Gourmet Red Chamber: A Chronicle of Baochai's Rebirth

Chapter 75 Another Life

"By the way, Sister Feng, I asked you yesterday to bring over all the maids and women who were present when Master Lian showed up.

If the people in Rongguo Mansion come to their senses and ask you for someone, you must not give it to them at will."

Wang Xifeng nodded, she naturally knew this.

In Rongguo Mansion, she always told people to pay attention to this and to be careful about that. This was the first time that someone thought more carefully than she did and told her to do so.

It feels surprisingly good.

After Yu Xin and Xue Pan had breakfast, they were served by the servants and went to work.

Wang Xifeng had the morning meal with Mrs. Xue and Niuniu, and then went to look for Xue Baobao.

Sure enough, I saw Xue Baobao taking care of the herbs, fruits and vegetables in her large garden, and Lin Daiyu was also there, even carrying a bucket to water it herself!

Wang Xifeng was greatly surprised, and Niu Niu was even more anxious to do it herself.

Wang Xifeng did not restrain her and watched her carefully watering the flowers and trees under Lin Daiyu's guidance while chatting with Xue Baobao.

In the evening, Yu Xin took the female teacher into the house, and Xue Baobao personally prepared a table of food.

Out of joy, they dug out a jar of peach blossom stuffing that had been buried the year before. The family happily ate it and went back to their houses to rest.

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The next day, Wang Xifeng did not come to greet Mrs. Xue early in the morning. Instead, she asked the female gentleman to teach her how to read the character for hour.

Thinking that Niuniu could also be enlightened, he put Niuniu next to him to learn with him, and then went to find Xue Baobao and the other sisters to eat together.

After eating the meal, Wang Xifeng continued to learn to read and write from the female teacher.

In the past, she was always restless and could even walk a few minutes faster than others. She originally thought that she would not be able to concentrate on learning calligraphy, but she did not expect that she actually sat down and spent the whole morning writing quickly as she clumsily held the pen. It's over.

After having lunch with Mrs. Xue and others, after chatting for a while, she took Niu Niu to have a lunch break.

For the first time, she slept until she woke up naturally. Seeing that Niuniu was still sleeping deeply, she did not disturb her and continued to find a female teacher to learn abacus.

She knew a little bit before, but she never learned it formally, and she seems to be naturally fond of and good at these things, and she learns them quickly.

Unknowingly, the afternoon passed again. Yu Xin and Xue Pan went home from work, and the family gathered together to have dinner.

Xue Baobao took everyone for a walk to eat, so the whole family, men, women, old and young, went for a walk in the garden, walking in twos and threes and laughing together.

When it was almost time to leave, Yu Xin and Xue Pan returned to the outer courtyard. The female relatives gathered in Mrs. Xue's yard again, drank tea, chatted, and played hostesses, and then went back to their houses to rest.

In just one day, Wang Xifeng got used to life in the Xue Mansion.

She was originally worried about how Rongguo Mansion would respond and how Jia Lian would treat her in the future.

On the third day after arriving at Xue's house, she focused all her energy on studying and joking with Mrs. Xue, Baobao Xue and the sisters.

She herself felt it was magical. After thinking about it carefully, she felt that it was because Yu Xin was too reliable, and the temperaments of Mrs. They all have a bit more of a lazy flavor.

No wonder Sister Lin stayed here and refused to leave!
As she thought about it, she suddenly began to secretly hope that Rongguo Mansion wouldn't give in so quickly. Well, it would be fine if she didn't give in -

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Five days later, Yu Xin took a rest and took Mrs. Xue and her sisters to the countryside for fun as usual.

Back in the half afternoon, then turn on the essential procedure of buying, buying, eating, and eating, but this time there is more Wang Xifeng.

Wang Xifeng was born in the Wang family where "the East China Sea lacked white jade beds, so the Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling". Naturally, she grew up in fine clothes and fine food.

