[Red Mansion] Let's listen to a general's order

"Old lady, the second wife is outside with the concubine and Miss Bao, saying that she has something important to see the old lady." Hu Po entered the door and announced, interrupting the conversation between Shi and his two granddaughters.

Shi was taken aback for a moment, and exchanged a glance with Xiao Zhang next to him.Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue still came to bother her knowing that she was inconvenient to see guests. It seemed that something was really urgent.

"Please." Even if you don't give Wang Shi such a bad daughter-in-law face, in view of Aunt Xue's status as the head of the Xue family, Shi Shi still has to give her three points of face.

"Old lady! Please, for the sake of our Jiaxue family's friendship for generations, save my family's Pan'er!" As soon as he entered the door, he couldn't help crying, and Shi Shi, who was unprepared, was frightened. Little Zhang, sisters Yiyu and Daiyu jumped.

After all, she is the wife of everyone who is used to the world, and Mrs. Zhang quickly came back to her senses and persuaded: "My aunt, don't cry in a hurry, let's talk after you calm down!"

Shi Shi also calmed down to comfort Aunt Xue and said, "Auntie, don't cry, talk slowly about what happened, so that the old man can make a long-term plan." He didn't say whether to help or not.

"Pan'er...Pan'er, he..." In a panic, Aunt Xue spoke intermittently, unable to form a sentence.

"Mother! Calm down and talk carefully! If you don't speak clearly, how can the old lady help us save brother!" At the critical moment, Xue Baochai was still calm.

A hint of admiration and pity flashed in Shi's eyes.

This girl from the Xue family has a stable and generous personality, manages the family well, and is quite scheming.Really counting, apart from Shan'er, Tanchun and Xichun in the family are not as good as her.It's a pity that her status is low, she is just the daughter of a businessman, her vision is too small, and she thinks that she, the old lady of the Jia family, can be squeezed out by words to help her.Moreover, there is a confused elder brother and old lady in her mother's family, there are a lot of troubles, the structure is too small, and in the future she will be just the wife of a small official family.

On the contrary, Wang's eyes are full of love and satisfaction.

She planned to let Baoyu marry Baochai. Baochai was her niece, so she would naturally stand with her after entering the door.What's more, Baochai himself is self-denying and reverent, and her manner is grand, which is very much liked by her.In addition, Baochai is also the daughter of the Xue family of the imperial merchant, and the dowry will be rich in the future, so she doesn't have to worry about Baoyu's future life in the future.

After listening to her daughter's words, Aunt Xue seemed to have a backbone. After calming down, she hurriedly said: "So that the old lady can know that my son accidentally bumped into Princess Mingzhu on the street. Please let the princess put a slap in the face of the third master of the mansion, but I don't want to be imprisoned in the prison of Shuntian Mansion under the pretext of pretending to be the champion Hou's family!" Slightly develop the order of things Switch it up, add some embellishments, and things are completely different.

"Oh? Did my concubine ever send someone to investigate in the Shuntian government office?" Shi Shi asked patiently after hearing this.

Wang said worriedly: "My daughter-in-law has already sent Zhou Rui to investigate, but the people in Shuntian Mansion don't give them any favors, not only forbid us to redeem Pan'er, but also return the money they gave them. !"

"Fortunately, Jiayu Village in Shuntian Prefecture is of the same clan as our Jia family. In the past, it was recommended by the master to take up the post of Zhizhong. Our Jia family is kind to him. He revealed that Pan'er's matter has already been reached. God listens, the emperor thinks that there are villains who want to ruin the reputation of the third master, and ordered the Shuntian government to strictly investigate." No matter how bad Xue Pan is, he is also the current head of the Xue family and her nephew.With the support of the Wang family and the Xue family behind her, she was able to stand upright in Rong Enbo's mansion, and have the confidence to compete with her sister-in-law and Xiao Zhang's.

"The princess of Mingzhu is so domineering! My son just collided unintentionally. She didn't even want to give the face of the third master, and directly ordered people to put my son in prison! Poor my son who has never suffered since childhood, nor I know if I have been wronged in the prison!" Aunt Xue complained, but what she said was because Xue Pan was "simple" and thought it would be fine to mention Li Lian's name, but Li Mingzhu ordered her to go to the prison , expressing whether it was because of Li Lian that Xue Pan suffered such misfortune.

