Chapter 79: A Beautiful Girl in the Qin Family

The hour of Xu (7-9 PM), the night was cool.

Jia Cong bid farewell to Qu Hongxiu and stepped on the harmonious moonlight to go to the Chunhua Pavilion for the appointment.

Walking under the Chunhua Pavilion, he only heard the sound of silk and bamboo in the street opposite, the fragrance lingering, and the sound of orioles and swallows.

Looking back, what an exquisite and gorgeous pavilion, draped in red and green, with flower lanterns hanging high, and many beautifully dressed and gorgeous women, waving their red sleeves to welcome guests.

A plaque with vermilion characters on a pink background hung under the lintel of the pavilion, with the three large characters "Yicui Pavilion" written on it. It turned out to be a brothel.

Many guests were entering and leaving the gate of the building, and the shadows were moving. Suddenly, someone bumped into Jia Cong's shoulder from the front, and a scent of powder and rouge rushed to his face.

Jia Cong looked up and saw that the person who bumped into him was a handsome, slender, and beautifully dressed young man.

Behind him followed a handsome young man in white, carrying a somewhat feminine and seductive air.

The beautifully dressed man saw Jia Cong, his face showing surprise and a bit of awkwardness, but seeing Jia Cong's handsome appearance, his eyes lit up.

These two, like Cai Xiaoyu, were classmates Jia Cong had befriended at the Qingshan Academy.

He couldn't help but ask: "Xiaoyu, is there something wrong?"

Jia Cong heard the words "East Prefecture" and "nephew," and only then did he remember—wasn't this Jia Zhen's son, Jia Rong, of the Ningguo Prefecture?

Cai Xiaoyu's chubby, smiling face stretched out from the second floor, greeting him.

After saying that, he hurried away with the young man in white.

"Your Ningguo Prefecture's Jia Rong has settled a marriage with the only daughter of the Camp-Construction Official Qin Bangye, and it is said that she will be married next year."

"Isn't this Uncle Cong!"

Jia Cong saw Cai Xiaoyu still standing at the window looking at the two people who had gone far away, his face showing a mischievous smile.

"Uncle Cong has been studying at the Qingshan Academy for the past two years and hasn't visited the East Prefecture. How could you forget your nephew?"

Jia Rong's eyes kept scanning Jia Cong's face, smiling: "Uncle Cong has been proud for the past two years, going to the Qingshan Academy to study. I heard from the West Prefecture the day before yesterday."

"So it's Rong-ge'er. It's been a few years, and I didn't recognize you for a moment."

When he arrived at the feast, he saw that besides Cai Xiaoyu, the other two had also arrived.

Qin Keqing—how could Jia Cong not know? The woman in the Red Chamber who possessed the beauty of both Baochai and Daiyu, known to later generations as the number one beauty of the Red Chamber.

Cai Xiaoyu smiled somewhat mysteriously: "Brother Cong, you only know how to read every day and have become stupid, but you don't know that your Jia family has had a happy event recently."

"Uncle Cong, nephew has something to do. When you go home one day, you must come to the East Prefecture, and nephew will hold a welcome feast for you."

Jia Cong was about to be polite, but suddenly heard a cold snort from the young man in white behind Jia Rong, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on Jia Rong's face.

One was Cui Anzhi, the son of the Rites Ministry official Cui Zhenghong, styled Ziqian; the other was Liu Xiaoping, the son of the magistrate of Liuhe County, Jinling, styled Zhongwen.

Suddenly hearing a voice from above: "Brother Cong, hurry up, we are just waiting for you."

"Oh, what happy event? I don't know."

"Uncle has passed two rounds of examinations and is about to enter the school to take the official title, so I will congratulate Uncle first."

Jia Cong was slightly stunned, thinking back for a moment, feeling very familiar, but just couldn't remember who it was.

Cai Xiaoyu shook his head and said: "In the official circle of the Divine Capital, who doesn't know that this Miss Qin is born with a national color and heavenly fragrance, with the beauty of a sinking fish and a falling goose..."

