Brother Rong of Red Mansion

Chapter 128: Attacking people and bringing them home

In the brocade tent, the clouds dispersed and the rain stopped.

Jia Rong hugged Xiren and comforted him affectionately, and Xiren murmured in response.

At this time, Xiren had completely returned to his heart.

"Get up, your brother is still waiting outside."

As soon as the words fell, Xiren woke up suddenly, with a shy look on his face, "It's all your fault, how can I have the honor to see him now?"

"What are you afraid of? He still dares to accuse you?" Jia Rong chuckled.

Xiren rolled his eyes angrily.

If it weren't for you, how could my brother, who is such an honest person, trick me into coming here.

"Ugh."

Thinking of this, Xiren sighed secretly, then sat up and put on a small coat, and then helped Jia Rong wash up and put on clothes. Every job is meticulous and meticulous, as if this is her job.

Seeing this, Jia Rong nodded with satisfaction.

Xiren has this kind of temperament, he is content with the situation and fulfills his duties conscientiously. If she follows Jia Mu, she will be loyal to Jia Mu; if she follows Shi Xiangyun, she will be loyal to Shi Xiangyun; if she follows Jia Baoyu, she will be devoted to Jia Baoyu.

Even if the Jia family fell and she eventually married Jiang Yuhan, she would live a peaceful life with Jiang Yuhan.

But now, she lost her virginity to Jia Rong, so she changed her mentality and became loyal to Jia Rong.

"She's a good girl." Jia Rong nodded.

After a while, Jia Rong and Xiren finished dressing and walked out of the bedroom again. He also specially burned a piece of broken star red sandalwood and smoked the bedroom. Just now I called Sun Rui and Hua Zifang to come over and open the door.

At this time, Jia Rong was sitting in the hall, first looked at Sun Rui, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Rui, you are so brave, you dare to eavesdrop on my corner."

"Sir, please forgive me, I was confused for a moment." Sun Rui knelt down and apologized quickly.

"Go down and get the twenty-butt stick, so you can remember it." Jia Rong said lightly and sentenced Sun Rui.

When Sun Rui heard this, he couldn't help but look bitter.

Now, the servants in Ning Mansion are basically military rulers. Once you make a mistake, you will be beaten with a guaranteed whipping, followed by a cane on the buttocks and a cane on the spine.

Twenty hip sticks were enough to keep Sun Rui from getting off the ground for half a month.

It can be seen that Jia Rong is really cruel.

Sun Rui secretly regretted it and couldn't help but want to slap himself. After following Jia Rong for so long, why do you still act so arrogantly? You are really looking for death!

"Yes, the villain knows." Sun Rui kowtowed and thanked him, stood up with regret on his face, and stepped aside to feel melancholy.

The joy of receiving five taels of silver as a reward was now gone.

After punishing Sun Rui, Jia Rong looked at Hua Zifang again.

But I saw him bent over, with a face full of awe, and he was uneasy, wondering how Jia Rong would punish him.

"Don't be afraid. Now that Xiren has followed me, you are one of my own." Seeing Hua Zifang's anxious expression, Jia Rong comforted her with a smile, and then said: "Now there is a vacancy for a grain shop owner in the south of the city. Do you have one?" Not interested in taking over?"

Hua Zifang was surprised, then overjoyed, she knelt down and kowtowed to Jia Rong, "Thank you, sir, I'm willing to take over!"

Grain shopkeeper?

Unexpectedly, Jia Rong was so generous and promoted him to the position of shopkeeper.

Hua Zifang's face was full of joy.

Even Xiren was filled with gratitude when he heard Jia Rong's arrangement.

Before that, her brother Hua Zifang was just a clerk in a grain store below Rongguo Mansion. Although Xiren is Jia Baoyu's eldest girl, he has no shame in helping Hua Zifang find a position as shopkeeper.

Because Hua Zifang is not a slave, he is a free man.

