Jia Cong and the others got an urgent letter from Rongguo Mansion, hurriedly went to Jia Taijun to resign, and told her a rough outline.

Jia Taijun exclaimed: "How is this good? ”

Jia Cong smiled: "It's okay, our family still has the ability to try to delay the lawsuit for a few days." I already have some thoughts, but I have to go back to Beijing as soon as possible, and I'm afraid it's too late. ”

Jia Taijun thought that he was the one who saved the living beings from disasters in the lower realm of heaven and man, so he didn't ask him, nodded and said, "In this case, let Mang'er go with you." ”

Jia Cong was stunned: "Cousin Mang? ”

Gao Mang is the youngest son of Gao Li, seventeen years old, quiet temperament, excellent martial arts, Jia Cong and they have deliberately seduced him these days. I just didn't think that Jia Taijun was so generous and willing to let him follow.

Jia Taijun said indifferently: "He is not young anymore, it is good to go to Beijing to see the world." ”

Jia Cong blinked tacitly: "We all like Cousin Mang's very much, and my aunt and grandmother can rest assured." ”

Jia Taijun smiled, and his wrinkles were relaxed.

Back at the East Guest House, everyone also began to pack up. Jia Cong pulled Gong Kun to explain the essentials of the discussion with the county lord and Beringen for a long time, and repeatedly told that the place could not be renamed, and the name of Hong Kong was excellent. He also asked him if he had a way to get the governor of Liangguang or the sailor.

Gong Kun shook his head and said: "Such a big thing is definitely not something that we can do now, the third master should not be in a hurry." ”

Jia Cong sighed: "It's not that I'm in a hurry, it's not time for me." And he said, "Is there a construction master on Beringen's side?" ”

Gong Kun asked, "What do you want to do with the construction master?" ”

Jia Cong smiled: "It's nothing, I'm just thinking that I might join Sister Lin when the port is built." She has studied the house for two years and has some skills. This is a big project that will go down in history. ”

Gong Kunqi said: "It's just a private port, there is no shadow, three years and two years may not be able to become a climate, why do you need to be in a hurry?" No matter how smart Miss Lin is, she is just a child, in the end, she just broke a mechanism, where is the real construction master? She couldn't be there in person. If the third master really thinks that it is extremely important, he can repair and rebuild it in the future. ”

Jia Cong was right when he thought about it, and said with a smile: "It's me who is in a hurry for quick success." ”

Then they discussed for a while, and together with Jia Cong, they went to a few important people in the Gao family to say goodbye, and the group was about to leave.

This time they walked on the official road, with the documents of the high calendar in their hands, pretending to be a secret matter in the army and going straight to the post station to change horses, and did not carry luggage, traveled hundreds of miles a day, only seven days to the capital not far away, if the horse is fast, you can enter the city before dark. Jia Cong suddenly ordered everyone not to hurry, just find a town on the outskirts of Beijing, and rest for a night tonight to recuperate. Everyone was surprised, Jia Huan rushed to ask him what he wanted, Jia Cong smiled and said: "Ming'er wants to tell the story, you can't eat fire tonight." And he refused to say any more. Jia Huan knocked on the side a few times to no avail, so he had to give up. And on that day they rested on the outskirts of the city, and slept soundly.

Early the next morning, everyone got up and packed up and entered Beijing, Jia Cong led the way, and did not go back to Rongguo Mansion, but went straight to Nan'an Palace.

The funeral of Nan'an Wangfu has not yet been completed, and there are many high-ranking cars and sedans along the way, and their group is extremely conspicuous. Jia Cong jumped off the horse at the gate of the house, and some people had already seen them and thought that they had come to worship outside, so they stepped forward to greet them.

Jia Cong hugged his fists at him and said, "Little brother, please ask Huo Sheng, the son of the world, to come out, I have something important to say to him." ”

The kid hurriedly asked, "What is the guest's surname?" The son of the world is keeping a watch. ”

Jia Cong said loudly: "The unjust death of the prince of Nan'an was not an accident, but was secretly killed by someone. If Huo Sheng is still a filial son, he should find the real murderer for his father! ”

There were a lot of people at the door of this meeting, the guests who had just arrived, the coachmen and horsemen who stayed outside, and the ordinary people who came to watch with curiosity, all turned their heads and stared at Jia Cong with their eyes.

