Snow Goose in the Red Chamber

What to replace. "

The prince smiled, raised his hand and touched the man's face: "Take me instead, what do you think?"

The man immediately softened half of his body, and wanted to touch the prince's hand, but was pulled away vigorously by the people behind him.

The guard was dripping with cold sweat, bowed his body and lowered his head. He opened his mouth a few times and didn't know how to address him. He said that the prince was dead. Go! Don't want anything!"

The man was upset: "Brother, what are you doing!"

His younger brother gave him a hard look: "Shut up! I'll take care of this!"

The prince turned around and left leisurely, Xueyan dragged Baoyu who hadn't reacted yet, and Qingwen who was crying and followed out.

Can't complain that the Holy One doesn't like this prince, this is the only thought in Xue Yan's mind.

After Qingwen came back, she hid in the house and refused to come out. She was still dressed as a woman, but she was doing embroidery work desperately for Su Ping to sell.

Xueyan was afraid that she would spoil her eyes, so she snatched the needle and thread as soon as it got dark and sent her to help Ping'er take care of the children.Tanchun was so busy taking care of Mrs. Wang that she was almost exhausted, and Aunt Zhao was so distressed to death.Xichun had already clamored to become a monk once, but after being stopped by Youshi, she changed into commoner clothes and began to recite Buddhist scriptures, eating only vegetables and tofu every day.

The manpower in the mansion is tense, but there is nowhere to place them if they want to buy new ones.Su Ping went to the street and hired two women who cook. They came three times a day, and Xueyan helped them.Two rough envoys were hired to clean the yard every two days.

It was another spring rain, and Jia's mother fell ill due to some wind.Mrs. Xing refused to take over the housekeeper's errand, so she simply followed Mrs. Wang's example of pretending to be sick and pushed Daiyu out.

At this time, asking you to be the housekeeper is to ask you to pay for it. Daiyu only asked Su Ping to ask someone to move her dowry box and sell it all, and then gave it to Jiamu with the silver ticket.

Mother Jia burst into tears: "It's my grandmother who is sorry for you."

Daiyu said: "Yu'er never cared about the money, but just hoped that grandma would get well soon, this family cannot live without you."

Jia Mu nodded: "Yes, I, an old fellow, can't die yet. If I die, what will happen to my two Yu'er?"

Daiyu's drastic action made the others put aside their thoughts of asking for money from her for the time being, and only focused on how to ask for money from Jia Mu.

Jia Chi urged Mrs. Xing to ask for mandarin ducks, but Mrs. Xing would not go even if she was stupid. After being beaten and scolded by Jia Chi several times, she could only temporarily agree.

Now there are not enough servants in the mansion, Xueyan, Zijuan, and Qingwen often run from house to house, and they can't even take care of Daiyu and Baoyu's affairs.

Jiamu always boiled the medicine herself, and Xueyan was cooking the porridge for the evening, watching the fire while choosing vegetables.

Mrs. Xing came over awkwardly, the yard is so small, they have heard the noise of the big room for the past two days, Xueyan knew what Mrs. Xing was doing when she came, so she only looked sideways at the mandarin ducks.

Yuanyang said with a blank face: "Eldest lady, go out quickly, be careful of oily smoke staining your eyes."

Mrs. Xing said: "Just let Xueyan look at the medicine, come out, I have something to tell you."

Yuanyang gritted his teeth and followed out, and soon he heard commotion in the yard.

Xueyan poked her head to see that Jia Chi was standing at the door of her house and yelling at Yuanyang. Yuanyang pulled out the scissors out of nowhere and laid them across her neck. Mrs. Xing seemed to be fainted from fright and leaned against the tree without moving.

In the end, Mother Jia sent someone to call the mandarin ducks in. Mrs. Xing stood outside, not daring to go back to the house to touch Jia Chi's bad luck, so she ran to Sister Feng's room to see her grandchildren.

Chapter 33

Seeing that there is no hope of recovery for the Jia family, they can only bet all their hopes on the crown prince and Baoyu.

The crown prince acted erratically, the whole Jia family could only respectfully wait, but they didn't even dare to say a word.

Baoyu was much more pitiful. Jia Zheng escorted him to study all day long, waiting for the next year's scientific examination.Jia Lan also followed suit. Jia Zheng thought he was young at first, but seeing that his theories were well written, he settled down to guide him.

All the old and young in the Su family were bought back to the palace by Su An. Su Ping smiled bitterly and said: "Her previous shop lost a lot of money. Although it doesn't cost much to buy someone now, it has also provoked a lot of criticism."

"How could it be a loss? Doesn't it mean that the business is good?" Xueyan said.

"Business is good, but it's all on credit. If the account is not returned at the end of the year, the shop will have to be closed." Su Ping sighed, "She is too impatient, and she wants to open the shop before she can stand on her heels. The people in the palace Is it easy to get along with each other? Everyone sent people to the shop to ask for goods, and she couldn't open her mouth to ask for money. Now she begged the prince to buy a Zhuangzi, and everyone in our family was sent to the Zhuangzi I have gone, and I don’t know what her plans are.”

