[Red Mansions] Male wife

"Think I'm talking nonsense!" Seeing that the situation is not good, Yuanyang quickly stops Ping'er and Xiren from thinking deeply about this idea.

"Sister Yuanyang, the old lady has woken up and is looking for you." The little maid shouted.

Yuanyang made a "shh" gesture to Xi Ren and others, signaling them not to talk nonsense about what they just said.Both of them nodded in agreement, and Yuanyang hurriedly followed the little maid back to serve the old lady.

When Jiamu got up, she was a little confused and not very energetic. Seeing this, Yuanyang held back the words that came to her lips.Anyway, Mrs. Xing just asked her sister-in-law to say a few words. It would be good if the sister-in-law could simply refuse for her and cut off the old man's thoughts. If there is more trouble, don't blame her for working hard in front of the old lady.Yuanyang sat down to make up her mind, smiled at the sorrow in her heart, dressed up, and happily helped the old lady to dress and wash her face.

After Jia Mu cleaned up all this, she sat on the couch and closed her eyes for a while, then Fang asked Yuanyang if there was anything wrong today.

Yuanyang shook her head: "It's nothing serious. Third Master Huan has something to do. Uncle Pei went to the northwest to look for his father yesterday."

"Oh?" Mother Jia opened her eyes and looked at Yuanyang in surprise, "Why so suddenly?"

"Maybe it's an emergency in the frontier? I, a maid, really don't understand these important military matters. My whole heart is to serve good old ladies." Yuanyang laughed.

"That's right, don't talk about you, we don't understand either." Mother Jia just listened to it, didn't go into it, and ordered Yuanyang to rub her forehead. For some reason, she had a headache while sleeping.

Mrs. Wang came to see Jia Mu early, and brought a letter from the Lin family by the way.When Jia's mother heard it, she became energetic immediately, and asked someone to bring the letter, and she wanted to read it herself.Opening the letter, Jia Mu said, "It's been a long time since I received a letter, and I don't know how Miss Lin is doing after she gets married, and whether there is any good news."

Jia Mu happily unfolded the letter paper and quickly scanned the contents of the letter, the smile on her face enlarged. "But what did you say? Miss Lin gave birth to a fat boy just after the first month of the new year. Mother and child are safe! Great joy, great joy, hehehe..." Jiamu was happy, smiling, and her eyes tightened. Staring at Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang also agreed with a smile. She understood what Jia Mu was staring at her, but she pretended not to see it.No one feels good now, and she doesn't bother to care about the old lady's feelings.

"The days go by so fast. My daughter-in-law feels like it was yesterday when she heard the news about Miss Lin's wedding." Mrs. Wang said with emotion.

Jia Mu nodded, "Who says it's not!"

"Baoyu is still a year older than her, but she has a brother." Mrs. Wang continued, looking at Jiamu's expression consciously or unconsciously when she was speaking.Tell her not to be anxious about Baoyu's marriage. Now that she sees her parents-in-law holding a grandson, she should be anxious.

Jiamu let out a long "hmm" in a meaningful way.

Mrs. Wang smiled and stopped talking. When Mother Jia figured it out, she would discuss it with her.

The next day, Mother Jia called Mrs. Wang away because of Baoyu's marriage.Mother Jia first asked Mrs. Wang what she meant, and Mrs. Wang shook her head, smiling and asking Mrs. Wang to make the decision.

Jia Mu pondered for a while, and then said, "Baochai is a pretty good boy."

Mrs. Wang heard this, although her face was expressionless, she was very happy in her heart. "Such a happy event should be done sooner rather than later. I'll go to my sister to discuss it. They are all family members. Let's pick a date and do it as soon as possible. When the time comes, you will wait Hug your little great-grandson."

"Okay!" Mother Jia said cheerfully, but the smile didn't reach her eyes. The marriage was not as she expected.If she had chosen Lin girl earlier, at this moment, she would have embraced the baby lump born by her granddaughter and grandson.It's a pity, a big pity!

