Love of Friends in the Red Chamber

Zicuckoo has always known her duty.

She is the son of Rongguo Mansion, her father is a clerk in the account room, and her mother is the daughter-in-law in charge of the sewing room in Jiamu's courtyard. Here, I grew up with a group of little sisters.Mother Jia liked her very much and often praised her: "What a clever child."

Both Xiren and Qingwen gave Baoyu orders, and everyone knew in their hearts that Baoyu was the phoenix of Rongguo Mansion, and serving Baoyu was naturally the first-class job, because he had a future—naturally, he would be his aunt in the future.Jia's mother is very accurate in judging people, but Zijuan knows the depth. She understands that if it comes to diligence, she can't compare with mandarin ducks; when it comes to needlework, she can't compare with attackers;

Therefore, when the little sisters have grown up and each has a place to work, she does not compare herself with others and finds herself unsatisfactory. Became a second-class maid by her side.

It's just that sometimes opportunities come to you by themselves.She was 13 years old that year, and a distinguished guest came to the Rongguo Mansion. She was Jia's mother's granddaughter, who came to Beijing from Suzhou.Jia's mother had only one biological daughter in total, and she died at a young age. Jia's mother cried like something, and it was reasonable to bring her granddaughter here to comfort the bereaved daughter.

When Daiyu entered the mansion that day, Zijuan was not on duty at first, and was planning to wash clothes in the backyard.Yuanyang came over with a smile and asked her to bring tea in, and she went.With just one glance, she was amazed by that innocent little girl.That year when Daiyu was nine years old, Zijuan brought tea and put it on the table in front of Daiyu respectfully. Old, even if he is too young, he is useless. Zijuan, from now on, you can serve Miss Lin."

Zijuan looked up and saw Daiyu staring at her with sparkling eyes and smiling at her, and she was subdued.Since then, Zicuckoo has been following the girl, relentlessly and willingly working hard.

Others said that Miss Lin was not easy to serve, she was delicate and weak, she coughed when she was blown by the wind, and made the people who followed her tired.But Zijuan knew that Daiyu's face was cold and her heart was warm, and she treated her as her sister, not a maid. Just for this, it was enough to earn her utter loyalty.

What's more, after a long time, even stupid people can see Jia's mother's plan - she wants to marry her granddaughter to her precious grandson, and come to kiss her.

Zijuan felt that her girl was worthy of Baoyu. Although she, like the other maids in the house, had regarded Baoyu above all men in the world since she was a child, Miss Lin was worthy of Baoyu regardless of her family background, appearance, talent and learning. Juan felt that she couldn't figure out that besides Miss Lin, there was another girl who could marry Baoyu.

Even Mrs. Shi, who was rumored to be Bao's second grandmother's candidate a few years ago, was sent back to the historian's house by Jia's mother. That was Jia's mother's natal family, who had been raised by her side since she was a child, and lived and ate with Baoyu.But as soon as Daiyu came, not only Miss Shi returned home, but even the girls at the head of the family came back.Daiyu lives in Jiamu's room, separated from Baoyu by only a green gauze cupboard, so there is no suspense about who will be Baoyu's second grandma in the future.

When the girl is favored, the people who follow her will be honored—Zijuan has been promoted from the second-class maid to the first-class maid, and there is a future that she never dared to think about, and now she is waving to her not far away— —She thought that she would eventually become Baoyu's roommate, just like Xiren and Qingwen.

Zijuan is a few years older than Daiyu and Baoyu, so she naturally understands some ways of the world. She knows that if a girl marries Baoyu, as a dowry maid, she is most likely to be an aunt. Isn't sister Ping'er an example?

Zijuan was a little happy about such distant thoughts. After all, except for Baoyu, she had never met a few men, and the young masters of the families she had met were so different from Baoyu. Don't talk about appearance and spirituality, just talk about the gentleness and consideration towards girls, no man can compare with Baoyu...

Baoyu came to Miss Lin's room every day, eating at the same table, and even sleeping in the same bed. There was no difference between men and women, and the old lady acquiesced.Baoyu used to be gentle and considerate to girls, but now that she stays with Daiyu every day, she naturally has all kinds of tender feelings for Zijuan, and Zijuan gradually takes a liking to Baoyu, and even has some subtleties towards Xiren and Qingwen in private jealousy.

It's just that Zijuan's temperament is slow, which is quite different from Qingwen's violent temper, but quite similar to Xiren.Since she regards Baoyu as her future lover, she naturally helps her daughter in everything.Daiyu is a casual person, she drinks enough water with affection, and has always been dismissive of the mundane things around her, so Zijuan takes good care of her.In addition to Daiyu's daily diet and sewing, she worried about everything and took care of everything, even the maids around Daiyu, she also carefully restrained her, and she refused to lose the girl's face if something happened.

