Seeing that the matter had been finalized, Jia Lian was a master who could do what he said, so he immediately went out of the courtyard with the two of them to find someone from the King of Beijing to donate officials.

In the afternoon, the three of them had already arrived at the palace of the king of Beijing, and they heard that the king of Beijing was at home after the dispersal of the dynasty.

The Jia family and the Beijing Mansion are world friends, and Jia Lian is not an unknown concubine, but the person who inherits the title of the Rongguo Mansion, so although Jia Lian took the liberty to come to the door, the concierge of the Beijing Mansion still invited Jia Lian in.

According to the rules of the palace, Wu Yong and Yang Zhixian waited in the living room. Du Jia Lian entered the inner house of the Beijing Palace and asked the old lady of Beijing to say goodbye.

The old lady recognized Jia Lian, so she left him for tea and chatted for a while about the recent situation of the Jia family and Ningrong mansions. Not long after, King Shui Rong of Beijing also came, and he also asked the old lady to say goodbye first, and then invited Jia Lian to talk to another house.

The old lady had no intention of disturbing, she only said that she asked Jia Lian to keep the meal later, and then asked Shui Rong to go down with Jia Lian.

After bowing down and leaving the old lady's house, Shui Rong and Jia Lian walked one after the other, separated by half a body, and three steps behind them, they bowed their heads and followed a retinue to serve, inseparable.

Shui Rong and Jia Lian said with a smile: "Brother Jia is handsome, and he is very pleasing to the concubine, but he can bring his wife to come often in the future, and it is good to accompany the old concubine to relieve boredom." ”

The prosperity of the Beijing Mansion is not comparable to the declining Rongguo Mansion, although the words of Shui Rong are praised, but the nobility has already degraded Jia Lian, and if it was others, he would have been flattered.

But Jia Lian was a muddy person, so he only touched his face and said: "A good man cares about his face, if the old lady and the prince don't think I'm stupid, I'll come to the door another day." ”

Shui Rong chuckled, nodded, entered a water pavilion, and asked Jia Lian to do it. If you don't pour it, there will be attendants who serve hot tea and light sandalwood in the water pavilion.

Shui Rong didn't mention the purpose of Jia Lian's coming first, but asked with interest: "Brother Baoyu, the brother in Brother Jia's mansion, did he really have a piece of beautiful jade in his mouth when he was born?" ”

Jia Lian replied: "The elders all say this, it should be true if you think about it, and there are eight characters engraved on it, what is it called: Don't forget it, Xianshou Hengchang." ”

Shui Rong listened, and after saying something strange in his mouth, he uncovered it. asked about the purpose of Jia Lian's coming over again.

Jia Lian had been waiting for a long time, and was busy telling the matter of donating officials for Wu Yong and Yang Zhi.

Shui Rong smiled: "It turned out to be this, I almost forgot about it." Since Wu Yong is a former imperial examination person, and you are talking, I will find a rich magistrate for him. As for Yang Zhi..."

Shui Rong thought for a moment, smiled at himself, and said: "Now that there are bandits in Jiangnan, and General Yuhang's mansion is short of manpower, why don't you ask Yang Zhi to go." If you get 10,000 taels of silver, I will ask the six departments to engrave the official seal as soon as possible, record Yang Zhi's official body, and in a few days he will go to Jiangnan with the Qin of the imperial court, and make a six-grade thousand general under General Yuhang. ”

Now is not the time of the founding of the country, the imperial court Chinese officials are noble and military attaches are cheap, so there is now a saying that 10,000 taels of silver will get Yang Zhi six products and thousands of generals.

Jia Lian was naturally overjoyed, he also thought that Yang Zhi was guilty of a crime, and he was afraid that it would be difficult for the official to be reinstated, so he didn't think that General Yuhang's mansion was short of people, but he asked him to pick up the leak.

Jia Lian originally had 30,000 taels in his hand, and he taught him to use some of them sporadically in the past few months-such as Yang Zhi's courtyard. However, if you make up a lot, in addition to the thirteen thousand taels donated by Wu Yong, this ten thousand taels can also be taken out.

