Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

When it was near the Dragon Boat Festival, Baochai sent the second housekeeper to buy spices, bait and medicine, most of which were borneol and musk, and gave them to the outside servants to take them to the shop and bring them in. Then he took the maid and the young daughter-in-law to do it. A lot of purses, sachets and bracelets made of five-color silk threads are just waiting to be sent to relatives as gifts during the festival.Another batch of zongzi was brought in from the restaurant, some with peanuts and candied dates, some with salted egg yolk from Huguang, and meat zongzi from Yangzhou. Five or six of them were small and neatly decorated on a string. It's a delight to see him.

Xue Pan saw these zongzi when he got up early to eat, and shouted to prepare a few more skewers to take out as a gift.Baochai hurriedly ordered the mothers-in-law to fetch several saving boxes, each containing two strings of zongzi, two pouches, two sachets and four marinated salted duck eggs, which were salted and oily, covered the lid and left a blank stick to hand in. To the boy waiting outside.Xue Pan wiped his mouth and lifted his feet after eating, and left, asking for a few more copies at home, but Mrs. Xue laughed and scolded him from behind: "Hurry up, why are you using your sister as the envoy? Xue Pan responded outside: "Isn't it just my sister who made it cute? Others don't have such ingenious ideas, so they can sell it in the shop like this."

Mrs. Xue and her daughter teased Xue Pan a few words, watched him take people out, and then turned back to direct the family's servants to open a large warehouse to find some light materials and prepare to cut summer clothes. It was such a joy.At noon, the two mothers ordered the kitchen to make some locust leaves Lengtao and sent them to use together. They were planning to rest for a while, when the porter rushed in in a panic and said: "Go back to the wife, go back to the girl, the Jia family The second master Bao and the second grandma Lian are really not good! They say they are already standing there waiting for relatives to see each other." The call frightened Mrs. Xue's round fan, and Baochai hurriedly called her mother-in-law. After serving the two masters, they changed into light-colored clothes, and then sent someone to the yamen to inform Xue Pan that he had brought a few savings boxes from the morning, then hurriedly put them in the car and went out.

The master was in a hurry, the coachman didn't dare to neglect, he found a secluded road and let the horse run, he managed to arrive at Jia's house in less than half an hour, get off the car and go in.At this time, Jia's family was in a mess. Both Baoyu and Sister Feng were lying down, their faces were like gold paper, and their breath was dying.Mrs. Wang hugged her son and howled loudly, while her uncle, Master Jia Er, just hung his head and asked the servants to prepare the coffin for the funeral.

At this moment, all the old relatives in Beijing let the mistress or the effective steward look at it once, and even Wang Ziteng stood outside and said a few words to Jia Zheng.Youshi Jiazhen from the other side of the East Mansion also came, and Mrs. Xue hurriedly protected her daughter to the inner room, for fear that outsiders would see her.Old Mrs. Jia surrounded a group of servants to persuade her. Amidst the wailing in the room, only a tongue-biting voice shouted: "I haven't died yet, and I will mourn later. I must invite you!" The doctor has used a good medicine, it will be fine after a while or can it be over?" Just as he was talking, Lin Ruhai was reported to come with Xue Pan, and Mrs. Xue had found the backbone, she grabbed her son's hand and did not let go. Just ask him to invite the old doctor who came to the house last time or it can be rescued.

Xue Pan didn't hold any grudges, turned his head and beat the horse out, and in a cup of tea, he personally carried an old gentleman back. The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and stared at him, stretched out his hand and hammered him: "Why are you running so fast! The medicine box is still there How did you save people in the future?" Speaking of which, the female relatives couldn't care less about avoiding it, so they just erected a screen in the hall to block it a little bit, and the old doctor directed Xue Pan to run in quickly, first looked at Baoyu, and then called someone Carrying Sister Feng over, Zimai let out a puzzled "Huh" after a consultation, and by chance, the young man carrying the medicine box also came over.

The servants hurried forward to help arrange the box, the doctor took out a needle bag wrapped in black cotton cloth, took out a thin silver needle and pierced them into several important points of the two, and after a while, their complexions really improved. Even breathing became stronger.Mrs. Jia and Mrs. Wang heard the report from their mother-in-law behind the screen. They were so happy that they could not wait to go out and bow to the old man. Mother Jia said in a repeated voice: "As long as my grandson and grandson-in-law are saved, I must have a good life with my husband." Enshrine." The old doctor didn't make a fuss, and found two green pills from the box, handed them to Yuanyang Ping'er, and said: "One for each person, melt it with ginger juice and pour it down. Let’s hang on to my life, and then slowly find some opportunities.”

