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

It is said that everyone said goodbye to Feng Ziying and walked all the way to Grandma Liu's house.Grandma Liu's daughter, Mrs. Liu, knew that Baochai would come to her house to rest today, so she took Qing'er to clean the guest room early in the morning.Seeing Baochai and others getting off the car, he hurriedly asked someone to lead Baochai and others to the guest room to rest.At this time, Xichun had left Liu's house early, and she didn't know where she had gone. Grandma Liu only forced her family to look for her. Where could she find it?

In the guest room, the fire is burning vigorously, and the embroidered quilt is warm and fragrant.Everyone set off early in the morning, and they were exhausted after rushing all the way, and they all felt sleepy after the warmth.Yinger fetched hot water and came in, and Baochai washed her face by the way. Seeing that her hair was wet, Yinger brought the mirror case together, removed Baochai's hairpin ring, took the grate, and helped her out one by one. She combed the grate only two or three times before hearing Yinger yell "Ah", Baochai hurriedly asked her what's the matter?Ying'er sighed, "I see two or three white hairs growing from the girl's temples." Baochai said with a smile, "What's the big deal for me? Just find some scissors and cut it off? Is it worth all the fuss?" Looking for the scissors, the son sighed, "Young lady has gray hair at such a young age. Aren't you worried about the affairs of this family?" You always have to confess everything? That's not good."

Ying'er ignored it at all, and continued: "The life of the girl is really hard. I thought that after marrying, there will be a wife who will love her, and she will be able to live a peaceful life for a few years. I have never missed my family and failed. The second master Bao is irresponsible. All the big and small things are taken care of by the girl." Baochai was closing her eyes and resting her mind, listening to her complaints, she said: "What's the point of talking about it all the time, one person has one's fate, as the saying goes, when the moon is full, it will lose money, and when the moon is full, the water will lose If it is full, it will overflow. Everything has its own rules, so what can we do? Let’s talk about Baoyu, is he willing to live such a life? So what if he doesn’t want to, it’s just a word of boil!” After finishing speaking, he sighed and continued. "It's just wronged that you suffer with us. If you don't want to follow us, I'll give you some money. If you take it to find relatives and friends or find a son-in-law, it's up to you. What do you think?"

After hearing this, Yinger hurriedly knelt down and said, "Miss, don't say that. You blame me. I shouldn't complain and make the girl unhappy. I followed the girl since I was a child. When something happened at home, it was the girl who took me away." Redeemed and came out. The girl drove me away, who did she tell me to follow? I have been following the girl for the rest of my life, please don't drive me away!"

Baochai sighed: "We have been in love since we were young, how can I be willing to let you go, but our days of suffering are still to come, if you really can't live on, then take advantage of the money we have today, hurry up Go on your way."

Why is Ying'er willing to go, and she begged again: "I won't go! Am I doing it for myself? Isn't it because of the girl's grievance?" Baochai said coldly, "I don't want you to be wronged for me. These days you always give Look at Baoyu's face, you think I didn't see it? It's just because we didn't talk about you face to face, but who knows you are more proud. Since you recognize me as your girl, you should recognize Baoyu as your uncle. It's not that you don't know your second master's temperament, you tell him that his nose is not his nose, his eyes are not his eyes, how would he think of me?"

Seeing that Baochai was really angry, Yinger pulled Baochai's skirt and cried, "Good girl, I don't dare anymore. The girl also said that we have been in love since we were young, and I can never leave her. I beg you, girl." Don't drive me away, I won't do that to Second Master again."

Baochai hurriedly helped her up and said, "How can I be willing to let you go? Our hard days are still to come, and we still have Xiaohong Xiren and the others to help us. We don't know what will happen to us in the future. ? We grew up together since we were young, how can I bear to hurt you?"

Hearing what she said, Ying'er shook her head like a rattle, but she refused to go. Seeing that she had made up her mind, Baochai had no choice but to keep her.Seeing that Baochai was willing to keep him, Yinger was so happy that she cried for a while and laughed for a while. Seeing that her face was full of tears, Baochai had to wring out the towel herself and wipe it carefully for her.

At this moment, Xiren asked from outside the curtain: "Second Mistress, is it over? Qing'er has prepared hot porridge and rice, please Second Mistress eat before resting."

After hearing this, Yinger hurriedly answered and came.Baochai also cleaned up a few times indiscriminately, and then came to the main hall with Yinger.

At this time, everyone has gathered in the living room. On the table, the porridge made of red beans and fine rice is steaming. There are also a few side dishes such as five-spice stewed quail, chicken mixed with winter bamboo shoots and other small dishes to accompany the porridge. Chicken broth made from simmered shiitake mushrooms.When Wang Gou'er heard that Baoyu was coming, Te's hen killed the stew, and went to the rich man in the village to buy some quail for winter fighting, and then he prepared the meal for the table.

Grandma Liu was still a little shy, she rubbed her hands and smiled at Baochai, "Grandma, don't laugh at me, our peasant family doesn't have any other good things to serve, so the second master and the second grandma can make do with it, and it's good to keep warm." Baochai hurriedly Said: "This is very good, working grandma." After speaking, he looked at Baoyu again, Baoyu was in a daze, Baochai didn't care about him, and only greeted Grandma Liu's family.

