Red Building 44

Of course Ping'er knew that with the brain of the eldest lady, that little money would be cheated sooner or later. She had never done anything outside, and there was no loyal and smart person to be able to do it. She didn't know where she joined the fun. But as the eldest lady, she was a serious mother-in-law. Since she had opened her mouth, she had no reason to directly call it back. If she really didn't give any money, she would have to make a fuss sooner or later. So she frowned and said, "Who said it wasn't the reason? But she couldn't see her ability clearly. What should we do now? Grandma shouldn't just ignore everything. But I'll give it a charter, so I can do it."

Wang Xifeng smiled in her heart, but she didn't even open her eyes, and said, "You're not going to talk to me about these things at all. I don't care about these things now, you have to go find a wife. If you can't find me, can I make money for you?"

Ping'er didn't know this truth, so she sighed in her heart and said, "Can the wife turn money into money?"

"That's not sure." Wang Xifeng smiled and said, "Now the richest people in this mansion are the old lady and the wife. You go to find a wife, it's so urgent. The wife has money to give you. If you don't give you money, come and talk to me again."

Ping'er had no choice but to look at Wang Xifeng for a while. Seeing that she said all this, she didn't say anything. She could only nod and respond, thinking about what time to find to urge her.

As she was talking, she saw a girl coming outside to report that the old lady heard that an old relative came to her home and wanted to talk. Wang Xifeng's impatient eyes flashed through her. She just wanted to find someone to show off her wealth and honor at home. She couldn't help but laugh at her. If she was really rich, she didn't have to show off at all. Only such a person who was unconfident would think of coming out from time to time to find a sense of superiority.

"How is this good?" Wang Xifeng's first thought was of course to refuse. If he could refuse, he would refuse. In the eyes of this family, Liu Laolao is just a roe deer in the countryside. "Grandma came from the countryside and never saw the world. She talked about the village, and she would make jokes about the old lady."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yuanyang picked up the curtain and smiled and said, "What are you laughing at among relatives? It would be better if the old lady could really make her have fun."

"Why are you here?" Wang Xifeng stood up slightly and asked, "Why didn't you serve the old lady, you ran out by yourself."

"I don't want to serve you anymore. It's the old lady who asked me to come and see you. You're better now. Do you want to have fun in the first half of the day?" Yuanyang looked at Wang Xifeng and saw that her face was rosy and slightly plump. It was obvious that she didn't believe the uncomfortable excuses she said.

Wang Xifeng sighed, leaned on the couch and leaned against the soft pillow and said, "I think it's okay, I can take a nap if I'm sleeping, and I can eat and hold a spoon. I want to have fun for the first half of the day, but my energy is really not good, I'm afraid that it will disappoint the old lady if I go." She asked Yuanyang to sit down and said, "You annoy the old lady, and say that when I'm better, I'll go to pay my respects to her." She had to worry about having a big belly and having to make fun of them.

Yuanyang smiled, nodded and agreed. When she turned around, she saw Ping'er still next to her, she said, "You are old now, so why are you so old? You just go out and listen. Now there are many people below, so it's fine. Some people just lie down in the old lady's ear and say. I can stop you once or twice, or even ten or eight times. I said that your master and servant can really sit still, and you are so calm."

"I am now in a short state and don't bother to figure out those money. If you have a wife in charge, you can do it. If I don't worry, I won't worry. If you can't urge your wife, you won't be responsible for it. It's better to look for Zhou Rui's family a few more times, but I'm afraid they'll be better than looking for me. Besides, she's so happy now in this mansion. No matter what you say, she's brave, she doesn't dare to be careless."

This is true. The son-in-law of Zhou Rui's family was sent to prison and was waiting for the trial in the autumn. Zhou Rui and his wife couldn't help but keep a low profile in this mansion. Without a son, there was no hope. Now they offend everyone, what should they do when they get old? When the couple are gone, what should their daughter do? So, it looks much more harmonious than before.

As long as she urged Zhou Rui's family, she would not dare to take the initiative and not report it. Mrs. Wang would have no way to pretend to be stupid anymore.

