The Prince of the Historian of the Red Chamber

Self-savvy and high-minded

"Girl, you should have planned earlier." Shi Shu whispered to Tanchun while no one was around.

Frowning, Tanchun put the book in his hand on the small table, and said irritably, "What are you talking about so nonchalantly?"

The attendant turned towards the direction of the west courtyard, and said: "Seeing that my wife is useless, the master does not come out in the outer study all day long, and the second master Bao is in a daze. Seeing this, the third master is the most promising. The girl and the third master crawled out of the same stomach, so don't take advantage of this time to get close... My good girl, you have to plan for the future!"

Tan Chunliu's eyebrows trembled, and he snorted and said with a smile: "You are the only one who thinks too much! What is useless and muddled, let me hear it again and see if I don't tear your mouth!"

The servant said anxiously: "Girl! Didn't you hear the words on weekdays? What has it become? No matter how filial you are, you can't get close to your wife from now on, but Aunt Zhao and Mr. Huan are your reliance! It just so happens that the old lady has let you and grandma take charge, this is..."

Tanchun was annoyed, interrupted the waiter's words and said angrily, "You girl is getting more and more out of tune. With the old lady and the master around, why should I rely on Auntie and Huan'er? Even if I don't, it's natural. I depended on my second elder brother to live, how could it be like that? Besides, if my wife is not good for a while, I will rush to curry favor with my aunt, and take me for someone else."

The waiter opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, she was naturally full of plans for the girls, but their girls are always shrewd, but this time they got into a corner, and it didn't make sense.Seeing Tanchun picking up the book and waving at her, Shi Shu had no choice but to swallow back the words he was full of, and quietly opened the curtain to go out.

It was quiet in the Nuan Pavilion, but Tanchun picked up the book but couldn't read it anymore. The place is cramped, and it's only a dozen steps away from one end to the other. It's far less comfortable than Qiu Shuangzhai. Xichun, no more than Qiu Shuangzhai's private courtyard, she is too careless in what she says, and if she fails to do so, she may be forced into a desperate situation.

Huan'er... Tanchun didn't expect that such an unlovable younger brother would be able to win the Jinshi smoothly all the way. How could such a vulgar person like my aunt teach Huan'er?Tanchun looked at the book in a trance, and naturally thought of Shi Mo, who was almost inseparable from Jia Huan.

Tanchun bit her lower lip, unwilling and wronged: the old lady had already told her that she was going to marry Shi Mo...

At first, Tanchun was a bit reluctant about this matter from the bottom of his heart, not because of anything else. Shi Mo lived alone in the Baolinghou Mansion, and he had no father or mother. Seeing that Shi Xiangyun usually said, "I need to make up for it at home." Well, Shi Mo is a lonely young man, even if he is a Jinshi, how can he have a comfortable life?Besides, she has spent so many years in the rich nest of Rongguo Mansion, and seeing the gifts and money from the master's superiors and colleagues flowing out like running water on the four o'clock and eighth festivals, she also knows the importance of human relations in the officialdom. If he didn't even have some money to give gifts, what kind of future would he have with his high talent?

Later, Tanchun also resigned to her fate, at least when she married, she was the grandmother who was in charge of the house, and she didn't have to wait on her in-laws, and her husband was weaker, so she could hold him in her hands with the Rongguo Mansion, so she wasn't afraid that he would treat her slowly.

——But the bottom of my heart is always repressed. She has been under the light of the big sister since she was a child. After the big sister went out, she suppressed Yingchun and Xichun to get ahead in front of the wife and the old lady. With such good fortune and luck, he became the most noble person in the world.She is envious but can only bury her jealousy deeply to please his wife and Baoyu more and more, thinking that she can only be divided based on her appearance and her closeness with Baoyu. Bo, maybe it is the wife and grandma of the Prince's Mansion. This is also a good thing for Baoyu to kill two birds with one stone. Unexpectedly, the old lady would fall in love with the Shijia uncle... Tanchun cried several times in private: just because she is not the belly of the wife Those who climbed out of the sky would be so much worse!

