Survive in the world of Red Mansions

In the eyes of many outsiders, not to mention Yangzhou City, but the entire Jiangnan, the Bao family can also be said to be in the forefront. There are countless wealthy merchants, relying on the Jinling Zhen family. The crown prince's Prince Xiaoyi supported him, but suddenly, the Bao family fell down and was ransacked. This caused a commotion in the whole of Jiangnan that was no less than a small earthquake.

Many people couldn't believe that the Bao family was over like this, and the house was ransacked so easily, all the property was filled into the national treasury, and both men and women in the family were sold into slavery.

For those who have nothing to do with it, the end of Bao's family came too soon. There was no news at all before, and suddenly the whole Bao's family ended.But for the officials of the Yanzheng Yamen, for Lin Hai and others, this is a situation that has been laid out since several years ago, but it has only come to fruition now, and the process in the middle is not easy at all.

Since Bao Wenjiang heard what Ji Sen said in Tianxiang Pavilion that night, he often thought about it in the following days.This kind of matter can't be easily mentioned to others. If you have something on your mind, you will inevitably be a little absent-minded when doing things.When summarizing the sub-accounts sent by shopkeepers from various places below, there was a wrong number, so my third brother sued him in front of his father.

Here, Bao Wenjiang was just scolded by Bao Chengfu for not paying attention to his work, whether he has a problem with his ability. When the fourth son Bao Wenhai came over there, his father asked him in a friendly voice, as if performing a Sichuan face change. Bao Wenhai is here now, is there something wrong, is he tired from studying today, etc. He is always a model of fatherly kindness and filial piety.

It's not that the same situation happened before, but there was never a time when this moment had a great impact on me. Could it be that I have been living this kind of life from now on, now my father is oppressing me, and in the future I will be oppressed by this fourth brother?Why?

My father probably wanted to make himself and other concubine brothers become the helpers of the fourth child in the future, but it also depends on whether he is willing or not?And would my aunt and younger brother be willing?Now the aunt and the fourth child have not shot at him, but who knows what will happen in the future?

Like my friend Ji Sen, who was nearly killed by his aunt, and now can only avoid disaster in the name of studying abroad?In this case, it is better to do it yourself first!If you become him, you will be the next Patriarch of the Bao family, if you lose, you will admit your defeat!

When Lin Hai saw the information from Bao's house, he couldn't help but lamented that these women in the back house should not be underestimated, and everyone who can rise to the top has the potential to become a conspirator.

Although there used to be fights in the back house of the Lin family, but because of Lin Ruhai's great trust in Jia Min, the husband and wife respect each other like guests, and the relationship is very good. If those concubines and housekeepers did something too much, they were suppressed by Jia Min .Lin Ruhai never interfered with Jia Min's actions. As a man, he always believed that it was only natural for his wife to handle the affairs of the backyard. these little things.

Another point is that none of these women have children, even if they are fighting, they are not fighting for themselves and for their children like the Bao family is now, and they have to suppress each other while fighting.

In the previous Bao family, the main wife, Bao Chen, was the director of the family, supported by the eldest daughter outside, and relied on by the legitimate son who was valued by the master. Watching a big fight, it feels like sitting on a mountain and watching a tiger fight.

After Bao's family became a big salt merchant, Bao Chengfu had more and more women. Bao Wenjiang's biological mother, Aunt Lan, was getting older now, and she was not as favored as she was in her early years. There are many eyeliners.After knowing her son's thoughts, she thought twice and decided to support him with all her strength.Just as his son said, the master is obviously paving the way for his own son. If he doesn't resist, the situation will only get worse, so it's better to act first.

Bao Wenjiang met with Ji Sen several times later, and once he decided on his idea, he immediately started to implement it.Over the past few years, Bao Chengfu has suppressed the eldest son, so that part of the business in Bao Wenjiang's hands was divided into the hands of the second and third sons, but Bao Wenjiang has been traveling for many years, and people from his aunt's family, There are still some people who are loyal to him.

During this period of time, Lin Hai also lined up a lot of people, carefully monitoring the actions of Bao Wenjiang and the other men in the Bao family, watching Bao Wenjiang use secret and tough methods to exhaust the shopkeepers of some shops, or threaten them. , or win over, let these people support themselves.

Bao Chengfu didn't notice these actions at all. What's more likely is that this father didn't think about it at all. He is still alive and well, so his son dares to grab the rights in his hands?impossible!

But the second and third children of the Bao family have some feelings, but there is no real evidence, and it is difficult to say anything to my father, saying that the eldest brother has gotten too close to these subordinates, and I guess that the eldest brother wants to rebel. Will anyone believe it?

