very clear in his heart, and it was completely impossible for him to marry Baochai as a matchmaker. It's not that he is unwilling, but that the court is unwilling, the Ministry of Rites is unwilling, and the Xue family is even less willing. ,
Seeing the embarrassment on his face, Baochai stopped making trouble and said in a low voice, "You forgot what I just told Brother Rong tonight."
What did you say?
Forgot something?
Why does this girl always like to play riddles? Don’t you know that charades are the most likely to cause misunderstandings?
Brother Rong caught the good friend from the north as punishment. Her figure is really good, a little fleshy. I originally thought that Baochai's plump body would have a small belly, but it turned out... wow, after seeing it with my own eyes, I realized that it was where it should be, and there was no fat where it should be.
"Although I no longer ask Brother Rong how to become a high official, I still want Brother Rong to strive for fame in the court." Baochai faced Brother Rong and said quietly, "Even if I don't care about that, I can't be here. I gave it to you. It has always been the order of the parents and the word of the matchmaker. Brother Rong was not prepared at all, so how could he know that you were sincere?"
"..."
Parents to enrich people. This thing is too difficult for the two of them! Seeing Brother Rong's frown, Baochai comforted him and said, "Brother Rong and Grandma Rong are now in charge of the Ningguo Mansion. As long as Grandma Rong comes to my mother in person one day, the two families will make an agreement. I will admit!"
Isn't this back to the starting point?
Although Brother Rong felt helpless, he was also unwilling to feel wronged. He hugged her and said, "One day I will go and talk to my aunt in person."
Baochai was satisfied after hearing this. Then he grabbed Brother Rong's hand and said, "It's not good to go back too late and be seen by the Lin family. I have to go back today and come to see you tomorrow morning."
Are you trying to coax a child?
How could Brother Rong be willing to give up! Suggested: "Today we just hold each other's arms and talk."
Xue Baochai originally came here to care about Jia Rong, but she gave him a lot of advantages in vain, and now she got some promises from him. Naturally, he didn't think anything of it, so he pulled Brother Rong's hand away, straightened his clothes, and said, "There are people coming and going outside the building during the day. What's the point of letting everyone see me coming out of your room?" "
"..."
Xue Baochai left decisively. As soon as she was out of Jia Rong's arms, she became the rational woman again. Only a faint fragrance was left in the room, proving that she had been here at night.
Brother Rong looked down, shook his head secretly, and sighed.
Will Aunt Xue agree? No matter how thick-skinned he is, if he shamelessly reveals that he has an affair with Baochai, I'm afraid it will have the opposite effect. Which mother wants her daughter to follow someone else without a name or status, or to lower herself to become an aunt?
Unless... in the end, it's still a matter of title.
The next day, noon.
Everyone in the Lin Mansion had not yet seen Jia Lian return. Lin Ruhai sent several boys out to look for him, but there was no news for several hours.
Jia Rong secretly said: "I hope I am not kidnapped by someone who is targeting the Lin family."
Where has Jia Lian gone?
No one knows.
Just because the timing of Jia Lian's leaving the mansion was so coincidental, even the people who had been staring at the Lin Mansion during the day had to leave when it was about to be night time. They didn't know where Jia Lian had gone. The prostitutes on the boat on the river waited for a long time, but they didn't see Jia Lian coming.
The prostitute said: "No wonder I am, he still hasn't appeared at the time agreed yesterday."
The man guarding the brothel cursed secretly, but had no choice but to say: "Why don't you come today? Is there something going on in the Lin Mansion?"
"It seems that some of the guards around King Zhongshun informed the Lin family of the current situation in Yangzhou. The Lin family will not leave the house until the investigation is completed." Someone sighed and said, "The message was always passed down last night. , since the things in Lin Ruhai’s hands cannot be destroyed, the thirty chief merchants of Lianghuai and Huaihe don’t care about our life or death. Then let’s withdraw from Yangzhou and return to Ping’an Prefecture..."
Someone said: "I have been operating in Yangzhou for many years and finally got to where I am today. How can I leave just now?"
"If you don't leave, are you waiting to die?" This person was obviously in charge here and ordered: "Everyone, get ready to evacuate. Things in Yangzhou will be arranged."
