Red Chamber: Bring Xue Baochai home at the beginning

Chapter 241
Mother Jia just came back from Xiaoci County recently, and went to Ningfu to cry again.

How can an elderly person be so sad?

After repeated tossing, I felt headache and eyesight, stuffy nose and heavy voice that night.

Unable to hold on anymore, he fell ill and collapsed.

Everyone in the Rong Mansion was in a mess, so they quickly invited the imperial physician to give Jia Mu a pulse and prescribe medicine.

It took a lot of hectic work in the middle of the night to be considered stable.

Fortunately, the disease spread quickly, and no scriptures have been passed on.

By the third watch, Jia's mother was sweating a little bit.

Finally, the pulse was calm and the body was cool, and the fever was no longer there.

The people in Rong Mansion were relieved just now.

It's just that you still need to take medicine for conditioning until the next day.

The Jia family had to go to Ningfu to attend the funeral during the day, so they had to take turns to serve them.

Lin Ruhai got the letter, so he sent Daiyu to Jia's mansion.

Asking her to serve her grandmother in front of the bed is not in vain for Jiamu's love.

A few days later, both Rongning and Ningfu went to attend Jia Jing's funeral.

Jia Amnesty, Jia Lian, Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang, etc., led the family servants to send the coffin to Tiekan Temple and did not return until evening.

Jia Zhen, You's couple, and Jia Rong, the grandson, still stayed in the temple to guard Jia Jing's spirit.

After a hundred days of guarding, the coffin can be carried back to the hometown and buried in Jia's ancestral grave.

The Ning Mansion only continued to entrust Mrs. You to take care of her.

Feng Yibo also went over to see him off when he had time, and returned to the ministry after he had done all the courtesy.

Within two days, relatives from Feng's residence visited.

The Feng family is not very prosperous, and they have no serious relatives for a long time.

There are only some relatives in the village, and now most of them are in management in Nanyang.

The ones who came were naturally not Feng Yibo's relatives.

It was Li Shouzhong's younger siblings, Li Wan's widowed aunt.

She brought her two daughters to live in Duzhong.

Li Shouzhong received a letter saying that something happened in the ministry and he couldn't get away temporarily.

Feng Yibo, the junior and the male master of the Feng family, volunteered to invite Ying.

When he returned home, he asked someone to prepare a carriage, and went to the pier with Li Mengshi.

Welcome Aunt Li's family back to Feng Mansion.

Baochai picked it up in person, surrounded by everyone, and sent him to the courtyard of the old couple.

"Feng Yuan brought his wife and concubines to meet Auntie!"

The two parties arrived at the room and took their seats before formally seeing the ceremony.

Along the way, Aunt Li knew Feng Yibo's identity from Li Mengshi.

At this time, he smiled and praised him:
"In the clan, I often hear people say that Yibo is the most proud disciple of Big Brother these years. When I saw him today, he really is a hero among men."

Hearing this, Feng Yibo was slightly puzzled.

Even if he is Li Shouzhong's proud disciple, not everyone in the Li family knows about it, right?
Even if Aunt Li was just exchanging greetings, it was obviously a bit too much.

He immediately said again and again:

"Auntie's absurd praise! But I was wrongly loved by my mentor!"

Unexpectedly, seeing his modesty, Aunt Li added:

"The property you donated earlier has rebuilt the Li Clan's ancestral hall and clan studies, and filled in a lot of sacrificial fields. Everyone in the Li Clan is grateful for your benefits. How can you be so humble?"

Feng Yibo was taken aback when he heard the words, and at the same time his heart turned.

Only then did I realize that what Aunt Li said was about the incident a few years ago.

Before the spring of that year, Japanese pirates fled to the south of the Yangtze River and arrived at Fengjiazhuang.

After Feng Yibo led his men to defeat them, he wanted to take more than twenty carts of property for himself.

But he was just a Juren at that time, weak and weak.

It is extremely risky to occupy those assets.

In order to divert the attention of others, it is also to seek some shelter.

He divided the goods into several carts.

Two of the cars were delivered to Li Shouzhong's residence.

Unexpectedly, when Li Shouzhong accepted his property, he saw his little thoughts?
He himself didn't take any advantage, and sent all the goods back to the clan.

He also pointed out that it was a gift from Feng Yibo.

Obviously, this is to take over this matter and silently shield Feng Yibo from the wind and rain.

Maybe the coveting of many people was blocked because of this.

Thinking of Li Shouzhong's secret support, Feng Yibo was moved, and said quickly:
"I don't dare to take credit for this matter. Those were the filial piety to my mentor and wife at that time, and the donation to the clan is the heart of the two elders."

Li Mengshi obviously knew about this, so he smiled and said:
"As the head of the Li family, the master should be responsible for doing something for the family. Yibo knew what he was thinking, so he did his best to help."

Feng Yibo got off the donkey, nodded repeatedly and said:
"Exactly, it's all because the teacher wants to give back to the family, and what I do is not worth mentioning."

Aunt Li just smiled when she heard the words, so she didn't say any more.

