The Red Mansions

Chapter 78 Accidents occur frequently

Chapter 78 Accidents occur frequently
in the room.

Xue Baochai shook her head and smiled when she heard Xue Pan's yelling outside.

Ying'er beside him smiled and said: "With the uncle's temper, the slaves would not dare to provoke him, but as soon as the girl makes a move, he will get up immediately."

Xue Baochai took a look at her, nodded and smiled and said, "Although my brother has a bit of a temper, he has a good temper in front of me and my mother."

This is true, outsiders call Xue Pan the overlord, with a violent temper and lawlessness, but in front of Xue Baochai and Xue Wangshi, he has always been reasonable and restrained.

Although there are times when they are noisy, it is only because of a certain matter, but there is a sense of proportion.

Coming to the window, through the gap, Xue Baochai pointed out, and asked in a low voice, "Ying'er, is that young man standing in front of the charming girl the brother Yun you mentioned?"

Ying'er looked out, nodded and replied: "Young lady is right, how is it? This slave girl is right, isn't Brother Yun particularly handsome?"

Xue Baochai nodded silently. Jia Yun was majestic, with a tall and straight figure, a plump complexion, sharp edges and corners, eyes like bright stars, a heroic temperament, gentle and jade-like, and a natural temperament.

She subconsciously thought of Jia Baoyu, and found that he was full of rouge, his behavior was frivolous, and what's more, he had no ambition to make progress.

Compared with Jia Yun, Jia Baoyu seems to be worthless except for his family background.

Seeing that Xue Baochai was silent, Ying'er hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Girl, are you really going to spread the words of a happy marriage? Once it spreads, you can't take it back!"

The theory of a golden and jade marriage is a rumor that Xue Wang wanted Xue Baochai to marry Jia Baoyu and was going to spread.

The reason why the Xue Wang family ignored Xue Baochai's reputation was because the Xue family was a merchant, and if they wanted to find the Jia family as a backer, the best way was to marry.

But the Jia family is a noble family, and it is not easy to find a merchant's family to marry, so before coming to Beijing, the Xue Wang family discussed with Xue Baochai and prepared to use some means.

The idea of ​​spreading the good fortune in Jia's mansion is to test the reaction of Jia's mansion, and then make plans for the next step.

Xue Baochai frowned slightly when she heard the words, and after pondering for a while, she sighed and said: "This matter is not urgent, you should be extra cautious. I will discuss it with your mother after she comes back!"

She is also helpless about this matter. These days, the marriages of children follow "the orders of the parents and the words of the matchmaker".

Now that the Xue family has no pillars, the business is in decline, and the big tree of Jia's family is backed by it to enjoy the shade, so her mother Xue Wang's idea came up with Jia Baoyu, hoping to facilitate a golden and jade marriage.

Regarding this matter, Xue Baochai has no right to choose, so she can only let it go, but deep down in her heart there is some resistance.

In Xue Baochai's impression, Jia Baoyu was like an unweaned child, rolling in the pile of rouge all day long, without any manliness, and she was unwilling to marry such a person.

"It's better to persuade mother to speak slowly, this matter should be more cautious." Xue Baochai thought to himself.

In the final analysis, Xue Pan is still incompetent. He is in his 20s, but he still fights cocks and horses all day long, travels around mountains and rivers, and has no knowledge of world affairs. Therefore, the pressure from the family has now been transferred to Xue Baochai.

With a secret sigh, Xue Baochai raised his head and looked at Jia Yun again, thinking: "If this person's family background is better..."

Jia Yun, who was outside, felt it the first time Xue Baochai saw him.

At this moment, he felt Xue Baochai looking at him again, so he turned his head to the window and nodded with a smile.

"Ah!" Xue Baochai was startled, her face paled, she hurriedly stepped back a few steps, and said to herself, "He knows I'm looking at him? It must be, otherwise he wouldn't smile at me."

Ying'er hurriedly stepped forward to support Xue Baochai, and asked with concern: "Miss, what's the matter?"

"It's okay." Xue Baochai shook his head and said, his face was hot and he was ashamed.

It was the first time for Xue Baochai to peek at others and be discovered by others.

She took a deep breath, turned around and sat down at the round table, buried her head on the table, feeling ashamed to see anyone.

