Aunt Lin of the Red Chamber is here

The spring is late, and the thin shirt is early to see through.

It was the warm spring in March, and the drizzle fell in the middle of the night. When Xue Baochai got up in the morning and looked out the window, the ground was almost dry. Just like the beautiful face of a [-]-year-old girl.

Xue Baochai wore only a plain white tunic and a brocade and feather satin cloak with emerald patterns, sitting in front of the window, staring blankly at the swaying emerald bamboos in front of the window, wondering what she was thinking.

"Girl", Yinger turned in from the outside carrying a lacquered tea tray with plum blossom hearts. Seeing this scene, she hurriedly stepped forward and closed the wide open window, and immediately presented Xue Baochai with a stewed bird's nest on the tea tray: "The girl doesn't cough much tonight! It seems that the high-quality bird's nest that the uncle found is really effective!"

Xue Baochai pursed her lips and smiled, tightened the emerald tie on the front of the cloak, took the teacup, pinched the white porcelain spoon inside and stirred it twice, looked at Yinger, her hair that had not been combed into a bun slipped down Front placket: "Has mother got up yet?"

"The wife is still asleep, but the uncle has gone out early in the morning!" Seeing that she had only eaten a few mouthfuls, Ying'er put down the bird's nest cup in her hand, and couldn't help feeling a little worried: "Young lady, you don't have a big appetite, do you?"

Xue Baochai shook her head and stood up: "I'll use it later, Yinger, go and call Chaner! I have something to ask her!" Thinking of the tossing and turning thoughts of last night, Xue Baochai's brows were clouded with sadness, and she gently sighed.

Ying'er saw that her girl's complexion was not very happy, so she got busy and backed out without making a sound.After a while, I saw a little girl who was not yet tall timidly lift the curtain and come in. It was the little girl that Xue Baochai had bought before, Chan'er.

"Meet the girl!" Chan'er was a little cowardly, she didn't go forward, she just stood at the door and saluted Xue Baochai, saw the curve of Xue Baochai's lips, trembled slightly, and lowered her head deeply.

Originally, when the Xue family entered Beijing, they did not bring many servants with them. After entering the Rongguo Mansion, only Yinger and Wen Xing served Xue Baochai, so the Xue Wang family let Xue Baochai choose two maids from Ren Yazi. Clothes, one is called Chan'er, the other is called Tong'er.

"Chan'er, come forward and help me change my clothes!" Xue Baochai was still amiable, as if she didn't see the worry in Chan'er's eyes at all, raised her hand to beckon Ying'er who came in with Chan'er, and took off the cloak by herself .She is already a 12-year-old girl. After she grows up, her figure under the cloak is plump and beautiful. In addition, she has been well-raised since she was a child. The sleeves of the plain white shirt are like lotus root joints, and her skin is smooth and crisp. It's really exciting.

Chan'er worriedly helped Ying'er beside her. Although she had been serving Xue Baochai for nearly half a year, Xue Baochai's close service was not up to her, who was so young and inexperienced.It's just that the master valued her at this moment, but Chan'er couldn't be happy at all.

"Chan'er, look, does this dress look good?" Startled by the sudden question, Chan'er took a look, and forced a smile with the corners of her mouth: "The girl's clothes are naturally so beautiful." very--"

The room fell silent, Xue Baochai lingered on her meaningful eyes for a while, lowered her eyes, raised her hands to let Yinger tie a pink palace sash in the color of auspicious clouds and flowing patterns for herself, and put a cotton vest with a narrow collar on it, suddenly He opened his mouth and asked, "What did you say to Bai Ling in the old lady's room in the small garden yesterday?"

Chan'er shook her hand, and the phoenix-tailed skirt she was holding slipped to the ground. She knelt down on the ground and quickly picked up the newly-made skirt, her fingers clenched tightly. , kept kowtowing: "Girl, please forgive me! Miss, please forgive me, the cicada didn't do it on purpose! I beg you to be merciful!"

"You're really clumsy, you can't even make a good dress!" Ying'er watched her leaning over and dared not get up, so she scolded her, and hurriedly rescued the crumpled skirt from Chan'er's hand, and looked carefully at her. After looking at it, he breathed a sigh of relief, and finally gave Chan'er another look: "This is a new precious material from the south of the Yangtze River. If it breaks, you can't afford it!"

Xue Baochai looked at the scene in front of her calmly: "Ying'er, don't wear this skirt for now. I remember there is a soft silver lily skirt made last year in the box. It's better to be plain!" Yinger muttered Complaining about the cicada's carelessness, she lifted the bead curtain and went to the inner room.

"Tell me carefully, what exactly did Bai Ling mention to you?" Xue Baochai listened carefully, Ying'er's footsteps could no longer be heard, and she went directly to the red sandalwood hollowed-out round table with hundreds of flowers and sat down, and picked up the tea on the table He poured a cup of tea by himself, calmly and unhurriedly: "Remember, you are a servant of my Xue family!"

Chan'er bit her lip, lowered her face and couldn't see her expression clearly, maybe she was touched by Xue Baochai's words, she seemed to have made up her mind.Still kneeling, she took a few steps towards Xue Baochai, and then fell on the ground with a muffled voice: "Your maidservant said, don't blame me, girl! Yesterday, I was ordered by the girl to send the new baby in the palace to the old lady's room." He piled up the palace flowers, went to the third girl and the fourth girl, and on the way back to Lixiangyuan, I met Sister Bailing—" She hesitated for a moment, glanced at Xue Baochai's face, and then looked away again: " Sister Bailing asked me where I was from, so I told the truth, and whoever thought Sister Bailing said, "You are a, a fool..." The last two words were hidden between the lips and teeth. If Xue Baochai hadn't been closer, I'm afraid it would have been true. can not hear.

