The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day Wang Xifeng got up early, picked out a peach red flower-sprinkled wind-fur double-breasted narrow jacket, and was wearing a fiery red phoenix-patterned satin skirt. She was sitting in front of the dressing table and drawing her eyebrows in the mirror. Pan Hou put on a face and wanted to draw her eyebrows, and said angrily: "If you have time to mess around with me, why don't you talk to Mom first, remind Mom once, and tell her not to forget what I said when I gave the bride price."

These words are naturally the words of the steward Wang Xifeng.

Xue Pan immediately said: "This is a matter of course, how could Mom forget it?" Even so, but seeing Wang Xifeng being coquettish and charming, how dare she go against her intentions, and immediately walked proudly towards Aunt Xue's room to go.

Aunt Xue brought Xue Baochai to live in the Xikuo courtyard. The north wind was still howling endlessly at this moment, and Xue Pan's pace did not feel much faster. When he reached Aunt Xue's door, he opened the curtain and went in. He saw Aunt Xue was also in the west. In the room, she was doing her makeup on the dressing table, but she didn't see Xue Baochai, so she asked in bewilderment, "Your sister hasn't woken up yet?"

"She caught a cold last night, I told her to sleep a little longer." Aunt Xue was pinning a green silk flower on her head, seeing Xue Pan's helpful help, she let him clumsily give her the hairpin, teasingly said : "It's only after you've married a daughter-in-law that you know how to love others. If you don't come here with your daughter-in-law, why do you come here first?"

Xue Pan carefully arranged flowers for Aunt Xue's hairpin, and said with a smile: "Mom, do you still remember what you promised to your eldest sister when you hired me?"

Aunt Xue was startled, put her hands on her temples, and said with a smile, "Where did you start talking about?"

Xue Pan hurriedly laughed and said, "My son has figured it out now, and he must manage the shop honestly. The elder sister has many ideas, and the son wants to ask her to be a consultant. We are two cobblers, and we will ask mother if we have something to do. Zhuge, mother See if it works?"

Aunt Xue chanted Amitabha Buddha gratefully, and said, "It's amazing, my son is finally sensible." Thinking about how many big shopkeepers who have served Xue's family all their lives stared at her, she guessed that the young couple There couldn't be any big problems, so she agreed, and just as she was talking, she saw Wang Xifeng coming in gracefully. After Wang Xifeng greeted her, Aunt Xue sat on the stool and took Wang Xifeng's hand and said earnestly: : "Pan'er, this bastard, is entrusted to you. If there is something wrong with him, just come and tell me."

Wang Xifeng said with a smile: "Mom taught me to take advantage of such a good person. If I complain to Mom behind his back, wouldn't it be good to be good?"

Aunt Xue listened to these words, and Xue Pan was also happy to hear that, but she didn't dare to do anything in front of Aunt Xue, she could only wink at Wang Xifeng.

"Mom, the old lady of Rongguo Mansion treats me well. I have discussed with the uncle, and I will go to Rongguo Mansion to kowtow to the old lady tomorrow." Wang Xifeng said again.

Aunt Xue hesitated and said, "Have you sent a post?"

Wang Xifeng hurriedly said: "We don't need postings, we just come to the door with two sedan chairs unobtrusively, and it can be regarded as a few homely conversations with the old lady."

Aunt Xue hesitated at first, and then thought that Wang Ziteng and Wang Zisheng have gone to Guangxi anyway, so what are you afraid of?So he nodded, and taught Xue Pan again: "Seeing your second brother Lian, learn more from him."

"Hey." Xue Pan hurriedly agreed, and when Wang Xifeng gave him a wink, he immediately said, "Mom, I'll go to the outer study to check the accounts, and ask my eldest sister to accompany you to eat and talk." After finishing speaking, he really went to the outer study .

Aunt Xue saw that the prodigal son Xue Pan had turned his head back, but she didn't know that the young couple had plotted against their mother and daughter. She held Wang Xifeng's hand and said gratefully: "If I had known that he would do this when you came in, I would have accepted you two years earlier." Come in." Not willing to ask Wang Xifeng to set the rules, he took her to eat and do sewing together.

Early the next morning, Wang Xifeng sat in a very clean sedan chair, and Xue Pan led the way to Rongguo Mansion.

In the sedan chair, Wang Xifeng squinted her eyes, thinking about what to say when she saw Jia's mother; and also thinking about what to say when talking about business with Jia Lian.