Mrs. Wang waited for many years, and finally hoped for the result, so she didn't care what the old lady thought.He happily agreed, turned around and went out of the house by car to meet his younger sister, Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue had been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally got the news that she came to Rong Mansion to propose marriage, but she was not as happy as she imagined.If this news had spread as early as their first year in Beijing, she would have jumped to the sky with joy.But now, there is more time in the capital, and then there is the disappointment with the worthless Baoyu.Living in the capital these few years, it is inevitable that she will compare the two children of Rongfu, Baoyu and Jia Huan, one concubine and one concubine, one big and one young, but the younger concubine is better than Baoyu, the concubine.This made her feel so embarrassing, and how could she feel at ease to marry Baochai to him.

Aunt Xue hesitated, she couldn't refuse Mrs. Wang's kindness, let alone agree to the marriage arbitrarily.After thinking about it, it was worth delaying for two days politely with Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang thought that her younger sister just followed the tradition, and the woman who was proposed for marriage would hold back for a few days before accepting it.She didn't think much, and nodded cheerfully.Before leaving, Mrs. Wang agreed to hold her younger sister's hand, and told her with a smile: "Next time we see each other, we have to change our words to be called in-laws."

Aunt Xue smiled perfunctorily, sent Mrs. Wang away, turned around with a cold face, and went straight to her daughter Baochai's room.Just now Baochai was in the ear room and had heard what his mother and aunt had said.Baochai was very conflicted, unable to make up her mind, and lowered her head, wanting to hear her mother's opinion.

"Why don't you agree?" Aunt Xue considered her daughter's age and the decent family background of the Jia family. For a merchant's daughter like her daughter, it is a good fortune to be able to marry a son of such a family. .In terms of face, he must have earned enough. I'm afraid that Baoyu, a child, will not live up to expectations in the future.I didn't think much of him before, with such a noble status, his temper was the best among the children of the Jia family, and he was simply impeccable.But after Jia Huan, who was more and more outstanding, came out, Aunt Xue didn't feel good about Baoyu no matter how she looked at it.

For a moment, Aunt Xue even thought that it would be great if Xiuyun was not a male wife, she would definitely marry her daughter to him.Even if he will not be an official in the future, but only do business, with his mind, he will definitely be the second Ziwei Sheren in the future.

Today's Xue family is not as brilliant as when their ancestors started their business.It was even going downhill, but fortunately that kid Pan'er followed the right person, he suffered a lot from fighting against Jia Xiuyun before, but later these benefits were lost a lot.She ate so much sweetness that Aunt Xue selectively forgot about the conflicting past between Jia Xiuyun and her son.In fact, Aunt Xue also learned a trick from Jia Xiuyun's lesson to Xue Pan. It is not good to be a loving mother. It is serious to produce a filial son under the stick.Recently, Aunt Xue's discipline on Xue Pan has become more and more severe, especially regarding the matter of Xue Pan's lust. Touching other women, inside and out.

However, Xue Pan is a person who is used to playing, and there are times when he can't hold back.Fortunately, he is the follower of the nosy Jia Xiuyun, and Aunt Xue begged Jia Xiuyun for help.As a result, if Xue Pan made a mistake, he would be kicked to the west wall by Jia Xiuyun.Xue Pan was always in a daze, but after being repaired by Jia Xiuyun a few times, he became completely honest and obeyed Jia Xiuyun's side to learn how to do things.

Today, Xue Pan came back with a face full of dust after finishing the supervisor job assigned by Jia Xiuyun.After taking a bath, he politely came to greet Aunt Xue.Aunt Xue asked him where he was going for the day as usual, and after making sure that he hadn't gone out to play in private, she sat him down with peace of mind and mentioned Baochai's marriage to him.

"Isn't it up to the mother to make decisions about the younger sister?" Xue Pan said.

"It's not that I can't make up my mind to ask you. You are the only man in the family, and you don't even have an idea. I told you to learn from others, but you haven't learned half of them." Aunt Xue complained.

