Gourmet Red Chamber: A Chronicle of Baochai's Rebirth

Chapter 89 Brother and Sister Dispute
Early the next morning, Yu Xin took Xue Baobao and Zhen Yinglian to visit the shops, planning to pick up Lin Daiyu from the Lin Mansion and then go together.

Then, Yu Xin saw Nan Xing, who was wearing uniform uniforms of the Xue Mansion, standing guard in front of Xue Baobao's carriage, and reaching out to help Xue Baobao get on the carriage.

Nanxing's single-lidded eyes, which resemble those of a Korean butter boy, are very easy to recognize, and the headband on his head is even more recognizable.

Yu Xin narrowed his eyes dangerously, "Baby, did this guard just come? What's his name?"

Xue Baobao threw the prepared excuse to him, "Uncle Lin gave it to me yesterday, and it's called Nanxing."

"Nan Xing——"

Yu Xin almost squeezed out a few words through his teeth and pinched Nan Xing's left shoulder, "Young man looks like a practicing master."

Nan Xing gritted his teeth in pain, but he didn't dare to cry out in pain and just looked at Xue Baobao helplessly.

Xue Baobao couldn't stand it any longer and quickly got into the car, "Nan Xing, hurry up and get on the bus before it's too late."

Yu Xin glared at Xue Baobao and got on his horse angrily.

Because Lin Daiyu and Zhen Yinglian were two bookworms, they went to Wuwen Pavilion first.

Xue Baobao was going in a different direction than them and soon became separated from them.

I heard that the pavilion was as quiet and elegant as ever, which made all the scumbags in the world bow down.

Nan Xing felt uncomfortable all over, but Yu Xin was still guarding Xue Baobao and even glared at him coldly.

Although Nan Xing didn't mind others glaring at him, Yu Xin's eyes were like his embroidered spring knife. They looked beautiful, but when they fell on someone's face, it hurt.

Nan Xing persisted for a while, then turned around and left silently.

He didn't like reading, and he was even less interested in pen, ink, paper and inkstone, so he wandered around aimlessly. As he wandered, he saw Zhen Yinglian reading a book in the corner of the second floor, and a strange scholar. .

Nan Xing didn't like anything related to books, including scholars. Just out of professional habit, he subconsciously listened to what they were saying, and then curled his lips in disinterest.

"What are you doing with your teeth grinning?"

Nan Xing was startled, and turned around to see Yu Xin walking towards him leisurely with a knife in his hand.

Nan Xing was a little afraid of him and replied honestly, "I was listening to Miss Zhen talking to the scholar."

Yu Xin took a glance and saw Zhen Yinglian talking to a scholar downstairs.

The scholar looks familiar. He should be Li Zhiyan, Taifu Li's grandson.

Yu Xin looked at the soles of his feet again. They were now on the fourth floor.

Yu Xin looked at Nan Xing suspiciously, "Listen? Can you hear them talking here?"

"I can lip read".

Nan Xing is very proud, "Not only can I lip read, I can also imitate bird calls, tiger calls, and snake calls!"

Yu Xin, "..."

This Nanxing's head doesn't seem to be very bright.

"Then look what they are saying now?"

Nan Xing glanced at it and replied, "Miss Zhen is asking the scholar if he comes to Wuwen Pavilion often."

Yu Xin raised his eyebrows. This sentence is interesting. Zhen Yinglian often meets Li Zhiyan in Wuwen Pavilion?
"The scholar said that he doesn't come here very often, so Miss Zhen said, that's a coincidence, I don't come here very often -

Well, the scholar said that he was studying in the Imperial College and sent people to guard here. As soon as the Xue Mansion's carriage appeared, he rushed over. He also asked Miss Zhen where she ranked in the Xue family."

Yu Xin's eyes sharpened, teasing his sister right under his nose?
"Ah, Miss Zhen said her surname is Zhen, not Xue——"

As soon as Nan Xing finished speaking, Zhen Yinglian had left in panic downstairs. The veil on her hat was slightly raised due to her panic movements, revealing a small half of her delicate face, with a bright red cinnabar mole looming between her eyebrows.

Li Zhiyan's movement of raising his foot to catch up suddenly stopped, with a look of obsession in his eyes, and then he reacted suddenly and hurriedly leaned over to bow, as if he didn't realize that Zhen Yinglian had already left without a trace.

"Commander Yu, it seems that Miss Zhen accidentally let something slip. That scholar doesn't look like a good person. What should I do?"

Li Zhiyan is just a nerd, but he is not a bad person either. Only Zhen Yinglian knows whether she really spilled the beans.

After all, if she didn't spill the beans and didn't tell Li Zhiyan her last name, what would happen if Li Zhiyan sent someone to propose marriage to the wrong person?
There are three girls in their family!
"Don't say a word of what you just heard to others."

Nan Xing asked seriously, "Even Miss Xue is not allowed to say anything?"

Yu Xin choked, "Except her."

