Coming out of Rongxi Hall, Jia Jiu did not go back to his house immediately, but handed over the deadly branch in his hand to Qiu Dianzan's hands, and as usual, he first went to see Jia's mother, and after talking to Jia's mother, he went to Mrs. Xing's yard, gave Mrs. Xing a massage, and said a few words to Wang Shanbao's family, who was already full of white hair, and confirmed Mrs. Xing's condition, before returning to his house.

It's been more than five years, and even Wang Shanbao's family has given up, but Jia Jiu is still persevering. It's just that Jia Jiu also knows that Mrs. Xing's days are really numbered, and once Mrs. Xing is infected with bedsores, I'm afraid that it will only be a matter of a day or two.

Jia Jiu didn't think that Mrs. Xing could recover, he just didn't want to give up like this.

Jia Jiu sighed and said, "Madam, alas~"

Xiaohong hurriedly smiled and said: "The girl's filial piety is commendable, maybe God will have mercy, and one day she will make her recover." ”

Jia Jiu sighed and said, "I hope so." ”

Before the words fell, someone came to report, but it was Xue Baochai who came.

Jia Jiu asked Xue Baochai to stay in the flower hall for a while, and he changed his clothes, combed his hair again, and instructed Qiu Dianzan a few words, and then came out to see Xue Baochai.

When he saw Xue Baochai's current appearance, he was really shocked.

Xue Baochai turned out to be a plump beauty with apricot eyes and peach cheeks and moist skin, and she was a girl's family, and her age was placed there, so she should be a good age in her prime. But when I saw Xue Baochai today, not only the baby fat on his face had decreased a lot, but even a faint shadow appeared under his eyes. It's dark circles that can't even be covered up by fat powder. Even the skin on his face feels a lot rougher, which makes Xue Baochai, a lady who has always paid attention to image and always flaunted her diligence and thrift, reveal this image. Obviously, Xue Baochai has not been happy this time.

"Sister Bao, what's wrong with you? Why are you so emaciated? ”

Xue Baochai smiled bitterly.

He is a girl's family, his mother has soft ears, and his brother is not a weapon, no matter how capable he is, it is impossible for him to be like the serious wife and grandmother of the Jia family, and call those people to their hearts. There is also a Mrs. Wang. Knowing that there was a lot of money in his hand, he promised this and that, and he tried to stuff people into it. It also does not consider whether today's provincial villas can still support such consumption.

Even if Xue Baochai is capable, when he encounters someone like Mrs. Wang, he can only admit it.

Xue Baochai is not Wang Xifeng in the original book, and he does not have Wang Xifeng's reputation. can't compare to Wang Xifeng's pungency and not afraid of retribution from gods and ghosts. is even more reluctant to have his face, and now Mrs. Wang does not have the three or two million dowry silver that Lin Daiyu brought into the Jia family, so she is naturally constrained everywhere.

It's just this kind of thing, how can Xue Baochai talk to Jia Jiu? Mrs. Wang is his aunt Xue Baochai! This messenger was again he, Xue Baochai, opened his mouth and begged Mrs. Wang. No matter how strange Mrs. Wang's request was, Xue Baochai could only grit her teeth and endure it.

Who made Mrs. Wang Jia Yuanchun's mother, and the Xue family now needs to beg Jia Yuanchun?

Sixteen-year-old Xue Baochai is not the ten-year-old Xue Baochai who first came to Jia's house, and the ten-year-old Xue Baochai will complain to Jia Jiu about his grievances. But sixteen-year-old Xue Baochai would not be willing to lose face in front of Jia Jiu.

He's able to handle it now. Only his own money and his own dignity are left.

Xue Baochai raised a smile and said, "Second sister, this matter shouldn't have been rushed to you, but my aunt was in a hurry, and Nan was also urging me with a letter a day, so I could only disturb my sister here." ”

Jia Jiu understands in seconds.

"It seems that this is mine, knowing that Sister Bao is in a hurry, I didn't let anyone send a letter. In fact, this time, because of the high price, I gave up the authentic Taihu stone in the south and chose the imitation on Yuqing Mountain, not one or two, but I don't know how much Sister Bao needs. If it's a million stones, it can be prepared in a month, but if you want more, you need to wait. ”

"Really?"

