[Quick Crossing + Red Mansions] I have a strong desire to survive

Fortunately, after observing for a few days, Xue Pei found that Xue Jian took it for granted how Xue Pan talked to him, and was distressed that he didn't want to please his little master.But he is stupid with his mouth, and he will not flatter Xue Pan like others, thinking that as long as he does the job that Xue Pan has done well, Xue Pan will like him.

When Xue Pan reprimanded Xue Jian again for not doing his job right, Xue Pei called Xue Pan back to the manor, and asked as he walked, "Do you think Xue Jian is too stupid?"

Xue Pan nodded: "Obviously I have explained it clearly to him, but he just can't do it well."

"Then Tongxing and Tongfu didn't do anything, why didn't you reprimand them?" Xue Pei asked again.

"Tongxing and Tongfu are here to serve me in school, not to be rough envoys." Xue Pan felt that there was no comparison between them.

Xue Pei listened and shook his head: "It's only been a few days, and you've forgotten what I said? So I left these boys for you because I thought that they could help you with some work besides serving you in school. But now those few servants not only don’t help with the work, you are busy, they also want to lure you down the river to touch fish, go up the trees and dig birds. If you can’t lure you, then pick on the living people’s faults, so it’s not a good idea .”

Xue Pan has been feeling uncomfortable for the past few days. Hearing Xue Pei say this, although he didn't dare to refute, he stomped on the ground with all his strength, walking along the road with crackling smoke and dust.Xue Pei knew that he was watching half a year's rent back, but he only sold it for 100 taels of silver, which was 300 taels less than expected, and he was a little discouraged.

This is not conducive to Xue Pei's plan to let his stupid son lead a strong family and enjoy life as an old man himself, so he gave Xue Pan a hand, and his body tilted.Xue Pan only felt that his arms suddenly became heavy, and when he looked sideways, he found that his father's face was flushed, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead, as if he was very uncomfortable.

"Father, what's the matter with you, but why do you feel uncomfortable? Somebody, please go and get a doctor." Xue Pan has many other shortcomings, and he is still filial.

Xue Pei weakly leaned his body on Xue Pan's body. Now Xue Pan is only eight years old and will soon be on Xue Pei's shoulders. How can he withstand such a pressure?Anxious more and more call people.

The first one to run was Xue Jian, who stepped forward to support Xue Pei, not to mention Xue Pan, who was about to be overwhelmed.When Xue Pan stood up straight and helped Xue Pei onto Xue Jian's half-squatting body, Tong Fu and the others trotted over, shouting, "Master, what's the matter? Oh, master is not good." gone."

The angry Xue Pan kicked Tong Xing who called the master bad, "A dog can't spit out ivory, why don't you hurry up and call for a doctor."

Tong Xing looked embarrassed: "Master, our Zhuangzi is thirty miles away from the city, and even if the slaves are rushing, we don't know when we will be able to come back."

Xue Pan's face turned dark, Xue Jian ran to the courtyard with Xue Pei on his back and said to Xue Pan, "Don't worry, young master. I know that there is a doctor in the next village. People from all over the world praise him for his good medical skills."

After speaking, he saw someone coming out from the courtyard to greet him, and hurriedly asked that person to go to the next village to invite a doctor.After a fuss, Xue Pei lay on the bed and waited for the doctor, and asked Xue Pan who kept circling on the ground: "You can see, who needs to use it when something happens?"

Xue Pan didn't speak, he lowered his head and didn't know what to think.Xue Pei let him reflect, anyway, he was faking his illness, and it didn't matter if the doctor came early or late.

But Aunt Xue didn't know that Xue Pei was just pretending, and thought he was a relapse of the old poison, so the crying was miserable.It was Xue Pan who couldn't listen anymore, and yelled at her twice before he calmed down.

Xue Pei waved to Xue Pan, and waited for him to get closer before saying in an obviously weak voice: "I just found out about this illness, we still need to raise a doctor in our village, otherwise anyone who gets sick can only do it in a hurry."

