The True Winner of the Red Chamber

"This is Zhilan's birthday two days ago, and the girl from the Xue family dragged the second girl from the Jia family to send her a congratulatory gift," Zhiyin said.

It's just such an explanation, but Zhen Yingjia still doesn't understand what it means.

Zhiyin said again: "Dayan, it's for Xiaoding's time."

"Oh." Zhen Yingjia finally understood, looking at Zhilan, there seemed to be sarcasm in her eyes.Although Zhilan lowered her head and couldn't see, she heard the "oh" and felt flustered.

At this time, she is still following the orders of her parents and the words of the matchmaker. Besides, she is a girl who is not as good as a second family. She has no news at all on weekdays, and she doesn't know anything about that person. She has met three or four times at most. There may not even be an hour of time, but dare to accept such things, dare to make a private life with someone?

"You're so courageous." Zhen Yingjia laughed, "I often listen to people's stories on weekdays. Why, this is the lover you found yourself?"

Zhilan's face has never backed down since it turned red, and it has become more and more intense. Even her ears and a small part of her neck that is exposed have turned pink.

Mother Zhen coughed and said, "Let's not talk about that, there is more."

Zhiyin brought out a few more things, "The purse is also from Xue——, and this pendant is what she intends to give to Xue——it hasn't been embroidered yet."

Zhen Yingjia glanced at it, but the trembling maid following behind Zhiyin attracted all her attention.

"Is this Zhilan's maid?"

The maid trembled, and she knelt down on the ground after calling out to the master, but her voice trembled, and she couldn't say anything more.

"Let me ask you, is there anything else?"

Zhen Yingjia's voice was obviously not loud, and she wasn't too harsh, but it made the maid tremble uncontrollably, and the sound of her teeth fighting could still be heard in the room.

The servant girl was shaking so badly that she couldn't say a word, she just kept shaking her head, and said after a while, "It's gone."

"Has she ever sent anything?"

This time, before the maid could speak, Zhilan spoke first, "No!" There was still a bit of anger in her voice, "If I didn't take his handkerchief, I would never give him anything."

Mother Zhen was annoyed by her words, "You are giving and receiving privately, why are you pretending to be the same as Sanzhen Jiulie? You are all steals!"

Zhilan was so angry that her chest heaved violently, she wanted to refute but was a little timid.

Zhen Yingjia thought for a while and said, "This maid can't stay anymore."

Mother Zhen nodded, and said: "Exactly, tomorrow morning I will call Ren Yazi to sell her away."

Unexpectedly, Zhiyin shook her head, she bit her lower lip and said, "It's not safe to buy."

Zhen Yingjia spoke quickly, and said: "Exactly. Our yard is big anyway, and it's not a problem to raise a few people. Check if she has a family, and find a secluded corner in the backyard to raise the whole family. Find some old people who are deaf and dumb."

The servant girl trembled again, but she was so frightened that she couldn't say anything, she just kowtowed, Zhen Yingjia said: "Don't worry, I won't lock you up for the rest of my life, when word of this matter comes over, I'll let you go again." come out."

Zhilan hesitated and looked back at the maid, but she didn't say anything.

"This thing..." Zhen's mother hesitated for a moment, and said: "Pick it up, tomorrow I will go to Jia's house, and throw it on their faces face to face! If I don't say this, I won't live for a year!"

But Zhen Yingjia shook her head and said: "No, no, I would say it's better to set it on fire, just pretend it's nothing and let it go."

Mother Zhen was taken aback, and murmured: "No such thing?"

Zhiyin was overjoyed, "Just pretend to be stupid, that's how it's done in the palace, don't admit it."

"...If I went tomorrow, it would mean that the girl in our family misbehaved and had an affair with a man before she got married..."

Zhilan quit after hearing this, and said loudly: "We two are innocent, we are in love and we are polite—"

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Zhen's mother, "Don't embarrass yourself here! If you put this in the country, you will be soaked in a pig cage! If it is an ordinary person, in order to show your innocence, you have to go to the temple to shave You've cut your hair and become a sister-in-law! You just listen quietly, otherwise—"

The meaning of this warning is very strong. Although I didn't finish the first half of the sentence, and didn't say how to deal with Zhilan, it was the blankness that made people even more frightened. Zhilan shrank her head involuntarily, and became quiet again. .

