In a small room in the backyard of Rongqing Hall, Xiao Zi helped Du Qiuniang pack up her baggage, count the cages, and count the past, but still found that there were three or four things missing.

Xiao Zi suddenly said to Du Qiuniang:

"What else do you say about the Mansion of the Princess, who actually did such a bad thing, and a lot of the young lady's jewelry was touched by them.

Not even the people who used to be in Connaught Place. ”

Du Qiuniang was sitting on the edge of the bed rubbing her legs and knees.

She had rarely suffered such a great sin today, and her knees were a little red and swollen.

But there was no way, Jia Mu and the others didn't tell her to get up before, so she could only reply obediently on her knees.

"Look at whether you picked it up or dropped it somewhere else."

"No, I checked it in the carriage before, that is, after entering the house, I knelt with the young lady, and their old lady asked someone to carry the young lady's package and box in, and it must have been touched away at that time!"

Du Qiuniang sighed: "Take it away, take it, it's not an important thing." ”

"It's not that I feel sorry for those things, I just can't get angry. They obviously looked down on the young lady and dared to do this.

If it were their own masters, I wouldn't believe they would dare to steal things so blatantly. ”

Xiao Zi was still angry, but she didn't dare to suspect that Jia Mu had stolen their young lady's jewelry.

What are you kidding, what about the Duchess of Guo, in Qingzhou, that is a character that can only exist in legends.

So she knelt with their young lady all afternoon, and there was no complaint.

But being bullied by these minions in the family made her very angry.

"When the adult comes back, I will tell him that Miss can't be bullied in vain!"

"Don't," Du Qiuniang hurriedly said.

"Why bother to talk about empty words. It seems that we are troublesome, and the old lady and the wife are unhappy.

We're new here, so let's not make trouble. ”

"Oh, those people are determined to do this, so they dare to treat Miss like this."

Under the corridor outside the window, Tanchun's face was ugly, and there was some shame.

She glanced at Jia Baoyu, who was expressionless, and said in a low voice: "Second brother, it is customary for these people in the family to praise high and low, you don't care about such a trivial matter, I will tell my sister-in-law when I go back, and let her deal with it in private."

Otherwise, if it comes out, the old lady's face will not look good. ”

Jia Baoyu nodded silently, then took two steps forward and stepped into the door.

Yingchun, Tanchun, and Xichun glanced at each other, and still followed into the room.

"Your Excellency is here."

Du Qiuniang saw Jia Baoyu enter the door, hurriedly put down her skirt, and was about to greet her.

It's a pity that the action is too urgent, and the embroidered shoes under my feet are not stepped on tightly, so I mixed it.

Jia Baoyu stepped forward and held her steady.

"Thank you, sir."

Leaning on Jia Baoyu's arms, Du Qiuniang looked a little coquettish.

Jia Baoyu smiled slightly and let go of her.

With his sisters behind him, he still has to pay attention to the impact.

When Xiao Zi saw Jia Baoyu, she put down the things she had sorted out in her hand, gave Jia Baoyu a salute, and then walked to the table to pour tea for Jia Baoyu.

But immediately I saw three flowery girls enter the door, she opened her mouth, she didn't know what to call it, and finally she could only salute and get out of the way.

"Sister Du."

Sanchun and the others had listened to Jia Baoyu's instructions, so they knew how to call people.

Jia Baoyu also said to Du Qiuniang: "They are all younger than you, you call your sister." ”

Du Qiuniang nodded, and when she saw Jia Baoyu's introduction, she knew that this was the sister that Jia Baoyu had been thinking about when she was in Shandong, so she walked up enthusiastically and greeted: "Hello sisters"

After saying this, Du Qiuniang couldn't help but set her eyes on Tanchun's body.

Tanchun didn't know why, so he looked left and right.

"This is Sister Lin, when the adults were in Qingzhou, they told me about you, and you were born so beautiful."

