Xichun, the first daughter of the Red Chamber

Jia Jing ordered someone to take care of Jia Zhen, and then continued to investigate the matter of Princess Huarong, and asked Jia Yi and the others to investigate Jia Zhen's manpower.

I thought Jia Zhen was really useless, but I didn't expect that even he was tricked.

At this time, Xichun came to find Jia Jing.

After Qin Keqing's funeral, the mansion didn't calm down, and Xichun didn't bother Jia Jing's work, and recuperated in the yard by herself. That night, when she heard that Jia Rong was behaving abnormally due to excessive grief, she thought about going to see it the next day.

It just so happened that Xichun was wearing a dress embroidered with rose flowers that day. When Ruhua saw her, she smiled and said to take out the purse that the color screen had given her to wear. Xichun agreed, but when Ruhua turned the purse out, she found the incense inside. The cakes are all broken.

Entering the painting, I was very annoyed and felt that I hadn’t kept the fragrant cakes well. Jiang’s mother laughed when she saw it, “It’s not easy to preserve such fragrant cakes, not to mention that these fragrant cakes are all made by the color screen, and the workmanship is not good enough.” Forget it, the fragrant cakes made in this way will spoil quickly."

Xichun asked Ruhua to take out those fragrant cakes and throw them away, "Check to see if the purse is dirty, if not, let's make some fragrant cakes and put them in."

Ruhua had no choice but to take out the fragrant cake in the purse, and when he got to the bottom, he found that there was a dried flower mixed in it.

I was surprised when I entered the painting, I just thought it was a color screen that was accidentally put in, I reached out to pick it up and took a good look, and found that the flower was rare and well preserved, so I put it aside, and carefully cleaned up the scattered powder in my purse.

When Qi Po came, she saw Ru Hua hurriedly asked a few words, and Ru Hua answered, and Qi Po saw the flowers standing alone beside her, "What is this for?"

Ruhua said: "It is estimated that the color screen was accidentally mixed in the purse. I found it interesting, so I let it go alone."

The seventh lady picked up the flower and looked at it carefully, "It's a camellia, but it looks a bit like an eighteen bachelor."

Seventh Po put down the flowers again and walked away slowly, but Jiang's mother on the side remembered these words.

Mother Jiang thought about it for a day, and finally went to see Guanshi Yu.

"I remember that the old lady of Rongguo Mansion once rewarded Lai with a pot of eighteen bachelors. Because of this, the Lai family loved camellias very much and planted many camellias in the residence of the mansion. In Rongguo Mansion, apart from the old lady's room, there are a few The potted camellias are only available at the Lai family, but I have been away from Rongguo Mansion for so many years, so I want to ask Yu to find out if there are any camellias planted elsewhere in the mansion."

Steward Yu nodded, "Now that the Rongguo Mansion is building gardens, the entry and exit of personnel is much more complicated. It is not difficult for people to go in and check. Mother Jiang just waits to hear the news."

Mother Jiang thanked Steward Yu and was about to say goodbye and leave, but Steward Yu asked Mother Jiang to wait a while, turned around and went out by herself, and after a while took a box in and handed it to Mother Jiang.

Guanshi Yu said: "This is a gift from the shop a few days ago. It's the best Dong'e Ejiao. They don't know that I don't have any female relatives in my family. It's useless if I take it away. I happened to meet Jiang's mother today, and Jiang's mother took it. It can be eaten or given away.”

Mama Jiang quickly declined, and Manager Yu said with a smile: "Mama Jiang is still being polite to me? Mama Jiang and I are also sharing weal and woe, but it's just a piece of donkey-hide gelatin. Why should we push it? Mama Jiang just keeps it."

After hearing this, Jiang's mother felt that there was nothing to refute, so she thanked the tape and took it away.

Jiang's mother gave the donkey-hide gelatin to Qipo, "Qipo has a look, who can eat and who can't in the yard, so I can send it away."

Qipo asked her to put down the donkey-hide gelatin, looked at it and said, "The best donkey-hide gelatin is rare, where did you get it?"

Jiang's mother then told about Guan Yu's affairs, only hiding Camellia.

The seventh woman glanced at Jiang's mother after listening, "Jiang's mother and Yu Guanshi have a good relationship."

Jiang's mother said: "That's right. After all, he was responsible for many things back then, and he has dealt with him a few times. He is a very good person."

Seeing that Madam Jiang looked normal, the seventh lady didn't ask any more questions, and pushed the donkey-hide gelatin to her again, "There is not much donkey-hide gelatin, you and the two mothers can eat it, you can save some for yourself, after all, this is specially given to you of."

Mother Jiang nodded and took Ejiao away.

The seventh woman watched Jiang's mother holding the donkey-hide gelatin firmly, and finally shook her head.

Individuals have their own destiny, so why should she intervene, just let nature take its course.

Manager Yu's actions were really fast, and he told Mother Jiang the results of the investigation within a few days.

"In recent years, in Rongguo Mansion, only the Lai family's yard has planted camellias, not even the old lady's yard. On weekdays, none of the girls and women love camellias."

Jiang's mother thanked Steward Yu, and told Xichun about the matter when she returned.

Xichun was puzzled, "What does Mom suspect?"

Jiang's mother said: "The county lord, do you still remember that Mrs. Wu in the garden wanted to send her little granddaughter to serve the county lord?"

Xichun nodded, "Remember, that child is not bad, but I already have enough people, so I didn't want her."

Mother Jiang said: "The daughter of Mrs. Wu married to Zhuangzi, and her husband is the son of Zhuangtou. At first, life was okay, but after the Zhuangtou changed, her daughter's life was not good, so she tried every means Bring the daughter's family into the mansion, and find jobs for them."

