Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

After noon, the mothers and maids from the Lin family came first to go back with Daiyu surrounded, and then the Shi family came to pick Shi Xiangyun away, and then Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Xue thanked Mrs. Jia and took them shoulder to shoulder. They asked their girls to go out.Until each family stood beside the carriage and complimented each other a few words, when other people saw it, they knew that they could re-arrange the two families to sit together again if there was another banquet.

When returning home, Baochai sat in the car and directly took out the title deed of that hectare of land and gave it to Mrs. Xue. Mrs. Xue didn't want the girl's things. Chai said: "Now that the Shen family is thin, we can't add too much to the dowry. We should prepare more of these things that will generate interest in the future." Mrs. Xue already has a little idea of ​​what the regulations are, but the dowry should not be too different from the dowry, otherwise it will appear that the Xue family is oppressing others, and it will be detrimental to her family's reputation.

She probably had a calculation in her heart, her son is not good at settlement anyway, all he has to do is to be a junior official in the yamen since he was a fifth rank.The daughter-in-law may be smart, but she has a lot of housework inside and out, so she is not willing to make her tired, and the grandson will disappear if she is exhausted.There are also Baoqin and Xue Biao. Baoqin will not stay for a few years after she gets married.Seeing that there are quite a lot of new shops opened by my family in Beijing, it is better to marry all the shops opened by my daughter as a dowry to her, and ordinary people who do not go to business can also arrange to go there.There is another one hectare of Zhuangzi, and the foundation of adding, adding, subtracting, and subtracting is very solid. When it comes to Baoqin, the family will also accompany the things left by her father at the beginning, so that it does not appear to be partial to each other. A bowl of water is almost the same. Son.

When the mother and daughter entered the house, Mrs. Xue sent her daughter back to the yard, and called her son and daughter-in-law over to discuss with them.Xue Pan was never worried about money, and he didn't care about it. When his mother said one, she nodded, and sure enough, she wrote down all the four new shops opened by the family in the past two years, and Wang's two, a total of six shops. , all in a good location on Jingzhong Street.Xu Ying is also willing to share the shops that she can't manage with her aunt so that she can save some troubles for herself. Wouldn't it be better to wait for the bonus than to work hard?After this matter, Mrs. Xue has the energy to discuss with her daughter-in-law about the future small settlement.Because it is Xiaoding, all the female relatives from various families came here, so it is enough to open eight or nine seats in the main courtyard, and there is no need to use actors, just find a troupe that can play music well.

Xu Ying then asked the butler to open the big warehouse and take out the screen to prepare it. At that time, the unmarried girls will only sit on the other side of the screen and play games, and the elderly wives sit on this side just to see what the new son-in-law of the Xue family is like. It is also good for Shen Yu to know the relatives of his future wife's family, so as not to go out and make jokes in the future.In addition, the porcelain that Xue Pan had used for the wedding banquet before was just taken out and reused, which saved a lot of expenses.In the past, the servants of the family asked Baochai to clean it up several times, and those who could not work were sent back to Jinling early to ask them to collect the deeds and settle the family money to go. Those who can leave behind must have a few brushes or hold multiple jobs. In short, there is no one else in the Xue family except Xue Pan.

After some rectification, it came to the morning of the third day of June. Mrs. Xue was so anxious that she couldn't sleep, so Yinchu woke up and changed her clothes. When she arrived at Maozheng, she called Xuying Baoqin again and went to the kitchen to check.At the second quarter of the hour, Shen Yu took two young servants, and he also carried two goose cages and filled two wild geese all the way from the west of the city to the east of the city with a "quack quack quack".At this moment, quite a few female relatives with their girls have already arrived. The young girls accompanied Baochai to sit on the mat behind the screen to make trouble for her. When they heard that the Shen family had come to the door during the bustle, they immediately fell silent across the screen. Look out through the lattice gaps.The wives are naturally well-informed and not as shy as they are, just smiling and waiting to see this son-in-law.