When Xue Baochai heard this, he was very happy.

Because he has already seen the drawings of the front. According to the calculation on the drawings, more than 300 acres of gardens need to open up at least 75 acres of water system, and more than 4.1 million stones need to be piled up (Yindan, weight unit, one stone is 150 catties). Of course, this is the total amount of civil engineering. If you just count the Taihu Lake stones, it will not reach a quarter of the total number at all. In other words, there are so many imitation Taihu Lake stones, Xue Baochai can be left for the provincial villa, and then sold to others.

At this moment, Xue Baochai, who was overwhelmed by the huge expenses of the provincial villa, urgently needed an income to make up for his family's losses.

He didn't think about anything else at all, but took Jia Jiu's hand and said, "Second sister, my aunt is in a hurry, so I want a million stones first." If it's not enough, I have to come to the second sister again. ”

Jia Jiu naturally responded. He didn't expect Xue Baochai to ask for so many imitation Taihu stones in order to resell them. However, several maids around him noticed it. As soon as Xue Baochai left, Qiu Dianzan immediately told Jia Jiu.

Jia Jiu was observing the branch of the Broken Island King in his hand at the time, and when he heard Qiu Dianzan say this, he was also stunned: "Auntie, what did you say?" ”

Qiu Dianzan replied: "Junjun, the villain is saying that this treasure girl is not telling the truth. The provincial villa of the virtuous concubine did not need a million stones of Taihu Lake stone. I'm afraid this treasure girl has other thoughts. ”

Jia Jiu then understood: "You mean that he wants to resell?" Competing with the Daomen? ”

Qiu Dian praised: "Yujun Jun, from the perspective of the villain, I'm afraid it is." ”

Jia Jiu tilted his head, thought for a while, and said, "Maybe the expenses are too big, so their family can't cope with it." However, didn't it mean that the palace originally wanted the inner government to earn a sum of money? If this news is true, Daomen will not openly compete with the inner government for this business. Moreover, I also instructed him to go directly to the Cao family to find Zhiliu, and even if he checked it in the future, it can only be said that he relied on the power of the Cao family. I got so many Taihu stones. As for the Cao family's methods and the background of the Daomen, naturally no one dared to provoke them, and they also had this means to wash themselves away. I hope this sister Bao can wake up in time. Don't ask for trouble. ”

For the energy of the Daomen and the ability of the Cao family, Jia Jiu will not underestimate it. In his opinion, maybe Yiqiē was already in the other party's calculations.

Authentic Taihu stone, one stone costs two taels of silver, plus the cost of transportation to Beijing, this is not as simple as two plus two, but the price doubles up. Now. Under the operation of the authentic Taihu stone, the price has doubled from the source, which is if it is transported into the palace. You can't do it without a stone of ten taels of silver. I believe that such a high price is not something that the maiden families of those harem concubines can afford.

As for the imitation Taihu stone of Daomen, the original price was low. A stone is only a tael of silver. If the amount is huge, there is also a discount. What's more, compared with the thousands of miles from the south of the Yangtze River to Beijing, his freight here is almost negligible.

Therefore, even if only one million stones are released in the end, the transaction amount will not exceed one million taels of silver. On the other hand, those who are ghosts in the south will definitely be investigated by the above for not completing the task. And the Xue family, who is buying and selling, will also be recorded by the upper and inner government because of the tiger's mouth.

The ones who are in trouble are those who have gone too far and the Xue family.

It's just that in this way, I'm afraid that the signboard of the Xue family is becoming more and more distant.

Thinking of Xue Baochai's eagerness. Thinking that this strategy was dedicated to the emperor by Jia Yuanchun, and then thinking about a series of things in the original book about the reform of the Grand View Garden. makes Jia Jiu have a sense of fate that turns in cause and effect.

Character determines fate, and that's no different.

In the original book, Tanchun proposed reform, Xue Baochai turned his head and sold Tanchun, and bought people's hearts with the interests of the Jia family in the Grand View Garden, in exchange for people's support for him.

