The Lady of the Farm in the Red Mansion

54 The Persuasion of Baochai

Xiuyan followed Baochai to a pile of woven satin, and Baochai touched a satin of red plum blossoms and said, "Boss, wrap this one for me too!"

The boss was overjoyed to see that he met a big client today.

Baochai walked forward, Xiuyan followed behind, Baochai looked while walking, then turned her head and said: "The red ones are most suitable for making clothes for older middle-aged women. They are neither gorgeous nor elegant. Too cheesy!"

At this moment, Xiuyan thought of her mother, she hadn't been home for a long time, and she didn't know how they were doing, so she turned to the boss and said, "Boss, wrap a horse for that date red one for me too!"

Baochai turned to look at her and said, "Is my sister going to give it to my aunt?"

"En!" Xiuyan nodded and said, "Sister, you have a good eye, help me choose two good ones, I want to give them to my father and younger brother!"

Baochai said: "Since my sister has a heart, why not ask them to come out together someday when she is free. When the time comes, you can choose the material and make the clothes now. Wouldn't it save you a lot of trouble!"

"Then I will trouble my sister again!"

"It's okay, I stay at home anyway!"

Xiuyan fiddled with a piece of green and glittering gold satin and asked: "Didn't Sister Bao say that she would enter the palace to serve as an attendant for the princess?"

Baochai sighed and said, "Well, the world is unpredictable. I had already been admitted. Who would have expected that my brother would forcefully buy Xiangling's sister and beat Feng Xiucai to death. Although it took a lot of money With the power to break through the joints, he was sentenced to manslaughter in the end, but I was still implicated in this matter!"

"So, sister won't be able to enter the palace anymore?"

"Maybe it is!" Thinking of that incident, Baochai was angry and annoyed, but at this point, she had no choice but to accept her fate.

Sister Bao couldn't enter the palace, but Xiuyan was happy for her. Xiuyan comforted her: "Sister Bao doesn't have to regret this matter. Misfortune and blessings depend on it. Not being able to enter the palace is not a good thing! God closes a door , will surely open a window, Sister Bao's good life is not behind that door, but under that window!"

"May I lend you a good word! Hey! This green satin with glittering gold is very good!" Baochai walked to Xiuyan and said.

"Does Sister Bao feel good too?"

"Of course, green with gold, like fire at night, dazzling but not dazzling!"

"Since my sister thinks it's very good, then I'll buy it as a congratulatory gift for Miss Xiangling!"

Baochai waved to Xiangling.

At this moment, Xiang Ling and He Xiang were surrounded by a pile of brightly colored satin, when she saw Baochai beckoning her, she ran over with a ding ding dong dong, smiling all over her face: "What's the matter if the girl called me?"

Baochai said: "Your elder sister Xing is going to give you a piece of green satin with glittering gold. Do you like it?"

"It's up to the two girls!" After saying that, Xiang Ling ran to He Xiang's side with a ding ding dong dong, helping He Xiang pick out the makeup and brocade.

Seeing Xiangling like this, Xiuyan covered her mouth and snickered.

Baochai glanced at her and said, "Speak up if you have anything to say, don't be sneaky around there."

Xiuyan took her hands away, but still couldn't help laughing: "I just thought that after this Xiangling girl married into her sister's house, if she is still like this, and it's all up to the girl to make decisions, then how can she have a relationship! Dare she not be a little sister-in-law, you It's not sister-in-law, you are actually a pair of master and servant!"

"Hey! This is also my headache. As I told my sister, maybe my aura is naturally strong, and even my sister-in-law needs to be taken care of by me, my sister-in-law!"

"But then again, it's rare for sister-in-law and sister-in-law to be able to get along like you. This is also the fate of the two of you!" Xiuyan laughed.

The two people on this side were talking, and Xiangling on the other side shouted anxiously: "Girl, come quickly!"

"What's the matter?" Xiuyan and Baochai walked over together.

Xiang Ling pouted and said: "Sister He Xiang and I accidentally tore this Robb, the boss is calling for compensation!"

I saw the boss standing beside him with a serious face, He Xiang lowered his head and said, "Girl, I didn't do it on purpose, I just wanted to test if it's not strong, and it broke without even a little effort!"

"This is soft smoke, very light and thin, how can it stand up to your tugging." The boss said angrily.

Baochai walked over to touch Luo Bu and asked, "Boss, how much is your gauze? I'll just accompany you. Don't scare them!"

"Girl, this isn't gauze, it's called soft smoke, and it's so precious!"

Baochai said with a smile: "Because of our lack of knowledge, the common people will only mistake soft smoke for organdy, and only you businessmen will use organdy to pass off soft smoke!"

