The heart of the red mansion is like jade

Daiyu didn't know what Shui Rong and the concubine had done for her. She still had dinner with the concubine and talked with the concubine every day as before. When she was free, she went back to Lanxinyuan and the concubine made clothes for the concubine. There seemed to be more distress in her eyes. Daiyu was always sensitive, so she noticed it naturally, but she just intuitively told Daiyu that the concubine would not treat her badly, so Daiyu didn't care.

Shui Rong is still trying his best to investigate the case of Mrs. Lin's poisoning. In his eyes, Jia Min is not only his mother's good sister, Yu'er's mother, but also the court's second-rank wife. Jia Min's poisoning is not only a family matter, but also a state matter. , he also paid extra attention.Although it is more difficult to find out what happened decades ago, after all, progress has gradually been made, and Shui Rong has become more and more sure of his guess.He could even feel that he was only one step away from the truth.

And the empress dowager became more and more happy when she saw the two young children, Shui Rong and Daiyu, in front of her.When Daiyu didn't live in the Beijing Palace, even though Shui Rong often came to accompany her, the two of them didn't have much to say. After Daiyu came, it was different, especially recently, Shui Rong came to talk to him more and more. The more, the more smiles on the face.After all, the concubine is a mother, she is also happy seeing her son happy, and she likes Daiyu even more in her heart.

The situation in Jia's mansion is not so good.Xue Baochai was the one who was most unhappy. Now his shop has been overcrowded by other shops so that he can't even do business, and those shops seem to be deliberately crowding out his business. After the little guy quarreled once on the road, the whole capital knew that the clerks of Xue’s drugstore no longer filled their own medicines because the time in their own shop was too long and the price was too expensive. Gradually, more and more people went to Xue’s other shops. less.

Mrs. Wang originally wanted to rely on Jia Zheng's relationship to find out who was running on the Xue family, but she couldn't find out after many searches. , and several shops are law-abiding, and no mistakes can be found at all.Mrs. Wang was also helpless, and could only watch helplessly as the business of the Xue family's shop became more and more bleak.

Xue Baochai had no choice but to discuss with the shopkeepers in several shops, and sold the goods in the shop at a reduced price. At first, there was some effect, but later it had no effect at all. After careful inspection, I found that other shops were in the Within an hour after their price was reduced, the price of Xue's shop will definitely be reduced as well. Xue's shop has no choice but to sell again, and other shops will also reduce their prices. No matter what, the goods of other houses are cheaper than Xue's shop.

Xue Baochai knew that it was indeed someone deliberately against her family, but the names of these shops were different, and the boss behind them was not alone. Xue Baochai paced back and forth in the east wing of Wutong Garden, wondering which family wanted to So to my own home.Yuchun Building, Meiyu Pavilion, Yulin Silk and Satin Village, Yushengxiang Jade Store, Xue Baochai suddenly thought: "Every store has jade characters on it. Could it be Lin Daiyu? Could it be that Lin Daiyu discovered the poisoning, and the Beijing Palace wants revenge. The Xue family?"

Thinking of this, Xue Baochai broke out in a cold sweat. If so, then his brother's life would definitely be lost.Xue Baochai never imagined that what she thought was a foolproof method turned out to be a stumbling block to her.Just what to do now?Xue Baochai could do nothing else, and thought that maybe he was thinking too much. Although every shop had jade characters, it did not mean that it was made by the Beijing Palace. Even if the Palace was protecting Lin Daiyu, it was impossible for her to do it. Thinking of such a troublesome thing, she felt a little more comfortable, but she was thinking of finding something to assassinate Daiyu.This person is really hurting others and not benefiting himself. It is clear that Daiyu has no conflict of interest with her, and she still wants to harm others. She is really self-inflicted.What's more, my own shop is about to collapse, and I still have the heart to think about it.

She hadn't figured out how to hurt Daiyu yet, but she heard Ying'er coming in from outside and said, "Second Grandma, Tong Xi came over today and said that the shopkeepers of several shops said they had no capital to buy new goods. The wife is in a hurry, so please go back home." Discuss."

