Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 185 A joke?sorrow?

After Wang Xifeng came in, she smiled and saluted Mrs. Jia, then nodded to Xue Baochai as a greeting, and then saluted Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang again.

After she finished, she stood next to Jia Mu with a smile and said, "After listening to my ancestors' words, I seem to have gained experience. It turns out that there are so many things to pay attention to in a window screen."

With a smile on her face, Mother Jia pointed at Wang Xifeng and said, "Why are your monkey ears so pointed?"

"That's the great Buddha of our ancestors sitting here. What you say can spread thousands of miles."

"Okay, you little monkey, you are making fun of your ancestors. Watch." After saying this, Jia Mu stretched out her hand and patted Wang Xifeng's shoulder lightly.

Wang Xifeng said "ouch" as if he had been beaten very hard, "This is serious. If you don't teach me some luck, I won't do it."

With that said, Wang Xifeng took Jia Mu's hand and started acting coquettishly.

"Looking at the stalker, I have no choice." Mother Jia said to Grandma Liu and Aunt Xue as if helpless.

Grandma Liu opened her mouth and smiled and said: "I think grandma is a filial piety, old lady, you are lucky."

Mother Jia shook her head helplessly, and then said: "In that case, I will teach you something."

"We have some 'soft tobacco' in the warehouse. You can take out a few batches to make window screens for your sister Lin."

Sister Feng said: "This name sounds nice. It's just that I'm so old and Shaluo has seen hundreds of them, but I've never heard of this name."

Jia Mu smiled and said: "How long have you lived? You have seen a few things that have no place to put them, and you just talk about it. That soft cigarette only has four colors: one after the rain, the same autumn fragrance, and the same pine green. The same is silver-red; if it is made into a curtain and the window panes are covered with smoke, it looks like smoke from a distance, so it is called "soft smoke". The silver-red one is also called "Xia Yingsha". Now on The yarn used is not so soft, thick, light and dense."

Aunt Xue next to her said jokingly: "Don't say she doesn't know about it at such a young age, even I have heard of it for the first time."

Xue Baochai, who was sitting next to Aunt Xue, had heard of this name.

Some time ago, the silk and satin merchants from Jiangnan paid tribute, and finally gave a batch to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui didn't care about these things, so he left them all to Xue Baochai.

At first, Xue Baochai only thought it was an ordinary gauze, so she didn't take it seriously and piled it all in the warehouse. Now when she heard Jia Mu tell her, she realized that it was a valuable thing.

But Wang Xifeng didn't know this. She also wanted to show off in front of outsiders, so she immediately asked Ping'er to take one out of the warehouse.

Jia Mu looked at it and said with a smile: "Isn't this the thing? At first it was just a window covering, but later we tried it as a quilt and it was good. I'll find a few pieces tomorrow and use the silver and red ones. I'll stick up the windows for Daiyu."

No one had ever seen such a rare thing, so they all gathered around to take a closer look.

Grandma Liu glued the windows after seeing such a rare thing. It was a pity, so she said, "We don't even think it can be used as clothes. Wouldn't it be a pity to stick the windows with it?"

Mother Jia looked at everyone's faces, a hint of pride flashed in her eyes, "These clothes don't look good."

With that said, the group left the Xiaoxiang Pavilion and swam in the lake again.

While Jia Mu was visiting the lake, Wang Xifeng and Li Zhi took Xichun, Yuanyang, Hubo and the meal-servers to take a shortcut to Qiu Shuangzhai.

Since it was Li Zhi who arranged everything today, Wang Xifeng did not interfere in arranging the banquet. Only when the arrangements were almost completed, he smiled and said to Li Zhi and others: "Grandma Liu is really interesting, why don't we make fun of her today?" one time?"

Yuanyang responded immediately after hearing this, "Every day we say that the gentlemen outside have a married woman and make fun of her when they are drinking and eating. Today we also got a female married woman."

Li Zhi is a kind person. Hearing the conversation between the two of them, he couldn't bear to say: "You guys should accumulate some bad virtue. How old is Grandma Liu and you still make fun of him."

But the two people didn't answer. Instead, they chatted and discussed.

Li Zhi had no choice but to let them go.

As soon as the arrangements were made on their side, Jia Mu and others had already abandoned the boat and landed on the shore, arriving at Qiushuangzhai.

Li Zhi and others hurriedly welcomed Jia Mu and rested in Xiaocuitang.

While setting up the banquet, Wang Xifeng winked at Yuanyang, who nodded lightly, and then went to Grandma Liu's place.

Yuanyang took Grandma Liu out, quietly gave her a few words, and then sent her back safely.

At this time, the table had been set up inside. Mother Jia took Baoyu, Xiangyun, Daiyu, and Baochai to one table, and Mrs. Wang took three sisters Yingchun to one table.

So Yuanyang placed Grandma Liu on a table next to Jia Mu, and before leaving, she told her: "Don't forget it."

"Don't worry, girl, I'll remember it!" Grandma Liu was proud and answered in the affirmative.

There was a pair of strange chopsticks placed on Grandma Liu's table. Grandma Liu picked them up and tried them. She felt that they were very heavy and uncomfortable to use.

