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

Afterwards, Baochai excused herself to wander around and parted ways with Zhou Rui's family.

Zhou Rui's family brought a box of womb flowers and headed towards the three small buildings behind Mrs. Wang's main room.

But Baochai and Yinger slowed down to enjoy the surrounding scenery, but they saw fallen leaves rustling and chrysanthemums all over the ground. Along the corridor, they met some maids and women cleaning the fallen leaves and flowers. say hello.

Seeing that Baochai was just wandering around aimlessly, Yinger couldn't help but wondered: "Since you've come to this mansion, why don't you go to greet the old lady, and find Miss Lin and Master Bao to play on the way, or, Miss, to find the second girl." , Three girls talking?"

Baochai shook her head and said, "I suddenly thought of something, so I want to ask you. I heard that you have an elder brother who also came to the capital. Now we are doing things in our shop. I heard that he is very capable. The shop assistants are not dissatisfied. His. Is this elder brother your elder brother or your second elder brother?"

Ying'er hurriedly said: "Where is it? Thanks to the respect of the master and wife, the uncle and the lady promoted him to do some internal work. How can he be called capable?" Brother. Now I am serving as an servant in Fujin Commercial Firm near Andingmen." After thinking for a while, he said: "If the girl has something to do, just ask, don't dare to say anything else, for the girl, the second brother must do his best."

When Baochai heard this, she smiled and said, "It's not a difficult thing. I just heard about the history of Grandma Liu's family from Sister Zhou. I think that since his family was connected with the Wang family back then, they are considered relatives of our family. Now Since I came to the Rongguo Mansion to ask for relatives and friends, there must be some unspeakable difficulties. If our family doesn’t know about this, it’s fine. Since we have heard about it, we must come to the door to take care of us. This is the etiquette of relatives. Don’t Not to mention, we still have a few ingots of moldy and rotten silver. In my opinion, if you don't let your brother find a day, you have to go to this grandma Liu's house, greet her, and give her a few taels Living with money, firstly, it can be regarded as the meaning between relatives, secondly, it also lets her know that the third young lady of the royal family of Jinling is also the most compassionate and kind to others."

When Ying'er heard about it, she nodded happily and said, "Miss's idea is really thoughtful. When the master was alive, when did our family donate porridge and rice without spending a few hundred taels of silver? Besides, Grandma Liu is also a relative of our family. Mrs. If he knew, he would praise the girl for her filial piety and thoughtful consideration for her. Just give her a few taels of silver? If it’s a public account, I’m afraid I’ll let the old man know."

Baochai shook her head and said: "In my opinion, there is no need to alarm mother and elder brother for such a trivial matter. Tossing back and forth will make the trivial matter worse. I heard that the second aunt gave a total of 20 taels of silver, and it is not easy for our family to give too much." .This mere 20 taels of silver, if I take it from my own body, wouldn't it be cheap for both?"

Ying'er stuck out her tongue, but she wasn't as happy as before. She sighed and said, "The girl is generous. But now there are only 200 taels of silver left, and 20 taels of silver are left all at once. Make it up."

Xue Baochai smiled and said, "The 20 taels of silver are for Grandma Liu, and the other one is for your brother to hire a car."

Yinger exclaimed: "From the city to the countryside, no matter how much you hire a car, it won't cost you a dime!"

Baochai said, "Leave the rest to your brother to drink."

Yinger said sternly: "If the girl is like this, she is out of touch. If the girl gives an order, we should obey it. It seems to be embarrassing to ask for any reward. Now getting money is not as easy as it used to be. The girl is generous. It also needs to be considered."

Baochai said: "Money is something outside of the body. It is for the benefit of the world. It is not my turn to take care of it. When my father was alive, he wanted to test my ability to manage accounts, so he ordered himself to collect some pocket money. If it should be spent If you don’t spend time, you’re tired of gold and silver. ——Don’t worry, no matter how hard it is to save money, I won’t treat you badly.”

It turned out that the house rules of the Xue family were different from those of the Jia family.

