Red Mansions Become Baochai

He took over the room.I met him twice, either asking me if I could see some rare palace fans outside, or asking me to help him buy some Jiangnan women, I had no choice but to oblige, and sent some of our family's own high-quality palace fans give him.The Xing family only wanted to flatter Jia Amnesty to protect himself, and dared not intervene in family affairs.Now the housekeeper of his house is your sister-in-law's eldest sister, the second wife of the Rong Mansion. "

Xue Shen himself loves to go out, and he doesn't like Jia He at all. He stood up and poured a cup of tea for his brother. This kind of family looks glamorous on the outside, they are all flesh and blood, and they have to set up their own hills. They are all like black-eyed chickens, living in the same cage, and I wish you could eat me , I ate you. At the end of the fight, Xiao Qiang was a disaster, and everyone died together. What's the point?"

The two brothers looked at each other and felt a little lucky.Anyway, Xue's parents house his two brothers, and he has no other blood relatives other than that.The family's money is enough to carry on to the next generation, and life is still so peaceful and happy.The two smiled and drank a cup of tea instead of wine.

Xue Keyin picked up the teacups in his hand to enjoy. This set of teapots and teacups is exactly Leng Zixing from Chang'an Jingli Antique Trading Co., who asked him for help in business, so he came here to honor him.A set of Longquan porcelain plum and green Xishi pot tea set, with a total of seven heads, one pot with six cups.From Ge Kiln, the glaze color is the blue color of plum, with soft luster, crystal clear and moist, better than emerald.It is worthy of the reputation that the tire is as thin as paper and the glaze is as thick as jade. When you pick it up and buckle it, the sound is as clear as a chime.

That Leng Zixing was just the son-in-law of Zhou Rui, the housekeeper of the Rong Mansion, so he could support this business outside.Speaking of which, many gossip about the Rongning Second Mansion was also made by Leng Zixing, who was the local news during the meeting and took the initiative to tell him.

The servants of Jia's mansion were too indulgent, because he said: "There are hundreds of people in Rongning's second mansion. I have heard that his servants often make trouble outside. Those small officials in the capital still have weight. But when the family is prosperous, there is nothing wrong with it. If the family is in ruins, if someone catches this, it will be settled after the autumn. If the family is not strictly governed, it is a serious crime to indulge slaves and commit murder."

Xue Shen nodded in agreement, and sighed: "I often heard outside in the early years that the Jia family has a lot of pomp and rules..."

"His family has a lot of pomp and rules," Xue Ke said with a sneer after hearing this, "the pomp is even more than that of the royal family. He has to change the towel three times after washing his hands. There is no need to mention the rules. From what I have seen Yes, his master is not like a master, and his slave is not like a slave, so he knows the rules."

After laughing, he took a sip of tea and said, "Ruling the family should be lenient and strict, with clear rewards and punishments. I went to Naning Mansion and met an old servant of his family in the stables. Dirty work. Seeing him pitiful, he rewarded him with a few taels of silver, and that Jiao Da burst into tears to tell me his pain. It turned out that he followed Ningguo Gong Jia Yan on the battlefield when he was a child, and carried Mr. Jia from among the dead. He came out, died, starved himself, but stole something to feed his master, had no water for two days, but got half a bowl of water for his master to drink, and he drank horse urine by himself. Such a loyal and righteous servant is not If you want to be rewarded, you will live worse than a poor servant."

Xue Shen was filled with righteous indignation when he heard this, and felt that this anxiety was not worth it, and said: "This Jiao Da is so loyal, he has ended up in such a poor situation. Wouldn't the other servants of his family feel chilled when he saw it? How could the master be willing to do it when the other servants saw it? Allegiance."

Xue Ke said with a smile: "There are still jokes in his family. The righteous servant sweeps the stables, and the upstart is the Nanny Lai, Shi Taijun's companion. I don't see her making any credit, but she can look at her eyes, know how to advance and retreat, and serve Shi Taijun. For a few years, she and her two sons, Lai Da and Lai Er, have been in charge of most of the Rong Mansion. Compared with the young masters, she has more face. Nanny Lai is away for the elderly, and his son built a garden for her, which is more respectable than that of the young masters. The backyard of an ordinary official's family is even richer. Her grandchildren also bought maids to serve them. Tell me, no matter how noble a family like his is, how can I be willing to accept the hairpin? "

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The Xue Mansion is full of joy in welcoming the new year

After all, he is a child, looking at his elder brother Xue Pan eagerly looking forward to the new year, Baochai also has a lot of expectations for the first new year in another world.

Baochai summed it up with her fingers, no matter ancient or modern, there are a few things that are indispensable during the New Year.

The first one is to give gifts, the annual gifts of distant relatives, like the Wang family and Jia family in Chang'an Jing, they are all sent to them early.In Jinling City, officials big and small who have friendship with the Xue family, and the big families, have been busy with traffic at the door of each house these days, welcoming and sending them off.

Although the Xue family is said to be wealthy, they are only imperial merchants.Where Xue’s family’s business needs to be taken care of by the government, according to the rules, there are three festivals and two birthdays every year, that is, the three traditional festivals of Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as the birthdays of several officials and his wife. filial piety.Especially the Spring Festival this time is a big one.

