The Lin family of the Red Chamber has a son

The plain white silk was only obtained this year, it is soft to the touch and most comfortable to wear next to the body.There are five-color mandarin ducks tied on it, red lotus and green leaves, the colors are extremely bright, and the stitches are thin and dense, which shows that great thought has been used.

Baochai did it very quickly, her white and round hands fluttered up and down, and she embroidered a small petal in a short time.

"Mrs!"

With a soft cry, Xiren hurriedly stood up to salute.

Baochai paused in her heart, raised her eyes, but there was a smile on her face, "Auntie is back?" After saying that, she also got up gracefully, and casually put the needle and thread at the foot of the bed.

Mrs. Wang smiled, and when she looked carefully, she found that the smile was a little stiff.He nodded at Baochai, and then looked at Baoyu on the bed—silver-red gauze shirt and jade-colored silk trousers, lying on his back and sleeping soundly.Xu Shi slept soundly, and the gauze shirt was all over her stomach, revealing her belly that was inches long.

Sitting on the edge of the bed to cover for Baoyu, Mrs. Wang softly ordered Xiren: "Look at him, he is not neat, and it is not fun to catch a cold. How can he stand the toss?"

"What the wife said is true, I was negligent just now." Xiren was flustered, and lowered his head to admit his mistake.

Mrs. Wang was afraid of disturbing Baoyu, so she didn't say much. She just took Baochai's hand and went outside to talk.

Baoyu's Yihong Courtyard is the most luxurious and exquisite place in the entire Grand View Garden.The desks and chairs, the cages and the frames are full of ingenuity everywhere, or are carved with five colors, or sold with gold and embedded with jade. Even the windows are pasted, not the usual window screens, but the very best bought from Jiangnan. Thin five-color organdy.Not to mention the hanging screens and bonsai flowers in the room.Just such a room really deserves the saying of "flowers and flowers".

The girls who were sleeping in the room had been woken up long ago, and they didn't dare to vent their breath at this time, and they all stood aside with their hands hanging down to wait on them.

Mrs. Wang frowned, turned her head and waved to Baochai, "Go ahead and talk to Auntie."

Baochai followed Mrs. Wang all the way through the flowers and willows, and came out of the garden to Mrs. Wang's courtyard.

Baochai's body is slightly plump, and she walked all the way under the big sun. At this time, she was dripping with sweat, panting delicately, with a round face that could compete with peonies, and her red face was indescribably charming.

She personally supported Mrs. Wang to sit down, and Mrs. Wang pointed to a chair beside her and told Baochai to sit down too.At that time Baochai was wearing a cross-neck thin shirt with bright red satin and pink trim, and a goose yellow gauze skirt underneath.Her head was full of blue silk and she was pulled into a crescent bun, with only a jade hairpin inserted on it, and a pink and purple silk flower on the other side of her bun.It doesn't look luxurious, but it also has a certain style.

If it was in the past, Mrs. Wang would have praised her in her heart. Looking at it now, she remembered the scene in Baoyu's room just now, and felt unspeakably awkward in her heart, as if there was a breath stuck in her chest, unable to go up or down. .

But still with the usual smile on his face, he took Baochai's hand and asked, "What is your mother doing at home? I don't see her coming to talk to me."

"Mom wants to come too. It's just that my aunt is busy these few days, so I can't come here to disturb my aunt." Baochai said with a smile.

While talking, a little girl outside brought tea, and Baochai stretched out her slender hand, and personally served it to Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang looked at Baochai's gentle smile, and felt a little conflicted in her heart.From the bottom of her heart, she naturally likes a dignified and stable girl like Baochai.What's more, she is her own niece, she has been running the house for so many years, but she still can't decide on major matters.There used to be a Feng girl to help, but now it seems that she is also an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, who ran outside with Jia Lian after smelling the fragrance.If Baochai can marry in, it will undoubtedly have an extra arm for me.Let's talk about selfishness again, after looking at the grandeur of the Lin family marrying a daughter, and counting the Xue family's family fortune, it wouldn't be too bad, wouldn't it?

Thinking of this, the smile on Mrs. Wang's face became a bit more sincere, and her tone was not so stiff, "Look at what you said, I'm just doing that little thing here, and I'm too busy everywhere. Talked?"

