Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

Entering September, the people involved in the previous Hegong case more or less had their results.There were quite a few beheaders, and there were not a few who lost officials and seized titles. The gold and silver stolen from their homes alone was enough for disaster relief and two seasons of military pay.The officials above the court spoke much more softly, and all the ministries were thinking about how to get more from the treasury, especially the Ministry of Industry, so they almost took a bowl to see the sky and went to the household minister's house to eat.No one knows whether the water will rise or not in the spring of next year, and the current conscripts are not sure whether they can rebuild the dam before the winter freezes. Here, the odds and ends are all money, as the saying goes, a penny is hard for a hero Han, nothing more than this.Just at this time, the northern frontier army came to report, saying that the barbarians outside frequently sent a small group of rangers to harass the fortress, or that they would invade the south on a large scale after the snow falls this winter, and suddenly the whole country's internal and external troubles emerged together.

What happened in the court didn't matter to the female family members of each family, because Mrs. Xue's birthday was approaching, Mrs. Xue took her daughter to Da Ci'en Temple to listen to the masters' lectures and practices.As the turmoil among the refugees gradually calmed down, Xue Pan felt at ease. He ordered the housekeeper to take care of him early in the morning and went out to do odd jobs in the yamen. Baochai sat in the car and chatted with Mrs. Xue without saying a word. The little novice came out to welcome him in.First, I went to the Zhaitang to finish the fasting meal. At noon, I performed a ritual for Mr. Xue. After that, Mrs. Xue brought a few servants with her to listen to the Dharma meeting. Bailu and Yinger followed Baochai and sat in the garden of the guest courtyard.

It is the golden autumn season at this time. In the garden, there are several sycamore trees in the garden. The pavilions are like covers, the leaves are the size of cattail fans, and the edges are full of burnt yellow color.Baochai was admiring the autumn scenery here, and there were small footsteps coming from the gate of the courtyard, presumably there were other female guests coming.Daci'en Temple is the largest group of temples around the capital. In the early years, there were clansmen who sent their children to practice. Most of the rich and powerful families like to come here to give alms and practice rituals. When the guest house is busy, it can't just be used by the family. It is necessary for everyone to come together Sit down and rest your feet.

Sure enough, two or three young girls came together laughing, and a girl in plain clothes followed behind and slowly turned in from the door.Baochai got up hurriedly, and the girls were not surprised to see that there were already people here, so a young novice came forward to introduce each other.This one is the daughter of a certain adult family, that one is the granddaughter of a certain scholar's family, and so on, until the last one left wearing plain clothes, the little novice hesitated and said: "This girl is from the Nanyang Marquis's family." Miss."

Baochai blessed each other with everyone in accordance with the etiquette. When they heard that she was a girl from the Imperial Merchant, the girls were still smiling, and slowly they all sat in the other corner of the courtyard to avoid her.Baochai didn't get angry with a group of little girls, she still sat comfortably in her seat to enjoy the scenery, but the girl who had been following them all the time was interesting, she sat straight and Baochai smiled brightly at her face "Hello, sister Xue?" Baochai was stunned for a moment, but she looked at her with a smile because she didn't know the name. Sure enough, the girl said again: "My surname is Yang, and my father is a concubine from the Nanyang Houfu. Call me sister Yang." Yes." Baochai was puzzled, so she nodded with a smile and said, "Hello, Sister Yang." In her heart, she didn't care much about concubines and concubines. It can be seen that people cannot be generalized.

Seeing that her dark complexion was as usual, she didn't seem to be contemptuous or evasive, this Miss Yang seemed very happy, she turned around and called a girl with a young hair to come over and serve tea and fruits.As soon as Baochai saw it, she asked Yinger to follow her to work, leaving only Bailu by her side.Miss Yang is also strange, her conversation is open and aboveboard, and she can see that she is broad-minded, and she only talks about economics, official career, or accounting. Jiao Didi's girl's family is like this, in the eyes of the world, she is quite a bit bohemian.