At this moment, Xue Pan's roar suddenly came from the courtyard: "What are you doing, won't you wait for the hangover soup to cool down before giving it to me? Do you want to scald me to death?"

Xue Baochai was startled, she didn't care about being shy, she got up quickly, and saw Yinger nervously said: "It's Xiangling, the uncle scolded her again!"

Hearing this, Xue Baochai hurried to the door, looked out through the gap in the curtain, and saw Xiangling kneeling in the snow, sobbing with her teeth clenched, but she didn't dare to make a sound, she was so pitiful that she couldn't speak.

The guests at home came out of the room in twos and threes, Xue Baochai hesitated for a moment, and said: "Brother, there are still guests at home, do you want people to see a joke?"

"A joke? What kind of joke?" Xue Pan raised his face and said, "I'll teach this lowly servant girl a lesson. What jokes are there?"

As he spoke, he raised his leg and was about to kick Xiangling, Xue Baochai turned pale with fright, ignoring the presence of a foreigner, and hurriedly opened the door curtain and ran out to stop him.

In the courtyard, Xue Pan reprimanded Xiang Ling, but Jia Yun hesitated for a moment, and did not go forward to persuade him. After all, this is Xue Pan's family business, and it is not easy for him to be an outsider.

"Brother Yun, Miss Xiangling is so pitiful." Mei Ren said with a sour nose. She was also a maid, and when she saw Xiangling being reprimanded, she sympathized with her and felt pity in her heart.

Jia Yun said softly: "There are many poor people in the world, can you manage them?"

Not to mention him, even Jia Rong, Jia Baoyu and others standing in the corridor did not make a sound.

As soon as the words were finished, Xue Pan raised his leg to kick, and now everyone in the courtyard couldn't bear it anymore, and stepped forward one after another, ready to persuade him.

Jia Yun was no exception, he was the closest, stepped forward a few steps, grabbed Xue Pan, and said with a smile: "Forget it, what's the fight with a girl, there is probably a banquet over there, if you delay for a while, the food will be gone." It's cold..."

Before he finished speaking, a figure bumped into his arms.

Jia Yun looked down, stretched out her hand, and helped him up. Seeing that it was Xue Baochai, she couldn't help but wondered, "Miss Xue?"

Xue Baochai raised her head, her eyes were sparkling, watery, vivid and moving, her face was flushed, and she said, "My foot... slipped..."

As she spoke, she hurriedly came out of Jia Yun's arms and bowed: "Thank you for your help, young master. The little girl has something else to do, so go back to your room first."

Saying that, she ran back to the room as if fleeing, leaving a faint fragrance in the air.

The people in the courtyard were dumbfounded and silent, they all stared blankly at Jia Yun, then at Xue Baochai's room, even Xue Pan was dumbfounded and didn't know what to say.

After a while, Jia Yun spread her hands and said, "That... this..."

Xue Pan shivered, came back to his senses, and said loudly: "Let's go, eat... drink..."

The others also pretended to be deaf and dumb, as if they hadn't seen anything just now, and echoed: "Drink, let's have a few more drinks at noon today."

"Ahem, drink food, drink, um..."

"Cough cough..."

In the corner leading to Jia's inner house, Lin Daiyu covered her mouth and asked in surprise, "Is that Brother Yun?"

Xiren pursed his lips, nodded and said, "Yes."

"I used to hear that your brother Yun is better than brother Yun. He is really a handsome man." Lin Daiyu took a breath and said, she glanced sideways at Xiren, and said:

"Sister Xiren, I admire you a little bit. I like him, so I followed him regardless of everything."

Xiren shook his head and said: "Miss Lin is just joking. A servant girl has a humble status and is destined to be a concubine. The girl is different. She comes from a scholarly family with golden branches and jade leaves. From now on, she will definitely find a good-looking and handsome Mr. Ruyi."

"You can talk." Lin Daiyu said with a smile, pondered for a moment, and said: "I used to think that Sister Bao would never change her face when a mountain collapsed in front of her, but today I found out that she also has times of panic, hehe... "

The servant girl Zijuan asked in a low voice: "Girl, I'm afraid the feast is about to start now, do we still have to wait for Miss Xue to go with me?"

"We have to wait, otherwise why are we running here?" Lin Daiyu replied.

(End of this chapter)

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