Chapter 359: Smashing the Fan Causes Qian Jin to Sigh
Xue Pan's birthday party lasted from the morning until Shenshi (three o'clock in the afternoon), and then everyone dispersed like birds and beasts.
Without mentioning what happened to others, Jia Baoyu was still feeling a little depressed when he returned home. Qingwen happened to come upstairs to change her clothes and accidentally dropped her fan on the ground, breaking the jade fan rib.
Baoyu sighed casually: "Fool, idiot! You will be the master of your own house in the future. Will you still be so careless about the present and the future?"
But Qingwen was not liked , so she had been feeling 'taboo'. After hearing this, she felt even more aggrieved. She sneered, "Earlier, you broke so many glass jars and agate bowls, and I didn't see you getting angry with anyone. Now you're scolding people with a fan?!"
As she spoke, she twisted her slender waist, turned her back to Baoyu and said, "If you dislike me, just send me away. We can part ways amicably!"
I thought Baoyu would be furious after hearing this - but after waiting for a long while, I didn't hear him say a word.
Qingwen started to wonder first, and when she turned around, she saw Baoyu sitting on the bed with his eyes wide open, as if he had lost his soul!
Qingwen immediately put aside her anger and waved her two long nails, which were dyed with golden balsam flowers, in front of Baoyu's eyes. Seeing that he still didn't react at all, she hurriedly called out, "Hurry up, someone! The Second Master seems to be insane again!"
Xiren was originally outside and had vaguely heard some noise. When she heard the word "dementia", she quickly lifted up her skirt and ran over like the wind.
Seeing Baoyu like this, she was even more flustered and said, "Hasn't he been sick for a long time? How did he provoke me again?!"
Having said that, he went forward to check on Baoyu's condition.
Unexpectedly, Jia Baoyu came to his senses at this moment, raised his arms to block Xiren's hands, and shook his head and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine."
Then he turned to Qingwen, "You think more clearly than I do. It's better to part ways amicably than to get tired of each other. Besides, people are not objects. It's not good to keep them all by your side."
Qingwen had been relieved to hear him say "it's all right" but she didn't expect him to say such a thing the next moment. She thought he was talking about her and stamped her feet, "Okay, okay, it turns out you've been tired of me for a long time! If I had known this, when Madam wanted to send me to Lord Sun, I shouldn't have..."
"Qingwen!"
When Xiren heard her say even this, she rushed over and covered her mouth.
But Jia Baoyu had already heard everything, and his little 'sudden enlightenment' just vanished into thin air. He jumped up from the bed and said angrily: "There is such a thing?! Why didn't you tell me earlier?!"
Although Xiangyun and Baochai are close to him, they are not his personal property.
But Qingwen is different. As a personal maid, Baoyu has long regarded her as his beloved. Even if he marries Lin Daiyu in the future, he may not be willing to give her up. How can he tolerate her being spied on by others? !
Seeing Baoyu's rage, Xiren was afraid that he might do something impulsive, so she quickly explained the whole story and emphasized, "Lord Sun rejected Madam on the spot and said, 'A gentleman does not take away what others like.' This shows that he is an open-minded gentleman. Second Master, please don't wrongly accuse a good man!"
Jia Baoyu was silent for a while after listening to this. Suddenly, he slapped himself on the face and angrily cursed: "This filthy-hearted person can't even trust his own lifesaver!"
This "beating and scolding" made Xiren laugh and cry. She was about to check the slap mark with heartache, but she saw Jia Baoyu stretched out his hand to hold Qingwen and said softly: "My dear sister, you are hiding things like this and refuse to tell me clearly. How can I know the hardships you have been going through?"
Qingwen was the type who would rather be soft-hearted than hard-hearted. She had been stubborn and stern-faced at first, but when she heard this, her tears immediately stopped flowing. She still refused to give in, saying, "I asked for this all myself. What's wrong with it? I just hope that Second Master won't attack me without reason. We lowly people will be thankful."
