Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

Xiuyan followed her mother-in-law and took the little maid Zhuan'er into the flower hall, wearing only an old home-made jacket, not even a cloak.Even Mrs. Wang, who was sitting idly by the side, was amazed when she saw it, and said: "My good boy, why are you wearing such thin clothes? But the servant girl is lazy?" , It was my own aunt who withheld it again, she couldn't open her mouth, so she could only smile and said: "What's the matter, I accidentally opened a hole when I watched the boys light firecrackers last night, and the maid was tight What about mending, you can’t go out to meet people naked, just wear one and change it when you go back.” When she said this, the surface was worn a little, but no one knew what was going on inside!Which girl only wears clothes in one season, is it possible that you don't even change the clothes?

Others didn't expose it, they just smiled and said that she was playful and careless.After a few sentences back and forth, the Xue family woman came up with new clothes and said: "Our wife said that we will also prepare new clothes for the New Year for the daughter-in-law who is passing through the door soon, and ask the younger ones to bring them to you to try and see if you want to change them. I don’t have any red envelopes, and I’ll eat a double portion after you pass the door and change your mind.” As she said “giggle” and laughed, Mrs. Wang covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said, “You’re just cramped, you can’t even joke about it.” Hit your future mistress, be careful of wearing small shoes in the future." The old lady smiled and said: "That's impossible, Miss Xing is the best person, how can she care about the little ones, the wife scares the little ones." The voice fell Together with the two women, they opened the cloth bag and said to Xiuyan: "Please try it, the ladies at home are definitely not as good at embroidery as in your sewing room, so let's make do with it!" Mrs. Wang chimed in and said, "Go Try it. It’s a gift from the elders, it’s irresistible, just use it, and don’t wear your old clothes that are burnt out, and it’s better to be brighter during the New Year’s Eve.”

Xiuyan couldn't help it, and after blessing and saluting, she followed Caiyun Caixia and the two Xue family women into the inner room to change.As soon as she got up, she understood that the clothes must be redeemed by the Xue family, otherwise everything would not be appropriate, and there was nothing that needed to be changed.If it is true that the old clothes are returned to the Jia family, the face will be called off, so Mrs. Xue just ordered the new clothes to be cut out, and said that it was a new year gift for the daughter-in-law who is going to pass the door soon. .Grateful in his heart, he blushed and bowed his head not daring to speak, and was served by the mother-in-law and maids.

Each of these four sets of clothes has a different color, nothing more than silver red, pink orange, light yellow, and pea green, with chrysanthemums, narcissus, magnolia, and plum blossoms embroidered on them, very elegant.The material is a good material for home use, and it is not overly luxurious. It is clearly the new year's new clothes prepared by the compassionate elders and juniors.Xiuyan chose to wear one of the pink and orange embroidered magnolia flowers, Madam Wang looked at it and said repeatedly: "It's still my concubine who can raise girls, and even the clothes are very appropriate." There was no place to stand, and it was not easy to get angry in front of outsiders, so he could only get angry with a muffled face.Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Wang sang and talked for a long time, and then said that life in Xiuyan was going to be sad, and then she stopped and said: "Our two families discussed it a few years ago, and it was decided that we will welcome relatives in the first month. Our houses and yards over there are all Done. Rest assured, the bride price will not make it difficult for you to prepare the dowry. It’s just that it’s not easy to bother the ancestors on the first day of the lunar new year. In a few days, our wife will come over to bother you.”

Mrs. Xing twisted her nose and let out a snort. After the mother-in-law kowtowed and said goodbye, she went far away. Regardless of Mrs. Wang's just leaving, she turned around and gave Xiuyan a hard look: "Your eyelids are so shallow? Seeing the guests come Who is Tete wearing this thin film for? Who’s the face? I don’t have any face, what good do you get! How high do you think the Xue family thinks of you? It’s just to support the second wife and run on me, but you still Build a platform for outsiders and pass ladders to embarrass your own people."

Xiuyan lowered her head and said in a low voice: "It wasn't intentional, the thick clothes I brought before were pawned, otherwise the big kitchen wouldn't be able to cook. I can't buy my own fire in the yard, and now I only use two clothes a day. It’s just dinner.” Mrs. Xing closed her voice as if her throat had been choked suddenly, and she wanted to scold but didn’t know how to scold, so she just said bitterly: “You are really the same as your unkind old lady. I'll get away!" Xiuyan didn't want to say goodbye to her, so she took her servant girl and retreated.Someone heard these words a long time ago, and first told Mrs. Wang, seeing that Mrs. Wang didn't stop her, and then waited for Mrs. Jia to wake up and ran to sue.

