Chapter 81: The Holy Lady
A dinner was like chewing wax, until the meal was finished and when they went to the backyard to listen to the play together, everyone in the Zhen family was still shocked by Jia Hui's words.
You're not going to beat around the bush at all, are you?
It's not that they haven't been in contact with military generals before, but they are also polite when they see themselves, even if they have dirty, they also use standard political fighting methods to solve them.
For example, frame-up, impeachment, exchange of interests, etc.
Who knew that Jia Hui opened their eyes today.
The Zhen family is completely unsuitable for Jia Hui's reckless style.
It's really a long experience.
Jia Hui and the old lady walked in the front, talking and laughing, like real grandchildren.
Even Zhen Baoyu was left out in the cold, and followed behind his parents with an aggrieved face.
It's as if Jia Hui is the owner of this mansion, and they are the guests.
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The layout of this kind of mansion contracted by the Ministry of Industry is similar, unless it is designed by someone else like Ning Guofu, Jia Hui can walk to a similar area with his eyes closed.
However, the Zhen Mansion is still a little different from the Standard Mansion, and its backyard is a small garden with a small lake one after another.
It was getting late, so Jia Hui didn't go to the small lake to have a look.
When you enter the garden, you will be greeted by a stage.
It's not a makeshift construction of wood or anything, but a stage made of brick and stone.
Several tables have been set up in front of the stage, and the grandparents and grandchildren sat down, and the two plates of peeled melon seeds were placed in the hands of the two.
The rest of the idlers also slowly walked over and sat down on both sides of a table in twos and threes.
Jia Hui also saw the four cousins of the Zhen family for the first time.
Except for the appearance is a little different, the rest is simply carved out of the same mold as his four sisters, especially the temperament!
The eldest sister of the Zhen family came over, and at the age of fourteen, she was already budding like cardamom.
"Ancestor, Cousin Hui, this is the latest new drama from our team..."
"Alas, the old woman doesn't know how to pick a show, come, Brother Hun, you can choose!"
"Me?" Jia Hui put down the melon seeds in his hand.
"Yes, you're a guest, so you should be the first to make a show..."
"yes, okay." Jia Hui did not refuse.
opened the repertoire list, and Jia Hui unexpectedly found a few meaningful scenes.
However, it is also reasonable, after all, the Jia family's drama troupe was purchased through the Zhen family in the future, and it is normal to have a certain connection.
quietly chose these few folds, and picked the latest folds of the rehearsal, and then quietly gave the list to the old lady beside him.
The old lady opened the list, took out a pair of tortoiseshell-framed glasses, and took a look at the old play Jia Hui chose.
"Banquet", "Begging Qiao".
was framed, and his family was ruined.
The concubine died Ma Weipo, and the Yang family was beheaded.
Is this hinting at my Zhen family, or is it something else?
The old lady quietly handed it back to the eldest sister's hand.
"Brother Hun'er doesn't choose a few folds anymore?" The old lady looked at Jia Hui with a kind face.
"No, no, my grandson still has a lot of things to do tomorrow, old lady, you are also old, and you can't be too tired, right?" Four folds are just right. ”
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The actors in the backstage hurriedly prepared after receiving the list sent from the front, and today is to entertain guests, so the little guys are also allowed to enter the back house to help set up the venue.
After about a quarter of an hour, an actor appeared on stage in a costume.
"The dragon is eternal, and the power of the Yan Yan is low!
The imperial court has done a family affair, and it is laughing at Huaiyin and sealing the fake Qi..."
Jia Hui looked at it with relish.
After coming to this world for more than ten years, Jia Hui has slowly learned to appreciate opera. The fan kept tapping lightly on his knees, leaning back in his chair and watching the people on stage interpret other people's stories.
But today is not destined to be a good day to watch a show.
At the end of the repertoire, when the line was changing, the old lady began to chat with Jia Hui about whether they were a match or not.
The old lady is old and refined, and she does not leave any flaws.
Jia Dudu has been on the battlefield for a long time and is full of determination.
The whole fold "Begging Qiao" passed in the nonsense of the two.
It wasn't until the third episode began that the old lady seemed a little out of energy.
Jia Hui pouted when she saw the old lady's exhausted look.
I was still in high spirits just now, why was I so tired that I was about to fall asleep after taking a sip of tea and putting it back on the table?
