dream of red mansion

Chapter 548 Absconding

This winter is colder than usual.Before the twelfth lunar month, I don't know how many snows have fallen.

As soon as Jia Qing walked into Tanchun's neat and tidy room like a snow cave, the servant girl said that Tanchun was waiting to play in the backyard.

He went out through the back door and walked a few steps along the long corridor to the backyard when he heard the playfulness of the maidservants. When he walked over, he found that Tanchun, Xiangyun, Shishu, Cuimo, and Cuilu were all surrounded by a morning stalk. Before Mei, she held a porcelain vase and a porcelain urn in her hand.

Jia Qing catwalked to the corridor closest to them, and suddenly said, "It's such a cold day, what are you doing here?"

"I don't know who wants to do bad things, and hides on purpose, thinking we didn't see it."

Xiangyun was the first to taunt, and continued to collect snow from the plum blossoms with sticks without looking back.

Jia Qing was very bored, jumped over the wooden fence and jumped to the court, saying: "I'm collecting snow, I'll help you."

Before he finished speaking, he held Zaomei's trunk with his hand and shook it vigorously a few times. The swishing snow drifted down, startling the avoiding figures of the girls, and confused it into a winter play snow picture, so beautiful.

"Yeah"

"Damn!"

All the girls hurriedly covered the opening of the porcelain urn to prevent the dead branches and sundries shaken by Jia Qing from falling into it.

This time, even Tanchun couldn't help attacking Jia Qing: "Second brother, what are you doing!"

There are only three plum trees in her yard, and this one blooms early.Just when Xiangyun came to play, they decided to imitate Miaoyu and collect some snow from plum blossoms to make tea.

Unexpectedly, when Jia Qing came, it was fine if he didn't help, and even destroyed the snow on the whole tree.

"I see your hard work in collecting, and I kindly help you, but you didn't catch it yourself, how can you blame me?"

Jia Qing shook the snow on his head and forcefully defended himself.

Xiangyun ran over, grabbed Jia Qing, and said: "I don't care, third sister, Shishu, Cuilu, come and beat him!"

The rare good mood was destroyed, Xiangyun was naturally angry.

"Third sister, if we don't punish him this time, he will do it again in the future."

Tanchun sounded reasonable.
Seeing that Xiangyun was still as violent as before, Jia Qing hurriedly pleaded: "A gentleman uses his mouth but not his hands, the worst is that I will compensate you for your losses."

Xiangyun asked: "How do you pay?"

The hand holding Jia Qing's arm did not let go at all.Both of them were wearing thick fleece clothes, and Jia Qing was much taller than her. She looked like a koala hanging on Jia Qing's body.

"Hey, you still don't believe me when I say you have shallow eyelids. Just such a small plum blossom is so precious. I'll find you a place, and I promise you won't be able to collect it all in three days and three nights."

Tanchun smiled and said, "Three days and three nights, the snow has already melted, so naturally we can't collect it all."

Xiangyun asked, "Where is it?"

"Qicui Temple, there are more than a hundred plum blossom trees outside the temple. If you go there, are you afraid that you won't be able to collect plum blossom snow?"

"There"

Everyone understands.

The servant asked about their concerns: "But it's Miaoyu's place, and she doesn't like others to disturb her."

Jia Qing said indifferently: "Who told you to disturb her? With so many of us going there in one go, it doesn't take an hour to collect several urns. Isn't that enough?"

The girls thought to themselves, is this called Do Not Disturb?
"Second brother, you offended Sister Miaoyu last time, and this time you're going to take us to ruin her land again. I'm afraid Sister Miaoyu will really annoy you."

Jia Qing didn't care: "If she wants to be annoyed, she can be annoyed, but she can't do anything to me."

Xiao Mian, I can't cure you even in my territory.I asked you to show me face at the beginning, just to piss you off.

Tanchun Xiangyun glanced at each other, before he could say anything, a girl suddenly ran in and said, "Second Master, there are officials looking for you outside!"

Jia Qing narrowed his eyes, and said to Tanchun's second daughter who was a bit unresponsive: "It seems that you are the only ones going, I'll go out and have a look."

"Second brother"

"Don't worry, I'm a first-class general in the imperial court, just a few official posts, maybe the emperor sent someone to reward me."

Jia Qing smiled confidently, strode up the corridor and left.

Tanchun and Xiangyun were worried after all, put down their things, and took the maid out of the garden to Jiamu's courtyard.

"What is the name of this adult?"

Jia Qing walked into the hall from the back hall, sat down on the main seat, looked at the officials standing under the hall, and asked indifferently.

For such an uninvited guest, Jia Qing would not show a good face.

