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There was no other way, so Baochai had to go to the storeroom to look for something to pawn. After searching, she couldn't find anything of value.

She was so anxious that she remembered that in the past, when someone said that Wang Xifeng had no other choice, she went to Yuanyang to steal a box from the old lady and pawn it.

So Baochai quietly sent an inconspicuous little girl from Yihongyuan to visit Yuanyang to discuss the old lady's birthday.

Yuanyang has been with Jia's mother for more than ten years, and she is a very smart girl. She knows that Baochai is trying to plot against the old lady.

She vaguely heard that there were no valuables in the warehouse of Jia's house, and she thought to herself: If the old lady's things were taken away by her, she would take care of herself when something happened.

As the grand daughter-in-law of the Jia family, she was reluctant to use the private money in her own hands, and she couldn't afford to take risks for her as a girl.

After thinking about it, I gave Sister Feng a look, and said to Mother Jia with a smile on my face: "Second Grandma Bao wants me to go over to discuss your birthday. , the three cobblers are worse than Zhuge Liang."

After Yuanyang said this, Wang Xifeng had to go if she didn't want to. The two came to Yihong Courtyard together, and saw Baochai sitting there blankly. Say hello.Yuanyang felt that the atmosphere was not good, so she squinted at Wang Xifeng beside her.

Wang Xifeng was looking at the mandarin duck with her lips pursed, and the two looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

Yuanyang stepped forward and bowed to salute, smilingly waiting for Baochai to speak.

When Baochai saw Wang Xifeng beside Yuanyang, she was taken aback for a moment, staring at the two of them in a daze, as if she didn't realize it for a while, she just stared at Wang Xifeng in a daze and didn't speak.

"What's the matter? Why are you so listless? Did brother Bao upset my sister again?" Wang Xifeng joked with a smile.

Then Baochai smiled and said, "When your words come into your mouth, they change their taste. I am worried about the old lady's birthday. Sister Feng knows the situation in the mansion. The old lady's birthday banquet is basically fine, but Some things are pre-booked, and the settlement will be made after the old lady's birthday. Sister Feng knows the situation in the house." At this point, she emphasized again, paused on purpose, looked at Yuanyang and smiled.

In fact, in Jia Mu's room, Wang Xifeng understood Baochai's thoughts after hearing what Yuanyang said.

At this moment, he secretly smiled and said: My dear, do you also know the difficulty of managing this family?The things in the old lady's house belong to me, Wang Xifeng, how can I let you figure it out?

Thinking in my heart, I looked at Baochai with a smile on my face, meaning to see how you open your mouth.

Yuanyang's heart is no less than that of Wang Xifeng, she also smiled gently, watching Baochai silently.

Baochai said with embarrassment: "I'm really devastated. Sister Feng, how did you manage to get around? Please teach me, my sister saluted you." As he said that, he really wanted to bow his knees and salute.

Xifeng grabbed Baochai with a smile and said, "They are all sisters from my own family. How can you be so polite? You don't know how many famines you and my second brother have fought with me because I take care of this family! It's only a few days At that time, my dowry was almost finished. I often thought that my private house was filled in, and when Qiaoer grew up, I would have nothing to give her." Speaking of this, Wang Xifeng's eyes were full of seriousness. Hong was so sad that he couldn't continue.

For a moment, the room seemed very depressed.

Baochai broke the silence, smiled at the mandarin ducks, and said, "Nowadays, it is difficult to turn around the house for a while, and when the land rent comes up after autumn, there will be money."

Wang Xifeng laughed secretly, and said inwardly: Pull your mother's head off!You can bluff others, but you can also bluff in front of me.The land rent in the mansion is only a few dollars, which is not a drop in the bucket, not even enough to fill the gaps between teeth.Don't you like butlers?This time I will let you bleed, so as to save Yuanyang from the siege, and show that I am loyal enough.

Looking at Baochai, he said with a smile: "Sister Bao is right, I have an idea, and it's actually the method I used to use."

Yuanyang turned pale when she heard this, looked at her nervously, and secretly groaned.

Baochai thought that she wanted Yuanyang to help steal Jiamu's property as a pawn, but she never expected that Wang Xifeng would be so good.He hurriedly smiled and said, "Good sister, tell me quickly."

