The Housekeeper's Daughter-in-law of the Red House

Not to mention Xue Baochai's turmoil after entering the harem, let's talk about the Lin family, Lin Shuyu went to Jiangnan for a few months, and the Lin family finally received his first family letter. Along with the family letter, there were also some Jiangnan gadgets.

After reading the family letter written by Lin Shuyu, Shulan handed the family letter to Mrs. Chen who had been staring at it for a long time, then looked at the gadgets in the box, and sighed: "This child, you know that he went with the army to suppress the bandits. Those who don’t know think he’s gone to Jiangnan to play.”

Look at the contents of this box, embroidery from Suzhou, rouge gouache from Yangzhou, silk white chrysanthemum from Hangzhou, and emerald material at the bottom of the box, etc. If it hadn't been known in advance that Lin Shuyu had gone to the south to suppress bandits, Shulan would have thought that She is going to play in the south.

Opened another box beside it, there were several scrolls in it, and Shulan jumped when he opened it, it was a picture of a lady, but this is not the point, the point is that the signature on the painting turned out to be 'Tang Yin'.

Who is Tang Yin! ?

Everyone knows his other title, this person is Tang Bohu, the famous four great talents in the south of the Yangtze River!

This man has passed away, but his calligraphy and paintings are still valuable even today. Xue Pan has a fan with Tang Yin's erotic pictures worth 3000 taels of silver.Not to mention the shocking auction price of 21 million in the [-]st century.

Shulan already, this thing is not something that can be obtained casually, and then opened the other picture scrolls to see the calligraphy and paintings of famous masters of different generations, Shulan also saw a painting by Wu Daozi, the "Painting Saint", although the size was a little smaller .

"Where did he get these things?" Shulan wondered, these things are no different than other things, they are heirlooms that can't be bought with money!

Mrs. Chen has already read the family letter, seeing that Lin Shuyu still did not forget to greet herself and her children in the letter, she was very happy.Hearing Shulan's question at this moment, he looked up and said with a smile: "Madam, uncle is going to the south to suppress bandits. Those bandits and bandits have a lot of these things in their lairs. I heard that general bandits are suppressed. These things The officers and soldiers who were captured by the bandits were not put into the treasury, but divided among themselves, I think if the bandit suppression goes well, there will be good things in the future."

The bandits and bandits who made the army go out are naturally not ordinary bandits and bandits, and they are old fritters who have robbed many people.The goods brought by caravans and merchants are not single. For bandits and bandits, other things are useful, such as gold, silver, grain and cloth, but those antique calligraphy and paintings seem to be the most valuable, but bandits and bandits look down on them the most. These things are worth money, but they are not marketable!These people are all living a life with their heads on their waistbands, living a chic life every day, and they don't think about family heirlooms at all.

It is precisely because of these two reasons that Lin Shuyu copied many antique calligraphy and paintings in his old den when he went with the army to suppress bandits.Those who are soldiers may not understand these things and only value gold and silver, but those few who were born as imperial guards will not understand this.

Therefore, when the loot was divided, these people took the initiative to ask for these "losing goods" in the eyes of the soldiers. The generals of the army were overjoyed and then embarrassed. Therefore, the copied antique calligraphy and paintings were given to a few people, but let them He made a lot of money quietly, how could there be so much money in gold and silver.

Regarding Chen's words, Shulan was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed, "I'd have forgotten if you didn't tell me, these calligraphy and paintings are so well handled and put away, they are our family heirlooms."

"Madam is right!" Mrs. Chen replied.

Shulan picked out some things and asked people to send them to Lin Hongyu, and then asked Lin Shuyu to bring back the things for herself and Lin Zhixiao to put away, and then asked Mrs. Chen to carry the boxes directly to their room.

Mrs. Chen looked at all this calmly, and finally asked: "Your sister is safe and sound. I said to go and see her yesterday, but she refused to let her, saying that she was afraid of infecting elder sister with the disease."

"She was right in telling you not to look at her. The eldest sister is still young and can't stand the disease. Your sister took the medicine and sweated all over last night. She is much better today and will recover in a few days. " Shulan said.

Mrs. Chen nodded, "That's good." After a pause, he continued: "Yesterday I went to the palace to visit the Empress Dowager, but I heard Empress Dowager say something."

"Hmm... what's the matter!?" Shu Lan wondered.

