Walking into the Red Mansion starts from the maid

When they caught up with her, several girls asked if everything was okay, but she kept silent. When asked, she started to yell, saying that her brain was swollen and she cut off her back, but she didn't pay attention to what happened behind her.

"There are too many people. Maybe I tripped and fell. Let's go quickly!"

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Although the Ying'er family did not recognize the younger ones, they were familiar with Qingwen and Yunzhu. Seeing that they were from Rongguo Mansion and looking at the mess outside, they hurriedly opened a crack in the door and pulled the few people in.

The visitor was Ying'er's mother, who took her husband's family name of Wang, and everyone called her Lao Wang's mother.It was lucky to say that after Baochai got engaged, he released her from slavery, rented a house, and raised her in the capital, showing her dignity as a future concubine.

For Lao Wang's mother, she didn't have to work all day long, and her own daughter was proud of Baochai, so her life was decent and comfortable.

"I'm causing trouble to you. I came here in a hurry and didn't bring anything with me. I just caused trouble for you..."

"What are you talking about? Where did you come back from? Are you not hurt? God, what a blessing. Mrs. Ye handed over a letter and told me to close the door. I was scared to death!" Old Wang Ma looked pale and slightly panicked. , I saw that several people were all beards and tails, and I was immediately relieved.

Old Mrs. Ye is Mingyan’s mother, and she is currently maintaining the herbs in Yihong Courtyard.

"You mean the government knows what's going on?"

Seeing that Lao Wang's mother didn't speak, Yunzhu changed the subject and flattered her without leaving any trace.

Don't you see, kung fu is always in the subtleties. One day when Lao Wang Ma was gossiping, she would be bald. If she put her own name on it, it would be more useful than taking pictures in front of Baoyu.

"We came from West Street and went to Tianqi Temple today to pray for blessings. This happened to us. Tell us about this luck. You are praying for Baoyu. We only hope that he will be on the list by the end of the year. Let us not suffer this sin in vain."

Lao Wang Ma responded with a smile.

Qingwen and others were washing their faces in the side room. Yunzhu's calmness made Lao Wang's mother smile, and she couldn't help but twist a handkerchief for her.

She didn't find out any information. She was so tight-lipped. It's no wonder Baochai showed kindness to her.

After making an appointment to visit him in a few days, several people walked along the ditch at the back door. When they turned to Ningrong Vice Street, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

Before reaching the wall of Rongguo Mansion, someone shouted, "Stop, what are you doing!"

Probably because she was embarrassed by the harsh words of 'stop', Qingwen's tone was not condescending, her head was slightly lowered but she grasped the style of the Duke's mansion tightly, "We are from Rongguo's mansion, and we leave the mansion under the orders of the lord." For those who work, this is a badge."

The soldier in armor looked at his waist badge and saw that Qingwen was beautiful and smart. He softened his words and said, "Today's situation is special. Someone just reported that a young master from Prince Zhongshun's palace is traveling alone. He was assassinated and is now unconscious, have you seen him?"

Several people quickly denied Sanlian.

Perhaps for the sake of Rongguo Mansion, the soldier took out another portrait and described the young master's outfit.

Yunzhu was covered in cold sweat, and suddenly staggered on the spot. Seeing the soldier looking over, he quickly calmed down and said, "The skirt is broken, haha, the skirt is broken."

As he spoke, he did not forget to kick up the missing skirt with his toes.

When they entered the corner gate of Rongguo Mansion, Yunzhu was still frightened. Wasn't that portrait... wasn't it...

Qingwen pursed her lips. She was often busy in the shop and had seen about eight hundred people, if not a thousand. She couldn't remember the origin of the portrait, so she didn't dare to speak.

Now that he entered the Rongguo Mansion, he saw that the house still looked comfortable, wealthy, and peaceful, so he lowered his guard and whispered, "Why does that portrait look so familiar to me? Have we seen it somewhere?"

Yunzhu pretended to be stupid, "What?"

Fangguan affirmed, "I remember it was the rogue."

Qingwen was stunned, "Then you didn't say anything just now?"

"This is the first time I have seen such a soldier. I...I was scared." Fangguan looked timidly and couldn't help but look at Yunzhu. She saw her master take out a dagger from his sleeve. Could it be...

Yunzhu shook his head, "I don't think so. Even if it is true, there are so many people. Is it possible for us weaklings to hurt a young master?"

She was sure, but Fang Guan was stunned.

As servants like them, who could avoid being exposed to fishy things in their daily lives, they naturally did not want to have anything to do with some loyal and obedient young master from the prince's family. Since I didn't mention it just now, it would naturally rot in their stomachs from now on.

After all, for a family like that, a wave of their sleeves is enough for them to drink a pot, so how can they rush to cause trouble?

Because of the surgery, Yunzhu has not only been very calm these past two days, but also has a hint of sadness on her usually smiling face.

When Qi Xie saw it, he touched her head and asked, "Did you be frightened by the riot yesterday? It's okay. The uncle of Dongfu has already taken it out, and it has nothing to do with our house. You just have to do your own thing." Now, don’t be afraid.”