It turned out that these were a pair of four-rib ivory chopsticks inlaid with gold, which were used by the military commanders in the palace in the early years. Grandma Liu, a village woman, naturally felt that she could not hold them.At this time, the maids had already started to serve the dishes. Wang Xifeng saw a plate of pigeon eggs among the delicacies, so she picked them out separately and placed them in front of Grandma Liu.

Before leaving, he reminded Grandma Liu not to forget what happened just now.

As soon as Jia Mu on the other side said the word "please", Grandma Liu stood up, puffed out her cheeks and said:
"Lao Liu, Lao Liu, eats as much as a cow. He can eat an old sow without raising his head."

Everyone was stunned after hearing her words.

Then everyone burst into laughter from top to bottom.

Shi Xiangyun couldn't hold on anymore and spit out a mouthful of rice; Lin Daiyu broke out laughing and leaned on the table and shouted "Hey!"; Baoyu had already rolled into Jia Mu's arms, and Jia Mu laughed so hard that she hugged Baoyu and shouted "Honey"; Mrs. Wang She smiled so much that she pointed at Sister Feng and was speechless; Aunt Xue couldn't hold it in anymore, and the tea in her mouth sprayed all over Tanchun's skirt; Tanchun closed the rice bowl in her hand on Yingchun; Xichun left her seat and pulled She asked her wet nurse to "rub your intestines".

All the maids on the ground were bending down, some were hiding out and squatting to laugh, and some were holding back their laughter and came up to change clothes for their sisters. Only Sister Feng and Yuanyang were the only ones holding on, and they just let Grandma Liu do it.

Only Xue Baochai looked at the scene in front of him and felt a little sad in his heart. An old lady at such an old age was treated as a joke today. It was a bit sad to think about it.

Although Xue Baochai thought so, she still pretended to laugh with him for the sake of face.

Then various things happened at the banquet. Wang Xifeng and Yuanyang were trying different ways to tease Grandma Liu.

Grandma Liu didn't seem to know what was going on, so she pretended to be crazy and followed the two of them, making the banquet very happy.

After the banquet, Xue Baochai and Aunt Xue said goodbye, but Jia Mu's group in the Grand View Garden was not finished yet, and then came more baskets of teasing Grandma Liu.

However, Xue Baochai didn't know this anymore. She and Aunt Xue first left Rongguo Mansion, and then invited Aunt Xue to go back to her Marquis Mansion to have a look.

Since Xue Baochai moved to Dingxihou Mansion, Aunt Xue has not been in. Taking advantage of this time, Xue Baochai wanted to invite her mother to come and see where she lives.

Aunt Xue naturally agreed happily.

Mother and daughter rode in a sedan and entered the Dingxihou Mansion from the side door.

Later, Xue Baochai took his mother to visit the Dingxi Marquis Mansion, and Aunt Xue was also full of praise.

The regulations of this Dingxihou Mansion are almost the same as those of the Rongguo Mansion next to it, and even surpass them in some places.

After all, Rongguo Mansion was built at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Although it was grand in scale, it was still lacking in details.

After nearly a hundred years, the world was at peace and it was a time of prosperity. When the Dingxihou Mansion was built, it not only retained the grandeur of the founding of the country, but also kept improving the details, so it was more refined than the Rongguo Mansion.

After visiting the Dingxihou Mansion, Xue Baochai took Aunt Xue to Mrs. Wang's house at the back. The two parents had another conversation and had dinner, and then Xue Baochai ordered his mother to be sent back.

Aunt Xue had a lot of fun that day. First she had a laugh at Jia Mu's place, and then she went to look around her daughter's house. She was in a very happy mood that day.

But that's where her happy mood ended.

As a side note here, Aunt Xue and others have now moved into the house formerly owned by Jia Rui, the house that Grandma Lai gave to Jia Yuan.

This was thanks to Xue Baochai. When she saw that the house was vacant and her mother was living under someone else's roof, she simply asked her mother to move there.

Aunt Xue is quite satisfied with this exquisite house. Even Xue Pan, who has always been very picky and loves pleasure, has nothing to blame.

As soon as Aunt Xue and her maid entered the main hall, they heard a burst of noise inside, but Aunt Xue frowned but said nothing.

Because she could tell from the voice that the person shouting the most fiercely was her useless son Xue Pan.

Aunt Xue walked into the main hall and saw Xue Pan whipping a boy with a whip.

Aunt Xue said with a gloomy face: "Hit him hard and beat him to death. You will also go to jail."

Xue Pan heard his mother's voice, turned around and looked together, and saw his mother's face was gloomy, and her eyes were staring at him sinisterly.

To say that Xue Pan is an unconventional person outside, but he is really good to his mother and sister. Now that he saw his mother, he was really angry, so he quickly dropped his whip and went to apologize.

Aunt Xue paid no attention to Xue Pan, but ordered her maids to quickly carry out the boy who had been whipped dozens of times, and then ordered a doctor to treat him.

When only mother and son were left, Aunt Xue said to Xue Pan, "Why is this happening today?"

Xue Pan glanced at his mother, lowered his head and muttered a few words.

"Speak louder, I can't hear you."

"What else? Isn't that the same family asking for money again?"

(End of this chapter)