Turning the tide in the Red Chamber

Chapter 31 [031] Beating Qingwen

Rare goods can be lived in, and those with high prices can get them. "The Four Lessons of Liao Fan" is a famous book about cultivating virtues, cultivating one's morals and governing the world.

Once on the market, it will be popular all over the country, and even sell well overseas.

Jia Chen plans to find several libraries to inquire about the price, and whoever pays the highest fee will cooperate with him.

Taking a relaxed pace, Jia Chen returned home and found two more cats in the yard, one was black and the other was snow white.

Jia Chen looked at Qingwen who was carrying a kitchen knife, and asked in surprise:
"Qingwen, do you have two cats, or are you going to kill them?"

Qingwen set up her two seductive eyes, put her index finger up on the cherry lips, made a silent gesture, and whispered mysteriously:
"Brother Chen, keep your voice down, I'm catching a snake with a cat!"

Jia Chen opened his eyes wide, froze for a moment, and asked:

"Where is the snake? I'll catch it for you."

Qingwen waved her hand and whispered:
"Hush—don't scare the snake away. I don't know where the snake is now. I just remember that I saw it in the water basin last night."

Jia Chen was slightly taken aback, and then remembered, isn't the water basin the big wooden basin he used to take a bath in?
If there is a snake in the basin, why didn't I get bitten?

Suddenly, Jia Chen realized something, scratched his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile:

"Don't worry, I've already caught the water snake and threw it away, so you don't need to look for it anymore."

"Oh! That's good, I've been worrying for nothing all night." Qingwen threw the kitchen knife on the stove and muttered in embarrassment:

"However, in order to catch snakes, I bought two cats from the market. What should I do with these two cats? How about I go to the market and sell them?"

Jia Chen smiled nonchalantly and said:
"No need, let's keep it. You can also catch mice and cockroaches. If a snake really escapes our house, you don't have to be afraid if you have these two cats in the town house."

Qingwen clapped her hands and gave the two cats names, Xiao Hei for the black cat and Xiao Bai for the white cat.

Jia Chen knew that she wanted to keep the two cats as companions, but it was actually because the house was too deserted, only herself and her.

When she was in Rongguo Mansion before, she had many servant girls as companions, but now she suddenly changed to a quiet environment, so she would inevitably feel lonely and boring.

Jia Chen walked into the study, Qing Wen hurriedly followed in, and asked with a smile, "Brother Chen, what are your orders?"

"Help me wash my pen and ink, I want to write a book." Jia Chen smiled, rolled up his sleeves, and sat down at the table.

The spring breeze sneaked into the room through the half-closed screen window, blowing the bangs on his forehead, adding a bit of unrestrained chic and agility to his already heroic face.

Qingwen was a little dazed looking at it, she just felt that her master was so handsome, even the most handsome Second Master Lian in the Rong Mansion, compared to Big Brother Chen, he was slightly inferior.

Brother Chen is only thirteen years old, and he is already so handsome. How amazing will his appearance be when he becomes an adult?
I am afraid that in the whole city of Shenjing, it is difficult to find a handsome man who can compare with him.

As his maid, I don't know how he will arrange her in the future?

If I am lucky enough to marry him as my concubine, it will be a great blessing.

Although Qingwen is only thirteen years old, she has been immersing herself in Rongguo Mansion, a big dye vat with complicated interpersonal relationships, and already knows that the best fate of a maid is to marry her master as a concubine.

As for the servants in the mansion, the maids including Qingwen didn't treat them as human beings at all.

Some maidservants would rather be released to marry than these young servants.

Because these young servants are slaves, after marrying them, the children born to them are called family-born children, and they can only be slaves and servants from generation to generation.

No one wants to be inferior to others, no one wants to be oppressed by others, and no one wants to be manipulated by others to decide life and death.

Throughout the ages, women have always wanted to climb high branches, which is human nature.

For example, in modern society, who among the female employees in the company does not want to marry the president?Who is willing to marry a male employee who is also a wage earner?
To put it mildly, it is called a part-time job, but to put it badly, how is it different from those servants and maids in the Jia family?
It's just a name change.

Only marrying the upper class is the shortcut for women to break the solidification of class.

And although Qingwen doesn't know the word "class", she also knows that only by marrying Jia Chen can she fly to the branches and become a phoenix.

