The Red Mansions

Chapter 100 Li Wan Returns to the Mansion
in the library.

After Jia Yun asked Qin Keqing, she found out that she came for her younger brother Qin Zhong.

Qin Keqing's father, Qin Ye, had two babies, a boy and a girl, in the Yangshengtang because he was childless.

The baby boy could not be fed, and the baby girl was Qin Keqing.

Qin Ye gave her the nickname Ke'er, and when she grew up, he gave her the official name Jianmei, with the style name Keqing.

Qin Zhong was born when Qin Ye was over fifty years old.

In other words, Qin Zhong is not Qin Keqing's biological younger brother.

Jia Yun had never met Qin Zhong before, but heard that he always blushed before saying a word, shy, with delicate features, pink lips, handsome figure, coquettish demeanor, timid and shy like a daughter.

Qin Keqing came here today mainly to ask Jia Yun about Qingshan Academy.

Qin Keqing said: "The teacher of the younger brother of the slave family died of illness last year, and my father is old, disabled, and has many official duties, so there is no discussion about extending the teacher."

"This morning, my husband brought Uncle Bao to the house to play. After Uncle Bao met the younger brother of the slave family, he fell in love with him very much, so he advised him to go to Jia's free school to study. He said that only when a confidant is a companion, we can only benefit from discussions."

"The slave family used to hear that the free school in Jia's mansion was not a place for learning, so the slave family came back from you at noon, and after hearing the news that my younger brother wanted to study in the free school, I sent someone to investigate and found out that the rumors were true."

"Right now, studying is the most important thing for my younger brother. Since the slave family knows that the free education in Jia's mansion is a mess, we can't let him study there."

"However, since my younger brother's study has started, I can't ignore it. It is really necessary to find him a place where he can study with peace of mind, so I think of you, Brother Yun."

Jia Yun nodded, and said: "The free school in Jia's Mansion is indeed in disarray, and there is no decent teacher. Even if the soul boy comes to the world, he won't be able to learn much knowledge there."

After he glanced at Qin Keqing, he smiled and said, "Do you know that Grandma Zhu doesn't let her son Lan Geer study in the free school?"

"Oh? Really? This servant has never paid attention to it." Qin Keqing was a little surprised, and asked curiously: "Then where did he go to study now? Could it be Qingshan Academy?"

Jia Yun nodded and said, "It's in Qingshan Academy."

Then he told Qin Keqing something about Qingshan Academy, which gave her a preliminary impression.

After hearing this, Qin Keqing pursed her lips and said, "It turns out that Qingshan Academy has such a profound heritage, no wonder you can be admitted to the scholar, just a little, Shuxiu is really expensive!"

Jia Yun looked at her and smiled without saying a word.

Others said that Qin Keqing's father was an upright official, a shy official, and a poor family.

But Jia Yun didn't believe a word of it.

Because Qin Ye's current official position is as a doctor of the Ministry of Construction and Repairs of the Fifth Grade Ministry of Industry.

Since ancient times, there has been no project that does not make money, especially Qin Ye's repairs are still palaces and mausoleums, and he is still a leader.

Even if he is not corrupt himself, he will not be poor with his salary and royal rewards alone.

What's more, if he wasn't greedy, would he be able to secure that position?
Therefore, Qin Ye must not be poor, and the reason why he pretends to be poor must be to hide something.

Jia Yun even guessed that the reason why Qin Keqing married Jia Rong back then was some kind of interest exchange between Qin Ye and the Jia family.

Seeing Jia Yun laughing and talking, Qin Keqing tilted her head and asked, "What are you laughing at? Isn't 300 taels of silver a year expensive for beam repair? This is not counting other miscellaneous expenses!"

"Hehe, this little money is nothing to you, right?" Jia Yun asked with a smile, "I heard that you have a lot of good things in your room!"

Qin Keqing blushed, and murmured softly: "Have you heard about it? Those things don't belong to the slave's house, they were arranged by the father-in-law, but some time ago he was evacuated again, and now the slave's house is shabby. "

Jia Yun didn't get entangled in this matter, and said with a smile: "Then you have a lot of money every month, right? It shouldn't be difficult to provide for your brother to study."

Qin Keqing shook her head and said: "Not enough, my family only has [-] months of treatment every month, and I didn't have any savings before, so I took it back to my mother's house to treat my father's illness."

