Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

Over there, Mrs. Wang went back and sent a letter to Xue's family without mentioning it.Jia Amnesty wandered back to the east courtyard, and only called for the old woman to say that the eldest wife was recovering from her illness, and told her relatives, Xue's family, to take her niece as a wife, and he ignored everything else, and went back to eat wine with the young wives as usual. for fun.

Few of the servants in the East Court see Mrs. Xing in their eyes now.Originally, it was still a bit of a shame to be submissive, but when the old lady told the eldest lady to rest, everyone thought that this would probably be the case in her life, and never thought that there would be a day of resurgence.The old woman took the order and went to the east courtyard. This place is right next to the stable outside. It is empty on weekdays and no master is willing to live in it. Later, it was Madam Xing who wanted to "retreat" before sorting out the arrangement.The woman walked through the narrow passage and walked into the innermost few small rooms. Outside, she came out through a door separated by wooden boards. Inside the door was a lame old woman who was taking a nap in the shade.

The woman who came to deliver the message kicked the one who was dozing off with her toe and said, "Okay, don't hold back the corpse. There is a word from above that the people here will finally see the light of day. Why don't you hurry up and invite the eldest lady out?" The old woman with legs was still a little deaf, so she yelled a few words before she shrank from the ground.The people locked in the room had already heard the movement outside, and at this moment they were lying on the inside and slapping the carved ribs vigorously with their hands.

The woman who came in from the outside shouted through the door panel in a cheerful voice: "Madam, the old lady ordered us to pick you up. This is finally over. Please calm down. I will find the key for you now." You open the lock." Just as she was talking, the crippled woman took out a key piece from the sweat towel tied around her trouser waist, stuffed it into the keyhole, and knocked it again. With a "click", the rusty lock was finally opened, and the anxious people inside became quiet.

"Eldest lady, the little one has gone in." The old lady passed a sentence inside, and only when she saw that there was nothing wrong, she stretched out her hand and pushed the door panel open.Inside, the eldest lady Xing stood on the ground with loose hair and only wearing a gray-white jacket, her nose and tears covered her face. When she saw the door opened, she knelt on the ground with a "plop" and kowtowed in the direction of Jia Mu's main courtyard.She was very old during the year of "convalescence". She was originally about ten years younger than Jia She, but now she seems to be older than the old man of the Jia family, and even her temples are a little gray.

The two women didn't say anything more, they hurriedly stood up and helped the man back to the place where he lived so that he could return to his life.There were not many servants who served Mrs. Xing earlier, but they came back from the garden at this time, especially the one from Wang Shanbao's family who was crying loudly.She was originally Mrs. Xing's accompanying room. Once the eldest lady lost power, they, the direct descendants who came together, were the most oppressed. Later, she managed to find a place to live by relying on her granddaughter to play chess. Send it to the toilet or do some other rough work.Mrs. Xing saw her natal family at this moment, she let out a burst of grief, and there was a faint sound of wailing and neighing.

The woman next to her hurriedly pulled Wang Shanbao's family away, and persuaded Mrs. Xing: "My wife is suffering so much now, hurry up and wash up and go to thank the old lady for a formal ceremony, and don't cry in a hurry." Others also echoed , no matter whether you didn't care about it earlier, you have to act like you care about it now.Mrs. Xing didn't dare to be stubborn any more, and she had to let go of her past problems of "not relying on anyone, not listening to a word", she was obedient, and followed her mother-in-law to the clean room to freshen up.Turning around, the women surrounded her and helped her change into her homely clothes, which made her look a lot cleaner, and she was finally able to see people.

It turned out that Jiaohong, a big girl next to Mrs. Xing, had been asked to be pulled out to match someone earlier, but now she didn't make up for other girls in time, so she had no choice but to sneak out of Wang Shanbao's house to wash and wash, and asked her to help Mrs. Xing to Jiamu's main courtyard. Go to kowtow to lead the training.There was a swarm of bees preparing for it, and the woman who had already had legs ran to the front to pass on the message, but Jia Mu didn't say she didn't see her, she just nodded her head indifferently, as a response.

