[Qing wear + Red House] Lin's Royal Concubine

It's not like I don't know, but after counting carefully with my fingers, I found out that I haven't seen each other for four or five years since that time.

The two of them who were still little girls back then were married and became mothers in the blink of an eye.

Xue Baochai still has a face like a silver plate and a plump body. The difference is that now her face is no longer young and immature. She is much calmer, and the tempering of the past few years has actually made her grow a lot.

The two looked at each other, and they couldn't help but slightly reddened their eyes, filled with emotion for a moment.

"Looking at the appearance of your mother, I know that these years should be good, so I can feel more at ease." Looking over everything in the room, she finally stopped between her stretched and peaceful eyebrows, and sighed: "Other The sisters can still see each other from time to time, whether they are good or bad, they know what to do, but the empress is really worrying."

"What's wrong with me? I'm in the royal family and I'm full of rich clothes and delicacies." Lin Shiyu joked with a smile, and then asked: "How about you? Yu'er is busy these days I went to relax with her husband, and never had a chance to sit down and have a good talk."

"Yingchun's little days are not bad at all. I was worried that her husband is an idiot. Don't turn around and wrong her. I never thought that this man is a bit idiot, thinking about those weird things all day long. The son does not let go, but at least he still knows how to support the family, and no longer spends all the money like in the past, and now the family of two is about to become a family of three."

Lin Shiyu was overjoyed, "Having Spring Festival? This is a great joy."

"That's right, the ordinary little days are getting more interesting."

And Tanchun, who was in trouble, finally had a solution. After several struggles and hesitation, she finally chose a merchant's house.

I can't say how rich it is, it's just that there are several shops in the capital. It can't be compared with the stalls of Xue's family, and it is even more impossible to spend money on clothes and food like in the past in Jia's house, but there is also a In the small courtyard, there are some servants serving him, so there is no need to worry about living a peaceful life.

What's more, because the kid in that family is old, his father had already gone a few years ago, and now he is the man who is in charge of the house. Once Tanchun gets married, he will be the wife of the house, the only mother-in-law who is still there He is also getting old, and some old and dim-sighted, and now he is just waiting for his grandson to be hugged before he dies, and he will not make any more fuss when he thinks about it.

If such conditions were left in the past, they would never be appreciated by others, but after all these years, Tanchun himself has seen the reality clearly, and he doesn't have so much thought to think about what is there and what is not, and the selected one She was quite satisfied with this one, and after thinking about it for a few days, she nodded and agreed.

To say that the only disharmony is her biological mother, Aunt Zhao, it’s not that she is dissatisfied with the man’s conditions. Anyway, they even gave a dowry gift of 1000 taels, but the problem is that the 1000 taels of dowry is not even a copper coin. It never fell into her hands.

"Why doesn't Tanchun understand her own mother's temperament? The dowry was stuffed into my hands directly, because I knew that I didn't like this little money, and it was still spent on her father and brother." Xue Baochai shook her head. , said: "Why is it her turn to worry about a girl who is about to get married? I don't even think about not having money to buy a dowry in the future, but I don't even have face. How can I have any confidence?"

After all, it is sisters, and now she is still a sister-in-law, how can she really put this money in her pocket?Turning around, I bought a dowry with it, and I also set up a 2000 taels of silver at the bottom of the box, which can be regarded as the full of this friendship.

Neither the second master of the family nor Baoyu had any objection to this, and they did what they could to put together a share for the bottom of the box, but the mother and the younger brother of the same mother were making a fuss every day, and their eyes were green, as if they were moving. They seem to have bought their things, and don't think about an aunt or a bastard. Is it their turn to worry about family wealth?

What's more, the biological daughter and the direct elder sister are not good enough, she has to jump up and down to offend others to death, what is she thinking?Killing a goose to get an egg is nothing more than that, my eyelids are so shallow that people don't know what to say.

Lin Shiyu was quite speechless when she heard the gossip about these parents, and suddenly thought of Tong Zhilan's mother-in-law Hershey.

If you want to say that you don't love your daughter at all, that's not necessarily true, after all, it's your own, but when it comes to interests, you and your son must be the most important, so it's not uncommon to choose to sacrifice your daughter's interests.

No matter whether it was wanting to marry Tanchun to some landlord as a concubine before, or making a fuss about the little dowry, isn't the bottom line just to help his son get some money?

