Sister of the Treasure of the Red Chamber is quitting

Baochai served tea to see off the guests, and when the mandarin ducks left, they ordered people to put all the things into the warehouse and throw them away at will.Now that the Jia family's first house and second house have been separated, in the future when Jia pardons Jia Zheng and helps Ling to go south, the two families will not live together again. They must first store the family in Beijing, and wait for the coffins there to be sent back to their hometown temple. Set it up before making plans.

Sure enough, half a month later, various pawnshops or Wenwan stores in central Beijing received a lot of items from the dowry of the late Mrs. Jia, most of which were ordered by Mrs. The ticket secret is hidden on the body and is ready to be used again when returning to Jinling.Because of the tens of thousands of taels of silver donated by the Xue family before and after, Mrs. Wang is quite confident, and after all, the situation is stronger than others, so she has to hold back silently.As soon as the two masters left Beijing, Yuanyang came to the door that afternoon and handed over all Baochai's entrustment to Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang immediately moved away from the temporary residence with her son, daughter-in-law, son-in-law and daughter-in-law, and moved in with the dowry. After entering the house given by Jia Mu, he slowly collected the Zhuangzi's yearbook and adjusted it a little bit. It seemed that he planned to settle in Beijing and did not want to go back to the south.

There is also a reason here, she actually did not dare to go back to the south.At the beginning of Yuanchun, the family was short of money before and after visiting relatives, so Mrs. Wang secretly sold half of the dozens of mu of sacrifice land in her hometown Jinling for the sake of her daughter's face.Sacrificial land is the foundation of the clan, and it is not willing to change any other family to have such a headed mistress. If you encounter this kind of thing on weekdays, it is called seizing Neng Ansheng and getting a yard, locked up, eating vegetarian food, and reciting Buddha until old age. Forgive me.She is not really a prodigal either, she only sells half of the land deeds in exchange for money in order to solve her urgent needs only with the idea of ​​redeeming and buying them back later, who knows that when there is no money in the family to take it easy, naturally these sacrificial lands will no longer be Couldn't redeem it.

But having said that, the old and young men in the family are used to looking for faults in others, and never want to see if there is any problem with their own size.Once this matter is revealed, if Mrs. Wang is right in front of her eyes, she might not be able to run away and be punished, so she simply won't go back. Anyway, the sacrificial land is also a public property, and it will be inherited by the eldest house. It's not painful or itchy, why bother to make a punching bag with others!Now Mrs. Wang just keeps the money in her hand, and spends it slowly with the whole family in a low-key manner. Even if Jia Zheng comes back from the south, she can't help her.

Leaving aside the future livelihood of the Jia family, let's just talk about Baochai.When Shen Yu came back in the evening, he brought Liu Zi'an and Liu Xianglian with him, but the two behind did not dare to raise their heads when they saw Baochai, and only clapped their hands in annoyance.Baochai didn't know what it meant, so he ordered someone to bring tea, and after dividing the guests and hosts, they sat down and listened quietly for a while before they understood what was going on.It turned out that it was Liu Zi'an who made Shen Yu ask Liu Xianglian to live in Shen's house for a few days temporarily. I guess there are some other inside stories in it, but Liu Xianglian refused to talk about it, so Baochai didn't ask much, and arranged A servant and him, and Ying'er took a few women to clean up the guest house for him to live in.

Later, when everyone had blown the lights and rested, Shen Yu laughed with Baochai in a low voice: "Liu Xianglian committed a peach blossom robbery these few days, that girl is really powerful, and those who want to die must marry him regardless of face. Liu Xianglian doesn't beat women, and she doesn't like her, and she doesn't have the patience to mess with her, so she wants to hide in our house for a few days, and then go to Ping'an Island with her second brother to marry a wife for a few years It will be all right if you come back after giving birth to a child." After Baochai heard this, she knew that the girl he was talking about was Third Sister You. Life may not be difficult, but let's see if we can make a decision as soon as possible.Hearing Shen Yu teasingly explained the reason, she had no choice but to say: "The two masters of the Liu family are both old and young, and they are both promising young people. Naturally, the little girls will be happy to see Liexin. Besides, if they can control the unstoppable It's a gentleman's act to ruin someone's reputation, and it's also a powerful helper in the second master's yamen. If that's the case, just stay at home with peace of mind, and I'll send someone a word with my second brother, and I'll be able to arrange things properly." Thinking of Liu Xianglian annoying Third Sister You and going to hide outside, it was also helplessly funny.

