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As soon as the maid named Fennel entered the door, Jia Cong knew that this was a master with a high IQ. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOrdinary men are more confident than women, masters are more confident than subordinates, and scholars are more confident than farmers and businessmen, but there is a sense of "you stupid humans" in the eyes of this fennel, and I can't help but squint. But seeing that Fennel immediately restrained her sharpness, she lowered her eyebrows and saluted Mrs. Dai, and then saluted Mr. Jia and Shopkeeper Wu according to the master's words.

Jia Cong Nai said: "Interrogation is an extremely deep knowledge, and it cannot be learned in a moment. I'm afraid it will take some time. ”

Mrs. Dai hurriedly said, "Mr. only teaches her a few things at random." ”

Jia Cong nodded: "Then try it." I haven't seen a genius yet. ”

Mrs. Dai smiled, and her fat face seemed to be lit up. It was a few words of advice to fennel, and the farewell of the paragraphs. Fennel personally sent her out and whispered at the door: "Don't worry, madam." Mrs. Dai laughed again and patted her hand.

Back in the house, the confidence on Fennel's face rose again. Jia Cong looked at her and asked, "Have you ever studied?" ”

Fennel was stunned: "No." ”

Jia Cong smiled and said, "Back then, Mrs. Dai turned over and killed her cousin, who is the mother of Dai Sanye, did you give advice behind her?" ”

Fennel bowed her head slightly: "Yes." ”

"Why help her? I don't see you like someone who would push yourself into a corner and let her save your life. ”

Fennel couldn't help but raise her head and look at Jia Cong, and thought for a moment and said, "Our wife is a good person. ”

Jia Cong shook his head: "At most, he is an ordinary good person, not a particularly good person." ”

Fennel said: "The biological mother of the third master treats people meanly. If she had been our mistress, we would have had a hard time. ”

Jia Congqi said: "Shouldn't that kind of fox spirit woman be better at winning people's hearts?" Why is she still mean? ”

"She was very generous at that time." Fennel said, "She treats the little girl she brought from home mean." ”

Jia Cong nodded: "I see." Nowadays, there are many ways to leave the Dai family and go to Liangguang or Taiwan to see the world and seek development, why are you still willing to be a maid? ”

Fennel smiled and said, "It's easy to be a maid, and it's a good day." ”

Jia Cong said: "The maid even holds her life in the hands of others. Even if Mrs. Dai is a good person, after all, she is not the figure of the Dai family. I don't know when a catastrophe will fly, Lord Dai is in a bad mood and you don't like it, and if you don't keep it, people will beat you to death. ”

Fennel said: "If there should be a disaster in your life, you can't avoid it." The Emperor Taishang is the Son of Heaven, didn't he also suffer a catastrophe? ”

"There's also a question of probability." Jia Cong said, "When the emperor and the slave encounter many misfortunes, when ordinary people encounter few misfortunes." That doesn't explain why you're still a maid at such an age. He glanced at Fennel, "And you're not married." ”

Fennel lowered her eyes and said, "I beg our wife not to match me, and my wife has promised me this grace." ”

Jia Cong said: "If it is the capital or Chang'an here, I can understand you." You are talented, you don't look down on the slave boy, and the masters of the Dai family are unreliable, so it's better to be single. But this is Fujian, and there are many ways to be free. You are not a caged bird, but you are willing to stay in the Dai family as a single old maid, no matter how you look at it. Let's put it bluntly, nine out of ten like you are fine-grained. ”

Fennel was shocked and blurted out: "I'm not fine!" ”

Jia Cong looked at her: "Isn't it a fine work?" That is, he has a grudge against the Dai family and wants to stay in their house to take revenge? Fennel shook her head vigorously. Jia Cong touched his chin and thought for a while, "Is there an enemy outside?" Don't dare to go out for fear of being found by the enemy? ”

Fennel said: "Mr. Jia, why bother the slaves. Everyone has their own ambitions, and the slave just wants to be a maid in Ansheng. ”

