Master of Karma in the Red Chamber

Both Xue Baochai and Aunt Xue looked at Xue Pan with anticipation in their eyes.His mother doted on him since he was a child, and never really forced him to do anything, let alone expected him to take any responsibility.

Xue Pan's mood is very complicated. It is reasonable to say that he should be mad and unwilling, but in fact he is really afraid of copying books every day, and he is also very afraid of facing Master Jing.But behind these bad emotions, there is a strange feeling surging, faintly implying that he has changed himself.This is a sense of pride, making him feel useful and depended on for the first time since he grew up.

Xue Pan was determined to give it a try, so he reluctantly agreed to Aunt Xue's mother and daughter, and went back to his room to copy the four books.Day and night, although there were complaints and complaints, in the end, with the encouragement of the people around him, he insisted on Wangcheng little by little.

Xue Pan didn't know much about the contents of the Four Books, but he wrote a lot, and he could memorize some simple words, and gradually understood the meaning.

At the beginning of March, Yangchun is just right.Xue Pan changed into a newly made blue singlet. He knew that Mr. Jing liked plain and simple clothes, so he didn't even wear gold and silver. Just drop a piece of mutton fat jade.

Dressed up properly, he brought twenty copies of the handwritten Four Books to visit Ningfu.Xue Pan purposely chose to come to the house on the day of respecting the old man's rest, because he was afraid that he was too busy on weekdays, and rushing to the door would disturb his rest.Of course, there was also a reason that he was afraid of being rejected, so he tried to come to Master Jing when he was in a good mood.

It was about a stick of incense before the boy called the door, and the people from the Ning Mansion finally answered and opened the door to welcome him into the mansion.

Xue Pan heaved a sigh of relief, even looking at the unchanged scenery of Ning Mansion, he felt that it was much more beautiful than before.

Xue Pan was invited to wait in the hall on the west side. The servant girl served tea and stood quietly by the side to serve her.

Xue Pan was a little nervous, and kept rubbing his hands because his palms were slightly sweating.After waiting for a while, before seeing anyone, he drank a bowl of tea first.

The maid hurriedly replaced the new tea and reminded Xue Pan in a delicate voice: "Master Xue, please use it slowly."

Xue Pan's body was shocked by the sound, he Fangzheng looked at this maid, she looked really upright.Fair skin, a pair of almond eyes, naturally passionate and romantic.Seeing this, Xue Pan felt even more distressed, and asked her name with a smile.The servant girl was also bold, she nodded slightly and smiled, then turned her eyes to meet him, her cheeks gradually turned red.

"Slave servant Xuanyue." The servant girl's short sentence was full of coquettish anger.Jiao Xue Pan's ears were numb when he heard it, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to catch her happily.

Xuan Yue giggled, turned around deftly, and avoided it.Xue Pan wasted no time, but after taking a deep breath, he could smell the body fragrance left by Xuan Yue.

"Good sister," Xue Pan chuckled, and suddenly, taking advantage of Xuan Yue's inattention, he grabbed her hand.

Xue Pan kept touching and sighing, "It's so beautiful, look at your hands, slender and tender, it's a pity that they shouldn't be doing rough work."

"My lord has good eyesight. I was not born to do rough work. I ended up in this situation because of my family's decline." After Xuan Yue finished speaking, she aimed at Xue Pan's handwritten Four Books on the table.

She picked up one and read it carefully.

"It turns out that you come from a wealthy family and you can read! You can read very well. If I had a beautiful maid like you to serve me when I was copying books, I would die willingly!" Xue Pan was overjoyed, and pulled him tightly Xuan Yue's hand coaxed her into her arms, "Why don't you follow me?"

"Uncle Xue, let go!" Xuan Yue suddenly called out, her voice was soft and not too loud, it sounded like she was being coquettish.

Xue Pan thought she was refusing to welcome her, so he happily hugged her and did not let go.

"Uncle Xue, don't...don't, help me!"

"Uncle Xue, what are you doing?" Mrs. Song entered the door, her eyes widened angrily when she saw this scene.

Then several maidservants entered the door one after another, and they all lowered their heads in embarrassment when they saw this.

Xue Pan immediately let go, glanced at Xuanyue in a panic, and hurriedly explained to Mrs. Song: "It's her..."

"Xuan Yue is the person our master likes, Mr. Xue is so courageous." Mrs. Song said fiercely.

Xue Pan was really flustered when he heard this, "I just wanted to tease her, just joking, and never had any other intentions. What do you mean by saying that she is someone your master likes?"

Could this woman be Master Jing's concubine?It shouldn't be, since he is the master's aunt.How can you do the work of a servant.Besides, looking at Master Jing's temperament, he is not a lustful person, how could he want such a coquettish maid, could it be that these people are playing some tricks to deceive him?

"He is the concubine chosen by our respected master for Uncle Zhen. The real uncle has been repairing in the temple for several months, and our master should reward him. This matter is waiting for Master Zhen to come back and take care of him, so we can make a decision. After explaining, Mrs. Song squinted at Xue Pan, "Is this explanation satisfactory to Mr. Xue?"

It turned out to be for Jia Zhen's aunt, which makes sense.But now I am obviously suspected of molesting Brother Zhen and his concubine...

Xue Pan was completely flustered, and explained indiscriminately: "No, no, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to doubt."

After he finished speaking, he regretted it, really, "There is no silver 300 taels here".

Mrs. Song only sneered, her heart was clear, and she graciously refused to argue with Xue Pan.

"When the master comes, everything will be decided."

