Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

In the evening, Shen Yu returned home with a box of candied fruit stuffed by Mrs. Xue. When she got off her horse, the sun was still hanging on the eaves.The house of Shen's residence is also in the west of the capital. It is a small room with four entrances. Apart from Mr. Shen, only Shen Yu lives in it.The two of them were lazy and easy, so they let go of many family members, except for the butler family who had been with the Shen family for several lifetimes, cooks, doormen, and some who maintained the house and took care of the garden.The other three courtyards were not occupied by people, so they went in to clean them according to the day, and they were usually locked with a lock and didn't bother to take care of them.

Mr. Shen was still lying on the rocking chair under the flower stand, and only when he heard the movement, he opened his eyes and took a look: "Candied fruit, it smells." Shen Yu sat down beside him and raised his hand to open the food box. I stacked up eight kinds of fresh candied fruits from my childhood, and took a look at the upper layer, and found eight kinds of dried fruits underneath, such as chestnuts, melon seeds, sweet and salty cakes, golden dates and so on.Shen Yu picked up a plate of hawthorn cakes and put them in Mr. Shen's hand. In the food box, there was a prepared Xiaoqianzi and put it up. She pinched a sweet and salty cake and took a bite. The pastry contained fresh and numb pepper noodles. The cocoa butter is not bitter at all.

The two of you slowly ate half a box of candied fruit with a pot of tea brought by the boy. At last, Mr. Shen coughed and said, "This girl is very generous, so I didn't beat you out anyway. Is there a sign of her horoscope?" ?” Shen Yu swallowed what was in her mouth and said, “I didn’t have it at first, isn’t this just trying to figure out a way.” Just as he was speaking, the furry and hot big orange thing at his feet rubbed over with a “meow”, Shen Yu Yu reached out and picked up a long cat, put it on his lap and rubbed it, and said, "I'm afraid that people will not look down on me. After all, the eldest girl of the Xue family of the imperial merchant is connected with the four kings and eight princes. Ordinary In the eyes of people, a military officer can't stand on the stage." Mr. Shen weighed it in his heart, and had to nod to agree that his grandson probably only has a face to look at when he is a girl, and then thinking about Mr. Shen's job, he suddenly felt that Everywhere is difficult.The old man squinted his eyes and glanced at Shen Yu, took a sip of tea and said, "Don't worry, since the Xue family hasn't shown the girl yet, it can't be said that you have any concerns. When looking for a wife, you must make your natal family feel you This person is reliable, we can't give him face, we can only make people look at him as a good deal. The Xue family is in business, and the goodness here can be weighed clearly."

Shen Yu only nodded when she heard this, and Fu got up again and put the big yellow cat in the arms of Mr. Shen, told the servant to clean up the table, and went back to her room to rest, not mentioning it for the time being.

A few days later, just after entering the twelfth lunar month, Nan'an Wang's house suddenly posted a post inviting girls from Jingli Xungui's family to enjoy wintersweet flowers. Mrs. Xue showed Baochai a letter from Mrs. Wang, and she was so happy that she was about to shed tears: "It's about appreciating flowers, but Princess Nan'an wants to choose a concubine for her son. The main concubine's mother doesn't want to, even if she is a side concubine, she can be considered a leader anyway. If you are one year old and two years old, it will be true." Going to be a second wife? Your aunt’s second girl, Yingchun, is also going, and you two can still be companions. How can Yingying compare to me? .”

Baochai looked at the letter paper, Mrs. Wang only said that Yingchun had accepted the post, or it would be fine to bring another girl from a relative's family in. Tanchun was not in a hurry, so she simply let herself take up the vacancy.Speaking of it, I still want to make up for Baoyu's nonsense before, and I don't want to marry my son a regular wife who came from a merchant.Baochai only hoped that Mrs. Jia and her aunt would think about this for a few more days, and that it would be best to find a well-rounded daughter-in-law for Baoyu as soon as possible, and stop letting him out to harm others.

