The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 274 Hui Baochai judges Jiao Shun with his diploma
It was a coincidence that this day, because Xue Baochai was staying in the Tanchun Xichun courtyard, did not return home until nightfall.

When I entered the door, I saw my mother, who was rarely dressed neatly, was sitting cross-legged on the couch with seven emotions on her face, looking at her with mixed emotions, and she didn't know whether it was joy or sadness.

"Mom, what's the matter?"

Baochai took off her cloak, stepped forward to lean on her mother's shoulder, and asked curiously, "Did Auntie say something to you again today?"

"My son."

Aunt Xue embraced her daughter's shoulders, and said helplessly: "I didn't say anything else, I just said that when we talk about the mortgage in the future, besides us, brother Shun will also be present--it's just the tire business." He knows best."

Xue Baochai's face darkened at first when he heard the words, and then he was relieved. After all, he had already guessed that his aunt was going to climb another branch, and now it was just a complete fulfillment.

She took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from her mother's forehead, and said with a smile: "There is no need to mobilize so many teachers. Our family has been protected by our aunt for so many years, no matter how tight we are, we have to scrape together the money." Come."

After a pause, he brought up the old story again: "It's about our family moving to the old house on Zijin Street. You can take this opportunity to mention it to your aunt."

"This……"

Although Aunt Xue was a scheming person, she also knew why her sister asked Jiao Shun to attend the meeting. At this time, she heard her daughter's refusal, and couldn't help persuading her: "You must have seen what your aunt means. If you ask me, Brother Shun can't compare to Baoyu, and he can be called a good match."

Aunt Xue had said this before, and Baochai did not refute it at that time.

But this time she shook her head slightly: "Brother Bao has his own blessings, what has it to do with us? But Master Jiao..."

After a little hesitation, she sat up straight and said seriously: "Mom also knows that I have used my brother's name to correspond with Mr. Jiao for more than a year. Recently, I have learned a lot from those letters after repeated deliberation."

When she originally communicated with Jiao Shun, she only paid attention to the management methods described above, and at most she lamented that Jiao Shun could achieve something that no one had thought before.

But since she found out that Mrs. Wang's attitude had changed, the importance she attached to Jiao Shun in her subconscious had also subconsciously risen to a higher level.

Recently, in my spare time, I often take out the old letters and read them, and my attention has shifted from the so-called management method to understanding Jiao Shun's character from the details.

Xue Baochai was originally intelligent and penetrating, and was used to observing words and demeanor to see subtleties. After careful consideration, he discovered many details that he hadn't noticed before.

Just listen to her eloquently: "If you look at it in terms of literature, Jiao Shun is honest and cunning, reckless on the outside but cunning on the inside. He seems to be harmonious and exquisite, but he has a lot of ulterior motives, and he was born as a domestic slave. It is not tolerated by scholars to enter an official position as a lucky minister..."

"This kind of people may rise or fall suddenly in the future, but it is absolutely difficult to abide by the rules and keep their duties. It is okay to be cited as Austrian aid, but if they become close friends by marriage, it may be a blessing or a disaster."

"If elder brother can live up to his expectations, that's fine. I'll be the only one who accepts any disasters. But according to elder brother's current disposition, if we really get married, our family will probably become a vassal of the Jiao family, and we will prosper and prosper with him." It's all lost."

"It's fine if he wins the bet by then, but if he loses the bet..."

Having said that, she shook her head again, and there seemed to be something unbearable on her face.

Baochai's analysis is naturally biased due to the limitations of the times, but in general it still portrays the "unruly" and "greedy" in Jiao Shun's bones that belong only to the traversers.

Aunt Xue was dumbfounded when she heard this, and it took a long while before she said dryly: "This, this can't be done? Don't everyone say that Brother Shun has a bright future after getting the Holy Family? Why..."

As she spoke, she shook her head in disbelief, then stared at her daughter and asked, "Is it really as dangerous as you said?"

