"Yes, yes", Jia Zheng smiled and brushed his beard and nodded, "The only person in Gyeonggi who can get a compliment from Bo Qian is the eldest grandson of Zou Gong, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Moreover, Bo Qian told me clearly that Lan'er is the seed of reading, so that's correct."

"That's right, that's right." Jia Mu laughed loudly, "My uncle is the only one in history who has passed the sixth grade. As for studying, whatever he says is what he says."

No one present dared to refute Jia Mu on this matter. Even Jia Baoyu opened his mouth to speak, but in the end he didn't know what to say.

"Old lady," Jia Lian said with a smile, "Brother Boqian is not only good at reading and martial arts, he is also proficient in Zhouyi gossip, and he is also first-class in how to be an official.

It has only been two months since he was appointed an official, and he is now a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy of the sixth rank.

I heard young men from various families say that if Boqian hadn't been too young, his time in officialdom would have been too short.

Just relying on the achievements of this land reclamation, it is not difficult to upgrade to the fifth rank.

If you give Boqian ten or eight years, he might be able to rise to the rank of Minister of the Sixth Ministry.

By that time, Baoyu, as Boqian's brother-in-law, could not have a worse future than Brother Pan.

Moreover, because Xue Biao was valued by Bo Qian, he was already a scribe in the Imperial Envoy Office at this time, and I even heard that Bo Qian had been teaching Brother Biao to read."

As soon as these words came out, Jia Mu's expression was stunned. She didn't expect that the two Xue brothers had such luck.

One already has an official status, and the other is obviously heading towards the imperial examination.

Even Mrs. Wang felt jealous and envious when she thought that Xue Pan was already a seventh-rank official.

After all, this official position was given by the emperor himself, which is different from Jia Lian, who bought it with money.

I couldn't help but think about how Jia Baoyu would look in official uniform from now on if he caught Shi Zhongkui's fancy.

So Mrs. Wang surprisingly did not object to Jia Baoyu coming to study.

Even a little impatient.

Jia She seemed to have forgotten his previous dissatisfaction because Jia Lian didn't even get an acre of land back, and he smiled with pride on his face.

When I looked at Yingchun, who was already blushing with shame, I felt for the first time that raising a daughter would be a good thing.

In this way, the matter of Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan coming to ask for advice was quickly settled.

The next day, when Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan, accompanied by several young men, went to Shi Zhongkui's house, they happened to see him dressed in official uniform, preparing to go out with Xue Biao and twenty young men.

Moreover, there were already a dozen embroidered guards waiting at the gate leading their horses.

As soon as they saw him coming out, these embroidered guards knelt down and saluted, which frightened Jia Baoyu and the Jia family's boys and turned pale.

On the contrary, although Jia Lan was also panicked, he did not show any fear.

Shi Zhongkui nodded casually to Cui Hezhong and the others, and raised his hand, "Get up. Today we will inspect the rivers in the city. You will be ready later."

Cui Hezhong hurriedly stood up, cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Sir, the hundred households under the command of the official have been working on it all night, and they are all ready."

Shi Zhongkui nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Jia Baoyu, who was deliberately left aside by him, and Jia Lan said, "Brother Bao, Brother Lang came just in time.

I won’t study or practice martial arts today.

You pay me to go see people's livelihood, so that you can understand the difficulties of our ancestors' starting a business.

Also, although the world is peaceful and there are even faint signs of a prosperous age, if you and other nobles want to live peacefully and write in peace, you have to have the common people in your heart."

After hearing this, Jia Lan bowed his hands like a little adult and said, "Yes, uncle."

Jia Baoyu opened his mouth, but when dozens of people stared at him, he suddenly felt guilty.

Shi Zhongkui smiled and knew that this guy was a treacherous creature.

I took Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan around the capital for a whole morning, and even just had a few bites of cooking cakes for lunch. The two children, 12 and 7 years old, were already tired and had tired faces all over their faces.

As for the Jia family's boys, they were too tired to say anything at this time.

In the afternoon, after getting on a boat that could sail on the Tonghui River, Shi Zhongkui immediately gave Liu Yu'er a hint when he saw a bearer resting not far away.

Liu Yuer suddenly bumped into the boat on which Shi Zhongkui, Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan were riding.

After a moment of turmoil, not even Jia Baoyu, nor anyone else on the ship noticed that Shi Zhongkui had secretly taken away the psychic gem while he was helping Jia Baoyu.

Everyone hurriedly asked the boat to dock. Cui Hezhong and other embroidered guards were so frightened that they knelt down and found reasons to explain that there must be silt in the river just now, or even a shipwreck.

This caused the boat Shi Zhongkui and others were riding to hit the bottom and almost capsize.

