Dai Yuxin says

The next day, the sun was shining, but the temperature was surprisingly low.

Zicuckoo and Snow Goose were wearing thick cotton-padded clothes, with their necks curled up, one sweeping the snow on the road in the courtyard, and the other sweeping the snow at the gate.

Suddenly, Xueyan saw Ah Shan walking staggeringly carrying a basket that was taller than him.

"Ah Shan, what did you pick up so early?" Snow Goose greeted her with a smile.

"There is nothing good, except to send some fresh vegetables and fruits to the girl. I thought it would be cold and the charcoal would be used up a lot, so I picked some." The short Ah Shan carried two big baskets, talking and laughing. Moving slowly on the snow, like a ball rolling on ice, without feeling tired at all.

The snow geese let him into the yard, and when Zijuan saw him, she ran over to help, trying her best to feed her, but didn't lift a basket.Tired, huffing and laughing, he said, "It's really heavy, Ah Shan, how did you pick it?"

Ah Shan shrugged his shoulders and said with a chuckle: "I just picked it up with my shoulders. When I was young, I followed my master to gather herbs and chop firewood on the mountain, so I trained a pair of iron shoulders." He lifted it lightly and held the basket with both hands. go into the house.

Daiyu wanted to leave him after lunch in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, he smiled and said, "Although the craftsmen in Yuyuan work very hard, they have to keep an eye on them all the time so that they feel at ease."

Before leaving, Ah Shan took out a cloth bag from his waist, took out four exquisitely crafted and brightly colored jewel rings, and handed them to Daiyu, "Miss, these four rings have delicate mechanisms inside the jewels. You wear them on your fingers, If you encounter a villain, just hit the villain hard, the gemstone on the ring will crack and emit a colorless and odorless smell, the villain will be confused when he smells it, and within ten hours, he will be at your disposal."

Xueyan blinked her eyes in amazement, stared intently at the ring in Daiyu's hand, and asked, "Ah Shan, why didn't I see where the mechanism is?"

Ah Shan smiled lightly and said, "Can you tell, is it still called a mechanism? Among the gems, ordinary people can't see it." Daiyu carefully put it on her finger, spread her hands, and looked at the four red, green, yellow and white. The gemstone ring, looking left and right, just feels beautiful, but can't see the slightest mechanism.After watching for a while, he saw Xueyan in a daze, and asked, "You like it very much?"

"I like it. My girl has this kind of ring, and I feel a lot more at ease." Xue Yan blurted out without hiding her love in her heart.

Ah Shan smiled and said: "I also prepared a few for Zijuan and snow geese." He took out a small cloth bag from the armband, took out four gilt rings and distributed them to Zijuan and snow geese, and said with a smile: " There are organs in the flowers of this ring, and the effect is the same as that of the girl's ring, but the girl's effect is stronger. The medicine contained in it is difficult to refine, and my master spent half his life working hard to refine the semi-magnetic bottle."

Zijuan Xueyan took it, put it on her hand, and said seriously: "Understood, we will never use it except to protect the girl."

Daiyu stared at it for a while, then asked Ah Shan suspiciously: "The villain will lose his mind after smelling the smell, and he will listen to our orders. If we smell it ourselves, who will we listen to?"

Ah Shan grinned and said: "Ah Shan didn't explain it clearly. Of course the girl and Zijuan Xueyan are fine, because this ring is worn on your hands, and the medicine in the institution absorbed your smell and synthesized a special psychedelic drug. .The bad guys will listen to whoever they bump into the ring on.”

Jia Lian went back to the house full of worries, and when Sister Feng, who was getting dressed to go out, saw her, she was puzzled.Asked: "Who made our second master unhappy?" Jia Lian sat down, frowned, waved his hands as if lost, and signaled the servants to go out.Staring blankly at Sister Feng, he asked, "Who do you think is the smartest and richest man in this mansion?"

Wang Xifeng smiled sweetly and said, "Do you still need to ask?" She stretched out two fingers, shook them slightly, and teased, "Of course it's the newly married second grandmother in that room." They can only play tricks and calculate people, but they don’t count.”

"Who else is there besides Baochai? Don't be fooled." After putting on her clothes, Sister Feng was in a hurry to go out, and said impatiently, "What's the matter with you today? Why did you come back and say this?"

Jia Lian dragged Sister Feng to sit down, and said: "I heard vaguely that my sister-in-law Li Wan bought a house near the college, about six or seven rooms. All of them were rented out to students who came to Beijing for scientific examinations from other places, and her sister-in-law lived there every month. Collect the rent for her." Sister Feng opened her eyes wide and remained silent. After listening carefully, she smiled and said, "I thought it was such a big deal? Buying a few small houses for rent and making a small profit, what's the point?"

Jia Lian also smiled with a tense face, nodded and said: "What you said is also reasonable. No matter how much my father spends money, he has only one son like me. I own all the property and fields under his name. Three thousand nails, how can you be so poor? Worrying!" After speaking, he got up and walked out.

At first she didn't take Jia Lian's words to heart, but Sister Feng, who was in a hurry to go out, sat down.

She thought of the saying "When the moon is full, it will lose, and when the water is full, it will overflow. Ascending a height will lead to a heavy fall, extreme joy will cause sorrow, and the tree will fall and the monkeys will scatter." There are many farms, houses, and acres of land near the ancestral tombs for sacrifices, and the supply fees are all from here; the family school is also set up here.... If you are guilty, your own things can enter the government, and this sacrificial industry does not even enter the government. Yes. Even if they fall down, their descendants go home to study and work in agriculture, there is also a setback, and the sacrifices can continue forever. If you think that the glory and splendor will never end, and you don’t think about the future, you will end up with a very bad policy.”

