Queen's Road in the Red House

It was not until the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th that the Ministry of Punishment stopped its raids on various prefectures in central Beijing.The emperor said that the grace of heaven is great, and he allows everyone to have a reunion festival.

Xin Hongcheng thought to himself: This is simply the sword of Damocles, it sounds even scarier.

As far as he knew, during the past month in central Beijing, most of the honored officials and officials were in panic, no matter how innocent they were, they couldn't keep relatives who committed crimes, so they were not in a happy mood, and they didn't make much preparations for the festival.

As a result, many restaurant merchants have prepared a lot of off-season goods for nothing, and business is bleak, including the Xue family.

But Aunt Xue couldn't take care of any family business at this time, she just cried.It turned out that when Xue Pannian went to the south to buy goods, he connived at servants to beat good people to death.

It was also Aunt Xue who doted on her son in the past. The matter of Xue Pan beating someone to death and robbing Xiangling was suppressed by her begging relatives and friends, so that Xue Pan didn't even feel afraid.I just feel that beating someone to death is nothing more than mediocrity.

But this time is different, it happened to be at the critical moment when the emperor was investigating the various families.Originally, Aunt Xue had already spent a lot of money in each yamen, and it was almost settled. She was only convicted of manslaughter. guilty body.

It so happened that at this moment, all the magistrate officials who were willing to bury Xue Pan's crimes for the sake of the four major families were sent to prison, not to mention Xue Pan himself.After the new official took office, this matter was taken as a handle and sent to the Ministry of Punishment. He was actually convicted of a death penalty and was imprisoned for the autumn trial.

In just a few days, Aunt Xue's worried hair turned gray, so Baochai didn't care about the new marriage, so she often took a car and went back to her mother's house to visit her mother.

Fortunately, Xia Jingui has been locked up since the last time he broke into Jia's house, and he just beats and jumps in the house every day, and doesn't know what's going on outside, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble.

The first thing Baochai did when she returned to her natal home was to let the maids keep an eye on her sister-in-law.

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Aunt Xue took her hand and cried for the sixth time: "Our Xue family has only your brother and a single seedling..."

Baochai has cried with her five times, but this time she couldn't help it, so she said: "Mother should have a regulation if she cries again. The worst plan is that my brother will be sentenced to death, and our family will have no descendants. In the future, we will have to send Xue Biao to death." The brother adopted to inherit the family business. But now there is still half a month before the autumn trial, the mother should not just cry, it is serious to sort out all the family property money first. Even if it can save my brother's life, it is necessary It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to go in, does our family still have this cash now!"

When you go to ask someone to do something, it is not easy to take the paperwork of the shop, the title deed of the property, or the head of the clothes, saying that you have no money and use this to pay off the debt.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Xue cried even harder: "Why didn't I inquire, and it turned out that your brother is so wronged! He, he ruined all the family property! The name of the official and businessman has already been taken away because of his crime. Four of the pawnshops were converted and given away before, and two managers escaped, not to mention that there is no money in the account, it is several thousand taels short!"

Baochai's heart feels cold.

Aunt Xue continued to cry: "It cost me 10 taels in the lawsuit before, but now that I checked the account, I found out that your brother has been asking for accounts from various shops outside every day. People say that he is the only young owner. I didn’t dare not give it, so I had to let him spend it. In the past two years, there was really no money in the account of Beijing, but every year, the turnover of the east wall was demolished to make up for the west wall. We two are still dreaming!. No wonder he said last year that he would go to the south to buy goods and learn to do business. We just thought he was motivated, but who knew he was just going to the south to pay money in the public account, and because he was out of my sight, he even dared to sell the house and real estate , and even sell 1000 taels for 200 taels of silver. 200 taels is nothing more than enough money for a meal of wine. This evil..."

Baochai couldn't listen anymore, so she interrupted and asked: "I was not married before, so I didn't dare to ask more about the family's business, lest my mother and elder brother think that I calculated the family's money for myself, but now at this juncture, my mother also followed me. Tell me, the family has sold all their property now, how much money can they scrape together?"

