Baochai shows off her wisdom and is as careful as a hair.

Jia Baoyu's words seemed to be a joke, but she could immediately taste the meaning of three points.

For a while, I was a little annoyed in my heart.

didn't say anything, just glanced at Jia Baoyu and lowered his head to embroider.

Jia Baoyu played with the delicate Buddha dust in her hand, and looked at the beautiful woman who hung her head and looked like a female celebrity, and felt very good-looking.

Unexpectedly, even a girl like Baochai picked up a needle, and it was also an orchid finger. However, her orchid finger also seems to have a unique elegance.

Seeing that she only bowed her head and didn't pay attention to herself, Jia Baoyu used Buddha Chen's tail to harass her.

"Don't make trouble~" The beautiful woman turned sideways.

Jia Baoyu said: "Ignore me, I'll leave." ”

The soft laughter made Baochai immediately turn around.

Counting up, Jia Baoyu hasn't been to Wuyuan for several days. Just saw him coming, in fact, Baochai was a little happy in his heart.

Besides, with her open-mindedness, how could Jia Baoyu leave like this.

So he said, "Where did you come back from?" ”

She began to ask about Jia Baoyu's schedule, and Jia Baoyu had no intention of hiding it from her, and slowly told her what she had done in one day.

……

On Ningrong Street, a father and son came pushing a tightly wrapped cart.

The younger man looked at the street that was gradually becoming more spacious and solemn, and acted a little cautiously.

Separated by a short distance, the two majestic mansions gave him an invisible sense of oppression.

"Dad, did the noble man really tell you, a cart of ice gives ten taels of silver?"

This is not the first time he has asked this sentence. Ten taels of silver is a lot of money, let alone earning this family's silver? The most important thing is that he still doesn't believe that with their family's background, there will be a day when they will do business with such people.

"What if we send the ice over and people don't give us the silver?"

The young man became suspicious again.

The old man glared at him and said, "What kind of person is it, how can they deceive us as a small people?" Be honest with me, and don't talk nonsense later! ”

The old man said that even so, he was actually a little apprehensive in his heart.

With the strength of his son, he pushed the car to the middle of the street, and when he was sure that the place was right, he stepped forward and knocked on the door.

However, when he saw the majestic and extraordinary, the three beast-headed gates that revealed the dignity everywhere, and the doors with those gorgeous clothes sitting at the door, he didn't have the courage to slam the door. When he saw an ordinary person entering and exiting at a corner gate on the west side, he made eye contact with the young man and pushed the car over there.

"Go, go, no stalls are allowed here, really, and don't look at what kind of place this is."

Although the corner gate is not as majestic as the main gate, there are also a few people who are in charge of guarding the gate. Seeing the old man and his son pushing the cart over, they immediately stepped forward and drove them away unceremoniously.

The old man hurriedly put down the cart, bent down and stepped forward, and said flatteringly: "Don't worry about the masters, the small ones are not here to set up stalls, but the small ones are to deliver ice to the house?" ”

"Send ice, what kind of ice do you send, in previous years, only Guanglu Temple occasionally sent some ice...... Are you from Guanglu Temple? ”

Although Menzi asked, his eyes were no longer good. There are liars in all ages, but if these two people dare to deceive here, keep them better!

"No, no, no, no, we are not from Guanglu Temple, we are, it was the earl who asked us to come, saying that we were going to send ice cubes to the house, a car is ten taels of silver, if the masters don't believe it, just go in and ask......"

As soon as they heard this, several disciples suddenly turned upright.

I didn't care about the question of whether ten taels of silver and a cart of ice were expensive, and someone immediately ran in to report it.

To the west of Ning'an Hall, You heard that someone had sent ice cubes to the house, and it was Jia Baoyu who sent them, so he naturally wanted to ask Jia Baoyu for the first time.

However, because he couldn't know Jia Baoyu's whereabouts for a while, he could only ask the little guys around Jia Baoyu, and only after learning that there was indeed such a thing, he let people enter the house.

Then she herself took people out of the second gate and came to the front yard herself.

After making sure that the cart full of ice cubes was clean and well preserved, You Shi did not say anything, and immediately asked someone to take ten taels of silver and gave it to the old man and his son.

The old man knelt down excitedly and thanked him, and then decided the time and number of times he would send ice in the future, and went out happily.

"Dad, your old man is really amazing......"

The old man's son took a piece of broken silver weighing two or three taels from his hand, took a bite hard, and then slapped a sycophant with a smile.

It's a full ten taels of silver, in this capital where ordinary Beijing officials only earn more than ten taels of silver a month, their father and son earn ten taels of silver in one day, and they don't steal or rob, this sense of superiority and pride is simply bursting.

