The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

Undercurrent

With this question in mind, Xueyan entered the Rongxi Hall to greet Mrs. Xing and then pretended to smile casually: "When I came in just now, I happened to meet the second girl. I saw her face full of joy. I don't know if I met her." What a happy event!"

Xing sneered and said: "Don't put on a show there, you are so weird, don't you know the reason?"

Xueyan giggled: "This matter hasn't spread, even my daughter doesn't know about it, and it's only right for slaves not to know about it."

"Then you still know?" Mrs. Xing replied with a smile. She knew that Xueyan was always smart and had good friends with the two maids around Mrs. Liu. It was impossible to hide this from her.

Xueyan smiled and said, "The servant girl must congratulate Madam for finding a good son-in-law!"

Xing sighed: "This kid looks okay, but he knows the basics and the bottom line, much better than those who don't know what to do."

"My maidservant heard that Mr. Liu is not alive, and the girl will live a peaceful life without her parents-in-law controlling her and her sister-in-law's interference."

Xing smiled in surprise: "You girl think the same as me, but the world thinks that such a family is too lonely, but you girl think differently from ordinary people."

Xue Yan boasted to herself: "I guess it's because the slaves are not ordinary people."

"You are quite good at kicking your nose and face." Xing cursed with a smile.

In the blink of an eye, the second day came, but Liu Shi brought Lin Ying over early, and gave Yingchun a pair of exquisite emerald emerald silk nobiles.You Shi also brought Jia Rong's new daughter-in-law, Hu Shi. As a father, Jia Amnesty was bound to attend, and the rest of the men were only Jia Lian, Baoyu, Jia Lan, Ao, and the little bean Lin Ying. .Except for everyone in the Jia family, only the mother and daughter of the Xue family were outsiders.

It's nothing but Baochai, seeing Yingchun, a concubine, and Ji all have such a big battle, and invited the honorable guests, praisers and others in a serious manner, obviously following the ancient etiquette.She thought that today's guest of honor was the Liu family, and no matter how Liu's family was ordered by the second rank, it was more than enough to be the guest of honor of a concubine.The daughter of the dignified Xue family, but she didn't even have a decent ceremony, but she was dismissed for a small show.

Especially when she saw the exquisite and elegant dress on Yingchun, Baochai's injustice reached its peak. She is just a little concubine, and she is not worthy of any ceremony!

Fortunately, at this time, the instrument sounded.Jia She and his wife went to the gate of Rongxi Hall to welcome Aunt Liu in.It has to be said that Aunt Liu's arrival has slightly eased Baochai's jealousy, otherwise she might not be able to control the calmness on the surface at this time.

After hearing the explanations from the people around her, Baochai realized that this Mrs. Chen was today's official guest, not the Liu family she had thought before.

And no matter how hard Aunt Liu tried to control herself, after all, she had seen very little in the world.Although the material on the body is fashionable, the color matching and bordering are not as exquisite as those made by big families in Beijing.

When Baochai heard that she was today's guest of honor, he felt a little puzzled, but also felt a little rejoiced: He said that the eldest wife could not really love Yingchun, a concubine, otherwise she would have directly asked Liu Shi to be Yingchun's hostess. It's time to be the guest, instead of inviting one of her cousins.

It was also the first time for Xueyan to participate in Jiji ceremony, such a solemn occasion made people feel solemn for no reason, but she still couldn't help but silently looked around, happened to see Baochai's unpredictable face, and muttered in her heart: Do you know if Miss Bao, who has always been proud and arrogant, would vomit blood in anger after seeing this scene today?

Thinking of this, she turned her gaze to Tanchun on the other side. Compared with Baochai, Tanchun's face was much calmer.Maybe it's because I'm used to being treated differently!It's not that she didn't think about fighting for it, but after she made a fuss once, the status that was originally equal to that of Yingchun has now been lowered.No one helped her reason, Xing said clearly in front of Jia's mother that she was the concubine of the second house, and her status was not as valuable as the daughter of Xijue's eldest house.Even Xichun, because she is a daughter of the Eastern Mansion, has a higher status than her.Therefore, no matter how hard she tries to be strong, she dare not even complain at all.Last time, Mrs. Xing said that if she thinks this place is not good, she can go directly to the second room.But in the second room, even the younger brother doesn't have a decent yard, so what good fruit can he have when he goes back?

After a cumbersome ceremony, everyone had different thoughts.

It wasn't until Aunt Liu inserted the extraordinary phoenix hairpin inlaid with silk and beads on Yingchun's head that everyone came back to their senses: Why is the hairpin so...

After the ceremony was over, the wedding that had been arranged to welcome the Spring Festival was officially known to everyone.Only now did everyone know that the second girl, who had always been taciturn, had quietly settled on a marriage, and her partner was the upstart of the imperial court who was hot in the middle of Beijing a while ago.Although the third-class bodyguards are not of high rank, they are real close ministers of the emperor. Even a noble family like the Jia family is not easy to send their children in.

For a while, Jia's family couldn't help discussing it.

This time, the Xing family simply came to act first, and moved all the things of Yingchun out of the Grand View Garden early the next morning under the pretext of preparing a dowry for Yingchun.I used to keep some clothes and playthings there as decorations, but this time I brought them all back.The euphemistic name is to take inventory of Yingchun's private house so that she can prepare a dowry for her.

Immediately afterwards, Baoyu was moved out of the Grand View Garden on the grounds that Baoyu was older and the girls were not younger.Baoyu was originally sad about the engagement in the Spring Festival, but when he encountered this incident again, he felt a little unhappy.It's just that even Jia's mother can't stop what the Xing family is going to do.She also approached Mrs. Xing in private, but Mrs. Xing replied forcefully: "It's not that my daughter-in-law can't tolerate Baoyu, he's one and a half years old, and he has such a temperament that doesn't know the world. I don't have anything to worry about. It's just that he also has some It's so unscrupulous, if Uncle Lin knows what happened this time, he won't think it's a kid's joke, but just think it's a plot by our Jia family!"

"Our two families are relatives, so why not get closer?" Mother Jia didn't want to compromise.

Xing sneered: "Our family's Ying'er is just the concubine's daughter of the master. If the dowry is not thin or thick, she can marry a promising guard of the fifth-rank Imperial Army. As for Baoyu, his father is a fifth-rank official. I haven't seen any promotion in half my life. Mrs. Lin is now a senior member of the second rank. After a few more years, he may not be able to make further progress. At that time... marrying a daughter, Gao Pan, our family, even if Lian'er, the eldest grandson of Xijue, asks for marriage, People may not like it. What's more, Baoyu is the second son of the side branch! I know that the old lady loves Baoyu, but Lian'er is also your grandson, and I hope you will think more about Jia's family!"

These words overturned all of Jia's mother's extravagant hopes. If Jia's family was still the way it was a few years ago, she would have nothing to look forward to.But now seeing that the Jia family still has hope of Tengda, how dare she be a sinner of the family. The phrase "husband dies and sons" is engraved on the etiquette. Mother Jia firmly believes that if she really does something to damage the reputation of the Jia family, the eldest son in the outer courtyard who looks like a harmless animal will never let her go.

Forget it, she's half buried in the ground, let her go!

There was another undercurrent in the Jia family.

However, all of this has nothing to do with Xue Yan's master and servant who has returned to Lin's house.