"Girl, don't talk nonsense! I am obviously a soft smoke!"

Seeing the two of them deadlocked, Xiuyan approached and said, "Sister Bao, let me have a look!"

"You also recognize Ruanyanluo?" Baochai was surprised.

"Girl forgot, when I lived in that garden, the window was covered with soft smoke!"

The boss heard that someone used soft smoke to paste the windows, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "Girl, you can brag! That soft smoke is an excellent thing, and you actually use it to paste the windows!"

"That thing is good, but it's too light and soft, and I can't help pulling it, so I can't make clothes, but it's more suitable for window coverings, and it's more suitable for making curtains. It looks like smoke and dreams from a distance, so it's called Soft Smoke Luo!" Xiuyan said while touching the yarn carefully, shaking her head and said, "Boss, your yarn is not soft enough, it is indeed not soft smoke, but the organdy that Sister Bao said, since it is organdy It’s not worth a lot of money! If you don’t believe me, I’ll find out with a real soft cigarette for comparison!”

Seeing that Xiuyan spoke clearly, the boss frowned and began to waver, muttering in his mouth: "Could it be that Boss Zhou really lied to me?"

Seeing the boss's condition, Baochai thought to himself that he probably really didn't know Ruanyan Luo and was deceived, so he didn't bother with him, and said straightforwardly: "Since the conversation is open, the boss will offer a fair price." !"

The boss apologized: "Since it's not worth much, and the girl bought so much cloth from me, forget it! I was also deceived. I offended you just now. Please forgive me, two girls!"

Baochai and Xiuyan looked at each other and smiled, ignored him and continued to stroll around the shop.

Xiangling and Hexiang saw that the trouble was resolved, and continued to visit their places.

Baochai picked up a pink horse and compared it to Xiuyan: "Where does my sister live now?"

"I live at No. 130, Yangliu Hutong, West City!"

"No. 130, Yangliu Hutong, Xicheng?" Baochai was both surprised and delighted.

"What's the matter, Sister Bao, is there something wrong?"

"It's not wrong, but it's a coincidence that our house happens to be No. 130, Yangliu Hutong!"

"Has my sister's family settled down in the capital?" Xiuyan was equally surprised and delighted.

"Yes! For businesses like us, there are more business opportunities in the capital, so we sold our ancestral property in Suzhou and bought the current house!"

"Then we will be neighbors from now on!" Xiuyan took Baochai's hand very excitedly.

Baochai patted Xiuyan's hand with a lot of emotion: "Who said it was not? When I left the garden, I thought that we would never see each other again. Who knew that the world is so small, and what we turned left and right turned to the same place again?" One place. When was my sister’s house built? Since we are neighbors, I have to visit my uncle and aunt.”

Xiuyan bit her lip, she didn't know how to answer, it seemed that she was in a bit of embarrassment now, it wasn't caused by a lady, a trace of embarrassment flashed across her face, she said softly to Baochai: "I told my sister, sister, keep quiet! "

Seeing Xiuyan's nervous expression, Baochai anticipated what was going on, so she caressed her ear and only heard Xiuyan say: "I'm now living in brother Mu's private house, and my parents don't even know about it!"

When Baochai heard this, she was shocked on the spot like Jiao Lei piercing her ears. After a long time, she said in shock: "Sister, you are too bold! Do you know the nature of your actions? It's fine if it gets out! "

"He's Brother Mu!"

"No matter who it is, this kind of behavior will damage your reputation!"

"Brother Mu doesn't have a wife!" Xiuyan tried to defend Brother Mu.

"Since you don't have a wife, why didn't you marry you in in a fair manner? What is it to hide and hide like this?" Baochai complained about Xiuyan.

"He has difficulties!" Xiuyan always tried her best to face Li Mu.

"Is there any reason for marrying a wife, but it's just a shy excuse for not wanting to marry!"

"Sister, brother Mu really has difficulties."

"Sister, you must be naive! On this kind of matter, which man has no grievances, but on the matter of Xiangling, my brother still has a lot of grievances! Which one is acceptable, it's up to us* Him! My younger sister also has to marry your elder brother Mu. If he still insists on not marrying my younger sister, my younger sister should move back to live with her parents earlier, lest she suffer a loss and regret it later!"

The corners of Xiuyan's mouth moved, she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything.

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Seeing that Xiuyan stopped talking, Baochai turned around and put a garnet red antique satin on Xiuyan's body, looked up and down, and nodded in praise: "My sister wears this The antique satin is beautiful!"

Xiuyan took down the piece of satin and folded it, put it back on the desk, and smiled: "My sister doesn't like red ones, so why choose all the red ones for me? I think the autumn-scented one over there is very good. !"

