The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter No.17

Rongqingtang is the place where Jia's mother moved to live after Jia Daishan passed away. It was naturally too spacious when she was the only master. A few years ago, a new resident, Baoyu, was added, and it has already occupied a lot. The house was vacant, and now a concubine Tanchun, who lived in a big house, was added, so the living area was naturally smaller.

Of course, the overall area of ​​Rongqing Hall is definitely not small in the entire Rongguo Mansion, and it can even be regarded as the largest one besides Rongxi Hall.But even so, he couldn't stand up to so many masters.

After all, Rongguo Mansion is not a small family outside, and a whole family can live in one room. The master of such a big family doesn't live in a yard when he is a little older.

Moreover, it is not only the masters who live in Rongqingtang, but also the servants who serve the master—although Mother Jia has no nuns, she has eight first-class maids, sixteen second-class maids, and third-class maids. The girls who are rough envoys also need a place to stay.The people around Jiamu are more respectable than those in other places. The first-class maids share a room with each other, while the second-class maids share a room with two, which only takes up a dozen rooms.And there are quite a few Baoyu's people, four first-class maids occupy two rooms, eight second-class maids also occupy two rooms, plus four nurses and many third-class maids, in the end it also occupies nearly Ten rooms.In addition, Jiamu's large number of private houses are mostly locked in the Rongqing Hall. Although those things don't need to occupy a very good place, they still need a lot of rooms to store them.

No matter how big the Rongqing Hall is, it is nothing more than a courtyard in the Rongguo Mansion, and the area is limited. If it weren't for the rudeness, the maids and servants would always live outside and would not occupy the Rongqing Hall. In this place, only Jiamu and Baoyu can live in the Rongqingtang.But even so, now that another Tanchun moved here, there would be no reason to live in this place.

The better rooms in the courtyard have long been occupied by the people around Jiamu and Baoyu. According to the rules in the Rongguo Mansion, the cats and dogs around the respectable masters are all honorable.Tanchun was just a concubine who was not valued, and the people around her didn't have any respectable backgrounds, so she didn't dare to offend people for nothing, so she had to pick up the rest of the house to live in. Although it was a bit crowded, she still stayed there.

Mother Jia said that Tanchun was moved here, but she didn't think of treating people harshly, but the Rongqing Hall was really full, so she casually pointed to the place where she lived, and only said that people were placed in the Baosha. I can only find a house to live in near Baoxia, but it's crowded, and I haven't lived in a spacious one when I was in a big house.

In the past, even if it was three or two months earlier, before Jia Zhu got seriously ill this time, if the big house had sent Tan Chun to Jia Mu before then, Mrs. Wang would definitely say nothing. If you say so, send Yingchun to Rongqingtang as well—it would be difficult for Jia Mu to raise many children at her current age, but whenever Jia Mu shows some reluctance, she can always take this opportunity to get Baoyu back , is of course the best thing.

This is not a bad intention, even if it is not for Mrs. Wang's selfishness, the boys and girls in this big family are originally different.The so-called second-generation relatives, if this boy grows up by his grandmother's side, he will easily be spoiled. Most of the time, this is actually not a good thing for his elder brother, just like Jia She of the big family and Mrs. Wang's natal elder brother who is useless. Like Wang Zisheng, those who are basically doted on are somewhat incompetent.But for girls, if their status is slightly insufficient, they really need an educated person with status to mention their status, not to mention that Yingchun's concubine's birth is not enough, she is Yuan Chun, the daughter of Mrs. Wang's direct relative. When I was old, I was sent by Mrs. Wang to be taught a thing or two in the daytime.

It's just that now that Yingchun has just rescued Jia Zhu once (Madam Wang thinks that...), firstly, it is not easy to kill the donkey and send Yingchun immediately, and secondly, she is afraid that something will go wrong on her side. She knew that if Mrs. Wang hadn't opened her mouth so recklessly at that time, even Jia's mother would not have made this suggestion.And if Yingchun was raised under Jia Mu's knees at that time, I also know that Jia Mu, who has always claimed to love all her grandchildren equally, would not be able to open her mouth to send the granddaughter she raised by her side to the sick grandson's yard, but Mrs. Wang was worried. A reputation that values ​​one's own children more than one's own won't hurt.

So after seeing Tanchun in Rongqingtang, Mrs. Wang was not in a hurry to send Yingchun there: "It is naturally the blessing of the third girl to be taught by the old lady, but the second girl is still young, and the top of her arm is now too old." You have to be more cautious in raising them, but you can't learn much, and the energy of the old lady is wasted. It's better to stay with your daughter-in-law for a while, and then learn from the old lady when she is older in a year or two. If the old lady wants to In the future, the daughter-in-law will bring the second girl to pay her respects every day."

