[Comprehensive Red House] Infinite Merit

Mrs. Xue's courtyard is one of the best in Xue's mansion, with carved beams and painted columns, magnificent style, luxurious furnishings everywhere, completely different from the simple, elegant and beautiful architectural style of Xue's mansion.This courtyard named "Plunder Court" was specially built by Mr. Xue when he begged to marry the noble daughter of the Wang family. The sincerity of this marriage is gone.

It stands to reason that a daughter of the Wang family should not have married a merchant family like the Xue family.Mrs. Xue was supposed to be like her compatriot sister, the current Jia Wang family who married into a noble family and got a prestigious marriage.However, the current situation was turbulent back then, and the Wang family was about to decline. In order to keep the money bag of the Xue family, they had no choice but to marry their daughter over cruelly.

However, the sincerity of the Xue family can be imagined. Since the two families got married, the Xue family sent hundreds of thousands of money to Beijing every year.It was not until after Master Xue passed away that Youyi took over the property that Youyi stopped the money.

However, Wang Ziteng also realized that Xue's family is different from the past. The family is supported by girls, and he has established himself in the officialdom again, but he didn't pursue it, otherwise Youyi might have some troubles.

When Youyi arrived at the Plaice Court surrounded by a group of maidservants, Mrs. Chen was already there.

Mrs. Chen is a virtuous daughter-in-law under the standards of feudal society. She is really respectful and filial to Mrs. Xue, a mother-in-law. It's Ji and Mrs. Xue's wishes.

"Mother." Youyi bowed slightly to Mrs. Xue, and said, "Do you want to call your daughter over?"

Mrs. Xue ordered her to sit down with a smile, and asked the maidservant to bring tea, and smiled at her: "I ordered the kitchen to make mung bean lily porridge, it tastes good, I left a bowl for you, and there are some made by your aunt You will definitely like the pickles sent by the capital."

After speaking, Mrs. Xue ordered Tong Xi again: "Give the county master two plates of pickles sent by my aunt, and cut some sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice cakes that I ordered the kitchen to make."

With a smile on her face, Tong Xi bowed her body and agreed: "Oh, I'm going now, servant girl."

Mrs. Xue said to Youyi again: "I guessed that you haven't had lunch yet. No, I'll call you over in the early morning. While you're eating, I have something to tell you."

Youyi nodded in agreement, and the girl in Mrs. Xue's room nimbly moved a high table and put it down in front of Youyi, then put porridge, pickles, and snacks on the table, bowed to Youyi and stepped back .

Youyi drank the porridge slowly, while listening to Mrs. Xue's rambling: "Your aunt wrote a letter, saying that she invited us to live in Beijing for a while. I also thought that I haven't been back to Beijing for many years, and I want to go back. One, go home Look, the second one is to catch up with my aunt, and the third one is that the little sisters are all in Beijing, and I haven't seen them for many years, and I miss them very much."

"Although your grandparents are buried here, I have been trapped in the inner house all these years, and I can't visit them often. These days I always dream about the days when I was at home, and your aunt is getting older, I also want to go back and meet her."

"You are such a big child, haven't you met your aunt yet? And at her house, your sister Feng also married. I thought, let's go to Beijing and stay at your aunt's house for a while, so that everyone can get close .”

"What's more, you are getting older and you are always in the south. How can you find a good marriage? After all, Duzhong is the most prosperous place in the world. It is under the roots of the imperial city and there are many noble families. As Baochai Looking at your appearance, wouldn’t it be a waste of time to be here in the south?”

Mrs. Xue said a lot of things like this, until she was dry, You Yifang put down the delicate lotus-shaped bowl, rinsed her mouth, and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief.Sui Yun took the tea brought by the maidservant and served it to Youyi, and Youyi took two sips slowly, then said to Madam Xue: "If mother wants to go to Beijing to visit relatives, it's not impossible. The business is stable, so I have to go to Beijing to take a look, one is to stabilize the business at the other end, and the other is to have a look at the development of new ways.”