"At that time, Mrs. Wu often lamented that she shouldn't marry her daughter to Zhuangzi. It was also at that time that I realized that there was something wrong with the color screen marriage."

"Life in Zhuangzi is actually not very good, so almost all capable people will try their best to work in the mansion, but why do the color screen and Xiliu have to go back to Zhuangzi to suffer? If I remember correctly, Xiliu's parents are just The ordinary people in Zhuangzi sent him to the mansion as a charioteer and horse boy, and the family begged grandpa to sue grandma, and it took a lot of effort."

Xichun also felt a little strange, "What if Caiping wants to leave this sad place and Xiliu wants to go home to serve his parents?"

Mother Jiang sighed, "I know maybe I'm overthinking, but we've experienced a lot over the years, and most of them are related to the Rongguo Mansion. Check it out and feel at ease."

Jiang's mother's words reached Xichun's heart. After thinking about it, she went to Jia Jing and told the story.

Jia Jing nodded, "Mother Jiang is right. It is always right to be careful in everything. I don't want to interfere with the Zhuangzi of Rongguo Mansion. You can go to your second brother Lian and ask him to help with the investigation."

Xichun went to look for Jia Lian again, Jia Lian patted his chest and assured after hearing this, "Just go to Zhuangzi to find a few people to ask a few words, the fourth sister will go back and wait, at most three days, I will send you the news .”

But three days later, it was Jia Amnesty who came in person.

Jia Amnesty didn't see Xichun either, and went directly to Jia Jing with a heavy face, "Brother...you asked Lian'er to investigate this matter, and you really did it right."

Jia Jing became interested and asked Jia Amnesty to speak quickly.

Jia Amnesty hesitated and didn't speak, and waited until Jia Jing urged him again before he sighed, "After Lian'er found out that Cai Ping was in that village, he immediately sent someone to avoid people and called Cai Ping out for questioning. A person, but he looked as expected, and asked who he was."

"The person who asked the question said that he was sent by the county lord to ask her."

"Caiping refuses to believe it, saying that I have seen you before, and that you are from the Rongguo Mansion."

"That person is someone we placed in Rongguo Mansion. Seeing this, he knew that there was a problem with the color screen, so he showed her the dried camellia flower and said that he was really sent by the county lord, but color screen still didn't believe it, and said he would See the county magistrate in person, otherwise she will die and refuse to speak."

"The man had no choice, so he went back and told Lian'er, but Lian'er didn't tell Sister Mei, and went directly to ask Caiping if he believed him."

"Caiping is naturally willing to trust Lian'er, so she told the story."

It turned out that since Caiping was sent to do the cleaning, many people fell into trouble and ridiculed her, and even liked to do their own work for her. Those people were all huddled together, Caiping couldn't fight, so they had to swallow their anger and work hard.

One year during the Spring Festival, the maids who were in charge of cleaning the Lai family’s yard sneaked out to play, and threw the cleaning work to the color screen. The color screen had no choice but to clean it alone.

It was also exhausting for one person to work on several people's live color screens. Halfway through, he found an empty place to hide and rest, and finally fell asleep in a daze.

The color screen, woken by the conversation, was on the other side of the wall behind her.

"This Lai family is really blessed. Not to mention that the whole family was released into slavery, this little grandson actually went to school, won the exam, and became an official. This year, the old lady will come over for a meal. Have a meal."

"Oh, that's not true. It's said that serving the old lady in the mansion is a slave status, but who doesn't respect them more in the mansion, and those little masters should be nice when they see them. The Wujin mansion outside lives, the girl The children are waiting on you, and you can also be called Mrs. and Mrs."

"Ha——this person's life is really different. A few decades ago, the Lai family was not much different from ours. Now, why is there... and the East Mansion, who obviously lived with winks at our West Mansion not long ago. How long has it been..."

"That's right, how do you say that old saying? 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi."

Hearing the color screen, he already understood that it was two envious mothers-in-law complaining here.

Cai Ping stood up and was about to leave when she heard one of the women say: "However, the East Mansion won't be too majestic for a long time. Before long, it will be the same as before, obediently relying on our West Mansion."

"What should I say? Dongfu looks good now."

"Oh, you also said it, but it just looks good. The masters of the East Mansion, Mr. Jing's age, maybe one day...Master Zhen doesn't care about things, Grandma is useless, and Master Rong can only Knowing how to eat, drink, and have fun, Young Mistress Rong is quite capable, but she is also on the old lady's side, and Miss Si is now appointed as the county monarch, so it looks good in the future, but no matter how bad it is, she will belong to someone else in the future."

"...If you say that, it's true."

"But having said that, the Lai family really has a dark heart. I heard that they played a lot against Master Zhen and Dongfu. I didn't believe it at first..."

The other woman was taken aback, "Don't talk nonsense, you're going to die?!"

The woman before said disapprovingly: "I didn't talk nonsense. Last time his grandson had a banquet, Lai's daughter-in-law was drunk. I helped her go back to the house and heard what she said with my own ears. She also said that the East Mansion What's the matter, the Jiang family was so powerful back then, didn't they just disappear, fortunately they worked hard to raise a son, and he also raised him for our Xifu."

Jia Amnesty stopped talking at this moment, and looked at Jia Jing's expression, he saw that Jia Jing was sitting there without opening his mouth, looking at the sky outside the window with his head tilted slightly, his eyes were calm, like a lifeless sculpture .

After a while, Jia Jing said, "Go ahead."