Here, Mrs. Xue hastened to cheer up and prepare the girl's clothes and jewelry, while Baochai lazily just stayed in the room and read some miscellaneous books.After all, Xue Biao is about to bring New Year's goods and go to Beijing for an inventory at the end of the year. He must celebrate the New Year with Bao Qin, and he will not leave far after the year.Seeing the beginning of spring, it was time for Mei Hanlin to send someone to come to the house to put it in order, so Baochai just brought the Baoqin and counted it as a dowry every day.Because Mrs. Xue took Baoqin as her adopted daughter, in addition to the 1 taels of silver that the married daughter of the father had, she put another 1 taels of silver in the box with her, so Baochai listed the Zhuangzi that Baoqin bought in Beijing earlier Get it out and transcribe it. The first line on the dowry list is the amount of land from various places, followed by the two shops in Beijing and the four shops that Xue Biao prepared for his sister in Jinling, and then the bottom of the box. Some, some jewellery, some furniture, some decorations, some gold and silver wares, some jade wares, some medicinal materials and other miscellaneous things. I have written a square booklet with more than 50 pages, and I just wait for the official date to invite you. Mr. Wan copied it in triplicate into Dahong Sprinkling Gold's dowry list.For this dowry alone, the Mei family would have to provide Baoqin for at least three to fifty years.

When Xue Biao went to Beijing to hand over the accounts, the two brothers and sisters were so moved that they hugged each other and cried, and came to Xie Baochai the next day.Xue Biao didn't hesitate, and just told Baochai about the twists and turns in the business field outside, and told her that at this time of year, life in Beijing was safe, and it was like a boiling pot outside.There was not much harvest last year. I thought that if I got my hair on, I would cut some corvee taxes and live a little better. I didn’t expect that the positions vacated by the River Works case would be filled by officials who came in. These new officials The officials and gentlemen who came up scraped the land desperately, as if they were afraid that the common people would not starve to death.One carelessness will cause chaos in the world.

After hearing this, Baochai sighed: "Even us ignorant boudoirs and weaklings know how to order others to have a full meal first, and the grown-ups have too much." That is to say, after sighing, he said to Xue Biao: "It just so happens that you came to Beijing to stay temporarily. The yard has been cleaned up early, so don't worry. The family ceremony has already been prepared, so you can visit Mei's house as much as you like, so that you can settle the big things about Qin sister early." Hua Feng Turning around and saying: "Whenever you are free, you can help me manage the pawnshop. If people outside ask, they will rummage for the girl's dowry. There is already someone helping there, so don't worry." Xue Biao cupped his hands as a response He just waited to finalize the marriage of his younger sister Baoqin before cleaning up the pawnshop.

When Baochai first came to Beijing, he sifted through all the shops in his own shop. Those with minor problems reprimanded the shopkeeper and let them go back to work. The only rule was that if there was no improvement in half a year, they would have to be replaced. Those shops that have collected things from outside are not easy to move. Baochai brought up the shopkeeper Zhao from the original pen and ink shop to the prime minister, and only left the most serious pawn shop and asked the shopkeeper Li to take care of it, but ordered several grandchildren of his family. Enter the house to listen to it.

Shopkeeper Li, the family's incense is held in the palm of the owner's hand. Although he knows that the Xue family has never treated the child harshly and asked him to learn to read, he feels guilty in his heart. However, no one knows the clues of the Hegong case from here.It was also Shen Yu and Tongzhi Shen who carefully covered up in the Jinyiwei, and Shanmener told the commander of the capital that the Xue family still had a lot of people to get asylum, otherwise the Hegong case would involve those old people, and they would always be asked to be released. Not a shred of news has leaked out.Seeing that the turmoil in the ledger had subsided, Baochai thought that there was still a library of unknown things hanging over his head, and sooner or later he had to sort it out.However, because the Zhen family and the four princes are involved, they dare not act too aggressively.

After some explanation, since then Xue Biao has temporarily lived in the capital, and the flower viewing feast at the Nan'an Palace is just around the corner.

This morning, Mrs. Xue was more anxious than Baochai, so she called the girl up at dawn.Mammy Su knew that it was Baochai who made the final decision, so she didn't argue with Mrs. Xue about right or wrong, she helped comb her hair, and checked the clothes and supplies for any violations. After tidying up, she went to the car to send Baochai Go to Jia's house to meet Yingchun.Because she had to wait for the meeting to send Baochai to Nan'an Palace, Mrs. Xue simply asked the family to prepare two cars. She took her maid to sit in the front and arranged for Baochai to sit in the back.

Baochai wore a brand-new honey-combined two-color silk bijia, with an autumn-colored horse-face skirt tied under her head, and a light bean paste red gown on the outside. Because it was winter, she also wore a duck-yellow cloak trimmed with white rabbit fur, which was bright in color. Elegant without overpowering others.A lace gold hairpin was pinned on her head as required, and after getting on the carriage, she ordered Bai Ling Yinger who came with her to remove the emerald emerald tinsel on her head that was in the way. out of gardenias.Seeing that she is more than dignified but not elegant enough, one can tell that this girl really has no heart to be petty to others.