So much so that the image of his father became tall in his eyes in an instant.

The old man snorted, snatched the silver nugget back, and sneered: "Now you know what you said? Last winter, I told you to be diligent and help me carry more ice cubes with good texture, but your kid is still too cold and doesn't want to go out. Now you know how valuable this ice cube is to keep it until summer! ”

"If I had known that I could sell so much silver just by selling ice, your old man would have frozen me to death last year, and my son would have been willing!"

The young man watched his father hide all the silver in his arms, and his heart was a little itchy. However, thinking that there would be more income every day in the future, I naturally didn't dare to offend my old father at this time.

Remembering something in his heart, he stepped forward to help the old man and flattered: "Dad, let's discuss with you, my son will not go anywhere during this time in the future, and he will help your old man deliver ice cubes, and when our family earns enough silver, can you give me a hundred taels?" ”

"What do you want so much silver for?" The old man suddenly became cautious.

The young man was a little shy: "Mrs. Li on the next street has been widowed for several years, and some indiscriminate people continue to harass her, and my son really can't get used to it and wants to admit her into the door." ”

"No! Your brother needs silver to study, and I am going to save all this money for your brother to study, in case your brother will be able to make a name for himself in the future, and become an official in the future, our family will be able to completely turn over, how can you let you waste the money on those people in vain! ”

The young man stopped talking when he heard this, and said for a while: "What your old man said is right, but I am also your son, so I can't have everything in the house that is his......

The voice is faint, and the resentment is deep.

Just because he is the boss, he can only work honestly for the rest of his life, and give any good things to the second child, why.

Back then, if the family had money, he could also go to school, not necessarily worse than the second child......

The old man was originally very determined, but when he saw the appearance of his eldest son, he also understood some grievances in his heart.

sighed and said: "That's it, you have been diligent for me recently, don't be lazy, when our family really earns silver, I will give you fifty taels, as for whether you can get people, it depends on your own ability." ”

When the young man heard this, with these fifty taels, he was not afraid that the Li family would be reluctant to let him go. In addition, his family is now thriving and getting richer and richer, and he is not afraid that Widow Li will not agree to him......

Thinking of Widow Li's appearance and figure, the young man's heart was hot, and he immediately changed his face, and said some flattering words to the old father with a smile.

In this way, the old man himself smiled, picked up his father's majesty again, and said, "Your boy will get up early tomorrow, go to the Earl's Court to get the cart back, and then help me load the ice cubes and send them back by the hour, this is the right thing." ”

"Yes, yes, hehe, speaking of which, this place really deserves to be a famous and noble house, the maids and women around the big grandma are all good-looking, not to mention the big grandma herself, just like a fairy."

The old man immediately stopped, hurriedly glanced around, and then scolded: "Bastard, what a noble person those are, you kid give me honesty, if you come here in the future, don't talk about making money, I'm afraid your life will not be guaranteed!" ”

"Hehe, my son just whispered, my son didn't dare to go to that kind of place to talk nonsense when he was too long.

Okay, don't be angry, father, I'll go to Carpenter Liu and them later, and ask him to help our family quickly dig a new car, now we are different, doing business with such people, naturally we have to make the façade brighter, my father said yes. ”

When the old man heard this, he finally nodded, feeling a little relieved for his eldest son's enlightenment.

……

In the Earl's Palace, the butler asked You what to do with the ice.

You Shi thought to himself, since it was something that Jia Baoyu personally bought back, it was naturally best to ask him what he meant before acting.

But she didn't know when Jia Baoyu would return to Yihong Courtyard or here, if it was too late, it would be bad if the ice cubes melted.

Thinking that the weather is hot now, even the night is very hot, Jia Baoyu buys ice, which is naturally for the people at home to cool off.

After thinking for a while, he ordered someone to fetch the ice and first distributed the ice cubes to Jia Mu and Mrs. Wang's house over there.

You Shi acted steadily and paid attention to winning people's hearts. Looking at the ice cubes that were still half a cart left, she didn't think about keeping any of them for her own use, but after thinking about it, she decided to divide some of them in Rongguo Mansion and everywhere in the garden.

And because there were not so many ice proofs available in the Earl's Palace, he sent silver saucers and other maids to inform everywhere, so that those who needed ice cubes could send someone to pick up the ice here......

……

Rongqingtang, Wang Xifeng was busy with his work, and took the time to come over to talk and laugh with Jia's mother, and when he was talking about happiness, he heard that Grandma You in Dongfu ordered someone to send something over, and the housekeeper of Dongfu came to lead the team personally.