"Don't compare me with Brother Xiuyun, it's nothing. He is a person who can be called a brother and brother with the grandson of the Taifu, how can I?" Xue Pan sneered with jealousy, and asked Aunt Xue, "Mom, tell me, this marriage What are the benefits?"

"If you kiss each other, you know your family background well." Aunt Xue listed.

"The advantage of being a kiss is that you know the root and the bottom. You also know Baoyu's temperament. He is not motivated, and he is afraid of this and that. What else can he do except hang out with women. To put it bluntly, what has he to do with me back then Different? It's just that little difference, the son will do some substantive things when he hangs out with women, but he is sticky and doesn't do business! As for the family background, this thing is imaginary and nothing. "

Xue Pan used to spend a lot of time with dandies, and when he saw Baoyu, he still thought he was a clean person, but recently he really saw what it means to be motivated and promising. He is really a son of a scholarly family who speaks out; he speaks politely and does things neatly, and the wisdom mentioned in those books seems to be in his mind.

Aunt Xue heard Xue Pan's example, frowned and said: "Who doesn't know that such a person is good, but you don't even think about it, we can't afford a person like Mr. Taifu."

"We can't afford Taifu's mansion, but Brother Xiuyun said that Master Taifu was also a poor boy at the beginning, and he was appreciated by the late emperor because of his good knowledge in high school. Yes, this autumn's imperial examination, let's just look for this one." Xue Pan suggested.

"How to find it?" Aunt Xue felt that what her son said was reasonable, and then asked.

Xue Pan was stunned and rolled his eyes. "Oh, my son can't do this. I don't know who is talented or not. I have to ask him."

"Then ask!" Aunt Xue urged Xue Pan. "You can't ask for nothing. You tell him that as long as he can help your sister's lifelong affairs, we don't need any interest on the money we borrowed from him. Not only that, but only half of the money will be enough." She is only such a sensible person. My son's precious daughter, for the sake of her future happiness, it is nothing to give up a little money.

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That night, Xue Pan chased Jia Xiuyun to Shanglan Garden.Jia Xiuyun has been in a bad temper for the past few days, and he came here to beg him to meddle in his own business.Jia Xiuyun got impatient and asked someone to send him away quickly.

"Why? You haven't promised me yet?" Xue Pan said unwillingly.

"In the middle of the night, do you have any rules? Get out!" Jia Xiuyun scolded him, closed the door, and another figure appeared in his mind...

Early the next morning, Xue Pan waited outside the Rong Mansion with a smile on his face. He hid in the carriage, and when he came out, he asked someone to invite him into the carriage.Jia Xiuyun ignored him, muttered a few words to the servant, and went to Peiji wine shop alone.He just sat down for a while, Xue Pan smiled and came over to make amends.

"I was reckless yesterday, and I forgot your identity." Xue Pan alluded to Jia Xiuyun's identity as a man and wife.

Jia Xiuyun looked at him with dark circles under his eyes. "Next time, I'll just kick you into bloom. Come to me in the future, in the daytime, be fairer." Jia Xiuyun didn't want to misunderstand Pei Jin by any bad rumors when he wasn't around.He is responsible to himself and to those he cares about.

Jia Xiuyun understood Xue Pan's reason for coming, nodded and said: "It's nothing difficult, but why should I help you? Let me declare in advance that I don't like to be nosy, unless it involves my personal interests." I don't know what happened recently, he Don't mind your own business, instead, your business will come to you on your own initiative.

"Mother said that you only need to pay back half of the money I borrowed from you." Xue Pan said.

"Uh, speaking of money, I just want to tell you that as soon as the academy opens this autumn, it will pay you back the principal with interest. You lend me money, and I will help you a lot. We will pay it off. As for what you said, you will only pay back Half, sorry, I don't seem to be short of money now." Jia Xiuyun shrugged, shook his head and said, "I won't help."

"You, you, you, you can't be so ruthless!" Xue Pan stuttered for a long time, not knowing what words to use, and then came out this sentence.

"Have you ever thought of what you said? When you were in Rongfu, the co-authors bullied me." Jia Xiuyun looked at Xue Pan with a look of "you're out of luck".