The Red Mansions

Chapter 421 How can they be allowed to come and act wild!

Chapter 421 How can they be allowed to come and act wild!

Rongguo Mansion, in Li Wan's courtyard.

Li Wan was wearing a blue-bottomed chrysanthemum-patterned jacket with a stone-blue underskirt. This plain and elegant color made her a bit more mournful than a widow, but also a bit old-fashioned.

In fact, Li Wan was only 24 or [-] years old as a young woman in Huaxin.

At this moment, Li Wan was sitting in front of the dressing table, looking in the mirror at the headdress between his temples.

When I looked up, I looked at the face in the bronze mirror without makeup, stretched out my hand and gently stroked the corner of the eye, I don't know if it was an illusion, but I vaguely felt that a fine line of time was secretly growing under the fingertips .

Su Yun, who was serving behind her with her head on her face, smiled lightly, "Grandma, I heard Uncle Heng say earlier, let Brother Lang study hard, so he can get a good grade in the imperial examination in the future."

Bi Yue also smiled and said: "Last time, when I saw Uncle Heng come over for a banquet, he seemed to like Lang Geer very much."

Well, the joys and sorrows of human beings are not connected.

Li Wan also thought about the appearance of that Uncle Heng who came over to greet Lan'er a few days ago, his eyes were absent for a moment, and his beautiful face seemed calm, and he said softly: "Lan'er can enter the eyes of the patriarch. It is also his creation."

"It's because grandma taught her well in the past. After three or two years, she should be able to go to school." Suyun said softly.

Although several people deliberately did not mention Baoyu, some of their attitudes were also tacit, that Baoyu would definitely not be counted on in the future.

Li Wan raised Liu Yemei's eyebrows. Although she was happy in her heart, Wanli still deliberately maintained a calm look on Wanli's face, and said softly: "Lan'er usually worked hard, but now he is studying in Chongwen School. He is progressing faster, which is also a class. usually."

In the end, I felt a little sad in my heart.

Thinking of her orphan and widowed mother after her husband left, for several years, her father-in-law and mother-in-law seemed to have forgotten that there was a grandson, and the whole family surrounded him.

Now my son is doing well, and has been appreciated by Uncle Heng. If he thinks about it, no matter how bad he is, he will be able to be born with fame and fame, and he will give her an imperial order in the future.

Thinking of this, Li Wan's eyes reflected the beating clusters of candles, and he prayed secretly in his heart: "God, bless Lan Ge'er in the future, as that Uncle Heng said, he can be a high-ranking official and shine on the lintel, even if let No matter what I do, I'm happy with it."

In fact, this is Li Wan's true feeling for several years. Whether it is Jia's mother or Wang's wife in the Rong family, they all set their sights on Baoyu. Fortunately, there is a son under his knees to relieve his worries.

Suyun smiled and said: "Grandma, after the Lantern Festival, Lang Geer will start school, is it two days later, grandma will take Lang Geer to see Uncle Heng, or grandma will often go to ask Lang Geer in the future How about reading?"

Hearing this, Li Wan frowned, and said hesitantly: "If you go there, it's not easy to go empty-handed. Let me think about it. And if you go too often, I'm afraid people will gossip about it."

She is a widow who is unemployed. The last time she hired a host, she used all the money she had saved.

Besides, how could she run too often, and she would fall into the eyes of others, and there might be some unbearable gossip about her.

Suyun smiled, and said softly: "Grandma, in fact, if Xuelian's second grandma is like that, she often sits with Grandma Heng for a while, or chats with her, or touches the dominoes, so she is familiar with her." , Thinking about it, when I have something to worry about in the future, it is just what grandma said, and I never ask for help when it comes to my head."

Li Wan heard the words, but as if seeing the fog behind the clouds, the eyes under the beautiful eyebrows lit up, and said in a low voice: "Last time she asked me about her son, I..."

As she said that, she also felt a little ashamed to talk about this topic, and two blushes quietly floated on her white and greasy face.

Having said that, Suyun frowned instead, thinking in his eyes, and said: "Speaking of which, Uncle Heng and Grandma Heng have been married for a while, and I haven't heard any movement in Grandma Heng's stomach."

