[Qing Chuan + Red Mansion] Midas touch

Just as they were talking, Sanchun and Baoyu came in from the outside.Several people saluted the elders in the house first, and then Baoyu asked Aunt Xue with a smile: "Why didn't Sister Bao come?"

Baoyu was not interested in middle-aged and elderly women. Seeing Aunt Xue was here, he naturally asked Zuo Xi.Others know him very well and don't take it seriously.However, when Aunt Xue saw Baoyu, she thought of what happened yesterday, and she felt a little uncomfortable in her heart.Now seeing Baoyu asking Zuo Xi again, Aunt Xue could hardly keep the smile on her face.But at the end of his age, he wouldn't lose his composure just because of such a trivial matter.Smiling at Baoyu, he said, "She's packing up at home, so I'll come and bid farewell to the old lady."

"With his own things, he has his own girl and woman, so he doesn't bother with Sister Bao. After leaving, we won't see each other for many days. My sister should come with my aunt, so we can have a good time."

Then you are afraid that you want to eat farts.

"Your sister also said she would come. She just didn't pay attention last night and hurt her ankle. That's why she stayed at home."

As soon as Baoyu heard this, his heart of pity and pity for the fragrance and jade could not bear it. Before the old lady, Mrs. Wang and others asked about Zuo Xi's situation, Baoyu opened his mouth to ask about Zuo Xi's injury.

What Aunt Xue can say is that it's okay, and it will be fine after a few days.He replied to Baoyu, then smiled and told the old lady that it was cold this year and there were ice skates everywhere, so be careful when you go out.

Because of the latter sentence, everyone thought that Zuo Xi had stepped on an ice skate and slipped.Because this kind of thing is very common in winter in the capital, everyone didn't think much about it.

For a while, Aunt Xue saw that the time was almost up, so she got up to say goodbye, but before she finished speaking, the girl who was pulling the curtain at the door shouted into the room, "Masters are here."

Hearing this, Aunt Xue's heart skipped a beat again.

She was afraid of other people's gossip, and she was afraid of being misunderstood by her own children. Third, she was even more worried that such rumors would reach the ears of the old lady and her family.Seeing the sound of footsteps and greetings getting closer and closer, Aunt Xue followed Li Wan and hid behind Li Wan with a blank mind. Then, under Li Wan's surprised eyes, she exited Rongqing Hall from the back door with a blank face.

Recently, Rongguo Mansion has two major events, one is to build the provincial relatives' hospital, and the other is to raise money.It was precisely because of these things that she was bothered that Aunt Xue's actions of avoiding suspicion never attracted the attention of others.

Here, the gentlemen of the Ningrong and Rongfu began to discuss with Jia Mu and others about various matters concerning the construction of the other courtyard. Over there, Aunt Xue left the Rongqing Hall in a hurry, walking towards the Lixiangyuan with a little panic in her eyes.

When they arrived at Lixiangyuan, Xue Pan had already regained his sleep, and Zuo Xi was already dressed properly and waiting for her.Seeing Aunt Xue came back, but after saying two or three words, the group went back home.

Zuo Xi hurt his foot and it was inconvenient to get on and off the carriage, so Xue Pan asked someone to carry a sedan chair for four people over.The sedan chair was no more comfortable and warmer than the carriage, so Yinger took a foot stove and a hand stove to keep Zuo Xi warm.When Zuo Xi sat down firmly, he took another bear skin that Xue Pan had brought back this year to cover his lap.

The sedan chair was wobbly, making people sleepy.Zuo Xi slept very well last night, but she was shaken in such a small space and wanted to close her eyes and squint for a while.

Afraid that he would catch a cold if he fell asleep in the sedan chair, Zuo Xiqiang raised his spirits and opened a corner of the sedan chair curtain to look out.The end of the new year is approaching, the streets are full of people, lively and noisy, and the appearance of a peaceful and prosperous world makes people feel a little more lighthearted.

"Yinger."

Ying'er was walking along the side of the sedan chair, and when she heard Zuo Xi calling her in the sedan chair, she quickly moved two steps closer to the sedan chair, and asked in a crisp voice. "What did the girl call me?"

"I just saw there is a seller of sugar-fried chestnuts over there, go and buy some."

Yinger responded and went to buy, and returned to the sedan chair after a while, and handed in the oiled paper bag containing candied chestnuts through the window of the sedan chair.

Sitting in a sedan chair, eating sweet roasted chestnuts with sugar, and drinking water from the small apartment when thirsty.On the way home, Zuo Xi didn't feel sleepy anymore.