It's also extremely ridiculous. Instead of looking for ways to make a living by himself, a dignified man keeps his eyes on his sisters, wishing to lie on her body and suck blood for a lifetime.

"With such a mother and younger brother on the stall, even if Tanchun gets married in the future, I'm afraid they won't be able to relax. From time to time, they come to the house to make a fuss and make an autumn breeze. I'm afraid that the life of this young couple will be difficult."

"What can I do? I just cast such a baby." Xue Baochai said helplessly: "The only good thing is that Tanchun's temperament can still stand up. If it is changed to Yingchun, it will really be a life of suffocation. Woolen cloth."

"That's true, it still depends on her."

But then again, Tanchun's husband's family may not really dare to treat her badly. After careful consideration, this marriage is estimated to be aimed at Xue's family. They are all businessmen. Isn't it like hitting a ride?

In the same way, how can the small family compete with the Xue family?Xue Baochai is now the person in power in the actual sense of the Xue family, isn't the sister-in-law who dares to bully others crazy?Just those few shops are not enough for others to swallow in one gulp.

It is estimated that Tanchun also understands this in his heart, so he chose this house. Firstly, the life is not enough, but it is more than enough, and secondly, he does not worry about being bullied by his husband's family. With these two guarantees, it is almost enough.

After thinking about it like this, Lin Shiyu felt relieved, looked at her and asked, "What about you? Are you doing well now? In my impression, Baoyu was still looking stupid back then. I'm really worried that you came together with him."

Xue Baochai pursed her lips, and said with a smile: "The second master has been teaching him to read for the past few years, and now he is no longer as muddled and stupid as he was before, but he looks more honest and dull, and he speaks and acts with a brain on weekdays. It’s all pretty neat and orderly.”

Although it is far from the aura of the past, but she is much more satisfied. She does not have the ability to be a master, but she can live a peaceful and down-to-earth life. I'm so mad at myself.

Looking at the expression on her face, she could tell that the couple's life was not bad, so Lin Shiyu also laughed.

The two sisters chatted for a while, and Xue Baochai was puzzled at first when he heard about business matters, but was suddenly hit by a thunderbolt on the head.

"I have an errand here that I am looking for someone to take over. It is to help the palace buy rouge and gouache... I remember that your Xue family also helped the palace buy it, and you should be very familiar with the rules. It would be perfect for your family to do it, I wonder what you like?"

Why is there a pie in the sky?This is not it!

Xue Baochai was stunned for a while.

Why did their Xue family succeed in the business world?It's not just because of the title of "Imperial Merchant", it's a pity that after my father left, the family was not as good as before, and even this job was lost, which made the situation worse.

Although she has brought back a lot of business in the past few years, it is still not as good as before. The difference lies in this level of status. The ordinary merchants are completely different from the imperial merchants who run errands for the palace.

It's not that she didn't think about trying to find a way out, but after trying a few times, she was hit hard. A lot of money was spilled, but she didn't even see a shadow of it. She knew it must be not easy. The name is very valuable, and the richness of it is even more enviable. Don't think about it if you have no connections.

As for the elder sister Lin who is said to be an imperial concubine in the palace... To be honest, she has never thought about it, but she gave up after several hesitation. Failure to become an imperial merchant will not affect the income of the family. It is delicious and delicious. It's enough, but love is used a little less.

What's more, it's a joke to talk about how deep the friendship was back then, but it's just the friendship of the little girl's family. If you keep it carefully, it may be used as a life-saving one day in the future. How can it be so easily consumed? ?

So after thinking about it, she finally stopped thinking about it and just managed the family business honestly, but she never thought that this person who sits at home with pies but comes from the sky is still as important and consumes a lot of rouge and gouache The things have always been fought over by merchants with their heads smashed.

Xue Baochai clearly felt that her heart was beating wildly, wishing she could jump out of her throat in the next moment, took several deep breaths before she stabilized her emotions, and said hesitantly: "This is such a big deal. I can't wait for a good thing, but...is it really okay to snatch food from the mouth of a tiger? Does the emperor know about this?"

Blocking people's money is like killing their parents. This is a death feud. Who would be willing to be robbed so easily?

Hearing this, Lin Shiyu only chuckled, "Of course I know, otherwise, how dare I make my own decisions? The imperial merchants in the House of Internal Affairs should have been rectified a long time ago. The royal family entrusted them with errands. Trust, but instead of doing their job honestly, they took the royal family as fools to fool them, aren’t they looking for death? Who can blame them?”

