At Zhonglin Hall.

Jia Qiang looked at Lin Ruhai and said with some shame: "I caused a lot of trouble without my uncle's consent. Now that the second wife of the Xue family has come to take care of Xue Ming, I have to disturb him again."

How could Lin Ruhai care about such a trivial matter? She shook her head and said: "They are still relatives after all. I can't come forward. You, your aunt and your aunt will take good care of them. I heard Yu'er say that in the capital, the second wife and the Xue Wang family

They all treat her very well and are kind and loving. The second wife of the Xue family has a close relationship, so don't neglect her."

After Jia Qiang agreed, Lin Ruhai suddenly remembered something and said suspiciously: "The Xue Pan of the Xue family is not a good character, how can Brother Qiang treat him differently?" After a pause, he frowned and said: "

If others were watching, they might suspect that you are obsessed with the Xue family's wealth. But I know that you are definitely not this kind of person. But, how can I explain..."

Hearing this, Jia Qiang smiled faintly, and then told how she escaped from Ning Mansion, how her life was difficult after escaping, how Xue Pan was generous and generous, and how she helped each other several times.

Finally, he said: "My great-uncle, Xue Pan, I don't want to defend him. He is just a playboy. He doesn't have much in terms of what he can do, and he doesn't do it stingily. In the eyes of most people, he is just a helper from the mud."

A typical example of not going to the wall. It is also a bad thing to allow slaves to commit murders and hurt people's lives. However, when a kidnapper, a girl, and two people were sold, Feng Yuan bought him first but did not take him home immediately. Instead, he agreed to pick him up three days later. Xue Pan

After accidentally seeing Xiangling, he immediately bought it and took it to his family. Three days later, Feng Yuan led someone to knock on the door and vowed to take her away. Naturally, the Xue family refused to let him go, and that's when the murder occurred. Although the blame cannot be evaded.

, but there are some reasons. And he is indeed loyal to me and has no utilitarian intentions when helping me, so I remember his kindness. In addition, I really need the Xue family's Feng brand to help me.

I balance the Qi family and the Xu family."

After hearing this, Lin Ruhai understood. He looked at Jia Qiang and shook his head with a smile: "Well, since you have your own considerations, I won't say more. Just one point, don't let others hold you back. Since you have chosen to be with him,

When taking a boat, you must keep an eye on him and don't cause any serious trouble."

Jia Qiang nodded when she heard the words, but then shook her head and smiled: "Compared to those people in the Jia family who have the heart of a tiger or a wolf, but only have the strength of a chicken or a dog, Xue Pan is simply harmless. My uncle is busy these days.

It’s a big deal, maybe you don’t know what my second uncle Lian has been up to recently..."

When Lin Ruhai heard this, he frowned and said, "What did Lian'er do again?"

Jia Qiang felt a little admiration and said: "Yangzhou Prefecture has been restless recently. I was worried that things here would affect him, so I sent someone to watch him. Unexpectedly, I found that he had recently left with the Jiangnan Admiral Liu family.

Extremely close. Not only did he go back and forth between the Qinhuai River in Jinling and the Slender West Lake in Yangzhou with Mr. Liu, he was in a wild and wild manner. He even...had some secret relationship with Mr. Liu's favorite concubine. He was not clean before.

On the boat, I hit him hard a few times, but he calmed down for a while. In the more than a month since he came to Yangzhou, he had been too carefree, so he didn't take me seriously anymore. I sent him to call him

The people who returned home were also scolded by him."

When Lin Ruhai heard this, he said angrily: "Is this happening? You're really a bastard!"

His eyes and ears in Yangzhou Prefecture are more than ten times stronger than Jia Qiang's, but the situation has been really tense recently, so most of the power is used to monitor the eight major salt merchant clans, and there is no extra manpower to take care of a swinger brother.

But I didn't expect that Jia Lian would do this!

Lin Ruhai said: "You are my nephew after all, so it's possible for him to disobey you. Brother Qiang doesn't need to pay much attention to this matter. I'll send someone to call him back. Since there's nothing wrong with me, he'd better come earlier."

It’s good to go back to the capital.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened and Aunt Mei and Daiyu came in.