Baochai thought to herself that she didn't know why Miss Yang came, so she chatted with her, and the more she talked, the brighter the girl's eyes became, and in the end she reached out and held her tightly: "It's so easy for me to meet such a speculative sister. In a few days, I will have to post a post to invite you to play." He even passed on his name, only said that his family opened a chess club to make a living, and asked Baochai to enjoy chrysanthemums in a few days.Baochai didn't take it to heart, she just responded with a few words, and after sitting for a while, a woman sent by Mrs. Xue came over and said, "Miss, the Fa conference over there is about to end, and my wife told you to put it aside first." Wait in the car, be careful not to be rude." Baochai got up and said to Yang Xuying, a girl named Yang Xuying, and helped Bailu to take Ying'er and the old woman to the carriage. .

When Baochai disappeared, Yang Xuying got up and took her girl who had just cut her hair back to the main hall. A middle-aged man in homely clothes was standing outside the main hall. When he saw her, he smiled and said "Ah Ying, what about the daughter of the Xue family?" Xu Ying said: "The Xue family was a bit biased when they gave birth. My elder brother is as stupid as a bull, but my younger sister is well-read. Tou, he is a smart man." The middle-aged man just shook his head and said: "It is always incompetent to be a father, so you can only succumb to it. Although Xue's family has Shang characters, they have already caught the eyes of the people above. That Xue Pan is reckless and vulgar, but he is also a rare person who cares about his family. Now we don't care about face, we only want benefits for our inner son. As a father, I don't want to marry you to your uncle to be a child in the fifth prince's house. The sons of the four princes and the eight princes who are under the control of the five princes, Xue Pan is already considered the biggest among the dwarves here, and with your Uncle Lin watching, he is actually the best choice compared to the other family. This concubine I can eat all the suffering by myself, and I will make you a straight-faced lady."

Yang Xuying sighed and said nothing, followed behind her father and walked outside.There are no girls in the direct branch of the Nanyang Houfu, so if they want to get closer to the fifth prince, they can only focus on the girls in the side branch.That day when the old Nanyang was waiting, the concubine took over the title, and each concubine sent out 1000 taels of silver to a shop, and later survived with the dowry of his daughter-in-law.Yang Xuying's father was also a scholar who went to the Jinluan Palace earlier, he was young and vigorous and only wanted to make a name for himself, but he left so fast that his relatives would be taboo, for fear that the family members would grow up and become a chaotic family Zhiyuan, he had to bear the pain to knock off the right hand of this talented son.It has long been a rule that no handicapped person stands in the Golden Luan Hall, so this bastard had no choice but to swallow his anger and take a house in the west of the city and a chess club and move out to live elsewhere.In the world, no son sues his father, and he has to bear it if he can't bear it. He has endured it for more than ten years, and now the Nanyang Marquis is thinking of borrowing his daughter for use. He gritted his teeth and entrusted fellow Tanhua Lin Ruhai to find someone who dared to argue with the prince to be his son-in-law, and this talent hit Big Stupid Xue.

Now counting in this capital city, Xue Pan is dull, reckless and protective of food, and his relatives are all four kings and eight princes, and he has the blue eyes of his superiors. He has the name "Ziwei Sheren", and he is supposed to marry a concubine of the Hou family. His daughter barely climbed up, seeing how much he protected his mother and sister, he must also be a wife protector, so Yang Rui and Yang Chuanlu reluctantly agreed to ask his daughter to visit the Xue family.Miss Yang secretly met Xue Pan in the chess club earlier, she thought he was cute, but later she heard that he beat up the children of the Jia family in order to save a poor family, and she felt quite appetizing. Seeing this person's younger sister again today is generous and dignified, presumably the imperial merchant's family must be different from ordinary merchants, otherwise they would not be able to raise such temperamental children.

Over there, Baochai didn't know how many times his family had asked someone to weigh them back and forth. He just sat in the car, talking and laughing with his mother, and walked back. Come up to fight the autumn wind.If you can't drive away, let's fight, the Xue family only brought a few wives, and I'm afraid they won't be able to beat these unruly people.Mrs. Xue's face turned pale from being bluffed, and she only wanted to save money and avoid disaster. She was about to order her mother-in-law to throw the silver down, but Baochai stopped her and said, "These people are so brave. I'm afraid that giving money will help his lust even more, so he must become bolder. He walked silently, only a mile or two away from the city gate, and when he arrived at the gate, there were soldiers from the five city soldiers and horses guarding him, so he was not afraid of them How dare you do anything." Mrs. Xue was deeply convinced when she heard this, she stopped shaking, ordered her mother-in-law and maids to guard the door of the car, and told the driver to hurry up, and trotted all the way towards the Zhuque Gate.Seeing that the people in the car were not afraid of the people in the car, those rascals outside did not dare to go up and grab them. They just followed behind them all the way into the city, and only dispersed at the gate of the city. Mrs. Xue was relieved and went back to Xue's house for the night Eat and rest.

