Old things in the Red Chamber

Do you remember what I said last time? "Jia Gu picked up a chopstick and asked him.

"Do you remember what?"

Jia Gu thought to himself that even if he gave Jia Amnesty a prince, he might not be able to keep this guy.

"Didn't you say why the Xue family voted under the Rongguo Mansion? Let's say that there must be twists and turns in the process. I'll find someone to investigate. This matter..."

"I remember. Did you find anything?"

"Found it. Xue Pan, the Patriarch of the Xue family, fought with someone to buy a girl and killed her. The bitter master has no relatives in his family, and no one will redress his grievances after he dies. He relies on a few old servants, but the old servants are not very loyal."

"The Xue family relied on our family to spend money to deal with this matter."

"It's almost the same. It was your seal that was stamped on the letter. It was handed over to Jia Yucun, the chief official at the time. They withheld the letter, saying that it was the soul of the deceased who took revenge and took away Xue Pan's soul. It's just so muddled. The case was closed. Then the Xue family went north and fell under the Rongguo Mansion. This is a murder case, and the handle is still in the hands of the guy in Jia Yucun, which was restored by Jia Zhengbao."

"Since that's the case, it shouldn't be a big deal, right? He is relying on getting up at our house, thinking about some incense..."

"If he wants to recite the kindness of Jia's family, why did he withhold the letter and not destroy it? He wants to hold it and take the opportunity to threaten you. You...you are so stupid. When the time comes, he won't be able to ask for it. What a pity that you will take out the letter. You, if he asks for an official, with the current power of the Rongfu, he Jia Cunzhou himself is a senior foreigner. He can get a low-level official position, but he can't get Jia Yucun to a high position. It's hard to fill his desires, and it's time for him to take revenge .”

"What should I do?"

"What do you say?"

Jia Amnesty turned around anxiously, "I don't know, or I'll send someone to get the letter back."

"What if people don't give it to you?"

"Buy it back with silver."

"This kind of money-making thing, if you are short of money, won't you get more money if you use this to blackmail you? What if people don't care about money?"

"Then... what do you say?"

"First, steal. The second method is to change. The third method is to kill. Stealing is to let his confidants steal the letter. It takes a long time to wait. As the old saying goes, nights are long and dreams are full of dreams, just don't show any traces." The second way is to exchange what he wants, but I think that person is a greedy and cruel person, and he only thinks of revenge, so I will exchange his treasure Our letters, for example, his son was kidnapped, and it’s not just about returning this letter. If you want to exchange it, you can exchange most of his things. It’s better to have someone else’s handle in it, so that he doesn’t know who is behind it Manipulation, this method is the most difficult to use... The third method is to kill him and set fire to his whole family, and the letter will disappear. Even if it is taken out, we can also say that someone forged it. Which one do you choose? ?”

"Steal it."

Jia Gu smiled, and clinked glasses with Jia She. "I'll get you the letter back."

"It's still better for you to treat me better, brother." After drinking, the old dandy let out a long sigh full of emotion.

"That is."

"Auntie shouldn't have resigned to keep her, but the old lady missed her second younger sister, Sister Lin..."

"Jia Lian's daughter-in-law, if you don't stay and want to go, you can leave, but I still put my words aside. The two masters in your house have promised our Lord Hou to raise the two girls in front of the two historians. We live in our mansion for [-] days a month, and you live in your house for [-] days. Forget about this month, we won’t talk so much, but I will see people on the first day of next month.”

Wang Xifeng originally wanted to take her away, so she agreed directly without being pretentious. Besides, it was the two masters who agreed at the beginning, and if something happened, it would not be her turn to use her as a raft.

Madam Tong was quite reluctant, her eyes were red, and Lin Daiyu and Jia Yingchun were also reluctant to part with her, mainly because the three of them got along very well. A girl is also willing.The three of them should study in the morning, take care of the house, and eat, drink and play in the afternoon. They are really happy.

Before Jia Yingchun left, she told Licorice, "When it's the first day of junior high school, don't forget to tell your aunt to pick me up."

When the girls came home, Shi Taijun rubbed Lin Daiyu's heart and soul, but in fact, she and Tong Shi had been fighting for so long, and she never mentioned Lin Daiyu and Jia Yingchun.

After dinner at night, Lin Daiyu tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, unable to fall asleep. The footsteps of the maids in the yard, the whispers in the night next door, and the way Mrs. Wang looked at her during dinner made it difficult for Lin Daiyu to fall asleep.

And Jia Yingchun's life was not easy, as soon as she came back, the eldest girl Shiqi sued her nurse, saying that the old guy walked in and took something, even if it was a piece of snack, she wanted to take it away for the little grandson to taste , and ended up collecting all the food in the room, and said, "The girl is not here, what are you little rascals pretending to be, what are you eating, what kind of snacks are you eating, one by one..." The following words were hard to hear, and Jia Yingchun felt depressed.

She hadn't fallen asleep yet, but her nanny came again and turned over the bundle she brought back. She saw a set of pastel pink clothes shining silver under the light, and she couldn't stop chanting Buddha's name. Touching up and down, a pair of eyeballs can't wait to stick to it.

"Mom put your hands down anyway. It's Mrs. Tong's clothes for the girl. It's woven with silver thread. It's very precious. Next time I go, the girl still needs to wear it."