Since the daughter of the first house was raised in the past, and since the two houses also had girls of the same age, Mother Jia naturally had to ask the second house again.But after all, Jia's mother has limited energy when she is old, so it is a last resort to move such a small Tanchun here, and it would be too much to add another Yingchun.Therefore, after receiving Mrs. Wang's words, Jia's mother was relieved. Compared with the eldest daughter-in-law next to her, she inevitably felt that the second daughter-in-law was more considerate.

Mother Jia never lacked valuables and things. Since she felt that the second daughter-in-law was irritating, and she had the intention to subsidize the second room, she naturally bought a lot of good things to reward Mrs. Wang, and agreed in a happy mood. Mrs. Wang went to see Baoyu.

Baoyu is almost three years old now, but due to various reasons, in fact, he has not seen his mother many times. When he was a child, Mrs. Wang came to visit very diligently. At least for two days, Jiamu always let their mother and child The two met last time, but after Yuanchun entered the palace, Jia Zhu was seriously ill, and Mrs. Wang didn't care much about her youngest son for a few months.Especially at Baoyu's age, although she has begun to remember things slowly, her memory is still not very long. If it wasn't for the reminders from the maids and mothers around her, she might not have remembered that she had a mother.

Although Mrs. Wang is not unhappy, but after all, it is very common for a grandmother to want to raise her children and grandchildren. The Jia family has forgotten that there is such a practice. She will rely on Jia Zhu, the eldest son, in the future, so she is not too impatient. He wanted to take his youngest son back.

After a long time, although Madam Wang relieved the pain of missing her for a while, Yingchun and Baoyu got along quite well unexpectedly.

But this is quite normal, Baoyu has always liked to be close to young women, even if Yingchun has no rouge to eat for him now, after all, the clothes and things on his body are much more delicate than those of the maids, and Yingchun's appearance is also quite It's not bad, when other maids and sisters don't come to play with him, he still prefers to play with this young lady than his dignified mother.

Fortunately, Jia Baoyu is still young, Mrs. Wang didn't notice the instinctive dislike of her own son, and she didn't care much about Yingchun being close to her youngest son.

----split line----

Moving to Jiamu's side didn't make Tanchun's news much better, except that after meeting her aunt in her previous life with her second sister Yingchun to greet her, she didn't actually have the chance to get in touch with many things, but Anyway, the people in Rongqingtang know more about things than the people around Mrs. Xing. Tanchun acted like a baby and acted innocent and cute, but it's not impossible to get some other news.

For example, she knew that Aunt Zhou, the second roommate in this life, had a daughter, which happened to be the name of Yingchun's birthday in her previous life. She also heard that Aunt Zhao hurt the second sister very much before, and then she was killed by her. The feet were banned and have not been released until now.

From Tanchun's point of view, this is probably the only difference from her previous life.

Don't underestimate Tanchun's brain power, just as Tanchun never underestimated Aunt Zhao's boldness—in her previous life, Aunt Zhao really dared to plot against Baoyu and Sister Feng in one go, and she was full of thinking that apart from them, the family would be fine. I paid attention to Jia Huan. This incident was quite a big deal at the time, and Tanchun was really impressed.

From Tanchun's point of view, if Aunt Zhao dared to do something ten years later, she may not be completely innocent ten years ago. Maybe Aunt Zhao did something about Jia Zhu's matter-who made this the only difference from her previous life? different.

After experiencing the future of the Jia family's decline, coupled with Jia Zhu's cleverness after hearing Mrs. Wang cry countless times, Tanchun now knows better than anyone what Jia Zhu's death means for the future of Rongguo Mansion.Therefore, after thinking that Aunt Zhao might have done something to Jia Zhu, I remembered that in my previous life, because of the decline of the Jia family, I had to marry far away and die young. mutual affection.

She simply continued to be her eldest daughter with peace of mind.

During the days in Rongqingtang, Tanchun first spent more than half a month to recover from his illness, and then began to persevere to join Baoyu's side - with the degree of Jia's mother's love for Baoyu, if he can cultivate with Baoyu Undoubtedly, it will be beneficial to her in everything in the future if she shows affection.

No one would think that a child who was just two years old would be smart enough to calculate these things. At most, Jia's mother was satisfied with Baoyu's cuteness. A little girl named Magpie was picked out to Tanchun, who was in charge of the affairs of the third girl's room.

Jiamu has always been good at people, and even a second-class maid is actually better educated than the people around Tanchun now, plus the magpie is a local snake in Rongqingtang, so with magpies Managing things in the Tanchun room gradually made her life better.