The Red Mansions

Chapter 199 The parents are short, Xue Baochai is pregnant
"You're fine, you can go and play with Baochai and the others more often."

In the room, Jia Yun hugged Qin Keqing and said softly.

Qin Keqing said with a slight smile: "I'm not feeling well these days, I just want to stay in the room and don't want to go anywhere."

"Then what do you do when you stay in your room all day?" Jia Yun asked curiously.

"Reading a book is a good way to pass the time," Qin Keqing said.

"A few days ago, I made a summer coat for the master, and it was only half done. I don't want to move much these days, and I don't know when it will be ready."

Jia Yun nodded and said with a smile: "No hurry, I have enough clothes now. When the season changes, each of you will make one for me. I don't wear heavy clothes, they are enough."

After thinking about it, he put Qin Keqing down, got up and took her hand and said:

"Let's go, I'll take you out for a few steps and shut myself in the house all day, it's not very good!"

Qin Keqing didn't refuse, and let Jia Yun lead her with a smile on her little face.

As soon as she left the small courtyard, she ran into Lin Daiyu and Zijuan who had come out from Xue Baochai's house. Jia Yun invited them to go for a walk in the garden together.

Lin Daiyu glanced at Qin Keqing, hesitated for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated the sky red, and the ground was still emitting steaming heat.

In the garden, hundreds of flowers are in full bloom, and the fragrance of flowers is fragrant.

After arriving in the garden, Jia Yun took Qin Keqing with one hand and Lin Daiyu with the other, walking unhurriedly.

Not in a hurry to speak, just quietly enjoying this moment of tranquility.

After walking for a while, Qin Keqing's spirit improved a lot, so Jia Yun took them to the gazebo to sit down and talk.

"Did my father write to you?" Lin Daiyu took the initiative to mention Lin Ruhai.

She knew that Jia Yun and Lin Ruhai communicated with each other by flying eagles, sending letters faster.

Jia Yun looked at her softly, and replied with a smile:

"Don't worry, Mr. Lin has just taken office, and he has a lot of thoughts. He will not send a letter until he stabilizes after a while."

He and Lin Ruhai are life-and-death friends, and they are quite trusted by Lin Ruhai.

It seems that Jia Yun is more trustworthy than the Jia Mansion, so Lin Ruhai is not too worried about her daughter.

Lin Daiyu nodded, turned to look at Qin Keqing, said with a smile:
"My sister has been hiding in her room these days. We all wanted to visit, but we were afraid of disturbing your peace. Why did you come out today?"

Jia Yun said with a smile: "Don't make fun of her, she is not in good shape, so she doesn't want to come out, it doesn't look like you always like to visit?"

"Who did you hear that I always like to drop by? I also like to stay in the room, okay?" Lin Daiyu said aggrievedly.

Qin Keqing quickly grabbed her hand and persuaded: "My dear sister, don't be angry. Speaking of visiting, I also like it, but if you want to say who is the most diligent visiting in our family, I can only count the master as the most."

Lin Daiyu laughed out loud.

Jia Yun is indeed the one in the family who likes to run into other people's rooms the most.

Even if you are on business outside during the day, you will feel uncomfortable if you don't go to the girls' rooms when you come back at night.

Jia Yun smiled when she heard this, and changed the subject: "Are you still used to living in a small courtyard these days?"

"It's good. After all, the small courtyard is my own place. I can do whatever I want freely, without any restrictions." Lin Daiyu said with a smile.

While talking, Xue Baochai and the others also came to play in the garden.

It was evening at this moment, and the sun was too bright during the day, so I only came here to get some air at this moment.

Jia Yun felt very happy when she saw the fat and thin girls around her family.

When they came to the gazebo, Xue Baochai asked with a smile, "Husband, when did Cousin Feng and the others leave?"

"Just walked for a while, what's the matter, do you have something to do with them?" Jia Yun asked, holding her hand.

After touching it a few times, Jia Yun saw that something was wrong with Xue Baochai.

So without waiting for her to speak, he pinched her pulse and made a detailed diagnosis.

Xue Baochai opened her mouth, seeing Jia Yun feel her pulse, she held back what she wanted to say.

A pair of clear eyes looked at Jia Yun expectantly, hoping to hear good news from him.

"Yes, I'm so careless that I didn't pay attention to this aspect." Jia Yun happily said to Xue Baochai.

Xue Baochai held her chest excitedly, breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a happy smile:
"Thank God, I finally got pregnant. My family has almost become obsessed with getting pregnant these days. I even think about it when I eat and sleep."

Since coming to Jia Yun's house, both Mrs. Bu and Mrs. Xue have been staring at her stomach, so she is under a lot of pressure.

When the other people around heard the news, they were also happy.

Although the Jia family is a prosperous family, Jia Yun's family is sparsely populated.

As a woman, all the wives and concubines in the family are looking forward to having more children for Jia Yun, so that she can flourish.

With one and a half daughters, the position in the family is more stable.

Jia Yun pressed Xue Baochai who was extremely excited, and reminded:
"The range of motion is smaller, and the first few months of pregnancy are the most fragile, so you must be careful."

Xue Baochai was pregnant, and he was also very excited.

Xue Baochai nodded, and suddenly threw herself into Jia Yun's arms, sobbing.

