The widowed mother of the red mansion

34. Chapter three and four

After leaving Baochai's place, Xiren sneered a few times, twisted the handkerchief for a long time under the shade of flowers, and went to Mrs. Wang's place after making up his mind.

Mrs. Wang usually hates Qingwen, because she is romantic and dexterous and has the style of Daiyu. It is better to be honest like Xiren.Seeing her coming to pay her respects, she asked, "How is Baoyu?"

Xi Ren's face was flushed red, and Madam Wang was woken up by the look of wanting to say something, she hurriedly dismissed the maids in the room, leaving Xi Ren alone: ​​"What did you want to say just now?"

Xiren plopped down on his knees and said, "There is a saying, I shouldn't say my identity, and it's not my turn to say it. It's just that I have served the second master for so many years, even though he hates me now, I can't let go of acting for him." I have a worried heart, and I am very worried all day. What was he like before, and what is he like now? Some of the reasons for this, I can see clearly. If my wife doesn't believe me, she will die without a place to die. For the sake of the second master being raised by his wife, I have to listen to it."

Mrs. Wang was startled, and said: "My good boy, if you have anything to say, just tell me."

Xi Ren said: "Second Master has been a bit naughty since he was a child, but he is extremely smart and filial. Since Miss Lin came, she has been instigated by her every day. Going to the side, I only have my younger sister in my heart. It is said that Miss Lin is also from a noble family background, but her behavior is a bit frivolous, and she usually can't see it in our courtyard, let alone in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion."

Mrs. Wang was surprised and angrily said: "I'm really out of spirits, I don't know about such things! All the maids in your room are dead? Seeing such things, just don't try to persuade them. Why are you doing it now? Come and talk to me?"

The attacker hurriedly said: "They are so happy to please the second master and Miss Lin, how can they come to this bad luck? Whenever I don't know how to wink and say a few words, then Qingwen scolds me, saying, 'Master, you take care of so much. What, I don’t take a mirror to look at myself.’ When others ask, she still has to hide it. How many times have I done this, I have the courage to talk about him! The second master usually thinks I’m an eyesore. If you talk about the pillow, you will really be kicked out."

Mrs. Wang slapped the table and said with a sneer, "She herself is just a slave. Why do you ask you to look in the mirror? It turns out that the old lady wants to make her a concubine for Baoyu. The old lady was not happy, so she could only let her go. Who knew that in Baoyu's room, she was the most important person in the world, and she came up more and more! I know, when she saw that the old lady liked a girl surnamed Lin, she made up her mind Come and praise her, so that I can be an aunt in the future, and fulfill her mother's dream of spring and autumn! Wait a minute, what did you just say about the wind beside the pillow?"

Xiren stammered: "Sometimes the second master is mischievous and hides in the house to drink. When the two drink too much, they sleep in the same bed. It's probably okay..."

Mrs. Wang was so angry that her face turned pale and she almost fainted, she said: "What a goblin-like thing, I won't drive her out today, and I don't need to stay in this mansion anymore! This idea is useless, it's better to close the door Don’t ask about these things while chanting scriptures, so as not to be pissed off first!”

Seeing Mrs. Wang's fury, Xiren panicked.She had hoped to slander Mrs. Wang to make her hate Qingwen, and she would make plans in the future, but it would happen now.

"Madam, don't be angry, there's no need to rush this matter! An old lady can't get over it, and there is no reason for the incident. She must bite her tongue and deny it. Instead, she will say that I framed it, and the second master is being fascinated by her." I'm so dizzy, if I act rashly like this, I'm afraid that it will hurt the relationship between mother and child, and I will take advantage of Miss Lin's wishes in the future."

Mrs. Wang calmed down, thought about the attacking words for a while, and felt that it made a lot of sense, she couldn't help but said gratefully: "My son, usually you are silent, I only think of you as simple and honest, but I don't want to be so comprehensive and know the general situation." Man! I gave birth to him so easily, how could I let him be ruined by others? Usually he doesn’t like to study, how many times I blocked him in front of the master and just covered it up, but now I’m used to him like this. Thanks He has you in his room, otherwise he doesn’t know how far he’s gone.”

After hearing this, Xiren rejoiced in his heart, and said, "Madam, I really can't afford to say that. I'm not as good as others. I don't have the mentality to be competitive. I only know how to be a slave carefully. What kind of knowledge can I have? Like me It's just a sentence to say something like this."

Mrs. Wang said with a smile: "It's not good to be too clever. I just love honest and upright people like you. Don't worry, I won't let you down."

The attacker lowered his head and slowly backed out.When I walked into the garden, I saw Daiyu's little maid pinching flowers and playing there, without saying a word, she went straight to Nanny Song who was in charge of the flowers.

When Nanny Song saw her coming, she knew it was a maidservant in Baoyu's room who was not very favored, and her meaning was a little indifferent.Xiren laughed and said: "In such a hot and dry day, Mammy refused to come out to take care of the flowers, but asked the little maid to pick them outside and send them to the girls? Don't let anyone see them, just say that you are relying on the old to sell the old."

