The Lady of the Red Chamber

Finally a farce ended.

Mrs. Xing was very happy while serving the tea, she just felt that she had a piece of frozen sour plum in her mouth, which made her feel comfortable from head to toe.

Mrs. Wang was physically and mentally exhausted.But even so, he still had to brace himself up and talk to Nanny Zhang with a smiling face.

Mother Jia also knew that after this incident, Nanny Zhang must be tired of Baoyu, but because of her ulterior motives, she had to say: "We old people are here, and you can't let go. Lin girl , you take the girl from the Yun family and all the sisters to the garden to have a good time."

Nanny Zhang didn't want Jia Baoyu to get in touch with her young lady at all, but now that she was a guest in Biefu, no matter how face-saving she was, she was just a slave, so it was not good to talk too much about it.Therefore, he greeted Jia's mother: "Old Madam, my wife ordered me to look after Miss well. I will leave now."

Mother Jia nodded and said with a smile, "That's right. Nanny Zhang doesn't have to be too polite. I just taught Baoyu a lesson. He will never do this kind of mistake again."

Nanny Zhang gave another salute expressionlessly, and followed Yun Qinghuan to the garden with the others.

Yun Qing slowly sat next to the beauty beside the pavilion, leaning on the railing and whispering lazily to Daiyu, and turning her head to chat with Sanchun from time to time.

Baoyu watched impatiently from the side, but because Madam Zhang was watching covetously not far from the pavilion, she couldn't get too close to Yun Qingxuan.

Yun Qing turned his eyes slowly, and caught a glimpse of Jia Baoyu's expression from the corner of his eye, feeling quite helpless.

She really couldn't figure out why Jia Baoyu liked being with his daughters so much.

Daqing's male and female defenses are not very serious, and it is not a big problem to talk, laugh and have fun together.But after all, it is ancient times, no matter how lenient it is, there must be a limit.

Although everyone can get together to gossip and play polo, the rules that should be observed must still be observed; the words and deeds that should be paid attention to still cannot be exceeded.

Stretch your hand to a woman's waist at will, even in modern times, few people can bear it.However, Jia Baoyu still felt that he was not wrong, and that he had been greatly wronged.It's really a young master who grew up in a pile of fat and powder. The good young master of the public house was taken care of by a group of short-sighted women.

Yingchun has always been close to Daiyu, so she didn't show any timidity at this time, pointing at Lin Daiyu and said with a smile: "Madam Lin is really happy today, she smiles a lot more."

After hearing this, Daiyu gave Yingchun an angry look, and pinched her cheek: "You're the only one who talks too much, yet you still dare to make fun of me."

Seeing this, Yingchun hurriedly begged for mercy: "My good sister, let go quickly. Is it okay if I stop talking?"

Yun Qing blinked slowly.

In the original book, Yingchun is cowardly and incompetent, timid and fearful.Even the servants dared to make up her as "Er Mutou, I don't know if I poke a needle."

But seeing her now, although Yingchun's brows and eyes still showed some honest and frowning shadows, her whole face was radiant, as if she had been reborn.

It seems that what I said at the beginning not only affected my cousin Daiyu, but also Jia Yingchun who was good friends with Daiyu.

Yun Qing slowly took Daiyu's hand, raised her chin, and asked Yingchun with some pride: "Sister Yingchun, is cousin not happy on weekdays?"

Jia Baoyu was always left in the cold by Yun Qing, even though Xue Baochai and Shi Xiangyun kept teasing and joking with him, they still felt bored.At this time, after hearing Yun Qingxuan's words, he immediately leaned forward: "How can it be that sister Lin lives in our house well. With so many sisters having fun together, why is sister Lin bored?"

Lin Daiyu also scratched the clear nose of the cloud: "You, don't worry about me. My grandmother is very kind to me, and I don't even have time to be grateful, so why don't you feel unhappy?"

Shi Xiangyun stood aside, and curled his lips unobtrusively after hearing these words: pretending.I don't know who is that person who bury flowers and cry every day?It's really annoying to watch.

Yun Qingxuan didn't like Shi Xiangyun and Xue Baochai, and after meeting each other, they hardly spoke much.

Shi Xiangyun is okay, she doesn't like Daiyu, and she can't even get used to Qingnuo.Moreover, she felt that both of them were the concubine's daughters of the Hou Mansion, and their identities were equal, so there was no need to rush to get along.

Xue Baochai, on the other hand, had a bright smile on her face, stepped forward with a round fan, covered her face and said with a smile: "Sister Lin is so lucky, she is so sweet and caring about her cousin thousands of miles away from home. I am really envious. This If Sister Lin's father knew about it, he would be so happy."

Yun Qinghuan's expression sank instantly after hearing this: Does this Xue Baochai think everyone else is stupid?I really thought I was a seven-year-old child, but I couldn't tell that she was mocking her cousin who was living under the fence and had no parents.

However, Jia Baoyu, the sincere and silly Baitian, clapped his hands unconsciously, and said without any hint of innocence: "Sister Yun is Sister Lin's cousin, isn't she our cousin? Sister Bao doesn't have to be envious, both A family is not beautiful after birth."

Yun Qing smiled coldly, raised his eyebrows, and did not give Jia Baoyu and Xue Baochai any face: "We have strict rules in the Marquis of Zhenguo, but there is no such thing as being sisters with Miss Merchant. I hope Mr. Jia is careful."

Xue Baochai felt that she had a mother and brothers, and Gao Daiyu was first class.Today I saw that Daiyu also has a lovely younger sister, with such a high status, it is quite difficult to calm down, so I want to make a few sarcastic remarks without any trace.

But I didn't expect that Yun Qingxuan looked stupid and innocent, but she was not a good friend at all.Even so without giving himself face, he directly pointed out his own background.

