The Lonely Family in the Red Chamber

1 Welcome Spring

When Yingchun returned to the big room, she was a little flustered. She was taken to Shi Taijun's side since she was a child, and she was said to be raised by Mrs. Tai herself, but in fact she was raised by Shi Taijun as a kitten and puppy, a dignified young lady, Crowded in the Baosha with several other sisters, it was almost impossible to move.

Among the three springs, Yingchun's temperament is the most cowardly and silent, which is inevitable. Yingchun is a concubine, and her biological mother died young. Although Mrs. Xing has no children of her own, she has no intention of taking care of the concubine's son and daughter. Yingchun is also a concubine. Needle-pricking thoughts, Shi Taijun may not be far from Rongxi Hall, but there is a certain distance from the courtyard where Dafang lives. When Lin Daiyu came to greet Jia She and his wife, they had to take a carriage Woolen cloth!What kind of person is Yingchun on the plaque? How can she tell who will set up a car for her, and go to pay her respects to her biological father and aunt. Favors are a matter of your coming and going. Yingchun has made her own sense of existence almost non-existent, Jia She and Mrs. Xing could still be guilty of being cheap and go up to ask about their health.

Just when Yingchun thought that this would be the end of her life, the second house who was originally in charge of the Rongguo Mansion collapsed, and Shi Taijun, who was almost a promise in the mansion, suddenly died of illness. Mrs. Xing, who already needs to go out to socialize on behalf of the third-class general's mansion, has to show others that although she is just a successor, she is still quite responsible for her children. Therefore, she took Yingchun to her side. Learn all the things a girl should learn before getting married.

No matter who she is, Mrs. Xing is extremely shrewd at home, and because she has been oppressed for so many years, she regards money as her lifeblood.If Yingchun wanted to get married, she had to prepare enough dowry, but Jia's family was almost emptied by the second house, even though she later got Shi Taijun's private house, but there was not much cash in it, and Jia Amnesty had always been a big spender. When Madam Xing thought of so much money, she had to prepare a dowry worthy of the general's family for this concubine who hadn't seen her a few times before she felt the heat, and her heart ached.

Mrs. Xing quickly thought of a crooked idea. The Rongguo Mansion was not good to the girls in the family before, but it was not stingy either. The clothes of the four seasons are fine, but the jewelry of the four seasons is never a lot. There will be some rewards during the festival, so Mrs. Xing thought about it, and first found out the belongings in Yingchun's own house, and then packed all the things in her house for Yingchun to dowry, so as to save money. Lost a lot of expenses.

After Madam Xing made up her mind, she went to count Yingchun's things, and then found out that the concubine's things were emptied by her nanny and a few servants, and Yingchun's nanny was not the eldest At that time, the Wang family was still the head of the family, so naturally they belonged to the second room. After Mrs. Xing knew about it, she was naturally furious, and when she turned around, she took down the nurses around Yingchun who had been relying on the old to sell the old, and took the big ones all day long. Then ransack the house!

The problem is that the Rongguo Mansion has already been raided once, and the servants did not miss it. What jewelry, clothing, gold, silver, and even various porcelain decorations were obtained by the servants through various means from Yingchun. Almost all of them were taken away during the ransacking of the house. After the property of Rongguo Mansion was released, the belongings of these servants were not returned.They still want to get compensation from Yingchun, but at that time Rongguo Mansion was stretched, and Yingchun was not taken seriously, and no one supported her, that is, she could only get the basic quota, and there were not many at all. Therefore, for such a long time, I really haven't saved anything.

Siqi beside Yingchun has recorded the things that these people have taken away for so many years. Mrs. Xing will be very angry when she sees it. If these things are still there, she can save at least three or four thousand taels The money, in the end, was all cheaper for others.Mrs. Xing was now the master of the house, she didn't say much, she directly sold the whole family of these people, and almost cursed at Yingchun, Yingchun could only bow her head and listen.

Yingchun's marriage has also become a problem. It stands to reason that at her age, she should have seen each other well two years ago, but at that time no one mentioned it, and now it has become a big problem.Although Yingchun is Jia She's only daughter, she is born of a concubine, and she has a temperament that can't be supported, and makes people angry when they look at it. Mrs. Xing still has some conscience, and she can't just dismiss this concubine daughter, which is a headache. endlessly.

In the end, Yingchun married a young son who was also somewhat down-and-out in the Marquis's house. Although he was a direct descendant, he had some flaws. He was trampled on the ankle by the horse again, and the bones were broken, so naturally he couldn't continue properly and was limped, so his personality was a bit gloomy, and naturally he couldn't find a suitable marriage.The wife of that family was also worried about this son. After inquiring about Yingchun's personality, she made a decision. Her son needs a patient, gentle and considerate daughter-in-law!

After Yingchun got married, life was unexpectedly good. Not a few years after she married, the old Hou Ye passed away. Before he died, he divided up the family for several sons. Her husband's family property was quite generous due to his health problems. Although he said that he could no longer be an official because of his bad legs and feet, but because of this, he put his mind on other things, such as arithmetic and machinery. He made a new type of wheelchair by himself, and then applied for a patent. Directly opened a workshop to produce, and the sales are quite good.Yingchun also had the courage to open a women's chess academy with her own money, and gradually gained a bit of fame in Beijing.Both husband and wife have their own careers, and later they had children, and their lives became smoother and smoother.

2 Tanchun

When he was in the boudoir, Tanchun never thought that he would marry a vulgar businessman who was full of money and knew how to make money, and his family was particularly unruly.