Yuanyang Ping'er didn't dare to neglect, took the medicine down for a while, and then brought in two small jade-colored bowls.Although Sister Feng Baoyu looked less like she was about to die, she clenched her teeth and couldn't take any medicine.The old doctor rolled up his sleeves and repeatedly said "offended", got up and pinched his mandible, picked up the bowl with his other hand and poured the concoction into it.The two lying down seemed to be getting better again, and Mrs. Wang listened to the Buddha from behind the screen.The old doctor then asked his servant, Sister Feng, Baoyu about her diet and daily life, pondered for a moment and said, "Looking at the two pulses, although they are weak, they don't seem to be suffering from some kind of disease. How could they be flickering suddenly?"

The family servants looked around, and Mother Jia wiped her eyes behind the screen and said, "Speaking of which, I am not afraid of the old fairy's jokes. I have always been good, but three days ago, I suddenly met you with a knife and a stick like a madman. People are cut down, and it is easy to stop them, and it is not as good as one day, and it is like this today." The doctor said "Oh", and wrote a prescription with a pen, and the servant handed it to Mother Jia for a look. It was full of five poisons like centipedes and scorpions, so I was so frightened that I kept asking.

The old doctor has already put the medicine box together, heard the question and said calmly: "It is not a disease, this prescription is also a way to fight poison to protect the heart and protect the spirit, at most within today, there must be a capable person Come to your door to relieve your worries." Because he shocked everyone with both hands earlier, although Jia's family was dubious, they took the medicine from the storehouse and boiled it according to the prescription, and here sealed the top-class red seal and sent the doctor out.

The relatives saw that they could be rescued, so they all said some sympathetic words and left. Mrs. Wang thanked her sister a thousand times but refused to call home, and insisted on staying at Xue's house for the night.Seeing that her sister was really pitiful, Mrs. Xue agreed with a soft heart, and her own servants opened the Hengwu Courtyard to clean it up.The two old sisters here are sitting and looking for something to talk about, the medicine is boiled and brought in again, and the woman who has learned the tricks comes up and feeds it in again cruelly, until noon, I can hear someone outside faintly shouting the Buddha's name Voice.

Before the old doctor left, he left a message saying that he had someone capable of coming to relieve his worries, so Jia Mu hurriedly asked the servants to invite the Buddha who was talking outside.When someone came in and took a look, it turned out to be a monk with a skinny head and a Taoist priest with a slope.Others felt that the description of the two people was unsightly, but Baochai shuddered all over and hid behind her mother.These two people are actually the two who had Baoyu sandwiched in the snow in their previous life!

Mrs. Xue only thought her daughter was frightened by seeing such people, so she hurriedly hugged her and patted her, but she didn't know that Baochai's whole body was cold at this time, as if the vast Cangyuan had never been far away that day. .The monks and Taoists entered the inner room, and ignored the female family members who were holding their noses and retreating. They just called for Baoyu's psychic jade, which was usually worn on the chest, to hold it in his hand and mutter something, and then hung the jade on the tent. , I saw that the two people lying on the bed fanned their eyelashes lightly, as if they were about to wake up.

After finishing the work, the monk and the Taoist walked out together, and within two steps the monk wondered: "Huh? Why is the symptom so much lighter?" The Taoist said: "It is inevitable that the holy hand of Xinglin hanged himself with him. The monk wondered again: "Why is there two red threads missing from this idiot's body?" The Taoist didn't even pinch his eyelids and replied to him: "If there is less, there will be less. Is it possible for you, a monk, to care about the relationship with the mediator?" The monk laughed and said, "Wonderful, those lonely ghosts have realized themselves, and they have already jumped out of this beautiful and creamy land, and it will save you and me a lot of effort." "The two of them looked up to the sky laughing and went out, ignoring all the people around them.

Before everyone in Jia's family could speak, Sister Feng raised her hand and rubbed her forehead with an exhortation. Baoyu over there had opened her eyes and was full of hunger. That's it, it can be seen that there are gods in the world, and those with deep blessings will be blessed." Mrs. Wang thanked her repeatedly with red eyes, and there was also a maid over there who came to persuade her, and she finally got better.