Mrs. Chen said with a smile: "Speaking of it, it has nothing to do with our family. It is only because I know those families that the concubine Taifei told me. Madam, I still remember the concubine Xiande of Jia's mansion and Xue Cairen of the Xue family. ?”

"Of course I remember that the family-visiting villas in the suburbs and inner cities are still under construction. Who would ignore this matter. Besides, Xue Caicai has only been in the palace for a few months, so who would forget it?" For the famous Jia Yuanchun and Xue Baochai, how could Shulan forget.

"Madam, as long as you remember, I heard from the concubine that the concubine Xiande and Xue Cairen are on a match." Chen said gossipingly.

Shulan has a strange expression on your face: "What's so strange, there will be no sisters in the harem, and the concubines in the harem can't do anything. Besides, I vaguely heard Xue Cairen before The matter of preparing for Xiaoxuan to enter the palace was lost by the second wife of the Jia family, if Xue Cairen knew the truth, it would be no wonder that he would let it go!"

Let alone Jia Yuanchun and Xue Baochai are cousins, so what if they are biological sisters?

Zhao Feiyan and Zhao Hede are not real sisters, they shared weal and woe and dealt with Empress Xu together, but after gaining power, Zhao Hede also snatched Zhao Feiyan's favor, occupied the emperor by himself, and let Zhao Feiyan guard the empty room every night.This is a real sister!

"My wife has a lot of knowledge, I can't match it." Chen Shi gave Shulan a small hug, and then said: "But this time it's different, if it's about competing for favor, the empress dowager wouldn't tell me. I heard from the empress dowager that Concubine Xiande became cruel. She was very dissatisfied with Xue Cairen when she was favored and often found fault with Xue Cairen. Half a month ago, I heard that Xue Cairen revealed that she was pregnant. Daxi was about to promote Xue Cairen's position, but she didn't want Concubine Xiande to reveal the fact that Xue Cairen's elder brother, the eldest son of the Xue family, beat someone to death. The decree is to ban Xue Cairen's feet."

Shulan was startled, and said in disbelief: "This is impossible! Back then, when Mr. Xue beat someone to death, Mr. Wang and Concubine Xiande's father both sent letters to Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling at that time. If This matter has been revealed, and neither of these two people can get any benefits, and they will be demoted and punished according to the law. What good does this do for the virtuous concubine?" The harem concubines rely on the emperor's favor in the harem. Only family background, how could such a smart person as Jia Yuanchun do such a thing that hurt the enemy three hundred and self-damaged eight thousand.

"My wife is right. I couldn't believe it when the concubine told me, but one sentence from the concubine woke me up." Mrs. Chen sighed and said, "Xue Cairen is pregnant. This is the first concubine in the emperor's harem who is pregnant, and if you are lucky, this will be the emperor's eldest son after birth, the eldest prince!"

Since ancient times, the eldest prince has been established as the eldest son, and this is not an ordinary prince. This is a big killer!

"But even if Xue Cairen really gave birth to the eldest prince, she can't support the eldest prince with her position!" Shu Lan asked in doubt, and then was suddenly surprised, "You mean that Concubine Xiande intends to adopt Xue Cairen's son?" His eldest prince, that's why he deliberately exposed this matter."

To say that Shulan was surprised, Chen was even more surprised than Shulan. She never thought that her mother-in-law would react so quickly, and she only understood the whole truth of the matter when Concubine De reminded her.

Mrs. Chen nodded, "The empress dowager told me so."

"No wonder!" Shulan suddenly realized, no wonder Concubine De said that Jia Yuanchun was cruel.

For the sake of his status, he did not hesitate to deceive his father, uncle, cousin and cousin, Jia Yuanchun was really not ordinary.

This matter is actually very simple. Xue Baochai's pregnancy is a great joy for the emperor, but Xue Baochai is not as lucky as Concubine De to be promoted to the position of nine concubines in one go and raise her own child.Then the children born to her will definitely be adopted by other high-ranking concubines.

When the queen has no heirs and the queen is willing, there is a [-]% chance that the queen will adopt Xue Baochai's child.This may be the son of the eldest son of the emperor, and concubines with ability and family background will naturally fight for it.

Jia Yuanchun is a noble concubine, she is getting old, the emperor doesn't have sex with her anymore, it is simply whimsical to want to give birth to a child.Therefore, adopting a child born to a low-ranking concubine seems to be Jia Yuanchun's only way out. It just so happens that now that his cousin Xue Baochai is pregnant, he will not raise a white-eyed wolf in the future if he adopts her child.

