The Red Mansion is so charming

Chapter 97
When the Concubine Yuan was visiting her relatives, the Rongguo Mansion set up a small theater troupe. Later, Aunt Xue voluntarily gave up the Lixiangyuan and moved to a more secluded house in the northeast corner.The size of the courtyard is naturally not comparable to that of Lixiangyuan, but it is also a rare and beautiful view. Facing the window, there are green peach blossoms everywhere. In early spring, the fragrance is overflowing. When the weather is hot, you can pick small plum green peaches at your fingertips .

It was no small matter for Yuan Chun to send the little eunuch here. The people in the palace had just left before Aunt Xue knew the news, and she was happily choosing clothes for her daughter and Baoqin.

Mrs. Wang didn't need anyone to tell her, so she raised her hand and lifted the curtain and entered the inner room. Seeing this, she couldn't help smiling coldly: "My sister is very interested, it seems that I have already got the news of Baochai's entry into the palace?" Mrs. Wang sat down at will. On the edge of the kang, with one hand, he picked up the honey pink spring shirt next to Aunt Xue.

Aunt Xue's face was full of embarrassment: "Look at what my sister said, how did we know that it's just that spring is coming, and it's time to make some clothes of fresh colors for the children. Oh, how do you listen to what my sister said? Our precious girl is entering the palace?"

Mrs. Wang put the little gown aside with a half-smile, and waved away Tong Xi and Tong Gui who were waiting in the room.

"I haven't seen it in the past, my sister has a wide road! Both daughters of the same family have won the favor of the mother. I was thinking about picking a Baoqin or a Baochai, and followed our family to visit. Chun went into the palace together to show the empress, unexpectedly."

Aunt Xue's face was embarrassed, and she quickly said wronged: "My sister doesn't know the situation of our family? The outside is glamorous, but the inside is ugly. Those connections that your brother-in-law left in those years have gradually disappeared in the past two or three years. If not The empress is looking at my sister's face, how can she think highly of our two girls?" She lowered her head and thought for a while, and Aunt Xue said again: "It's not that I said bad things about the third girl behind her back, that girl is too shrewd, sister, you Be on your guard anyway. I've heard"

Mrs. Wang's eyes were burning, Aunt Xue could only bite the bullet and said: "I heard that the third girl saved half of her monthly money, and she quietly sent someone to send it to Aunt Zhao's mother and son!"

"Nonsense! She only takes a few cents a month, and she doesn't have enough to spend. How can she help Aunt Zhao?"

Mrs. Wang was a little annoyed, she had worked hard on Tanchun, because she thought that the third girl was shrewd and prudent, and she would get married and start a business in the future, so she could ask her husband's family to help Baoyu and the empress more.Now hearing what Aunt Xue said, she didn't hesitate to slap herself on the spot, how can Mrs. Wang be comfortable?

"My good sister, you are so confused! The three girls acted like a cat in front of you, but secretly, they secretly sold all the jewelry you rewarded for money. That girl waited on her. Shu has an older brother who works in a shop outside, if our housekeeper hadn't caught him changing silver coins, who would have thought of it!"

Mrs. Wang didn't want to be inferior in front of Aunt Xue, so she argued: "Maybe it's not necessarily the third girl who rewarded the servant, the girls in our family have always been generous, and during the mid-year festival, there is nothing wrong with rewarding the big girls around you. Sister, don't listen to the fact that the wind is the rain, if this word spreads, the children will be so sad!"

Aunt Xue said with a smile: "What my sister said is that our housekeeper is indeed wrong, but there are seventeen or eighteen pears in that bag, so it is true! My sister said these for no other reason. In the final analysis, it is for For the sake of my sister and my mother. I know that my sister is uncomfortable, but you know our two children best. There is nothing to say about Bao girl's character. She is honest and dull. My mother will like it when she sees her. Qin girl is even more stupid. Xinyan, if you say east, she dare not go west, she will only be obedient to her mother. It's my sister who changed the third girl."

Aunt Xue approached Mrs. Wang, and said quietly: "Knowing people, knowing faces but not knowing hearts, for a compassionate person like our mother, if she thinks about her sister's affection, wouldn't she be a little less wary?"

This sentence can remind Mrs. Wang!That's right, my daughter knows that Yuan Chun is soft-hearted, and if the third girl is really like Aunt Xue said, there are two kinds of people before and after, and she has been hiding it from me all these years, won't she enter the palace to harm the empress?
Thinking that Aunt Zhao and that bastard Jia Huan might turn over, Mrs. Wang was furious.The thought of asking questions just now stopped, and he just talked about his grievances with Aunt Xue, and then helped Baochai and Baoqin choose clothes, and even picked out two extremely precious jewelry from his youth, and decided to Xue Baochai and sisters were asked to wear it on the day they entered the palace.

As soon as Baochai got the letter of approval, he hurriedly sent someone to Fengwei Hutong.

Xiuyan smiled and met the old woman: "Go back and congratulate you girls for me, this is the grace of the empress, even the girls in the Rongguo Mansion have no chance to go to the palace to have a look, Sister Bao and Sister Qin are the only ones! "

This woman was Yinger's mother, and she followed her all the way to the capital from her hometown in Jinling, and she gained the trust of Aunt Xue and Xue Baochai.Seeing what Miss Xing said, Ying Erniang quickly laughed and said: "Everyone in the garden said so. The old lady has invited the maid who teaches the rules in the palace, lest the two girls lose their manners. Now they are at home day and night. Practice! Miss Bao originally wanted to come to pay her respects to her uncle and wife in person, but the family is so tight that she can only send the old slave to take care of her uncle and wife and the two girls!"