Yuanyang was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of herself. The money was short and she couldn't turn around. I'm afraid that the wife should put this idea on her.

Liu Laolao was having dinner at Dongji on the other side, and naturally listened to this in her ears. After hearing it, it was just that the family had no money. She couldn't help but feel a little emotional. I'm afraid that life for this wealthy family would be difficult. After all, they were no money. Why do they seem to be more upset than their own family?

When Xiaohong saw Grandma Liu's expression, she thought it was because she asked her to see the old lady. She felt nervous. She whispered and comforted: "Grandma, don't be afraid. I'll accompany Grandma later, don't worry."

"Good girl, what are you worried about? It's just that I can afford to be blessed by the old woman for a day." Liu Laolao smiled.

Liu Laolao was at Jia Mu's place, let's not talk about how she pleased Jia Mu for now. She just said that Ping'er followed her and found Zhou Rui's house in the corridor. She then went up and complained, "You are enjoying your happiness here, and I have a hard time."

She said something complaining so much that she didn't know if she was really annoyed. When Zhou Rui's family saw Ping'er, they naturally knew why she said this. It was just the money she had released this month and could not be collected now. She was also anxious, and her wife complained about it a lot. But if she really forced a life, the wife had to throw herself out to take the blame. She whispered: "Miss, don't just blame me, everyone is a slave to do things for her master. What can I do? Is there really no way to ** breasts."

Ping'er sneered and thought to himself that his master is now more stingy than his grandmother. Besides, the affairs of this mansion are so much more money-making than his wife's pocket. Whenever he makes a payment, he thinks to snatch from his master's side. There is no such reason. So he said, "Sister-in-law, don't just refuse. It's not my own business. In theory, I don't lack money, so what can I worry about? But I can live here, and others.

Yuanyang has just gone to our grandma, and someone is going to complain to the old lady. This has alarmed the old lady, don’t worry about me. Anyway, our grandma has a talisman like a belly, so how can others say that she is not good? I am just a girl with a key, and I can’t be the one who can’t be the one who can’t be the one who can make a decision. At that time, the old lady really wants to ask, and the wife’s face will be bad. Sister-in-law, you just do it, and I won’t care anymore.”

Zhou Rui's family was frightened and quickly wrote down the words, then comforted him: "Good girl, hold on for another three days. At most, the money will be obtained. Everything will be easy to do at that time."

Ping'er is just here.

At night, Jia Mu kept Liu Laolao and lived at home. She thought about going to the garden together tomorrow and the whole family would be busy for a day.

But Mrs. Wang returned to the room and listened to Zhou Rui's report. Zhou Rui's family said: "Now there are people who say anything outside. Master, why not go to Yuanyang's place..."

Mrs. Wang frowned and said, "Can you really not be able to collect the profit?" She really didn't dare to make any decisions about the old lady unless she had to.

Zhou Rui's family said: "There are already a few families with their children. It is natural to repay debts. But those people outside only say why they are rich and unkind. I dare not force them too much. I am afraid that if there is a villain, they will spread these things and ask the master or the old lady to know. But how can we have a good life? Our profit is barely enough to manage the eunuchs in the palace. But the expenses in our mansion have already been paid off on credit and have not been paid off. Even if the profit is collected, where will the money come from? It must be the old lady..."

"But there is no reliable person outside. If something happens to your son-in-law, take this thing out and let people know. We are not related to each other." Wang's daughter-in-law of this era, his awe for his mother-in-law is born.

"If we don't come forward, just Ping'er's girl will just find a way to deal with it. We only collected the money and things for her, and she would deal with it. I'm afraid she would only think it was the wife's dowry." Zhou Rui's family added.

Mrs. Wang pondered for a while and said, "It's fine if you just pass the message back and forth, don't touch the things. Just ask Yuanyang to take the things and give them to Ping'er directly, and you just need to collect the cash. If something really happens, it has nothing to do with us."

Zhou Rui's nodded and smiled, "Yes!"

The next day, while the masters of the family went to the garden, Zhou Rui's family quietly found Yuanyang. "The girl also knows that life is difficult now..."

