Whose Evil in the Red Chamber

When Xue Pan was sent back to Xue Mansion by the servants of the Wang family, Xue Mingyi was in his wife's courtyard. After scolding Xue Pan bloody, Mrs. Xue also suffered a lot of Xue Mingyi's anger, "A loving mother is a loser!" ", "That evil animal was pampered by you", Mrs. Xue's ears were almost callused when she heard such words.

In her heart, Mrs. Xue was very disapproving. She always felt that the Xue family had a lot of money. It would be fine if the son didn't like studying. He would inherit the family business in the future.

Seeing his wife's expression, Xue Mingyi knew that she didn't take his words to heart, so he couldn't help becoming more annoyed, and said angrily: "Catch this scoundrel back and see if I don't break his legs. Stop it, don't blame me for not thinking about the relationship between our husband and wife for many years!"

Just as I was talking, there was a noise from inside, but it was Xue Baochai, the eldest girl who was just taking a nap, who was woken up by the sound of her parents arguing. Hearing her daughter's movement, Xue Mingyi's anger finally dissipated a lot for the time being, and the expression on his face changed. After a while, he ordered people to bring his daughter to him.

Different from that wicked son, Xue Mingyi loves his daughter in every possible way and is satisfied in every way. Baochai is only three years old now, and the Xue Tuaner who gave birth to him looks handsome, needless to say, but his temperament is calmer than ordinary children. How many times, Xue Mingyi personally had an enlightenment session with his daughter, and found that her daughter was very smart and learned very fast, and now she has learned seven or eight characters in the Three Character Classic. This kind of cleverness has surpassed her brother's by countless times.

Xue Mingyi often sighed that if this daughter was a son, he wouldn't have to worry about the white beard, so he loved this daughter very much, and after hugging her from the nurse's hand, Xue Mingyi's expression finally turned around completely.

At this moment, Xue Pan came back, and the servants brought the news. Xue Mingyi's expression froze, and he coaxed Baochai with soft words, and then asked the nanny to carry Baochai down, then got up and went straight to the study room in the front yard. go.

Mrs. Xue saw the master's angry back, fearing that her son might make a mistake, she sent someone to the front to inquire about the situation, and at the same time questioned the person who made the report carefully. When she heard that Xue Pan was sent back by the servants of the Wang family, Aunt Xue couldn't help crying , Xin said: "My son is confused, your father is cruel this time, since you hid at your grandfather's house, you can hide there for a few days with peace of mind, why bother to come back home now."

Mrs. Xue didn't know what happened to her son, so she secretly blamed her son in her heart, but she was very worried, and she wanted to go out and stop it when there was a commotion ahead.

At this time, in the study room in the front yard, Xue Pan's face was pale. Seeing his furious father, he didn't look like a mouse seeing a cat as usual. In front of him, he kept yelling for help.

Rao Xue Mingyi rushed to the top beam door, seeing his son like this, he couldn't help being stunned, and then sneered: "I knew I was going to call for help at this time, but why did you leave in anger, sir, and now you are crying here, Think I can forgive you!"

Xue Pan shook his head again and again, his face was as pale as paper, and sobbing, he told his father all the things that happened just now, and finally said in horror: "Father, help me, they, they are going to peel my skin! "

After hearing Xue Pan's words, Xue Mingyi's anger calmed down, his face changed, and finally he looked at his stupid son, sighed deeply, and cursed: "You idiot, you are becoming more and more stupid now! Already!"

Xue Mingyi understood Jing Xuan's implication that he didn't care about Xue Pan, and he breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the face he had just made up could still hold up the scene, and he only sighed at this stupid son, He couldn't even understand the meaning of what he said, but seeing how frightened he was this time, he couldn't help but think to himself: "In the past when I taught this beast, he was always fearless and obeyed, this time it's better to use this This time, giving him a good lesson can also improve his memory."

So Xue Mingyi stomped his foot, pointed at Xue Pan and scolded: "You took everything I said to you that day as a deaf ear, and told you not to provoke the person, but you sent yourself to the door to offend, this time the father did not The method, it should be a catastrophe in your life, even if you really can't escape, you can only blame your bad luck."

When Xue Pan heard it, he was really out of his mind, Xue Mingyi ignored him, ordered someone to send him back to his room, and there was no more to say. This time Xue Pan really lost his courage, and often woke up at night. I always felt that the neck was bright, as if a sharp knife was lying on it. After a few days of tossing, the boy fell ill, lost his mind, and often talked nonsense in his mouth, which frightened Mrs. Xue who didn't know what was going on. He searched for famous doctors to treat his son.

Mrs. Xue only knew what happened, but she didn't know why. Listening to her son's intermittent nonsense, coupled with Xue Mingyi's deliberate concealment from her, she naturally didn't know the root cause of it. He is so vicious, how can his background be glorious? If he is ashamed and interested, he should abide by his duty. How could he know that he is so flamboyant, shameless and shameless? , but she couldn't bear it."

Afterwards, Mrs. Xue also complained in her heart that her husband was timid and shy, and that this kind of little child would keep making friends with him in a low voice, but he didn't dare to say a word after his son suffered such a crime, on the contrary, he seemed to be okay. !

Thinking of this, the anger in Mrs. Xue's heart could not be dissipated no matter what. When she went back to her mother's house, she wanted to beg her father to help her son out, but she was severely reprimanded by Mrs. Wang.

"Teacher, husband, son, look at yourself, how arrogant and indulgent your son is! It's all your fault that he is today. If you don't go back and reflect on your mistakes, you are still arguing here. I was at home that day. How did I teach you! If I marry you to the Xue family, after a hundred years, I won’t have the face to go underground to meet old friends from the Xue family!”

