The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Two days later, Xu Qingheng learned from Xu Yuheng and Xu Yuju that the peach stone sculpture was made by the peach tree in front of Jia Lian's house and that he carved it in his spare time. I couldn't put it down, so I just put the box on the antique shelf, and occasionally looked at it, and after another seven or eight days, it happened to coincide with the embroidery match between her and a group of little sisters, knowing that Yingchun was not led by the elders, just the day before Ask the old lady Xu for instructions: "Our carriage might as well turn a corner, go to Jia's to pick up my sister, and then go to Sister Lan's."

The old lady Xu said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if you don't ask an adult to lead the party of you little girls. It's just that she will go for a while, and you can pick her up."

Since the old lady Xu agreed, Xu Qingheng ordered her to go on. The next day, she asked her nanny, grandparents, and brothers to escort her, and then went to Rongguo Mansion in a green carriage. He walked into the house, got on the sedan chair and entered Rongguo Mansion under the cover of others, and got off the sedan chair at the hanging flower gate in front of Rongqing Hall. He told Jia Mu at Jia Mu's place, and then took Yingchun's hand and went out. Wearing a pair of skirts with red willow leaf prints on a white background with red borders and an off-white skirt, and only a little phoenix hairpin with red gold dots and emerald greens on her temples, and seeing that she was a little nervous, she nodded slightly and smiled: "Don't be afraid, then The little sisters are all very kind and enthusiastic. Your needlework is brighter than mine, and they must be as ashamed of themselves when they take it out."

Yingchun knew that her needlework was passable, so she said in a low voice: "Sister Qing, I'm not afraid of this. I'm just afraid that some people will have a taboo. If I go, I will spoil people's interest, but I will also hurt Sister Qing. Being blamed behind people's backs."

Xu Qingheng was puzzled at first, but after seeing a mist in her eyes for a long time, it suddenly dawned on her that she underestimated herself for being a concubine, so she persuaded her: "It doesn't matter, you just ask others, when someone mentions you, don't say You are the only sister of the fourth brother."

Yingchun thought it was the same, no matter how cheap it is, if the word "unique" is attached to it, the value will also rise, so she joked in relief: "Forget it, even if it's disgusting, as long as sister Qing doesn't dislike it. I shouldn't go, after all, Zhuangtou from the south and the north came early in the morning to deliver the annual rent, and the family was very busy. But the second brother said that it was nothing, he took care of it himself, and just asked me to go out with Sister Qing to have fun. " While talking, I saw Yuan Chun Tingting cozily leading Tan Chun over at the corner of the corridor.

Yuan Chun only looked at Xu Qingheng secretly.Although Tanchun is young, but her mother-in-law is very ambitious and determined to teach a girl who is better than others. When she can understand human speech, she will tell her everything in detail. Under the guidance of the nanny, she also understood things early, and after listening to what Xu Qingheng and Yingchun had just said, she couldn't help thinking, thinking that Xu Qingheng's avoidance of talking about Yingchun's background was already meant by her sisters.

Yuan Chun supported Xu Qingheng's arm, brushed the soft bangs on Xu Qingheng's forehead with his hand, and said with a soft smile, "Where are you two going?"

Yingchun replied: "Sister Qing and the others held an embroidery competition and posted a post for me, please let me go over to have fun."

"It turned out to be a serious matter. Tan girl was very lazy, and asked her to learn how to do needlework, but she refused. She just said that people like us can't afford it, and there are needleworkers. Sisters Qingheng and Yingchun took them with them. She went to open her eyes and let her understand that no matter what kind of family she is, a girl needs to be good at needlework in order to meet people." While speaking, Yuan Chun supported Tan Chun again, and pushed Tan Chun to Xu Qingheng, Yingchun in front of.

Yingchun was taken aback, thinking that the people on Erfang's needlework hadn't been cut yet?