Two beautifully dressed women came in, and for a moment, the Zhonglin Hall seemed to light up.

Aunt Mei is only twenty-six or seventeen years old this year, and she is as beautiful as the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

Daiyu, on the other hand, is wearing a hibiscus-gold palace brocade with wide sleeves and hanging flowers, a gilt filigree beaded hairpin on Liuyun's temples, and red gold and white jade beaded earrings in her earlobes...

Noble as gold branches and jade leaves, with a pair of starry eyes, and as clear and graceful as snow-capped mountains and icy springs, without a trace of worldliness.

These two people are like peonies in their prime, like hibiscus in bloom.

Lin Ruhai's moral cultivation is much stronger than Jia Qiang's. Faced with such beauty in the world, he just nodded and smiled slightly and said, "You know someone from the Xue family is here?"

Aunt Mei looked at Lin Ruhai with the same admiration and respect she always had. She nodded and smiled and said: "I understand, it is naturally inconvenient for the master to see his family members. I don't have the status to come forward, but I can't let the girl go alone to see him, so I can only force myself to see him in person."

When I saw them, I just hoped that they would not blame the family for being rude."

Lin Ruhai laughed, said nothing, and looked at Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang shook her head and said: "The Xue family is not a frivolous person, especially the second wife. To be honest, her duty is beyond my expectation. Furthermore, who with discerning eyes dares to despise my aunt? Aunt Lin and I are still respectful, if outsiders dare

If they are rude, I will drive them away. Aunt Lin has always made fun of me because I am a rude person."

Daiyu was still angry, but when she heard this, she couldn't help complaining to Lin Ruhai in a low voice: "Brother Qiang is the most rude. He and his eldest uncle, second uncle and eldest brother Dongfu Zhen stood in front of the old lady.

They also quarreled with each other, but they couldn't win against Brother Qiang."

Lin Ruhai knew about this, but Aunt Mei was quite shocked. Her eyes seemed to recognize Jia Qiang again. She looked at this rebellious son of the Jia clan and asked: "Brother Qiang is still quarreling with the elders? Why?"

Jia Qiang squinted at a certain little girl who was making accusations. How could Daiyu be afraid? Instead, she was filled with rebellious excitement. Her eyes were full of playfulness. She bit her lips and smiled, imitating Jia Qiang.

He repeated his original tone and finally said: "...If you dare to insult me ​​again today, I will be exiled for three thousand miles. I will also go to Jingyang Palace to beat the sound of the drum and hear the sound of Tianque. You and I will see you in front of the emperor."

Life or death! Hee hee! My uncle really doesn't dare to scold him anymore!" This kind of scene was absolutely explosive even for Daiyu.

Perhaps from that day on, Jia Qiang left the shadow of a bad boy in her heart...

Aunt Mei became more and more impressed by someone, but Lin Ruhai couldn't help her increasingly naughty daughter. She shook her head and said with a smile: "Well, Brother Qiang has the Supreme Emperor as his guarantee. Besides, some people are really shameless...

But, dear girl, don’t imitate him.”

Jia Qiang: "..."

In the end, he took it all on his own.

"Pfft!"

Seeing his expression like this, Daiyu couldn't help laughing, just like a hibiscus blooming.

…

guest house.

Jia Qiang met Xue Ming's wife Liao, and... Xue Baoqin, who was only eleven years old.

If Daiyu is a natural beauty, like an independent hibiscus fairy grass, Baochai is like an ice field snow lotus, the two of them in the painting should be a freehand painting of landscape and splashed ink.

Then Xue Baoqin is like a Western realistic oil painting.

She doesn't look that handsome, but every part of her facial features is exquisite to the extreme.

She doesn't have the grace and beauty of Daiyu, nor does she have the dignity and coolness of Baochai. She is just her, elegant and elegant, neither fairy nor mysterious, just a real and beautiful embryo.

Xue Pan acted as the middleman and introduced: "Second aunt, he is Brother Qiang. He has nothing to say to the Xue family. When my mother, sister and I were in Beijing, we lived with him in Lixiangyuan... Now in Nan Province, he

He also helped us a lot. When my second uncle fell ill, it was Brother Qiang who found the imperial doctor and some precious medicine from the side, and he was saved. Otherwise, the second uncle's mourning hall would have been set up at this moment...