Yuanyang smiled and snorted, without raising his head, saying, "You just say what you are going to do."

Zhou Rui's forced family smiled and said, "It's just that I'm looking for something inconspicuous. The girl personally gave it to Ping'er and asked her to change some money. It's just a temporary turnover for two days. When my hands are relaxed, I will redeem it."

Yuanyang sneered in her heart, and she was indeed treacherous. She didn't intend to get involved from beginning to end. If she was really obsessed with it at the beginning, she might have ended up waiting for her. She thought about it in her mind, but it was the old lady who agreed to it, and she nodded relaxedly. She felt that seeing the Zhou Rui family jumping up and down, she looked more like a clown.

Ping'er held the things in the box, her hands trembling. She pressed her voice and said to Yuanyang, "Don't do stupid things."

Yuanyang was grateful to Ping'er at this time, and he knew to remind himself, and said, "Be careful, don't be given to your master." In her eyes, Wang Xifeng was definitely not a good person.

Ping'er didn't say anything, and now she couldn't move forward or retreat. She just nodded and the two separated. Ping'er took the things and went to see Wang Xifeng.

Wang Xifeng looked at Ping'er's panic face and said, "You are stupid to be a mandarin duck. If the old lady doesn't know, she won't dare to take it out." As she said that, she opened the box and it was a three-scroll painting. She is really not good at it and does not know the value of this. These things will probably be treated as the least valuable things in the Jia family. Otherwise, they wouldn't take out three paintings at once. But Wang Xifeng and Lin Yutong have been together for a long time, so they naturally know what value these things would be if they were treasures or lonely items. They couldn't help but feel happy. But on the face, they said calmly: "Go and exchange them for money and send them to the wife. I won't stick to my hands, so I won't be disgusted."

"This thing is probably worth a lot of money. I'll ask people around first." Ping'er whispered.

"It turns out that there is a family opposite the son-in-law of Zhou Rui's family, and the price is quite good. The key is that the people are reliable. You may not beware of going there to ask." Wang Xifeng said unintentionally, "I asked Xiaohong to give my golden collar to the dictionary before, and this one is the one. The price is fair. The key is that the shopkeeper of that shop has some friendship with the man in our family. When I built the garden, I had a lot of dealings. I can trust it."

"That's good." Ping'er breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the things outside depended on the man. If you recognize Jia Lian, you will naturally be considered as a ease.

Seeing Ping'er go out, Wang Xifeng finally breathed a sigh of relief. It finally started.

But it is said that Jia Mu took Liu Laolao to Xiaoxiang Pavilion. The current Xiaoxiang Pavilion is Shi Xiangyun living.

"This is the house of my mother's niece." Seeing that the house was well cleaned up, Jia Mu said to Liu Laolao with a smile.

Liu Laolao thought to herself: Even her niece and granddaughter have to be raised in this family, no wonder she lacks money. She smiled and praised her again. This house is really good, and she has never seen such a house in her life.

Grandma Jia seemed to be still dissatisfied with the house, and couldn't help but talk about changing the window screen. Grandma Liu chanted the Buddha's name in her heart and told her that this is a prodigal son. Ordinary people's life is not an old man who carefully calculates, and is worried that the younger generation will not be able to live, and they are too extravagant. Why did this old lady lose money first when she got here. This is the best way to do it, and the next thing was not enough. Grandma Liu said that the old lady is considered the first-class confused person. And she is a confused person who does not plan for her children and grandchildren in the future.

Is it hard to live a hard life? Would the old lady not know. The old lady has lived in a family for so many years, and what is going on at home is unclear. But even though she knows, she doesn't want to be frugal or think of a way to just have fun like this, so she doesn't look like an old mistress? Whose parents are not planning for their children and grandchildren first. This old lady is so good, as if she is happy to live a day. She doesn't think about how the remaining children and grandchildren should live when she closes her eyes.

Liu Laolao is really a human being. She opened her mouth several times to persuade her, but Xiaohong pulled her sleeve and didn't tell her to talk too much. She knew in her heart that such a smart man as her breasts didn't dare to say anything, so she could not make any rash things, so she just smiled and looked at it.