Baochai watched as his mother instructed the maids and women in the family to carry boxes of silks and satins of various colors, gold and silver jewelry of fresh designs from the Silver House, and added a lot of foreign goods brought back by Uncle Xue, western toilet water, and small silver targets. Mirrors and these, of course, cannot be without the high-quality Palace Flower Palace Fan produced by the Xue family.

Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Liu went through the various gifts one by one, and then distributed them according to the list.Those who are far away will collect four gifts according to the rules.Good friendship is not limited to styles, according to personal preferences, each part of the cooperation is appropriate.

In addition to the family members, there are also the sons and daughters of various officials. The gifts are nothing more than pens, inks, papers and inkstones, gold and silver ornaments.

The big maids in the two wives' rooms also had to divide their labor and cooperate. Mrs. Liu's Basho checked the gifts, and Mrs. Xue's Yulan wrote the gift list on special waxed paper sprinkled with gold and dark characters.

There are still many tricks here, and if any official's family situation changes, gift giving also needs special treatment.For example, Mr. Zhou, the chief of the Nanjing Water Transport Department, is not his first wife, but his newly adopted concubine, Mrs. Lin, who is most favored by him.When giving gifts, Aunt Lin's share should naturally be thicker, but the wife's share must not be missing.

Baochai felt a headache when he heard it. It was not easy to be a wife in ancient times, and one had to know how to deal with public relations.

The second one is of course accepting the gift.The Xue family also has a dozen villages in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, and the heads of each village have sent New Year's goods over one after another.Xue Pan didn't think about anything else. He saw that there were two pairs of live sika deer and two pairs of Muscovy ducks in the gift. They played there for a long time, but they couldn't pull them away.

The Xue family's business is very extensive, and they have business contacts with big merchants from all over the country.The Jiangnan Luo family was also an imperial merchant with the most contacts, and the pollen, rouge and spices sent to the palace every year were exclusively supplied by his family.The other family is the Wu family in Guangzhou. Although his family is not an imperial merchant, it is the first batch of compradors who first dealt with foreigners, and the leader of the Thirteen-Hand Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce.

The gifts given by these two families are naturally different from those of other families.Baochai followed Mrs. Xue to meet the servants sent by his two families to give gifts.

Because the mother-in-law of the Wu family couldn't speak official Chinese well, she thought for a long time before answering a question.Seeing Mrs. Xue talking to her, Baochai almost couldn't help but start translating.

On the contrary, the gifts from his family were well received by the women of the Xue family.There were thirty pieces of various glass products, and Baochai picked out a large glass tank to raise a few goldfishes to play with.Madam Xue and Mrs. Liu stood on the dressing table with a large glass screen mirror, and Aunt He only chose a half-length mirror.

What kind of jadeite pendants, bracelets, fresh pearl flowers, everyone picked one or two favorites.Other kinds of western fabrics, Japanese satin blankets and so on are not uncommon in Xue's shop.

Only the top-quality Xiangyun yarn and Leizhou Gebu are hard to buy with money.Mrs. Xue asked to put it away first, and everyone made summer shirts.

Other Western clocks are also of the highest quality.In addition, there are two diamond-encrusted cross-gold pendants for the two wives.For the children, there are Western music boxes and all kinds of Western instruments.

The two masters of Xue's family were given two boxes. Mrs. Liu asked to open them to have a look, and they were all shocked. They turned out to be two golden bird guns.Mrs. Xue was at home because she had heard from her elder brother that foreign guns were powerful. She was afraid that Xue Pan would injure someone if she saw them playing with them, so she asked someone to send them to Mr. Xue.

The two women of the Luo family were a little strange, they took Baochai to look and look, and they said auspicious words in a string.What beautiful face, bright eyes and white teeth, ice and snow intelligence, Baochai never knew that these words could also be used to praise a little girl of five or six years old.

The gifts from his family were also very rich. Xue Quan'an's wife presented the gift list, and Baochai read on the paper:

Ten cakes of Longfeng Tuan tea, ten catties of Biluochun tea, ten catties of jasmine slices, fifty catties of Longjing tea, and two hundred catties of top-grade green tea.

Three hundred reams of Xuan paper, twenty ingots of Hui ink, twenty sets of Hu brushes, and ten square inkstones.Two pairs of gold and jade ruyis, and eight emerald accessories.Twenty pieces of gold and silver artifacts.

There are [-] bolts of silk silk from Lusi Lake and [-] pieces of Hangzhou satin each, [-] pieces of Su-style embroidery, and [-] new-style purses.Fifty boxes of high-quality rouge, palace powder, and powder salt.Twenty strings of incense beads of various colors and twenty sachets. (for the wife of the family to reward people)

Two pairs of root-carved rattan chairs, ten old bamboo root-carved pen holders and other gadgets. (to honor the master of the house)

Inside is an ivory carved octagonal jewelry box, in which there is a silver-gilt inlaid jade-inlaid butterfly chasing flower heart, a hanging canaan incense rosary, a red gold beaded lace golden phoenix, emerald emerald silk