Xiuyan followed Baochai towards the autumn-scented Duanzi, and said as she walked, "When I was your age, I also loved those purple and red ones."

Hearing this, Xiuyan burst out laughing: "Sister Bao, you are only two or three years older than me, how come you are our age, you are that age, it seems like you are so old! "

Baochai said in a solemn voice: "Sister, don't underestimate the difference between these two and three years. People grow up very fast, and it is usually between one and two years old. Let's take last year as an example. Little children who don’t know much about the world, this year, I became the eldest sister who has experienced vicissitudes. In the short three years, I have changed three ways of living. You say, you can still underestimate these three years ?"

Hearing this, Xiuyan felt sad for a while, and growing up was painful. In the struggle between Chai and Dai, sister Bao had been hesitant and painful, and finally she left the field of love completely with despair of love. She grew up, and What kind of difficulties and obstacles will you face on your own growth path?Can I face it like Sister Bao and grow up bravely?Thinking of this, Xiuyan frowned.

Baochai walked in front and didn't hear Xiuyan's answer. She turned around and saw Xiuyan standing there in a daze. She gently stroked Xiuyan's brow and said softly: "Look at you, you frown at every turn. It's the same as Yaner!"

Xiuyan heard Baochai mention Daiyu, grabbed her hand and asked, "Sister Bao, how is sister Lin?"

"I don't know. I haven't been in the garden since I left it. I really want to visit her, but there is always no suitable opportunity!"

As soon as you enter the public house, it's as deep as the sea. How can such a family come in as soon as they say it? Even Sister Bao can't find a suitable reason to see her, so what excuse does Xiuyan have to see her? It suddenly occurred to me that sister Lin had given her a carrier pigeon, and that carrier pigeon was still kept in the house on Xinglong Street.

At this time, He Xiang was wearing a water-red satin made of gold and silver daffodils and shouted: "Girl, I look good in this!"

Xiuyan gave a thumbs up and praised: "Very good!"

He Xiang heard that Xiuyan said it was very good, and waved to the old man holding a ruler on the counter and said: "Master tailor, I want to make clothes out of this brocade, come and measure me!"

The old man slowly moved over with the ruler, measured it from left to right on He Xiang, then turned to the counter to write down, then took another book to He Xiang and said: "This is a model, the girl is sitting over there." Choose slowly, and when you have chosen the style, call the little old man of the ward!" After finishing speaking, he went back to his own business.

He Xiang and Xiang Ling nestled under the clothes rack over there and concentrated on studying the styles of clothes.

Baochai looked towards Xiangling, smiled lightly at Xiuyan and said, "It's like they are bound together when they meet for the first time, and they are inseparable!"

"They're the same age, so it's easy to get close to them!" Xiuyan said.

"My future sister-in-law is just a child, let's pick ours, don't care about them! What kind of clothes does my sister want to make, let me give you advice!"

"I don't know either!" Xiuyan said.

The store owner heard that Xiuyan and the others were going to make clothes, and knew that they were big employers, so he came over and asked, "Does the girl want to make clothes?"

"Yes! I don't know what styles are popular nowadays?"

"Speaking of the most popular style at the moment, of course it's this slim-fit banner!" The shop owner led Xiuyan and the others to a ready-made dress.

Baochai and Xiuyan glanced at each other, Xiuyan pointed to the dress and said, "Isn't this the kind of cheongsam worn by sister Lin Dicuiting at the spring banquet?"

"Yes! It turns out that the girl recognizes it!" the boss said.

"Isn't this cheongsam introduced not long ago? How did it become popular so quickly?"

"Good things naturally spread quickly!" The shop owner is also a master who can talk, "This kind of cheongsam is perfect for a girl with a waist like this!" The shop owner stared at Xiuyan's waist with a little magic .

Baochai noticed the store owner's thoughtfulness, she deliberately supported Xiuyan's shoulders and walked forward, avoiding the store owner's squinting eyes, and said as she walked: "Since my sister likes it, let's take a look at it." Work hard and let my sister measure your size myself!"

Baochai took the ruler from the old tailor's hand and measured it for Xiuyan herself. As she measured it, she praised: "My sister has a good figure, and she is as good as Miss Lin. No wonder Baoyu took a fancy to you at the beginning!"

Xiuyan stretched out her arms, turned her head, and comforted Baochai who had turned behind her and was measuring her shoulder width: "Sister Bao, that's all in the past!"

Baochai looked into her eyes and said: "Silly sister, why are you so secretive? If I care about it, I will naturally hide from you, so why do I get close to you? Since I am close to you, I will naturally let go of it completely." !"

