The Warm Jade of the Red Chamber

Li Wan looked at Jia Baoyu who was in a state of silence, and couldn't tell whether he was happy or disappointed.

Jia Baoyu was forced to this point by her words, but he still couldn't arouse his fighting spirit. Even if he insisted that he wanted to earn money to invite an embroiderer back, even if he didn't succeed in the end, she would still look up to him.

But now, Jia Baoyu didn't intend to increase the family's income at all. Instead, he let Li Wan make arrangements to support him and his maids.

After all, Jia Baoyu's surname is Jia, and Jia Lan's broken bones and tendons are connected. If he really fails to achieve anything in the future and needs to be raised by someone, he will make Jia Lan tired, how can Li Wan want to?

Li Wan hated it deeply, but she couldn't find the wrong place to sell all the maids in Jia Baoyu's room like Madam Wang did. Rights, more and more squeeze their labor.

If that's the case, it's fine, but the house leaks and it rains all night. The Zhuangzi and shops they got when they separated from Jia's family have accidents one after another. Li Wan is a housewife, so she can't handle these matters, and Jia Zheng and Jia Baoyu can't be relied on, so the dwarf has to pull out the general and pick Jia Huan to deal with these matters.

It was rare for Jia Huan to be "entrusted with a heavy responsibility", and he immediately felt a sense of high spirits.Anyway, when the Jia family was rich, he could only look at Jia Baoyu with envy. On the contrary, now that Jia Baoyu has been plucked and can no longer put on that lofty phoenix-like posture, he is very happy.

But this doesn't mean that Jia Huan doesn't know that their family's current situation is really bad.

Unlike Jia Baoyu, who doesn't eat the fireworks of the world, he got acquainted with a bunch of bastards outside, so when he heard some news, it was no coincidence that these things happened together, it was because someone was making trouble for their family.

After inquiring more carefully, he asked someone to look for him, and found his own sister, Tanchun.

It was Tanchun who troubled the Jia family and called Sun Shaozu for help.

But no matter what, Jia Huan is her own brother, and Aunt Zhao is her own mother, so she wouldn't even take revenge on them and watch them sink into the quagmire of Jia's family—even if they didn't What benefits did he bring to himself, but instead kept holding him back.

It's just that, in Tanchun's current situation, he doesn't want to and can't bring these two incomprehensible mothers and younger brothers by his side to continue to hold him back. If they act carelessly and lose their lives, it is unknown. Then go away and fly high, and never return to Beijing.

So, Tanchun confessed to Jia Huan in this way.

At first, Jia Huan wanted to rely on Tanchun, after all, the Sun family is richer than theirs now.

How could Tanchun make his wish come true?He vaguely explained his situation, only saying that whether he can live until this time next year is unknown.

When Jia Huan heard this, his eyes turned red, and he told Tanchun to run away with them when the time came.

After hearing this, Tanchun softened his heart, and said: "If I go with you, I'm afraid the Sun family will catch us soon, why don't you go first, and if I can escape, I'll go find you."

Jia Huan nodded and left. As expected, he did what Tanchun said, and made the matter extremely thrilling. He coaxed Li Wan to give him some money, and while he was away, he got rid of the servants of Jia's family, and quietly sold the shop and Zhuangzi at a low price. After selling it, and taking advantage of Jia Zheng, Li Wan and others not to investigate, he secretly took Aunt Zhao and ran away, never to be seen again.

In this way, when Jia Zheng and Li Wan found out that something was wrong, they had lost all sources of income, and Jia Huan coaxed part of the remaining money in the account. The rest was not much, but there were still some utensils, calligraphy and paintings in the warehouse , but if you pawn it, I'm afraid it won't be worth half of the price.What's more, even so, I'm afraid that the money will be used less and less. In the future... let's talk about the future!

Li Wan begged Jia Zheng to report to the officials, but Jia Zheng was so pissed off by Jia Huan, he felt that this was a family scandal, and it was really not easy to publicize it, otherwise wouldn't it be said that he had no way to teach his children?Among the sons, except for Jia Zhu who died young, none of them became successful.The grandson is a good one, but he was burdened by his own son, which is really a sin.

Jia Zheng almost felt that his success in the first half of his life was all a preparation for his unhappiness in the second half of his life.

Jia Zheng refused to report to the official, and neither could Li Wan, so he had to be more demanding. Except for Jia Zheng's food and clothing, the rest of the place was replaced by coarse clothes and light food, and even cut off the servants. In Jia Baoyu's room Except for the six concubines including Sheyue and Qingwen and the housemaids, the rest were all assigned to the side or laid off.As for Sheyue and the others who were left behind, they were made several envoys one at a time, and none of the maids and mother-in-law in Jia Baoyu's room were let go, and they did all the work.As for fine embroiderers like Qingwen, she took them out alone to make embroidery every day and sent them to the shops outside for consignment. If it wasn't for saving lamp oil money, she would have been sent to work day and night.