Jia Yun smiled, pulled her into her arms, and whispered: "You are so shrewd, why didn't you understand? You bring the letter to your father and let him figure out a way. If you don't believe me, look, he promises to do it." Piece together to put Shu Xiu together."

Royal engineering has always been profitable, and Qin Ye is in charge of the engineering!

Although Qin Ye is not the highest official, he is in charge, and he is always indispensable for making big money.

If he doesn't make money, no one else dares to quit, so to say that he is an upright official can only be because he hides deeply.

"You're the only one who has trouble!" Qin Keqing lightly tapped Jia Yun's shoulder with her powder fist, and said with blank eyes.

She is obviously not a fool, on the contrary she is very smart, so she naturally knows the meaning of Jia Yun's words.

After pondering for a moment, Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Have you guessed it all?"

Jia Yun nodded and said, "This kind of thing is tacitly understood by everyone. The world is like this, but how much do you know?"

"I don't know at all, I just have some guesses in my heart." Qin Keqing shook her head and said.

"Since I was young, my father didn't talk about him with the slave family, and the slave family didn't dare to ask more questions because they were only adopted daughters."

After a pause, she continued: "I asked once when I was a child, and then I was beaten severely, and then I didn't dare to ask again."

"Nowadays, the slave family likes to repeat everything in their hearts several times. It is a habit developed at that time, for fear of saying the wrong thing and being beaten again."

Jia Yun said unexpectedly: "I didn't expect you to have such an experience."

After speaking, he hugged Qin Keqing tightly, and then put his hand into her clothes.

Qin Keqing gouged him out, her face turned red, charming, she gritted her teeth and said:

"Forget it, a married daughter is like flowing water. I can't control this matter. I can only let my father figure out a way."

Jia Yun asked: "What if your father doesn't let your younger brother study in Qingshan Academy? Then there is a high probability that your younger brother will study in Jia's Yi School. Hehe, with your younger brother's good looks, tsk tsk..."

Qin Keqing frowned, straightened her waist, and said helplessly: "Even so, there is nothing the Nu family can do. The Nu family themselves are trembling in Ningguo Mansion, let alone persuade father to change his mind."

"However, the slave family still hopes that my father can plan for my younger brother's future and send him to Qingshan Academy to study."

Jia Yun pondered for a moment, then shook her head and said, "I'm [-]% sure that your brother will study in Yi Xue."

"How do you say that?" Qin Keqing asked back, and then hugged Jia Yun's neck, and said softly, "My friend, hiss, take it easy!"

Jia Yun snorted, pecked her, and said with a smile: "I won't tell you the specific reason, you can just wait and see after a while."

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The sedan chair entered Rongguo Mansion.

Li Wan lowered the sedan chair curtain, feeling uneasy.

She hasn't returned home for nearly a month, and she doesn't know how others will react when they see her.

If she herself sees someone from 25 to [-] or [-], she will be surprised, and she will also be curious about how the other person did it.

Thinking of this, Li Wan squeezed the Xueha oil in his arms, and thought to himself: "I hope I can use this to get away with it!"

The sedan chair stopped in the yard.

As soon as Li Wan came down, he met Wang Xifeng, Lin Daiyu, Jia Tanchun and others coming out of Jia Mu's.

Seeing Li Wan getting off the sedan chair, Wang Xifeng squinted her eyes, dazzled by Li Wan's flabbergasted skin.

Lin Daiyu next to her pointed at Li Wan and exclaimed, "Is this sister-in-law?"

The other girls also reacted, and stepped forward to surround Li Wan, looking left and right, in amazement.

"God, how did sister-in-law become so young?"

"This must be some kind of miraculous medicine that has rejuvenated me, sister-in-law, tell us quickly, is there any medicine left?"

"Sister-in-law's skin is even better than ours, she is rosy, tsk tsk, what did you do?"

"..."

Wang Xifeng stepped forward and took Li Wan's hand, and said with a smile, "I haven't seen you for nearly a month, and you gave us a big surprise this time around!"

Li Wan said helplessly, "Is it frightened?"

"I want to be frightened like this too. Tell me quickly, how did you manage to become so young!" Wang Xifeng asked curiously.

Li Wan: "Let's talk about this matter in my yard later, I'll go to see the old lady and wife first."

"Then it's settled, the girls and I will go to your yard and wait for you?" Wang Xifeng nodded.

