every spring [comprehensive]

Baochai helped her up and said: "Since I promised, I will never forget it. No matter where I live, I will ask you to come, so you can relax. Every day is the same as before. It should be said Just laugh when you have to, and don’t feel burdened. Even if I can’t make decisions about other important matters in your Jia’s mansion, it’s more than enough to help you escape the clutches of a big master.”

Letting Jade send away the mandarin ducks, Baochai thought in his heart, Jia She's house is getting more and more outrageous, even the old mother's maid covets her, and if she can't be forced, she is still waiting for an opportunity to retaliate in the future, and they acted so recklessly inside , not to mention being outside, maybe how many immoral things have been done to anger and resentment, it can be foreseen that the disaster of ransacking the family and exterminating the family is getting closer and closer.

It was the day when Mrs. Wang entered the palace every month. After she got up early and dressed up, she sent someone to find Baochai. Unfortunately, the maid replied: "Her maid said that I was late, and Miss Bao was not at home. She said it was early in the morning. Go to Prince Yi's mansion!"

Mrs. Wang was a little annoyed: "It's such an unfortunate coincidence that it happened to be today, but you can hear clearly, who answered you?" The maid said: "Listen clearly, what Sister Fei Cui said, the rest of them are talking to Bao The girl went out together, leaving only Jade to look after the house!"

Mrs. Wang thought that she was going to take Baochai to the palace to meet the empress today, and she sent someone to tell her this morning just because she was afraid that Mrs. Xue or Baochai would have any guesses in her mind. Prince's Mansion.

If she had gone elsewhere, Mrs. Wang would naturally send someone to look for her right away, and it would not affect her entry into the palace. Prince Fujin, on the contrary, the loss outweighed the gains, so Mrs. Wang could only enter the palace by herself, and the matter of letting Baochai go to see the empress can only be discussed next time.

After Xue Baochai came out of Prince Yi's mansion this time, she didn't go back directly, but went to a shop on Gulou Street. Because she just got a reward, she encountered robbers on the road from Ping'an Street to the capital during the purchase of the shop!

As soon as Xue Baochai arrived, the person in charge couldn't come to greet him in person, so he asked the eldest lady to sit upstairs with dripping cold sweat.Xue Baochai said: "Why go upstairs? Your shop is not open anyway! Put a piece of paper outside, saying that it is temporarily closed, and idlers are not allowed to enter."

The shopkeeper should ask Xiaoer to do it right away, explaining: "The downstairs is not as clean and quiet as the upstairs, and the injured guys are staying in the downstairs room, I am afraid they will offend the eldest lady."

Xue Baochai raised his hand and said: "It's okay, let's talk about the situation, where did you meet the robbers, how did you escape the danger, how many casualties were there, and what happened to the goods, can you report to the authorities to deal with the aftermath?"

So the shopkeeper came over one by one: "Everything has been handled... This time is really dangerous and dangerous. If Liu Erye hadn't helped to drive away the gang of robbers, our goods would have suffered heavy losses. The lives of the guys would have been much higher." It's going to be gone."

Xue Baochai said: "It's fine if the goods are lost. Human lives are the most important thing. Next time we take the goods, find a few martial arts experts to follow. If this happens again, I'd rather leave the goods behind than save my life." Our Xue family runs a business, and we can make money when we lose it. It is not easy for the guys to earn a few hard-earned money, and we cannot let them lose their lives."

The person in charge responded: "Miss is kind, I will write it down."

Xue Baochai said: "I'm only going to settle the responsibility for the accident this time with the person in charge, are you convinced?"

The manager said, "I'm in charge of the whole shop. If something like this happened, it's because of my ineffectiveness, so I should be responsible."

Xue Baochai said: "Okay, since this is the case, then I will order that even if the injured men are not seriously injured, each of them will be given a month's leave to be raised at home, and each will be given ten taels of silver as compensation for their fright. Half of this money and the replacement of the vacant workers in the store will come from the store, and the other half will be deducted from your monthly salary for managing things.”

The person in charge responded: "Yes, thank you for your compassion, Miss, I only let me pay half of it."

Xue Baochai said: "You said that you have no supervision. As your superior, I am also responsible. How can you resist if something happens, so let's be half of us. This time, Guanshi Sun was also frightened. I will send someone tomorrow. I'll bring you two of the top-quality Ganoderma lucidum that can invigorate Qi."

