Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

Mrs. Xue had asked someone to set up a large screen of sixteen red sandalwood blessings such as the East China Sea openwork in the flower hall of the main room, and sent a housekeeper to invite Xue Pan back from the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.Since it was a marriage arranged by the adoptive daughter's deceased father, one cannot easily regret it, no matter what the Mei family's attitude was before, in short, now that people have come to the door with gifts, Xue's family has to show that they are willing to get married.

When Baochai went back, he saw Baoqin lying in the wing room of his yard, walking up and down like a mill, and the fur in his arms was almost bald.Huamei stood by the side and waited. When she heard the noise, she turned her head to look. Seeing that it was Baochai who had returned, she knelt down and blessed Fu and announced, "Miss Qin, the elder lady is back." I hurriedly urged my sister to change clothes.Baochai poked her with a smile, and went to the inner room to change her homely clothes as she said, brushed her hair and washed for a while, and then ordered a woman to go to the front to have a breather with Mrs. Xue.

Mrs. Xue had been sitting behind the screen to watch, and outside there were two cousins, Xue Pan and Xue Biao, who were sitting and chatting with Mr. Mei Hanlin.This brother of the Mei family was wearing a bamboo green gown, and he had already removed his outer clothes when he saluted, and he looked as elegant and elegant as Lanzhi Yushu at this moment.The little old lady likes fair and well-behaved children the most, and when she sees this Mei's son, she is extremely rare, and she repeatedly orders the kitchen to entertain the adoptive daughter and son-in-law who came to the house for the first time.

Mei Wenhe sat at the banquet and couldn't see his thoughts. Regardless of whether the Miss Xue's family was good or bad, her elder brother Xue Pan could tell at a glance that she was a fool, but her own brother Xue Biao was a sincere gentleman. It's a pity that I don't leave my abacus all day long, and the merchant's background is really weak.I'm afraid that this Xue family is the kind of family that can't help much, but it doesn't look like a hindrance, it's really tasteless.Years later, the family is preparing to let him become an official. In addition to the officials' own means, the strength of the wife's family should not be underestimated in the officialdom.Back then, Xue Baoqin's father was kind to the Mei family, so Mei Hanlin decided to make his only son his youngest daughter as his wife, and vowed to treat him like his own daughter.Once the words have been spoken, they cannot be taken back anyway.Kuang Xue's family brought the girl to the capital for a good education early on, and there are countless dowries, even if they pick and choose, they can't pick anything wrong.

In his heart, he still wanted to ask another lady from the family to be his wife, but his father Mei Hanlin strictly ordered that today he must go to Xue's family to meet a good student, so he had no choice but to let the big maid in the room tidy up and come over.He has a very good face, and he is attractive just by looking at him, for a while, everyone in the Xue family didn't pay attention to others, they only tried to persuade him to drink and eat.

Over there, Baochai asked her mother-in-law to talk to Mrs. Xue, and she just brought Baoqin to the main room.The two turned into the inner room from the west wing, and then sneaked from the inner room to the main hall. They saw Mrs. Xue sitting behind the screen with a smile, waiting for them.As soon as Mrs. Xue saw the two girls coming, she hurriedly stretched out her hand in front of her mouth to ask them to keep their voices down, and made a place for Baochai and Baoqin to sit down and look out carefully.Baochai was fine, Baoqin looked at it, blushed, lowered her head, pinched the handkerchief and smiled softly, she was quite satisfied.

Baochai stretched out her hand to pat the Baoqin, and then looked out through the opening of the openwork carving.This Mei Wenhe had heard the faint noises behind the screen a long time ago, and knew that it might be the girl from the Xue family who was watching from behind.He had also heard rumors that the eldest daughter of Xue's family was the most beautiful girl in the middle of Beijing, so the second girl must have been as good as her elder sister, sitting upright and looking very good looking.Baochai couldn't help but stare hard at the man's face, she glanced at the material of the clothes on his body, and suddenly saw a purse in the shape of wishful acacia hanging out of the folds of the clothes around her waist, she frowned and couldn't help it He asked Mrs. Xue to go see it too.After seeing the pattern clearly, Mrs. Xue's expression darkened, and she coughed lightly behind the screen.Xue Biao, the son of the outside room, was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know what Mei Wenhe was upset about, so he didn't say anything, and he was still entertaining.