Xu Qingheng saw that Tanchun was only four or five years old, and she was born ice-snow and smart. She didn't look like a naughty boy, but she was not afraid that she would go and cause trouble, but she was afraid that the cold weather would make her sick and it would be difficult to explain to Jia's family. Going to welcome the spring, everyone knows the reason in their hearts and naturally they will not be dissatisfied, but if they suddenly lead another Tanchun to go, it will be difficult to explain to the other people in the meeting.Reluctant in his heart, he smiled and said: "Our association is not a nonsense, and there are rules and regulations. If you want to join the association, you need to write a post from the members of the association. If you want to join the association, you must write a self-recommendation post. Sister Tanchun sketched it in her spare time. Come on, if you come, there will be one more person in our meeting, and it will become more prosperous."

Tanchun's thoughts are delicate, because Xu Qinghang's words are related to Xu Qingheng's previous answer to Yingchun, and he already understands that he was born by his aunt, and he was only accompanied by Jia Lian's cousin. up.

Yuan Chun also said: "When I go back, I will urge this lazy person to write the post. You go, if you are late, our crime will be serious." After finishing speaking, he led Tanchun forward Go, looking back, I can't see Xu Qingheng and Yingchun, so I said to Tanchun: "Third sisters should write the post when they go back, they will sound serious and serious, and get together with other people's families by doing needlework to have fun. very different.

Tanchun had no choice but to agree again, and when he arrived at the door, Baoyu and Xiangyun, who were dressed as boys inside, rushed out first before anyone opened the felt curtain.

"Third Sister, follow us to the front to see Brother Lian'ai's annual receipt." Shi Xiangyun had his pigtails coiled up, and was wearing Baoyu's robe and boots. Although he was younger than Tanchun, he also called Baoyu his sister.

Jia Baoyu was even more impatient, stomping his feet and saying: "Go, go!"

Tanchun hesitated for a moment, was pulled by Xiangyun and Baoyu, and ran forward. Hearing the nurses shouting "Little ancestor, slow down" all the way, he left the Rongqing Hall and entered directly through the back door. Jing Huanzhai, the three of them came out of the west corner door again out of breath, and sure enough, they saw the commotion outside, and the stewards from all over the place led the servants to count the number of renters of all kinds.

The older maids were looking around in the entrance hall of Jinghuan Zhai and refused to come out, only the older nurse and a few young maids followed them out with great interest.

Seeing the young lady and young master coming out, the steward outside hurriedly said to grandma: "Why did you take the second master Bao and the girls out? There is a lot of chaos here, what should we do if we encounter it?"

The nanny said aggrievedly, "How can we trust these three ancestors?"

Lin Zhixiao saw it, and hurriedly said to a group of boys: "Hurry up and send the things that honor your brothers and sisters to the yard of your ancestors, and ask the nanny to take your brothers and sisters back."

"Uncle Lin, I haven't counted the numbers yet. I'm out of sight for a while. If the numbers don't match, we won't be able to explain to the superiors." Cao Zhijian held the account book and said repeatedly: "The Zhuangzi in the north and south rushed into the mansion in a day. , It’s not good to confuse things on both sides.”

Lin Zhixiao heard this, thought for a while, and asked someone to lead Baoyu, Xiangyun, and Tanchun to the yard of Jia Lian's study outside.

Tanchun saw that Baoyu and Xiangyun ran over there without waiting for the nanny to speak, hesitated for a while, and then went too. When he entered the outer study, he saw hot air gushing out from the two gatehouses facing each other by the door. Lifting the curtain to look, I saw that the fire inside was very vigorously burned for the cultivation of camellias, and then I heard the chirping of birds in the corridor, and I saw that the verandah of Chaoshou was full of live chickens, ducks and rabbits, and I saw Baoyu and Xiangyun. He went to the main room of the study without seeing other places, and because he wanted to see what Jia Lian's study looked like, he followed him in. After entering, there were more than a dozen children of Jia Yun and Jia Zao sitting on high tables and high stools in the bright room. Holding a pen to settle accounts.

When Jia Yun saw them coming, she got up and called her uncle and aunt.

It was rare for Tanchun to see so many elder nephews. He smiled calmly and went to the north room again. He saw Baoyu and Xiangyun going to play with the small things brought by Zhuangtou from the north and the south, and said hello to Jia Lian. , also walked to a box of Huishan clay figurines, looked at the lifelike clay figurines in his hands, and carefully listened to Jia Lian talking to Zhuangtou in his ears.