The one with the rouge and gouache is just one of them. Those imperial merchants are more or less a little bit wrong. If you want to catch the braids, they are full of braids. After these years, they are so courageous that they will go to heaven. This time it can be regarded as a beating, it just depends on whether those people understand or not, if they continue to behave like this... they will be pulled out one by one!

"Ten or eight of them dare not do anything to me, but you can think clearly, once this job falls on your family, this dirty thing in private will be inevitable."

Xue Baochai agreed without even thinking about it. What are you afraid of?Is there any lack of all the open and dark plots and conspiracy that have been experienced in these years?There is no reason to refuse when the pies are delivered to your mouth.

He glanced around and saw that there were no two people around, so he asked bluntly, "What do you want my empress to order?"

This is becoming more and more sophisticated.

Lin Shiyu couldn't help sighing slightly, thinking: "I also know the rouge made by Baoyu himself, which is better than those sold outside. Have you ever thought about opening a workshop by yourself?"

No matter where you are, there must be a distinction between grades, grades, grades, grades, and grades, especially in places like the palace, where high-ranking empresses or some particularly favored concubines are naturally the best in terms of food and clothing. Yes, but in fact these are a minority, and the real big ones are ordinary concubines, and the quality of the rouge and gouache prepared by Jia Baoyu is also sufficient.

"In this way, not to mention the greater profits, the name of the things used by the empress in the palace will definitely prosper and be highly sought after. At that time, I'm afraid it's time to lie down and count the money." So why is there such a quota for the imperial merchants? Where is the hot one?The profits brought here are simply immeasurable.

Xue Baochai's eyes lit up, but she didn't rush to speak, but quietly waited for her to finish speaking.

"I don't want you to give me any money or do anything else for this matter, just one thing - women are hired in the workshops, no matter how many workshops you open in the future, the business will go to any corner of the Qing Dynasty, They only hire women, whether young girls or married women, only women."

Xue Baochai was stunned.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Shiyu roughly summed up three crux points regarding the low status of women.

One is education. Whether intentionally or not, women's education has been underestimated or even ignored for thousands of years. Some people even think that literate women are more obscene, how ridiculous and ridiculous?Even though women cannot become officials through imperial examinations, it is an eternal truth that reading can make people understand.

But what is the truth?The fact is that many of the so-called daughters of rich families and noble families only read some of the "Four Books for Women", and there are very few women who have actually read serious books, so that women are filled with "three obediences and four virtues" and "husband and wife". "Guidelines for wives" These so-called etiquette guidelines are common.

What kind of education is this?It's nothing more than purely slavish education. The so-called ancient teachings and dogmas are even more blatant spiritual shackles, from the inside to the outside, to bind women as firmly as possible and suppress them severely.

The second is rights. Women are deprived of the right to participate in politics, so they can only submit to the men in power, which further deepens the bondage and suppression, and the trend of men superior to women can no longer be shaken.

The third is the economy, whether it is a noble girl from a wealthy family or a girl from a poor background, most of them are confined to activities within the one-acre three-point land from the day they are born, not to mention the ability to make a living , even the courage to go out alone is afraid.

Even if there are women who have no choice but to go out to earn a living, most of them have experienced countless pointing, spurning and contempt. Besides, to be honest, women are born far inferior to men in terms of physical strength, and they are illiterate. They want to find some work. It is not easy to do it, at most it is just doing embroidery and embroidery, and earning three melons and two dates to subsidize the family.

All the food, materials, needles and threads in a lifetime come from the men at home, which further widens the gap between men and women, making women have to obey and be humble.

Under the restraint and suppression of all aspects from spirit to rights to economy, it seems that the disparity in the status of men and women is not so difficult to understand. If a person can only survive by attaching to another person like a dodder, It is inevitable to be humbled into the dust.

Among these three points, she is helpless about rights, but she can still think of ways to deal with the other two points, which is why she came to Xue Baochai today.

Taking over the family business as a daughter so far, Xue Baochai's perception must be more intuitive and thorough than anyone else. When it comes to understanding, she believes that Xue Baochai can understand her thoughts better than anyone else. What's even more rare is that, Xue Baochai also has the ability to help her.

Sure enough, after pondering for a long time, Xue Baochai suddenly let out a long sigh, "This is a huge project, let alone decades, it is almost impossible to see that scene."

How can the traditional ideas of thousands of years be changed so easily?People in the world look down on women who come out to show their faces, let alone women's abilities. This is reality.