Shui Rong saw that Jia Lian wanted two officials, so he smiled and said: "Brother Jia, since I am the middleman, I will collect five hundred taels for the county magistrate, and I will charge one thousand taels for the thousand generals of Yuhang's General Mansion, because I still need to go to the military department to do it." ”

"This is as it should be, tired of the prince moving around." Jia Lian smiled and nodded, if Shui Rong didn't collect the money, he would owe him a big favor here, then Jia Lian would have to respond in his heart.

Now that Wu Yong and Yang Zhi were waiting outside, Jia Lian asked Shui Rong if he wanted to see Wu Yong and Yang Zhi, but this matter was immediately rejected by Shui Yong, and he was afraid that he would shock the relatives in the house.

Although Jia Lian felt regretful, he had to press it and not mention it.

Shui Rong is not interested in the two small officials, but the four kings and eight princes are almost the same thing, so he is a little interested in Jia Lian.

Now that Jia Lian is married, Shui Rong asked him about his future plans.

Every year, the imperial court will recruit a group of noble sons and daughters into the palace to serve as guards, and Jia Lian is thinking about enlisting to be a Yulin guard, and now he will talk about this matter with Shuilu.

Hearing this, Shui Rong was a little unhappy on his face, and looked Jia Lian up and down a few times before saying:

"What is Yu Linwei worth, the entourage is only eight grades, and the team leader is not seven grades. Aren't you friends with Shi Guangzhu, the grandson of the Duke of the Kingdom, and Chen Yejun and others? A few years ago, Shi Guangzhu entered the palace and made up for the lack of a five-grade dragon forbidden lieutenant in the palace, because he was not afraid of injury, he picked five colleagues in the palace school field, and he ranked third among the uncles in the palace. ”

Shui Rong said this, and then asked Jia Lian: "Didn't you say that you practiced martial arts with Yang Zhi at home for months, since you have the heart to become a leader now, why don't you make up for the position of the dragon forbidden lieutenant?" It's good to take care of each other with the stone light beads. ”

The founding four kings and eight princes have become increasingly lonely today. King Beijing Shui Rong saw it clearly, and naturally he could pull a handful.

Jia Lian has only been working at home for several months, and he has not had any contact with a noble son for a long time, but at this moment, he suddenly heard the recent situation of the stone light bead, and his mind moved, and he already had some inquiring hearts.

Jia Lian said: "Originally, I only planned to go to the palace to mingle, but now that I heard the words of the prince, I haven't met with that stone light bead for a long time, so I will also go to be a dragon forbidden lieutenant and see how majestic he is." ”

Shui Rong said happily: "Very good, the matter of supplementing the dragon forbidden lieutenant is simple, and there is no need for silver to open the way." When I talk to Dai Quan in the palace, I will transfer the quota in my house to you. ”

Now most of the children of the four kings and eight princes only know how to enjoy the blessings of their ancestors, and there are few who are willing to go out.

Although he is a few points younger than Jia Lian, he has participated in the early court every day since he inherited the prince, and he often receives grace in and out of the court, and his knowledge is much better than Jia Lian.

Because he was worried that Jia Lian would not know how to take part after entering the palace, he would commit a royal taboo, and Shui Rong wanted to explain some matters of attention. At this time, a steward in the palace cautiously came into the water pavilion and asked Shui Rong for instructions:

"Lord Wang, someone from Rongguo Mansion is looking for Jia Lian's son."

The words were interrupted, Shui Rong frowned slightly, and said, "That's it, Rongguo Mansion is not an outsider, just call him over." ”

When the palace steward heard this, he bowed and retreated, and after a while, he led a person over. This person is Jia Lian's personal little servant Xing'er, but he didn't expect him to find it here, and he was in a hurry.

Jia Lian got up after confessing his guilt to Shui Rong, walked outside the water pavilion, and asked curiously, "Xing'er, why did you find here?" ”

Xing'er looked around, took a step forward, and said in a low voice: "Second master!" The little one can be regarded as finding you, go back to the house, the second grandmother is demolishing your study! ”

"Huh?" When Jia Lian heard this, her eyes bulged out, and she said angrily: "This mother-in-law is not sensible, the study asked her to dismantle it, where can I sleep at night, I really can't squat in the kennel." ”