Now, the Xue family has his own way, and he has dedicated this strategy of building a provincial villa to Jia Yuanchun, Jia Yuanchun has played big, and when he turned around, he united with Mrs. Wang to take out the Xue family's family funds. Now, the Xue family can no longer afford the cost of the provincial villa, and they turned around and cheated Jia Yuanchun again, making Jia Yuanchun's contribution a joke.

Just wait and see. If someone else's house is a ghost, Jia Yuanchun can still say that those people don't know how to share worries for the king, but even the Xue family does this, and Jia Yuanchun is properly pitted to death.

Jia Jiu sighed slightly, perhaps, this is another kind of karma.

In the matter between Mrs. Wang's mother and daughter, Jia Yuanchun, and the Xue family, of course, Jia Jiu could not interfere. Mrs. Wang owes Jia Yu three lives here! There was also a Mrs. Xing lying in the house undead. If Jia Jiu rescued any of Mrs. Wang and Jia Yuanchun, not to mention others, Jia Lian's father and son would definitely not be able to accept it.

Jia Jiu would not make his father and brother angry for outsiders.

As for the Xue family, maybe the Xue family itself has no grudge against Jia Jiu, but they don't have much friendship.

Besides, who made Aunt Xue the sister of Wang Ziteng and Mrs. Wang? Back then, Wang Ziteng supported Mrs. Wang behind his back, and let Mrs. Wang set off a bloody storm again and again in the inner house of the Jia family. Moreover, Jia Jiu's evaluation of the Xue family's mother and daughter is not high. He wasn't sure that he had helped the Xue family now, and the Xue family would definitely not bite back in the future.

Jia Jiu is not Lin Daiyu, she is so kind that she knows that the other party stabs her heart with words, and she forgives the other party again and again. he

Thinking of this, Jia Jiu also felt strange and boring. He sent a maid to Xiangxue Villa and informed Lin Daiyu that he would visit the next day, so he once again focused his attention on the branch of the king tree in his hand.

As mentioned earlier, this king branch looks like a kind of life transformed from a stone, but a stone is still a stone after all, but it is a dead thing, and life is always different from a stone. Even Qingwen, who came over to serve tea, couldn't help but admire: "Girl, which worshipper in the palace has such superb craftsmanship, this branch seems to be real." ”

Jia Jiu smiled: "The vision is good, this is indeed a real branch." ”

Qingwen was startled and said, "Girl, is this a real branch?" Although the maid is young, she has seen a lot of the world with the girl, and she has really never heard of any tree in this world, and his branches look like they are carved out of stone. ”

Jia Jiu shook the Wang branch in his hand and said, "This should be broken off from the king tree of the broken island." Listen to the tone of the envoy. Broken Island is a place where trees should be worshipped very much. In the future, we will be friends and foes with them, and it will depend on whether I can plant this branch well. ”

Qingwen snorted lightly and said, "What kind of country." How can the major affairs of the country be such a child's play? ”

Jia Jiu said: "A powerful country can easily destroy the country of Great Qi. Because it is strong, it is fearless, and because it is strong, it is child's play that the exchanges between countries can be regarded as child's play. Even though there are countless people in our Great Qi who would be angry because of their attitude, they have the strength to ignore this qiē. What we can do is be obedient to each other. I hope that the other party can raise his noble hand and let us go. ”

Qingwen nodded. Although he is smart, he is a great Qi man after all. Naturally, I don't want to believe that Daqi will be a weak country, a country that can only be threatened by others.

Several healthy women worked together to carry a big jade basin into Jia Jiu's yard. It was a very large jade basin, about the size of a large water tank used in Jia Jiu's yard to plant lotus flowers and prevent water from going out and fighting fires. Because it is carved from a single piece of jade. So it looks spectacular.

At this moment, the jade jar was filled with countless jade, agate, crystal, jade, diamond and ruby sapphires. The big and small ones are of very superior quality, and any piece of it can cause a sensation in the world.