Xue Baochai had no choice but to smile bitterly: "Although I'm not completely sure, if there is a three-point possibility of such a thing, we have no reason to fill it with wealth and life."

Aunt Xue was silent again.

She is still dubious about her daughter's judgment, but she would rather believe it than believe it in this kind of thing.

After pondering for a long time, she finally nodded and said: "Come on, let's move out as soon as possible according to your advice. There is no shortage of young talents in the capital around here. Let's take our time and find a good match."

"mom!"

Baochai breathed a sigh of relief, and coquettishly groaned in reluctance.

The mother and daughter quarreled for a while, and Aunt Xue became more and more sweaty, so she stripped her pampered body and came out, wrapped her chest and abdomen with a blanket, stretched her long nephrite legs wrapped in smoke, and said worryingly: " Even so, how can you refuse your aunt's kindness? Could it be that what you just said..."

"Absolutely not!"

Xue Baochai quickly objected: "How dare this kind of person offend indiscriminately. If he gains power in the future, what should we do?"

After thinking for a while, she said again: "Actually, my daughter is still a candidate for election, so she shouldn't talk about marriage."

"My son!"

This time Aunt Xue was in a hurry, grabbed her daughter's wrist like a snow sculpture, and said: "It is said that once you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea, I can't bear to let you..."

Baochai interrupted helplessly again: "Mom, this is just an excuse, why do you take it seriously?"

"It's fine if it's not true, it's fine if it's not true."

Only then did Aunt Xue breathe a sigh of relief, she patted Shen Diandian's chest and said, "It's not easy even for your aunt to visit the palace once, if you really do, I'm afraid I'll be blind from crying and it will be hard to see you again."

Baochai smiled, becoming more and more tired of her mother.

After being gentle for a while, she suggested again: "It's best for us to go there early in the morning. Since we don't want to accept this, we should show our attitude early. It's not beautiful to talk about it after we really meet."

Aunt Xue readily agreed.

Silent all night.

The next day, after breakfast, the mother and daughter rushed to Mrs. Wang's house together.

Originally, he wanted to use the pretext of waiting for election to propose to move to live in the old house on Zijin Street, and then said that after raising money in the past few days, he had already collected a sum of money, so that Mrs. Wang didn't need to worry about this matter.

Mrs. Wang is also smart, so it shouldn't be difficult to understand the meaning of this, and then the matter of messing up the mandarin ducks will naturally come to an end.

But before I even thought about entering, I found the atmosphere in the courtyard was very strange, all the maids dared not show their air, even the respectable old mother was silent.

Not to mention Baochai, even Aunt Xue, who had always been belatedly aware of it, saw something was wrong, she couldn't help but slow down, and looked at her daughter beside her.

Baochai immediately whispered: "Everyone is here, I have to go in and have a look, but mother, don't rush to speak, if something serious happens in this mansion, we can't make more trouble."

Aunt Xue nodded in agreement, and the mother and daughter entered the main room.

When Mrs. Wang saw her mother and daughter, she showed some embarrassment on her face, and told them to sit down, she hesitated to speak but stopped sighing, even the fine lines at the corners of her eyes showed a sad expression.

What Baochai said before entering the door was also to remind mother not to be troublesome.

But Aunt Xue couldn't hold back her concern when she saw her sister was so worried, and asked: "Sister, could something go wrong at home?"

Talking about something, she thought of something else, hurriedly pressed her body forward, put a pair of consciences like Yushan on the kang table, and said nervously: "Could it be that something happened to the elder sister's family visit?"

When it comes to discussing the current major events in Rongguo Mansion, this is naturally the most important.

Mrs. Wang originally thought that her mother and daughter came to the door suddenly early in the morning must have heard some troubles, but now seeing Aunt Xue's random speculation, her face immediately softened a lot.

She shook her head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "The matter of visiting relatives has not been approved yet, but it should be soon - I am really troubled by Baoyu's affairs. He ate two more glasses yesterday, and came here to mess around again at night. At night, even the master was alarmed."

