The heart of the red mansion is like jade

Lin Zhong told Concubine Beijing some old things about the Lin family, and then went back to Wangyulou.As soon as he got back to Wangyu Tower, he asked the servants to find other members of the Lin family. After a while, Lin Shuang, Lin Tian, ​​Lin Wen, Lin Ye, Lin Yi, Lin Li, and others all arrived.Lin Zhong hurriedly told everyone about Daiyu's poisoning. Several people were angry and distressed, and they all said that they wanted to see their young lady. Lin Zhong hurriedly persuaded: "Miss is fine now, so don't worry. Miss is now in the Beijing Palace, Mrs. The imperial concubine is very protective of her. The brother brought us here today to discuss with you how to deal with the Xue family, and their family has done a lot of harm to our young lady."

Lin Yi has a quick temper. Hearing this, he hurriedly said, "We want to find someone to smash the Xue family, and see if they dare to bully Miss." The younger brother said: "Wouldn't it be too cheap for them to smash their house, it won't work." Lin Zhong and the others twitched their mouths when they heard this, and said inwardly, "You deserve to be the blackest one." Just listen to Lin Tiandao : "We should occupy the title of their family's royal merchants, and then squeeze their shops so that they can't open any more. It's better to owe a lot of foreign debts, and finally have to go to the street to beg, and let them beg when they are begging." There's nothing to eat."

Lin Zhong and the others all said: "This is a good way." Lin Yi also said: "This is much better than smashing their house." They volunteered again and decided that each of them would be responsible for squeezing out one or two shops of Xue's family. Lin Zhong is responsible for the name of the family's imperial business, who made Lin Zhong now have connections with all the princes and nobles, especially Zhao Shilang's family. Because of Xue Pan's case before, Lin Zhong and Zhao Shilang got acquainted. Later, the two felt that their temperaments matched and became good friends.

Sure enough, from the next day, the shops next to Xue's shop have changed owners, and every newly opened shop is doing the same business as them, and all of them are of high quality and cheap. Originally, there were not many shops in Xue's house. Business, and now no one came to the door all day long. Seeing that the business of the shop next door was getting better and better, the shopkeepers of Xue's shop couldn't sit still anymore, and they all went to Lixiangyuan to find Aunt Xue.

What Aunt Xue could do, she had no choice but to let those shopkeepers go back, and she went to find Xue Baochai herself.Now Xue Baochai's status in this family is naturally much higher, but the money in his hand is spent like running water.After hearing Aunt Xue's words, she was shocked. If the Xue family's shop could no longer make money, how could she gain a place in Jia's mansion?She hurriedly asked Aunt Xue to go back to Lixiangyuan first, and took Ying'er to call a carriage and left the house.

Xue Baochai asked the coachman to come to his pharmacy first, Xue Baochai opened the curtain and saw that there was a Yuchun Tower next to his pharmacy. The Yuchun Tower was very famous. It can be said that there are a lot of people in the market, but my pharmacy has no one except the clerk, but Yuchunlou is good, no wonder everyone goes to Yuchunlou to see a doctor, so Xue Baochai is not angry, and let the driver drive without even getting out of the carriage. The carriage had just moved forward a few steps, Xue Baochai hadn't put down the curtain, but saw the little boy from her pharmacy scooping up the medicine from Yuchun Tower, Xue Baochai was so angry that she hurriedly asked the driver to stop the car, and Jumped out of the car and went to the boy, walked up to him and scolded: "Well, you eat everything, I'm sorry for you at Xue's house, you are like this."

Seeing his master's girl approaching suddenly, the boy was also frightened, so he hurriedly hid the medicine behind him. Seeing the medicine he had worked so hard to buy was trampled on by Xue Baochai like rubbish, he became anxious at the moment. This little guy only earns a few hundred dollars a month, and the food that Xue's family manages is not enough for him. Spend some money to buy food, these medicines cost him nearly a tael of silver, and his sister is waiting for this medicine.He pushed Xue Baochai away and squatted on the ground to pick up those medicines, but there was still room to pick them up.

