After the rebellion was successful, I realized that this place was the Red Mansion

Chapter 52 The Four Great Families of Jinling

Yihongyuan.

Lin Hongyu was sitting in the corridor chatting with a few maids to relieve her boredom. One of the maids pointed towards the door. Lin Hongyu turned around and saw Master Bao returning to Yihong Courtyard angrily with tears on his face.

"What is the Second Master doing?" a little girl asked curiously.

"Either he was scolded by the master, or he was angry with Miss Lin."

This made them all laugh.

"Listen."

Lin Hongyu stopped the maids and pointed to Master Bao's room in Yihong Courtyard. The maids listened carefully and heard Master Bao calling for someone. They guessed the reason and said, "Xiren and Qingwen went out early in the morning, so there's no one to serve in the room!"

"Who will serve the Second Master?" a maid asked.

They all shook their heads and said, "Who would dare to go in without permission? Those servants in the house are very fierce. If they knew we were in, they would be angry again. The other day, Xiaohong went in to pour tea and was scolded by them. I don't want to suffer such punishment!"

None of them went, and Lin Hongyu sat there motionless, thinking about something.

At this time, Jia Baoyu came out of the house and saw them sitting on the porch. He shouted, "What are you doing there? Come over and pour me a cup of tea!"

Several maids stood up subconsciously, but one maid named Zhuier sat still and said to him with a smile:
"Baoyu, why are you still like this? Things are different now. The house has been ransacked, and we don't know what will happen in the future. We can still serve the Second Master today, but what will we do in the future?"

Zhuan'er, Zixiao and other maids were all startled.

What this means is that you are not our master now, so you can't order us around. If you want to drink tea, pour it yourself.

Lin Hongyu was not surprised. Zhuier was always close to her and always said that within three to five years, they would leave the garden, either to marry a servant or be granted release.

Now that the Jia family has been raided, this is probably exactly what she wants.

After hearing her words, Jia Baoyu was so angry that he trembled all over: "Our house hasn't been searched yet, and you've already found a way out. It seems that my love for you has been in vain!"

Seeing that he was angry, Zhuier didn't say much. She just sat in the corridor coldly, not knowing what she was thinking.

The maids looked at each other in silence. Jia Baoyu looked at them and wept. Just then, Xiren and Qingwen came back. Seeing him like this, they hurried over and asked, "Second Master, what's wrong?"

"All right, all of you go into the palace and write your names on the list of people entering the palace so that Prince Qian can choose you one by one. Sister Lin has left, Sister Yun has left, Sister Bao is leaving too, and Sister Qin... they're all gone."

Jia Baoyu went back to his room in a trance. Xiren and Qingwen were unable to persuade him. It was Qiu Wen who came up with an idea and asked someone to quickly invite Miss Lin and Miss Yun over!
Zhuier still sat there, she had her own ideas:
Now all the members of the Jia family were forced to do forced labor and were sent to the Yunting Palace. They were no longer noble young masters and ladies, but were of low status like these maids. Why should they serve them?
Several maids looked at each other.

When Musk Moon saw them like this, she was so angry that she called them ungrateful.

Lin Hongyu advised them, "Prince Qian doesn't know how to deal with the dukes and marquises in the capital right now. If the girl from the garden were to enter the palace, she might become another imperial concubine."

The maids thought it made sense, so they followed her to find someone, and Zhuier was also taken away by her.

Musk Moon went back and told Xiren about it, and Jia Baoyu happened to hear the words "enter the palace". He went crazy again and told everyone to get out, to go into the palace or be sent somewhere else, he didn't want any of them!

Lin Hongyu came to Xiaoxiang Pavilion and told Zijuan what happened.

Zijuan whispered, "Stop talking now. Master Bao can still order you to pour tea, but my daughter is almost ill. How dare I ask her to persuade Master Bao?"

Lin Hongyu quietly entered the room and saw Lin Daiyu sitting in a daze under the window, her body, as frail as a willow in the wind, becoming even more delicate.

Therefore, I didn't dare to disturb her and went to find the girl from the Shi family.

Shi Xiangyun was in Lady Jia's room. Lin Hongyu listened for a while and saw that the ladies and grandmothers were discussing whose name should be added to the list of people entering the palace.