Jia Cong said: "If you just sold to the Dai family in the past two years, I believe it." Because you may have experienced the ups and downs of the world, your heart is like ashes, and you just want to live the rest of your life in peace. The dispute between Mrs. Dai and her cousin was an old thing many years ago - after all, Dai Sanye's mother was not yet a beginner, and his son was already so old. It can be deduced that you were a very small girl when you gave Madame Dai the idea. Such a young child, no matter what he has experienced, will not be able to break through the red dust. Besides, the moment you just entered this door, the moment you were sharp, and those who have been polished by the world will not make this mistake. At this point, you can rule out the possibility of your bumpy and world-weary. Seven or eight years earlier, I would have suspected that you were a key criminal wanted by the imperial court. But now in this world, even Prince Yizhong has been rehabilitated. I can't find the reason why Miss Fennel is living in Dai's house. ”

Fennel smiled bitterly: "A woman's family has no ambition......"

Jia Cong interrupted her: "If Miss Fennel is a traditional virtuous woman, she would have chosen a silly and loyal one among the boys to marry." Fennel was stunned.

Wu Xiaoxi sighed softly beside him: "Fennel girl, don't complain that Mr. Jia is aggressive. You have a lot of suspicions, and if you don't understand where you dare to interrogate you? The world is so chaotic, the princes are not fuel-efficient lamps, and we are also afraid of wolves and tigers. ”

Fennel was silent for a long time, and sighed: "The slave is the son of the Dai family, if Mr. Jia doesn't believe it, just check it." ”

Jia Cong said: "Of course I will check, and I have to ask." Nai looked at Wu Xiaoxi.

Wu Xiaoxi shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm a businessman, and this kind of thing is not in my hands." ”

Jia Cong had no choice but to call a boy who followed him to come in and instructed: "Send news to the family, and check a big girl named Fennel next to Mrs. Dai Xian." The boy went away.

Fennel didn't expect him to order someone to check his origin in person, and he was stunned. After a while, he lowered his head and said, "Mr. Jia doesn't have to check, and the slave and maid are not real children." ”

Jia Cong glanced at her: "If I don't check, you won't say." ”

Fennel closed her eyes: "My Lao Tzu is really the son of the Dai family, I ...... My mother bought it later. ”

Jia Cong waited for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "You brought it from your mother, your son is not your father." ”

Fennel nodded: "Mr. Jia is really in the lower realm of heaven and man, and he knows everything." ”

Jia Cong asked again: "So, what is the origin of your father?" Fennel was silent. Jia Cong said, "Is your mother your biological mother or a nursing mother?" "Fennel was shocked; Wu Xiaoxi couldn't help but glance at Jia Cong with a smile. Jia Cong thought to himself, the bloody stories of later generations have been exhausted, but there are only a few things~~ "Your nurse pretended to be her daughter, showing that your family has suffered an official disaster?" ”

Fennel shook her head and said, "I don't know, my mother didn't even mention anything about my supposed surname." ”

Jia Cong turned his head and asked Wu Xiaoxi: "She had to be more than 20 years ago when she was a child. What will happen to the official disaster? Prince Yizhong? ”

Wu Xiaoxi said: "The party in the court is fierce, and there are many official disasters, and it is not only Prince Yizhong. Besides, it is not necessarily wronged. ”

Jia Cong said: "Whoever brings disaster to his descendants, his descendants are wronged." Well, if your nurse doesn't dare to tell you, she must be cowardly. If you ask her, she may not be willing to say it, so let's find out. ”

Fennel's eyes lit up, and then she said, "The slave is really not a meticulous work, Mr. Jia doesn't have to bother about this matter." ”

Jia Cong said: "I understand your feelings. Since it's not, wouldn't it be better to find out? Peace of mind everyone. Fennel girl, now Fujian and Taiwan are tied to a boat, and this matter is very wide-ranging. I'm sorry if it hurts your pride. ”

Fennel had a complicated complexion, a little excited and a little uncomfortable. After a while, he lowered his head and said, "The slave understands." Wu Xiaoxi then ordered someone to place her in a wing room in the backyard to rest temporarily.