Seeing that his daughter-in-law and nephew were all fine, Jia Amnesty called for someone to help the old lady away first and then tilted her head slightly, while the others left without paying attention to the person who brought the big house.Just then Jia Zheng came in to thank Mrs. Xue, and let Xue's mother and daughter stay at Jia's house for a night to help with some housework. Xue Pan went to the yamen by himself, and he has not finished his errands for today.Mrs. Xue agreed, and sat down with Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Jia to chat in the hall. Baochai saw that the two monks and Taoists didn't even look at him, and what they said when they went out was very meaningful, so he let it go for a while. Kaixin instructed the people to pack things, cook meals, and told the two patients to be closely guarded, and if there was any discomfort, they would ask the doctor to come and so on.

Fortunately, both Baoyu and Sister Feng recovered very quickly, and they were able to go to the ground to eat early in the morning. Mrs. Xue saw her and took her daughter to leave. .

In a blink of an eye, it was the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Xue family always only gave alms in the temple, and did not go to the temple to pray, so they got a car early in the morning, and Xue Pan rode to the Daci'en Temple on horseback.Because the teacher of the Muni Academy enshrined at home said that the master's homework is good here, Mrs. Xue lit the ever-burning lantern with Mr. Xian Xue and enshrined the tablet. It is inevitable to go here for the Spring and Autumn Festival.After passing the mountain gate, get off the sedan chair, and walk for a while, and there are stone steps in front of you.Baochai and Xue Pan supported Mrs. Xue to climb a hundred or so levels, and a young monk who was welcoming guests ran out to lead her, first went to the main hall to worship, and then went to add some sesame oil to the place where the memorial tablet and the ever-burning lamp were enshrined. The son carried it to the guest house to rest without mentioning it.

The guest house is still the same as it was in Zhongyuan last year. Bamboo is planted around it, and a path is buried with pebbles at the bottom. Near the place where people live, a shelf is built to climb a Lingxiao, and there are several crabapple trees behind.The servants who brought him cleaned up the room briefly, and Baochai helped Mrs. Xue to lie down, and then called the girl to come and sit on the side of the couch and beat her legs slowly.The little novice brought meals over, and the whole family used them before they were settled down.The monastery is located in the mountains, not as hot as in the city, Xue Pan yawned and went back to sleep in his room after a while when the wind was blowing.After resting in the afternoon, I went to listen to the lecture again. Baochai just followed behind and paid for the sesame oil with silver.

People who went to the monastery to give alms on the Dragon Boat Festival came and went like weaving. Baochai brought a hat curtain and told the egret to walk ahead. Suddenly, he smelled a strange but familiar smell. Immediately tossed it to the back of my mind and didn't think about it again.After finally returning to the guest house, the vacant house lived in another family's female family. Baochai didn't want to have any contact with her, so she ordered her servants to guard the door of her house. After the door was closed, she went back to copy books quietly.In the evening, there was another night of silence, and I finally returned to the house by car in the early stage.

A few days after the Dragon Boat Festival, on this day, the sixth prince who was in charge of the House of Internal Affairs' thorough investigation of the internal coinage made a note at the Great Court Meeting, saying that they found a lot of IOUs and the amount was huge when they checked the old year's accumulated cases, and they dare not Unchecking it without authorization can only be used to find relatives and ask for advice.The emperor just sat in the temple, and the Minister of the Ministry of Finance who knew the inside story came out to explain that these IOUs were borrowed from the treasury by Zong Jinxungui in the past.At the beginning, it was used to pick up the driver, and later you borrowed it and I borrowed it. If you don’t borrow it, you don’t fit in with the group. Therefore, people who have accumulated a little bit of furniture are on the furniture list.After hearing this, the sixth prince said: "It's only natural to pay back the debt. I haven't heard of people who borrow money and don't pay it back. What's more, the loan is still money from the treasury."

The fifth prince, who was also standing in the head, stood up and laughed at him for wanting to compete with the people for profit, but the sixth prince still sullenly said, "Compete with the people for profit? What kind of people are you, sir? Don't you know what a scholar-bureaucrat is!" Not waiting for others When the people came out to say something again, the emperor who sat at the top laughed a few times and said, "You little boy, why are you still playing around with your elder brother?" If you check it, you will not be allowed to return it.