When this jade, jewel-filled water tank was placed in front of the flower hall, Jia Jiu was stupid at that time. I haven't been able to find my voice for a long time.

The woman at the head said: "Yu Jia Jiu, we are the officials and maids who serve in the Honglu Temple. These are the things that the envoy of Broken Island has asked us to personally deliver to the county king. The deputy envoy also said. The Broken Island King Tree Branches can only use these jewels as soil, otherwise it will cause great damage to the King Tree Branches. ”

Jia Jiu looked at each other with several life-level maids, not knowing how to react.

The nobles of Daqi are constantly pursuing these jewels, and the officials and ladies of Daqi are polite in front of everyone, but they will fight to the death for their goods. Who would have thought that in another country, these things that can cost people lives are nothing more than the soil used to plant trees?

Jia Jiu suddenly lost his thoughts about those jewelry. When you see jewelry in such a large jar, you probably lose your senses.

I always feel that gold and silver are more realistic.

Qiu Dianzan deserves to be from the palace, and his reaction is fast. In the palace, he was originally responsible for guiding the internal and external women to meet the female officials of the high-ranking concubines, so he naturally knew what to say when to speak.

"Since it was sent by the envoy of the broken island, then the relevant officials of the Honglu Temple have all seen it? Have you ever registered? ”

In previous years, the envoys of the vassal kingdom also went to Beijing to worship, and also sent jewels to the homes of the powerful people of Daqi. However, no country would be like Broken Island, holding a jade basin the size of a water tank filled with jewels and jade things, and moving it to the house of the courtiers of Daqi.

Even Qiu Dianzan didn't know how to react.

There is a certain procedure for giving gifts in feudal countries, and the gifts given are also according to a certain number of gifts. Ordinary people are just you know, I know, everyone knows, and the person who receives the gift knows it, and then everyone can have a share. But from the words of this healthy woman, it sounds like these things were specially given to Jia Jiu alone.

This kind of thing is really intriguing, and even Qiu Dianzan has to be careful.

Jia Jiu thought about it, stood up, walked to the porch, bent down, and inserted the Wang branch in his hand into the basin full of pearls and jade.

He tilted his head slightly, thought about it, and didn't let people water it, but brushed two spiritual healing techniques.

The Wang branch in the jade basin shook gently, making a crisp and pleasant sound, like a wind chime, swaying slightly in the wind, but it reminded Jia Jiu of something.

Jia Jiu never thought that this broken island was the killing broken island mentioned in his system. Jia Jiu also didn't know if the other party was hiding something from him. That Broken Island Wang Fu was obviously an old fox who had been in officialdom for a long time, and with Jia Jiu's level, it would be an impossible task to get information from his face.

It's like today's answer to the other party. He only let Jia Jiu know what he wanted to say, but he hid many, many things.

For example, how is the royal power of Broken Island structured, and what role does the Wang Shudian brought by the King of Broken Island play in the interior of Broken Island.

But Jia Jiu knows very well that if it is really his own system that is calculating himself, then he can't hide, so he can only face the difficulties.

And right now, Jia Jiu didn't dare to rely on the system store in his hand, for example, he just exchanged a martial arts and corresponding martial arts, and a broken island appeared, and then he was inexplicably dragged into the battle for the royal power of the broken island.

Maybe the fate of being at the mercy of others is sad, but Jia Jiu doesn't have enough strength to let himself live freely, so Jia Jiu can only take a step back and let his heart be free.

Jia Jiu is not afraid that someone in this world is calculating him, but Jia Jiu is afraid that the system is calculating him. Because if someone in this world wants to calculate him, there will always be clues to make him feel. But if the so-called all-powerful system calculates him, Jia Jiu doesn't know if he can hold on.

But Jia Jiu believes that every thing and every attribute that comes out of this system store is only useful, and this kind of use is not only on the surface.

Jia Jiu faintly felt that the spiritual healing technique of his body was brought with him, and it was obvious that it could not only be used on people, but also not limited to animals, and even plants should be able to play a role. And it's extraordinary.

Thinking like this, Jia Jiu brushed two more spiritual healing techniques on this Wang branch. (To be continued......)