Chapter 15 Internal and external management
Let's say that Jiang Liu went to find Baoyu, passed by Nuan Pavilion, first went to say hello to Jia's mother, and said "The master has returned", and then went to the Bisha cupboard.
When he saw Baoyu, he smiled and grinned, his waist bent more than ninety degrees, and his forehead fell to the bottom. Qingwen laughed out loud when she saw him funny, and the attacker glared at her.
Attacking people and pulling Baoyu, he bit his ear and said: "He is a little guy outside the old man's room, don't look at him as unfavorable, but he is in charge of foreign affairs." ”
"Foreign affairs?" Baoyu tilted his head.
The attacker said in a low voice: "When the male master reaches a certain age, if he is of great use, he will have two kinds of internal and external affairs. On weekdays, he is a small maid and a maid, and if he really uses it, he is a killer. Didn't the old ancestor send you a message that he wanted Mingyan to be the internal manager? That's it. ”
Baoyu picked up the blue porcelain pattern cup, skimmed the tea with the porcelain lid, and drank slowly.
He looked at Jiang Liu: he was wearing a black hat with a small brim and a cardigan with both sides, which was also black. Under his feet, a pair of black cloth shoes with a thousand layers of soles are densely sewn. At first glance, it looks like an ordinary little guy, unsightly. But he put his eyes on the waist and hem of Jiang Liu's cardigan, and smiled.
Compared with the little guy outside his room, Jiang Liu's cardigan was shorter, not up to the bottom of his thighs and close to his knees, but just above his waist. The belt is also different, twisted into a hemp rope shape, not a wide strip of cloth.
Generally, the belt of the little girl is a wide strip of cloth, which is convenient for stuffing something or something. The lemon of the river is in the shape of a hemp rope, I don't know if it is to look neat, or is it convenient to strangle the neck?
If the identity of his soul is exposed, I am afraid that there will be someone who is similar to Jiang Liu's dress, and he will be in charge of internal affairs.
Jiang Liu peeked at Baoyu, and said sweetly again: "Jiang Liu has seen Second Master Bao, please be safe for the old man." ”
Baoyu asked him to get up, and he brushed it back, his legs together, his waist bent more than 90 degrees, and his forehead almost touched the ground. Baoyu thought that he couldn't do this kind of action, but he didn't move for a long time, and his waist was straightened up, suddenly like a rooted old pine, and the lower plate was very stable.
He arched his hand and said with a smile: "Second Master Bao, the master summoned you." ”
Baoyu saw that he had an ordinary appearance and an ordinary figure, but only a pair of eyes, and his smile was bent into a crescent moon, which made people look close. He walked over, looked up and down, and reached out to pat the back of the river.
Good guy, it's like taking a picture of an iron plate.
Jiang Liu smiled and asked, "Second Master Bao, what are you doing here?"
"No, I just think that you are the same as Wang Shanbao, you are a capable person. Thinking of Wang Shanbao's muscles, Baoyu was envious and hateful. In his previous life, he had an occupational disease, and Xiao Baoyu was even worse in this life, when would he have such a muscle mass?
Sturdy and powerful. It's a man's, and who doesn't want to be strong?
Jiang Liu's eyes flashed, and he said: "The master is falsely praised, the senior Wang is an old family member in the house, Jiang Liu is a small servant, how dare he compare with others?" Unconsciously changed his name, seeing that the room was full of Baoyu's personal body, he lowered his voice and said: "Master should be careful, the old man will not look good when he comes back, and he will be entangled again when he hears about your Kaiwen Mountain." It's hard to say that the river flows, you should be careful. ”
After thinking about it, he said, "It's no big deal after all." Don't look at the old man who is cruel to you, he still cares about it very much. Mr. Jia Dairu Jia is also in the room, and he can help you say a word. ”
Baoyu nodded and ordered the attacker to bring some silver to Jiang Liu. Jiang Liu shirked and took the first step.