After speaking, he seemed to feel that it was inappropriate to talk about this, and added: "There are two other sisters, and the adults have also talked about them, and they are also very beautiful." ”

Xichun's praised little face turned red, and Yingchun smiled and wanted to solve Du Qiuniang's doubts: "Sister Lin is the cousin of the second brother, she is"

Tanchun suddenly pulled Yingchun, interrupted her words, and then smiled at Du Qiuniang:

"Thank you sister for complimenting, but can my sister tell me what my second brother said about me when I was in Qingzhou?

I wonder if he's talking bad about me behind his back! ”

Tanchun said as he gave Jia Baoyu a look and warned him not to poke her.

Jia Baoyu shook his head amusedly.

Since Tanchun wants to pretend to be Daiyu to play, let her have fun.

Anyway, it's harmless and careful.

Du Qiuniang thought that Jia Baoyu was helpless about "Sister Lin" who was slippery and careful, so she smiled and said:

"The adult said, she said that you are smart and cute, and your mind is ingenious, but you just love to cry nose"

In the end, Jia Baoyu saved face, and only picked up the good disclosure.

Tanchun nodded unexpectedly: "What the second brother said is not bad at all, Sister Lin is not like that." ”

Seeing Du Qiuniang, she was suddenly stunned, and she was kind to Yingchun, so she explained with a smile: "She is the second brother's own sister, and Sister Lin has gone back to Yangzhou at this time, and she has not come back yet." ”

Du Qiuniang was stunned, and then realized that she had recognized the wrong person, and her face immediately turned blushing, and she was very embarrassed.

Jia Baoyu relieved her embarrassment: "Except for not crying nose, she also gets on the rest." ”

Tanchun suddenly pouted at Jia Baoyu, and then laughed too.

Her bright and crisp smile immediately dissolved the awkward atmosphere and invisibly brought the relationship between strangers.

Jia Baoyu continued his previous words and said, "Okay, they came with me to get the gifts, you can help me take them out." ”

Du Qiuniang nodded, walked to her box and squatted down, turned around and said:

"What the adults told me to buy, I put it in it"

Jia Baoyu nodded and led the three of them forward.

Du Qiuniang opened the box.

Suddenly, the light of the jewels spread out in all directions.

"Wow, it's beautiful"

Xichun was the youngest, and he didn't have a city government, so he was suddenly dazzled.

It's just because Du Qiuniang's makeup box is full of jewelry, most of which are gold, and the two-foot square box is almost full.

Tanchun and others are also staggering.

In fact, although their status is noble, there are really not many expensive jewelry.

Only during the occasional New Year's festival can Jia Mu and Madame Wang receive rewards.

Otherwise, the pocket money of two taels of silver a month is really not enough to buy too expensive jewelry.

Jia Baoyu was not surprised, when he saw it before, he really knew what "Oiran" was!

I heard Du Qiuniang say that she only had more than 1,000 taels of silver, and Jia Baoyu thought that it was her net worth, who knows, it was just a fraction.

Her real value is these jewelry

As far as Jia Baoyu knows, she only started performing on stage at the age of fourteen, and now she is sixteen years old, and in just two years, she has accumulated so many gold, silver, and jade guys, which almost made Jia Baoyu have the idea of letting her do her old job to help him make money

Fortunately, Jia Baoyu didn't say such a shameless idea.

Du Qiuniang didn't mean to show off at all.

If it weren't for Jia Baoyu's orders, she wouldn't have wanted these guys.

Only after staying in that quagmire for a long time and seeing too many discriminatory people can she understand how much she wants to leave that circle.

Even if she is as bright as her, she will have a few years of scenery at most, and after that, she will be chased and replaced by latecomers, and she will really fall into the abyss.

She was young and didn't want to sink permanently.

Opening one of the small bags wrapped in brocade, Du Qiuniang smiled: "The things of adults are all in this." ”

Jia Baoyu nodded, all he bought were small pieces of jewelry, which didn't take up much space.

He squatted down, picked up one of the boxes, and said with a smile: "I bought a golden hairpin for the second sister, the third sister, and the fourth sister, respectively, for the peacock, the fairy bird, and the tiger head." ”

As he spoke, he opened it.

Then, Jia Baoyu's face suddenly became gloomy.

Because, in the box that was supposed to have three hairpins, now there is only one lonely.