Biyue said softly: "Don't you have two aunts and aunts from the You family? In private, several maids said that the two You sisters are pretty, and the uncle is also very lucky."

Some maids often come and go to Ningguo Mansion with their masters, and they also see Second Sister You and Third Sister You, so it is inevitable that the maids will not discuss it in private.

Even Baochai and Daiyu are often compared by servants.

Su Yun said softly: "It's not that she hasn't passed the family yet, Grandma Heng just passed the family not long ago, so it's not easy to take a concubine, but if she doesn't get any more in two years, it's not easy to say."

Generally speaking, if there is nothing out for a year, there will be some gossip circulating.

Li Wan listened, a little startled, frowned, stopped the discussion between the two, and said slightly annoyed: "The more you talk, the less it looks like, how can you talk about the master, let people listen to these gossips, and don't know what's going on." The sky-shattering storm is coming."

Suyun and Biyue's faces were sullen, and they couldn't say much.

Li Wan, under the service of two maids, washed up, removed his outer clothes and only wore an inner garment. The granary for feeding his son was majestic and full. He lifted the quilt and lay in the cool quilt, following the outer curtain. Putting it down slowly, the bed was dimly lit, covering a pair of bright and sad eyes.

But Li Wan couldn't sleep for a while, baking pancakes on the bed.

I can only think about the future of my son in the future, and the grand scene of sealing my own order, but the tricks that Bai Ling tried a lot in the past are not so easy to use today.

It was almost three o'clock when there was a sound of clappers outside. Li Wan listened to the movement outside. The even breathing sound from the two maidservants was clearly audible, and it was clear that they were sleeping soundly. People, but a little bit troubled.

"It's already three o'clock."

Thinking about it, she bit her cherry lip with white teeth, undressed with one hand, and lowered it with the other.

She closed her eyes slightly, and began to recall the tenderness in the depths of her memory, bit by bit, but after so many years, she couldn't even remember the outline of her husband clearly.

A faint sigh sounded suddenly.

However, a clear and sharp face was suddenly reflected in the heart lake, and Li Wanfang's heart skipped a beat.

I don't know how long it took, Li Wan, who had fought against the oppression of feudalism and the shackles of ethics, his cheeks were already burning like fire in the dark night, and a sense of guilt suddenly appeared in his heart.

Immediately, he became sleepy and gradually fell asleep.

At this moment, Li Wan was not the only one who couldn't sleep. Yuan Chun left the Tanchun courtyard and returned to his own courtyard. Words, still dazed.

Under the illumination of the lights, the plump and beautiful face became more and more gentle like water.

At this moment, the shadow of the lamp flickered, and the attacker held the copper basin and said softly: "Miss, wash your feet, let's rest earlier."

Yuan Chun hurriedly twisted the handkerchief together, raised her beautiful eyes, and asked softly, "Has Jin Chuan settled down?"

Xiren said in a low voice: "I comforted her just now, she cried for a long time, ate some porridge, and fell asleep."

As Yuanyang said, Jin Chuan, Xiren, and Yuanyang all grew up together, and their relationship is extraordinary.

Yuan Chun sighed softly, and asked: "She is a hard-working person, let her serve me first. After two years, when Baoyu is older, I will think of a way for her."

Xiren heard the words, and the hand that was bending over to place the copper basin trembled, and the hot water in the basin swayed in circles, the girl's eyes moved slightly, and she said softly: "The eldest girl is kind, speaking, this is her blessing." separated."

Yuan Chun sighed again, turned to look at the girl with a soft face, and said softly: "You waited on Baoyu for a little longer, Baoyu has such a temper, I don't know why these years, why is it like this. "

Xiren Liuye frowned, with a look of thought on her somewhat naturally rosy face, she looked at Yuan Chun after a while, and said softly: "Second Master, he did some shopping, but in fact his nature is not good enough. Bad, it's also two years old, and I know the personnel affairs, so I can no longer treat it like a child."

When Yuan Chun heard this, her beautiful eyes twinkled, but she also felt that it was quite reasonable, so she nodded and said, "Yes, you need to be taught well in the future."