After listening to the mother-in-law's report, the old lady Jia sent it out without opening her eyelids, and said to the mandarin duck behind her: "Please help me remember, when Miss Xing is out of school on the tenth day of the lunar new year, the old lady will be tired and sick." Yuanyang and Hupo responded in unison, and had to reply: "Back to the ancestors, Miss Xing's dowry is just like that. It's just that Gongzhong can't pay the money this year, and it's only the 5000 taels that he paid out earlier." Mother Jia half-closed her eyes and said, "I'll take a few hundred taels for myself, and I don't need to buy wine. It's enough to send some happy money to give away. At that time, all the servants of our family will be used. Here Expenses can be avoided.”

The mandarin ducks went away at their command, and after they were ready, they came back with the dowry list and went over with the old lady one by one. Jiamu looked at it carefully and nodded, "That's it, the concubine's family doesn't depend on the daughter-in-law's dowry to live. You can do it yourself. Go and hand over this list to Miss Xing, and stay with her for me, after all, the Jia family has neglected. Later, I will find a Baihuaguan to give to her when she goes out, and the rest will end here." Yuanyang is blessed , took the list and took a woman to go to the Jinlou in the garden.

Xiuyan and Zhuan'er brought their clothes back to Zhuijin Tower first, Zhuan'er said happily: "My good girl, this time is not difficult, I will wear two sets this year, and two sets next year, and the days to come will never be more difficult than now "But Xiuyan sighed and said: "You are a fool. How does the Xue family know the size of my clothes? Another thing, let's see if this is our favorite way to cut clothes?" Zhuan'er said Stretching out his head to look, after watching for a while, he was shocked and said, "Huh? What's going on!" Xiuyan said, "I think that the clothes pawned earlier were discovered by Xue's family and put away, so they can flirt with us. What I do is not far from it. I only worry about being looked down upon by others. After passing through the door, I will have no worries about food and clothing in the future, and the people next to me are full of mouths, so I can’t speak clearly.”

Zhuan'er's eyes turned red when he heard this, and said: "Girl, what should I do, it will be a matter of a lifetime in the future! Once something goes wrong, I'm afraid it will be a place for people to talk about every year in the future." Seeing her like this, Xiuyan turned around and comforted her: "It's okay, maybe I'm overthinking, anyway, there must be a way for the car to reach the mountain, we are open and frank, and others will be embarrassed to make fun of it." The two were talking Then, Yuanyang and Tanchun's servant girl came in together, and the servant first smiled and said: "Our girl asked me to come to find Zhuan'er and ask how to make ordinary ink ingots look like pine smoke ink. The ones bought and brought in are useless, and it’s a pity to throw them away, so that’s why I say that.” Xiuyan said: “Let Zhuan’er go with you, and you’ll understand after a look, it’s nothing more than a lazy trick by the people. .”

Speaking of Zhuan'er, she went out with the servant's book, Xiuyan got up to welcome the mandarin duck into the inner room, and carried a kettle to ask for some hot water to make tea.Yuanyang hurriedly stopped her, grabbed the kettle and called a passing woman to bring water, then turned around and came back to Xiuyan with a smile: "Miss, come with me, I have something good to tell you." Xiuyan smiled Sit down and ask her: "What's good for my sister?" Yuanyang said: "Today is the first day of the new year. We have already agreed with Mrs. Xue's family to send you out on the tenth day. The old lady asked the servant to send your dowry list When you come over, be sure to keep it well, and you will rely on it in the future. The old lady also said that the Xue family is a rare and honest family, you just need to rest assured that everything will go smoothly in the future." Of course, Xiuyan knows that the old lady Jia is so The reason for doing it is that I am very grateful. I collected the list and put it away, and then took out a jade safety button to give to the mandarin duck as a thank you gift.How did Yuanyang put this thing in his eyes, but he still pretended to be happy and said: "But let me miss the good thing. I will find a better girl in a few days, just wait!" After saying that, he said goodbye and returned to his life.

