[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

As one of the people who have lived in Jia's family for nearly four years and have a deep understanding of the personalities and behaviors of the Jia family, Xue Baochai also guessed that Jia's mother would definitely come here for Jia Zheng while learning how to raise rabbits. Find Jia Yan.

Although in the eyes of Xue Baoqin and others, Jia Yan suddenly entertained the elders in the garden but actually did nothing, but Xue Baochai knew that Jia Yan was silent, even though he said nothing and did nothing. He clearly rejected Jia's mother's appeal and rejected the promotion of Jia Zheng.

This incident made Xue Baochai more aware of how desperate Jia Baoyu will be in the future.

Therefore, Xue Baochai remained calm on the surface, but in private, he restrained his cousin and kept her away from Shi Xiangyun.

Shi Xiangyun loves to laugh and playful, his cousin is also naive and lively, both of them are more than a step ahead of Tanchun in poetry, under normal circumstances, it is really easy for the two of them to cherish each other and get together.

But Xue Baochai is also very clear that as long as it is beneficial to Jia Baoyu, Shi Xiangyun will definitely do it, even if it is to plead with Jia Yan.

Not wanting to be misunderstood by Jia Yan, Xue Baochai restrained her cousin Xue Baoqin. She took Xue Baoqin herself, and often went to Luxuean and Qiushuangzhai nearby, talking to Xing Xiuyan and Tanchun, but avoided Shi Xiangyun alone.

Xue Baochai is a person who pays attention to everything. After several days of waiting, she really waited for Shi Xiangyun and Tanchun to be left behind by Jiamu and take a nap with Jiamu.

Xue Baochai didn't say anything, but directly took her cousin back to the small courtyard where Xue's family lives now.

This small courtyard is much smaller than the previous small courtyard located in the northwest corner of the entire mansion. Not only is there only one entrance, but there are only a dozen rooms in total including the main room and side rooms, and there is not even a place to move around. No.As an elder, Aunt Xue lived in the main house, Xue Pan lived in the east wing, and the west wing belonged to Xue Biao.Even when Xue Baochai was still living here, she lived in the same room with her mother.

Even now, when Sister Xue Baochai and Xue Baoqin came back to live occasionally, they crowded into the east ear room on the east side of the main house that was converted into a green yarn cupboard.

It's rare that Jia's mother didn't bid for a bidder, and it was rare for Xue Baochai to go home. Aunt Xue quickly brought out ten taels of silver and asked Tonggui to go to the big kitchen to ask for two good dishes.

Now there is no independent kitchen in this small courtyard. Although Aunt Xue asked people to set up a teahouse in the small cubicle past the west ear room, and used a small tea stove to eat simple meals throughout the day, there are other serious meals, but only You can ask the big kitchen for it.

Therefore, if you want extra vegetables, you have to add money, and it is not as comfortable and cheap as before the Grand View Garden project.

Tonggui went there for half a day, then came back and said: "Mrs. Shi, Miss Shi was in front of the old lady today and asked for bad wing tips and stuffed wings to make desserts. Right now, there are only duck heads and duck necks in the kitchen."

Chickens and ducks are very common dishes, not to mention that during the past two years of the locust plague, Jia's family raised many chickens, ducks and geese, so chickens and ducks were rare in other people's homes, but in Jia's family, chickens, ducks and geese didn't cost much at all.

Because it is all filial piety from Zhuangzi.

Those Zhuangzi in Gyeonggi took turns to give them away, and they only gave them away once a year, which was enough for the masters and slaves in the Qingronghou Mansion to eat every day all year round.Therefore, today's Jia's family is more and more wasteful, especially in Jia's mother's house.

Just like this time, Shi Xiangyun wanted to eat the tip and center of the wings, and the big kitchen flattered Jia Mu that he would immediately kill chickens and ducks for Shi Xiangyun to cook.But those chickens and ducks, where did the parts other than the wings go, of course I don't need to go into details.

The big kitchen would say no, obviously not taking their Xue family seriously.

No need to ask carefully, Xue Baochai is equally aware of the accident behind this, she said: "Don't we have ready-made bad goose feet? Baoyu agreed in the past. That is it. In addition, use duck breasts to make ready-made fried melon seeds." Yes, but nothing else."

This stir-fried chicken breast and melon seeds is to cut the chicken breast into the size of melon seeds, then heat the oil, add other ingredients and quickly fry it out of the pan.If it is fried pheasant breast, it is considered a rare dish on Jia Mu's dining table, but if it is made of ordinary chicken and duck, it can only be a home-cooked dish eaten by ordinary people, even some decent stewards in this mansion They may not be able to see it.

Not to mention that now that Xue Baochai lived in the garden, it was rare for her to go home, even if she was still living here, Aunt Xue would not bear to wrong her daughter so much.

Aunt Xue said: "It is said that some people outside can use their scalps to make hats. Now it's our turn."

I think of their Xue family, but it is said that pearls are as rich as earth and gold is as iron. The brothers and sisters in the family are not raised with jade grains and golden shells.Up to now, she has to wrong her beloved daughter Xue Baochai to eat fried chicken breast and melon seeds that even the servants of the Jia family may not know how to eat.

Xue Baochai sat down next to her mother, and said, "Mom, what are you talking about. Don't look at how precious your majesty is now, but your daily breakfast is not a bowl of thin porridge made from millet."