Except Lin Daiyu, almost all the girls are on the list!
Even Miaoyu from Longcui Temple was no exception. In her wife's words, "Let's list her for now. If Prince Qian chooses her to enter the palace, we can tell her that she's a nun who practices Buddhism with her hair uncut, and it would be easy for her to return to secular life."

Miaoyu?

Lin Hongyu had been to Longcui Temple several times, but every time she went there, she never gave her a good face. People in the garden said that she was a loner.

She also entered the palace to serve the new king?

"Madam, Madam."

Lin Hongyu found an opportunity and walked into the room to tell him about Jia Baoyu. Mrs. Wang had no choice but to scold Baoyu twice. Jia's mother said to Shi Xiangyun, "Yun girl, go see him and try to persuade your second brother. You know he has a stupid nature. Don't mention the word "entering the palace" in front of him again, so as not to make him sick again."

Shi Xiangyun agreed and was about to leave when she heard someone rushing in to announce, "The Shi family's old lady, the wives, and the uncles' wives are coming into the mansion with the girls. Please ask the old lady, the wives, and the grandmothers to go out and greet them!"

Everyone was shocked.

Shi Xiangyun was also stunned. Why were her second and third aunts here too? Was the house search and confiscation over?

Even the old lady is here!

Wang Xifeng was also stunned. She and her wife's family were here too?! Where's her uncle?!

"Go and welcome her quickly!" Grandmother Jia ordered hurriedly.

Aunt Xue also asked someone to go and call Baochai to meet the relatives.

Everyone got busy and dressed up, but before they could leave, people from the Shi and Wang families arrived at the inner house.

As a last resort, Lady Jia, Lady Wang, Wang Xifeng, Li Wan, Aunt Xue and others had to go out to greet them.

Amidst the chaos, Shi Xiangyun followed out and saw her grandmother, second aunt and others with the Wang family in front of the hanging flower gate of Jia Mu's courtyard.

Both groups of people were in tears.

The four major families of Jinling, Jia, Wang, Shi, and Xue, were all present at this moment.

The four major families were all confiscated by King Qian, and were left with nothing!

“Sister-in-law!!”

"Madam!!"

Both Lady Jia and the grandmother of the Shi family were in tears.

Before Lady Jia got married, the grandmother of the Shi family had already married into the Shi family. After the two of them took charge of the household, they still kept in touch with each other, but they rarely visited each other when they got older.

Who would have thought that we would meet at this moment and in such a setting.

"Auntie!"

Wang Xifeng felt heartbroken when she looked at Mrs. Wang Ziteng. The Wang family was also ransacked by King Qian!

"How could this happen..." Aunt Xue kept wiping the tears from her cheeks, and her sister, Mrs. Wang, was also crying sadly.

Shi Xiangyun returned to her second and third aunts. When the two aunts saw her, they burst into tears and held her hands tightly, saying, "Now our family depends on you, Yun'er!"

Yes, only by entering the palace can the Shi family be saved.

Shi Xiangyun burst into tears, but she also understood what her aunt meant.

"Old lady, Madam, Grandma, and sisters, please come in and talk!" Yingchun and the other two arrived. Tears welled up in Tanchun's eyes, but she still hurriedly called her relatives and sisters in.

A large group of women entered Jia's grandmother's courtyard. There were seven or eight wives, more than ten young grandmothers, and unmarried girls standing in the corridor outside the house. When Xue Baochai and Xue Baoqin arrived, they saw that their cousins ​​from the Wang and Shi families were all good-looking and pretty, like the daughters of rich families.

But at this moment, they were all crying in the corridor, wondering about the future.

Jia Baoyu also arrived. Seeing so many girls as fresh and charming as water lilies, he was stunned and could only murmur, "How much talent and beauty can Heaven have to give birth to girls with such beautiful faces and figures?"

Xiren and others were not surprised.

When the girls from the Wang and Shi families saw him, they turned away one by one and covered their faces with their round fans. Some girls even cried in anxiety.

They had never met the young men before. Even when they came out after their houses were searched, they kept their heads down among a group of maids and old women.

Upon hearing this, Lin Daiyu also came. She happened to see Baoyu looking at the girls in the corridor like a madman, so she turned around in anger and went back to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

There were too many people in the old lady's room, so she might not be able to get in.

(End of this chapter)