The Heart of the Red Chamber

Wang Ren consciously started their love relationship with Chen Yejun, kissing and touching has almost become the norm, Wang Ren has changed from being awkward at the beginning to getting used to it, and it can even be said that he has become calm.

The weather was getting hotter. Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Sun were sitting in the flower hall choosing the materials for their clothes. Mrs. Sun touched a piece of red and gold material and said with a smile, "This is a new style this year. What about the pattern, it just happens to make a skirt for Brother Feng and Girl Bao!"

When Mrs. Shi heard Mrs. Sun mentioning Xue Baochai, she frowned, and then sighed: "It's a pity, Bao girl, if she wasn't born in Xue's family, she wouldn't be so troublesome!"

Madam Sun put down the material in her hand and asked with a smile, "What's the matter?"

Mrs. Shi snorted softly: "I persuaded our sister-in-law before, telling her not to think about running for election or anything, and be a daughter of gold and jade, why should she serve others! Who knows, our sister-in-law is afraid We two sisters-in-law wanted to block Bao Yatou's Qingyun Road, but we ended up asking her good sister! Guess what happened?"

Mrs. Sun hasn't been out much these days, so she didn't hear these gossips, so she immediately asked: "But what happened?"

Mrs. Shi showed a trace of sarcasm: "No! When the second aunt was a girl at home, I thought she was shrewd, but she couldn't see the character of the eldest aunt! Who is the eldest aunt? She has always been the only one. Taking advantage of others, no one else took advantage of her! No, she promised well, saying that she was going to clear the way for Bao girl, and asked the second aunt for a lot of money, and then swallowed most of the money, and instead Ask someone to tell the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs that my sister is reluctant to let her daughter enter the palace to serve, and she is going to cancel this quota! No, Bao girl's name was canceled by the person in charge. The excuse is that Xue's family is not strict. It's a matter of slavery... but our second aunt still thinks this sister is a good person! This really makes me laugh!"

Mrs. Sun was a little puzzled, and asked: "Why is this? It's fine to cancel the name, why bother to expose the family's fault, you must know the previous affairs of the Xue family, the master also spent a lot of favors to suppress the matter, now this The reputation has also spread to Chang'an, if this word spreads again, Brother Pan and Girl Bao will get married again in the future, won't they be lowered again!"

Mrs. Shi sneered: "Sister-in-law, it's hard to forget that the eldest daughter of the aunt's family was favored by the emperor a while ago? Although she doesn't have an official position now, but I heard that it is about to be canonized! The eldest daughter of her family is also me. I have seen her before, although she is considered a beauty, but she is still a little bit worse than Bao Yatou, especially, Bao Yatou is young now, and the eldest girl of her family, to put it bluntly, has only been away for a few years Now, there is no formal canonization, lack of confidence, and now I want to take advantage of my youth and beauty to quickly accept the favor, how can I have another rival to share the favor! If the second aunt dared to talk to the uncle, the uncle might not She was willing to help, but in the end she wanted to save trouble, and went to find her good sister behind her uncle's back, and now she just lost her wife and lost her army!"

"Okay, you can't say this outside, and others will think that we deliberately provoke you!" Mrs. Sun also sighed in her heart, "Actually, this is also good, with the master's face, Bao girl's future marriage will not be too serious. It will be worse!"

Mrs. Shi snorted softly. She felt that Mrs. Sun thought things too simply. Wang Zisheng was a worthless person. Judging from the Xue family's attitude towards the eldest and second wife, they knew that the members of the Xue family were all snobbish. , I am full of confidence in Xue Baochai, and feel that she can do it even if she is a concubine. I am afraid that the Xue family will not like the good marriage that my sister-in-law thinks about!They didn't even think about it, their daughter and the eldest daughter of their sister-in-law's family, even for Wang Ziteng's face, the family they married could only be said to be below average in Chang'an, Wang Xiyun was because when Wang Xiyun got married, Wang Ziteng The official position is not obvious yet. As for the two sisters Wang Xiluan and Wang Xifeng, if it weren't for Wang Ziteng's relationship, even if the other party disappeared, they would not look down on Wang Zisheng's daughter.

At any rate, Wang Zisheng still bears the name of the descendant of the Earl's Mansion, but as for the Xue family, a business name is enough for most people to exclude him as a candidate for daughter-in-law.

Mrs. Shi and Mrs. Sun stopped talking, and continued to discuss the matter of clothing materials. Of these, the best ones are to make clothes for their own families, some of them can also be given as gifts for the New Year, and some should be rewarded for use. My servant, no matter how good the material is, generally speaking, it only takes a year or two. If you put it down, the style will become outdated, and people will laugh at it if you wear it out.

What the two of them said did not avoid the maids at home. Therefore, a third-class girl who usually received a lot of benefits from Xue Baochai found time to learn from Xue's family. Xue Wangshi was also dumbfounded, but fortunately Xue Pan was not there, otherwise, according to his temperament, he might be able to grab the guy on the spot and beat Jia's door.

Reluctantly cheering herself up, Wang Xue ordered Yinger to grab a handful of copper coins for the little girl as a reward, and then ordered someone to fry Anshen soup for Xue Baochai to drink, and dispersed the servants. The mother and daughter almost hugged their heads. cry bitterly.

"My chai'er, it's all my mother's fault, my mother believed in the wrong person!" Xue Wang said in a hoarse voice while holding Xue Baochai's cold hand.

"Who would have thought of that!" Xue Baochai settled down, "The way Auntie treated our mother and son with such promises before, who knows that Auntie also has her own plans!"