Xue Baochai hurriedly said: "Ying'er, clean up for me, let's go there now." Mrs. Wang knew the crisis of Xue's shop, and she had allowed Xue Baochai to go back to her mother's house or go to the shop in case of emergency, so Xue Baochai didn't have to go back to Mrs. Wang Then you can go out.Ying'er hurriedly helped Xue Baochai get dressed, and then went to Lixiangyuan.

Aunt Xue was waiting for her in the yard. Xia Jingui had heard that the Xue family had offended someone, and Xue Pan would definitely not come back, so he went home every few days and took the valuables in his house and the things he had saved. All the money was secretly brought back to her natal family, and she was greedy for money when she helped Aunt Xue buy Xue Baochai's dowry.Aunt Xue was worried about Xue Pan and about Xue's shop, so she still had the mood to take care of her, even if she wanted to.Today Xia Jingui returned to her natal home early in the morning with her maid, Baochan, and what she brought in her baggage was decorations worth several thousand taels.

When Aunt Xue saw Xue Baochai coming, she immediately felt that she had the backbone, and without waiting for Xue Baochai to greet her, she hurriedly said, "Chai, you are here, what should we do now?" The shop is sold, or the shop will be opened for a day and lose money for a day.Now when I heard my mother wanted to ask, although I felt embarrassed, she still said truthfully: "Mom, I'm afraid I'm going to sell the shop now."

Aunt Xue heard the words and cried: "Chaier, is this the only way?" She had heard from the shopkeepers that the shop should be sold now, but it was left by her ancestors, and now she felt speechless in the future. To the ancestors of the Xue family.Xue Baochai sighed: "I'm afraid that's the only way to go." Aunt Xue had no choice but to agree, and Xue Baochai said again: "I have written a letter to Xue Biao asking him to come. There is no man in our family, and now everything depends on Jia. Family, their family is easy to get along with, Jia Lian didn't know how much money he scooped up from our family, and he didn't help much."

Aunt Xue said: "Since ancient times, there have been many flowers on the brocade and few charcoal in the snow. Even Xue Biao may not necessarily help us." An old man carefully discussed which shop to sell, and finally decided to keep the three shops in the best location and sell the rest.They discussed how much to sell for which shop, and negotiated the price according to the location and the quality of the house, and finally found that these shops could sell for 356 million taels, which was enough for Aunt Xue and herself in the future.

The next day, a sign was put up to sell the shop. Xue Baochai originally thought that those shops would be easy to sell, but found that after waiting for a day, not even one family came to ask, so he had to lower the price. Xue Baochai couldn't keep staring at this. , She still had to take care of the food and clothing of Rongguo Mansion, so she found a trustworthy old family member. After seeing this, she returned to Rongguo Mansion and continued her life as a housekeeper.In today's Rongguo Mansion, only Mrs. Wang knows about the crisis of Xue's shop, and no one else knows about it. Xue Baochai wanted to be very strong, and she didn't want others to see it, so she insisted on it.Although Jia's mansion doesn't have much money now, the daily expenses are not less, so Xue Baochai has to subsidize some from her dowry.Now there is another matter in front of us, and that is the plum blossom feast at the Princess' Mansion.

Jia's mansion, as the Duke's mansion, naturally also received the invitation. Now that Jia's mansion is getting farther and farther away from a mansion like the princess's mansion, it is naturally very happy to receive the invitation card. Mother Jia thought carefully and asked Mrs. Xing to bring The two went to welcome the spring and cherish the spring.She originally wanted to let Mrs. Wang go, but she just thought that Concubine Beijing would also go. If she saw Mrs. Wang and then thought about the punishment of kneeling in the ancestral hall for two months, it would be bad.Although Mrs. Xing is from a small family, she is the first-class wife of General Wei Lie, so she has settled down in this way.He also ordered Xue Baochai to make fine clothes and jewelry for Yingchun Xichun.Jia's mother knew that the plum blossom banquet was also attended by princes and grandsons, if these two maids were favored by some prince or son, it would be good for Jia's mansion.

Xue Baochai hated secretly, but she had to ask Yingchun and Xichun to make arrangements for them. She originally wanted to humiliate them, but she didn't expect Xue's family to have frequent accidents, so she didn't care about them. Now she has to ask them to buy clothes and jewelry. Looking at such an opportunity but not being able to participate, she felt even more uncomfortable. If she could go, even ordinary clothes would surely be the best among others. As she thought so, she was angrily preparing for the two of them.

