The Hairpin of the Red Chamber

Chapter 218

Huizhou Prefecture governs Xiaboluo County, which is only a middle-level county, but it is well known to the world because of the Luofu Mountain in the northwest of the city.In the early Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo wrote "Huizhou Yijue" to praise the products of Luofu Mountain. He said that "Lu tangerine and red bayberry are the newest", and he also said, "Eat [-] lychees every day, and I will be a Lingnan native." new.

Boluo County is the seat closest to Luofu Mountain. Every summer, when the lychees are about to ripen, countless merchants and porters come here to buy lychees, and the small Boluo is very crowded.

Early in the morning on the third day of May, Mrs. Chen rushed to the outside of the city, picked a whole basket of Danli with thin skin and tender water, and covered it with a cloth. However, the gates of the palace on West Street near the county government office are still closed.

Mrs. Chen patted on the door vigorously, and shouted in unproficient Mandarin as she patted: "Xiaohong, Xiaohong."

The black painted door quickly opened a crack, and a young woman in fine cloth poked her head out, and hurriedly booed Mrs. Chen: "Madam is not up yet."

Mrs. Chen paused and said, "How long has it been? Why can't you afford it?"

That little red pouted inwardly and said: "Madam doesn't know about your wife's temperament?" While letting Mrs. Chen in, she took the basket, opened it and smiled, "This year's lychee is really big."

Xiaohong's man also came out of the Westinghouse when he heard the conversation outside. He was about the same age as Xiaohong, and it was said that he was a son of the Wang family.

The man greeted Mrs. Chen briefly, then went to the kitchen to boil water.

Mrs. Chen entered the inner courtyard by herself—this mansion has two floors in total, but there are three yards in the front, middle and back. In the front yard, there is a kitchen, a storeroom, and four rooms for servants. In the inner courtyard, there is a neat row of four wing rooms, and the two in the middle are opened up to form a big house, which is the living place of the master.There are halls on both sides of this big house, and there is a wing room on each side of the hallway. One of the wing rooms is filled with bookshelves, desks, etc., which looks like a study room, but there are no books in it, only many account books and gold and silver utensils. There is a huge couch in the room, with a small screen and a few incense burner hills on it, everything is ready; on the opposite side are two very large armchairs, the bed and the chairs are each covered with many pavings and pillows, but these are not understood by Mrs. Chen. good material.

Even though she has been working in this house for five years, Mrs. Chen still can't help but to praise the house when she thinks of the grandeur of this house. Needless to say about the decoration, the houses of this house are horizontal and vertical. The local scenery of Boluo is very different.

Mrs. Chen went straight to the front of the main room, where a young girl was sitting on the bed, leaning against the door, half dreaming and half awake, squinting her eyes.

Mrs. Chen gave her a push and asked, "How long has it been? Why don't you wake up your wife? I need a little time."

The little girl stood up in fright, called "Mother Chen" in a hurry, pushed the door, and let Mrs. Chen in. As soon as Mrs. Chen entered, she smelled a strong fragrance. The fragrance was good, but it was too strong. And there is a faint smell of mutton inside.She glanced at the big censer in the room, there were a lot of incense powder scattered in it, and a piece of Canaan incense was placed by the side of the stove to burn.

Mrs. Chen extinguished the incense with a fire, walked around a screen inside, and saw many clothes scattered on the ground at random, picked them up and saw that they were all good materials newly cut this spring, she shook her head immediately, and approached the yellow Huali's Babu bed softly called to the man who was drooling with his limbs stretched out on the bed, "Madam, wake up."

The person snorted, turned inward with a summer quilt on her stomach, and curled up obliquely. The satin skirt on her body was already loose, not only her shoulders were completely exposed, but even a smooth and white skirt was exposed. Most of the back is also facing the outside.

Anyone who sees this back immediately understands why the owner of the house, Wang Yuanwai, doesn't like others to wait on him and his wife - this back is so attractive that even a woman would swallow it if she saw it Drool twice.

Chen Pozi had no choice but to poke the shoulder of the person on the bed with her finger, and said in a louder voice: "Ma'am, I'm about to get up, go get some dick."

The person on the bed suddenly opened his eyes wide, frowned, stared at her with displeasure and said, "I didn't order it last time, why are we going again this time?"

Mrs. Chen couldn't laugh or cry and said: "Dianmao is needed every day, if you don't go, you will be boarded - besides, today it is said that a high-ranking official is coming, and the grandfather ordered someone to sprinkle water and spread the loess early in the morning."

The wife of the Wang family said: "How important is he to be an official? Do you really want me to sweep the floor for him? No." She rolled around on the bed, rolled up the quilt, and lay on her back.

