The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 395 Aftermath [Continued]

Around the same time that Xing Xiuyan gave birth to his daughter, Xue Pan finally saw his mother and sister in the hut in Qingtang through many layers of reports. In fact, according to common sense, it should be easier for him to enter and exit the Grand View Garden than Jiao Shun. But the overlord is notorious, and he is far less respectable than Jiao, so it is inevitable that he will be restricted.

However, after seeing his mother and younger sister, Xue Pan first danced and told the story of Third Sister You throwing herself into the river and Second Sister You throwing herself into her arms, and then sighed, "Brother Liu is fine, his appearance deserves to be liked by women. , I just didn't expect Brother Jiao to have such a good trick, and he hooked up with Sister Zhen's younger sister without making a fuss."

Seeing his face full of envy and wishing he could replace him, Xue Baochai said with a pretty face, "Brother came here on a special trip, is it just to say these gossips?"

"Uh~"

Only then did Xue Pan think about the business, and hurriedly said: "That's not true, I just want to tell my sister that Brother Jiao is temporarily caught up in the lawsuit, and I'm afraid he won't be able to go to the south for the time being—since he didn't leave, then let's go to the south side yesterday." Do you want to continue what you discussed?"

"Brother Shun got into a lawsuit?"

Aunt Xue was just waving the cattail fan and watching her daughter and son answer each other, but when she heard this, she hurriedly asked, "What kind of lawsuit is it? Does it matter?!"

"Mom, don't worry."

Xue Pan said nonchalantly, "Brother Jiao is the master of suffering. It means that someone tried to trick him, but he was sold out by the people below instead."

Xue Baochai asked a few more questions, and after confirming the specific situation, she pondered for a while, then shook her head helplessly and said: "I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, let's postpone it for two days for the business alliance, and wait for my mother to ask me in person. Let Brother Jiao make a decision."

Xue Pan beamed when he heard this. Although he is usually a bold and reckless person, but this time he was forced to make a blockbuster appearance in front of the royal merchants, but he immediately showed timidity. ribs.

Therefore, I am eager to push it again and again, and it is best that the family can completely give up this idea.

After seeing Xue Pan off, Xue Baochai also left the hut in Qingtang when it was approaching noon, and walked to Hengwu Courtyard, full of embarrassment.

Although Fang Caibao's elder sister Jiao Shun's lace and gossip showed that she didn't care, but Shi Xiangyun lived in the Hengwu courtyard. As Xiangyun's closest sister, how could she not care at all?
If there was no previous almost-engagement incident, Sister Bao would have told Xiangyun directly - at most, she would describe it in a more tactful way.

But now when she said these things, it always seemed to imply provocation—although Shi Xiangyun might not think so carelessly, Xue Baochai still had some concerns.

But to keep it secret, and...

To put it bluntly, Sister Bao is greedy and considerate in everything, but she inevitably thinks too much.

Before he could come up with a result, he had already arrived at the Hengwu courtyard. Xue Baochai hesitated for a while, and decided to go to Shi Xiangyun's room to have a look first, and then play by ear.

Shi Xiangyun was blushing and playing with Cuilu when he suddenly saw Sister Bao coming in from the outside, and hurriedly hid the things in his hand behind his back.

Seeing this, Xue Baochai smiled and said, "What kind of rare plaything did you get, and you want to hide it from me?"

"Nothing, just a letter..."

Shi Xiangyun almost slipped his tongue, so he quickly changed the subject and said, "Why didn't my sister stay in the hut for dinner?"

"I just got the news, I'm afraid you don't know it yet."

Baochai took two steps forward and touched Shi Xiangyun's eyebrows with a scallion-like finger, and said with a smile: "You can put your heart in your stomach safely, Brother Jiao will not leave Beijing for the time being."

I didn't want Shi Xiangyun, but I didn't mean to be surprised at all.

Cui Ling on the side even covered her mouth and said: "So that the girl knows, our girl actually got the news a long time ago--speaking of it, the son-in-law failed to go south with Lord Hou this time, and it has something to do with our girl."

"What's going on here?"

Baochai wondered, "I heard that Brother Jiao had to stay in the capital because he became the victim of a case, but why is it related to Sister Yun?"

Cui Yu was about to explain, but Shi Xiangyun preempted her: "Sister, don't listen to her nonsense, Brother Jiao stayed because of that lawsuit."

Cui Hui argued: "If it wasn't for rushing to write a letter to the girl to explain, how could it delay the auspicious time to go south?"

Listening to their masters and servants answering each other, Xue Baochai quickly pieced together the whole story.

But it turned out that after Jiao Shun confirmed that he could not go south for a short time, he hurriedly ordered people to recover the letter to Shi Xiangyun, and then added a few strokes to it, complaining that he was entangled in the lawsuit from the Ministry of Rites because of the delay in writing the letter. up.

