The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 267 Xifeng is suspicious about Jiao Shun

It is still this afternoon.

At the same time as Mrs. Xing rushed to the East Mansion, Aunt Xue also found the warm pavilion where Mrs. Wang usually rested.

The two of her sisters have always been informal, and Aunt Xue is very casual. When entering the door, she stripped off all her burdens and lay on the couch. After being steamed by the ubiquitous heating, she even took off her shoes and socks, and ordered the maid I brought a basin of hot water, poured some flower essence into it, and soaked the two slightly plump white bare feet, until the meat chondroitin was soaked, and even the breath became heavy.

Seeing her in such a bad state, Mrs. Wang shook her head again and again: "The poor Baochai is a good person, otherwise you would have taught me to ruin it!"

Saying that, he urgently ordered Jin Chuan to get Aunt Xue a blanket to cover her body.

Aunt Xue smiled nonchalantly, specially let me choose a breathable and thin one, put it on the chest and abdomen, and changed a comfortable posture on her own, and then said straight to the point: "What happened yesterday, I will go back I mentioned it to Baochai, and she said..."

"Not urgent."

Mrs. Wang didn't want her words to be overheard, so she hurriedly stopped her and said, "It's not too late to talk about it after soaking your feet."

Jin Chuan knew it when he heard the string, and immediately took the initiative to help Aunt Xue scrub and wash it carefully, and then carefully wrapped it in a towel to dry.

Holding the crescent moon in her hands, she couldn't help secretly praising her, saying that Miss Bao is comparable to Concubine Yang, but after all, she is still young and lacks style, but Aunt Xue's pampered body is comparable to Concubine Yang The coquettish state.

After wiping, Jin Chuan didn't wait for Mrs. Wang's order, but greeted the left and right and retreated together, leaving Mrs. Wang, Aunt Xue and sisters alone.

When she got outside, she dispersed others and guarded the door.

It seems that he is loyal to protect the lord, but in fact he is full of thoughts on how to transfer to Baoyu's side, so as to fill the vacancy left by Qingwen.

She had hinted at this a few times recently, but the enemy made every move, even if he didn't dare to open his mouth in front of his wife, he was so angry that he died of anger.

Seeing Qingwen's absence, she has been vacant for half a year, and there should be a certain number a year ago, and Jin Chuan's heart is becoming more and more anxious, thinking that it is better to just spend enough capital, but he is afraid that Baoyu will not be wiped out. Acknowledgement.

Being in a dilemma, Zhou Rui's family came to find him.

"I heard that Grandma Zhen in Dongfu is happy!"

Seeing Jin Chuan guarding the door, he knew that there were probably some betrayals inside, so he didn't dare to trespass, and only said to Jin Chuan: "The eldest lady has already visited, Miss Lao, go in and report, see Mrs. What kind of charter is it?"

If there is no premise of 'the eldest wife has already visited', this matter can be pushed back.

But since the eldest wife has already been there, Mrs. Wang can't help but respond.

Jin Chuan hesitated for a moment, then turned and knocked on the door.

After a while, the voice of "come in" echoed in the room, and Jin Chuan pushed the door open and told Mrs. Wang about the matter.

It was a coincidence that Mrs. Wang heard that Xue's family was in trouble, so Baochai wanted to discuss a way to get the best of both worlds face to face, so she muttered in her heart, worried that this always smart niece would puncture herself in person. careful thinking.

Just as he was hesitating how to answer, he happened to be reported by Jin Chuan.

Mrs. Wang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, took the opportunity to ignore this issue for the time being, got up and said: "Since the sister-in-law has already visited, we don't want to be left behind - go and call Feng girl and Zhu'er wife, and let's go together." Go visit and visit."

Aunt Xue got up from Arhat's bed in a hurry when she heard the words, saying she wanted to follow her to have a look.

"Hurry up and stop!"

Mrs. Wang held her down quickly, and persuaded her angrily: "Your body, which is afraid of cold and heat, is okay with me. After all, no one picks on you. If you are in front of the children, wouldn't it be the same?" Decent? It's better to suffer less, and let Bao girl go through tomorrow."

Aunt Xue thought of wearing a skirt and tormenting in the 'steamer', so she was so timid that she followed suit.

After comforting her, Mrs. Wang changed the hall and waited for Li Wan and Wang Xifeng to meet up.

However, when the news reached Wang Xifeng's home, Wang Xifeng was holding Ping'er to discuss whether to stop Jiao Shun to speak face to face, or send someone to contact him secretly.

After all, this time I want to find out about Mrs. Wang's thoughts and movements, so it's not good to come to the door with great fanfare—it's fine for others, at least they must avoid Yu Chuan's eyes and ears.

"Follow me."

After drawing up several methods that were not suitable, Ping'er couldn't help complaining: "Grandma shouldn't have left this errand, it's very convenient for their men to walk around and communicate outside, so we don't need to think about things at home?"

"What are you talking about!"

