Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

It is said that this letter was delivered to Wang Ziteng by his old family. After reading it, he almost raised his hand and rubbed his eyes in surprise.The little girl who was a bit confused in the family suddenly came to her senses while she was still alive. It can be seen that the Xue family's vitality is not exhausted, and it may be passed on for three more generations.He immediately called Qing Ke and said such and such, and the staff member cupped his hands and smiled: "It can be seen that fate has come, and there is no need to worry Dong Weng about this matter. There is a fellow in the countryside who is the same age, and his knowledge can be tested by others. No problem at all, just a little bit of bad luck. He actually had a bad stomach during the palace examination that day, and barely wrote an article. Although he would not be deposed, he would not be awarded the Sacred Heart. He is so proud that he refuses to be laughed at as 'Mrs.', so he hangs the crown and leaves. Now that the old lady is sick and urgently needs money, she has to ask for a job. Think about it, this person has a tough temper. Dong Weng was upset, and before he could open his mouth, another good thing happened. Isn’t it good to be a teacher? The naughty boy at home is no longer afraid of him. He stares and yells, no matter how naughty a student he is You must bow your head and obey your ears obediently."

Wang Ziteng was amused to hear this, and hurriedly said to his staff: "Where is this person now? Please come and meet with me first. No way, he is also my nephew. If there is something promising in the future, as an uncle, I can't rely on him." ?”

The staff member smiled and sang a big hello, then walked out with his arms folded, and brought in a burly man when it was time for a cup of tea.Wang Ziteng raised his eyes and said: Hey!How does this look like a scholar?Obviously he should be a good man in the army!

This person is familiar with the etiquette. After saluting and dividing the guests and hosts, he introduced himself: "My surname is Wan. I am from the same township as Mr. Xu and in the same ranking. I am ashamed to say that after I entered school, I was impatient to wait for the vacancy. I went back to my hometown to plant for a few years. Because my old lady is sick and needs money to buy some good medicine, so I came out with a shy face and begged for it."

Wang Ziteng felt that this person was interesting, raised his hand and clenched his fist and coughed lightly on his lips: "I have a good place to recommend you, it is my sister's house in Jinling City. She has a boy under her knee and wants to ask for a favor." A knowledgeable and capable gentleman should take good care of it. The master said that Mr. Ren doesn’t care how he teaches his disciples. If you want to be beaten and scolded, you should be beaten and scolded. The monthly silver is 20 taels, four clothes per season, and there are old people If you go with me, you can assign a little girl to take care of you, would you like to?"

But there is no reluctance. Generally, girls from middle-level families only need two taels of moon silver, and 20 taels is enough. Eating ginseng every day is also enough!Mr. Wan is not dissatisfied. If he is really asked to be an aide, he may have to quarrel with the master's family in two days. How difficult is it to teach a primary school student?It's even more rare that the master's family let the words out first, and then they really want to clean up the disciples. At least it doesn't matter if they run away when they get the money.

He thought for a while before nodding happily: "There is nothing wrong with Mr. Wang's nephew. He just wants to make the child make further progress. I will do my best. There is only one thing, I have to go back to my hometown Then my old lady will go there together, I don’t know..."

Wang Ziteng clasped his hands together and laughed: "My sister sent an old servant here, I will write a letter with you, and let him go with you to pick up your old lady, so that I can take care of you along the way."

Mr. Wan was overjoyed, and he couldn't stop bowing to thank him. This man's words of gratitude were eloquent, which made people feel very comfortable.Wang Ziteng talked to him again, then let him out, and turned around to order the long follower who was guarding the study: "Go and prepare a piece of Cheng Yi to bring to Mr. Wan, and send the Buddha to the West."

Let's not mention this matter for now, just talk about Baochai's side.Since her health recovered, Miss Xue gave the four female books on the Baibao Pavilion to Ying'er and the servant girls in her room to learn to read. Instead, she ordered them to collect a lot of "Qi Min Yao Shu", "Fan Sheng" and so on. "Book of the Book", "Shui Jing Zhu", "Mengxi Bi Tan", "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" and "Zhou Bi" and other miscellaneous studies and miscellaneous arts, put them together and study them carefully.Mrs. Xue sometimes laughed at her and replied plausibly: "I don't plan to come back with a female number one scholar. I just need to know about three hundred thousand and four female scholars. When I buy it back from the university, I will show it to my brother. These so-called miscellaneous studies will be used by many directors in the future, don't you want to read them carefully while you are free now?"

