Red Mansions Circle of Friends

Nan Sheng's first thought when he saw Xue Hanhan was money.The second thought is whose silver is it.It can be seen how popular Xue Pan's stinginess is.

In fact, I don't blame Nan Sheng for thinking this way, the main reason is that the ex-son Xue Pan finally found out that Aunt Xue had lent a lot of money to Mrs. Wang.Then this guy went to Mrs. Wang's door to ask for an IOU regardless.

It's not that this guy doesn't want money, but he really knows that the Rongguo Mansion doesn't have enough money to pay off the debt.So the only bit of economic thinking that was inherited in his blood finally moved at a critical moment.

My dear aunt, take out something as a mortgage, the money will not be paid in a while, and I can accommodate it for a while.Otherwise, if I cry, make trouble and hang myself, I'm afraid you won't be able to bear it.

Facing the unscrupulous Xue Pan, Mrs. Wang is really one head and two big.In the end, they had to take out the house deeds and land deeds of a Zhuangzi in the capital, plus Shuiyue Temple, as a mortgage.

And then, Jia's house is a place where the rocks have mouths. No one knows how much money Xue's family borrowed to build the Grand View Garden for Yuanchun.

Having said that, the main reason for such a thing to happen is that the Provincial Courtyard has been completed, but the interior decoration and soft decoration still need a lot of money.

From the New Year's Eve of the old year, after Sister Feng put aside her errands and devoted herself to raising the baby, all the affairs of the provincial hospital fell on Mrs. Wang.Mrs. Wang wants to have a reputation for being virtuous, and at the same time make the provincial house perfect. It's hard to choose, but which of the family servants headed by Lai's family in Rongguo Mansion is easy to get along with.

So Jia's family built a grand view garden, Lai's family built a small view garden, and others took a car to make a fortune. It can be seen that the money expenditure is a bottomless pit.

On the ninth day of September, Sister Feng, who had been confinement for two months, saw that the government's finances were so tight, she gave birth to a postpartum disorder, a deficiency of both energy and blood, and continued to live in the house. body.

At the beginning, Mrs. Wang still had the heart to teach Sister Feng a lesson.She thought that instigating the eldest wife Xing to give Jia Lian a concubine's room was already an embarrassment to Sister Feng, so she couldn't take care of Sister Feng when she got busy.

But the girl who was assigned to Sister Feng's children's room was dismissed shortly after Sister Qiao's birth on the grounds that she harbored evil intentions. Sister Feng actually started to actively prepare for pregnancy again after consulting the imperial doctor.

Ordinary families don't hire wet nurses, and women have to worry about housework, so they can't take care of their bodies with peace of mind.But for a wealthy family like Sister Feng, who puts aside all trivial matters, actively recuperates the body, and prepares to make persistent efforts to have another child, there is no need to worry about the mother and fetus being less than a year apart from childbirth and pregnancy.

Chinese medicine is extensive and profound, as long as he is willing to spend the money, Kangxi can still make the concubine pregnant in his sixties, let alone conceive the second child a few months in advance.

So without Sister Feng's charge to help restrain those greedy clerks, Mrs. Wang's nth round of borrowing money and things began again.

The living money in Aunt Xue's hand was 'borrowed' by Mrs. Wang 800 years ago.Some of the decorations of the Xue family stayed in the Rongguo Mansion, and some were transported back to his house by Xue Pan when he came to Beijing.

Because in Xue Pan's dream, when the Rongguo Mansion ransacked the house, it didn't care whether those things were surnamed Jia or Xue.In addition, Xue Pan had been wanting to move back to his own home earlier, so he was even more unwilling to store all the furniture in Rongguo Mansion.

It was also because of all kinds of insignificant little arrangements that Mrs. Wang made herself ashamed when it came to borrowing money and things from Xue's family, not to mention, Xue Pan's reputation for being generous spread even wider.

However, as a creditor of the Rongguo Mansion, Baochai is more imposing in her daily life.

Before, because the Xue family borrowed money secretly, others had no way of knowing.In addition, all the people in the mansion have a pair of powerful eyes, unable to improve their early temperament, and gradually treat Baochai with more than politeness and not enough respect.Now that Xue Pan has made such a fuss, it's like brocade clothes never travel at night, which makes people pay more attention to Xue's family.

It can be regarded as unintentionally planting willows, Liu Chengyin.

"It turned out that Uncle Xue was looking for me?"

In the snowy weather, looking at the ground under this person's feet and the snow on his shoulders, he can tell that this person has been standing in front of the courtyard for a long time.Nan Sheng gathered the big fur cloak on her body, put her hands on the hand stove again, and held the delicate small hand stove with both hands, slightly raised her head to look at Xue Xiaopang, who was a head taller than her.

Xue Hanhan is not that fat, but he is strong and strong.Although he is not very old, but wearing a thick winter coat, he is as burly as a Northeast brown bear.

That figure doesn't look like a southerner from Jinling and other places, but a nomad outside the pass.

Coupled with the look on his face, one can see from afar that he is just a stingy and stupid guy.

Xue Pan in the dream is not jealous of men and women, and his wives and concubines are in groups.However, Xue Pan in front of him, aside from those dreams, he is still just an 'innocent' young man.Facing the person you like, there will always be some hands-on, nervous and overwhelmed.

Before meeting Nan Sheng, Xue Pan practiced rehearsals for this meeting in front of the mirror.How to speak and what to say have been practiced repeatedly for a long time.But I didn't expect that when I saw someone at the end of the day, I couldn't hold back a word.

"Yeah." Nodding with a blushing face, it took a long time for him to say hello.

Seeing this, Nan Sheng's heart skipped a beat.

