The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Seeing Aunt Xue's duplicity, Mrs. Wang immediately understood that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so she hurriedly said: "But there is a change?"

Aunt Xue hesitated to speak, Xue Pan's whereabouts were unknown, Wang Xifeng went to Qianxiang country, and there was a sudden change in the palace, so she didn't know who to discuss with for a while.

"What's the matter? Tell me quickly, don't make Baochai uncomfortable in the palace alone." Mrs. Wang asked eagerly.

Aunt Xue hesitated again and again, although she suffered a loss in the hands of Madam Wang, she finally said to Madam Wang because there was no one else to discuss countermeasures at the moment: "For some reason, the Empress Dowager suddenly said to the concubine who came to the palace to pay her respects, 'Young girl is so virtuous! I don’t know which family is lucky enough to ask her to go back.” My heart felt sour, and tears fell again, “Perhaps Feng girl is not at home, so I want to ask Eunuch Dai and Eunuch Li, but they are impatient. There are too many, and Mr. Li only said that it was Baochai who was wrong, and offended the concubine Fang."

It is said that Xue Baochai has been in the palace for two years, and he also played chess with the emperor, admired flowers, and talked about a collection of scriptures.She was supposed to be the concubine of tomorrow in everyone's eyes, but before the "tomorrow" came, the queen mother said the meaningless words first - from what I can see now, if Baochai doesn't enter the harem, who can she marry?

Mrs. Wang personally handed the tea to Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue sighed softly when she saw that the tea bowl was just a plain white porcelain tea bowl.

"Don't worry, wait for me to ask Nan'an Concubine for you." Mrs. Wang guaranteed the ticket, took Aunt Xue's hand, and said with emotion: "Feng girl is wild, there is no hope. According to my opinion , we sisters will all rely on Baochai in the future."

Aunt Xue withdrew her hand alertly and lowered her head to drink tea.

Mrs. Wang continued to whisper, "Do you know about Fang Fei's cold air entering the palace?"

Aunt Xue nodded and said with a smile: "Tan Chun didn't have a mother-in-law at first, but now she has a cheap mother-in-law. The concubine is also an orphan of the Fang family, so she would not dare to look up to Tan Chun, besides, the fifth prince's mansion is just around the corner. Next door to Rongguo Mansion, Tanchun feels more at ease."

Mrs. Wang smiled and said: "Who would expect to enjoy her blessings? You really have been honest and honest all your life. You think, although the fifth prince has a more flamboyant temperament, he still knows the seriousness. Why offend the Supreme Emperor for no reason? Besides, everyone We all know that the fifth prince and the concubine Fang have a mother-child relationship. Seeing the fifth prince suffering outside the door, can the concubine Fang pretend not to care? According to my opinion, someone knew that the queen mother favored the concubine Fang and made her pregnant, so he I intend to test Fangfei to see if she is willing to give up her own flesh and blood."

Aunt Xue was stunned, stretched out five fingers, and said tremblingly, "Fifth Prince?"

Mrs. Wang closed her eyes and nodded, secretly looking across the mountains and peaks, no one on the left and right could tell why the concubine entered the palace with such a coincidence of cold air, she took Aunt Xue's hand and held it, "You can understand , Tanchun is looking for someone who is not easy to get along with. Last meeting, the queen mother came forward to explain the pregnancy on behalf of the concubine Fang, so at this meeting, the queen mother must be the one who came out on behalf of the concubine Fang."

"What should we do? It's so good, why did Baochai offend someone?" Aunt Xue was in a panic.

Mrs. Wang wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and persuaded her: "Since the concubine Fang can't have any children, she can only be at the mercy of the fifth prince in the future. As for the fifth prince, Tanchun is a very determined person. Although I am not good , but she always listens to her father."

Aunt Xue hurriedly said: "In this case, I can only ask my brother-in-law to talk to Tanchun Haosheng, and tell the Queen Mother not to say such scary things again."

"I have to say, if Baochai goes out of the palace to marry someone, what face will she have in front of others?"

Aunt Xue nodded her head hurriedly, suddenly the alarm sounded in her heart, Mrs. Wang hesitated and said, "Could it be that there is something wrong with the house, and the money is not available for a while..."

Mrs. Wang stood up suddenly, and said with a sneer, "Could it be that in your eyes, I am that kind of person? For the sake of my niece, just to ask for money?" As she spoke, she was about to see off the guests.

Aunt Xue hurriedly said, "I don't mean that." Then she stood up and sat down Mrs. Wang.