Xiuyan praised in her heart, Sister Bao, Sister Bao, you really are not an ordinary woman, your mind is wider than the sea, your talent is higher than the sky, there are no men in the world who are less than one ten-thousandth of you, but it is because you are so good , the heart is too high, if it is not done well, I am afraid that I will die alone in this life. Sometimes Xiuyan really hopes that Sister Bao will not be so good. If she can be a little bit stupid, a little bit naive, a little bit confused, her life may not be the same. so hard.

"Silly girl, why are you distracted again!" Baochai gently tapped Xiuyan's forehead with the tip of a ruler, "Stand up straight for me, keep your chest up and your belly in!"

Seeing such a graceful figure, the shop owner fondled a few whiskers under his chin.

Seeing this, Baochai hurriedly measured it, hugged Xiuyan, sat down next to Hexiang Xiangling, and warned: "Don't come to the store alone in the future, the owner of the store is eyeing you. If you have to come, you must come." Call me!"

"Could it be that my sister is Wu Song, who can fight tigers!" Xiuyan teased.

Baochai got angry: "Sister, I'm not joking with you, all the men in this world are very bad!"

Xiuyan smiled lightly, but she didn't take Baochai's words seriously. She still believed in men.

"Whether you believe it or not, at least promise me now, and don't come here to make clothes alone in the future!" Seeing Baochai's serious face, Xiuyan agreed to her.

Baochai saw clearly the ugly human nature of the shop owner, and she was no longer in the mood to shop here any longer. After paying the bill she had chosen, she hurried out of the silk tailor shop.

On the street, Baochai, Xiuyan, and Aunt Xue walked in the front, He Xiangxiang Ling followed closely, and Xue Biao was the porter at the end.

Although he also stared at Xiuyan along the way, it can't be said that he didn't have any thoughts, after all, he was a young man with a vigorous blood, but what was in his eyes was more the endless love of the young girl for the young girl, compared to the shop owner's squinting eyes. The attitude is tens of thousands of times more clean and pure. This kind of eager admiration that cannot be expected makes people feel a little distressed in their eyes. This kind of admiration is exactly the same as that of Xiuyan to Brother Mu.

Along the way, Baochai held Xiuyan's hand, took care of her like a younger sister, picked up the white catkins from her hair, and helped her wipe off the rouge on her face with a silk cloth. Chai's hand giggled and said, "Sister, it's so itchy!"

Holding her delicate little face, Baochai couldn't help but praise: "Look at your face, how similar it is to Sister Lin. When I see you, it's like seeing Sister Lin. Before, It's because I owe her too much, and now I want to make up for it but I don't have the chance, you and Sister Lin are very close, so let me do my best, and treat me as if I made up for what I owed Sister Lin!"

Xiuyan could only stand and let her wipe it obediently, the breeze brushed her hair, like a lover's warm hands stroking her amazingly delicate cheeks.

Aunt Xue was stunned, and Xue Biao was even more taken aback.

Aunt Xue turned to Xue Biao and said, "This girl is very nice. I had my eye on it in the garden. I wanted to tell Pan'er, but when I thought about Pan'er's temper, I was afraid that he would ruin such a girl for nothing. Good daughter, thinking that you are not yet married, you asked your sister to find out, but I didn't expect that girl really has someone in her heart! This matter will be stopped!"

Xue Biao looked at Xiuyan's back affectionately and said, "Sister Bao mentioned this to me!"

"It turns out that the tadpole already knew!"

Xue Biao smiled lightly.

Seeing Xue Biao's expression, Aunt Xue seemed to still be in love with Xiuyan, she smiled and pushed his shoulders to encourage him: "My son, if you like it, why don't you go after her, your character and family background are enough to match her! "

"Mom, you also know that sister Xing already has someone in her heart!" Xue Biao's face flashed a trace of melancholy belonging to a man.

"The man is unmarried, the woman is unmarried, as long as you have the heart, go after it. You will not regret it if you try it! If you want, I will say hello to your sister and let her help you. After all, the girl I am I really like it. If she comes into our house, she can also be your sister's companion. Don't think that your sister Bao is very strong. In fact, she is very lonely in her heart. She doesn't want to be with us who are old People say, one is afraid that I will be upset, and the other is that there is a generation gap after all, so I am afraid that they cannot truly understand the girl’s thoughts. Xiangling is just a hairy child who only knows how to cry blindly when something happens, and there is only that child and you Sister Bao can talk!"

Xue Biao smiled: "Mom, dare to love is not to say kiss to me, but to find a companion for my sister!"

Aunt Xue tapped Xue Biao's thick back and said with a smile: "You monkey, you usually look at a very honest and prudent person, but you are also making fun of me, an old man."