"What's the arrangement? Do you want to keep some of it and come back at any time?"
The person in charge said coldly: "When the imperial court investigates the illicit salt, the salt class will be restructured. Even if we come back in the future, what else can we do? The Salt Transportation Department and the general merchants feel that they can survive this disaster safely. , they don’t care whether we live or die, how can we make it easier for them? Everything the Salt Transport Division and the others do, there is a secret book left in the boss. Although it cannot be sent to King Zhongshun, several of the guards around King Zhongshun can be found in Yangzhou .”
One person said: "Brother, it's a joke. Now the Salt Transportation Department is surrounded, and we were arrested before we even entered the Yamen."
"Isn't there another one in Lin Ruhai's family? Just wait for Jia Lian to come out one day and let him take the book back to the Lin Mansion. Do the Salt Transportation Department and the general merchants want to live a good life in the future? It's simply fantastic."
Everyone has their own ideas! The top official in the Salt Transportation Department is like an ant on a hot pot.
He saw that both the inside and outside of the yamen were protected by the Sanhe Battalion soldiers, and he was powerless to do anything he wanted to do. He could only rely on the thirty general merchants from Lianghuai and Huaiyang and the major salt gangs in Huaiyang to work together to solve the crisis at hand.
But what the salt transporter didn't know was that the largest salt gang in Yangzhou was helpless when things happened, so they not only prepared to evacuate, but also dropped a book of incriminating evidence about their salt transporter.
"mob!"
Jia Rong closed the book in her hand and said with a smile: "Congratulations, uncle. After five years, I finally sorted out the corruption in the salt transportation between the Huaihe River and Huaihe River. Did you send someone to the Salt Transportation Department to inform the guards?"
Five years, how many five years are there in life? In the past five years, Lin Ruhai lived in fear every day. However, inspecting the Lianghuai Salt Industry was a task assigned today and he had to do it. Otherwise, he would not have sent Lin Daiyu to Shenjing early. If he had not been seriously injured that day, he would have thought of seeing his daughter alive for the last time.
Lin Ruhai sighed and said: "Five years are not enough to investigate clearly. In addition to the salt transportation department, salt field, official salt general merchant, salt gang dealers, etc., there are also many officials involved in the water transportation department, the prefects of Huaiyang and Yangzhou, etc. Including. Even the Liangjiang Jiedushi envoys received a lot of filial piety. I don’t know whether this move brought blessing or disaster."
Rong Geer smiled and said: "So what about the Liangjiang Jiedushi? The Governor of Water Transport is also on the same level as him, and the Governor of Water Transport will also suffer. If he is really unclean, he may not be able to escape. My uncle's move is for the country and the people, which is today's We won’t let any more accidents happen to the Lin family.”
Lin Ruhai was not afraid, but the only daughter was worried.
Jia Rong was secretly frightened, but luckily he came over. Under such circumstances, the Lin family was sure to have an accident. Damn, this Salt Transportation Department is so shady, embezzling hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year. What is even more shocking is that each of the major household agents takes over one hundred thousand taels, and thirty companies get three million taels.
It is one million taels more than the money sent to the national treasury during the Huaihe Salt Course every year.
Of course, he also knew that not all of the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that each family embezzled went into their pockets, but they were used to pay homage to the family. For example, the Salt Transportation Department's hundreds of thousands of taels were allocated from the General Merchant. The states and government offices also allocated a little more, but not much actually went into their pockets.
The real money-making project for these people is reselling private salt. The major salt farms, general merchants and salt gangs colluded together to resell official salt from the salt farms to other provinces. First, they did not have to pay taxes, and second, they did not have to buy salt. They could earn as much as they could by reselling.
According to the book compiled by Lin Ruhai, it can be seen that all the large and small yamen of Huai, Yang, Su, Chang and other prefectures were involved. It can be said that countless officials were affected, not counting the thousands of officials in the Salt Transportation Department in charge of the Lianghuai Salt Division, the 30,000 Caoding in charge of water transportation, and thousands of salt gang dealers.
This time, the interests of tens of thousands of people were hit.