However, the original content of the letter explained that Second Sister You threw herself into her arms, and explained that Second Sister You was overwhelmed with excitement because he brought someone to rescue Third Sister You.

Regarding Jiao Shun's explanation, Xue Baochai didn't really believe it, after all, Xue Pan's vivid description was more than ten times more detailed than these self-deprecating explanations.

After a little hesitation, Xue Baochai shook her round fan lightly and said with a smile: "I don't want me to ask a random question and cause such a big talk-you are not tired of talking, but I am a little thirsty after listening."

When Shi Xiangyun heard the words, he hurriedly asked Cuilu to pour tea.

Taking advantage of the time when the two were alone, Xue Baochai said in a half-serious, half-joking way: "It's said that I lost my mind for a while, but it may not be without reason. My sister sees Brother Jiao again, so I have to interrogate him."

Shi Xiangyun's small face suddenly collapsed, and he sighed: "Sister thinks I'm not good enough? Of course I can see it, but if I really want to care about everything, why don't I fight with Sister Xing to the death first?"

Speaking of this, she bowed her head and played with the concentric Fang Sheng made of folded letters for a while, and then continued: "He was able to explain to me in a hurry, and even delayed the trip because of it, which is already better than others. If it’s less, why should I be harsh and demanding?”

Xue Baochai was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then sighed: "I usually only think of you as a fool, but I forgot that you are also a person trained by the old lady, so naturally you have some great wisdom that we don't have."

"Sister, don't worry."

Shi Xiangyun giggled, and said teasingly: "When you become the second sister-in-law of Bao, you will naturally be the true disciple of the old lady!"

Xue Baochai reluctantly went up to tickle, the two sisters made a fuss, and when Cuihui came in with a teacup, the topic had already turned to something irrelevant.

…………

About an hour later than Xue Baochai, Aunt Zhao heard the news that Jiao Shun was stranded in the capital, and hurriedly found it in Qiushuangzhai.

After entering the room, she dismissed the servant in a preposterous manner, and then locked the door behind her back, then said to Tanchun mysteriously, "Have you heard? The thief didn't make it, so he went to Datong bridge for a walk." Came back in one lap!"

Tan Chun frowned slightly when he heard the words, put down the "Hui Zhuan Song Yue E Wu Mu Wang Jing Zhong Lu" and asked: "It's all at the Datong Bridge Wharf, why didn't it go?"

"It just didn't work out!"

In fact, Aunt Zhao just heard some second-hand news, and immediately said half retelling and half imagining: "I heard that some kind of lawsuit was involved and was intercepted by the people of Dali Temple—huh~ In my opinion, I'm afraid It’s what you said last time that happened!”

Immediately afterwards, he began to diverge his thoughts: "He was born as a slave, and the villain will be rampant when he succeeds. How can he understand the truth of being an official? I'm afraid that not only will he lose his official position in the end, but he will even have to pay for his life!"

Thinking of this, her original thoughts that were ready to move because she heard that Jiao Shun was staying in the capital disappeared without a trace.

Although she is greedy for the five big and three rough benefits, she is not willing to board a broken ship that is about to sink for the sake of short-term happiness.

Originally, I wanted to have a detailed discussion with my daughter, but at this time, I lost interest at all, chatted casually, urged Tanchun to keep an eye on Mrs. Wang as usual, and then returned to the front yard in a dispirited mood.

But after she left, Jia Tanchun gradually became restless.

Standing up and pacing for a while, frowning for a while, and finally stretching out his hand to caress the "Hui Compilation Song Yue E Wu Mu Wang Jing Zhong Lu" for a long time, finally couldn't help but find the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, ready to find Lin Daiyu to inquire about the latest news of the Jiao family.

In Tanchun's life, the most despised heroes are in distress. Although Jiao Shun is not a hero in terms of personal morality, the situation of being squeezed out and framed by traitors because of the implementation of the New Deal still touches her heartstrings.

In a way, she and Third Sister You actually have a lot in common, except that one is obsessed with appearance and the other is obsessed with heroism.

Because she spent a lot of energy in the morning, Lin Daiyu took more than half an hour of sleep in the afternoon, and just woke up when she heard that Tanchun came to the door, so she lazily stretched her muscles and bones while ordering Xueyan to bring him in.

When Tanchun entered the room and saw the situation, he couldn't help but think of the words "the servant helped her to be delicate and weak", but it is definitely inappropriate to compare Concubine Yang to Daiyu, that is exclusive to Sister Bao.

"Why is the third sister coming to see me today when she is free?"

Daiyu saw that she didn't take the initiative to speak, so she asked curiously: "Could it be that you are going to start a poetry club again?"

Shi Xiangyun and Jia Tanchun were the most active in the affairs of the poetry club, and they were usually responsible for making arrangements, so Daiyu asked this question.