The manager repeatedly bowed and bowed, they had nowhere to buy the high-quality Ganoderma lucidum, and it was much more valuable than the dozens of taels of silver deducted.

Steward Sun said, "Miss, Second Master Liu who saved us is still in the shop."

Xue Baochai raised her head and said: "Why didn't you say it earlier? This is not neglecting the distinguished guest. You go and invite him out, and I will thank you in person."

Liu Xianglian had already come out, cupped her hands and said, "How dare I thank you, Miss, it's just a matter of raising my hands." He is a martial arts practitioner with sharp eyes and ears, so he was next door and heard the conversation between Guanshi Sun and Baochai. It wasn't the one who eavesdropped, but just as he was about to leave, he heard the girl's voice and Steward Sun respectfully calling her Missy. Now they are discussing in the lobby, if he went out rashly, it would be too abrupt, so He didn't dare to do anything, and didn't come out until he heard that Xue Baochai wanted to ask him to thank him in person.

I only listened to Xue Baochai's voice inside, like pearls falling on a jade plate. Now that I saw the real person, Liu Xianglian just took a look, thinking that it was just as he imagined, and it matched the voice. He just took one look at the character, and he kept his etiquette and didn't dare to look at it again.

Xue Baochai is not an unwary person, if he knew there was someone in the next room, he thought it was a clerk in this shop, but he didn't expect it to be a handsome young man, about eighteen or nineteen years old, full of unruly chivalry.Since arriving here, his appearance and temperament are not common, except for a chivalrous king like the Thirteenth Master, someone with a look like Liu Xianglian, such as Baoyu or Jia Lian, will have a certain powdery look, but this person does not have it.

After Liu Erlang came out, he saluted and said, "Liu Xianglian sees Miss!"

Baochai stood up to return the gift, invited him to a seat, served tea, and said: "Thanks to Liu Erye, who saved the life of the shop assistant regardless of the danger, and also saved the goods in the shop from falling into the hands of bandits. This is a great kindness and great virtue." , I don’t know how to repay you?”

Seeing Baochai's behavior and speech, Liu Xianglian didn't twitch at all, and treated him like a familiar person. Seeing that Baochai was so elegant, he was a little cautious, and said: "It's just a little effort, I dare not take credit for it." .”

Xue Baochai said: "Or if there is something that Erye Liu is inconvenient to do at this time, just ask, if I can do it, I will definitely not refuse to do it for you."

Liu Xianglian cupped her hands and said: "I just passed by by chance. When I see injustices on the road, I draw my sword to help. Miss, don't take it to heart."

Xue Baochai said: "Since Second Master Liu is so chivalrous, then our Xue family owes you a favor. If you have anything to do, you can come to Manager Sun or ask someone to find me."

Liu Xianglian was indeed not one to ask for repayment, seeing Baochai being so polite, she had no choice but to agree, and then said goodbye and left.

Baochai ordered Steward Sun to prepare a decent gift for Liu's family, and then return to Xue's house to walk around in time for the New Year's Eve.

The autumn harvest has passed, and winter is about to begin. The annual rent that should be paid has been paid up one after another. These things of the Jia family have always been taken care of by Jia Zhen.What is different this year is that Xue's family has successively had tenants come to pay the land rent and various products raised by the Zhuangzi.

This day in Tanchun, Lin Daiyu and others were all playing in Mrs. Xue's courtyard. Just in time, two Zhuangzi outside Jinling City came to deliver things to Xue's family, and Xue Baochai was asking someone to register them.

120 big deer, 120 roe deer, 120 roe deer... all kinds of pigs, sheep, fish, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry, bear paw, deer tendon, deer tongue, sea cucumber, razor clam, dried prawns, hazelnut, pine, peach, apricot, dried fruit, preserved fruit, Special dried vegetables, high-grade charcoal rice, etc., are innumerable, and of course, there are also the silver earned from selling various grains and livestock. Those are the real harvest income of the year, and they will naturally go directly to the Xue family treasury.

Mrs. Xue's entire yard was full of piles, and the team behind hadn't stopped yet, and they were sending them forward one after another. They could only pile them outside the yard. Fortunately, only Mrs. Xue lived in this corner of the garden, and there was a door connecting to the outside, otherwise The sound of the rooster crowing and the deer crowing must disturb the neighbors.

