The maid of the red house

When having dinner in Jiamu's room, Jiamu suddenly rewarded Xueyan with two bowls of vegetables.

Those who wait outside are not human beings. They know that Mother Jia is giving Daiyu's master and servant a prestige. Although they have their own ideas, they are not dissatisfied. It is only natural for people to eat, wear, and serve others. The latter inevitably makes people feel that poor relatives still have to boss around, who can be convinced?They all saw a large number of things coming into the mansion, more things than Xue's house, so they couldn't help but be cautious and respectful when treating Daiyu from then on.

Xueyan understands better that outsiders know that Daiyu brought her family property into the mansion, and her life is more secure than in the original book. In the original book, Daiyu died early after being wronged. Who sympathizes with her?Maybe it was said that she was so delicate that the Rongguo Mansion could not afford to support her.But now, if their masters and servants die in the Rongguo Mansion at a young age, outsiders will think that the Rongguo Mansion killed them for the purpose of annexing their wealth, and their reputation will plummet. Therefore, the current Rongguo Mansion will allow Daiyu to live well no matter what.

Poison you say?Poison is so easy to buy?Before buying medicine, there must be a prescription, and the prescription must have the doctor's name. If you buy a little arsenic outside, you have to register the name, origin and purpose of buying the medicine!Rotten ginseng?It was all fabricated by later generations.What's more, Daiyu usually eats with Jiamu, and the medicine is prepared with Jiamu. Changling's dispensing of the medicine can only be caused by something wrong with Jia's mother's death, or it may be that Daiyu didn't dispense the medicine, who knows which one.In addition, the sisters in the Grand View Garden have a kitchen, so there are so many people watching, who can hide anything.Diet taboo?When she is vegetarian?

People die for money, birds die for food. For Lin Ruhai's inheritance, Lin's family and Jia's family quarreled and left in a big defeat. For the sake of that fortune, Rongguo Mansion would not be spared. Rongguo Mansion is getting worse and worse. If Rongguo Mansion is defeated, the Lin family will always settle accounts later.

If Xueyan hadn't expected the follow-up, how could Xueyan have said those words.

Bringing property into the mansion quietly, for Daiyu, there are only disadvantages and no benefits, servants will not be convinced, outsiders will not know her grievances, it is better to publicize, there is a life guarantee, even if the Rongguo Mansion is spent , I have to get some gold powder to decorate my face, maybe I can save some things for Daiyu to show off, otherwise, who knows if they are all annexed?People thought that Daiyu's food, clothing and housing belonged to the Rongguo Mansion, and the Lin family had to rely on the Rongguo Mansion for any dowry. Who would want to marry such a poor girl?With the family property and the reputation of the family, even if the parents are gone, it is not that no one proposes marriage.

Carrying the dishes rewarded by Jia Mu, I followed Daiyu back to the room. The dishes were already cold.

In the spring of the second year after entering Jia's mansion, Daiyu moved out of the Bisha cabinet and lived in the wing room of Jia's mother's courtyard. Zijuan brought her back early. Almost all tidied up.

Zijuan came up with tea and said: "The bedroom has been tidied up for the time being, and we will talk about the rest tomorrow. Miss, have a cup of tea first."

Rubbing her forehead, Daiyu looked pale and exhausted, sat under the outer window, drank two sips of tea with Zijuan's hand, turned her head and said to Xueyan: "Since I punished you in front of the old lady today, after half a year I won’t give you the monthly money.”

Nowadays, one tael of silver can be exchanged for fifteen hundred taels of silver, one tael is one thousand wen, Xueyan's monthly money is one tael a month, and the monthly money for half a year is six taels of silver, which is equivalent to four taels of silver, but the main thing for a servant girl The income is reward money, Xueyan thought of the amount she could get every year, and didn't care about the four taels of silver, so she nodded and smiled and said, "I am convinced by the girl's punishment." Others know what happened on the pier, so it's not easy to punish her, and it's done perfectly.

Seeing that she understood, Daiyu smiled knowingly, with dimples on her lips, and said: "You follow me and haven't eaten dinner yet, go and eat."

The big girls like Xueyan have their own rules. The little girl brought two meat, one vegetable and one soup, and a big bowl of rice. The two bowls of food rewarded by Jia Mu only moved a few chopsticks, and drank a bowl without touching the meat. The vegetarian soup asked the little girl to take it away.