After a pause, he asked casually again: "Just now what were you doing at Baoyu's place? Xiren is the same. I usually look at her and it's okay, but now I'm getting big, and I asked you to work there. Sitting loudly."

"I just got there too." Baochai laughed hurriedly, feeling a little uncomfortable on his face, "Xiren has been doing work all the time, but just now it seems that some bugs got into the house from nowhere. Xiren I put it down because I was afraid of biting Brother Bao. I also did two more injections because I saw that the work was really bright."

Mrs. Wang patted the back of her hand and said with a loving smile, "Thank you for your hard work!"

Baochai blushed and lowered her head.

After sending Baochai away for a while, Mrs. Wang leaned on the couch, closed her eyes and thought for a long time, then opened them suddenly, got up and said, "Come, follow me to the old lady's place."

But Baochai came out of Mrs. Wang's yard alone, walking unsteadily forward.A girl wearing a half-worn bright yellow shirt and light green skirt hurriedly greeted her, "Girl, let me find it easier."

But it was Yinger, Baochai's personal maid.

"What's the matter?" Baochai asked softly, wiping the sweat from her forehead with the silk handkerchief in her hand.

"The wife asked Xiangling to look for the girl. I remember the girl said she was going to the Ouxiangxie, but she couldn't find it after looking around. It was only when she ran into someone in the yard of Second Master Bao that I realized that the girl came with the concubine. "

Ying'er is eloquent and can speak a few words eloquently.

Baochai listened to her mother's call, fearing that there was something urgent, and there was no time to go back and change clothes, so she had to rush to Lixiangyuan with Ying'er.

After entering the yard, I heard my mother scolding my brother inside, and there were still a few girls and women poking their heads in the yard.Baochai walked a few steps into the yard, and the maids and mothers-in-law looked back at her, and hurriedly lowered their heads.

Baochai glanced at them indifferently, seeing that it was probably from the Rongfu side, she couldn't say anything at the moment, so she just said coldly: "They're all gone, what to do."

As she said that, she turned and went up the steps. Ying'er had already gone there and opened the curtain.As soon as Baochai entered the back room, she saw her mother beating the table and shouting something with her brother.The elder brother Xue Pan sat there with his neck stuck up, his face was rather displeased.

"Mom, what's the matter?" Baochai saw that her mother's face was flushed and her chest was heaving, afraid that she would get angry, so she hurried over to caress Aunt Xue's heart, and called again, "Ying'er, pour tea quickly."

Then he turned his head to persuade Xue Pan: "Brother, don't you just look at your mother's age, and don't say a few words? If you make your mother angry, don't you feel uneasy?"

Aunt Xue did not hide many things from her daughter now. She took Baochai's hand and cried, "Now your brother's heart is getting bigger and bigger, and he doesn't take us girls to heart. You can decide everything by yourself. How can there be any in the future?" Where we talk!"

After hearing this, Baochai knew that there was another accident. Seeing Yinger brought tea, she stretched out her hand to offer it to her mother, and persuaded with a light smile, "Mom, isn't this a good thing? Brother, it's our responsibility to make a decision in everything." Good luck."

He held another cup to Xue Pan, and said with a smile: "As long as my brother is thoughtful, that's all. In the future, my mother and I will wait for the days when we have to wear clothes, stretch our hands to eat, and open our mouths. Wouldn't it be good?"

Xue Pan opened his mouth, saw his mother staring at him, and closed it again.

Aunt Xue thought for a while, sighed, wiped the corners of her eyes, and waved Ying'er to go out.

Baochai was more careful, and ordered Yinger to go out and sit under the veranda, to see who would dare to come to the yard and listen to the corner of the wall.

There were only three people left in the room, so Aunt Xue asked Baochai to sit by her side, put her arms around her and said in a low voice, "Why do you think I'm angry? If it was normal, it wouldn't be like this. Your brother, he, alas! "

Baochai looked at Xue Pan, Xue Pan bulged his eyes and said in disbelief, "Don't talk about me, Mom, just ask my sister if she is willing or not!"