Seeing that Qingwen was in a daze, Jia Chen asked with a smile:
"Why are you in a daze? Is there something on your mind?"

Qingwen has a straightforward temper and doesn't hide it. She said truthfully:

"I've heard Xiaohong say, 'If you build a long shed for thousands of miles, there's never a never-ending banquet'. Although I can stay by Brother Chen's side now, I'm worried that when Brother Chen gets married in the future, will he be able to keep me to serve him? "

Although Qingwen didn't make it clear, Jia Chen had already seen through her thoughts, and said with a warm smile:

"Don't worry, you are such a good girl, how can I have the heart to drive you away? As long as you behave well, I will not treat you badly."

Jia Chen didn't finish his words, let alone told Qingwen that he wanted to marry her as a concubine, so that she wouldn't be arrogant because of her favor, and she would become violent because of her beauty, and in turn dominate him, and even do something that violated the rules and regulations.

Even when dealing with future concubines, Jia Chen pays great attention to how to control them, using both kindness and majesty, so as not to lose his prestige and make his family restless.

After hearing Jia Chen's promise, Qingwen immediately smiled, and hurriedly washed her pen and ink.

Jia Chen dipped his pen in the ink and waved the paper.

The pen walks like a dragon, the straight painting is like a sword, the curved pen is like a vine, the point is like a dangerous peak falling into a rock, and the tip is like a orchid leaf blowing the wind.

The flamboyant and phoenix danced, eloquently.

Although Qingwen is literate, she doesn't know many characters. She just thinks that Jia Chen's calligraphy is not only majestic, but also chic and elegant, just like painting an ink painting, which is pleasing to the eye and sweet.

"The Four Lessons of Liao Fan" has a total of more than [-] characters. Jia Chen worked hard to write, and it took two hours to finish all of them.

It was almost noon when he finished writing the last stroke with iron strokes and silver hooks.

Qingwen was fascinated by watching, and she was so dazed that she forgot to make lunch.

Jia Chen made a serious face on purpose, and said in a deep voice:
"Qingwen, why don't you cook? As a maid, but lazy and slippery, tell me, should you be punished?"

Qingwen's pretty face turned pale, she shivered, and hurriedly said:
"My servant knows I'm wrong, I'm going to cook now!"

Before she finished speaking, she turned around and rushed into the kitchen.

Unexpectedly, she was flustered and flustered, and even tripped over the bucket, and then plunged into a pile of pot bottoms beside the stove, staining her entire face black, which was quite funny and cute.

The corners of Jia Chen's lips raised slightly. The promise he made to Qingwen just now was for kindness, and he scolded her with a straight face. Hit her to make her recognize her position, otherwise, sooner or later she will be proud of being favored, put her nose on her face, and act as a maid, putting on airs of her master.

After a while, a strong smell of meat wafted out of the kitchen.

Less than half a cup of tea later, Qingwen came over with a bowl of broth, and said timidly:

"Brother Chen, I'm worried that you're hungry. I didn't have time to prepare too many meals in a hurry. I only stewed a pot of ham and fresh bamboo shoot soup. You fill your stomach first. What else do you want to eat? Tell me, and I'll make it right away." .”

Jia Chen took the bowl, scooped up a spoonful of ham, and stuffed it into his mouth, an extremely fresh fragrance permeated between his lips and teeth.

"Well, the taste is not bad. Seeing that you cook so deliciously, you will be exempted from punishment this time, but it will not be an example!"

Qingwen nodded cautiously and said: "I know I'm wrong, I must cook on time from now on."

Jia Chen smiled and said, "The tofu skin buns you made are delicious. I haven't had enough of them yet. You can make another pot. I'll eat them later when I come back."

After finishing speaking, Jia Chen walked into the kitchen, filled the food box with a bowl full of ham and fresh bamboo shoot soup, and went out with the food box.

Looking at the back of Jia Chen going away, a warm current surged in Qingwen's panicky heart. It seemed that Brother Chen still cared about her very much. Knowing that she loved tofu skin buns, she let herself cook again.

At the same time, Qingwen was also very curious. Before every meal, Big Brother Chen had to go out with a food box. I don't know who to deliver the food to?

(End of this chapter)