Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

On weekdays, if Mother Jia heard these words, she would think that Mrs. Wang was persecuting too much, or she would not use the dead Jia Zhu to speak out.Today is different from the past. When I saw the Xue family at the banquet, I thought of the Wang family who gave gifts and hid their faces and left. Xiaoli, don't be in a hurry for the time being, after leaving Xiaoxiao, I won't let my old woman move, and sooner or later I will find a perfect one with Baoyu." She still wanted Daiyu in her heart, but her son and daughter-in-law did not get along with each other, and the uncle and granddaughter were not the same. A very happy look.Neither party is happy about a family relationship, and it's useless for the old lady to be happy on her own.

Mrs. Wang was afraid that the old lady would make up her own mind.She just didn't like Daiyu, not to mention the quarrel with her sister-in-law when she was young, she couldn't stand the girl's frail body and crying at every turn.When people marry a daughter-in-law, they smile and serve their elders every day to please their elders. If you hire a girl from the Lin family, you have to spend your time coaxing her instead.And this looks like someone who keeps his eyes clean and never talks about common things, why marry her to the house?It turned out to be for nothing to beg an ancestor to come back to make offerings.It's not easy to say so much at this time, so I just agree.

The concubine's national filial piety system is only three months at most, and in April, restaurants or some Fengyue alleys will open for business.The Xue family's Hengshu Dianjing's business immediately became sluggish last time, but fortunately, the family does not rely on it for food at this time, but the old shop is closed if it is not easy to say.Sure enough, Xue Biao rushed back before the delivery of the purchase accounts in the palace. Hearing that something serious happened at home, he was also very angry, and sat with Xue Pan and scolded Wang Ren and Loyalty King fiercely.Because of talking about King Zhongshun, Xue Biao scolded for a while and then shifted the topic to the matter of leading a team to Ping'an Prefecture to buy leather, so as to save the whole family from worrying about Baochai's marriage again.

"Leaving the capital and going northwest, it took about a month to walk, and then crossed the mountain and entered the boundary of Ping'an Prefecture. Because this time, I just brought some salt and cloth to store up before the price of leather went up. Such bulk goods have passed, so the caravan did not go too deep, and the time they stayed in the local area was a total of two months. If you want to go further, you must wait until April, when the pastures turn green. Now If it weren't for a caravan as big as ours, let alone doing business, even people and goods would have to be seized and dragged by those barbarians to sell. When the pasture turns green, there will be more caravans, and the road can be found. Some familiar barbarians would drive sheep to the side of the road we used to pass, no matter how high the grass was, the sheep would not go in, and if there was no wind or they stood still, they would not know that there was something hiding below.”

After hearing Xue Pan and Baochai's longing for a while, they didn't know what it was like to see the cattle and sheep when the wind blows the grass. At the end Baochai sighed: "It can be seen that the ancients said that 'reading thousands of books, traveling thousands of miles' is true. Yes, if I hadn’t been there and seen it, I wouldn’t be able to say it so vividly.” Baoqin sat beside him and laughed: “No, when my father and his family were working in Xihaiyanzi, if it wasn’t for Seeing those people in the real country with my own eyes, I never imagined that there are people with yellow hair and green eyes. And they are tall and hairy, three parts are not human and seven parts are like ghosts. It was scary at first, but after seeing more There is no difference between us, and some smart people who learn poetry and books are no worse than our people."

Mrs. Xue only listened to half a sentence, her mind was full of confusion and she wondered: "Why are you still dyed? I'm afraid she ate the color cream in the mother's womb and went down." One sentence made the whole room laugh, Xue Pan He yelled that his dullness was just random, and asked his wife to stare for several times before restraining herself.The whole family was finally reunited again, forgetting about the bad things of the past few days and never thinking about them again.

After Xue Biao returned to Beijing, Baochai handed over the prepared bills of accounts, and delivered them to the House of Internal Affairs according to the old calendar.The officials over there were not disrespectful. After checking that there was nothing wrong with it, they signed a ticket for receiving the money and could go to the household department to collect it.Xue Biao handed over his hands and exchanged greetings with others before he left. He was not in a hurry to get the money, but he could bring it up when the family needed it urgently, or it wasn't that the family didn't keep so much money in the account, wasn't it obvious that it was eye-catching.As soon as he turned the horse's head, a man dressed in straight suits came up and said hello to Qian'er: "Isn't this Xue Erye!" He said, "So it's Housekeeper Xia, who also came to check the accounts today?"

