Red Mansion: Picking up a Lin Daiyu

Chapter 380 Oh no, Baoyu is going to get into trouble again!
Mrs. Wang sighed and stood up, staring at the tea set arranged by the colorful clouds on the table in a daze, reflecting on what had just happened.

Lin Daiyu was able to easily expose her purpose, which Wang Furen thought was because she underestimated Lin Daiyu's age. She made it clear without any disguise, and underestimated Lin Daiyu's political sense.

But now it's too late to save the situation, which really makes Mrs. Wang feel very sorry.

If she could not rely on the power of the Anjing Marquis' Mansion, everything she planned would have to be carried out more slowly.

In her worry, Mrs. Wang could not help but sigh, "Alas, it's a pity that Zhu'er died young, and Baoyu is not a scholar, so it's difficult for him to support the family. Otherwise, why would I worry so much?"

In Mrs. Wang's eyes, although Baoyu was not as diligent in studying as his brother, he was still quite smart.

But he did not work hard every day, did not study the scriptures, and indulged in rouge and powder. He just played with his sisters and maids all day long.

Recently, he has been pestering the new nun who moved in.

Mrs. Wang was very worried about this, but she did not dare to force Baoyu to study. Firstly, she was afraid that Grandmother Jia would not agree, and secondly, she was afraid that Baoyu was weak and would die early like Jia Zhu.

Just as Mrs. Wang was worried, the two sisters Jinchuan and Yuchuan came running over in a panic.

Caiyun Cloud and Xia naturally knew that Madam Wang was in a bad mood, so they hurriedly blocked the door and stopped the two of them.

Yuchuan took a few deep breaths, raised her hands to push Caiyun away and said, "Sister, please don't stop me. I have something important to tell Madam."

Caixia also hurried forward to help hold Yuchuan's body, and replied in a low but hurried voice: "Something went wrong just now, and the Madam is in a bad mood. It's better not to disturb her. We can talk about it later."

Yuchuan thought that what she knew was more important, and pushed forward without giving in, saying, "My two sisters, I'm not kidding. The things here are more important, and we can't waste a moment."

But Caiyun and Xia looked into the room and remembered Mrs. Wang's pale face just now. In order to protect Jinchuan and Yuchuan from her anger, they tried their best to stop her.

"It's nothing but garden work. There's no need to rush. Even if the sky falls, we have to wait until Madam is in a good mood."

Jin Chuan said anxiously: "It's not that the sky is falling, it's that Master Bao is going to poke a hole in the sky!"

The shouting at the door also gradually awakened Mrs. Wang, who had been in a trance. She frowned and called out in a cold voice, "What are you arguing about? You rude people, come in and talk!"

After being scolded by Mrs. Wang, the four of them stopped making trouble.

Caiyun Cloud and Xiaxia were full of grievances. They looked at Jinchuan and Yuchuan with a hint of resentment in their eyes, blaming them for being too abrupt and breaking the rules of the room, which made Lady Wang vent her anger on herself.

Jinchuan and Yuchuan didn't feel that they were guilty at all. They squeezed past the two of them and knelt down in front of the kang first.

The impetuous little maid came in, which made Mrs. Wang very unhappy. She was even scolded by Lin Daiyu just now. She had no place to vent her anger. After thinking it over, Mrs. Wang said angrily: "If you don't tell me the reason, I will send you out to marry boys today!"

Jinchuan and Yuchuan kowtowed repeatedly to apologize. Seeing that Mrs. Wang looked extremely bad, they realized why Caiyun and Xia were blocking them at the door.

Jin Chuan raised her head, wanting to divert Mrs. Wang's anger, and said, "We bumped into the Second Master just now, and we saw Qingwen and the others. Later, Miss Duo came over and whispered a few words to Second Master Bao, which made Second Master Bao stunned."

Madam Wang slammed the table in anger, stood up and said angrily: "Where did this whore come from? She is flirting with a young man in the mansion? Who gave her the courage?"

"She is always so naughty and no one cares about her vulgarity. Now she dares to flirt in front of me. She is going to corrupt a good man! If I don't peel her skin off, do you think I have no say in this mansion?"

Mrs. Wang was furious, and the maids all knelt on the ground and kowtowed, not daring to say a word.

After scolding them once, Madam Wang said coldly, "Go and call Zhou Ruijia over. I will discipline them today!"

Yuchuan raised her head and said weakly, "Madam, I have something else to say. Is it appropriate for me to say it?"

"Whether you want to tell me or not, tell me now!"

"Madam, have you forgotten that this girl has another identity?"

Madam Wang frowned and said angrily, "What identity? Who does she think she is? No matter who comes, she is dead! She can only blame herself for provoking someone she shouldn't have provoked!"

Yuchuan pursed her lips and said with gritted teeth, "This Miss Duo is Qingwen's sister-in-law. She came to see Qingwen's condition and we just happened to bump into her."

"Qingwen? Qingwen is..."