After Mrs. Wang sneered again and again, she sat down and said with a choked voice: "Even if I was at fault before, it was old Huangli. How can I keep looking down on others? Besides, even though we are poor now, Baoyu is also very prosperous in the Beijing Palace. When the water rises, Tanchun has a bright future."

"Yes, yes." Aunt Xue apologized and offered tea to Mrs. Wang for forgiveness, "You also know that I am clumsy and don't know how to speak beautifully—if you really have any difficulties, I can still pay a few hundred taels of silver. I got it from Ping'er."

Mrs. Wang's eyelids twitched wildly, and she thought that Aunt Xue's decent wife was so worthless that her son's concubine took advantage of her. After sighing repeatedly, she said to Aunt Xue: "If you really still treat me as a sister, you don't need to spend money on it." , when you went to pay your respects to Princess Zhongshun, you thought of ways to reject her proposed marriage."

Aunt Xue hurriedly said, "I didn't listen to the old lady..."

"The old lady doesn't care about the matter. The old man is madly treating a concubine as a treasure, and no one takes him seriously. Lian'er just looked at it and refused to agree. When you see the princess, just say..." Mrs. Wang wanted to ask Aunt Xue to bite Jia Lian back, and thought that thanks to Jia Lian, the business of the Xue family in Jiangsu and Zhejiang could grow bigger and bigger. He changed his words and said, "Let's just say that Lian'er doesn't like Cong'er, and he is determined to find a younger brother from a small family to be his brother-in-law. Seeing that it's the concubine who intercedes, and he is also the righteous son of the Xiangong, he is afraid that he will not get along well in the future, so he will not get along with him." Yes."

Aunt Xue saw that this remark did not offend anyone, so she nodded in agreement, and then asked suspiciously: "What if there are still people who talk about kissing later?"

Mrs. Wang said with a smile: "Someone said marriage later, if it is really easy to handle, this marriage can be done." Change to someone who has no foundation, and see how that person can win Jia Amnesty, she just sits and reaps the benefits of the fisherman .

Aunt Xue laughed and said, "It's hard for Brother Lian to think about welcoming the spring." Suddenly remembering Mrs. Wang's attitude towards Xiangyun, she said, "You are too mean to my daughter-in-law. Tell Xiangyun to dress like that and go to the old lady."

Mrs. Wang said with a smile that she had everything under control: "If you don't force her, she won't know how to make progress."

Aunt Xue didn't know how Mrs. Wang wanted her daughter-in-law to make progress. She heard the laughter outside and saw Mrs. Xue coming with Xiangyun, so she stood up and said goodbye.

Mrs. Wang was afraid that it would cost money to keep people drinking, so she didn't want to keep them. She sent the two wives of Xue's family out. Mystery, our house is run-down, you see that merchant family dares to pick on us."

Shi Xiangyun lowered his head and said nothing.

Mrs. Wang said again: "The left and right Baoqin is still with the old lady. When you took my car, you said that you didn't want Baoqin to go over and talk. First try to ask the old lady about the monthly money given to your sister-in-law, and then ask Ask Yingchun if she knows that her brother and sister-in-law plan to ration her to be raised by a eunuch."

Shi Xiangyun didn't dare to say no, so he said, "I'll go after I change my clothes." Seeing that Mrs. Wang turned her head and went back to the room without saying a word, she hurriedly went back to the Baosha to change her clothes, rummaged in the closet, and it was still the same. Find out the new clothes that Jia's mother made when she got married and put them on.After putting on her clothes, she was doing her makeup in front of the mirror, when Baoyu came in a little bit drunk.

"Where is my sister doing her makeup? Quickly change into this rouge and show me." Baoyu monkey approached with a sullen face, opened the tortoiseshell rouge box in his hand, and urged Xiangyun to use it.

"Where did you come from?" Xiangyun asked, glanced in the mirror and saw that Baoyu's pendant was gone again, he sneered and said, "You came back like a thief again? Since you speculate with them, treat it as a courtesy. Why did you send out your things, but nothing came back?"

Although Baoyu is very talented, he is not as tactful and sophisticated as those older diners. Therefore, every time he is cheated out of things, he feels a little guilty. They are."

"The best one is for them. It is said that good women don't wear wedding clothes. The Ningguo Mansion has been ransacked. Sister-in-law You has the ability to make a dozen or twenty pieces of clothes for Xichun in one season. Fangguan and the others are just actors. The clothes of the four seasons are not the same, what about me? When I go to see my ancestors, I will look poor, but I will wear your clothes." Xiang Yun said, his eyes turned red.

Baoyu recognized the clothes on her body, blushed immediately, and said angrily: "I give money to my wife every month, but my wife didn't even make clothes for you?"

Xiangyun was stunned, and quickly asked: "How much money do you give your wife every month?"

