New Dream of Red Mansions

When Jia Lian got the news, he immediately got up and asked Sister Feng to pack his things for him. Xiyan asked Nanny Zhuang to go back to Wang's house in person. Don't do much to obstruct, and the Gusu Wang family is a trustworthy person, and the third uncle still believes in this.

Xiyan sent someone to the academy to pick up Brother Yu, and asked for leave by the way.

Xiyan took out the jade tablet, touched it, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She has never realized the lack of talents around her more clearly than at this moment.She has money and property, but she is bound everywhere because of her gender and age.Xiyan stuffed the jade token into the box and called Chunlan, "Let Nanny Zhuang come here when she comes back."

"Girl, the third old lady has already agreed, how many people are you going to bring this time?"

Xiyan called everyone over and said, "Mother Zhuang and Dongmei stayed to watch the yard. I still have some things for you to do. Mother Su and Hongxiu are with Brother You, and Chunlan is by my side. We’re leaving tomorrow, so keep things simple.”

"It's just a girl, we don't have much money on us." Dongmei showed Xiyan the account book. In order to collect enough money for the border, the girl not only took out all the money in the jade card, but also took money from Qiuju Xiahe's money. Some were taken out there, and there is not much left on them now. "I don't know how long it will take to go to Yangzhou this time, and I have to pick up the two grandfathers. I'm afraid it's a lot of money."

Xiyan laughed and said, "You forgot that father still has property in Gusu?"

"But aren't those in the hands of the elder?"

"It's in Uncle's hands, but it still has the names of me and Brother Yu written on it. It's okay to ask for a few hundred taels of silver." The most important thing is that there is still a secret property left by my father in Gusu. .

That's the itinerary.

Xiyan went to Daiyu's room in Xiwu, saw her red and swollen eyes, and persuaded her: "You are not paying attention now, do you have to go to Yangzhou when you are sick? Uncle Lin will be sad when he sees her, I'm afraid the condition will get worse. If you are doing good for Uncle Lin, put away your tears quickly, eat and drink well and take care of your health, and talk about it after meeting Uncle Lin first."

Daiyu bit her lip, "Father is seriously ill, I can't be around."

Xiyan thought of when Wang Zifei was seriously ill, she was also panicked at that time, and her comfortable life for five or six years suddenly collapsed.

"I live my life by myself, my sister has to look forward."

Brother You came over in a hurry after receiving the news, Xi Yan said: "I don't know how long you'll be away, you hurry back and pack up some of the books you usually read, and take them away tomorrow, so you can't waste your studies."

"That's right, Brother Yu is going to be the No. [-] scholar in the future, hurry up!"

Brother Yu looked at Sister Lin, who was flushed in front of her eyes, and thought of the difficulties when her father passed away, and felt uncomfortable, and persuaded: "Sister Lin should also take care of her body."

Daiyu nodded.

Brother Yu was about to go out, but when he reached the door, he was bumped by someone rushing in from the outside, and took two steps back before he stabilized himself. Baoyu quickly apologized: "Brother You, are you okay? I went to see Sister Lin earlier." rushed in.

Brother You rubbed his shoulders, shook his head, and was about to leave, but Dongmei stepped forward nervously, "Master, where did you just hit? Go back and let sister Hongxiu rub it for you, Second Master Bao is really , I don’t even look at it when I’m walking.”

"Okay, it's not a big deal, so don't tell Elder Sister and Elder Sister Lin, I'll just ask Elder Sister Hongxiu to have a look later."

Inside, Baoyu was already running around in a hurry, "Where is my sister going?"

Zijuan and Xueyan are busy going around and will leave tomorrow. Daiyu's clothes, daily necessities, books, etc. have to be cleaned up one by one. Baoyu pushed it out, "Second Master Bao, Aunt Lin is ill, and sent a lot of people to pick up the girl. Now we are busy, you go back first, come later, ah."

"Go back? Are you still coming?"

Zijuan opened her mouth and had to go to see Daiyu and Xiyan. Xiyan was taking out some of Daiyu's winter cloaks from the cabinet. Hearing this, she turned her head and said, "I'll come back when Uncle Lin recovers. This time it's Lian Er Brother sent us there, he will come back naturally, that's all right, don't make trouble here, go out quickly, are you too busy to stand if you don't see the people in the house?"

Baoyu had no choice but to go out.

When Tanchun received the news, he hurriedly brought Shi Shu and Cui Mo to help, "I just thought that you must be too busy here, and this date is too urgent."

Daiyu explained: "You don't need to bring too many things, it's just some daily stuff, just tidy up a little bit."

Having said that, but they are daughters, even if they have a lot of daily necessities.

Seeing her forced smile, Tanchun deliberately led her to talk, "You don't know, do you? I said I would come to help you, so I called the fourth younger sister. As soon as the fourth younger sister heard that you were going to leave, she immediately took the little ones in the yard away. The girls all called, but as soon as she entered the yard, she turned the corner and went to Brother Yu. I was surprised at first, so I followed to look around, thinking that she was going to help Brother Yu pack his things, but who knew that she was with Brother Yu? After discussing with Brother You, move all the playthings in his yard into her room to take care of him, I have never seen such a clever person."