Two days later, in the evening, someone came to Red Bone Ji to ask to see Jia Cong. Jia Cong went out to take a look, and the man looked at him and bowed. Jia Cong was surprised and delighted: "Oh, you are your kid!" Where did Gong Kun go? I haven't been back to Chengtianfu for several years, haven't I? ”

The person who came was actually Jia Cong's personal servant Ziguang when he was a child. Since calling the Taiwan government, Ziguang has stopped following Jia Cong and sent Hong. Do things under your hands and help manage the sundries of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. After less than half a year, Gong Kun asked this kid to leave, saying that there was a shortage of people around him. A few years ago, he said that he was promoted, and he was sent to live outside the island, and Jia Cong never saw him again. The co-author's permanent residence outside the island is Fuzhou. Jia Congnai led him into the house, and looked at his dress again to know: It should be done carefully. Ziguang wore a satin robe, but she stepped on a pair of old cloth shoes. He couldn't have run out of money to buy new shoes, so he must have deliberately dressed like this, in case someone was watching outside the Red Bone Book and looking back at him.

When the two arrived at the house where Jia Cong lived, Ziguang saluted again, and shouted with tears: "Third master! ”

Jia Cong sighed: "The eldest brother-in-law actually let you do this." ”

Ziguang said: "It's okay, there is no danger." I am now working as a small steward at Jia's Horse Shop and have just been promoted. Nai pointed to his shoes, "When the salary rises, I will buy clothes first, and I will change the new shoes next month." Jia Cong couldn't help but wonder. Ziguang also laughed, "I am in charge of collecting and inquiring about the news here in Fujian." ”

Jia Cong nodded: "It's probably safer in the horse shop." Are you coming here today? ”

Ziguang hurriedly said: "We have someone in the Dai family, and we have found out that the maid named Fennel that the third master said, her mother took her and was sold into the Dai family twenty-one years ago. Then he went to look for the man's teeth. The man had died five years earlier, and one of his men was still alive at the time. The guy said that Fennel and his mother bought it from Jinling. ”

Jia Cong frowned: "So far?" ”

Ziguang said: "That guy still remembers, at that time in Jinling, I wanted to buy a few good-looking little girls and sell them to Hualou as a mother, and met a big family who was selling a slave who made a mistake, this mother and daughter were very cheap, and the housekeeper said that her mother made a good Huaiyang dish, so she bought it and wanted to sell it to a big family in the south as a cook. Who knew that when she arrived in Fujian, she knew that her mother only knew a few ordinary side dishes. Fortunately, she was originally cheap, and she still earned it in the end. ”

Jia Cong asked, "Who is the big family?" ”

Ziguang smiled and said, "It's Lord Zhen Yingjia, the president of the Jinling Provincial Tiren Academy. ”

Jia Cong touched his chin: "No, this identity is too bloodless." If Fennel's mother is just afraid of the Zhen family, the Zhen family has been raiding the house for many years. ”

Ziguang said: "The guy who was the man also said that their mother and daughter were not born in the Zhen family, and they were not bought from outside for a long time. ”

"It's not right again." Jia Cong said, "A wealthy family like the Zhen family has never lacked slaves at home, and it is not much different from our family in the capital. What do you do when you go out to buy a mother and daughter for no reason? Could it be that Fennel's mother is beautiful? Fennel has a mediocre appearance. ”

Ziguang smiled: "If she is beautiful, how can she buy it as a cook?" ”

Jia Cong thought about the end of the Dream of Red Mansions TV series he watched in his previous life, and said: "Could it be that something happened to the master's family first, and all the slaves were sold by officials." The official sale is cheap, and the Zhen family has to pick up that cheap, and bought a lot of slaves from that family. The mother and daughter spent a few years in the Zhen family, and they were sold for some reason. ”

