[Red House] A beautiful girl welcomes the spring

The main reason for Xue Baochai to visit Jia's mother is Mrs. Wang.There is a saying that not returning home with brocade is like traveling at night in brocade. Mrs. Wang plotted against Xue’s family and Xue Baochai, almost killed Xue Pan and fooled Aunt Xue, wanting Xue Baochai to be Jia Baoyu’s concubine. Hate it.

Yes, when she came to Beijing this time, she had another task to enter the palace and tell Jia Yan about Shangqiu.However, isn't this application for entering the palace not approved?She didn't mind at all to see Mrs. Wang's jokes.

For this day, Xue Baochai specially wore new clothes and brought the Chaoyang Wufeng hanging pearl hairpin. She was originally a dignified and majestic beauty, and she was most suitable for formal dress. Now that she has cleaned up like this, she is less than Wang Xifeng who was like a fairy concubine back then. A little bit more flamboyant and a little more graceful, not to mention, she is now an upright and upright wife of a fourth-rank official, full of confidence, not at all the appearance of a swollen face to pretend to be fat. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

Such Xue Baochai is naturally extremely beautiful, and far better than before.Once Jia Baoyu saw her, he couldn't take his eyes away.

For most men, what is unobtainable is the rarest thing, and what is lost is the most precious.The same goes for Jia Baoyu.

From the first day she married into Jia's family, Xue Baochai made up her mind to never let Jia Baoyu get close.He even decisively asked himself to go down soon after.Xue Baochai was Jia Baoyu's wife. In Jia Baoyu's consciousness, Xue Baochai should have been his woman. In the end, Xue Baochai was like an eagle that had taken off its chains, leaving without nostalgia. The cinnabar mole.

Over the years, the men and women who came and went around Jia Baoyu, but Xue Baochai was engraved into his bone marrow.

So, today when I heard that Xue Baochai came to visit Jia Mu, he appeared for the first time, and then, the first time he saw Xue Baochai, he was stunned.

Thousands of thoughts surged, but I couldn't utter a single word.

Mrs. Wang noticed the change in her son immediately.She was terribly disappointed in Jia Baoyu, but Jia Baoyu was her son after all, a mother, how could she hate her own son?

Therefore, Mrs. Wang's anger was directed at Xue Baochai.

When Xue Baochai entered the room to salute Jia Mu, Mrs. Wang couldn't help but said: "Bao girl is more and more like Feng girl now."

Aunt Xue's face immediately changed.

What happened to Wang Xifeng, would they not know?Comparing her daughter to Wang Xifeng, isn't this a curse on Xue Baochai?

Xue Baochai, on the other hand, was not annoyed when Madam Wang said this, but said with a smile, "Why did Auntie forget? Sister Feng and I were originally aunts and cousins, so we are naturally alike. It's just that I am much luckier than Sister Feng." When I was young, my father invited my husband to teach me. After my father passed away, my mother took care of me. After I came to Beijing, although I encountered a few bad things, I was lucky enough to be favored by my mother. Thanks to my good temper! Others, when they saw how I was young and ignorant and still liked to show off, I’m afraid they would have rejected me long ago. But the empress is kind and pure and kind. Although she was annoyed that I was ignorant, she still taught me patiently and carefully. Can I have Today, it is all thanks to the grace of my aunt. Drinking water and thinking of the source, I was able to enter the eyes of my mother because my aunt helped hold the thread. I should thank my aunt."

After speaking, he stood up and saluted Mrs. Wang again.

Mrs. Wang almost squinted her eyes in anger.

Xue Baochai said that she was young and ignorant, and that Jia Yan had a good temper. Conversely, it doesn't mean that Mrs. Wang is not only inferior to her when she was a child, but also stupid enough to offend their Jia family's empress to death. Is this what it is today?

Mrs. Wang's eyes turned cold immediately.

This precious girl is even more impeccable in her words and deeds.

Annoyed that I am an elder, I can't argue with the girl.

Instead, Jia Baoyu, after Xue Baochai was seated, couldn't help coming up to bow to Xue Baochai: "Sister Bao."

Xue Baochai said generously, "Brother Bao, long time no see."

"Yes, long time no see. How has Sister Bao been all these years? How has he treated you?"

Xue Baochai smiled and said: "Brother Bao should also call me brother-in-law. Brother Bao, please rest assured, my family's husband treats me very well."

Xue Baochai knew her criteria for choosing a mate, the most important of which was to be able to let her wear Fengguanxiapei.

Everyone has vanity, and Xue Baochai is a little more reconciled than the other girls in the Grand View Garden: she is not reconciled to marrying an ordinary person in the future, and she is not reconciled to marrying someone who is far inferior to her in the future. Tanchun Shi Xiangyun and his like bowed their heads.

Therefore, Xue Baochai was especially grateful to Jia Yan.Because she knew that if it was someone else, she would never help her ex-sister-in-law who asked her to come down, let alone such a marriage that made her happy in every way.