Wang Xifeng deliberately paused, and said with a smile: "Sister Bao has not been out of the cabinet for a long time, and the dowry is so generous, it will be the same as taking it back when there is silver in the mansion after Qiuhou."

When Baochai heard this, she was angry and annoyed. With an unnatural dry smile on her face, she said, "To tell you the truth, my dowry has been paid for a lot these days. It's just that I don't want to be like this all the time. It's a matter, what do I have that won't be of much use. Sister Yuanyang, what do you think?"

Yuanyang was asked by her name and name, so she couldn't pretend to be deaf and dumb, so she had to reluctantly respond: "Well, well, I'm just a girl. I only serve the old lady. I really don't know anything else."

Baochai sees that Yuanyang is trying to prevaricate, and Wang Xifeng behaves like this again, knowing that in front of her, she can't ask Yuanyang to pawn the old lady's own pawn today.

Just perfunctorily rambling a few words about Jia Mu's birthday banquet, Wang Xifeng also said a few words in a hypocritical social manner, Yuanyang listened silently and smiled.

The three talked insincerely for a while, when someone came from Jiamu's room and said that the old lady had something to do with Yuanyang, Wang Xifeng hurried out with Yuanyang under an excuse.

On the way, seeing no one around, Yuanyang let out a long breath, wiped off his sweat, and said with a smile, "It's really hot."

"Calm mind is naturally cool, it means that your mind is not calm." Xifeng looked at Yuanyang and said with a smile.

Yuanyang glanced at Xifeng, and said angrily, "Hmph, thanks to your conscience, you're still making sarcastic remarks!"

"Yo! There are dead ghosts in every temple! Look, I wasn't righteous enough just now?" Wang Xifeng raised her eyebrows, and Danfeng stared at the mandarin duck with a smile and asked with round eyes.

After sending Wang Xifeng and Yuanyang away, Baochai's smiling face immediately sank, and the cloud was overcast. When he entered the inner room, Xiren came over with a tea bowl, accompanied the smiling face, and said, "Grandma, have a sip of tea to moisten your throat."

Baochai's almond-shaped eyes widened, as if about to breathe fire.She grabbed the tea bowl and fell to the ground with a "bang", and sat on the edge of the bed without a sound, panting heavily.

Xiren wanted to pat the horse, but he slapped it on the horse's hoof. With tears in his eyes, he squatted down and silently picked up the pieces of the tea bowl.

Tears blurred her eyes, and the fragments of the teacup cut her hand, and blood flowed out, but she felt nothing.

"What's the matter?" Baoyu came back from the study and saw Xiren's appearance when he entered the door. He asked distressedly, squatted down, grabbed her bleeding hand, and called out loudly: "Musk Moon, Qiuwen, quickly stop the bleeding." When the medicine came, the attacker broke his hand."

Musk Moon and Qiu Wen took the hemostatic medicine box, cloth and scissors came over to help Xiren apply the medicine and bandage.

Baoyu stared at Xiren's hand, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong? How could it be so?"

"It's nothing, I accidentally pricked my hand." Xiren said aggrievedly, looking at Baochai who was sitting there.

Baoyu turned to look at the gloomy and silent Baochai, and said with a sneer, "What a dignified and generous virtuous man, that's how he treats others."

When Baochai heard this, her heart went straight to the top of her head. She couldn't bear it anymore, sneered, and walked out of the room indifferently, Ying'er followed closely behind her.

Baochai was walking aimlessly, then suddenly raised her head, and saw that she had unknowingly walked near the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

She has not walked this road for many days.

She stood down and looked at the roof of the Xiaoxiang Pavilion not far away, thinking that her bad luck had begun since she married into Jia's mansion.

First, the elder brother's old case was retried. If he hadn't taken the risk of selling off the family heirloom of the Jia family, the natal family would have almost gone bankrupt.In this way, my elder brother narrowly escaped death and was forced to leave his hometown, hide his name, and dare not return home.

Thinking of being ravaged by those two old perverts in every possible way, thinking about it now, I still get goose bumps all over my body.

Today, the Jia Mansion is declining day by day, and the days are getting worse day by day.

The day after tomorrow, as soon as Jiamu's birthday passes, she will face many debt collectors.

