[Red Mansion+Qing Chuan] The heroine comes from the last days

"Cough, cough, cough..."

There was continuous coughing sound from the house, like a leaky bellows whistling in the wind and snow.The servant girl in the yard frowned and complained, "I'm complaining again." Then she took the broom in her hand and went to the next yard to find the head wife.

A total of twelve people lived in this mansion, the master Jia Zheng, the wife who was said to be insane, the second daughter-in-law, the widowed eldest daughter-in-law, and the second master who didn’t know what he was doing all day. The eldest young master, together with the four maids who have just been released from the palace, there is also a woman, and a rough envoy who has just been bought back, there is no one else.

It is said that this mansion was once so magnificent that even the maids wore gold and silver.

It is also said that there used to be a plaque in front of this mansion, but it has been taken down now.

The servant girl went into the next yard and called the second mistress, but when she didn't hear a reply, she muttered again: "I should have gone out to buy medicine for the second wife. I'm really sorry. I heard that our master once had An aunt, a third master from a concubine, and a third girl from a concubine have now moved to the north of the city, and they are quite old-fashioned." While muttering, he carried a broom and walked to the other side. In the yard, he called out, "Grandma."

Li Wan was teaching Jia Lan calligraphy under the grape arbor, when she heard someone calling her outside, she asked, "What's wrong?"

Jia Lan put down her pen and said, "It seems to be the little maid who just bought back home. Mother might as well go and have a look."

Ever since Baoqin and the other four maids were released from the palace, they made up their minds to follow the second wife, saying that they wanted to be filial to the old lady for the eldest girl.The old man in charge didn't say anything, but the second wife looked lost and screamed every day: "I want to enter the palace, go to the palace! Concubine Hui, Concubine De, if Concubine De was not bad at the beginning What happened to Yuanchun, how could it have come to this point!"

Every time the second wife made such a fuss, Baoqin and the other four maids, no, now they are the four big maids in the mansion, so they had to work together to hold down the second wife.Before they entered the palace, the four of them were first-class maidservants in the mansion, and even in the palace, they had never done any rough work.Now the maids in the mansion are scattered, only a few daughters-in-law are left, and they all do the work of second- and third-class maids.As for the sweeping maid outside, it was because there was not enough manpower, so she bought another maid from outside, without signing a death contract, she was free to come and go.

Originally, Jia Zheng still kept two young servants, but because they were not needed, they were all dismissed.

Li Wan heard someone calling him, and recognized that it was the rough envoy, so he guessed that something happened to the second wife.She comforted Jia Lan, walked out of the yard, and asked, "What's wrong? But the second wife was shocked?"

The servant girl curled her lips, dropped the broom in her hand, and said, "I can't serve you today."

Li Wan couldn't laugh or cry immediately.

She looked into the courtyard and saw that Jia Lan was still studying and practicing calligraphy. She felt relieved and said, "I'll let you go and have a look. The second wife has a heart disease, and you should take care of her more, so don't run afoul of the second wife." Ma'am." As she said, she followed the rough envoy to the next door.

The servant girl said: "Before the slave girl was sold in, I had heard that the wife in the mansion was insane and needed to find a strong maid to take care of her. But no one said that the second wife Complaining every day, turning one thing over and over again, wishing to recite it three hundred times a day, this is unbearable for anyone. The second grandmother is not in the yard, and the servant is a sweeper of the yard. Baoqin is waiting for a few girls. Besides asking Grandma to come over and have a look, what else can I do?"

While speaking, he led Li Wan to Mrs. Wang's courtyard and pushed open the courtyard door.

There was a strong rotten smell in the yard, as if some kind of wood had been soaked by the rain, and it smelled rotten again.Li Wan covered his mouth and nose, coughed twice, pushed open the door of Mrs. Wang's room, and called, "Mother?"

What greeted Li Wan was a piece of rotten wood thrown head-on.