No matter what Xue Pei said now, Xue Pan could only nod his head.Unexpectedly, Xue Pei, who had a dark heart, asked Xue Pan to take someone to Jinling City tomorrow in order to let Xue Pan understand the warmth and coldness of human feelings, but there are doctors who are willing to come to Zhuangzi.Xue Pan looked distressed: "Father, our family doesn't have money to support the doctor."

"I still have some money in my hand." Aunt Xue thought it would be better to invite a doctor to live in the Zhuangzi, for fear that Xue Pei and Xue Pan would not agree to spend their own money: "The doctor is not only to see the doctor, but also to be in the Zhuangzi." It’s convenient for a person to have a headache, isn’t it?”

This time, Xue Pei didn't object. Seeing that he didn't object, Xue Pan didn't say anything, and depressed Aunt Xue who gave money again.Just thinking about who will accompany Xue Pan to the city tomorrow will be considered to suppress the evil fire.

Thinking that Xue Pan is only eight years old after all, no matter how dark Xue Pei's heart is, he can't really let him look for someone like a child, otherwise, if the doctor doesn't invite him, his son will have to be abducted.

As an uncle, Xue Xiang solved this problem very well.The two of them went to get up early, stayed in Jinling City for a day, and returned to Zhuangzi in the evening, but they didn't look very good, and they didn't bring a doctor back.

Xue Pei only found out after asking that Xue Xiang was originally a concubine, and his reputation in Jinling was not obvious at all, but Xue Pan was indeed a celebrity, and when he suddenly appeared in Jinling City two months later, of course he would be pointed out.

Just pointing, Xue Pan endured under Xue Xiang's persuasion, and the children of the seventh house who had already been divided into sects jumped out to laugh at Xue Pan, which made the former bully unbearable.

When Xue Pan finally talked to Xue Xiang that a doctor was a little nervous, Xue Hai's youngest son ran out to disrupt the situation, telling the doctor that Xue Pan's family was too poor to live in the city, and told the doctor to be careful when he came to Zhuangzi. If you see a doctor for nothing, you can't get a consultation fee.

It turned out that the doctor didn't agree to come to Zhuangzi again, so Xue Xiang and the two returned without success.Xue Pan had a big quarrel with Xue Hai's youngest son, but none of the onlookers helped him, and everyone praised Xue Hai's youngest son.

If it weren't for Xue Xiang's persuasion, Xue Pan would not have said that he would not fight with Xue Hai's youngest son, but seeing the expressions of the onlookers, he clearly felt that he was vulnerable just like Xue Hai's youngest son.

Xue Pan was not really stupid, under Xue Xiang's persuasion, the two had no choice but to return without success.

What Xue Pan thought along the way was that what his father said before, those people who respect themselves are respecting money, is absolutely true.Xue Xiang felt that it was no wonder that his elder brother wanted him to get fame no matter what. If he had fame today, the doctor might not doubt that his family could not afford the consultation fee.

These two were a little sluggish because they failed to fulfill Xue Pei's confession, and Xue Pei didn't go to comfort him, but said that he was much better after taking the doctor's medicine Xue Jian invited, so please feel free to ask the doctor Alright, look like you don't want to worry your family.

The more he behaved like this, the more guilt Xue Xiang and the two felt. They felt that Xue Pei could do everything well before, but now he can't handle such trivial things when he confesses to them. It shows that he is far behind his brother (father).

And the elder brother (father) himself is so sick, and he still takes care of their mood, it is really too tolerant to them, no matter how hard he is, he must try his best to achieve the person his elder brother (father) wants him to be.

So Xue Xiang and Xue Pei are now most concerned about the construction of the mulberry fish pond, which is a hundred times more attentive than before. They stare at the field every day, so they have to do it themselves.Xue Pei recuperated comfortably at home by himself, and read the letter Xue Chengxian brought back by the way.