Before going to bed, Daiyu helped Daiyu remove her make-up. Daiyu opened the dowry. Under the hazy light, her slender fingers were as delicate as the best suet white jade. She picked up a pair of pearl earrings from the dowry, handed them to Xueyan, and said: " Take it and wear it."

Zijuan, Ting Lan and others knew that Daiyu had fined Xueyan's monthly payment, so they used the earrings to compensate her.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows that such a bead cannot be bought for four taels of silver. Xueyan took it in her hand and replaced the sapphire silver pendant on her ear, and looked in the mirror. Everyone saw that she had a slender waist, slender shoulders, and black hair. Holding the double maids, the pearly light reflects the apricot face, the peach cheeks, the phoenix eyes and the diamond lips, which adds to the beauty, and she praises her repeatedly. It can't be seen, but this time around, it seems that he has changed a lot, and his whole body is clean and crisp.

Xueyan didn't know what Zijuan was thinking, so she just put the pearl earrings into the dressing box before going to sleep.

Because Daiyu suddenly brought four more maids back, the original room was not enough, so Xueyan moved to Zijuan's room to live together, and gave her original room to Ting Lan and Dan Ju, Qing He He and Runzhu lived in another room that had been tidied up. At that time, Jia Mu planned to let Daiyu's maidservant live in another room, but when she saw that Daiyu had brought it herself, she didn't give it to her again.And because Zijuan stayed in Daiyu's room for a long time, Xueyan was considered to be alone in the room.

Xueyan finally calmed down and counted her possessions.

When she was in Lin's house, she had to be with Daiyu all the time, and occasionally she had to stay in Daiyu's room overnight. She basically had no time and space for herself, and it was even more difficult to count when she was on the road. Only now has she calmed down.

Lock the door, put down the window drawer, and move the lamp to the small bedside table to illuminate it.

The things that Lin Ruhai privately gave in the mustard seeds are not counted. She doesn't know the exact amount, but she knows the things. It doesn't change, it's better to keep it in it so that the color will not become dull and old.

She brought three suitcases back from the south. One suitcase was Lin Ruhai's women's ready-made clothes. The clothes were divided into lint cotton brocade and single yarn for four seasons. Zijuan got a box of big woolen clothes, Xueyan was also lucky and got a box of small woolen clothes, Ting Lan only got a box of gauze clothes, Zijuan and Xueyan got a box together, six people exchanged with each other, four seasons Each of them has their own clothes, and their love has deepened.

Xueyan is different from the five of them. They are all born in the Jia family and the Lin family. All the money was taken away by the mother-in-law who was in charge of her, so she couldn't save the money. When she arrived in Rongguo Mansion, Zijuan was protecting her, and the servants didn't dare to exploit her, so she saved some money.

The monthly money plus the reward money, Xueyan saved a total of 86 taels of silver, 80 taels of gold, and [-] taels of money. At the beginning, I bought Gusu Tuyi and spent all of it. Daiyu is called Zijuan Returning her a bag of gold and silver, four gold ingots weighing five taels, four silver ingots weighing five taels, and ten silver coins weighing one tael, she earned seven to eighty taels of silver for nothing.

Lin Ruhai rewarded thirty or forty gold and silver zippers, about eight taels of gold and 15 taels of silver.

Today, the purses that Jia Mu rewarded each contained two silver coins, a total of two or four dollars.

These are Xueyan's current savings, and Zijuan has kept them for her all the time. Now that Zijuan sees that she can handle things, she has a plan in her heart, so she gives her all the clothes, shoes and hairpin rings that were kept for her before.

The clothes of the four seasons are not easy to subdivide, but there is also Lin Ruhai's vanity mirror box in the clothes box, which contains all kinds of gold hairpins and jade bracelets that I have accumulated over the past few years, including the two gold hairpins I got today, about ten or twenty pieces.Daiyu is very particular about clothes and jewelry. The materials and styles of clothes must be exquisite and made by people around her. Jewelry likes natural jewelry such as pearls, gems and jade. She never wears the four seasons clothes made in Rongguo Mansion every year. They are rarely worn, and are basically rewarded to the azaleas and snow geese around them.

The number and quality of these jewelry are not comparable to the box that Lin Ruhai admired. After opening the lock, you can see that it is full of hairpins and pendants, or inlaid with jewels, or gold and jade, and so on. The craftsmanship is very delicate and unique.

Although others knew that Lin Ruhai rewarded her with a box of jewelry, they didn't know the number and style of it. After thinking about it, she picked out the precious jewelry that she liked more, such as gemstones, pearls, and jade, and put them into another box, and then Putting it into the mustard seeds, the box was half empty immediately, so she simply put the rest of the jewelry into the dressing box and locked it up. She liked the newly worn pearl earrings, and she would have to wear them for a few days before putting them away.

