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

It is said that Jin Mo originally wanted her to keep all the house deeds and land deeds of the small courtyard that she bought so easily because her mother had given all the money in the family to her younger brother, so she argued with her mother for a few words, talking about treasures Then the hairpin came in, and didn't argue with anyone, just wiped her tears, and couldn't help it for a while, the tears fell like those who don't want money.When Baozan saw it, he was even more amazed. He wiped it off hurriedly, and his makeup was all over again in a flash.Only to hear Jinmo's mother nagging there again: "Look, the second girl said she wanted it, so why don't you give this yard to your brother." Baozan was originally to tell her to stop talking. What she just said, who knows that she followed her own words, and suddenly became angry, and said: "Go out, let us master and servant have a private conversation." Feeling angry, she had no choice but to go out obediently, because Yuhe listened to Baozan just said that she wanted to talk privately, and planned to go out, Baozan was a little bit dumbfounded when she saw her going out, Jin Mo couldn't help but twitched and said : "Yuhe stay, who will serve the girl when you leave." Yuhe stayed after listening.

Now only Baozan, Jin Mo, and Yu He were left in the room. Baozan asked, "How much silver is the dowry?" Jin Mo whimpered and said, "200 taels." 200 taels of silver is enough for Liu The grandma's family lived for ten years, and Jin Mo's parents took all the money and left it to their son, and they didn't buy the dowry, and swallowed up the money that Jin Mo planned to prepare for himself as a dowry. It's really greedy to keep this yard insufficient.Baozan asked again: "How much money do you have left?" Jin Mo choked up and said: "I saved some money with the girl, and this small courtyard cost about 200 taels of silver, and there is not much left. The money is gone, if my parents insist on me handing over the deed to the house, the things I can take away including jewelry and cash are only worth 30 taels of silver." Baozan listened and pondered for a while with downcast eyes, and was about to say What, just listen to Yuhe's calculation: "Sister Jinmo is a family-born child. When she was ten years old, she followed a five-year-old girl. If the girl valued her, she became a second-class maid, and a year later she became a first-class maid. The second-class maid in our family has one tael a month, and the first-class maid has one tael of silver. Now the girl is just 13 years old, and the elder sister has been with the girl for seven years. The first year is six taels, and the remaining six years are 72 taels. There is also 78 taels of silver. When the uncle is a scholar, the master rewarded it, the wife rewarded it, our girl rewarded it, and Liu Erye gave it another reward when he was elected. With my sister's level, there are at least 50 taels of silver here. The income of two silver coins. In addition, during the New Year and festivals, the second-class and above maids all have a silver coin, and the first-class maids have a dime more than the first-class maids. There are also rewards for girls when they run errands. The uncle told us to persuade the girls not to want lions. The rewards when you open your mouth, and when you serve well, there are scattered silver. I just became a second-class maid with a girl this year, and I got 15 taels, and my sister got 30 taels a year. 240 taels. In addition to the previous 50 taels, 78 taels, my sister should also have 360 ​​taels of silver. We work with girls, and the money is only in and out. There are other exceptions for food and clothing on weekdays, plus girls I also gave some gold and silver jewelry, although they are not very fashionable, it is more than 15 taels a year. Even if my sister bought this yard and supplemented the family on weekdays, there should be 200 taels of silver left. got these?"

Baozan didn't move when he heard this, and just said: "As long as you talk a lot, it's business to touch up your sister Jinmo's makeup first." Then he said to Jinmo, "Don't cry, I'm here." Jinmo finally made it hard She stopped her tears and let Yuhe touch up her makeup. Baozan watched from the sidelines but began to think about Yuhe's words. No wonder the Jia family in the original book can't make ends meet. There are eight brocade-like girls around Jiamu. Girls, other masters have girls, Baoyu once said that there are hundreds of girls, mothers-in-law, housekeepers, housekeepers, servants, chores, actors, and aunts.Not counting the expenses of the serious master, just these individuals have monthly bills, rewards, and food and clothing. The Jia family, which is already depressed, will have to live without money.Once again, Baozan sighed with emotion that he had cast a good baby. Although he is an imperial merchant, although he is not as noble as those scholarly families, at least he is not short of money, isn't he?What's more, I'm fortunate that my family has a small population and doesn't need so many people.For a while, Yuhe's words "Master told us to persuade the girls not to open their mouths like lions" were ignored, and Xue Pan escaped unharmed here.

