Red Mansion Kua Kua Group

Although Jiang Yuhan was born energetic and talented, and her family had a small income, but in the eyes of Xiren who had seen the wealth of the Jia family, it was not enough.

She said today that "Jia's mansion has a woman envoy to purchase lamp oil for burning lamps alone", and tomorrow she said, "If you want to eat this kind of food in Jia's mansion, it will be eaten by a low-level janitor's daughter-in-law."

At the beginning, Jiang Yuhan wanted to find a woman with a gentle temperament and a generous manner, and put the unsatisfactory past behind her and live a good life with her, and from then on, she was on par with each other.The matchmaker searched for him everywhere but couldn't find it. It was very easy to find a woman named Hua Zhenzhu, who was born as a maidservant. Jiang Yuhan thought that such a woman had seen the privacy of many mansions, and she must be able to manage the house and tolerate herself. In the past, the good days in the future can always be expected.

Unexpectedly, Hua Zhenzhu was not going well every day, beating and scolding the servants every day, and resorting to some tricks to deal with the original maids in the family. Jiang Yuhan couldn't laugh or cry: You are now the mistress of the Jiang family. If you don't like the servants in the family, you can change them. Why would you use the means of those concubines to fight for favor to apply eye drops?

In addition, thinking of what he saw on the wedding night, Jiang Yuhan became more and more suspicious that his wife had already fallen in love with a higher-status son-in-law before entering the house.He didn't question him, but he was less close to his wife.

Apart from the tenderness at the beginning of the newlyweds, the husband and wife have become increasingly estranged and diverged from each other.

Leaving Xiren aside, looking forward to the eve of the Double Ninth Festival, when Yingchun is getting married, Daiyu and Qingwen make an appointment to go to Jia's house to give Yingchun a wedding.

After entering Jia's mansion, I saw the dragon dancing in the tent and the phoenix flying in the curtain. At first glance, I was a little happy, but I saw that it was just some old curtains.

Daiyu went to greet Jia Mu first. Although the Rongqing Hall was still resplendent with gold, silver and jewels, Jia Mu looked sick and thin, leaning on the big kang by the wall. Daiyu was startled. But he didn't dare to make a sound, and quickly put on a smiling face: "Old lady!"

Seeing Daiyu coming, Jia's mother struggled to get up, but she could see that she was not able to do what she wanted. Daiyu felt sad for a while, and Yuanyang helped her up, and said a few words with her. Go to Yingchun to see the bride.

After leaving Rongqing Hall, Daiyu asked Yuanyang in a low voice: "How is the old lady doing now?"

Yuanyang frowns: "It's just that I caught a cold while watching the moon a few days ago, but it hasn't recovered for a month, and I keep coughing. I have been to the doctor for several times, but it can't be cured."

Although Jia's mother had premeditated the behavior of the Lin family's property, after all, she also loved Daiyu deeply, and Daiyu was always worried about her old man, so she said, "I will use my father's post to invite the director of the Imperial Hospital to come over." , and bring some nourishing things such as ginseng and ganoderma lucidum, don't make a fuss and let outsiders know."

Yuanyang nodded gratefully: "What the girl said is true, that's natural." She is now one of the few people in Jia's mansion who are most looking forward to Jia's mother's recovery. In his hands, I'm afraid it would be better to kill himself.

When Daiyu entered the Grand View Garden, there was no sense of celebration at all, but the Zhuijin Building where Yingchun lived was decorated with red silk.Daiyu sighed in her heart, thinking that one is that the Jia family is now gradually declining and has no money to fill the hole; The day of the big wedding is just perfunctory.

I met Xiangyun at the gate of the Zhuijin Building. She was a temperament who said whatever she thought, and immediately sighed: "That day when the noble concubine visited relatives, the courtyard was burnt around the sky, and the ground was covered with incense and shavings, and the fire trees, flowers, golden windows and jade thresholds; Shrimp tendrils curled up, otters covered with blankets, the fragrance of musk brains wafted from a tripod, and pheasant tail fans placed on the screen, but now there is only this..."

Tanchun was silent by the side, presumably because he felt that Mrs. Wang was in charge of the house now, so he kept silent because he wanted to protect Mrs. Wang.Daiyu was amused in her heart, could it be that the sisterhood is not worth currying favor with Mrs. Wang?Thinking about it again, Tanchun was born as a concubine, and the marriage was firmly in the hands of Mrs. Wang, so she had some constraints and could only defend Mrs. Wang in this way.

No matter what the sisters talked about outside, they all put on a smiling face when they entered the Zhuijin Tower, congratulating the Spring Festival.Baoyu was also sitting in the room, but his expression was listless.

Yingchun has dressed up today, with a red wedding dress sprinkled with gold, a phoenix inlaid with beads, and her face is dazzling, her eyes are shining, revealing her yearning for future life.

Daiyu approached her and wanted to say something, but she couldn't hold back her tears. Yingchun hurriedly grabbed her hand and asked someone to pass her a handkerchief.

Xiangyun made fun of it: "Sister Lin hates getting married? You can't wait to cry two vats of tears when someone else gets married."

Daiyu just thought that Yingchun had lost her mother since she was a child, and her father was unreliable. She was going to marry a Zhongshan wolf-like son of Gao Liang, and died after suffering a lot. Marrying into a wealthy family, her husband is honest and honest, her family has Jia Lian who is an official to rely on, and the other party is Jia Lian's uncle's family. In this way, Yingchun has more and more cards to play in the second half of her life.