Li Wan nodded, and went to see Jia Mu, who was also very surprised when she saw her, and finally even ordered Yuanyang to get her glasses and take a closer look.

"Tsk tsk, I really learned a lot today." Mother Jia said with a smile, and then asked: "It's not that we haven't used snow ha oil before, but it's not as effective as what you use."

Li Wan smiled and said: "My grandson's daughter-in-law is also playing the wrong way. It turned out that the mountain wind over the academy is dry, so I applied some snow hawthorn oil to moisturize. I didn't expect the effect to be so good. I almost dared not see anyone when I came back today."

Mother Jia laughed and said, "Why don't you dare to see people? Isn't it good to be younger? Don't you want to be younger at such an old age?"

Li Wan smiled and said: "Then my granddaughter-in-law went back and divided this can of Xueha oil, and personally sent some to the old lady for a trial period. If it really works, I will buy more."

"Okay, okay, I must send some to the old lady to try." Jiamu said happily.

After bidding farewell to Jia Mu, Li Wan went to see Mrs. Wang again.

Mrs. Wang reacted even more.

She is nearly 50 years old, and she is already old and fading, so Jia Zheng seldom rests in her room at night, and mostly goes to Zhao Huhu next door.

It is impossible for her to look at it calmly in her heart, but there is no way, who made her old, deformed, and wrinkled on her face?
But when I saw Li Wan today, and learned that her skin became so good after using the oil, she suddenly became alive again.

She doesn't expect to be young enough, as long as she can change back to a 30-year-old appearance, she will be thankful.

Before Li Wan left, Mrs. Wang warned: "It's normal for this thing to be more expensive. If you don't have that much silver, come to my place before you leave, prepare some silver to take with you, and buy some back."

Li Wan hesitated and said: "Let's try it for a few days before we talk about it. The person who sells the oil also said that people's physiques are different. Some people use it with great effect, while others use it but it has no effect at all."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Wang pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Forget it, let's try it out for a few days first. Anyway, you came back this time to celebrate your in-laws' birthday, and you have to stay at home for a while before you can go to the academy again."

Coming out of Mrs. Wang's room, Li Wan became more and more panicked.

She underestimated women's crazy pursuit of youth and beauty. Even the old lady wanted to become younger, which really shocked her. The behavior of Mrs. Wang just now shocked her even more.

"Oops! There's still a group of people waiting in the yard!" Li Wan thought while rubbing his forehead.

Back in his courtyard, Li Wan looked at the fiery eyes of Wang Xifeng, Lin Daiyu and others, and didn't know what to say.

In the end, she didn't say anything at all, and directly led everyone into the house, and put the box of snow clam oil on the table.

"Don't ask, ask, it's because of this snow clam oil that I became so young." Li Wan smashed the jar.

Now she doesn't want to waste too much saliva explaining, anyway, regardless of whether the snow clam oil is effective or not, she will grit her teeth and insist that it is thanks to the snow clam oil that she has become younger.

As for other people's poor results after using it, she can easily explain it, that is, her constitution is not suitable for using snow clam oil.

Wang Xifeng walked forward with a smile, opened the box, and there was only half of it left.

She didn't think much about it, she just said that it was Li Wan who used it.

Wang Xifeng rubbed a little on the back of her hand, and spread it lightly. Soon, the skin on the back of her hand became white, tender and firm at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Ah, look!" Lin Daiyu pointed at Wang Xifeng's hand and said in surprise, her eyes sparkled.

The others didn't need her to remind them, they had seen it a long time ago, and they all showed excitement.

Seeing that Wang Xifeng used it and it worked, Li Wan was relieved.

Jia Tanchun eagerly stepped forward and asked, "Can I try?"

Wang Xifeng smiled, covered the box, rolled her eyes and said:

"You are all girls who have just grown up, how can you use this? Aren't you afraid of becoming a child? Oh, the girl Xichun hasn't grown up yet! It's even more useless."

Lin Daiyu stepped forward and said, "Sister-in-law Feng, can you just let me use it once? We just want to try the effect."

Wang Xifeng raised his chin towards Li Wan and said, "Ask your sister-in-law!"

Li Wan got up and said, "You don't need to use it, there is only so much in total, and you have to give a share to the old lady and the wife. You and I will definitely keep some, so we can't waste it."