As Xue Pei expected, Wang Ziteng lightly revealed in his letter that his wife's companion was rude to Aunt Xue last time, and told Xue Pei in the same way as his wife that he is busy with work now. If there is no time to put pressure on the prefect of Jinling, it would be better if Xue Pei urged the prefect more, and Xue Pei must trust the prefect and handle the case impartially.

Bing you...Xue Pei thinks that if he wants to be a civilized person, he just doesn't want to think foul language.

He directly read Wang Ziteng's letter to Aunt Xue, regardless of Aunt Xue's tears and snot, and told her his decision: "Your natal family's relatives should be broken."

Aunt Xue, who hadn't stopped crying after reading her brother's letter, suddenly exploded: "What did the master say? First, he separated from the Xue family, and now he wants to divorce my natal family. Didn’t anyone communicate with anyone while digging wells or digging doors on the roof?”

"Wuwu, my family has been sorry for the master these years. Everything has been thought of for us. We don't need to worry about everything. It's just that the master made a mistake. If my brother said a few words, the master will tell me The natal family broke up?"

"What did the master say when he hired three matchmakers and six recruits? Why didn't he say that he would not marry the Wang family's daughter-in-law? Now that the gold and silver are here, and the son and daughter are born, the master said to break off the marriage? I don't stop, master. If you have to break up with my natal family, then I, then I, I will go back to my natal family. I am the daughter of the Wang family, and I will be it all my life."

Crackling, Aunt Xue gasped twice when she said that she was excited, otherwise she would suffocate herself to death even crying and talking.

Xue Pei quietly looked at Aunt Xue who kept crying, until Aunt Xue made herself cry, and he said coldly: "You are the daughter of the Wang family, all your life?"

"Is this what you thought, or did someone in the Wang family tell you? It was you who ignored you when something happened to Xue's family, but sent a slave to your Xingshi to question you because of a slave in your second brother's family. Big brother, or is it your second brother who picks on your husband everywhere and makes your husband a coward?"

Aunt Xue married into the Xue family, and because of her status as a girl from the county ruler's Bo family, she always put on airs above the Xue family.Even though she knew that she should marry and obey her husband, she didn't lower her figure even to the original owner.In order to help her in-laws, the original owner also gave way to her everywhere, turning a blind eye to her various behaviors.

I don't want the master to say such words to her today!Aunt Xue's crying sound suddenly rose again: "Why did my brother let the master be a coward? Is it because the master wants to move out of the city? Is it because the master thinks the Zhen family can't be offended? Master Zhen, my brother wouldn't talk like that either."

Xue Pei accepted the hearts of Xue Xiang and Xue Pan, and today he wanted to let Aunt Xue recognize the reality, and he said very bluntly: "Then Zhen Yingjia has come to the house for bullying, I will not have any ill relations with him, he Are you willing to give up on the Xue family? Or do you think that Meiqin should poison me to death with a bowl of poison, so that you can move all the Xue family's wealth back to the Wang family?!"

When did I move the Xue family's wealth back to her mother's house?Aunt Xue wanted to distinguish again, but Xue Pei didn't give her a chance: "You are a good family. The boxing gift to your natal family is no less than 5000 taels every festival, and no less than 3000 taels to your sister's house."

"Madam, I just want to ask, your own dowry consists of some fields and shops, but what is the annual income of those fields and shops? How many times can you support to send gifts to your natal family and your sister's house? Or do you dare to ask the gods?" Swear, the money you used to send gifts to your mother's house and your sister's house didn't take a single bit of Mr. Xue's family?"

Now Aunt Xue was speechless, but she was used to talking in front of her husband, and she felt guilty if she didn't say a few words, so she insisted: "I am the mistress of the Xue family, and I will do the rituals freely. Get ready. Besides," she said loudly as if grasping for a life-saving straw, "besides, it's not like my brother and sister didn't return the favor."

Xue Pei didn't even bother to sneer: "There are gift lists all these years. Do you want to have a match with me? How much are the gifts your brother and sister gave us in return? Is there any family's etiquette that surpasses it once?" 1000 taels?"

