The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

Let's say that Xue Pan urinated and escaped Fourth Master Long, and ran into his yard in a hurry.When passing the garden, he was stopped by Xue Ding, the fourth son of the housekeeper Xue Gui.

"It can be seen that the old man has been looking for the old man for a long time!"

"Looking for me?" Xue Pan ran out of breath, raised his eyebrows in surprise, and asked, "Why are you looking for me?"

"The Zhen family of the Jiangning Weaving Mansion is here. The master asked the uncle to accompany him!" Xue Ding said with a smile: "The eldest son of the Zhen family specially asked you to come over."

"This Zhen Baoyu." Xue Pan shook his head boredly, pointed at Xue Ding and said, "Follow me!"

"Hey!" Xue Ding nodded excitedly, stretched out his hand to pat the floating dust on his clothes, and happily followed Xue Pan.

I only heard another sentence from the back, saying: "Didn't you say you want to go to the toilet? Why are you not in a hurry now?"

Xue Pan frowned, turned around with a sad face, and said pitifully, "Fourth Master."

"It seems that it really framed me. If you are really sick in the future, I may not even believe it." Fourth Master Long walked forward with his hands behind his back, and said with a leisurely expression.

"I, that..." Xue Pan scratched his head aggrievedly, and stood there at a loss.

"I have something to say with your master, you go down first." Fourth Master Long glanced at Xue Ding coldly and said.

"This..." Seeing this, Xue Ding subconsciously moved his steps, stood in front of Xue Pan, and said with a flattering smile: "If you return to the distinguished guest, our master asked me to immediately ask him to go to the main hall to greet the guest!"

"Okay!" Xue Pan reached out and patted Xue Ding's back, and said softly, "It's nothing to do with you, you can go back first!"

"But..." Xue Ding looked at Fourth Master Long worriedly upon hearing this.He naturally knew that this person was ordered by the master not to offend a neglected guest.But respect is respect, since he is the king of heaven, I can't bully my master in front of him.

"Go quickly, I'm really fine." Seeing this, Xue Pan felt a warm current flow from the bottom of his heart, and persuaded with a light smile, "You've been lingering in the garden for so long, be careful when your father sees you."

"Hiss!" Xue Ding shivered subconsciously, thinking of his father's instructions in the morning, and looked at the situation in front of him again.I know it's useless to stay.I had no choice but to say goodbye, stepping forward and turning my head three times.I don't know what to think of, I paused, and hurriedly walked in the direction of Ruirongtang.

Fourth Master Long looked at Xue Ding's hurried figure, pondered for a while, then Fang sneered and said, "He is a loyal slave."

"Inherited the fine traditions of our family." Xue Pan stood there upright, and answered with lowered eyebrows.Hearing that Fourth Master Long was so happy, he couldn't make a sound.

"I'm just here to give you a word." After a long while, Fourth Master Long, who had been brewing a good mood, said with a gloomy face, "If there is a little bit of what I said to you in Meiyuan in the morning, you should be careful."

He didn't know what was wrong, but he would set up his own defense in a flash of brains.Talking about this with Xue Pan.If Xue Pan really doesn't have a clue...

Fourth Master Long thought so, a cold light flashed in his eyes.

Unexpectedly, Xue Pan scratched his face blankly when he heard the words, and asked, "Is fourth master also in the plum garden this morning? Why didn't I see it?"

Fourth Master Long was stunned again, stared at Xue Pan tongue-tied for a while, then rubbed Xue Pan's head vigorously, and said angrily: "It's boring if you pretend too much."

After finishing speaking, I felt that Xue Pan's head felt good, and couldn't help but hit him hard.

Xue Pan was really wronged this time, he turned and left with his head covered in loneliness.

When we arrived at Ruirong Hall, we bumped into Xue Zhizhang who was walking out with his hem up with a worried expression, followed by Xue Ding with a worried face, and asked in surprise: "Father, didn't you say that someone from the Zhen family came to ask me?" Accompanying you? What are you doing here?"

Xue Zhizhang saw that Xue Pan came back intact, with the same ignorant and arrogant look on his face, so he was a little relieved, and said: "It's nothing, just come back."

Sweeping his gaze over the figure following Xue Pan, he immediately bowed and said with a smile, "The fourth son is also here."

"Ah?" Xue Pan was startled when he heard this.Turning around and looking at Fourth Master Long behind him, he blurted out, "Why did you follow me?"

Xue Zhizhang put one hand on Xue Pan's waist and twisted it quietly, Xue Pan let out a painful "Ouch", and looked at his father's gloomy face, curled his lips and dared not make a sound.

Only then Xue Zhizhang bowed his hands and apologized with a smile: "Your son is negligent in discipline and always speaks outspokenly. The Fourth Young Master laughed at him."

"It's nothing." Fourth Master Long waved his hands with a smile, looked at Xue Pan's grinning face, and said with a pun, "I really think it's good to be open-minded."

Xue Zhizhang was stunned for a moment, unable to understand whether Fourth Master Long was happy or unhappy with what he said.Can't help but hesitate.

Seeing this, Fourth Master Long stretched out his hand to touch the top of Xue Pan's head, and said affectionately: "Master Xue is really suspicious. Pan'er is just a naive child. Don't say that I just like his innocent character, just I really didn’t hold back what I said, and I, as an adult, can’t understand as well as him.”