It is estimated that this amount of silver will cost about a thousand taels. Where will it come from?Think about it, if this was in the past, what would this little money be worth?But now, it's a sad person!

Wang Xifeng said it lightly, and made a cushion from her dowry first.

It's easier said than done!

In order to preserve the Xue family's bloodline, I don't know how much money was wronged, and my dowry is almost exhausted.

After my elder brother was released from prison, in order to enable his elder brother to develop his career well in other places, the Xue family basically sold all the things that could be sold for money, and exchanged them for bank notes for his elder brother to take away.

As the saying goes: A penny can stump a hero.

Jia's huge expenditure is a bottomless loophole that can't be filled. It's really hard to ruin the resourceful peony king Xue Baochai.

Looking at the exquisite Xiaoxiang Pavilion, she thought of the beautiful Lin Daiyu. Baochai's heart was biting like thousands of ants, and she felt her heart was bleeding.

Lin Daiyu is just a helpless orphan girl. She thinks that she is not worse than her in all aspects, but also much better than her. Why is her luck so good, but her own luck is so bad?She was not convinced, let alone reconciled.

She clenched her fists tightly, looked at the vast sky, and shouted in her heart: God!Why?Why?Why am I so much less lucky than Lin Daiyu?God!tell me!tell me!

There were long white clouds in the sky, the sun got into the clouds, and the sky seemed to darken.

Baochai's big tears rolled down her cheeks, she felt that God didn't like her either, and didn't want to look at her, as if she had abandoned her.

Pain is pain, what should be done must be done.

The old lady's birthday is only allowed to be done well, and not to be erroneous. This is an iron requirement.

If the old lady's birthday was not held to a high level, the relatives and friends of the Jia family, including the servants, would be the first culprit to blame, Xue Baochai, the housekeeper of the host Jia's house.

Now, Baochai is like sitting on the crater of a volcano being scorched by flames, and she can't get off even if she wants to.

Money is a hard commodity, and Jia's family can't get it out of the public funds. Baochai is shy on the one hand, and on the other hand, even if she has it, she doesn't want to take it out, so she had to go to her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang, for advice.

Walking into Rongxi Hall, Baochai saw Mrs. Wang sitting there silently with her head bowed.

If it weren't for the prayer beads turning in her hand, she would really look like a dead person.

Baochai felt sad for a while, feeling that Yuanchun's death had hit her too hard.

I really can't bear to add to her troubles, but I have to ask her to find a solution for the money matter, otherwise, once the old lady's birthday is over, and the creditors come to her door, I really can't deal with it.

"Chai'er is here?" Although she lowered her head and her eyes were on the ground, her ears were very sensitive.Baochai didn't ask the little girl to inform her, and her steps were very light, she actually felt that she was coming.

"Yes, ma'am." Baochai agreed, walked quickly to her side, and sat down beside her.

Mrs. Wang raised her slightly swollen eyes, looked at Baochai and asked, "It's the old lady's birthday, so you don't have enough money?"

"Well, there is no money in the public account, and the daughter-in-law doesn't know what to do?" Baochai said timidly and uneasy.

"Take this, at least 3000 taels of silver can be mortgaged." Mrs. Wang took out a land deed from her armband, handed it to Baochai, and said weakly: "The land is the foundation of running a family. A lot has been vacated, and I am hiding it for you, hoping that you can keep something for Baoyu. However, this piece of land must be redeemed as soon as possible.”

Why is Mrs. Wang so considerate of Baochai?

The reason is that Mrs. Wang thinks that Xue Pan is dead, and only her sister, Aunt Xue, is left in the Xue family.

With the money in Baochai's hands, she has nowhere to put it, except for her precious jade.

Therefore, Mrs. Wang is very relieved of Xue Baochai.

When Baochai took over the land deed, she didn't feel at ease. She knew it was just drinking poison to quench her thirst.

Mrs. Wang looked at her sad face, and whispered like a whisper: "Now the richest person is Miss Lin, how can I get her to come up with money?"

Baochai smiled wryly, and said sourly: "Sister Lin is now the future auxiliary princess. Now she has leapt into the dragon's gate, her net worth has doubled, her eyes have grown to the top of her head, how can she look down on us?"