Xue Wang gritted her teeth a little: "I should have thought of it a long time ago. When you were not married, your aunt was a fierce temper. Even if you usually keep silent, nothing good will come to me. I still thought about it. She is a direct descendant, and her family is eccentric. I later found out that even though my mother usually subsidizes her, my father and two elder brothers always prepare two copies of everything, but I don't see it many times. Humph, seeing her look like a Bodhisattva all these years, I was really deceived by her!" At this point, Xue Wang couldn't help feeling sorry for Yin Zi, and she gave Jia Wang back and forth for Xue Baochai's matter. Shi's is more than 2 taels, and now it's all in vain.

Xue Baochai lowered her head, no matter how bad an elder is, she is still an elder, but she doesn't like to say much.

Seeing Xue Baochai's expression was gloomy, Mrs. Xue put her arms around Xue Baochai's shoulders, and reluctantly comforted her: "My son, let's treat it as a lesson for spending money! From now on, we don't care about your aunt's words, and your uncle and the others What I'm saying is, our Xue family is not so downcast that we want our daughter to serve others! When the time comes, Mom will go and beg your uncle to choose a good husband for you!"

Every girl has longed for the imperial palace. However, after Xue Baochai knew that the so-called selection of talents and praises, and the selection of palace ladies as companions, Xue Baochai was not very interested in it. Although she was not like Wang Xifeng Similarly, since childhood, there have been two big maids, two mothers, eight second-class maids, and quite a few third-class maids. I only brought Yinger and a big maid, but after arriving in Chang'an, Mrs. Sun selected some suitable maids from the family to make up for it.No matter how noble the royal family is, no matter how grand the ostentation is, if it is serving people, what is there to look forward to if you can't enjoy those ostentation?

But Xue Baochai was indignant that his mother and daughter were deceived, and it was his own aunt who lied, but his mother could only calm down because the Jia family was powerful.When she was in Jinling, the Xue family was a local snake with a wide network of people, so there was nothing to be afraid of. When she arrived in Chang'an, Xue Baochai realized that the Xue family was really nothing, not to mention her uncle's family, but looking at her uncle's house, she could see clearly. I saw the superiority in my aunt's eyes when she looked at them.Suffering this setback, Xue Baochai's desire for power became more and more serious, and she wanted revenge!

However, Xue Baochai looked at Mrs. Xue, who was reluctantly and helplessly, and said in a low voice: "Mom, what you said is that there is nothing good about entering the palace!" But he was thinking in his heart, if he could enter the palace Cheng Chong, mother doesn't need to make such compromises?

"Mother, there is one more thing!" Xue Baochai suddenly remembered and exclaimed in shock.

"My son, what's the matter?" Xue Wang was stunned and asked.

Xue Baochai had a wry smile on his face: "Mom, do you still remember what that little girl said just now? She said that it was an excuse for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to cancel my name, and that it was because our family was not strict in running the house and indulged slaves to commit crimes! We shouldn't have told my aunt about the matter, just told my uncle! My aunt also said it before, if this matter gets out, the Xue family will be looked down upon even more!"

Xue Wangshi's white teeth were almost gritted. If Jia Wangshi were in front of her now, she might scratch her claws. Now that she is a widow, her greatest hope is a pair of children, especially her son Xue Pan. , Xue Pan was originally a worthless person, if because of the reputation problem, it will affect the future marriage, wouldn't it be her life as a mother!

Xue Wangshi twisted the handkerchief in her hand hard, almost tearing the handkerchief in half. For a long time, her whole body strength seemed to be drained, and she said helplessly: "Forget it, if you try to be scolded by your uncle, You have to go and ask your uncle for help!"

Xue Baochai was in awe of Wang Ziteng from the bottom of her heart. Of course, she also believed that her uncle should be able to handle this matter, so she said immediately: "Mom, this matter should be done sooner rather than later. If the matter has already spread, I am afraid that even uncle It's useless to shoot!"

Jia Wangshi didn't know that her younger sister had already known what she had done before, and now she looked at the thick stack of banknotes under her dressing box, and her expression changed. Although I am confident that the Xue family will not know, it is inevitable that I still feel a little guilty.Jia Wang's family doesn't have much talent. After so many years of being a housekeeper, on the one hand, she has to earn a private house for herself, and on the other hand, she has to maintain the family's dignity. The accounts are getting more and more difficult to make ends meet. Moreover, Yuan Chun is in the palace, so if he can’t send it in, he doesn’t care about it, and he has to pay for it everywhere. Otherwise, the queen is so strict in guarding against death, how could Yuan Chun take advantage of the air and climb onto the emperor’s bed .

Jia Wang's nature is greedy, this time, seeing that the Xue family just threw out more than 2 taels of silver for a small election spot, without blinking an eye, he immediately judged that the Xue family's family background was very good, so he pondered No matter what, she must get another sum of money from the Xue family. The easiest way is to get married. She thought to herself that although she is still her housekeeper now, Shi Taijun has asked Jia Lian's wife to assist him. There is already a sense of crisis, no matter what, my daughter-in-law still has to be with me. As for the charming girl Lin Daiyu that the old lady prefers, Jia Wang snorted coldly, unless she is dead, don't expect Baoyu to marry that sick girl. seedlings.

Jia Wangshi fantasized about how much dowry Xue Baochai could get when she entered the house, and at the same time wondered what else she could earn. No matter what, before separating the family, she had to leave enough family wealth for Baoyu to succeed, and Baoyu could not be allowed to suffer. wronged.