The Hulk of the Red Chamber

Although Shi Taijun had no choice but to agree to the marriage between Xue Baochai and Jia Baoyu because he was hindering the wishes of Concubine Xiande, he was really suffocated and couldn't sleep well for several days. The stupid woman who came out was pinched in the palm of her hand, and she was almost out of breath in the middle of the night.

However, things have come to this point, and Shi Taijun can only hope that this marriage will bring enough benefits to his precious grandson!Apart from money, the Xue family has nothing else, and they have to have a brother-in-law who is always getting into trouble.Then, if the Xue family can climb up to someone like him, dowry must be indispensable!But Shi Taijun also knows that Xue Baochai is a daughter after all, even if Xue Wang's family loves her as a daughter, she can get two or three achievements of the Xue family's property, which is great.

Because in the inner house, both Shi Taijun and Mrs. Wang have extremely high expectations for the Xue family's property. Who made the Xue family famous for its pearls like earth and gold like iron!According to their thinking, no matter what, the Xue family should give Xue Baochai a dowry of two to three hundred thousand taels!

But in fact, the Xue family is far less glamorous than they imagined. Although Xue Pan is determined to start a business, but, first of all, he is extravagant by nature and spends money like running water. The most important thing is that he is not born to be a businessman. If there is power, then a fool can earn a fortune, but the problem is that the Xue family is not what it used to be, without the help of the General Secretary, even with the help of those old shopkeepers in the past, the profit is far from what it used to be.Fortunately, he is still in charge of the imperial merchant's errand, and can receive some money and food from the Ministry of Households every year, so he won't be sitting on nothing.

In the past two years, the Xue family has filled a lot of money in the bottomless pit of the Jia family. Even before Xue Wang's family went to Beijing, they disposed of many of the Xue family's shops and fields, so much money has already affected the daily life of the Xue family. Business cash flows.The newly married daughter-in-law Xia Jingui is also from an imperial merchant family, she is much smarter than Xue Pan, at least, Xia Jingui can use the money from the public office, and will never use her own private house.However, Wang Xue was worried about Xia Jingui's dowry, and hoped that he could also reap the wealth of Xia's family. To Xia Jingui, his daughter-in-law, she was responsive to every request and did not dare to speak unkind words.Therefore, even if Xia Jingui ruined countless fat ducks and geese in order to eat some fried bones, he could only say something wrong behind his back.

With more output and less input, the Xue family's property has been shrinking. Even if Mrs. Wang beat around the bush with her younger sister, expressly implying that Xue Baochai's dowry situation is also intended to make Xue Baochai's dowry look decent, but the bottom line There, no matter how much Xue Pan loved his sister, he couldn't really give her half of the family property. There was also Xia Jingui who was there to fan the flames, with yin and yang, and Xue Wang's affairs were naturally even more timid.

Because she was worried about nights and dreams, Xue Wang was in a hurry to settle the matter to avoid complications, but when it came to buying the dowry, it was a little troublesome.The Xue family has a solid background, but it is a businessman after all, even if it is married to Jia Baoyu, Jia Baoyu is just a commoner, even if he occupies the concubine Xiande's light, people call him Uncle Guo, but that is private That's all for the next thing, serious uncle, that's the queen's brother, concubine Xiande, to put it bluntly, is just a concubine!Jia Baoyu still has no title or job, even if the Xue family has any good things, they are not worthy of use!

Even if Xue Baochai could use it, Xia Jingui stared at it, her eyes were very vicious, and when she saw what precious treasure Xue Wang took, she immediately yelled: "It turns out that only my sister-in-law is your own. I can't pick it up, but I want to give the whole Xue family to my sister-in-law as a dowry! Hey, when you came to ask me to marry me, what did you say, the uncle is the only son, and the Xue family will belong to the uncle in the future! Now Well, my sister-in-law climbed up to the son of Rongguo Mansion, and wanted to hollow out the Xue family!..."

Xia Jingui was messing around there, and Xue Wangshi wanted to argue, so she was going to seek death and life, and Xue Pan stiffened his neck twice, but was immediately coaxed by Xia Jingui, and Baochan, the girl next to her, was kicked away. He slapped his face, coaxing Xue Pan to immerse himself in the gentleness, pretending to be ignorant of the open and secret struggle between Xue Wangshi and Xia Jingui.

Xue Baochai has always been virtuous and generous. Seeing Xue Wang's heart ache with anger, she comforted her gently, and said that her sister-in-law is the one who will accompany her brother for the rest of her life. After all, her brother is the head of the family, and she was going to get married. As long as my sister-in-law can persuade my brother to make progress, that is better than anything else. Xia Jingui, who heard Xue Baochai's words outside the window, snorted coldly, turned her head and left. She has always hated Xue Baochai's behavior and felt that Xue Baochai was hypocritical. , Not a word of truth to my family.

When the Xue family was preparing the dowry hastily, an accident happened to Concubine Xiande, and she gave birth prematurely.

No one could find out what happened in the palace. Anyway, when Concubine Xiande was eight months pregnant, she fell for no reason and gave birth prematurely.There is a folk saying that seven lives and eight do not live. Even in the palace, there are many medical masters, but they only temporarily saved the child's life. Concubine Xiande suffered a massive bleeding after childbirth. , she was in a coma for several days before waking up. After waking up, she looked at the newborn baby who couldn’t cry as loudly as a meow, and heard the imperial doctor tell her tactfully that because of the injury to her body, she might not be able to conceive again in this life. There was a burst of resentment in her heart, even if she didn't know anything about medical skills, she also knew that even if this child could survive, he would only be a sick child for the rest of his life, and naturally there was no possibility of seizing the heir.Her mind was spinning rapidly, thinking about who killed her and her child in this matter, and she must take revenge.