At the end of the meal, Wang Gou'er led Liu Shi Qing'er out, and Xiao Hong and others went back to their rooms to rest.Only then did Baochai open the package presented by Feng Ziying, there were eight gold ingots in it, besides that there was a small bag of scattered silver taels and some copper coins, which could be used for Baoyu's daily expenses.Even Xiren couldn't help but praise Feng Ziying for his delicate thoughts.After Baochai's rough calculation, this bag of gold can be exchanged for more than 900 taels of silver, and together with the contributions of all the people, it can save Qiao's sister from the sea of ​​suffering.

Grandma Liu was happy when she heard this, but she was embarrassed to tell Baochai to ask Baochai to take the money to save Qiaojie.When Baochai saw that Grandma Liu was looking at her with a blushing face, Baochai understood a little bit, so she said to Baoyu, "We don't need these silver taels, so we might as well give it to grandma and ask her to redeem sister Qiao. How about it?" Baoyu said this in his heart. Although he suffered from poverty, he would never see his niece and daughter fall into the fire pit. Hearing Baochai's words, he naturally had no objection, and hurriedly said: "Sister This is the right thing to say, but since we have the money in front of us, we should return the money that everyone collected together.”

Seeing that the two wanted to be together, Baochai was overjoyed, so she hurriedly called Ying'er to call Xiaohong and the others to come over, and told everyone about his husband and wife's plan. Hong Xiren refused to accept it, and advised Baochai that there would be more places to spend money in the future, so Baochai must keep the money.

Just as they were in a stalemate, they suddenly saw Qing'er pouring tea. Baochai saw that Qing'er had brought a small multicolored tea cup from a kiln and served it in front of Baoyu. The two of them were stunned when they saw the tea cup, and Baoyu ignored it The tea was hot, so he picked it up tremblingly, staring at it blankly, tears could not help but fall from the corners of his eyes.Baochai was stunned for a while, then woke up, and said to Grandma Liu, "I have one thing to ask grandma to do."

When Grandma Liu heard that Baochai had something to ask for, she hurriedly said, "Second Grandma, what can I ask for? As long as my wife has it, Second Grandma can just ask. We're just afraid that Grandma will look down on our things." Baochai listened She smiled and said, "Please give us that little teacup, grandma." Grandma Liu sighed, "What am I supposed to do? This teacup is originally a property of your mansion. It was when I went to your mansion that year, Bao Er The Lord gave it to me. It’s free to keep it here, if Second Grandma wants it, just take it.”

Seeing Grandma Liu agreeing, Baochai smiled and said, "Your old man doesn't know the benefits of this thing. As the saying goes, colorful kilns are the most important, and chicken bowls are the best wine glasses. It's a pity that this is a single one. If there is a pair, it can be exchanged for 200 taels. The money came out. Although this one is a single one, it can still be worth 100 taels. Give it to me today, and it will be too late for you old man to regret it." Everyone laughed when he said that.Grandma Liu was stunned when she heard this, and said, "My God! Is it worth 100 taels of silver for just such a small cup?" Baochai said, "That's why I begged you, old man, to give it to me, but I don't have any money on hand to give it to you." "Grandma Liu hurriedly waved her hands and said, "What did Second Grandma say, this was originally given to me by Second Master Bao, and now it is justified to return it to Second Master Bao, how can you still ask for money?"

Baochai looked at Xiaohong again and said, "We're going all the way south, the mountains are high and the road is far away, and the world is not peaceful. If we take cash, we may run into bandits. But this cup is valuable and not eye-catching. When we go to Jinling, we will sell it. You have the money to live on. These days, you husband and wife have been running around a lot for my family’s affairs. Originally, you really didn’t have any money to spend, so you used your money. Now that you have money to save Qiaojie, and How can I hide your money?" As he spoke, he stuffed Xiaohong's share into Xiaohong's hand, and wanted to return Xiren's share.While talking, Baoyu heard that Baochai was going to sell the teacup, how could he bear it?He actually regarded Baochai as one of those ordinary people who only have money in their hearts, and his face flushed with anger.Unable to sit still any longer, he stood up suddenly, took the cup and walked away.Everyone in the room was stunned, Baochai didn't stand or sit here, let alone chase him out to stop him, his silver face turned purple immediately.

Seeing the awkward situation, Xiren hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "If you want to tell me, we don't need to give us what we have. Anyway, we will go back to the south together, and we will spend the same food and lodging expenses. If we separate, it will be divided. Baochai didn't have the heart to think about anything else at this time, so she just responded with a smile.

Seeing that Baochai's eyes were filled with tears, Xiaohong asked Ying'er to serve Baochai into the guest room to rest.She went to Jia Yun herself and asked him and Wang Gou'er to exchange all the gold donated by Feng Ziying into bills, so as not to attract bad people along the way.

Baochai and others did not dare to stay longer because they were repatriated, so they had to go south early the next morning.Grandma Liu couldn't let go of Qiao's affairs, so she wanted to go with her. Mrs. Liu had no choice but to ask her husband to escort her all the way.Seeing that the group of them were old, weak, and weak, Wang Gou'er was also worried. Although it was the end of the year, it was slack for farming, so he asked his wife to keep an eye on the house, and left Ban'er at home, and he took a long-term worker at home. Then escort everyone back to the south.

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These two days I have been thinking about how to explain Miaoyu's ending, I really don't want to spoil her like I did in the sequel... I forgot to write Miss Xichun's ending, let me make it up.