When Bao Wenjiang noticed that his two younger brothers were agitated, he said to the two younger brothers, "Now you are suing my father, and you are going to sue my fourth brother in the future!"

After thinking about it, the two fell silent.Although the fourth child is only 12 years old now, he has a general idea of ​​his personality. He is not generous or magnanimous.

Now they are pressing on their heads as the son-in-law. My father also values ​​this son-in-law very much. It seems that he has plans to support the fourth son as the head of the family.

Now they are all arguing with the boss, but no matter how fierce the fight is, it's not up to their father, he can take it back if he wants, isn't that what he did to the boss before!

Then it's better to take advantage of the fact that the fourth child is still young, and truly take the business in your own hands now. One day in the future, if you fail to fight for the head of the family, this is not a way out.Besides, if they failed, between the boss and the fourth child, they hoped that the future owner would be the boss.

So after this period of time, the superficial relationship between the three brothers has eased a lot, which also made Bao Chengfu feel very relieved, thinking that these sons finally know that brothers and sisters are respectful, very good, very good!

Lin Hai also took advantage of the frequent actions of the three brothers to find out a lot of evidence, and what is missing now is the account book.

Inside, the first thing Aunt Lan did was to break the current dominance of Bao Chen's family in Bao's back house.Aunt Lan and Jiang Guixiang in the inner court formed an alliance when both sides were interested. Aunt Lan had contacts for many years and Jiang Guixiang was favored at the moment. Such two people formed an alliance. Things in the hospital are much easier to handle.

In the past, Bao Chen's influence on people was virtuous, magnanimous, fair, and organized the Bao family's back house in an orderly manner. Now that she is old, she is not as fresh and lovely as those newcomers, but Bao Chengfu has always respected this person very much. As a wife, I still go to sit down from time to time, chat, and have a heart-to-heart talk.

But during this period of time, my eldest wife is like eating dynamite, it explodes at one point, and sometimes it explodes at all.

Because it was just a drug that could easily cause people to be irritable, no one suspected anything, they only thought that Bao Chen was in a bad mood, so he often lost his temper.If a person can't control his emotions, it's easy for others to catch him. As a result, in less than a month, most of the internal affairs of the Bao family can only be handled by a few daughters-in-law temporarily. Bao Chengfu asked Bao Chen to take a good rest time.

Bao Chengfu saw that Mrs. Bao Chen was in a bad mood these days, and felt that she seemed very tired. After specially inviting a doctor to check her pulse, the doctor couldn't find anything wrong, so he said that he should rest more and not be too tired. Tired, so he asked Mrs. Chen to hand over some matters in the family to a few daughters-in-law, and let her take care of the general manager.

Bao Chengfu is really kind, but it is a pity that men sometimes never understand the importance of the right of the back house housekeeper to women, and women value it, which makes Chen even more furious.

In the past, Mrs. Bao Chen was not too old as a mother-in-law. Besides, those who entered the door were all sons-in-law and daughter-in-law. She wanted to hand over the housekeeping right to her own daughter-in-law in the future, so none of the daughters-in-law got the housekeeper after entering the house. right.

Now the three daughters-in-law are each assigned a part of the housekeeping rights, and they are fighting fiercely with each other, but they have one thing in common, they will no longer want to return the rights in their hands. For them, Bao Chen is the best If you can rest all the time, it is best not to come out in the future and hand over all your rights.

Especially after the power of housekeeping was divided into the hands of the three daughters-in-law, the hearts of the inner house inevitably fluctuated, so it was easier to start.

Because Jiang Guixiang was in favor now, Bao Chengfu often came to her yard, and some of the medicines given to the fourth son of the Bao family were given by her hands. They were given to Bao Wenhai as a gift by Bao Chengfu, a pot of precious orchids.Although Bao Wenhai is young, he thinks he is romantic and elegant. He has collected a lot of flowers such as plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum. .Not only orchids, but also through other foods, each of which contains very small amounts, not a real master of medicine and poison, and cannot be detected at all.

Fourth Master Bao's body felt tired easily at first, maybe other people can forget it, just rest by himself.But as Bao Chengfu's only son-in-law, this is a big deal, and he couldn't find out the reason even after looking for a few doctors to check his pulse, so he could only prescribe some warming and tonic prescriptions. I just thought it might be because I was really tired, and I was afraid that he would be tired, so I stopped his classes.

Bao Chen was already in a bad mood because of the loss of the housekeeper, and now her son is in poor health, and he is like a burning firecracker every day.

Bao Chengfu felt very irritable during this time, his biological son was in poor health, the doctor couldn't find any reason, the eldest wife's temper became more and more irritable, and Bao Chengfu didn't want to make trouble, so he could only find some beauties for comfort.