"Sister Qi, I heard that the young master of Prince Zhongshun's family is still awake." The two houses have never had any friendship, and the servants in the house naturally rarely talk about each other's gossip. Yunzhu's question made Qixie dumbfounded. A flash.

"I don't know either." What should she say?

Qi Xie couldn't say such dirty words to a little baby like hurting her lower body.

She took Yunzhu to the tea room, "I remember your birthday falls on these days. What do you want? Let's ask Baoyu to open the warehouse."

This is of course a joke.

However, it is a tacit thing in Yihong Courtyard to give treasures and jade as a gift to a maid on her birthday.She glanced at Qi Xie and said cautiously, "Everything is fine. We don't lack anything now, but I can't think of what I want for the moment."

Silver is the best.

But she was embarrassed to say that money was not the most important thing in the Jia family. Although everyone loved it, she really talked about it and asked people to say that she didn't know anything behind her back.

Qixie nodded in agreement and teased her, "Yes, my wife said that she would let some servants out of the house. She was about to open a small warehouse to pick up some rewards, and thought she would bring them out for you. Since you said so... then... It’s up to me to do it.”

"Let him out of the house?" Yunzhu's ears stood up, and he saw that Qi Xie's face was not fake, and even looked a little solemn. He didn't care about the gold and silver, and went straight to his future.

"We didn't mention this matter in the yard." Qi Xie vaguely told her guess.

When the two of them left, they asked a few big girls to divide the power of the affairs in the courtyard.Mrs. Wang liked Qi Xie's honesty and appropriateness, so Qi Xie was in charge of most of the personnel and financial affairs. It was natural that she would be the first to know about the changes.

Just this thunderous news fell in Yunzhu's ears, which was like the beginning of layoffs.If Rong Guofu is regarded as a company, its branches, which are almost blood transfusions, have become empty shells one after another. Although the head office is still operating as usual, the financial situation is very pessimistic.

Didn't he realize that after Wang Xifeng filled in half of the dowry and discovered that it was a bottomless pit, he would rather divorce his wife and go to court than leave?

The matter of reconciliation has not yet been finalized, but her attitude of leaving the house and living alone has clearly announced to the world her determination to draw a clear line with Jia's house.

But she didn't go back to live with the Wang family, but lived in her dowry village, which meant that the Wang family didn't agree with her separation, at least not now.

But the family's economic crisis has come, and Sister Feng's lessons have made several daughters-in-law frightened, and they have tightened their dowry money bags. This is one of the reasons why Tanchun took advantage of the situation and proposed a cost-saving policy.

However, the fact that such a policy that degrades the dignity of the aristocracy was unanimously passed and implemented smoothly shows that the Jia family is now extremely poor.

We are so poor that it seems reasonable to lay people off in secret.

Seeing that Qixie didn't care about this matter, thinking that his recklessness had not been reported, he felt at ease and had time to care about other things, "This time there is chaos in the capital, Baoyu said that he would follow Mr. Lian Let’s go see Second Grandma, what should we prepare?”

"No need to prepare."

Seeing that there was no one around, Qixie trusted Yunzhu, so she didn't mind speaking bluntly, "What the second grandma did is called unfilial to the Wang family, and disobedient to the Jia family. The second grandma of the Wang family is so rebellious." The girl will definitely bring trouble to my nephew's marriage, I'm afraid there will be a lot of complaints... There is trouble outside, and my wife will definitely not allow Baoyu to leave the house."

Mrs. Wang would not agree with Jia Baoyu to visit Wang Xifeng.

Yunzhu hurriedly agreed. Now, outsiders are using the excuse of courtiers to hook up with foreign ministers, and they are searching the capital. Uncle Zhen from Dongfu is confused and bought a few refugees to go home to work. He is caught in the whirlpool of the storm, which is very melancholy.

This also gave Yunzhu a big wake-up call. This big ship was finally coming to an end.

She was frightened and sad in her heart, but thinking that it was not time to be afraid, she quickly adjusted her mentality and regained her surface calmness.

When the gossip from Prince Zhongshun came again, the injured young master not only failed to recover from his injuries, but was almost caught by the inquiring soldiers and taken to prison. After a lot of torture, the high fever burned him to death. A fool.

After hearing this, the old emperor suddenly understood, but he just demoted the soldiers who came to Xishan and rewarded him with a hundred gold coins to appease Prince Zhongshun.

Yunzhu let out a long sigh of relief. Good luck to you, fool. No one believes what he says.

"Is it gone?" When Youshi came to the door, the old lady was doing acupuncture. Behind her were seven or eight servants. After hesitating for a moment, he personally stepped forward to adjust the number for the old lady, not forgetting to complain about his master. After being bluffed, he didn't even get a hundred gold in compensation.

She arrived early, and soon Mrs. Xing and Mrs. Wang also came with their respective women.

