The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 534 Housewarming [Continued]

The Xue family's old house on Zijin Street.

The luggage was still being unloaded in full swing outside, but Mrs. Xue, supported by her daughter, had already arrived at the courtyard reserved for the second room.

Baoqin was worried that the bumpy road would cause her mother to get sick again and again, and when her mother took a seat in the inner room, she ordered someone to make tea and asked Mrs. Xue repeatedly if she was uncomfortable there.

Second Mrs. Xue said with a smile: "The prescription prescribed by the Imperial Hospital is really different, and I have become more open-minded recently, so I don't think there is anything wrong with it."

My heart is bright, naturally because the Xue family's reputation has been restored, and the Mei family has also received retribution.

Xue Baoqin breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, but also felt more and more grateful for Jiao Shun's kindness in helping her, but sister Lin...

Now is not the time to think about these things, she suppressed these troubles, sat down next to her mother, hugged her mother's arm and said softly: "I see it too, my mother's complexion has improved a lot these days, maybe she won't do it again." For ten and a half months, even the root cause of the disease was cured."

"How many years of stubborn illness, how can it be so easy to cure?"

The Second Mrs. Xue shook her head and laughed, stroked Bao Qin's hair and sighed: "I only hope to live for two more years, to see with my own eyes the success of your brother and sister..."

She originally wanted to say 'start a family and start a career', but suddenly thought that her daughter had just experienced a divorce, and felt that this was a bit inappropriate, so she hurriedly stopped talking.

Just as he was thinking about how to change the subject, he suddenly heard a report from a maid outside, saying that Baochai had come.

Baoqin hurriedly got up to greet her. Not long after, the two sisters came in from the outside, and Baochai smiled and said, "It's good that my aunt is all right. My mother was supposed to come here, but she is harder than you, so I just talked with you." Laijia's aunt chatted a few words, and her face changed. Fortunately, Laijia's aunt saw something wrong and hurriedly asked her to go back to the house to rest, if not..."

After a pause, he said again: "This is our own home. If you have anything to do, just tell my auntie--after a few days when she recovers, let Baoqin take care of the house with me. But I can't hold it."

Mrs. Xue Er heard this, covered her mouth with a handkerchief and smiled and said: "You are a bride to be married, so you don't want to worry too much about these messy things. Fortunately, your sister-in-law is about to pass the door, and she will naturally be there to help you." .”

"Aunt~!"

Baochai snorted coquettishly, and seeing Mrs. Xue Er smiling, she couldn't help coughing. One of Baoqin and Baoqin gave her tea and the other patted her on the back, and called the servant girl to bring in the spittoon.

After a lot of busy work, the Second Mrs. Xue regained her strength, waved her hand to signal the servant girl to take the spittoon away, and sighed helplessly: "When my mother and I were young, we didn't worry about it. The blessings enjoyed are too much, and now things must be reversed to end..."

Speaking of this, she suddenly came to her senses, raised her hand and slapped her forehead in annoyance and said, "Look at me, on such a happy day, I keep talking about something and nothing - I actually want to say that you sisters have been through experience since childhood, In the future, he will be designated to be much stronger than us."

Bao Qin interjected from the side: "Sister is strong, but I wish I could be like my mother when she was young, a rich lady who stretches out her clothes and eats her food."

Baochai just smiled and didn't open her mouth, but looked at Baoqin with something meaningful.

The three of them chatted a few gossips, and the Second Mrs. Xue suddenly ordered: "By the way, I have Su Hexiang here who is pure-hearted and trouble-free. I specially asked a famous doctor to give him a prescription before entering Beijing. The reason is that I am afraid that something bad will happen on the way... "

Before finishing speaking, Baoqin couldn't help but hugged her arm tightly again.

Second Mrs. Xue patted her head with her backhand, and said with a smile, "I'm fine, aren't I? Go find a bottle and ask your sister to bring it back to your aunt."

Bao Qin promised, and then reluctantly let go of her mother, and went outside to ask the maid in charge of medicine for Su Hexiang.

As soon as she left, the two people in the room became serious.

Since Su Hexiang was kept by the maid, she just yelled for someone to bring it in, but now she let Baoqin look for it, Xue Baochai guessed that her aunt must have something to tell her in private.

Sure enough, I heard Mrs. Xue Er said: "Second Fang doesn't have any connections in the capital, so I have, and they all went with your uncle—if it's okay in Jinling, but it seems that I may not be able to go back in a year or two, but I'm afraid of delays." Good thing for your sister."

