When the Xue family saw that they were being stopped by a group of government officials, they thought they had committed a crime of beating someone to death, and they immediately became nervous.
Xue Pan had no choice but to boldly step forward and ask: "My lord, Xue Pan, who is here? Why are you blocking our way?"
Jia Yucun was also thinking about how to negotiate this matter with the Xue family along the way. Seeing Xue Pan stand up, he said, "Are you Xue Pan? Let's take a step to talk."
Xue Pan was stunned for a moment after hearing this. Seeing that the person had already gone to one side, he quickly followed him.
"What do you call me, sir? What do you want from me?"
Jia Yucun thought for a while and said: "Mr. The girl who left, do you understand?”
Aunt Xue was worried about her son and didn't care about showing her face. She walked over directly and asked: "Pan'er, what happened?"
Xue Pan quickly told his mother what Jia Yucun said. Mrs. Xue asked: "My lord, do you know who wants that child?"
Jia Yucun cupped his hands and said: "Mrs. Xue, this is Master Jia Cong of Rongguo Mansion. She asked me to help Mr. Ling solve the case, and asked me to send the girl named Xiangling to the capital for him. So, I Take that girl away."
Aunt Xue thought for a while, and she had no impression of Jia Cong. She didn't care about the maid, so she just gave it to her. As long as her son was fine, she probably wouldn't be able to leave if she didn't hand him over.
"The adults have said it, so of course we won't refuse. The child is here. You can take him away. But our family is also related to the Jia family. This time we are going to the capital to seek refuge. If you can trust the adults, we can help take him away." It’s better to go over and thank him in person.”
After Jia Yucun heard this, he thought about it carefully. It would be troublesome for him to send someone to the capital. He would not worry about sending a yamen servant to take care of a girl. If something happened, his work would be in vain.
You can just let them take him there, and just send two government officials to follow him. When you get to the capital, you can just explain it clearly to Jia Cong.
"Since Mrs. Xue said that there is nothing wrong with it, I'll trouble Mrs. Xue. I will send two government servants to accompany you on the road. I can also help you with some things on the way."
After the negotiation between the two parties was completed, everyone was naturally happy. Only Xue Pan looked unhappy. The person he had just snatched was no longer his in the blink of an eye. It was really his fault.
Jia Yucun wrote a letter and gave it to the two government officials, asking them to follow the Xue family to the capital. When they arrived at Rongguo Mansion, they handed the letter and the person to Jia Cong, and his task was completed.
After watching the Xue family's team go on the road, they led a group of government officials back to the government office.
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Xue Pan asked on the carriage: "Mother, who is this Jia Cong? He actually helped me settle the lawsuit? He shouldn't be my aunt's cousin, right?"
Xue Baochai next to her also looked at her mother with a puzzled look.
Aunt Xue thought for a while and said, "I don't know who this Jia Cong is? I haven't heard of it before. It must not be your aunt's child. It should be Baoyu's uncle's child, right? No matter who it is, they have helped you. We We all owe others a favor.”
Xue Pan muttered: "He helped me, so I will certainly remember him as a favor, but he asked Xiang Ling to leave. Wasn't my hard work in vain?"
In fact, Aunt Xue felt uncomfortable, so she was naturally grateful for the help, but it didn't look good on her face to have the government come forward to ask for someone, but she didn't dare to show it to her incompetent son.
"Son, you should be more attentive. Now in the capital, it's different from in Jinling. We can't afford to offend anyone who comes out randomly. You should restrain yourself from now on."
Xue Baochai said: "Brother, since Jia Cong is in the capital, how do you know that you killed someone, and how do you know about Xiang Ling?"
Xue Pan said: "How did I know? That magistrate Jia said he was entrusted by Jia Cong to help me solve the case and took Xiangling away by the way. He didn't say anything else."
Not one day later, everyone in the Xue family arrived at Shenjing City and headed to Rongguo Mansion.
Mrs. Wang was naturally happy to meet her sister and her family. After reminiscing about old times, Aunt Xue suddenly remembered what happened to Xiang Ling and couldn't help but ask: "Sister, there is a brother Cong in your house, who is he?"
After hearing this, Mrs. Wang's face suddenly darkened. She glanced at her sister and said, "That's brother Lian's brother. What's wrong, sister, has this child provoked you?"
Aunt Xue also noticed her sister's expression, but she didn't know what it meant, so she smiled and said, "That's not true. Speaking of which, this child has done us a big favor."
Immediately, he told Mrs. Wang the whole story.
After hearing this, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but feel something in her heart. This little bastard ruined my good deeds, and I won't let you be happy either.
Immediately, she calmly brought Aunt Xue and her family to visit Jia Mu, and Aunt Xue gave her a greeting. Jia Mu was very happy to meet a relative, and took Aunt Xue to chat about home affairs.
Mrs. Wang took a chance and said: "Old lady, our family is related to the Xue family. Brother Cong did a small favor and asked the Xue family for a maid. This is too inappropriate. You have to explain it carefully." Talk about him."
As soon as Mrs. Wang spoke, the room suddenly fell silent. Everyone looked at Mrs. Wang. The silence at this moment was a bit scary.
Aunt Xue and her daughter also looked at Mrs. Wang in disbelief. What are they doing? Do you want everyone to think that my Xue family is not willing to give up even a maid? Did you come here specifically to complain to the old lady?
Mother Jia took a deep look at Mrs. Wang, then turned to look at Aunt Xue. Seeing the shocked faces of Aunt Xue and her daughter, she knew what was going on and sighed helplessly.
"Second daughter-in-law, brother Cong doesn't provoke you, why do you bother to provoke him again? Did you forget the lesson last time so quickly? If you provoke him again and start a fight with you, I won't help you."
Then he turned to Aunt Xue and said with a smile: "Brother Cong, this child is good at everything, but he is too tossing, which makes people uneasy. Hasn't this child been in Beijing all the time? How come he is involved with you?"
After listening to Jia Mu's words, Aunt Xue realized that her sister and Brother Cong didn't deal with each other, and it seemed that they had suffered from each other. No wonder it was like this.
After telling what happened in detail, everyone suddenly understood.
Jia Zhengdao: "I also know about this. Years ago, when Jia Yucun came to visit the house, Brother Cong came over and asked him to help find someone. It seems that both of them knew about this girl's life experience."
Mother Jia nodded and said to Aunt Xue: "Since there are still official servants following us, we can't let anyone fail to pay the commission, so let's give the child to her, lest he cause trouble again and cause everyone a headache."
Aunt Xue smiled and said: "What the old lady said is that even if you don't help a maid, it's nothing. Besides, I also promised the prefect that I would deliver the person, but I have never seen Brother Cong. I just asked my sister."
Jia Mu naturally understood that her daughter-in-law was trying to cause trouble again, and she laughed and said: "That's good, Brother Lian, you go to Zhuangzi to call your brother back, so that the official can take over the errands. Let's go now." How many months has it been?"
Jia Lian replied: "Old lady, Brother Cong has been gone for almost three months. I will call him back right away."
Then he served wine to the Xue family, and finally left them at Jia's house and moved into Lixiangyuan.