It can be said that there is nothing more perfect than adopting a child born to Xue Baochai, but there is one obstacle in this matter, and that is the empress.

I really don't know if the number of harem battles is too high, or if the emperor didn't feel that these concubines had tampered with it, anyway, none of the concubines were pregnant before Xue Baochai became pregnant.

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It's because she didn't have a bad pregnancy, not because she was framed by someone and had a miscarriage.

Therefore, Xue Baochai's first child is destined to attract much attention.

Is there any way to dispel the queen's desire to adopt Xue Baochai's child?

Then it can only be 'self-pollution', and let the queen realize that there is a big stain behind this child, so that even if he is the eldest son of the emperor, there is a nearly [-]% chance of not succeeding to the throne in the future.After the queen backed down, Jia Yuanchun would become the highest-ranking concubine in the harem, and she would naturally be able to smoothly adopt the child born to Xue Baochai.

And this method of self-defilement is to reveal what Xue Pan did before.

Shulan thought for a while and asked: "It's impossible for the Xue family to not react when this happened!"

Mrs. Chen said with a smile: "Masters of the Xue family were all taken away by the Ministry of Criminal Justice. I heard that the magistrate who judged the case at that time had ordered his father-in-law to go to Beijing. The second master of the Jia family has now been temporarily dismissed, and Mr. Wang has also sent an order. Entering Beijing."

At other times, Xue Pan's incident would not have had such a big impact. The emperor personally sent the two officials to Beijing for such a big move, but Xue Baochai's belly is too late. At this time, Xue Baochai's belly is the focus focus.

"I heard that Mrs. Xue was planning to go to Jia's mansion after the young master of the Xue family was taken away by people from the Ministry of Justice, but she didn't know why she didn't go all of a sudden. Then the next day I heard that Mrs. Xue went to Jia's mansion to collect debts. Now Jia's family is building a family-speaking villa, where is the money?"

Chen pursed her lips and said: "No, when I came back yesterday, I asked someone to inquire about it. I heard that people all over the capital are saying that the second wife of Jia's family is greedy for the property of the younger sister's family, and she does not hesitate to give it to herself. His nephew was charged with beating someone to death, and then used this excuse to 'borrow' money from his sister's house again and again.

The most outrageous thing was to say that the reason why Concubine Xiande was canonized as a noble concubine in one fell swoop after so many years of obscurity in the harem was that the money from the Xue family was used to bribe the people around the emperor to make him look up to her.Everyone said these things clearly, and those who don't know the truth really don't know whether it is true or not. "

These things were originally [-]% true and [-]% false, and when they were spread out, the order was disrupted. Originally, Mrs. Wang kindly solved the matter of killing Xue Pan for Xue Pan, but now it has become that Mrs. Wang dug a The pit asked Xue Pan to jump down. If there are more people who tell the truth, people will believe it.

After all, although the reputation of Jia's family is better than that in the original book, it is not much better. There is no Lai's vampire, but there are Zhou's, Bai's, Qin's and so on.

"These things may not all be false, it depends on what people say." Shulan shook her head and said: "In the past few days, if someone from Jia's house or Xue's family comes, they will say that the girl is ill, and I am guarding the girl so I won't see any visitors. After a pause, he continued: "If someone from the Lin family comes, they will say the same thing. This is a matter between the second wife and the concubine. It's nothing for our family to get involved!"

"Yes!"

Whether Xue Pan's matter is big or small, now it depends on what the emperor thinks. To put it more bluntly, it depends on whether the child in Xue Baochai's belly is a boy or a girl.

But what everyone didn't expect was that Xue Baochai, who should have heard the news in the story that her fetal phase was unstable, was sitting in the emperor's arms with a rosy face, leisurely eating the bird's nest that the emperor fed her.

Seeing that the emperor was in a hurry, Xue Baochai snickered without any embarrassment.

The emperor put the bowl on the kang table angrily, squeezed Xue Baochai's little hand and said: "You little heartless, I helped you act, and you are still laughing."

"Your majesty." Xue Baochai acted coquettishly, "Although your majesty is acting for a concubine, this is the punishment for the majesty's loss. The majesty must be willing to bet and admit defeat."

"You clever ghost, thank you for coming up with such a method." The emperor shook his head and smiled, the smile actually penetrated deep into his eyes.