Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 341

Jia Rui put down the teacup in his hand and said, "The Emperor came to see me today and asked who should serve as Minister of War."

Jia Yucun's eyes lit up as soon as he heard Jia Rui's words.

Master Jia must have recommended him, Jia Yucun thought.

Otherwise, Mr. Jia would not have called him over to say this.

Therefore, Jia Yucun looked at Jia Rui with flashing eyes, hoping to hear something beneficial to him from Jia Rui's mouth again.

Jia Rui smiled and said, "I recommended you to the Emperor."

After hearing this, Jia Yucun knelt down excitedly and kowtowed to Jia Rui.

"Your Majesty's great love for me, I have nothing to repay, I can only do my best to serve you."

When Jia Rui saw the other party's expression of loyalty, he nodded happily, "Don't be too happy too early. The Emperor originally disagreed because he heard that you are too greedy for money."

Jia Yucun, who was kneeling there, turned a little pale, and then asked carefully: "How did the master answer?"

"Haha, I am reporting back to the Supreme Emperor. It is precisely because you made a mistake that you can serve as Minister of War. Because if you dare not listen to the Supreme Emperor, your position as the Supreme Emperor can be removed at any time." Jia Rui put down the teacup in his hand and spoke in a heavy tone. said.

"Don't worry, sir. As long as I hold the humble position of Minister of the Ministry of War, I will only listen to your Majesty from now on. If your Majesty asks me to go east, I will never go west. If your Majesty asks me, I will never drive away the chickens."

"Okay, it's not in vain for me to give you the good words in front of the Supreme Emperor. You can go back! I will go to see the Supreme Emperor tomorrow and I will definitely decide this position for you." After saying that, Jia Rui served tea to see off the guests.

Although Jia Yucun wanted to ask for some more internal information, seeing Jia Rui's expression he could only leave first.

After he came out, Wangcai sent him out of Dingxihou Mansion as usual.

But when leaving, Jia Yucun escaped from his arms with a few banknotes and quietly stuffed them into Wangcai's hand.

"Steward Wangcai, this is a small thing, you can take it to tea."

As soon as Wangcai took the banknotes, he knew with just a slight touch that the banknotes were about four to five hundred taels.

"Why are you so embarrassed? If the adults find out, why don't you skin me?" Wang Cai refused, but his hands held the banknote very honestly.

"It's okay, it's okay. This is just the official inviting Butler Wangcai to have tea. Your Excellency knows about it. If you want to blame me, it's all my fault." Jia Yucun replied with a smile.

Wangcai then pretended to be reserved and stuffed the banknote into his arms, "Don't worry, Mr. Jia, I will give you a kind word."

"Then there will be steward Lao Wangcai." After saying that, Jia Yucun bowed again, then turned around and got on the sedan to leave.

Wangcai watched Jia Yucun disappear before returning to the study. He told Jia Rui what had just happened, took out the banknote from his arms, and held it in front of Jia Rui with both hands.

Jia Rui just skimmed the ticket and said nonchalantly: "Since he gave it to you, just keep it."

"Thank you for the reward, uncle." Wangcai happily put the banknote back into his arms.

Then Jia Rui spent his wealth and walked to the back house alone.

But just as he entered the backstage, he saw Xue Pan running out in a hurry.

"What are you doing?" Jia Rui stopped Xue Pan and asked.

Xue Pan gasped and said: "Baoyu invited me to have a drink."

Jia Rui narrowed his eyes.

Today is not a day for rest. How dare Baoyu not go to school? Has the injury on his butt healed?

"Let's go, I'll go take a look with you." After saying that, Jia Rui pulled Xue Pan out.

Xue Pan was a little reluctant when he heard that Jia Rui was also following him.

Because, even though Jia Rui was his brother-in-law, in front of Jia Rui, Xue Pan was like a primary school student being watched by the teacher, feeling uncomfortable all over.

But he did not dare to refute Jia Rui, so he could only follow Jia Rui outside in despair.

"Where are you going to have a drink? Lead the way."

Xue Pan opened his mouth, but his feet didn't move and kept rubbing there.

Seeing his look, Jia Rui knew that the place they were going to must not be a good place.

"Where exactly?"

"Jinxiangyuan." Three words popped out of Xue Pan's mouth.

When Jia Rui heard this, no wonder Xue Pan couldn't tell him. Jinxiangyuan is a famous brothel in the capital.

If Xue Pan went to this place and Cheng Ying found out, he would be beaten again when he came back.

What made Jia Rui even more angry was that Lin Daiyu was still sick in bed. Jia Baoyu actually went to such a place, which showed that he was not as infatuated as the Dream of Red Mansions said.

"Lead the way." Jia Rui said in a dark tone.

Although Xue Pan didn't want to leave, he shuddered after hearing Jia Rui's tone, so he could only reluctantly lead the way.

Despite the appearance that it was just Jia Rui who was following Xue Pan, in fact there were about a dozen people around him secretly protecting him.

Although Xue Pan walked very slowly and wanted to delay for a while, he had to get there no matter what. About half an hour later, Xue Pan finally moved to the entrance of Jinxiang Courtyard.

Before entering the door, Xue Pan grabbed Jia Rui's arm and begged: "Brother-in-law, I will bring you here. You can't go back and tell your sister-in-law. Otherwise, what will happen if she has fetal force?"