She turned to look at Baochai, and praised:

"The daughter-in-law of the Feng family, is that the eldest girl of the Xue family? I heard about the virtuous name of the eldest daughter of the Xue family in Jinling earlier. I don't want to see her today, but what they say is not as good as eleven!"

When Baochai saw her, she gave her a quick blessing and said:
"Auntie's reputation is just a compliment from the elders."

Seeing that the couple are so humble, Li Mengshi joked with a smile:
"You husband and wife don't need to be careful, you both deserve what she said."

When everyone heard this, they all smiled kindly.

Aunt Li also smiled, let out the two girls beside her, and said:
"This is your two younger sisters, Wen'er and Qi'er. I haven't met the Feng family brother and sister-in-law yet."

The two had already met Li Mengshi on the way, and when they heard their mother introducing the young couple, they hurried forward to meet each other.

A pair of beautiful people blessed each other and said softly:

"Brother and sister-in-law are good."

Li Wen and Li Qi are young girls of fourteen or fifteen years old.

It looks very iconic, and has a gentle book fragrance.

It looks full of literary spirit, but full of youth.

It's just a pleasure to see.

Seeing this, the young couple quickly returned the gift.

Feng Yibo naturally didn't want to comment much, but Baochai smiled and praised:
"The two younger sisters are really angelic figures. They looked at Sister-in-law Hezhu with cold eyes, and she looked a little like her. She knew at a glance that she was from Shili's family."

The two of them couldn't help being a little shy when they were praised in person.

But after all, she is a woman of everyone, and when she heard the words, she gave another salute and said:
"Sister-in-law won the award, how can we compare with sister-in-law in case?"

"Our sisters don't look like willows, but Feng's sister-in-law, Qiuju Chunsong, is enviable."

Several people on both sides exchanged a few words of greeting, and Li Mengshi also briefly introduced the concubines of Youshi sisters, Miaoyu, and Xiangling.

After seeing both sides one by one, Li Mengshi called everyone to sit down again.

As soon as Aunt Li sat down, she remembered that Baochai had just mentioned Li Wan.

He looked curiously at Li Mengshi and asked:
"Sister-in-law, we haven't seen the palace judge for a long time, how are she and Brother Lang?"

Upon hearing this, Li Mengshi replied with a smile:

"Thank you for thinking about their mothers. After we arrived in Duzhong, she and Lan'er often come here."

Having said that, she sighed lightly before continuing:

"Well, it's just that there is a national funeral and a funeral for Jia's mansion recently, so I probably won't be able to come back for a while."

Aunt Li just came from Jiangnan, so she obviously didn't know about Jia Jing.

She was a little surprised when she heard the words, and hesitated in her mouth:

"It's my in-laws..."

Seeing her misunderstanding, Li Mengshi hastily explained:

"It's not the Rong Mansion, it's the elder's funeral at the Ning Mansion, which has been sent a few days ago."

Aunt Li breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that it wasn't Li Wan's side, and then sighed:

"Speaking of which, I should pay a visit to the elders in the palace magistrate's mansion. When I came, I went with the relatives of his big house, and it was a lot of help."

"Oh?"

Li Mengshi was taken aback when he heard the words, and said doubtfully:
"A relative in Rongguo Jia's house?"

Aunt Li nodded and started from the beginning:
"Our three mothers came out of their hometown and chartered a women's boat, but they are all women after all, so it's inconvenient to travel."

"I never thought that when I arrived at the pier, I happened to meet two groups of people docking, and after talking with them, I found out that they were all relatives of Rong Guo."

The Li family is a big family in Jinling, so naturally they would not let the three women go on the road alone.

Because they happened to meet these old relatives, the tribe went back.

Only one servant girl and the mother-in-law were left behind.

"One of them is the brother-in-law and sister-in-law of the eldest son of the Rong Mansion, a member of the Wang family's eldest son."

The eldest son of Rongfu, of course, refers to Jia Lian.

The big house of the Wang family is exactly the one of Wang Xifeng's house.

She also has an elder brother named Wang Ren.

Wang Xifeng's previous generation has lost the title of title of the Wang family.

Therefore, Prince Teng, who was born as a Jinshi, became the backbone of the family.

First became the patriarch of the royal family, and then entered Beijing as an official.

He also took the position of Jingying Jiedushi.

Now that he has been promoted step by step, there is no need to say more.

But Dafang stayed in the Jinling clan, guarding the family property to make a living.

Only Wang Xifeng's daughter came to Duzhong after she married into Jia's house.

Now that Wang Xifeng has "passed away", I don't know what Wang Ren is going to do in the capital.

"There is another one, Mrs. Dafang's elder brother, the uncle of the Xing family, and his family's female relatives."

The uncle of the Xing family she was talking about was Mrs. Xing's elder brother.

Xing Zhong, the eldest son of the Xing family.

"When the two sides talked about it, it turned out that they were relatives, so they came to Duzhong on the same road."

It's just such a coincidence.

Mrs. Xing's father died long before Mrs. Xing came out of the cabinet.

It was at that time that Xing Zhong separated from his family.