Before Tanchun, I didn't care about the house, so I didn't know the reason. Today, I saw a lot of things coming from the Xue family's farm. After asking, I realized that it was only the offerings from the two Zhuangzi, and my own family also had a farm. This comparison, this Is it because the Xue family's Zhuangzi is too big, or what is going on, in short, the harvest is twice as much as that of the Jia family. "Did Sister Bao send so many things in previous years? Why doesn't it seem that there are as many as this year?"

Xue Baochai said: "My family has had these Zhuangzi for a long time, but our family is small in population, so we don't need many things at all in the new year. The harvest offerings from these Zhuangzi were sent to Uncle Jinling's house to help make sacrifices on their behalf." Ancestor. Because they will come to Beijing next year, there is no place to dispose of these things, so this year, these tenants are allowed to send their things to us again, so there are no such things in previous years."

Tan Chun said: "So that's the case. I said that Sister Bao is not as busy as this year. It turns out that it is because my uncle's family is also going to Beijing."

Baochai saw that these things were piled up in a mess everywhere, and it was not a solution, not to mention that there were more than these two Zhuangzi in their family, and there would be a steady stream of them in the future.Every item in Zhuangzi is an annual gift carefully selected by the people in Zhuangzi, and they cannot be sold directly for silver. Among them, there are animals with the best appearance that have been raised for a year, and they are reluctant to sell them for silver. Ask for favors in front of the master.

Xue Baochai did not find it difficult to deal with a pile of things, so he called the managers of the stores in the capital to count the number of employees in the store. There is another one that is very generous, so that everyone in charge can count the number, and then hand in the list, and a car will be sent to pull it out from here.There is no need to buy new year's goods, so that everyone can have a rich new year.

The people in charge were overjoyed, busy writing the list and looking for a car, and they all praised the boss for his kindness. It is a great blessing to follow such a boss.At one time, the guys in the store got such a thoughtful gift and insisted on coming over to kowtow to Mrs. Xue and the girl. How could the stewards dare to let them enter the garden, so they let them kowtow outside the door and thanked each other. Meaning on the line.

After distributing to the employees of various shops, half of the things have been gone, and the rest of the things are collected, Baochai divides them into several parts, and only a little is kept at home, and the rest will be directly arranged by people in various prefectures. The New Year's gift should be delivered by family anyway, and it doesn't have to be at the same time. If it is not delivered this time, wait for someone from the village to deliver it next time. Of course, the one that is reserved for Jia's family is the most.

Tanchun said: "Sister Bao, you are really a money-scattering boy. First, you sorted out a yard full of piles and gave them all away. However, the share for our family is too generous." Well, it’s not a problem to hold a few banquets, and I’m afraid it’s enough to rely on Sister Bao’s things for this year!”

Baochai said: "This year, the new year's products of these two Zhuangzi were delivered early, and the sky has not yet started to freeze. If these living things are killed, they will not be preserved, and if they are not killed, they can only be fed. Do you want me to be a child?" The old farmer can't raise it well. If they don't give it away early, this garden will be called lively! This gift was given too early, let everyone who received the gift trouble it, maybe our family is the head of the year. A portion can make people remember more."

Xue Baochai also specially ordered people: "Since there are a lot of things this year, Grandma Liu in the country also sent someone to drive a car to deliver a copy to her family, and Mr. Liu Xianglian waited until the year before, and walked around according to the etiquette of ordinary relatives." gift."

The girls all saw Aunt Xue's hustle and bustle here, and after seeing the excitement for a while, they all went elsewhere. Only Tanchun stayed by Xue Baochai's side, helping her, watching her actions carefully, and felt that they had benefited a lot. .

In the afternoon of that day, Baochai went back to her Hengwu courtyard from Mrs. Xue's courtyard. Seeing the beeswax and purple silk in the house, Ping'er hurriedly went up to them and said, "Miss Bao is back."

Baochai said: "Sister Ping is a distinguished guest, so it's rare to come, why is she standing outside the gate of the courtyard again? Those maids in my courtyard don't know if it's okay to invite sister in?"

Ping'er said: "Why didn't you let me go? It's just that I'm impatient. I couldn't sit still, so I ran to the gate of the courtyard to wait. Your two silly girls just wanted to wait with me."

