Chapter Ninety-Eight: Ingenuity
Early in the morning, Li Weijian woke up from a deep sleep, and felt that his right arm was sore, and his back was hot again. When he opened his eyes, he saw Qingwen in his arms and temples scattered, and turned his head slightly, the red jade pink neck and jade arms, and the figure was close to his back.
After thinking about it, it seems that he got up again yesterday and vomited again, looking at the two maids with red eyes, Li Weijian forced Qingwen and Hongyu to rest, but the two just didn't allow it, so Li Weijian simply pulled the two of them to sleep together.
I forgot about it, and I fell asleep just because I was sleepy. The bed was cramped, just right for two people, and a little crowded for three people.
Li Weijian turned around and lay down, caught a glimpse of the eyeballs under the red jade's eyelids, and knew that this girl must be awake, and he didn't know if she was ashamed, so she didn't open her eyes.
Li Weijian stretched out his left arm and hugged the red jade in his arms. Orr, Qingwen on the other side woke up. He rubbed his eyes and yawned to get up. was pulled back by an arm.
"Fourth Master?"
Those dexterous eyes, I wonder if I am coming.
Li Weijian said vaguely: "It's still early, sleep for a while." β
"The fourth master won't practice this morning?"
"Well, I'm sore all over, let's rest for a day."
Qingwen said: "I have to inform Xiuying." β
"Don't worry, if I don't get up, Xiuying also has to practice."
Qingwen thought about it, and it seemed that this was the case, so she didn't say anything more.
She moved her body and stuck it on Li Weijian's chest, her shallot-like fingers picked a strand of hair, wrapped it between her fingers, and the small and medium-sized diamond foot of the brocade quilt climbed up, but touched the other slightly larger foot, and immediately retracted it.
Raising her eyes to catch a glimpse of Li Weijian's lazy smile on her face, Qingwen said curiously: "The fourth master looks very good, but something good happened yesterday?" β
"Well, sort of."
After a primary financial feast, the winner takes all, Li Weijian invested no more than 100,000 taels of silver, and in the end he made a small profit. And he is alone, what is the difference between hundreds of thousands of taels and millions of taels of silver? You can't eat that dragon liver and phoenix brain at home every day, right?
Li Weijian responded with a smile, looked at the top of his head and said, "Yesterday, King Zhongyong set up wine, and met an adult during the banquet. β
"Who?"
"Loyal to Marquis Shiding."
Qingwen blinked and said, "Marquis Zhongjing? That's the old lady's nephew. I heard that the Marquis of Zhongjing was very trusted by the saint, and the fourth master got acquainted with him, which can be regarded as a good thing. If you can't bring it up in the future, the fourth master will take a lot of detours. β
Li Weijian smiled and was speechless.
During the banquet yesterday, the Zhongjing Marquis Shi Ding was extremely enthusiastic, and he and Li Weijian pushed the cup to exchange lamps, called him a virtuous nephew, and invited Li Weijian to sit in his mansion these days. After Li Weijian and Liang Langzhong returned together, the two took Li Weijian's carriage, Xu drank too much, Liang Langzhong talked more, and briefly pointed out Shi Ding's background, Li Weijian thought about the cause and effect after thinking about it.
The historian is a double marquis, the Baoling Hou Shi Nai, and the Zhongjing Marquis Shi Ding. I don't know if it's Dashun's bad taste, this title can be seen one or two.
These two people, the title of Marquis of Baoling was handed down, but the title of Marquis of Zhongjing was earned by himself!
Looking at Shi Ding's personal relationship with King Zhongyong is so good, he knows that this person must be the current party ten years ago. Perhaps when the Tianmen Revolution occurred, Shi Ding played a big role, and now after ascending the throne, in order to repay his merits, he sealed the position of marquis.
And unlike the Baoling Marquis Shi Nai, who only has a title, this Zhongjing Marquis Shi Ding is also appointed as the servant of the Sanpin Taifu Siqing. Although Dashun Ma Zheng is now under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, and Taifu Temple is just a Qingshui Yamen, anyone can see that this Shi Ding is now just a transition in the position of Taifu Temple, and it will be of great use as long as he has his qualifications.
Li Weijian thought about a few words with Shi Ding, looking at this person who was neutral and polite, and did not have the arrogance of the princes of the family, and spoke like a spring breeze and rain, which made people feel like a spring breeze. He secretly thought to himself, this Shi Ding is worth befriending, and he can't say that he will come to visit in two days with a gift.
He was thinking about it for a while, and suddenly felt a hand on his left side quietly reaching over, slowly groping all the way, but in an instant, he touched Qingwen's knee, and immediately retracted.
Li Weijian came back to his senses, tilted his head slightly, and saw Hongyu slowly open his eyes, pretending to be confused and said, "The fourth master woke up?" Hmm, I've got to get up...... Well, why are you there? β
Looking at Hongyu's face full of surprise, Li Weijian couldn't help but be secretly happy, so he rushed to this acting skill, and he didn't change it for an old actor!