"It's up to God to make things happen, and it's up to people to plan things out. If you can catch her and grab her sore spots, I'm not afraid that she won't give her money." Mrs. Wang said sinisterly.Contrary to the look of being about to die just now, his eyes were shining brightly, shooting out a sinister light.

Even Baochai who was sitting beside her couldn't help but feel cold and shivering when she saw it.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law put their heads together and muttered for a long time.

Baochai showed her usual gentle and generous smile, and said: "What the wife said is that our family raised her in the palm of our hand, and now she ignores us. If she is ruthless first, we can't blame us." It's meaningless. Besides, we don't really want to ruin her, we just want to hold onto one of her scandals and make her treat us better in the future."

Coming out of Rongxi Hall, Baochai didn't go back to Yihong Courtyard, but went straight to Lixiang Courtyard.Baochai whispered Mrs. Wang's idea to her mother, Aunt Xue. After hearing this, Aunt Xue blinked her eyes and remained silent for a while, feeling both fear and admiration for this sister in her heart.

She never thought that her bodhisattva-like and benevolent elder sister would have such a vicious heart, she could even come up with such a vicious idea, and use it on her husband's niece and niece.

She felt shuddering, and said to Baochai with a trembling voice: "Chai'er, I think it's best that you don't do it yourself. If something goes wrong, then Lin girl is the future assistant princess, so it's no fun."

Although Baochai got her wish and became Bao's second grandmother, she regretted it long ago.

If she had known what the Jia family was like now, she would never have married Jia Baoyu.Now I really want to cry but have no tears, and my intestines are green with regret.

Thinking of Daiyu, she became angry, and she was so jealous that she lost her mind. She wished she could tear Daiyu to pieces, but even that couldn't calm the flames in her heart.

Ginger is still old and hot. She thinks that her aunt and mother-in-law, Mrs. Wang, has a very good idea, and it makes sense to think about what her mother said.

When Baochai returned to Yihong Courtyard, he immediately wrote a hot letter and sent it to Shi Xiangyun, and brought her to Jia's mansion in advance to celebrate the old lady's birthday.

The day before Jia's mother's birthday, Daiyu brought Zijuan Xueyan Xiugu to Jia's mansion by car. This time, the gatekeeper of Jia's mansion opened the gate of Rongguo Mansion to welcome Daiyu without saying a word.

When Mother Jia heard that Daiyu had come a day earlier, she felt very honored. She smiled and said to the people in the room, "Look, it's better to be my Yu'er. She's here today."

Sister Feng also jokingly said: "Of course, I don't want to see which one the old lady loves the most?"

"It's hard to talk to you, a monkey. Could it be that you still want to be jealous of your sister?" Jiamu smiled happily, her eyes fixed on the door, ready to get up at any time to meet Daiyu.

"Miss Lin is here! Miss Lin is here!" A series of greetings came from outside.

"Giggle..." Wang Xifeng smiled like a hen laying eggs, and hurried to support Jiamu. As soon as she walked to the door, she saw Daiyu, who was as delicate as a rose, walking over with light steps. .

"My darling, I'm looking forward to you!" Jia Mu shook off Wang Xifeng, opened her arms, and greeted Daiyu with a trembling smile.

If this kind of passionate scene is seen by someone who doesn't know the inside story, it is guaranteed that they will be moved to tears.

However, Daiyu is the survivor of the catastrophe. She saw it with her own eyes, heard it with her own ears, and experienced it with her own eyes, but it is inevitable that she will not be infected by this fiery enthusiasm.

Daiyu was stunned for a moment, then ran forward with open arms, bowed her knees to Mother Jia and said, "I wish grandma a long life and good health!"

Mother Jia hugged Daiyu in her arms and said with a smile on her face, "Yu'er is my panacea. As long as my Yu'er is by my side, I will feel refreshed."

Everyone complimented Daiyu, chatted and laughed, and walked into the room lively.

Mother Jia held Daiyu's little hand all the time, and she couldn't bear to take her eyes off Daiyu for a moment.She pulled Daiyu to her side, hugged Daiyu tightly, her old face smiled like a cosmos.

Daiyu couldn't breathe under her embrace, she struggled to free herself, and said with a smile: "Grandmother, you are almost making me breathless."