On Ningrong Avenue, when I heard Xue Pan coughing outside, Wang Xifeng raised her finger with two ruby ​​rings to push aside a corner of the origami Begonia green cloth curtain, saw Jia Zhen in front of the Ningguo Mansion, as if avoiding suspicion I wondered, shouldn't Jia Zhen stand in front of the door and mock them?Why didn't they ashamed Jia Zhen for coming to Rongguo Mansion with the prince behind their backs, and wanted to avoid suspicion first?

"It must be that something in their family has fallen into the hands of the second brother Lian, and the second brother Lian must have a way." Xue Pan said to You Rong with his head held high.

Sitting in the sedan chair, Wang Xifeng smiled, and when he arrived at the gate of Rongguo Mansion, he saw several sedan chairs going in ahead of him, and wondered if they came at the wrong time today?Even though I thought so, since I was in front of the door, I could only go in.

After entering the door and reaching the hanging flower gate in front of Jiamu's courtyard, Xue Pan personally helped Wang Xifeng get out of the sedan chair. As soon as he got out of the sedan chair, he saw two daughters-in-law coming out of Jiamu's courtyard.

The daughter-in-law said with a smile: "Today is really a good day. Relatives from far and near have all come to the door." As she spoke, she went inward to meet Xue Pan and Wang Xifeng.

Wang Xifeng recognized that the speaking daughter-in-law belonged to Lin Zhixiao's family, so she smiled and said, "We are close, and which one is far away?"

"A aunt from Suzhou brought a girl here today." Lin Zhixiao's family said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Xue Pan immediately asked again, "Is Lian's second brother also in the old lady's room?"

"The elder master and the second master are also here. It's windy here. Master Xue and grandma Xue, come in quickly." Although they were uninvited guests, because of the friendship between Xue Pan and Jia Lian, Lin Zhixiao's family still respectfully invited the newlyweds to enter. .

Wang Xifeng heard that all Jia's family members were there, but she was not stage frightened either. When she followed Xue Pan inward along the Chaoshou verandah, after the glass and jade curtains were closed in front of Jiamu's door, she went in with a smile on her face. In the bright room, sure enough, Jia She and Jia Zheng, two bearded masters, were sitting on the left hand side of Jia's mother talking to a middle-aged lady.

The lady had delicate features and was dressed in plain but not cold water-green clothes. Although she was a little older, she was gentle and gentle, just like a woman born and raised in Suzhou.

Wang Xifeng guessed that it was Jia Min at the first sight, and she and Xue Pan first kowtowed to Jia Mu who was sitting on the front couch, and then kowtowed to Jia Amnesty and Jia Zheng on the left, and Jia Min on the right. Even Jia Zhu, Jia Lian, Baoyu, and Jia Huan standing beside Jia Zheng's chair, and Li Wan, Lin Daiyu, Yingchun, Xiangyun, and Tanchun standing beside Jia Min have met each other one by one.

Wang Xifeng secretly went to see Lin Daiyu, who was as old as Tanchun but weaker, secretly wondered why Mrs. Wang was not there, so she heard Jia Mu say: "Feng girl, come to me quickly."

Wang Xifeng hurriedly walked over with lotus steps, and when she arrived in front of Jia Mu, her face was slightly flushed and her eyes were filled with tears.

Jia's mother had already cried once when she saw Jia Min and Daiyu, but now she couldn't help shedding a few more tears, choked up and said, "I know you are a good boy. If Pan'er bullies you in the future, my name is Lian." Let me teach him for you."

Xue Pan hurriedly laughed and said: "The old ancestor is right, as long as she doesn't bully me, how dare I bully her?"

Wang Xifeng couldn't help but spit.

Jia Mu saw that her marriage looked very successful in front of her eyes, and she was also happy in her heart. She just kept Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhu, Jia Lian, and Xue Pan here, so that it was not convenient for her to reminisce about the old days with Jia Min and Daiyu, so she told Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhu, Jia Lian and Xue Pan. Zheng said: "You take Zhu'er, Lian'er and Pan'er out."

Jia Amnesty refused to leave. When Jia Min was at home in the past, one Jia Zheng and one Jia Min ran him like he was not born to Jia's mother. How could he give up showing Jia's mother's love for him in front of Jia Min now? Opportunity?This was the time for him to "take revenge", so he gasped intentionally, and didn't answer in a daze.

Jia Zheng patted Jia She's chest and back with a sinking face, and said to Jia's mother: "Brother hasn't seen my sister for many years, and I want to say a few words to my sister."

Seeing Jia She's such a scoundrel, Jia's mother was bored and couldn't speak coldly to him, so she hurriedly smiled lovingly: "Then stay and talk. Feng girl, you and your sister-in-law bring Yingchun, Tanchun, Xiangyun, Baoyu, and Huan'er go to play in the maid's room. Lian'er and Zhu'er take Pan'er to talk in Jinghuanzhai."