Madam Wang resentfully tore up the Buddhist scriptures in her hand page by page, and threw them on top of her head. Large pieces of shredded paper fell down like snowflakes.She turned her head to look at Li Wan, and said coldly, "What are you doing here?"

Li Wan brushed off a scrap of paper on his shoulder, and called out to his mother a little uneasily.

"I know all about it." Mrs. Wang's expression was a bit ferocious, pointing at Li Wan and then at the rough envoy, she said sharply, "None of you will tell me, but I know all about it. She is the queen now, High queen, right? None of you will tell me! If I hadn’t heard Baoyu talking to Baochai next door last night, I would still be kept in the dark. None of you would tell me.”

Li Wan called his mother again in embarrassment, thinking to himself, who would dare to tell you about your situation.

"You, you." Mrs. Wang seemed to be choking, panting, and said bitterly, "Not only did you not tell me about any of them, but you also stayed in the mansion without doing anything, huh? What? Let Baochai come to see me. At this point, I should teach her another lesson so that she can remember well. Queen? So what about the queen, even if you become a queen, you should abide by the rules of our family."

Li Wan was so frightened that his soul flew out of his wits: "Mother!"

She took two steps forward, and was about to persuade Mrs. Wang, when she heard Mrs. Wang say, "Baochai is capable. If she comes to think of a way, she won't go wrong. What are you still doing here, where is Baochai? Baochai came here to see me, go!"

Li Wan looked at the rough envoy maid, then at Mrs. Wang, and said, "Mother, Baochai has gone out."

The servant girl twitched her lips and said, "Okay, I've gone insane again."

Mrs. Wang said sharply, "Shut up!"

The servant girl with her arms crossed stared fiercely at Mrs. Wang: "Madam, are you sick again?"

When Xue Baochai bought her back at the beginning, it was precisely because of her strength.

Mrs. Wang walked up to the rough envoy maid step by step, and asked sharply: "Is there any more rules! I talk to your grandma, where can you talk? Have you forgotten that the first-class maid in our Rongguo Mansion, Second-class maids, third-class maids, there are rules for what to do and what not to do. You, a gardener, are not even qualified to enter my room, and you still want to yell here, ah ? Where is the steward’s wife? Where did she go? Let her come here to see me.”

Li Wan persuaded: "Mother, you can take a rest. The daughter-in-law in charge..."

Mrs. Wang said bitterly: "I can't even command a servant girl? The steward's daughter-in-law is not here, so let Baochai come to see me. This servant girl, I have to teach her a lesson today."

The servant girl put the broom on the ground, and said in a choked voice: "You bought me back to the mansion, but you never mentioned any rules in the mansion. There are no first-class maids, second-class maids, I have never I’ve heard it. Ma’am, look, I’m not the son of a family in your mansion, and there is no family son in your mansion. It’s too early to use the steward’s wife to suppress me.”

Mrs. Wang raised her hand high and wanted to fight.

"Oh, mother." Li Wan had no choice but to come out to smooth things over, stopped Mrs. Wang, and winked at the rough servant girl.The servant girl angrily picked up the broom and went outside to sweep the floor.After the maid walked away, Li Wan patted Mrs. Wang's chest, calmed down, and persuaded: "Mother, don't be angry. Now that our house has fallen to this point, there is no first, second, or third class." The servant girl is gone. The children of the family sent them away, and those who fled, there was no one else except the few holding the piano."

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she raised her hand again to strike.

Li Wan was so frightened that he took two steps back, avoiding Mrs. Wang's slap, and said with some lingering fear: "Mother, it's still, it's better to wait for Baochai to come back before persuading you. You have to remember, now in our mansion , there are no more housekeepers and daughter-in-laws, and no more first-class, second-class and third-class maids. You'd better take care of your illness." Li Wan was really a little scared.

While persuading Mrs. Wang, Li Wan stepped back one after another until his heel hit the threshold, then stood against the threshold, and then stepped out of the door with one foot, before continuing: "I will go to the kitchen to replace my mother." Look, is your medicine ready?" Then he closed the door lightly, leaving Mrs. Wang alone in the room, and hurried to the kitchen to show Mrs. Wang the medicine.

