The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

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Qingwen replied: "Of course the old lady has more money in the yard." Although it is a monthly payment of a penny, the old lady is generous. Even festivals such as Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival take more than Baoyu.

You don't need to think about it, after all, Mrs. Xing has the final say in Jia's mansion, even if she is willing to raise Baoyu, she will definitely not stick to him first as in the original book.Anyway, all those who can go are the public's rules. As for the extra, his own mother and Jiamu will take care of it, and Mrs. Xing will not give more.

"Then it's over. We've worked so hard to practice our skills so that we can show our faces in front of the master and get more rewards. Besides, the old lady is the ancestor of this family. You are better than working as an errand in her yard." Any other place needs to be beautiful." Xueyan said, seeing Qingwen still lowered her head and hesitated, she sighed again: "I can guess one or two of your thoughts, but you should know what kind of temperament the second wife is. , she has never liked maids with outstanding looks. Especially the whole house says that you are a little bit like my girl, I am afraid that she will not want to see you in the future. What good is it that your dreams come true? Look at that Aunt Zhao, she has all the children, but now in this family, she is not as respectable as the mother who is in charge of the wives, if you accidentally end up like Aunt Zhou, what hope do you have in this life?"

These words hit Qingwen's heart like a heavy fist, she murmured with trembling lips: "How does my sister know..." She has always buried this thought in her heart, but she has never told anyone.

Xueyan curled her lips: "Is there a need to ask? Most of the servant girls in this mansion have such thoughts, right? There are only a few masters in this generation in the family, and the third master Huan is a concubine, how many people can see it?" On. Lian Er*'s grandma is not a good friend, most people are afraid of death and dare not go out of their way

If you snatch the food, there is only one second master Bao left.He has always been sweet and considerate to the maids, and he is the old lady's precious lump, how can he not be coveted by those big-hearted maids?It's just that after the separation of the family two years ago, some people's minds became weak, and now I'm afraid that the empress and concubine will pick up a lot again. "

As he said, he stared straight at Qingwen: "I know you. Although I usually look at you and don't want to forgive others, I don't have so many fancy intestines in my heart. It's too simple to think about things. You have a long and beautiful face. Attracting people to like, this time is still young, others can bear it for the time being. After two years, if you really grow up and stay with Baoyu, you will be played to death sooner or later." Regarding the cause of Qingwen's death, it is written in the original book As for whether it was framed by Xiren or Sheyue Gaomi, every red fan has their own ideas, but it is true that she was framed and eventually lost her life.

After all, Qingwen is still young at this moment, and she has not been highly valued by Baoyu, so Xueyan's words successfully persuaded her, and she stayed with the old lady with peace of mind.Anyway, it is sewing, where is it not?

After successfully persuading Qingwen, Xueyan felt very accomplished in her heart, and avoided the tragedy of a young girl being wronged to death, which is simply a great merit!

The garden had been tidied up, so Jia Zheng wrote a letter to ask concubine Jia to visit her relatives, and the emperor soon gave a reply. Just like in the original book, it was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and concubine Jia was allowed to visit her relatives.

After receiving the imperial decree, the entire Jia Mansion became busy again, carefully considering and embellishing everything carefully, not daring to neglect at all.

This year was destined to be spent busy, Xueyan was so busy with work that she didn't even have time to give Lin Ming's family a new year gift.

It was finally the New Year's Eve, and Mother Jia waited for the masters and sons to come back to have the New Year's Eve dinner after offering sacrifices to their ancestors.

After eating and drinking, after drinking for three rounds, Mrs. Xing said with a smile: "The female operas I bought at this time have already learned several songs, why not let them sing a few songs for the old lady to listen to while the meeting is lively. , if there is anything inappropriate, we can change it while there is still time."

Everyone agreed, so Mother Jia asked her to call those female operas and sing them.These female operas and nuns were purchased by Jia Shen more than two years ago, and they have been raised in another courtyard in the suburbs, and they have bought two older opera singers to teach them.Later, when the mansion was going to do some shopping, he managed to take over the job and pretended to send someone to Jiangnan to buy it.Even the costumes, clothes and two-year envoy fees for the twelve female performers were only two thousand silver, and Jia Amnesty paid twenty thousand from the account, and pretended to complain that he had paid for the travel expenses.

As a result, Jia Zhen and others praised that the money was well spent after reading it, and they were not wronged at all.Thinking of these actors in the original book spending 5 taels of silver on extra clothes, Mrs. Xing felt very distressed, how much money Jia Qiang had to spend in handling this matter!No wonder the Rongguo Mansion was emptied when the Grand View Garden was built. The ghosts of the Jia family are more greedy than the other.

Originally, Lin Zhixiao wanted to arrange these female operas in Lixiangyuan, but Mrs. Xing stopped them: "Pearxiangyuan is too close to the street, and there is a corner door that leads to the outside, so it is easy for a group of small actors to live there for many years. It’s better to confine them in another courtyard. There are many empty houses there, and if they are idle, they can simply find a place for them to live in. It will be cheaper if the empress comes to call in the future.”