Turning her fate around, thinking that Yingchun would no longer have to have such a miserable ending, Daiyu burst into tears in a moment of excitement.I can't explain this to Xiangyun. I didn't expect that Daiyu didn't say anything, and Qingwen spoke first: "Yesterday, a matchmaker came to propose a marriage and was rejected by Miss Lin. How can she be regarded as a hateful marriage?"

She just couldn't understand Shi Xiangyun's way of satirizing Daiyu everywhere, so she spoke out, anyway, she is just a commoner woman, so it doesn't matter if she talks a little bit.

Baoyu paused when he heard the words, he already knew that the old lady had proposed marriage to the Lin family, but was politely rejected by the Lin family, thinking of missing sister Lin, Baoyu became more depressed.

As expected, Xiangyun remained silent, he didn't know if she was refuted by her, or because she felt that if she was not used to arguing with ordinary women, winning or losing would be worthless.Turning to Baochai: "It's a shame that Sister Bao talks about her closeness every day. She has already said that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival will allow everyone to enjoy the moon together. I didn't expect not only to avoid the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also not to come for my second sister's wedding."

Daiyu was surprised, she didn't expect Baochai to be really cruel, but Yingchun looked at it very much: "There is a lot of discussion in the garden now, Sister Bao might as well not come. They all talk about sisterhood, since there is no such thing as it."

Daiyu was sitting upright and chatting with her sisters, when she saw Yuanyang come in with a panicked expression, she quietly called Tanchun aside and whispered in her ear, Tanchun's expression changed and she hurried outside.

Daiyu was worried that something was wrong, so she followed her out. Baoyu followed her when she got up, and Tanchun didn't hide anything when she saw them coming out.

There is a rule for daughters in Jia's family to get married, which is 3000 taels of silver. The clothes are also embroidered by the girls themselves. When they get married, the elders in the family and the sisters who are familiar with them will subsidize the body, jewelry, embroidery and so on.

It sounds like enough.When Wang Xifeng was still in Beijing that day, she was afraid that Jia She would snatch Yingchun's 3000 taels of silver, so she begged the old lady, wife, and helped Yingchun buy a set of nanmu furniture and utensils, and exchanged all the remaining silver. The banknotes were handed over to Yingchun: "Qingzhou is far away. If you buy too much, it's not easy to get them on the way, but it will attract people's attention. Why don't you save the banknotes and get them at the Qingzhou branch?" Jia Lian also gave Yingchun 500 taels Bank notes are good for dowry.

Later, as the days approached, Jia Lian and his wife set off for Sichuan, and these furniture and utensils were also placed in Rongguo Mansion.

Unexpectedly, even Jia She had to make up his mind about these things. He used the excuse that Yingchun would always receive gifts from him when he got married. Mrs. Wang thought that Jia She was a serious parent of Yingchun, and she lived alone in the next room. The second is that he didn't want to offend Jia She because he thought it had nothing to do with him, so he let Jia She remove those things.

But when I went out today, the old lady was thinking that there was a pair of boxes made of huanghuali wood that she wanted to add to the second girl. Who knew that when Hu Po went to Jia She's place, he saw Jia She was busy tying the unusable old furniture with red Silk, and the nanmu furniture that was originally used as a dowry for Yingchun was moved into his big house.

Hu Po didn't even dare to let the boy move in the huanghuali box, so she hurriedly turned around and reported it to Yuan Yang, but Yuan Yang didn't want to have a dispute with Jia She, so she recruited Tan Chun, who was assisting the director, to make the decision.

Tanchun was in a dilemma: "Although the wife is in charge of the house now and I am the assistant, but after all, I am afraid that the wife does not want to take care of the house. I am also a junior, so I can't say I am an elder, so it is better to report to the old lady."

Daiyu was so angry that she interjected, as if it didn't hurt or itch, but now the sisters are still thinking about their own actions, she said: "I can't report it to the old lady, the old lady is sick, why bother to disturb her old man's mind with these things? Since It's my wife's housekeeper, so let's ask my wife to come forward, and she'll talk about it later!"

But Baoyu didn't want to go, and tugged at Daiyu's sleeve: "We are indispensable anyway, so why bother?"

Daiyu sneered angrily, and walked away without saying a word to him.

So the group went to look for Mrs. Wang again. Although Mrs. Wang was surprised, she also hesitated: "How about the old furniture? Speaking of which, some old furniture in the house is better than the new wood today. You children, don't listen to it." Wind is rain."

Daiyu didn't bother to socialize with them, so she said immediately: "Ma'am, family friends of the Jia family will come to the manor to celebrate the wedding today, and there is a custom of 'showing off make-up' in Beijing. Do you want them to look at the dowry of the second sister? Is it a pile of rotten wood? In this way, not to mention the Jia family’s embarrassment in public, even the empress in the palace can’t stand it.”

She knew that the most important things in Mrs. Wang's eyes were housekeeping power and face, so she naturally picked these two points and said that she really moved Mrs. Wang, so she took them to Jia She to argue.

The author has something to say: Remarks ①: Quote from No. 18 of A Dream of Red Mansions, back to Yuanchun to visit relatives