But after she was born, the Wang family had already begun to decline. Her parents had died, and she was living with her uncle and aunt, so she naturally couldn't be wanton.

When they arrived at the Rongguo Mansion, they tried their best to get all the money inside the Jia Mansion to hold on, and the amount of money they could scrape was very limited.

Jia Lian always comes to touch her money, which makes her even more unruly.

After following Yu Xin into a jewelry store, a cloth shop, a toy shop, and a bookstore, she realized what it meant to spend money like water.

Whatever was novel and beautiful, whatever the sisters looked at and praised a few times, regardless of whether they wanted it or not, Yu Xin would buy it, and would also tell the shopkeeper to send it to the Xue family immediately if there was something good.

When they got home, there was an even bigger surprise waiting for them—Yu Xin actually bought Jiang Yuhan!

"I asked about it, and Jiang Yuhan not only sang well, but also played the pipa and danced well.

If the sisters are bored, they will ask him to sing a song, dance, and eat melon seeds for fun."

If she hadn't seen Yu Xin's "amiable" side earlier, she would hardly believe that this was what he would do or say.

Buy an actor and let the sisters crack melon seeds and watch him sing and dance for fun!
"Then I want to hear him sing about beauty, young man, the entanglement planted in the past life~"

Xue Baobao sang in a strange foreign accent, and Yu Xin reached out to poke her forehead, "You are the only one not allowed to go!"

Xue Baobao laughed, and Wang Xifeng knew that such words and deeds were completely normal.

Wang Xifeng felt that she had a beautiful dream. In the dream, she had elders who loved her, a brother who protected her, and lovely sisters who were close to each other.

She can even go out for fun without any purpose, spend money freely with open hands, even raising an actor is harmless, and her brother took great pains to send it to her personally!
In the Rongguo Mansion, she had to greet one and serve another, and Jia Lian not only made her angry and upset, but also squeezed her money!

Comparing the two, Wang Xifeng suddenly became timid about returning to Rongguo Mansion.

Sure enough, what she was afraid of was what happened. Early the next morning, she heard that Jia Lian was coming and had been invited in for tea.

Wang Xifeng hurried to Mrs. Xue's yard. Yu Xin was eating breakfast with Mrs. Xue, and the rare Xue Baobao sisters were also there.

After the ceremony, Yu Xin saw that Wang Xifeng kept looking at him and nodded towards her, "Don't worry, Sister Feng, I'll go check out Mr. Lian's tone first and see what Jia's family says before informing my sister."

Wang Xifeng nodded and followed Mrs. Xue and others back to the inner courtyard.

The waiting time is always difficult. Seeing Wang Xifeng sitting uneasily, Xue Baobao advised, "Sister Feng, don't worry, my elder brother has always been very safe in handling things, and I will definitely not let my sister suffer."

Wang Xifeng took a deep breath, "I know it too, but now my cousin is asking for the Rongxi Hall on my behalf, which even the great master cannot live in!"

Lin Daiyu curled her lips, "Why do people who live there or not live there be treated as a rarity?

Sister Feng, I advise you not to think about Rongxi Hall and Xijue every day. No matter how great the family is in Rongguo Mansion, how can it be as comfortable as ours?
According to me, sister Feng, don’t go back again, just stay here and just be a wife. You have a daughter. It just so happens that we also have many companions! "

Wang Xifeng was stunned. Don't you want to go back?Is this still possible?

Mrs. Xue glared, "What did you say? If Feng Yatou doesn't go back, what does it mean? Are you going to break up with Mr. Lian?"
Don't say that your uncle and aunt will never agree. Even if they agree, how can Feng girl go out in the future?How can Niu Niu say kiss?

It’s you, you have an extra companion now. In two years’ time, you will all be out of the government, what will you do with Feng Yatou?Just stay with me, a lonely old woman? "

Lin Daiyu threw herself into Mrs.
I don’t want to go out of the house and serve my mother-in-law, mother-in-law and a group of sisters-in-law like Sister Feng, while I watch eagerly from the side! "

Mrs. Xue poked her white forehead hard, "Your sister Bao must have taught you this!

