The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 67

The Xue family and the Lin family are not considered close, and it will be a long time before they know the decision of the Lin family.

As a merchant from out of town, Aunt Xue actually had a hard time prying into the secrets of Xunyan Yushi's mansion. She could know that these were still mentioned in Jia Min's letter.

It has always been a rare thing for a woman to establish a household these days. At least among the people Jia Min is more familiar with, only Aunt Xue is the master of the house as a woman. No matter how young Xue Pan was when the master was gone, even if he was a milk doll, as long as he was a boy, the head of the Xue family would naturally be passed on to him. I always understand my pain.

After all, no matter what, before Xue Pan grows up, even though Xue Pan is already very sensible, Aunt Xue still has to come forward to make decisions on major matters of the Xue family.Even if you can't ask people about the big matter of female household recruiting, at least the small things about human relations, how Aunt Xue treats people in the end is worth learning a little bit.

Even though Jia Min was the top lady in Beijing back then, she never lagged behind others in everything, but for normal people, no matter how comprehensive and careful the upbringing is, it is impossible to teach girls how to raise before they leave the cabinet The ability to be the master of the house is the matter of the housekeeper and director, but now she has to let her only remaining daughter inherit the family, so she can't take this matter to ask others for advice.

Aunt Xue couldn't help sighing after reading the letter.

Jia Min was actually not difficult to get along with when she was in her boudoir, even though she might be a bit willful after being pampered at home (otherwise, no matter how small Mrs. Wang is, she would not have held grudges for so many years), but at least in When outside, it is still unrestrained and generous.Moreover, the Jia family has always had a rule that girls, regardless of their concubines, are raised by the public with money. Although Jia's mother must subsidize Jia Min a lot, at least the surface is always flat, and she doesn't have anything to look at. It's not like the habit of a concubine, so Aunt Xue doesn't really have any ill feelings towards her.

Later, because of the Lin family's sister's medicine, the Xue family of the Lin family continued their friendship with the mistress. There are not many ladies in the middle of the capital who are now in the south of the Yangtze River.Jia Min has always been a delicate and soft-hearted person, and Aunt Xue is even more interested in currying favor, and the chats are very pleasant, but later Mrs. Wang angered Jia Min, and she didn't intend to take revenge on Mrs. Wang's younger sister. Now, for the sake of less ups and downs for my daughter's future, I have to hold back the discomfort related to Mrs. Wang and ask Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue has a brother and a sister in her natal family. As the only child from a concubine, even if Mrs. Wang never rubbed her, she must have a soft temperament, and after she came out of the cabinet, she was spoiled by Master Xue Yes, but he has not lost his soft temperament.At the beginning, the Xue family had spent a lot of effort on the Lin family's sister's prescriptions, and they often heard Jia Min talk about their sons and daughters when they communicated. Jia Min and the brothers and sisters of the Lin family were sad.

I have to write my own experience very carefully in the reply letter.

Moreover, most of the Lin family and Jia's family are official families, and the people who interact with each other are naturally mostly similar families, and they are all families with stricter clan rules, so they have never heard of recruiting.And Xue's friends are mostly merchants who are not very strict in rules. Together with the shopkeeper and tenants at home, they can make friends with all kinds of people. Things, simply write them into the letter.

This is really an extremely dedicated effort, even after Jia Min received the letter, he couldn't help feeling like a treasure.

Don't look at the precedents of the Lin family's ancestors, but that was before the Lin family made a fortune. It has been many years since now, and the genealogy can at most record a certain year. Sheng Tianzu thought that it was impossible to write clearly about the cause and effect of how to select a person, not to mention that Jia Min did not understand the story of recruiting a female householder, even Lin Ruhai was just crossing the river by feeling the stones.

Besides, the Lin family has not had a girl for several generations, not to mention how to raise Chengzong's daughter, even ordinary people don't know much about how to teach their daughter Lin Ruhai, otherwise they wouldn't be able to make the decision to bring their daughter with them to meet male guests. matter.

It doesn't matter whether the girl wants to get married or get married, as long as she doesn't have a husband, this festival is very important. Even after calling her husband and son-in-law, it's best not to see outside male guests. It can't be treated like a boy.

Fortunately, although Baochai is over seven years old, she is not too old after all, and most of the male customers she meets are people who have a close relationship with Lin Ruhai, so there is too much difference in age from her, so it will not spread anything Rumors, on the other hand, these people would not go around talking about it with ill intentions, so they didn't really cause trouble.

When Jia Min was in the boudoir, his talent and ability surpassed that of his elder brother. Before that, he just got into a dead end because he didn't turn around for a while. Now that he has something to worry about, it doesn't hurt the spring and the autumn. Energetic and began to plan for her daughter's future.

An ordinary family's eight or nine-year-old daughter is actually not at the age where she is not in a hurry to see her marriage, but the situation of the Lin family is not ordinary, and it is even more difficult to find a son-in-law who can marry into the marriage. Counting Wu Jiji's promise of marriage, no one can guarantee that a son-in-law who is satisfied with everything will be found within seven years, but there is something to worry about.