Xue Pan rode a horse and yawned outside to send his mother and sister to Jia's mansion, just as Yingchun also turned around in a car and was reversing the direction on Ningrong Street.Mrs. Xue took Xue Pan in to say hello to Mrs. Jia. Mrs. Xing sat at the front and kept her mouth shut. The housekeeper Lai Da went back and forth to check and nod, and the motorcade went to Nan'an Palace.

After walking for about half an hour, I arrived at the Nan'an Palace, as usual, the appearance of the palace.The female guests entered the second door from the side and the carriage stopped. The wife in charge greeted Mrs. Xing down with a smile on her face, nodded and bowed to say hello, and then invited the two gentlemen behind to get off the carriage.Only then did Baochai see that Yingchun was wearing a pink shirt today, which was a bit heavy in color, with a tired golden phoenix on her head, her make-up was not very submissive, and her eyes were slightly swollen.Because of turning around, Ying'er was asked to bring her handkerchief and her makeup box down and follow her. After entering the second gate, she said to the daughter-in-law in charge who led the way: "The road here is a bit bumpy. I want to go to the clean room to get my makeup done so as not to be impolite." After hearing this, the daughter-in-law smiled and called a girl who stood by the side of the road to come over and explain: "These two are ladies from the first-class general's mansion in Rongguo Mansion, and they will be brought to the banquet in a clean room later." Mrs. Xing was at the front He was frowning at first, looked at Yingchun's eyes and said, "I'll go and sit in front first, you two hurry up." Then Baochai pulled Yingchun and followed the girl to the clean room.

The clean room prepared by Nan'an Prince's Mansion is actually a small courtyard, in which only the maidservant prepares hot water and maize.Yingchun's big girl plays chess fiercely, and now she has asked for a hot water stool and a mirror to enter the room. Ying'er waited on her and washed the makeup powder on Yingchun's face, and she couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh, what is the second girl?" What's wrong?" It turned out that Yingchun's head under her eyes was not only swollen but also dark, and it seemed that she hadn't had a good rest all night.Without further questioning, Baochai opened her makeup box and took out a flat tin iron box. Opening it, the creamy cream inside had a scent of borneol and mint.I only picked out some of the hairpins and squeezed them open with my fingers to put them on Yingchun. The slightly swollen eyes immediately healed a lot.Siqi watched from the side and recited Buddha's name, then untied Yingchun's hair and tore the tired golden phoenix down. quiet."

It turned out that Yingchun accepted the post from Nan'an Palace, and Jia's mother was full of joy and shouted to make new clothes for the girl.Yesterday, new clothes were brought in, and the old lady asked to bring out jewelry to wear.After trying several things in a row, she felt that it was not good, and suddenly remembered that when Yingchun kept her head, she had rewarded a tired Jinfeng with her, so she asked the maid beside her to come and take a look.This is unbelievable, the dressing box on the bedside of Yingchun is actually empty, only a few things that are commonly used on weekdays like Tanchunxichun are left, and all the rest of the year's gifts and the elders' rewards are gone.Mother Jia also asked what happened to Yingchun, and in a rage she forced to ask the reason, or Siqi knelt down to plead with the master, and told the whole story again and again, only to find out that Yingchun's nanny took things away—or sold them, Or if it is used by the family, it is actually a bit richer than the master's life.

At that moment, Jia's mother was even more angry, and ordered Lin Zhixiao's family to bring dozens of coarse envoys to take Yingchun nurse and knelt in the yard, then rushed to the house like a tiger and wolf, smashed open the door and searched all over the house, and sure enough, many Yingchun's close-fitting women were found. Among the objects, there is this tired golden phoenix.Mother Jia only hated Yingchun for not being up to date, so she patted the table and asked her: "You are the master, she is a servant, how can you be controlled like this? Your father is still alive, and you don't have anything that a lady of the Duke's Mansion should have." Posture!" Yingchun didn't dare to answer back, she just cried, and after crying for a long time, Siqi poked behind her and then opened her mouth and said, "Then mother is an elder, so I dare not be strong with her. Every time I take something, I will No, she acted as if she didn't hear it, and said it seriously, and then filled the yard crying and saying that I was not filial." Jia's mother was furious: "What kind of elder is she? You are filial to her head. I'm a little bit of a baby brother. I have been a sister for several years, and I don’t know who I am anymore!" Then he called Lin Zhixiao's family to come in and said, "Pass on my word, if the young master of the family is weaned, I will drive out all the nurses, and choose another one. Teach the nanny to match up with my brothers and sisters. In the past, I thought that my parents would take care of me and save my worries, but I never thought it would be impossible!" The family members hurriedly spread the word, picking people up, searching After searching for things, it turned out that several nurses were greedy for money, and Jia's mother was even more angry.