Although this time and space cannot be compared with modern times, the happiness that food brings to people is the same.

After eating fried chestnuts with sugar all the way, when he returned to Xue's house, Zuo Xi couldn't even eat his lunch.

Compared with the slightly awkward and deserted lunch at the Xue family, the Lin family in Yangzhou may have fewer people, but the atmosphere is much more harmonious than that at the Xue family.

Lin Ruhai had already decided to resign.

After all, he is so weak that he can't afford heavy official duties.It's nothing to occupy the latrine, and something may happen after a long time.

On the day when Jia Lian set off to return to Beijing, Lin Ruhai handed over the resignation letter, and then spent a few days handing over to the lower officials in the yamen. The back house of the mansion was moved out.

A Yangzhou salt merchant gave Lin Ruhai a three-entry garden two years ago on Lin Ruhai's birthday.

After moving to this house, Lin Ruhai paid a lot of money to the two imperial physicians and masters of the capital invited by Zuo Xi, and then chartered a boat to send them back to Beijing.

After that, Lin Ruhai took Daiyu to live in this house for a while.While quietly collecting the Lin family's property, while waiting for the approval of resignation from the capital.

His own body knew that Lin Ruhai knew better than anyone that he was now at the end of his battle.Now what he worries about is only Daiyu's flesh and blood.After much deliberation, Lin Ruhai did exactly what Daiyu wanted, planning to adopt a child.However, for Daiyu's sake and for the Lin family's sake, Lin Ruhai kept a backup.

Both the Lin clan and Lin Ruhai's branch have already produced five suits, and there is not much difference between adopting them and adopting one from the Yangshengtang.

So not long after moving out of Xunyan Yushi's mansion, a big girl who waited on Lin Ruhai's daily life was promoted to a concubine because she was pregnant.

During the Chinese New Year, the aunt was five months pregnant.The slightly protruding belly made the mother-in-law who saw her discuss in private whether her baby was a boy or a girl.

It is said that seven births and eight births are not. The aunt of the Lin family went out to offer incense when she was seven months old. She didn't want to move her fetus and gave birth prematurely.

After earning his life to give birth to a boy for the Lin family, he left.Lin Ruhai was grateful that she had left an heir for the Lin family, and specially adopted the lost aunt as his stepmother.

Lin Ruhai gave his newly acquired son the status of a step-son by using the method of giving the dead man his identity.After that, he sent someone back to Gusu to make a genealogy for the stepmother and his son.

In this way, those members of the Lin clan in Gusu also had to give up the idea of ​​adopting their own son to the Lin family.

After the funeral was over, Lin Ruhai's resignation was confirmed, and then Lin Ruhai took Daiyu and Xinde's youngest son, Brother Xuan, to the capital at an extremely slow speed.

Daiyu had to take care of her terminally ill father and raise her young brother who was waiting to be fed, but within a month or two, her whole person became comparable to that grandma Lian Er from Rongguo Mansion.

Daiyu has a thousand-lock box of the Mohist school. The opening method of the thousand-lock box is extremely complicated. In addition to a key hidden in the Guanyin pendant, it needs 37 steps of splicing and moving to open the lock.Once the 37-step splicing combination is wrong, you have to start all over again. It is extremely complicated, and Daiyu has to put [-] points of thought into it every time she opens it.

The thousand lock box was put together with Jiu Lianhuan and Hua Rongdao, no one knew whether the thousand lock box was a play toy or contained some important objects.

In this world, only Lin Ruhai and Daiyu's father and daughter knew that the box contained the banknotes obtained from the sale of half of the Lin family's property and the true life experience of the young master of the Lin family.

The doctor's false pregnancy diagnosis, the Yangshengtang's adoption certificate, and the aunt's "confession letter"...

With these, even if this child does not become the younger brother Daiyu expected, he will not be able to use his status as the young master of the Lin family to hurt Daiyu.

If he is a good-natured young man as expected, then he will always be the young master of the Lin family.

After Lin Ruhai sold more than half of the Lin family's property, he handed over all the money to Daiyu for safekeeping.

From the remaining half of the Lin family's property, Lin Ruhai picked out the dowries of the mistresses of the past, packed them into boxes, and drew up a dowry list for Daiyu to keep alone.

After a lot of tossing, Lin Jiaming's family property is only one-third of what it used to be.

Zuo Xi, who was far away in the capital, didn't know about these things, nor did the members of the Jia family in the Rongguo Mansion who were obsessed with the property of the Lin family.

