Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

After Xue Pan passed the county test, he went back to his study and followed Mr. Wan to seriously prepare for the government test.The government examination is still in Jinling City, and it is very convenient to go back and forth.This is different from the county examination, which only tests some scriptures and sentences, and always writes ideas and articles, especially when there is a question of making poems at the end.Mr. Wan didn't expect to be able to teach a poet or a master of essays, he just sent the book boy to the shop to buy the papers of the top [-] in previous years, and he didn't read the random comments of other people on it. He strictly ordered Xue Pan to memorize it fluently, and just imitate it repeatedly when he came up with good sentences.He also wanted to send someone to tell Mrs. Xue some "trivial things". Here, the head wife of the royal merchant Xue's family used the name of "walking relatives" to take her daughter to the "Hundred Flowers Banquet" held by the Zhen family several times.

Logically, Baochai is on the list of servants and is not suitable to participate in this kind of blind date meeting, but his son's future is at stake, so he can only temporarily use the name of the girl and the wives of the big families in Jinling Mansion Come and go.Because the four families of "King Jia Shixue" are connected with each other and have the big tree behind the Zhen family, others dare not make things difficult for Baochai.She is going to Beijing again next month, so the young ladies from various families gather together to see her off, and they are all very friendly.

The little girls gather together for nothing more than clothes and jewelry, and what the wives say is the "devil king" that they don't care about.Coincidentally, the wife of the current prefect of Jinling was also sitting at the table.This Mrs. Xu has a long face, a pale complexion, and a sick body. No one dares to bother her when she is sitting in the seat, but she will whisper and answer a few words when she speaks.

She still has nothing in her knees, so she is very willing to listen to people talking about the child, and when everyone gathers around Mrs. Xue to praise her for her ability to raise children, they will intervene.When Mrs. Xue was talking about how to ask Mr. Strict to discipline her son, Mrs. Xu couldn't help but said: "Your brother Pan is already good, otherwise, if you have to use a potato to carve a jade man, you can't do it." All right." The other wives burst into laughter, praised her for being right, and said that after Xue Pan passed the examination, Xue's family would have to throw a big banquet.

Originally, children from Xungui's family were less likely to take the imperial examinations, and even fewer were promoted to study, and most of them rushed to become "poets" after reading.Zhen's banquet is full of people like this, but Xue Pan looks like a magpie on a black sow.Mrs. Xue's family knows her family affairs. Didn't Mr. Wan carve a jade out of potatoes?I had to say a few words with a smile, "His little man can't boast about his family."I was really afraid that my son Niu Xing would lose face if he failed the exam together, and others would think she was being modest, so they just praised her again and again.Mrs. Xu kept her mind on this side, and she just waited to go back to talk to her husband, and raised her hand a little when encountering Xue Pan when some political master was reading the paper.

This Xue family is about to rise up, there are four kings and eight princes standing behind them, and the Zhen family like a towering tree, the son is motivated, and the daughter is also born Zhong Lingyuxiu. If you want to fight in the palace, you must have a relationship with him.What's the point of sending a scholar born?Besides, Xue Pan's county test was passed by himself, so I'm afraid he is really a prodigal son who reined in the precipice.Mrs. Xu has no children, so she likes to watch other people's children learn well, so she specially helps Xue's family carry the sedan chair—she looks like she will not be able to make it, and if she can make some good fortune for the head of the family, it will be regarded as repaying the couple. kindness.I just hope that this person will be kind, and don't forget to take care of her natal family for her.Alas, the side room where Xinna has been waiting for her to die for a few years is not so fuel-efficient!

After the banquet was over, Mrs. Xue took Baochai to Mrs. Zhen to say goodbye.As soon as she saluted and stood still, the old lady of the Zhen family took Baochai with her hands and showed her to her daughter-in-law: "Come and see this child! He looks so much like our Baoyu, that he seems like a brother and sister!" He smiled and said: "It's really rare! When you came here, maybe you didn't open your eyebrows and eyes, so you couldn't tell. Shouxiao hasn't seen you in the past three years. When you look at it suddenly, it seems that you have lost sight of my precious jade."