Jia Min looked at Jia Amnesty forcing Jia Zheng and his brothers to respect him because of his illness. At first he felt funny, but then he thought that Jia's mother must be in a difficult situation, so he couldn't laugh, and said to Daiyu: "Follow you Sister-in-law, Sister Feng, go."

Daiyu agreed, and when Tanchun and Xiangyun came to hold her hand, she followed them.

Jia Lian watched over and over again, but he didn't see the delicate flowers shining in the water and the weak willows supporting the wind from the immature Daiyu. It was just that she was a little tired after entering the capital. He went to Jinghuanzhai, and then entered the front hall of Jinghuanzhai to sit down, and then he heard Quan Fu say, "Grandma Xue is here."

Xue Pan didn't care much about Wang Xifeng's coming, but Chuchu was newlyweds, fearing that she would get tired after walking a few steps, so he went out of the hall to meet her first.

Jia Zhu smiled at Jia Lian, since Wang Xifeng didn't pay much attention to the defense of men and women, and his cousins ​​and sisters often played together when they were young, so she didn't avoid it either.

Jia Lian paid attention to see Grandma Xue's ostentation, and saw that Xue Pan went out to greet her, and Ping'er and An'er, two beautiful maidservants of similar appearance, came in to lay out the hand stove and foot stove and bedding.

Because they are cousins, Jia Zhu and Jia Lian did not get up when Xue Pan and Wang Xifeng came in.

"Grandma Xue is good." Jia Zhu and Jia Lian said with a smile.

"Hello Uncle Jia, Second Master Jia, I wish Uncle Jia a fortune and a promotion." Wang Xifeng came in quickly and greeted him again, then sat down on an embroidered pier next to a guqin, and said to Xue Pan: "The uncle sits too."

"Hey." Xue Pan kept his eyes on Wang Xifeng's body, rather belittled Wang Xifeng, fearing that Jia Lian was born well, he moved a stool and sat down next to Wang Xifeng.

With a sound of "Puff", Jia Zhu coughed and chuckled, according to the rules of marrying and obeying husbands, Xue Pan was supposed to sit down before ordering Wang Xifeng to sit down, but seeing the two of them turned the rules upside down, However, Xue Pan was stunned by the beauty and didn't notice that he had broken the rules.

"Grandma Xue is here, what advice do you have?" Uninvited guests come to the door, there must be something.Jia Lian watched as Wang Xifeng drove and sat down in front of him and Jia Zhu, wondering if Wang Xifeng was worried about Xue Pan and came to discuss business with him in person.

"Second Brother Lian, don't make jokes about your grandma. We merchants can't bear such flattery from Second Brother Lian." Wang Xifeng was cautious, seeing that Jia Lian didn't care about the earlier incident, she also made a joke, and then said with a smile: " Today, I’m here mainly to talk about two things, one is on the ground and the other is on the water.”

"What's on the ground?" Xue Pan couldn't figure it out, and when Wang Xifeng looked at him sideways, his eyes seemed to be full of affection, and he stopped honestly, thinking that Wang Xifeng was smarter than him, so he told her to say, if If there is something wrong, he will just correct it.

"Grandma drinks tea, uncle drinks tea." Quan Fu intentionally stepped on Xue Pan's foot, first served Wang Xifeng a cup of tea, and then served tea to Xue Pan. Wang Xifeng stared sharply, and immediately lost the courage to tease Xue Pan, and hurriedly retreated.

"The ones on the ground are the business on the ground. Your family has relatives in the south, and it is the governor of Liangjiang and the governor of Jiangsu. Jiangsu can be said to be the territory of your relatives. So, we are thinking about moving the shop from Jinling to Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Suzhou. Go, and please give me a hand." Wang Xifeng said with a smile.

"Yes, let me make it easier." Xue Pan echoed.

Since Jia Lian wanted to be an official, he naturally couldn't engage in business and compete for profits with the people. Therefore, it was best to do business through the Xue family, so he smiled and said: "Of course, before the elder sister came, I I was about to tell Pan'er that I had already obtained Weiyang and other salt from the Jiangsu area from the Ministry of Households for him."

Xue Pan was drinking tea, when he suddenly heard the good news, he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of tea, hurriedly wiped his mouth with his sleeve, coughed and went to see Jia Lian.

Wang Xifeng was also taken aback, and hurriedly asked: "How much is it?" The Xue family has been sheltered by the Wang family for many years, and they have never seen the Wang family give the Xue family such a big advantage.

"The four volumes total 16 catties." Jia Lian put one hand on the small table and played with the psychic jade with the other.