Lin Ruhai's body is not suitable for long journeys, but he can't really ask himself to die in the south of the Yangtze River.It was convenient for him to be buried in Jiangnan, but his son and daughter would have to be buried with him.

Lin Ruhai also couldn't go to the capital in Jia Yuanchun's province, because Lin Ruhai knew that the Rongguo Mansion was short of funds and didn't want the Lin family to become the pocketbook of the Rongguo Mansion.Secondly, they didn't want the Lin family to join in the frenzied excitement of the Rongguo Mansion.

Because of this, it took Lin Ruhai nearly a year to bring Daiyu and Brother Xuan to the capital with stop and go.

The day the Lin family entered Beijing was already at the end of February, not to mention that the family visit was over long ago, and even the arrangements for the admission to the garden after the family visit were completed.A group of people quietly entered the capital, and lived in the Lin family's old house in the capital quietly. After everything was settled down and Lin Ruhai took the medicine prescribed by the imperial physician and the master of the capital, the Lin family sent someone to go to the capital. The Rongguo Mansion sent a post.

This is a later story, let's not mention it for the time being.

Back on the 43th day of the twelfth lunar month in the 26rd year of Kangxi, after the Xue family moved all their belongings and luggage back to the Xue family, they prepared for the New Year as they did in the previous two years.

Since Jiuye became a shareholder of Xue's shop, the Xue family will give New Year's gifts to Jiuye's mansion every year.Master Jiu will also reward you with some things, and it will be a little more face-saving for you to come and go.

Since the concubine's visiting relatives had already been settled, every household had already started to build visiting relatives' homes, and Master Jiu, who actually controlled Xue's shop, was even more busy.

He is already busy at the end of the year, and he still wants to make a fortune in next year's relatives, so this year will be all used for stocking up and confirming orders.

When Steward Xue went to Jiuye's mansion to give the New Year's gift, Jiuye listened and muttered to Qin Baliang, "'It's really a fool's blessing', how busy is the master here? I really think of myself as a hand-off shopkeeper."

"Since you can't see it, why don't you assign the matter to him."

Hearing the words, Master Jiu scolded Qin Ba with a smile, and then said, "Master, you don't want to clean up the mess for that idiot of the Xue family."

Qin Baliang smiled and flattered Lord Jiu when he heard the words, and the master and servant continued to bow their heads and get busy.

As for Xue Pan, who was called a fool by Master Jiu, he brought back a starling for Zuo Xi, who had a foot injury in the house.

The brothers and sisters teased the starling for a while, and Xue Pan asked Yinger to take it down and clean it up before sending it back.

After Yinger left, Xue Pan picked up the apples on the table and began to eat them.While gnawing, he was distracted with preoccupations.He didn't wake up until he ate up the whole apple, even the core of the apple.

Seeing him like this, Zuo Xi knew that he had something to say to him, but he still hesitated or didn't decide whether to say it or not.

So Zuo Xi didn't urge him, just sat opposite Xue Pan, watching him in a daze.

After a while, Xue Pan finally made up his mind, opened his mouth and asked what he had thought about for a long time, "Sister, do you want to enter the palace? I mean, do you want to enter the palace yourself? Not for this family, nor for I'm not doing it for my father's last wish either. As far as your own thoughts are concerned, do you want to enter the palace?"

Zuo Xi didn't expect Xue Pan to ask such a question, and was really caught by his words for a moment.

Does she want to enter the palace?

If it is the kind of entering the palace to visit and do some not too hard and not dangerous work after entering the palace, she thought.

I want to see Master Kang who kills his wife and treats his son like an eagle. I want to see the fourth master who is hardworking and thrifty. I want to see the Eight Worthy King who uses his wife as a shield. I want to see That chivalrous Thirteenth Master wants to see Master Yi in Weifu's private interview, wants to see...

In her heart, she wanted to enter the palace.

But this kind of entering the palace, which is like visiting and worshiping, is completely different from the kind of entering the palace that the Xue family thought.

Go to a place where you kneel when you see people, open your mouth and shut your mouth and call yourself a slave, and you can't sleep with your head up, and then try every means to seduce an old man in his fifties, and then follow a group of women, sisters, and sisters. Even if you just think about it, left Xi felt sorry for her socialist morality.

"I don't know either." Withdrawing his mind, Zuo Xi looked at Xue Pan, and saw that he was waiting for his answer with burning eyes.Zuo Xi thought for a while, then shook his head lightly, "I heard people say in a daze, that the old man will be in his fifties at the beginning of the new year, which is about the same as today."

She is really not interested in the old man.

Xue Pan: "..."

He just said, this old man is ruining people.