Xueyan said: "She has been in the mansion for several years, is there any news?"

Su Ping shook his head: "Even if there is, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse."

Jia Lian's injury was finally healed, but Sister Feng's savings were also almost exhausted.

Jia Lian's face was completely ruined, and he went in and out every day with his head covered.

The family has no income, so they can only sit and eat.We can't expect Jia Chi and Jia Zheng to go out to make money, Baoyu and Jialan want to study again, Jia Huan is useless, Tanchun has a heart, but she is a woman, so in the end Jia Lian can only take Su Ping out to buy and sell with Xue Pan all day long.

Jia Zheng sighed for a long time because of this, thinking that the princes and princes would degenerate like merchants.

Jia Chi didn't care, he just kept asking Jia Lian for money, and after being scolded by Jia's mother a few times, he took Qiu Yun to mess around in the house all day long. Now Mrs. Xing is with Sister Feng all day long, and she completely gives up on Jia Chi up.

"Girl?" Xueyan said softly.

Daiyu came back to her senses: "Why are you called a girl again?"

Xueyan covered her mouth and said: "Second Grandma, what is Second Mistress thinking, so preoccupied?"

Daiyu said: "Thinking that if I also do some embroidery work and sell it, I don't know how much I can sell it."

Xueyan said: "Second Mistress is tired of serving the old lady and the second wife all day long, how can she have time to do embroidery work?"

Daiyu was quiet for a while, and said: "I used to often think about what would happen to me if I married someone, but I never thought that it would be like this."

"Everything happened too fast and too suddenly, and the servants have only recently recovered." Xueyan rubbed Daiyu's shoulders, "The girl who attacked life just left."

Daiyu said lightly, "How is she?"

"I fell asleep after crying for a while. The child has been taken out and buried. My wife means don't tell the second master."

"If you don't tell, heh, won't you ask if you don't tell Baoyu?" Before she finished speaking, Daiyu sneered, "I forgot, how could Baoyu ask? He never cared about such things in his heart. A woman is pregnant. How would he know how many months it will be born?"

Xueyan said: "Miss, do you regret it?"

Daiyu looked at the flickering light of the fire, and said silently: "I didn't expect too much, so why regret it? I used to think that this life was like this, childhood sweetheart, and the years are quiet. Later, I found that it didn't seem to be as good as I thought, but, also There is no other choice."

Xueyan sighed, and said: "The elder just got angry again, and the second girl is already three months pregnant, the old lady and the wives are all happy for her, but the elder dislikes the second daughter." The girl has never sent money to support her mother's family, so she scolded the person who announced the good news."

Daiyu showed a hint of disdain, but she couldn't say anything: "How is Second Sister?"

"It's okay, her mother-in-law is the most polite one, as long as the second sister does not make mistakes, there is nothing wrong with it." Xueyan said, "Xiang Ling also has it, and Master Xue has already said that she will be righted when she gives birth to a son. .”

Daiyu rubbed her belly and smiled wryly: "The house is like this now, even if I want to have it, I dare not."

Xueyan squeezed Daiyu's sharp chin: "Girls should also secretly mend their bodies, not for the sake of conceiving a brother, but also for the sake of their own health, this bone will be poked out."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his voice and said: "Su Ping secretly told the servant girl twice that he wanted to buy a fish for the girl to make soup. Now the kitchen is already the servant's territory, and the servant secretly made it for the girl. No one will know."

Daiyu pinched her with a smile: "You are greedy, let Su Ping buy it, and make it for me tonight."

Xueyan responded with a smile, went out and saw Ping'er was carrying a package to go out, and asked, "Where is sister Ping'er going?"

Ping'er turned to see her, and said, "Qingwen and I have saved up these embroidery work, and we are going to sell it."

Xueyan said: "I'll go too, I'll be busy with dinner for another two hours, I have nothing to do now."

Ping'er poohed: "Just now Zicuckoo is going to be so busy, you are so idle."

"I'm in charge of the kitchen work. I've told you not to let Zijuan take care of Aunt Zhao's affairs, but she just doesn't listen." Xueyan muttered angrily.

Ping'er sighed: "She is afraid that she will be sold again, so much money was paid to buy her, not only the two wives, but even the master is a little unhappy."

Xueyan said coldly: "What if you are unhappy, Zijuan belongs to our girl, and her surname is Lin, not Jia."

Ping'er hurriedly covered her mouth: "Stay nonsense again, what girl, she is already the second grandmother of Bao, and she has married in, so what are you talking about!"

Xueyan said unhappily: "Since we are all a family, our grandma just ate an extra piece of meat and just made irresponsible remarks. Isn't it because we have no money?"

Ping'er dragged her out and said, "Okay, okay, come with me, I'm going to cause trouble for your grandma again in a while."

Xueyan groaned and followed Ping'er to an alley not far away, where rich families gathered, and Qingwen's embroidery was very popular with the maids and mother-in-law.

Ping'er brought Xueyan into the house through the back door, and took it with her in a small room. Several women came to look at the embroidery, discussing the color of the flower in one go.