Could it be that the big brother in front of him wants to borrow money from her?

Embarrassed by the thoughts in his head, Nan Sheng looked left and right where they were, and asked Xue Pan in a negotiating tone if he could enter the room.

It's so cold, why are you standing in the yard and talking.

It wasn't until this time that Xue Pan remembered that they were standing in the yard.So he hurriedly turned sideways to let Nan Sheng enter the room without saying anything, and repeatedly ordered the maids to prepare hot tea and add a pot of charcoal fire.

The new courtyard of the Xue family is also a courtyard for juniors. Aunt Xue lived in with Baochai, and Xue Pan lived in by himself.At this moment, Aunt Xue was listening to the cross talk in her room, so when Nan Sheng came, he had to go to see Aunt Xue first.

Even if she now understands that the person who invited her here is not Aunt Xue, but Xue Pan.

Aunt Xue didn't know that her son's careful thinking and using her banner to date girls, when she saw Nan Sheng came, she was surprised for a while why Nan Sheng didn't learn the rules from the girls, and then thoughtfully thought of Nan Sheng coming in Yuanchun He didn't ask too much about his identity as an outsider.Enthusiastic La Nansheng sat beside her and said with a smile: "There are steamed buns wrapped with pickled cabbage and diced meat. Auntie remembers that you like to eat them. You should eat two more at noon."

The probability of this being a mistake is quite high.

If Nan Sheng hadn't just seen Xue Pan who was waiting in the yard, she would have thought that Aunt Xue had asked her to eat steamed stuffed buns.

╯ (╯ ▽ ╰) ╭

Nan Sheng was extremely envious of Xue's small life.

Eating pumpkin seeds, and eating a piece of fruit with the waitress from time to time, while chatting with Aunt Xue about homework, while listening to the entertainers in the room talking about cross talk to amuse themselves.

The two artists that the Xue family was looking for were a father and son pair, the kind of wrists that could be called famous in places like Tianqiao where there are many artists.So it costs ten taels of silver for a month without food and lodging.If it includes room and board, it only costs 100 taels of silver a year.So Xue Hanhan set up a yearly business for the Xue family.

The Xue family originally had its own kitchen, but also had to support a group of servants who waited on it.At most, their father and son are nothing more than a house and two pairs of chopsticks.

At this time, Xue Pan looked at the father and son in front of him not only made Aunt Xue laugh, but also made Nan Sheng's eyebrows crooked, and couldn't help feeling that the money was worth the money.

It's worth it.

I used to go to a teahouse to listen to books by myself, but I didn't think much of it.Now that people are invited home, those who are close to them and those they like listen to it together, and the fragrance of tea is fragrant, which actually makes Xue Pan feel a little bit of love for home.

Carefully pushing a plate of glutinous rice and sweet-scented osmanthus cake just delivered by the kitchen towards Nan Sheng, Xue Pan pretended not to care and turned his head to listen to the cross talk, while looking at Nan Sheng out of the corner of his eye. eat dessert.

Occasionally, I heard someone say that she likes to eat this, so this is added to Xue's dim sum list.Whether she comes or not, there will always be a plate on the stove.

Nan Sheng glanced at the dim sum plate, picked up a piece of dim sum with her fingers, put the handkerchief under the dim sum with her other hand, and ate one bite at a time.My mind turned from the entertainer to Xue Pan.

It won't be like this when he finds himself, right?

Naturally not.

When we were young, the three sat around the table for lunch, and Aunt Xue took a nap according to her habit.Only then did Xue Pan explain his purpose for calling Nan Sheng.

Xue Pan's words were not tactful, except for concealing the identity of Yue Yan as a friend, he almost spit out all the news he knew from Yue Yan.At the end, Xue Pan asked Nan Sheng if what he said was the truth.

Absolute facts, and the details are so detailed that it makes Nan Sheng's heart tremble.

"Uncle Xue's friend, where did you get the news?" It was so detailed.

In other words, why did Xue Pan, the so-called friend, pay attention to him.

Thinking of Yue Yan's identity, Xue Pan rubbed his nose, and said to him from left and right, "They are all from my own family, Miss Nan, you might as well call me Brother Pan."

"Brother Pan?" Nan Sheng burst into laughter when he heard the words, "Brother Pan is more or less the same."

As soon as Nan Sheng finished speaking, she realized that she had slipped her words, and frowned with some regret.

Brother Pan is called this kind of name, except for those who are close and serving, it is only called by the elders of the family.She, a woman with a foreign surname, called Xue Pan that way, which seemed a little frivolous.

Hearing what Nan Sheng said, Xue Pan realized the fact that Nan Sheng was older than him.Now Xue Pan is really embarrassed.My toes were grinding on the carpet, and I was extremely embarrassed. "You are so small, I even forgot that you are bigger than me."

Nan Sheng: Where is it small?

Looking sideways at Xue Pan, Nan Sheng didn't want to entangle Xue Pan on this topic.Bringing up the previous topic again, he asked Xue Pan's friends how they knew about these things, and asked Xue Pan what's the point of looking for her today.

"My friend doesn't mean anything else, he is also kind. I know, I know we know each other." It's more than knowing that they know each other. Before Yueyan didn't collapse, he directly dismantled Xue Pan's excuse of "I have a friend", named Xue Pan I'm ashamed enough.

Xue Pan used to think that the knowledge he knew and the idioms he knew were all from listening to books.He can neither give Nan Sheng the dignity of an official's wife, nor do he understand those poets, poems and paintings.So when Yue Yan teased him, he never thought of having any consequences with Nan Sheng.

Although I don't dare to think about it now, I still have some delusions.

You don't look like a scholar, how about, why don't you look at me?