Jia Cong said loudly again: "And the real murderer behind this scene is only afraid that he still intends to deal with Huo Sheng's son." ”

The kid guarding the door opened his mouth for a long time in shock, and asked again: "This young master, may I ask your name?" ”

Jia Cong said with a stiff face: "Huo Sheng knows me, he will know when he comes out." It's important, let him hurry. ”

The kid was helpless, and he didn't dare not go back, so he hurriedly ran in. Jia Cong put on an unfathomable appearance and waited outside the gate of the Nan'an Palace. The onlookers talked a lot, and they refused to leave even passing by, and after a while, a circle of people gathered around.

Not long after, Huo Sheng came out. He had lost several laps now, and because he had come out at a trot, he had stumbled a little, and he had to be carried by someone.

His father went. Even though he was dissatisfied with Huo Xuan in every way on weekdays, it was his own father, and he died a little bit of a dry life with himself, so he got into the horns of the bull these days, blindly being silent in a trance, and ignoring everything. When he got the kid's words, he opened a skylight, and he didn't ask who it was, so he hurriedly left it and ran out regardless of it. When he went out and saw Jia Cong, he was shocked, pointed at him and shouted: "Jia Cong! How are you! ”

Jia Cong snorted: "Who is so smart but me?" I'm not like you, I look smart in vain, and I don't even think about it calmly. Lord Shizi, that's your father! ”

Everyone who said this was in a fog, and they all wanted to listen to it more and more, and they all involuntarily quieted down.

Jia Cong Nai asked him: "Your father has gone, can you make a careful autopsy?" ”

Huo Sheng closed his eyes, and said slowly for a long time: "The back of the head hit the blue brick, and he died suddenly." ”

Jia Cong waved his hand and said, "That eighty percent is a coincidence." Have you been examined, for example, if you have been poisoned? ”

Huo Sheng was stunned for a moment, his eyes suddenly burst out, and he grabbed Jia Cong's chest: "What did you say?!" ”

Jia Cong glanced at him: "I guessed no." It's a shame that you're still on the scene, and you haven't even thought about this? I read a letter from 2,000 miles away and can deduce what is going on, and you don't even notice it at the scene? What a foolish son! ”

Huo Sheng grabbed his shirt higher: "Speak clearly!" ”

Jia Cong was a lot shorter than him, and he was quite uncomfortable being caught, so he hurriedly pulled his hand: "Let go, let go!" What's the use of arresting me, it's right to have the strength to catch the man who killed your father. ”

Huo Sheng looked down at his hand, hurriedly let go, and grabbed Jia Cong's arm and said hurriedly: "Brother Cong!" I know that you are a good wealth boy in the lower realm, and you are very wise, but who killed my father? ”

Jia Cong glared at him and said, "I'm not Zhuge Liang who will pinch his fingers!" I can only guess some traces, and after all, the government must investigate the case in detail. Didn't examine the body closely, did it? ”

Huo Sheng nodded. Because Huo Xuan died abruptly and there was no external injury, Huo Sheng himself was at a loss, and that day he only looked at the wound and made up his mind - Huo Xuan did indeed die from that external injury.

Jia Cong Nai sighed: "Huo Shizi, this matter is too strange, and it is extremely strange in many places from beginning to end. Strange is different, and different is hidden. ”

Huo Sheng nodded again and again: "Not bad!" It's so weird! Because my father is gone, I have no other thoughts on it. It's strange when I look back. ”

Jia Cong said slowly: "Let's review how the prince went." At that time, the prince of Nan'an was in an inexplicable rage, fighting against his favorite eldest son, Huo Shizi, and Brother Baoyu took an inkstone to smash him. He heard the wind, turned around and saw the inkstone flying over, but he didn't dodge, and sneered. According to ordinary people, if he sees someone smashing him with an inkstone, he will definitely dodge, why doesn't Huo Wang Ye dodge? ”