But I remembered that when Baoyu was a child, he was also holding the hairpin ring. At that time, he didn't see it, so he didn't talk about it, but laughed for his elders.

This is actually a kind of perception. The same behavior, at the age of eight or nine, is still innocent and cute, but at the age of 30, it is still like a giant baby.

Just remembering the irresistible friendship with that royal official, Yuan Chun's heart is still covered with a haze.

Xiren glanced at the fluctuating expression, considered his words and said: "Uncle Heng is right, let the second master go to the school to stay, it is not easy to hang out in the inner house, this must be for the second master's good... In fact, according to Uncle Heng's temperament, I'm afraid that if he didn't take care of the girl and the master, Uncle Heng would not be willing to take care of the family's shortcomings, and he would easily end up complaining."

When Yuan Chun heard this, Yu Rong lost his mind for a moment, and the stern-faced young man seemed to appear in front of his eyes again, and said softly: "That's what you said."

After Xiren said a few words, he stopped talking, bowed his head and said: "Girl, don't talk about this, I will serve you to wash your feet, and rest earlier."

Yuan Chun let out a "huh", eyes narrowed, looked at the girl, and praised: "You are a generalist, strange way, Baoyu said at the beginning that he wanted you to go back there."

After coming into contact with this attacker, I obviously feel that he knows the hot and the cold, and knows the general situation.

In fact, this Xiren who Qingwen ridiculed as a "spotted dog" is indeed a master of this.

Every time I can speak to people's hearts, the original book clearly comes first, and I can still talk about Baoyu's "reputation" with Mrs. Wang.

Xiren lowered his head to help Yuanchun take off his embroidered shoes and socks. Immediately, a pair of snow-white jade feet like bamboo shoots emerged, placed in a copper basin. Under the illumination of the lights, it is dazzled across the water, petite and pretty.

Xiren looked up at Yuan Chun, and said with a light smile, "It's my good fortune to be here to serve the girl."

But when he heard what Uncle Heng said earlier, he inevitably had doubts in his heart.

After all, the second master was still a child, and now she hated his wife again, if it hadn't been for what happened just now, it would be her turn to be in Musk Moon's situation.

Yuan Chun thought for a while, then said softly, "Then let's wait for two years."

When he was a teenager, he was abstaining from sex. After Baoyu recovered from his injury, he had to go to school to study hard. Apart from the maids who served food and daily life, it was indeed not appropriate to send more maids.

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But it is said that the chief historian of Prince Zhongshun left Rongguo Mansion and returned to Prince Zhongshun.

At this moment, it was dusk, and the vermilion lanterns from the gate to the backyard, like a fire dragon, illuminated the front hall and backyard, as bright as the day, resplendent and resplendent.

On the pavilion in the backyard, the sound of silk and bamboo orchestras flutters in the spring breeze, and the silver moon, which is gradually like a jade plate, hangs on the corner of the cornice, shedding cold light. A few girls with gorgeous dresses and graceful figures are on the second floor, following the The music danced lightly.

King Zhongshun sat in front of the round table, eating meals, and two new maidservants waited on the left and right.

After so many days, King Zhongshun's injury has healed a bit, and he can already sit down, but a thick soft mattress still needs to be laid.

"My lord, Zhou Changshi is back." At this moment, a servant entered the wing and said in a low voice.

King Zhongshun spit out the chicken bones he was eating on the porcelain bowl beside him, and the maid helped to wipe off the oil on his beard and mouth with a handkerchief, and another maid hurriedly handed over the teacup.

"Let him in."

Not long after, seeing Zhou Changshi, he bowed and trotted into the pavilion, saluted, and said in a low voice, "My lord."

King Zhongshun took a sip of tea and asked, "Have you found him?"

Zhou Changshi's face was gloomy, and his voice contained humiliation: "My lord, the Rongguo Mansion is really deceiving people too much!"

King Zhongshun raised his eyebrows, looked at Zhou Changshi in surprise, and said in a low voice, "What's going on?"

With a gloomy face, Zhou Changshi said in a few words about meeting Jia Heng in Rongguo Mansion.