The Jia family has a large population, so there are fixed divisions every month from the old lady Jia Mushi to the last servants.For example, Mrs. Shi, Mrs. Xing, and Mrs. Wang received 20 taels of silver per month in addition to their private houses; Silver, Yuanyang, Xiren, Jin Chuan'er and other first-class maids pay one tael of silver per month, and Qingwen, Sheyue and others each have a penny.

The servants of the Xue family, the maids, the servants, and the mothers and the like, have a monthly salary that is almost as high as that of the Jia family.When Xue Baochai's father was alive, there were several concubines in the house, but no concubines gave birth to children.Every month under Aunt Xue, the monthly money is distributed as usual.At that time, Xue Baochai could get five or two months' money every month, so he was very well off.Xue Baochai's father was partial to Xue Baochai, and gave some private houses from time to time, saying that the Xue family came from a royal businessman, so we should not forget our true colors, and Xue's daughters should also be good at housekeeping and financial management.After Xue Baochai's father passed away, Aunt Xue said she was afraid she couldn't take it anymore, so she dismissed the concubines. I feel comfortable when I use it as I wish!From then on, the monthly money of the servants of Xue's family still followed the old rules. Aunt Xue told Baochai that if she wanted to use money, she could just ask for it directly and reimburse the actual expenses.Aunt Xue felt that it was cheap for her daughter to use it, but she didn't know that as far as Baochai was concerned, if she wanted to ask her mother for money, she had to explain the purpose again and again, and it was better to have one thing more than one thing less. use.Aunt Xue didn't understand why, she still thought that she loved her daughter quite a lot, and she was complacent.

Ying'er said angrily, "Young lady knows that's not what I meant." Seeing Baochai's resolute attitude, she had no choice but to obey her orders.It's just that Xue Baochai's private house is missing.

Baochai's order was proper, and she realized that she had a problem on her mind, and felt very proper.Unexpectedly, the voice laughed and said, "You said you had your own plan, but in the end you found a way out for yourself. Tsk tsk, you have such a heart and ambition!"

Baochai didn't take it seriously, and explained: "There is nothing wrong with thinking about failure first in everything. Taking care of relatives is my family's business. Besides, according to what you said, this old woman is affectionate and righteous, and she is more worthy of support. It's not because I'm afraid of the Xue family's downfall. , relying on her to take care of her mother and brother. ——If you want to be reduced to this field, I am afraid that your brother will be ashamed to death first!"

The voice said angrily: "Could it be that you still expect the Dumb King to be successful? It's just a thing that fails to succeed and fails!"

Xue Baochai has deep brotherhood, how could he belittle his elder brother so much, and argued: "Although my elder brother is innocent, unguarded in his words, and inappropriate in everything, he has never had any bad intentions, and most of the time he is willing to listen to what I say. .Since you have warned me in advance, I will be more cautious from now on, and I will remind you with my heart. I think that with my assistance, my brother, even if it is difficult to develop a business, he can still succeed."

"Naive! Childish!" the voice mocked, "It's a waste of my advice! If you make up your mind, even if you drink Mengpo soup a hundred times, you won't be able to accomplish anything! Since you have no ambition You must rely on a man to do all the outside work for you. I looked at it coldly, but Jia Yun from the Fifth Aunt’s house in the corridor of Jia’s mansion is considered reliable, so why didn’t you find him?”

Baochai couldn't help but laugh when he heard it, and argued, "Is it impossible for everyone in the world to die? If my elder brother can't do anything, can it be that our Xue family can't find a proper person? What kind of Jia Yun is he looking for? If you want to To help Grandma Liu, at least there is a relationship of relatives, which is justified. Now the whole family has come to join the second aunt. Even if the Xue family is not enough, if they want to find someone to help, the second aunt must come forward to assign them. How can they get past the second aunt and Feng? Sister is here?"

That voice said: "You have each Xue family, don't you know that although the Xue family is your own family, it is completely out of control? You keep saying that you have plans for your mother and elder brother, but do they have any plans for you in their hearts?"

This is really heartbreaking.Xue Baochai was about to make a good argument when Yinger saw her girl standing in the hall in a daze, not knowing where her mind had wandered, so she hurried over and tugged at the corner of her clothes, saying, "Girl, just now I heard from the little maids that Miss Lin is It's in Second Master Bao's room. Since the girl is interested in going out for a stroll, how about going to find Miss Lin to play, okay?"