She kept saying "you lowly bitch", but her neck was straighter than anyone else's.
Jia Baoyu smiled to himself, then turned serious. He first pulled Qingwen to sit at the head of the bed, and then pushed Xiren to sit at the head of the bed. Then, under the puzzled looks of the two maids, he said seriously, "The outburst just now may be said to be without reason, but in fact it did have some reason."
"What's the reason?"
Qingwen asked indignantly, "I just dropped the fan by mistake, and the glass jar and the agate bowl..."
"Look, look, these are the reasons you said!"
As Jia Baoyu spoke, he paced back and forth in front of the two of them. Suddenly, he sighed and said quietly, "Do you still remember the situation when I checked the accounts last year?"
How could these two forget this?
At that time, because of their family members' involvement, they were almost kicked out of Rongguo Mansion!
Not to mention that Lai Da, who was once very powerful, also lost his life in this turmoil.
But why are they suddenly bringing up last year’s audit?
Xiren said cautiously, "Of course we remember that incident. Since then, we have specifically told our family that we will never dare to use the name of the Second Master to take advantage of our family again."
"That's not what I want to talk about today."
Baoyu waved his hand, then held up three fingers and asked in a serious tone, "Do you know how much the broken utensils and things we have broken in the past two or three years are worth?"
The two exchanged glances and shook their heads in unison.
Then Baoyu said in a deep voice: "You don't know, but Lai Da's account clearly remembers that in the two years and five months since I lived alone, we have wasted items worth three thousand seven hundred taels of silver in our house!"
"What?!"
“There are so many?!”
Although Qingwen and Xiren had guessed that the number would not be small, they did not expect it to be so astonishing!
You know, if this money is spent frugally, it will be enough for a hundred families to live on for two and a half years!
Such a large sum of money was wasted without any reason, and what I got in return were just a few sighs, a few light words like "careless" and "not paying attention"...
After a long while, Xiren finally let out a long sigh and said in a trembling voice: "This is all my fault. I just treated them as toys and didn't pay attention to them. Who knew that I would create such a huge karma..."
"No!"
Qingwen gritted her teeth , bent her knees and knelt on the ground, tilting her neck and saying, "I love to destroy things the most. If you want to punish me, punish me! Only by punishing me severely first can those monkey spirits below learn their lesson!"
Seeing this, Xiren was about to kneel down to speak, but Jia Baoyu pulled her up one by one, shaking his head and laughing, "Look at you, I'm not saying this to bring up old scores, I just want you to be careful and not waste things anymore - after all, the mansion is only well-off on the surface, but secretly has already owed a lot of money to meet the famine."
After a pause, he said resolutely: "Others may not be prepared to pay back this money, but I will definitely pay it back in the future!"
Seeing that Qingwen was still blaming herself, he curled his lips and said, "Besides, how could the things you destroyed be as much as a fraction of what I have? If I punish you severely, will I still be alive?"
Only then did Qingwen stop talking.
The three of them looked at each other and felt closer to each other.
Xiren, in particular, had always hoped that Baoyu could make progress, and now that she heard him say such words, she was extremely pleased - if Qingwen had not been there, she would have pulled Baoyu to bed and done many things to him that she would not do on other days.
"Huh?"
At this moment, Qiu Wen suddenly came in from outside and asked curiously, "What happened to you guys?"
"Nothing."
The three of them then let go of each other and asked in unison, "You, why did you rush in here? Is there something wrong?"
"Ah~ I almost forgot something important!"
Qiu Wen slapped her forehead and said anxiously, "Miss Shi is here, and she's talking to the old lady now. The old lady knows you haven't seen each other for a long time, so she sent someone to call you over!"
"Sister Shi is here?!"
Jia Baoyu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately rushed out of the room excitedly. However, after running a few steps, he suddenly became conflicted again - should he mention the matter of "Qilin" to Shi Xiangyun?