About two quarters of an hour later, Mrs. Fei and Mrs. Fei from Wang Shanbao's family helped Mrs. Xing go all the way to Jiamu's place. As soon as the gatekeeper maid lifted the curtain to pass the news, the three of them knelt outside and kowtowed inside.And Mrs. Xing straightened her upper body and walked to Jia Mu's feet, crying bitterly, saying that she would never dare to do what she did before, but she couldn't tell where the mistake was.Mother Jia was lazy to teach another daughter-in-law who was in her thirties or forties, and she just asked her mother-in-law to help her sit up and said, "Li, you and the eldest are not young anymore, and now you have grandchildren. You should have a good time. I know you can’t control the boss here. From now on, just take care of yourself quietly. If the Jia family is short, do you eat or drink? The money will be deducted once it is in your hands. Abnormal, greedy for wealth, a petty face! How many of the seven rules have you committed? It’s not your fault if you have no descendants, but you are shameless if you only steal one! Even if you are a stepwife, you are also a family member General's wife, you will lose all your old faces in the next few lifetimes of the family, so it's good to get it back?" Madam Xing's face turned red and she had to kneel obediently again.

Mother Jia talked for a while, then waved her hands impatiently: "Get up and sit there! It seems like I'm treating you harshly. Let me tell you, I will only guard your own yard from now on and be honest. Anyway, my family will definitely not I will ask you to keep my brother and sister again, just give up and treat the couple. If I hear any strange words like 'black hen' again, I will shut you up for a lifetime so that you can calm down." At this time, Mrs. Xing just said Xun Xunkong responded with a full mouth: "I only listen to the orders of my ancestors, and I don't dare to be self-sufficient." Jia Mu looked at her with disgust on her face: "I don't need you. Only one, today you are cured because of your illness." Our relative, Mrs. Xue's family, wanted to make a marriage proposal for the children of her family, and she saw that your niece wanted to hire her. Your Eldest Master has already agreed, so I asked you to come out to handle the girl's dowry and marry later. Not really For our own girl, a part of the dowry money from the public is enough. I will give her some jewelry and satin here, and you can collect the rest yourself. Don’t stretch out your hands like a poor man, and pick up your face from the ground for me. stand up."

Mrs. Xing agreed, and stood for a while waiting to see that Jiamu had no more orders. Then she knelt down and kowtowed to thank her mother-in-law for her kindness, and then asked the two companions to help her up and go back to the yard to count the belongings and Xiuyan. marry.From the beginning to the end, at this time, no one has thought of having a break with Miss Xing, and they are still living in the Zhuijin Building in the dark.

On Mrs. Wang's side, Zhou Rui's family sent a letter and the newly acquired fresh things to Xue's house. Mrs. Xue called her daughter-in-law and the girl to sit aside and listen to the news for Xue Biao.Zhou Rui's family is used to being quick-witted and sweet-talking, and after a few words of flattery, they said to Mrs. Xue: "Miss Xing, everyone in the garden knows that she is a good girl. She especially keeps herself safe. Chisel, or go to Qacui nunnery in the back to find Master Miaoyu to listen to the scriptures, although the family background is poor, the girl herself is not picky, she is a rare jade from a small family."

Mrs. Xue doesn't care about the Xing family, it's just that someone came to inquire about Xue Biao's marriage. Compared with Xia's family, it is better to find a girl from a relative's family to win him over; Forget about running errands.Firstly, Mr. Xue went there a few years ago, and Xue Pan is nothing to worry about. Mrs. Xue is a widow and it is difficult to go out. Even before her own son married a daughter-in-law, she entrusted her husband to go to Yanglin Ruhai to find her. I never said a word to the man next door.People always have close and distant relatives, and this is true for parents and children, but it is even more impossible here for Xue Biao.After hearing what Zhou Rui's family said, he smiled and asked someone to grab fruit to eat with her and said: "These two children are also bound by a long-distance marriage. They met once in Suzhou earlier. As elders, we are naturally willing to fulfill our children's wishes. As long as the families are not too far apart, it’s not a problem for a daughter-in-law’s family to be poorer and richer.”