When it was getting late, Mei Wenhe got up to leave, and the Xue family specially ordered someone to prepare a return gift for the long-term follower who followed him.Mei Wenhe rode his horse and headed south of the city. After walking for about an hour and a half, he arrived at a modest Sanjin house.The personal servant girl who tidied his clothes with him in the morning was standing at the door looking forward to it, and when she saw him coming back, she was very happy and went forward and said, "Master is back. I have asked you several times. I am only worried that your name is Xue's." Go bullying." Said Mei Wenhe got off the horse and handed both the whip and the mount to the long follower behind, pulled her all the way to the main room and said: "It's such a cold day, it's hard for you to wait outside, come in Let's talk in the house." After talking, the two entered the main courtyard, the two elders of the Mei family were in a hurry to go to the room, and when they saw their son, they hurriedly gathered around to ask him if he was cold, and how the Xue family treated others.

Mei Wenhe took off her outer cloak, and the lady next to her immediately brought hot tea for her to hold in her hands and cover it. Before she could speak, the butler over there brought in the return gift from the Xue family from the chief.This time the gift was prepared by Baochai. There was nothing gold, silver and colorful, but some affordable and useful sturdy cloth, snacks and dried fruits, a few catties of fine silver frost charcoal, and a pen and ink. Take the shot, and don't embarrass the Mei family how to give the gift next time.Mei Hanlin looked at the gift and nodded and said: "The Xue family is kind, and they don't intend to be proud of money. I think this marriage is really well done." How can a good girl in a boudoir have such a reputation. If you hadn't insisted on going your own way back then, why would you wrong my son to marry a merchant's daughter today. And that Miss Xue, I heard that she went everywhere with her parents when she was young. I just raised my wild heart, and I don’t know if I can stay in poverty and live a peaceful life. Now the family refuses to support them, and they only send beggars for food and use!” Mei Hanlin was furious and was about to argue with his old wife Mei Wenhe hurriedly got up and stopped his father, saying: "Father, calm down first, and mother is also doing it for the son's good, so don't hurt my family's affection for an outsider."

Mei Hanlin just sat down and panted heavily: "When Xue's family came to Beijing, I really didn't like this family. It's a businessman's face to stay at a relative's house. But now his son Xue Panbu He was recruited as a Lang Guan of the Ministry of Rites, and he has a teacher-student friendship with the Minister of Rites, and his in-laws, Jia's family, are now relatives of the emperor. Even if they want to retire, they have nowhere to find a reason. Besides, when the daughter-in-law gets married, how to adjust , Teaching also depends on the skill of the in-laws, my Mei family is also a scholarly family, how can I not raise a daughter-in-law well!" Mei Wenhe brought hot tea and Mei Hanlin, sat on the bottom and sighed: "My son met today. The two brothers Xue Bian and Xue Bian of the Xue family. That Xue Bian is a complete fool. It is nothing more than a fool who has a foolish luck. Brother Xue Bian is a character, but it's a pity that he does business as a businessman all day long, and he really doesn't know what it's good for his career." Mei Hanlin coughed and reprimanded: "I don't know, that Xue Bian is a fool, who in the court doesn't know? It's because he's a fool, otherwise the good things will happen to others. Don't say that Xue Biao is a businessman, when you are out of office, you will understand that you have worked hard for your father today."

Mei Wenhe and Mrs. Mei didn't dare to fight him, they just responded nonchalantly. It was getting late, so they went to rest and didn't mention it for the time being.

Over there, Xue's family sent away Mei's son, and turning around, Mrs. Xue said unwillingly: "This servant of Mei's family is really crazy. When a man visits his future wife's house, how can the people in the house dare to wear a purse of Hehuan Ruyi? Really? It's really embarrassing, I'm a scholar in vain, I don't have any shame!" Baoqin was still young and couldn't understand the meaning here, so Baochai hurriedly asked someone to send her back first, and invited Su Mama to tell her secretly listen.

Xue Pan and Xue Biao's faces were ashen when they knew about it.It is understandable for a man to have a family member before he marries a wife. Most of them are bestowed by the elders.But a big man can't control a concubine?How rare it is to say it.Going out and wearing nothing to look at it again, it can be seen that the Xue family is not very important, this marriage is unsatisfactory and unsatisfactory.Baochai also frowned and said, "This Mei family doesn't come early or late. They came just as soon as the family started to improve. If it's good, it won't cause trouble for us. If it's bad, it might be to watch Sister Qin's dowry." , How did this happen? Maybe it’s not that we all think too badly about people. According to my opinion, we can come and go, just don’t mention the things that have been ordered by the ceremony, and quickly ask someone to go to the neighborhood to inquire about everything about the Mei family. Let's talk again. Earlier, my uncle was nothing more than talking about the Mei family. Now it's too late to regret it. Sister Qin is young. Even if it doesn't work out, she is not afraid to wait for a few years. Just don't blame me for meddling. That's all right." Xue Biao hurriedly got up and made an embarrassment to Baochai, saying, "Please trouble my elder sister to worry about Sister Qin, this marriage is a big event in a lifetime, and it is not too much to rush into the details, where is it?" If you dare to complain about many things, you can't even ask for it. I think it's better to follow the elder sister's idea, let's find a way to investigate and investigate more, and if there is something bad about the Mei family, we can plan early." Xue Pan said. Mrs. Xue nodded in agreement, and immediately called the housekeeper to explain the errand, Mrs. Xue ground her molars and said: "It doesn't matter how much money you spend, you must give me the whole story of the three generations of the Mei family. Otherwise, when Sister Qin leaves the cabinet, she will marry both of you to the Mei family!"