Mrs. Xue just changed into a large crimson red dress today, and used a few pearl hairpins on her hair. Seeing that Shen Yu was wearing an auspicious gown, she was carrying a pair of geese, and a servant behind her led Xue's servants to carry a pair of geese. There were eight pieces of satin in a box, and another boy hugged the box, which contained eight sets of jewelry, and someone from behind brought ten boxes, which contained ten kinds of auspicious fruits.This is a dowry gift that is highly valued, and it has not surpassed his current official status.Baochai's aunt, Mrs. Chen of Wang's family got up and looked at them one by one, then turned around and nodded to Mrs. Xue, which meant that the son-in-law was generous and open, and he could be allowed to sit at the table and talk.If there are such shabby ones, it is necessary to eat the girl's uncle and aunt for a while, it just means that the girl's natal family has someone, and she can't be bullied lightly in the future.

At this time, the young girls behind the screen secretly looked at Shen Yu's appearance, and turned their heads to tease Baochai again. They all smiled and whispered softly, and stared at Jin Yiwei's Tongzhi from the third grade, who blushed and had a thick neck and limbs. I don't know where to put it.Among the girls of each family today, Daiyu Xiangyun was the only one who was the most happy for Baochai. Daiyu leaned behind the screen and looked at it for a while, then sat back on her seat and stretched out two fingers to draw a stroke. She pursed her lips and said with a smile: " Now Sister Bao can be regarded as a beautiful couple, and she will be the wife and grandma after she leaves the house. After today, I dare not make fun of her, and now I have to drink a cup to vent my anger!" Xiang Yun climbed in. The side echoed, Baochai had no choice but to take a sip of the crabapple cup with banana leaves and steatite on the table.

When she put down the wine cup, Daiyu refused to let her go until the sister who was overjoyed today wrote a poem.This move won the support of most of the girls, so they called the little girl to set up the table and spread paper, cloth and ink.Xiangyun decided on the rhyme format, and Daiyu asked for a piano and sat at the table to fiddle with it. She only said that she would be punished if she failed to finish a poem. Just a few words for fun.

Baochai couldn't refuse, so she got up casually, picked up a white cloud and meditated for a while, and wrote a Qilu, when she wrote it, Daiyu only played half of the piece.The girls gathered to read it, among them the ink on the Xuelang paper was handsome and majestic, it didn't look like a book written by a weak girl in a boudoir, let alone the poems and lines, just this word has already taken the lead.Xiangyun read it carefully, and immediately asked for a pen to write a sequel.Daiyu threw the qin aside, read it and continued a song, and the rest of the girls from Jia's family continued in turn. Some girls from other families may be able to take it up, and many of them are afraid that their words will be clumsy and they will make a fool of themselves.After this banquet, the outside world must know that Jia's daughter is good at poetry and has excellent literary talent. Some honorable families who plan to let their children and grandchildren study must be moved, but this is for a later time.

It is only said that the ladies outside smiled when they heard the sound of the piano, applause and reciting from behind the screen.Who didn't come here when they were young, seeing these little girls playing happily now, as if they have returned to the days when they were in the boudoir, they can't help but sigh.Looking back at Shen Yu again, his eyes softened, not as if he stared at him fiercely like a wolf with a big tail jumping into a herd of sheep.Here, Shen Yu quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead, secretly thinking that if there is another case in the future, he will not dare to underestimate the power of these housewives.Don't look at them all wrapped in silk and crooked as if they are so weak, but if they really want to be tough, just looking at you can scrape off a few taels of oil.

The official matchmaker came along with them, praised Xue's family and all the wives, and said good things about the girl, so they saved the scene.Mrs. Xue nodded, and the waiting women who stood behind came up to take over the wild geese and other obscene gifts, and the Xue and Shen families' small settlements were over.The two sides had already exchanged tokens before, and now they took it out to look at it with their relatives, others only said that the Xue family loves the girl, and the Shen family has an inheritance, so they all wished it once, and the ceremony of Xiaoding is only complete.Xue Pan came and took Shen Yu to the outer courtyard for dinner, and the main courtyard became the world of the female relatives again.

After Shen Yu saluted and exited, the wives from various families came over to praise Mrs. Xue about this elder brother of the Shen family. Some said he was talented, some said he was young and promising. Mrs. Xue was delighted to hear that there was nothing wrong with it.Inside, the wives continued to talk about family affairs and children and grandchildren. Behind the screen, the girls were enjoying themselves and being very elegant.

