Continue to write the dream of red mansions with the routine of house fighting

While listening to Xiren's words, Baoyu couldn't help sighing that his unintentional actions back then would lead to a good marriage, and lamented that Miss Qiao had suffered so much at such a young age.Just at this time, Ying'er lifted the curtain and came in and said coldly: "Second Master is awake? Second Mistress, please Second Master talk." After finishing speaking, without waiting for Baoyu to get up, she dropped the curtain and went out again.

Baoyu had no choice but to get up and change his clothes, and then asked Xi Ren, "Did you thank the old man who worked with me yesterday?" Zhouquan, Tete wrapped two strings of money, and thanked the old man." Baoyu wondered: "Why only two strings?" Xiren sneered: "My lord, now we can come up with two strings of money. That's not too much. You haven't seen the second grandma's hands. It's been nine cold winters. Second grandma and the others have embroidered for others, and their hands are frozen to death. This is how much money they have saved. How much more will the second master give?"

Baoyu regretted her slip of the tongue, and when she was ready to clean up, she leaned on her stick and went downstairs with the attacker.The small building here is very cramped, there are only two bedrooms on the upper floor and one passage.If you want to entertain guests, you have to use the space under the stairs.The people who rented the house were kind, and the poor lady Baochai was in charge of the house, so they gave this place to them for nothing.At this time, Grandma Liu and Jia Yun and his wife had already sat down. They wanted to discuss with Baochai, but Baochai had to wait for Baoyu to come downstairs.

Baoyu probably guessed that they must have come here for Sister Qiao's business, so she heard Grandma Liu sigh: "I also know that everyone is in a difficult situation, so I shouldn't come here. I just hope that the second master and the second grandma will look at Qiao. Brother Er's dead mother, please help Brother Qiao." As he said this, he wanted to kowtow to Baochai.

Baochai hurriedly supported her and said with a smile, "What is grandma doing? We were brother Qiao'er's uncle and aunt. Brother Lian was sentenced to exile, and girl Feng also went. Qiao'er was supposed to live with us. Some time ago We are all closed for the day, and the working grandma is running around, how can I stand by now? I heard Yun’s daughter-in-law said yesterday that the man paid 1000 taels of silver, how can this be good?” Looking at Baoyu, Baoyu blushed with shame, lowered her head, and said nothing.

Grandma Liu was wiping her tears with her jacket sleeve, when she heard Baochai's question, she said, "Who said it wasn't? Before I went to the city, I went to the house first, and my son-in-law has the final say. My family can only scrape together 30 taels of cash. After selling the house and the storefront, you can get 200 taels of miscellaneous things. If you can’t sell the land, you can still get 50 taels.”

When Baochai heard that Grandma Liu wanted to sell the land, she hurriedly said, "It's absolutely impossible. Don't be upset if I say something that doesn't please you. After all, my grandma's family is a farmer's family, and the land is the capital for living. If you sell the land, What will you eat in the future? If the whole family wants to eat, and Brother Baner wants to study, they all have to point to the few acres of land. Besides, grandma, you live with your son-in-law after all. He is currently helping you find a good girl with travel expenses. This is already rare. If you ask him to sell all the house and land for Miss Qiao, will he agree?" Grandma Liu asked her to talk about the central matter, and she was a little embarrassed for a while, she was also afraid that her son-in-law would not sell the house and land .Xiaohong also said: "Second Grandma Bao said, let's not make this plan right now, we also discussed with Second Grandma Bao last night, let's make up together and see how much we can get together." After finishing speaking, she pushed Jia Yun, and Jia Yun said: "Most of our money is bet on the goods, and the cash in hand is about 50 taels. Ni Er is also willing to lend us 50 taels, saying that there is no interest. There is a total of 100 taels of silver." After speaking, he smiled wryly, looked at Xiaohong and said, "In this calculation, including the ones from grandma, there are only 130 taels."

Everyone looked at Baochai, and Baochai couldn't help but feel sad, but she listened to humanity and said, "I still have some in there. Second Mistress Lian treats me well, and I should do my part." , together with Baochai here, it is impossible to scrape together 200 taels of silver, which is still a thousand miles away from the 1000 taels of worth.

