Getaway in the Red House

"Sister, for the sake of sisters, please save Pan'er! He is my sister's hope for the rest of her life!"

Aunt Xue pleaded to her sister, Mrs. Wang, with a haggard face. The shrewdness of the past was gone, leaving only a mother who was worried about the child's safety and powerless.

"Sister, it's not that my sister doesn't want to help, but you also know that the master is not in the capital, and the elder and brother Zhen in the mansion can't be counted on. How do you ask my sister to save Pan'er?"

Mrs. Wang scooped up a handkerchief and wiped away tears that didn't exist, looking extremely embarrassed.She took Aunt Xue's hand and patted it, and then said sympathetically: "Sister, according to me, you and Bao girl should go to the yamen to check it out. No matter what the future is, the most important thing now is to let Pan'er live Don’t suffer too much in it, let’s plan the rest slowly.”

Baochai was hanging her head at the side to wipe away her tears at this moment, and she knew the meaning of her aunt's words after hearing these words.She pushed her mother lightly, and Aunt Xue came to her senses and hurriedly said: "My sister is very right, but my sister and Chai'er are women, so I really can't go out to take care of this matter, so I have to trouble my sister to worry about Pan'er." I’m tired. I have 1 taels of silver here, so my sister can scoop up some, if it’s not enough, she’ll send it over. As long as I can save Pan’er, I’ll go bankrupt!”

Mrs. Wang pretended to be troubled for a long time, and finally gritted her teeth and sighed: "Forget it, although the master is not at home, I have to spare my old face and try to ask someone to help my nephew. Even if you can't escape the prison, you can It is good to save your life. My sister will go back for now and wait for news from her."

After dismissing Aunt Xue, mother and daughter who were crying, Mrs. Wang scooped up the banknotes in her hand, thinking for a while with a gloomy expression.After a while, I asked the girl to call Jia Lian.

When Jia Lian came, Mrs. Wang asked him to go to the yamen to take care of Xue Pan. Seeing Jia Lian's reluctance, Mrs. Wang scolded her coldly: "Your aunt's family is in trouble, don't say you don't care about it." I want to help you, but I'm just making an excuse here? It's really cold-hearted, it's okay to be really unfilial."

Mrs. Wang wanted to talk like this, she would definitely pinch Jia Lian, and then obediently go to work.Who would have thought but heard Jia Lian say coldly: "Auntie's words are a bit exaggerated. Although relatives have something to help, it is not natural and justified. Besides, her Xue family is at best a distant relative. I know what makes me respectful. You have to know that my surname is Jia, not Xue and Wang, and my aunt has passed away long ago, and out of nowhere, another aunt appeared."

"...You!... Forget it, Lian'er, for the sake of your aunt and your wife, you should do what you can to help their orphans and widows. After all, it's a relationship between relatives. If something happens, everyone's face It’s not pretty. Of course, your aunt won’t let you be busy, so you won’t leave 3000 taels of silver for you to manage, so make sure your cousin can live in it more easily.”

Mrs. Wang was very angry when she saw that Jia Lian had lost the usual respect for her.Thinking of Jia Zheng not in Beijing now and Jia Lian still needing to deal with many foreign affairs in the mansion, he suppressed his anger and began to soften his feelings.However, he was still secretly ruthless in his heart, and when Baoyu seized his title in the future, he must settle the account with him today.

Although Jia Lian still looked unhappy this time, he finally complied with the matter and went out with the banknotes.However, he didn't intend to really help Xue Pan. Instead, he went to the yamen to inquire about some news, and took out 200 taels for the prison boss to drink, and asked them to take care of Xue Pan, and the rest didn't need much do bother.

The cell bosses got so much money for nothing, and they didn't have to take care of the prisoners at the risk of being noticed by their superiors, so they were very happy and sent Jia Lian away happily.

To say that Jia Lian treated Xue Pan like this is really an act of anger.There is no other reason, ever since Wang Xifeng found out that her aunt was plotting against her, she had already sworn to be at odds with her.In addition, after learning that the future of the four major families is not good, she hates Mrs. Wang who tempted her to do many wrong things.

So on the one hand, she tried her best to make up for her previous mistakes, and on the other hand, she tried her best to restrain Jia Lian from continuing to be Mrs. Wang's accomplice.In order to prevent Jia Lian from being used by Mrs. Wang, she told him all the old things, and even more cryptically revealed the future fate of the four major families to him.