As for shopkeepers under the Ning and Rong families, only slaves, relatives or Jia people can serve as shopkeepers. Now, Jia Rong directly rewarded Hua Zifang, a grain store manager, and obviously regarded Hua Zifang as "one of his own". It is some kind of self-evident "relative status". No matter Hua Zifang or Hua Xiren, they are all very moved.

"It's a pity that it can't be made public for the time being." Hua Zifang and Xiren sighed secretly.

"Okay, it's not too late. It's rare for you to leave the house, so just follow your brother home and visit your family."

After making arrangements for Hua Zifang, Jia Rong looked at Xiren again and asked her to go home with Hua Zifang first.

"Okay." Xiren nodded.

This time she came out in the name of going home. Besides, she also missed her mother, sister-in-law, nieces and nephews a little bit.

Then, Xiren and Hua Zifang saluted and said hello, then slowly said goodbye and left.

When she saw Xi Ren leaving, Jia Rong had a calm expression and secretly muttered: "I was the one who offended me that night during the Lantern Festival. Now Jia Baoyu is reading eight-legged essay in ethnic studies, and Xi Ren has been taken over by me, leaving only Mrs. Wang." With Jia Mu.

"Mrs. Wang...Mother Jia..."

Jia Rong clenched her fists, and there was a cold light in her eyes.

******

On this day, Jia Rong whipped the attacker several times, releasing most of the anger he had accumulated during the Lantern Festival, and he was finally able to do things with peace of mind.

From the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Jia Rong rode out of the city.

He began to inspect the family fields in the suburbs of Beijing and expressed condolences to the tenant farmers under Ning Mansion. A batch of new farm tools were bought for them, and each household was given a bag of rice, a piece of cotton cloth and a piece of linen cloth. The tenant farmers wept with joy, kowtowed to Jia Rong to thank him, and said that they would set up a memorial tablet for him to live forever.

Cattle rental shops were also established, with subsidies provided by the Ningguo government to tenant farmers at low prices.

The most exciting thing was the public trials that Jia Rong conducted against those unscrupulous servants, Jia tribesmen, and village leaders who "bullyed the superiors and deceived the subordinates," "embezzled public funds," and "scorned human lives."

In the open space, under the big tree, or on the high platform, Jia Rong held a whip in his hand and beat him hard himself.

Every time the whip was struck, the villains would scream pitifully and beg for mercy.

The tenant farmers who were watching would also cheer excitedly, shed tears of excitement and joy, or burst into tears.

He became more and more grateful to Jia Rong and Ning Guofu, and the resentment accumulated in his heart also dissipated, and his numb mental state gradually became more energetic.

At least, I feel more energetic at work.

Not to mention the Jia people, a severe beating is the most severe punishment.

But those unruly servants and village bosses were miserable. Instead of beating them to death, Jia Rong confiscated their property and demoted them to the lowest level of tenant slaves.

Once they lose their power and fall to the bottom, what awaits them will be the cruelest punishment in the world.

The tenant farmers who have been exploited by them for many years will vent their anger.

Within a few days, I heard the news that tenant slaves were being beaten to death one after another in Zhuangzi.

Tenant slaves are not human beings, they are the private property of Ningguo Mansion. Even if he is beaten to death, the government will not interfere. And Jia Rong's "tacitly laissez-faire" attitude emboldened the tenant farmers.

As a result, more than a dozen people died, and the entire Ningguo Mansion had a new understanding of Jia Rong.

If you commit a crime in Jia Rong's hands, you will really die!

And he died very tragically.

Gradually, inside and outside the Ningguo Mansion, the free and loose atmosphere of the past disappeared in an instant, entering an unprecedented "high-pressure state".

Almost everyone was cautious and began to do things seriously, for fear of making mistakes.

Facing Jia Rong, I became more and more awed and didn't dare to be perfunctory anymore.

Just like that, it was mid-February in the blink of an eye, and Jia Rong was ready to go outside the customs.

(End of this chapter)