Zhou Rui's family thought inwardly, isn't it true? In this capital, apart from the royal family, I am afraid that there is no money like Xue's family. Of course, they don't care whether their in-laws can subsidize and help them, and they secretly regret that Baochai is destined for someone else home.Now that the Jia family is struggling with income and expenditure, it would be great if they could make a fortune of two or three million yuan at once. Unfortunately, Mrs. Jia had her eyes on County Lord Lin earlier. It is not uncommon for people to waste time waiting.At present, the whole family has no choice but to collect some interest money to make ends meet, but the second wife is only thinking about waiting for Baoyu to come in and marry a good wife, and she doesn't know when she will go.There were a lot of things going on in her stomach, and she still had an obedient and smart look on her face. She heard Mrs. Xue praise her nephew Xue Biao, and finally said with a smile: "Our old lady said, Gongzhong and Xing The girl pays a dowry, the eldest wife's family is the same, I hope my aunt will be considerate."

Mrs. Xue didn't care much about the 5000 taels of silver, she just turned her head to look at Baoqin, and saw Baoqin smiling and asked Thrush to bring out a mahogany box, which was also a white jade panqiu pendant, only a circle bigger than her original keepsake That's all.Mrs. Xue nodded, and the thrush put the box gently in Zhou Rui's hand. Baoqin smiled and said to her: "This is a good piece of jade that my father got when he was there. I specially invited a master craftsman from Suzhou to carve it out exactly like it." Two jade pendants as tokens. The big one belongs to my brother, and now I am troublesome to hand it over to Miss Xing, and when my brother comes back from the north, he will come to ask for marriage in person."

Zhou Rui's family took the jade pendant and left after hearing the words. After returning, they really showed the jade pendant to Mrs. Wang first, and then sent it to the East Courtyard and handed it to Mrs. Xing.When Mrs. Xing saw such a good thing, her fingers itched several times again. She first said that she was afraid that Miss Xing would spoil things, and then she said that she was afraid that the young girl with big hands would not know how to be simple. After all, Wang Shanbao's family chatted with her for a long time In the end, he was still unwilling to take the jade pendant to Zhuijinlou.

Xing Xiuyan didn't know at this time that she had settled down with someone else's house, when she heard that her aunt was coming, she hurriedly got up and asked the little girl to make tea.Mrs. Xing sat down on the embroidered pier, gritted her teeth in pain and said: "Today, the girl and I came to congratulate you, and my family told you a good relationship. He is the brother of the second room of Xue's family. You keep this token yourself. Don't tell your old lady who was poor in the previous life to touch it and trouble me to ask for it for you." As he spoke, he took out the box and opened it, reached out and touched the oily and moist jade pendant, closed his eyes and pushed it away. Go to Xiuyan's hand and don't look at it again: "It's not fair these days, so I will send out the wedding dress material. You can do more work yourself, and you will look good in the future. That's all I can help you here, and nothing else. After finishing speaking, regardless of Xiuyan's willingness or not, she took the mother-in-law and left after drinking tea, leaving Miss Xing locked in the room by herself, staring blankly.

After Mrs. Xing walked this way, everyone in the garden knew that Miss Xing said that she had spoken to the second brother of Xue's family, and that she would be the future sister-in-law of Baoqin, the second lady of Xue's family.Tanchun Xichun and other girls who knew a little about the rumors dared to bring their usual female celebrities to congratulate her at this time. Xiuyan didn't like to get flustered at this time. He bowed his head in silence for fear of embarrassing her heart.Tanchun wanted to leave at this time, took Xiuyan's hand and said to her: "Our family is just like this now, it would be a good thing for you to leave this place early. Don't worry about me, sooner or later , or it’s not Ming’er, maybe I can also get out of this pool of stagnant water.” Xichun drew a fine-grained blue and green landscape, and asked Tanchun to write an inscription on it, and the two of them got together to frame the painting and count it as a copy Add makeup, and put it on the table at this time to unfold it and watch it with Xiuyan.Standing aside, Xichun said indifferently, "Leave as soon as you can. At any rate, you're still a clean person."

Xiuyan frowned and said to her: "It's nothing more than watching you play with those Buddhist scriptures on weekdays, but now you don't even need makeup powder, and your body is clean, but you dare not do this! How sad is it to make your ancestors read these scriptures?" Scroll, just use it quietly, don’t indulge in it every day, and change your temperament at that time, how good it is.” Tanchun nodded in agreement, and Xichun suddenly said with tears in his eyes: “I have no choice but to do this now. , your West Mansion may be okay, but now the East Mansion has such a reputation outside, even many women who only work in the inner courtyard every day are clear about it. Which family is willing to find such a marriage? Or not that can't wait I'm not willing to jump into the fire pit because I'm so good, I'm not willing to jump into the fire pit. I'm afraid that I will have no place to stand in front of the Buddha in my life. I only hope that my sisters can have a good result. I am not in vain. "Tanchun was so frightened by her words that she pushed her and said, "Why did this happen! You also took things too seriously, maybe there are some good men who only look at character information and saved you out Woolen cloth."