Brother Rong really doesn't dare to leave the Lin Mansion casually this time. As long as there are a few desperate people in so many yamen, they will be here for the rest of their lives.
Lin Ruhai sighed: "I'm afraid I will implicate you. Brother Rong is the most promising of the Jia family in the past two generations, so he has been implicated. How can I explain to your aunt? It's just that I couldn't reveal these things to the outside at that time. Alas …”
In fact, Jia Rong was also worried. Uncle Lian didn't return to the Lin Mansion for two nights. He didn't know if there was an accident. Although this second uncle is like a little teddy, he wants to make out with the woman when he sees her, but because of Wang Xifeng, Brother Rong doesn't like him very much.
But I don't want anything to happen to Jia Lian. Because the matter between Jia Rong, Wang Xifeng, and Jia Lian is considered a family matter, and they can do whatever they want behind closed doors. But outside, they all represent the Jia family.
Brother Rong said to Lin Ruhai: "Now that my uncle has sorted out the book, my grandnephew will find someone to inform the guards to come."
Lin Ruhai hummed. He knew that since King Zhongshun handed over the Yangzhou salt case to the guards and asked Duan Yu and Brother Rong to assist in Yangzhou, it was natural for Brother Rong to handle these matters best.
Brother Rong went away to the corner gate of Lin Mansion and communicated with others.
A boy said: "Second Master Lian just returned home and drank a lot of wine."
Oops, it’s good that nothing happened to this guy.
Brother Rong knew this and saw the gatekeeper nodding secretly, so he went back with confidence. Not far into the backyard, I heard Jia Lian drunkenly making trouble there.
"In what way are our dignified brothers from the Rongguo Mansion inferior to others? They keep several concubines in each room. You... I just took the money to communicate with others, and then I got into Yaksha's temper."
Wang Xifeng in the room had a dark face, and Lin Daiyu, who was sitting next to her, was also frightened by Jia Lian's appearance.
He hurried over and only heard Sister Dao Feng's scolding. "This is the Lin Mansion, not your shabby yard. Isn't it embarrassing enough to scare my sister?"
When Brother Rong arrived, Jia Lian tilted his head and even knew how to apologize to Lin Daiyu. Jia Rong supported Uncle Lian and said, "How much should Uncle Lian have drank? Why do you look like this? Let's go back to the room and rest first."
"Get out of the way!" Jia Lian waved his hand and pushed Jia Rong away, raised his head and squinted his face, and glanced at Brother Rong with blurred eyes. Then he glared at Wang Xifeng angrily and said: "We have finally had a happy life, why do you want to chase us from Jinling like the king of hell asking for your life? Don't think I don't know about you and Brother Rong..."
Lin Daiyu in the room was dumbfounded! Baochai also had a strange expression on his face, but Wang Xifeng had a cold expression.
"Second uncle!" Jia Rong shouted, unable to let him continue talking, and forced Jia Lian out of the yard.
"Let me go!" Outside, Jia Lian pushed her away and said, "Have I ever said anything about your deviant behavior in being so close to her? Why does she care about me like this? As long as she sets the fire, she can't let me go. Lighted the lamp?"
I don't know if this guy was provoked by others or something, but he came to Sister Feng's place specially after drinking so much that he dared to say anything.
Jia Rong sighed and said helplessly: "Second uncle drank too much. My nephew will take you back to rest."
"I'm not going." Jia Lian leaned over and closed two wine compartments. His heart was extremely unbalanced, so he spent two more nights in Wenrou Township, listening to a lot of pillow talk, and thinking about correcting the people outside. Humming: "Don't say that there is no dispute between you and her... hiccup... When I was in the mansion, I also had... hiccup..."
"Second uncle, be careful!" Jia Rong was speechless for this guy. He took his arm and supported him, saying: "Send uncle to his room to rest first. We can wait until he wakes up to talk about anything."
Jia Lian vented his anger and drank too much, so he let Jia Rong support him. Brother Rong listened to Uncle Lian's nonsense: "Who doesn't have a romantic affair? The master and grandma of that family don't have anyone to like."
This guy!
well……
The master takes care of his aunt, and the grandma takes care of him. This is the rebound of men and women who have suppressed people's desires and emotions to a point where they can't breathe.