Zhuangtou Wu, who came from the north, came in and said, "Second Lord Lian doesn't know that Lai Er's family is in a miserable state in the past ten years in Hexi."

Jia Lian said: "He brought Wanguan furniture out, what can be so miserable?"

Wu Jinshun sighed and said: "What's the use of having a family property? He offended Uncle Zhen, can Uncle Zhen tell him to go out and be free? He only thought that Uncle Zhen was in the south, so he went to the north. Uncle Zhen took a light charge and sent his family to prison. Now the furniture he took out from the capital was brought back by my brother as annual rent."

Jia Lian shook his head and said, "Master Jing is getting more and more confused as he gets older. Earlier, it didn't matter if Brother Zhen was left alone. Now, Brother Zhen is murdering for money. In the future, it will be his fault." People, only when Jia Zhen is really broken, can he be proud, otherwise he is asking for trouble.

Tanchun's lady made of clay was terrified when she heard it. In the past, Jia Lian's division of the clan was unreasonable. After all, there are many people who can be powerful; now, it seems that it is the principle of a gentleman to protect himself wisely, pretending to see the clay figurine in his hand. Dressed up, and listened carefully, and sure enough, this matter was not over, Wu Jinshun brought up another matter.

Wu Jinshun asked Jia Lian curiously: "Brother Rong of Dongfu is going to marry a wife? Which family is he marrying?"

Jia Lian was stunned, and raised her voice to ask outside: "Yun'er, is Brother Rong of Dongfu going to marry a wife?"

Jia Yun quickly came in with her hands down and said, "I don't know about this." After she finished speaking, she thought about it and said, "The East Mansion is busy asking people to make red lanterns. She made a big show of celebrating the New Year like this, but she didn't think about Brother Rong's marriage."

Wu Jinshun hurriedly said: "Isn't it just about getting married? Uncle Zhen sent a letter to my brother Wu Jinxiao, telling him to take the money he was sending and buy more deer tongues, deer tendons, bear paws, and roe deer along the way." When I brought it back, my brother also said that it was probably used for weddings in the East Mansion."

Jia Lian rubbed his chin and joked: "You should sell our things to your brother at a high price, so that you can save trouble on the road, and I will be happy when I see the real money."

"To tell you the truth, I remembered that the second master said earlier that he would lose some meat, so he boldly sold half of it. Otherwise, there would be so much money coming in this year." Wu Jinshun said with a low voice and laughed.

"What a shrewd person, that's exactly what you should do. If you marry a wife next door, we are neighbors here, so we have to inquire who is married before we can give gifts. Yun'er, it's okay to inquire."

"Hey."

When Tanchun heard this, he couldn't help taking a peek at Jia Lian. Seeing that Jia Lian was not annoyed by what he heard, he praised Wu Jinshun for his ingenuity. It is also the "grandparents" who are less expensive; and in the East Mansion, Jia Jing's wife has not yet passed her filial piety, and she is already preparing for a happy event, so she is not afraid of bad luck.

Then I saw Jia Yun, Jia Zao, etc. coming in to report the account. Tanchun wanted to listen again, and Lin Zhixiao came in from the outside and said to Baoyu, "Second Master Bao, go and have a look. A snow-white civet was sent to the south. The civet cat has rabbit eyes and a pig nose, which is very funny."

After hearing this, Baoyu and Xiangyun hurriedly said, "Second brother Lian, let's go", and then went out in a hurry.

Tanchun originally wanted to hear the account here, but it was not easy to stay at this time. He hurriedly paid homage to Jia Lian, and hurried back to the backyard with Baoyu and Xiangyun. Go, and then saw a small white beast in a cage, because the white beast was a bit fierce when it first came, Jia Mu didn't allow them to approach, and could only watch from a distance.

After wandering here for half a day, it was not until dusk that Yingchun came back leading Siqi and Hongyu with a smile.