After Jia's second wife was evicted, life went from bad to worse. Everyone had their own ideas. Tanchun was not close to his biological mother and younger brother. At first, he was devoted to Jia Wang's family, but Jia Wang's family was exiled. Jia Huan disappeared, and Jia Zheng's only remaining son was Jia Huan.Jia Huan didn't have much affection for this sister. First, he had a small business with someone for a few years. Later, seeing that Jia Zheng didn't care, he simply went out with the caravan to run a business. He might not be able to come back once in a few years.Li Wan is the head of the family, so he naturally hopes to leave all the property to his son Jia Lan. Jia Lan has no hope of the imperial examination, but Li Wan is not in despair. Now that there is no imperial examination, he can do other things, but he must have money for everything. With the little belongings of the second room, I wish I could split a penny in half and spend it in half, so as to save more capital for my son's future.

Jia Lan is a sensible person. He was neglected since he was a child, but he was very self-disciplined. He originally wanted to take the imperial examination as soon as possible and win his mother a phoenix coronet. After a while, I thought about what I could do and started working as a writer.At the beginning, Jia Lan's writing was relatively immature, but gradually, his writing style became more mature, and he quietly rewritten the things he had heard about in Rongguo Mansion and his relatives in his book, specializing in various kinds of writing. The grievances and grievances of wealthy families, idiotic men and women, gradually became famous, and when he was in his 20s, he seemed to be a cash cow in the hands of a group of booksellers, begging him to start writing.

However, when Tanchun was at home, he hadn’t reached this point yet, and his life was so tight that he couldn’t count on any monthly money. If he wanted to do some needlework, he couldn’t find brighter fabrics and embroidery threads. .

Jia Zheng was still holding on to airs, spending money lavishly, and when he asked the housekeeper's daughter-in-law that he couldn't pay, he turned his ideas on his daughter.Therefore, before Tanchun was ready, he hurriedly put on a dress that had been modified from Li Wan's wedding dress, sat in a small sedan chair for two, and married his current husband. house, in exchange for a dowry gift of five thousand silver dollars.

Tanchun's life was not good, her husband was actually a nouveau riche, he was originally an ordinary farmer's family, at most a small landlord, with no worries about food and clothing, and later found a small-scale family in the mountains. This kind of coal mine can be mined privately. Their family became cruel, and they bought all their belongings like a gambler. They bought the coal mine. First, their own family mined it by themselves. Working inside hurt my foundation, so I went there within a few years.After earning some money, he hired a lot of people, and within a few years, he earned hundreds of thousands of family assets, and then the business grew bigger and bigger.

The life of a nouveau riche family can be imagined. When they are rich, they buy a high-rise mansion, wear gold and silver, and call slaves and maidservants. What kind of aunts and concubines came out, from the sons and daughters left by the original spouse to the children born by these concubines, almost all over the courtyard.The mother-in-law did not know where she heard about the rules of the big family, so she asked her daughter-in-law, a real noble lady, to set the rules in front of her, and waited on her from morning till night. Father received five thousand silver dollars as a dowry, but only gave her a dowry of less than ten boxes, all of which were worthless goods, not even brighter jewelry and clothes. She really had no confidence in her husband's house .

Although Tanchun can bear it, her husband barely knows a few words except for the account book, and he has no common language with her. Even if the housekeeper is in a mess, the mother-in-law will not let her go. Her ambition quickly wears off. Nothing left.Fortunately, she was born quite outstandingly, and the husband thought that she was also from a down-and-out noble daughter, so he was rare to her, and he got along with her very well for a while. Tanchun endured her husband's bad living habits until he had a son. I finally breathed a sigh of relief.Then, for the son, he had to fight with his stepson, stepdaughter, and those concubines and aunts, which was almost exhausting.

After she successfully raised and abandoned her stepson and several older concubines, and sent out her stepdaughter and those concubines as dowries one after another, she was shocked to find that she was no longer like the thorny rose she used to be. On the contrary, they are almost like the mean village women in the village who care about every ounce for a handful of green onions or a bundle of grass. Tanchun can only sigh when he looks in the bright glass mirror and sees his emerald but strange face.

3 Xichun

Xichun's marriage was very difficult. The Ningguo Mansion where she was born had a bad reputation, and the Rongguo Mansion where she grew up was not much better. Rich, and the family is relatively simple.

As a result, Xichun's fate was poor, and within a few years of her marriage, her husband died. Her husband's family members tried their best to persecute her for the sake of family property. Backing up, although Jia Zhen was old at that time, Jia Rong was originally a good-natured temperament, and she could put down her figure. After the Ningguo Mansion fell, she took care of the business by herself. He made friends with Jia Lian. It went well, and there was quite some inside information, so Jia Rong earned more and lost less. At that time, she was already well-known in Beijing as a magnanimous.And after Jia Qiang spent a few years at the Royal Military Academy, because of her outstanding grades, she became a hundred households after graduation, and then went around in Japan, and was already a lieutenant general when she came back.

With such a natal family, the members of Xichun's husband's family naturally didn't get any benefits. Jia Zhen and the others persuaded Xichun to remarry.Xichun once wanted to be a lay Buddhist at home and practice Buddhism. He happened to read about the prosperity of literacy classes in the south of the Yangtze River, so he opened a women's school and found some skilled widows to teach girls from small families. The children can read and write, and learn some hobbies and specialties. Later, they even directly cooperated with some factories to set up pre-employment training for female workers, which soon became famous far and near.

Xichun has no children and no daughters all her life, but she has been adopting orphans, raising them until they are more than ten years old, teaching them various life skills so that they can support themselves. "Mrs. Ci'en", when she died, she was 79 years old. More than 1000 orphans she had raised were buried for her funeral. Emperor Yongtai wrote a eulogy for her, and the whole country mourned, leaving a clear mark in history books. a sum.