Not long after, Jia Lian came up to the ship of the Huanyi Bureau, and the Shangshu (honorific title) inside heard the sound and knew that Jia Lian was coming, so he was busy leading the way in front of him and arrived at a room in the cabin.

Jia Lian had already gotten the news from Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong, and Xue Pan was visiting Xue Baochai here.

This room is elegantly furnished, with chairs placed on one side, windows on three sides for ventilation, and window curtains on top of each other, swaying cold air in.

"Lord Jia, look, this place is better than the place where I live, and I can't neglect the Xue family." The general manager of the Huanyi Bureau said with a smile.

Then Xue Baochai was holding the stove on one side of the seat, and Xue Pan was sitting opposite each other and talking, several people greeted him, the manager of the Huanyi Bureau retreated, and Jia Lian came to take a seat.

The door is wide open, and the three feet outside is the passage of the boat where people come and go, but I am not afraid of anyone gossiping.

When Xue Pan saw Jia Lian, he naturally thanked him very much.

When he was at the house of Master Wang Jing in Jiangnan, he went to fight for a passing woman, and he didn't know the news of the imperial court at all.

If something goes wrong with Xue Baochai, she still has to make Aunt Xue angry?

After thanking them again and again, a few people said other words.

「……… What is the saying in the court today? Second Brother Lian has a lot of credit, it's time to be promoted again, right?" Xue Pan said.

"Just wait and see." Jia Lian smiled, and inevitably remembered the honor of the emperor.

That day, the Emperor Taishang didn't want to see Emperor Yonglong and deliberately begged for death, although no outsiders should see him, but Jia Lian still couldn't help but be a little worried.

It's no better than when he killed the Eighth Emperor, this Emperor Taishang seems to be a poor old man, if Jia Lian hadn't been angry because of Xue Baochai's whereabouts, he wouldn't have been angry directly.

Xue Baochai looked at Jia Lian and said with a smile: "In my opinion, instead of thinking about how to be promoted, Second Brother Lian should think about how to deal with the old lady in the family, the belongings handed down by your old father were burned, and Second Brother Lian, you are not the one in charge of the house, it is too bad a rule."

There are many masters like Jia Lian in the Jia family, if they all go beyond the elders to deal with the family business, regardless of the consequences, they will first have chaos inside and outside the Jia family.

Jia Lian replied with a smile: "The old ancestor is a sensible person, at most, he will scold a few words when he is angry, and he will sulk for a while, let the mandarin duck feed her old man some more medicine, and I will make up some silver into her body, which is enough."

How to deal with Jia Mu, Jia Lian has been thinking about it almost these days, and he doesn't seem to care at this time.

However, because of the fire in the old house in Jinling, Jia Lian couldn't help but be angry again, and said: "My old Jin Cai, who looks at the house, is also an unknown person, as soon as I left that night, he separated the fire in the back house of Rongfu, and used the money to buy a neighborhood house to burn it down."

"That's how it should be." Xue Baochai agreed: "Not to mention how many gold, silver and antiques are hidden in the old house of Second Brother Lian's family, only one brick and one tile should be worth the street outside."

"How do I not know this?"

Jia Lian's face remained unchanged and said: "I don't like to destroy my own things, it's just that time is pressing, like Lao Jincai, it is inevitable that I will come out to buy and sell, and what's more, in chaos, I can't say that I will also harm the lives of the neighbors, this thing has been rare since ancient times."

「…… It's also that I'm thinking shallowly, not as thoughtful as Second Brother Lian." Xue Baochai thought for a while, and suddenly nodded.

The ship passed by the water, rippling and rippling, and the cold wind blew into the cabin, making Xue Baochai inevitably tighten his clothes.

After saying a few words, Xue Baochai took the initiative to mention to Jia Lian about Xue Pan's southward journey, the Xue family had reported the news before, and just now Xue Pan mentioned this matter again, Xue Baochai had already sorted out seventy-seven eighty-eight.

「…… I heard that he ended up in the county jail, and he was almost issued a sea arrest document, because the Xue family still has some face in Jiangnan, otherwise my brother would not really want to go up the mountain and the sea to be a thief."

went to fight for the sake of an unknown person, but didn't care about his own sister, which really made Xue Baochai angry and funny.

Xue Pan heard Xue Baochai complaining, and because Jia Lian was there, he had to smile and not speak.

"If it's true that I'm going to do it for the heavens, I'm ...... I can't say what it's not."

Jia Lian thought for a while, and then said: "There are many ways in this world where people use their power and rules to run rampant, you have to go and calculate with them, but you have lost your original intention and fallen behind, it is better to make a complete trouble, how to leave it alone, how can you pull a wicked person off the horse, if the world is doing things like this, when the evil officials and gentry disappear, then it will naturally be the world for the public."

"Exactly! That's what I've thought in my heart." Xue Pan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he nodded again and again.

Xue Baochai looked at Xue Pan with a pair of apricot eyes, then at Jia Lian, and then leaned on his head with one hand and thought for a while, then shook his head with a smile.

"Looking at the words and deeds of the two elder brothers, it seems that they are both chivalrous and righteous good men, and I can't argue at all, but like a wicked person."