Xue Pan was being disgusted by Fourth Master Long's words of "innocence", but he saw a refined and elegant man in rich and noble clothes approaching him. He was about forty years old and looked gentle. The host was so busy talking, he actually forgot about me as a guest."

Xue Zhizhang hurriedly turned his head to confess the crime, and introduced to the two: "Brother Zhen must never be offended. This is the fourth son of Long from the capital. Fourth son of Long, this is Brother Zhen Yan, who is now working in the Jiangning Weaving Mansion. .”

Zhen Yan has been in the officialdom for decades, and he is also an exquisite person.His family has picked him up four times, and he was today's companion since he was a child, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he knows him very well.Seeing that the figure and face of Fourth Master Long was a bit familiar, and hearing Xue Zhizhang's introduction, he also had a certain idea in his heart.Hastily stepped forward to salute and said: "I have seen Mr. Long Si."

Seeing this, Zhen Baoyu from behind also came up, and said with a smile, "I've seen Mr. Long Si."

For a while, everyone greeted each other and sat down.Zhen Yan and his son came here to discuss a private matter with Xue Zhizhang, because Xue Pan was involved in it, so Xue Pan was called over.But now that there is an extra Fourth Master Long, he can't speak many words.We had to exchange greetings slowly.Zhen Baoyu became impatient after listening for a while, and kept winking at Xue Pan.

After three rounds, Xue Pan put down the teacup in his hand, got up and said, "Masters have business to discuss, why don't Baoyu and I go down first!"

"This..." Xue Zhizhang looked at Zhen Yan hesitantly.

Zhen Yan quickly said: "The two brothers have known each other since childhood, let's go play together." When he looked at Zhen Baoyu, he couldn't help becoming strict, and said sharply: "Playing is just playing, if you let me know what you are doing Go undeserved, take care of your skin."

Zhen Baoyu quickly stood up, lowered his eyebrows and answered, "Yes!"

Xue Pan couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth, bowed his head and remained silent.

After the two bid farewell solemnly, they walked out of Ruirong Hall in fear, and Xue Pan burst out laughing: "Look at your appearance just now, it seems like a mouse has seen a cat."

"Couldn't it be that the mouse saw the cat!" Zhen Baoyu curled his lips dejectedly, and said in a dull tone, "It would be great if my father was as kind and kind as Uncle Xue."

"Amiable and kind?" Xue Pan thought for a long time, but he didn't expect that these words had anything to do with his father.Immediately, he took Zhen Baoyu's hand and said, "Follow me back to my yard first, and when my sister wakes up, let's go out for a stroll together."

"Isn't that bad?" Zhen Baoyu said subconsciously.

"My younger sister is only six years old, what are you thinking!" Xue Pan gave Zhen Baoyu an angry look, and muttered, "What a good girl, I have made you hypocrites aggrieved."

"Why do you involve me again?" Zhen Baoyu complained angrily and amusedly: "It's not for the sake of your girl's reputation. I don't want to repay my good intentions, but I treat my Zhou Quan as a donkey's liver and lungs."

"Okay, okay," Seeing this, Xue Pan took Zhen Baoyu's collar and walked to his yard, apologizing, "Forget me biting Lu Dongbin, it's good to miss a good heart!"

"Who do you call a dog..."

The two were arguing, so they walked towards Xue Pan's yard, and within two steps, they heard him say: "Wait!"

The two turned their heads in doubt, only to see the figure of Fourth Master Long.But it turned out that after the two of them came out, Fourth Master Long was impatient and pretended to be polite with the two masters, and looked coldly at Zhen Yan as if he had something urgent to discuss with Xue Zhizhang, so he did not act as an eyesore and found an excuse to get out up.Just seeing Xue Pan and the two of them, feeling bored, he stopped calling.

"What are you going to do?"

"Go to Xue Pan's yard and wait for his sister to go out together." Zhen Baoyu answered before Xue Pan opened his mouth.

Seeing the words, Fourth Master Long's face turned cold, and he reprimanded: "Nonsense, everyone's reputation is the most important thing, how can you mess around with you group of half-sized boys?"

This time, Xue Pan didn't dare to say any more hypocritical words, so he just lowered his head and muttered: "A child who is only six years old knows what is good and bad... Besides, I promised my sister... I told my parents... ...It's fattening without breaking its promise..."

So I was a little unhappy.The normally flying eyebrows drooped down.

Fourth Master Long saw it, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, cleared his throat, and said, "Since you have informed your parents, then that's all. It's just this one time, not another example."

Xue Pan immediately cheered up.

Seeing it, Fourth Master Long suddenly opened his mouth and added: "But if you go out, I have to follow you so you can rest assured."

Looking at Xue Pan's frozen face for a moment, his mood became more open.

He walked straight to Xue Pan's yard, Xue Pan bowed his head and Zhen Baoyu followed behind.Following the path paved with bluestone slabs, he bypassed the rockery, the lotus pond, and two pavilions, and walked up a few breaths. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the courtyard where Xue Pan lived.When Zhen Baoyu looked up and saw the plaque carried by the upper room in the courtyard, his expression became strange.After hesitating for a while, he sighed in admiration: "Well, you Xue Pan, I always thought that I was an asshole in the past, but I didn't expect you to be much better than me. Tsk tsk, Quietly, this name is really outrageous to the ancients. ah!"