Now that she is so destitute that she can't go on, she has to come to Mrs. Xing, who is in charge of the Xing family's business.

Besides Xing Zhong, the eldest son, the Xing family has three sisters.

There is also a prostitute, Xing Dequan.

When Mrs. Xing left the cabinet, except for Xing Zhong who was separated.

The other sisters and brothers are still young.

Relying on her status as the eldest daughter, she has been controlling all the furniture of the Xing family.

Today, her companion, Wang Shanbao's family, is still in charge of the operation.

Therefore, Xing Zhong couldn't make it through, so he brought his wife and daughter to Mrs. Xing.

I just want to redistribute some of the family property to live.

It happened that Wang Ren, Sister Feng's brother, was also going to Beijing. The two families were in-laws, so they came to help each other.

Halfway to berth the boat, I met the Li family's aunt and her two daughters who were also going to Beijing.

Everyone said that they were relatives again, so the three families walked together all the way.

"After disembarking, they all went to Rongguo Jia's Mansion. Only our three mothers waited at the pier after someone sent a letter to eldest brother."

Li Mengshi listened, nodded, hesitated and said:

"The Rong Mansion has just finished the funeral in the past few days, and the old lady is ill again, so it's inconvenient to disturb her."

Having said that, she pondered for a moment before saying:

"Let's wait for a while! After a while, let's bring some gifts and go for a walk together."

Aunt Li felt she had nothing to do, she nodded and said:
"Of course I'm here to listen to my sister-in-law's arrangement."

Then the two chatted for a while, and Baochai settled the mother and daughter next door to Li Shouzhong's courtyard.

Feng Yibo had arranged for people to clean it out.

In fact, the Li family also has property in the capital.

It's just that the mother and daughter came here, and naturally they went to Li Shouzhong and his wife.

Therefore, Aunt Li did not refuse.

With the Li family sisters and a group of maids and women, they lived in.

When Li Shouzhong returned home after work, Aunt Li and her daughter saw each other again.

Li Shouzhong asked about some family matters, so there is no need to mention them.

At night, Feng Yibo and Baochai embrace each other and lie down.

The husband and wife were having an affair, and they talked about it again.

"After the master left, they only talked about the reason for this trip. What do you think they are doing here?"

At this moment, Feng Yibo's status as a sage has passed, and he is just about to move.

Playing with Baochai's hair

When Baochai spoke, he was also absent-minded, and just asked casually:
"doing what?"

Baochai was a little itchy, and chuckled twice.

Pushing away his mischievous hand, he said:

"It turns out that Aunt Li came here to ask the master and the old lady to help her find a good home for her two daughters."

Li Shouzhong's younger brother died early, and Aunt Li only had these two daughters under her knees.

The mother and the three depend on each other for life, and they don't have to worry about making a living in the clan.

But now, both daughters have reached the age of marriage.

If we only rely on their orphans and widows, we will know only a limited number of them in Jinling.

So Aunt Li thought of Li Shouzhong, who had already reached the official position.

She came here to ask the old couple to help both sisters find a good family.

Of course, he also wanted to take advantage of Li Shouzhong's influence to increase the worth of his two daughters.

"No wonder."

In fact, Feng Yibo had guessed Aunt Li's purpose long ago, so he was not surprised when Baochai said it.

He was still struggling with Baochai's neckline, and his answer was extremely perfunctory.

"Humph!"

Baochai angrily knocked off his hand, saying:
"These two girls from the Li family are born with neat talents, and they grow like flowers."

Speaking of this, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

In turn, he hugged Feng Yibo and asked:

"How would you like to tell Brother Tad?"

Xue Biao came back from Mei Hanlin's side, and has been taking care of the family business with Xue Pan.

Although Feng Yibo didn't meet much, he also knew that this second uncle was a good talent.

No wonder Baochai planned to hang him.

To be honest, anyone who saw him would feel that he was more like Baochai's brother than Xue Pan.

Only then did Feng Yibo understand what Baochai meant.

Going around, it turned out that it was because of the thought of proposing to Xue Biao.

He didn't say yes or no, but asked instead:
"Why don't you think about the first uncle, but the second uncle?"

When Baochai heard this, she felt aggrieved and said:

"Such an elegant flower, do you think my brother is worthy of it?"

"Forehead……"

Feng Yibo didn't expect that Baochai would say that about Xue Pan.

He frowned a little, and wanted to say a few words for his uncle.

But Baochai said again:

"My brother needs to find someone who can manage the house, like, like..."

Speaking of this, she suddenly felt a little down, sighed and said:

"Oh! It's better to be like Feng Lazi."

When Wang Xifeng was mentioned, Baochai was obviously a little sad.

Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng's father are brothers and sisters.

Baochai and Wang Xifeng are cousins.

Compared with other sisters in the Jia family, the two are closer.

Feng Yibo felt somewhat guilty when he heard her mention Wang Xifeng.

Even the hands that had been doing bad things stopped.

"Forget it, don't worry about it first."

At this time Baochai shook her head again and said:

"I'll discuss it with my mother in a few days and let her see each other."

(End of this chapter)