Baochai saw that Yinger's proposal was reasonable, and it was hard to argue with that incoherent voice, for fear of falling into its tricks, so she changed her mood and went to find Lin Daiyu wholeheartedly.

She originally came here to relieve her worries, but she had just greeted and talked to Jiamu, and when she walked outside the Bisha cabinet room, she heard Lin Daiyu's voice: "I knew that if others didn't pick the leftovers, they would also be fine." Not to me."

Baochai was confused when she heard it outside, thinking that Lin Daiyu had always played petty temper, maybe it was Baoyu who provoked her, so she heard Zhou Rui's family explain the origin of the palace flowers to Jia Baoyu.She is a delicate person, after thinking about the cause and effect for a while, she guessed that Lin Daiyu was losing her temper about the order of sending the palace flowers, she suddenly felt dumbfounded, knowing that she had encountered this bad luck out of nowhere.

Previously, Xue Baochai and Zhou Rui's family were traveling together, and they roughly guessed that Zhou Rui's family was just sending palace flowers along the way, not intentionally to separate priorities, let alone bully Lin Daiyu, so they picked the rest for her. ——Originally small things like palace flowers are just toys, and all the sisters are people who have seen the world, so they definitely won't be jealous because of it.Thinking of this, Baochai intends to enter the room to explain, to relieve Lin Daiyu's unhappiness, but on second thought, Lin Daiyu's mother passed away early, and although Lin Daiyu was loved by Jia's mother in Rongguo Mansion, after all, she was under the fence of others, and those snobbish people held her high and trampled her down. There are also various negligence that people can't take care of for a while.With Lin Daiyu's carefulness and sensitivity, she must have a deep understanding.Therefore, today's outbreak is probably not just a matter of Gonghua.Xue Baochai felt that he was a guest, and he had no position to speak about the way of hospitality in the Jia Mansion. Just in this situation, he felt that he was in a dilemma.

Suddenly Jia Baoyu said: "Sister Bao, what are you doing at home, why don't you come here for a few days." Then came the voice of Zhou Rui's family: "Miss Bao is not well, she hasn't come out for a few days. But today she is quite interested, and said that she is going out for a casual break. We have walked all the way just now. I am afraid that Miss Bao is wandering in the garden at this time, and she might come here after a while."

Hearing this, Xue Baochai was even more hesitant to go into the house. At this moment, Lin Daiyu snorted in the room: "Since she is not well, she has to go into this room again. Anyone who knows, tell me that brothers and sisters have a good relationship." , People who don’t know, think she’s thinking about someone in this room.”

Xue Baochai blushed when she heard the words, she didn't know what it was like for a while, she wanted to make a clear distinction, but she just felt that she had nothing to say, and she didn't have the mood to go into the room to talk anymore.Suddenly I heard Jia Baoyu say: "It's our fault. We didn't know it beforehand. Since Sister Bao is ill, I have to send someone to say hello. I should go there in person. I just came back from school, no. Be careful of catching a cold, and go another day. Whoever goes to see, just say that Miss Lin and I have sent to greet my aunt and Sister Bao, and to see how Sister Bao is ill." Lin Daiyu's voice softened: "In that case, let's send Go and see for yourself."

When Baochai heard this, although he could not see Baoyu and Daiyu in his eyes, he could imagine Lin Daiyu's docile posture as a little bird in his heart at this time. Unavoidably agitated, taking advantage of no one seeing her in the room, she hurried back to Lixiangyuan with Ying'er, feeling a bit lost like a bereaved dog.

After finally returning to Pear Fragrance Courtyard, just as he regained his composure, before he had a sip of tea, Xiang Ling walked in and said, "The girl is back? The girl came back just in time. My wife has something to look for."

Xue Baochai hurriedly got up and went to Aunt Xue's room.However, Mrs. Wang, who had been chatting with Aunt Xue earlier, had left long ago. Aunt Xue was sitting alone on the brocade mattress on the kang, smiling happily, and said to Baochai, "Are you back? Have you ever seen your brother Bao? You It just happened to come back, your second aunt said something, I want to discuss it with you."