The Second Mrs. Xue is obviously not optimistic that her illness can be completely cured in the capital, so she is worried that if she has something good or bad, she will miss Xue Biaoqin's marriage.

Xue Biao has been delayed for a few years, and the age for men to marry has always been relatively wide.

But if Baoqin is delayed for four or five years, it will be difficult to find the right family.

The meaning of these words was that he wanted to entrust this matter to Da Fang.

I can't write two Xue characters in this one stroke, and the second wife of Xue is still ill, so Aunt Xue should come forward to preside over the marriage of my niece.

But Baochai didn't immediately agree. After a little hesitation, she reminded obliquely: "This time, I don't know what's going on in my heart. Auntie, why don't you ask her what she means first?"

She hoped that Mrs. Xue could detect the strangeness between Bao Qin and Jiao Shun through inquiry.

But the Second Mrs. Xue misunderstood, and waved her hands again and again: "Your younger sister is not the fourth girl of the Rongguo Mansion, so why is it possible that because of the Mei family's affairs, she has to escape to Buddhism and become an aunt?"

"I didn't mean that."

After all, Xue Baochai was only guessing and had no real evidence, so it was hard to point it out directly, so she had to suggest again: "In short, the meaning of my aunt asking her first is that if she has no other ideas, my mother will naturally not stand by. "

Only then did Mrs. Xue Er hear something strange, and was about to ask what happened when Baoqin came back from the outside holding a small porcelain bottle, so she had no choice but to stop talking, and smiled and beckoned her daughter to give the medicine to Baochai.

Baochai thanked her repeatedly, and took the opportunity to leave: "I am also really worried about my mother. Now that I have got the medicine, I will stop bothering my aunt."

"Baoqin, send your sister off."

"no need……"

After seeing off Baochai politely, Xue Baoqin returned to the room from the outside again, and couldn't help asking curiously: "Mom, what did you say to sister just now?"

I sent her out just now, mainly because I was afraid that she would be embarrassed to hear it face to face. Now that she asked directly, Second Mrs. Xue simply said straight to the point: "I am talking about the lifelong affairs of you and your brother. Now your cousin My cousin has already set a date for her marriage, so it's not easy for our family to be left behind."

Xue Baoqin listened, but hesitated to speak.

Seeing that her mother looked good, she thought about expressing her heart.

But the problem is that she suddenly found out yesterday that she seemed to have robbed sister Lin of her way out. This made her originally firm attitude shaken a little.

After hesitating again and again, in the end he just pretended to be okay, stepped up to the second wife Xue and said coquettishly, "Mom just cares about my brother. I'm still young, so I should be naughty in front of my mother for two more years."

"You girl."

The Second Mrs. Xue caressed her daughter's beautiful hair again, but secretly she couldn't help being suspicious. This girl in her family was never a hider, but she just kept talking, and seemed to have something hard to say.

She thought about it for a while, and chose to pretend not to know for the time being. It would be best if her daughter figured it out and confide in her.

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the other side.

Because Aunt Xue was troubled by "sister's son", she lost her composure in front of Mrs. Xu. Fortunately, Mrs. Xu mistakenly thought that she was unwell, so at least she did not show her flaws.

When she pretended to be tired and lay down on the bed, she thought that she would be ashamed and ashamed, but holding her two heavy consciences, she only felt numb all over her body.

For this reason, she felt more and more ashamed and ashamed, but the more she felt like this, the more lingering was the feeling.

After tossing and turning for a long time, I finally couldn't help but got up and locked the door, and then used the key I kept close to me to open the small box locked with a chain lock, took out wood carvings, poems and paintings from inside, and spread them out on the table. look up.

At this moment, there was a soft 'huh' from outside the door, and immediately Baochai was outside wondering: "Why did mother lock the door?"

Aunt Xue's face turned pale with fright, and she hurriedly put all the things back into the box. When she wanted to lock the lock again, her hands and feet trembled wildly, but she couldn't align with the mechanism of the chain lock.

She was afraid that her daughter would be suspicious if the delay was too long, so she stuffed the box into the cabinet randomly, then opened the door and explained with a forced smile: "I really can't stand the noise, so I just locked the door to be quiet..."

It's good if she didn't explain, the trembling voice like cheese immediately exposed her nervousness.

Xue Baochai raised her eyebrows slightly, but she didn't reveal her mother's panic. She walked in nonchalantly and said, "I said, just in time, I got a bottle of styrax from my aunt. I heard it was specially prepared by someone. Mom, try it quickly and see if it works. .”