Outside, Xue Pan took Shen Yu to a banquet in the outer courtyard to have a drink. After drinking, he began to talk about Baochai's childhood. Some old stories even Baochai himself couldn't remember, but he said it vividly: "When my sister was young, there was a time when she was not quite the same as now. She was so angry that she urged me to make progress. My father and I prepared the study room where she was asked to wear a servant's clothes and mix in it, and she memorized all the collections of classics and histories. , and use it to embarrass my face, just say that even a woman can write the words of a sage after hard work. And that time, every time the spring is warm and the flowers bloom, she will have a cough and wheeze, no matter how clever you are, the doctor will come. No. Later, when a monk or a Taoist came to fight the autumn wind, he left a sea fairy recipe, got some petals, stamens, nectar, etc., and mixed it with the things of each solar term, and then made a jar of "Lengxiang pills", sealed tightly I took a jar, took a pill and took it when I coughed, and it was fine. The monk and Taoist also told my father to put a golden lock on it, and only said that he wanted to marry a brother with jade. At that time, my father I took a catty of gold out, half a catty for a gold lock and collar, and half a catty for a pair of gold hairpins. Having said that, my father really didn’t love my sister for nothing. I was still outside when he first went to do his funeral. Competing with others to buy a girl, but the girl knelt at home and guarded the spirit until she passed out and had a high fever..."

He just shook his head and said, Shen Yu sat and listened carefully.Now Miss Xue can no longer see the anxious look of being in a servant's clothes, and she is just calm and open-minded, as if she was a different person.After talking about Xue Pan's drink for a while, he was so stunned that he asked the guest to call a servant to help him down and rest.Shen Yu explained again, bowed in the outer courtyard, and then took the servant back to leave.The housekeeper passed on the outside affairs, so the relatives praised the son-in-law for his thoughtfulness and courtesy.

Shen Yu brought the servant to the house. Old Master Shen was waiting for news from him. Seeing his grandson coming back, he was very happy and asked, "How is the Xue family treating you?" Shen Yu sat beside him and waited for the servant to pour tea before drinking. Slowly said: "The Xue family attaches great importance to it, and invited the wives of the relatives to come to see the ceremony, and behave politely and respectfully." Only then did Mr. Shen feel relieved: "That's good. The family values ​​girls, so treat you politely. In the future, if you marry someone, you need to take good care of them, so that the husband and wife can live a happy life together. Don't bring back the twists and turns of your yamen and use it on your daughter-in-law. It is a long-term solution to compare your heart with your heart." After a pause, he went on Thinking back to when my little grandson was just born, a small ball of fleshy balls that couldn’t even open his eyes turned into a tall and handsome young man in the blink of an eye, and now he was about to beg for a wife. shuttle.

On his side, he was full of emotions, but he didn't know that the same was true on Mrs. Xue's side.When the daughter was a child, she was called her father's pamper and spoiled her so quickly that she always seemed to have a temper in her temper, but as she grew older, the anger subsided.In the past two years, he didn't even need to take medicine, and his daily behavior was more gentle, courteous and thrifty, and he was more gentlemanly than the gentlemen in outside dramas.Now when he said that he wanted to send her out, the reluctance in his heart turned up, and he saw the two wild geese clucking and quacking in the yard, wanting to throw her out.

The nest of wild geese that Xue Pan sent back and forth when he got married was brought over by Xu Ying as a dowry, and later Baochai was called to keep them on the Zhuangzi for auspicious meaning. It's rattling.After finally taking a full sleep, I woke up in the morning and saw these two again, and I couldn't stop being bothered.

It happened that Xuying came to greet her mother-in-law early in the morning, so she asked Mrs. Xue to hold onto Xuxu and complain about her sufferings, and only said that she was reluctant to part with the girl.Xu Ying and his servants are familiar with each other, and their temper has become naughty, so they only pulled Mrs. Xue and said: "In that case, I will ask the uncle to tell the brother of the Shen family, just say that we will hold the girl, let's keep it for a while. Eight or nine years before you are willing to marry him, is that good?" Mrs. Xue patted her and smiled: "You are so skinny! If you say that, who will dare to come to ask your own girl to marry you in the future." Xuying then asked the servants to raise the geese to the Zhuangzi like the previous pair. It was easy to make the yard clean, and Mrs. Xue felt better.