After she left, Zhuan'er came in with a servant book and said: "I have told my sister servant book all the ways to mix the ink. There is also a letter from Miss Feng Bao entrusting the third girl to forward it. This servant will take my sister servant book out. "Xiuyan nodded to let them take care of themselves, and went back to the inner room to open the letter to see what happened today.It turned out that Zhuan'er asked the pawnbroker to send the clothes to Xue's pawnshop "Hengshudian" by mistake, and asked Qingwen, a helper there, to recognize her, and only then did she know that she was so embarrassed.

In Baochai's letter, the stub of the ticket was sent along with her. Mrs. Daoxue was just afraid that she would catch a cold in the cold weather in Xiuyan, so she ordered someone to make new clothes and send it.Don't tell her to take it seriously, everyone in the family understands her embarrassment, so just accept it with peace of mind.In addition, he explained in detail the reason for the hasty wedding ceremony, and at the end added a joke to the effect that: "It was originally to invite Miss Xing to come home early to suffer, so why don't you give away some of the benefits first?" People are so peaceful that they can get benefits without feeling burdened, but they are still grateful for the kindness of the Xue family.

Xiuyan put down the letter and sighed softly, now that the Xue family has done everything well, if she treats Mrs Xue with even a little disrespect in the future, it will be a situation that everyone will criticize.Or thinking about the benefits, Mrs. Xue must be a very loving person to raise such a girl who is willing to be considerate of others.If this is the case, I am willing to serve Mrs. Xue as my own mother-in-law.

Since the Jia family just celebrated Mrs. Shi's [-]th birthday this year, they didn't invite relatives to drink during the New Year's Day. It was just that Mrs. Xue brought her daughter-in-law and youngest daughter to the house on the fourth day of the lunar new year to sit down for a while. Xue scorpion came on horseback, escorted a big red sedan chair, and a team of patrons carried Xiuyan out of the Rongfu Grand View Garden to Xue's mansion.Before going out, Mrs. Xing told Xiuyan not to be ungrateful because her nose was not her nose and her eyes were not her eyes. She turned around and waited for the sedan chair to go out, but a few powerful wives held her back and went to the main hall of Jia Mu.

Mrs. Jia was leaning on the pillow in homely clothes, and asked Yuanyang to do her nails while asking, "I told you to prepare the dowry for your niece. Where are you going?" Mrs. Xing lowered her head and hummed, "Take I bought two boxes of things with her, and I only have these things in my small family." Mrs. Jia snorted coldly: "Your two boxes, one is the size of a palm, and the other is the size of an egg basket. The girl had a good time with her. She is a wife of a first-rank general, and you want to lose face? Did you forget why you were released? Now you have no child under your knees, but that is your own niece Give her something with a long face to embarrass her, you can't!" After finishing speaking, Jia Mu said disheartenedly: "I'm old, and I can't control you. From now on, you will guard those good things in your east courtyard and pray to the Buddha Just calm down. There is nothing for you to do at home, and you can't control your master, so let it be like this."

After finishing speaking, he didn't give Mrs. Xing a chance to beg for mercy, and sent those women to the east courtyard after dragging them.This time was different from the last time. The yard where Mrs. Xing usually lived was sealed up on the spot, and all the companions and waiters around her were locked up. Outside, only two meals a day were delivered according to the number of people. Don't care about the rest.Jia Amnesty didn't care about this stepmother, he just nodded indiscriminately when he heard the reply from the servants: "If the Xing family comes to beat Qiufeng again, they will say that the wife is sick and unconscious, and they will fight with me. We eat and drink for nothing. In a year or two, I even raised the big girl Nuo here, she really looks exactly the same!"

Over there, Xiuyan went out in a bridal sedan chair, so she didn't know what would happen next, she had only one maid Zhuan'er brought from home by her side, and now she also went to Xue's house as a dowry.The sedan chair was dangling inside, the outside was ticking, and I didn't know what the future would look like.At the door of Xue's house, Xue Biao dismounted and kicked the sedan door, and Mrs. Xi helped the bride get off the sedan chair.The servants of the family gathered around and arranged for the saddle brazier to be broken, and saluted in the main hall, and the bride's business here is over.

Because it was Xue Biao who got married, Baochai opened the outer courtyard for banquets, and the main courtyard was used to arrange the wives and grandmas brought by the officials and guests, so the original guest courtyard happened to be a retreat.Those who came to drink were all friends that Xue Biao knew in the business field, and Xue Pan outside was enough to entertain.There are a few wives in the back who are concubines who don't pay much attention to their uprightness. They didn't plan to invite them, but they couldn't refuse to let them in after they brought the gift themselves.So Mrs. Xue didn't call her two daughters Zhang Luo, but let them come out to meet people and then stay in her yard; now that her daughter-in-law is pregnant with a child, she will not be troubled, so she has no choice but to sit on the mat all the way. with.Sure enough, quite a few of these miscellaneous merchant wives came with their "adopted daughters" who were well-dressed, and others could tell what their plans were with just a glance.Mrs. Xue of this kind of family did not disagree at all, and specially ordered the second housekeeper to bring her mother-in-law to watch the corner door of the front and back yards closely, so as not to call any girl "lost".