Baoyu said: "If there is no festival, I will give 30 taels a month. If it is a festival, birthday, etc., the concubine and the county king will always reward bags of plum blossom ingots and begonia ingots. of."

Shi Xiangyun was stupefied, and whimpered: "I don't even know. My wife always said that the money you brought back was not enough to send out. If you are not at home, I dare not take an extra bite of tea and rice, let alone mention any clothes."

Baoyu never expected this to be the case. No wonder he felt that Shi Xiangyun had become more bitter and mean in the past few months. It was because Mrs. Wang was mean to her secretly and did not dare to confront Mrs. Wang, so the husband and wife sat and cried into a ball.

"Grandma, my wife came to ask what's going on inside." Suddenly, Jin Chuan's voice came from outside the door.

Xiangyun shivered, and Baoyu immediately fell silent.

"It's okay, Master Bao drank too much." Xiangyun wiped his tears, shouted to the outside, stood outside the window, saw Jin Chuan go, and then complained to Baoyu, "Madam said, the old ancestor gave sister-in-law Zhu a You should give me a share of the monthly money, and you want me to say something that offends Lian's second elder brother, Lian's second sister-in-law, and sister Yingchun."

Baoyu hurriedly said, "Stop talking about that. I keep ten taels of silver every month without telling my wife. You can take ten taels to do business with your wife."

"...Why don't you tell your wife about this in front of me? Also don't carry your back, she suppresses me so much that I can't refute a word." Xiangyun said softly, seeing that Baoyu was unmoved, he went up Pushing him forward, "At least I've made it clear to my wife, and made it clear that I know you gave her the money."

"What are you busy with? Didn't you say that you would leave ten taels of silver for your business?" Baoyu couldn't help feeling a little annoyed, and looked at Xiangyun coldly. Gently tugging on her sleeve, before trying to comfort her with words, he heard someone coming outside.

It was Jin Chuan who came, and Jin Chuan said outside through the window: "Grandma, the car is ready."

"I'll come right away." Xiangyun slowly reapplied the powder. After seeing Jin Chuan come in from the mirror, Baoyu was drinking sober soup in the bowl Jin Chuan was holding. , Thinking all the way how to talk to Jiamu.Unexpectedly, after entering the Rongqing hall, I didn't see the little girls all the way. Just wondering, I heard a burst of silver bell-like laughter coming from Jiamu's big flower hall, so I went along the Chaoshou corridor to the flower hall, and suddenly heard "" Grandma Bao, do you think Mother Jia is talking about her to the girls?

Xiangyun dodged subconsciously, waiting quietly to hear what to say about her.

Sure enough, I heard Fang Guan, who was used to being a bit rampant by Jia's mother, say: "Old lady, I see that this pomegranate-colored horse is suitable for Second Grandma Bao, why don't you give it to her."

"Exactly, seeing her wearing Second Master Bao's clothes, even though she forced a smile on her face, it also made people feel distressed - if Second Mistress hadn't found Miss Xichun's painting objects, she wouldn't have been able to find these things." This is Amber's voice.

Xiangyun probed inward secretly, and sure enough, he saw a room full of sixteen or seventeen girls gathered around a long table. The long table was full of Xiaying gauze, organdy gauze, and cirrus gauze, and the colorful colors were really beautiful.

Those little actors laughed and unfolded the cloth and wrapped it around their bodies to show Jiamu the color.

Jia Mu said, "There is no need to say these words in the future."

"Why is that?" Bao Qin asked this sentence.

Jia Mu smiled and said, "The second wife over there deliberately showed me that she was mean to her daughter-in-law. Why do I love her? No matter how much I love her, she is a daughter-in-law in the east. After two years, my heart will naturally turn to her mother-in-law. Just wait and see, sooner or later the second wife will force her to beg me to move her to live in the back garden."

"Since the old lady gave us so many things, why didn't she give Second Mistress Bao a few pieces of material? We are just from outside, and Second Grandma Bao grew up with the old lady."

"If I love you, I won't be sad in the future; if I love her, I will be sad."

"What about Miss Hui?"

"When she grows up, my old lady will be buried long ago, so she won't be sad."

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"Old lady, look at my Xiaying gauze, does it look like the Guanyin Bodhisattva in the painting in the central hall?" Suddenly, the eggplant draped a piece of silver gray gauze with pearly luster on his head.

"Hey, you don't know the depth, how dare you call it a Bodhisattva?"

In the room, the civil officials, Douguan, and Ouguan chased the eggplant officials to take off the Xiaying gauze, but they were also wrapped in gauze, so they tripped over the gauze and rolled into a ball on the ground.