The butler held back a smile and hurriedly bowed his hands several times before retreating. Even Baochai felt that his mother had become more and more childish recently.Xue Biao bowed to Mrs. Xue again to thank her, and entrusted Baochai to go back to comfort her sister, and then got up with Xue Pan, said goodbye and went to the outer courtyard to rest.

On the second day, Xue Pan went to the yamen to meet Mao early. When he saw Lin Ruhai, he was unambiguous, and opened his mouth to ask about Mei Hanlin.It's also a coincidence that this person was originally Lin Ruhai's No. [-] in the top two rankings, so he still has some impressions.Lin Ruhai drank the hot tea brought by Xue Pan, and then slowly said to him: "This Mei Hanlin today, I vaguely remember that he was originally an official from a poor family, and his ancestral home was in Ganshan Road. Later, he was selected as a Jinshi and entered the Imperial Academy I stayed there for more than ten years, and I can be regarded as a couple with your uncle Jia, and he is still a waiter from the fifth rank. It is said that the poor Hanlin is poor, and his wife is quite good at managing the family. You can't say that you are poor, but you can be said to be comparable to the girl you know in appearance. If you talk about the affairs of the Yin Division in the back house, you don't know, how about asking some people who are capable of inquiring about this?" Xue Xue After thinking about it, Pan put his idea on Shen Yu's head. He only thought that the Jin Yiwei could almost fly, so it would be easy to find out what kind of stuff a poor ghost has in his house.

In the afternoon, he looked around and saw that there was nothing important to do in the yamen, Xue Pan confessed a few words to the little official and then sneaked out with his cloak. Many people in the Ministry of Rites did the same, so no one paid attention to him.This guy didn't dare to ride a horse either, so he bought two catties of stewed meat on the street and carried it with him. He only brought Laifu and headed for the stronghold that Shen Yu usually guarded.Unfortunately, he was not there, but Liu Zian picked him up with a smile and asked, "Brother Xue, come here, what are you carrying in your hand!" Just be clear.So he stuffed the stewed meat into Liu Zi'an's arms, made a fist and said, "I have something to ask for today, so I'm sorry for being empty-handed. I have a girl who was originally scheduled to live in the house of the five-rank editor Mei's house in the Imperial Academy. Yesterday, I suddenly found that the kid was a bit tricky, so I wanted to ask my brothers to help me take a look. Isn’t this because I’m afraid that the girl will fall into the fire pit, and I can’t beat him to death if I find out after getting married?” Liu Zian picked it up after listening. The stewed meat sniffed it, and nodded in response: "It's not a big deal, for my sister's sake, I will keep it for you within three days and find out how many sweat towels Mei's brother has." He weighed the stewed meat and said with a smile: "It's not time to go to the yamen, so I won't be with you anymore, let's go out for a drink together later!"

Xue Pan bowed his hands and thanked him, Dian Dian'er took the blessing and ran back to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, pretending that he hadn't sneaked out to circle around.After a while, Shen Yu came back with the dossier, and saw Liu Zian sitting there, eating every bite of meat.When he saw Shen Yu coming in, he grinned and took another mouthful before saying, "That idiot Xue came to look for you just now, but unfortunately he didn't meet him, so he left this stewed meat to make it easier for me." Shen Yu just thought he cut it off. Muddled, he reached out to the plate and left to grab a few pieces.Liu Zi'an took the plate away with sharp eyes and hands, chewing and saying, "This is a thank you gift for entrusting me to do something, and you didn't work hard enough to eat it!" Shen Yuqi said, "What is Xue Pan asking you to do?" ?”

Seeing that he stopped, Liu Zi'an sat back and put the plate away and continued: "His sister said in the past few days that the man is a brother of a servant of the Imperial Academy, and he presumably visited Xue's house yesterday. He said that he found something wrong with the person, and he was afraid that the girl would fall into the fire pit, so he asked someone to investigate." There are many ambiguities in the words, which is roughly the same meaning.