Xichun sneered and said, "Do you mean that all brothers and sisters are like you or Sister Bao's family? They are just trying to sell me now, so sooner or later we will have a fight with them." Let’s just move into Changcui Nunnery to eat and live with Miaoyu.” Xiuyan came up and patted her and said, “Miaoyu didn’t live in the temple from birth, we were neighbors when we were both in Suzhou. She was plagued by many disasters and illnesses since she was a child. No matter how many substitutes her family raised, she was unable to succeed. In the end, she had no choice but to give up and let her enter the Buddhist sect. Now she is not such a nonsense, if it is not You see how many people will bully her when she is in Jia's house? You can't think about these deceitful nonsense that once you enter Buddhism, you will stop worrying. If it is really useful, why would those aunts come to your house every year to beat Qiufeng for money. "Xi Chun just bowed her head and said nothing, no one else knew what was going on in her mind, so she just put the talk at the end of the paragraph and didn't mention it.

Sure enough, a few days later, Mrs. Wang sent Zhou Rui's family to bring over two bolts of red satin and Xiuyan from previous years, and some other auspicious colors, but they were all scattered and piled up on the table. The blessing of Zhou Rui's family smiled and said: "Girl, don't worry, listen to me first. This red satin is for you to make a wedding dress, and the material will be delivered directly to the girl, so as not to be confiscated like your previous one. Go halfway. These scattered materials are good for you to make some handkerchiefs, sweat towels, wipe your forehead, or cut a few more shoe uppers and purses. It’s a waste for Tete to cut the whole good material for this. It's Bai who prepared a dowry with you, please don't dislike it." After talking on the phone, Xiuyan blushed and was so ashamed that she was so angry that she finally endured it and asked the girl to send her out, and sat for a while looking at the table full of old satin, In the end, he pulled out the scissors and started to do the work.

She understood in her heart that her parents threw herself here just because they wanted to keep the provincial dowry and come to ask for things from time to time. It is not good for her aunt to lose face here, so she left here early to go to Xue's house. Break up with them.At that time, the big deal is to ask the Xue family for a divorce letter, after all, we can't harm others.

Seeing that Xiuyan is so soft and gentle, Mrs. Jia has a little more compassion and kindness with her, so she opened a private storehouse to find a set of pure gold jewelry and a set of gemstone jewelry. In the old rule, the dowry money of the girls was paid out in advance and handed over to Yuanyang to keep it safe, and it was necessary to fill in some bright materials that could not be saved in the past, anyway, that was all there was, enough benevolence and righteousness.

The Xue family and Xue Biao set up Xing Xiuyan, and Baoqin counted the days until her brother came back.This year, the caravan going north to Ping'an Prefecture is the second time to go out. It is reasonable to say that Baochai Xiaoding should return in a few days, and this delay has been dragged into July. Even Mrs. The clerk in the shop went all the way north to inquire, and when Baochai was about to pay the levy, the clerk rushed back to report the letter.

Seeing that it was the guy who came back from the caravan, the chief steward hurriedly arranged for someone to take care of him and drink some water to breathe, before he ran all the way into the inner courtyard to spread the word.Mrs. Xue heard that one of the clerks came back, and hurriedly asked to arrange the screen to ask questions.Baochai and Baoqin sat on the right hand side, Xue Pan and Xu Ying sat on the left hand side, and they all stared at the guy coming in with piercing eyes.The person who came should have washed himself before coming in, so his body was still clean, he knelt down and said to the masters in an orderly manner: "Second Master wants the younger one to come back early to report safety. Everyone in the caravan is fine. I just met a group of bandits and robbers on the way back from the journey. A few of the guys were injured and stopped for a few days on the way to take care of them. Liu Yelu, who went with him to see the scenery of the Northland, drew his sword to help when he saw injustice, so The several stewards and the second master were all safe and sound, and came back without even scratching the oily skin."