[Red House Chai Dai] Salted Pork Knuckle, Crab Rice Wine

Although Mrs. Wang and Mother Jia interceded for Baochai one after another, Aunt Xue was very angry and shocked when she thought that her daughter, who was always well-behaved and obedient, secretly carried her behind her back and did such disobedient things. She said to Xue Pan in private : "Your sister, outsiders can understand, is actually a fool. Sure enough, the ancestors of the Xue family blessed her, she was lucky enough to enter the palace, or find someone to send her away, that's all, now she is only allowed to eat a few more at home. We don't care about her, I'm afraid there will be less incidents."

Xue Pan had heard that Baochai had released Xiangling privately before, and he had scolded him angrily, and when he complained to the outside lords, he persuaded him, "She is your younger sister, and she is also a young lady who has not left the court. Others are more honorable. In theory, don’t say that you are merciful and let go of a maid who confiscated the house. Even if you drive away the aunt who gave birth to you, it’s not a big deal, no, you have to be more tolerant as a brother. If it’s really because of this matter Get impatient with her and spread the word, outsiders don't say she is reckless, but say that you are fussing about small things. If you are lenient, just let it go, and you will get a good name."

As soon as Xue Pan heard it was reasonable, he had no choice but to put aside his previous thoughts of complaining and blaming Baochai.He is a man who does not worry about having no women. On the one hand, Aunt Xue sent someone to search for him outside, looking for that beautiful woman to buy as a housekeeper, and on the other hand, he was fooling around in Jinxiangyuan and Danguifang, spending a lot of money. Sprinkle it over, and the pretty girls and the rabbit men with red lips and white teeth came over to compliment and flatter.

Here, Xue Pan heard Aunt Xue complaining about her younger sister in front of him again, thinking to himself, how much of the family business would bother Baochai, plus Baochai is now managing part of the dowry business, that silk and satin shop is exactly I brought my brothers and sisters to the places where I often go to buy outfits, and I took too much for nothing, so I naturally felt guilty, and advised Aunt Xue: "Mother, don't talk too much, if you have something to bother her in the future, wouldn't it be embarrassing?"

Aunt Xue sneered and said, "It's just a girl's family, it's just losing money. How can I bother her? Don't I have a son? Even if something happens, won't your uncle and second aunt help?" She refused to listen.

That Xue Pan is a man of no means, but he casually persuaded him, but Yuan didn't take it to heart, and went out early to eat, drink and have fun with his gang of cronies.

Afterwards, Baochai also tried her best to redeem it. March was the birthday of Mrs. Wang, Tanchun, and Jia Lian. The Xue family had to send some birthday congratulatory gifts. In the past, Baochai and Aunt Xue's mother and daughter combined all these relationships. Baochai feared that Aunt Xue's affairs would be too busy to support her alone, so she rushed to pack a good gift and presented it to Aunt Xue when she greeted her in the morning. She hoped to ease the relationship between mother and daughter, but Aunt Xue said: Leaving the court, but after getting such a dowry, I feel that my wings have grown hard, and I think I can't be the master of the house? Since you bought these things with dowry money, I absolutely dare not accept them, otherwise it would be like my mother's greed to spread the word You have a dowry!" Baochai choked until she blushed, unable to answer, she could only cry silently behind her back.

Ying'er then said to Baochai, "My wife is confused. Mother and daughter used to be so harmonious, but now they are separated by trivial matters, and you are so picky. Could it be that in her heart, you, your own daughter, are still alive?" Is it more important than a housemate who can't have a son?"

Baochai turned her head to wipe away her tears, and said with a forced smile, "It's nonsense again. I was the one who was the first, so I shouldn't have disobeyed her."

Who would have thought that the mysterious voice heard it, and suddenly interrupted: "Tsk tsk, there are only bad children in the world, where are the bad parents? Even if parents do something wrong to their children, they deserve it, or they deserve it in their previous life." What kind of debt is owed. You really have such awareness, no wonder you were sold in your previous life and paid back the money!"

When Baochai heard this, she felt quite uncomfortable, and wanted to refute, but felt that the situation was desolate, her mood was bleak, and she was not in the mood to talk about the big truth like in the past, but she stopped after a few words.In the middle of the night, I tossed and turned, thinking to myself: Could it be that my mother always said she loves me, but she is trying to coax me?He and I have come here for a Xiangling!Then I thought again: After all, I disobeyed my mother's will, and I can't blame her for being angry.It's just that people's hearts are seen over time, and she will naturally understand the reason behind it later, why bother?She pushed some of the property in the dowry to me. It may not be an intentional embarrassment and punishment. Maybe she is considering my talent, and I don't know.

Thinking of this, Fang made up his mind and made up his mind to take care of these industries properly.

It was late spring and April, the flowers on the trees were half fallen, and the green leaves were shaded. Qianxue was playing in the yard with a few little girls, when she suddenly saw Ying Erniang bringing Chen Yi's wife, she knew it must be a round trip About the matter of silk and satin village, I hurried back to my room to report to Baochai. ——Since shopkeeper Liu of the silk and satin village fled privately with money, the silk and satin village has been taken care of by Chen Yi's youngest son.This was the property in Baochai's dowry, and because it was not easy for the youngest son to come into the inner courtyard, Chen Yi's mother-in-law answered on her behalf, and gradually forced a rough envoy who didn't care about foreign affairs to become a housekeeper.