Madam Xue smiled when she heard this, and she was very happy: "That's it."

But Youyi said again: "It's just that with our status, it's really inconvenient to live in other people's homes. So I ordered someone to buy the real estate in Beijing, and now I'm packing it up. When autumn comes, it should be tidy. My daughter thinks So, why don't we go to Beijing next year when the Spring Festival opens, when our side will heat up, and Beijing will be cooler, mother's summer is bitter, and we can live a good life in Beijing."

Mrs. Xue was very unhappy when she heard this, but Youyi's face turned cold: "If mother doesn't want to, my daughter can get some carriages and horses from you to Beijing, but now my daughter has something to do in the south, but she can't get away."

Mrs. Xue was very angry when she heard this, pointed at Youyi with one hand, and sighed repeatedly: "Why did I give birth to you? If it wasn't for your lifelong event, I..."

She stopped suddenly, and looked at Youyi subconsciously, and she saw her looking over with a cold face, her pair of water almond eyes seemed to contain an infinitely cold light.

Youyi snorted softly and said, "My daughter is already like this now. The honor of the county lord and the name of benevolence are enough to keep her safe for life. Why are you so obsessed with that marriage?"

Mrs. Xue earnestly said: "Girls always have to marry so that they can rely on them. Besides, Baoyu's personality is excellent, and she comes from an official family. Isn't it an excellent place to go?"

Youyi squinted her eyes, and she understood in her heart: "Is mother still obsessed with my Xue family's family status at this time? How can the Wang family be as prosperous as it is today if it weren't for the Xue family? Don't mention the things that the Xue family sent to the Wang family these years. How rich are the New Year's gifts, and the cash alone is worth millions. If it weren't for the wealth of my Xue family, which official family did my mother marry, and can I have the current clothing expenses? Your life now is comparable to that of those princes' families Is your old lady missing?"

Mrs. Xue was so heartbroken by what she said, her complexion was pale, and she didn't know how guilty she was.She patted the table with one hand, and said angrily: "Sinister! Who taught you to talk to your mother like this?"

Chen carefully looked at Youyi's complexion, and seeing that she was still calm, she breathed a sigh of relief, and quietly lowered her head, not looking at the affairs between the two women.

Youyi said: "Nobody taught me, it's just that I don't feel fair. Then Baoyu of Jia's family doesn't like to study, she always hangs out among the inner circle, and is not clean with the girls of Jia's house. Is this the good marriage you chose for your daughter?"

Mrs. Xue was taken aback by her question, subconsciously frowned, opened her mouth cowardly, and reluctantly said: "Which family's son doesn't have a few close girls around?"

"My father doesn't have one." Youyi straightened her back and raised her chin, looking very proud.

Mrs. Xue was startled suddenly, and her eye circles turned red quickly. Thinking of Father Xue, she couldn't help softening her tone: "Baby girl, mother knows that you are high-minded and want to glorify the family. But we women, we can't do without someone to rely on." Yes, look at that Baoyu, although she is more romantic and spendy, she is the most gentle and sympathetic to her sisters. The mother-in-law is your aunt, and the Jia family is the mansion of the Duke. It is a first-class good family. Marry in the future Without him, your life will not be worrying."

He said again: "Besides, the two words that the monk gave you in the early years, chiseled on the golden lock, aren't they a pair with Baoyu's jade from the mother's womb?"

You Yi frowned fiercely, and said: "Now who doesn't know that the Lin family, the inspector of Yanyan, intends to marry his eldest daughter to Jia Baoyu, and those two are still serious aunts and cousins! Uncle is the girl's uncle from the Lin family , the old lady of the Jia family is Miss Lin's grandmother, and I heard that Miss Lin is the heart of the old lady Jia! What do we mean by getting in like this?"

