The soy sauce life of the second daughter of the Xue family in the Red Chamber

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the year again, Master Xue had already brought Xue Pan back to Jinling, how to choose the water area, how to inform the workers he hired in detail about the cultivation of pearls, and went to Yangzhou to buy rouge powder to bring back, how Xue Pan sent people Inquire about everything about the Lin family, and how to help Zhen Shiyin buy houses and fields, I will skip it for the time being.

After Xue Pan returned to Jinling, Master Xue didn't ask him to take care of business and other matters, but only told him to study well and prepare for children's exams.Xue Pan was either studying in the study every day, or writing articles to ask Zhen Shiyin for advice, and he never had a day to rest.When I have a little leisure every day, I vomit the bitterness to Baochai Baozan. Baochai Baozan secretly sympathizes, saying that Xue Pan has been suffering unspeakably recently.

On this day, Xue Pan went out again to ask Zhen Shiyin for advice. Baozan and Baochai looked through the novels in Xue Pan's study, and saw a book called "Fengshen Yanyi", and the two sisters took it out to read for two hours.Seeing the final conferment of gods, Baochai angrily covered the book and said, "How can that be so for Yuanshi Tianzun? I actually saw Fairy Yunxiao on the list of conferred gods." Baochai sneered and said, "What's the point?" It's strange, the twelve golden immortals fought in the Yellow River, but they should have confessed to death, but Yuanshi Tianzun and the old man would kill Qiongxiao, Bixiao and accept Yunxiao, so it's not rare for Yunxiao to die in his hands Baochai said angrily again: "This behavior actually made me die of shame for him. When children fight, brothers and sisters can do everything to help, and the elders can only mediate. I have never heard of children fighting. My own children Can’t beat other family’s children, if the elders go out and beat other family’s children, if it spreads, wouldn’t it make people laugh out loud?”

Baozan smiled inwardly, and only knew that Xue Baochai was dignified and peaceful, and there were times like this. I think this little girl has a similar temperament, but Baochai's father died, and her brother didn't live up to it. Age hides his true nature.Thinking of this, Baozhan couldn't help feeling sorry for Baochai, and didn't want to make her feel bad for a day because of this book, so she said with a smile: "Sister, why should you think about these things, what did you say that King Wu defeated Zhou, he was just a traitor, Daji She's just a girl, how much trouble can she cause? Back then, Bao Si just liked to tear up some colored silk, even people like us could afford it. It wasn't gold and jade, how much did they use? King Zhou You Let Bao Si smile, and play the feudal lords, not Bao Si told him to do so, and the world blamed the subjugation of the country on the woman. This book is just to whitewash the rebellious officials and thieves. There is no reason for it. Besides, this god King Wu in Romance, his father has a hundred sons, Di Xin has only two sons and they are both descendants of his own sons, he can be said to be a licentious and immoral son of Emperor Xin, and the second son is considered licentious, so is it true that the hundred sons of King Wen are adulterous?"

Baochai first heard that what Baozan said was quite reasonable, and wondered how she could say such a thing at such a young age. After hearing this, she felt ashamed and ashamed. Regardless of her previous surprise, she hurried forward and twisted her face and said with a smile. : "What do you call it when you say it at a young age? What is it that is not lewd? This is what a girl should say? You have no face and no skin, tell me to tell Daddy that you have good fruit to eat." Baozan avoided it with a smile : "Sister will never tell Daddy again."

The two sisters were arguing, so they heard a message from a servant outside that Aunt Xue was calling for dinner, and they went to Aunt Xue's room hand in hand.After entering the house, Xue Pan was already there, and Aunt Xue said: "You don't have to wait for your father today, let's eat first. Why are the big girl's temples loose?" Seeing Xue Pan, he smiled and said, "It must be two The younger sister is tricky and narrow-minded, bullying the elder sister." Baochai took the sip from the maidservant, sipped it twice without looking in the mirror, and said with a smile: "My brother is tricky and likes to pick things up, how can there be anything?" Baozan looked at each other and smiled.Aunt Xue was delighted to see that the three brothers and sisters were close and harmonious, so she called for food to be served.

Before he had eaten a few mouthfuls of the meal, a servant arrived. Aunt Xue asked what was the matter, and the man said, "Master Zhu from my aunt's house is gone!"

Baozan and Xue Pan glanced at each other, and thought to themselves: This Jia Zhu is not married yet, why is it gone?

But it is said that Baoyu, the elder brother of Jia's mansion, only caught the hairpin ring on the day of Catch Zhou, and he loves red and rouge on the lips of maids on weekdays. Jia Zheng dislikes it the most. It's love.