Because of Yuhe's calculations like this, when she thought that besides the yard, she could have at least 200 taels of silver as a dowry, she sighed that her parents were unfair.Accepting all the dowry and not asking the daughter to take any of it away, not preparing the dowry for the daughter, swallowing up the daughter's money, all of these are all, how can the idea of ​​this yard be established?Yin said: "I knew it would be like this. When I came to Beijing, I left them in Jinling to look after the house." Jin Mo lowered his head and said nothing, Baozan said again: "You are my personal servant girl. After letting you go again, that family was willing to give you a dowry gift of 200 taels of silver, which can be regarded as a respect for you, and now what you have left is really outrageous, if it passes like this, people will definitely look down on you." Jin Mo I didn't know how to answer the words, so I had to let out an "ah".

Baozan looked at Jin Mo's jewelry box, and said to Yu He, "Take off everything from your ears and hands, and put it in your sister's box." Yu He agreed, and Jin Mo raised her head to talk to Yu He Said: "It's impossible, how can I ask for your things." Yuhe quickly took off the earrings, took off the bracelet and ring, and said: "Young lady, you can do what you say. Besides, what my sister took is not mine, young lady Can it cost me money? I will definitely give it to me when I go back today." Baozan smiled and said, "You are so cute, go out to find the uncle and ask him to ask for 200 taels of silver." Yuhe put the jewelry on Jinmo Inside the box, he rushed to look for Xue Pan.Baozan took off her jewelry again, and Jin Mo hurriedly said: "Young lady can't do it!" But Baozan took off the jewelry, leaving only a hairpin that was engraved in the early years, and Baozan Looking at the things he had taken off, he picked out a mutton jade bracelet and put it on Jin Mo, saying: "You are a commoner now, so you can wear this." Then he put the rest of the things into the box Here, I added another 20 taels of silver, looked at it and said: "This is not bad."

After a while, Yuhe brought four 50 taels of silver bills to Baozan and said, "Master said that there is no cash, only this." It's too late to redeem it." Baozan gave Jinmo four more banknotes, and said, "Give your house and land deed to your mother, and don't tell her to spoil your good life." Jinmo cried: " How can I make the girl spend money?" Baozan took out the handkerchief and wiped her tears again, saying: "When did I ever do a loss-making business? Stop crying, and there is no time to make up after crying out." Jin Mo Shengsheng received She shed tears, only circling in her eyes, and found the house deed and land deed and gave it to her mother. Her mother agreed in her heart, and said: "It's still the second girl who is sensible, and she persuaded our Danny with a few words." Baozan He raised his eyebrows, ignored her, and only took Jin Mo to the courtyard to look at her dowry, which was nothing more than a ruler, the box of silver jewelry and the four silver notes just now.

Jin Mo's mother only thought that Jin Mo hid these jewelry and silver, and hated her heart, but seeing that the treasure hairpin was not easy to get angry here.Baozan also asked Yuhe to bring the things she had prepared earlier to add makeup to the brocade ink. They were eight gold scorpions, eight silver scorpions, two bolts of silk and satin, eight bolts of cotton cloth, and one gold and silver head and face each. A set of pearls and a dendrobium.The housekeepers and daughters-in-law of Xue's family who were present also added one or two points to the things they had prepared in order to ask for Baozan's favor.Baozan asked Yuhe to make the final decision, the dowry was one or two points better than that of a lady from a small family, and Baozan felt that it was acceptable after hearing this.It's just that everyone here is happy, but Jin Mo's mother is not angry, she is afraid that she wants to leave all these things to his son, and she is absolutely reluctant to ask Jin Mo to take them away.Baozan glanced at it from the corner of the eye, and couldn't help thinking of Baoyu's words, and sneered in his heart: "What a fish-eye ball."