Seeing everyone's sad faces, Musk Moon said, "I have someone, and she must be rich." Everyone hurriedly asked who it was?Sheyue said, "Our grandma Zhu? Why did you forget? Although Grandma Zhu doesn't live with us, she is also Miss Qiao's aunt after all. How can she ignore it? Besides, she has already transferred all the money back to her natal family. I went, and now it’s like this, if you don’t go to her, who will you go to? Only she can come up with the money.” After hearing this, everyone became happy again.Du Baochai secretly checked Li Wan's behavior, fearing that she would not help her.Everyone has made a plan now, and Baochai and Xiaohong will go to Li's house early in the morning.

At dawn the next day, Jia Yun hired a car and took Baochai Xiaohong to the door of Li's house. The Li family was polite when they heard that they belonged to Jia's family, so they led them to Xiaohua Hall, and another person Go and inform Li Wan.After a while, a girl came up and said in a soft voice: "Our aunt invites the two grandmas to meet each other in the inner room." After that, she led the two of Baochai through the corridor to the back garden, and went to Xiaolou. Only then did he arrive at Li Wan's room.

Li Wan strangled a sea otter and lying rabbit on his head, wiped his forehead around Shi Qing, and wore a lotus green Duo Luo Ni double-breasted gown with a sand green Shu brocade folded branch plum blossom horse face skirt, leaning on the kang.Seeing Baochai coming in, he said with a smile, "I was worried that no one would talk, but Qiaoer, you are here."

Baochai saw that although she was dressed gorgeously, her face had lost a lot of weight, and her expression was a little tired, and she could roughly see that her days were not going well.

Li Wan took Jia Lan back to her natal family, and originally wanted to tell his father to take Jia Lan to study hard, but after three years of filial piety, his son would be able to give it a try.Who knows that Li Shouzhong is the most Taoist, seeing his daughter returning home in despair, he was naturally unhappy and wanted to beat Li Wan out of the house.Li Wan had no choice but to bring Jia Lan to kneel at the door of Li's house. Li Shouzhong was afraid of ruining his reputation, so he pulled her mother and son in, and placed her in a small building in the back garden.

Li Wan lived there for a few days, at first it was okay, but later on, some unbearable gossip gradually spread out.Jia Lan came in to ask An to see that Li Wan's eyes were red and swollen from crying, and he was so angry that he wanted to argue with Li's family.Jia Lan retreated resentfully, left a book that night and left, saying that she was eager to make contributions and establish her own family, and couldn't wait to be filial, so she went to the south to join the army.Li Wan cried so hard that he begged his father to send someone to search everywhere. Where is there news of Jia Lan?

Baochai didn't know what was going on, but when she saw that Li Wan's thin cheekbones were protruding, she quickly comforted her and told her to have a good life.After a brief exchanging of pleasantries, Baochai then turned the topic to Sister Qiao.

Li Wan cried and sighed when she heard this, but Baochai and Xiaohong made her feel embarrassed crying, so Baochai bit the bullet and said, "We want our relatives to collect some money to redeem Qiao girl." Come out. If outsiders know that our girl is in that kind of place, Brother Lang will not look good in the future."

Li Wan was taken aback when he heard this, and then said: "My brother and sister are right. We are all the elders of Qiao girl, and I should also do my part." Twelve taels of silver were stuffed into Baochai's hand.Looking at the small bag of silver in her hand, Baochai didn't know whether to cry or laugh.Xiao Hong was gnashing her teeth in anger, Baochai was afraid that she would have a fit, so she hurriedly pulled her sleeves from behind.

As if Li Wan didn't see the faces of the two of them, he cried to himself: "You know, brother and sister, it's not that I don't help, it's just that my widow lost her job and went to her natal family. The money is not enough to manage the servants, so I can only take out these now, don't think too little of the brothers and sisters."

Although Baochai knew Li Wan's character, she did not expect her to be so stingy. No matter how well-bred she was, she couldn't help but get angry, and said with a sneer, "Since my sister-in-law has difficulties, let's borrow money from other places." After finishing speaking, he put the ten taels of silver in his hand back into Li Wan's hand, and dragged Xiao Hong away from Li's house.

When Baochai Xiaohong went out, she saw Jiang Yuhan hurried over and said, "Second Grandma is not well, you should go back and have a look!"