"In the middle of the month, there will definitely be a society."

Tanchun regained his composure, but for a moment he didn't know where to start asking, and finally had to ask obliquely: "I heard that my sister went to Jiao's house again in the morning? I don't know how Sister Xing is doing recently..."

"It's already born!"

Daiyu said with a smile: "She's a daughter, her nose, eyebrows and eyes follow her mother's. When the second sister-in-law saw her, she said she would help the matchmaker."

"gave birth?!"

Tanchun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly led Jiao Shun out: "Then Brother Jiao just missed it? Well, it would be nice if we left a day later."

"Brother Jiao couldn't go south due to a lawsuit, so he stood outside the door at that time, and even specifically explained to Mrs. Wen that if anything goes wrong, he will protect the elder first."

Lin Daiyu still had a fresh memory of this, and couldn't help admiring and sighing when she said it.

Tanchun heard it, but she was inexplicably sour. She didn't dare to explore the origin of her emotions, and hurriedly continued to ask: "What kind of lawsuit is it, does it matter?"

"It should be fine."

Lin Daiyu tried her best to recall the few words she heard at that time: "It seems that the people from the Ministry of Rites planned to frame Brother Jiao, but they were exposed. He was stranded in the capital as a sufferer."

Hearing this, Jia Tanchun breathed a sigh of relief, and murmured to himself: "Sure enough, it's mediocre not to be envied by others, but it's just that he stayed in the capital because of this, and I don't know whether it's joy or sorrow..."

"What did sister say?"

Lin Daiyu couldn't hear clearly, but she roughly saw that Tanchun was concerned about Jiao Shun, she couldn't help but said in amazement: "I used to be the third younger sister, what did you think of Brother Jiao, but I didn't want to be so concerned about his affairs."

"That's right, I, I'm just asking casually!"

Tan Chun frantically denied it, but his heart was suddenly in a mess, and suddenly, that coquettish rhetoric came to mind again, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.

…………

slightly earlier.

Mrs. Xu, who was ruthlessly abandoned by Jia Rong, was sitting at home in despair. Suddenly, she got a message from a servant girl in the inner house, saying that Mrs. You asked her to go and serve vegetables, and by the way, discuss the division of housework in the future.

It was a bright day, and without thinking much, Mrs. Xu followed the maid to the inner house.

It's just that when she got to the backyard, she realized that something was wrong as she walked. Youshi hadn't returned to the main courtyard of the back house after the full moon, and she basically separated from Jia Zhen.

But the servant girl led her straight to the main courtyard!

Xu subconsciously stopped in her tracks, and the servant girl urged her repeatedly: "Why isn't grandma leaving? It's almost noon now, so don't delay the time for serving dishes."

"Isn't my wife in a remote courtyard?"

Xu put ten fingers as white as jade, entangled in the sleeves as if twisted, and asked in the middle of his mouth: "Is the wife looking for me, or, or..."

"Don't you know when grandma is gone?"

The servant girl was obviously a little impatient, and she scolded without any respect: "You must listen to Madam's orders, don't you dare not listen to what the master says?"

Seeing that Xu's head was still unmoved, she was even ready to pull.

"Grandma, grandma!"

At this time, Xu's personal servant girl caught up from behind, panting and pointing to the side courtyard, she said, "Madam just sent someone to invite you, please come over, this is Miss Yindie!"

As he spoke, he gave the maid who falsely delivered the imperial decree a hard look.

When Xu heard the words, she seemed to be pardoned, and hurriedly said in a low voice: "I went to see my wife first, and then, and then..."

No matter how you want it, you can't say it.

The servant girl didn't know the truth, but she also knew that Youshi's status is no better than before—she thought it was because Youshi gave birth to a son—so she didn't dare to push her forward, but said with a sneer: "Grandma knows it in her own mind." That’s right, it’s past the first day of the first day and there’s still fifteen left, can the wife still protect you? The grandma used to take it against Joe, but then it’s not...huh!"

Halfway through, she snorted coldly, turned around and walked away.

Xu was weeping in the back. Although these words were ugly, they were the reality that she had to face. After all, the wife had already said that without the support of Uncle Jiao in Beijing, she was at most just protecting herself. How could she still Can you protect yourself?

then……

"Your Uncle Jiao won't be leaving Beijing for the time being."

As soon as he arrived in the other courtyard, Youshi said straight to the point: "Let's invite him over in two days, and you can give him a few cups in front of that old man, so I can make a tiger skin for you."

Xu wept with joy at the moment, but couldn't help worrying immediately: "If the master is annoyed by this, what should I do?"

"do not worry."

Youshi said in a big way: "As long as you don't show your timidity on the spot, and act closer to your Uncle Jiao, I will keep him from making any more moves!"

(End of this chapter)