Unexpectedly, on his third birthday, he couldn't afford a high fever, and it took three days and three nights for him to get better. After that, he started to love reading, which was ten times better than Jia Zhu's back then.This Baoyu was born with jade at the beginning, and Jia Zheng rejected him because of his love of fat and hairpins, but now he has changed his temper. Jia's mother said that Baoyu is better than Jia Jing.Jia Jing was originally a respectable scholar, and Jia Zheng respected him the most. Hearing what Jia's mother said, he looked at Baoyu as if he had found a treasure. slightly overlooked.

Jia Zhu was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child. She became a scholar at the age of 14 and started school.It's just that Jia Zheng didn't like Baoyu's hairpin ring at the beginning, so he just stared at Jia Zhu reading, which made him feel better.Now that Baoyu has changed his temper, his grandmother, mother, and father have all neglected him because of Baoyu. Naturally, he is not angry, so he studies hard even more.Although reading is a good thing, but this Jia Zhu died in the book when he was less than twenty. He is delicate and frail. Day and night, I got a serious illness from exhaustion, and passed away within a few days.

Master Xue went home that night and heard that Jia Zhu had died of studying. He was frightened half to death, so he hurriedly called someone to call Xue Pan, and told Xue Pan to take a good walk around tomorrow, or to rest at home. He didn't have to go to school, and said Xue Pan was asked to take two days off from school every seven days, which is more like a modern weekend.When I went to bed at night, I thought that Jia Zhu died because of her frailty, and the next day I dragged Wang Ziteng to hire a master to teach Xue Pan how to ride and shoot, so I felt relieved.

At the end of February Xue Pan participated in the children's examination, because Xue Pan was young, Zhen Shiyin couldn't say whether Xue Pan's skill was good or bad, only that Xue Pan's age was very good among his peers.As soon as the list was released, the Xue family invited people to look at it. Everyone in the Xue family was uneasy, and even Zhen Shiyin couldn't sit still.Suddenly I heard the human voice: "My uncle has passed the examination of a scholar." Master Xue sat slumped on the seat and sighed: "The Xue family has finally found a man with a reputation." Aunt Xue also stood on the side of the screen. She wiped her tears with joy, and Baochai was also happy.On weekdays, I was a guest at Wang Ziteng's house, and there were also girls from other families. They said that the scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen looked down on the two sisters very much, but Wang Xifeng was very powerful, and she would run people back with a few words. Now that Xue Pan has been selected as a scholar, his family can be regarded as a scholar, how can he not like it.

Baozan doesn’t care about scholars, farmers, businessmen. This is because the productivity was low during the war, and the merchants only care about the business and the farming has no output, so they rank the merchants at the bottom. In today’s peaceful and prosperous times, it is also necessary to rely on merchants to circulate goods. .And those high-ranking officials and noble families also have a lot of business shops, just because he is an official, he is not counted as a merchant. They just make a living by buying and selling, and how can they support hundreds of people with only such a small salary.

How does Mr. Xue treat guests and serve wine, and various trivial matters are skipped.

This year Wang Xifeng married Jia Lian, and Baochai and Baozan also went to see her off. Sister Feng shed a few tears thinking that she would not see her again in the future. When I'm doing business in the capital, I will go to Beijing with my father. My father and the second master of the Jia family are brother-in-law. There will always be a time when I see Sister Feng again. .” Sister Feng felt a little relieved before saying goodbye to the two sisters.

In the second year, Lin Ruhai was promoted to the servant of the household department. Jia Min and Daiyu went to Beijing to repair the house first, and lived in Jia's mansion for several months.Miss Daiyu's daughter's food and clothing are as expensive as Baoyu's. Sisters Xiansha Sanchun and Shi Xiangyun, after all, all the money came from the Lin family, and they didn't use half a coin from the Jia family. Mrs. Wang just wanted to ask the servants to discuss Daiyu. Yu also had no way to talk about it. Thinking that the Xue family also had a daughter, she asked Baoyu to mention the Xue family sisters.Baoyu had known Sister Bao and Sister Lin earlier, but she didn't know Baozan. She was very surprised when she heard this, and only said that she wanted to see Sister Xue very much.Mrs. Wang was overjoyed to see that Baoyu had the same heart as her, so she wrote a book to Aunt Xue about Baoyu's marriage with Baozan.

Aunt Xue sent the letter to Master Xue when she received the letter. Although Master Xue felt that Baoyu was very motivated, he also knew that Jia Mu was going to ration Daiyu to Baoyu, so he didn't take it seriously. He just said, "Pan'er has not yet decided." Well, the eldest girl and the second girl are not in a hurry, and your sister is really..." He hesitated to speak, but he didn't say anything.

Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, Baochai took Baochai to do needlework in Aunt Xue's house, when a servant hurried to say: "Ma'am, the second master Jiajiabao is gone!"