But Jia Qing obviously misunderstood, the villain stood up when Jia Qing entered the hall.At this time, when he heard Jia Qing's question, he hurriedly replied: "I dare not take the title of General Jia. I have a humble job in Fusi Baihu in Beizhen, and my surname is Zhang."

"It turned out to be Zhang Baihu, disrespectful, I don't know what you are doing here?"

Facing Jia Qing, who is neither salty nor dull, Zhang Baihu feels bitter and can't tell.People in the Jinyi Army dislike dealing with such powerful and powerful people the most.

After all, their Jinyi Army has a great reputation, and anyone who meets them will hate it.

It happened that these powerful people were people they could not afford to offend before the emperor convicted them, so they would rather face Zaifu Shangshu than face these people.

Fortunately, he was ready before receiving the errand, so he put aside Jia Qing's tone and replied:

"Back to General Jia, the Russian prince Alevich absconded yesterday, and his majesty ordered him to ask General Jia to assist in the investigation."

"The golden retriever escaped?"

Jia Qing was surprised, it is said that Jin Mao is not a prisoner of an enemy country, but an envoy of diplomatic relations between Da Chu and Russia, so it is necessary for him to escape?

Immediately Jia Qing was furious: "The legs are long on his body, what's the matter with Mr. Guan Ben if he ran away?"

Zhang Baihu said: "General Jia doesn't know something. Last night Jinwu Khan of the Mongolian Tatar tribe sent an envoy to report that the Russian Cossack Greban and Yeke attacked Tatar at the same time. His Majesty sent troops to rescue.

Just at this time, the Lifan Court sent someone to report that Prince Alevich and his main followers had disappeared. His Majesty was furious and wanted to severely punish the Fanyuan Court. In order to get rid of the crime, the Li Fan Court insisted that the matter was related to General Jia , because a few days ago, Prince Alevich sent someone to send a large box of rare treasures and generals."

The Tatar Ministry asked for help, the golden retriever disappeared, and gave him a large number of treasures before leaving
Jia Qing fully understood.

What the hell is a pit!
Well, it's a pity that he used to think that Jin Mao was a simple and good boy, but at this time he was given a chance.

Jia Qing has no doubts, if it wasn't for him being loved by the emperor and having a title, if it wasn't for Yuan Chun being a noble concubine now, she would be one of the most honorable women in the harem besides the queen mother.

I'm afraid this Zhang Baihu won't be so respectful.
"Well, the reason why the golden retriever prince sent me something is to exchange wine with me. It is Wuliangye. Wuliangye, you know, is very precious."

Jia Qing tried to explain.

Zhang Baihu said with a wry smile: "The Court of Li Fan said that what Prince Alevich gave you were rare treasures, worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and he was sure that for the past half month, Prince Alevich has only been with you, General. Past"

The implication of Zhang Baihu's words is obvious, how much is a little wine worth, can it be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver?

day.
Now Jia Qing really wants to kick the face of Lifan Courtyard, he is only worth a few thousand taels of silver, how can it be tens of thousands of taels in your mouth?
There is no imperial jade seal inside.
However, if he used this as an excuse, Li Fanyuan would definitely say that he hid it on purpose, since the things had already entered the Ningguo Mansion anyway, it would be ridiculous.
"This matter was not done by the general, or it was not done by the general. The damn Li Fanyuan dared to pour dirty water on the general. We will see how the general will deal with them in the future! Now, Zhang Baihu, please let me know, how does your majesty plan to deal with it? "

Looking at Jia Qing's furious look, Zhang Baihu felt a little guilty himself, and said weakly: "Your Majesty ordered that the humble officials stay in the general's mansion until the truth comes to light. During this period, General Jia is not allowed to leave the mansion."

Jia Qing glanced at him viciously, and said: "If you want to stay, stay, the general has something else to do, so I won't accompany you!"

This is to put him under house arrest.Moreover, this order is very strange. Since it is to assist in the investigation, why is it not even required to obtain "stolen evidence" for verification?
Either Emperor Zhengqing believed in him in the first place and didn't need to make one move many times, or
Jia Qing angrily entered the apse.

Lai Sheng hurried forward to greet Zhang Baihu, and said: "My lord, forgive me, my young master has a bad temper, please follow me, my lord."

Jia Qing directly put down his face, but Lai Sheng didn't dare to, instead, he behaved neatly and laid a hundred households down to rest, and arranged a place for the officials outside.

"Mr. Lao, take care."

Zhang Baihu has been doing business for so many years, and he has never encountered such a situation, so he is also very cautious, doing everything according to the instructions above, not daring to take a wrong step.

(End of this chapter)