Red Mansion and Crimson Pearl

Seeing Daiyu with a hint of envy, Liu Jia felt even more guilty and said hurriedly, "I was selfish before. I only cared about my own daughter and forgot about the difficulties of my master. It's all my fault.

"This time, I will make amends!

"Miss, how about this? Just follow his words and ask him to come over from the West Mansion and let him be in charge of the treasury! But a man like this must be kept in your hands!

"He is in charge of the treasury. He must have no scruples about deceiving his superiors and stealing from his subordinates! When the time comes, we will catch him in the act!

"You have evidence, and he is our servant. Not to mention the Third Miss and the Third Master, even the Madam and the Old Madam would not tell you anything for such a servant!

"Whether to beat him or kill him, whether to report to the authorities or settle the matter privately, isn't it all up to you to decide? A toad wants to eat swan meat, but he doesn't even consider his character to see if he can get it!"

As he said this, he spat fiercely on the ground.

Lin Daiyu looked at her with a smile: "This is a good idea. In a couple of days, go and tell him and calm him down. But you can't tell others about this idea, or it won't work!"

The Liu family breathed a sigh of relief and smiled: "Of course!"

He knelt down and kowtowed to Daiyu again, choking with sobs and crying, "It's all my fault. I caused such trouble for the girl! My daughter is my daughter, and the girl is someone else's daughter. How could I have forgotten that!"

"Now the young lady is still so kind to me, and she even wants to help me get rid of my enemies! The young lady's kindness to my Liu family is truly as great as the sky and the earth! I can't repay her in this life, so I will work like a cow or a horse in the next life to repay her kindness!"

This sentence "The girl is also someone else's daughter" touched Lin Daiyu's heart, and her voice softened:

"Never mind. My mother loved me just as much back then. I am always happy to see a mother loving her daughter. Qian Huai is a small matter, I will just do it.

"You go down first, don't let the news leak out. Especially your family, if they know this is a trap and keep quiet, Qian Huai will definitely find out. So, I'm afraid you will suffer some injustice in the next few days, do you understand?"

Liu Jia rubbed his eyes until they turned red and went down with gritted teeth.

Lin Daiyu took a piece of paper, scribbled on it, crumpled two pieces and discarded them. Finally, she wrote a satisfactory piece, read it from top to bottom, and threw it into the charcoal basin to burn.

Time flies and it is already the eleventh day of the first lunar month.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Daiyu asked Xiaohong to go to the Tao residence again to ask Supervisor Tao how busy he was and whether he would come home to worship the stars today. But Housekeeper Hou replied that he estimated that it would take until the tenth day of the first lunar month.

Daiyu understood after hearing this, and immediately asked Liu Jia to secretly tell Qian Huai: When the deed is done, let him just do nothing and follow the orders from the West Mansion.

Qian Huai was naturally pleased with what he had done, and he agreed with great satisfaction. Then he went to the Lin family's restaurant again, and ordered the shopkeeper Zhu to serve him good wine and food, but he left without paying the bill, and let the Liu family take the blame.

Because Jiang Yong had already informed Zhu Shou that the girl had taken over the matter and did not want him to intervene, Zhu Shou had no choice but to swallow his anger and agree first.

On the tenth day, Daiyu notified the Jia family and asked them to bring Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan's servants over to check out the place so that they could serve their masters.

Seeing how thoughtful she was, Jia's mother was overjoyed. As it happened that Tanchun was not going out for social activities on the eleventh day of the first lunar month, she simply asked Hubo to serve Tanchun, and ordered the maid, Cuimo, Xiaochan and others to go to the Lin residence.

Jia Huan asked his servant to go with him. Aunt Zhou was unwilling to give him her maid to take to the Lin residence. Therefore, there was no maid or servant to serve Jia Huan.

Originally, Grandmother Jia asked Lady Wang to give him a few people at random, but Lady Wang was "busy". After finally deciding on the candidates, Jia Zheng heard about this and insisted on asking about it personally.