While talking, a servant woman rushed in in a panic, opened her mouth to report something, when she saw Aunt Xue, mother and daughter were in line, she faltered again holding the handkerchief.

Seeing this, Xue Baochai was about to find an excuse to escape with her mother, but she didn't want a little maid who stumbled in from outside. She probably ran all the way in a hurry. I was gasping for words.

Mrs. Wang was immediately annoyed when she saw this, she slapped the table and snapped, "I don't usually argue with you, but you are getting more and more satisfied, are there any rules?!"

The servant girl was startled, and subconsciously hissed: "Ma'am, sister Jin, Jin Chuan, she committed suicide by jumping into a well!"

"what?!"

Mrs. Wang straightened up and stood up, then fell back to her seat with weak legs, the blood on her face disappeared completely, she counted the prayer beads with trembling hands, and kept chanting the word 'guilty'.

Aunt Xue was also taken aback when she heard the words, and couldn't help asking: "Is it Jin Chuan in this room? How could she throw herself into a well..."

"aunt."

Xue Baochai thought about Mrs. Wang saying that Baoyu was making trouble at night, and then thinking about Jin Chuan's single-minded thought of going to Baoyu's side recently, she had some vague speculations in her heart, so she hurriedly stopped her mother and said: "The maids are always very naughty, and it may not be on purpose. Jumping into the well, maybe I accidentally slipped and fell into it when I was playing around by the well."

As he said that, he scolded the big and the young again with a straight face: "How can you catch rumors and spread rumors about such things, no wonder the wife said that you have no rules! If the whole house is full of nonsense, wouldn't you just stir up trouble out of thin air?"

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she immediately understood, knowing that the most important thing at this time is to block public opinion, so she hurriedly supported the kang table and got up and said, "That's right, you should pass on the word, so that no one can talk about it!"

After a pause, she ordered again: "Let Zhou Rui's wife go over and have a look. After all, she is the one who has served me, so she can do whatever she wants. Don't wait for her aftermath."

Wait for the two servant girls to take the order and leave.

Mrs. Wang walked up to Baochai, took her by the hand and praised her without a word: "Baochai, I owe it to you to be decisive and sensible just now. If you really let them spread the word and ruin the reputation of the mansion, it's all right. If it affects you When it comes to the important matter of visiting relatives, I don't know how to explain it in front of the old lady and the master."

As she spoke, she shook her head and sighed: "Yesterday, because she was gossiping outside with my words, I hit her a few times in a fit of anger, and kicked her out, thinking that I would bring her back in two days, but I didn't expect... "

Speaking of this, I don't know whether it's the truth or the pretentious red eyes.

"Auntie is a benevolent person, so that's why she thinks so." Seeing this, Xue Baochai hurriedly said with relief: "She is used to being restrained above, and when she goes out, she naturally has to go around to play around. How can she be so generous?" Reasonable! Even if she was really so generous and threw herself into the well, it only proves that she is a fool, which is not a pity."

Mrs. Wang nodded and sighed: "Even though I said this, I'm really uneasy after all."

Baochai smiled nonchalantly and said, "Auntie doesn't need to think about it, but if you reward her with a few taels of silver and send it to her, it will be regarded as fulfilling the love of master and servant."

Mrs. Wang nodded slightly: "It's the only way to go now."

Originally, when she suddenly heard that Jin Chuan had jumped into the well and died, she was flustered and flustered for a while, but now she got a few words from Xue Baochai, and gradually calmed down.

Thinking of Baoyu rushing to look for her yesterday, arguing that she could not promise her elder sister Bao to Jiao Shun, and then thinking about how Baochai was not chaotic in the face of danger, a few words helped to dispel right and wrong, and there was no transgression...

Finally, looking at Baochai's cute and caring appearance, Mrs. Wang's original determination suddenly wavered again.