Don't listen to her nonsense. If this woman doesn't get married, even if her mother's family can support you all her life, she won't be able to hold her head up for the rest of her life.

Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s just talk about our family. You are still young now, so naturally everything is fine.When one day I die and your brothers marry their sister-in-law and have nieces and nephews, how will you deal with it if your sister-in-law doesn't tolerate it and your nephews and nieces' wives dislike you? "

"The worst I can do is cut my hair and become a sister-in-law. Besides, I don't know if I can survive until that day!"

Mrs. Xue saw that the more she spoke, the more outrageous she said, and she was so angry that she wanted to beat her.

Xue Baobao laughed awkwardly and cut off her hair to become a sister-in-law. This was Jia Xichun's line. Sister Lin was definitely taught bad things by her!

Just as he was talking, Xue Pan came and said angrily, "Then Jia Lian came to pick up Sister Feng with his hands empty. He just apologized and said that he would never dare to mess around again.

He also said that Bao Er's wife had hanged herself, and it was time for Sister Feng to dissipate her anger.

As for how to handle the matter, he didn't say a word, and even said that he wanted to see his wife, but the elder brother had already sent her away."

Wang Xifeng should feel disappointed, but somehow, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Jia Lian was sent away, and the next day, Rongguo Mansion sent another woman to say that she would take Niuniu back to the house, but Xue Baobao didn't even let the woman in through the corner door.

On the third day, Jia Lian came to pick up Niu Niu in person, but still failed to enter the Xue Mansion.

Mrs. Xue sent word that she would not talk to him, a junior, and asked him to invite his elders to visit.

Jia Lian was also feeling bitter. He wanted to live in Rongxi Hall more than anyone else, and he wanted Wang Xifeng to take real power more than anyone else, but he didn't mean what he said!

After he was turned away, he couldn't come up with any good ideas after thinking for a long time, so he had to go back and ask Jia Mu to make the decision.

Mother Jia said unhappily, "My concubine is too ignorant. In a small family, fights happen at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed.

It wasn't a big deal at first, but now it's become a big deal.

Brother Feng is also very angry, and there is a quarrel between the couple. It is enough to go to stay with relatives for a few days. Now he is picking up Qiao. Lian'er can't even pick him up in person, and his elders have to come to his door!
Let me tell you, as long as we are not in a hurry about this matter, it would be my concubine and Feng Yatou who are in a hurry. Let's see who can survive the other! "

Jia Mu has spoken, but no matter how anxious Jia Lian is, no one is willing to take up the matter.

I thought Wang Xifeng would be anxious, but I didn't expect that there would be no news from the Xue Mansion.

It is also often heard that Wang Xifeng goes to various jewelry shops and spends a lot of money.

Jia Lian didn't know that it was Yu Xin who paid the bill, but thought that what Wang Xifeng spent was his own dowry money. He was distressed and anxious, so he asked him to come up with a way to let Yingchun go to Xue Mansion to find out the news under the pretext of visiting relatives.

Yingchun is his concubine. She is gentle and silent, and she will not refuse her even if she thinks about it.

Sure enough, after he talked to Jia Yingchun, although Yingchun was obviously unwilling, she still agreed and invited Tanchun and Xichun to go with him.

In the name of escorting the sisters to play, he went to the Xue Mansion together, and then watched Sanchun being welcomed in by Xue Baobao, and he was politely "invited" back by the Xue family.

Jia Lian had no choice but to go back and wait for news, and then went to pick up his three sisters in the evening.

Unexpectedly, Jia Yingchun shook her head when asked and said that Wang Xifeng did not answer her words at all.

But Tanchun said, "Second brother, I see that Sister Feng is doing well in Xue Mansion and her complexion is much better. You don't have to worry too much."