When Jin Mo got on the sedan chair, Baozan didn't want to stay here any longer, and only said that he wanted to go home.Xue Pan and Liu Xianglian were surprised when they heard this, and on the way they asked, "Why don't you stay a little longer and eat some fruit?" Baozan sneered, "I just went there for Jinmo, Jinmo Mo Du got into the sedan chair and left, what am I going to do there?" The two of them heard that she was unhappy, so they didn't ask any more questions.

Jin Mo married the concubine son of a small official, because his father died early, he took his aunt out of the house early to spend another time, and he became a scholar at the age of 20, but he was still unmarried.Because when Xue's family came to Beijing, Baozan also thought that Jinmo was seventeen and it was time to get married, and because he asked her whether she planned to be a housekeeper's wife or go out to marry in the future, Jinmo said that she wanted to be the same as Qing Ai, Baozan Hairpin then planned to let her out.Later, I don't know how the Li Xiucai family knew that there was a girl in Xue's family who wanted to let out the proud maid around her. It was very dignified for this family to have a child released, so they asked people to inquire carefully. Come to ask for a kiss.Jin Mo's family didn't dare to respond casually, so they came to ask the master again, Baozan only asked Xue Pan to inquire about the family, and after getting the news, he told Jin Mo the whole story, and asked her if she would like to .Jin Mo is familiar with Baozan's temperament, and he doesn't put on airs, he just says he is willing.Baozan went to find Aunt Xue again, and said, "Someone proposed marriage to Jinmo's family, but her family dared not answer and came to me. I am a girl and I didn't know what to do for a while, so I had to ask my mother." Aunt Xue knew that Baozan had entered Jing Shi said that he wanted to let Jin Mo out and waited for something to happen, so he asked Jin Mo's family members about the matter, and after hearing it, he felt that he was a good friend, so he sent a message to ask them to agree, so Jin Mo made an appointment This marriage.

After another two days, it was the day when Jin Mo returned to the house on the third day. Originally, the Xue family was generous. If any girl among the servants was released to marry and returned home, she would give it up. Baozan was worried. On a good day, Jin Mo was disgusted when she returned home, and arranged some trivial things for her parents and brothers to do in the morning, instead of asking them to stay at home.Since everyone in Jinmo's family is slaves except herself, who has lost their slave status, the Li family didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the fact that there was no one in the house on the day they returned.Jin Mo told Li Xiucai that he would go to Xue's house to meet the girl, and Li Xiucai was willing to go with her.It happened that Xue Pan was at home today and knew that Jin Mo's husband was a scholar, so he took him to his study to discuss some economic and official matters.When Baozan saw Jin Mo, he only asked if he was okay, and Jin Mo blushed and said, "Lixuan is fine." Her mother came here to allow her to meet Jin Mo, thinking in front of her that she wouldn't dare to do anything wrong.

Sure enough, Jin Mo's mother didn't dare to do anything when she entered Baozan's house. Because of the face, the two of them warmed up after talking about each other.Baozan nodded in agreement, and brought a set of four treasures of the study to Jin Mo, saying only: "Your family is a scholar's house now, so I want to like this." Jin Mo thanked and left.Jinmo's mother wanted to follow, but was left behind by Baozan, so she had to stand with her hands down.Baozan looked at her and stood there for a long time, thinking that Jin Mo must have left Xue's house at this time, and then said leisurely: "Go and get the house deed of Jin Mo's yard and give it to me."

The author has something to say: This is called settlement after autumn