Mrs. Wang was about to scold Qingwen, the little whore, but suddenly she remembered that Qingwen was already a maid in the Anjing Marquis's mansion and a guest of the Rongguo Mansion, and was no longer the Jia girl whom she could control at will in the past.

Today she even invited Lin Daiyu to come into the mansion. Perhaps Yue Ling didn't know that if a conflict occurred at this moment, not to mention the power of the Anjing Marquis' Mansion, it was possible that the Second House would become enemies with it.

If the eldest wife were to take the throne, all of Mrs. Wang’s plans would fail.

"No, even if we can't take advantage of the Anjing Marquis's Mansion, we shouldn't harbor hatred at this time."

"If I implicate the young lady in the palace, I will be an even bigger sinner!"

Mrs. Wang pondered secretly, gnashing her teeth until a sound was made, then she bit her nails and finally endured the anger.

"Ask Zhou Ruijia to come..."

Jin Chuan also raised her head and said in a trembling voice: "Madam, you want to..."

Madam Wang frowned and said, "Why, even you don't listen to my orders? I asked her to come here because I have my own plans!"

"Caiyun Cloud and Xiaxia, you two go find them quickly!"

"Yes Yes Yes."

Caiyun Cloud and Xia stood up immediately and hurried outside to call for help.

After the two maids left, Mrs. Wang was still so angry that her stomach was churning, and she couldn't help pacing back and forth in the room.

"It's really hateful. I can't even control a little housekeeper's wife! As a housekeeper, what family do I manage?"

"When you beat a dog, you have to look at its owner. I'm the dog beating the dog now, so I have to be careful! I can't control Qingwen, I can't afford to offend her, and I still can't control her sister-in-law, isn't that going to drive me crazy?"

Just as she was sulking, soon Wang Fu-ren's dowry maid, Zhou Rui's wife, came running in, panting.

"Madam, you are looking for me?"

Mrs. Wang stopped and asked, "What job is Miss Duo doing in the back porch now?"

Suddenly, a name was asked. Zhou Ruijia thought about it carefully, guessed what Mrs. Wang was thinking, and said tentatively: "This servant is so dissolute, like a secret prostitute, it's too shameful. Madam, are you going to send her away? I think it's better to send her away. Let me handle this matter."

Mrs. Wang gritted her teeth, glanced at the four girls who were cowering like quails below, and clenched her sleeves in hatred.

Of course she had this idea. Mrs. Zhou Rui had been with her for so long that her guess was absolutely correct. Moreover, Mrs. Wang had just boasted that she would skin Miss Duo alive, but she couldn't do that.

Zhou Ruijia's suggestion made Mrs. Wang even more angry, but she had no place to vent.

With her eyebrows raised and her eyes glaring, Mrs. Wang scolded, "Why are you talking so much? You answer whatever I ask!"

Being scolded for no reason, Zhou Ruijia couldn't help but become cautious and said angrily, "Yes, it was the old servant who spoke too much. Madam is punishing you."

"That whore... No, Miss Duo is now a cloth tailor in the garden, specializing in making coarse cloth clothes for the servants."

Madam Wang spat and said, "Pah! How can such a dirty thing like her make clothes for others to wear? Let her patrol the nights from now on and not come to the garden during the day."

Zhou Ruijia was really confused by this statement. The night watch was only assigned once every three to five days, and there was no one to take care of it at night. The walls of Rongguo Mansion were too high for thieves to get in, so finding a place to sleep for a night was considered a duty.

How many people have tried their best to get such a leisurely job, but still can't get it even if they give gifts? How can this girl who made a mistake and caused so much anger still get such a leisurely job?
But she didn't dare to ask, so she could only agree repeatedly. However, she had also made up her mind that after the incident was over, she would find out what happened, so that the other maids under her who were seeking jobs could follow her example.

After taking a deep breath, Mrs. Wang suddenly felt weak.

Now this mansion is not something she can manage as she pleases, and the wife of the Duke's mansion is also doing a boring job.

At this moment, she began to understand why Lady Jia was unwilling to get too deeply involved with Yue Ling.

Pinching her eyebrows, Madam Wang sighed, "Alright, let's all go out. I'm tired."

Jinchuan and Yuchuan looked at each other, pursed their lips, and said in unison: "Madam, there is one thing we haven't discussed yet."

Mrs. Wang's brows tightened again after just relaxing. "What else do you want to say? Why don't you tell me quickly?"

Yuchuan was a little afraid of Mrs. Wang's sharp gaze and shrank her neck. As her elder sister, Jinchuan had to raise her head and explain, "We were just chatting with Qingwen and then we bumped into the Second Master. The Second Master couldn't stand Qingwen's scolding and chased after the girls in their room."

"what?"

Mrs. Wang's eyes widened and she asked in disbelief, "Can you say that again?"

Yuchuan pursed her lips and said, "It seems that the Second Master was provoked by Miss Duo's words and went after Qingwen. We two sisters, plus Xiren, Sheyue, and Meiren were unable to stop him... They should all have passed by now."