Jia Lian was furious after learning the cause and effect, and thus developed a suspicion against Mrs. Wang, so she refused to fool her any more.In addition, Wang Xifeng, in order to avoid Jia Lian's flirting everywhere and causing troubles, gritted his teeth and promoted Ping'er to be an aunt, and together with her kept Jia Lian at home, preventing him from going out for sex.

Under such circumstances, Jia Lian happily hugged her left and right to enjoy the beauty, and praised Wang Xifeng's generosity now, and naturally listened to her words a lot.What's more, after the relationship between the husband and wife revived, Wang Xifeng was pregnant again. Jia Lian, who was eager for a child, was overjoyed and wished to hold Wang Xifeng in his hands. What about blocking?So Xue Pan was unlucky, and Jia Lian flamboyantly angered him like this.

So Jia Lian dealt with Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue in a perfunctory manner every day, and took a lot of silver taels from them for processing. Except for throwing some scattered silver to the prison bosses, he bought the rest into individual pieces. Kind of jewelry and playthings to curry favor with beautiful wives and concubines.

The poor Xue family took out nearly 10 taels of silver one after another in just a short period of a month, which made the Xue family very painful.Xue Pan's new wife, Xia Jingui, was crying and screaming endlessly, saying that the Xue family had cheated and cheated her into marrying a good daughter to a murderer.He also clamored that the gold man who spent the money had created one, but now the man is still in prison and cannot come out, he must have met a liar.In short, Xue's family was in trouble, and the house was restless.

After all, Baochai had a delicate mind, and although Xia Jingui's words were not pleasant, they were not unreasonable.There is no reason to spend nearly 10 taels of silver, and there is no improvement at all.The more she thought about it, the more Baochai felt that something was wrong, so she urged Aunt Xue to visit Xue Pan in prison.

Baochai originally wanted Xia Jingui to accompany Aunt Xue to visit the prison, but Xia Jingui refused to die, so she was so anxious that she became ill and was bedridden.Baochai had no choice but to go away in shame.

When Aunt Xue's mother and daughter saw Xue Pan, who was dressed in ragged clothes, yellow and thin, and dull in appearance, they couldn't help being surprised and crying.At this time, if they don't understand that something is wrong, they will really be fools.

In order to let her brother live here more comfortably, Baochai reluctantly handed over several thousand taels of silver bills to the jailers, asking them to take care of Xue Pan.Those jailers were all open-eyed to money, and seeing Baochai's generosity, they happily agreed. So far, Xue Pan's hardships have come to an end, and he can finally live a relatively comfortable life.

After returning to Jia's mansion, Aunt Xue was very annoyed. She wanted to argue with Jia Lian, but was stopped by Baochai: "Mother still doesn't understand? Cousin Lian, even if he is very courageous, would not dare to be so ignorant." If you have too much money, you won't be calm when facing us. In this way, it will naturally become clear that all our money has fallen into the hands of my aunt, so what if you go to make a fuss? It won't help except to tear your face. We are still counting on the Jia family to rescue brother, how can we fall out at this time?"

At this moment, Aunt Xue was completely out of ideas: "Chaier, what should we do then? Is it possible that seeing your aunt scoop up the money and do nothing, and make your brother suffer in prison?"

At this time, Xia Jingui, who had been eavesdropping outside, rushed in and shouted: "On weekdays, you praised the Jia family like a flower, and you even boasted that the girl is the second grandmother of Bao in the future. What happened? The girl is not young anymore. I haven't seen anyone come to ask for marriage, but I saw that little white face who can only look down on food and that girl Yun sticking together all day. It was really a fight, and I lost my personal wealth. Today, my daughter-in-law Let me put it here, if you don't save that dead ghost again, give me a divorce letter and allow me to remarry, otherwise the whole family will not be happy!"

Xia Jingui threw down these few words domineeringly, and swept them out like a gust of wind, leaving behind the mother and daughter who were stunned by her.

It took a long time for Aunt Xue to come back to her senses, pointing tremblingly at the dangling curtain and cursing: "...you...look!...what kind of evil have we committed...to spread such a You're so stingy, it really pissed me off!"

Turning around and seeing Baochai frowning and silent, Aunt Xue's voice involuntarily became sharp: "Chai'er! What are you thinking about there! Didn't you hear that wicked thing?"

Baochai was awakened by her mother's words, and persuaded: "Mother, why bother to be angry with her idiot, if you really think she's not good, just leave her when brother comes out."

