The Weight of the Red Mansion Walks the Road of Life

Chapter 68

It is also because the Xue family is getting better now that Aunt Xue has the leisure to worry about the Lin family.

There is another incident. When Xue Pan was three or two years old, for some reason, Aunt Xue’s body was not in danger for a while. Not only did her menstruation stop, her waist and waist became thicker a few times in a month or two, and even her pulse was slippery. pulse, as if pregnant with a child.Unexpectedly, if the fetus stopped suddenly in April or May, it seemed that the previous incident was just an illusion, and after one or two months, the body would be the same as before, as if it was just a sick seedling before, and those who did not eat soup or medicine would be fine. That's great.

Because of such an incident, Aunt Xue has always dreamed that she should have a girl from then on. Although she has a girl who is pampered now, but listening to the stories of the Lin family, it is inexplicably easy to be moved by the girl of the Lin family. .However, Aunt Xue has a leisurely life and has always been soft-hearted. She only feels that she has nothing to worry about at home, so she worries about others, and she doesn't take it to heart. My mind is still on choosing a good wife for Xue Pan.

Don't look at the fact that Xue Pan's merchant family is incapable of taking the imperial examination, and he can't easily climb up to the daughter of an official family, but if he is in a similar merchant family, he can be regarded as a first-class good son-in-law-the Xue family was born as a red-top merchant and a close uncle of a serious official family, and He is already the head of the family, and there is no brother in the big Xue family to divide up the family property, and only a younger sister is just a dowry. Otherwise, no matter how much the expense is, it will be limited in the end, but it is really not comparable to the family property divided by many brothers.

The only thing to worry about is that the widowed mother loves her son too much and despises her daughter-in-law. Only the daughter-in-law has her mother's family when she enters the family. marry in.

Aunt Xue couldn't help being dazzled, but she couldn't help asking what the couple meant.

That's all for Xue Pan, Rao has grown a lot now, but the country is easy to change and the nature is hard to change, so I just insist on something else, I must have a good appearance, just like my sister. The aunt was so angry that she had to sigh and turn to ask her daughter.

After all, Daiyu is seven or eight years younger than Xue Pan, and spends a lot of time with her sister-in-law. Besides, as a mother, she always walks ahead of her daughter. In the future, she will have to rely on her brother-in-law for a long time. If the sister-in-law is reconciled, she still has a natal family. For example, I and Mrs. Wang Ziteng can be relied on as close relatives, but if it is like the Lin family and the Jia family... Even if Mrs. Wang is my own sister, I can't help Aunt Xue. I have a fever.

Daiyu is also naive, definitely not as shrewd as the daughter of the Wang family in terms of economic and official career, and she is far from the age of worrying about birth, old age, sickness and death. A girl with all four corners.

Maybe it's the difference between Jiangzhu Fairy. Although Daiyu has heard Aunt Xue say that officials and businessmen are different, and has seen her own family's hardships and her uncle's and aunt's family's success, she is still a temperament regardless of her background, and she just blindly struggles with her. The temperament of the future sister-in-law does not stick to her family background.

"Although my brother is filial and my mother loves me, he is quite gentle at home, but I usually hear my brother talk about things outside, but he is actually a tough temper. I should find someone with a gentler temper, so that it will be easier to get along. Just look at People have a better temperament, even if they have some deficiencies in skills, it doesn't matter. Mom is still young, so she can teach people better than me. Our family doesn't take scientific examinations, and my brother doesn't study much, so I don't know. We must find a talented girl to come out, as long as he can read and write, otherwise it will be inconvenient." Daiyu has a clear book in her heart, although she loves to read, she doesn't think that only reading is good, and she doesn't force others to be with her. Like myself, Zuo Zuo's brother doesn't like books and ink, if he finds a noble and talented woman, he will inevitably be taken aback, but he doesn't ask for such things, as long as his temperament is not bad.