In the middle of the night, there was a sudden loud noise in a dark alley behind the Xue family's house, waking up Mrs. Xue who was already resting. The housekeeper was arranging for the servants to light the lanterns to check, when someone knocked on the door. The door responded and opened it. It turned out to be the military master of Wucheng soldiers and horses patrolling the night.The man stood with the door frame at eyebrow height, and said in a voice like an iron tower: "Has your family offended anyone today? Just now, the brothers saw someone standing on the back wall and were about to dig in! You didn't call your master to come out." !" The door was startled, and hurriedly invited Xue Pan to come out, and the conversation spread all the way into the inner house, scaring Mrs. Xue out of control on the spot, yelling that she should not move to Jia's house to borrow Yunyun.

Baochai had no choice but to coax her: "I'm afraid that the little thief somewhere is poor and crazy. Tomorrow, I will send the housekeeper to let someone come and buy some guards. This Dongcheng is from a wealthy family, and maybe the thief can be captured in three to five days. The soldiers and horses of the five cities dare not be negligent." He hurriedly asked the mother-in-law to boil some soothing soup, and finally put her mother to sleep again after some hard work, and at dawn she asked the housekeeper to bring in human teeth.

Xue's family came to Beijing last year, and the Jinling old house naturally left a family member to guard it. The number of people brought into the capital was somewhat insufficient. In addition, Mrs. Xue brought more women, which was indeed more important than other families. It is easy for those thieves to stare at them.Xue Pan doesn't care about family affairs, big or small, since the girl said to add people, then add people, anyway, Xue's family can't afford to support, even if it is enough to buy the old lady a peace of mind, so he went out early in the morning and was busy, only waiting for the evening. Come back and meet the guard you bought.

Baochai asked someone to set up a screen in the main courtyard, and Ren Yazi brought people in as requested by the housekeeper, cupped his hands at the screen and said, "Miss, these people were sold at official prices by the family of the person who committed the river engineering case before. Yes, originally he was the guard of the housekeeper, and he is good at fist and kick." Baochai only asked the housekeeper to carefully look at the eight people who were selected, and the man said again: "There are two young maidservants here who can fist and kick. Girls can also pick one to guard the inner courtyard, after all it is not convenient for outside men to enter, in case the thieves are treacherous." Then two more girls came in, both of them were fair-faced and slender.After looking at it, Baochai decided to keep both of them, so that one could be given as a dowry to Baoqin. In case the son of Mei Hanlin's family had something in the future, the ready-made one would come in handy.

After Ren Yazi made this big deal, he happily went out with the second housekeeper to pay the money. Here, Baochai handed over the eight servants to the big housekeeper for arrangement.These two girls are both on the same level, their nails and hair are very clean, they are wearing the same dark green shirt, only one has flowers on the head and the other is wearing a veil.Baochai pointed to the one who tied the flowers and said, "You will be called Zigui from now on," and pointed to another one, "Your name is Bailing." Zigui followed Baoqin like Thrush, and Baochai kept Bailing by his side. After rewarding the purse, she invited Madam Su to take the two girls down to teach the Xue family the rules, and then went back to Mrs. Xue.