Aunt Xue's eyes lit up, she grabbed Baochai's hand firmly, and said excitedly: "So Chai'er has an idea in mind?"

Baochai also got enlightenment from Xia Jingui's words. She thought to herself that she was old, and although her aunt kept promising her to be her daughter-in-law, nothing happened.Besides, now that my elder brother has an accident, I don't know how much it will cost to rescue him. If it drains all the family's wealth, with my aunt's increasingly greedy temperament, I don't even want to marry Baoyu.

So Baochai wanted to take this opportunity to force her aunt, not only to solve her own marriage, but also to get Jia's family to agree to rescue her brother.So she quietly whispered in Aunt Xue's ear for a while, asking her to do what she wanted.After hearing Baochai's thoughts, Aunt Xue asked worriedly: "Chai'er, do you think your aunt can do what you want? Don't look for a dead end when the time comes, the gain outweighs the loss."

Baochai said with a cold smile: "Mom, go ahead and do it. My daughter has been helping my aunt with the housework for many days, and she knows what's going on in the house. Under the circumstances, they won't give up on us so easily. My wish has come true. After my daughters are married, I will let them obediently rescue my brother, and we will get back all the money we spent in Jia's house all these years."

Aunt Xue thought over and over again, but she had no other way to think of, and finally agreed...

"Ma'am, this servant girl passed by Lixiangyuan today, and saw a famous matchmaker in the capital come out of it. The servant girl was curious for a moment, so she asked a few questions. Unexpectedly, the lady said that the concubine wanted her to be a treasure girl in the capital. He also said that as long as Uncle Xue can be rescued, the Xue family would rather give away most of the family property to Miss Bao as a dowry. After hearing this, the servants hurriedly came back to report to the wife."

"Oh? Really?" Mrs. Wang was taken aback when she heard the words, and immediately became anxious when she saw Zhou Rui's family swore that what she said was true.

During the past few days, she has deducted nearly 5 taels from the money sent by the Xue family. When she was happy to collect the money, she didn't expect him to find another way. This made Mrs. Wang very upset. I can't accept it.Don't say that Baochai is her own choice of daughter-in-law, but for the dowry of most of the family property, Mrs. Wang can't let Baochai marry elsewhere.

Mrs. Wang racked her brains for a long time, and finally decided to have a showdown with Jia Mu, and she must promise Baochai to marry her!

Mrs. Wang came to Jia Mu's house in a hurry, and at this time only Tanchun was still flattering her. Compared with the lively scene in the past, it seemed much more deserted and desolate at this time.

After finding a reason to send Tanchun out, Mrs. Wang cried to Jia Mu that she was poor.For a while, the empress in the palace sent someone back to collect money for entertainment, for a while she lamented that the officials were unable to make ends meet, and for a while she cried and complained that there was nowhere to raise money for the coming New Year's Eve.

Jia's mother did not doubt this. In the past, the financial source of the mansion was the rent collected by the Zhuangzi in various places below, which could not support the huge expenditure of the mansion at all.The reason why the luxury and comfort of the residence on weekdays is mainly due to the dividends from the Zhen family's accumulation of money in the south of the Yangtze River.Now that the Zhen family's home has been ransacked, this windfall has been cut off. It's no wonder that the house is not stretched!

The reason why Jia's mother pretended to be deaf and dumb was that she was afraid that Mrs. Wang would miss her self, so she didn't mention it.Seeing Mrs. Wang crying poorly in front of her now, Mother Jia asked helplessly, "I know a thing or two about the difficulties in this mansion, but now you are the master of the house, so you should find a way to solve this matter. Is it possible that you are an old lady?" At such a young age, do you still have to worry about being tired for you? Ming people don’t speak in secret, just say what you want to do, don’t have to beat around the bush, I’m still tired if you’re not tired!”

When Mrs. Wang saw that Jia's mother had made her words clear, she no longer covered up, and said her thoughts directly.Originally thinking that Jia's mother would definitely argue with her, she didn't expect Jia's mother to agree after thinking for a while, and when Mrs. Wang knocked down the cotton with a punch, the words she had prepared were useless.

In fact, Mother Jia had anticipated today's predicament as early as when she received the news that Zhen's house had been raided, and had planned everything early.Different situations should have different changes. The merchant girl who was looked down upon in the past has now become a noble person who can save the crisis in the mansion.With a city like Jiamu, it is natural to be able to bend and stretch.