He paused sincerely, glanced at Huo Sheng, saw the curiosity in the eyes of the onlookers, and then said, "Let's take a look at these two people." Huo Xuan, the prince of Nan'an, is a general of our dynasty, and now he is in the prime of life, and he has killed the barbarians and fought the pirates in the south earlier, and has defended Hebei in recent years, training the most elite soldiers of our dynasty and defending the royal city. Needless to say, the bones of the body are simply steel and iron. On the other hand, who is my brother Baoyu? Under the age of thirteen, the weak scholar Jiao Young Master is a weak scholar, and he has no power to tie the chicken, and the heaviest thing he has ever taken since he was born in his mother's womb is a teapot full of tea, and his thighs are thinner than Huo Wangye's arms three times. A weak scholar took a small inkstone and smashed a general with steel and iron bones! If you say he's going to knock the general to the ground, which of you will believe it? Jia Cong looked around with a cold face, "Who believes?" ”

Everyone looked at each other. Wu You said loudly: "I don't believe it. Scholars do it with people like us who practice martial arts, that is, scratching, and tickling is not enjoyable! ”

Jia Cong said loudly again: "I am only nine years old, but I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child, so I know that those who practice martial arts are extremely stable, and a general like the prince of Nan'an must be much more stable than me." Brother Baoyu is four years older than me, but he is a weak little scholar. It's not as good as this. Let him use the inkstone to smash me, he has the ability to smash me and stumble me with his surname! ”

Everyone couldn't help laughing - Huo Sheng had already called him Jia Cong, and he called Brother Baoyu again, obviously with the same surname as Jia Baoyu, who was rumored to have killed the prince of Nan'an by mistake.

Jia Cong Nai looked at Huo Sheng and said: "A person with a body like Huo Wang Ye will be smashed to the ground by a little scholar, it can only be that his body is not good, and it is extremely bad." So there are two possibilities. He was very sick, and he was not in good health. The patients can sense that they are sick, and since Huo Wangye sincerely does not avoid the inkstone, it is obvious that he is not sick. He thought that his body was strong and tight, and the inkstone smashed on him was just an itch, so the prince wanted this little scholar to see how tough and mighty he was, and laughed at how weak and incapable this little scholar was. That's why he didn't dodge. He paused, and a chill suddenly welled up in his body, "Therefore, there can only be another possibility." Huo Wangye didn't know that his body was no longer good, and he was still kept in the dark. Because he was poisoned. ”

There was a commotion from the bystanders, and there were many exchanges of ears. Huo Sheng stared at him with his eyes.

Jia Cong added: "The above is pure speculation, because I can't find any other possibility to explain this matter, so I have to ask for an autopsy." Another strange thing is that Prince Huo ran to my brother's academy for some reason. I don't shy away from this, and I think many people guess so. Jia Cong pursed his lips, "I guess, the rumors in the market are like this." Huo Sheng, the prince of Nan'an, had a longyang friendship with Jia Baoyu, a scholar of Yuntai Academy, and the prince Huo Xuan was furious when he learned about it, and chased him to Yuntai Academy and was furious, and he fought with the prince Huo Sheng and even moved his blade. The little scholar Jia Baoyu threw an inkstone to help the prince, but he mistakenly smashed the prince and stumbled to death. Right? ”

Huo Sheng's face was blue and purple for a while, and he gritted his teeth: "What do you want to say?" ”

Jia Cong said: "Jia Baoyu is my brother, I naturally know how much he likes women." I look at Huo Shizi, you will not be a good person like Longyang. Therefore, both of you are ordinary men, not rabbits. So here's the problem. Why did Prince Huo Xuan mistakenly think that the two of you had broken sleeves? Huo Shizi also has a lot of good friends on weekdays, and my brother Baoyu is not the one who has a good relationship with you. Why did your father misunderstand that the two of you were unusual? I chased him to his academy, and I didn't even listen to a defense and explanation, so I hit you. Jia Cong's face suddenly sank. Huo Shizi, have you ever thought that your own father, who fought against you that day, dragged a body that could be casually smashed to the ground by a weak scholar? What would have happened if my brother hadn't smashed his inkstone, and you didn't know that your father's body was already inappropriate, and that he was as steely as Su Ri, and fought him for another ten rounds. ”

Huo Sheng was shocked. Yes, Baoyu's thin arm like firewood can throw an inkstone to knock his father down, what if he still treats him as usual?

If you can't keep it, you will kill your father if you miss it!