She doesn't want to create any unspeakable moths between men and actors, she can only cut off this matter from the root, and keep them all in the inner courtyard, and don't need to find any men, just a few women will take care of it All right.

The little opera singers all sang well. Mother Jia and others applauded after hearing this, pointing to Mrs. Xing and said: "You have become more and more capable in recent years, very good." Mrs. Xing hurriedly said: "Daughter-in-law is stupid, Thanks to Lian's daughter-in-law who came to help after confinement, she is the one who can handle everything in an orderly manner."

"Both your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are fine." Mother Jia said with a smile, and then asked: "Young girl Feng was still here just now, why did you disappear after a while?"

As soon as the words fell, Wang Xifeng said with a smile: "I'm here. My brother was sleepy just now. I went to Nuan Pavilion to put him to sleep. I just wanted to take the opportunity to be lazy. I heard the old lady mention my name to the lady. Hurry up. Come out. If you scold me, I’ll go back. If you praise me, I’ll stay and listen.” At the beginning of August, Wang Xifeng gave birth to a boy, but at that time the family was busy with visiting relatives, and nothing happened. A big feast was held, and only close relatives were invited to have a family dinner during the full moon.

However, Mrs. Xing kept her word, and not only gave Wang Xifeng the title deed she had prepared earlier in the morning, but also gave her 5000 taels of "hard work" and a set of excellent ruby ​​hair. Jia Amnesty also took out a box of rare antiques and said yes. Saved for grandson to play with.Jia Lian was also overjoyed, and gave her all the private houses he had saved. Even Jia's mother gave her a lot of good things in private.Wang Xifeng tasted the sweetness, and thought that if she knew that ten months of hard work would have such a big benefit, she would not just focus on Gongzhong's petty profit.

At this moment, Mother Jia was overjoyed by Wang Xifeng, pointed at her and smiled, "You monkey head, you are the mother of two children, and you are so presumptuous."

Mrs. Xing said with a smile: "The old lady is not used to her like this. Anyway, I didn't teach her to be like this."

Xueyan saw them chatting lively, and she didn't know how Mrs. Wang felt when she was listening.

How could Mother Jia not see her second daughter-in-law? It's just that the daughter-in-law can't make do with it at this moment, so why should she, the mother-in-law, make it up to her?

Seeing her aunt being neglected, Baochai whispered a few words of comfort secretly to warm Madam Wang's heart. Looking at Daiyu who was snuggling and laughing in Jia's mother's arms, she felt a little indignant: "What's so good about this girl Lin?" Yes, the old lady just fell in love with her!

After the new year, from the eighth day of the first lunar month, people have been coming to Jia's house to check: where to change clothes, where swallows sit, where to receive gifts, etc. It is not until the fourteenth day of the first lunar month that everything is considered proper.

In the evening, Jia Mu and the others ate their dinner hastily, and didn't care about going to bed, so they just sat there and waited.

Mrs. Xing, who still knew it, persuaded: "The old lady should go and have a rest first. Even if the empress wants to come, at least she must get up early to wait for the queen to wait for the master to greet her before coming back. You should close your eyes anyway, and feed yourself enough." Spirit, the empress tomorrow will also be happy when she sees it."

When Jia Mu heard that what she said was reasonable, she nodded her head and told them: "Then you all go back and have a rest, and let the steward wait at the door, and report immediately if there is any trouble."

Xueyan and Zijuan waited on Daiyu to sleep, and got up to help her dress up before Mao in the morning. It was still dark outside when they left the room.I just vaguely heard the voices of people in Jia Mu's yard, so it's not good for them to go too late.

Daiyu didn't sleep lightly, but slept for an hour or two, but she was quite energetic.Xueyan has been very busy these days, although she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow, she got up early in the morning to wash and dress up, and she had to prepare clothes for Daiyu, so she felt that her eyelids could not be opened.Now that I come out and blow the cold wind, I feel much more refreshed.

After going to Jiamu's place and saying a few words, Jiamu and others dressed up according to their grades and went out to wait.Because Daiyu belongs to a foreign relative, at this time it can be

To go back and rest.

Xueyan knew that Mother Jia and the others would come back sooner or later, so she didn't persuade Daiyu to go back, but stayed with her here to take care of Wang Xifeng's youngest son, Brother Liu.Brother Liu was his baby name, and what Jia She meant was that the child was still young, so he would not be able to hold him back until he was one year old.

Four or five months old baby Yi Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Ya Yai Ya Ya Ya Ya Yai Ya Ya Ya Ya Yai-in-law is just the liking, plus the white and chubby raised by Brother Liu, it is especially likable.Daiyu used to visit Mrs. Xing or Xifeng often to see him, so Brother Liu was very affectionate to her.Sitting on the couch beside her and playing with rattles, she is very cute.

Because Xue's mother and daughter are relatives like Daiyu, they all gathered here and did not go out.Seeing Daiyu and Brother Liu being very affectionate, Aunt Xue said with a smile: "I didn't expect Sister Lin to be quite good at coaxing children, but it's a pity that your younger brother is not in Beijing, otherwise you would have a companion." .”

Hearing this, Xueyan sneered in her heart: The Xue family doesn't like others, and insists on sowing discord.