Qingwen snorted and was about to say something, but Li Weijian patted her on the back, and immediately held back her words, just glancing at Hongyubai.
At this moment, there was a sound of darts outside, followed by a buzz in Li Weijian's abdomen, Qingwen propped herself up and said: "Don't you dare to lie in bed anymore, the fourth master vomited a few times yesterday, I'm afraid I'm hungry this time, right?" I'll go to the kitchen to see what to eat, and I'll find some to pad for the fourth master first. β
Qingwen said this, Hongyu was embarrassed to continue to lie in bed, so she had to get up and say, "You wait for the fourth master to wash, and I'll go to the kitchen." β
At that moment, the two maids got up, gathered their hair, put on their little clothes, and felt pleasing to the eye just by looking at them. Hongyu went to get breakfast first, Qingwen urged for a while, and was eaten some rouge by Li Weijian, so she waited for Li Weijian to wash up.
Just dressed neatly, the three girls came on time to visit spring. She practiced half a set of swordsmanship by herself in the courtyard, and when she was covered with fine beads of sweat, she came over and asked, "Why did Fourth Brother Jian stop today?" β
Li Weijian smiled and didn't speak, Qingwen said: "The third girl doesn't know, the fourth master ate too much wine yesterday, vomited several times at night, and his body was not well, so he stopped for a day." β
Tanchun frowned and persuaded: "Fourth Brother Jian is still young, so it's not good to drink like this." β
Seeing Tanchun's persuasion like a little adult, Li Weijian's smile became more and more vigorous, and he said: "Thank you for your concern, third sister, I saved my money, but I really couldn't shirk it yesterday." β
Tanchun also laughed and said, "Fourth Brother Jian is a measured person, but this time I am too talkative." In this way, the fourth brother of Jian will rest first, and I will go back. β
After sending Tanchun away, Hongyu came back with a food box. A bowl of pine nut porridge, a stack of clear flour cakes, cold bitter vegetables, pu seedlings, smoked duck breast, marinated quail eggs, meat and vegetarian matching, just look at it and make people have a great appetite.
Li Weijian was indeed hungry this time, and when he was about to eat, Hongyu accompanied him and said: "The kitchen is still busy and has never come out of the pot, so I made a string of money to make these for the fourth master first." β
"Well, that's good."
Hongyu said again: "The fourth master came back late yesterday, but I forgot to say it, the eldest master...... It doesn't seem like a good thing. β
"What's wrong?"
"Yesterday, when I was sent back to the house, the imperial doctor diagnosed it and said that it seemed to have a stroke, and the imperial doctor applied an injection to get better."
Jia Yu had a stroke? Could it be that I lost money again yesterday?
"What else?"
I heard Hongyu lower her voice and said, "I heard that the eldest master lost money again yesterday." Not to mention the loss of the silver money borrowed from the fourth master, he owed more than 1,000 taels of silver to Shuntianfu. Tsk, after only two days, the eldest master lost more than 25,000 taels of silver, which is really terrifying! β
Li Weijian paused his chopsticks and asked, "Since this matter has spread, does the old lady have anything to say?" β
Hongyu shook her head and said, "The old lady asked Imperial Doctor Wang yesterday, but she didn't ask. β
Li Weijian thought in his heart, owing so much money, he was afraid that Jia Yu would make trouble. This Rongguo Mansion is incompatible between the big house and the second room, and I don't know what the trouble will become.
Jia Zheng is upright and pedantic on his face, and he is afraid that he will not say anything, but Mrs. Wang is not a fuel-efficient lamp. In this way, there will be a good show today.
A meal was sacrificed to the Five Organs Temple early, although he still had a little hangover and headache, but his appetite was warm, and Li Weijian felt a lot better.
When Hongyu picked up the dishes and chopsticks, he said: "Fourth master, look at the end of April, the second master of Bao is about to give birth." β
"When?"
"April 24, two days before the mango planting."
Baoyu is the treasure of the mansion, and the congratulatory gift in this life can be careful. Li Weijian pondered that he would go to the Inner Mansion Office to take a look later, and suddenly had a bad idea, so he couldn't help but be secretly happy.
When the day passed, Li Weijian went out. He went to the manufacturing office first, and the little official who had just entered the door greeted him with a roar: "Eh, Li Gongzi, you can be regarded as here." β
"What's going on?" Li Weijian asked with a smile.
The little official smacked his teeth and complained: "The matter of the jade pendant, did you Li Gongzi forget it all?" β
Jade pendant? Li Weijian remembered it and said with a smile: "Slow work and careful work, I can't always ask questions." Why, the jade pendant got it? β
The little official said: "It's got it, it's just that two jade pendants are scrapped before and after." As he spoke, Li Weijian was led to the shelf, and the little official carefully took down a jade pendant with chicken blood stained with handwriting: "The master craftsman of the office has not done it for a long time, and this craft is a little rusty, and the handwriting of the first two jade pendants is blurred, so it is really difficult to hand it over to Li Gongzi." Hey, your order, the office is at a loss. β
Li Weijian knew the meaning of the strings, greeted Wu Haiping, took five taels of silver barley and handed it to the little official, and said with a smile: "Hard work, I will take care of the business of the office in the future." β
The little official was immediately overjoyed, and said again and again: "Eh, it's okay to have Li Gongzi's words." β
Li Weijian smiled and bowed his head, and then picked up the jade pendant to observe. Shaped like teardrops, the gold flowers inlaid up and down, connected with a chain just enough to hang on the neck, on which two lines of handwriting are written in small letters, the blood in the inside is rich, natural, and it is no worse than Baoyu's piece.