It's just like many men now say how bad their wives are in front of another woman, either they want to cheat, or they have already cheated.Bao Chengfu wanted to seek comfort more conveniently, he didn't need to go outside, there were many beauties waiting to comfort him at home, he was aboveboard and not cheating.

Bao Chengfu dotes on Aunt Fang more during this time, Aunt Fang is gentle and considerate, just doting on her during this time, unlike other aunts and concubines, when they are favored, they turn around and ask for things West, or want to have children while being favored, etc.

The Bao family has plenty of money. It is my own face to buy some clothes and jewelry for the women I like to make them look good, but I think that these women are gentle and considerate. A woman who doesn't look at things outside her body, but simply likes him, trusts him, and relies on him, can't help but feel that her man's charm has greatly increased when she is with her.

Alas, please be considerate of the poor self-confidence of a middle-aged and elderly man in his 50s and [-]s!

Bao Chengfu held Aunt Fang's hand while drinking some wine and said, "Tell me, Mrs. Chen, what's going on these days? How kind I am to her... She used to be the master of everything in the house , she was tired, I sympathized with her and asked a few wives to help her. The fourth child was not feeling well, and I was also anxious, but she just got angry at me..."

Jiang Guixiang listened to him babbling endlessly in her ear, and occasionally chimed in, wanting to say that my wife blamed you for being too considerate of her, a good housekeeper, and you cut off more than half of it with a single sentence, how hateful it is!

Bao Chengfu didn't even think about listening to what Aunt Fang had to say, and while he wasn't paying attention, Jiang Guixiang asked the little maid next to him to change a jug and continue pouring wine.

"You know, hiccup, Chen's mother-in-law said, my current achievement, Bao Chengfu, is all due to her eldest daughter, hiccup, isn't that my daughter, besides, if it weren't for my ability, she would be better off now Days. She doesn't understand me, I have to worry every day, hiccup, she doesn't understand!"

"Master, you are so capable, why are you so worried? Don't drink today, master. Drinking too much will hurt your health."

"It's okay, it's okay, it's still early, let me tell you, back then..."

Bao Chengfu spittled wildly, and bragged about his family history upside down to Jiang Guixiang. Jiang Guixiang was thinking about whether he would say something important when he was drunk, and wished to knock him unconscious with a stick, so as not to save himself ears suffer.

"I'm careful every day, isn't it just for the fourth child? Let me tell you, that Lin Hai didn't kill his son last time. I will definitely find another way. He wants to find out the evidence of me selling illegal salt, but it's a pity, hiccup , he will never find it..."

As soon as Jiang Guixiang heard what he said, she became agitated and pinched her thigh hard to calm herself down.

"The master is so terrible, how can others find where you put things?"

"Haha, of course, I guess they must have searched everywhere in the house, hiccup, but unfortunately they can't find it, let me tell you where it is hidden... Guess."

"..." Jiang Guixiang wanted to swear at her mother, thinking that my old lady would know that she would be here to curry favor with a stinky man like you.

"Tell you, far away in the sky, close in front of you, well, the most dangerous place is the safest."

"..." Jiang Guixiang really wanted to pick up the plate on the table and put it on Bao Chengfu's pig's head.

"Fang'er, come here, I'll tell you secretly, really, I don't tell anyone else, I just hide it under the floor tiles under the desk in the study, haha, I can't play with them to death..."

Not only Jiang Guixiang and other secret staff of the Lin family brought in by Lin Hai, but also the staff of the fourth prince Li Min in the south of the Yangtze River are all secretly looking for Bao Chengfu's account books of selling private salt, his contacts with the Zhen family, and the third prince's residence. , but there are so many people, and it took so long to find out, everyone can't help feeling a little anxious.

Unexpectedly, the place where the account books are kept is now being shown off to his concubine as a secret by Bao Chengfu when he was drunk, so he told it like this, and felt that all the efforts he had made before were in vain.

With the account books of the Bao family selling private salt and actual witnesses, it is not surprising that the Bao family's home was ransacked.A total of 120 million taels of silver were copied, 8 taels of gold, various pearls and gemstones, famous calligraphy and paintings, rare ornaments, and countless silks and satins. All these properties were packed and sealed, and shipped directly to the capital.

This time the Bao family ransacked a lot of gold in advance by the fourth prince's people, but the amount of things copied by the Bao family was enough, so Lin Hai pretended not to know about it.

This time, not only the gold, silver and jewels stolen from the Bao family's house were transported to the capital, but also some letters related to the Zhen family and the third prince, but the emperor did not take any action on this in time.But not long after, the third prince was ordered by the emperor to contemplate behind closed doors for a month because of a trivial matter, and supported the transfer of the third prince's Minister of Punishment.