"What else?" Xue Baochai didn't feel angry, but the slender hands on her knees clenched into fists: "Go on!" Chan'er hurriedly continued to narrate the conversation between herself and Bai Ling yesterday.

Yesterday she ordered Chan'er to deliver the palace flowers, and she herself went to talk to Jia Baoyu, and when she came back, she passed the small water pavilion in the garden.Hearing Bai Ling's exclamation across a rockery there, Xue Baochai couldn't help being puzzled. After returning to Lixiangyuan, there was a cloud of fog lingering in her heart. Now after hearing Chan'er's words, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning, and she didn't recover for a long time.

Ying'er came back with her newly turned out skirt, and seeing her girl in a daze, she couldn't help being stunned for a moment, then stepped forward and called softly, "Miss, miss?" On Chan'er: "You little hoof, what did you do again?!" Her voice was full of annoyance, obviously impatient.

Xue Baochai didn't hear Yinger's call at all, and was completely immersed in her own thoughts.Speaking of it, although Jia Mu hid her dislike for Xue Baochai so deeply that even Xue Wang, who had lived for nearly 40 years, didn't notice it, but Xue Baochai was always sensitive to five senses, and could vaguely sense something strange.She knew that she was born as an imperial merchant, and although she had an imperial character, she was still a merchant in essence; when she was in Jinling, the Xue family was very wealthy, and they were all flattered by others. For others' sake; Xue Baochai twisted his clothes unconsciously, with unspeakable irritability and helplessness in his heart. He tried his best to please Jia Mu and win over the servants of the Rongguo Mansion. Inside, and these are all for the smoother marriage with Jia Baoyu in the future, but who would have thought that this kind of comment would actually be received...

"Yinger, don't scold Chaner, it has nothing to do with her!" Xue Baochai was awakened by Yinger's raised voice. Sighing, he waved his hand: "Ying'er, go and reward her with the agate-inlaid silver hairpin with pearls and silk in my box, and then you go to your mother's room and say that your daughter is not filial and that she is not in good health. , let’s not go to pay respects today, and ask my mother not to blame me!”

Before Ying'er could answer, Xue Baochai got up by herself, walked to the side of the bed, and put up a lotus-colored flower curtain by herself to isolate everything from the curtain.

Ying'er looked at the quietly hanging curtain with some worry, and led Chan'er back out without making a sound.

"Didn't the doctor say that Baochai's cough has healed up a lot? Why are you feeling uncomfortable again?" Wang Xue went to bed late last night and got up late. The maid beside her was combing her hair, and she looked out of the bronze mirror. She saw Ying'er coming in from her reflection; after hearing Ying'er's narration, Xue Wang immediately became anxious. She only had this pair of children in her life. Come to think of it, Xue Baochai's well-behaved is indeed a great consolation for the Xue Wang family today.

Ying'er couldn't hide her words at all, and she couldn't resist hearing Xue Wang's repeated questions like this. After thinking about Xue Baochai's depression, she couldn't help gritting her teeth and telling the truth: "Mrs. I was so happy, I didn’t know what Chan’er’s little hoof said, and even sent a servant girl out...and begged the old lady to go and see the girl!”

Xue Wang loved but shook her head helplessly: "This child, whenever there is something in his heart, he is always bored in his heart, how can he be alone next to him?" Looking at Ying'er, he was very satisfied: "Good boy , with you waiting by my side, I can feel more at ease!"

—————————Mother and daughter talking about the very warm dividing line Mr.——————

"My son, you have been wronged so much, why don't you tell mother?!" Xue Wang held her precious daughter in her arms, stroked Xue Baochai's delicate cheeks, and burst into tears: "You silly boy! "

Mrs. Xue couldn't help regretting her own thoughts at the beginning. If she followed her son when she entered Beijing, she would live in her own house and tidy up slowly.How important is a girl's boudoir reputation, why did I listen to my sister's words?

With tears in her eyes, Xue Baochai leaned in her mother's arms, choked up and sighed: "What can my daughter do now? The old lady doesn't look down on our family at all, and my brother can't make progress. Business is getting worse day by day! Now all we can occupy is a fortune, if we don't even have this..." She could not help feeling sad, buried her face in Xue Wang's arms and wept.

Seeing her daughter crying sadly, Xue Wang also had a sore nose, thinking of the difficult days of orphans and widowed mothers after her husband passed away a few years ago, tears dripped from her eyes, and she hugged Xue Baochai: "My poor son——"

But it turned out that yesterday, Bai Ling had no clue, and said a lot of words in front of Chan'er, among which he mentioned the news circulating in the Rongguo Mansion, only saying that Miss Bao is a careless and stupid person who spreads money. The boy is well-behaved; there is also the big fool Xue, who is not in the slightest when he is mixed with the men in the clan. No wonder the Xue family has been defeated. One of the four majestic families, they have to visit relatives and friends when they come to Beijing...More That mean-spirited and mean-spirited villain actually spread the rumors about how and what had to be said between Miss Bao and Second Master Bao, even though it was groundless, but it was spread with a good nose and eyes.

Xue Baochai cried hard, wiped away the tears with a handkerchief, and said firmly: "Mother, we can't live in this Rongguo mansion anymore! Don't say anything else, just look at him, he is only in the east mansion all day long. The people who make people fool around—" Xue Baochai bit her lower lip, only biting her red lips until they were pale: "There is still a child's reputation, even if it is true with Baoyu... In the future, in this mansion, the daughter will also carry her. Don't get up!"

Xue Wang was a little hesitant at first, but when Xue Baochai moved out of Xue Pan, she was persuaded. After all, no matter what happens, the son's progress is the most important thing, not to mention the fact that her daughter's future life-long events lie here - she Nodding his head, he agreed.