Sure enough, he doesn't look very smart!
Yu Xin touched his chin and looked at Nan Xing with disdain. He is a beautiful little fool, and he is also very good at fighting. No wonder the baby likes it and insists on staying. It is not impossible. He should give the baby another child nanny...

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The three girls selected another pile of books, and Xue Baobao also found some very rare medicinal materials, and returned home happily.

After Yu Xin sent them home, he rushed to the Zhenfu Division.

Lin Daiyu went directly to Xue's house and said to Xue Baobao, "Dad said that the day after tomorrow, the Supreme Emperor and the Seventh Prince were going to lecture at the Daxiangguo Temple, and many dignitaries were rushing to go.

The Supreme Emperor ordered some veterans, including my father, and said that he could bring his family with him. Sister, do you want to go? "

Xue Baobao imagined Baoduan wearing a brocade cassock inlaid with the seven Buddhist treasures, holding a nine-ring tin staff, sitting on a lotus platform and preaching -

I really want to drool!

Suddenly I understood the taste of the king of the daughter country back then!
Lin Daiyu began to popularize science, "I heard that the seventh prince had been in poor health since he was a child and was sent outside the capital to wear hair and practice. He devoted himself to Buddhism and the Dharma was very profound.

I just returned to the capital not long ago, and not many people have seen him so far.

The emperor arranged for him and the prince to study together with my father, which was quite common for my father.

My father said that His Highness the Seventh Prince is elegant, handsome, and extremely intelligent. What is more rare is that he is gentle, kind, and compassionate. He is indeed a rare young talent."

Lin Daiyu obviously wanted to see the seventh prince whom Lin Ruhai praised so much, so she kept encouraging Xue Baobao and Zhen Yinglian.

Xue Baobao was naturally itchy, fearing that Yu Xin would scold her after hearing this, and said very pretentiously, "This is not something we can go if we want to. We should go back and ask my wife for her idea first."

Whenever Xue Baobao opened his mouth, it was rare for Mrs. Xue to disagree.

Lin Daiyu immediately felt relieved and said excitedly, "Then I will send someone back to tell my father and bring me some coats. It will be cold to sit there and listen to the Dharma for a long time."

Xue Baobao, "..."

That's not necessarily true. When she was chasing stars and attending concerts, it was still so hot that she was sweating in the open-air stadium on a night of minus ten degrees.Sister, you look like a fan, so it’s better not to bring big clothes. It’s more practical to bring a fan.

Sure enough, Mrs. Xue's words were right. Lin Daiyu was very happy and hurriedly sent someone back to talk to Lin Ruhai.

Mrs. Xue is also very happy. The daughters are going to see the Emperor and the Prince!

Those are all big shots that she can't even imagine!

What is the first element when going to meet a big shot?
Then you have to dress up beautifully!

It was definitely too late to make the clothes now. Mrs. Xue hurriedly told the Xue Chen family to ask the shopkeeper of the jewelry shop. She would personally choose the jewelry for her daughters to wear the day after tomorrow!You must not be compared to others!

Unexpectedly, the shopkeepers of jewelry shops cannot be hired at all. Now the female relatives all over the capital are looking for shopkeepers of jewelry shops!
But it turned out that after the Supreme Emperor and the Seventh Prince gave a lecture at the Daxiangguo Temple, the Daxiangguo Temple would arrange a seven-day water and land ashram in the West Market, and the Seventh Prince would also go to give a lecture!
In other words, the female family members who could listen to the seventh prince's sermons directly radiated from the very few family members of high-ranking officials who were favored by the emperor to all the female family members in the entire capital.

I'm afraid that not only the jewelry stores, but also the cloth shops and embroidery shops will be robbed.

After all, the royal family is currently unmarried, and there is only one seventh prince of marriageable age.

Xue Baobao smiled and said, "We are going to listen to the Dharma conference, not a flower viewing banquet. It is not good to dress too gorgeously, as long as it is not rude.

Otherwise, it's okay to offend the Buddha, but if you offend the Supreme Emperor and the Seventh Prince, you will be in serious trouble."

Mrs.

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Naturally, such a thing cannot be hidden. Yu Xin heard about it when he came back in the evening, and was so angry that he took Xue Baobao aside and scolded him.

Xue Baobao was very innocent, "This time it really has nothing to do with me. It was Sister Lin who said that Uncle Lin had a quota and could take us there. I didn't even know about it."

Yu Xin smiled sinisterly, "Then you don't have to go."

"Sister Lin wants us to go with her, otherwise it would be boring to be alone?"

Yu Xin sneered, "Don't quibble, you just want to go!"

Xue Baobao surrendered, "Okay, okay, I admit, I also want to join in the fun! Brother, my brother, Master Baozhuang is quite good, there is no need to guard against wolves, right?"

"Remember, you are in a feudal society now, and he is a member of the royal family!
Not to mention anything else, if he cares about your cooking skills and wants you to be his concubine or concubine, can you stop him?Can I stop it? "

Xue Baobao's eyes widened, "Well, that's not the case, right?"