On the sixth day of December, Mrs. Xing took Yingchun Xichun to the other courtyard of the Princess Chang's mansion in the east of the city.Before leaving, Mrs. Xing carefully instructed Sister Feng, Jia Lian, and Sister Feng's maids and others to pay attention to. Now that Sister Feng has a four-month-old body and is showing signs of pregnancy, she is naturally very careful.Since Sister Feng and Jia Lian moved back to the big house, Sister Feng and Jia Lian have been filial to her every day, and she loves them more and more, and takes care of Sister Feng meticulously. Now Sister Feng only calls her mother, and she only calls her Feng'er or Feng girl. , the relationship between the two is very good, and they love Yingchun a little more.Mrs. Xing originally had no children, but now Jia Lianfeng's sister Yingchun treats her like a mother, so she is naturally very happy.

Mrs. Xing looked at Yingchun Xichun sitting in the car. Yingchun was wearing a light yellow sweater with flowers embroidered on it, which made Yingchun more dignified and charming. She was wearing a cloak of the same color. She was wearing a bright yellow sweater with magnolia flowers embroidered on it, but she looked a little more playful in Xichun's desolation, and she was wearing a cape of the same color.Both of them looked like flowers, they couldn't help laughing and said: "Ying'er and Xi'er are both beauties, they really become more and more beautiful the more they look at each other."

Like Yingchun, Xichun often goes to Sister Feng's garden now, and she is also familiar with Madam Xing, so she said with a smile: "We are considered to be the embryo of a beauty. Not as beautiful as Sister Lin."

Mrs. Xing said with a smile: "The eldest girl is naturally top-notch, even though I have lived for so many years, I have never seen anyone more beautiful than her. You have never met your Aunt Lin. The eldest girl and Miss Min look alike. , but a little more light than Miss Min, who was the most beautiful woman in the capital when she was not married, the eldest girl is really better than blue."

Xichun smiled and asked: "What about Uncle Lin?" Mrs. Xing said with a smile: "Your Uncle Lin is a Tanhua Lang, with a literary talent, everyone looks even more elegant, otherwise why would the old man marry Miss Min to him? Miss Min She was very kind. At that time, I was not the master's wife and she never flirted with me. She was very kind to everyone. At the beginning, everyone knew that Miss Min would be very sad to marry far away and go to Jiangnan, but later Mrs. Lin swore to only Marrying Miss Min alone made everyone feel better. At that time, the old Duke was still there, and happily sent Miss Min to marry. At that time, Uncle Lin was still in the old house of the Lin family in Jinling, and he often followed Miss Min back to Jia's mansion. But Min Less than a year after the girl got married, the old man left, and Miss Min also moved to Suzhou with Uncle Lin."

Xichun said: "It turns out that Uncle Lin is so great, he only married Aunt Min in his life." Mrs. Xing said: "A person like Miss Min is worthy of Uncle Lin's treatment of her." Xichun smiled and said: "Sister Lin is also worthy. Yes." He asked Yingchun again, "Second Sister, can I see Sister Lin today?"

Yingchun said with a smile: "Of course, I might see Sister Lin in a while."

As soon as Yingchun finished speaking, the carriage slowed down, but it was Xueyan standing in front of the carriage, Yingchun hurriedly let Xueyan get into the carriage, Xueyan felt relieved when she saw that it was Mrs. Xing who brought Yingchun and Xichun out. After getting into the carriage, I greeted Mrs. Xing and Xichun and said: "My girl is in the front and back of the carriage. The slave girl looks like a carriage from the Rongguo Mansion, so the girl asked me to come up and have a look."

Xichun hurriedly said: "Sister Lin is really here?" Xueyan said: "It's natural, the girl and the concubine are in the car behind."