In fact, it's okay for her to insist on thinking this way.Li Mingzhu took over Li Lian's position, but his prestige was not as good as Li Lian's. If he was a small-minded person, he would really have a chance to blame Li Lian for this, and hit everything about Li Lian.

Hearing this, Yiyu frowned.I have known for a long time that Aunt Xue dotes on a pair of children, but I didn't expect that in this situation, she is still obsessed with obsession, blindly favoring her family's dumb bully.With his ass, everyone knows that with Xue Pan's virtue, he obviously flirted with Aunt Mingzhu who concealed his identity on the street. After being taught a lesson by Aunt Mingzhu, he used the name of little uncle to intimidate Aunt Mingzhu.Unexpectedly, Aunt Ming Zhu's real identity was the princess of the dynasty and a second-rank general. She had a deep friendship with her uncle, and immediately ordered him to be thrown into prison.Later, it should be Aunt Mingzhu who entered the palace "inadvertently" raised a word with the emperor, and the emperor was furious and ordered a thorough investigation.

Although Yiyu didn't know the truth, she guessed a lot.

Daiyu frowned, dissatisfied that Aunt Xue had wronged Aunt Mingzhu in this way.

Shi Shi had heard about what the Xue family had done in Jinling for a long time, and Aunt Xue and Wang's words could not fool her.

Her face remained unchanged and she said: "Since the matter has been heard by the heavens, and it involves the dignity of the emperor and the royal family, I am not capable of doing anything. My aunt should ask your brother to help! Forgive me for being helpless." Originally Because Wang Ziteng is a rare and capable person among the four major families, she is still very optimistic about him, and indirectly has a little more tolerance for the Wang family, but now she has no good feelings for Wang Ziteng.

Aunt Xue's behavior is decent, and Shi Shi is often willing to sit and chat with her, and has a good impression of her.It's just that this incident is not that simple, and Shi Shi will not easily take matters into his own hands.

Seeing this, Xue Baochai quietly tugged at Aunt Xue's sleeve.

Aunt Xue wiped the corners of her eyes knowingly, and said: "I don't have the face to ask you to do something, old lady, I just hope you can see that Jia and Xue are both four big families, and ask the third master of the house to help you in this My Xue family would be very grateful to the emperor and Princess Mingzhu for saying something in front of me."

"As long as we can save my family's Pan'er, our Xue family can do anything." Aunt Xue gestured with her head sideways.

Yinger quickly put the tray in her hand on the table, and opened the box on the tray, revealing a stack of thick banknotes inside the box.

Yiyu glanced at it casually, and saw that the top one was written with 1000 taels of silver, and there were about thirty or forty of them by visual inspection.

Xue Pan is now charged with two crimes.One is to offend the princess of Mingzhu, and the other is to pretend to be the champion Hou's family.As long as Li Lian is willing to come forward to persuade, Li Mingzhu will definitely let Xue Pan go for Li Lian's sake, and if Li Lian reveals the relationship between Xue Pan and himself in front of the emperor, then the crime of pretending to be the champion Hou family is naturally If it is not established, all these problems will be easily solved.

However, in fact, the above two crimes are not fatal. At most, Xue Pan was tortured in prison until he peeled off a layer of skin.However, Xue Baochai was worried that someone would take advantage of the issue and take the opportunity to seize the title of the Xue family's royal merchant, or as time passed, the Shuntian Mansion would continue to investigate and find out that the two previous life lawsuits of his brother would not be resolved by then. It has to be cut!Therefore, she decided to cut through the mess quickly and directly find a way to find Li Lian to solve the matter as quickly as possible.It can be said that the most critical thing right now is Li Lian's attitude.If Li Lian is willing to save, Xue Pan will live; if Li Lian is unwilling to save, Xue Pan will undoubtedly die.

Mrs. Zhang frowned, her brother-in-law Li Lian had always been close to the eldest son, and her elder sister-in-law could even be said to be his half-mother.Whenever Jia Hu and Jia Lian had children when they were young, Li Lian would definitely have an identical copy.The uncle is in the limelight now, and if he is not careful, he may become a thorn in the side of others. She doesn't want him to get involved in such a mess.

"Auntie, what do you mean by this? Take these back quickly!" Looking at the banknotes worth 4 to [-] taels on the table, Shi Shi didn't even twitch his brows.