"Girl, sister-in-law Chen asked back and forth, where is the Rhododendron double plum plant?"

"Girl, the lady of the stonemason's family on East Fourth Street came to pick up the money, and she chose a few shapes for the girl to have a look at."

"girl."

Yingerniang couldn't sit still, she hurriedly smiled and said: "Miss Xing has a lot of things to do, I'll go home first, and when my uncle and wife are free, I will come to kowtow to my uncle and wife."

Xiuyan accepted the account booklet handed over by the maid, and said with a smile: "My aunt has a heart, Mio, send it to my aunt for me."

Mio understood, and when she brought Yingerniang to the door, she also gave four snacks and a string of money, and the happy Yingerniang couldn't see her eyes or close her mouth.Seeing the carriage going out of the alley at the back door, Mio was about to turn around and go back, but saw a peddler calling her.

"Girl, buy a handkerchief!"

Mio was startled, and then recognized this person, looked around, but seeing no one was paying attention, hurriedly paced down the steps, and whispered: "Why are you?"

The salesman smiled and took out some fresh handkerchiefs and called Mi Yingxuan, while secretly saying: "Qianhu asked me to tell you girls that Mr. Shangshu wants to see her and Young Master Zhengde. It seems that Young Master Qi's affairs have been exposed."

Mio panicked: "Where can our girl go out? Is there any reason for our wife not to doubt her going out?"

"You can't make up your mind about this, so you might as well go back and tell your girls quietly, and I'll just wait here, if it works or not, you should at least tell me for sure!"

Mio gritted her teeth, and said loudly: "It's fine, you wait here, I'll ask our girl which piece she likes, and then I'll pay you!" After finishing speaking, she took out seven or eight handkerchiefs from the salesman's hand , turned around and rushed in the door.

This back alley is lined with maids and women. Hearing the voice of the salesman, several houses have opened their doors. Because it is the New Year, the girls have saved money, and they are on the third floor and the third floor. Surround the salesmen in the middle.Call that little brother miserable!

Let's say that Mi Ying brought the news to Xiuyan, "Girl, let's discuss it with the master and wife, I'm terribly flustered by keeping this matter from them.

Xiuyan smiled and comforted her: "It's not like the sky is falling, you tell outsiders that tomorrow I will take Zhengde to Hanbaoxuan to buy the Four Treasures of the Study, and ask him to come and see me."

"But girl."

"Okay, that's the way it is. It's not easy for my father to get to this position. I can't leave all the mess to him, and just hide when I get into trouble!"

Little Baozi Zhengde, who had been standing outside the door for some time, came running in with his little arms swung, and said with a fierce face, "Sister, I'm not afraid either!"

The two of them were taken aback, Xiuyan hurriedly took Zhengde into her arms, and said amusedly: "What do you know, why don't you go back to the house to endorse? I will send you to the academy in two days. If you ask me, sir, why don't you take it?" It is only reasonable to read all four books."

Zhengde cautiously tentatively said: "Sister, otherwise, I won't worship that Mr. Bai as a teacher. Dad said that the teachers in Bishan Academy are all contemporary Confucian scholars, and anyone can quote scriptures. I just want to learn from myself. Has it been accomplished?"

Xiuyan hugged Zhengde gently, and remained silent for a long time
In the early morning of the second day, Xiuyan asked Daiyu to help take care of the affairs of the mansion, went back to Lu's in person, and took Zhengde out of Fengwei Hutong.From then on, it took me only three sticks of incense to go to Han Baoxuan. This old shop is good at making cinnabar, and even the palace officials often buy it here.Han Baoxuan entertained male guests at the front door and female guests at the back door, and met the dignitaries and dignitaries, so when the Xing family's carriages and horses stopped at the door, they thought they were ordinary people.

Seeing that the guests were unfamiliar, the welcome boy didn't care, and led everyone in.Hanbaoxuan is a small three-story building, surrounded by an empty field in the middle, and the front door is to the east.

Xiuyan and the others walked in and felt the noise was noisy, and she couldn't help asking curiously: "Brother, do you dare to ask if there is any happy event in the store? Why are there so many cheers?"

The young man looked back proudly: "Young lady, she is from other places. Our three-year Poetry Contest at Han Baoxuan is held for three days in a row, and we are divided into the champion, the second place, and the best candidate. The winner will naturally have a big gift from our boss." Now Master Tian, ​​Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, won the No.1 of our Hanbaoxuan!"

Xiuyan couldn't help nodding and laughing, "No wonder Guibao's business is booming."

Waiting for the boy to boast, Mei Lian snorted impatiently: "Find a private room quickly, our girl has chosen something and there are other important things!"

The servant blushed, took a sneaky look at Meilian, and thought: This elder sister is so handsome, but she has a bad temper, and I don't know what the lady under the curtain looks like!
The third floor of Hanbaoxuan only accepts elegant guests, there are eight rooms in total, knowing that the Xing family is not an ordinary wealthy businessman, the shopkeeper brought someone up to welcome them.Xiuyan is also not polite to him, and only chooses Hanbaoxuan's master Zhuge brush, Li Tinggui ink from Huizhou, Xuan paper from Chengxintang, and Longwei inkstone from Wuyuan.

The shopkeeper didn't dare to be sloppy, and hurriedly removed the second-rate goods in front of him, and ordered the maids to serve tea again, while he himself went to choose those famous products.

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PS: I wish you all a happy Chinese New Year, all the best, and a happy family~~ Mom made a lot of food, I can already smell the fragrance when I write here haha
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