Gradually, Jia's mother saw the benefits of Zicuckoo, and she was praised by others before and after many times, but the words were still the same: "What a clever child!" But the meaning was different from before, and Zicuckoo could hear it.

When Baochai entered the mansion, Zijuan didn't take it seriously at first—Miss Bao was a very nice person, but in terms of family background and relatives, she was naturally a head shorter than her own girl.It's just that the girl cares about Miss Bao so much, and she always cries with Baoyu because of gold and jade, which makes the whole house uneasy.

Even if the pair of sisters, Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue, joined hands to spread the rumor of a happy marriage, Zijuan was not too worried-after all, the old lady had the final say in Rongguo Mansion, and the old lady was clear-eyed.Mrs. Wang couldn't turn her mother-in-law's palm in the past, so now she can't make any trouble.

What really made Zijuan panic was the appearance of Aunt Lin.As soon as Aunt Lin came, she intervened in the daily management of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Although Zijuan's monthly payment has increased, and although Aunt Lin's Biye and Qingzhi are very easy-to-get along with sisters, they are still very friendly. Calling "Sister" one by one, Zijuan still felt a sense of crisis. This feeling is hard to explain. It is just Aunt Lin's eyes that looked at Baoyu with scrutiny and disdain, although Aunt Lin never said that Baoyu One sentence is not good, but in the eyes of those who are used to praise Baoyu, this in itself is a kind of negation.As for the future of Bao Dai's love, Aunt Lin's wealth and status have a say.

Corresponding to her indifference towards Baoyu is Aunt Lin's enthusiasm for Third Master Cong. Before that, Zijuan had never noticed this insignificant master. A family of great officials and eunuchs, even a servant Yangzi can be a seventh-rank official. Zijuan never thought that the third master Cong could be compared with the second master Bao.

But Aunt Lin is really too tall, so smart that people are frightened. Zijuan watched and listened to Aunt Lin changing the girl's mind bit by bit through chatting. The girl herself may not be aware of it, but Zijuan The bystanders knew that she thought that Aunt Lin might not want the girl to marry Baoyu, and this thought made her shudder.

Perhaps no one in this world knew the girl better than her. For the first time in her life, she mustered up the courage to do something that was not in line with her identity and character.She took an opportunity to lie to Baoyu that the girl was going back to Lin's house, and Baoyu really went crazy. Perhaps this fear was deeply buried in Baoyu's heart, and it was aroused by chance.

The love affair that everyone wanted to turn a blind eye to was exposed in broad daylight, and everyone had to face up to this fact. Jiamu was relieved, so she just complained lightly about Zijuan who caused a catastrophe, and she just said a few words. It was calm and breezy.The situation seemed to turn around. Aunt Xue and Miss Bao withdrew from the Shuangyu dispute, Miss Shi also began to discuss marriage, and Li Wan's two sisters went back home to choose a husband.

The only thing that disturbed Zijuan was Aunt Lin's deep glance, which seemed to see through her intentions.Being remembered by such a noble lady made Zijuan shudder in her dreams at midnight, but if she was asked to choose again, she thought, she would still do the same thing...

Enduring the faint uneasiness in her heart, Zijuan still felt some comfort after all: the girl's life-long event was finally settled, and she herself was relieved.Even if it is suspected and guarded against by the master, it is worth it.If the girl and the second master Bao are fulfilled, she will also fulfill herself.

However, things are unpredictable, even Jia Mu and her elders never expected that Mrs. Wang seems to be obedient, but in fact she is stubborn, especially when it comes to Baoyu's marriage, Mrs. Wang is determined to have a daughter-in-law she likes.So there was a copy inspection Grand View Garden.

In Zicuckoo's view, the plagiarism of the Grand View Garden is just a pretext, a means to drive the girl away from Jia's mansion.It doesn't matter whether something was found in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. The important thing is that Mrs. Wang instructed her servants to check the Xiaoxiang Pavilion at night. Not to mention the girl, even Zijuan knows that this Jia's mansion is unacceptable.

She had no choice but to go back to the Lin Mansion with the girl. The Lin Mansion is awe-inspiring, and the food and living are higher than that of the Jia Mansion. However, Zijuan secretly hopes that Baoyu will make trouble again, after all, he is Mrs. Wang's heart. Meat, if he really fights to the death, Mrs. Wang will still love her son dearly.