When Mrs. Xue heard that Baochai was resolute and resolute, she set up the nursing home, and she immediately put her heart into her stomach and nagged to the girl: "If you don't still think that your brother finally entered the Ministry of Rites and became an official, really I can’t wait to pack my things and go to Jinling’s house right now. I’ve been married to Xue’s family for almost 20 years, and I haven’t been as frightened as this year.” Baochai patted her on the arm and said, “When you marry brother-in-law, you just I'm afraid I won't be able to go back to my hometown!" Mrs. Xue laughed: "I don't know what happened to Uncle Lin, but now I think that even if she is a girl from a ninth-grade sesame official family, as long as she is good, she will recognize her. As for your brother It's like this, I'm really afraid that I'll spoil the good boy." The mother and son talked and laughed for a while, and Mrs. Xue let go of her heart a lot, and she became sleepy.Baochai helped her to lie down and sleep well. He took an embroidery support and was about to embroider another purse when he saw Laiwang who was beside Xue Pan rushing over again and said, "Ms. , please get ready, girl."

Upon hearing this, Baochai sent him back, got up and went to the kitchen to explain a few words, and then came back to continue guarding Mrs. Xue.After half a tree of magnolias had been embroidered, Xue Pan dragged a person all the way to the main courtyard with a loud voice. At this time, Baochai had just waited on her mother to get up and put on her clothes. He turned around and ran back through the moon gate.After running over, he patted his chest to catch his breath, and just now he ran into the official guard in Jinyi who he had seen before.

It turned out that Shen Yu and Liu Zian had a good plan. Yesterday they asked the brothers to pretend to be rogues to scare Xue's family. This morning, they heard that Xue's family urgently recruited several nursing homes.It was so easy to stuff an informant in, and here he was squatting on the road from Xue's house to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and sure enough, he was waiting for the rabbit to guard the idiot Xue Pan and walked home.Originally, he was thinking about how to strike up a conversation, but when Xue Pan saw him from afar, he rushed over in a hurry, dragged him home and said he wanted to treat him to dinner.

Xue Pan was also frightened by the call, he is a big man and he is not afraid of thieves, but his mother and sister live in the house, if the thieves accidentally enter the house and lose their reputation, this is a fatal thing that has to be guarded against.He happened to see his benefactor who had saved him before, and thought in his stomach that what he happened to be doing was to catch thieves, so he didn't rush forward.Shen Yu knew what Xue Pan was thinking as soon as she squinted her eyes, she felt a bit stern in her heart and said, "Master Xue, what did you do?" Brother Shen, during the Dragon Boat Festival, don’t we still give zongzi as presents, this is a good thing for the whole family, didn’t you just meet a brother today, let’s go to my house for dinner.” As he spoke, he pulled people towards the east of the city with force.

Shen Yu went down the donkey and followed him, easily entering the gate of Xue's house.Just after passing the Moon Cave, I went to visit Mrs. Xue in the main courtyard, and bumped into a slim and beautiful girl at the first glance. It's not light - don't you scare Miss Xue?I saw this girl last year and didn't feel anything, but today I just glanced at her and almost couldn't walk, my heart was beating wildly, if it wasn't for Xue Pan's panic, I'm afraid she would have leaked her way and made people suspicious.

He coughed to clear his mind, and continued to go in with Xue Pan. Mrs. Xue saw them sitting on the seat, and smiled to let them out: "Just think this is my home, come and play if you have nothing to do, Pan My brother doesn't have any close friends, and there are no brothers in the family, so it's good for him to learn from a young talent like you." Shen Yu cupped his hands and bent his waist to show respect, Xue Pan couldn't help but People dragged them out to see the precious goldfish that they had managed to keep at home.

I saw that the water in Xuejiayuan's house was specially brought in according to the terrain, and the stream gurgled down the bisected moso bamboo, and flowed through several large glass tanks, in which there were jade rabbits, red-topped tiger heads, and phoenix tails in different categories. There are several kinds of dragon eyes, dark cloud cover snow, red pearls, and twelve red butterfly tails. The water overflowing from the back is led out by winding waterways. Everywhere shows the owner's interest.Xue Pan pointed to this set of glass tanks and said to Shen Yu: "These medakas that are offered in the courtyard outside are all arranged by my sister herself, so they are so beautiful." The piled ones, not to mention anything else, just talk about this big smooth glass tank, which is worth 800 taels and can't get down, let alone the many fat-headed fish swimming slowly in it.After thinking about it, I decided to go back in the afternoon and take a good look at the family's property. In the past, one person fed the whole family without hunger. In the future, if I want to raise a rich and noble flower like Miss Xue, I have to pay more attention to economic vulgar things.

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