Who is the golden hairpin of Dream of Red Mansions buried for?

That day I didn't go back to the room until evening, just after I got into the room, I saw Madam Xue and Xue Pan sitting outside, the two mother and son were chatting, when they saw me entering the room, they covered their mouths and looked at me with a smile.

"Mother, brother, you haven't rested so late, what can you do with me?" Asking, he took off his robe and handed it to Ying'er, then walked to the couch where Mrs. Xue was sitting, and found a vacant seat. , and sat down according to her.

Mrs. Xue put her arms around me, and said with a smile: "I heard that the old lady is going to give you a birthday, so I discussed with your brother to get some money for a banquet - you are going to get married, after this birthday, you will You can get married now! Mother wants to make things more lively for you..."

"Well, everything is up to mother's arrangement!" He casually interrupted Mrs. Xue's words, and at the same time took the cool white tea from Ling'er.

Mrs. Xue did not expect that I would agree so readily. I must have kept everything simple in my past life.After Madam Xue was stunned for three seconds, she saw that I didn't pay attention to her, but concentrated on drinking the cool water, as if drinking the excellent Enshi Yulu.

"Uh! Bao girl!" Mrs. Xue finally said, "Actually, mother and elder brother have other important matters to discuss with you tonight." Oh, I guess it must be about the shop!A few days ago, I revealed something about the Jinling store. They have been silent for so many days, so they should have reacted!

"Mother, brother, what's the matter, you can just talk about it!" Putting down the water glass in his hand, he said calmly.

"Okay, mother, let's just say it straight!" Mrs. Xue seemed to have made up her mind, "I heard from your brother earlier that our family's shops in Jinling and other places were not closed down, but were closed down by your father. My old friend is taking care of her. Bao girl, is this true?"

"Oh, mother, did you ask the wrong person?" I smiled slightly, "Since I heard what my brother said, you can just ask him, and ask me what I do?"

"This……"

"Good sister, don't play there!" Xue Pan said impatiently, "You didn't make it clear that day, and I was confused. Today, you should talk about what's going on!"

These days, because I was with Xiangyun, I didn't have time to pay attention to Xue Pan, and I saw him looking like he was about to say it several times, but every time he gave up because someone else came to play with me. "Actually, it's not a big deal!" I didn't want to play hide-and-seek with them anymore, so I just said it, and it doesn't matter whether it's good or bad, I've taken care of this shop for them for so many years. It's time to let go too! "Actually, speaking of it, maybe mother will know something about it." She said slowly, I must not be sure whether Xue Changfu had told Mrs. Xue about the store arrangement before his death.Seeing Mrs. Xue's eyes change slightly, I continued, "Father once told me that he was worried that the shop of Xue's family would be managed by brother, so he invited an old friend of his to help manage the shop. "

"Mother, is there really such a thing?" Xue Pan asked, "But all these years, that person has never appeared. If my sister hadn't mentioned it, I would not have known such a thing!"

"Well, I also heard the master mention this matter back then, but the master did not explain it in detail, and I don't know which old friend the master entrusted." Mrs. Xue nodded and sighed, "So all these years, I have been I am waiting for that person to come, but there is no news at all for so many years. I don’t want to, but he has been in contact with Bao girl! By the way, Bao girl, how did that person contact you? You have always been at home, never How can you be so clear about this when you go out?"

"Daddy arranged this! As for that person, I have never met him. When we were still in Jinling a few years ago, my brother closed down the shops carelessly, so he put those shops away and ran them for us. Every year, a letter is sent to me, giving a brief description of the business of the shop." Holding the stove, drying his hands, he said, "A few days ago, he suddenly wrote that he was too old to take care of the shop, and he heard that his brother Now that the shop is well managed, I want to return the shop to the original owner. In a few days, I will send the account books of these years to the capital. The income of these years has been deposited in the bank, and the deposit certificates are also sent. .”

