Survive in the world of Red Mansions

"Second Mistress, Second Master will be resting at Aunt Fang's place tonight," Xue Baochai's maid Chunfeng said a little indignantly.

Ying'er, Que'er, Chunfeng, and Qiuye were all dowry maids brought by Xue Baochai from Xue's family when she married Rongguo Mansion. Ying'er followed Xue Baochai all the time, and the other three were selected from the Zhuangzi below as dowry maids. The maid followed and married into the Rongguo Mansion.When he first got married, Chunfeng was still very moved when he saw Jia Baoyu. Jia Baoyu's other advantages are hard to say, but he is good-looking, and he is always gentle and considerate to those maids. He is still very attractive to these little maids. .

But after a long time, Chunfeng finally understood that the uncle of their family was just a rusty pillow with no responsibility, and Chunfeng, the servant girl, let go of her petty thoughts and followed Xue Baochai wholeheartedly.But not everyone thinks the same way as Chunfeng. Jia Baoyu has always been gentle and considerate towards beautiful maids. The two dowry maids, Qiuye and Que'er, climbed onto Jia Baoyu's bed in a short time. .Chunfeng's appearance is only delicate, and he has always kept a respectful distance from Jia Baoyu. Later, together with Ying'er, Xue Baochai promised him to marry him as the steward of Zhuangzi's shop.

Later, the Rongguo Mansion was ransacked. Except for Li Wan, a chaste woman, and the private house of the old lady of the Jia family, all other properties were confiscated into the state treasury, and all the servants in the mansion were dismissed, except for Jia Baoyu. All the maids who waited beside him stayed because of his relationship.

In the past, when the Rongguo Mansion was rich and honored, Jia Baoyu doted on those maidservants as well, but it was difficult for Xue Baochai.As a servant, Chunfeng can't say much, but she can tell that as long as she is a beautiful woman, Master Bao is always gentle and considerate when facing her.When Xue Baochai just married in, Jia Baoyu was also fresh for a few days, but after a while, facing this Second Mistress Bao was no different from having sex with other concubines, and never thought that this was his regular wife.

Before Xue Baochai got married, Mrs. Wang showed that she liked her very much, but after she got married, she didn't see how good she was, and she was even worse than many other families.Mrs. Wang dislikes Xue Pan for causing trouble. Didn't she know Xue Baochai before she married?

Let Xue Baochai set the rules. Originally, there were many beautiful maids in Jia Baoyu's yard, and those maids such as Xiren, Meiren, Sheyue, Fangguan and so on mostly followed Bao Erye early on.But not many days after Xue Baochai got married, Mrs. Wang, the aunt and mother-in-law, rewarded two beautiful housemates. Not to mention Xue Baochai herself, even the servants who waited around her could see that, even though Second Mistress Bao was the second wife The wife's niece, but the second wife probably doesn't want the second master Bao and the second grandmother Bao to be in harmony, right? !

After Xue Baochai married in, she also made friends with some people, and learned a lot of things that she didn't know before.Only then did I know that at first the old lady had her eyes on her granddaughter Lin Daiyu, but she was pushed away by Mrs. Lin.Later, the old lady, including her good aunt, also took a fancy to many ladies from noble and noble families, and asked someone to talk to them or invite official media to come to their door, but none of them agreed.

The old lady has always looked down on her, she knows, so she is a little lukewarm after she married in, and she admits it, but it is my good aunt who wants to find Jia Baoyu a good wife of a noble girl, and at the same time He told his mother that he liked him and wanted to hire Jia Baoyu as his wife, but the old lady didn't agree for the time being so he couldn't get engaged right away.My mother took a fancy to Jia Baoyu, but it was because the second wife told her mother that she had taken a fancy to her early in the morning, and her mother would have thought about it. If it wasn't for Jia Baoyu, she wouldn't have dragged herself into a big girl. girl.

Yes, as soon as I got married, the second wife let me take care of the house, but after I took care of the house, I realized that the Jia family had long been unable to make ends meet, and I asked myself to be the housekeeper because I wanted to make up for it with my dowry. Counting on myself, the big blame!After marrying in by herself, the second wife, the mother-in-law, obviously didn't want to see herself and Jia Baoyu in harmony.Is this going to find a housekeeper, or a housekeeper who brings her own property to enter the house, looking at the bottomless pit of letting me fill their house with dowry, what a beautiful idea!

Xue Baochai has the ambition of being a young person, and she wants to be rich and prosperous, but at the same time, she also adapts to the times, and can constantly adjust her life goals and ways of doing things based on the changes in her environment.

Xue Baochai has always been smart, and it can be seen so far. In this Rongguo Mansion, no matter whether it is the second wife, the aunt and mother-in-law, or the man Jia Baoyu, or the old lady of the Jia family, they cannot be relied on for him, and neither is the mother's family. If you can't rely on it, then you can only rely on yourself!