All the courtiers stood down and heard the words and understood that the emperor was in a hurry to collect the debt, and they had a good face and didn't want to say it outright, so they used the mouth of the sixth prince to ask for the money back.Those with clear accounts in their hearts immediately lowered their heads and began to draw their calculations, while some honorable and honorable officials wanted to ask for a favor, so they turned it over.After the imperial court was over, someone went to the book to ask to see the emperor, and the emperor was also weird, he closed the door and said that he wanted to study a new life-prolonging formula with the elders, and lightly sent the person who asked to see him out, the meaning was so clear that he couldn't understand it anymore .

When Lin Ruhai went back to the yamen, he called Xue Pan and said to him, "Go home and ask Mrs. Xue if she has borrowed money from the treasury in the past years. Don't forget about it and take chances, how can the emperor's courtiers be able to rely on it?" After hearing this, Xue Pan hurried home to ask his mother, and Mrs. Xue told him to ask him with a blank face, and said: "Everyone in the family is not happy. Your sister is in charge of the internal and external accounts, so go and ask her."

Xue Panli forced her to send her mother-in-law to invite someone. After a while, Baochai and Baoqin sisters came together hand in hand.Baochai bowed to her mother, and asked in surprise, "What accounts?" Xue Pan hurriedly told what Lin Ruhai had told her. Baochai frowned and thought for a while, then said to the egret behind him, "Go and apply my makeup." There is a note of Xuelang paper in the second box of the box, on which these perennial foreign debts are recorded." Bailu bowed and retreated, and hurried out to find something, and the Baochai said again: "I vaguely remember that I don't borrow much, and the total amount is too much. It’s only 50 to [-] yuan, and now I can get it out of the family’s general ledger, but it will take a few days to prepare it and send it to write off the debt.”

Just as he was talking, Bailu rushed over with his things, and the young servant took a look with Xue Pan. He clearly remembered that he had borrowed 45 taels from the treasury. The outgrowth branches can also be straightened out, one is better than brothers!" Mrs. Xue poked him with a smile: "Since that's the case, you have to treat your sister well, and you can't bully my girl even if you marry a wife in the future." Xue Pan immediately made a bitter face: "Oh, mom, maybe I told you to bring her back from outside, the girl is your own, right?" Mrs. Xue was so angry that she really poked his finger on his forehead and said, "Rascal, You alone can't stand my girl's half-pull." Baochai helped her mother's shoulders and smiled giggly, Baoqin was childish, slapped her hands behind her and made a fuss, causing Xue Pan to stare at her and then reluctantly stretched out her hand to shave her face. he.

Xue Pan couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly ran out, "It's terrible, I'm afraid my position in this family is not the same as that red-billed green parrot, they all make fun of me!" Mrs. Xue pointed at him and laughed. So straight, he pulled Baochai all the way and asked her to help rub his intestines.

The family chatted and laughed for a while, and called the big housekeeper to go outside to post a message to prepare the money, and when there was any movement in the Lin family, they would follow behind and return it together.Because she mentioned the Lin family, Mrs. Xue thought of her son's marriage and said to him: "When is Master Lin taking a rest? I entrusted Mr. Wan to ask Master Lin about something." The second monk Xue Panzhang was puzzled and asked. She: "Is there anything I can't tell you, I'll just take it to you?" Mrs. Xue covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled: "I can tell you anything, but this one is not enough." Baochai immediately understood her mother. Meaning, also laughed.Seeing that her son was pitifully confused, Mrs. Xue laughed even harder and said: "I want to find a wife for you in a scholar's house. Don't worry about the dowry. I just want the girl to be good-looking and good-looking. Do things neatly and diligently. Our family is not in contact with Qingliu, and your uncle and aunt probably won't be able to help you, so you can only lower your face and beg Master Lin to help you find and inquire about it for the sake of Master Banla. .”

Don't look at Xue Pan's thick skin, his face turned red when he heard that he was going to find a wife for him, he just said dully: "Uncle Lin rests on the fifteenth day of the lunar new year, if you want to see him, you can just hand over the post in advance." Xue Pan The wife spat at him bitterly: "Where was your recklessness in the past? Now you are swaying, why don't you hurry up and thank your husband, it's hard for someone to follow you all the way from Jinling to the capital, usually it's your sister Help me take care of it, what have you ever done as an apprentice." Xue Pan's head was pounding, and he hurriedly resigned and went to find Mr. Wan to be annoyed.