This Housekeeper Xia is the chief steward of Osmanthus Xia's family, they are all imperial merchants, so naturally they also know Xue's family.This Xia family is not as good as Xue's family, the head of the family also left early, and the whole family has no males, so Mrs. Xia has to order the staff and stewards to take up the family business to make a living.Fortunately, they only take care of the flowers and trees in the palace, which is relatively simple, because the sweet-scented osmanthus got such a nickname.Mrs. Xia has only one pampered girl at her knees. She is afraid that the family's livelihood will be taken away by the clan and she is unwilling to adopt a step-heir, so she endures it year after year.Seeing the girl getting older, he thought about having a baby with her and recruiting a husband-in-law into the family, so that he could manage the business and take care of retirement.She had a good idea, but there was one more thing, who would be willing to be a door-to-door son-in-law to honor other people's mothers?So in the past few years, I can only rack my brains.

Mrs. Xia talked about these things at home every day, and these housekeepers and managers were also looking around with green eyes outside, wishing to see some young talents who were a little passable, so they dragged them home.When I saw Xue Biao today, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration. The second master of the Xue family has no parents and is capable, so he doesn't mention the talk of recruiting. Isn't it like getting half a son for nothing?Therefore, Steward Xia, who usually has no friendship, suddenly gathered around like a cluster of fire to please him. He only hoped that he could invite this person. At that time, it doesn't matter if you like it or not.A gentleman like Xue Biao can be bullied, anyway, who cares about those reputations when the merchants get benefits.

Who knows that Xue scorpion was not fooled.

It's not that Xue Biao has the ability to foretell, but because he promised to go back early before going out.The reason is that in the spring, Xue Pan thought that this bad thing happened again in the past few days, so Xue Pan thought that the whole family would go to the village for an outing in the spring and pine trees for a few days.So Xue Biao refused to go with others casually, and after a lot of excuses, he pulled Steward Xia away, hurriedly urged the horse and ran away.All the way home, Baochai and Baoqin were telling the cook what to bring for food, and it took about half an hour before they were ready to go out.At this time, the national filial piety is coming to an end, and people in various colors have already left on the street. After all, they are not serious masters, and they can't miss those two or three days, just don't set off firecrackers at home and have a wedding banquet.Last year Baochai bought several plots of land near the capital, one of which had a large courtyard, so today the whole family is planning to go there.Xue Pan went to the yamen of Honglu Temple early in the morning to order a Mao, and then came back early. Lin Ruhai was so angry that he was so angry that he was bubbling away. In the end, he forgives that he is still counted as a wedding, and let him go.

The Xue family only left the first housekeeper to watch the door, and brought the second housekeeper and waited on them all the way.Many families in Beijing are also going out of the city on a spring outing at this time. The car frame of the female relatives on the road is covered with fragrant mist and whispers softly. I don't know if I go outside.

Mrs. Xue took Xuying and sat in the front car, Baochai and Baoqin sat in the back car, Xue Pan and Xue Biao rode outside to protect them, and the family went out of the city gate to the east, passed Huangzhuang and then went down. After a few steps on the fork in the road, I arrived at my own Zhuangzi.Zhuangtou hurriedly brought a whole family up to meet his master, and left his wife and young daughter to take care of him carefully, before he retreated tremblingly.The second housekeeper commanded the servants to tidy up the yard of the master's house, sweeping it clean and laying clean bedding and cushions. After a lot of trouble, Mrs. Xue was invited to get out of the car with a group of female relatives.

As soon as the courtyard door was closed, the villagers who were hiding outside to watch the bustle clicked their tongues and said: "Sure enough, it is a big family in Beijing. The pearls on the wife's Buddhist beads are as big as the size of thumbnails. I am afraid that others will hide them carefully." Get up, but he hangs it casually as a plaything." Another daughter-in-law said jealously: "The patterns on the clothes of these girls have never been seen in this life. If they can wear such good clothes for a day, they will die. Willingly." Just as we were talking about the hot spot, the caring old lady Zhao from the nearby village heard that there were wives and grandmas from Beijing who came here to relax, so she brought her little granddaughter over to try to get some ideas for the autumn wind. With a loud voice, everyone who refused to go outside was coaxed away, and then carefully knocked on the door with a basket of fresh vegetables and vegetables, and said to the gatekeeper inside: "Old sister, we are making very clean and fresh vegetables and vegetables here." , I thought it would be convenient for my wives, grandmas and girls to taste it?"