Yu Xin smiled coldly, "No? Take a good look in the mirror and see your face! I don't believe that Baozhuang doesn't care about you!"

Xue Baobao, "..."

Uh, brother, is there a possibility that you are too proud of yourself?
"I remember when you first came here, you still remembered to avoid the draft and stay away from Jia Baoyu. What? If you changed to Baozhuang, you would lose your head?

Not necessarily, even if there is only one chance in ten thousand, do you really want to spend your whole life gambling? "

Yu Xin dropped some words and left angrily.

Xue Baobao stood there in a daze for a while, looking up at the sky. The clouds were steaming and the sky was rosy. It looked very much like the brocade cassock she had imagined wearing in the palace. Unfortunately, she couldn't see it anymore——

Her brother was right, she was in a daze, she couldn't let go of the mansion, and she couldn't let go of the child she had single-handedly raised from a skeleton to a peerless beautiful boy.

She wanted to hear him preach and see him shine with her own eyes.

And Baozhuang must have been reluctant to leave her, so he tried his best to meet her by chance, so he sent Sun Xiaosheng to deliver a letter. When he didn't get a reply from her, he sent Nan Xing.

He said he missed Shennong Mountain and he was trying hard to keep her.

If it were modern times, they could become good friends, the kind of friend she could ask to pick up the sack of a scumbag when she was heartbroken.

But this is a feudal society, a feudal society where letters between men and women will be sunk, so the elder brother went all out to become her adopted brother, but even so, the elder brother did not dare to be alone with her for too long.

What about the treasure building?

How much he wanted to keep her, did he think that he would use the method his brother said?

concubine!
A big word hit Xue Baobao's mind, and Xue Baobao trembled all over.

If she were Yu Xin's sister, she might be able to become Baozhuang's wife, but now, if she really marries her, she will only be a concubine.

Oh, by the way, when I enter the house, I don't call it marriage, I call it acceptance. I have to enter through the corner door, and I can't wear red clothes.

Or, even if there is such a possibility that she can marry him as his wife, can she tolerate the royal rules and restrictions?Can he stand the little wives he will definitely have in the future?
What's more, she had no intention of marrying Baozhuang.

Who doesn’t like beautiful children?But marry?

Xue Baobao thought about it seriously and felt that she still likes someone who is mature and stable, and someone like her brother is not bad...

Xue Baobao rubbed his forehead in distress. Forget it, she was not suitable to think about such profound issues. She might as well leave everything to time, well, leave it to her brother.

Thinking of this, Baobao Xue let out a heavy breath, grinned, and shouted loudly, "Awei, let me have some fun with you!"

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Early the next morning, Awei knocked on Yu Xin's courtyard door with a food box, and introduced to Yu Xin happily, "Uncle, the girl made this all night last night. Just add some water and you can make the rice better." It’s cooked, it’s amazing!

I have only seen people cooking over a fire, but never people adding water to cook!
The girl said that this way, when the uncle and the second uncle go to work, they don’t have to eat cold food from the yamen. They can bring it directly from home and eat it hot at any time! "

Yu Xin stared coldly at the food box in her hand, took it, turned around and left.

Awei stamped his feet, "Hey, uncle, I haven't taught you how to use it yet!"

She just stomped her feet, but Yu Xin didn't say anything. She didn't dare to enter the yard at all. She watched Yu Xin walk away and turned around in anger. She didn't know the heart of a good person. She wanted to go back and complain to the girl!
Yu Xin carried the food box into the backyard, put down the food box, and pulled out the long sword stuck in the pear tree.

The long sword shook out a sword flower in his hand, but Yu Xin raised his hand again, inserted the long sword into the trunk of the pear tree, and opened the food box.

The outside of the food box is made of wood, but the inside is wrapped in aluminum foil. The first layer is a mapo tofu rice bowl that is slightly hot, and the second layer is a small cloth bag with a piece of paper on top. strip.

Yu Xin picked up the note and opened it. There was only one line written on it: The Red Mansion version of the self-heating pot is presented. Beauty Yu, please calm down. It was a small mistake. You will never make it again in the future. Please calm down and calm down!
Yu Xin stared at the note for a while, then carefully put it into the flying fish bag on his waist, found some water and poured it on the second layer of cloth bag. After a while, the cloth bag began to steam out. .

Yu Xin put the first layer of rice bowl on, and the already warm rice bowl quickly started to steam.

Yu Xin waited for the heat to dissipate, picked up the spoon placed in the small compartment of the food box, took a spoonful, and put it into his mouth.

It was very fragrant, tender, and spicy. Yu Xin was so spicy that the ends of his eyes turned red, but he didn't stop and stuffed spoonful after spoonful into his mouth until he had finished the large plate of Mapo Tofu Rice. It was so hot that the tears couldn't stop flowing down.

(End of this chapter)