What he could think of, others naturally thought of as well. There was an uproar. Wu You pretended to shout loudly: "What a vicious strategy! One killed the prince of Nan'an, and the other made the prince bear a big crime! If it weren't for Young Master Jia's mistake, the prince would not be able to wash himself by jumping into the Yellow River, even if he washed his life, it would be over! "Killing his father by mistake is also killing, even if he was framed, Huo Sheng's charge of killing his father can be firmly detained for his life.

I heard a sharp female voice from behind: "Someone! Please! I saw a group of servant women slowly walking out of the gate of the palace, and the one who was held in the middle was Princess Nan'an, who was dressed in plain clothes.

She was not very sad because she had died for Huo Xuan a long time ago, and her son was the most important person to her. She has already heard the rumors on the street these days, Huo Xuan is a rabbit master, and there have been rumors for many years, and there are all kinds of ugly things outside. and saw Huo Sheng's trance-like appearance, and his hair turned gray in a hurry. Someone just came back and forth to her: "There is a child at the door, and he wants the prince to go out and talk, saying that the prince was killed by someone, and the real murderer is someone else!" She couldn't sit still. If what this kid said is true, it will save Huo Sheng I's name! also hurried outside, and listened to Jia Cong's words clearly at the door! A surprise swelled up in my heart.

Huo Sheng was scratching his heart with a hundred claws at this time, and when he saw her, he immediately rushed over like a child: "Mother! ”

The princess stroked his sideburns and said solemnly: "What this little prince said is extremely true, what kind of body is your father, the enemy general can't move a single hair of him on the battlefield, how can it be that a weak scholar can be smashed down with a small inkstone?" I'm afraid there is a side reason. She secretly decided in her heart that if it was found that Huo Xuan had not been poisoned, she would have to try to make him change his mind and say that he had been poisoned.

Jia Cong then walked over and saluted dignifiedly: "Meet the princess!" ”

Although the princess was sad, her eyes did not hide her joy: "You are Jia Cong?" I heard that you are extremely intelligent, and you really live up to your reputation. ”

Jia Cong said: "It's all falsely spread by outsiders. I'm just a little smarter than the average person. The crowd laughed.

The princess nodded, stretched out her other hand and stroked his head: "Good boy! ”

Jia Cong said: "Now that the prince is gone, I still hope that the princess will mourn and change, and find out the real culprit to avenge him, which can be regarded as worthy of the prince under Jiuquan." ”

A daughter-in-law came over and said, "The princess, do you want to go in first?" ”

The princess was about to open her mouth, but Jia Cong hurriedly said, "No! The princess was stunned. Jia Cong Nai made another gesture to her, "If the princess is not very tired, please wait at the door with the prince until she comes and goes in." As for why, I can't say anything about this, but when the time comes, I will naturally know that the horizontal and vertical is to give the prince and the prince a clean slate. ”

The princess was looking forward to what he said was true, and secretly regarded this son as sent by God to save Huo Sheng, and when she saw the mystery he said, she nodded and said, "Okay." It's up to you. ”

Princess Nan'an didn't care about what the gate was, so she led the prince Huo Sheng and Jia Cong to stand at the gate of the mansion and wait. Such a new thing is a once-in-a-lifetime event, and there are more and more onlookers, and no one is willing to leave, all waiting for it to come. In the crowd, a few dignitaries from the Nan'an Mansion who came to pay their respects also walked out, saluting with the princess and Huo Xuan, and Jia Cong met by the way. Among them, there is the very famous water-soluble deity of the prince of Beijing in the Dream of Red Mansions, and he really has a picture-like appearance. He looked curiously at the left and right at the people. Shui Rong smiled and glanced at him, the two looked at each other, Jia Cong was a little embarrassed, and stopped peeking.

After a while, the servants invited by the Nan'an Royal Mansion hurried over, and Zhao Cheng, the commander of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, personally led a few people to follow behind. Jia Cong Nai arched his hand to the crowd: "This matter is serious, and I hope to invite several respected fathers and elders to go in together." He glanced at the princess again.

The princess hurriedly said, "Listen to Master Jia." ”

For a while, the onlookers recommended seven old men, Jia Cong was too little, and invited a few more, enough of twelve, and accompanied the princess and the princess to go inside with Jia Cong and others. Jia Cong, the bear child of the Red Mansion

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