Baochai let her into the courtyard: "Come in and sit down if you have anything to say."

So Ping'er followed into the Hengwu courtyard, thanked him for tea, and said, "Miss Bao, have you heard gossip about our family recently?"

Baochai said: "That's not the case. What gossip is there in your family? These days, the tenants in the village have come to bring New Year gifts. I have been gathering there, and I come back to rest every day until evening. Only today came early."

Ping'er sighed: "Our second master, the master beat him so much that he couldn't get out of bed." The master Ping'er was talking about was Jia She.

Baochai was startled: "What's the reason? The second elder brother has a wife and a son, so he won't be taught a lesson like Baoyu, a child who doesn't study hard. Why is the elder so angry?"

Ping'er whispered: "First of all, I didn't hide this matter from anyone. I'm afraid even the girls in the yard know about it. Second, I never treat you as an outsider. I'm not afraid that Miss Bao will make fun of you. Our second master is against you. Bad luck! It's all because of that Jia Yu Village!"

Xue Baochai wondered: "Jia Yucun? What kind of official is he now?" Ever since Xue Baochai mentioned this person in front of Wang Ziteng, she hadn't paid much attention to it since then, thinking that old officials like Wang Ziteng who have been officials for decades , there must be at least a hundred minds in his stomach, how can he not understand the holy will, as long as he has a little fear in his heart, it is impossible to make friends with Jia Yucun, who knows that Wang Ziteng seems not to tell Jia home, but there is still movement between Jia Mansion and Jia Yu Village, and it seems that the relationship is quite close.

Ping'er said: "Although the official is not big, he is a master who can pass the court." So how did the elder Jia She take a fancy to the ancestral fan of the stone nerd's family, and insisted that Jia Lian try to buy it. You can't force it, so you come back and say that they won't sell it, which makes Jia Amnesty very unhappy.

But Jia Yucun was a disregarder, falsely accusing the Shi nerd of owed the official money, confiscated all the property of the Shi family for sale, and sent the fan to Jia She, who was naturally overjoyed and called Jia Lian to blame him useless.

Ping'er said: "Our second master just made a distinction. He said that a few fans should not cause people's families to be destroyed. This is too much. The master was annoyed and beat him up. Today he came to find the girl. It's not for anything else. Last time Baoyu was beaten, I got medicine from you to apply it so that I could sleep well. Now my second grandma sent me to ask for a pill." Baochai asked Ping'er, "Is the wound broken? Crash?"

Ping'er wiped away his tears and said, "I saw blood."

He said to Fei Cui at the side: "Go get the blood stasis dispelling pill." After giving Ping'er the pill, Xue Baochai said, "Second brother, it's not convenient for me to see this injury. After applying this medicine and taking good care of it for a few days, it will be fine. Alright, I'll go there then."

Ping'er said: "Then I will thank the girl on behalf of the second master and grandma. Who doesn't know that what you have here is a panacea. Baoyu was beaten so badly last time. After applying this medicine, it will grow muscle and stop bleeding within a few days. Master I thought it was Baoyu who was pretending to be sick, because he didn't hit hard at all!"

After seeing off Ping'er, Baochai was not in a good mood, even if the cat and puppy had been around for a long time, they would still have feelings, not to mention the people here.Baochai remembered that Jia's family's conviction was inseparable. He originally thought that Jia Yucun's failure to get a high position would have little influence. Unexpectedly, he was good at making money, so he found an official position in Beijing and was able to help Jia's amnesty. Seizing a fan is like taking human life.

Although this kind of aristocratic family will more or less do some things that bully the weak and rely on power, but these things that ignore the king's law when they are in power will be turned out by political opponents when they are going downhill. Evidence of attack by others.The Jia family may have been prosperous for too long, and they have become more and more unscrupulous.

It’s November, and I’m going to prepare for the New Year’s Eve, which should be a happy day. An old concubine is not in good health. Today’s sage rules the world with filial piety. These officials and eunuchs naturally followed suit, and they did not dare to be extravagant and presumptuous. Some even stopped playing.

The Grand View Garden was even more lively, because Li Wan's widowed sister-in-law brought her two daughters to seek refuge, and Mrs. Xing's niece, Xing Xiuyan, and Shi Xiangyun were also taken in by the old lady. These girls can write poetry, and they Baoyu's poetry club is more prosperous, and Baoyu is even more happy. If Baochai has time, he will play with them for a while, and if he has no time, he will ask for leave.

