every spring [comprehensive]

Xue Pan's affairs with Yinxiang also became more and more stable. Baochai saw that he still had time to drink and watch theaters with his friends every day, so she thought of handing over several properties in the capital to him.So Baochai asked Xue Pan to talk about it very solemnly.

After Xue Pan heard this, he shook his head and said, "Sister, it's not that you don't know my strengths. I'm really not good at this business. As soon as I hear the shopkeepers report the accounts to you, I'll take care of you." One head and two big ones, why don’t you just take care of them? I don’t think you spent much time in a day, and it’s pretty easy to take care of them!”

Xue Baochai said disapprovingly: "You are grown up now, and you need to learn to manage the family business by yourself. I am fine today, but if I am not here someday, you will only spend money and not make money. , do you want your mother to drink northwest wind with you?"

What Xue Baochai said was that she might leave this place after all the dust settled, but Xue Pan mistakenly thought that she said that she would marry someone later when she was no longer here. Is the same not good? I will definitely not let you marry far away, it is best to live on the same street, so that it will be convenient for me to see you if I have anything to do."

In short, this time, Baochai made up his mind that no matter how messed up he is, he must let him take care of things: "Brother, you have to try to do it, even if these few shops are in your hands, it won't be long after a few days." I'll admit it even if it's yellow, everything should have a beginning."

So Baochai called the stewards of these industries in the capital, and asked them to find Xue Pan if they had anything to do in the future, and they didn't have to report to her again.There is only one thing, she specifically reminded her, there is a coffin in the coffin shop that is made of a special material, it was prepared for a very noble person at that time when father Xue was alive.

Now that the times have changed, that person is no longer needed, so she told Xue Pan that this item is not suitable for putting out, and no matter how much money others offer, they cannot sell it, unless the person is a prince or above and has the courage to buy it. Just take the money.

Xue Pan was always convinced by Baochai's words, so he readily agreed.

Xue Baochai thought in his heart that if the capital cannot be used to expand production, the money in his hand will become a stagnant pool, but the snobbery in the capital is complicated and it is not suitable for expansion, so he can only find a way elsewhere.There are chambers of commerce in every major city across the country, which are institutions where foreign merchants unite to suppress local monopoly, so the country's commerce is still relatively developed.

Jiangnan is a good place, but how to invest has to be investigated in person.Xue Baochai knew that if she said that, Mrs. Xue would definitely not let her go, she would definitely say that it was enough to have enough money, why let her go out as a girl to show her face.Maybe she feels unfamiliar with the place and is afraid of danger, so Baochai is thinking about finding a suitable time to tell her about it.

Just at this time, Lin Ruhai was dying of illness, so she sent someone to pick up Lin Daiyu back to see her for the last time. Jia's mansion got the news, and the old lady sent Jia Lian to escort Lin Daiyu back, and asked him to take Daiyu back to her after Mr. Lin passed away. Bring them back, something happened suddenly, let them pack up and leave tomorrow.

After Xue Baochai got the news, she went to the mansion to see Daiyu.After hearing the blow, Mrs. Jia was not feeling well, so Baochai didn't bother her.Instead, she went directly to Daiyu's room, and saw that her room was in a mess, and the maids were frantically packing up, without even a place to stay.

Lin Daiyu was standing aside crying, her eyes were already red and swollen like peaches, Baochai took out a handkerchief and wiped her tears and said, "Don't cry, worry can hurt you."

When Lin Daiyu saw it was her, she cried even more fiercely: "Sister Bao, I'm leaving tomorrow. I don't know if we can meet again. I have to go back as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid I won't see my father for the last time."

Baochai said: "You'd better stop thinking about it. Since we are leaving tomorrow, we will arrive in a few days. When Uncle Lin sees you and feels happy, maybe he will be fine."

Lin Daiyu usually has the most preoccupied things, but after all, she lives here as a guest, she is cautious, and she can't talk about her thoughts with others. Seeing Baochai's soft words to comfort her, she couldn't help saying: "It's all my fault for being unfilial. I found a good place for myself. , but left my father alone in Yangzhou, I knew he was not in good health, and I didn't do my filial piety in front of him, it's just too damned."

Xue Baochai said: "At the beginning when Uncle Lin sent you to Beijing, he urged you to come. Even if you disagreed with life and death, you still couldn't persuade him. Uncle Lin also thought that you don't have a mother to take care of you at home, and he is afraid that he can't do it alone. Raise your daughter well, that's why I entrusted it to Jia's grandmother, he is thinking of you wholeheartedly, not to make you feel sorry for yourself at this time, this is what parents love their children, don't let it down!"