Although Jia Zhu was astonished, he was not so much, but Wang Xifeng and Xue Pan were overjoyed when they heard it.

Usually, to get salt, you need to send a lot of money to the officials, but now you can get it easily.

Wang Xifeng smiled, but she still didn't think that Jia Lian went to ask for a salt for the Xue family just because of her friendship with Xue Pan, so she laughed and said, "I don't know how much money the second brother spent for the salt? Just tell you Brother Pan will make up for the second brother."

Wealth can pass through the mind, Jia Zhu listened silently to Wang Xifeng who naturally changed his name to Second Brother, and when Quanxi handed over the hand stove, he hugged the enamel and mother-of-pearl hand stove in his arms to warm it.

"It didn't cost anything," it was simply that he paid back the money from the household department, and the emperor secretly rewarded him. Jia Lian stepped on the foot stove, "it's just that there are a few boys in the family who have nothing to do, and they are not suitable for studying and learning. Please ask Pan'er and eldest sister to give them a bite of food, and take them to Jiangsu for business."

"It's easy to say, and it's okay to ask them to be shopkeepers." Xue Panchou calculated how much money he could earn from 16 catties of Yanyin, and immediately agreed readily.

Wang Xifeng was more transparent than Xue Pan, so she hurriedly smiled and said, "What the uncle said are all the brothers and nephews of the Jia family. How ugly is it to ask someone to be a shopkeeper and spread the word? According to me, the second brother gave us the salt. We can’t take the second brother for nothing, even if the second brother gets six points, we get four points. Ask those brothers and nephews to go to Jiangsu with the people in our shop to help the second brother do business.”

It was for nothing, Xue Pan didn't realize that there was anything wrong with Wang Xifeng's words, so he nodded in agreement.

Jia Lian didn't refuse, just said: "Since the eldest sister said so, then I would rather be respectful than obedient."

Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "Of course." Looking at Jia Lian again, I can't help but sigh that Jia Lian is more capable than Xue Pan, and he can get 16 catties of salt; but if he is not so capable, he would have married her by now. In the past two years, the second uncle of the Xue family did not dare to mess around Going out to sea, after all, bandits are rampant, there is no need to take the lives of the servants of the family, I heard that the second brother is discussing with the uncle about going to sea, what should the second master do?"

Jia Zhu looked at Wang Xifeng in surprise, and thought that Wang Xifeng was too restless to enter the door, and all the business on the waterway was in her hands.

"You guys go out on the boat and get the guys, and I get the bodyguards to pay five cents of the capital. The imported things you buy are sold in Xue's name, and you earn fifty-five cents of the silver." Jia Lian said.

Xue Pan wondered, "Second brother Lian has guards who can defeat bandits?"

"This is my business. I have a big family to support, so I have to rack my brains on how to make a fortune." Jia Lian chuckled.

Wang Xifeng had never done business before, and now she couldn't figure out whether Jia Lian's division of accounts was fair or not, so she went to see Xue Pan, and saw that Xue Pan nodded in a big way, so she also smiled and said: "Second brother is really happy, since That's it, it's settled."

"Wait a minute, I have a rule." Jia Lian picked up the tea bowl at hand, took a sip of the tea, saw Xue Pan and his wife looking at him, and said, "I will support you behind the scenes when something happens, and I won't do it for the capital. Abandon you in disregard. Just don't shake me out in front of people, and those who take me will only say that I begged you to take me in and give me food."

Xue Pan and Wang Xifeng were puzzled, and for a moment they only thought that Jia Lian was afraid that the prince would be suspicious, so they agreed.

"Quanfu go and get the Yanyin out," Jia Lian said.

Quan Fu, who was waiting on the side, immediately went to the west room of the back room to get salt.

When Yanyin was brought over, Xue Pan immediately asked Ping'er to help put it away. The couple waited anxiously to go home and tell Aunt Xue about the good news about Yanyin, and they also left in a hurry.

After Xue Pan and his wife had left, Jia Zhu immediately asked, "Where did you get the guards from?"

"The old masters of Ningrong and Rongfu left a lot of good things when they fought in the past. With that thing, why can't they get guards?" Jia Lian laughed.

"But that thing can't be taken out of the country."

"Can't take the whole area out, disassemble it, put a few fragmented parts on each of several ships, and then assemble it at sea?"

"Is this also in accordance with the law?" Seeing Jia Lian nodding, Jia Zhu sneered and said, "This is another way you came up with to take advantage of the loopholes. But I still think that you and Sister Feng are going to die forever, and you can still be a guest and a host. joyous."

"It's a fool's job to stay away from each other until death. As a human being, you must not be too decisive." Jia Lian shook her head and chuckled.