Jia Lian, "..."

The better she is, the more worried he is!

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In addition to Jia Lian, there is another person in the Jia family who is also anxious, that is Mrs. Wang.

Now that Wang Xifeng is gone, all the affairs of the head of the family fall on her.

When Wang Xifeng came in, she left the housekeeper's chores to her, and she only made decisions on important matters.

Firstly, it is because she knows that the Jia family is not easy to manage, and secondly, it is because her abilities are really limited.

As the Jia family was in decline, she felt more and more overwhelmed as a housekeeper.

But she wanted to maintain her "bodhisattva-like temperament", so she handed over all affairs to Wang Xifeng while holding on to power, similar to how Yu Xin spent heavily to hire various senior executives.

Only Wang Xifeng did not receive a salary, and she also took on a lot of infamy for Mrs. Wang.

There are a lot of trivial matters in the Rongguo Mansion every day, and Mrs. Wang doesn't want to offend anyone or leave a harsh reputation.

Soon, everything was in chaos, the servants became more and more unruly, and the masters complained more and more.

Finally, one day, Jia Mu lost her temper, and the people in the kitchen even brought her rice to cook for two days in a row!

All she eats is bijing rice!

Mrs. Wang immediately went to ask, and the people in the kitchen complained a lot, saying how difficult it was to buy, how expensive it was, and how hard they tried their best.

Mrs. Wang has also been in charge of a house for many years, so she naturally knows a little about the twists and turns inside.

Only the people in the kitchen were her cronies. Firstly, she wanted reputation, but secondly, she couldn't punish her cronies severely, so she slapped them in the face, so she had to give them a few words and order them to settle the accounts and forget it.

After struggling for nearly an hour, Jia Mu finally had Bijing rice porridge again, and said unhappily, "Brother Feng is not here, you should also establish your prestige as the wife of the housekeeper!

Being a good person blindly makes everyone praise you for your compassion, but it makes all those slaves turn against you!

They all blamed me, Baoyu and Yingchun, they didn’t know how much they suffered! "

Mrs. Wang felt her face was burning, and after a while she said, "Old lady, I'm too old, and I can't manage these facts. How about——"

Before she finished speaking, a maid came to report, and the father-in-law from the palace came to pay his respects to Mrs. Wang.

Mrs. Wang was refreshed, and she felt that the face she had just trampled on by Jia Mu came back. No matter what, she still had a noble concubine!

Jia's mother was also afraid that something might happen to Jia Yuanchun, so she hurriedly asked her to go.

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wang came back after a while, and the joyful brilliance just now was gone.

Seeing her like this, Jia Mu couldn't help but frown, "What's going on? What did the imperial concubine say?"

Mrs. Wang lowered her head and said, "The noble concubine said she would like to say hello to the old lady and the master."

Jia Mu said angrily, "What else? Do you still want me to ask you questions one by one?"

Mrs. Wang was so frightened that she knelt down and said, "There is nothing else. The eunuch who came to deliver the message said that his godfather, Prime Minister Dai Nei, wanted to buy a small house in the capital. He still lacked two thousand silver, so he asked us to borrow it."

"Did you lend it to him?"

Mrs. Wang answered with caution, "Yes, I think two thousand silver is not too much, just think of it as winning people's hearts for the empress."

Jia Mu sneered, "Two thousand silver is naturally not too much, but I'm afraid that these eunuchs will get the benefits and the world will come to ask for it. No matter how much money you have, it won't be enough!"

Mrs. Wang did not dare to say that those eunuchs had actually come several times, but she had asked Wang Xifeng to send them away quietly before, and did not dare to let Jia Mu know. She only said, "That can't be done, right? They don't dare either."

Jia Mu almost wanted to scold her, "Don't dare? Then how did they dare to come to the door today?"

If this happens once, there will be two. If you give it ten times, if you don't give it once, those eunuchs will get angry! "

(End of this chapter)