Wang Xifeng thought that Keqing finally said that there was a very happy event in the mansion, and it didn't take long, and the imperial concubine returned to the mansion to visit her relatives.Is this really what Keqing said: "The fire cooks oil, and the flowers bloom brocade?"

Sister Feng broke out in a cold sweat.Secretly said: This is really not as good as man's calculation. Now that he has lost power, his words don't have much weight.Now if you mention Keqing's entrustment to the old lady, let alone Baochai, the wife of Rongguo Mansion, would hate herself to death, even her father-in-law Jia She would scold her.

The old lady is a person who is used to enjoying happiness, and she has been aloof all these years.He and his wife have deliberately concealed many things from her, and she is not very clear about many things in the house. Now that Ke Qing said what she said in her dream when she died, the consequences can be imagined.

Come on, come on, come on, I am just a granddaughter-in-law of the Jia family, if Daxia is going to fall, how can I support it alone with my weak shoulders?The elder sister-in-law Li Wan's family is poor. After all, she is from a scholarly family, so she thinks a lot and sees far.She is like this, and she can't be too naive, not for herself, but for her daughter Qiao'er, she has to leave a way out.

Ping'er came in quietly, and saw Sister Feng's sad face, tears in her eyes, standing silently at the door, at a loss for advance or retreat.

"Look at you like a little ghost, why don't you come in?" Seeing Ping'er standing in the doorway in a daze, Sister Feng scolded her with some distress.

Ping'er thought that Sister Feng had been usurped by Mrs. Wang, Baochai, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, so she was upset, and secretly sad at home.

He hurried two steps to Sister Feng's side, and persuaded in a low voice: "It doesn't matter what you do, take good care of yourself while you are free, and give Qiaoer another younger brother. How many people have you offended in these years of busy work, except Luo feels uncomfortable, what happened to grandma? My family paid a lot of money."

Sister Feng stood up, rubbed her face, and said lightly: "In this mansion, Qiao'er is my own child and is closest to me. Besides, you are the only one who kisses me. You know, this Home, I don’t want to care about it for a long time. Now it’s just what I want. I think of Keqing, the daughter-in-law of Rong’s daughter-in-law in Dongfu.

Having said that, Sister Feng looked at Ping'er warily and asked, "What did you hear?"

Ping'er laughed and said, "Grandma is really a roundworm in my stomach, I can't hide anything."

She approached Sister Feng, and softly replied: "Just now, I went to my wife's room to look for colorful clouds to draw patterns, and I heard from her that the little princess of Prince Dingguo's mansion sent someone to send a post, and asked the girls in the mansion to go watch together on the Lantern Festival. Light. This is not a bad thing, and it is worth keeping it a secret. When I came back, I happened to meet Xue Baochai. I deliberately mentioned the Lantern Festival riddle. I can see through it, most of the people in this mansion are icing on the cake, and there are not many people who give charcoal in a timely manner."

Sister Feng smiled and nodded at Ping'er, and said, "You, you still want to send charcoal in a timely manner. If no one hits people, it's Amitabha. They are afraid that the people in the palace will like Sister Lin, so they are always on guard. This time watching the lantern, I definitely don't want to let Sister Lin Go. Actually, they were all wrong."

Ping'er replied, "Madam and Xue Baochai have always hated Miss Lin. They are afraid that Miss Lin will marry well. This is understandable. It's just that the old lady is a bit confusing. If she thinks that Miss Lin is weak and afraid that she is not good at giving birth, With no money or power, she will not be able to help Baoyu at that time. It is understandable to abandon Miss Lin and marry Xue Baochai. However, Miss Lin is the niece and daughter of the Jia family. If she marries well, the Jia family will have more good relatives ?"

Sister Feng looked at Ping'er and smiled, and after a while she said leisurely: "With Sister Lin's talent, appearance and background, it is not difficult to marry a good family. At the beginning, who didn't say that she and Baoyu were a natural pair? Baoyu He liked her so much again, and finally married Baochai, you understand the truth.

Now, there is a concubine in the mansion, and soon there will be a princess-to-be, who needs to spend a lot of dowry to marry.If it is said that sister Lin is helping her husband's family, many people in the mansion understand that they treat her like this because they are worried that she will get better in the future, and it is impossible to guarantee that they will not bear grudges against Jia's mansion.

The second sister Yingchun is worth 5000 taels of silver, no matter what, sister Lin deserves this price. " Sister Feng stretched out ten fingers, sneered and said: "What they think in their hearts is just fantasy.I often think that since sister Lin has peerless talent and rare beauty, she shouldn't fall into the quagmire.So, all these years, I have been kind to her, not all to cater to the old lady. "

"Grandma is so right, I can't refute it. But I've also heard the words of a confidante. Miss Lin lost her parents since she was a child, and her life is already very hard. To be shared with such a relative makes the hardship even worse." Ping As he spoke, his eye circles were a little red.

Sister Feng looked at Ping'er and sighed: "Stop talking about this, it will make you feel uncomfortable. From now on, we will try our best to treat Sister Lin better, help if we can, and if we can't, just ask for peace of mind. We have to give ourselves Leave a way out, and you can't just look at the present and ignore the future in everything. The cunning rabbit and the three caves, don't wait until then, we are not even as good as rabbits."