Afterwards, Huan'er somehow angered the old lady and his wife, and the empress also sent a message to tell Huan'er to separate the government office. Tanchun sighed softly, thinking, "Huan'er is a fool after all, he thought he was hit. The fame has been greatly improved, and the wife only talked to the empress, and she cleaned him up with one finger. What are you trying to do? '

After Jia Huan was separated from the mansion, Tanchun became closer to Mrs. Wang and Baoyu, deliberately belittling Aunt Zhao and others in words and deeds, for fear of angering herself because of Jia Huan.

Unexpectedly, Huan'er was rich and rich after the division of the house, Tanchun looked at him coldly, thinking that he was stupid and reckless, what benefit could he get from poking his wife's eyeballs, such an attitude!On the other hand, he also breathed a sigh of relief, it is impossible for Huan'er to have so much money to show off, maybe it was his close friend Shi Mo who helped him.

"It turns out that there is still such a wealth, and it is indeed worthy of being the eldest son and grandson of the Hou family." Tanchun rejoiced in this way, but thought: "No amount of wealth can bear such squandering. When she gets married, the historians can't let it go." No matter how extravagant the uncle is, with all that money, it's better to manage the favors in the official scene. Jia Tanchun was thinking like this, but he never thought that Jia Huan was her brother from the same mother, so he only blamed Jia Huan on Shi Mo's "big money" that Shi Mo shouldn't have.

After she regarded Shi Mo as her beloved in the future, she wholeheartedly planned for Shi Mo's official career, making up her mind to let Shi Modo get close to Shi Hou's mansion and Wang's uncle's house in the future, and here she also called "Mrs. It was a beautiful dream, but there was a bolt from the blue: first, the wife was wronged and reprimanded by the princess for no reason, and the wife moved to the small ancestral hall for meditation because of the general grievance, and then the uncle of the historian quickly made an appointment with the daughter of the Qu family. married!

The marriage between Shi Mo and the girl from the Qu family shocked Tanchun and made him restless, as if a big stone had been pressed on his chest, so he couldn't express himself, so he didn't go to congratulate Aunt Xue on the imperial conferment ceremony, and he didn't make jokes at Baoyu to get married When I went to meet Mrs. Wang, it was 'the icing on the cake', and I naturally missed the scene of "the bodhisattva's licentiousness under the Bodhisattva", but I avoided a disaster.

In less than half a year, the uncle of the Shi family married the fourth daughter of the Qu family's first wife into the door. Even Tanchun in the deep boudoir had heard of the magnificent wedding with red makeup.

Tanchun is raised in a girl's house in a deep house. Her mother-in-law is kind-hearted and cold-hearted. She never tells her about those magnificent family backgrounds, and she doesn't take her, a concubine, out to socialize. Like a frog in a well, very shallow.

The Rongguo Mansion is no more than a mid-level family until now, and Jia She is only the title of a first-class general. It has long been a super-rank duke family, but since Jia Shi's family, it has been proud of itself as a Duke's mansion. It's true that the juniors and servants have followed suit, and everyone thinks that Jia's family is the first-class family in the capital.

Growing up in such an environment, Tanchun always wanted people to forget that she crawled out of her aunt's belly, talked about her wife and her mother, and always hoped that people would treat her as her wife's daughter. , Niangniang and Baoyu's own sister are good.Serving Madam Wang diligently, over time, Tanchun felt that those families who had a close relationship with the Rongguo Mansion were the first-class families, and those with princes and dukes were the best families!

Therefore, I don't know what kind of family the Haijin Qu family is, and I still think that it is a family name that is not on the table. I have to feel that Miss Qu Si, who is not as prominent as her family background, robbed her of her marriage because of her It was raised by my aunt, because it was born of a concubine!