"And you." Zhen Yingjia saw Zhi Qi who was pale with fright at the side again, and said, "What else was found in her room?"

Zhiyin brought two things from the woman behind her, a purse and a fan pendant.The purse is bright red, and there is a red silk pendant mixed with gold thread hanging from it, which is quite beautiful.The fan pendant is light blue, with bamboo embroidered on it, which can be regarded as fresh and elegant.

Zhilan sneered, and said: "Burn it, it will be over once it's burned, no one will gossip. By the way, there are still people who refuse to admit it."

"Is this something from Baoyu?" Zhen Yingjia asked.

Unexpectedly, Zhiqi was not nervous when she saw this thing, and she shook her head when she heard Zhen Yingjia's question, and then glared at Zhilan fiercely, "I said what's going on, it turns out that you are the one who is talking behind your back, the sisters of the family , are you torturing me like this?"

Zhilan snorted coldly, "Dare to act but dare not to be, what are you afraid of? Are you afraid that you will be sent to the temple to be a sister-in-law? Our sisters will also be your companions."

"Shut up!" Zhen's mother grabbed the teacup beside her and threw it out. Fortunately, when she was dragging her hands, she remembered that the people in front of her were girls' homes. The teacup didn't greet people's faces. It fell to the ground and shattered.

"What's it like to be so noisy, tutor!" Zhen's mother said sharply, "Take these two out and burn them!"

"Don't burn it!" Zhiqi stepped forward and snatched the things, and said, "These two things have nothing to do with the Jia family!" She gave Zhilan a hard look and said, "Sister Lin gave me the purse." I did it, this is—" She raised the light-colored one again and wanted to say something, but she was interrupted by Zhilan.

"I clearly saw the exact same one on Baoyu, why don't you dare to admit it if you dare to take something from someone else?"

"Bah!" Zhiqi spat at her sister and said, "The one on Baoyu was also made by Sister Lin! I saw it looked good, so I asked her to make a similar one for me." She looked at it with contempt She glanced at Zhilan, "Don't think everyone is like you."

"I said you are just making excuses. Could it be that you can still ask about Baoyu from Jia's family? This is clearly a evasion, and there is no investigation anyway."

Zhi Qi ignored her, took the plain purse again and said, "Sister Lin made the bottom of this purse for me, and I embroidered the bamboo on it myself. I originally wanted to give it to my father, but—"

Before she finished speaking, Zhiyin snatched the purse from her hand.

In terms of the number of people present, Zhiyin's heart is probably as anxious as Zhilan's. After all, the two younger sisters happened under her hands. Just now, the way grandmother looked at her was a bit wrong, and she wanted to speak several times. And maybe he just wanted to reprimand her.

Now that Zhiqi can obviously escape, Zhiyin naturally wants to check carefully.

"It was indeed made by two people." Zhiyin took the purse in her hand and looked at it carefully, her expression relaxed a lot, "The stitches of the purse are very dense, it can be seen that a lot of effort has been put into it, as for the bamboo, it is quite ordinary .”

"Let me have a look." Mother Zhen stretched out her hand, and Zhiyin handed over the purse.Zhen Yingjia couldn't understand the kung fu of these girls, so she didn't say much, just waited on the side.

It's just that he looked at Zhilan and Zhiqi, Zhiqi looked at Zhilan with a look of aura, but Zhilan didn't show any panic, on the contrary, Zhen Yingjia felt that she was really broken.

Mother Zhen looked at the purse for a while, then nodded slightly and breathed a sigh of relief, "There is also the red one, let me have a look."

After another round of careful investigation, Mother Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "It was indeed done by one person, Zhiqi's needlework is not so fine."

Mother Zhen put down her things, Zhiyin took the two purses, glanced at Zhen Yingjia, and asked, "Then this thing..."

"burn!"

"Don't burn!"

Although the two answered in unison, they were completely different answers.

Mother Zhen still wanted to burn it, but Zhen Yingjia stopped her. He said: "It's nothing to do with the girl from the Lin family." He glanced at Zhi Qi again and said, "I'll hang the purse on my body when it's done. .”