Ziguang pondered: "The third master suspects that fennel has a good background? ”

Jia Cong said: "Intelligence can be born, and most of this thing is acquired." A backhouse maid who stays at home, neither humble nor arrogant, someone must educate her. If you don't understand her thoroughly, how can you judge whether this person should be killed or used? How do I use it? Let the Jinling side help check. ”

Purple Light commands. The two talked about their experiences in the past few years, and they missed everything when they were young, which was quite emotional. Wu Xiaoxi came over after being busy, and the three of them met and told the experience of fennel and her nurse again. Wu Xiaoxi pondered: "Jinling Fuzhou is thousands of miles away, could it be that the Zhen family is down, and the nurse of fennel doesn't know at all?" ”

Jia Cong held his cheeks and said: "The Dai family is the richest man in Fujian, the businessman's family is the most well-informed, and fennel has its own way to know." They left Jinling twenty-one years ago, when Fennel was seven or eight years old. This kind of genius player is already very sensible at the age of seven or eight. The Zhen family sold their mother and daughter back then and let them wander to Fujian, and Fennel couldn't help but worry about the Zhen family. If the Zhen family falls, Fennel will definitely go home happily and tell her about her nurse. After thinking about it for a long time, he scratched his head and said, "I really can't think of any pressure that can make her nurse afraid until now." Even the imperial court was demolished, wasn't it? Isn't fennel's father, no matter what crime he has committed, not the past? No one wants to blame it. ”

The three of them were worried about the candle until the fourth watch, and they couldn't guess a possibility, so they had to sleep separately.

The next day, Jia Cong asked Fennel to go home and meet her mother. He also advised, "If there is no one under the bottom of the world today that you can fear." ”

Fennel Qi said: "Why does Mr. Jia have to find out the origin of the slave? ”

Jia Cong said: "Because you are a talent, I don't like the pearl to cast secretly." If thou art meticulous, I will weigh how much I can extort from thy lord's house; If you don't work carefully, I will try to pry you into the foot of the wall and dig you into my hands to do things. ”

Fennel immediately lowered her head and said, "Mr. Xie Jia's eyes are blue, and the slave and maid really have no ambitions. ”

Jia Cong snorted: "A smart person who is less than thirty years old and has not experienced strong winds and waves has no ambition, would you believe it if you were me?" I don't know what your nurse taught you, but she must have done a good job of 'internalizing values'. You can't be wasted just because she's scared. Fennel girl, this era is more in need of talent than ever and in the future. You have helped Mrs. Dai so much, you should be confident to ask for more benefits, not just to keep you from messing around with such an idea, which is not even a benefit. ”

Fennel smiled bitterly: "My mother told me day and night to be clumsy, but after all, I still showed my cleverness, and this matter was about to scare her to death." ”

"That's all the more important to figure out!" Jia Cong said, "Could it be that your biological father's family suffered because of their intelligence? ”

Fennel was dazed for a moment and said, "It seems that it's not smart, it's ingenuity." After a moment of silence, she said, "Our family has not suffered from official disasters...... In fact, it was an official disaster......"

Jia Cong saw that she was entangled, thought about it for a long time, and suddenly thought of a possibility: "Ah! Was it destroyed by the mysterious man in black on a rainy night? Fennel was stunned! Jia Cong knew that he had guessed correctly again. "Ouchi Guard? Your family must be involved in some kind of thing again. ”

Fennel bowed her head for a long time, and suddenly said softly: "My grandfather was originally a skilled carpenter, who entered Beijing to work at the holy decree of the first emperor, won the sacred heart, and sealed him as a four-grade idle official to return to his hometown for retirement. ”

"Carpenter?" Jia Cong wondered, "And the carpenter who wants to kill the mouth?" What did your grandfather make? Fennel shook her head. Jia Cong suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but shout, "Could it be that!" ”