The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

Chapter 163

Everyone only thought that Jia Lian had some unique plan, and listened to each other. But what Jia Lian said was just an old saying in the novels of the public case—that it was to make Baoyu lie to the gods to entrust dreams and order Zhu Da to go to the Buddha to burn incense. Pray, if you come out with black marks on your hands, you are undoubtedly a thief, if you come out without anything, you are innocent, according to his intentions, this Zhu Da must be a criminal, a guilty conscience, you must wipe your hands, if you are wiping your hands If the towel is stained with soot, it must be active when it comes out.

Baoyu was slightly moved when he heard this, but asked again, "How can Brother Lian be so sure that he is the murderer? He must have a guilty conscience?"

Jia Lian said: "It's him without a doubt! Even if it's not, he's naturally not guilty, and his hands are clean."

Baochai laughed and said, "You put a handkerchief in front of the Buddha. If you didn't make sure that he was right, you picked it up and wiped it, so what should you do? Are you going to kill people just based on these groundless speculations?" Do you want to die?"

In Jia Lian's mind, Baochai is a woman after all, and no matter how talented she is in business, it is better to take care of her life. When she saw her questioning herself, she said unconvincedly, "Then what can sister Xue do?"

Baochai shook her head and said, "I have no other way." Seeing Jia Lian's sneer, he also smiled slightly and said, "However, I know that in ordinary cases, we always have to investigate carefully, bring all the relevant people to interrogate one by one, and carefully investigate the details. Only then did we know the key, it’s definitely not that we just sit here and make assumptions to know who is the real culprit and who is the main culprit.”

Baoyu murmured: "I've already sent people out to investigate... how else to investigate?"

Baochai laughed and said: "You have already sent someone out to investigate, but it is the same as if there was no investigation. When doing anything, you must first outline the contract, think about it in general, and then start with details, but we did not do this. .”

Jia Lian said: "You have a way, so why didn't you say it earlier? Make me work all this time for nothing."

Daiyu glared at him and said: "We want to do business with you in partnership. We wanted to check your ability and disposition, so we asked you to check it out. We expected you to be a person who often goes out to do business. You should do these things. You are thoughtful and thorough, but who would have thought that you would come back with just one Zhu Da, which is really disappointing to us."

Jia Lian was speechless by her words, so he squinted at Baoyu, but Baoyu's understanding was much higher than his, and he paused and said, "Those people are coaxing me again!"

Seeing that he understood, Baochai nodded and smiled and said, "It's not counting as coaxing you. What do their subordinates know? Just go there for a while if the master asks you to investigate, and just report it when you come back. You didn't make any comparisons." Days, they are even more coping."

Baoyu said: "Then Wang Cheng has several masters, why don't they say a word to me?"

Baochai said: "Wang Chengcheng needless to say, those masters, do you think that they were recommended by your father and father-in-law, and they must have thought of you in every way? Many people fail in the imperial examination, so they condescend to the first hall for the time being, isn't it? It will always be with you. Besides, you think they are looking for the face of your father and father-in-law. What are their identities, and what is your current identity? These masters are willing to stand up for you and handle these daily affairs smoothly It's good to be sure, don't they, who are four or fifty years old, still count on you, Dong Weng, who is not yet twenty, to make a fortune in the future, can't you help them?"

Daiyu also laughed and said, "We specially asked Second Brother Lian to disperse your identity in order to establish prestige for you. However, being from a family is just a way to make people dare not underestimate you. You really want to gain a firm foothold here. You still have to show yourself."

Baoyu sighed: "Usually I think these things are complicated, but now I know that they are not only complicated, but also complicated. I really want to deal with them, but I don't know where to start."

Seeing that he was depressed, Daiyu said softly: "People are not born with knowledge, they always learn slowly. It seems that I didn't know much about these things before. It was all taught by Sister Bao one by one. knew."

Baoyu cupped his hands to Baochai and said, "In Sister Bao's opinion, what should I think about this first?"

Baochai said: "As a county magistrate, you can't rely on me everywhere. You should think about it for yourself first, how to find out."

Baoyu frowned and thought for a while, then said, "It's been more than a month since this incident happened. This old woman has complained everywhere, but no one is willing to answer. This is a doubtful point. Whether Zhang Sixi is dead or alive is also a doubtful point. If you really want to investigate , people on that road have to ask them carefully, and Zhang Sixi's cousin..."

Baochai said, "What else, you can think about it."

Baoyu tilted his head and thought for a long time, then said, "I can't think of it."

Baochai looked at Jia Lian: "Does Lian's second brother know?"

Jia Lian had just been uttered by Daiyu, and he kept pulling his face. He heard Baochai teaching Baoyu, every word, and his face eased again. As soon as Baochai asked him, he couldn't wait to say: "The 100 taels of silver is also a doubt - where did the money come from, and who did it borrow from?" Anyone who knows that he has the money, and who knows where he is going, should ask. In addition, since he is a well-known rascal in the county, he has naturally made many enemies. These people also want to ask, is there any Habitual offenders, bandits, even if he has a concubine, we have to check."