Baochai flipped through the account book for a moment, then smiled and said to Mrs. Chen Yi: "Little Sanzi has done a good job. It's just that there is an account here, and it is recorded on five horses of Hangbai silk on credit from outside, fifty feet of white silk. Cotton cloth. It’s nothing more than Hangbai Ling, our family has never been in the cotton cloth business, and there must be a reason for this.”

Mrs. Chen Yi frowned and lowered her head to think for a long time, then suddenly she slapped her thigh and said: "Yes. Look at me being so stupid. The third son mentioned it all the time, but almost forgot. This cloth was given by the uncle the day before yesterday. Think It is unknown what use it will be used for.”

Baochai heard this and said, "That's strange. What is this white cotton cloth used for?" After thinking for a while, Fang asked, "Could it be that something happened to my brother's family?" Several people thought I thought about it again and again, but couldn't think of it for a while.

In the afternoon, when Baochai went to the mansion to find the sisters to talk, it happened that all the sisters were talking at Jiamu's place, and even Mrs. Wang and Sister Feng were there, so they went to join in the fun.Seeing Jia Baoyu change into plain clothes for a while, he was about to rush out. After asking around, he found out that it was Jia Dairu's grandson Jia Rui who had disappeared the day before yesterday.

Baochai compared the two, and immediately understood the purpose of Xue Pan's order for Hangbai Ling and white cotton cloth.In the midst of astonishment, Jia's mother called Baoyu back again, and told him for a long time, but said that Jia Dairu had lost his beloved grandson, and asked Baoyu to comfort him when he mourned, and then asked, "Why don't you see your nephew of the Qin family?" Chai knew that he was talking about Qin Zhong, the younger brother of Qin Keqing in Ningguo Prefecture.Because he was in Jia's school, he often lived in Jia's house, and he was acquainted inside and out here. Even Baochai met him twice on the road.

Wang Xifeng smiled and replied: "He was going to go with Baoyu. Both of them had changed their clothes. When they were about to go out, the old lady called Baoyu back, because all the younger sisters were in the house, so it was not easy for him to come in." , just wait outside. Isn’t there someone waiting on the porch outside?”

Everyone looked outside, and sure enough, they saw a shadowy person standing there on the corridor outside, and they all laughed.Jia Mu also laughed and said, "Sure enough, he is a polite child." She then told Baoyu, "I'm afraid it will be late when you come back. Your nephew of the Qin family lives far away, and the road is not easy to walk. Why don't you go?" Let him stay at home for one night." Baoyu hastily agreed, and then resigned from Jia's mother and went with Qin Zhong.

The people in Jiamu's old age here, thinking of Jia Dairu's loss of his beloved grandson, inevitably shed a few tears. Mrs. Wang also said: "A good person has disappeared like this. Not long ago, I sent someone to say that I want to eat alone." Ginseng soup, I came to ask for ginseng, I just said that I found it for him, and it could save a life, I didn’t expect it to be impossible.”

After hearing this, Sister Feng quickly said: "Who says it's not? It's just because the medicine was just dispensed at home, and the rest was given to Admiral Yang's wife for dispensing. It took me a lot of trouble to find these two ginseng, and I just wanted to save them. A human life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, who would have thought that it would still fall short of success." While speaking, he sighed loudly on purpose.

When Jia Mu heard the words, "Why didn't you say it earlier? I'm afraid I still have a lot of ginseng here. If it's gone, why not go here to find some." As she spoke, she ordered Yuanyang to take some out.In such a panic, Madam Xing, Madam Wang, and Sister Feng all stood up and said, "Where can I get the old lady's ginseng? What's more, it was just a coincidence, and I got it later." They promised that if it really disappeared, it would not be too late to come again.Sister Feng said a lot more in a hurry, and Jia Mu made sense when she heard it, so she exposed the matter.

That night, when Baochai and Yinger were chatting, they occasionally mentioned about Jia Rui, and Yinger said, "Mr. If you only talk about appearance, I'm afraid even the second master Bao and our second master are not as good as him."

Baochai laughed and said, "Silly girl, you only know nonsense." Then she sighed, "I've been in Beijing for a long time, and I don't know how my second brother and Qin'er are doing."

It turns out that the "second master of our family" that Yinger refers to is Xue Baochai's "second younger brother" Xue Biao.Xue Biao is the son of Xue Baochai's uncle, and looks a bit like Baochai. "Qin'er" is Xue Baoqin, Xue Biao's biological sister, who has been doted on since she was a child, and she is the most charming.Several people grew up together for several years, and Baochai took care of Xue Tiao and Baoqin a lot.Later, Xue Biao and Bao Qin grew up, and followed their father to travel north and south to do business and wander around, visiting province after province, and they were at ease.Unexpectedly, at the beginning of spring this year, Xue's family received a letter from Xue Biao, saying that his father was seriously ill, and it seemed that he would not recover.So when Yinger mentioned Xue Biao, Baochai couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Qianxue just came here for the first time, so naturally she doesn't know the past of Baochai and Xue Biaobaoqin, but she said a few words of relief, "Speaking of Uncle Rui, I heard a strange thing, I don't know whether to tell it or not, I'm afraid the girl will scold me if I tell it."

Baochai said with a smile: "Since you have said such things, it can be seen that you still want to say them. There is no outsider here, so you can talk about it."

With Baochai's encouragement, Qianxue said hesitantly, "I heard someone outside the second gate under the wall saying that this uncle Rui was actually killed by the second grandmother."