Zhen Lian of the Red Chamber

In the early morning of the day of departure, the three of them arrived at the pier in the carriage of the inn. The pier was even more lively than before, and boats of all sizes were docked in an orderly manner on the water.The most conspicuous ones are the big boats that are near the shore. The hulls are all three or four storeys high, and they are extraordinarily gorgeous. People on board are carrying things to and fro.

Liu Xianglian got off the car and walked to the side of the boat, where she saw Jia Lian's personal servant named Zhao'er directing the people to arrange various matters.Seeing Liu Xianglian walking towards this side, she greeted her with a smile and said with a laugh: "Young Master Liu is here! The second master has not arrived yet, so he specially ordered me to pick you up here, but I have been waiting for you! Please Liu Young Master, get on the boat first and wait, the room has already been arranged, and the second master will be here in a while."

Liu Xianglian also greeted with a smile, "I wanted to arrive earlier, but I didn't expect you to be earlier than me, but I came later. You are more capable now, and you are taking care of these things. Be orderly and not chaotic." As expected of a wealthy family.

Zhao'er shook her head modestly and said with a smile: "I still have a lot to learn like this! I have also been here with our master for so many days, and the affairs of the Lin family are all taken care of by our master. Busy people are turned on their backs, and I give us daily Grandpa runs errands, I have learned a bit these days, so this trip is worthwhile!"

After finishing speaking, he said: "Wait a minute, I will call a few people, and I will move all your things to the boat in a while." Turning around, he gave instructions to the person who was following him, and after a while, he saw that the person had brought three or four things with him. When he came alone, Zhao'er brought several people to the carriage with Liu Xianglian.

Liu Xianglian helped Zhenlian's mother and daughter to get out of the car, and Zhao'er asked a few people to lift up the car and saluted, and brought a few people to a boat, and said with a smile: "This is a boat for the women's family, please come aboard, madam." Rest on this boat, and our girl also lives on this boat. Mr. Liu and our grandfather will go on another boat." He pointed to the two boats next to each other.

Liu Xianglian and the others all nodded and smiled, followed Zhao'er onto the boat, turned around and went up the stairs to the second floor, and came to a room after a while, Zhao'er stepped forward to open the door, and said with a smile: "This is Mrs. house, please follow me in."

Several people followed into the house. The room is relatively spacious, divided into two rooms inside and outside, connected by a partition in the middle.There are tables, chairs, benches and other things outside, and the inside is the sleeping place. It is also divided into two rooms, each with bed cabinets, etc., and all kinds of items are available.Zhen Lian looked at it and smiled slightly. This is the so-called two-bedroom one-living room. It is indeed much better than the boat they took before. If it was a standard room, it would be a luxury suite.

After those people had put their luggage away, Zhao'er said goodbye and left. Before leaving, she said with a smile: "Now it's not as good as Beijing, and everything is not complete. Please forgive me for not being thoughtful. If there is anything missing Just tell me, I'm ready to come."

Liu Xianglian said: "I don't know how much better than we were before. It's because we disturbed you. You don't have to be polite. If there is something really missing, I won't pretend to be polite."

Mother Zhen also smiled and said: "Xiang Lian is very right, and I would like to thank you for taking the pains to lead us."

"Where, where! Ma'am, you are welcome! Our master and Liu Erye are old friends, so it should be like this." After speaking, he reached into his arms, took out a pocket watch, opened it to check the time, and said quickly: "I should go down now." Yes! Our master and girl will be here at this time, I'll go down to pick them up!" After finishing speaking, she went out of the room and got off the boat, and Liu Xianglian followed Zhao'er after saying that.

Seeing that there were only her mother and daughter in the room, Zhen Lian relaxed a little, and pulled Zhen's mother to sit on the chair by the window, and said with a smile, "Mother, sit down and rest."

Mother Zhen sat down, "I've only walked a few steps, and it's not tiring. Looking at it now, it's really much better than going by ourselves."

"That's natural. Just looking at it, you can tell that the Jia family is a famous family in Shenjing. These are naturally not bad." Although the Jia family is not as good as before, it is still an upper-class family in this world, and it also pays attention to ostentation. Where can something bad be used.Besides, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the Grand View Garden has not yet been built at this time, so the Jia family should still have some wealth.It's a pity for Lin Daiyu, once Lin Ruhai dies, the Jia family will be her last support and home!

At this time, the noisy voices outside gradually receded, and the two of them looked out the window, only seeing each other for a while, and the people carrying things outside were no longer there.There were ten or twenty people standing neatly on both sides of the boat on the shore, all of them stood quietly with their heads down, while Liu Xianglian and Zhao'er also stood there laughing and talking.

Soon after, a group of people came slowly in the distance, Zhao'er rushed to meet them, and Liu Xianglian also walked slowly.

Zhao'er trotted a few steps to a man on horseback, saluted with a smile on his face and said hello: "Master is here! Mr. Liu has been here for a while, and he is waiting for you!" Turning to look at Liu Xianglian Signal to Jia Lian.

Jia Lian kicked Zhao'er with a light smile, and said with a smile: "I saw it, you still need to tell me!" After finishing speaking, he clamped the horse's belly, shook the rein with his hand, "drive!" and trotted to Liu Xianglian's side Turning over and dismounting, he laughed and said, "Second brother, why is it so early, I'm late!"

Liu Xianglian stepped forward, "For fear of missing the hour, I came earlier." Zhao'er from behind had already followed up with a smile and led the horse to follow behind. The two of them stopped in front of the boat while talking, and the group of people behind also stopped. down.