"Old lady?" Wang was stunned.

It was she who came up with the idea of ​​asking the old lady to lobby Li Lian.After she "forced the palace" with her elder brother Wang Ziteng to the old lady, she already knew how much the old lady cared about the four big families. She expected that the old lady would definitely not refuse such a trivial request from the Xue family.Unexpectedly, the old lady refused!

Xue Baochai tugged at Aunt Xue's sleeve again.

Aunt Xue hurriedly laughed and said: "Old lady, please don't see outsiders. My Pan'er admires the third master, the great general. It's a pity that I have always been stingy, and I can't meet the third master in person. This is a trivial matter. You can do it on behalf of the third master." Take it, master! When Pan'er comes back, he still has a big gift to give." I just thought that Shi Shi didn't like the mere 4 to [-] taels of silver.

Shi said with an apologetic face: "To tell you the truth, my third son has a very weird temper and never likes me to interfere in his affairs. I told him to go east, but he just went west; I told him to come back more often. It’s better for him to live at home, and move all his belongings to the military camp! This matter, I really can’t help you.”

Regardless of whether Xue Pan flirted with Princess Mingzhu, used Li Lian's name to bully men and women, or Li Mingzhu angered Xue Pan because of Li Lian and threw him into prison, Shi Shi did not intend to let himself and the Jia family , Let the third son get involved in this matter.

If it was the former, Princess Mingzhu would be humiliated. If the third son persuaded her to let Xue Pan go, maybe she would agree, but there would definitely be a gap in her heart.And the emperor loves him, and wants to stand up for the third son and punish those who use his name to bully men and women. If the third son persuades the emperor instead, it will be shameless and make the emperor feel dissatisfied and resentful.

If it was the latter, Princess Mingzhu was already dissatisfied with the third son, and I am afraid that he would not let go easily, and would make things difficult for him, and the third son might lose a lot of face because of it.If you tell the emperor that everything is caused by Princess Mingzhu, the emperor will believe it or not, but he will definitely know that there is a problem between the third son and Princess Mingzhu, and it is unknown who the emperor will favor at that time.

There are too many disadvantages of helping the Xue family, but the benefits... a Xue family who is dying, has no successors, is full of mess, and who knows when will lose the qualifications of the imperial merchant?Shi can say a word of respect and gratitude on behalf of his third son Li Lian.

She valued her old in-laws, but she would not be so stupid as to ask her third son to offend others for the sake of her old in-laws, or even lose her sacred heart.

"Old lady, this is nothing more than a little effort for the third master." Mrs. Wang wanted to persuade Mrs. Shi, but Mrs. Shi was not interested in silver, but she was very keen on the thirty or forty bank notes on the table.

Her family's Yuanchun entered the palace for the glory of the entire Jia family, and life in the palace was miserable, haha, the old lady and sister-in-law were unwilling to give money to support her family's Yuanchun.Although she loves her daughter dearly, her son is her future support, and most of the money in her hand must be left to Zhu'er and Baoyu, so she arranged for Zhou Rui's family to put loan sharks outside, so that they could subsidize Yuanchun.However, after being told by the old dandy that day, the second elder brother ordered her not to do it anymore, even the bills that had already been borrowed money had to be destroyed, and a large sum of money was lost for no reason.If he could get these 4 to [-] taels of banknotes, Yuan Chun would be able to live a little longer and last for a while.

"Shut up! When will it be your turn to intervene in the affairs of the men outside!" Shi Shi looked at Wang Shi in disgust.

She has been tired of this stupid woman for a long time. In order to promote her second son, and at that time, this stupid woman was still honest and obedient, so she reluctantly endured it.But since the "forced palace" incident, she can't wait to order her second son to write a letter of divorce and throw it in the face of this family jerk.However, for the sake of Baoyu, Zhu'er and Yuanchun, as a grandmother, she couldn't let them have an abandoned mother, so she had to hold her nose and endure it.

It's not without reason that Wang Shi was called a stupid woman by Shi Shi. I saw that despite Shi Shi's dissatisfaction, she dared to hit the sisters Yiyu and Daiyu on the side.

"Yiyu, Daiyu, you have the closest relationship with the third master. As long as you persuade the third master and save your big brother Xue's life, your aunt Xue and sister Bao will be very grateful to you!"