There was another bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, it seemed that Mrs. Wang was venting her grievances.

Li Wan came to the kitchen in a hurry and saw that Baoqin was the person who was on duty to cook the medicine today.

There are not enough maids in the mansion, even Baoqin who came back from the palace took on the responsibility of boiling medicine.Just now Li Wan said that there are no first-class or second-class maids in the mansion, but most of them are true.Now there is basically no one left in this mansion, even the attackers have asked for leave to go back to their hometown, and Baoyu and Baochai will not stop their days of becoming gods in Japan.As for Qingwen, Sheyue and others, they also fell ill one after another, and they couldn't do anything they wanted to do.Now there is only one holding the piano, which is still barely usable.

Baoqin covered his nose, coughed twice, and replied: "Second Wife's medicine is almost ready."

This medicine is a new medicine prescribed by Lin Daiyu when she went to find a doctor for Mrs. Wang a few days ago.Compared with the medicines of the past few days, there is nothing new, but the medicinal properties have been strengthened a bit, and there are many strange medicinal materials in it, and the smell is not very pleasant.

Every time it was his turn to boil the medicine, Baoqin had to wash his clothes five or six times to get rid of the smell of medicine.

Li Wan followed suit for a while, then sighed: "The second wife is talking nonsense again. I don't know when this madness will be cured."

In fact, if possible, Li Wan really wanted to take Jia Lan, the two of them leave here, and never come back again.

But now the Rongguo Mansion has just been separated, and the top and bottom are not in order. If she leaves now, not only Xue Baochai and Jia Zheng will stop her, but even Jia Lan will not be willing.Thinking of this, Li Wan sighed again, but did not speak.

Baoqin fanned the wind again, and asked: "Is the second wife venting her anger again?"

Li Wan hummed lightly, and said, "I'm venting my anger on a servant girl right now." Although they all knew that the second wife's serious illnesses followed one after another, the son had just been diagnosed with insanity, and then coughed again and again , high fever, the whole thing is not very good.If Lin Daiyu hadn't been thinking about this a few days ago and invited two doctors over, they would have thought they were cut off from the world.

Now Mrs. Wang is nagging, besides complaining, she can start cursing when she catches someone, and when she scolds enough, she can hold the other person's hand and let the other person listen to her nagging, just a few sentences over and over every day , Even the ears can almost hear the cocoon.

Baoqin didn't dare to say much in front of Li Wan, so she held the cattail fan with both hands and fanned it vigorously. The kitchen was filled with a smell of oily smoke, stench, and bitterness.It took a full two hours for a bowl of medicine to be brought to Mrs. Wang's room.

The two of them turned off the fire together, took the medicine, and came to Mrs. Wang's yard.

When they entered the courtyard, Xue Baochai had already returned.Xue Baochai went out today to tidy up the shop for the family.Earlier, the Rongguo Mansion was in the capital, and there were a total of [-] to [-] shops, selling and selling everything.But later, the family fell into trouble, and these shops were closed one by one, and now there is only a rice shop and a grocery shop left.

Xue Baochai was worried about the rice shop's tent, so she took advantage of the clear sky to check the accounts in the shop, and didn't come back until after noon.

Baoqin followed Li Wan into the house, handed the bowl of medicine to Xue Baochai, and Xue Baochai waited on Mrs. Wang to take the medicine.

Xue Baochai took the medicine bowl, dug out a spoonful of decoction with a small spoon, handed it to Mrs. Wang, and persuaded: "Mother, just take the medicine."

Mrs. Wang took the medicine, but her eyes seemed to want to eat people: "Is there something wrong in the palace again?"

Xue Baochai's hands trembled slightly, and softly persuaded: "Mother."

Li Wan also persuaded: "Mother, you'd better not..."