"After all, there are still a lot of poor people in this world. No one cares so much for making a living. As long as someone is willing to use it, naturally no one will come. It doesn't matter whether it is more or less. As long as we can successfully take this step... Only by us The strength of the power may be very weak, but it is still the same sentence, as long as we can successfully take this step, we will not be in a hurry in the follow-up."

Everything is difficult at the beginning, but if the beginning is done well, the follow-up will be much smoother.

The poor people who are struggling on the line of food and clothing don't care so much at all. Once they see a woman who can go out to make a living, more people will naturally take that step tentatively. As for whether anyone is willing to hire a woman?

Still the same sentence, just take your time, can you still expect to become fat with one bite?

Even if women are now able to read and earn money, it will not happen overnight if they want to see a woman's status rise. It is even very possible that she will not see a big change until she closes her eyes in her life. Things need to accumulate slowly and permeate slowly.

It seems easy to loosen the shackles, but actually handing over a key is only the first step.

Now I am glad that I am in a high position, and I still have some ability to do something. Although this road is destined to be extremely difficult and long, but...she still has a lifetime.

Xue Baochai naturally did not refuse, not to mention the job of the Imperial Merchant, but based on her own experience in the past few years, she totally agreed with this matter, and even faintly felt a thrill of excitement and trembling. .

Only through personal experience can you know more clearly how cruel this world is to women. No matter how talented you are, no matter how scheming you are, as long as you are a daughter, people around you will look down on you, and even disdain the opportunity to speak It's not uncommon for someone to turn around and leave on the spot, and it's not uncommon for someone to sneer and swear face to face, or to speak frivolously.

The experience of the first two years still lingers in my throat in retrospect. It is clear that her ability is not inferior to those men. It can be seen from the development of these few years, but even so, she still does not get the respect she deserves. Even those men A fat-headed waste who is eating his old money and dawdling around can despise her from above, just because she is a woman.

The world is difficult, and it is even more difficult for women, but as a woman, what reason does she have to refuse?

Immediately, Xue Baochai said: "Not only the rouge and gouache workshop in the future, I will also slowly change the other industries of the Xue family, and some merchants who have made good friends with the Xue family... In fact, I have this job in front of me. It’s already much easier, businessmen are profit-seeking by nature, and they will jump on them when they see a profit, and then they only need to spread some gossip if there seems to be nothing, and they will naturally know where to use their energy.”

Lin Shiyu nodded, and said with a smile: "I have lived in the deep palace for a long time, and my eyes are blackened by the outside world. You still need to pay more attention to this matter."

"Your Majesty's words are off the charts. How can I thank you for the matter of the Emperor's Merchant?"

The two sisters just said a few polite words, and then discussed the matter in detail for a long time, and didn't stop until it was close to lunch time. If they wanted to save a meal, Xue Baochai seemed to be full of energy and impatient, and was in a hurry. He went out of the palace.

Helpless, Lin Shiyu had no choice but to go with her, and when she was sitting at the dinner table, she suddenly realized that something was missing, "Where is Xiao Si? It seems that I haven't seen him this morning? Now that my legs and feet are sharp, I can't feel it anymore." Home, heartless little thing."

Nanny Yu was about to feel wronged for her little elder brother, and said angrily, "Your Majesty forgot? It was you who kicked fourth elder brother out of the house with your own words in the morning."

"Uh..." Lin Shiyu was embarrassed, and muttered with a smile: "Didn't you forget it in a hurry? Send someone to find out where it is. It's strange that the little greedy cat can still miss a meal. "

Just now, I saw Yin Xiaosi's round figure appearing, his milky little face was dark, and it seemed that he could feel the anger from a long distance away.

"Little Four? Why are you wet?" Coincidentally, the wet seat is still in a sensitive place, and Lin Shiyu looked at him with subtle eyes, "You peed your pants ?”

"I didn't! It was Yinhu who pissed!" Yin Xiaosi jumped up in anger, pointed at the little milk dumpling behind him and said angrily: "He has to hang on me when he sleeps, that's all. Who knows he He also peed all over me, it stinks to death!"

Yin Xiaoba stumbled and chased behind his butt all the way with his short legs, and wiped his tears all the way. He was still sobbing at the moment, his little head drooped low, and he stepped forward with a pair of fat claws to pull His fourth brother's pants.

"Take off, take off...Xiao Baxi."