A cold light flickered in King Zhongshun's eyes, and he said, "What does Jia Heng say?"

Zhou Changshi said angrily: "My lord, this young Jia Heng is very domineering. He even threatened the subordinate officials, saying that if the lord wants to find an actor, he will report to the officers of the soldiers and horses of the five cities. If there are not enough manpower, should he be transferred?" The soldiers of the Beijing camp are demanding the whole city for the prince!"

"Bang!" King Zhongshun's face was filled with anger, he slammed the table, and shouted coldly, "What a domineering and impolite lucky man!"

Zhou Changshi said in a cold voice: "My lord, the little Jia Heng also said that the assassination of the lord involved the demon Bailian. Tomorrow, he will send investigators from Jinyi Mansion to help investigate the assassination of the lord at the Daxiangguo Temple the day before yesterday. The prince will reveal the details of the assassination that day."

King Zhongshun's face changed when he heard the words, and then he cursed angrily: "You dog slave, you dare to bully this king!"

Zhou Changshi said in a low voice: "Then Jinyi's mansion will come to the door tomorrow. Please show me how the mansion should deal with it."

King Zhongshun said in a stern tone: "Tomorrow, the gate will be closed and no one will be allowed to enter. This king is the vassal of the country, how can we allow them to come and act wild!"

Back then in the meditation room, in order to escape, he even used his own concubine's room to defend against the thief's blade. If Jinyi Mansion could find out about this, would it be okay?

When King Zhongshun thought of this, he suddenly thought of the Wei family who blocked the sword for him at the beginning and the past beauty, and his heart burst into flames.

Wei Shi will indeed serve him, and there are many tricks between the bed and curtain...

Zhou Changshi frowned, and said in a low voice: "My lord, after all, the Jinyiwei Mansion is the emperor's own army. If you refuse to see it, I'm afraid it will hurt your lord's reputation if it spreads."

King Zhongshun snorted coldly, and said: "This king just wants to see if they dare to trespass into the palace!"

This is clearly the meaning of vindictiveness.

Zhou Changshi pondered for a moment, feeling that it was still inappropriate, and said: "My lord calm down, I'm afraid this matter is not good for a dispute of emotions, otherwise now that the Jia family's son is gaining power, the lord will be the one who suffers."

King Zhongshun's face darkened, his heart was agitated, and he said angrily: "Then what do you say? The Xue family in the House of Internal Affairs is protected by the palace, so they can't move. I'm going to take the Xue family's imperial business job."

Zhou Changshi frowned, and said: "My lord, don't be impatient, and see if you can make up for other things."

King Zhongshun frowned, suppressed the anger in his heart for the time being, and said coldly: "Where can I find love at this time? This king asked you to keep a close eye on Rongguo Mansion. Do you have any clues?"

Zhou Changshi said: "Don't worry, my lord, I've been watching, and there are some clues."

King Zhongshun's heart moved slightly, and he asked, "What clue?"

Zhou Changshi said in a low voice: "It belongs to Jia Lian from the Rong Mansion. This person's whereabouts are somewhat suspicious. Recently, he has spent quite a lot of money in several brothels in the capital. I don't know where the money came from?"

King Zhongshun frowned and said, "That's all?"

Zhou Changshi said in a low voice: "I heard that my father, the first-class supernatural general Jia She, is quite greedy for money. He is an old brave man. It is absolutely impossible for Jia Lian to spend a lot of money."

King Zhongshun said: "Then let people watch him. I understand Jia Amnesty to a certain extent, especially antique calligraphy and paintings, gold, silver and jade wares. You let people find out if there is any fraudulent robbery or bullying men and women."

As the Palace of Zhongshun who regards the Jia family as a feud, he knows Jia She's hobbies. King Zhongshun also likes antique jades.

As King Zhongshun said, he suddenly thought of Qi Guaner again, his face became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "This Qi Guaner, you have to send someone to find him quickly. He has been in the mansion for many days, and he is not familiar with the secrets of the mansion." Know something."

When Zhou Changshi heard the words, his face was solemn, and he said yes.

(End of this chapter)