The mother-in-law didn't dare to be self-reliant, so she hurriedly told her to wait, ran in and went back to the second housekeeper, who asked Mrs. Xue what she meant.Mrs. Xue was thinking of finding an old man to tell some interesting stories. When she heard that a woman from the village brought something to please her, she ordered her to bring her in. Then she turned to Baochai and Baoqin and said, "I know you don't want to hear it." The old lady is grinding her teeth, why don't you ask the tadpoles to take the village up for a walk. Bring the waiters, put on a veiled hat and an umbrella, and the dinner will be more delicious after a walk."

Baoqin couldn't sit still, so she quickly got up and thanked her, then found a hat to wear. Baochai smiled and blessed Mrs. Xue, and took her to the wing room.After a while, it was done, and as expected, Xue Biao took a few maids to surround him and went outside.Now it is around the time of ear seeding, and the spring plowing is busy, and the wives and daughters-in-law from the countryside around the yard have already left home to go to work, and the fields are full of young and old people who have driven the cattle, or people who are not walking around pulling the plow in front.

In her previous life, after Baoyu left her family and business, Baochai served Mrs. Wang and lived in the countryside for a while.Xue Tiaobaoqin had walked outside again, so no one was surprised.It's just that the woman who was serving them didn't tell the girls to go to the field, for fear of bumping into the poorly dressed farmers who were working.

That being the case, Xue Biao guarded the two girls and walked around at will.The spring plowing is busy, and the doors of the tenants in the village are closed, and there are a few open doors. Four or five old women sit around on the stone slabs at the door, doing needlework in their hands, and gossip about others in a loud voice.Seeing the girl from the host family passing by, the old women lowered their voices and murmured carefully, for fear that if they leaked some rough words, the master would be uncomfortable, and this season's renter would suffer.

Because it was their own village, the wives picked up a hill with relatively slow terrain and dry soil and helped the girls walk up slowly. Wild flowers and weeds grew profusely on both sides, and they didn't die if they stepped on it. The branches may not be able to continue to bloom.Baochai Baoqin walked up the gentle slope, walked to the top and then looked down, only to see the verdant fields and the miscellaneous flowers.After walking for a while, the mother-in-law persuaded: "Girls, we have to go back now. Be careful that your calf hurts at night." Baochai didn't make things difficult for her, she nodded with a smile, and the group went back to the original road.Back in the yard, Mrs. Xue was still sitting and listening to the mother-in-law who came to beat the autumn wind to talk about ancient times. The little granddaughter brought by the mother-in-law asked the daughter-in-law next to her to lead her to eat fruit outside.

When Mrs. Xue heard the two girls coming back, she smiled and called them to sit closer and said, "This is our grandma who has lived in the village for many years."He hurriedly jumped up to avoid it and said, "Amazing, terrific. How dare the youngest accept girls' gifts! The two girls are reincarnated as fairy daughters from the sky. The fairy lady salutes and dare not accept it." Mrs. Xue, who was speaking in the basket, narrowed her eyes and smiled: "Don't play those fancy things. They are young, so they should bend over for old people. What are they worth?" Just now, he carefully touched half of the stool and sat down: "Today, I have gained a lot of knowledge! There are still such girls in the world who look like they walked out of the painting."

Baochai also gave way with a smile. Only then did Mrs. Zhao settle down and sit still, then she patted her knee and sighed, "There is an old woman from the Liu family at the bottom of the slope on the other side of Qianer. It was a good visit. We just thought, our hosts are all merciful people who should be called by the heavens to enjoy wealth, but unfortunately we can’t find a way to be filial on weekdays. This time when the wives, grandmas and girls come to play, it’s hard to be a filial person Opportunity, so I packed up all the melons and vegetables at home and put them in, so that the wives, grandmas and girls can eat well so that they can live up to their troubles in this world."

Mrs. Xue clapped her hands and said with a smile: "This grandma can talk!" Mrs. Zhao raised her hand and waved it anxiously: "No, I really think so. The wife said that the kitchen at home tends melons and vegetables every day. Everyone is willing to eat the round and good-looking ones, but don’t you know that these melons and vegetables are more willing to be eaten by people who are born well? They are always eaten by people, so why not choose someone who is willing.” Everyone laughed so hard that Mrs. Xue asked the cook to use the melons and vegetables brought by Grandma Zhao to eat at noon, and she left Grandma Zhao to eat and said, "It's very different from your home-cooked taste, but I'm willing to eat it." Could there be something better to eat?"