"Then who is he? Do you know?" Mrs. Xue said, "He has taken care of the store for our family for so many years, but we have never known it. We have to thank him very much!"

"Well, he also said in the letter that he doesn't want us to know who he is!" Uh, in fact, you see each other every day, "but he will send someone to hand over everything, and the date has not yet been set." Now everything It has not been properly arranged, and it may take a month or two before the official handover!

"He really said that?" Xue Pan asked, "I still want to know who is the best customer who can manage our shop so well!" Xue Pan suddenly jumped up as if thinking of something. He got up and said, "By the way, I have paid attention to that shop, and I heard that a person named Fang Qing took it away."

"Fang Qing?!" I said in amazement, originally I thought Xue Pan would not care about these things, but I didn't want him to keep his eyes open all the time!

"That's right! Fang Qing, that's the tough businessman I told you about when I came back that day. He's the one who threatened me to learn business!" Xue Pan became annoyed when he mentioned this!

"Pan'er, what you said is true?" Mrs. Xue asked suspiciously, "I heard that Fang Qing is a young man, but Bao girl just said that it was an old man who closed my shop?"

Uh, that Mrs. Xue, I didn’t say that I am an old man, I only said that I am old~!

"This, this..." Xue Pan thought for a while and said, "Maybe that Fang Qing is the only son of the old man who helped his father take care of my shop. He also tricked me into learning business management. , and urged him to return the shop to my family."

Uh, when did I become my own son? !Their imaginations are really rich!He secretly smiled in his heart, but still pretended not to know. "Brother, it's not right for you to speak like that. He is doing it for our own good. Don't tell me you want him to guard the shop for our family for the rest of his life?"

"Well, Bao girl's words are good!" Mrs. Xue nodded in agreement, and then smiled, "Since our shop is still there, it's better to take it back earlier, our family's ancestral business can't be just like this Let outsiders hold it! As for how much they have helped our family, giving some silver taels will be a compensation for their hard work over the years."

"But!" Xue Pan said anxiously, "Let me run so many shops at once, I'm afraid that I..."

"There's nothing to worry about!" Mrs. Xue said with a smile, "Just let your sister help you when the time comes, right, Bao girl, you will help your brother, right?"

Looking at the eager eyes, I just smiled slightly, and said lightly: "Mother, there are some things, it's better for brother to do it himself. I can help him for a while, but I can't help him forever!"

"How do you say that?" Mrs. Xue probably didn't expect me to refuse so simply, she frowned and said, "We're all a family, why bother to see outsiders like this?"

"Oh! See you outside?!" I raised my eyebrows lightly and said with a smile, "Mother seems to have forgotten that I will be fifteen in a few days. According to the customs here, I am an adult and can marry. Mother let me I help my brother manage the store, do you want me to come back and help my brother manage the store after I get married?"

Mrs. Xue was silent for a while, but Xue Pan jumped out and said with a smile: "What's so difficult? My sister will marry a few years later, and I will help my brother manage the shop first! If my sister doesn't agree, I have to doubt my sister now. I want to get married in a hurry!"

"How many years later?! In a few years, you will be old and poor. Who should you marry?" Actually, I don't agree with early marriage, but now in order to let them take over the business of the store and not bother me, I have to use this Make threats!

"Girl Bao, you can't rush your marriage!" Mrs. Xue said slowly, "When you were sick that year, a monk came and gave you that golden lock, and at the same time said that your gold should be matched with someone who has jade. Come auspicious! In the past few years, I have also paid attention to which family's son and brother Youyu..."

"It's not easy to find a jade one? Isn't there one in existence?" Xue Pan curled his lips and said nonchalantly, "Isn't the treasure jade in my aunt's house contained a piece of jade when it fell into the grass? So, there is no need to look for it outside, just Brother Bao! In this way, my sister can continue to help me manage the shop!"