Anyway, the right to respect the old and love the young, I'll speak first.
"Old lady, you are not angry when I say those words to your housewife today?"
Hearing Jia Hui speak, the old lady immediately came to her senses, straightened her waist again, and glanced at Jia Hui with a regretful face.
I'm still too young to concentrate!
Jia Hui read this passage from the old lady's face.
Jia Hui ignored it and looked at the old lady with a smile.
"Angry? What is there to be angry about, the Zhen family can have today's status, isn't it just me supporting it? The old woman's husband and father-in-law were timid, and they failed to change their doors when the country was founded.
If it weren't for my wife, I would have finally become the emperor's nurse, and this family would have the status it has today?
Can Ying Jia sit on the seat of Jiangnan Weaving?
It's not that the old woman's face works with the emperor!
But if the old woman is gone... The family is still the same as it is now, that is, there is a way to take death. It's also a good thing to knock out their arrogance by borrowing your hand. ”
Jia Hui looked at the old lady with some surprise, this kind of political talent who came out of the palace, shouldn't he say a word and turn around first, all kinds of vague metaphors?
How can it be so straightforward? It's almost time to catch up with me!
As if she could see what Jia Hui was thinking, the old lady smiled and patted the back of Jia Hui's left hand that was grabbing melon seeds.
"Because our Brother Hun'er is a military general, a straight intestine who has something to say. said around the corner, the old woman is afraid that you won't understand! ”
Then you're too straightforward!
The last time I met the opponent, it was still the emperor.
In this way, the emperor also learned from you!
Jia Hui's words were blocked in his throat, and he had to look at the stage depressedly.
Seeing Jia Hui's deflated appearance, the old lady couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle.
Fight with me? It's still too tender!
After listening to the play for a while, Jia Hui spoke again.
"Old lady, how much do you know about the collusion between Jiangnan Daying and salt merchants?"
The old lady did not answer immediately, but drank a cup of tea first.
"I know it all."
The people on the stage were still singing.
"Then why not stop it? Soldiers and businessmen collude, and there is a way to die! ”
"Alas," the old lady sighed wearily.
"The old woman can't lie to you, and they only know about this matter after doing it for a long time..."
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Syllable!
A cane whipped Zhen Yingjia's back, and he curled up on the ground in pain, and was about to pant and howl.
But the crutches didn't give Zhen Yingjia any respite, and kept whipping his body, and for a while Zhen Yingjia didn't know whether he was out of breath or hurt, and his face was full of iron.
"Old lady, rest your anger! Third brother, he's about to be killed! ”
The fifth child of the Zhen family hurriedly threw himself on Zhen Yingjia's back, but he suffered a few sticks for him.
"Old lady, stop fighting, stop fighting! Don't be angry! Mrs. Zhen San also swept away her former grace, and hurriedly stepped forward to grab the crutches, and several ladies behind also hurriedly helped the old lady to her seat, and she was relieved for a while.
"Hmph, you group of evil obstacles, the old woman is still angry, and the province is beheaded all over the house!"
The old lady snatched a cup of tea from the fourth lady and smashed it on Zhen Yingjia's head.
The teacup hit the top of his head, and the tea splashed on his back, and he wailed again.
The old lady, who has not beaten a child for many years, really taught her son a hard lesson this time.
But it's not so much anger as it's fear!
As the emperor's nursing mother, how could the old lady who raised him personally not be familiar with his style of doing things?
Really crazy, not to mention his nurse, didn't his own son die at his hands?
"You, these people, evil obstacles!" The old lady stared at her helpless sons and daughters-in-law in the lobby with her brows, feeling tired for the first time.
I didn't feel this way in the palace back then.
"Tell me exactly what this is!"
"Yes!"
The fifth child of the Zhen family hurriedly knelt in front of the old lady's knees.
"Mother, that's the case, when the prince returned to Beijing after his training, he introduced me to a person, saying that he was his cronies and shopkeepers!"
"Is that the white shopkeeper?" The old lady frowned.
She has also heard of this person, and she knows exactly what her grandson is. How is it possible to take the initiative to cultivate cronies? It's all clothes to stretch out their hands and eat to open their mouths!
But this white shopkeeper is really capable, and the things assigned to him are all in order.
