This crying made the depression in Baoyu's heart completely relieved, although it was still as useless as in the past, but in the end there would be no more world-weary mood, but a full daily life, or patrolling the store industry with Xia Jingui, or drinking and reading, and sometimes getting together with Jia Lian and Liu Xianglian.

Xia Jingui was naturally very happy when he saw him being scolded and woke up, and he became more and more warm to him, and often teased Jia Gui with Baoyu.

The Jia family put their minds at ease, but a monk thousands of miles away screamed, jumped suddenly, fell to the ground, and then spit blood in his mouth, and his Taoism was greatly damaged.

They hurriedly pinched their fingers and calculated, only to know that their greatest purpose in this afterlife had been invalidated, and Jia Baoyu, the attendant of Shenying, and the piece of treasure jade under Daqing Mountain, would not be transformed by them in their lifetimes.

Needless to say, it must have been the saint who did it.

They couldn't afford to fight, so they sighed and continued to stagger.

said that on this day, Baoyu went to drink with his friends, and Xia Jingui handed Jia Gui over to the mandarin duck to take care of, and he was concentrating on looking at the account book. Bao Chan walked in, and after saluting, he reported softly: "Grandma, the man from Cui Wei came to report that Cui Wei is pregnant, and I want to ask you to give her a leave of absence and let her rest for a few days." ”

Before Xia Jingui could speak, Mrs. Xia, who came to visit her daughter, said first: "Which family's slave maid has to rest as soon as she is pregnant?

Xia Jingui stopped Mrs. Xia's muttering and said, "Mother." ”

He said to Bao Toad: "Pregnancy is a big deal, and our family is not harsh, let her rest, and wait for the first three months before coming back to do things." It's just that our family is not as good as before, we can't afford to raise idlers, and the silver rice she has rested for three months has also been temporarily stopped, when will she come back to do things, and when will she send it to her. ”

Bao Toad promised to go out and spread the word.

Mrs. Xia couldn't help but say, "You are just too merciful. What is this unruly girl doing so lenient to her? Don't you want to think about what she and her good master have done to you?"

Xia Jingui said calmly: "I should pass the ancestors, and I won't embarrass them." What I said, I should do. Besides, Gui'er will need the help of several families in the future, and I will definitely not leave a bad reputation. ”

Hearing this, Mrs. Xia nodded thoughtfully.

However, Xia Jingui remembered one thing and said: "It's almost the New Year, and it stands to reason that it's time to send a New Year's gift to Qingjietang." That's it, there isn't much silver in a year, and this matter can't be saved, so it's better to settle it as soon as possible. As he spoke, he called the little girl and asked her to talk to Bao Chan and arrange that she would go to Qingjietang tomorrow.

Mrs. Xia didn't agree, according to her idea, just throw that Shi Xiangyun there to fend for herself, what kind of year do you want to give? But what Xia Jingui set, even when she was in the boudoir, she couldn't refute it, so she could only let her go.

Mandarin duck silently took care of Jia Gui, since Jia's mother died, she had nothing else to do in her eyes except to take care of Jia Gui.

On the second day, Xia Jingui took a car to the Qingjie Hall at the foot of the mountain. The old nun of Qingjietang received the news yesterday and waited at the door early.

When Xia Jingui helped Bao Chan get out of the car, Lao Ni hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Second Grandma Jia, you are here." ”

Xia Jingui nodded indifferently, and motioned to Bao Chan to give the fifteen taels of silver to the old nun: "This is next year, please take more care of it." ”

The old nun took it happily: This second grandmother Jia is really generous, it is fifteen taels of silver a year, and saving some money is enough for a year's expenses in her hall. What's more, there is still some land in his hall, and the yield of those lands is not low, as long as the three nuns work harder and work hard.

Oh, that Shi Shi should pay attention, just work hard, don't let her have an accident, anyway, she is worth fifteen taels of silver a year.