Lin Daiyu had no one to comfort her, she just shed tears secretly.Now that Baochai is here, there is someone who can talk, and Baochai's words are reasonable, speaking from Lin's father's point of view, and it hits her heart.Lin Daiyu couldn't help but cry a lot.

Seeing that she couldn't stop crying, Baochai had to let her go.Sure enough, after crying for a while, Daiyu stopped crying when she was tired.

In addition to being worried about Lin Ruhai's condition, Lin Daiyu also felt that if something happened to her father this time, she would become an orphan and a wandering duckweed.Just like going back this time, although Jia Lian was escorting him, men and women are different, and he is the cousin of the uncle's family, so he needs to avoid taboos, and she is also on the road alone.

After a while, Tanchun, Yingchun, and Xichun arrived. Seeing what was happening in Daiyu's room, they dragged them to Tanchun's room.These girls get along day and night on weekdays, and they are like sisters. Now, Daiyu's father is seriously ill, and she has to go back a long way. Sanchun and the others are very worried. Tanchun said: "It's just that I'm not a man. I'll go with Sister Lin too, so you don't have to be lonely and afraid." Her words made Daiyu laugh out loud, "If you were a man, you would be like Brother Lian, can we still be together!" .

Baochai pondered and said: "It's okay to be a woman, I can still go with you."

Lin Daiyu widened her crying and swollen eyes and said: "What, how can you go with me, sister Bao came to coax me again."

Xue Baochai said: "I didn't coax you. Originally, the Xue family's property in the south of the Yangtze River would have some days to go. Now that my brother has an errand, he can't leave Beijing easily. Naturally, I can only go to inspect it. I originally planned to leave soon. , since it's about Sister Lin, there's nothing wrong with me going with you."

Lin Daiyu was pleasantly surprised: "Really?"

Xue Baochai said: "I'll give you a letter after I go back and discuss it with my mother. I'm in such a hurry and I need to take care of it." Tanchun said: "Then what are you waiting for? Sister Bao, go home now and discuss it with your aunt. Discuss, if she doesn't let you go out, Sister Lin will be happy for nothing."

She knew that although Xue Baochai said modestly that Xue Pan could not leave, it is estimated that even if Xue Pan could leave, these things would have to be intervened in order to be done properly.In her heart, she is extremely envious of Baochai. Tanchun is a hero among girls, so naturally she doesn't want to be locked in this deep boudoir every day, so she longs for Baochai's freedom very much, but she is also a concubine. You are born, you have to be cautious in front of your wife every day, how can you make demands willfully.

After Xue Baochai went back, she also spent a lot of time talking about Mrs. Xue's ideological work before she agreed to Baochai and Daiyu Jialian to go to Jiangnan from Yangzhou together.

Mrs. Xue picked several proper servants in the family and asked Xue Baochai to take them with her, and went to Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng's house in person, and asked Jia Lian to let him take care of some Baochai.

It happened that their family was also packing up Jia Lian's things. When Jia Lian heard Mrs. Xue's request, she naturally agreed, and Wang Xifeng also said, "Don't worry, Auntie, Lian'er and I are both treasure girls and our own sisters. He is with you." Don't worry, when Bao girl goes out to do errands, she will let Lian'er follow her, and she will never leave her. If Bao girl loses a hair, see if I don't beat him when I come back!"

Jia Lian also smiled and said, "Yes, I will never let Bao girl lose an extra hair."

Mrs. Xue said: "With your help and Lian'er here, I feel more at ease. Bao girl is stubborn. If she is not allowed to go this time, she will find a chance to go by herself next time. It's better this time." When she opened her mouth, I promised her that these businesses would worry me to death, and I still don’t know what to do when I need to see it in person next year!”

Wang Xifeng said: "What is there to worry about, the eldest aunt of this family, everyone is worried about not having money to spend. This time, Bao girl is going to collect the bills and collect the money herself. Are you afraid that too much money will bite her hand!"

Mrs. Xue sighed: "You don't know, this family business also needs someone to take care of it. There are many things to worry about!" Thank you Yan, I will go to the old lady's room and go home to pack things for your sister."

After Mrs. Xue left, Wang Xifeng and Jia Lian talked about themselves in the room. Wang Xifeng said, "Madam called you here on purpose. What are you talking about?"

Jia Lian smiled and said, "What else can I say? It's just a few words. Tell me to take care of Sister Gu Lin. After I arrive at the Lin Mansion in Yangzhou, I will help Uncle Lin take care of the house..."

Wang Xifeng squinted at him: "That's all, is it over?"

Jia Lian said, "What else can there be!"

Wang Xifeng spat: "Fuck your mother! You're still hiding your big words, and you're still playing charades here. I really don't know!"

Jia Lian quickly said, "Second Mistress, don't lose your temper. Since you know, why ask me?"