Jia Rui looked at his pitiful look and felt very funny.

In the past, Xue Pan was known as the silly overlord, but now he is better. Being treated like this by a woman, he is no longer a silly overlord, he has simply turned into a silly cat.

"Don't worry, I'm not a talkative person."

After receiving Jia Rui's promise, Xue Pan breathed a sigh of relief, and then took Jia Rui into Jinxiang Courtyard with his chest and belly raised.

As soon as Xue Pan came in, the madam came over to greet her, "Uncle Xue, you haven't been to our place for a long time. Have you forgotten Miss Yun'er?"

Xue Pan glanced at Jia Rui sheepishly and felt relieved when he saw that Jia Rui was just smiling and not saying anything.

"I forgot, but uncle, I'm busy with things these days, so I don't have time to come here. I'm not just here to cheer you up after relaxing a bit."

"Well, Miss Yun'er is accompanying Uncle Feng and Second Master Bao now. Let's go there quickly." The old madam called Xue Pan to go inside.

When going upstairs, the madam glanced at Jia Rui, then said with a smile: "This young master is very handsome. Do you want to find a girl to accompany you?"

Jia Rui waved his hand and said with a smile: "I'm just following Brother Xue here to get acquainted, so I don't need anyone to accompany me."

The madam shook her head regretfully, then led Xue Pan up the stairs and said, "Master Jia, Uncle Feng is already waiting for you up there."

As he spoke, Xue Pan and Jia Rui were invited to the door of a room. Before they entered the room, Jia Rui heard the sweet sound of silk and bamboo inside.

Jia Rui was stunned for a moment, because although Jia Rui was not good at music, he could hear a sadness in the sound of the piano.

This person who plays the piano has some skills, otherwise how could he let a musical idiot like Jia Rui hear the meaning of the piano.

Seeing Jia Rui stunned, Xue Pan said proudly: "It sounds good, this is the piano played by my Yun'er."

Jia Rui was also a little surprised. In Jia Rui's mind, the person who could be mixed with a semi-literate person like Xue Pan should be a vulgar woman with only color. Unexpectedly, she could play the piano well.

Then Xue Pan opened the door and walked in.

A person inside spotted Xue Pan and immediately said with a smile: "You are late today, and you will have to drink three drinks as a penalty."

Jia Rui took a quick look and saw that he was a handsome young man in his twenties.

Then I saw that sitting not far away from the young master was Jia Baoyu. Next to Jia Baoyu, there was a beautiful woman drinking with him.

But now Jia Baoyu had no time to drink with the beauty. He stared at Jia Rui and his hands began to tremble.

Afterwards, Jia Baoyu glanced at Xue Pan with resentment and said in his heart: Why did you bring this King of Hell with you? Isn't this a problem with me?

But now it was too late to think about leaving, so Jia Baoyu could only stand up with a smile, walked slowly to Xue Pan's side, and bowed deeply to Jia Rui.

"Brother Rui, why are you here too?"

Jia Rui smiled and said, "Didn't I hear that Second Master Bao was having a party, so he came to see the fun?"

Feng Ziying already felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere, so she kept gesturing to Xue Pan with her eyes and asked Xue Pan to introduce him.

Xue Pan could only say: "This is my brother-in-law Jia Rui. He knew there was a party today, so he came over to join in the fun."

Now everyone in the capital knows that Xue Pan is Jia Rui's brother-in-law, so when Xue Pan introduced him, Feng Ziying immediately became alert.

Then Feng Ziying hurriedly came to Jia Rui, cupped her fists and bowed her hands in a salute, "My nephew Feng Ziying, the son of Shenwu General Feng Tang, has met my uncle."

In fact, Feng Ziying and Jia Rui were about the same age. The reason why Feng Ziying called Jia Rui uncle was because Jia Rui and his father lived in the same palace and lived as equals, so he could only be a generation shorter.

Jia Rui looked Feng Ziying up and down, and he also had a very favorable impression of this heroic figure in Dream of Red Mansions.

"My dear nephew, there is no need to be polite. Please get up quickly."

Feng Ziying straightened up and invited Jia Rui to the center of the banquet.

When Jia Rui sat firmly and Feng Ziying was holding her hand, Xue Pan and Jia Baoyu dared to return to the banquet.

Feng Ziying is very good at greeting and sending people off when the occasion arises.

Soon, with his clever words, the atmosphere at the banquet became better.

They were eating and drinking here, talking and laughing, and the music there started playing again.

Jia Rui turned around and blushed.

This is not the sound of a piano, it is clearly a pipa.

I only saw a woman named Yun'er, holding a pipa and playing there. I only saw where the jade fingers fell, and the pipa tinkled, making people feel like they were caught in the spring breeze, as if they were floating in the clouds.

When Feng Ziying saw Jia Rui staring at Yun'er, she smiled and said, "This is Xue Pan's treasure. You want to taste it, but you can't."

After hearing this, Jia Rui's face changed and she glanced at him. When Feng Ziying saw Jia Rui's face, she immediately knew that she had said the wrong thing, and her face turned pale. She stood up and bowed to Jia Rui respectfully. , "My nephew spoke to Meng Lang, please forgive me."

(End of this chapter)