Because Mrs. Wang had something to do in the past few days, the whole family was handed over to Tanchun and Li Wan. Baochai guarded the door tightly, but there were no such accidents. Baoyu and Daiyu's side was different, with many people and miscellaneous hands. Going in and out, eating wine in the garden, stealing, and gambling all happened.

After the year, Xue Biao arrived with his widowed mother Song and younger sister Baoqin. The Jia family still treated each other warmly, especially the old lady Jia who took Baoqin with her. Love, not to mention Baochai, seems to have overshadowed Daiyu and Baoyu.If you have something delicious and nice to wear, hold on to her first, Baoqin is flattered, and other people can't understand, what does the old lady mean by this, there are rumors among the servants, this old lady fell in love with this Baoqin girl I want to betroth her to Baoyu.

Baoqin asked Baochai what was going on in private, and Baochai only let her use it at ease, and it didn't affect her.

On this day, the old lady's room was fully occupied, Mrs. Xue looked at Baochai, and Baochai nodded to her.Mrs. Xue then said: "Old lady, today we are going to bid farewell to you. The whole family has been disturbing here for several years, and now Baochai's aunt and family are here again. The old lady is in harmony with her relatives and does not dislike us in the slightest." We are allowed to live, but we have to be ignorant of etiquette, there are several houses from the whole family who are making noise here, old lady, I have already arranged for the old house, and we can live in it if we talk about it."

As soon as Mrs. Xue finished speaking, the chatting and laughing in the room stopped. Except for Lin Daiyu, no one knew that their family was really going to move out.

Mrs. Xue had mentioned it to Mrs. Wang, and Mrs. Wang just used words to prevaricate her, telling her not to leave and just wait in Jia's mansion, something good will happen to them later.Don't you know that when Mrs. Xue heard this, she became more determined to leave.Mrs. Wang thought that they would definitely not move away, because the power of the Jia family was much greater than that of the Xue family. Here, they live next to each other. They are relatives of the government. Sometimes, people will look up to them, but today, Mrs. Xue actually raised it solemnly.

Jia Baoyu was the first to come back to his senses and said: "Sister Bao and Auntie are living well here, so I have to leave!"

Baochai said: "Brother Bao, there is no permanent banquet in the world. After all, your family is not ours. After all, it is inconvenient for the Xue family to report affairs in and out of the garden every day. What's more, there are relatives who come to defect, and the move has been planned long ago. OK."

Mother Jia saw that their mother and daughter were not pretending to be fake, but they really wanted to move away, and she showed reluctance on her face: "Suddenly saying that they want to move away, who can bear it?" But she couldn't help thinking in her heart, could it be her Thought it was wrong?The few times Jia Zheng's daughter-in-law went to the palace and said something to the empress. During the festival, the things that Baochai was rewarded in the palace were the same as Baoyu's.Xue Baochai has been extremely popular in Jia's mansion these past few years, and the mother and daughter live more comfortably here than in their own home.

All of the above, Mrs. Jia couldn't help but think about it, otherwise, she wouldn't show her love for this Baoqin as soon as she saw it, just to make their sisters compare each other, if they all coveted Baoyu The sisters must make trouble first.

Although the old lady Jia said a lot of words of reluctance, she didn't say that they would not be allowed to move away and let them continue to live.Mrs. Wang, Mrs. Xing, and Wang Xifeng and others have always acted according to Mrs. Jia's attitude. She is the person in power in the mansion, so naturally they dare not stay longer.

Since Lin Daiyu recognized her as a godmother, Mrs. Xue treated her better. As she said, she treated Daiyu just like she treated Baochai.Naturally, Lin Daiyu couldn't bear to part with them, but she was only a sojourner here, so she had no place to talk to others, even if she was reluctant, she would hide and cry secretly.

Mrs. Xue said: "Our family also has a Yuanzi. Although it is not as good as the one here, there are still places to see. I will invite the old lady and their sisters to the garden of my mansion to stroll around some other day."

The old lady Jia said yes in a repeated voice: "My aunt's house, even if you don't post a post to invite me, I must have the cheek to go and have a look!" She also asked them to come and go often after they moved, otherwise they would be ashamed. The sisters will be greatly missed.