The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

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After hearing Baoyu's words, and seeing her mother-in-law who was drinking tea with her head bowed not far away, Wang Xifeng understood the situation in an instant.

Over the past few years, Wang Xifeng found that as long as she followed her mother-in-law's orders, she never suffered any disadvantages. Now that she is in charge of the family again, she has never used her private house to supplement her family.On the contrary, every new year, the parents-in-law will subsidize themselves in various names. There will always be three to five thousand silver in a year, and Jia Lian got it outside, and his private house is getting richer and richer.Now that I have both children, my husband is motivated, and I am more decent when I go out to socialize than in the past few years, such a good life was unimaginable before. Even my mother-in-law said that her mother-in-law sees the long-term.

Therefore, Wang Xifeng is following her mother-in-law's orders now, and she knows that her mother-in-law disagrees when she sees Xing's pushing the matter on her own head.I thought the same, the few in the garden are not from my own family, it is good to care about your food and clothing, and I want to pick and choose, do you think you are Sister Lin?

Baoyu couldn't stand her in a daze, and kept pulling her sleeves and asked, "Isn't it just a small kitchen? Just transfer our share. What's the problem? Sister Feng, hurry up." Promise!"

Wang Xifeng laughed: "Isn't it just a small kitchen? Brother Bao said it was light and simple. It's really not worth the money. There is no ready-made kitchen in the Grand View Garden. It is easy to find an empty yard, but it is necessary to find someone to start the stove again. If you want to buy pots and pans and have to choose another woman to cook, you can’t pay the monthly bills every month? And what’s the wear and tear of things, is it a small amount after a long time?”

Baoyu wanted to say more, but Tanchun secretly pulled the skirt of his clothes behind him. Baoyu and this sister still have a very good relationship.

At this time, the servant girl had prepared the breakfast, and Mother Jia invited them to have breakfast, without mentioning anything about what happened just now.Baoyu was a little dispirited and lost interest.

When she was seated, Daiyu found that Yingchun hadn't come, so she couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't Second Sister come?"

Xing said with a smile: "It's hard for you to think about welcoming the girl. It's not her birthday this year and Jiji, so it's inevitable that she won't be able to take care of you on that day. I just said to hold a banquet two days in advance to entertain you. I heard it last night. As for me, I went back and pestered me all night and insisted that I hand over today's affairs to her. This is not going to the Luxue Temple early in the morning to arrange, and when you go there later, you will keep the delicious food It's fun again."

Hearing the news, Baoyu hurriedly ignored those little depressions, and asked excitedly: "What's delicious and fun?"

Even Jia's mother asked with great interest: "I greeted the girl early this morning and came to greet me. I just woke up and hadn't washed my hair at that time. She helped me comb my hair. I asked her what she was doing." , she just smiled and refused to say. Now you are also secretive, and you don't know what kind of trick you two are playing?"

Sister Feng scooped up a bowl of porridge with five kernels and put it in front of Jiamu, and said with a smile: "If the old lady wants to know, why don't you just go and see it later?"

Jia Mu shook her head, "It's freezing outside, so I'm too lazy to move."

Baoyu was in a hurry, drank half a bowl of porridge in a hurry and was about to go out, but was held down by Sister Feng: "You stop and eat and drink for me before going. The arrangement has not been arranged yet, and there is nothing to eat. Drink, there are usually no people there, and it is very cold, you will not be able to please yourself if you go here."

Hearing this, Baoyu had no choice but to restrain his temper, sat down and had a peaceful breakfast.

After breakfast, just as Baoyu was about to leave, Mrs. Wang came slowly with Aunt Xue, so Baoyu had to stay to socialize.Mrs. Wang pulled him to her side and asked with a smile: "Didn't you agree to go back to have dinner yesterday? Everything is ready, and I sent a servant girl to say that I can't go back, but let me wait for nothing."

Baoyu replied shyly, "I almost forgot about it yesterday, thanks to Sister Bao's reminder."

Wang looked at Aunt Xue with a smile and said, "I just said that this girl Baochai behaves properly, she is thoughtful about her sexuality, she is not like other children who are moody and unpredictable, making people puzzled."

moody?Xueyan sneered inwardly, is this alluding to Daiyu?You said that you, an elder, care about a junior all day long, is that interesting?

Fortunately, only Xue's mother and daughter agreed with what she said.Daiyu was talking with Jia's mother, Xing's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were muttering together, Shi Xiangyun had gone somewhere, and only Tanchun was there in a little embarrassment, trying to have both sides.

After a while, a woman from the second room came to ask Mrs. Wang about something, and Mrs. Wang took the opportunity to leave, but Aunt Xue insisted on staying and talking to Mrs. Jia.

Seeing that Baoyu kept looking out, Mother Jia stopped teasing him and said with a smile, "Okay, I know you won't be able to sit still here, so put on your woolen clothes and go. The people who follow should be smarter. The hand stove and the foot stove are all ready, don't forget to replace the charcoal fire in time. It's cold, brothers and sisters are not allowed to eat cold food and drink cold water."

All the maids agreed in unison.

Baoyu hurriedly put on his cloak and ran out like a puff of smoke.Xiangyun followed closely, and Baochai and Tanchun also hurriedly followed.

Only Daiyu landed at the end without any haste, Xueyan helped her put on the fox fur cloak and the Zhaojun suit, and supported her to follow.

When I got to Luxue Nunnery, I saw that the path leading from the door to the house had been swept clean.A small red clay stove has been set up under the porch at the door, and two little maids are watching the stove boil water.

Opening the door curtain and entering inside, there was a burst of fragrance, only to see a pair of large floor-to-ceiling porcelain vases at the door, with a few half-opened red plums inserted in each.The fragrance of plum blossoms is intensified by the heat in the room.

There are several long tables in the small room, and there are many fruits and snacks on the tables, as well as many tea sets.Further inside, the two tables were filled with all kinds of washed and cut meat slices and vegetables, all of which were strung on long skewers with bamboo sticks.

Baoyu was whispering to Yingchun, he picked up a few meat skewers and couldn't wait to put them on the stove beside him.She was pulled back by Xiuju: "Oh, my good second master, this is not baked like this."

"Then how do we bake it? It's fine if it's cooked, how much trouble is it?" Baoyu muttered.

I saw Xiuju take out the barbed wire that I had prepared earlier and put it on the charcoal basin, and said with a smile: "The charcoal fire has not yet reached the fire, and the current flame is too hot, and it will be burnt soon after putting the skewers on." , just wait for a while."

Yingchun looked at it, and said with a smile: "I think Baoyu can't wait any longer. You should roast two skewers first and show him. If they are burnt, let him eat them by himself."

Baoyu quickly echoed: "Yes, yes, I will try it first. If I don't try, how will I know that the heat is not suitable?" Then he grabbed the meat skewers and put them on the iron net.It’s just that he’s a young man, who even drinks soup on weekdays, he has to be blown cold by others. He has never done this before, and accidentally got his hand too close to the fire, and accidentally burned it, which made him pull his hand away. back.

Everyone rushed forward to check, among them Xiangyun and Baochai showed the most concern, Xueyan complained in her heart that there are people chasing after such a useless second-generation ancestor, I really don't understand.