Shen Yu was anxious when she heard this - I have my eyes on this girl, scratching my head and thinking for a long time, thinking about how to get close, how can I let others get ahead of me first?He knew that the Xue family had an adopted daughter, but one was not familiar with Baoqin and he cared about it, so he ignored it, and the other was according to the order of ranking. Unexpectedly, there was a reason for the incident, and the eldest daughter was separated.Liu Zi'an happily chewed a few more pieces of stewed meat, only to hear that Shen Tongzhi called a spy to explain this and that, and said with wide eyes: "Why? Shen Tongzhi, you shouldn't be like this!" He also said to Shen Yu It was just playing around with him, but people were as anxious as long grass and fidgeted.

After only one meal, the spy who had gone out before came back.Qingliu, who has a simple population like the Mei family, has an innocent family background, and has not done much for several years, is the best way to investigate.You only need to bribe a few servants hired to help, and you can easily get anything you want to know. Normally, Jin Yiwei even the informants are too lazy to let go.All of a sudden, Shen Tongzhi was interested in such a poor official who was incapable of doing bad things. The spy was still puzzled all the way, and carefully checked the inside and outside of the Mei family, even the only son of the Mei family, Mei Wenhe. After all the "Hui Zhen Ji" with the cover of the sage's book was found out, there was no doubt, and then I quickly returned to the base for an answer.

The spy's face was tense, he saluted Shen Yu with his fists, stood up straight and replied, "Go back to your lord, the Mei family has already checked and recorded it, please read it." Shen Yu took the note and went over to read it. I saw that it said Mei Hanlin's usual hobbies and whereabouts, who was close to him in the DPRK or there was a sign of a party; The only son, Mei Wenhe, actually had two concubine sons in the house, fearing that others would know that it would be hard to talk about marriage, so he secretly handed over to his grandfather and grandmother at Mei Hanlin's hometown to support him, the family of three made people speechless.

Shen Yu pondered for a moment after reading it, and when she looked up to see that she was about to go to the Yamen, she hurriedly got up, put on her cloak and took the note and went out again.The spies at the back saw him walking in a hurry and pretended that there was some serious case. They wanted to catch up and follow, but they asked Liu Zian to stop him and stuffed half a plate of stewed meat: "It's a thank you gift from the owner for your hard work. It tastes really good!" The spies realized that they were here for a private matter, and they were not annoyed, so they sat down and munched on hot tea at their desk, and finally wiped their mouths and said, "Ask me about something, it's such a good thing Is there any more in the future? Just wrap it around the little one, keep your legs tight, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore." Liu Zian scolded him with a smile: "You monkey bastard, you will be able to eat it this time. See if you dare to be so mischievous in front of Shen Tongzhi. Let's go!" The spy smiled and picked up the remaining stewed meat, stuffed it into his arms and beat him a thousand times: "Is there anything else you can order? If you don't I want to take this meat back for my old lady to taste." Liu Zian drove him out after hearing this: "Go, hurry! I knew your old lady liked this, so I wouldn't allow you to eat it so old This meat is made by a 100-year-old shop on the East Street. It is said that this shop was there when the dynasty opened. Because of its good taste, many barbarians who came to pay tribute bought it non-stop. Ordinary people have one If you can buy two or two dozen toothpaste, that's great, the few bites you just ate weighed half a catty!"

The spy bent over, said "hehe" and ran away with the meat in his mouth. Liu Zian touched his chin and smiled before putting away the file. He thought of what Shen Yu had done today, and found it even more interesting.

The author has something to say: Ruyi Acacia, the focus is on Acacia, usually the wife made a private and interesting object for her husband, which is equivalent to a love letter written by the couple when they were romantic, but the way of expression is more subtle.In the original text of the search of the Grand View Garden, it was Mrs. Xing who saw Jia’s mother’s servant girl, the silly elder sister, picking up a “spring sachet” with “goblin fights.avi” on it...Everyone understands, right?This kind of acacia purse is equivalent to the low-profile version of the spring purse, so Mr. Mei’s behavior is equivalent to accidentally letting someone discover the Japanese beauties in the phone’s memory when he met Bai Fumei’s blind date for the first time. Brother-in-law and brother-in-law all learned about his inclination towards female beauty... the result must be cool.

The Mei family made very few appearances in Dream of the Red Chamber, only appearing four times in the first eighty chapters, all of which were brought out by side conversations.One of them was when Baoyu saw guests outside who had received presents and went home to count the number of officials. Among them was Mei Hanlin.It shows that these people are Jia Zheng's colleagues, or they are also at the same level, otherwise they will not be able to play together.Refer to the search from the fifth grade to the Ming Dynasty Hanlin grade, and the one that fits the description is Shidu, so this supplement is made in the second design.The descriptions of the members of the Mei family can be regarded as my own original creation or second design, I hope everyone will not be entangled......