Zijuan laughed and said, "Fourth Miss and Master You have always had a good time."

Daiyu pursed her lips slightly and smiled, "They are similar in age, so they can play together." Thinking of Xichun's life experience and the situation in Dongfu, Daiyu couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

Early the next morning, everyone sent Daiyu Xiyan and others out after breakfast, and even Baochai came to the mansion to see them off, holding Daiyu and Xiyan's hands and giving instructions.

Daiyu didn't know why, but she felt that Baochai was hiding a traitor, and that's why she didn't like her all the time. Now seeing her deep affection, she couldn't help feeling a little moved, and said: "More sister Bao."

Xiyan turned her head and looked at the elegant and quiet Baochai. The corner of her mouth curled up, and she called Daiyu to get in the car, "Don't worry, Sister Bao, we will be back."

Daiyu was in a bad mood on the two boat rides, one time because of her mother's funeral and she had to go to her grandparents' house, but this time because her father was seriously ill, Daiyu was not in the mood to look at the scenery outside, and Xiyan was not bothered. she.And now that it's cold, Xiyan is always afraid that Daiyu and Brother You will get sick, so almost all her daily energy is used to take care of their bodies.

Seeing that Xiyan had lost weight in just half a month, Zijuan couldn't help persuading Daiyu at night, "Cheer up, girl. If life is hard, who in our family can compare to Miss Yan? But look at Yan. When did the girl cry? Let me tell you something sad, although Miss Yan is a few months younger than the girl, she has been taking care of the girl all the time. This time, the master is just sick, and there will always be a good time, but you are under the care of Miss Yan. As before, how can Miss Yan deal with herself? If she were a girl, she would have cried a long time ago."

Daiyu lowered her head, "You can only talk about me." Her tone was a little guilty.

Zijuan has followed her for many years, so she can hear it naturally, and sighed: "You don't have to be stubborn, I know that your sisters are the best, even sisters are nothing more than that, but after all, the girl is older than the girl Yan, no matter what Some elder sisters look like Miss Yan has lost weight because of you in the past half month, even if you are not doing it for yourself, you should cheer up for Miss Yan."

Daiyu has always been soft-spoken and soft-hearted, so the whole mansion only listened to Xiyan and Zijuan's words. Yesterday, she listened to Zijuan's words, but today she took a closer look. Xiyan really lost some weight. Feeling guilty, she served it to Zijuan. I barely ate all the bird's nest porridge.

There was a smile on Xiyan's face, "Finally I have some appetite. Brother Yu is easier to adapt to this boat than sister. He started reading in the house after only three days on board."

Daiyu said, "Why do you read on the boat? Be careful of your eyes."

"That's what I said, so I've been holding him back for the past few days and letting Riquan play with him, but the boat is not big and there's nothing to do. He'll get tired of it within two days. Why don't I call him over? Can he talk about some fus? It’s good to test him. I don’t know who he looks like, and he reads well, but he just can’t make good poems when asked to write poems.”

Daiyu smiled and said, "Isn't that just like you?"

Xiyan smiled and said, "I'm already a different kind, but I can't let him be like me."

Xiyan called Brother You, and the three chatted together.

Brother You met a lot of people in the past two years, and gained a lot of knowledge, while Xiyan read the most books and had a good memory. In addition, she had previous life experiences there, so she always brought up topics, making Daiyu and Brother You had something to say, so Daiyu didn't have the heart to think about anything else after a day like this.

Because he racked his brains to deal with Brother You and Xiyan during the day, he was extremely tired, but he slept surprisingly soundly at night.For two or three days like this, Daiyu felt the painstaking efforts of Xiyan and Brother You, and was moved. She obediently took the food and medicine brought by Zijuan, and calmed down a little, not daring to be as sad as before. Relatives.

Zijuan was overjoyed to see her, and thanked Xiyan solemnly.Xiyan smiled and said, "Sister Lin is lucky to have a girl like you."

Chunlan pouted unconvinced, "Don't you think that a girl is lucky to have Chunlan by her side? Zijuan, how do you think I am worse than you?"

Zijuan knew that Chunlan was arguing with her, so she pursed her lips and said with a smile: "You are naturally very kind, even our girls say that we will not be lonely when we have Chunlan."

Xi Yan said lightly: "That's right, there is no day when there is no riot."

Chunlan reluctantly called out "girl".

Finally, there was some laughter on this side of the boat, but Jia Lian on the other side of the boat was extremely distressed, the closer he was to Yangzhou, the more disturbed he became.He had no choice but to do what his wife told him, but how could he figure out Uncle Lin?Jia Lian had met Lin Ruhai before. Although he smelled like a book and looked as gentle as jade, his skills in the officialdom were not weak at all. Even he couldn't play with Uncle Lin.

Jia Lian was distressed, and when he was approaching Yangzhou, he finally made up his mind, whether to ask or not, what to do depends on Uncle Lin's arrangement.If Uncle Lin is as expected by the wife, everyone will be happy, if not, it doesn't matter, just put it on Uncle Lin, and the wife will annoy him for a few days at most.

Jia Lian made up his mind, and only then did he have the time to look at the scenery along the way.