Wang Xifeng glared: "He is a slave who went out of my room, no matter how promising he is, he should be the one in my palm. If he pushes it on the second master's head, wouldn't it appear that I can't control him anymore?!"

After a pause, she gritted her teeth again and said angrily: "If you say that this monkey boy is really ungrateful, this time my wife asked him to appraise the price of the shop, but he never let us know about it. Put it in your eyes!"

Ping'er hurriedly excused Jiao Shun: "This is probably the wife's intention. If the wife hadn't repeatedly asked, brother Shun would not have kept the truth from us."

Wang Xifeng thought it was the same reason, and became more and more restless.

She was able to cover the sky with one hand in the Rongguo Mansion, and her biggest reliance was Mrs. Wang, her aunt. If Mrs. Wang was dissatisfied, there would be Li Wan who could justify her.

At that time, if it's just a separation of powers, it's fine. If the husband and wife are sent back to the Dongkua courtyard, to be under the control of the Jia Shexing family...

Wang Xifeng shuddered, feeling fear for her own future for the first time.

At this moment, Mrs. Wang suddenly sent someone to invite her.

Wang Xifeng didn't dare to be negligent, so while asking Ping'er to wait on the cloak, she hurriedly asked his wife if there was anything she wanted to order.

She was slightly relieved when she heard that it was You Shi who was upset and specially called everyone to visit.

After sending the old woman away, Wang Xifeng gritted her teeth and said to Ping'er: "I don't care much now, you can find a way to inform Jiao Shun, and we will meet in the garden tomorrow!"

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Although she was full of apprehension, Wang Xifeng still smiled when she saw Mrs. Wang, and began to show her loyalty with one foot in and one foot out: "Our wife didn't say anything about such a big matter, it's thanks to the wife Remember me, or sister-in-law Zhen will say something wrong about me again."

"How dare she talk about you?"

Li Wan, who came first, heard the words, and immediately joked: "If you don't scold her, she will burn incense and worship Buddha."

Wang Xifeng was originally jealous of Li Wan, but now because of Mrs. Wang's change, she became even more hostile. Seeing that she came earlier than herself, she started to mutter in her heart, secretly thinking that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are planning something in private?
However, she still had a smile on her lips: "Speaking of burning incense and worshiping Buddha, I heard that sister-in-law Zhen invited a Guanyin to send her son to her home recently, but I don't know where she asked for it? It is so effective. Wait until tomorrow I'll take one too."

There is a saying that the speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention.

Thinking of the true face of the Guanyin who sent the child, Li Wan's face showed some strangeness, fearing that others would find out that he was wrong, so he hurriedly lowered his head to avoid Wang Xifeng's sight.

However, because Wang Xifeng was suspicious, she was observing the expressions of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with a good eye, and happened to catch Li Wan's abnormality in her eyes, and the misunderstanding became more and more serious for a while.

At this time, the cars and sedan chairs outside were all ready, and Mrs. Wang was about to lead her daughter-in-law and niece to the Ningguo Mansion, but suddenly there came an imperial edict outside, saying that Jia Baoyu was invited to the palace to face the saint.

This is the fifth time since August that she has been summoned, and Mrs. Wang has become accustomed to it, and is no longer as nervous as before.

But no matter how much you take it for granted, you have to repeat what should be prepared and explained before you can feel at ease.

So Mrs. Wang appointed Li Wan and Wang Xifeng to visit on her behalf, while she hurried to Baoyu courtyard.

But without the accompanying elder like her, it would be more convenient for Wang Xifeng and Li Wan to enter and leave the Ningguo Mansion.

Speechless all the way.

After meeting Youshi and the greetings were over, Wang Xifeng teased half-truthfully: "You have made many friends recently, but you only left me out in the cold. In the past, I should have been the first to hear about this! "

Li Wan immediately pointed at Wang Xifeng and said with a smile: "Look at what she said, she looks like an abandoned woman who is loved by no one, but those in the eastern and western mansions don't know that she is the only one in this big family who has a good husband. Brother Lian didn't dare to go out for two full months!"

"Say yes!"

Youshi was not to be outdone: "She said that I neglected her, and I blame you for neglecting me——I haven't seen you at the door for more than a month. What I knew was that I was pregnant. What I didn't know was that I thought you were at home. Hatching eggs."

The three sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law laughed and laughed, seemingly in harmony, but Wang Xifeng faintly noticed that the relationship between Li Wan and You Shi was much closer and tacit than she imagined, and she even faintly felt some sense of rejection.

This made Wang Xifeng very vigilant. Youshi is by no means a fool. Now that the head grandmother who has always been close to her doesn't want to win over, she chooses to burn Li Wan's cold stove. Could it be that she heard some rumors and saw some omens ?
Thinking of this, she became more and more anxious about tomorrow's meeting.

In addition to wanting to find out Mrs. Wang's thoughts from Jiao Shun's mouth, I also want him to help point out the crux of the matter, and how to make up for it-firstly, it is clear to the bystanders, and secondly, Jiao Shun has so many wonderful ideas recently that he can even make up for it. I've helped Baoyu figure out the holy will, so what's the problem with this little thing for me?
The three of them spent half a day thinking about each other.Seeing the slanting sun outside, Wang Xifeng and Li Wan refused Youshi's persuasion, and prepared to leave and return to Rongguo Mansion.