The main reason why Mrs. Wang wanted to climb another high branch before was naturally that the price of Baoyu was soaring.

But on the other hand, it is also because Mrs. Wang has faintly noticed that Baoyu is very repulsive to this golden and jade marriage, so she simply pushes the boat along.

But Baoyu's eager look yesterday broke this impression again.

And Cai Baochai's performance just now, although it can't completely offset the temptation of "climbing high branches", it also adds a lot of weight to Mrs. Wang's heart.

Just when he was hesitating, Zhou Rui's family from outside hurried over again, but he was not in a hurry to enter the house. He just held a handkerchief outside the door and wiped his sweat pretendingly, while glancing at Xue's mother and daughter.

"You old man!"

At this moment, Mrs. Wang would no longer shy away from her sister and niece, she immediately turned back to Luohan's bed, and shouted to the outside: "If you have anything to do, hurry up and report it!"

Zhou Rui's family understood, and then they crossed the threshold and reported cautiously: "Jin Chuan's family has already taken her back, and I have already given them all the instructions. Her parents knew that she fell into the well by accident, and they only said that the girl was killed. Shallow blessings are thin, no wonder others."

"Amitabha."

Mrs. Wang chanted a Buddhist name, wiped her tears and said: "Although it's because of her stubbornness, she was raised by my side since she was a child. You send 50 taels of silver to her home, and see which of the girls has made new clothes." , take two sets for her to wrap her makeup and bury her."

"This……"

Zhou Rui's family hesitated for a while, wondering: "This year's winter clothes were all distributed in October, but the old lady saw that Miss Lin was thin, so she ordered to add two more, and now I haven't had time to wear them... ...do you see?"

Mrs. Wang frowned, shook her head and said: "Madam Lin is always caring, besides, she was also in trouble, and this dress was rewarded by the old lady herself. The old lady doesn't like it, and she herself is taboo."

After a pause, she couldn't help sighing again: "If it's any other girl, reward her with a few taels of silver and that's all. But even though Jin Chuan'er is a girl, she's always in front of me, and she's about as good as my daughter—now I had to ask the tailor to rush to make two pieces."

As she spoke, she burst into tears again.

Baochai hurriedly said: "My son made two sets before, so it would be easy to bring them to her. Besides, she also wore my old clothes when she was alive, and her stature is not bad."

Mrs. Wang said: "Although this is the case, don't you feel jealous?"

Baochai smiled and said, "Don't worry, Auntie, I never care about these things."

While speaking, he got up and walked out.

Mrs. Wang hastily called two people to go with Miss Bao, and then she personally sent out the door. Seeing Xue Baochai disappearing outside the courtyard, her heart was divided.

After returning to the house, I chatted with Aunt Xue for a while, and suddenly remembered that their mother and daughter came here this morning, and I don't know why.

So he asked Aunt Xue why she came here.

Aunt Xue was not a scheming person in the first place, and without Baochai as the backbone, she reluctantly agreed with her a few words, but in the end she gave up.

I heard my sister said that the money has been raised, and she said that she would move to Zijin Street to wait for the election.

Mrs. Wang felt very bad, both ashamed and pantothenic.

If there were no foreshadowing of the previous things, she would probably have followed the trend, but now these words have the effect of retreating.

Thinking that Baochai will find another good relationship from now on, those good things in her daily life redoubled in Mrs. Wang's heart.

The more she thought about it, the more reluctant she was to give up, she couldn't help pulling Aunt Xue to persuade her, "What are you doing moving out at this moment, don't you want to see Eldest Sister?"

After a pause, he said again: "Besides, it's freezing cold, if you really want to move, you'll have to wait until the spring of the next year to worry about it."

After all, Mrs. Wang still couldn't let go of Pan Gaozhi'er's thoughts, so she deliberately left room for it, so that she could spare time to carefully weigh it.

Just this time...

Jiao Shun's side is a bit difficult to explain.

(End of this chapter)