Tsukuen Garden.

The big girl Ying'er held a cup of medicinal soup, quietly bypassed the screen, and when she got closer, she saw Aunt Xue lying on her back on the bed, as if she was sleeping soundly, and looked at Xue Baochai on the side unconsciously.

Xue Baochai pointed to the low table at the head of the bed, and whispered: "Let it go first, I'll serve my mother later." ”

Ying'er put the small pottery bowl on the low table, pinched her earlobe with both hands and said, "This medicine can't be returned to the furnace, and the girl must remember it for a long time." ”

When Xue Baochai answered silently, she quietly retreated.

About half an hour or so passed, Xue Baochai got up and tested the temperature of the decoction, then took off the cool towel on his mother's forehead, put it in a copper basin and rubbed it a few times, wrung it out and put it back in place.

The cold touch suddenly made Aunt Xue let out a subtle dream.

"Mom."

Xue Baochai pushed her shoulder and called softly, "Get up and drink the medicine." ”

Aunt Xue opened her eyes at this time, glanced at her daughter first, and then frowned, "What time is it?" ”

"It's just past 10 a.m."

Xue Baochai picked up the medicinal soup, scooped some and put it in his mouth first, and the smacking person was indeed lukewarm, so he held the bottom of the spoon with his hand and sent it to his mother's mouth.

Seeing this, Aunt Xue first supported the bed board and half stood up, and then bowed her head to meet the spoon.

Seeing her get up, two lumps of snow were squeezed out from under the bedding, and Xue Baochai couldn't help but chant while serving: "Mom is really, what kind of weather is this, but it's still like this, and I don't want to let you add a piece of clothing." ”

When Aunt Xue heard this, she turned her mouth away from the spoon, frowned and sighed, "At my age, how many days can I wear it?" On the contrary, you, who are so quiet all day long, no matter how good the color is, how much can it fall into the eyes? ”

"What did Mom say?"

Xue Baochai stuffed the spoon and said angrily: "I'm just to cover my body and keep out the cold, I don't have to wear it for anyone to see!" ”

As he spoke, he couldn't help but feel a little suspicious.

After returning from Mrs. Wang yesterday, my mother seemed to have some more 'strange words', and she was even more inexplicably hot at night.

Although the doctor looked at it and said it was no big deal.

But such an inexplicable illness still has some strange places.

However, although Xue Baochai was suspicious, she still chatted with her mother quietly, and when she finished eating all the bowls of medicinal soup, and wiped the stains from the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, she restrained her smile.

"Mother."

Holding Aunt Xue's wrist, she said with a straight face: "Aren't you hiding something?" ”

"I ......"

"Did my aunt tell you something?"

"This ......"

"Is it related to Brother Bao?"

asked three times in a row, and the more she asked, the more detailed she became, Aunt Xue couldn't hide it, so she had to tell the words of the two sisters who talked at night the night before yesterday.

"What is as short as one or two years, and as long as three or five years."

In the end, she couldn't hide her sorrow between her eyebrows: "This is light, but you will be eighteen in the new year, but where can you still delay?" ”

Being a mother is just worried, but Xue Baochai's heart is cold.

How clever is she?

As soon as I heard it, I guessed that Mrs. Wang was probably because her daughter was pregnant with a dragon species, and she felt that her identity was different from before, so she had the intention of repeating it again.

If Concubine De in the palace really gave birth to a prince, I am afraid that any 'golden and jade good relationship' and any 'wood and stone alliance' will all end up without a problem!

The most hateful thing is that at such a point, Mrs. Wang still didn't forget to lead the trouble, and the accusation was all because of Lin Daiyu's obstruction, which delayed the fate of the two.

"That's what it was."

The left hand hidden in the sleeve secretly showed a clear and innocent color, but Xue Baochai still had a smile on his face, and said indifferently: "Auntie just said it casually, my mother is still serious!" ”

"In my opinion, instead of worrying about these things, it is better to discuss with your aunt first, and look at the affairs of Xue Zhen and their family, how to deal with it, while Concubine De is happy, the Zhen family will not dare to refute her aunt's face!"

She made this understatement because she didn't want her mother to turn against Mrs. Wang.

Although after marrying Shangshu with the Ministry of Officials, the Xue family has also gained a firm foothold in Zhili, but in the past two years, Aunt Xue's attachment to Mrs. Wang has not decreased but increased.

Now that the overall situation is undecided, why bother to let their sisters make trouble first?

A few words to appease Aunt Xue, just as Daoxiang Village sent someone to invite her, Xue Baochai took the opportunity to get out of front of her mother.

Although he enjoyed the snow scenery along the way, when he arrived at Daoxiang Village, Xue Baochai still had a belly of fire in his heart.

Coincidentally, as soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she saw Xue Baoqin in the corridor, talking to Baoyu, she gritted her silver teeth, stepped forward and pulled her cousin under the eaves, and scolded with a split head and face: "Don't forget that you are here to be married in the capital, what kind of system is this pulling and pulling?" ”

"Isn't my sister jealous?"

Baoqin playfully stuck out her tongue, and saw that her sister was still cold-faced, so she had to stand up in a proper manner, and pouted: "I inquired about the Mei family, Brother Bao originally promised to say a few words in front of the mother, who knew that as soon as I entered the palace, I forgot to clean up." ”

Xue Baochai heard this, and immediately blurted out: "He is a nobleman, and it is inevitable that he will forget it for a while, what can we do except take care of it?" ”

It happened that Jia Baoyu saw Sister Bao's cold face, as if she was scolding Baoqin, so she stayed over to persuade a few words, and when she heard this, she immediately stopped in embarrassment.

Sister Secret Daobao has always been a kind person in her heart, how can she arrange my non-come?

Could it be that I offended her somewhere?

He thought about it, but he didn't remember anything wrong, just because he wanted to ask directly about it, suddenly there was a flower in front of him, but it turned out to be a small hand as white as jade, raised to the tip of his nose and shook wildly.

"Come back to your senses!"

At the same time, I heard Lin Daiyu say sourly in her ear: "The dead fish's eyes are about to be embedded in it!" ”

Jia Baoyu realized that he was only thinking about the reason, but he looked at Baochai and Baoqin in a daze.

His old face was red at the moment, and he had the heart to say a few words, but he didn't want to spread Xue Baochai's gossip, so he looked left and right and said to him: "What about the second sister?" Didn't you say you'd come to the garden later? Why hasn't there been any movement for so long? ”

“~”

Lin Daiyu sneered and said disdainfully: "Your uncle has not even been able to write a word, and he has been touted for more than half a day; Now that the second sister has really sealed her fate, can you still let her go if you are used to stepping on highs and lows? ”

After a few words, Jia Baoyu was speechless, and finally had to say that he wanted to invite the second sister over in person, and escaped from Daoxiang Village in embarrassment.

When he got to the gate, he looked back at the house shrouded in fine snow, and couldn't help but sigh and mutter: "How did you get this one or two?" ”