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

It turns out that there is no man in the world who is willing to admit that he is inferior.The same is true for Xue Pan. Although he has done countless embarrassing mistakes, he always thinks that he is just playing for fun, or his luck is bad, etc.He is mediocre in reading and spends three days fishing and two days drying the net, but he only remembers the allusion that King Zhuang of Chu did not sing for three years and became a blockbuster.Since making friends with Feng Ziying, he has become even more ambitious, and has always regarded himself as the king of Chuzhuang, believing that he must be able to recognize people with eyes like Ziwei Sheren, the old master of the Xue family, and build a good family business by virtue of Conglong's achievements.

Although Qin Keqing died at this time, the rightful lord was still there, and there was still a group of nostalgic courtiers in the court who regarded him as orthodox and followed him in everything.Brother Xue Duan made up his mind, he wanted to borrow Qin Keqing's funeral to sell to the righteous master and show his loyalty, how could he easily listen to Baochai's persuasion?

When Baochai wanted to persuade her again, Xue Pan smiled and said, "My dear girl, you are certainly clear and neat in your business accounts, but it is Miss Shengui who suffers the most. It is up to us to see these things about the government and the current situation. That's right. You just wait, when the time comes, it will really happen, and you will benefit too."

Baochai was so anxious that he said directly: "Brother, did you forget the ancestral precepts of our Xue family? We are serious about doing business, and we can just talk about business, why bother here? It is certainly a huge profit if it is successful, but it will not be successful for a while. ,Would not it be……"

When Aunt Xue saw that Baochai dared to use ancestral precepts to refute Xue Pan's words, she was very angry. Hugh is not serious or serious. What your brother said makes some sense, and even if he doesn’t understand something, don’t you know anything about Uncle Feng outside and your brother Zhen in Ning’s mansion?”

Baochai had no choice but to bow her head in silence. Seeing Baochai's appearance, Aunt Xue recalled how she shared the worries for her mother a while ago, so she softened her tone and said, "Because you are young, there are some things you don't know. This is not something that your elder brother has recently raised, it was also like this when your father was alive."

Baochai was shocked when she heard this, and could not persuade her anymore, so she had to stop. Xue Pan laughed again and said, "Now that the funeral has come out, the cloth shop that my sister recently opened is a blessing in disguise. It's lucky. I want to come to Ningfu There is a shortage of plain satin, cotton and linen, isn't this luck?"

Baochai knew that Xue Pan was extravagant and had no sense of propriety. If he handed over the cloth and satin to Xue Pan, it would be a free gift as a favor, and money was the second priority. However, the relationship between the Xue family and the big man behind the Feng family would be tight again. layer.Thinking of this, he hurriedly said with a smile: "Winter is about to start now, and the imperial court is going to conscript soldiers to fight wars. The cotton cloth in the market is actually in short supply. My shop was originally a small business. How much stock can I have? It has long been green and yellow, so where is there any plain cotton and linen? As for plain satin, my brother is not unaware, our silk and satin shop has never had such things. The last time the matter of Uncle Rui came out, my brother wanted some satin, or Hastily ordered the shopkeeper to distribute a batch of goods outside, did my brother forget?"

Xue Pan knew that Baochai's words were true, so he had no choice but to let the old servant who often accompanied him go out to prepare gifts, and went to Ningguo Mansion to express his condolences. In and out, the cries inside kept shaking the mountains and shaking the mountains.For a while, Xue Pan rushed to the place where the spirit stopped, first cried in a decent manner, and then came out to talk to Jia Zhen.

Jia Zhen cried like a tearful person, and said to everyone: "The whole family, relatives and friends near and far, no one knows that my daughter-in-law is ten times stronger than my son. Now that I have stretched my legs, it can be seen that there is no one in this long room." Everyone. Surprised in my heart, I had to try my best to persuade him in this situation.

Even Xue Pan felt wrong when he heard this. He knew about Jia Zhen and the Qin family, and sighed in his heart: I never thought that Brother Zhen is such an infatuated person!

Seeing that Jia Zhen was looking for coffin boards, Xue Pan was in his arms, and hurriedly told him about a pair of excellent boards in his shop.Brother Ah-Dai was enthusiastic, but his memory was limited. Baochai had told him the full name of the wood, but he could only remember a general idea, and only vaguely said that it was a mahogany tree from Tiewang Mountain in Huanghai.Fortunately, Jia Zhen didn't bother, and just ordered someone to carry them up. When she saw that the bottoms were eight inches thick, with patterns like betel nuts, and a taste like sandalwood musk, she clasped them with her hands, and the sound was like gold and jade, so she was overjoyed.

Just as he was about to order someone to unsaw the mast and paint the room, Jia Zheng had heard about it a long time ago and rushed to dissuade him.How could Jia Zhen listen? Although Jia Zheng has a high seniority, it is the family affairs of the Ningguo Mansion after all. Moreover, Jia Zhen is in charge of the patriarch of the clan, so she has no choice but to let it go. .

At this time, someone in the back house came to report that Ruizhu, Qin's close maid, had bumped into a pillar and died. Jia Zhen was shocked when she first heard about it, and then she was overjoyed. Go out, and collect the funeral with the gift of a granddaughter.