Baochai and Baoqin went back to the courtyard for lunch and felt bored, so they decided to go to the new house to sit with Xiuyan after discussing it for a while. After half an hour, Xuying also came over with her belly in her arms to join in the fun, and the four of them simply ordered some simple food Sitting and chatting with Xiuyan, they didn't leave till Shenshi in the afternoon and went to replace Mrs. Xue to pack things.The guests dispersed half an hour ago, and it was just the right time to come over and help.Xuying also explained a few words to the maids and women to take care of them carefully, and then helped the girl back to the yard to rest.

When Sanchao returned home, Xiuyan only asked her to kowtow to Jia Mu, but no one mentioned Mrs. Xing after all.Xiuyan stuffed a few copper coins with the woman who led the way, and the latter sneaked out: "Miss, don't ask, the eldest lady has an old illness again, and the old lady is kind enough to let her take care of it. The girl just left the house, wait I have to go back to my in-law's house later, so don't look at it, so as not to bring bad luck." Xiuyan understood in her heart, and she didn't mention Mrs. Xing's matter again, but when she left, she secretly asked Zhuan'er to take ten taels of silver and stuff it with her. The people in the big kitchen will prepare the food a little bit better.Turning around, a kitchen woman passed the words to Jiamu's ear, and the old lady shook her head and smiled, "This is really a good bamboo shoot, let someone tell the eldest lady about it, and see if she is ashamed! "

On the way back, Zhuan'er complained to Xiuyan: "Grandma is really, my aunt was so shameless at the beginning, now we give her all the cash for this idea, and I don't know if anyone will accept this kind of favor." Yan Xiao glanced at her, with no trace of resentment or embarrassment on her face: "It's my aunt's business whether or not you show face, I just want to have a clear conscience. Besides, we are now as if we have fallen into a nest of blessings, why bother to die?" Saving these ten taels of silver to death. The Xue family neither left us cold nor starved us, and the dowry was well placed in the yard warehouse for us to manage. How many people can have such a mind. As small as ours Girls from the sect, if people really want to bully her, she won’t let the rumors spread until she dies, so it can be seen that the Xue family is indeed a family of good people, so there is no need to save money to prevent accidents.”

Ever since Xiuyan passed through the door, Mrs. Xue treated her like Xu Ying, probably because her daughter-in-law was going to leave the house soon, and she treated her daughter-in-law very dearly.Now, for Xiuyan, her husband's family is more intimate than her mother's family, so naturally she does her best to help the family with affairs, so Baochai is relieved to go to prepare her own dowry.On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Xue's family held a family banquet in the main courtyard. The whole family sat under the moon and watched the moon while chatting and eating some fresh food.There was also a lamp from the shop hanging on the tree. After admiring it, everyone discussed that next year they might go out and book a private room in their own restaurant to see the lamp mountain on the long street.

By the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Baochai was ready for everything she needed to go out.Mrs. Xue put all the good things she brought from Wang's house into her daughter's dowry, and opened a large warehouse, just picking the best ones, stuffing and stuffing, squeezing and squeezing, before she barely reduced it to 36 liters.If it weren't for the servants who couldn't carry it, I'm afraid I would like to make one box into two big ones.This is still cutting out some things that are not very useful, otherwise there will be more than doubled.

The next day is the Land Filling Festival on the 21st of the first lunar month, which is Baochai's birthday and the day of Jiji.On this day, the Xue family specially invited the female family members of relatives to witness with Baochai. The praisers and guests were all elders with high morals and respect. .Each family more or less gave makeup, asked Mrs. Xue to reopen a dozen boxes and packed them, and asked the girl to move slowly to Shen's house after returning home.

The author has something to say: Brother Rui is sick, and he started to have a fever this morning. In the afternoon, the doctor said it was a suspected flu and asked me to observe him closely. I will take him to the hospital for a blood test tomorrow morning. It must have been updated at night. There are so many unlucky things at home this year!