"Bah! I'm so ashamed. What's the director of the family, the girl's family doesn't want to talk about these things." Mrs. Xue patted her daughter's arm lightly: "Well, tomorrow, you and I will go to the flower hall together Listen to the stewards first. It’s always good to learn more, but this can only be arranged by the elders. The girl’s thoughts are too much to be criticized. You can’t say that in front of people in the future, do you understand? "She was originally a loving mother, but because of her lack of knowledge, she always wanted to rely on the Rongning Second House, which caused her daughter to be harmed in her previous life.But Baochai has already suffered a lot, so how can she be willing to repeat the same mistakes now?At the moment, she just smiled and stopped talking, but after that, she remained the same, so Mrs. Xue just let her go.

She really calculated in her heart that it is better to rely on herself than to rely on the sky and the earth.The Jia family, the Wang family, the four kings and eight princes, etc., didn't all disappear in the end.In the end, if you have some skills at the beginning, you don't have to rely on Jia Yucun, and you don't have to go into exile later; She left her mother to go out and set up a new family; as for the harmful injustice of "Golden and Jade Love", she no longer believes in it, and that person has already made an alliance with wood and stone, so why should she bother to think about it in every possible way, and be a villain in vain!

Making up her mind, Baochai first took a serious look at the maids and women in the yard, and immediately found a reason to oust those who usually steal and play tricks, and wanted to fill in some vacant positions that could be his arms in the future.Originally, there were two big maids, four young maids, eight rough maids, ten rough maids, and a nanny. The nanny's family recently added a grandson, and as they got older, they were a bit powerless, and they couldn't control the maids. Relax.

Baochai only called her into the inner room and said with a smile: "Mother Wu has worked so hard all these years. I heard that your daughter-in-law has added children to the family. My son was ill a while ago, so I didn't catch up with He Yihe. Today, I'm taking my share! "Mother Wu smiled into a chrysanthemum and took the purse containing silver and replied: "Miss Xie still remembers that I am old and useless. In the future, I will ask the boy to kowtow to you!" Just as she was talking, Yinger brought tea Up and down and back again, Baochai picked up the teacup and didn't drink, just frowned and sighed, and the nurse became anxious: "My girl, I'm afraid I will lose all my blessings by sighing at a young age, bah bah bah!" Putting down the teacup in her hand: "I'm afraid my wife will find some nanny for me in the next year. Mama Wu can think about what to do here? Theoretically, I can ignore it, but after a few years of breastfeeding, I can't let it go." There's no end to you."

Mother Wu also became worried.What the girl said is true. Calculated by age, Baochai will be eight years old after the new year. At this time, a decent family should prepare a few nuns for the girl, who will take care of the yard, teach the girl, etc. , and some even accompany the girl out of the pavilion.

"In my opinion, what should I do?" She clutched her handkerchief and leaned over to look at Baochai. Baochai just lowered her eyes and stretched out her hand to draw a circle on the teacup: "Why don't you go back to serve your wife's confinement first, By the way, take your grandson with you, the monthly allowance will not be less. When your grandson is old enough to run errands, I will have to have someone who can be used outside, and then I will let him receive a part of the wages. How about it?" She What she said was decisive, Mother Wu had no choice but to agree first, then turned around and went to Mrs. Xue to make up her mind.

"Ma'am, the young lady seems to be quite eccentric since she got sick, and she used to be calm and kind, why do you drive people away so often today?" She knelt outside the bead curtain and learned the words like this, Mrs. Xue After listening to it, he said slowly: "I don't blame Sister Bao for this matter. I originally planned to arrange a nanny for her after the next year. Fortunately, she still remembers your face and wants to make you decent. You are better, turn your head and go Come here and sell my girl, how can you know if something terrible will happen in the future! You still hide your face and retreat! Let me tell you, you are not afraid of biting your hands with those moon silver?"