While talking and joking, I asked the maid to hand over a makeup box: "Good boy, this is my heart. Next month, you will go to the palace to choose a servant, okay? Those eunuchs who don't have long eyes should also give the Zhen family some face, I'm not afraid at all. I also heard that the eldest daughter of your aunt Jia's family will also be sent in. When the time comes, you and your sisters will be of one mind, and we will ask this lady to take care of you for a while, and you will not be angry." Baochai turned her head and looked at Xue Madam, seeing her nodding, she just accepted the brocade-wrapped makeup box, and thanked Mrs. Zhen with a bow, and then the mother and daughter backed out.

After the big maid sent him out, Mrs. Zhen shook her head and said to Mrs. Zhen: "This child is born quite attractive, and you can tell from his actions that he is a man of good manners, but it is this background... the imperial merchant is also a merchant! Let us Baoyu is a great fortune, if you match him with a merchant's daughter, I'm afraid the couple will not live together in the future!" Mrs. Zhen closed her eyes and nodded slightly: "Baoyu is still young, although it is too early to see each other now. You have to pick out good girls first. This big girl Xue is from a low family background, but I think she has sharp eyes and good arms to be a straight wife. The Xue family is rich and rich, only this one girl, At that time, it will not all belong to my Baoyu. Let someone pass a message to the empress, and think of an excuse to depose this big girl Xue, or if some noble person in the palace takes a fancy to it, she will give it to her family for nothing. Add blockage."

Mrs. Zhen got up and blessed Fu retreated and directed the servants to clean up the mess of the banquet. The old lady leaned on the couch and waved away many servants, leaving only a well-educated maid by her side, talking to her, which made people feel slow. Write a letter slowly and carefully.After the servant girl finished writing, she told the old lady about her beliefs, and after she nodded, she sealed it with a wax stick and put it together with the things she was going to give to Concubine Zhen.

For the time being, let’s not talk about it for the time being, and the conversation will be divided into two parts. Mrs. Xue took her daughter to work outside for a whole month. At the beginning of March, she had to prepare her luggage and sent Baochai to go to Beijing first. Then she and her son went there again.Mrs. Xue ordered some of the bank notes and handed them to the housekeeper, and then privately stuffed one for Baochai, and even explained to Su Mama when she went to Yinger, Bailu, and Thrush, and then hurriedly ordered the girl's needs on the way. The curtain tents and the like, and first aid pills and other things into the cage.It's true that this and that are indispensable, lest my girl suffer grievances outside.

"Because you are already out of filial piety, I made eight sets of new clothes for you in each of the spring and summer seasons, and you can make do with them. When your brother goes to Beijing, Mom will pick out the materials and take them with you. We also bought them from our shop. I also prepared a set of high-quality rouge face hairpin rings, and went to your aunt's house to share with the girls over there to do some favors. By the way, there are the most important ones!" She took out two of them from her bosom. Boxes, one big and one small.Inside the big one is a gourd bottle dug out of a whole piece of Qingxiu jade, and the small and exquisite pills can be seen faintly through the light inside. A finely carved golden lock.

Mrs. Xue touched the two boxes and sighed: "These two important things are the Lengxiang pills that you used when you were a child when you often suffered from fever in spring, and the second is that you asked your father to give it to you when monks and priests came to ask for alms that year. You locked the lock, and you haven’t had any relapses in the past three years, so you haven’t taken the medicine, and it’s not easy to wear the filial golden lock, and I don’t know if you still remember it.”

Of course I remember.

Baochai picked up the lock bag and weighed it in his hand. If it was adorned on the gold collar, it would be a total of nine taels, and the eight characters "never leave, never give up, and stay forever" are engraved on the back.The overall workmanship is exquisite, and there are auspicious patterns of fish and dragon changes on the base, which looks exquisite and lovely.This is the "gold" in the "golden marriage" prepared by the monk and Taoist priest.

I don't know what evil I did in my previous life, and where is the good relationship?It is clear that evil fate is entangled!She put down the golden lock, picked up the jade gourd and unplugged it, a faint and cold fragrance came out.Since the rebirth, the fire has been completely extinguished from the cavity. Maybe this is what Buddhism calls obsession. Letting go of the catastrophe will resolve it, and picking up the heat poison will bring new life.