Wang Xifeng said: "Uncle Lin's family is also Shilu's family, and he is also a scholarly family, and he is in the fat and vacant post of patrolling salt and censor. The family may have accumulated a lot of money, and there is only one sister like Lin. Girl, if you don't leave the family property to her, you can make it easier for outsiders! She is a girl, and she doesn't care about these money matters, and she doesn't have the skills of Sister Bao. I don't believe you go to help cook this time, " Wang Xifeng indicated the direction of Mrs. Wang and Jia Zheng's house with her eyes, "Is there nothing else I want to tell you over there?"

Jia Lian showed a tacit smile, and said: "After all, it's our second grandma! She can see everything so clearly. My wife did let me collect the Lin family's property, and quietly reported it to her. After returning, no one will Said, including the old lady, only said that Uncle Lin was a clean official, and all the money was spent during the funeral."

Seeing that Wang Xifeng was listening seriously, Jia Lian said after a trick: "Of course, if I do such a big thing for her, we will benefit in the end."

Wang Xifeng poohed, and said with a half smile but not a smile: "I'm short of that little silver flower, I'm really a cruel one, I collect all the money back."

Jia Lian said disapprovingly: "Don't talk too much about this, it depends on how much money Uncle Lin's family has accumulated, maybe it's just in our hands, enough for us to earn what we can't earn for decades. "

Wang Xifeng turned his gaze: "Do you think the Lin family really has that much money?"

Jia Lian said: "Who knows, I have to see it in detail to know."

Early the next morning, Jia Lian rode ahead, while Baochai and Daiyu boarded the carriage and set off, followed by everyone in the carriage.

Daiyu thought she was going on the road alone, and was very sad.Now accompanied by Baochai, the mood is much more relaxed.

The carriage rolled forward, because it was still early, and most of the shops on the street were not open yet, only some vegetable vendors and stall owners with wonton stalls were shouting at the side of the road.

Lin Daiyu grew up in the inner house of Duke Houmen's mansion since she was a child. When had she ever heard of this kind of smoke and fire in the world?There is also a curtain on the side of the carriage. She wanted to open a corner to take a look at it quietly, but she was afraid to open it.

Xue Baochai brought a box of account books from the shop in the south, intending to pass the time while thinking about it on the way. At this time, she put down the book in her hand and said, "If you want to read it, open it and have a look. There's no girl or woman in charge of you. I'm afraid I won't be able to teach you a lesson because of this little thing."

Lin Daiyu said angrily: "You always come to be an adult because I am a year or two older than me. Even if it is a big matter, you shouldn't teach me!"

Lin Daiyu felt that after Baochai set off with her without hesitation this time, the relationship between the two of them has become closer, and it has surpassed the Sanchun and other sisters who ate and played together on weekdays, and she does not need to talk to Baochai. Think more before speaking, and feel more comfortable.Just because people get along with each other for a long time, they gradually understand each other's character, whether it is good or bad, and after a long time, they have a general idea in their hearts.

Lin Daiyu raised a corner of the curtain of the carriage and looked at the street outside. The road paved with bluestone slabs was flat and smooth. There were two or three tables of people sitting in front of the chaotic stall. They were wearing all kinds of clothes. Sackcloth.The big pot in front of the stall was steaming hot.

On both sides of the street not far away, a few hawkers filled baskets with green and juicy melons and vegetables, and were hawking their necks.

There are men and women on the road, and most of the women are dressed as women.Some people walked their own way without turning their eyes, some bargained in front of the vegetable stalls, and some even looked at their team of carriages.

Lin Daiyu seemed fascinated by these ordinary folk scenes, and was reluctant to put down the curtains. As the sun gradually rose, the carriage drove them away from the capital gradually.

It wasn't until Baochai said, "I haven't seen enough yet, my eldest lady, I'm not afraid of the wind. If you look carefully, you will have a headache." Lin Daiyu then put down the curtain.

Let's say that after Jia Lian, Baochai and Daiyu's chariots and horses left.Jia Zheng rarely went to the upper room to eat and talk with Mrs. Wang.

Jia Zheng said: "My niece went home to visit her seriously ill father. Why did Baochai from my aunt's family also go with her?"

When he got up early, he heard from Aunt Zhao that the gate of Lixiangyuan was opened, and several cars and horses went out bustlingly, that's why Jia Zheng asked this question.

Mrs. Wang saw that Jia Zheng came out of Aunt Zhao's room, so she asked her about it. She knew in her heart that it must be the tongue-twisting screwdriver who didn't know what she had said to him, so she thought about it and said, "It's nothing, even if There is no such thing as Lin Yatou going home to visit her father. Bao Yatou should also head south. You also know that their family has a big business, and there are many properties in the south. Those servants lied to them. Besides, Girl Bao has always been friends with Girl Lin, so there are some who can't bear her to go home alone, so Lian'er is with her, and it's much cheaper for them to go together as brothers and sisters."