The nanny was so frightened that she hurriedly kowtowed to admit her mistake, and when she heard bang bang, the two Mrs. Xue shouted for someone to stop: "Don't do these things for me to see, you just keep your girl in mind! It depends on how many lifetimes you have lived." With an old face, it is inevitable to mention your daughter-in-law to be a nanny in charge." After speaking, he called his mother-in-law to send her home, and there was no shortage of money, and she gave it to her son and daughter-in-law.Mother Wu felt ashamed, so she swore fiercely that she would never tell anything about Baochai again, and told her son to take good care of his daughter-in-law, so that she might be able to put her next to Baochai when he was raised as a nanny in the next year.

There is only this one big girl in the Xue family, and she has always been kind. Entering her yard is not like entering a honey nest, so I can't have a relationship with the girl.

After Baochai dealt with the increasingly old and unconscious nanny, she freed her hands to look at the girl below.Ying'er followed her together in her previous life, and when she married Baoyu, she followed the past as a consort, which can be called "loyalty".After Baoyu left, she let her family go to find another marriage. After following Jia Yucun, she didn't know about Yinger.But she was the one who brought up the "good fate" talk first, and told her aunt, Mrs. Wang, to spread the word to the whole family, and even the low-grade prostitutes outside came over and joked that she would not marry Baoyu even if she didn't marry her. I can only pay my hair to be my sister-in-law, so I have to compete with the sister of the Lin family in the future?

What the hell is all this? !She doesn't want to have anything to do with Jia Jiabaoyu anymore, this person is just a cousin of the mother's family, there is no more words!It can be seen that the mother must be required to find a strict and polite nanny to take care of the girls below, so that they don't dare to spit out whatever words come out of their mouths.

After thinking about it for a few times, Baochai raised her voice and called the little girl who was guarding outside the curtain to enter the room and replied, "Ying'er has been waiting by your side for the past few days, which one?" She couldn't even remember the name of a big girl, and she just asked this question.

The little girl didn't know how deep she was, she lowered her hands and said, "Go back to the girl, sister Huamei has been sick and went home for a month." Baochai asked her, "Why didn't anyone reply to this matter?" The little girl shook her head naively: "Before you I kept saying that I would reserve a place for her, but when you got sick, everyone didn’t remember it so closely. Why don’t I send my mother-in-law to her house to inquire before returning?”

Baochai nodded slightly, and the little girl withdrew and grabbed a sweeping lady. She urged her to go out, and after a cup of tea, the lady came back and knelt outside the curtain tremblingly: "Ms. The mother actually promised someone out in private, but this girl is also staunch, she just said that she couldn't deal with this matter that she didn't go back to her master for no reason, and there was a commotion at home at that time!" Baochai was stunned when he heard that, It just occurred to me that something like this happened when I was young, so when I went to Jia's house, Ying'er was the only one by her side. What's wrong with this thrush?It seemed that she was forced to marry in the end, and she jumped into a well and died a few years later.

"Where's Ying'er? Come with me to see my wife, and this lady will also bring me with me." Baochai got up and straightened her clothes, and no one in the room dared to speak loudly.The eldest girl who served the girl next to her was still a child of the family, and she didn't even reply when she said Xu Xu, which shows that she was really generous to these people in the past.

Over there, Mrs. Xue just whistled for her daughter to scare away Mama Wu, and another daughter-in-law came in to report: "The eldest girl brought a woman over, and she said that she has something important to keep you informed."

"Let everyone come in, and ask the chef to bring a bowl of thick and sweet soup to Sister Bao with the newly-arrived white fungus and peach gum." She ordered, and Baochai entered the house with her mother's maid.After saluting, she sat down on the embroidered pier brought by her daughter-in-law and said slowly: "Mother, I remembered today that I haven't taken care of the yard for a long time, and it's terrible. There are only two big maids left. , that one stayed at home every day, and Yinger was so tired that her eyes were blurred, so she first sent back Mama Wu, who was not serious, and then asked someone to go to Sister Huamei's house to see, only then did she know that her old lady was in private. Li promised her to others!"

Thrush was originally four or five years older than Baochai, so she was placed by the girl's side to take care of her because she was old enough to do things properly. It’s not an exaggeration for a 13-year-old girl to start looking at her. Mrs. Xue thought that since she was a girl, she couldn’t just match a boy to humiliate her, so she kept looking for her, thinking that she would choose a shopkeeper for her. It's good for a good child to keep her to serve her daughter for a few more years. Before there is any news, she has become such a big master herself.The family gave birth to a son, and the family gave birth to a son, who was born as a servant of the master's family, so why should I listen to my mother's arrangements?

