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Everyone nodded and said: "That makes sense. Why is this dignified Jia's mansion so greedy for money? I just don't know how they spent all the money in their mansion?"

Wang Rendao: "It's not spent, it's lost! With Jia Lian and his bastard, the gold and silver mountains will also be lost!"

Seeing Wang Ren say these words, Jia Qin was very annoyed, and hurriedly said: "Forget it, big brother, let's not talk about the Jia family's affairs, just spoil the fun. Today is big brother's birthday, so it's rare for us to get together. Do we want to have a good time?" Is it a good way for everyone to be happy?"

Wang Ren laughed and said, "Fourth brother, give me an idea, as long as everyone is happy, I invite everyone to have fun!"

Jia Qin said: "Brother, today is your birthday. We are all from small families, and we can't think of new tricks. Brother is a person who has really seen the world, so let's talk about it?"

Wang Ren said: "I have wine here, and we can continue at night, but we are all big men, so it seems that there is something missing if we only have wine."

Jia Qin said: "Since elder brother opened his own restaurant, how about going to your restaurant in another place at night?"

One of the guests said: "This is a good idea, we don't need my elder brother to be the host, we all contribute money to be the host of the elder brother. I heard that some Qinhuai beauties have come to the Jinxiang Pavilion, why don't you invite some of them to accompany the wine, what do you think?" "

Wang Ren heard this, slapped his head and laughed, "If you don't tell me, I'd forget! Good! You pay for the food and drinks, and I will be responsible for inviting the beauties from Qinhuai, one by one. My wine shop has everything to eat and live in. Let's do it now." past!"

Once Wang Ren went out, he was happy with everyone, and when he returned to his house, it was already Haishi.

Wang Ren came to his concubine Xie Shi's room, Xie Shi had just rested and was woken up, and said impatiently: "My lord is going to have fun, I have been waiting for so long."

Wang Ren smiled and said, "At first I didn't want to come back to sleep, but I thought our house was clean and comfortable, and I knew that you must be waiting for me, so I came back. I passed my second aunt's place on the way, and I went in by the way. Did Cousin and Baoyu come back? It has been delayed until now."

Mrs. Xie said: "I can't forget Jia's house all day long. I'm busy with Jia's house and the second room. I don't know how much money I spent with them. When they were rich back then, I didn't hear that they helped us."

After hearing this, Wang Ren remembered Qiaojie's rejection of him today, and said angrily, "What did I help? It was just for the sake of my aunt and my sister. Besides, my sister told me that I would help her take care of Qiaojie." What I hate is Jia Lian and his father. It has nothing to do with Cousin Xue and Baoyu. Baoyu is from Jia's family. After all, he is the son of my eldest aunt and the husband of Cousin Xue. He and I were also good friends."

Mrs. Xie sneered and said, "Master, how do you want to take care of Qiaojie? I'm not talking about you. If your sister is really so shrewd, she has managed the Rongguo Mansion for many years, and she doesn't see how much private money she has. The concubine of the master was squeezed out, and as a result, people and money were left empty. Sister Qiao is your sister's daughter, but she is also Jia Lian's daughter. Her surname is Jia, not Wang. If you just dig a piece of flesh for her, she may still return. I despise your sour meat."

Wang Rendao: "You know that my uncle confessed so much before he died, so what do you think I should do?"

Xie said: "What's so embarrassing? Qiaojie will listen to you, she will definitely understand your thoughts, and will respect you. It is also right to help you a little bit; but now I know that Qiaojie doesn't like you to meddle with her." She Heping'er kept saying that there was still Mrs. Jia Lian, even her own grandma, who obviously didn't like you as uncle. If she didn't listen to you like this, it meant that she didn't understand your painstaking efforts at all. She stood like this on Jia Lian's side. On the side of the house, why do you need to mess with her again?"

Mrs. Xie's words aroused Wang Ren's heart disease. This time, calling Qiaojie and himself was a bit sincere, but he didn't expect Qiaojie to be unwilling, and thinking of his sister Fengjie being divorced by Jia Lian, he couldn't help but get angry and said: "I didn't provoke her. It's the old man who told me when he was alive that other people in Jia's house can ignore it, but my sister and aunt must help. If Sister Qiao doesn't accept my favor and still stands on the side of Jia's house to talk, she is ruthless and I don't have to. Yi, don’t even think about getting a penny from me in the future!”

After Wang Ren finished speaking, he ignored Mrs. Xie and fell asleep.