After sitting down, Yingchun smiled and said, "At first, I only thought I could handle my needle and thread, but after seeing the other sisters, I was so ashamed that I wanted to crawl into the cracks in the ground." At the embroidery competition, she was shown the exquisite and delicate handkerchiefs, sachets and other embroideries that others had given her to Jiamu and others.

Baoyu and Xiangyun put their minds on the joke, glanced at it for a while, and they didn't bother to praise the good or bad of the things.

"Okay, okay, what's good for your elder sister to give away?" Mother Jia didn't care to point out Yingchun's needlework, so she said, "You're tired too, so go change your clothes and eat again. There are fresh seafood today." eat."

Yingchun hastily resigned from Jia Mu, and when she went out, she saw that Tanchun also followed her out. After a smile, she led her to the backyard, and went into the Nuan Pavilion to change clothes.

Tanchun sat by the bed and looked at the pack of handkerchiefs and sachets. Seeing that everyone had put in a lot of hard work, he said, "Sister Ying, I wrote a post later, just send it to you. You Take it for me, don’t let other people see it and just say it’s delivered to Xu’s house for me, if Sister Qingheng comes to invite you again, just say you’re going to Xu’s house to play, don’t mention the Embroidery Fair.”

Yingchun poked her head out from the bead curtain of the Nuan Pavilion, and asked in bewilderment, "Why do you say that?"

Tanchun smiled wryly and said: "Why bother? You are the only one left and right. When you go out, people only say that you are the eldest girl of Rongguo Mansion, but I am different. Why bother to go and embarrass sister Qingheng? If you don't write, you will be in Yuanchun. My sister can't justify it."

Yingchun came out wearing a homely pink dress, and asked Xiuju to tie a light yellow silk belt for her, and said in a very hurtful way: "Don't worry, Sister Qingheng said, seeing that every family is busy during the Chinese New Year, this competition will be under It will be a year later. She persuaded me to be the host next year, and I have already agreed, and invited those sisters to come.”

Tan Chun's heart warmed up. With her status as a concubine, if she wanted to naturally enter Xu Qingheng's group of women, the only way was to be the host. How could the host's girl not come to help entertain others? This is because she thought about her before, and said gratefully: "I only think of my big sister as angry that I will send someone to pick me up in the next meeting and refuse to come. I complain behind my back that I don't know what is good and bad. I don't want my big sister to treat me like this." .” Although her eyes were sour, she was not someone who was easily sad, so she blinked her eyes and forced a smile.

Sitting on the bed together, Yingchun and Tanchun saw that she was only two months older than Xiangyun, and now that Xiangyun was still innocent and innocent under the protection of Jia Mu, but she had already endured it so much, holding her hand and saying: "How could I not?" I know you are also in trouble, I am a few years older than you, and I have experienced what you have experienced. Be happy and act neither humble nor overbearing, so that your master and wife will be happy."

Tanchun nodded repeatedly.

"If there is anything missing in the future, just come and tell me. I can't help you with big things, but I can still do with small things."

"...So, second brother Lian, he will..."

When Yingchun heard Tanchun mention Jia Lian, she immediately said proudly: "Brother is not a person who cares about these trivial matters. I will give you some of my things. If you don't make it public, he will turn a blind eye. It's just for fear If you cause disputes, and ask the second master and second wife to bring up the matter of paying the dowry for elder sister Yuan, then you have to touch it quietly."

Hearing this, Tanchun immediately made up his mind not to ask Yingchun as a last resort, otherwise Aunt Zhao would find out, and Aunt Zhao would definitely use her excuses to come to ask for things from Yingchun every now and then. Her love, but because of the mention of Yuanchun, she said softly: "My aunt said that her brother and daughter-in-law saw our wife secretly carrying things to pawn. It is said that many matchmakers were invited to Chen's house. The elder sister's marriage is likely to be settled. .”

Before Yingchun could make a sound, there were two coughs from Jiaoyin's mother in the outer suite, and Yingchun hurriedly said: "This is not what we should say, let's go, go to the ancestor's place for dinner."

Tanchun quickly complied, seeing that Yingchun's heart was innocent, he let go of the stone in his heart for a moment, and followed her briskly.