Jia Yingchun's nanny pretended she didn't hear it. She took off her clothes and saw a small bag with several gold hairpins inside. One of the gold hairpins was embedded with twelve huge oriental pearls, which were shiny and moist, and the oriental pearls Each of them is as big as a finger belly. Dongzhu is only found in the north, and it is more than [-] times more expensive than ordinary pearls from the south. These Dongzhu are round and smooth, and their appearance is extraordinary. Just this hairpin, Rongguo Mansion is hard to find second. Her grandma put it in her arms, "Miss, give it to grandma, grandma is not rich now, and she is not lucky. When grandma's luck comes back, she will definitely give the girl two such hairpins." .”

Leave when you're done.

Siqi hurriedly stopped him, "You put the things down first, there is no old guy like you, this is given to the girl by relatives and wives, and Mrs. Tong will ask if there is no more, where do you put the girl's face. And this It's the girl's private house, and the girl didn't say a word, so if you take it and leave, is it stealing or robbing?"

There was a lot of noise, and the nurse was crying and crying that my blood had turned into milk, and the milk had grown up... Jia Yingchun pulled up the quilt and covered her head.In the end, this hairpin was taken away by her grandmother.

The next morning after this incident happened, all the masters and servants in Baosha knew about it.Lin Daiyu sighed, and quietly asked Zijuan to give Jia Yingchun her Dongzhu nobile, saying only "that old guy lost yesterday".Jia Tanchun didn't say anything after hearing this, and told his girl, "Don't talk too much, if anyone talks too much, I will report to my wife tomorrow and kick her out."Jia Xichun knew but did not respond.There is nothing in the Rongguo Mansion that cannot be passed on. Yesterday, Jia Yingchun's nurse took out her gold hairpin and gambled with someone on the second gate. After losing it, the winner took the hairpin to the pawn shop immediately and became a Damn it, sold it for hundreds of taels of silver.It was given to the owner by the shopkeeper of the pawnshop.

This owner is the Xue family.When it was delivered at noon, Aunt Xue praised it as a good thing, and she wanted to dismantle Dongzhu to make jewelry for Xue Baochai.He was stopped by Xue Baochai.Thinking about when to take this hairpin as a favor and return it to Jia Yingchun, or when she asked her aunt to do something one day, she would dismantle these beads and send them to her aunt.

Mrs. Wang, who is in charge of Jia's house, knows about things that Xue Baochai knows. She didn't care about this matter when she knew it, and just said, "Girls follow the old lady, let's see what the old lady is." Tell the old lady about the matter, it may not be effective if you say it. The old lady's heart is Jia Baoyu, and the second is Lin Daiyu, so she won't touch Jia Yingchun's heart. Guests at home.

Siqi looked at the hairpin sent by Zijuan, "Fortunately, Miss Lin got it, otherwise, Miss Lin's things were lost outside, and those scoundrels knew about it, and people thought..." Secretly giving and receiving, this It's a big event, it's a matter of destroying fame.

Jia Yingchun buried herself on the pillow and cried loudly.

This hairpin is not her own, of course she knows that each oriental bead is unique, not to mention she likes it very much, after wearing it for seven or eight days, she can naturally tell if it is her own.

In a blink of an eye, it was the first day of the junior high school, and Jia Xun personally brought the car to Rongguo Mansion to greet Shi Taijun.Shi Taijun called out Baoyu to meet Jia Xuan.

When they met for the first time, Baoyu was attracted by Jia Xun's appearance, and he felt close to him. However, Jia Xun's second sentence aroused his disgust, "I don't know what book Baoyu read? Where did I read it? I don't know if I can ask for advice today." .”

The old lady smiled and said, "He is weak and can't compare to you. It's cold now, and the old lady prevents him from studying. I will go to home school in the spring of next year."

Jia Huan was amazed by this excuse, he could not study when it was cold, if he said it himself, his father would pick up the whip and teach him how to speak.

Shi Taijun showed great affection for Jia Yu, and let him sit beside him like Jia Baoyu. When eating, he moved the delicious food in front of him to the two of them, just like the old grandmother who dotes on her grandson in ordinary people.There are countless things said in the middle, "The children of our family don't need to study and progress like those poor families. What are they doing with so many books? Donate to an official when the time comes..."

Jia Xun glanced at Lin Daiyu, her father was Tanhualang, not the son of a poor family, a decent prince.Think about me and Jia Lian again. Jia Lian is a donated official, and I am a serious official based on my ability. Jia Lian has only a false name and has nothing to do every day. I want to patrol and stand guard in the wind and rain. At present, my future is brighter. .The family man does not seek to make progress, but also fantasizes about wealth and wealth. How can there be such a thing in the world that gets something for nothing.

Sure enough, in the words of the old man, "The Rongguo Mansion is already rotten."

Jia Baoyu watched Lin Daiyu get into the carriage, and kept asking, "Sister Lin, come back early."

Jia Xun rode a horse, watched the two carriages go out, and said to Jia Baoyu who came out, "Go back, the old lady in the province is worried."

As expected, Jia Baoyu was dragged away by the maids without turning his head three times.Just because of Jia Baoyu's performance today, Jia Xun felt his teeth hurt.A good man who raises girls even more than girls.