With a flat stomach, Youshi sent them all the way to the gate of the courtyard, and then said to Li Wan with a pun: "Now that I'm pregnant, I will definitely have to recuperate for a while, and it's all right for you. Don't worry, you won't be dragged around by me all the time."

But it turned out that because Li Wan was worried about being hit by the Xing family, he took the initiative to alienate Jiao Shun recently, and calculated with his fingers, he hadn't been in that small courtyard for more than a month.

Strange to say.

Originally, she didn't realize that she took the initiative to distance herself from Jiao Shun, but now she heard You Shi said that she would thank the guests behind closed doors, Li Wan tossed and turned and couldn't sleep when he returned home, his mind was full of the days and nights in the small courtyard.

On the second day, he didn't even think about food or tea. During the day, he was inexplicably hot and hot, and at night, he was lonely and cold. As soon as he closed his eyes, he saw Jiao Shun's strong figure, as if he had some kind of withdrawal reaction.

This is a later story, let's not mention it.

But in the evening, when Jiao Shun came back from the yamen, as soon as he entered the house, he saw Xiang Ling wrapping up Xing Xiu's smoke and thinking, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Why, she asked you to start a poetry club again?"

Xing Xiuyan hurriedly stepped forward to help him take off his cloak and official robe, and complained half-truthfully in his mouth: "I didn't take it seriously when I mentioned it casually. I'm going to serve tea and water at the poetry club."

Jiao Shun laughed, and while pulling off his sleeves, he took out a few body deeds from inside, and handed them to Xing Xiuyan, saying: "It's good to start a poetry club to relieve boredom—I didn't ask you to pick the leader, but Fan and Miss Lin Let me tell you, she decided to show her support, and when we donate a sum of money to the poetry club, who can pick us?"

Xiangling next to her was also nodding with anticipation.

Xing Xiuyan didn't argue with each other, and looked down at the deeds one by one, seeing two maidservants and a middle-aged couple, she couldn't help but wondered: "Our family is adding another person? But this yard can't live anymore, right? "

Ever since Xing Xiuyan passed through the door, the north room of the East Wing became the exclusive dormitory for the two of them, but the south room was purposely vacated as a study room—Xiang Ling and Yu Chuan, who originally lived there, moved to the north room of the West Wing with Siqi , only take turns to go to the East Chamber every day to watch the night.

Counting Qingwen and Wu'er who live in the south room of the West Wing, and the servants and cooks who live in the inverted seat, the courtyard is full, not to say crowded.

Even the old house of the Lai family lived in Grandma Hu's grandson and the coachman of Jiao's family.

Now four more people are added, but how can they move around?

"It's not our family, but your family is going to add someone."

Jiao Shun signaled Yu Chuan to take out the casual clothes and put them on, tied her arms and let her button them up, and explained to Xing Xiuyan: "When your parents move to a new house at the end of winter, there will always be a few servants around you—this I entrusted someone to look after it, now let’s make a final decision, so that they can go over and arrange the layout in advance."

It's fine before going through the door, but now that he has arrived at Jiao's house, Jiao Shun still misses his parents, how can Xing Xiuyan not be moved?

For a moment, the circles of his eyes were red, and he wished he could throw himself into Jiao Shun's arms immediately, but it was difficult to show it in front of the maids.

After a long while, she whispered: "If Master really wants to lead this poetry club, I will have the cheek to ask Sister Lin, but... it's just that Mr. Bao will probably also join the club by then."

Jiao Shun suddenly realized that she was avoiding this, so she never responded to this matter.

"Can't I still trust you?"

He immediately smiled: "I asked you to start the poetry club, just because I didn't want you to be bored at home all day, and I didn't want to do anything. If you get angry in the poetry club, no matter who it is, you just throw your face back on the spot. Don't weaken our Jiao family's strength of character!"

Xing Xiuyan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the words, and decided to find Lin Daiyu the next day to lead the poetry club.

At this time, Jiao Shun put on the big cloak again, and confessed to Xing Xiuyan: "Master Zheng invited me to have a drink, you should also eat earlier."

It is said to be eating wine, but in fact, the matter of valuation has already begun, and I have to explain it face to face.

But he said that he was sent out of the house by Xing Xiuyan and the others, and ran into his mother Xu's head-on without wanting to.

Mrs. Xu couldn't help but dragged her son into a corner, and whispered: "Ping'er just came to me and said that he asked you to meet in another courtyard tomorrow, and specifically told you to keep it from the maids in the house—— What's the matter, why do you have to carry someone behind your back?"

Ping'er invited herself, and even specifically told the maids not to know?

Jiao Shun was taken aback for a moment, then he had a guess in his heart, he smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, sister Ping'er can still harm me?"

(End of this chapter)