But it is said that the Qin family also has a personal maid named Baozhu, who is like a sister with Ruizhu.The daughter of the Qin family who was adopted by Qin Ye in the health care hall under the pretense of being a child, came to the Ning mansion as a guest due to some relationship when she was young.From then on, Baozhu and Ruizhu served Qin Shi, because Qin Shi gained power, the two of them were like daughters of a thousand pieces of gold, no matter how dare the servants dare to mess with them, even Jia Rongniang would give them a little face that day.

Unexpectedly, the fate of life is exactly 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi.When Qin Shi was ill last year, the two of them privately said that they were afraid that after Qin Shi left, their good days would be gone.When Qin Shi was born, her illness gradually recovered, but You Shi, the eldest grandma in the Ning Mansion, was not as easy-talking as before, and began to take money from her mother-in-law.The Qin family is not as coquettish and high-spirited as before, and has also begun to learn how to be a daughter-in-law. She often weeps behind her back in no one's place, saying something like, "Sure enough, a woman's life is hard, and her mother's family is hard to be tough." Bitterness, a fallen phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken" and other half-understood words.Baozhu and Ruizhu didn't dare to persuade them deeply, they just worried about themselves.

Unexpectedly, one day, the two servant girls didn't know who came secretly from the palace, and they closed the door and said something to Qin Shi. That day, Qin Shi ate and ate as usual, but at night, they suddenly said they wanted to go out for a walk.The second maidservant of Baozhu only thought that she had an appointment with Jia Zhen, and dared not intervene. When she found out, Qin's family was hanged in Tianxiang Tower with a white silk. With a hairpin that no one has seen before.

Afterwards, Jia Zhen was busy with the funeral, Youshi pretended to be sick in the inner house, but the two maids were in a state of despair all day long.They are people who know the methods of Jia Zhenyou's two people. This one said: "Master must be angry at us for not being optimistic about grandma. After thinking about it, there is only one word of death. I am afraid that if I die, the family will be better off." That Said: "This matter is very strange. I am afraid that the master also knows that grandma will die, so he may not punish us. But the grandma will be sad. People outside say that grandma is good-natured, but we in the house know What about her tricks! We didn't pay attention to it before, and we offended many people, so what should we do?" We were in constant fear.

Now that Baozhu saw Ruizhu hit a pillar and died, she knew what she was thinking, and she was afraid that she would be tortured by Jia Zhenyou and her family in the future.Baozhu was originally smarter, but when she saw that Jia Zhen was collecting Ruizhu for the funeral as a gift for her granddaughter, she found a way, so she ran to Jia Zhen when she saw the opportunity, and said that the Qin family had nothing to offer, and she was willing to be a righteous daughter , swearing to take the responsibility of mourning and driving the spirit, has already made up her mind to live in the temple for a long time in the future. It is expected that Jia Zhenyou will definitely not be able to embarrass her family very much.Jia Zhen was really happy, so she did what she wanted, and ordered everyone to call her Miss. She mourned in front of the spirit according to the mourning of an unmarried daughter, knowing that her life was over, and she only wanted to be decent to her family.

At this time, Mrs. You made an excuse to suffer from an old illness, and was unable to do anything while lying on the bed. Mrs. You, Second Sister You, and Third Sister You were at the bedside trying to persuade her.Mrs. You persuaded first: "You are a big grandmother who is in charge, and there is no mother-in-law to take care of you, so why are you upset? Now that she is dead, she is dead, why do you bother with a dead person?"

Youshi sneered and said: "I have been married for a few years, and I have provided for my daughter-in-law like a mother-in-law. I have done everything for her first, and the master said that I didn't do enough. Now that she is gone for a while, it's time to relax Besides, listen to what the master said, saying that when the woman died, there would be no one in the long room. He obviously didn’t treat me as a human being! If that’s the case, why should I go to Go ahead to provoke others?"

Originally, Mrs. You was not You's biological mother, but only a continuation of the strings. The second sister You and the third sister were the daughters brought by Mrs. You, and they were further away. Naturally, it is not easy to persuade them deeply. After hearing You's words , I didn't know what to say for a while, and I felt uneasy when I wanted to give up like this.

At this moment, Jia Zhen happened to walk in with a livid face.The Youshi sisters were so panicked that they couldn't avoid it.Jia Zhen also knew that Youshi did not make excuses at this juncture, she must be pretending to be sick, but because of her face, she came here in a huff, originally to show Youshi some color, and wait until Seeing the appearances of Second Sister You and Third Sister You, I felt that she was a little more delicate and beautiful than You, and not far behind that of Qin, but I didn't realize that half of her body was crisp and numb.

When You Shi saw Jia Zhen coming in, she was uneasy at first, but when she saw Jia Zhen's face, she felt ashamed and annoyed, and said "Ouch", she struggled to get up, frowned and said, "Master, why did you come later?" ?”

Jia Zhen was reminded by her, turned her head, and then remembered Qin's usual complaints about You's evil, and the matter of You's pretending to be sick at this critical juncture, and she felt angry again, and said coldly: I want to let you know that now that you are sick and I have no one to take care of me, I decided to bring up Peifeng and Mingluan as concubines, and when you recover from illness, I will take care of this matter."

Youshi's old grudges had just been eliminated, and new sorrows arose again, secretly gritted his silver teeth, but squeezed out a few smiles on his face: "Exactly. Funerals are of course a big deal, but the father-in-law definitely didn't give it to me." The principle of filial piety for a daughter-in-law. Don’t worry, master, I’ve made a note of this matter, and I’ll take care of it when I feel better in a few days, and the master will definitely be satisfied.”