Aunt Xue covered her chest: "However, it's only about two hundred thousand taels!"

Baochai couldn't help sitting on the kang in a daze, only feeling that the autumn day was so cold that her internal organs ached.

In a good year, it snows heavily, and pearls are like gold and iron.

A family like them actually ended up with only 20 taels of all their property!

Seeing Baochai like this, Aunt Xue panicked again, and hurried up to shake her: "My son, don't make a fuss, or who do I rely on?"

It wasn't until Baochai slowed down that Aunt Xue sighed and said, "I originally thought that you would marry the county prince, which would naturally solve our family's predicament, but now you are marrying Baoyu..." She waited for a while, and finally spoke: "Baochai, listen to what mother said, your elder brother is the elder brother of your siblings, the only root of our family, you can't watch him die."

"How many officials in the court who have committed crimes, let alone the Ningguo Mansion, even if they have their lives, are they just seizing titles and demoting officials, but they are born to be Pan'er, and they insist on putting them to death! Aren't they bullying our Xue family? You go back and have a good talk with Baoyu, let him get angry and beg the fifth prince in the palace, after all, he is the companion of His Highness the fifth prince, it's always easy to talk, ask him to save his uncle."

Baochai's voice was like a mosquito, light and erratic: "But the five princes are not allowed to go to court, so there is no room for speech."

Aunt Xue simply said: "The fifth prince is useless, the prince must be useful! Otherwise, how can the Rongguo Mansion live in peace and stability! It's not because the old lady raised a princess!"

Baochai only felt pain from her mother's grip on her fingers. Looking at her mother's old teary eyes, she couldn't say anything to refuse.

When she left Xue's house, she looked back at the gloomy mother's house, and couldn't help but think of the many girls who talked and laughed at Yan Yan's delicate flowers and willows at the flower appreciation banquet held by the queen mother.

Now, in just a few years, things are right and people are different: some became respectable and honorable Princess An, some also became princesses but were imprisoned, and some became married princesses and disappeared. Dead and buried in a foreign land, some... just like myself, who will spend her whole life struggling for her husband's family and her mother's family.

She lowered her head and wiped away her tears.

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As soon as I entered Jia's inner house, I saw a girl waiting by the door: "Madam said that when Second Grandma comes back, please go see her immediately."

Baochai's heart sank.

When I arrived at Mrs. Wang's room, I saw Li Wan standing aside. Mrs. Wang rubbed her forehead, closed her eyes as if she couldn't see Baochai coming in, and said coldly: "Well, people say that marrying a daughter-in-law enjoys happiness, but My life is miserable. One is a fool who can only close the door and hide away, and the other is clever, but she goes to outsiders. After two months of marriage, she went back to her mother’s house eight times. It’s a joke that can’t be found in Beijing. "

Baochai sneered in her heart: this is a good aunt, a good relative.

Regardless of Mrs. Wang's previous thoughts, she even begged to go to the Zhen family and let herself marry.But in fact, there is already a grudge in my heart.

In Mrs. Wang's opinion, Baoyu could match the princess, but it was so easy to fall in love with the Xue family, but the Xue family pushed back and almost climbed to the top of the county palace.So Mrs. Wang kept it in her heart. After Xue Baochai got married, she didn't feel the benefits of her aunt being a mother-in-law, but instead made things even more difficult.

But Mrs. Wang has a strange mood, she has always been as still as a mountain, as long as she doesn't point to her face, she will pretend that she can't hear.

Li Wan admired her very much: She has practiced for ten years and still doesn't have the concentration of Xue Baochai. Up to now, she can't help but blush and feel sad when she hears Mrs. Wang's accusations and scolding Huai.

Fortunately, today is the day when Baoyu returns home from the palace, Mrs. Wang did not keep them too much, and after reprimanding them for a while, she asked Baochai to go back and prepare to serve Baoyu well.

