Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

Chapter 105
Who in the Jia family is not born with snobbery and exquisite heart?Seeing that Yingchun didn't have any rules in front of the two masters, he couldn't help but look down on the second girl and secretly laughed at her. This was all an afterthought.

"Why didn't the old lady help the second girl take care of the wet nurse? There are clearly..." marks on her forehead that were scratched by fingernails. Could such a good girl scratch her own face indiscriminately?
It can be seen that Jia Baoyu looked at herself, Yunzhu immediately covered her mouth, and the big words "Forgiveness" flashed in her fluttering eyes.It's all his fault, Jiang Yunxuan is used to the big and the small, which makes her speak a lot more casually now.

You will risk your life by making irresponsible remarks about your master!

Unexpectedly, Jia Baoyu just stopped, looked at Yunzhu for a long time, and then said in a lower voice: "You can tell that the second sister's head was not knocked out, how can you not tell the old lady?"

"Forehead……"

Yunzhu couldn't understand that things like being a housekeeper and a director were not something you were born with.Yingchun's father didn't care about her mother's absence, but she was smart. She wanted to please Mrs. Xing, her aunt's mother, but it seemed that the effect was not good. After all, Mrs. Xing was busy causing trouble for Mrs. Wang. How could she have time to teach her stepdaughter to manage the house?
The most important thing is that Mrs. Xing's level of housekeeping and management seems not to be good.

Seeing Yunzhu dumbfounded, Baoyu couldn't help but slap her.

"I praise you for your intelligence. You can't even turn around this corner." Jia Baoyu bent his fingers and put them against his lips, with a look of contentment on his face. Seeing Yunzhu's attitude of listening attentively, he said proudly: "It's not as good as relying on others." It is self-reliance, and it is better to understand that what others do for oneself is not as good as what one does for oneself.”

Yunzhu felt like an illiterate. She rolled the words on her tongue twice before she roughly understood what they meant.Seeing Jia Baoyu walking away briskly, she had no choice but to trot with her short legs to catch up.

The news that the girls and young men had moved into the Grand View Garden was like wings, and it flew all over Jia's house in just half a day.

If anyone is the most unhappy about this matter, it must be Wang Xifeng.

It is only said that Wang Xifeng left Jia Mu's courtyard and returned to her room. When she arrived at the door, she saw Feng'er coming out and saying hello with a smile: "Grandma is back."

Seeing the little girl's happy expression, Wang Xifeng couldn't help but move forward and asked her, "She looks very happy. What are you so happy about?"

Hearing a bit of displeasure in his grandma's voice, he hurriedly lowered his head and said, "In reply to the second grandma, the second master is back."

"As I was asking why grandma was not here, the slaves said that grandma had gone to pay her respects to the old lady, so the second master felt at ease." Feng'er took it upon himself to add insult to injury, saying that if the master and his wife were happy, they would have a good life.

People below know how to compliment these two couples, just so that they will have less quarrels and the people below will suffer less.

Wang Xifeng wanted to say anything more, when he saw Jia Lian opening the curtain and peeking out. Seeing Wang Xifeng come back, the smile on his face increased a little, but it didn't reach his eyes. He told the little girls not to wait, and then said: "Second Grandma, hurry up Come inside.”

Wang Xifeng stepped into the door and looked around at Jia Lian's face.

Seeing that he was still wearing half-used clothes made the year before last, an outdated sapphire blue cloud-patterned straight gown. If it weren't for his exquisite face, he would look a bit shabby. She asked, "Why do you wear these clothes out? They are all old. You don’t have to let people outside laugh at you because our family can’t even afford new clothes for the men.”

After saying that, she sat casually in front of the makeup mirror and let Ping'er help her change into a long cloud satin coat with a wide robe and large sleeves. She also took off her pearl-green bun and replaced it with a more homely cloud pile.Jia Lian leaned lazily on the bed and didn't say anything. He suppressed his worries and admired the figures of the two beauties.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Wang Xifeng didn't treat Ping'er as an outsider, and asked straight to the point: "The imperial concubine Qian'er said that it was difficult to leave the courtyard of the prostitutes vacant, so she asked the girls to live in it to avoid waste. Alas, they all say that if you don't live in the family, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are. The girls have gone out to live alone and each has to take care of their own accounts. How much extra money will this cost?"

Right now, money is the couple's biggest worry.

After hearing this, Jia Lian's relief disappeared in an instant. He snorted and said with suppressed anger: "Last year there was talk of disasters. There were floods and droughts, but the master was kind and reduced the rent. Today. How's that for you? It's just the beginning of the new year, and there's been a report saying that it hasn't snowed very much, and I'm afraid the spring plowing will be delayed."

"I didn't want to wear these old clothes. I just went to Zhuangzi for a walk. I couldn't be too high-profile."