Saying that, while handing the Su Hexiang to Aunt Xue, she secretly scanned the situation in the room.

There was nothing unusual about it, except that there was a small box missing from the dressing table. Xue Baochai vaguely remembered that her mother would secretly hide in the house by herself from time to time, playing with the objects inside.

She thought it was a relic left by her father, but seeing her mother's change of voice and color today, it seems that this is not the case.

Could it be that……

Her face turned red all of a sudden, and seeing Aunt Xue was pulling out the plug to sniff the Su Hexiang inside, she hurriedly said: "Mother took the medicine, and she just took a rest, and Xue Biao and I are watching outside—besides Now, Big Brother Jiao is still here, so there won't be any accidents."

With that said, he turned around and went out the door as if fleeing.

Although Aunt Xue felt that her daughter's behavior was a bit wrong, she escaped with great difficulty, so naturally she didn't care to investigate further.

So he locked the door again, first put the Su Hexiang on the dressing table, and then took out the box. He wanted to lock it directly, but Bai Shengsheng hesitated for a long time with his finger on it, and finally he couldn't help it. The cover, and the wood carvings and poems and paintings inside were taken out again.

This time she simply took it directly to the bed, put the poem and painting on the same level as the pillow, and carefully covered the wood carving between the towering towers. She didn't know what she thought of, and her beautiful eyes gradually blurred...

Let's talk about Xue Baochai.

She came out of her mother's room, her heart pounding.

But shame is shame, after all, she is not a crippled Taoist in her bones. Considering that her father has been dead for several years, and her mother is in the age of tiger and wolf, it seems not surprising that she would use that kind of thing. Too much.

It's just that after this incident, Aunt Xue's impression in her heart was that besides being a mother, she also had a woman's side.

And think along this line of thought, like my future mother-in-law, now my aunt Mrs. Wang also often locks the door behind her, and is alone in the house...

Could it be that a woman of this age is really...

"Sister? Sister!"

Just as he was out of his mind, Xue Pan's loud voice suddenly sounded in his ears. Xue Baochai was startled, but when he raised his head, he met Xue Pan's big copper bell eyes full of doubts. He couldn't help but took half a step back, and complained : "When did my brother come here? It's so sudden and frightening."

"I came back early, I called you several times and you didn't answer."

Seeing that his sister was scared, Xue Pan scratched his head and smiled naively.

At this time, Xue Biao also stepped forward to salute sister Zun.

Seeing that there were only two of their cousins, Xue Baochai couldn't help being surprised and said, "Where's Brother Jiao?"

"It was agreed to have wine at our house."

Xue Pan immediately said with a little displeasure: "Who would have thought that just now Rongguo Mansion sent someone to send a letter, saying that the emperor ordered someone to copy an official document for him. He was afraid of something urgent, so he had to go back."

Baochai understood, because she was worried that her brother would be reckless and break her mother's...

So he deliberately explained: "My mother is not feeling well, so she has already fallen asleep. Brother, if you need anything, just call me, and don't bother mother."

"Got it, got it."

Xue Pan first readily agreed, and then asked about Aunt Xue's condition. He was relieved when he heard that there was nothing serious.

At this time, a maid came to report the matter, but Baochai had to go to check it out because she didn't speak clearly.

As soon as she walked away, Xue Pan patted Xue Biao's shoulder carelessly and said: "Brother Tad, just stare outside, I am also a little uncomfortable, let's eat a few cups and relax."

Saying that, regardless of how Xue Biao reacted, he walked away.

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Mercedes-Benz carriage.

Jiao Shun leaned against the pillow with a look of bad luck.

He originally thought that in the name of celebrating the Xue family's housewarming, he would stay and have a drink at night, maybe he could make some progress with Aunt Xue - if not, it would be fine if he could get closer with Bao Qin.

Unexpectedly, the emperor suddenly sent someone to send a copy of the "Protocol on the Official System of Engineering and Learning", which completely disturbed his good business.

In fact, he had already read the so-called protocol through other channels. Not to mention the emperor's disapproval of the conditions set out above, even he was absolutely determined to be accommodating.

Originally thought that the emperor would go to fight with the officials, but looking at the meaning, it seems that he wants to push this trouble on his own head.

But Jiao Shun didn't want to confront the officials head-on.

Ok……

Maybe we can think of a way from the nobles?

They contributed both money and effort, just wanting to get a share of the engineering education. In order to achieve this goal, they will definitely not sit back and watch the civil servants take all the middle and high-level official positions into their pockets.

(End of this chapter)