Mrs. Chen persuaded: "Madam has a noble body, of course she doesn't need to do those rough jobs, it's just the rules in the yamen, the wife must show her head, otherwise the gentlemen will not look good - Madam just get up What can I do?" He said again: "This year's lychees are good, I picked a basket of the ones I picked, and when my wife gets up, they are delicious."

Mrs. Wang didn't care about Lizhi, she just opened her eyes and asked, "Has that dead ghost come back?"

Mrs. Chen was startled, and then realized that she was talking about Wang Ping Wang Yuanwai——Wang Yuanwai is doing business in southern goods, and there are always a few months in a year when he goes out to Guangzhou to buy goods in the port and then sell them to the north— — Calculated that he has been away for three months this year, if it was usual, he should have come back long ago.

Mrs. Chen's man also ran around here and there, so he immediately knew what the young daughter-in-law was thinking, and comforted her: "Master comes back before the Dragon Boat Festival every year. This year's business is probably good, and he sold a few more times, so he has to come back later. , This is a good thing - we have a saying that the farther a man runs, the more money he will get back, our master's ability, this time back, the money doesn't need to be pulled by a cart."

Unexpectedly, Mrs. Wang's words didn't reach Mrs. Wang's ears. She turned her body sideways again, buried her head in the quilt, and said, "I won't get up, so you can do it for me!"

Mrs. Chen lingered for a while, seeing that she was still unwilling, she could only go out, and said to Xiao Hong: "Today, a master from the Fucheng is really coming, and the master is afraid that the master will go to prison, so he specially ordered everyone to come today. I have to arrive, even Mr. He and Yin Butou in the punishment room have told me, this is a big deal, we can't delay."

After hearing this, Xiaohong went into the room with Mrs. Chen, the two of them coaxed and persuaded, and it took a long time to wake up the ancestor. Xiaohong took another single skirt, put it on the bedside, and went out with Mrs. Chen, After Mrs. Wang changed herself, she came in, waited for her to wash and wash, and served some porridge. Mrs. Wang used very little, and she ordered to leave the table without even eating a few lychees. Xiaohong took the things out, and Mrs. Chen took them out. After wearing a dirty and torn dress, she put it on Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang was startled, she stood up suddenly, her phoenix eyes widened, and she shouted sharply: "What are you doing?!"

Mrs. Chen hurriedly said: "Ma'am, the master from above is here today. It's not good for my wife to dress richly. These are home-made clothes I borrowed from someone specially. My wife puts them on and waits for the master from above to leave."

After hearing this, Mrs. Wang looked at the clothes with distaste, and asked Mrs. Chen to sniff them. Mrs. Chen hurriedly said, "I washed it when I got home, and it has been in the sun for several days."

Mrs. Wang reluctantly put on this dress. She has a rich body, and when she wore this dress, she felt sad all over her body. Mrs. Chen gave her cloth shoes to wear again. As soon as Mrs. Wang's delicate feet stepped into the shoes, she felt uncomfortable. As if tens of thousands of mosquitoes were biting the soles of his feet, he hurriedly withdrew his feet and said angrily, "Do I have to wear these shoes?"

Mrs. Chen said: "Wearing coarse clothes with satin shoes underneath, isn't it good?" Looking at the sky, she hurriedly said: "Madam, hurry up, the yamen said that we are about to arrive, and now it is more than half an hour late." That's right, my grandfather is paying attention to this matter, so it won't be too late."

Mrs. Wang had no choice but to stretch out her foot cautiously and step into the shoe again. Mrs. Chen wanted to put on the shoe for her, but she stared at her and stopped her hand in embarrassment.

Xiaohong's man brought a large walking mule, which was spread very flat with cloth, Xiaohong and Mrs. Chen supported Mrs. Wang to sit on it. The man was in front, and Mrs. Chen was behind. , there were already many unkempt prisoners sweeping at the door.Mrs. Chen led Mrs. Wang in through the side door. The punishment room and the arresters were all angry when they saw that they were late. Mrs. Wang saw the people outside, but she had a different voice, and with a few words, she coaxed the two gentlemen away. Yan, the torture room dropped a sentence: "Fortunately, the verdict hasn't come yet, so let me spare you once!" After taking the broken silver from Mrs. Wang's sleeve, she took her hand, and Mrs. Wang's face changed color, and she turned around immediately. Come over, withdrew his hand calmly, and said with a smile: "Please take care of me, sir." As soon as the two of them left, his face immediately fell down, and he instructed Mrs. Chen to wipe a chair again and again before tilting it up. He sat up on his feet, put his hands on his knees, and let out a vicious snort from his nostrils.