After breakfast in the morning, Xue Pan rode out to the yamen as usual, and Xu Ying ordered the servants to clean up and tidy things up.Mrs. Xue took the two girls to sit in the inner room, copying the scriptures and praying to the Buddha, and only prayed to the gods and Buddhas in the sky to bless them all to find their homes safely.Although Baoqin was still a bit childish, after all, she was quite experienced in the affairs of the Mei family before, she sat down honestly and copied carefully, copied a volume after a while, and then looked at Baochai. a stack.Baoqin got up from the futon and moved to a chair to drink tea. After taking a sip, she asked Baochai, "Sister, when did you copy so many scriptures?" Bian said: "I have been copying these scriptures for so many years, and I can memorize them long ago. If you can write them silently, it will be faster than reading and writing." Baoqin stuck out her tongue and held the teacup Without letting go, Mrs. Xue listened to the enshrined aunt in the inner room for a while, and when she heard some movement outside, she ordered the servant girl to come over and pass on the message: "At least copy the meaning, let's go play in the yard."

When Baoqin heard the words, she felt like she had been pardoned, and when Baochai stopped writing, she took her outside together. It was already June, and the sun was quite hot.The two sisters were standing under the green wisteria racks and the breeze was blowing through the hall. The mother-in-law brought the snack box sent by the Shen family in the morning, and made cold tea to cool off with them.Baoqin turned over a pink water chestnut fruit and took a bite. While eating, she suddenly wondered: "Huh? Why is the fruit made by the Shen family the same taste as the ones brought in from our restaurant? It seems delicious in a daze Some, if you take a closer look, they seem to look alike too, it's really weird." Baochai almost spit out a mouthful of tea, thinking to himself that it's a good thing no one knew that Shen Tongzhi had been hiding in his own restaurant when he was still in trouble. As a chef, maybe he passed on his skills at that time.Later, during the He Gong case, Shen Yu led the order to go south and wiped out all traces of Chef Shen, and even returned the dry shares.Baoqin was still wondering, Baochai hurriedly swallowed down the tea, and said to her with a smile: "Maybe the Shen family has been to our shop to inquire about our likes and dislikes? Let's eat yours." Confused, cover this up and refuse carry.

At this time, Mrs. Xue came out after listening to the scriptures. The two sisters saw their mother and got up to salute her. Mrs. Xue saw an opened snack box on the small round table and said to them: "We will have lunch later." , use less of these desserts. Originally, the summer is a bit bitter and you can’t eat anything in summer, and it’s even more unscrupulous to use the side stuffing, and turn around carefully, one by one, dizzy and pimples on their faces.” Baochai and Baoqin vomited to each other Tongue, smiled and let the servants clean up, only poured tea to eat with Mrs. Xue, after all, no one talked about these snacks and fruits anymore.

After accepting the lottery, Mrs. Xue handed over the red note paper with Baochai's name, surname and date of birth to the matchmaker and sent it to Shen's house. Mr. Shen took it and sent it to the ancestral hall for pressing.There was no abnormality in the family for several days, and Shen Yu asked Shen Yu to take it to find Mr. Yin and Yang to calculate it. It took several days to get a divination.The hexagram is the auspicious lottery of Shangshang that says "open up the heaven and earth to make a good relationship, and when the auspicious day is good, everything will be perfect; if you get this lottery, it is not a trivial matter, and you will be declared by the emperor."

Mr. Yin-Yang specifically confessed who was counted alone and couldn't figure out why, only the combination of two fates could be counted, so he made a comment of "a match made in heaven".After receiving the lottery passed back, Mr. Shen was overjoyed. He couldn't eat meat for several days without showing his grandson's face. Mei Zizi lit incense sticks with his ancestors and explained the matter in detail, and then sent someone to Xue's house to inform .By this time, Baochai has already stepped on the threshold of Shen's family with one foot, and the rest are old customs, at least the names of the two have been decided.

The author has something to say: Trembling breath out, [-] words, I was really drained today...

There is no such thing as saving manuscripts, huh, huh, long ago.