Tanchun got into the horns, and became more and more envious of his birth; on the other hand, he also saw that the old lady loved Baoyu more and more. Baoyu's status in Rongguo Mansion was not only not affected by his wife, but also made everyone support him more and more. He, the empress in the palace, was concerned about his health, and would send Xiaohuangmen to visit him every few days. He was rewarded with a lot of medicinal materials and food—Tanchun strengthened his benchmark for standing in the mansion: Get close to Mrs. Baoyu, stay away from Aunt Huaner.

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"Girl, grandma and grandma, grandma and grandma, please go to Shangshi, in the small hall of Chenxiang Pavilion." Cui Mo came in through the curtain, interrupting Tanchun's thoughts.

"Got it, come here." Ordering the little girl to go back to Li Wan and Baochai, Cui Mo combed Tan Chun's hair and evened her face before going.

After sitting in the living room, Wu Xindeng's daughter-in-law came in and said, "Aunt Zhao's brother, Zhao Guoji, died yesterday. I went back to the old lady yesterday, and the old lady said she knew, so she called her grandma back."

Although Li Wan has a reputation as a housekeeper, she has always been docile and taciturn and does not fight for fame and fortune. The sister-in-law is always looking forward to it, talking and talking on the sidelines, and the sister-in-law is very compatible.

Zhao Guoji died, Xue Baochai and Li Wan both looked at Tanchun, Baochai thought about it, and then said: "The mother of the former Xiren died, I will reward her with 40 taels of silver. If that is the case, let's reward 60 taels. "Wu Xindeng's family listened, quickly agreed, and left after receiving the right cards.

But I heard Tanchun say, "Come back!"

Wu Xindeng's family had no choice but to come back, raised his face and smiled obsequiously at Tanchun.

Xue Baochai and Li Wan also thought that Tanchun disliked the reward of too little money, Li Wan thought it was too little, Xue Baochai smiled bitterly in her heart: she would also like to reward more, so as to form a good relationship, but if you are not in charge, you don't know the depth of the water, and the appearance of the Rongguo Mansion It is glamorous and luxurious, but the inside is already beyond the means of living.

"Sister..." Baochai wanted to make up a few words, at worst, to reduce the cost of other places, and simply reward Zhao Guoji's family with 100 taels.

But Tanchun said: "Don't pay me any money. Let me ask you, in those years, there were some old aunts and grandmas in the old lady's house. There were also those who were born at home and those who were hired and bought outside. How much to reward, what is outside is how much to reward, you can tell us two and we will listen."

Now Xue Baochai is in charge of family affairs, although she is not as powerful as Sister Feng back then, but she is the most careful and knows how to settle accounts. After the first few times, the servants dare not neglect, so Wu Xindeng's family has already checked the old rules and kept them in mind. Fang Baochai asked.Immediately replied: "The rewards of the two families are 20 taels, and the rewards of the two outsiders are 40 taels. There are also two outsiders, one rewarded 100 taels and the other 60 taels, but these two have reasons. , one is the hub of relocating parents across provinces, and the other is selling land burials."

After hearing this, Tanchun said, "Give him 20 taels of silver. Sister-in-law Wu is old in business, so she should tell us the old rules first."

Hearing this, the daughter-in-law of Wu Xindeng's family looked up at Tanchun in bewilderment, thinking that the third girl was a demon?

Li Wan was suspicious, but kept silent.Xue Baochai, on the other hand, had an exquisite mind, and with the movement of her eyes, she could guess Tanchun's intentions, and immediately felt: it's really hard to be a girl born out of concubine.It's just that Tan Yatou is thinking about it. With Jia Huan's current wealth, how much money will it cost to bury Zhao Guoji?These dozens of taels of silver just represent their hearts and attention.

A long time ago, when Wu Xindeng's family heard what Tanchun said, he obeyed his orders and left. Anyway, at that time, Aunt Zhao and Master Huan were like mud in the field. Whoever stepped on it didn't step on it?But now she doesn't dare, Aunt Zhao is the person who was praised by the concubine in the palace, not to mention that now that the third master Huan is prosperous, she doesn't want to offend for nothing - I haven't seen before, when they were servants and slaves, they would directly Call her "Aunt Zhao", now everyone respectfully calls her "Grandma Zhao".