As soon as this remark came out, it was difficult to say that Shi Shi's face turned black, even Xiao Zhang, sisters Yiyu and Daiyu, who had been silent all the time, changed their expressions.

It is rare for Mrs. Zhang to speak harshly: "Sisters and sisters, be careful! What do these foreign men's affairs have to do with sisters Yiyu and Daiyu!? Yiyu and Daiyu are the daughters of the servants of the household department, even if you are their second aunt. Qualifications to instruct them! If you want to ask the third child to help your nephew, you can just do it yourself, don't pull them!"

Yiyu snorted coldly: "I have Big Brother Hu, Second Brother Zhu, and Third Brother Lian, but I have never heard of Big Brother Xue! What kind of thing is someone with the surname Xue!?" Xue scolded them all.

Daiyu was also very angry, and a blush appeared on her usually slightly pale face, "Second aunt! Daiyu's surname is Lin, and her uncle's surname is Jia. It's hard to believe that my uncle's family name is Li, but I have never heard of any relatives surnamed Xue! And there are only two sisters of Daiyu, one is the sister of the same mother as Daiyu, and the other is sister Jiashan of the uncle’s family! There is no treasure, baby, gold My sister!" Yiyu and Daiyu have only known Xue's mother and daughter for less than an hour, they are just strangers who know their names, and they have no scruples when they scold.

"Stupid woman!" Shi finally couldn't help cursing, "Jia Wang! You are really capable! You are so good at using your husband's niece to interfere in the affairs of your uncle's house!! You are a big Buddha, and my Jia family can't bear it." I can’t afford it!!!”

Wang's face turned pale with fright, and she fell to the ground with a plop.

Shi's words were too cruel and merciless.

Using the niece of the husband's family is one crime, and meddling in the uncle's house is another crime. If it gets out, the reputation of the daughter of the Wang family will definitely be ruined, and there is no need to marry a good family anymore!

Even if a woman marries into her husband's family, it doesn't mean she is completely from her husband's family.Compared with the niece and daughter who have the blood of her husband's family, she seems to be a lot more outsider.Today Jia Wang can use her husband's niece to do favors, tomorrow she can use her husband's nephew for profit, and the day after tomorrow she can sell her husband's family for her own benefit.

Since Mrs. Zhang married and entered Jia's mansion, it can be said that most of Li Lian's time in Jia's mansion was taken care of by Mrs. Zhang. The relationship between the two parties is close, and as the elder sister-in-law is like a mother, she wants to intervene. Li Lian could only nod his head for the matter in his uncle's room.However, who is she Jia Wang?She is just the second sister-in-law who is not close to Li Lian, so what right does she have to meddle in the affairs of her uncle's house!

Moreover, according to Shi Shi's last sentence, it is clear that he intends to divorce Wang Shi.

"Old lady, my sister doesn't mean that..." To a certain extent, Aunt Xue and Wang are indeed sisters.

Mrs. Zhang interrupted her directly, and said bluntly: "Mrs. Xue, sorry we can't help you with your son's matter. If you really want to ask the third child for help, you can go out of the city and go to Zhuangzi to find him." Let's go! Now we still have some family matters to deal with, so we won't stay with Mrs. Xue any longer, so as not to delay the time to rescue the son!"

"Yuanyang! Hurry up and send Aunt Xue and Miss Xue out!" She turned her head and ordered Shi Shi directly.

Shi Shi was not angry, but felt even more relieved when compared to the idiot in front of him who was terrified and slumped on the ground.

Yuanyang looked at the old lady hesitantly, she was the big maid in the old lady's room, she only listened to the old lady in everything, even if the old lady was the master, she still had to listen to the old lady in front of the old lady.

Shi Shi nodded slightly to her, and Yuanyang felt relieved, and waved to amber, jade, and glass.

"Aunt Xue, Miss Xue, please go this way, be careful of the threshold." One person helped Aunt Xue and Xue Baochai to go out, respectively, kindly and without rejection.

The servants are the ones who can turn the rudder when the wind turns. Seeing that the Xue family is about to lose power, and the old ancestors and the headed wife in the mansion have clearly expressed their dislike for the Xue family, they all quickly changed their address from concubine and Bao girl, It was changed to Aunt Xue and Miss Xue.