No, Aunt Xue knew it without looking at the gift list.In the past, Aunt Xue thought that it was all relatives, so how could she be so clear about it?Originally, if she married into a merchant, or married far away to Jinling, she was already a low-marriage. I don't know how many people saw her jokes among her original boudoir friends in Beijing.

Therefore, we need to send more gifts to my natal family and my sister’s house, firstly, to let people know that she is married well, and secondly, I also feel that because of the gift, people will say that she married into a merchant’s family, and the whole person is embarrassed. It stinks of copper.

But now that I think about it, I have been married for more than ten years, and I have gone to my mother's house thirty or forty times. Calculated in the middle, there is a difference of tens of thousands of taels.Tens of thousands of taels of silver, even if you hire your son, you can say that you have a good family, and preparing a dowry for your daughter is enough to make most girls envious.

Aunt Xue couldn't say anything that shouldn't be divided.

Seeing that Aunt Xue was silent, Xue Pei continued to attack: "You said just now that you are the daughter of the Wang family, and you have been for the rest of your life. Did you forget that you were not the Wang Xue family from the moment you married? When you enter the Xue family's ancestral grave, the tablet should be placed in the Xue family's ancestral hall? Or do you think my Xue family can't afford your big Buddha, and want to continue to be your county ruler Bo's girl, and want me to give you a letter of divorce?"

Divorce?

Aunt Xue didn't expect to hear these two words from the master's mouth, no, it happened during this period of time, she didn't even expect it.How did it become like this, why did it become like this, Aunt Xue was at a loss.Up to now, she still doesn't know what she did or said wrong, and she wants the master to say the two words of divorce letter without thinking about the relationship between husband and wife today.

Is it because she said it was the daughter of the Wang family, but she didn't say this once or twice.At that time, why didn't the master say that he divorced himself, but now he said it without frowning?It's not that watching the two elder brothers ignore him, feeling that he has no support from his natal family, makes the master feel confident.

My brother and sister-in-law used to be very affectionate to me, no matter what folk remedies I wanted to ask for or who's secrets I wanted to inquire about, they knew everything about me.Just because the Xue family had no money, and the second sister-in-law was far away in Beijing, she wanted a slave to humiliate herself, but the eldest brother specially sent someone to blame him for the slave who humiliated him.

It turned out that once the Xue family was defeated, he was worthless in the eyes of his brother and sister-in-law.Aunt Xue, who came to this conclusion, felt sad and cried: "Why should I retire? I entered the door of Xue's family. I am a member of Xue's family. Even if I am a ghost tablet, I have to enter the ancestral hall of Xue's family."

"Cry, cry, cry," Xue Pei was very irritated by her crying: "When something happens, I don't think about what to do, except to cry and complain. It's fine to complain by yourself, and even drag the child to complain together. Pan'er was just eight years old. At the age of [-], I knew that I was determined to study well for a better life in the future. Chai'er also knew how to listen to her brother and follow her to pick rice ears in the field. And you, a housewife, came to Zhuangzi except crying and complaining. what have you done?"

It's been a few days since I came to Zhuangzi. Both Xue Pan and Baochai have basically adapted to the life in Zhuangzi. It's the woman in front of me who doesn't cry twice a day and complain a few times, the sun won't even set.

Seeing that his situation is about to be unraveled, Xue Pei doesn't want someone to be a monster in his ear every day, or no matter what decision he makes, he will be next to him and give opinions that don't match his mouth. He poured cold water on himself - he knew what he was going to do without saying it, and there were few things Aunt Xue would like to see.

But she didn't want to see it, so Xue Pei wouldn't do it?Wanting to do it, but not wanting to listen to nagging, Xue Pei chose to solve the problem once and for all today.

Aunt Xue heard Xue Pei's accusation, and now she cried a lot less. She looked at Xue Pei helplessly, and felt that if the master said anything else, she would faint.