"Oh, look at your nonsense." Mother Jia laughed heartily.

Baoqin hurriedly said: "The material is so thin that it will be broken if you pull it, so stop messing around." Sure enough, after saying this, the eggplant official said, "Look, my material has been pulled out of the thread." , it’s not enough to make a skirt.”

Looking outside, Xiangyun saw that the fabrics she had dreamed of were so easily trampled on the ground by a group of humble actors, and she couldn't help feeling resentful. .He didn't have the face to go in again, so while the maids were distributing materials in Jia's mother's room, she hurriedly led Cui Ling outside.

After leaving Rongqing Hall, Cui Ling couldn't help sighing: "The old lady is so ruthless."

Xiang Yun held the handkerchief tightly with both hands, and suddenly said: "Now I am going to ask Fang Guan and those little actors to have mercy."

Cui Hui quietly looked at her expression, and persuaded: "It's no wonder the old lady, the old lady is afraid of being caught in the middle of her children and grandchildren and will be sad again, so she simply doesn't care about it."

Xiangyun sneered, and said in her heart that Mother Jia was the closest, but now that Mother Jia pushed her away like this, if she doesn't get close to Mrs. Wang in the future, who will she get close to?

After passing through the hall, at the corner door, I saw Siqi coming out to meet him.

Siqi smiled and said, "Second Grandma Bao came just in time, our girl was just about to give you a piece of material."

"Is it Xiayingsha, or organdy?" Xiangyun asked, tilting his head slightly.

Siqi was surprised for a moment, then smiled and said: "Fortunately, our girl still misses Second Grandma Bao, so it turns out that Second Grandma Bao already got it with the old lady."

Cui Ling was stunned.

Xiangyun was also a little caught off guard. After a little embarrassment, he didn't say a word, and went inward, and entered the three small main rooms in the east corridor. He didn't look at the fabrics first, but only looked at the new water and unpainted interior. pear wood furniture, the room is filled with the faint scent of sandalwood on the pear wood.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Yingchun looked at Xiangyun's eyes.

But Xiangyun looked at the bright hairpin in Yingchun's hair.

Seeing her looking at it, Yingchun took it off and said with a smile: "This is a gift from Sister-in-law You, and Brother Qiang brought it back from the south. It is said to be twisted glass, but the color is too transparent and pure, and the style is too Delicate, the two sisters-in-law said it doesn't look like Liuli with twisted tires."

Xiangyun caught a glimpse of the crystal-clear two-color colored glaze twisted into a peony shape, took it to his hand, took a closer look, and saw that it was indeed very delicate.

"Give it to you." Yingchun said with a smile.

This was an ordinary remark, but Xiangyun found it harsh when he heard it, secretly thinking that everyone likes to curry favor with the powerful, and there are so many things like Yingchun that there is no place to throw them away, and some people give them away every three days.Just caught a glimpse of a scabbard protruding from a pile of scrolls, and was about to tease Yingchun with the scabbard, when the attendant flipped the scroll vigilantly and hid the scabbard.

Xiangyun felt strange in his heart, so he waved to Yingchun and whispered in her ear: "Aunt Xue is a matchmaker, and she wants to betroth you to a eunuch's son."

"Nonsense." Yingchun chuckled, "Don't believe those rumors."

Xiangyun was very sad and indignant at the Spring Festival meeting, but she just smiled, so she murmured: "You don't believe it?"

Yingchun thought of Liu Xianglian whom she saw when she was young, bit her lip and smiled lightly, "Anyway, she wasn't raised by the eunuch."

Seeing that she was in such a difficult situation, Xiangyun struggled again and again before speaking to Yingchun. She was so unmoved, and felt a sense of grievance, as if she was not aggrieved that Yingchun had let her down. Before she knew it, her identities were quite different from Yingchun's, and she suddenly thought that although the old lady bought her dowry, but Yingchun got three big things, and only gave one to Xichun. she.It can be seen that Yingchun's affection for her sister is very little.

"What's wrong with you?" Yingchun stretched out her hand and shook Xiangyun.

Xiang Yun pursed her lips and shook her head with a smile, "Our wife is still waiting, I'm going home."

"Go, if there is any difficulty, just say it."

Xiangyun agreed noncommittally, and followed Cuilu out to the corner gate, seeing that he was still holding the twisted glass hairpin in his hand, he stuffed the hairpin into Cuilu's hand, walked out of the corner gate and got on the car .After returning to the east, he went to Mrs. Wang honestly.

In front of the door of Mrs. Wang's room, Cui Ling raised her hand to raise the curtain, when the curtain arched, Baoyu came out first.