Just one month after Xue Baochai married into Jia's family, the matter of Xue Pan's beating to death was revealed again. At this time, his uncle Wang Ziteng had died on the way back to Beijing. It was almost empty, and finally a sentence of exile was sentenced.Seeing this, Xia Jingui scooped up a letter of reconciliation and returned to her natal home with her dowry.Aunt Xue only has one son and one daughter. Now that her daughter is from another family, she doesn't need to worry about it. Except for the few good things left at home, she simply gathered up the last remaining farm shops in exchange for money, and brought a few reliable servants with her. , and went into exile with his son.

What Aunt Xue left behind was originally intended for her daughter, so maybe her son would have a chance to return to Beijing in the future, and her daughter would be able to help out at that time.Since it was for Xue Baochai, of course let her take it back to Jia's house.If Xue Baochai hadn't become discouraged and indifferent to the Jia family not long after marrying into the Jia family, she would indeed have carried the last remaining things of the Xue family from Lixiangyuan to Yihongyuan. Carried to Jia's house.

Xue Baochai replaced her family's Sanjin old house in Beijing with her companion room, and sent here all the last things Aunt Xue left her.Not only that, but some inconspicuous good things in her dowry were slowly transferred back to Xue's family by Xue Baochai.Probably this is also a common problem of women, just like Jia Min back then, because she had not given birth for a long time, so she got closer to her natal family.Now Xue Baochai feels that none of the Jia family can be her reliance, but her son is the only one she can rely on. With the house and money, this is my reliance.

However, when Xue Baochai's errands were still not handed over, and the things were not transferred to her natal family, the Rongguo Mansion was ransacked!

In the early years, Jia Baoyu was in the entire Rongning and Ningxia prefectures. Because of Jia's mother's love, no one could surpass him. Everyone gave in to him and pampered him. It's just that Jia Baoyu's expectations are too high.But after the house was ransacked, a married man like Jia Baoyu didn't know how to care about anything else, only thinking about the little maids around him.

Although there is an old lady's private house, it is impossible for the entire Jia family to support so many servants, and the staff will be abolished everywhere. In the end, except for each master, the personal servants will stay, and a few people will be left in the kitchen. , and leave some people to look after the house and do rough work, only the maids who served by Jia Baoyu were left behind by Jia Baoyu.

Not long after Jia's house was ransacked, Jia Baoyu's jade was lost. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xue Baochai cleaned up Jia Baoyu's room. Ren, Fangguan, Musk Moon, etc. were all sent out, but not all of them were sent away, and some were kept.

The former Rongguo Mansion was defeated, and the old lady didn't last long when she got old. Before she left, she completely separated the first house and the second house.Because the old lady liked Jia Baoyu, when the family was separated, besides what the eldest and second households deserved, she also left another share for Jia Baoyu.

The old lady has been the housekeeper for many years, and has saved a lot of private houses for herself in private. Even if the old lady scooped up some of the private houses for the construction of the Grand View Garden later, including the fact that Jia’s father had no money, she also scooped out some of them, but the private houses left in the end were not. count less.In addition to leaving a little for Jia Rong, the private houses for each house are not small. In addition to the second house, which is specially reserved for Jia Baoyu, the current silver is also divided into nearly 4 taels, and there are some antique calligraphy and paintings, etc. It can be regarded as a well-off family, and even the upper middle class is allocated to the farm shops of various houses, and there are nearly 2000 taels of silver per year. As long as it is not as extravagant as before, it is not difficult to live on.

After the family separation, Xue Baochai saw that the life of the big house gradually improved. The old man used to be a jerk, but after the separation, the old man dismissed all the concubines and concubines. He stayed in the mansion every day, occasionally teaching Teach Jia Cong to read, and see Jia Lian's son, who rarely leaves the house himself.Jia Lian was good at practical work in the past, and soon after the separation, the whole big house was propped up.

As for Erfang, Jia Zheng is an uncommon person, and Jia Baoyu is in a certain way worthy of being the second master's son, who is also unreasonable in human affairs. As for Li Wan's mother and son, Mrs. Wang has always disliked seeing her. Not to mention Jia Huan, who is a concubine, it is impossible for Mrs. Wang to put money into his hands.Mrs. Wang is no better than Li Wan's mother and son to Xue Baochai. Mrs. Wang saves up the money in her hands tightly. Except for Jia Baoyu and Jia Zheng, no one else can try to scoop money from him.

In the past, Jia Baoyu seemed ignorant of the world, but at that time the Rongguo Mansion was still there, and the old lady doted on him, but then the Jia family was defeated and the old lady passed away, so Jia Baoyu still didn't make any progress.The second wife was afraid that she would wrong her precious son, so her food, clothing, housing, and transportation were still the same as before, and Jia Baoyu didn't treat herself badly, and anything that was a little worse couldn't get into his mouth at all.

Xue Baochai was also anxious when she saw the second room like this, but as a woman in the inner house, she couldn't help it. She just wanted to give birth to a son early and have someone to rely on, and then to hide her natal family's property.After the Jia family ransacked the house, most of the servants were dismissed. Xue Baochai put all her companions in the Xue family's old house except for the personal attendants, and slowly began to buy some land for herself.

