The Story of My Aunt in the Red Chamber

The next morning, Daiyu and Baochai came to pay their respects. Lin Ruhai had already gone to court, and Wang Zimeng was playing with her little bun.I had breakfast with the two maids, and after a short rest, the daughter-in-law in charge came over to answer.

Now, Daiyu and Baochai have taken over the affairs of the Lin family's inner house. Wang Zimeng only needs to play around with the little buns. When he is in a good mood, he can cook and show his hands. Don't live a leisurely life!

But what Lin Ruhai mentioned yesterday made Wang Zimeng suddenly realize that her two children are not young anymore.This is not modern times, girls in their twenties get married early.Daiyu is only 13 years old, and Lin Ruhai has already started seeing her son-in-law!Both Pan'er and Baochai are much bigger than Daiyu!Wang Zimeng fell into his own thoughts while holding the little bun.

A few days later, when Wang Zimeng was playing with the little bun, a maid came in to announce, "Ma'am, Mrs. Wang from Rongguo Mansion has arrived."

"Well, I got it, please go to the flower hall." Although Wang Zimeng was a little unhappy, since Mrs. Wang came to the door, he couldn't avoid it, it was just a few things.

This is also the first time Mrs. Wang has entered the Lin Mansion, and she walked through it all the way. Although it is not as magnificent as the Rongguo Mansion, it is quite exquisite.When I got to the flower hall, I saw Prince Meng waiting.

"Oh, my sister, why are you here? Didn't you just meet yesterday? What's the matter?" Wang Zimeng asked Mrs. Wang as she welcomed Mrs. Wang in.

Mrs. Wang was not in a hurry, she took a sip of the tea served by the maid, and looked around again.There are no decorations on the antique shelf, only two plum vases with two freshly picked peach blossoms are placed, which looks very lively, and there are several landscape ink paintings on the wall.

But the women of the Wang family are notoriously illiterate, let alone appreciate paintings.Therefore, Mrs. Wang looked around and felt that the Lin family was in decline, and there was not even a decent decoration in the flower hall for entertaining guests.I didn't realize at all that the plum vase with the peach blossoms in it was an antique, and the paintings on the wall were painted by famous landscape masters in the previous dynasty.

Mrs. Wang's sense of superiority arises spontaneously, and she just feels that this sister will not be able to compare with her in this life.First she married a merchant, and later she married into an official family, but she was a loser.What's more, now that her daughter has become a concubine in the palace, she is the mother of a nobleman, and even the old matriarch wants to give her three points.

"Sister, I'm here today because of my mother's business." Mrs. Wang turned around and said to the prince vaguely.

"Oh, ma'am?" Wang Zimeng just pretended to be confused, she is not stupid, this money can never be returned, why bother to take advantage of it!

"Yes. Elder sister must have heard that day that my mother will be visiting relatives soon, and this visiting villa is indispensable. It's just that my sister doesn't know about the situation in Rongguo Mansion. Now I'm already living on my own food, and I can't make ends meet, so I live in the mansion. The men in my family can spend more money than the other. I had no other choice, so I found my sister here. Speaking of which, our two families are close, so I told my sister so directly." Mrs. Wang said with tears It's about to fall.

She is a very proud person, she didn't want to say these words, but her money will be given to Baoyu in the future, how can she use it to fill the bottomless pit of Jia's family.Although this time it was to build a family-friendly villa for her daughter, the mansion only got 5 taels of cash, and they couldn't use all of it to build the family-friendly villa, and some of it was reserved for daily expenses. Therefore, only 3 taels were taken out. .The old lady took out 2 taels, and the big house’s mouthful cannot surpass the old lady’s, and the lady’s mouth is a girl from the second room. She wanted the second room to be the big head, but she was only willing to take out 1 taels, but it was Jia Zhen from the East Mansion who sent it. I got 2 taels of silver notes.

She also took out her private house of 2 taels, and it was like digging out her flesh.But how can 10 taels be enough to build a family-friendly villa!She has heard that the concubine Zhou's house has prepared a total cost of 50 taels for the birthing villa!How could a girl from her Rongguo Mansion be inferior to a warrior's family.

As soon as Mrs. Wang's words came out of her mouth, Wang Zimeng knew that she was asking for money, "My sister is not in a hurry, I have 1 taels here, and giving it to you is my aunt's love for my niece."

"1 taels?" Mrs. Wang was a little unbelievable, "Your family is a dignified merchant Xue's family, isn't this 1 taels a little less!"

"Sister, I have already married into the Lin family, which is the Lin family. As for the Xue family, your nephew is now the head of the family." Wang Zimeng was a little unhappy. Isn't 1 taels of money? This is her private house money!

Mrs. Wang knew she had said something wrong, so she could only say, "What about my nephew, haven't seen him for a while?"

"I went out after the new year, and I don't know where I am now!" Wang Zimeng's tone was a little erratic.Alas, this child is more than three months old. Except for two pieces of family letters at the beginning, I don't know where he is now.I didn't feel it when I was by my side before, but now that I left my side so suddenly, I really miss him a little bit.

Seeing that Wang Zimeng was not in the mood, Mrs. Wang could only grit her teeth and bear it, and went back to Jia's mansion with the box containing the 1 taels that Wang Zimeng gave her.It's just that after returning, no one knows how to throw the cup and tear the veil to unload the fire.

Mrs. Wang came back in a feather, and the Jia family couldn't sit still.This time, Jia Zheng invited the famous landscape master Shan Yezi to make a design drawing, and everyone in the Jia family liked it very much.The pavilions, terraces and pavilions, the courtyard of the Buddhist nunnery, the flowers and famous trees, the singing of cranes and the singing of deer, are elegant and vulgar, and there is movement in tranquility.It is really magnificent, if it is built, it will surely create momentum for the empresses in the palace.

However, in order to build such a magnificent family-saving villa, they are now facing the problem of insufficient money.It is estimated that this family-visiting villa will cost a full 100 million taels of silver, which may not be enough.But the mansion can only take out 10 taels in total, and the rest must find a way.

No, Mrs. Wang thought of her own sister.The former wife of the Xue family of the imperial merchant is now the wife of the Lin family, and she must have a lot of money in her hands!

In fact, this is not only Mrs. Wang's idea, even the old lady knows about it.Otherwise, she would not agree with what Mrs. Wang said, go to Lin's mansion to borrow money!

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wang only brought back 1 taels of silver, and she was so angry that Mrs. Jia scolded it was useless.Two days later, Jia Zheng took Jia Lian to find Lin Ruhai.Lin Ruhai and Wang Zimeng had the same idea. When they first returned to the capital, the expenses were a bit high.Therefore, I only took 1 taels to express my intentions, which can be regarded as my uncle or uncle's wish for the empress who has been in the palace for many years.

Just 12 taels of silver is definitely not enough to build a family-friendly villa, so the whole family decided to remove a few pavilions!It must be possible to narrow the scope and include the Fang Garden in the East Mansion.

The author has something to say: I was so sleepy, I was typing while nodding. . .