Red Mansion Huacai

Chapter 47 Wu Haiping had no intention of getting married. Aunt Xue heard about Jinling’s funeral.
Li Weijian had not recovered from the cold, so he simply rested in his small courtyard for a few days.In the meantime, Li Wan came over and persuaded Li Weijian not to throw away the watermelon and pick sesame seeds. Li Weijian didn't know whether to laugh or cry in his heart, but he only agreed on his face.

After five days, Li Weijian's cold gradually improved, but Qingwen and Xiuying fell ill.Viruses don't care whether you have practiced martial arts or not. Even though Xiuying has a strong body and bones, she is still seriously ill this time.

As a last resort, Qingwen and Xiuying had to move back to the west wing for the time being, and the work of keeping watch fell on Hongyu and Xiangling for the time being.

Xiu Ying is naive and her thoughts are self-evident; what happened to Qingwen a few days ago made Li Weijian worried.Seeing the two little girls falling ill one after another, Li Weijian was heartbroken. Not only was he busy pounding garlic to extract allicin, but he also ordered Xiangling and Hongyu to find cotton gauze and sew masks, and sprinkle vinegar everywhere in the house.

Hongyu turned around and said, not only in the small courtyard, but also in the Rongguo Mansion, many people were infected with the cold, and even the old lady was missing two maids to serve her.

When Li Weijian heard this, he immediately ordered Hong Yu and Xiang Ling to sew some cotton masks and ordered Hong Yu to send them around. This attracted praise from everyone in the Rongguo Mansion, saying that Brother Jian and Fourth Brother Jian were thoughtful.

On this day, Li Weijian felt that he was in good health, so he thought that he still had some errands assigned by Da Sikong, so he couldn't keep putting them off.After breakfast, Li Weijian went outside Deyi Gate, thinking about going to the Ministry of Industry's firearms test range outside the city with Wu Haiping.

Unexpectedly, there was no one on the left and Wu Haiping on the right.I sent the boy to look for him in the nepotistic room at the back, but he ran back and said that Wu Haiping was not there either.

Li Weijian was puzzled, secretly wondering if Wu Haiping had been called away by Prince Zhongshun again?
Thinking that it would be inconvenient to go out alone, Li Weijian simply rewarded him with one or two silver coins, asked a servant from Rongguo Mansion to act as his companion, and drove Shi Shiran out of the city in a carriage.

In Rongguo Mansion, undercurrents have been surging these past few days.

It is almost a foregone conclusion that the Xue family's royal merchants will change hands. The only thing missing is Aunt Wang's intervention. Not to mention that she has entrusted old family members, relatives and friends, and she can always save some money by changing hands.

The elder Jia She is still counting on the follow-up 2000 taels of silver. How can he leave it to Aunt Wang?As a man, he couldn't argue with Aunt Wang, so he sent Mrs. Xing to stop her.

Aunt Xue was very upset by the noise. Previously she only talked about relatives, but now she can finally help.Later, Baochai couldn't help but point out the thoughts of Jia She and Aunt Wang, and Aunt Xue was immediately horrified!

I dare to think of others as relatives, but they have the intention of exterminating them!
After all, Baochai was a smart person. After being prompted by Li Weijian that day, he had been thinking about it over and over in the past few days and had quite a lot of thoughts behind it.

At this time, the situation of the Xue family was not easy. When his father was alive, his father naturally took charge of all matters.When his father passed away, although Xue Pan nominally inherited his father's business, he was an unknown person, so Aunt Xue had to pinch her nose and let the second house take over some of the business.

After Xue Pan killed Feng Yuan, Jia Hua reported a sudden illness and died. When Xue Pan's case file was handed over, the Ministry of Punishment registered him, and the Ministry of Household Affairs was about to cancel his registration.

Although the Inner Palace and the Household Department were not adjacent to each other, Aunt Xue was afraid of being found out by someone interested, so she made her own decision and temporarily transferred the royal business foundation to the second house.

Now that someone had caught her at her weak point, Aunt Xue was immediately worried - if she wanted to change hands with Huangshang's foundation, she had to get the second bedroom's nod!

Aunt Xue fled Jinling in a hurry that day. She was originally afraid of being exterminated by the clan, but now she wanted the second wife to nod. If she didn't give her enough benefits, how could the second wife nod so easily?

Aunt Xue thought too much and fell ill all of a sudden due to the prevailing wind and cold.

Mrs. Wang came to visit twice, but she only gave some ordinary words of advice.When she was young, she was also the daughter-in-law of a housekeeper. Her temperament was not much worse than that of Sister Feng today. She had seen and heard many tricks and tricks.

