Old things in the Red Chamber

Xue Pan wanted to see Hua'er, and Hua'er also wanted to meet these people from the capital.

When Xue Pan sent a large sum of money for the first time, the money-greedy old bustard who was still playing tricks greeted him with a smile.The two parties agreed to have a drink and listen to music together on the Qinhuai River in the evening.

When Xue Pan brought Jia Baoyu to the Qinhuai River, the lanterns had just come on, and the flower boats on the Qinhuai River were open for business at night.Hanging red lanterns, on the sparkling Qinhuai River, playing Jiangnan ditties, don't be romantic.

The servants who followed said, "This place is good, this place is even better than the capital city."

Fortunately, they can't tell where, but Jia Baoyu can say, "Ten feet of soft red dust, gentle and rich township."

Here is the best wine in the south of the Yangtze River, the most exquisite flower boat, the most beautiful girl and the best music, which made Jia Baoyu suddenly become poetic.

The person following him took out a white folding fan, opened it for him, and put the polished ink in front of him.Jia Baoyu immediately wrote a poem, and felt bad after reading it, so he put down his pen and ink and wanted to tear it up, but when he was tearing up the fan, he thought of Qingwen for no reason.

Jia Baoyu suddenly fell into a dementia, "I heard that she has become a fairy in the sky, but I don't know if she is happy or not?"

"My lord...can you borrow my folding fan?"

Wu Yin Ruanyu, delicate and pretty, covered half of her face with a round fan, wearing a red silk dress, and the gold jewelry on her head reflected a faint light under the distant light.

This is a beauty.The beauty of a woman is in her bones, not her appearance.

Jia Baoyu handed out the folding fan, the beauty took it shyly, read it, thought about it, and looked up again, the owner of the folding fan was overwhelmed by his talent.

"My slave Sai Honglian..."

Hua'er, the commander of Jinling's dark guards, walked back and forth restlessly on the boat, "Didn't it say that the sunset for those named Xue and Jia arrived? What time is it now, don't wait, let's go back."

"My lord commander, this is not the time to lose your temper, we need to confirm that there is something prohibited in their salute..."

"My good mother, their salutes are full of prohibited things, do you need to ask? Besides, how many places they have passed along the way, and the capital is crouching tiger, hidden dragon, why don't you check it. Instead, this crap job falls to us."

"Don't be angry, there's nothing you can do about it. Who made us their final destination? Besides, they won't get off the boat, no matter how many places they pass by, our people can't check it, right? You this time Be careful when you start, don't accidentally throw Mrs. Jia into the water like last time, it's cold, people are afraid of losing the map, so they don't dare to change clothes."

"Last time... I said that I am not suitable to be a commander. I am a killer. Do you think I can do it twice? No, if I don't chop off their heads..."

The hidden guard pretending to be a boatman outside the door shouted, "Mom, girl, the distinguished guest has arrived."

"Here you are, please come aboard." The old bustard called out, took out her handkerchief from under her arm, and shook the flowers, "My lord, if we ask today, we don't need a second time. It’s like when you kill someone, once the knife is over, there’s no need for a second knife.”

After speaking, twisting his waist, amidst loud laughter, he opened the bead curtain and went out.

"Hey, how about the magpie...calling today. It turns out that the distinguished guests have come. Didn't you mean two gentlemen? Why did only one come?"

"It's enough for the uncle to hurt you alone." Xue Pan twisted on the old bustard's buttocks, causing the old bustard's handkerchief to hit him in the face.

"Where is Miss Hua'er? Let the uncle take a look. If the uncle is satisfied, I will give you any amount of makeup and powder you want."

"Our girl is an upright girl, she is a performer but not her own body."

"The uncle likes the Qing Dynasty. The lean horses and school books in Yangzhou are not the Qing Dynasty. As long as they are willing to spend money... Oh, this must be the flower girl."

Xue Pan waved his folding fan pretending to be elegant, and saw a little girl sitting in the cabin who was as cold as ice, so he hurried in and looked around the little girl, "I didn't expect that Jia Xuan liked this tune." , I said it earlier, the uncle has seen it too. Come on, bring up the head wrap for the girl."

A few slaves outside brought up a dozen bolts of silk and satin, put down a box, and slowly retreated.

"Come on, come, what are you bringing?" The old bustard twisted to go over, opened the box first, and saw that it was full of nine inches of gold.

"Oh, my dear mother, this, this, this..." The old bustard ran over in small steps, "Is this a gift for our girl?"

Xue Pan is very satisfied with the current development of the matter, "Small, if mom agrees to introduce someone, after the matter is done, there will be more than this."

"Who?"

"Jia Xie, we are also relatives, but he is a person who is not recognized by his relatives. It is not easy to see him. When he was a guard in the capital earlier, how did that sentence say, his eyes grew to the top of his head, and now he is more I don’t treat relatives as human beings. I heard that my mother sent a daughter to him..."

