The Red Mansions

Chapter 164 Ping'er: Grandma, Old Pearl Yellow

in the room.

A long time away is better than a newlywed.

Jia Yun and Xue Baochai hugged each other, pulled her disheveled hair aside, looked at her ruddy face, and said softly: "Baochai, you don't know, I have often thought of you in the past six months."

Xue Baochai became more mature and charming, exuding the unique charm of a woman.

Every frown and smile, every anger and anger are charming and moving.

Xue Baochai said with a smile: "My family also misses your husband, even in my dreams. Fortunately, you came back early. If it takes longer, my family can't help but come to look for you."

Xue Baochai looked at Jia Yun affectionately, held his face in both hands, and whispered softly:
"Before getting married, I didn't have this kind of experience. After getting married..."

Jia Yun hugged her lightly and asked, "Did you ask your mother-in-law to borrow money from the Jia mansion?"

"Well, I borrowed it." Xue Baochai nodded and said, "At the end of last month, just after the Jia family received the imperial edict, my aunt went to my mother to borrow money."

"But my mother didn't agree, and she doesn't care about the money now, and she didn't give any money to my aunt after she promised. Later, my aunt left a message, saying that after my brother returned to Beijing, I would ask him to borrow it."

Jia Yun nodded lightly and said, "Do you know where the Jia mansion got the money for building the courtyard?"

Xue Baochai replied: "I heard that I borrowed a few 10 taels of silver from the Wang family, and sold a lot of things in the family, so I started construction."

Then she remembered something, and continued: "By the way, the ancestor in our room sent someone here before, saying that after you come back, he wants to find a time to worship the ancestors and revise the family tree."

"Okay, I will remember this matter, and I will discuss it with my ancestors." Jia Yun nodded.

The original plan was to worship the ancestors at the end of last year, but because he went out, it was delayed.

This is a serious matter, and Jia Yun naturally has to fully support it.

Jia Yun continued: "I'm a new official in the capital, and I'll be busy recently, so you should pay more attention to the family affairs."

"Husband, don't worry, there is a slave family to take care of the house, don't worry, if you are not at home for more than half a year, the slave family will take care of it?" Xue Baochai said with a smile.

Jia Yun nodded and said with a smile: "You still smell so fragrant, and it feels good to smell."

Xue Baochai wondered: "It's still fragrant? I don't use rouge at home, and I haven't eaten Lengxiang Wan for a long time. Where did the fragrance come from?"

"The natural fragrance from the body is the most pleasant smell." Jia Yun said with a smile.

Xue Baochai smiled and said, "Then my husband will hear more, and let you smell it for a lifetime."

Jia Yun hugged her tightly, stroked her smooth back, and whispered, "It's great to marry Baochai!"

After the two talked for a while, Xue Baochai said, "Husband, I want to take my mother home for a few days."

"Oh, this is up to you, don't ask me." Jia Yun nodded.

Xue Baochai smiled and said, "That won't work, even if you are not at home, I will discuss it with my mother."

Jia Yun smiled, didn't say any more, just said: "It's a trivial matter, but brother Xue is old, it's time to find a wife and start a family."

"It's not easy to find, but my brother is okay. The key is that my mother has high eyesight, and she can't find anything that catches her eye." Xue Baochai said with a frown.

Jia Yun pursed her mouth and said: "Now you have to persuade your mother-in-law, marry a wife and marry a good man, let's not talk about being well-matched, as long as it is good for the girl's house, just marry it!"

"You see that your brother is not going to exist, and that restless heart can't be taken back. It's not a problem after all. You can't just drag it like this all the time, can you?"

Xue Baochai thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Forget it, when I'm free, I'll try to persuade my mother."

"That's right. Your brother is not bad now. He has an official status. Although the Xue family is an old businessman, he has begun to break away from the scope of a businessman. It should be easy to marry a wife." Jia Yun said with a smile.

This is the current era, in future generations, like Xue Baochai is a proper Bai Fumei, I don't know how many people in the Xue family think about it.

Xue Baochai nodded, and asked again: "By the way, my husband, you returned so many maids from Gusu, how should you distribute them?"

"This is a matter of the back house, I don't care, just leave Shuang Qing to me." Jia Yun smiled.

Xue Baochai murmured: "Then arrange a few in the maiden's room. After all, attackers and charming people have different identities, so we need to arrange a few more people to wait on them. Qin's side will also add a few more maids, and leave the rest to you." me!"

Jia Yun reminded: "Don't forget to teach them to read and write..."

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In Jia's mansion, Wang Xifeng stared at Jia Lian, sneered and said: "I'm promising, I went to the south, not to mention that you are thin, your eye sockets are black and sunken, and you walk tremblingly. I don't know, I thought you were getting old." Where is the old man!"

Jia Lian frowned and said, "I just got home, can't I have a warm word?"

"Heh, you're fooling around outside, and you've turned your body into a ghost, so don't you allow me to say a few more nasty words?" Wang Xifeng said coldly.

Seeing Jia Lian's decayed appearance, Wang Xifeng felt angry.

Jia Lian sighed. He was rightly sorry for the matter, so he didn't argue with Wang Xifeng, but said:

"Uncle just came to the mansion. After dinner in the evening, he took Miss Lin home."