At that moment, Mrs. Xue was so angry that her eyes turned black and she slapped the table: "You god damn old slave, your father just went, and the servant girl who is next to the eldest girl dares to take her away at will. Is there any law? Go! Call the rough envoy and the second housekeeper to Huamei's house and bring them all to me, I want to see how courageous her old lady is, and she's gone!" After she finished speaking, she turned her head and pointed again. Touching Baochai's head, he said bitterly: "It is said that you indulged them all the time, and your generosity was too much. If you don't listen, something serious has happened now? If you are not careful, you will lose your reputation. Let's see if you twist it." I'm going to be my sister-in-law if I lose my hair! I can only eat vegetables and steamed buns every day!"

Baochai made her mother feel helpless, and said in a low voice, "Okay, okay, I won't pamper them in the future, but I'm young, so I'm afraid they won't be angry, so I'll ask my mother to find a wise and capable nanny to come back after the next year. Mrs. Xue poked her daughter once, then took her into her arms and said, "I thought about this. Not only you, but your brother's yard is also indispensable. It's just hard to find such a nanny. Our family name is In the small election, after two years you have to go to the capital to fight for your filial piety. Now there is a nanny to teach you. When the time comes, you will know what you are thinking when you look at the palace. With my son's appearance, there will always be someone who will stand out Time. Besides, going to relatives' houses in the future will not be a joke, and your aunt who married into Jia's family even wrote to me saying that she wants to be a good relative!"

But farewell, just her family's incarnate devil, who would dare to go up to provoke him?As long as any girl who is a little bit involved will not have a good result, it is the best policy to leave Jia's family early!Another thing about running for election is that the example of Yuan Chun is shining brightly in front of you. Entering the palace does not necessarily get the favor of the nobles. It may not necessarily be born alive, so why bother to bring the family down.

She had a plan in mind, so she didn't say much, she smiled and nodded in response, and let Mrs. Xue Zhang Luo freely. After a while, she gave orders for perverted things, and another woman came to report that the thrush family had brought them all, and asked the wife to show her.Mrs. Xue hastily asked someone to move the screen and set it up. She sat behind her with her daughter and said, "Let the mother-in-law and the housekeeper come in, and ask Thrush to come in first, and ask her old lady to kneel for me outside for half an hour before answering! "

The second housekeeper is a middle-aged man, wearing a clean silk jacket and with two mustaches, came in and slapped the screen: "Return to Madam, Thrushcross has betrothed this girl to her natal nephew in private. The younger one went out to inquire about it." After talking for a while, she said that this boy was not educated and incompetent and couldn't get a wife, so her aunt put her mind on her niece, and also thought that our Xue family gave a lot of dowry to marry a maid, so the thrush family had to cheat Give him his daughter."

Mrs. Xue's most annoying thing now is talking about other people's daughters, and because Thrush is serving her own girl personally, she is afraid that Baochai's reputation will be ruined because of her embarrassing incidents, so she immediately slaps the table with more annoyance. Said: "Based on who he is, the deeds of the whole family are all in custody here, so how can they get married in private? It doesn't matter if they are deceived or framed, my master is dead? Won't come back? Are you looking at the Xue family's good nature? Call me human teeth!"

As soon as this sound came out, the thrush girl who was kneeling outside was frightened. She knelt and climbed two steps forward and begged, "It's all because of my foolishness, thinking of a daughter's family, and not relying on her to support her It's the end of the day, and I give up. I went to my natal sister's place to be a daughter-in-law again, so how can I treat her badly? So I did this kind of thing in a moment of confusion, and I beg my wife to forgive me for the sake of serving for several lifetimes! "

Huamei knelt upright in the room by herself, just shaking her head with tears in her eyes, neither making a sound nor defending herself.Baochai saw the real thing behind the screen, so she said: "Mother still gives Huamei a chance to argue. It is said that before going to the execution ground, people can complain about injustice. I think this description seems to be a bit hidden." Xue The wife also looked at Huamei, nodded and said: "Forget it, since your girl begged you, you can tell me what's going on!"