Xuying hurriedly smiled and got up and took her mother-in-law down to the kitchen to have a look, Baoqin surrounded her mother-in-law Zhao and asked her to tell some anecdotes from the countryside.This Mrs. Zhao is quite shrewd, knowing that the first thing a mistress like Mrs. Xue likes to hear is about good deeds and repaying kindness, bad karma, etc., and young girls like Baochai and Baoqin like to hear anecdotes about finding a good husband. .So I thought about it for a while and said: "Go south from our Zhuangzi, pass Mazitun in front, and then go into the mountain. There is a mountain named Wan'an. There is a Bailongtan in it, also known as Xiaonanding Mountain. The mountain is halfway up. In a temple in Chaoyang Cave, there is a Wusheng old grandmother enshrined. This old grandmother is not ordinary. Anyone who asks for a child within a hundred miles of our home should just go. Begging for a baby to take home safely all the way, it will come true. I have two ready-made examples here. One is a family surnamed Niu in Xiatou Village. The second daughter married and had nothing to do for five years. Not to mention the mother-in-law’s family, the natal mother was in a hurry, so she asked the onlooker to lead her. I took the girl to prepare five-color paper, ingots and four kinds of tributes, and walked thirty miles there in the dark early in the morning, and climbed the mountain road for two hours before I arrived at Chaoyang Cave. I asked for a clean and beautiful doll and Her girl was caught under her arm, she was beaten all the way back home after a lot of twists and turns."

Mrs. Zhao paused for a while and said: "It stands to reason that no one dares to take lightly on such an important matter. It would be better to drop yourself than to call it a doll. It just so happens that my mother loves the girl so much that when I go back, I set up a food delivery service by the side of the road. A section of the bullock cart. When I took the girl to the door of the mother-in-law’s house, the doll fell off and fell to pieces for some reason when I got off the car. At that time, the faces of all the people in the circle turned pale, and I thought it might be this girl. The child is destined to be childless, maybe the old grandmother won't allow her to keep a baby?" Mrs. Xue turned pale and asked, "Then what happened after that?"

"How about it, Ma'am?" Mrs. Zhao moved her legs and said, "The spectator who accompanied her smiled and said to her natal mother, 'Hurry up and invite a doctor to come and have a look, I'm afraid your grandson has already been sent home! ', without waiting for the natal mother to say anything, the mother-in-law hurriedly invited an old doctor from their place to look at it, and she really had a wrist for diagnosis, and in eight months she gave birth to a white, fat and handsome baby. Kid. Later we all said how difficult it was to come down from Wan’an Mountain. It happened that the baby in the stomach was safe after being beaten and beaten. We went in at the door of the house. It can be seen that there is an old grandmother who has no birth. There is another family with the same surname Jiao's old lady was kind enough to bring a doll with her neighbors, but she didn't expect to enter the village and before she got home, it rained heavily and the doll was drenched beyond recognition. When I was in the toilet, I left the baby and went back empty-handed. I thought it would be nothing to do with it, but it happened that the daughter-in-law of the family was seven months pregnant, and the baby in her stomach lost her breath inexplicably. West. In our village, there are daughters-in-law who go to the fields with big bellies to harvest wheat, but it is heard that the live baby who was seven months pregnant suddenly disappeared. It can be seen that doing good deeds must have a beginning and an end."

The stories she told made Mrs. Xue's hair stand on end, so she immediately called the second butler and said: "When we go back, prepare a paper offering, and we will also make an offering to this lifeless old grandmother. If you do good deeds, you must be cautious from the beginning to the end." Chatting again After a while, the cook came over to report lunch, and the family moved over to eat.

In the afternoon, when Mrs. Xue was resting, Baochai brought her maid to see Mrs. Zhao back.Because I came here for a family outing, I didn't bring anything, so Baochai opened the makeup box and took out 100 taels of silver notes, and took out a set of silver-headed silver necklaces to wear with the little granddaughter brought by Mrs. Zhao. Son.The daughter-in-law escorted her out of the house and said: "When the wives, grandmas and girls return to Beijing, if you come to the door, you will be full. Not to mention the wives above, even we like to listen to your stories." Grandma Zhao took the bank note and hurriedly took off her clothes and hid it in the sweat towel, and took off the hair flower necklace on her granddaughter's head and hid it in her bosom, kowtowed to the house before turning around and leaving.

The author has something to say: [-] words are missing, and I will fill it up tomorrow morning

Completed.These two short stories were told to me by my mother-in-law, and they are quite interesting.

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