Wang Xifeng nodded silently, and said: "Miss Lin is already a big girl, she should have gone back to her own family to raise her!"

"Especially there is Baoyu in our house, who is like a young child who often does some disrespectful things. If Miss Lin still lives in the house, something will happen sooner or later."

Jia Lian thought for a while, nodded and said, "Baoyu is not good enough for Miss Lin."

"Oh, you said something human." Wang Xifeng said, "The Lin family is a scholarly family after all, now that Mr. Lin has come to Beijing, he is destined to be promoted and hold real power. In fact, our family has nothing but a title. "

Jia Lian frowned and said, "Our Jia family is not too bad, but now the eldest girl has been made a noble concubine again..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Xifeng interrupted with a wave of his hand: "Come on, no matter how noble people are in the harem, people from Jia's mansion need to be successful. Take a look at our family, who has real power?"

"To put it bluntly, when I used to put loan sharks, I had to ask my mother's family for help to get it done!"

Jia Lian squinted at her and said displeasedly: "Yes, your natal family is powerful, but my Jia's family is not for nothing. Now that my father gives loan sharks, isn't it running well?"

Speaking of this, Jia Lian suddenly asked: "By the way, why don't you intervene in such a big job as building a yard at home? Don't you know how much money there is to fish for?"

"Forget it, since I handed the key back to my wife, I haven't been involved in the affairs of the house. If you want to get money, you can do it yourself, don't bring me." Wang Xifeng shook his head and said.

Jia's mansion started construction of the Provincial Villa, which was borrowed from the Wang family.

There are still a lot of holes to be filled before it can be built.

She didn't want to add the dowry in the end without getting the oil and water, and the loss outweighed the gain.

Jia Lian's eyes lit up, and he confirmed, "You really don't want to get involved? If you don't get involved, then I'll take over the job of building the yard!"

Seeing Wang Xifeng nodding expressionlessly, Jia Lian got up with a smile and said, "Okay, since that's the case, then I'll go and see what's going on first. If you make money by then, don't even try to ask me for it."

After Jia Lian left, Ping'er came in from the outside and asked in a low voice, "Grandma, when are you going there?"

Wang Xifeng pondered: "I'll go in the afternoon, I've missed him for so long, I can't bear it."

"I can't help this servant, my heart gets hot when I think of him." Ping'er bit her lip and said.

Wang Xifeng couldn't help laughing, rolled his eyes and said, "When will I learn to be so shameless?"

"Hee hee, I learned from grandma." Ping'er said with a smile.

Wang Xifeng cut his voice, and said: "I'm too lazy to argue with you, hurry up and take out the new clothes we bought a while ago and iron them."

"Before we go, we have to dress up beautifully, or he will dislike him again."

Ping'er pursed his lips and said: "He will not dislike slaves, but if he dislikes, he will only dislike grandma!"

"Good girl, when will my ten-year-old beauty be old?" Wang Xifeng laughed angrily, and slapped Ping'er's buttocks.

Ping'er covered his buttocks and hid to the side, grinning and said: "You are, last time he said that grandma always likes to dress up in a luxurious and flamboyant way, and her whole body is rich and vulgar, and to put it bluntly, she is old and frail!"

Wang Xifeng rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "You should read more books, this word is not used in this way."

While the two were arguing, Jia Mu, Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Lian, and Jia Zhen gathered together in the Rongqing Hall next door to chat about something.

Mother Jia mused, "Now the eldest girl has made her mark in the palace, but the construction of the province's villa has just started, and the money is still far short. You all have to think of a way."

Jia Amnesty answered, "Mother tried to sound out my brother-in-law earlier, did you gain anything?"

"What can I gain? He wants to be an upright official, but he has no money to lend to our Jia family." Mother Jia said with an unhappy expression.

Jia Zhen frowned and interjected: "He is an upright official, what joke are you kidding, who doesn't know that Yangzhou Yanyan Yushi is a top fat job? I'm afraid he doesn't want to lend us money?"

Jia Mu shook her head, sighed, and said nothing.

Jia She said: "My son will talk to his brother-in-law at night, and no matter what happens, he will ask him to lend us a few hundred thousand taels of silver."

"Nothing else, my mother has worked so hard to raise Miss Lin, so he should give our family a few hundred thousand taels of silver."

Jia Mu glanced at him and said, "Your brother-in-law gave us money to raise Daiyu."

Jia She said with a sneer, "How can that little money be enough? Mother is a superstar, can anyone just let you take care of the child?"

"It's a reason!" Jia Zhen continued, "If you want me to tell you, you can't promise Master Lin to take Miss Lin away so easily!"

Mother Jia looked at the silent Jia Zheng and asked, "Zheng'er, what do you think?"

"This... Mother, I think this doesn't make any sense." Jia Zheng replied with his hands clasped.

"Why don't I ask Mrs. Wang to go to Xue's house again to ask, now that Xue Pan is back, Mrs. Xue can't prevaricate by saying that she can't be the master anymore, right?"

Jia Mu nodded and said: "Well, this is also a way. The Xue family has money, so it should be easy to get one million and 80 taels."

(End of this chapter)