As the saying goes: When three people are together, someone must be in love.
Twenty-three-year-old Fu Qiufang, nineteen-year-old Hua Xi, and sixteen-year-old Xue Baochai all have their own plans for their futures.
It's just that these three sisters are plotting against Bao Erye, the fourteen-year-old unmarried young master of the Jia family.
The judge's sister Fu Qiufang and Mrs. Wang's niece Xue Baochai dislike each other. They are both gentle on the surface but domineering at heart. It is inevitable that they will become aggressive in their words.
Baochai suddenly pointed at Xiren, which shocked Hua Xiren, who was feeling terribly uncomfortable about leaving Baoyu, and trembled instantly.
Immediately, Xiren heard Baochai say "Second Brother Lian", and he was so frightened that Xiren almost flew away.
If it hadn't been for Jia Lian, would she have gone from being the first aunt on the bed in Baoyu's house, to being a "mat person" who was kicked out of Yihongyuan after lying on a torn mat?
Jia Lian frightened Xiren, but also gave Fu Qiufang new ideas.
After all, she had already delayed her life to the age of twenty-three, and was already a complete old girl at that time. It was already very difficult for her to marry into a well-matched family and become a wife. What’s more, her brother wanted to cling to the princes and nobles?
Before Fu Qiufang came to Jia's house, her brother and sister had already decided on a "Longzhong pair":
If I can get Jia Baoyu, I will marry Jia Baoyu; if I can catch the opportunity to marry Jia She, Jia Zheng, Jia Zhen, and Jia Lian, I will do it; if not, I will try to become a second wife.
Although the second wife is a concubine, the Fu family is also an official now, and the concubine of the good family is also a grandmother, not the kind of concubine promoted by a girl.
And as long as the mother's family can support her, there won't be much difference between this kind of "aunt" and the real wife.
Judging from their age, Jia She and Jia Zheng were both in their fifties, so naturally they were not good choices. And Jia Zhen had a lot of concubines, so there would be a lot of trouble after marrying him.
But Jia Lian...
In fact, Fu Qiufang had already been attracted to Jia Lian since the day they met at Daguangming Temple.
At this time, hearing Baochai call Jia Lian "Second Brother Lian", Fu Qiufang felt very unhappy and sneered:
"Is a powerful person like Sister Bao still afraid of gossip?"
Baochai was about to fight back when she saw Ying'er running in from outside the courtyard with a lantern in one hand and a handkerchief in the other, bulging with something stuffed inside.
As soon as Ying'er saw Baochai, she ran up to him with a smile and said:
"The girl is back. Our wife just sent someone in to tell her to come over at any time in the evening."
Baochai deliberately walked a few steps quickly to distance himself from Fu Qiufang behind him, and lowered his voice and said to Ying'er:
"It's almost midnight, what's the important matter? It's just that my brother brought some good things to Baoyu, and wanted to ask me what Baoyu meant.
You go back for me and tell my mother and brother that Baoyu likes her very much, and I think that after two more visits, Baoyu and my brother will become irreversible."
"That's not what you are saying." Ying'er shook her head repeatedly, leaned over and whispered in Baochai's ear:
"I heard from Mrs. Wan that the wife invited the girl back so that our uncle could talk about the marriage.
I heard that our uncle drank too much today, and for some reason he remembered Miss Lin again. He said that she was good-looking and could read and write. When he got home, he clamored not to get engaged to the Xia family, and that our wife had to go there.
Propose marriage to the old lady and marry Miss Lin."
Of course Xue Baochai knew that this had touched Jia Mu's bottom line, so she quickly whispered:
"This is impossible!"
Ying'er came up again and said:
"My wife tried her best to persuade her, but she finally persuaded her. Unexpectedly, our uncle suddenly said that all three girls in the Jia family are beauties, and they can also write and draw. He had to choose one among the three of them.
Our wife has made trouble for him, and I think the second girl has a better temper, so I have already discussed it with my wife."
"Brother wants to marry the girl?"
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“Bah, bah, bah!
Can't afford a mirror or drink water? As long as he can still urinate a little, how can he look at his own virtues?
What a dirty thing! He deserves to marry my second sister!"
Wang Xifeng sat at the kang table, with her hands on her hips and her round belly, her face full of disdain.
"How can anyone who has a house of his own and can't live in it, force himself to squeeze into someone else's house? Bah!
How can anyone leave his two brothers alone and insist on staying with his sister's husband's family? Bah!
How could anyone take a daughter to be married and live in the house of a young man with a different surname, make up stories about getting married, and let his own girl run around in the young man’s house all day long? Bah!
How can anyone shamelessly send a girl to the Jia family if no one wants her? All men in the world will die! Well, if you don’t give up on giving a girl, your son also wants toad and wants to eat swan meat. He is really ugly but wants to be beautiful.
!I bother!"
Sister Feng is really annoyed.
Because this embarrassing Aunt Xue comes from her Wang family.
How strong is Wang Xifeng? Her relatives did such a shameful thing, which really makes Sister Feng feel embarrassed and disgusting!
Jia Lian knew it well and was not in a hurry. He handed the tea bowl to Sister Feng and said comfortingly:
"Being angry is not good for your health, not to mention you are so pregnant."
Sister Feng was still furious:
"What a shame, madam, this kind of thing reminds me of me. She didn't say anything herself, but asked me to tell the eldest lady about my second sister.
What kind of decision can the eldest wife make? How about looking at the face of the eldest man? Does the eldest man like the Xue family?
Huh! If the eldest master is unhappy, he will naturally take it out on the eldest wife. If the eldest wife is angry with the eldest master, why should she not take it out on me twice as much? Do you think I can escape this scolding?"
Of course Jia Lian understands that in a big family with strict rules like the Jia family, as a junior, contradicting the elders in person is breaking the rules. Therefore, even a powerful person like Sister Feng can only avoid many things and dare not stand up to them.
Sister Feng slapped the table with her hands, gritted her teeth and said bitterly:
"Everyone says that I scheme against people, but they don't know how many times I have schemed against others! Even if I lose my teeth, I can only swallow it in my stomach."
She sighed, and when Jia Lian remained silent, she complained:
"Aren't you a living Zhuge? Now you are mute? Why don't you show me a clear way?"
As if waking up from a dream, Jia Lian said "Oh" and suddenly asked:
"My boss asked Ping'er to transfer Mrs. Guo from our courtyard and Mrs. Bao from Yihong Courtyard to the second sister. I also took Sister Chan from the third sister's house to replace the second sister.
Xiuju next to me, can this matter be done?"
Sister Feng was not very happy that Jia Lian was distracted when she was complaining, and she didn't understand why Jia Lian suddenly asked about this, so she said impatiently:
"You ask me to be transferred, but I dare not to be transferred?
I don’t know what you were thinking, but you got a group of inconvenient maids and women to work for your second sister, huh, it made the courtyard of Zhujin Tower full of smoke every day."
"What did the second sister say?"
"What should I say? Don't tell me! What kind of temperament does she have? Even if you prick her with a needle, she won't even squeak."
Jia Lian smiled:
"Then you secretly ask someone to spread the news about Xue Pan's marriage proposal to Zhujin Tower and see if this shot has any effect."