Besides, after several years of observation, Xiangyun is indeed a dou who can't afford to support him. He only cares about playing with Baoyu every day, and he really doesn't have the scheming and tolerance that a housewife should have, so Jia Mu has gradually lost interest in him. .Originally, he wanted to keep her to fight Baochai first, and then find a good marriage for Baoyu in private.Unexpectedly, the plan was not as good as a change, and the matter of the Zhen family caught her by surprise.In this case, Baochai became the most suitable candidate.So after hearing Mrs. Wang's proposal, Mother Jia responded decisively.

Now that a consensus has been reached, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who have been fighting each other on weekdays, began to join hands to plan to deal with the predicament in the house.In the end, it was decided that Jia's mother would handle Xiangyun's affairs, while Mrs. Wang would find a way to let the yamen keep Xue Pan in custody, so that Xue Pan could be used to restrain Baochai, and let her honestly contribute money and efforts to Jia's mansion.

Jia Mu sent someone to the historian to find Lord Shi Hou, and they discussed for a long time behind closed doors.What was discussed was unknown to others, only Shi Houye's face was full of anger when he left, presumably because of the extremely unpleasant quarrel with Jia Mu.Not long after Lord Shi Hou returned to the mansion, Xiang Yun was picked up by the Shi family's sedan chair.

Xiangyun didn't know, so he went back to the mansion happily. When he saw his uncle and aunt, he saw them announcing to her with livid faces that he was not allowed to go to Jia's house again from now on. After a while, he found a marriage for her and sent her out of the court.

Xiangyun was dumbfounded when he heard the words, and kept arguing with his uncle and aunt, crying and shouting, which finally provoked Lord Shihou to be furious and told the truth. Xiangyun fainted immediately due to the blow.Lord Shi Hou cut off contact with the Jia family and ordered his wife to take good care of Xiangyun and never make any more jokes.

In the days that followed, Lord Shihou asked his friends to find a marriage for Xiangyun.Although the other party is just a small general in the army, compared with Xiang Yun who has been discredited, I really don't know who is more disadvantaged.

When Xiangyun got the news, he searched for life and death for a long time, until he heard the news that Baoyu was engaged, and then he accepted his fate in despair.Mu Mu blankly let his uncle and aunt make decisions like a walking dead, hurriedly chose a good day and auspicious day to leave the pavilion hastily.

During the period, perhaps Mother Jia felt that she had treated Xiangyun badly, but she asked Yuanyang to send 1 taels of silver to add makeup to Xiangyun.Master Shi Hou was still angry, and wanted to throw people and things out, but was stopped by his wife.They raised Xiangyun for a while, and they didn't want her to be unhappy in the future. With these silver coins by their side, Xiangyun could have more confidence in her husband's family.Thinking of this, Lord Shihou finally endured the resentment, but he has become estranged from the Jia family since then, and the four major families finally began to disintegrate.

After Xiangyun's miserable marriage, Baoyu got the news and made a fuss about it.The several years of being together day and night made him have an extremely deep affection for Xiangyun, which is no less than the affection for Daiyu in the original book.In this case, Baoyu couldn't help going crazy.

Xiren was already Baoyu's aunt at this time, and now she saw that the dispute over Baoyu's second grandmother had been settled.Baoyu's favorite Xiangyunyuan married, even if Baochai married, she probably wouldn't get Baoyu's full love.So she thought about taking advantage of this great opportunity to win Baoyu's favor first, so that she could earn the capital to fight against Baochai.

So she took advantage of Baoyu's moment when he was crazy about Xiangyun, and cared for him with care.Baoyu finally found someone to confide in, and he was extremely dependent on her, never letting her go for a moment.

When Baochai learned of this situation, she hated Xiren deeply, and vowed in her heart that she would find an opportunity to eradicate her in the future.

Only two months after Xiangyun left the cabinet in a hurry, Baochai married into Jia's family in red and colorful clothes, and truly became Baochai's second grandmother.Poor Xiangyun was obsessed with Baoyu, but Baoyu was only sad for a short time, so he forgot her sister and happily married her sister Baochai into the family.I really don't know how to describe Baoyu, I really don't know how affectionate he is?infatuation?Or promiscuous?

It's just that Baochai, who has fulfilled her wish to go straight to Qingyun, doesn't know that what she is about to step into is not a nest of glory and wealth, but a ship that is about to sink, a quagmire that swallows her life!I don't know if she occasionally recalled this moment when she was facing difficulties, and whether she regretted it.