"It's just that Second Brother Lian said it was so good, but the literati and scholars in the world thought about it for a thousand years, but they still couldn't do it. If you really want to be like what Second Brother Lian said, the people are going to kill officials one by one, and before they see that the world is public, the world will first come to a world of great chaos."

Jia Lian was stunned and slightly silent

"How can the gentry who only kill corrupt officials and corrupt officials and do evil be involved in the world of chaos?" Xue Pan heard Xue Baochai's words, so he first argued with some anger.

"It's all because the human heart is unpredictable." Xue Baochai said.

"How hard can it be?"

"If you really want to be reasonable, my brother definitely doesn't like to hear it, so it's better to use a story to argue."

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "One day, brother, you picked up a purse on the street of the big fan in Stone Town, and there was nothing else in it, only a roll of silver tickets totaling 1,000 taels of silver, how should my brother deal with it?"

Xue Pan replied, "I don't necessarily mean that I am a person who lacks the 1,000 taels of silver, so I am naturally waiting for the owner to come to the door in that place."

Xue Baochai nodded, looked at Jia Lian and said, "Where is Second Brother Lian?"

Jia Lian said: "I'm afraid I don't have the leisure to wait, most of them are sent to the nearest official mansion."

Xue Baochai smiled like a flower and said, "As the saying goes, the emperor and the general should also worry about the two copper plates in the hands of the beggar, so from this point of view, the two brothers are really good people. But if it were me, after picking up the purse, I would take out five hundred taels and put it back in my hand."

Xue Pan hurriedly asked, "Why is this?"

Either take it greedily or return it to the owner, Xue Baochai is a bit grotesque in doing this.

"Got it!"

Jia Lian looked at Xue Baochai's somewhat cunning face, frowned and said, "My sister took five hundred taels and just left, this is to let Brother Xue Pan wait to return the purse to the owner after you picked it up, but the owner saw it, but instead it should be said that Brother Xue Pan stole five hundred taels of silver from him, and he was full of resentment."

"This ......" Xue Pan realized it and looked at Xue Baochai.

Xue Baochai smiled and said, "Because I am a 'wicked person', after putting the purse back, the next person who picks up the purse is an ordinary person, who is greedy in the face of such money, and directly takes it home and keeps it for himself—this is another evil person;

And if a good person like the two elder brothers finds it and gives it to the owner, it must make the owner and the person who picks up the purse complain, feel the sinister nature of the human heart, and each of them has a seizure, and in the future, it is impossible to say that it is to change his temperament - this is to create two wicked people, if the elder brother can't stand the grievances, he gets angry and comes out, and he makes a disturbance for a while, and he can't say how many things he wants to do, and people like the two brothers are calculated by me, so it can be seen that I am a very evil person."

"Good sister, why did you come up with such thoughts?" Xue Pan's face was depressed when he heard this, and he frowned, but he finally heard it clearly, Baochai said openly and secretly that his temperament was not.

"It's just a dialectical story, and it's still talking about the unpredictable things in people's hearts." Xue Baochai said with a smile.

"If it is Lian who loses the money

Second brother, it was my own brother who picked up the silver, so you fought because of this, and I just happened to see the joke when I crossed out five hundred taels. Therefore, whether you are chivalrous or righteous, or you are doing the right thing for heaven, you have all been calculated and deceived by people like me."

There was a moment of silence in the cabin, and when the ship of the Huanyi Bureau silently rowed forward, there was a sudden summons outside.

"Your Excellency!"

Jia Yun ran to the ship in a panic and said outside the cabin, "The Holy Messenger has called, my lord should come over quickly!"

"What is it for?" Jia Lian got up when he heard the sound, since it was the emperor's edict, it was not good to delay.

Saying goodbye to Xue Pan for a while, Jia Lian walked out, hurriedly got off the boat with Jia Yun, and drove back.

In the cabin, Xue Baochai saw Jia Lian walk out, then looked at Xue Pan opposite, and complained, "I see my brother and second brother Lian... Why is it that the second brother Lian has been able to enter and exit in front of the saints, but the elder brother is still circling in the countryside?"

Xue Pan threw away the thoughts that were being knotted, and said with a smile: "Good sister, you don't want to learn from your mother to complain about me, his second brother was forced by the old ladies in the family, and he was bent on going back to be a big official. Since I can live happily in the family business, why should I return that heart, I really want to be bigger, like the previous President Zhen's family, when I am one step behind, wouldn't I be tired and pitiful at home?"

Xue Baochai listened to these obedient words, and it was not good to preach to his brother repeatedly, so he couldn't help but be a little helpless.

「…… What happened to the Zhen family? He only said that his house was raided." Xue Baochai's words changed and asked with some curiosity.

Xue Pan said with a little emotion: "I deliberately looked at this when I passed by Ying Tianfu, after President Zhen's house was copied, his wife and maids were all sold on the spot in Stone City, and no one dared to buy it for more than ten days in a row, which was very miserable, but fortunately, he was blessed by the Holy God later, forgave the Zhen family, and left a property in Stone Town for them to live in."

Xue Baochai bowed slightly: "It turns out that there is still such a thing, I said that the Zhen family should not be spared, and the Holy Lord's grace is only half of the grace, it turns out that he deliberately humiliated their family first."