The last box contained a sewing box, a handkerchief, a purse, an embroidered pattern, and various clothing materials that the snow geese were rewarded every year. There were silks, satins, silks, silks, and gauzes, but among them, only one piece of moon white satin and one piece of pomegranate silk were whole, and the rest were all intact. A piece of a ruler may be enough to make a coat or a gown, or a skirt and beige, but nothing too fragmentary.

Xueyan breathed a sigh of relief, with a look of joy on her face. According to Grandma Liu, 20 taels of silver is enough for their family to eat for a year. Her current property should be able to live in the countryside for decades. The baby who came out of the mountains has experienced wealth, seen the world, and understood people's hearts. Now he just wants to return to the place where human nature is the most simple.

After Daiyu got married, she left and moved to a village with her own [-] mu of land, where she lived a leisurely life as a landlord.

The more Xueyan thought about it, the more she felt that it was beautiful and promising, and she woke up the next day in a very happy mood. At this time, she never thought that life in the country is not easy, and the extortion of land taxes and favors is enough for her to burn out. carry.

Daiyu went to eat in Jiamu's room, Xueyan didn't follow, and was setting up utensils and packing things with Ting Lan and others, but Baoyu followed Daiyu when she came back, and gave Daiyu a string of wagtail incense beads As soon as she heard that it was a gift from the King of Beijing, Daiyu immediately scolded the stinky man and threw it away, which made Baoyu look stunned.

Xueyan smiled and said: "Second Master Bao is confused. How can you give us girls the things worn by men outside? There is no way people will say that our girls are wrong." Rosary beads and jade pendants are worn next to the body, staining the skin of the body The secreted oil or something, especially the ones worn by men, which girl can accept it?If Daiyu accepted it, she would lose her identity.

Baoyu hurriedly said: "I made a mistake. I was rude to my sister. My sister can just beat me and scold me, but don't make me angry."

Daiyu ignored them, watching Tinglan and Danju take out the pens, ink, papers and inkstones, earthen instruments, etc. for the sisters one by one, raised her head and said to Xueyan: "Tinglan and the others just came, since they are here I don’t know the way or the people, so you take them to give gifts, and meet them by the way, so that you don’t know who they are when you meet in the future, and it’s a joke.”

Xue Yan laughed and said, "That's exactly what I mean."

As for the things for Baoyu, others are in Daiyu's room, and Daiyu directly asks him to take them back without having to make another trip, so only Sanchun, Jia Lan, Jia Cong, Jia Huan, eldest sister, and Baochai need to be given away. .

So Xueyan took Tinglan Danju out, Liu Zijuan and Qinghe Runzhu followed Daiyu, took a few things by herself, and asked the mother-in-law to hold the rest, and went to the courtyard where Sister Feng lived, and the little girl The maids are all eight or nine years old and ten years old, and it's okay to pass on errands, and their strength is not as strong as that of an adult woman. Xueyan can't bear to order them like this.

The eldest sister was too young, so she only gave a set of jade-carved zodiac ornaments, a few incense fans, a few strings of incense beads and a few sachets.

Sister Feng came back from Jiamu's flattery and was at home, so she asked them to go in and said with a smile, "it's hard for you to remember the eldest sister. Thank you girls when you go back. The mansion is making summer clothes, but you just entered the mansion yesterday, Mr. The wife told me impatiently, don’t forget, you go back and tell the girl, I will send someone to measure you after lunch, don’t go out.”

Xueyan often went to and from Sister Feng and Daiyu's courtyard, and they knew each other very well, so she smiled and said, "Understood, I will tell the girl after I send it back. Our girl is sad now, and the second mistress must be more considerate and use plain and clean words." The material is good." She didn't care about Jia Baoyu's bright red body, but she couldn't help but care about Daiyu's attire.

Sister Feng raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and said with a chuckle: "I see, I, together with you, also asked people to choose some simple and elegant materials." She saw the silver things brought back by Jia Lian last night, and today she treated Daiyu's room with warmth and thoughtfulness. Yu wears filial piety, as a personal maid, as long as she doesn't go out to socialize, she can't be too bright, not to mention that according to the rules, most maids can't wear red and gold.

Seeing that Sister Feng understood, Xue Yan blessed herself to thank her, and then went to Li Wan's place to send things.