"Second Grandma Bao, what do you think?" Wu Xindeng's daughter-in-law looked embarrassed.

Baochai stopped Tanchun, and said with a smile, "Aunt Zhao has made great achievements in raising children. This is not a big deal. Who dares to fight for the reward?"

Baochai's words seemed to remind her that she was raised by Aunt Zhao. Tanchun was annoyed and said with a smile on his face, "This is a joke. Could it be that the aunt and grandma born in the family have never given birth before? It's two things. If you want to follow me, a reward of one hundred would be good, but if you don't follow the rules, don't tell jokes about the subordinates, it won't be enough to convince everyone tomorrow."

Seeing her stubbornness, Baochai had no choice but to obey.

Wu Xindeng's family took orders and went out to the Chenxiang Pavilion, muttering in his mouth, not knowing what the third girl was doing.

After the seat was dispersed, Ying'er followed Baochai to serve, and asked strangely, "What's the reason for the third girl to do this?"

Baochai supported her and did not lie to her in ordinary words. She smiled and said, "Although she crawled out of Aunt Zhao's intestines, she is far away from children, and only close to his wife and Baoyu. Now, although Mrs. 'Sick', the third master stood up, but at this time, if she changed her course and went to get close to that side, it would appear that she was hiding adultery, and those things were done in the past for the wife to see."

"But this is too much?" Yinger exclaimed in shock, "Even if you don't get close, just ignore her, why use Aunt Zhao as a raft?"

Ying'er had seen what happened in the Small Buddha Hall with her own eyes that day, and she felt that it was strange for Mrs. Wang to be so shameless at that time. It was not easy for her brother to have a future, so she didn't rush to get close to make up for the past. Indifferent, on the contrary, it is clearly a violation, no matter what, her mother and brothers are her lifelong support.

Baochai laughed, shook her head and said, "I also feel that girl Tan has done it too well. But don't forget, there is an old lady watching." Baochai pointed her head up and motioned, "I'm watching girl Tan. It's to show the old lady her determination. She thinks well, after all, her aunt and brothers can't make up her mind about her life's affairs, and the wife has a lie. Naturally, the old lady is worried about her granddaughter's marriage..."

Ying'er shook her head, she still couldn't quite understand what Tanchun was thinking, if she wanted to put it on her, she couldn't do such a thing--mother, brother, they didn't give any respect or face!To please the old lady, you can start from other places, why bother to humiliate your own mother?

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West across the courtyard.

Jia Huan grabbed Aunt Zhao tightly and refused to tell her to go and make trouble with Tanchun.

Aunt Zhao went crazy, scratching and biting, the demure and docile appearance she made in the past was gone.

Jia Huan frowned, and let Aunt Zhao scratch, bite, beat and scold her, but she wouldn't let go.

After a while, Aunt Zhao was as exhausted as she pushed Jia Huan away and sat down on the ground, crying loudly.

Weeping and scolding: "In the past, she flattered her wife and Baoyu! How much can she make of my wife's forehead wipes, shoes and socks, and Baoyu's shoes a year? Forget it, even if you are her own brother, she won't give you a stitch and a thread! Forget it, we two know that it is not easy for her to beg his wife's love in front of her wife, and I don't blame her! Your name is Mammy Teach me etiquette and teach me the governor, yes! I know that I lost face when I went to her and wanted her to support me, but in the next few years, have I been there?! I was afraid that she would be difficult, so I avoided her! But what about her? When you passed the Jinshi exam, everyone in the entire mansion came to congratulate you, but she didn't even send a little girl over! You went out of the mansion, and even Brother Qiang from the East mansion sent someone to ask, As for her, it's as if you don't have a brother like you!"