"

"You kid..."

Mr. Liao couldn't help hearing his nonsense. After saying something angrily, he looked at Jia Qiang, whom Zhilan Yushu had described, bowed and said, "Thank you so much for saving my life, brother!"

Xue Baoqin also bowed down.

Jia Qiang hurriedly avoided the gift, gave her a hand, and said: "The two families are family friends and old relatives, but it is just a matter of duty. The husband should have come to see Uncle Xue in person, but he himself is also in bed recuperating, and the two people at home are

This is an imperial physician who was sent urgently by the Emperor of Beijing to express his kindness after receiving the inheritance. Sir, I have been specifically ordered to make a confession in front of Second Uncle Xue and his wife."

How dare Xue Ming and Liao bear it? Xue Ming couldn't move, so he ordered Xue Biao to kneel down and kowtow on his behalf.

Liao and Xue Baoqin returned the favor again...

After the ceremony, Jia Qiang smiled again and said: "Because my wife died young, Aunt Mei has been taking care of the backyard of the Yanyuan Yamen. Now I hear that Madam and..." She looked at Bao Qin, but she didn't know what to call her.

Xue Pan shouted from the side: "Brother Qiang is just like me, just call Qin'er and call me sister."

Then he said to Xue Baoqin: "Qin'er will treat him the same as me from now on. Just call him brother."

Xue Ming and Liao smiled and said: "It should be like this."

Xue Baoqin was not shy. He bowed down generously and called out: "Brother Qiang."

Jia Qiang responded with a smile, took out a jade pendant from her sleeve pocket, and said, "Take it and use it as a fan pendant."

This jade pendant was prepared for him by Aunt Mei before he came over.

Although Jia Qiang is impatient, the etiquette is so...

Just like before, Mrs. Liao also gave him a meeting gift.

After finishing the courtesy, Jia Qiang said: "My aunt and Aunt Lin have prepared a table in the backyard. Shall I take my wife and sister Qin in?"

Mr. Liao hurriedly said: "This can't be done. It's not that I'm frivolous. It's just that I am also ill and taking medicine. The doctor told me not to use more than some porridge every day. And... I am suffering from the disease.

I have phlegm syndrome and it’s not clean, so it’s hard to disturb the inside, and I’m afraid it’s overdue. But Qin’er can go and thank my aunt and the girl on my behalf.”

After that, she asked Xue Biao to fetch the gift list she brought and give it to Xue Baoqin.

When Jia Qiang heard this, she didn't force it, and understood: "That's fine, then I'll take Sister Qin in. Madam, it's a good rest..." After a pause, she asked again: "Madam, is she suffering from phlegm?"

Mr. Liao sighed and said, "It is this incurable disease."

Jia Qiang smiled and said: "Since it is all a disease of the lungs, in fact, the precious medicine from Tianning Temple also has some effect on Madam's illness. In the evening, the imperial doctor will come to review Uncle Xue, and Madam will also take a look at it. If so,

It's a blessing to be able to save him."

As soon as these words came out, Xue Ming, Xue Biao and Bao Qin all became excited.

Especially Xue Ming, who seemed to have a very good relationship with each other. At the moment, he was more concerned about curing the disease than himself. He kept saying: "Yes, yes, that imperial doctor has great medical skills and that precious medicine... he will surely be cured."

Your disease!"

"Dad! Mom!"

Brothers Xue Biao and Xue Baoqin were naturally surprised. Ever since Xue Ming and his wife got sick one after another, the two brothers and sisters felt as if a huge boulder weighed down their hearts.

What night goes by without nightmares?

Now I never expected that there would be such a turn of events!

Seeing this, Xue Pan, with a piece of gauze on his forehead, raised his head and laughed loudly, saying: "When my father was still here, my father and my second uncle scolded me all day long for not being able to learn and make progress, and that I was not as good as Xue Pan!

Now if you look at it again, you can see who is the great hero of the Xue family, right? Now, I have become the pillar of the Xue family, which is amazing, hahaha!"
Chapter completed!