Mrs. Xing hurriedly asked the coachman to stop the car by the side of the road first, waiting for the carriage of the Beijing Palace to pass first, and just stopped for a stick of incense, when she saw the Seven Treasures Chariot from the Beijing Palace approaching, the snow geese opened The curtain, facing the driveway: "It's the second girl, the fourth girl and the eldest wife." Seeing that the curtain on the car was also lifted, it was Zijuan who said with a smile: "Eldest lady, we girls said we will see you later." Mrs. Xing quickly agreed, and asked the coachman to follow the back of the car of Beijing Palace. "

Inside the Seven Treasures Fragrance Car in the Beijing Palace, Daiyu was wearing an off-white dress with blossoming wintersweet embroidered on it, a simple peach heart bun on her hair, and a set of topaz jewelry given to her by the concubine. Topaz plum blossom hairpins and a few plum-like flower tinsels are dotted on the three thousand black silk, really like fairies in the sky.

At this time, the fairy was leaning on the arms of Concubine Beijing regardless of her appearance, listening to Zijuan's words, Zijuan said with a smile: "Miss, Xueyan said that there are only the eldest wife, the second girl and the third girl." Daiyu laughed. "It's great if there is no second wife, but why didn't your grandmother come?" The concubine knew that Daiyu had deep feelings for Jia Shishi in her heart, so she sighed in her heart and said hurriedly: "Your grandmother is old It's not suitable to come out in this kind of weather." Daiyu chuckled lightly, "That's true too." Then she said something else to the concubine, and while talking and laughing, she went to the other courtyard of the eldest princess.

The late emperor had four sons and three daughters. The current emperor is the eldest son of the late emperor, while the old prince of Beijing is the third son of the late emperor. He and the current emperor are siblings.The second prince was born to Concubine Tong Gui, and now he is named the King of Loyalty, but this prince is neither loyal nor righteous, and he only wants to take his brother's country.The fourth prince was born to a court lady, and because of the low status of his birth mother, he was only named the King of Ning'an County, but the relationship between the King of Ning'an County and the present day is very good, and the relationship with the Beijing Palace is also very good, presumably because He must have been cared by Brother Sanhuang when he was young.

The Eldest Princess, the First Prince, the Third Prince, and the Third Princess are all born to the Empress, but the Second Princess is the same as the Second Prince, born of Concubine Tong. The Eldest Princess married the eldest son of General Zhou's family. The Zhou family is a family of generals. The eldest son is an all-rounder in cultural relics.The third princess voluntarily married the Fengxi country in the west. It was the second princess who was supposed to marry far away, but the second princess disliked Fengxi country as a small country and refused to marry.The second princess married Daiyu's father, Lin Ruhai, who was the number one student in the subject. The second princess was the same age as Jia Min, and originally fell in love with Tanhua Lin Ruhai, but Lin Ruhai only liked Jia Min, and didn't like this unruly and selfish second princess at all. The second princess had to marry the champion.The number one scholar didn't want to marry her at first, but because of Huang Wei's prestige, he had to marry her.

The current emperor encountered a lot of troubles when he ascended the throne. Thanks to the support of the eldest princess mansion and the third princess, as well as the support of the old prince Bei Jing and Lin Ruhai, he successfully ascended the throne. The garden is sent to the eldest princess.

When the incense chariot from the Prince's Mansion of Beijing arrived, there were already many two carts parked at the gate of the other courtyard. The driver didn't know what to do, so a young man came up to welcome the carriage from the Prince's Mansion directly into the courtyard. Only then stopped the car and changed to a soft sedan.After walking for two sticks of incense, the sedan chair stopped, and a very sharp voice said: "The second aunt is finally here. Mother has been waiting for a long time." The concubine smiled and said, "You are a pretty girl." After getting married, they are still in a hurry like before. "It turns out that this is the second daughter-in-law of the eldest princess, Zheng Huaxian, who just got married last year.

The woman said: "Xian'er has always been like this, and it's not like my aunt doesn't know." After she finished speaking, she personally helped the concubine to get off the sedan chair, and Zijuan helped Daiyu get off the sedan chair.The woman looked at Daiyu and was stunned for a moment. She realized that the concubine called her softly, and then came to Daiyu's side, and asked with a smile, "This is my aunt's new daughter, the former inspector of the Yan Yushi family. Miss Qianjin Lin? She is really a beauty. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is a fairy in the sky. Look at her whole body, she is like a heavenly girl."