Wang Xifeng thought for a while and ignored the clothes. She just said: "Last year, only [-]% of the accounts came in. I don't understand the crops. Is the disaster really serious?"

Jia Lian did not reply to her specifically on this matter. He nodded and said something else, "The imperial concubine has solved our urgent needs. When the girls enter the courtyard, you can find a contract and take care of the courtyard as well." If we leave it to them, we will have less worry."

Wang Xifeng was putting on her clothes. When she heard what Jia Lian said, she laughed and said: "They are your sisters after all. Are you determined to drive them away? That's all. Anyway, I am the outsider. If I ask you to be the bad guy, It’s just not me anymore.”

After saying that, without waiting for Jia Lian, he turned to Ping'er and said angrily: "Serve your master well. I will also go and sit at Grandma's place. If she wants to go too, she won't be the only one left."

The couple had the same idea and shaved off all the items that could be shaved off.Moving the girls to live in the provincial parents' garden would give them a good reputation and save money. It was the best of both worlds.

As for the farm matter, that is something that the eldest man of Dongfu should worry about. After all, he is the clan leader.The two of them only need to take care of the Rong Mansion, and they will never be hungry.

Jiangyunxuan is extremely excited now. When they heard that they were going to move to the Grand View Garden, they all felt longing for it.For several days in a row, everyone was full of joy when doing things. Everyone had seen the fairyland-like garden before. Now that they can go in and live in it for a while, wouldn't it be wonderful?
"God's calculations! It's really God's calculations!" Xiao Hong took the water, untied the thrush on the corridor, and was taking care of the bird's bath in the servant's room. When she saw Yunzhu coming in with a bunch of tea bowls, he smiled and joked with her.

"Where are we going to live?" Yun Zhu was also very excited, and soon she would have a single room, which made her feel so happy that she could walk in a trance.

Xiao Hong shook her head, "I didn't say, but the date is set for February 22. I'll find out soon if I think about it!"

This day is really full, Yunzhu let out a snort, and Xiaohong came up and said mischievously: "Good girl, do you still have your mooncakes?"

Xiaohong is very lively in private, which is different from Yunzhu's usual calmness. She is obviously two years older than her, but there is not much difference in stature, and she is innocent in her words and deeds, which makes Yunzhu look like that sister.

"Oh, she looks ordinary. Let's eat later." Yunzhu glanced at her and put down the tea set in his hand. He pinched his throat, pretending to be disgusted, and imitated Xiaohong's example and said coyly.

"Wow! How dare you laugh at me!" The two laughed loudly and chased each other on the small street. They were obviously very happy.

As soon as Huixiang came in, she saw the two of them laughing mischievously, one holding me and the other holding you down. There was an uncontrollable look of disgust between her eyebrows, and her original friendly look was completely gone.

"Sister Huixiang." Xiao Hong raised her head and called out.Yunzhu also called her sister. They were both second-class maids. Huixiang was a little older, so the younger ones still called her sister on weekdays based on the principle of respecting their elders.

Huixiang is now the proud one in Jia Baoyu's house. Although I don't know if she is employed, she is very close to She Yue and a few first-class girls. The people below are accustomed to following the wind and do not dare to underestimate her. Woolen cloth.

She wailed in her heart, sometimes it was invisible, so why did she have to see it.The two got out of bed together, Xiaohong coughed, and went out with Huamei as if nothing had happened, leaving Yunzhu alone in the room at a loss. When she was about to go out, Huixiang blocked the way.

Huixiang was dressed vaguely and brightly. Taking a lesson from their experience, the girls in Jiangyunxuan were very restrained, but now that she was serving in the Baoyu House, she was inevitably dressed more decently than others.

At a glance, not only do they have two more gold hairpins on their heads than Yunzhu and the others, but their slightly raised arms are also lined with a string of bright pearl chains on the snow-white background.

It's too frivolous, Yunzhu sighed in his heart.

"Sister Huixiang, are you looking for me if you have something to do?" I don't want to talk to her, lest Mrs. Wang's eyes get noticed and I feel unhappy, and then I go back and file a lawsuit or something. Isn't this an unreasonable disaster?
What's more, she and Hui Xiang just met by chance, and most of the time they are busy with their own affairs, so there is no relationship at all, so what can I talk about?

The old lady selected several maids in the courtyard. The lady also looked at them and said nothing. This was all what Hu Hui told She Yue.Everyone knew that Jiang Yunxuan's good days were coming to an end, and all the maids were ganging up on each other in private, as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

Maybe Yunzhu, a big fisherman, shouldn’t take it seriously.

"Do you want to watch the second master being abused by these cheap hooves?"

What are you talking about? Yunzhu sneered and said, "Sister Huixiang is right. It's just that the people serving the second master are all old ladies and passers-by. Why do we need to worry about them?"

It’s not certain who will abuse whom.