Mrs. Wang pushed away the medicine bowl in front of her, walked up to Baoqin, suddenly raised her hand, and slapped her face with a slap.

"Useless things!" Mrs. Wang screamed hoarsely, "I let you stay in the palace so that you can communicate with Concubine Hui and report the things in the palace to me. Now, now! Not only The news has not been cleared, but you have packed your bags and left the palace! Concubine Hui cut her title, and concubine Huang Guifei canonized as empress, what are you doing for food, what use do I want you for, what use is it! "

After roaring, even his voice became hoarse.

Holding Qin and covering her cheeks, she stared fixedly at Mrs. Wang, with tears in her eyes.

"Those things have already been arranged, arranged!" Mrs. Wang screamed, "Before Yuan Chun died, he personally stabbed the events of more than ten years ago to the clan's mansion, and Concubine Yi and Concubine Rong both cut it." After becoming a concubine, half of the work has been done. Then contact Concubine Hui, pull the imperial concubine off the horse, and bite Concubine Hui back, and the matter can be done cleanly without leaving any traces. But now, now!"

When Mrs. Wang said that, she almost screamed.

Hearing the roar, the servant girl outside frowned again, moved to the other side of the courtyard, and complained: "I'm complaining again. The imperial palace is not the courtyard of the mansion, it can accommodate a woman Bian?" Unfortunately, no one heard her.

Mrs. Wang screamed hoarsely: "These are all calculated, all calculated! They are all going to die! Now, what are you doing now, and what are you doing in this mansion!" Suddenly She seemed to have remembered something, turned to Xue Baochai, and asked, "Where are the letters I sent to Jinling? What about the letters I brought to my two elder brothers? Why didn't there even be one? My sister (Aunt Xue) just sent me a letter last month." I went back to Jinling, but now there is also no news. I believe it, I believe it!"

Li Wan and Xue Baochai looked at each other, and after a long time, Xue Baochai called Shengniang.

"Mother." Xue Baochai explained, "My mother has just left for a long time, and it will take at least three or four months to walk back and forth from the capital to Jinling. The letters from the two uncles have to wait until my mother returns from Jinling. You can only bring it back. Didn’t you say that you would not believe anyone but only my mother? Mother, at this point, you’d better take a break.” As he spoke, he picked up the bowl of medicine again and prepared to feed Mrs. Wang.

Li Wan also said beside him: "Mother, you'd better listen to my advice."

Mrs. Wang looked at Li Wan, then at Xue Baochai, and suddenly dropped the table again.

"You, both of you, are the same." Mrs. Wang pointed at them and said bitterly, "None of you will listen to what I say. You are my daughter-in-law in the open, but in secret, you just pretend that I am not there." The existence of this mother-in-law. Baoqin, tell me, what is the use of these two daughter-in-laws coming?"

Baoqin had just been slapped in the face, and was covering her cheeks, gasping for breath, and couldn't even utter a word.

On the contrary, Xue Baochai's eyes turned cold when he heard this, and Li Wan was also a little displeased.

Mrs. Wang said bitterly again: "Look, look, you guys." She pointed to the three of them and counted them one by one, "Now the family is divided, the Grand View Garden is empty, and the Ningguo Mansion next door is also empty." Just like our Rongguo Mansion, we live by counting silver coins. The daughter-in-law is used as a maid, and the maid is used as a servant. The master is not like the master, and the slave is not like the slave. There are no rules. Now I want to feed me medicine. In my heart, I still don’t know how to arrange me, heh.”

Li Wan and Xue Baochai looked at each other, Xue Baochai frowned and said, "Let's get someone else to serve my mother." So he took the medicine bowl and went to the next yard to find Jia Baoyu.Li Wan also took two steps back, with his heels on the threshold, ready to leave at any moment.

Xue Baochai searched around in the courtyard next door, but did not find Jia Baoyu, and then suddenly remembered that Jia Baoyu had gone to school today and happened to be away.Xue Baochai had no choice but to go outside the courtyard, find the rough envoy, and said, "You are so strong, you should go inside and press your wife and feed her medicine. I really can't bear it with my limbs." Living."