Daiyu glared at him again when she heard him speak rudely. Baochai quietly took her hand and shook it. We have to think about why he disappeared, did he leave by himself, or was he coerced by others? And why did he disappear? When he dies, where is the body, who killed him, and how did he kill him? His neighbors, relatives, enemies, The women who concubine and acquaintances, those who met him along the way, and those who knew that he was carrying huge sums of money should all be questioned."

When Baoyu heard this, he said, "I'll ask someone to check everything!"

Daiyu hurriedly stopped him and said, "Idiot, why do you have to explain it yourself? You call the head catcher and ask him to check these things. If he is an old man, he knows that you are not those embroidered pillows, so he will do it with his heart. It would be quicker to ask someone to ask one by one, and it is also your dignity as a master."

Baoyu laughed and said, "Then I'll call the head arrester."

Baochai dismissed him, looked at Jia Lian again, and said, "Second brother Lian said he wanted to do business with us in partnership and take half of the shares, but in my opinion, your capital is not much, and most of it is from Lingzheng. I'm not familiar with the road, the place, the human relationship, and I don't have the same affection as us with the county magistrate, and I don't have much talent, so I can say that I am useless, half of it is probably too much?"

Jia Lian said awkwardly, "in the opinion of sister Xue, how much should I take?"

Baochai laughed and said, "Daiyu and I account for [-] percent, you [-] percent, and Baoyu [-] percent. What do you think?"

Jia Lian frowned and said, "No matter how much I have, even Xia's family has ten or twenty thousand. Baoyu is an official family, and he has a dry share. There is nothing to say. Sister Xue and Sister Lin are just helping out with ideas." , taking up so much, I'm afraid it's... inappropriate."

Daiyu said: "Who said we are just helping out with ideas? We also have the principal."

Jia Lian never thought that she would bring most of the dowry here, nor did she know that Baochai had brought a lot of private houses, so she just smiled and said, "Oh, how much are you planning to give?"

Seeing this, Baochai was full of sarcasm, and said with a smile, "We will pay out as much as you pay. For Baoyu's part, we have the right to honor the magistrate of the county together. How about it?"

Jia Lian narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Then I will pay [-] yuan."

Daiyu and Baochai looked at each other with a smile. Baochai took out a stack of exchange notes from his sleeve with a smile, counted out 4000 taels, and handed it to him: "They are all from my own family. We can trust the second brother Lian. Here you go, after you write the contract, we will sign it and press our fingerprints, and the capital will be calculated according to our two families."

Jia Lian suddenly heard her say "our two families", looked up at her suspiciously, and then realized: this matter must be led by Baochai, and Daiyu must have followed her with her status as the magistrate's wife, so in fact it was only Baochai It's the two of them.Yin nodded and said, "I'll write it right away, please Baoyu and some masters to be witnesses." He said in his mouth, without stopping, and he had already gone out all the way.

Daiyu waited for him to leave, then tapped Baochai lightly, and said, "You just said the word '姘', do you want to be like him and say those bad things? Let me tell you, my Lin family is Scholarly family, you followed me, but you are not allowed to behave like those outside the world."

Baochai laughed and said, "Obviously you followed me, how come I followed you?"

Daiyu snorted, "Who left my family alone and followed me all the way? How dare you talk about me now!"

Baochai said: "If I don't come, I'm afraid that some people's hearts will be broken when they think about me. I think human life is at stake, so I can't neglect it, so I can only reluctantly come. In the end, some people don't know my good intentions." !"

Daiyu was so annoyed that she stretched out her hand to pinch her ear and asked, "Who is with whom?"

Baochai was accidentally caught by the grape trellis, so she said half-jokingly: "If I were with you, you would naturally take me to the ancestral hall, or at least go to see my aunt?"

Daiyu's face gradually turned pale, she lowered her head and said, "Let me think about it."

Baochai hurriedly said: "I said it unintentionally, don't take it seriously...it's fine if we do this, I...I don't want to force you."

Daiyu sighed and said, "I know your heart, but I'm afraid you may not know mine."

Baochai said: "This is wrong. I know your heart best, so I did this. If I don't know, I will force you instead."

Daiyu lowered her head and said nothing, Baochai regretted her slip of the tongue, dragged her to talk, and laughed at Jia Lian: "He is used to wandering outside, so whenever he thinks about it, he thinks about the relationship between men and women. I was too embarrassed to tell us, but I left it to the end, I saw his face, and I was going to say '姘' at the very beginning... Cough, that word, do you think he looks ridiculous?" Opening his hands, imitating Jia Lian's appearance He opened his mouth silently, trying to make the beauty smile.

Who knows that Daiyu said quietly instead: "Forget it, I was just joking with you. Why are you so particular about it? Between the two of us, what have you not said?" She sighed: "Actually, if we are like this , no matter how forever, they are just each other's... mistresses."

The smile on Baochai's face faded, and she also let out a long sigh.