In the end, Mrs. Xue didn't get help from her father, instead she suffered a lot. She didn't dare to blame her father, but she became more and more annoyed at Jing Xuan.After thinking for a while, Mrs. Xue wrote a letter to her sister, Mrs. Wang who married into Jia's family, and secretly sent someone to the capital.

Press Mrs. Xue behind her husband's back and did a lot of things without mentioning, just talking about Jing Xuan's side, scaring the idiot of Xue's family in the teahouse, Jing Xuan was in a good mood, and Wang Qi and Wang Qi got up and went back to Zhen's mansion .

As soon as he arrived at Zhen's residence, he heard the boy say that Xue's family sent many girls, and now they are all temporarily placed in the side courtyard.

There has been a long history of keeping opera troupes among big families in the south of the Yangtze River. Some families who love to listen to opera and have a deep family background even have a full set of opera troupes in a serious manner, but this is a minority. women's pastime.But this is all the preference of the big family.

Most of the middle-level families just invite opera troupes to come over and set up the stage when they need it. In the huge city of Gusu, even the number one Liu family doesn’t have a full set of opera troupes. It just raises some female opera troupes. When it's time for a serious banquet, Li Chunban will be invited to the house to support the scene.

The Marquis of Xing'an used to raise female opera singers. Later, the old Hou's health was not good, and Mrs. Hou lost the mood to listen to the opera, so she dispersed the opera troupe. The helpless ones stayed in the mansion as servant girls.

In recent years, Mrs. Hou has gradually come out of the sorrow of the old Lord Hou's passing away, and her love of listening to operas has been regained. Wang Qi originally wanted to reorganize a domestic theater troupe for his mother, but Mrs. Hou stopped him. Said: "The identity of this actor is worse than that of a domestic maid. She is a good girl, and she bought it to do this because she committed crimes. Why bother to come. It's very good for me to see the Lichun troupe now, so I don't have to." Don't worry about it anymore."

Wang Qi agreed and put the matter aside, now that the Xue family has sent some actresses, Wang Qi recalled this incident again, so he asked Jing Xuan: "These people sent by the Xue family, what do you think?" How are you going to arrange it?"

Jingxuan is most keen on enjoying, like listening to operas, and even writing operas himself, but he himself pays more attention to the singing skills of opera singers, and he doesn't shy away from male and female opera actors. In his previous life, there were both male and female opera troupes in his house.It's a pity that he is still young in this life, and he doesn't even have his own mansion, let alone raise an actor.

"Send them back to Gusu first, and when the business here is over, I'll see how they work."

Jing Xuan hasn't figured out how to arrange these people sent by Xue's family. It's not necessarily that the Lichun troupe will not accept female actors, but it takes effort to satisfy him. Now in the Lichun troupe, he only cares about Ling The officer alone is satisfied, and although the rest of the people have good skills, they are far from reaching the level he wants.

Taking over this batch of female opera singers is to show that he has accepted Xue's family's kindness. If their skills are not mediocre, he has no intention of placing them in the Lichun troupe.

"Why don't you send them to my house first, my mother always likes this, and there are some older sisters in my family who also do this, we can let them help lead and manage one or two, and we have to stay here for a long time Days." Wang Qi said.

Jing Xuan took a look at him: "You still think I don't know about your little thoughts. Didn't you just think about setting up a theater troupe for your mother earlier? This is your idea on them."

Wang Qi chuckled, completely unaware of the embarrassment of being exposed: "I know I can't hide it from you, but I won't compete with you, there is really someone who is outstanding, if you can hold out a female role that surpasses men, I still really admire you!"

Just as he was talking, the second master of the Zhen family came in person.Second Master Zhen is an elder, when Jing Xuan and Wang Qi met him, they performed the greetings of nephew and nephew, served tea, they sat together, chatted a few words, Second Master Zhen couldn't wait to get to the point.

"I heard in a daze that the Xue family gave their family's theater troupe to their nephew. I don't know if there is such a thing?"

Hearing these words, Jing Xuan suddenly realized that this Second Master Zhen came to the door in person, and it turned out that it was for this matter.After he and Wang Qi lived in the Zhen family, most of the people they interacted with were the nephews of the Zhen family of the same generation, but the elders of the Zhen family did not often show up.

"It's true, what advice does uncle have?" Jing Xuan asked back after hearing the words.

Second Master Zhen stroked his beard and nodded: "It's all for advice, but I have an unfeeling request. I wonder if my nephew can give me a favor."

Jing Xuan said, "I don't know what uncle means?"

"The Xue family's opera actors are twelve girls in total, and they are quite well-known in this area of ​​Jinling; the old lady likes to listen to operas, and our Zhen family also has this opera troupe, but it's a pity that some of the tough actors are now I'm a little older, my voice and skills are not as good as before. I was thinking of buying some girls to fill them in, but I still didn't like them. Now I heard that the Xue family is willing to let these people go. Solved my problem. It's just that I don't know what my nephew wants?"

Second Master Zhen spoke politely, but in his heart he was sure that Jingxuan would agree. Although Lin Jingxuan had a Lichun troupe, this female actress lived in the inner house, so there was no reason to show her face outside.The Lin family has never had a tradition of raising actors, so Lin Jingxuan's acceptance of these people must not be of much use, at most they will be scattered as maids.Therefore, no matter what Second Master Zhen thought, he felt that Jing Xuan would not refute his face.

After Jing Xuan heard this, the expression on his face remained unchanged, but what he said made Second Master Zhen's face darken in an instant.

"Uncle, forgive me, I have decided to send this group of girls to Gusu Xing'an Hou's mansion to fulfill their filial piety in front of the old lady, I am afraid that they will not be able to do what uncle wants."