Jia Zheng couldn't help frowning, and said: "Even if someone needs someone to take care of the property, it's not for her, a girl who hasn't left the cabinet. Why doesn't her brother go? A family like ours is no better than a small family, letting a girl show her face Yes, what kind of system is it?"

Mrs. Wang said: "If his elder brother is up-to-date, he would still work so hard with Baochai, but Pan'er has indeed grown up recently, and he can't leave. Why did the master forget that Pan'er has to go to Baylor's mansion every day to take up a post?" Woolen cloth."

As soon as Jia Zhengjing reminded her, it occurred to her that even Xue Pan, whom he had always looked down upon, was much more promising than Baoyu. The prince's Gao Zhi'er is gone, will there be fewer errands in the future?

Jia Zheng said: "Fortunately, Lian'er is here this time. For a big family like ours, it would be too ridiculous for a girl to go on a long journey by herself."

He thought for a while and then said: "It's okay for Bao girl to be close to Miss Lin. She often comes to the mansion, and she is also close to the three girls. I know a lot about the outside world, so don't treat the girls in our family as close." It’s good to be alive.”

Mrs. Wang felt a little unhappy, but she couldn't contradict him, and said: "If the master is afraid that Bao Yatou will spoil our girl, after she comes back, I will let her come less."

Jia Zheng felt that if such words were spoken between relatives, there would be no need for the two families to get along again. Then he felt that what he said just now was a bit too much, and he might hurt Mrs. Wang's self-esteem, so he said, "That's not what I meant. Of course I know that Bao girl is a good girl, but the girls in our family are flowers raised in the greenhouse. They don't know anything about things outside the house. It would be good if there is a well-informed sister who can give them some knowledge , I want to trouble you to take care of them more."

Madam Wang said, "Naturally."

On the way from the capital to Yangzhou, because she was thinking about Lin Ruhai's illness, she was in a hurry. Xue Baochai didn't plan to go about her own business on the way, but stopped occasionally and sent someone to pass a message to the local shopkeepers and managers. If so, let them come and see each other.

The stewards of the Xue family will have contacts, and those who get the news first will arrange an inn and restaurant for them to stay in the place where Baochai must pass. So he took Jia Lian and Daiyu to accept it happily. Anyway, the wool came from the sheep, and they spent the Xue family's money, so they couldn't put money into it by themselves.

This saved Jia Lian a lot of trouble. He thought that if he went out with Bao girl, he could benefit a lot by taking advantage of her. It also saved him the trouble of making arrangements every time he went. Save a penny.

When he arrived at the Lin Mansion in Yangzhou, it seemed that Lin Ruhai's illness was not so imminent. He was really in a good mood when he saw Daiyu, and his illness even eased.Both Baochai and Jia Lian went to see Uncle Lin separately, and Lin Ruhai told them a few words before letting them out.

Naturally, Baochai and the others would not bother their father-daughter reunion. The Lin family has a simple population, and Lin Ruhai only has two when he is ill. An aunt bought from another place is accompanying him. There are no other serious masters in the family, and there are also many servants in the mansion. After Jia Lian arrived, he got Lin Ruhai's permission, and naturally started to punish the servants in Lin's mansion. The old servants stayed behind, and the remaining ones who were high-spirited and provoked dissatisfaction Although, those who want to climb high branches, naturally they should be dismissed.

After Xue Baochai started to take charge of the Xue family's business, he didn't let the managers work in one place for a lifetime. Instead, there were many transfers between each other, or a term of two or three or four years. In this way, the same store, the profits created Different, the level of the person in charge can be distinguished.

This time, she also brought two experienced old stewards along the way, to see with her what suitable shops can be opened in Yangzhou City, as long as the project is selected.With these experienced stewards, Xue Baochai only needs to use his words.

Jia Lian saw a lot of Baochai's skills along the way, and couldn't help admiring her from the bottom of his heart, saying: "Everyone says that our Second Mistress Lian is considered to be a good one, and there is no single man in a hundred li who is so capable. I have long felt ashamed of myself in front of your Sister Feng, and now I have Sister Bao as a comparison, and only then did I realize what it means to say that the waves behind the Yangtze River push forward the waves ahead."

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "Second brother Lian, I can't stand your compliments, especially when you compare my sister Feng to me. If you have any use for me, just tell me."

Jia Lian smiled and said, "I'll just say you're a transparent girl. Before I even start, you know that I have something to ask you."