The maid of the red house

Seeing Xueyan's expression, Daiyu knew what she was thinking, and sighed: "It's hard for Sister Bao."

She just obeyed the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker.

The golden and jade marriage has been rumored for so long, and now it is just another one.

Daiyu secretly rejoiced that thanks to the strict guard around her, she not only taught nuns, but also relied on everyone's help. Although some people in the mansion often said that she was petty and mean, her reputation of innocence in such matters was already gone. disappeared.

Thinking of this, I feel a little sympathetic to Baochai.

I don't have these reputations. Although I have Jia Mu's wishes, if I don't succeed in the future, I can have another future.It's just that Baochai was under Jia's mother's disapproval, and the mothers of the two parties made such a bad plan. Daiyu thought this was really a bad plan.

Although she didn't like Baochai's hidden adultery, after years of experience, she also thought that Baoyu might not be worthy of her.

Xueyan said calmly: "Zi is not a fish, how do you know the joy of fish?"

Daiyu was startled, thinking of Baochai's treatment of Baoyu, she felt a little bit of joy in it, nodded unconsciously and said, "You're right, I'm not Sister Bao, so naturally I don't know what Sister Bao is thinking."

Baoyu has now grown into a personable and handsome son of Zhuo Shijia, with a good character, so she must be willing.

If you want to, that's fine.

Knowing that she was feeling emotional again, Xueyan hurriedly said: "Our Dragon Boat Festival gifts have been sent out, and everyone has returned the gifts. I picked out some of the best ones and sent them to everyone."

Daiyu was noncommittal and said, "Let's go."

Daiyu's identity as a guest in Rongguo Mansion is not a guest, and it is justifiable to send gifts to outsiders, but it is not appropriate for these people in Rongguo Mansion to give gifts, so they have always been later than the ceremony. Distribute everywhere.

Xueyan found that it is not impolite to take things from others and give them away. Many people do this. It is the things that Jia Mu got when she celebrated her birthday. Some very precious and large things will be kept from others , and then send it to someone else.

She first went to deliver it to Jia She and his wife, and asked the two women to carry the things.

After the old garden was demolished and merged into the Grand View Garden, Jia Amnesty’s courtyard became smaller and smaller, but the layout was still exquisite and compact as before. The snow geese meandered all the way to Mrs. Xing’s courtyard. In the courtyard, it must have been too hot to run out. She was about to call the door when Mrs. Fang Xing said, "What have we become? What have we become?"

Xueyan was startled, glanced at the woman who was following, hurriedly stepped up, and said loudly: "Is the wife at home?"

After the words fell, Madam Xing could be heard saying in the window: "It's a snow goose? Come in!"

Jin Bao lifted the curtain and saw the snow geese, he was slightly startled, hurried down the steps to greet them, took something that a woman was holding, with a smile on his face, and said: "Madam told you to go in." He scolded the little girl again. Being lazy, no one reported in the courtyard, with a trace of shame, he said to Xueyan: "The little girls in our courtyard don't know where they went, so I'm sorry to call the door."

Xueyan also took something from the other woman and sent her back first, Fang turned around and said with a smile: "I don't mind, it's just that my sister persuaded my wife to be more careful, it's hot, and I'm sweating all over the place."

Jin Bao said, "Only you are a smart person."

Putting his mouth close to Xueyan's ear, he said softly: "Our wife is angry, please be more careful."

Xueyan also whispered: "It's alright, what's madam upset about?" I've never heard of Jia She's happening here to make Mrs. Xing angry. How to be obedient and obedient to Jia She, Jia She never doted on his concubine and killed his wife, did not give her face, but lived more in his concubine's room.

Jin Bao snorted and said, "What else? It's not the Dragon Boat Festival gift from the empress today!"

"Could it be that there's something wrong with this Dragon Boat Festival ceremony? I've never heard of it. Good sister, tell me quickly." Xueyan was taken aback, the ceremony gift from Yuanchun was placed in Jia Mu's room, she only paid attention to the girls, I didn't care how many gifts the masters and wives had, but I vaguely remembered that their gift was one less agate pillow than Jiamu's.

Jin Bao sneered and said, "But it's very wrong, our master and wife don't have a single bone in the fan!"