Pushed by the boy, Xue Baochai was unprepared and fell to the ground.At this time, many people had already gathered around, Xue Baochai was very anxious when he came out, and he didn't wear a veil, but now he was pushed to the ground, anxious, angry and ashamed, and hurriedly covered his face with his sleeves.Ying'er hurriedly helped her up, put a veil on her, and cursed at the young man: "You are such a scumbag, scooped up our Xue family's money, and went to other houses to buy medicine, are you worthy of our Xue family. "

People from Yuchunlou and Xue's pharmacy also came out when they heard the commotion. The shopkeeper was about to say something nice to the young man when he saw the young man standing up and saying, "I'm working in your pharmacy. After earning money, do you care where I go to spend it? The medicines in your pharmacy are all in stock a year ago, and the price is twice as expensive as that of Yuchunlou. I have worked hard in your shop for half a year I can’t even afford to take the medicine. If Yuchun Building didn’t allow me to pay on credit first, I wouldn’t be able to buy secondary medicine for my little sister now. Now that you ruined it, my little sister has been suffering from typhoid fever for several days I begged your shop to give you medicines on credit. Your family said that Xue’s drugstore didn’t have credit. I could only go to Yuchun Tower to get medicine. I took an extra set of medicine, and now you have ruined it, you vicious woman, you return my medicine."

The people around sighed after hearing the words, and an old lady said: "This Xue's medicine store is really not very good, the medicine is expensive, so it's not good, and she always said that her home is an imperial merchant. Last time my master was sick, he took medicine from here. After taking it for half a month, it didn’t get better, and then I went to Yuchunlou, and I just took a pair of medicines and it was fine, don’t you think they are cheating people.” Another person answered, also saying that Xue’s pharmacy is not good, Xue Baochai couldn't listen anymore, and said to the young man, "You can go today, our Xue family doesn't have to eat such a man who picks inside and outside."

The young man said: "I don't care about working in your house. It's only a few hundred yuan a month, and half a year's monthly money is pressed. If you don't work for three years, you won't be given that half-year's monthly money. Every meal is eaten every day." Don’t give me enough to eat. Back then, I was tricked by your family because I was illiterate, so I wanted to leave a long time ago. But you have to pay me for the medicine, which was ruined by you.”

Xue Baochai refused, but the onlookers quit, accusing Xue Baochai one after another, and others pretended to beat her. Xue Baochai had no choice but to ask Yinger to give him the silver, and Yinger scooped out ten taels of silver and handed it to the little girl. The man said, "This is a reward from the girl." The young man took the silver and said to the people around him: "My friends, is there anyone who has broken silver on him and can exchange this?" A big man said: " I have some." The young man exchanged money with him, and said: "The monthly payment for half a year is three taels of silver, plus the money for the medicine is two taels of silver, and these five taels of silver are for you. I don't want your Xue family Dirty silver." He said and threw five taels of silver to Ying'er.

Xue Baochai was furious, but the boy did nothing wrong, so she just got into the car and left sullenly, leaving the onlookers behind to scold her, she had no choice but to do anything.The young man scooped up the silver and then went to Yuchun Building. The shopkeeper of Yuchun Building is Lin Tian's son Lin Guo. He quickly got the medicine for the young man and asked the young man if he would like to work in Yuchun Building , one tael of silver a month, just busy, but there will be dividends at the end of the year.The little guy was very happy, and he said he could go to work the next day.Linguo asked the boy to use it when he was about to scoop it up, but we refused to accept the money if the boy wanted to give Linguo, only saying that it was a deposit for him.

The little guy returned home with a spoonful of medicine, and the news that the clerk of Xue's drugstore bought medicine in Yuchun Tower spread all over the capital that day, and no one went to Xue's drugstore again.

Xue Baochai fled and went to several other shops, and sure enough, the situation was the same as that of Xue's drugstore.She carefully looked at the names of those shops, but found that they were different. She was also puzzled, so she took Ying'er back to Jia's mansion.On the way, he kept thinking about who he offended.When she arrived at Rong Mansion, Xue Baochai did not go back to her own courtyard, but went to Mrs. Wang's courtyard. At this time, she still had to rely on Mrs. Wang and the people of Jia's mansion.

Because of the Jade Guanyin, Mrs. Wang has been very polite to Xue Baochai recently. After hearing Xue Baochai's words, Mrs. Wang felt that her shop was crowded. She had already discussed with Jia Mu that everything about Xue's family would fall into the trap. In the hands of the Jia family, how can they allow their own shop to be occupied by others?Immediately promised Xue Baochai would help her.Xue Baochai returned to Wutong Garden gratefully, never thinking that Mrs. Wang's idea was to seize their shop.