"What is it, so laborious."

Jia Mu didn't like You Shi just because she thought she was an ominous person. Also, all the old and young masters in the mansion are dead, and she is the only one left, can she not infiltrate?

However, because You Shi is very self-aware, and I heard that she helped Jia Baoyu manage the house in the mansion over there, everything was handled properly.

And every time there is a solar term, or something good over there, I don't forget to send her a copy.

People have feelings, and when you do this, she is really embarrassed to target her everywhere, so she is regarded as an ordinary junior in the family.

"Back to the old lady, it was the ice cube that the second master Bao bought outside, and it was sent to the house just now, and the eldest grandmother asked someone to quickly divide it and send it over."

Laishengjia smiled, and asked the mother-in-law to bring in two ice jians, one large and one small, and then opened the small one to reveal two plates of fruit inside.

A plate of watermelon, a plate of fresh lychee.

"These fruits were also just sent in today, and the grandmother asked her to pick the best ones and send them to the old lady, and ask the old lady to taste them."

Jia's mother stayed in the Rongqing Hall, not very ventilated, and Zhengjue felt a little bored in her heart.

Suddenly seeing this kind of cold air thing aroused some appetite.

Let someone take a piece of watermelon and send it over, eat a bite, the fruit juice is sweet, cold to the bone, so that people are shocked.

After taking another bite, Fang put it down and asked, "What's in the other box?" ”

She was referring to the large Bing Jian.

"Back to the old lady, that's some ice cubes, grandma said, let the maids be divided in the house at night, so that it can cool down some heat."

Jia Mu nodded, "She has a heart." ”

When I came to the promotion family, I had to say something good, and Wang Xifeng on the side suddenly said: "Hehehe, your grandmother still has the ability to get such a good thing to please the old lady, but, is she only for the old lady, I don't know if those of us who came out of the broken portal have a share?" ”

Wang Xifeng said loudly, in a joking tone.

"Second Grandma Lian laughed, Second Grandma Lian naturally has your share if she wants to use it, but the eldest grandmother said that there are not so many ready-made ice books in the house, so I made a special trip to let the little maids announce everywhere and let those who need to use ice cubes go over to pick it up.

At this moment, everyone is afraid of going to the second grandmother's house. ”

Laishengjia said with a smile.

Jia Mu also praised: "She is a person who can handle things." ”

Wang Xifeng didn't speak, stayed for a while, and then asked Jia's mother for two lychees to eat, and then went back to his house.

As soon as I entered the door, I asked Ping'er if anyone had come.

Ping'er said: "Just now, Grandma You over there sent someone over and asked someone to go over and get ice." ”

"Then why don't you go?"

"I thought that my grandmother had just come to menstruation, and I was afraid of cold things, but it was not good to use ice, so I didn't go."

Wang Xifeng sat down and said angrily: "It's inconvenient for me to use it, and you can't use it either?" ”

Ping'er smiled: "I'm an important person, and I dare to use that thing." Thinking that the weather is so hot, there must be many people who want those ice cubes, and there are more monks and less porridge, so they don't have to fight with others. ”

"You~" Wang Xifeng pointed at Ping'er's forehead, "I also said that you would be a good deal, but now you are pretending to be generous, why not our share?"

If you want to say that your second master is really good-hearted, he doesn't live in his own earl's mansion, but let Sister-in-law You be the king in it.

She is a widow, and she doesn't know which life she has cultivated such a great blessing!

She is also a smart person, borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, holding treasured jade things, and attracting people's hearts in the house......"

Ping'er heard Wang Xifeng's words say that Jia Baoyu belonged to her family, and a burst of shame flashed in her heart. But he didn't dare to tell her, so he pretended not to hear.

Seeing Wang Xifeng talking about the back, there seemed to be dissatisfaction on his face, a little puzzled, and said tentatively: "The eldest grandmother is also strange and pitiful, Bao Er Ye is used to living in Yihong Courtyard, which is also Bao Er Ye's own intention, and the reason why he does not do the eldest grandmother."

It's the eldest grandmother who helps Bao Erye as a housekeeper, and everyone says that she acts steadily and generously, and they all praise her. ”

"You know a."

Wang Xifeng said a word casually, and when she saw Ping'er looking at her, she didn't care, but said: "You said that Baoyu's kid, the old lady and the wife are all in this mansion, and there are good things that I don't know how to send here, but I just sent them over there!" ”

Ping'er knew Wang Xifeng's character very well, and she already understood something at this time.

Sent over there, Wang Xifeng's whip was beyond reach. Sent here, she is in charge of her own home, and the right to dispose of things is naturally in her hands.