However, Baoyu, Xue Pan, Jiahuan and Jialan were on their way, eating and sleeping in the open. On the first day of March, they had already returned to Hejiazhuang, which was more than 200 miles away from the capital, but Baoyu was ill. But in order to treat Baoyu's illness, he had to collect some money for Baoyu to ask a doctor to see him. After two days of rest, Baoyu got better.

Thinking that Xue Pan has been away from home for the longest time, he has been anxious to go home to visit his family as soon as possible, and Jia Huan and himself are not very compatible, so Baoyu let Xue Pan and Jia Huan go first, and he and Jia Lan walked slowly behind.

Xue Pan saw that Baoyu couldn't leave quickly, so he had to ask Jia Lan to accompany Baoyu well, and he and Jia Huan went first.Because judging from the current situation, even if Baoyu travels slowly, he can return to the capital in five or six days at most.

After this experience, Xue Pan and Jia Huan became stronger than before, and eager to go home, they returned to the capital on the evening of the eighth day of March.Naturally, Xue Pan went home directly, and Jia Huan went to his uncle's house first, because although his uncle Zhao Guoji passed away, he still had his aunt and married cousin, and he thought that Aunt Zhao would be there.

When Xue Pan returned home, Aunt Xue was nursing Xue Ziling, Xue Pan's son, and Jia Kui, Baochai's son, in the yard.Both children could walk, and Xue Pan couldn't tell which was his son.And Xue Pan, whom Aunt Xue hadn't seen for more than two years, suddenly appeared in front of my eyes, already weeping with joy, when Xue Pan asked about the child, he hurriedly pulled the fatter and taller child to come to Xue Pan and said, "Pan'er, This is Ziling. Ziling, this is your father, call him father!"

Xue Ziling saw that Xue Pan was covered in dust, with a disheveled beard and dark skin, and he timidly hid behind Aunt Xue, not daring to call Xue Pan.

Seeing Xue Pan, he couldn't help crying, approaching the child and saying, "Zi Ling, come here, Daddy hugs you!"

Aunt Xue hurriedly asked Tong Xi to pour tea for Xue Pan, and asked Tong Xi to prepare dinner and hot water quickly. Looking at Xue Pan, who was strong but dark like a farmer, she shed tears, "Pan'er, now the shop is full of Your sister and Ying'er are looking after her, and Qing'er has gone too. The new emperor ascends the throne and pardons the world, but I don't know when you will come back. By the way, what about Baoyu, Huan'er and Lan'er? Why aren't you together?"

Xue Pan then told about Baoyu's illness, and then said: "Mom, Huan'er has gone to his uncle's house. Baoyu and Lan'er walk slowly, only a day or two later. I miss you so much, so I told Huan'er Let's go first."

Aunt Xue said: "Pan'er, how can you leave Baoyu and go first? He is your brother-in-law."

Xue Pan sat down on a low stool and said, "Mom, it was Baoyu who asked us to go first. We had all our money healed for Baoyu, and we didn't have any money on us, so Huan'er and I have nothing to do." It took me day and night to come back like this.”

Aunt Xue heard this, and immediately asked Tongxi to quickly find something to eat for Xue Pan. Xue Pan gobbled it up. I hurriedly went to find Xue Pan's original clothes, and asked Xue Pan to take a bath and rest first.

But Baoyu and Jialan, because Baoyu had just been ill and hadn't recovered yet, but in order to go on the road, they had no more burdens on their bodies, so they had to push on. Fortunately, they passed several temples on the way and took some god-respecting offerings with them to satisfy their hunger.

On the eighth day of March, when Xue Pan and Jia Huan had returned to the capital, Baoyu and Jia Lan were still in a small town more than 40 miles away from the capital.

Because it was getting late, Baoyu and Jialan were extremely tired, and they hadn't had a decent meal after several meals, so they had to stop and rest.Fortunately, the weather was not too cold, and Baoyu and Jialan's shoes were already worn out. After asking, they found out that it was nearly forty miles away from the capital.

Without money, he couldn't stay in a hotel, and Baoyu was poor and sick, almost like a puppet.Jia Lan helped Baoyu walk and looked around, trying to find a proper place to stay.

Baoyu and Jialan are in such a mess now, who would have thought that they used to be sons and brothers of the dignified Jia family?

Just as Jialan was holding Baoyu in great melancholy and looking for a place to spend the night, he saw a carriage approaching, and a man on horseback approached and said, "You two, please make way!"

After hearing this, Baoyu looked at the man and asked in surprise, "Are you the Qi official back then?"

The man was shocked when he heard this, looked at Baoyu, jumped off his horse and asked, "Are you Baoyu from that day?"