Chapter 148 Jealousy and Ambition Begin
The moon is at its zenith.
There were still laughter and joy in the Baihua Tower ahead, but in the Jinxiang Courtyard the music had ended and everyone had dispersed.
After seeing off the drunk Xue Pan, Feng Ziying and Liu Xianglian who were arm in arm with each other, Sun Shaozong had just exhaled a heavy breath of alcohol on the steps when Lu Jianxing came up from behind.
"grown ups."
He rubbed his hands and said awkwardly: "I should have hosted this banquet, but you are the one who paid for it. It's really..."
Sun Shaozong raised his hand to stop Lu Jianxing's polite words, turned around to look at Shen Lian, then looked at the famous prostitute Yun'er who was sent out, hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed: "Forget it, let everything go with fate."
As he said this, he walked forward, untied the reins, and mounted the horse. While turning the horse's head, he said, "You guys go back and wait for a few days. Brother Feng is impatient. I believe there will be news before the end of the month."
After saying this, without waiting for Lu Jianxing's response, he kicked the horse's belly and rode away.
Lu Jianxing's expression changed constantly as he watched Sun Shaozong disappear at the end of the alley. Then he turned around and forced a smile, "Miss Yun'er, we two brothers are leaving too."
Yun'er bowed and said in a crisp voice, "Please, my lords. I'm sorry that Yun'er can't see you off."
"Miss Yun'er , you are too kind. We..."
Shen Lian hurriedly returned the greeting and was about to say something when Lu Jianxing grabbed the back of his collar and dragged him into the alley.
The mounts of the two of them were quite well behaved. Although there was no one to lead them, they still followed closely.
Touch~
When they reached the middle of the alley, seeing that there was no one outside the gate of Jinxiangyuan, Lu Jianxing suddenly pushed Shen Lian against the wall, causing dust to fall down.
"What the hell are you doing?!"
Lu Jianxing's deep voice was filled with anger: "Before you came, who said that you must seize this good opportunity? Is this how you seize the opportunity?!"
Shen Lian felt a tightness in the chest from the blow he made, and nearly spurted out blood, but he was not annoyed at all, and just smiled and said, "Brother, I lost my grip for a moment..."
Pah~
Before he could finish, Lu Jianxing slapped him again, causing Shen Lian's mouth to burst and his long gown to be stained with blood.
"Make up, make up for me again!"
Lu Jianxing pointed at the alley entrance and said angrily, "Even Lord Sun saw it. I've known you for many years, how could I not know what you're thinking?!"
"You are obviously jealous! You are jealous that Mr. Liu has won the favor of Miss Yun'er, so you want to defeat him in front of Miss Yun'er and make him lose miserably!"
"Do you know what will happen to you if Mr. Liu gets angry and spreads slanderous words in front of Mr. Feng Yanei and Mr. Xue?!"
It turned out that when Liu Xianglian proposed to invite someone to practice with him, Lu Jianxing knew that the opportunity for the two brothers to perform had come.
So he immediately recommended Shen Lian to come on stage.
I originally thought that with Shen Lian's cleverness, he would definitely be slightly inferior or slightly superior after a "hard battle", so that both sides could have a decent ending.
Who would have thought that Shen Lian's moves were so fierce that after only seven or eight rounds, he kicked Liu Xianglian and knocked him down, almost destroying his appearance.
Fortunately, Liu Xianglian was a generous man. After losing, he did not get angry but praised Shen Lian for his excellent kung fu. He also strongly recommended the two brothers to Feng Ziying, saying that it was a great misfortune for the court that such talented people were not appreciated.
Others didn't know Shen Lian's character, so they didn't notice anything wrong.
But Sun Shaozong and Lu Jianxing immediately noticed something strange, and then realized the reason for Shen Lian's drastic change in temperament.
Seeing that his thoughts were revealed by his elder brother, Shen Lian's smile froze for a moment, and after a long while he said dejectedly: "Brother, I know I was wrong."
"No, you don't!"
Lu Jianxing stared at him intently and said word by word: "Unless you promise me that you will never mess with that woman again!"
“Brother!”
The veins on Shen Lian's forehead jumped a few times, and he suddenly said, "I am 28 years old this year, and I am the only one left in the Shen family..."
"I'm still 31!"
Lu Jianxing said angrily: "You want a woman, I will ask a matchmaker to find one for you tomorrow, and I promise to find you a woman that satisfies your heart."
"But I only want her!"
Shen Lian said without hesitation: "From the moment I saw her playing the pipa, I knew that she was the only one I wanted in my life!"
"you!"
Lu Jianxing stared at him angrily for a long while, but finally he was deflated like a ball, let go of Shen Lian's collar, and said dejectedly: "Then do you know how much money this banquet cost?"
"One hundred and eighty-eight taels! That's a full one hundred and eighty-eight taels! Three years' salary for you and me is just the cost of a meal!"
"And I dare say that if Lord Sun and the others were not here, even if you could afford the 188 taels, you probably wouldn't be able to invite Miss Yun'er to come out!"
"Listen to my eldest brother's advice. We brothers cannot afford to think about a woman like this. Besides, the third brother has lost his life inexplicably because of a woman. I don't want you to follow in his footsteps!"
The first part was fine, but the last sentence really touched Shen Lian.
He was silent for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, I promise you, I won't provoke Miss Yun'er again!"
Lu Jianxing just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Shen Lian say in a deep voice: "But big brother, you must also remember that I, Shen Lian, will not always be the Shen Lian of today! One day, I will sit upright at the top and let those young masters flatter me like dogs!"
——Dividing line——
“A-choo!”
But Sun Shaozong was drunk and letting his mind run wild in the night breeze when suddenly his nose started to itch and he sneezed loudly.
Maybe it’s the women in the family who are talking about it.
Thinking of this, he quickened his pace and hurried back to the Sun Mansion.
When they arrived at the backyard hall, they saw Ruan Rong and Xiang Ling holding a few baby bellybands and comparing them to each other. They were speechless and said, "Why did you make a few more sets? The big box is almost full."
Ever since Ruan Rong got pregnant, the group of girls in Sun Shaozu's house, besides being jealous, had the additional task of embroidering bellybands. As a result, they had accumulated more than a hundred pieces in just a few months.
"Sister Lin just had someone bring it here in the evening." Ruan Rong said with a smile, "Let's not talk about her craftsmanship. My sister is a talented person after all. This pattern is much more exquisite than the ones we have in our house."
As she spoke, she took out another letter from the bedside and said with a smile, "Look, she complained about you in the letter, saying that you instigated Jia Baoyu to stir up a hornet's nest in order to take revenge on the servants in Rongguo Mansion, and now that Master Bao has gone crazy all day long."
Tsk~
Unexpectedly, Lin Daiyu discovered the clue.
But since he also has the aura of the protagonist, why didn’t Jia Baoyu see the flaw?
He took the letter and quickly scanned it, and found that Jia Baoyu had really put in a lot of hard work to check the accounts.
He didn't know that Jia Baoyu was so persistent because the money from selling his body was embezzled, and he thought that Jia Baoyu really wanted to practice the basic skills of criminal investigation.
I couldn't help but feel some admiration for him, thinking that this kid might really be a good candidate for criminal investigation. I might as well teach him some real skills in the future and see how he understands.