She closed the box after rubbing it for a while, handed it to Ying'er for her to install, and nodded to the list again, and then Mrs. Xue opened her mouth and said, "I wrote a letter to your aunt." The letter, you take it with you, and the big housekeeper will take care of all the expenses, and you will not be laughed at for nothing. Besides, we will go to Beijing to find you after the exam in your brother's house, choose and wait for everything. Your aunt arranged, with your big sister Yuanchun's example in front, you just follow it."

Baochai didn't want to talk to her, so she just nodded.Anyway, I know it well, I have to find a reason to completely mess up this matter.Mrs. Xue thought she had figured it out, happily prepared the chariot and horse servants, ordered the big housekeeper to explain several times, and then wiped her eyes and reluctantly sent her daughter to Beijing.

The family had already asked Mr. Yin and Yang to check the almanac and set the date of travel, and all the branches of the branch also came to send off gifts, and the business of the family was also entrusted to the reliable shopkeepers who have been reliable for many years; in the end, Baochai saw that his brother also followed Mr. Wan honestly and seemed to have learned well. Now, let's rest assured to board the ship and set off.Because Jinling is also adjacent to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, officials and businessmen and their families are willing to travel by water, which saves a lot of livestock's footwork quickly and steadily.

Don't look at this year as a small election, a small election is also an election, and you can't hide if you want to.At this time, many small officials who had been released to the outside world sent their children to Beijing one after another with the names of their daughters on the list of servants, so the journey was quite safe.The boat hired by Xue's family was mixed among a group of public servants, but no one recognized it, because most of the boats were women and they didn't like to move around in rough weather, so the journey went smoothly and arrived at the capital pier in less than half a month. .

When they arrived at the pier, the steward called tremblingly to the boatman to anchor and set up boards to fasten the rope. He first went to the shore to search around, inquiring and inquiring, and finally found the Jia family on a high and wide platform. People's mothers-in-law and servants.He hurriedly turned around and went back to the boat to report. Here, Madam Su adjusted Baochai's clothes with her own hands, and asked her to put on the veiled hat.

Thrush was taller, so I asked her to cover the outside with a ten-spoke silk umbrella, and the hanging silk curtain completely covered the girl, so she slowly moved to the shore step by step and stood still.

The sedan chair to pick up the person from over there has arrived, and before Baochai got on the sedan chair, he told the housekeeper: "The things and servants are waiting at the pier first, and you follow me to kowtow to Mrs. Jia and Auntie. Then Then bring the luggage and send someone to our house to resettle, let Huamei go with you, and let her come to Jia's house to find me if there is anything to do." Steward Xue bent down, and ran to stare at the boatman to unload the salute.The girl put her daily necessities in one place and handed them over to the servants of Jia's family, and put the things she brought with her in another place and told her son to take him to guard them until the sexuality was clearly separated.

A handsome young man with red lips, white teeth and white face came out. Steward Xue greeted him first when he saw the clothes on his body, "Master, are you...?" The master was covered tightly, so he stood up straight and replied: "I am the second wife of the Rongguo Mansion who called to pick up Miss Xue, and people often call the second master Lian. The lady who calls aunt Mrs. Wang belongs to my second uncle." Wife, because there are many trivial matters at home, I am mostly running errands outside, please?"

Mother Su didn't like this man's behavior very much, she called Ying'er and Bailu to support Baochai one by one, and she walked in front to lead the way, which coincidentally blocked Jia Lian's eyes that looked over from time to time.After sending the girl into the warm sedan chair, the three of them surrounded the sedan chair tightly, leaving no gaps for the ruthless wanderers outside.Jia Lian snorted coldly, she was just a girl from a merchant family, and her family had a lot of money, how could she be honored?Don't be a big pancake face with pockmarks when you get these troubles!

He rode crookedly on the horse and led the way, maliciously guessing Baochai's appearance, such as big and small eyes, flat nose bridge, crooked mouth corners, eyebrows connected into one piece, all the odds and ends are so unbearable, until he entered Rongning Street. stop.

"This road is called Rongning Street because it connects Rongguo Mansion and Ningguo Mansion inside and outside. Ordinary people don't dare to walk here at will." He pointed proudly at the ridge of the eaves of the tall gate. Immortal Yishui'er Birds and Beasts said to the housekeeper: "A few days ago, our in-laws, the Lin family who was the censor of salt at that time, also sent their daughter to foster care all the way. People are also gathered here one after another." As he spoke, he glanced at the car curtain of the soft sedan intentionally or unintentionally, but the people inside didn't react at all, as if they were dead, so he turned his face away completely, and no longer approached Come up and flirt.