At this time, Mrs. Wang rushed over from Rongxi Hall when she got the news. As soon as she entered the room, she knelt down and pleaded guilty: "It's my poor family management that caused such a disaster. Please teach me." Eyes turned away: "The second girl is not your own girl, and she is raised in my yard on weekdays. I can't blame you. The stepmother is the stepmother, and she doesn't care at all, and these nurses are hateful. Rule over the master, if the second girl's personal belongings are leaked out, where can I enjoy any flowers, and send them directly to the Tiekan Temple at home!" Just as Mrs. Xing came in slowly, the little girl just lifted the curtain and Jiamu said: "Go back and rest, I won't bother you." Mrs. Xing heard something wrong, and hurriedly knelt down beside Mrs. Wang. Mother Jia was too lazy to teach her, so she just let the girl help them both up and send them back to their respective yards. Only then did I go to see Yingchun, who shrank aside like a quail, and said: "Second girl, if the nurse takes your things, you won't ask the girl next to you to beat her? Didn't you know to come to me and say something? The whole yard is full of yards to serve you alone. Serving like this, whose fault is it?"

Yingchun bowed her head and knelt, not daring to make a sound. Finally, Mother Jia sighed and said, "Get up now. I'll wear this tired golden phoenix tomorrow. It's my fate to come out by myself. In the past, I You are still not happy after praising Miss Lin and Miss Xue, but now do you know where you are wrong? Either you can let others know that you have been wronged, or you will not be wronged at all, you go back and think about it yourself." Jia Mu said, Yingchun Only then did he dare to let Siqi help him get up and go back to Zhuijin Tower, where he couldn't sleep all night, and even woke up in the middle of the night crying secretly.When it was dawn and putting on make-up, Mrs. Wang sent a message that she felt a cold in the middle of the night and couldn't get up, so Mrs. Xing could only stay and go to Nan'an Palace, and cried again for a while, so she ended up like this.

After hearing this, Baochai was helpless.The Jia family has good rules, and the servants who have served the elders are more shameless than some young masters. Yingchun is the concubine of the big house, and Jia She never cares about her. She is not afraid of falling into the hands of the nanny for a long time.He didn't make any comments at the moment, but ordered Ying'er to comb her hair again, put away the tired golden phoenix, and replaced it with a happy eyebrow hairpin that she brought, and paired it with two small hairpins and a cluster of elegant hairpins. pink peach and silk flowers on her hairpin.Si Qi got the instructions to open Baochai's makeup powder box to re-apply rouge on Yingchun's face, and hurriedly packed it out with ease.Yingchun got up and wanted to go out, but Baochai stopped her and said with a smile: "Anyway, it's not bad at all, I just happened to bring a change of clothes, and I changed the heavy-colored gown you have outside, and you seem to be three or four years old. Woolen cloth."

It just so happened that among Baochai's change of clothes was a light purple gown, under which Yingchun was originally wearing a goose-yellow bijia, but the change of clothes made her look more gentle and honest, which was the old man's favorite face.While tidying up the changed clothes, Siqi tidied up himself, his eye circles were red and red, and it was hard to hold back. He felt so hard in his heart that he must protect his master in the future.After tidying up, Baochai pulled Yingchun to go outside. The girl who led the way was still standing there waiting, so she followed her to the mat.After a while, Mrs. Xing sat with her hands tied, neither talking to anyone nor paying attention to her, and when Yingchun Baochai passed by, she complained, "Why is it taking so long?" After thinking about it again, I was a hundred times more energetic than before, and then swallowed the rest of the words, got up and walked to the side of Princess Nan'an, and said while walking: "I have been too lazy to come out to socialize for many years, and I have to work for you."

The girl who led the way had gone to find the daughter-in-law who was welcoming the guests to make an appointment. At this moment, the daughter-in-law in charge also came over and smiled to let Mrs. Xing in. Someone from the head went in to inform, and immediately asked the three of them to go up to salute.

The author has something to say: I am so diligent today!