Chapter 40: The Girls Play with Baochai
"Put the screen at the entrance to the main hall. It happens to be missing a screen. As for the step-out bed, Qingwen and Xiangling, pack up the things in your rooms and put it there. You two can use it first."
Xiangling nodded stupidly, but Qingwen on the side bowed to the ground, "Master, this is inappropriate! Xiangling and I are just servants, how can we use such precious things? Wouldn't it be gossiped? Master, I know you love me so much, but I dare not accept it."
Ever since Qingwen started bathing Jia Cong, she had unconsciously omitted one word when addressing Jia Cong, and the same went for Xiao Que'er as well.
"Aunt brought it here with great difficulty, are we going to throw it away? Leave it in your room. When I want to sleep, I will switch rooms with you for a few days. Just think of you two as watching the bed for me."
Jia Cong didn't mean to refuse. The room he lived in had a heated kang, and unless it was removed, there was no room for it. Moreover, this step-out bed was indeed expensive, but it might not be as comfortable as a heated kang to sleep on.
After a whole morning of hard work, the house was finally cleaned up inside and out. Xiao Que'er gave two hundred coins to the servants, and they left happily.
In the afternoon, Jia Cong asked several maids to prepare all kinds of fruits and deliver them to everyone. Even Jia Lian, Baoyu, Jia Huan and Jia Lan were not left without some.
The three maids went out together. Qingwen went to Wang Xifeng, Xiaoqueer went to Baoyu and Aunt Zhao, and Xiangling went to Li Wan's courtyard.
Looking at the various fruits that Qingwen brought over, Wang Xifeng had some thoughts in her mind. She had naturally heard the whole story in the morning. Although Aunt Xue said it was a coincidence, she felt that even so, it must have been a coincidence.
"Your Third Master is becoming more and more respectable. Even the Second Master and Second Uncle are helpless, but Brother Cong has gotten the job done!" Wang Xifeng said with some sourness. This Jia Cong has emerged as a rising star and now surpasses her Second Master Lian.
"Go back and thank your Third Master for me!"
Having said this, she asked Ping'er to bring some dried fruits as a return gift, and only then did Qingwen leave.
Baoyu didn't see anyone there, he just said that he was detained by the second master to study, and Xiren helped to collect the things! Aunt Zhao was happy, although she was an aunt in the mansion, she had no respect in the mansion under the suppression of Wang. Now that Jia Cong sent someone to send gifts, she was naturally overjoyed, and even pulled Xiao Que'er to talk to her. She also readily accepted Xiao Que'er's invitation to Xiao Jixiang and Xiao Jiao'er.
As a result, two little tails appeared behind the little bird, and the three little ones were busy and lively, which was very lively.
A few people came back, took another portion and went straight to Sanchun.
Unexpectedly, Sanchun was not there either. She said that she had gone to Miss Lin's courtyard together.
After the group put down their things, they simply took Daiyu and Xiangyun's things together and went away together.
Xiangyun has also been staying in the mansion these days, sleeping in the warm room of Jia's mother's courtyard! The courtyard of the three springs is not big, so most of the time when the girls gather together, they stay in Daiyu's room.
Xiao Que'er took the lead and rushed into Daiyu's courtyard, and sure enough, she saw everyone sitting at the stone table in the courtyard.
"Xiao Que'er has met Miss Lin, Miss Bao, Miss Shi, the Second Miss, the Third Miss, and the Fourth Miss. Auntie and Miss Bao sent a lot of seasonal fruits to our room. Our master said that there are not many people in the courtyard and they can't eat a lot, so he asked the maid to send some to other masters! The eldest lady, the second lady, the second master Bao, and the third master Huan all sent some, and the second, third, and fourth ladies also sent some."
"Only Miss Lin and Miss Shi are left, so we took them all together."
Looking at this little girl with a serious face and her little mouth chattering, all the girls burst into laughter!
"Then we would like to thank Xiao Que'er!" Daiyu said with a smile. Xiao Que'er was rarely shy and giggled.
"Brother Cong is so lucky. Someone gave him all kinds of fruits, but they couldn't finish them and wanted to share them with us. But no one gave us sisters any!" As she spoke, she raised her little mouth in the direction of Baochai.
While the girls were laughing, they were also a little confused. Why would the Xue family give gifts to Jia Cong? And even Aunt Xue went there in person...
"Xiao Que'er, let me ask you, besides fruits, what else did some people send?" Xiangyun rolled her eyes and said jokingly.
Xiangyun was joking, but she never expected that Xiao Que'er would be so excited when she heard it, "There are so many, including floral fabrics, calligraphy and paintings, and brushes and ink... Xiao Que's favorite is the step-out bed, but our master said to put it in Qingwen and Xiangling's room first."
The little girl's eyes were full of envy!
However, no one paid any attention to her at this moment. Everyone looked at Baochai with surprise and curiosity. They really didn't know why the Xue family suddenly gave Jia Cong such a generous gift.
"Third sister, is this called a dowry?" Xichun, who was standing aside, tilted her head and thought for a long time, and finally came up with an answer that she thought was reliable.
All of a sudden, all the girls burst into laughter, and Baochai blushed with embarrassment!
"Tell me quickly, little girl, when will you marry into the mansion?"
"Precious girl, I'm just waiting for you to serve me tea and call me second sister."
"Precious girl, why don't you invite all the sisters to have some wine?"
"Don't worry, I will prepare a generous gift for Baoyatou..."
Faced with the teasing of her sisters, Baochai stood up in shame and wanted to run away, but fortunately Xiangyun and Tanchun held her and she couldn't get away!
Finally, Yingchun saw that Baochai was really anxious, so she stepped forward to protect , "Sister, does Brother Xue's matter have anything to do with Third Brother?"
Yingchun was just a little dull, but not stupid, and she was able to play Go very well, so how could she not be smart? Moreover, the girls also knew that Xue Pan had caused trouble, and with this connection, Yingchun guessed the reason.
Although Xue Pan is not a good person, he is the only son of the Xue family and the apple of Aunt Xue's eye. If Jia Cong helped rescue Xue Pan, it would not be surprising for the Xue family to send such a generous gift.
"Oh, look at this, there is a difference between close and distant relatives. The elder sister knows how to protect her younger sister-in-law, we are really a family!" Daiyu said with a pout.
Baochai glared at Daiyu fiercely, but did not dare to answer. She was dragged to sit by Yingchun, and then she explained, "My brother got into trouble, and I was anxious to ask Brother Cong for help. Brother Cong then asked the county master. The county master and the Minister of Personnel, Lord Fang, were also master and disciple. Therefore, Lord Fang spoke for my brother's case in the court, and my brother was fine."
"Although it was a matter of chance, Brother Cong also put in a lot of effort! Mom is grateful for Brother Cong's help, so she asked someone to choose some common items from the shop to thank Brother Cong!"
The women were secretly surprised when they heard this. They hadn't realized that Jia Cong had done such a thing! You know, even the Jia family and the Wang family couldn't solve this case, but Jia Cong did it . Even if it was a fluke, it was still a testament to his strength.
Only Xiangyun sighed, "Alas, such a good wedding banquet just disappeared for no reason. We had waited so long for it in vain!"
Upon hearing this, the girls burst into laughter again.