"Sister Huixiang, sit down slowly. I'll go and clean up the tea room first." Yunzhu almost ran away. Who wants to form an alliance with them? The maid just got some good looks from her master, so she thought she could do it. Arise their Lord.

Actually?

If you really make your superiors unhappy, who cares about your old servant's decency?Kill them all and sell them, clean them up and replace them with new ones.

"Second...Second Master." As soon as Yunzhu opened the door, he saw Jia Baoyu standing at the door upset. She trembled in greeting, thinking that she didn't say anything she shouldn't have just said.

He saw Baoyu put down the edge of the door, turned around and left with a face as heavy as water.Huixiang, who had just explained the art of war so eloquently, saw it and was immediately frightened out of his wits. He hurriedly passed Yunzhu and chased after him, hoping to explain it to him.

Xiaohong listened to half of Yunzhu's words and only spat, "I have asked Baoyu to carry my love a few times. I really think I am a piece of cake!"

The two of them gathered together and muttered, but they couldn't see the corner in the distance. Yuanyang was holding a volume of books, looked at Huixiang thoughtfully, paused, turned around and left.

Yuanyang originally walked around Jiangyunxuan in the name of delivering books, but now that she didn't enter, she naturally returned to Jiamu's courtyard soon.

"You're back so soon? What did Baoyu say? Do you still like it?" The old lady was rubbing a jade Ruyi in her hand while teasing her eyebrows leisurely.I thought to myself that the baby was not happy asking his father to study hard. It would be more comfortable to find him some leisure books to pass the day.

"My slave has not gone to give Baoyu yet." Yuanyang put the book on the table and walked to the old lady. Seeing that there was no one around, he leaned in front of the old lady's knees and kneaded them carefully, and whispered: "My slave, you see that courtyard Here, Huixiang asked Baoyu to express her feelings, because she was afraid of bumping into the second master and making him unhappy, and she was afraid that he would have a problem with you, so she came back first."

Jiangyunxuan is not a big company, and there are many internal agents, so naturally no matter how big or small it is, it cannot be ignored.

So he told the old lady about the conversation between Yunzhu and Huixiang. The old lady lowered her eyelids, with a bit of murderous intent in her eyes, and said softly, "I really don't know what to do. It's not enough to kill a few chickens with a stick to scare the monkeys. Now Yuanchun is here." It's like walking on thin ice in the palace. That was all in the past, but now that Baoyu is planning to become an official at the end of the year, they have to add more trouble."

Yuanyang pretended not to understand that brothers and sisters helped each other. It was something related to the royal family and the Duke's palace, and it was not something she, a maid, could comment on.She just thought about the cloud beads blocking Huixiang in front of Baoyu, making her speechless, and she couldn't help but want to laugh.

"This servant only thinks about that Yunzhu, which is also from our courtyard. Fortunately, she has been influenced by the old lady. She always considers the precious jade, which is rare." Mrs. Wang relied on the idea of ​​​​the emperor's relatives. Fortunately, she and the old lady had the same thoughts. Thinking that Baoyu will have a good future.Now the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are twisted together, and they are very much planning to clean up Baoyu's yard.

But no one is willing to have the upper hand, so they inevitably compete secretly.

Just listening to Yuanyang's words, the old lady seemed not to remember who Yunzhu was. She asked: "Yunzhu, is that the girl who made the fire?"

Yuanyang couldn't help but be surprised. The old lady's memory used to be so clear. There were hundreds of people in the house and she could name everyone she met. But now it seems so blurry that she can't even remember the past three years.

She concealed the sourness in her heart, braced herself up, and coaxed: "The old lady has a really good memory. She was the girl who came to light a fire in our yard three years ago. It was just that Baoyu was joking at that time and pointed out that she and Pearl were sisters. The old lady I took pity on Pearl's face and asked her to make tea."

"Oh, it's her. Qianxue was let out. At that time, the attacker asked her to go over and serve Baoyu." The old lady said slowly to Yuanyang: "A few days ago, she was wrong, so Baoyu didn't get involved. That boy from the Qiu family?"

Before Yuanyang could say anything, the old lady added something to herself: "It's right for you to come back and ask Baoyu to study well. According to Yuanchun's plan, his father will look for opportunities to go abroad after the year. How many days can I take care of him?"

After saying that, he closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep. After a while, he snored slightly.

Since the old lady fell ill last year, her mental state has been up and down like this. Yuanyang piled pillows around the old lady and was about to find someone to wait on her. He heard the old lady whisper again: "Think about it and give it a reward." She should be rewarded for her merits and punished for her mistakes, which is the way of a housekeeper."

"And those two girls..." Xu was talking about housekeeping. After a moment of pause, the old lady muttered a few more words. They were so close that they still couldn't hear what she said clearly, but it was nothing more than a message for the heirs of the family. worry.

Yuanyang's eyes were red. The old lady knew many things in the house, but there was nothing she could do.

(End of this chapter)