Daiyu's mood has improved a lot since playing the piano that day and crying a lot. Even the maids who served said that the girl has become more agile.And thinking of crying in Shui Rong's arms that day, Daiyu felt embarrassed to see Shui Rong, but Shui Rong didn't come over often in the past few days, and when she came, she just asked some trivial things and left.Daiyu thought that Shui Rong was ashamed as she was, but she didn't think that now Shui Rong was investigating her poisoning in addition to her official duties, and she was so busy every day that she didn't have time to come and see him.However, the so-called distance creates beauty, but Daiyu found that she had not seen Shui Rong for a few days, and she had some faint concerns about Shui Rong.

Zijuan has always been careful, but now seeing Daiyu's intentional or unintentional news about water dissolution, she knows that her daughter may have a good impression of the prince.She and Xueyan Ruyanruxue and the other girls have long discovered that Prince Beijing treats their girls very well, but in their hearts, their girls have always regarded Shui Rong as an older brother, and they are also worried about Shui Rong in their hearts. In Yan's view, his own girl is the best, and Shui Rong is worthy of his own girl, but in Ruyan Ruxue's eyes, his prince is the best, and of course he needs a wonderful person like Daiyu to match him.Besides, the two of them really liked this gentle and kind girl, so the four girls became a rope and worked hard to promote Daiyu and Shui Rong.

Zijuan saw that Daiyu was in a daze, so she smiled and said, "Girl, the plum blossoms in the palace are in full bloom now, let's go and have a look?" It’s very boring in the yard.” Ruxue laughed and said, “Obviously the girl wanted to go, so she dragged us.” Now Ruyan Ruxue and Daiyu are also familiar and often joke around, Daiyu is not annoyed .He said with a smile, "good sister, I can't say enough about you, the four of you are in the same group." Zijuan Ruxue hurriedly packed Daiyu's clothes, and put a cloak on her, and the five went to the courtyard go.

Ruyan smiled and said: "If you want to see the plum blossoms, you should go to the prince's Aomei Garden." Daiyu was startled, then laughed again: "Let's just look around in the courtyard, after all, it's a man's residence, it's inappropriate for us to go there .” Ruyan and the others didn’t say much, and walked along the cobblestone path to the garden.From time to time there was a plum tree on the side of the road, and Daiyu and the others stopped to look at it for a while. When they arrived at the garden, they saw two people in front of them. veil.Daiyu saw Shui Rong and the man also saw herself, so she couldn't avoid it, she just didn't know what to do, but she saw those two people walking over.

After walking in, he found that it was Qi Haoyu who met in Meilin that day. Daiyu hurriedly greeted the two of them, and Shui Rong said: "Yu'er, you are welcome." Then he asked why Daiyu was in the garden.Daiyu laughed and said: "Sister Zijuan said that the plum blossoms in the garden are blooming well, so we came out." Shui Rong said with a smile: "If you want to see the plum blossoms, you have to go to my Aomei Garden. Yu'er has been here for so long and hasn't been there yet." Well, Haoyu is here today, my master invites you two to enjoy tea and flowers in Aomei Garden, okay?"

Qi Haoyu quickly agreed, and said with a smile: "Haoyu wanted to go a long time ago, how can he not go now that Brother Wang invites you?" Daiyu was not a coy person, so she smiled and said: "Yu'er listens to Brother Rong. "Shui Rong looked at Daiyu's dependence on him, and was very happy in his heart, but Qi Haoyu felt that it was calculated. Daiyu only called him Mr. Qi, but called him Brother Shui Rong, so he was naturally a little sour.

A few people walked towards Aomei Garden, Shui Rong and Qi Haoyu talked all the way, but Daiyu just listened quietly without answering.Suddenly Qi Haoyu said: "Brother Wang just talked about tasting tea, but what kind of good tea did you get? I heard that the emperor rewarded you with half a catty of high-quality tea, which was a tribute from Siam. You should give some to your brother. "Shui Rong just smiled and didn't speak when he heard the words, but Daiyu was stunned. A few days ago, Shui Rong gave him half a catty of tea and said it was a new one. Could it be that it was a tribute from Siam?Seeing that Shui Rong didn't answer, Daiyu thought it must be, and immediately she had an idea, she smiled and said to Shui Rong and Qi Haoyu, "Yu'er just got a new tea, and brought the water from the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. I wonder if Brother Rong and Young Master Qi want to try Yu'er's tea art?"