She was under too much pressure, although Mrs. Bu and Mrs. Xue didn't urge her often, but the invisible pressure made her a little out of breath.

Now that she had a child, Xue Baochai's heartache was completely released, and she just wanted to cry when she was happy.

"Why are you crying?"

Jia Yun was at a loss what to do, so she had to put her arms around her and slowly comfort her.

Qin Keqing, Xiren, Meiren, etc. beside him also wept with joy and secretly touched their tears. Xue Baochai was under a lot of pressure, and they were not young, so they felt the same way.

After Xue Baochai's mood stabilized a bit, Jia Yun ordered Xiren:
"The news that Xiren is pregnant with Baochai should be reported to my mother quickly to make her happy, and Jia Wenlin should send someone to Xue's residence to inform her."

Xiren smiled and went to arrange it himself.

Looking back, Jia Yun reached out and wiped away the tears on Xue Baochai's face in her arms, and said with a smile:
"This is a happy event, don't cry, we should be happy!"

Xue Baochai wiped her tears with a handkerchief, withdrew from Jia Yun's arms, and said with a smile:

"It's my fault. This is indeed a happy event, but after hearing the news just now, I just couldn't help but want to cry."

Lin Daiyu leaned forward, looked at Xue Baochai's stomach, and said with a smile, "This is crying with joy, Sister Bao, how does your stomach feel right now?"

"Oh, I don't feel anything. Maybe it's because I'm just pregnant. When the child grows up, I'll have it." Xue Baochai thought for a while and replied.

Jia Yun helped her up, walked back slowly, and said, "Generally speaking, it takes four to five months to conceive!"

"It's amazing, the baby is conceived like this?" Lin Daiyu asked curiously, looking left and right.

Xue Baochai covered her mouth and smiled, and said: "Sister Lin is really curious, so she will spend more time with her husband, maybe she will get pregnant sometime soon."

Lin Daiyu blushed, secretly glanced at Jia Yun, pursed her lips and said:

"I'm still young, so I'm not in a hurry to have a child. Besides, I'm not married to him yet. If I get pregnant before we get married, I don't want to lose my face?"

Xue Baochai smiled, and didn't say anything more, just said: "I'm pregnant this time, and I'm afraid I won't be able to play and play with you in the future. You can't neglect me."

Jia Yun, who was supporting her as she walked, just laughed and said nothing when she heard the two chattering.

Back in the courtyard, Mrs. Bu rushed over, with joy on her face, and patiently instructed Xue Baochai to teach her child-rearing experience.

After a while, Xue Pan and Xue Wang also came over, which made it even more lively.

There were many people in the room, after Jia Yun paid a visit to Mrs. Xue, she took Xue Pan out of the small courtyard and came to the tea room to chat.

"That Xia family is really shameless. They were engaged to Jia Rong before, but now they broke up, and they want to marry me again, brother-in-law, what do you call this?" Xue Pan said depressedly.

Jia Yun poured him a cup of tea and asked with a smile, "She wants to marry you, so you just don't want to. What can I say?"

Xue Pan gritted his teeth and said: "But my mother is still a little bit unwilling to give up. She always thinks that if she marries a girl from the Xia family, she will be able to get the property of the Xia family. Do you think that with the current family background of our Xue family, do we still need to use such crooked brains?" ?”

Jia Yun nodded and said, "You really need to pay attention to this matter, the girl from the Xia family is not a good guy."

"The Xue family is no longer just a simple merchant. You have an official position. When you become an official in the future, the Xue family will be a family of officials and eunuchs."

"At your age, with a fifth-rank official position, even if you want to marry the county magistrate's daughter, you are qualified. There is no need to have anything to do with the Xia family. You can't lower her."

Xue Pan took a sip of tea, nodded and said, "It's thanks to my brother-in-law, you told my mother before, otherwise she would have married the Xia family without me, and the eyelids are really shallow."

Jia Yun glanced at him and said, "But this incident also reminds me that your marriage should not be delayed for too long, and should be settled early, otherwise the mother-in-law will make other moths."

Hearing this, Xue Pan scratched his hair irritably, and said listlessly: "I want to find a girl who can manage the house and is not too domineering, how can it be so easy to find?"

"Then put aside the right family, and only look for virtuous ones." Jia Yun replied.

Xue Pan frowned and said: "It's easy to say, but the girl's family is raised in a deep boudoir, no matter her appearance and character, how can she know the truth?"

"That's true." Jia Yun murmured, but there was no other way.

Xue Pan sighed, and said: "I'm not wrong, these days, the father's order is emphasized, the matchmaker's words, blind marriage depends on luck."

Jia Yun pondered: "Why don't you find someone in our Jia's house? It's hard to say in the other rooms. The girl in the third room, I'll ask my ancestor how good the girl is. He still has a rough idea."

"It's still the same sentence, marrying a wife and a virtuous person, family background and so on are secondary. After all, the Xue family doesn't need to rely on marriage to make further progress. Isn't that the reason?"

Xue Pan was startled, pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "This is a way. I don't care much about family background."

"The girl in the third room of the Jia family, with your ancestors coming forward, you probably wouldn't find someone to introduce to me. Well, you can give it a try."

Jia Yun said with a smile: "There is no rush for this matter. I will mention it to my mother-in-law when I have dinner later. If she has no objection, I will ask my ancestors for help."

(End of this chapter)