The corners of Xue Baochai's smiling lips froze, all the blood on her face faded, she was as pale as paper, and the hand holding the handle of the fan trembled unconsciously.

Merchant lady...

Not fit to be sisters...

All sounds are silent.

Everything around her seemed to have lost its sound and color, and only these two sentences were left to circulate endlessly in Xue Baochai's ears.Like a devil with its teeth and claws, it pierced its fleshy claws into her heart fiercely.

Xue Baochai quickly recovered.

He opened his mouth and wanted to say a few words with a smile on his face, but found that his throat was dry and stagnant, as if he was frozen and didn't know how to refute.

This is the eldest lady of Zhen Guohou's mansion, the cousin of His Royal Highness the Sixth Prince.Even the aunt is holding up the offerings, wishing to be treated as the ancestor of the Bodhisattva to carefully curry favor.

What can she do?What else can she do?

Shi Xiangyun has always been close to Xue Baochai.Seeing Yun Qingxuan being so unforgiving, she walked up to Xue Baochai, and said to Yun Qingxuan very dissatisfied: "Miss Yun, it's too much for you to say that about Sister Bao."

Yun Qingxuan looked at Shi Xiangyun in amazement, and his words were full of disbelief: "Miss Shi, I'm just stating the facts, why go too far? Could it be that Mrs. Baolinghou and Mrs. Zhongjinghou would allow their daughters How about making friends with the merchant's daughter?"

Yun Qingxuan was not pretending this time, but was really surprised.

The longer she came to this world, the more she understood some vague characteristics and truths that belonged to an era that she could only see in books before.

Yun Qingxuan used to only know about scholars, farmers, businessmen.But it wasn't until the Daqing Dynasty that I really felt how low the status of merchants was.

It's not just that you can't wear silk or match silver jewelry.

Let's not talk about it far away, just talk about Concubine Chen Yi.

She is the first woman who became a concubine as a business lady since the beginning of the Daqing Dynasty.This is because Daqing relaxed the restrictions on merchants, allowing the sons of extremely outstanding and special merchants to participate in the imperial examination to find another way out.

But even so, Concubine Chen Yi was often ridiculed and slandered behind her back by concubines who were inferior to her.

Even because of Chen Yifei's background.Even though the Eleventh Prince was loved by his aunt Yunhui Guifei and his cousin the Sixth Prince, he was ridiculed and criticized by other princes and princesses in the dark when he was young.

Looking back a few dynasties, the life of the businessman was several times more miserable than it is now.Not only can they not wear fine clothes, nor can they ride in a carriage with carriages; even their sons cannot take the imperial examinations, and their daughters cannot even be counted as good family members.

One person goes into business, and the whole family falls into the dirt.This is no joke.

So Yun Qingxuan really couldn't understand Shi Xiangyun Sanchun, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai's relationship so well that they were sisters.

Although the ancestors of the Xue family were deeply favored by the emperor, they were also high-ranking officials in the court, so they can be called the family of eunuchs and scholars.Xue Pan even got a false post in the Ministry of Households in the name of his grandfather.

But after all, the Xue family has now become a complete imperial merchant, without the grandeur of the past, and their status is naturally lower than other families.

Not so with the Chen family.

The Yangzhou Chen family contributed a lot of financial resources when they came to the throne today, directly replacing the prominent and noble status of the Xue family decades ago.

Not to mention that the Chen family now has an emperor's favorite concubine, and there is even a prince's nephew in the family, at least they have some connections with the emperor's relatives.

Xue Pan, the contemporary head of the Xue family, is an ignorant dude who spends his days traveling around the mountains, fighting cocks and horses.

The Patriarch of the Chen family tried his best to change his family.Not to mention slowly handing over millions of family assets, but also ordering the family's children to either take the civil examination or the army to join the military.

After several years of operation, at least he has made a name for himself, earning a place in the officialdom with the title of "Bronze Smell House" that the Chen family gradually left.

Yun Qingchi never shy away from letting his sister know about this.Therefore, he often breaks up the affairs of the court and the development and changes of the aristocratic families in the capital and tells Yun Qing slowly.

When Yun Qingxuan heard about the history of the four major families and the prosperity of the Chen Mansion in Yangzhou, she first felt the courage of the Patriarch of the Chen family. With such determination, no wonder she was able to raise a heroine like Concubine Chen Yi.

Then lament the short-sightedness of the four major families.

For the sake of the long-term, the Xue family retreated bravely at the most glorious time to protect the whole family.However, almost none of the descendants could stand up, which caused Grandpa Xue to waste all his efforts.

Because of their former friendship, Jia Shiwang's three families helped Xue's family everywhere, which is a good story.However, the four big families are united in the same spirit, disregarding human life in the boundary of Jinling, and doing anything wrong.

The four major families care too much about their feelings, and a piece of official protection talisman is afraid of retreating three points.He has won the reputation of emphasizing love and righteousness, but it has planted a deep hidden danger for the future of the whole family.

The development of the family is to survive by docking the tail.When it is broken, it will be harmed instead.

Being so inseparable, perhaps this is friendship to the old relatives, but to the clansmen, isn't it another kind of cruelty?

Just like what Yun Qingchi once said to Yun Qingxuan: Sister, if I were the head of the Jia family, I would definitely gradually alienate the Xue family, let alone let the children of the Xue family live in the mansion.It might be cruel to do so.But at the beginning, Taigong Xue gave up his official position and turned Xue's family into a family of imperial merchants, in the hope that some of his descendants would pass the imperial examination and change his family again.And when the Xue family falls, when all this cannot be realized, for the sake of the long-term of the family, even if it is ruthless, I will never drag my clansman down for the sake of the Xue family.