Baoyu glanced at Xiangyun in surprise, then bowed his head and went.

What is Xiangyun Xindao Baoyu guilty of?After entering the room, seeing Mrs. Wang sitting on a chair with a frosty face waiting for her, she tremblingly said: "The old lady has already agreed, and I have spoken to Yingchun."

Mrs. Wang became even more angry when she heard this, and said with a sneer, "The man is outside, and you don't know how to solve his problems, and even make up words to make him feel uncomfortable." Then she said, "You said that the old lady agreed because she wanted to buy money from Baoyu every month. Then send me ten taels of silver?"

Xiangyun was stunned, wondering how Mrs. Wang knew?

Mrs. Wang said: "You live behind me, I can't hear anything? Don't think about those ghosts in the future."

Xiangyun's face was pale, and when he saw Mrs. Wang's ruthless words, he suddenly remembered that Mrs. Wang said that Mrs. Wang would force her to beg to move to Jiamu's courtyard. His heart sank, and he slowly told Wang what he had heard at Mrs. Jia's place. Madame listen.

Mrs. Wang sat silently, opened her arms to Xiangyun for a long time, and said, "My son, you have been wronged. I did what I did before, just to make the old lady love you too much. Look at the old lady who gave you a lot of money last month. When a civil servant celebrates his birthday, he pays 20 taels."

Although Xiangyun was afraid of Mrs. Wang, seeing her calm down, he couldn't help crying and knelt down in front of her. While choking up and calling his wife, he wondered if it would be impossible for her to leave. Baoyu was coaxed by Mrs. Wang to explain everything. up?

"My son, there is a saying that people are good at being bullied, and horses are good at being ridden. Let's be more careful in the future." Mrs. Wang rubbed Xiangyun's back, "Originally, according to the old lady's instructions, we should live in the house. Rongxi Hall takes care of the old lady."

Xiangyun nodded.

"Who knew that Dafang and his son would even disregard the family relationship for the sake of power." Mrs. Wang raised Xiangyun's face with her hands, "My son, now you understand who is your relative?"

Xiangyun hurriedly nodded again.

Mrs. Wang wiped her tears and said: "Listen to your wife's words carefully in the future. Brother Lan is hopeless. He has the same temperament as his father. He has a kind heart. He is tempted by just a few words from others; hurry up." Give birth to a brother with Baoyu, on the left and right west, Lian'er can't have a baby, Cong'er can't be on the stage, Yingchun, hmph, she is a girl's family, passing on the family? A joke!"

Xiangyun hurriedly nodded again.

"Get up." Mrs. Wang helped Shi Xiangyun up and told her to sit opposite her, "You just talked to Yingchun, what did she say?" As soon as her eyes lit up, she was waiting to see Yingchun turn against her brother and sister-in-law in grief and anger, so, Qin Xian's family came in handy.

"She just smiled."

"Nothing else?" Mrs. Wang opened her eyes wide. "She is a pampered girl. When she heard that she was going to be married to a eunuch, she just smiled? This is really weird."

"Speaking of weirdness, what's even weirder is that the second sister actually practiced the sword. I want to see the sword, but the servant hides the sword instead."

Mrs. Wang frowned, "What sword?"

Shi Xiangyun gesticulated and compared the patterns on Bi Na's scabbard.

Mrs. Wang secretly said to practice swords in spring?Unless the sun came out from the west, when Jin Chuan suddenly heard that Baoyu was outside, he asked Jin Chuan to call Baoyu to come in.

Baoyu came here because he was afraid that Xiangyun would be blamed, but now that Mrs. Wang called her in, she tiptoed to see Xiangyun's face.

Mrs. Wang ignored Baoyu's furtive look, and only asked him if he had ever seen a sword.

Baoyu heard that it was a sword with dragons swallowing Kui and jewels shining, so he hurriedly said, "Isn't this Liu Xianglian's mandarin duck sword? Liu Xianglian said that day that the sword was bought by Lian's second brother. Even the sword No more."

Madam Wang suddenly burst out laughing comfortably.

"Madam?" Baoyu and Xiangyun were puzzled.

Mrs. Wang waved her hand and said to them, "Go back."

"Yes." Baoyu agreed, and wanted to take Xiangyun's hand to go out, but Xiangyun retaliated in anger at his reneging, so he dodged and went out first.

Mrs. Wang didn't pay much attention to Xiangyun's actions, thinking that no matter how Liu Xianglian's sword got into Yingchun's hands, a girl on the left and right kept a man's sword by her side, and people could come up with a touching story. Besides, it is not good to call that sword what name it is, but it is also called Yuanyang Sword!