Xia Jingui said to the old nun: "Our family will ask you." She is not pure in her heart, and she has not been able to calm down, so she bothers you to bother and discipline her well. ”

The old nun was originally a farmer, but because her husband and son died and she was old, she reported to Lizheng and changed her home into such a hall, living on a few acres of land at home. Later, two old widows in the village also attached themselves, and several of them made do with each other.

Lao Ni is a real person, although he has some small forces, he is not bad-minded, but he is particularly unaccustomed to people like Xiangyun: he is too comfortable to live, and he is idle every day, so he will think about how to do it. When you are so busy that you don't even have time to sleep, and you can't eat enough, see if you still have time to think about these messy things.

So she hurriedly replied, "Grandma, don't worry, I'll take care of it." ”

Xia Jingui admonished: "Please also take care of her, don't embarrass her." And said: "What she should do, you don't have to be polite." Hengzhu, she was originally just a descendant of our family. ”

The old nun smiled and said, "Grandma, don't worry, the old nun will do everything for you." ”

Xia Jingui nodded, glanced at the wall of Qingjie Hall, didn't go in, turned around and left.

In Qingjie Hall, Xiangyun was washing clothes. A pile of coarse cloth clothes, rough to the touch, made her hands full of calluses, and the cold water in winter made her hands frostbite.

In the more than two years since he entered the Qingjie Hall, Xiangyun has been tortured almost ten years old: sleeping on a rough wooden bed, covering a patched quilt, wearing a torn cotton jacket, eating coarse grain cakes, drinking porridge mixed with wheat and corn, and washing clothes with those vulgar mothers-in-law every day, plowing the land, sowing seeds, cooking, cleaning the room, and doing morning and evening classes.

But these are not the things that scare Xiangyun the most - she believes that Baoyu will definitely come to rescue her. However, these dense labor and the days of not eating and sleeping well not only made her skin much darker and worse, her hair was also yellow, and even her waist and palms were thick, if this continues, when Baoyu comes, is she still the Yun sister he knew before?

Xiangyun was very frightened, she wanted to change the condition of her body, but without rose nitrate, she had to endure it even if she committed apricot moss, not to mention skin care products such as hair oil and powder?

The old nun could teach her with a straight face: "The widow should be pure and pure, and he who is still dressed up with flowers and branches, is he going to recruit men?"

Xiangyun gritted his teeth with hatred, and couldn't escape, so he had to endure it, and wiped his face with cold water and cucumbers every day.

But the apricot moss made the skin on her forehead and cheeks desquam, and it was easy to survive the spring, and in June, Xiangyun's most fearful thing still happened, the apricot moss left black marks on her face, making her face have several spots.

For this reason, Xiangyun cried all night. It's just that then she didn't have time to cry anymore, and the things she couldn't finish making her tired like a dog every day, and she had no time to think about things anymore.

When Xiangyun first came here, she cried and went on a hunger strike, but the group of disgusting and even worse old women just remained silent and could watch her die.

Where is Xiangyun willing to die?

In desperation, I had to start doing things. The old nun stipulated that every day everyone would not have anything to eat until they finished their own things. Xiangyun was in pain, always thinking, how did she fall back to the current situation?

Obviously, she is the daughter of the family, why do she come to do this kind of rough work that only inferior mothers-in-law do?

Xiangyun refused to accept her fate, and in full of resentment, she cursed Xia Jingui and Sister Feng viciously over and over again: It's you, it must be you, you are jealous of me, you can't see me well, so you did everything possible not to let my ancestors help me, causing me to be widowed, and being bullied by the Ye family!

The most hateful thing is that you still hold on to your beloved brother and don't let him treat me well!

Xia Jingui, you, a chronically jealous merchant woman, don't have the ability to hold the heart of your beloved brother, why are you jealous of my relationship with my beloved brother?

You wait, when the matter in my brother's hands is over, he will come to pick me up sooner or later, and then, there will be a time for you to cry. Xiangyun washed with resentment, nailed Sister Feng and Xia Jingui's villains viciously in his heart, and his subordinates had to scrub their clothes vigorously.