Aunt Xue also wanted to take advantage of this matter to test her daughter, so she inevitably asked a few more questions.

"Our family is not short of money and we don't rely on the bride's dowry to live. In fact, there is no need to be restrained by birth. We just have to take a look at the situation in her family. If there are some bad people in the family, even if she is clean from mud, it will be fine. Gives my brother a headache. My mother often said that my brother has a dull and naive look, and it’s not like he didn’t lead people to beat him when he was mixed up. Even if the nephew of Brother Hong’s family provoked him, he was also punished by the leaders. It can be seen that when I quarreled, I never cared whether I was a relative or not, and it would not be beautiful if both sides quarreled." Although Xue Pan has grown up for his mother and sister now, but he still has a domineering temperament in his bones. A nephew of a cousin's family somehow provoked the shopkeeper of the dowry shop that Xue Pan had prepared for his younger sister, and asked Xue Pan to lead the people to clean it up, regardless of the fact that he had to be called uncle.In this case, if his uncle is also a fool in the future, and the two families fight together again, it is really impossible for relatives to do it.

Although Aunt Xue may not be as good as Daiyu's innate aura, at least she has eaten rice salt for 30 years. This matter is always obvious, but she is just passing by to test her daughter's knowledge. Speaking of it, at most one can hear a gentle and warm sentence, and don't need to pay attention to the others.

The rules of the merchants are not as neat as those of the officials, especially the merchants often travel from north to south, so they can't stay at home for too long all year round. There are not a few people who buy houses in other places to raise young women and ordinary wives, and there are also many slaves and maidservants in the house. Such as the Xue family is only because Mr. Xue did not dare to hinder his wife's natal brothers and sisters from their official positions, so he only focused on living a good life with his wife. That's it.

Regardless of Aunt Xue’s background as a concubine, she may not be full of kindness towards concubine daughters. Firstly, she thinks that concubine daughters are well-bred, after all, few. Xue Pan was born as the only son of a concubine, why bother to find a son of a concubine.

As for whether to find an official girl like herself for Xue Pan, Aunt Xue didn't really care too much. The relatives of the Wang family are already close, and the Jia family's side is also very close only by blood. Being able to protect the Xue family for a generation or two, and Xue Pan has always been used to being wanton, if he is going to get married in Gaoli, but he is required to swallow his anger, it is a bit unbearable out of a loving mother.

It is also caused by human inferiority. When she was the daughter-in-law of the Xue family, Aunt Xue was very willing that her husband would be devoted to her, and she was even quite proud in front of the old wife of the Xue family because of the quietness of her inner house.Although Aunt Xue boasted that she would not be an evil mother-in-law in the future, Aunt Xue would still be angry if her son wanted to have three concubines and four concubines and daughter-in-law like an ordinary businessman but refused.

This is probably the mother-in-law's psychology. If Xue Pan's grandfather hadn't lost his wife at that time, he might not have thought of marrying a noble family for his son, or Aunt Xue's life after entering the family might not have been so easy.

The Xue family has a wide range of businesses, not only in the Jinling area, but also in other places in the south of the Yangtze River. There are also two noble relatives in Beijing, so the range of choices is not narrow.

Aunt Xue first excludes those born by concubines, and some merchants who don’t pay attention to those born by ordinary wives are counted as descendants and those who don’t want it. Hua is the weakness of the mistress. If the girls in the family are either sharp-edged or too limp, they must not be well-bred.There are other sayings about education and background, and when Daiyu is in a mood, she may convey Xue Pan's meaning or add a sentence or two of conditions that she thinks of herself. It's not too embarrassing, but in the end, I shaved a lot out.

It's also because Xue Pan and Daiyu are not in a hurry no matter which age they are, and Aunt Xue didn't turn her attention to the official family, so she is still married from a humble family, so she can choose her.