Mrs. Wang naturally thought of what her sister Aunt Xue was thinking about early in the morning, but she didn't know how to persuade her.It would be fine if the enemy was just an ordinary person. With the power of the Jia family, this matter could always be suppressed.However, the other party's background was too great, and the master Jia Zheng was a self-righteous man. He had not made many old friends in these years as an official. On that day, the official Mr. Qian was still related to the old Duke.

Because of the Xue family's troubles, Jia Zheng was unwilling to work with Qian Tianguan anymore. After all, this favor became weaker and weaker with more use.

Baochai saw everything in his eyes and thought to himself, how could such a relative be inferior to the fourth brother Jian who had a grudge?
"My son, what will happen to us ladies from now on?" Aunt Xue was leaning on the kang, her head wrapped in a veil, her expression was gloomy, and her heart ailment was worse than the cold.

"Mom," Baochai sat quietly, without any emotion on his face, and said calmly, "For now, it's better to write to my second uncle as soon as possible. No matter how many complaints I make, it's important to save my brother's life."

Hearing this, Aunt Xue forced herself up and said, "My son, you don't know, your second uncle..."

Baochai said, "What can we do now? With my brother here, our big house can still hold on. If my brother passes away, we will really become a destitute family. How will my mother and I get along with each other then?"

"Hey..." Aunt Xue sighed, unwilling to give up.

At this moment, the maid Tongxi walked in quickly. When she got close, she knelt down and said, "Madam, girl, someone from Jinling has brought a letter."

Aunt Xue was completely devastated at the moment and felt sorry for her dead husband, so she said sadly: "Look, my son, this is just a bad thing in business."

Baochai agreed, took the letter from Tongxi, opened it, glanced at it a few times, and then started reading again.

Aunt Xue, who was leaning on the bed, saw that Baochai hadn't moved for a long time, so she couldn't help but ask, "What did the letter say?"

Baochai put down the letter, frowned and thought for a moment, then looked at Tongxi and Ying'er: "You guys should step aside first, I'll have a chat with my mother."

The two maids left in response, and Baochai handed the letter to Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue said impatiently: "I don't want to see it, you just say it."

Then Baochai said quietly: "Mom, my second uncle is not well." (Note [-])

"Not good? Why not?"

"He said that he contracted an illness in Dian Guangxi and couldn't get sick after returning to Jinling... I'm afraid this letter is a mourning announcement."

"Ah?" Aunt Xue suddenly stood up, first shocked, then ecstatic: "Your second uncle... he... is not well? This is really... really..."

Baochai said in a deep voice: "Mom, we must ask my brother to rush to Jinling. We must also report to the inner palace."

Aunt Xue thought for a long time before she knew what Baochai meant: "My son, I will do what you want." After the words fell, Aunt Xue immediately became sad: "Your second uncle went away, but he accidentally saved your brother's life." Damn it. This is really——"

Baochai just sat quietly, without a trace of smoke on her face.

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But it was said that Li Weijian wandered around the Ministry of Industry's firearms test range outside the city for most of the day, and only returned to Rongguo Mansion near Shen time.

He still had some money on hand and felt sorry for his two maids, so he ordered Hongyu to use the money to get some light and nutritious food for Qingwen and Xiuying.Turning around, Hongyu came back with a food box. Li Weijian was eating dinner when Wu Haiping's call came from outside the door.Hongyu went out to greet him, but turned around and went to the west wing.After going back and forth like this several times, Wu Haiping was sent away.

Li Weijian was puzzled, so he asked: "Hai Ping is gone?"

"gone."

"Why is he here?"

Hongyu smiled and said, "I said I didn't have enough money, so I asked Xiuying to borrow two taels of silver."

"Huh?" Li Weijian stopped using his chopsticks, touched his chin and frowned in thought.He thought that Wu Haiping had a lot of money on him. Could it be that he lost all his money in gambling with the servants of Rongguo Mansion?
If this is really the case, then Wu Haiping cannot stay by his side.A bad gambler will do anything to get back his money!He didn't want to be stabbed by someone around him one day.

After a hasty dinner, Li Weijian, who was worried, went to look for Xiu Ying first.I asked a few questions, but the answers were not what I asked.Xiu Ying is a naive girl. She just wants money for her brother, and she doesn't need money to control her food and accommodation.

Li Weijian didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and pointed at Xiu Ying twice: "You, sooner or later, your brother will be sold."

After telling Xiuying and Qingwen to have a good rest and not to rush to the room to serve them, Li Weijian simply headed towards the back room where the servants lived.

He came out of the small courtyard, turned around and walked north along the corridor. Lixiangyuan, where the Xue family lived, was at the end of the corridor.Halfway through, Li Weijian was about to find a servant to find out where Wu Haiping lived, when he saw a figure turning in front of him and hurriedly walked towards the back street.

Taking a closer look, isn't this person Wu Haiping?
Li Weijian immediately remained calm and followed him from a distance.Follow him around the alley and go to the back street from the back door.