This is time for Baoyu to think. He retired and left, but waited outside the corridor of the blue gauze cupboard, just in time for Baoyu to see from the window. Baoyu thought that this person was good, so he took the silver that had been dismissed from the attacker's hand, and turned his brain.
Jiang Liu's words revealed a lot of news.
One of them: Tiger poison does not eat children, no matter how powerful Jia Zheng is, in the end it is Xiao Baoyu's father;
Second: Jia Zheng is in a bad mood, and it is even worse to hear that he Kaiwenshan.
This is especially important.
It's a good thing for him to Kaiwen Mountain, why is he in a bad mood? Baoyu thought for a moment, remembered one of the criminal laws of the Great Zhou, and suddenly smiled--Jia Zheng is also a protector, and he doesn't want to make trouble outside in his family affairs.
Third: Jia Dairu? He and Jia Dairu have never met, but 'how much can you help him say a word'? This is interesting, could it be that he unknowingly fell into Jia Dairu's good?
He asked: "I remember that the old gentleman is a righteous student in the house, and I have never attended a righteous school, so what does it have to do with him?"
"Master, you know to ask Sister Raider. "Since Baoyu saved Jin Chuan, Qingwen has been much warmer to him. She looked at the attacker and smiled at her, and said angrily: "If you want to talk about Jia Dairu, you can't finish a few words, it's a belly twisting and turning."
You don't have to guess, I'll talk back to you. You have seen the 'distant mountain map' of the ancestors, because this is to be a poem, to Kaiwen Mountain. Jia Dairu misses you well, I'm afraid it has something to do with this, right?"
Baoyu nodded, pushed the door and went out, and beside the beams and pillars at the east corner of the corridor, the river was still waiting.
He knew that nothing was foolproof, but there was nothing he couldn't prepare. As long as he knows himself and his opponent, just a mistake in his handwriting can't scare him into hiding from Jia Zheng.
No matter what, that is also Xiao Baoyu's father.
......
Jiang Liu waited outside the corridor, and when he saw Baoyu going out, he led the way in front first, and said nothing all the way.
From the blue yarn cabinet to Mengpo Zhai, it is necessary to pass through Jia's mother's courtyard, through the hall, and through the weeping flower gate, turn two avenues through the hall in the east, and pass through the Tiren Mude Courtyard, which is the courtyard outside Mengpo Zhai.
Jia's mother house has always been lively, and the maids and servants play chess in the yard, waiting for the noisy birds. But Baoyu saw that the courtyard was clean, and even the thrushes, magpies, starlings and other birds were removed along with the cages, and when they walked through the hall, someone peeked in the wings on both sides, and was startled by his eyes, and retracted their heads like quails.
Jiang Liu seemed to be accustomed to this kind of scene, five steps ahead of Baoyu, leading the way in front of himself. When I turned two avenues through the hall, several maids came up to me, looked up and saw people, and were so frightened that they threw themselves on the wall and hugged their heads.
Jiang Liu snorted, as if he had no face in front of Baoyu, and glared at the maids viciously. Baoyu realized that Jiang Liu's beautiful crescent eyes were really terrifying when he laughed, revealing a red light that wanted to eat people.
"Master, you're smiling. "The river stopped at the gate of the outer courtyard of Mengpo Zhai.
He said embarrassedly: "I haven't done anything, they are so afraid of me, annoying people for no reason." With his palm waved to the door, he bowed and said: "The master is inside, you have to be careful, I heard that the ancestor handed you a message, this is the internal manager...... Oh, man, it's better to be a master outside. ”
Baoyu nodded, and shoved the silver he had taken from the attacker.