Xue Baochai's happiest thing in this life is that when she first entered Beijing, she met Jia Yan, who was the same age as her.

Jia Mu said with a smile: "Baby girl is very different from before."

Xue Baochai smiled and said, "Old lady, isn't that what the old saying goes? Marriage is like a second reincarnation for a woman. I, too, have completely relied on the empress. Otherwise, I wouldn't be here today!"

Jia's mother said: "Baby girl, how have you been doing in Shangqiu all these years, everything went smoothly." @无限好文，全在晋江文学城

Xue Baochai speculated that the reason why Jia's mother was so polite was entirely because of Jia Zheng.

She smiled and said: "It's my junior's fault for worrying the old lady. Please don't worry, old lady. This Shangqiu was originally a fief given to the empress by Long Live. The subjects we say are Long Live are actually just helping Long Live It's just running errands with the empress. To be honest, all the high-ranking officials in Shangqiu are directly appointed by Long Live. The low-ranking and low-ranking officials are selected from among the refugees and common people. It is a cheap management. Therefore, in our place, it is extremely clean. Without those subordinate officials who don’t know who is behind them and have a devious relationship with the nobles, my family’s husband and wife have fewer constraints. Therefore, this Excellent in every way.”

Hearing what Xue Baochai said, Jia's mother had to give up her mind.

Mrs. Wang also understood Xue Baochai's words, and said: "Bao girl is indeed a blessed one."

"What does my aunt say. No matter how blessed I am, isn't this blessing given by my aunt?"

Mrs. Wang said: "Then you have submitted an application to enter the palace?"

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "Auntie said that? The first thing I did when I returned to Beijing was to submit an application to the palace. It's just that my grade is here, and it will take some time for the palace to approve it. "

Jia Mu smiled and said, "That's true, that's true. You and your empress have not seen each other for many years, so you must have a lot to talk about. By the way, Shangqiu is your empress' fief, so there should be many differences from other places."

Xue Baochai smiled and said: "The old lady is really right. The biggest thing about this Shangqiu is that there are so many people! You think, Yuzhou is the heart of China, but the Yellow River is plagued by disasters every year. You don't know it in Beijing. On the banks of the Yellow River, it's either a flood or a plague of locusts!"

"Locust plague?!"

Mother Jia was startled.

"Was there a plague of locusts by the Yellow River every year?"

Mrs. Wang also pricked up her ears.

Xue Baochai said: "As long as there is no flood in the year, there will be locust plagues. The difference is that it has swept a few villages, or swept the entire state capital. It's the same in the east this year and in the west next year. It's the same. I heard from the old farmer that after the beating of the empress made the people below start to raise a large number of chickens and ducks, although there were locust plagues in the surrounding area every year, the people had chickens, ducks and eggs, and even chicken feathers and duck feathers could be exchanged for money, so many families set up a house for the empress. What about the Longevity card?"

"It turned out to be like this?!"

Li Wan then said: "We are in the capital, we never imagined that there would be such a scene outside."

Xue Baochai said: "That's not it. I also wrote to my mother, and my mother replied to me, saying that locusts like to lay eggs in dry and warm places, and the exposed sand by the Yellow River is a hotbed for locusts. Originally, the land of Yuzhou The climate here is particularly suitable, and there are a lot of exposed sandy soil, so don’t there be locust plagues every year? My husband thought, yes. Later, my husband encouraged the local people to raise chickens and ducks. Because of this, the people in the Shangqiu area The locust plague is much smaller than before.”

Although the words are such light and fluffy two sentences, how can the story here be told in a few words?

For example, in Shangqiu, especially down from Yumenkou, there are millions of acres of river beach, almost all of which are exposed sandy soil.It was here that Jia Yan planned to excavate several artificial lakes to discharge floodwaters for the Yellow River.Although such an important project must be in charge of the officials of the Ministry of Yu, how to deal with the dug up sand and soil is the best policy. This is something that the prefect, Chen Yuanshou, needs to consider and coordinate.

Raising chickens and ducks is a means to reduce locust disasters, but this means, first of all, has no obvious effect, and then it will be regarded as buying people's hearts and deliberately hindering the governance project.

Therefore, officials in this area must not only have skills, but also be able to communicate.

And which of these things can Jia Zheng do?It's not that Xue Baochai looks down on Jia Zheng, but that if Jia Zheng can achieve any of these two points, he won't be in the state of a cold bench in the Ministry of Industry for more than ten years!

Jia Mu smiled and said, "I see. This Chen Yuanshou is able to have what he is today, I'm afraid it's because Bao girl has contributed a lot!"

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "Look at what the old lady said, where is my credit? It's obviously my husband's credit. As for me, it's just that everyone is tolerant of me for the sake of your empress."

Xue Baochai didn't deny at all that she spent a lot of effort in Shangqiu, especially the wife's diplomacy, she really did a lot.But this world is like this, even if she has done so much, this world will not allow her to take credit. @无限好文, all in Jinjiang Literature City

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