After Jia Lan and Jia Huan got married, the Erfang family was separated again. Not only Jia Huan, the concubine, but also Jia Lan's mother and son were separated.In just two or three years, the property allocated to the second room had been reduced by nearly half. It's not that Mrs. Wang didn't want to save money, but she was never willing to wrong her best friend Jia Baoyu.There is another Jia Baoyu who has been raised intensively since he was a child. He never thought of his current situation. He should need to be frugal, what he should do before, and how he should live now.

After Erfang's family was separated, Jia Huan bought some fields with the 1000 taels of silver that he had received, and lived his life slowly.Mrs. Wang didn't want to see Li Wan's mother and son anymore, but she still shared more than Jia Huan. Li Wan had his own private house, so he didn't have to follow Mrs. Wang's rules every day, but his life was easier than before.

Although Jia Zheng and his wife lived with Jia Baoyu, their life in this room was a mess.But fortunately, although Jia Baobao is not a common man, he is still smart. He took part in the imperial examination with Jia Lan. Rent-free is also a good thing.

Xue Baochai gave birth to a son named Jia Gui when they were married for more than two years.Since having this son, Xue Baochai didn't care about Jia Baoyu's intercourse with the concubines around him, and only concentrated on raising his son.As for the second wife, the mother-in-law, just listen, no matter what, she can't let Jia Baoyu divorce herself.

If it wasn't for the fact that the second wife, the mother-in-law, was acting too much, probably Xue Baochai would have endured it forever.After Jia Lan won the top three Jinshi, through Lin Hai's help, he quickly found an errand for him in the household department.The second wife saw that Jia Lan's grandson was getting more and more motivated, not to say she was happy, but felt that it was an eyesore.Although he wanted to torture Li Wan from time to time, the family separated after all, and even if they lived close together, it was impossible for him to be with the second wife all day long, which made Xue Baochai, who was always in front of her, very pitiful.In the past, there was still some sense of restraint in rubbing Li Wan, but now that the Jia family has lost, the second wife has become less particular about her behavior, not to mention other things, it is a common thing to be punished to kneel.

One rainy day, Xue Baochai was punished by the second wife to kneel outside and drenched in the rain all afternoon. Jia Baoyu, a man who saw this, didn't dare to show his head.Later Xue Baochai fainted in the rain before being carried back. She had a high fever. Even so, the second wife just found a little medicine to save money, and she refused to ask even a doctor, which almost killed Xue Baochai. The toss is gone.Later, it was Chunfeng who ran to Xue's old house and secretly invited a doctor to rescue Xue Baochai.

Xue Baochai finally understood that if she didn't want to die and wanted to live a better life, then don't even think about it with the mother-in-law, the second wife, and only let the mother-in-law, aunt, die so that she can turn around!

After Xue Baochai made up his mind, he found his companion and spent a lot of money to find someone to secretly buy a chronic poison from outside. When Madam Wang was ill, he mixed it with the medicine, and finally Madam Wang became seriously ill and died. , the result of the eventual death of illness.

After Mrs. Wang died of illness, Jia Baoyu's house completely fell into the hands of Xue Baochai. Although he didn't have much family background at that time, he was finally able to be the master of the family, and no one forced him to set rules every day.

Jia Baoyu has always been a caring person, and because of his handsome looks, not to mention the maids at home, he is quite good at recruiting people outside.I often meet young and beautiful girls who sell themselves to bury their mothers and fathers, and bring them back.It is fine for these young and beautiful girls to stay, no matter how bad the Jia family is now, they are not short of food, but those who want to stay have to write a deed of sale and scoop it up to the government for filing, otherwise they will leave without giving them away.

Jia Baoyu has a reputation for raising people, as long as he can stand there and let people watch him, the other Xue Baochai don't count on him at all, they just spend the money in their hands to death, making Jia Baoyu always say that Xue Baochai is a dead fish now. .As for where Jia Baoyu rested at night, Xue Baochai really didn't want to talk to him.

Chunfeng looked at Xue Baochai as motionless as a mountain, and couldn't help feeling a little anxious, "Second Grandma, my uncle has been resting at Aunt Fang's place these days, and Aunt Fang is showing off there every day with arrogance. If you raise your heart, you will be in trouble!"

Chunfeng has been following Xue Baochai all these years, so Xue Baochai didn't think that Chunfeng's words were overreaching, and replied with a smile, "Aunt Fang signed the contract of sale when she came in, and there is no possibility of having a child within a few years. What's the rush?" Yes? My uncle has set a monthly fee of 20 taels of silver, and my father-in-law agreed. He can spend the 20 taels of silver as he likes. If he wants to buy rouge gouache, he will buy rouge gouache. You can coax whoever you want, why bother him? Besides, why am I in a hurry? There are a lot of people in this yard who are in a hurry. Over there at the house, find a doctor by the way, I'm afraid I have it again."

"Really? This is a good thing. My brother is almost five years old. It would be great to have another brother," Chunfeng said excitedly in a low voice after hearing this.Xue Baochai sat in the room with a faint smile on her face, watching Chunfeng happily and immediately ran out to ask someone to make arrangements for tomorrow's trip.

Xue Baochai thought, if this child can be born safely this time, and it is a boy, why not just give Jia Baoyu the soup to avoid having a child, so as not to watch him bring some women in from time to time, and he has to be on guard all the time. Appear? !