Knowing the reason, Baochai didn't talk too much after that, three meals a day, clothes and bedding were tightly supplied, and the servants of the family were restrained not to go to the guest house if they had nothing to do. Later, when Xue's caravan went north, they took Liu Xianglian with them.Xue Biao was naturally willing. The previous encounter with bandits depended on Liu Xianglian's action to return safely. Now that his benefactor has encountered such an embarrassing "catastrophe", he must be happy to help him.

The matter of settling Liu Xianglian has entered Gu Yue, and another year is coming to an end, and it is necessary to take stock of the family's income for this year.Several long-established shops in the Shen family have been adjusted one by one, and the business has improved immediately. Although it is not making a lot of money every day, at least the net profit has doubled compared to the same month of previous years.As for the shop that Baochai married as a dowry, it was still making steady profits. The better the shopkeepers were, the better they came to the door with their account books to wait for the master's orders.Baochai was not polite to them either, and set aside a day to make an inventory.

When the shopkeepers delivered the account on time, Baochai was so busy that she crackled the beads on the abacus again.After some calculations, he split off the dry shares with his elder brother Xue Pan and asked Bai Lu to send them over. He specially ordered the chef to prepare a table and leave a few shopkeepers for dinner before leaving.After dinner, everyone left one after another, only Qingwen stayed to report something.Baochai didn't make things difficult for others, so she went to the tea table and waited for her to speak clearly.I saw Qingwen took a sip from the tea bowl, and said crisply: "Auntie, I met a mandarin duck outside the other day. She has already taken her deed to the yamen to change it, and she is impatient with her brother and sister-in-law's harassment. I left her to live in the shop for a while. I thought, when I was with Second Master Bao in the early years, she took care of me a lot, but now that she has come out, and she is the most sharp-eyed person, it is better to stay and work with me. ?”

Baochai had no ill feeling toward Yuanyang herself, and knew that she was capable, so she nodded immediately and said, "Since you are in charge of the shop, you can decide who to recruit. There is only one, and let her take care of her family's affairs by herself. If there are troublemakers who ask Wucheng Bingma Sisuo to go, don't come to me to intercede." Qingwen smiled and said: "It's natural, Yuanyang knows it well. For example, a rotten person like my brother and sister-in-law will be thrown into the prison and die. It’s cheap for them, and you can eat without money.” After saying that, she decided to hire Yuanyang to come over to help, and then Qingwen resigned with a smile.

At the end of the year, the head of Zhuangzi's village came in with a mortgage on the property, and Baochai asked the old housekeeper to take care of it and send it out.

The Shen family's fields in Gyeonggi did not grow food as widely as other families. Most of them planted four-season vegetables and there was a fruit forest.Those who serve are also old farmers who have accumulated for many years, so there is enough for the family to chew every year, and most of them are sold out and exchanged for grain, which saves effort.It was Mr. Shen who made this arrangement. Don't look at Mr. Shen who always lost his temper over eating more meat like a child at home. He was also an amazing and talented person when he was young.Not to mention the lack of land in Gyeonggi, the borders are not even. There are one piece in the east and one piece in the west, and it is not convenient to cultivate at all. Therefore, the old man set up a piece of land to grow a certain kind of vegetables, and left the rough place on the side of the mountain to grow various kinds of vegetables. fruit trees.The Shen family is not like other families who racked their brains and tried their best to make the whole land together, and they never competed with the people for profit and plunder. Their own family has a strong back and no black backs, so it is naturally easier for the children of the errands to do things.After carefully inspecting the fruits, livestock and grain brought in by Zhuangzi, Baochai ordered some of the fresh fruits to be distributed, served with various snacks made by his own kitchen, and put out some boxes, and asked the old man to look at it again. At the end of the day, it was given to the superiors and colleagues in Shen Yu's yamen according to the distance, relatives and relatives, and the high and low, as a yearly gift.

This was the first year of Shen Yu's marriage, and it was inevitable that the distant relatives from the capital side would come to recognize the new grandma of the Shen family's direct branch, so they had to prepare things for the guests.The original guest house is currently lent to Liu Xianglian to live in temporarily, although it is not good for people to disturb its cleanliness, but how much space can he occupy alone?Finally, after discussing with the old housekeeper, Baochai separated another courtyard from the guest courtyard, with the entrance and exit doors open on both sides, so as not to disturb the temporary guests, but also to accommodate relatives who came from afar. hold up.

