[Red Mansions] Minruo Spring Breeze Returns to Dream

Four waves gradually rise Xu Shimou

The news that Jia Yuanchun was named nobleman really made the Rongguo Mansion famous in Beijing, but everyone just ridiculed the girls of the Jia family behind their backs for being shameless, ungrateful to the master, and climbed onto the emperor's dragon bed. Several unmarried girls in the mansion were discussed one by one.

"I don't know how to teach my daughter, and even brought several girls in the mansion to be teased by others. Mrs. Wang still thinks she is the emperor's mother-in-law. I don't know where she is conceited." Others dare not speak in front of Rongguo Mansion Talking about jokes in Beijing, but people from Xu's natal family dared.Mrs. Xu just went home to visit her sick mother, but she didn't expect her sister-in-law to send such a big news to her first, and she was so angry that her head hurt.No, today I found time to come to Jia Min's mansion to confide.

"Sister-in-law, don't be angry, don't be angry and ruin your body." Although Jia Yuanchun was raised by the Wang family, he was taken to Jia's mother when he was eight years old, and entered the palace at the age of 13.To put it bluntly, it is actually the consequences of many aspects, coupled with the atmosphere of the harem, it has created Jia Yuanchun today. "Now those people are just chewing their tongues. It will be fine after a while. If you try to excuse now, you will cause trouble."

"Of course I know." Mrs. Xu was just complaining. She couldn't say these words in front of Jia Mu, so she had to complain in front of Jia Min, "Now Mrs. Wang is getting more and more proud in the mansion. I said that after the new year, I will send high-quality clothing and jewelry to the young master in the palace. The old lady has already agreed, and asked the public to exchange the money and go to the silver building to make jewelry."

"These things are the most taboo in the palace. Maybe the empress can turn a blind eye to sending them in secretly. Now that she is saying so much that she is going to send something to the little master in the palace, it is not secretly accusing the Secretary of Internal Affairs of not preparing something." Okay? This is offending people." Jia Min can only sigh that Wang is really trying to kill herself, "Don't bother with her sister-in-law, it's a matter of the second room. Now you live in Rongxitang, in the future Rongguo Mansion is not up to you to decide with elder brother, just bear with it."

"Why don't I know how to be patient? It's just that the old lady always prefers the second wife. This time, the money for jewelry making is all paid out of the account." Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Wang are housekeepers together, so they naturally know how the expenditure and income are on the account.The Rongguo Mansion looks great, rich and luxurious, but in fact it is just empty space inside. It spends a lot every year and earns a little, and it is always barely enough.This time, the public account has to pay for Jia Yuanchun to make ornaments. Seeing that there is an extra expense, how can Mrs. Xu be happy?Speaking of which, the second room really spends the money in the public account. The four maids around Baoyu and the four second-class maids alone have the same share as Jia Yingchun and Jia Tanchun's servants.

"Actually, there are several shops outside the Rongguo Mansion. Why worry about having no money?" Mrs. Xu is not Wang Xifeng in her previous life, and she will not use her dowry to pay back. The income of the shop is the most important thing.”

Mrs. Xu paused, and felt that Jia Min's words were very reasonable, so she changed her expression and said with a smile: "Thanks to my sister for reminding me."

Jia Min smiled slightly, chatted with Mrs. Xu for a while, and then someone sent her out.It is inconvenient for her to say some things, and she only hopes that her sister-in-law can notice, after all, so far, Dafang's lineage is not wrong.

Mrs. Xu had been immersed in Rongguo Mansion for so many years, so she naturally understood the meaning of Jia Min's words. As soon as she returned to the mansion, she called her confidant, Anfu's family, and asked her to tell Anfu that tomorrow she would secretly go to a few days outside Jia's house. I made an unannounced visit to a shop.An Fu came back from a stroll and explained the situation in the shop to Mrs. Xu in detail.There are three or two shops in the Jia family, which can no longer be maintained. Those shopkeepers are not interested in doing business. They just want to make small profits. less months.

Naturally, Mrs. Xu can't let go of such an opportunity. Originally, when she gave birth to her brother Lian, Mrs. Wang was able to pick up a lot of people at the airport, but now the antique shop under the name of Rongguo Mansion is Leng, the son-in-law of Zhou Rui's family next to Mrs. Wang. Zixing is in charge.Later, he sued someone for selling counterfeit goods, but it was Mrs. Wang who came forward to fish him out.This matter has never been brought to the attention of the old lady, this time Mrs. Xu will definitely take the opportunity to take the position of shopkeeper of Leng Zixing's antique shop.

After Mrs. Xu got the news that Mrs. Wang had gone to Lixiangyuan, she took the account books of the past few months and Anfu's family to pay her respects to Mrs. Jia.She also kept an eye out and asked Anfu to wait outside. After a while, Mother Jia probably wanted to send him in for questioning.

No one knows what Mrs. Xu told Mother Jia, but the next day, Mother Jia sent her confidant, Lai Da, to inspect the shops under the name of Rongguo Mansion, and then changed many shopkeepers in a hurry. , The end is to hit Wang by surprise.Then Jia Mu excused that many servants in the mansion were getting old, so she decided to let a group of people go out, many of whom were promoted by the Wang family in recent years.

