The Concubine of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

After returning to the Lin Mansion, Lin Jue went to Daiyu's yard first.Daiyu found her teeth to pick on the girl today, and asked him to have a look together when she came back.When they came, they only brought their close-fitting maids with them, the rest of the sprinkling and sweeping, now these girls are the first to support them, it is difficult for them.

Besides, Nanny Fang's nephew, Fang Nian'an, is now eight years old. Lin Jue matched him with two servant girls last year, and Daiyu wanted to match him with a few more girls this time.After all, when it comes to taking care of people, women are more careful.

Their mansion is currently short of manpower, so it is difficult to buy that kind of seven or eight-year-old girl, and it will take another two years to come out to serve people.Daiyu gritted her teeth and picked out some of innocent backgrounds, and the maids released from the compound came over to watch, planning to pick a few people to use first.

When Lin Jue came over, the toothmaid was leading a few girls in. When she met Lin Jue, Feng Ju, who led them into the mansion, hurriedly saluted, "Greetings, sir." Follow the salute.Lin Jue glanced at the crowd, nodded slightly, and strode into Daiyu's courtyard.

In fact, when it comes to picking maids, it is best to choose girls who are five years old and less than eight years old, and their temperament has not yet been developed, so it is easy to be raped.When he is ten years old, he will be able to serve his master.

Now the situation is special, if you choose the maids released by these big families, you can start working directly, and after three to five years when they get married, the new little maids will be able to come out to serve others.However, most of the maids from rich families were sold after making mistakes in the mansion, and only a few poor people were released from the mansion, but were sold a second time by their family members.

The maid that the Lin family wanted to buy was the second type, one who had no faults in herself but was sold out by her family again.Daiyu has seen several batches of maidservants in the past few days, and only picked three or five, which is not enough, so she plans to watch another batch today.If you can't find anyone, you have no choice but to give up.This matter was originally left to the nanny in charge, but Nanny Fang wanted to exercise Daiyu's eyesight, so she asked her to watch it together.

"Brother, are you back?" Daiyu was sitting in the room talking to Nanny Fang, when she saw Lin Jue, she wanted to come out.

"Sister, please sit down, and Nanny Fang will sit too." Lin Jue sat on the main seat, motioning for both of them to sit down, and Nanny Fang sat sideways after saluting.

The three of them sat down, and Fengju who was waiting at the door came in to announce. Daiyu glanced at Lin Jue, seeing him nodding his head slightly, she nodded and said, "Let them in."

The maid tucked her hands in her sleeves, first saluted the three present, and then called the maids waiting outside to come in.

"Hello sir, hello young lady. The old man brought them here. They are all girls from innocent families chosen according to the wishes of the eldest lady. They are quick in their hands." The old woman thought that she often went in and out of the various mansions. Although she was a little scared, she still Not afraid of the field.

Daiyu nodded in satisfaction, looked at the girls a few times, and the matchmaker hurriedly said, "Everyone raise their heads and ask the eldest girl to have a look."

The seven or eight maids standing in a row below all raised their heads, but their eyes were still lowered, but they all understood the rules quite a bit. Daiyu and Nanny Fang looked at each other, expressing their satisfaction.Mother Fang said softly: "Our Lin family is going to pick rough envoy maids. If any of you have been big girls and think you can't do rough work, you can take a step back."

After a while of silence, no one backed away, Fang Nanny became more and more satisfied.Anyone who has been a girl in a big family will inevitably have a higher spirit.Their Lin family is really not a big family in this big capital. If the maids are high-minded and don't know how to keep their duties, they are easy to give birth to ulterior motives. Such maids, their Lin family can't keep them.Now the faces of these girls have not changed at all when they heard the words just now, and they don't seem to be so restless.

Daiyu glanced at Nanny Fang, saw her nodding, and then glanced at Lin Jue. Lin Jue never cared about such things, and only let Daiyu make up her mind.People have read a few batches, but didn't buy a few. They all looked good, so Daiyu made the decision to keep them all.

The maids were very happy when they heard the words, and hurriedly knelt on the ground and said in unison: "My servants have seen the uncle and the eldest lady, and the uncle and the eldest lady are blessed."

The toothmaid was also very happy, took the money and left, smiling so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, she said bluntly that the Lin family is a rare and merciful family.If you say that these serious dental workers are willing to sell girls to good people, and really sell them to such dirty places, not to mention the amount of money, it is really detrimental to Yin morality.

After the matchmaker left, Daiyu asked Fengju to lead her to freshen up after asking about the condition of the maids.Several maids followed Feng Ju back out, but saw a maid in gray coarse clothes suddenly kneeling on the ground behind, "Miss, I have something to say."

Mother Fang frowned when she saw this, and signaled Fengju to take the others away first.

This maid still knew a little bit of manners, and waited until there was no more maid left in the room, then she cried: "Miss Lin, don't you recognize slaves?"

Daiyu saw that she looked familiar, but she didn't recognize the name when she heard it. She had a very good memory and met many servants when she passed by. Thinking that there was no hindrance if they were similar, she decided not to take it. one thing.Now listening to her call, I feel more and more that this person should be a familiar person, and if I look closely, it becomes more and more familiar.

Do you know who she is?It was Qingwen, the first-class maid in Baoyu's house.