"How can this be?" Jiang Liu excused himself again and again, and said, "You are the master, you don't need to be so good to the little one." The little ones are not those servants and maids, they just mess up their generations and don't understand ingenuity. ”
"You're rewarded. "Baoyu pinched the hard and delicate silver, a small piece, a silver coin of five taels. He shoved the silver coin and said with a smile: "I'm young, and that's all I can do." You're good, useful, and in the future, I don't think it's going to be just that. ”
He walked to the courtyard gate and said, "It's only five taels of silver, and the second master is a little unable to take it at this time." ”
Jiang Liu's always smiling face stiffened, and his finger bones crackled for a while. He is Jia Zheng's external manager, with a hard foundation and strong strength, it is said that he is the number one inside and outside the house, but Jia Zheng doesn't like to use him, and his prestige is just the stupid fear of the maid servant.
"Master, wait a minute. He called out to Baoyu.
Walk two steps quickly to catch up, bow down and say: "Master, if you need anything, just look for me, Mingyan is a good seedling, he is still immature in the end, I can teach him." ”
Baoyu stopped and turned back.
Jiang Liu smiled, pulled out the belt he was tiding, and squeezed it left and right, and the outer strips of cloth were touched to both sides, which turned out to be a jacket. Baoyu saw that inside was a leather ground into a coarse sand water pattern, tightly fastened on both sides, and in the middle was a double-breasted black metallic texture.
He didn't know why, and looked at the river.
Jiang Liu laughed again, his thumb was pressed on the porcelain buckles on both sides, and the double-breasted buckle in the middle clicked open, and it turned out to be a jacket. The leather shrank to the sides, revealing a line of pitch black. Jiang Liu plucked a handful of hair, and when he blew on his mouth, the hair broke in two on the black line.
Baoyu was secretly shocked, the so-called blowing and broken hair, but that's it.
Jiang Liu smiled: "It's all a little trick of the internal manager." I was originally the master's internal manager, and it was no one else who did the external management, it was Wang Shanbao's senior. When I used to be an internal steward, the lord never used me once, and then somehow, Wang Shanbao offended the lord and was reprimanded, so I did this external stewardship, but there was no one in the internal stewardship. ”
After thinking about it, he said worriedly: "Master, I just know that the ancestor arranged for you to take care of the internal affairs, so I have done it for a few years, and I can teach it, as for the rest, I didn't say anything." ”
Baoyu chuckled and said, "I'm still young, and I'm not qualified to take care of things outside the house, of course, I've never heard of anything like foreign affairs." ”
Jiang Liu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Master, please."
Baoyu walked into the courtyard, only to see the lanterns on, two little servants came out of the waiting hut, one holding a long pole, hanging cloth, dipped in oil, and the other also holding a long pole, pinned with a hook.
It's a light point. Like Jia's mother's warm pavilion, there are also two evil palace lamps hanging in front of the door of the study in Mengpo Zhai, and unless the house is demolished, it will never fall.
When the two little servants saw him, they hurriedly saluted, Baoyu waved his hand, and they rushed to the evil palace lamp. A lampshade that provokes the pattern of the Confucian holy book "Shangshu", and a cloth with oil, and lights the wick. When the lampshade was raised, a moth that was rare in the cold winter pounced on the candle flame and instantly turned to ashes.
Baoyu paused, stopped at the door, knocked on the door, and said, "Master, I'm here." ”
Jiafu is a wealthy family, and the door is strict. With his relationship with Jia Zheng, he can only be called 'master'. Suddenly, Baoyu felt like a moth to a fire, squeezing into the luxury of singing and dancing on the surface and secretly singing and dancing.
Isn't it just two kinds of killers inside and outside! This Rongguo Mansion is full of splendor, and I don't know how many unjust souls have died. 】
Baoyu heard footsteps from inside the door, took a step back, and bowed down.
Students, talents, lifters, scholars, bachelors...... He sneered to himself. Even if it is the moth that fights the flame, how old is the candle flame? Aren't you afraid that the moth will grow into a big thing that covers the sky and snuff out the candle flame casually?
He is the one who wants to be sanctified.