Xueyan was taken aback, and said: "Impossible? I think my sister remembered it wrong? The aunts and concubines of the Xue family all have a ceremony, but why don't the elders and mistresses in the mansion not?"

Jin Bao said: "How can I remember wrongly? Our wife heard that the empress has rewarded things, so she went over there, but who knows that there is no one from our master and wife. I read, except for grandma and girls and Bao Erye Bao girl, only The second master, the second wife, and Aunt Xue have one more Xiangruyi than the second master Bao and Miss Bao, and one less agate pillow than the old lady."

After hearing this, Xueyan vaguely remembered that Xiren in the original book only mentioned Mrs., Master, and Concubine, and no one else was mentioned, and did not mention the Eldest Master and Eldest Wife.In this mansion, when it comes to the master and wife, they are Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang. They are rarely called the second master and the second wife. Instead, Jia She and his wife are called the elder master and the elder wife.

After Xueyan found out that Daiyu's fate had long been divorced from the original book, she didn't think much about the deeds in the original book.

Thinking about it now, referring to the master in general is definitely not an offensive tone. The wife and master in her mouth must not refer to the two masters and the two wives, but only to Mrs. Wang and Jia Zheng, because when she mentioned Sanchun, she meant The second girl, the third girl, and the fourth girl, if the girls are separated like this, let alone the master?

In other words, only Jia Mu, Jia Zheng, Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue, Li Wan, Sister Feng and Daiyu, Sanchun and Baochai and Baoyu have the rituals rewarded by Yuanchun this time, and no one else, including the Rongguo Mansion, is justified. The long room of Xijue.

"No matter what you do, you must not forget your uncle and aunt. Could it be the wrong delivery?" Xue Yan secretly wondered, after all, Yuan Chun is the lord of a palace, and everyone is watching her actions. Her behavior is really out of line. , I entered the palace as the eldest daughter of the Rongguo Mansion, but I just missed the etiquette of the Lord of the Rongguo Mansion?unreasonable.

Jin Bao sighed: "But the things happen to be clearly signed one by one."

Xueyan also sighed together, no wonder Mrs. Xing was annoyed.

While speaking, Madam Xing had already entered the upper room. Madam Xing was sitting on the couch, shaking the plantain fan. The anger on her face was still there. When she saw the things that Xueyan and Jinbao brought, a trace of satisfaction flashed across her eyes, and she said, "I said You girls are good children, always remembering us, it’s not like other people regard what should be our master as their own parents! No matter what kind of master or wife, you are not afraid of losing your fortune!"

Xueyan couldn't answer, so she said with a smile: "Madam sees our girl's filial piety, smile, and feel better."

Usually, she would just send things and hand in the gift list, and never show them. Today, in order to make Mrs. Xing happy, she showed her all the things that had been piled up on the Luohan's bed opposite, "Our girl specially picked them out. The best filial piety to the old lady is only a little thinner than the old lady, and no one else can match it."

Mrs. Xing smiled and said: "Your girl is the most polite, and that's all I love about her."

As he said that, he couldn't suppress the anger in his chest, and said: "I heard that your girls and our sisters all got the same thing, only two fans and counting beads? Sure enough, we are a family, how can we compare To be respectable to outsiders, give them as much as possible, and forget about your own family!"

Facing Mrs. Xing's anger, Xueyan smiled and said, "Madam still expects those things to be successful for the festival?"

Mrs. Xing said: "Want to count on those things? I don't even pass the Dragon Boat Festival, I'm just so angry. Forget it, don't delay with me, you girls still have something to send to everywhere! Jinbao, go and get a purse for Xueyan, it's hard for her to come here with such a long journey against the sun."

Jin Bao agreed, and Xue Yan stepped back.

When Jin Bao sent her out, he stuffed her purse and said with a smile: "Here, our wife's reward is not something everyone can get."

Xueyan pursed her lips and smiled, before leaving, she said: "Sister, try to persuade my wife. After all, what can I do if I am annoyed about these things? Anyway, everyone has a clear eye, just watch!"

Jin Bao nodded and watched her leave.

When Xueyan returned to the room and talked to Daiyu, unexpectedly Daiyu nodded slightly and said: "I have noticed that there are no uncles and aunts, but I don't know why, so I didn't say it. I think the empress forgot. gone."