He put away the jade pendant and walked around again, but he didn't find anything to be desired, so he left the office.
Turning his head, Li Weijian went to Yan's Mansion again, and sat idly in the study for a long time, before Yan Fengzhen yawned and greeted him. Don't ask yourself, the second son must have worked hard yesterday.
"How did the resurrection come today?"
"Isn't the teacher resting today?" Li Weijian and Yan Fengzhen are familiar with each other, but they don't even get up when they speak.
Yan Fengzhen didn't care about coming over, picked up the teacup and drank a cup of warm tea, sat down and cocked Erlang's legs and said, "Don't mention it, I was called by the sage early in the morning to ask the right question." After a pause, he said, "Didn't you read the newspaper when you were resurrected?" Yesterday, a director of the Ministry of Rites hanged himself. β
"Debt?"
"Exactly."
Li Weijian secretly admired his teacher Yan Xiyao, and he concluded early on that clearing up the arrears would inevitably lead to a bad life for officials, so he found an opportunity to quarrel with Chen Hongmou and took himself out of this matter. I guess Shousuke is in a hurry this time, right?
After thinking about it, I am afraid that this clearing of arrears is only ordered by the saint, and it will not stop because of a small matter, right?
Li Weijian asked, "The sage is ...... this time Isn't it a big fuss? β
Yan Fengzhen sighed and said: "It's just a small official, and the long history of the loyal king this morning almost hanged himself." β
"Huh? Zhou An also hanged himself? β
Yan Fengzhen said: "Yes, it is a loss to go to the Tianfu in time, otherwise it will be a bad debt." He glanced at Li Weijian and teased: "If you are resurrected, you can thank Shuntianfu, otherwise there will definitely be a letter from the imperial historian to impeach the stock exchange." β
Li Weijian spread his hands: "What do you have to do with me?" It is the saint who takes the idea, it is the King Zhongyong who operates, and it is the Inner Mansion and the Shuntian Mansion that benefit, I am just an idea. β
"Heh, to put it lightly, whether it is a saint or a loyal and brave king, the imperial historian can't afford to provoke it, but you, a little showman, will be offended if you are offended."
"Well, that makes sense."
The details in the exchange yesterday were heard by Li Weijian during the banquet. Poor Zhou An, if he died, he was saved, and he was burdened with a debt of more than 200,000 taels, and he was afraid that life would be better than death in the future.
"I haven't said anything about resurrection, what's the matter with looking for my father?"
Li Weijian said: "It's the same with Brother Jingwen. I heard that Senior Brother Zhan Chong was a second-rank jinshi in his early years, but I don't know if there are notes or something like thatββ"
Before he finished speaking, Yan Fengzhen wondered: "What do you want to do with that thing?" β
"It's not for me, isn't this the one who was born with a jade looking like he's going to have a baby?"
Yan Fengzhen blinked, and suddenly was overjoyed: "Haha, resurrection is really a bad seed." I've heard that Baoyu only cares about messing around in the pile of fat powder, and never has the patience to read the Four Books and the Five Classics. β
Li Weijian said: "Since he is his own relative, he must always persuade him to be motivated." β
This second son is also a fun person, and he couldn't hold it back at the moment, so he got up and pulled Li Weijian and left: "Let's go, I'll take you to find Zhan Chong." Haha, you have to tell me carefully about that Baoyu's face when you look back. β
The two left the Yan Mansion to find the imperial history of the patrol city, Zhan Chongzi did not mention it, and said that the Rongguo Mansion, which was originally quite quiet on this day, suddenly provoked chickens and dogs to jump because of the visit of two Shuntianfu clerks.
Near noon, Jia's mother was sitting on the soft collapse, and the mandarin duck came in to report: "Old lady, there are two Shuntianfu bookstores outside?" β
Jia's mother only knew that Jia Yu had lost money, but she didn't know that she still owed more than 5,000 taels of silver to Shuntianfu. Because he frowned and said, "This ...... The eldest master is sick at this time, and he is afraid that it will be inconvenient to entertain guests. What about Lian'er? β
"The second master was instructed by the eldest lady to go outside to find medicine for the eldest master."
Jia Mu said: "Then send the people away first, and let them wait for the master to come back." β
Hearing this, the mandarin duck did not move his body, and muttered: "Old lady, I'm afraid it's not easy to send it away." β
"What do you mean?"
Mandarin duck said: "People are here to find the old man to collect debts, this is not a quasi-word, I am afraid that I will not be able to send it away." β
"Huh?"
(End of chapter)