The rough envoy's maid was brought into the mansion by Xue Baochai, and she has a very good impression of Xue Baochai.

Seeing that it was Xue Baochai, she dropped the broom, wiped her hands on her clothes, took the bowl of medicine, and went to Mrs. Wang's room to viciously kill the second young lady.Mrs. Wang's room was already in chaos. Li Wan and Baoqin pulled Mrs. Wang from left to right to prevent her from going outside.Mrs. Wang yelled, "You guys let me out", while struggling to rush outside.

The servant girl went inside, put the medicine bowl heavily on the table, and said, "Enough!"

All three of them froze there for a while.

The servant girl with her hands on her hips said to Mrs. Wang: "I am a rough worker. I am not as good as grandmas who raised me up from a young age. I treat you kindly and gently, my wife. I don't even say a word of seriousness. Just a word now. Leave it here, you, drink, no, drink. If you want to drink, drink it yourself, if you don’t drink it, you will fall down, and when you fall ill, roll it up on a straw mat, throw it in a mass grave outside the city, and then use your second wife’s airs!"

Then he murmured in a low voice: "If I got into trouble myself, and even vented my anger on Second Grandma, what's the point?"

Then, he picked up the bowl of pitch-black medicine, stuffed it into Mrs. Wang's hand, and said, "No!"

After all their tossing just now, the warm medicine was finally released, and it has become cold, dark and sticky, which makes people want to vomit.Mrs. Wang raised her hand again, trying to slap the maid, but the maid held her hand.

The servant girl said: "I am not two grandmas. I have thin arms and legs, and I can't hold you down, madam. When I was plowing in the field, I could lift a whole cow. Madam, this medicine You have to drink if you drink, and you have to drink if you don’t drink, and if you complain so much, don’t blame me for going outside to invite a doctor to come and give you two needles in your head to make you sober.”

This pungent temperament is exactly the same as Wang Xifeng's, even a little bit worse.

Mrs. Wang was intimidated by the maid, her eyes were red, and she was panting.

The servant girl slapped the table vigorously and asked, "Do you want to drink?" It was quite a female gangster.

Baoqin couldn't stand watching, and wanted to come over to persuade her, but was glared at by the maid: "Sister, don't make trouble."

Li Wan also wanted to come over to persuade her just now, but she stopped when she heard the words of the maidservant.

Indeed, the only way now is to make Mrs. Wang drink the medicine obediently.

Mrs. Wang's eyes were red, she looked at the rough envoy in front of her, and then at Baoqin, and gradually, the figure of that maid overlapped with others.She raised her hand and wanted to hit her, but the maid forced a spoon into her and said, "If you want to hit, you have to drink the medicine."

Baoqin persuaded from the side again: "Madam, if you don't take medicine, you won't get better."

Mrs. Wang didn't know whether she had listened to Baoqin's words, or understood the words of the rough envoy, she suddenly poured the bowl of medicine into her mouth and drank it clean.Then the maid said: "That's right." She stuffed a rough cloth handkerchief into Mrs. Wang's hand, and said, "Wipe it off."

As soon as Mrs. Wang grabbed the handkerchief, the maid had already walked out the door, picked up the broom, and continued to sweep the ground in the yard.

After a while, Li Wan, Xue Baochai and Baoqin all came out of Mrs. Wang's room.Li Wan went back to study with Jia Lan in the yard, Xue Baochai went back to prepare dinner for today, and Baoqin stood under the tree blankly, wondering what he was thinking.

The servant girl swept the ground in the yard for a while, and then heard a rattling sound coming from inside, as if she was throwing something, snorted, and said while sweeping the floor: "I'm complaining again, these days , I don’t know when it will be tall.” Sweeping, seeing Baoqin covering her cheeks, staring into the distance in a daze, she walked up to Baoqin and asked, “Sister, what’s wrong with you? ?”