When he examined the maids, he found that they were all evil, and knew that Mrs. Wang had bad intentions. She was immediately furious and sold all the maids. She had to look for another one.

This time, it was the maid Cui Mo who brought a group of little maids, old women, a big servant who followed Jia Huan to school, and two boy servants to the Lin Mansion to "look around".

When they entered the Lin Mansion, they found that although the yard was not big, it looked very spacious because there were few people, and they all smiled and exclaimed in admiration.

Only Qian Huai, who came with them, was nonchalant. He just muttered that this place was good to live in and that place was just for sightseeing, which attracted the attention of Feng An, who was with him.

Lin Zhixiao pointed to the places in the front yard and explained them one by one. When they arrived at the second gate, Lin Zhixiao's wife brought the maids and old women into the inner house to check.

As for the other three, they were allowed to sit at the back and drink tea.

After a while, the Liu family came peeking out.

When Qian Huai saw him, he immediately became proud and went to meet him with a smile on his face: "Are you looking for me?"

"Come here." Liu Jia nodded and called him out.

Feng An recognized the Liu family and was surprised: "Wow! They are together! Could it be that the marriage between the two families has been finalized?"

"What has happened? The Liu family is in turmoil these days. Wu'er is trying to commit suicide every day, and Liu Xier has already said that if Sister Liu insists on this marriage, she will divorce her!" The old woman at the door gossiped to him.

But Lin Zhixiao glared at him and drove him away.

The chief servant who followed Jia Huan was named Zheng Lu, the son of Wang Furen's maid Zheng. Upon hearing this, he frowned and stood up to ask Lin Zhixiao:

"Butler Lin, although Qian Huai is a servant in name, he is already fifteen or sixteen years old. Now he is openly brought into the inner house by a cook. What kind of rules are these?"

"If the master hadn't called him, even if he was just a mosquito, he wouldn't have been able to fly into the backyard! You don't have to worry about him, just worry about yourself!"

Lin Zhixiao knew that it was he who had always been the one to lead Jia Huan into doing bad things, so he looked down upon the Wang family's tactics.

In addition, when this man was in the mansion, although he was polite to Lin Zhixiao, he was not very respectful. Lin Zhixiao had long disliked him, and now that he was questioning him like this, how could he have anything good to say to him?

Zheng Lu had no choice but to sit down with a frown.

After all, Qian Huai is Jia Huan's "cousin". If something really happened in the Lin family, he was afraid that he would not be able to explain to Jia Huan or to Mrs. Wang.

On this side, Qian Huai heard the old woman's gossip and knew that the matter was about to be settled, and he no longer had any doubts.

Le Dian Dian followed Liu Jia into the inner courtyard, left the crowd, and asked with a smile: "Sister, did you want to see me? Why did you bring me here?"

"The girl has taken a fancy to Wu'er and wants her to come into the room to serve her. She just told me that, and I thought I should ask you what you think, so I told the girl, wait..."

Before Liu Jia finished speaking, Qian Huai's eyes lit up and he said, "Okay! Go! Hurry up and agree!"

Liu Jia paused for a moment before saying, “The young lady saw that I was hesitating and asked me what was going on, so I replied and said I wanted to discuss it with you.

"The girl smiled and said that it was a good thing that you came, and she wanted to meet you and give the fifth girl a look."

Qian Huai suddenly felt elated and said with his chest puffed out, "Okay! Then I'll go meet him!"

The Liu family didn't say much and took him straight to the largest courtyard.

There are two words written on the plaque on the courtyard's door: Qingqiu.

Qian Huai glanced at the plaque, then at the yard, his eyes becoming more greedy: "This yard is big enough!"

"The courtyard for receiving guests is naturally big." Liu Jia said perfunctorily, greeted the little girl guarding the gate, and walked in.

Qian Huai glanced at the little girls and saw that they were all thin. He couldn't help but curl his lips: They look like firewood, so boring!