"Don't, Nanny Song, I beg you, I really didn't do it on purpose. Just help me this time. Whatever you say you want, I'll give you whatever I have." Xue Pan moved his eyes. He pulled Mrs. Song to one side, raised two fingers, and said in a low voice, "How about giving you this number?"

Mrs. Song sneered: "Hmph, you want to buy me for 200 taels?"

Xue Pan heartbroken, "2000 taels, 2000 taels is always okay?"

Mrs. Song laughed again, and turned her head to signal Xue Pan to take a good look at the other people in the room, "What about them?"

"You—" Xue Pan realized that Mrs. Song was playing with him, and he pointed at Mrs. Song bitterly. Just as he was about to speak, he heard noises outside saying that Yan Liang was coming.

Xue Pan shook his lips, before thinking about how to explain himself, Yan Liang had already entered the door.

Mrs. Song was quick to talk, she summed up what had happened in a few sentences and told the master.

Yan Liang glanced at Xue Pan, who was full of embarrassment, and then at Xuan Yue.

"Why are you here?"

Xuanyue knelt tremblingly, crying and explaining to Yan Liang: "Master, this servant just delivered a message for Grandma. Halfway through, I met Chunxi with a stomachache, so I helped her come over to serve tea. I really didn't expect this When I met Uncle Xue, I didn't expect him to treat the servants like this. The servants deserve to die, and the servants failed to guard themselves, which made Uncle Xue take advantage. Huh..." After Xuan Yue finished speaking, she covered her eyes and was going to hit the wall, naturally was stopped by others.

"Master, this servant has no face to live. I beg you, let this servant die! I just hope that the master can reward my family with some money after my death." Xuanyue cried so loudly that she almost collapsed on the ground powerlessly.In this way, she still struggled to get up and hit the wall.

As soon as Yan Liang sat down, his brain ached from this servant girl, and he waved his hand to signal for him to throw her out quickly.

Xuanyue was still crying, she didn't understand why the master didn't get angry, and why he didn't make the decision for her... Two days ago, the master just made the decision to assign her to Uncle Zhen as his concubine, even a concubine, she should be respected yes.

Xuanyue felt that maybe she hadn't cried enough, so she howled harder, and when she went out, Mrs. Song slapped Xuanyue on the face, telling her to shut up.Xuan Yue didn't understand why she was treated so badly, and felt wronged, so she sobbed.Mrs. Song simply took off her shoes and stuffed them into Xuanyue's mouth.

Inside the house, Xue Pan stood there with his head bowed in embarrassment, waiting for reprimand.He took the initiative to deal with Xuan Yue just now, and that maid was quite innocent, and she was dealt with like that, I'm afraid he would have no good fruit to eat.

Clang sound.

Xue Pan immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Jia Jing to apologize.

"She was the one who seduced me first..." Before Xue Pan finished speaking, he heard a barely audible sneer, and hurriedly changed his words, "I also have a problem. I shouldn't be seduced by others. I'm wrong. Yes, I was wrong, I was wrong..."

Xue Pan kowtowed non-stop.

Yan Liang put down the teacup, took over the four books presented by the servant, flipped through them one by one, and confirmed that the handwriting on them was all written by Xue Pan.

"Anyway, you are better than him, and you are obedient. If you like this Xuanyue, you can take it back. It's nothing more than a lowly maidservant. But you have to remember clearly that what you like should be taken in a fair manner. This kind of thing There can be no next time." Yan Liang's tone was very gentle, as if he was discussing with Xue Pan.

Xue Pan himself also had this illusion, but when he secretly raised his eyes and stared at Master Jing, the cold look in his eyes seemed to him to be a dead person.

During these days, Aunt Xue wanted to restrain Xue Pan and make him obedient.There was no less exaggeration in describing to Xue Pan the horror of Master Ningfu. To put it bluntly, what Aunt Xue did was just like many parents, by scaring "disobedient children" to scare him and make him obedient. Xue Pan As Pan got older, Aunt Xue's description of the story was naturally more exaggerated and sounded more reasonable. Therefore, Xue Pan now firmly believes that Master Jing is a very cruel and powerful official who must never be offended.

"I, I, I, I promise!" Xue Pan raised his hand and swore, his legs were shaking, and he almost peed out of fear.He will abstain from sex when he goes back home, at least he has to put away his lust and behave properly when he is outside, otherwise losing his life will be a trivial matter, and if he is sent to the northwest to raise pigs by Master Jing again, he will be really tortured It is better to die than to live.

In this way, Xue Pan got Master Jing's forgiveness with anxiety in his heart, and also got the "reward" Xuan Yue, and led him back.

When Aunt Xue learned about it, she scolded him for being stupid, "You really dare to ask for someone, I think you respect Uncle to punish you to death!"

Xue Pan didn't understand why Aunt Xue said that.

Two days later, Jia Zhen came back.

Xue Pan followed Baoyu and several Jia brothers to go to Jia Zhen for a drink.Jia Zhen didn't say a word to him, even if Xue Pan took the initiative, Jia Zhen ignored him as if he didn't exist, and made him unable to step down in public.Only then did he understand what his mother meant that day.

Besides, Jia Zhen, ever since she learned that Yan Liang was going to pick her up, she has been both happy and uneasy.After he returned home, he was really relieved to see You Shi was well.But for some unknown reason, You Shi gave him a cold look, and when they saw each other, they could only cry and didn't say anything unnecessary.After Jia Zhen tossed and tossed like this a few times, she didn't dare to provoke You Shi.As for the master, it was even more strange. Every time he went to pay his respects to the master, he was always dismissed by Wu Qiumao with various reasons.

It has been five days since he returned to the mansion, and he didn't see the master in a daze.

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