Daiyu was very thin-skinned, seeing the woman just staring at her, and talking a lot, she didn't know what to say at the moment, she only looked at the princess, and the princess hurriedly said: "Yu'er, This is the second daughter-in-law of the eldest princess's family, you can just call her sister-in-law."

Daiyu hurriedly blessed the woman, and said with a smile: "Yu'er has seen the second sister-in-law." The woman hurriedly said: "My good sister, don't be too polite, my sister-in-law was stunned when she saw you just now, don't mind Ah." Daiyu looked at this sharp-spoken woman and her big smiling eyes, and liked her very much. The concubine smiled and said, "Xian'er, Yu'er is thin-skinned, take care of her." Then Zheng Huaxian She smiled and said, "Naturally, seeing Sister Yu'er, Xian'er liked it very much."

Still wanting to say something, the little girl said: "Second Grandma, the princess wants you to take the concubine and Miss Lin there quickly." That Xian'er hurriedly said: "Look, I just focus on looking at the beauties and forget about the business." He hurriedly brought Daiyu into the house with Concubine Beijing.

The servant girl, Concubine Bei Jing, came in and got up to greet her, and she was stunned when she saw the girl behind the concubine who thought she looked like a fairy.But Daiyu followed the concubine step by step to the woman sitting in the middle, just about to bow down, but saw the woman with tears in her eyes, walked towards her quickly, and said to the concubine, "Is this Yu'er?"

The concubine nodded and said to Daiyu: "Yu'er can just call her Aunt Hui." The eldest princess said: "Exactly, Yu'er calls me Aunt Hui." Yu'er hurriedly bowed down as a nephew. "Yu'er met Aunt Hui." The eldest princess hurriedly pulled her up, and said with a smile, "Yu'er has grown so big. If it wasn't for your father, Aunt Hui would have gone to pick you up a long time ago." Seeing Yu'er sitting next to him.

Concubine Beijing smiled and said: "Sister, you are too good at snatching people, this is my daughter you snatched away as soon as you saw it." The eldest princess smiled and said: "Yu'er has been with you for so long, now it is just You don't want to talk to me, just like when you were a child."

Daiyu listened to the joke between the two, and knew that the relationship between the two was probably very good, so she pursed her lips and smiled.The concubine didn't argue, she sat on the other seat while talking, Zheng Huaxian hurriedly brought water to the two, and the concubine Bei Jing pulled Zheng Huaxian to talk, then Zheng Huaxian was obviously familiar with the concubine Bei Jing Soon, he sat beside her and talked.

The eldest princess held Daiyu's hand and refused to let go, and asked about Daiyu's current situation in detail, and Daiyu answered one by one. The girl of the princess sister smiled at Daiyu and said, "Yu'er, you really look like your mother, but you also look like your father."

Daiyu had already guessed that the eldest princess must have a close relationship with her parents, so she just smiled and said: "The concubine mother also said that Yu'er looks like her mother, but she never said that Yu'er looks like her father." The eldest princess thought about Jia When Min left, Daiyu was only six or seven years old. Thinking about it, she couldn't remember her mother's appearance for a long time, and she felt even more distressed, so she went upstairs and Daiyu said: "I am still a child, yes, even though your mother is gone, we will still protect you." "Daiyu's heart warmed up, and tears almost came down. She was grateful to the eldest princess in her heart, and she was very grateful to her parents. Now the empress dowager and the eldest princess are protecting her so much, but it's just for her parents. She blindly Wiping away tears secretly, she smiled at the eldest princess, "Aunt Hui, you need to tell Yu'er more about my parents."

The eldest princess looked at Daiyu looking at herself expectantly, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Yu'er, Aunt Hui will tell you everything about your parents in the past. There are so many interesting things. It's good to talk I can’t finish talking in a few days.” Daiyu smiled and said: “Then Yu’er first thank Aunt Hui.”

Just as the eldest princess was about to speak, she heard the little girl say: "Princess Nan'an, Princess Dongping, Princess Xining and the princesses of each family have arrived." Zheng Huaxian hurriedly got up to greet her, but Daiyu was about to get up but was dragged by the eldest princess, so she had to sit down .When I was young, I saw three princesses walking in with four girls, one of them was Princess Nan'an, and next to her was Jia Tanchun.