Mrs. Wang was horrified, and the little bit of color that had just returned to her face disappeared without a trace.

"Oh no! Yu'er just went there, and that troublesome girl from the Xue family is still in that room. My son is going to get into trouble again!"

"Hurry, help me over there!"

……

"What kind of people are the girls of the Jia family?"

Qin Keqing had just arrived and had no interest in anything in the Rongguo Mansion, and even felt disgusted with it.

But along the way, she heard Xue Baochai say that everything else in Rongguo Mansion was not good, and only the girls in the mansion were good, so she couldn't help but ask more questions.

Xue Baochai smiled and coaxed, "Don't worry, we are all good sisters, and we will definitely be able to talk it out with you."

"Good sister?"

Qin Keqing always felt that Xue Baochai put some strange emphasis on the words, and couldn't help but make associations.

Qin Keqing turned her eyes and turned her head to ask doubtfully, "Could it be that they all like the master?"

"what?"

Xue Baochai was stunned by Qin Keqing's unreasonable question, and even speechless, not knowing how to answer.

Seeing Xue Baochai's awkward look, Qin Keqing couldn't help but laugh and said, "You said they were good sisters. I thought they were just like the good sisters in the mansion."

"If you don't like the Marquis, why do you think you are a good sister? Don't you think so?"

Qin Keqing turned around and asked the girls who were following behind her. Xiangling, Ruizhu and Baozhu all lowered their heads silently, blushing, and were too embarrassed to continue the conversation.

Qin Keqing smiled and took Xue Baochai's arm, saying in a charming voice, "My dear sister Bao, tell me if what I said makes sense?"

Xue Baochai couldn't help but blush. When she realized that Qin Keqing was secretly saying that she also liked Yue Ling, she pushed Qin Keqing's hand away and drove her away, "Go away, this is Rongguo Mansion, not Anjing Marquis Mansion, don't act so useless."

"If you want to know whether they are good sisters, just go into the room and ask them."

Seeing Xue Baochai's provocative expression, Qin Keqing became even more interested. She curled her lips and said, "Why? Do you think I would be embarrassed to ask them?"

Xue Baochai laughed coldly, "You don't even know her, and you're so rude when you come in. You're shameless. Stop it and follow me!"

"whispering sound."

Qin Keqing smacked her lips and pouted, very dissatisfied.

Before I reached the corridor, I heard hurried footsteps coming from the distance in the corridor.

The girls looked up and saw a female master in a navy dress walking towards them quickly.

Qin Keqing couldn't help rubbing her eyes and asked in surprise, "Is there anyone practicing in seclusion in Rongguo Mansion? And why does that female master look so familiar?"

Xiangling was the first one to go south to Yangzhou with Yue Ling, and had more contact with Miaoyu and Xing Xiuyun than other girls.

When the female master came closer and gradually saw her appearance clearly, she couldn't help but be stunned and said, "This...isn't this Master Miaoyu from Panxiang Temple in Xuanmu Mountain?"

"what?"

The girls looked over in surprise. Miaoyu looked up and saw their puzzled faces, and a smile appeared on her face.

"Really! They really are here. Marquis An Jing is back in Beijing!?"

Miaoyu naturally covered her chest with her hands. She didn't know if it was because she walked too fast or for some other reason, but her heart was pounding so hard that she couldn't calm it down even by reciting the Qingxin Jue.

When she came in front of everyone, Miaoyu bowed with one hand and forced herself to calm down, "Amitabha, long time no see."

"Wow, it's really Master Miaoyu, what a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here!"

Qin Keqing took a step forward and looked Miaoyu from left to right.

One of the articles she had written before used Miaoyu as the prototype, and that issue was a big hit and received rave reviews.

From then on, Qin Keqing learned that people still like forbidden love. The greater the contrast in status, the more unable to stop.

Seeing her own template at this moment, she was also very happy, because Qin Keqing had not saved enough money yet, and was planning to persuade Xue Baochai to start a newspaper in the capital.

Taking Miaoyu's hand, Qin Keqing turned back and said with a smile: "Sister Bao, this is our sister."

"Bah, bah, bah, Master Miaoyu is a monk, what obscene words are you saying!"

Xue Baochai pulled Qin Keqing away and apologized for her and Miaoyu, "Master, please don't listen to her nonsense."

Miaoyu had no idea what the two were talking about. She was in a good mood because someone treated her as a sister.

After all, from childhood to adulthood, the only person of her age was Xing Xiuyan.

Miaoyu bowed again and replied seriously: "Although I am a person of asceticism, if you do not mind, it would be my wish if you can address me as a sister."

Qin Keqing laughed heartily and said, "Look, I'll tell you."

Xue Baochai was quite speechless, covering her face and said, "Okay, let's stop talking. Master Miaoyu is here too, let's go into the room and sit down together..."

(End of this chapter)