The old bustard quickly interrupted him, pretending to be stern and said, "It's nothing, it's nothing, don't talk nonsense, I'll let someone pass the food, let's drink slowly, drink, hahaha, drink." Shi Shi winked at Xue Pan and pouted in the direction of Hua'er.

Xue Pan immediately made a look of sudden realization, "Oh, girl Hua'er, it's your fault. Isn't your sister your sister? I'll show you a way to make sure you get what you want."

Hua'er glanced at him, and the old lady quickly stood behind her and pulled her, "You said, we Hua'er girls are willing to go any way."

"The old lady in the Rongguo Mansion in the capital city is Jia Xuan's biological grandmother. If someone tells the old lady, this matter will be settled."

The old bustard gave Hua'er a hard push, Hua'er picked up the jug from the table, Da Ma poured a glass for Xue Pan, "What do you want?"

"Forgive me, Mr. Xue, our girl was overwhelmed by the incident. Mr. Xue drinks and drinks. This is a 20-year-old wine made from sorghum. Let me tell you, Mrs. Jia loves this wine."

Having said that, Xue Pan became even more curious, and took a sip of his wine glass to suffocate.After drinking it, he felt that the wine was really strong, and it was still on top. After a while, he shook his head, feeling top-heavy, but there was someone beside him who kept flattering and persuading him, so he continued to drink two glasses.

Seeing that the man was already drunk, the old bustard beckoned the man to come and put down the curtains, blew out a few candles, and the flower boat extinguished the lanterns, and walked quietly into the darkness.

"Uncle Xue, did you send all the dowry this time?"

"It's not...my aunt...hiccup...wouldn't give a dowry to concubines, I...tell you, you are not allowed to tell people that a serious dowry...is something that girls often use in their own rooms."

"Didn't you say that there is a lot of dowry? Why do I see thirty or forty boats coming? They say that the rich men of the Rongguo Mansion sent a concubine daughter to marry like this. I don't know how many people are jealous of the Zhen family. They all say that their family Marrying a family of rich and noble relatives, who knows that it is a donkey dung that has a good face."

"You... hiccup... hiccup... what do you know, their family has... been unable to eat for a long time, and it all depends on our family... to help them. When the empress was still there... hiccup... all depended on our family's money." Xue Pan patted his chest with difficulty, "Our family's... hiccup... silver, save face for the empress."

"According to Uncle Xue, it's because they don't have a dowry. What's in the boat this time?"

"I don't know... I heard... it's iron. And... our products."

The two awake people in the room looked at each other, and wanted to ask again, but Xue Pan fell asleep lying on the table.

"Come here, throw their master and servant into the boat and send them ashore. Don't let them remember what happened today."

Two women came in, lifted Xue Pan up and went out.

"According to him, it should be a weapon."

"How many weapons? Who are they for? Where are the people using the weapons?" After Hua'er asked, she thought for a while. It's very easy to dismount."

"When will this be reported?"

"Of course it is now."

"But we haven't figured out if it's a weapon yet."

"I am the commander, and I will report it when I say it."

Hua'er rubbed her temples, thinking that this matter is over, she must apply to the commander-in-chief for another job, I heard that that damn girl Cao'er personally protects the young master, why don't you give me such a good job, someone Dare to assassinate?Come one to kill one, come two to kill one pair.Moreover, Cao'er is good at collecting information, so the work floating on the Qinhuai River is suitable for her.

Xue Pan woke up at noon the next day, and when he woke up, he had already forgotten what he said yesterday.

"Master, you are awake. After you got drunk on someone else's boat yesterday, they sent you off, but our Second Master Bao stayed on someone else's boat."

"Baoyu didn't come down? Does Jia Xun know about it?"

"He... probably doesn't know."

"Hurry up and bring Baoyu back, let Jia Xun know that Baoyu has offended him, and it will be even more difficult to ask him to do things."

"Grandpa, are you thinking wrong? Second Master Bao didn't go with you to that flower girl's boat yesterday."

"Then where did he go?"

"You've already finished drinking, Second Master Bao left with a match peony."

"You're always wrong," said the boy who came in with the wash water, "it's Sai Hehua, no, it's Sai Honglian's."

"That's her, she's her. I heard that she's also a celebrity on the Qinhuai River. Yesterday, he coaxed Second Master Bao to write poems for her. Second Master Bao wrote a lot. This morning, both sides of the river are talking about it."

"Oh." Xue Pan patted himself on the head, "Is there anything urgent today? If not, don't pick him up."

"You forgot, the last shipment of the dowry of the three girls of Rongguo Mansion will be delivered today. After the delivery, it will be signed and signed."

"It's the same as going to court," Xue Pan became irritable, "If there is only one boat left, I will go there in person, and I will do the pledge for my cousin."