After Gu month is the twelfth lunar month, every household has to be busy preparing for the New Year's Eve. Baochai stares at the family and completes the accounting for the year, and then distributes the new books. Make up your own mind and see when they close their doors and go out of business to go back to celebrate the New Year.The cook began to choose beans from noon on the seventh day of the seventh day, lit the fire at night, and cooked all night to cook thick Laba porridge. One time - my family had to accept the Laba porridge sent by relatives to try something new, and I drank porridge all day.

In the afternoon, the old housekeeper brought a man dressed as a villager to report outside, saying that the relatives from the distant branches of the Shen family's Jingji would come to the house after the New Year's Eve, and celebrate the New Year's Eve together. One is to meet the new mistress, and the other is to see the prosperity of central Beijing.There is a distant son here who is preparing to take the Enke exam after the spring. Being able to borrow at a relative's house can be regarded as saving a lot of hotel expenses.

After Baochai heard the general idea, he asked the old housekeeper to bring him to Mr. Shen to talk about it.There are only three courtyards in the house, one for the old man, one for Shen Yu, and half of the guest courtyard is used to entertain guests. It is not up to her alone to decide how many relatives come and how long they stay. If there is not a good arrangement, it is all a matter of complaining.It's not that relatives are not welcome to come and live here, but everyone didn't know anyone at first, and they didn't understand any taboos. When people came, they only lived in half of the courtyard. If they were serious, they didn't care It's okay, if you're unlucky, it's not appropriate to meet a fussy explanation or not.

The man went in without knowing it, and followed the old housekeeper to meet Mr. Shen.Mr. Shen hugged the cat, nestled on the kang and squinted his eyes to listen to him, then snorted and said, "How many people are going to come to my hometown? How long will they stay?" The man cupped his hands and said, "Many people want to come and see The new daughter-in-law of the second uncle's house, and the fourth son of the third uncle's house next door will end in spring, there will always be seven or eight of them. We must wait until the fifteenth before going back, and we will learn a lot." The old man said With a half-smile and a half-smile, he snorted through his nose and said, "Are you bullying my grand-daughter-in-law to be soft just after passing through the door? Seven or eight people lived from childhood to fifteen, and they had to be waited on even for food and play. Is there someone rushing for the exam to join in the fun?" The visitor stood on the ground, bent over, rubbed his hands and said with a sneer, "Grandpa Tang, wouldn't it be boring to say that, because there are so many guests at home, it's because you are a good old man, and you have a good country."

Mr. Shen naturally knew in his heart that Baochai must not be able to make a decision to send people to him, and he also understood where she was in trouble. He stroked the cat and said: "Bring the one who is going to take the exam, and brother Yu will cut him down." My cousins ​​all told me to come over on the day of 23, stay for one day and then go back at 25 with my luggage. I only asked my brother from Koenke to stay until the exam is over. My place is so big that you can’t even squeeze it in. It's enough to recognize the face by face, and people don't associate with you guys. If there are female relatives who want to come, don't rush to the busy time at the end of the year, you Maodong, others are very busy at this moment. Even when Just take some time to walk around and sit around, so it’s best not to think about waiting for a month to live, so it’s possible that you don’t need to prepare for spring plowing?”

After he finished speaking, he hugged the cat and turned his back to others. Seeing this, the man knew that the autumn wind was not easy to fight, so he smiled and said: "You have said that, we will wait for the 23rd Xiaonian It's time to come to the door to gain some glory. Our old Shen family is the only branch of yours that is prominent in Beijing. I heard that our second uncle married Miss Jiao from a rich family. It belongs to our family, so don't care about it for a while." If this person just agrees honestly and then manages Qiufeng, Mr. Shen will forget about it, and spend money to buy peace. Who doesn't have many poor relatives? of.But as soon as these words came out, the old man immediately became unhappy. He put the cat aside, turned over and slipped down, and put his foot on the man: "What are you talking about? The ambition of the Shen family's children! If you have the ability to go to Beijing to work hard If you don’t have the ability to squat and farm in your hometown, whoever can live by the dowry of your daughter-in-law is shameless. The girl’s natal family has money that was hard-earned by her ancestors, so why do you want you to think about it. Roll on If you can’t come to my house in the future, it’s a disgraceful thing.”

He kicked them out with a slap in the face, and sent the old housekeeper to talk to Baochai again about the arrangements, only to say that some relatives came from my hometown to beat the autumn wind on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Live alone until Enke releases the list in April.After Baochai heard this, he just arranged for his servants to tidy up the separated courtyard, sweep the big kang clean, and prepare a few more bedding for the visitors to distribute themselves.