Aunt Zhao became more and more sad as she talked. Jia Huan hugged her to the low kang, she hugged Jia Huan's shoulders, gestured with her hands and cried: "She was only so big when she was born, and her crying was as weak as a baby's. She looks like a kitten, and she doesn't like to eat the nanny's milk. I'm afraid she won't be able to grow up, and I dare not close my eyes at night. I dare not let her continue to breastfeed, and the partial breasts are not immediately available. She refuses to eat goat milk, porridge, and water. She is crying hungry. My heart feels like a knife... It was your uncle who went door to door overnight He asked someone to ask for milk, and he came back with a bruised nose and a swollen face. After all, he asked him to find a house for a woman who was just out of the moon. The house does not call outsiders, and I can’t attract wind. Your uncle will stay there before dawn. On the master's way out...your uncle has been a worthless and worthless slave all his life, but he can't let her down! Do I care about the money? I want to see her love for your uncle!"

Jia Huan felt sore after hearing this.

Aunt Zhao's face was covered with makeup, Jia Huan hugged her and wiped her with a handkerchief bit by bit.

At this time, Aunt Zhao used him as an excuse in every possible way in the past, and the barrier of competing for favor seemed to disappear. Jia Huan looked at the woman in front of him. Maybe she was stupid, maybe she was not a loving mother who cared about her children, maybe she was high-spirited and dissatisfied, but she was indeed There are two sisters and younger brothers in my heart, she is the one who gave birth to him, and he should give her a lifetime of stability.

Aunt Zhao seemed to have exhausted all her strength, leaning against the kang pillow, she said in her mouth: "Madam is keeping her close to me, I am also happy in my heart, thinking that she will have a good place to go in the future, she would like to be far away from me." Far away, it's not as if I gave birth to my pregnancy in October—but if she bullies me and ignores you, she is also raised by an aunt!"

"When you entered school that year, even Ms. Lin from the aunt's family sent books and pens and ink. She refused to send a little girl. I couldn't help but went to her to argue. She said that my wife was full of heartache. She, it's me who makes trouble every time and chills my wife's heart!"

Aunt Zhao covered her face and cried again. Tanchun was her first child, and she held more weight in her heart than Jia Huan. At that time, she was still a tender girl, and she really admired the master. The old lady gave her to her. After seeing the master, she was almost crazy with joy.At that time, it was the time when my wife had raised Baoyu, hurt her body, and was recuperating in bed. The master stayed in her room for seven or eight out of ten days. She and the master lived like ordinary couples. There was one at that time, how much she loved this child in her heart—compared with Huan'er later, Tanchun seemed to be born when she and the master were husband and wife...

Later, my wife was leaving Tanchun to take care of her. She cried secretly for several nights. She didn't dare to let others see when she was serving her during the day. The pain in her heart was about to come out. He praised the girls around him, and even the master took a while to see each other.

Jia Huan knew what Tanchun was up to at a glance, it was simply because he and his aunt could not be her masters, and he hoped that the old lady could find a good marriage for her after drawing a line with them.

Yes, good marriage?Jia Huan sneered, what good marriage can the Rongguo Mansion look for?

He knew the methods of Uncle Lin and Uncle Lin best, and he even got involved - this Rongguo Mansion has long been in a slump and is stretched thin!The reputation of the Rongguo Mansion is so bad that everyone knows it. Even the cliques like the four kings and six kilometers are unwilling to marry with the Rong Mansion. Living extravagantly, it is possible to marry her into a pit of fire for money!

I didn't see that aunt of the Xue family. The shop at home had just started to improve, and the business was about to come back, so she asked Mrs. Jia to coax and lie to her. The 'Garn' of the first rank lost more than half of his family property for a pleasurable name of the seventh rank!