The Jia family only heard that Concubine Xiande had given birth to a dragon son, and mother and child were safe, so they jumped up for joy. Mrs. Wang wanted to pass the sign to the palace to see her daughter, but word spread in the palace that Concubine Xiande needed to rest and see no outsiders. I also heard that the Holy One rewarded the Fengzao Palace, so I felt that there was nothing wrong with Yuanchun. The Jia family immediately started to celebrate. Ingratiate yourself.

Even if Shi Taijun sent a post again, the historian's reaction to this matter is still extremely cold, and the historian does not need to be involved in such things now, especially, the current state of the Jia family makes Shi Ding, who has already cultivated and almost perfected. Both the Shi Nai brothers smell something bad, Shi Taijun won't listen to them anyway, and they don't need to take risks for a kinship concubine who doesn't know how far away, it's better to concentrate on their own affairs .

Lin Daiyu was stunned for a moment when she heard about Jia's family, and sighed: "When the moon is full, it will lose money, and when the water is full, it will overflow. Grandma's house is too ostentatious!"

Shi Hong was holding a small hammer on one side, helping her knock the walnuts, and said in his mouth: "You are pregnant with a child, don't think about it! Anyway, Concubine Xiande still has a prince here! Your Majesty is always lenient and will never call The prince has an offended mother clan!"

Lin Daiyu knew that these were just words of consolation, but she still felt a lot better: "Yes, even if the eldest cousin has a prince, even if the second sister is married, life will be easier!"

Shi Hong nodded, Yingchun is also the little prince's aunt after all, as long as the Sun family doesn't lose their minds and go crazy, after Yingchun gets married, they will always have a good life!

Yes, Yingchun was going to get married, who made Jia Baoyu wait to get married, so he had to marry the older Yingchun first.The preparation of the dowry was very hasty, because no good wood could be found for a while. After looking for Shi Taijun several times, Wang Xifeng got Shi Taijun's permission to pick out a set of sizes from the warehouse according to the measurements from Sun's house. The furniture is roughly the same. It was there when Jia Daishan’s concubine brother married his wife. It’s just that the brother’s fortune was so poor that he didn’t even have an heir. , these were all left in the warehouse, firstly because it was unlucky, and secondly, the person who entered the door did not come from a wealthy family, and the dowry furniture was ordinary rosewood wood, and the furniture carving was also ordinary, and the patterns were also unusual. It was old, and now it was hurriedly painted again, and it was stuffed into the dowry for the Spring Festival.

Because no one was willing to pay for it, Wang Xifeng worked hard to make Yingchun's dowry look more attractive, and dug out some heavy and heavy boxes from the storeroom that had fallen into dust for some time, and put them on display in Yingchun's own room. All the original things were also given to Yingchun as a dowry, but Yingchun was originally a concubine, so she would not come to trouble, plus the servants were sneaky and sneaky, and often secretly sold Yingchun's things, and there were not many valuable things in her house , adding up all the jewelries, ten boxes were barely packed, and they were all spread out as much as possible. Antique calligraphy and paintings are even less pitiful. Even a cruel person like Wang Xifeng feels that Yingchun is really pitiful. That's a lot, so she paid out a little of the extra silver from the dowry, put it all together, and left 2000 taels of silver for Yingchun to press the bottom of the box.

In the end, it was Tanchun and Xichun who looked shameless and secretly took out their private money, but they didn't have any money, and the monthly allowance was just enough, and in the end they reluctantly paid for it. After scraping together five or sixty taels of silver, Tanchun was incapable of making decisions after all, and had nothing else to offer, so he had to hurry up and make a lot of small needles and threads. She didn't care about it, but she didn't wrong her very much in terms of spending. Although the monthly rules were limited, Xichun directly made the decision, and sent some decorations from the Dongfu in her house, except for a few as facades, and the others were all in her head. The child was stuffed into Yingchun.

Yingchun is already discouraged now, seeing Tanchun Xichun like this, she just smiled wryly and said: "Why do you bother to do this, you gave it to me, what are you doing?"

Tanchun hated Yingchun even more, and told Yingchun to stand up by himself anyway, if he couldn't even control the servants below, let alone that martial artist Sun Shaozu!Xichun was very straightforward: "Second sister, you want to get married, it's just a makeup that our sisters gave in advance! They ruined your life, second sister, and we girls have nothing to do. If these external things can help second sister, how long will you live?" The comfortable days are worth it!"

Yingchun's heart was filled with soreness, she shed tears and said: "I only have a few days left in my life to live comfortably, and these things I took will only make people more greedy!"

No matter how reluctant Yingchun was, the old lady of the Sun family went through a hasty cutscene when she was about to settle down. The old lady of the Sun family looked at Yingchun's thin dowry list, and her face fell down on the spot after being read. Sun Shaozu also sneered With a sound, he rewarded the dowry sender indiscriminately, then turned and went back.

The next day, Yingchun hurriedly got married from the Rongguo Mansion, leading to a marriage destined to be dark.