When I came to my senses, I heard the girl smile with a clever smile: "...it's all my ancestors' pity, otherwise I wouldn't have the relaxing days I have now."

Jia Mu said to Liu Laolao: "This child is a pitiful child, his parents are gone. Now he only lives with me. He has been in a marriage again. I can't bear to do needlework and thread, so I just hit her and play with my sisters in the garden. People like us are all secondary."

Grandma Liu was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "What Lao Fengjun said," but said in his heart, the girl's house has been engaged in a marriage, and the needlework should be counted in the dowry. The more needlework, the more decent it is. My parents are gone, so do more needlework, and then I will count the dowry. Moreover, the material must be given by my uncle and aunt. So why don't you take this opportunity to make it quickly and take it into your hand before you talk. Can't you be considerate like your own mother when you are waiting for your aunt to prepare your dowry? Grandma Liu first labeled the lady in the Marquis's house as "not calculated".

When he arrived at Hengwuyuan, Liu Laolao couldn't help but look at Xue Baochai more secretly. She suddenly felt that this girl was probably not in good luck. There was no girl's family who didn't like flowers. Even in the countryside, even the poor girl's house, she had the intention of dressing up. Even if she had two feet of red-headed rope, she could make a difference. When the wild flowers bloomed, some people even picked it on their heads, or simply picked it home and put it in a broken pot to smoke the house. Such a girl looked fresh. It was no better than this treasure girl, but she was just like the other person's house at a young age. This was not a good sign.

Because Liu Laolao knew that the Jia family was not as prominent as it seemed on the surface, she paid more attention. As people were older, they had a lot of wisdom in life. They also saw many small details from this. They didn’t think the mansion was so good, but instead thought that the girl’s house, which looked like a flower bud, looked bad. Even when sitting at the banquet, she didn’t have much fun.

Grandma Jia couldn't help but feel a little bored. When Yuanyang saw Xiaohong in front of Grandma Liu, she knew that this person had some unknown eyes and did not make fun of him. Grandma Liu naturally did not make any fool of himself, let alone drunk. Instead, she was a little ignorant of the taste.

After the banquet, it ended. However, Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and Baoyu took advantage of the wine to go to the Yangcui Temple.

Seeing that it was three people, Miaoyu welcomed them in and said, "It's you, then the rosy teas you had won't be used before. You can follow me."

Seeing that she was born well, Baoyu felt good in her heart and smiled and said, "What are you doing? Can you still treat guests differently?"

"The ordinary people use ordinary tea. You are not good at ordinary people." Miao Yu said without looking back.

Shi Xiangyun felt that Miaoyu was a bit frivolous. She was so dependent on others, but she didn't have the awareness of dependent on others. She shook her head in her heart.

When the tea came up, Xue Baochai was just staring at the tea utensil in her hand. This was a priceless treasure.

When Miaoyu saw the expressions of the three of them, she couldn't help but say, "I thought you were not ordinary people, so it was just like that. She only looked at the tea utensils, but did not understand the true taste of tea. It's a pity that my good water and good tea."

"What kind of tea utensil is this? What kind of tea is it?" Baoyu looked at her and asked. Seeing that she did not answer, he said again: "You probably prepared tea for the guests before. It was your wish to hit someone and send it to you."

"No one can use my things. Good things are dirty, they are just smashed and buried." Miaoyu glanced at Baoyu and said, "You use the green jade bucket I often use, and the water for making tea uses the snow water from the plum blossoms harvested in the past year. You can't taste this light and mellow smell."

Shi Xiangyun didn't say anything, but put down the teacup in her hand. If someone else uses her things, it will be dirty and will be smashed. Then why did he use the commonly used ones for Baoyu? He didn't dislike Baoyu's dirtyness. She sneered in her heart, just a person with a unclean heart. She stood up and said to Xue Baochai: "It's getting late, and the tea is eaten, so we should leave. It's not easy to disturb others' practice."

Baoyu quickly ate all the tea in the green jade bowl, and induced Miaoyu to say, "If you come alone, I won't give you any more food."