Jia Mu's eyes narrowed into a smile, she let go of her arms a little, and said with a smile, "When I see my Yu'er, I feel endless energy."

Wang Xifeng didn't lose the opportunity, and tried her best to adjust the lively atmosphere.

In an instant, Jia's mansion returned to the happiness of its heyday.

Zijuan presented a vermilion brocade box, Daiyu took it and handed it to Jiamu, and said with a faint smile, "This is Daiyu's tribute to grandma, please accept it."

Mother Jia took it, opened the lid of the box, and the room was full of fragrance.

The crowd couldn't help but gathered around one after another, stretched out their heads to look at the box, and saw two unknown flowers on the velvet inside the box.

The flower stems are as thin as hair, and the flowers are snow-white, surrounded by a faint halo, exuding a refreshing fragrance.

Everyone asked puzzledly: "This fragrance is really good! This is the first time in this life that I smell such a pleasant flower fragrance. What kind of flower is this?"

Daiyu was calm and breezy, she seemed to be very casual, and said with a smile: "This is the epiphyllum, I heard that it blooms once in 3000. I happened to get a few of them, and I heard that this flower tastes light and refreshing, and it is very good for the elderly. I I gave two to the emperor, and the remaining two are used to honor my grandmother."

When Daiyu said this, the people in the room opened their eyes wide in shock, and their mouths couldn't close together. They looked around the vermilion brocade box and sniffed the fragrance of flowers vigorously.

It is said that this Euphyllum vulgaris is the best flower in the fairy world. It is revered as a Buddhist flower because its flower is "green and white without vulgarity". Once it blooms in 3000 years, the viewer will be blessed. If he can eat this kind of flower, how many lifetimes will that blessing be cultivated? Come on!

Mother Jia held the epiphyllum, with tears in her old eyes and a smile all over her face, she said excitedly: "My Yu'er is blessed, and my Yu'er is really filial. This flower is so precious, how can I be willing to eat it?"

Daiyu rolled her eyes and said with a smile on her pretty face, "Old lady, don't be reluctant to eat this food. You should eat it while it is fresh. If you leave it for a long time, the flower will wither, and eating it will have no effect."

Mother Jia handed the flowers to Yuanyang solemnly and said, "I never thought that I would not only see such a precious thing, but also eat it. I have never done anything in vain in my life. You put the flowers away carefully, and let them go tomorrow." Friends and relatives, take a look, seeing this flower is also a matter of fate."

Daiyu laughed inwardly when she heard this, she understood that this was Mother Jia wanting to show off at tomorrow's birthday banquet.

This kind of flower has the effect of clearing away heat, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. The white and tender petals can be preserved with sugar, salted, scalded with water, or freshly fried in a pan, or made into dessert or stewed soup, which is both pleasing to the eye and fragrant. Fragrant.So Ashan cultivated a lot of epiphyllum in Yuyuan and left it for Daiyu to eat.

This kind of flower is very common in Yuyuan.

Daiyu asked Xiugu to come to Jia's mansion to prepare gifts for her birthday, but Xiugu was thinking a little bit.

She considered that this kind of flower is known as a Buddhist flower. According to folk rumors, it blooms once in 3000 years, and rare things are the most expensive. It is best to choose Euphyllum cereus as a birthday gift.

This flower can not only represent the younger generation's good wishes to the elders, but also prevent Jia's family from exchanging it for silver. It is beautiful but not practical.

Just as everyone was admiring and admiring, Xiangyun hurriedly followed Baochai, and she went straight to Jiamu when she entered the door, saluted Jiamu with a smile, and asked, "Old ancestor, what is the smoke in your house?" Fragrant? It smells so good?"

Jia Mu happily pointed her finger at her and said with a smile: "The little nose is really useful, Yuanyang, show her if you know this flower?"

Yuanyang opened the vermilion brocade box in his hand and brought it to Xiangyun. Xiangyun stared straight at the flower, took a few mouthfuls of its fragrance, and said hesitantly, "I've never seen this flower before."

Baochai also stretched out her head to look carefully, and thoughtfully said: "This flower is big and white, fragrant, and its smell is like the smell that can be smelled in Buddhist temples. Could it be..."