Zhi Qi snorted, seeing that Mother Zhen did not object, she reached out and took the things away.

It's just that Zhen's mother looked at the two granddaughters, and her heart was still not going well, she said: "You two, if you just go outside as guests, something big can happen out of thin air. Your reputation will be ruined by both of you!"

Zhi Qi wanted to argue a little, but Zhi Yin pulled her behind her back.

Mother Zhen was sitting at the top, and she could clearly see the movements of the two people at the bottom. Seeing this, she couldn't help saying, "You don't even look at her, just play with yourself."

Zhiqi was called in and reprimanded, and she stood for half an hour already tired and sad, and broke out in a lot of cold sweat with fear, now she knew that she was bitten by Zhilan, let alone her sister, at this moment There was also a lot of resentment in my heart, and I definitely didn't want to take her through it.

"I'm my younger sister, and she's my older sister. She was supposed to take care of me, but now she doesn't love herself and something happened. How can I blame it?"

What she said made sense, but Mother Zhen felt uncomfortable being contradicted.

However, Zhiqi didn't finish her sentence, "I vaguely heard Jia Jiafeng's bad reviews, so I only stayed in Sister Lin's room when I went, and she didn't like to move. The two of us sat together to talk and do things. You're done with sewing. Unlike my sister, the girls in their family, not to mention the young master of the Xue family, even saw the purse on the young master of the Jia family."

Mother Zhen patted the table angrily, and Zhilan said angrily, "You!"

Zhen Yingjia lowered her face and said, "Don't say a few words." After finishing speaking, she glanced at Zhen's mother, and saw that she was extremely exhausted, knowing that she didn't have the energy to deal with this matter anymore, and thought that such things should not be delayed, so as not to have another child. When something happened, he said: "The things found in her room were burned, and all the maids around her were replaced. The weather is cold, so don't go out these days, be careful if you catch the wind and cold, you have to call the doctor to come see a doctor."

Zhiyin knew that this was going to be grounded, but for such a big matter, let alone grounding, it could be done more severely.

Zhen Yingjia looked at Zhilan, although she was respectful, but there was still a faint disapproval on her face, and said, "Don't look at me like that, I'll wait to see if his Xue family dares to come to propose marriage!"

Zhilan smiled happily when she heard this, but she didn't hear the coldness in Zhen Yingjia's words.

Zhen Yingjia sneered inwardly, and then said to Zhiqi: "This time I have wronged you, but next time..."

Before he could say anything, Zhiyin hurriedly said: "There will be no next time. I will watch her carefully, and there will be no taboos about things coming in and out of the house!"

Zhen Yingjia nodded, and said: "It's not necessary to be so ignorant, it's just that the maids around you, many things are hidden by the maids for the young lady, and everyone needs to be taught carefully. You have the highest monthly money in the house. , doing the easiest job, something happened... Although these are my own daughters, I don't have the heart to punish them, you... I can do it."

They had already heard about the whole family of Zhilan's personal servants being locked up just now, and now they heard the master's threatening and intimidating words, and there was no other reaction except to bow their heads in response.

Zhen Yingjia nodded in satisfaction, and said, "It's getting late, let's all go back, we'll talk about the rest tomorrow morning."

At present, the mother-in-law in Zhen's mother's room sent the two young girls back one by two, and Zhiyin stayed behind, and made another apology, and then asked: "I won't be called Zhiqi again. Went to Jia's house."

Zhen Yingjia smiled, seeing that Zhen's mother was already in high spirits, she pulled Zhiyin out and said, "You don't have to worry too much about it... There is a reason why I didn't say this to my face just now."

Zhiyin came in without knowing it, and heard her father whisper: "Miss Lin's father has written a letter, saying that he is seriously ill, please send another official to take over."

Zhiyin was taken aback, "Miss Lin is going back to Jinling for the funeral?"

Zhen Yingjia nodded, and said: "The paper just received by the Ministry of Officials, His Majesty asked me to ask in private. The news hasn't been spread yet, so don't make a fuss. If your sister asks about it these two days, just wait for grandma and father. Once you calm down, you can go out and play."

Zhiyin nodded, thinking that it was good to go around like this.