[Red House] Ban'er's Road to Imperial Examination

"Madam, girl!" Ying'er ran into the house while yelling. Aunt Xue and Xue Baochai were sitting on the kang doing needlework. Hearing Ying'er yelling, Aunt Xue couldn't help but wondered: "How old are you and you are so surprised?" At first glance, I am not afraid that others will read the joke and say that our maid has no rules!"

"Hello madam, hello girl!" Ying'er smiled shyly, and after greeting Aunt Xue and Xue Baochai, she couldn't wait to stand up and report the news she just inquired to them.

"Madam, Miss, I just came back from the second wife. I heard that a relative of my uncle's family came to the mansion. She is only eight years old." Ying'er raised her finger and raised it in front of the two: "I have passed the county examination. He is still the first in the county examination! Everyone says he is a Wenqu star descending to earth!"

"It's true!" Xue Baochai's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Are you sure?"

"Exactly! I heard from Caiyun in the second wife's room that the second master invited him to talk to Xiao Wen Quxing as soon as he heard that Wen Quxing was coming. I'm so happy! I heard that not only the second master likes him, Even the second wife was overjoyed when she saw him, insisting on holding him tightly, if the old lady hadn't sent someone to remind her several times, the second master would still not let him go!"

"Your uncle has always liked scholars, and this time he is satisfied!" Aunt Xue said to Xue Baochai with a smile, then put the needlework basket in her hand on the table, got off the kang, and said: It's at the old lady's place, let's go, let's go see what other promising people have come out of my natal family!"

"It's time to go and have a look." Xue Baochai also put down the needlework in her hands, got off the kang, straightened her clothes, and said to Ying'er, "I remember I still have a pair of gold necklaces from the Chinese New Year. Go and get them." Come on, pack it up, then I can make a gift for the child, um, take the one with the highest quality."

After hearing this, Aunt Xue clapped her hands and said with a smile: "My son, you should be more careful. It's not like I am old and always forget things. I almost forgot to have a backup gift!"

"Mom is still so young, if you say you are old, you won't just forget it for a while!"

Aunt Xue waved her hand and said, "When you are old, you are old. Seeing that you and your brother are both getting older, I am naturally old as a mother."

Speaking of this, Aunt Xue couldn't help sighing again: "I can't control your brother's bastard temper, I just hope that in the future he can marry a virtuous daughter-in-law and come back to take care of him, but you, I have to find out Xun Mo, I have to find you a son-in-law who knows how to love others, so I can rest assured."

Xue Baochai blushed when she heard the words, and she couldn't help complaining: "Mom! What are you talking about? I want to stay with you at home for a few more years!"

"What is there for my wife to accompany you? Seeing that you are getting older every year, as the saying goes, it is better to find you early!"

"If you want to say that it hurts people, I'm afraid no one can compare to Master Bao!" Ying'er couldn't help interjecting, causing Xue Baochai to give her a hard look, but Ying'er just smiled and said to Aunt Xue: "Ma'am, are you right?"

Aunt Xue said: "You are right. It's not that I have to praise Baoyu. I just want to talk about his love. I'm afraid that ten men outside can't compare with him. If you were selected in the small election, I didn't say that, it's just that I lost the election, so I naturally have to consider other things. It's just that Baoyu is good at everything, but I am really worried about one thing."

"What is madam worried about? If you want me to say that there is nothing wrong with the second master Bao, the second master is gentle and smart. In the future, the family business in this mansion will be his, and he is right with the girl. What's more, the second wife is like this." Love the girl very much, if she becomes the girl's mother-in-law, the girl doesn't have to worry about being angry with her in-laws, let alone," Ying'er said here, glanced at Xue Baochai's gold collar around her neck, and said: "This is not a match made in heaven. ?"

Xue Baochai scolded, and poked Ying'er's forehead fiercely with her index finger: "How can a good girl talk about men? I think you, a little girl, are so excited?"

After she finished speaking, she continued: "I think the old lady still has sister Lin in her heart, and they grew up together, childhood sweethearts, why should I make a mess?"

"Although the old lady has decided on Miss Lin, it's just that your aunt doesn't want to. This marriage is still subject to the orders of your parents and the words of the matchmaker. What's more, the empress in the palace also asks you. No matter how unwilling the old lady is to pay back Can you beat the empress in the palace?"