In the end, there is still a relatively innocent identity about him, a small shopkeeper of a tavern, who has lived in Jinling for generations.
The reason why he took refuge in his grandson is also very clear.
His grandson accidentally saved the life of the white shopkeeper, and later the white shopkeeper knew the identity of his grandson and attached him. This kind of thing was not unheard of in the early years, so it was left to its own devices.
But the old lady, who has become an old man, has always felt that this white shopkeeper is strange.
"Yes, yes, that's him! He said at the time that a gang of bandits in Songjiang Province blocked the road, and they joined forces with local smuggled salt sellers to prevent salt merchants from entering.
The salt merchants went to the local garrison for help, but the garrison did not do anything, because there were dead people on that trip, so they went to make trouble again. After the trouble, he was imprisoned and suffered for a few days. Only then did I know that the group of people made offerings to Songjiang Mansion every month! The garrison has long been fed!
As a last resort, the stone shopkeeper who docked with the salt merchants told the white shopkeeper who docked with us about it, and wanted to ask us to help... After all, the Hu Shen of Jiangnan Daying will be the son-in-law of our Zhen family, and it will be a convenient thing..."
"And then you got a taste of the sweetness? As soon as something happens to the salt merchants, you go to the people from the Jiangnan camp to help? The old lady asked.
"It's... Yes, what, anyway, giving the silver to the garrisons in various places is also for our son-in-law, so why not give it to your own family? ”
"Then what kind of Hu Shen will be the son-in-law of the sixth uncle's family, right? Why are you messing around with you? Didn't he know that this was a violation of military discipline! ”
"It's not... He... What a gamble..."
The old lady fell silent.
"Is our Zhen family's face already so bad? Do even a few guards dare not give us face? ”
"It's... The garrison was born in the Jiangnan Bei Japanese Army, and is a descendant of His Majesty today, and I heard that he once lived in the same boat with His Majesty. He also said, let alone the Zhen family, even if the prince comes to him in person, it is not easy to make it..."
Prepare for the Japanese army, then there is no way.
It's not a day or two that the Bei Japanese army and the Jiangnan battalion don't like it.
Especially because the Zhen family is a foreign family of the Faithful King, and the descendant of the Faithful King is the Jiangnan Daying, the Zhen family is naturally included in the Jiangnan Daying faction.
"And after that?"
"After that, my brother-in-law developed a good group of people in the Jiangnan camp, as long as the salt merchants have any trouble, they will go to help wherever they are, things are easy to do and there is money to get, and the salt merchants also feel that this saves time and effort, and saves money!
Then they continued to do so, until that day the salt merchants invited someone to come and make a game for Lin Ruhai..."
The old lady didn't know what to say.
"Then don't you know that the collusion between soldiers and merchants is to destroy the three clans?"
"Isn't there still a mother? With the relationship between your mother and the emperor, plus the eldest sister and the prince who are concubines in the palace, nothing will be fine...
Besides, the prince also thinks it's convenient to do this..."
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"That's it..."The old lady finished speaking, quietly looking at Jia Hui thoughtfully.
"Do you think it's convenient for the prince to do this? Ha, have they ever wondered what the emperor and the emperor think? ”
Jia Hui shook his head.
Taking a sip of tea, Jia Hui looked at the old lady again.
"That is to say, at first, it was just some salt merchants who were troubled, and then let the white shopkeeper match up and solve the matter through the Jiangnan camp.
Then the two parties tasted the sweetness, one got the benefit, the other got the convenience, and then more and more people got involved, until the salt merchants wanted to get rid of my uncle, but they didn't expect my uncle to be taken out by my own soldiers and exposed? ”
Jia Hui also looked at the old lady expressionlessly.
"Yes..."
"Last question, does Deng Yuan, the chief officer of the Jiangnan battalion, know about this?"
The old lady was silent until the last episode was almost over, and then she spoke.
"He was also coerced by his subordinates, and if he didn't get involved, he would be killed by his subordinates somewhere sooner or later."
Clang!
Hua Dan, who was wearing a costume, stood upright on the stage, pinching her orchid fingers, and looking at the old men and ladies in the audience with tenderness.
Tonight's play is over.
I've been waiting for a long time, today's second update.
The writing is actually not very satisfying, and the process is a bit far-fetched.
But I really can't think of any better collusion process...
(End of chapter)