Shi Zhongkui pretended to be angry, and then went to hire a sedan chair. He invited Jia Baoyu, who was a little pale, into a sedan chair. After he got into the sedan chair, he went home directly.

So no one noticed that the psychic gem was missing for the time being.

Along the way, Shi Zhongkui didn't remember to absorb the spiritual energy from the psychic jade, but held it and observed it carefully.

Then I used my mind to select a piece of jade in the space farm, and the texture was absolutely fake and real, and I continued to carve it with my mind.

The only trouble is that even if the carving is indeed very, very similar, the newly carved jade does not have the patina of being played with for many years.

That is oily.

The so-called pan jade is to play with and caress the jade for a long time to make the stone more oily and bright.

So new jade and old jade can be seen by anyone with a little discernment.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui had no intention of returning the fake jade directly to Jia Baoyu.

After returning home, Shi Zhongkui smiled and said to Shun'er, "Take Brother Bao and Brother Lang to wash up, and prepare a table of good food and wine in the evening, so that when they return home, they won't say that I, the brother-in-law and uncle, didn't take good care of them."

After saying that, without waiting for Jia Baoyu to refuse, someone took him and Jia Lan to wash up.

Then the Chinchilla took the piece of jade and ran out of the river where the accident happened.

Put the jade in the soil and rub it continuously until the jade becomes more delicate before throwing it directly into the river.

But what Shi Zhongkui didn't expect was that Chang Baiyu, who he had conquered at will, would actually see the problem at a glance.

After asking the Golden Mouse about it, he smiled and said, "What's so difficult about this?"

After saying that, he swallowed the piece of fake jade and said, "Little mouse, go back and tell the master that as long as you give me a night, this piece of jade will definitely have the unique brightness of old jade tomorrow."

The golden-haired rat's eyes lit up, and he nodded quickly and ran back to report.

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Since he was taking a bath, the gold necklace with the psychic jade could not always be hung around Jia Baoyu's neck.

When Shi Zhongkui learned that Jia Baoyu's jade was lost, he couldn't help pretending to be anxious, asked Jia Baoyu carefully, and blamed himself fiercely.

"It must have fallen into the river when we were on a boat."

When everyone heard it, they thought it should be like this.

Jia Baoyu's servant was frightened and knelt down in front of Shi Zhongkui, "Second uncle, please send someone to search for him, otherwise the villain and others will be beaten to death."

Shi Zhongkui looked at Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan with a pretentious frown.

Jia Baoyu kept saying "more than that", but Jia Lan nodded silently.

Shi Zhongkui immediately called Shun'er and many servants, and asked Cui Hezhong who was waiting in the front yard to send someone to ask the people from Baihusuo to look for it together.

It's a pity that no matter how many people there are, you can't even hope to find it at this time.

Shi Zhongkui was furious and hit Cui Hezhong on the shoulder with a tea bowl.

"You can't find it. I have many ways to make you wait for the army to be exiled. Moreover, I will only give you one night."

Jia Baoyu was immediately frightened, and stood up and said that he had thrown it away.

Jia Lan turned pale with fright, and looked at Shi Zhongkui with not only awe, but also deep fear.

But after a while, this boy, probably because he had lost his father since he was a child, started to worship Shi Zhongkui again.

Cui Hezhong looked at Jia Baoyu gratefully, but he also knew in his heart that if he really couldn't find it.

The warriors of the Hundred Households may be fine, but I, the Hundred Households, will definitely not get any good results.

After all, before setting off this morning, he said that everything was ready.

Now not only had the jade been lost, but Shi Zhongkui almost fell into the river.

Therefore, Cui Hezhong and the five general banners naturally believed that Shi Zhongkui had been angry for a long time, and it really came out due to the incident of losing the jade.

After Cui Hezhong and others left, the sky had already darkened.

Jia Baoyu was worried that Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang would let someone come to pick her up.

Shi Zhongkui then pretended to react and ordered someone to go to Rongguo Mansion to inform him that he was going to take a knowledge test against Baoyu and Jialan tonight, and they would stay here for the night.

Jia Baoyu's servant did not dare to go back at this time, but in order to delay time, the servant named Baoming finally went back to report and prove that Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan were fine.

Seeing that Jia Baoyu and Jia Lan were both a little disheveled, Shi Zhongkui asked someone to take them to wash up and change into clean, fresh clothes.

He took the opportunity to return to the study.

Shi Zhongkui waved his hand, and not only did the golden-haired rat leave the study, but also the night wandering god who had just taken over the shift also left with great discernment.

Activate the charms on the walls and windows around the study.

No one knows what happened inside.

Picking up the psychic gem on the desk, a stream of spiritual energy instantly passed through his arm and was transmitted into the farm space in his soul.
To be continued...