Nanny Song was in a hurry: "What? Why did I ask someone to pick flowers! It must be another lowly maid who only cares about spoiling things, and the second grandma will fuck me up again when she sees it. Flowers from other places are just fine, here I am. The flowers are very rare, there are only dozens of them in total, and they are all counted, and they are all in every room, but now they are missing, where can I make up for them!" After saying that, he hurried away, Xi Ren He stopped and waited, and after a while he heard the sound of quarreling and cursing, so he lifted his foot and left.

Nanny Song snatched the flowers from the little maidservant's hand, and because she didn't recognize them from Daiyu's room, and bullied her because she was young, she slapped her face and scolded: "Little Sao Tiaozi, are you picking flowers while you're a man? If you don’t learn well, thieves can’t twist a needle or hold a thread, but stealing flowers is quick, so you can see that you are a shameless person. Is this where you can get it? I want to pick flowers on your mother’s grave!”

She only wanted to scold happily, but accidentally hurt someone.Although the little girl is in Daiyu's room, she is usually the best friend with Qingwen, and she often walks around and plays.Qingwen was at the side catching butterflies, but when she heard these words, she couldn't help being furious, she came and pointed at Nanny Song and scolded: "Old man, what are you? Who came to pick it? Who took advantage of the man? Who stole the flowers? Today Erye and Miss Lin went to the old lady. The old lady said that the flowers are good and asked us to pick them for them to bottle. If you don’t ask You are ashamed, you are living in a kennel as you grow older! When I tell this to the old lady, I will ask the second grandma to interrogate you!"

Nanny Song was startled when she saw Qingwen come out, but when she saw that Mother Jia asked them to pick it, she couldn't help regretting herself, and slapped herself several times: "I was confused for a moment, girl, don't take it to heart. Just now The attacker in your house came to tell me that someone was stealing flowers, and I was deceived by lard. How could she not know the two girls?"

Qingwen became vigilant and asked, "Didn't she go to Miss Bao to get something? Why did she come here?"

Nanny Song knew that the maids in Baoyu's room were always fighting openly and secretly, so she was happy to push the fire on Xiren: "Who knows, I saw her come out of the wife's room with a very happy face."

In fact, she was just talking nonsense, but she didn't want to touch the truth, which is also the retribution of attacking people.Seeing this, Qingwen didn't want to scold her anymore, and hurried to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, and Nanny Song chanted to Buddha: "Finally, I sent this little hot hoof away!"

Qingwen just arrived at the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, but found that Li Wan and Baochai were also there.Just when he was hesitating, Baochai saw her and said with a smile, "Isn't that Qingwen? What are you doing standing outside? You don't have to worry about getting burned by the sun."

Qingwen had no choice but to walk in and said with a smile, "I didn't see Baoyu just now. I thought it was here, so I came to see it."

Daiyu said: "He just came back from here, you go along the way and walk faster, maybe you can meet him."

Qingwen just wanted to take advantage of the situation to slip away, Baochai said with a smile: "Come in quickly, there is nothing wrong in your room anyway, I want to keep you here today."

Daiyu said: "What do you keep her for? I'm afraid she is in a hurry to find Baoyu."

Baochai said, "It's okay, just for a while."

Qingwen came in, and Baochai asked Yinger to bring a box with a golden hairpin in it, and said with a smile: "Yesterday, I heard that Baoyu's room was busy making medicine, so I had to grind it with this thing, and I had to wear it on my head." It happened. It just so happened that I thought this hairpin was not in a good shape and wanted to change it, so I just gave it to you."

Qingwen laughed and said, "Thank you, miss. Don't mention it. People are making trouble because of this thing. It's hard for Miss Bao to know, but she still remembers. This time Baoyu can be regarded as a good idea."

Daiyu smiled and asked: "It's strange, why is he making such a noise all of a sudden? Is anyone in your yard sick?"

Qingwen said: "Who knows, this is not the only strange thing he did. We are all familiar with it. I don't know how it happened last night. I am also puzzled." Saying goodbye and leaving .

After Baochai gossiped for a while, she also left. Li Wan laughed and said, "It must be to Baoyu."

Daiyu said: "Why did she send the golden hairpin in front of us today? She wanted to avoid suspicion."

Li Wan said, "I don't know either. Qingwen came here just now, and seemed to have something to say, but then she stopped seeing us here."

Daiyu frowned, and said: "She is always alert, she won't look flustered even if it is not a big matter."

Let's say Mrs. Wang was so worried after the raider left that even Zhou Rui's family could see it, and asked, "Madam looks better today than before, but has the old disease relapsed?"

Mrs. Wang said: "I vaguely heard some things, but they were all very important, so I felt unhappy for a while."

Zhou Rui's family hurriedly said: "There are rumors, there must be some reasons, there is absolutely no groundless truth. If the wife doesn't like it in her heart, why don't you just check it out and get rid of those suspicious shadows? Lest you get sick in your heart. It's worth it."

This remark awakened Mrs. Wang, and said: "Check? You have to check, there are too many pickled things in our house, if we don't clean them thoroughly, I don't know how many brothers and girls will be ruined in the future!"