Cui Anzhi on the side teased: "It sounds like you have seen it yourself. I have also heard this rumor, but seeing is believing; otherwise, it is just hearsay."

Cai Xiaoyu's face showed a proud expression: "Don't say that, I really saw it once. This Miss Qin is a boudoir friend of my third sister."

"During the Qiqiao Festival, my third sister invited sisters who were on good terms to be guests in her courtyard, and among them was Miss Qin. I happened to see her from afar."

This made Cui Anzhi and Liu Xiaoping interested, and they all asked if Miss Qin's beauty was really as legendary as rumored.

Young people of this age all have a feeling of admiring beauty, and they can't help but talk about beautiful women.

"Tsk tsk, the reputation is truly not in vain. I didn't know the meaning before, but now I know what is called 'closing the moon and shaming the flowers,' and what is called 'sinking fish and falling goose.'"

The little fatty sighed, his eyes actually showing obsession.

It made Jia Cong secretly laugh, and he also felt curious in his heart. Is this Qin Keqing really as beautiful as described in the book? If there is a chance, he must see it.

Cai Xiaoyu also said indignantly: "What a pity, such a flower is going to be inserted into cow dung!"

Jia Cong smiled: "Xiaoyu, you are wrong. My Rong-ge'er is also a talent. You are just too jealous."

Cai Xiaoyu asked with a strange expression: "Didn't you see the young man in white following Jia Rong just now? That is the top-ranked actor of the Yicui Pavilion, Liu Yu'er!"

This made even Cui Anzhi and Liu Xiaoping show strange expressions.

"I love to eat, and I am not used to the public meals in the academy. I come to the Chunhua Pavilion to eat every month. I have met Jia Rong looking for Liu Yu'er to mess around at least three times."

"Every waiter who runs errands at the Chunhua Pavilion knows it. If you don't believe me, just call one and ask."

"This guy is also very smart, running from the East City to the North City to do this, mostly to cover his tracks."

"Poor Miss Qin, such a beautiful person, actually has to marry such a dirty, shameless, silver-like pewter spearhead. It is truly a tragic life for a beauty."

Jia Cong recalled the young man in white who followed Jia Rong, and the strange look Jia Rong gave him just now, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"Love in the sea of love, love must be lewd." "Don't say that the unworthy are all from the Rong family, the cause of the disaster is really in Ning."

Qin Keqing was a woman trapped in a love tribulation all her life. She and Jia Rong could be considered a talented man and a beautiful woman, but in the book of the previous life, there was no description of the couple.

It was as if there was nothing to write about the couple's relationship.

However, after Qin Keqing died, a lot of ink was spent writing about Jia Zhen's weird and excessive reaction.

He even used the coffin board of the mast wood that only an emperor could use for Qin Keqing, and spent a lot of money to donate a title of Dragon Guard for Jia Rong, just to raise Qin Keqing's status.

That was not the behavior that a normal father-in-law and daughter-in-law would have.

This Jia Rong was not only a person of the same-sex but also wrote that he was unclear with his stepmother's sister, You Erjie. In short, he was not picky about anything, and he was disgusting to think about.

Qin Keqing didn't know the truth before marriage. She must have known the truth after marriage. How could a daughter of an official family not be ashamed and furious?

This was probably the reason why the book rarely described the appearance of this young couple.

Was it because the couple was not harmonious that Jia Zhen had an opportunity?

It is said that in the Ningguo Prefecture, except for the two lions at the door, everything else is dirty, which is really not wrong at all.

Jia Cong felt some sympathy for Qin Keqing, but that was all. He was not saintly enough to want to save the beauty from the fire pit.

At this moment, a commotion suddenly came from the street below. Cai Xiaoyu had a jumpy nature and loved to join in the fun, so he immediately walked to the window to look.

He saw a man with disheveled hair running towards this side from the street.

Behind him, a burly man with a chest full of black hair, holding a wine pot, was chasing after him, cursing.

"You lowly thing, how dare you touch my person? You really have the guts of a bear! Today I will settle the account with you!"

Cai Xiaoyu jumped and shouted: "That's Jia Rong, it's Jia Rong!"

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