In the evening, when Shen Yu came back and Baochai told him about it, Shen Yu nodded and said, "Just don't worry, I'll tell him about Liu Xianglian's place. If there are relatives coming, don't worry too much, just be ordinary guests." Treats are enough. These are people who come to your door to catch the signs of autumn. If you treat them leniently in the first year, you will come every year in the future, and you will not obey when you eat and give less. Anyway, you will be blamed from inside and outside in the future, so you simply start Don’t be weak.” Baochai shook her head and laughed, “Every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite. The same is true for the Jinling branch of Xue’s family. When my father passed away in the morning, he rushed to the door and pulled out all the capital invested in the business. Running on the family, and then our family came back pretending to be nonchalant after recovering, begging for shares and dividends. It is really speechless. It is human nature to seek profits. Of course, I understand in my heart. Since my grandfather has helped me vent my anger, there is no need to worry about it. Just don’t complain that I will give people some cabbage gangs.” Saying "噗嗤" and laughing, Shen Yu saw her She smiled and said: "Grandma didn't give them a stick to throw them all out because it was because of Xiao's face, the cabbage gang is just the cabbage gang, so I made some porridge to mix them with water, so I could let them go early. "

After talking about this incident, Shen Yu happily said to Baochai: "Today, Commander Ma asked me to talk, maybe after Enke, I will transfer out of Beizhen Fusi to go outside. Where are we going now?" It's not decided yet, but it seems that there is no credit or hard work for a series of things last year, so I don't need to embarrass you and your brother and mother again." Baochai knew that he was talking about the time when he thoroughly investigated the noble families, Those lobbyists who came to beg for mercy almost blocked Xue's family from getting out, and it was only after Shen Yu returned to Beijing that they all drove away.If he doesn't move, I'm afraid that such things will be inevitable in the future, and it would be better if he can be quieter.Furthermore, all the life-threatening things in his family's treasury have been handed over, as long as the Xue family does not commit suicide, there will be no disaster of overturning the nest; as for the Shen family, as long as Shen Yu is safe and sound, it doesn't matter whether he is working in Jinyiwei or not.That being the case, I would be happy to be able to change places. After all, Beizhen Fusi is a commander of the third rank, and he may not be able to get a good death. It is a good thing to get out as soon as possible.

Baochai was even more happy for him when she heard this, and after she was overjoyed, she was puzzled: "You Shangguan are too kind, this Beizhen Fusi also allows people to come in and out whenever they want?" Shen Yu shook her head. He laughed and said, "It's not that easy. Jin Yiwei is the emperor's guard of honor. In addition to serving the saints with Luan Yiwei on weekdays, he also assists the imperial forest to guard the palace gate and acts as the emperor's ears. Now I understand it If you are not in the yamen every day, you must bring the general of the Han Dynasty to stand outside the hall and wait for calls. If you are in the small dynasty, if there is any adult who offends today, you must arrange to pull him down as soon as possible. It’s not good that you have to call yourself angry. Therefore, Jinyiwei has always been understaffed, so it’s so easy to get in and out.” When he said this, he felt strange, Commander Ma said it too lightly, and according to the current situation, How could it be so easy to transfer people out, or if the boss didn't personally point him on the head, otherwise it would be impossible.

The two discussed in a low voice for a while, but in the end they didn't come to any conclusions. Baochai just sighed and said, "Anyway, as long as you are safe. I don't ask you to be a marquis or general, just be an ordinary errand. Just be a law-abiding person. I don’t want to be the sigh of “teaching my husband and son-in-law to find a lord”, the family is happy and healthy.” The thought of “the good wind sends me to Qingyun by force” has long been It was wiped out in the previous life, and I only want to reunite my family in this life.

The author has something to say: restore the normal length of [-] words today, and correct typos tomorrow.

Regarding what Da Qiufeng's relatives said in the article, I heard it from Brother Rui's father's elder sister during the Chinese New Year.The background is that a cousin of their family found an only daughter from a rich family to be his wife. During the chat, Brother and Aunt Rui smiled triumphantly and said: "Her family has no son, and in the end, all the money and everything will belong to our family." . ” I was stunned when I heard it.What happened to you, only child?Have you eaten your rice and drank your tap water?If the family has money, they have to give it to you?I really don't know how to describe it.Thinking about it, I feel chills in my heart. When looking for a partner, you don't look at character, personality, or behavior. You only look at whether the other party has money in the family. Then the girl who will be her daughter-in-law in the future will be really unlucky!