Baoyu went back to the house and changed his clothes, and saw Baochai's expression was solemn, and she actually made a gesture to kneel down to him.

He hurriedly supported her: "Sister Bao, what are you doing? How can you beg me if you are good?"

Baochai's voice was heavy and choked with sobs, and she said all Aunt Xue's words.

Baoyu also sighed after hearing this, wondering: "Although so, what's the use of me asking the fifth prince or even the prince? You live in this house and don't know how many people outside have suffered disasters. Those of us who are acquainted Needless to say, people who are familiar with each other are all too busy to take care of themselves. They only talk about the old sage's own son, Lord Rui, who has become the king of Ruijun, and even several clansmen have changed their yellow belts and demoted them to ordinary people. What's more, even if the crown prince said Forget it, why should he help me, and who am I?"

Baochai cried: "Everyone says that the prince and concubine are deeply in love with each other. There is no good news for the concubine to enter the palace for a year. The prince has never taken a concubine, which shows that he loves you deeply. If so, go and beg the concubine, you and the concubine The princess grew up eating and sleeping together when she was young, she will not ignore you with that kind of affection."

"Shut up!" Baoyu interrupted inexplicably in shock: "Sister Bao, the prince will be annoyed when you say this, and both of us are dead! Besides, sister Lin...you know the difficulties of the princess, but you still want me To beg her, to persecute him with the old brother and sister relationship? You are too cruel!"

Baochai could only feel a sigh of relief in his heart: My elder brother will be decapitated, as my husband, you don't say that you understand my difficulties, but every word you say is considerate of the difficulties of the princess!What is the reason for this!

So he couldn't help asking: "You don't have to speak hard of me. Now this is a matter of my brother's death. I ask you to intercede but you refuse. Then the attacker was just a maid. Why did you beg Sister Lin in private before you were kicked out? Didn't she make things difficult at that time? Is this your responsibility? "

Baoyu was struck by lightning.

After so long, he has been thinking about when Sister Lin and him were completely separated.It seems that since that day, sister Lin looked at him in the same way as she looked at Jia Lian and other relatives, and she never got angry with him or shed tears for him.

As soon as Baochai finished speaking today, he suddenly remembered that day, that moment.

He didn't dare to stand up and say nothing for Xiren, instead he cried and begged to Lin Daiyu and asked her to beg her ancestor.Daiyu didn't go, and he still blamed her for being cruel.

Suddenly enlightened.

He suddenly understood how disappointing and embarrassing Daiyu was for what he did that day.

Baochai looked at Baoyu in a daze, but was also a little frightened, so she stretched out her hand and pushed him.

Unexpectedly, Baoyu suddenly burst into tears and laughter, and then said inconsequentially: "Pink stains and fat marks stain the precious light, Qilong sleeps mandarin ducks day and night. After a deep dream, you must wake up at the end. The injustice is paid and the show is over!"

Then he got up and bowed to Baochai: "Thank you for waking me up."

Baochai was so startled that she knocked over the teacup.

The maids outside were frightened by the quarrel between the second master and the second grandma and did not dare to come in, but when they heard Baoyu crying and laughing, Baochai smashed something, they did not dare to avoid it, and came in one after another to separate the two.Mrs. Wang also sent someone to ask, and moved Baoyu to sleep outside her room, and then ordered the old mother to bring some unpleasant words to Baochai, telling her to keep her own place and stop messing around with her mother's affairs.

When Baochai saw that Baoyu was taken away, he didn't dare to chase after him by force.

And because I saw too much Baoyu before, I was crazy, so I thought it would be all right in two days.So I just tidied up and went to sleep. The next day I heard that Baoyu went to the palace as usual, so I was relieved.

Unexpectedly, news came in the evening: Baoyu was in the Baohua Hall in the palace, taking advantage of people's unpreparedness to shave her own hair, and vowed to become a monk.

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