Xue Baochai just lowered her head and said nothing, seeing that Aunt Xue still had the tendency to continue talking, she said: "Mom, you just said that Brother Bao has one thing that you are worried about, what is it?"

When this topic was mentioned, Aunt Xue frowned, and she said: "Baoyu is smart, but she refuses to make progress. Although the old lady loves him, most of her private house will be left to Baoyu in the future. But Baoyu does not get the title of title. If he refuses to study and take the exams, when the old lady goes away in the future, the old man will definitely separate his family. Who knows what the future will be like? My daughter will naturally become Mrs. Gaoming in the future. As long as he has half the self-motivation of the eight-year-old boy who came today, I will agree to your aunt without blinking an eye. ,Unfortunately…"

It's a pity that Xue Baochai and Ying'er naturally know that Baoyu's temperament, if he is willing to make progress, he will have made progress long ago, where he will wait until now. How could you let your daughter suffer like that!

Seeing the atmosphere suddenly calm down, Xue Baochai comforted Aunt Xue with a smile and said: "Mom, it's too early to say anything now. Baoyu has not yet crowned. I don't think the old lady is in a hurry about his marriage. Maybe I have to wait." A few years, he can wait, can I wait? I'm afraid it won't work between me and him. "

Aunt Xue thought for a while when she heard the words, nodded and said: "What you said is also reasonable. You can't delay it. If the old lady can't refuse your mother's words, I'm afraid she will delay Baoyu's marriage. He can wait, you But I can't wait, your aunt wrote a letter a while ago saying that she will come back this autumn, and I will ask her to choose a good husband-in-law for you. Although he may not be as famous as the Duke's family, as long as he treats you well, that's enough. "

"It's too early to say these things. I'm afraid it will be too late to talk about it. Let's go to the old lady first."

After saying this, Ying'er went to the room to fetch things, and a girl came up to serve the mother and daughter. They changed their clothes for going out, and did their makeup before going to the old lady's side.

When the Xue family's mother and daughter arrived, the old lady's room was already laughing and talking. Aunt Xue knew that the person coming must have made the old lady happy after hearing the movement in the room, so she raised her voice and said: "The room is so lively. , the old lady didn't want to call me when she was happy, so that I could be happy too."

Saying that, Aunt Xue supported Xue Baochai's hand and walked into the room. Baoyu and Yingchun sisters stood up. Aunt Xue nodded to them with a smile. Sitting next to the wife was a cute and handsome child who was as cute as a boy who spread money, and Aunt Xue knew that this was the child Yinger called Xiao Wenquxing.

Just seeing the child's location, Aunt Xue was a little surprised. Just now when she heard the movement in the house outside, she knew that the child must be destined for the old lady, and she was very fond of the old lady, but she never thought of it. This child was able to occupy Baoyu's position.

Concealing her psychological surprise, Aunt Xue took Xue Baochai to greet the old lady. Baoyu and Yingchun sisters also came up to salute Aunt Xue. Aunt Xue then smiled and said, "Where is this child? So handsome, like a boy under the seat of the Bodhisattva, old lady, could it be that you went to the Bodhisattva without telling everyone and stole her good fortune boy?"

Hearing this, everyone laughed, and Mother Jia took Aunt Xue's hand and said with a smile: "I really want to steal him, but it's a pity that this is your royal family's thousand-mile horse, even if I want to steal it, I'm afraid you don't want to of!"

Wang Yue, who was sitting next to Jiamu, smiled shyly when she heard Aunt Xue's words, as if she was embarrassed, but she thought in her heart that it was no wonder that Xue's family was so popular in Rongguo Mansion. Aunt Xue's clever mouth must also be part of the reason.

Thinking of Aunt Xue's clever mouth and Wang Xifeng's mouth, Wang Yue couldn't help feeling that it was probably a family inheritance.

It's just that Mrs. Wang doesn't seem to be with her sisters and nieces. In Jiamu's room, Mrs. Wang is really a wooden Bodhisattva as described in the book. She seldom talks, and most of the time she just laughs with everyone.

Thinking of Mrs. Wang's two completely different behaviors in her own yard and Jia Mu's room, Wang Yue thought to herself, maybe Mrs. Wang's temperament was like Aunt Xue and Wang Xifeng in the early years, but she stayed in Rongguo Mansion. After a long time, I can only be a wooden Bodhisattva.