Under Li Wan's careful planning, the Jia family's life is not difficult, at least not in a short period of time.It's just that the gap between front and back is too large, and not everyone can adapt well.

Isn't there an old saying that goes "It's easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal"?

If you have never enjoyed the benefits of being an assistant lady, you won't feel that it is such a grievance to be a real maid.As for the maids in Jia Baoyu's room, except for the big maids in Jia's mother's room, who wouldn't look at them highly?Therefore, they are the ones who are eager to return to their previous lives, especially the maids who have been employed by Jia Baoyu, who feel that they have become half masters, why do they want to act like rough envoys? Do rough work?

It's ridiculous that although Jia Baoyu loves them, he doesn't dare to stand out. He does small things, talks softly, rubs Qingwen's arms, and Sheyue's shoulders. Wan reasoned, but when he thought that Li Wan's speech was completely different from his usual sharpness, he flinched.

It's not that no one simply has sincerity towards Jia Baoyu and is willing to do anything for him. Sheyue and Qingwen have been with Jia Baoyu the longest and have the deepest bond of love. Although they have been wronged and worked hard, they don't blame Jia Baoyu too much.

But after all, not all maids in the house are simply attracted by Jia Baoyu's personality charm. If he hadn't been the young master of the Duke's mansion, if he hadn't been the most beloved phoenix egg in the mansion, where would there be? So many maids are going forward one after another with the goal of serving him?

But now, the light once bestowed on him by Mrs. Jia and Mrs. Wang has been stripped away, and finally the gray stone background is revealed. Seeing them suffer all kinds of grievances, there is nothing else they can do except complaining and comforting them softly.

Gradually, they also discovered that the closer the maidservants are to Jia Baoyu, the harder the work is, and the rougher the food and clothing are. Baoyu turned to please Li Wan.

Jia Baoyu didn't know whether he knew it or not, but Sheyue and Qingwen knew about it. Although they were a little angry, there was nothing wrong with Jia Baoyu caring more about them without those charming girls.

When Jia Zheng's house came to such an end, Tanchun stopped for the time being, so as not to push too hard and kill the mermaid and break the net, and lose the fun of fishing instead.It's better to tell them to live like this first, and wait and see later.

Tanchun is now counting on this little fun to divert his attention, so as not to be driven crazy by the harsh life first.

Jia Zheng's family suffered retribution, but Tanchun didn't want to let Jia Amnesty's family go.Yes, Mrs. Wang was the most embarrassing to her, but the big house who stood by and made trouble, was also hated.

The most important thing is to find something for Sun Shaozu to make him believe that she needs to rely on him, and she can't do without him, so that Sun Shaozu can relax his vigilance, and even if he finds something abnormal, he will not be able to guard against her Come.

It's not hard to find the handle on Dafang, but Tanchun doesn't want to be inferior like that, she now feels that killing people with a knife is the highest state.

The "knife" borrowed by Tanchun was from the Li clan, that is, the Li family of Li Ran and Li Lin's biological father.

Before his death, Li's father was worried that his clan brothers who had a rift with him would think about their family, and worried that the two young children would suffer, so he had no choice but to entrust them to the Jia family. Sent out of the tiger's mouth and into the wolf's den.

Li's father's behavior offended his clansman very much. He would rather use his family's wealth at the expense of people of other surnames than take care of his clansman. This is a very unconscionable behavior at the moment when the power of the clan is valued.It's just that this is Father Li's choice, and the Rongguo Mansion is not so easy to mess with, so they can only rest their minds.

However, when someone quietly told them that after Li Lin and Li Ran entered Jia's house, not only were all their property swallowed up, but one was "forced" to marry, and the other almost died. Now they can only live in Zhuangzi. , Day by day fear.

The members of the Li clan suddenly felt that they had to stand up for the children of the Li family.

Not all members of the Li clan were stupid. They knew that if there was no evidence, even if the Jia family fell, they could not let them decide.

Therefore, they first asked a family member named Li Shan to bring a few people into Beijing to investigate.

The evidence is not difficult to find, the Li family is not as rich as the Jia family, and only a few of all the properties are worthy of the Jia family's collection, and the rest are pawned, especially the house that was given to Jia Zheng when the family was separated. sold a lot.

Li Shan was sent out because he had lived in Li Lin's father's house for a period of time when he was a child, and he had some impressions of some of the furnishings in Li Lin's house.Sure enough, within a few days, he found a big-bellied vase in a pawn shop, which looked very familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he had seen it at Li Lin's house when he was a child. The reason why he was so impressed was because this vase was originally a vase. Yes, one of them was broken by myself. At that time, Li Lin's father thought he was young, but he didn't punish him. It's just that the young self was still terrified.

Li Shan was not a reckless person, and after spending more than a month, he finally collected all the evidence and sued the Jia family to Dali Temple with a single complaint.