Because there was no one in the room, Xue Yanfang said: "Whether you forget it or not, it's a bit natural after all."

Jia Amnesty was the one who took over the title, and this Rongguo Mansion is not owned by Jia Zheng.

Daiyu's eyebrows were tinged with sorrow, and she said: "I'm fine, I have sisters as companions. The uncle and aunt seem to have been forgotten, and I can't blame the aunt for being annoyed. Brothers are locked in the wall, and they can't defend themselves from the outside." Insult is an ominous sign."

Xueyan agreed: "Young lady is right."

As she spoke, she casually opened the purse that Mrs. Xing had rewarded her with, only to see that there were actually two little golden begonias inside. She couldn't help being surprised, and said to Daiyu: "The eldest lady is really generous this time. I didn’t even get a single silver key, at most a few hundred dollars, and today I got a pair of gold keys.”

Daiyu glanced at it and sighed, "I think the eldest aunt is very annoyed."

Xueyan nodded, put the carabiner back into her purse, put it in the small money box in her room and locked it, and when Daiyu disappeared, she raised her voice and asked the little girl outside, who replied, "Go, girl." The old lady is in her room, someone is looking for her."

Xueyan hurriedly lifted the curtain and came out, wondering: "Who is looking for the girl?"

The little girl smiled and said: "I don't know. Sister Yuanyang came to call the girl. I just seem to have heard something and returned to Beijing. Several women came and gave a lot of things. I can't tell which family they belong to by their clothes. Even ours No third-class servant can compare!"

Xueyan thought carefully, only the Sang family was dressed in simple clothes, could it be someone from the Sang family?But when the Sang family sent people over, it was always those two women, and the little girls in their room were often seen, and they would not fail to recognize them.If it was someone else, Xueyan really couldn't remember which family it was.

Just as he was in doubt, he saw Yuanyang escorting the four women out.

Seeing the mandarin duck's expression, Xue Yan looked respectful, and looked at the four women a few times, but still got no results.

After a long time, I saw Daiyu returning to the room, and Zijuan took the girls and servants to move things. There were three or four big boxes in total, and they were so heavy that I didn't know what they contained.

Xueyan went up to meet him and asked, "Whose family sent it?"

Daiyu's cheeks were full of joy, her eyes were smiling, and her tone was brisk, she said: "My cousin and aunt came to Beijing. I just came to Beijing yesterday. Today I specially sent some boxes of earthenware gifts to me, and asked me to come to Beijing tomorrow." past."

Daiyu's cousin and aunt is Sang Long's wife. When Xueyan heard it, she couldn't help being surprised, and said: "Isn't my cousin and wife in Shanhaiguan? Why did you suddenly return to Beijing? I haven't heard of the news before. My cousin and wife invited the girl Let's meet in the past, old lady agree?"

Sitting back on the chair under the window, Daiyu said: "The old lady has already agreed, so don't delay the first day of the new year to go to Yuxu Temple to have a safe offering. The woman sent by my aunt said that my aunt said that she would return to Beijing in the old year. It’s just that I’ve been sick for a while, and it’s been half a year since I’ve had it. Last year’s winter was hard to walk, and I didn’t know when I’d be back after a delay of more than a year. The young daughter-in-law over there didn’t tell me, and I didn’t want to arrive yesterday.”

Xueyan said happily: "I will prepare the clothes and jewelry for the girl to wear when she goes out tomorrow."

After speaking, go to work.

Sang's mother is Daiyu's elder. After she returns to Beijing, she will definitely walk around with various families. Now she sends someone to deliver things to Daiyu, which shows that she takes Daiyu seriously. When the time comes, she will definitely take Daiyu out to socialize. It's justified, unlike Mrs. Xu, who is a junior after all, so it's not easy to take Daiyu out.

The author has something to say: the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony is just a family statement, just to write about the deepening conflict between the two families.

To be more objective, there may be Jia She and his wife.

But thinking about what Xiren said in the original book, after all, it is not very clear, and Xiren also talked about the wife, master and concubine, not the two wives, the two masters and the concubine, nor the eldest wife, second wife, or elder , the second master, but when it comes to the girls, it is Miss Lin, the second girl, the third girl, and the fourth girl.