Shui Rong was moved when he heard the words, he knew that it was Daiyu who helped him out again, so he glanced at Daiyu, unexpectedly Daiyu was also looking at him, both of their faces blushed, Qi Haoyu smiled and said: "Lin Miss's tea art must be very good, I saw it last time, and today I really have a good taste." Daiyu asked Zijuan Ruxue and the two to go back to fetch tea leaves, water buried under the wisteria flowers, and the set of Yixing purple sand tea set.Zijuan naturally knew which one it was, and the two went as they said.

Not long after, we arrived at Aomei Garden. It was Daiyu's first time here, but Qi Haoyu was a regular visitor.Aomei Garden deserves to be the largest courtyard, even the houses are more than Qingju Garden and Lanxin Garden. There are many plum trees in the courtyard, all of which are treasures. Daiyu looked at the beautifully blooming plum blossoms while Then the water dissolved into the house.Daiyu glanced at it, and felt that the furnishings in the water-soluble room were simple and magnificent, but all the supplies were fine. Immediately, she thought of the furnishings in Yihong Courtyard, and thought: This is a man's room, and Yihong Courtyard is more like a lady. boudoir.

The three of them sat down in order of priority, and not long after, Zijuan Ruxue scooped up tea leaves and water, and Daiyu went to boil water on the small red clay stove beside her, and when the water was just right, she made tea and served it with water to dissolve it. Qi Haoyu and two people.Qi Haoyu sniffed it and said with a smile: "Is this tea from Longjing tea? What kind of water is this water?" Daiyu just smiled and didn't answer, took a sip of Shui Rong, and said with a smile: "It's really very frivolous, it's really good tea." Qi Haoyu took a sip, but did not drink out what water it was, Daiyu smiled and said: "This is the snow water on the bamboo leaves that Zijuan Xueyan and I collected in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion last winter, and buried another in the bamboo forest. Years ago, I scooped it up when I went back a few days ago."

Qi Haoyu sighed: "No wonder there is a fragrance, it turns out to be the fragrance of bamboo leaves." He laughed again: "Miss Lin is really good at tea art, Haoyu is willing to bow down." Daiyu didn't answer, and said with a watery smile: "Yuer, this This is the first time he conceded defeat." Daiyu laughed and said, "Yu'er is just playing tricks, it's not a big deal." Seeing her modesty, Qi Haoyu liked her even more, and the way he looked at him in his eyes also changed. Sensitive, he noticed it all at once, so he hid behind Shui Rong, Shui Rong naturally found out, and glared at Qi Haoyu, Qi Haoyu only reacted, Shui Rong said to him: "Haoyu also came out for a meeting, so go back Bar."

Qi Haoyu didn't expect that he just took one more look at Daiyu, and Shui Rong issued the order to evict her, but he also knew that he had made a mistake, so he hurriedly smiled and said: "So, Haoyu will leave, thank you Brother Wang and Miss Lin. "Shui Rong then asked the little girl to send Qi Haoyu out, seeing Daiyu still hiding behind him, he smiled and said: "Good Yuer, he's gone, don't be angry." Daiyu still didn't speak, when Shui Rong saw Daiyu Yu didn't speak, and hurriedly said: "Yu'er, don't be angry, brother Rong won't let him come again, he comes once and brother Rong beats him once, how about it?"

Daiyu originally felt embarrassed, but after hearing what Shui Rong said seriously, she hurriedly said: "Brother Rong, I want to meet Lanxin Garden." Shui Rong laughed and said, "Yu'er hasn't had a good look at the plum blossom yet, come to Yu'er I can see it better if I go upstairs with Brother Rong." Daiyu laughed and said, "What else is there to do?" Then she followed Shui Rong upstairs, and Zijuan Ruyan hurriedly followed.

After going upstairs, Daiyu realized that the windows on the second floor are transparent. Daiyu felt the sunlight coming through the window, and said with a smile: "Is this glass?" Shui Rong said: "Exactly." : "This was originally placed in Lanxinyuan, but my concubine never gave me a younger sister. Lanxinyuan has never been used, so I put it here. I knew that my sister would live in Lanxinyuan. Even if you kill me, I won’t bring it here. But Yu’er, I’ve already ordered a batch of glass from abroad, and it will arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. When I replace the glass for you, your house won’t be cold.”

Daiyu hurriedly said: "Brother Rong, this can't be done. The glass is a rare thing and must be very expensive, so Brother Rong shouldn't spend it." The room will also be replaced with glass, so don't worry about it." Daiyu quickly thanked Shui Rong, and Shui Rong smiled: "Let's stop talking about this, and see how well the plum blossoms are blooming outside?"