Among these four people, the fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy was naturally simple, she led Zhao Er and Meng Shan brothers and sisters out of the imperial city, took a half-day carriage, and arrived in the city of Shangyuan County.

"You're here to open the mansion, why don't you go tomorrow?" Zhao Er asked, "If you don't have the money to give a gift, I'll lend it to you." ”

"Do you have to pay it back if you borrow it?" Jian Qingqing glanced at him, scooped a Lantern Festival and sucked it into his mouth, shivered, and fanned his tongue with his hand, "I'll come over and take a look, it's mainly during the national funeral, otherwise, you can really get in, Kaiji, a full ten years of criminal department books, and finally retire, it's really not a simple person." ”

"Do you know a lot about him?" Zhao Er was surprised, Jian Qing and Kaiji were obviously not people of the same era, and Kaiji was more than enough to be her grandfather.

"Ever since I decided to come back and vindicate my father's grievances, I haven't been gathering this information. Although I can't enter the mansion for the time being, I still have a way to inquire about some things inside. ”

The next day, Jian Qing stuffed a manuscript that she copied in the middle of the night into a sheepskin jacket, and hesitated to the door of Kaifu, she first stuffed a penny of silver to the door of Kaifu, and then took out the manuscript, "This little brother, this is the manuscript that the third prince of your mansion Kaizhong entrusted to my master, my master is sick, and before he dies, please ask me to take care of this matter on his behalf, and please have mercy on my brother, be sure to send this manuscript to the third son, and do not let my master die!" ”

It's so serious!

The door of the Kaifu hurriedly agreed, turned to prepare to enter, just crossed the threshold, and turned back again, "This little brother, please leave the name of your master!" ”

"My master is Cao Xia Mengruan!" Jian Qing thanked him again.

Kaizhong is Kaiji's third son, and the first two sons have died, leaving only Kaizhong alone. Last year, he was elected as a tribute student by the county school. I only came home from Beijing a few years ago, and the disciples who opened the mansion didn't know what the situation of their son was in Beijing, and I heard that they were asked to ask for it, so they dared to slack off, so they quickly transferred in.

Kaizhong married a wife a year ago, and his wife gave birth to a son last year. He was a kind man, and there were only two concubines in the house. The wife is a noble daughter of a large family, coarse and ink, on weekdays, the husband sings with the wife, and the flounder is deeply affectionate.

Hearing that a friend named Jian Qing sent him a volume of the manuscript he begged for, Kaizhong didn't remember for a long time, when did he ask for the manuscript, he couldn't help asking, "What is the manuscript?" ”

Holding the manuscript came in was the maid who added fragrance to his red sleeves, recognized a few words, and replied at the door, "If you return to Gongzi, it is a book called "Stone Records". As she spoke, she read a few words, and before she could finish a paragraph, Kaizhong was already busy saying, "Don't send it in soon!" ”

The author of "The Stone Record" is signed Cao Xueqin, this person, Kaizhong has never heard of it in ancient and modern times, but this does not prevent him from reading this book, and he is not willing to put it down when he picks it up, there are three chapters in total, he read it back and forth five times, and almost memorized it, and then I remembered that this is a book with only the beginning and no follow-up.

"Where's the guy who sent the message?" Kaizhong jumped up and asked.

"If you want to ask about her master, you can go to the Shen family in the alley of Renqi Lane in Jingshi to inquire." The maid added, "She said she rented there. ”

Kaizhong didn't wait for dawn, and he didn't care that his wife had just given birth and his young son was still in infancy, so he insisted on going to Beijing the next day.

"What kind of friend is it?" His wife, Xing, asked.

"You can see it by looking at it, and you should be able to understand why your husband is so insistent." Kaizhong handed his wife a copy of the first three chapters of "The Stone Record" that he had copied, "Be sure not to stain the manuscript, if I can get the full manuscript, I will die without regrets in this life!" ”

Xing Shi hurriedly covered her husband's mouth, "Don't talk nonsense, under the New Year's Festival, are you deliberately trying to make me uneasy and make my in-laws angry?" ”

"It's my fault!" Kaizhong held his wife's hand and said guiltily, "You take care of it, I will ask my mother to take care of you, this time, I must go." ”

Kaizhong was going to say goodbye to his parents, Xing was lying on the bed reading the manuscript, she began to disdain, but she was slowly attracted, but after reading it, she sighed and said to her grandmother, "Alas, this Daiyu is also a pitiful, sent to her grandfather's house, although Zhong Ming Dingshi is home, but I don't know how complicated it is, you see, the long house is in charge, the second room is in charge, isn't this the root of the civil strife?" ”

"Grandma also said, what's going on with our family? If the uncle is gone, forget it, who knows that the grandmother will be left, and the ghost will give birth to a debt collector, and our family will not know how to do it in the future. ”

Xing Shi was not happy when he heard this, "Mama, don't talk about this, if you want to say it again, I will have to send you back to your mother." The third master didn't say anything about this family, what are we going to do with this? On weekdays, is my wife bad for the third master? ”

Hearing that his son was going back to Beijing for the New Year, Guo was happy and sad at the same time, "Why is it so early?" It shouldn't be the school school yet, where have you gone, where do you live? Who will serve you? ”

"I have a friend I haven't seen for many years, and I must go and see her. After going, it's good to live in an inn, with silver in your hand, and you're afraid that you will be wronged? Kaizhong said, "If my mother is not at ease, let Guo Tong follow me." ”

Guo Tong is the son of the companion brought by Guo, Guo nodded.

Jian Qing spent the first night in the middle of the night, silently reading the manuscript of the first three chapters of "Dream of Red Mansions", and she used the name "The Story of Stones". Early the next morning, Jian Qing and the three of them took the carriage back to Yingtianfu, and when they were on the road, the three horsemen ran past them, Jian Qing opened the curtain and looked at the backs of the three of them, "Second Brother Zhao, you said that my trick may not be good, but it turns out that it must be good." ”

Last night, when Jian Qing was copying the manuscript, Zhao Er asked her what she was doing, and she said that it was the bait used to catch the small fish Kaizhong. Zhao Er said that this trick may not be easy.

"How do you know that the past is a loyal master and servant?"

"Because these three men are riding military horses, and this kind of horse is a highland steed, which supplies the army. Although Shangyuan County is rich and rich, there are not many people who can get this kind of military plateau horse, and opening a family is one of them. Jian Qing added, "Now, the New Year has not yet ended, if there is no urgency, no one should leave home at this time, and go out of the city in such a hurry, except for Kaizhong, I can't think of anyone else?" ”

Zhao Er rolled his eyes, he had never seen such a boast of himself.

But when they returned to Renqi Lane, they happened to meet these three people leading horses, and they were asking every house, "Where does the Shen family live?" ”