But Zijuan was disappointed. Baoyu just cried, begging the old lady, Aunt Lin, and even Daiyu to go back with him, but he dared not ask his own mother.The soft side of his character was exposed, not only Zijuan was disappointed, but even Daiyu was also disappointed.Things were stuck like this, Aunt Lin was not idle, the Lin Mansion really showed how to raise a girl, not just serving them with food and drink, but also teaching how to run a family business and manage servants.The girl's eyes opened, and her heart gradually grew...

Zijuan originally thought that things could always turn around, after all, it was the old lady who had the final say in Jia's mansion, but Mrs. Wang resorted to her trump card recklessly, and she went to the palace to ask the concubine to marry her, which fulfilled the golden and jade marriage.When the news came, Zijuan's heart sank to the bottom of the valley. She knew that the girl's reputation was entirely tied to Baoyu, and everyone in the house knew about it. How could she discuss marriage again from now on?

She hated Baoyu and pitied him. She was very anxious, but there was nothing she could do.Only at this time did she realize that she might have made a big mistake, announcing Bao Dai's feelings to the public, if she got what she wanted, it would be a beautiful thing, how can the girl deal with herself now?She had harmed her own girl, and she felt ashamed of herself.It was at this time that she felt the importance of Aunt Lin, and once again learned the tricks of this noble lady.

Aunt Lin chatted and laughed lightly with Jia's mother and Mrs. Xing to discuss the marriage of Daiyu and Jia Cong. In Zijuan's view, this is the best choice at this time.Not to mention that Jia Cong is also a direct descendant of the Jia family, even in his official career, he went very smoothly.Zijuan felt lucky for the girl, and as the days went on, Jia Cong gradually showed her good looks, and she felt more and more that the girl was well married.

After the girl got married, she lived a very happy life, and Zijuan gradually lost her thoughts on Baoyu, and devoted herself to living here.Jia Cong is different from the other men in the mansion, he has never messed with the maids, nor has he accepted anyone in the house.The girl is a casual person, it seems that if Jia Cong wants to make a fuss, she will not object; if she is asked to make a fuss in person, she will not bother to do it.

Zijuan saw that Biye and Qingzhi's private words were all about going outside to find a son-in-law in the future, so she gradually dispelled her wishful thinking about being an aunt.But how can the life outside be compared with that in the mansion?She couldn't bear the life of a small family with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, so when Biye and Qingzhi got married successively, Zijuan kept begging Daiyu to say that she couldn't part with it, so she postponed it.

At this time, she was already the housekeeper's maidservant. Although she didn't care about the accounts outside, all the big and small things in the house had to go through her hands.Since Daiyu is the housewife, the maids who follow her will often see the shopkeepers, accountants and clerks in the shops below her.

At that time, Zicuckoo had already gone to Suzhou and was living in Liangjiang Governor's Mansion.One day, a clerk in the silver shop came to deliver the account book. When she took it, she found that the man secretly stuffed a silk bag in her hand under the account book.Zijuan has never had such a private transfer, thinking to himself that the accounts of the Yinlou have always been clear, could it be that this guy is hiding something private?

Thinking this way, I went back to my room at night, opened the silk bag, and there was a pearl bracelet wrapped in it.Zijuan has seen many good things, even Dongzhu and Nanzhu are common, but the pearl bracelet in front of her still made her a little surprised: it's not that it's expensive, it's just a pearl the size of a grain of rice, it's not worth much, it's just For such a small bead, it is troublesome to find the bead hole, but it is densely woven layer by layer, and gold beads of the same size are also added in, entangled and entangled, making it a seamless one.The items are limited and all are handmade. Zijuan has never seen such jewelry before, so she couldn't help being stunned.

Thinking back to that buddy, he looked like he was in his twenties, but he looked honest. Thinking of him as a buddy, after the lamp was turned off every day, he cleaned up the inside and outside, and then sat under the oil lamp, spreading the loose beads accumulated on weekdays. On the handkerchief, by the light of the oil lamp, the beans were strung together one by one... Zijuan's heart moved, and she remembered Aunt Lin's advice to the girl: gold is easy to get, but love is hard to find.She decided to accept the offer.

Daiyu treats Zijuan like her own sister. When she hears that she is getting married, although she is extremely reluctant, she is happy for her.When Aunt Lin heard about this, she only smiled and commented: "Zicuckoo is a transparent person." The marriage was thus completed.Zijuan has changed from a personal servant girl to a housekeeper's daughter-in-law, and she is more and more valued when she goes in and out.There is a sweetness in the rice, oil and salt, and her heart is at ease.

Only once, that was the eve of New Year's Eve, when the girl took the young master to Hanshan Temple to pray for blessings, she recognized Baoyu from the crowd of onlookers.Her heart skipped a beat again, but she didn't tell anyone else, let alone the girl.It's the past, let it pass.

Sometimes, people can only go forward and cannot look back.