Baochai became more and more confused, and looked at her mother in doubt, "Mom?"

Aunt Xue looked at her daughter's white and tender cheeks, and said softly: "Your brother heard people say that a concubine is going to be selected in the prince's mansion, isn't it..., hi!"

When Baochai heard this, her face turned pale and she turned her head to look at Xue Pan.

Xue Pan felt a little nervous when she saw her, and turned his gaze elsewhere.I just thought about it carefully, and felt that I was not wrong, so I said: "My sister is here too, mom, let me ask her what she means. According to me, this is an opportunity."

"How dare you say that!" Aunt Xue patted the bed hard, "Your sister is like a flower, who doesn't say hello when she sees her? Don't mention the prince or age, just a side concubine, what is that? Then It's just a concubine! Just look, who is a good concubine? You are going to kill your sister!"

"Why did you harm my sister?" Xue Pan was in a hurry, "It has been said that the loyal prince is the emperor's brother, and he is extremely favored by the emperor. If it weren't for me, I wouldn't be able to ask such a thing. Besides Now, the prince is not very old, and the concubine beside him has been married to him for many years, so he is not favored very much. With the appearance and temperament of the younger sister, why not be favored? If we have children, we will also be the young prince's natal family! Nest here to suffer?"

Aunt Xue heard that the more he talked, the more outrageous she became, pointing at Xue Pan with trembling hands, she was too angry to speak.I'm afraid that Baochai will be sad, so I just need to persuade her a little bit.

Baochai lowered her head, her face was flushed, but gradually turned pale.Aunt Xue could only see that the handkerchief in her daughter's hand was tightly clenched, and the tendons on the back of her hand were faintly visible.Afraid that she would think too much, Aunt Xue winked at Xue Pan and told him to shut up.

Baochai raised her head, forced a smile, and said softly to Aunt Xue, "Mom, don't talk about brother."

The voice was extremely low, but it surprised Aunt Xue, "My son, don't think about it!"

"Mom, can't you see it?" Baochai smiled bitterly, and put her right hand on the golden lock on her chest, "Even if my aunt really has a heart, I'm afraid she can't be the old lady's master."

"Isn't there still a lady in the palace?" Aunt Xue said harshly, "Even if the old lady doesn't want to, how much money will it cost us for their lady to visit relatives? Just this one, isn't it enough to pave the way for my son to get married? "

Baochai's eyes were a little wet, and she glanced at Xue Pan, seeing that he didn't care, she felt a little more at ease, and said in a low voice: "If the empress wanted it, why did it take so long? We were the only ones who lost face in the previous big joke." , Whose method is here, doesn't mom know? I'm afraid it is, if we continue like this, they still have other methods that they haven't used..."

There is one more thing that Baochai didn't say, I'm afraid my aunt is not very interested now.Baochai is a smart person, she just lost her love for a moment and behaved improperly in Baoyu's room, but happened to be spotted by Mrs. Wang.Although Mrs. Wang's complexion changed quickly, Baochai still noticed that her aunt was not satisfied with herself.

There is one more important thing, Baoyu is always neither cold nor indifferent to herself, neither far nor near.It's far from the brilliance in Daiyu's eyes when she mentioned Daiyu.

The Rongguo Mansion where she and Daiyu came successively were often compared by others.Most people are saying that they are more dignified than Daiyu.In terms of unlucky marriage, am I going to lose to her?Why, she, who Lin Daiyu has abandoned like a shoe, wants to catch up with her?

When Aunt Xue heard her daughter's words, she felt like a knife was twisting her heart. Why did she come to Beijing?Isn't it just for this pair of children?At the beginning, what my sister told me was right, why did she change her mind?Since he couldn't decide what to do at the beginning, why bother to pat his chest and guarantee the ticket with himself?Now that her daughter's reputation is bad and she's getting older, isn't that going to happen?

The pain in my heart was unbearable, and I immediately whimpered, "My poor son, if your father is still here, or if your uncle is in Beijing now, we orphans and widows can't be bullied like this!"

Xue Pan felt annoyed when he heard this, but saw the girl raised her head, her eyes were full of sternness, "Brother, you just ask someone to talk. Our Xue family doesn't have to be his Jia family!"