Of course Baochai knew how high the arrogance of Rongning and Ningfu was when they were so powerful, and the mistress even dared to intervene in a life lawsuit to turn black and white.As for other loan sharks, robbing property, and forcing servants to death, they will do everything. It is no wonder that they will never recover from their defeat in the future.As the saying goes, if you don't die, you won't die. Just look at the frivolous, ignorant, ignorant appearance of this heir of the big house of Rongfu. Except for a few innocent girls, this family really only has two stones at the door. Lions are clean.

A long time ago, daughters-in-law were waiting at the gate of the ceremony, welcomed the soft sedan chair and went in. About a shot away, a maid asked Baochai to get off the sedan chair, and four women with big arms and round waists carried an oil-topped and green-curtained little girl. The sedan chair carried Baochai to the second gate.

It was time for another cup of tea, and the young woman's laughter could be clearly heard outside. It turned out that Mrs. Wang came out of the main hall with her daughter-in-law to meet her.

Ying'er helped Baochai get out of the sedan chair, and Su Mama took off the curtain and handed it to the egret to hold it, and they stood on the other side with their hands tied to salute.Baochai said in her mouth, "I've seen my aunt." Before the knees on the other side were slightly bent, Mrs. Wang hastily asked a girl in a pink shirt and more or less naughty to help him up.

"Your child is too polite." Mrs. Wang walked up to the inner room and took Baochai's hand: "Your mother sent me several letters, saying that she pityed you for going to Beijing when you were young. When I arrived, my aunt Home, just live in peace from now on. Your eldest sister Yuanchun entered the palace last year, and there will be someone to take care of her, so don't worry." The two of them went into the east room door.

The big clinical kang is covered with scarlet red felt, and on the front there is a big red money python backrest, azurite money python guide pillows, and autumn-colored money python large strip mattresses.There is a pair of plum-blossom-style foreign lacquer small tables on both sides.On the left side are Wen Wang Ding, spoons and incense boxes; on the right side is a beautiful dendrobium from Ru Kiln, with seasonal flowers inserted in it, and tea bowls, spit pots and other things.There are four chairs on all sides of the ground, all of which are covered with silver and red floral chairs, and there are four sets of footrests underneath.There are also a pair of high tables on both sides of the chair, and there are tea bowls and vases on the tables.

Mrs. Wang took Baochai directly to the three small main rooms in the east corridor, and sat down on the west side. The mother-in-law and maids hurriedly offered green tea and a few small snacks. Baochai slightly touched her lips and said, "Old lady Do you have time? I still need to kowtow first."

"I know you are filial and courteous. I will take you there in a moment." Then he went into the inner room and changed his clothes. When he came out, he pointed to a young woman in plain clothes and said, "This is your elder brother Xianzhu." Sister-in-law Zhu left behind." Pointing to a girl with a long figure in a plum red dress and a duck-faced face: "This is your sister Tanchun." She waved the two of them to go to the main courtyard first, and personally Take Baochai on the sedan chair and go west: "There is another boy under me, one year younger than you, named Baoyu, who is the most gentle and intelligent. From now on, you will know it when you are a sister."

The main courtyard where the old lady lived in the Jianjian family arrived. After Baochai got off the sedan chair, she adjusted her clothes a little.

The decorations in the hall are brilliant and warm and fragrant. A servant girl had already laid out futons in the middle, and Baochai kowtowed in accordance with the ceremony. The old lady sitting at the top waited for her to get up before she called her to take a closer look.Everyone in the hall, Baochai, knew each other well. Although their endings were different, they couldn't escape with a sigh.The old lady Jia has a kind face, round face and pale skin, wearing a purple dress, with a forehead wrapped around her head, and her face is full of laugh lines when she smiles.

After the couple met each other, the old lady pointed to the people in the room and introduced them one by one, and Baochai followed her instructions to look at those old people carefully again.Yingchun Tanchun Xichun still sat in the same attire, Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang sat next to Jia Mu, and next to the old lady was a young man and a woman.One face is like the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the other is full of two dimples, which are the injustices that the Lin family sister and the bad guys hate to the root of their teeth.