Wang's hate, those people in the mansion are nothing more than that, the shops outside are the source of her oil and water!Leng Zixing alone can send her hundreds of taels of silver every year. This time, he was robbed of the shopkeeper's position, and it was arranged by Jia's mother himself. How can he get so much money in the future?In my heart, I hated the people in Dafang even more.

Mrs. Xu didn't care what Mrs. Wang was thinking. This time, one-third of the people Jia Mu arranged for in the shop were her contacts in the mansion over the years. Although not all of them became shopkeepers, two or three A person who can talk is enough.For Jia Yuanchun's sake, Jia's mother was unwilling to find out where the proceeds from those previous shops went wrong, but the money for making jewelry and clothes for Jia Yuanchun had already been paid by the second room herself.

But after all, it was the old lady who entered the palace to greet the queen mother, and then got permission from the queen mother to let the people from the second room deliver things in, and then allowed the second room to pick a girl to serve Jia Yuanchun in the palace. The Lord is so jealous.

Not long after the beginning of spring, Jia Min actually fell ill.At first, I thought it was just an occasional cold, but I didn't want to drink the medicine for several days. The high fever has subsided, but I still have occasional cough, which makes Lin Ruhai and the three of them so anxious that they are sweating.Later it was the Empress Dowager who heard about this, and asked the imperial physician in the palace to come over to have a look, and changed to a mild and nourishing prescription, and slowly recovered after taking it slowly.

"Mother, I made stewed Chuanbei rock sugar stewed pears for you, drink it while it's hot." Lin Daiyu asked Swift to deliver the stew, "This is the most nourishing yin and lungs. The imperial doctor said that mother should take it every three days. A cup is also good for the body."

"Let's put it there." Jia Min put down the half-embroidered robe, "You go to the kitchen every day and freeze it carefully; Swift, watch the girl, don't tell her to use the knife herself."

"Yes." Swift smiled, "These stews are all watched by the cook, and the girl is just talking about it."

"That's right, I remember what my mother told me, and I won't use a knife casually." Lin Daiyu looked at Jia Min's half-finished product on the couch, "Is this robe made for Daddy?"

"Of course not, this is for your brother." Jia Min took a spoonful of soup and put it into his mouth, "Your brother is going to participate in Qiu Wei in a few months, so I will make some clothes for him. Although the needlework The people in the room are also careful in doing things, but after all, this is also my mother's intention."

"If that's the case, then I'll make a purse for my brother too. I heard that candidates will stay in the examination hall for seven days and seven nights. They will eat, drink, sleep and have no one around them. It’s also good to put handkerchiefs or other small objects in the purse.” Lin Daiyu thought about the life in the Gongyuan she had heard about, “It’s almost enough to make a sachet with incense.”

"There is no examination scholar who brings a sachet into the examination room." Lin Jinshu heard his sister say this as soon as he came in, and said with a smile, "Just make me a purse. As for girls like sachets It’s enough for you to wear it yourself.” After saying that, he said to Jia Min: “My son greets his mother.”

Lin Daiyu made a face at him.

Jia Min hurriedly served hot tea, and said, "It's so cold outside, why are you rushing over here? How about freezing yourself? Cui Liu, go and add a coat to the uncle."

"Don't bother Aunt Cui Liu, my son just took off his cloak outside, it's not cold." Lin Jinshu hurriedly stopped, "Seeing that mother's complexion seems to be much better, my son is relieved."

"It's just a cold, but it frightened you all." Jia Min laughed, "Yu'er, there is still stewed pear with Chuanbei in the kitchen. Bring a cup for your brother too."

"Of course there are." Lin Daiyu said with a smile, "My brother is busy visiting teachers these days, and those who go out with him should pay extra attention. Although it is already spring, the weather is gradually getting warmer. It's just that the capital and Yangzhou is different, it seems to be colder, brother should bring more coats when going out."

"I know." Lin Jinshu took a sip of the warm sweet soup, "But when my son returned home, he happened to see Aunt Peiwen sending away the visitors, who looked like people around his grandmother," he thought carefully After thinking about it, "Looks like Madam Lai. Grandmother has sent a lot of things to mother these days."

Since Mother Jia learned that her daughter was ill, she sent Lai everyone to visit every few days, but Jia Min always refused to see her often on the grounds of bed rest. Everyone came in and talked to her.It's not that Jia Min doesn't miss the love between mother and daughter, it's just that everyone said that Jia's mother misses Lin Daiyu all day long, implying that she will take Daiyu to live in Rongguo Mansion so that she can rest in peace.Yu'er is the girl of their Lin family, even if the mistress is sick, is it possible that there is no one else in the house who can take care of Yu'er?What does it mean that Piansheng wants to move to Rongguo Mansion!

"Understood, I'll go to Rongguo Mansion to visit when I'm healthy again." The implication is that I won't see the people sent by the Jia family again for the time being.

Right.Lin Jinshu nodded.He doesn't have any feelings for this grandparent's family, he just thinks that his mother is sick and should be able to recuperate well, so how can his mother rest in peace if he comes to post messages all day long to see his mother?He said again: "My son has to go back to study his homework, so I'm leaving first."

Lin Daiyu also had classes in the afternoon, so she left with Lin Jinshu.Looking at her tall and tall eldest son and her petite and slender daughter, Jia Min felt that having such two children in her life was already the best gift from heaven to her.

The author has something to say: ① Actually, it was Wang Xifeng who helped, but here it was Wang who came forward