Jia Huan dared to say that more than half of them fell into the hands of his "kind and kind" old lady.The Second Mistress Bao who was born in Xue's family probably knew about this in her heart, but what could she say?Maybe I don't want to say anything, after all, according to the old lady's partiality to death, every share of the private house in her hands will be given to Baoyu after she dies, and it can be regarded as falling into her hands indirectly—it's better than her brother's. be stronger.

My own sister is a decisive person!If it wasn't her own sister, Jia Huan would have admired Tanchun a little bit, a boudoir girl insisted on going to the dark together - not even looking at her mother and younger brother on the side road, this is not easy.

Tanchun is a shrewd person, but he is so shrewd.

That night, Jia Huan went back to his own mansion with his humming head on his head. When he got out of the bath and changed clothes, he saw Shi Mo sitting on the edge of the kang, reading lazily with a book. Pick up some dried fruit and put it in your mouth, after reading a few lines, you will look up at the Moon Cave Gate of the Nuan Pavilion.

The warm light shone on Jia Huan's tired body with just one glance.

Looking up, Shi Mo was bumping into Jia Huan's smiling eyes, stayed for a few moments, then Shi Mo coughed lightly, pretending to be serious: "Why did you come back, the stomach warming soup from the kitchen is almost cold." This is a new habit that the two of them have developed. In the cold weather, they eat a bowl of stomach warming soup fifteen minutes before going to bed to nourish their stomach and body.

Seeing the clothes on his body next, Shi Mo frowned and said: "Why did you go over there to take a bath? It's a cold day, what should I do if I'm freezing?" Then he got up and pulled him onto the kang to warm up.

Jia Huan let him move, lazily asked Shi Mo to wait on him, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid you'll disturb you when you sleep, so I washed up at the big pool, but it's only a few steps away~" His eyes kept shining. With Smith.

Shi Mo paused the hand that was holding the soup bowl from the warm bun, and thought: Is this acting like a baby, Nimei, Jia Xiaohuan is acting like a baby? !

Jia Huan smiled innocently and uprightly, but she put the spoon she had drunk half to Shi Mo's mouth.

There was a herd of alpacas in Shi Mo's head—he roared past while singing "The Man with the Horse"... But, subconsciously, he had already opened his mouth and put the spoon in his mouth.

Nimei's!

Cough, Shi Mo is sorry.

"Well, what is that?!" Shi Mo, who instantly changed from a delicious little sheep to a black-faced wolf, grabbed Jia Huan's sleeve, stretched out his hand, and Xingshi asked.

"What?" Jia Huan took a look, and it turned out to be the blood mark of his aunt's scratching when she was holding her back.

What? !Shi Mo was furious, it was clearly scratched by a woman's long fingernails!

He was about to pull off Jia Huan's collar when he stretched out his hand, Jia Xiaohuan of his family was taken advantage of!Nimei's, this has already stamped his seal, which bold woman is it?

Seeing Shi Mo's face full of heartache from being taken advantage of, Jia Huan was in a good mood, stretched out his hand to pull him into his arms and sat down, deliberately blowing hot air into his ears: "If you want to touch it again, let's settle this matter first ?”

Shi Mo's eyes have been patrolling his own territory for a long time. Knowing that the territory has been taken advantage of, he snorted and pulled his hand back, indicating to Jia Xiaohuan, "If you confess, you will be lenient, if you resist, you will be strict; if you refuse to confess, you will be jailed." Wear!" important guiding ideology.

Jia Huan laughed, put his arms around Bao in his arms, and told him what happened today bit by bit. In the end, Jia Tanchun's thoughts were analyzed clearly.

Hearing that, Shi Mo patted his Huan'er's shoulder sympathetically, it's not easy!On the one hand, I felt that the image of his sister was instantly beautiful——

——Sure enough, there is a difference only when there is a comparison!Seeing that older sister, and comparing it to my own older sister, well, Miss Xiangyun is still a very cute girl!

——Jia Tanchun, shrewd and talented, if she is cultivated well, she will be a girl more suitable for the court than Jia Yuanchun. Because of this, although this girl is beautiful, she is not cute.