Zhen Lian looked carefully, there were three small sedan chairs in total, the first one was followed by the most people, it must be Lin Daiyu!

Sure enough, they saw a maid coming down from each of the two sedan chairs at the back, and they walked up to Lin Daiyu's sedan chair, and said softly, "Miss, we are going to board the boat."

Seeing a graceful and weak little girl in the next year came out holding the hands of the two servant girls.Because she was wearing a veiled hat, Zhen Lian couldn't see her face clearly, she just felt that she was worthy of being Lin Daiyu, with a fairy air all over her body, she didn't look like anyone else in the world!

Lin Daiyu and others got on the boat slowly, Zhen Lian heard the movement, their residence was also on the second floor, not far from Zhen Lian's house.Although there were several people she brought with her, they all moved like smoke and made very little movement.Because they didn't know each other, Zhen Lian and her daughter couldn't go out, so they still sat by the window and chatted.

Not long after, Liu Xianglian knocked on the door and came in, holding a pot of tea and several cups in her hands, walked up to the two of them and said with a smile, "I've been sitting here for a long time, let's drink some hot tea!" Put down the tray and poured three cups Tea, and sit down by yourself.

Zhen Lian's mother and daughter drank it, and Zhen Lian asked, "When will the boat leave?"

"Wait for another stick of incense and then leave." Liu Xianglian drank the tea in her cup and continued: "Because there are all female relatives here, it is not convenient for me to come here in the future. If you have something to do, send people outside to find me. Everyone here Everything is ready, food and tea will be delivered regularly, and someone will collect them after use. You can live in peace of mind and go out when you are free, but you have to pay attention to safety." Thinking and sighing: "It's a pity We didn’t bring a maid, otherwise it would be much more convenient, and someone will take care of you. It’s just that the newly bought ones don’t know the basics, and they won’t come out for a while, so they won’t be useful.”

Zhen Lian smiled and said: "We can just come by ourselves. It's good at home, and we don't need girls. Besides, we don't need to worry about eating tea, and there are nothing else, so we can take care of it."

After hearing this, Zhen's mother had another thought: her daughter is going to get married soon, so she must prepare two girls she likes to help her with her thoughts, and besides, she will have an arm to run a family and start a business in the future.Sui said: "Xianglian's words are right. We can't find any good ones now, and we don't feel at ease when we find them. When we go to Beijing and settle down, we have to find two honest and reliable ones to come for a year or two, and I will help you some."

Zhen Lian retorted, "There are only three of us, what kind of girls do we need to serve, we can do it by ourselves." She is not used to being served.

Zhen's mother pursed her lips and smiled slightly, and said, "Why don't you want someone to help you when you get married? After you have a baby, you can bring it yourself?" Seeing the two of them laughing harder.

Zhen Lian blushed slightly, and stopped talking, since she would definitely not be able to take care of herself when she has a child, it would definitely be much better if someone helped her, and she never thought of it before.

Liu Xianglian's ears were also red, she coughed and said with a smile: "There are still a few servants at home, but it happens that we are missing a maid. When we go to Beijing, ask them to serve first, and then find a maid."

Zhen's mother said: "How can we ask your people to serve us, let's find it first."

"When I went out, I sent them to take care of my Zhuangzi, and they just took care of you when you went there." Liu Xianglian laughed.

Zhen Lian was startled when she heard this, and asked, "What? I heard you mean to let us live in your village?"

Liu Xianglian was also surprised when she heard this, but she suddenly realized after thinking about it for a while.It turned out that I didn't tell her about the two of them living in my own farm after they entered Beijing, but it seemed that I did, and Zhen Lian agreed.But when I thought about it at this moment, I knew that I hadn't said it, and those memories only existed vaguely, and I didn't have time to explore it carefully, because I said: "That's it, it was my mistake! I forgot such an important thing!" Let’s talk about it, I don’t know what’s wrong! I’ve already sent a letter asking them to clean up the house and wait for us to go back! This Zhuangzi is in the suburbs of Shenjing, and there are some simple farmers nearby, so it’s safe for you to live in.”

It turned out that he had planned to do so.Zhen Lian said: "It turns out that my mother and I also planned to buy a few acres of land in the suburbs of Beijing and build a house to live in. It turns out that both of us were wrong, and neither of us said anything about it."

Liu Xianglian said with a smile: "I'm also dazed, I always remember that I told you, so I never said it later, but I think it's better to forget about your plan!"

"What? Is there a problem?" Zhen Lian asked.

"First of all, you two female relatives are living there alone, how can this guarantee your safety? Second, building a house is not a one-time job, and it must not be as convenient as my Zhuangzi; third, I have Why don’t you live in a place that’s already there, wouldn’t it be a pity to leave it empty! Fourth, we’re a family, so there’s no one who can’t live there and wants to live somewhere else.” After finishing speaking, he said, “I also know some of your considerations. It's just that I don't live there on weekdays, so it doesn't affect anything! Is that good?"

Zhen Lian's mother and daughter were speechless. After thinking about it, it would be better than their previous plan to live there, and said with a smile, "Okay, just live there."

Liu Xianglian was relieved after hearing this, and knew that they were doing it to avoid suspicion.You can't live in your own home. The neighbors in the neighborhood know that you are the only one in your home. If you suddenly bring the two of you back, it will definitely attract gossip, and it's not good for them. After all, they want to live here in the future, and they too With these in mind, I have to build my own house.

If it was Zhuangzi, it would be different. The people around him would not recognize me, and there were very few people around, so as long as I didn't live there, I would be fine.

After talking again, Liu Xianglian went back, and sure enough, the boat left soon.