"Furthermore, what your sister-in-law Feng said just now is also correct. You are still so young, and your skin is naturally delicate, so you don't need to apply this."

Then, she found a rouge box and divided it into nine shares, of which Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang accounted for half of the total, but no one said anything.

After all, one is the old lady, Dinghaishenzhen in Jia's mansion, and the other is Li Wan's mother-in-law, so they are naturally entitled to more points.

For the remaining seven copies, Li Wan and Wang Xifeng each took one.

The remaining five copies Li Wan called Suyun in and asked her to send them to Mrs. Xing, Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhou on the side of Rongguo Mansion, and Youshi and Qin Keqing on the side of Ningguo Mansion.

Lin Daiyu, Jia Tanchun, Jia Yingchun, and Jia Xichun all showed disappointment.

Everyone has this love of beauty. Although they are young, it doesn't mean they don't want to have good skin.

Look at the skin on Li Wan's face, it's smooth, supple, rosy, and looks very comfortable. Don't they envy them?
Seeing the pitiful eyes of the four girls, Li Wan pondered for a moment, then handed his share to Lin Daiyu, and said, "Come on, I'll give you my share, or you will pity me to death."

Lin Daiyu looked happy, took the rouge box from Li Wan, thanked her, and then muttered:

"The quantity is very small. If one person uses it, it can touch the face. If four people use it, you can only try it on your hands."

Jia Tanchun said with a smile: "Let's just watch the excitement from the left and right, and it doesn't hurt to try it on our hands."

Lin Daiyu looked at Jia Yingchun and Jia Xichun again, they both nodded yes.

So Lin Daiyu didn't hesitate anymore, just like Wang Xifeng did, she dabbed a little bit with her finger and applied it on the back of her hand.

"It really works!" Lin Daiyu said happily, and then quickly handed the rouge box to Jia Tanchun.

After the three of Jia Tanchun used it, the effect was obvious, and they were all very happy.

Lin Daiyu sniffed the back of her hand, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "This fragrance smells good, it is faint and soft, and there is nothing to smell it carefully, but when you don't pay attention, you can smell the fragrance everywhere, it's so good!"

Jia Tanchun nodded and said: "It's like a flower fragrance, but it's not a flower fragrance. It seems like it doesn't exist, so it's hard to describe."

Li Wan said with a smile: "Okay, girls, I've tried this snow clam oil too, so let's get rid of it. I'm going to give these two boxes to the old lady and wife."

Everyone filed out and dispersed.

Wang Xifeng took her share, went up to Li Wan and asked, "Sister-in-law, where did you buy this snow clam oil? How much is a box?"

"A peddler from outside Guan picked it up and sold it in the academy, so I just bought it casually. It's so precious. Such a small box costs 60 taels of silver. If I had a choice at that time, I probably wouldn't have bought it," Li said. Wan replied with a smile.

Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "Isn't this just buying and earning money? Sister-in-law, look at how energetic you are now, tsk tsk, like a little girl. When will you go to the academy again, I will go with you and buy more."

She really planned to go there by herself. If she could convince the peddler to supply the goods for a long time, she might be able to make a lot of money with this stuff.

Li Wan shook his head and said: "The peddler doesn't expect to stay in the academy for a long time. The price he sells is so expensive, so there are naturally few people who buy it, so the business is not very prosperous. It is uncertain when he will come next time."

Wang Xifeng was quite disappointed when he heard the words, feeling that the huge amount of money seemed to be disappearing gradually.

Somewhat unwillingly, she asked, "Is that shopkeeper in the academy today?"

If she was here today, she would go there right away, but she was a little surprised by that peddler, where the snow clam oil couldn't be sold well, but he chose to sell it among the men in the academy, would the business be good?
Li Wan said with a smile: "You don't even look at how long this box of oil has been used, how could he still be there?"

After saying that, she ignored Wang Xifeng, and went directly to Mrs. Wang's place.

The more she talks, the more mistakes she makes. Li Wan is always low-key, if it wasn't for her younger appearance today, she wouldn't be so high-key.

Wang Xifeng looked at Li Wan's back, frowned and said secretly: "She doesn't want me to make money?"

"That's right, this snow clam oil is so effective, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it. If it were me, such a good opportunity to make money is just like picking up money. I wouldn't let it to others. Wouldn't it be good to earn the money yourself?"

(End of this chapter)