The Red Chamber: The Rise of the Shuzi

Chapter 172 Aunt Zhao's Jealousy
But when Aunt Zhao saw Ma Daopo's small-eyed and thin-skinned appearance, she didn't care.

He just asked again: "A few days ago, I asked a servant to send you five hundred coins. Did you ever make an offering for me in front of the Bodhisattva?"

Ma Daopo smiled and said, "How could I forget such an important event? I have already made an offering for my aunt in front of the Medicine King Bodhisattva!"

Pushing Aunt Zhao's teacup to the other side, she said: "Aunt Zhao should drink some tea too, the tea gets cold quickly in this weather!"

As he spoke, his right hand sneakily passed over the teacup, and a pinch of powder melted into the tea without anyone noticing.

"No! It's still cold today!"

Aunt Zhao didn't realize it, she nodded and took a sip of tea.

……

Sit for a while.

Ma Daopo asked again: "Auntie, do you still have plans to offer two more Bodhisattvas for Brother Huan?"

When Aunt Zhao heard the words, she couldn't help sighing: "Amitabha! But if I have more room in my hand, I must go to the temple to make offerings to the Bodhisattva from time to time. It's just that I have more heart but not enough strength right now!"

As she said that, Aunt Zhao felt an inexplicable evil suddenly arise in her heart.

I just feel that there is a way in my heart that can completely get rid of the current situation, but I can't grasp it.

Involuntarily, Aunt Zhao glanced at Ma Daopo.

For this Ma Daopo who is quite famous in Shenjing City, Aunt Zhao knows in her heart that she really has some real skills.

However, Ma Daopo didn't seem to notice Aunt Zhao's actions, she still stared at the hot tea in her cup, blew on it, and took two small sips.

Putting down the teacup, Ma Daopo said: "Auntie, you just need to relax. Brother Huan is still young and needs to study with Baoyu in the Taoist school to study rituals. After two years, Brother Huan will grow up and have the protection of the family. When the time comes, the Holy Majesty in the palace will grace another official with a half-time job, and he will get up!
At that time, no matter how great a meritorious deed is to be done, isn't it all up to your aunt and grandma? "

"Come on, come on! Don't mention that again!"

When Aunt Zhao heard the words "follow Baoyu", she immediately felt uneasy, so she put down her work and complained: "How can I expect to rely on the mansion to seek favor?

In the past few years, in the eyes of the old lady, that Baoyu was the living dragon and phoenix in the mansion, so how could I see other grandchildren?
Counting on the family, I am afraid that I will starve to death!

That is to say, in the past few years, brother Jing of the big house has earned it by himself, and now the whole family is relying on him, so the old lady treats him differently, and even the bastards born to us, the aunt, have risen in status some.

If not, even the girls and boys in the house would dare to mock these powerless girls and brothers in the house!
All of them are things that have forgotten their status! "

It seems to think of the unsatisfactory past few years.

While speaking, Aunt Zhao's face was already full of anger.

Ma Daopo hurriedly comforted her: "Isn't it getting better now? Why is my aunt so angry? Don't be so angry!"

Aunt Zhao didn't say a word, she got up and opened the curtain to have a look, she saw no one, she just turned around and said: "There is no one else in the room, so I will chat with you a few gossips."

Turning around and sitting on the kang, Aunt Zhao drank the cold tea on the table in one go, showing a bit of unwillingness on her face.

……

"Hey……"

Before she could say anything, Aunt Zhao sighed first, and said: "I also know in my heart that it is absolutely impossible to ask Brother Huan to study for scientific examinations, but I can ask him to go to the battlefield to seek military exploits. Don't worry! Right now, this mansion is not reliable, and in the future, we will have to rely on the next door Hou's mansion!"

Slowing down, Aunt Zhao continued: "If you talk about brother Jing next door, the girls and brothers in the house are actually not bad. Every month, they will give them an extra amount of silver from their own house. Brother Huan, who rarely walks around, has never been missed.

But there are relatives, high and low, and Huan Geer is stubborn, and he only cares about taking two taels of silver more every month, and his money is free and easy.I have time to hang out all day long, but I just don't know how to walk around in front of Brother Jing more often!
But I don't know that now that we have a good relationship, we can ask others to help find a job or something in the future, so we can talk, right? !

And his elder sister, who only knows about her family's happy life all day long, and doesn't care about her brother's life or death, but if she helps to say a few good words in front of Brother Jing, the situation will be different now! "

The more she talked, Aunt Zhao felt that the anger and jealousy in her heart were burning more and more!
……

Seeing Aunt Zhao drink up all the tea, Ma Daopo couldn't help but smile a little more on her face.

Hearing Aunt Zhao's complaint again at this moment, she hastily comforted her: "It's the younger brother of the same family, so Lord Jiahou won't care about it!"

"Of course I will take care of it. Brother Jing won't let it go even if it's because of the "Jia" surname, but how to take care of it in the end, how much heart and effort you use, this is just uncertain!"

Aunt Zhao's complexion flickered, "But Brother Jing is the brother over there after all, as long as he can help Brother Huan, I am already grateful in my heart.

What I'm not angry about is the people in our house!
When Mr. Xi was around before, the old lady just favored him, and later even praised Baoyu to the sky like a phoenix egg.

I originally thought that they all came out of our house. Although brother Huan is a concubine, he is still her grandson, isn't he?
But who knows, in the eyes of the old lady, Brother Huan is not even as good as a kid in Baoyu's room! "

Hearing what Aunt Zhao said, Ma Daopo couldn't help but an inexplicable smile flashed in her eyes, and said in her heart: "Isn't the matter going to happen!"

At the moment, he tentatively said: "I still need you to say it? Do you think I can't see it? If you want me to say it, it means that you don't care about it in your heart. However, it's good to just rely on him! "

Cooperating with the powder just now, Ma Daopo's words fell into Aunt Zhao's ears, instantly amplifying the jealousy in her heart by hundreds and thousands.

Immediately, Aunt Zhao couldn't help being moved, and a bold idea suddenly popped up...

……

He secretly looked at Ma Daopo for a while.

Aunt Zhao sighed again, pretending to be helpless and said: "Hey... If you don't let him go, who would dare to do anything to him?"

Hearing Aunt Zhao's words, Ma Daopo secretly rejoiced and said to herself, "This matter has actually been accomplished!"

So, Ma Daopo put down the teacup in her hand, straightened her waist vigorously, with a strange and inexplicable smile on her face, "It's not the old nun, I said something sinister, it means you have no ability, That's what I have to do, if it's someone else, even if they don't dare to do anything openly, they will plot tricks secretly, why would they wait until today?"

Ma Daopo's words seemed to be like snow water poured down from the top of Aunt Zhao's head in the dog days, which made her tremble violently, and felt that her heart suddenly became clear!
Immediately, Aunt Zhao grabbed Ma Daopo's hand and begged, "You have to help me!"

(End of this chapter)