Xue Baochai chuckled, saying that this was really meaningful. Should I call Baoyu or not?

After leaving the Yangcui Temple, Shi Xiangyun said: "Those tea utensils do have their origins. But who can't eat with the bowls used by celebrities eight hundred years ago? That's it. How can it be more elegant than others?"

Xue Baochai pointed Shi Xiangyun and said, "This is a bit too mean."

Not to mention the lively Jia family, only Lin Yutong took three paintings from the shopkeeper who took back for 800 taels of silver and admired them carefully. To be honest, I really don’t understand these appreciations.

I heard the shopkeeper say excitedly: "This is really easy to buy. These are works by famous masters of the previous dynasty. I can't buy even three thousand taels of silver. Now I have only spent a few hundred taels of silver."

"This is just a business that earned more than 2,000 taels of silver." Lin Yutong smiled.

"There are only two thousand taels of silver. It is a painting with three thousand taels of silver. Three are nine thousand taels. At the same time, the price of these three can also rise online. Because this happens to be the work of this painter in different periods, it is very representative." The shopkeeper said, "and he was spitting everywhere.

"Ah!" Lin Yutong chuckled. It was estimated that Jia Mu only knew how to hide her private life, but she didn't know the value of some objects here. "This thing is worth a thousand gold when it comes to the eyes of those who know the knowledge. In the eyes of those who don't know the knowledge, it is just a painting or a painting that is not bright. I guess people still think that these few broken papers can have so many, which is considered good."

The shopkeeper shook his head and said, "If the eldest and second masters of the Jia family competed with each other, it would definitely be impossible for us to find a bargain. I wondered, the family is guarding against each other, so why don't they wait for outsiders to take advantage of loopholes?"

Lin Yutong shook her head and laughed: "Who said no? So, family harmony is prosperous. Disharmony in this family is the foundation of the prodigal family."

But Ping'er felt at ease after receiving 800 taels of silver in his hand. He could still fool him this day. He said to Wang Xifeng: "It's only a few volumes of calligraphy and paintings, and I got 800 taels of silver. It's fair. The second master used to steal the paintings from the master's study, and a pair of silver was only 200 taels of silver."

Wang Xifeng was happy. If she could give 800 taels, it would prove that the object itself was much more than 800 taels. For a moment, she wanted to just take it away. But reason still prevailed. This thing must not be related to her, otherwise it would be a bad thing to ask the mansion to know. She stroked her belly and said, "Take it to my wife quickly, save you and doubt you. In the future, don't go back to my house, just send it over directly. The melon field is covered with plums, and the wife misunderstood and thought I was 10% thrown in it."

Ping'er nodded and responded, turned around and went out. She didn't expect that before she left the yard, she met Jia Lian who had returned.

"I've been so good at this, and I'm still running out. My temperament is getting wilder. Your grandma's belly is full of gold lumps. I don't dare to let her serve her. Now you don't plan to serve her anymore, right?" Jia Lian was so angry that he didn't know where he was doing so.

Ping'er followed her with his fate, and the two returned to Ping'er's house. At this time, Ping'er said, "Where are you drinking too much?"

"I'm drunk too much, you're holding something in your arms. Don't think I don't know. I'm going to take two hundred taels now, it's useful." Jia Lian heard Wang'er say that Ping'er took a box from Yuanyang and knew what the hell was. Then he rushed back in a hurry. Who would be willing to do that if the silver you passed by was not scraped off?

"It's only eight hundred taels of silver, and I still have two hundred taels. My grandfather, how can you tell me to report the account with my wife?" Ping'er hurriedly hid, not daring to ask Jia Lian to succeed.

"You are not honest now. If you don't care about your own men, who can you look to. I don't believe your master, and you have no hands at all." Jia Lian sneered at Ping'er.

"The second master's words are so heartbreaking. When did you leave the yard these days when you haven't seen your mother? There are still children in your belly. I don't say it's more considerate, but I'll say this to others." Ping'er cursed: "If our master and servant use a little money, we will not die well."
To be continued...