Not far along the street, Wu Haiping entered an alley.Li Weijian quickly walked a few steps, watching Wu Haiping twist and turn, and it took him a long time to enter a small courtyard.

Li Weijian stopped and waited in the distance. After a cup of tea, Wu Haiping wandered out leisurely humming a ditty.

Li Weijian hid in the corner. When Wu Haiping approached, he suddenly jumped out and shouted: "Hey, your trouble has been revealed!"

"Hey!" Wu Haiping staggered in fright and almost punched him.

When it became clear that the person coming was Li Weijian, he was stunned and said, "Sir? No...why are you here?"

Li Weijian smiled and said: "You have the nerve to ask me? Let me ask you, which house you went to...could it be that you were looking for a sweetheart?"

Wu Haiping blinked, his face suddenly turned red, and he said sternly: "Young master, please don't talk nonsense, or you won't ruin the girl's innocence."

Li Weijian teased: "We are all alone, how can we still have innocence? Do you want to tell me? If you don't tell me, I can go back and ask Xiu Ying to question you."

Wu Haiping tilted his head and said dejectedly: "Say, you are the master, do I dare not to tell you? But this matter has to start a few days ago -"

But it was said that Wu Hai came back from outside the city with Li Weijian that day, and after dinner he went to the back street to eat.As I walked, I heard faint sounds of sobbing. When I looked over in confusion, I saw a girl of about [-] or [-] squatting in the corner of the alley crying with a bag in her arms.

There were a few more rogue idlers surrounding him. Although they had not touched anyone yet, their words were quite teasing.

Wu Haiping usually hated such libertines the most. He shouted loudly and rushed towards them. He only measured their size and scared a few libertines away.

Wu Haiping consciously did one good deed every day, told the girl a few words, turned around and left.Unexpectedly, the girl asked him if he wanted a wife...

Hearing this section, Li Weijian resisted rolling his eyes.I thought to myself, what a good guy!Li Weijian's time travel was outrageous enough, but Wu Haiping seemed to be cheating, and he could get into such a vulgar drama!

Later, Wu Haiping inquired carefully and found out that this girl had been kicked out by Rongguo Mansion. Now she had nowhere to stay, and she was wandering around and was picked up by a few thugs.If I hadn't met Wu Haiping, I would have just gritted my teeth and joined the industry with the door ajar.

When Wu Haiping saw that the girl was extremely beautiful, he was naturally moved.However, this guy only knows how to work hard and never knows how to deal with the girl's family.I was moved in my heart and felt pity for her situation, so I simply spent some money to rent a small courtyard and temporarily settled the girl.

Seven things to do before opening the door: firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, everything is indispensable.That girl only knew how to serve noble people, she couldn't even cook, so Wu Haiping had no choice but to run to this side.This back and forth, you cook, I wash the clothes, it is a bit affectionate.There is only one last step left, and everything will be done.

Li Weijian just listened and said with disgust: "A hero saves a beauty and pledges himself to her. You have caught the drama in this drama. Is that girl pretty?"

"Yeah, yeah!" Wu Haiping nodded wildly.

Li Weijian was about to make some teasing remarks when he suddenly remembered something was wrong and said, "That girl...could her name be Qianxue?"

"Blind? Master, did you follow me yesterday?"

"Bah! Master, I have a lot to do. If you hadn't taken money from Xun Xiuying, I would have been afraid that you would have become a bad gambler. Do you think I can follow you when I have time?"

Wu Hai was talking casually, and then said: "Young master, you are overthinking. I...I swore to my father that if I gamble again, I will chop off my hands."

"I hope so," Li Weijian had a change of thought and said, "Haiping, don't say I didn't remind you, sir. It's natural that you and Qian Xuelang are in love with each other, but don't forget that Qian Xue's physical contract can be She's still in Rongguo Mansion. If you want to marry me, you have to ask Rongguo Mansion if it will agree."

"Ah? This—"

Li Weijian sighed and raised his hand, but was embarrassed to find that the guy in front of him looked like a black tower and it was difficult to pat his shoulder.Wu Haiping quickly lowered his body, and Li Weijian patted her twice: "Don't say that I won't take care of you, sir. Later I will find an opportunity to get her back, which can be regarded as the beauty of an adult."

Wu Haiping was immediately overjoyed: "Master, are you serious?"

"Tsk, sir, have I lied to you?"

Wu Haiping was full of slander, thinking that Li Weijian had cheated him a lot of money on his way to the capital, but now he just said: "Then I am counting on you, young master."

Li Weijian nodded, turned around and walked slowly with his hands behind his back.Thinking that after so much time, there should be some movement on King Zhongyong's side, right?

Note [-]: The original work did not specify when Xue Baoqin’s father passed away, so a second setting is made here for the convenience of writing.

(End of this chapter)