Mrs. Xue frowned, unavoidably a little weak, but she still said: "This...isn't your aunt unhappy? Can the old lady still pressure him to marry? Besides, it's not yet decided yet, the Lin family Ya Tou Pianzi is weak and has a bad temper, how can she compare with you?"

Youyi sighed, and said: "In any case, don't think about it, mother. If you are not used to the hot weather recently, I will send you to a garden on the outskirts of the city to escape the summer heat. If it is not good, just let your daughter die. Some people will arrange carriages and horses to take you to Beijing, you can choose yourself."

After Youyi finished speaking, she got up and flung her sleeves away, leaving Mrs. Xue sitting there with a pale face for a long time, then threw the tea bowl out of her hand, and angrily reprimanded in a low voice, "What kind of attitude is she!"

Chen sat on the chair with a cold face, lowered his head and looked at his nose and heart, without saying a word.

All the servant girls and servants in the room waited respectfully without saying a word, and no one dared to come up to persuade them.

At this time, my wife would not listen to the county lord's good words.If you speak ill of the county lord, the whole family will not be able to stay any longer.

So it's better to be silent. . .

The more Madam Xue thought about it, the angrier she became, she sat for a long time, threw all the things on the table to the ground, and cried, "Master! Your good daughter!"

Again.

With a blank face, Chen lamented in his heart: It's a thousand-year-old routine.

After hearing a long series of weeping and exclamation at Mrs. Xue's place, Mrs. Chen just sat and drank tea obediently, until Mrs. Xue felt upset when she saw her stiff face, so she waved her hand, quite disgusted and authentic : "Go, go, I'm upset just looking at you."

Chen's old god got up on the ground and bowed to Mrs. Xue: "Daughter-in-law will come to say hello tonight."

Then he left with his maid.

Nongxiang Garden, where Chen and Xue Pan live, is on the northwest corner of Xue’s mansion. The front hall draws a bay of flowing water, red carp and green lotus. It is July and August, and the lotus is in full bloom, standing gracefully on the water, full of the softness of the water village. amorous feelings.

The main room is a small two-story building. Chen Shi and Xue Pan live on the second floor, but they also have their own beds, and they sleep separately most of the time.

As soon as she saw Mrs. Chen enter the door, her girl, Wen Si hurriedly came up to greet her: "Grandma is back."

Mrs. Chen nodded and asked, "Have you used any medicine?"

"No." Wen Si smiled wryly: "I won't listen to any persuasion, but I have to wait for you to come back."

Mrs. Chen patted Wensi's shoulder reassuringly, and said, "I'm going to persuade the uncle to take medicine, and you go to the kitchen to check tomorrow's meals. The magistrate's wife doesn't eat spicy food, and Madam Tongzhi is pregnant to avoid a lot of taboos. Pay more attention."

"Yes." Wen Si agreed, and suddenly said: "Sister Zhu Yan from the main house in Cai County just came over and sent a set of white jade noodles with cat's eye agate embedded."

As she said that, she personally brought a box to show to Mrs. Chen. Mrs. Chen smiled slightly when she saw it, rubbed it with her hands, and said happily: "Put it away, I will use this trick tomorrow."

Wen Si agreed, and Mrs. Chen asked again: "Is the medicine cured? Bring it here quickly."

The maid agreed with an "hey", and soon came over with a bowl of medicine on a small lacquered tea tray, and this small silk-wrapped white agate saucer was placed beside it, which contained a bright and transparent candied fruit.

Chen's chin raised her chin to signal her personal maid Wen Ying to take it, and then ordered the maid who came with the medicine: "The two prescriptions prescribed by Doctor Huang, I have finished both prescriptions tonight, and I will serve them before going to bed. I will order the second prescription." Wen Ying went to fetch it."

The maid was in charge of the small tea room in the Chen family's house, she agreed at this time, and said: "This servant will order someone to fetch the medicine immediately."

Mrs. Chen nodded, and led Wenying into the inner room.