"Qingwen?" Daiyu recognized the person. Although she couldn't believe it, she still asked, "Aren't you the first-class maid in Baoyu's house? Why are you here?"

Qingwen held back her crying and said, "Miss Lin, you are a slave." But she didn't answer Daiyu's question.

Daiyu was about to ask, when Lin Jue said, "Are you Qingwen?"

Lin Jue looked at her carefully, and saw that although she and Daiyu were three points similar, their expressions and temperament were completely different.He remembered that in the original book, it was precisely because of her resemblance to Daiyu that Mrs. Wang made an excuse to drive Qingwen out of Jia's mansion, and died of illness shortly after leaving Jia's mansion.

Lin Jue has always been suspicious, and loves to think too much about everything, especially when she sees Qingwen crying like a pear blossom with rain, she has a bit of Daiyu's shadow, and she feels bored for no reason.Seeing that Lin Jue's face was not good, Nanny Fang glanced at Daiyu who had a sad face, and sighed secretly, her eldest girl was too kind.

"Miss Qingwen, you don't have to cry. Both my uncle and the girl are merciful people. You and the girl are old acquaintances. If you have any requests, just talk easily." Since you are from Jia's house, it's no wonder that the uncle looked at you I'm upset.

Qingwen knew how powerful this nanny was. People said that on the day Miss Lin came back, Baoyu went to visit Miss Lin at night, but she was kicked out by this nanny.Qingwen didn't dare to cry anymore, sobbed twice and said, "Qingwen is grateful to Miss Lin for taking her in, and dare not make any more demands, but it's just that she hasn't seen her for a long time, and seeing her now, I'm very happy."

Daiyu sighed, "You can't take it in. Since you left the Jia's mansion, you happened to sell yourself to my Lin's mansion. It's also the fate between you and me. You were a first-class maid in the grandfather's mansion, and I also I can't wrong you, so I will take the title of a big maid first, and stay with me here. Brother, how do you think?"

Lin Jue would never object to Daiyu's decision on the spot, which would embarrass her.

Seeing Uncle Lin's approval, Qingwen hurriedly kowtowed to express her gratitude, "Slave maid, thank you for your pity, and thank you for your kindness."

Nanny Fang then called Le Yao to come in and took Qingwen down to wash up first, then she also bowed and left, leaving room for the siblings to talk.

"My sister knew this Qingwen when she was in Jia's mansion?" Although in the original book, Qingwen sent a secret letter to Bao Dai and her, that happened after the two fell in love. Now Daiyu doesn't live in Jia's mansion. Ying didn't have much friendship with this Qingwen.

"I'm not very familiar with it, because Qingwen is Baoyu's first-class maid, so she is more familiar with others. Now that she has fallen into such a state, I feel sorry for her." Daiyu sighed again as she said. tone.

Lin Jue said with a smile: "Sister, you don't need to be sad, but you are just a slave. Since you have done your best, you have a place for her, so you should have no regrets. If my sister didn't buy her today, maybe she will Where did it go? It’s fine if it’s a good family, but it’s really pitiful if it really enters such a dirty place.”

Daiyu laughed and said, "What brother said is very true, but I was thinking about it."

"However, it's not good for this person to stay in our house." Lin Jue wondered, "It's fine if it's someone else's house, but she was released by her grandfather's house and served her cousin before. Tell grandma."

After thinking for a while, Daiyu understood Lin Jue's meaning, "What brother said was very true. It happened that my grandmother posted a post the day before yesterday saying that the Double Ninth Festival was approaching and wanted me to stay there for a few days, so I took Qingwen there. Let's see what grandma means."

"It's okay to stay for two days in the past, but..."

Seeing Lin Jue's embarrassment, Daiyu asked suspiciously, "Just what? Brother, it's okay to say."

Lin Jue smiled, "It's nothing. Today I went to Beijing Prince's Mansion to meet Baoyu's cousin. He wanted to give his younger sister a string of Buddhist beads given by King Beijing, but I refused."

Daiyu turned pale with anger when she heard the words, "You can also give me something from a stinky man. I thought Baoyu was a good person, but now she can do such a thing. It seems that the second uncle really hit him It hit me lightly."

"After all, he is a relative, so it's hard to say anything about him. It's just that he has such a bad reputation for my sister. It's better for my sister to stay away from him." Lin Jue didn't want her sister to live in Jia's mansion for a few days, and then have a baby with Jia Shitou. What kind of feelings come.

"I don't need my elder brother to tell me. If my grandparents weren't there, I wouldn't even set foot in Jia's house," Daiyu said angrily.

Lin Jue persuaded with a smile, "Little sister, don't get angry. As long as our grandmother is alive, we will be filial. If my sister doesn't want to go, then we don't go. We are not homeless. Who dares to show embarrassment to my sister? "

Daiyu laughed and said, "What brother said is very true."

"My sister will come back after staying for three to five days. On the Double Ninth Festival, I will take you to Taici Temple to enjoy the chrysanthemums."

Daiyu was really happier when she heard the words, she and Lin Jue counted down the customs of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival that she knew, looking quite expectant.Lin Jue smiled and listened to what she said one by one, nodding from time to time in agreement.

A day later, Daiyu packed up and packed another carload of Chongyang festival gifts, and took Qingwen to Jia's mansion.