Jia Min immediately started planning with a hundred times more seriousness. By the way, she showed her plan to Lin Ruhai, and she succeeded in getting back most of her daughter's custody rights, and her husband was not allowed to make troubles on her own.

----split line----

The Lin family began to fall into the mode of fighting for the future, while the atmosphere in the Xue family was much more relaxed.

Xue Pan is now 12 years old, and because of the loss of his father at a young age, he had to learn to start a career. Therefore, as the eldest son and grandson of the Xue family, there is nothing wrong with getting married earlier. He took his daughter and watched Xue Pan's marriage unhurriedly.

But it's just a matter of acquaintance, the left and right are good at each other, and they will have to wait until Xue Pan is fourteen or five years old at the earliest to get married, so the Xue family is really in no hurry.And now Xue Pan has lost his father, but he has firmly taken the position of the head of the Xue family. There is also an uncle who is a high-ranking official and the aunt of Mrs. Gaoming. They are still quite sought-after in the Jinling area, let alone equal. She is the daughter of the imperial merchant's family, and even many officials and eunuchs are wondering whether it is appropriate to have a concubine daughter for the Xue family.

It is often said that a family has hundreds of girls asking for help, but for a family like the Xue family, if it is said that a family with beautiful children and hundreds of families come to ask for help, Aunt Xue has a lot of free time in this case, and she has the time to do it for her. The Lin family is worried about things.

The Lin family sister is three or four years younger than Xue Pan, and only a year or two older than Xue Pan when his father passed away, so she has to carry the entire family inheritance.At the beginning, Xue Pan was the only direct son of Xue's family, the rightful heir, relying on the power of the Wang family to inherit the family business logically, and it is conceivable how difficult it is for the sister of the Lin family to be a girl. Compared with her little daughter who is still a little romantic, Aunt Xue couldn't help but express her sympathy in her heart.

Of course, Aunt Xue doesn't know much about the Lin family. A family with few children like the Lin family would actually wish to have more heirs like the Xue family. If it weren't for the Lin family, there really wouldn't be any close relatives for Lin Ruhai to adopt. The relatives would not expect a little girl to work hard to inherit the family business, at least when the Lin family sister inherited the family business, she would not be subject to the restraint and pressure of the clan like the Xue family did at the beginning.

But it does not prevent this is still a difficult thing step by step.

Especially when Aunt Xue silently substituted her daughter into such a situation, she couldn't help expressing sympathy.

Daiyu's personality... can't be said to be bad, although she was born as a posthumous child, but the upbringing of a girl depends more on her mother, and Daiyu also has a brother who dotes on her, in fact, it is not good. There are no shortcomings, and it is inevitable that he will be a little noble in temperament.

Aunt Xue has never been very fluent in writing and ink, at most she can only read a few words, so she doesn't have too many demands on her daughter in this regard, she just taught her the ability to be a housekeeper since she was a child.Daiyu was naturally intelligent, and she learned well, but Aunt Xue was always kind, and she felt that she was especially indebted to her daughter. She just saw that she understood everything, and she didn't ask her to work hard herself. It made her even more lazy, she only loved books and ink-scented things, and she was very indifferent to money.

But this is not a big deal, even if Aunt Xue had learned it conscientiously when she was in her natal family, she would not be able to handle housekeeping at home. After all, her daughter's housekeeping skills are more on paper, even if she married into her husband's house Head, unless there is no in-laws and elders, otherwise it is impossible for the new daughter-in-law to be the director, even if Daiyu is not careful about these things, it will not delay anything.And although Daiyu doesn't like to worry about these things, Aunt Xue didn't make any mistakes when she took the school exams. When she was asked to take care of her yard, although she inevitably had some deficiencies, she generally didn't have many omissions. I really understand, and I can't be coaxed easily in the future, so I'm willing to let her be lazy.

Especially knowing that the Lin family's sister will have a hard time in the future, Aunt Xue will inevitably feel a little softer in her heart when she looks at the delicate and soft little daughter beside her, and she can't see that she looks aggrieved.

The author has something to say:

Aunt Xue is a loving mother, there is nothing to doubt about this, just read the original book to know that she can raise Xue Pan like that.Aunt Xue is really kind-hearted. In the original book, she is also very kind to Lin Daiyu, so good that Lin Daiyu can't wait to recognize this godmother...

In the original book, Daiyu is indeed a bit noble, but Cao Xueqin wrote that she helped Wang Xifeng keep accounts in her spare time, and that she could roughly calculate the expenses of Jia's family after reading the Jia family's New Year's Eve, and said that it is important to be frugal, even in her own small yard. It can also manage well. It can be seen that although Daiyu may not be so obsessed with economic career, she can learn some things even when there is no one in the Jia family to teach them. Living in a relative's house, it is impossible to be the head of the relative's house, so it doesn't show up.

In ancient times, the status of the son-in-law was very low, but it seems to have changed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. For example, Zuo Zongtang, who has been found so far, was born as the son-in-law (but his children seem to be named Zuo?) So I am looking for historical facts. Anyway, Dream of the Red Chamber is Overhead, even if the writing is not in harmony with history, I can comfort myself. This is my own setting...