Concubine Xue's family in the Red Chamber

In the early morning of the second day, after Xue Baolin found an excuse to ask An to leave in a hurry, he returned to the courtyard and washed off the rouge and gouache on his face, and changed into the men's clothes that he had prepared for a long time.

Second Master Bao in Rongguo Mansion likes to snooze, and Mrs. Jia loved him so much that she deliberately postponed the time for greetings from the mansion by an hour. Because of this reason, there is not much movement in Jia's mansion at this hour.

Xue Baolin took Caiqing, a girl, and they both walked with their heads down after they left the courtyard, and they came to the small door at the back of the courtyard without making a sound.

The doorkeeper, Mrs. Liu, had been guarding the door all night, her whole body was shivering with cold, and her eyelids could not be opened. The master and servant were almost approaching her, and she got up when she heard the movement.

"Miss Caiqing is here?" Granny Liu saw that it was Miss Caiqing walking in front of her, and her old face instantly bloomed, as flattering as she could be.

Caiqing took out a tael of silver from his pocket, "Mother Liu, we have been busy for a long time, and you and I understand the rules, so I don't need to say more. Remember to say it when I change shifts later. The benefits are indispensable to you." .”

"Hey." Mrs. Liu took the hot money in her hand, and bit her mouth hard in front of Caiqing. Seeing that the money was real, she carefully put it in her pocket before opening the door. Nobody."

Seeing that the person had already walked out, Mrs. Liu quickly closed the door, hid under the bed, and touched the money in her bosom again and again, feeling that this time is not so difficult anymore.

Not far from the door, there was a blue canvas carriage parked. It looked ordinary and inconspicuous. After Xue Baolin and Cai Qing got into the carriage, the coachman drove the carriage calmly. Confidence, it looks like an old trick.

After entering Ningrong Street, there were more people outside, and various carriages passed by, not many people paid attention to the carriage Xue Baolin was sitting in.

"Girl, no one is following." Cai Qing breathed a sigh of relief, "Speaking of which, Second Master Bao really did a good job, otherwise how could we leave the mansion so quietly."

Xue Baolin nodded in deep agreement, "Caiqing, there are too many maids and wives living around the Rongguo Mansion, it seems that they can only go back at night, so let's take a stroll around after finishing errands later."

"That's great, I'm tired of staying in Rongguo Mansion all day." Caiqing almost stood up excitedly, her eyes were full of anticipation, and as soon as she walked out of Ningrong Street, she couldn't wait to open the curtain and look around.

Xue Baolin was a little speechless, when she was talking to Granny Liu just now, this girl was quite steady.

On the bustling Ningrong Street, Jia Huan walked leisurely with a small servant, sweeping away the many complaining gestures in the past, with an abnormally happy expression on his face.

"The pair of sheepskin boots I wear today look warm. No wonder I got up so early today." The boy behind Jia Huan was carrying a book bag, and his face was flattering and flattering, but his face was a bit shabby and sneaky. His eyeballs don't look like a good person.

The name of this boy is Wang Zhong, and he is the son of the Rongguo Mansion. Both his father and his wife are of low status in the Rongguo Mansion. One emptyes the manure bucket and the other takes care of the stables. Mrs. Wang's meaning is in it, no matter what Wang Xifeng says, she will never single out such a face-slapping character.

But this kid is also obedient, he is used to currying favor with Jia Huan, and he put on a gesture of sharing honor and disgrace with Jia Huan, Jia Huan liked him, but he didn't think much of him.

"What's no wonder! Isn't it just a pair of shoes? As for why I made such a fuss!" Jia Huan curled his lips, showing an air of contempt.

Wang Zhong nodded immediately, "That's right, I'm the third son of Rongguo Mansion, what is a pair of shoes worth? Oh, Lord, the carriage just now seems to have come from the direction of Rongguo Mansion."

Jia Huan raised his brows, and his eyes fell on the carriage passing by. There was no sign of Rongguo Mansion on the carriage, and the driver looked strange, as if it was not the driver of any master.

"Maybe it's some shameless person who dares to come out in a carriage." The master walks to school, and the maids and women in the house have carriages to ride in. It's really unreasonable, but I want to see, this one who climbed on the master's head Who is it.

Jia Huan started to chase without saying a word, Wang Zhong was stunned for a moment and followed, without any intention of dissuading him.

The speed of this carriage is not considered fast, and the master and servant can keep up with it at a trot. Wang Zhong looked at the curtain on the side of the carriage being lifted, presumably the people in the carriage did so on purpose.

Thinking of this, I have to lament fate, a little girl can be so carefree, as a brother and a book boy, even the monthly money is the last to get his hands.

The car slowly moved away from Ningrong Street, Jia Huan gritted his teeth and chose to keep up. When he was panting from running and was about to give up, the car finally stopped outside a big restaurant.