"You have always felt that the Wang family is your reliance, and you have always felt that you were wronged by marrying into the Xue family. It hasn't changed in all these years, right." Xue Pei's accusation just now is almost the same, and now his tone is very calm, not calm. Talk to your own wife, but an irrelevant outsider.

There was no need for Aunt Xue to answer, Xue Pei broke Aunt Xue's last line of defense by herself: "It's your dowry that gives you confidence, and makes you feel that the Wang family values ​​you. It seems that the Wang family really got cheap and behaved. They Has no one told you that all your dowry was secretly prepared by the Xue family?"

"Even if no one tells you, you won't use your own brain to think about it. As a second daughter, how can you pass the dowry over the eldest daughter? Or is it that your royal family has always been so unruly? That's right, your second brother doesn't It is to surpass that idiot Wang Zisheng and become the head of the Wang family. Is it because of this that you feel that the dowry you got should be surpassed by the eldest daughter?"

"Fortunately, you have the nerve to give your sister such a heavy gift. How could you know that your sister gritted her teeth because she hated you. After being suppressed by her dowry for more than ten years, it is really impressive that your sister can still reply to your letter this time." Take a high look." After speaking, Xue Pei stood up, without even looking at Aunt Xue, and went out of the inner room.

Think about having someone call Xue Jian, and ask him to go to the next village to invite the doctor in advance, in case Aunt Xue got into a corner and fainted again.Xue Jian pointed to where to hit, without asking who was sick, he led a mule and went out.

Xue Peigu went out to see his mulberry fish soup. Aunt Xue heard the sound of him going out, but she didn't even have the courage to ask him to come back and continue to ask.Because she found that she had the confidence to say those things before, because the master didn't care about her, and because she felt that her mother's family could be relied on.

Now the master has made it clear that he cares about her mother's family, and her mother's family doesn't matter.

What made Aunt Xue feel that she didn’t even have a fig leaf the most was the last words of the master—it’s not that Aunt Xue doesn’t know that it’s unreasonable for her to have more dowry than her eldest sister, or she wouldn’t be so thick every time Prepare a gift and send it to Rongguo Mansion.

Deep down in her heart, Aunt Xue let her elder sister know that her younger sister felt guilty for her because of her generous etiquette, so don't annoy her because of the dowry.But why did the master say it so harshly, without saving any affection for himself?

What made the master not even save himself any affection?As a woman of this era, Aunt Xue felt that her husband would not be trusted, and her own sky was about to collapse. She had to figure out why the master no longer showed mercy to her.

"Ma'am," a girl's tentative call came from outside the house, wondering if it was appropriate for me to enter the inner room now.Aunt Xue wiped away the tears from her eyes with a handkerchief, and stopped suddenly.She remembered that the master had just said that she could only cry and complain when things went wrong, not even Pan'er.

Is it because if I stop crying and complaining, the master will trust me again?Aunt Xue buzzed her nose and asked the girl to come in to wash herself.Tonggui has just heard the quarrel between the master and his wife, but she is just a girl, and it is fundamental to serve his wife wholeheartedly. If the wife asks him to do the grooming, he will do it himself.

"Master," Xue Jian came panting to report to Xue Pei: "The doctor is back, please. Is the master here to let the doctor take a pulse, or go back to the manor house? The servant thinks, the master should go back to the manor house."

It has been an hour since I came out, but no one came to call me back to the manor, or said that my wife passed out, which made Xue Pei feel a little surprised.Even if the Langzhong invited him, there was no reason for people to make a trip in vain, Xue Pei still followed Baochai back to the manor house in a good manner.

As for Xue Pan, that kid is very interested in mulberry fish pond now, and he wished to see the mulberry tree grow and the fish grow bigger immediately, so that he could sell more money.Since he couldn't be called, Xue Pei didn't bother to talk anymore.

The doctor Xue Jian invited was surnamed Qi, a rare surname.The man looked to be in his forties, probably because he ran around every day to see a doctor. He was tanned by the sun and couldn't see his original skin color. Except for a square scarf, he looked like an old farmer. .