Aunt Xue said: "Can it be the same? She is a concubine Shu who has been hired by the royal family and has already established her status! Will she lose this little bit of honor?"

After a pause, Aunt Xue couldn't hold back: "Is what you said true? Is it true that the lady eats millet porridge?"

In Jia's house, different people eat different grains.Jia Mu eats rouge rice every meal.Like Ningguo Mansion, Tian Zhuangzi, a hero in Qingronghou Mansion, will also send rouge rice every year, which is also two stones.It is specifically stated in the original book that what Jiamu eats is rouge rice, and she doesn’t have an extra portion. Occasionally, Youshi from Ningguo Mansion comes over, and she doesn’t even have Japonica rice, so she can only use the white rice that the servants eat, so Mother Jia sighed and said that their Jia family was the same as outside, they could only use their scalps to make hats and count rice grains for cooking.

Now Jia Yan is Concubine Shu, although she did not enter the palace, but she really won the emperor's heart.After Jia Amnesty granted the title of Marquis, apart from the hero Tian Zhuangzi handed down from Jia Daishan, the emperor also rewarded Jue Tian.The hero Tian Zhuangzi produced rouge rice, and Qingronghou’s new acquisition of Jue Tian also produced rouge rice, plus the concubine Shu sent by the palace on time, in Aunt Xue’s opinion, it was never Jia Yan’s turn to eat millet.

Millet, also known as millet, is the ration of common people!

Seeing Aunt Xue like this, Xue Baoqin laughed: "Auntie has been dragged in by the elder sister. How can the empress be missing this little bit? I think the empress is ordering this millet porridge because she wants to nourish her life and cherish her blessings. "

Xue Baoqin's mother has phlegm disease and is weak, so she eats millet porridge all the year round.According to her mother, she can't get rid of it when she eats white rice, but millet porridge is better and doesn't hurt.

Aunt Xue nodded repeatedly, and said: "Exactly. I just said, this mansion is getting better every day, how can I let the empress be wronged."

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "Your Majesty is not that particular about this aspect. Whether it is food, clothing, housing, or transportation, your Majesty has always done what she can. Picking up the old clothes of the big sister and Aunt Lin in this mansion, I don't see your Majesty caring at all. Now Xianda doesn't see the empress's extravagance, but cares about everything in the family. Not to mention the plan of the empress for Brother Cong in the old years, but the first thing that the empress ordered after she got the royal appointment was to let the family Add [-] mu of land for sacrifice! And let Master Jing of the Eastern Mansion stare at the ethnology! If you want me to say, only the empress has such knowledge in this mansion! If you change that person, you will be just pretending to be reserved at best It's too extravagant to say a word. But if you ask her to make the garden smaller and reduce the ostentation, that one will definitely not do it."

Although Jia Yuanchun came home near the twelfth lunar month, he died without getting through the winter, and although Xue Baochai hadn't been in touch with Jia Yuanchun for a long time and didn't know her well, Xue Baochai had also heard that "the son of a dragon begets a dragon and a phoenix begets a phoenix and a mouse can fight." hole".From Xue Baochai's point of view, one can tell what Jia Yuanchun is from Mrs. Wang.

Jia Yan can clearly cross out more than half of the size of the palace, but Jia Yuanchun may not have such a clear mind, maybe because the daughter-in-law has been a woman in the palace for too long, so she doesn't want to be laughed at and follow her. I will ask my mother to help build the Grand View Garden so that Meiyang Meilun beats all the concubines and concubines to give her a long face.

Ask Xue Baochai, if it is Jia Yuanchun, I am afraid that Lin Daiyu will be the first victim, and their Xue family will not be able to get well, and their vitality will be severely damaged, and then the family will use their family resources to buy a false excitement. It also left a bad impression in the eyes of the emperor!

If the deficit is added, I am afraid that the day when the Grand View Garden is completed will be the day when Jia Yuanchun will fall out of favor completely!

If you want to return the national treasury to the deficit, you have no money, but if you want to pay for the construction of the family-friendly villa, you have money!This is not bullying what is it? !

Xue Baochai just said that casually, but Aunt Xue was not happy.She glanced at Xue Baochai with a slight warning, and said: "Bao girl, no matter how bad that is, she is also your cousin. No matter how good your mother is, it has nothing to do with us."

No matter what, Mrs. Wang is also Aunt Xue's biological sister, just like Jia Yuanchun is Aunt Xue's biological niece.

Knowing that Aunt Xue's Zuo Xing'er was coming up again, Xue Baochai had no choice but to relax, took her mother's hand, and said: "Mom, you said, others don't know, why don't I know? No matter what, my eldest sister and I both It's the granddaughter of the Wang family. But Mom, Long Live is annoyed. The eldest sister is already a certainty. Even my uncle has been sacked. I heard that when I first went to Hangzhou, I was a city gate leader, but now I'm not even an official. I think my uncle is also in his 60s and [-]s, and like those soldiers, he has to stand in the wind hole against the freezing snow! He doesn’t even have a warm mouth! And cousin Xiluan of my uncle’s family, I remember that my cousin and I are also born in one year, slightly older than my mother, and the next year will also be the year of Jiji. But where is this marriage? Mom, uncle is still counting on our family! I know that Mom remembers the family relationship, but , if we don't count on the empress, who can we count on?"