"Master, we are here." The coachman jumped off the horse first, and called softly to the two girls in the carriage.

Jia Huan, who was hiding in the back, finally saw the people in the car. They were two young men, wearing big fur capes, and the exposed skin was snow-white. Just staring straight ahead, I felt like I didn't see them. After passing these few people, there are decent people in the mansion, Jia Huan thought he could hear clearly.

"You just go to drink tea, we won't come out for a while, but at most, it will only be half an hour." Cai Qing instructed the coachman a few words, and then followed her girl into the Miaowei Pavilion.

"Can you two be objective?" Miaoweixuan has just opened, and it hasn't been fully tidied up yet, but there are a few waiters there, and they saw the two wealthy people coming in with sharp eyes, and ran over to greet them with smiling faces.

"Is there a private seat upstairs?"

"Yes, it hasn't opened yet, and the private seats are all empty. Please, sir." Miaoweixuan was cleaned extremely clean. Xue Baolin reached out and touched the handrail of the stairs, but found no dust.

"Guest officer, don't worry, our Miaoweixuan is clean from top to bottom. The shopkeeper checks it every day, and there are five women who clean it alone." Xiaoer said with a proud expression, "In the capital But few restaurants can be as clean as our Miaoweixuan."

Xiao Er pushed open a private room on the second floor, and the inside of the room looked higher than the outside, "What kind of good food do you have here?"

"Guest officer, we have a lot of delicious dishes here. There are more than [-] or [-] kinds of dishes in the early days. The common ones are tofu skin buns, assorted buns, meat buns, vegetarian buns, plum cakes, chestnut cakes, mung bean cakes, etc. Uncommon ones Most of them are exquisite pastries made by the old chefs in the palace, such as almond bergamot, crispy apple, pea yellow, canary crisp, ruyi roll, chrysanthemum bergamot, etc. Guests can carefully read the things in this booklet .”

The little errand spoke quite cleverly, he said a lot in one breath, and the words were clear, Xue Baolin ordered a few at random, and the errand went down.

"Girl, there are so many varieties in Miaoweixuan. The restaurants in Jinling back then were far worse than here."

Caiqing looked down at the brightly lit table, and she was quite shocked in her heart, just with this clean appearance, it is comfortable to sit and eat, no wonder shopkeeper Wang is so airy.

Xue Baolin smiled slightly, noncommittal. Speaking of which, shopkeeper Wang had followed her for a while, but he never expected that he could be so obedient and execute it so well.

There are no people around now, so naturally the food is served very quickly. In just the tea time, Xue Baolin has already served a dozen or so dishes, "My lord, there is someone outside who claims to be the third young master of the Rongguo Mansion and wants to see you. He said he just saw you. You're in."

"Third Young Master?" Xue Baolin didn't realize it for a while, and looked at Cai Qing with great doubts.

"The third son is the third son of the second master of the Rongguo Mansion. His name is Jia Huan. I heard that he has a bad reputation."

"Let him come over." Xue Baolin looked out of the house with his chin in his hand. The Rongguo Mansion is troublesome. Not only are there many servants, but there are also many masters. If you are not careful, you will be seen.

Jia Huan led Wang Zhong Guangming into the private room with a high-spirited attitude.In the past, he didn't have the money to spend in such a good restaurant, but now when he comes in, he's just pretending on the surface.

"Sit down." Xue Baolin raised his eyes and looked at the Third Master Huan carefully. His impression of him was really nothing. Now that he looks at him, he thinks this kid is quite cute. Pretending to be a stance that I am superior.

Yo, the corners of the clothes are almost torn.

"Well, I don't know who my sister is?" After Jia Huan sat down, at such a close distance, she naturally saw Xue Baolin's pierced ears.

"I'm Xue Baolin, the second girl from Lixiangyuan. The third master Huan doesn't go to class today, so why did you follow me here?"

"Look at my sister's driver, who sneaked out of Rongguo Mansion again. It's just a moment of curiosity." After Jia Huan said, he picked up a piece of pea yellow and ate it. The ones eaten at Rong Guo Fu are much better.

"Oh, you never thought that I stole things from Rongguo Mansion and ran out? Now that you have found out, how can I let you go back." Xue Baolin smiled faintly, and his eyes seemed vague. fixed on the pastry he was holding.

"Oh my god... this... this is poisonous!!!" Jia Huan jumped up with a bang, lay on the side and clacked his throat hard, even the little servant Wang Zhong who was watching by the side was so frightened that his face was pale .

"Pu Chi, you are really easy to deceive." After finishing speaking, he also picked up a piece of pea yellow and ate it. His small appearance was as proud as he could be.

"You...you lied!!!"

"When did I lie to you? Did I say something definite?" Xue Baolin shrugged, his eyes wide open as innocently as possible.

Jia Huan: ...