Heh, it seems that they have been paying attention for a long time!Mrs. Xue's words just now can be regarded as throwing bricks and attracting jade, but Xue Pan's words are straightforward!Sneered: "Oh! It turns out that mother and brother have already planned it!"

"Girl Bao, since we've reached this point, I'll tell you!" Mrs. Xue took my hand and said solemnly, "I have discussed with your aunt that when Baoyu is 15 years old , let the two of you get engaged first, and get married in two years."

Oh, it seems that everything has been planned, and I, the client, don't know it yet! "Will the old lady agree?" asked without a trace of emotion.

Mrs. Xue saw that I didn't have much objection, so she smiled lightly and said: "Based on our family's conditions, the old lady will not object if I think about it! Although the old lady seems to still be towards Daiyu in her heart, Daiyu can't cause trouble. Any troubles - she must be an orphan, and she has no family background, but she has some silver in her hand, but how can she compare to our family? If you can please the old lady more in the future, then naturally there will be no problem! If the old lady is really unwilling, ask your aunt to go to the palace and talk to the concubine Yuan, and if a jade decree comes down, even if the old lady objects, it will not be broken!"

Hearing what she said, my heart turned cold, but I still didn't give up. How could they arrange my life regardless of my wishes? ! "I want to know, what's the benefit of you insisting that I marry into Jia's family?" The standard businessman's negotiating tone.

"Sister, do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?" Xue Pan said from the side, "We are merchants, and the Jia family is an official family. Since ancient times, merchants have been cheap, and merchants have no status. This official merchant family, they have money, and we have power! Now I am in charge of the fifty or so shops again. I can’t finish the shops like last time, so I still need officials to protect them—even if there are no fifty or so shops. Yu's shop, we have to do this too!"

"That's right! Although our family is an imperial merchant, our power is getting worse day by day!" Mrs. Xue sighed, "If our family is defeated by me, how can I go to see Xue's family after I die?" Back then, I promised the master to take good care of you and take care of the Xue family, but unfortunately the Xue family is still worsening day by day. Fortunately, the master has the foresight and has made arrangements early to entrust someone to take care of the shop until Pan'er is sensible, otherwise... "

"Since the mother has already made arrangements, Baochai won't say anything more!" She smiled suddenly, but her heart was completely cold, although I always knew that in their eyes, everything was nothing like this one. Karma is important, but I don't think that the love between mother and daughter, brother and baby, is not as fast as that money without temperature!Although they were all for the sake of this family, they ignored the feelings of me as the client, and even made a marriage agreement without my consent!If I were really Xue Baochai in that book, what else could I do besides agreeing?Unfortunately, I am not Xue Baochai, I am Fang Qing! "Mother said that she wants me to please the old lady more in the future, so I will concentrate on trying to please the old lady, and I don't care about the rest!"

"Sister! You can't do this, what about the shop?" Xue Pan wailed.

"It's okay for me to manage the business of the store, but the condition is that I don't marry into the Jia family!" She looked at their mother and son with a smile, wondering what they valued most.

The two mothers and sons exchanged glances, and there was a moment of silence. Mrs. Xue said: "Actually, women don't need to understand the ways of doing business. The most important thing is to learn how to care for their husbands and raise their children! Tomorrow, you don't have to worry about the business." , you have taught your brother a lot these days, and now your brother has taken care of this shop properly, even if there is something you don’t understand, just tell your brother!”

"Okay!" Suddenly smiled, even I didn't know why I was laughing, "Mother said what I said! Oh yes, in fact, this morning, I received the letter from Feige, and that person took care of it for us. People from more than [-] shops said that in two days, my brother will be able to take over everything in the shop! Please get ready! As for the specific location, he will ask someone to inform you! It is already very late, I I want to rest, so please mother and elder brother to rest early!" After sending out the orders, I ignored them and drank my cool drink on my own.

"Then treasure girl, let's rest first!" Mrs. Xue said.I nodded and got up to send them out of the room.