From the Red Mansion, you can travel through the world of martial arts

Chapter 376 The Bride
The next morning, before daybreak, Daiyu woke Jia Wei up in the brocade tent.

Jia Wei turned over and hugged Daiyu's slender waist, looking at her with sleepy eyes. Daiyu's little face was rosy, and her dewy eyes, like a pool of spring water, were filled with a hint of affection.

The two looked at each other for a while. Although there was no word, there was affection flowing between them. Daiyu looked shy and turned her head away from time to time. She stood up to get dressed.

"You don't have any parents-in-law to serve tea to, so why are you getting up so early? Go back to sleep."

Jia Wei turned over and held Daiyu in his arms.

Daiyu patted him and said coquettishly, "How can a newlywed woman sleep in? If you want to sleep, go on sleeping. I'm going to play with Sister Bao."

Although Jia Wei's parents have passed away, Daiyu does not need to offer tea to anyone, but she still has to get up early, otherwise she will inevitably be compared with Baochai by the servants in the mansion.

Daiyu is of a genuine and kind nature. She has no intention of competing with Baochai, but she has always been unwilling to be inferior to others.

Although Jia Wei didn't know the reason, since Daiyu insisted on getting up, he could only let her do it.

The two of them sat up, took their inner clothes and changed into them first, then lifted the red curtains, and saw a white silk stained with peach blossoms hanging at the end of the bed.

Daiyu's face flushed instantly, and she hurried to take it off. When she heard Jia Wei's laughter, she spat, "Bad guy!"

"You must keep it well. I will need to read it often in the future."

Daiyu was shy and speechless. Suddenly the door was pushed open and Zijuan and Xueyan came in carrying basins of water.

When Daiyu got married, Zijuan and Xueyan were of course included as maids in her dowry.

"Master, Madam." The two of them bowed first.

Daiyu and Jia Wei sat side by side on the edge of the bed. Daiyu swung her jade-like feet, tilted her head to look at Jia Wei and said with a smile, "That sounds weird."

There is certainly nothing wrong with the way they call each other. Jia Wei is the master of the family, and Baochai and Daiyu are of course both ladies.

But he ordered, "From now on, call her Madam in front of outsiders, and call her Miss when we are alone at home. We can change the name after the baby is born."

"Brother Wei!" Daiyu was embarrassed.

Although she was no longer a virgin and had experienced sex for the first time, Jia Wei's talk about having a baby in front of the maid still made Daiyu blush.

Jia Wei smiled and picked up Daiyu, placing her on his lap. "Why, you won't give birth to a child for me?"

Zijuan and Xueyan both covered their mouths with their hands while laughing, and Daiyu was so embarrassed that she turned into an ostrich and buried her face in Jia Wei's chest...

After some laughter and noise, they began to dress and wash. Daiyu saw Zijuan washing Jia Wei's face and pursed her lips and said, "Let me do it."

She had often seen Baochai serving Jia Wei before, and Jia Wei also liked it. Now it was her turn, and she had to fulfill her responsibilities as a wife.

But she was in poor health, and when she walked to Jia Wei's side, she frowned in pain.

"Forget it today, we'll talk about it later." Jia Wei said.

Seeing that Jia Wei felt sorry for Daiyu, Zijuan was of course happy too. She carefully brushed Jia Wei's teeth, helped him wash and change his clothes.

Zijuan was about to serve Daiyu, but was hugged by Jia Wei and said, "What a good girl! How can I be so lucky to have you three servants? Get ready tonight. I will show you my favor."

There are two meanings of "opening the face". One is a beauty treatment for a woman before she gets married; the other is to tell the maids that she is to be taken in as a concubine. Zijuan was too embarrassed to speak. Daiyu also teased her, "You two have been having an affair for a long time, so you might as well do what she wants!"

Although Daiyu is a little bit temperamental and jealous, she would not be jealous of the maids.

Zijuan was teased and felt even more embarrassed. She hurriedly called out, "Girl!"

After washing up, Daiyu was about to go to the main hall. Seeing that she couldn't even move her legs, Jia Wei felt distressed and simply picked up Daiyu and went to the main hall.

Baochai had been waiting for a long time. Seeing Daiyu coming, she smiled and said, "There are no parents-in-law in the mansion who need to be respected. Why don't you sleep a little longer?"

Daiyu held her hand and said with a giggle: "Aren't we here to offer tea to Sister Bao? What if I'm late and Sister Bao blames me?"

"You girl, you are talking nonsense again!"

Baochai pointed at Daiyu's smooth forehead and helped her sit aside.

Daiyu tilted her head to look at her, and said with a smile, "What nonsense are you talking about? You came in before me, and as a younger sister, of course I have to offer tea to my elder sister. Otherwise, if outsiders see me, they will accuse me of being rude."

Daiyu picked up the tea bowl on the table beside her and said softly, "Sister Bao, please have some tea."

"Although we are sisters, we are still from two different families and each has its own clan. You call me sister, but I'm just a few years older than you." Baochai smiled, took the tea and put it back where it belonged.

"Besides, someone from the palace came yesterday to present a gift. I am far less respectable than you."

Daiyu's lively eyes turned, her face full of cunning: "What's the use of two jade ruyi? Sister Bao is still the wife of the Marquis, a first-rank lady conferred by the imperial decree of the palace. How can my sister, the daughter-in-law of a poor family, compare to her?"

Baochai groaned, "You have such a naughty mouth, I can't argue with you."

Chai and Dai were joking, and then the two maids Ying'er and Zijuan also met their gazes, but then silently looked away...

When Jia Wei saw the two sisters hugging each other and laughing, he felt it was a pleasing sight and asked people to serve the meal.

After the meal, all the maids, old women, stewards, servants and other servants in the mansion lined up in groups outside as usual and kowtowed to pay their respects.

Baochai then brought the account books, the cards, and the keys to the treasury and silver vault, and gave them to Daiyu. They were all things that belonged to her, and she divided them out for a share.

Daiyu was not very interested in these chores, but she knew their significance, so she took them one by one and asked Zijuan to accept them.

A few days passed like this, and everyone in the Marquis's Mansion had become accustomed to the presence of the two ladies.

On this day, Jia Wei met Lin Ruhai. As Daiyu had married, Lin Ruhai had nothing else to worry about, so he immediately started the process of recovering the deficit in the national treasury and called Jia Wei to discuss the details.

"Let's do this. We'll handle official business impartially. My father-in-law will first ask the Shi and Wang families to pay their debts through the Ministry of Revenue. If there is no response, I will bring people to go there in person. If they still don't understand, they won't care about the relationship between relatives." Jia Wei said in a light tone.

Lin Ruhai stroked his beard and sighed slowly, "The Wang family is fine, but as for the Shi family... Yu'er has been in Beijing since she was young, and has been raised by the old lady. How can I be worthy of her?"

"Let's put it this way. It's only natural to pay back a debt. There's nothing much to say." Jia Wei said with a smile, "If the old lady can't bear it and goes to pay back the Shi family herself, you can't ask us to pay back the money for the Shi family, right?"

Lin Ruhai also smiled bitterly. This was the most difficult part of recovering the stolen goods.

(End of this chapter)