On weekdays, when she met guests and visitors in Jinling, she thought that these were not enough, and she even mentioned this matter to Mrs. Wang Ziteng when she was free. He asked Mrs. Wang Ziteng to condescend to look at each other, but only asked for a list of similar merchants in Beijing, and said by the way that he was going to look at the marriage for Xue Panxiang.

As for Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue only gave a modest gift, but another gift was given to Sister Feng, who also married into the Jia family. It was only said that it was a gift for Sister He Feng's happiness.Although it is not too heavy and gorgeous, but everything is considered affordable, which makes Sister Feng happy and does not offend Mrs. Wang's eyes. In addition, I added a piece of paper to Sister Feng's list that also said about Xue Pan, and also I said that Mrs. Wang must be busy with this matter because she was worried that Jia's mansion Yuanchun had not left the cabinet, so it is not good to disturb her by such a trivial matter.

——Yuanchun's marriage is really embarrassing. Although Mrs. Wang Ziteng is willing to look after her niece besides choosing a wife for her nephew, after all, as long as a man has a family and a job, it doesn't matter how old he is to marry a lady of his age. It is difficult, but no matter how outstanding a girl is, if she misses the flowering period, it will be difficult to choose a son-in-law, which will not cause Mrs. Wang a headache.

After Wang Xifeng received the gift, she didn't really take this matter to heart, and returned a small gift to Aunt Xue in the name of filial piety, and then raised her baby with peace of mind.On the other hand, Mrs. Wang Ziteng's husband's official career is very open, and he is usually flattered by others, which is inevitably boring. Besides, she has just engaged her nephew, and she is very interested in this matter, while secretly thinking about it. His 11-year-old daughter's lifelong, while taking a look for his nephew, was doing his best, and he returned the message to Aunt Xue a little later.

Not only is there the name of the imperial merchant in Beijing, but because the Wang family and the merchant family are not close, I only inquired about the family with sisters and children of about the same age. Specifically, how many brothers and children are in the family? This is not the case.On the contrary, I added a few names of officials and eunuchs, some of them are concubine sisters who have good looks, gentle temperament and good manners, and some have concubines or concubine brothers who are a few years older than Daiyu. .

Those Aunts Xue in the front thought it over carefully. As for the sons and daughters of the official family in the back, it's just a brother who can match Daiyu, and they may be useful later.As for the elder sister... the generation of the Xue family doesn't need to marry another official daughter, so I just glanced at it and didn't take it to heart at all. There is really no need to force it.

The author has something to say:

All kinds of mental and physical exhaustion after the [-]th, the mother is really lively, has been promoted to the average every morning after being picked up by the mother, after breakfast, we both go out with two buns and two bottles of water, and then go for a walk outside Go home at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night...

Two steamed buns are a day's meal. The steamed stuffed buns are actually quite big. They belong to the kind that eat two on an empty stomach and can make you feel full. Usually, she eats most of them first, and then there are two or three bites left over from one steamed stuffed bun. I... As for water, I can drink two bottles of water a day, and then she doesn't want to buy water, because she is not thirsty...

Usually it’s shopping, purely shopping without buying, shopping until nine o’clock when the shops are closed, and then taking the bus to the beach for a walk around, and then… of course, I missed the last bus and there was no bus, and then I walked home… …The place to go for a walk is basically a six-kilometer distance from my home. If I don’t go for a walk, I will go home after nine o’clock and change clothes to go for a run, which is another five-kilometer run.

Because my mother feels that I don’t have to go to work, and it’s too boring to be at home...

I feel that I am more tired after a [-]th holiday than if I don’t have a holiday... I can’t afford to be hurt by an overly lively mother.

PS My mother’s physical strength is very strong. When I went shopping anywhere since I was a child, I would get down and get tired first. I thought it was because my physique was too weak (my mother always said so, calling me hypocritical), and then went to When I went out to play with my classmates in college, I realized that my physical strength killed all the classmates (female) in seconds, and I realized that it was not that we were too weak but the enemy was too strong