Mrs. Wang made a shaky appearance in front of the old lady, and after asking Zhou Rui's family to serve her again and again, she finally managed to tell her that there was a severe drought, and the village leaders collectively sent a letter asking for support, but she really had no money.

As he said this, he did not forget to glance at the row of huge top boxes in Jia Mu's room.

Seeing that Mrs. Jia closed her eyes and said nothing, Mrs. Wang couldn't care about anything else. Her whole body seemed to be sore and weak. She sat on the chair next to the old lady and cried, "I just said that brother Zhen next door suddenly made your majesty suspicious. Old lady, if there really is no charter, how would the people in the Military and Horse Department know that there are refugees in the East Mansion? Those of the Zhen family... I'm afraid His Majesty is also suspicious of our master!"

Mrs. Wang was not a smart person, but now she said such words. Mother Jia's eyes turned red after hearing this. She patted her arm and raised her eyes to move to the newly built top boxes in the house one by one.

He said slowly, "Now that Zheng'er is not here, you have to be stable."

How can it be stable?Since I came to Hainan and took office, every time I came to the government, I would do some routine things, all of which were asking for money, ranging from a few hundred taels to thousands.

The old lady is not allowed to touch the money sent by the Zhen family. How can she be stable?
Even though the Zhen family stated that this was a 'thank you gift', the old lady still looked ahead and collected all the money sent by the Zhen family and was not allowed to spend it.Could it be that he is waiting to regret it in the future and then send it back to the Zhen family?
When Mrs. Wang's plan failed, she tried another one.

Speaking of letting go of some servants who are no longer needed in the house, it can also reduce the cost of spending. According to the words of the third girl, mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are.

Mother Jia raised her hand and said solemnly that the Jia family had never had such a practice. She said in a deep voice, "Is this your idea or the third girl's?"

Mrs. Wang frowned, lowered her head and acquiesced that it was her own idea.

"We use them when they are young and don't care about them when they are old. The method of using people to move forward and not using people to move behind..." Thinking of how many times the eldest lady had cried out for poverty and set her sights on the money sent by the Zhen family, she said tiredly, "If I say it out loud, I'm afraid it will make people laugh, and it will also hurt Yin Zhi."

The old lady, who had always been wealthy and happy, was driven out of control by money several times, so she relented and said, "My old lady has half of her feet in the ground. There is nothing to worry about about those things outside her body. After a while, I asked Yuanyang to take my pair of cards and set aside 1." Come and use it at home."

Don't ask about the Zhen family's money. When the Zhen family came, they divided the gift list into yin and yang. It was obvious that the thank you gift for the eldest wife was tens of thousands. After a month, they turned their attention to the other gift. Come.

The old lady had to suspect that there was something fishy about the housekeeper.

But when someone who has been neglecting his family for many years talks about these trivial things, he will inevitably lose his energy and cannot tell the truth from the lie for a while, so he has to resort to money offensive to silence Mrs. Wang.

Nowadays, the situation in Beijing is unclear, and several officials have been dismissed one after another under the pretext of collusion.However, Ningrong and his family were full of weird people. After standing on the bank, they saw that they had nothing to do with their own family, so they soon started a new round of debauchery.

This time, Mrs. Wang dug out 1 taels of silver from the old lady's dowry. After getting the advantage, she couldn't control it. She cried every other day, but she managed Rongguo Mansion just like before.

After Mr. Lian over there vomited blood for a while, he became even more aggressive in matters with men and women, and completely forgot about Sister Feng in Zhuangzi.I thought to myself, everyone is procrastinating. The worst thing is not to be a jue. Anyway, the family's money will not be spent in a few lifetimes, so it doesn't matter.

"Well, Sister Qi, Baoyu gave me a piece of floral satin on my husband's birthday. Is it too expensive?" Nine-year-old Yunzhu was rarely vague.

Of course she wanted it secretly, but this batch of 500 taels of makeup and satin was just a bit... too extravagant to give away to the servants.

"Don't be alarmed. The one we got from Musk Moon first is two pieces. This is old year's satin. The pattern is out of date and it's not worth the price. The third girl asked the masters to use it as they please."

Got it, let’s eliminate inventory.

Although the colors and patterns are a bit old-fashioned, the material itself is excellent, as soft as clouds and as silky as a beautiful woman's skin. It cannot be embroidered, but when made into a lining, it is simply amazing.

Even if it is made into outer clothes?Jia Baoyu rewarded it with his own hands. When the girl next to her knew about it, she was only envious and would not care if the pattern was out of date.

But Zhao San is right, wealth should not be revealed.

After listening to Qixie's words, Yunzhu happily cut out a nightgown that night, and she only had to wait for it to pass through the water before she could put it on.

Coupled with the satin she had received in the past two years, Yunzhu thought with satisfaction that she had enough underwear to cut for a lifetime.Thinking like this, I subconsciously moved into the space, but suddenly I remembered that the space was too small and there was no room for clothes twice the size of me.

However, the satin bullets were not seen flying out for a long time. Yunzhu immediately broke out in a cold sweat and thought, "Did I swallow it?"